Posted on February 7 2010 by Daniel H.T.

Jakarta, Indonesia Media – Salah satu tugas utama DPR adalah melakukan kontrol terhadap pemerintah. Apakah pemerintah sudah berada di jalur yangbenar dalam menjalankan pemerintahannya, ataukah tidak. Apabila tidak, DPR bisa dengan menggunakan hak angketnya memanggil orang-orang pemerintah yang terkait untuk diminta keterangan; direksi BUMN, ketua lembaga-lembaga negara/pemerintah, menteri-menteri, wakil presiden, termasuk presiden. Saat ini yang [...]
Posted on February 6 2010 by Eddy Djaja

Ketika orang-orang Lakota berdoa atau melakukan sesuatu yang suci, mereka melihat dunia sebagai yang memiliki empat arah. Dari keempat arah ini bertiuplah empat arah angin. Setiap arah memiliki arti khusus dan warna yang terkait dengannya. Salib melambangkan segala arah.. Timur (Kuning) – Arah dari mana matahari terbit. Cahaya fajar di pagi hari menyebar di atas [...]
Posted on February 6 2010 by Agus Supriyatna – Wartawan Kompas

Istana negara, adalah simbol negara. Ya, karena di Istana Negara, adalah tempat presiden, jumpa pers, menerima tamunya, pokoknya segala tetek bengek, kalau presiden sedang ada di Jakarta, dipusatkan di Istana Negara itu. Makanya, Istana dijaga ketat oleh Pasukan Pengamanan Presiden. Tapi pada tanggal 28 Januari 2010, ada pemandangan beda dari Istana Negara. Dari sejak kemarin, [...]
Posted on February 6 2010 by Charlie Chen

Seperti biasa saya ada satu humor untuk penyegaran rohani dan jasmani : Sam Seng sedang bawain belanjaan untuk perayaan SinCia dari beca ke rumahnya. Ada seorang Arab yang baik hati mau membantu.Sam Seng menerima dengan senang hati dan berkata, “kamsia” yang berarti “terima kasih”. Setelah selesai ia memberi uang 50 rupiah kepada si Arab dan [...]
Posted on February 6 2010 by Detikhot

JAKARTA — Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) secara tegas menyatakan keberatan atas rencana dirilisnya film “Hantu Puncak Datang Bulan” di bioskop Indonesia pada 4 Februari yang lalu. “Film ini mengandung pornografi yang dapat mengumbar syahwat dan kami sudah melakukan penelitian. Di dalamnya juga memperlihatkan kekerasan,” ucap Amirsyah Tambunan Sekretaris Jendral Pengkajian dan Pengembangan MUI Pusat, dihubungi [...]
Posted on February 6 2010 by Sugiri Kustedja

Untuk dapat menelusuri sejarah imigran Tionghoa sangat erat berhubungan dengan sejarah pelayaran niaga yang pernah berlangsung antara Tiongkok Selatan dan kawasan Asia Tenggara. Para emigran ini juga beremigrasi ketika terjadi kekacauan politik didalam negeri, bencana alam, dan kesempitan hidup yang menekan. Mereka bertualang berlayar ketempat yang belum pernah dikenalnya; mengadu nasib untuk mendapatkan perbaikan kehidupan. [...]
Posted on February 6 2010 by Tribun Kaltim

MASYARAKAT Kutai Barat (Kubar), khususnya warga Mahakam Ulu digemparkan kemunculan sepasang ular raksasa sebesar drum atau berdiameter sekitar 60 sentimeter, dengan panjang sekitar 40 meter. Ular raksasa itu terlihat meliuk di permukaan air di Riam Haloq, Kampung Long Tuyoq, Kecamatan Long Pahangai. Ular raksasa yang melintas di sungai ini diyakini masyarakat Suku Dayak sebagai naga. [...]
Posted on February 6 2010 by Nell Greenfieldboyce NPR

The International Space Station is about to get what NASA is calling “a room with a view” — an observation dome that will give astronauts a window on the world unlike any other ever flown in space. Sunday morning, space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to blast off on a mission to the space station to [...]
Posted on February 6 2010 by Scott Neuman NPR

A major revision in the data helped push the nation’s unemployment rate down to 9.7 percent even as U.S. employers shed 20,000 jobs in January, the government said Friday, in a report that offered some encouragement that the worst of the recession’s job losses could be over. The Labor Department says the rate dropped from [...]
Posted on February 6 2010 by Brett Arends; Wall Street Journal

What do these budget deficits mean for you and your finances? The federal government is expected to borrow $1.6 trillion this year, or about $15,000 for every household in the country. Over the next 10 years it’s expected to borrow a total of $8.5 trillion. And the government was already deeply in debt to begin [...]
Posted on February 6 2010 by Brett Michael Dykes Yahoo!

Sarah Palin’s campaign against the derogatory usage of the word “retard” collided with her campaign to maintain her popularity with conservatives today, with confusing results. A Palin spokeswoman seemed to back away from earlier criticism of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. Yesterday, when asked for comment on Limbaugh’s use of the “r” word in a recent [...]
Posted on February 6 2010 by The Associated Press

World stocks tumbled again Friday as investors worried that the debt crisis enveloping Greece may spread to other vulnerable countries in Europe such as Portugal, and amid fears that jobs data later will show that the U.S. recovery is weaker than expected. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 82.34 [...]
Posted on February 6 2010 by Steve Kerch, Market Watch

The kitchen is still king. LAS VEGAS — Americans want smaller houses and they are willing to strip some of yesterday’s most popular rooms — such as home theaters — from them in order to accommodate changing lifestyles, consumer experts told audiences at the International Builders Show here this week. “This is a traumatic time [...]
Posted on February 6 2010 by CNN

Los Angeles, California — Plans have been canceled for Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s personal physician, to surrender to authorities Friday on charges relating to the pop star’s death, law enforcement sources said. Negotiations between prosecutors and Murray’s lawyers broke down Thursday evening, law enforcement sources with detailed knowledge of the talks told Beth Karas [...]
Posted on February 6 2010 by Anthony Kuhn NPR

China has halted its military cooperation with the U.S. and threatened this week to sanction American companies involved in selling arms to Taiwan. Beijing’s sharp reaction came after Washington announced a $6.4 billion weapons deal to Taiwan. It is something of a role reversal. Usually, it has been the U.S. sanctioning China. But now, China [...]
Posted on February 6 2010 by Brett Michael Dykes, Yahoo!

The campaign for high-profile California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has released an attack ad against one of her Republican primary opponents that just might be the most bizarre in American political history, one that’s already being called everything from “terrifying” to “psychedelic.” The three-and-a-half minute ad is aimed squarely at Tom Campbell, a former congressman [...]