Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 13 November 2009

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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 13 November 2009

1: Hide and seek: the truth about Rodney and Roger

Anne Else

There's a wonderful column by Rosemary McLeod in the Dom-Post this morning (12 November). She skewers the grotesqueries of Rodney Hide's apparently bizarre behaviour beautifully. But even Rosemary has missed something important about this whole affair.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00135.htm

2: Young People In Chadian Refugee Camps Need Hope

United Nations

The top humanitarian official in Chad called for urgent attention to be paid to providing a better life for young men and women languishing in camps for refugees and displaced persons, warning that the alternatives for them would be prostitution or violence.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00464.htm

3: Scoop Editorial: Launching "Imagining 2020"

Alastair Thompson

A group of New Zealand websites has decided to get together and encourage discussion of the positive side to climate change mitigation. Afterall - how many of us really believe that the way the world is currently run is optimal - both for our personal ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00150.htm

4: The Sensuous Revolt: An Education

Binoy Kampmark

Sixteen-year old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is predictably impressionable. Intelligence and the odd cutting remark might equip her for the classroom joust and parents in suburban Twickenham. But she has much growing up to do, something which is given ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00148.htm

5: Greenpeace Activists: Obama Must Address Climate

Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland, 13 November 2009 - An international team of Greenpeace activists, in the heart of Indonesia's threatened rainforests, has called on United States President Barack Obama to take urgent action on climate change. The call has been made as Obama ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00467.htm

6: Public Address 13/11/09 - Don't sell us down

Public Address

It's tempting to see the confrontation between the entertainment industry and the Internet as some kind of moral issue; a clash of the heavyweights with only one possible outcome: a triumph of good over evil. In the red corner we have the people who bring ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00149.htm

7: UN food summit 'fails before it begins'

Nick Squires

A UN Food Summit Aimed At Helping The One Billion People Worldwide Suffering From Hunger Has Been Declared A Failure A Week Before It Has Even Begun.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00465.htm

8: Error sends cost of ETS changes skyrocketing

Carbon News

Still secret new Treasury advice says the cost of changes to the emissions trading scheme might be up to three times as high as the Government has said, Carbon News reports this morning.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00130.htm

9: Army LAVs off to Afghanistan

New Zealand Government

Three of the Army’s Light Armoured Vehicles (NZLAVs) and their crews are to be deployed to Afghanistan, Defence Minister Wayne Mapp announced today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00161.htm

10: Scoop Link: Guardian's 'Greenwash' vs New Zealand

Scoop Link

But my prize for the most shameless two fingers to the global community goes to New Zealand, a country that sells itself round the world as "clean and green".
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00137.htm

11: Brazil Spreads Concrete Through the Rainforest

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world’s most biologically diverse ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00428.htm

12: Harawira as Independent would acknowledge reality

The Maori Party

The Maori Party says its request to Hone Harawira that he take up the opportunity to be an Independent MP simply acknowledges the reality of Mr Harawira's stance as an independent MP for Te Tai Tokerau. "Hone has said a number of times that he does ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00128.htm

13: Scoop Audio: Turia & Sharples on Harawira's future

Scoop Audio

Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia said Hone Harawira is difficult to control and it does not look like he is going to change. The decision “to invite him to consider whether he would prefer to be independent” was made by the party a few days ago ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00142.htm

14: Guardian criticism reality check on climate policy

New Zealand Government

Criticism in today’s Guardian is a reminder of the risk to New Zealand of not taking climate change seriously and ensuring our actions match our words, Minister for Climate Change Issues Nick Smith says. “The climate change policy the Government inherited ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00164.htm

15: Go the All Whites

New Zealand Labour Party

Excitement is building as the All Whites prepare to do the country proud in the winner take all World Cup qualifier tomorrow in Wellington, Labour Leader Phil Goff and Sport and Recreation spokesperson Chris Hipkins said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00162.htm

16: Minister Announces Gifted Advisory Group

New Zealand Government

Associate Minister of Education Heather Roy today announced the appointment of the Gifted & Talented Advisory Committee which will provide advice on education tailored to gifted and talented students and to strengthen partnerships across the Education ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00169.htm

