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Porn group: filming to halt during syphilis probe

QuoteLOS ANGELES (AP) — A pornography trade group has called for a nationwide filming moratorium while performers are tested for syphilis and Los Angeles County public health officials investigate a possible outbreak of the sexually transmitted disease.
One performer has tested positive, and the performer's sexual partners are being notified, according to Joanne Cachapero, a spokeswoman for the Free Speech Coalition.
The voluntary, temporary moratorium on production is expected to shutter a multi-billion dollar industry "until the risk to performers in the industry has been properly assessed and all performers have been tested," the trade association said in a statement.
On Friday, the Los Angeles County Public Health Department announced an investigation into at least five possible cases of syphilis that were reported last week.
Cachapero said the group is calling on all performers, more than 1,000, to be tested. Because the illness can be difficult to detect, the trade group's medical experts have ordered preventative shots of antibiotics for performers. After performers get the shots, they can go back to work within 10 days, Cachapero said.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, syphilis is transmitted through direct contact with syphilis sores, which mainly occur on the external genitals, vagina, anus or inside the rectum. The disease can be transmitted through a variety of sex acts.
A single shot of penicillin can cure a person who has had syphilis for less than a year, according to the CDC. Additional doses are necessary for people who have had the STD for a longer period.
County public health spokeswoman Sarah Kissell acknowledged the investigation Monday but declined an interview seeking details of its scope or an update of its findings.
The porn industry has held self-imposed moratoriums following news of diseased performers before.
In 2011, major porn producers stopped filming for nearly a week after an adult film performer tested positive for HIV, which causes AIDS. The Free Speech Coalition said the case was later determined to have been a false report.
In late 2010, porn actor Derrick Burts was diagnosed as HIV-positive, and his case was confirmed, briefly halting production.
In 2004, at least five performers tested positive for HIV, prompting another brief self-imposed moratorium.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, an advocacy group that has called for the use of condoms in all pornography, said Monday that the industry is incapable of policing itself and protecting its performers.
The group is backing a November ballot measure that will allow Los Angeles county voters to mandate the use of condoms during pornography shoots.
The Free Speech Coalition opposes the measure, saying the industry is a tight-knit community that has been proactive in testing and protecting the welfare of performers.

Neverovatni idioti:

Day-care workers accused of urging toddlers to fight -- on video

LATimes - Three Delaware day-care workers are accused of urging two 3-year-old toddlers to fight each other while the adults egged them on — and videotaped it, police said. "No pinching, only punching," one of the adults allegedly coaches the children. It's the story that is setting the Internet on fire Tuesday, along with "toddler fight club" headlines. The suspects have been charged with assault, endangering the welfare of a child, reckless endangerment and conspiracy. They were identified as Tiana Harris, 19, and Lisa Parker, 47, both of Dover; and Estefania Myers, 21, of Felton. "One of the kids involved ran over to one of the adults for protection, but she turned him around back into the fight."The children "were just wailing on each other," Stump said in an interview on NBC10, WCAU. "I mean punching, slapping, pinching, throwing each other into tables." The video allegedly shows the adults urging the kids to duke it out, with fists. The video is not being made public at this time, authorities say, because it's evidence.Police say that one of the children can be heard in the video saying "He's pinching me!," according to CBS Philly. One of the day-care workers allegedly responds, "No pinching, only punching," the TV station report.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-toddler-fight-club-video-20120821,0,4936963.story

Isto to se dešava sa celim narodima. Zavadi pa vladaj. Kontroliši rulju skretanjem pažnje. Navedi rulju da troši energiju na aktivnosti koje ne ugrožavaju postojeći poredak.

Ovi Teksašani su URNEBESNI. Ja povremeno zaboravljam da tamo ima ljudi koji ozbiljno misle da postoji zavera da se američki suverenitet preda u ruke Ujedinjenih Nacija i da će trupe UN okupirati teritoriju USA 

Texas judge warns of possible 'civil war' if President Obama is re-elected 

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What is it about election years?
As if the negative political ads aren't enough, now a county judge in Lubbock, Texas, predicts possible "civil war" if President Obama is re-elected.
Judge Tom Head was on a local TV news show making his case for a tax increase, when he said hiring extra sheriff's deputies would especially be needed if Obama wins in November.
From Lubbock's Fox 34 News:
 

"He's going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the U.N., and what is going to happen when that happens?," Head asked.
"I'm thinking the worst. Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war maybe. And we're not just talking a few riots here and demonstrations, we're talking Lexington, Concord, take up arms and get rid of the guy.
"Now what's going to happen if we do that, if the public decides to do that? He's going to send in U.N. troops. I don't want 'em in Lubbock County. OK. So I'm going to stand in front of their armored personnel carrier and say 'you're not coming in here'.
"And the sheriff, I've already asked him, I said 'you gonna back me' he said, 'yeah, I'll back you'. Well, I don't want a bunch of rookies back there. I want trained, equipped, seasoned veteran officers to back me."

Sheriff Kelly Rowe told a Lubbock newspaper reporter he has never discussed any of the scenarios with the judge.
On Wednesday, Judge Head explained his remarks in a video interview with the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. He said his original comments were taken out of context. But as the county's emergency management director, he said he has to keep a "worst case scenario" in mind if Obama returns to the White House and Democrats control the Senate.
"I have some opinions what they're doing and what they're trying to do if they stay in power," he said. "And I have to prepare for that."

Ja lično video bilbordove kraj hajveja koji razobličuju zavere protiv Teksasa.

Nema adekvatne teme na sporckom forumu a i ovo je i inače nesportski ukus:

USADA to strip Lance Armstrong of 7 Tour titles   

QuoteAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — With stunning swiftness, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said Thursday night it will strip Lance Armstrong of his unprecedented seven Tour de France titles after he dropped his fight against drug charges that threatened his legacy as one of the greatest cyclists of all time.
Travis Tygart, USADA's chief executive, said Armstrong would also be hit with a lifetime ban on Friday. Under the World Anti-Doping Code, he could lose other awards, event titles and cash earnings while the International Olympic Committee might look at the bronze medal he won in the 2000 Games.
Armstrong, who retired last year, effectively dropped his fight by declining to enter USADA's arbitration process — his last option — because he said he was weary of fighting accusations that have dogged him for years. He has consistently pointed to the hundreds of drug tests he passed as proof of his innocence while piling up Tour titles from 1999 to 2005.
"There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say, 'Enough is enough.' For me, that time is now," Armstrong said. He called the USADA investigation an "unconstitutional witch hunt."
"I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999," he said. "The toll this has taken on my family and my work for our foundation and on me leads me to where I am today — finished with this nonsense."
USADA reacted quickly and treated Armstrong's decision as an admission of guilt, hanging the label of drug cheat on an athlete who was a hero to thousands for overcoming life-threatening testicular cancer and for his foundation's support for cancer research.
"It is a sad day for all of us who love sport and athletes," Tygart said. "It's a heartbreaking example of win at all costs overtaking the fair and safe option. There's no success in cheating to win."
Tygart said the agency had the power to strip the Tour titles, though Armstrong disputed that.
"USADA cannot assert control of a professional international sport and attempt to strip my seven Tour de France titles," he said. "I know who won those seven Tours, my teammates know who won those seven Tours, and everyone I competed against knows who won those seven Tours."
Still to be heard from was the sport's governing body, the International Cycling Union, which had backed Armstrong's legal challenge to USADA's authority and in theory could take the case before the international Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Tygart said UCI was "bound to recognize our decision and impose it" as a signer of the World Anti-Doping Code.
"They have no choice but to strip the titles under the code," he said.
USADA maintains that Armstrong has used banned substances as far back as 1996, including the blood-booster EPO and steroids as well as blood transfusions — all to boost his performance.

