Obama: seeking support

July 24 (Bloomberg) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made a predawn visit to Jerusalem’s Western Wall, a symbolic gesture that capped off his trip to Israel where he repeatedly stressed his commitment to the country’s security.

The Illinois senator, who later departed for Germany, used his visit to Israel to reassure the country’s leaders and Jewish voters in the U.S. that his policies aren’t unduly pro- Palestinian. He met yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of the opposition Likud Party, and toured the Yad Vashem holocaust memorial. (Bloomberg)

Sir and Madam,

Sadly, while we all are captivated with his charm and jargon of “Change we can Believe in”, as action speaks louder than words we can say that US Foreign Policy is not going to change favoring for a more peace and fair international relation. In his visit to Israel, his commitment to Kiss Israel ass’es is compelling more than ever. It proves ones again that Jewish Lobby is still almighty in the capitol hill. Be the candidate is Republican or Democrat, their Lobby care less. My first verdict is as jewish lobby is flood with money has meet with Obama’s need to fund his most expensive presidential campaign in the US History.

its a case Bleeding

Cibiran atas kota nekropolis

Dengan selokan mampet, kumuh, dan nyamuk. Hanya itu yang ada di benakku tentang kota Semarang. Entah darimana bayangan itu menkooptasi pikiranku. Entah karena teringang lagu jawa semarang kaline banjir atau de javu. Bayangan itu sontak pudar setelah kuinjakkan jejakku di kota semarang yang berbukit. Tak habis pikir bagiku mengapa bule-bule kumpeni membangun sebuah kota di daerah yang mempunyai tektur topografi berbukit-bukit. Setelah tinggal di sebuah cottage diatas bukit dimana aku selalu bisa menyapukan pandangan pada bentangan luasnya kota hingga kulihat samar biru laut baru kunikmati pilihan lokasi para kumpeni itu. Belanda memang cerdas. Pantas saja dulu bisa menjajah kita. Kunjunganku ke semarang tak lain sebagai penghakim di sebuah pertarungan antar para pendekar di sebuah padepokan jauh di ujung kota semarang.

sampai hari itu.

Kata-kata Mutiara

teman,

Saya paling suka mengingat-ingat kata-kata mutiara yang pernah disampaikan oleh orang-orang besar. ini karena dalam kalimat-kalimat tersebut seringkali mengandung makna yang luar biasa dan bisa membangkitkan semangat ketika saya sedang kalah, murung, malas, dan menyerah.. jadi di postingan ini saya ingin menginventarisir kata-kata mutiara dan saya harap temen bisa menambahi.. otre? sipp dah

Live free or Die Hard (John McClaine)

Bermimpilah dan Tuhan akan Memeluk Mimpimu (Arai)

Tertawalah dan Dunia akan tertawa bersama mu, bersedihlah dan kamu akan bersedih sendirian (Andrea Hirata)

Jika kamu Keras pada dirimu sendiri dunia akan Lunak pada mu. Jika kamu Lunak pada dirimu sendiri maka Dunia akan Keras padamu (Andrian Wongso)

If You’re going through hell…. Keep Going (Winston Churchil)

Warriors is people who rise from the ashes of defeat (my self)

Work hard, Play Harder (anonym)

I Shall Return… (Gen. McArthur after defeat in Pasific Front)

Impossible is Nothing… (Adidas)

Aku mengharapkan perbaikan semampuku. Tiada Keberhasilanku, keducali dengan pertolongan Allah. Kepada-Nya Aku berserah diri, dan kepada-Nya pula aku akan kembali” Al-Quran X!-88

Sesungguhnya sesudah kesulitan itu ada kemudahan (Al- Quran 94:6)

Allah tidak membebani seseorang melainkan sesuai dengan kesanggupannya (Al-Quran 2:286)

“”No one FALLS IN LOVE by CHOICE, it is by CHANCE. No one STAYS IN LOVE by CHANCE, it is by WORK. And no one FALLS OUT OF LOVE by CHANCE, it is by CHOICE” (Anonim)

Whats yours?

Kick Racism from Indonesia…

FIFA has long declare to kick racism from Football and bit by bit they are succeeding in removing racial barrier and racial stereotyping from football..

Believe it or not, in this plural culture of Indonesia racism lives around us.. sadly Indonesian people worship it in their many hours of TV ads, TV drama, etc. And yet we call our self bhineka tunggal ika. Let me show you why. In TV adv, have you notice how much Adv is selling whitening products? Dozen of it, my friend. from Lux whitening, Ponds skin care, Nivea whitening, Tje Fuk, so on and so on.. All with the same Doctrine “Paint your skin white before u fall in love” its sick isn’t? why I called it sick, its because naturally Indonesian skins is aint white ladies and gentleman… our natural skin tone as an indo – malayan race are sweet sexy brown or in indonesian we called it Sawo Matang. It is true, however, that some tribes does have white skin tone.. but who says we should define beauty by staying white?

The Population control..

