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The Gates Foundation's Leveraged Philanthropy: Corporate Profit Versus Humanity on Three Fronts  

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Guest post by Chemtchr. Part One of Two.
Philanthropy wonk Lucy Bernholz defines the buzzword leverage
as "the idea that you can use a little money to access a lot of money."
It's hard to think of the Gates Foundation's $26 billion leverage effort
as "a little money", especially since it's been spread over the globe to gain access to vastly more resources than it contributes, including U.S. tax dollars, the foreign exchange of emerging African nations, and United Nations funds for international development and world health.
Gates' leveraged philanthropy model is a public-private partnership
to improve the world, partly through targeted research support but principally through public advocacy and tax-free lobbying to influence government policy. The goal of these policies is often to explicitly support profitability for corporate investors, whose enterprises are seen by the Gates Foundation as advancing human good. However, maximum corporate profit and public good often clash when its projects are implemented.
For example, chemical giant Monsanto has partnered with the Gates Foundation, which reportedly works to suppress local seed exchanges and environmentally sustainable agricultural practices through its global agricultural charity work. Fraud-prone drug giant GlaxoSmithKline
is a partner in the Foundation's work to leverage its own relatively fractional contribution to vaccination efforts, so that it centrally controls enormous world funds for purchase, pricing, and delivery of vaccines for world public health. And in its U.S. education reform charity work, the Gates Foundation has increasingly shifted its funding to promote market domination by its British corporate education services partner, Pearson Education.
The Gates Foundation, and Gates personally, also own stock and reap profits from many of these same partner corporations. In addition, the Foundation owns a profit-generating portfolio of stocks which would seem to work against the Foundation's declared missions, such as the Latin American Coca-Cola FEMSA distributorship and five multinational oil giants operating in Nigeria. These corporate investments, now moved to a blind trust whose trustees are Bill and Melinda Gates, are collaterally supported by the Foundation's tax-free lobbying and advocacy activities.
Criticism of the profit-driven philanthropy agenda is muted by the fact that many of the Foundation's "advocacy" gifts are positioned to leverage control of policy analysis and news outlets. The Gates Foundation recently undertook sponsorship of the Guardian's Global Development coverage, for instance, which now maintains a weary-but-compliant stance toward corporate domination of development aid. The Gates Foundation also literally dominates news coverage of Global Health issues.
On the U.S. Education Reform front, the Gates Foundation maintains long-time charitable support of Media Bullpen, as well as Education Week itself (see disclaimer).
Tom Paulson of Humanosphere reviewed some critical stories that reporters did get published in major news outlets last November.
The Global Health Front
In an interview with Forbes science writer Matt Herper, Gates explained how ensuring the profitablility of Big Pharma's vaccine sales will advance the health of third world populations:

Fortunately, our vaccine discovery rate has been better than the recent drug discovery rate of pharma," Gates said. "And, you know, pharma doing well is important for the world, so hopefully their discovery rate will go up.

Donor nations were shocked when UNICEF disclosed that it has been forced to pay artificially elevated prices for vaccines under an arrangement called the Advance Market Commitment, which was brokered by Gates Foundation-dominated GAVI alliance, to greatly increase drug company profits. Stakeholders also worry that industry reports of particular vaccine's effectiveness might be skewed by marketing goals.
There is no doubt that vaccines save lives, but a 2009 analysis by the British medical journal Lancet flagged a number of concerns about the Foundation's pattern of expenditures, particularly questioning the propriety of making "charitable" contributions to the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC). Others have expanded on those concerns.
The 2010 Gates Foundation announcement of $1.5 billion for maternal health in developing countries over five years was welcomed, but it came heavily leveraged. Gates launched the Health in Africa Fund, through the International Finance Corporation (IFC), to establish new mechanisms to invest world health funding and national health budgets in private-sector healthcare facilities in Africa. The Gates Foundation's funding category for Global Maternal Health includes research and development in the US of technology and treatments, and also advocacy in vulnerable African nations for government policies. Since Gates believes sustainable health systems must be privately profitable, he leverages his "maternal health" funding to effectively divert investment of available in-country funds, as well as NGO funding, into private ventures that he favors, instead of into national health plans.
The pursuit of profitability for the Foundation's corporate marketers warps the design and implementation of delivery programs. The Gates Foundation leverages its own contributions to dominate and focus external funds into its own intensive, vertically integrated programs.
Controlled from above and afar,
the programs divert all available health resources to temporary, fraud-prone drives. Vertical integration means the Foundation controls every aspect of the project, which disappears when funding is exhausted. Horizontal development of medical service capacity on the ground is frozen out, and the Foundation's opposition to comprehensive national health programs means African physicians must watch their patients die from conditions that would be treatable if a basic medical infrastructure existed.

