World today (Ni Srbija ni zemlje u okruženju)

[Anomander Rejk]

Ako znam šta si hteo s ovim reći...kakvi sad katolici u celoj priči?

[Truman]

Trumane, Francuska je bombardovala po Libiji, i štokuda po Africi odnedavno postala prvi kerić predvodnik, gonič u službi USA lovca. Jel misliš da to može tek tako proći?Da ubijaš i rušiš po svetu, a kući , u svojoj zemlji bi da se posle posla odmaraš uz vino i dobru knjigu?Jbga, ne može.

Ti, kao i još neki, apsolutno ne shvataš šta vam govorim tako da nema poente dalje raspravljati se.

[mac]

Ostani otvoren za mogućnost da nisi u pravu ti jedan, a ne dvadeset drugih ljudi.

[Truman]

Gade mi se više uvrede i pljuvačine, povlačim se s političkog dela foruma. Nije toliko stvar u različitim mišljenjima.

[mac]

Ostani takođe otvoren za mogućnost da je to što se povlačiš zbog jednog Džonovog one-linera samo znak da ne želiš da priznaš sebi da se u stvari povlačiš zbog nečeg drugog.

[Truman]

Povlačim se, jer mi se već mesecima gadi nivo komunikacije na ovom forumu, ali na političkim temama je to najizraženije...

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bosanski meci ftw

ajde Truki bre, pa ti izjednačavaš teroriste sa serijskim ubicama, kao da oni to rade zbog sopstvenog zadovoljstva, upleteno je u to mnogo političkih i ekonomskih interesa

što misliš zašto su svi oni komunistički teroristi nestali kad je propao SSSR, gdje su Crvene brigade, Bader Majnhof itd... kao odjednom nestala intimnost ili šta?

nažalost, kad sam već pokrenuo paralelu, sad vidim da ćemo plakati za ljevičarskim teroristima

[Father Jape]

Interesantan Žižek:

http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2015/01/slavoj-i-ek-charlie-hebdo-massacre-are-worst-really-full-passionate-intensity

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hm... ako neko ne reaguje na provokaciju, onda je superioran, a ako reaguje onda je inferioran?

Kad je onda ravnopravan...

[tomat]

kada reaguje tako što snažno zagrli provokatora.

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to bi podrazumijevalo da je tolerancija u stvari praktikovanje ravnopravnosti, što mi je sumnjivo

[Meho Krljic]

Evo, da se ne kaže da Merkelova nije poslala jasnu poruku:


Merkel says Islam 'belongs to Germany' ahead of Dresden rally

              BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday Islam "belongs to Germany", in a clear repudiation of anti-immigration protesters gathering in Dresden and other cities.
              A day after walking arm-in-arm with French President Francois Hollande at the front of a massive march in Paris to honour the victims of killings by Islamic militants, Merkel received the Turkish prime minister and urged dialogue among religions.
              The conservative chancellor pointed to comments made by former German president Christian Wulff, who said in 2010 that Islam was part of Germany, triggering a fierce debate.
              "Former president Wulff said Islam belongs to Germany. That is true. I also hold this opinion," Merkel said at a news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who also took part with other world leaders in the Paris march on Sunday.
              She was speaking hours before marches by a movement dubbed PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, were due to begin in several German cities.
              Such demonstrations, launched in Dresden, have been dwarfed by counter-protests. Merkel has said PEGIDA's rallies are organised by people with "hatred in their hearts".
              Merkel said her government was doing everything it could to ensure migrants were being successfully integrated into German society regardless of their religion.
              Nearly two in three of the four million Muslims in Germany are of Turkish origin. Roughly half are German citizens.
              But Merkel acknowledged the need for better dialogue between religions, praising Muslims for publicly rejecting the use of violence after the Paris killings and calling Turkey an ally in the fight against terrorism.
              She and Davutoglu announced that their governments would begin regular German-Turkish consultations, a format in which the cabinets meet once a year and which is reserved for some of Berlin's closest allies, like Israel and France.
              Merkel and other German politicians are due to take part in a solemn vigil at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Tuesday. Muslim organisations called the event to remember the victims of last week's Islamist militant assaults on the French satirical journal Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in Paris.
              Davutoglu said it was important to fight all forms of Islamophobia in Germany. Speaking later in Berlin, Davutoglu said that if Turkey was accepted in future as a European Union member it would send a powerful message of how Muslims and Christians could live together in peace in Europe.
              "If Turkey as a secular and moderate country is not accepted into the EU because of cultural prejudice, that will give a negative message to European people," he said.
               (Reporting by Andreas Rinke; Writing by Noah Barkin; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

[Anomander Rejk]

Mene više brine što se nije izjasnila, na rusko traženje, o Jacenjukovim tlapnjama kako je SSSR napao Nemačku i Ukrajinu. Ćutanje ostavlja prostor za mnoge teorije.

