Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 14 March 2007

Thursday, 15 March 2007, 8:45 am
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Paul G. Buchanan: When Beggars can be Choosy

Paul G. Buchanan

The upcoming state visit to the White House by Prime Minister Helen Clark confirms the view that US-New Zealand relations are warming up. After a cooling of relations during the first term of George W. Bush, notable for the intemperate remarks by US ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00248.htm

MetService

MetService meteorologists have issued a weather warning for severe northwest gales on Wednesday over the southern North Island. Marine meteorologists are also forecasting the arrival of large ocean swells on the west coast of the North Island on Wednesday.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0703/S00033.htm

Office of the Clerk

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1. KEITH LOCKE to the Prime Minister: When she discusses trade, Afghanistan and instability in the Pacific with George W Bush at the White House next week, will she also be raising climate change, the United States’ human rights record and the war in Iraq?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00258.htm

Scoop Full Coverage

FULL COVERAGE: The Maori Party: We have been asked to support a Bill which is motivated by the need to protect children. We believe that Parliament has an important role in dispelling the illusion that violence is normal and acceptable...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00231.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. KEITH LOCKE (Green) to the Prime Minister: When she discusses trade, Afghanistan, and instability in the Pacific with George W Bush at the White House next week, will she also be raising climate change, the United States’ human rights record, and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00274.htm

US State Department

Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs; Rosemary DiCarlo, Deputy Assistant Secretary On-The-Record Briefing Washington, DC March 13, 2007
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00257.htm

US State Department

Sixty-first UN General Assembly: Sudan, Iran, Lebanon and Burma are Top U.S. Priorities
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00263.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. Corrections, Minister and Department—Confidence of Prime Minister 2. Tax Cuts—Advisability 3. Early Childhood Education—Free Hours, Service Providers 4. Superannuation—1 April Increases 5. Corrections, Department—Confidence of Corrections, Minister ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00248.htm

Green Party

Green MP Keith Locke has warned against the danger of legally allowing foreign armed air marshals onto planes coming into New Zealand, as proposed by the Aviation Security Legislation Bill introduced into Parliament today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00240.htm

Yasmine Ryan

Hizbullah’s claims that the 34 day war waged on Lebanon in 2006 was pre-planned appear to have been validated by the Israeli Prime Minister. The Israeli Government has, until now, stuck firmly to the line that the war was not anticipated before ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00228.htm

Bernard Weiner

Why all the shocked surprise that the FBI was found to have grossly violated Americans' civil liberties ( LINK ) under the revised so-called "Patriot" Act, and lied to Congress about how often its agents broke the law in doing so?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00244.htm

United Nations

Increasing women’s ability to procure financial services is not just a boon to economic development, but is beneficial to society as a whole, the President of the United Nations General Assembly today told participants at a panel discussion on ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00194.htm

Te Papa

A colossal squid, believed to be the first adult male specimen to be landed, was delivered to Te Papa yesterday. Unfrozen, the specimen is thought to weigh approximately 450kg and measure 10metres in length.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0703/S00035.htm

Caritas

Caritas Australia fears the steady increase in violence in Sri Lanka has now erupted into open conflict. Over 200,000 people have been forced from their homes in the north and northeast of the country, threatening a humanitarian disaster.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00264.htm

M.R. Josse

In the din and mayhem of the continuing violent protests in Kathmandu as elsewhere – ostensibly spearheaded by the SPA but, in reality, driven by the Maoists their new comrades-in-arms from the sidelines – one key new element in the months-long ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0604/S00253.htm

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

No home-runs; maybe only a bunt single or at best the odd double, but at least he didn’t strike out. Clearly the Bush trip to Latin America never should have been scheduled. One thing is for certain: the President doesn’t have a clue about Latin ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00252.htm

David Swanson

Judy Daubenmier spent 25 years as a reporter for the Associated Press and saw the field of news reporting sliding downhill. Now she works to reform our system of communications through the internet.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00237.htm

New Zealand Government

Passenger and freight trains will return to Auckland's Onehunga line following a multi-million dollar upgrade, Finance Minister Michael Cullen announced today. "I have given approval for ONTRACK to invest in the upgrading of the Onehunga Branch ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00234.htm

Air New Zealand

Air New Zealand and MTV today announced the world’s first MTV Mile High Gig en route to the Australian Video Music Awards. The MTV Mile High Gig from Auckland to Sydney departs on Saturday 28 April and will see passengers rocking out to live performances ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0703/S00149.htm

Joint Media Statement

The Onehunga Branch line is to be rescued and pressed into service for commuter and freight trains. The government today gave the green light for ONTRACK to upgrade the line.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0703/S00171.htm

www.UnansweredQuestions.org

It did. Her name was Sibel Edmonds. This is her story, as she told it to me. Edmonds discusses what she knows, whom it implicates, and what she's been through and what hope there is in the new Congress to start an investigation.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00241.htm

The Kyoto Forestry Association

Thousands of Wellingtonians risk losing a big chunk of their retirement savings as a result of the Government's decision to nationalise carbon credits legitimately owned by forest owners and forestry investors, the Kyoto Forestry Association (KFA) ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00270.htm

Family First

In opinions obtained by Family First NZ, Grant Illingworth QC has labeled the bill “an unmitigated piece of nonsense” and believes that the proposed amendment being supported by Labour and the Greens will criminalise conduct that most members of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00162.htm

William Fisher

During his recent swearing-in of retired Vice Adm. Mike McConnell as the second director of national intelligence, President Bush ordered the nation's national security agencies to mount a major push to increase the recruiting of people with the language ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00243.htm

US State Department

PRESIDENT LULA: (As translated.) There's more journalists here than at the Oscar. (Laughter.) Although the artists aren't quite as good looking as the ones that get Oscars.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00240.htm

Len Brown - Mayoral Candidate

The Herald on Sunday reports that the Manukau City Council was oblivious to gang-related activities in a former scout hall in Otara for approximately 3.5 years. The Chairperson of the Community Safety Committee of the Council, Dick Quax said that the Council ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0703/S00173.htm

Rajat KC

In Nepal we regularly see the faces of the Maoist leaders almost in all means of Media everyday. In the past, when then Prime Minister Sher Bahahdur Deuba announced price of the head of alleged terrorist (Maoist), those faces were known very little.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00215.htm

The Scoop Team

Security: Air Marshals On Air NZ Flights If Bill Passes House - Questions Of The Day - Recommended Audio - Weather: Time For NZ To Batten Down The Hatches - Human Rights: Unique Film Festival On The Way - News Headlines - Section 59: FULL COVERAGE: ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00247.htm

Green Party

It is increasingly looking as if the Government will suffer an embarrassing defeat over its Therapeutic Products and Medicines bill, the Green Party says. "The bill passed its first reading by the narrowest of margins - by one vote. If, as indicated, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00245.htm

Bay Of Plenty DHB

A Healthy Eating – Healthy Action (HEHA) Development Manager has been appointed for the Bay of Plenty to lead a campaign to increase physical activity, improve nutrition and reduce obesity.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0703/S00039.htm

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