Jumat, 29 Januari 2010 | 03:35 WIB Jayapura, Kompas - Sebuah pesawat Antonov AN-26B bernomor lambung 4L-IFE milik PT Manunggal Air Service, Kamis (28/1), tergelincir di ujung Bandara Wamena, Kabupaten Jayawijaya, Papua. Semua awak pesawat yang berjumlah tiga orang selamat. Sayap kanan pesawat tersebut patah dan baling-baling pesawat rusak berat setelah menabrak pagar. Kepala Bidang Humas Kepolisian Daerah Papua Komisaris Besar Agus Rianto mengatakan, dugaan sementara, kecelakaan terjadi akibat rem pesawat rusak.
Pesawat tersebut kini terparkir di ujung landasan.
Pesawat itu terbang dari Bandar Udara Sentani, Jayapura, pukul 12.10 WIT mengangkut enam ton beras dari Perum Bulog Divisi Regional Papua Jayapura. Pesawat yang diawaki tiga warga Rusia, yakni pilot Boris, kopilot Sergei, dan anggota staf mekanik Nikolay, tiba di Wamena pukul 12.50. Pesawat mengalami gangguan saat mendarat. Para awak pesawat segera keluar dari pesawat tanpa luka serius.
Pihak maskapai Manunggal Air Service belum memberikan keterangan lebih rinci seputar kejadian tersebut.
Manajer Cabang Manunggal Air di Wamena Edi Halatu ketika dihubungi mengaku sedang memindahkan pesawat. ”Sampai sekarang kami masih mengevakuasi (pesawat). Tidak ada korban jiwa dan pesawat tidak meledak,” kata Edi Halatu.
Seorang saksi mata, pegawai maskapai penerbangan lain di Wamena yang tak mau disebutkan namanya, mengatakan, pesawat seperti tergelincir dan sayap menabrak pagar bandara di daerah runway 33, ujung landasan.
Sesaat setelah kecelakaan, pesawat Aviastar kargo batal mendarat di Wamena dan memilih kembali ke Bandara Sentani. Namun, pesawat-pesawat lain, seperti Trigana Air dan pesawat kecil milik misi AMA, masih dapat mendarat.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama, flanked by his predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, on Saturday said the two former presidents would lead a national drive to raise money for Haiti's earthquake survivors.
"By coming together in this way, these two leaders send an unmistakable message to the people of Haiti and to the people of the world. In these difficult hours, America stands united. We stand united with the people of Haiti," Obama said.
Haitian authorities believe as many as 200,000 died in Tuesday's earthquake that devastated the Caribbean nation, prompting a worldwide humanitarian response as rescuers race against time to save people still trapped in the rubble.
Obama, who has pledged an initial $100 million in quake relief, enlisted the help of Bill Clinton, a Democrat who is the United Nations' special envoy for Haiti, and former President George W. Bush, the Republican who proceeded him the White House, to spearhead private sector fund-raising efforts.
Obama said they had launched the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund and directed Americans to visit the website at www.clintonbushhaitifund.org and give money, because Haiti faced a lengthy road back to recovery.
"We also know that our longer term effort will not be measured in days or weeks, it will be measured in months and even years. And that is why it is so important to enlist and sustain the support of the American people," he said.
BUSH: SEND CASH, NOT BLANKETS
Bush, who spoke next after Obama, said that both he and former First Lady Laura Bush had been deeply saddened by the scenes of horror and death from Haiti.
"The most effective way for Americans to help the people of Haiti is to contribute money ... I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water. Just send your cash," he said. "One of the things President Clinton and I will make sure is your money is spent wisely."
The public has already responded to Haiti's plight.
Hollywood star George Clooney will host a telethon on MTV next week, the music network said, while Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated $1 million from their foundation to Doctors Without Borders.
A texting campaign that First LadyMichelle Obama made a public appeal for had raised almost $6 million by Thursday.
