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Andri Luntungan Minta Menghadapi Kekerasan Terorisme Perlu Kepala Dingin

Andri Luntungan Pengamat International mengatakan-menghadapi Kekerasan Terorisme Perlu Kepala dingin,namun harus juga segala kepala negara dimanapun berada bisa berbuat sesuai dengan aturan international,artinya segala tindakannya harus tidak keluar dari ketentuan hukum Internataional.sejauh ini saya belum melihat apakah tindakan segala kepala negara dunia sudah sesuai dengan hukum International ataukah "bagaimana?". Pengamatan sementara apa yang telah dilakukan setidaknya sudah sesuai, namun demikian seandainya segala tindakan buat memberantas para terorisme dengan cara lebih lunak setidaknya akan lebih menarik,apa dengan cara memanggil didalam meja bundar atau dengan cara bisa mengambil pemimpin kepala terorisme itu.?. terlepas semua itu saya berkeyakinan bahwa UN PBB didalam pertemuannya bersama seluruh angota-angotanya disana akan bisa diketemukan cara penanganan mengenai para pelaku terorisme itu. Demikian menurut andri pengamat International saat dihubungi Omline malam ini.Apa yang dikatakan Andri sepertinya mendapat Respon Besar dari UN PBB, pada tanggal 23 Februari 2015 - Di Washington DC untuk pertemuan puncak yang diselenggarakan oleh Amerika Serikat dalam melawan ekstremisme kekerasan, PBB Sekretaris Jenderal PBB Ban Ki-moon hari ini memperingatkan para pemimpin terhadap "membuang kompas moral kita" dan menyerah pada rasa takut, karena ia menyerukan "kepala dingin dan akal sehat "untuk menangani apa yang mungkin sangat baik menjadi" ujian terbesar keluarga manusia menghadapi pada abad ke-21. " "Biarlah ada keraguan," Ban menyatakan kepada ruangan yang penuh dengan delegasi tingkat tinggi termasuk Menteri Luar Negeri AS John Kerry, "Munculnya generasi baru kelompok teroris transnasional termasuk Da'esh [atau Negara Islam Irak dan Levant] dan Boko Haram merupakan ancaman serius terhadap perdamaian dan keamanan internasional. " Di antara mereka yang bergabung dengan Ban pada panel Gedung Putih Summit on 'Melawan Ekstremisme kekerasan' adalah Wakil Penasihat Keamanan Nasional, Tony Blinken, Wakil Direktur Pusat Kontra Terorisme Nasional, Nicholas Rasmussen, Menteri Dalam Negeri Perancis, Bernard Cazeneuve, Yordania Menteri Luar Negeri, Nasser Judeh, Profesor di London King College, Peter Neumann, dan Komisaris Perdamaian dan Keamanan Uni Afrika di, Smail Chergui. Dalam sambutannya, Sekretaris Jenderal mengatakan tidak ada penyebab atau keluhan dapat membenarkan "kengerian tak terkatakan" bahwa kelompok-kelompok teroris yang melakukan terhadap orang yang tidak bersalah, yang sebagian besar adalah Muslim. Perempuan dan anak perempuan, lanjutnya, sangat tunduk pada pelanggaran sistemik - pemerkosaan, penculikan, kawin paksa dan perbudakan seksual. "Ekstrimis ini mengejar strategi yang disengaja shock dan kagum - pemancungan, pembakaran, dan film tembakau dirancang untuk polarisasi dan meneror, dan memprovokasi dan memecah belah kita," Sekjen PBB menambahkan, memuji negara-negara anggota PBB untuk kemauan politik mereka untuk mengalahkan kelompok-kelompok teroris dan pada saat yang sama, mendesak mereka untuk tetap "sadar perangkap." "Bertahun-tahun pengalaman kami telah membuktikan bahwa kebijakan cupet, kepemimpinan dan sama sekali mengabaikan martabat manusia dan hak asasi manusia memiliki penyebab frustrasi yang luar biasa dan kemarahan pada bagian dari orang-orang yang kita layani gagal," kata Sekjen PBB. Dia menguraikan apa yang ia sebut empat imperatif untuk menangani ekstremisme kekerasan. Pertama, dunia harus mencari motivasi di balik ideologi dan konflik tersebut. Sementara ini telah terbukti berulang kali menjadi "latihan sangat sulit," sangat penting untuk menyadari bahwa ideologi beracun tidak muncul dari udara tipis - penindasan, korupsi dan ketidakadilan bahan bakar ekstremisme dan kekerasan. "Para pemimpin ekstremis menumbuhkan keterasingan yang membusuk. Mereka