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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 13 November 2009
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 13 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:
Young
People In Chadian Refugee Camps Need
Hope
United NationsThe top humanitarian official in Chad called for urgent attention to be paid to providing a better life for young men and women languishing in camps for refugees and displaced persons, warning that the alternatives for them would be prostitution or violence.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00464.htm
3:
Scoop
Editorial: Launching "Imagining 2020"
Alastair ThompsonA group of New Zealand websites has decided to get together and encourage discussion of the positive side to climate change mitigation. Afterall - how many of us really believe that the way the world is currently run is optimal - both for our personal ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00150.htm
4:
The
Sensuous Revolt: An Education
Binoy KampmarkSixteen-year old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is predictably impressionable. Intelligence and the odd cutting remark might equip her for the classroom joust and parents in suburban Twickenham. But she has much growing up to do, something which is given ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00148.htm
5:
Greenpeace
Activists: Obama Must Address Climate
Greenpeace New ZealandAuckland, 13 November 2009 - An international team of Greenpeace activists, in the heart of Indonesia's threatened rainforests, has called on United States President Barack Obama to take urgent action on climate change. The call has been made as Obama ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00467.htm
6:
Public
Address 13/11/09 - Don't sell us down
Public AddressIt's tempting to see the confrontation between the entertainment industry and the Internet as some kind of moral issue; a clash of the heavyweights with only one possible outcome: a triumph of good over evil. In the red corner we have the people who bring ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00149.htm
7:
UN
food summit 'fails before it begins'
Nick SquiresA UN Food Summit Aimed At Helping The One Billion People Worldwide Suffering From Hunger Has Been Declared A Failure A Week Before It Has Even Begun.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00465.htm
8:
Error
sends cost of ETS changes
skyrocketing
Carbon NewsStill secret new Treasury advice says the cost of changes to the emissions trading scheme might be up to three times as high as the Government has said, Carbon News reports this morning.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00130.htm
9:
Army LAVs off to Afghanistan
New Zealand GovernmentThree of the Army’s Light Armoured Vehicles (NZLAVs) and their crews are to be deployed to Afghanistan, Defence Minister Wayne Mapp announced today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00161.htm
10:
Scoop
Link: Guardian's 'Greenwash' vs New
Zealand
Scoop LinkBut my prize for the most shameless two fingers to the global community goes to New Zealand, a country that sells itself round the world as "clean and green".
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00137.htm
11:
Brazil
Spreads Concrete Through the
Rainforest
Council on Hemispheric AffairsDepletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world’s most biologically diverse ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00428.htm
12:
Harawira
as Independent would acknowledge
reality
The Maori PartyThe Maori Party says its request to Hone Harawira that he take up the opportunity to be an Independent MP simply acknowledges the reality of Mr Harawira's stance as an independent MP for Te Tai Tokerau. "Hone has said a number of times that he does ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00128.htm
13:
Scoop
Audio: Turia & Sharples on Harawira's
future
Scoop AudioMaori Party co-leader Tariana Turia said Hone Harawira is difficult to control and it does not look like he is going to change. The decision “to invite him to consider whether he would prefer to be independent” was made by the party a few days ago ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00142.htm
14:
Guardian
criticism reality check on climate
policy
New Zealand GovernmentCriticism in today’s Guardian is a reminder of the risk to New Zealand of not taking climate change seriously and ensuring our actions match our words, Minister for Climate Change Issues Nick Smith says. “The climate change policy the Government inherited ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00164.htm
New Zealand Labour PartyExcitement is building as the All Whites prepare to do the country proud in the winner take all World Cup qualifier tomorrow in Wellington, Labour Leader Phil Goff and Sport and Recreation spokesperson Chris Hipkins said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00162.htm
16:
Minister
Announces Gifted Advisory Group
