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[ppiindia] Jalan Kaki Obati Penyakit Pikun

2010-06-15 Thread johnoei






Jalan Kaki Obati Penyakit Pikun

Jangan sepelekan jalan kaki, pasalnya dibalik gerakan kakisederhana menyimpan 
beberapa keuntungan bagi kesehatan tubuh. Olahraga murahmeriah ini selain 
terbukti menyehatkan ternyata dapat meningkatkan peredarandarah ke otak.

Seluruh bagian tubuh manusia saling berhubungan satu samalain, hubungan itu 
juga yang menjadikan kaki dan otak bisa bekerjasama. Langkahkaki sederhana yang 
biasa kita lakukan ternyata dapat menjadi obat mujarabuntuk mempertajam 
ingatan. Hal ini dibuktikan ilmuwan asal Italia baru-baruini, yang melakukan 
penelitian pada lansia berusia 65 tahun ke atas.


Untuk artikel selengkapnya klik http://www.KabariNews.com/?35060






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[ppiindia] Musyawarah Buku "Kepulauan Nusantara" bersama Prof Sangkot

2010-06-15 Thread MGR

Musyawarah Buku
Rabu, 16 Juni 2010, 19.00 WIB

Kepulauan Nusantara: Sebuah Kisah Perjalanan, Kajian Manusia dan Alam, karya
Alfred R. Wallace (Komunitas Bambu 2009)
Pengulas: Sangkot Marzuki, Presiden Akademi Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (AIPI)
dan Ketua Dewan Pengurus Yayasan Wallacea Indonesia
Serambi Salihara

Teori evolusi yang dikemukakan Charles Darwin kini diakui banyak orang tak
semata hasil pemikiran Darwin seorang. Sebelum Darwin berani mempublikasikan
teori yang memutar-balikkan ide asal-usul kehidupan tersebut, di Ternate,
Maluku Utara, pada 1858, seseorang bernama Alfred Russel Wallace mengirimkan
naskahnya kepada Darwin. Nampaknya mereka tiba pada kesimpulan yang kurang
lebih sama, mengenai persebaran dan evolusi spesies.

Setahun kemudian, Darwin menerbitkan karyanya, The Origin of Species, setelah
diyakinkan oleh kesimpulan-kesimpulan Wallace dalam naskah dari Ternate
tersebut. Kini keduanya disandingkan sejajar sebagai penemu teori evolusi.

Bagi Indonesia, Wallace mempunyai peran penting mengingat Indonesia memiliki
persebaran fauna yang tidak lazim, mengikuti perubahan permukaan bumi di masa
lampau. Wallace-lah yang menjelaskan mengapa fauna Sulawesi begitu khas,
berbeda dengan fauna di bagian barat maupun timur Indonesia. Garis Wallacea
yang membagi fauna Indonesia menjadi dua bagian tersebut mendapatkan namanya
dari sang penemu, Alfred Russel Wallace.

Setelah delapan tahun menjelajah Nusantara pada pertengahan abad ke-19, Wallace
membagi pengalaman, petualangan dan ilmu pengetahuannya dalam The Malay
Archipelago, atau Kepulauan Nusantara.

http://salihara.org/2010/05/27/kepulauan-nusantara-sebuah-kisah-perjalanan-kajian-manusia-dan-alam

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[ppiindia] "On The Road To Hell" (Wawancara dgn Hugo Chavez)

2010-06-15 Thread Satrio Arismunandar







"On The Road To Hell"



Hugo Chávez Grants Rare interview to Western 
Media







Venezuelan president combatively defends 
11-year rule and blames economic woes on western capitalism







By Stephen Sackur 







July 14, 2010 "The Guardian" --   Venezuela's 
president, Hugo Chávez
intends to inject new urgency into his socialist, anti-imperialist
revolution because, he says, there is clear evidence that "capitalism
is destroying the world".In a combative 60-minute interview with the BBC 
Hardtalk programme
in the presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela's president blamed his
country's deepening recession on the irresponsible economic policies of
the US and he expressed disappointment with Barack Obama's "very
negative signals" towards Latin America.


"I
wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget
his country's imperialist pretensions," the 55-year-old leader said.


Chávez rarely grants extended interviews to the 
western media. This one was arranged to coincide with the Caracas premiere of 
Oliver Stone's new documentary, South of the Border.
The film portrays a Latin America being transformed by leftist
radicalism. The leaders of Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Ecuador all
get walk-on parts, but it is their Venezuelan counterpart who has the
starring role. Stone and Chávez shared a limousine to the red carpet
launch of the film in Caracas's national theatre.


"What's
being going on in Venezuela for the last 10 years is amazing – a piece
of history. The least I can do is introduce this man and this movement
to the American people," said Stone, Chávez beaming by his side.


