Pemain Muda Neymar: Brasil Tak Gentar Lawan Siapa Saja
Bekasi, Saco-Indonesia.com - Bintang Muda dan baru Barcelona, Neymar, mengklaim Brasil tak gentar menghadapi negara mana pun di Piala Dunia 2014.
Bekasi, Saco-Indonesia.com - Bintang Muda dan baru Barcelona, Neymar, mengklaim Brasil tak gentar menghadapi negara mana pun di Piala Dunia 2014. Sebagai tuan rumah, mereka siap melewati hadangan demi target meraih gelar juara.
Neymar, yang menghadiri malam penghargaan Ballon d'Or pada Senin (13/1/2014), menanti debutnya di Piala Dunia. Mantan pemain Santos ini mengakui dirinya sudah sangat ingin tampil di turnamen empat tahunan nan paling bergengsi tersebut.
Berbicara kepada para wartawan, pemain berusia 21 tahun ini mengatakan: "Bermain di Piala Dunia merupakan sebuah keistimewaan yang besar bagi seorang pemain. Ini merupakan momen yang takkan pernah saya lupakan. Ini kompetisi yang ketat."
"Tentu saja ada sebuah ekspektasi, tetapi kami menghadapinya dan menantikannya. Tak rasa takut."
Brasil merupakan negara yang memegang rekor peraih lima gelar Piala Dunia. Terakhir, tim Samba ini menjuarainya pada tahun 2002 ketika diselenggarakan di Korea dan Jepang. Neymar optimistis mengenai peluang Brasil untuk membali meraih sukses, setelah mereka menjuarai Piala Konfederasi pada musim panas lalu.
"Skuad penuh dengan sejumlah pemain terbaik. Kami semua akan mencoba dan menikmati apa yang kami harapkan menjadi sebuah momen yang sangat mengesankan," ujarnya.
"Kami tak peduli siapa yang menjadi lawan, kami akan menghadapi siapa pun. Di sana ada banyak tim bagus, selama kami di final saya tidak keberatan."
Editor : Maulana Lee
Sumber : Kompas.com
BANTU DISTRIBUSI LOGISTIK PEMILU, TNI AD PAKAI KAPAL WATER JET
saco-indonesia.com, TNI AD akan siap untuk mengerahkan personel dan alutsista miliknya untuk dapat membantu kelancaran distribus
saco-indonesia.com, TNI AD akan siap untuk mengerahkan personel dan alutsista miliknya untuk dapat membantu kelancaran distribusi logistik Pemilu 2014. Kapal water jet terbaru milik TNI AD juga akan dikerahkan. Kepala Staf Angkatan Darat (Kasad), Jenderal TNI Budiman juga menyatakan, water jet itu nantinya akan mempunyai kapasitas 50 orang. Untuk kecepatannya bisa bisa mencapai 30 sampai 40 knot di atas permukaan air.
"Kita siapkan juga kapal angkutan air kita, kebetulan kapal itu produk dalam negeri sendiri yaitu water jet," kata Budiman di Balai Kartini, Jakarta, Rabu (12/2)
Budiman juga menambahkan, water jet tersebut juga merupakan pembelian alutsista yang telah dihasilkan dari perusahaan pembuat kapal ternama di Indonesia. Harga satuannya pun juga bisa dikatakan lebih murah jika dibandingkan dengan membeli dari luar negeri.
"Harga satu kapal seharga Rp 12 miliar, yang sudah dibuat sampai saat ini sudah 10 unit. Mudah-mudahan yang pertama jadi ini awal Maret, nanti kita demonstrasikan di Tanjung Priok," jelasnya.
Selain itu, pihaknya juga akan menyiapkan beberapa kendaraan TNI AD juga untuk dapat membantu pendistribusian dan pengamanan pemilu 9 April nanti.
"Segera kita drop motor-motor ke Babinsa. Kemudian Dandim segera kita turunkan, dan sebagian bus kecil untuk Kodim. Kemudian kita siapkan untuk helikopter kita, pesawat Cassa kita," pungkasnya.
