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international / environment Wednesday November 08, 2006 - 14:10 by Niamh Nic Carthaigh
Against a backdrop of poverty, failing rains and increasing drought, delegates from 189 countries are meeting in Nairobi, Kenya to discuss climate change. Christian Aid is there too, urging the world’s environment ministers and their climate change negotiators to agree a new framework for rapidly and dramatically cutting carbon emissions to safeguard people’s lives and livelihoods in the future. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday November 08, 2006 - 03:59 by TJ
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Through "purity of arms" at least 50 Palestinians have been butchered, forty homes destroyed and 400 damaged in the IDF's latest invasion of the Gaza Strip, ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday November 08, 2006 - 00:48 by paddyweb
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How Kildare County Council treats it's tennants. ... read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday November 07, 2006 - 23:01 by iosaf
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In the last week this year's "transparency org" world corruption perception report has been published. It's a report which is taken seriously by some, and certainly no country looking for foreign investment wants to be at the bottom of the 163 states ranked this year. (Interestingly the world boasted 158 states for last year's report) But both the annual list of "corruption perception" and "bribery perception" indices, can not be understood as isolated statistics. Just as Greenspan's biographer assured us he takes stock of over 4000 weekly indicators, we can not consider just one single country or economy when discussing corruption or bribery. Nor can we refuse to draw in other human development indicators, (the UNHDR report) all the usual "facts and figures" and internal data. ... read full story / add a comment |
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