Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings April 18 2009

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

1: Obama & CIA Director Will Defend Torture Charges

US Central Intelligence Agency

CIA Director Leon E. Panetta: The US President and the Attorney General have made clear that there will be no investigation or prosecution of CIA personnel who operated within the legal system.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0904/S00267.htm

2: Rescue shines against 'A political Heart of Stone'

Project SafeCom

"It must be a comforting experience for many advocates and refugees who entered Australia since 2001, that the boat emergency near Ashmore Reef yesterday was followed by a fully developed emergency, rescue and medical response where we saw Navy Operations, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0904/S00266.htm

3: Cartoon: Guess Who’s Running the Daily Planet?

Kidd Millennium

The decimation of the news as we once knew it… is broken. Sadly, American newspapers have never been so loved as they are now…now that they’re dying!
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0904/S00175.htm

4: "Restore Justice At Justice" Campaign Launched

Velvet Revolution

Today a broad coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to an honest and accountable government launched “Restore Justice At Justice,” www.RestoreJusticeAtJustice.com, a campaign to clean up the Department of Justice’s sad record of political prosecutions ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0904/S00268.htm

5: Trinidad: Opportunities Don’t Happen They Are Made

Al Giordano

Other than establish that he still doesn’t understand that Calderon Is Not Mexico , President Obama’s pit stop in Mexico City yesterday and today was so far the least productive (read: utterly without merit or meaning) foreign trip he’s made ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0904/S00177.htm

6: Non-Violence in Palestine: Timing and Intentions

Ramzy Baroud

When one speaks of or advocates non-violence, does he promote such an idea because he believes that historically it has been a more effective means of liberation, or is it purely because he thinks that it is a more self-respecting means of struggle?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0904/S00178.htm

7: Undernews For 16 April 2009

Undernews

WORD: Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes the by-product of the activities ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0904/S00174.htm

8: "House of Death" Sutton Coming to a TV Near You

narconews.com

Narco News correspondent Bill Conroy, continuing his coverage of the House of Death cover-up, reports on the announcement that the US Attorney from Texas, Johnny Sutton, will finally stand down this weekend. Conroy has been following Sutton since his ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0904/S00176.htm

9: AdHub and Think Digital Media join forces

Adhub

AdHub and Think Digital Media join to create New Zealand’s largest online advertising network
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0904/S00342.htm

10: NZ Music Website In World’s Top 50 Websites

Pursuit PR

www.specialsurprise.co.nz, the website of New Zealand musician Luke Buda, from the band The Phoenix Foundation, has been included in the Favourite Website Award’s (FWA) top 50 websites of 2008. The website, created by Wellington interactive advertising ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0904/S00344.htm

11: Tony Veitch's statement after his guilty plea

Tony Veitch

When I wrote this, I was trying to come up with words about how I felt about all this, I wasn't sure but today I can honestly say, while this has been an absolutely hideous time for everyone in my life, and I say everyone, my family everybody, you ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0904/S00240.htm

12: Greenpeace Demonstrates Limited Understanding

New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

Greenpeace reveals its lack of understanding of electricity generation The attack by Greenpeace's climate change campaigner Simon Boxer on Contact Energy's proposals for new hydropower schemes shows that he - and Greenpeace - have little understanding ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0904/S00153.htm

13: Auckland Papers Launch Campaign Against Supercity

Spike Mountjoy

Auckland's major community newspapers are urging city residents to fight the "supercity" with an email campaign directed at the Government. This week's Aucklander, a local paper delivered free with The Herald, carries the editorial "Bomb Parliament! – ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0904/S00156.htm

14: Pattrick Smellie: Bill's Biggest Budget BugBear

Businesswire

April 17 - Of all the big numbers floating around these days, the one that worries Finance Minister Bill English most is government debt.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0904/S00157.htm

15: Toni Solo: Fear and Loathing in Port of Spain

Toni Solo

With only a few days before the next Summit of the Americas, the absence of Cuba from the meeting looms ever larger both as anti-imperialist motif and as an index of US decline. The over-riding issue at the Summit of the Americas is going to be ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0904/S00166.htm

