Amerika na ivici propasti?

[Meho Krljic]

Baltmor u plamenu, proglašen policijski čas...

Riots in Baltimore over man's death in police custody

BALTIMORE (AP) — Rioters plunged part of Baltimore into chaos Monday, torching a pharmacy, setting police cars ablaze and throwing bricks at officers hours after thousands mourned the man who died from a severe spinal injury he suffered in police custody.

The governor declared a state of emergency and called in the National Guard to restore order, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, in her first day on the job, said she would send Justice Department officials to the city in coming days. A weeklong, daily curfew was imposed beginning Tuesday from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., the mayor said, and Baltimore public schools announced that they would be closed on Tuesday. At least 15 officers were hurt, and some two dozen people were arrested. Two officers remained hospitalized, police said.
"The National Guard represents the last resort in restoring order," Gov. Larry Hogan told a news conference. "I have not made this decision lightly."
Officers wearing helmets and wielding shields occasionally used pepper spray to keep the rioters back. For the most part, though, they relied on line formations to keep protesters at bay.
Monday's riot was the latest flare-up over the mysterious death of Freddie Gray, whose fatal encounter with officers came amid the national debate over police use of force, especially when black suspects are involved. Gray was African-American. Police have declined to specify the races of the six officers involved in his arrest, all of whom have been suspended with pay while they are under investigation.
Emergency officials were constantly thwarted as they tried to restore calm in the affected parts of the city of more than 620,000 people. Firefighters trying to put out a blaze at a CVS store were hindered by someone who sliced holes in a hose connected to a fire hydrant, spraying water all over the street and nearby buildings. Later Monday night, a massive fire erupted in East Baltimore that a spokesman for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake initially said was connected to the riots. He later texted an AP reporter saying officials are still investigating whether there is a connection.

The Mary Harvin Transformation Center was under construction and no one was believed to be in the building at the time, said the spokesman, Kevin Harris. The center is described online as a community-based organization that supports youth and families.
The smell of burned rubber wafted in the air in one neighborhood where youths were looting a liquor store. Police stood still nearby as people drank looted alcohol. Glass and trash littered the streets, and other small fires were scattered about. One person from a church tried to shout something from a megaphone as two cars burned.
"Too many people have spent generations building up this city for it to be destroyed by thugs, who in a very senseless way, are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down and destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years," said Rawlings-Blake, a lifelong resident of the city.
Gray's family was shocked by the violence and was lying low; instead, they hoped to organize a peace march later in the week, said family attorney Billy Murphy. He said they did not know the riot was going to happen and urged calm.
"They don't want this movement nationally to be marred by violence," he said. "It makes no sense."

Police urged parents to locate their children and bring them home. Many of those on the streets appeared to be African-American youths, wearing backpacks and khaki pants that are a part of many public school uniforms.
The riot broke out just as high school let out, and at a key city bus depot for student commuters around Mondawmin Mall, a shopping area northwest of downtown Baltimore. It shifted about a mile away later to the heart of an older shopping district and near where Gray first encountered police. Both commercial areas are in African-American neighborhoods.
Later in the day, people began looting clothing and other items from stores at the mall, which became unprotected as police moved away from the area. About three dozen officers returned, trying to arrest looters but driving many away by firing pellet guns and rubber bullets.
Downtown Baltimore, the Inner Harbor tourist attractions and the city's baseball and football stadiums are nearly 4 miles away. While the violence had not yet reached City Hall and the Camden Yards area, the Orioles canceled Monday's game for safety precautions.
On Monday night, Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings and about 200 others, mostly men, marched arm-in-arm through a neighborhood littered with broken glass, flattened aluminum cans and other debris, to protest Gray's death. As they got close to a line of police officers, the marchers went down on their knees. After the ministers got back on their feet, they walked until they were face-to-face with the police officers in a tight formation and wearing riot gear.

In a statement issued Monday, Attorney General Lynch said she would send Justice Department officials to the city in coming days, including Vanita Gupta, the agency's top civil rights lawyer. The FBI and Justice Department are investigating Gray's death for potential criminal civil rights violations.
Many who had never met Gray gathered earlier in the day in a Baltimore church to bid him farewell and press for more accountability among law enforcement.
The 2,500-capacity New Shiloh Baptist church was filled with mourners. But even the funeral could not ease mounting tensions.
Police said in a news release sent while the funeral was underway that the department had received a "credible threat" that three notoriously violent gangs are now working together to "take out" law enforcement officers.
A small group of mourners started lining up about two hours ahead of Monday's funeral.  Placed atop Gray's body was a white pillow with a screened picture of him. A projector aimed at two screens on the walls showed the words "Black Lives Matter & All Lives Matter."
The service lasted nearly two hours, with dignitaries in attendance including former Maryland representative and NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume and current Maryland Rep. John Sarbanes.
With the Rev. Jesse Jackson sitting behind him, the Rev. Jamal Bryant gave a rousing and spirited eulogy for Freddie Gray, a message that received a standing ovation from the crowded church.
Bryant said Gray's death would spur further protests, and he urged those in the audience to join.
"Freddie's death is not in vain," Bryant said. "After this day, we're going to keep on marching. After this day, we're going to keep demanding justice."
Gray was arrested after making eye contact with officers and then running away, police said. He was held down, handcuffed and loaded into a van without a seat belt. Leg cuffs were put on him when he became irate inside.
He asked for medical help several times even before being put in the van, but paramedics were not called until after a 30-minute ride. Police have acknowledged he should have received medical attention on the spot where he was arrested, but they have not said how his spine was injured.

[Meho Krljic]

Uzgred, ne znam koliko vas gleda Keya &Peelea na JuTjubu, ali njihovi "anger translator skečevi" su povremeno solidni. E,sad je Obama ACTUALLY uzeo Keya da "prevodi" za njega na svečanoj večeri. Ludilo:

http://www.vox.com/2015/4/27/8502493/obama-white-house-correspondents-dinner

[eddie coyle]

 

https://www.facebook.com/7NewsMiami/videos/vb.29790827612/10152896138912613/?type=2&theater

[Anomander Rejk]

http://www.klix.ba/vijesti/svijet/iranska-vojska-zaplijenila-teretni-brod-sad-poslale-razarac/150428117

[Meho Krljic]

The most racist places in America, according to Google

[džin tonik]

sjever ponovo jase!

[Ugly MF]

pretpostavljam da ovo tamnoplavo uglavnom pustinja, nenaseljeni delovi, sa ponekim rednek inbridima, koji nisu nikad ni vidli druge rase.....

