Wed 16 Feb 2011
YouTube has a political channel in CitizenTube. Footage from protest that uploaded get curated in YouTube CitizenTube channel. Example of Egypt
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Mon 7 Feb 2011
A disturbing picture about what Egypt’s security forces do in demonstration
Posted by arully under HumanRight , Law&Ethics , PoliticsNo Comments
Beware, this were disturbing videos. User your own discretion!
I hope Egypt people can get what they want.
Sat 15 Jan 2011
Menurut paper ini, korupsi lebih banyak menurun di daerah dimana anggota legislatif dari partai Islam lebih banyak.
Indonesia has a tradition of corruption among local officials who harass and collect bribes from firms. This paper examines whether corruption is affected by local democratization and by the party composition of local assemblies. Democratization occurred in 1999 and decentralization in 2001. We have firm-level data for 2001 and 2004. The 2001 data benchmark corruption at the time of decentralization. We find that corruption declines between 2001 and 2004 overall, but much less so in districts with more secular party as opposed to Islamic party representatives in district assemblies. For a larger sample of districts, correspondingly, we find that corruption in 2004 is more in districts which voted more in favor of secular party representatives in the first elections in 1999. We argue that the effects seem to be causal, over above any effects of changing religiosity and economic circumstances across districts.
Fri 1 Oct 2010
Masalah simbol pada ICRC ternyata sudah selesai
Posted by arully under HumanRight , PoliticsNo Comments
Gara-gara ngeliat banyak yang mencari informasi lewat Google tentang simbol PMI dan Google mengirim ke situs ini, jadi iseng mencari-cari informasi mengenai permasalahan simbol ICRC kembali. Ternyata masalah ini sudah selesai.
Thu 2 Sep 2010
From NYT’s old report about situation regarding US and Islamic World. Particularly, this quote below emphasize what really happen 
When Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian social scientist and human rights advocate who was imprisoned from 2001 to 2003, rose to challenge Mrs. Clinton to take a tougher line with the Egyptian government over its repressive tactics, it bought a nervous chuckle from Qatar’s prime minister, Sheik Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, who was sharing the stage with the secretary.
“You know, I have enough problems with your government,” the prime minister said to Mr. Ibrahim. He made a tongue-in-cheek show of disavowing Mr. Ibrahim’s comments, saying “the Americans could handle” the backlash from an unhappy Egypt, but not a little neighbor like Qatar.
Smiling, Mrs. Clinton said, “We will take responsibility.”
Wed 25 Aug 2010
Again, Jon Stewart make the day in his show! This time, he made fun of Fox Business Channel’s Eric Bolling
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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Watch it in their full, and don’t miss Keith Olbermann Special Comment: There Is No ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ – 08/16/10
UPDATED
Another Jon Stewart show related to this: “”If we want to cut off funding to the terror mosque, we must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.”
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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(UPDATED) detailed description about billionaires behind the conservative fringe agenda from NYT
Tue 17 Aug 2010
Kemerdekaan Indonesia tidak lepas dari bantuan dunia Arab
Posted by arully under HumanRight , Law&Ethics , Politics , Way of LifeNo Comments
Abis baca sejarah peran negara2 di timur tengah dalam kemerdekaan Indonesia!. Sangat menarik dan perlu!
Wed 24 Mar 2010
Obama and Israeli PM meet amid dispute
Posted by arully under HumanRight , Law&Ethics , Politics1 Comment
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.
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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“?
Sun 30 Aug 2009
Mon 22 Jun 2009
The Great Firewall of Persia vs The Great Firewall of China
Posted by arully under HumanRight , IT , Media , Politics , Security1 Comment
According to WSJ.com’s article, in term of censorship Iran can do more by doing deep packet inspection compare to China.
But it is understandable as Iran’s Internet user is 23 million, compare to China’s 300 million strong. Because of China’s geography, China’s monitoring infrastructure is decentralized, compare to Iran’s centralized policy. Because of this policy, when Iran activated deep packet inspection to monitor traffics, users felt an access slow down especially after the June 2009 election.
