[ppiindia] Danang, Hapuslah Air Matamu
Danang, Hapuslah Air Matamu By: Agussyafii Sore itu Danang duduk terdiam. Air matanya membasahi pipi. "Kenapa menangis Danang?" tanya saya. Danang menjawab bahwa sudah dua hari ini ia tidak sekolah sebab mesti menjaga ibunya yang sedang sakit. Ibunya berjualan jamu keliling. Dari jualan jamu itulah untuk menghidupi dan biaya sekolah Danang dan kakaknya. "Danang, hapuslah air matamu. Biar nanti kakak membawa ibumu ke dokter" kata istri saya. Danang terlihat mengusap air mata yang dipipi. Wajahnya tersenyum, "Bener kak?" tanya Danang. "Iya, sebentar lagi kakak ke rumah Danang." Jawab istri saya. Danang nampak gembira, dia berlari keluar. Air mata yang terhapus menjadi sebuah kebahagiaannya. Buat kami sekeluarga kebahagiaan Danang juga kebahagiaan kami. Air mata yang mengalir, juga air mata kami. -- "Aku dan pemelihara anak yatim di surga (dekatnya) seperti dua jari ini (seraya Rasul isyarat dengan jari telunjuk dan jari tengah dengan posisi merenggang)" Hadits yang diriwayatkan oleh Imam Bukhori, at-Turmudzi dan Abu Daud di atas sudah cukup jelas memberikan gambaran tentang keutamaan pemelihara anak yatim (kafil al-yatim). Wassalam, Agussyafii - Tulisan ini dibuat dalam rangka sosialisasi Program Baksos "Ananda Anak Sehat" Terima kasih atas berkenannya berpartisipasi maupun memberikan dukungannya, silahkan kunjungi kami di http://agussyafii.blogspot.com atau sms 087 8777 12 431
[ppiindia] Asia's Economic Lessons for the U.S. (Richard Elkus)
Insight November 24, 2008, 8:49AM EST Asia's Economic Lessons for the U.S. The U.S.is mortgaging its future by outsourcing technological inventions in exchange for short-term cash By Richard Elkus http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2008/gb20081124_554078.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_global+business This year's mortgage meltdown suggests the U.S.standard of living is a house of cards. Mortgaging the nation's future is no substitute for a productive globally competitive society that borrows to invest rather than borrows to consume. The current economic crisis should be a wake-up call that the U.S.needs to boost its productive capacity and win in global markets—something we've been neglecting for the last 40 years. The VCR became one of the most successful consumer-electronics products the world had ever seen, but the U.S.gave it away. Although the VCR was first introduced by American-owned Ampex in 1970, it was never manufactured in the U.S.In the mid-1980s no VCRs at all were built in the U.S. Japan's dominance in the market built the foundation of its consumer-electronics industry, contributing significantly to Japan's export surplus and the U.S.trade deficit. As the VCR was the largest user of semiconductor devices of any product of that day, a major part of the U.S.semiconductor industry shifted to Japanas well. The cell phone is another example. Today there are in excess of 1 billion cell phones sold annually. There have been more electronic cameras sold in cell phones in the last 10 years than cameras sold by Kodak in its first 100 years of existence. But although the first practical cell phone was introduced by American-owned Motorola (MOT) in 1973, relatively few cell phones are manufactured in the U.S.today. Most of the critical components are manufactured in Asia, including the displays and semiconductor devices. China, not the U.S., is the largest consumer. Yet the U.S.'s consumption of cell phones continues to contribute to its trade deficit. Devastating for the Future The U.S.is no longer a significant producer of VCRs, cell phones, cameras, TV sets, displays, CD and DVD players, semiconductors, or most other consumer-electronics products. The technological base that has been lost as a result of exiting these markets is devastating for the U.S.economy and our future. IBM (IBM), once the largest manufacturer of personal computers, sold its PC business to China's Lenovo. The old-line consumer-electronics companies like RCA, Zenith, Magnavox, Sylvania, and Polaroid are gone. Even Bell Labs has been sold. Most of the component parts of America's computers are made in Asia. Today's hottest innovation, high-definition TV, is an Asian phenomenon. Americais only the consumer. How did these events transpire? America's obsession with short-term profits and cash flow often occurred at the expense of everything else. Outsourcing is necessary when the technological and manufacturing investment required of these businesses is too high for any nation, let alone an individual company, to handle on its own. The question is not whether or not to outsource, but are you outsourcing to advance your competitive position in the industry or are you really just on your way to exiting the business altogether? Losing a Technological Base In the case of the VCR, the TV industry, and most consumer electronics, U.S.companies chose to exit each business. Better profits were available elsewhere. But the price paid by the U.S.for this choice relative to its industrial competitiveness is enormous. For the last 40 years the U.S.has reduced its productive capacity and its ability to innovate, all for the sake of short-term profits and cash flow. By exiting these businesses, we've lost a technological base necessary not just for them but also for other businesses that we're still involved in and value much more. For example, the markets that the U.S.has abandoned are critical to image and information processing, which are fundamental to most other products and markets in today's Information Age. Thus other major American enterprises, including automobiles and aircraft, already have been or will soon be negatively affected. Without giving it a second thought, the U.S.has been willing to trade long-term national competitiveness for short-term cash. If this continues, the present may be ours, but the future will in the hands of someone else. ** Richard Elkus is the author of WINNER TAKE ALL: Why Competitiveness Shapes the Fate of Nations(Basic Books, 2008). He has been chief executive or on the board of directors of over 15 different high-tech companies during his career, as well as board member of the University of California President's Board of Science and Innovation, Scripps Research Institute, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Economic Strategy Institute, the American Electronics Assn., and many other organizations. He lives in Atherton, Calif. Asian economi
[ppiindia] Re: seorang Kristenn ... , keliru MENAFSIRKAN AQ.
