publishedmedium:usa today

Report raps military propaganda efforts as ineffective
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/23/military-propaganda-operations-poorly-coordinated-often-ineffective/2354235

Pentagon propaganda programs are inadequately tracked, their impact is unclear, and the military doesn’t know if it is targeting the right foreign audiences, according to a government report obtained by USA TODAY.

Since 2005, the Pentagon has spent hundreds of million of dollars on Military Information Support Operations (MISO). These propaganda efforts include websites, leaflets and broadcasts intended to change foreigners’ “attitudes and behaviors in support of U.S. Government” objectives, according to the report by the Government Accountability Office. Some of them disclose the U.S. military as the source; others don’t.

Une propagande qui peut être mensongère, comme celle dont « USA Today » avait été victime en 2012 http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-04-19/vanden-brook-locker-propaganda/54419654/1 pour avoir fait une série sur justement l’efficacité de la propagande du Pentagone.

Annals of #marketing: Wrigley’s caffeinated gum comes to market
http://www.foodpolitics.com/2013/04/annals-of-marketing-wrigleys-caffeinated-gum-comes-to-market

While the FDA is busy investigating deaths linked (although not conclusively) to caffeinated energy drinks, CSPI has alerted the agency to the increasingly widespread addition of caffeine to foods.

The gum contains 40 milligrams of caffeine per piece, with 8 pieces per box.

Forty milligrams isn’t much but look what else is caffeinated these days: Frito Lay’s Cracker Jack’d snack, Kraft’s MiO Energy water enhancer, and jelly beans, waffles, maple syrup, popcorn, and  beef jerky.  These are in addition to the usual sources of caffeine: coffee, tea, and cola drinks.

http://www.wrigley.com/wrigley_com/Images/flash/Brands/alert_energy/2013-01_alert_mint130072458707984038.png

#nutrition #santé

Boston bombers’ uncle married daughter of top CIA official | MadCow Morning News
http://www.madcowprod.com/2013/04/26/boston-bombers-uncle-married-daughter-of-top-cia-official

The uncle of the two suspected Boston bombers in last week’s attack, Ruslan Tsarni, was married to the daughter of former top CIA official Graham Fuller

The discovery that Uncle Ruslan Tsarni had spy connections that go far deeper than had been previously known is ironic, especially since the mainstrean media’s focus yesterday was on a feverish search to find who might have recruited the Tsarnaev brothers.

Restrictions budgétaires, baisse (de presque 20%) des contrôles alimentaires.
Ouf, c’est aux É.-U. !

Sequester to reduce FDA food inspections, official says
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/24/sequester-fda-food-safety-inspections-commissioner/2110503

The Food and Drug Administration will conduct fewer food safety inspections this year because of the government sequester, commissioner Margaret Hamburg said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY.

While consumers may not feel the impact immediately, the loss of $209 million from its budget will force the agency to conduct about 2,100 fewer inspections, an 18% decline compared to last year.

Mais c’est pas grave…

One in six Americans, or 48 million people, develop a food-borne illness each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 3,000 die, and 128,000 are hospitalized.

Fi Blog | USAToday.com: Redesigning One of America’s Most Popular News Sites
http://blog.f-i.com/usatoday-com-redesigning-one-of-americas-most-popular-news-site

This is the story behind Fi’s re-imagination of how news content is consumed on the web.

#webdesign

Survey : 1 in 15 high school seniors smoking pot | USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/19/national-drug-survey-youth-marijuana/1779563

http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/GenericImages/2012/12/19/pot-youth-survey-4_3_r560.jpg?f061b7ce9937c38b702e6f308816ac2a14e2a4ec

Nearly 80% of high school seniors don’t consider occasional marijuana use harmful — the highest rate since 1983 — and one in 15 smoke nearly every day , according to the annual survey of eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders made public Wednesday.

More than one in five high school seniors said they smoked marijuana in the month before the survey, and 36% smoked marijuana during the previous year, according to Monitoring the Future survey of 45,449 students from 395 public and private schools.

Le titre ne reprend pas la précision 1 sur 15 fume quasi quotidiennement de la marijuana.
( 12th-grader = ± Terminale)

Regarde la déclaration du porte-parole du ministère des Affaires étrangères syrien :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLSCyqXGGUc

Tu as vu le gars : super menaçant, n’est-ce pas ? J’ai déjà vu des porte-parole teigneux, mais alors celui-là, il est vraiment très très menaçant, hein. Une sorte de croisement entre Adolf Hitler et un pitbull affamé. Genre Saddam Hussein des mauvais jours.

Sa déclaration, comme tu as pu l’entendre :

Any stocks of WMD or any unconventional weapons that the Syrian Arab Republic possess would never, would never, be used against civilians or against the Syrian people during this crisis under any circumstances, no matter how the crisis would evolve, no matter how. All the stocks of these weapons that the Syrian Arab Republic possess are monitored… monitored and guarded by the syrian army. These weapons are meant to be used only and strictly in the event of external aggression.

