US Elections: Gordon Campbell Watches The States Swing
Trifecta:
Police Clear NZ First
Policies:
The House Always Wins
Transport:
Key To Build Tauranaga Road Out Of Barrels Of Pork
Election08:
National's 05 Win In Provinces Stifles Labour's 08
Gains
Election
08:Gordon Campbell On Prisons
Police: Kerikeri Homicide Investigation – Name And
Photo Released
Life
Exceeds Satire: Winston Peters Clarifies Use Of
Helicopter
Dunne
Deals: Common Sense Or Fishy
Business
Agriculture:
Farmers Not Sheepish About Goals For Future
Retail:
No Fireworks At Progressive Supermarkets
Finance
Guarantees: We Can Do It For You Wholesale
Tuatara
News: Mainland Invasion of Living Fossil
Broadcasting: MediaWorks Cranks Out Hit
Survey
Kiwi
Pride: NZ Wins In Monaco - No Consul To Congratulate
Winners!
Trojans:
Facebook Threat Uses Video Clips To Harm
Users
HELP RAISE
AWARENESS
Cuban
Ambassador UN Interview: "We Are Not Slaves"
Michael
Collins: Exit Poll Mess - 2008
Gordon
Campbell: Stealing The US Election
Paul
G. Buchanan: Campaign Rhetoric As An Invitation To
Violence
Stateside:
Phooey, And More Phooey!
Martin
LeFevre: Journeying Beyond Thought And
Time
Fashion:
AUT Rookie Designers In Top Form At NZFW Catwalk
Big
Bad Wolf News: Red Hiding Hood And Granny In
Danger
Culture: You Ain't Much If You Are Not Dutch!
Cool Snaps: Karim Sahai Captures Diwali Hootenanny
World
News: Illegal Shark Fishing Compounds Global
Shortfall
Scoop
World News: CO3 Targeted For Representing Vedanta Mining
Co.
Scoop
Refugee Crisis: Up To 100,000 People Displaced In North
Kivu, DRC
World
News: Scathing Report On Post-Election
Zimbabwe
Scoop
World News: Nepal: Rehabilitating Ex-Combatants Key
Priority
Scoop
World News: Ban Confers With Leaders To End Conflict In
Congo
Scoop
Youth Issues: Latvia: Children Threatened By Sexual
Exploitation
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LEAD STORY
------------US
Elections: Gordon Campbell Watches The States
Swing
On Wednesday, as results come in from the
US election, I’ll be blogging the signs/consequences live
on Scoop. The target to win the Presidency is 270 votes in
the US Electoral College, and even the most zealous US
patriot would probably concede that this system is an
imperfect one... More
»[1]
[1] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/gordon-campbell-how-to-watch-a-us-election/
ALSO:
- Obama, McCain fire final shots of campaign [2]
- Obama in control heading into US election [3]
- Obama's grandmother dies a day before election [4]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/world/15038.html [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/world/15031.html [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/world/15037.html [4]
NZ POLITICS
------------Trifecta:
Police Clear NZ First
"Police have completed
enquiries into the circumstances of the New Zealand First
return of party donations for 2007 lodged on 16 May 2008.
