World today (Ni Srbija ni zemlje u okruženju)

[ALEKSIJE D.]

http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/planeta.299.html:499865-Svaki-drugi-Belgijanac-planira-prevremenu-penziju
Neradnici! Vrdalame! I to mi je radna kultura i odnos prema dužnostima sproću države i poslodavca. Sram ih bilo! Treba njima naš PIO i komisije za invalidsku penziju, pa da vide kako se ne može tako lako pobeći od dobrog poslodavca koji te mazi i pazi...

[Ugly MF]

AMERICKA ASOCIJACIJA PSIHIJATARA: BITI PROTIV VLASTI JE PSIHICKI POREMECAJ


http://vesnamihajlovicblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/americka-asocijacija-psihijatara-biti-protiv-vlasti-je-psihicki-poremecaj/

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Neka sprdnja ili pogresno preneta vest?!?

[mac]

Članak na vikipediji je star desetak godina. Stvarno postoji.

[Albedo 0]

http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Svet/480150/Sudija-razbesneo-Australiju-Pedofilija-i-incest-vise-da-ne-budu-tabu-tema-kao-sto-nisu-ni-gej-prava

[varvarin]

http://www.b92.net/biz/vesti/svet.php?yyyy=2014&mm=07&dd=16&nav_id=877333

Evo ko daje najviše za BRIKS banku

"Brazilija/Moskva -- Sedište Nove banke za razvoj (The New Development Bank), koju osniva BRIKS (Brazil, Rusija, Indija, Kina i Južnoafrička Republika - JAR) biće u Šangaju...
... U osnivačkom kapitalu Kina će obezbediti 41 milijardu dolara, Indija, Brazil i Rusija po 18 milijardi, a JAR - pet milijardi..."

[mac]

Ne treba da rade s dolarima, tako su podložni manipulacijama na tržištu.

[Ugly MF]

http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Svet/480150/Sudija-razbesneo-Australiju-Pedofilija-i-incest-vise-da-ne-budu-tabu-tema-kao-sto-nisu-ni-gej-prava

Nazalost, ovog idiota sudiju ce za 50 godina u skolama da pr(o)daju kao  Darvina i Stivena Hokinga....

[Anomander Rejk]

Ljulja se euro-brod...2017e referendum.
http://www.vijesti.me/svijet/velika-britanija-upozorava-eu-promjene-ili-izlazimo-clanak-787865

[scallop]

Jedno pitanje za Batu: Šta misliš o David Harvey-u?

[Albedo 0]

Borisov arhineprijatelj, mada mi ne bi bio prvi izbor što se tiče literature o neoliberalizmu

[scallop]

Šta je prvi izbor?

[Albedo 0]

Valerštajn (Wallerstein), Kastels (Castells), Klaus Ofe, Džon Kin... to su po meni mnogo jači, ozbiljniji igrači, mada ne pišu samo o neoliberalizmu, a ni ne zovu ga tako. Nije ni Harvi loš, sigurno bi bio u prvih deset.

[scallop]

Zahvaljujem.

[Tex Murphy]

Valerštajn (Wallerstein), Kastels (Castells), Klaus Ofe, Džon Kin... to su po meni mnogo jači, ozbiljniji igrači, mada ne pišu samo o neoliberalizmu, a ni ne zovu ga tako. Nije ni Harvi loš, sigurno bi bio u prvih deset.

Хвала, мада ја заправо и не знам шта је тај неолиберализам, ал сигуран сам да ништа не ваља.

[Meho Krljic]

CIA-in fanzin The Economist otkriva da su ljudi koji su živeli u komunističkim(ish) društvima u vreme kad je istočni blok još postojao manje moralni i spremniji da slažu, prevare, obmanu. Bar kad pričamo o Istočnoj Njemačkoj. Kao da to nismo znali i sami!!!!!!!!!!

Lying commies
The more people are exposed to socialism, the worse they behave

"UNDER capitalism", ran the old Soviet-era joke, "man exploits man. Under communism it is just the opposite." In fact new research suggests that the Soviet system inspired not just sarcasm but cheating too: in East Germany, at least, communism appears to have inculcated moral laxity.
Lars Hornuf of the University of Munich and Dan Ariely, Ximena García-Rada and Heather Mann of Duke University ran an experiment last year to test Germans' willingness to lie for personal gain. Some 250 Berliners were randomly selected to take part in a game where they could win up to €6 ($8).


