Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings January 20 2009

Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 10:23 am
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Undernews For 19 January 2009

Undernews

Lemon socialism - the unstated but dominant American economic principle that capitalism is king except when it can't make money - has reached new heights with the notion of an "aggregator bank." After Wall Street received the biggest pork barrel giveaway ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00229.htm

Lyndon Hood

When people are being killed and dying is not the time to apportion blame. But since the deal between Israel and the US has made peace between Israel and Hamas, I say, how about now?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00225.htm

Global Research

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Janszen: How do we fix this mess? Hudson: Debt service is the major charge that is institutional rather than "real" and technologically necessary. Our tax system favors debt rather than equity financing. By encouraging debt it has prompted a tax ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00249.htm

Ron Callari

The search engine marketing industry experienced a plethora of changes in 2008, and yet even more significant advancements will be introduced in ‘09, as Google’s algorithms continued to be tweaked. As I look at the 11-year old fledgling industry ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00254.htm

Vodafone

Tomorrow morning (Wednesday), history will be made when Barack Obama is sworn in as the first African American US president and you can watch it live from wherever you are on your Vodafone 3G mobile.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0901/S00202.htm

Unisys

In 2009 demand for more convenient consumer experiences in services provided by both government and business will drive innovations in security designed to provide faster and easier processes predicts information services company, Unisys.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0901/S00026.htm

Office of the Speaker

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Hon Dr Lockwood Smith, has announced his engagement to Alexandra Lang, Counsellor at Otamatea High School, near Dr Smith’s farm in Northland.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0901/S00068.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

National should admit it made a mistake and bring back Labour’s $1 billion programme to help families retrofit insulation to their homes, says Labour leader Phil Goff.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0901/S00056.htm

International Fund For Animal Welfare

An independent group of Antarctic law and policy experts, convened in Canberra, Australia by IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare), has released a report detailing options available to the New Zealand, Australian and other like-minded Governments ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00406.htm

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

In the Middle East, it is widely believed that the war against Gaza is an extension of the 2006 war against Lebanon. Without question, the war in the Gaza Strip is a part of the same conflict.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00228.htm

J P Morgan

Inflation in New Zealand, as measured by changes in the consumer price index, moderated sharply in 4Q, falling -0.5%q/q, compared to 1.5% in the previous three months (J.P.Morgan 0.1%, consensus -0.4%). The main driver of the significant fall was lower petrol ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0901/S00188.htm

Ministry of Education

The Secretary for Education, Karen Sewell, has appointed Collene Roche as the commissioner for Selwyn College to replace the board, effective from 22nd January 2009.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0901/S00028.htm

Kordia

Fast, affordable broadband took a major step forward today with the launch of the Auckland City Wi-Fi service across seven key zones of the Auckland CBD and fringe.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0901/S00025.htm

MTV NZ

AIRING IN NEW ZEALAND ON MTV SKY CHANNEL 60 THURSDAY JANUARY 22 @ 3.00PM & 8.00PM
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0901/S00126.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

Rt Hon Helen Clark, Labour Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, said today that Israel's ceasefire in Gaza is a necessary step towards stopping the conflict which has taken the lives of more than 1200 people and destroyed a significant amount of the territory's ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0901/S00061.htm

New Zealand Government

Prime Minister John Key broke his arm in two places in a fall at an event in Auckland on Saturday.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0901/S00055.htm

The Maori Party

The Maori Party co-leaders, Hon Tariana Turia and Dr Pita Sharples, along with other Maori Party MPs, will be enlisting the help of iwi radio stations and Maori Television to encourage all New Zealanders to give what they can to help people affected by ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0901/S00063.htm

SKYCITY

SKYCITY Auckland is the place to celebrate Chinese New Year this February with the Sky Tower lighting up red from January 25 until February 14. The Spectacular acrobatic troupe Hebei Acrobatic Troupe and Magic Group perform direct from China as headline ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0901/S00122.htm

Progressive Party

The European Union’s moves to re-introduce dairy export subsidies make it even more necessary to successfully complete the Doha world trade round, Opposition agriculture spokesman Jim Anderton said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0901/S00067.htm

Content.net

While you were sleeping: Pvernight wrap 20/1/09 While you were sleeping: BusinessWire overnight wrap Jan. 20 – Stocks in Europe fell as Royal Bank of Scotland tumbled, leading banks lower, on concern the British government will nationalize the lender ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00219.htm

Gordon Campbell

The carnage in Gaza has ended in a unilateral ceasefire. Israel has called a halt to its blitzkrieg because of the imminent Obama inauguration, and because the next military phase would have involved difficult street fighting in Gaza City, which ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00235.htm

Green Party

In the wake of the Israel/Hamas ceasefire, Green MP Keith Locke wants New Zealand to follow the lead of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and speak out more strongly on the Gaza issue.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0901/S00062.htm

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

New Zealand Peace Foundation

A group of Wellington residents will be celebrating the inauguration of US President-elect Barack Obama at a ‘Whitehouse dinner’ tomorrow night.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0901/S00130.htm

Green Party

The Greens are calling on the Government to bring back the billion dollar Green Homes Fund as part of their economic package, being discussed at today's Cabinet meeting.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0901/S00064.htm

The Value Add Company

It would appear that the calculation of a “break fee” for terminating fixed interest mortgages by financial institutions, according to some reports, is more of an art than a science!
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0901/S00193.htm

Werner Naef

Incidents such as the recent landing of the aircraft in the Hudson River after an apparent bird strike and subsequent double engine failure are one of the reasons why airlines throughout the world undertake human factors training for their pilots ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0901/S00185.htm

Development West Coast

Development West Coast has attracted highly regarded chief executive Dr John Chang to head its operations, heralding a new era of management for the influential organisation.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0901/S00207.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 - 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

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