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Aco Popara Zver

šta će mi bogatstvo i svecka slava sva kada mora umreti lepa Nirdala


Ugly MF

Čak Noris je uz Trampa!
Tramp pobedjuje!

ridiculus

Brus Li je potukao Čaka Norisa! ;)
Dok ima smrti, ima i nade.

Ugly MF

Ali Čak je još uvek živ!

ridiculus

Siguran sam da bi demokratski pravnici umeli da dokažu da bi Li bio na njihovoj strani, da je živ. ;)
Dok ima smrti, ima i nade.

ridiculus

Ovih dana, dok sam razmišljao o izborima u Americi, pade mi na pamet jedna Čestertonova misao, napisana pre skoro sto godina, ali primenljiva i danas:

QuoteThe whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
Dok ima smrti, ima i nade.

džin tonik

14-04-2015:
Quote from: Mileva on 14-04-2015, 17:28:49
Pratite li sta se desava?

u biti ne. ali primjecujem odredjenu shemu koju redovno prolazim "pred" izbore u americi jos od osamdesetih, kad neka nastavnica pitala slicno, pa se godinu poslije zacudio kako izbori jos uvijek nisu proslost. :roll:
narode, kad je vise ova budalastina, da sad ne guglam kroz tonu smeca. danke. :roll:

Meho Krljic


Ugly MF

Za koga Mexan navija te se raduje?Moraš odabrat izmedju Klitorke i Trapavog, nemoj se provlačiš!? ;)
Ja evo odma za Trampa, mada ne očekujem išta dobro sebi od Amera ikad, al' čisto eto, nek nije ona ženska gamad.

Meho Krljic

Ma ja se radujem što znam tačan odgovor, inače ne navijam ni za koga, ja sam za razmontiravanje sistema koji postoji i koji omogućava ovakvu nepravičnu redistribuciju vrednosti i moći.  :lol:

Ugly MF

Opet se izvukao potvrđujući moju teoriju da je sve to nameštaljka a svaki precednik samo pajac vladara iz senke.
Ali vera naroda u demonkratiju se mora očuvati,eheeeee.....


Aco Popara Zver

šta će mi bogatstvo i svecka slava sva kada mora umreti lepa Nirdala

Meho Krljic

Moja bivša koleginica (well, preko proksija...) poručuje Trampu:

Cecile Richards to Trump: 'Women are going to be the reason you're not elected'

QuoteEighteen years ago, then Texas Gov. Ann Richards charmed the Democratic Party from the 1988 convention podium, as she taunted the new Republican nominee.
"Poor George, he can't help it," she drawled about George H.W. Bush, "he was born with a silver foot in his mouth."
On Tuesday night, Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Ann's daughter, chided another Republican nominee for what she called his "deeply disturbing worldview."
"Donald Trump has called women 'fat pigs' and 'dogs'," she said. "He wants to punish women for having abortions. And he says pregnancy is 'an inconvenience' for a woman's employer. Well, Mr. Trump, come this November, women are going to be a lot more than an inconvenience. Women are going to be the reason you're not elected to be president."


She spoke of Trump's opposition to services that Planned Parenthood provides directly, citing his pledge "to appoint justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade" and to cut funding that provides cancer screening and birth control. And Richards took aim at Trump's silence or criticism on women's issues in general: equal pay, affordable child care, paid family leave.
And she also remembered her mother. "Tonight, we are closer than ever to putting a woman in the White House," she said. "And I can almost hear mom saying, 'Well, it sure took y'all long enough."

Ugly MF

Racist white supremacy bitches!
Why white woman!? Why not african-american women!? Or Pakistani, Chineese, Japaneese, Hindu, or even Native-American women?!
Y'aal damn redneck yella-belly,leg-spreadin',blabberin',loud-mouth bitches!!!

Agota

This is a gift, it comes with a price. Who is the lamb and who is the knife. Midas is king and he holds me so tight. And turns me to gold in the sunlight ...

