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international / animal rights Tuesday October 28, 2008 - 15:02 by john and mary   text 4 comments (last - monday december 01, 2008 - 22:30)
Guga , young gannet chicks, are considered a delicacy by the villagers from Ness, on the Isle of Lewis .About this time every year boatloads of men from Ness sail thirty miles to the uninhabited island of Sula Sgeir, where thousands of gannets spend the summer nesting on cliff faces , to hunt /murder the young guga.
The animal rights group Advocates for Animals is trying to get the hunt banned in the European Court . The group’s campaign director Ross Minnet told the London Independent last Saturday "The brutal and totally unnecessary guga hunt belongs back in the dark ages and has no place in a modern, 21st-century Scotland. It belongs in the pages of history books.”
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national / animal rights Tuesday October 28, 2008 - 14:31 by john and mary   text 4 comments (last - thursday january 01, 2009 - 03:23)
The Irish Times reports today that on November 9th, a one-year-old Clydesdale called Claddagh King Bruce will be flown from Dublin to Frankfurt and on to Delhi. It is thought that Claddagh King Bruce will be used for breeding purposes for the horse racing industry and not directly for slaughter ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Tuesday October 28, 2008 - 13:01 by john and mary   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 28, 2008 - 14:21)
People often don’t realize that Halloween can be a terrifying time for animals . The DSPC has issued warnings to owners to keep their pets indoors for Halloween night “in an area where they cannot escape and where the noise of bangers and fireworks is at a minimum”.
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international / anti-capitalism Tuesday October 28, 2008 - 10:44 by Drew
Latest edition of The Red Star, journal of the CPN (M). Articles include:

Maoist holding national cadre meeting

Radical programs soon : PM Prachanda

People’s Republic will be federal and competitive – Prachanda, Prime Minister, Government of Nepal / Chairman, Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
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