[Meho Krljic]

Crowds gather for anti-Islam demonstration outside Phoenix mosque

              PHOENIX (Reuters) - More than 200 protesters, some armed, berated Islam and its Prophet Mohammed outside an Arizona mosque on Friday in a provocative protest that was denounced by counterprotesters shouting "Go home, Nazis," weeks after an anti-Muslim event in Texas came under attack by two gunmen.
The anti-Muslim event outside the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix was organized by an Iraq war veteran who posted photos of himself online wearing a T-shirt with the slogan "Fuck Islam" on it and waving the U.S. flag.
As the event got under way on Friday, demonstrators on both sides screamed obscenities at each other as police in riot gear swiftly separated the two groups, each with about 250 people, using police tape and barricades.
"This is in response to the recent attack in Texas," organizer Jon Ritzheimer wrote on his Facebook page announcing the event at a mosque targeted in part because the two Texas gunmen had worshipped there.
More than 900 people responded on the event's Facebook page that they would take part in the demonstration, and by 6 p.m. local time police were expanding their presence in anticipation of growing crowds. Officers with riot helmets and gas masks formed a cordon for several blocks.
Among the anti-Islam protesters, some of whom called Islam a "religion of murderers," more than a dozen men in military clothing carried semi-automatic weapons. Others waved copies of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad drawn at the Texas event.

              Depictions of Mohammad, which many Muslims view as blasphemous, have been a flashpoint for violence in Europe and the United States in recent months where those displaying or creating such images have been targeted by militants.
Meanwhile, anti-Muslim groups have been active in the United States, buying ads and staging demonstrations characterizing Islam as violent, often citing the murderous brutality of Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
              ACT OF RETRIBUTION
The Phoenix mosque targeted on Friday has condemned such violence, and held a series of sermons at Friday prayers last year by an imam who criticized militant Islamist groups such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and Nigeria's Boko Haram.
              The president of the center had urged worshippers not to engage with the demonstrators.
"We should remind ourselves that we do not match wrongness with wrongness, but with grace and mercy and goodness," Usama Shami told worshippers during Friday prayers.
While some counter-protesters outside the mosque responded to the anti-Islam protest with obscenities, others followed his advice and chanted "Love your neighbor."

              In January, gunmen killed 12 people at the Paris office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in anger at the magazine's cartoons featuring the Prophet, and a similar attack was foiled in Texas on May 3.
The pair of gunmen who opened fire near Dallas outside an exhibit of cartoons featuring Mohammad were shot dead by police without killing anyone. Leaders of the Phoenix Muslim community confirmed both gunmen had attended the Phoenix mosque targeted in Friday's demonstration.
              Todd Green, a religion professor at Luther College in Iowa who studies Islamophobia, said that the brutal acts committed by Islamic State and other militant groups have colored many Americans' impressions of Muslims.
              "Almost two-thirds of Americans don't know a Muslim," Green said. "What they know is ISIS, al Qaeda, and Charlie Hebdo."   
U.S. officials are investigating claims that the Texas gunmen had ties to the Islamic State, but said they had not established a firm connection.
              'EPIDEMIC OF ANTI-ISLAMIC SENTIMENT'
The Department of Homeland Security has been in touch with state and local law enforcement authorities, and was monitoring the situation in Phoenix, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
"Even expressions that are offensive, that are distasteful, and intended to sow divisions in an otherwise tight-knit, diverse community like Phoenix, cannot be used as a justification to carry out an act of violence," he told reporters.   
Ritzheimer, the main organizer of the demonstration, said the point of the demonstration was "to expose the true colors of Islam."
"True Islam is terrorism. Yes, the ones that are out committing these atrocities and stuff, they are following the book as it's written," Ritzheimer told CNN.
              Ritzheimer was a staff sergeant in the Marine Reserve and was deployed to Iraq twice, in 2005 and 2008, the Marine Corps said.
Anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller, who organized the Texas event, said she was not involved in the demonstration in Phoenix.
The mosque is a former church near the city's international airport that can hold some 600 worshippers. The Phoenix area is home to tens of thousands of Muslims.   
The event is part of "an epidemic of anti-Islamic sentiment" that goes beyond protesting against extremism, said Imraan Siddiqi of the Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
"Don't mistake that, they're not saying they want to rid America of radical Islam, they are saying they want to rid America of Islam," Siddiqi said.
(Writing and additional reporting by Alistair Bell and Sharon Bernstein; Additional reporting by Scott Malone in Boston, and Alex Dobuzinskis and Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles; Editing by Cynthia Johnston, Lisa Shumaker and Ken Wills)

[Meho Krljic]

EXCLUSIVE: Undercover DHS Tests Find Security Failures at US Airports



Spojlr alrt: agenti su uspeli da 95% skrivenog oružja i eksploziva pronesu pored TSA službenika.

[eddie coyle]

Prokleta je Amerika... 

http://www.b92.net/zivot/vesti.php?yyyy=2015&mm=06&dd=09&nav_id=1002551

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIlSqk_pfbA

[mac]

Bogataš ubeđuje druge bogataše da najniža cena rada mora da se poveća.

http://gawker.com/shits-gonna-hit-the-fan-talking-to-a-billionaire-abo-1711464448

[Meho Krljic]

Fud end Drag Edministrejšn donela odluku da trans-masti moraju da se ukloine iz američkih namirnica u naredne tri godine.


