Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings March 14 2009

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1: The Week In Parliament: 13.03.09

Tom Frewen

Tom Frewen presents The Week In Parliament, a wrap of the weeks events in and about the house
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00177.htm

The Scoop Editor

Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings March 12 2009 LEAD STORY A Word From Afar: Intelligence Matters Redux - Leashing The Watchdogs NZ POLITICS Transport: Axing Of Tax Raises Rail Backers' Backs Public Funding: Larger Electorates Get Larger Offices Gordon ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00178.htm

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

The Government and people of Afghanistan, as well as their international partners, face a critical test in 2009, as the fledgling democracy prepares to hold credible elections over the coming months, according to a United Nations report released today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00271.htm

United Nations

The top United Nations human rights official today deplored the mounting deaths and injuries of civilians due to the “bitter” conflict in northern Sri Lanka between Government forces and a rebel group, pointing out that some moves by both sides could ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00272.htm

United Nations

Indigenous Arctic peoples must be consulted on ways to preserve their ways of life and boost employment opportunities as the northern ice retreats due to climate change, a group of experts convened by the United Nations cultural agency has agreed.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00273.htm

C.D. Sludge

In this edition of the Sludge Report: Jubilee - The Debt Bubble - The Beauty Of Simplicity - Lets Just Halve The Debt - What The Bursting Of A Debt Bubble Means - So Why Not Just Halve The Debt? The Paradox Of Money Supply
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00165.htm

Asian Human Rights Commission

Cambodia's constitution which the Constituent Assembly issued from the UN-organised election had adopted in 1993 has established an institution of direct democracy called National Congress. This is the congress of people where, according to Article 147 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00267.htm

David Farrar

TelstraClear have killed off the TCF Code of Practice designed to try and get workable process around the deeply flawed s92A. They have said they will veto the code at the TCF Board. TCF rules allow any board member to veto.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00176.htm

New Zealand Government

And it’s good to be joined by a group of New Zealanders who also have a vision for a more prosperous New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00219.htm

Catherine Austin Fitts

As the corruption spread throughout our society in the 1990's, I was forced by circumstance to estimate how the operations of systemic physical and financial violence in our society work. How is so much financial fraud engineered? How was it millions of Americans ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00170.htm

Tourism New Zealand

One of India’s most famous Bollywood actresses and the exploits of India’s cricketing superstars have helped to push New Zealand’s profile sky-high over the last few weeks.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0903/S00320.htm

ACT New Zealand

Hon Sir Roger Douglas Speech to ACT Annual Conference 2009; Raye Freedman Centre, Epsom Girls' Grammar, Silver Rd, Epsom, Auckland; Friday, March 13 2009.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00220.htm

Progressive Party

Progressive Wigram MP Jim Anderton is appalled at National’s use of taxpayer money to change electorate office funding so that government MPs get an increase four times greater than Opposition MPs.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00216.htm

West Papua National Authority

Today, Thursday 12 March 2009, at this State University of Cenderawasih in Abepura, Jayapura in the Land of Papua, we West Papuans celebrate the International Day of Free Speech. Free Speech is guaranteed in Article 28 of the Constitution of the Unitary ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00268.htm

UN Watch

Geneva, March 12, 2009 — UN Watch applauded Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen for announcing that this Monday he will call on European Union states to withdraw from the Durban II conference, or else withdraw unilaterally.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00266.htm

Ministry of Health

The Director-General of Health, Stephen McKernan, is warning the public about the potential health dangers associated with four unapproved medicines manufactured in Samoa and Tonga and sold from general retailers in New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0903/S00069.htm

ACT New Zealand

ACT's annual conference - the first annual conference the Party has held since the General Election - begins in Auckland today and runs until tomorrow at the Raye Freedman Centre at Auckland's Epsom Girl's Grammar.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00222.htm

ACT New Zealand

Hon Heather Roy, Minister Of Consumer Affairs Friday March 13 2009 Hon Heather Roy's opening address to the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association of New Zealand's Annual Industry Conference; Sky City, Auckland; Friday, March 13 2009. Thank you, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00221.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. Economy—Recent Developments; 2. Job Support Scheme—Wage Replacement; 3. Schools—Property Projects; 4. Accident Compensation—Claims Liability; 5. Water Quality—Dairying and Clean Streams Accord; 6. Job Support Scheme—Reports; 7. Police—Public Safety
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00201.htm

Aotearoa NZ Association of Social Workers

The need for collaborative responses to current global crises is a rallying theme for social workers around the world as they mark the third official World Social Work Day this coming Tuesday (17th March).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0903/S00202.htm

John Minto

John Minto writes: Each week we see the inevitable result in scenes of drunken, boorish behaviour by teenagers engaging in binge drinking. It’s quite impossible to see the increase as separate from the rise of deliberate, cynical exploitation of young ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00168.htm

EPMU

As the largest union at Air New Zealand, the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union says any negotiations to move to a nine day fortnight would need to include an employer top-up as a bottom line.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0903/S00155.htm

Sourthern Trust

Jonathan Stern from the Shenkar Engineering and Design College, Israel, with his collection, Variations of Masculinity, captivated the audience at tonight’s 2009 iD Dunedin Fashion Week Emerging Designer Awards and was awarded this year’s Life ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0903/S00204.htm

Independent Music New Zealand

From where I am it feels as if summer is fleeing already; however I think this is just a minor glitch, as festival season is by no means over. There’s a nice array of releases, tours and festivals in our newsletter this month; something for everyone!
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0903/S00196.htm

Patrick Mac Manus

"Expresses its grave concern at the hundreds of cases of extrajudicial killings of political activists and journalists that have occurred in recent years in the Philippines, and the role that the security forces have played in orchestrating and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00269.htm

Taiko Trust

Tui have been re-introduced onto the main island of the Chatham Islands in an operation described as a world-first. The operation, initiated by the Chatham Islands’ Taiko Trust, involved 14 young tui being transferred from Rangatira (South East Island) ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0903/S00029.htm

Businesswire

March 13 - The energy SOE's produced mixed results for the half-year to December 31, 2008, reflecting a combination of high wholesale electricity prices, expanded generation portfolios, slumping export orders, and the variable impact of new international ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0903/S00327.htm

AAMHatch

AAMHatch has recently completed the first Pictometry aerial imagery project to be undertaken in New Zealand. The patented Pictometry oblique aerial imaging system has revolutionised aerial imaging around the world, and AAMHatch is very pleased ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0903/S00030.htm

ACT New Zealand

ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Sir Roger Douglas today predicted that the National Government's policy to subsidise firms to keep staff on the payroll would prove no more successful than France's move to a nine day, 35 hour working week.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00197.htm

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