Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 12 January 2009

Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 8:54 am
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Background Note: Saudi Arabia

US Department of State - Background Note

Geography Area: 1,960,582 million sq. km. (784,233 sq. mi.), slightly more than one-fifth the size of the continental United States. Cities (2006 est.): Capital --Riyadh (pop. 4.3 million). Other cities --Jeddah (3.4 million), Makkah, (1.6 million), ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00233.htm

2: Six Palestinians Shot With New Israeli Bullets

International Solidarity Movement

The Israeli army have shot six people with a new weapon in the West Bank villages of Jayyous and Ni’lin while the villages were demonstrating against the Israeli massacres in Gaza.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00193.htm

3: Israel's dress rehearsal for Lebanon

Mike Whitney

The reason the rationale for invading Gaza keeps changing, (from rocket-fire to Hamas infrastructure to strengthening deterrents to weapons smuggling to ceasefire violations etc) is because the Israeli leadership wants to conceal the true objective. The purpose ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00137.htm

4: WH Rejected All Advice That Torture Was Illegal

Sherwood Ross Associates

War Crimes Report Says White House Rejected All Advice From Government Agencies That Torture Was Illegal; Report Names 30 High Bush Officials Complicit In Torture
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00123.htm

5: Don’t leave home if you don’t like commuting

Robert Half Finance and Accounting

New Zealanders heading to Australia for higher-paying jobs are likely to spend longer getting to them according to a trans-Tasman study of urban commuting habits.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0901/S00076.htm

6: Big day out public transport notices

Big Day Out

It's the last week countdown to the Big Day Out in Auckland this Friday. Neil Young has packed Old Black, his favourite guitar (see below) carefully into its road-case and is on his way.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0901/S00044.htm

7: Telecom’s Online Shopping Mall Ferrit To Close

Telecom New Zealand

Telecom has decided to close its online shopping mall Ferrit as part of the company’s focus on the delivery of its core services.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0901/S00078.htm

8: KiwiSaver versus Australia’s superannuation system

Mercer

While Australia may have had its superannuation system a lot longer than New Zealand has had KiwiSaver, the Aussie’s can still learn a thing or two from the Kiwi’s when it comes to retirement savings and aged pensions systems, says Mercer in a paper ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0901/S00065.htm

9: Peace and Freedom to the People of Palestine!

Hungarian Communist Workers Party

Gyula Thürmer, President of the Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party made the following statement 8 January 2009 on the meeting of the HCWP at the Embassy of Palestine in Budapest:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00215.htm

10: NZ gives $100,000 for Fiji flood relief

New Zealand Government

New Zealand is making up to $100,000 available to assist relief efforts following major flooding in western parts of Fiji, Foreign Minister Murray McCully announced today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0901/S00029.htm

11: Uri Avnery: How Many Divisions?

Uri Avnery

NEARLY SEVENTY YEARS ago, in the course of World War II, a heinous crime was committed in the city of Leningrad. For more than a thousand days, a gang of extremists called “the Red Army” held the millions of the town’s inhabitants hostage and provoked ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00136.htm

12: The Lundy Murders - Shocking New Evidence

ACP Media

In an exclusive, in-depth investigation - North & South magazine presents new evidence, undisclosed police information and expert opinion that raise major questions about the double-murder conviction of Mark Lundy.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0901/S00059.htm

13: Top Scoop Stories – 12th January, 2009 News Summar

The Scoop Editor

Top Scoop Stories – 12th January, 2009 News Summary LEAD STORY Wellington Palestine Group: Statement on Rabin Memorial Protest NZ POLITICS Fiji Floods: NZ Reaches Into Spare Change Drawer Influence: Group Says Alcohol Limits Not Priority WELLINGTON.scoop: ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00144.htm

14: Possible War Crimes In Gaza Conflict

US State Department

The top United Nations human rights official today proposed a mission to assess violations and possible war crimes committed by both Israel and Hamas in the Gaza conflict, and called for immediate implementation of a ceasefire.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00201.htm

