Amerika na ivici propasti?

[džin tonik]

tko ti dira u porodicu majmune?

[džin tonik]

Štos je u tome što svi imate stav, a skoro niko izvorne informacije. I, bre, nećete da pitate! Ni iz filmova koje gledate ništa ne naučite. Moji u SAD spadaju u onaj 1,5% gore na listi i troje dece u 1, 4 i 7 razredu osnovnog školovanja u "dobroj školi" ih koštaju skoro 50.000$ godišnje. Svako od njih će do fakulteta koštati 200.000$. Pa vi vidite.

idemo nanovo. mozda se naucis malo kulture.
osobe koje navodis ocigledno spadaju medju one koji posjeceju skole za koje vecina obicnih smrtnika nije nikad ni cula. to su vrhunske privatne skole koje izmedju ostalog sluze da bi se djecu uvelo u odredjene poslovne krugove i da bi stekli kontakte. ima ih po cijelom zapadnom svijetu i kostaju lijepe novce u kojoj god zemlji, ne samo u sad.
uglavnom uopce nisu relevantne za diskusiju koju si pokrenio. umanjuju troskove (dugove apsolvenata) koje navodis (a u koje se 100% ne razumijes) za 0,1 promila.
a odredjene epitete si cuvaj za obiteljska slavlja.

[Josephine]

Ako Amerikancima išta dođe glave, to će biti sise:
What do you think? Did Time go too far?

Mene ova fotka uopšte nije uznemirila. Štaviše, prva pomisao mi je da je baš lepa.

[Albedo 0]

članak veli da je prosečan studentski dug $23 000. Pa to je pola prosečne godišnje plate.

The overall median personal income for all individuals over the age of 18 was $24,062 ($32,140 for those age 25 or above) in the year 2005.

[Father Jape]

Ja sam gledao average, ne median:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wage

[Meho Krljic]

Pustite to, nego, Obama podržava Gej Brakove, sad će morati i naš budući predsednik, ma ko to bio:

Newsweek cover: Obama 'first gay president' 

It won't be nearly as controversial as Time magazine's breastfeeding cover, but Newsweek's May 21 issue declares Barack Obama the country's "first gay president."
The accompanying cover story was written by Andrew Sullivan, the popular--and openly gay--political blogger. The magazine even gives the commander-in-chief a rainbow halo.
Obama, Sullivan writes, "had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family."
The full cover story is not yet online, but in a blog post published earlier this week, Sullivan wrote that Obama's support of gay marriage brought him to tears:

I do not know how orchestrated this was; and I do not know how calculated it is. What I know is that, absorbing the news, I was uncharacteristically at a loss for words for a while, didn't know what to write, and, like many Dish readers, there are tears in my eyes.
So let me simply say: I think of all the gay kids out there who now know they have their president on their side. I think of Maurice Sendak, who just died, whose decades-long relationship was never given the respect it deserved. I think of the centuries and decades in which gay people found it impossible to believe that marriage and inclusion in their own families was possible for them, so crushed were they by the weight of social and religious pressure. I think of all those in the plague years shut out of hospital rooms, thrown out of apartments, written out of wills, treated like human garbage because they loved another human being. I think of Frank Kameny. I think of the gay parents who now feel their president is behind their sacrifices and their love for their children.
The interview changes no laws; it has no tangible effect. But it reaffirms for me the integrity of this man we are immensely lucky to have in the White House. Obama's journey on this has been like that of many other Americans, when faced with the actual reality of gay lives and gay relationships. Yes, there was politics in a lot of it. But not all of it. I was in the room long before the 2008 primaries when Obama spoke to the mother of a gay son about marriage equality. He said he was for equality, but not marriage. Five years later, he sees--as we all see--that you cannot have one without the other. But even then, you knew he saw that woman's son as his equal as a citizen. It was a moment--way off the record at the time--that clinched my support for him.
Today Obama did more than make a logical step. He let go of fear. He is clearly prepared to let the political chips fall as they may. That's why we elected him.

(The New Yorker)
The New Yorker, which is also out with a cover story on gay marriage, took a bit more subtle approach with its May 21 issue.
"It's a celebratory moment for our country, and that's what I tried to capture," Bob Staake, the artist behind the New Yorker cover, said. "I don't especially like those rainbow colors, but they are what they are—I had to use them."
He added: "I wanted to celebrate the bravery of the President's statement—a statement long overdue—but all the more appreciated in this political year. We are on the right side of history."

[lilit]

meho,
čitaš li ti išta osim sopstvenih linkova?

[Albedo 0]

Ja sam gledao average, ne median:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wage

koliko ja vidim to je  GDP per capita, i Srbija ima 10,642 dolara, što bi trebalo da znači da je 700 dolara prosječna mjesečna plata, a nije.

[Meho Krljic]

meho,
čitaš li ti išta osim sopstvenih linkova?

Slabo, a što?

[tomat]

sa gej teme:

obama napokon dao (ličnu) podršku gej brakovima, ali...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/9261751/Why-Obamas-support-for-gay-marriage-is-a-huge-political-gamble.html

[Meho Krljic]

A, ma video sam to, ali ovo moje je više zbog naslovne strane Njuzvika i teglajna "prvi gej precednik".