Yang dimaksud pintar dalam konteks ini bukan pintar akademis yang punya ijazah dari universitas terkenal. Bukan pintar yang material. Bukan IQ. Tapi ESQ. Baca deh ESQnya Ary Ginanjar ato ikut pelatihannya. Bagus kok untuk selalu berfikir positif. Ato dengerin Mario Teguh...juga bagus. Ya Nabi Muhammad (saw) gak pernah makan sekolahan. Tapi secara materi dia telah diakui sebagai panglima perang terhebat, pemimpin agama terhebat, pemimpin kaum terhebat. Paling gak kata orang2 terkenal tsb atau kata bukunya Michael Heart. Adakah Nabi Isa as (Yesus) dikenal sebagai orang yang pintar, hafal ini hafal anu? Tidak! Namun saya percaya Isa (as) tetap mulia sebagai nabiullah dan kalamullah dan dapat menerima AlQur'an yang mengajarkan keesaan Allah, Tuhan yang Nabi Isa (as) sembah juga. Ya Nabi Muhammad (saw) digambarkan sebagai buta huruf yang tidak bisa menulis dan membaca. Lalu bagaimana bisa dikatakan AlQur'an adalah hasil karyanya? Meniru dan mencontek Inil? Naudzubillah mindzaalik. Sorry ya, ngarab dikit. Jadi bukan kontra argumen bhw AlQur'an hanya untuk orang2 pintar. Yang kontra adalah argumen soal 'pintar'...:-). Begitulah dunia maya: hanya bermain dengan kata. Tapi kita manusia harus bisa menangkap esensi dari setiap kata yang terangkai dengan pikiran positif. Wassalam, Lina Dahlan From: Sunny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ppiindia@yahoogroups.com; Budi P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: great pretender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:22:09 PM Subject: Re: seorang Kristenn Dungu, keliru MENAFSIRKAN AQ. Kalau mau nakal ini kontra argumen bahwa Al Quran hanya untuk orang-orang pintar, ialah Nabi Muhammad selama hidupnya tidak bisa menghafal 24 huruf Arab untuk bisa menulis dan membaca. Orang tidak bisa menghafal 24 huruf adalah orang yang pintar? - Original Message - From: riri cute To: ppiindia@yahoogroups.com ; Budi P ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: great pretender ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 1:26 PM Subject: seorang Kristenn Dungu, keliru MENAFSIRKAN AQ. (Al Qur'an memang cuma untuk orang2 pintar dan menggunakan akal pikirannya)! Tanggapan dari buku " Kebenaran Yang Terungkap dari Al-Quran" tanggal : 01/11/2008 Robert P. Walean (seorang Kristen) dalam bukunya, Kebenaran Yang Terungkap dari Al-Quran, halaman 18, menulis: ... Sesungguhnya hanya si Nama Allah yang Rahmaanir Rahiim, yaitu Isa Putera Maryam yang rel
[ppiindia] Save the Emerging Markets (Dani Rodrik)
Save the Emerging Markets by Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE– If the world were fair, most emerging markets would be watching the financial crisis engulfing the world’s advanced economies from the sidelines – if not entirely unaffected, not overly concerned either. For once, what has set financial markets ablaze are not their excesses, but those of Wall Street. Emerging markets’ external and fiscal positions have been stronger than ever, thanks to the hard lessons learned from their own crisis-prone history. We might even have allowed these countries a certain measure of schadenfreude in the troubles of the United States and other rich countries, just as we might expect kids to take perverse delight from their parents’ getting into the kinds of trouble they so adamantly warn their children against. Instead, emerging markets are suffering financial convulsions of possibly historic proportions. The fear is no longer that they will be unable to insulate themselves. It is that their economies could be dragged into much deeper crises than those that will be experienced at the epicenter of the sub-prime debacle. Some of these countries should have known better and might have protected themselves sooner. There is little excuse for Iceland, which essentially turned itself into a highly leveraged hedge fund. Several other countries in Central and Eastern Europe, such as Hungary, Ukraine, and the Baltic states, were also living dangerously, with large current-account deficits and firms and households running up huge debts in foreign currency. Argentina, the international financial system’s enfant terrible , could always be relied on to produce a gimmick to spook investors – in this case a nationalization of its private pension funds. But financial markets have made little distinction between these countries and others like Mexico, Brazil, South Korea, or Indonesia, which until just a few weeks ago appeared to be models of financial health. Consider what has happened to South Koreaand Brazil. Both economies have experienced currency crises within recent memory – South Koreain 1997-1998 and Brazilin 1999 – and both subsequently took steps to increase their financial resilience. They reduced inflation, floated their currencies, ran external surpluses or small deficits, and, most importantly, accumulated mountains of foreign reserves (which now comfortably exceed their short-term external debts). Brazil’s financial good behavior was rewarded as recently as April of this year when Standard & Poor’s raised its credit rating to investment-grade. (South Koreahas been investment-grade for years.) But both are nonetheless getting hammered in financial markets. In the last two months, their currencies have lost around a quarter of their value against the US dollar. Their stock markets have declined by even more (40% in Braziland one-third in South Korea). None of this can be explained by economic fundamentals. Both