Amerika na ivici propasti?

[Meho Krljic]

Reports of Creepy Clowns Spread to More Cities: 'It Is Not Funny,' Police Say

There have been reports of more clowns in more cities spotted lurking in the woods.
In the past month, police in the Carolinas have received multiple reports from people claiming clowns with white-painted faces were acting strangely in the area – at least once attempting to lure kids into the woods with money.
The reports have fueled speculation that the sightings could be a hoax, or possibly even morbid fans trying to promote the 2017 movie release of Stephen King's It, about an evil clown known as Pennywise that terrorized a group of young boys.
One local TV station wondered if Rob Zombie's upcoming film, about a group of kidnapped carnival workers, might be involved in guerrilla marketing – but the distributor said they were not.
"If this is a hoax or publicity stunt it is not funny," Greensboro police spokeswoman Susan Danielsen tells PEOPLE. "It is alarming to the public and a drain on police resources. We just don't know at this point, because we haven't had the chance to interview any clowns."
The latest sighting occurred on Tuesday, when a man brandishing a machete chased a clown into the woods near an apartment complex in Greensboro, North Carolina, police said.
The person, who was wearing a scary clown mask, red curly wig, yellow dotted shirt, blue clown pants and clown shoes, ran back into the woods and disappeared from view, according to police.
"We don't know why he was there or what he was doing there," Danielsen says. She says officers scoured the area, but couldn't find anyone.
While it's not illegal to dress as a clown in Greensboro, Danielsen says the city has an ordinance that prohibits people from wearing a mask within city limits.
The police department, she says, is also discouraging "copycat behavior."



In August, several residents at an apartment complex in Greenville, South Carolina, reported seeing clowns lurking in the nearby woods.
According to a Greenville County Sheriff's Office incident report obtained by PEOPLE, a deputy spoke to a woman on Aug. 21 who claimed her son had seen clowns in the woods, whispering and making noises, and when she went over to check, she saw several clowns flashing green laser lights in the woods before they ran off.
Another resident told the deputy that she'd been walking home to her apartment hours before, at 2:30 a.m., and saw a "large-figured clown with a blinking nose, standing under a post light near the garbage dumpster area," according to the incident report.
According to the report, several children also told the deputy that clowns had approached them behind one of the apartment buildings and tried to lure them into the woods "by displaying large amounts of money."
"There has been a couple of people that have seen them," Master Deputy Drew Pinciaro of the Greenville County Sheriff's Office told PEOPLE in an earlier interview. "Mainly it has been children who have reported they have seen these clowns in the woods. Every time we have gone out there we have not seen any clowns."
The children said the clowns lived in a house near a pond at the end of a hiking trail, according to the report. The deputy found the house, but "there were no signs of suspicious activity or characters dressed in clown attire," according to the report.
Greenville Police Chief Ken Miller said last week that "the clowning around needs to stop."
"It's illegal, it's dangerous, it's inappropriate, it's creating community concern," he said.
Miller said the reported clown sightings have included various descriptions, with differences in both race and costume, and that at that point police had found no evidence supporting the sightings.
Days later, on Sept. 4, residents in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, reportedly saw a clown attempting to entice kids into the woods with treats, the Associated Press reports.
Police said two children saw the clown, and an adult heard the clown, according to the news agency.
Police responded to the area but found no signs of the creepy character, who was seen wearing white overalls, white gloves, red shoes with red bushy hair, a white face and a red nose, according to the AP.

[Meho Krljic]

Praksa otpuštanja IT profesionalaca i zamena istih indijskom radnom snagom (koju otpušteni još treba i da obuče) polako prodire i u javni sektor:


University of California hires India-based IT outsourcer, lays off tech workers 

[Meho Krljic]

 


5,300 Wells Fargo employees fired over 2 million phony accounts 

Everyone hates paying bank fees. But imagine paying fees on a ghost account you didn't even sign up for. 
That's exactly what happened to Wells Fargo customers nationwide.
On Thursday, federal regulators said Wells Fargo (WFC) employees secretly created millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts -- without their customers knowing it -- since 2011.


The phony accounts earned the bank unwarranted fees and allowed Wells Fargo employees to boost their sales figures and make more money.
"Wells Fargo employees secretly opened unauthorized accounts to hit sales targets and receive bonuses," Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said in a statement.
Wells Fargo confirmed to CNNMoney that it had fired 5,300 employees over the last few years related to the shady behavior. Employees went so far as to create phony PIN numbers and fake email addresses to enroll customers in online banking services, the CFPB said.
Related: Who owns Wells Fargo? You, me and Warren Buffett
The scope of the scandal is shocking. An analysis conducted by a consulting firm hired by Wells Fargo concluded that bank employees opened over 1.5 million deposit accounts that may not have been authorized.
The way it worked was that employees moved funds from customers' existing accounts into newly-created ones without their knowledge or consent, regulators say. The CFPB described this practice as "widespread." Customers were being charged for insufficient funds or overdraft fees -- because there wasn't enough money in their original accounts.
Additionally, Wells Fargo employees also submitted applications for 565,443 credit card accounts without their customers' knowledge or consent. Roughly 14,000 of those accounts incurred over $400,000 in fees, including annual fees, interest charges and overdraft-protection fees.
The CFPB said Wells Fargo will pay "full restitutions to all victims."
Related: ATM and overdraft fees top $6 billion at the big 3 banks
Wells Fargo is being slapped with the largest penalty since the CFPB was founded in 2011. The bank agreed to pay $185 million in fines, along with $5 million to refund customers.
"We regret and take responsibility for any instances where customers may have received a product that they did not request," Wells Fargo said in a statement.
Wells Fargo has the highest market valuation among any bank in America, worth just north of $250 billion. Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA), the investment firm run legendary investor Warren Buffett, is the company's biggest shareholder.
Of the total fines, $100 million will go toward the CFPB's Civil Penalty Fund, $35 million will go to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and another $50 million will be paid to the City and County of Los Angeles.
"One wonders whether (the CFPB) penalty of $100 million is enough," said David Vladeck, a Georgetown University law professor and former director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection. "It sounds like a big number, but for a bank the size of Wells Fargo, it isn't really."
Wells Fargo confirmed to CNNMoney that the 5,300 firings took place over several years. The bank listed 265,000 employees as of the end of 2015.
Related: Barclays fined $109 million for trying to hide a deal with rich clients
"At Wells Fargo, when we make mistakes, we are open about it, we take responsibility, and we take action," the bank said in a memo to employees on Thursday.
The CFPB declined to comment on when the investigation began and what sparked it, citing agency policy. "We don't comment on how we uncover these matters," a spokesman said.
As part of the settlement, Wells Fargo needs to make changes to its sales practices and internal oversight.
Customers are fuming. Brian Kennedy, a Maryland retiree, told CNNMoney he detected an unauthorized Wells Fargo account had been created in his name about a year ago. He asked Wells Fargo about it and the bank closed it, he said.
"I didn't sign up for any bloody checking account," Kennedy, who is 57 years old, told CNNMoney. "They lost me as a banking customer and I have warned family and friends."
"Consumers must be able to trust their banks," said Mike Feuer, the Los Angeles City Attorney who joined the settlement.
Feuer's office sued Wells Fargo in May 2015 over allegations of unauthorized accounts. After filing the suit, his office received more than 1,000 calls and emails from customers as well as current and former Wells Fargo employees about the allegations.
Wells Fargo declined to say when it hired a consulting firm to investigate the allegations. However, a person familiar with the matter told CNNMoney the bank launched the review after the L.A. lawsuit was filed.
Even though the Wells Fargo scandal took place nationally, the settlement with L.A. requires the bank to specifically alert all its California customers to review their accounts and shut down ones they don't recognize or want.
"How does a bank that is supposed to have robust internal controls permit the creation of over a half-million dummy accounts?" asked Vladeck. "If I were a Wells Fargo customer, and fortunately I am not, I'd think seriously about finding a new bank."
--To reach the author of this article email Matt.Egan@cnn.com

[Father Jape]

Ja ovo po inerciji ovde (premda dva Britanca razgovaraju), jer... beše nemamo temu o ekonomskoj krizi?

http://www.lrb.co.uk/2016/08/18/john-lanchester/video-john-lanchester-talks-to-george-monbiot

[Meho Krljic]

Watch A Mob Of Yale Students Bully A Professor They Say Hurt Their Feelings

[Ugly MF]

Watch A Mob Of Yale Students Bully A Professor They Say Hurt Their Feelings

Ovi studenti debil do debila....

