Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 15 July 2007

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

1: FTA Could Allow More Chinese Migrants - Goff

Agenda

The Government is considering an agreement with China which could see more Chinese workers enter New Zealand’s labour market in exchange for better trade conditions. Trade Minister Phil Goff said today on TV One’s “Agenda”, that the Government ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00164.htm

John Bishop

So we didn’t get the America’s Cup back. What’s your reaction? Mine was the usual mixture of denial – it wasn’t that big a deal anyway; defiance, well it was really about which bunch of Kiwis won the cup; defeatism - well it’s hard to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00154.htm

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Speech: SIS director Warren Tucker gave an opening address to a seminar in Wellington - sponsored by the Superstructure Group, a commercial organisation which specialises in providing IT solutions to intelligence & related agencies world wide.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00167.htm

Civil Defence Emergency Management

Days after storm conditions affected the Auckland region; around 500 homes are still experiencing total power outages.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0707/S00170.htm

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

The two nations that occupy the island of Hispaniola, the Dominican Republic (DR) and Haiti, have experienced an alarming surge in drug trafficking traversing their borders en route to North American and European markets. The entire Caribbean region ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00148.htm

Scoop Daily Ratings

Saturday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00166.htm

John Chuckman

Why does terror dominate our headlines and the attention of our governments going on six years after 9/11? The answer cannot be what George Bush says that it is: it is not the fault of people who hate democracy and freedom.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00168.htm

Middle East News Service

At conference on future of Jewish people, delegates ask why peace is off the agenda
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00170.htm

David Swanson

Congressman Sam Farr (D., Calif.) is the latest member of Congress to respond to intense pressure from his constituents and co-sponsor H Res 333, articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. The official list of co-sponsors at thomas.loc.gov ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00155.htm

ACT New Zealand

While it's good to see that the Service and Food Workers Union is now negotiating with Spotless Services without involving District Health Boards, these new developments do not change the fact that Labour should not have stuck its nose where it doesn't ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00222.htm

Michael Collins

Senator David Vitter, the family values politician from Louisiana, admitted that he’d committed “a serious sin” and strayed from his marriage. There are always consequences. Vitter may be sleeping lightly with good reason
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00151.htm

ACT New Zealand

Barely a day has gone by in recent weeks where the Department of Corrections has not been featured in the media having to explain its shortcomings over the transport of prisoners or a prison bed shortage so severe that inmates are having to be held ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00212.htm

ImagineNative

The white Australian Government have a long and dark history of treating Indigenous peoples like animals has been furthered by their current invasion of Aboriginal communities with military force and their advocating of compulsory invasive medical testing for ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00157.htm

Toni Solo

The developing dynamic of events in Latin America through 2007 and into 2008 is very different from 2006, a year noteworthy for its dramatic presidential elections. But the underlying issues driving the dynamic remain unchanged. In its 2007 report on ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00158.htm

www.UnansweredQuestions.org

If I could have just a few moments of your time to provide you with a lead to a stunning but little known and seriously disturbing chapter in the life of Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff. The ATF/FBI's Operation Diamondback targeted HMO owner Dr. Magdy ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00163.htm

New Zealand Lotteries Commission

One lucky Lotto player in Tauranga will be able to live their dreams after winning $1 million tonight on Lotto First Division, says NZ Lotteries' Chief Executive, Todd McLeay.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0707/S00143.htm

Syed Atiq ul Hassan

Since the creation of Pakistan, the state has been failing to secure a political direction of the country. The country which was created on the name of protecting the civic and religious rights of the then Indian Muslims could not develop a strong ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00169.htm

University of Auckland

Auckland's top high school debaters are set to engage in a battle of oratory and reason in an event to commemorate the 20th anniversary of New Zealand's anti-nuclear laws.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00158.htm

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear whether Guantanamo detainees may use habeas corpus to challenge their detentions in federal courts, a right they heretofore have been denied. In Canada, this has spawned speculation that the case of Omar Khadr, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00157.htm

James J Murtagh

"Order of the Phoenix" flies into philosophy, civics, religion, ethics; transporting Potter to new ethereal realms .
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00171.htm

Scoop Daily Ratings

Friday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00165.htm

David Swanson

Friends, because HR 811 may come up for a vote within the next two weeks,it's most important that you read the following, right through to the shocker at the end.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00156.htm

Richard S. Ehrlich

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Defending Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge leaders at an international tribunal may include arguing about genocide and the lack of a "smoking gun," despite the deaths of up to three million Cambodians, according to U.N. Principal ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00152.htm

SKYCITY

Last night, 13 July 2007, the SKYCITY Auckland Convention Centre was dressed to the nines as 12 of New Zealand's top designers took to the catwalk to raise funds for The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0707/S00144.htm

New Zealand National Party

News that yet another prison officer has been suspended for alleged corruption is a further wakeup call for a Government that has been in denial over this problem, says National’s Justice and Corrections spokesman, Simon Power.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0707/S00221.htm

Service And Food Workers Union

The Service and Food Workers Union has written to Spotless Services this afternoon offering a way to resolve the two day lockout of its union members. SFWU spokesperson Alastair Duncan says the union has offered to withdraw pending strike notices until ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00156.htm

Bill Berkowitz

While Giuliani and McCain register 'morally repugnant' on the religious right's traditional-values meter, Romney has a bigger problem: many conservative Christian evangelical leaders don't believe his religion measures up
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00159.htm

InternetNZ

InternetNZ (The Internet Society of New Zealand) farewells several of its long-serving Council members this month.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0707/S00268.htm

ARTA

The Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA) has stepped in with limited emergency ferry services to assist the island community of Rakino, following the recent cessation of their regular ferry service. The commercial service was run by Pine Harbour Ferries ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0707/S00171.htm

ITUC

Brussels, 13 July 2007 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC and the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) have protested to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over the brutal beating and abduction of bus workers' trade union leader Mansour Osanloo in ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0707/S00191.htm

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