Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 10 January 2006

Thursday, 11 January 2007, 8:44 am
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Daniela Cicarelli's beach lover: Stud or dud?

Peter Rost M.D.

Usually I write about political stuff. Or serious things. But stay with me. This is really a serious article about male machismo among investment bankers, and how far that will take them, impacting the entire internet.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00034.htm

Scoop Video

Scoop Video: (Editor's Warning: scenes displayed in this video content will disturb) -A new video showing the dead body of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been leaked. The video footage shows Saddam Hussein being unwrapped from a shroud specifically ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00050.htm

New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

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Figures just released by the U.S. National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) show that mean global temperature for 2006 was 0.24 deg C cooler than it was in 1998.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0701/S00011.htm

Michel Chossudovsky

Throughout history, "wars of religion" have served to obscure the economic and strategic interests behind the conquest and invasion of foreign lands. "Wars of religion" were invariably fought with a view to securing control over trading routes and natural ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00076.htm

Dr. Abbas Bakhtiar

On Saturday 30th Dec 2006 at approximately 5:45 AM, former dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging at the former headquarters of Saddam's military intelligence where many of his victims were executed in the same gallows.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00053.htm

Scoop Video

Video: Editor's caution, extreme footage is disturbing - Footage of the execution of Saddam Hussein has been leaked. The following video was taken by a cellphone smuggled into the execution chamber by an unidentified witness to the hanging. This video ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00381.htm

Scoop Video

Scoop Video: Iraqi state television has released video footage of the minutes leading up to the execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The execution took place shortly before 6am (03:00 GMT) on Saturday at an Iraqi miltary facility in northern ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00379.htm

Robert Parry

George W. Bush has purged senior military and intelligence officials who were obstacles to a wider war in the Middle East, broadening his options for both escalating the conflict inside Iraq and expanding the fighting to Iran and Syria with Israel's help.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00098.htm

Sherwood Ross

Some 113 university, government, hospital and corporate laboratories engaged in research often with potential to be used for germ warfare have refused to disclose their operations to the public as required by Federal rules, a nonprofit watchdog agency has charged.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00056.htm

Miss Matarangi

A 17 year old from Whangamata has been crowned Miss Matarangi today in front of a crowd of more than 2,000 people at Matarangi Beach.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0701/S00015.htm

Kelpie Wilson

In 2005, Americans woke up to the reality of peak oil, the predicament first described by geologist M.K. Hubbert in which world oil production would reach a peak, followed by an inevitable decline. Three things worked together to set off the alarm.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00081.htm

David Swanson

As some people learned from the minimal and abusive media coverage, on December 8, 2006, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney introduced Articles of Impeachment [ http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/16230 ]against President George W. Bush, making him the 10th president of the United States ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00085.htm

Between The Lines

U.S. Iran Tensions Rise as Second American Aircraft Carrier Heads to Persian Gulf - Interview with Trita Parsi, president of the Iranian-American Council, conducted by Scott Harris
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00092.htm

Sam Smith

JOHN EDWARDS has done the Democrats an enormous favor. He has retrieved the party's reason for existence from the attic where it has been stowed lost and forgotten for some four decades.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00088.htm

William Fisher

It's encouraging to know that President Bush is taking a hard look at economic initiatives as he prepares to let the nation in on his new strategy for Iraq.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00067.htm

Institute For National Security Studies - Israel

The war in Lebanon underscored the problematic and fluctuating nature of Israel's strategic environment; damaged Israel's deterrent image; and exposed weaknesses in the IDF and the decision-making process in Israel.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0701/S00067.htm

Michael Collins

On December 20, 2006, Democratic candidate for Congress Christine Jennings filed a Notice of Contest Regarding the Election in Florida’s 13th Congressional district. Jennings trailed Republican Vern Buchanan by 369 votes at the close of voting. There ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00059.htm

BBC

The conclusion of a major content deal between BBC Worldwide Australasia and TVNZ will see a significant package of drama, natural history and factual titles air on both TV ONE and TV2 in 2007.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0701/S00047.htm

Syed Atiq ul Hassan

Everything went wrong in Iraq since the US-led forces invaded Iraq except the elimination of Saddam Hussein who was finally hanged in the green zone – centre of Baghdad heavily guarded by US forces - on the ending hours of 2006. The man who committed ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00026.htm

Maryann Keady

If there was any doubt about the idea that the world has clearly moved into a Cold War paradigm, the new national space policy of the United States dispelled that notion once and for all. It is worth reprinting some crucial excerpts for those that have ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00090.htm

Word of Mouth Media

Auckland’s traffic; Wellington’s wind; Christchurch’s suburban malls – but that’s as bad as it gets
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0701/S00024.htm

Bill Berkowitz

In early December several hundred pro-affirmative action demonstrators carrying signs reading "Fight for Equality" gathered outside the U.S. Supreme Court to witness to an historic occasion. For the first time since the ground breaking 1954 Brown v. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00095.htm

Hari Bansha Dulal

It’s been more than one-and-half decades since the first group of refugees reached eastern Nepal from Bhutan. However, their collective sufferings resulting from the tragedy of forced exile continue unabated; they have no way of knowing what their ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00057.htm

William Fisher

One needs a well-honed sense of irony to truly appreciate 2006. Some of these ironies were funny. Some were embarrassing. A lot were downright tragic. Before we finally consign the old year to the historians, let us recount some of them.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00086.htm

Ferrari Australia and New Zealand

One of the world’s most famous car makers, Ferrari, will celebrate its 60th anniversary on 11 May 2007, commemorating the date on which Enzo Ferrari produced his first car, the Ferrari 125 Sport, and with which two weeks later Ferrari won its first Grand ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0701/S00050.htm

HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

My thought as I started reading the essay by Auckland University cryptographer Peter Gutman on the "suicide note" implicit in the content protection layer of Windows Vista was that the utility of computers was being sacrificed on the altar of content ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00101.htm

Sherwood Ross

In all the annals of spin, few statements are as misleading as Vice President Cheney's that the nuclear industry operates "efficiently, safely, and with no discharge of greenhouse gases or emissions," or President Bush's claim America's 103 nuclear plants ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00038.htm

Michael Collins

Understanding Florida 2000 is central to understanding where we stand today as a nation. Al Gore’s clear victory in the popular vote was obscured immediately by the last minute drama of the Florida vote count. The extended melodramatics of the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00089.htm

Official New Zealand Music Chart

Who would have thought that in this day and age ABBA would topple Eminem to gain the biggest selling album honours in the country? They have and the Swedes gain their fourth New Zealand Albums Chart-topper – their first in 29 years – with the hits ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0701/S00043.htm

The Maori Party

Dr Pita Sharples, co-leader of the Maori Party, leaves tomorrow (11 January) to attend the Hui Ho'ohawai'i Assembly Retreat in Honolulu. The assembly is made up of some fifty Hawaiian cultural leaders and educators who have been described as the ‘movers ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0701/S00037.htm

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