Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For Sept 20 2010

Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 9:37 am
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Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For Sept 20 2010

1:Vote Tampering Lawsuit In Shelby County, TN

Bradblog.Com

While barreling westward across the Great Plains yesterday, I received an urgent text message from Bev Harris of the non-partisan election integrity watchdog organization BlackBoxVoting.org . She and Susan Pynchon, an election integrity advocate from Florida ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1008/S00196/vote-tampering-lawsuit-in-shelby-county-tn.htm

2:Boards recommend merger

Joint Media Statement

The boards of Pyne Gould Corporation (PGC), MARAC, CBS Canterbury (CBS) and Southern Cross Building Society (SCBS) have determined that their plan to form a New Zealand listed banking and financial services group is compelling and have formally committed ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1009/S00524/boards-recommend-merger.htm

3:Undernews For September 15, 2010

Undernews

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You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. - Woody Allen HOW THE NEW YORKER, NY TIMES AND OTHER LIBERALS HELPED START THE IRAQ WAR Michael Moore, Daily Beast - We invaded Iraq because most ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1009/S00124/undernews-for-september-15-2010.htm

4:Scoop Satire: The Christchurch Dialogues

Lyndon Hood

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1009/S00120/scoop-satire-the-christchurch-dialogues.htm

5:Sri Lanka: Is it some new political science?

Asian Human Rights Commission

"Who is the ultimate arbiter whom the citizens of Sri Lanka should follow" is the biggest question troubling Dr Dayan Jayathillake, a Sri Lankan writer. What is troubling me, though, is the fact that this is hardly a question that should trouble a political ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1009/S00306/sri-lanka-is-it-some-new-political-science.htm

6:Qurans, Commemorations and Ground Zero

Binoy Kampmark

The tension on the site of‘Ground Zero’, New York’s historical wound that refuses to heal, becomes more tense with each year. There is still no monument to the slain. The Cordoba Initiative, which‘seeks to actively promote engagement ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1009/S00084/qurans-commemorations-and-ground-zero.htm

7:IG Markets Afternoon Windup

IG Markets

In Asia, regional markets are all higher following the cautiously positive leads from Wall St. The Nikkei 225 is the best performer, up 1.3% as a weaker yen helped large cap exporters to rise. Elsewhere, the Hang Seng, Kospi and Shanghai Composite ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1009/S00586/ig-markets-afternoon-windup.htm

8:India: Diarrhea and cholera are social disasters

Asian Human Rights Commission

Death visited Orissa once again. Whenever the rainy season comes, death from the waterborne diseases of diarrhea and cholera follow. As the rains are a natural phenomenon, can the deaths also be natural and unavoidable?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1009/S00307/india-diarrhea-and-cholera-are-social-disasters.htm

9:Kiwis ambush UN Summit with jandals

Divya Dhar

Twelve young Kiwis will tackle the poverty pandemic with world leaders and bright footwear at the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York next week.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1009/S00308/kiwis-ambush-un-summit-with-jandals.htm

10:Altmusic Christchurch presents

Altmusic

Tomutonttu is the solo project of Jan Anderzén, a visual artist and musician from Tampere, Finland, whose pivotal role in Kemialliset Ystävät and collaborative raids in Avarus and Anaksimandros has - alongside Fonal label colleagues, Es, Paavoharju, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1009/S00195/altmusic-christchurch-presents.htm

11:Hide Accepts Garrett’s Resignation

ACT New Zealand

ACT Leader Rodney Hide today accepted the resignation of David Garrett MP from the ACT Party.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1009/S00268/hide-accepts-garretts-resignation.htm

12:Godfrey to stand for Auckland Airport Board

Auckland International Airport

The directors of Auckland Airport are pleased to announce that, following an international search, Mr Brett Godfrey has been recruited by the board to stand for election as a director of the company at the annual meeting on 28 October 2010.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1009/S00584/godfrey-to-stand-for-auckland-airport-board.htm

13:Castro’s Change of Heart

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

After four years of silence induced by grave physical illness, punctuated only by occasional newspaper commentaries, Fidel Castro has regained his voice. To the surprise of many, he is using it to make some startling comments on the escalating conflict ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1009/S00309/castros-change-of-heart.htm

14:Large Protest Against Austerity Measures

International Trade Union Confederation

Brussels, 17 September 2010 (ITUC OnLine): Around 20,000 people are expected to attend the large protest that will be organised in Bucharest on 22 September by the National Council of CNSLR-FRATIA and supported by the ITUC on the eve of the World Day for ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1009/S00310/large-protest-against-austerity-measures.htm