17: Irwin closure shows need for currency controls

Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union

The closure of Irwin Industrial Tools due to the fluctuating New Zealand dollar shows the desperate need for a major overhaul of New Zealand’s financial system, says the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. The union, which represents workers ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00136.htm

18: Kenyan Tribe Voices Concern To Ban Ki-Moon

Survival International

A spokesman from a tribe in Kenya has condemned the Peruvian government’s attempt to destroy Peru’s Amazon indigenous movement.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00418.htm

19: Bahraini Musicians Perform, Rally in Wellington

Carolyn Meers

A group of Bahraini musicians who arrived with the Bahrain football team last night performed in Midland Park this afternoon. Bahrain will compete with the New Zealand All Whites tomorrow, Saturday the 14th, in the FIFA World Cup qualifier at Westpac ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00143.htm

20: Donating made easy – payroll giving

New Zealand Government

The Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector Tariana Turia and Revenue Minister Peter Dunne are asking employers, employees and community organisations to `give as you earn’ through payroll giving. The Government has introduced Payroll Giving ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00168.htm

21: Rules Need To Be Changed

ACT New Zealand

draft a Private Members' Bill – in support of calls from the father of murder victim Sophie Elliott – to change the rules regarding censorship of victim impact statements, giving victims and their families more freedom to confront those criminals who have ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00171.htm

22: NZ, Australia join forces on vaccine rollout

New Zealand Government

New Zealand is to contribute $420,000 to the World Health Organization (WHO) in support of an H1N1 vaccine roll out in the Asia Pacific region, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said today. “New Zealand’s donation, which will go towards the purchase of syringes ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00173.htm

23: Speech: Turia - Palliative Care Nurses Conference

New Zealand Government

I was delighted to accept the invitation of Helen Cleaver, Chairperson Palliative Care Nurses New Zealand, to take part in this very special conference. Your role, in walking alongside families as they support their loved one to leave this world, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00154.htm

24: Housing Bubbles: Americans Ignoring Reality?

Hugh Pavletich

Within this article - The Comprehensive State of the U.S. Housing Market: Learning to Love the Housing Data and Forgetting the Economic Facts. Everything you wanted to know about U.S. Housing Trends. » Dr. Housing Bubble Blog – Dr Housing Bubble ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0911/S00272.htm

25: What happens to students when school closes?

PSA

“Staff at a Waimokoia residential school in Auckland disagree with the government decision to close the school and are asking what will happen to the children,” says Public Service Association national secretary Brenda Pilott.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00134.htm

26: Waimokoia School to close

New Zealand Government

Waimokoia Residential School in Auckland is to close, Education Minister Anne Tolley has announced. “I have made my decision to close the school in the interests of the students, and based on reports from the Education Review Office (ERO) and the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00170.htm

27: Minister to attend world food security summit

New Zealand Government

Agriculture Minister David Carter will lead a New Zealand delegation to the World Summit on Food Security and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Conference in Rome next week.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00160.htm

28: PM to All Whites: The whole country is behind you

New Zealand Government

Prime Minister John Key is wishing Ryan Nelsen and his All Whites all the best when they play for a place in the football World Cup finals tomorrow. Mr Key will be at the APEC Leaders meeting in Singapore when the All Whites play but he will be cheering ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00152.htm

29: Alice Cooper signed guitar for charity auction

Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre

A signed Alice Cooper guitar is on the card at a charity auction in aid of New Zealand’s sole music therapy centre. It’s just one of a selection of great music memorabilia up for grabs at the Raukatauri Music Therapy Trust auction in Auckland on November ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0911/S00199.htm

30: Candor Backs Call For Higher Alcohol Taxes

Candor Trust

The Campaign Against Drugs on Roads gives full backing to today's calls for raised alcohol taxes. The Salvation Army is correct to assert that a price hike of significance would forcibly reduce the harm to a notable degree.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00138.htm

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