"Right now, all we need to do is get food and medicine and water and a secure place for them to be. But when we start the rebuilding effort ... we want to be a place where people can know their money will be well spent," Clinton said.
The website was already up and running, with a link for visitors to make donations from $25 upward. "What we do right now determines how many lives we can save. Together, we can help communities get back on their feet," the site said.
It was Bush's first visit to the White House since leaving office almost exactly a year ago to return home to Texas.
Since then he has kept a low public profile, but accepted Obama's request to join a bipartisan effort which echoed the mission he asked Clinton and his own father, former President George H. W. Bush, to perform after a massive earthquake in 2004 caused a huge tsunami in South Asia and killed 226,000.
Obama's high profile efforts to stay on top of the Haitian crisis may reflect a determination to counter criticism of his own initial reaction to a foiled Christmas Day bomb attack on a Detroit-bound plane, as well as from Bush's own experience.
Bush was slammed for what critics said was a slow and half-hearted response after Hurricane Katrina deluged New Orleans in 2005, stranding thousands of the city's mainly African American residents and providing the world with a graphic view of festering inner-city U.S. poverty.
Teheran, Selasa - Ilmuwan nuklir Iran, Massoud Ali Mohammadi (50), Selasa (12/1), tewas dibunuh dalam sebuah serangan bom yang sangat langka terjadi di Teheran. Media-media pemerintah langsung menuduh pelakunya adalah elemen-elemen kontrarevolusi dan adidaya Barat.
Mohammadi, profesor bidang nuklir yang mengajar di Universitas Teheran, tewas ketika sebuah bom yang dipasang di sebuah sepeda motor diledakkan dengan pengontrol jarak jauh di luar kediamannya di wilayah Qeytariyeh, utara Teheran.
Penyiar-penyiar Iran mengatakan, ”Mohammadi dibunuh dalam sebuah tindakan teroris oleh kontrarevolusi dan agen-agen dari kelompok arogan,” tanpa menyebut sumber-sumbernya. Akan tetapi, para pejabat Iran sering kali menyebut AS dan beberapa adidaya Barat sebagai kelompok ”Arogan Global”.
Jaksa Teheran Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi mengatakan kepada kantor berita ISNA bahwa Mohammadi adalah pengajar di bidang energi nuklir, khususnya fisika neutron, dan menambahkan bahwa sepeda motor bermuatan bom itu diparkir di luar kediamannya dan meledak ketika dia akan masuk ke mobilnya.
”Jajaran penegak hukum telah melakukan penyelidikan, belum ada tersangka yang ditangkap sejauh ini,” jelasnya.
Seorang saksi mengatakan, ledakan bom itu sangat kuat sehingga memecahkan kaca-kaca jendela, dan rumah-rumah serta mobil tetangganya.
Kemenlu Iran mengatakan, dari hasil penyelidikan awal terlihat adanya tanda-tanda keterlibatan AS, Israel, dan agen-agen bayarannya dalam serangan itu.
Serangan-serangan bom jarang terjadi di Iran meskipun beberapa pejabat keamanan dan anggota kelompok elite Garda Revolusi telah tewas dalam pengeboman oleh pemberontak di wilayah provinsi Sistan-Baluchistan di timur Iran.
Televisi pemerintah berbahasa Arab, Al-Alam, menyebut Mohammadi sebagai guru ”Hezbollahi”, sebuah istilah yang digunakan untuk pendukung setia rezim Iran yang terlibat dalam revolusi Islam 1979. ”Pembunuhan ini kemungkinan dilakukan oleh para hipokrit atau direncanakan oleh rezim zionis,” kata Al-Alam.
Tidak ada laporan yang mengatakan apakah Mohammadi terkait dengan program nuklir Iran, yang oleh Barat dicurigai sebagai program senjata nuklir.
Televisi Iran menayangkan cuplikan para juru bersih tengah membersihkan puing-puing dan menyirami jalan-jalan yang penuh percikan darah.
