Biden Administration Targets Removal of Most Nicotine From Cigarettes - WSJ
▻https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-targets-removal-of-most-nicotine-from-cigarettes-116558421
tobacco companies say science isn’t conclusive
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Russian TV reporter walks around deserted IDF post hit by Hezbollah missiles | The Times of Israel
▻https://www.timesofisrael.com/reporter-walks-around-deserted-idf-post-hit-by-hezbollah-missilesIl faut regarder la vidéo qui montre les chars et les munitions laissés sur place pour se rendre compte de l’#énormité du passage en gras,
The report prompted the Israeli military to lock the base and release a statement confirming the post was evacuated a few days before the attack .
“This was a post on the border line that was classified last week as a threatened position,” the IDF spokesperson’s unit said.
“It was therefore evacuated during the week, and the forces defended the area from the rear line. The contents of the post were removed and there is no concern of information leakage” from the reporter’s visit.
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How the #FDA Manipulates the Media
▻http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-fda-manipulates-the-mediaThe watchdogs are being turned into lapdogs. “Journalists have ceded the power to the scientific establishment,” says Vincent Kiernan, a science journalist and dean at George Mason University.
(Avec une #énormité cependant:
“I think it’s interesting and somewhat inexplicable, knowing journalists in general as being people who don’t like ceding power.”
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Sus au « off », mort à l’embargo
▻http://www.lejdd.fr/Medias/Presse-ecrite/Actualite/Sus-au-off-mort-a-l-embargo-127745Le quotidien économique américain Wall Street Journal n’accepte plus les embargos depuis avril, et, selon AFP-MediaWatch, le quotidien britannique The Guardian aurait cessé de les respecter. Un casse-tête pour les services de presse, qui ne peuvent pas vraiment se passer de ces grands journaux. Reste que la pratique de l’embargo s’accommode mal de la compétition entre organes de presse : AFP-MediaWatch rappelle que les journalistes du Wall Street Journal sont évalués en partie en fonction du nombre d’informations qu’ils obtiennent avant les agences de presse.
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Burkini Bans, New Atheism and State Worship: Noam #Chomsky on #Religion in Politics
▻http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37424-burkini-bans-new-atheism-and-state-worship-noam-chomsky-on-religionA drumbeat of propaganda on how “we are good” and “they are evil,” with constant exercises of self-admiration and abuse of others, can hardly fail to have an impact on perception of the world.
Examples abound, but merely to illustrate the common pattern, take a current example from the peak of the intellectual culture: Samantha Power’s August 18 article in the New York Review of Books. Without any relevant qualification or comment, the author presents Henry Kissinger’s sage reflections on “America’s tragic flaw”: namely, “believing that our principles are universal principles, and seeking to extend human rights far beyond our nation’s borders... ’No nation... has ever imposed the moral demands on itself that America has. And no country has so tormented itself over the gap between its moral values, which are by definition absolute, and the imperfection inherent in the concrete situations to which they must be applied.’”
For anyone with the slightest familiarity with contemporary history, such fatuous musings are simply an embarrassment — or to be more accurate, a horror. And this is not talk radio, but a leading journal of left-liberal intellectuals. People bombarded with patriotic drivel from all corners are likely to have a view of themselves and the world that poses major threats to humanity. It is hardly surprising in the light, both of the historical record and the self-images concocted by ideologists, that the US is ranked in international polls as the greatest threat to world peace, no one else even close. Nor is it surprising that the population is protected from such improper facts by the “free press.”
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Un échantillon des #énormités des #msm dans leurs compte-rendus des #guerres au #moyen-orient,
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/media-misses-point-proxy-war-1956459570– à supposer que l’#Iran mène au #Yemen une « guerre par procuration » contre l’#Arabie_Saoudite à travers les #Houthis, comment peut-on décemment qualifier de même l’intervention on ne peut plus directe de l’Arabie saoudite dans ce pays ?
– Comment un article dont le sujet est précisément les guerres par procuration, peut-il décemment faire le silence sur celles menées en #Syrie par la #Turquie, le #Qatar et l’Arabie saoudite, notamment à travers des groupes aussi peu recommandables que #al-Nusra/#al-Qaïda #ISIS ?
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Entre autres choses, le passage sur la Syrie :
The crimes committed by the Syrian regime in the war are unconscionable, but the policies of external countries pursuing a proxy war to overthrow the existing regime have created a far more ominous threat to the entire region. Washington Post columnist David Ignatius has detailed the process by which Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar competed with one another to create proxy forces with which to overthrow the Assad regime.
Such an unbridled competition in the creation of armies for regime change was by its very essence a reckless and cynical use of power that carried the obvious risk of even worse chaos and violence of the war in Syria. But they have made the costs of proxy war far greater by targeting the most aggressive armed groups they could find as their clients, and their weapons soon “made their way to the terrorist groups,” wrote Ignatius, to which the Turks and Qataris “turned a blind eye”.
Once it became clear that Sunni states were creating a proxy war in Syria that could tip the balance against the Syrian regime, Iran and Hezbollah intervened in support of the regime.
But what the conventional view of the Syrian proxy war leaves out is the linkage between Syria in Iran’s deterrence strategy. Iran is militarily weak in relation with Israel and US military power in the Middle East, and has been the target of US and Israeli military threats going back to the 1990s.
Iran’s deterrent to such attacks has depended on the threat of retaliatory rocket attacks against Israel by Hezbollah from Southern Lebanon - destroying the ability of Hezbollah to retaliate for an attack was the single biggest reason for Israel’s 2006 war against Hezbollah.
The Assad regime was part of the Iranian deterrent as well. Not only did Syria have a force of several hundred missiles that Israel would have to take into account but also, Syrian territory is the shortest route for Iranian resupply of Hezbollah.
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traduction en français :
Les médias passent à côté de l’essentiel sur « la guerre par procuration » | Middle East Eye
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/opinions/les-m-dias-passent-c-t-de-lessentiel-sur-la-guerre-par-procuration-70
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Terror predictions
▻http://politicalscience.osu.edu/faculty/jmueller//PREDICT.PDFEssentiellement une compilation d’#énormités (qui n’ont en rien entamé la #crédibilité de leurs auteurs auprès des #MSM)