The Global Agricultural Development Front
The Gates Foundation's philanthropic agricultural development program is partnered with international agribusiness corporations, and is aimed at promoting advanced technologies such as genetically modified crops and pesticides in developing nations. In light of this conflict, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's own investments in Monsanto and Cargill, particularly, have come under heavy criticism.
In addition to leveraging control of international development funds for its Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra) initiative, the Gates Foundation influences African governments directly to expend their own agricultural budgets to support a crop warehouse/borrowing system that binds farmers to Gates' international corporate partners, for future seed and pesticide access. On every continent but Africa, trade differential due to profits extracted by agribusiness already results in a net flow of wealth out of the developing economies, more than offsetting charitable contributions. The payoff from a new Green Revolution for the recipients of the Foundation's charity also includes health damage and environmental degradation. African and Indian agricultural workers maintain that the Foundation's philanthropy is environmentally toxic, and undermines vital agricultural development that respects local conditions.
The recent court action by a consortium of five million Brazilian soy farmers highlights how agricultural development gifts can plunge farmers into perpetual serfdom to corporate agribusiness. As reported in the journal Nature, the farmers have successfully sued Monsanto
to claw back $7.5 billion in "royalties" for the planting of seeds they had harvested themselves, for which Monsanto forcibly extracts payments. A Brazilian judge will now rule on Monsanto's appeal.
The activism of third-world environmental organizations against the Gates Foundation's take-over of UN development programs goes unreported in the U.S. press. It boiled over on June 22, however, when young Civil Society representatives staged a mass walkout of the corporate-dominated Rio+20 United Nations Summit in Brazil. The representatives of the world's actual voluntary philanthropic organizations reconvened at a summit sponsored by Friends of the Earth. Their own Rio+20 Outcome Document was delivered to over 100 heads of state and government.
The U.S. Education Reform Front

The Gates Foundation's model of leveraged philanthropy has had serious consequences in U.S. education. Many sources have criticized the specifics of Gates' profit-driven, politically enforced innovations in public schools. In Part Two of this series, I'll examine how the Foundation's corporate philanthropic model has undermined the quality of American public education, and threatens its democratic foundation.
Addendum:
On discussions of this blog on other forums, readers have asked for links demonstrating the direct connection between the Gates Foundation and the corporate marketing of proprietary genetically modified seeds.
The difficulty here is that the Foundation describes its projects in general terms like this:

The money will fund agricultural development projects that are already producing great results for farmers, with a goal to help millions of small farmers lift themselves out of poverty. This re-investment will be in projects that have already:
Supported the release of 34 new varieties of drought-tolerant maize.

No mention is made of partnerships with Monsanto, and "supporting the release" fails to convey how its grants to agricultural ministries helped promote "healthy" free-market agricultural policies like suspending subsidies to poor farmers, or banning traditional seeds from government seed banks.
To find the connection, you have to start at The Indypendent, by Paige Aarhus
"Why Is the Gates Foundation Helping Monsanto?"

Gates sponsorship of Monsanto in India makes no mention of collateral damage by its partner, Monsanto, there:
"Bt cotton - less miracles, more failures for Indian farmers"
"KILLER SEEDS: The Devastating Impacts of Monsanto's Genetically Modified Seeds in India"
Tragically, corruption breeds corruption, and leverage promotes leverage. What link can I give you, to document the absence of coverage of these issues on our captive media? Vandana Shiva put the pieces together on Al Jazeera.

Update: See Diane Ravitch's response to this: "I am puzzled by the Gates Foundation."

What do you think? Is there a danger in the Gates Foundation's approach to leveraged philanthropy?
Chemtchr teaches science and advises a student service club at a public high school in a diverse low-income community. She is a graduate of the University of California-Santa Cruz and Montana State University-Bozeman, and has taught in urban community-based programs and at a tribal college, as well as in public districts. She's active in Citizens for Public Schools, and in local and state councils.

