Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings March 7 2007

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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: UQ Wire: Illegalities Suggests Bush Role In 9/11

www.UnansweredQuestions.org

The trouble with thinking 9/11 was an inside job staged by George W. Bush & Co. is that it defies belief any U.S. president might be capable of such an iniquitous crime against his own people.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00086.htm

2: Challenging Bush Admin. Military Commissions

William Fisher

In the face of multiple legal and legislative challenges, President George W. Bush this week issued an executive order to allow cases against prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to move forward to trials by military tribunals.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00101.htm

3: Dean Baker: The Housing Bubble Starts to Burst

Dean Baker

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Is there anything as beautiful as the sound of surprised economists in the springtime? I haven't had this much fun since the NASDAQ started to deflate seven years ago.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00113.htm

4: R. Nicholas Burns: U.S. Policy Towards Iran

US State Department

We face a complex, interconnected set of four crises in the Middle East: the need to achieve a stable and democratic Iraq, to strengthen the democratically elected government of Lebanon, to block Iran’s nuclear and regional ambitions, and to establish ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00130.htm

5: No Right Turn: National's $1.25 billion giveaway

No Right Turn

How would you feel if the government deducted $300 from your bank account to give to its mates? Because that's what National is planning to do with carbon credits. At a meeting in Christchurch yesterday, National Party leader John Key announced ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00119.htm

6: Some Call It Rape: The Sex Kitten & The Tomcat

Anne Else

I didn’t want to write this column, but it can’t be avoided. It’s been obvious for a few years now that women are being more and more insistently defined (and often successfully urged to join the fun and define themselves) in terms of how “hot” ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00075.htm

7: Key stumbles with policy on the hoof

New Zealand Government

The announcement today by John Key and Nick Smith that National would give foresters carbon credits dating back to 1990 show’s his political naivety by making up uncosted, unaffordable and unfair policy on the hoof," said Forestry Minister Jim Anderton.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00090.htm

8: Poster appals Police Minister

New Zealand Government

A poster that suggests a career in New Zealand Police is a way to hear "great rape stories" is an appalling slur on thousands of "good and honest" New Zealanders who police New Zealand with integrity and respect every day, says Police Minister Annette ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00082.htm

9: Dobriansky: 2006 Country Reports on HR Practices

US State Department

On-The-Record Briefiing on the State Department's 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00129.htm

10: National Party Signals on Kyoto Forests Welcomed

The Kyoto Forestry Association

The Kyoto Forestry Association (KFA) has welcomed comments on carbon credit ownership made by Opposition Climate Change Spokesman Nick Smith today when he, National Leader John Key and Agriculture Spokesman David Carter attended MAF’s land-use consultation ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00104.htm

11: Buying Your First Home It's Still Possible

The Professionals

Rising New Zealand house prices may make property less affordable, but real estate salespeople say that with an innovative approach and hard work, it's still possible to reach that first rung on the property ladder.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00112.htm

12: Anderton’s Personal Attacks Can’t Disguise Crisis

The Kyoto Forestry Association

Forestry Minister Jim Anderton’s strategy of continual personal attacks on the forestry industry does not obscure the political and deforestation crises his policies and approach to the job have caused, the Kyoto Forestry Association (KFA) said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00116.htm

13: Kiwis Continue to Embrace Broadband

Statistics New Zealand

Internet broadband (non-analog) subscriber numbers continue to increase, and are up nearly 30 percent in the six months to 30 September 2006, Statistics New Zealand said today. The total number of Internet subscribers in New Zealand is now almost ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00121.htm

14: Anderton attempts to distract from carbon fiasco

New Zealand National Party

Jim Anderton's hysterical response to National over carbon credits isn't surprising from someone seeking to distract attention from Labour's carbon credits fiasco, says National Party Climate Change spokesman Nick Smith.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00092.htm

