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- United Steelworkers and Largest UK Trade Union to Merge to Counter Abuses of Globalisation
  Posted by SeekThankfully from Afp.google
  Merger would help negotiations against multi-nationals, according to press report. This could also be "the first step towards a global union that could take in labour movements from the world's emerging markets in eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia", according to press report. Unite's 2 million members in UK and Ireland are employed by BP and Rolls Royce. USW has "more than one million members in the United States and Canada."
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- Alec Baldwin Has Political Aspirations (Photos)
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  Alec Baldwin sat down for an interview with Morley Safer of the CBS show 60 minutes. Baldwin dishes on his ex wife Kim Basinger, talks about the cellphone message he left for his daughter Ireland and discusses his desire to enter politics at some point. Shades of Ronald Reagan perhaps?
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- Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags
  Posted by Jon from New York Times
  In 2002, Ireland passed a tax on plastic bags; customers who want them must now pay 33 cents per bag at the register. There was an advertising awareness campaign. And then something happened that was bigger than the sum of these parts. Within weeks, plastic bag use dropped 94 percent. Within a year, nearly everyone had bought reusable cloth bags, keeping them in offices and in the backs of cars. Plastic bags were not outlawed, but carrying them became socially unacceptable.
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- Ireland's "Green" coalition: Environmentalists and Fianna Fail unite
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  Green parties worldwide are already synonymous with spectacular renunciations of principle. Policies advocated, perhaps for decades, are dropped within hours of entering government. In return for some minor adjustments of environmental policy, Greens have assumed responsibility for aggressively advancing the interests of their own capitalists.
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- British regiment marks end to N.Irish presence
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  The British Army marked another shift toward erasing military reminders of Northern Ireland's 30-year conflict on Friday with a parade to mark the disbanding of the Royal Irish Regiment. The UK has dismantled watchtowers along the border with the Irish Republic as part of the move and will halve the number of troops in the province, leaving a permanent military garrison of no more than 5,000.
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- US transferred prisoner without consent
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  Ireland's Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern told reporters a civilian aircraft had landed at Shannon airport in southwestern Ireland last Sunday for a technical refueling stop en route from Kuwait to the United States. "Among other unarmed military personnel the plane was carrying a U.S. Marine convicted of a minor breach of the U.S. military code," he said. "While the transfer of such a prisoner would be lawful under international and domestic law, it requires the consent of the Minister for Justice. The U.S. authorities did not seek such consent. This failure, though inadvertent, is unacceptable."
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- Spys murder is threat to Ulster
  Posted by Damianmann from Telegraph.c
  The Northern Ireland peace process was thrown into disarray last night when Tony Blair admitted there would be "serious implications" if the IRA murdered the British agent Denis Donaldson.
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Damianmann comments on:
Alec Baldwin Has Political Aspirations (Photos)

He seems a little toomessed up in the head to be running things.

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5:27 pm 5/09/08
Jon comments on:
Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags

Get the price right, and people change their behavior. Sometimes it is that simple.

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8:58 am 2/02/08

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