Hero firefighter who saved woman from burning home faces investigation - because he gave her his air mask during rescue



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2169870/Selfless-firefighter-saved-woman-burning-home-investigation-breaking-rules-giving-air-mask-rescue.html#ixzz1zvb6xiBL

Dejli Mejl nije baš najpouzdaniji izvor informacija, da budemo iskreni.. Na primer, iako se u naslovu tvrdi da je čovek sad pod istragom (implicira se zbog kršenja SOP-a), to u tekstu nigde ne piše, već piše samo da su mu pretpostavljeni rekli da "to što je uradio nije bio pametan potez". Jer, naravno i nije - čovek se kockao i spasao život ženi, ali skidanjem svoje maske mogao je da izgubi dva života. Da ne bude zabune, to što je uradio je apsolutna definicija herojstva, ali jasno je i zašto Standardne Operativne Procedure postoje i da one, valjda, u proseku spasu više života nego što to učine rizične odluke donesene u deliću sekunde...

Jest, Dejli mejl je kao britanski Pres ili Kurir. 

To jest, oni su kao srpski Dejli Mejl.



Druga tema: Kris Rok se ponovo setio da je crnac i čestitao bijelčugama "white people day" na tviteru četvrtog Jula, podsećajući da nezavisnost koja se tog dana slavi nije važila u nekom primetnom obliku za u crno obojene ljude u Americi:

http://www.inquisitr.com/270729/white-peoples-day-was-chris-rock-really-offensive-in-controversial-july-4th-tweet/

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White People's Day, as we reported earlier, has become the outrage du jour among some white people late this week — following a tweet comedian Chris Rock sent on July 4th, as Americans celebrated Independence Day.
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/270729/white-peoples-day-was-chris-rock-really-offensive-in-controversial-july-4th-tweet/#JKEa8sHXEVvDkvW5.99
 

Here's what Chris Rock had to say about White People's Day, in the tweet many are now finding so offensive:
 

"Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks."

And white people lost their damn minds.
Immediately, Twitter began lighting up with shock that Rock had dared to mention that black people in America were kept as slaves and treated horribly. And that it wasn't until we fought a big ugly bloody war to end it so that black people got the right to, you know, not be murdered or beaten or forced to work for years on end with no recompense at all.
Predictably, white people — who, as Rock points out, enjoyed freedom for all the years black people were enslaved — were very displeased with Rock saying something that is both factually true and, may we point out, references historical happenings far more recent than the very event July 4th marks.
In fact, as many white people complain, it is basically as bad as slavery that sometimes black people mention that black people were once slaves. As white people are quick to explain, this is called "reverse racism," and is equally harmful.
Sometime immediately after the civil war ended, racism was replaced with this newer, more insidious kind of race-based hate that appears whenever anyone mentions that conditions used to be worse for black people in America — a historically correct but inconvenient bit of information for non-black people.
In a time where a black kid can't walk to the corner store without getting shot at point-blank range right in the chest, won't anyone think of the white people? Do you know how hard it is to be white nowadays, with all the black people who insist on referring to history every so often?
Many took to Twitter to complain about Rock's "racism" in pointing out that something that happened actually happened. As a white person myself, I would much rather that than getting shot in the chest at point-blank range when I am just trying to buy a damn iced tea, but I realize that opinion is just me, and far be it from me to speak for all white people, or suggest that the reaction to Rock's tweet still illustrates we have a long way to go.
But you know, both getting shot and having to hear about a black kid that got shot are bad! Listen to one Conservative on Twitter of the #tcot hashtag, who cries into his tea:
 

"Chris Rock says 'happy white people's independence day.' Racist lefties keep throwing gas on the fire to keep the hate alive. #tcot #loser"

Yes, you guys! Racism is like Voldemort. We can only summon it by mentioning it, and acknowledging it did exist and still exists, and if we simply pretend it did not happen, and that the kid who got shot right in the chest for going to the store was really asking for it because he was suspended from school (even though George Zimmerman could not have possibly known that), then all racism will not only magically never occur, but it will also never have happened.
User @rodimusprime muses:
 

"From the Chris Rock backlash I can see that a lot of people have replaced history with the Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter version of slavery."

Maybe that guy is on to something, because that movie made white people look really noble! The actual historically factual version is just totally reverse racism. Another white person simply sniffs:
 

"Chris, find a country you like and go there."