The 40-year-old Armstrong walked away from the sport in 2011 without being charged following a two-year federal criminal investigation into many of the same accusations he faces from USADA.

The federal probe was closed in February, but USADA announced in June it had evidence Armstrong used banned substances and methods — and encouraged their use by teammates. The agency also said it had blood tests from 2009 and 2010 that were "fully consistent" with blood doping.
Included in USADA's evidence were emails written by Armstrong's former U.S. Postal Service teammate Floyd Landis, who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title after a positive drug test. Landis' emails to a USA Cycling official detailed allegations of a complex doping program on the team.
USADA also said it had 10 former Armstrong teammates ready to testify against him. Other than suggesting they include Landis and Tyler Hamilton, both of whom have admitted to doping offenses, the agency has refused to say who they are or specifically what they would say.
"There is zero physical evidence to support (the) outlandish and heinous claims," Armstrong said. "The only physical evidence here is the hundreds of (doping) controls I have passed with flying colors."
Armstrong sued USADA in Austin, where he lives, in an attempt to block the case and was supported by the UCI. A judge threw out the case on Monday, siding with USADA despite questioning the agency's pursuit of Armstrong in his retirement.
"USADA's conduct raises serious questions about whether its real interest in charging Armstrong is to combat doping, or if it is acting according to less noble motives," such as politics or publicity, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks wrote.
Even if UCI and USADA differ on the Tour titles, the ultra-competitive Armstrong has still done something virtually unthinkable for him: He quit before a fight is over.
It was a stunning move for an athlete who built his reputation on not only beating cancer, but forcing himself through grueling offseason workouts no one else could match, then crushing his rivals in the Alps and the Pyrenees.
"Today I turn the page. I will no longer address this issue, regardless of the circumstances," he said. "I will commit myself to the work I began before ever winning a single Tour de France title: serving people and families affected by cancer, especially those in underserved communities."
Armstrong could have pressed his innocence in USADA's arbitration process, which would have included a hearing during which evidence against him would have been presented. But the cyclist has said he believes most people have already made up their minds about whether he's a fraud or a persecuted hero.
Although he had already been crowned a world champion and won individual stages at the Tour de France, Armstrong was still relatively unknown in the U.S. until he won the epic race for the first time in 1999. It was the ultimate comeback tale: When diagnosed with cancer, doctors had given him less than a 50 percent chance of survival before surgery and brutal cycles of chemotherapy saved his life.
Armstrong's riveting victories, his work for cancer awareness and his gossip-page romances with rocker Sheryl Crow, fashion designer Tory Burch and actress Kate Hudson made him a figure who transcended sports.
His dominance of the Tour de France elevated the sport's popularity in America to unprecedented levels. His story and success helped sell millions of the "Livestrong" plastic yellow wrist bracelets, and enabled him to enlist lawmakers and global policymakers to promote cancer awareness and research. His Lance Armstrong Foundation has raised nearly $500 million since its founding in 1997.
Jeffery C. Gervey, chairman of the foundation, issued a statement of support saying:
"Faced with a biased process whose outcome seems predetermined, Lance chose to put his family and his foundation first," Gervey said. "The leadership of the Lance Armstrong Foundation remain incredibly proud of our founder's achievements, both on and off the bike."
Created in 2000, USADA is recognized by Congress as the official anti-doping agency for Olympic sports in the United States. Its investigators joined U.S. agents during the federal investigation of Armstrong. Tygart dismissed Armstrong's lawsuit as an attempt at "concealing the truth," saying the agency is motivated by one goal — exposing cheaters.
Armstrong had tense public disputes with USADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency, some former teammates and assistants and even Greg LeMond, the first American to win the Tour de France.
"He had a right to contest the charges," WADA President John Fahey said after Armstrong's announcement. "He chose not to. The simple fact is that his refusal to examine the evidence means the charges had substance in them."
Others close to Armstrong were caught up in the investigations, too: Johan Bruyneel, the coach of Armstrong's teams, and three members of the medical staff and a consultant were also charged. Bruyneel is taking his case to arbitration, while two medical team staffers and consulting doctor Michele Ferrari didn't formally contest the charges and were issued lifetime ban by USADA. Ferrari later said he was innocent.
Questions surfaced even as Armstrong was on his way to his first Tour victory. He was leading the 1999 race when a trace amount of a banned anti-inflammatory corticosteroid was found in his urine; cycling officials said he was authorized to use a small amount of a cream to treat saddle sores.
After Armstrong's second victory in 2000, French judicial officials investigated his Postal Service team for drug use. That investigation ended with no charges, but the allegations kept coming.
Armstrong was criticized for his relationship with Ferrari, who was banned by Italian authorities over doping charges in 2002. Former personal and team assistants accused Armstrong of having steroids in an apartment in Spain and disposing of syringes that were used for injections.
In 2004, a Dallas-based promotions company initially refused to pay him a $5 million bonus for winning his sixth Tour de France because it wanted to investigate allegations raised by media in Europe. Testimony in that case included former teammate Frankie Andreu and his wife, Betsy, saying Armstrong told doctors during his 1996 cancer treatments that he had taken a cornucopia of steroids and performance-enhancing drugs.
Two books published in Europe, "L.A. Confidential" and "L.A. Official," also raised doping allegations and, in 2005, French magazine L'Equipe reported that retested urine samples from the 1999 Tour showed EPO use.
Armstrong fought every accusation with denials and, in some cases, lawsuits against media outlets that reported them.
He retired in 2005 and almost immediately considered a comeback before deciding to stay on the sidelines — in part because he didn't want to keep answering doping questions.
"I'm sick of this," Armstrong said in 2005. "Sitting here today, dealing with all this stuff again, knowing if I were to go back, there's no way I could get a fair shake — on the roadside, in doping control, or the labs."
Three years later, Armstrong was 36 and itching to ride again. He came back to finish third in the 2009 Tour de France.
Armstrong raced again in 2010 under the cloud of the federal investigation. Early last year, he quit the sport for good, making a brief return as a triathlete until the USADA investigation shut him down.
During his sworn testimony in the dispute over the $5 million bonus, Armstrong said he wouldn't take drugs because he had too much to lose.
"(The) faith of all the cancer survivors around the world. Everything I do off the bike would go away, too," Armstrong said then. "And don't think for a second I don't understand that. It's not about money for me. Everything. It's also about the faith that people have put in me over the years. So all of that would be erased."