[Meho Krljic]

Eksplozivna naprava postavljena u Njujorku povredila 29 osoba ali gradonačelnik kaže da bi se reklo da to "nema veze sa terorizmom". What




Explosion That Injured at Least 29 an 'Intentional Act,' New York City Mayor Says 

An explosion in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood injured at least 29 people, according to city officials, and a possible second device was located several blocks away.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said investigators believe it was an intentional act, but said there appeared to be no link to terrorism.
The explosion was reported shortly before 9 p.m. on 23rd Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues, according to police.
A source said authorities have already reviewed surveillance video showing the explosion in or near a garbage receptacle, and they are scrubbing it for clues.
Two law enforcement sources said the explosion occurred in a dumpster, and the NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau tweeted a photo of a mangled dumpster, after tweeting that they were responding to an explosion at West 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue.


The New York Police Department Bomb Squad was searching the area, checking garbage cans, for any other possible explosive devices.
The NYPD Special Operations Division tweeted at around 11 p.m. that a "possible secondary device" was located at 27th Street.


A White House official said President Obama had been briefed on the situation, and would receive updates as the investigation continued.
This is a developing story. Check back for more.

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  Officer Kills Unarmed Black Man Having a Seizure 

An unarmed black man repeatedly shot by police in a San Diego, California, suburb has died from his injuries after being taken to a local hospital.
According to NBC, 30-year-old Alfred Olango was wandering into traffic and "not acting like himself" when his sister decided to call 911 to ask for help. When an officer arrived on the scene, Olango reportedly "failed" to follow directives, and the officer drew his firearm. Another officer then arrived as backup.
"The male subject paced back and forth while the officers tried to talk to him," El Cajon Police Chief Jeff Davis said at a news conference, according to ABC-10. "At one point, the male rapidly drew an object from his front pants pocket, placed both hands together on it, extended it rapidly towards the officer, taking what appeared to be a shooting stance, putting the object in the officer's face."
This prompted one of the officers to open fire while the other officer attempted to subdue him with a stun gun. Witnesses reported hearing as many as five gunshots, although police have refused to confirm this number.

Witnesses have also said that, contrary to Chief Davis's claims, Olango was empty-handed when police shot him, and that he put his hands in the air when the officers drew their weapons. Others claimed that the man was "mentally challenged" and suffering from a seizure prior to the shooting - something his sister appeared to confirm in a Facebook Live video.
"I called for help, I didn't call for you guys to kill him!" Olango's sister said, according to NY Daily News. "Oh my God, you killed my brother ... Why couldn't you Tase him? I told them he's sick."
NBC reports that a witness has "voluntarily provided" cell phone footage of the shooting to help police with their investigation, and that the two officers involved have been put on administrative leave.
However, shortly after the shooting, many were quick to take to social media to express their outrage, fear, and heartache over the news that another unarmed black person had been killed at the hands of police. Olango's death comes just days after the killing of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and countless others this year alone.
Additional reporting from the Associated Press.

[mac]

Džon Oliver objašnjava problem s policijom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaD84DTGULo

[Meho Krljic]

Pre sto godina heroin se kupovao u apoteci i reklamirao kao perfektno sredstvo da se hiperaktivna deca malko smire. Danas, kad ovako nešto pročitamo, stresemo se....


   Parents Allegedly Injected Kids with Heroin — as 'Feel Good Medicine' — to Make Them Sleep 

A 6-year-old Washington boy and his younger sisters were regularly injected by their parents with heroin — their "medicine" — in order to make them fall asleep, prosecutors allege.
Both parents have been charged, authorities said, and the children have been removed from their care.
Ashlee Rose Hutt, 24, and her 25-year-old boyfriend, Leroy  McIver, allegedly referred to the illicit street drug as "feel good medicine" while administering it to their kids — ages 6, 4 and 2 — Pierce County prosecutors said in a statement.
Hutt was charged earlier this week with three counts of criminal mistreatment in the second degree, three counts of assault of a child in the second degree and three counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance to a person under 18, according to the prosecutor's statement.
She is being held on $100,000 bail, according to police.
McIver was charged with the same crimes in September, according to the statement; and he, too, remains in police custody — though it was unclear Wednesday what amount had been set for his bail.
Hutt and McIver have pleaded not guilty to their charges, according to court records and KIRO7. Their attorneys did not immediately respond to calls seeking comment.
The prosecutor's statement, which was obtained by PEOPLE, reveals an investigation into both Hutt and McIver began in November 2015, when the couple's three children were removed from their Spanaway, Washington, home by child welfare investigators. (Reports conflict about whether McIver is the biological father of all three children.)
The kids are in foster care and "doing well," a Pierce County sheriff's spokesman told KIRO7.

The state's child protective services agency visited the couple's home and allegedly discovered that "multiple individuals lived at the residence and everyone was using heroin," according to prosecutors.
Rat droppings and drug needles were also found at the home, according to KIRO7, citing court documents.
"They made a determination that abuse and neglect of the children had occurred," prosecutors said. "They noted marks, cuts, and bruises on one of the children's bodies. They also noted the bruises appeared to be injection marks with bruising."
The oldest of the three children told police McIver has allegedly "choked" him and his siblings "on more than one occasion," and he alleged "his mom and dad give him and his sisters the 'feel good medicine,' which he described as a white powder mixed with water."
His parents, the boy told investigators, allegedly "used a needle to inject the 'feel good medicine' into him and his sisters and the medicine put them to sleep."
Tests performed by the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab supported the child's claims, according to prosecutors. Hair follicles from the 2-year-old girl tested positive for heroin, and the 4-year-old girl also showed signs of heroin in her system — but the level did not meet the threshold for a positive test.
The boy tested negative for drugs.
The statement alleges both Hutt and McIver admitted to being heroin users under police questioning.

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   Man Found Living with 12 Girls Allegedly 'Groomed' Them to Think He Was a Prophet 

While Lee Kaplan lived with 12 girls in his Pennsylvania home, authorities say, he allegedly brainwashed them to believe he was a prophet of God — grooming several of them for sex and calling six of them his "wives."
Prosecutors this week revealed these and other harrowing details of the girls' years of alleged mental and sexual abuse, as the investigation of Kaplan continues and he faces multiplying charges.
"This guy set up a virtual feeding ground of victims," Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub tells PEOPLE. "He preyed upon one by one."
Kaplan, who was charged with sex crimes after police rescued the girls from his home in June, is now accused of not only fathering two children with the eldest of the girls but also sexually abusing five of her younger sisters, Weintraub announced on Monday.
That same day Kaplan pleaded not guilty to more than a dozen new charges, including rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and indecent assault, Weintraub says.
"He took these children into his home not too far from where we stand here today," Weintraub alleged at a news conference. "Over time he played on their trust and affection for him. He groomed them to believed that he was a religious, cult-like figure for whom they should submit their will."
Weintraub tells PEOPLE that Kaplan allegedly brainwashed the girls, using tactics similar to Stockholm syndrome, by taking advantage of their innocence and abusing his position of authority.
"They to accept it," Weintraub says. "I'm saddened. I'm sickened, but I'm not surprised."
Kaplan, 51, was originally charged with statutory sexual assault, unlawful contact with a minor and aggravated indecent assault after authorities rescued the girls, who ranged in age from six months to 18 years old, from his home in Feasterville, Pennsylvania. (Authorities were tipped off anonymously.)

