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LEAD STORY

Gordon Campbell: On The Rugby Apology To Maori, The Gaza Blockade And Lying About Kiwibank

NZ POLITICS

Budget-Based Gifting: Who Is Really Behind The PEDA Stitch Up?

Details emerge of bloodshed aboard Gaza-bound flotilla

Super City: Costs Now Reach $266 Million…and Rising

EPA For NZ: New Environmental Protection Authority Announced

SOEs: John Key Promised Not To Sell Kiwibank 'Ever'

Werewolf: Some More Of Me Polemics

BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH

Scoop Coverage: Budget 2010

Still Hasn't Destroyed World: Two Months Of The Large Hadron Collider

Using Science! Uni Develops Tech For Washing Water

Combining: CBS, SCBS, PGC Plan To Form Bank

Forecasts: Recovering, But Clear And Present Dangers

Scoop Business: Irongate Warns On $80 Mln Debt Coming Due By July 2011

COMMENT

Gordon Campbell: On The Need For New Zealand To Condemn The Gaza Blockade

Pablo Ouziel: Has Israel Declared War on the International Community?

Martin LeFevre: May Tibet Never Be Forgotten

The Poisoned Well: BP, Safety and Pollution

I, Technofool: Rosalea Barker and the world's most expensive alarm clock

Melody Thomas: Calling Out The Catcallers

James Robinson: Should there be any restraint of trade rules when it comes to sport?

Carey Davies: When Tourists Turn Ugly

From The Hood: Some More Of Me Polemics

Martin LeFevre: The Scientific and Religious Minds

LIFESTYLE

Billboards: Tui/God Stoush Sorted

Vacancy For Hairy Director: Guillermo Del Toro Departs "The Hobbit"

WORLD

UN Watch: U.N. Human Rights Council Declares Israel Guilty

Gordon Campbell: On The Rugby Apology To Maori, The Gaza Blockade And Lying About Kiwibank
Isn’t there something truly weird about any Maori Party request to government for an apology over the exclusion of Maori players from tours to apartheid-era South Africa?Lets get it straight. New Zealand’s repeated decisions to play rugby with apartheid South Africa were morally wrong and served to wreck the 1976 Olympics.Asking the government to apologise for not giving Maori the opportunity to participate in those wrongs committed against the black majority in South Africa is quite peculiar, and morally myopic. More »[1]

[1] - http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2010/06/03/g-campbell-rugby-apology-gaza-blockade-kiwibank/

ALSO:

• Nats cynical games over Kiwibank sale [2]


• Rugby jersey marks 100 years of mana [3]


• Field Theory: A new dawn and a new jersey [4]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00094.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1006/S00032.htm [3]

[4] - http://publicaddress.net/default,6658.sm#post6658" target="_blank [4]

ALSO:

• Questions and Answers - 3 June 2010 [2]


• Questions and Answers - 2 June 2010 [3]


• Today In Parliament 02.06.10 [4]


• Questions and Answers - 1 June 2010 [5]


• Today In Parliament 01.06.10 [6]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00098.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00065.htm [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1006/S00025.htm [4]

[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00030.htm [5]

[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1006/S00007.htm [6]

Budget-Based Gifting: Who Is Really Behind The PEDA Stitch Up?
"It is curious that the Minister did not know who represented PEDA in its negotiations with the Government. Why does she not know who she has just handed $5 million to?" More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00095.htm

ALSO:

• Ongoing activities [2]


• Statement from the family of Nicola Enchmarch [3]


• Israel: Detainees Must be Released [4]


• Countries Debate Israeli Raid on Aid Flotilla [5]


• UNSC Condemns Deadly Raid on Gaza Aid Ships [6]


• Independent Probe into ‘Attack’ on Gaza Aid Convoy [7]


• More About The Gaza Flotilla Raid [8]


• U.N. Human Rights Council Declares Israel Guilty [9]


• Monday’s Tragedy is a Direct Result of Blockade [10]


• Obama Expresses Concern, Regret over Israeli Ship [11]


• Daily Press Briefing - June 1 [12]


• Free The Gaza Flotilla [13]