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/pregnancy-begins-2-weeks-before-conception-now-the-law-in-arizona/politics/2012/04/13/37993

'Pregnancy Begins 2 Weeks Before Conception' Now The Law In Arizona

QuoteIn Arizona, women are now legally pregnant two weeks before conception, according to a new law, the Orwellianly-named, "Women's Health and Safety Act," signed yesterday by Republican Governor Jan Brewer. The scientifically, medically, ethically, and intellectually dishonest legislation is designed to reduce the amount of time a woman is allowed to have a legal abortion, and is one of the most draconian bills to become law in America.

The bill was sponsored by extremist Arizona State Rep. Kimberly Yee, (image, right) who last month penned an op-ed titled, "No drug test, no welfare." Yee wrote:

    States have an obligation to hold those on public assistance accountable for their actions. Receiving a public benefit is a privilege, not a right. The debate on drug testing welfare recipients is simply about the responsible use of tax dollars.

It's unclear where in the U.S. constitution it states that the states "have an obligation to hold those on public assistance accountable for their actions."

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Porašće zarada na abortusima u domaćoj radinosti.

Pa, to je najčešće najvidljiviji rezultat ograničavanja broja legalnih abortusa. Avaj, to znači da više žena radi abortuse u nehigijenskim, opasnim uslovima.

Sad su sve žene po definiciji u drugom stanju, dok se drukčije ne dokaže 

Ima ih i koje se snalaze:

NYC Woman Moving To AZ For 'Pregnancy Begins 2 Weeks Before Conception' Law

QuoteTaylor Ferrara, a New York City woman, says in this video she is moving to Arizona to benefit from their new "pregnancy begins two weeks before conception" law, which she references on her YouTube page, that The New Civil Rights Movement reported on two weeks ago.
In Arizona, women are now legally pregnant two weeks before conception, according to a new law designed to restrict abortion, signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer earlier this month.
Certainly one aspect Arizona lawmakers probably didn't expect. Another — she threatens she'll move back to New York to have an "abortion" if they don't treat her like a pregnant woman deserves to be treated.
We like Taylor Ferrara a lot.

I'm Moving to Arizona!!!

 O svasta 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/school-asks-deaf-preschooler-change-sign-language-name-191629255.html

Three-and-a-half  year old Hunter Spanjer, who is deaf, signs his name by crossing his forefinger and index finger and moving his hand up and down.

To his family, friends and those who know the Signing Exact English (S.E.E.) language that the Grand Island, Neb., boy uses, that gesture uniquely means "Hunter Spanjer."

But to Hunter's school district, it might mean something else. The district claims that it violates a rule that forbids anything in the school that looks like a weapon, reports KOLN-TV.

And Hunter's parents claim that Grand Island Pubic Schools administrators have asked them to change their son's sign language name.

"Anybody that I have talked to thinks this is absolutely ridiculous," Hunter's grandmother Janet Logue told the TV station. "This is not threatening in any way."

Hunter's father Brian Spanjer said, "It's a symbol. It's an actual sign, a registered sign, through S.E.E."

The family told KOLN that lawyers from the National Association of the Deaf may push for Hunter's right to sign his name at the school.

Jack Sheard, Grand Island Public Schools spokesperson told KOLN, "We are working with the parents to come to the best solution we can for the child."

One Grand Island resident said she disagrees with the school.

"I find it very difficult to believe that the sign language that shows his name resembles a gun in any way would even enter a child's mind," Fredda Bartenbach said in the news report.

Odmah sam se setio broja 4 sa ove liste. 

http://www.cracked.com/article_19797_5-true-tales-good-fortune-with-horribly-cruel-plot-twists.html

Nije indikativno ali možda i jeste 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/30/police-100-year-old-driver-hits-11-near-la-school/

Voženje kola je životni preduslov za Amere. Vozili bi i iz mrtvačkog sanduka da mogu. Moj prijatelj je pre tri meseca otišao u SAD da prebaci majku iz Arizone u Floridu, da ne pominjem koliko ima godina, i sve vreme se sa njom svađao jer je insistirala da i ona vozi.

http://nourishedkitchen.com/farm-to-consumer-legal-defense-fund-dinner/?utm_source=Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=45ad596bd1-FTCLDF-Dinner++RSS&utm_medium=email

Romni u nebranom grožđu. Doduše, ne znam zašto ove likove zovu hakerima kada su fizički provalili u zgradu i ukrali fizičke dokumente... Valjda zato što novac od ucene traže u bitcoinima?

Romney's Taxes Hacked? Secret Service Is On It

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The hackers who claim to have stolen Mitt Romney's tax returns — and are holding them to ransom for $1 million in bitcoins — just became the targets of a federal investigation.
As we mentioned earlier, the unidentified team of hackers described the theft on Pastebin. That's the same data-dump website where a treasure trove of one million Apple device IDs, allegedly taken from an FBI laptop, was found. The FBI later denied they'd been hacked.
The Romney hackers, by contrast, offered no proof — just a description of an elaborate burglary inside PriceWaterhouseCooper's Tennessee office on Aug. 25, where they supposedly retrieved the tax returns that the GOP candidate has declined to release.
Romney's team was given until Sept. 28 to transfer $1 million in bitcoins (an untraceable online currency popular in the criminal underworld). Otherwise, the hackers said, the tax returns would either go to the highest bidder or be released on Pastebin for all to read.
Ironically, one of the world's largest bitcoin exchanges — Bitfloor — halted trading Wednesday after being hit by hackers itself.
Whether or not the hackers are blowing smoke, attempted blackmail of a presidential candidate is a pretty serious offense. So the Secret Service is investigating, a spokesperson told CNET.
The agency, formerly a department of the U.S. Treasury (and now part of Homeland Security), investigates financial crimes alongside its more well-known role of protecting Presidents and candidates. So it couldn't be better placed to tackle this one.
Given that the tax return theft was described in such precise detail, it should be the work of a moment for agents to find out if it actually happened. Tracking down the hackers in question may take a little longer.
Will this help take the pressure off Romney, who has been under fire for not releasing as many tax returns as previous presidential candidates? Give us your take in the comments.