countries have experienced strong growth recently. Brazilis a commodity exporter, while South Koreais not. South Koreais hugely dependent on exports to advanced countries, Brazilmuch less so. They and other emerging-market countries are victims of a rational flight to safety, exacerbated by an irrational panic. The public guarantees that rich countries’ governments have extended to their financial sectors have exposed more clearly the critical line of demarcation between “safe” and “risky” assets, with emerging markets clearly in the latter category. Economic fundamentals have fallen by the wayside. To make matters even worse, emerging markets are deprived of the one tool that the advanced countries have employed in order to stem their own financial panics: domestic fiscal resources or domestic liquidity. Emerging markets need foreign currency and, therefore, external support. What needs to be done is clear. The International Monetary Fund and the G7 countries’ central banks must act as global lenders of last resort and provide ample liquidity – quickly and with few strings attached – to support emerging markets’ currencies. The scale of the lending that is required will likely run into hundreds of billions of US dollars, and exceed anything that the IMF has done to date. But there is no shortage of resources. If necessary, the IMF can issue special drawing rights (SDRs) to generate the global liquidity needed. Moreover, China, which holds nearly $2 trillion in foreign reserves, must be part of this rescue mission. The Chinese economy’s dynamism is highly dependent on exports, which would suffer greatly from a collapse of emerging markets. In fact, China, with its need for high growth to pay for social peace, may be the country most at risk from a severe global downturn. Naked self-interest should persuade the advanced countries as well. Collapsing emerging-market currencies, and the resulting trade pressures, will make it all the more difficult for them to prevent their unemployment levels from risi
[ppiindia] Indonesia sets an example
Asia Indonesiasets an example Nov 19th 2008 >From The World in 2009 print edition >http://www.economist.com/theworldin/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12494534&d=2009 By Peter Collins, BANGKOK The largest Muslim country will stage a remarkable feat of democracy In 2009 Indonesiawill mount an impressive spectacle of popular choice, in which around 174m voters across 14,000 tropical islands will choose a president and vice-president and 560 parliamentarians. The chances are good that, as in the previous national elections in 2004, polling will be mostly peaceful and that the overwhelming majority of successful candidates will be committed to a pluralistic Indonesiawith freedom of both speech and religion. Once again, the world’s most populous Muslim country will demonstrate that there is nothing incompatible between practising Islam and being democratic. This achievement will be all the more remarkable considering where Indonesiawas just ten years ago: in chaos. After three decades in power, the authoritarian regime of President Suharto had collapsed amid rioting and no one knew what might take its place. Could such a huge, diverse and impoverished archipelago, with hundreds of ethnic groups, possibly hold together, given the weakness and corruption of its national institutions? Since then the country has consistently surprised on the upside, even if the pace of reform has been ploddingly slow. Indonesia’s shattered finances have been repaired. It has developed a free press. The army’s hands have been prised from the levers of power. And, above all, Indonesiahas become a democracy in which the voters can chuck out their government. Freedom House, an American think-tank, now rates Indonesiaas the only completely free country in South-East Asia—putting its richer neighbours, Malaysia, Singaporeand Thailand, to shame. Popular wisdom The 2004 elections allowed Indonesians, for the first time, to choose their president directly. The man they selected, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a liberal ex-general, was deemed by international observers to have been the wisest choice from those on offer. Though the speculation about possible presidential candidates and governing coalitions has already begun, the parties will wait and see how they do in the legislative elections in April before entering into serious talks about the presidential vote (whose first round will be in July with a run-off, if needed, a few months later). Even so, it is quite likely that the two main presidential contenders will be the same as last time: Mr Yudhoyono and his immediate predecessor, Megawati Sukarnoputri. Mr Yudhoyono’s popularity has been dented by decisions to cut fuel and electricity subsidies, so as to avert financial ruin and redirect state spending towards the poorest. Miss Megawati has been on a meet-the-people comeback tour since early 2008 and has benefited from discontent over rising living costs. Yet the election is Mr Yudhoyono’s to lose. A few other candidates will run, probably including Wiranto, a former army chief indicted by a UN-backed tribunal over the violence that accompanied the breakaway of the former East Timorin 1999. Mr Wiranto will argue that an old-fashioned strongman is what the country needs but it will be surprising if he does any better than the third place he got in 2004. Golkar, the party that used to support