Now see, this guy knows history. Americans don't have a history of speaking freely about things they don't like, in order to affect change. No Americans can criticize America without planning to leave the country, as that is the only solution to unfavorable conditions like systemic racism. In fact, I think it is in the Bill of Rights, that all men are created equal, except maybe black people, women and gay folk, and if you don't like it, leave.
It should be noted that Chris Rock has not deleted his White People's Day tweet, allowing White People to wear their official outrage at being discriminated against hat for many more days to come.
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/270729/white-peoples-day-was-chris-rock-really-offensive-in-controversial-july-4th-tweet/#JKEa8sHXEVvDkvW5.99
 

A ovde ima i nekih tvitova u odgovor, oh ti ludi Amerikanci:

http://www.webpronews.com/white-peoples-day-chris-rock-joke-sparks-backlash-2012-07

Ali ako ništa drugo, više Amerikanaca sad veruje da se klima zaista menja, kad su iskusili ekstremne vremenske uslove prošlog tjedna:

Just step outside: More Americans convinced of climate change after extreme weather

Глупи црњо расиста.

И надасве глупи коментатор, какав црни "обрнути расизам", та фраза постоји само код ретардираних новинара. Зна се шта је расизам.

dok mi tupimo o pravdi i nepravdi, dronovi-nedronovi, amerika bozonira i obezbeđuje resurse. da smo ameri, ne znam da li bismo mnogo kukali na takvo vođenje politike. 

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-12-hellholes-are-examples-of-what-the-rest-of-america-will-look-like-soon-2012-7

QuoteMOSKVA - Donji dom ruskog parlamenta usvojio je u petak prijedlog zakona o statusu "stranog agenta" za nevladine organizacije koje se financiraju novcem iz inozemstva i koje se bave politikom, javljaju ruski mediji.

Taj kontroverzni prijedlog zakona, koji su osudile i Europska unija i SAD, a koji će, kako aktivisti strahuju, Kremlj primijeniti kako bi se obračunao sa svojim kritičarima, usvojen je u Dumi s 374 glasa za, tri protiv i jednim suzdržanim.

Ovo je bilo treće i završno glasovanje o ovom prijedlogu zakonu, za čije su kršenje predviđene visoke novčane kazne ili kazne zatvora, piše Hina.

Neprofitne organizacije koje će potpadati pod ovaj zakon bit će stavljene na popis "stranih agenata" što znači da će se od nevladine organizacije tražiti da stavi etiketu stranog agenta na sve materijale koje će objaviti, među kojima i materijale za medije.

Osim toga, morat će izvijestiti ministarstvo pravosuđa o bilo kakvoj transakciji stranog novca većoj od 200.000 rubalja.

Ruski zastupnici u petak su usvojili još jedan kontroverzni prijedlog zakona kojim se kriminalizira kleveta i za to predviđa novčana kaznu od najviše pet milijuna rubalja (oko 125.000 eura).

Očekuje se da će oba prijedloga zakona usvojiti i gornji dom parlamenta, nakon čega ih treba potpisati predsjednik Vladimir Putin.

Analitičari smatraju da se na ovaj način stvara zakonski okvir za gušenje oporbe koji će naštetiti ugledu mnogih skupina za ljudska prava koje djeluju u Rusiji.

Rusija nevladine organizacije proglasila tajnim agentima

Хех, "контроверзни" приједлог закона који онемогућава америчког багри да и у Русији инсталира своје Соње Бисерко, Наташе Кандић и сличне 

QuoteRuski zastupnici u petak su usvojili još jedan kontroverzni prijedlog zakona kojim se kriminalizira kleveta i za to predviđa novčana kaznu od najviše pet milijuna rubalja (oko 125.000 eura).

Шта?!?!?!? Па овим се спрјечава да неограничено пљујеш по неком без икаквих посљедица!  Скандал! Гушење слободе штампе! Смрт за слободу говора и ЕУропске вриједности!!!!!!!!1111111111 

Окачио сам ја вест о овоме док је још у повојима било. И коментарисао. Буди се међед. Још мало бунован и тром, али трља очи.

Ovo ću ovde. Iznenadilo me kad su se neki ovdašnji samoproklamovani antifašisti pobunili protiv ideje o obaveznoj zdravstvenoj zaštiti u SAD, jel, pa da malo razbistrimo.
Rodžer Ebert nije stručnjak za zdravstvo ali je pametan čoek i dugogodišnji pacijent zdravstva SAD pa treba poslušati šta ima da kaže:

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Catie and Caleb Medley went to the doomed midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises." It was a movie they'd been looking forward to for a year, her father said. Gunfire rang out. The bullets missed Catie, who was pregnant. Caleb was shot in the eye. On Tuesday, their son Hugo was born. Caleb is listed in critical condition, and the cost of emergency treatment for his head wound has already reached $2 million. The Medleys were uninsured. According to a useful article in the Christian Science Monitor, "three of the five hospitals treating victims said Wednesday they will limit or completely wipe out medical bills." A fund has been established to help the Medleys, and it has passed $250,000. This is all heartening. But if Caleb Medley had been the victim of a drive-by shooting instead of the Aurora catastrophe, it's unlikely a hospital would have waived costs.
The Monitor observes: "Nearly one in three Coloradans, or about 1.5 million, either have no health insurance or have coverage that is inadequate... The highest uninsured rate was among adults between 18 and 34 and many of those injured in the shootings are in that age group."
In any other nation in the first world, the medical bills of the Medleys, including her stay in the maternity ward, would have been covered by Universal Health Care. But UHC (and its tentative first step as the Affordable Heath Care bill, or Obamacare) remains fiercely opposed by a vocal minority in the U.S., and the Republicans have vowed to repeal it in the next session of Congress, if they can.

well, al bus plus je ipak fašizam!!!!!!

na stranu to, cena od 2 miliona faking dolara za tretman kakav god da je, je madness. nije čudo što se medizinische lobi protivi, kao i republikanci.
btw, ovaj zakon je hilarin ustvari, obama je samo uspeo da ga provuče.

bas i ja mislim, da mu nisu klonirali novu glavu?!

To, Lilit, jbt, kako su mu nakucali dva miliončeta za dva dana? pa ne bi izašlo toliko da su mu menjali jetru, srce i bubrege sve đuture.
EDIT: zoska sam ladno pročitala kao da su Obami klonirali Hilarinu glavu    izvinjavam se.

well pit, i to je amerika.

jevtr umjesto blazenstva i raja zudi za naocalama?

hahahaha, jevtro, da si malo bliže pa da pijemo kaficu da se otrezniš!

Pijem kafu, brišem naočari, unosim ispravke u prevod, sagitujem... multitasking će mi glave doći!

sagitovati? moj novi omiljeni glagol!!!

that's how we roll 

A mi kao nismo znali:

Obama authorized secret support for Syrian rebels 

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, sources familiar with the matter said.
Obama's order, approved earlier this year and known as an intelligence "finding," broadly permits the CIA and other U.S. agencies to provide support that could help the rebels oust Assad.
This and other developments signal a shift toward growing, albeit still circumscribed, support for Assad's armed opponents - a shift that intensified following last month's failure of the U.N. Security Council to agree on tougher sanctions against the Damascus government.
The White House is for now apparently stopping short of giving the rebels lethal weapons, even as some U.S. allies do just that.
But U.S. and European officials have said that there have been noticeable improvements in the coherence and effectiveness of Syrian rebel groups in the past few weeks. That represents a significant change in assessments of the rebels by Western officials, who previously characterized Assad's opponents as a disorganized, almost chaotic, rabble.
Precisely when Obama signed the secret intelligence authorization, an action not previously reported, could not be determined.
The full extent of clandestine support that agencies like the CIA might be providing also is unclear.
White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined comment.
'NERVE CENTER'
A U.S. government source acknowledged that under provisions of the presidential finding, the United States was collaborating with a secret command center operated by Turkey and its allies.
Last week, Reuters reported that, along with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Turkey had established a secret base near the Syrian border to help direct vital military and communications support to Assad's opponents.
This "nerve center" is in Adana, a city in southern Turkey about 60 miles from the Syrian border, which is also home to Incirlik, a U.S. air base where U.S. military and intelligence agencies maintain a substantial presence.
Turkey's moderate Islamist government has been demanding Assad's departure with growing vehemence. Turkish authorities are said by current and former U.S. government officials to be increasingly involved in providing Syrian rebels with training and possibly equipment.
European government sources said wealthy families in Saudi Arabia and Qatar were providing significant financing to the rebels. Senior officials of the Saudi and Qatari governments have publicly called for Assad's departure.
On Tuesday, NBC News reported that the Free Syrian Army had obtained nearly two dozen surface-to-air missiles, weapons that could be used against Assad's helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. Syrian government armed forces have employed such air power more extensively in recent days.
NBC said the shoulder-fired missiles, also known as MANPADs, had been delivered to the rebels via Turkey.
On Wednesday, however, Bassam al-Dada, a political adviser to the Free Syrian Army, denied the NBC report, telling the Arabic-language TV network Al-Arabiya that the group had "not obtained any such weapons at all." U.S. government sources said they could not confirm the MANPADs deliveries, but could not rule them out either.
Current and former U.S. and European officials previously said that weapons supplies, which were being organized and financed by Qatar and Saudi Arabia, were largely limited to guns and a limited number of anti-tank weapons, such as bazookas.
Indications are that U.S. agencies have not been involved in providing weapons to Assad's opponents. In order to do so, Obama would have to approve a supplement, known as a "memorandum of notification, to his initial broad intelligence finding.
Further such memoranda would have to be signed by Obama to authorize other specific clandestine operations to support Syrian rebels.
Reuters first reported last week that the White House had crafted a directive authorizing greater U.S. covert assistance to Syrian rebels. It was unclear at that time whether Obama had signed it.
OVERT SUPPORT
Separately from the president's secret order, the Obama administration has stated publicly that it is providing some backing for Assad's opponents.
The State Department said on Wednesday the U.S. government had set aside a total of $25 million for "non-lethal" assistance to the Syrian opposition. A U.S. official said that was mostly for communications equipment, including encrypted radios.
The State Department also says the United States has set aside $64 million in humanitarian assistance for the Syrian people, including contributions to the World Food Program, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other aid agencies.
Also on Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury confirmed it had granted authorization to the Syrian Support Group, Washington representative of one of the most active rebel factions, the Free Syrian Army, to conduct financial transactions on the rebel group's behalf. The authorization was first reported on Friday by Al-Monitor, a Middle East news and commentary website.
Last year, when rebels began organizing themselves to challenge the rule of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Obama also signed an initial "finding" broadly authorizing secret U.S. backing for them. But the president moved cautiously in authorizing specific measures to support them.
Some U.S. lawmakers, such as Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, have criticized Obama for moving too slowly to assist the rebels and have suggested the U.S. government become directly involved in arming Assad's opponents.
Other lawmakers have suggested caution, saying too little is known about the many rebel groups.
Recent news reports from the region have suggested that the influence and numbers of Islamist militants, some of them connected to al Qaeda or its affiliates, have been growing among Assad's opponents.
U.S. and European officials say that, so far, intelligence agencies do not believe the militants' role in the anti-Assad opposition is dominant.
While U.S. and allied government experts believe that the Syrian rebels have been making some progress against Assad's forces lately, most believe the conflict is nowhere near resolution, and could go on for years.
(Additional reporting by Tabassum Zakaria and Arshad Mohammed; Editing by Warren Strobel and Peter Cooney)

Америчка гамад.

Нешто за Меха: 

QuoteUS Missile Defense staff put security on the line - to watch porn

Employees of the Missile Defense Agency have been warned to quit using their workplace computers to watch porn online. Their actions do not only waste time, but could also put defense networks at risk of malware infection.

The agency's executive director, John James Jr., wrote in a memo obtained by Bloomberg News that a number of employees and contractors were caught "engaging in inappropriate use of the MDA network."

"There have been instances of employees and contractors accessing websites, or transmitting messages, containing pornographic or sexually explicit images," James wrote in the July 27 memo. "These actions are not only unprofessional, they reflect time taken away from designated duties, are in clear violation of federal and DoD and regulations, consume network resources and can compromise the security of the network though the introduction of malware or malicious code."

James warned that staff members caught breaking the rules could risk losing their security clearance and could eventually end up getting suspended or fired from federal service.

He also reminded personnel that the agency's network systems were subject to monitoring "at all times."

"Inappropriate usage will be detected and reported to supervisors for appropriate disciplinary action," he added. "The seriousness of the potential breach to operations cannot be overstated."

The memo was written after a few employees downloaded material from websites with known virus or malware issues, MDA spokesperson reported in an e-mail.

Porn sites are notorious for being a breeding ground for all kinds of viruses; from the pesky, pop-up causing adware to the much more malignant spyware that can retrieve data stored in an infected computer.

While getting a personal computer infected with such a virus can be bad enough, the damage more than doubles if a government computer falls prey to such malware, mostly because the data on it may be classified.

The Missile Defense Agency is a section of the Defense Department and is responsible for developing, testing and deploying missile defense systems using land-, sea-, air- and space-based sensors, complementary interceptors and battle management command and control systems. The Pentagon is hoping to procure $7.7 billion for the agency in 2013.