Whether
many Venezuelans will ever see the film remains unclear. The premiere
was full of Socialist party bigwigs and activists who hooted with
delight as their president was seen lambasting George Bush, beating off
a coup attempt in 2002 and generally adopting the mantle of a
21st-century Castro. But no amount of support from a maverick US
film-maker can disguise a simple truth; domestic support for Chávez's
"Bolívarian socialism" is being sorely tested by a second consecutive
year of recession.


Venezuela
possesses the biggest oil reserves outside the Middle East and supplies
more than a tenth of US oil imports, but still the economy has woefully
underperformed ot

[ppiindia] Cuba Marks Birthday of Che Guevara

2010-06-15 Thread Satrio Arismunandar







Cuba Marks Birthday of Che Guevara 





Today marks the 82nd birth anniversary of an extraordinary human being,
one whose name will live through centuries and generations. He is none
other than Ernesto Che Guevara, the legendary guerilla, statesman,
thinker and revolutionary 







By Jayatilleke de Silva 







June 14, 2010 "Daily News" - -In the
words of his close comrade-in-arms Fidel Castro he was “ a person of
total integrity, a person with a supreme sense of honour and absolute
sincerity, a person of stoic and Spartan living habits, a person in
whose conduct not one stain can be found.”





He was not only a man of action but also a visionary and a person of
broad culture, a profound thinker. His great contribution was the
building of a new man who would with selfless devotion contribute to
the building of a new society in revolutionary Cuba. 





In Socialism and Man in Cuba Che spoke of two pillars of the
construction of socialism: “the education of the new man and woman and
the development of technology.” He always led by example.





Whether it is in the mountains of Sierra Maestra, or in the battle for
post-revolutionary construction, he was always in the forefront. In the
early days of the Revolution he had many responsibilities - Head of the
newly created Industrial Department, Command of a regiment in Oriente,
Head of Cuba’s National Bank.





He worked till early hours of the morning. In a letter to his parents
he wrote: “We are not men, but working machines, fighting against time
in the midst of difficult and luminous circumstances.” As biographer
Lee Anderson said he used to grant interviews to foreign diplomats at
3’O clock in the morning.



For fellow men





Che’s life was full of sacrifices, sacrifices for fellow men. He gave
up the profession of a doctor and the chance to accrue money and
comforts to join Fidel’s group of rebels. In the very first battle as
the doctor of the guerillas in which their group was decimated, he
chose the rifle over the medicine box and became a guerilla commander.
In battle he undertook the most difficult missions never fearing death.
As Fidel said, “If, as a guerilla, he had his Achilles’ heel, it was
his excessively combative quality, his absolute contempt for danger.”





Born in Congo, leading the revolution

[ppiindia] McChrystal Faces Massive Failure in Afghanistan in Next Few Months

2010-06-15 Thread Satrio Arismunandar







McChrystal Faces Massive Failure in Afghanistan 
in Next Few Months







By Gareth Porter







June 14, 2010 "IPS" - June 13, 2010 - - Gen. 
Stanley A. McChrystal confronts
the specter of a collapse of U.S. political support for the war in
Afghanistan in coming months comparable to the one that occurred in the
Iraq War in late 2006.




 On Thursday,
McChrystal's message that his strategy will weaken the Taliban in its
heartland took its worst beating thus far, when he admitted that the
planned offensive in Kandahar City and surrounding districts is being
delayed until September at the earliest, because it does not have the
support of the Kandahar population and leadership.





Equally damaging to the credibility of McChrystal's strategy was the
Washington Post report published Thursday documenting in depth the
failure of February's offensive in Marja.





The basic theme underlined in both stories - that the Afghan population
in the Taliban heartland is not cooperating with U.S. and NATO forces -
is likely to be repeated over and over again in media coverage in the
coming months.





The Kandahar operation, which McChrystal's staff has touted as the
pivotal campaign of the war, had previously been announced as beginning
in June. But it is now clear that McChrystal has understood for weeks
that the most basic premise of the operation turned out to be false.





"When you go to protect people, the people have to want you to protect
them," said McChrystal, who was in London for a NATO conference.





He didn't have to spell out the obvious implication: the people of
Kandahar don't want the protection of foreign troops.





The Washington Post story on McChrystal's announcement reported "U.S.
officials" had complained that "the support from Kandaharis that the
United States was counting on [Afghan President Hamid] Karzai to
deliver has not materialised."





That explanation hardly makes McChrystal's war plan more credible,
because Karzai has made no secret of his preference for a negotiated
settlement rather than continued efforts to weaken the Taliban by
occupying key Taliban strongholds.

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