Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 27 March 2007

Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 9:22 am
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Mina Ahadi: Stop labelling us Muslims!

Mina Ahadi

I would like to talk about a campaign that been influential in Germany over the past several weeks. I have lived in Germany for 11 years; I was first interviewed on stoning by national German TV seven years ago.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00427.htm

Iranian Government

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in an exclusive interview with France Channel 2 TV network said, " We are not worried about US military attack." The president expounded on Iran's viewpoints and dismissed West's accusation on Iran's efforts to access ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00527.htm

GNS Science

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A camera installed by GNS Science near the summit of Ruapehu has captured the moment when the wall of tephra that had been holding back the Crater Lake failed, triggering last Sundays spectacular lahar.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0703/S00066.htm

Green Party

Last night’s exclusion of an accredited journalist from a Beehive photo opportunity with the Michael Cullen and the Deputy Premier of China Zeng Peiyan, because Chinese officials thought the journalist was a “problem”, shows that the Government is ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00533.htm

Iranian Government

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Sunday that though Iran voluntarily implemented the Additional Protocol for two and a half years to prove its good will to Europe, the country's nuclear installations were sealed.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00528.htm

Agenda

Well let's have a look at what's been in the news this week, more problems in the health sector and they're not just in Auckland. The Marlborough Express its editorial asks why pharmacists have been forced to raise prescription costs, once again members ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00418.htm

Guest Opinion

The King has indicated in lucid terms, the need of down to earth new dimensional realities, pertaining to crucial national issues of the nation, the need for unity, enhancement of mutual understanding among all sectors and political fronts.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00464.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. JOHN KEY to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in the Minister of Health?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00541.htm

Guest Opinion

Have you ever noticed that a herd of lembu or cows, all tend to move together in the same direction? Have you often wondered why this phenomenon occurs?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00430.htm

Commerce Commission

GlaxoSmithKline has pleaded guilty to 15 representative charges of breaching the Fair Trading Act by making misleading claims about the Vitamin C content of Ribena. The Commission investigated after a complaint from two college students who tested ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00478.htm

Society for the Promotion of Community Standards

Today the Society applied to the Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, to have the sordid and sick sex tape - highly publicised in the weekend by Sunday News - featuring former policeman and now convicted rapist, Brad Shipton; classified as "objectionable".
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00332.htm

John Lama

The recent series of events involving mass killings, beatings, extortion and intimidation on the part of Maoist terrorists is a vivid indication that Nepal is expeditiously precipitating down the abyss of complete chaos and anarchy. In view of the horrid ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00466.htm

US State Department

Good morning. Thank you Chairman Dodd, Ranking Member Shelby, and distinguished members of the Committee for this opportunity to speak to you about the profound challenges posed to our national security interests by Iran. It is my pleasure to be here today ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00526.htm

Commonwealth Secretariat

27 March 2007, Tuesday Rt Hon Don McKinnon, Commonwealth Secretary-General Commonwealth Local Government Conference (‘Delivering Development through Leadership’) Auckland, New Zealand
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00344.htm

Digital Leisure

A milestone in interactive High Definition technology has today been realized with the first ever interactive BD-J title to be released for Blu-ray* Disc. An instant hit in its 1983 arcade debut, Dragon’s Lair has now been digitally restored and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0703/S00062.htm

New Zealand Government

Here in heartland America, farmers, manufacturers, and workers know what it is to be part of a global marketplace, as does the Chicago Mercantile Exchange - with its truly global reach - which I will visit this afternoon.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00515.htm

Green Party

Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today unveiled what she believes to be the best and most equitable way of addressing the contentious issue of putting a price on carbon.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00525.htm

The Maori Party

Last week I rang a mate of mine and asked him “Howzit? What you up to?”
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00540.htm

Scoop Link

Scoop Link: The Sunday News revealed on the weekend that amateur porn videos of serving police officers had surfaced. The Sunday News reported: "Convicted pack-rapist and former detective Brad Shipton was caught on camera during a group-sex session. Shipton ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00421.htm

Guest Opinion

The Gaur incident is truly a horrendous incident in the historical chronology of mass killings over the decade in Nepal. The barbaric mass killings by the Maoists in various occasions during their so called people's war including Bandermudhe (Madhi), ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00462.htm

Jason Leopold

Emails released by the Department of Justice over the past two weeks in conjunction with a Congressional investigation into the firings of eight US attorneys show that White House officials have communicated with DOJ staffers about the attorney purge, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00482.htm

United Nations

Iraq, Lebanon, Israel-Palestine and the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region were discussed during talks today in Cairo between President Hosni Mubarak and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who said the Egyptian leader is a key partner in dealing with these ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00520.htm

Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland – 27 March 2007- Greenpeace today urged the New Zealand business sector to wake up and accept that a cost on carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions is inevitable.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00353.htm

Maryam Namazie

Bahar a young woman living in Germany wrote: When you see me on the street I am veiled but do not think I am a Muslim. I have been forced to veil by my father and brothers; they will kill me if I don’t. Before I felt alone, but now I know I am not. This ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00426.htm

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

There is an extreme risk to your security in the northern and eastern areas of Sri Lanka due to the fighting between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan authorities.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00333.htm

US State Department

Ellen Sauerbrey, Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration Statement before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia Washington, DC March 26, 2007
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00513.htm

New Zealand Government

Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton and Trade Minister Phil Goff have noted the removal of another hurdle to gaining access for New Zealand apples to the Australian market.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00553.htm

Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd

Fonterra and Eastern Coal Supplies today confirmed the signing of a two-year contract for the supply of coal to the dairy cooperative's Clandeboye manufacturing site near Timaru.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00471.htm

New Zealand Government

Today’s decision by the UN Security Council to impose further sanctions on Iran shows the resolve of the international community to address concerns over Iran’s nuclear programme said Disarmament and Arms Control Minister Phil Goff today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00507.htm

The Scoop Team

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00484.htm

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