Today's Top Scoops - November 06, 2007
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LEAD STORY------------
Emissions Trading: Greenpeace Has A Cow Over Climate Change Report - Greenpeace New Zealand has slammed a report, commissioned by business lobbyists, which calls for the proposed emissions trading scheme to be weakened. "The report - "NZ ETS - how do we make it work" was commissioned by the Greenhouse Policy Coalition, which represents some of the country's biggest polluters," said Greenpeace climate campaigner Jim Footner. More >> [1]
ALSO: Business Roundtable - Castalia Report Realistic about Climate Change [2]
Business NZ - Sensible findings in Castalia report [3] NZBCSD - No case for longer phase in of carbon pricing [4]
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NZ POLITICS------------
QUESTIONS Of THE DAY:Questions For Oral Answer - Tuesday, 6 November 2007 [1]
Real Estate Total Overhaul of Industry Announced - Associate Justice Minister Clayton Cosgrove has today announced the government's decisions reforming real estate law,
which include an end to the industry's self-regulation. More >> [1]
ALSO:United Future - Dunne: Real estate now government controlled [2]
Censorship: X Files Star's X Rated Show Leads To Boycott Call - Family First is calling for families to boycott companies advertising during TV3's first episode of the drug, sex and
vomit-laden Californication this Thursday night. More >> [1]
Labour Party Conference: 'Tax Cutathon' On Way For 2008? - Over the weekend NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark told the Labour Party conference that tax cuts were on the table for
2008. More >> [1]
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BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH------------
Internet Vehicle: New Website For Kiwi Car Buyers - A new consumer information website for Kiwi car buyers goes live today, aimed at helping New Zealand motorists find
safe, clean and fuel-efficient vehicles. Developed and administered by Land Transport NZ, it provides detailed,
searchable information on over 2,300 new and used cars. Using the website car buyers can compare over 900 new and 1,400
used makes and models. More >> [1]
Finance: BNZ Monthly Confidence Survey - November 2007 - Our monthly confidence survey has revealed a net 3% of respondents expect the economy will deteriorate over the
coming year. The result is consistent with other surveys showing the business sector appears to have taken negative
factors such as collapsing finance companies, the global liquidity crisis, and easing housing market in their stride.
Out of 27 comments on the residential property market, 19 were negative. More >> [1]
Business Roundtable: Do Economists Agree On Anything? Yes! - You sometimes hear the line that if all the world's economists were laid end to end, they wouldn't reach a
conclusion. This is something of a cheap shot. True, there are debates in economics, just as there are in any science
(take climate change). And in economics there are outliers (and many amateurs), just as there are quacks in medicine.
deas in economics such as Soviet-style central planning and Keynesianism have been discarded over the last generation or
so. More >> [1]
Computing and Internet: Room For Improvement In OECD Ranking - New Zealand's climb in the latest OECD broadband table is positive but the country is still playing catch up with
most of the rest of developed world, warns InternetNZ. InternetNZ Public Policy Committee Chair David Farrar says that
figure is encouraging and a sign that New Zealand's broadband position is "heading in the right direction" relative to
other OECD nations. More >> [1]
Business Awards: Six To Vie For Exporter Of The Year Award - The ANZ Regional Export Awards have reached their successful conclusions and six regional winners are thrilled to be
competing for the Export NZ National Emerging Exporter of the Year honour to be presented at the 2007 New Zealand Export
Awards on 15 November at Sky City. This Award honours the New Zealand company which made the most remarkable export leap
forward in the past three years. More >> [1]
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WORLD------------
Myanmar/Burma: Gambari Tackles Burma Vs. UN Team Relations - Ibrahim Gambari, continued his visit to Myanmar today with discussions on future cooperation between the Govt and the
UN Country Team, after authorities last week declared they did not want the world body's top official in the South-East
Asian nation to continue his service. Myanmar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had said it does not want UN Resident
Coordinator Charles Petrie to continue working in Myanmar. More >> [1]
Human Rights Watch: End Pakistan Emergency Rule, Restore Constitution - On the evening of November 3, a seven-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad
Chaudhry convened to issue an order barring the government from proclaiming emergency rule and urging government
functionaries not to implement emergency orders. Chaudhry, who has led efforts to establish an independent judiciary and
had survived an attempt by Musharraf earlier this year to dismiss him, was summarily fired. More >> [1]
DPRK & Nuclear Issues: Press Conference Featuring Chris Hill At Japan Press Club - "Let me just say about where we are in the Six-Party process. Two days ago we had an American team go in to the DPRK.
I talked to the head of that team, Sung Kim, a few hours ago.They are in Pyongyang and tomorrow will be going to
Yongbyon and begin the process of disabling the DPRK plutonium production facilities. More >> [1]
Spillage: UN To Launch Oil Contamination Assessment In Southern Nigeria - The UN environment and development agencies are joining forces to launch a comprehensive assessment of oil
contamination in the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta. Exploration and production of oil in the area, which began in the
1950s, were suspended in the 1990s due to public unrest. Spills from this period are still problematic, and the lack of
maintenance and damage to infrastructure has led to further contamination in the past 15 years. More >> [1]
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COMMENT------------
Tanveer Jafri: Pakistan - Mistakes of moments, Sufferings for centuries - Emergency has been declared in Pakistan. It is not a surprising political event. Undoubtedly, the opinions were being
formed a few days earlier. This emergency in Pakistan is being viewed differently. General Musharraf has called this
emergency a step towards the establishment of democracy in Pakistan that... More >> [1]
Jason Leopold: Cheney Pursuing Nuclear Ambitions of His Own - While Dick Cheney has been talking tough over the years about Iran's alleged nuclear activities, the vice president
has been quietly pursuing nuclear ambitions of his own. For more than two years, Cheney and a relatively unknown
administration official, Deputy Energy Secretary Clay Sell, have been regularly visiting the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) to... More >> [1]
Matthew Cardinale: Kucinich to Force Impeachment Consideration Vote - (APN) ATLANTA - US Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), also a US Presidential candidate for 2008, will force the issue of
impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney on the floor of the US House of Representatives next week, Atlanta Progressive
News has ... More >> [1]
ALSO: David Swanson - Kucinich Will Impeach Cheney [2]
Abukar Arman: Red-Herring In The Horn: Somalia's Latest Drama - For almost two decades, the Somali political theatre was inundated with random episodes of tragic comedies. Recently
the entertaining drama has been the sensationalized demise of a man who in ten short months left a legacy of infamy and
earned his unenviable place in Somali history, Ali Mohamed Gedi. So how was he pulled off his horse anyway? More >> [1]
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LIFESTYLE------------
Travel: Astute Real Estate Sales See NZ Woman Off To Space - The first New Zealand woman to go into space will have her initial zero-gravity and G force training session in the
United States next week. Christchurch real estate agent, Jackie Maw flies to Philadelphia next Monday for an intense
two-day astronaut training course. More >> [1]
Drinkin'/Acting: Pint Sized Theatre In November! - The Six O'clock Swill is a monthly series of one act plays held at Mighty Mighty on Cuba Street, Wellington, New
Zealand. November brings the Premiere of a new NZ work by Paul Rothwell. More >> [1]
Documentaries: Orangutan's Of Borneo Subject of Natural History Show - NHNZ's first docudrama Orangutan Island has scored a prime time slot on Animal Planet where it premiered in the
United States on Friday (November 2). More >> [1]
And those were the Top Scoops on this day, November 06, 2007
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