arully’s thought

According to this site from The University of Wisconsin Whitewater, the four functions of management are:

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An interesting article about Dubai from U.A.E

An interesting article for you who study world affair.

United States – International Diplomacy – Economic Trends – World Economy – Politics – New York Times So let’s play strategy czar. You are a 21st-century Kissinger. Your task is to guide the next American president (and the one after that) from the demise of American hegemony into a world of much more diffuse governance. What do you advise, concretely, to mitigate the effects of the past decade’s policies — those that inspired defiance rather than cooperation — and to set in motion a virtuous circle of policies that lead to global equilibrium rather than a balance of power against the U.S.?

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Iraq is one of the place who happen to witness a great battle in the history of humanity. The interesting part is, whether Bush’s Desert Storm war, which are still on going until now to stabilize Iraq, is one of that great battle. I doubt it, but Livescience.com’s post include the 2003′s batle as one of them.

Menurut BBC dari statistik DepHub, di tahun 2006, ada kecelakaan pesawat setiap 9-10 hari. Jenis kecelakaan berupa pesawat jatuh, hampir jatuh, melewati landas pacu, melakukan pendaratan darurat, dan masalah teknis.

Setiap bulan, ada 2 kasus kecelakaan kereta, baik itu tabrakan maupun keluar jalur.

Setiap bulan, ada 8 kecelakaan di laut.

Tapi hebatnya, orang Indonesia diam saja! What an amazing country

A WarMonger(tm) by nature, Shimon Peres, 82, said

in the long run we want to see Lebanon governed by Lebanese. We want the Lebanese army to stop being an army that doesn’t participate in the defense of its country. They are 80,000 soldiers, and they will be thickened by an international force. Then we want to demonstrate that the intervention of Iran in the Middle East . . . is of a limited nature. We also want to contain Syria and eventually to return to see what can be done with the Palestinians.

First finish Lebanon, then Syria. After that, they will clean up Palestinians… Then, the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque… Allah will help us..

Soldiers was kidnaped by Palestinians freedom fighter, and they set a demand as reported by BBC

It said: “The Occupation [Israel] will not get any information about its missing soldier until it commits to the following:

“First, the immediate release of all women in prison. Second, the immediate release of all children in prison younger than 18.”

What a PR stunt.. comparing a soldier againts women and children in prison. Surely, the demand’s main goal is to humiliate Israel.

Pic from BBC:

A good article from LA Times’s Henry Siegman with his Israelis killing Palestinians, and vice versa – Los Angeles Times article.

His point is:

• Is there really much difference between Palestinian terrorism and Israel’s military retaliations?
• If Israeli airstrikes held out any prospect of ending, or even reducing, Palestinian terrorism, then the notion “the death of innocents was an Israeli mistake but a Palestinian objective” might have had greater merit. In fact, they have the opposite effect.
• IDF now admit that in the early days of the Palestinian intifada, retaliatory strikes contributed to the continuation of the conflict and the great outbreak of terrorism starting in mid-2001.
• According to B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights group, Israeli forces have killed about 3,400 Palestinians since the intifada started, and Palestinians have killed about 1,000 Israelis.
• Not a single Israeli has been killed by a Kassam rocket since Israel’s disengagement from Gaza last year, although during this period Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israeli artillery and airstrikes virtually on a daily basis.
• It suggests that the killing of Palestinian civilians is, at the very least, more a matter of Israeli indifference than a mistake.
• More important, judgments about the morality of Israeli military strikes that kill innocents cannot be made without reference to the political context within which the violence occurs.
• The Jewish community in Palestine also resorted to terrorize civilians when they were engaged in their own struggle for national independence and statehood. The Irgun, a Jewish terrorist organization that morphed into the Likud, first targeted Arab civilians in October 1937 by, for the first time, had been placing massive bombs in crowded Arab centers
• No serious person can believe that Israel — with one of the world’s most powerful military establishments — is at risk of being undone and eliminated by Hamas or by any other terrorist group. With or without Hamas’ recognition, Israel’s existence is not in doubt. In a recent interview in Haaretz, Efraim Halevy, who served as head of the Mossad from 1998 to 2002 and as national security advisor to Sharon, ridiculed the notion that a terrorist group could endanger Israel’s existence.
• The overarching moral issue for Israel is whether the additional territory it seeks to hold is worth the inevitable cost in Palestinian and Israeli lives.