[Usul]

To se ne važi. Prihvatam samo ako bi na slici Obama davao strasan poljubac nekom muškom članu administracije.

[Meho Krljic]

Ama, nije on stvarno gej precednik, ali je prvi američki precednik koji je otvoreno endorsovao gej brak. Velika stvar itd.

[Usul]

Znam da nije, no se šalim

[дејан]

можда и јесте!!!! лери синклер тврди, не само да је геј, него да се ваља у кокаину и да лаже!!!!!!!!!
и прошао је полиграф, 2 пута (додуше  инконклузив) 

у овом новом светлу, геј бракови су нешто што се могло очекивати од обаме, још само да призна да није рођен у САД 

>

Gelb's Report on oral sex question (1^st series):
"The issue under consideration dealt with Sinclair's representation that he had performed oral sex on Barack Obama in 1999. During an extensive pre-test interview, Sinclair emphatically asserted the sex act took place in a limousine rented by him in the Chicago area...Two target questions: Did you perform oral sex on Obama in 1999? Are you lying when you say you performed oral sex on Obama in 1999? The...polygrams were hand-scored as required by the Government in a PCA examination. To render a conclusion of deception there must be a... -3 in any spot or...a grand total of -4 for both spots.   Sinclair's polygrams resulted in an evaluation of "deception indication" with a score of -15 (for the oral sex questions)."
Barland's final analysis:
Barland: QC review of Larry Sinclair polygraph
Although no examination is perfectly conducted I believe that the irregularities in
this examination would be more likely to create an inconclusive result than."an erroneous
one".
However, these charts are not inconclusive. Based-upon my review of this
examination, I concur in Mr. Gelb's finding that Mr. Sinclair was  n0t telling the complete
truth in his claims to have engaged in oral sex with Senator Obama and that Senator Obama used cocaine in his presence .

интервју са лари синклером... 

[zakk]

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/14/our_real_first_gay_president/

ima zanimljiv osvrt na proganjanje brada i brkova iz preduzeća i institucija

[Father Jape]

Ha, ali nije li u Linkolnovo vreme potpuna ćosavost bila podjednako neuobičajena kao brada danas?

[zakk]

Što je brada danas neuobičajena? oO

[Father Jape]

Mislim u meri u kojoj to ističu u članku. U preduzećima i institucijama. : P

[zakk]

Jah, da, tada je griva bila i obavezna nekako, da se vidi da si gospodin koji ne mora da rmba u znoju lica svog kao plebs, već radiš kulurno za astalom u kancelariji ili kafani...

[džin tonik]

Ha, ali nije li u Linkolnovo vreme potpuna ćosavost bila podjednako neuobičajena kao brada danas?

brada nije neuobicajena, skoro svi je nose:

[pokojni Steva]

Tako je!

[džin tonik]

koja je ovo sekta? stovatelji jetija?

[pokojni Steva]

Blizu. Štovalac sam Sgt. Adamsa.

[дејан]

ако је до овог дошло, the end is nigh

http://kotaku.com/5911031/three-teens-arrested-for-stealing-400-worth-of-pokemons

[Meho Krljic]

Ovo je moglo i u World Today, al pošto je iz NY Timesa...

