Amerika Nr. 1.! Vertet?

Amerika Nr. 1.! Vertet?

Nje statistike e shkurter qe tregon se si reshtohet USA ne raport me shtete te tjera apo me Europen!


No. 1?
By: MICHAEL VENTURA



No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is "No. 1," "the greatest." Our broadcast media are, in essence, continuous advertisements for the brand name "America Is No. 1." Any office seeker saying otherwise would be committing political suicide. In fact, anyone saying otherwise will be labeled "un-American." We're an "empire," ain't we? Sure we are. An empire without a manufacturing base. An empire that must borrow $2 billion a day from its competitors in order to function. Yet the delusion is ineradicable. We're No. 1. Well ... this is the country you really live in:

• The United States is 49th in the world in literacy (The New York Times, Dec. 12, 2004).

• The United States ranked 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004).

• One-third of our science teachers and one-half of our math teachers did not major in those subjects. (Quoted on The West Wing, but you can trust it – their researchers are legendary.)

• Twenty percent of Americans think the sun orbits the Earth. Seventeen percent believe the Earth revolves around the sun once a day (The Week, Jan. 7, 2005).

• "The International Adult Literacy Survey ... found that Americans with less than nine years of education 'score worse than virtually all of the other countries'" (Jeremy Rifkin's superbly documented book The European Dream

: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream, p.78).
• Our workers are so ignorant, and lack so many basic skills, that American businesses spend $30 billion a year on remedial training (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004). No wonder they relocate elsewhere!

• "The European Union leads the U.S. in ... the number of science and engineering graduates; public research and development (R&D) expenditures; and new capital raised" (The European Dream, p.70).

• "Europe surpassed the United States in the mid-1990s as the largest producer of scientific literature" (The European Dream, p.70).

• Nevertheless, Congress cut funds to the National Science Foundation. The agency will issue 1,000 fewer research grants this year (NYT, Dec. 21, 2004).

• Foreign applications to U.S. grad schools declined 28% last year. Foreign student enrollment on all levels fell for the first time in three decades, but increased greatly in Europe and China. Last year Chinese grad-school graduates in the U.S. dropped 56%, Indians 51%, South Koreans 28% (NYT, Dec. 21, 2004). We're not the place to be anymore.

• The World Health Organization "ranked the countries of the world in terms of overall health performance, and the U.S. was ... 37th." In the fairness of health care, we're 54th. "The irony is that the United States spends more per capita for health care than any other nation in the world" (The European Dream, pp.79-80). Pay more, get lots, lots less.

• "The U.S. and South Africa are the only two developed countries in the world that do not provide health care for all their citizens" (The European Dream, p.80). Excuse me, but since when is South Africa a "developed" country? Anyway, that's the company we're keeping.

• Lack of health insurance coverage causes 18,000 unnecessary American deaths a year. (That's six times the number of people killed on 9/11.) (NYT, Jan. 12, 2005.)

• "U.S. childhood poverty now ranks 22nd, or second to last, among the developed nations. Only Mexico scores lower" (The European Dream, p.81). Been to Mexico lately? Does it look "developed" to you? Yet it's the only "developed" country to score lower in childhood poverty.

• Twelve million American families – more than 10% of all U.S. households – "continue to struggle, and not always successfully, to feed themselves." Families that "had members who actually went hungry at some point last year" numbered 3.9 million (NYT, Nov. 22, 2004).

• The United States is 41st in the world in infant mortality. Cuba scores higher (NYT, Jan. 12, 2005).

• Women are 70% more likely to die in childbirth in America than in Europe (NYT, Jan. 12, 2005).

• The leading cause of death of pregnant women in this country is murder (CNN, Dec. 14, 2004).

• "Of the 20 most developed countries in the world, the U.S. was dead last in the growth rate of total compensation to its work-force in the 1980s. ... In the 1990s, the U.S. average compensation growth rate grew only slightly, at an annual rate of about 0.1%" (The European Dream, p.39). Yet Americans work longer hours per year than any other industrialized country, and get less vacation time.

• "Sixty-one of the 140 biggest companies on the Global Fortune 500 rankings are European, while only 50 are U.S. companies" (The European Dream, p.66). "In a recent survey of the world's 50 best companies, conducted by Global Finance, all but one was European" (The European Dream, p.69).

• "Fourteen of the 20 largest commercial banks in the world today are European. ... In the chemical industry, the European company BASF is the world's leader, and three of the top six players are European. In engineering and construction, three of the top five companies are European. ... The two others are Japanese. Not a single American engineering and construction company is included among the world's top nine competitors. In food and consumer products, Nestlé and Unilever, two European giants, rank first and second, respectively, in the world. In the food and drugstore retail trade, two European companies ... are first and second, and European companies make up five of the top 10. Only four U.S. companies are on the list" (The European Dream, p.68).