A u nastavku priče, Lari Flint dosoljava:

Larry Flynt offering $1 million for Romney's financial records

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Hustler magazine publisher, and self-described free speech activist, Larry Flynt is offering $1 million for anyone who will provide him with Mitt Romney's financial records.
Flynt, 69, has purchased full-page ads in Sunday's Washington Post and Tuesday's, September 11 issue of USA Today.
"What is he hiding?" the ad text reads, "Maybe, now, we'll find out." The ad also includes a phone number and email address where anyone with information can contact Flynt.
A press release credited to Hustler says Flynt is "offering up to a million dollars in cash for documented evidence concerning Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's unreleased tax returns and/or details of his offshore assets, bank accounts and business partnerships."
Romney has only agreed to release his 2010 and 2011 tax returns so far.
On Friday, the Secret Service and FBI announced they are investigating an anonymous letter from an individual claiming to have stolen copies of Romney's tax returns. The letter reportedly demands $1 million in hard to trace Internet funds. Romney's accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, has denied that any records were stolen.
Flynt, a registered Democrat who once ran for president as a Republican, is no stranger to politics. And he's certainly no stranger to offering $1 million rewards for his various political interests. He's made similar offers against everything including a request to debunk the Warren Commission's investigation into the death of John F. Kennedy to most recently asking for evidence supporting his belief that Texas Governor Rick Perry was guilty of infidelity.
Back during the impeachment trial of then-President Bill Clinton, Flynt made a $1 million offer for evidence of marital infidelity against Republican members of the House who were leading the trial against Clinton. That offer led to incoming House Speaker Bob Livingston resigning after evidence of his own affair was publicly revealed.
In 2007, Flynt offered a financial reward for evidence showing that Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter had cheated on his wife. Vitter has remained in office, even after the evidence was made public.

Back in 2003, Flynt was one of several atypical candidates to run in the California gubernatorial recall election to replace Democrat Gray Davis.
Flynt has also run into some political troubles of his own recently. In August, California's Fair Political Practices Commission accused him of failing to report campaign donations in a timely manner that Flynt made to a state assembly candidate. However, Flynt was not fined by the agency since he filed his report immediately after the complaint was issued.

Конгресмен из Ајове појашњава зашто треба забранити абортусе, с акцентом на оне на силованим малолетницама.    После иде неко тупљење о борбама паса, али првих 45 секунди је тако... амерички. 

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) Clarifies Statements On Dog Fighting

    ovaj lud????

Не желиш да знаш "јавну дебату" која је претходила овом објашњењу. 

Siguran sam da je bila neprijatna.

С тим у вези, овај морон је кандидат за Сенат. Вреди послушати цело баљезгање, слободне асоцијације, бесрамну војну пропаганду, али права ствар је од 2.21... Е, ту креће заиста FTW?!?! моменат. 

Todd Akin's extreme anti-choice positions

Kačio sam ja vesti o njegovom objašnjenju "legitimnog silovanja" na D. Reaguj. Teški ludak. Mislim, kapiram da i većina republikanaca misli da je prilična budala jer ove njegove priče zvuče gotovo parodično bez obzira na politički stav koga zastupate...

За све то сам сазнао гледајући Comedy Central. 

Мада не мислим да је он у овом случају мислио "легитимно", већ - стварно. Оно као - ако је жена стварно силована, онда се покрећу ти тајанствени процеси. Или као Стивен Колберт каже - ако затрудни, то је доказ да није силована. 

А Кинг је подржао Ејкина, али се заглибио и са поређењем имиграната са псима, отуда усред приче о псима сјајна сторија о силоватељу који из школског дворишта одведе клинку у другу државу, абортира је и - шта ће - па наравно, врати је на игралиште! Ко би се тога сетио?

Америка! Запад! Хел јеа!  Да могу, гласао бих за Ромнија, навијао сам против Обаме и за прошле америчке изборе, има негде на форуму.

Apropo... jedna od interesantnih nedoslednosti gorućih pitanja u Americi jeste to da su u principu pitanje abortusa i pitanje regulacije oružja dve strane iste medalje, a podeljenost duž partijskih linija je obrnuta na ta dva polja.

Hoću reći, ne bi li trebalo da oni koji su za ograničavanje lične slobode kada je pitanje abortusa takođe i zastupaju strožu kontrolu oružja na federalnom nivou? Odnosno, ne bi li oni koji su pro-choice takođe trebalo da podržavaju i neograničenu slobodu posedovanja oružja? 

Il' si za slobodu, il' si za mešanje države-dadilje. 

Po pitanju abortusa obe strane veruju da su pro-choice, s tim što jedna strana zastupa izbor trudnice, a druga izbor nerođene bebe. Podrazumeva se da svaki oblik života želi da živi.

Не видим како је то повезано, осим ако не прихватимо речи оног мамлаза који прича о томе како Америка цени живот. 

С тим у вези, обе америчке партије су једнако ратоборне, тако да...

Quote from: Джон Рейнольдс on 09-09-2012, 22:53:03
С тим у вези, обе америчке партије су једнако ратоборне, тако да...

Наравно. Али Ромни (о Санторуму да и не говорим) је далеко забавнији од Обмане, заједно са својом кликом.

Наравна ствар, а и ваљда би нам после избора Ромнија забаву донели и српски грађаноиди који су се онолико радовали Обмани ко да им је из ока испао. Додуше, можда је одушевљење у међувремену спласло, ко зна.

А све вести из стожера Имеприје Зла треба пратити преко Комеди сентрала. Они су изразито "демократски" оријентисани, па су Ромни и екипа још урнебеснији и делују као већи цареви, док ови што им се клибере делују као мајмуни. Дакле, вин-вин ситуација.

