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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 30 March 2007

Published: Sat 31 Mar 2007 01:22 PM
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: R.N. Burns: United States Policy Towards Iran
US State Department
R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Washington, DC March 29, 2007
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00566.htm
2: Questions And Answers - Thursday, 29 March 2007
Office of the Clerk
1. Hon BILL ENGLISH (Deputy Leader—National) to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her statement that those who oppose the legislation currently before the House to amend section 59 of the Crimes Act 1961 were “demanding the right to be able ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00638.htm
3: Time To Get Serious About Nuclear Free Middle East
Jeremy Rose
The United Nation’s General Assembly, The Security Council, the Arab League, Iran, Israel, Egypt, and the Non-Aligned Movement are just some of those who have publicly lent their support to a Middle East nuclear free zone over the past three decades.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00549.htm
4: Swanson: How's the Progressive Caucus Progressing?
David Swanson
Seventy-one members of Congress, all Democrats, most House Members, two Senators, belong to the Congressional Progressive Caucus. For a couple of years now, the CPC has had a staff person. More recently it created a website http://cpc.lee.house.gov
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00515.htm
5: Rice Interview On The Sean Hannity Show
US State Department
QUESTION: Today Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is with us. How are you? SECRETARY RICE: Hi, Sean, I'm fine. How are you? QUESTION: I'm good. We always appreciate you being here. Now, what do you do in the off-season when football's not going on? Do ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00576.htm
6: www.mccully.co.nz - 30 March 2007
New Zealand National Party
It started as a debate on a Green private Member’s Bill regarding the use of smacking as a form of discipline. But it has now moved a long way from there. And while there may well be plenty of room for differing but legitimate views to be genuinely held ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00653.htm
7: More Rain To Come
MetService
MetService meteorologists have updated the heavy rain warning for Northland, Auckland and Coromandel, the Bay of Plenty, north Gisborne and for northwest Nelson, and maintain a weather watch on the Mount Taranaki area.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0703/S00069.htm
8: Lowenkron: Advancing Human Rights and Democracy
US State Department
Barry F. Lowenkron, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Remarks to the Commonwealth Club San Francisco, CA March 26, 2007
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00563.htm
9: Daniel S. Sullivan Remarks in Managua, Nicaragua
US State Department
Daniel S. Sullivan, Assistant Secretary for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Remarks as Prepared for Delivery Managua, Nicaragua February 27, 2007
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00559.htm
10: John Bishop's Communications Line 30 March 2007
John Bishop
They are doing things differently there, to misquote and paraphrase author L.P. Hartley ('The Go-Between', 1953). Nowhere is this more apparent than in new media, or social media and the confusing tangle of acronym-ed technologies called the internet.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00551.htm
11: Bill Berkowitz: Neil Bush of Saudi Arabia
Bill Berkowitz
In late February, only a few days after Saudi Arabia beheaded four Sri Lankan robbers and then left their headless bodies on public display in the capital of Riyadh, Neil Bush, for the fourth time in the past six years, showed up for the country's Jeddah ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00535.htm
12: We Need A Kyoto Policy That Emitters Like
Lyndon Hood
Following the release of the Green Party's carbon-control proposal, there has been suspicion or outright disapproval from major carbon emitters. That's not the way things ought to be.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00554.htm
13: Bogans – Labour’s key to ‘economic transformation’
New Zealand National Party
Labour is dishing out thousands of dollars to research on bogans in a bid to reach their key goal of ‘economic transformation’, says National’s Research, Science and Technology spokesman, Dr Paul Hutchison.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00648.htm
14: Higher Education: Keystone in US - India Relations
US State Department
America wants to open its doors even wider to students from India, and we want more American young people to travel to India to study and learn. The United States and India are engaging more actively and constructively than ever before on a wide range ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00567.htm
15: Karen P. Hughes: Indo-American Chamber of Commerce
US State Department
Remarks at the Business Partnerships in Higher Education Luncheon Hosted by the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00564.htm
16: CYF to come-a-knocking when parents go-a-smacking
United Future NZ Party
Police confirmation that CYF will become involved in smacking as reported by the public following the section 59 repeal, is a concern raised by United Future deputy leader Judy Turner months ago.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00664.htm
17: Kelpie Wilson: Wearing My Hair Shirt
Kelpie Wilson
Al Gore is really doing it, bringing climate awareness to the doorsteps of opinion makers and forcing them to consider all of its implications. Of course, no good deed ever goes unpunished in this country.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00546.htm
18: Northland: Police Weather Update
New Zealand Police
Due to cliff-top slips endangering several properties, people living in Opua, particularly Beechy Road, Franklin Road and Richardson Road are urgently requested to evacuate their homes and go to the Opua Cruising Club.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0703/S00352.htm
19: Keep your phone number when you change provider
New Zealand Government
Consumers will be able to keep their existing home and mobile telephone numbers when they change service providers from Sunday, says Communications Minister David Cunliffe.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00644.htm
20: Kamala Sarup: Children Are Kidnapped Globally
Kamala Sarup
The UNICEF report showed that " Warlords are forcing children in conflicts around the world to become killing machines. Some children are kidnapped from their schools or their beds, some are recruited after seeing their parents slaughtered, some may ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00540.htm
21: Spark Set To Assist New Entrepreneurs In 2007
Spark
Are you an aspiring entrepreneur? Do you have an idea for a business? Do you want to make a difference in society? Do you want to learn business skills? Do you want to be inspired by those who have made it and learn how? Then you need to continue ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00511.htm
22: The Auckland Accord
Local Government Forum
Ehara taku toa it te toa takitahi, engari takimano. Success is not achieved by a single person, but by many people.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00412.htm
23: Colombia FTA: Monkey Business for U.S.
Jose Maria Rodriguez Gonzalez
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) appears to offer a fair deal. It promises to open U.S. markets to Colombia in exchange for opening the Colombian market to the U.S. But in reality it is a Trojan horse in a minefield.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00521.htm
24: Classification System Helps Schools With Nutrition
Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Health’s mission to promote healthy eating in schools and early childhood education (ECE) services was boosted today with the release of the Food and Beverage Classification System Framework.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0703/S00115.htm
25: Uptake of 20 hours free low, likely to get lower
Early Childhood Council
The likely uptake of 20 hours free ECE by early childhood centres was low and likely to get lower, the Early Childhood Council’s (ECC) annual conference was told today. (30 March)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0703/S00125.htm
26: Improved Access To Diabetes Medicine
Eli Lilly And Company
Changes to Special Authority criteria extend the patient group eligible for subsidy and reduce wait for treatment.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0703/S00121.htm
27: NGOs raise concern over climate change
Council for International Development
A number of non-government organisations (NGOs) and other civil society organisations are calling on the government to set explicit targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00403.htm
28: Parker: Increasing security of supply to Auckland
New Zealand Government
Thank you for the opportunity to join you at the commissioning of your new gas-fired turbine generator, which will play a role in maintaining security of supply in and north of Auckland.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00646.htm
29: DOJ Emails Illustrate Plan to Mislead Congress
Jason Leopold
Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his closest advisers have stated repeatedly over the past two months that the selective firings of eight United States attorneys last year were justified because President Bush has the authority to purge ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00539.htm
30: State Dept. Daily Press Briefing March 29, 2007
US State Department
SYRIA Statement on Release of Syrian Political Prisoners and Open Political Discourse Issue of Detention of Political Prisoners Raised with Damascus by U.S. Upcoming Sentence Phase of Labwani and Al-Bunni / Parliamentary Elections in April
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00568.htm
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