16: Veitch's Supporters Take Us Back To The Dark Ages

Roundtable on Violence Against Women

Events at Tony Veitch's court case are a huge step backwards for efforts to stop New Zealand's appalling domestic violence rate. "The 20 well know New Zealanders who stood up in court testifying to Veitch's 'good character' have taken New Zealand ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0904/S00149.htm

17: Ecuador’s Correa at Trinidad Summit

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, will be joined by fellow leaders Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, Evo Morales of Bolivia, and newly-elected Mauricio Funes of El Salvador at the Summit of the Americas this weekend. The left-leaning ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0904/S00265.htm

18: Animal Rights Campaigners To Protest

National Anti Vivisection Campaign

The National Anti Vivisection Campaign says a protest will be held in the Square at noon, followed by a visit to a beagle dog testing laboratory in Bainesse near Himatangi.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0904/S00220.htm

19: At last supermarket chain gets real!

Get Real Campaign

The GetReal team was thrilled to hear the announcement from Foodstuffs today that they are shortly to introduce a charge for plastic bags at their New World and Pak'n’Save supermarkets across the country. The get GetReal team says that this announcement ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0904/S00154.htm

20: Canterbury employment summit solutions put forward

Canterbury Development Corp

Cantabrians need to get over risk aversion, work together more and bring forward initiatives that will improve local infrastructure, delegates at today’s Christchurch Employment Summit said.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0904/S00348.htm

21: Council hold promise of affordable progress

Auckland City Council

Auckland City Council have released its draft 10-year plan balancing a commitment to affordable progress with plans to develop the city while taking into account the difficult economic circumstances.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0904/S00223.htm

22: Yeahpoint on track for 300% growth

Gray Media

Interactive digital media company Yeahpoint has defied the global recession and continues to produce incredible growth during the current financial year with its target of 300% looking like being broken in the very near future.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0904/S00346.htm

23: Operation 400 Release 2

New Zealand Police

The mature nature of the crowd attending this week's Hamilton 400 and an enhanced, highly visible Police presence is being credited for a lower than normal number of arrests in the City for a Friday evening.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0904/S00222.htm

24: Community and council combine to oppose Proposals

Waitakere City

Waitakere community groups and Waitakere City Council have vowed to work closely together to put the local back into local government.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0904/S00219.htm

25: Drivers urged to slow down or face consequences

North Shore City

A new road safety campaign developed by North Shore City Council in partnership with ACC Injury Prevention kicks off next week to support an upcoming citywide speed enforcement operation by North Shore City police.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0904/S00218.htm

26: 2009 White Poppy Annual Appeal

Peace Movement Aotearoa

From 2009, the White Poppy Annual Appeal is being held from 17 to 24 April, with all proceeds going to the new White Poppy Peace Scholarships.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0904/S00238.htm

27: Top Scoop Stories April 17nth, 2009 News Summary

The Scoop Editor

LEAD STORY PSA: NZ Must Reject OECD's Public Privatization Call NZ POLITICS Pattrick Smellie: Bill’s Biggest Budget BugBear Spike Mountjoy: Auckland Papers Launch Campaign Against "Supercity" Housing: PM's Electorate Gets Fewer Affordable Homes
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0904/S00158.htm

28: Arrests In Waihi Tomahawk Attack

New Zealand Police

Police investigating Monday's aggravated assault of a man at his Waihi home while he dined with his children arrested three people yesterday.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0904/S00217.htm

29: Ongoing Refinement Lowers Falcon's Emissions

Ford New Zealand

Ford's commitment to continuous product enhancement continues to pay off, with two of the most popular Falcon sedans, the XR6 and G6E obtaining improvements in fuel economy and C02 emissions.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0904/S00345.htm

30: Renner: Fight Rages Over a Tool Called "Cram Down"

Matt Renner

Washington, DC - A fight on Capitol Hill rages over a tool called "cram down." Proponents say is essential to fixing the foreclosure crisis and empowering homeowners to negotiate with the banks that hold their mortgages. Opponents say it will make lending riskier ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0904/S00161.htm

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