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TappedIntoTheEarth.com Exclusive Webcaster for WTO Fall 1999 Global Conference.


NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 1999--

TappedIntoTheEarth.com will webcast the first of many Earth-related events starting with the complete coverage of the World Trade Organization's Fall 1999 Conference being held in Seattle, Washington This page is protected from moves until disputes have been resolved on the .
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 November 30 - December 3.

The newly-launched Earth-friendly Internet channel The Internet Channel is a version of the Opera 9 web browser for use on the Wii by Opera Software and Nintendo.[1] On December 22, 2006, a free beta version (promoted as a "trial version") of the browser was released.  will stream video coverage of the controversial four-day event, which boasts 5,000 delegates and dignitaries from 134 nations, including President Clinton, as they gather to start a new round of global trade negotiations. Those negotiations will encompass some of the most politically sensitive issues facing the world's trading nations, including rules on agriculture and new technologies. It is increasingly clear that the largest free-trade meeting ever held in this country has also become a giant magnet for a broad array of environmental, labor, human rights, and other groups. Three hundred groups are vowing to bring 50,000 people to downtown Seattle to picket, demonstrate, hold teach-ins and try to influence the outcome of the WTO See World Trade Organization.  ministerials.

"We are pleased and proud to be bringing this historic event to millions of interested people around the world. But this is only one part of our vision for TappedIntoTheEarth.com," explains Judith P. Newby, Vice President of TappedInto.com, the multi-channel Internet company based in Nashville, Tennessee. "This site will be constantly growing and evolving into an entertaining and educationally interactive destination for the world to tap into non-profit organizations and their messages."

"We urge you to visit TappedIntoTheEarth.com and view the exciting streaming video content which includes the premiere of Emmy-award winning producer Jeremy Brecher's video documentary, "Global Village or Global Pillage PILLAGE. The taking by violence of private property by a victorious army from the citizens or subjects of the enemy. This, in modern times, is seldom allowed, and then, only when authorized by the commander or chief officer, at the place where the pillage is committed. ?" or the beautiful footage from the Sea Turtle Restoration Project," says TappedInto.com President David Perdue Perdue may refer to:
  • Perdue, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Perdue Farms, an American chicken-farming corporation
  • Perdue School of Business, in Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland
People with the surname Perdue
. The channel also features links to a broad spectrum of non-profit organizations including -- American Cetacean cetacean

Any of the exclusively aquatic placental mammals constituting the order Cetacea. They are found in oceans worldwide and in some freshwater environments. Modern cetaceans are grouped in two suborders: about 70 species of toothed whales (Odontoceti) and 13 species of
 Society, Public Citizen Global Trade Watch, Seattle99.org, WTO.org, The Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy, WTOWatch.org, Animal Welfare Institute, Earth Island, World Affairs Council World Affairs Council may refer to:
  • World Affairs Councils of America, a non-profit, non-partisan umbrella organization for world affairs councils throughout the United States
, AFL-CIO AFL-CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.
AFL-CIO
 in full American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations

U.S.
 and Sea Turtle Restoration Project.

TappedInto.com has successfully built a network of channels that broadcast streaming multi-media programming on the Web, with a user base of 6.6 million people. The Company is continuing its rapid growth with the development of TappedIntoBigGame.com, TappedIntoSports.com and TappedIntoMoney.com, to name a few.
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