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[Meho Krljic]

Ahmedinedžad u fullu:

AP Interview: Ahmadinejad pushes new world order   

NEW YORK (AP) — After an hour of fielding questions about Syria, sanctions and nuclear weapons, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had enough. Now, he said, it was his turn to choose the topic — his "new order" which will inevitably replace the current era of what he called U.S. bullying.
Continuing his hectic pace of media appearances and diplomatic meetings, Ahmadinejad presented an air of boredom when it came to the hot topic on everyone's mind — Iran's nuclear program and the possibility of impending war. Whether it was feigned or sincere, he said he would much rather be talking about his vision of what the next world order might be.
Conveniently, it would be an order in which the U.S. and the traditional powers play a smaller role and every country has equal standing (though the state of Israel, he often predicts, will soon become a historical footnote).
"God willing, a new order will come and will do away with ... everything that distances us," Ahmadinejad told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Tuesday, speaking through a translator. "All of the animosity, all of the lack of sincerity will come to an end. It will institute fairness and justice."
He said the world was losing patience with the current state of affairs.
"Now even elementary school kids throughout the world have understood that the United States government is following an international policy of bullying," he said. "I do believe the system of empires has reached the end of the road. The world can no longer see an emperor commanding it."
The interview was held on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly — Ahmadinejad's last as president of Iran. He was to address the assembly Wednesday morning.
He also discussed solutions for the Syrian civil war, dismissed the question of Iran's nuclear ambition and claimed that despite Western sanctions his country is better off than it was when he took office in 2005.
Earlier Tuesday, President Barack Obama warned Iran that time is running out to resolve the dispute over its nuclear program. In a speech to the General Assembly, Obama said the United States could not tolerate an Iran with atomic weapons.
Ahmadinejad would not respond directly to the president's remarks, saying he did not want to influence the U.S. presidential election in November.
But he argued that the international outcry over Iran's nuclear enrichment program was just an excuse by the West to dominate his country. He claimed that the United States has never accepted Iran's choice of government after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
"Everyone is aware the nuclear issue is the imposition of the will of the United States," he said. "I see the nuclear issue as a non-issue. It has become a form of one-upmanship."
Ahmadinejad said he favored more dialogue, even though negotiations with world powers remain stalled after three rounds of high-level meetings since April.
He said some world leaders have suggested to him that Iran would be better off holding nuclear talks only with the United States.
"Of course I am not dismissing such talks," he said, asked if he were open to discussions with the winner of the American presidential election.
Israeli leaders, however, are still openly contemplating military action again Iranian nuclear facilities, dismissing diplomacy as a dead end. Israel and many in the West suspect that Iran is seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, and cite its failure to cooperate fully with nuclear inspectors. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
Ahmadinejad also proposed forming a new group of 10 or 11 countries to work to end the 18-month Syrian civil war. Representatives of nations in the Middle East and elsewhere would meet in New York "very soon," he said.
Critics have accused Tehran of giving support to Syrian President Bashar Assad in carrying out massacres and other human rights violations in an attempt to crush the uprising against his rule. Activists say nearly 30,000 people have died.
Ahmadinejad said the so-called contact group hopes to get the Syrian government and opposition to sit across from each other.
"I will do everything in my power to create stability, peace and understanding in Syria," Ahmadinejad said.
Earlier this month, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi announced the formation of a four-member contact group with Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. But Saudi Arabia so far has not participated.
Ahmadinejad denied Iranian involvement in plotting attacks on Israelis abroad, despite arrests and accusations by police in various countries. He also vehemently disputed the U.S. claim that Iranian agents played a role in a foiled plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States last year.
Ahmadinejad will leave office next June after serving two four-year terms. He threw out numbers and statistics during the interview to show that Iran's economy and the lives of average Iranians have improved under his watch. Since his 2005 election, he claimed, Iran went from being the world's 22nd-largest economy to the 17th-largest; non-petroleum related exports increased sevenfold; and the basic production of goods has doubled. Median income increased by $4,000, he said.
It was not possible to immediately verify his figures.
"Today's conditions in Iran are completely different to where they were seven years ago in the economy, in technical achievement, in scientific know-how," Ahmadinejad said. "All of these achievements, though, have been reached under conditions in which we were brought under heavy sanctions."
Iran has called for the U.S. and its European allies to ease the sanctions that have hit its critical oil exports and left it blackballed from key international banking networks.
Ahmadinejad said he had no knowledge of the whereabouts of Robert Levinson, a private investigator and former FBI agent who vanished in Iran five years ago. He said he directed Iranian intelligence services two years ago to work with their counterparts in the U.S. to locate him.
"And if any help there is that I can bring to bear, I would be happy to do so," he said.
He also claimed never to have heard of Amir Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine who is imprisoned on espionage charges in Iran. Hekmati was arrested while visiting his grandmothers in Iran in August 2011, and his family has been using Ahmadinejad's visit to New York to plead for his release.
In spite of Ahmadinejad's assertions on the importance of dialogue and respect for others, he has presented a hard line in many areas in this week's media appearances.
He refuses to speak of the state of Israel by name and instead refers only to the "Zionists." And when asked on Monday about author Salman Rushdie, he made no attempt to distance himself from recent renewed threats on the author's life emanating from an Iranian semi-official religious foundation.
"If he is in the U.S.," said the president of Iran, "you should not broadcast it for his own safety."