Sebelumnya, terkait Pemilu damai, tertib dan aman, TNI juga sudah menerjunkan semua satuannya. Mulai angkatan darat, angkatan laut dan angkatan udara. Namun, penebalan yang telah dilakukan oleh TNI kepada Polri bersifat tidak langsung.
Berikut format kekuatan penebalan yang dilakukan TNI di semua lini :
TNI AD :
1 SSY (satuan setingkat batalyon) untuk tiap Polda tipe A
2 SSK (satuan setingkat kompi) untuk tiap Polda tipe B
1 SST (satuan setingkat peleton) untuk tiap Polres
3 SSY Kostrad dan Satgultor sebagai cadangan pusat yang setiap saat dapat digerakkan sesuai kepentingan.
TNI AL :
5 SSK pada masing-masing Koarmada
5 SSK Marinir serta Denjaka sebagai cadangan pusat.
TNI AU :
2 SSK pada masing-masing Koopsau - 2 SSK Paskhas serta Denbravo sebagai cadangan pusat.
Editor : Dian Sukmawati
Advertisement Politics Obama Finds a Bolder Voice on Race Issues
As he reflected on the festering wounds deepened by race and grievance that have been on painful display in America’s cities lately, President Obama on Monday found himself thinking about a young man he had just met named Malachi.
A few minutes before, in a closed-door round-table discussion at Lehman College in the Bronx, Mr. Obama had asked a group of black and Hispanic students from disadvantaged backgrounds what could be done to help them reach their goals. Several talked about counseling and guidance programs.
“Malachi, he just talked about — we should talk about love,” Mr. Obama told a crowd afterward, drifting away from his prepared remarks. “Because Malachi and I shared the fact that our dad wasn’t around and that sometimes we wondered why he wasn’t around and what had happened. But really, that’s what this comes down to is: Do we love these kids?”
Many presidents have governed during times of racial tension, but Mr. Obama is the first to see in the mirror a face that looks like those on the other side of history’s ledger. While his first term was consumed with the economy, war and health care, his second keeps coming back to the societal divide that was not bridged by his election. A president who eschewed focusing on race now seems to have found his voice again as he thinks about how to use his remaining time in office and beyond.
In the aftermath of racially charged unrest in places like Baltimore, Ferguson, Mo., and New York, Mr. Obama came to the Bronx on Monday for the announcement of a new nonprofit organization that is being spun off from his White House initiative called My Brother’s Keeper. Staked by more than $80 million in commitments from corporations and other donors, the new group, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, will in effect provide the nucleus for Mr. Obama’s post-presidency, which will begin in January 2017.
“This will remain a mission for me and for Michelle not just for the rest of my presidency but for the rest of my life,” Mr. Obama said. “And the reason is simple,” he added. Referring to some of the youths he had just met, he said: “We see ourselves in these young men. I grew up without a dad. I grew up lost sometimes and adrift, not having a sense of a clear path. The only difference between me and a lot of other young men in this neighborhood and all across the country is that I grew up in an environment that was a little more forgiving.”
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Organizers said the new alliance already had financial pledges from companies like American Express, Deloitte, Discovery Communications and News Corporation. The money will be used to help companies address obstacles facing young black and Hispanic men, provide grants to programs for disadvantaged youths, and help communities aid their populations.
Joe Echevarria, a former chief executive of Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, will lead the alliance, and among those on its leadership team or advisory group are executives at PepsiCo, News Corporation, Sprint, BET and Prudential Group Insurance; former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell; Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey; former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; the music star John Legend; the retired athletes Alonzo Mourning, Jerome Bettis and Shaquille O’Neal; and the mayors of Indianapolis, Sacramento and Philadelphia.
The alliance, while nominally independent of the White House, may face some of the same questions confronting former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she begins another presidential campaign. Some of those donating to the alliance may have interests in government action, and skeptics may wonder whether they are trying to curry favor with the president by contributing.