• Israeli: war against international solidarity [14]


• Demonstrations to Come [15]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00060.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00028.htm [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00043.htm [4]

[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00040.htm [5]

[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00033.htm [6]

[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00073.htm [7]

[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00062.htm [8]

[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00075.htm [9]

[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1006/S00035.htm [10]

[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00059.htm [11]

[12] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00046.htm [12]

[13] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00049.htm [13]

[14] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00053.htm [14]

[15] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00052.htm [15]

Details emerge of bloodshed aboard Gaza-bound flotilla
- More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/world/36970.html

ALSO:

• One person's terrorist really is another's freedom fighter [2]


• Israel Prevents Food & Construction-Based Weapons From Entering Gaza Strip [3]


• Gaza Flotilla Attack & NZ Reaction [4]

[2] - http://pundit.co.nz/content/one-persons-terrorist-really-is-anothers-freedom-fighter" target="_blank [2]

[3] - http://weeklycoitus.co.nz/?p=1309" target="_blank [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1006/S00014.htm [4]

Super City: Costs Now Reach $266 Million…and Rising
The cost of setting up the Auckland super city has now hit $266 million, with the revelation that the Government has postponed $66 million of work on integrating computer systems until after the new Council is elected in November. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00083.htm

ALSO:

• Aucklanders' victory for commonsense [2]


• Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill [3]


• Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill [4]


• Auckland business groups concerned by rates grab [5]


• Funding made available for court audio visual link [6]


• A night in shipping container prison [7]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00070.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00067.htm [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00093.htm [4]

[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1006/S00104.htm [5]

[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00072.htm [6]

[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/national/36944.html [7]

EPA For NZ: New Environmental Protection Authority Announced
The Government today announced the establishment of a new standalone Environmental Protection Authority to perform environmental regulatory functions, Minister for the Environment Nick Smith said. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00071.htm

ALSO:

• The next steps in the Bluegreen agenda [2]


• Business as usual at Environmental Authority [3]


• Expanded EPA unlikely to have any teeth [4]


• Facts for World Environment Day [5]


• EDS welcomes EPA announcement [6]


• Environment commissioner welcomes EPA announcement [7]


• Conference Spinning out the ‘Green Wash’ [8]


• Calls for marine protection at heart of new laws [9]


• Two NZers fly out to help with Gulf oil spill [10]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00073.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00100.htm [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00099.htm [4]

[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00080.htm [5]

[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1006/S00035.htm [6]

[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00087.htm [7]

[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1006/S00036.htm [8]

[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1006/S00042.htm [9]

[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1006/S00013.htm [10]

SOEs: John Key Promised Not To Sell Kiwibank 'Ever'
John Key made a clear undertaking before the last general election, that there would never be a sale of Kiwibank, even if National won a further term in government, says Jim Anderton ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00062.htm

ALSO:

• On the rugby apology to Maori, the Gaza blockade and lying about Kiwibank [2]

[2] - http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2010/06/03/g-campbell-rugby-apology-gaza-blockade-kiwibank/#kiwibank [2]

Werewolf: Some More Of Me Polemics
Satire from Lyndon Hood: In which the author is reincarnated into the body of a free verse poet. More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/05/from-the-hood-some-more-of-me-polemics/

ALSO:

• Labour backs conservation groups’ petition [2]


• The Right Time for Southern Right Whales [3]


• Whaling opinion [4]


• Anti-whaling protesters to present petition to Parliament [5]


• Bethune says court evidence against him a 'pack of lies' [6]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00056.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1006/S00001.htm [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1006/S00015.htm [4]

[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/36930.html [5]

[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/world/36889.html [6]

Scoop Coverage: Budget 2010
More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/features/budget2010.html

Still Hasn't Destroyed World: Two Months Of The Large Hadron Collider
Two months is a very short time in the life of a major particle physics project, but a lot can happen in that time as the LHC has shown since 30 March. Colliding beams at 3.5 TeV was an important milestone, a start to the LHC physics programme, but it was just a single step on a very long journey. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1006/S00011.htm

ALSO:

• Warren Moyes: Speech to Ag and Hort Outlook Summit [2]


