Obama & Bush are second cousins!

Iseng2 google, eh ternyata benar tuh si Obama msh ada kekerabatan dg. Bush (hasil riset perusahaan pelacak silsilah ancestor.com).  Lucu (atau serunya?) lagi:

- Bush msh sepupu ke-11 dg. putri Diana & Brad Pitt

- Bush bersepupu ke-11 dg. Marilyn Monroe

- Bush juga berkerabat dengan pendiri majalah Playboy, putri Pocahontas, Madonna, Celine Dion dan Tom Hanks

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/29/earlyshow/main3424359.shtml

Ha..ha..kalau diterusin, mungkin dia juga berkerabat dg. "orang utan" kalimantan? :-P

Radiasi EM dan Autisme

Radiasi elektromagenetik dari peralatan elektronik (cellphone, tv, radio, dsb.) juga dicurigai:

http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=15755319

http://www.emfnews.org/Cell-Phone-Radiation-Linked-to-Autism.html

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/11/prweb570198.htm?tag=australasian+journal+of+clinical+environmental+medicine

Kelihatannya selaras dengan kecenderungan autis yg. muncul lebih banyak di negara maju atau keluarga yg. berpendidikan (kecenderungan  menggunakan perangkat elektronik yg. lebih tinggi).  Entahlah.

Ph.D jadi supir

S1 jadi tukang sapu & pel masih nggak terlalu aneh.  Tempo hari ada berita, seorang lulusan Ph.D, lulusan Stanford lagi, jadi supir taksi di Singapore.

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/08/25/singapore-taxi-driver-blogger-is-a-phd-graduate/

Sri Mulyani dan Krisis Air Jakarta

Iseng2 saya nemu isu menarik soal bank dunia & krisis air ini:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank#Members

Sociologist Michael Goldman has argued that “Industry analysts predict that private water will soon be a capitalized market as precious, and as war-provoking, as oil”.^[49] Goldman says “These days, an indebted country cannot borrow capital from the World Bank or IMF without a domestic water privatization policy as a precondition”.^[50] The Bank is utilizing “the 'Washington Consensus' model of "development" to promote water privatization. Following this model, the World Bank is forcing many countries to commodify their water resources, rather than using their expertise in the public sector to acknowledge water as a universal human right and an essential public service”.^[51] The push for water privatization development plays upon “the shocking tragedy that much of the world lacks affordable clean water”. This image creates “new opportunities in development, though it may have little to do with ultimately quenching” the needs of impoverished countries. “The problem of water scarcity for the world’s poor has been analyzed by the World Bank as one in which the public sector has failed to deliver, and has therefore prevented development from “taking off”, and the economy from modernizing. If the state cannot deliver something as basic as water and sanitation, the argument goes, it is a strong indication of a general failure of public-sector capacity”.^[52] However, “with the sale or lease of a public good comes more than simply a privatized service; alongside it comes a wide set of postcolonial institutional forces that intervene in state-citizen relations and North-South dynamics”.^[53]

Apakah ada kaitannya antara krisis air di Jakarta (dan Indonesia pada umumnya) dengan bergabungnya SMI ke World Bank tersebut? Apakah ada agenda tersembunyi dalam soal ini? Apakah mungkin blessing SBY thp WB karena SBY sdh capek minum air butek di Jakarta dan kesal dengan managemen PAM PEMDA DKI? :-)

Embuhlah....

Kapal Nabi Nuh ditemukan!

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Video Penemuan kapal nabi Nuh.

http://dunia.vivanews.com/news/read/147305-ini_video_penemuan_kapal_nabi_nuh

Dana Lestari terbesar di dunia buat Universitas

Endowment atau dana lestari awam dilakukan institusi pendidikan di LN.  

Hebatnya, endowment tertinggi tidak berada di universitas2 eropa atau AS, tapi di Saudi Arabia dg. total $10 milyar (atau Rp 900 trilyun) !!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_institutions_of_higher_education_by_endowment

Asal-Muasal Kata

Konon, kata "California" juga berasal dari kata spanyol yg. dipengaruhi bhs. arab (maklum pernah dikuasai 7.5 abad): "Kal-furnia" (Kal = seperti, Furnia = tungku), karena menurut cerita orang2 spanyol tsb. terdampar di Death Valley di Selatan California yg. suhunya "naujubile" panasnya.

