TO CHANGE MY SCOOP OPTIONS OR UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST
IF YOU HAVE LOST YOUR PASSWORD
Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
US State Department
R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Washington, DC March 29, 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 ...
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.
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
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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
US State Department
Daniel S. Sullivan, Assistant Secretary for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Remarks as Prepared for Delivery
Managua, Nicaragua February 27, 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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
US State Department
Remarks at the Business Partnerships in Higher Education Luncheon Hosted by the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Local Government Forum
Ehara taku toa it te toa takitahi, engari takimano. Success is not achieved by a single person, but by many people.
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.
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.
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)
Eli Lilly And Company
Changes to Special Authority criteria extend the patient group eligible for subsidy and reduce wait for treatment.
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.
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.
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 ...
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