Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings October 29 2008

Thursday, 30 October 2008, 11:18 am
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Campaign Rhetoric As An Invitation To Violence

Paul G. Buchanan - A Word From Afar

Paul G. Buchanan writes: Heading into the homestretch of the 2008 US presidential elections, there's an elephant in the room few want to speak about... The possibility of political assassination of Barack Obama. Let us discuss it here.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00373.htm

Lyndon Hood

At the Sarcasm Party, we understand that you've been hard done by after nine long years of economic prosperity and are looking for a fresh breath of common sense change or whatever. So voting for us would be an awesome idea, because we'd fix everything ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00404.htm

The Diffusion Group

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When it comes to Blu-ray, few know for certain of Apple's direction (a fact which fuels the number of Blu-ray-related insider leaks and ambiguous public statements). I recall one such disclosure in Q4 2007, a time when the HD-DVD/Blu-ray war in full ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0810/S00048.htm

New Zealand National Party

National Party Shadow Leader of the House Gerry Brownlee says Owen Glenn was still expecting a job as the honorary consul to Monaco as recently as May.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00628.htm

Realestate.co.nz

www.realestate.co.nz has drawn down data detailing the most popular and least popular areas that buyers have been looking at property in across the country for the last 3 months.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0810/S00548.htm

Mediaworks

Yesterday afternoon Glenn Marsh, brother of 3 News weather presenter Toni Marsh, passed away as a result of injuries received in an accident several weeks ago.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0810/S00583.htm

Air New Zealand

The world’s first commercial aviation flight powered by a sustainable second-generation biofuel moved a step closer this week.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0810/S00561.htm

Greenpeace New Zealand

Greenpeace has halted a major land conversion in the central North Island, locking on to forest logging equipment and using rotary hoes to plough 4m-high letters reading CLIMATE CRIME into fresh pasture.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00465.htm

India Resource Centre

San Francisco (October 28, 2008): The Coca-Cola company released its 2007/2008 Sustainability Review yesterday, and surprisingly, critical issues facing the company's operations in India do not find mention in the review.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0810/S00557.htm

New Zealand National Party

"Nearly ten years after promising to get New Zealand back to the top half of the OECD, the failed promise is again formal Labour Party policy," says National Party Finance spokesman Bill English.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00646.htm

New Zealand Government

Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced that from next month young New Zealanders heading to the United Kingdom for their OE have had the amount of time they can work extended from one to two years.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00624.htm

New Zealand National Party

Enhancing ties and promoting free-trade agreements with Pacific and Asian nations are features of National’s Foreign Affairs and Trade policies announced today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00643.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

The Minister of Health, David Cunliffe has accused National of a secret agenda to privatise health if it was ever elected.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00645.htm

New Zealand National Party

"Helen Clark is now asking the public to believe that she both accepted and rejected Winston Peters' story about Owen Glenn's donations and his appointment as honorary consul to Monaco," says National Party Shadow Leader of the House Gerry Brownlee.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00641.htm

Alt TV

Video: Oliver Driver IVs Winston Peters. The topics include: the USA's invasion of Vietnam and Iraq; the Pacific; John Key ruling out Peters from a Nat-Led Govt; allegations; beat-ups; Owen Glenn and how a Consul of Monaco title would open doors.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00405.htm

Auckland Radiation Oncology

New Zealand’s first private radiation therapy centre, Auckland Radiation Oncology (ARO), opens for business in Auckland today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0810/S00130.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

The Labour Party's Pacific Sector Council says Taito Phillip Field's decision to attack Labour on moral issues is condemning and hypocritical.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00446.htm

afterdowningstreet.org

2008 Presidential Election Analysis, November 4, 2008
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00388.htm

Green Party

Greenpeace's direct actions to highlight environmental problems caused by industrial farming in the central north island draws attention to results of the Government's failure to include agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme along with other ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00634.htm

Progressive Party

National's proposal to privatise prisons shows it has its priorities wrong in preventing crime, Progressive deputy leader and former corrections minister Matt Robson said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00474.htm

Free Speech Coalition

The Free Speech Coalition wants to remind the public that the justification for inflicting the Electoral Finance Act on the country was greater transparency around donations, and the billboard aims to highlight the hypocrisy of supporters of the Act in relation ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00460.htm

New Zealand Government

The first thing I want to say today is that the three years I have been Police Minister have been among the most satisfying years I have spent in politics. I have been proud to be your minister over that time. It is not always easy for you or me, but I appreciate ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00633.htm

Maxim Institute

At the last of Maxim Institute’s NZ Votes political debates, in Tauranga tonight, Winston Peters will be fighting to win an electorate seat. Losing Tauranga last election was a huge blow for NZ First, and the survival of both Mr Peters and his party may ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00468.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

Anne Pankhurst would like to just confirm that there has never been nor will there be any question of any tactical voting or question of withdrawing from the campaign in Tauranga.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00479.htm

Greenpeace New Zealand

Police have removed the four Greenpeace activists who'd halted a major land conversion in the Central North Island by locking on to forest logging equipment.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00469.htm

Environment Canterbury

The Opuha Dam Water Management Project is the supreme winner of the Resource Management Awards, which were announced today by Environment Canterbury (ECan) at a ceremony in Christchurch.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0810/S00321.htm

Sky Television

The WWE Superstars and Divas of SmackDown will put on a show full of intense thrills and some unique costumes in this family Halloween Fun event. The famous Masked Magician will make a special appearance and will surely have a trick up his sleeve. As for ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0810/S00271.htm

Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III

As America moves into the final days of the 2008 presidential campaign Senator McCain and his surrogates are desperately seeking any message that will resonate with the American people. The problem is that their desperate actions are resulting in dangerous ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00383.htm

WWF

New Zealand’s ecological footprint per capita is now ranked sixth largest in the world according WWF’s Living Planet Report released today, 29 October 2008.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00476.htm

Christchurch City Council

An Urban Design Panel set up by the Christchurch City Council is aiming to improve the quality and connectivity of city developments by offering free independent design reviews.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0810/S00320.htm

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