Aco Popara Zver

šta će mi bogatstvo i svecka slava sva kada mora umreti lepa Nirdala

Meho Krljic

'DNC Hacker' Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say



QuoteThe hacker who claims to have stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee and provided them to WikiLeaks is actually an agent of the Russian government and part of an orchestrated attempt to influence U.S. media coverage surrounding the presidential election, a security research group concluded on Tuesday.The researchers, at Arlington, Va.-based ThreatConnect, traced the self-described Romanian hacker Guccifer 2.0 back to an Internet server in Russia and to a digital address that has been linked in the past to Russian online scams. Far from being a singly, sophisticated hacker, Guccifer 2.0 is more likely a collection of people from the propaganda arm of the Russian government meant to deflect attention away from Moscow as the force behind the DNC hacks and leaks of emails, the researchers found.ThreatConnect is the first known group of experts to link the self-proclaimed hacker to a Russian operation, amidst an ongoing FBI investigation and a presidential campaign rocked by the release of DNC emails that have embarrassed senior party leaders and inflamed intraparty tensions turning the Democratic National Convention. The emails revealed that party insiders plotted ways to undermine Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential bid.
"These are bureaucrats, not sophisticated hackers," Rich Barger, ThreatConnect's chief intelligence officer, told The Daily Beast. In blog posts and in interviews with journalists, Barger said, Guccifer 2.0 has made inconsistent remarks and given a version of how he penetrated the DNC networks that technically don't make sense. For instance, the hacker claims to have used a software flaw that didn't exist until December 2015 in order to break into the DNC networks last summer.In an interview with Motherboard in June, the hacker also refused to speak in Romanian, another indication that he wasn't who he claimed to be.ThreatConnect also found that Guccifer 2.0 was attempting to mask his true location, in Russia, by communicating through an Internet service based in France. Such masking is not uncommon in government-sponsored operations, nor is it particularly difficult to accomplish.

The researchers concluded that Guccifer 2.0 is actually an "apparition created under a hasty Russian [denial and deception] campaign" to influence political events in the U.S. (The news site Vocativ was the first to report on these conclusions, and Vocativ reporter Kevin Collier supplied some data to the researchers.)
"Maintaining a ruse of this nature within both the physical and virtual domains requires believable and verifiable events which do not contradict one another. That is not the case here," the researchers wrote in a blog post. By tracing Guccifer 2.0's Internet infrastructure, the researchers concluded he—or the group—is "a Russia-controlled platform that can act as a censored hacktivist. Moscow determines what Guccifer 2.0 shares and thus can attempt to selectively impact media coverage, and potentially the election, in a way that ultimately benefits their national objectives."
That finding matches the political motive that U.S. officials told The Daily Beast they have seen in Russia's hacking of the DNC. The FBI said on Monday that it was investigating the breach, which a growing number within the Obama administration believe was designed to embarrass Democrats, exacerbate tensions between Hillary Clinton and her former rival Bernie Sanders—as well as his voters—and ultimately to give a boost to Republican nominee Donald Trump.
On Tuesday, President Obama said that while the FBI is investigating, "experts have attributed this to the Russians" and that it was "possible" the leak was designed to help the Trump campaign.

Researchers from cyber security company CrowdStrike have publicly attributed the DNC breach to the work of two known Russian government hacker groups that have also targeted U.S. government agencies, the White House, and American universities. The tactics and techniques in those campaigns match up with forensic evidence gathered from the DNC breach.ThreatConnect's findings seem to underscore the extent to which the Russian government, at least initially, wanted to obscure its role in a so-called active measures campaign designed to cause mischief in the U.S. election, said Barger, a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst.But it's not clear where in the Russian government, or its sphere of influence, Guccifer 2.0 sits.WikiLeaks has not identified its source for the DNC emails, even though Guccifer 2.0 claims to have provided them. A representative of the anti-secrecy organization told The Daily Beast on Monday that they were "very pleased with this great scoop in data journalism," referring to the publication of the DNC emails. "Journalists at many outlets and the general public are all pitching in to understand this wonderful dataset which describes how the DNC really works. Our publication of leaked DNC emails and the many DNC hacks over the last two years are separate incidents and should not be conflated."

WikiLeaks didn't respond to Guccifer 2.0's claims or to accusations from U.S. officials in recent days that the Russian government orchestrated the leak to the group.In a Skype interview Monday with NBC News, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange rejected suggestions that the Russians were behind the DNC hack, saying the party's server security was so weak, it could have been hacked by various groups."The emails that we have released are different sets of documents to the documents of those [that] people have analyzed," he told NBC's Richard Engel.

lilit

That's how it is with people. Nobody cares how it works as long as it works.

Aco Popara Zver

šta će mi bogatstvo i svecka slava sva kada mora umreti lepa Nirdala

lilit

That's how it is with people. Nobody cares how it works as long as it works.

