Newstories: News Headlines (16) 18 September 2012

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

News Headlines (16) 18 September 2012

18 SEPTEMBRE

Some things related to my mind today:

■ How far we envision the national leadership for the next few years? National political bustle that occurs before the U.S. elections in November gives an overview of the situation is still opaque. It also shows our future as a nation is still in a big question mark.

■ Political parties are expected to be more active to find a figure that has the virtue of leadership.

■ Leaders who have the virtue would serve their people, because it is the call of conscience. We need the leaders who are sincere in their devotion to this nation's welfare. The leaders who truly care for the nation's future, not just their own destiny. Sincerity is the basis of a person to lead this nation to a future aspired.

■ Sincere attitude would have to be accompanied by intelligence in coordinating the objectives and targets to be achieved. Objectives to be achieved must free the people from provoke political often triggered by power-political behavior.

■ The state should facilitate the growth of human values reflected in the civilization of its apparatus. Civilized apparatus always put social order and law. Every elected leaders have always aspired as a future leader of the nation.

■ Therefore, they must have the courage to uphold the justice without forgetting the truth. Truth without justice will not create a new world. Structuring the new world will be created when the law has sovereignty over political interests. Politics should be subject to morality.

■ It is time to expect, with a new sheet is created for the realization of the ideals of the founding fathers.

■ Elected leaders should recall, for what purpose they lead. Certainly it was not for the rah-rah, because they felt they had won the competition of democracy, but rather to a very heavy agenda. Excessive Gratitude is not being looked beautiful.

■ Being a leader is not a gift, but the mandate of people's suffering. Of course they should recall the ethics and political goals.

■ Politics must be transformed into action to serve the community. People involved in politics must refer to the morality of humanity and justice. Politics and government should make public morality as a reference value. True leaders should abandon their desire and lust of political power as the rest of life to acquire wealth. If not, politics will just be a mere investment arena: eject how and what, then get how and what.

■ Political power is a mandate of the people's suffering. Question for elected leaders is how we deal with our nation's critical condition today. The commitment nation that is manifested in the form of voluntary sacrifice is seriously one of the steps that led this nation to achieve the future changes.

■ Why not learn from the founders of this country in the strength of their commitment to the inner and outer sacrifice and the nation fate? Every step they do is always directed to the efforts of people today is better than yesterday, tomorrow is better than today. It can only be done when the new leader is truly in favor of the common people, the poor, the unemployed.

■ Sovereignty of the people should be a priority in policy and their vision forward. If seen from what happened over the years, we have not yet to find a serious candidate for the leader's attention to the sovereignty of the people. Mostly just looking from the narrow horizon and only concerned with his own groups and parties.

■ Future leaders need a new perspective, that if only by sheer force or figure, then national crisis is not resolved. That if only by relying on their own strength and negate other forces, then this nation will be plunged into a steep ravine.

■ This nation does not need a strong leader figure, but a leader who has a clear orientation, siding with the people and not siding with the owners of capital. Economic growth is not the only measure of successful governance.

■ The main size is the reduced number of poor people, less unemployment, less ignorance, less environmental damage, reduced the amount of corruption, human rights abuses and violence reduction in significant numbers. It is a moral contract terms for anyone who dares to nominate himself as the leader of the nation.

■ Anyone's figure is not so important. The emphasis is whether they actually have virtues. The virtue of a leader is rated from the moral note and devotion to the nation's ever made. It is important to see the sincerity of people who will run the wheels of government.

■ If that is analogous to our relationship, ... ehhehe ... it was almost seven years we undergo a lengthy campaign without carrying out the election altogether. Well, it is a high-level trust relationship, yet nevertheless ended in a wedding dress. Dahliiing... geez,it turned out to establish stability to marry (just for once and forever, and we do not need to campaign for ever) is heavier than appoint a presidential candidate.

I'm sorry, but I also love you.