[raindelay]

^^^^^^
Kad je njegov covek glavni onda mu se i moze:

Obama and Ahmadinejad

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Is Barack Obama the "promised warrior" coming to help the Hidden Imam of Shiite Muslims conquer the world?

The question has made the rounds in Iran since last month, when a pro-government Web site published a Hadith (or tradition) from a Shiite text of the 17th century. The tradition comes from Bahar al-Anvar (meaning Oceans of Light) by Mullah Majlisi, a magnum opus in 132 volumes and the basis of modern Shiite Islam.
According to the tradition, Imam Ali Ibn Abi-Talib (the prophet's cousin and son-in-law) prophesied that at the End of Times and just before the return of the Mahdi, the Ultimate Saviour, a "tall black man will assume the reins of government in the West." Commanding "the strongest army on earth," the new ruler in the West will carry "a clear sign" from the third imam, whose name was Hussein Ibn Ali. The tradition concludes: "Shiites should have no doubt that he is with us."

In a curious coincidence Obama's first and second names--Barack Hussein--mean "the blessing of Hussein" in Arabic and Persian. His family name, Obama, written in the Persian alphabet, reads O Ba Ma, which means "he is with us," the magic formula in Majlisi's tradition.

Mystical reasons aside, the Khomeinist establishment sees Obama's rise as another sign of the West's decline and the triumph of Islam. Obama's promise to seek unconditional talks with the Islamic Republic is cited as a sign that the U.S. is ready to admit defeat. Obama's position could mean abandoning three resolutions passed by the United Nations Security Council setting conditions that Iran should meet to avoid sanctions. Seeking unconditional talks with the Khomeinists also means an admission of moral equivalence between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic. It would imply an end to the description by the U.S. of the regime as a "systematic violator of human rights."

Obama has abandoned claims by all U.S. administrations in the past 30 years that Iran is "a state sponsor of terrorism." Instead, he uses the term "violent groups" to describe Iran-financed outfits such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

Obama has also promised to attend a summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference within the first 100 days of his presidency. Such a move would please the mullahs, who have always demanded that Islam be treated differently, and that Muslim nations act as a bloc in dealings with Infidel nations.

http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/26/obama-iran-ahmadinejad-oped-cx_at_1026taheri.html

[mac]

Ajde, ne bilo ti zapoveđeno, edituj svoj post, i zameni code tag quote tagom.

[Lord Kufer]

Idemo u Europu! 

'Surround Congress' Madrid clashes: Dramatic footage of night violence in Spain

[Melkor]

1:36 Agent Provocateur working with the police arresting a man. Press like so this comment will go to the top so people can see
At the beginning of the video the people beating the police with flags, more Agent Provocateur working with the police to start the riot.

[Lord Kufer]

Policija ne može da zavodi red tamo gde red postoji.

[Lord Kufer]

Evo malo mnogo slika iz Španije, kontra medijskoj blokadi širom klintonovskog sveta.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.447142025328291.95596.258039744238521&type=1

[Meho Krljic]

Uvek je lepo kada se potvrdi da to što mislimo da nam rade o glavi nije samo paranoja. Evropski CleanIT projekat koji treba da bude nekakva, jelte, zaštita od terorista na Internetu itd. je zapravo jedan prilično kvaran, centralistički, autoritaran pokušaj da se ograniči privatnost i, korišćenjem privilegovanih privatnih kompanija zaobiđe ono malo legislative koja štiti anonimnost i privatne informacije europskih građana.

Clean IT – Leak shows plans for large-scale, undemocratic surveillance of all communications 

  21 September, 2012 »  Compulsory Identification | Internet Blocking | Notice & take-down | Privacy | Access to information | Freedom to publish | Freedom of speech | Wiretapping  This article is also available in:
Deutsch: CleanIT – Pläne zur Überwachung des Internets im großen Stil


