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24 February 2011

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1. O šaolinskom kung fuu iz National Geographica

Over the past decade Shi Yongxin, the 45-year-old abbot, has built an international business empire—including touring kung fu troupes, film and TV projects, an online store selling Shaolin-brand tea and soap—and franchised Shaolin temples abroad, including one planned in Australia that will be attached to a golf resort. Furthermore, many of the men manning the temple's numerous cash registers—men with shaved heads and wearing monks' robes—admit they're not monks but employees paid to look the part.

And yet, whether a force for evangelizing or profitmaking, the Shaolin Temple has helped foster an undeniable kung fu renaissance, which has coincided with China's own resurgence as an international power. Nowhere is this more evident than in Dengfeng, a sprawling city of 650,000 just six miles from the temple gates. Here some 60 martial arts academies have sprouted over the past two decades and now boast more than 50,000 students. A drive down a main road passes some of the biggest schools. They rise like Vegas casinos, with towering dormitories adorned with murals of kung fu fighters, dragons, and tigers. 

2. Izuzetno zanimljiv članak o TV industriji u Rusiji, korupciji i tome zašto se neke rijaliti emisije tamo nisu primile:


The fundamental premise for most Western reality shows is what people in the industry call ‘aspirational’: someone works hard and is rewarded with a wonderful new life. The shows celebrate the outstanding individual, the bright extrovert. For the Russian version of The Apprentice, Vladimir Potanin, a metals oligarch worth more than $10 billion, was recruited to be the boss choosing between the candidates competing for the dream job. Potanin goaded, teased and tortured the candidates as they went through increasingly difficult challenges. The show looked great, the stories and dramas all worked, but there was a problem: no one in Russia believed in the rules. The usual way to get a job in Russia is not by impressing at an interview, but by what is known as blat – ‘connections’. Russian society isn’t much interested in the hard-working, brilliant young business mind. Everyone knows where that type ends up: in jail like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, or in exile like the mobile phone billionaire Yevgeny Chichvarkin. Today’s Russia rewards the man who operates from the shadows, the grey apparatchik, the master of the politique de couloir – the man like Putin. 

3. Propusti u "vanzemaljci napadaju" filmovima, počev od toga da uglavnom napadaju goli, preko toga da uvek prvo napadnu Ameriku, pa do najzanimljivijeg - zašto, kog đavola, napadaju Zemlju zbog resursa, kad mogu iste te resurse da nađu na nenaseljenim planetama? Dobro, u nekim filmovima jedu ljudske mozgove, tu priča ima smisla.

11 comments:

VladimirV said...

The usual way to get a job in Russia is not by impressing at an interview, but by what is known as blat – ‘connections’. Russian society isn’t much interested in the hard-working, brilliant young business mind. Everyone knows where that type ends up: in jail like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, or in exile like the mobile phone billionaire Yevgeny Chichvarkin. Today’s Russia rewards the man who operates from the shadows, the grey apparatchik, the master of the politique de couloir – the man like Putin.

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Hodorkovski je nevinasce, uspesan biznismen koji je izgradio svoju poslovnu imperiju od nule, na 100% legalan nacin, bez veza u vlasti u vreme najveceg prosperiteta u Rusiji 1990-ih kada su vlast bili Boris Jelјcin, Jegor Gajdar, Anatolij Cubajs i koji je kaznjen od strane Putina samo zato sto je bio uspesan... bas kao i Berezovski i Abramovic... :)))

50 Cent drzi predavanja iz osnova biznisa i preduzetnistva :))))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZqdxYu0ZTI

Anonymous said...

Zanimljivo.
Mene upornost gospodina Vladimira V fascinira ali ni malo ne iznenađuje. Naime, pisanja o korupciji u RF su postala legendarna, ali, ukoliko niste ulagač (sa posebnim uslovima) ne znam zašto bi to nekog zanimalo. Možda se ide na blaćenje kako bi bili "uterani" u Zapad? Jalovi napori, jer pozitivan pogled na RF ne počiva na toj razini. Po mom (za sada usamljenom) mišljenju, pogled ka RF je zasnovan na:
1. Nasilju i licemerju zapadnog vojnog saveza,
2. Potpuno pogrešnoj predstavi o kapitalizmu i demokratiji, pravnoj državi.