Mohammadi adalah penulis beberapa artikel mengenai kuantum dan teori-teori fisika di beberapa jurnal ilmiah, tetapi tidak tampak mempunyai peran sangat besar dalam program nuklir Iran. Dia menerima gelar doktor dari Universitas Teknologi Sharif di Teheran.
Situs proreformasi pernah memasukkan nama Mohammadi sebagai pendukung calon presiden oposisi Houssein Mousavi.
Sanksi untuk Iran
Di sela-sela perjalanan awal dari rencana perjalanan sembilan harinya ke beberapa negara Pasifik, Menteri Luar Negeri AS Hillary Rodham Clinton mengungkapkan, AS dan sekutu-sekutunya tengah mendiskusikan sanksi keuangan yang tampaknya ditujukan kepada Garda Revolusi Iran dan pemain-pemain politik lainnya di Iran jika diplomat gagal mengatasi ketegangan yang semakin meningkat dengan Iran.
”Sangat jelas bahwa ada sebuah kelompok pengambil keputusan yang kecil di Iran. Mereka itu baik dalam hubungan perdagangan maupun politik. Jika kita bisa membuat sebuah sanksi yang ditargetkan kepada mereka yang membuat keputusan-keputusan, kami rasa itulah cara yang lebih pintar untuk menjatuhkan sanksi,” jelas Hillary sambil menambahkan bahwa keputusan belum diambil.
TOKYO – A giant bluefin tuna fetched 16.3 million yen ($177,000) in an auction Tuesday at the world's largest wholesale fish market in Japan.
The 513-pound (233-kilogram) fish was the priciest since 2001 when a 440-pound (200 kilogram) tuna sold for a record 20.2 million yen ($220,000) at Tokyo's Tsukiji market.
The gargantuan tuna was bought and shared by the owners of two Japanese sushi restaurants and one Hong Kong-based sushi establishment, said a market representative on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose the information.
Caught off the coast of northern Japan, the big tuna was among 570 put up for auction Tuesday. About 40 percent of the auctioned fish came from abroad, including from Indonesia and Mexico, the representative said.
Japan is the world's biggest consumer of seafood with Japanese eating 80 percent of the Atlantic and Pacific bluefins caught. The two tuna species are the most sought after by sushi lovers.
However, tuna consumption in Japan has declined because of a prolonged economic slump as the world's second-largest economy struggles to shake off its worst recession since World War II.
"Consumers are shying away from eating tuna ... We are very worried about the trend," the market representative said.
Apart from falling demand for tuna, wholesalers are worried about growing calls for tighter fishing rules amid declining tuna stocks.
The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas in November slashed the quota for the 2010 catch by about one-third to 13,500 tons (12,250 metric tons) — a move criticized by environmentalists as not going far enough.
Later today, and amid plenty of pomp and ceremony, the mighty Burj Dubai tower will be officially opened by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid. After five years of construction and a cost of around $1.1 billion USD, the tower is the world’s tallest building.
At around 800 metres high and boasting a whopping 160 floors, the tower will primarily offer luxury residential space (for those with deep enough pockets to afford its prices) thanks to 1,044 apartments.
According to the official Burj Dubai Web side, some of the more notable amenities attached to the tower’s residential portion include multiple swimming pools, a comprehensive fitness centre, a residents’ library, a cigar club, a gourmet market, and valet parking.
A further 37 floors have been allocated for both business and retail opportunities, with 160 hotel rooms designed by legendary fashion icon Giorgio Armani. When fully populated with residents and office workers, the tower is expected to hold somewhere in the vicinity of 12,000 people.
Designed by Chicago-based Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the Burj Dubai supplants Taipei’s 101 as the world’s tallest structure.
Yeah, even there are some unhappy tragedies happened, don't make this new year a bad first impression. Do the best for this year, and hope for better world :)
Jakarta - Bulan Juni 2009 akan selalu dikenang Roger Federer sebagai momen dia menyempurnakan diri sebagai petenis terbaik usai menjuarai Prancis Terbuka untuk kali pertama. Sementara Valentino Rossi meraih kemenangan ke-100.