A leaked document from the CleanIT project shows just how far internal discussions in that initiative have drifted away from its publicly stated aims, as well as the most fundamental legal rules that underpin European democracy and the rule of law.
The European Commission-funded CleanIT project claims that it wants to fight terrorism through voluntary self-regulatory measures that defends the rule of law.
The initial meetings of the initiative, with their directionless and ill-informed discussions about doing "something" to solve unidentified online "terrorist" problems were mainly attended by filtering companies, who saw an interesting business opportunity. Their work has paid off, with numerous proposals for filtering by companies and governments, proposals for liability in case sufficiently intrusive filtering is not used, and calls for increased funding by governments of new filtering technologies.
The leaked document contradicts a letter sent from CleanIT Coordinator But Klaasen to Dutch NGO Bits of Freedom in April of this year, which explained that the project would first identify problems before making policy proposals. The promise to defend the rule of law has been abandoned. There appears never to have been a plan to identify a specific problem to be solved – instead the initiative has become little more than a protection racket (use filtering or be held liable for terrorist offences) for the online security industry.
The proposals urge Internet companies to ban unwelcome activity through their terms of service, but advise that these "should not be very detailed". This already widespread approach results, for example, in Microsoft (as a wholly typical example of current industry practice) having terms of service that would ban pictures of the always trouserless Donald Duck as potential pornography ("depicts nudity of any sort ... in non-human forms such as cartoons"). The leaked paper also contradicts the assertion in the letter that the project "does not aim to restrict behaviour that is not forbidden by law" - the whole point of prohibiting content in terms of service that is theoretically prohibited by law, is to permit extra-judicial vigilantism by private companies, otherwise the democratically justified law would be enough. Worse, the only way for a company to be sure of banning everything that is banned by law, is to use terms that are more broad, less well defined and less predictable than real law.
Moving still further into the realm of the absurd, the leaked document proposes the use of terms of service to remove content "which is fully legal"... although this is up to the "ethical or business" priorities of the company in question what they remove. In other words, if Donald Duck is displeasing to the police, they would welcome, but don't explicitly demand, ISPs banning his behaviour in their terms of service. Cooperative ISPs would then be rewarded by being prioritised in state-funded calls for tender.
CleanIT (terrorism), financed by DG Home Affairs of the European Commission is duplicating much of the work of the CEO Coalition (child protection), which is financed by DG Communications Networks of the European Commission. Both are, independently and without coordination, developing policies on issues such as reporting buttons and flagging of possibly illegal material. Both CleanIT and the CEO Coalition are duplicating each other's work on creating "voluntary" rules for notification and removal of possibly illegal content and are jointly duplicating the evidence-based policy work being done by DG Internal Market of the European Commission, which recently completed a consultation on this subject. Both have also been discussing upload filtering, to monitor all content being put online by European citizens.
CleanIT wants binding engagements from internet companies to carry out surveillance, to block and to filter (albeit only at "end user" - meaning local network - level). It wants a network of trusted online informants and, contrary to everything that they have ever said, they also want new, stricter legislation from Member States.
Unsurprisingly, in EDRi's discussions with both law enforcement agencies and industry about CleanIT, the word that appears with most frequency is "incompetence".
The document linked below is distributed to participants on a "need to know" basis – we are sharing the document because citizens need to know what is being proposed.
Key measures being proposed:

   
• Removal of any legislation preventing filtering/surveillance of employees' Internet connections
• Law enforcement authorities should be able to have content removed "without following the more labour-intensive and formal procedures for 'notice and action'"
• "Knowingly" providing links to "terrorist content" (the draft does not refer to content which has been ruled to be illegal by a court, but undefined "terrorist content" in general) will be an offence "just like" the terrorist
• Legal underpinning of "real name" rules to prevent anonymous use of online services
• ISPs to be held liable for not making "reasonable" efforts to use technological surveillance to identify (undefined) "terrorist" use of the Internet
• Companies providing end-user filtering systems and their customers should be liable for failing to report "illegal" activity identified by the filter
• Customers should also be held liable for "knowingly" sending a report of content which is not illegal
• Governments should use the helpfulness of ISPs as a criterion for awarding public contracts
• The proposal on blocking lists contradict each other, on the one hand providing comprehensive details for each piece of illegal content and judicial references, but then saying that the owner can appeal (although if there was already a judicial ruling, the legal process would already have been at an end) and that filtering such be based on the "output" of the proposed content regulation body, the "European Advisory Foundation"
• Blocking or "warning" systems should be implemented by social media platforms – somehow it will be both illegal to provide (undefined) "Internet services" to "terrorist persons" and legal to knowingly provide access to illegal content, while "warning" the end-user that they are accessing illegal content
• The anonymity of individuals reporting (possibly) illegal content must be preserved... yet their IP address must be logged to permit them to be prosecuted if it is suspected that they are reporting legal content deliberately and to permit reliable informants' reports to be processed more quickly
• Companies should implement upload filters to monitor uploaded content to make sure that content that is removed – or content that is similar to what is removed – is not re-uploaded
• It proposes that content should not be removed in all cases but "blocked" (i.e. make inaccessible by the hosting provider – not "blocked" in the access provider sense) and, in other cases, left available online but with the domain name removed.

Leaked document: http://www.edri.org/files/cleanIT_sept2012.pdf
CleanIT Project website: http://www.cleanitproject.eu/
Microsoft "code of conduct": http://windows.microsoft.com/is-IS/windows-live/code-of-conduct
CleanIT's letter to Bits of Freedom about "factual inaccuracies" and their unfulfilled promise to produce a problem definition: http://95.211.138.23/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/20120106-Reaction-blog...
EDRigram article 29 August: http://edri.org/edrigram/number10.16/cleanit-safer-internet-for-terror...
EDRigram article 20 June: http://edri.org/edrigram/number10.12/the-rise-of-the-european-upload-f...   

[Lord Kufer]

Meni fejsbuka već danima štuca. Je li to i kod vas slučaj?

