AMERIKA

[Hame_]

Google pretraga state department rs referendum.

[jeza u ledja]

BREAKING: Obama vetoes bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi - AFP

Očekivano.

Danas Senat ponistio njegov veto, 97 naspram 1, ovako nesto. Ocekuje se i da ce to HoR uraditi.
Prvi put da Kongres ponistava Obamin veto.

[L u c i f e r]

pregleda debatu
po meni
isprovaljivo se trump
a i ankete se slažu

[jefferson]

pregleda debatu
po meni
isprovaljivo se trump
a i ankete se slažu

Jebo sve ako se Bake ne bi bolje snasao.

[Hame_]

MY VOTE...

Moj glas


Američke trupe na Pacifiku tokom II svetskog rata

Kasnim na ove izbore u doslovnom smislu. U ponedeljak sam napunio 96 godina, a u novembru ću izaći na svoje 19. izbore za predsednika SAD. Prvi put sam glasao 1944. godine za svog vrhovnog zapovednika Franklina Delanoa Roosevelta; poslao sam svoj glas poštom iz vazduhoplovne baze na Pacifiku. Bio je to uzbudljiv trenutak, ali ne tako značajan kao što će biti glasanje 8. novembra ove godine, najvažnije u mom životu. Naša zemlja se suočava sa najvećom opasnošću u svojoj istoriji od kubanske raketne krize 1962, ili možda od 1943, kada su sile Osovine držale veći deo Evrope, a Japan veći deo Pacifika, od Aleuta do Solomonskih ostrva, i kada je ishod rata još uvek bio neizvestan.

Verovatnoća da Donald Trump bude izabran za predsednika kao da se smanjuje. Ja ću glasati za Hillary Clinton, odlučno i sa poverenjem. Njen život je oduvek bio posvećen javnoj službi i boljem životu dece i nevoljnika. Ona je pametna, jaka, dubinski informisana, ima izvanredno iskustvo sa izazovima i rizicima našeg nestabilnog sveta koji se neprekidno menja i posvećena je dobrobiti ljudi širom sveta. Njene tesne veze sa manjinama doprineće rešenju krize naših lokalnih politika. Ponekad joj zameram nestrpljenje u odgovorima na pitanja o greškama iz prošlosti, ali ne sumnjam u njene motive. Nisam očaran vezama Fondacije Clinton sa velikim novcem, ali ne vidim nijedan dokaz da je ona iz toga nezakonito profitirala. Gospođa Clinton će biti jaka i odlučna predsednica – najzad ćemo i mi dobiti ženu lidera – a možda će se pokazati i kao ujediniteljka.
Trumpova kampanja je rijaliti u kome je on prezira dostojan, ali intrigantan glavni lik. „Ne podnosim ga“, kažu ljudi, „ali činjenica je da je neumoran“. Svi znamo rana ogrešenja gospodina Trampa: novinarka kojoj „krv ide iz… čega god“; ruganje novinaru sa telesnim nedostatkom; zlobna primedba o meksičkom poreklu jednog sudije; vređanje roditelja poginulog vojnika Khana, nosioca Zlatne zvezde; obećanje da će biti deportovano 11 miliona – ili 2 miliona – imigranata bez papira i tako dalje. Svaki od ovih postupaka ga diskvalifikuje kao kandidata koji, ako pobedi, treba da predstavlja sve građane, ali mnogi su spremni da ih pretvore u sitna ljudska ogrešenja. „To je stari dobri Donald – takav je, šta da se radi.“

Posebno mi je zasmetao njegov usputni komentar negde početkom avgusta, kada mu je jedan veteran, njegov poštovalac, poklonio repliku Ljubičastog srca: „Oduvek sam želeo da dobijem Ljubičasto srce“, rekao je gospodin Trump. „Ovako je mnogo lakše“. Lakše od čega? Od toga da se zaista pridruži oružanim snagama (imao je priliku za to, ali se izvukao kao mnogi drugi) i pogine ili bude ranjen? Svojim dečačkim snom on dovodi u pitanje pola miliona mladih Amerikanaca koji su poginuli u ratovima tokom mog života i još mnogo više njih čiji su životi upropašćeni teškim ranjavanjima u tim ratovima.