Federer sebelumnya sudah mengumpulkan 10 gelar di tiga kejuaraan Grand Slam, kecuali Prancis Terbuka. Petenis Swis itu selalu terhadang oleh sang raja lapangan tanah liat, Rafael Nadal, yang jadi juara di kompetisi tersebut sejak 2005 sampai 2008.
Namun penantian tersebut berakhir di awal Juni 2009, setelah dia memenangi pertarungan tiga set, 6–1, 7–6(1) dan 6–4 atas Robin Soderling. Sementara Nadal mengalami nasib buruk setelah tersingkir di babak keempat.
Tampil buruk, petenis Spanyol itu dipaksa menelan kekalahan atas Soderling setelah melewati pertarungan empat set. Belakangan diketahui kalau kalau Nadal mengalami cedera cukup parah dan bahkan bisa mengancam karir tenisnya. Akibat cedera yang sama Nadal urung tampil di Wimbledon.
Sementara itu di nomor tunggal putri, Svetlana Kuznetsova menjadi juara di Paris setelah menundukkan Dinara Safina. Laga antara dua putri Rusia itu berkesudahan dengan dua set langsung 6-4 dan 6-2.
Masih dari cabang ayun raket, tepatnya bulutangkis, kenyataan pahit harus diterima Indonesia dalam ajang Indonesia Super Series. Berlaga di depan pendukungnya sendiri, pasukan Merah Putih sama sekali tak kebagian gelar.
Taufik Hidayat yang menjadi satu-satunya wakil Indonesia di final dipaksa menyerah 9-21 dan 14-21 atas Lee Chong Wei (Malaysia). Ini adalah kali kedua, selain tahun 2007, di mana tuan rumah gagal total dan sama sekali tak dapat gelar.
Malaysia menjadi yang paling sukses setelah merebut dua gelar dari ganda putri dan tunggal putra (Hiks... T_T). Sementara Cina kebagian satu dari ganda campuran dan Korea Selatan dapat gelar dari ganda putra. Kejutan datang dari India setelah SainaNehwal merebut gelar di tunggal putri.
Kegagalan meraih satupun gelar di Indonesia Super Series sedikit terobati setelah Chris John dikukuhkan sebagai Super Champ kelas bulu oleh bada tinju WBA. Si Naga meraih penghargaan tersebut meski laga kontra Rocky Juarez gagal terlaksana karena dia menderita sakit.
Dari lintasan balap, tepatnya MotoGP, Valentino Rossi meraih kemenangannya yang ke-100 setelah menjuarai MotoGP Belanda. Sukses di Essen tersebut melanjutkan kemenangan yang diarih The Doctor dalam balapan di Catalunya, dua pekan sebelumnya.
Sementara di ajang F1, ancaman keretakan yang sempat menghantui F1 akhirnya batal terjadi. Perseteruan antara FIA dan FOTA, yang sempat membuat asosiasi tim dan pembalap mengancam membuat f1 tandingan, akhirnya berhasil didamaikan. Hal tersebut membuat rencana pemberlakuan budget cap juga dipastikan tertunda.
Terlepas dari perseteruan politis, di atas lintasan Jenson Button masih menunjukkan dominasinya dengan meraih kemenangan keenam di GP Turki. Namun sukses tersebut gagal dilanjutkan pembalap Brawn GP itu di kandangnya sendiri, Button cuma finis keenam dalam balapan di Sirkuit Silverstone. Tampil sebagai juara adalah Sebastian Vettel.
Dari ajang NBA, LA Lakers tampil sebagai juara setelah mengalahkan Orlando Magic. Kemenangan 99-86 di game kelima memastikan anak didik Phill Jackson menjadi kampiun dengan keunggulan 4-1. Ini menjadi sukses ke-15 Lakers meraih cincin juara.
VATICAN CITY – A woman jumped the barriers in St. Peter's Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI at the start of Christmas Eve Mass, but the 82-year-old pontiff got up unhurt and proceeded as planned with Thursday's service.