Capitalists and Other Psychopaths

By WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ Published: May 12, 2012          THERE is an ongoing debate in this country about the rich: who they are, what their social role may be, whether they are good or bad. Well, consider the following. A 2010 study found that 4 percent of a sample of corporate managers met a clinical threshold for being labeled psychopaths, compared with 1 percent for the population at large. (However, the sample was not representative, as the study's authors have noted.) Another study concluded that the rich are more likely to lie, cheat and break the law.
The only thing that puzzles me about these claims is that anyone would find them surprising. Wall Street is capitalism in its purest form, and capitalism is predicated on bad behavior. This should hardly be news. The English writer Bernard Mandeville asserted as much nearly three centuries ago in a satirical-poem-cum-philosophical-treatise called "The Fable of the Bees."
"Private Vices, Publick Benefits" read the book's subtitle. A Machiavelli of the economic realm — a man who showed us as we are, not as we like to think we are — Mandeville argued that commercial society creates prosperity by harnessing our natural impulses: fraud, luxury and pride. By "pride" Mandeville meant vanity; by "luxury" he meant the desire for sensuous indulgence. These create demand, as every ad man knows. On the supply side, as we'd say, was fraud: "All Trades and Places knew some Cheat, / No Calling was without Deceit."
In other words, Enron, BP, Goldman, Philip Morris, G.E., Merck, etc., etc. Accounting fraud, tax evasion, toxic dumping, product safety violations, bid rigging, overbilling, perjury. The Walmart bribery scandal, the News Corp. hacking scandal — just open up the business section on an average day. Shafting your workers, hurting your customers, destroying the land. Leaving the public to pick up the tab. These aren't anomalies; this is how the system works: you get away with what you can and try to weasel out when you get caught.
I always found the notion of a business school amusing. What kinds of courses do they offer? Robbing Widows and Orphans? Grinding the Faces of the Poor? Having It Both Ways? Feeding at the Public Trough? There was a documentary several years ago called "The Corporation" that accepted the premise that corporations are persons and then asked what kind of people they are. The answer was, precisely, psychopaths: indifferent to others, incapable of guilt, exclusively devoted to their own interests.
There are ethical corporations, yes, and ethical businesspeople, but ethics in capitalism is purely optional, purely extrinsic. To expect morality in the market is to commit a category error. Capitalist values are antithetical to Christian ones. (How the loudest Christians in our public life can also be the most bellicose proponents of an unbridled free market is a matter for their own consciences.) Capitalist values are also antithetical to democratic ones. Like Christian ethics, the principles of republican government require us to consider the interests of others. Capitalism, which entails the single-minded pursuit of profit, would have us believe that it's every man for himself.
There's been a lot of talk lately about "job creators," a phrase begotten by Frank Luntz, the right-wing propaganda guru, on the ghost of Ayn Rand. The rich deserve our gratitude as well as everything they have, in other words, and all the rest is envy.
First of all, if entrepreneurs are job creators, workers are wealth creators. Entrepreneurs use wealth to create jobs for workers. Workers use labor to create wealth for entrepreneurs — the excess productivity, over and above wages and other compensation, that goes to corporate profits. It's neither party's goal to benefit the other, but that's what happens nonetheless.
Also, entrepreneurs and the rich are different and only partly overlapping categories. Most of the rich are not entrepreneurs; they are executives of established corporations, institutional managers of other kinds, the wealthiest doctors and lawyers, the most successful entertainers and athletes, people who simply inherited their money or, yes, people who work on Wall Street.
MOST important, neither entrepreneurs nor the rich have a monopoly on brains, sweat or risk. There are scientists — and artists and scholars — who are just as smart as any entrepreneur, only they are interested in different rewards. A single mother holding down a job and putting herself through community college works just as hard as any hedge fund manager. A person who takes out a mortgage — or a student loan, or who conceives a child — on the strength of a job she knows she could lose at any moment (thanks, perhaps, to one of those job creators) assumes as much risk as someone who starts a business.
Enormous matters of policy depend on these perceptions: what we're going to tax, and how much; what we're going to spend, and on whom. But while "job creators" may be a new term, the adulation it expresses — and the contempt that it so clearly signals — are not. "Poor Americans are urged to hate themselves," Kurt Vonnegut wrote in "Slaughterhouse-Five." And so, "they mock themselves and glorify their betters." Our most destructive lie, he added, "is that it is very easy for any American to make money." The lie goes on. The poor are lazy, stupid and evil. The rich are brilliant, courageous and good. They shower their beneficence upon the rest of us.
Mandeville believed the individual pursuit of self-interest could redound to public benefit, but unlike Adam Smith, he didn't think it did so on its own. Smith's "hand" was "invisible" — the automatic operation of the market. Mandeville's involved "the dextrous Management of a skilful Politician" — in modern terms, legislation, regulation and taxation. Or as he versified it, "Vice is beneficial found, / When it's by Justice lopt, and bound."   An essayist, critic and the author of "A Jane Austen Education."  This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: May 16, 2012
An earlier version of this article misstated the findings of a 2010 study on psychopathy in corporations. The study found that 4 percent of a sample of 203 corporate professionals met a clinical threshold for being described as psychopaths, not that 10 percent of people who work on Wall Street are clinical psychopaths. In addition, the study, in the journal Behavioral Sciences and the Law, was not based on a representative sample; the authors of the study say that the 4 percent figure cannot be generalized to the larger population of corporate managers and executives.       A version of this op-ed appeared in print on May 13, 2012, on page SR5 of the New York edition with the headline: Capitalists And Other Psychopaths.

[Father Jape]

A evo i Language Log odgovora na prvobitni članak:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3957

William Deresiewicz, "Capitalists and Other Psychopaths", NYT 5/12/2012:

THERE is an ongoing debate in this country about the rich: who they are, what their social role may be, whether they are good or bad. Well, consider the following. A recent study found that 10 percent of people who work on Wall Street are "clinical psychopaths," exhibiting a lack of interest in and empathy for others and an "unparalleled capacity for lying, fabrication, and manipulation." (The proportion at large is 1 percent.) [...]

The only thing that puzzles me about these claims is that anyone would find them surprising.

The only thing that puzzles *me* about such claims is that they spread so far in reputable publications, over such a long period of time, despite being complete fabrications.

[Meho Krljic]

Da, da, mada su ovi korigovali tvrdnju i objavili ispravku.

[Father Jape]

Nije samo Amerika, no čitav zapadni svet, ali svejedno evo ovde dobrog objašnjenja porasta u gojaznosti

The Skinny on Obesity (Ep. 3): Hunger and Hormones- A Vicious Cycle

[Meho Krljic]

Virtual Terrorism: Al Qaeda Video Calls for 'Electronic Jihad' 

Al Qaeda may be turning its destructive attention to cyber-warfare against the United States. In a chilling video, an al Qaeda operative calls for "electronic jihad" against the United States, and compares vulnerabilities in vital American computer networks to the flaws in aviation security before the 9/11 attack.