• Kiwis Have Their Say On Ultra Fast Broadband - 10 [3]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1006/S00010.htm" target="_blank [2]

[3] - http://scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1006/S00026.htm" target="_blank [3]

Using Science! Uni Develops Tech For Washing Water
Wetox is an innovation that uses science to address one of today’s biggest pollution problems; it has the potential to keep New Zealand’s rivers and waterways clean by treating the run-off from our dairy farms, wineries and meat works. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1006/S00008.htm

ALSO:

• National Climate Summary 05/10: Eastern areas wet [2]


• Brazilian company enters ranks of NZ oil explorers [3]


• Deep water oil drilling should be placed on hold [4]


• Offshore oil – another bad joke from Government [5]


• EDS calls for Resource Management Act to cover oil [6]


• NZ Lacks Expertise To Cope With Oil Spill - Expert [7]


• Govt conscious of deep sea drilling dangers - Key [8]


• Two NZers fly out to help with Gulf oil spill [9]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1006/S00005.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1006/S00038.htm [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00007.htm [4]

[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1006/S00014.htm [5]

[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1006/S00016.htm [6]

[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1006/S00003.htm [7]

[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/36874.html [8]

[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1006/S00013.htm [9]

Combining: CBS, SCBS, PGC Plan To Form Bank
Three long established financial services businesses are evaluating a merger that would create a New Zealand owned banking group with scale and resources to work with customers in Heartland New Zealand. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1006/S00019.htm

Forecasts: Recovering, But Clear And Present Dangers
NZIER today released its June 2010 Quarterly Predictions – a comprehensive commentary on the New Zealand economy and forecasts covering the next five years. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1006/S00025.htm

ALSO:

• Treasury Urges Liberalisation Of Investment Act [2]


• NZ dollar little changed ahead of RBA, BOC reviews [3]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1005/S00340.htm [2]

[3] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2010/06/01/nz-dollar-little-changed-ahead-of-rba-boc-reviews/ [3]

Scoop Business: Irongate Warns On $80 Mln Debt Coming Due By July 2011
Irongate Property Ltd., the property investor managed by the St Laurence group, said the uncertain economy could compromise its asset sales programme and affect its ability to repay bonds that are due over the next 13 months... More »[1]

[1] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2010/05/31/irongate-warns-on-mid-july-80-mln-bond-repayment/

Gordon Campbell: On The Need For New Zealand To Condemn The Gaza Blockade
The Israeli attack on the Turkish aid convoy to Gaza, and its subsequent slaughter of the civilians on board is being condemned around the world. That the commando raid was mounted in order... More »[1]

[1] - http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2010/06/01/g-campbell-the-need-to-condemn-the-gaza-blockade/

ALSO:

• On The International Aid Flotilla Now Approaching Gaza [2]

[2] - http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2010/05/28/g-campbell-on-the-aid-flotilla-approaching-gaza/ [2]

Pablo Ouziel: Has Israel Declared War on the International Community?
Yesterday, with amazement, many of us around the world witnessed through a live-feed on the Internet how heavily armed sea pirates – dressed in full military combat gear – descended from Israeli military helicopters unto the decks of the Mavi Marmara ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1006/S00018.htm

ALSO:

• The Lone Ship of the Freedom Flotilla - The Rachel Corrie [2]


• If You Stop 6 Ships We Will Send 6,000 [3]


• Pirates in the Mediterranean [4]


• International Law And Israel's War On Gaza [5]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1006/S00024.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1006/S00020.htm [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1006/S00023.htm [4]

[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1006/S00012.htm [5]

Martin LeFevre: May Tibet Never Be Forgotten
The Dalai Lama has said that he may not reincarnate again, and if he does, it will not be in Tibet. He isn’t referring to illumination however. After all, bodhisattvas reincarnate; illumined beings incarnate. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1006/S00009.htm

The Poisoned Well: BP, Safety and Pollution
Louisiana is bracing itself for the largest oil spill in American history, a month after the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico exploded. Crude has already covered 80 miles of the state’s coastline, and promises are being made that the crisis ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1005/S00242.htm