Serunya lagi, beberapa kota dan jalan di AS bernama "Medina" (nama county di Ohio), "Macca" (satu kota di California), "Lebanon" (Ohio), bahkan jenderal tertinggi (bintang 5) angkatan darat AS di PD II yg. terkenal itu bernama "Umar" (Gen. Omar Bradley).

Melihat tapak-tilas sejarah bahwa beberapa suku asli Indian AS juga bernama2 muslim bahkan sempat berpakaian muslim (jilbab dsb.) dan kenyataan bahwa satu bapak pendiri negeri AS, Thomas Jefferson, memiliki Al-Qur'an, kemungkinan besar umat Islam telah menginjak negeri baru sejak lama, spt. halnya revisi sejarah masuknya Islam yg. mutakhir menyatakan para saudagar dari timteng dan Iran yg. telah mengunjungi Indonesia seribu tahun yg. lalu (lebih lama dibandingkan munculnya Samodra Pasai).

Asal Kata

Kata "harta karun" itu memang nampaknya dr qorun. Kata "kalang-kabut" pun berasal dr kosa bhs arab "kal-ankabut" yg artinya "spt. Laba2". Di Qur'an kan ada surah Al-Ankabut.
Mungkin asal muasalnya, orang yg kalang-kabut itu sifatnya spt. Laba2 yg mau diinjak tp tidak kena2 karena si laba2 lari pontang-panting mengelakkan diri (jd ingat si Rastapopoulos di dalam cerita Tintin "flight 714" yg marah2 lalu mau nginjak laba2, tp nggak kena2. Setting ceritanya terjadi di satu pulau di Indonesia)

Kembali ke cerita Harut-Marut ini, berarti sihir itu dulunya sesuatu keahlian yg diajarkan yah? Spt di Harry Potter itu?
Datuk yg serba tahu bisa cari cerita lebih detilnya? 

Satu hal lagi yg saya masih penasaran, dimana dan bangsa apa sih kira2 Juj dan Ma'juj (Gog & Magog di Bible). Dulu waktu saya msh kecil baca komik agama diceritakan bahwa Juj wa Ma'juj ini dikurung di dalam suatu gua dg pintu baja coran oleh Iskandar Dzulkarnaen (Alexander the Great?). Apa ini bangsa di sekitar asia tengah? Sejauh ini belum ketemu riwayat yg shohih.

Gog & Magog

Ternyata memang ada dua versi siapa sebenarnya Iskandar Dzulqarnain ini.  Pembela versi "Alexander" mengatakan Alexander the great itu Iskandar Dzulkarnaen dan penganut monotheism, karena dia murid Aristotles si penganut monotheism.  Melihat bahwa kota Alexandria di Mesir mengikuti namanya, saya kok cenderung percaya Alexander inilah si Iskandar Dzulqarnaen tsb. (selain melihat kesamaan nama).  Cyrus the great tidak berhasil menaklukkan mesir.  Mesir di barat, India di timur = "Dua Tanduk" peradaban (Dzul-Qarnaen).  Embuhlah.

Mengenai benteng yg. dibangun, katanya di lembah Gorgan dan disebut "Gerbang Iskandar". 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_of_Alexander

Tapi strukturnya kok tidak cocok dg. apa yg. disebutkan Al-Qur'an 18:96:

"Bawakan padaku besi" sampai kemudian dia rata (dengan celah) atar dua jurang, kemudian dia berkata "Tiuplah" - lalu, ketika ia telah membuat bara [besi], ia berkata "Bawakan padaku tembaga lalu tuangkan"

 (menggunakan besi baja campur tembaga)

Gerbang Gorgan di terusan Darial ini dibangun menggunakan batu-bata.  

Mengapa soal "Juj-Ma'juj' ini penting? karena berkaitan dg. tanda kiamat dan disebut dalam 3 agama samawi (Islam, kristen, Yahudi):

But when Gog and Magog are let loose and they rush headlong down every height (or advantage). Then will the True Promise draw near - (Qur'an 21:96-97)

Jadi, ketika kedua bangsa ini lolos (dari benteng baja) tsb., itulah salah satu tanda kiamat.

Miturut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog, mereka adalah keturunan Yahudi  (menurut tuturan ajaran yahudi & injil). Apa mungkin bisa dikaitkan dg. "Israel" & "AS" ? :-P

Kufur Nikmat

Jangan spt. paman Gober (uncle Scrooge) yg. menimbun harta dan pelit, tp. 

jangan juga SPT. satu orang di kantor saya dulu, pas di zaman dotcom booming yg. stock optionnya melonjak dari beberapa sen ke $80, duitnya ditangan baru seberapa (katanya dia bakal jd milyuner), tp. sdh beli mobil mewah (kredit lagi) dan gambling tiap minggu.  Ujung2nya jadi tukang parkir.