The al Qaeda video calls upon the "covert mujahidin" to launch cyber attacks against the U.S. networks of both government and critical infrastructure, including the electric grid. The video was obtained by the FBI last year, and released today by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
"This is the clearest evidence we've seen that al Qaeda and other terrorist groups want to attack the cyber systems of our critical infrastructure," Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said in a statement.
"This video is troubling as it urges al Qaeda adherents to launch a cyber attack on America," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the ranking member on the committee. "It's clear that al Qaeda is exploring all means to do us harm and this is evidence that our critical infrastructure is a target."
The national security community says the threat of cyber attack is real, and the gap between terrorist aspirations and capability is closing. The senior intelligence official at Cyber Command, Rear Adm. Samuel Cox, has said al Qaeda operatives are seeking the capability to stage cyber attacks against U.S. networks and terrorists could purchase the capabilities to do so from expert criminal hackers.
Increasing evidence also suggests that Iran is looking to commit cyber attacks against the United States, according to testimony last month before the House Committee on Homeland Security. Iran's sponsorship of terrorist groups takes on a new dimension in cyberspace, where it could develop a powerful cyber weapon and pass it on to a terrorist group.
Lieberman is using the al Qaeda video to underline what he says is the need for new legislation..
"Congress needs to act now to protect the American public from a possible devastating attack on our electric grid, water delivery systems, or financial networks," he said. "As numerous, bipartisan national security experts have said, minimum cyber security standards for those networks are necessary to protect our national and economic security. That is why the Senate needs to act on our bipartisan Cyber Security Act that requires minimum security performance requirements for key critical infrastructure cyber networks."
The Homeland Security Committee says the Department of Homeland Security received more than 50,000 reports of cyber intrusions or attempted intrusions since October, an increase of 10,000 reports over the same period the previous year.

Takođe i:
FBI Investigates 'Revenge Porn' Website Founder  

[Meho Krljic]

Zastrašujući i humoristički intoniran uvid u američko visoko školstvo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.cracked.com/article_19849_5-infuriating-things-nobody-tells-you-about-college.html

[Karl Rosman]

Blizu. Štovalac sam Grizzly Adamsa.

Ispravljeno.

[Meho Krljic]

Evo, da ne ispadne da samo naši predsednici treba da paze šta govore: Obama je uspeo da naljuti Poljake pozivajući se na "poljske logore smrti" iz Drugog svetskog rata:

Polish prime minister demands Obama address Nazi gaffe

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk angrily demanded Wednesday that President Barack Obama explain his reference to "a Polish death camp" during a high-profile White House ceremony a day earlier, saying the remark smacked of "ignorance, lack of knowledge, bad intentions" and amounted to "a distortion of history."
"When someone says 'Polish death camps,' it is as if there were no Nazis, no German responsibility, as if there was no Hitler—that is why our Polish sensitivity in these situations is so much more than just simply a feeling of national pride," the prime minister said.
[Related: WH says Obama 'misspoke' of death camp]
Tusk bluntly rejected National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor's expression of "regret" for the remarks and acknowledgment that Obama "misspoke" as falling woefully short of making up for the mistake.
"I am convinced that today, our American friends are capable of a stronger reaction—a clearer one, and one which perhaps eliminates, once and for all, these types of mistakes—than just the correction itself and the regret which we heard from the White House spokesperson," the prime minister said in a statement posted in English on his official website.
"We take note of these words, but it seems that it would be even more important for the United States than for Poland to end this with class. That is how one acts with regard to tried-and-tested friends, but this is also how one acts in your own, well-defined interest. I believe our allies are capable of such behavior," Tusk said.
Obama ignited the diplomatic flare-up on Tuesday as he honored Polish resistance hero Jan Karski and others with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor.
"Jan served as a courier for the Polish resistance during the darkest days of World War II.  Before one trip across enemy lines, resistance fighters told him that Jews were being murdered on a massive scale, and smuggled him into the Warsaw Ghetto and a Polish death camp to see for himself," the president said.
Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski immediately demanded on Twitter that the White House apologize for what he called an "outrageous mistake" and said the ceremony had been "overshadowed by ignorance and incompetence." Conservatives happily piled on: David Frum, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, likened Obama's comment to saying that the Atlantic slave trade had been run by Africans.
"Obviously the insult to Poles was unintentional. That's what's shocking. Cdnt be bothered to get it right, even when honoring a Polish hero," Frum added in a subsequent tweet.
But while the White House could easily shrug off criticism from partisan sources, Tusk's blistering statement suggested that Obama himself would need to try to defuse the controversy.
"The words uttered yesterday by the President of the United States Barack Obama concerning 'Polish death camps' touched all Poles," Tusk said.
"We always react in the same way when ignorance, lack of knowledge, bad intentions lead to such a distortion of history, so painful for us here in Poland, in a country which suffered like no other in Europe during World War II," the prime minister said.
"Here, in Poland, we cannot accept such words even if they are spoken by the leader of a friendly power—or perhaps especially in such situations—since we expect diligence, care, and respect from our friends on issues of such importance as World War II remembrance. In Polish-American relations, in friendly relations, respect vis-à-vis the smaller partner should be the most recognizable sign of such relations," Tusk said.
[Related: Newly discovered photos from inside Hitler's home]
Obama has avoided that blunder before. In a late-April visit to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, he cited the Poles among the victims of Nazi genocide. "We tell them, our children, about the millions of Poles and Catholics and Roma and gay people and so many others who also must never be forgotten," Obama said.
And in a January 27, 2010, videotaped statement for the ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Obama paid tribute to the Polish resistance.
"Even as we recall man's capacity for evil, Auschwitz also tells another story—of man's capacity for good. The small acts of compassion—the sharing of some bread that kept a child alive. The great acts of resistance that blew up the crematorium and tried to stop the slaughter. The Polish Rescuers and those who earned their place forever in the Righteous Among the Nations," he said.

