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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 11 November 2009
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 11 November 2009
1: Lyndon
Hood: ETS Amendment Submission
Lyndon HoodThe most notable change brought about by this bill would be giving polluters, to 2050, one hundred billion dollars. I am right behind that idea, but the proposed system for delivering the money is unnecessarily complicated.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00126.htm
2:
Architect:
evidence undermines official 9/11
story
Architects and Engineers for 9-11 TruthArchitect and internationally acclaimed speaker Richard Gage will present startling new evidence about the September 11, 2001 collapses of the World Trade Centre when he speaks in Wellington next month.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0911/S00141.htm
3:
95bFM:
The Wednesday Wire with Paul Deady
95bfm1220 - Banking Inquiry - David Cunliffe, Labour We kick off the show at 1220 with an interview I did just moments ago with Labour's Finance spokesperson David Cunliffe. He headed a parliamentary inquiry into the banking sector whose aim was to figure ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00125.htm
4:
Truth,
Dreams and Reality Converge in
Carolyn MeersConfusion, sadness, loneliness, fear, a view of humanity from a totally different angle -- just a typical day of the life of a Wellington twentysomething in Leo Gene Peters' latest directorial project "Death and the Dream Life of Elephants". While ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00127.htm
5:
Hunger
Strike Ends but Indonesia Denies
Access
Refugee Action CoalitionA survey of the 250 mostly Tamil asylum seekers on the boat at Merak has revealed that, like those on the Oceanic Viking, many of them have been assessed as refugees by the UNHCR.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00367.htm
6:
Maori
Leader Rejects Embarrassing Harawira
Apology
David RankinMaori Leader Rejects Harawira Apology as "Embarrassing" and issues his own apology
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00095.htm
7:
Kiwi
Homebuilding Team Heads For Asia
Habitat for Humanity143 New Zealanders leave Auckland this Friday to go to Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and China to help build 162 homes in 5 days, joining 3,000 volunteers from around the world. The Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project (JRCWP) is a catalytic kick ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00369.htm
8:
Joint
Operations Command Remembers Its
Fallen
Australian Defence ForceHeadquarters Joint Operations Command will commemorate Remembrance Day with a service and the dedication of a memorial for the 29 Australian Defence Force personnel who have died and the many wounded on operations in the 10 years since the original headquarters ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00368.htm
9:
Public
Service bureaucracy growth halted
New Zealand GovernmentState Services Minister Tony Ryall says a report released today confirms the Government has halted the growth in public service bureaucracy. "The Human Resources Capability Survey 2009 shows that the Public Service is heeding the Government’s call for ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00139.htm
10:
Interview
on the Charlie Rose Show
US State DepartmentQUESTION: It is a historic time in this historic city. Where were you when you heard the news that the Berlin Wall had come down?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00340.htm
US Department of State - Background NoteGeography Area: 8,511,965 sq. km. (3,290,000 sq. mi.); slightly smaller than the U.S. Cities: Capital--Brasilia (pop. 2.5 million). Other cities--Sao Paulo (10.9 million), Rio de Janeiro (6.1 million), Belo Horizonte (2.4 million), Salvador (2.9 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00335.htm
12:
International
Energy Agency’s World Energy
Outlook
GreenpeaceAmsterdam, 10 November 2009 – Greenpeace welcomes the International Energy Agency’s call for action to make the upcoming climate conference in Copenhagen a success - and its warning that delaying climate actions will cost $500 billion US dollars every ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00352.htm
13:
Climate
change briefing "a propaganda stunt"
Ian WishartInvestigate magazine’s editor Ian Wishart has accused the Ministry for the Environment of staging a propaganda stunt masquerading as a media briefing on climate change today. The Ministry hosted a briefing for dozens of journalists from around the country ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00107.htm
14:
Big
Day Out 2nd Announcement
Big Day OutPassion Pit, Simian Mobile Disco (DJ), Sasha, Jet, Midnight Youth, Head Like A Hole, Beenie Man, Devendra Banhart, The Veils, Deja Voodoo, Kidz In Space, Cairo Knife Fight, Mountaineater, True Lovers, Tim Phin, Bandicoot, Lord of Tigers, The Silent ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0911/S00161.htm
15:
Background
Note: Sao Tome and Principe
US Department of State - Background NoteGeography Location: Western Africa; islands straddling the equator in the Gulf of Guinea west of Gabon. Area: 1,001 sq. km. (386 sq. mi.); about the size of metropolitan Indianapolis, or one-third the size of Rhode Island. Cities: Capital--Sao Tome. Other ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00334.htm
16:
Urgent
inquiry into monetary policy now
