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national / environment Thursday July 24, 2003 - 14:46 by Caoimhín Ó Maolallaigh
 4 comments (last - thursday september 18, 2003 - 17:02)
A report from the Environmental Protection Agency says Ireland will not escape from the impacts of global climate change. The research predicts that winter rainfall in this country will increase by 10%, but will decrease significantly - by as much as 40% - on parts of the south and east coasts in summer. The research says sea level rises, coupled with predicted increases in the frequency of extreme weather events, will make low lying areas extremely vulnerable. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday July 24, 2003 - 11:33 by James McKenna
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Dermot Ahern, Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources launched the European Biometrics Forum(EBF) at the inaugural European Biometrics Forum Conference hosted last Monday 21st July, at Media Labs Europe, Dublin. Medialabs is run by MIT , Boston, Intel and a former Milltown Park Brainwashee. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday July 24, 2003 - 10:07 by Disarm DSEi
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London Docklands, London, UK. Week of Action: 6th - 12th Sept Big demonstrations on 9th and 10th Accomodation provided! :-) ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 24, 2003 - 08:17 by joe ranii
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Aware that they would receive perhaps 2% of the vote if they ran for election in Colombia, FARC's answer is to threaten to kill decent men and women who have the guts to seek a mandate from the people. This crude intimidation provides further evidence of the FARC's ideological disarray and moral bankruptcy. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday July 23, 2003 - 19:55 by Stunned
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From RTE business an interesting list of the National Pensions Reserves fund unethical investments which include Raytheon, manufacturer of the Tomahawk Cruise Missile. Even with these investments the fund still lost almost €750m (16% of its value) of taxpayers money last year. Lockheed Martin €3.8m invested as of December 31 2002 Northrop Grumman 1.6m Raytheon 742,000 BEA Systems 263,000 Bombardier 211,000 Cigarettes Philip Morris 10.5m British American Tobacco 3.6m Imperial Tobacco 2.8m Oil Royal Dutch 103m BP 15.1m Shell 13.1m Exxon Mobil 47.2m Halliburton 1.1m Miscellaneous Monsanto 2.5m Nike 5.3m Walmart 33m Starbucks 4.6m MacDonalds 2.3m Coca Cola 15.3m Fox Entertainment 250,000 BSkyB 8.2m Microsoft 47m Companies that have had financial difficulties Tyco 4.9m QWest Communications 706,000 AOL Time Warner 14.5m ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday July 23, 2003 - 18:25 by Juliana Fredman
This from a woman making a film in the West Bank about the state of Palestinian health care under the Israeli occupation. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday July 23, 2003 - 16:01 by advisory service.
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As you will see in today's papers in Ireland, yesterday two bombs exploded in Spain. They were planned, planted, and exploded by ETA. Since the beginning of July ETA has counted five bomb attacks. Since the beginning of it's annual "summer holidays" bombing season 167 attacks have been made. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday July 23, 2003 - 15:36 by Rooster
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THE SDLP today accused Sinn Fein of glorifying terrorist violence by selling pro-IRA merchandise on the Internet. The new official website being launched today by Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, calls on visitors to buy T-shirts with logos such as 'IRA Undefeated Army' and 'Sniper at Work'. ... read full story / add a comment |
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