After Kaplan's arrest, the eldest of the girls told investigators she was 14 when her parents handed her over to Kaplan after he helped them financially. She told police she and Kaplan have two children together: a 3 year-old girl and a 10-month-old infant.
The eldest girl also said that years before moving into his home, Kaplan had his own bedroom in her parents' Lancaster County home in Pennsylvania. She alleged that the sexual abuse started one night when she was 10. It didn't stop until her rescue this summer.
Nine of the 11 other girls living in Kaplan's home were her sisters, according to authorities; the remaining two were her daughters.
Newly released court documents obtained by PEOPLE show the sisters, who were quiet during initial interviews, recently opened up to investigators about their years of living with Kaplan.
Authorities had been unsure if he had harmed any of the 11 other girls, but six of the sisters, including the eldest, told police they were Kaplan's "wives," according to the documents.
The youngest is 10.
The girls said in their interviews that Kaplan claimed he had "dreams" about them becoming his wives. "Kaplan felt it was in the children's best interests to become his wives," according to the documents.
The girls' every day life remains a mystery, Weintraub tells PEOPLE. They were sometimes spotted by neighbors playing in the front yard, dressed in traditional Amish attire, but no one ever saw how they spent their time inside the three-bedroom home.
According to the police interviews, however, multiple girls alleged they were routinely abused.
"They were not only hearing from him but from their parents," Weintraub alleges, noting that the girls' mother, Savilla Stoltzfus, is believed to have been living with her daughters and Kaplan during the abuse.
A 'Cultural Interpretation Problem'? The girls' story gained national attention after authorities announced the couple's alleged "gifting" of their eldest daughter to Kaplan.
The Stoltzfuses, who have been charged with child endangerment, told authorities their eldest daughter was set to wed Kaplan, a former business partner and family friend. The family lives in an Amish community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
   (The father, Daniel Stoltzfus, had been "shunned" by the Amish by the time of his relationship with Kaplan, prosecutors previously told PEOPLE.)
Kaplan's arrest affidavit alleges the Stoltzfuses "gifted" their daughter to him in exchange for financial benefits, but Savilla's attorney, Craig Penglase, previously told PEOPLE that the language has been misconstrued.
Penglase compared the agreement the couple had with Kaplan to the common wedding ceremonial tradition of the bride's father giving his daughter away to the groom.
"That's what meant when they said that to the police," Penglase said. "It's an interpretation problem. It's a cultural interpretation problem."
According to Penglase, the couple had no idea their daughter and Kaplan were sexually involved. He said Savilla only learned about her daughter's alleged sexual abuse by Kaplan when she learned about the pregnancy.
Soon after the baby was born, Savilla moved into Kaplan's home with her nine other daughters, Penglase told PEOPLE.
Police have said there were a number of complaints regarding Kaplan in the months leading up to his arrest, but nothing warranting an arrest.
Attorneys for Kaplan and the Stoltzfuses could not be reached for comment about the new charges and accusations. (Kaplan's attorney has previously declined to comment.)
All three defendants were set to appear in court the week of Nov. 7, but their hearings have been postponed, court officials tell PEOPLE. 

[lilit]

u bukvar za prvi razred

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/31/the-podesta-emails-show-who-runs-america-and-how-they-do-it

[Aco Popara Zver]

Гардијан оф да Трамп!

[Meho Krljic]

​Uber drivers demand higher pay in nationwide protest

Uber drivers will join forces with fast food, home care and airport workers in a nationwide protest on Tuesday. Their demand: higher pay.
Under the banner of the "Day of Disruption," drivers for the ride-hailing company in two dozen cities, including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, will march at airports and in shopping areas carrying signs that read, "Your Uber Driver is Arriving Striking."
The protest underscores the dilemma Uber faces as it balances the needs of its drivers with its business. Valued at $68 billion, Uber is the highest-valued venture-backed company worldwide. But as it has cut the cost of rides to compete with traditional taxi services, Uber reportedly has experienced trouble turning a profit.
Uber doesn't consider its drivers employees, instead the company classifies them as independent contractors. This classification means the company isn't responsible for many costs, including health insurance, paid sick days, gas, car maintenance and much more. However, Uber still sets drivers' rates and the commission it pays itself, which ranges between 20 percent and 30 percent.
"I'd like a fair day's pay for my hard work," Adam Shahim, a 40-year-old driver from Pittsburgh, California, said in a statement. "So I'm joining with the fast-food, airport, home care, child care and higher education workers who are leading the way and showing the country how to build an economy that works for everyone, not just the few at the top."



The protests are being organized by the "Fight for $15" campaign, which has led dozens of strikes against companies to demand a minimum wage of $15 per hour and the right to unionize. The campaign has helped convince several companies, such as Facebook, Aetna and JP Morgan Chase, to raise pay to $15 per hour or higher for all employees.
"The Fight for $15 has become central to reversing the huge gap between the ultra-wealthy and the rest of us," said Rebecca Smith, deputy director of National Employment Law Project. "And Uber has become a symbol of the kinds of low-wage, no-benefit jobs that exacerbate that gap."
Uber has said that drivers can make up to $30 per hour, but most drivers say they make far below that number. A November study by Jonathan Hall, an Uber employee and shareholder, says that Uber drivers make on average $20.19 per hour. But in urban areas, like Detroit, Houston and Denver, drivers make less than $13.25 per hour on average, according to a June report by Buzzfeed News.
Over the past few years, Uber drivers have staged various protests against the company. At times they've rallied against price cuts that affected their wages and on other occasions they've demanded to be classified as employees.
In April, Uber settled two similar class action lawsuits that involved roughly 385,000 drivers who wanted to be classified as employees. Under the settlement agreement, Uber was allowed to continue classifying its drivers as independent contractors but had to pay $100 million to the drivers involved in the suit. However, a federal judge rejected the proposed settlement in August, calling the offer unfair, inadequate and unreasonable.
Uber declined to comment on Tuesday's protests.
                          Fight for $15 expects tens of thousands of people to participate in the demonstrations, which is scheduled to kick off at 6 a.m. and last all day.

[Meho Krljic]

Life Expectancy In U.S. Drops For First Time In Decades, Report Finds 

One of the fundamental ways scientists measure the well-being of a nation is tracking the rate at which its citizens die and how long they can be expected to live.
So the news out of the federal government Thursday is disturbing: The overall U.S. death rate has increased for the first time in a decade, according to an analysis of the latest data. And that led to a drop in overall life expectancy for the first time since 1993, particularly among people younger than 65.
"This is a big deal," says Philip Morgan, a demographer at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill who was not involved in the new analysis.
"There's not a better indicator of well-being than life expectancy," he says. "The fact that it's leveling off in the U.S. is a striking finding."
Now, there's a chance that the latest data, from 2015, could be just a one-time blip. In fact, a preliminary analysis from the first two quarters of 2016 suggests that may be the case, says Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at the National Center for Health Statistics, which released the new report.


Anderson says government analysts are awaiting more data before reaching any definitive conclusions.
"We'll have to see what happens in the second half of 2016," he says.
Still, he believes the data from 2015 are worth paying attention to. Over that year, the overall death rate increased from 724.6 per 100,000 people to 733.1 per 100,000.
While that's not a lot, it was enough to cause the overall life expectancy to fall slightly. That's only happened a few times in the past 50 years. The dip in 1993, for example, was due to high death rates from AIDS, flu, homicide and accidental deaths that year.
On average, the overall life expectancy, for someone born in 2015, fell from 78.9 years to 78.8 years. The life expectancy for the average American man fell two-tenths of a year — from 76.5 to 76.3. For women, it dropped one-tenth — from 81.3 to 81.2 years.

"It's remarkable," Morgan says. "There are lots of things about this that are unexpected."
Most notably, the overall death rate for Americans increased because mortality from heart disease and stroke increased after declining for years. Deaths were also up from Alzheimer's disease, respiratory disease, kidney disease and diabetes. More Americans also died from unintentional injuries and suicide. In all, the decline was driven by increases in deaths from eight of the top 10 leading causes of death in the U.S.
"When you see increases in so many of the leading causes of death, it's difficult to pinpoint one particular cause as the culprit," Anderson says.


The obesity epidemic could be playing a role in the increase in deaths from heart disease, strokes, diabetes and possibly Alzheimer's. It could also be that doctors have reached the limit of what they can do to fight heart disease with current treatments.
The epidemic of prescription opioid painkillers and heroin abuse is probably fueling the increase in unintentional injuries, Arun Hendi, a demographer at Duke University, wrote in an email. The rise in drug abuse and suicide could be due to economic factors causing despair.


"Clearly, that could be related to the economic circumstances that many Americans have experienced in the last eight years, or so, since the recession," says Irma Elo, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania.
Whatever the cause, the trend is concerning, especially when the death rate is continuing to drop and life expectancy is still on the rise in most other industrialized countries.
"It's pretty grim," says Anne Case, an economist at Princeton University studying the relationship between economics and health.

[varvarin]

http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2016&mm=12&dd=13&nav_category=78&nav_id=1209609


Obama: Tramp huškao Ruse da hakuju mejlove Klintonove

[scallop]

Ameri su u panici čim se ispostavi da postoji i drugo mišljenje. Mnogo im je lepo kad postoji samo njihovo.

[akhnaton]

Na ivici? Ma kakvi, oni su tu ivicu već prešli. Čim su sebi dozvolili politićku korektnost.

