Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 13 July 2007

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

1: Gordon Campbell: Zaoui’s beliefs

Gordon Campbell

OK, so you’re a pacifist who believes that killing is never justified, someone once asked Joan Baez. But what if you and the kids were driving in a car at speed around the corner on a narrow mountain road, and what if an old lady who couldn’t ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00135.htm

Lyndon Hood

Police were dispatched today to disperse a large gathering at a Molesworth Street address. The mob of between 119 and 500 youths had formed repeatedly over consecutive days before police finally intervened.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00137.htm

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The Nappy Network is about informed choice for parents, not about disposables Vs cloth. Of course, we believe modern cloth nappies are better in many ways...or we wouldn't all be using them!:)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0707/S00116.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

“Hospital contractor Spotless should get out of NZ Hospitals as their bullying approach to their workforce shows they have no place in our taxpayer funded public health system” said MP Mark Gosche today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00218.htm

Green Party

This week's medium term oil report by the International Energy Agency should be the kiss of death for Michael Cullen's $1.5 billion spend up on roading, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00207.htm

VeriPay

Auckland based company VeriPay Ltd announced today that it has launched an ultra low cost GPS tracking service, VeriFind®. VeriFind® sets a new benchmark in affordability for people wanting to know “on demand” the precise geographic location of a vehicle, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00242.htm

Socialist Alliance

“I completely agree with New Zealand Maori Party MP Hone Harawira that Prime Minister John Howard, by attacking marginalized Aboriginal communities, is a ‘racist bastard’,” Aboriginal leader and Socialist Alliance Indigenous spokesperson Sam Watson said ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0707/S00181.htm

New Zealand National Party

The three and four-year-olds of politicians, parliamentarians and public servants are now learning first-hand what the Education Minister meant when he said ‘every three and four-year-old in the country will have 20 hours of free early childhood ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00198.htm

The Body Shop

The Body Shop International today became the first cosmetics and toiletries retailer to introduce sustainable palm oil into the global beauty industry. The company has made this pioneering move as a response to the continued and rapid destruction of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00251.htm

Resident's Action Movement

Two Voices of Peace meetings will be held in Auckland on 27-28 July to counter the sudden rise of organised Islamophobia in New Zealand. They will be followed by activist workshops.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0707/S00120.htm

New Zealand National Party

National Party Associate Health spokeswoman Jackie Blue says statistics that show cancer patients have lost confidence in the public health system were provided by the Health Ministry and the real picture may be far worse.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00203.htm

The Diffusion Group

Early this week, TiVo announced that that it would extend its Amazon Unbox on TiVo service to the living room TV without the use of personal computer. Previously, the Unbox on TiVo service required users to download content to their PC and then use ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0707/S00025.htm

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00140.htm

Council of Trade Unions

"Service and support staff in hospitals are some of the lowest paid workers in the country and by locking out hundreds of hospital workers Spotless Services are taking on the whole 350,000 strong union movement,” CTU president Ross Wilson said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00143.htm

Auckland City Council

Auckland City Council is progressing plans for a visitors' centre and alternative transport mode on Maungawhau Mt Eden to cater for visitors, while protecting the integrity of the cone.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0707/S00169.htm

PETA

Standing naked behind an Australian "flag" that reads, "The Naked Truth: Australia Tortures Sheep" on one side and "Australia: Turn Your Back on Mulesing" on the other, two PETA beauties will protest against "mulesing" (live flaying) mutilations of lambs' ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00129.htm

New Zealand National Party

More people with convictions are being accepted into Police College as Police struggle to find the numbers to meet their election promise of 1,000 extra on the frontline, says National's Police spokesman, Chester Borrows.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00179.htm

New Zealand Government

New research shows that employers benefit from seeking advice before taking steps to resolve an employment dispute, and also from using formal dispute settlement processes, says Minister of Labour Ruth Dyson.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00202.htm

Commerce Commission

The Commerce Commission has received the proposal from Telecom covering the non-price terms for Unbundled Bitstream Access (UBA) Standard Terms Determination (STD). Submissions on Telecom's proposals are sought from interested parties. The closing date for these ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00252.htm

United Nations

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Adviser on Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, today wrapped up his meetings in New Delhi with Indian officials, part of his current round of consultations in major Asian capitals, a spokesperson for the world body said.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0707/S00176.htm

New Zealand National Party

The last three weeks has seen an unprecedented level of concern about the standard of care at North Shore Hospital. It has been mostly around the A&E Department, with patients having to wait in corridors for many hours before treatment.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00217.htm

Office of the Speaker

Speech to 38th Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference Rarotonga, Cook Islands
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00215.htm

New Zealand First Party

Foreign buyers are continuing to snap up residential housing throughout New Zealand, and despite the Finance Minister’s repeated assertions, they are having a major impact in pricing Kiwis out of the market, says New Zealand First housing spokesperson ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00186.htm

SOIL and HEALTH Assn of NZ

Soil & Health Association of New Zealand (Est. 1941) Publishers of ORGANIC NZ 13 July 2007 Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill's demise would be sweeter with the demise of Aspartame. United States veteran Aspartame activist Betty Martini's ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00141.htm

Sitel

Sitel New Zealand was named Contact Centre of the Year (76+ seats) and Sitel’s Jason Strangwick won Contact Centre Manager of the Year (76+ seats) at the 2007 Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand (TUANZ) Contact Centre Awards ceremony, held on ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00245.htm

The Nielsen Company

The Nielsen Company Examines Harry Potter’s Vast Impact On Books, Movies, Internet, Television, Music And Advertising
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0707/S00164.htm

Kelly Smith

Record breaker Alistair Galpin has done it again. With 624 hugs, Galpin broke the world record for most hugs in an hour beating the previous record by 12 hugs.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00147.htm

Auckland City Council

The storm that has hit the North Island is a significant wake-up call for Aucklanders, says Mayor Dick Hubbard.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0707/S00163.htm

New Zealand National Party

In a rather bleak year in which our exporters are battling the high dollar in the face of high interest rates caused by high Government spending and rising compliance costs, it is reassuring that many are showing resilience and soldiering on.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00216.htm

ICP Biotechnology

ICP Biotechnology Ltd (ICPbio) has appointed a new Chief Executive Officer, Mr Sanne Melles, who has the desired experience in biopharmaceutical business development to take the company forward.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00264.htm

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