Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 10 June 2007

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

1: Bishop Romney's Sadistic Anti-Abortion Counseling

Suzan Mazur

When Mormon feminist Judith Dushku learned that Mitt Romney, her former bishop and friend, counseled a woman to come to full term with her sixth pregnancy --despite overwhelming medical advice that the life of mother and child were seriously endangered ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00066.htm

Michael Collins

Carol Lam was one outstanding United States Attorney. She nailed down one of the biggest political corruption cases in recent history with a guilty plea from former Republican Congressman Randal “Duke” Cunningham in November, 2005 . His crimes ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00061.htm

David Swanson

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Eighteen months ago Congressman John Murtha and other pro-war Democrats had not yet developed even a muddled half-hearted opposition to the occupation of Iraq, Joe Lieberman had not lost a primary, MoveOn.org and the Center for American Progress were pretending ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00086.htm

Evelyn Pringle

On May 21, 2007, the New England Journal of Medicine reported a study that found GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia is associated with a 43% increase in heart attacks and possibly a 64% increase in cardiovascular death. The NEJM said it posted ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00090.htm

Richard S. Ehrlich

BANGKOK, Thailand -- After a U.S. Justice Department undercover agent displayed a Stinger air-to-surface missile in a bugged Hilton Hotel room in Sacramento, California, paranoia began to spread.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00098.htm

Akanimo Sampson

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) of the United Kingdom (UK) on Friday, advised that it is still unsafe for British nationals to remain in three states in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00074.htm

Green Left Weekly - Australia

Venezuela has been facing the most sustained campaign of destabilisation, including a barrage of media lies internationally and violent riots inside Venezuela, since the last serious attempt to overthrow the left-wing government of Hugo Chavez in ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00112.htm

Official New Zealand Music Chart

Here we are a week into the new-look Singles Chart and if you were expecting a raft of changes similar to last week's inaugural digital-inclusive survey you'll be disappointed.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0706/S00101.htm

Toni Solo

Alternating between "with us or against us", "bring 'em on" snarling or "why do they hate us?" whining, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney characterize Americanism at its most crass and banal.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00099.htm

Kelpie Wilson

So G.W. Bush has had his conversion. He now believes global warming is a danger and we ought to do something about it. Call him Global Warming Bush.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00107.htm

Bernard Weiner

OVERTURE: Now we've lost both Steve Gilliard and Molly Ivins -- two vital, feisty, great-writer journalist/blogger voices speaking truth to power. And Cindy Sheehan's voice will be more muted now, as she recovers from her immensely draining anti-war ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00093.htm

Stephen Lendman

Near the end of WW II, Franklin Roosevelt met with Saudi King ibn Saud on the USS Quincy. It began a six decade relationship guaranteeing US access to what his State Department called a "stupendous source of strategic power, and one of the greatest ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00116.htm

Jason Leopold

In a recent interview, former US Ambassador Joseph Wilson told me that he and his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, both strongly feel that Vice President Dick Cheney is behind efforts to block her from discussing her work for the Central Intelligence ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00092.htm

New Zealand Government

Taloha ni, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Ni sa bula vinaka, Namaste, Kia orana koutou katoatoa, Ia Orana, Gud de tru olgeta, Talofa, Kia ora tatau and Warm Pacific Greetings to you all this morning.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0706/S00170.htm

New Zealand National Party

Nearly one fifth of officers recruited from the United Kingdom who have served in the New Zealand Police have left, says National’s Police spokesman, Chester Borrows.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0706/S00162.htm

Robert Parry

It's a well-worn talking point for George W. Bush's supporters to say there was no underlying crime beneath former White House aide I. Lewis Libby's conviction for obstructing justice, a debatable point itself. But the evidence is clear there was ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00114.htm

Martin LeFevre - Meditations

You have to hand it to Al Gore for chutzpah. He voted for Gulf War I, which paved the way for George W. Bush and Gulf War II, and nearly destroyed the United Nations. Now “the Goracle” lectures the American people for their “lack of outcry” ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00063.htm

William Blum

During the Cold War, if an American journalist or visitor to the Soviet Union reported seeing churches full of people, this was taken as a sign that the people were rejecting and escaping from communism. If the churches were empty, this clearly was proof of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00084.htm

New Zealand National Party

“New Zealand’s most expensive job website is to be dumped - at the cost of $1 million to the taxpayer,” says National Party ACC spokeswoman Pansy Wong.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0706/S00166.htm

Anne McElroy Dachel

We're in the midst of an epidemic of autism. There is no other word for it. On average in the U.S., one in every 150 kids is autistic. One in every 94 boys has the disorder. Some places have much worse statistics.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00120.htm

New Zealand Government

New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced she will meet with Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Australian Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd while in Australia next week.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0706/S00169.htm

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Q&A: How the Pentagon’s Inspector General Report Contradicts What the APA Has Said About the Involvement of Psychologists in Abusive Interrogations
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0706/S00114.htm

Sherwood Ross

Let's face it: we've got a president in the White House who is running an international kidnapping ring. Six human rights groups(HRG) today (June 6) named for the first time 39 more kidnap (they call them 'disappeared') victims of the Bush administration.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00095.htm

William Rivers Pitt

There it was on the front page of Wednesday's edition of the Washington Post, big as life and twice as ugly: "In the West Wing, Pardon Is A Topic Too Sensitive to Mention."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00080.htm

Michael Hill Intl Violin Comp

Bella Hristova of Bulgaria is the winner of the 2007 Michael Hill International Violin Competition. This evening in the Auckland Town Hall, 21 year old Bella Hristova and fellow finalists, Yuuki Wong of Dominica and Stefan Hempel of Germany, each performed ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0706/S00103.htm

TV One

Labour plans to release carbon emissions targets including a carbon neutral date by the end of the year.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0706/S00122.htm

Sam Smith

I've received a promo from Jim Wallis of Sojourners that reads in part: "There are very few moments when we have the opportunity to turn the eyes of the nation away from the three-ring circus that our electoral process resembles and onto the concerns ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00105.htm

Matt Renner

Washington, DC - A federal court judge sentenced Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff to 30 months in prison and fined him $250,000 Tuesday for obstructing an investigation into the identity leak of then-CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00110.htm

Air New Zealand

Air New Zealand today announced that its new non-stop service between Auckland and Vancouver will operate year-round, following strong demand from customers.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0706/S00128.htm

Middle East News Service

This is probably the most important item this News Service has posted for a long time. One of the scions of the Israeli elite, Avraham (Avrum) Burg is speaking out his mind. The former Speaker of the Knesset and Chairperson of the Jewish Agency ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00079.htm

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