The picture we are showing in above is a critics from the economist for Hugo Chavez policy in silencing the opposition media. But my friend, lets not go too deep in the debate in those far land of latin America, frankly I dont care is he a lefties, the heir of fidel castro, or che guevara..

The most noticibly concern is that Hugo Chavez has awareness in growing role of media in the modern society these days. The growing habit is that Metropolitan people perceive  morning newspaper to accompany their breakfast is a form of necessity and guess what they trust whatever those morning newspaper is saying.. just because they thought that the media is entertaining them with mere facts..

my question is… is it a mere fact? or does the media is trying to steer its audience. I go with the later. Let me bring you the most latest incident in Indonesia. After only a week the government raise the price of gas, there was an incident between FPI (Islamic Defence Front) and mass organization called AKBB (the Alliance for Religious Harmony in Indonesia Aliansi kebebasan Umat beragama) I anylize 11 different newspaper and everyone of them suddenly change the issu from oil to this small skirmish, not to mention every news is undercutting FPI except Republika. One week after they finish sucking up the issue, they (the media) blows up an old fashion issue of Islamic sects of Ahmadiyah. They facilitate public debate and warming up the public. creating pro’s and con’s. A week after they soak the issue, then they turn back to stab good names of politican such as AMien Rais and SYafiie Maarif. ANd accused them as supporters of Ahmadiyah. While as a matter of fact, those politican sign up with AKBB just because they are inform that this pact will be a mile stone for religious harmony.. not anything about ahmadiyah.. the blows up from the media has create a public agony.. and people are forgetting that living cost is stranggeling and killing..

After a week, in media we see student protesting the rise of oil by violence movement. I put my life on it that those people who protest in that streets is aint students. They’re actors who are paid to set the image of protesting students as vigourous and brutal people in society. Therefor, the other part of our society perceive that being a good citizen is taking the beating and shut up..

Control the media control the population. thats the slogan nowdays democrasy should use. They say that media is the watch dog of democracy. With the assumption that it will bark for any government missbehave. In todays era, we have learn that media has evolve. it has become a guard dog for the reigning government. and who nows when it will become a circus dog.. Nevertheless lets give the standing applause for SBY’s creative team – RIzal Malarangeng who maid all this humpty dumpty population control a success and putting SBY in top of the popularity poll.. so my friend, if you miss a newspaper for about a week lets not make too much  a fuss about it, u havent miss that much really.. as for me, I read news and mumbling what lies are they selling today…

FPI & Me…

semua,

Beberpa hari yang lalu saya dan ayah  berdiskusi mengenai sebuah buku berjudul “Lebih Tajam Daripada Pedang”. Buku itu ditulis oleh seorang Kristen dan mencerittakan mengenai gerakan-gerakan nir-kekerasan di seberbagai belahan dunia. dimana Kekuatan paling besar adalah kekuatan tanpa kekerasan. Hal ini sudah dipraktekkan oleh Nabi Muhammad, Isa, Husein, Ghandi.

Dan anehnya tokoh yang paling ditonjolkan pada masa itu adalah Muhammad. Tentu kita ingat bagaimana penaklukkan Mekkah yang tidak meneteskan setetes darah pun. Kalau istilah orang Jawa “Menang Tanpa Ngasorake” (artinya Menang tanpa merendahkan) Kita juga ingat betapa Rasullullah mempunyai adab dalam berperang yang tetap melindungi wanita, anak2, orang tua, sipil, bahkan Rasulullah mengharamkan merusak pepohonan dalam perang. Dalam perang badar, dimana pasukan Rasullulah yang berjumlah 600 orang melawan 27 orang kafir quraisy, rasullulah berkata kepada pasukannya kurang lebih: sesungguhnya pertolongan Allah itu dekat, dan niscaya Allah akan menolong kamu semua. Tapi ingatlah bahwa pertolongan Allah itu datang bukan karena kalian berperang dengan gagah perkasa namun karena Allah mencintai kaum dhuafa dan orang2 tertindas lainnya yang kalian bela. Peperangan itu sendiri dilakukan di tempat bernama Badar yang jaraknya 213km dari Madinah, Rasullullah memilih tempat ini dengan pertimbangan jika pasukannya hancur, kota madinah masih akan terselmatkan dari kehancuran.
Rasulullah kemudian menyendiri dan berdoa ya Allah, aku ikhlas jika Engkau musnahkan pasukanmu, aku ikhlas jika engkau hinakan aku, dan aku ikhlas jika cahaya agama Mu padam dari muka bumi ini, Asalkan Engkau tidak murka kepada ku.Dalam kontekFPI, kekerasan yang kita lihat di TV tidak dapat dibenarkan apapun alasannya. Apakah hanya karena alasan bahwa organisasi yang diserang adalah organisasi yang provokatif membela Ahmadiyah? Membela Liberalisme, membela kepentingan Amerika? dll? KEtika rasullullah berdakwah, tidak hanya provokasi yang diterima oleh Rasul, dilempari tahi unta oleh SUku Badui, diancam pembunuhan oleh Bani Quraisy dsb. APakah Rasullullah mengamuk ketika memasuki Mekkah dengan pasukannya? memukuli wanita, warga sipil, anak2, secara membabi buta? sama sekali tidak!