15:Garrett Response To Campbell Live [13/09/10]

ACT New Zealand

ACT New Zealand MP David Garrett today responded to issues raised on September 13 2010 edition of TV3’s‘Campbell Live’ show regarding an incident that occurred while he was living in Tonga in 2002.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1009/S00273/garrett-response-to-campbell-live-130910.htm

16:South Island: Road Conditions

New Zealand Police

Police report a quiet night following the weather issues facing the South Island during the previous 36 hours. SH8 between Fairlie and Twizel remains closed, along with SH80 Lake Pukaki to Mount Cook and SH 79 betweeen Geraldine and Fairlie.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0606/S00121.htm

17:Tradefinder Finds Success Online

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Tradefinder Online has become New Zealand's largest, targeted'Consumer Rated' directory for Home Improvement Professionals-
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0401/S00034.htm

18:Global NATO Raises Alarms From Arctic To Brazil

Rick Rozoff

The current century's only and history's largest military bloc will hold the latest of what have become annual summits in Lisbon, Portugal this November 19 and 20. Heads of state, defense chiefs and chiefs of general staff from the North Atlantic Treaty ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1009/S00130/global-nato-raises-alarms-from-arctic-to-brazil.htm

19:University of Auckland top in new ranking system

University of Auckland

The new 2010-11 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings have confirmed The University of Auckland's position as the top university in New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1009/S00082/university-of-auckland-top-in-new-ranking-system.htm

20:Garrett Quits Parliament

Rory MacKinnon

Beleaguered ACT MP David Garrett says he has quit the party and is taking two weeks’ leave from Parliament.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1009/S00126/garrett-quits-parliament.htm

21:Questions and Answers - 16 September 2010

Office of the Clerk

Justice System—Minister’s Views on Rehabilitation; Earthquake, Canterbury—Progress of Recovery; Television, Switch-over to Digital—Recent Announcements; Early Childhood Education—Policy Initiatives
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1009/S00258/questions-and-answers-16-september-2010.htm

22:ACT party and Hide thoroughly discredited

New Zealand Labour Party

The Act Party and its leader Rodney Hide are now thoroughly discredited and John Key should remove Act from ministerial positions within his administration, says Labour Leader Phil Goff.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1009/S00272/act-party-and-hide-thoroughly-discredited.htm

23:U.S. Soldiers Trade Images Of Iraqi Dead For Porn

Richard S. Ehrlich

Richard Ehrlich reports that U.S. troops in Iraq have traded hundreds of images of mutilated corpses in exchange for free online pornography, according to the owner of a Web site investigated by the Pentagon.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0509/S00389.htm

24:Suffrage Day: Kate Sheppard would not be impressed

New Zealand Council of Trade Unions

The Government is pushing through changes to employment law that will set back women’s equality in the workforce, says the Women’s Council of the CTU.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1009/S00218/suffrage-day-kate-sheppard-would-not-be-impressed.htm

25:Visit to Special Air Service Regiment

Australian Defence Force

Today I visited the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) at Campbell Barracks in Swanbourne, Western Australia. This was my first official visit to a Defence facility in Western Australia since being sworn in as Minister for Defence on Tuesday 14 September.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1009/S00311/visit-to-special-air-service-regiment.htm

26:Combat imagery of Deh Rawud battle released

Australian Defence Force

Defence has released imagery of the fierce fire-fight between insurgents and a combined Afghan National Army and Australian Army patrol in which Lance Corporal Jared MacKinney was tragically killed.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1009/S00312/combat-imagery-of-deh-rawud-battle-released.htm

27:Whatever happened to the ozone hole?

NIWA

This year’s ozone hole season is“slow to kick in,” says NIWA atmospheric scientist, Dr Olaf Morgenstern.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1009/S00023/whatever-happened-to-the-ozone-hole.htm

28:NAEAC Annual Report Released

Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry

Notification of the numbers of animals used in research, testing and teaching was released today, in the National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee (NAEAC) Annual Report.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0609/S00006.htm

29:Daily Press Briefing - September 16, 2010

US State Department

Statement by Secretary Clinton and Secretary Gates on New START Treaty; Transfer of Two Detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Germany; U.S. Salutes Mexico on 200 Years of Independence; Ongoing Efforts to Seek Release of Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1009/S00297/daily-press-briefing-september-16-2010.htm

30:First Canterbury Earthquake Orders Made

The Scoop Team

The first orders have been made under the Canterbury Earthquake Response and Recovery Act by Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1009/S00127/first-canterbury-earthquake-orders-made.htm

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