Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 31 March 2007

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

1: R.N. Burns: United States Policy Towards Iran

US State Department

R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Washington, DC March 29, 2007
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00566.htm

Lyndon Hood

Following the release of the Green Party's carbon-control proposal, there has been suspicion or outright disapproval from major carbon emitters. That's not the way things ought to be.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00554.htm

University Sport

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University Sport New Zealand (USNZ) has announced the highest number of prestigious NZ Universities Blues awarded since 1950.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0703/S00337.htm

Jeremy Rose

The United Nation’s General Assembly, The Security Council, the Arab League, Iran, Israel, Egypt, and the Non-Aligned Movement are just some of those who have publicly lent their support to a Middle East nuclear free zone over the past three decades.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00549.htm

UN Watch

Geneva, March 30, 2007 — UN Watch expressed disappointment that the UN Human Rights Council concluded its fourth session today without addressing the vast majority of human rights abuses occurring around the world. The Council ignored such serious ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00592.htm

New Zealand National Party

Patients will be shocked that the Labour Government has put spyware on GPs’ computers in order to access personal medical records without permission, says National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00666.htm

New Zealand National Party

Share your concerns on rising building and compliance costs, leaky homes and other issues at a Housing Forum which Maurice Williamson MP and I will be hosting on Monday 2 April at 7:30pm. Bob Clarkson MP for Tauranga will be addressing this meeting. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00656.htm

Scoop Daily Ratings

Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00556.htm

Center for Constitutional Rights

Guantãnamo Detainee May Not Speak To Press, Criticize His Detention Or Say He Was Tortured
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00591.htm

United Future NZ Party

Police confirmation that CYF will become involved in smacking as reported by the public following the section 59 repeal, is a concern raised by United Future deputy leader Judy Turner months ago.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00664.htm

ACT New Zealand

In days gone by, armourers who made faulty weapons were tortured and killed by the survivors of the battle in which the weakness was revealed. If the executive of GlaxoSmithKline were aware of this, they clearly felt that they were out of the reach of the Ribena ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00655.htm

Meat And Wool New Zealand

Directors of Meat & Wool New Zealand and the New Zealand Meat Board have elected Hawkes Bay farmer, Mike Petersen, as the Chairman of both organisations.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00569.htm

NZ Dairy Industry Awards

Kaitangata sharemilkers Mark Watt and Kylie May were named Otago Sharemilker of the Year and an awards presentation in Balclutha tonight.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0703/S00381.htm

Jason Leopold

Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his closest advisers have stated repeatedly over the past two months that the selective firings of eight United States attorneys last year were justified because President Bush has the authority to purge ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00539.htm

John Bishop

They are doing things differently there, to misquote and paraphrase author L.P. Hartley ('The Go-Between', 1953). Nowhere is this more apparent than in new media, or social media and the confusing tangle of acronym-ed technologies called the internet.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00551.htm

Bill Berkowitz

In late February, only a few days after Saudi Arabia beheaded four Sri Lankan robbers and then left their headless bodies on public display in the capital of Riyadh, Neil Bush, for the fourth time in the past six years, showed up for the country's Jeddah ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00535.htm

The Scoop Team

Scoop Satire: We Need A Kyoto Policy That Emitters Like; Education: Preschools Not Keen To Take '20 Free' Deal; QUESTIONS OF THE DAY; MORE POLITICS HEADLINES; POLITICAL NEWSLETTERS; POLITICAL COLUMNS
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00555.htm

US State Department

SYRIA Statement on Release of Syrian Political Prisoners and Open Political Discourse Issue of Detention of Political Prisoners Raised with Damascus by U.S. Upcoming Sentence Phase of Labwani and Al-Bunni / Parliamentary Elections in April
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00568.htm

New Zealand Government

Major initiatives coming into force on Sunday 1 April will make a significant difference to the lives of New Zealand families, Prime Minister Helen Clark said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00668.htm

David Swanson

For George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, 2008 is too soon to end a war that they intend to last forever. 2008 is too soon to stop constructing enormous military bases in Iraq and abandon them. 2008 is too soon to bring our men and women home to their ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00544.htm

Alastair Thompson

Disarmament: Jeremy Rose On De-Nuking The Middle East - Scoop's Yasmine Ryan Reports From Lebanon Divided We Fall - - Kids: Celebrating A Son's First Birthday In A Troubled World - Iraq War: Congress Votes To End Iraq War – Bush Has Control Issues - US ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00553.htm

New Zealand Business Roundtable

“New Zealand should move cautiously and in line with key trading partners in response to concerns about climate change. It should not proceed with ill-considered actions that could involve large costs for firms and households, seriously damage the New ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00566.htm

Scoop Audio

RDU Audio: Kate Gorgeous from RDU Radio in Christchurch lines up the best interviews of the week, this week's feast includes Hinemoana Baker; Nat leader John Key; Green MP Sue Bradford; and Brit Muso Scruff...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00552.htm

Jamal Juma

Palestinians in our homeland and the diaspora remember the 30th of May as Land Day. On this day in 1976, six Palestinians were killed and a hundred injured by Israeli forces as Palestinians went on strike against a massive land confiscation scheme ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00547.htm

New Zealand Government

I would like to begin by commenting on why New Zealand has invested so much to help bring this Convention to fruition. We want to assist the 80% of persons with disability living in developing countries, and especially those near neighbours of ours in the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00667.htm

US State Department

Barry F. Lowenkron, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Remarks to the Commonwealth Club San Francisco, CA March 26, 2007
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00563.htm

Eli Lilly And Company

Changes to Special Authority criteria extend the patient group eligible for subsidy and reduce wait for treatment.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0703/S00121.htm

Green Party

Employers have been advised by the Green Party not to try and circumvent this year's minimum wage increase as some tried to do last year.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00665.htm

M.R. Josse

Understandably, the horrendous slaughter last Wednesday of 29 persons in Gaur by lathis, strangulation, and gunshot wounds, among other means, has been universally and very rightly condemned both at home and abroad. While the official version of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00542.htm

New Zealand National Party

It started as a debate on a Green private Member’s Bill regarding the use of smacking as a form of discipline. But it has now moved a long way from there. And while there may well be plenty of room for differing but legitimate views to be genuinely held ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00653.htm

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