Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 27 February 2007

Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 9:04 am
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: US Generals Will Quit If Bush Orders Iran Attack

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Some of America's most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran, according to highly placed defence and intelligence sources.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0702/S00254.htm

2: Child Mortality Declining In Ethiopia

United Nations

Child mortality in impoverished Ethiopia has fallen over the past 15 years and steady development progress is being made in other areas as well, the visiting head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said , while stressing that more work ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0702/S00407.htm

3: Truth Overboard on Sri Lankan Asylum Seekers

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Refugee groups are calling on the Immigration minister to give an unequivocal assurance that the Sri Lankan asylum seekers on Christmas Island will not be returned to Indonesia.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0702/S00414.htm

4: Israel Wants to Fly Over Iraq to Bomb Iran

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Tel Aviv - Israel is negotiating with the United States for permission to fly over Iraq as part of a plan to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0702/S00237.htm

5: Paul G. Buchanan: A Change Of Focus At The SIS

Paul G. Buchanan

In April 2006 Ambassador Richard Woods, SIS Director General at the time, released the 2005 SIS annual report. In that report he emphasized the potential threat posed by local jihadis emulating the bombers in Madrid and London, the connections between ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0702/S00257.htm

6: Bold charity tax policy announced

New Zealand National Party

National’s bold new tax policy on charities shows a National government will support private giving and is serious about backing groups doing important work in our communities, says National Party Leader John Key.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0702/S00497.htm

7: Questions and Answers - Tuesday, 27 February 2007

Office of the Clerk

1. SHANE JONES (Labour) to the Minister of Finance: What reports, if any, has he received on the appropriate settings for good fiscal management?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0702/S00517.htm

8: Karim Sahai: Images Of the Cuba Carnival Parade

Karim Sahai

In late February 2007 on a perfect Wellington evening regular scoop contributor Karim Sahai was out and about around Cuba Street capturing the 'fun of the fair' and the colour of the Cuba Carnival parade.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0702/S00242.htm

9: Activists Take on Eli Lilly Over Sale of Zyprexa

Evelyn Pringle

On February 23, 2007, a new grass roots advocacy group issued a press release to rally support for attorney, Jim Gottstein, in his legal battle with Eli Lilly over his role in providing secret company documents obtained in litigation to the media ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0702/S00250.htm

10: Audio: Downer on Fiji, Iran, Iraq and David Hicks

Kevin List

New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters and his Australian counterpart Alexander Downer held a joint media conference this morning at the completion of their regular six-monthly talks.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0702/S00246.htm

11: EvoGenix and Vegenics announce collaboration

EvoGenix

Antibody therapeutics company EvoGenix Limited (ASX:EGX) and Melbourne-based biotechnology company Vegenics Limited (65% owned by Circadian Technologies Limited ASX:CIR) today announced that they had entered into a Technology Collaboration agreement. EvoGenix ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0702/S00060.htm

12: EU endorses Hydrogen Combustion Engine

BMW

Ten European partners have completed the HyICE project – Optimization of the Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine three years after the project first began. This initiative, which was promoted by the EU Commission, has resulted in a combustion engine fueled ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0702/S00413.htm

13: Appeal in case of family who lied about health

New Zealand Government

The Crown has lodged an appeal in the High Court in the case of a Romanian family who falsely represented the health status of a child to gain entry to New Zealand, says Immigration Minister David Cunliffe.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0702/S00484.htm

14: A New, Free Internet TV Channel!

OE TV

Charismatic actor Paul Ellis (Shortland Street, Celebrity Treasure Island) teams up with his sidekick Waleed for some crazy South African shenanigans to promote the launch of OETV, the online destination for independent travellers.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0702/S00341.htm

15: UQ Wire: BBC Joins Untrustworthy US Media Ranks

www.UnansweredQuestions.org

More than five years after the disaster of September 11, 2001, England’s BBC stepped into the ring of media outlets airing programs about the tragedy that is now referred to as “9/11” on February 18, 2007. The program, entitled “9/11: The Conspiracy ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0702/S00214.htm