Aco Popara Zver

kako su se peglali 2008. a sad izbrisan sajt desperatehillary... ili bar ja ne mogu da ga nađem

šta će mi bogatstvo i svecka slava sva kada mora umreti lepa Nirdala


Aco Popara Zver

Donald Trump doesn't humor any interruptions during his speeches—even if those outbursts are coming from an infant. During a rally Tuesday in Northern Virginia's Loudoun County, a baby in the audience started to cry. At first, Trump played the role of common-man politician, saying, "I love babies. I hear that baby crying. I like it." But as the dissatisfied infant kept making noise during Trump's attacks on China, the real estate mogul changed his mind. "Actually, I was only kidding. You can get the baby out of here," Trump said.

"I think she really believed me that I love having a baby crying while I'm speaking," Trump added incredulously. "That's okay, people don't understand."

@lrozen Whole exchange here. Ugh. pic.twitter.com/0j0vlRjj0A

— Jake Godin (@JakeGodin) August 2, 2016
The baby wasn't the only child making noise at Trump's event. As several reporters at the event noted on Twitter, a young boy in the crowd shouted a colorful anti-Clinton message.

A little kid is yelling "Take the bitch down!" when Trump mentions Hillary Clinton. A little kid. No more than 10, I would say.

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) August 2, 2016
šta će mi bogatstvo i svecka slava sva kada mora umreti lepa Nirdala

Meho Krljic

Čovek koji zarađuje od reality televizije ima negativno mišljenje o pornografiji:



Donald Trump signs pledge to crack down on Internet porn

QuoteDonald Trump has pledged to crack down on Internet pornography via corporate partnerships and possibly establishing a federal commission on the harmful effects of pornography, a nonprofit said Monday.
While it appears to be coincidental, Trump's pledge comes a day after the New York Post's Sunday edition included a full-page nude photo of Melania Trump, his wife, on its cover.
Enough is Enough, a nonprofit dedicated to confronting online pornography, child pornography, child stalking and sexual predation, published Trump's signed pledge on Monday. Trump's opponent Hillary Clinton refused to sign the pledge, Enough is Enough said, though her campaign told EiE that she supported its goals. 
The pledge Trump signed calls for preventing the sexual exploitation of children, better enforcing Internet obscenity laws, and recognizing that exposure to Internet porn is "deforming the sexual development of younger viewers."
"Preventing the sexual exploitation of youth online requires a multi-faceted holistic strategy with a shared responsibility between the public, industry, and government," Donna Rice Hughes, the chief executive of Enough is Enough, said in a statement. "The need for aggressive enforcement of existing laws and adequate funding for Law Enforcement to do the job is long overdue. For nearly two decades, bi-partisan government commissions, task forces, Internet safety groups, and researchers, who have recognized the significant risks associated with unfettered Internet access by youth, and have called upon the government and law enforcement to take aggressive action."   
Why this matters: Pornography has been a wedge issue between conservatives and liberals for years. The Internet has made it simple to gain access to a vast variety of information, and there is no widely adopted mechanism for tracking or filtering illegal activities or images of those activities online. Trump appears to support the creation and implementation of those tools.
What Trump's pledge entails  The five-point pledge calls for Trump and any other signee to agree to "aggressively enforce" existing federal laws to prevent the sexual exploitation of children online, including appointing an Attorney General who will make prosecuting those laws a "top priority."
Other points include "serious consideration" of a Presidential Commission to examine the "harmful public impact of Internet pornography on youth, families, and the American culture." Finally, the pledge commits to establishing corporate partnerships to implement viable technology tools and solutions to reduce the exploitation of children online.     Trump's Twitter account, an unfiltered commentary on his thoughts of the day, hadn't mentioned the pledge at press time on Monday. Neither had Trump's Facebook account. Clinton's campaign could not be immediately reached for comment.
On Sunday, the New York Post published a nude photo of Trump's wife, Melania Trump, on its Sunday cover. Jason Miller, a senior communications adviser for the Trump campaign, appeared on CNN and called the photos "a celebration of the human body as art."
"There's nothing to be embarrassed about," Miller said. "She's a beautiful woman."

Aco Popara Zver

šta će mi bogatstvo i svecka slava sva kada mora umreti lepa Nirdala

Aco Popara Zver

Melania Trump and the culture of cheating in Eastern European schools

By Monika Nalepa July 20

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/07/20/melania-trump-and-the-culture-of-cheating-in-eastern-european-schools/?tid=a_inl

QuoteOn Monday night at the Republican National Convention, Melania Trump, the wife of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, delivered a speech that contained lines that mimic a speech delivered by Michelle Obama as she endorsed her husband eight years ago at the Democratic National Convention. Roughly, two paragraphs, or one minute of Trump's speech, closely, almost verbatim resembled ones delivered by Obama.

