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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1:
Scientists
Group to Refute Global Warming
Claims
A group of leading New Zealand climate scientists has announced today the formation of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, aimed at refuting what it believes are unfounded claims about anthropogenic (man-made)global warming.
2:
'Cass'
voted New Zealand’s Greatest
Painting
Frontseat’s Search for New Zealand’s Greatest Painting has yielded a clear winner: ‘Cass’ (1936) by Rita Angus (1908 – 1970).
3:
UQ
Wire: 911 Conspiracy - A Skeptic’s
View
This essay is certain to make many readers very angry with me. But ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
4:
Shell
Launches its Fuel Economy Formula in
NZ
Improved Petrol Uses Technology Based on Guinness World Record-Making Fuel Wellington, Monday 1 May 2006 - Literally days after achieving the Guinness World Record, using a fuel based on the same technology Shell will launch its improved Shell Ultra 91 ...
5:
The
Intelligence Failure Behind Honiara’s
Riots
Report by Yasmine Ryan Images by Jason Dorday Based on assignment in the Solomon Islands
6:
Greenpeace
stops Amazon soya entering
Europe
Amsterdam, 29th April 2006 - Sixty Greenpeace activists (1) today prevented commodities giant Cargill from unloading a shipment of Amazon soya in Amsterdam port, to protest against the destruction of huge tracts of the Amazon rainforest to grow soya to feed ...
7:
Strike
Iran, Watch Pakistan and Turkey
Fall
Just when it seemed unlikely that domestic and international events would unfold to test an already incompetent US government, along comes the acceleration of the movement to destroy Iran.
8:
John
Key - Hitching our Waka to their
Rickshaw
Last week I visited Singapore. It’s a country I have a strong emotional attachment to, and one that has long fascinated me. In part, this is because I lived there while working for Merrill Lynch in 1995.
9:
Kerry
Sponsors Palestine's Collective
Punishment
As a former state prosecutor and lieutenant governor whose father was a Foreign Service officer, the former Presidential candidate Senator John Forbes Kerry should know a violation of international law when he sees one.
10:
English
undermines school for political
gain
Bill English has misrepresented a highly sensitive situation involving the bail conditions of a college student, says Education Minister Steve Maharey.
11:
Big-Mouth
Bush Told Clinton How To Handle OPEC
While on the campaign trail in 2000, Bush told President Bill Clinton how to handle OPEC, in public no less. “What I think the president ought to do," he said, "is he ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your ...
12:
The
Letter – Monday, May 01, 2006
The Haps - Parliament resumes. David Parker is recycled. Oil prices start to bite.
13:
Hodgson
- The Crisis Syndrome: NZ's health
debate
Address to the Institute of Policy Studies, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington
14:
Statement
to Altria Group From Shane
Bradbrook
I am Maori, a native New Zealander. I am here to represent Maori in the matter of Philip Morris International using our culture to sell tobacco products.
15:
US
Wind Energy President To Head NZ
Assoc
The New Zealand Wind Energy Association today announced the appointment of Roby Roberts as the next Chief Executive of the New Zealand Wind Energy Association.
16:
Sales
jobs linked to bladder cancer
risk
New research adds to evidence that people who work in sales, particularly women, may have a higher risk of bladder cancer.
17:
Apricot
kernels can be a risk to human
health
The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) today reminds New Zealand consumers that apricot kernels, sometimes marketed as a health food, can be a risk to human health.
18:
Backtrack
comes too late to hide true
colours
National Deputy Leader Gerry Brownlee's backtrack from his plan to challenge the party's policy on the Maori seats wasn't quick enough to stop the public from getting a glimpse of National's true colours, Justice Minister Mark Burton says.
19:
PSA
launches attack 'Get the sack in 90 days'
Bill
“Wayne Mapp’s 90 day probationary period bill is a shameful attack on the rights of all New Zealand employees and their families,” said PSA National Secretary Richard Wagstaff. “Our union will be fighting to stop this Bill becoming law.”
20:
GE
Food Alert as More Illnesses Linked to Bt
Crops
New data on illnesses caused by GE crops ( see references below) are a warning that applications for GE foods must be rejected by Foods Standards Austraila New Zealand Authority (FSANZ).
21:
Kelpie
Wilson: Stop the Fossil
Foolishness
Gas prices are on the rise again and news analysts are kicking it around, wondering who is being ripped off this time. But geologists, scientists and even some economists suspect that unlike other gas shortages, this one is the real thing, or at least ...
22:
Scoop
Video: Algeria Amnesty & An Intel
Turntable
The Inspector General of Intelligence and Security, Justice Paul Nazor, is preparing to review whether a security risk certificate lodged against Ahmed Zaoui. But how safe is Algeria, and should intelligence be used as evidence in a judicial matter?
23:
Career
Aspirations Of Public Servants
The State Services Commissioner, Mark Prebble, today released the 2005 Career Progression and Development Public Service Report. This research is the only survey across the Public Service that asks staff about their perceptions of career aspirations, training ...
24:
Radical
Youth May Day Action
May 1 will see young people lead the most significant action in the campaign to abolish youth rates, which is being waged by organisations around Aotearoa. In the wake of the now famous school walkout, there will be a rally and march on May Day to continue ...
25:
Risk
Of 2006 Winter Power Crisis "Nearly"
Over
Recent rainfall in the South Island breaking the drought on the Taieri Plains and bringing flooding to Oamaru has had a clear upside for the rest of the country. Over the past five days the rain has also seen the Southern hydro lakes rapidly filling ...
26:
Coastal
development threatens rare
birds
New Zealand fairy terns may be the most critically endangered bird in New Zealand, and perhaps even the world’s rarest tern, new DNA evidence suggests.
27:
Schwarzkopf
Hairdressing Awards Images Part
Two
Auckland, 3 April 2006: 19 finalists from around the country have been selected by a team of international judges for this year’s Schwarzkopf Professional New Zealand Hairdressing Awards.
28:
Dalziel
- Business & Professional Women
conference
The Ministry of Women's Affairs is investigating a range of possible approaches of mirroring our public sector success in appointing women to boards in the private and local government sectors.
29:
Scoop
Top 30 Weekend Ratings - 29-30 April
2006
The Weekend's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
30:
Hodgson
invites reality to electives
debate
It is time to inject some much-needed reality into the debate on elective surgery, Health Minister Pete Hodgson said today.
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