[Meho Krljic]

Neoliberalni košmari se nastavljaju:


Unpaid interns charged £300 for a job reference by thinktank

Civitatis International, run by an ex-aide to a Lib Dem peer, condemned over fees for unpaid trainees   

A former aide to a Liberal Democrat peer has been condemned for charging former unpaid interns at his thinktank "£300 a go" for employment references.
Jan Mortier, who describes himself as a former consultant to Lord Garden, a one-time defence spokesman for Nick Clegg's party, has admitted that he charges former unpaid trainees at his Civitatis International organisation for references, but denied that they had been interns, on the basis that they had been "trained directly" by him.
Civitatis International advertises itself as a private foundation "committed to promoting peace, dialogue and co-operation between nations and civilisations", and has submitted evidence to parliamentary select committees as a thinktank. Until a year ago it ran a "junior associates" programme under which young people were charged over £1,600 for a three-month "unique experience in project management training at our international secretariat in the City of London that was instituted by us because British universities are not giving the skills or experience necessary to help young people secure careers in the policy sector".
The junior associates programme, which did not offer a recognised qualification at the end or a guaranteed job, had been advertised on a website called Internwise, among others, which promotes itself as a "tool ideal to meet employers and gain some work experience". At least one former junior associate has posted an online CV describing his role at Civitatis International as an "internship". Civitatis invites "successful" junior associates to pay an additional £400 to £600 a year to become fellows of the organisation, which it describes as a private members' club for "future leaders".
Now it has emerged that Mortier, 37, has written to those who had been on the junior associate programme to inform them they must pay a £300 fee each time they want an employment reference.
Tanya de Grunwald, the founder of Graduate Fog, a graduate careers blog and a campaigner against the exploitation of the young, last night condemned Mortier and his organisation and said it was an extreme example of how the hopes of young people were abused. There has been a huge growth in unpaid internships in recent times, with an estimated 100,000 places advertised a year.
De Grunwald said: "Employing unpaid interns is bad enough, but charging them for a reference when they leave is appalling. We keep being assured that the graduate job market is picking up, but this case shows that there are still dark corners of it where unscrupulous employers find they can take advantage of young jobseekers' desperation and naivety. This guy should be ashamed."
Civitatis's website says it was founded in 2012. A company with the same name, of which Mortier was a director, was struck off Companies House records in 2009 after being dissolved. It is not registered with the Charities Commission. Mortier declined to comment on the organisation's tax status.
Civitatis's website is advertising a summer school at a cost of £400 for the week. Those who attend are promised a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for students around the world to gain employable skills". It claims that it can offer "an introduction to the thinking of the Club of Rome", the global thinktank where Mortier claims on his Linkedin profile to have "advised the secretary general on various issues". A spokesman for the Club of Rome told the Observer: "Jan Mortier was an intern at the Club of Rome for five months in 2010. He left a month early following a dispute. There is no link between the Club of Rome and Civitatis International." A spokesman for Civitatis said Mortier was a "full member of the Club of Rome EU chapter", an affiliated Belgian organisation.
Civitatis's website claims that "for a decade, Civitatis International has been coaching our junior associates to get policy jobs paying £24-£32,000 per year with a 100% success rate". When approached by the Observer, Mortier admitted that "one or two" alumni might not have reached their goals yet. He said the £300 fee for an employment reference was a "fair administrative fee".

[Meho Krljic]

S obzirom da je Siriza ozbiljno pobedila u Grčkoj, evo relevantnog Žižekovog teksta od pre neki dan. Ne delim njegov optimizam (plašim se da će se od Sirize očekivati nekakav kratkoročan rezultat koji oni neće isporučiti pa će to zatrti i primisli o levičarskim ideologijama na evropskom tlu na nekoliko decenija), ali dobro je da je NEKO ovde optimističan 