Suharto, is now led by Vice-President Jusuf Kalla but his opinion-poll ratings are probably too weak for him to win the presidency. Thus Golkar may, as in the second round in 2004, offer him for the vice-presidential slot on Mr Yudhoyono’s ticket. Whereas the presidential race will feature some very familiar personalities, the parliamentary contests will also introduce fresher faces. In recent elections for provincial governors, voters have spurned established figures. This has convinced the main parties that they will need an infusion of new blood to do well in the parliamentary races: Miss Megawati’s Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) says up to 70% of its candidates will be newcomers. At first sight the parliamentary elections look like a recipe for confusion. There will be something like 12,000 candidates from 38 parties battling for the 560 seats. This is a big increase on the numbers in 2004 but the next parliament will in fact be less fragmented than the current one. This is mainly because a new rule requires parties to get at least 2.5% of the national vote to win any seats. Of the 17 parties that won seats in 2004 only eight would have met that test. Furthermore, several mid-sized parties, such as the National Awakening Party of Abdurrahman Wahid (president in 1999-2001), are riven by splits. So the new parliament will be dominated by Golkar, the PDI-P and Mr Yudhoyono’s Democrats—all of which are staunchly secularist—plus the mildly Islamist Prosperous Justice Party (PKS). The PKS, like the smaller Islamist parties, has found that moderating its calls for sharia and em
[ppiindia] Re: [mediacare] Islamists hunt tanker hijackers
- Original Message - From: Holy Uncle To: National ; media care Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 2:48 PM Subject: [mediacare] Islamists hunt tanker hijackers Monday » November 24 » 2008 Islamists hunt tanker hijackers Crime against Muslim nation, insurgents say Abdi Sheikh Reuters Saturday, November 22, 2008 MOGADISHU - Dozens of Somali Islamist insurgents stormed a port on Friday hunting the pirates behind the seizure of a Saudi supertanker that was the world's biggest hijack, a local elder said. Separately, police in the capital Mogadishu said they had ambushed and shot dead 17 Islamist militants, in the latest illustration of the chaos in the Horn of Africa country that has fuelled a dramatic surge in piracy. The Sirius Star -- a Saudi vessel with a $100-million-US oil cargo and 25-man crew from the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Croatia, Poland and Britain -- is believed anchored offshore near Haradheere, about halfway up Somalia's long coastline. "Saudi Arabia is a Muslim country and hijacking its ship is a bigger crime than other ships," Sheikh Abdirahim Isse Adow, an Islamist spokesman, told Reuters. "Haradheere is under our control and we shall do something about that ship." Both the U.S. navy and Dubai-based ship operator Vela International said they could not confirm a media report the hijackers were demanding a $25-million ransom. That would be the biggest demand to date by pirates who prey on boats in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean off Somalia. A pirate identifying himself as Jamii Adam told the Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that negotiations were taking place with the ship's owners, saying the ransom demanded was not excessive but declining to give a figure. He said it had cost the pirates $500,000 to seize the vessel. "We bore many costs to hijack it," he said. Iran's biggest shipping firm said gunmen holding a Hong Kong-flagged ship carrying wheat and 25 crew members had set demands for its release, but it did not reveal what they were. An upsurge of attacks this year has forced up shipping insurance costs, made some firms go round South Africa instead of via the Suez Canal, brought millions in ransom payments, and prompted an international naval response. Pirates released a commercial vessel with 19 crew on board which had been hijacked in September, Andrew Mwangura of the East African Sea- farers' Association said Friday. Mwangura said the crew were Romanians, but Romanian authorities denied this. Interfax news agency said the crew included six Georgian citizens. In Mogadishu, police said they laid in wait and shot dead 17 fighters from the militant al-Shabaab insurgent group during an attempted attack on a senior official. The Islamists have been fighting the government and its Ethiopian allies for about two years. They launch near-daily guerrilla strikes in the capital and control most of the south, including a town just 14 kilometres from Mogadishu. The elder in Haradheere port told Reuters the Islamists arrived wanting to find out immediately about the Sirius Star, which was captured Saturday about 450 nautical miles off Kenya in the pirates' furthest strike to date. "The Islamists arrived searching for the pirates and the whereabouts of the Saudi ship," said the elder, who declined to be named. "I saw four cars full of Islamists driving in the town from corner to corner. The Islamists say they will attack the pirates for hijacking a Muslim ship." http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=2a4a9990-adfd-4fc6-af3a-2a8cc923a56a . -- Get more done, have more fun, and stay more connected with Windows Mobile®. See how. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[ppiindia] Memecah kebekuan komunikasi Iran-AS?
