Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings January 19 2009

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

1: Israel Invasion: The Boss Has Gone Mad

Gush Shalom

Uri Avnery writes that 169 YEARS before the Gaza War, Heinrich Heine wrote a premonitory poem of 12 lines, under the title “To Edom”. The German-Jewish poet was talking about Germany, or perhaps all the nations of Christian Europe...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00212.htm

Binoy Kampmark

Binoy Kampmark writes that with Guantánamo Bay losing its patriotic luster and purpose, US authorities are willing to offload some of the carceral baggage to recipient states. In truth, they have been in the business of doing so for years.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00211.htm

UNICEF

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18 January 2009. -- More than 2,200 people have died so far in Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak, with the cumulative number of cases reaching 42,000. In addition, the education system is showing signs of collapse, the health system is deteriorating and food ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00399.htm

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

The Japanese harpoon ship Yushin Maru #2 has been ordered to leave the Port of Surabaya, East Java in Indonesia without repairs.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00398.htm

Content.net

Jan. 19 – Citigroup posted a fourth-quarter loss of US$8.29 billion on write-downs and credit losses while Bank of America reported a loss of US$1.79 billion as it struggled to digest the purchase of Merrill Lynch & Co.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00214.htm

Michael Collins

(Jan. 16, Wash. DC) The Department of Justice entered a motion to drop all charges against Susan Lindauer yesterday morning, Jan. 15, 2009. The filing (see below) at the federal district court in lower Manhattan ends the government's attempt to prosecute ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00210.htm

Content.net

Jan. 19 – Lloyd Morrison, managing director and founder of Infratil Ltd., is taking leave from the job for treatment of leukaemia, the investment group said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00216.htm

Content.net

Jan. 19 – The New Zealand dollar gained against the U.S. dollar and the yen after stocks rose on Wall Street on Friday, reducing the haven appeal of the currencies of the world’s two biggest economies.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00215.htm

Te Arataura

The plan was put to the tribal Parliament, Te Kauhanganui, by its executive body, Te Arataura, at a special meeting on Saturday. (17 January 2008) Te Arataura Chairman, Tukoroirangi Morgan, said the executive presented a plan and new structure it believed ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0901/S00114.htm

Content.net

Themes of the day: Trading may be reduced by Wellington Anniversary Day, which will keep some firms away from the market today, and the Martin Luther King Day holiday in the U.S. on Monday. The price of metals such as copper rebounded on Friday in ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00213.htm

Content.net

Jan. 19 – New Zealand shares fell, paced by PGG Wrightson, after the rural services company announced said it would close its Australian real estate and livestock businesses because of the downturn.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00217.htm

Peace Movement Aotearoa

~ anytime - you can report suspected terrorists to the FBI on-line at https://www.ifccfbi.gov/complaint/terrorist.asp George Bush, Tony Blair and their co-conspirators spring immediately to mind as possibilities for their various acts of terror against the people of Afghanistan and Iraq (both ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0208/S00087.htm

Triathlon New Zealand

New Zealand has shown there is a bright future beyond Bevan Docherty and Sam Warriner with some great performances at the Youth Olympics Festival in Sydney today with the highlight being Jos Hoetjes bronze medal in the men’s race.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0901/S00113.htm

Content.net

Jan. 19 - PGG Wrightson Ltd., New Zealand’s biggest rural services company, will close its Australian real estate and livestock businesses, citing tough market conditions and a subdued outlook. The shares dropped about 7%.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00218.htm

New Zealand Government

The Government today expressed disappointment that the European Union has decided to reintroduce export refunds for butter, cheese, and milk powders, which were suspended two years ago.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0901/S00053.htm

Shayne McGrath

The Australian Government has delivered another underarm to the Pacific region and the world, this time on addressing climate.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00394.htm

New Zealand National Party

The Waitemata District Health Board Asian Health Support Service is to join forces with the New Zealand Chinese SARS Foundation to target Chinese communities in the battle against the disease.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0305/S00486.htm

Shearing Sports New Zealand

Napier shearer John Kirkpatrick is on track for a unique weekend double in the deep south after finishing sixth final at the Northern Southland Community Shears at Long Range, near Lumsden, yesterday.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0901/S00112.htm

Joint Media Statement

Students from around Canterbury will take their anger to the streets today to protest at growing student debt.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0207/S00044.htm

Wellington City Council

The construction, maintenance and operation of the Indoor Community Sports Centre (ICSC) on Cobham Park in Kilbirnie has been granted resource consent.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0901/S00142.htm

Access Support Service

ACC has dropped a bombshell admitting that from a sample of 144 claimants’ rehabilitation plans taken in June 2008 more than half did not meet ACC’s “standards.”
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0901/S00113.htm

Greenpeace New Zealand

Jakarta, January 16, 2009: According to intelligence received by Greenpeace investigators in Surabaya, East Java, the Japanese whaling ship Yushin Maru II, which was forced into a port in Indonesia for repairs, may be returning to Japan, and not the Southern ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00395.htm

Manukau City Council

The council is running guided tours of Barry Curtis Park in Flat Bush. The next tours are on 21 January and 18 February at 5pm.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0901/S00143.htm

Citizens Electoral Council

Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood today advised Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to heed the scientific evidence that shows the world faces an ice age—not global warming, as reported in Russia's Pravda this week, before he shuts down Australia's ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00393.htm

Waitakere City

Waitakere City Council and ONTRACK, the government agency that owns and manages the railway network, are urging pedestrians and motorists to be extra careful at level crossings as the Western Line reopens on Monday (January 19).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0901/S00141.htm

ACT On Campus

ACT on Campus today called on New Zealand University Association leaders to remain open minded about ACT policy and how it will help graduates says Michael Collins, the ACT on Campus National Coordinator.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0502/S00013.htm

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"Far too little, far too late", was the reaction from University of Canterbury Students' Association President Darel Hall to the Student Loan changes announced by Nick Smith and Max Bradford today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED9910/S00056.htm

New Zealand University Student's Association

The government's policy of interest free student loans while studying was passed into law last night in Parliament.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0012/S00011.htm

Safe Use of Medicines

Medication errors are under the spotlight in public hospitals throughout New Zealand, with a range of solutions being introduced or trialled. Some of this work will be discussed at a national conference on The Safe Use of Medicines in Wellington on ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0405/S00035.htm

New Zealand Government

The Skilled Migrant Category promoting the active recruitment of skilled migrants to New Zealand is officially open for business, Immigration Minister Lianne Dalziel announced today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0312/S00435.htm

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