Today's Top Scoops - 09 May 2008
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LEAD STORY------------
Lyndon Hood: Emitting Sector Excluded From ETS - Scoop's resident satirist, graphics mogul and arts editor Lyndon Hood casts a satirical eye (for that is the ocular slant a satirist has) over the recent ETS kerfuffle... Why do we have an Emissions Trading Scheme? If New Zealand wants to maintain its edge as a clean, green nation, we urgently need to pretend as hard as we can to take decisive action on climate change. More >> [1]
ALSO:Greens - ETS crumbles as 'grand coalition' forms [2] Business Roundtable - Climate Change Policy is Becoming a Shambles [3] Contact Energy - ETS will boost renewable generation, cut emissions [4] Fonterra - Global emissions to increase from New Zealand ETS [5]
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NZ POLITICS------------
Tauranga: Bob Clarkson To Step Down At Election - National Party MP Bob Clarkson today announced he will not now be standing as a candidate for the Tauranga seat in
the 2008 general election. More >> [1]
ALSO:National - National determined to win Tauranga [2]
Crimefighting: SST Applauds Christchurch's New York State Of Mind - The New York tough on crime approach will lower crime and the prison population says the Sensible Sentencing Trust.
Trust Spokesman Garth McVicar was commenting after Canterbury police district commander, Superintendent Dave Cliff
released details of the New York style policing regime he is instituting. More >> [1]
ALSO:Sensible Sentencing Trust - Watchdog Applauds Christchurch But Slams Lawyer [2]
Election 08: Fishing In Troubled Waters, Tax And Retirement - 'How ironic that Sealord - half owned by Maori business interests - was being denounced on RNZ this morning by
foreign human rights agencies for co-exploiting the fisheries resources of the indigenous people of Western Sahara,"
writes Scoop's perplexed Election 08 guru. More >> [1]
ALSO:Western Sahara Resource Watch - Now the Kiwis get involved in fish plundering too [2]
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BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH------------
Rural Affairs: Sick Animals Face Animal Doctor Shortage - A new report has reinforced the urgent need to find ways to reverse declining numbers of veterinarians in rural New
Zealand, said Graeme Peters, chief executive of Agcarm. More >> [1]
Keeping It Simple: Plain English Practitioners Get Fair Go - At this year's WriteMark Plain English Awards $10,000 will go to the organisation most committed to communicating in
plain English. Winners will be announced at a ceremony on 11 September hosted by Fair Go presenter Kevin Milne. More >> [1]
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WORLD------------
Crime: Suspected Child Abuser Arrested, Focus Of INTERPOL Global Appeal - Within 48 hours of INTERPOL's global appeal to the public, the prime suspect, Wayne Nelson Corliss, 58, from Union
City, New Jersey, who was photographed sexually abusing young children in Southeast Asia in images distributed on the
Internet was identified. More >> [1]
He Had A Dream: Martin Luther King Lived And Died For Values Shared By The United Nations - Viewing original papers written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today
paid tribute to the renowned United States civil rights leader, saying the values he lived and died for are shared by
the United Nations. More >> [1]
Middle East: Lebanon Faces Most Serious Crisis Since Civil War - The stalled political process in Lebanon, combined with the current violence on the streets and the "defiant
manoeuvres of militias," is leaving the country struggling to function as a sovereign, democratic State, United Nations
Special Envoy Terje Roed-Larsen told the Security Council today. More >> [1]
United Nations: Zimbabwe Electoral Process Must Be Peaceful, Transparent - Voicing concern over reports of politically-motivated violence and intimidation against the backdrop of Zimbabwe's
ongoing stalemate, United UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for the next phases of the nation's elections to
be free and fair. More >> [1]
Cyclone Nargis: U.S. Preparations For Relief Efforts For Burma - "We hope politics do not come into play. We hope that with the size and scale of this crisis, that the focus is on
the victims and the focus is on being able to allow access and allow our operational partners to be able to deliver
life-saving assistance." More >> [1]
Cyclone Nargis:Frustration Growing Over Lack Of Access To Burma Cyclone Victims - "I do appeal very strongly indeed to the Government of Myanmar both to step up their own relief efforts to help
people on the ground and to change their attitude completely to the efforts that we are making to get these relief
supplies in.'' More >> [1]
MOREBurma Urged To Facilitate Aid Delivery To Victims [2] Deaths Could Exceed 100,000 [3] WFP Food Aid Flights Arrive Yangon Morning 8 May [4] Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 3 [5] Burmese Government Must Get Out Of Way Of Relief [6] Secretary Rice On Burma Regime Vs. Humanitarian Crisis [7]
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COMMENT------------
Gordon Campbell: Clinton's Last Chance To Go Gracefully - Hillary has been talking tough (and sounding hollow) ever since the Indiana/North Carolina primaries results came in
yesterday, but that's only to convince prospective donors that she's still viable. Really, its all over at last. Barack
Obama has ... More >> [1]
Matt Renner: Bush Iraq Emails Not Recoverable - A late-night court filing by the White House on Monday revealed that official administration emails about the run up
to the invasion of Iraq and the initial occupation may never be recovered. More >> [1]
Ali Abunimah: The senator, his pastor and the Israel lobby - US senator Barack Obama was widely hailed for his 18 March speech calming the media furor about the sermons of his
pastor for twenty years Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Wright's remarks, Obama said, "expressed a profoundly distorted view
of this country ... More >> [1]
Richard S. Ehrlich: Cyclone Help For Irrawaddy Delta Survivors - BANGKOK, Thailand -- When Burma's biggest enemy the United States offered to send emergency cyclone relief, it
probably sounded like North Korea wanting to send its warships and troops to New Orleans to rescue people in the
aftermath of Katrina... More >> [1]
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LIFESTYLE------------
Hi- Culture: Award Winning Bulgarian Violinist Tours NZ - Last year Bulgarian violinist Bella Hristova delighted audiences and judges with her winning performance at the 2007
Michael Hill International Violin Competition. More >> [1]
Activist Artiness: Tame Iti in Webb's art and design auction - A collaborative work featuring Maori activist Tame Iti goes on sale at Webb's auction in Auckland next week.
Iti features in a political CD release of songs and a work on four canvasses, mounted with fence post construction. More >> [1]
And those were the Top Scoops on this day, 09 May 2008
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