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national / animal rights Thursday February 02, 2006 - 22:17 by B. Wright
Report tells of new EPO drug use claim Irish Times - Ireland A greyhound racing board member told a board meeting last week he believed a number of trainers were using the performance-enhancing drug EPO on greyhounds, a ... See all stories on this topic Greyhound Action Ireland (affiliated to GA International) is tonight calling on its members to contact Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy in light of the recent revelations and admissions of drug administering by two well known trainers. An urgent and immediate Gardai investigation into possible breaches of the Misuse of Drugs Act and the Protection of Animals Act by both trainers Paul Hennessy and John Kiely is being sought. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / politics / elections Thursday February 02, 2006 - 16:16 by hs
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Socialists should not celebrate Hamas’s victory in the Palestinian elections. Women and secular forces will very likely be the first to suffer, http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/610/hamas.htm ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday February 02, 2006 - 12:54 by Eamonn
A garden of Eden in Danger from Greedy Chinese Capitalists I read about this story on the Times Online... I am grateful to the newspaper for their reporting , and post the link with due regard for laws about copyright etc Who looks after the Planet to such a degree? ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Thursday February 02, 2006 - 10:46 by iosaf
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This story began (for some) on the 30th of Sept. 2005 when a Danish newspaper published a series of cartoons depicting Muhummad PBUH the prophet of Islam. For others this story began on the 14th of February 1989 when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini then supreme leader of Iran issued a "fatwa" calling for the execution of Salman Rushdie on Tehran radio. & for yet others more, this story began with the Quran and that no visual images or depictions of God exist because such artistic depictions may lead to idolatry and are thus disdained. A similar position in Christian theology is termed iconoclasm. Moreover, most Muslims believe that God is incorporeal, making any two- or three- dimensional depictions impossible. This prohibition is extended to the prophets of God. (peace be upon them). ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Thursday February 02, 2006 - 07:23 by GPSEA
Greenpeace, along with Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Humane Society, revealed the link between the whaling in the Southern Ocean and Gortons. We revealed that the Japanese parent company that wholly owns Gortons, Nippon Suissan, also partly owns the whaling fleet whose boats depart every year to hunt whales in Antarctica. ... read full story / add a comment |
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