[Meho Krljic]

Lepo je videti da se nauka bavi važnim pitanjima:

Old People Do Smell, But Not That Badly 

The distinctive "old person smell" you may have picked up on when visiting your grandparents most likely wasn't your imagination, a new study indicates.
When given whiffs from pieces of pads worn under the armpits of young, middle-aged and elderly people for five consecutive nights, study participants could reliably distinguish the body odor of the elderly, who were 75 and older, the researchers found.
"The results of this study support the cross-culturally popular concept of an 'old person odor,'" writes the international team in a study published today (May 30) in the journal PLoS ONE.
The notion that the elderly have a distinct smell exists in multiple cultures, and usually the odor is said to be unpleasant. But this probably has more to do with negative perceptions of old age, rather than with the odor itself, according to study researcher Johan Lundström, an assistant professor at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.
In the study, participants rated the smell of the elderly people as less intense and less unpleasant than the body odor of young people (20 to 30 years old) and middle-aged people (45 to 55 years old). This effect was driven by how the participants rated the body odor from men, who appeared to smell the worst and the strongest in middle age. The odor from women of all ages was rated as less intense than men, and closer to neutral smelling for the young and middle-aged.
The team used young people to do the sniffing for two reasons: They were more plentiful as volunteers and using participants from different age groups could potentially introduce a new layer of complexity, if age of the smeller influences how body odor is perceived, Lundström said.
He cautioned that while the participants did appear able to distinguish the elderly body odor, discriminating between age categories and correctly labeling odors from the elderly, they did not demonstrate a strong talent for it and showed low confidence in their abilities. [Personality Traits Affect How We Smell]
It's not yet clear why body odor changes as humans age or why humans are able to pick up on these changes.
Body odors originate from an interaction between skin gland secretions and bacteria on our skin. As people age, the activity of different types of skin glands changes. This factor may contribute to the perceived change in body odor with age, the researchers write.
So far, scientists can only speculate on why this apparent signal for old age exists. Research in other animals indicates that such an odor may act as a sign of the "good genes" that have allowed a male to live into old age, making him more attractive to females. It's also possible the distinctive odor is not a direct result of age; for instance, it could be associated with increased inflammation (part of an immune response) within the bodies of the elderly, Lundström said.

[Джон Рейнольдс]

Драго ми је кад видим да неко, све и да није "наше горе лист" разобличава Империју Зла као бедну, назадну и антицивилизацијску:

http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Svet/326569/Srpkinja-iz-Cikaga-podnela-tuzbu-jer-joj-je-serif-zabranio-da-doji-bebu-na-javnom-mestu

Natali Petrović (21) iz Skokija, predgrađa Čikaga, podnela je tužbu protiv okruga Kuk i šerifa Toma Darta tvrdeći da je od nje traženo da prekine da doji svoju bebu u prostorijama suda i premesti se u javni WC.

Вероватно би и одрасли требало да једу по јавним клозетима... Ма, уствари, Американци би и требало.

едит: И развеселили су ме малограђански коментари и оцене на Der Blitzenu.

[Albedo 0]

de bre, ako mogu osobe istog pola da krljaju na sred ulice može brate i da se doji beba.

ma Borat je sve objasnio kad je kenjao ispred poslovne zgrade

[Джон Рейнольдс]

de bre, ako mogu osobe istog pola da krljaju na sred ulice može brate i da se doji beba.

Нема то везе једно с другим.

[Albedo 0]

govorim iz njihove perspektive

razlozi su što je dojenje u javnosti ''neprijatno i ponižavajuće''

pa to može da se odnosi na bezbroj stvari

[Meho Krljic]