[Lord Kufer]

A što se Španije tiče, izgleda da se krije šta se stvarno dešava.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b7d_1348744810

[Barbarin]

Ovih petnajstak pandura bi kod nas odavno popilo batine. A greota kako biju klince.

[Lord Kufer]

Evo zanimljive priče

Vrti malo dole do druge slike.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread885328/pg1

[Barbarin]

CNN

A izgleda kao da su se demonstranti sklonili u lokal kod njega i da on ne da pandurima da uđu.

[Meho Krljic]

Ovi na abovetopsecret kao da kolektivno imaju IQ oko 14    Kakve oni "zavere" i "prevare" otkrivaju. Mediji koriste fotografije da sugerišu gledaocima sadržaj i značenje!!!!!!!! Oooooh, consider your mind blown!

Mislim, ne bih da disrispektujem Kufera, ali ovo... Jedan se pita jel' moguće da su Španci ovako beli, on je bio ubeđen da su crnji, drugi ga ubeđuje da su beli i tvrdi da se u Španiji nikakve demonstracije ne događaju i da američki mediji sve izmišljaju itd...

[Lord Kufer]

ATS je sistematski uništen poslednjih godina, Krljiću 

[Meho Krljic]

To objašnjava sve!!! Sajt koji se bavi teorijama zavere uništen je u sistemskoj zaveri!!!!!!!

[Lord Kufer]

Ma nije to. Otišli su glavni zaverenici na druga radna mesta 

[Lord Kufer]

Masa nema pamćenje.
Policija uvek započinje sukobe kako bi imala šta da pacifikuje. Onda biju najslabije a najjače regrutuju.
Iskustvo onih koji su učestvovali u demonstracijama ne prenosi se na druge jer ovi drugi ne jebu pet posto da nešto u životu nauče, nego gledaju samo kako da napune dupe i da mudruju neobavezno. Dok i kod njih ne stige vuk. Kad stigne vuk, oni su potpuno nespremni, i tako to u nedogled, iz generacije u generaciju.

[Meho Krljic]

Sem kada demonstranti pobede i ostvare svoje ciljeve. Na primer petog Oktobra 2000. godine u Beogradu 

[Lord Kufer]

Kad god se osvrnem oko sebe, divim se ostvarenim ciljevima samo tako 

[scallop]

    Sve je bilo dogovoreno. 

[Meho Krljic]

Pa, ne, mislim, možda ŠIRI ciljevi nisu dostignuti (mada može da se argumentuje da je cilj bio potvrđivanje Koštuničine izborne pobede i to je dostignuto) ali de fakto su demonstranti tada pobedili. Plus nije neka velika mudrost reći da policija koja ima obuku i opremu za upravljanje velikim grupama građana bolje koordinira ponašanje u ovakvim situacijama od spontano skupljene mase...

[Lord Kufer]

Sećam se 9. marta onomadne, policija je opkolila ogromnu masu i - napala!
Zar treba tu nešto reći?

[Meho Krljic]

Ne znam, ja sam tada bio u vojsci i nama je televizija pokazala kako je masa napala policiju... To su te izmenjene perspektive.

[Father Jape]

Hmmm, kako to da si tek tako mator bio u vojsci? Kanda je tu neka... zavera posredi.

[Lord Kufer]

Policija uvek prva napada. Takođe, imaju provokatore koji izazivaju nerede i provociraju policiju, jer je neophodno da policija spreči "nerede" kako bi se zaveo red.
To je sifilistička logika, ali tako je 

U slučaju paljenja džamije i ambasade, policija je imala naređenje da ne interveniše.

[Джон Рейнольдс]

Ау, бре, Мехо... Па није ваљда да заиста мислиш да су демонстранти "победили" Петог октобра? Пре бих рекао да је пресудно било то што су Милошевићу главни део полиције и војска отказали послушност. Ако је неко победио, победили су Павковић и Легија. Демонстранти су ту били само шарени декор, ништа друго. А и циљ је био замаскиран - да се опере "црни новац", то јест да бизмисмени постану тајкуни, а да им штекови постану капитал. Пад ислуженог Милошевића био је чиста козметика, а мафија је довела свог премијера.

[Meho Krljic]

Sve su to sad lepe teme za debatu, ali poenta je da se policija povukla a demonstranti pobedili na terenu, kao primer da nije uvek trening i oprema presudan.

[Джон Рейнольдс]

С тим да су се пандури повукли (и то само они који су се нашли у фрци, јер додано мобилисаних није било) кад им се урушио командни ланац. Нема то везе ни са опремом ни са обученошћу, што наша руља (на моју жалост) уопште није. Син је у једном од својих видео-рантова то лепо објаснио, а признајем да њега треба пажљиво слушати па доћи до поенте. Укратко, ови наши су веома слаби кад су улични ратови у питању, имају херца, али обука и припрема су слаби.

Ерго, најпресудније је било урушавање ланца команде, што и јесте логично јер се полиција на томе и заснива и одржава.

[Джон Рейнольдс]

Него, браћа Грци се у кризна времена сналазе како могу, симпатичан чланак о томе.

