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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 09 October 2009
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 09 October 2009
1: New
UN Satellite Communications Deal
United NationsIn a bid to strengthen emergency communications before impending natural disasters strike and to save more lives by better coordinating relief efforts in their aftermath, the United Nations has teamed up with two leading global satellite companies, the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0910/S00151.htm
2:
Never
date an ‘Annex 1’ guy!
Geoff KeeyOne of the negotiator trackers – people who follow negotiators around to ‘keep them honest’ – came up with this wonderful gem that explains why developing countries don’t trust developed countries like New Zealand. Annex 1 is the list of developed ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0910/S00087.htm
3:
Averting
Unnecessary Deaths In Childbirth
United NationsInvesting in quality health care in poor countries can make a dramatic difference to the survival rates of the estimated 500,000 women worldwide who die each year while giving birth, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in an address this evening ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0910/S00152.htm
4:
Launch
a blue-collar recovery now!
Citizens Electoral CouncilForget the bizarre claims that putting up Australian interest rates proves there is an economic recovery; the current collapse of the U.S. dollar signals the end of the global financial system.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0910/S00153.htm
5:
Top
Scoop Stories October 9th 2009 News
Summary
The Scoop EditorLEAD STORY Drugs: P Plan Puts Pseudophedrine On Prescription NZ POLITICS ACC: Govt To Make "Significant Changes" Retirement: Greens Superannuation Fund To Sell Houses Un-Advised: Did Govt Sidestep Officials To Cut Maori Deal? Pacific.Scoop: Out-Of-Hours ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0910/S00086.htm
6:
Full
Coverage: Prescription Pseudophedrine P
Plan
Scoop Full CoveragePrime Minister John Key today outlined the Government’s plan to tackle the dangerous drug ‘P’ in a speech in Auckland. “I am determined that we will use the full force of the Government’s arsenal to fight the problem of P, a seriously addictive ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0910/S00088.htm
7:
Be Safer Online with New, Faster AVG
9.0
JML CommunicationsAVG 9.0 delivers 50 percent faster speed, improved performance and ease of use. Auckland, 6 October 2009 – AVG (AU/NZ) Pty Ltd, New Zealand, Australia and South Pacific distributor of the world’s most popular free anti-virus software, today announced ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0910/S00224.htm
8:
ACC’s
$4.8 billion loss unsustainable
New Zealand GovernmentACC has become financially unsustainable and reform is required to ensure its future for New Zealanders, ACC Minister Nick Smith says. ACC’s 2008/09 Annual Report was today tabled in Parliament showing a loss of $48 billion.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0910/S00111.htm
9:
While
you were sleeping: Stocks rise on
earnings
BusinesswireOct. 9 (BusinessWire) – Stocks rose on Wall Street after Alcoa Inc. unexpectedly posted a profit, boosting optimism about the third-quarter earnings season, while retail sales climbed and jobless claims hit a nine-month low. The U.S. dollar sank ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0910/S00208.htm
10:
Peters:
Kawerau & Districts Grey Power
New Zealand First PartyBut it is imperative that New Zealand starts to consider where we are headed demographically. Because right now population is the elephant in the room.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0910/S00129.htm
11:
Bus
services remain suspended until
notice
Joint Media StatementBus services provided by Metrolink, North Star, GO WEST, Waka Pacific, LINK and City Circuit remain suspended over the weekend “until such time as the unions’ notice of industrial action is withdrawn,” says Zane Fulljames GM Operations. Negotiations ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0910/S00238.htm
12:
Safer
scuba diving training – new
Standards
Standards New ZealandTwo new International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Standards will make scuba diving training programmes safer for diving newcomers as well as more experienced divers. The Standards are aimed at introductory scuba experience training programmes ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0910/S00227.htm
13:
Why
NZ must rapidly halve greenhouse
emissions
NZ Climate Change Office“The pace of climate change is accelerating. We have overspent our atmospheric resources—and now need smart sustainable solutions.” ‘Halving the current level of emissions is urgent, responsible, just, and possible. Inaction would be negligence ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0910/S00038.htm
14:
Another
chapter written in National’s dodgy
ETS
New Zealand Labour PartyEnvironment Minister Nick Smith has continued his shonky practices in the latest attempt to conceal just how bad for hardworking Kiwi families National’s ETS deal with the Maori Party is, Labour says. Climate change spokesperson Charles Chauvel ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0910/S00116.htm
15:
Did
Govt sidestep officials to cut Maori
deal?