Amerikanci su, ako ništa drugo, preduzimljivi

Look-Alike Sites Funnel Big Money to Mystery PAC 

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  The mysterious CAPE PAC has netted more than $570,000 from apparently snookered donors. Where is the money going? Screenshot Noam Neusner, a former White House speechwriter for President George W. Bush, thought he had given $250 to Ohio GOP Senate candidate Josh Mandel.
He hadn't.
Instead, Neusner was one of nearly 3,000 donors who stumbled onto a network of look-alike campaign websites that have netted more than $570,000 this year in what some are calling a sophisticated political phishing scheme.
The websites have the trappings of official campaign pages: smiling candidate photos and videos, issue pages, and a large red "donate" button at the top. Except that proceeds from the shadow sites go not to the candidates pictured, but to an obscure conservative group run by an Arizona activist.
Such doppelgänger sites exist for nearly three-dozen prominent GOP figures, including presidential nominee Mitt Romney, House Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and donation magnets such as Reps. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Allen West of Florida.
Peter Pasi, who specializes in digital GOP fundraising, said the group is "exploiting donors." "The intent is to trade on someone else's name for your benefit," he said. Republican officials are concerned that the group, the Coalition of Americans for Political Equality PAC, is siphoning away money from needy GOP candidates while duping donors.
"The only thing they are doing is lining their pockets and funding their own operation," said Chris LaCivita, a strategist for West, whose campaign lawyers recently filed a complaint against CAPE PAC with the Federal Election Commission.
A critical unanswered question is who, if anyone, is profiting from the enterprise. More than $250,000 of the group's spending -- nearly half -- has gone to two companies with limited paper trails, neither of which has been hired by any other federal campaign in the last two years, federal records show.  CAPE PAC Chairman Jeff Loyd, a former county GOP chairman in Arizona, declined an interview about the group. He said in an emailed statement: "Our candidate websites, videos, and get-out-the-vote messages clearly state who we are and our mission." "If a donor inadvertently gives to CAPE PAC and requests a refund, we immediately comply," Loyd said. "These instances have been few and far between ... [we] are unaware of any issue that remains unresolved."
CAPE PAC's model is to buy Google ads -- about $290,000 worth, as of the end of June -- to promote its network of candidate sites whenever people search for prominent GOP officials. A search for "Mitt Romney," for instance, often leads to two sponsored results: Romney's official site and CAPE PAC's mittromneyin2012.com.
Once on a CAPE PAC site, users would have to notice fine print at either the top or bottom of the page revealing that they were not on the official page of their favored politician. A dozen donors, including some experienced Washington hands such as Neusner, had no idea they had contributed to the group before National Journal Daily contacted them.
"Clearly, it's deceptive and it's wrong and it's hurting good, Republican conservative candidates," Neusner said. He has since asked for a refund, which he said the group is processing.
It is impossible to tell how many of the almost 3,000 people who have given to CAPE PAC have done so mistakenly. CAPE PAC said it has a "100 percent refund policy" when donors ask; it issued more than $50,000 in refunds in the second quarter.
"I've been swindled," said one D.C. veteran, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the donor's job includes directing campaign contributions. "I was under the impression that I was giving to the Romney campaign. I'm certainly going to be asking for my money back."
The donor noted that if seasoned political professionals are being fooled, then many more lay donors are likely giving in error.
"It confused me, and I do this for a living," said Patrick Raffaniello, a Washington lobbyist with two decades' experience whose bookkeeper gave $2,250 to CAPE PAC thinking it was going to Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan. Raffaniello thought his bookkeeper errantly gave to Camp's PAC, not directly to his reelection campaign as Raffaniello had intended, and he sought a refund. He did not know until contacted by National Journal Daily where his money really went.
"That's pretty sophisticated phishing," he said. "It looks official. It looks as good as anything .... I'm glad I got my money back."
CAPE PAC's network of microsites does not appear to break election law; the group discloses itself as the operator on every page. But "just because it's legal doesn't make it right," said Pasi.
The group first made waves in March, when it bought search ads for GOP Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts. Brown and his Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Warren, had pledged to swear off outside advertising. Warren said the CAPE PAC ads violated their agreement and Brown paid a fine for not honoring the pledge.
CAPE PAC has been on the radar of Boehner's political operation, as well. "Our campaign continues to monitor this situation, and we're concerned that some donors are finding CAPE PAC's site very confusing," said Boehner spokesman Cory Fritz. He urged donors to call a campaign before making online contributions.
CAPE PAC's biggest expenditure has been on Google ads promoting candidates. After search ads, the most money went to a pair of Delaware-incorporated companies with almost no public profile -- both of which got money from CAPE PAC on June 30 and then registered domain names 10 days later.
A $178,200 payment went to Fly-Ur-Flag for "media and advertisements." It is not clear who operates the firm, or who its other clients of any kind are. The company received the CAPE PAC payment on June 30 and registered its website domain -- flyurflag.biz -- on July 9. The bare-bones website has no contact information and lists no staff.
"We are currently managing over 30 campaigns across the United States of America for the 2012 election cycle," the site claims.
CAPE PAC lists 33 candidates it supports.
Another $85,000 went to GoMobile Technology. Although the domain for that firm -- gomobiletech.net -- is now registered, no website has been launched.
No other federal candidate or committee has hired either Fly-Ur-Flag or GoMobile Technology this election cycle, according to FEC records. In his statement, Loyd said that, "Aside from our vendor agreements, none of the members of CAPE PAC have any relationship with these vendors."
Loyd is also CEO of a digital marketing firm, Paperleaf Media, according to his LinkedIn profile. The company touts its expertise "in understanding were [sic] to advertise to drive traffic that will convert into new customers."
Through June 30, the most recent data available, CAPE PAC has paid Loyd more than $2,300 in "director fees."
It has also paid $15,000 to the D.C. area public-relations firm of Kirsten Fedewa. Fedewa returned a message left for CAPE PAC and said that she would pass questions on to Loyd or Nicholas Spears, who has been paid about $800 as a CAPE PAC director. Instead, CAPE PAC emailed Loyd's written statement. Fedewa declined to answer questions in a follow-up call, saying she is a consultant, not a spokeswoman for the group.
GOP activist Sarah Bowman of Iowa has also received more than $4,100 for "public-relations" services.
CAPE PAC has a strong Web presence, with nearly 100,000 followers on Twitter and 50,000 on Facebook. In a press release touting its work for Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona, who is running for Senate, CAPE PAC claimed to have promoted a #VoteFlake hashtag on Twitter, posted a YouTube ad, and placed a "polling-place locator" on its website. The YouTube video had only 170 views as of the end of August; no one other than CAPE PAC's Twitter account appears to have used the #VoteFlake tag.
"We are troubled with its deceptive website and collection of donations," Flake spokesman Andrew Wilder said.
To aid Allen West, CAPE PAC stated in a July press release that it "secured airtime" that month. But a veteran media buyer and West's campaign could find no record of such an ad airing on TV.
For donors such as Jesse Knight of Salt Lake City, who contributed $250 to CAPE PAC, the biggest question is what is happening with his money.
"I thought I was donating it to Romney," Knight said. "That's what they portrayed." Knight accidentally clicked "donate" multiple times. CAPE PAC officials were accommodating in returning his duplicative donations, he said.
But it wasn't until a reporter contacted him that he learned he hadn't contributed to Romney at all. "I want 100 percent going to the guy I'm voting for," Knight said.

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Searching for a Speed Limit in High-Frequency Trading   

