Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 3 October 2007

Thursday, 4 October 2007, 9:47 am
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Key declares 'Mission Accomplished' in Iraq

Green Party

Green Party MP Keith Locke hopes that National Party leader John Key will be phoning President George Bush ASAP with Mr Key's good news that the war in Iraq is over, and that coalition forces can continue to withdraw their troops.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00049.htm

NZ Academy of Sport

The "powerhouse" behind the blazing performance of new Formula One motorsport sensation Lewis Hamilton will be in Christchurch on October 15 and 16 for the New Zealand Academy of Sport South Island's annual performance forum.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0710/S00038.htm

New Zealand Government

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Address at University of Southampton Social Democracy under the Southern Cross: New Zealand in the 21st Century
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00047.htm

Terry Evans

Six days after the brutal clampdown by the Burmese generals, the world is left wondering what has become of Aung San Suu Kyi's "peace warriors". The Buddhist monks, who last month turned small protests against hiked fuel prices into a mass display of peaceful ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00045.htm

Bald Hills

Bald Hills Vineyard from Central Otago has won six trophies at two of the world’s most prestigious wine shows including Champion Red at the International Wine Challenge.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0710/S00048.htm

Noam Chomsky

On September 21, 2007, I had the extraordinary opportunity to interview Noam Chomsky in his office at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The interview will be aired on Venezuelan and Latin American television as part of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00011.htm

Michael Collins

The Money Party is a small group of enterprises and individuals who have most of the money in this country. They use that money to make more money. Controlling who gets elected to public office is the key to more money for them and less for us. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00549.htm

Catherine Austin Fitts

Though a fictional movie, Enemy of the State with Will Smith and Gene Hackman shows how targeting a person works in Washington, D.C. Will Smith plays a Washington lawyer who is targeted in a phony frame-and-smear campaign by U.S. intelligence agency personnel ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00029.htm

Big Day Out

That means it’s time to announce our first instalment of international and local artists to join our annual travelling jamboree.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0710/S00021.htm

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Ambassadors from Eritrea and Israel present credentials to Governor-General Anand Satyanand at Government House in Wellington tomorrow (Wednesday 3 October) at 11.30am. Also present will be the Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0710/S00026.htm

New Zealand Government

Transport Minister Annette King says the Land Transport Amendment Bill, tabled in Parliament today, provides tougher laws for people who drive under the influence of illegal drugs and greater protection of personal information held on the Motor ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00054.htm

New Zealand Government

Broadcasting Minister Steve Maharey today launched Triangle Stratos, the first regional television channel to become a national digital free-to-air channel on Freeview.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00053.htm

Tanveer Jafri

W hereas, the craze for the games like Football & Tennis is getting momentum in American & other European countries, the cricket fever is in full swing in the Asian countries. Especially, the cricket is everything in South Asian countries. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00030.htm

New Zealand Government

State Owned Enterprises Minister Trevor Mallard called on National to reveal its real agenda on asset sales after the party's leader repeatedly contradicted his own finance spokesman today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00059.htm

Joint Media Statement

The Human Rights Foundation, Amnesty International and the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand are holding a public meeting to discuss the Immigration Bill on Wednesday 3 October.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0710/S00035.htm

New Zealand National Party

National Party Housing spokesman Phil Heatley is alarmed by a massive seven-fold increase in fraud by HNZ tenants which has been tolerated by the Labour Government.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00061.htm

Evelyn Pringle

A study of nearly 500,000 women by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, in the September 18, 2007, Annals of Internal Medicine, found that nearly 50% of women taking a prescription drug that could cause birth defects did not receive ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00026.htm

New Zealand Government

The National Party has managed yet another botched policy announcement by confirming it has plans to privatise the education sector, Education Minister Steve Maharey said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0709/S00534.htm

Civil Defence Emergency Management

Analysis of data from the moderate earthquake that occurred near the Auckland Islands, about 475 km South of New Zealand, shows there is no tsunami risk to New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0709/S00364.htm

Uri Avnery

A RESPECTED American paper posted a scoop this week: Vice-President Dick Cheney, the King of Hawks, has thought up a Machiavellian scheme for an attack on Iran. Its main point: Israel will start by bombing an Iranian nuclear installation, Iran will ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00529.htm

New Zealand Government

The government will introduce the Biofuels Bill into Parliament next week, which will bring into force the biofuels sales obligation.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00060.htm

New Zealand Government

John Key’s explanation that his foreign and defence policy release did not touch on Iraq because “the war in Iraq is over” shows the shallowness and inadequacy of his understanding on foreign and defence policy, Defence Minister Phil Goff said ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00063.htm

NORML

Although scientific research indicates that cannabis actually has far less impact on the psychomotor skills needed for driving than alcohol does, and is seldom a causal factor in car crashes, the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0710/S00044.htm

US State Department

The point of this meeting, the third we've had in the last three years, is to show support for President Preval, to show support for the Government of Haiti, to show support for the extraordinary progress that Haiti is making under his leadership, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0710/S00081.htm

Motor Industry Association

The New Zealand market for new vehicles in September remained close to the seasonal levels prevailing over the last four years. New car sales, at 7077, were 4% up on August but 5% down on September 2006. 2085 new commercial vehicles were sold in September, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0710/S00056.htm

Green Party

The Green Party is pleased that people driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs will face prosecution under proposed new laws, but opposes the apparent exemption for those impaired by their prescribed drugs.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00062.htm

Jigsaw

After seeing the crime statistics released earlier this week, Tau Huirama, Jigsaw CEO Strategic Relations wants all New Zealander’s to ask themselves whether or not they think New Zealand is a violent country.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0710/S00045.htm

New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance Party is holding its 2007 national conference in Dunedin on Labour Weekend, Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 October.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0710/S00043.htm

Goode PR

Employers often decide whether to hire an interviewee soon after the opening handshake and small talk, a new survey suggests.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0710/S00034.htm

Robert Half Finance

"If you haven't got the right boss, you haven't got the right leader, you haven't got constancy of purpose, you haven't got consistency of standards, you haven't got clarity of communications from the leader, you've got a breeding ground for difficult ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0710/S00042.htm

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