I, Technofool: Rosalea Barker and the world's most expensive alarm clock
About three weeks ago, the smartphone I use as a modem stopped being recognized by my laptop. It’s the only connection I have to the Internet, so I called Verizon’s helpdesk to try and solve the problem. Amazingly, the person I spoke to said I should ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1005/S00239.htm

Melody Thomas: Calling Out The Catcallers
Research into how sexism influences its target as an individual is plentiful. Among the many harmful effects are lowered self-esteem and greater self-objectification, which in turn can lead on to depression and eating disorders... More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/05/calling-out-the-catcallers/

James Robinson: Should there be any restraint of trade rules when it comes to sport?
It is rarely acknowledged that sporting stars are trades people. Yet it is a simple, uncomplicated and not exactly earth-shattering factof life. Like a typical electrician or plumber, our sporting stars have tuned up on a particular skill... More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/05/tie-me-salary-cap-down-sport/

Carey Davies: When Tourists Turn Ugly
A week ago, I landed back in the UK having spent four months in New Zealand. I travelled the length and breadth of the North and South islands in a variety of guises – backpacker, WWOOFer, hitchhiker, vineyard worker, and for three weeks a... More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/05/when-tourists-turn-ugly/

From The Hood: Some More Of Me Polemics
Before you ask, no: I’m not jealous, About what John, Bill and Peter tell us; But just now everyone seems to be, fixated on those fifty Gs. Now nothing about that wage, Particularly fills me with rage: I don’t come with bad things to say About people who earn fifty K. More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/05/from-the-hood-some-more-of-me-polemics/

Martin LeFevre: The Scientific and Religious Minds
Though the rain didn’t begin until mid-morning, by mid-afternoon the park that runs through town felt like a wild place. A light drizzle, almost imperceptible amongst the trees, fell as I walked along the redolent paths, devoid of people except for ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1005/S00213.htm

Billboards: Tui/God Stoush Sorted
New Zealand’s most popular beer brand, Tui, has extended the Bethlehem Community Church near Tauranga an ‘olive branch’. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1006/S00098.htm

ALSO:

• Farewell Merata Mita [2]


• Greens farewell Merata Mita [3]


• Merata Mita Biography [4]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00008.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00006.htm [3]

[4] - http://www.nzonscreen.com/person/merata-mita/biography" target="_blank [4]

Vacancy For Hairy Director: Guillermo Del Toro Departs "The Hobbit"
Guillermo Del Toro announced today that he is no longer directing the two movies based on J.R.R Tolkien's "The Hobbit", but will continue to co-write the screenplays. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1005/S00237.htm

ALSO:

• Pat Evison [2]

[2] - http://www.nzonscreen.com/person/pat-evison" target="_blank [2]

UN Watch: U.N. Human Rights Council Declares Israel Guilty
Geneva, June 2, 2010 — The U.N. Human Rights Council voted 32 to 3 to adopt an Arab and Islamic-sponsored resolution ( click here for final amended text ) that began by declaring Israel guilty of committing an ''outrageous attack'' in monday's ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00075.htm

ALSO:

• Call from Gaza for global response to killings [2]


• Deadly Raid on Gaza Aid Flotilla [3]


• Israeli Embassy on Gaza flotilla [4]


• Israel’s killing of 19 Innocents with 60 Injured [5]


• Military Takeover of the Flotilla on Its Way to Ga [6]


• Killings on International Flotilla to Gaza [7]


• Israel: Killings at Sea an Outrage [8]


• What if Iran had carried out the Gaza carnage? [9]


• Israel: US Activist Loses Eye; Shot in Face [10]


• Call from Gaza for global response to killings [11]


• Israel Prevents Food & Construction-BasedWeapons From Entering Gaza Strip [12]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1005/S00512.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00005.htm [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00008.htm [4]

[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00011.htm [5]

[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00014.htm [6]

[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00015.htm [7]

[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00016.htm [8]

[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00024.htm [9]

[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00021.htm [10]

[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00020.htm [11]

[12] - http://weeklycoitus.co.nz/?p=1309" target="_blank [12]

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