Zašto je važna pobeda Sirize

Kritičari institucionalne demokratije se često žale da izbori po pravilu ne donose stvarne promene. Uglavnom se sve svodi na izbor između desnog i levog centra sa gotovo istim političkim programima. Grčki izbori su pokazali da to nije uvek tako. Još od 27. juna 2012. grčki glasači imaju pravi izbor: vladajući poredak s jedne strane i Siriza, koalicija radikalne levice, sa druge.
U vremenima suštinskih izbora vladajući poredak obično zapada u paniku. Prizivaju se slike socijalnog haosa, siromaštva i nereda koji će nastupiti ako se izabere pogrešna strana. I sam nagoveštaj pobede Sirize izazvao je potrese na tržištima i doveo do uobičajene ideološke personifikacije tržišta, koja su ,,progovorila" kao da su ljudska bića i ,,izrazila brigu" za budućnost, ako na grčkim izborima izgubi garnitura koja zastupa politiku stroge fiskalne štednje.
U reakciji evropskog poretka na moguću pobedu Sirize prepoznaje se obrazac, koji je najbolje opisao Gideon Rahman u svom komentaru u Fajnenšal tajmsu: ,,Najslabija karika evrozone su njeni glasači". U idealnom svetu evropske birokratije ta ,,najslabija karika" se ukida i eksperti nesmetano sprovode neophodne ekonomske mere. Ako do izbora uopšte i dođe, oni služe samo tome da potvrde ekspertski konsenzus.
Iz te perspektive izbori u Grčkoj su noćna mora. Kako je moguće izbeći ovu katastrofu? Očigledan način bilo bi zastrašivanje grčkih glasača porukom: ,,Kažete da vam je sada teško? Čekajte da pobedi Siriza, pravićete nas od blata!"
Alternativa je istupanje Sirize (ili njeno izbacivanje) iz evropskog projekta, sa nesagledivim posledicama, ili ,,prljavi kompromis" kojim će obe strane ublažiti svoje zahteve. To izaziva novu bojazan: ne od iracionalnog ponašanja Sirize posle pobede, nego strah da će Siriza prihvatiti racionalan prljavi kompromis koji će razočarati glasače i čije obnovljeno nezadovoljstvo više neće biti pod kontrolom Sirize.
Koliki je manevarski prostor vlade koju će formirati Siriza? Da parafraziram predsednika Buša, ne treba potcenjivati rušilačku snagu međunarodnog kapitala, posebno kada je u sprezi sa sabotažama na koje je spremna korumpirana klijentelistička grčka birokratija.
Da li nova vlada u takvim uslovima može da sprovede radikalne promene? Zamka koja se tu krije jasno je izražena u knjizi Tomasa Piketija Kapital u dvadeset prvom veku. Po Piketiju, kapitalizam je nužnost, pa je jedina izvodljiva alternativa pustiti njegovu mašineriju da deluje u svojoj sferi, a princip jednakosti sprovoditi političkim putem – demokratskom vlašću koja će regulisati ekonomski sistem i vršiti naknadnu preraspodelu dobara.
Takvo rešenje je utopijsko u najstriktnijem smislu te reči. Piketi dobro zna da bi model koji predlaže mogao da funkcioniše samo globalno, iznad suvereniteta nacionalnih država (inače bi kapital bežao u zemlje sa nižim porezima). To podrazumeva postojanje svetske sile sa dovoljno snage i autoriteta da ga sprovede. Međutim, takva globalna sila je nezamisliva u okvirima današnjeg globalnog kapitalizma i političkih mehanizama koje on podrazumeva. Ukratko, da takva sila postoji, osnovni problem već bi bio rešen.
Kakve dodatne mere bi bile potrebne da se na globalnom planu sprovedu visoke poreske stope koje Piketi predlaže? Jedini izlaz iz tog začaranog kruga je preseći Gordijev čvor i delati. Savršeni uslovi za akciju ne postoje – svaka akcija je po definiciji preuranjena. Ali od nekud se mora početi, jednom pojedinačnom intervencijom. Pri tome treba voditi računa o daljim komplikacijama do kojih će ona dovesti.
Ali šta sa ogromnim dugom? Evropska politika prema teško zaduženim zemljama kao što je Grčka je extend and pretend – produži rok otplate i pravi se da veruješ kako će dug biti vraćen. Zašto se onda ne odustane od koncepta produženja roka otplate duga? Razlog nije samo udvaranje nemačkim glasačima, niti strah da bi otpis grčkih dugova izazvao slične zahteve iz Portugalije, Irske i Španije. Radi se o tome da oni koji vuku konce zapravo ne žele da se ti dugovi ikada vrate.
Poverioci zadužene države optužuju za manjak osećaja krivice – zameraju im to što se osećaju nedužnima. Njihov pritisak se savršeno uklapa u ono što psihoanalitičari nazivaju super-egom. Paradoks super-ega, kako je Frojd lepo objasnio, je u tome da što se više povinujete njegovim zahtevima, to više raste vaš osećaj krivice.
Zamislite pakosnog nastavnika koji učenicima postavlja samo nemoguće zadatke, a onda se sadistički naslađuje kada to kod njih izazove strah i paniku. Istinski cilj pozajmljivanja novca nije vraćanje duga uz kamate, već nastavak zaduživanja u beskraj koje dužnika dovodi u stanje neprekidne zavisnosti i podređenosti.
Uzmimo za primer Argentinu. Kada je pre desetak godina ta zemlja odlučila da svoje dugove prema MMF-u otplati pre roka (uz finansijsku pomoć Venecuele), reakcija MMF-a bila je iznenađujuća: umesto da im bude drago što će dobiti svoj novac, MMF (ili tačnije, njegovi vodeći kadrovi) izrazili su zabrinutost da će Argentina svoju slobodu i finansijsku nezavisnost od međunarodnih monetarnih institucija iskoristiti da napusti fiskalne mere i posveti se neodgovornom trošenju.
Dug je instrument kontrole i regulacije dužnika i kao takav stremi sopstvenom širenju i umnožavanju.
Jasno je šta je jedino moguće rešenje: svi znaju da Grčka nikada neće vratiti svoj dug i treba skupiti hrabrost i otpisati ga. To je moguće izvesti po prilično podnošljivoj ekonomskoj ceni, prostom političkom voljom. U tome leži naša jedina nada da izađemo iz vrzinog kola briselske neoliberalne tehnokratije i lažnih rasističkih strasti. Ako mi ne preduzmemo te korake, napraviće ih neko drugi, od grčke Zlatne zore do britanskog UKIP-a.
U svojoj knjizi Beleške za definiciju kulture veliki konzervativac T. S. Eliot primećuje da je ponekad jedini izbor koji imamo onaj između jeresi i bezverja, to jest da je nekada jedini način očuvanja vere sektaški raskol. To je naša današnja pozicija u vezi sa Evropom. Samo nova ,,jeres" (koju u ovom trenutku predstavlja Siriza) – otcepljenje Grčke od Evropske unije – može spasti ono što je vredno spasavanja u evropskom nasleđu: demokratiju, veru u ljude i solidarnu jednakost.
In These Times, 22.01.2015.
Preveo Zoran Trklja
Peščanik.net, 26.01.2015.

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razmišljam gdje da turim, ali ovo stvarno jeste svjetsko a naše

http://www.nspm.rs/kuda-ide-srbija/kako-su-srbi-izazvali-ne-samo-prvi-svetski-rat-vec-i-sadasnju-najezdu-mudzahedina-na-evropu.html

[ALEKSIJE D.]

http://www.kurir.rs/planeta/gori-stan-francuskog-desnicara-zan-mari-le-pen-ranjen-u-lice-u-pozaru-u-svom-domu-clanak-1667347

[Meho Krljic]

Auuu... a nisu još ni prebrojali sve glasove u Grčkoj...

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http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Svet/529585/Prvi-Ciprasov-tvit-posle-pobede-upucen-Doktoru-Hausu

[Джон Рейнольдс]

Биће занимљиво пратити сад Грке. Ако се напрасно побуне шиптари или се догоди нешто слично, биће доказ да су на правом путу. Само удри!

