#migrants #covid-19 #frontières #Pakistan
Closed Afghan-Pakistani Border Is Becoming ‘Humanitarian Crisis’
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/world/asia/afghanistan-pakistan-border.html
#migrants #covid-19 #frontières #Pakistan
Closed Afghan-Pakistani Border Is Becoming ‘Humanitarian Crisis’
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/world/asia/afghanistan-pakistan-border.html
Data Firm Says ‘Secret Sauce’ Aided Trump ; Many Scoff
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/politics/cambridge-analytica.html
Standing before political and business leaders in New York last fall, Alexander Nix promised a revolution. Many companies compete in the market for political microtargeting, using huge data sets and sophisticated software to identify and persuade voters. But Mr. Nix’s little-known firm, Cambridge Analytica, claimed to have developed something unique : “psychographic” profiles that could predict the personality and hidden political leanings of every American adult. “Of the two candidates left (...)
#CambridgeAnalytica #Facebook #algorithme #élections #manipulation #électeurs #BigData (...)
Dérégulation, #Lobbying et culture du secret : les dessous de l’accident dans l’usine texane d’Arkema
►https://multinationales.org/Deregulation-lobbying-et-culture-du-secret-les-dessous-de-l-acciden
Les autorités semblent avoir repris le contrôle de la situation dans l’usine d’Arkema au Texas qui menaçait d’exploser suite au passage de l’ouragan Harvey. Mais les événements survenus dans cette usine continuent à susciter beaucoup de questions, et de débats. Ils ont aussi été l’occasion de mettre en lumière le lobbying de l’industrie chimique pour échapper à toute régulation, et les échos très favorables qu’elle rencontre dans l’administration Trump. #Arkema, une entreprise française jusqu’ici relativement (...)
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#transparence
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►https://multinationales.org/IMG/pdf/lettre_arkema.pdf
Dérégulation, #Lobbying et culture du secret : les dessous de l’accident dans l’usine texane d’Arkema
►http://multinationales.org/Deregulation-lobbying-et-culture-du-secret-les-dessous-de-l-acciden
Les autorités semblent avoir repris le contrôle de la situation dans l’usine d’Arkema au Texas qui menaçait d’exploser suite au passage de l’ouragan Harvey. Mais les événements survenus dans cette usine continuent à susciter beaucoup de questions, et de débats. Ils ont aussi été l’occasion de mettre en lumière le lobbying de l’industrie chimique pour échapper à toute régulation, et les échos très favorables qu’elle rencontre dans l’administration Trump. #Arkema, une entreprise française jusqu’ici relativement (...)
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#transparence
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« ►https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/02/houston-hurricane-harvey-pollution-petrochemical-plants »
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►http://multinationales.org/IMG/pdf/lettre_arkema.pdf
William Powell, ‘Anarchist Cookbook’ Writer, Dies at 66 - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/arts/william-powell-anarchist-cookbook-writer-dies.html
“My motivation at the time was simple,” he wrote in The Guardian. “I was being actively pursued by the military, who seemed single-mindedly determined to send me to fight, and possibly die, in Vietnam. I wanted to publish something that would express my anger.”
At BlackRock, Machines Are Rising Over Managers to Pick Stocks - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/business/dealbook/blackrock-actively-managed-funds-computer-models.html
“The old way of people sitting in a room picking stocks, thinking they are smarter than the next guy — that does not work anymore”
the new way?
On Tuesday, BlackRock laid out an ambitious plan to consolidate a large number of actively managed mutual funds with peers that rely more on #algorithms and models to pick stocks.
Des gens, de différents genres pourtant, nous répétaient tous les jours et toutes les nuits que Obama était un cas désespéré parce que, disait-on, il n’avait pas compris que ses demis mesures (des mesures de trop en fait) ne faisaient que prolonger l’agonie des malheureux civils, alors qu’il suffisait de rentrer franchement dans le lard des méchants pour abréger ladite agonie.
U.S. War Footprint Grows in Middle East, With No Endgame in Sight
►https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/world/middleeast/us-war-footprint-grows-in-middle-east.html
Pas de fin en vue, avec un nombre de #victimes_civiles en augmentation telle, que...