En français :

Quelque stock d’armes de destruction massive ou quelque armement non conventionnel que détient la République arabe syrienne ne seraient jamais, ne seraient jamais, utilisés contre des civils ou contre le peuple syrien durant cette crise en aucune circonstance, quelle que soit la manière dont cette crise évoluerait, quel que soit comment. Tous les stocks de ces armes que possède la République arabe syrienne sont contrôlés… contrôlés et gardés par l’armée syrienne. Ces armes sont conçues pour être utilisées uniquement et strictement en cas d’agression extérieure.

Pour les médias, ceci devient :
– La Syrie menace d’utiliser des armes chimiques : la mise en garde d’Obama
http://www.leparisien.fr/crise-egypte/la-syrie-agite-la-menace-d-armes-chimiques-en-cas-d-agression-etrangere-2
– Damas brandit la menace des armes chimiques
http://lci.tf1.fr/monde/moyen-orient/damas-brandit-la-menace-des-armes-chimiques-7424223.html
– Damas agite la menace des armes chimiques
http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/la-revolte-syrienne/20120723.OBS7967/la-syrie-menace-d-utiliser-des-armes-chimiques-en-cas-d-agressi
– La Syrie brandit la menace des armes chimiques en cas d’agression étrangère
http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/proche-orient/video-la-syrie-brandit-la-menace-des-armes-chimiques-en-cas-d-agression-etr
– Damas menace d’utiliser des armes chimiques
http://www.lejdd.fr/International/Moyen-Orient/Actualite/Damas-menace-d-utiliser-des-armes-chimiques-534223
– La Syrie menace d’avoir recours aux armes chimiques en cas d’attaque étrangère
http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/monde/20120723.FAP5989/la-syrie-menace-d-avoir-recours-aux-armes-chimiques-en-cas-d-at
– Washington enjoint Damas à ne pas utiliser ses armes chimiques
http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/syrie-la-ligue-arabe-presse-assad-de-partir_1141154.html
– Bachar al-Assad brandit ses armes chimiques “en cas d’agression extérieure”
http://fr.euronews.com/2012/07/23/bachar-al-assad-brandit-ses-armes-chimiques-en-cas-d-agression-exterieu

Le Monde, qui a une oreille plus fine que les autres, a entendu « les Occidentaux » :
– La Syrie brandit la menace des armes chimiques en cas d’"agression" des Occidentaux
http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2012/07/23/la-syrie-n-utilisera-ses-armes-chimiques-qu-en-cas-d-agression-des-occidenta

Slate essaie carrément de te faire peur :
– Faut-il craindre les armes chimiques syriennes ?
http://www.slate.fr/story/59553/syrie-armes-chimiques-assad-chaos

Seule exception, le Figaro :
– Damas exclut l’usage d’armes chimiques contre les civils
http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2012/07/23/01003-20120723ARTFIG00277-syrie-a-damas-et-alep-les-combats-ne-faiblissent-
– Pas d’arme chimique contre les Syriens
http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2012/07/23/97001-20120723FILWWW00299-pas-d-arme-chimique-contre-les-syriens.php

Mon préféré : sur 20 Minutes, le titre initial, conservé par Google News, était :
– La Syrie n’utilisera ses armes chimiques qu’en cas d’agression extérieure
Si tu suis le lien, la page est désormais retitrée :
– Damas brandit la menace des armes chimiques en cas d’agression étrangère
http://www.20minutes.fr/monde/syrie/975271-syrie-damas-brandit-menace-armes-chimiques-cas-agression-etrangere

Et à chaque fois, toujours cette question : comment est-ce possible ? Comment est-il physiquement possible qu’une telle « pluralité » de médias « libres » parvienne à produire un tel unanimisme dans le titre entièrement bidonné ?

Un camarade d’Angry Arab fait la même remarque en anglais :
http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2012/07/syria-and-chemical-weapons.html

Aux US des dizaines de prisonniers purgent des peines pour des non-crimes sans possibilité de se faire libérer

Scores of N.C. inmates ’innocent’ of gun charges, yet still imprisoned – USATODAY.com
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-06-13/innocent-incarcerated-prisoners/55585176/1

http://i.usatoday.net/news/graphics/2012/prison-innocent/images/med-topper.jpg

A USA TODAY investigation, based on court records and interviews with government officials and attorneys, found more than 60 men who went to prison for violating federal gun possession laws, even though courts have since determined that it was not a federal crime for them to have a gun.