Merasakan apa yg. telah dihasilkan termasuk syukur nikmat, sementara orang2 yg. menghitung-hitung hartanya dan pelit (termasuk buat dirinya sendiri) termasuk kufur nikmat.

Kata2 mutiara dari Imam Ali bin Abu Tholib KWh bagus buat direnungkan:

"Seorang yg. tamak akan tidak dihormati, seorang yg. selalu mengungkapkan kesusahannya selalu dihina; orang yg. tidak dapat mengendalikan  lidahnya akan sering menghadapi ketidaknyamanan"

atau:

"Keserakahan itu hina; kepengecutan itu cacat; kemiskinan sering mematikan (pikiran) seorang yg. cerdas, seorang  yg miskin itu orang  asing di kotanya; ketidakberuntungan dan tanpa harapan adalah bencana; kesabaran adalah bentuk keberanian; melepaskan diri dari keterikatan dengan dunia yg. fana adalah kekayaan terbesar; welas-asih adalah senjata terbaik dalam bela diri"

Masjid Al-Aqsa 360 derajat

http://www.360tr.net/kudus/mescidiaksa_eng/index.html

Ajaran Keji Talmud

Ada yg. posting di FB, entah benar nggak.  Harus baca langsung Talmud nih:

Kita tentu sudah banyak mendengar tentang Talmud. Namun belum banyak yang mengetahui apa saja ayat-ayatnya. Berikut kami tampilkan sejumlah ayat-ayat Talmud yang menjadi dasar segala tindakan kaum Zionis terhadap orang-orang non-Yahudi (Ghoyim atau Gentilles), dan darinya Anda akan bisa “memahami” mengapa kaum Zionis selalu saja mau menang sendiri, selalu mengkhianati perjanjian, dan sebagainya. Inilah ayat-ayat suci mereka:

“Hanya orang-orang Yahudi yang manusia, sedangkan orang-orang non Yahudi bukanlah manusia, melainkan binatang.” (Kerithuth 6b hal.78, Jebhammoth 61a)

“Orang-orang non-Yahudi diciptakan sebagai budak untuk melayani orang-orang Yahudi.” (Midrasch Talpioth 225)

“Angka kelahiran orang-orang non-Yahudi harus ditekan sekecil mungkin.” (Zohar II, 4b)

“Orang-orang non-Yahudi harus dijauhi, bahkan lebih daripada babi yang sakit.” (Orach Chaiim 57, 6a)

“Tuhan (Yahweh) tidak pernah marah kepada orang-orang Yahudi, melainkan hanya (marah) kepada orang-orang non-Yahudi.” (Talmud IV/8/4a)

“Di mana saja mereka (orang-orang Yahudi) dating, mereka akan menjadi pangeran raja-raja.” (Sanhedrin 104a)

“Terhadap seorang non Yahudi tidak menjadikan orang Yahudi berzina. Bisa terkena hukuman bagi orang Yahudi hanya bila berzina dengan Yahudi lainnya, yaitu isteri seorang Yahudi. Isteri non-Yahudi tidak termasuk.” (Talmud IV/4/52b)

“Tidak ada isteri bagi non-Yahudi, mereka sesungguhnya bukan isterinya.” (Talmud IV/4/81 dan 82ab)

“Orang-orang Yahudi harus selalu berusaha untuk menipudaya orang-orang non-Yahudi.” (Zohar I, 168a)

“Jika dua orang Yahudi menipu orang non-Yahudi, mereka harus membagi keuntungannya.” (Choschen Ham 183, 7)

“Tetaplah terus berjual beli dengan orang-orang non-Yahudi, jika mereka harus membayar uang untuk itu.” (Abhodah Zarah 2a T)

“Tanah orang non-Yahudi, kepunyaan orang Yahudi yang pertama kali menggunakannya.” (Babba Bathra 54b)

“Setiap orang Yahudi boleh menggunakan kebohongan dan sumpah palsu untuk membawa seorang non-Yahudi kepada kejatuhan.” (Babha Kama 113a)

“Kepemilikan orang non-Yahudi seperti padang pasir yang tidak dimiliki; dan semua orang (setiap Yahudi) yang merampasnya, berarti telah memilikinya.” (Talmud IV/3/54b)