The rise in reports of civilian deaths linked to the United States and its allies has been so significant that Airwars, a group that tracks airstrikes, said last week that it was suspending its investigations into Russian airstrikes to avoid falling behind on those by the United States.
Ce serait à se tordre de rire si ce n’était pas aussi dramatique.
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/syrie/article/2017/03/31/les-etats-unis-acceptent-le-maintien-au-pouvoir-de-bachar-al-assad_5103731_1
Mais la résilience inattendue du régime – favorisée par le refus de Washington de sanctionner militairement l’utilisation d’armes chimiques contre les banlieues rebelles de Damas, en août 2013 – [...]
S’ils ont autorisé leurs alliés arabes à fournir des armes aux groupes rebelles, [les États-Unis] ont toujours veillé à ce que celles-ci ne leur confèrent pas d’avantage décisif . La CIA a notamment interdit la livraison aux insurgés de missiles sol-air susceptibles d’entraver les bombardements aériens du régime et de l’armée russe, en arguant du risque que de telles armes tombent entre les mains de groupes djihadistes.
Alors qu’il n’a jaaamais existé d’antécédent venant étayer cet « argument »...
Israel’s Next War Is Always ‘Inevitable’
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/opinion/israels-next-war-is-always-inevitable.html
What hardly any Israelis will consider, though, and virtually no influential voices in the West will publicly suggest, is that #Israel — not Hezbollah in Lebanon, nor Hamas in Gaza, nor the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria — is provoking the next war. Counterintuitive though it may be to Israeli and most Western minds, Israel, not its militant Islamist or brutal Syrian enemies, is the aggressor in these border wars.
And Jesus Said Unto Paul of Ryan ... - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/opinion/and-jesus-said-unto-paul-of-ryan.html
A woman who had been bleeding for 12 years came up behind Jesus and touched his clothes in hope of a cure. Jesus turned to her and said: “Fear not. Because of your faith, you are now healed.”
Then spoke Pious Paul of Ryan: “But teacher, is that wise? When you cure her, she learns dependency. Then the poor won’t take care of themselves, knowing that you’ll always bail them out! You must teach them personal responsibility!”
… et la suite à l’avenant.
Platform Companies Are Becoming More Powerful — but What Exactly Do They Want?
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/magazine/platform-companies-are-becoming-more-powerful-but-what-exactly-do-they-want
For now, the tensions that platforms can breed have been obscured — or at least ignored — in large part because platformized labor has arrived first in sectors where employment was already widely precarious and contract-based, like taxi driving. As the model expands, these tensions may become more visible as workers with more political and social capital are subjected to them.
▻http://www.usine-digitale.fr/article/video-le-patron-d-uber-travis-kalanick-filme-par-un-chauffeur-et-ce-n
U.S.-Led Coalition Confirms Strikes Hit Mosul Site Where Civilians Died - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/us/politics/us-led-coalition-confirms-strikes-hit-mosul-site-where-civilians-died.html?
Où l’on constate sans surprise, au regard de l’extrême indifférence générale, que Moussoul n’est pas Alep.
The American-led military coalition in Iraq said Saturday that an initial review of recent airstrikes in Mosul, the Islamic State’s last stronghold in Iraq, had confirmed that the strikes hit a site where scores of civilians were killed.
The inquiry, military officials said, found that a building had collapsed a few days after strikes by American forces. United States officials are seeking to determine whether the airstrikes brought down the building, leaving many Iraqis dead, or the Islamic State used the strikes as an opportunity to detonate an explosive in the building.
(...)
The March 17 airstrikes — which Iraqis said had led to the deaths of possibly 200 people — could have produced among the highest civilian death tolls in an American air mission since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.
After Trump Massacres in Mosul, Campaign against ISIL Halted
By Juan Cole | Mar. 26, 2017
▻https://www.juancole.com/2017/03/massacres-campaign-against.html
Candidate Donald Trump called last year for carpet-bombing of Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) in Iraq and Syria. It is possible that Trump has loosened the rules of engagement for the US Air Force, which is providing air support to the Iraqi Army. Looser rules could well be producing more casualties.
