Today's Top Scoops - 23 April 2008
Scoop Satire: NZ Politics - The Text Adventure
Social
Crisis: Help Is At Hand For Problem Gamblers
Immigration:
Prebble Kept Busy In Last Months In Job
Scoop
Multimedia: PM's Post Cabinet Press Conference - Heat
On The Prez
Coal:
Clean Cola Gets NZBCS Push
Science: Butterfly Bafflement Causes Boffin
Bemusement
OSH:
Industry Sent Message About Workplace
Safety
Champions:
UN Honours Seven Leaders In The Fight Against Climate
Change
Food
Warning: Global Food Crisis 'Silent Tsunami'
Threatening Over 100 Million People
Photography:
Bruno Manser's Penan And Rainforest Photos Go
Online
"Our
Part": Enlisting Powerfull Allies To Fight Climate
Change
Gordon Campbell: Clinton's Last Stand
Michael Collins: Election Fraud in
Pennsylvania?
Uri Avnery: The Lion and the
Gazelle
Theatre: Play About Helen Clark Obsessive In
AK
Artiness: Decorative Arts Go Dark in New Exhibition
Top Qwality Culture: Youth Get Opera For A
Song
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LEAD STORY
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Scoop Satire: NZ Politics - The Text
Adventure
YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY
LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL ALIKE
> go
left
A HUGE GREEN FIERCE SNAKE BARS THE
WAY!
> kill snake
WITH WHAT? YOUR
BARE HANDS?
> slap snake with 'slippery' tag
More >> [1]
ALSO:
- Dror N Corter - Scoop Satire: Sit-Down Toilets In Our Prisons! [2]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00335.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00313.htm
NZ POLITICS
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Social
Crisis: Help Is At Hand For Problem
Gamblers - Business sized 'HELP' cards with
updated contact details for both local and national problem
gambling support services have been designed and will be
within arms reach. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0804/S00348.htm
Immigration:
Prebble Kept Busy In Last Months In Job - The
State Services Commissioner, Mark Prebble, has announced
that he would report to Ministers on the Department of
Labour's response to concerns about the handling by the
Department of matters relating to family members of the head
of the Immigration Service. More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- Gordon Campbell - : For relatives, the rules could be relative [2]
- National - Confidence in Immigration reserved [3]
- National - PM's move on immigration claims curious [4]
- National - Confidence in Immigration reserved [5]
- Gordon Copeland - Truth not white wash sought on immigration inquiry [6]
- Public Service Association - PSA Welcomes SSC Investigation [7]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0804/S00337.htm
[2]
- http://election08.scoop.co.nz/for-relatives-the-rules-could-be-relative/
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00497.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00517.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00497.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00544.htm
[7]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0804/S00341.htm
Scoop
Multimedia: PM's Post Cabinet Press Conference - Heat
On The Prez - Video + Audio of NZ Prime
Minister Helen Clark's post Cabinet press conference for
Parliamentary press gallery journalists held this afternoon.