“The Obama administration will have no role in deciding how donations are screened and what criteria they’ll set at the alliance for donor policies, because it’s an entirely separate entity,” Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Air Force One en route to New York. But he added, “I’m confident that the members of the board are well aware of the president’s commitment to transparency.”
The alliance was in the works before the disturbances last week after the death of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered fatal injuries while in police custody in Baltimore, but it reflected the evolution of Mr. Obama’s presidency. For him, in a way, it is coming back to issues that animated him as a young community organizer and politician. It was his own struggle with race and identity, captured in his youthful memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” that stood him apart from other presidential aspirants.
But that was a side of him that he kept largely to himself through the first years of his presidency while he focused on other priorities like turning the economy around, expanding government-subsidized health care and avoiding electoral land mines en route to re-election.
After securing a second term, Mr. Obama appeared more emboldened. Just a month after his 2013 inauguration, he talked passionately about opportunity and race with a group of teenage boys in Chicago, a moment aides point to as perhaps the first time he had spoken about these issues in such a personal, powerful way as president. A few months later, he publicly lamented the death of Trayvon Martin, a black Florida teenager, saying that “could have been me 35 years ago.”
That case, along with public ruptures of anger over police shootings in Ferguson and elsewhere, have pushed the issue of race and law enforcement onto the public agenda. Aides said they imagined that with his presidency in its final stages, Mr. Obama might be thinking more about what comes next and causes he can advance as a private citizen.
That is not to say that his public discussion of these issues has been universally welcomed. Some conservatives said he had made matters worse by seeming in their view to blame police officers in some of the disputed cases.
“President Obama, when he was elected, could have been a unifying leader,” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican candidate for president, said at a forum last week. “He has made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions.”
On the other side of the ideological spectrum, some liberal African-American activists have complained that Mr. Obama has not done enough to help downtrodden communities. While he is speaking out more, these critics argue, he has hardly used the power of the presidency to make the sort of radical change they say is necessary.
The line Mr. Obama has tried to straddle has been a serrated one. He condemns police brutality as he defends most officers as honorable. He condemns “criminals and thugs” who looted in Baltimore while expressing empathy with those trapped in a cycle of poverty and hopelessness.
In the Bronx on Monday, Mr. Obama bemoaned the death of Brian Moore, a plainclothes New York police officer who had died earlier in the day after being shot in the head Saturday on a Queens street. Most police officers are “good and honest and fair and care deeply about their communities,” even as they put their lives on the line, Mr. Obama said.
“Which is why in addressing the issues in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York, the point I made was that if we’re just looking at policing, we’re looking at it too narrowly,” he added. “If we ask the police to simply contain and control problems that we ourselves have been unwilling to invest and solve, that’s not fair to the communities, it’s not fair to the police.”
Moreover, if society writes off some people, he said, “that’s not the kind of country I want to live in; that’s not what America is about.”
His message to young men like Malachi Hernandez, who attends Boston Latin Academy in Massachusetts, is not to give up.
“I want you to know you matter,” he said. “You matter to us.”
Police Rethink Long Tradition on Using Force
WASHINGTON — During a training course on defending against knife attacks, a young Salt Lake City police officer asked a question: “How close can somebody get to me before I’m justified in using deadly force?”
Dennis Tueller, the instructor in that class more than three decades ago, decided to find out. In the fall of 1982, he performed a rudimentary series of tests and concluded that an armed attacker who bolted toward an officer could clear 21 feet in the time it took most officers to draw, aim and fire their weapon.
The next spring, Mr. Tueller published his findings in SWAT magazine and transformed police training in the United States. The “21-foot rule” became dogma. It has been taught in police academies around the country, accepted by courts and cited by officers to justify countless shootings, including recent episodes involving a homeless woodcarver in Seattle and a schizophrenic woman in San Francisco.
Now, amid the largest national debate over policing since the 1991 beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, a small but vocal set of law enforcement officials are calling for a rethinking of the 21-foot rule and other axioms that have emphasized how to use force, not how to avoid it. Several big-city police departments are already re-examining when officers should chase people or draw their guns and when they should back away, wait or try to defuse the situation