[Ugly MF]

A ovo što su našli Amerske generale/instruktore po Alepu zajedno sa teroristima?!
To Obamvučić nema komentar?!?!
Bwaaaaaaahahahaaaa, prc,demokratijo i NewWorldOrder Sorošovci MMFovska bando!

[Meho Krljic]

Newt Gingrich warns of major actions during President Obama's final weeks in office

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warned that President Obama could use his final weeks in office to take major actions that will be difficult for President-elect Donald Trump to undo, saying Mr. Obama is in a "desperate frenzy" to protect his legacy.
"His legacy is like one of those dolls that, as the air comes out of it, shrinks and shrink and shrinks," Gingrich told Fox News on Sunday. "The things he's done this week will be turned around ... He's in this desperate frenzy."
In recent days, Mr. Obama has issued the most pardons on a single day in U.S. history, banned oil drilling across large parts of the Arctic and Atlantic, and scrapped a national registry for immigrant men that mostly included Muslims.
Still, Gingrich said Mr. Trump will be able to quickly do away with many of Mr. Obama's signature policies and actions.
"I think in the opening couple days, he's going to repeal 60 to 70 percent of Obama's legacy by simply vetoing out all of the various executive orders that Obama used because he couldn't get anything through Congress," he said.
As president Mr. Trump will be able to cancel or override many of Mr. Obama's executive orders, and with a GOP-controlled Congress Mr. Trump will have the ability to push through a legislative agenda. However, things like dismantling the Affordable Care Act will likely prove difficult and take more time.
Mr. Obama nodded to that in a recent interview with NPR: asked if he had advice for Mr. Trump, Mr. Obama suggested he use the legislative process rather than executive orders to get things done because "it's harder to undo."

[Meho Krljic]

Recimo da ste poštena, vredna američka porodica i da se radujete božiću jer, to je momenat u godini kada su svi zajedno, kada se ljubav daje i unaokolo deli. Recimo da ste kupili ćurku za tu priliku jer u Americi prasad ne jedu, bar ne u formi gde bi se prepoznalo da je to prase. recimo da ste je ispekli u rerni, izneli na astal, cela porodica se sprema da se ujedini oko njenog proždiranja a onda, kad krenete da je sečete, vidite da je iznutra zelena.  Thanks, Obama!


Christmas dinner ruined for families thanks to GREEN Tesco turkeys

Tesco has been accused of ruining Christmas, thanks to their off-colour turkeys.
Two families say their dreams of tucking into a tasty meat treat turned into a vomit-inducing nightmare thanks to dud turkeys purchased from the supermarket giant.
The green meat is thought to be caused by a degenerative muscle condition in turkeys commonly referred to as Green Muscle Disease, although it is not harmful.
It occurs after the inner breast muscle of the bird develops in a way that prevents blood supply from circulating, resulting in the green discolouration.
Shoppers had paid as much as £30 for the turkeys in Tesco, and took to social media to express their alarm at the off-colour product.


Mum-of-four Rachael James, 33, paid "about £23" for her frozen turkey from Tesco in Whitchurch, Shropshire, and was mortified to find green flesh when carving it on Christmas Day.
She said: "When I got it out of the packaging it seemed to be okay but once I had cooked it and started to carve it in front of everyone I noticed that there was something wrong with the centre of the turkey.
"It put everyone off their meal, none of us felt like we could eat any of the turkey. It ruined the meal completely.
"Tesco have offered a refund of the price of the turkey which I am unhappy about. I will never buy my turkey from Tesco again and will now consider going else where for my weekly shop.
"After everyone had gone home I investigated the green mass and discovered that it went from one side of the breast meat to the other. It was disgusting."


Steve Parsons, 26, and his partner Emma, 28, were enjoying Christmas lunch with 10 other family members including four children, at their home in Lyme Regis, Dorset.
Steve, who works as a window cleaner, said: "It put a downer on the whole day.
"Luckily one of my friends kindly had a joint of beef that we could use which meant the day wasn't completely ruined. My mother-in-law was basting the turkey all night."
The Christmas turkey was purchased for "around £30" from the superstore's branch in Seaton, Devon, two days before the big day.
Steve added: "The reaction of everyone around the dinner table was quite simply, 'yuck'. It didn't smell but it was really rubbery.
"Luckily Tesco have been good with their response and have given us a £75 gift voucher and two turkey crowns."
A Tesco spokesperson said: "There's nothing more important than the quality of the food we sell so we were concerned to hear this has happened.
"We've offered a refund to the customers affected and will inform our supplier."

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Evo nečeg da pospeši rasističke strahove. Užasno je:
18-Year-Old Tortured on Facebook Live

Chicago police have charged four African Americans with hate crimes for an assault broadcast live on Facebook, during which the alleged attackers beat and tortured a young white man with special needs and hurled insults at him about white people and Donald Trump.
It's a tragic story and, given the prevalence of "fake" news stories, one that seems almost too strange - and terrible - to be true. But authorities in Chicago are treating it as a legitimate crime. Here's what we know so far:

The 18-year-old man, whom authorities said has "mental health challenges," was reported missing by his parents Monday, according to the Chicago Tribune. He had been dropped off at a McDonald's in suburban Chicago on Saturday, Dec. 31 to meet a friend, 18-year-old Jordan Hill, one of the people charged in the attack, whom he willingly spent time with starting on New Year's Eve. The victim's parents thought he was spending the night with friends.
As police in the Chicago suburb of Streamwood looked into the matter - the victim's parents were reportedly getting texts from someone claiming to hold their son captive - they discovered a Facebook Live video of the man being verbally and physically assaulted.

The 28-minute video, which was shared widely online, shows the victim with his mouth taped shut slumped in a corner as at least two assailants cut off his sweatshirt with a knife, as others taunt him off-camera. The video shows a bloody wound on the top of the man's head, and one person pushing the man's head with his or her foot. A red band also appears to be around the victim's hands. At one point he is forced to drink from a toilet.
Off-camera, people can be heard shouting, "Fuck Donald Trump" and "Fuck white people." Roughly halfway through the video, someone says the man "represents Trump," according to the Washington Post, and threatens to put him in the trunk of a car.
The Chicago Police Department believes the video is "credible" and said Thursday that the victim was tied up in a corner for about four or five hours.
Shortly after suburban police discovered the video, authorities in Chicago contacted them to say they'd found the missing man wandering along a street. Chicago police were then called to a home near where they found the man and discovered signs of a struggle. Four people were taken into custody.
The victim was able to escape after a downstairs neighbor threatened to call police and two of the attackers retaliated by kicking in the neighbor's door.
Investigators said the victim was with his attackers, including the man he knew previously, Jordan Hill, for up to 48 hours. Hill had driven the victim around in a stolen van for a couple of days, police said, until they ended up at the home in Chicago.The victim was later hospitalized for undisclosed injuries and released, according to the New York Times.

"He's traumatized by the incident and it's very tough to communicate with him at this point," Chicago Police Commander Kevin Duffin said Wednesday.

The video of the torture is "sickening," according to Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson. "It makes you wonder what would make individuals treat somebody like that," he said.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the incident demonstrates "a level of depravity that is an outrage to a lot of Americans."
Why was the man kidnapped and tortured?Police identified the suspects on Thursday afternoon as Tesfaye Cooper, 18, Brittany Covington, 18, and Tanishia Covington, 24. All three are from Chicago. The fourth suspect, 18-year-old Jordan Hill, is from suburban Carpentersville, Illinois.
In addition to hate crimes, the four are charged with kidnapping, aggravated battery and aggravated unlawful restraint. Three were charged with burglary.Police had told The Associated Press that they didn't believe the suspect was targeted because he was white, despite what they called the "terrible racist comments" made in the video. Instead, they suggested he was targeted because of his special needs.
But during a press conference Thursday, Chicago police said there was never any doubt the incident would be investigated as a hate crime. They said the four black suspects face hate crime charges because they were shouting racial slurs at the victim and because they referred to his mental capacity. According to the Washington Post, it is considered a hate crime in Illinois to commit battery on someone due to race as well as physical or mentality ability.
A police spokesman had said it's possible the suspects were trying to extort something from the victim's family.

