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Pegos com as calças na mão pelo pela grotesca armação de propaganda do caso do resgate da recruta Jessica (veja notas), o Pentágono está se defendendo, mas segundo a The Nation não tem argumentos contra os fatos relatados na reportagem da BBC que denunciou o caso e novos detalhes continuam surgindo na imprensa americana tb.

What is particularly sad in all of this is that a wonderfully hopeful story was available to the Pentagon to sell to the eager media: one in which besieged Iraqi doctors and nurses bravely cared for--and supplied their own blood to--a similarly brave young American woman in a time of madness and violence. Instead, eager to turn the war into a morality play between good and evil, the military used--if not abused--Lynch to put a heroic spin on an otherwise sorry tale of unjustified invasion.

O problema é a campanha promocional para aumentar o consumo de suco de laranja bancada por uma taxa cobrada por caixa de cítricos vendidos. Os agricultores dizem que na verdade estão incentivando a entrada de produtos brasileiros, já que eles não tem capacidade de abastecer um aumento do consumo no mercado interno americano. Veja Sarasota Herald Tribune.

O New York Times não curtiu muito o filme...

"The Three Marias," directed by Aluizio Abranches, from a screenplay by Heitor Dhalia and Wilson Freire, has the solemn pace and mood of South American westerns, with overtones of Greek tragedy. But its emotional climate is too extreme to invite identification, and its characters are too single-minded in their revenge to evoke pity, terror or even much interest.

A Universidade de Freiburg inventou um robõ jogador de pebolim... O objetivo é dar aos estudantes uma plataforma para desenvolver técnicas de programação e inteligência artifiial.

Last but not least, KiRo may become an attractive pastime as an "intelligent" opponent or even serve as a training partner for professional players.

Só não sei se existe uma liga profissional de pebolim...

Vale ler o Paul Krugman no New York Times de hj. O colunista compara a administração baby Bush e a atuação da mídia americana ao roteiro do filme Wag the Dog, onde um governo americano exagera as ameaças terroristas do fundamentalismo islâmico e com o apoio da mídia coloca o país em clima de guerra acobertar escândalos envolvendo autoridades...

Although the movie's title has entered the language, I don't know how many people have watched it lately. Read the screenplay. If you don't think it bears a resemblance to recent events, you're in denial.

Além de detalhar os prováveis engodos envolvendo a armas de destruição em massa do Saddam, mostra a infuência da mídia na ignorância do público americano...

For the time being, the public doesn't seem to care ? or even want to know. A new poll by the Program on International Policy Attitudes finds that 41 percent of Americans either believe that W.M.D.'s have been found, or aren't sure. The program's director suggests that "some Americans may be avoiding having an experience of cognitive dissonance." And three-quarters of the public thinks that President Bush showed strong leadership on Iraq.
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A final note: Showtime is filming a docudrama about Sept. 11. The producer is a White House insider, working in close consultation with Karl Rove. The script shows Mr. Bush as decisive and eloquent. "In this movie," The Globe and Mail reports, "Mr. Bush delivers long, stirring speeches that immediately become policy." And we can be sure that the script doesn't mention the bogus story about a threat to Air Force One that the White House floated to explain Mr. Bush's movements on the day of the attack. Hey, it's show business.