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Scoop Satire: Auditor-General Thought Processes Remix
Questions Of The Day:
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NEW ZEALAND LEAD:
Crime: Govt Moves To Stamp Out Money Laundering & Terror Financing
Media: Clint Brown Resigns
Justice: Why Murky Asylum Laws Make Criminals Of The Innocent
Foreign Affairs: Fiji Government Threatened By Military
MeNZB: "Shocking" Documentary Airs On Norway, NZ Vaccine Programmes
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STORY:
Investigation Into Break Down Of Timor-Leste
Society Reported
Vote Begins On Latin American/Caribbean
Security Council Vote
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SCOOP LEAD
STORY
Scoop Satire: Auditor-General Thought
Processes Remix
In his report on advertising expenditure in the
2005 election funded by Parliamentary Services, the
Auditor-General helpfully supplies a decision-making
flowchart used when determining the legality of particular
pieces of advertising. While this is a very fine thing,
whether such a simple process can be so robust is a matter
of debate... I therefore propose the following, which, while
giving much the same results, more fully reflects
generally-held beliefs about the Auditor-General's
reasoning. See... Hood:
Auditors-General Decisions-Making Proposal [1] Debate
On Validating Legislation:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00265.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00323.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00330.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00331.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00201.htm
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(updated)QUESTIONS OF THE DAY:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00324.htm
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Selwyn Manning and Radio Adelaide's Peter
Godfrey discuss: how NZ's Govt has moved to stamp out money
laundering. Also, 700 Telecom workers are likely to lose
their jobs before Christmas; and Kiwis' daily bread is about
to be baked to a Govt recipe!
NEW ZEALAND LEAD:
Crime: Govt Moves To Stamp Out Money Laundering & Terror Financing
- Associate Justice Minister Clayton Cosgrove today
released the third and final discussion document on
proposals to prevent money laundering and terrorist
financing. "New Zealand's stable financial system makes it
attractive for international criminals to deposit funds here
and then move the money to other jurisdictions, so we must
not be a weak target," he said. See... Proposed
Framework To Prevent Money Laundering [1]
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00328.htm
Media:
Clint Brown Resigns
- TV3 confirmed today that it has accepted the
resignation of its Sports Presenter, Clint Brown. “We wish
to acknowledge Clint’s significant skills as a sports
broadcaster, and thank him for his 17 years of very loyal
service to TV3. Clint Brown is a passionate New Zealand
sports fan, and he has been at the forefront of some of New
Zealand’s biggest sporting moments,” said TV Works Chief
Operating Officer, Rick Friesen. See... Statement
From TV3 & Clint Brown [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0610/S00352.htm
Justice:
Why Murky Asylum Laws Make Criminals Of The
Innocent
- David Hall writes that the case of
Thomas Yadegary, an asylum seeker who has been detained
in Auckland Central Remand Prison since November 2004, is a
good illustration of just how murky and complex the realm of
asylum policy is. As such, there are rarely straightforward
solutions to the difficulties that asylum seekers present to
the nation they arrive in. There are, however, compromises
that are more tolerable than others. See... Yadegary:
Between a Rock and a Hard Place [1] ALSO:
Scoop Audio: [4] Selwyn
Manning and 95bFM's Simon Pound discuss: How Immigration
Minister David Cunliffe has refused to help asylum seeker
Thomas Yadegary (who is banged up in Mt Eden Prison) even
though he promised while an MP to seek refuge for him. Irony
abounds in this case, the more so the more you investigate
it!
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00262.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00263.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00121.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00177.htm
Foreign
Affairs: Fiji Government Threatened By
Military
- Foreign Minister Winston Peters
today said he was disappointed by comments from Fiji's
military commander, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, calling on
the Fiji government to "resign or else." "New Zealand is
very concerned about the Commander's threats that he will
overthrow the legitimate government in Suva if it does not
do what he says," Mr Peters said. See... Peters
regrets Fiji military statements [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00318.htm
[2]
- http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=50017
MeNZB:
"Shocking" Documentary Airs On Norway, NZ Vaccine
Programmes
- At the same time while Norwegian authorities were paying
compensation to vaccine victims, the same vaccine was
exported to New Zealand and used on small kids. To say it
nice, they enlisted hundreds of thousands of small kids into
a gigantic experiment, says Jan Helge Solbakk, professor in
medical ethics. 1988 started the largest experiment ever
conducted on Norwegian population. 180,000 school teenagers
were used as test subjects in the largest Norwegian vaccine
trial ever. It lasted from 1988 to 1991. See... Norway
MENZB Doco: Exported Controversial Vaccine [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00257.htm
MORE
HEADLINES:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00283.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0610/S00325.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00178.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00177.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0610/S00150.htm
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS:
Investigation Into Break Down Of
Timor-Leste Society Reported
- Timor-Leste’s then interior and defence ministers and
defence force chief acted illegally in transferring weapons
to civilians during the violence that shook the small
South-East Asian country early this year and should be
prosecuted, according to a United Nations report on the
crisis released today. See... UN
Tables Inquiry Report Into Timor-Leste Violence [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0610/S00388.htm
Vote
Begins On Latin American/Caribbean Security Council Vote
- A non-permanent seat on the Security Council remains up
for grabs as the United Nations General Assembly resumed
voting today in the contest to fill the place allocated to
the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States. See... Member
States Resume Voting On Non-Permanent Seat [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0610/S00385.htm
UN Audio:
UN Marks International Day for Eradication
of Poverty - UNRWA Says Sanctions Are Impoverishing
Palestinians in Occupied Lands - General Assembly Committee
Debates Declaration on Indigenous Issues - SPECIAL FEATURES:
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - Caribbean
nations to table a resolution in the General Assembly on the
Bicentenary of the act abolishing the slave
trade.
MORE WORLD HEADLINES:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0610/S00386.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0610/S00387.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0610/S00384.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0610/S00383.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0610/S00379.htm
Binoy Kampmark: Blinken Atrocious In A Dangerous World
Jim Mikoz: Look Out Rocks … Oops Too Late
Peter Dunne: Dunne’s Weekly - National And Labour Combine To Shut Out Greens
Ramzy Baroud: Voting Against Genocide - How Gaza Defeated The Democratic Establishment 
Alastair Thompson: Google's Support For Democracy And Media In NZ | Part 2
Eugene Doyle: BBC Goes Full Goebbels In Support Of Israeli Soccer Hooligans