Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 4 April 2007

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

1: Israeli Press: US will Strike Iran on Good Friday

Michael Carmichael

Citing Russian media and AP, the Jerusalem Post is now reporting that the US will strike Iran on Good Friday between the hours of 4.00 am and 4.00 pm in a coordinated series of air strikes and missile attacks aimed at selected strategic targets.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00070.htm

Society for the Promotion of Community Standards

The decision of the Chief Censor Mr Bill Hastings, to decline an application for leave from the Society to have the R18 classification of a sexually explicit video featuring actors "pretending to be police officers" using police batons as "sex toys" ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0704/S00016.htm

Jockey

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Champion first-five Dan Carter continues to wow them on the rugby field from Aussie Stadium to Twickenham. And now he’s tackling global fashion markets – this time in his Jockeys!
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0704/S00091.htm

Mercer

Australia, New Zealand and Japan score highest for ... Zurichscores highest for overall quality of living; Baghdad ranks the lowest.  Cities in New Zealand and Australia dominate top of the rankings, joined by Western Europe, North America and Japan 
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0704/S00035.htm

www.UnansweredQuestions.org

Despite an avalanche of criticism from the right, talk show host Rosie O'Donnell is pressing on with her calls for continued investigation of the events surrounding September 11.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00073.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. JOHN KEY (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in the Minister of Health; if so, why?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00072.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. Hon TONY RYALL to the Minister of Health: When will he express confidence or not in the chairs of the Auckland district health boards, Wayne Brown, Pat Snedden and Kay McKelvie?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00085.htm

Mastercard

Auckland, 4 April 2007 – Shopping with a tap of your mobile phone will soon be a reality thanks to MasterCard Worldwide.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0704/S00078.htm

Scoop Full Coverage

FULL COVERAGE of Dame Margaret Bazley's report into police conduct, including links to the entire report and Police Commissioner, Howard Broad's apology to the victims of police officers: "I unreservedly and unequivocally apologise to the women...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00057.htm

Bhupal Lamichhaney

Girija Prasad Koirala, the leading figure of Nepal's democratic movement, has been elected the Prime Minister of Nepal unanimously from the interim Parliament. This is the sixth time.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00078.htm

New Zealand National Party

Steve Maharey's unparliamentary outburst in the House today shows he and the Labour Government are under considerable pressure, and he should consider taking a break from his portfolios, says National Shadow Leader of the House Gerry Brownlee.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00110.htm

Tortilla con Sal

Sometimes the efforts of oppressed peoples to liberate themselves from imperial subjugation are confronted by direct, brutal violence like that used by the CIA to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954 and Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973 or else ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00050.htm

Shobha Shukla

With two weeks left for Indian film icon Amitabh Bachchan's son - Abhishesk Bachchan's wedding with Miss World 1994 and leading film star Aishwarya Rai, Shobha Shukla reflects on how blinded we are with customs that rig deep in gender-based disparities.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00072.htm

Dyslexia Foundation of New Zealand

Academy award winner and Ernst Young Entrepreneur of the Year Richard Taylor of Weta Workshop & Digital says The Dyslexia Foundation of New Zealand is offering much needed debate and rationale for families and individuals that are experiencing the challenges ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0704/S00007.htm

Vice-Chancellors Committee

Professor Walsh to chair CUAP; Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarships enable vital research; Government renews private provider protocol; Doug Myers Scholarship for 2007; KAREN collaboration forum planned; REANNZ supports 10 projects; Cricket and triathlon feature ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0704/S00017.htm

RaboPlus

New Zealanders have a right to better protection from banks against scamming attacks and should demand better security for online banking, said Mike Heath, General Manager of New Zealand’s online savings and investment service, RaboPlus.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0704/S00070.htm

Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

The seven-party alliance (SPA) and the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist) formed a coalition government on April 01, 2007. This government was supposed to be formed in December 2006.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00069.htm

Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The planned Easter Week exhibition of a full-size, anatomically correct sculpture of Jesus on an invisible cross, made from 200 pounds of chocolate, was cancelled at the Lab Gallery in midtown Manhattan. Called, with ostensible seriousness, “My ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00085.htm

apnfinda Ltd

APN Infomedia and finda have merged to create New Zealand’s leader in local search, with a highly localised and searchable database of nearly a quarter of a million Kiwi businesses and more than 600,000 unique visitors each month.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0704/S00007.htm

University of Canterbury

The development of an unmanned, robotic plane for farmers to collect data on animal health, crop and soil conditions, water uptake and water use is one example of the work to be done at a new multi-million dollar research centre being launched tonight ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0704/S00013.htm

Michael Collins

The shocked reaction to the abrupt dismissal of eight U.S. Attorneys points to the essence of our current political problems. The broad based political reaction to the Gonzales firings contains one critical assumption: this is an aberrant act. Something ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00062.htm

William Kotke

We are all looking at the end of the world as we know it. Our attention is focused on the holes in the ozone layer, planetary warming, Peak Oil, the spread of DU weapons, the collapse of the house of credit cards, and the prospect of the planetary financial ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00080.htm

New Zealand Defence Force

The work of Captain Matt Gauldie, the New Zealand Army artist operationally deployed to the Solomon Islands and Afghanistan in 2006, will be exhibited in Christchurch from April 16 to May 12.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0704/S00071.htm

Catherine Austin Fitts

I recently wrote a letter to the CEO of a continuing care retirement community. I realized subsequently that the letter described a situation that many retirees—as well as business and municipal leaders—are managing, and that there was merit in ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00087.htm

Harcourts

For Further Information: Helen Fergusson, Communications Manager Harcourts International Ltd Email: helen.fergusson@harcourts.co.nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0704/S00093.htm

Tanveer Jafri

It is said that there was a time when the British rulers had established colonies around the world and is said that the Sun was always there in the British ruled territory. Obviously, even the smallest and weakest kingdom does not accept the supremacy of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00071.htm

Bill Grigsby

The BushCo ship may not be sinking yet. But it’s listing. Or maybe run aground. It’s hard to tell. The only thing worth betting on is that public utterances from this White House—intentional leaks, press conferences, interviews—are at best ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00086.htm

United Nations

The number of students enrolled in school in southern Sudan has more than doubled since the end of the long-running civil war two years ago, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF , which is backing a local campaign to provide hundreds ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0704/S00083.htm

HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

It has been fashionable in the past few weeks to say that Dame Margaret Bazley's Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct, because it would not name names or venture on cases under investigation and had been conducted under tight terms of reference, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00088.htm

PAUL BUDDE Communication

BuddeBlog - Fibre and digital media – the European topics - Value-added ISPs are starting to arrive - Will Hutch do the trick - Finland slowly ditching dial-up Internet - How to spend New Zealand’s Yellow Pages money - Can we stop the broadband train ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0704/S00081.htm

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