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A wave of anti-coal protests by students and environmental activists at graduate careers fairs has forced E.ON to abandon a national recruitment tour. The energy giant, which is planning to build a new coal power station at Kingsnorth, Kent, saw at least 17 of its careers events around the country disrupted over the last few weeks.
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The big supermarket chains are "beating up" farmers and growers as they compete to offer lower prices and maintain their profit margins, the National Farmers Union (NFU) has warned. The union said it is currently looking into a number of complaints of "aggressive tactics" used by the major grocers against its members. The tactics are said to include demands for over-riders, sudden price reductions and changes in payment terms. |
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As big energy companies are refusing to lower their bills and profit margins, even as wholesale prices of oil and gas have fallen, poorer household are struggling to keep warm. The government, meanwhile, is still promising to do 'everything it can' to alleviate 'fuel poverty' |
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A $ 200,000 grant proposal, submitted by a group of Indymedia volunteers to the Knight News Challenge contest, has been blocked by other IMCs and subsequently dropped due to the abiding ethos that Indymedia is a counter to corporate, money-fiaxted media entities. The grant application to the Knight Foundation was to fund technical development work for Independent Media Centres (IMCs), also known as Indymedia, and has caused much controversy within the global network. The debate has also encapsulated, once again, the thorny issue of how to sustain radical projects without compromising that radicalism by accepting tainted money. |
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On 9 November, 2008, the Observer published an article by its crime, defence and legal affairs correspondent Mark Townsend under the title "Police warn of growing threat from eco-terrorists". The article, co-written with an elusive Nick Denning, was a stunningly uncritical piece that seemed to be little more than a rehashed press release from the National Extremist Tactical Coordination Unit. |
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George W Bush, speaking in New York on 13 November 2008, prior to the G20 summit in Washington:
"While reforms in the financial sector are essential, the long-term solution to today's problems is sustained economic growth. And the surest path to that growth is free markets and free people." |
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