Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 10 May 2007

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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Charges Dropped Over Subway Coke Incident

Autonomous Workers Union

Criminal charges against ex-Subway worker and Autonomous Workers Union member Jackie Lang for sharing a diet coke at work were dropped this morning in the Dunedin District Court.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00174.htm

LawFuel

The David Bain appeal against his conviction for multiple murders is to be delivered by the Privy Council tonight.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00189.htm

APFA-Bhutan

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As the third country settlement of the exiled Bhutanese in Nepal nears, the Bhutan government finalised its plan to evict another 80,000 southern Bhutanese of Nepali origin in the next few years.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00216.htm

Subway

Last night in television news reports, the Union representative Bill Clarke claimed there had been no communication from Subway since the police charged Jacqueline Lang with theft. This is an unfounded and untrue statement.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0705/S00216.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. Hon BILL ENGLISH (Deputy Leader—National) to the Minister of Finance: In how many of his eight Budgets has he reduced statutory tax rates?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00232.htm

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Summary: The David Project conspired with real estate agents and politicians to organize a campaign to deny the Boston Muslim community their 1st amendment rights to worship freely. This week, Jessica Masse, interfaith coordinator of the Islamic Society of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0705/S00149.htm

Bishop Brian Tamaki

Bishop Brian Tamaki of Destiny Churches New Zealand confirmed today his intention to hold a peaceful rally at an Asia Pacific Interfaith Forum being held at Waitangi on Tuesday 29th May.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00142.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. BARBARA STEWART (NZ First) to the Associate Minister for Senior Citizens: Has he received any recent reports regarding the potential future use of microchip technology in the SuperGold card for seniors due for release in August?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00282.htm

Sam Smith

One of the jobs of a journalist is to keep cleaning up one's own mind. It is so easy to drift into a colloquial world in which habit, cliche and spin conspire to make one an unconscious co-conspirator in the myths of the time.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00183.htm

Scoop Images

The Lord of the New Zealand's airwaves Paul Holmes proved less regal in his attempt to take the 'Dancing with the Stars' crown yesterday evening. Mr Holmes bowed out of the latest series of the popular dancing/light entertainment show after valiantly ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00195.htm

Subway

The matter between Subway, George Street Dunedin and Jacqueline Lang is confidential between employer and employee. Because of this, the Employment Relations Service together with the Employment Relations Authority and the Employment Court are the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0705/S00180.htm

NZ Fish and Game Council

Fish & Game will release another tanker load of (2-4lb) rainbow trout into Lake Pupuke today (Thursday) at 11.30am.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0705/S00116.htm

aucklanderatlarge.blogspot.com

Over 30 bloggers and many blog readers from all corners of the politial spectrum have signed a petition to boycott Subway stores nationwide, indicating that support for Jackie Lang's fight against Subway is widespread.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00152.htm

MSN NZ

Auckland, New Zealand, 10 May 2007: MSN NZ has appointed media industry veteran Liz Fraser to lead the company as New Zealand Business Manager. Fraser, a former senior TVNZ programmer and sales manager, will further strengthen the position of msn.co.nz ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0705/S00239.htm

New Zealand Government

Seniors should ignore scaremongering over the future use of microchips in the SuperGold Card as it is based on misinformation and distortions, Associate Senior Citizens Minister Winston Peters said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00273.htm

Jason Leopold

An Orthodox Jew and former petty officer in the US Navy said his civil rights were violated after a chaplain and officials at a Veterans Administration hospital in Iowa City, Iowa, tried to convert him to Christianity while he was under the VA's ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00190.htm

New Zealand Government

The elderly, students and hard working Kiwi families beware – a new report by Business NZ suggests how National finance spokesman Bill English might slash spending to afford big tax cuts, warned Finance Minister Michael Cullen today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00271.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. BARBARA STEWART to the Associate Minister for Senior Citizens: Has he received any recent reports regarding the potential future use of microchip technology in the Super Gold Card for seniors due for release in August?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00255.htm

America's Cup Media

Valencia, 9 May, 2007 - Skipper Dean Barker, representing the Round Robin leading Emirates Team New Zealand, has elected to race against Desafío Español 2007 in the Semi Finals of the Louis Vuitton Cup. That means BMW ORACLE Racing will face ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0705/S00101.htm

America's Cup Media

May 9... the battle for first place ends for seven of the Challengers.... Mark O'Brien Welcome to Sail-World.Com’s America’s Cup newsletter for Day 24 of the Louis Vuitton Cup.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0705/S00111.htm

Green Party

The Green Party has welcomed the news that the Police have now decided to use common sense, exercise their discretion and drop their prosecution of sacked Subway worker Jackie Lang, Greens Industrial Relations Spokesperson Sue Bradford says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00264.htm

www.UnansweredQuestions.org

A MadCowMorningNews investigation has learned that the company which owned the DC9 airliner caught carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine at an airport in Mexico’s Yucatan last year was engaged in other illegal activities as well, including massive “pump ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00188.htm

New Zealand Government

Thanks for the invitation to be here for the launch of the VentureVoip exchange and Conduit3 product range.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00262.htm

United Nations

A long-hunted Haitian gang leader accused of assassinations, kidnappings and extortion was arrested today in a joint operation by Haitian National Police and United Nations peacekeepers in Cité Soleil, the notorious slum area in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0705/S00152.htm

Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.

What do two shared cups of Diet Coke, Sue Bradford's flawed Anti-smacking Bill, CYFS (Child, Youth and Family Services), the Dunedin Police and a local Dunedin Subway (fast food) management team have in common? Before answering this conundrum, here's ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00182.htm

Spareroom.co.nz

If you think the word “redneck” applies to the US only, you might want to see this. Filmed in Waimate, South Canterbury, New Zealand and posted to YouTube by 21-year-old Chris from Queenstown, AKA Toerag135, it features a group of young men and women, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00224.htm

Greg Palast

George Bush is trying to save Paul Wolfowitz' job as President of the World Bank even after the vulpine neo-con was caught slipping a load of World Bank loot to his love interest, Shaha Ali Riza.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00218.htm

Dave McArthur

Dear Bryan Leyland. No, start again. Dear all the Bryan Leylands in New Zealand. And the world, for that matter. I believe you are making a massive error demolishing the Auckland Energy Community Trust, which owns most of Vector Ltd i.e. the utility ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00191.htm

Victoria University of Wellington

Not content with inhabiting just one world, a group of Victoria University architecture students and recent graduates are taking on the biggest-ever virtual land grab.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0705/S00038.htm

Workers Charter

Workers Charter, a network of left wing trade unionists and activists, are calling for a protest this Saturday for Jackie Lang, a worker sacked for sharing a $4 cup of Coca-Cola.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00150.htm

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