U.S. Bans Trans Fat

Artificial trans fat will be removed from the U.S. food supply over the next three years under a ruling by regulators that the products pose health risks that contribute to heart disease.
There's no longer a scientific consensus that partially hydrogenated oils, the main source of trans fat, are generally recognized as safe, according to a final decision released Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration. The oils are used for frying and in baked goods as well as in confections.
Food companies will be able to petition the FDA to gain approval of specific uses of partially hydrogenated oils if they have data proving the use isn't harmful. Companies will have until June 2018 to comply with the FDA's determination, either by removing trans fat or gaining a waiver. The FDA said it hasn't seen any data to prove that even low levels of partially hydrogenated oils are safe.
The food industry has been using partially hydrogenated oils for decades, though many such as Kellogg Co., Kraft Foods Group Inc. and ConAgra Foods Inc. have been phasing them out. Many baked goods such as pie crusts and biscuits as well as canned frosting still use partially hydrogenated oils because they help baked goods maintain their flakiness and frostings be spreadable. As for frying, palm oil is expected to be a go-to alternative, while modified soybean oil may catch on as well.
"I don't know how many lives will be saved, but probably in the thousands per year when all the companies are in compliance," said Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Industry CostsThe FDA estimates the ban will cost the food industry $6.2 billion over 20 years as it reformulates products and substitutes ingredients. The benefits will total $140 billion during the same time period, mostly from lower spending on health care.
Food companies have been switching to mixtures of palm and coconut oils or palm and soybean oils, the combination used in tubs of Country Crock margarine made by Unilever Plc.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association, the Washington-based lobby group for food companies, said in a statement the three-year period for compliance "provides time needed for food manufacturers to complete their transition."
The association also said it will petition the FDA for approval of uses of low levels of partially hydrogenated oils and plans to show they are as safe as naturally occuring trans fat.
Biscuit HoldoutsConAgra, which sells packaged foods such as Chef Boyardee pasta dishes, Swiss Miss hot chocolate and Orville Redenbacher's popcorn, has eliminated partially hydrogenated oils from 90 percent of its products, spokeswoman Teresa Paulsen said in an e-mail. Products that haven't yet been reformulated include a couple varieties of biscuits, Paulsen said.
General Mills Inc. has reduced trans fats in 350 products since 2008 and 95 percent of the company's U.S. retail products are labeled zero grams of trans fat, Kirstie Foster, a spokeswoman, said in an e-mail. General Mills makes Betty Crocker and Pillsbury cake mixes and frosting that still contain partially hydrogenated oils.
The move "demonstrates the agency's commitment to the heart health of all Americans," FDA Acting Commissioner Stephen Ostroff said in a statement. "This action is expected to reduce coronary heart disease and prevent thousands of fatal heart attacks every year."
Better AlternativeWhile Jacobson said palm oil as an alternative isn't ideal because it contains saturated fat, it's still better than trans fat.
"Trans fat raises the bad cholesterol and lowers the good cholesterol a little bit," he said."Saturated fat only raises the bad cholesterol."
About 70 percent of palm oil is produced in Malaysia and some also comes from Indonesia and South America, Tiger Tangavelu, technical director at Global Agri-Trade Corp., said in an e-mail. The U.S. market size for palm oil is 2.6 billion pounds (1.2 billion kilograms) annually, he said. He expects that to increase by half a billion pounds a year once trans fats are eliminated.
Modified soybean oil is also an option. Monsanto Co. is testing an oil called Vistive Gold made from soybeans that have been genetically modified to make it heart-healthier and good for frying without the need to hydrogenate it, said Sarah Vacek, soybean quality traits manager at Monsanto. Restaurants will be Vistive Gold's main target.
"It's been in the works for over a decade," Vacek said. "We are pre-commercial right now. We are anticipating a full commercial launch in 2016."
New YorkNew York City was the first to ban trans fat from restaurants, followed by California, Philadelphia and Seattle, said Jacobson, with the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Alternatives may not meet consumer expectations for pie crusts, according to comments from the American Frozen Food Institute filed after the FDA first proposed banning trans fat in 2013. The same may be true for canned frosting, especially whipped frosting, and for cake mixes, according to comments from the Grocery Manufacturers Association.
The association and the FDA have discussed the possibility that the Washington-based industry group will file a petition with the agency to allow some uses of partially hydrogenated oils, according to meeting minutes.

[scallop]

Najbolja je svinjska mas', jer je čista od "poboljšanja", ali tu nema američke industrije, osim u Luizijani.

[Meho Krljic]

Da, kod njih je decenijska kampanja protiv svinjske masti zaista bila uspešna tako da maltene da nemaju taj ogranak industrije uopšte.

[Father Jape]

http://youtu.be/mjzrvRKv6Ks


Ima i odličnih stvari na Tviter kanalu Vilijama Gibsona:

https://twitter.com/GreatDismal

[Meho Krljic]

A hilarious Australian stand-up comic explains what U.S. gun laws look like to the rest of the world

Gun rights activists often claim that Americans need guns for their own security.

However, a new study by the Violence Policy Center, a gun control advocacy group, shows that, when guns kill people, they are overwhelmingly used for murder rather than self-defense. In 2008-2012, guns were used in 42,419 criminal homicides and only 1,108 justifiable homicides (defined as the killing of a felon during the commission of a felony by a private citizen), according to the report -- a ratio of 38 to 1.

Despite all that, Australian comedian Jim Jefferies says in a hilarious stand-up routine, the real reason gun owners want guns is just because they like them. That's okay, but it doesn't mean that guns should be legal, Jefferies says. Some people like taking drugs or driving at 100 miles an hour, and can be perfectly safe and responsible while doing so, but other irresponsible people have ruined those things for them.

Jefferies' routine offers a window into how American attitudes toward guns look to many people outside of the U.S.

Jefferies warns that about 10 percent of those who watch this video will be seething at it.

More on gun violence:

-You have to see how many more people are killed by guns in America to actually believe it

-This photo captures America's relationship with guns

-11 essential facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States

http://youtu.be/lL8JEEt2RxI

[Meho Krljic]

I da se skoro savršeno nadovežemo:

Video of Chicago cop opening fire on a car full of unarmed black teens is 'disturbing on a whole new level'

A video of a Chicago police officer appearing to open fire into a carload of unarmed teenagers troubled a former judge so greatly that he handed the video over to the media.

"I've seen lots of gruesome, grisly crimes," retired Cook County Judge Andrew Berman told Jonah Newman of the Chicago Reporter. Berman, who was a judge in a criminal case against one of the teens, added, "But this is disturbing on a whole different level."

The December 2013 video, embedded below, shows Chicago police officer Marco Proano allegedly shooting more than a dozen rounds at the moving vehicle full of six minors, according to civil complaint filed against the city of Chicago and several officers. The Reporter identified them as black.

None of them had a weapon or acted aggressively toward the officers, according to the complaint.
Proano hit one passenger in the shoulder and another in both hips, according to the complaint.

Prior to the incident, two other Chicago officers had stopped the car near 95th and LaSalle Street in Chicago's notoriously violent South Side. Moments later, one of the passengers took off running. Proano, who had just arrived at the scene, exited his patrol car and approached the car with his gun drawn sideways, according to the civil complaint filed on behalf of the teens. When the car started to move in reverse, Proano allegedly began shooting.


The video is the crux of a federal lawsuit filed against Chicago and the three police officers on the teenagers' behalf. Pending approval from the City Council, it could end with a $360,000 payout for the victims.

While Proano didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from the Reporter, in a federal filing he admitted he was the officer who opened fire on the vehicle in question.

We reached out to a lawyer for Proano and will update this post if we hear back.