On social media, people blamed the attack on members of the Black Lives Movement. But there is no evidence to suggest this is actually the case, according to CNN.
The incident comes just days after Chicago experienced its deadliest year since 1997, with 762 murders recorded in the city, according to CNN. That's more than what New York City and Los Angeles saw in 2016 combined. Both cities have larger populations than Chicago, which is the nation's third-largest city.
Roughly two-thirds of the murders took place in five police districts on the city's South and West sides, CNN reported. Those areas, according to the New York Times, are predominantly African-American and Hispanic. And the murders, the Times noted, are often the result of young gang members who are "bored, broke, and armed."
So far, 2017 hasn't seen any improvements: 28 people were shot in Chicago on the first day of January, according to NBC News. And President-elect Donald Trump said in a Jan. 2 tweet that if Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel can't curb the city's violence then "he must ask for federal help."

With reporting from the Associated Press.

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Republicans Will Finally Succeed in Defunding Planned Parenthood, Costing Millions of Women Basic Healthcare Services

Today, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announced that when Republicans repeal Obamacare later this month, they'll include a provision to defund Planned Parenthood.
The organization, which administers millions of cancer and STI and STD tests to women and some men, receives $500 million in federal government funds. The amount accounts for approximately 40 percent of its $1.3 billion in revenue, which NPR writes "suggests that the organization would be in some heavy financial trouble without that public funding."
It cannot be written or tweeted or said too many times: abortions account for around three percent of the services that Planned Parenthood provides. And moreover, federal money can't be used for abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or to protect the life of the mother. Which means that despite the fact that 2.5 million men and women visit Planned Parenthood to get an annual checkup, to screen for disease, to receive contraception, Republicans are still willing to put all that at risk because of how #onbrand it is for them to cut funds to the organization.
If you've been paying attention over the past few years, you know this isn't the first time they've tried to do it. They've threatened to strip Planned Parenthood of government funds dozens of times. And in 2015, Republicans successfully pushed a reconciliation bill-a bill that doesn't need to reach the usual 60-vote threshold to pass and can't be filibustered- in both houses. President Obama vetoed it, saving both his own healthcare law and Planned Parenthood. When he takes office next month, Trump is expected to approve it.
"Planned Parenthood legislation would be in our reconciliation bill," Ryan said during a press conference this afternoon. He didn't say more. Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards had more to add, responding via a press release to the news:
"Two and a half million women, men and young people come through our doors every year for lifesaving care like cancer screenings, birth control, and STI and STD tests," she said, "and they cannot afford to have basic reproductive health care attacked."

Nije što je moja bivša firma, ali stvarno mislim da bi ovo, ako se desi, bio necivilizacijski čin.

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Nešto mi govori da ovo više pogađa nebijele žene. No, možda prećeruju s veličinom budžetskog reza.

[Meho Krljic]

Man who says he 'would be dead' without Obamacare confronts Paul Ryan on the law's repeal

Jeff Jeans, a cancer survivor who owns a small business in Arizona, confronted House Speaker Paul Ryan during a CNN town-hall event on Thursday night over the future of the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare law better known as Obamacare.
Jeans said he was a lifelong Republican who worked on the campaigns of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and that he disliked the ACA when it was passed.
"Just like you, I was opposed to the Affordable Care Act," Jeans told Ryan. "When it was passed, I told my wife we would close our business before I complied with this law."
But then he said the law saved his life. Soon after it passed, he said, he learned he had cancer and was given six weeks to live. He said he was able to get insurance, which allowed him to receive treatment, through the Affordable Care Act.
"Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, I'm standing here today alive," Jeans said. "Being both a small-business person and someone with preexisting conditions, I rely on the Affordable Care Act to be able to purchase my own insurance. Why would you repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement?"
As Ryan began his answer, saying the GOP planned to replace the law when repealing it, Jeans interrupted to add a message onto his question.
"Can I say one thing?" Jeans said. "I want to thank President Obama from the bottom of my heart because I would be dead if it weren't for him."
Ryan said Republicans planned to replace Obamacare with high-risk pools, which had been used by states before the ACA was passed, so that Jeans and others could continue to get coverage. Health-policy experts have been wary of this plan because of the low enrollment and prohibitively high costs in previous state-level pools.
While Republicans have been pushing for the law to be repealed and replaced, Democrats and the Obama administration have been highlighting the positive effects of the law — using stories much like Jeans' to try to get the GOP to preserve some of the more popular provisions of the law.
The first legislation that would advance a repeal of the ACA was passed by the Senate early Thursday morning and was scheduled to be voted on by the House on Friday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LhHyUL8P4Q

[Aco Popara Zver]

Taj Rajan, nije što je protiv Trampa, al ima najgrđu njušku u sveckoj politici!

[Meho Krljic]

Obama je uradio barem jednu časnu stvar, smanjio kaznu Čelsi Mening na sedam godina pa ona izlazi iz zatvora ovog Maja... Sem ako tu neko nešto u međuvremenu ne zajebe...


Chelsea Manning to Be Released Early as Obama Commutes Sentence

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday commuted all but four months of the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the Army intelligence analyst convicted of a 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world, disrupted Mr. Obama's administration and brought global prominence to WikiLeaks, the recipient of those disclosures.
The decision by Mr. Obama rescued Ms. Manning, who twice tried to kill herself last year, from an uncertain future as a transgender woman incarcerated at the men's military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. She has been jailed for nearly seven years, and her 35-year sentence was by far the longest punishment ever imposed in the United States for a leak conviction.
At the same time that Mr. Obama commuted the sentence of Ms. Manning, a low-ranking enlisted soldier at the time of her leaks, he also pardoned James E. Cartwright, the retired Marine general and former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who pleaded guilty to lying about his conversations with reporters to F.B.I. agents investigating a leak of classified information about cyberattacks on Iran's nuclear program.
The two acts of clemency were a remarkable final step for a president whose administration carried out an unprecedented criminal crackdown on leaks of government secrets. Depending on how they are counted, the Obama administration has prosecuted either nine or 10 such cases, more than were charged under all previous presidencies combined.
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  Continue reading the main story   In addition, Mr. Obama on Tuesday commuted the sentence of Oscar Lopez Rivera, who was part of a Puerto Rican nationalist group that carried out a string of bombings in the late 1970s and early 1980s; the other members of that group had long since been freed. Mr. Obama also granted 63 other pardons and 207 other commutations, mostly for drug offenders.
Under the terms of the commutation announced by the White House on Tuesday, Ms. Manning is set to be freed on May 17 of this year rather than in 2045. A senior administration official said the 120-day delay was part of a standard transition period for commutations to time served, and was designed to allow for such steps as finding a place for Ms. Manning to live after her release.
The commutation also relieved the Defense Department of the difficult responsibility of Ms. Manning's incarceration as she pushes for treatment for her gender dysphoria, including sex reassignment surgery, that the military has no experience providing.
But the move was sharply criticized by several prominent Republicans, including the chairmen of the House and Senate armed services committees, Representative Mac Thornberry of Texas and Senator John McCain of Arizona, who called her leaks "espionage" and said they had put American troops and the country at risk.
Speaker Paul D. Ryan called it "outrageous." "President Obama now leaves in place a dangerous precedent that those who compromise our national security won't be held accountable for their crimes," he said in a statement.
But in a joint statement, Nancy Hollander and Vince Ward — two lawyers who have been representing Ms. Manning in appealing her conviction and sentence, and who filed the commutation application — praised the decision.


"Ms. Manning is the longest-serving whistle-blower in the history of the United States," they said. "Her 35-year sentence for disclosing information that served the public interest and never caused harm to the United States was always excessive, and we're delighted that justice is being served in the form of this commutation."
In recent days, the White House had signaled that Mr. Obama was seriously considering granting Ms. Manning's commutation application, in contrast to a pardon application submitted on behalf of the other large-scale leaker of the era, Edward J. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor who disclosed archives of top-secret surveillance files and is living as a fugitive in Russia.
Asked about the two clemency applications on Friday, the White House spokesman, Josh Earnest, discussed the "pretty stark difference" between Ms. Manning's case for mercy and Mr. Snowden's. While their offenses were similar, he said, there were "some important differences."
"Chelsea Manning is somebody who went through the military criminal justice process, was exposed to due process, was found guilty, was sentenced for her crimes, and she acknowledged wrongdoing," he said. "Mr. Snowden fled into the arms of an adversary and has sought refuge in a country that most recently made a concerted effort to undermine confidence in our democracy."
Mr. Earnest also noted that while the documents Ms. Manning provided to WikiLeaks were "damaging to national security," the ones Mr. Snowden disclosed were "far more serious and far more dangerous." (None of the documents Ms. Manning disclosed were classified above the merely "secret" level.)
Ms. Manning was still known as Bradley Manning when she deployed with her unit to Iraq in late 2009. There, she worked as a low-level intelligence analyst helping her unit assess insurgent activity in the area it was patrolling, a role that gave her access to a classified computer network.
She copied hundreds of thousands of military incident logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, which, among other things, exposed abuses of detainees by Iraqi military officers working with American forces and showed that civilian deaths in the Iraq war were probably much higher than official estimates.
The files she copied also included about 250,000 diplomatic cables from American embassies showing sensitive deals and conversations, dossiers detailing intelligence assessments of Guantánamo detainees held without trial, and a video of an American helicopter attack in Baghdad in which two Reuters journalists were killed, among others.
She decided to make all these files public, as she wrote at the time, in the hope that they would incite "worldwide discussion, debates and reforms." WikiLeaks disclosed them — working with traditional news organizations including The New York Times — bringing notoriety to the group and its founder, Julian Assange.
The disclosures set off a frantic scramble as Obama administration officials sought to minimize any potential harm, including getting to safety some foreigners in dangerous countries who were identified as having helped American troops or diplomats. Prosecutors, however, presented no evidence that anyone had been killed because of the leaks.