QuoteTICKER tape: it's an enduring image of Wall Street. The paper is gone but the digital tape runs on, across computer and television screens. Those stock quotations scurrying by on CNBC are, for many, the pulse of American capitalism.
But Sal L. Arnuk doesn't really believe in the tape anymore — at least not in the one most of us see. That tape, he says, doesn't tell the whole truth.
That might come as a surprise, given that Mr. Arnuk is a professional stockbroker. But suddenly, and improbably, he has emerged as a leading critic of the very market in which he works. He and his business partner, Joseph C. Saluzzi, have become the voice of those plucky souls who try to swim with Wall Street's sharks without getting devoured.
From workaday suburban offices here, across from a Gymboree, these two men are taking on one of the most powerful forces in finance today: high-frequency trading. H.F.T., as it's known, is the biggest thing to hit Wall Street in years. On any given day, this lightning-quick, computer-driven form of trading accounts for upward of half of all of the business transacted on the nation's stock markets.
It's a staggering development — and one that Mr. Arnuk, 46, and Mr. Saluzzi, 45, say has contributed to the hair-raising flash crashes and computer hiccups that seem to roil the markets with alarming frequency. Many ordinary Americans have grown wary of the stock market, which they see as the playground of Google-esque algorithms, powerful banks and secretive, fast-money trading firms.
To which Mr. Arnuk and Mr. Saluzzi say: enough. At their Lilliputian brokerage firm, they are tilting at the giants of high-frequency trading and warning — loudly — of the dangers they pose. Mr. Saluzzi was the only vocal critic of H.F.T. appointed to a 24-member federal panel that is studying the topic. Posts from the blog that the two men write have been packaged into a book, "Broken Markets: How High Frequency Trading and Predatory Practices on Wall Street are Destroying Investor Confidence and Your Portfolio," (FT Press, 2012) which was published in June. They are even getting fan mail.
But they are also making enemies.
Proponents of high-frequency trading call them embittered relics — quixotic, old-school stockbrokers without the skills to compete in sophisticated, modern markets. And, in a sense, those critics are right: they are throwbacks. Both men say they wish Wall Street could go back to a calmer, simpler time, all the way back to, say, 2004 — before the old exchange system splintered and murky private markets sprang up and computers could send the Dow into 1,000-point spasms. (The bottle of Tums Ultra 1000 and the back-pain medication on Mr. Arnuk's desk here are a testament to their frustrations.)
They have proposed solutions that might seem simple to the uninitiated but look radical to H.F.T. insiders. For instance, the two want to require H.F.T. firms to honor the prices they offer for a stock for at least 50 milliseconds — less than a wink of an eye, but eons in high-frequency time.
On the Friday before Labor Day weekend, Mr. Arnuk was sitting in the office of Themis Trading, the brokerage firm he founded with Mr. Saluzzi a decade ago. It is little more than a fluorescent-lit single room; the most notable decoration is a poster signed in gold ink by the cast of "The Sopranos." Above Mr. Arnuk, the tape scrolled by on the Bloomberg Television channel. But other numbers danced on four computer screens on his desk. Mr. Arnuk kept moving his cursor across those screens, punching in figures, trying to find the best price for a customer who wanted to buy a particular stock.
His eyes scanned the stock's going price on 13 stock exchanges across the nation. The investing public is now using so many exchanges because new regulation and technology have rewritten the old rules and let in new players. It's not just the Big Board or the Nasdaq anymore. It's also the likes of BATS and Direct Edge.
Mr. Arnuk then eyed the stock's price on dozens of other trading platforms — private ones most people can't see. Known as the dark pools, they help hedge funds and other big-money players trade in relative secrecy.
Everywhere, different prices kept flickering on the screens. Computers at high-speed trading firms, Mr. Arnuk said, were issuing buy and sell orders and then canceling them almost as fast, testing the market. It can be hell on human brokers. On the tape, the stock's price was unchanged, but beneath the tape, things were changing all the time.
"They will flicker to see who is not flickering," Mr. Arnuk said of H.F.T. computers. "The guy who is not flickering is the idiot — the real investor."
From his desk a few feet away, Mr. Saluzzi chimed in: "That's how the game is played now."
ON the afternoon of May 6, 2010, shortly before 3 o'clock, the stock market plummeted. In just 15 minutes, the Dow tumbled 600 points — bringing its loss for the day to nearly 1,000. Then, just as fast, and just as inexplicably, it sprang back nearly 600 points, like a bungee jumper.
It was one of the most harrowing moments in Wall Street history. And for many people outside financial circles, it was the first clue as to just how much new technology was changing the nation's financial markets. The flash crash, a federal report later concluded, "portrayed a market so fragmented and fragile that a single large trade could send stocks into a sudden spiral." It turned out that a big mutual fund firm had sold an unusually large number of futures contracts, setting off a feedback loop among computers at H.F.T. firms that sent the market into a free fall.
Despite computers' many benefits — faster, cheaper trades, and mind-boggling analytics — they have been causing problems on Wall Street for years. Technology has fostered so-called hot money — money that quickly shifts from one stock to another, or one market to another, always seeking higher returns. Computer-driven program trading was developed in the 1980s and was a contributing factor in the 1987 market crash, though it wasn't the main culprit, as many initially thought.
Since the 2010 flash crash, mini flash crashes have occurred with surprising regularity in a wide range of individual stocks. Last spring, a computer glitch scuttled the initial public offering of one of the nation's largest electronic exchanges, BATS, and computer problems at the Nasdaq stock market dogged the I.P.O. of Facebook.
And last month, Knight Capital, a brokerage firm at the center of the nation's stock market for almost a decade, nearly collapsed after it ran up more than $400 million of losses in minutes, because of errant technology. It was just the latest high-profile case of Wall Street computers gone wild.
High-frequency traders didn't cause all of these problems. But these traders and their computers embody the escalating technological arms race raging across financial industry.
The stock market establishment says the recent mishaps distract from the enormous benefits that technology has brought. The new trading outlets have democratized the system and made it possible to trade any time, anywhere. Competition has forced exchanges and trading firms to reduce the commissions they charge. George U. Sauter, chief investment officer at the mutual fund giant Vanguard, has said the shift saved hundreds of millions of dollars for Vanguard investors.