Many have blamed the apparent act of plagiarism on the Trump campaign, which apparently decided not to use a speech drafted by two former speechwriters for President George W. Bush.

Melania Trump told NBC's Matt Lauer that she had written the speech herself. If we take her at her word, then it is helpful to look at the post-communist educational system that Melania experienced growing up in Slovenia. In that system, what is typically considered plagiarism or cheating was exceedingly common and even encouraged.

(For the record, Melania Trump has made no statements since delivering the speech, but the Trump campaign has denied the accusations of plagiarism, saying the similarity of phrasing was due to common themes.)

Although she did not complete her degree from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, she still obtained most of her education in the immediate aftermath of the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. The post-communist educational system at that time was a place where the line between original work and plagiarism was often hard to discern and the issue of intellectual ownership was never discussed.

Scholars who study plagiarism associate it with the dominant mode of learning. Learning via rote memorization, rather than the critical questioning of ideas, is more likely to lead people to appropriate others' intellectual work. If memorization is how academic performance is judged, students will do better when they merely replicate what they have learned.

Memorization was an important component of education in post-communist Europe. This was a legacy of communism, when the dominant subjects — Marxist Ideology, The Foundations of Leninism, The Fundamentals of Socialist Economics, and so on — could not be criticized in a classroom setting without raising the suspicions of the authoritarian secret police.

After the fall of communism in 1989, subjects like Marxism faded from curriculums, but the educational model developed under communism persisted. There was much memorization of historical facts and minimal debate about various theories. In part this was because the faculty and teachers were largely the same as during communism.

Another important element of the post-communist educational experience was the prevalence and acceptance of cheating. My own admissions exam to Warsaw University in Poland is a good example.

Roughly 200 students were packed into a lecture hall on Krakowskie Przedmiescie, the university's main campus. We had been assigned to one of three groups, each taking a different version of the exam. This meaning that I was answering a different set of questions than the students on my left and right. Moreover, 20 faculty and teaching assistants and faculty were proctoring the exam. In this context, cheating would risk your chance of getting into the university. But it was common. If someone asked for an answer, people would give it to them. My entrance exam was not an exception.

The very fact that college entrance exams were called for, merely two months after the standard test taken upon graduation from high school — the Polish equivalent of the SAT — suggests how widespread cheating was. Cheating on those high school exams was so prevalent that teachers themselves would frequently pass on the correct answers to their students to increase the students' chances of college admission.

How did does such a norm set in? First, cheaters weren't called "cheaters." They were called "borrowers" and were considered street-smart. Neglecting to study for an exam but passing it by whatever means possible was considered a greater achievement than passing the exam after careful studying the material. In fact, it was those who reported cheating who were ostracized and considered to be "collaborators."

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I left Eastern Europe more than 15 years ago, but I am skeptical that much is different. Culture changes slowly. As Grigore Pop-Eleches and Joshua Tucker argue,"You can take the boy out of Eastern Europe, but you cannot take Eastern Europe out of the boy."

So the potential to cheat remains great even now. A friend who graduated from my university seven years after me described how her cohort had their final theses scanned through anti-plagiarism software that only scans for content appropriated from the Internet. It cannot detect plagiarism of material available only in hard copy or not on the Internet.

Nor can it check for appropriated content that has been translated. For years now a popular format of courses at Polish universities is the Konwersatorium. The idea is to assign readings in a foreign language, typically German or English, and have classroom discussions and presentations on the readings, translated into Polish. Notes from these courses can easily wind up in summaries for thesis preparation and eventually land in the thesis itself. This form of plagiarism is made possible if not encouraged by the mode of learning.

To be clear, the provenance of the plagiarized portions of Melania Trump's speech remain unclear. Perhaps she plagiarized them directly, or perhaps the responsibility lies with Donald Trump's campaign staff. But if Trump herself was responsible, we can begin to understand the origins of the problem by looking at post-communist education. If plagiarizing is seen as "borrowing" and not cheating, then it makes the striking parallels between Melania's and Michelle Obama's speeches all the more understandable.
Monika Nalepa is an associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago.


