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Dick Cheney's Skeezeball Hobby

16-12-2003 08:37

Dick Cheney's shooting spree at the Rolling Rock Club near Latrobe, Pennsylvania
is an affront to the traditional values of American hunting.

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Air travel killing off sunshine

13-12-2003 19:34

This is not a post from the 'chemtrails' person. It's a report from the Metro explaining the pollution caused by vapour trails from increasing numbers of aeroplanes - now you know why you see the sky crisscrossed with trails, followed by a clouding over (and of course warming).

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Madness & the end of the world

13-12-2003 01:23

The lives that we lead are making us crazy; know what I mean?

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((( NO ))) to the Orpesa-Cabanes road

12-12-2003 09:31

We need your support to the resistance against the building of a new road between Orpesa and Cabanes. You can Fill out the form that is below and a protest e-mail will be send by you to the responsibles of this ecological barbarity: Autonomic Department of Infrastructures, Autonomic Department of Territory and NECSO Corp.

 http://noalvial.homelinux.net/index2_en.php

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'What's the Big Deal?' performed at UN & Parliament to expose Kyoto, 10.12.03

11-12-2003 19:01

London Rising Tide (LRT) took a deep breath and tumbled into its first bout of street theatre on Wednesday December 10th, to show solidarity with grassroots protests at the COP9 climate stitch-up in Milan, and to introduce a surprisingly controversial note of scepticism into many people's rose-tinted take on the Kyoto Protocol.

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Cop9 Climate Latest: UN agrees GE trees!

10-12-2003 13:34

The latest United Nations L.T.D. techno fix to climate change; introduce Genetically Engineered trees into our environment.
Meanwhile, Italy's grass roots have no time for "environmental protests". No-one seriously objects.
Milan Zero Protest Zone.

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[Milan-Cop9] "UN to allow GM-Trees for producing carbon credits"

10-12-2003 11:28

Propaganda on www.enn.com, GM-trees that grow high and birds like it.
Diplomats made a draft-plan at the Cop9 Climate Conference in Milan Tuesday that includes genetically-modified trees as a means to generate carbon credits. According to proponents, trees soak up carbon and can be used to reduce the quantity of CO2 in the air, one of the six main greenhousegases. Ministers will arrive in Milan on Wednesday to further discuss.

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controversial BNRR toll road opens

10-12-2003 10:41

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German nuke waste starts tonight for La Hague, possibly Sellafield

09-12-2003 21:48

Castors starting out tonight, Wednesday

Tonight (Tuesday 9 Dec) a Castor container of nuclear power station waste is expected to start from Brunsbüttel for La Hague in France, Atomnix reported at 7.11 pm today at  http://de.indymedia.org/2003/12/69384.shtml.

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Nuclear fuel railed through Bavaria to france

08-12-2003 19:56

Regensburg and surroundings
Castor through Bavaria to France tomorrow or Wednesday

A train carrying highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel rods will pass Regensburg in Bavaria tomorrow or Wednesday, reports the local Greenpeace group. Their media release says the train with two Castor caskets will start out from the Isar2 nuclear power station at Essensbach near Landau and head for the plutonium factory at La Hague on the north-west French coast.

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Canada's Potvin advocates cyanide as "development"

08-12-2003 18:19

Potvin can be translated as bribe. Canada’s Commercial Counselor presents dump of 220 000 tons of cyanide in our water as development and jobs - this must be newspeak. We're in Europe pal not in the Great North!

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Corporate Watch: Oxfordshire farming study reveals human face of farming crisis

08-12-2003 16:59

A newly published analysis of Oxfordshire farming shows the structural changes in the food and agricultural sector over the last forty years. The analysis draws on interviews with Oxfordshire farmers and the personal consequences for them. The analysis is published with an audio presentation from five of the ten farmers interviewed to form workshop materials. The materials are available from the project website at www.agricultured.org or the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies, Oxford.

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Learn and share knowledge on Paleontology and Climate

08-12-2003 01:50

>> People have to be prepared to think and work on their
>> mindset to put such unpopular subjects in their true
>> perspective. There are many much more familiar with
>> the complexities of climatology who could, and probably
>> will, do a much better job, and be largely ignored.
>> It is most frustrating as all I want to do is obtain a sound
>> understanding of the impact of human activities on the
>> operation of Planet Earth, and we seem to have done a
>> very rapid job on the climate over the past century.
>> .. (snip)

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Debates and Actions around Climate Conference in Milan

07-12-2003 03:33

foto of critical mass in Milan
The central focus of the current Climate Conference in Milan is Russia and their position on the Kyoto Climate Protocol. If Russia would join Kyoto, it creates cheap ways for the EU to meet its reduction targets. Those actions taking place outside of the Conference focus instead on the root cause of climate change, the fossil fuel economy. The lack of action by the United Nations, should make people around the world aware not to depend on states and corporations, but instead to create social-ecological alternatives in our daily lives.

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Street theatre to expose Kyoto charade & call for real climate action: Dec 10

04-12-2003 23:07

The Kyoto climate change treaty: milestone or millstone?
As governments, corporations, lobbyists and NGO's meet in Milan for the COP9 climate talks, cut your carbon emissions and protest in London.

Join with the many protesters who have also gathered in Milan to say 'no' to the UN's Kyoto charade, and 'yes' to 60-90% cuts in CO2 emissions and social justice.

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Interesting article on climate change

04-12-2003 20:23

Detailed information from the Independent on White House policy on Environment

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transgenic maize introduced into market?

04-12-2003 13:05

EFSA issues opinions on new GM maize: NK 603 maize considered as safe as conventional maize

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Have your voice heard to stop 220 000 tons of cyanide in our water

02-12-2003 18:28

NGO can register with PHARE commission to take stand against cyanide project.
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