The game was simple enough. Each participant was asked to throw a die 40 times and record each roll on a piece of paper. A higher overall tally earned a bigger payoff. Before each roll, players had to commit themselves to write down the number that was on either the top or the bottom side of the die. However, they did not have to tell anyone which side they had chosen, which made it easy to cheat by rolling the die first and then pretending that they had selected the side with the highest number. If they picked the top and then rolled a two, for example, they would have an incentive to claim—falsely—that they had chosen the bottom, which would be a five.
Honest participants would be expected to roll ones, twos and threes as often as fours, fives and sixes. But that did not happen: the sheets handed in had a suspiciously large share of high numbers, suggesting many players had cheated.
After finishing the game, the players had to fill in a form that asked their age and the part of Germany where they had lived in different decades. The authors found that, on average, those who had East German roots cheated twice as much as those who had grown up in West Germany under capitalism. They also looked at how much time people had spent in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The longer the participants had been exposed to socialism, the greater the likelihood that they would claim improbable numbers of high rolls.
The study reveals nothing about the nature of the link between socialism and dishonesty. It might be a function of the relative poverty of East Germans, for example. All the same, when it comes to ethics, a capitalist upbringing appears to trump a socialist one.

[scallop]

Fanzini su uvek sumnjivi. U njima pišeš šta god ti padne na um. Demokratski i nepotkupljivi Zapad se niskostima plagijarizma nikad ne bi bavio. Negde u toj naučnoj literaturi sam naišao na stručni profil - medical writer. Nije doktor, ali zna da piše. Pa, kad autori nemaju vremena od biznisa da pišu svoje radove, postoji neko ko će to umesto njih. Pošteno. 

[Albedo 0]

pa ono, metaforički gledano, Fuko je pokušao da dokaže da su ljudi u kapitalizmu indoktrinirani da pričaju istinu. Budale

[varvarin]

Pa, kad autori nemaju vremena od biznisa da pišu svoje radove, postoji neko ko će to umesto njih. Pošteno. 

Ja sam čuo da toga ima i kod nas...

[džin tonik]

Prilicno povrsan clanak. Teznja socijalizmu povezana je sa opravdanom ogorcenoscu. Tako da to nije amoralno, vec pravedno. Nisu ljudi zivili u komunizmu, vec sistemu koji je imao komunizam za cilj. To je sveti cilj koji opravdava svako sredstvo.

[džin tonik]

Hm, 6 eura. Koliko je to konvertibilno? Moze u pivu?

[scallop]

pa ono, metaforički gledano, Fuko je pokušao da dokaže da su ljudi u kapitalizmu indoktrinirani da pričaju istinu. Budale

Jel' to onaj Fuko s klatnom?

[Albedo 0]

ne, onaj peško!

[Meho Krljic]

Ja stvarno više neću ući u avion...



Air Algerie plane vanishes from radar

ALGIERS, Algeria -- An Air Algerie flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers has disappeared from radar, the official Algerian news agency said Thursday.
Air navigation services lost track of the plane 50 minutes after takeoff early Thursday, last sited at 1:50 a.m. GMT (10:50p EDT), the agency said.
"In keeping with procedures, Air Algerie has launched its emergency plan," the agency quoted the airline as saying.
Swiftair, a Spanish company that leases aircraft to other carriers, said in a statement that it owns the missing  McDonnell Douglas MD-83 that was being operated by Air Algerie. Swiftair said there were 116 people on board, including six crew members.
The flight path of Flight AH5017 from Ouagadougou, the capital of the west African nation of Burkina Faso, to Algiers was not immediately clear.
Ougadougou is in a nearly straight line south of Algiers, passing over Mali, where unrest continues in the north.
An Algerian official says the plane was over Mali when it disappeared, according to the Reuters news agency.
CBS News' Debora Patta reports diplomats have told her insurgents in northern Mali are not believed to have weapons capable of shooting down a commercial airliner flying at cruising altitude.
But she notes that the Federal Aviation Administration has issued a warning for U.S. carriers not to fly over Mali.
  © 2014 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

[Josephine]

Kome je u cilju da uništi avio prevoz? Drugim rečima, ko želi da preuzme avio transport?

[Albedo 0]

najviše koristi od rušenja alžirskih i malezijskih kompanija ima Air Serbia

[Meho Krljic]

Dramatic Shifts in Manufacturing Costs Are Driving Companies to Change Their Global Production Strategies

CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - Aug 19, 2014) - Dramatic shifts in cost competitiveness around the world over the past decade are starting to spur a number of companies to change their global sourcing and manufacturing investment strategies, according to a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The report, titled The Shifting Economics of Global Manufacturing: How Cost Competitiveness Is Changing Worldwide, is being released today.   
Global automakers are expanding production in the UK, for example, which has emerged as one of Western Europe's lowest-cost manufacturing locations, while at the same time they are slashing capacity in Australia, now one of the most expensive. In Mexico, where manufacturing costs are now estimated to be cheaper than those of China, Asian electronics manufacturers such as Foxconn and Sharp are expanding production.