AN OPEN LETTER TO THE EDITORS OF THE MONKEY CAGE BLOG OF THE WASHINGTON POST ONLINE EDITION

http://balkanist.net/an-open-letter-to-the-editors-of-the-monkey-cage-blog-of-the-washington-post-online-edition/

QuoteDear Editors,

We, the undersigned scholars, write this letter in response to the commentary by Monika Nalepa entitled "Melania Trump and the Culture of Cheating in Eastern European Schools" which appeared in the Monkey Cage blog on July 20th. Dr. Nalepa's text was not only appalling and prejudiced, but also poorly researched and completely unsubstantiated. Frankly, we wonder what purpose it served at all. Given the current political climate in the US, what would compel the Washington Post to publish a text which traces the origins of Melania Trump's egregious plagiarism to former socialist regimes? A text that makes an argument by calling on tired sweeping generalizations about a whole region of diverse countries, and insinuates that millions of people in Eastern Europe are backward, ignorant, and prone to cheating?

Sadly, we do understand the broad popular appeal of Dr. Nalepa's "insider" analysis meant to shed light on the reasons for Melania Trump's indiscretion. They resonate with her assumed readership not because they are new or the result of painstaking research into historical trajectories of education in particular countries or regions of Eastern Europe, but because they satisfy the very expectations of this audience. More than clickbait, Dr. Nalepa's insights sound "so true" because they combine some truth — the elements of a lived reality (attending schools in one of the countries of Eastern Europe) — with caricature-like tropes straight out of the McCarthy playbook. After reading Dr. Nalepa's musings, dozens of countries, respective histories, and geo-political and socio-political relations fade into one blurry, ahistorical and ageographical cultural no-place of "post-communist Europe." So we are left in shock, especially considering Dr. Nalepa's academic credentials and affiliations. We ask you to carefully consider our critique below.

1.

Let's start with the historical, geopolitical and cultural inaccuracies offered in the text. The first is Dr. Nalepa's faulty periodization. She writes "it is helpful to look at the post-communist educational system that Melania experienced growing up in Slovenia. In that system, what is typically considered plagiarism or cheating was exceedingly common and even encouraged." Melania Trump was born in 1970, meaning that she completed all of her elementary and high school education (and even some undergraduate studies) prior to 1989, commonly understood as the end of the so-called "communist era." It also means that what we are talking about is Melania Trump's communist-era education.

2.

It is a gross generalization to refer to "Eastern Europe" as if it were a single nation, and not a vast region with dozens of states, languages, histories, and relationships to "communism". To conflate the history of Yugoslavia (Slovenia, Ms. Trump's birthplace, was part of the former Yugoslavia until 1991), with that of, for example, the Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia), Bulgaria, the Soviet Union, or Albania, is to erase any trace of the specificities of each of these countries, their histories and their intricate experiences of "communism," or to be more accurate, different iterations of socialism and/or communism. Yugoslavia, in its post WWII period was in fact, not a part of the Warsaw Pact. After being  expelled from the Cominform in 1948, Yugoslavia developed an alternative form of socialism, generally understood as more open to the West. Yugoslavia was also a founder-state of the Non-Aligned Movement. This makes Slovenia's form of socialism, its political, social and cultural system quite different from the other communist countries of Eastern Europe.

3.

Dr. Nalepa singled out the University of Ljubljana. We want to emphasize that this university is renowned for producing some of the best and most critical work in theories of socialism, political science, sociology, history, and critical theory. To argue that Melania Trump's decision to plagiarize was a result of her education at this university is not only ill-informed, but it serves to undermine the work of countless scholars and teachers in the region, and also supports the ideology of Western supremacy in matters of politics, education, and even moral consciousness. What Dr. Nalepa did in this text is what Edward Said, many years ago, called Orientalism (ironically, Said taught at Columbia University, where Dr. Nalepa earned her PhD). Her text contributes to a long-standing discourse in which Western nations (and their scholars, journalists, politicians and others) feel entitled to proffer reductive generalizations about an already marginalized and colonized region. Said was using the term to describe the way that the Western colonizers constructed a tangled scholarly discourse about the Middle East to accompany actual colonizing efforts. The same discourse is found in the way Western scholars, journalists and others speak of  "African nations" or the "African continent" when referring to political, economic or cultural issues specific to particular nations. This same construct happens with Eastern Europe, but because of its proximity to the West, the final assessment of East European racial identity (and here, again, in forms of sweeping generalizations) is as "white but not quite" or "European but not quite," as some scholars have argued. Drawing on Said's work, Bulgarian historian Maria Todorova has aptly referred to this orientalization of the Balkans in particular, and Eastern Europe in general, as Balkanism, a view of the Balkans as "[g]eographically inextricable from Europe, yet culturally constructed as 'the other'" and especially, as uncivilized.