More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- AGENDA - Mike Williams Interview [2]
- National - Confused? More like cunning [3]
- National - Mike Williams must go [4]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00316.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00303.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00529.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00494.htm
BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH
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Coal:
Clean Cola Gets NZBCS Push - The New Zealand
Business Council for Sustainable Development, whose 71
member companies' $44 billion in annual sales. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0804/S00346.htm
Science: Butterfly Bafflement Causes Boffin
Bemusement - Trustees of the Monarch Butterfly
NZ Trust are shocked to see a photograph of the 'wrong' Red
Admiral butterfly featuring in the current issue of The
Listener. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0804/S00040.htm
OSH:
Industry Sent Message About Workplace Safety -
The Department of Labour says the court decision yesterday
ordering an employer to pay $90,000 for failing to ensure
its employees weren't exposed to hazards sends a clear
message to industry. More>>
[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0804/S00413.htm
WORLD
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Champions:
UN Honours Seven Leaders In The Fight Against Climate
Change - The United Nations today acknowledged
seven luminaries in the fight against global warming as this
year's Champions of the Earth. This year's UNEP Special
Prize was bestowed upon Prime Minister Helen Clark of New
Zealand, which has blazed the trail towards climate
neutrality and hopes to meet the goal of 90 per cent
renewable energy by 2025. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00243.htm
Food
Warning: Global Food Crisis 'Silent Tsunami'
Threatening Over 100 Million People - "This is
the new face of hunger - the millions of people who were not
in the urgent hunger category six months ago but now are,"
said WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran, in London. The
food price crisis requires a global response, she said. More
>> [1]
RECENTLY
- Haiti Facing 'Explosive Situation' - UN [2]
- UN Economic Council To Meet On Growing Food Crisis [3]
- Steps Needed To Fight Growing Global Food Crisis [4]
- Caritas warns on international food crisis [5]
- Global Unions Demand IFI Policy Shift In Slowdown [6]
- G8 Must Press For Action On Food Crisis - UK's PM [7]
- UN Wants Urgent Action On Spiralling Food Prices [8]
- Global Rice Production To Rise By 1.8% In 2008 [9]
- Neglect Of Agriculture In Asia Equals Poverty [10]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00237.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00213.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00174.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00149.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00148.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00143.htm
[7]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00135.htm
[8]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00122.htm
[9]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00037.htm
[10]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0803/S00231.htm
Photography:
Bruno Manser's Penan And Rainforest Photos Go
Online - The pictures taken by the
environmentalist whose attention was focused on protecting
the primeval forests uniquely document the threatened
rainforest culture of the Penan in the Malaysian state of
Sarawak and his long-standing battle to prevent
deforestation. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00251.htm
"Our
Part": Enlisting Powerfull Allies To Fight Climate
Change - Climate change has become the defining
issue of our time, set to transform the very way we live.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced
today that Chinese actress/celebrity Zhou Xun was appointed
as its first National Goodwill Ambassador (NGWA) with a
special focus on promoting environmental sustainability.
"Our Part" is meant to tell people that small lifestyle
changes can collectively make a big difference. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00249.htm
COMMENT
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Gordon Campbell: Clinton's Last Stand -
OK, in the Pennsylvania vote, Hillary Clinton should still
get home by between 5 and 10 points - which would mean a
continuation of the stalemate. Anything more gives her the
big victory she needs - and anything less continues her
eclipse... More
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ALSO:
- Steve Weissman - Baiting Obama [2]
- Sherwood Ross - Obama For President [3]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00328.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00329.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00327.htm
Michael Collins: Election Fraud in
Pennsylvania? - The Pennsylvania primary could
lock up the Democratic nomination process once and for all.
The campaign that Democratic National Committee Chairman
Howard Dean asked to be finished by July 1 could be over
this Tuesday. Regardless of your candidate ... More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- Brad Friedman - Pennsylvania Primary: Democracy of the Gods [2]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00288.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00322.htm
Uri Avnery: The Lion and the Gazelle -
TONIGHT THE JEWS all over the world will celebrate the
Seder, the unique ceremony that unites Jews everywhere in
the defining Jewish myth: the Exodus from Egypt. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00319.htm
LIFESTYLE
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Theatre: Play About Helen Clark Obsessive In
AK - Join the overeducated, underachieving
Richard Meros as he charges through the pop-cultural
slipstream to prove that Helen Clark needs him! More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0804/S00231.htm
Artiness: Decorative Arts Go Dark in New Exhibition
- Etiquette for the Homesick is an exhibition
by Wellington artists Genevieve Packer and Caroline
McQuarrie that puts the domestic arts in a new light.
More >> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0804/S00230.htm
Top Qwality Culture: Youth Get Opera For A
Song - The NBR New Zealand Opera's season of
the great romantic opera La Bohème opens in Wellington on
Saturday 10 May and in Auckland on Thursday 29 May, and
anyone aged under 25 can attend for just $25. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0804/S00229.htm
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