Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 15 September 2007

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

1: Executive Summary Intl Religious Freedom Report 07

US State Department

The promotion of religious freedom is a core objective of U.S. foreign policy and is part of the U.S. Department of State's mission. The commitment of the United States to religious freedom and to international human rights standards is also articulated ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00374.htm

HAARP

A world authority on HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Programme) is to present his research on climate change, weather warfare technology, and mind control at a Global Issues conference in New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00178.htm

Michael Collins

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The Bush-Cheney White House is responsible for the birth of a new constitutional doctrine. He has elevated himself to become a judiciary of one. . When the president signs legislation passed by Congress, he frequently adds his own signing statement ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00264.htm

Gordon Campbell

In any other circumstances, the face saving rationale that has been concocted to enable the SIS to rationalise its backdown on the Ahmed Zaoui case would be infuriating, but hey, winners can afford to be generous.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00240.htm

US State Department

Current U.S. strategy -- the New Way Forward -- recognizes that the fulfillment of commitments by both the U.S. and Iraqi Governments will be necessary to achieving our common goal: a democratic Iraq that can govern, defend, and sustain itself and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00365.htm

Bill Berkowitz

OAKLAND, California, Sep 13 (IPS) - While General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker were giving the U.S. Congress an upbeat assessment of the situation on the ground in Iraq this week, one of the chief architects of the war was preparing ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00274.htm

Evelyn Pringle

A recent poll by MedPage Today found that only 9% of the doctors who responded said they would continue to prescribe the diabetes drug rosiglitazone, sold as Avandia and Avandamet by GlaxoSmithKline, without reservation since an FDA advisory panel ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00271.htm

The Maori Party

The Government’s decision to continue its collusion with Australia, Canada and America in defiance of the United Nations, and vote against the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, will be viewed with dismay by tangata whenua ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00256.htm

Scoop Audio

95bFM Audio : Ahmed Zaoui's lawyer Deborah Manning talks to Simon Pound about yesterday's lifting of the security risk assessment against Zaoui. Oh, and apparently The Herald is in fantasyland with its front page article on the topic.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00245.htm

US State Department

"Turkey has been one of our closest friends for over 50 years, dating back to the Truman Doctrine and the Korean War, and anchored by our Alliance in NATO. Turkey has always been among the United States' most dependable and important allies."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00355.htm

Catherine Austin Fitts

As Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner, I was responsible for the operations of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), which was the largest mortgage insurance fund in the world.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00238.htm

Mohammad R. Razavi

Recently I was reading the Roman history and came upon the story of the Roman Emperor Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus). Caligula reigned for approximately 4 years, during which he tried hard to expand the Empire. Caligula had grown-up in ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00273.htm

William Fisher

Democracy was a word scarcely heard in the just-concluded Congressional testimony of Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. The principal reason, according to a new report published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is that ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00272.htm

Michael Winship

A journalist I know, who has spent a lot of time in Iraq, tells the story of talking to an American infantry major in Baghdad the day Saddam's statue was toppled in Firdos Square, almost four and a half years ago.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00259.htm

New Zealand National Party

Yesterday’s decision by SIS Director Dr Tucker to lift the security risk certificate issued against Algerian refugee-status claimant Ahmed Zaoui has been greeted with predictable sanctimony by the nation’s leftie/civil liberties brigade. Some have ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00265.htm

Akanimo Sampson

Life on earth is disappearing fast and will continue to do so unless urgent action is taken, according to the 2007 World Conservation Union, IUCN, Red List of Threatened Species that was wired to our correspondent on Thursday.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00270.htm

Dr. Ravindra Kumar

Needless to dwell in the remote past, but till today the division of human society on the basis of caste and class distinctions, has yet been subsisting as the main hurdle in t he way of establishment of perpetual peace on earth. It is a world-wide ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00253.htm

United Nations

The UN today adopted a landmark declaration outlining the rights of the world's estimated 370 million indigenous people and outlawing discrimination against them. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States - voted against the text.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00333.htm

Mark Bradley

Four years ago (shortly after moving into the neighborhood where I currently live), it was brought to my attention that a thoroughly unpleasant individual resided in the house across the street and two doors down from mine. Not only was he known to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00269.htm

Anglican Church in Aotearoa

This Office wishes to advise that Archbishop Whakahuihui (Hui) Vercoe passed away last evening at his home in Rotorua surrounded by his family. It is planned that he will return to his home Marae at Torere Bay of Plenty about a 20 minute drive ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0709/S00155.htm

Kamala Sarup

On 8 September, every year, we celebrate International Literacy Day. According to recent estimates, there are approximately 862 million illiterate people in the world. More than 100 million children lack access to education. Nearly two-thirds of whom ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00268.htm

freepress.org

Ohio Republicans have blocked a proposal to test electronic voting machines prior to the 2008 presidential primary. By a 4-3 vote, Republicans on Ohio’s State Controlling Board blocked Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner’s proposed $1.8 million ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00254.htm

New Zealand Government

The Māori Party is full of hollow talk over the government’s decision not to support the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, says Māori Affairs Minister Parekura Horomia.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00272.htm

New Zealand Government

Today’s launch of the new technology bus service for The Link celebrates another big step toward in improving public transport in Auckland.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00275.htm

Social Tonics Association

The Social Tonics Association of New Zealand (STANZ) today called for Oamaru MP Jacqui Dean to step down from speaking on drug issues after she demonstrated a lack of credibility in calling for the ban of dihydrogen monoxide (water.) A group of party pill consumers ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00211.htm

Scoop Video

Full Coverage Video of the media conference held by Ahmed Zaoui and his legal team shortly after the SIS director announced he had withdrawn a security risk certificate that had accused Mr Zaoui of being a risk to New Zealand's national security.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00231.htm

Dorchester Pacific

Senate Finance, owned and operated by financial solutions provider Dorchester Pacific Limited, today announced a new funding partnership with GE Money.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0709/S00268.htm

US National Lawyers Guild

The United People of Color Caucus (TUPOCC) of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) endorses the planned rally in Jena, Louisiana on September 20 in support of the six black high school students who have come to be known as the "Jena 6."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00338.htm

Living Streets

Living Streets Aotearoa and the Cycle Advocates’ Network announce World Car-Free Day will take place on the 22nd of September. This yearly, global event, organised by the World Carfree Network since September 2000, encourages the people of in more ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00210.htm

Tim Wikirwhi

Libertarian Independent Tim Wikiriwhi has issued what he calls a 'Nanny state alert' imploring Hamilton East not to elect Dianne Yates to council, justifying himself by saying the alert is vital to the first stage of his strategy to alleviate Hamilton's ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0709/S00187.htm

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