Dubai’s al-Khaleej reports that after a US airstrike on West Mosul on Thursday that is alleged to have killed over 200 innocent civilians, the Iraqi Army has paused its campaign to take the rest of the Western part of the city. That is, Trump may actually have hamstrung the anti-Daesh fight by policies that led to a civilian massacre from the air.
The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights is reporting that an Iraqi civilian defense force is reporting that 500 corpses of civilians killed by air strikes have been discovered in Mosul.
Old Mosul is densely populated and it is possible that Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) still has some 300,000 people there under its sway. The Iraqi army and the US-coalition are attempting to dislodge Daesh, but never called for a civilian exodus. Hence, civilians are caught in the crossfire.
The US military admitted to carrying out the deadly strike, but were careful to underline that it had been called for by the Iraqi Army. Trump’s war strategy seems to be so unsuccessful that the US Air Force is trying to pass the blame for it off onto the Iraqi Army!
The Mosul judicial council has called for declaring Mosul a disaster zone. The judges added,
“The indiscriminate strikes on West Mosul by the fighter jets of the coalition must cease.(...)”
Possible bavure à Mossoul, plus de 100 civils tués
Sinan Salaheddin | Associated Press | BAGDAD
Publié le 25 mars 2017 à 20h53 | Mis à jour le 26 mars 2017 à 00h20
▻http://www.lapresse.ca/international/dossiers/le-groupe-etat-islamique/201703/25/01-5082337-possible-bavure-a-mossoul-plus-de-100-civils-tues.php
Une attaque aérienne visant des militants du groupe armé État islamique (EI) dans la ville irakienne de Mossoul, et qui aurait tué au moins 100 civils selon des témoins, a été lancée par l’armée américaine, ont annoncé samedi des responsables à Washington.
Crossing the Border? Here’s How to Safeguard Your Data From Searches
Lately some travelers have been pressured to hand over their #smartphones at the airport. But you can’t provide access to the data if you don’t hold the keys.
#données #frontières #base_de_données #surveillance #aéroport
Evolocumab and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease
▻http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1615664#t=article
Pratiquement toujours en prévention secondaire et presque toujours associé à une #statine,
Il ressort que la réduction du risque cardio-vasculaire est loin d’être à la hauteur de la réduction du taux de LDL et ... du prix de ce médicament (14.000 USD/an)
An End to Heart Disease? Not Quite
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/health/ldl-cholesterol-heart-disease-drugs-pcsk9-inhibitors.html
On Friday, investigators reported the results of a highly anticipated trial of a PCSK9 inhibitor called evolocumab (brand name Repatha). This medication reduced LDL levels to an almost unfathomable 30 mg/dl from about 90 mg/dl on average, which is typically considered low.
Over about two years of study, the researchers found that the new drug, when added to statin therapy, further reduced the risk of heart attack or stroke by about 15 percent. For about every 70 people treated with the drug, one person benefited in this way. This is not far off the size of the benefit that statins provide.
So the drug works, which is good news for patients. And no safety concerns emerged. But the applause from heart experts has been muted, because expectations were so much higher. Their hope had been that drastically low LDL cholesterol levels would make it difficult — or even impossible — to have a heart attack.
Canadians Fear Trump’s Budget Will Devastate Great Lakes - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/world/canada/trump-budget-canada-great-lakes.html
The Trump administration’s proposal to eliminate funding for a program that addresses major environmental and health threats in the Great Lakes would have a devastating impact on millions of Canadians, officials and environmental groups said on Thursday.
Since word of the proposed cuts to the program leaked earlier this month, dozens of Canadian mayors and other officials have spoken out about the harm their cities and towns would suffer if the proposal were to go into effect.
Canada Today
“As the largest city on Lake Huron, the cuts will undo decades of work by many to clean up the Great Lakes on both sides of the border,” said Mayor Mike Bradley of Sarnia, Ontario. “What good is it having lower taxes when you can’t drink the water?”
A Tweet to Kurt Eichenwald, a Strobe and a Seizure. Now, an Arrest. - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/technology/social-media-attack-that-set-off-a-seizure-leads-to-an-arrest.html
When the journalist Kurt Eichenwald opened an animated image sent to him on Twitter in December, the message “You deserve a seizure for your posts” appeared in capital letters along with a blinding strobe light. Mr. Eichenwald, who has epilepsy, immediately suffered a seizure.
On Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had arrested John Rayne Rivello, 29, at his home in Salisbury, Md., and accused him of sending the electronic file. The agency charged Mr. Rivello with criminal cyberstalking with the intent to kill or cause bodily harm.
The unusual case has shown how online tools can be deployed as weapons capable of physical harm. The F.B.I. and the Dallas police led the investigation into Mr. Rivello, and the police said he sent the strobe light knowing that it was likely to lead Mr. Eichenwald, who has publicly discussed his epilepsy, into a seizure.
Syrian Military, Not Rebels, Severed Damascus Water Supply, U.N. Finds - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/world/middleeast/syrian-military-not-rebels-severed-damascus-water-supply-un-finds.html?_r=0
Syrian military airstrikes on rebels were responsible for severing water supplies to 5.5 million people in the Damascus region for weeks starting last December, the United Nations said on Tuesday, rebutting government claims that insurgents were to blame.
In a bombing campaign to drive rebel forces from the Barada Valley north of Damascus, Syrian air force jets launched multiple strikes on their positions around the al-Feijeh spring, which supplied water to the capital, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry monitoring the conflict in Syria said in a report.
Retour sur une question dont on avait beaucoup parlé à l’époque... J’ai toujours du mal à comprendre quel aurait pu être l’intérêt du gouvernement syrien à agir ainsi. Mais si l’ONU a fait son enquête...
Le malade virtuel, par Virginie Bueno (juin 2015)
►https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2015/06/BUENO/53095 #st
C’est un fait : un nombre croissant d’internautes peinent à se déconnecter. Leur activité en ligne déborde peu à peu sur les autres secteurs de leur existence, au détriment de leur sociabilité, de leur travail, de leurs études. S’agit-il pour autant d’une maladie ? Le caractère pathologique du phénomène est loin de faire consensus au sein de la communauté scientifique. En 2008, l’inclusion de la dépendance à Internet dans la cinquième édition de son répertoire des maladies mentales (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ou DSM-5) a été rejetée faute d’éléments convaincants. Mais le débat se poursuit, notamment au sein de l’Organisation mondiale de la #santé (OMS), en vue de la publication en 2017 du manuel de classification internationale des maladies.
▻http://zinc.mondediplo.net/messages/53098 via Le Monde diplomatique
Are Teenagers Replacing Drugs With Smartphones? - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/health/teenagers-drugs-smartphones.html
....researchers are starting to ponder an intriguing question: Are teenagers using drugs less in part because they are constantly stimulated and entertained by their computers and phones?
F.D.A. Official Under Bush Is Trump’s Choice to Lead Agency - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/health/fda-scott-gottlieb.html
President Trump said Friday that he intended to nominate Scott Gottlieb, a partner at a venture capital fund with longstanding ties to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, to lead the Food and Drug Administration.
[…]
Mr. Trump has made no secret about his desire to overhaul the F.D.A., telling a group of pharmaceutical executives in January that he planned to slash regulations and speed up drug approvals at the agency.
[…]
Indeed, Dr. Gottlieb was the clear choice of the pharmaceutical industry — when the Wall Street firm Mizuho Securities surveyed 53 drug companies in February, nearly three-quarters said they preferred him.
Ben Norton sur Twitter : “NYT runs softball piece about American who gives platform to Syrian al-Qaeda & peddles extreme anti-Shia propaganda ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/world/middleeast/reporting-from-syria-an-american-with-a-point-of-view-and-a-message.html”
▻https://twitter.com/benjaminnorton/status/840228462686289920
How Our Strategy Against Terrorism Gave Us Trump
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/opinion/sunday/how-our-strategy-against-terrorism-gave-us-trump.html
Ce genre d’article dans le #new_york_times ne peut apparaître que dans la rubrique « opinion »
Historians will long ponder the factors behind Mr. Trump’s unlikely rise to the presidency. Most analyses cite his advocacy for the economically disaffected, his rejection or embrace of one form of identity politics or another, or his preternatural ability to connect with “Middle America.”
But another factor deserves attention: a bipartisan approach to national security focused on terrorism that has distorted America’s understanding of its interests.