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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 12 December 2006
Wednesday, 13 December 2006, 8:43 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
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NYT Editorial: The Road to Reliable Elections
Tuesday, 12 December 2006, 1:45 pm | Scoop Link
Two influential federal advisory groups have added their voices to an emerging national consensus that voting machines must produce a voter-verified paper record if they are to be trusted. One of those groups, the one dominated not by scientists but by ... More >>
UN Audio: Annan Gives USA a Message
Tuesday, 12 December 2006, 10:20 am | Scoop Audio
UN Audio: (click here to listen) Only through multi-lateral institutions can states hold each other to account: Annan - UNICEF Urges Empowerment of Women to Help Children - UN Fact-Finding Mission to Beit Hanoun Still Awaiting Israeli Authorization - A ... More >>
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 11 December 2006
Tuesday, 12 December 2006, 8:46 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were... More >>
Today's Top Scoop Stories - News Summary
Tuesday, 12 December 2006, 12:21 am | The Scoop Team
Int. News: Annan Tells USA Multilateralism Best For World Affairs - QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWER: - RECOMMENDED AUDIO - Liam Ashley: Report Shows Bungling By Corrections And Chubb - Health: Schoolchildren To Be Deprived Of Fizzy Drink - Energy: Draft ... More >>
ACLU Lawsuit Claims Rumsfeld Ordered Torture
Monday, 11 December 2006, 5:14 pm | Scoop Link
As Donald Rumsfeld prepares to leave his job as secretary of Defense, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is seeking to hold him responsible for what it says was widespread torture carried out at his direction. [Editor's Note: The original ... More >>
New NATO Commander's Gitmo Links Raise Questions
Monday, 11 December 2006, 5:14 pm | Scoop Link
Human rights groups have expressed concern over the appointment of NATO's new military chief who was sworn in at the Alliance's military headquarters in Belgium on Thursday. More >>
Video & Link: Sheehan Trial for Protest at UN NYC
Monday, 11 December 2006, 5:14 pm | Scoop Link
It started as a tiny act of protest. Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq who had held a vigil near President Bush's ranch, and a group of women wanted to submit a petition to the United States Mission to the United Nations in Manhattan, ... More >>
Today's Scoop Just Politics News Summary
Monday, 11 December 2006, 3:43 pm | The Scoop Team
Liam Ashley: Report Shows Bungling By Corrections And Chubb; Energy: Draft Energy Strategy Released; Housing News: Residential Properties Rise In Value By 9.4%; Trade: State To Seek Legal, Sustainable Wood; MORE POLITICAL HEADLINES; POLITICAL COLUMNS More >>
Sweeping Changes Expected in Voting by 08 Election
Monday, 11 December 2006, 3:23 pm | Scoop Link
By the 2008 presidential election, voters around the country are likely to see sweeping changes in how they cast their ballots and how those ballots are counted, including an end to the use of most electronic voting machines without a paper trail, federal ... More >>
Oil for Sale: ISG Recommends Privatization
Monday, 11 December 2006, 3:23 pm | Scoop Link
In its heavily anticipated report released on Wednesday, the Iraq Study Group made at least four truly radical proposals. The report calls for the United States to assist in privatizing Iraq's national oil industry, opening Iraq to private foreign ... More >>
Liam Ashley Report: Findings And PDF
Monday, 11 December 2006, 1:04 pm | Scoop Transcript
In Late August 2006 Liam Ashley, 17, was assaulted in a Chubb security van as it was driven to the remand prison in Mt Eden, Auckland. Liam Ashley was in the van with George Charlie Baker, who has pled guilty to murder. More >>
Scoop Top 30 Weekend Ratings - 9-10 Dec. 2006
Monday, 11 December 2006, 7:00 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
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Chile's Former Brutal Dictator Dies At 91 Years
Monday, 11 December 2006, 12:46 am | Scoop Link
Justice: Former Chilean Dictator Pinochet Avoids Trial Through Death - In a sign of how much Pinochet still divided his country, some Chileans danced in the streets at the news of his death, while others wept outside the hospital. Car horns blared ... More >>
Today's Top Scoop Stories - News Summary
Monday, 11 December 2006, 12:08 am | The Scoop Team
Housing News: Residential Properties Rise In Value By 9.4% - Corrections News: Power Calls For O'Connor To Resign Over Ashley Murder - Sutch Case: Profiteering Ex-Spy Kit Bennett Is Taken To Task - Legislation: 2008 Cutoff For Historical Treaty Claims ... More >>
Today's Scoop Just Politics News Summary
Friday, 8 December 2006, 4:15 pm | The Scoop Team
Sutch Case: Profiteering Ex-Spy Kit Bennett Is Taken To Task; Legislation: 2008 Cutoff For Historical Treaty Claims Becomes Law; Foreign Affairs: NZ Korea Force Closer Relationship; Media: TVNZ Under Attack For Covering News - ; Media: TVNZ Under Attack ... More >>
Today's Top Scoop Stories - News Summary
Friday, 8 December 2006, 3:09 pm | The Scoop Team
Sutch Case: Profiteering Ex-Spy Kit Bennett Is Taken To Task - Foreign Affairs: NZ Korea Force Closer Relationship - New Arrivals: Baby Born In Helicopter During Emergency Flight - Crime News: Woman Farmer Convicted Of Ill-Treating Goat - Sludge ... More >>
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 7 December 2006
Friday, 8 December 2006, 8:29 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
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Iraq Panel: War a Catastrophe, Pullout by '08
Thursday, 7 December 2006, 10:17 pm | Scoop Link
Circumstances in Iraq are "grave and deteriorating," with a potential government collapse and a "humanitarian catastrophe" if the U.S. does not change course and seek a broader diplomatic solution to the problems that have wracked the country ... More >>
Today's Scoop Just Politics News Summary
Thursday, 7 December 2006, 4:11 pm | The Scoop Team
Sludge Report: Will Bollard Get Mean On Pre-Christmas Spenders?; QUESTIONS OF THE DAY; The Hollow Men: Nicky Hager Responds to Don Brash; Fiji Coup: Clark Calls On Military Elements To Overthrow Bainimarama; Veteran News: Govt Reaches Agreement ... More >>