Carbon NewsThe Government appears to have negotiated support from the Maori Party for changes to the emissions trading scheme without input from officials.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0910/S00128.htm
16:
ACC
requires refocusing to reduce
liabilities
Business New ZealandACC’s liability blowout has occurred because the scheme has expanded beyond its original principles. This is the view of Business NZ. Chief Executive Phil O’Reilly says ACC needs to be steered back towards its original mission of injury prevention ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0910/S00140.htm
17:
NZX
releases paper on derivatives market
BusinesswireOct. 9 (BusinessWire) – NZX Ltd., the operator of New Zealand’s stock exchange, is seeking feedback on the rules and procedures of its proposed derivatives market.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0910/S00243.htm
18:
Waikato
University ‘Standard’ Misleading
Active Manuka Honey AssociationThe Active Manuka Honey Association (AMHA) has slammed the release by Waikato University of a new standard for measuring non peroxide activity levels in Manuka honey as misleading. It also undermines an industry review that is currently underway. John Rawcliffe, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0910/S00028.htm
19:
The
World Global Entrepreneur Week Countdown
Begin
Wellington Innovation NetworkWellington, 9 May 2009 - Prime Minister John Key said the ability of New Zealand to link “entrepreneurial power” with the power of the internet would create huge opportunities for New Zealand entrepreneurs.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0910/S00229.htm
20:
Just
more talk as the dollar climbs
Manufacturers and Exporters AssociationReserve Bank Governor Dr. Alan Bollard has used the release of the Reserve Bank’s Annual Report today to once again warn of the affects of the rise in New Zealand’s currency. The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA) are calling ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0910/S00239.htm
21:
Brainy
Chimps, Part Two: Make Love, Not War?
Martin LeFevre - MeditationsBonobos look like graceful versions of chimpanzees. They are entirely tree dwelling, don’t make tools and primitive war as chimpanzees do, or engage in hunting monkeys for meat.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0910/S00079.htm
22:
Honduras
& Nicaragua – Disinformation &
Reality
Toni SoloMaybe the poet T.S.Eliot had corporate mass media in mind when he wrote in 'Burnt Norton' : “human kind cannot bear very much reality.” In reporting on Honduras and Nicaragua, or anywhere elsewhere in the world, Western Bloc media – of the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0910/S00069.htm
23:
NZ
engineers to check Indonesian earthquake
damage
New Zealand GovernmentTen New Zealand engineers will join relief efforts in the Indonesian city of Padang in western Sumatra, following last week’s devastating earthquake,” Foreign Minister Murray McCully said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0910/S00112.htm
24:
A
Resurgent Cuban Tourism Market
Council on Hemispheric AffairsFor almost fifty years, the United States has prohibited the vast majority of its citizens from traveling to Cuba as a part of its economic embargo on the island. However, a flood of American tourists may soon be unleashed on this forbidden island ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0910/S00130.htm
25:
Greens
Superannuation Fund to Sell Houses
Green PartyThe Green MPs’ superannuation fund will sell its two properties to give the public maximum clarity about the use of Parliamentary housing allowances, Green Party Co-Leader Metiria Turei announced today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0910/S00107.htm
26:
Greenwashing:
different shades of spin
SalientAs ‘green’ marketing becomes more popular, the path to a clear conscience is becoming a bit of a jungle.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0910/S00082.htm
27:
Christchurch
wins wine capital of the world title
Christchurch City CouncilChristchurch/Southern New Zealand has been selected as the New Zealand representative on the prestigious Great Wine Capitals Global Network.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0910/S00150.htm
28:
Colenso
BBDO Tops The Effies List Scooping 13
Awar
Colenso BBDOAward tally includes Most Effective Agency of the Year, Frucor Most Effective Client of the Year
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0910/S00223.htm
29:
Tsunami
Warning And Watch Cancellation
08.10.09
Pacific Tsunami Warning CenterThe Tsunami Warning And/Or Watch Issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center is Now Cancelled for VANUATU / SOLOMON IS. / NAURU / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / TUVALU / NEW CALEDONIA / FIJI / KIRIBATI / KOSRAE / WALLIS-FUTUNA / HOWLAND-BAKER / MARSHALL IS. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0910/S00125.htm
30:
ANZ
Bank reviews legal strategy after Westpac
loss
BusinesswireOct 8 (BusinessWire) – Australia & New Zealand Banking Group is reviewing its legal strategy in light of today's High Court decision against Westpac Banking Corp. in a case involving tax and interest owing of $961 million, the bank has told BusinessWire.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0910/S00205.htm
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