Ovo shvatam kao ličnu uvredu jer sam jedan od poslednjih preživelih od 16 miliona Amerikanaca koji su na razne načine učestvovali u mom ratu, Drugom svetskom. Sam nisam bio u borbama, ali u tom ratu sam izgubio 20-ak prijatelja, školskih drugova i drugara iz mladosti, koji su u mom sećanju i dalje mladi. Tu je i moj prijatelj Gardner, pešadijski kapetan koji se iskrcao u Normandiji i borio u hirtgenskoj šumi, Ahenu i bici za Ardene; dvaput je ranjen, dobio je mnoštvo medalja i odlikovanja, među ostalima i francuski Ratni krst i uvek se namršti kada čuje grmljavinu. Tu je i moj pokojni zet Neil, koji je dva dana ležao ranjen u bici za Belfor i koji je celog života cupkao sa štapom, a pred kraj i sa dva. Svaki Amerikanac moje generacije može da ispriča takve priče i svi mi znamo – iako smo se trudili da zaboravimo – da je u tom ratu živote izgubilo 70 miliona ljudi širom sveta.

Gospodin Trump je rođen 1946, neposredno po završetku tog kataklizmičnog događaja 20. veka, a punoletstvo je stekao 60-ih godina, u vreme kada se o posledicama i okrutnostima rata debatovalo kao nikada ranije, ali izgleda da se skoro ništa od toga nije dotaklo tog kandidata koji smatra da treba dati nuklearno oružje Japanu i Južnoj Koreji i izbegava da se izjasni o tome šta bi radio kao naš vrhovni komandant. Zbog svega toga duboko sumnjam u iskrenost njegove brige za naše veterane, kao i u to da on ima bilo kakvu predstavu o njihovim patnjama.

Znam da su moji stavovi tipični za čoveka mojih godina, ali nadam se da ću ubediti i nekog mlađeg ili neodlučnog. Pozivam ih da podele sa mnom jedno svakodnevno iskustvo – trenutke usred noći ili saobraćajnog čepa, kada otkrivamo da su naše naknadne misli još uvek tu: Zašto sam ikada…? Šta ako…? Sada mi je jasno… I da onda zastanu i domisle svoje sumnje – postupak koji nas smiruje i čini zrelijima. To je rečenica koju je sudija Learned Hand želeo da vidi u svakoj školi, crkvi i sudnici Amerike: „Preklinjem vas… uvek pomislite da možda grešimo.“

Gospodin Trump ima i druge nedostatke i gafove koje nisam pomenuo: čudnovatu ljubav prema Vladimiru Putinu; uništavanje života i nada malih investitora i preduzetnika koji nisu imali sreće da svoj biznis povežu sa njegovim; budalastu petogodišnju kampanju „krštenice“, sada opozvanu bez pozivanja na odgovornost – ali na stranu sve to. On se predstavlja kao čovek koji nikada ne uzmiče, ne zastaje i ne gubi. On mora da pobedi, uvek je u napadu, ali pre i posle svega uvek brine: „Kako izgledam?“ To je po meni ključna stvar, da imamo posla sa čovekom koji jedinu potvrdu svog uspeha traži i nalazi u narcističkom ogledalu.

Ako Donald Trump pobedi na ovim izborima, njegove noći u Beloj kući ličiće na noći predsednika Obame. Kada uveče poželi laku noć svojoj porodici, Obama ostaje sam sa bujicom informacija koje mu stižu iz bezbroj nacionalnih i međunarodnih izvora, od kojih su mnoge državna tajna. Okolina mu je velelepna, ali prostorija u kojoj sedi je tamna i tiha. Tu i tamo naiđu delići dobrih vesti, ali je mnogo više krvoprolića, uzbuna i opasnosti koje vrebaju sa svih strana. Smisao tih vesti je često prikriven ili protivrečan ili prosto nedokučiv. A onda dolazi vreme tvitovanja. Rađa se novi dan, a sa njim i novi nalet loših vesti – još jedna policijska pucnjava na zapadu, još jedan bombaš samoubica u Jemenu i druge hitne informacije iz sveta zahvaćenog teškim jutarnjim događajima. Američki predsednik na sve to nekako mora da odgovori, ali Trump bi uvek imao preču brigu: “Kako izgledam?”

Roger Angell, The New Yorker, 24.09.2016.