"Many companies are beginning to see the world in a new light," said Harold L. Sirkin, a BCG senior partner and coauthor of the report. "They are finding that many old perceptions of low-cost and high-cost countries are out of date, and they are starting to realign their global sourcing and production networks accordingly."

The Shifting Economics of Global Manufacturing expands on earlier BCG research into changes in direct manufacturing costs among the world's 25 largest goods-exporting nations since 2004. That research, released in April, found that several economies still often perceived as low-cost manufacturing nations -- such as China, Brazil, Russia, and the Czech Republic -- are no longer much cheaper than the U.S. In some cases, they are estimated to be even more expensive, according to the new BCG Global Manufacturing Cost-Competitiveness Index. The index also found that the competitiveness of historically high-cost nations, such as the U.S. and the UK, has significantly improved.

The BCG Global Manufacturing Cost-Competitiveness Index is a new tool that sheds light on the shifting cost dynamics of global production. The index compares changes in direct costs between 2004 and 2014 in the world's 25 leading export economies along four dimensions: manufacturing wages, productivity, energy costs, and currency exchange rates. An interactive graphic on bcgperspectives.com shows how the cost position of each of those 25 economies has changed between 2004 and early 2014 relative to the others.

The new report analyzes the factors driving the cost shifts in greater detail in several economies, such as Australia, India, Mexico, and the UK, and the impact of changing costs on those nations' manufacturing competitiveness. The report also offers recommendations on how companies and governments can respond.

Several countries that have most improved their competitiveness over the past decade are already attracting new manufacturing investment and jobs, while investment is declining in some of those that have lost ground in the BCG index. In the UK -- where the direct-manufacturing cost structure has improved by up to an estimated 10 percentage points in the index over other leading Western European exporters since 2004 -- automobile output has increased by around 50 percent since 2009. According to the Financial Times, auto production is projected to grow by another one-third by 2017 to 2 million units annually, thanks to around $17 billion in new investment by automakers such as Jaguar Land Rover, Nissan, Honda, and the BMW Group's MINI.

Contrast the UK's performance with that of Australia, the country whose global cost competitiveness deteriorated the most from 2004 to 2014, according to the BCG index. Australian auto production has contracted by half since 2004, and Ford Australia, Toyota, and General Motors' Holden subsidiary plan to shut their factories by 2017. Overall investment in Australian manufacturing fell by 6 percent between 2004 and 2012. A major reason is that Australia's booming natural resources sector helped push manufacturing wages up by about 48 percent over the past decade and Australia's currency up by 21 percent against the U.S. dollar. Overall manufacturing labor productivity, however, fell by 1 percent over the same ten-year period.

"Improving the productivity of each worker is becoming an increasingly important factor in manufacturing competitiveness across the globe," said Michael Zinser, a BCG partner who is coleader of the firm's Manufacturing practice. "This is especially true as the once-considerable wage gaps between developed and developing economies continue to shrink."

The shifting cost positions of Mexico and China have also influenced investment. In 2004, China's average manufacturing costs were estimated to be 6 percent higher than Mexico's, according to the BCG index. Mexico is currently around 4 percent cheaper on average. Chinese manufacturing wages have nearly quintupled since 2004, while Mexican wages have risen by less than 50 percent in U.S. dollar terms. Adjusted for productivity, Mexican labor costs are now estimated to be 13 percent lower than those of China. Partly as a result, Mexican exports of electronics -- an industry dominated by China for more than a decade -- have more than tripled, to $78 billion, from 2006 to 2013. Asian companies account for one-third of investment in Mexican manufacturing. Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, China's largest single investor, says it now exports 8 million PCs a year from its 5,500-worker facility in Chihuahua state, and a major expansion is in the works.

Not all countries are taking full advantage of their low-cost advantages, however. The report found that global competiveness in manufacturing is undermined in nations such as India and Indonesia by several factors, including logistics, the overall ease of doing business, and inflexible labor markets. "A lot of factors other than wages and exchange rates weigh heavily on corporate decisions about where to locate production," said Justin Rose, a BCG partner and coauthor. "These challenges must be overcome before they can translate low costs into a surge of investment and exports across a broad range of industries."

Rather than seeing the globe in terms of low cost versus high cost, the report recommends that companies base manufacturing decisions on "a more current and sophisticated understanding of competitiveness" within regions. Companies should reassess their manufacturing footprints and explore investments that can improve productivity. They should fully account for logistics and obstacles to efficiently conducting business that can add hidden costs and risk. Companies should also understand the implications of changing manufacturing locations on their entire supply chains to avoid surprises, such as unforeseen shipping and import duty costs.

