american economy

many american corporation are expanding overseas other than in america.this is because of the low purchasing power brought by deep recession happening in the US now.so many of these companies build new plants overseas and hired many foreigners and thus contributing to the hike of american unemployment rate. well can't really blame them, it's much more enticing to expand overseas due to high purchasing power of India, china and indonesian market nowadays. These nation economy are growing and many corporation are salivating over it.

perihal:

""There's a huge difference between what is good for American companies versus what is good for the American economy," says Scott."
- Where are the jobs? For many companies, overseas (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

america in decline

life is getting harder in america now with many people getting unemployed.well I guess the obama's administration didn't bring any great progress whatsoever.but if the american wanted to attribute this recession that they're having now then they should just blamed it on George W.Bush's faults.he's the sole person that fucked up US economy back then.

perihal:

"The piece continues with the sobering assessment that America’s actual unemployment rate isn’t really 10 percent, but close to 20 percent when we factor in the number of people who have stopped looking for work."
- AlterNet: America in Decline: Why Germans Think We're Insane (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

sudan referendum

this is bad though,even sudanese president didn't want to acknowledge the diversity in his country.he thinks islam is the only way of life and other religions shouldn't be accounted for.this brings nothing but suffering to many people in northen sudan.as the southern sudan will likely to secede from the north.and we will have another north sudan and south sudan state just like north korean and south korea in this world.
the separation of state shouldn't be happening just because of religion,and they should know that islamic syariah only brings nothing but the rebellion of those that aren't in favor of it.
well then we should be glad that indonesia is a secular country.

perihal:

""If south Sudan secedes, we will change the constitution and at that time there will be no time to speak of diversity of culture and ethnicity," Bashir told supporters at a rally in the eastern city of Gedaref."
- Omar al-Bashir: northern Sudan will adopt sharia law if country splits | World news | The Guardian (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

wikileaks in depth

Massive news organizations hunt for information and spend billions chasing stories. WikiLeaks puts up a website and people just dump news on them by the truck load. Must suck to be the media now.as wikileaks is getting ahead of them and got more stories to tell.
and now the world is a tad more rational because of wikileaks publication pertaining US sensitive document materials being leaks.

perihal:

"The true importance of Wikileaks -- and the key to understanding the motivations and behavior of its founder -- lies not in the contents of the latest document dump but in the technology that made it possible, which has already shown itself to be a potent weapon to undermine official lies and defend human rights."
- http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/12/the-shameful-attacks-on-julian-assange/67440/ (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

solitary confinement

this is just one long reading material regarding human needs of social interaction and it's effect for lack thereof. erratic behaviour were found in those who don't get along well with people and were locked up in prison's solitary cells.this solitary cells did nothing but harm to the inmates.as a person who deprived of social interaction then he would develop pyhschotic behaviour that had detrimental effect upon that person himself.there's need to be applied a more gentle approach when dealing with criminals other than solitary confinement.
but hell, if the person is a murderer then I guess locking him/her up in a solitary cell is for everyone's benefits

in reference to:

"We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people."
- Is long-term solitary confinement torture? : The New Yorker (view on Google Sidewiki)

amygdala

there is a part in human brain that's called amygdala, its function is to instill fear in human so as to prevent them from any harm, but the dysfunctionality of this organ part in one's brain caused somewhat peculiar result.there is a woman who had her amygdala not functioning properly and thus made her fearless of any perilous events that came in contact with her.now at least we know why some people are so fearful and some of them are fearless.it's all located in their brain and amygdala played a bigger role in causing it.

perihal:

"Instead, she held a snake, pet its scales and touched its tongue. She enjoyed intensely scary horror movies like they were thrilling but fun roller coaster rides. And she revealed through her stories and her diary a lifetime of behaviors that would strike most people as odd and qualify, by all standards, as dangerous."
- The No-Fear Woman (And What Her Brain Reveals) : Discovery News (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

sudan's conflict

the referendum that'll happen in sudan in january next year can be taken as use case where the enactment of islamic syariah fuelled many discontent among non-moslem people namely christian.hence make the south and north sudan fighting each other due to this differences.and now the compromise had been made and there'll be a referendum in which the south sudan can secede from the north sudan where most moslem reside.
I really don't like this though,a country should not separate just because the abomination of islamic law. and also because the government only care toward majority of moslem people that caused the government to only care about muslim by enacting a law based on Quran.islamic law shouldn't be enacted in a country that has diversed religion. because it brings nothing but chaos and rebellion. I really hope other nations can learn of what happened in sudan now when thinking of applying islamic law in one's nation.

perihal:

"The referendum, scheduled for Jan. 9, is the centerpiece of a 2005 peace agreement that ended a 21-year civil war between the Muslim north and the oil-producing south, where Christianity and traditional beliefs dominate. About 2 million people died in the conflict and 4 million fled their homes."
- Southern Sudan Likely to Vote to Secede from North, Presidential Aide Says - Bloomberg (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)