Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings August 22 2008

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

1: Boobs Bring Auckland To Stand-still

Emily Kernot

Lunchtime shopping was not the usual business of the day as thousands packed out Queen Street to watch the topical Boobs on Bikes parade.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00271.htm

Paul G. Buchanan - A Word From Afar

Paul G. Buchanan writes that the Russian counter-offensive in Georgia has revealed three fundamental facts that the US and its allies are powerless to reverse, and which they may have unwittingly facilitated. The first is that Russia is back...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00253.htm

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SAP New Zealand today announced the local availability of CRM functionality in the SAP® Business All-in-One solution addressing the needs of midsize companies to better manage every aspect of their customer relationships. Based on the latest innovations ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0808/S00055.htm

Catherine Austin Fitts

Any government official asked to come up with a workout plan for troubled financial institutions, large portfolios of financial assets and liabilities, and/or places that are financially challenged first must consider all the constituencies involved. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00290.htm

Green Party

The Green Party is facing a busy weekend at the computer as views from the public on their ETS decision flood in.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00334.htm

New Zealand National Party

The number of people leaving to live in Australia in the past 12 months would have almost enough numbers to start an entire city of their own, says National’s Immigration spokesman, Lockwood Smith.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00319.htm

John Andrews - Pacific Insights

John Andrews reports from Niue that Fiji faces suspension from the Pacific Islands Forum unless its military leader Frank Bainimarama complies with Forum leaders' dictates. A meeting will Occur in PNG in three month's time to consider Fiji's compliance.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00277.htm

New Zealand Government

The clean up of the Waikato River to follow today’s Deed of Settlement with Waikato-Tainui will be one of the most important environmental undertakings in New Zealand’s history, Treaty Negotiations Minister Michael Cullen said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00337.htm

Undernews

Bob Herbert, NY Times - Around the same time that the McCain campaign was pocketing its oil industry windfall, the historian Douglas Brinkley was poring over letters in which Roosevelt, running for his first full term as president in 1904, was indignantly ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00270.htm

Harvey Bell

There is almost unanimous agreement that there needs to be a mechanism to reduce GHG emissions however the cost of any framework implemented to achieve this must be equitable.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0808/S00278.htm

Terry Evans

The leader of the All Burma Monks' Alliance (ABMA), Ashin Gambira, has been disrobed and charged with multiple criminal offences by Burma's military junta.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0808/S00280.htm

Trade Me Limited

Trade Me has welcomed the decision of the Advertising Standards Complaints Board (ASCB) Panel to uphold its complaint against website www.myjobspace.co.nz for claims that it had over 110,000 visitors per month.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0808/S00056.htm

www.sorted.org.nz

Kiwis are increasingly turning to sorted.org.nz New Zealand’s free independent money guide, run by the Retirement Commission. It’s full of calculators and information to help manage personal finances throughout life.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0808/S00414.htm

Family First

Family First NZ is welcoming the success of the petition demanding a Referendum on the flawed anti-smacking law.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0808/S00283.htm

John Andrews - Pacific Insights

Exclusive: Pacific Island leaders agonized for hours over the use of the word 'suspension' while debating their response to Fiji's boycott of their forum summit in Niue - John Andrews reports from Niue...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00289.htm

John Andrews - Pacific Insights

Relatives of an elderly man who died on Niue Island are upset his body had to be held in a chiller used for storing fish. They believe the body of their patriarch, 91-year-old Tuhipa Niutama, does not deserve the indignity of having to lie in a ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00285.htm

NZ Council for Infrastructure Development

The New Zealand Council for Infrastructure Development has identified six priorities to lift infrastructure delivery in New Zealand following its Building Nations Symposium in Auckland last week:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00343.htm

Intel Corporation

Intel Corporation’s chief technology officer took a fascinating look at how technology will bring man and machine much closer together by 2050.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0808/S00057.htm

University of Otago

One of the world's longest and largest trials of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has found that post-menopausal women on HRT gain significant improvements in quality of life.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0808/S00112.htm

The Maori Party

A couple weeks ago I attended a resource consent hearing in Whangarei for whanau wanting to build a marae out at Taiharuru. Chantez Connor led their case, and although she began rather tentatively, she presented a good case for the whanau to be able ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00341.htm

The Maori Party

Tariana Turia says the Maori Party is absolutely thrilled at reports that a Labour Minister is going to introduce a Bill to Parliament to entrench the Treaty of Waitangi in the constitution of New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00326.htm

Bill Berkowitz

In 1962, two years after losing the presidency to John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon ran and lost the governor's race in California. At a post-election press conference, Nixon famously told reporters that they wouldn't "have Richard Nixon to kick around ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00286.htm

VUWSA

300 students’ are protesting against Unicomm Hostel owners ING Group tomorrow, after having a year from Hell.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0808/S00270.htm

New Zealand National Party

There is something very very untidy at large amongst the senior ranks of our defence forces. This week a Court of Enquiry has released its report into the UN Housing Allowance rort fiasco.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00345.htm

The Family Party

Family Party leader Richard Lewis says he is elated that the smacking petition has achieved the required number of signatures to force a referendum.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0808/S00284.htm

New Zealand Government

Justice Minister Annette King has confirmed that planning has begun to hold a postal referendum related to Section 59 of the Crimes Amendment Act.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00348.htm

Michael Hammerschlag

Kiev: Mikheil Saakashvili’s reckless invasion of South Ossetia was an act of a politically embattled leader seeking to rally his nation in a military adventure to regain a long separated ethnic enclave. Instead the predictable, even inevitable, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00274.htm

Wellington Zoo

One of Wellington Zoo’s zebras was found dead in her enclosure this morning, Team Leader Ben Pocock announced today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0808/S00236.htm

Scoop Audio

RDU Audio: Spank Dawg grilled National leader John Key about the Fiji situation and what action National would take if elected. We found out what John thinks about Boobs on Bikes and boobs in general as well as why National is being so soft on Winston ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00279.htm

Waikato District Health Board

Waikato District Health Board's $30 million surplus for the financial year ended June 30 is a timing issue and not a case of the board withholding services to produce surpluses.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0808/S00111.htm

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