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Naomi Klein: Why Climate Change Is So Threatening to Right-Wing Ideologues
"Climate change challenges everything conservatives believe in. So they're choosing to disbelieve it, at our peril."

http://www.alternet.org/environment...ing_ideologues/

ANNALS OF PSYCHOLOGY

Social Animal
How the new sciences of human nature can help make sense of a life.
by David Brooks


Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/...s#ixzz1HtUr349Q

A Reporter at Large

Covert Operations: The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.
by Jane Mayer

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/...r#ixzz1I0ew1xYH

Foreign Policy in Focus By Timothy Karr and Clothilde Le Coz


How Western Corporations Have Been Helping Tyrants Suppress Rebellions in the Arab World

It's hard to lecture other countries on the importance of online freedom when U.S. companies are exporting technological systems that aid repression.

http://www.alternet.org/news/150408...s_thre
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The Collapse of Globalization

By Chris Hedges

The last people who should be in charge of our food supply or our social and political life, not to mention the welfare of sick children, are corporate capitalists and Wall Street speculators.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item...ation_20110328/

Me leje! Te jap nje mendim mbi kete shkrimin e fundit?

Citim:

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autori i shkrimit
Capitalism has made us great. ... They assure us we [that human progress] will be saved by science, technology and rationality and that humanity is moving inexorably forward.

None of this is true. It is a message that defies human nature and human history.

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No Business Like War Business: Who Stands to Profit from Intervention in Libya?

By PEPE Escobar
From the Pentagon to the French government to the water privatizers, here are some of the beneficiaries of the campaign in Libya.

http://www.alternet.org/world/15043...ention_in_libya

PS: @Lost Soul: Artikujt kane opsionet e komenteve poshte. Mund te komentohet direkt ne faqet e sjella.

Ne artikull nuk shkruhet qe sistemi eshte i falimentuar, por thjesht se njerezit besojne se shkenca dhe teknologjia do shpetojne njeriun. Kjo nuk eshte e vertete. Kaq thote citimi i lost soul. Pra, s'ka te beje me sistemin. Njerezit nese duan "shpetim" duhet te mendojne ndryshe, pertej shkences dhe teknologjise, qe kollajtesojne jeten ne disa raste.

Ne fakt ideja e kesaj teme nuk ishte diskutimi i artikujve. Nese jane interesante per t'u diskutuar hapa temen paralele ne nenforumin e ngjarjeve nderkombetare.

http://forumihorizont.com/showthrea...?threadid=18325

What was the idea of this topic if there is not your opinion...Opinionator ??

I'm sharing my favorite articles with whoever wants to read them. This is the purpose.

The Political Scene

Confounding Fathers The Tea Party’s Cold War roots.
by Sean Wilentz

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/...z#ixzz1IDLF6wzG

When you give your opinion, the articles become more interesting as in every other topic...anyway..this is interesting.

Comment
A Man, A Plan - by David Remnick

Comment about President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Middle East diplomacy in the wake of the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia…

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/search?pag...a#ixzz1IHRdXy50

Military strategy

Cry havoc! And let slip the maths of war- The Economist

Warfare seems to obey mathematical rules. Whether soldiers can make use of that fact remains to be seen

http://www.economist.com/node/18483411

This one is so true

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

In Praise of Distraction by James Surowiecki

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/talk/finan...i#ixzz1IcFXqmXa

ECONOMY

Is a Real Resistance Movement to the Big Banks Finally on the Rise?- By Chris Hedges

There is no way to vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs. Civil Disobedience is the only tool we have left.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/150...ly_on_the_rise/

ECONOMY

This is scary, yet interesting.

You Thought the Koch Brothers Were Bad? Turns Out They're Even Worse Than You Thought- By Adele M. Stan

http://www.alternet.org/news/150520

Charles and David Koch's reach into virtually every aspect of political, economic and physical life on the planet is probably greater than you thought possible.

The Financial Page
Pumped Up? by James Surowiecki April 18, 2011

About rising oil prices, consumer confidence, and the U.S. economy…

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/finan...talk_surowiecki

Editorial
President Obama, Reinvigorated

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/o...ner=rss&emc=rss

Our Public Schools Are Churning Out Drones for the Corporate State- by Chris Hedges
Unconscious civilizations become totalitarian wastelands.