Сириза: Обуставља се важење економског програма који је Грчка усагласила са ЕУ

Важење програма који је министар финансија Грчке Гикас Хардувелис усагласио са Европском групом, обуставља се, саопштио је синоћ одговорни за економску политику партије СИРИЗА Јанис Милиос.

Милиос је нагласио да је победа партије СИРИЗА "историјски тренутак за читаву Европу".

"Окрећемо лист у нашој земљи. Грчки народ преузима будућност у своје руке", цитира агенција ТАСС грчког политичара.

(Глас Русије)

[varvarin]

Da li se to čuje ljutnja u nemačkom glasu? 

http://www.dw.de/grčka-bezglavo-na-rusku-kartu/a-18222542?maca=ser-TB_ser_b92_2013-9945-xml-mrss

Grčka bezglavo na rusku kartu

"Prvi spoljnopolitički potez Ciprasa je izazvao popriličan nemir u EU. Dovesti u pitanje zajedničku politiku prema Rusiji, ne bi li se omekšao stav Brisela u finansijskoj oblasti jeste pogrešan put, smatra Bernd Rigert..."

[Meho Krljic]

Pa, da, evo i Rojtersa:


Germans in shock as new Greek leader starts with a bang

(This version of the story corrects Tsipras quote in penultimate paragraph)
              By Noah Barkin  and Andreas Rinke
              BERLIN (Reuters) - In his first act as prime minister on Monday, Alexis Tsipras visited the war memorial in Kaisariani where 200 Greek resistance fighters were slaughtered by the Nazis in 1944.
              The move did not go unnoticed in Berlin. Nor did Tsipras's decision hours later to receive the Russian ambassador before meeting any other foreign official.
              Then came the announcement that radical academic Yanis Varoufakis, who once likened German austerity policies to "fiscal waterboarding", would be taking over as Greek finance minister. A short while later, Tsipras delivered another blow, criticising an EU statement that warned Moscow of new sanctions.
              The assumption in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's entourage before Sunday's Greek election was that Tsipras, the charismatic leader of the far-left Syriza party, would eke out a narrow victory, struggle to form a coalition, and if he managed to do so, shift quickly from confrontation to compromise mode.
              Instead, after cruising to victory and clinching a fast-track coalition deal with the right-wing Independent Greeks party, he has signalled in his first days in office that he has no intention of backing down, unsettling officials in Berlin, some of whom admit to shock at the 40-year-old's fiery start.
              "No doubt about it, we were surprised by the size of the  Syriza victory and the speed with which Tsipras clinched a coalition," said one senior German official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
              Another said Tsipras's choice of coalition partner and finance minister were "not good signs", while a third admitted to being "stunned" by the Greek leader's first days in office.
              Officials close to Merkel say they still believe Tsipras will ultimately change course, dropping his more radical election pledges and signing up to the economic reforms that Berlin and its European partners have insisted on as a condition for handing over more aid that Athens desperately needs by next month to service its debt.
              But the past days have sown doubts about this hypothesis.
              RADICAL CHANGE
              Even as Greek stocks plunged and bond yields soared on Wednesday, Tsipras continued to promise "radical" change.
              Over the past 24 hours, his government has put two big privatisations, of Piraeus port and Greece's biggest utility, on ice, and his ministers have pledged to raise pensions and rehire fired public sector workers.
              In response, German economy minister and deputy chancellor Sigmar Gabriel criticised Athens on Wednesday in unusually stark terms for halting the privatisations without consulting, and he issued a warning to Tsipras that the euro zone could survive without Greece. [ID:nL6N0V72MS]
              "We no longer have to worry like we did back then," Gabriel said, when asked about contagion if Greece were to exit the single currency bloc.
              Marcel Fratzscher, head of the DIW economic institute in Berlin and a former official at the European Central Bank, said Tsipras was playing a "very dangerous game" by coming out with all guns blazing.
              "If people start to believe that he is really serious, you could have massive capital flight and a bank run," Fratzscher said. "You are quickly at a point where a euro exit becomes more possible."
              Officials point to a Brussels summit of European Union leaders on Feb. 12-13 as a first key test of Tsipras.
              RUSSIA THREAT
              The other major area of concern for Germany is a new Greek government's stance on Russia.
              Tsipras's meeting on Monday with the Russian ambassador, who handed over a personal letter of congratulations from Vladimir Putin, and the new Greek leader's howls of protest at the EU statement on Ukraine, have raised questions about whether the bloc's fragile consensus towards Moscow can hold.
              Even before Tsipras took power, officials in Berlin were worried about keeping countries like Italy on board for Russia sanctions, which must be renewed in mid-2015.
              Now the fear is that Tsipras, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and sceptical eastern European countries like Slovakia and Hungary, could band together against an extension, and a ratcheting up of sanctions in response to a new advance by pro-Russian rebels on the strategic Ukrainian port of Mariupol.
              Prying Tsipras away from his European partners on the Ukraine issue would be a coup for Putin. Some officials fear the Russian president could go so far as to offer Greece the financial support it needs to meet its debt obligations as a carrot.
              One senior German official described Tsipras as part of a brash new generation of European leaders, including Italy's Renzi, who weren't afraid to stand up to Merkel and challenge the assumptions that have shaped policy in the euro zone and Ukraine crises in recent years.
              "He doesn't come from the establishment, he's unvarnished, confident and capable of rallying the public behind his course," the official said. "It clearly not going to be easy with him."
              No one can say the signs weren't there in the run-up to the election.
              Only days before the vote, Tsipras told thousands of people at a campaign rally in Athens: "On Monday, our national humiliation will be over. We will finish with orders from abroad."
              In the background loudspeakers blared lyrics from the Leonard Cohen song "First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin".
               (Additional reporting by Gernot Heller in Berlin, Deepa Babington in Athens; Writing by Noah Barkin; Editing by Peter Graff)

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http://www.portalnovosti.com/nista-vise-nece-biti-isto

[varvarin]

Kako jezivo zvuči ona rečenica da je  " ....samo četrnaest posto kredita potrošeno na realnu ekonomiju."