Having assessed a range of information from various sources,
and having considered the elements of the offence contained
in s214G, Police are satisfied that no offence was
committed." More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00076.htm
Policies:
The House Always Wins
Helen Clark and Maryan
Street recently unveiled the latest Labour affordable
housing initiative. The HOPE (Home Ownership on the Public
Estate) programme involves building starter homes on Crown
land for modest income families. They will pay for the house
and the Crown will continue to own the land, effectively
halving the cost of home ownership. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00074.htm
Transport:
Key To Build Tauranaga Road Out Of Barrels Of
Pork
Annette King: "The investigation and
design phases of the Tauranga Central Corridor has not yet
been completed, so there is no accurate costing for the
project, yet Mr 'Pork Barrel" Key is telling the independent
New Zealand Transport Agency what it has to do." More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00064.htm
ALSO:
- Key green lights Tauranga Central Corridor [2]
- Brown Warns Of Transport Promise [3]
- Stop the pork barrel Muldoonism [4]
- Key launches action plan [5]
- Nats break first promise before Election Day [6]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00056.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00065.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00072.htm [4]
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00073.htm [5]
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00077.htm [6]
Election08:
National's 05 Win In Provinces Stifles Labour's 08
Gains
Scoop co-editor Selwyn Manning: If
National pitches itself well this week, especially in the
provinces, all electorates south of Manurewa to New Plymouth
could turn blue – the closest exception to this being
Hamilton West. Anyway, here are the predictions! More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0811/S00033.htm
ALSO:
- Wallace & Manning It's Turning Blue Sth Of Bombay! [2]
- Wammo n Helen Clark On Fighting Nats To The Grave [3]
- Full news conference with Helen Clark [4]
- Helen Clark defends decision to entrench Maori seats [5]
- Michael Jones and Va'aiga Tuigamala endorse Key [6]
- Inga now a right winger says Laban [7]
- Pacific Vote: Pacific people are Working People [8]
- Financial Statements NZ Govt - Up Till 30 Sep 2008 [9]
- Deterioration in Govt accounts to be expected [10]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0811/S00036.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0811/S00035.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/14989.html [4]
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/14975.html [5]
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/14988.html [6]
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00046.htm [7]
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00045.htm [8]
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00046.htm [9]
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00060.htm [10]
Election
08:Gordon Campbell On Prisons
Voting
commonly plays out as an act of retribution, with the
motivation to vote being either a desire to wreak vengeance
on the incumbent, or to send a warning shot across the bow
of their likely replacement. So, its hardly surprising that
the law and order ‘debate’ tends to be the killing floor
of the election campaign. More
»[1]
[1] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/gordon-campbell-on-prisons/
ALSO:
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00048.htm [2]
[3] - http://fightingtalk.blogspot.com/2008/11/lyndon-hood-corrector-lower-hutt.html" target="_blank [3]
Police: Kerikeri Homicide Investigation – Name And
Photo Released
On Saturday evening 1 November
2008, a 15 year old girl was reported missing in Kerikeri.
Her disappearance was out of character. The missing girl and
her parents had recently moved from Kerikeri to Auckland.
She was visiting friends in Kerikeri for the weekend. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00017.htm
ALSO:
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/national/14985.html [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00042.htm [3]
Life
Exceeds Satire: Winston Peters Clarifies Use Of
Helicopter
Rt Hon Winston Peters says New Zealand
First has used helicopters for travel during two election
campaigns – but not for campaigning itself. “We used a
helicopter to travel and I do not deny that, but to suggest
that I somehow stood at the door of a flying helicopter
shouting at voters is preposterous. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00022.htm
ALSO:
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00028.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/14959.html [3]
Dunne
Deals: Common Sense Or Fishy
Business
Opposition from United Future and NZ
First helped block vital amendments to fisheries laws to
protect fish stocks, Progressive MP Jim Anderton says. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00030.htm
BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH
------------Agriculture:
Farmers Not Sheepish About Goals For Future
"All
New Zealanders, city and rural, have to work together if we
are to make progress as a nation and remain a first world
country," Federated Farmers president, Don Nicolson, said
today at the Federation's Manifesto launch. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0811/S00033.htm
ALSO:
- Science, agriculture and New Zealand's future [2]
- Labour supports strong, sustainable agriculture [3]
- Farmer bulldozes through RMA and native forest [4]
- Will Nats support Feds' rural feudalism [5]
- National welcomes Fed Farmers Manifesto [6]
- The Future Of Farming? [7]
- Fed Farmers bites the hand that feeds [8]
- Federated Farmers support dangerous old Socialist [9]
- ACT says Federated Farmers misguided on ETS [10]
- Fed Farmers counters ACT Party on ETS [11]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00047.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00052.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00057.htm [4]
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00069.htm [5]
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00059.htm [6]
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00032.htm [7]
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00040.htm [8]
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00024.htm [9]
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00023.htm [10]
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0811/S00032.htm [11]
Retail:
No Fireworks At Progressive Supermarkets
Rather
than sell fireworks, Progressive Enterprises is teaming up
with the New Zealand Fire Service to improve fire awareness.