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18 SEPTEMBRE

► Niger Islamic Council urges Muslims not to use violence to protest film - By The Associated Press | Associated Press – Sun, Sep 16, 2012
► Muslim rage over film echoes back to Islam's internal struggles - By Brian Murphy, The Associated Press | Associated Press – Sun, Sep 16, 2012
► Family of Anti-Islam Filmmaker Joins Him in Hiding - By FRANK ELARIDI and RANDY KREIDER | ABC News
► Intel agencies warned U.S. Embassy in Egypt of possible violence - By Mark Hosenball and Tabassum Zakaria | Reuters
► Iran will pursue makers of anti-Islam film: vice-president - Reuters
► Merkel: "Very regretful" China, Russia blocking U.N. moves on Syria - Reuters
► Syria accuses Turkey of allowing al-Qaida transit - By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE | Associated Press – Sun, Sep 16, 2012
► Japanese firms brace for violence in China over disputed islands. Panasonic and Canon announced shutdowns in China on Monday and firms urged expatriates to stay indoors after protests over Japan's purchase of disputed Islands got out of hand Saturday.By Peter Ford | Christian Science Monitor
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'Don't insult our Prophet!' Over 100,000 march in Beirut protest

► 'Don't insult our Prophet!' Over 100,000 march in Beirut protest (VIDEO, PHOTOS). Published: 17 September, 2012 - Edited: 18 September, 2012

(Stop raging, Hezbolllah! Please respect the personality of Islam. If you react excessively, it will create an endless Islamophobia in the West. Do not you feel ashamed to see the Pope call for peace among those who are in hostile, while you do not? The Pope is not a Muslim, but what he did better reflect the personality of Islam. Religion of peace. Why are you guys exactly like a bull that always likes to be provoked by the matador? They burned your Quran, you were angry. They insulted your prophet, you were angry. Your anger was used as an exciting spectacle, an entertainment for those who enjoyed your anger. And we've seen, you do not burn their holy book. And you do not make a film of the same humiliation. And you do not perform humiliating acts like what they did to you. Why? Because Islam does not justify it. It is nice. Therefore I respect the glory of Islam, but why did you kill another innocent person to rebound your anger? Now you are anti-Western, now you are the Western Phobia, maybe. I see with the eyes of my heart, you are being ridiculed by others. Yesterday you were anti-Jewish, weren't you? Today you are anti-American, aren't you? What's next? Does it mean that you are not the anti-Semitic anymore? The media have noted the Arab spring has now turned into Arab fall. I asked my partner, "What is Arab fall, dahling?" He replied curtly as he winked, "Western phobia!" My Pregnancy makes me love him more and more. But I tend to be a bit brave and mighty in some respects. While I hugged his back --- and this was one of his favorite things; he said I brought his fantasy to sleep under the Zeppelin balloon --- I told him, "I'm not Western phobia." "I know that. I love you, honey. I'm also not Islamophobia." he responded as he kissed the palm of my hands. Some of his habits made me pay more attention to my body's parts by spraying a special fragrance. For a moment I realized that we're in the hug of two pairs of loving hands. And we hope people out there will follow what we do, but they do not care at all. Only a few of them who care and understand what the significance of The Soul Victory is. Instead of supporting people doing mad long march, I prefer to march on this one ...

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CZ

"Thank you for your perception! I like your romantic side, even if I do not always comment and I'm glad that you're in my circle of friends."
(Courtesies by: Wolfgang A. Gerhardt)

Wolfgang A.Gerhardt : May be you like this Sunday collage

Cisca Zarmansyah : Before today, there never was a person doing this to me. You create a simple matter to look special. This is a special thing for me.

Cisca Zarmansyah : Thank you. I love it. I love you, my friend. ♥

CieL- FreYa Ceastle : Hmm, he's so nice...

"I am me.
In all the world,
there is no one else exactly like me.
Everything that comes out of me
is authentically mine,
because I alone chose it --
I own everything about me:
my body,
my feelings,
my mouth,
my voice,
all my actions,
whether they be to others or myself.
I own my fantasies,
my dreams,
my hopes,
my fears.
I own my triumphs and successes,
all my failures and mistakes.
Because I own all of me,
I can become intimately acquainted with me.
By so doing,
I can love me
and be friendly with all my parts.
I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me,
and other aspects that I do not know
-- but as long as I am friendly
and loving to myself,
I can courageously and hopefully
look for solutions
to the puzzles and ways
to find out more about me.
However I look and sound,
whatever I say and do,
and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time
is authentically me.
If later some parts of how I looked,
sounded,
thought,
and felt
turn out to be unfitting,
I can discard that which is unfitting,
keep the rest,
and invent something new
for that which I discarded.
I can see,
hear,
feel,
think,
say, and do.
I have the tools to survive,
to be close to others,
to be productive,
and to make sense
and order out of the world of people
and things outside of me.
I own me,
and therefore,
I can engineer me.
I am me,
and I am okay."

VIRGINIA SATIR
(American Phychologist and Educator, 1916-1988)