A fitting example of such a discourse has recently reared its ugly head in post-Brexit Britain, as many in the UK have blamed Polish immigrants and other East Europeans for the poor state of the UK economy. Rising xenophobia and racism have informed some of the most troubling human rights violations and humanitarian crises of 2016, and Dr. Nalepa's text is but one example of how discourses around marginalized peoples and regions in the world become institutionalized in academic contexts and instrumentalized by national and international media. This is what is most disconcerting to us: what is at stake when the public can blame Melania Trump's humiliating political moment on her immigrant and "socialist" background?

4.

Another problem with this text is its presumption that what Dr. Nalepa dubs communism was all one and the same idea across the world, or even a specific region, and that it was this homogenous ideology which was responsible for creating a culture of cheating and dishonesty. That communist ideas were indeed warped by the state systems in various countries is not a new observation. Countless scholars, artists, writers, film directors, and dissidents from across all walks of life were critical of their respective regimes. While it is well-known that such political systems have indeed resulted in repressive environments for students, to point to "communist education" as the impetus for Melania Trump's cheating at the US RNC in 2016 is laughable at best, and irresponsible at worst. In her introductory paragraphs Nalepa writes:

"The post-communist educational system at that time was a place where the line between original work and plagiarism was often hard to discern and the issue of intellectual ownership was never discussed. (...)

Memorization was an important component of education in post-communist Europe. This was a legacy of communism, when the dominant subjects — Marxist Ideology, The Foundations of Leninism, The Fundamentals of Socialist Economics, and so on — could not be criticized in a classroom setting without raising the suspicions of the authoritarian secret police."

One could deduce from this rather long diatribe about the ills of "communist education" (and our fear is that people will do so) that the corruption of the mind was all-encompassing, making people under such regimes mindless automatons. Ironically, Dr. Nalepa then places herself within that very framework, narrating her own experience with cheating on entrance exams to a university in Poland. The fact that she gained entrance to said university would make Dr. Nalepa herself a cheater, even if, as according to her own admission, everyone was cheating, and cheating was expected and endorsed. Yet despite this seemingly logical conclusion, we wish to stress that there is a sea of historical evidence in the form of voluminous and centuries-long scholarly work by such supposedly dishonest East European scholars. Within such a heinous system, as Dr. Nalepa would like us to believe East European education was, there were numerous intellectuals, writers, artists, and scientists who did important, and indeed crucial, work in various fields from linguistics, sociology, and art, to nuclear physics and astronomy.

5.

As scholars who for years have taught students in North American and European institutions of higher education, we want to ask Dr. Nalepa – why did you make the decision to write this piece? You certainly (should or must) know better. Plagiarism is rampant in different ways and in different forms in both North American but also in East European, West European and other universities. What we, however, should be worried about is a different kind of cheating that has to do with financial power and privilege, an insidious form of imbalance that allows some students to graduate from universities, while others are not able to even consider applying to one.

6.

Dr. Nalepa's revisionist scholarly approach to the study of Eastern Europe, post-communism and so-called transition, has become very popular in various countries of the former East Bloc. In revisionist academic discourse the history and contemporary analysis of the region is usually contextualized within a general dismissal of everything communist on the one hand, and the adoption of various neoliberal discourses on the other. Such neoliberal discourses narrate the history of communism in exclusively binary terms, and celebrate and support East European transition to Western-style "democracy" and capitalism as "the end of history." And while, on the surface, it might seem that much of the economic hardship in post-communist countries resulted from the legacies of the backward communist "mind," as Dr. Nalepa would want us to believe, many have argued that in reality it was the result of unfettered capitalism unleashed by the international economic and monetary institutions which impose their neo-liberal policies on various states in Eastern Europe, and across the world.

This brings us back to Melania Trump and Dr. Nalepa's commentary on her deplorable speech. These, and similar examples, are a red herring. They serve to distract from the real issue at hand: that political discourse, in the United States and elsewhere, is overwhelmingly cynical and empty. Melania Trump is only a symptom; a symptom of a corrupt political discourse in which certain phrases are repeated for ratings in social media. A discourse in which there is no substance, only style.