A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and blind.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item...ystem_20110410/

Mom on Facebook sentenced in son's drowning death

This is something that needs ur opinion ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110416..._death_facebook

WORLD

If the US Doesn't Pull Every Soldier from Iraq by Midnight, Dec. 31, 2011, Expect Serious Trouble - By Pepe Escobar

http://www.alternet.org/world/15058...erious_trouble/

Profiles
The Possibilian- by Burkhard Bilger

What a brush with death taught David Eagleman about the mysteries of time and the brain.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/...r#ixzz1K4Sm6tb4

teme interesante e lezetshme kjo.

Citim:

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Po citoj ato që tha kurti
teme interesante e lezetshme kjo.

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yep, this guy gets alot of people mad in america. lol

The Political Scene

The Consequentialist- by Ryan Lizza

How the Arab Spring remade Obama’s foreign policy.


Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/...a#ixzz1KvNpQzwX

http://www.economist.com/blogs/east.../trouble_tirana

Albania on the brink of...????

e mbyll bukur ket artikullin outori "what a tragedy for Albanians"

Chomsky: When Did America Completely Jettison the Rule of Law?

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial.

http://www.alternet.org/world/15103...aw/?page=entire

The Sky Really Is Falling and Our Only Salvation Is the Rapid Dismantling of the Fossil Fuel Industry- by Chris Hedges

The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming has been confronted by the power elite with self-delusion.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item...ng_20110530/?ln

Libya's Gadhafi plays chess with Russian visitor


MOSCOW (AP) — As the world awaits Moammar Gadhafi's next move, the Libyan leader has been playing chess with the visiting Russian head of the World Chess Federation.

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/libyas-g...-114346096.html


This man is funny ....

Watching a modern Greek tragedy

TIME. We all recall from our high school literature classes that the Greeks are especially adept at the art of the tragedy. We can see that expertise playing out in Athens today. The government of Prime Minister George Papandreou is fighting for its life as the nation teeters on the edge of default and descends into violent street protests. He sacked his finance minister on Friday in an attempt to throw the mob a target of their ire and save his own neck. The leaders of Europe are embroiled in embittered disputes over how to resolve Greece's debt problem before it drags its neighbors and perhaps even the euro into the toilet. (Some progress may have been made on Friday when German Chancellor Angela Merkel signaled her willingness to compromise on the main point holding up a new bailout -- whether private creditors of Athens should face a debt restructuring.) The Greeks' plight is a tragedy on so many levels, it is hard to know where to begin.

Let's start, though, with how Greece got into this mess – a drama of the multiple failings of European leadership. Greece probably should never have been allowed to join the euro zone in the first place due to its long history of financial irresponsibility, but Europe's great experiment with monetary union has been propelled more by politics than economics. Once in the union, Greece's politicians took advantage of the stability it brought not to reform and improve competitiveness but to amass debt at low rates of interest to fund a bloated and pointless civil service. Meanwhile, the rest of Europe turned a blind eye, lacking the political will to follow the very rules they designed to prevent emerging crises the Greeks were in the process of creating. Then after the financial crisis, when the depth of the Greeks' debt woes became all too apparent, Europe's leaders dithered again, delaying action until the debt crisis had already raged around Europe. Even when they finally did something – with an EU/IMF bailout in May 2010 – the euro zone leadership failed to heed warnings that the rescue plan was still falling short of what Greece needed. In other words, at every step in Greece's experience with the euro zone, it exposed the tragic flaws built into the design of the monetary union.

Because of that, the Greek tragedy is potentially tragic for all of us. A default by Athens, whether part of a second, EU bailout or not, will likely spread new waves of contagion across the euro zone. Spain's borrowing costs have already been on the rise as the Greek crisis has intensified. That means the euro zone could require more bailouts to dodge more defaults, which would put the euro itself at risk. Losses on their holdings of sovereign bonds would eat into the balance sheets of Europe's major banks, undercutting the strength of the continent's financial system. Shockwaves would ripple around the world as jittery investors fled stocks and other assets in a renewed quest for safe havens.

