Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 24 November 2009
Citizens Electoral Council
There is increasing panic that America’s commercial real estate market is set to implode, which will hurl the world’s
biggest economy even faster towards sovereign debt default, and a chain reaction global collapse that will swamp every
national ...
The Maori Party
Tai Tokerau is the best place in the world to live, and the Tai Tokerau electorate has got the wildest bunch of voters
in the country, and if you’d been up at Aniwaniwa the other week you would’ve seen just how wild they can get when
somebody from ...
Australian Defence Force
The Commanding Officer of the Royal Australian Navy’s heavy landing ship HMAS Tobruk, Commander Peter Thompson, was
honoured by the King of Tonga, George Tupou V, at a ceremony on 21 November 2009, at the Royal Villa in the Tongan
capital, Nuku’alofa.
Voting News
NY-23 E-Vote Failures Merit Full Hand-Count in Response, An update to the reports of an e-voting 'virus', and other
failures, in New York's recent Special Election for the U.S. House..New Yorks CD-23 had a source code bug not virus, but
questions ...
United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today praised the work of his personal representatives and special envoys for directing
the life-saving and rebuilding work of the United Nations around the world.
New Zealand Government
The Government has secured the support of the Māori Party to enable New Zealand to implement an affordable and workable
emissions trading scheme next year, Minister for Climate Change Issues Nick Smith says.
New Zealand Government
Minister of Internal Affairs Nathan Guy has announced the roll-out of a new style of ePassport from today, containing
new artwork and security features. “The new security features will help to future-proof our passport against fraudsters
and maintain ...
George McLellan
Richard Gage Presentation on the Truth Behind the 9/11 Investigation Images, Audio and Story By George McLellan
Science Media Centre
The so-called "climategate" emails have been seized on by climate change sceptics who claim they show leading climate
scientists have manipulated data and the peer-review journal system to fit their theory of global warming. But the
quoted researchers ...
Global Research
There is no way of overestimating the challenge that the emergence of ALBA and the overall reawakening of Latin America
pose to the role that the U.S. arrogates to itself as lord of the entire Western Hemisphere. The almost two-century-old
Monroe ...
The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY ETS Phones Home: Nat-Maori Deal "Strikes Balance".Fancy That. Govt will put parliament into urgency to pass
ETS bill NZ POLITICS Jobs For The Boys And Girls: Government Action? Violence Against Women: White Ribbon Day Wednesday
Funding: Auckland ...
www.healthcheque.co.nz
What sort of shape is our health system in? Is it the third world cast-off that some commentators would have us believe,
or is it a model of success?
Science Media Centre
The so-called "climategate" emails have been seized on by climate change sceptics who claim they show leading climate
scientists have manipulated data and the peer-review journal system to fit their theory of global warming. But the
quoted researchers ...
Sasha Uzunov
A man who claims he was an Australian soldier on the East Timor-Indonesia border and viewed through binoculars but was
powerless to stop the brutal murder of 3 United Nations aid workers in Atambua in 2000 has had an application for a
disability pension ...
The Maori Party
The Maori Party has expressed their profound shock at hearing of the death of prominent school principal and local body
politician Hawea Vercoe. “Hawea was a young man with enormous energy for life who had achieved a significant profile
across Aotearoa ...
Action On Smoking And Health
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and Te Reo Marama are calling for the immediate withdrawal of tobacco company,
British American Tobacco (BAT) as a finalist for the JRA Best Workplaces Awards. ASH director, Ben Youdan says the
nomination is nothing ...
March for Democracy
The organisers of the March for Democracy say they have had a response from the Prime Minister’s office and are in
discussion to confirm a date for a meeting with him. “Obviously we appreciate the prompt response from the Prime
Minister,” says march ...
New Zealand Government
I was delighted to accept the invitation by the President of the Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce; Jo Bansgrove
and the Chief Executive, Charles Finney, to speak to you this morning. Twenty-one years ago, in the 1988 Report of the
Royal Commission ...
New Zealand Labour Party
The Government’s desperation to be seen to be doing something to combat youth unemployment appears to be the only
explanation for the Education Minister’s recycled statement on polytechnic funding today, says Labour Tertiary Education
spokesperson Maryan ...
New Zealand Labour Party
Climate Change Issues Minister Nick Smith today put Crown interests at risk by recklessly quoting part of a sensitive
Cabinet document in Parliament, says Labour's climate change spokesperson Charles Chauvel. “Nick Smith is compounding
the ETS shambles,” ...
Businesswire
Nov. 25 (BusinessWire) – New Zealand shares fell, pushing the NZX 50 Index lower for a third day, as the kiwi dollar
strengthened and milk processor Synlait abandoned its IPO, citing lack of response from investors. PGG Wrightson led the
decline.
Libertarianz Party
"The recently leaked emails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University demonstrate how much of a political
football global warming research has become. Even the left-leaning New York Times has admitted that scientists
supporting the ...
Scoop Audio
Prime Minister John Key’s Weekly Post Cabinet Press Conference. During the first half of the conference Nick Smith and
Pita Sharples announced their deal on the Emissions trading scheme. You can listen to that here. During the second half
of the conference ...
Bayley's Real Estate
The first person in New Zealand to join the international trend of merging the marketing and sales of residential
property with environmental sustainability has been appointed to run the Titirangi branch of leading property real
estate agency Bayleys.
Waitakere City
The $500 million funding for an electric train fleet is a step toward an eco city Auckland, says Waitakere Mayor Bob
Harvey. “This is great news for the West and for Auckland. Waitakere’s eco city vision is becoming regional. “Electric
rail ...
New Zealand Government
Tomorrow evening the Parliamentary rugby team will play an invitational diplomatic team from Embassies across
Wellington. Spanish Ambassador Marcos Gomez, who issued a challenge to the Parliamentary side from the Diplomatic
community, said 13 Embassies ...
New Zealand Government
Education Minister Anne Tolley has announced that Aorangi School in Christchurch will close on 27 January 2010. “This
has not been an easy decision to make, but after considering final submissions from the school and from the Ministry of
Education ...
Geoff Ross
Geoff Ross hopes New Zealand’s public shaming for its lack of green credentials last week will help inspire the
country’s leaders to embrace the green boom.
United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture Leader Peter Dunne is urging Minister of Education Anne Tolley to ease the burden on the staff, students
and parents of Aorangi School and make a decision over the school’s future as soon as possible. “The staff, students and
parents ...
New Zealand Labour Party
Minister of Social Development has deliberately misled New Zealanders on the success of the National Party’s Job Op
scheme, Labour Deputy Leader Annette King said today. “Paula Bennett today claimed that the success of the Job Ops
scheme had resulted ...