• The United States has lost 1.3 million jobs to China in the last decade (CNN, Jan. 12, 2005).

• U.S. employers eliminated 1 million jobs in 2004 (The Week, Jan. 14, 2005).

• Three million six hundred thousand Americans ran out of unemployment insurance last year; 1.8 million – one in five – unemployed workers are jobless for more than six months (NYT, Jan. 9, 2005).

• Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea hold 40% of our government debt. (That's why we talk nice to them.) "By helping keep mortgage rates from rising, China has come to play an enormous and little-noticed role in sustaining the American housing boom" (NYT, Dec. 4, 2004). Read that twice. We owe our housing boom to China, because they want us to keep buying all that stuff they manufacture.

• Sometime in the next 10 years Brazil will probably pass the U.S. as the world's largest agricultural producer. Brazil is now the world's largest exporter of chickens, orange juice, sugar, coffee, and tobacco. Last year, Brazil passed the U.S. as the world's largest beef producer. (Hear that, you poor deluded cowboys?) As a result, while we bear record trade deficits, Brazil boasts a $30 billion trade surplus (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004).

• As of last June, the U.S. imported more food than it exported (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004).

• Bush: 62,027,582 votes. Kerry: 59,026,003 votes. Number of eligible voters who didn't show up: 79,279,000 (NYT, Dec. 26, 2004). That's more than a third. Way more. If more than a third of Iraqis don't show for their election, no country in the world will think that election legitimate.

• One-third of all U.S. children are born out of wedlock. One-half of all U.S. children will live in a one-parent house (CNN, Dec. 10, 2004).

• "Americans are now spending more money on gambling than on movies, videos, DVDs, music, and books combined" (The European Dream, p.28).

• "Nearly one out of four Americans believe that using violence to get what they want is acceptable" (The European Dream, p.32).

• Forty-three percent of Americans think torture is sometimes justified, according to a PEW Poll (Associated Press, Aug. 19, 2004).

• "Nearly 900,000 children were abused or neglected in 2002, the last year for which such data are available" (USA Today, Dec. 21, 2004).

• "The International Association of Chiefs of Police said that cuts by the Bush administration in federal aid to local police agencies have left the nation more vulnerable than ever" (USA Today, Nov. 17, 2004).

No. 1? In most important categories we're not even in the Top 10 anymore. Not even close.

The USA is "No. 1" in nothing but weaponry, consumer spending, debt, and delusion.
 

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Mu frujt goma tu mshi mesazhe. Do flisni mire ju pa dal nga tema apo te shkoj te blej i gome tjeter?

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CIA report: American global dominance could end in 15 years


Who will be the first politician brave enough to declare publicly that the United States is a declining power and that America's leaders must urgently discuss what to do about it? This prognosis of decline comes not (or not only) from leftist scribes rooting for imperialism's downfall, but from the National Intelligence Council—the "center of strategic thinking" inside the U.S. intelligence community.

The NIC's conclusions are starkly presented in a new 119-page document, "Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project." It is unclassified and available on the CIA's Web site. The report has received modest press attention the past couple weeks, mainly for its prediction that, in the year 2020, "political Islam" will still be "a potent force." Only a few stories or columns have taken note of its central conclusion:

The likely emergence of China and India ... as new major global players—similar to the advent of a united Germany in the 19th century and a powerful United States in the early 20th century—will transform the geopolitical landscape with impacts potentially as dramatic as those in the previous two centuries.

In this new world, a mere 15 years away, the United States will remain "an important shaper of the international order"—probably the single most powerful country—but its "relative power position" will have "eroded." The new "arriviste powers"—not only China and India, but also Brazil, Indonesia, and perhaps others—will accelerate this erosion by pursuing "strategies designed to exclude or isolate the United States" in order to "force or cajole" us into playing by their rules.

America's current foreign policy is encouraging this trend, the NIC concluded. "U.S. preoccupation with the war on terrorism is largely irrelevant to the security concerns of most Asians," the report states. The authors don't dismiss the importance of the terror war—far from it. But they do write that a "key question" for the future of America's power and influence is whether U.S. policy-makers "can offer Asian states an appealing vision of regional security and order that will rival and perhaps exceed that offered by China." If not, "U.S. disengagement from what matters to U.S. Asian allies would increase the likelihood that they will climb on Beijing's bandwagon and allow China to create its own regional security that excludes the United States."