Proano has been assigned to desk duty but remains otherwise undisciplined and on the force, the Reporter reported. In the past four years, he has been cleared of six complaints against him, one of which included excessive force, according to the Reporter.

"He [Proano] shouldn't be allowed to be out there with a gun," Berman told the Reporter. "He has shown callous disregard for human life ... You don't start firing into a car full of unarmed people. You just don't do that."

Naravno, ovo je staro dve godine, ali video je tek sad obnarodovan...

http://youtu.be/0vMcBNd_8xQ

[Meho Krljic]

The Economist obrazlaže zašto najnovije masovno ubistvo u Čarlstonu verovatno neće dovesti do ozbiljnijih političkih promena u SAD. Pančlajn je brutalan.


The latest American mass killing 

WE DO not yet know why a gunman entered a church in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday and killed nine people at a prayer meeting, but in a sense it does not matter. One searches for reasons in order to assign responsibility and to devise solutions, but in this case no one will accept responsibility, and no solutions will be devised. One might blame radical ideology; given that the gunman, who police suspect is 21-year-old Dylann Roof, is white and the victims black, it seems probable that the motives were rooted in racial hatred. But no modern American party, movement or politician embraces explicit racism. While some exploit more subtle forms of racial resentment, none would admit to any link to a mass killer. A South Carolina branch of the Ku Klux Klan has been on a last-ditch recruitment drive to save itself from extinction, but one expects even the KKK would dissociate itself from violence these days.
The massacre, then (like those in Sandy Hook, Isla Vista, Aurora, and many others), will almost surely be blamed on the actions of a lone madman, who is now in the custody of police. This might, as with the Sandy Hook massacre, lead to support for legislation to make the public mental-health system more proactive (and more coercive). But that legislation is controversial among mental-health practitioners, and has been bogged down in Congress. In any case, while better mental health is a good thing in itself, it is unlikely to have a reliable impact in finding and stopping the small number of people who commit mass killings. The gunman's access to firearms was obviously a prerequisite for the killings. But it has become clear since Sandy Hook that meaningful gun control is politically impossible in America. While certain forms of restrictions on gun ownership are popular, the power of lobbying organisations such as the National Rifle Association and the lock-step opposition of Republicans in Congress have blocked all moves towards legislation.
This political dynamic helps explain why the rise in mass killings in America has not led to any changes in policy. Such killings have become increasingly common, even as the overall number of gun-related homicides has declined. Before yesterday, there had been 279 killings involving four or more victims since 2006, according to an excellent database compiled by USA Today. About five out of six such killings target family members, or involve the commission of another crime such as a burglary. The mass killing in Charleston appears to belong to the sub-category of "public killings": those, like the Sandy Hook massacre, in which the killer had no intimate personal relationship with the victims. In fact, 2015 has not been a particularly bad year for public killings: until yesterday there had been just one, in San Francisco, and police believe it was gang-related. (The biker brawl in Waco, Texas, which left nine people dead, is not classified as a public killing because the victims appeared to have known each other.)



The massacre in Charleston will certainly add to America's growing racial tensions. After a series of killings at the hands of white police officers and citizens in the past few years, African-Americans increasingly feel they are the victims of structural racist violence. One of the most egregious slayings took place in nearby North Charleston in April, when a police officer shot a fleeing African-American man eight times after pulling him over for a broken tail light. (The officer has been indicted for murder.) White Americans often refuse to accept that such violence is rooted in widespread racism; for African-Americans, the connection is obvious. Still, while racist killings by officers could be addressed by changes in jurisprudence or policing practices, it is harder to imagine how to tackle mass murder.
This is not to say that Wednesday's massacre in Charleston has had no political consequences at all. There has been one: Jeb Bush, the Republican presidential candidate, cancelled a rally in the city that had been planned for Thursday. It is interesting to contemplate how many victims a killing must claim before politicians feel they need to cancel a rally in the area, and what types of victims merit cancellation. Would Mr Bush have cancelled his rally after a gang-related killing? What about a terrorist attack? (For that matter, why are political murders such as the Boston Marathon bombing immediately labelled "terrorism", while the apparently political mass murder in Charleston is not?) Will mass killings someday be unremarkable enough in America that politicians feel comfortable ignoring them entirely?
The regularity of mass killings breeds familiarity. The rhythms of grief and outrage that accompany them become—for those not directly affected by tragedy—ritualised and then blend into the background noise. That normalisation makes it ever less likely that America's political system will groan into action to take steps to reduce their frequency or deadliness. Those who live in America, or visit it, might do best to regard them the way one regards air pollution in China: an endemic local health hazard which, for deep-rooted cultural, social, economic and political reasons, the country is incapable of addressing. This may, however, be a bit unfair. China seems to be making progress on pollution.

[scallop]

Naravno da je Kina u krivu. Ko ih gurnu da proizvode za Ameriku?

[angel011]

WE DO not yet know why a gunman entered a church in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday and killed nine people at a prayer meeting

Ubica kaže da je ušao u crkvu "to shoot black people". Pitaju ga zašto, "to start a race war".

A i dalje se ponavlja priča da ne znaju zašto je on to uradio, to je samo luđak, nema to veze sa rasizmom, prosto je neshvatljivo zašto...

A da je verovatno da neće dovesti do ozbiljnijih političkih promena u SAD, verovatno je. Bar još neko vreme.

[Meho Krljic]

Pa, tekst je objavljen pre pet dana, kada se mnogi detalji nisu znali, izvinjavam se što sam ga ja tek sada vide, ne obilazim često The Economist. Najviše sam ga ovde okačio zbog tog zaključka da je prevalenca masovnih/ spree ubistava u SAD naprosto po percepciji mnogih, datost koja se ne može razumnim merama promeniti, kao u ovom, godinu dana starom Onionovom napisu:


'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Tuesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. "This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them," said North Carolina resident Samuel Wipper, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world's deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. "It's a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn't anything that was going to keep this guy from snapping and killing a lot of people if that's what he really wanted." At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past five years were referring to themselves and their situation as "helpless."

[angel011]

Pardon, nisam gledala datum članka.

[Meho Krljic]

Ja se izvinjavam na nejasnoći prouzrokovanoj publikovanjem relativno starog napisa.

Druga tema, ista zemlja: sve više mladih roditelja daje deci "rodno neutralna" imena jer ne žele da im se deca uklapaju u oveštale klišee. Korak napred ka istinskoj ravnopravnosti polova ili ka konačnom potonuću zapadne civilizacije? Istorija će pokazati.