Izvor

[Kombat]

Sjedinjene Američke Države

Sjedinjene Američke Države napominju da su ambasadori zemalja članica Vijeća za implementaciju mira na sastanku Upravnog odbora koji je održan 30.8.2016. ponovno potvrdili svoju podršku Daytonskom mirovnom sporazumu i nedvosmislenu opredjeljenost za teritorijalni integritet i osnovnu strukturu BiH kao jedinstvene, suverene države koja se sastoji od dva entiteta koji nemaju pravo otcjepljenja.

oni malo stariji ovdje (ako ih jos ima na temi) se mogu sjetiti koliko glasna je bila podrska koju su muricunts davali teritorijalnom integritetu bivse nam drzave - odavno mrtve, raspale i istrunule.

“It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal” - Henry Kissinger.

[Kombat]

samo da se podsjetimo kako to americhani rade - evo sta je Blackie govorio 2008 a sta danas govori

[Challenger__]

BREAKING: Obama vetoes bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi - AFP

Očekivano.

Danas Senat ponistio njegov veto, 97 naspram 1, ovako nesto. Ocekuje se i da ce to HoR uraditi.
Prvi put da Kongres ponistava Obamin veto.

Vidio. Očekivao sam obaranje ali ne i ovakav (97:1) omjer.

[jeza u ledja]

Obama tvrdi da je to uradio da bi zastitio americke gradjane od slicnih optuzbi vani, od strane bilo koje zemlje kojoj se ceifne. Kao, ovo postavlja opasan presedan. Kao odgovor kako to da se sa njim ne slaze cijeli haman Kongres, on kaze za razliku od njih on zavrsava sa svojim politickim mandatom i ne mora da se brine hoce li opet biti izabran, tj. ne mora da se povinuje popularlnim zakonima poput ovog.

Nisam dalje pratio kontra-argumente.

[Mohamad Sissoko]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... e=facebook

[Innovation]

"Par je sakrio ili lagao o širokom učešću supruga u građanskom ratu u Bosni i Hercegovini 1992-1995., kao i u Srebrenici u julu 1995. godine. Par u više navrata nije otkrio informacije i otvoreno je lagao imigracione vlasti SAD o Ratkovom širokom angažmanu u zloglasnoj Bratunačkoj brigadi, vojnoj jedinici upletenoj u pružanje pomoći u brutalnom progonu i masakru hiljada bosanskih Muslimana tokom sukoba", navodi se u saopćenju objavljenom na internet stranici američke imigracijske i carinske agencije.


- See more at: http://www.avaz.ba/clanak/257082/sad-de ... FfLrp.dpuf

[Drvenija87]

OBAMAGEDDON

As Obama’s Clock Winds Down, Revisionist Powers Pounce

The Philippine pivot to China is just the latest consequence of Obama’s feckless foreign policy.

This morning, we saw a glimpse of that world, as one of America’s longest-standing allies in Asia turned its back on the United States and embraced China:

In a state visit aimed at cozying up to Beijing as he pushes away from Washington, the Philippine President announced his military and economic “separation” from the United States.

“America has lost now. I’ve realigned myself in your ideological flow,” he told business leaders in Beijing on Thursday. “And maybe I will also go to Russia to talk to Putin and tell him that there are three of us against the world: China, Philippines and Russia. It’s the only way.”

As usual, the Obama administration was caught off guard and flat-footed. John Kirby, the spokesman for the State Department, said the move was “inexplicably at odds” with the U.S.-Philippine relationship. “We are going to be seeking an explanation of exactly what the president meant when he talked about separation from us,” Kirby said. “It’s not clear to us exactly what that means and all its ramifications.”

Kirby is right that the outlook in the Philippines is murky; lots of Filipino officials are as appalled by their president’s remarks as anybody in Foggy Bottom. But what isn’t murky at all is that President Obama’s faltering foreign policy has taken another serious hit. It is hard to think of another American president whose foreign policy initiatives failed as badly or as widely as Obama’s. The reconciliation with the Sunni world? The reset with Russia? Stabilizing the Middle East by tilting toward Iran? The Libya invasion? The Syria abstention? The ‘pivot to Asia’ was supposed to be the centerpiece of Obama’s global strategy; instead the waning months of the Obama administration have seen an important U.S. ally pivot toward China in the most public and humiliating way possible.