This follows on from a decision taken after last year’s
Guy Fawkes Day by Progressive Managing Director Peter Smith.
More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0811/S00022.htm
ALSO:
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0811/S00002.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0811/S00006.htm [3]
Finance
Guarantees: We Can Do It For You
Wholesale
Following the announcement by the
Minister of Finance that the Crown will offer a wholesale
funding guarantee facility to investment-grade financial
institutions in New Zealand, the Treasury and the Reserve
Bank have released further details of the facility. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00003.htm
ALSO:
- NZ Wholesale Funding Guarantee Facility [2]
- Cullen: Wholesale funding guarantee facility [3]
- Support for distressed mortgage borrowers [4]
- Key welcomes wholesale guarantee security [5]
- National reminds banks of quid pro quo [6]
- Nats finally wake up to banks' responsibilities [7]
- John Key too soft on banks [8]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00004.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00005.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00010.htm [4]
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00007.htm [5]
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00690.htm [6]
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00698.htm [7]
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00545.htm [8]
Tuatara
News: Mainland Invasion of Living
Fossil
Conservation staff at Wellington’s
world-first Karori Sanctuary have found what is almost
certainly the first confirmed tuatara nest on mainland New
Zealand in over 200 years. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0810/S00057.htm
Broadcasting: MediaWorks Cranks Out Hit
Survey
MediaWorks Radio has enjoyed nationwide
share growth for its key network brands across New Zealand
in the latest Research International commercial radio
survey. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0810/S00643.htm
Kiwi
Pride: NZ Wins In Monaco - No Consul To Congratulate
Winners!
Auckland-based firm Logick Print &
Graphics has put New Zealand on the global printing stage by
winning a top prize at the world’s premier packaging
awards in Monaco. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0810/S00629.htm
ALSO:
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0810/S00625.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00527.htm [3]
Trojans:
Facebook Threat Uses Video Clips To Harm
Users
The attack involves Facebook messages that
trick users into watching an online video, usually via click
through to another site like Google Reader or Picasa. The
videoclip is actually an attack, and prompts the user to
install an upgrade to allow them to view the video. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0810/S00052.htm
COMMENT
------------HELP RAISE
AWARENESS
More
»[1]
[1] - http://usacoup.scoop.co.nz/unprovable
Cuban
Ambassador UN Interview: "We Are Not
Slaves"
Cuba's Ambassador to New Zealand
discusses the UN General Assembly vote to lift the US
embargo against Cuba. The vote, Thursday NZ Time, was passed
185 votes to 3 with only the US, Israel and Palau voting
against. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0811/S00008.htm
Michael
Collins: Exit Poll Mess - 2008
(Wash. DC) Did
you know that 2004 was not a ''red versus blue'' election?
Did any analysis that you heard or read mention that the
very red rural voting segment went from 23% of the vote
total in 2000 to 16% in 2004? How about the 2.4 million
fewer votes Bush... More
»[1]
[1] - http://usacoup.scoop.co.nz/?p=904
Gordon
Campbell: Stealing The US Election
Judging by
the polls, the Republicans’ best chance of victory looks
like it will require them to screw around with the machinery
of voting. They’re very good at it. Given the near
certainty of record turnouts in next week’s election... More
»[1]
[1] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/gordon-campbell-stealing-the-us-election/
ALSO:
- USA Coup: Scoop's Electronic Election Integrity Campaign [2]
- Open Letter To The Media From The Media [3]
- ACLU Stops Illegal Voter Purges in Michigan [4]
- Michael Collins: Exit Poll Mess - 2008 [5]
[2] - http://usacoup.scoop.co.nz/ [2]
[3] - http://usacoup.scoop.co.nz/?p=835" target="_blank [3]
[4] - http://usacoup.scoop.co.nz/?p=905 [4]
[5] - http://usacoup.scoop.co.nz/?p=904 [5]
Paul
G. Buchanan: Campaign Rhetoric As An Invitation To
Violence
Paul G. Buchanan writes: Heading into
the homestretch of the 2008 US presidential elections,
there's an elephant in the room few want to speak about...