AP IMPACT: Suicides are surging among US troops

WASHINGTON (AP) — Suicides are surging among America's troops, averaging nearly one a day this year — the fastest pace in the nation's decade of war.
The 154 suicides for active-duty troops in the first 155 days of the year far outdistance the U.S. forces killed in action in Afghanistan — about 50 percent more — according to Pentagon statistics obtained by The Associated Press.
The numbers reflect a military burdened with wartime demands from Iraq and Afghanistan that have taken a greater toll than foreseen a decade ago. The military also is struggling with increased sexual assaults, alcohol abuse, domestic violence and other misbehavior.
Because suicides had leveled off in 2010 and 2011, this year's upswing has caught some officials by surprise.
The reasons for the increase are not fully understood. Among explanations, studies have pointed to combat exposure, post-traumatic stress, misuse of prescription medications and personal financial problems. Army data suggest soldiers with multiple combat tours are at greater risk of committing suicide, although a substantial proportion of Army suicides are committed by soldiers who never deployed.
The unpopular war in Afghanistan is winding down with the last combat troops scheduled to leave at the end of 2014. But this year has seen record numbers of soldiers being killed by Afghan troops, and there also have been several scandals involving U.S. troop misconduct.
The 2012 active-duty suicide total of 154 through June 3 compares to 130 in the same period last year, an 18 percent increase. And it's more than the 136.2 suicides that the Pentagon had projected for this period based on the trend from 2001-2011. This year's January-May total is up 25 percent from two years ago, and it is 16 percent ahead of the pace for 2009, which ended with the highest yearly total thus far.
Suicide totals have exceeded U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan in earlier periods, including for the full years 2008 and 2009.
The suicide pattern varies over the course of a year, but in each of the past five years the trend through May was a reliable predictor for the full year, according to a chart based on figures provided by the Armed Forces Medical Examiner.
The numbers are rising among the 1.4 million active-duty military personnel despite years of effort to encourage troops to seek help with mental health problems. Many in the military believe that going for help is seen as a sign of weakness and thus a potential threat to advancement.
Kim Ruocco, widow of Marine Maj. John Ruocco, a helicopter pilot who hanged himself in 2005 between Iraq deployments, said he was unable to bring himself to go for help.
"He was so afraid of how people would view him once he went for help," she said in an interview at her home in suburban Boston. "He thought that people would think he was weak, that people would think he was just trying to get out of redeploying or trying to get out of service, or that he just couldn't hack it - when, in reality, he was sick. He had suffered injury in combat and he had also suffered from depression and let it go untreated for years. And because of that, he's dead today."
Ruocco is currently director of suicide prevention programs for the military support organization Tragedy Assistance Programs, or TAPS. She joined the group after her husband's suicide, and she organized its first program focused on support for families of suicide victims.
Jackie Garrick, head of a newly established Defense Suicide Prevention Office at the Pentagon, said in an interview Thursday that the suicide numbers this year are troubling.
"We are very concerned at this point that we are seeing a high number of suicides at a point in time where we were expecting to see a lower number of suicides," she said, adding that the weak U.S. economy may be confounding preventive efforts even as the pace of military deployments eases.
Garrick said experts are still struggling to understand suicidal behavior.
"What makes one person become suicidal and another not is truly an unknown," she said.
Dr. Stephen N. Xenakis, a retired Army brigadier general and a practicing psychiatrist, said the suicides reflect the level of tension as the U.S. eases out of Afghanistan though violence continues.
"It's a sign in general of the stress the Army has been under over the 10 years of war," he said in an interview. "We've seen before that these signs show up even more dramatically when the fighting seems to go down and the Army is returning to garrison."
But Xenakis said he worries that many senior military officers do not grasp the nature of the suicide problem.
A glaring example of that became public when a senior Army general recently told soldiers considering suicide to "act like an adult."
Maj. Gen. Dana Pittard, commander of the 1st Armored Division, last month retracted — but did not apologize for — a statement in his Army blog in January. He had written, "I have now come to the conclusion that suicide is an absolutely selfish act." He also wrote, "''I am personally fed up with soldiers who are choosing to take their own lives so that others can clean up their mess. Be an adult, act like an adult, and deal with your real-life problems like the rest of us." He did also counsel soldiers to seek help.
His remarks drew a public rebuke from the Army, which has the highest number of suicides and called his assertions "clearly wrong." Last week the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, said he disagrees with Pittard "in the strongest possible terms."
The military services have set up confidential telephone hotlines, placed more mental health specialists on the battlefield, added training in stress management, invested more in research on mental health risk and taken other measures.
The Marines established a counseling service dubbed "DStress line," a toll-free number that troubled Marines can call anonymously. They also can use a Marine website to chat online anonymously with a counselor.
The Marines arguably have had the most success recently in lowering their suicide numbers, which are up slightly this year but are roughly in line with levels of the past four years. The Army's numbers also are up slightly. The Air Force has seen a spike, to 32 through June 3 compared to 23 at the same point last year. The Navy is slightly above its 10-year trend line but down a bit from 2011.
As part of its prevention strategy, the Navy has published a list of "truths" about suicide.
"Most suicidal people are not psychotic or insane," it says. "They might be upset, grief-stricken, depressed or despairing."
In a report published in January the Army said the true impact of its prevention programs is unknown.
"What is known is that all Army populations ... are under increased stress after a decade of war," it said, adding that if not for prevention efforts the Army's suicide totals might have been as much as four times as high.
Marine Sgt. Maj. Bryan Battaglia, the senior enlisted adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently issued a video message to all military members in which he noted that suicides "are sadly on the rise."
"From private to general, we shoulder an obligation to look and listen for signs and we stand ready to intervene and assist our follow service member or battle buddy in time of need," Battaglia said.
The suicide numbers began surging in 2006. They soared in 2009 and then leveled off before climbing again this year. The statistics include only active-duty troops, not veterans who returned to civilian life after fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan. Nor does the Pentagon's tally include non-mobilized National Guard or Reserve members.
The renewed surge in suicides has caught the attention of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Last month he sent an internal memo to the Pentagon's top civilian and military leaders in which he called suicide "one of the most complex and urgent problems" facing the Defense Department, according to a copy provided to the AP.
Panetta touched on one of the most sensitive aspects of the problem: the stigma associated seeking help for mental distress. This is particularly acute in the military.
"We must continue to fight to eliminate the stigma from those with post-traumatic stress and other mental health issues," Panetta wrote, adding that commanders "cannot tolerate any actions that belittle, haze, humiliate or ostracize any individual, especially those who require or are responsibly seeking professional services."
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AP broadcast correspondent Sagar Meghani contributed to this report.
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Online:
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors: http://www.taps.org
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Robert Burns can be reached on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/robertburnsAP