sendiri yang berpura-pura, penjahat, gangster, preman di pinggiran terjauh dari agama yang mereka klaim untuk mewakili. Namun mereka memangsa orang-orang muda yang tidak puas tanpa pekerjaan atau bahkan rasa memiliki di mana mereka dilahirkan. Dan mereka memanfaatkan media sosial untuk meningkatkan peringkat mereka dan membuat takut pergi virus, "kata Ban. Kedua pada daftar penting untuk memerangi ekstremisme mempromosikan hak asasi manusia. Sekretaris Jenderal memperingatkan terhadap "definisi sweeping" terorisme yang terlalu sering mengkriminalisasi tindakan yang sah kelompok oposisi, organisasi masyarakat sipil dan pembela hak asasi manusia. "Pemerintah seharusnya tidak menggunakan perang melawan terorisme dan ekstremisme sebagai dalih untuk menyerang kritikus seseorang. Para ekstrimis sengaja berusaha untuk menghasut seperti over-reaksi. Dan kita tidak harus jatuh ke dalam perangkap mereka, "katanya. Ketiga, mencegah ekstremisme kekerasan membutuhkan pendekatan multi-cabang. Sementara operasi militer sangat penting, mereka tidak seluruh solusi. "Peluru bukan peluru perak," kata Ban, menekankan bahwa sementara rudal bisa membunuh teroris, pemerintahan yang baik membunuh terorisme. "Hak asasi manusia, lembaga akuntabel, pengiriman lebih adil, dan partisipasi politik - ini adalah salah senjata kita yang paling kuat," tegas Sekretaris Jenderal. Memerangi ekstrimisme harus mulai di kelas, ia menambahkan. Pendidikan harus memainkan peran yang menentukan dan anak-anak harus diajarkan kasih sayang, keragaman dan empati. Akhirnya, prioritas keempat adalah mengakui bahwa ekstremisme kekerasan merupakan tantangan global. Ini melampaui batas. Tidak ada satu negara pun dapat mengalahkan terorisme. Sebaliknya semua negara harus bersatu - 'bergabung hands'- untuk memenangkan pertempuran melawan ekstremisme kekerasan. Strategi Kontra-Terorisme global PBB, yang diadopsi oleh Majelis Umum PBB pada tahun 2006, menyediakan kerangka kerja komprehensif. Dan September lalu, dalam rapat yang dipimpin oleh Presiden AS Barack Obama, Dewan Keamanan mengadopsi resolusi semakin memperkuat upaya kolektif. Ban juga menyatakan keprihatinan atas hubungan antara pasukan anti-imigrasi dan ekstremis yang makan dari satu sama lain dalam 'spiral kematian intoleransi. "PBB akan menyajikan rencana aksi untuk mencegah ekstremisme kekerasan Majelis Umum pada akhir tahun ini, kata Sekretaris Jenderal. Sebuah acara khusus akan diadakan dalam beberapa bulan mendatang untuk mempertemukan para pemimpin agama untuk mengirim pesan toleransi dan solidaritas. "Saya mengambil hati ketika saya membaca dari petugas Muslim spiriting pelanggan Yahudi terhadap keselamatan di toko kelontong di Paris ... atau ketika orang-orang Kristen membuka katedral untuk Muslim melarikan diri pembantaian di Republik Afrika Tengah ... atau ketika ribuan melawan pertumpahan darah yang mengerikan dengan pawai solidaritas dari Kopenhagen Chapel Hill, "Ban menyimpulkan. Di antara kegiatannya di pinggiran KTT, Sekretaris Jenderal membahas situasi di Libya dengan Menteri Luar Negeri Kerry; Perwakilan Tinggi Uni Eropa untuk Urusan Luar Negeri dan Kebijakan Keamanan, dan Wakil Presiden Komisi Eropa, Federica Mogherini; dan Menteri Luar Negeri Mesir, Sameh Mr. Hassan Shokry Selim. Mereka menyatakan keprihatinan mendalam atas situasi di negara Afrika Utara dan menekankan pentingnya dialog politik sebagai satu-satunya jalan keluar dari krisis saat ini. Mereka mendukung sepenuhnya upaya Perwakilan Khusus Sekretaris Jenderal untuk Libya, Bernardino León, untuk memfasilitasi dialog. Mereka menekankan pentingnya bagi semua pihak untuk berpartisipasi dalam putaran pembicaraan berikutnya. Sekjen PBB itu juga bertemu dengan Dr. Nabil El Araby-, Sekretaris Jenderal Liga Arab; serta dengan Moussa Faki Mahamat, Menteri Luar Negeri Chad; dengan Iyad Ameen Madanim, Sekretaris Jenderal Organisasi Kerjasama Islam; dan dengan Abdul Hassan Mahmood Ali, Menteri Luar Negeri Bangladesh.

