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The European Commission is increasingly annoyed by its inability to foist unwanted, unnecessary and unsafe genetically modified crops onto European consumers and some member-state governments.

Below is an abridged statement by the International Trade Union Confederation

Kathy Black recently took part in a speaking tour of Australia at the invitation of SydneyÂ’²õ Stop the War Coalition. Black is one of six national conveners of US Labor Against the War and is also the Philadelphia president of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), a group affiliated to the AFL-CIO union federation. She spoke to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ WeeklyÂ’²õ Margarita Windisch about some of the gender and race issues that US unions have to tackle.

On March 19, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon joined Bear Stearns CEO Alan Schwartz to face a group of 400 stunned Bear executives. Five days earlier, Bear Stearns, one of Wall StreetÂ’²õ five largest investment banks, had lost $17 billion of wealth, triggering the biggest financial panic since the Great Depression.

Channel Seven boss Kerry StokesÂ’²õ HRL Ltd and ChinaÂ’²õ Harbin Power Engineering Company are to build a $750 million “clean coal” power station in the Latrobe Valley that, when operational from the end of 2009, will add significantly to VictoriaÂ’²õ greenhouse gas emissions.