[Meho Krljic]

Oh, ti šašavi Iranci.    Njihova novinska agencija FARS je objavila vest po kojoj istraživanje u Americi pokazuje kako bi ruralni Amerikanci listom radije glasali za Ahmedinedžada nego za Obamu, da postoji opcija. Naravno, propustili su da primete da je vest nastala na sajtu The Onion, koji je, jelte, ono što ovdašnji Njuz Net nastoji da bude. Neozbiljno! Neprofesionalno!!!! Ali urnebesno 

[Lord Kufer]

Malo Evropcke demokracije za promenu

#29S Policia antidisturbios entrando en los bares y sacando a la gente con violencia

[Lord Kufer]

Naravno, ti Španci su lenjčuge isto ko i Grci...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19784062

Eurozone unemployment at fresh high

Unemployment in the eurozone hit a fresh high of 18.2 million in August, the EU statistics agency has said.

The number of people out of work rose by 34,000, but revised data for July meant the unemployment rate remained stable at a record high of 11.4%.

The highest unemployment rate was recorded in Spain, where 25.1% of the workforce is out of a job, and the lowest of 4.5% was recorded in Austria.

The unemployment rate in Germany was 5.5%, Eurostat said.

Youth unemployment remains a particular concern, with the rate among under-25s hitting 22.8% across the eurozone, and 52.9% in Spain.

In Greece, the most recent figures recorded in June also show that more than 50% of the young workforce has no job.

[Ghoul]

French Central Bank password was 123456 (really)
By Hubert Nguyen
on 09/20/2012
12:08 PDT

A French citizen has unintentionally breached the security of the French central bank (Banque de France) over the phone and was freed by French authorities after being accused of "hacking" the central bank's and triggering a 48-hours shut down of that particular computer system which handles the consumer indebtedness files (basically people who are flagged as having a very bad credit history).

The man was trying to go around the paid telephone consumer support system and got from Internet forums what he thought was a direct-line to the central bank employees (yes, in France, you have to pay for most form of telephone support). When asked for a code by an automated system, he entered 123456 and it worked – he had just breached the central bank's security.

It gets better: according to the man's attorney, 654321 would have worked as well. It looks like the French central bank password is using a checksum based on additions or other very simple methods... (lol, scary). Maybe it's time to "beef-up" security...

[дејан]

^  генијално

[Tex Murphy]

French Central Bank password was 123456 (really)
By Hubert Nguyen
on 09/20/2012
12:08 PDT

A French citizen has unintentionally breached the security of the French central bank (Banque de France) over the phone and was freed by French authorities after being accused of "hacking" the central bank's and triggering a 48-hours shut down of that particular computer system which handles the consumer indebtedness files (basically people who are flagged as having a very bad credit history).

The man was trying to go around the paid telephone consumer support system and got from Internet forums what he thought was a direct-line to the central bank employees (yes, in France, you have to pay for most form of telephone support). When asked for a code by an automated system, he entered 123456 and it worked – he had just breached the central bank's security.

It gets better: according to the man's attorney, 654321 would have worked as well. It looks like the French central bank password is using a checksum based on additions or other very simple methods... (lol, scary). Maybe it's time to "beef-up" security...

Мислим да је свима јасно шта слиједи. Жао ми је, али морам 

Spaceballs 12345

[Josephine]

Google death benefits pay dead employees' families for 10 years


By Julianne Pepitone @CNNMoneyTech August 9, 2012: 6:54 PM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Google treats its dead employees better than some companies do their living workers.
Google's unusual "death benefits" include paying the deceased's spouse or domestic partner 50% of their salary for 10 years, the company's "chief people officer" Laszlo Bock revealed in an interview this week with Forbes.
What's more, all of the dead Googler's stocks vest immediately. Each child of the employee receives $1,000 per month until age 19, or age 23 for full-time students.
These perks aren't just for longtime employees. There's no tenure requirement, Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) told Forbes -- all of the company's U.S. employees qualify. Bock said the oldest Googler is currently 83.
A Google representative declined to comment in more detail about the policy. Forbes writer Meghan Casserly noted dryly in her article that "providing death benefits is a no-win for the company."
But that isn't the point, Bock told her: "Obviously there's no benefit to Google. But it's important to the company to help our families through this horrific if inevitable life event."
The death benefits revelation adds to the already legendary list of Google perks: free food, foosball tables, on-site dry-cleaning service, generous parental leave and more.
The company's perks site hawks a "Corporate Concierge team [that] can assist with everyday tasks such as planning a dinner party as well as more unusual requests, like finding a jewel-encrusted scepter to accompany a Googler's special Halloween outfit."
But Bock told Forbes he doesn't like the word "perks." Instead, he says, what helps employees ultimately helps the company.
As he put it: "There is, of course, research that show employee benefit programs like ours can improve retention, and appear to improve performance on some level." 

http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/09/technology/google-death-benefits/index.html

[Lord Kufer]

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/02/travel/fly-american-comments/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

After incidents with airline seats, readers let loose

(CNN) -- American Airlines is facing a possible perfect storm of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, terrible labor relations with its pilots, delayed and canceled flights, aircraft seats that won't stay put and a growing number of reported flights diverted because of various problems midflight.

