Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 28 May 2007

Tuesday, 29 May 2007, 11:54 am
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Recall Of Contact Lens Solution

Advanced Medical Optics

Wellington, New Zealand 26 May , 2007 – In response to information received today from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding eye infections from Acanthamoeba, a naturally occurring water-borne organism which can contribute ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0705/S00146.htm

Massey University

Labour has good reason to be worried about the latest opinion poll results showing a sharp shift towards National, and should not be writing them off to John Key's honeymoon period, says Massey University political marketing specialist Dr Claire ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00502.htm

Rami Zurayk

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Prof. Rami Zurayk writes from Lebanon: The past 48 hours were very eventful in Lebanon... the most important political event was the TV address by Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah on the Occasion of Liberation Day, which commemorates the Israeli withdrawal ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00465.htm

Destiny New Zealand

An NZ Herald DigiPoll survey released today showed Destiny New Zealand Party polling ahead of most of Parliaments minor parties, registering at 1.5%. The poll’s gender factor showed Destiny was largely boosted by male support, with three per cent of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00485.htm

Scoop Poll Watch

National 56% (up 7) Labour 31% (down 8) Greens 6% (even) Maori 3% (up 1) NZ First 2% (even) United Future 1% (even) Act did not rate (down from 1%)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00470.htm

Green Party

The Green Party says its time the Government took urgent action to reduce children's exposure to controversial additives like sodium benzoate, which is widely used in children's food and drink.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00714.htm

Save Happy Valley Campaign

The Save Happy Valley Coalition is calling for the immediate resignation of CEO Don Elder following a Sunday Star Times expose of Solid Energy's use of an infiltrator into the Christchurch Save Happy Valley group.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00482.htm

Michael Peck

The Australian Labor Party (ALP) is counting on clean coal technology (CCT) to achieve long term energy security by exploiting Australia’s huge coal reserves. This is a high risk policy given the enormous challenge of CCT which captures carbon dioxide ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00472.htm

Victoria University of Wellington

Humorist, writer and actor John Clarke—best known in New Zealand for bringing laconic farmer Fred Dagg to worldwide attention—is to receive an honorary doctorate from Victoria University of Wellington.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0705/S00108.htm

Scoop Poll Watch

National 50.9 (up 7) Labour 33.6 (down 7) Greens [only other party above 5% threshold] Destiny NZ 1.5
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00469.htm

New Zealand Government

Today's launch of the first KiwiSaver television commercial marks another important milestone in helping New Zealanders save for their future, government ministers said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00725.htm

Family First

Family First is warning parents to beware of attempts by groups such as Family Planning and Health Authorities to vaccinate schoolgirls as young as 12 against the HPV Virus. Family Planning are even encouraging grandparents to give their grandchildren a present ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00503.htm

Save Happy Valley Coalition

The Save Happy Valley Coalition is rubbishing the claim of Solid Energy CEO Don Elder that his company only acts in "legal, moral and ethical"ways after a spy was found to have infiltrated the Christchurch Save Happy Valley group, employed by private ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00514.htm

Health Sponsorship Council

A new healthy eating programme offers parents a helping hand in ensuring their kids are getting healthy diets. Feeding our Futures was launched today by the Minister of Health, Hon. Pete Hodgson, at the Agencies for Nutrition Action conference in ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0705/S00152.htm

Solid Energy NZ

Solid Energy stands 100% by its use of security advisors to help protect its people, its property and its business against the ongoing and increasingly illegal activities of environmental activists.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0705/S00575.htm

Michael Collins

Soldiers of the American Revolutionary Army forcefully argued that they had the right to vote. Restrictions to voting based on property and other criteria were common in colonial America to assure the right type of voters . Washington’s troops were ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00471.htm

New Zealand Government

State Owned Enterprises Minister Trevor Mallard said he discussed the question of Solid Energy's use of paid informants with Solid Energy acting chairman John Spencer today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00713.htm

Joseph Barratt

Political repression and assassination are the norm in the Philippines, says a touring trade unionist. Most weeks another political activist is killed by the military, says Dennis Maga. Since 2001 “838 people have been killed in extra judicial killings”. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00473.htm

Orcon Internet

Orcon has signed it’s wholesale agreement with Vodafone which will allow it to launch the countries second GSM mobile service in October this year. With a range of 3G mobile calling and mobile broadband data plans becoming available in October, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0705/S00591.htm

Green Party

The Green Party has welcomed reports that Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is attending a conference in New Zealand that is promoting religious and cultural tolerance and understanding.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00717.htm

Family Life International

Family Life International is asking why the New Zealand Ministry of Health is not doing more to inform New Zealand women that the new Human Papillomavirus vaccine (HPV) Gardasil poses serious risks to the health of women and their unborn babies.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0705/S00150.htm

New Zealand Police

Unless complaints are received Police will be taking no further action on allegations made in the current issue of Investigate Magazine, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Lyn Provost, said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00516.htm

New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance says the use of spies and private investigators on political groups by Solid Energy would end under full public and democratic control of electricity and other state owned assets.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00487.htm

Human Rights Commission

Kia ora. Anei te mihi ö te Kaihautu Whakawhanaunga ä Iwi, mo ngä mahi nui, mahi whakamana i te tangata i roto i ngä kaupapa Whakawhanaunga ä Iwi i Aotearoa. Here are this month’s acknowledgments from the Race Relations Commissioner for positive ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00501.htm

pacINET

Christina Kuper-Wini Chair of the local organisation committee of PacINET 2007 addressed attendees of the 2007 Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) Convention in Solomon Islands. She encouraged them to actively participate in PacINET 2007 in late August ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0705/S00440.htm

Wastesaver

Wastesaver NZ Chief Executive John Fistonich says they are on the verge of announcing a deal which will see new waste technology that they are currently promoting in New Zealand being installed in Thailand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0705/S00577.htm

Global Peace And Justice Auckland

GPJA is calling on the government to have the CEO of Solid Energy, Don Elder, removed from his job over revelations he approved infiltration and spying on the Save Happy Valley conservation group.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0705/S00488.htm

Kevin List

The Prime Minister today assured the media that she couldn't work any harder but perhaps she could work smarter at her post-cabinet press conference. After the last political poll from TVNZ showed Labour trailing National by 25 points the PM faced ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00479.htm

Agenda

Labour Party President Mike Williams is hinting that the Government might introduce income tax cuts next year. On TVOne's "Agenda" today, Mr. Williams conceded that by itself Kiwisaver would not be an election winner.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00460.htm

Green Party

The Environmental Risk Management Authority's (ERMA) decision to allow field testing of genetically engineered brassica crops risks sending good money after bad, with no chance that the New Zealand public will ever agree to eat this plant or have it ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00730.htm

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