Today's Top Scoops - 6 June 2008
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Satire: Lyndon Hood's Week Incoherence - First thing: Hoodie Day. Why no presents? I waited and waited...And that guy with the KKK outfit did not count as a gift. It's nice he's apologised but I think the fact he hasn't already been lynched says something about the state of our justice system... And that reminds me, how come all these people are being found not guilty? We could sort that problem out once and for all if we abolished trials. More >> [1]
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NZ POLITICS------------
Crime Fighting: Call For Police To Release Taser Info - Campaign Against the Taser spokesperson Marie Dyhrberg has called for Police to urgently make public large amounts of
factual material that were excluded last year from Taser incident reports. More >> [1]
Espionage: Spies Release Guff On Sutch - The Prime Minister and Minister in Charge of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, Helen Clark, announced
today that the NZSIS, acting on a recommendation made by the Chief Ombudsman, has released a number of papers relating
to Dr William Ball Sutch. More >> [1]
Gordon Campbell: Immigration Bill = Human Rights Disaster - Few Labour voters may realise the full extent of what the Clark government has in mind - or has allowed to get out of
hand - with its rewrite of the 1987 Immigration Act. To date, the parties on the centre right have also shown little
interest in its sweeping extensions of state power, while the anti-immigrant crew within New Zealand First must be
thinking all their Christmasses have come at once. More >> [1]
ALSO:Caritas Aotearoa - Caritas Dispels Refugee Myths [2]
[1] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/labour%e2%80%99s-human-rights-nightmare-the-new-immigration-bill/
Politics: English Accuses Labour Of Bullying Watchdog - Papers released under the Official Information Act reveal Labour attempted to bully electoral watchdogs over the
controversial tax-funded brochure which is now the subject of a police inquiry. More >> [1]
Hippocracy? Is Soon To Be MP Norman A Hippo Hater - An Environment Ministry "Green Ribbon Award" announced today for Auckland Zoo is a bit of a joke considering the
zoo's bad record for its hippos polluting a local stream, says Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman. More >> [1]
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BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH------------
Is That legal? Top Kiwi Lawyer Heads For Sands of Dubai - The legal exodus to Dubai has attracted one of New Zealand's leading commercial lawyers, Bell Gully partner Andrew
Abernethy. He is to join British-based international law firm Norton Rose next month. More >> [1]
Electricity: Temporary Otahuhu Outage - Contact Energy yesterday took its 400 megawatt Otahuhu B gas-fired power station near Auckland off line to repair a
fault... The fault is expected to take approximately four days to repair, however, the actual duration of the outage
will not be known until a full inspection of the steam generator is completed, which will be undertaken when the plant
has cooled today. More >> [1]
ALSO:National - Will Minister confirm power plant breakdown? [2]
Transport: Electric Car Industry Start-Up For NZ? - New Zealand could soon be building its own electric cars. Talks are underway in the UK now to set up a manufacturing
consortium, New Zealand's daily carbon market news service, Carbon News, reveals this morning. More >> [1]
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WORLD------------
Middle East: Ban Condemns Latest Violence In Southern Israel And Gaza Strip - ''While recognizing Israel's right to self-defence, Ban Ki-Moon calls upon Israel to exercise maximum restraint, and
reminds the IAF and Israel Defence Forces (IDF) of their responsibility to protect civilians under international
humanitarian law.'' More >> [1]
Youth Issues: UK Prime Minister Announces Crackdown On Knives - ''I am serious about getting knives off our streets. We have doubled the maximum sentence for carrying a knife,
launched a new advertising campaign to challenge the fear, glamour or peer pressure that can drive young people to knife
crime.'' -- Gordon Brown, British PM. More >> [1]
EARLIERUK's Tough New Sanctions To Tackle Knife Crime [2] Hard-Hitting Knife Crime Adverts Launched In UK [3]
Privileged & Touched: Hillary Clinton's Email To Supporters, 5 June 2008 - "On Saturday, I will extend my congratulations to Senator Obama and my support for his candidacy. This has been a
long and hard-fought campaign, but as I have always said, my differences with Senator Obama are small compared to the
differences we have with Senator McCain and the Republicans. I have said throughout the campaign that I would strongly
support Senator Obama if he were the Democratic Party's nominee, and I intend to deliver on that promise." More >> [1]
EARLIERClinton Dropping Out of White House Race [2]
Smarten Up: Education For The 21st Century Knowledge Society - ''Over the past two decades, the Internet has revolutionized humanity's ability to make use of its accumulated
knowledge. Science and technology are increasingly recognized as the drivers of economic growth today, and they will
have an increasing role in the future. Nations will prosper in proportion to their scientific, technological and
engineering capacity. Today, we have a global crisis in education. We are short of is people with the sufficient
technical training and education to support the increasingly science- and technology-dependent societies of the 21st
century.'' More >> [1]
World Environment Day: UN Officials Call For End To Carbon Addiction - Top UN officials have marked World Environment Day by urging individuals, companies and governments alike to kick
their addiction to carbon dioxide. The main celebrations for the Day - whose theme this year is ''Kick the Habit:
Towards a Low Carbon Economy'' - are being hosted by New Zealand, one of five countries that has pledged to become
''climate neutral.'' More >> [1]
Facing The Music: Former Broadcom CEO & CFO Indicted - Dr. Henry T. Nicholas III, a co-founder and former chief executive officer of Broadcom, and William Ruehle, the
former chief financial officer of the Irvine-based technology company, have been named in an indictment unsealed today
that charges them with engaging in a stock-option backdating scheme that forced Broadcom to write-down $2.2 billion in
profits. More >> [1]
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COMMENT------------
Tertiary Education: ZED Innovation Forum Connecting Now To The Future - AUT journalism student Finbarr Bunting reports that the ZED Innovation Forum is about business people connecting with
each other and shaping business now and for the future, Jenny Bygrave, deputy dean of AUT University's business school
says. More >> [1]
Jason Leopold: Bush Vowed US Would "Kill" Anyone Who Interfered - President Bush reacted to the deaths of four Blackwater contractors in Fallujah in 2004 by proclaiming in a hastily
arranged video conference with officials that the United States would "kill" anyone who threatened to derail the "march
to Democracy" ... More >> [1]
Stateside: Only my second election... - It's just after 8pm here in California and the polls have now closed for what normally would have been CA's
presidential primary election if it hadn't been moved up to February this year. Instead, we had a Direct Primary
Election, the primaries being ... More >> [1]
Cheney: Clinton-Era Sanctions Against Iran Bad for Business - When Dick Cheney was chief executive of Halliburton in the 1990s, he urged Congress to ease sanctions against Iran
and enter into diplomatic discussions with the country's leaders so the oil-field services company could legally do
business there. More >> [1]
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LIFESTYLE------------
Booty: A Treasure Of A Book Sale - They've got so many books for sale, book lovers are being asked to Dig Up A Bargain. Come Black Friday, June 13,
there will be a lot of digging up to do at the Pioneer Leisure Centre More >> [1]
Faith: Travel In the Style Of Prophets of Old This Sunday - World Environmental Day provides an opportunity for us all to share the ways in which we are being active stewards of
our world and caring for creation, says Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand Moderator the Right Rev Pamela
Tankersley. More >> [1]
And those were the Top Scoops on this day, 6 June 2008
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