Travel agents and customers who book their own travel are starting to question whether they should fly the airline.

Who wants to fly American? More than 500 readers commented on CNN.com's story asking that question, many lamenting what they see as the decline of a once-proud airline and others reporting that other U.S. airlines aren't any better.

[scallop]

Biće da mi letimo sa AA. Deo puta.

[Meho Krljic]

Evo čime se razvijeni svet bavi: debatom da li promovisanjem nošenja šlema za potrebe voženja bicikla društvo sebi donosi više štete nego koristi 

To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets
     

ONE spectacular Sunday in Paris last month, I decided to skip museums and shopping to partake of something even more captivating for an environment reporter: Vélib, arguably the most successful bike-sharing program in the world. In their short lives, Europe's bike-sharing systems have delivered myriad benefits, notably reducing traffic and its carbon emissions. A number of American cities — including New York, where a bike-sharing program is to open next year — want to replicate that success.   
  So I bought a day pass online for about $2, entered my login information at one of the hundreds of docking stations that are scattered every few blocks around the city and selected one of Vélib's nearly 20,000 stodgy gray bikes, with their basic gears, upright handlebars and practical baskets.
Then I did something extraordinary, something I've not done in a quarter-century of regular bike riding in the United States: I rode off without a helmet.
I rode all day at a modest clip, on both sides of the Seine, in the Latin Quarter, past the Louvre and along the Champs-Élysées, feeling exhilarated, not fearful. And I had tons of bareheaded bicycling company amid the Parisian traffic. One common denominator of successful bike programs around the world — from Paris to Barcelona to Guangzhou — is that almost no one wears a helmet, and there is no pressure to do so.
In the United States the notion that bike helmets promote health and safety by preventing head injuries is taken as pretty near God's truth. Un-helmeted cyclists are regarded as irresponsible, like people who smoke. Cities are aggressive in helmet promotion.
But many European health experts have taken a very different view: Yes, there are studies that show that if you fall off a bicycle at a certain speed and hit your head, a helmet can reduce your risk of serious head injury. But such falls off bikes are rare — exceedingly so in mature urban cycling systems.
On the other hand, many researchers say, if you force or pressure people to wear helmets, you discourage them from riding bicycles. That means more obesity, heart disease and diabetes. And — Catch-22 — a result is fewer ordinary cyclists on the road, which makes it harder to develop a safe bicycling network. The safest biking cities are places like Amsterdam and Copenhagen, where middle-aged commuters are mainstay riders and the fraction of adults in helmets is minuscule.
"Pushing helmets really kills cycling and bike-sharing in particular because it promotes a sense of danger that just isn't justified — in fact, cycling has many health benefits," says Piet de Jong, a professor in the department of applied finance and actuarial studies at Macquarie University in Sydney. He studied the issue with mathematical modeling, and concludes that the benefits may outweigh the risks by 20 to 1.
He adds: "Statistically, if we wear helmets for cycling, maybe we should wear helmets when we climb ladders or get into a bath, because there are lots more injuries during those activities." The European Cyclists' Federation says that bicyclists in its domain have the same risk of serious injury as pedestrians per mile traveled.
Yet the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recommends that "all cyclists wear helmets, no matter where they ride," said Dr. Jeffrey Michael, an agency official.
Recent experience suggests that if a city wants bike-sharing to really take off, it may have to allow and accept helmet-free riding. A two-year-old bike-sharing program in Melbourne, Australia — where helmet use in mandatory — has only about 150 rides a day, despite the fact that Melbourne is flat, with broad roads and a temperate climate. On the other hand, helmet-lax Dublin — cold, cobbled and hilly — has more than 5,000 daily rides in its young bike-sharing scheme. Mexico City recently repealed a mandatory helmet law to get a bike-sharing scheme off the ground. But here in the United States, the politics are tricky.
SHAUN MURPHY, the bicycling coordinator of Minneapolis — which inaugurated the "Nice Ride" bike-sharing program in 2010 and expanded to St. Paul last year — has been pilloried for riding about without a helmet. "I just want it to be seen as something that a normal person can do," Mr. Murphy explained to the local press this past summer. "You don't need special gear. You just get on a bike and you just go."
   In New York, where there were 21 cyclist fatalities last year, the transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, is always photographed on a bike and wearing a helmet. The administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has nonetheless rejected calls by Comptroller John C. Liu for a mandatory helmet law when New York's 10,000-cycle bike-share program rolls out next year, for fear it would keep people from riding. Still, the mayor says helmets are a "good idea," and the city promotes helmet use through education and with giveaway programs.