Perhaps the most heartbreakng part of this Greek tragedy, though, is the impact on the Greeks themselves. Above all, the financial crisis slamming into Greece is a human tragedy. The Greeks are already facing their third consecutive year of economic contraction in 2011, and the outlook is grim. The road ahead is pockmarked with feeble economic prospects, joblessness, deteriorating government services, and a lower standard of living. There is little beyond venting their anger on the streets that the Greeks can do about it. Whatever happens as the crisis unfolds – whether Athens defaults or not, whether the country sticks with the euro or ditches it – years of painful reform and austerity measures to straighten out the nation's finances are unavoidable. Like the classic Greek tragedies of old, the players in this modern drama can't avoid their tragic fate.

It's a tragic end that most of the world's richest countries may face as well. What's happening in Greece is a window into the future of the West. True, the U.S., U.K. and other debt-heavy nations may never tumble into crises as severe as Greece's. America, for a host of reasons, is not Greece. But the Americans, Brits, French, Italians and most other Westerners can't avoid the budget cuts and potentially lower living standards the Greeks are suffering through today as governments across the developed world will inevitably be forced to restore order to their shattered finances. It's the price of living beyond our means like the Greeks have done. Those painful adjustments will have to be made as the West confronts a challenge to its dominance and competitiveness from a rising East. The Greeks need to reform their economy to have any hope of a bright future. So does the rest of the West.

Centuries ago, Greece was the leading light of Western civilization. Now Greece may be leading the way towards the decline of that civilization, at least economically. It's enough to make Antigone cry.

Re: Watching a modern Greek tragedy

Citim:

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Po citoj ato që tha NS-6
... It's the price of living beyond our means like the Greeks have done. ..

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Sa i lezetshem ai artikulli i NS6 perkthimi u be ne frengjisht online.

Ah, Greqia- Greqia. Deri te dielen do merret vendimi perfundimtar.

France- Gjermani jane te vendosur edhe kesaj here t'i vijne ne ndihme Greqise. Gjermania duhet te harroj divergjencat me Greqine dhe per te miren e Europes do bashkepunojne... Te shohim se deri kur!

kur sheh si u futen ata, te iken mendja se sa llafe na bojn neve! Kush e di kur do i plotesojm naiher kerkesat qe Greqia i ka anashkaluar pa ju imponuar fare me sa duket!

Gjithsesi, sic e kam thene, ne do futemi ne BE kur BE te jete shkaterruar plotesisht...dhe dita nuk me duket shume e larget se po iku Greku, shtetet e tjere te PIGS do i ndjekin shume shpejt!

Kjo ndodh se s'ka drejtesi .
Greket kan mare fund perfundimisht,, kam njerez andej, e shpesh her me telefonojn per te ardh me jetu ketu,, e shume e kane len ate shtet, e jane rikthy ne Albani.

Bref un si du ata njerez gjithsesi..Rrace e keqe jane!

Daddy, what are compact disks

One day, when my children are a little older, I will gather them close and I will tell them about how I lived through the Great Format Wars.

I will recount to them a seemingly endless cycle of battles. From LP to cassette to minidisk (oh wait -- not to minidisk) to CD. From Betamax to VHS to DVD to HD-DVD to Blu-ray. From punch cards to magnetic tape to floppy disks to zip drives to DVD-ROMs.

Some were dirty little skirmishes, like the Eight-Track Incursion of the late 1960s. But, oh, there are epic tales to be told as well: How my children's hearts will leap and dive (assuming they are not the kind to be bored to distraction by what Dad is droning on about) as they hear about VHS and Betamax, each bringing the other ever closer to oblivion, and how only one of them left the battlefield -- only to fall victim to a far nimbler opponent, DVD, which was waiting in the wings.

And my children will hear of this and be amazed (see assumption above), for they know nothing of this kind of conflict. They will grow up in a world where physical storage of information is as outdated as rotary-dial telephones and mimeograph machines are now.