Companies should also expect that volatility will continue and that relative cost competitiveness around the world will remain dynamic. "The winners are likely to be companies that align their operations with the shifting economics of global manufacturing -- and build in the flexibility to shift gears as those economies continue to evolve," said Sirkin, who, along with Zinser and Rose, is coauthor of The U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance: How Shifting Global Economics Are Creating an American Comeback (Knowledge@Wharton, 2012).

A copy of the report can be downloaded from bcgperspectives.com.

[scallop]

Bolji su crtani!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW3Q1sTmJ6w#t=502

[Meho Krljic]

Nije ni kod nas situacija na relaciji fudbaleri-navijači najgora na svetu. U Alžiru, recimo, upravo ubiše igrača, na terenu, tokom utakmice:


African Football - Cameroonian striker dies after being struck by object thrown from stands

[scallop]

Ovi jadnici će opet da se od nečega brane:


http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Svet/491541/Nove-snage-NATO-za-brzo-reagovanje-od-10000-vojnika

[Anomander Rejk]

Ne znam je li fotka verodostojna, ali uglavnom kruži internetom...
http://www.in4s.net/index.php/ako-nekom-nije-jasno-mekejn-sa-vodjama-isis-u-alepu-2013/

[Meho Krljic]

E, ako je Mirjana Bobić Mojsilović postala kredibilan izvor vesti, ovoj planeti je odzvonilo. 


Ali zanimljivo je kako se zapad napinje iz sve snage da pokaže da je IS (sad više ne koriste ISIS i ISIL) u stvari Asadov projekat, odnosno kako je on namerno svu drugu opoziciju napadao a njih nije dirao da bi se onda zapadu predstavio kao prirodan saveznik:


http://www.vox.com/2014/8/22/6057055/syria-cartoon


A time se na čudan način ignoriše činjenica da je IS dobijala podršku baš od tog zapada. Možda i od Mekejna lično, zaista.

[ALEKSIJE D.]

Ma kud bi demokrataska slobodoljubiva Amerika imala posla sa takvim ljudima? To je neko došao da mu Mekejn potpiše pismo preporuke za kurira ili portira na parkingu u Njujorku. Nema ni tamo zaposlenja bez veze i poznanstava.

[Meho Krljic]

Nažalost, nemamo topik pod nazivom "Košmar neoliberalizma" ili bar "Libertarijanske svinjarije", a i nema smisla sad kad nas je Boris napustio da vreme provodi na zdraviji način, tako da ću ovde okačiti gugltranslejt link koji pokazuje da su Nemci i pored svog načelnog klizanja u neoliberalnom smeru poslednjih deset i kusur godina, ipak u nekim stvarima skloniji regulativi. Naime, Uber, poznata kompanija koja taksi-usluge zamenjuje jeftinijim povezivanjem ljudi sa kolima sa ljudima sa potrebom za prevozom, je upravo dobila zabranu rada u Nemačkoj zbog, naravno, nelojalne konkurencije:


Kliknuti za vrlo solidan prevod na engleski



I zanimljivo će biti gledati kako se to dalje razvija (Uber, naravno, namerava da se bori na sudu). Kao star, konzervativan čovek odrastao u izrazito etatističkom društvu, ja po difoltu naginjem ka ideji da kad ulazite u kola koja vozi neko koga ne poznajete, ne škodi da znate da je taj neko prošao kojekakve testove, da su mu kola bezbedna, da je, ako se nedobog nešto desi, sve pokriveno osiguranjem itd. Ali shvatam da mladi ljudi misle drugačije. 

[Meho Krljic]

Posle njega - potpo. Aktuelni Dalaj Lama veli da je dosta bilo tog besomučnog reinkarniranja:


Dalai Lama says no need for successor

The Dalai Lama has told a German newspaper that he should be the last Tibetan spiritual leader, ending a centuries-old religious tradition from his Himalayan homeland. His comments to the Welt am Sonntag newspaper echo his previous statement that "the institution of the Dalai Lama has served its purpose", but were even more explicit.
"We had a Dalai Lama for almost five centuries. The 14th Dalai Lama now is very popular. Let us then finish with a popular Dalai Lama," he said.
"If a weak Dalai Lama comes along, then it will just disgrace the Dalai Lama," he added with a laugh, according to a transcript of the English language interview.
He also said: "Tibetan Buddhism is not dependent on one individual. We have a very good organisational structure with highly trained monks and scholars."
China has governed Tibet since 1951, a year after invading, and the Dalai Lama fled across the Himalayas to India after a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2011 retired from political duties and has upgraded the role of prime minister of the Tibetan exile community.
But he is still the most powerful rallying point for Tibetans, both in exile and in their homeland, and remains the universally recognised face of the movement.
Asked by the German newspaper how much longer he may carry on his advocacy duties, the 79-year-old said: "The doctors say I could become 100 years old. But in my dreams I will die at the age of 113 years.
"I hope and pray that I may return to this world as long as sentient beings' suffering remains. I mean not in the same body, but with the same spirit and the same soul."
On the question of whether he may ever be able to return to Tibet, he said: "Yes, I am sure of that. China can no longer isolate itself, it must follow the global trend towards a democratic society."

[scallop]

Sumrak lamaizma. Falš reinkarnacija! Ko ga naš'o kao klinca? Mora da je neka CIA ujdurma.

[Ugly MF]

Nabaso sam nekad negde po nekim "conspiracy theory" filmovima da su nekakvi da'l Jezuiti, masoni, illuminati , takvi nekakvi,( stvorili man lovu i zlato da vrede, nego i dan danas izmisljaju te komunizam te demokratiju),  da su cak izmislili ISLAM!
Ono, ladno Muhamed je bio njihov agent ,i onda su pokusali da stvore svoju religiju po uzoru na hriscanstvo, da ispisu svoja pravila, itd...
Al to mi nekako bilo preterano, ko i vanzemaljci i reptili medju nama, ali ovaj Dalaj lama..

Ali ovo je CIA/masoni/jezuiti stereotip sa izjavama! Podseca me na Klintona i Busa sa objasnjenjima!

[Meho Krljic]

Ćira u današnjoj Politici oštro mada dosta interesantno obrazlaže zašto je mladalački bunt danas usmeren prevashodno na, hajde da kažemo, lična i identitetska pitanja, bez klasne i neke šire solidarnosti ili vizije:

Зашто нема студентског бунта

Одавно дипломце није чекала овако туробна будућност. Од Канаде, у којој је петина младих људи незапослена, до Грчке и Шпаније, у којима више од 53 одсто нема посао, говори се о ,,изгубљеним генерацијама".
Очекиване стопе економског раста не обећавају промене набоље. Чак и Марио Драги, главни банкар еврозоне – у којој је четвртина младих људи на бироу – признаје да ће незапосленост у тим кључним годинама оставити ,,доживотне последице".
Упркос томе, нема великих студентских демонстрација. Малобројни протести, какав је био ,,Окупирај Волстрит", завршили су се неуспехом, изгубљени у твитовању и лајковању. Шта је успавало бунтовне умове? Чиме су анестезирани?
Вероватно највеће изненађење представља равнодушност која је завладала међу студентима друштвених и хуманистичких наука, на факултетима који су важили за колевке субверзивних идеја и покрета. Њихова незаинтересованост за велике промене и сумњичавост према покретачким идејама везана је у великој мери за мисао једног човека – Жака Дериде.
Ниједан мислилац у 20. веку није утицао на толико велики број научних дисциплина и умних људи као овај харизматични Француз. Многи Деридино дело доживљавају као ,,крај филозофије", врхунац интелектуалног развоја човечанства.
На универзитетима широм света ,,читање Дериде" је постало обред прелаза у ,,праву" интелектуалну елиту. Мада, тешко је неинфициранима објаснити заводљивост филозофа који је своју највећу идеју описао речима: ,,Деконструкција, ако таква ствар уопште постоји, заузима место искуства немогућег".
Деридина стратегија тумачења текстова, деконструкција, ставила је нагласак на проналажење контрадикција, предрасуда и недоследности. Временом се, тврде критичари, претворила у деструкцију – опсесивно растакање свих великих идеја и дисквалификовање њихових аутора.
Иако представљена као израз интелектуалне побуне против старих, ,,окошталих" теорија и учења, опојна мисао Деридиних постмодернистичких следбеника постала је потмули непријатељ сваког другог бунта. Њихов утицај се често наводи као један од главних разлога зашто се стиче утисак да више нема левице.
Док су ,,дворски" филозофи и политиколози, заједно са економистима из ,,чикашке школе", развијали скуп идеја на коме се темељи поредак који већ четврт века управља нашим животима, Деридини обожаваоци на левици су се забављали, доказујући да су све велике идеје бесмислене и шупље.
Не чуди да апологете неолиберализма више не оклевају да признају су им деридијанци, некада највећи непријатељи – постали савезници.
Амерички конзервативци су осамдесетих изгубили идеолошку битку на универзитетима, али се убрзо испоставило да су добили велики рат. Опчињени ,,теоријом" и опскурним жаргоном, скептични и цинични постмодернисти и њихови студенти остали су изоловани и неразумљиви, не само невољни већ и неспособни да се укључе у важне друштвене расправе у времену успона тачеризма и реганомике.
Идеологија која фаворизује интересе привилеговане елите, ,,један одсто" супербогатих и њихове мињоне, тријумфовала је без помена вредног отпора.
Ноам Чомски тврди да су постмодернисти допринели самоискључивању интелектуалаца не само из важних политичких борби већ из стварности. У бунтовне младе мозгове се уселио нихилизам, веровања да ништа нема вредност и схватање да је све толико релативно да више ништа није важно.
Питер Ленон, колумниста ,,Гардијана", написао је да ,,коришћењем Деридине логике можемо деконструисати 'Мајн кампф' и открити да је (Адолф Хитлер) био у сукобу са антисемитизмом".
За Дериду и, наводно погрешно, разумевање његовог опуса везују се и две главне опсесије данашњих активиста – политичка коректност и ,,политике идентитета", које су фокусиране на положај мањина угрожених од стране већине – мушкараца, националиста, фундаменталиста... – чији је идентитет представљен као злоћудан, доминантан и недостојан поштовања. Виктимизација и демонизација постале су тако главне одреднице активизма.
И ангажовани студенти данас углавном говоре језиком идентитета, а не језиком промена. Постали су опседнути препознавањем и признавањем различитости, што је створило нове антагонизме и довело до умножавања ратишта на којима се воде политичке битке.
Истицање ,,другости" и набрајање неправди заменило је потрагу за сличностима и везама између група и појединаца.
Деконструкција и политике идентитета су стигле и на универзитете у Србији и зачарале многе бриљантне младе умове. И овде су они који су желели да буду ангажовани изабрали предвидиве циљеве.
Покрећу их, на пример, чињенице да је живот мајки Сребренице испуњен неизмерним болом, да није лако бит геј Ром у Земуну или лезбијка на Врачару.
Нажалост, и наши академци су углавном постали равнодушни према мукама политички некоректних, али изузетно бројних жртава тржишног фундаментализма. Парада поноса је постала важније питање од стално растућег броја људи који копају по контејнерима.
На протестима 1968. године београдски студенти су узвикивали ,,Радници–студенти!" и ,,Ми смо синови радног народа". Нажалост, данас у истим клупама главну реч имају бунтовници који се упињу да докажу да немају ништа с радним народом.
Њима је незамисливо да буду на истим барикадама с пониженим људима који су можда хомофобични, вероватно слушају Ацу Лукаса, смеју се расистичким вицевима о Циганима и сигурно не би разумели Дериду и Бодријара.
Проблем није само у овим младим, политички коректним елитистима који верују да су незапослени молер из Батајнице и отпуштени столар из Сврљига заслужили да живе у беди. Велики део левичарског активизма се свео на невладине организације које делују као полиција ставова и мисли – постмодерна, лепше обучена, али подједнако неуморна инкарнација Илије Чворовића.
,,Када би се сутра дигле снаге револуције, 'левичари' би прво проверили да ли се састоје од 'правих' идентитетских група. Ако састав није задовољавајући, отказали би револуцију. Не би им било важно то што би користила свима, што би учинила живот подношљивијим за све оне који су маргинализовани", пише професор Мајкл Ректенвалд с Њујоршког универзитета.
Млади бунтовници су принуђени да бирају између две крајности. На једној су острашћене идентитетске битке које се завршавају или малом победом или повлачењем у елитистичке лагуме прожете самосажаљењем и презиром према ,,непросвећеној маси".
Другу оличавају екстремно десничарски, углавном фундаменталистички покрети – једини који покушавају да ,,промене свет".
Овако велико сиромаштво покретачких визија је у болном нескладу са очекивањима младих људи којима је украдена будућност. Нажалост, оно одређује могуће домете сваког, па и студентског бунта.
Ретки протести, прожети мешавином резигнације и беса, остаће начин да се испразне нагомилане фрустрације и дође до мало конзумерског задовољења – прилика да из разбијеног излога изнесу нове патике, паметни телефон или неколико фирмираних крпица.
Понижена и оклеветана, ућуткана већина је разумела да се за веће циљеве данас не вреди борити.
     Зоран Ћирјаковић   објављено: 14/09/2014

[дејан]

овај текст на гејпарадни топик. ћирајковић мало другачијим речима говори исто оно што и либе (на том топику), само са одређеним историјским увидом у порекло 'модерне' идиотизације становништва.

