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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 12 November 2009
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 12 November 2009
1: Hide
and seek: the truth about Rodney and
Roger
Anne ElseThere's a wonderful column by Rosemary McLeod in the Dom-Post this morning (12 November). She skewers the grotesqueries of Rodney Hide's apparently bizarre behaviour beautifully. But even Rosemary has missed something important about this whole affair.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00135.htm
2:
Kenyan
Tribe Voices Concern To Ban Ki-Moon
Survival InternationalA spokesman from a tribe in Kenya has condemned the Peruvian government’s attempt to destroy Peru’s Amazon indigenous movement.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00418.htm
3:
Amazon
Indians Die In ‘Swine Flu
Epidemic’
Survival InternationalSeven Yanomami Indians in Venezuela have died from an outbreak of suspected swine flu in the last two weeks. Another 1,000 Yanomami are reported to have caught the virulent strain of flu.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00417.htm
4:
Public
Address 12/11/09 - Ihimaera
Public AddressMistakes were made, and apologies have been tendered. So what now? In the NZ Herald article rather impertinently headlined "How Witi Was Found Out," Geoff Walker of Penguin Books says, of The Trowenna Sea, "It deserves to be read and it's a terrible ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00133.htm
5:
Precious
Metals Market Report: 11 Nov, 2009
Catherine Austin FittsIt’s the second week of the month. That means I am headed over to see Franklin Sanders of The Moneychanger at Top of the World Farm in Westpoint, Tennessee. I will be working out of The Moneychanger offices on Wednesday and Thursday. After our usual ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00134.htm
6:
micro
light crash in Normanby, South
Taranaki
New Zealand PolicePolice and other emergency services are currently at the scene of a micro light crash in Normanby, South Taranaki. Limited details are available at this time, but it appears this crash is fatal. CAA Air Crash Investigators are currently making their way to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0911/S00233.htm
7:
Repression
Of Amazon Indian Movement Condemned
Survival InternationalThe Peruvian government’s unprecedented attempt to destroy Peru’s Amazon Indian movement has been condemned by indigenous leaders around the world.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00416.htm
8:
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
9:
Speech:
Peters - Integration or
Disintegration?
New Zealand First PartyThank you for inviting me to speak to you today in Wanganui – or Whanganui – whatever or wherever this place may now be. Whether with a W, or a Wh as in when, if it ends up being pronounce F, as so often in the last thirty years, then the debate ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00120.htm
10:
Two
killed in gyrocopter crash
New Zealand PoliceIt was around 1.40 this afternoon that the aircraft, when the aircraft crashed about 500 metres from SH3 on Ohangai Road. No-one on the ground was hurt. It is believed that the gyrocopter was flying out of a local aero-club. One of the men is believed ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0911/S00242.htm
11:
Unisys
Unveils Cloud Strategy
UnisysNew strategy combines innovative security with suite of solutions to expand clients’ options for delivery of services in the cloud: private, public and hybrid Unisys New Zealand today unveiled its innovative cloud strategy and solutions portfolio ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00384.htm
12:
Campbell:
Obama’s latest surrender to Israel
Gordon CampbellPresident Barack Obama’s single most important foreign policy decision during 2009 has been his recent backdown over requiring Israel to abandon the building of settlements in the occupied territories. Beforehand, this was to be a precondition for peace ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00129.htm
13:
ETS
changes Put 84% of Bill to Future
Taxpayers
Sustainability Council of New ZealandProposed changes to the emissions trading scheme (ETS) would result in 84% or more of the nation’s multi-billion dollar Kyoto liability being put on to future taxpayers. Today’s polluters will pay nothing like today’s emissions bill. After all the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00117.htm
14:
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
15:
Super
audit an “own goal” for Bill
English
New Zealand Labour PartyThe strong thumbs-up for the New Zealand Super Fund in a review carried out by global investment consultant Mercer underlines just how foolish Finance Minister Bill English has been to defer contributions to the Fund for a decade, says Labour Finance spokesperson ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00148.htm
16:
Quarterly
Newsletter From Health Funds
Association
Health Funds Association of NZAttached is the November 2009 quarterly newsletter of the Health Funds Association (HFANZ).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00123.htm
