Today's Top Scoops - 24 June 2008
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Gordon Campbell: What a National Government May Entail - Economic uncertainty is National's latest rationale for why they're not releasing their main policy positions and costings until the election campaign has virtually begun. Off hand, it is hard to think of a serious pretender to government in any other modern democracy that could get away with concealing the nature and cost of their policies for so long, merely because it suits them tactically to do so. More >> [1]
ALSO:Scoop Audio - PM's Press Conference 23 June 2008 [2]
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NZ POLITICS------------
QUESTIONS OF THE DAY:Questions For Oral Answer - Tuesday, 24 June 2008 [1]
Transport: Govt Saves $275 Million Dollars (On Paper) - Transport Minister Annette King has announced the completion of preliminary investigations into a preferred route
through Transmission Gully, with identified cost savings of about $275 million over previous estimates. More >> [1]
Pest Management: Deerstalkers Deduce 1080 A Menace - "The sharp media response to a few 1080 look-alike pellets being scattered in Christchurch's Hagley Park is in strong
contrast to its minimal response to Government's new policy of dumping tonnes of 1080 poison baits in public water
supply areas" New Zealand Deerstalkers' Association spokesman Dr Hugh Barr says. More >> [1]
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BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH------------
Weather Watch: Jack Frost And Snow Queen Alert - MetService currently has heavy rain warnings for Bay of Plenty, Mount Taranaki and northwest Nelson, and a Severe
Weather Watch is in effect for Northland, Coromandel Peninsula, the hills of inland Taranaki, across the Central
Plateau, and for northern Fiordland and Westland. More >> [1]
Migration: NZers Flock To Other Bits Of New Zealand - New Zealanders change their address more often than they used to, but the new address is typically less than 10
kilometres away from the old one. More >> [1]
Networking: 25,000 Businesses Hanging With the Women's Phone Book - The only comprehensive New Zealand directory focusing on the needs of women, the Women*s Phone Book has been launched
online and is a directory to 25,000 businesses nationwide - and growing. More >> [1]
Finance: Bridgecorp Ltd and Directors Prosecuted - "The charges relate to statements made in the company's prospectus, and in a director's certificate," said Registrar
of Companies Neville Harris. "Bridgecorp's prospectus and its directors claimed the company had never missed an interest
or principal payment. In fact, between February and June 2007, Bridgecorp failed to make many of its required interest
payments and investment redemptions by the due dates." More >> [1]
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WORLD------------
Zimbabwe: Morgan Tsvangirai Seeks Refuge In Dutch Embassy - Zimbabwe's political crisis entered uncharted territory Monday as opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai sought refuge
at the Dutch Embassy after police raided his party's headquarters. Officials in the Netherlands confirmed he had sought
diplomatic protection. Governments and regional officials continued to issue statements in reaction to the news that
Tsvangirai and his opposition party would boycott the presidential election. More >> [1]
LATEST:Zimbabwe Crackdown Hits New Intensity [2] Zimbabwean Polls Should Be Postponed - UN [3] Zimbabwe Election Not Possible, Agrees UK [4] Crisis in Zimbabwe - Statement by Sec. Rice [5] Ban Ki-Moon Voices Concern After MDC's Morgan Tsvangirai Pulls Out Of Violence-Ridden Zimbabwe Polls [6]
Greenpeace: Global Demand To Release Activists In Japan Grows - Two Greenpeace Japan activists, arrested last Friday for exposing an embezzlement ring at the heart of the Japanese
government's so-called scientific whaling programme have been ordered to spend a further nine days in jail without
charge , after an appeal for them to be released was rejected by a court in Aomori. More >> [1]
RELATEDJapanese Statement At IWC Annual Meeting [2] In Defence Of Greenland's Whalemeat Sales [3] The Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling Myth [4]
Middle East: IAEA Begins Work To Verify Syrian Nuclear Reactor Claim - A team from the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency has arrived in Syria to probe allegations that an installation
destroyed by Israel last September was a nuclear reactor. The IAEA is treating the information received with the
seriousness it deserves. Syria is obligated to report the planning and construction of any nuclear facility to the IAEA. More >> [1]
Be Careful Out There: Data Protection Essential For Kids Online Safety - The protection of children's data is an essential first step in guaranteeing more safety and prevention of abuse on
the Internet. Data protection considerations should also apply to all persons who are connected in some way with the
information. More >> [1]
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COMMENT------------
Ramzy Baroud: On Humiliation, and Gaza's Dying Children - A six-year-old Palestinian girl from Gaza was killed by Israeli fire on 12 June. "Medics say the girl was decapitated
by a [tank] shell," Associated Press (AP) reported the next day. The Israeli military said the soldiers opened fire in
retaliation against ... More >> [1]
Richard Pithouse: On the Pogroms in South Africa - The industrial and mining towns on the Eastern outskirts of Johannesburg are unlovely places. They're set on flat
windswept plains amidst the dumps of sterile sand left over from old mines. In winter the wind bites, the sky is a very
pale blue and it ... More >> [1]
If The Opposite of Pro Is Con, Then The Opposite of Progress... - The day before Congress tossed the Fourth Amendment, and literally five minutes after they took out a $163 billion
loan on behalf of my unborn grandkids to kill Iraqis and U.S. troops for another year, I had to give a speech at a
university in Milwaukee ... More >> [1]
Karl Kuchenbecker Case: The Coroner Got It Wrong - By Roger Brooking On June 18, the Wellington coroner Garry Evans released his report into the death of Karl
Kuchenbecker. According to Mr Evans, the fundamental mistake in the mismanagement of convicted murderer Graeme Burton's
parole in 2006 was treating ... More >> [1]
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LIFESTYLE------------
Touring Musos: Nomad Hops On His Camel - New Zealand electronic musician The Nomad today announced a tour of New Zealand to promote his new album Selected
Works, a collection of his favourite originals, new tracks and remixes. More >> [1]
New Wave British Metal! The Leppard Are Coming - They've sold more than 65 million albums, played to more than 50 million fans and have produced a series of classic
rock albums that helped define a generation of music. More >> [1]
Couture: Carter's New Jocks Made Out Of Trees - Dan Carter's favourite underwear brand has come up with a great new way to stay comfortable and help the planet.
Jockey has launched a new range of men's underpants called Jockey Modal. An environmentally friendly product, modal is a
100 per cent natural and renewable fibre extracted from beech trees. More >> [1]
Leisure: Every Dog Has Its Day At The Swimming Pool - It will be a dogs day out at H2O Xtream on Sunday 29 June! As they are closing for three months it's the perfect
opportunity for people to bring along their dogs to have some fun in the pool. The water won't have any chlorine in it
so it will be perfectly safe for your dogs to jump in and have fun. More >> [1]
Novelties: 'Secrets' Reveal Auckland Museum's Hidden Mysteries - For the first time in over ten years, the Auckland Museum's complete collection is back under one roof. To celebrate
this 'quintessentially Auckland' collection, the public exhibition 'SECRETS REVEALED: The backstage mysteries of your
Museum' will open on July 12th in the Museum's Special Exhibitions Hall. More >> [1]
And those were the Top Scoops on this day, 24 June 2008
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