Witness video obtained by The Associated Press showed a woman dressed in a red hooded sweat shirt vaulting over the wooden barriers that cordoned off the basilica's main aisle and rushing toward the pope before being swarmed by bodyguards.
The video showed the woman grabbing the pope's vestments as she was taken down by guards, with Benedict then falling on top of her.
The commotion occurred as the pope's procession was making its way toward the main altar and shocked gasps rang out among the thousands who packed the basilica. The procession came to a halt, the music stopped and security rushed to the trouble spot.
A Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Ciro Benedettini said the woman appeared to be mentally unstable and had been taken into custody by Vatican police. He said she also knocked down Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, who was taken to hospital for a checkup.
"During the procession an unstable person jumped a barrier and knocked down the Holy Father," Benedettini told The AP by telephone. "(The pope) quickly got up and continued the procession."
It was the second year in a row that there had been a security breach at the Christmas Eve service and this was the most serious incident involving the public in Benedict's five-year papacy. At the end of last year's Mass, a woman who had jumped the barriers got close to the pope but was quickly blocked on the ground by security.
That woman too wore a red hooded sweat shirt, but Benedettini said it was not immediately known if the same person was behind Thursday's incident.
MaryBeth Burns from Paris, Texas, was about four people away from the woman who jumped the barriers and was filming the pope's procession as the commotion started.
"All of a sudden this person sort of flew over the barricade and the Holy Father went down and all the security people were on top of it, a whole pile there, getting her off and him back up," said Burns, who was visiting Italy with her family on a religious pilgrimage for Christmas.
"I'm really mad because I had a perfect shot lined up," she added. "I'm still shaking."
Benedict lost his miter and his staff in the fall. He remained on the ground for a few seconds before being helped back up by attendants. At that point, a few shouts of "viva il papa!" (long live the pope!) rang out, followed by cheers from the faithful, witnesses said.
After getting up, Benedict, flanked by tense bodyguards, resumed his walk to the basilica's main altar to start the Mass. The pope, who broke his right wrist in a fall this summer, appeared unharmed but somewhat shaken and leaned heavily on aides and an armrest as he sat down in his chair.
Few people who were watching the Mass on giant screens set up in a rain-soaked St. Peter's Square even knew that the pope had fallen, with many saying that either they weren't looking or had arrived too late.
Benedict made no reference to the disturbance after the service started. As a choir sang, he sprinkled incense on the altar before opening the Mass with the traditional wish for peace in Latin.
The incident was the first time a potential attacker came into direct contact with Benedict, and underscored concerns by security analysts who have frequently warned the pope is too exposed in his public appearances.
There have been other security breaches at the Vatican.
In 2007, during an open-air audience in St. Peter's Square, a mentally unstable German man jumped a security barrier and grabbed the back of the pope's open car before being swarmed by security guards.
Then there was the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II by Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca in 1981. John Paul suffered a severe abdominal wound as he rode in an open jeep at the start of his weekly audience in the Vatican piazza.
The pope is protected by a combination of Swiss Guards, Vatican police and Italian police.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., the Vatican has tightened security at events where the pope is present. All visitors must pass by police to get into the square, with those entering the basilica going through metal detectors or being scanned by metal-detecting wands.
However, Sister Samira, an Indian aide to Vatican officials who attended the service and saw the incident, said she is never searched by security when she attends papal Masses, and said the same holds true for other people in religious garb.
Burns, the U.S. pilgrim, said security had been tight, and that it seemed there was no way to have prevented the woman from getting to the pope other than keeping the public out altogether.
"This is Midnight Mass in the heart of our church," she said. "I guess the Holy Father puts himself at risk every time he's around anybody, any crowds really."
In a similar incident, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was attacked as he was greeting the crowd at a political rally earlier this month. A man with a history of psychological problems hurled a souvenir statuette at the politician, fracturing his nose and breaking two of his teeth.