US CITIZEN DIPLOMATS ARRIVE IN IRAN, INVITED BY AHMADINEJAD Linda Milazzo In an effort to establish peaceful diplomacy with the government and people of Iran, and to model for the new Obama administration the power of cooperative good will, three highly regarded American peace makers have ventured to Iran. CODEPINK cofounders, Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin, along with former Army Colonel and decorated Foreign Service Diplomat Ann Wright, are visiting Iran on visas personally granted them by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Ahmadinejad provided the visas after receiving a personal request from CODEPINK: Women For Peace at a September 24th meeting in New York City where Ahmadinejad had gone to speak to the United Nations. While in New York, Ahmadinejad met with approximately 60 representatives from American peace and social justice organizations, where, over the course of two hours, he took unfiltered questions from the groups. The question from CODEPINK, which travels extensively on missions of peace, addressed why the organization's founders were repeatedly denied visas to Iran. Ahmadinejad offered to remedy the situation. He followed through on Monday when visas to Iran were issued to Benjamin, Evans and Wright. Within 48 hours, these intrepid citizen diplomats were packed and on their way.I caught up with Evans yesterday on her stop-over in Frankfurt and asked her to explain the intent of her mission. She replied: "We're traveling to Iran to strengthen our connections with as many groups as possible in the areas of government, culture, education, women and, of course, peace. We've come to deepen our work as citizen diplomats to model the type of diplomacy we HOPE to see from our new government." With the Bush administration's unrepentant militarism over the past eight years, preferring destruction over discussion and war over words, and with Bush refusing to meet with his contrived opponents unless antagonistic preconditions were met, it's fallen upon citizen diplomats to pursue and model the adult diplomacy this nation needs. Thus Evans, Benjamin and Wright, who understand that peace is achievable, that ALL war is failure, and the salvation of the planet is at stake, valiantly took up the task.For the past three years, Medea Benjamin, author and internationally recognized human rights advocate with Masters Degrees in Economics and Public Health, has been denied travel to Iran - even though Global Exchange, the San Francisco-based global justice organization she founded with husband, Dr. Kevin Danaher, has sent groups to Iran every year. Still, Benjamin was never deterred in her efforts to visit Iran or in her desire to model the diplomacy needed to promote understanding. With the Bush administration soon to exit and the Obama administration coming in, Benjamin has new hope for more conciliatory relations between the United States and other nations. When I asked Benjamin about the purpose of this mission, she wrote the following from Iran: We hope the Obama administration will begin direct talks with Iran - without preconditions. On this visit to Iran, we are modeling the policy we would like to see. We're meeting with pro- and anti- government groups. With religious and secular people. With environmentalists, women's groups ? a wide swath of the Iranian people. We hope to take their messages back to the US, and find creative ways to expand people-to-people ties. Our motto is "Let's talk!" which has tremendous resonance among Iranians, who are all anxious to promote dialogue and avoid war. Indeed, CODEPINK's current campaign, directed at President-elect Obama, is simply called, "Let's talk!" It's a wide-ranging invitation to the incoming President to be ALL-communicative and ALL-inclusive. It calls upon Mr. Obama to be the great communicator he's capable of being and to use his formidable skills to dialogue with ALL the world's leaders, absent the egocentric preconditions of his predecessor. "Let's talk!" is similarly a resounding invitation to the President-elect to meet with the individual members of peace and social justice organizations who worked so hard to elect him. It calls upon Mr. Obama to show these American patriots, who like him, opposed the Iraq war from the start, the same respect they were shown by the President of Iran who gave them his time and took their unfiltered questions. "Let's talk!" invites Mr. Obama to be The People's President and take the opposite tack of his predecessor who not only refused to meet with anti-war patriots, but scorned their love of country.It IS after all love of country and love of humanity that embolden organizations like CODEPINK and individuals like Medea Benjamin, Jodie Evans and Ann Wright, to travel thousands of miles to Iran to speak on behalf of peace. Undeniably, idle time and lack of commitment ensure less complicated lives. But these heroes amongst us are committed to cha
[ppiindia] Re: Sholat Yang Berkualitas
--- In ppiindia@yahoogroups.com, "yustamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > *** yah seharusnya mereka sholat sehingga mereka tahu ada tuhan yang > mengawasi perbuatan mereka. begitulah bagi mereka "God has dead" even > though they are muslim. bung phillo punya pegangan yang sama, kali . > . . ? > > salam > ** Pegangan saya? Hanya dengan berbudi dan perilaku mulia manusia mencapai kharma yang sempurna... yang lain lain sekedar tata upacara buatan manusia...
