Top Scoop Stories November 11th 2009 News Summary
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We must put party politics aside and come up with a new approach to monetary policy which supports people in New Zealand
who produce tradeable goods, rather than those who speculate on property and take the profits off-shore, says MP for
Wigram and Progressive Party leader, Jim Anderton. The Report from the Parliamentary Banking Inquiry was released today.
The inquiry was held by the Progressive Party, The Labour Party and the Greens. The National-led government and its
coalition partners refused to take part in the inquiry. More »[1]
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... The two males were spotted by a member of public who contacted police and maintained observations on the vehicle as
it was driven away through rural back roads while the occupants threw the boxes out the window. More »[1]
"Members of the senior leadership team of the Party plan to meet with Hone and the Tai Tokerau electorate committee on
Thursday, and the hui will discuss Hone's statements and reflect on the whole situation," said Dr Sharples and Mrs
Turia. More »[1]
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[2] - http://pundit.co.nz/content/hide-harawira-sorry-should-be-the-hardest-word" target="_blank [2]
Does the Search and Surveillance Bill, as the NZ Herald has recently maintained, really give a web of state agencies ‘sweeping powers to spy, bug conversations and hack into
private computers’? ALSO:Bruce Stuart-Menteath - More »[1]
[1] - http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/10/gordon-campbell-powers-of-search-and-surveillance/
Prime Minister John Key officially launched construction of the first New Zealand Cycle Trail project at Waipa Domain on
the banks of the Waikato River today. More »[1]
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I have asked you here today because I want to apologise. I want to apologise to the public. I want to apologise to my
colleagues and to my supporters. But most importantly I want to apologise to the people of Epsom. I promised the people
of Epsom I would make them proud of me as their MP. I have let them down.KiwiFM - More »[1]
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[2] - http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/06/gordon-campbell-the-harawira-junket-sean-plunket/ [2]
[8] - http://pundit.co.nz/content/hide-harawira-sorry-should-be-the-hardest-word" target="_blank [8]
Well I'm actually enjoying it a great deal. I travel a lot, I've got a large organisation to lead, get involved in many
many interesting issues. I came into politics initially because of a passion for international affairs, and I guess
sitting across the road from the United Nations building I'm right in the centre of it. More »[1]
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BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH------------
New Zealand’s dollar is “unlikely to be sustainable” at current high levels while the return to looser lending
conditions for home-buyers risk return to a debt-fuelled housing cycle, Reserve Bank Governor, Alan Bollard, said this
morning. More »[1]
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[2] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/11/nz-dollar-holds-above-74-cts-after-bollard-comment/ [2]
Gambling Compliance Director Mike Hill said that a new gambling licence condition will prevent the Lion Foundation,
Perry Foundation and Infinity Foundation from granting pokie funds to the Thames Harness Racing Club and the Manukau,
Kumeu and Franklin Trotting Clubs. More »[1]
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Solid Energy Chief Operating Officer, Barry Bragg, says the union has been irresponsible in drawing Solid Energy staff
into a separate dispute between miners in the Waikato and their employer which has nothing to do with the company’s
South Island operations. More »[1]
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Pole-to-pole flights provide a global picture of greenhouse gases: this month a team of international scientists will
fly from the Arctic to the Antarctic aboard an exceptional jet. NIWA scientists play a vital and integral part in this
work on greenhouse gas measurements. More »[1]
Scientists at the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) have identified the source of the giant plankton bloom featuring in spectacular NASA
satellite images. The NIWA deep water research vessel Tangaroa travelled through the bloom last week and collected water
samples for analysis. More »[1]
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Virginia-born Major Nidal Malik Hasan, in a ten-minute orgy of killing at the Texas military base of Fort Hood last
week, is now in custody recovering from his wounds. Thirteen people (twelve soldiers and a civilian) were killed, and
thirty injured... More »[1]
When British Foreign Secretary David Miliband uttered a few words regarding the illegality of the Israeli settlements in
the occupied West Bank, many wanted to believe that London was taking a sharp stance against Israel’s continued
violations of international ... More »[1]
I had an aunt that was a nun in the Catholic Church. Even as a kid, I never saw her as religious person however. She was
a career woman in a black habit, at a time when there were two choices for Catholic women: marry a man and have kids; or
marry Jesus ... More »[1]
Does the Search and Surveillance Bill, as the NZ Herald has recently maintained, really give a web of state agencies
‘sweeping powers to spy, bug conversations and hack into private computers’ ? Or is this all based on a ‘remarkable
misunderstanding'... More »[1]
[1] - http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/10/gordon-campbell-powers-of-search-and-surveillance/
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma must free Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest and allow her to participate in a nationwide
election, otherwise the vote will not be credible and U.S. economic sanctions will not be lifted, a U.S. State
Department official ... More »[1]
MAHMOUD ABBAS is fed up. The day before yesterday he withdrew his candidacy for the coming presidential election in the
Palestinian Authority. I understand him. He feels betrayed. And the traitor is Barack Obama. More »[1]
Is there any word that more trippingly trips off the lips than “Kalamazoo”? I think not. This city in SW Michigan began
life as Bronson, named after the settler who first claimed the land and built a hut there in 1829, Titus Bronson . He
wasn’t ... More »[1]
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LIFESTYLE------------
It has been Charles Darwin’s year since his 200th birthday in February and on Thursday night before the fireworks on the
harbour, we saw Downstage’s biographical tribute. More »[1]
The Wellington Phoenix faced Perth Glory during the 13th match of the Hyundai A-League 2009-2010 season, on 8 Nov 2009,
at Wellington's Westpac Stadium. With a draw 1-1 score, the Phoenix remain unbeaten at home this year. More »[1]
Michael King is remembered for his writing of New Zealand history as well as for his generous support of other writers.
After his tragic death in 2004, a group of friends and associates set up the Michael King Writers’ Centre. During Labour
weekend 2009 the Centre organised a three-day residential workshop with the theme, Shifting Sands: changing perceptions
in history and biography. More »[1]
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WORLD------------
The only uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon is having its forest rapidly and illegally bulldozed by
ranchers who want their land to graze cattle for beef. The Ayoreo-Totobiegosode is the only uncontacted tribe in the
world currently ... More »[1]
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC World Service global poll finds that dissatisfaction with free
market capitalism is widespread, with an average of only 11% across 27 countries saying that it works well and that
greater regulation ... More »[1]
Poor countries, already hit hard by the global financial and economic crisis in their efforts to fund social and health
programmes, are facing a double blow this year with debt servicing increasing by over 17 per cent as a proportion of
government ... More »[1]
A group of Palestinians from the popular committees and Fatah movement tore down a part of the Apartheid Wall separating
occupied East Jerusaelm from the rest of the West Bank. On Monday 9 November a hundred Palestinians waving Palestinain
flags ... More »[1]
An Army medical doctor opened fire Thursday with two handguns at the Fort Hood military base in an attack that left 12
people dead and 31 wounded. More »[1]
The General Assembly today endorsed the report of the United Nations investigation which found that both Israeli forces
and Palestinian militants were guilty of serious human rights violations during the conflict in the Gaza Strip at the
start of the year. More »[1]
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