Benedict celebrated this year's Christmas Eve Mass two hours earlier than the usual midnight starting time in a move by the Vatican to ease the pontiff's busy holiday schedule.
Benedict has been remarkably healthy during his pontificate, keeping to a busy schedule and traveling around the world.
But in July, he broke his wrist during a late-night fall while vacationing in an Alpine chalet and had to have minor surgery and wear a cast for a month — an episode that highlights the risk he ran in Thursday's tumble.
In his homily, delivered unflappably after the incident, the pope urged the world to "wake up" from selfishness and petty affairs, and find time for God and spiritual matters.
"To wake up means to leave that private world of one's own and to enter the common reality," Benedict said in Italian. "Conflict and lack of reconciliation in the world stem from the fact that we are locked into our own interests and opinions, into our own little private world."
Benedict's next scheduled appearance is at noon on Christmas Day, when he is to deliver his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" speech (Latin for "To the city and the world") from the basilica's balcony.
KOMPAS.com - Iranian hackers brought down micro-blogging website Twitter for around two hours yesterday morning. The attack took place at around 6am and left the site's estimated 30million users unable to send messages or post 'tweets'.
The main Twitter homepage had been replaced with a black and red screen featuring an image of a green flag. The page carried the message: 'This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army.'
'The USA thinks they control and manage internet access, but they don't. We control and manage the internet with our power, so do not try to the incite Iranian people.'
The site reappeared around two hours later, with staff telling users: 'We are working to recovery from an unplanned downtime and will update more as we learn the cause of this outage.'
It is believed that Twitter's DNS records were hijacked in the attack meaning that users who were trying to visit the site were actually redirected to the new page. The DNS, which stands for Domain Name System, connects the name of a website, in this case twitter.com, to the servers which hold its contents.
A short statement was issued on the company's blog. It read: 'Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed.
'We are looking into the underlying cause and will update with more information soon.'
Websites such as Twitter and Facebook became a focal point for young, urban Iranians opposed to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who defeated opposition candidate Mirhossein Mousavi in the presidential election. Many Iranians used Twitter to arrange demonstrations and keep up to date during the unfolding saga.
According to Internet censorship monitor OpenNet Initiative, Iranians began taking to the internet in droves during the 1997-2005 presidency of Mohammad Khatami, when dozens of independent publications were shut down and journalists jailed.
The story of the year was a weak economy that could have been much, much weaker. How the mild-mannered man who runs the Federal Reserve prevented an economic catastrophe
Ben Shalom Bernanke, a bald man with a gray beard and tired eyes is sitting in his oversize Washington office, talking about the economy. He doesn't have a commanding presence. He isn't a mesmerizing speaker. He has none of the look-at-me swagger or listen-to-me charisma so common among men with oversize Washington offices. His arguments aren't partisan or ideological; they're methodical, grounded in data and the latest academic literature. When he doesn't know something, he doesn't bluster or bluff. He's professorial, which makes sense, because he spent most of his career as a professor.
He is not, in other words, a typical Beltway power broker. He's shy. He doesn't do the D.C. dinner-party circuit; he prefers to eat at home with his wife, who still makes him do the dishes and take out the trash. Then they do crosswords or read. Because Ben Bernanke is a nerd.
He just happens to be the most powerful nerd on the planet.
Bernanke is the 56-year-old chairman of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the U.S., the most important and least understood force shaping the American — and global — economy. Those green bills featuring dead Presidents are labeled "Federal Reserve Note" for a reason: the Fed controls the money supply. It is an independent government agency that conducts monetary policy, which means it sets short-term interest rates — which means it has immense influence over inflation, unemployment, the strength of the dollar and the strength of your wallet. And ever since global credit markets began imploding, its mild-mannered chairman has dramatically expanded those powers and reinvented the Fed.