Anggota FPI hanya organisasi preman berkedok Islam. Sama sekali tidak mencontoh adab Rasullullah. dan thesis awal saya adalah mereka sudah membuat murka allah..
Oleh karena itu benar lah thesis “Lebih Tajam dari Pedang: adalah terjemahan dari sunnah Rasul FItnah Lebih Kejam dari Pembunuhan” Perbuatan FPI adalah sebuah fitnah terhadap agama Islam, adalah fitnah bahwa Islam menegakkan agama dengan kekerasan. Sesuai thesis film fitna yang dibuat oleh politisi belanda. Perbuatan itu tidak hanya melukai / membunuh nyawa, namun telah memudarkan cahaya Islam itu sendiri.

Sani
dari Jogja

The Pointless War

Recently, in a press release, U.S. President Bush and his Top Generals admitted their mistake in making policies in Iraq. Much to the world’s surprise, he said his mistake was that he had insufficient numbers of troops in Iraq. Therefore, his intentions were to deploy more troops in Iraq, one reason among the others was to fight the existing sectarianism.

U.S. initial reason in holding military operations in Iraq was due to the assumed existence of weapons of mass destruction. The focus has undoubtedly changed since then, leaving the world nonplussed (?). This brings the U.S. in a problematic position of whether it must maintain its ‘obligation’ to enforce security in Iraq or not. I (Sani) think that since the justification of the intervention itself was not even passed through a U.N resolution, this ‘obligation’ in the first place did not exist. It is to say that the U.S. must withdraw from Iraq as soon as possible.

This is why I see a harsh form of action is needed. We would like to propose to the House that the U.S. troops shall be pulled out of Iraq. We don’t agree with Bush’s definition of mistake. We believe that since firsthand, the strategy that the U.S. took in breaching the non-intervention policy was wrong, and that mistake has now crossed the border definition of acceptance: they are there for no more particular reason, even more a reason for intervention.

There is a reason why people uphold diplomacy all around the world, because negotiation is always, in many ways, the way to go compared to confrontation. We have witnessed many people died because of war, not only soldiers, but civilians, women and children died because of war. This is exactly what happened in Iraq. Thousands of people died, families were torn apart. These are people who really pay the cost, not that politicians sitting in the Oval Room for nothing. That is exactly the reason why team government (?) is here today, because we simply fail to see any reason since the U.S. deployment triggered the war, to start the long list of casualties. Saddam Hussein was perhaps in many ways a criminal to his society, but even after his death sentence, the U.S. is still there. Saddam might have been a terror, but a terror for who? The world? Never had it been proved that he actually had WMDs.

Now the U.S. is fighting against sectarianism in Iraq, but isn’t that an internal problem? It is something that the newly appointed Iraqi government should handle well. American controversial justification to enter Iraq was a global threat, and even though that takes process through the U.N. Security Council (nevertheless the U.S. went barging in), sectarianism is only a threat to each other. That’s a whole different situation. Again, since there is no more reason to justify its existence, U.S. troops should be pulled out of Iraq. Let Iraqis rebuild their country, something that will never happen if the U.S. is still there. Over 100.000 Iraqi casualties, and over 5.000 US soldiers dead, all for a vague reason. We simply don’t want to add to the list, because we’re paying to much, for a fruit we can never eat.

Greetings my friend..

Hi,

Welcome to the blog of “Pursuit of Happiness”. You may got these address from your friends recomendation, friendster, or just simply by ‘googling’. Nevertheless, whoever you are and whatever u do, I would like to offer my sincere greetings to you that is willing to spend a couple of minuites surfing this blog.

Some of you may think that this blog is about a Will Smith movie, “Pursuit of Happiness”, you are not completely wrong since it is pretty much inspired by the movie. However, this blog mostly will be talking about life, people, politics, law, jokes, environment, or some talks that just couldnt fill in any of those such as beautifull girls.

Pursuit of Happiness in general, our everyday live that we ought to deal with. Pursuit of Happiness is a hope for a of level-headedness, respectfulness and friendliness. Fight and fight hard but please do not take the joy of winning from someone by claiming this or that with this reason or that circumstances. We do not want to lose but losing is part of the game. Just congratulate the winner and find out the reason the win was not for you.

My friends, I have been playing soccer for the last 16 years and no soccer player would expect the opponent to give them the ball and step aside. You would aspect an honest attempt with all the brute force and wit they could muster to foil your every move. People get hurt playing soccer but at the end of the game these fierce rivals would file out of the field, shake hands and joke about their hits or misses or if not jokes, at least a courtesy nod to the winning team, to the hardest tackler, to the best runner.

We should in any game try to win, but if you lose take it with a smile and come back harder. Remember that all players be it in football, rugby or debates are humans who want to win and hard they will try, strong they will march and sad they will be if the objectives are not met. So in any circumstances, winning or losing, the pursuit must not stop as life is not meant for the faint hearted, life is for people that believes to
Live Free of Die Hard!!!

peace….