Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For April 11 2010

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Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For April 11 2010

1: Day After Attack, Witnesses Describe US Killings

Democracy Now

As the US Central Command says it has no plans to reopen an investigation into the July 2007 helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff, we play never-before-seen eyewitness interviews filmed the day ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00054.htm

2: 70th Anniversary of the Katyn Massacre

US State Department

On April 7 and 10, senior Polish and Russian leaders are participating together in ceremonies commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. The mass murder in the Katyn forest 70 years ago is a tragic stain on Europe’s past. This meeting ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00106.htm

3: 'The Nation': Duncan Garner With Chris Finlayson

TV3

Speaking today on TV3’s “The Nation” Minister for Treaty Negotiations Chris Finlayson said hapu or iwi that secured customary title would be free to enter into commercial development partnerships.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00097.htm

4: Better Banking: Survey Gives Customers Their Say

Finsec

The Finance Sector Union in Australia and Finsec in New Zealand are teaming up to give customers and workers on both sides of the Tasman a chance to say what they think of the state of banking down under.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1004/S00207.htm

5: SRI LANKA: No Justice - No Nation

Asian Human Rights Commission

What makes a nation a nation is above all the justice that prevails within that nation. It is justice that creates the bond between the people. Justice connects one with the other.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00136.htm

6: FX Reserves Fly Through Previous Cycle Peak

JP Morgan

EM FX reserves rose at a $100billion/month pace from the end of 1Q09 through year-end; The rise has broadened across the EM with all major regions seeing roughly the same percent increase; Huge appetite for USD assets remains; share rises relative to EUR ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1004/S00205.htm

7: Key’s Whaling Plan Going Nowhere

New Zealand Labour Party

A number of nations in the whaling debate submitted comments to the International Whaling Commission last week. The plan, first proposed and now championed by New Zealand, would allow Japan, Norway and Iceland to legally hunt whales, breaking the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00090.htm

8: Lotto Heats Things Up

NZ Lotteries

Two Lotto players from Porirua and Dunedin won’t be too worried about the onset of winter after winning a $500,000 share of Lotto’s First Division in tonight’s draw, says NZ Lotteries’ Chief Executive, Todd McLeay.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1004/S00101.htm

9: FPI Overnight Brief: April 9, 2010

Foreign Policy Initiative

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed Thursday the most significant arms-control treaty in nearly two decades, declaring a new chapter of cooperation between the nations on nuclear issues and beyond.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00124.htm

10: Crash On SH1 by Cambridge

New Zealand Police

Police and Ambulance are attending a one vehicle crash along SH1 in the vicinity of where it intersects with SH29, south of the Tauranga turnoff and past the Karapiro straights.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1004/S00099.htm

11: Woman Rescued In Night Winch Mission

Life Flight Trust

The Wellington-based Westpac Rescue Helicopter winched an injured tramper from the Tararua Ranges earlier last evening. The helicopter was notified of the injured woman just after 6:09pm and responded with two Wellington Free Ambulance helicopter paramedics ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1004/S00100.htm

12: Q+A’s Panel Discussions With Holmes

Television New Zealand

18% of their Police budget's going to sort of alcohol related crimes and what have you, but it's just such a complex area right, I mean inequality is at the root of it, and the Police can only deal with the consequences of that inequality but we ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00101.htm

13: Michael Hudson: The Coming European Debt Wars

Michael Hudson

Government debt in Greece is just the first in a series of European debt bombs that are set to explode. The mortgage debts in post-Soviet economies and Iceland are more explosive. Although these countries are not in the Eurozone, most of their debts ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00057.htm

14: Results of the 26th New Zealand Shears

Shearing Sports New Zealand

International (15 lambs): New Zealand 84.62pts (John Kirkpatrick 10min 42.76sec, 41.471pts; James Fagan 10min 44.36sec, 43.151pts) beat Wales 93.011pts (Gareth Daniel 10min 51.01sec, 45.217pts; Gareth Evans 11min 6.54sec, 47.794pts).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1004/S00120.htm

15: 70th Anniversary of the Katyn Massacre

US State Department

On April 7 and 10, senior Polish and Russian leaders are participating together in ceremonies commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. The mass murder in the Katyn forest 70 years ago is a tragic stain on Europe’s past. This meeting ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00089.htm

