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Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

“Lumpur Lapindo File: Konspirasi SBY-Bakrie” (Resensi Buku)

Enam tahun sudah semburan panas lumpur Lapindo di Sidoarjo. Secara teknis, belum ada kemajuan yang berarti untuk menutup semburan lumpur ini, bahkan semakin luas wilayah yang terkenai dampak. Secara sosial-pun juga begitu. Ganti rugi yang terus dijanjikan oleh PT Lapindo Brantas Inc (LBI) melalui PT Minarak Lapindo Jaya (MLJ) juga tak kunjung jelas. Padahal korban Lapindo telah menderita cukup lama, bukan hanya karena tercerabut dari kebutuhan sosialnya tetapi juga aspek ekonominya.

Semangat keprihatinan ini yang melandasi penulis Ali Azhar Akbar, menuliskan buku “Lumpur Lapindo File: Konspirasi SBY-Bakrie”. Mengingat karakteristik mayarakat kita yang meminjam istilah Ali Azhar bahwa masyarakat kita itu mudah lupa dan pemaaf, maka kehadiran buku ini tak hanya mengingatkan kembali masyarakat akan peristiwa Semburan Lumpur Lapindo dam dampaknya. Tetapi juga menyingkap adanya konspirasi atas penanganan lapindo termasuk adanya perampokan APBN yang dilakukan atas kerja sama korporat dengan birokrasi yang ia sebut dengan istilah kleptokorporatokrasi.

Sir Salman Rushdie: Controversial Writer.................!!

Sir Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 19 June 1947. He is coming from a middle-class Moslem family. His paternal grandfather was an Urdu poet, and his father a Cambridge-educated businessman. 

At the age of fourteen Rushdie was sent to Rugby School in England. In 1964 Rushdie's parents moved to Karachi, Pakistan, joining reluctantly the Muslim exodus - during these years there was a war between India and Pakistan, and the choosing of sides and divided loyalties burdened Rushdie heavily.

Rushdie continued his studies at King's College, Cambridge, where he read history. After graduating in 1968 he worked for a time in television in Pakistan. He was an actor in a theatre group at the Oval House in Kennington and from 1971 to 1981 he worked intermittently as a freelance advertising copywriter for Ogilvy and Mather and Charles Barker.

The Jesus Family Tomb: Controversial Book

What if Jesus didn’t exist at all? Today many experts are saying exactly that. The theory is that he was a conflation of pagan god-man and death/Resurrection myths with first-century Jewish messiah traditions and that he had no more historical substance than Zeus.

The story began from construction work in March 1980 at Talpiot, a suburb of Jerusalem some 5 km south-east of the historic city established in 1922, contractors uncovered the entrance to a previously unknown tomb carved into the local limestone bedrock. 

Its entrance was marked by a carved façade with a steeply carved false pediment and a circle beneath; there are other tombs of similar design in the area, which appear to date from the first centuries BCE and CE.

The Jesus Family Tomb team brings together archaeologists, scholars, journalists, and filmmakers with a wide range of experience and expertise. What they all share is a passion for asking questions.
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