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Wage growth well short of what was promised from tax reform | TheHill

Wage growth well short of what was promised from tax reform

The latest Employment Situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows weekly employee earnings have grown $75 since tax reform passed, well short of the $4,000 to $9,000 annual increases projected by President TrumpDonald John TrumpRobert De Niro, Ben Stiller play Mueller and Cohen in 'SNL' parody of 'Meet the Parents' Trump order targets wide swath of public assistance programs Comey says Trump reacted to news of Russian meddling by asking if it changed election results MORE and House Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanTrump order targets wide swath of public assistance programs Sunday shows preview: White House officials talk Syria strike Wage growth well short of what was promised from tax reform MORE (R-Wis.).  

During the three months following passage of the tax bill, the average American saw a $6.21 increase in average weekly earnings. Assuming 12 weeks of work during the three months following passage of the corporate tax cuts, this equates to a $75 increase.

Assuming a full 52 weeks of work, the $6.21 increase in weekly earnings would result in a $323 annual increase, nowhere near the minimum $4,000 promised and $9,000 potential annual increases projected by President Trump and Speaker Ryan if significant cuts were made to corporate tax rates.

Unless something drastically changes, it seems that Americans are going to have to settle for much less than the $4,000 to $9,000 projected wage increases. An extra $322 a year isn’t going to do much to pay down the $1 trillion in additional debt they are projected to take on as a result of the tax cuts.

Yet, a key part of the argument for the recently passed corporate tax cuts and more than a trillion dollars in debt was the substantial wage hike promised by the president’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).

From a document titled, “Corporate Tax Reform and Wages: Theory and Evidence,” on the White House’s website:

“Reducing the statutory federal corporate tax rate from 35 to 20 percent would, the analysis below suggests, increase average household income in the United States by, very conservatively, $4,000 annually.”

The document goes on to say:

“When we use the more optimistic estimates from the literature, wage boosts are over $9,000 for the average U.S. household.”

No less than Speaker Ryan’s website trumpeted the Council of Economic Advisers report claiming that on average, the proposed corporate tax cuts would result in at least a $4,000 annual increase in wages.

Now, some supporters of the tax bill may say this analysis is unfair because it is too early for the effects of the tax bill to show up in wages. By that logic, they also shouldn’t take credit for reported employment growth increases.  

Still others may point to the $1,000 bonuses announced by some companies shortly after passage of the tax bill. First, that is significantly less than the promised $4,000 to $9,000. Second, these are not wage increases; these are one-time bonuses.

Will companies pay them again, and if so when? Third, the $1,000 represents a fraction of the estimated potential company tax savings.

Using 2016 net income, 2016 effective tax rates, the new 21-percent corporate tax rate and company bonuses, we estimated company bonuses as a percentage of a number of company’s potential tax savings. The results: In many cases, the bonuses represent a mere pittance of the possible tax savings.

Navient announced that it would be giving $1,000 bonuses to 98 percent of its 6,7000 employees, paying out nearly $7 million in bonuses. While that may seem generous, it pales in comparison to Navient’s potential tax savings.

Using Navient’s 2016 net income, its 2016 effective tax rate, estimated annual tax savings of nearly $200 million and its announced bonuses, we calculated that the announced bonuses represent less than 4 percent of Navient’s potential tax savings.

Turning to the airline industry, JetBlue’s employees might be feeling blue if they realized that their $1,000 bonuses are estimated to be less than 10 percent of JetBlue’s potential tax savings, while American Airlines’ bonuses are estimated to represent less than 15 percent of its estimated potential annual tax savings

Not to be outdone, Comcast’s bonuses represent less than 8 percent of its estimated potential annual tax savings, while Walmart appears downright generous, giving an estimated $0.16 of every dollar of its estimated potential annual tax savings to employees in the form of bonuses.

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What happened to the minimum $4,000 promised? I guess like many promises by politicians, they were empty. Instead, they seem to have gone to share buybacks. For the period December 2017 through February 2018, share buybacks more than doubled to $200 million.

Is a $323 wage increase and a one-time bonus of $1,000 that represents a fraction of estimated potential company tax savings worth the more than $1 trillion in additional debt placed on Americans? Is this the best Congress could do? No.

Instead, Congress could have simply made each company’s tax cut contingent on each company increasing wages. The problem is that some companies receiving tax cuts didn’t raise wages.

If Congress had made each company’s tax cut contingent on each company’s wage increases, the American people would have gotten more bang for their tax cut bucks. Additionally, this would have created a real incentive for companies to raise wages: Increase wages, get a tax cut; don’t and you won’t.

