Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings January 22 2009

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

1: Gold hits record high

Released via Pead PR

The price of gold has hit an all-time high, reaching NZ$1,745 for a one ounce coin at close of business.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0901/S00224.htm

Dr. Jeanne Guthrie

Israel seeks “total capitulation to Israel’s terms coupled with an acknowledgement of the legitimacy of Israeli actions.’’ In Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict , Dr. Sara Roy, a Harvard researcher of 30 years on the Palestinian plight ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00289.htm

LIANZA

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LIANZA, the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa, representing 460 public, educational, commercial, industrial, legal and government libraries in New Zealand, has joined the widespread protest against the implementation of new ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0901/S00143.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

Labour's Auckland Issues spokesperson Phil Twyford says Local Government Minister Rodney Hide is out to slash Auckland City jobs six weeks before the Royal Commission has even delivered its report.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0901/S00165.htm

New Zealand Government

Prime Minister John Key has urged the independent Remuneration Authority not to increase MPs' salaries in the coming year as New Zealand faces tougher economic times.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0901/S00080.htm

New Zealand Cricket Inc.

Young Northern Districts medium-fast bowler Trent Boult and Central Districts all-rounder Brendon Diamanti have been called in to the BLACKCAPS squad for the Chappell-Hadlee One Day International Series against Australia next month.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0901/S00139.htm

Undernews

Afghanistan - Obama has called for more US troops in Afghanistan without any clear explanation of what they will do there, how or why. The mission has not only been not accomplished in Afghanistan, it hasn't even been defined. Obama's plan is to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00299.htm

Michel Chossudovsky

Across the land, an atmosphere of hope and optimism prevails. The Bush regime has gone. A new president is in the White House. While America had its eyes riveted on the live TV broadcast of Barack Obama's presidential inauguration, financial markets ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00286.htm

Scoop Audio

Text + Audio: Barack Obama has been sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. Here is a transcript of his prepared speech, and audio of his delivery. Millions of people gathered on the Mall in Washington to witness the inauguration speech.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00258.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

Labour transport spokesperson Darren Hughes says the Northern Gateway Toll Road is a great example of how a government genuinely committed to improving New Zealand’s roading infrastructure “gets on with the job”, and is also a fine tribute to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0901/S00078.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

Common Ground News Service

CGN: Ziad Asali and Tom Dine write that Former senator Joe Biden predicted that President Barack Obama would be tested by a foreign policy crisis early in his term. The recent surge of violence in Gaza came even sooner than that.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00280.htm

Gordon Campbell

As Barack Obama wakes up for the first time as President of the United States, he is starting out from a pretty re-assuring position : sky high approval ratings, a huge majority professing they will have patience with him in waiting for solutions, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00284.htm

Asian Human Rights Commission

A Statement from the International Committee of the Red Cross forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00451.htm

United Nations

Water supplies for over a billion people around the world are under threat from increasing populations, expanding cities, industrialization, climate change and even the rising demand for food, warned the United Nations, as delegates from more than 60 countries ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00440.htm

ITUC

Brussels, 21 January 2009 (ITUC online): The ITUC is deeply shocked by the inadequate investigation into the particularly barbarous attack on Constantina Kuneva, General Secretary of the trade union covering the cleaning sector in the Athens region, PEKOP.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00441.htm

Singapore Airlines

Singapore Airlines received the first of 19 new A330-300 aircraft at a ceremony in Toulouse, France, yesterday.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0901/S00232.htm

Outdoor Summer Shakespeare

Outdoor Summer Shakespeare has progressed from the humble beginnings with "Hamlet" in 1963 through to the large-scale, popular productions of recent years. The Outdoor Summer Shakespeare is a timeless tradition.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0901/S00143.htm

Jade Software

The Board of Jade Software Corporation (Jade) is delighted to announce that it has appointed Craig Richardson as the new Chief Executive of the company.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0901/S00237.htm

Massey University

A Massey University study to understand how cognitive behaviour therapy works in treating depression is being extended, so more people can benefit.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0901/S00047.htm

Wellington Tamil Society

In December 2008 the New York-based Genocide Prevention Project released a report highlighting countries where genocide and other mass atrocities are underway or risk breaking out. Eight countries were put on the highest ‘red alert’ list – Sri ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0901/S00137.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

Labour law and order spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove says Police and Corrections Minister Judith Collins needs to explain how three separate escapes, involving a total of six prisoners, could have happened in the past week, and to tell New Zealanders what ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0901/S00082.htm

femLINKPACIFIC

The following is the NGO Statement for the 1325 Expert Group Meeting in the lead up to the International Colloquium on Women’s Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace and Security. One of the goals of the colloquium is to: Support ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0901/S00452.htm

Kidd Millennium

Now that George W. Bush has finally ‘coptered his way out’ of the White House, complete with malapropisms and Homer Simpson gaffes in tow, the kidd believes the satire industry will join the rest of the economy in recession. “It’s been a ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00287.htm

Roland Michel Tremblay

“Every day is exactly the same”, (Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails). The thought of being trapped in some sort of loop, doing over and over again the same actions, is a worrying thought, as who would want to be condemned to repeat the same tasks ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00297.htm

Scoop Audio

Audio: Scoop's Selwyn Manning & Radio Adelaide's Peter Godfrey discuss New Zealand's reaction to Barack Obama being sworn in. Also, 800 people are seeking compensation from the British after being exposed to nuke tests in the 1950s.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00288.htm

David Swanson

9:29 I'm watching on C-Span. I see signs held up reading "Restore Justice," "Rule of Law." C-Span is predicting only questions about Clinton pardons, and predicting another hearing tomorrow with other witnesses. Of course, I'm hoping for senators ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00295.htm

APRA

Recent attacks on New Zealand's new copyright laws are mischievous and ill-advised.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0901/S00203.htm

Northpower

Colleagues found a Northpower employee at Whangarei depot dead this morning near his vehicle. It is believed he passed away last night from what appears to be natural causes.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0901/S00233.htm

Between The Lines

While more Hamas rockets fall on Israeli towns and Israeli troops continue their ground operations in Gaza, the Israeli town of Sderot on the Gaza border is a flashpoint. Israel says it attacked Gaza to stop the rockets from falling on Sderot and other ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00290.htm

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