My conclusion is:

• The Israel government and all the people enjoy living in the occupied land, doesn’t want to have a really peace with Palestinian, until they can annex every single piece of Palestine land (to form The Greater Israel ?!?)

There is a good article about strategic war from router Battle lines harden at the heart of old Hebron – Yahoo! News

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An interesting article from Newsweek about How Long Will America Lead the World? by Zakaria, a Newsweek editor with background from Foreign Affairs Magazine’s Editor in his belly.

Some of the quote are:

• A Goldman Sachs study concludes that by 2045, China will be the largest economy in the world, replacing the United States.
• Much of the concern centers on the erosion of science and technology in the U.S., particularly in education.
• The national academies’ report points out that China and India combined graduate 950,000 engineers every year, compared with 70,000 in America; that for the cost of one chemist or engineer in the U.S. a company could hire five chemists in China or 11 engineers in India; that of the 120 $1 billion-plus chemical plants being built around the world one is in the United States and 50 are in China.
• The United States has a history of worrying that it is losing its edge. This is at least the fourth wave of such concerns since 1945. The first was in the late 1950s, produced by the Soviet Union’s launch of the Sputnik satellite. The second was during the early 1970s, when high oil prices and slow growth in the U.S. convinced Americans that Western Europe and Saudi Arabia were the powers of the future and President Nixon heralded the advent of a multipolar world. The most recent one was in the mid-1980s, when most experts believed that Japan would be the technologically and economically dominant superpower of the future. The concerns in each one these cases was well founded, the projections intelligent. But the reason that none of these scenarios came to pass is that the American system—flexible, resourceful and resilient—moved quickly to correct its mistakes and refocus its attention. Concerns about American decline ended up preventing it. As Andy Grove puts it, “Only the paranoid survive.”
• America’s problem right now is that it is not really that scared.
• But mainstream America is still unconcerned. Partly this is because these trends are operating at an early stage and somewhat under the surface. Americans do not really know how fast the rest of the world is catching up.
• It is not an exaggeration to say that over the past five years, because of bad American policies, London is replacing New York as the world’s financial capital.
• Our entitlement programs are set to bankrupt the country, the health-care system is an expensive time bomb, our savings rate is zero, we are borrowing 80 percent of the world’s savings and our national bill for litigation is now larger than for research and development
• Its people work hard, putting in longer hours than those in other rich countries. Much of this has do to with the history and culture of the society. A huge amount of it has to do with immigration, which keeps America constantly renewed by streams of hardworking people, desperate to succeed. Science laboratories in America are more than half filled with foreign students and immigrants.
• That is why America, alone among industrial nations, has been able to do the nearly impossible: renew its power and stay at the top of the game for a century now.
• No matter what we do, they will have more, and cheaper, labor. What we can do is take the best features of the America system—openness, innovation, immigration and flexibility—and enhance them, so that they can respond to new challenges by creating new industries, new technologies and new jobs, as we have in the past.

• Our greatest danger is that when the American public does begin to get scared, they will try to shut down the very features of the country that have made it so successful. They will want to shut out foreign companies, be less welcoming to immigrants and close themselves off from competition and collaboration. Over the past year there have already been growing paranoia on all these fronts. If we go down this path, we will remain a rich country and a stable one. We will be less troubled by the jarring changes that the new world is pushing forward. But like Britain after Queen Victoria’s reign, it will be a future of slow, steady national decline. History will happen to us after all.

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