Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 9 October 2007

Wednesday, 10 October 2007, 10:03 am
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: NZ’s Giant Rugby Ball is officially opened

Tourism New Zealand

The Eiffel Tower, one of the world’s most iconic landmarks, was today joined by the world’s largest inflatable rugby ball.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0710/S00104.htm

Dylan Quinnell

It was after the Canadian farmer had been missing for a few days that his neighbours became concerned.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00113.htm

David Swanson

Washington, D.C.-- Three activists who were arrested at a press conference near Lafayette Park appeared in Washington D.C. Superior Court yesterday where they were given a trial date of January 3, 2008, and face a six-month prison sentence.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00095.htm

Michael Collins

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Hey, hold on there! Who says we have lousy leaders? Just about everybody. Between 40% and 60% of voting age citizens stay away form the polls in just about every election. In 2004 , there were 221 million voting age citizens and 44 % of them, 98 million ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00107.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. JOHN KEY to the Prime Minister: Does she still stand by her statement to the House on 19 July 2006 that the Ingram report into matters relating to Taito Phillip Field was “very comprehensive and thorough”; if not, why not?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00128.htm

Global Research

US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) has announced the conduct of major war games under Vigilant Shield 2008 (VS-08). Vigilant Shield 2008 (15 to 20 October, 2007) is designed to deal with a "terrorist" or "natural disaster" scenario in the United States. The ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00122.htm

Alastair Thompson

A small but enthusiastic and noisy group of protestors from Peace Action Wellington welcomed delegates to a conference of Weapons manufacturing companies being held at the Duxton Hotel this morning.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00117.htm

Indonesia Human Rights Committee

Time for West Papua to come in from the cold at the Pacific Islands Forum
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0710/S00098.htm

Pacific Blue

Tuesday, 9 October 2007: New Zealand airline Pacific Blue has announced a special sale fare as it gears up to launch domestic flights within weeks.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0710/S00152.htm

New Zealand National Party

Helen Clark’s Foreign Minister must explain why he told Parliament neither he nor his office received reports on the Air NZ flights to Kuwait when emails reveal his office got the information, says National Party Foreign Affairs spokesman Murray ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00133.htm

Statistics New Zealand

A growing number of New Zealanders are staying in the labour force beyond the age of superannuation entitlement says Statistics New Zealand. This is according to a newly released report, New Zealand's 65+ Population: a statistical volume, which ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0710/S00145.htm

Kevin List

Events took place in every major city in the world at 12 noon on Saturday 6th October, as part of the 'Global day of action for Burma'.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00082.htm

New Zealand Government

In the first three months of KiwiSaver the enrolment figures have already broken through the 200,000 mark, Finance Minister Michael Cullen and Revenue Minister Peter Dunne said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00123.htm

truthout.org

Just because we can't see protestors any longer doesn't mean they aren't there. The Burmese regime wants us to believe their claims that they have "restored normalcy" to the country. They want us to conclude that the repression was successful and that ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00111.htm

Suzan Mazur

Much has been written about the CIA cocaine operation at Mena, Arkansas during Bill and Hillary Clinton’s watch as governor and first lady of that state in the 1980s. So I wondered why Carl Bernstein left it out of his book on Hillary Clinton, A Woman ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00102.htm

Cookie Time

Leading kiwi snack food brand, Cookie Time, has responded to the Ministry of Health food and beverage criteria for schools with a new product offering.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0710/S00158.htm

Jason Leopold

The Defense Department (DOD) allegedly provided two fundamentalist Christian organizations exclusive access to several military bases around the country. This access became official sanction for these groups to proselytize amid the ranks, despite the fact ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00120.htm

CanTeen

Bandanna Week is the major annual fundraising event for CanTeen, a national peer support network for young people age 13-24 yrs living with cancer. The bandanna became a symbol for CanTeen because many young people choose to wear them after losing their ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0710/S00035.htm

Tortilla con Sal

The Bush administration has asked for US$198bn to keep the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan going through 2008. Not for reconstruction , nor to promote democratic institutions, nor, as they have been saying in their Orwell-speak until now, to strengthen security, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00110.htm

Dean Baker

Last week, a jury determined that Jammie Thomas, a single mother living in Minnesota, should pay $222,000 to the recording industry for allowing other people to download 24 songs off her computer on a file-sharing system. That's a pretty steep fine for ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00118.htm

New Zealand Government

A new mobile glass crusher will help increase New Zealand's ability to recycle glass, Environment Minister David Parker said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00141.htm

LawFuel

LAWFUEL – The NZ Law Newswire - Wellington mayor Kerry Prendergast was aware of a letter written to the Ministry for the Environment by her husband, a property developer with hotel interests, seeking to prevent funding from the Ministry to help fund legal ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0710/S00107.htm

New Zealand Government

Murray McCully is desperately trying to divert media attention from National’s on-going policy fiascos by re-heating information reported by media nearly two months ago, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00134.htm

Green Party

The Green Party has negotiated a very important amendment to the Biofuel Bill tabled in Parliament today to ensure production of the fuel does not impact food supply and the environment.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00137.htm

Young Labour

Young Labour is calling for John Key to apologise after he labeled Young Labour liars and alleged they had organized a smear campaign against him on the day of his defence policy release. John Key stated on Dunedin Radio on Friday that Young Labour had ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0710/S00102.htm

Allen And Clarke

Allen and Clarke Policy and Regulatory Specialists Limited today released its preliminary thinking on the possible future shape of a health support service for residents of Paritutu and others who have been exposed to dioxin.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0710/S00109.htm

New Zealand Government

Thank you for the invitation to attend this year’s Annual Defence Industry Association Conference.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00146.htm

Australian Defence Force

As the Chief of Defence, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston has formally announced early this morning, late yesterday Australian time an Australian soldier was killed by a bomb blast in Oruzgan Province in central southern Afghanistan. One other soldier ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0710/S00235.htm

New Zealand National Party

Steve Maharey is refusing to listen to pleas to give schools at least a 12-month lead-in time to make adjustments to their funding cuts caused by decile changes, says National's Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0710/S00143.htm

United Nations

Globalization, the movement of people and goods, tourism, urbanization and probably also climate change are favouring the spread of animal viruses around the planet, FAO noted.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0710/S00210.htm

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