[Anomander Rejk]

Čuo sam juče da je u Švedskoj neka ultra desna, skoro naci partija, dobila 15% glasova. Jesu to bili neki izbori na lokalu, ili je na nivou cele zemlje, ima li neko info?

[Meho Krljic]

Imaš ovde sve:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_general_election,_2014

[Meho Krljic]

Danas je škotski referendum za otcijepljenje, pa u tom smislu, treba odvojiti malo vremena i za čitanje ovakvih tekstova. Prednost je što smo slične stvari čitali i na srpskom pre četvrt veka 


Scottish referendum: Alone, Scotland will go back to being a failed state

Yes supporters are hoping Scotland will become a Scandinavian paradise. But with its history of bitter internal divisions, it is likely to go the opposite way


  By Niall Ferguson
  6:10PM BST 17 Sep 2014



No good deed goes unpunished. In granting residents of Scotland a referendum on their country's political future, David Cameron surely thought he was doing a good deed. The Scottish National Party would have to put up or shut up. A Yes vote would be a victory for them. A No vote would be a victory for the Scottish Labour Party bigwigs to whom Mr Cameron entrusted the campaign against independence, in the belief that he – despite being the son of a Scotsman – was less qualified than they to make the case for the Union.   If Mr Cameron gave a thought to his own self-interest, it can only have been a fleeting one. Before he became prime minister, I once suggested to him that a referendum on Scottish independence might be a Machiavellian masterstroke. If it went the wrong way, I suggested, playing devil's advocate, might not the Tories rule for ever more in the remaining UK?   I hope I betray no confidences when I say that a cloud crossed his face at this suggestion. Mr Cameron was, and remains, a staunch Unionist. Like me, he abhors the thought of the break-up of Britain. His family tree, like that of my three half-English children, is the Union in microcosm.   Perhaps, on reflection, he was therefore not Machiavellian enough. For he must surely now regret his good deed. Whatever the result on Thursday – unless by some poll-defying miracle it is a decisive "No" – Mr Cameron seems certain to be weakened by it.   Returning to my birthplace, Glasgow, last week (to deliver a long-planned, non-panic-induced lecture), I struggled to work out why it has come to this. The obvious, proximate causes do not quite suffice. True, "Better Together" has made the Union sound like a case study in a worthy but deadly dull economics textbook. By contrast, the Yes campaign has been a scaled-up version of Alex Salmond's persona: disarming, genial, reassuring, upbeat and unscrupulous.