Duterte clearly thinks that humiliating Obama in this way is a solid career move. He certainly believes that China will support him against the critics at home and abroad who will wring their hands over his shift. He presumably has had some assurances from his Chinese hosts that if he commits his cause to them, they will back him to the hilt.

This points to a broader problem: Obama’s tortuous efforts to balance a commitment to human rights and the niceties of American liberal ideology with a strong policy in defense of basic American security interests have made the world less safe for both human rights and for American security. As the revisionist powers (Russia, China, and Iran) gain ground, foreign leaders feel less and less need to pay attention to American sermons about human rights and the rule of law. Death squads and extra-judicial executions on a large scale: the Americans will lecture you but China will still be your friend. Barrel bombing hospitals in Aleppo? The Russians won’t just back you; they will help you to do it. Obama’s foreign policy is making the world safer for people who despise and trample on the very values that Obama hoped his presidency would advance. His lack of strategic insight and his inability to grasp the dynamics of world power politics have opened the door to a new generation of authoritarian figures in alliance with hostile great powers. Unintentionally, and with the best of intentions, he has opened the doors to the demons of Hell, and the darkest forces in the human spirit have much greater scope and much more power today than they did when he took the oath of office back in 2009.

Now in the final days of Obama’s presidency, Russia, Iran, and China are all stepping up their game. Putin has been humiliating and outfoxing Obama at one end of Eurasia; Iran has gone from routing Obama at the bargaining table to enabling its proxies in Yemen to fire on American ships. Xi now has a triumph of his own, with one of America’s oldest Asian allies insulting Obama at official events. Clearly, America’s opponents (and some of our allies) have reached the conclusion that this particular American administration is unable or unwilling to respond forcefully to provocations.

This isn’t just a painful and embarrassing time for President Obama; it is a dangerous time for world peace. Secretary Clinton is well aware of just how damaging the Filipino defection is in Asia; she helped develop the Obama administration’s Asia strategy and she knows that China’s challenge has just grown much more dangerous. She knows what a wreck the Middle East has become, and she is well aware that Obama will hand her a region that is in much worse shape than it was when Obama took office. She knows how Putin made a patsy and a laughingstock of Obama around the world, and she knows that Obama’s efforts to stabilize the Middle East by conciliating Iran have had just the opposite effect. She knows that even as Donald Trump’s poorly led, poorly conceived electoral campaign weakens, America’s enemies abroad are using every day of Obama’s tenure in office to weaken the foundations of America’s power around the world.

We do not know what other plans our opponents have to take advantage of Obama’s shortcomings as the clock slowly runs down on his time in the White House. Putin clearly hoped that his interference could muddy the waters of the American presidential race; the Russians believe that Trump is if anything less capable than Obama, and that a Trump presidency would give Russia four more years to work at dismantling American power and the European Union. As Putin now contemplates the likely frustration of those hopes, he is likely to think harder about how he can use the time remaining on Obama’s watch to further weaken the United States and erode its alliance system.


WALTER RUSSELL MEAD
http://www.the-american-interest.com/

[daddy-kool]

At IdeaFestival 2014, Geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan provides deep insight and context to the rapidly changing global scene and its potential impact on international business, finance and the US. By dissecting global demographic, cultural, political and economic trends, Zeihan paints a fascinating picture of what the interconnected geopolitical landscape could look like in the not too distant future.

[Putnik ali stvarno]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY6yuHF3dG0

eh da ima ko ovakve specificne tezine da se obrati ex jugo piscima

[Sanjarko]

Ako se nesto ne desi nepredvidzeno ostaje supersila broj 1 sa 450 miliona stanovnika. Sad sa kolikim gdpijem, ne znam. Imat ce vise stanovnika od EU.

[Truba]

100+ mrtvih u cikagu za produzeni vikend

baltimorizacija?

[AleksoMKD]

100+ mrtvih u cikagu za produzeni vikend

baltimorizacija?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40514995
At least 101 people were shot in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend, according to a city newspaper.

Nearly half of the shootings during the four-day holiday happened over 12 hours, reports the Chicago Tribune.

The youngest victim was a 13-year-old boy and the oldest a 60-year-old man.

US President Donald Trump recently said he was sending in federal agents to help local police contain the Illinois city's gang wars.