At her court-martial, Ms. Manning confessed in detail to her actions and apologized, saying she had not intended to put anyone at risk and noting that she had been "dealing with a lot of issues" at the time she made her decision.
Testimony showed that she had been in a mental and emotional crisis as she came to grips, amid the stress of a war zone, with the fact that she was not merely gay but had gender dysphoria. She had been behaving erratically, including angry outbursts and lapsing into catatonia midsentence. At one point, she had emailed a photograph of herself in a woman's wig to her supervisor.
Prosecutors said that because the secret material was made available for publication on the internet, anyone, including Al Qaeda, could read it. And they accused Ms. Manning of treason, charging her with multiple counts under the Espionage Act, as well as with "aiding the enemy," a potential capital offense, although they said they would not seek her execution.
Ms. Manning confessed and pleaded guilty to a lesser version of those charges without any deal to cap her sentence. But prosecutors pressed forward with a trial and won convictions on the more serious versions of those charges; a military judge acquitted her of "aiding the enemy."
In her commutation application, Ms. Manning said she had not imagined that she would be sentenced to the "extreme" term of 35 years, a term for which there was "no historical precedent." (There have been only a handful of leak cases, and most sentence are one to three years.)
After her sentencing, Ms. Manning announced that she was transgender and changed her name to Chelsea.
The military, under pressure from a lawsuit filed on her behalf by Chase Strangio of the American Civil Liberties Union, has permitted her to partly transition to life as a woman, including giving her cross-sex hormones and letting her wear women's undergarments and light cosmetics.
But it has not let her grow her hair longer than male military standards, citing security risks, and Ms. Manning said she had yet to be permitted to see a surgeon about the possibility of sex reassignment surgery.
Until recently, the military discharged transgender soldiers. In June, Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter changed that policy and said the military would instead provide treatment for them, eventually including such surgery if doctors said it was necessary.
President-elect Donald J. Trump mocked that change as excessively "politically correct," raising the possibility that he will rescind it.
But even if he does, Ms. Manning will soon no longer be subject to the military's control

Još samo da slično uradi i za Snowdena, mada je to teže zamisliti, Snowden je ipak razotkrio grehe činjene mahom za Obamina vakta...

[Meho Krljic]

The Clinton Foundation Is Dead — But The Case Against Hillary Isn't

While everyone's been gearing up for President Trump's inauguration, the Clinton Foundation made a major announcement this week that went by with almost no notice: For all intents and purposes, it's closing its doors.
In a tax filing, the Clinton Global Initiative said it's firing 22 staffers and closing its offices, a result of the gusher of foreign money that kept the foundation afloat suddenly drying up after Hillary Clinton failed to win the presidency.
It proves what we've said all along: The Clinton Foundation was little more than an influence-peddling scheme to enrich the Clintons, and had little if anything to do with "charity," either overseas or in the U.S. That sound you heard starting in November was checkbooks being snapped shut in offices around the world by people who had hoped their donations would buy access to the next president of the United States.
And why not? There was a strong precedent for it in Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. While serving as the nation's top diplomat, the Clinton Foundation took money from at least seven foreign governments — a clear breach of Clinton's pledge on taking office that there would be total separation between her duties and the foundation.
Is there a smoking gun? Well, of the 154 private interests who either officially met or had scheduled phone talks with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state, at least 85 were donors to the Clinton Foundation or one of its programs.
In November, we asked the question: "Is The Clinton Foundation Doomed?" The answer is yes.
All the way back in May, we outlined how the Clinton Foundation had taken in $100 million from a collection of Gulf sheikhs and billionaires, along with millions from private businesses, who expected — and received — special access to the State Department's top official, Hillary.
In his 2015 book "Clinton Cash," author Peter Schweizer showed how during Hillary's years in government "the Clintons have conducted or facilitated hundreds of large transactions (either as private citizens or government officials) with foreign governments, corporations and private financiers." He called the sums going to the Clintons "staggering."
Using the Freedom of Information Act, Judicial Watch in August obtained emails (that had been hidden from investigators) showing that Clinton's top State Department aide, Huma Abedin, had given "special expedited access to the secretary of state" for those who gave $25,000 to $10 million to the Clinton Foundation. Many of those were facilitated by a former executive of the foundation, Doug Band, who headed Teneo, a shell company that managed the Clintons' affairs.
As part of this elaborate arrangement, Abedin was given special permission to work for the State Department, the Clinton Foundation and Teneo — another very clear conflict of interest.
As Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said at the time, "These new emails confirm that Hillary Clinton abused her office by selling favors to Clinton Foundation donors."
The seedy saga doesn't end there. Indeed, there are so many facets to it, some may never be known. But there is still at least one and possibly four active federal investigations into the Clintons' supposed charity.
Americans aren't willing to forgive and forget. Earlier this month, the IBD/TIPP Poll asked Americans whether they would like President Obama to pardon Hillary for any crimes she may have committed as secretary of state, including the illegal use of an unsecured homebrew email server. Of those queried, 57% said no. So if public sentiment is any guide, the Clintons' problems may just be beginning.
Writing in the Washington Post in August of 2016, Charles Krauthammer pretty much summed up the whole tawdry tale: "The foundation is a massive family enterprise disguised as a charity, an opaque and elaborate mechanism for sucking money from the rich and the tyrannous to be channeled to Clinton Inc.," he wrote. "Its purpose is to maintain the Clintons' lifestyle (offices, travel accommodations, etc.), secure profitable connections, produce favorable publicity and reliably employ a vast entourage of retainers, ready to serve today and at the coming Clinton Restoration."
Except, now there is no Clinton Restoration. So there's no reason for any donors to give money to the foundation. It lays bare the fiction of a massive "charitable organization," and shows it for what it was: a scam to sell for cash the waning influence of the Democrats' pre-eminent power couple. As far as the charity landscape goes, the Clinton Global Initiative won't be missed.

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Bio pre nekoliko dana na Tviteru neki lik koji je tvrdio da Obamacare treba ukinuti, ali da Affordable Care Act (ACA) treba da ostane. Lik je i dobio svoje zdravstveno osiguranje preko ACA, i hvali ga na sva zvona. Mali problem je u tome što je to jedno te isto. "Obamacare" je nezvanično ime za ACA. Liku sa tvitera je ukazano na grešku, i čovek je priznao da je pogrešio, i sad mu je i Obamacare dobar. Par dana kasnije Džimi Kimel ispituje da li je ovaj lik usamljeni slučaj, ili ima još poneko ko ne zna da je to isto. Fora je što je pre tri godine sproveo istu anketu, ali Amerikanci prosto nemaju pojma.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6m7pWEMPlA

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Šasve ameri nemaju pojma, po jednoj anketi su mislili da je sadam finansirao alkaidu godinama nakon što je dokazano da je neistina

Fala bogu da ih je tramp iztrolovao za sve pare

[Meho Krljic]

Ričard Spenser je čovek koji je možda i izmislio termin Alt Right, ali u svakom slučaju je jedna od perjanica američkog belog nacionalizma, segregacionizma i, kako on to sam zove, identitetarijanstva. U pitanju je obrazovan pripadnik više srednje klase koji se za belu Ameriku bori think tankovima i publicistikom, ne ličnim mlaćenjem crnaca i paljenjem židovskih firmi. Pre par sati je popio pesnicu u lice tokom davanja intervjua televiziji na ulici. Većina ljudi na twitteru čije sam fidove ovlaš pregledao aplaudira ovom potezu i veli da je udaranje naciste na kvarno legitiman potez jer nacisti ionako propovedaju nasilje...


https://youtu.be/9rh1dhur4aI

Watch White Nationalist Richard Spencer Get Punched During an Interview

A hooded man punched white nationalist Richard Spencer in the face in downtown Washington D.C. Friday following the inauguration of President Donald Trump.