  But what I encountered in Scotland last week was not just a tale of two campaigns. It was a tale of two countries. My Scotland – as proudly British as it is Scottish, imbued with a sense of our unique historical contribution – is still there, but it has fallen silent. Another Scotland has sprung up alongside it that is quite different. It pretends to be multicultural but is in truth subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) anti-English. It could not care less about Scotland's past, except as something to be distorted for political ends. And this other Scotland is very, very noisy.
I wish I had a fiver – yes, a Bank of England one please – for every rude name I have been called since I re-entered this fray. (Most are unprintable, but "weegie bampot" gives you a flavour. A "weegie" is a Glaswegian. I have never been sure what a "bampot" is, but it's a great insult.)
In the lengthy discussion that followed my lecture, virtually every question was from a Yes supporter. (The worst came from that insufferable type of person who is always claiming to feel "offended" by something. Most, I should say, were civil.) The common objection was that my argument for the Union was rooted in the past. But what did history have to do with Scotland's future as a new Scandinavian-style haven for egalitarianism, inclusiveness, clean energy, world peace and all the other things implicitly repudiated by the gimlet-eyed Tory bampots?
Well, perhaps there is no point in reasoning with those who have resolved not to learn from history. Nevertheless, let me try to explain why Scotland is not – and is highly unlikely to become – a Scandinavian country.
Scottish history offers proof that even the most failed state can be fixed – by uniting with a richer and more tranquil neighbour. For most of the early modern period, the Scots kingdom was Europe's Afghanistan. In the Highlands and the Hebrides, feudal warlords ruled over an utterly impoverished populace in conditions of lawlessness and internecine clan conflict. In the Lowlands, religious zealots who fantasised about a Calvinist theocracy – government by the godly Elect – prohibited dancing, drinking and drama. John Knox and his ilk were the Taliban of the Reformation. Witches were burnt in large numbers in Scotland, not in England.
Being the Scottish monarch was one of Europe's most dangerous jobs. James I was murdered. James II died besieging Roxburgh Castle. James III also died in battle. So did James IV, at Flodden in 1513. James V died after yet another defeat at the hands of the English at Solway Moss. Mary I – Mary Queen of Scots – was actually imprisoned and executed by the English. James VI's reaction on hearing that he had succeeded the woman who had condemned his mother to death was not one of repugnance but relief. As King James I of England, he could not wait to relocate south.
A key difference between Scotland and Sweden in this era was that Scotland was both small enough and weak enough to be the object of constant interference by its bigger neighbours, England and France. The Reformation made the problem especially severe because it divided Scotland between the Calvinist Lowlands and the mainly Catholic Highlands. This meant that, after Henry VIII's Reformation, the Catholic powers of the continent could always look to the north of Scotland for support. Yet, as Charles I discovered, the Lowlands Scots were so zealous in their Protestantism that they were just as likely to revolt against an Anglican King if he showed signs of "Popery". The net result was that from the 1630s until the 1740s Scotland was a far bigger source of political instability than Ireland.
The Union of the Parliaments in 1707 turned "Scotlanistan" into the Silicon Valley of 18th-century Europe, with Glasgow University as Stanford. The Union was a success partly because it sublimated these bitter Scottish divisions in a larger United Kingdom, while at the same time launching the country on an extraordinary economic boom that only really ran out of steam in the Sixties.
As in every heavy industrial economy, Scotland's coalmines, steelworks and shipyards were bound to be shuttered or shrunk in our time. Pittsburgh, Essen and Turin did not fare much better than Glasgow. Yet somehow the story took root that Scotland's economic restructuring was all the fault of the arch-bampot Margaret Thatcher. And then came Alex Salmond with his fairy tale that an independent Scotland could become a Scandinavian paradise.
Hardly any Yes voter appears aware that Sweden turned away from egalitarianism long ago. None of them seems to ever have bought an eye-poppingly expensive drink in Norway, much less seen a Danish tax bill.
The reality is that, as an independent country, Scotland would be far more likely to revert to its pre-1707 bad habits than to morph magically into "Scandland". For this debate on independence has opened some old rifts and created some new ones, too.
Many No voters I met complained of an atmosphere of intimidation. I tried to organise a group of pro-Union historians based in Scotland to write a letter backing the No campaign. I was told that, at most, two would be willing to sign. Most disturbing of all were the stories of SNP bigwigs issuing thinly veiled warnings to institutions perceived to be insufficiently Yes-istic. Jim Sillars's warning to BP and the big banks of a "day of reckoning" is part of a sinister pattern.
This, then, gives us a hint of what Alex Salmond's brave new Scotland would really be like: a divided and rancorous society with a vindictive style of politics. If that sounds familiar, that's because it nicely sums up Scotland as it was before the Union.
So pity Mr Cameron if he is punished for his good deed. But console yourself with the thought of Mr Salmond's far worse fate. He may be about to get what he wished for.
Niall Ferguson was born in Glasgow and educated at the Glasgow Academy and Oxford University. He is the Laurence A Tisch professor of history at Harvard

[дејан]

хм ја опет у своју тикву - али, рецимо, ако су у морима изнад и око шкотске нашли одређене изворе нафте и земног гаса (а те информације обично 'касне' по једно 3-5 година за 'реалношћу) шкотска има изгледе да постане скандинавски рај...а да не буде да ја баш лупам цитат из википедије каже

Scottish waters consist of a large sector of the North Atlantic and the North Sea,[17] containing the largest oil reserves in the European Union

[Meho Krljic]

Da, da, pa zna se da tu ima nafte, kao što se i zna da su Škotskoj u zamenu za sopstveni parlament koji je konstituisan 1998. godine, Britanci (čitaj Englezi) uzeli poprilično novo parče tog mora...


Džon Oliver je imao lep pregled situacije pre par dana (mislim da je ovo mac već kačio):


Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Scottish Independence

[Anomander Rejk]

Ako sruše Britaniju, obećavam javno da ću navijati i za Seltik i za Rendžers.
A i za Aberdin.

[ALEKSIJE D.]

Ako se Škotska osamostali, oće li viski biti jevtiniji?

[дејан]

ирски неће

[ALEKSIJE D.]

A oćemo li mi nešto da profitiramo od Škotske? Ono, da neće i oni da prave makete po Beogradu? Mislim, kakvi su sa maketarstvom? Ko velim, da znam za šta da navijam...

[mac]

Ako ne znaš šta da radiš poslušaj svoje srce.

[Anomander Rejk]

Ja se vodim tipičnom srpskom navijanju, da komšiji crkne krava . Učestvovala je Britanija u dosta naših nesreća, od 27.marta do 21 veka. Najmanje što može da im se vrati je da im se raspadne zemlja. Mada ne verujem nešto, našteliće oni  glasovataman dovoljno da nema nezavisnosti.