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I hope Egypt people can get what they want.

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Ada-ada saja tingkah para scammer, sampai nama bu Sri Mulyani pun dipakai untuk memuluskan rencana mereka. Satu blog pendokumentasi para scammer melalui email, menampilkan contoh scam yang menggunakan nama Sri Mulyani. )

Abis baca sejarah peran negara2 di timur tengah dalam kemerdekaan Indonesia!. Sangat menarik dan perlu!

via Obama and Israeli PM meet amid dispute – Yahoo! News.

President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went two hours overtime in an unusually low-profile meeting Tuesday at the White House in the midst of a serious dispute about settlement construction.

It is highly unusual for a visiting ally not to be seen with the president, either for photographs or statements, and the treatment seemed linked to a crisis marring relations between the two countries.

At issue is Israel’s announcement two weeks ago, as Vice President Joe Biden visited the country, that it will build 1,600 new apartments in east Jerusalem, the largely Arab section of the disputed holy city. Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state and have delayed new U.S.-sponsored peace talks over what they say is an Israeli land grab.

Biden was visiting Jerusalem when Netanyahu’s government announced the major building plan. Netanyahu said he was unaware of the move, blaming low-level bureaucrats, but Biden condemned the step in a written statement and Clinton followed up with an angry phone call to the prime minister.

but

On Capitol Hill, Netanyahu received a warm public reception from Congress on Tuesday, with a top Democrat and Republican joining to praise a leader who has refused to back down in a disagreement the White House says threatens new peace talks.

The bipartisan welcome underscored the breadth of congressional support for Israel even when a U.S. president wants to keep his distance. And it pointed to the limited options, beyond verbal rebukes, that the Obama administration faces in pressuring the Jewish state.

We have an interesting comment below:

As an American I am totally confounded how Israel is supported as a champion for democracy. There is nothing democratic about.

In a democracy we do not have one road for Israelis and one road for Palestinians. That is not democracy that is aparthide.

In a democracy we have freedom of religion. We don’t say you have to be at least 50 years of age before you can enter a certain place of worship. We don’t call that democracy we call it religeous persecution.

In a democracy we do not kick people from their homes and then tell them they can never return. In the 1948 military operation thousands of civilians from present day Israel, afraid for their lives, fled to present day West Bank, never to be allowed to return to the homes where their families had lived peacefully for hundreds of years. We dont call that democracy that is called ethnic cleansing.

In a democracy we don’t erect checkpoints where Israelis are not stopped and Palestininas have to stop and get frisked. Thousands of Palestininas have to stop at 3 or 4 checkpoints on their way to work and again on their way home. The gates of many of the checkpoints are closed at night. Mothers have given birth and some have blead to death from complications of giving birth while their husbands begged to be let through so they can make it to the hospital. Basically your neighborhoods gate is closed at night and it is not opened even for medical emergencies. We don’t call that democracy that is aparthide, that is inhumane.

In a democracy we don’t bulldoze the homes of a criminal. We punish the person who has comitted the crime. We do not make homeless the innocent occupants of a home where one individual may have committed a crime. That is not democracy it is an attrocity.

(UPDATED) do you know that there is “New Law Requires the President to Report to Congress Periodically On Actions Taken By the Administration to Ensure Israel’s Military Advantage“?

Kasus bobolnya rekening tabungan beberapa orang di Bali melalui modus skimming telah membuka mata banyak orang mengenai resiko bahaya dari kemudahan menarik uang melalui ATM.

Di Indonesia, pihak Bank dengan mudah melemparkan tanggung jawab kepada nasabah. Tetapi di Jepang, tanggung jawab mengamankan ATM adalah tanggung jawab pihak Bank. Karena area ATM adalah area yang dimilik oleh Bank, dan bukan nasabah. Karena itu di Jepang, terutama dulu, banyak ATM tidak buka 24 jam.

Sekarang pun, walau memberikan layanan 24 jam, tetap diawasi dengan berbagai macam cara. Karena itu tadi, area ATM adalah area milik Bank, dan sudah seharusnya pihak Bank bertanggung jawab penuh.

Nah, untuk yang berada di Indonesia, sangat dianjurkan agar mempersiapkan diri dengan pengetahuan-pengetahuan penting. Terutama bagi yang suka menarik uang melalui ATM, silahkan baca baik-baik penjelasan Commonwealth Bank ini. Filenya juga bisa diunduh disini

(updated) perseteruan R[S|A] in a nutshell

The Time has new report on Gaza condition. I’m speechless reading this report What kind of country that easily imprison and starve more than 1 million people in a tiny place called Gaza?