[Meho Krljic]

To sam baš ja hteo da istaknem:

dovoljno je znati kako je samo 14 posto pozajmica Grčkoj posljednjih godina usmjereno u tzv. realnu ekonomiju, dok je čak 86 posto država potrošila ne bi li sanirala dugove banaka. One su se potom, u perverznom obratu, na svjetskim tržištima kapitala kladile protiv iste te države, gurajući je dublje niz dužničku spiralu.

[varvarin]

http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2015&mm=01&dd=30&nav_category=78&nav_id=952667

FR: Osmogodišnji "terorista" u žiži

Pariz -- Francusko društvo je podeljeno oko slučaja osmogodišnjaka koji je policiji rekao da se protivi akciji "Ja sam Šarli" i da je na strani terorista.
Ministarka odbrane Nažat Valo Belkasem istakla je da je ponašanje dečaka u školi bilo osnov da on i njegov otac budu privedeni na informativni razgovor.
Razlog za to bilo je Ahmedovo odbijanje da učestvuje u dvominutnom ćutanju, u čast ubijenih karikaturista magazina...

[Meho Krljic]

Ovi sa devedesetdvojke su potpuno retardirani. Prepričaju vest a izbace možda ključnu rečenicu:

His father condemned what the boy was reported to have said but made a formal complaint about the decision to interrogate his son.

[Albedo 0]

nepismeno, al moram da postavim, pojma nemam jel tačno

http://webtribune.rs/sok-u-nemackoj-cipras-porucio-sulcu-imamo-dokaze-da-je-merkel-krila-pljacku-grcke-zavrsice-u-hagu/#

[Ugly MF]

nepismeno, al moram da postavim, pojma nemam jel tačno

http://webtribune.rs/sok-u-nemackoj-cipras-porucio-sulcu-imamo-dokaze-da-je-merkel-krila-pljacku-grcke-zavrsice-u-hagu/#

Daj Boze da je tacno!
Dal' ce sad Vucic da krene da je brani....

[дејан]

Dashcams capture dramatic footage of Taiwanese plane crash
Dozens of survivors reported after flight ditches in river

〈獨家〉復興客機墜河／高架橋上目擊民航機墜河畫面

大驚!!! 出大事了~~20150204-10:50 親眼目睹復興航空B22816墜落

[Meho Krljic]

Kritika Piketijevog Kapitalizma u 21. veku od strane (između ostalih) aktuelnog grčkog Ministra finansija (koji u ono vreme nije bio grčki Ministar finansija nego ekonomista zaposlen u Valveu):


Critique of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century

[Meho Krljic]

One (difficult) step to curbing extremism

Why did nearly half of Iraq open itself to Islamic State, a militant group seen as one of the most psychotic on record? Why have Boko Haram militants gained a solid foothold in northern Nigeria? Why aren't the ranks of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula thinning, despite regular drone strikes in Yemen? Do these disparate countries have some trait in common?
They do: the rampant corruption of their ruling elites.
At issue is no ad hoc venality, such as exists everywhere. The populations of these nations — and of Ukraine and the half-dozen Arab countries that rose in revolt four years ago, with spiraling consequences — are subjected to a far more virulent strain of this disease than are most of their Western counterparts.
This corruption is not some silent drain on nondescript public funds. It happens directly to people, every day. If police board their bus, they have to hand over cash or be dragged off the vehicle and maybe beaten. If they take their child to the hospital to sew up a gash, they have to pay to be seen. I spoke with an Uzbek journalist who was agonizing about whether to sell his car so he could bribe his son's way into college — though he had high scores on the entrance exam. An Afghan I know had to pay a bribe to get the death certificate for his father, who had been blown up by a remote-controlled bomb.
The bribe-takers at the bottom of these ladders send a share of the take all the way up the line. These governments can best be described not as governments at all, but as highly effective criminal organizations.
When people are shaken down like this, day after day, when they are insulted and abused in the process, when the perpetrators are members of their government — the very institution they expect to uphold laws, not break them — they get mad. And angry people, especially young men who are injured in their pride as well as their prospects, can sometimes get violent.
Extremist movements offer such men — and a growing number of women — two things. They offer an explanation. As Central Asia scholar Marlene Laruelle put it to me, "The argument the Islamists are making is that the regime is corrupt and unjust because it's secular. Such reasoning didn't have much resonance in the past, now it does."
Jihadists, in other words, play on the ambiguous meaning of the word 'corruption,' arguing that the reason government officials are so abusive is because they have strayed from a rigorous reading of religious obligations. They say that the only way to reform public life is to stick to a stringent code of private morality — imposed, if necessary, by force.
The second thing jihadists offer the victims of severe government corruption is an outlet for their rage. They hand them a gun and a chance to regain some of their injured pride — at the cost, if need be, of their lives. For many, the frustration is so intense the bargain seems worth it.
President Barack Obama keeps stressing that without "a strategy that reduces the wellsprings of extremism, a perpetual war ... will prove self-defeating." Yet the vast bulk of U.S. effort, focus, and expenditure remains channeled toward military solutions, be they drones or airstrikes over Iraq, or efforts to train and equip the armies or fighters of so-called front-line states. The defense budget for the 2016 fiscal year just submitted to the U.S. Congress includes a $5.8 billion allocation for those activities in Iraq and Syria alone.
No such spending is earmarked for the kleptocracy unit at the U.S. Department of Justice, whose handful of prosecutors and dozen FBI investigators are taking on some of the most flagrant — and well-endowed — criminals on earth.
Nor is a mandatory class on corruption included in the syllabus for people training to enter the U.S. Foreign Service. Intelligence agencies are not systematically collecting or analyzing information on the way corrupt ruling networks function: what levers of power they capture, what revenue streams, where their vulnerabilities lie, their relationships with organized crime or apparently legitimate businesses.
Allying with such governments to fight terrorists — which the U.S. and Western partners habitually do — is only making matters worse. It only confirms jihadist propaganda that the West benefits from the corruption, that it condones and encourages it. While taking a few terrorists out of circulation, such policies are minting many new ones.
If Western officials truly mean to curb the underlying drivers of extremism, corruption is a good — and remarkably overlooked — place to start.

