Top Scoop Stories November 19th 2009 News Summary
Gordon Campbell: Putting The 9/11 Terrorists On Trial
Anniversaries: John Key Reviews The Year That Was
Family Court: Mediator On Judge's Support Calls
Policing: Operation COBRA Disrupts Wellington Drug Community
General Politics: Dalai Lama Visits New Zealand
Perceptions: NZ Tops International Index For Least Corrupt
English Promo: TVNZ Says "We Probably Shouldn't Have Done That"
Agri-Rhethoric: Feds Threaten To Cut Out Pound Of Flesh Nearest Heart
Copyright: NZ Authors Officially Out Of Google Books Settlement
Commerce Commission: Inghams Warned Over GM Free Chicken Claims
High Finance: Hanover Confirms Investors Will Get 70%
Gordon Campbell: The 9/11 Terrorists On Trial
Paul Buchanan: The Strategic Utility of Terrorism (and why jihadism is losing)
East Timor: The Role Of Journalists In The Freedom Struggle
Globalization Unchecked: How Alien Media is Suffocating Real Culture
Harvey Wasserman: For Obama it's one (term) if by war, two if by peace
Aung San Suu Kyi, Omar Khadr, and Barack Obama: A dreadful tale of what America has become
Connie Lawn: US President Barack Obama Talks New Zealand Defence & Trade With Scoop
Wellington: Buses, Accidents And Politics
Plagiarism: Author Purchases Remaining Stock Of Trowenna Sea
... And An Album Out: The Chris Knox Collection On NZ On Screen
Land Theft: Israeli Decision To Expand Jerusalem Settlement
Australia: RAAF Jets Take To The Skies For Exercise
Press Business: Finding New Business Models For Newspapers
Climate Change: Denmark's Push For Delay In Copenhagen
Bolivia: A Grey Goldmine: Recent Developments In Lithium
China: Remarks At USA Pavilion At Shanghai Expo
Defence Agreement: U.S. Lease Of Colombian Military Bases
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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/
NZ POLITICS
------------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
BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH
------------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:
[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]
COMMENT
------------
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
LIFESTYLE
------------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]
WORLD
------------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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