About half of the shootings happened between 15:30 on Tuesday and 03:30 on Wednesday, mainly in Chicago's south and west sides.

The casualties are significantly higher than 2016, when 66 people were shot in Chicago over the Independence Day weekend, which lasted three days.

It brings the total number of people shot in Chicago so far in 2017 to more than 1,800, reports the Tribune.

But that figure is not as severe as last year when 2,035 people had been shot by this point.

At the weekend, Chicago police said shootings this year had declined 14% compared with the first six months of last year.

[Challenger__]

100+ mrtvih u cikagu za produzeni vikend

baltimorizacija?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40514995
At least 101 people were shot in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend, according to a city newspaper.

Nearly half of the shootings during the four-day holiday happened over 12 hours, reports the Chicago Tribune.

The youngest victim was a 13-year-old boy and the oldest a 60-year-old man.

US President Donald Trump recently said he was sending in federal agents to help local police contain the Illinois city's gang wars.

About half of the shootings happened between 15:30 on Tuesday and 03:30 on Wednesday, mainly in Chicago's south and west sides.

The casualties are significantly higher than 2016, when 66 people were shot in Chicago over the Independence Day weekend, which lasted three days.

It brings the total number of people shot in Chicago so far in 2017 to more than 1,800, reports the Tribune.

But that figure is not as severe as last year when 2,035 people had been shot by this point.

At the weekend, Chicago police said shootings this year had declined 14% compared with the first six months of last year.

67 ubijenih, 400 povređenih od toga 150 kritično.

18+




- Neko veče sam postavio izvode iz obraćanja Hassana Nasrallaha (Hezbollah, Liban, južni Bejrut) u kome eksplicite kaže "Liban je danas bezbjedniji od USA i Vašingtona".

Rekao bih, definitivno.

[pici]

to je ta kravarska poliKITA dje dojencentu mozes kupit kalasnjikov... o getoima crnaca, hispana, kineza, indijaca da ne govorim... i sHa sad ovaj tVump... nista, nije biJo musliman jer da yes sad bi digli bombardere...

Ne tretira se kao teroristički napad

64-godišnji bijelac Stephen Paddock je stanovnik Mesquitea u saveznoj državni Nevadi, u kojoj se nalazi i Las Vegas. Paddock je po posjetiteljima festivala pucao s 32. kata hotela Mandalay Bay.

Policijski šerif u Las Vegasu kazao je da Paddock, koliko je poznato organima reda, nema veza s terorističkim organizacijama, a pokolj u Vegasu ne tretiraju kao teroristički napad.

Šerif okruga Clark, Joe Lombardo, rekao je da se radilo o napadu "usamljenog vuka".

[Challenger__]

to je ta kravarska poliKITA dje dojencentu mozes kupit kalasnjikov... o getoima crnaca, hispana, kineza, indijaca da ne govorim...

I u Kanadi je relativno liberalna politika nabavke oružja ali nema ovakvog nasilja. Biće da je dosta do mentalita i kulture. Nasilje je u kulturološkim temeljima američkog društva.

[Rugafet]

I pored svih negativnosti u esadeu i naseg filozofiranja i moralisnja ja zivim za dan kada cu sletjeti na americko tlo i tamo pustiti korjenje. To mi je zivotni cilj. Bio bi pravi useljenicki patriota sa americkom zastavom okacenom pored garaze u kojoj je parkiran dodgeov tamno sivi pick up, karirana kosulja i Atlanta Hawks kacket, hamburgeri i coca cola niko mi ravan ne bi bio. E to je moj san i za to zivim.

[eltroxin]

Sta bi onda za Rusiju trebali reci, gdje je homicide rate veci nego u Americi?

[jasko_ba]

Znam da je panika, nisu navikli na to, ali zalosna reakcija ljudi na ovim snimcima. Ili zaklon ili bjezi u tri lijepe koliko mozes! Pratim jedan snimak, dok ovaj reseta prema njima, par grupa ljudi dize srednji prst prema hotelu i pije pivo.

[Challenger__]

- USA čine 4.4% svjetske populacije ali imaju skoro polovinu oružja u posjedu civila:

[sinuhe]

Aerial America. Zanimljiva serija o SAD
Krenimo od Minnesote