[Father Jape]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/oliver-burkeman-column/2015/feb/03/believing-that-life-is-fair-might-make-you-a-terrible-person

[Father Jape]

Bato, reaguj!

http://davidharvey.org/2014/05/afterthoughts-pikettys-capital/

[Albedo 0]

svi radikali napadaju tog Piketija, ali mi je smiješno kad kažu da su predložena rješenja utopijska, mislim to radikali kažu, koji su ekstremniji od Piketija

no, ovo je više za Trumana, čista ekonomija

Truki, objašnjavaj!

[varvarin]

http://www.b92.net/biz/vesti/svet.php?yyyy=2015&mm=02&dd=09&nav_id=956242

"Nema druge - Grci idu iz evrozone"
 
Bivši predsednik američke Uprave federalnih rezervi Alan Grinspen izjavio je da će Grčka pre ili kasnije morati da napusti evrozonu...

[Meho Krljic]

Pošto je, jelte, izborna godina, Kameron veli da bi bilo lepo kada bi vlasnici kapitala u Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu, koji uživaju plodove niskih cena nafte i generalnog ekonomskog rasta, podelili sa svojim zaposlenima te, jelte, viškove vrednosti. Dobro je da se setio. Naravno, o podizanju plata u javnom sektoru, kojim on gazduje, nema ni govora, kao ni o intenzivnijem porezovanju privatnog. Nego valjda čovek računa da lepa reč gvozdena vrata otvara.

David Cameron will call for business leaders to pass the benefits of economic growth and low oil prices to employees, saying Britain deserves a pay rise.
In a speech at the British Chambers of Commerce annual conference today, Mr Cameron will say economic success should be reflected in the contents of workers' wallets.
The Prime Minister will argue that business chiefs should share the proceeds of economic growth with their workers.
"Economic success can't just be shown in the GDP figures or on the balance sheets of British businesses ... but in people's pay packets and bank accounts and lifestyles," he is expected to say.
"The most recent figures show that wages are already growing faster than inflation and as the economy continues to grow it's important this continues and that everyone benefits.
"Put simply - it's time Britain had a pay rise."
He will tell the conference in Westminster that Britain is currently seeing "the strongest growth for seven years".
"We are seeing falling oil prices, meaning businesses up and down the country have lower prices on their inputs," he will say.
"Now that your costs are falling and it's cheaper to do business, I'm confident that more businesses will pass on that good economic news to their workers in rising pay cheques and higher earnings.
"That's good for your employees, it's good for you to have happier and more productive staff and frankly it's good for anyone who wants to make the argument for business."
But the TUC's general secretary Frances O'Grady dismissed Mr Cameron's call as "no more than pre-election mood music".
"Since David Cameron became Prime Minister, the average wage is worth £2,500 less a year, the worst fall in living standards since Queen Victoria was on the throne," she said.
"Saying it would be nice if wages went up is no more than pre-election mood music.
"If elected again his policies would do the opposite."
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls will also address the conference, and is expected to attack the Conservatives for creating damaging uncertainty for Britain's businesses.
He will also argue that with working people £1,600 a year worse off than in 2010, more needs to be done to ensure rising prosperity for all.
"This is set to be the first time since the 1920s when working people are worse off at the end of the Parliament than they were at the beginning," Mr Balls will say.
"So at a time when, even as our economy recovers, most people are not yet seeing the benefit in their wages and living standards, this is no time for complacency.
"If we are to win the argument that Britain can succeed in an open global economy, we have to show that our economy can deliver rising prosperity for everyone who works hard and plays by the rules.
"And that is not what people think is happening in our country at the moment."

[Loni]

  Grčka vladajuća partija Siriza dokazuje da furaju antiglobalističku priču a la Brazil, a ne a la Rusija.
Najavljuju uvođenje gej brakova.

   Veliko razočarenje za naše antiglobaliste koji bi priželjkivali da Cipras pljuje zapad, al' radi utvrđivanja pravoslavno-konzervativne ideologije.

http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2015&mm=02&dd=09&nav_id=956513

[varvarin]

E sad mi je lakše, baš sam brinuo.

[Джон Рейнольдс]

Разочарани могу бити само прозападни дегенерици јер нико с више од два грама мозга у Србији није ни очекивао ишта другачије од "модерне левичарске партије". Уосталом, јасно је да српски Ципрас не постоји, тј. ако би постојао неко сличан њему, био би са супротне стране политичког спектра.