The possibility of political assassination of Barack Obama.
Let us discuss it here. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00373.htm
ALSO:
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00410.htm [2]
Stateside:
Phooey, And More Phooey!
It’s not every night
in the U.S. that you see what looks like the back row of a
Tongan rugby team standing in the bed of a pick-up
truck—one wearing a pair of novelty glasses with
fluorescent green whirly lights—jumping up and down,
waving ... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00384.htm
Martin
LeFevre: Journeying Beyond Thought And
Time
With exquisite grace, a dozen Canadian geese
glide silently to a soft landing on the calm Michigan bay.
In the last seconds of their flight, during which their
wings are held in curved motionlessness, time itself seems
to stand still. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00382.htm
LIFESTYLE
------------Fashion:
AUT Rookie Designers In Top Form At NZFW
Catwalk
New Zealand’s fashion future is in safe
hands judging by the design talent on display at AUT’s
Rookie show last Friday night. Twenty one young designers in
their final year of AUT University’s Bachelor of Design
(Fashion) were selected to show their debut collections in
front of a packed fashion crowd at Auckland’s St Paul’s
Church. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0811/S00016.htm
Big
Bad Wolf News: Red Hiding Hood And Granny In
Danger
Circa’s fabulous Christmas panto is
back! The team that brought you Cinderella, Aladdin, and
Jack & the Beanstalk returns with one of those great stories
that everybody knows and loves. Roger Hall’s Red Riding
Hood. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0811/S00002.htm
Culture: You Ain't Much If You Are Not
Dutch!
This Labour weekend marked a pilgrimage to
Hamilton gardens for many people with Dutch roots or with an
interest in culture from the Netherlands. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0810/S00317.htm
Cool Snaps: Karim Sahai Captures Diwali Hootenanny
Ace Scoop photo contributor Karim Sahai recently
captured Diwali and the celebrations of the Indian new year.
More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00390.htm
WORLD
------------World
News: Illegal Shark Fishing Compounds Global
Shortfall
As the world’s demand for sharks
continues to grow, shark populations are plummeting. The
Asian market for shark fin is the key driver of shark
fishing globally and is fuelling illegal fishing. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0811/S00036.htm
Scoop
World News: CO3 Targeted For Representing Vedanta Mining
Co.
Survival International has targeted corporate
social responsibility consultancy CO3 for representing
British mining company Vedanta Resources, and is urging CO3
to resign its account in the interest of human rights. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0811/S00035.htm
Scoop
Refugee Crisis: Up To 100,000 People Displaced In North
Kivu, DRC
GOMA, NORTH KIVU, DRC, 3 November, 2008
- Up to 100,000 people, around 60 per cent of which are
children, have fled their homes due to heavy fighting
between armed groups in North Kivu last week. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0811/S00041.htm
World
News: Scathing Report On Post-Election
Zimbabwe
Voting for the wrong political party in
the upcoming New Zealand election will not land you in jail
or a torture camp. Nor would you expect to be beaten, or
arbitrarily arrested by the police. However this is the grim
reality documented in Amnesty International's ... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0811/S00021.htm
Scoop
World News: Nepal: Rehabilitating Ex-Combatants Key
Priority
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on
Saturday urged Nepal’s leaders to forge ahead with
rehabilitating thousands of Maoist ex-fighters as part of
the ongoing peace process, as he wrapped up his visit to the
South Asian nation. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0811/S00007.htm
Scoop
World News: Ban Confers With Leaders To End Conflict In
Congo
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been
heavily engaged in discussions with leaders in Africa, the
European Union and the United States in an effort to
stabilize the situation in eastern Democratic Republic of
the Congo. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0811/S00008.htm
Scoop
Youth Issues: Latvia: Children Threatened By Sexual
Exploitation
The sexual exploitation of children
is a matter for concern in Latvia despite the low number of
reported cases, an independent United Nations human rights
expert said today, warning that continued vigilance is
needed. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0811/S00013.htm
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