To the extent that these new powers seek others to emulate, they may look to the European Union, not the United States, as "a model of global and regional governance."

This shift to a multipolar world "will not be painless," the report goes on, "and will hit the middle classes of the developed world in particular" with further outsourcing of jobs and outflow of capital investment. In short, the NIC's forecast involves not merely a recalibration in the balance of world power, but also—as these things do—a loss of wealth, income, and, in every sense of the word, security.

The trends should already be apparent to anyone who reads a newspaper. Not a day goes by without another story about how we're mortgaging our future to the central banks of China and Japan. The U.S. budget deficit, approaching a half-trillion dollars, is financed by their purchase of Treasury notes. The U.S. trade deficit—much of it amassed by the purchase of Chinese-made goods—now exceeds $3 trillion. Meanwhile, China is displacing the United States all across Asia—in trade, investment, education, culture, and tourism. It's also cutting into the trade markets of Latin America. (China is now Chile's No. 1 export market and Brazil's No. 2 trade partner.) Asian engineering students who might once have gone to MIT or Cal Tech are now going to universities in Beijing.

Meanwhile, as the European Union becomes a coherent entity, the dollar's value against the euro has fallen by one-third in the past two years (one-eighth just since September). As the dollar's rate of return declines, currency investors—including those who have been financing our deficit—begin to diversify their holdings. In China, Japan, Russia, and the Middle East, central bankers have been unloading dollars in favor of euros. The Bush policies that have deepened our debt have endangered the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency.

What is the Bush administration doing to alter course or at least cushion the blow? It's hard to say. During Condoleezza Rice's confirmation hearings last week, Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D–Md., raised some questions about the nexus between international economics and political power. Rice referred him to the secretary of the treasury.

The NIC issued the report a few weeks before Bush’s inaugural address, but it serves to dump still more cold water on the lofty fantasy of America delivering freedom to oppressed people everywhere. In Asia, the report states, "present and future leaders are agnostic on the issue of democracy and are more interested in developing what they perceive to be the most effective model of governance." If the president really wanted to spread freedom and democracy around the planet, he would (among other things) need to present America as that "model of governance"—to show the world, by its example, that free democracies are successful and worth emulating. Yet the NIC report paints a world where fewer and fewer people look to America as a model of anything. We can't sell freedom if we can't sell ourselves.
 

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usa ,number 1 , good 4 them , who the **** cares eshte pyetja . ca teme t....

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LR o i poshter po vetem mua me fshive? :cry:

po ti e bere se nuk do qe une te dorezohem, aq me pak te iki me bisht nder shale /pf/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 

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Kur Presidenti i Komisionit Europian deklaron qe BE ka deshtuar ne qellimet e veta atehere nje Zot e di c'keni ju emigrantet e thjeshte qe kruheni me Ameriken. Per me shume lexoni me poshte se qenka bere e modes te sjellesh artikuj:

BE “braktis” Lisbonën

Në një takim të drejtuesve të BE në Lisbonë në vitin 2000 shefat e BE i vendosën vetes një listë të gjatë me qëllime që donin të arrinini deri në vitin 2010. Një nga qëllimet më të rendesishme ishte transformimi i ekonomisë të vendeve të BE në ekonominë më dinamike dhe konkurruese në të gjithë botën. Dje Presidenti i Komisionit Europian, Jose Manuel Barroso, pranoi zyrtarisht përpara Parlamentit Europian që BE ka dështuar në përmirsimin e ekonomise Europiane dhe që shumë më tepër vëmendje i duhet kushtuar krijimit të vendeve të reja të punës.

Sipas Barrosos ka dy arsye kryesore pse BE ka dështuar në këto pesë vjet: 1) Rritja e dobët ekonomike në vëndet e BE dhe 2) fakti që rritja e ekonomisë botërore në të ardhmen pritet të përqëndrohet në Azi dhe jo në Europë. Po sipas Barrosos “gjatë viteve të para të mijëvjeçarit vëndet e BE nuk kanë qënë në gjendje të ulin papunësinë, nuk kanë qënë në gjëndje të përfitojnë nga heqja e kufijve dhe zgjerimi i BE si dhe nuk kanë qënë në gjëndje të bien dakort dhe të eleminojnë kufizimet mbi lëvizjen e krahut të punës. Qëllimet e Lisbonës nuk u arritën si pasojë e një kombinimi të kushteve të këqija ekonomike, situatës të vështirë ndërkombtare, përparim i ngadaltë në vëndet e BE si dhe humbje e vullnetit politik”.