Indeed, they already live in that world, even if vestiges of the old remain (turntables, for example). We older people can enjoy this new world as well, what with streaming music and video services, cloud-based storage options and social networks that easily absorb our photos and ephemera. We may be hardened

by battles past, but our future is digital, wireless, ubiquitous and, we hope, pacific. Here's what it looks like.

Music

It was not that long ago that a home stereo system was a black-and-brown tower of components: an amplifier, a receiver, a cassette deck, a CD player, a phonograph, perhaps an equalizer.

All that can be cast aside. Our music is now stored digitally on a computer, or sent over the Internet from a streaming service like Spotify or Pandora. To hear it in the home, all that's required is a speaker to receive the necessary data. One of the simplest ways to do this is with a wireless speaker that uses Bluetooth wireless technology to connect to a smartphone or computer.

The two big players in this area are Bose, with its SoundLink speaker ($300), and Jawbone, with its Jambox ($200) and Big Jambox ($300) speakers. The products vary in size and shape and have different secondary features, but their primary function is the same: to take the music that is on a computer or phone and, wirelessly, play it in a room.

All three models are powered by a rechargeable battery (the Bose lasts eight hours on a charge; the Big Jambox lasts 15), so you can move them in and out of the house. Because many people store music on their phones or use it to pull in music from a streaming site, the smartphone becomes both the source and the remote control for the speaker.

If a listener wants a more sophisticated package, there is also Sonos, which makes small ($300) and large ($400) indoor speakers that work on a proprietary network. When multiple speakers are set up around a house, music can be sent to all of them simultaneously, or different tracks can be sent to different rooms. Controlling the speakers can be done from a computer or via a smartphone app that works with your existing music library as well as Internet-based services.

TV and movies

The VCR gave way to the DVD player, which then begot the Blu-ray DVD player, but the next device we use to watch movies will not have any disc or cartridge at all. Streaming services like Netflix (NFLX), Hulu and Amazon Instant Video are able to send shows and movies to televisions directly, and online stores like Apple's (AAPL) iTunes Store can allow users to download videos to their devices for offline viewing.

To get this content onto a television, you need either a new TV -- which will probably have the ability to get on a Wi-Fi network, so it can access the Internet and reach streaming services like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu directly -- or an accessory that allows your current television to do the same thing.

If the latter is the case, then you may want to consider a Roku box (starting at $50) or an Apple TV ($99). Both will allow you to get online and stream content. Roku has deals with Netflix, Amazon and Hulu Plus. Apple's box will connect you to Netflix and will also gain you access to its iTunes store.

Computing

Early computer users may remember that the storage medium of choice in the early 1980s was a cassette of magnetic tape. This then gave way to the 51/4-inch floppy, which in turn evolved into the 31/2-inch floppy (this time protected by a hard plastic case), only to be overtaken by the CD-ROM, which morphed into the DVD.

But the latest portable computers forgo any removable storage media whatsoever. In an era when documents can be stored on Google (GOOG) Docs, photos on Facebook and other files on cloud services like Dropbox, the need for a disk of any type is rapidly approaching zero. Why carry around extra equipment that you don't really need all the time?

Apple was the first popular computer maker to ditch a disk drive (in much the same way the company omitted the still-popular 31/2-inch drive from the first iMac, favoring a CD-ROM drive). Its line of MacBook Air laptops, which come in either an 11-inch version (starting at $999) or a 13-inch one (starting at $1,300), contain an internal, solid-state drive for storage and a couple of USB ports that can be used with flash (or thumb) drives if necessary.

So no more black boxes stacked in the living room if you want to listen to music. No more black boxes stacked near the TV if you want to watch a movie. No more bulky laptops with increasingly unnecessary components.

Perhaps in my children's lifetime, all these products will be reduced to their most elemental forms: a simple glass display to see things, with some small speakers to hear things. The future of media and tech devices is not how many things can be packed into a given size, but how much can be left out.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/person...e-compact-discs

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/w...l?smid=pl-share


Ecuador Says Threat Is Made to Get Assange From Embassy

Ecuador said on Wednesday that the British authorities had threatened to barge into the countryÕs embassy in London, where Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is holed up in an asylum bid.

Hah, se dija qe qenka futur ne ambasade. Bravo Assange, ishalla vazhdon punen si me pare.