15: Mouthwash Media Statement

Cosmetic Toiletry And Fragrancy Assoc

The Cosmetic Toiletry and Fragrance Association today reassured consumers about the safety of antiseptic mouthwashes.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0901/S00021.htm

16: Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967

Azly Rahman

1. This statement focuses on the impact of Israel's continuing Gaza military campaign, initiated on 27 December 2008, on the humanitarian situation confronting the 1.5 million Palestinians confined to the Gaza Strip. In accordance with the undertaking ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00230.htm

17: The Gazan Holocaust

International Solidarity Movement

As a gesture of solidarity, residents in the West Bank village of Bil'in demonstrated today against the current holocaust on Gaza in outfits symbolic of the clothing worn by victims of the Naziholocaust.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00205.htm

18: Background Note: Republic of the Congo

US Department of State - Background Note

Geography Area: 342,000 sq. km (132,000 sq. mi.); slightly larger than New Mexico. Cities: Capital --Brazzaville (pop. 800,000). Other cities --Pointe-Noire (450,000), Dolisie (150,000). Climate: Tropical. Tropical jungle in the North (country seasonally ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00222.htm

19: Malaysia Voted Number 1 for 2008

Tourism Malaysia

Malaysia has been voted the Best International Tourism Destination of 2008 by Global Traveler magazine readers. It was Malaysia’s third straight win, having won the title for the past two years.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00234.htm

20: The Last Bubble—Barack Obama

Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The picture of Barack Obama standing between Bush Senior and Bush Junior in the Oval Office, along with Clinton and Carter in a hands-across-the-presidencies motif that Obama requested, gave me the creeps.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00135.htm

21: Making headway: New outlook for recruitment in 09

Hays

The latest Hays Quarterly Report reveals a more balanced outlook for recruitment, with the impact of the economic turmoil generating a return to demand and supply in more equal measure in 2009.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0901/S00090.htm

22: Veitch Court Case Needs Urgency

Family First

Justice needs to be served in a timely manner Family First NZ says that the pending court case involving Tony Veitch should be given urgency for the sake of both of the families involved.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0901/S00063.htm

23: 'Die In' for Palestine on Tuesday

Christians for Justice in Palestine

CFJP is a group of Christians shocked into action by the present massive casualties in Gaza. We have gathered to demand a more active role from the NZ government in ensuring a just and lasting peace in Palestine.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00227.htm

24: Lower fixed to mobile prices than Australia

Vodafone

Vodafone New Zealand has offered a commercial deal to ensure existing cost savings in the termination rates of landline to mobile calls will reduce even further over the coming years and extend to other mobile services.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0901/S00089.htm

25: Alcohol Limit

Candor Trust

Candor Trust is saddened that the new Transport Minister used his first day back in Parliament to push for a low order road safety priority, amongst many brighter burning torches at this point - a blood alcohol limit drop. "It shows a real failure ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0901/S00061.htm

26: While you were sleeping: BusinessWire wrap

Content.net

Jan. 12 – The U.S. economy shed 524,000 jobs in December, bringing the total lost last year to 2.6 million, the worst slump in employment since the end of WWII.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00131.htm

27: Criminal Justice Advisory Board disbanded

New Zealand Government

Justice Minister Simon Power has disbanded the Criminal Justice Advisory Board set up by the previous Government, as promised.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0901/S00030.htm

28: NZ presence on international M&A transaction table

Simpson Grierson

The mergermarket global M&A roundup for 2008 was released today, with Simpson Grierson showing its market strength as the only New Zealand law firm to be featured on the twelve month mergermarket legal advisory table for Australasian M&A transactions.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0901/S00084.htm

29: Arrest For Attempted Murder

New Zealand Police

12 January 2009 Officers from the Wellington Police District Prison Investigation Unit have arrested a 47-year-old man for attempted murder.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0901/S00066.htm

30: Children of Gaza, Run to the Angels

Suzanne Baroud

Ironically, it was in Palestine, 20 years ago, that I concluded that there is no God. For how could a God, who claims to love all and treat all with impartiality, allow such horrors like those in Palestine to happen?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00134.htm

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