Било како било, ако се покаже као искрени противник Империја Зла, Ципрас ће бити значајан, а те ситне и бесмислене идеологијом поткрепљење привилегије типа геј бракови биће лако анулиране.

[Ghoul]

Pucnjava u Kopenhagenu, ima mrtvih
IZVOR: B92
Kopenhagen -- Jedna osoba je ubijena, a trojica policajaca su ranjena u pucnjavi na skupu o slobodi izražavanja u sali Kulturnog centra u Kopenhagenu.

Kako prenosi televizijski kanal TV2, na prozorima je ostalo oko 30 rupa od metaka i najmanje troje ljudi je pogođeno.

Kako danski mediji navode, dvojica osumnjičenih su pobegli sa mesta događaja, a očevici kažu da su bili obučeni u crnu odeću. Policija traga za naoružanim napadačima. Blokirani su putevi koji vode ka graničnim prelazima.

Napadači su se navodno odvezli u automobilom VW Polo tamne boje.

Skup pod nazivom "Umetnost. blasfemija i sloboda izražavanja" je organizovao Lars Vilks, poznati karikaturista, koji se već nekoliko puta suočavao sa tužbama zbog crteža proroka Muhameda. A od 2007. godine je sa stalnom policijskom zaštitom, nakon što je napravio karikaturu na kojoj je Muhamed prikazan kao pas.

Očevici navode da je Vilks nije pogođen.

Raša tudej javlja da je prošle godine jedna žena osuđena na 10 godina zatvora za planiranje ubistva Vilksa, dok su 2010. godine dvojica momaka zapalila njegovu kuću u Švedskoj.

Na skupu je govorio i francuski ambasador u Danskoj Fransoa Zimeri.

"Čuo sam pucnje iz automatskog oružja, zatim je policija uzvratila vatrom. Sakrio sam se u baru", rekao je Nils Ivar Larsen, jedan od učesnika skupa.

Kako izveštavaju svetski mediji, u januaru je na Tviteru jedan muslimanksi aktivista pretio Danskoj, navodeći da ova zemlja treba da nauči nešto iz događaja koji su potresli Pariz.

http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2015&mm=02&dd=14&nav_category=78&nav_id=958357

[Meho Krljic]

E, sad, ko ima sat i po vremena, neka gleda:


http://youtu.be/5fbvquHSPJU

FOUR HORSEMEN is an award winning independent feature documentary which lifts the lid on how the world really works. 

As we will never return to 'business as usual' 23 international thinkers, government advisors and Wall Street money-men  break their silence and explain how to establish a moral and just society.

FOUR HORSEMEN is free from mainstream media propaganda -- the film doesn't bash bankers, criticise politicians or get involved in conspiracy theories. It ignites the debate about how to usher a new economic paradigm into the world which would dramatically improve the quality of life for billions.

"It's Inside Job with bells on, and a frequently compelling thesis thanks to Ashcroft's crack team of talking heads -- economists, whistleblowers and Noam Chomsky, all talking with candour and clarity." - Total Film

"Four Horsemen is a breathtakingly composed jeremiad against the folly of Neo-classical economics and the threats it represents to all we should hold dear."
- Harold Crooks, The Corporation (Co-Director) Surviving Progress (Co-Director/Co-Writer)

[scallop]

Znao sam da su Rusi krivi!


http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Svet/536234/Sibirski-vazduh-na-istoku-SAD

[Ghoul]

IZGORE DUBAI!

A 79-Story Residential Tower in Dubai Is on Fire




http://gizmodo.com/a-79-foot-residential-tower-in-dubai-is-on-fire-1687110144

[Meho Krljic]

Žižek je i do sada pokazivao mnogo simpatija za Grke:


A Note on Syriza: Indebted Yes, but Not Guilty!

