Top Scoop Stories November 19th 2009 News Summary

Thursday, 19 November 2009, 1:14 pm
Article: The Scoop Editor

LEAD STORY

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Gordon Campbell: Putting The 9/11 Terrorists On Trial
For years, human rights advocates have argued that terrorism is essentially criminal behaviour, and terrorists should therefore be tried under the rules of due process that democratic states have developed over centuries for dealing fairly with crime, and punishment.For that reason, the news last week that the Obama administration plans to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (aka KSM) and several other alleged 9/11 co-conspirators on trial in federal court is a real breakthrough, and should be applauded. More »[1]

[1] - http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/18/gordon-campbell-the-911-terrorists-on-trial/

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NZ POLITICS

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ALSO:

Questions for Oral Answer - 19 Nov 2009 [2]

Questions and Answers - 18 Nov 2009 [3]

Today In Parliament 18.11.09 [4]

Questions and Answers - 17 Nov 2009 [5]

Today In Parliament 17.11.09 [6]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00260.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00252.htm [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00189.htm [4]

[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00230.htm [5]

[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00178.htm [6]

Anniversaries: John Key Reviews The Year That Was
On this day exactly a year ago, the 19th of November 2008, the new National-led Government was sworn into office. I remember the awesome feeling of responsibility as I took my oath that day. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00255.htm

Family Court: Mediator On Judge's Support Calls
Principal Family Court Judge Judge Boshier is today calling for more support for anguished families. He says, “I feel for people that use our courts who eventually cannot cope and take their own lives”. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00201.htm

Policing: Operation COBRA Disrupts Wellington Drug Community
Wellington Police have arrested more than 50 people over the past seven days in efforts to disrupt criminal activity. The focus has been on drug offending with detectives and general duties staff deployed to execute search warrants and make arrests in Wellington City, Lower and Upper Hutt, Kapiti Mana and the Wairarapa in a major operation codenamed Cobra. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0911/S00321.htm

General Politics: Dalai Lama Visits New Zealand
The decision by the Prime Minister not to meet His Holiness the Dalai Lama when he visits next month has been met by disappointment but not surprise by the organisation responsible for the visit. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00196.htm

ALSO:

'Full and final' Waitangi settlements? [2]

Speech: Key - Federated Farmers National Council [3]

Speech: Goff - Federated Farmers National Council [4]

Get in behind the ETS, Key tells Federated Farmers [5]

Lawless and Salinger offer nearly $5,000 to Key [6]

National Party member - "Why rush Climate bill?" [7]

Copenhagen soon, but still no ETS deal [8]

Kim Chisnall on Copenhagen Climate Change Conference [9]

Scoop Editorial: Launching "Imagining 2020" [10]

ETS Deadlock, Cost Corrections [11]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00249.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00242.htm [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00254.htm [4]

[5] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/18/get-in-behind-the-ets-key-tells-federated-farmers/ [5]

[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00177.htm [6]

[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00197.htm [7]

[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/29541.html [8]

[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/world/29542.html [9]

[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00150.htm [10]

[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00181.htm [11]

Perceptions: NZ Tops International Index For Least Corrupt
State Services Commissioner, Iain Rennie, today welcomed the release of the latest Transparency International findings – that New Zealand is the least corrupt nation in the world. The 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index scores 180 countries on a scale of zero to ten - with zero being perceived to be highly corrupt and 10 being perceived to have low levels of corruption. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00188.htm

ALSO:

Corruption threatens global economic recovery [2]

Corruption and the international financial system [3]

New Zealand public service #1 [4]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00609.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00610.htm [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00246.htm [4]

English Promo: TVNZ Says "We Probably Shouldn't Have Done That"
David Cunliffe said that TVNZ Head of Corporate Affairs Peter Parussini told today’s Finance and Expenditure Committee meeting today that it was now accepted internally at TVNZ that the broadcaster should not have produced the ads in the form they were initially aired. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00238.htm

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BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH

