Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 5 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

www.UnansweredQuestions.org

March 22, 2007 – William Bergman worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago from July 1990 until early 2004. He served as an economist for eight years, and then moved to a senior analyst position in a new department researching financial market ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00047.htm

Touring Musicians

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Believe the hype. Guns N’ Roses are back. The Chinese Democracy World Tour and another awesome moment in musical history is upon us. Sit down, strap in and hold on… it’s gonna be one hell of a ride.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0704/S00056.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. Hon TONY RYALL (National—Bay of Plenty) 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/S00116.htm

Jockey

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

New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

There is no greater hypocrisy in the present debate on climate than Greenpeace describing carbon dioxide as a pollutant. This today from Professor Augie Auer, chairman of the science panel of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. He was commenting ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0704/S00097.htm

US State Department

SECRETARY RICE: Good afternoon. I am very pleased to welcome my colleague and the Prime Minister of Haiti. We've just had a very productive meeting to discuss the many challenges that the people of Haiti face, but also the new opportunities that ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0704/S00099.htm

New Zealand First Party

Professor Walsh, the editors of the book, Stephen Levine and Nigel Roberts, and Victoria University Press - thank you for the invitation to launch this book - 'The Baubles of Office'.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00120.htm

New Zealand Government

The new leader of the National Party, Bill English, has laid out a clear case for electoral spending reform if the public is to understand the confusing leadership structure of the National Party, Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00126.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

Scoop Link

CIA and FBI agents hunting for al-Qaida militants in the Horn of Africa have been interrogating terrorism suspects from 19 countries held at secret prisons in Ethiopia, which is notorious for torture and abuse, according to an investigation by The Associated ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00103.htm

Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

BREAKING NEWS: Thomas Yadegary, the Iranian chef who cooked for Bill Clinton and who the government locked up indefinitely awaiting his signature on papers that would see him deported back to Iran, has been released from prison.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00115.htm

Foundation For Research Science And Technology

A group of New Zealand scientists is about to achieve payback for a decade of research to find ways of keeping health-promoting bacteria alive at room temperature without the need for constant refrigeration.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0704/S00015.htm

Subaru

The all-new 2008 Impreza has been unveiled at the New York Motor Show, revealing a change of emphasis for Subaru’s iconic small car.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0704/S00110.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. STEVE CHADWICK to the Minister for Disability Issues: What significant achievements have recently been made under the New Zealand Disability Strategy?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00128.htm

William Rivers Pitt

When the new Democratic majority successfully attached a troop withdrawal deadline to the $124 billion supplemental Iraq spending bill in late March, the newspapers described it as a stunning development. If this bill made it through the Senate, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00083.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

OECD

New Zealand has improved its environmental performance over the past decade, but should reinforce water and waste management, energy efficiency and climate protection efforts. The OECD’s Environmental Performance Review of New Zealand makes a number ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0704/S00079.htm

Victoria University Press

“The Baubles of Office” is the story of a cliff-hanger election, New Zealand’s closest yet under MMP. For nearly two weeks no one knew who had won, Labour or National. On election night it was Don Brash who was cheerful and elated, Helen Clark who seemed ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0704/S00084.htm

New Zealand Government

Communications Minister David Cunliffe has released the government's consultation document on the operational separation of Telecom NZ.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00117.htm

Richard S. Ehrlich

BANGKOK, Thailand -- This Buddhist-majority nation is gripped with suspense over an unsolved, bloody New Year's Eve terrorist attack in Bangkok. Who planted nine bombs in the capital's streets during public count-down celebrations, killing three ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00114.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

Intel

Under a new brand called Intel Centrino Pro processor technology, Intel Corporation today announced it will extend its innovative and popular features designed for desktop business PCs called Intel vPro™ processor technology into its forthcoming high-performance ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0704/S00108.htm

The Bio Commerce Centre

Recognition as a high-calibre contender for a first-time national biotechnology award has left a Manawatu-based initiative in good spirits.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0704/S00120.htm

New Zealand National Party

National Party Deputy Leader Bill English says Michael Cullen is displaying Labour's utter contempt for the public of New Zealand with his determination to ram through significant electoral reform by a slim parliamentary majority.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00127.htm

Evelyn Pringle

Drug makers are hell-bent on recovering the antidepressant customer base represented by women of childbearing years. With doctors now reluctant to prescribe the drugs to pregnant women, a new recruitment scheme has cropped up. Screening programs are ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00105.htm

Paul Smith

Hark, the Herald Angel… SHOUTS!!!!! NZ Media Comment By Paul Smith www.kiwiboomers.co,nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00089.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

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

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