16: Goff: Recent trade developments and priorities

New Zealand Government

It is a pleasure to join you here today and to be able to note some positive news on the trade front
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0702/S00494.htm

17: Uri Avnery: "You And I, And The Next War"

Uri Avnery

"WE ARE ready for the next war," a reserve soldier told a TV reporter this week, on the scene of a brigade-size maneuver on the Golan Heights. What war? Against whom? About what? This was not stated, and not even asked. The soldier saw it as self-evident ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0702/S00241.htm

18: Air New Zealand Enhances In-flight Entertainment

Air New Zealand

Air New Zealand customers on international flights are going to be spoilt for entertainment choice from March 1. The airline will increase the amount of audio and video entertainment content available from 200 hours to approximately 450 hours.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0702/S00386.htm

19: Karim Sahai: Te Matatini Kapa Kaha Festival Photos

Karim Sahai

The Te Matatini Kapa Kaha Festival was held at Arena Manawatu in Palmerston North from February 22-25. Wellington photographer Karim Sahai caught the action for Scoop. East Coast Kapa Haka group Whangara-mai-Tawhiti was named the supreme winner of the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0702/S00261.htm

20: Peters embarrasses self, country with Iraq comment

Green Party

Green Party Foreign Affairs Keith Locke has challenged Foreign Minister Winston Peters' view that 'total chaos' would result if American troops were withdrawn from Iraq.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0702/S00486.htm

21: Charities policy already under review

New Zealand Government

Finance Minister Michael Cullen says John Key's latest proposals on charitable giving are already under active consideration as part of the confidence and supply agreement with United Future.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0702/S00504.htm

22: How to ease rents and house prices

Massey University

Property analyst Professor Bob Hargreaves is proposing a solution to the problem of high rents and low home affordability – at no extra cost to the taxpayer. Professor Hargreaves says by selling 10 per cent of the current state housing stock every year, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0702/S00096.htm

23: Bush Funneling Money to al Qaeda-Related Groups

Scoop Link

New Yorker columnist Sy Hersh says the "single most explosive" element of his latest article involves an effort by the Bush administration to stem the growth of Shiite influence in the Middle East (specifically the Iranian government and Hezbollah in ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0702/S00255.htm

24: Activists up Huntly smoke stack, on coal conveyor

Greenpeace New Zealand

Four members of the Greenpeace climate rescue team have scaled the 150 metre high smoke stack of one of New Zealand's biggest climate polluters, the Huntly coal-fired power station, and another four are now on top of the coal conveyor leading into ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0702/S00347.htm

25: Scoop Link: John Pilger - Iran, A War Is Coming

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In his latest piece for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes American plans to attack Iran, possibly with nuclear weapons. Although the majority of Americans voted last November to end the war in Iraq, the Bush cabal remains undeterred by inspid ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0702/S00252.htm

26: Speech: Transforming the power sector

New Zealand Government

Transforming the power sector Address to the 9th Annual National Power New Zealand Conference 2pm, Sky City Convention Centre, Auckland
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0702/S00491.htm

27: Questions For Oral Answer - Tuesday, 27 Feb 2007

Office of the Clerk

1. SHANE JONES to the Minister of Finance: What reports, if any, has he received on the appropriate settings for good fiscal management?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0702/S00498.htm

28: Briscoe Group chooses SAP

Briscoe Group

NZX listed retailer Briscoe Group Limited (NZX: BGR) has selected SAP and CIBER Novasoft to deliver a new business system platform, NovaRetail, based on the SAP for Retail software solution.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0702/S00411.htm

29: COHA: No Smooth Sailing for Bolivia’s Morales

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

• A good man attempts to cope with a superabundance of problems within a completely democratic orbit • Too much drift within Morales’ rule • Autonomy fight now moves to the Constituent Assembly • Cochabamba’s obduracy could be replicated ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0702/S00399.htm

30: R. Parry: Gore's Other Global Warning - Iraq War

Robert Parry

As Al Gore steps into the national spotlight because of the Academy Awards and his global-warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," it's worth remembering that in fall 2002 Gore sought to warn the American people about another "inconvenient truth," ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0702/S00253.htm

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