Barroso ka hartuar plane ambicioze për të nxitur drejtuesit politikë dhe ekonomikë Europianë, plane të cilat parashikojnë një rritje ekonomike mesatare prej 3% në Europë për 5 vitet e ardhshme si dhe krijimin e 6 milionë vënde pune të rinj. Ndërkohe numri i të papunëve në Europë vazhdon të rritet, vetëm në Gjermani ka tashmë 5 milionë të papunë, shifra kjo më e lartë që nga Lufta e Dytë Botërore, dhe përqindja mesatare në kontinent ka arritur 8.9% krahasuar me 5.4% në ShBA dhe 4.4% në Japoni.

“Ne nuk duhet ti vëmë më qëllim vetes të jemi numri 1 në botë” tha Barroso, “diskutimi këtu nuk është për shifra por si do të paguajmë për edukimin, pensionet, shërbimet shoqërore dhe mjekësine”.

Barroso do të ketë përpara vetes një punë të vështirë në vitet e ardhshme. Prodhueshmëria e punonjësve Europianë vazhdon të jetë më e ulët se në ShBA dhe në Japoni. Po kështu shpenzimet për punonjit janë 10% më të larta se në Japoni dhe 300% më të larta se ne Korenë e Jugut. Investimet ne Europë u rritën me vetëm 1.7% në 2004 në Europë ndërsa në ShBA u rritën me 5.4%. Për të arritur qëllimin e Lisbonës që 70% e forcës punonjëse të jenë të punësuar deri në vitin 2010 duhet të krijohen rreth 22 milionë vende të reja pune për ta ngritur përqindjen nga 63% ku është për momentin.

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Ne Gjermani papunesia kapi shifren "simbolike" 5 miljon(m.gj.s. ka ndryshuar dhe kriteri i numrimit te te pauneve)Qe prej vitit 1933 nuk ishte arritur asnjehere kjo shifer.
 

antares

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Dhe te mendosh qe para 1933 nuk kishte 8-10 miljon te huaj ne ate vend!
 

AgimDajti

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Fillimisht postuar nga antares:
[qb] Dhe te mendosh qe para 1933 nuk kishte 8-10 miljon te huaj ne ate vend! [/qb]
Po, natyrisht qe te huajt e kane fajin :eek:
 

antares

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Jo plotesisht, bota nuk eshte aq e thjeshte sa te thuash qe ky apo ai fenomen eshte pergjegjes per kete apo ate gje!
Mos me morre per amerikan? Jo po ca ketu po ulerinin me ngazellim qe Bushi qenka Korcar pra shqiptar!
Eshte nder i madh per mua........
 

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Bushi eshte kombinats dhe ka nje biznes te fuqishem kalçeto me dy fusha ne kombinat, perveç kesaj luan dhe futboll ne nje ekip turk se e ka pas qef qe i vogel futbollin. Sa per politiken e ka thjesht per hobi e jo per fitim. Emrin nuk e ka gjergj (xhorxh) po Alban.
 

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He he he Amerika vendi no1? Per cfare? Per buxhetin ushtarak? Per shkelje te te drejtave te njeriut? (brenda dhe sidomos jashte kufijve te saj)
E dini ate barsaleten ju? Djali pyet babain:"O babi pse qeverise sone i bene grusht shteti?
Babai: Po ja mor bir, qeveria nuk e ben punen mire, atehere u ngrit opozita rrezoi qeverine ne pushtet dhe e mori ajo pushtetin.
Djali: Po mire babi, po ne Amerike pse nuk behet grusht shteti?
Babai: Po ne Amerike nuk ka ambasade amerikane te keqen babi.

Nqs ka nje shtet qe i ka shkelur me shume te drejtat e njeriut, kjo eshte Amerika.
 

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Sot po shikoja CNN dhe po flitej per disa faqe ne internet te cilat duhet te jene per vende te tjera e jo Ameriken ku shkruhen lajme te ndryshme por keto lajme ne vend te jene per vendin e atyre qe lexojne jane per Ameriken dhe ne favor te saj duke disinformuar publikun :rolleyes:
Dhe ne fund sa per tu treguar teknikisht korrekt kan nje disclaimer note por e cila nuk lexohet nga te githe dhe sitet i perkasin Amerikes ...
tani lind pyetja cne Amerika shkruan lajme per te tjeret dhe nderhyn aty ku si takon ..
 