At the time Spencer said he was with two filmmakers who are making a documentary on him. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation said he was also talking to their Washington bureau chief.

Spencer was ringed by a handful of protesters and bystanders and arguing that left-wing protests had become more intense.

"I've given conferences for ages," he says, "and we'll usually expect some protesters. They'll do Silly String or something like that."
 
He then adds "We've entered this new world where the leftist protesters..." but is interrupted by an onlooker who asks him if he is a neo-Nazi, which Spencer denies.

From off camera, a female voice asks him "Would you marry a black woman?" Spencer does not answer.

An attacker then lands a punch on the right side of Spencer's face before running off. Spencer reels down the pavement but maintains his balance.

The attack reportedly took place at 2:30pm at the corner of 14th and K Streets.

After the assault, Spencer posted a live video on Twitter, denouncing it as "serious," "terrible," and "occurring in the most cowardly fashion possible."

Spencer became infamous last November, after a video showed him shouting "Heil Trump" and quoting Nazi propaganda in German during an anti-Semitic speech at a white nationalist conference in Washington D.C., held to celebrate Donald Trump's electoral victory.

Watch the attack on Spencer above.

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Kobireko

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I Kanada je neka Amerika. Pucnjava u džamiji u Kvebeku:

Five dead in Quebec City mosque shooting: mosque president

QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - Five people were killed after gunmen opened fire in a Quebec City mosque during evening prayers, the mosque's president told reporters on Sunday.
Earlier, a witness told Reuters that up to three gunmen fired on about 40 people inside the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Center. Police put up a security perimeter around the mosque.
Quebec police confirmed the shooting at a Quebec mosque in a tweet, and police on the scene said there had been fatalities.
"There are many victims ... there are deaths," a Quebec police‎ spokesman told reporters.
A police tweet said there were deaths and injuries and that suspects had been arrested.
"Why is this happening here? This is barbaric," said the mosque's president, Mohamed Yangui.
Yangui, who was not inside the mosque when the shooting occurred, said he got frantic calls from people at evening prayers. He did not know how many were injured, saying they had been taken to different hospitals across Quebec City.
In June 2016, a pig's head was left on the doorstep of the cultural centre.
Like France, Quebec has struggled at times to reconcile its secular identity with a rising Muslim population, many of them North African emigrants.
The face-covering, or niqab, became a big issue in the 2015 national Canadian election, especially in Quebec, where the vast majority of the population supported a ban on it at citizenship ceremonies.
Incidents of Islamophobia have increased in Quebec in recent years. In 2013, police investigated after a mosque in the Saguenay region of Quebec was splattered with what was believed to be pig blood.
In the neighboring province of Ontario, a mosque was set on fire in 2015, a day after an attack by gunmen and suicide bombers in Paris.

[Meho Krljic]

Možda im na kraju glave dođu... svinje?

Invasive wild pig populations continue to grow, spread through United States

Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Wild invasive pigs are wreaking havoc on North American ecosystems, a new report warns.

"Feral swine cause major damage to property, agriculture (crops and livestock), native species and ecosystems, and cultural and historic resources," Gail Keirn, a public affairs specialist with the National Wildlife Research Center, told PLOS ONE.

The National Wildlife Research Center, NWRC, is the research arm of the Wildlife Services program, part of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, a USDA agency.

"This invasive species also threatens the health of people, wildlife, pets, and other domestic animals," Keirn said. "As feral swine populations continue to expand across the country, these damages, costs, and risks will only keep rising."

According to the new report, $1.5 billion is spent in the United States each year to repair and prevent damage done by wild pigs.

Researchers say that number is likely to rise as wild pig populations continue to grow and spread through the United States. It is estimated that roughly 6 million invasive wild pigs currently inhabit the U.S. They're found in 35 states.

Researchers at NWRC used wild pig data collected between 1982 and 2012 to plot the widening ranges of wild pigs and to predict their territorial expansion moving forward.

The largest wild pig populations are found in the South, but a team of scientists led by Nathan Snow found the pigs have been moving northward at a clip of 4 to 8 miles per year. In 30 to 50 years, Snow and his colleagues predict, wild pigs could be found living in all 50 states and every county in the country. Their conquest could happen even quicker if boars introduced into Canada continue to move southward.

Wild pigs reproduce quickly and often, eat nearly anything and can survive in a variety of habitats. They also have no natural predators.

Feral pigs, or razorbacks, were first established in the 1500s, when colonists brought over wild and domesticated pigs for food. Some wandered off and spawned small feral populations. The Eurasian wild boar, or Russian wild boar, Sus scrofa, was introduced to the United States in the 19th century for hunting. Today, wild invasive pigs consist of a combination of feral pigs, pure wild boars and hybrids of the two.

[Aco Popara Zver]

http://m.journal-neo.org/2017/02/14/opioid-mayhem-erodes-the-fabric-of-us-society-2/

Trava izaziva haos na američkim ulicama!

[mac]

Sajt dostupan na engleskom i ruskom jeziku. Na kom li se istina bolje vidi..

[Aco Popara Zver]

Odma poklonu gledaš u kirilicu!

[Meho Krljic]

Uber Is Doomed

[Meho Krljic]

Sigurno se sećate vesti od pre pet godina kada je tvrđeno da je naučna studija pokazala da je svaki deseti među direktorima finansijskih firmi sa Vol Strita - psihopata. Naravno, pošto smi mi takvi ljudi kakvi smo, ne samo da smo odmah poverovali (PA NARAVNO, KO BI SE DRUGI ONAKO PONAŠAO!!11!!) nego smo i to "svaki deseti" odmah transformisali u "SVAKI!!!1!11!!" i seirili par dana dok vest nije demantovana ukazivanjem da je studija rađena na malom uzorku koji nije izabran na reprezentativan način a i u njemu nije pronađen rezultat iole približan tvrdnji od deset posto.

Well, pet godina je dugo vremena u 21. veku tako da, spremimo se na novi ciklus. Ovog puta meta je silikonska dolina:

Crazy at the wheel: psychopathic CEOs are rife in Silicon Valley, experts say


Tekst je iz Gardijana, a na osnovu panela održanog na SXSW...

[Meho Krljic]

Džizas...

Appeals Court: Officer Who Shot and Killed Innocent Man in His Own Home Cannot Be Sued




Andrew Scott and his girlfriend were playing video games in their Florida apartment late at night when they heard a loud banging at the front door. Scott, who was understandably disturbed, retrieved the handgun that he lawfully owned, then opened the door with the gun pointed safely down. Outside, he saw a shadowy figure holding a pistol. He began to retreat inside and close the door when the figure fired six shots without warning, three of which hit Scott, killing him. Scott hadn't fired a single bullet or even lifted his firearm.