The idea one gets from our media is that the Syriza government in Greece is composed of a bunch of populist extremists who advocate "irrational" and "irresponsible" populist measures. Nothing can be further from the truth. It is, on the contrary, EU politics which have been, and continue to be, obviously irrational. Since 2008, Greece has been forced to enact tough austerity measures to put its finances in order; yet today, seven years later, after the country suffered a terrifying setback, Greek finances are in an even greater disorder. Indeed, the country's debt rose from slightly above 100% of GDP to around 175%, now standing at 320 billion euros. If this is not irrational, then this word has no meaning whatsoever. Why, then, is the EU doing this to Greece?
[/size]As we all know, EU policy towards heavily indebted countries like Greece is one of "extend and pretend" – extending the payback period, but pretending that all debts will eventually be paid. So why is the fiction of repayment so stubborn? It is not just that this fiction makes debt extension more acceptable to German voters; nor is it that the eventual write-off of the Greek debt may trigger similar demands from Portugal, Ireland, and Spain. The true reason is simply that those in power do not really want the debt to be fully repaid. The true goal of lending money to the debtor is not to get the debt reimbursed with a profit, but rather the indefinite continuation of the debt that keeps the debtor in permanent dependency and subordination. A decade or so ago, Argentina decided to repay its debt to the IMF ahead of time (with the financial help from Venezuela), and the reaction of the IMF was surprising: instead of being glad that it got its money back, the IMF (or, rather, its top representatives) expressed their worry that Argentina would use its new freedom and financial independence from international financial institutions to abandon tight financial policies and engage in careless spending... Debt is an instrument to control and regulate the debtor, and as such, it strives for its own expanded reproduction.
[/size]The ongoing EU pressure on Greece to implement austerity measures fits perfectly what psychoanalysis calls the superego. The superego is not an ethical agency proper, but a sadistic agent, which bombards the subject with impossible demands, obscenely enjoying the subject's failure to comply with them. The paradox of the superego is that, as Freud saw clearly, the more we obey its demands, the more we feel guilty. Imagine a vicious teacher who assigns his pupils impossible tasks, and then sadistically jeers when he sees their anxiety and panic. This is what is so terribly wrong with the EU demands/commands: they do not even give Greece a chance – Greek failure is part of the game.
[/size]As if they did not suffer enough, the Greeks are victims of a campaign which mobilizes the lowest egotist instincts. When they talk about writing off part of the debt, our media present this as a measure which will hurt ordinary taxpayers, pitting the lazy and corrupt Greeks against the hard-working ordinary people in other countries. In Slovenia, my own country, those who sympathize with Syriza were even accused of national treason... So when, back in the 2008 financial breakdown, big banks became insolvent, it was okay for the state to cover their losses by spending trillions (of taxpayer money, of course), but when a whole people finds itself in misery, the debt should be paid.
[/size]How are we to step out of this infernal circle of debt and guilt? The Syriza government did it. The debt providers and caretakers of debt basically accuse the Syriza government of not feeling enough guilt; it is accused of feeling innocent. That is what the EU establishment finds so disturbing about the Syriza government: it admits debt, but without guilt. Syriza got rid of the superego pressure. The Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis personifies this stance in his dealings with Brussels and Berlin: he fully acknowledges the weight of the debt, and he argues quite rationally that, since the EU policy obviously did not work, another option should be found. Paradoxically, the point Varoufakis and Tsipras repeatedly make is that the Syriza government is the only chance for the debt providers to get at least part of their money back. Varoufakis himself wonders about the enigma of why banks were pouring money into Greece and collaborating with a clientelist state, all while knowing very well how things stood. Greece would never have become so heavily indebted without the connivance of the Western establishment. The Syriza government is well aware that the main threat does not come from Brussels. Rather, it resides in Greece itself – a clientelist corrupted state if there ever was one. What Europe (the EU bureaucracy) should be blamed for is that, while it criticized Greece for its corruption and inefficiency, it supported the very political force (New Democracy) which embodied this corruption and inefficiency.
[/size]For this reason, the main task of all true Leftists today is to engage in pan-European solidarity with Greece, and not only because Greece's fate is in the hands of Europe. We from Western Europe like to look upon Greece as detached observers following the plight of the impoverished nation with compassion and sympathy. However, such a comfortable standpoint relies on a fateful illusion. What goes on in Greece these past weeks concerns all of us – the future of Europe is at stake. So when we read about Greece these days, we should always bear in mind that, as the old saying goes, de te fabula narratur.
[/size]Leftists all around Europe complain how today no one dares to really disturb the neoliberal dogma. The problem is real, of course: the moment one violates this dogma, or rather, the moment one is just perceived as a possible agent of such disturbance, tremendous forces are unleashed. Although these forces appear as objective economic factors, they are effectively forces of illusions, of ideology. But their material power is nonetheless utterly destructive. Today we are under the tremendous pressure of what we should call "enemy propaganda." Let me quote Alain Badiou: "The goal of all enemy propaganda is not to annihilate an existing force (this function is generally left to police forces), but rather to annihilate an unnoticed possibility of the situation." In other words, enemy propaganda tries to kill hope: the message of this propaganda is a resigned conviction that the world we live in, even if not the best of all possible worlds, is the least bad one, so any radical change could only make it worse.
[/size]Somebody has to make the first move and cut the Gordian knot of neoliberal dogma. Indeed, let us not forget that those who preach this dogma – from the US to Germany – violate it freely when it suits them. Syriza's struggle reaches far beyond a simple struggle for welfare. It is the struggle for an entire way of life, the resistance of a world threatened by rapid globalization or, rather, of a culture with its daily rituals and manners, which are threatened by post-historical commodification. Is this resistance conservative? Today's mainstream self-declared political and cultural conservatives are not really conservatives. Fully endorsing capitalism's continuous self-revolutionizing, they just want to make it more efficient by supplementing it with some traditional institutions (religion, etc.) to contain its destructive consequences for social life and to maintain social cohesion. A true conservative today is one who fully admits the antagonisms and deadlocks of global capitalism, one who rejects simple progressivism, and is attentive to the dark obverse of progress.
[/size]This is why I profess a deep respect for Syriza's struggle. The very fact that they persist makes us all free: we all know that as long as Syriza is there, there is a chance for all of us.

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Iraq: Isis take sledgehammers to priceless Assyrian artefacts at Mosul museum [VIDEO]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iraq-isis-take-sledgehammers-priceless-assyrian-artefacts-mosul-museum-video-1489616

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V for Varoufakis | NEO MAGAZIN ROYALE mit Jan Böhmermann - ZDFneo

[Father Jape]

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n05/john-lanchester/the-robots-are-coming

[Albedo 0]

niko da prokomentariše genijalnu pjesmu


elem, eo nečeg sočnog, šta bi Počuča na ovo rek'o

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/10/orwell-hero-terrorism-syria-british-fighters-damned?CMP=share_btn_fb

[Meho Krljic]

Pa, lepo kaže Monbiot.

I kod nas imamo istu situaciju, kako već negde napisah, da smo mi ovaj nivo zaklinjanja u procesuiranje ljudi koji se bore po belom svetu (bez naknade) imali 1941. godine, kurac bi nam se Žikica J. Š. onako oteo kontroli, udario Srbin na Srbina i posle Nijemci streljali sto za jednoga.

Opet, vremena se menjaju....