“Orang Yahudi boleh mengeksploitasi kesalahan orang non-Yahudi dan menipunya.” (Talmud IV/1/113b)

“Orang Yahudi boleh mempraktekan riba terhadap orang non-Yahudi.” (Talmud IV/2/70b)

“Ketika Messiah (Raja Yahudi Terakhir atau Ratu Adil) datang, semuanya akan menjadi budak-budak orang-orang Yahudi.” (Erubin 43b)

Yg. mau cari & baca sendiri: http://www.halakhah.com/

Israel massacres civilians, including americans

Israeli massacred civilians on a flotilla of ships in international waters seeking to bring humanitarian aid to the people of the Gaza Strip. Israeli commandos killed at least 10 civilians in a pre-dawn raid on the flotilla.

Israel's attack on the flotilla has already been condemned by the international community.

SEE: Israeli Action Widely Condemned (LA Times)
Turkey, Germany, France Lead Condemnation of Israeli Ship Raid

A number of Americans, including former Ambassador Edward L. Peck, are among those taking part in the humanitarian aid effort. Other passengers include 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Corrigan Maguire of Northern Ireland. The nationalities of the dead are not yet known.

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Parade in Santa Rosa, CA

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RosRose Parade, Santa Rosa, CA

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Rose Parade, Santa Rosa, CA15 May 2010

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Rose Parade, Santa Rosa

2010-05-23 (by Eye-Fi)

Daniel Galvin Park

American Citizen Denied Re-Entry to U.S.

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/14/10) -- A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called on the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to end the "forced exile" of a Muslim citizen who was recently detained by Mexican authorities and allegedly questioned about his faith, apparently at the behest of the FBI.

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said Raymond Earl Knaeble IV, a 29-year-old California-born convert to Islam, has been stranded in Colombia since March after being placed on a no-fly list for unknown reasons. His ordeal, and that of other American Muslims denied re-entry to the U.S., was detailed last month by the Washington Post. (Knaeble was in Colombia to visit relatives.)
SEE: U.S. Muslims Facing Problems in Return from Abroad (Wash. Post)
Earlier this week, Knaeble traveled to Mexico, hoping to cross into the United States overland through that nation. He was stopped by Mexican authorities as he got off the plane and asked, "Are you Muslim?" He was then detained for 15 hours and asked many questions relating to his faith, such as how many wives he has (one) and the differences between "Sunni" and "Shia" Muslims. Knaeble said the questions he was asked were the same as those asked during many hours of FBI interrogation in Colombia.

"It is un-American and illegal for a citizen who has not been accused of, let alone charged with any crime to be denied entry to his own country without adequate explanation or the possibility of challenging punishments applied without due process of law," said CAIR Legal Counsel Nadhira Al-Khalili, who is Knaeble's attorney. "We call on the Department of Justice to end Mr. Knaeble's forced exile and to address the disturbing issue of the other Americans who are similarly being denied re-entry to their own country."
She noted that Knaeble was forced to fly from Mexico back to Colombia, when he could have just as easily been placed on a flight to the United States.

Al-Khalili said that if law enforcement authorities have any further questions about Knaeble or his activities, they should allow him to enter the United States and deal with him as they would any other citizen. The FBI has so far refused to discuss Knaeble's case with his legal representative.
CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.

Envy

Envy is defined as:

1 : painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage
2 obs: malice
3 : an object of envious notice or feeling ‹his new car made him the ~ of his friends›

While malice is:

1 : desire to cause pain, injury, or distress to another
2 : intent to commit an unlawful act or cause harm without legal justification or excuse


"malice malevolence ill will spite malignity spleen grudge" mean the desire to see another experience pain, injury, or distress. malice implies a deep-seated often unexplainable desire to see another suffer ‹felt no malice toward their former enemies›. malevolence suggests a bitter persistent hatred that is likely to be expressed in malicious conduct ‹a look of dark malevolence›. ill will implies a feeling of antipathy of limited duration ‹ill will provoked by a careless remark›. spite implies petty feelings of envy and resentment that are often expressed in small harassments ‹petty insults inspired by spite›. malignity implies deep passion and relentlessness ‹a life consumed by motiveless malignity›. spleen suggests the wrathful release of latent spite or persistent malice ‹venting his spleen against politicians›. grudge implies a harbored feeling of resentment or ill will that seeks satisfaction ‹never one to harbor a grudge›.