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READING BETWEEN THE LINES of the news media.
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Friday, December 3, 2004 |
Looking The Other Way. In
fact, many UN officials tried valiantly to put an end to the economic
sanctions. Hans von Sponeck and Denis Halliday resigned their posts and
crisscrossed the globe educating people about the effects of the
economic sanctions which Halliday termed "genocidal." UNICEF's
Executive Director, Carole Bellamy, held a 1999 press conference to
announce the release of a "Situation Analysis of Women and Children in
Iraq" which carefully explained that the economic sanctions contributed
to the "excess deaths" of over 500,000 Iraqi children, under age five.
Not one US television network aired coverage of the press conference. [Voices in the Wilderness]
10:26:15 AM 
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Fight for Public Domain Goes On.
Archivists who want to digitize 'orphan works' -- books, movies and
films that are no longer commercially viable but remain under copyright
-- lose a court battle. But they vow to continue the war to rebalance
copyright law. By Katie Dean. [Wired News]
10:06:40 AM
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© 2005 Christine Bush
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