James Angel, a professor at Georgetown University and a member of the board of Direct Edge, said Mr. Arnuk and Mr. Saluzzi were stoking irrational fears of a market that is providing good returns to investors. Mr. Angel compared them to people "who gripe that their cellphone is too complicated, ignoring the fact that 20 years ago they didn't even have a cellphone."
But Mr. Arnuk and Mr. Saluzzi say such assessments ignore the hidden costs of high-frequency trading, particularly the market instability it can create.
They say firms that dominate the market often stop trading during times of crisis, when they are needed the most. They also contend that ordinary investors are paying more for their stocks, not less, because computerized traders pick up information about stock orders and push up prices before orders can be filled. Traders of all sorts have split orders into smaller and smaller blocks, making it harder for everyone to complete some types of basic trades.
"They took one of the most simple processes in the world, matching up supply and demand, and made it such a complicated labyrinth," Mr. Arnuk said.
He and Mr. Saluzzi trace the roots of the market's current travails to a number of regulatory changes over the last two decades. But they give the starring role to a set of rules adopted in 2007 by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The rules are known as the Regulation National Market System, or Reg N.M.S.
Before those rules, computerized trading had been steadily growing, but the market was still dominated by the human traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Reg N.M.S. broke the Big Board's domination by requiring that orders be sent to the trading platform with the best price. This seemingly small change led to a proliferation of new platforms, like dark pools. It also put a premium on speed, giving an advantage to firms that could place orders first and take advantage of minuscule price differences among exchanges.
At Themis, Mr. Arnuk and Mr. Saluzzi soon noticed they were having trouble completing what previously were easy orders. When they tried to buy stock at the price listed on an exchange, the price would disappear almost as soon as they entered their order. Then it would reappear — at a penny or more higher.
The two began by voicing complaints in morning notes to clients. Soon they moved on to industry publications like Traders Magazine, then to the mainstream news media.
In July 2009, or 10 months before the flash crash, Mr. Saluzzi squared off on CNBC against Irene Aldridge, a prominent advocate of high-frequency trading. Mr. Saluzzi declared that high-frequency traders could get an early peek at buy and sell orders, giving them an edge over everyone else. The H.F.T. crowd could simply jump in front of ordinary investors, he said.
"There is nothing illegal about what you are doing," Mr. Saluzzi told Ms. Aldridge. "But, you know, it is not ethical."
Ms. Aldridge was incensed.
"How dare you accuse us of being unethical — you're unethical," she shot back. "We are cutting your margins — of brokerages like yours — because you cannot compete, because you do not have the proper skills."
As the host, Sue Herera, tried to cut to a commercial, the two shouted backed and forth.
"Yeah, hope your computer doesn't blow up tomorrow, O.K.?" Mr. Saluzzi snarled at Ms. Aldridge. "Make sure the fuses are O.K."
The line proved prophetic.
SAL ARNUK and Joe Saluzzi are unlikely Wall Street gadflies. Mr. Arnuk grew up in modest surroundings in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, Mr. Saluzzi in Sheepshead Bay. They met after college in back-office jobs at Morgan Stanley and bonded over weekend softball games and commutes. Both soon realized they didn't have the connections to move up at a white-shoe Wall Street firm.
Talking to them now, it's clear that both have a certain anti-establishment bent, at least as far as Wall Street is concerned. Mr. Arnuk says he filled the wall of his dorm room at what is now Binghamton University with rejection letters from financial firms. After business school, their scrappy attitudes led them to computerized trading, the upstart part of the industry in the 1990s. They spent nearly a decade at Instinet, one of the original off exchange trading platforms.
When they struck out on their own and founded Themis in 2002, they intended to use their technological expertise to help clients navigate the markets. But soon enough, they say, the computers took over, with formulas pushing share prices up and down regardless of anything happening at the underlying company.
Mr. Saluzzi acknowledges that computerized trading has hurt firms like Themis, which executes trades on behalf of clients. Many former Themis clients now trade via algorithms, or algos, with no human involvement. But both men say human brokers can often navigate complex markets better than computers. Last year, Themis's revenue was up 10 percent, despite an overall decline in trading volume, they say. This year, revenue is holding steady.
One Themis client, Derek Laub, director of trading at Jetstream Capital, a small investment firm just outside Nashville, says he turns to Themis because Mr. Arnuk and Mr. Saluzzi provide a human touch, and help him avoid falling prey to more sophisticated H.F.T. firms. Trading through Themis costs Mr. Laub a bit more — about 1 cent a share, total — but that's still cheaper than the 3 cents or 4 cents charged by many big banks. More important, Mr. Laub says he likes Themis because it speaks for small investment firms that don't have the time or wherewithal to examine every problem in the market structure or to take on the big trading firms.
"You feel like there is at least someone out there who is going to give the other side of the argument," Mr. Laub said.
The views of Mr. Arnuk and Mr. Saluzzi are gaining more traction with industry insiders. The head of the New York Stock Exchange said this summer that the pursuit of speed had gone too far. In debates with Mr. Saluzzi, some H.F.T. executives have agreed that the fragmentation of the markets is now doing more harm than good for investors. And after the breakdown at Knight Capital, the S.E.C. called for a round table on market technology; it will be held on Oct. 2.
BUT Mr. Arnuk and Mr. Saluzzi do not think that big change is on the way. For their part, they don't want to do away with computerized trading altogether — just the frantic developments of the last few years. "I don't want to go back to 1987, but 2004 wouldn't be so bad," Mr. Arnuk says.
Their message has won them a following among many ordinary Americans who, rightly or wrongly, have concluded that the Wall Street game is rigged. Before heading out for Labor Day weekend, Mr. Arnuk opened one more example of fan mail — a letter from an Idaho man that also went to Senator Michael D. Crapo, an Idaho Republican.
The man wrote that the financial markets had become "treacherous waters" and suggested that the senator read "Broken Markets," which, he wrote, "exposes our disgusting and corrupt market system today."
Mr. Arnuk smiled. "That's going up on the wall," he said. "I consider it a badge of honor."