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Amerika Nr. 1.! Vertet?

po amerika eshte numri 1 ne bote ,por..........

per prodhimin e filmave porno , qe ja kalonin per nga xhiro dhe fitimi edhe industrise se armatimeve ne usa
 

antares

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Eh Maia! Kjo eshte nje metode e vjeter dhe shume efektive! Nje pershkrim te shkelqyer te saj mund ta gjesh tek Jonathan Swift "Traktat mbi genjeshtren politike", midis te tjerash ai thote Nese doni te perhapni lajmin e rreme qe Mbreti i Frances ka vdekur atehere mos thoni "vdiq" se nuk do e besoje njeri, po thoni kaloi nje te ftohur te lehte dhe tani eshte shume mire dhe po e merr vehten me shpejtesi! Sigurisht askush nuk ka per ta besuar kete lajm dhe te gjithe do kujtojne se ai (Mbreti i Frances) ka vdekur!
Keshtu p.sh. ishin genjeshtrat e luftes se pare boterore se valla gjermanet kishin therrur foshnja belge..... Pas lufte rezultoi se kjo ishte thjesht genjeshter po sa para ben!
Ka genjeshtra qe ju del boja pasi e kane kryer funksionin e tyre pas disa muajve apo viteve, por ka genjeshtra te tjera shume me te rendesishme qe jo vetem jetojne me dekada apo shekuj po edhe ngrihen ligje ne mbrojtje te tyre (rasti i Holokaustit).
Ne dekadat e fundit ishte rasti i "nxjerrjes se bebeve kuvajtjane nga inkubatoret dhe vrasja e tyre nga ushtaret irakene", kesaj genjeshtre i doli boja menjehere mbas Luftes se Pare te Gjirit, pra pati jete disa mujore (ajo qe e deshmoi kete genjeshter para Kongresit Amerikan ishte vajza e Ambasadorit Kuvajtjan qe nuk kishte vene kembe ne Kuvajt prej disa vitesh!
I gjithe truku eshte te krijohet nje peshtjellim dhe histeri fillestare per te justifikuar nje politike kriminale, pastaj kur del genjeshtra eshte shume vone.......
Pra ajo eshte nje arme shume e rendesishme e propagandes!
Keshtu edhe me Grushtin e Shtetit ne Ukraine, u perhap genjeshtra se Jankovici apo FSU (KGB e sotme) helmoi kandidatin elektoral te CIA-s me .......dioksine.
Ceshtja eshte qe ai u vendos ne krye te Ukraines, me vone do dale e verteta se nuk ka pasur asnje lloj helmimi, se dioksina do disa muaj te jape ato shenja e jo 48 ore, se po te donin vertet ta helmonin ka helme shume me efektive qe veprojne shpejt dhe pa lene gjurme, po atehere do jete teper vone!
Pra genjeshtrat nuk jane pasoje e naivitetit apo shpirtkeqesise po arme te vereta ne frontin e luftes psilologjike kunder armikut dhe per te mobilizuar budallenjte e brendshem qe te mbushin rradhet e ushtrive (demokracisjellese)!
Shembuj te gjytyrymeve qe jane dhe sot e kesaj dite pre e propagandes Janki kemi me shumice edhe ne kete Forum!
 

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Me then te drejten nuk kam ndonje preference te madhe ndaj Janki por dhe menyra jote kembengulese eshte shume efektive /pf/images/graemlins/laugh.gif per te ma bere te qarte kete megjithate nji gje nuk e harroj kurre , kur kam pare ne internet para ca kohesh nje filem te shkurter qe dha nje terrorist duke i prere koken nje luftetari Amerikan ...gjera te tilla eshte e veshtire te harrohen ...
Megjithate njerezit nuk kane faj , por qeverite ...
 

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Nuk e di se cilat jane arme me efektive per terrorizem, ca thika qe presin nje apo 2 koka apo B-52 qe hedhin bomba 2 tonshe me napalm qe djegin qindra njerez te gjalle njeheresh!
Apo sanksionet (pa gjak) qe vrane 1 000 000 (po nje miljon irakene) midis tyre 500 000 femije!
Kete nuk ke si e mohon se kur e pyeten Madeline Ollbright nese ja vlente vrasja nga sanksionet ne Irak te 500 000 femijeve, ajo u pergjigj...."Po ja vlente"
Apo perdorimi i bomabve me Uran (keto jane arme te shkaterrimit ne mase) ne Kosove e Serbi te cilat e kthyen Ballkanin ne hale atomike!
Ne me serbet ne mos per 100 vjet ndoshta per 200 apo 300 vjet do mesojme (ne dhe ata) te jetojme ne paqe si komshinj qe jemi, po uraniumi aty do jete edhe per 2-3 miljon vjet!
 
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