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Security camera video shows Desmond Hague abusing a dog in an elevator.
2015-04-17 17:00:11| Food - Topix.net
A Stamford man has been ordered to pay thousands after he was caught abusing a puppy on camera last year. Desmond Hague was head of a food and beverage company called "Centerplate" when that video surfaced.
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Express owner Desmond gives UKIP 1m
2015-04-16 19:32:59| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
UKIP says a 1m donation from Express owner Richard Desmond will help it "significantly" in its election campaign.
Desmond Hague, Puppy-Kicking CEO, Faces Charges In Elevator Incident
2015-01-24 17:58:02| Food - Topix.net
Desmond Hague, 47, is facing two civil charges of causing an animal distress, U-T San Diego reports. Hague, the then-CEO of multibillion-dollar sports catering company Centerplate, was captured on surveillance footage in a Vancouver elevator kicking Sade, his friend's 1-year-old Doberman Pinscher, and violently dragging her around by her leash.
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Desmond Tutu: Nobody should profit from climate change suffering
2014-09-21 15:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: In an impassioned plea for action on climate change, the Nobel peace prize winner Desmond Tutu has called for an apartheid-style boycott of fossil fuel firms. In an article written for the Observer ahead of a crucial UN climate summit Tutu, a leader of the campaign that defeated apartheid in South Africa, calls on world leaders to curb greenhouse gas emissions But to build a populist campaign pressuring politicians to do so, Tutu urges investors to ditch their holdings in the fossil fuel companies...
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Desmond Tutu calls for tactics that beat apartheid to be used in climate fight
2014-09-21 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Desmond Tutu, the Nobel peace prize winner and activist, has called for an international campaign to boycott mining companies, oil corporations and other businesses involved in the trade of fossil fuels. Writing exclusively in the Observer prior to this week's UN climate summit in New York, Tutu says the same approach that was taken by the 1980s anti-apartheid campaign, of which he was a leader, should now be adopted in the battle to halt global warming. "The most devastating effects of climate...