The scandal is not the first to hit the agency this year. In May, the Pentagon's inspector general produced a scathing report of MDA's director, US Army Lieutenant General Patrick O'Reilly. The report said O'Reilly "demeaned and belittled employees", "demanded that a subordinate use profane language", and concluded that the agency's director "created an unhealthy command climate". Nevertheless he kept his office.

http://rt.com/usa/news/missile-defense-porn-employees-744/

Najgori narod na svetu. Gori su i od Srba.


http://now.msn.com/lifeguard-gets-dollar2600-hospital-bill-after-saving-drowning-boy

QuoteTeen lifeguard gets $2,600 bill for saving drowning boy's life


John Clark has learned that not only are good deeds sometimes punished, they also may come with a hefty price tag. The 17-year-old lifeguard at Oregon's Rockaway Beach heard a 12-year-old boy screaming for help last month after the swimmer was pulled out by the rough surf. Clark swam out to rescue the boy, and when the ambulance arrived, he climbed in. "I couldn't just let the kid go," he said. Clark's selfless decisions earned him a $2,600 bill from Tillamook County General Hospital, including a $1,907 charge for the 15-mile ambulance ride. Clark, who juggles two other lifeguarding jobs, says he "feels bad" about the four-digit bill. We feel bad the hospital would even issue it.

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http://www.amiannoying.com/(S(h0sjo4yo2ebpja45xyx5jpf2))/collection.aspx?collection=78

http://www.forbes.com/celebrities/list/

Uporedio, i šta sad?

Uzgred, Forbsova lista za 2012. postoji i na Am I Annoying sajtu, http://www.amiannoying.com/%28S%281rfg1nytsa31nn45rnj1kluo%29%29/Collection.aspx?collection=13806

Pa na ovoj Forbsovoj listi nema Džona Stjuarta, a ima Glena Beka i Raša Limboa! Nešto tu smrdi do u nebesa.

Quote from: mac on 08-08-2012, 01:00:06
Uporedio, i šta sad?

pa kad uporediš izgledaju kao dvije različite zemlje

na prvoj Gibson, Sajnfeld, Stonsi, a sada Biber, Rijana, Bijons

AKo to nije pokazatelj Amerike na ivici propasti onda ne znam šta jeste

Ti se još nadaš da im je Džon Stjuart mnogo značajan.

Možda vas High Frequency Trading ne plaši, ali s obzirom na surovu globalnu finansijsku krizu, možda bi trebalo. Na kraju krajeva, prošlonedeljni masiv kok ap firme Knight Capital koji je dobrano protresao američke berze i dokačio i velike firme poput Forda recimo, koštaće kompaniju 440 miliona dolara i možda je uništiti - jer je softver doneo pogrešnu odluku a čovek nije imao vremena da reaguje.

Ovaj metod berzanskog poslovanja u kome algoritimi kupuju i prodaju deonice brzinama koje ljudski organizam, jelte, ne može da pojmi a kamoli postigne je kad čovek pokuša o njemu da misli, potpuno apstraktan. Kupovina vlasništva ovde više nema nikakve veze sa ulaganjem u posao ili razvijanjem posla već samo sa oplodnjom kapitala - brutalni kapitalizam kojim se više ne bave ljudi nego softverski roboti. Ovaj GIF pokazuje kako je izgledala učestalost ovog trgovanja na američkim berzama u poslednjih pet godina. Vrlo je... hipnotički za posmatranje. Rojtersov finansijski bloger Aleks Salmon je ovime fasciniran i prepadnut.

A, da podsetimo, kad već operišete pri brzinama koje su, jelte, bliske brzini svetlosti, onda se morate služiti svakojakim trikovima da biste ostali kompetitivni. Kao što je, na primer, plaćanje  usluge da dobijete informaciju o prodaji stoka trideset milisekundi pre drugih firmi...    Wired je nedavno objavio članak u kome se špekuliše o tome da će se uskoro za HFT koristiti tehnologija bazirana na emisijama neutrina. Ono, jeste, neutrino je sporiji od fotona ili elektrona u žici, ali može da id direktno kroz centar Zemlje, pa time kompenzuje.

Fascinantno i zastrašujuće i verujem da će Skalop i Kufer imati šta da pročitaju ovde i kažu na temu.

Sve to treba pohvatati i smestiti u Crnu Reku na odvikavanje. Šta tu ima fascinantno?

 

To uopšte nije više kapitalizam. To je obično šibicarenje.

sutra: bloger fasciniran, covjek sletio na mjesec

Pošto neutrini imaju varijabilnu zapreminu, onaj koji ima tu tehnologiju moći će da lažira do mile volje.