15: No Change Until You Change How Money Works

Carolyn Baker

All-too frequently I encounter activists who don’t like to talk about money. While they crusade loudly for “economic justice”, they resist talking about their own relationship with money as if it were somehow an X-rated topic on par with sexuality ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00105.htm

16: English and Key at odds over fiscal policy

New Zealand Government

National's co-leaders are once again divided over fiscal policy, Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00129.htm

17: Critique Of Griffin’s “The American Empire & 9/11"

www.UnansweredQuestions.org

I am an agnostic on the question of what happened on 9/11. I’m convinced that there are huge holes in the official story and contradictions that suggest that we do not know the whole story.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00085.htm

18: Key promises the earth again

New Zealand Government

National leader John Key is again pandering to a vocal minority and showing little ability to deal with a serious economic issue, Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00127.htm

19: Mighty River Power sees the light - at last

Green Party

The Green Party has congratulated Mighty River Power for dumping its controversial plan to convert the Marsden B power station to coal, describing it as a victory for campaigners, the local community and climate change. Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00113.htm

20: Older workers make their mark

Department Of Labour

More older Kiwi workers are staying on the job, with New Zealand recording one of the highest workforce participation rates in the OECD for the 50-64 year age group, Department of Labour Group Manager for Workforce Policy Lesley Haines said.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00072.htm

21: Scoop Images: Sydney Mardi Gras

Jamie Melbourne-Hayward

Jamie Melbourne-Hayward sent these images from the Sydney Mardi Gras. Jamie was marching behind a the parade float of an HIV/Aids NGO, ACON. The NGO also supports Aboriginal and Torres Straight Island issues.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00091.htm

22: Bernard Weiner: Origins of the Iraq Disaster

Bernard Weiner

HardRight conservatives tend to downplay how the U.S. got into the Iraq War. Why dive back into all that?, they say, our troops are there so let's just finish the job.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00114.htm

23: Did Cheney Allow 9/11 Plane To Strike Pentagon?

www.UnansweredQuestions.org

Although the official 9/11 Commission Report(CR) said Vice President Richard Cheney did not arrive at the Presidential Emergency Operations Center(PEOC) under the White House until "shortly before 10 a.m." that tragic day, Transportation Secretary Norman ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00069.htm

24: Biggest Cheese From Little Herd

NZ Champions Of Cheese

Crescent Dairy Goats Old Gold was named Saint Clair Champion of Champions Cheese at the Cuisine NZ Champion Cheese Awards gala dinner held in Auckland this evening (March 6).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00118.htm

25: Scoop Link: Libby Found Guilty in CIA Leak Case

Scoop Link

Washington - Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted Tuesday of obstruction, perjury and lying to the FBI in an investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to reporters.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00116.htm

26: Walking access report a blueprint for way forward

New Zealand Government

The independent report on walking access provides a blueprint for the way forward on an extremely complex and longstanding issue, Rural Affairs Minister Damien O'Connor says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00107.htm

27: Cullen: Economic transformation 2007 and beyond

New Zealand Government

Speech Notes Economic transformation 2007 and beyond Speech notes for North Shore Business Excellence Network breakfast, North Harbour Stadium, Auckland
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00095.htm

28: Climate change consultation needs to be longer

New Zealand National Party

National’s Agriculture spokesman, David Carter, is annoyed that public consultation on the Government’s climate change proposals won’t be extended. Mr Carter attended a forum yesterday, where he says around 300 angry farmers and foresters were told ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00104.htm

29: Unlike Hitler, Bush Gives Appearance Of Sanity

Sherwood Ross

"I believe in the universality of freedom," George Bush told the audience at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington recently, "and I believe that this country, this grand country of ours, has an obligation to help people realize the blessings ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00098.htm

30: Killing pests without killing you or the earth

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There are about 50 to 60 million insect species on earth - we have named only about 1 million and there are only about 1 thousand pest species - already over 50% of these thousand pests are already resistant to our volatile, dangerous, synthetic ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0703/S00016.htm

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