Dr. Nalepa's text hides another, deeper problem, that which has set the stage for Ms. Trump's husband's presidency. This is an unhinged, unchecked capitalism and its neoliberal demagogy of "working hard:" Cynical elites are selling the dream of "making it," while hiding that this is not possible under the system in which most social contracts and support networks have been destroyed and with them, any possibility of fair education, work, or health care. The racist violence of such an ideology permeates not only every aspect of American life, from Ferguson to Orlando to the convention floor in Cleveland, but beyond, to the world stage and streets of Baghdad, Aleppo and Istanbul, to the Mediterranean Sea, and voting booths in the UK. While it is appalling to read Dr. Nalepa's words, it is even more difficult to live under the weight of such utter devastation of rights and responsibilities, disguised in profound and damaging misinformation, perpetuated by stereotypes, prejudices, and an abdication of accountable research.

Sincerely,
šta će mi bogatstvo i svecka slava sva kada mora umreti lepa Nirdala

Father Jape

Bato, eno Klint Istvud se slaže s tobom oko Trampa. :lol:
Blijedi čovjek na tragu pervertita.
To je ta nezadrživa napaljenost mladosti.
Dušman u odsustvu Dušmana.

Aco Popara Zver

šta će mi bogatstvo i svecka slava sva kada mora umreti lepa Nirdala

lilit

That's how it is with people. Nobody cares how it works as long as it works.

Dybuk

'Murrica!!

nije tajna da Klint podrzava republikance (razgovor sa praznom stolicom koja je trebalo da predstavlja Obamu na onoj njihovoj konvenciji) itd.

Klint je legenda ali je u mojim ocima izgubio nesto kredibiliteta sa Americkim Snajperistom. e, sad...ovaj intervju i neke kontroverzne izjave podelili javnost, pa tako imamo i sledece reakcije

'Count Me In As A Pussy' – The Entertainment World Reacts To Clint Eastwood's Shocking Comments

kapiram ja njega...stereotip grumpy ol' man-a.

eddie coyle

Bil Bar je lepo objasnio stvar sa starcima i rasizmom


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc3HiKQDPCQ

lilit

Quote from: Dybuk on 05-08-2016, 15:53:15
'Murrica!!

nije tajna da Klint podrzava republikance (razgovor sa praznom stolicom koja je trebalo da predstavlja Obamu na onoj njihovoj konvenciji) itd.

Klint je legenda ali je u mojim ocima izgubio nesto kredibiliteta sa Americkim Snajperistom. e, sad...ovaj intervju i neke kontroverzne izjave podelili javnost, pa tako imamo i sledece reakcije

'Count Me In As A Pussy' – The Entertainment World Reacts To Clint Eastwood's Shocking Comments

kapiram ja njega...stereotip grumpy ol' man-a.


da, da, američkog snajperistu sam zaboravila čim sam ga odgledala :cry:
klinta volim zato što je straight shooter. no mincing his words. i zato što radi punom parom u 86. godini.
a ovi pussies mešaju babe i žabe.
That's how it is with people. Nobody cares how it works as long as it works.

Aco Popara Zver

kad ovako počnu, sve se prašta Klintu

Senior ex-CIA official: Putin made Trump 'an unwitting agent' of Russia

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-russia-idUSKCN10G1NT
šta će mi bogatstvo i svecka slava sva kada mora umreti lepa Nirdala

lilit

za onu jad i bedu koju su kriminalci hilari & co. napravili sandersu oproštaja ne bi smelo da bude. dodatno me nervira i kukanje na sav glas da se žrtvovala za mir i umalo poginula kad je išla u tuzlu da nam ga donese. :lol:
That's how it is with people. Nobody cares how it works as long as it works.

Meho Krljic

Pretpostavljam satira:


Trump: You people really believed me?  

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In dropping out, Donald Trump might point out there was no there there in his campaign. CHARLES TRAINOR JR TNS 
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article94019107.html#storylink=cpy 


In a turn of events that shocked the political world and threw the presidential race into unprecedented turmoil, Donald J. Trump announced yesterday that he is quitting the race and endorsing Hillary Clinton.
Trump said the only point of his campaign was to show how stupid and gullible many Republican voters are.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article94019107.html#storylink=cpy 