Progressive PartyWe must put party politics aside and come up with a new approach to monetary policy which supports people in New Zealand who produce tradeable goods, rather than those who speculate on property and take the profits off-shore, says MP for Wigram and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00124.htm
17:
Release
of section 59 review
New Zealand GovernmentA review of the section 59 law change has been tabled today in Parliament, says Social Development and Employment Minister Paula Bennett. The Chief Executive of the Ministry of Social Development Peter Hughes has completed his review into the effects of the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00135.htm
18:
Football
Fever at the Waterfront
Downtown Community MinistriesA Festival of Football is planned this Saturday at Wellington's Queen's Wharf. It includes the Street Football National Championship and NZ Freestyle Champs and culminates in the New Zealand All Whites World Cup qualifier against Bahrain at the Westpac ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0911/S00219.htm
19:
A
Rubbish Review Of A Rubbish Law
ACT New ZealandThe report to the Minister of Social Development on the review of the Anti-Smacking law is completely worthless and not worth the paper it’s written on, ACT New Zealand MP John Boscawen said today. “In it, Social Development Ministry CEO Peter Hughes ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00141.htm
20:
Five
train containers broken into
New Zealand PoliceA train believed to be linked to the recovery of numerous boxes of cheese in the Halcombe and Marton areas earlier today has now arrived at Auckland and it has been confirmed that five containers of the train have been broken into. All five containers ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0911/S00211.htm
21:
Taupo
SPCA, Community Benefit from Grant
Taupo SPCAA recent Lion Foundation grant will assist the Taupo SPCA with its new state-of-the-art facilities, benefitting both animals and the community. A $50,000 grant from the charitable trust will help with the construction and fit out costs of the animal ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0911/S00218.htm
22:
Banking
inquiry points to lack of ATM
competition
ATM PlusAustralians have twice as many ATMs per head of population compared to New Zealand, and the gap is growing because of the lack of competition in the ATM market, says Managing Director of ATM Plus Limited, David Dickinson.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00318.htm
23:
NZ
and Singapore Sign Angel Investing
Alliance
Angel AssociationNZ and Singaporean sign angel investing alliance New Zealand and Singapore angel investors have signed a land-mark partnership between the Angel Association of New Zealand and the Business Angel Network (South East Asia) which will assist both countries ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00353.htm
24:
Auckland's
First Shared Space Street Opens
Auckland City CouncilThe final concept design for the upgrade of Elliott Street in Auckland’s CBD has been approved by two Auckland City Council committees, for what will become Auckland’s first shared space street. Shared space is at the forefront of international urban ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0911/S00216.htm
25:
Barnardos
NZ Welcomes Report
Barnardos“Barnardos New Zealand welcomes the report on the Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Act by the Ministry of Social Development released today”, says Murray Edridge, Chief Executive of Barnardos New Zealand.“It comes as no surprise to us ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00108.htm
26:
Attorney-General
to look at intl legal challenges
New Zealand GovernmentAttorney-General Chris Finlayson will look at ways in which New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States can cooperate in the prosecution of those responsible for genocide, it was resolved at a meeting of Attorneys-General ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00140.htm
27:
The
Legendary Al Green to Tour Australia And
NZ
Chugg EntertainmentChugg Entertainment is thrilled and honoured to bring to Australia and New Zealand for the very first time, the peerless prince of soul, the Reverend Al Green. Backed by his unbelievable 12-piece band, Al Green’s first ever Australian and New Zealand ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0911/S00166.htm
28:
Cricket
Wellington proudly supports Indian
trip
Cricket WellingtonIt is often said that the surest way of breaking down class and communication barriers in India and to make people happy is to start a game of cricket. That is why Cricket Wellington is proudly supporting a group of twenty people from the Meadows Church ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0911/S00217.htm
29:
How
Israel Won the Settlement Battle
Again
Ramzy BaroudWhen British Foreign Secretary David Miliband uttered a few words regarding the illegality of the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, many wanted to believe that London was taking a sharp stance against Israel’s continued violations of international ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00117.htm
30:
MARKET
CLOSE: NZ shares slip on Fletcher
outlook
BusinesswireNov. 11 (BusinessWire) – New Zealand shares fell, ending three days of gains, after Fletcher Building said earnings may be at the low end of forecasts and there’s no sign yet of recovery in its markets. Steel & Tube Holdings paced the decline.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00354.htm
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