In the United States, cities are struggling to overcome the significant practical problems of melding helmet use with bike-sharing programs — such as providing sanitized helmet dispensers at bike docking stations, says Susan Shaheen, director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley.
But bicycling advocates say that the problem with pushing helmets isn't practicality but that helmets make a basically safe activity seem really dangerous.
"The real benefits of bike-sharing in terms of health, transport and emissions derive from getting ordinary people to use it," said Ceri Woolsgrove, safety officer at the European Cyclists' Federation. "And if you say this is wonderful, but you have to wear armor, they won't. These are normal human beings, not urban warriors."
In fact, many European researchers say the test of a mature bike-sharing program is when women outnumber men. In the Netherlands, 52 percent of riders are women. Instead of promoting helmet use, European cycling advocates say, cities should be setting up safer bike lanes to slow traffic or divert it entirely from downtown areas. "Riding in New York or Australia is like running with the bulls — it's all young males," says Julian Ferguson, a spokesman for the European Cyclists' Federation. And that's in part what makes it dangerous. (Many European countries do require helmet use for children.)
In London, where use of a new bike-share program is exceeding all expectations, the number of riders in suits and dresses is growing, Mr. Woolsgrove says. And more Londoners seem to be leaving helmets at home.
We may follow a similar pattern. In her study of nascent bike-sharing programs in North America — including Montreal, Washington and Minneapolis — Dr. Shaheen found that the accident rate was "really low." A large majority of participants strongly agreed that they got more exercise since the program started. And helmet use in bike programs tended to be far lower than among the general public.
Another study this summer found that only 30 percent of local riders using Washington's Capital Bikeshare program wore helmets, compared with 70 percent of people on their own bikes, said John Kraemer of Georgetown University, the study's author, who supports helmet use.
Before you hit the comment button and tell me that you know someone whose life was probably saved by a bike helmet, I know someone, too. I also know someone who believes his life was saved by getting a blood test for prostate specific antigen, detecting prostate cancer. But is that sense of salvation actually justified, for the individual or society? Back in New York I strapped on my helmet for a weekend bike ride in Central Park. But I'm not sure I'll do the same two years from now if I'm commuting to work on a mature Citi Bike system.
Mr. De Jong, who grew up in the Netherlands, observes of Amsterdam: "Nobody wears helmets, and bicycling is regarded as a completely normal, safe activity. You never hear that 'helmet saved my life' thing."
   

[Barbarin]

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Oće li Zemlja preživeti ovaj pad čoveka? 

[Barbarin]

 

[Meho Krljic]

Britanija na ivici propasti!

Dakle, slučaj April Jones je onoliko odvratan koliko to može da bude, otimanje deteta, zlostavljanje i ubijanje. No, evo koja je bizarna kolateralna šteta: neki lik je posle svega na svom Fejsbuk volu napravio izuzetno neslanu šalu na račun celog slučaja: "'What's the difference between Mark Bridger and Santa Claus? Mark Bridger comes in April." a neko drugi je napravio skrinšot ove šale i okačio je na stranu posvećenu April Jones.  Da sam ja član porodice ili prijatelj ili bilo šta, razumno bi bilo da tužim obojicu zbog nedoličnog ponašanja, nanošenja duševnog bola itd. Međutim, to se nije dogodilo, već je čovek uhapšen po službenoj dužnosti i okrivljen za krivično delo "elektronske komunikacije na izuzetno uvredljiv način". Holi šit! Britansko zakonodavstvo je upravo stavilo u funkciju verbalni delikt???

Mislim, da ne bude zabune, ta šala nije za javnost i ako je pravite, ne treba to da radite izvan kafanskog kruga najbližih prijatelja, bezosećajna je prema porodici April Jones i naprosto nije nešto što treba da ide u javnost. Ali krivično delo??? Auh.

[raindelay]

Kandidatkinja kakva nam treba:

Brazilian council candidate 'handed out cocaine with election leaflets'

A Brazilian city council candidate has been arrested after she was caught allegedly handing out cocaine with her election leaflets, according to reports. Carme Cristina Da Silva Lima, 32, was running for councillor of Itacoatiara, in Brazil's northern state of Amazonas. Police became suspicious when they saw a crowd allegedly gathering around Ms Lima's car on the morning of election day on Sunday. Officers searched her car and allegedly found hundreds of packets of cocaine attached to the candidate's leaflets with instructions on how to vote for her. Police chief Daniel Ottoni said: "There was a large gathering of people around Ms Lima, but when they saw the police they all ran away. "The candidate and another man also fled by car but officers caught up with them. According to locals, she had been distributing the drugs since early in the morning, on condition that people vote for her." Ms Lima was arrested for electoral corruption and drug dealing.