Ma šta 50 milisekundi, ja bih to sinhronizovao na jednu sekundu. Poenta trgovanja na berzi nije da se stvara vrednost ni iz čega, niti da neko zarađuje na veštački izazvanim razlikama. To jest, trenutni učesnici berze smatraju da je upravo to poenta, ali ja bih sve njih uza zid što tako smatraju.

Evo, pustiše im QE3.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The Air Force chose a woman Saturday to lead its basic training unit at a Texas base where dozens of female recruits have alleged they were sexually assaulted or harassed by male instructors within the past year.



Col. Deborah Liddick is taking command of the 737th Training Group, bringing a distinctly new face of authority to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. Six male instructors have been charged with crimes ranging from rape to adultery, and there are others still under investigation.

The Air Force announced Liddick's appointment in a statement that didn't mention the sex scandal or highlight choosing a woman to lead a unit where the number of women identified by military investigators as potential victims is approaching 40.

Bogami, i u Americi nastavno osoblje u štrajku. Makar u Čikagu. Gradonačelnik insistira da je štrajk nelegalan.

Chicago teachers extend strike, mayor seeks court order 

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    CHICAGO (Reuters) - The confrontation between Chicago teachers and Mayor Rahm Emanuel escalated on Sunday when their union extended a strike and the mayor said he would go to court to block the walkout, risking more friction within President Barack Obama's political coalition as the November 6 election nears.
There will be no classes in Chicago public schools on Monday and Tuesday, affecting 350,000 kindergarten, elementary and high school students.
The showdown left in doubt a deal on wages, benefits and education reforms for 29,000 unionized teachers that negotiators thought they had struck on Friday to end the biggest labor dispute in the United States in a year.
It also could widen a rift within the Democratic Party between education reformers such as Obama's former top White House aide Emanuel, and organized labor, which the Democrats need to get out the vote in the election.
Chicago union President Karen Lewis said some 800 union delegates met on Sunday and decided to consult with rank-and-file members before voting whether to end the walkout.
"There's no trust (of the school district and mayor)," Lewis said. "So you have a population of people who are frightened of never being able to work for no fault of their own."
Union delegates will reconvene on Tuesday to discuss the feedback from rank-and-file members, Lewis said. Parents should plan for their children to be out of school until at least Wednesday, she said.
No formal vote was taken during the meeting, but delegates were asked to stand up so that the leadership could get a sense of those for and against ending the strike, delegates said.
"A clear majority wanted to stay out. That's why we are staying out," Lewis told a news conference after a three-hour meeting of the delegates.
MAYOR CALLS STRIKE ILLEGAL
Emanuel called the strike "illegal" and said he would go to court to seek an injunction to block the labor action.
"I will not stand by while the children of Chicago are played as pawns in an internal dispute within a union," Emanuel said, adding that the union walked out over issues that are not subject to a strike under Illinois state law.
Emanuel's gambit takes the dispute into uncharted territory. No injunction request has been filed in an Illinois educational labor dispute since 1984, when the state gave Chicago teachers the right to strike.
Teachers revolted last week against sweeping education reforms sought by Emanuel, especially evaluating teachers based on the standardized test scores of their students. They also fear a wave of neighborhood school closings that could result in mass teacher layoffs. They want a guarantee that laid-off teachers will be recalled for other jobs in the district.
"They're still not happy with the evaluations. They're not happy with the recall (provision)," Lewis said of delegates.
Before the meeting of delegates on Sunday, Lewis had called the agreement a "good contract." But after the decision to extend the strike, she backtracked, saying: "This is not a good deal. This is the deal we got."
Emanuel's chief negotiator, School Board President David Vitale, said the union should allow children to go back to school while the two sides complete the process.
"We are extremely disappointed that after 10 months of discussion reaching an honest and fair compromise that (the union) decided to continue their strike of choice and keep our children out of the classroom," Vitale said.
During the first week of the strike, opinion polls showed parents and Chicago voters backing the union, with some parents and students joining boisterous rallies. A key question is whether the public's support will waver as the strike drags on.
"I'm very fed up and I'm very upset," said Crystal Blakeley, a single parent of a daughter in second grade on the South Side of Chicago. Blakeley said she was paying for child care during the strike.
Candace Johnson, a barista at Starbucks, said she had been taking her 8-year-old son to the library on Chicago's North Side.
"I'm trying to be as patient as possible, but the longer it takes, I don't know what else I'm going to do with my child," she said after the strike was extended.
Former Chicago City Council member Dick Simpson said Emanuel may have made a mistake by going to court to block the strike.
"If I were advising the mayor, I would have advised him to be patient for a couple of days," said Simpson, a political science professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. By waiting, Emanuel could have put the onus on the teachers if they rejected the contract later this week, Simpson said.
Both sides appeared to win some concessions, according to details of the tentative agreement released by the parties.
Emanuel compromised on the design of the first update of the evaluation system for Chicago teachers in 40 years. He agreed to phase in the new plan over several years and reduced the weighting of standardized test results in reviewing teachers.
Teachers won some job-security protections and prevented the introduction of merit pay in their contract.
NATIONAL DEBATE
The Chicago strike has shone a bright light on a fierce national debate over how to reform failing inner-city schools. The union believes that more money and resources should be given to neighborhood public schools to help them improve.
Emanuel and a legion of financiers and philanthropists believe that failing schools should be closed and reopened with new staff to give the students the best chance of improving.
The agreement calls for a 3 percent pay raise for teachers this year and 2 percent in each of the next two years. If the agreement is extended for an optional fourth year, teachers get a 3 percent increase. The deal would result in an average 17.6 percent increase over four years, the district said. Chicago union teachers make an average of about $76,000 annually.
The deal could exacerbate the Chicago Public Schools financial crisis. Emanuel said the contract will cost $295 million over four years, or $74 million per year.
Debt rating agencies had previously warned that the new agreement with teachers could bust the school district budget and lead to a downgrade of its credit rating.
(Additional reporting by Peter Bohan; Writing by Greg McCune; Editing by Eric Beech and Eric Walsh)   

Bre, Meho, linkovi ti sve duži, sve manje čitljivi. Dosadni. Čak te i ispravljaju. Zabrinut sam.

Ti čitaš te linkove 

Ma, dobro, ja prekopiram ceo tekst za svaki slučaj, ako je originalni izvor u nekom momentu nedostupan. Ne očekujem da neko čita sve ovo ovako sitno.

A šta me ispravljaju???

Ti ne čitaš tuđe postove???

Samo kad me podmite nekom golotinjom.


Šalim se, ne znam na šta konkretno misliš, ali jasno je da ja nisam bezgrešan!!!!!

ima i nas koji te volimo iako si skriboman i skribonecitac! sta god to drugo bilo, al dobro zvuci!!!!

Ljubav je Bog.

Quote from: Meho Krljic on 17-09-2012, 19:28:13
Ljubav je Bog.

bog pod voljom!

https://rt.com/usa/news/us-jets-attack-taliban-343/

US lost eight jets in worst air loss in one day since Vietnam war

After Taliban gunmen destroyed eight Harrier jets at a US camp in Helmand Province, the US military has suffered its worst air loss in one day since the Vietnam War.

The Taliban attacked Camp Bastion, the main strategic base in southwestern Afghanistan, on Sept. 14, causing $200 million in damage in the single most destructive strike on a Western base during the war, according to military officials.

Two Marines were killed, nine coalition personnel were wounded and six jets costing between $23 million and $30 million were completely destroyed.

The approximately 15 insurgents, dressed in US Army uniforms, had penetrated the base Friday night and instantly began shooting and setting fire to parked Navy-AV-8B Harrier jets when they were inside. Three refueling stations were severely damaged during the attack.

"It was a running gun battle for a while, two and a half hours, nonetheless they were able to get to the aircraft before we could intercept them," a military official told the New York Times. Using machine guns, rocket propelled grenades and possibly mortars, most of the aircrafts were demolished.

After a drawn-out nighttime battle that made it hard to see the enemy, all but one of the Taliban fighters were killed. The remaining insurgent is now in military custody.

Camp Bastion is one of the largest and best-defended posts in Afghanistan, making it troubling that the attackers were able to inflict so much damage.

"We're saying it's a very sophisticated attack," a military official told the Times. "We've lost aircraft in battle, but nothing like this."

The Taliban made a statement blaming the attack on the anti-Muslim video that sparked outrage in the Arab world. But Wahid Mujda, an Afghan analyst who tracks the Taliban, told the Times that an attack as sophisticated as this one took a lot of planning and training, thereby being unrelated to the release of the video.

"I do not think that the Camp Bastion attack had anything to do with the anti-Prophet movie," he said. "Given the sophistication of the attack one can say with a lot of confidence that the Taliban had been training, rehearsing and preparing for weeks and even months. Everything was not planned and decided overnight."

The detrimental attack comes after nearly 10,000 American Marines have left Helmand Province over the past several months, now that the offensive is over. But more coalition service members have died this year in Afghanistan. After Friday's attack, four more service members were killed on Sunday in Zabul Province, bringing the total number of deaths this year to 51. Last year, 35 were killed as a result of this type of violence.

And as US involvement in Afghanistan trickles down, the Taliban has left its mark on the highest security base with the most destructive attack in the region in 11 years.

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Maryland Residents Are Sick Of Being Spied On And Tearing Down Police Cameras


Police in Palmer Park, Md., plan to deploy cameras to surveil the other cameras in their district.

Ari Ash of WTOP talked to police in the area, who said that local people had started targeting the speed cameras police put up in intersections, as well as surveillance cameras. The police said that since April, six people have been involved camera damaging activities.

One man literally pulled out a pistol and used the camera for target practice. Police found another speed camera flipped over—leading police to believe a gang of people committed the crime, considering the weight of the camera. Then there was the camera set up on a stand, near FedEx Field. A man walked up to it, cut off one of the legs, and walked away.

    Narodu je dosta velikog brata.

Naravno, u širem opsegu stvari, više kamera i drugih sprava za praćenje našeg kretanja mi sami kupujemo i dobrovoljno nosimo sa sobom nego što ih vlada postavlja unaokolo 

To sa praćenjem i nadzorom u priličnoj meri važi i kod nas. Samo toga još nismo svesni.