PM seeks terror summit
The News Review:
- PM seeks terror summit
- Internet TV: Still Fuzzy, but Promising
- South Africa’s Moral Blind Spot
- EDITORIAL: Economic slippage.
PM seeks terror summit
NEWS.com.au – Aug 5, 2005
“We do need, in the wake of what has occurred in London, to assess whether there are some messages from that that can be incorporated into (Australian) arrangements. Mr Howard said he hoped the members of the Australian Federal Police-led team that travelled to London in the wake of last month’s bombings would attend the summit, along with experts from Britain. “However, every country needs its home-grown responses because every country has a particular home-grown challenge,” he said. Mr Howard warned the community against complacency about a possible terrorist attack in Australia. “I don’t want to overestimate or overstate the challenge we face, but equally those who imagine that it can’t happen here are misplaced,” he said. “It can happen here and we would be very complacent if we imagine it will not, although the challenges in this country are not as great as I believe in many other societies. Mr Howard said the issue would be dealt with effectively only over a long period of time – one that required determination, deliberation, balance and commonsense.
Internet TV: Still Fuzzy, but Promising
PC World – Aug 5, 2005
fadeOut(”slow”); }); Several big telecommunications operators and the world’s largest software maker hope to pursuade many couch potatoes to zap their old-fashioned notions about television and tune in to its convergence with the Internet. Internet TV, or IPTV, is arguably one of the hottest new technologies in communications. A handful of operators already offer service with largely home-grown systems, but many eyes are glued to the screen to see what Microsoft is concocting with some big-name carriers. Using the same DSL connection that gives customers broadband Internet access over phone lines,. Their premise: If–in our age of the digital packet–documents, images, music, and even phone calls can be broken up into bits, thrust through networks, and reassembled by Internet protocol at the other end, why not TV? It’s a legitimate question, and one that telephone companies–painfully aware that the days of their cash-cow circuit-switched telephone business are numbered as cheap.
South Africa’s Moral Blind Spot
Christian Science Monitor – Aug 5, 2005
The UN Security Council is under pressure to meet regarding the report. But as with Darfur, where China has oil interests, it’s hard to imagine Beijing backing UN intervention in Zimbabwe, where China has mining interests. That puts pressure on Africa for a home-grown solution – to alleviate the suffering in Zimbabwe, but also to ease Mugabe’s exit. If it’s African cover that Mbeki needs, he’s got the UN report – produced by a Tanzanian. And he should turn for help to Nigeria’s president Olusegun Obasanjo, a Mugabe critic. If he could find the moral courage he summoned to fight apartheid, Mbeki could use these two African levers, as well as his own weight and that of Zimbabwe’s neighbors, to bring Mugabe to the negotiating table. Delay just prolongs the despot’s day of reckoning.
EDITORIAL: Economic slippage.
Free with registration – Bradenton Herald – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 5, 2005
And not solely because of the 205 jobs that will be lost, although that’s a substantial hit to the local economy. Recall that the decision by Tropicana to move 300 jobs to Chicago in December 2003 – just one-third more than the Simonton loss – caused a huge reassessment of economic policy among movers and shakers. Of course, Tropicana’s shift was a far greater symbolic loss, as it took away the corporate headquarters of a home-grown company that was one of the largest local employers and the jobs lost.