Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 11 June 2007

Tuesday, 12 June 2007, 8:21 am
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Baker: Rising Mortgage Debt, Weak House Prices

Dean Baker

The quarterly Flow of Funds data from the Federal Reserve Board show that homeowners are still taking on mortgage debt at a healthy pace even as their homes have largely stopped appreciating in value. Homeowners increased their mortgage debt at a 5.4 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00115.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

Reserve Bank

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The Reserve Bank confirmed it has intervened today in the foreign exchange market to sell New Zealand dollars.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0706/S00151.htm

New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

“ This sudden loss of Augie Auer is a colossal blow not just to his family and friends and his colleagues in the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, but to everyone in New Zealand who has a regard for truth and the role of science,” said Owen McShane, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0706/S00032.htm

New Zealand National Party

"Labour's move to ban certain foods from school canteens and tuck shops is a typically bureaucratic answer to childhood obesity," says National Party Education spokeswoman Katherine Rich.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0706/S00174.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

Asia NZ

The Press Council ruled that the North & South had failed to meet its obligation in regards to accuracy and discrimination by publishing the article and Mr Burdon says North & South now has the responsibility to redress a bigoted attack on communities ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0706/S00124.htm

Vincent Murwira - AUT

As it scrambles worldwide for raw materials to fuel its rapidly growing economy, China is increasingly finding itself in the same hunting grounds with Taiwan, its breakaway province, with both economies offering countries resorting to offering ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00131.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

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

Kordia

Kordia™ Group Limited announces that, effective 2 July 2007, it will be acquiring Orcon Internet Limited.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0706/S00144.htm

Paul R Lehto

At the www.democracyfest.com national conference being held in New Hampshire and sponsored by Democracy for New Hampshire, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, speaking via telephone to the entire audience, announced today that although he is a co-sponsor of the Holt ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00132.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

Auckland Chamber of Commerce

Today’s unprecedented intervention of the Reserve Bank in the foreign exchange market to sell New Zealand dollars was cautiously welcomed by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0706/S00156.htm

Family First

Ordering schools to sell only foods that are deemed to be healthy are a band-aid solution and will not tackle the main contributing factor to obesity, according to Family First National Director Bob McCoskrie.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0706/S00133.htm

Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce

The fall in the New Zealand dollar following today’s intervention by the Reserve Bank is welcome according to the Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce. “The New Zealand dollar has clearly been overvalued in terms of the economic fundamentals ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0706/S00155.htm

Mohan Nepali

Indian government and the US Administration have been against the Bhutanese refugees’ return to their native land. Because of this anti-human rights attitude of the Bhutanese feudal rulers, India and America, the refugees forcefully expelled from Bhutan 17 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00141.htm

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

Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

Action to discourage schools from selling food high in fat, salt and sugar are a welcome step in the right direction.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0706/S00035.htm

New Zealand National Party

National Party Finance spokesman Bill English says Helen Clark is again refusing to back Michael Cullen in his role as Finance Minister.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0706/S00179.htm

Vancouver 911 Conference

DU Expert Leuren Moret To Address Vancouver 9/11 Conference On Depleted Uranium (DU) Public Health Risk And On Illegal Use Of Canadian Uranium In DU Weapons, In Non-compliance With Canadian Law.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0706/S00156.htm

Vincent Murwira - AUT

As the leaders of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in Germany hammered the final communiqué on climate change, half a world away, in the small Pacific island country of Tuvalu, Sialafaga Talua, a born and bred islander pondered her shaky future on the islands, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00130.htm

Ferrari

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0706/S00121.htm

US State Department

QUESTION: All right. I wonder if you'd talk a little bit about Iran and particularly what the strategy of the Administration is regarding both the nuclear program and the internal dynamics inside Iran. Because at least from our vantage point, it does ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0706/S00152.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

New Zealand Press Council

The Press Council has upheld complaints by Tze Ming Mok and others, the Asia New Zealand Foundation and Grant Hannis against North & South for its report on Asian immigration and crime. The Council has found the magazine breached its principles ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0706/S00125.htm

United Nations

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today spoke out against a recent verbal attack on Israel by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinajad, who repeatedly said that the world could soon witness the "destruction of the Zionist regime."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0706/S00144.htm

New Zealand Government

Electricity retailers are to be subject to new guidelines for dealing with consumers who have difficulty paying their bills and who face possible disconnection, Prime Minister Helen Clark said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0706/S00188.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

Greenhouse Policy Coalition

A wide range of business organisations representing the productive sectors in New Zealand are growing increasingly alarmed at the government’s apparent head-long rush into the introduction of emissions trading.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0706/S00141.htm

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