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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 31 March 2007

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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: 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
3: Highest Number Of Blues Awarded For 57 Years
University Sport
University Sport New Zealand (USNZ) has announced the highest number of prestigious NZ Universities Blues awarded since 1950.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0703/S00337.htm
4: 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
5: Human Rights Council Concludes Disappointing Term
UN Watch
Geneva, March 30, 2007 — UN Watch expressed disappointment that the UN Human Rights Council concluded its fourth session today without addressing the vast majority of human rights abuses occurring around the world. The Council ignored such serious ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00592.htm
6: Govt data-mines GPs’ computers without permission
New Zealand National Party
Patients will be shocked that the Labour Government has put spyware on GPs’ computers in order to access personal medical records without permission, says National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00666.htm
7: Collins Comments - 30 March 2007
New Zealand National Party
Share your concerns on rising building and compliance costs, leaky homes and other issues at a Housing Forum which Maurice Williamson MP and I will be hosting on Monday 2 April at 7:30pm. Bob Clarkson MP for Tauranga will be addressing this meeting. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00656.htm
8: Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 30 March 2007
Scoop Daily Ratings
Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00556.htm
9: Hicks Forced To Agree To Gag Order With Plea
Center for Constitutional Rights
Guantãnamo Detainee May Not Speak To Press, Criticize His Detention Or Say He Was Tortured
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00591.htm
10: 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
11: Heather Roy's Diary – 30 March 2007
ACT New Zealand
In days gone by, armourers who made faulty weapons were tortured and killed by the survivors of the battle in which the weakness was revealed. If the executive of GlaxoSmithKline were aware of this, they clearly felt that they were out of the reach of the Ribena ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00655.htm
12: New Chairman for Meat & Wool New Zealand
Meat And Wool New Zealand
Directors of Meat & Wool New Zealand and the New Zealand Meat Board have elected Hawkes Bay farmer, Mike Petersen, as the Chairman of both organisations.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00569.htm
13: Kaitangata Sharemilkers Take Top Dairy Award
NZ Dairy Industry Awards
Kaitangata sharemilkers Mark Watt and Kylie May were named Otago Sharemilker of the Year and an awards presentation in Balclutha tonight.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0703/S00381.htm
14: 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
15: 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
16: 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
17: Today's Scoop Just Politics News Summary
The Scoop Team
Scoop Satire: We Need A Kyoto Policy That Emitters Like; Education: Preschools Not Keen To Take '20 Free' Deal; QUESTIONS OF THE DAY; MORE POLITICS HEADLINES; POLITICAL NEWSLETTERS; POLITICAL COLUMNS
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00555.htm
18: 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
19: Labour-led government delivers for families
New Zealand Government
Major initiatives coming into force on Sunday 1 April will make a significant difference to the lives of New Zealand families, Prime Minister Helen Clark said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00668.htm
20: David Swanson: A Veto Is a Vote for Eternal War
David Swanson
For George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, 2008 is too soon to end a war that they intend to last forever. 2008 is too soon to stop constructing enormous military bases in Iraq and abandon them. 2008 is too soon to bring our men and women home to their ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00544.htm
21: Top Scoops: Comment & Opinion Digest 30 March 2007
Alastair Thompson
Disarmament: Jeremy Rose On De-Nuking The Middle East - Scoop's Yasmine Ryan Reports From Lebanon Divided We Fall - - Kids: Celebrating A Son's First Birthday In A Troubled World - Iraq War: Congress Votes To End Iraq War – Bush Has Control Issues - US ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00553.htm
22: Climate Change Policies Need Better Analysis
New Zealand Business Roundtable
“New Zealand should move cautiously and in line with key trading partners in response to concerns about climate change. It should not proceed with ill-considered actions that could involve large costs for firms and households, seriously damage the New ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00566.htm
23: RDU Audio: Kate Gorgeous' Best of the Week IVs
Scoop Audio
RDU Audio: Kate Gorgeous from RDU Radio in Christchurch lines up the best interviews of the week, this week's feast includes Hinemoana Baker; Nat leader John Key; Green MP Sue Bradford; and Brit Muso Scruff...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00552.htm
24: New Pressure to Relinquish Palestinian Rights
Jamal Juma
Palestinians in our homeland and the diaspora remember the 30th of May as Land Day. On this day in 1976, six Palestinians were killed and a hundred injured by Israeli forces as Palestinians went on strike against a massive land confiscation scheme ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00547.htm
25: NZ Mission To The UN - Speech
New Zealand Government
I would like to begin by commenting on why New Zealand has invested so much to help bring this Convention to fruition. We want to assist the 80% of persons with disability living in developing countries, and especially those near neighbours of ours in the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00667.htm
26: 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
27: 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
28: Employers warned not to circumvent wage increase
Green Party
Employers have been advised by the Green Party not to try and circumvent this year's minimum wage increase as some tried to do last year.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00665.htm
29: Gaur Massacre: Issues, Contradictions & Conundrums
M.R. Josse
Understandably, the horrendous slaughter last Wednesday of 29 persons in Gaur by lathis, strangulation, and gunshot wounds, among other means, has been universally and very rightly condemned both at home and abroad. While the official version of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00542.htm
30: 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
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