[ppiindia] Re: [RumahKita] Tulang Raksasa di Bekasi
Bisa jadi tulang belulang dari masa Kerajaan Tarumanegara. - Original Message - From: danarhadi2000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 8:50 PM Subject: [RumahKita] Tulang Raksasa di Bekasi Senin, 24/11/2008 19:46 WIB Tulang Raksasa di Bekasi Kisah Tek Lim dan Kerangka Manusia Setinggi 4 Meter Ivan Gading - detikNews Bekasi - Pada tahun 1992, warga Kampung Bungin, Desa Pantai Bakti, Muara Gembong, Bekasi, juga pernah menemukan tulang-belulang kerangka manusia di areal tambak. Tapi ini bukan manusia biasa. Setelah disusun layaknya kerangka manusia, ternyata tingginya mencapai 4 meter! "16 tahun kejadian itu benar-benar terjadi," kata Supriatna Hadi, Kepala Desa Pantai Bakti, kepada detikcom di areal tambak tempat Muasim, warga setempat, menemukan tulang raksasa, Senin (11/24/2008). Supriatna menceritakan, kerangka manusia raksasa itu juga ditemukan areal pertambakan milik warga Jakarta bernama Tek Lim. Temuan tersebut membuat warga setempat heboh. Namun demikian tidak sampai mencuat ke media massa. "Yah jaman itukan wartawan tidak banyak kayak sekarang," ujar Supriatna. Selain itu, lanjut Supriatna, warga juga tidak melaporkan temuan tersebut ke kepolisian. Sebab tulang-belulang tersebut dibawa oleh Tek Lim ke Jakarta. Tidak jelas untuk apa Tek Lim membawa pergi tulang-tulang tersebut. Namun kabar yang beredar dari mulut ke mulut di desa tersebut, Tek Lim bermaksud menjualnya kepada kolektor barang antik. Selesaikan kehebohan di Kampung Bungin? Ternyata tidak. Beberapa saat kemudian justru warga kampung tersebut dibuat ramai berita yang menyeramkan. Konon tak lama setelah membawa pulang tulang-belulang tersebut, Tek Lim dan istrinya meninggal tanpa sebab yang jelas. "Karena itulah, Muasim khawatir akan mengalami musibah setelah menemukan tulang-tulang raksasa hari Minggu kemarin. Malam ini dia akan menggelar selamatan agar terhindar dari bencana apa pun," ujar Supriatna. Muasim (32) secara tak sengaja menemukan sejumlah tulang berukuran besar saat meninggikan tanggul tambak. Dia mengalami sejumlah peristiwa aneh setelah kejadian tersebut. Pada malam harinya, Muasim didatangi sesosok manusia melalui mimpi. Sosok itu mengatakan di tambak tersebut masih terdapat tulang-belulang lainnya. Muasim yang penasaran akhirnya mencoba membuktikan mimpinya. Dan ternyata benar, di tambak tempatnya bekerja memang masih terdapat sejumlah tulang meski dalam ukuran yang lebih kecil. Selain bermimpi didatangi sosok yang tidak dikenalnya, Muasim juga tiba-tiba saja tidak enak badan. Tubuhnya meriang tidak karuan. Padahal sebelumnya dia tidak mengalami gejala apa pun. Dia juga terbiasa bekerja di tambak seharian. Benarkah apa yang dialami Muasim ini juga terkait penemuan tulang tersebut? Entahlah(djo/djo) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[ppiindia] Re: Fatwa Haram Rokok Diputuskan MUI Januari 2009
--- wah pakyai saya bisa setress neh rokok ga derbolehkan ha... sebagi perok saya mengharamkan fatwa mui itu berlaku pada perokok hwa. > > upps..muslim yg ngerokok, sblm ngerokok baca bismillah ga yah? :p > > > Fatwa Haram Rokok Diputuskan MUI Januari 2009 > > JAKARTA- Fatwa apakah hukum merokok adalah haram, > makruh (tidak dianjurkan), atau mubah (diperbolehkan), akan diputuskan > Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) dalam forum ijtihad ulama pada Januari. > > Demikian disampaikan Ketua MUI KH Ma'ruf Amin dalam seminar Fatwa MUI > versus wacana antirokok di Gedung MUI, Jalan Proklamasi No 51, Jakarta, > Senin (24/11/2008). "Awal Januari tapi lokasinya belum kita tentukan > apakah di Sumatra Barat atau di Pulau Jawa," ujarnya. > > Kyai > Ma'ruf menjelaskan, secara substansial rokok bisa masuk dalam kategori > hukum haram, makruh, haram, atau ikhtilaf (diperselisihkan). "Kalau > orang berpendapat rokok itu makruh karena ada kejelekan apabila > mengonsumsinya," terangnya. > > Karena berbagai perbedaan sudut > pandang di atas serta penafsiran terhadap bahaya merokok, hingga kini > para ulama belum sepakat untuk mengharamkan rokok. "Baru sebatas > memakruhkan saja," ujarnya. > > (ful) > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
