Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 22 August 2007

Thursday, 23 August 2007, 8:52 am
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Lyndon Hood: New Logos

Lyndon Hood

Scoop can reveal that efforts are under way by all other parties to spruce up their images. Thanks to the famous hackability of Parliament's severs, some of the proposed logos are published below.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00276.htm

New Zealand Government

This afternoon in the House I raised serious concerns around legal and official declarations made by John Key Labour Minister Pete Hodgson says. The ramifications if proven are serious. The penalties under the Companies Act for providing misleading or fraudulent ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00389.htm

Office of the Clerk

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1. JOHN KEY (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in the Minister of Finance; if so, why?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00362.htm

Newmarket Business Association

While Queen Street is hosting its Boobs On Bikes parade tomorrow lunchtime, Newmarket retailers will be actively wooing Auckland’s best dressed women to its shopping district, with a winning prize package worth over $3,000 up for grabs.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00390.htm

GE Free NZ

New Zealand's transgenic research centres are potentially able to cause the spread of virulent unwanted disease and must be investigated in light of the new evidence on Foot and Mouth in England,
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0708/S00056.htm

Family First

Family First NZ says that the Boobs on Bikes Parade shows that the Auckland City Council and the Police are unwilling and possibly unable to apply the law in the best interests of families and standards of decency.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0708/S00299.htm

Statistics New Zealand

The estimated resident population of New Zealand was 4,228,000 at 30 June 2007, Statistics New Zealand said today. This is the first release of population estimates to be based on the 2006 Census of Population and Dwellings. The population increased by 43,400 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0708/S00275.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. ANN HARTLEY to the Minister of Health: Has he received any recent reports on the cost of providing healthy drinking water?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00373.htm

John Minto

E nga mana, e nga reo, e nga hau e wha - tena koutou, tena koutou, tena tatou katoa
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0708/S00280.htm

Fairfax Media

Fairfax Media is to invest approximately $30 million in providing The Press with the most modern newspaper printing and production facilities in New Zealand. The new operation will be housed in a dedicated facility on a greenfield site on the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00430.htm

Halberg Trust

Auckland, 21 August 2007: While he has never competed in a rowing or yachting regatta on the waters around Christchurch, the ‘Garden City’ holds very special memories for dual New Zealand sporting international Rob Waddell.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0708/S00243.htm

Newmarket Business Association

While Queen Street is hosting its Boobs On Bikes parade at lunchtime, Newmarket retailers are actively wooing Auckland’s best dressed women to its shopping district, with prizes worth over $4, 500 up for grabs.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00411.htm

New Zealand National Party

Members of the Press Club, I want to talk this afternoon about democracy, about freedom of political expression, and about the Electoral Finance Bill which is currently before Parliament.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00374.htm

NZ Red Cross

A photo exhibition, titled ‘Humanity in the Midst of Crisis’, which shows the cruel reality of the impact of war on civilians around the world, will be on display for a limited time in Wellington from 29 – 31 August.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0708/S00290.htm

Michael Collins

Imagine a night at the theater.* A magician comes on stage with a corpse in tow. A doctor from the audience confirms that it is in fact the very real human corpse of a middle aged white male. The magician passes his hand over the corpse just once. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00284.htm

Bernard Weiner

President Lyndon Johnson gave up his chance for re-election in hopes that the ongoing Vietnam War eventually would resurrect his political reputation and land him a place of honor in history. George W. Bush sacrificed Donald Rumsfeld in the hope that by ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00282.htm

Martha Rosenberg

Financial Times warned against them. So did Warren Buffet, Alan Greenspan, Jim Sinclair and the chief economist at Morgan Stanley. Derivatives they said could facilitate a global financial collapse like what sunk Barings Bank, Orange County and the Long-Term ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00281.htm

Soil and Health Association

Food Safety Authority Continues to Shoot the Messenger The Soil & Health Association is very concerned that New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) staff are hell-bent on ignoring scientific research that clearly shows the links between aspartame and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0708/S00288.htm

Ministry Of Consumer Affairs

Ministry of Consumer Affairs General Manager Liz MacPherson says that considerable progress has been made in the investigation, which was opened on Monday.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0708/S00295.htm

American Chamber of Commerce

Key players in $9 billion two-way trade line up for NZ-US business awards
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00431.htm

World Health Organisation

More than at any previous time in history, global public health security depends on international cooperation and the willingness of all countries to act effectively in tackling new and emerging threats.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00576.htm

Newmarket Business Association

While Queen Street was hosting its Boobs On Bikes parade at lunchtime, Newmarket retailers actively wooed Auckland’s best dressed women to its shopping district, with prizes worth over $4, 500 up for grabs.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00423.htm

Telecom New Zealand

Telecom has resolved a fault with the Yahoo!Xtra Bubble registration process that had affected some customers' ability to access the service. The technical fault identified on Monday night had meant some customers were unable to register for Yahoo!Xtra Bubble ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0708/S00057.htm

New Zealand Government

New funding for climate change research Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced new research and development funding, totalling $6.7 million a year from next year, to promote sustainability and help New Zealand respond to climate change.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00359.htm

Survival International

The Matis Indians of Brazil, stars of tomorrow's episode of 'Tribe' on BBC TV, are facing an epidemic which has already killed members of this tiny tribe.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00537.htm

Green Party

The Government today acknowledged that continued intensification of dairy farming like that in Canterbury is posing a threat to public health through its effect on drinking water.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00385.htm

Betty Martini

The NZFSA attempts to stumble the public by continuing to protect aspartame manufacturers. The word "scaremongering" is a familiar term used by manufacturers of aspartame (951/NutraSweet/Equal/etc.). This letter to an aspartame manufacturer years ago was in answer to their name calling. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0708/S00086.htm

India Resource Center

In a significant government move against the Coca-Cola company, the chief minister of Kerala, Mr. V. S. Achutanandan, has promised full legal support to the community campaigning for the permanent closure of the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Plachimada ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00536.htm

New Zealand Government

John Key must come clean and admit thousands of New Zealand families would be worse off if the National Party was ever in government, Acting Social Development and Employment Minister Steve Maharey said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00350.htm

ABN AMRO Craigs Limited

Investment flexibility, transparent costs and leading advice are the cornerstones behind kiwiSTARTTM, ABN AMRO Craigs’ new superannuation initiative just launched.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00433.htm

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