Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 4 October 2007

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

1: Sputnik anniversary coin blasts off

NZ Mint

On 4 October 1957 the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) launched Sputnik I into orbit and began the space race. Now a half century later, the New Zealand Mint has produced a special limited edition commemorative coin celebrating that fantastic ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0710/S00043.htm

Black Agenda Report

A famous old English song is titled, "The World Turned Upside Down." Such appears to be the insane vantage point through which the Bush regime, and many ordinary citizens, view reality: in reverse. U.S. media and politicians behave as if they are already ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00061.htm

New Zealand Winegrowers

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New Zealand Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc beat tough competition to claim top honours at international wine competition
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0710/S00061.htm

New Zealand Police

Police will not confirm information published in Truth. On the general issue of media seeking to name individual officers involved in serious incidents Police have long realised that to suppress such publications has become virtually impossible.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0710/S00061.htm

Scoop Link

In a series of public statements in recent months, President Bush and members of his Administration have redefined the war in Iraq, to an increasing degree, as a strategic battle between the United States and Iran. "Shia extremists, backed by ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00047.htm

Terry Evans

Six days after the brutal clampdown by the Burmese generals, the world is left wondering what has become of Aung San Suu Kyi's "peace warriors". The Buddhist monks, who last month turned small protests against hiked fuel prices into a mass display of peaceful ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00045.htm

Porter Noveli

Thousands of New Zealanders have been intrigued by a new advertising campaign featuring an alluring Kiwi bloke modelling an array of saucy lingerie for men.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0710/S00065.htm

Noam Chomsky

On September 21, 2007, I had the extraordinary opportunity to interview Noam Chomsky in his office at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The interview will be aired on Venezuelan and Latin American television as part of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00011.htm

Catherine Austin Fitts

By the time Bill Clinton and Al Gore were sworn in for their second term in January 1997, the first wave of investigation and smear campaign had failed to do anything other than affirm that The Hamilton Securities Group was doing a great job for the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00060.htm

New Zealand Government

John Key's short-term memory loss in regard to his comments on Iraq are assuming legendary proportions, Defence Minister Phil Goff said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00071.htm

Green Party

Green Party MP Keith Locke hopes that National Party leader John Key will be phoning President George Bush ASAP with Mr Key's good news that the war in Iraq is over, and that coalition forces can continue to withdraw their troops.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00049.htm

Peace Movement Aotearoa

The Immigration Bill was introduced in parliament on 8 August and had its first reading on 16 August, where it was supported by all the political parties except for the Maori Party and the Greens. It will be considered by the Transport and Industrial ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0710/S00051.htm

New Zealand Government

Address at University of Southampton Social Democracy under the Southern Cross: New Zealand in the 21st Century
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00047.htm

Catherine Austin Fitts

Though a fictional movie, Enemy of the State with Will Smith and Gene Hackman shows how targeting a person works in Washington, D.C. Will Smith plays a Washington lawyer who is targeted in a phony frame-and-smear campaign by U.S. intelligence agency personnel ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00029.htm

Big Day Out

That means it’s time to announce our first instalment of international and local artists to join our annual travelling jamboree.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0710/S00021.htm

Between The Lines

As members of Congress and various presidential candidates debate the war in Iraq and proposals for withdrawing American forces, most put forth the idea that the U.S. must leave military bases behind for the training of Iraqi troops and countering ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00062.htm

South Pacific Pictures

Click for big version Rodney Hide visits the set and meets actor Michael Hurst who is portraying him ******
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0710/S00051.htm

North Shore City

North Shore City Civil Defence has sexed up its image in an attempt to attract new blood for important emergency volunteer roles.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0710/S00041.htm

Green Party

Richard Heinberg, one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators and Research Fellow of Post Carbon Institute, is coming to New Zealand in October hosted by the Green Party and the Eco Show to give talks in Auckland, Wellington and Taupo.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00068.htm

Scoop Full Coverage

Joseph Barratt reports that hundreds of people marched through downtown Auckland in support of Burmese democracy over the weekend.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00046.htm

US State Department

U. S. Has Conveyed Approval of Six-Party Draft Statement to Chinese Government / Statement Addresses Implementing Second Half of Feb 13 Agreement / Disablement of Yongbyon / Declaration of Nuclear Program / Other Parties & North Korea / Proliferation.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0710/S00140.htm

Bald Hills

Bald Hills Vineyard from Central Otago has won six trophies at two of the world’s most prestigious wine shows including Champion Red at the International Wine Challenge.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0710/S00048.htm

The Maori Party

If the Maori Party is part of Government following the 2008 General Election, how would our industrial relations policy assist in transforming Aotearoa from a low wage / low skill economy to a high wage / high skill economy?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00072.htm

kiwijet

A team of Kiwijet staff was dispatched to the United Kingdom on September 16, 2007 to inspect four BAE RJ-100 regional jets for consideration. These aircraft have all of the right characteristics to operate to nearly all of the airports in New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0710/S00064.htm

American Express

Auckland, 4 October 2007 – American Express today announced the appointment of Sue Parkinson as New Zealand Country Manager, and head of the market’s International Consumer and Small Business Services operations.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0710/S00091.htm

John Bishop

In the job market for communications professionals, good people are hard to get, and this is pushing up salaries. Good candidates are getting multiple offers, which is putting pressure on employers to make quicker decisions on candidates, according ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00073.htm

Evelyn Pringle

A study of nearly 500,000 women by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, in the September 18, 2007, Annals of Internal Medicine, found that nearly 50% of women taking a prescription drug that could cause birth defects did not receive ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00026.htm

Association of University Staff

Massey no comment on split allegations Massey University has declined to comment on a recent report of splits within its Council, with one group said to be backing the Vice-Chancellor and the other the Chancellor. Neither does it want to comment ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0710/S00013.htm

NZIQS

Secondary schools in New Zealand are being targeted by the New Zealand Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NZIQS) with the message that qualifications in this key sector of the building industry represent an assured route to local and overseas employment.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0710/S00015.htm

Police Association

"The decision of fringe publication 'The Truth' to publish the name and photograph of an officer it claims was involved in last week's shooting in Christchurch is irresponsible and deeply disappointing", Police Association President Greg O'Connor said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0710/S00064.htm

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