medicalcondition:amnesia

To Solve Gun Violence, Americans Need to Aim Higher · Global Voices
▻https://globalvoices.org/2015/12/07/to-solve-gun-violence-americans-need-to-aim-higher

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As I write, news is breaking of two more gun massacres in the United States, one on the west coast, the other on the east. Americans are already starting to forget Friday’s politically motivated attack on a Planned Parenthood in Colorado, which killed three people and orphaned six children.

The amnesia breaks my heart. But the political response from both left and right here in the US is much more troubling. In the face of violence, we don’t just forget. We also lose our best selves.

#états-unis #armes #armement #violence #massacres #tueries

▻http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/09/29/the-your-know-all-friend-who-should-just-keep-his-mouth-shut/xK79jVNj4huM6eSDmJBi5I/story.html

President McKinley declared that invading the Philippines was a good idea even though Filipinos opposed it. “Did we need their consent to perform a great act for humanity?” he asked. “We had it in every aspiration of their minds, in every hope of their hearts.”

Another assassination of a jihadist leader. Here’s what comes next…
▻https://fabiusmaximus.com/2016/05/23/aanother-assassination-96919

Summary: Another week, another assassination of a top jihadist leader, the usual glowing stories in the news. Next comes amnesia, as the wonderful results fail to appear — and the jihadist movement continues to spread across the world.

#amnésie

US Backing for ‘Moderate’ Syrian Rebels: Long Reported, Continually Forgotten
▻http://fair.org/blog/2015/02/22/us-backing-for-moderate-syrian-rebels-long-reported-continually-forgotten

This week, it appears, the media’s collective FSA/CIA amnesia has struck once again, with a series of reports that make no mention of the CIA’s ongoing operation of arming and training Syrian rebels that’s been thoroughly documented for over two years.

These reports were previewed last month with a report on CNN (1/16/15) headlined “Pentagon: US to Begin to Train and Equip Moderate Syria Rebels.” This was just false: The US isn’t “beginning to train and equip moderate rebels.”

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The US hasn’t been “talking about” training “moderate” Syrian rebels for months–it’s been actually training them for years, as the Guardian and Der Spiegel revealed.

US Backing for ’Moderate’ Syrian Rebels: Long Reported, Continually Forgotten
▻http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/02/23/us-backing-moderate-syrian-rebels-long-reported-continually-forgotten

That the US is arming and training Syrian rebels has been well-documented for over two years, yet Western media have historically suffered from a strange collective amnesia when reporting this fact.

[…]

This week, it appears, the media’s collective FSA/CIA amnesia has struck once again, with a series of reports that make no mention of the CIA’s ongoing operation of arming and training Syrian rebels that’s been thoroughly documented for over two years.

These reports were previewed last month with a report on CNN (1/16/15) headlined “Pentagon: US to Begin to Train and Equip Moderate Syria Rebels.” This was just false: The US isn’t “beginning to train and equip moderate rebels.”

Colombia’s Marcha Patriótica: a politics of amnesia or apocalypse? by Evan Pheiffer
English edition blogs, 6 February 2014
▻http://mondediplo.com/blogs/colombia-s-marcha-patriotica-a-politics-of

Though it was established less than two years ago, the Marcha Patriótica (MP), a Colombian left-wing political movement, is already on the brink of collapse. Or extermination, depending on whom you ask. From April 2012, when it was founded, through 4 January of this year, 29 of its leaders and most active members have been assassinated or forcibly “disappeared”— all but two of them in 2013 alone.

The Humble Indie Bundle V (pay what you want and help charity)
►https://www.humblebundle.com

Five incredible, best-selling games. Humble Indie Bundle V features five modern masterpieces and their soundtracks. Experience the fear and paranoia of Amnesia: The Dark Descent; the intensity and impact of LIMBO; the zany characters of Psychonauts; the future-retro, audiovisual concoction of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP; and, for customers who pay more than the average price, the exquisitely crafted action-RPG, Bastion.

Le cinquième Humble Indie Bundle vient de sortir, avec comme d’hab des jeux multiplateforme, sans DRM et à prix libre.

Amnesia à l’air vraiment bien, mais je suis trop trouillard pour y jouer :-)

The Top 10 Weird Children Of Video Games and Neuroscience
►http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6466/the_top_10_weird_children_of_video_.php?page=3

wahou, 10 #études en une

I believe we’re only at the beginning of the cross-pollination between games and neuroscience. Games are helping us unravel things we didn’t know about the brain, from disorders like addiction and amnesia to the processing of pain and visual information. Games are tackling some of the pressing medical issues of our time, including physical rehabilitation and the challenges of an aging population. They’re also teaching us about the way we feel rewarded, and even how we define our sense of self. And as far as neuroscience being on the brink of all its great discoveries, if you ask me, I think Max was right.

via @nicolasnova

#jeux_vidéo