The Baby Name Trend That's on the Rise

Gender-neutral baby names are racing up the list of popular monikers so far this year as, experts say, more parents are looking to break boy/girl stereotypes. (Photo: Getty Images)

Move over, Noah. You too, Emma. Though these monikers topped the Social Security list of most popular boy and girl names last year, 2015 is all about the rising popularity of unisex baby names, according to a new survey from BabyCenter.


Declaring this "the year of the gender-neutral baby," BabyCenter reveals that names being used for both boys and girls are on the rise among the nearly 185,000 baby monikers registered at the site, compared with 2014. "Millennials are an open-minded and accepting group, and they don't want their children to feel pressured to conform to stereotypes that might be restrictive," Linda Murray, BabyCenter's editor in chief, writes in a statement sharing the 10 names rising fastest in popularity for both genders.

Amari is the winner so far, with a 56 percent increase for girls and 22 percent for boys compared with last year. On her (and his) heels: Karter, more popular with girls; Phoenix, used most often still for boys; Quinn, Reese, River, Rory, Rowan, Sawyer, and Taylor.
"Many parents want to transcend the old-fashioned feminine or masculine roles and image with names that have not traditionally been used for either boys or girls but can be used for both sexes," Nameberry's Pamela Satran tells Yahoo Parenting. Calling out other hot goes-both-ways labels, such as Avery, Parker, Carson, Peyton, Jordan, and Emerson, Satran notes that the newly popular names are actually just a fresh iteration of an old trend.
"Gender-neutral names started to become popular in the 1960s with the new rise of feminism and liberal ideals," explains the baby name guru. "Back then, you saw names like Jamie, Jody, and Terry used for both sexes. And in the 1980s, the first generation of working mothers and parents focused on professional equality picked upwardly mobile, gender-neutral names such as Courtney and Morgan, often for their daughters, while boys' gender-neutral names went in the new 'cowboy' direction with Casey, Corey, and Jesse." This 2015 version of the unisex name trend, she says, "has to do more with an ideal of transcending gender stereotypes for children of both sexes."
What makes a moniker feminine or masculine, anyway? "A lot of people say that Madison and Addison, two extremely popular names mostly for girls, are actually boys' names because they have the 'son' ending, which means 'son of,'" the expert adds. "But are they boys' names if they're used over 95 percent of the time for girls?" Fun fact: Leslie, Kelly, and Shannon were once used primarily for boys.
"The older generation may be taken aback by gender-neutral names and think a name should announce the child's gender," says Satran. "But individuals college age or younger are more comfortable with the idea that gender is a fluid concept and that a name with an indistinct gender identity is more than fine — it's preferable."
So when parents choose a gender-neutral name for their child, they may do so to make a statement in support of such fluidity, much like refusing to dress their kids in pink or blue. But Satran cautions that kids "often strongly identify with hyper feminine or masculine roles and objects no matter what you do." And she should know. "My daughter's name is Rory, and I dressed her in denim overalls when she was little," confesses Satran. "But she insisted on wearing them with red patent leather shoes and a tutu."

[RedSonja]

uopšte me ne čudi,
a i voren biti se sigurno raduje ovakvim vestima.

[Meho Krljic]

American recycling is stalling, and the big blue bin is one reason why

Tucked in the woods 30 miles north of Washington is a plant packed with energy-guzzling machines that can make even an environmentalist's heart sing — giant conveyor belts, sorters and crushers saving a thousand tons of paper, plastic and other recyclables from reaching landfills each day.
The 24-hour operation is a sign that after three decades of trying, a culture of curbside recycling has become ingrained in cities and counties across the country. Happy Valley, however, it is not.
Once a profitable business for cities and private employers alike, recycling in recent years has become a money-sucking enterprise. The District, Baltimore and many counties in between are contributing millions annually to prop up one of the nation's busiest facilities here in Elkridge, Md. — but it is still losing money. In fact, almost every facility like it in the country is running in the red. And Waste Management and other recyclers say that more than 2,000 municipalities are paying to dispose of their recyclables instead of the other way around.
In short, the business of American recycling has stalled. And industry leaders warn that the situation is worse than it appears.
"If people feel that recycling is important — and I think they do, increasingly — then we are talking about a nationwide crisis," said David Steiner, chief executive of Waste Management, the nation's largest recycler that owns the Elkridge plant and 50 others.


The Houston-based company's recycling division posted a loss of nearly $16 million in the first quarter of the year. In recent months, it has shut nearly one in 10 of its biggest recycling facilities. An even larger percentage of its plants may go dark in the next 12 months, Steiner said.
The problems of recycling in America are both global and local. A storm of falling oil prices, a strong dollar and a weakened economy in China have sent prices for American recyclables plummeting worldwide.
Environmentalists and other die-hard conservation advocates question if the industry is overstating a cyclical slump.


"If you look at the long-term trends, there is no doubt that the markets for most recyclables have matured and that the economics of recycling, although it varies, has generally been moving in the right direction," said Eric A. Goldstein, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council who tracks solid waste and recycling in New York.
"And that's without factoring in the external impact of landfilling or anything else," he added. "There aren't a lot of people saying, 'Send more material to landfills.' "
Still, the numbers speak for themselves: a three-year trend of shrinking profits and rising costs for U.S. municipalities — and little evidence that they are a blip.
Trying to encourage conservation, progressive lawmakers and environmentalists have made matters worse. By pushing to increase recycling rates with bigger and bigger bins — while demanding almost no sorting by consumers — the recycling stream has become increasingly polluted and less valuable, imperiling the economics of the whole system.
"We kind of got everyone thinking that recycling was free," said Bill Moore, a leading industry consultant on paper recycling who is based in Atlanta. "It's never really been free, and in fact, it's getting more expensive."
The problem with blue bins Many of the problems facing the industry can be traced to the curbside blue bin — and the old saying that if it sounds too good to be true, it just might be. Anyone who has ever tossed a can into a bin knows what's supposed to happen: Anything recyclable can go in, and then somehow, magically, it's all separated and reused.
The idea originated in California in the 1990s. Environmental advocates believed that the only way to increase participation in recycling programs was to make it easier. Sorting took time and was messy. No one liked it. So-called Material Recovery Facilities, or MRFs, were created to do what consumers wouldn't.
With conveyers, spinning flywheels, magnets and contraptions that look like giant Erector Sets, companies found that they could recycle almost everything at once. Lightweight newspaper and cardboard were sent tumbling upward, as if in a clothes dryer. Glass, plastic and metal fell into a series of belts and screens. Automation was adopted to sort, bale and send to manufacturers all those tons of paper, bottles and cans.