Quote from: scallop on 09-08-2012, 11:26:15
Sve to treba pohvatati i smestiti u Crnu Reku na odvikavanje. Šta tu ima fascinantno?

Pa, fascinantno je jer ipak roboti preuzimaju odlučivanje o finansijama, kako je naučna fantastika u svoje vreme i upozoravala i sve se odvija pred našim očima. I zastrašujuće je.

Quote from: Lord Kufer on 09-08-2012, 11:32:55
To uopšte nije više kapitalizam. To je obično šibicarenje.

Ali ne obično, već šibicarenje brzinom svetlosti!

Za mnoge je i obično šibicarenje brzinom svetlosti. Gledao sam ja kako pelješe ljude potpuno ubeđene da su shvatili šta ovaj radi. A onda tek izraz na licu gubitnika, to se novcem ne može platiti 

Meho, nema fascinantnog. Nema robotskog odlučivanja o finansijama. To nisu finansije. To je robotski lopovluk i nauči da to nazivaš pravim imenom.

Profesionalni kockari se nikad ne kockaju. Oni sve nameste, a ako puknu, primene grubu silu i povrate to što su izgubili.

Tehnologija zasnovana na neutrinima je tehnologija zaustavljanja vremena.

To je nabačeno, jasno je onome ko ume da gleda, u seriji FlashForward. Zbog toga je serija ukinuta...

A ja mislila da je serija ukinuta jer je katastrofalno loša.

Serija je, osim promene paradigme bila veoma kritična prema ženskom emocionalnom projektovanju, tj. emocionalnom fašizmu, a to se mnogima nije dopalo.
Ali, nije nastavljena, zbog toga što je paradigmu razuma zamenila paradigmom sažimanja vremena i prostora u tačku. A to je osobina neutrina-bozona.

a šta je žensko emocionalno projektovanje? i gde ga ima u seriji? meni je serija sa stanovišta logike glupa iako je u početku vrlo obećavala.

btw, fascinirana sam i mehovim poznavanjem neutrino-foton-kompenzacija znanjima!!

pa neće biti da je SF to predvidio jer je tvrdio generalno da će kompjuteri moći da misle, što ovi, jelte, ne mogu, jer su retardirane mašine koje su programirali ljudi.


inače, što se gifa, tiče, to je znak opšte panike na berzi. Više i nema razmišljanja kuda gdje, a pogotovo zašto, samo da se nekako izvuče najveća korist. To znači potpuni besmisao, a možda i skora propast.

Nešto ste svi odjutros ustali na levu nogu. Osim Lilite, Alah je pomilovao. 

Glavni ženski lik, doktorka, demonstrira čisto emocionalni pragmatizam i odbija da shvati promenu paradigme koju označava svođenje budućnosti na sadašnjost, što zahteva sasvim drugačiji način promišljanja stvarnosti (sve vreme je uverenje da će neki sigurno umreti, ali se to ne mora dogoditi). Sve vreme se pretpostavlje nešto što se zapravo ne ostvaruje. Tu je očigledno da je projekcija ono što dominira njenim umom.

Ona druga ženska, Dimitrijeva verenica, potpuni idiot koja u svoju idealizovanu projekciju može da ga primi samo ako je on apsolutno u s kladu s njom.
Naravno, Dimitrije je mnogo više čovek nego što ona to može da svari. Tu je razbijen i onaj mit o varanju (cheating). Moguće da je i zbog toga serija banovana.

Osim što postoji neka grupa koja izvodi taj eksperiment sa zaustavljanjem svesti, i osim što su glavni negativci u vezi s organizacijom Jerihon (Ješe?), nabačeno je, a to je verovatno trebalo da bude razrađeno u drugoj sezoni, i to da se zapravo radi o kosmičkom događaju, a ne da to izazivaju ljudi. Tu je sigurno nabodena prava istina. I zbog toga je zabranjena.

Gledao sam nekoliko epizoda serije Flash Forward. Početna ideja "šta ako svi na Zemlji dobiju trenutak svoje budućnosti kroz 6 meseci" je neopisivo dobra. Autori serije nisu bili na nivou da se nose sa takvom idejom i ona je zato propala. Sve ostalo je puka nagađanje i podešavanje.

Možda si u pravu, ali se ja ne slažem s tobom 

Moglo je i bolje da se izbalansira, ali mi ne znamo prave razloge.

Ko te tera da se složiš? Ali, moraš priznati da ne može da se baš sve strpa u zavere.