Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings December 10 2008

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

1: Lyndon Hood: What Else Is In The Urgency Plan?

Lyndon Hood

Even as urgency commences, neither the public, nor opposition MPs, nor for that matter many Government MPs have any idea what other bills might appear. Good news! The following draft has appeared on Scoop's desk.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0812/S00197.htm

Keith Harmon Snow

Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate Financed Holocaust in Africa by Keith Harmon Snow www.allthingspass.com
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0812/S00171.htm

HCD Research

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A new national survey of 854 Americans conducted by HCD Research December 6-8, found that an overwhelming majority (75%) believe that religion is a reliable and necessary guide to life. Similarly, 86% of Americans believe that miracles have occurred in ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0812/S00206.htm

Durex

Kiwis looking for a role with a difference this summer can apply to become a Durex product tester.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0812/S00116.htm

Michael Collins

(Wash. DC) The prospect of the criminal in chief, George W. Bush, issuing pardons to his co-conspirators is repugnant to all citizens who've paid any degree of attention over the last eight years.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0812/S00184.htm

ACT New Zealand

An examination of the Emissions Trading System (ETS), by a Special Select Committee, which is part of the coalition agreement between National and ACT, is being welcomed by ACT Leader Rodney Hide.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0812/S00086.htm

Amnesty International

As the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is celebrated tomorrow on International Human Rights Day (10 December), Amnesty International calls upon world Governments, including New Zealand's new National Government, to use this ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0812/S00196.htm

Progressive Party

National's tax Bill imposes the largest tax increase on business in New Zealand's history, opposition spokesperson on agriculture Jim Anderton says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0812/S00094.htm

New Zealand Government

Speech from the Throne, delivered by Governor General the Honourable Anand Satyanand, PCNZM, QSO, to Members of the House of Representatives in Parliament's Legislative Council Chamber at the State Opening of Parliament.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0812/S00063.htm

Greenpeace

"This may be your meeting but my home is drowning," Young Pacific Islander stands up to world leaders.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0812/S00213.htm

Undernews

One of the problems with hiring a Harvard Law School graduate as president is that you're likely to find someone steeped in precedent and shallow - even skeptical of - possibility.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0812/S00193.htm

Gordon Campbell

Gordon Campbell on the 90 day ‘fire at will’ legislation, and on the faster broadband plan.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0812/S00185.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

Tax legislation being rammed through Parliament by National proves National doesn’t care about tens of thousands of Kiwi battlers, many of whom will lose money instead of getting a tax cut, says Labour Leader Phil Goff.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0812/S00096.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

The National-Act government has prevented key education stakeholder groups from having a say on plans to rush into law standardised testing for primary school age pupils, Labour Education spokesperson Chris Carter said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0812/S00097.htm

Neve Gordon

Professor Yinon Cohen and Neve Gordon from Ben-Gurion University write that Barack Obama is about to face a most daunting challenge - how to confront the age old Israeli-Palestinian conflict... A problem unsuccessfully tackled by every US president since Carter.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0812/S00182.htm

Mary Robinson

Ireland's former president and current Oxfam honorary president, Mary Robinson writes that millions of people's human rights – to security, health, and sustainable livelihoods – are increasingly under threat and that climate change is a contributor.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0812/S00176.htm

New Zealand Government

New Zealand's next High Commissioner to South Africa will be career diplomat Geoff Randal, Foreign Minister Murray McCully announced today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0812/S00099.htm

Released via Bullet PR Ltd

Progressive Enterprises and Proximity iD win the NCDM Silver Medal at Database Marketing Awards in Orlando, Florida
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0812/S00220.htm

PHARMAC

PHARMAC has played its part in the decision to fund 12 months Herceptin and will continue to assist the government as required. PHARMAC’s role has included providing information as necessary, and assisting the Ministry of Health with its contract ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0812/S00057.htm

Green Party

The Green Party is gravely concerned the new Government is keeping Kiwis in the dark on laws it plans to pass under urgency this week, leaving no opportunity for the people of New Zealand to debate these proposals before they become law.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0812/S00089.htm

New Zealand Government

Prime Minister John Key announced today that the National-led Government will honour its pre-election promise to ensure a full 12-month course of the breast cancer drug Herceptin is available.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0812/S00082.htm

United Nations

Corruption is partly to blame for the current global financial crisis and is also an obstacle to the achievement of development and human rights goals, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, calling for stepped up efforts to wipe out the scourge.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0812/S00238.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

New Zealand women who have breast cancer need the best and most effective treatment available, Labour Health spokesperson Ruth Dyson said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0812/S00087.htm

New Zealand Government

New Zealand needs to build a broader consensus about how to make progress on climate change issues, Climate Change Minister Nick Smith said today in releasing the terms of reference for the select committee to review the Emissions Trading Scheme and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0812/S00071.htm

Jim Miles

Robert Kagan is a difficult subject to analyze. At times his writing seems to be very honest and directly critical of U.S. intentions as well as being clearly honest about the sometimes “dangerous nation” aspect of its history and foreign policy. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0812/S00170.htm

Scoop Audio

95bFM Audio: Paul Deady talks to Selwyn Manning who dropped in to talk Human Rights day. He looks at pieces on climate change and the Israel/Palestine conflict and grades our previous and current government's track record on human rights.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0812/S00203.htm

Roche

Roche Products (New Zealand) Limited says it has worked productively with the government, the Ministry of Health and PHARMAC in order to supply Herceptin to New Zealand women with early HER2 positive breast cancer.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0812/S00058.htm

United Nations

A delegation United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is currently visiting Zimbabwe, to help the Southern African nation respond to its worst cholera outbreak in over a decade.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0812/S00223.htm

Amnesty International

On the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Nicky Hager writes that it is needed in New Zealand as much as in faraway troubled places...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0812/S00135.htm

30: Hon Dr Nick Smith Minister for the Environment

New Zealand Government

New Environment Minister Nick Smith today released the independent report commissioned by the Ministry for the Environment into its handling of the Mapua contaminated site clean-up near Nelson.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0812/S00098.htm

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