From the start, it was hard to argue that glass should have been allowed in the curbside mix. It's the heaviest of recyclables but has always been of marginal value as a commodity. In the rough-and-tumble sorting facilities, a large share of it breaks and contaminates valuable bales of paper, plastic and other materials.
Today, more than a third of all glass sent to recycling facilities ends up crushed. It is trucked to landfills as daily cover to bury the smell and trap gases. The rest has almost no value to recyclers and can often cost them to haul away.
In recent years, the problem of contamination has spread beyond glass. The problem was exacerbated when municipalities began increasing the size of bins, believing that bigger was better to keep more material from landfills.
Consumers have indeed been filling the bigger bins, but often with as much garbage as recyclable material.
With the extra room, residents stopped breaking down cardboard boxes. Because a full shipping box sometimes fits inside, even with foam and plastic wrap attached, all of it more frequently shows up at sorting facilities.
Residents have also begun experimenting, perhaps with good intentions, tossing into recycling bins almost anything rubber, metal or plastic: garden hoses, clothes hangers, shopping bags, shoes, Christmas lights.
That was exactly the case last year, when the District replaced residents' 32-gallon bins with ones that are 50 percent larger.
[D.C. said it was recycling — it wasn't.]
"Residue jumped a ton," said Hallie Clemm, deputy administrator for the city's solid waste management division. In fact, so much nonrecyclable material was being stuffed into the bins that after an audit by Waste Management last fall, the share of the city's profit for selling recyclables plummeted by more than 50 percent.
That has driven up the city's processing price for recyclables to almost $63 a ton — 24 percent higher than if it trucked all of its recycling material, along with its trash, to a Virginia incinerator.


The D.C. Council recently approved a payment of $1.2 million to Waste Management for the contract year that ended in May. In 2011, the city made a profit of $389,000.
Little demand for newsprint A large part of the problem for recyclers is falling global commodity prices — a phenomenon largely out of recyclers' hands. But the negative impact of that trend is amplified by the contents of most recycling bins, because the composite of what Americans try to reuse has changed dramatically over the past decade.
Dwindling have been the once-profitable old newspapers, thick plastic bottles and aluminum cans that could be easily baled and reused.
With oil prices driving up transportation costs, manufacturers have engaged in a race to make packaging more lightweight. Coffee cans disappeared in favor of vacuum-packed aluminum bags; some tuna cans went the same way. Tin cans and plastic water bottles became thinner, too: The amount of plastic that once came from 22 bottles now requires 36.
There was an even more pronounced drop in newsprint. Long a lucrative recycling commodity, it's not a key commodity market. In its place is something known as mixed residential paper: the junk mail, flattened cereal boxes and other paper items that these days can outweigh newspaper in a one-ton bale.
One bright spot has been an increase in cardboard. Analysts say that with more people buying items through online merchants, cardboard can account for up to 15 percent of cities' recyclable loads — more than double that of a decade ago.
The demand for that paper and cardboard, however, remains at a near-decade low. In China, containerboard, a common packaging product from recycled American paper, is trading at just over $400 a metric ton, down from nearly $1,000 in 2010. China also needs less recycled newsprint; the last paper mill in Shanghai closed this year.
[China doesn't even want to buy our garbage anymore]
With less demand, Chinese companies have become pickier about the quality.
Last week in Elkridge, an inspector from a Chinese company studied bales of paper being loaded into shipping containers bound for the port of Baltimore and, eventually, Asia.


If the inspector found more than five nonpaper items protruding from any one side of the bale, it was rejected, forcing workers to break down the material and send it all back through the processing facility.
The lightweight vacuum packs for food and paper-thin plastic bottles are increasingly part of the problem. They are so light that they get blown upward with the paper.
"We've seen economic downturns in the value of material in the past, but what's different now is that the material mix has changed," said Patty Moore, head of California-based Moore Recycling Associates, which specializes in plastic recycling. "The problem is, to get the same value out of your scrap, you have to shove a whole lot more material through the facility. That was fine when scrap values were high, but when they dropped, we realized it's expensive to push all of this lightweight stuff through, and we're in trouble."
Brent Bell, Waste Management's vice president for recycling, said the company has yet to see municipalities abandon recycling, and the company is maintaining its ability to recycle whatever cities send their way. But it is downsizing its operation and expecting little increase in recycling rates nationwide.
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a nationwide tally for recycling in 2013 that showed overall recycling had contracted for a second straight year, to 34.3 percent of the waste stream.
With those trends, Bell said the company is beginning tough discussions with cities about what it sees as a long-term economic reality: Cities must bear more of the financial impact of falling commodity prices. That's the only way, Bell said, for recyclers like his company to invest in the business.
Steiner, Waste Management's chief executive, went further. "We want to help our customers, but we are a for-profit business. We won't stay in the industry if we can't make a profit," he said.
Clemm, the District's recycling chief, said small efforts can begin to turn the tide. The District must begin by getting more garbage out of its recycling stream.


"Residents have a way to influence this by making sure they are recycling right," she said.
Another possibility is to follow the urgings of the environmental community by expanding recycling programs to include composting — the banana peels and grass clippings degrading in landfills that by some estimates have become the nation's third-biggest source of methane gas contributing to global warming. Composting is partly credited with the success of such cities as San Francisco, Portland and Seattle in increasing the share of the waste stream that is recycled each year.
There are also a few encouraging signs downstream in the recycling market. A recycled-plastics company in Troy, Ala., processes more than 500 million pounds of recycled material annually from plastic bottles — and with 450 employees, the company is growing. In the Midwest, another company opened two additional facilities this month to feed an Indiana paper mill that churns out 100 percent recycled cardboard.
Turning a profit on the initial, dirty task of sorting and processing the nation's recyclables, however, may take a larger overhaul, said Patty Moore. Governments may need to set standards or even consider taking over part of the process to better encourage investment and ensure that profits remain a public benefit.
"If we're going to be serious about secondary-materials management, we're really going to have to address it as a state or preferably national level," she said. "We need to harmonize what we're doing and make it work in a way that we're not spending all this money and spinning our wheels."

[scallop]

Nisam čitao, ali risajkling je jedan od zdravih principa u SAD.

[Meho Krljic]

Evo još nečeg za nečitanje. 