[Meho Krljic]

A ovaj baksuz?

Orlando man given George Zimmerman's cellphone number, gets death threats 

Talk about an unlucky draw.
An Orlando, Fla., man says his life has been turned upside down since May 7, when T-Mobile reportedly assigned him the cellphone number formerly used by accused Florida gunman George Zimmerman.
It's the same mobile number Zimmerman gave police dispatchers during the notorious 911 call moments before he shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin three months ago.
The 911 call (with Zimmerman heard spelling out the number) has since been widely circulated by the media and on the Internet.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that Junior Alexander Guy, the man who inherited Zimmerman's old number, immediately started getting weird calls at all hours of the night.
"You murderer!"
"You deserve to die!"
Guy, who works at an Orlando wastewater plant, told the newspaper he got an estimated 70 threatening calls. He and his mother were forced to move out of their home.
"I was not only afraid for my life, I was afraid for my mother's," said Guy, a 49-year-old man who the newspaper reported has himself served prison time for drug trafficking.
By the ninth day, Guy said he'd had enough and turned the phone over to an attorney. His lawyer has reportedly been unsuccessful in seeking damages for his client, but T-Mobile did credit Guy's account and waived the early termination fee.
The old Zimmerman number, T-Mobile told the Sentinel, has now been retired.

[Meho Krljic]

Džozef Stiglic:

Они горе и они доле 

На скуповима на којима промовише своју нову књигу, економиста Џозеф Стиглиц добија аплаузе и овације као да је рок или спортска звезда
   Од нашег сталног дописника
Вашингтон – У популарну вашингтонску књижару "Политика и проза" у Конектикат авенији, у четвртак увече једва да је могло да се уђе: испуњен је био сваки сантиметар њеног не баш скромног простора.
Гост кога су пажљиво слушали посетиоци  рекло би се свих генерација, повремено је прекидан громким овацијама и аплаузима, као да је нека рок звезда, а атмосфера је на моменте подсећала на политички митниг. У сваком случају, пажња са којом је праћено његово излагање није уобичајена – за једног економисту.
Те вечери о својој новој књизи чији је наслов "Цена нејаднакости: како данашње подељено друштво угрожава нашу будућност", говорио је Џозеф Стиглиц, професор Колумбија универзитета, нобеловац (2001.), један од најцитиранијих из своје бранше на свету, бивши главни економиста Светске банке и некадашњи шеф економских саветника председника Била Клинтона, а данас жестоки критичар "тржишног фундаментализма" и популарни тумач узрока светске кризе и планетарног неуспеха да се из ње изађе.
Тема његове нове књиге блиска је већини Американаца, јер је осећају на својој кожи. У њој Стиглиц вивисекцира пре свега данашњи амерички политички и економски систем, растерује идеолошке магле које прекривају националну дебату о генераторима и суштини кризе. При том поставља непријатне дијагнозе, од који је главна да је неједнакост постала системска и да ће земља, не одмакне ли се од ивице амбиса до којег је дошла, за то платити веома високу цену.
Главна његова теза је да тржиште, као главна економска сила, не функционише онако како тврде његови заговорници, да је политички систем "отет" и упрегнут да служи интересима богатих. "Америка је створила чудесну економску машинерију, али је очигледно да она данас служи само онима на врху", каже Стиглиц. "Капитализам не испоручије више оно шта је обећавао, већ само оно што није: неједнакости, загађење, незапосленост и, најважније од свега – деградацију вредности до тачке да је све прихватљиво, а нико није одговоран".
Суштина америчког проблема и главни изазивач неједнакости, која се огледа у томе да су у последње три деценије приходи 1 одсто најбогатијих енормно порасли, док су они већине Американаца стагнирали, па и опадали – јесте у процвату онога што Стиглиц назива "рентијерском економијом". Амерички милионери и милијардери се данас богате готово искључиво финансијским шпекулацијама и том процесу успевају да приграбе све већи део националног колача, а да тиме истовремено уопште не доприносе да се тај колач увећа.
Много је новца "горе", а премало "доле", објаснио је пред великим бројем људи у "Политици и прози" (а сутрадан сам га слушао и у много мањем друштву, у Центру за амерички прогрес) Стиглиц. Финансијски сектор у коме се све ово збива, обезбеђује највеће плате, па на Волстрит одлазе најталентованији дипломци са америчких универзитета, да би тамо манипулисали бројкама и смишљали високопрофитне финансијке преваре, уместо да своје знање и енергију усмере ка стварању нечега новог у технологији, чистој енергији и другим областима, ономе што ће да буде од користи свима и обнови америчку супериорност.
Пораст богатства оних са врха, каже Стиглиц, зато што их је тако мало, само један одсто, не повећава укупну економску тражњу, па тиме не доприноси повећању запослености. Навео је пример да је у марту ове године посао са пуним радним временом тражило 24 милиона Американаца, али га није налазило.
Указује и да је "амерички сан", претпоставка да сви овде имају подједнаке шансе, само ако су довољно вредни, вешти и упорни - све више само сан. "Истина је да Америка има најмању једнакост у почетним шансама. Изгледи оних са дна зависе од њиховог образовања, аобразовање им зависи од прихода родитеља. То значи да велики број Американаца не може да реализује своје потенцијале, што у крајњем исходу слаби нашу економију".
"Ја сам уверен и да садашњи ниво неједнакости слаби и нашу демократију. Стандардна теорија каже да су политичке одлуке у демократији средње решење између онога што тражи једна група и противљења тој мери друге. Код нас су међутим одлуке ближе жељама једне стране".
"Перцепције о нивоу неједнакости у САД обликоване су од стране оних који не желе да Американци схвате колико смо неједнаки. Улаже се велики напор да се Американци убеде да проблем не постоји, да смо још земља једнаких могућности за све".
"Ми у Америци данас имао милионе бескућника и у исто време милионе празних кућа".
Стиглиц затим констатује да политички систем, који се, куповином утицаја, претворио у мегафон богатих, смањује поверење у демократију и не слаби само економски систем, него и амерички глобални утицај.
"Кад се норме друштва мењају на начин да веома много људи губи морални компас, то говори нешто значајно о том друштву...Угрожен је и наш национални идентитет", суморно је, уз аплауз и усклике подршке, закључио говорник у књижари "Политика и проза".
Да би се ово променило, по њему је неопходна економска реформа, али пре ње неопходно је прво извршити ону политичку. "Проблем је међутим што смо у зачараном кругу: више економских неједнакости води ка већој политичкој неједнакости, која опет подстиче економске неједнакости".
Има ли наде?
"Оптимиста сам са дозом скептицизма", одговара на ово питање Стиглиц. Каже да је Америка већ била у оваквим ситуација, крајем 19. и почетком 20. века, као и уочи Велике депресије пре нешто више од 80 година. "Сваки пут кад смо схватили да смо на ивици, извршили смо корекције система: први пут то је било антимонополско законодавство, а други пут из кризе су нас извукли Њу дил и пакети социјалних закона... Оно чему се надам, јесте да ћемо схватити где смо сада, шта су последице тога која је цена коју плаћамо неједнакости и коју ћемо цену за то још платити ако останемо на истом колосеку, односно не почнемо да решавамо један од наших највећих проблема".
  Милан Мишић објављено: 10.06.2012 

[scallop]

A mogli ste i mene da citirate.

[Meho Krljic]

Nije te objavlila Politika pa nema odakle. A i nisi Nobelovac - sve to povlači jedno drugo.

[Father Jape]

Plus, Politika, a naročito ovaj Mišić iz Amerike, tendenciozno citiraju i hajpuju samo ovakve. Ne daj bože da predstave i drugačije mišljenje.

[scallop]

Jape, Jape, drugačija mišljenja su nam zatrovala život poslednjih 25 godina, a sad se polako otrežnjujemo.


Meho, ako ti je potrebno tuđe citiranje i Nobelove nagrade da bi shvatio šta jeste, a šta nije, slabo si se opsmenio.

[Meho Krljic]

Meho, ako ti je potrebno tuđe citiranje i Nobelove nagrade da bi shvatio šta jeste, a šta nije, slabo si se opsmenio.

Slabo, slabo. Ipak, u interesu javnosti, red je da se oslanjamo i na druge izvore mišljenja, ne samo na Scallopa. Mislim, naravno da "Scallop je tako rekao" ima najveću težinu na ovim prostorima, ali nije zgoreg pokazati i da laureat Nobelove nagrade za ekonomiju i jedan od najcenjenijih živih ekonomista ima mišljenje koje se podudara sa Skalopovim. Onda smo malo sigurniji!!!!!!!

Plus, Politika, a naročito ovaj Mišić iz Amerike, tendenciozno citiraju i hajpuju samo ovakve. Ne daj bože da predstave i drugačije mišljenje.

Da, pa, dobro, ovo je bila promocija knjige, ima povoda itd. Mada, naravno, naravno.

[Alexdelarge]

postoji li neki jevrejin koji nije uspeo u životu?

[scallop]

Isus Hristos.

[Father Jape]

postoji li neki jevrejin koji nije uspeo u životu?

Misliš osim onih šest miliona?

[Lord Kufer]

Jevreji su lepo odredili šta je to uspeh u životu, i onda kad to urade - uspeli su u životu