Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 24 September 2007

Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 9:10 am
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Latest Images From Burma As Public Join Monks

Terry Evans

Buddhist monks icalled on members of the public to join with them in future public protests. An alliance between political activists and monks will encourage members of the public to take to the streets. The Burmese are desperate for change.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00591.htm

VOA News

Buddhist monks, accompanied by civilians, march on a street in a protest against the military government in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, 23 Sept. 2007 Thousands of Buddhist monks have been joined by an equal number of civilians, marching in Burma's commercial ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00582.htm

Dr. Abbas Bakhtiar

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“Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00442.htm

ITUC

Dozens of people are being held in detention by the military junta, with Buddhist monks now openly defying the authorities in several locations around the country, supported by thousands of people who have joined protests and demonstrations.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00572.htm

New Zealand Government

Lecture delivered at the China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong (CELAP), Shanghai. 9.30AM Monday, 24 September 2007
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00417.htm

Terry Evans

Detained pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, appeared at her front gate yesterday as several hundred courageous monks marched through barricades blocking access to her home in Rangoon.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00574.htm

New Zealand Government

Bill English’s contradictory statements on National’s plans to sell off taxpayer-owned assets reveal he is making up policy on the hoof, Acting Finance Minister Clayton Cosgrove said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00413.htm

Kevin List

Opposition Finance spokesman Bill English's comments on TVNZ's Agenda program last weekend were pounced upon by the Prime Minister at this afternoon's post cabinet press conference.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00453.htm

US State Department

"The President has been very outspoken about what is happening in Burma. The Burmese people deserve better. They deserve a life to be able to live in freedom, just as everyone does. And the brutality of this regime is well known," - Secretary Rice.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00589.htm

New Zealand National Party

National's Ethnic Affairs spokeswoman, Pansy Wong, is thrilled that China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has fallen in love with our national game.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00408.htm

Sherwood Ross

How large a role does the “Israel Lobby” play in shaping U.S. policy in the Middle East? Some answers may be contained in “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy”(Farrar, Straus & Giroux), by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, reviewed in the Sept. 23 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00440.htm

Agenda

We saw the National Party do yet another policy u-turn last week when it dropped its long-standing argument that climate change wasn’t happening and instead backed the government's new measures to combat carbon emissions.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00321.htm

Scoop Video

Scoop Video Documentary: Far from being a bunch of "rabble" as Australia's prime minister John Howard had labeled them, around 8-10,000 people gathered in Sydney to send APEC leaders one simple message: "Peace!" And they walked the talk .
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00404.htm

Direct Democracy Party Of NZ

"The political hysteria being whipped up around the issue of Global Warming via Carbon Emissions is reminiscent of the story Chicken Little. The erroneous belief that Carbon Emissions are somehow going to negatively effect the planet is a parallel to "the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00322.htm

Agenda

National Party Deputy Leader Bill English believes climate change will not be a major issue in next year's election because it largely concerns the "political elite".
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00323.htm

Americas Program

The Inevitable Decline of the American Empire by Raúl Zibechi Translated from: Immanuel Wallerstein: La irresistible decadencia del imperio americano Translated by: Charlotte Elmitt
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00433.htm

Air New Zealand

Air New Zealand farewells one of the workhorses of its regional fleet today. The last Air Nelson Saab will make its final flight from Wellington to Nelson today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0709/S00440.htm

Jason Leopold

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's $12 billion health care plan is a flawed piece of legislation that would place an enormous financial burden on low-income families and individuals while enriching the coffers of the country's largest insurance ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00428.htm

Department Of Internal Affairs

New Zealand daylight saving begins a week earlier this year, on Sunday 30 September 2007, when 2.00 am becomes 3.00 am. This is the first change to daylight saving since 1990 and the extra hour of daylight in the evenings will run till Sunday 6 April ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00331.htm

New Zealand Government

National deputy leader Bill English has revealed his party's plans to sell off New Zealand's State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), Acting Finance Minister Clayton Cosgrove said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00400.htm

New Zealand National Party

National’s Welfare spokeswoman, Judith Collins, says most current beneficiaries are expected to be on a benefit in 10 years' time. The revelation is contained in documents Ms Collins has obtained under the Official Information Act.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00424.htm

Agenda

The National Party says it will consider selling parts of New Zealand's state owned power companies if it forms the Government next year.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00320.htm

New Zealand Government

The tax consequences of the government’s proposed emissions trading scheme are the subject of an officials’ issues paper released today for public consultation.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00422.htm

New Zealand Police

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0709/S00284.htm

George Lakoff

Alan Greenspan should know. It was oil all along. The former head of the Federal Reserve writes in his memoir, "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World," "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00419.htm

The Scoop Editor

Beyond The Rabble-Free Fence / National And SOE Mixed Model / Waitakere Give Peace A Chance / Boy Racing And Random Stabbings / Gold In New Venture / Trade Balance / Touching On Burma / Polar Bear Conservation / China PTA Rugby Team.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00449.htm

Motu Economic and Public Policy Research

In any industry, there is a vertical chain of production and consumption, with several ‘layers’ from initial production to final consumption. For example, in the electricity sector fuel is imported and sold to generators; generators use fuel to create electricity ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00326.htm

Mohan Nepali

More than 30 people have already been reported dead due to communal violence in the Kapilvastu district of Nepal. The violence began when a group of unidentified gunmen on 16 September shot dead a local leader with obvious links with Nepal’s king, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00427.htm

New Zealand Defence Force

Primary school children in Timor Leste received a special delivery recently when a New Zealand Defence Force Iroquois helicopter delivered books to their school. The books, donated by Chilton Saint James School in Lower Hutt, were delivered to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00328.htm

LawFuel

LAWFUEL - The Legal Newswire - Author, television celebrity and cultural icon Clive James criticized the Wellington City Council for spending public money bringing a broken down, injured football player, David Beckham, to Wellington.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0709/S00260.htm

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