Posle masakra u Čarlstonu i činjenice da se njegov počinilac rado slikao ispred, znate već, ratne zastave vojske Severne Virdžinije (ono što se kolokvijalno zove Konfederalnom zastavom ili, kako je mi zovemo još kolokvijalnije, južnjačkom zastavom), u Americi je na delu određeni bekleš protiv ove zastave i njenog isticanja koji je neobično sličan napetostima između, jelte, tih nekih drugih i prvih i trećih Srbija ovde kod nas. Recimo, ovaj tekst sa mediuma je bio kopiran na sto mesta, na Hafington postu između ostalog i mogao bi se uporediti sa stvarima koje ovde publikuju Peščanik i e-novine 
Yes, you're a racist... and a traitor.
Istovremeno, Apple, taj Bastion opreznog puritanskog, politički korektnog ophođenja je sa svog AppSttorea sklonio gomilu igara u kojima se vidi ova zastava, uz obrazloženje "We are writing to notify you that your app has been removed from the App Store because it includes images of the Confederate flag used in offensive and mean-spirited ways.", koje je prilično bizarno imajući na umu da su u pitanju strateške igre koje se događaju u vreme američkog građanskog rata i samo koriste korektne simbole u odnosu na istorijski period koji predstavljaju. Mislim, "offensive i mean spirited" nije način da se to opiše.

Interesantna gibanja u USA, gde građanoidi, kako ih ovde pogrdno zovemo, sad navaljuju na jedan od važnijih simvola starinskog nacionalizma...

Mislim, ova igra vam omogućava da se derete na zastavu dok ne izgori:

http://molleindustria.org/booFlag/

[Father Jape]

Da, ja kao što iznade rekoh pratim to preko Gibsona. Maltene je samo o zastavi tvitovao poslednjih nedelju dana (on je, da podsetimo, rođen u Južnoj Karolini a odrastao u Virdžiniji).

Evo jednog Hičensovog teksta od pre nekoliko godina:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2008/01/hucks_free_pass.html?wpsrc=fol_fb

I jedne lepe priče:
https://www.graywolfpress.org/blogs/appropriation-cultures-percival-everett

[Meho Krljic]

Who Owns Your Overtime?

A LITTLE-NOTICED but important change in the American workplace is about to occur. Sometime in the next month, the Department of Labor is expected to announce an adjustment to the Fair Labor Standards Act. The change will raise the salary threshold for overtime. Currently, if you are a salaried employee and make less than $23,660 per year, you are eligible for time and a half pay for any hours over 40 per week. The update, which is likely to at least double that threshold, will affect millions of salaried employees.
In 1975, the last year the threshold was significantly raised, 60 percent of salaried workers fell within the requirement for overtime pay. Today, only 8 percent do, according to statistics compiled by the Economic Policy Institute. Under the new rule, millions of workers will be reclassified. Businesspeople oppose the change, calling it a job killer. Supporters anticipate a positive effect on job creation, income inequality and wage stagnation.
But this change also speaks to a subject I have been concerned with for many years: the clash between the finite amount of time employees actually have versus the desire of employers to treat time as an inexhaustible resource. And this issue affects everyone, whether eligible for overtime or not.
For over two decades I was a business consultant, advising companies trying to adjust to increased numbers of women and working parents in their work forces. Many significant changes occurred during this period: the introduction of flextime, new child care provisions, the increased ability to work from home. But the one change that always seemed to get in the way of other improvements was and still is the growing demand for longer working hours.
Employees in the United States currently work more hours than workers in any of the world's 10 largest economies except Russia (though we don't have good data for China). When everything over 40 hours is free to the employer, the temptation to demand more is almost irresistible. But for most employees, the ones exempt from overtime rules, their managers have little incentive to look for ways to use their time more efficiently.
It's not just a question of getting paid fairly for every hour you work. It's about using the time well. What I've learned is that an overwhelming majority of employees do not resent spending time that is clearly directed toward customers or the success of the enterprise. What they resent is time spent on work that is of no clear value: time wasted, or mismanaged. Countless parents, for example, told me that they had sat through poorly planned and seemingly pointless meetings at day's end while thinking about their baby, feeling that their precious parenting time was being usurped by a feckless manager.
Others talked about memos, emails and work that goes nowhere. We encountered endless stories of parents being told that a last-minute task was urgent and needed to be done immediately, no matter how many extra hours it took, only to have any action related to it languish for weeks. Companies I worked with tried to reduce unnecessary work by devising "quality programs" and restructuring initiatives. But employees rarely felt any time relief from these efforts. Since there was no added cost for longer hours, the incentives were just not there to reduce total time worked, even after needless or less productive tasks were eliminated.
I once did a small study for a Fortune 10 company in which I talked to about 20 employees who were allowed to work four days a week and keep their jobs and benefits. These women (yes, all women) still had to meet all their previous responsibilities, for 80 percent of their previous salaries. I expected some anger and resentment, but they turned out to be some of the happiest employees I ever talked to. They told me that it was much easier to back out of meetings or work that they knew would be a waste of time. They loved being able to focus on the things that really mattered.


We are a tired, stressed and overworked nation, which has many negative consequences for our personal health and the care of our children. As a nation, we work harder and longer than almost all of our competitors, and much of that work is uncompensated. We accept that that is the way it has to be, without much questioning.
This summer's change in overtime rules can be an opening round in a long-overdue examination of how our finite time is used and compensated. It's also very likely that workplaces will, by necessity, become more efficient and well managed as companies strive to avoid paying overtime. And even when long hours are truly necessary, more employees will be fairly compensated. Working parents who qualify stand to benefit from fewer hours at work, without giving up income.
Time is our personal currency. We parcel it out, hour by hour, to meet the demands placed on us. We all pay a steep price, as individuals and as a nation, when we can't meet our most important obligations. Having employers pay more for the time they demand of lower- and middle-income workers is a good way to help us focus on these larger questions.

[scallop]

Uzeti sa dosta soli.

[Meho Krljic]

Pa, da, oni vole da pričaju da rade najviše od svih na svetu. Naravno, to ne mora da bude ni približno istini, recimo, na ovom spisku ih nema u prvih deset a "lenji" Grci su na trećem mestu... Tako da, da, dosta soli konzumirati uz ovaj tekst.

[scallop]

Mene ne iznenađuje šta oni pišu. Više me iznenadi da ti to prenosiš. Posebno ako vrlo dobro znaš koliko sam vremena proveo u SAD i koliko sam dobar posmatrač.