Dok o prvoj tezi ne bih trošio tastere, drugu bih opisao anegdotu: čuo sam direktora NIS-a kako zapanjeno govori o stepenu prevare utemeljene u Srbiji. Potpuno svestan nedostataka pravnog sistema u sopstvenoj zemlji, nije skrivao da je iznenađen stepenom haosa u Srbiji.
Drugim rečima, u tom pogledu Srbija nije između EU i RF, ona je izvan merila :)

VladimirV said...
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VladimirV said...

Znam ja da je korupcija u Rusiji problem, korupcija u Rusiji je jos veca nego u Srbiji i znam da Putin nije uradio nista u borbi protiv korupcije, u zadnjih 10 godina korupcija u Rusiji se nije smanjila, jedna od procena je da je trziste korupcije u Rusiji vece od 240 milijardi dolala, ali Medvedev ima dobar program modernizacije i diverzifikacije ruske ekonomije, Medvedev trenutno sprovodi reformu policije, a nakon policije sledi reforma sudstva, Medvedev ce se izboriti protiv korupcije u Rusiji, izgradice pravu drzavu sa modernom, diverzifikovanom ekonomijom baziranoj na nauci i tehnologiji i napravice od Rusije supersilu sa najjacim oruzanim snagama, sa najmodernijim nukleranim i kovencionalnim naoruzanjem, zato ja vise volim Medvedeva nego Putina, ali volim i Putina.

Corruption in Russia

Medvedev modernisation programme

Anonymous said...

Vladimire,
verovatno se više krade u RF nego u Srbiji, ali gledano po načinu, i udelu, čini mi se, (ne samo meni) da smo "ispred".
Mene zaista zanima zašto kažete da volite Putina, Medvedeva? Zašto taj izraz "voleti" upotrebljavate?

VladimirV said...

Zato sto volim Rusiju pravoslavnu majcicu, najvecu, najlepsu, najjacu zemlju na svetu. :)

Anonymous said...

OK. Možda i mogu da razumem Vašu ljubav ka nekoj zemlji, ali baš za predsednika ne mogu da razumem.
U Srbiji imate čestu pojavu bezuslovne ljubavi za Đinđića, Miloševića, Broza, Šešelja...

VladimirV said...

Pitajte Speakera da vam to objasni, to je karatkeristicno za sve "istocnjacke despotije" poput Srbije i Rusije da ljudi bezuslovno vole svoje lidere. :)))

Anonymous said...

Pa dobro... Ako već tako kažete.

VladimirV said...

Evo nesto interesantno o Rusiji sa ekonomskog forumu u Sankt Peterburgu, jedan od ucesnika foruma kaze da bi Rusija do 2020. mogla postati ekonomski jaka kao Juzna Koreja ali za to su potrebne institucije spovodjenja ugovora, imovinske zastite, nezavisnog sudskog sistema:

PART 1 RUSSIA'S BALANCE SHEET: BETWEEN A RISING EAST AND A DECLINING WEST

PART 2 RUSSIA'S BALANCE SHEET: BETWEEN A RISING EAST AND A DECLINING WEST

Anonymous said...

To su sve ogromni problemi, nimalo naivni, jer u rešavanju takvih pitanja, poput imovine i ugovora, leži struktura same države, odnosa njenog prema građaninu, podela vlasti, decentralizacija, izbori i tako dalje i tako dalje.
To se ne postiže "modernizacijom", niti ponavljanjem tog termina iz prošlosti.

Ono što RF stavlja ISPRED SRBIJE je postavljanje tih pitanja na red.
Dok je Srbija...