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2012/10/brazilian-council-candidate-handed-out.html

[Barbarin]

Nose pelene da uštede vreme   

[Meho Krljic]

Kina ukida radne logore 

  Peking – Kina planira reformu pravosudnog sistema kako bi se postigla veća društvena pravičnost, pravda i zaštita ljudskih prava, a u sklopu širih promena predviđeno je i ukidanje problematičnih radnih logora koji su policiji dozvoljavali da ljude drže u pritvoru godinama bez suđenja, prenosi Tanjug.
Najavljujući reforme, šef centralnog vladinog komiteta za reformisanje pravosuđa Đijang Vei juče je objavio ,,Belu knjigu" o reformama pravosuđa i novom vladinom planu za korenitim promenama sistema pravde koji se u Kini nije značajnije menjao decenijama.
Cilj je, kako se navodi u ,,Beloj knjizi", čije delove je objavila agencija Sinhua, i da se standardizuju pravosudni akti, poboljšaju postupci i pojača sudska demokratičnost i pravni nadzor. Insistirajući da je poboljšanje zaštite ljudskih prava važan cilj, u ,,Beloj knjizi" se navodi da je kinesko krivično procesno pravo u izvršenim izmenama 2012. uključilo i ,,poštovanje i zaštitu ljudskih prava".
U sklopu zaštite ljudskih prava preduzete su efikasne mere kako bi se zabranilo iznuđivanje priznanja mučenjem, bolje zaštitila prava osumnjičenih kriminalaca i branilaca i zaštitilo pravo advokata da rade svoj posao.
Mere su takođe preduzete da se striktno kontroliše i obazrivo primenjuje smrtna kazna, zbog čijeg velikog broja je Kina kritikovana od organizacija za zaštitu ljudskih prava.
Povodom zahteva domaćih i stranih humanitarnih organizacija i aktivista da se ukinu ozloglašeni radni logori, Đijang je rekao da je kinesko društvo ,,postiglo konsenzus o potrebi reformisanja prevaspitavanja kroz sistem radnih logora".
On je rekao novinarima da odgovarajući vladini uredi pripremaju odgovarajući plan reformisanja sistema prevaspitavanja kroz rad.
U ,,Beloj knjizi" se tim povodom kaže da kažnjenici imaju obavezu da rade u kineskim zatvorima i da za to budu plaćeni, pošto zemlja nastoji da izgradi pravedan, čist, civilizovan i efikasan zatvorski sistem. Tokom nedelje zatvorenici rade pet dana, jedan dan se obrazuju i jedan odmaraju, navodi se u knjizi. Po rečima Đijanga, reformisanje pravosuđa je važan deo reformi kineskog političkog sistema i predstavlja dugoročan i težak zadatak.
  objavljeno: 10.10.2012 

[Loni]

Него, браћа Грци се у кризна времена сналазе како могу, симпатичан чланак о томе.

Kežman (donji red, najdesnije) nam baš polete visoko. 

[scallop]

Jok, ti si Kežman.

[Meho Krljic]

Skajnet se budi?

(Mada u članku kažu da je verovatno samo neko testirao stvari)

Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week 

A single mysterious computer program that placed orders — and then subsequently canceled them — made up 4 percent of all quote traffic in the U.S. stock market last week, according to the top tracker of high-frequency trading activity. The motive of the algorithm is still unclear.   [/q]
The program placed orders in 25-millisecond bursts involving about 500 stocks, according to Nanex, a market data firm. The algorithm never executed a single trade, and it abruptly ended at about 10:30 a.m. ET Friday.
"Just goes to show you how just one person can have such an outsized impact on the market," said Eric Hunsader, head of Nanex and the No. 1 detector of trading anomalies watching Wall Street today. "Exchanges are just not monitoring it."
Hunsader's sonar picked up that this was a single high-frequency trader after seeing the program's pattern (200 fake quotes, then 400, then 1,000) repeated over and over. Also, it was being routed from the same place, the Nasdaq
     "My guess is that the algo was testing the market, as high-frequency frequently does," says Jon Najarian, co-founder of TradeMonster.com. "As soon as they add bandwidth, the HFT crowd sees how quickly they can top out to create latency." (Read More: Unclear What Caused Kraft Spike: Nanex Founder.)
Translation: The ultimate goal of many of these programs is to gum up the system so it slows down the quote feed to others and allows the computer traders (with their co-located servers at the exchanges) to gain a money-making arbitrage opportunity.

The scariest part of this single program was that its millions of quotes accounted for 10 percent of the bandwidth that is allowed for trading on any given day, according to Nanex. (The size of the bandwidth pipe is determined by a group made up of the exchanges called the Consolidated Quote System.) (Read More: Cuban, Cooperman: Curb High-Frequency Trading.)
"This is pretty out there to see this affect this many stocks at the same time," said Hunsader, adding that high-frequency traders are doing anything to "tip the odds in their favor."
A Senate panel at the end of September sought answers on high-frequency trading, as investigators look into the best way to stop wealth-destroying events such as the Knight Capital Group   [KCG  2.50    -0.04  (-1.57%)   ]  computer glitch in August and the market "flash crash" two years ago. (Read More: Ex-Insider Calls High-Frequency Trading 'Cheating'.)
Regulators are trying to see how they can rein in the practice, which accounts for 70 percent of trading each day, without slowing down progress and profits for Wall Street and the U.S. exchanges.


"I feel a tax on order-stuffing is what the markets need at this point," said David Greenberg of Greenberg Capital. "This will cut down on the number of erroneous bids and offers placed into the market at any given time and should help stabilize the trading environment."
Hunsader warned that regulators better do something fast, speculating that this single program could have led to something very bad if big news broke, or if a sell-off occurred and one entity was hogging this much of the system.