Many of them don’t even know they’re innocent.
Justice Department officials said it is not their job to notify prisoners that they might be incarcerated for something that they now concede is not a crime. And although they have agreed in court filings that the men are innocent, they said they must still comply with federal laws that put strict limits on when and how people can challenge their convictions in court.Some of the prisoners USA TODAY contacted — and their lawyers — were stunned to find out that they were imprisoned for something that turned out not to be a federal crime. And their lawyers said they were troubled by the idea that innocence alone might not get them out.

Whether McCullum — or the dozens of others like him — can go home depends on federal laws that put strict limits on when and how people who have already been convicted of a crime can come back to court to plead their innocence.

Those laws let prisoners challenge their convictions if they uncover new evidence, or if the U.S. Supreme Court limits the sweep of a criminal law. But none of the exceptions is a clear fit, meaning that, innocent or not, they may not be able to get into court at all.

Bored With Occupy—and Inequality
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4533

As Occupy slowed down for the winter, though, would corporate media continue to talk about our increasingly stratified society without a vibrant protest movement forcing their hand? The answer, unsurprisingly, is no.

Reports show hard-to-track donors dominate outside giving
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-04-22/mystery-donors-dominate-political-giving/54474378/1

Nearly $110 million — more than half the money raised by super PACs since Jan. 1, 2011 — came from just 46 people, businesses and organizations that donated at least $1 million each. Super PACs can raise unlimited amounts of cash to influence elections.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee

USA Today pair hit by smear campaign after Pentagon propaganda story
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/20/usa-today-smear-campaign

Two USA Today journalists investigating private security companies engaging in foreign propaganda wars on behalf of the Pentagon appear to have been subjected themselves to a dirty tricks campaign, the newspaper has revealed.

U.S. ’info ops’ programs dubious, costly
http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2012-02-29/afghanistan-iraq-military-information-operations-usa-today-investigation/53295472/1

As the Pentagon has sought to sell wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to often-hostile populations there, it has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on poorly tracked marketing and propaganda campaigns that military leaders like to call “information operations,” the modern equivalent of psychological warfare.

http://i.usatoday.net/_common/_notches/c51360f9-930f-4d22-822b-aada7c1b5c3d-info-opsmanual.jpg
#propagande #psy-ops

[Suite du feuilleton commencé en http://seenthis.net/messages/57473 Plus que deux jours avant la fin du monde (ou en tout cas du #DNS).]

Un excellent article technique de l’#OARC sur les bonnes façons de limiter les possibiités d’attaques utilisant le #DNS : https://www.dns-oarc.net/wiki/mitigating-dns-denial-of-service-attacks

Un bon article technique expliquant pourquoi l’attaque n’est pas si facile que ça : http://www.cricketondns.com/post.cfm/could-a-ddos-attack-against-the-roots-succeed Question de philo : est-ce une bonne idée de dire aux méchants que leur attaque est mal préparée et leur expliquant comment faire mieux ?

Et si vous avez du temps pour lire, tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur les dDoS (plein d’articles référencés) http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/ddos

À propos de http://seenthis.net/messages/52584
Extra scrutiny urged on design of Hanford nuke-waste plant
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-01-27/hanford-nuclear-waste-cleanup/52805812/1

A federal oversight panel is raising new concerns to the Department of Energy about potentially serious flaws in the design of a first-of-its-kind, $12 billion waste treatment plant that is being built for the nation’s largest radioactive cleanup.

Problems plague cleanup at Hanford nuclear waste site
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/story/2012-01-25/hanford-nuclear-plutonium-cleanup/52622796/1

Seven decades after scientists came here during World War II to create plutonium for the first atomic bomb, a new generation is struggling with an even more daunting task: cleaning up the radioactive mess.

http://i.usatoday.net/news/gallery/2012/n120117hanford/02hanford-pg-horizontal.jpg

Toujours plus gros // Burger King set to start delivering to your house | Death and Taxes
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/174634/burger-king-set-to-start-delivering-to-your-house

Yet Burger King is seeking to make the process of getting a value meal even easier. Recently, the chain selected four restaurants in the Washington D.C. area to start a delivery service, which will make receiving a Double Stacker with large fries and a Coke as simple as dialing a phone number.

No Christmas For Millions Of American Families This Year | Pakalert Press
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2011/12/25/no-christmas-for-millions-of-american-families-this-year

For millions of American families, there will be no Christmas this year.  The sad truth is that an increasing number of families simply do not have money for Christmas presents or any other luxuries right now.

Gadgets make office party antics even riskier
http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/story/2011-12-14/holiday-office-parties/51936386/1

Workplace fêtes are on the rise this year, according to several new studies. And with the increased revelry comes more opportunities for partygoer actions — from silly to truly embarrassing — to spread via e-mail, social media and blogs.

J’ai justement repas de noël aujourd’hui ...
(Se rappeler de ne pas vider le fût de bière tout seul)

A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation Over the Last Two Decades | The Awl
http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/a-graphic-history-of-newspaper-circulation-over-the-last-two-decades

#media #journalism #mediacrisis