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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 5 December 2009
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 5 December 2009
1: Bomber's
Blog: The War On News (video)
Bomber's BlogBomber's Blog - The War On News Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury. Bomber's Blog - the war on news. Weekly TV show on Triangle/Stratos. Bomber also posts on the Tumeke! blog: www.tumeke.blogspot.com
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0912/S00044.htm
2:
Climategate
Scandal and the Defeat of ETS
CFACTCFACT Executive Director Craig Rucker and CFACT Advisor Lord Christopher Monckton on the Climategate Scandal and the Defeat of Australia's Emission's Trading System
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0912/S00068.htm
3:
Top
Scoop Stories December 4th 2009 News
Summary
The Scoop EditorLEAD STORY Gordon Campbell: Public Funding For Rugby World Cup Few Can Afford To Attend NZ POLITICS Public Service: SSC Wants Teachers Under Code Of Conduct Balancing Env' Resp's w. Econ' Opp's: PM To Go To Copenhagen Key off to Copenhagen Standards: ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0912/S00043.htm
4:
The
Curse of Politically Engineered
Research
Hugh PavletichOn November 20th 2009 information was leaked from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia , casting serious doubt on climate research carried out within this institution and other institutions around the world. While the vintage ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0912/S00124.htm
5:
Scoop
Top 30 Daily Ratings 4 December 2009
Scoop Daily Ratings1: Taliban Winter Operations Targeted Australian Defence Force Joint Afghan and Australian operations in Afghanistan are having a significant impact on the Taliban’s weapons and ammunition reserves with the discovery of 44 caches in the past two months. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0912/S00045.htm
6:
Côte
D’ivoire: UN Pitches In On Polio
Campaign
United NationsNew York, Dec 4 2009 2:10PM United Nations peacekeepers airlifted doctors and vaccines to remote and inaccessible regions of Côte d’Ivoire today as the Government opened its latest campaign to immunize over 6 million children against polio.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0912/S00064.htm
7:
UN
Agency Welcomes Sri Lanka’s
Decision
United NationsThe United Nations refugee agency has welcomed Sri Lanka’s decision this week to allow greater freedom of movement for some 135,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) remaining in 20 closed camps in the country’s north following the recently-ended ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0912/S00066.htm
8:
Satates
Must Improve Efforts For Landmine
victims
United NationsStates must step up efforts to help landmine victims – including women, children and indigenous populations – in especially vulnerable situations, a senior United Nations human rights official has said.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0912/S00065.htm
9:
Imagining
2020 #4: Green Crude by Pete Fowler
Imagining 2020I was very pessimistic until last year about our prospects of weaning off fossil fuels before reaching an irreversible tipping point. Some positive feedback loop would kick in, like higher temperatures releasing trapped methane from arctic permafrost ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0912/S00030.htm
New Zealand PolicePolice are currently at the scene of a fatal shooting in Warkworth. Preliminary information from the scene advises that a female is deceased at the scene and Police are speaking with a male.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0912/S00057.htm
11:
Copenhagen
Summit: Decisions Should Be Taken Now
ITUCBrussels, 4 December (ITUC OnLine): On the eve of the UN Climate Conference (7-18 December, Copenhagen), the International Trade Union Confederation has called again on governments to take urgent and necessary measures to reach without delay a low-carbon ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0912/S00069.htm
12:
Consumers
need the tools to tackle climate
change
Consumers InternationalConsumers International (CI) will be representing the world’s consumer organisations at the climate change talks in Copenhagen, 7-18 December, and will demand that governments and businesses give consumers the tools they need to reduce their individual environmental ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0912/S00073.htm
13:
Board
members kept informed on ageing
issues
Age ConcernNational Health Board members will be kept informed on ageing issues– Age Concern Age Concern New Zealand congratulates members of the new National Health Board on their appointment and is looking forward to a productive relationship.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0912/S00072.htm
14:
Concert
For Greenpeace Climate Campaign
Greenpeace New ZealandAuckland December 5 2009 – Greenpeace’s Sign On climate campaign will today culminate in a march and free public concert in Auckland featuring top New Zealand bands and Sign On ambassadors performing.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0912/S00063.htm
15:
Binoy
Kampmark: The charge of the 30,000