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Economy: Not Such A Good Year
Gross domestic product (GDP) in current prices increased 2.0 percent for the year ended March 2009, Statistics New Zealand said today. This increase is the lowest since the year ended March 1999 and follows a 7.7 percent increase in the March 2008 year. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00598.htm

ALSO:

Human emissions rise 2% despite GFC [2]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0911/S00033.htm [2]

Agri-Rhethoric: Feds Threaten To Cut Out Pound Of Flesh Nearest Heart
“Hath not a farmer eyes? Hath not a farmer hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as townies?” More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00184.htm

ALSO:

Get in behind the ETS, Key tells Federated Farmers [2]

Fonterra’s farmers agree to raise share cap [3]

The future of perpetual compensation [4]

Irrigators could suck rivers dry [5]

Working with vulnerable farmers [6]

Encouraging gas finds "crucial for NZ" [7]

Petroleum sector could increase tenfold - Brownlee [8]

[2] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/18/get-in-behind-the-ets-key-tells-federated-farmers/ [2]

[3] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/18/fonterra%e2%80%99s-farmers-agree-to-raise-share-cap/ [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00190.htm [4]

[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0911/S00311.htm [5]

[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00601.htm [6]

[7] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/17/encouraging-gas-finds-crucial-for-nz/ [7]

[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/business/29501.html [8]

Copyright: NZ Authors Officially Out Of Google Books Settlement
Objections raised by rightsholders (authors and publishers) in a number of countries including New Zealand have led to the new agreement filed last Friday. It affects all local authors whose works have been scanned by Google. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00536.htm

Commerce Commission: Inghams Warned Over GM Free Chicken Claims
The poultry producer Inghams has received a warning from the Commerce Commission that it risked breaching the Fair Trading Act with claims that its chickens contained no genetically modified ingredients. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00547.htm

High Finance: Hanover Confirms Investors Will Get 70%
Hanover Finance, which convinced its investors to agree to a moratorium on repayments last year, has confirmed they’ll now get 70% of their money back at best. More »[1]

[1] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/17/hanover-confirms-investors-will-get-70/

ALSO:

Allied Farmers offers hand of welcome to Hanover [2]

Allied Farmers to buy Hanover, United assets [3]

Hanover result impacted by property market [4]

Accountability needed over Hanover-Immediately [5]

Allied Farmers take over Hanover Finance [6]

Money matters - Hanover Finance and their new bedmates Allied Farmers [7]

[2] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/18/allied-farmers-offers-hand-of-welcome-to-hanover/ [2]

[3] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/17/allied-farmers-to-buy-hanover-united-assets/ [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00304.htm [4]

[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00365.htm [5]

[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/business/29508.html [6]

[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/business/29547.html [7]

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COMMENT

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Gordon Campbell: The 9/11 Terrorists On Trial
For years, human rights advocates have argued that terrorism is essentially criminal behaviour, and terrorists should therefore be tried under the rules of due process that democratic states have developed over centuries for dealing fairly with crime... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00193.htm

Paul Buchanan: The Strategic Utility of Terrorism (and why jihadism is losing)
A Word From Afar: Paul Buchanan writes: One of the axioms of counter-terrorism is that the nastiness of the atrocity is inversely proportional to the terrorist’s chances of success. That is to say, the worse the act, then less likely that terrorist... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00192.htm

East Timor: The Role Of Journalists In The Freedom Struggle
The struggle for justice is not a contest between Indonesians and non-Indonesians. Rather, it is a contest between those around the world who want to justice to prevail and those who want to see impunity prevail... More »[1]

[1] - http://pacific.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/east-timor-the-role-of-journalists-in-the-freedom-struggle/

Globalization Unchecked: How Alien Media is Suffocating Real Culture
A Muslim family sits across of me in café, in a largely Muslim Asia country. An older woman shyly hunches over and desperately trying to avoid eye contact with the giant plasma screen TV, blazing loud music on the popular music video channel, MTV. ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00194.htm

