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Subject: Weapons of Mass Amnesia - msg#00212List: culture.people.interesting-people------ Forwarded Message From: Nathan Cochrane <ncochrane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Organization: The Age newspaper Reply-To: ncochrane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:33:05 +1100 To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Weapons of Mass Amnesia 1. WEAPONS OF MASS AMNESIA http://www.buzzflash.com/buzzscripts/buzz.dll/content Here's a story that hasn't gotten covered in the U.S. press: As the USA prepares for a war against Iraq, it is being sued by Iran for its previous close relationship to Saddam Hussein. At the UN's International Court of Justice (ICJ), Teheran is accusing the United States of delivering dangerous chemicals and deadly viruses to Baghdad during the 1980s. Reports on the case have appeared in England, Pakistan and Malaysia. In the United States, Associated Press writer Anthony Deutsch filed a report on the case, but it does not seem to have been picked up by any U.S. newspapers. More web links related to this story are available at: http://www.prwatch.org/spin/February_2003.html#1046152090 To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit: http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1046152090 THE WEEKLY SPIN, Wednesday, February 26, 2003 --------------------------------------------------------------------- sponsored by PR WATCH (www.prwatch.org) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Weekly Spin features selected news summaries with links to further information about current public relations campaigns. It is emailed free each Wednesday to subscribers. SHARE US WITH A FRIEND (OR FIFTY FRIENDS) Who do you know who might want to receive Spin of the Week? Help us grow our subscriber list! Just forward this message to people you know, encouraging them to sign up at this link: http://www.prwatch.org/cmd/subscribe_sotd.html -- Nathan Cochrane Deputy IT Editor :Next: The Age and Sydney Morning Herald http://www.next.theage.com.au **************************************************************************** ***** The information contained in this e-mail message and any accompanying files is or may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, dissemination, reliance, forwarding, printing or copying of this e-mail or any attached files is unauthorised. This e-mail is subject to copyright. No part of it should be reproduced, adapted or communicated without the written consent of the copyright owner. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender immediately by return e-mail, or telephone and delete all copies. Fairfax does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any information contained in this e-mail or attached files. Internet communications are not secure, therefore Fairfax does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message or attached files. **************************************************************************** ***** ------ End of Forwarded Message Thread at a glance:
Previous Message by Date: click to view message previewUK data privacy plans------ Forwarded Message From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:50:59 +0000 To: farber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: UK data privacy plans Dave: The (UK) Guardian has a front page story today claiming that the UK government is bowing at last to demands that plans to allow a very large number of government agencies to require that ISPs etc., provide them on request with information about email traffic, etc., be withdrawn. This would appear to be the second big policy u-turn in the last few days, the other concerning plans to promote renewable energy sources, etc., and indeed go further than the Tokyo accords. I've not yet seen the connection made, but I can imagine that some will see this as an attempt to counter-balance public concerns about the way the Government has allied itself to the US Government, and President Bush regarding, Iraq. >Blunkett u-turn on data privacy plans > >Stuart Millar, technology correspondent >Wednesday February 26, 2003 >The Guardian > >David Blunkett, the home secretary, has bowed to intense public >concern over the privacy of electronic communications and radically >redrawn plans to give a host of state agencies and local authorities >the power to access telephone, internet and email records. ..... http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foi/story/0,9061,903230,00.html cheers Brian -- School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randell/ ------ End of Forwarded Message Next Message by Date: click to view message previewPublic Radio in Michigan halts music program streaming------ Forwarded Message From: John Sears <JSSears@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: John Sears <john@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 19:50:39 -0500 To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Public Radio in Michigan halts music program streaming Dave I rely on streaming of programiming from public radio as background noise in my office. But, given the below, perhaps no longer..... (from http://www.wdetfm.org/content/today.php ) Detroit Public Radio has temporarily suspended streaming its music programming on its website (wdetfm.org) today because of rules created by the recording industry limiting what music can be streamed. These rules designed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and approved by Congress dictate how stations must stream music by a particular artist within a certain amount of time. For example, a station is not allowed to play more than two songs in a row by the same artist, and not allowed to play more than four songs by the same artist within a three-hour period. John Sears Rochester Hills, MI john@xxxxxxxxx ------ End of Forwarded Message Previous Message by Thread: click to view message previewUK data privacy plans------ Forwarded Message From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:50:59 +0000 To: farber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: UK data privacy plans Dave: The (UK) Guardian has a front page story today claiming that the UK government is bowing at last to demands that plans to allow a very large number of government agencies to require that ISPs etc., provide them on request with information about email traffic, etc., be withdrawn. This would appear to be the second big policy u-turn in the last few days, the other concerning plans to promote renewable energy sources, etc., and indeed go further than the Tokyo accords. I've not yet seen the connection made, but I can imagine that some will see this as an attempt to counter-balance public concerns about the way the Government has allied itself to the US Government, and President Bush regarding, Iraq. >Blunkett u-turn on data privacy plans > >Stuart Millar, technology correspondent >Wednesday February 26, 2003 >The Guardian > >David Blunkett, the home secretary, has bowed to intense public >concern over the privacy of electronic communications and radically >redrawn plans to give a host of state agencies and local authorities >the power to access telephone, internet and email records. ..... http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foi/story/0,9061,903230,00.html cheers Brian -- School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randell/ ------ End of Forwarded Message Next Message by Thread: click to view message previewPublic Radio in Michigan halts music program streaming------ Forwarded Message From: John Sears <JSSears@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: John Sears <john@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 19:50:39 -0500 To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Public Radio in Michigan halts music program streaming Dave I rely on streaming of programiming from public radio as background noise in my office. But, given the below, perhaps no longer..... (from http://www.wdetfm.org/content/today.php ) Detroit Public Radio has temporarily suspended streaming its music programming on its website (wdetfm.org) today because of rules created by the recording industry limiting what music can be streamed. These rules designed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and approved by Congress dictate how stations must stream music by a particular artist within a certain amount of time. For example, a station is not allowed to play more than two songs in a row by the same artist, and not allowed to play more than four songs by the same artist within a three-hour period. John Sears Rochester Hills, MI john@xxxxxxxxx ------ End of Forwarded Message Loading Comments...
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