Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 16 September 2007

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

1: M. Collins: George W. Bush, A Judiciary Of One

Michael Collins

The Bush-Cheney White House is responsible for the birth of a new constitutional doctrine. He has elevated himself to become a judiciary of one. . When the president signs legislation passed by Congress, he frequently adds his own signing statement ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00264.htm

US State Department

The promotion of religious freedom is a core objective of U.S. foreign policy and is part of the U.S. Department of State's mission. The commitment of the United States to religious freedom and to international human rights standards is also articulated ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00374.htm

Bobby Ramakant

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The ongoing solidarity fast in support of Irom Chanu Sharmila's struggle to repeal Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) has broadened its agenda congruent with the declarations of past New Delhi (2005) and Lahore (2006) Peaceful South Asia Conventions ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00382.htm

Agenda

RAWDON By election time next year Helen Clark will be New Zealand's fifth longest serving Prime Minister, longer than Sir Robert Muldoon, longer than Jim Bolger, beaten over the last 50 years only by Sir Keith Holyoake, it's a formidable record but now ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00278.htm

New Zealand National Party

It is no wonder New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions are growing at record rates, when major budget bids to offset emissions are lost in bureaucratic bungles, says National's Climate Change spokesman, Nick Smith.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00277.htm

Paul Brannigan

I find it admirable that many independent wine retailers in New Zealand have taken a stand against supermarkets and don’t stock the wines they sell. Many great wine brands, their image meticulously built up over a number of years by the hard working ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00277.htm

Evelyn Pringle

A recent poll by MedPage Today found that only 9% of the doctors who responded said they would continue to prescribe the diabetes drug rosiglitazone, sold as Avandia and Avandamet by GlaxoSmithKline, without reservation since an FDA advisory panel ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00271.htm

Harcourts

Hugely popular ‘social networking’ websites like ‘Myspace.com’ and ‘Youtube.com’ are only the beginning of the global trend on how people worldwide are increasingly connecting with each other in both ‘work and play’, according to Harcourts Chief ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0709/S00285.htm

Scoop Daily Ratings

Saturday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00275.htm

Bill Berkowitz

OAKLAND, California, Sep 13 (IPS) - While General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker were giving the U.S. Congress an upbeat assessment of the situation on the ground in Iraq this week, one of the chief architects of the war was preparing ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00274.htm

Scoop Daily Ratings

Saturday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00276.htm

American Voices Abroad

According to recent surveys, between 62% and 64% of Germans oppose any further German military involvement in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, there is also increasing resistance to the foreign military presence.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00381.htm

Mohammad R. Razavi

Recently I was reading the Roman history and came upon the story of the Roman Emperor Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus). Caligula reigned for approximately 4 years, during which he tried hard to expand the Empire. Caligula had grown-up in ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00273.htm

Social Tonics Association

The Social Tonics Association of New Zealand (STANZ) today called for Oamaru MP Jacqui Dean to step down from speaking on drug issues after she demonstrated a lack of credibility in calling for the ban of dihydrogen monoxide (water.) A group of party pill consumers ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00211.htm

America's Cup Media

Valencia, 15th September 2007 - America's Cup designers from Alinghi and the five challengers attended the first design consultation meeting on Saturday 15 September at the AC Management offices in Valencia.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0709/S00177.htm

New Zealand Government

Today’s launch of the new technology bus service for The Link celebrates another big step toward in improving public transport in Auckland.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00275.htm

US State Department

Current U.S. strategy -- the New Way Forward -- recognizes that the fulfillment of commitments by both the U.S. and Iraqi Governments will be necessary to achieving our common goal: a democratic Iraq that can govern, defend, and sustain itself and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00365.htm

Green Party

The ANZ Banking Group needs to have a hard look at a new report from the World Conservation Union to see the consequences of ANZ's backing a huge logging company, Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00278.htm

America's Cup Media

The 32nd America's Cup competitors receive their share of EUR 66.5 million profit
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0709/S00176.htm

Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society

The death of a dog following the deliberate distribution of poison in the public area of Kaitoke Regional Park shows the extreme position being taken by some in the hunting community, Forest & Bird says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00212.htm

William Fisher

Democracy was a word scarcely heard in the just-concluded Congressional testimony of Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. The principal reason, according to a new report published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is that ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00272.htm

Michael Winship

A journalist I know, who has spent a lot of time in Iraq, tells the story of talking to an American infantry major in Baghdad the day Saddam's statue was toppled in Firdos Square, almost four and a half years ago.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00259.htm

United Nations

The number of people struck by a cholera outbreak in Northern Iraq has doubled to 16,000 people but the death toll remains the same at 10, the United Nations health agency reported today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00380.htm

New Zealand National Party

News that suspended Police Commander Clint Rickards has been given a two-month-old, top-of-the-line Holden Commodore as part of his salary package, has struck a sour note with National's Police spokesman, Chester Borrows.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00276.htm

freepress.org

Ohio Republicans have blocked a proposal to test electronic voting machines prior to the 2008 presidential primary. By a 4-3 vote, Republicans on Ohio’s State Controlling Board blocked Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner’s proposed $1.8 million ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00254.htm

Diagnostic Medlab

Community laboratory service, Diagnostic Medlab (DML), has made it three in a row by winning the health category of the 2007 Māori Language Week Awards at a ceremony in Wellington tonight – DML were winners in the 2005 and 2006 awards in the business ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00209.htm

Scoop Audio

95bFM Audio : Ahmed Zaoui's lawyer Deborah Manning talks to Simon Pound about yesterday's lifting of the security risk assessment against Zaoui. Oh, and apparently The Herald is in fantasyland with its front page article on the topic.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00245.htm

Mark Bradley

Four years ago (shortly after moving into the neighborhood where I currently live), it was brought to my attention that a thoroughly unpleasant individual resided in the house across the street and two doors down from mine. Not only was he known to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00269.htm

United Nations

New York, Sep 14 2007 10:00AM At least 56 Africans have died violently, some reportedly beaten or doused with acid by smugglers, as the new season of people smuggling gathers steam across the Gulf of Aden in a perilous exodus that takes tens of thousands of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00378.htm

Air New Zealand Fashion Week

The stage is set for Air New Zealand Fashion Week 2007 and who better to open the event than the ultimate supporter of the arts – the Rt Hon Helen Clark. Pieter Stewart, Managing Director of Air New Zealand Fashion Week, today announced the Prime ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0709/S00164.htm

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