Harvey Wasserman: For Obama it's one (term) if by war, two if by peace
As the world awaits Barack Obama's decision on Afghanistan, a lethal myth has spread. It says that standing up to the military will doom him to be a single-term president. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00186.htm

Aung San Suu Kyi, Omar Khadr, and Barack Obama: A dreadful tale of what America has become
During his trip to Asia, President Obama called for the government of Burma to release Aung San Suu Kyi, a noted dissident who has spent years under house arrest. It made headlines, a fact which tells us more about the role of media as an outlet for government ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00173.htm

Connie Lawn: US President Barack Obama Talks New Zealand Defence & Trade With Scoop
President Obama has provided positive answers to a number of questions about New Zealand. Scoop's White House reporter, Connie Lawn, posed the questions a few weeks ago. She had been hoping to get an interview with the President, before... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00154.htm

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LIFESTYLE

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Wellington: Buses, Accidents And Politics
Accidents with the city’s buses have led on to discussions about city politics this week. There’s been a lot of sadness about the two accidents, one of them fatal, involving buses and pedestrians... More »[1]

[1] - http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=16331

Plagiarism: Author Purchases Remaining Stock Of Trowenna Sea
New Zealand writer Witi Ihimaera is to purchase the remaining warehouse stock of the novel The Trowenna Sea from his publisher Penguin Group (NZ). At the same time Penguin has announced that it is offering to take back stock from any bookseller who wishes to return the book. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0911/S00312.htm

... And An Album Out: The Chris Knox Collection On NZ On Screen
The Chris Knox Collection was curated by Flying Nun founder Roger Shepherd: “this is a unique and important collection of work perfectly illustrating what is possible with the barest of resources and a free wheeling imagination.” More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0911/S00242.htm

ALSO:

Deprived of speech, he sang without words [2]

Songs For Chris Knox: Record Release - Benefit Gig [3]

Fire organ ignited to honour Chris Knox [4]

Arts Foundation names 2009 laureates [5]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00169.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0911/S00055.htm [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/entertainment/29480.html [4]

[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/entertainment/29506.html [5]

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WORLD

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Land Theft: Israeli Decision To Expand Jerusalem Settlement
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon deplored the Israeli Government's decision today to expand Jerusalem’s Gilo settlement, stressing that it was built on Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in the 1967 war. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00593.htm

Australia: RAAF Jets Take To The Skies For Exercise
Royal Australian Air Force personnel will play an important role as fighter jets take to the skies for the East Coast Air Defence Exercise (ECADEX 09), to be conducted off the coast of New South Wales. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00585.htm

Press Business: Finding New Business Models For Newspapers
One of the most intriguing new business models for newspapers -- an individualised newspaper in Germany composed of selected pages and sections from other papers, delivered each morning to one's door -- will be examined when the world's press gathers. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00596.htm

Climate Change: Denmark's Push For Delay In Copenhagen
Rcent attempts by rich countries to postpone a binding climate agreement hit the rocks at a meeting of Environment Ministers in Copenhagen yesterday, as vulnerable developing countries made clear that delay was not an option. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00600.htm

Bolivia: A Grey Goldmine: Recent Developments In Lithium
According to Bolivian President Evo Morales, lithium is not only important to his country’s economic future but is “the hope of humanity,” as the lightweight metal efficiently stores energy capable of powering the eco-friendly cars of the ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00605.htm

China: Remarks At USA Pavilion At Shanghai Expo
Thank you. Thank you so much. Well, good morning, and let me tell you how pleased I am to be here with all of you in the rain, which means good fortune. (Laughter.) I thank the vice mayor for his very kind words. And to all of our Chinese friends ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00531.htm

Defence Agreement: U.S. Lease Of Colombian Military Bases
On Friday, October 30, U.S. and Colombian officials signed the controversial Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA), granting the U.S. armed forces access to seven Colombian military bases for the next ten years. The deal has been the subject of anxious speculation ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00545.htm

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