If the justification for saddling the American people with at least $1 trillion in additional debt was greater wage growth, tax cuts should have been tied to each company’s wage growth; that’s just logical. That’s getting a better deal for the American people, and that’s getting a better return on investment.

Chris Macke is the founder of Solutionomics, a think tank focused on developing solutions for a more efficient, merit-based corporate tax code. He has advised the U.S. Federal Reserve by providing market updates and implications of monetary policy changes on asset valuations and market distortions, and he's a contributor to the Fed Beige Book. Find him on Twitter: @solutionomics.

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France issues report detailing evidence of Assad role in chemical attacks

France issues report detailing evidence of Assad role in chemical attacks

France declassified a report on Saturday laying out evidence that officials said proves that a chemical attack in Syria last week was carried out by the government of President Bashar Assad.

The report claims that several chemical strikes were carried out in the Damascus suburb of Douma on April 7, and that symptoms experienced by the victims — skin burns, suffocation and other breathing difficulties, among other markers — were consistent with the effects of chlorine gas.

"Reliable intelligence indicates that Syrian military officials have coordinated what appears to be the use of chemical weapons containing chlorine on Douma, on April 7," the report, released by the French Foreign Ministry, reads.

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The report also states that the Syrian government has carried out a number of chemical weapons strikes since April 4, 2017 — the same day a chemical attack in Syria's northern Idlib province left more than 80 civilians dead.

The U.S. issued an assessment on Friday night pointing to the Syrian government's role in the alleged chemical attacks in Douma.

That report cites "multiple media sources, the reported symptoms experienced by victims, videos and images showing two assessed barrel bombs from the attack, and reliable information indicating coordination between Syrian military officials before the attack."

The assessment also suggests that the Syrian government not only used chlorine in the attack on Douma, but that reported symptoms were also consistent with exposure to sarin, a deadly nerve agent.

The French and U.S. assessments came hours after leaders in Washington, Paris and London authorized "precision strikes" on targets in Syria believed to be associated with the country's chemical weapons arsenal.

Syria and its allies, Russia and Iran, have denied that Assad's government used chemical weapons, and have sought to blame both foreign actors and militant groups for staging the attacks in Douma.

Russia has accused the U.S. and its allies of failing to produce adequate evidence of the Syrian government's role in the chemical attack.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the international chemical weapons watchdog, launched an investigation into the alleged chemical strikes on Douma on Saturday.

The allied strikes on Friday were cast by U.S. officials, not as a punishment for Assad's government, but as a means to eradicate Syria's chemical stockpile and production capabilities.

Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the director of the Joint Staff, said Saturday that while the allied attacks dealt a blow to Syria's chemical weapons program, Damascus likely retained "residual" elements of its chemical arsenal.

President TrumpDonald John TrumpInfowars' Alex Jones blasts Trump over airstrikes: 'He's crapping all over us' McCain to Trump: Airstrikes alone won't achieve objectives in Syria Top general: US did not notify Russia on Syria targets MORE and other U.S. officials have said that they are prepared to take further action in Syria, unless Assad's government ceases its alleged use of chemical weapons.

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Mueller can prove Cohen made secret trip to Prague before the election: report

Special counsel Robert MuellerRobert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE’s team has proof that President TrumpDonald John TrumpRobert De Niro, Ben Stiller play Mueller and Cohen in 'SNL' parody of 'Meet the Parents' Trump order targets wide swath of public assistance programs Comey says Trump reacted to news of Russian meddling by asking if it changed election results MORE’s personal lawyer made a secret trip to Prague during the 2016 campaign despite his denial that he'd ever been there, McClatchy reported Friday.

It is not clear why Michael Cohen was in Prague. The claim he visited was originally made in a dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.

Cohen denied that he'd ever been to Prague "in my life" after the dossier's publication, tweeting a photo of his passport.

McClatchy reported that Cohen entered the country through Germany in August or early September 2016, which does not require a passport stamp.

The dossier claimed that, in Prague, Cohen met with a prominent ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Konstantin Kosachev, but it is not clear whether Mueller has evidence of such a meeting.

Koschahev was one of 24 Russian oligarchs slapped with U.S. sanctions earlier this month.

If such a meeting happened, it would be further evidence of ties between Trump associates and Putin. The dossier also claims that Cohen, among others, was deeply involved in a “cover up and damage limitation operation in the attempt to prevent the full details of Trump’s relationship with Russia being exposed.”

Neither Cohen nor Mueller commented on the story to McClatchy.

The report comes on the same day that U.S attorneys confirmed that they are investigating Cohen for criminal activity.

The FBI raided Cohen's office and home on Monday, in part on a referral from Mueller's office. 

 
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