Binoy KampmarkPresident Obama’s decision to deploy a further 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan looks like, on the surface, a chance to people more cemeteries. Politically, it has the effect of reaching out across the spectrum of political attitudes, hoping to, as ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0912/S00042.htm
16:
PPP's
for Schools Should Deliver Better
Outcomes
Infrastructure AucklandThe New Zealand Council for Infrastructure Development has welcomed the announcement by Minister of Education, Anne Tolley, that the Ministry of Education and Treasury are assessing the suitability of public-private partnerships (PPP) for building and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0912/S00014.htm
17:
World's
Press Asks Google To Respect
Copyright
World Association of NewspapersThe newspaper industry's representative association made an impassioned defense of copyright to Google's chief attorney on Thursday, calling for "a more rigorous and unambiguous acceptance" of publishers' rights to decide how their content is used.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0912/S00062.htm
18:
Police
response to assault charge being “petty
"
New Zealand PoliceA media report last night stated Police were petty and ridiculous in charging a man with throwing a cushion at a child.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0912/S00071.htm
19:
Taliban
Winter Operations Targeted
Australian Defence ForceJoint Afghan and Australian operations in Afghanistan are having a significant impact on the Taliban’s weapons and ammunition reserves with the discovery of 44 caches in the past two months.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0912/S00061.htm
20:
the
Obama Escalation in Afghanstan
World Association of NewspapersMany of the world's religious leaders in attendance at the Parliament of World Religions taking place in Melbourne, Australia, are in partial mourning for the dream of a new world that President Obama promised, and decisively torpedoed in his announcement ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0912/S00063.htm
21:
What
are we signing up to Mr Power?
United Future NZ PartyUnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne has called on the Government to release details of the recent international negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. “There is a lot of conjecture about the contents of ACTA and what it will mean ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0912/S00071.htm
22:
Oh
solar me-o: NIWA gives something to sing
about!
NIWASolarview, a free web-based tool from NIWA, helps you get the most out of your house. NIWA have designed and built a do-it-yourself tool that tells you how much sunlight your home receives at different times of the year. This helps you work out whether ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0912/S00013.htm
23:
Kupe
flows at last, as Kapuni starts to wind
down
BusinesswireCommercial oil and gas have flowed for the first time from the Kupe gas field today, 23 years after the field was first discovered.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0912/S00130.htm
24:
Kupe
Gas Project Commences Commissioning
Origin EnergyOrigin Energy New Zealand ('Origin'), on behalf of the Kupe Joint Venture, has announced that commissioning of the Kupe facilities has commenced with the wells being opened and the first gas and liquids being piped ashore to the gas processing plant at Hawera.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0912/S00131.htm
25:
Key
Notes: 04 December 2009
New Zealand GovernmentAt midnight on Monday, two new street racing laws came into effect. These give police, the courts, and councils new tools to crack down on boy racers.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0912/S00076.htm
26:
Ministry
of Justice is again avoiding the
issue
PSA“The Ministry of Justice is just avoiding the issue if they think they can unilaterally declare bargaining over and hope that the issues behind this dispute will simply fade away. They will not,” says PSA National Secretary Richard Wagstaff.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0912/S00070.htm
27:
£1.5
M For Dementia Research Launched
BupaNew £1.5 M For Dementia Research Launched By Alzheimer’s Society And The Bupa Foundation
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0912/S00016.htm
28:
Diabetes
Patient Progressing Well
Living Cell Technologies· In response to overwhelming public queries, clinician investigator reports progress on Living Cell Technologies’ (LCT’s) Diabetes Trial in New Zealand
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0912/S00012.htm
29:
Have
fun, keep kids safe outdoors this
summer
New Zealand Plunket SocietyPlunket and the National Poisons Centre are urging families to have fun but be safe in the outdoors this summer. Summer is a wonderful time to get involved with young children outside, and there are lots of new things to learn about and explore together ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0912/S00064.htm
30:
Should
Bisphenol A be banned?
Science Media CentreThis week Breast Cancer UK called for a Government ban on use of Bisphenol A in the production of baby bottles. Breast Cancer UK says there is "clear and compelling scientific evidence" that links BPA, an organic chemical compound used for the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0912/S00011.htm
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