[Meho Krljic]

Nevezano za tvoje posmatračke skilove kao i za američki percepciju toga da li su overworked i stressed više nego drugi, ovaj tekst svakako daje zanimljive informacije. Barem meni. Ako se forum pobuni na primetan način, dakle, kroz više usta od jednih ili dvoja, neću više kačiti ovakve tekstove 

[Albedo 0]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-shapiro/the-political-lessons-we_b_7662296.html

[Meho Krljic]

Da, video sam taj tekst jutros i razmišljao da li da ga okačim ovde ali mi je delovao suviše kao nešto što je platila neka lobistička grupa/ pr agencija...

[Albedo 0]

platila ne platila, ovo je najontopičniji tekst ikad

[scallop]

Nevezano za tvoje posmatračke skilove kao i za američki percepciju toga da li su overworked i stressed više nego drugi, ovaj tekst svakako daje zanimljive informacije. Barem meni. Ako se forum pobuni na primetan način, dakle, kroz više usta od jednih ili dvoja, neću više kačiti ovakve tekstove 

Nemam ja ništa protiv da kačiš šta ti volja, ali, bre, ništa ne pitaš da proveriš.

[Meho Krljic]

Pa, sad, komplikovano bi to bilo da svaki tekst koji bi da kačim prvo pošaljem na odobrenje. Lakše ovako - okačim, pa se već javiš ti ili neko drugi upućen da kaže "Nije baš tako, evo kako je zaista" itd. To je dobro jer podstiče na dijalog!!!!!!!!

platila ne platila, ovo je najontopičniji tekst ikad

Hahah, da, kad se Amerika ovako izrazi o Vučiću, zabrineš se za Ameriku. 

[mac]

Ali Vučić sarađuje. Zašto ga i ne bi pohvalili? Eh, samo da nema Kosova...

[Meho Krljic]

Ma, nek ga hvale, al umereno, da se ne uznese. A vidi ovo:

His actions quickly paid off, and the results have been stellar.


Vucic resisted claims from special interest groups asking for exceptions to his economic plan. Supplicants left his office surprised, because he treated the government treasury frugally, "as if it were his own," and not merely taxpayer money.

ovo je u najboljem slučaju jedna vrlo našminkana verzija realnosti 

[scallop]

Pa, sad, komplikovano bi to bilo da svaki tekst koji bi da kačim prvo pošaljem na odobrenje.

Ovakav stav me brine. Uostalom, zato ti treniram ganglije. Ko ti traži da tražiš odobrenje? Možeš da pitaš da li je stvarno tako kako piše u linku koji si postavio. Ispada da Ameri čeznu za rintanjem. Ustvari, crkoše od stra' da ne izgube posao ili da neće imati sredstava da školuju decu kako treba ili da neće moće da ostvare bezbedno okruženje za porodicu. Da ne govorim o onima koji od delimičnog radnog vremena ne mogu da žive, pa srljaju u drugo i treće radno mesto da namire kolko-tolko.

[Meho Krljic]

Ja sam tekst okačio prevashodno zato jer se u njemu raspravlja o ovome: "It's not just a question of getting paid fairly for every hour you work. It's about using the time well. What I've learned is that an overwhelming majority of employees do not resent spending time that is clearly directed toward customers or the success of the enterprise. What they resent is time spent on work that is of no clear value: time wasted, or mismanaged. Countless parents, for example, told me that they had sat through poorly planned and seemingly pointless meetings at day's end while thinking about their baby, feeling that their precious parenting time was being usurped by a feckless manager.
Others talked about memos, emails and work that goes nowhere. We encountered endless stories of parents being told that a last-minute task was urgent and needed to be done immediately, no matter how many extra hours it took, only to have any action related to it languish for weeks. " što je situacija sa kojom je i dobar broj nas prilično familijaran. I ovo je takođe delovalo kao bitno: "I once did a small study for a Fortune 10 company in which I talked to about 20 employees who were allowed to work four days a week and keep their jobs and benefits. These women (yes, all women) still had to meet all their previous responsibilities, for 80 percent of their previous salaries. I expected some anger and resentment, but they turned out to be some of the happiest employees I ever talked to. They told me that it was much easier to back out of meetings or work that they knew would be a waste of time. They loved being able to focus on the things that really mattered."

[scallop]

"I once did a small study for a Fortune 10 company in which I talked to about 20 employees who were allowed to work four days a week and keep their jobs and benefits. These women (yes, all women) still had to meet all their previous responsibilities, for 80 percent of their previous salaries. I expected some anger and resentment, but they turned out to be some of the happiest employees I ever talked to. They told me that it was much easier to back out of meetings or work that they knew would be a waste of time. They loved being able to focus on the things that really mattered."

Naravno da sam i ja to pročitao. Ali, to je besmislena laž. Video si da se ne pominje zarada, nego samo posao i benefiti. Za 80% plate. Postoji trenutak kad se ni to ne "isplati". Onda se srlja za drugim poslom, za trećim, a porodica nek se jebe. Dobro im je jer nije pređena granica.

[Meho Krljic]

Pa, ne znam dal' je laž... Poenta koju on pokušava da napravi je da poslodavci često ležerno raspolažu vremenom zaposlenog i poistovećuju vreme provedeno na poslu sa obavljenim stvarnim poslom iako to nije isto, a što je upravo situacija u kojoj sam ja sada.

[scallop]

To je jednostavno. Poslodavci testiraju zavisnost zaposlenih. Tako im ubijaju volju za više.

[Meho Krljic]

Ili, uopšte, ubijaju im volju generalno  Fala bogu Bobanu da bar imam Sagitu.

[scallop]

Ni Boban se ne ponaša drugačije. Zloupotrebljava poziciju i polako gubi odgovorne učesnike. Koj će mu ako ne misle kao on?

[Meho Krljic]

Ma, imajući na umu da su danas forumi komunikacioni medij iz nekog drugog vremena, da je sve preuzeo fejsbuk/ tviter itd., svakačast da Sagita i dalje postoji.

[scallop]

To je pitanje za raspravu i niko nije voljan da ga pokrene. Jutros su me pitali koj će mi kojmoj ZS ako se postavlja neprijateljski prema meni. Imao sam slab izbor odgovora. Jedini je da ne smem da dopustim da loše u ljudima prevlada, jer ću i ja za to biti odgovoran. Ispada da branim ZS iako to forumu nije važno. Videćemo dokle ću imati nerava.

[Meho Krljic]

Jedini je da ne smem da dopustim da loše u ljudima prevlada, jer ću i ja za to biti odgovoran.

Pa, to je sasvim korektan i razuman odgovor. E, sad, kolko ćeš imati nerava, to je svakako bitno znati - ne treba čovek da pogubi zdravlje da bi drugima ukazao pravi put.