Re: [ppiindia] Re: Fatwa Haram Rokok Diputuskan MUI Januari 2009
Sorry, 'ini' maksudnya tulisan phyllobates (Eyang Danar?).. 2008/11/24 IrwanK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ini kalau gak sinis, ya fitnah.. > Na'udzu billahi min dzalik.. > > -- > Wassalam, > > Irwan.K > "Better team works could lead us to better results" > http://irwank.blogspot.com > > 2008/11/24 phyllobates.terribilis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> --- In ppiindia@yahoogroups.com , si pitung >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > upps..muslim yg ngerokok, sblm ngerokok baca bismillah ga yah? :p >> > >> > >> >> **beresssh, pokoke ucapin bismillah... si ryan juga sebelum >> mutilasi ucapin bismillah pasti.. lha wong jebolan pesantren? >> > > -- -- Wassalam, Irwan.K "Better team works could lead us to better results" http://irwank.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [ppiindia] Re: Fatwa Haram Rokok Diputuskan MUI Januari 2009
Ini kalau gak sinis, ya fitnah.. Na'udzu billahi min dzalik.. -- Wassalam, Irwan.K "Better team works could lead us to better results" http://irwank.blogspot.com 2008/11/24 phyllobates.terribilis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- In ppiindia@yahoogroups.com , si pitung > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > upps..muslim yg ngerokok, sblm ngerokok baca bismillah ga yah? :p > > > > > > **beresssh, pokoke ucapin bismillah... si ryan juga sebelum > mutilasi ucapin bismillah pasti.. lha wong jebolan pesantren? > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[ppiindia] Re: Fatwa Haram Rokok Diputuskan MUI Januari 2009
--- In ppiindia@yahoogroups.com, si pitung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > upps..muslim yg ngerokok, sblm ngerokok baca bismillah ga yah? :p > > **beresssh, pokoke ucapin bismillah... si ryan juga sebelum mutilasi ucapin bismillah pasti.. lha wong jebolan pesantren?
Re: [ppiindia] Re: [mediacare] Adam Malik Pejabat Tertinggi Indonesia yang Direkrut CIA
Di ngeri Belanda pernah diterbitkan sebuah buku yang menceritakan seluk-beluk dan polah-laku dinas rahasia Kerajaan Belanda yang bernama BVD (Binnenlandse Veiligheid Dienst) oleh seorang wartawan. Dalam buku tersebut diceritakan bahwa DR. Roeslan Abdoel Gani yang pernah menjadi penyusun ide-ide Soekarno sebagai Soekarno-isme dan pernah menjabat sebagai Menteri dalam salah satu Kabinet RI adalah seorang AGEN BVD yang selama kedinasannya menerima gaji dari BVD dan daftar namanya tercantum dalam loonstrook (surat bukti pemberian gaji BVD) - yang oleh "Cak" Roeslan dibantah sebagai fitnah terhadap pribadinya yang pancasialis dan Soekarnois. Kini Adam Malik yang pernah menjabat Dubes RI di USSR (Mockba) dan mantan Wapres-nya mantan Presiden Soeharto dibongkar sebagai agen CIA - sayangnya dia sudah meninggal dunia, nggak bisa membantah apa-apa. Dengan pembongkaran-pembongkaran demikian maka jawaban terhadap beberapa kali malapetaka pembunuhan dan pemenjaraan kaum Komunis dan kaum Progresif serta kaum Muslimin di Indonesia menjadi semakin mendekati praduga yang sudah menjadi pemikiran publik Indonesia. "Pejuang Kemerdekaan Indonesia" yang mana lagi akan DIBONGKAR penghianatannya