"I've been a Democrat all of my adult life," Trump told a packed and boisterous news conference. "But I knew if I ran as a Republican and said increasingly ridiculous, idiotic, racist and sexist things that I would get a lot of votes."
But he said he had no idea he would be able to win the Republican nomination and poll 40 percent or better in a national race against Clinton.
"Did people really believe that I could build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico and get the Mexicans to pay for it?" Trump asked, "and that we could deport 11 million illegal aliens? That's ridiculous. How could we possibly do that?"
Trump said he wanted to show just how gullible the far-right wing was and how weak-kneed Republican leaders were.
  "Even after I made racist statements about that judge and attacked a Gold Star family, the Republican leadership continued to endorse me," Trump said. "Man, what does it take to get tossed out of the Republican Party?" He also pointed out that he had offered no real solutions to any of the country's problems and nobody, even the news media, took much notice that "there was no there there in my campaign," he said.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, while expressing shock at Trump's announcement, said, "After I thought about it a bit, I realized this made a lot more sense then the campaign he was running. The joke's on us."
Fifty-one Republicans immediately announced their candidacy to replace Trump on the ballot.
Asked if he felt any remorse about fooling so many people, Trump answered in typical Trumpian style: "No. They're all losers."

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article94019107.html#storylink=cpy 

Dybuk

Huh????

kako god bilo, cini mi se da Hilari pobedjuje...

Aco Popara Zver

парадокс је неки у бирачком тијелу, она води на националном нивоу а он у неким кључним државама, па се не зна како ће се делегати распоредити

Ал Гор је имао више гласова али мање делегата од Буша

Трамп има своју хардкор базу, сад покушава да ослаби подршку Хилари, кроз оптужбе да је неискрена, корумпирана итд...

Плус, довољно је да се неко међународно срање деси Обами у октобру и Трамп да президент је могућ

До тада је Фуриоса фаворит
šta će mi bogatstvo i svecka slava sva kada mora umreti lepa Nirdala

lilit

još uz ovu profi propagandu...jbt, Obami dati neki Late Night Show da pošalje u penziju sve ostale amatere!

http://youtu.be/OgNP3g1Lwss
That's how it is with people. Nobody cares how it works as long as it works.


Aco Popara Zver

епохално!

Иначе, ккк дјуд је подржао трампа
šta će mi bogatstvo i svecka slava sva kada mora umreti lepa Nirdala

Aco Popara Zver

Викиликс подупире Трампа двосмисленом изјавом Асанжа да је Хилари наоружала ИД

За сад не видим поузданији сајт који је то објавио
http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/wikileaks-confirms-hillary-sold-weapons-isis-drops-another-bombshell-breaking-news/

Дајте бољи ако нађете
šta će mi bogatstvo i svecka slava sva kada mora umreti lepa Nirdala


Aco Popara Zver

одлична ствар, прилично корисна и прецизна, мада компликују поенту, јер Трамп је у ствари класична формула

1. Обичан републиканац неће гласати Хилари, стога кандидат и не мора да му се обраћа. То су сигурни гласови.

2. Битни су несигурни гласови, а то су плави оковратници, које Трамп покрива, и уз #1 повећава бирачко тијело. О томе брује медији и Трамп жели да се само о томе говори

3. Оштетити Клинтон тијело сталним оптужбама да је засрала с исламистима и да је корумпирана до гуше. Посебно Сандерсовци су осјетљиви, јер независни гласачи су склони да не изађу на изборе, и то је Трампу довољно.

Трамп спектакуларно примјењује формулу, ови не знају шта их је снашло. ТВ мреже покушавају да створе тадић-николић тензију, видјећемо да ли ће успјети

На крају ће зависити од Обаме, јер се Клинтонова држи њега, ако овај нешто маестрално укења до новембра, биће бај бај Хилари.
šta će mi bogatstvo i svecka slava sva kada mora umreti lepa Nirdala

Dybuk


Aco Popara Zver

šta će mi bogatstvo i svecka slava sva kada mora umreti lepa Nirdala

Dybuk

Jos malo pop kulture...

imali smo prigodnu "nazi trumps fuck off" parolu od strane (doslednog) Dzelou Biafre, a sad frontmen benda koji je bio relevantan pre ne manje od 20 god porucuje

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong compares Donald Trump to Hitler: 'I can't wait until he's gone'


Aco Popara Zver

Трамп да јелоу кинг!

То се све лијепо уклапа у горе описану формулу, #2 аспекат, гласачи који не подносе те бушовске пуританце кад виде да нападају Трампа, још ће гласати за њега у инат
šta će mi bogatstvo i svecka slava sva kada mora umreti lepa Nirdala