16: Job Market Picks Up Steam

Trade Me Limited

The New Zealand employment market has grown steadily in the first three months of 2010, according to a study of 26,000 jobs listed on Trade Me Jobs. Keith Muirhead, head of Trade Me Jobs, said his team had seen consistent signs of growth in the first ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1004/S00206.htm

17: New Zealand Expresses Its Sympathy To Poland

New Zealand Government

The New Zealand Government has expressed its deepest condolences to Poland and its people on the tragic events of today, Acting Prime Minister Bill English says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00088.htm

18: Reparation Bill Will Put Victims First

New Zealand Labour Party

Labour Party Courts spokesperson Rick Barker has drafted a Member’s Bill that will put the interests of the victim first by placing the onus on offenders to pay reparation in full and up-front.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00089.htm

19: Genocide Is Australia’s Current Population Policy

Citizens Electoral Council

“Under the prevailing policies of British-led globalisation, free trade, economic rationalism and privatisation of state-owned assets, and the deepening systemic breakdown of the global financial and monetary system, Australians are participating in the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00143.htm

20: Digi Launches Enterprise Class Cellular Router

Digi International

Digi International (Nasdaq: DGII) today introduced the Digi TransPort(TM) WR44 with Gobi, the industry's first enterprise class cellular router with Qualcomm Gobi(TM) technology.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1004/S00015.htm

21: Ban Pays Tribute After Polish Leader Killed

United Nations

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his shock and sadness after learning of today's plane crash in western Russia that has killed the Polish President, his wife and many senior Government officials.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00141.htm

22: P-Lab Found: Hector, West Coast

New Zealand Police

At about 3.40pm on the 9th of April 2010, Police executed a Search Warrant at an address in Hector, on the West Coast. During the search, a number of items consistent with a clandestine laboratory, or P-Lab, were located inside the address.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1004/S00103.htm

23: Docherty Wins Opening World Championship Triathlon

Triathlon New Zealand

Bevan Docherty sent the triathlon world a message as he began the 2010 ITU Dextro Energy World Championship Series with a master class performance as he smashed a world class field in Sydney this morning.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1004/S00122.htm

24: That Man Fagan Wins And Faces The Dream

Shearing Sports New Zealand

Veteran shearing champion David Fagan has landed possibly the ultimate long-service award but possibly also one of his greatest challenges after winning his 17th New Zealand Championships open title in home-town Te Kuiti on Saturday night.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1004/S00121.htm

25: Sanskrit Shlokas Opened Alaska Senate

Rajan Zed

Both Alaska State Senate and House of Representatives in Juneau started day’s work with Hindu prayers on April nine. Rajan Zed, Hindu leader, read the opening prayers from ancient Sanskrit scriptures before Senators and Representatives on this day ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00144.htm

26: Civil Disobedience Shows Factory Farming Cruelty

New Zealand Open Rescue

Open Rescue member John Darroch has today began an occupation of a pig farm near Cambridge, locking himself to a silo on the farm. Darroch is taking this action to draw attention to the cruelty inherent in factory farming.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00098.htm

27: Release of the Nuclear Posture Review

US State Department

Today, the Department of Defense is releasing the Nuclear Posture Review, a report that outlines a balanced and comprehensive approach to dealing with the role of nuclear weapons in America’s national security.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00140.htm

28: Q+A’s Guyon Espiner Interviews Police Commissioner

Television New Zealand

Points of interest: It will be “decades” before some tougher government law and order policies take effect; Commissioner wants to “get into crime prevention in a big way” as there’s only “a small amount of evidence” that tougher sentences ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00099.htm

29: Missing Child: Waitemata

New Zealand Police

Waitakere Police located a 2 year old female last night at about 12.30am outside an address in Waimumu Rd in Massey. She was crying and in a state of distress and wearing a pink night dress.She is described as part Maori and cute as a button.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1004/S00098.htm

30: Global Fixed Income Markets Weekly

JP Morgan

Problems in the Greek banking sector caused spreads to widen to all time highs. Debt capital markets are likely shut for Greece and the only option at this time is an EC/IMF bailout.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00142.htm

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