terhadap Negara Republik Indonesia? - Original Message - From: mediacare To: ppiindia@yahoogroups.com ; media-jakarta ; RumahKitaBersama Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 2:15 AM Subject: [ppiindia] Re: [mediacare] Adam Malik Pejabat Tertinggi Indonesia yang Direkrut CIA - Original Message - From: teddy sunardi Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 8:05 AM Subject: [mediacare] Adam Malik Pejabat Tertinggi Indonesia yang Direkrut CIA http://www.detiknews.com/read/2008/11/24/073506/1041631/10/adam-malik-pejabat-tertinggi-indonesia-yang-direkrut-cia Kontroversi CIA di Indonesia Adam Malik Pejabat Tertinggi Indonesia yang Direkrut CIA Nurul Hidayati - detikNews Jakarta - Mantan Wakil Presiden Adam Malik agen CIA. Boleh jadi kontroversi ini akan mencuat ke permukaan. Sejarah masa lalu Indonesia kembali diuji. Buku berjudul "Membongkar Kegagalan CIA" membeberkan secara gamblang bagaimana Adam Malik direkrut CIA. Buku karya wartawan The New York Times, Tim Weiner ini berjudul asli "Legacy Of Ashes The History Of CIA". Dalam edisi Indonesia, buku dengan sampul depan warna merah itu diberi judul "Membongkar Kegagalan CIA". Buku terbitan Gramedia Pustaka Utama ini sudah dipasarkan sejak dua bulan yang lalu. Tim Weiner yang pernah meraih hadiah Pulitzer menulis "Membongkar Kegagalan CIA" berdasarkan 50.000 arsip CIA dan wawancara mendalam dengan ratusan veteran CIA. Plus pengakuan sepuluh orang direktur CIA. "Buku ini menyertakan sejumlah informasi dan analisa luar biasa mengenai keterlibatan CIA di Indonesia, terutama berkaitan dengan peristiwa pemberontakan daerah tahun 1950-an dan tragedi kemanusiaan tahun 1965," tutur Baskara T Wardaya. Pernyataan sejarahwan penulis buku "Cold Was Shadow: United States Policy Toward Indonesia, 1953-1963" tercetak di sampul belakang "Membongkar Kegagalan CIA". Pembeberan Adam Malik sebagai agen CIA, boleh jadi merupakan salah satu informasi yang luar biasa itu. Soal Adam Malik ini dapat dibaca mulai dari halaman 330. Kisah berawal dari bagaimana CIA mengingatkan Gedung Putih bahwa hilangnya pengaruh Amerika di Indonesia akan membuat kemenangan di Vietnam menjadi tidak berarti. Dan CIA pun kemudian mulai bergerak menemukan pemimpin baru -- untuk menggantikan Soekarno. Setelah 7 tahun CIA berusaha menggulingkan Soekarno, pada 1 Oktober 1965 meletuslah ontran-ontran politik. Di tengah perseteruan hebat antara Soekarno, PKI di satu sisi dan tentara di sisi lain, sebagaimana dituliskan Tim Weiner, Stasiun CIA di Jakarta sudah memiliki seorang agen yang memiliki posisi baik. Agen itu, tak lain adalah Adam Malik. Adam malik, dituliskan sebagai seorang mantan Marxis (penganut aliran Karl Marx) berusia 48 tahun yang mengabdi sebagai duta besar Soekarno di Moskow dan menteri perdagangan. Lantas siapa yang merekrut Adam Malik menjadi agen CIA? Tim Weiner secara gamblang mengungkapkan. Adalah Perwira CIA Clyde McAvoy yang menggarap Adam Malik. Adam Malik dan McAvoy pertama kali bertemu di sebuah tempat rahasia dan aman di Jakarta pada 1964. McAvoy adalah operator rahasia handal CIA yang bahkan pernah merekrut Perdana Menteri masa depan Jepang. McAvoy diterbangkan ke Jakarta dengan tugas utama menyusup ke dalam kubu PKI dan pemerintahan Soekarno. "Saya merekrut dan mengontrol Adam Malik," ujar McAvoy dalam sebuah wawancara pada tahun 2005. "Dia adalah pejabat Indonesia tertinggi yang pernah kami rekrut," tambah McAvoy. Adam Malik berhasil direkrut McAvoy, sebagaimana ditulis Tim Weiner, atas jasa seorang perantara. Perantara itu adalah pengusaha Jepang dan mantan anggota partai komunis di Jepang. Siapakah jati diri perantara ini? (bdi/bdi) [Non-text portions of this message have bee