The figure outside was Deputy Richard Sylvester. He failed to identify himself as a law enforcement officer at any point. He had no warrant and no reason to suspect that Scott or his girlfriend had committed a crime. He did not attempt to engage with Scott at all after he opened the door; he simply shot him dead. And on Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11^th Circuit held that Scott's parents and girlfriend cannot sue Sylvester because the officer's conduct was not "clearly" illegal.
The court's reasoning? Qualified immunity, a constitutionally dubious doctrine that bars individuals from suing the government for violating their rights unless those rights were "clearly established." And what, exactly, constitutes a "clearly established" right? It's almost always possible to argue the point either way. Consider the events that led up to Scott's killing. Sylvester had been pursuing a speeding motorcyclist who, he suspected, might be the same motorcyclist who'd recently committed armed assault and battery. (He had no legitimate reason to suspect this particular motorcyclist was the suspect in question.) Sylvester found a motorcycle at Scott's apartment complex and decided it was the one he was looking for, even though a license plate search revealed no incriminating information. He and three other officers drew their guns and pounded on Scott's door. When Scott opened it, Sylvester shot and killed him.
A district court granted Sylvester qualified immunity, holding that no "clearly established law" prohibited his actions. A panel of judges for the 11^th Circuit affirmed. And on Thursday, the 11^th Circuit, sitting en banc, declined to revisit the panel's decision. In support of this refusal to rehear the case, Judge Frank M. Hull wrote that Sylvester's behavior was a variation on "the knock and talk rule." This rule allows officers to enter private property and knock on an individual's door for "legitimate police purposes." Hull reasoned that Sylvester had merely engaged in a form of "knock and talk" and that Scott could have simply declined to open his door. Shooting Scott once he did open the door, Hull wrote, did not violate any "clearly established ... constitutional rights."
In dissent, Judge Beverly Martin shattered this sophistry with painful precision. "Under no standard," she wrote, "was it reasonable for the police to kill Mr. Scott when he answered the knock at the door to his home. He was not suspected of any crime (much less a violent crime) and he was standing inside his own house without threatening them." The police, she explained "were not engaged in a permissible 'knock and talk' when they killed Mr. Scott." In fact, "there was no talk here. This was a knock and shoot." Sylvester had no warrant and no reasonable suspicion that Scott had committed a crime. Martin thus concluded that he clearly violated Scott's Fourth Amendment rights by conducting a warrantless raid and using excessive force.
The most fascinating part of Martin's analysis centered around Sylvester's insistence that the shooting was justified because Scott opened the door while holding a firearm. This "conclusion that deadly force was reasonable here," Martin noted, "plainly infringes on the Second Amendment right to 'keep and bear arms.' " Citing the Supreme Court's decision in D.C. v. Heller, which affirmed an individual right to handgun ownership under the Second Amendment, Martin wrote:

If Mr. Scott was subject to being shot and killed, simply because (as the District Court put it) he made the "fateful decision" to answer a late-night disturbance at the door to his house, and did so while holding his firearm pointed safely at the ground, then the Second Amendment (and

Heller) had little effect.That seems exactly right to me—and it raises an important point: The 11^th Circuit has now effectively found an individual's Fourth Amendment rights are diminished whenever he chooses to exercise his Second Amendment right to possess a firearm. Unfortunately, the 4^th Circuit reached the same conclusion in a dreadful ruling handed down in January. The Supreme Court should step in soon to remedy the contradiction by clarifying that the exercise of one constitutional right cannot diminish the protection of another. This is an area where liberals and conservatives should be in agreement.
Qualified immunity has clearly become a significant problem in the lower courts. Just last week, another federal appeals court ruled that a homeless man had no right to sue the police officer who allowed his dog to maul him despite knowing the mauling victim was innocent. Its rationale? Qualified immunity. The lower courts are stretching the doctrine past its breaking point. Soon, victims of police violence will almost never be able to sue the officers who violate their constitutional rights. If that's where we're headed, why even pretend that we hold those rights in the first place?

[akhnaton]

Dobro zar neko stvarno misli da će mu biti bolje kada "amerika" bude propala? Neće biti bolje, nego samo gore. A sada ozbiljno, amerika ili Amerika nije na ivici propasti, ona je već prešla crtu, a i mi sa njom. Politička korektnost "progresivne" "liberalne" lefice je samo šlag na torti sistema koji je duboko poremećen iznutra. Naravno, njihova vojna snaga nije pod znakom pitanja, privredna tu i tamo, ali sveukupno uzeto treći Rim ide u istoriju. Obrazovni sistem, ono na čemu u stvari počiva snaga jedne kulture, i njema moć da se nametne drugima, je u SAD dovedena do apsurda, počevši od takozvanog "grčkog" sistema fila ili bratstva, tako dragog studentatiji koja jedva čeka da novac od kredita uzetog za plaćanje preskupih koledža iskoriisti za hookups i kresanje. mislim ako imaju šta da izaberu od gomile degenerisanih ne debelih, ne čak ni gojaznih, nego deformisanih primeraka ženki, ali i mužjaka ljudske vrste kojih su SAD danas pune. Poneko čak i ode da studira, ali ne može da dođe do izražaja jer nije pripadnik neke od manjina, ne histeriše oko safe space, ili nije crni amerikanac koji pojma nema ni o čemu ali je primljen na koledž jer je morala da se zadovolji kvota, ili je beli bilmez za koga je Homer Simpson Ajnštajn po intelektu, ali zato dobro igra american football, baseball, pa tako koledžu donosi pare pobedama u sportu. I onda očekujemo da ova zemlja napreduje? Da ne propada? I onda nekog čudi pobeda predsedničkog kandidata poznatog po muljanju i prevarama? Veliki broj amerikanaca nema pojma ni o čemu van onoga što mu nudi TV i mediji. Da nije tako ne bi se gledale bljuvotine tipa rijaltija, ili se ne bi gledalo šta rade oni debili Kardašijani. Ostatak koji i ima malo mozga, troši ga na raspredanje ko je tatko od Rey, dal će da pandrkne Luk i ko je ili šta je Snoke.... o tome da je crnim amerikancima važnije da sebe vide kao potomke "egipatskih" faraona, da slikaju svoje zadrigle zadnjice i kače ih na Tumblr, nego da se pokrenu i rade nešto pametno ne vredi ni govoriti. Ili šta reći o državi koja trpi da im se "potencijalni" teroristi šetaju po državi, šire svoju kretensku ideologiju, ne radi ništa, ali zato reaguje maltene kao da je napadnuta u odbrani autorskih prava?

[scallop]

Ha, drma te odjutros?

[akhnaton]

Ha, drma te odjutros?

Drma, kafa i jabukovača....

[scallop]

Znam. Gde god se okreneš - klonja. Za sve su krivi oni što su rekli da se ne može napisati dobra knjiga o utopiji. Ni Biblija.

[Ugly MF]

Heeeeej, Biblija je temelj naučne literature!

[scallop]

Heeeeej, Biblija je temelj naučne literature!

Zato se i klima.

[Ugly MF]

Nauka koja ne koristi Bibliju kao temelj? Naravno.

[scallop]

Ja o načelu, ti o pojedinostima. Ima li ovde neko ko ne počne odmah da se migolji ko medved Jogi na pozornici?

[Meho Krljic]

Nije da ovo nismo znali...

The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death

[Meho Krljic]

A New Look At The Lasting Consequences Of Student Debt

Recent college graduates who borrow are leaving school with an average of $34,000 in student loans. That's up from $20,000 just 10 years ago, according to a new analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
In that report, out this week, the New York Fed took a careful look at the relationship between debt and homeownership. For people aged 30 to 36, the analysis shows having any student debt significantly hurts your chances of buying a home, compared to college graduates with no debt. The cliche of "good debt" notwithstanding, the consequences of borrowing are real, and they are lasting.
The report paints a mixed picture of how student borrowing has evolved over the last decade, since the financial crisis. There are some bright spots: For example, student loan defaults peaked five years ago and have declined ever since.
And repayment seems to have slowed down among high-balance borrowers —those who owe $75,000 or more. Meaning, after 10 years, they have paid down only one-quarter to one-third of what they owe.
On the face, this isn't necessarily good. But taken alongside the decline in defaults, Fed president William Dudley said in a press briefing Monday, it reflects something good. That is, graduate students, in particular, are signing up for government programs intended to help make payments more affordable.
         [The fate of one of those programs, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, was in doubt last week after a legal filing by Betsy DeVos's Department of Education.]
Regardless of what happens with that program and others, nothing is holding back the rise of college tuition — up nine percent, after inflation, in the past five years at public universities. Dudley pointed out that in the last several years, public colleges have generally become less, not more, accessible to middle-income students, when you look at tuition and aid policies.
Living expenses are also a continuing burden for students, a significant number of whom are dealing with homelessness and hunger at the nation's community colleges in particular. In the absence of more targeted grant or scholarship programs, more people are taking out student loans, and they are borrowing more. All that borrowing adds up to a total of $1.3 trillion, nearly triple what it was a decade ago.
So, is college still worth it? In the most simplistic terms, yes.
Let's look back at homeownership. Attending a four-year college — even if you borrow, and even if you do not graduate — still increases your chances of owning a home, compared to people who never enroll.
More, results show that if even you come from a low-income family, graduating from college makes you almost as likely to own a home, by age 36, as someone from a high-income family.

[Father Jape]

Ovo se podjednako odnosi i na mnoge druge zemlje, ali evo ga ovde:

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/3/21/14938698/growth-trump-economic-us-slowdown-demographics-stagnation