Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings August 25 2008

Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 9:30 am
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Stuart Newman Video Interview: Evolution Politics

Suzan Mazur

It’s not surprising that Stuart Newman was one of the "Altenberg 16" scientists who kicked off a reformulation of the theory of evolution, the "extended evolutionary synthesis," this July at Konrad Lorenz Institute . While I’ve been writing about ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00298.htm

New Zealand Government

Embedded formatting left in an email sent out by National to 'clarify' its $50-road tolls policy has deepened the mystery. Progressive leader Jim Anderton says the email formatting shows an earlier draft of the statement was heavily edited to remove Mr ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00367.htm

Green Party

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The Greens are calling on the Government to take action after a report that overseas buyers are swooping on the New Zealand property market, keeping out first time home buyers. "We believe land should be owned by New Zealand citizens and residents ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00354.htm

Terry Evans

On the late night and early morning of 21st-22nd August 2007, one year ago, after leading peaceful protests against the sudden hike in fuel and commodity prices, 13 leading members of the 88 Generation Student's Group were arrested by the Burmese ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0808/S00299.htm

Michael Collins

The National Security Archive released a report Friday Aug. 22, 2008 that sheds even more light on the premeditated lying and deception that took the United States to war in Iraq. The findings are based on new evidence compiled by Dr. John Prados and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00304.htm

Green Party

The Green Party has received over 2500 emails on its forthcoming ETS decision in the four days since it asked for public input, and they are still flooding in at a rate of about 2 a minute.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00363.htm

New Zealand Government

The National Party needs to clarify the extent to which it would introduce user-pays policies across transport, health and education, if ever elected, Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00357.htm

New Zealand National Party

Auckland, 24 August 2008 - "Time to lay the cards on the table!" said Nikki Kaye, National Candidate for Auckland Central at her campaign launch today. "A transport smart card would be a high priority for me as the MP for Auckland Central."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0808/S00296.htm

Dave McArthur

Dear Green Party Thank you for inviting public feedback re. the Emissions Trading Strategy (ETS). The Green Party should not touch the ETS with a barge pole. It should reject the ETS because at best it is an extremely inefficient and high-risk strategy ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00311.htm

Gas Association

Many energy consumers could have avoided record electricity price hikes this winter if more effort was made to encourage fuel switching to gas.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0808/S00450.htm

New Zealand National Party

National Party Transport spokesman Maurice Williamson is moving to clarify statements he made about the party’s infrastructure policy at the weekend.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00365.htm

New Zealand Government

Food Safety Minister Lianne Dalziel and the New Zealand Food Safety Authority today teamed up with Wellington wild foodie restaurant Logan Brown to launch a new DVD and two booklets aimed at advising hunters and gatherers how to ensure the food they ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00368.htm

Demographia

The California Building industry Association (CBIA) within its Report California Building Industry Association - California Housing Production Continues Decline in July, CBIA Announces issued 22 August for the month of July - reports further declines ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0808/S00303.htm

Electronic Transaction Services

Electronic transaction figures for the two weeks prior to the 2008 Olympics show that there was a 13% increase in the total sales of appliances throughout the country relative to the fortnight prior, according to data from Paymark, New Zealand’s ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0808/S00451.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

“It is outrageous that anyone would dream up the idea of giving voters $50 in tax cuts and then charge them $50 a week in road tolls” said Brian Kelly, Labour Party candidate for Pakuranga.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0808/S00310.htm

Dog And Lemon guide

The National Party still needs to answer the hard questions on toll roads, says the car buyers’ Dog & Lemon Guide.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0808/S00443.htm

Scoop Audio

KiwiFM: Wallace Chapman and Scoop's Selwyn Manning analyse National's plan to go into partnership with the private sector developing infrastructure, ICT, power generation, education, health. Are we seeing the return of the great user-pays debate?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00316.htm

Jehovah's Witnesses

More New Zealanders may be speaking another language in the years to come, thanks to an upcoming initiative that will require a second language to be offered to all students in Years 7-10. The new curriculum, which comes into effect in 2010 in New ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0808/S00261.htm

Dore NZ

Daniel Radcliffe, the actor who plays Harry Potter has revealed he suffers from Dyspraxia (also called Developmental Coordination Disorder), a little known but relatively common learning difficulty that is particularly hard for boys to cope with.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0808/S00113.htm

NZEI

Public education in New Zealand should be owned, operated and funded by the government, the education union NZEI Te Riu Roa says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0808/S00070.htm

ITANZ

The New Zealand indoor tanning industry has responded sharply to research released by Otago University last week. INTANZ (Indoor Tanning Association New Zealand Inc) has labelled the study `misleading’, challenging the method used to draw conclusions ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0808/S00449.htm

New Zealand Government

Transport Minister Annette King says National Party transport spokesman Maurice Williamson is not telling the truth when he says National would not consider a toll of up to $50 a week for commuters on certain new roads
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00366.htm

Scoop Audio

KiwiFM Audio: Wammo talks to Helen Clark about the latest TV3 poll, National’s road-toll plan, Fiji & floral shirts, her ‘controlling’ leadership style, and New Zealand’s potential to stage a huge sporting event.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00310.htm

Progressive Party

Aucklanders won't have any money left over from promised tax cuts to buy cheese or anything else because of the National Party's plan to impose user-pays toll charges on commuters, Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00364.htm

Federated Farmers

Federated Farmers president Don Nicolson said today, “Our simple message to those MPs considering their options on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is, don’t rush. As a nation we have more to lose than to gain by getting this wrong.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0808/S00438.htm

Manukau City Council

Minister of Health David Cunliffe said he was pleased that after criticising the DHB system for so many years National had now moved to defend the system. Mr Cunliffe today dismissed National Party claims of District Health Board amalgamation, but ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00370.htm

Uri Avnery

I WAS shocked when I read the headline in Haaretz. It quoted Sari Nusseibeh as saying "There is no Room for Two", meaning two states between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00312.htm

Manukau City Council

Southern access to Kawakawa Bay has been restored following a slip on Kawakawa-Orere Road last night.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0808/S00251.htm

New Zealand Government

Transport Minister Annette King says the National Party has produced nothing new so far in its transport policy for the future.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00356.htm

Gordon Campbell

Interesting that the National Party is seriously regarding the Australian experience with public private partnerships (PPPs) as providing a precedent for using PPPs to fund schools and hospitals in this country.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00302.htm

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