Israel’s list of goods allowed into Gaza is short — food, medicine, and recently, paper for schoolbooks. Its list of prohibited items is long, and sometimes bizarre. Macaroni was only recently removed from the forbidden list. Netanyahu is reportedly willing to let in more food, but as UNRWA’s Ging observes: “Bringing in immediate humanitarian aid isn’t enough. There’s no construction, no re-construction, no economy left in Gaza. You’re creating the conditions for more extremism.”

Interesting quote from Andrew Sullivan article related about Freeman nomination as Director of National Intelligence Council:

Obama may bring change in many areas, but there is no possibility of change on the Israel-Palestine question. Having the kind of debate in America that they have in Israel, let alone Europe, on the way ahead in the Middle East is simply forbidden. Even if a president wants to have differing sources of advice on many questions, the Congress will prevent any actual, genuinely open debate on Israel. More to the point: the Obama peeps never defended Freeman. They were too scared. The fact that Obama blinked means no one else in Washington will ever dare to go through the hazing that Freeman endured. And so the chilling effect is as real as it is deliberate.

Salon.com also has an article reporting about this, but major news outlet muted.

(updated 090312) Washington Post editorial put blame on Freeman while the reader differ with that assessment

Recorded report from Al-Jazeera:

(updated 090313) NYT has a report about this

$18 billion was paid of as bonuses and others to executives in banks in US that received public money, and that is the problem. You would ask to someone who failed to achieve a result to face a consequence, but this bankers seems didn’t know the word responsibility.

However, I found out an interesting fact from AP articles “Bankers vow to build trust with increased lending”. Citigroup’s Vikram Pandit asked his board of directors to pay him a $1 annual salary, with no bonuses, until Citigroup returns to profitability.

Although the financial crisis has been happening not only because of them but also the governments and borrowers also, but what Mr.Pandit’s doing is the least the executives can do to gain trust and confidence. But from 8 man only 1 man do that convince us that the real problem is on the greedy side of the human who benefit most in Financial Sector.

Charles Krauthammer & Benjamin Netanyahu should learn what is morality and fanatical ideology itself. Israel doesn’t have morality because it is:

• An entity with fanatical ideology who forced the occupants to flee 60 years ago (look at Irgun and injustice)
• An entity who teach their children to kill others because they are a better human than others (look at this report)
• An entity with its fanatical ideology who are racist (look at Israel Citizenship and Haaretz report)
• An entity who based on propaganda and lies
• An entity who blockade 1.5 million people and starved them (look at OCHA report on Gaza condition 2008/12/17, despite Israel FM Tzipi Livni said “There is no humanitarian crisis in the Strip, and therefore there is no need for a humanitarian truce“)
• An entity who have been doing war crime

Voice from Gaza :: Aid worker diary ::

From Haaretz:
“I keep the children away from the windows because the F-16s are in the air; I forbid them to play below because it’s dangerous. They’re bombing us from the sea and from the east, they’re bombing us from the air. When the telephone works, people tell us about relatives or friends who were killed. My wife cries all the time. At night she hugs the children and cries. It’s cold and the windows are open; there’s fire and smoke in open areas; at home there’s no water, no electricity, no heating gas. And you [the Israelis] say there’s no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Tell me, are you normal?“

I’m shocked that there are people on planet earth who enjoy –even talk about eating ice cream — watching 300 people killed as reported in Time Magazine.

The clear skies have also afforded ordinary Israeli citizens a chance to watch the onslaught — and applaud. At noon Sunday two Israeli Apache combat helicopters hovered in the air two miles east of Sderot, an Israeli town less than four miles from the border with the Hamas-ruled Gaza strip. Below the choppers, a dozen Israeli spectators perched on a hilltop watched with anticipation. A minute went by and the first Apache fired a Hellfire missile, which went rumbling into the Palestinian side of the border. A few seconds later the crowd broke into cheers at the resulting sight: somewhere between the Jibalya refugee camp and the outskirts of Gaza city a ball of heavy black smoke was rising. (See pictures of Gaza under Hamas.)

Itay Avni, 32, who lives in the nearby Kibbutz of Nir-Am (population 400) is overjoyed at the Israeli assault on Gaza. He was among the crowd watching the Apaches launch their missiles. “Yesterday more then a hundred people from all around were here on this hilltop enjoying to the scene of dozens of aerial raids on Hamas military targets inside the Gaza strip,” he says. “If I had opened an ice-cream stand here I would have made a lot money.”