Professor Bernanke of Princeton was a leading scholar of the Great Depression. He knew how the passive Fed of the 1930s helped create the calamity — through its stubborn refusal to expand the money supply and its tragic lack of imagination and experimentation. Chairman Bernanke of Washington was determined not to be the Fed chairman who presided over Depression 2.0. So when turbulence in U.S. housing markets metastasized into the worst global financial crisis in more than 75 years, he conjured up trillions of new dollars and blasted them into the economy; engineered massive public rescues of failing private companies; ratcheted down interest rates to zero; lent to mutual funds, hedge funds, foreign banks, investment banks, manufacturers, insurers and other borrowers who had never dreamed of receiving Fed cash; jump-started stalled credit markets in everything from car loans to corporate paper; revolutionized housing finance with a breathtaking shopping spree for mortgage bonds; blew up the Fed's balance sheet to three times its previous size; and generally transformed the staid arena of central banking into a stage for desperate improvisation. He didn't just reshape U.S. monetary policy; he led an effort to save the world economy.
The main reason Ben Shalom Bernanke is TIME's Person of the Year for 2009 is that he is the most important player guiding the world's most important economy. His creative leadership helped ensure that 2009 was a period of weak recovery rather than catastrophic depression, and he still wields unrivaled power over our money, our jobs, our savings and our national future. The decisions he has made, and those he has yet to make, will shape the path of our prosperity, the direction of our politics and our relationship to the world.
Swedish and Norwegian mobile users could be among the first to use a fourth-generation (4G) mobile network.
Mobile phone firm TeliaSonera has completed work on two 4G networks in Oslo and Stockholm.
The company said that the first customers will be able to start using the networks in early 2010.
Despite the launch of the network, no handsets can yet use 4G. Initially customers will connect via a dongle and a laptop.
Fourth-generation, 4G, networks are based around the Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology and downlink data speeds can hit 100 megabits per second - about ten times quicker than the fastest 3G networks.
The technology has been designed to overlay existing 3G networks and most operators have committed to upgrading to the faster system.
TeliaSonera said it was recruiting customers to pilot the network during the first quarter of 2010.
It has released no information about the cost of connecting to the high-speed network. The dongles for connecting to the LTE network are made by Samsung.
Phone equipment maker Ericsson has put together the network in Stockholm, Sweden and Chinese firm Huawei is behind the one in Oslo, Norway. Both networks cover the central regions of both cities.
TeliaSonera said it expected the boost in speed to drive many novel applications including gaming on the move and much greater viewing of video on laptops.
Handsets that can use LTE are expected in mid-late 2010
Notes: At launch the network is only available on laptops
After the attack on Sunday evening the prime minister, looking dazed, was helped to his feet by aides and put in a car.
He got out and tried to climb on the car to show he was all right, before being driven away.
And upon arrival at the hospital the prime minister, who had blood all over his face, said he was fine.
There are said to have been scuffles between hecklers and security staff during the rally and before the attack.
At the hospital, Mr Berlusconi's spokesman, Paolo Bonaiuti said he was worried about the "atmosphere of hatred and violence in the air".
The attack was condemned by Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, while conservative Gianfranco Fini said: "This is truly a bad day for Italy, and it's the duty of all the political forces to ensure that Italy does not go back to the years of violence."
Umberto Bossi, leader of the far-right Northern League, said what had happened was an "act of terrorism" and called the attack "a worrying sign".
Mr Berlusconi has been under pressure in recent months.
His private life has been in the spotlight, amid allegations that he slept with prostitutes, and after his wife filed for divorce.
He has dismissed accusations of ties to the Mafia, and criminal cases against him have resumed after a law giving him immunity was overturned.
A week ago tens of thousands of people attended an anti-Berlusconi rally in Rome.
Masih inget postingan tentang Google Street di Jepang?
Nah, sekarang ada beberapa pics kecelakaan yg tertangkap oleh Google Street, yg pic terakhir serem bgt sampe meninggal :(
Ga perlu banyak omong, langsung aja diliat gambar2 Missile milik Iran yang sangat ditakuti oleh Amerika dan Israel. Yang paling kecil aja daya ledaknya udah 9 Km !!!
Makin menjadi-jadi !!!
