Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 25 May 2007

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

1: Will Pfizer CEO Mr. Kindler Also Resign?

Peter Rost M.D.

Pfizer's CFO Alan Levin's resignation was announced yesterday, after three days of disclosures of corruption in Pfizer's finance department, revealed by former Pfizer finance executive Mr. Ashok S. Idnani, on the Question Authority with Dr. Peter Rost ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00428.htm

Noam Chomsky

The chaos that derives from the so-called international order can be painful if you are on the receiving end of the power that determines that order’s structure. Even tortillas come into play in the ungrand scheme of things. Recently, in many ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00399.htm

Peter Rost M.D.

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On November 17, 2005 Pfizer’s CEO Jeff Kindler, who was then Pfizer’s General Counsel, received and read a highly unusual e-mail, according to the internal read receipt on that mail.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00454.htm

Front of the Box

“What the hell has the Clark government done in three terms?” Talkback radio host Bill Ralston, a guest on Eye to Eye with Willie Jackson this week says every Labour government has marked its term in office with landmark legislation. They came ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00467.htm

Kevin List

This week current affairs show Eye To Eye looks at three terms of a Labour government. Former Labour Cabinet Minister John Tamihere, who will be a panellist on the show, says that Labour has run out of puff. Mr Tamihere who enjoyed the perks of being ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00451.htm

Lyndon Hood

The purpose of the State, it is widely accepted, is to stop bad thing happening. Recent events show this Government's spectacular failure in this regard. Their only hope is that other role was ask of our leaders, finding the right overreaction in ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00456.htm

New Zealand Government

Hon Phil Goff: Promoting New Zealand Trade Address to the British New Zealand Trade Council Breakfast, Auckland
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00688.htm

US State Department

(1) This directive establishes a comprehensive national policy on the continuity of Federal Government structures and operations and a single National Continuity Coordinator responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of Federal ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0705/S00414.htm

Jason Leopold

Three years ago, Robert Luskin, the attorney who defended White House Political Adviser Karl Rove in the CIA leak case, made a startling discovery: a July 2003 email Rove sent to then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley proved Rove was ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00435.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. Hon BILL ENGLISH (Deputy Leader—National) to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her statement on the actions of Taito Phillip Field while a Minister, “I think the only thing he is probably guilty of is trying to be helpful to someone.”; if ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00662.htm

Sam Smith

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW, 1998 - In "X-Files" one of the characters explains that "FEMA allows the White House to suspend constitutional government upon declaration of a national emergency. It allows creation of a non-elected government. Think about that, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00420.htm

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

In early May, five Mexican soldiers, including an army colonel, were killed in a shootout with drug traffickers. It is believed that some of the attackers were members of Los Zetas , former members of Mexico’s Special Forces who have deserted or retired ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0705/S00436.htm

William Fisher

Career federal employees who report waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement in government agencies are routinely subjected to career-ending retaliation, humiliation and legal costs - despite laws that are supposed to protect them, and repeated assurances from ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00426.htm

New Zealand Defence Force

A New Zealand Defence Force Iroquois helicopter conducted an urgent evacuation in Timor Leste on Wednesday night to assist a sick Australian soldier based at a remote outpost.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00476.htm

Office of the Clerk

Taito Phillip Field—Prime Minister's Comments; Broadbank Network—Financing; Budget 2007—Treasury Estimate of Fiscal Impulse; District Health Boards—Removal of Elected Members; Youth Crime—Government Pledge; Television New Zealand—Charter Obligations ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00691.htm

Rami Zurayk

Prof. Rami Zurayk Writes From Lebanon: Palestinian civilians from the Nahr el Bared camp in North Lebanon are paying the price of years of sectarian buildup between the Lebanese Government and the Opposition. The Lebanese army and a small radical ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00388.htm

Intl. Business Wales

Auckland, 25 May 2007 – International Business Wales and Technium UK today announced that New Zealand technology company Xero, a leading web-based accounting provider, as the winner of the International Technium Challenge.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0705/S00060.htm

New Zealand National Party

A substantial increase in overseas aid was supposed to have been one of the key announcements in last week’s Budget. A special slot was identified in one of Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ increasingly brief visits to New Zealand to make a formal announcement.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00668.htm

Scoop News

Text + Audio: Mangere MP Taito Phillip Field held a press conference at midday Thursday where he announced he would defend police charges of bribery. He said he has faith in the New Zealand judicial system and is confident he will be cleared of all wrong-doing.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00442.htm

Bishop Brian Tamaki

Prominent New Zealand church leader Bishop Brian Tamaki is calling on Christian-based countries to unashamedly declare their religious identity or risk losing it forever.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00463.htm

Spareroom.co.nz

Video Doco Flight of the Conchords - New Zealand comedians Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, better known as Flight of the Conchords, are set to achieve even more international notoriety through their upcoming HBO TV series. Set in New York’s East Village, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00443.htm

New Zealand Government

Government Spokesperson on Energy Efficiency and Conservation, Jeanette Fitzsimons, today launched a cash grants scheme and a new website to help householders reduce their greenhouse gas emissions through the installation of solar hot water heating ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00665.htm

New Zealand Government

A desperate National Party is using rubber numbers with its claim that Kiwis going to Australia are being replaced with Asians, says Immigration Minister David Cunliffe.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00686.htm

Joint Media Statement

The Obesity Action Coalition, The Cancer Society and the National Heart Foundation today applauded the Minister of Health’s launch of Feeding our Futures, at the Agencies for Nutrition Action Conference in Rotorua.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0705/S00142.htm

NZBus

NZ Bus announced today that it has negotiated the purchase of 60 new diesel buses, with an option to purchase a further 90 buses, at a combined cost of $60 million, for its Auckland and Wellington operations.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0705/S00567.htm

Ecological Internet

WWF is the world's largest ancient forest logging apologist; actively promoting questionable "certified, sustainable" logging in Guyana, Russia and -- and may be the World's greatest threat facing endangered ancient forests
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0705/S00438.htm

University of Otago

A new healthy eating programme offers parents a helping hand in ensuring their kids are getting healthy diets.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0705/S00144.htm

Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand

Powerful governments and armed groups are deliberately fomenting fear to erode human rights and to create an increasingly polarized and dangerous world, said Amnesty International today as it launched Amnesty International Report 2007, its annual ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00460.htm

Bishop Brian Tamaki

On 29–31 May at Waitangi, the Prime Minister will present New Zealand as a religiously ‘neutral’ country to an international audience by way of a ‘National Statement on Religious Diversity’ (NSORD) which has been crafted as a guiding document for ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00474.htm

United Nations

Following three definitive reports on climate change and a recent technical symposium, States and the private sector are showing more willingness to move ahead rapidly to stem greenhouse gas emissions, the lead official of United Nations-administered ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0705/S00433.htm

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