New Zealand GovernmentAssociate Minister of Education Heather Roy today announced the appointment of the Gifted & Talented Advisory Committee which will provide advice on education tailored to gifted and talented students and to strengthen partnerships across the Education ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00169.htm
17:
Irwin
closure shows need for currency
controls
Engineering Printing and Manufacturing UnionThe closure of Irwin Industrial Tools due to the fluctuating New Zealand dollar shows the desperate need for a major overhaul of New Zealand’s financial system, says the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. The union, which represents workers ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00136.htm
18:
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
19:
Bahraini
Musicians Perform, Rally in
Wellington
Carolyn MeersA group of Bahraini musicians who arrived with the Bahrain football team last night performed in Midland Park this afternoon. Bahrain will compete with the New Zealand All Whites tomorrow, Saturday the 14th, in the FIFA World Cup qualifier at Westpac ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00143.htm
20:
Donating
made easy – payroll giving
New Zealand GovernmentThe Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector Tariana Turia and Revenue Minister Peter Dunne are asking employers, employees and community organisations to `give as you earn’ through payroll giving. The Government has introduced Payroll Giving ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00168.htm
ACT New Zealanddraft a Private Members' Bill – in support of calls from the father of murder victim Sophie Elliott – to change the rules regarding censorship of victim impact statements, giving victims and their families more freedom to confront those criminals who have ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00171.htm
22:
NZ,
Australia join forces on vaccine
rollout
New Zealand GovernmentNew Zealand is to contribute $420,000 to the World Health Organization (WHO) in support of an H1N1 vaccine roll out in the Asia Pacific region, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said today. “New Zealand’s donation, which will go towards the purchase of syringes ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00173.htm
23:
Speech:
Turia - Palliative Care Nurses
Conference
New Zealand GovernmentI was delighted to accept the invitation of Helen Cleaver, Chairperson Palliative Care Nurses New Zealand, to take part in this very special conference. Your role, in walking alongside families as they support their loved one to leave this world, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00154.htm
24:
Housing
Bubbles: Americans Ignoring Reality?
Hugh PavletichWithin this article - The Comprehensive State of the U.S. Housing Market: Learning to Love the Housing Data and Forgetting the Economic Facts. Everything you wanted to know about U.S. Housing Trends. » Dr. Housing Bubble Blog – Dr Housing Bubble ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0911/S00272.htm
25:
What
happens to students when school
closes?
PSA“Staff at a Waimokoia residential school in Auckland disagree with the government decision to close the school and are asking what will happen to the children,” says Public Service Association national secretary Brenda Pilott.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00134.htm
New Zealand GovernmentWaimokoia Residential School in Auckland is to close, Education Minister Anne Tolley has announced. “I have made my decision to close the school in the interests of the students, and based on reports from the Education Review Office (ERO) and the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00170.htm
27:
Minister
to attend world food security summit
New Zealand GovernmentAgriculture Minister David Carter will lead a New Zealand delegation to the World Summit on Food Security and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Conference in Rome next week.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00160.htm
28:
PM
to All Whites: The whole country is behind
you
New Zealand GovernmentPrime Minister John Key is wishing Ryan Nelsen and his All Whites all the best when they play for a place in the football World Cup finals tomorrow. Mr Key will be at the APEC Leaders meeting in Singapore when the All Whites play but he will be cheering ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00152.htm
29:
Alice
Cooper signed guitar for charity
auction
Raukatauri Music Therapy CentreA signed Alice Cooper guitar is on the card at a charity auction in aid of New Zealand’s sole music therapy centre. It’s just one of a selection of great music memorabilia up for grabs at the Raukatauri Music Therapy Trust auction in Auckland on November ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0911/S00199.htm
30:
Candor
Backs Call For Higher Alcohol Taxes
Candor TrustThe Campaign Against Drugs on Roads gives full backing to today's calls for raised alcohol taxes. The Salvation Army is correct to assert that a price hike of significance would forcibly reduce the harm to a notable degree.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00138.htm
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