Sejil yang paling besar pada gambar diatas masih kalah sama Safir 1
Belum selesai
Iran masih rajin bikin missile lagi
Daya ledaknya Shahab 3 aja 2175 miles (= 3 500.323 2 Kilometer !!!)
Apalagi Shahab 5 yg besarnya 2x liapt Shahab 3, diperkirakan mencapai 5000 Km !!!!!!!!
Eh, ternyata ada yg lebih besar lagi, Shahab 6 dengan range ledakan sampai 10.000 KM !!!
Bisa hancur bumi kta bila yg satu ini diluncurkan :D :D
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Presiden Obama Menerima Piagam Hadiah Nobel Perdamaian
Jumat, 11 Desember 2009 | 03:49 WIB Oslo, Kamis - ”Saya menyadari kontroversi akibat kemurahan hati Anda menganugerahi saya hadiah ini. Pertama, saya baru di awal karier. Faktor lain adalah akibat peran saya sebagai komandan utama di negara yang dihadapkan pada dua perang (Irak dan Afganistan).” Demikian Presiden AS Barack Obama saat berpidato di Oslo, Norwegia, Kamis (10/12), pada acara penyerahan piagam Hadiah Nobel Perdamaian 2009. Ketika diputuskan sebagai penerima Nobel, pengkritik menilai Obama belum layak karena belum membuktikan karyanya dalam perdamaian. Obama menjawab, ”Saya berterima kasih dan menerima anugerah ini dengan kerendahan hati. Saya bukan siapa-siapa dibandingkan dengan Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, George C Marshall, Albert Schweitzer.” ”Saya juga tidak sebanding dengan jutaan warga dunia, yang dalam diamnya telah berkorban untuk mendapatkan keadilan. Saya tidak lebih terhormat dibandingkan dengan mereka yang telah berbuat sesuatu,” kata Obama lagi. Komite Nobel memutuskan berdasarkan pesan Alfred Nobel bahwa mereka yang memiliki inisiatif perdamaian sekalipun layak menerima Nobel di awal karier. Obama dianggap memiliki nurani untuk perdamaian dunia, demikian alasan komite Nobel. Namun, kontroversi makin bertambah setelah dia memutuskan pengiriman 30.000 tentara tambahan ke Afganistan. Warga Afganistan dan Pakistan berang dengan penghargaan itu. ”Hadiah Nobel diperuntukkan bagi mereka yang punya prestasi, tetapi Obama adalah pembunuh,” kata Jabir Aftab, seorang teknisi yang tinggal di Peshawar, Pakistan, Kamis. Di Kongres AS, Dennis Kucinich, juga dari Partai Demokrat sama seperti Obama, Rabu (9/12), mengajukan proposal agar Obama segera menarik tentara dari perang yang tidak perlu. ”Kita tidak boleh membebani pembayar pajak untuk perang yang tidak perlu ini,” kata Kucinich di Washington, Rabu (9/12). Obama mewarisi perang dari pendahulunya, George Walker Bush, sebuah perang yang dilakukan setelah serangan 11 September 2001. AS di bawah Bush tidak pernah mengatasi akar dari serangan, tetapi langsung menyerang Irak dan Afganistan. ”Terasa akan ada yang luput jika saya tidak membahas ini,” kata Obama, yang mengaku di hatinya bergelut soal definisi perang walaupun terkadang perang itu diperlukan. ”Tetapi ini adalah perang yang tidak diinginkan AS.... Kita juga sadar bahwa nasib tidak bisa diterima begitu saja. Terkadang sebuah tindakan harus dilakukan walau perang itu tetap tidak bisa dibenarkan begitu saja. Karena dalam perang, beberapa orang akan membunuh dan beberapa orang lagi akan terbunuh.” ”...Jangan dilupakan, gerakan nonkekerasan tak akan menghentikan tentara Nazi. Perundingan tak akan membuat para pemimpin Al Qaeda bersedia meletakkan senjata,” kata Obama.