17:
Energy
efficiency stocktake
New Zealand GovernmentAfter the government's first year in office Energy and Resources Minister, Gerry Brownlee, says he is pleased with the roll-out of energy efficiency initiatives. “The government is interested in offering practical energy efficiency programmes ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00151.htm
18:
Juice
Company Guilty of Breaching Fair Trading
Act
Commerce CommissionBrownlie Brothers Limited trading as Simply Squeezed, a juice manufacturing and distribution company pleaded guilty to six charges of breaching the Fair Trading Act and was fined $45,000 in the District Court in Auckland today. An order for court costs and solicitors ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00392.htm
19:
$19,000
raised for tsunami relief fund
Manukau City CouncilAlmost $19,000 has been raised by the community to help out with the tsunami relief work in the Pacific nations of Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga. Manukau City Council set up a tsunami relief fund and donated $10,000 alongside the community’s $9000 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0911/S00244.htm
20:
Beenie
Man: statement from the Big Day Out
Big Day OutThe Big Day Out Festival booked Jamaican Dancehall artist Beenie Man for the 2010 tour in the knowledge that the artist has a controversial past. In response to the concerns that Beenie Man may perform homophobic material from his youth, the Big ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0911/S00187.htm
21:
Creating
The Global Nonprofit Corporation
Roland Michel TremblayAt the end of my last article about the future of humankind as either being a Utopia or an Idiocracy, I stated that if we do not in parallel of those who are in power build our own institutions for humankind, we will never even get a glimpse of what ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00132.htm
22:
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
23:
Retail
figures show tough times for
restaurants
Grant ThorntonTop end restaurants will have to adapt or possibly close their doors if retail figures released today continue at present levels. In the September quarter, sales for cafes and restaurants were down 2.6 per cent or $26 million. Eugene Sparrow, Director Business ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00393.htm
24:
MARKET
CLOSE: NZ shares gain, led by
Cavalier
BusinesswireNov. 12 (BusinessWire) – New Zealand shares rose for the fourth day in five, led by Cavalier Corp. after the carpet and wool scouring company said it is trading ahead of budget so far this year and earnings would be in the middle of its forecast range.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00395.htm
25:
Synlait
Milk Ltd. Will Conduct IPO
SynlaitSynlait Milk Limited (Synlait Milk) is pleased to announce that it intends to proceed with the launch of an initial public offering of ordinary shares (the Offer) and seek a sharemarket listing on the NZSX. Synlait Milk is currently a wholly owned ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00389.htm
26:
Big
screen to feature in redeveloped Aotea
Square
Auckland City CouncilAotea Square is to mirror key event spaces across the world with the inclusion of a big screen in the redevelopment of the central city’s premier open space. A permanent big screen will be installed on the square-facing facade of the SKYCITY Metro building ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0911/S00237.htm
27:
Two
Resignations from financial advisers
Committee
Securities CommissionTwo members have resigned from the Code Committee of industry representatives that is working on the Code of professional conduct for financial advisers. The Commissioner for Financial Advisers Annabel Cotton has accepted the resignations of Code Committee ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00388.htm
28:
International
Trend For Tougher Stance On Crime
ACT New ZealandThe British Government’s decision to increase minimum sentences for knife attacks to 25 years – an increase of 10 years - is part of a growing trend in western countries recognising that law and order policies treating offenders as victims do not work, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00149.htm
New Zealand PoliceChristchurch Police investigating the shooting of a man last night have located everyone of immediate interest to the inquiry says acting Detective Inspector David Long. No one has been charged as yet. The 24 year old male victim is reported to be in ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0911/S00245.htm
30:
Likely
Rerun of 1993 MMP Vs FPP Referendum
UMR Research LtdVery early indications show that the likely opponent for any run off referendum against MMP will be First Past the Post. Opinion wasn’t particularly clear on the alternatives to MMP but when given the most talked about options 29% of New Zealanders went for ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00112.htm
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