Timnas Maroko menjadi perbincangan di Piala Dunia 2022. Negara asal Afrika itu membuat kejutan usai menumbangkan sejumlah negara unggulan.
Torehan istimewanya, Hakim Ziyech dan kawan-kawan hanya sekali kebobolan sejak fase grup hingga fase gugur. Babak semifinal yang akan berlangsung Kamis dinihari nanti, 15/12/2022 , Maroko bersiap menghadapi juara bertahan Prancis.
Gemilang Maroko di Piala Dunia 2022, membuat salah satu daerah di Kabupaten Bandung Barat (KBB) viral. Nama daerah tersebut adalah Kampung Maroko, Desa Mekarjaya, Kecamatan Cihampelas.
Kampung Maroko yang berada di tepian aliran Sungai Citarum sama sekali tidak ada hubungannya dengan negara Maroko yang kini tengah menjadi perbincangan usai mencatatkan sejarah di Piala Dunia 2022 Qatar.
"Jadi nggak ada kaitan dengan orang luar (Maroko) masuk ke sini akhirnya dinamakan Kampung Maroko. Termasuk sampai sekarang juga belum pernah ada orang Maroko atau orang arab yang tinggal di sini," ungkap Deni Sugandi (46) tokoh masyarakat setempat saat ditemui belum lama ini.
Suasana Kampung Maroko juga tak beda dengan kampung lain di sekitarnya. Hanya deretan rumah di pinggir Jalan Cihampelas. Justru yang jadi perhatian, akses menuju kampung tersebut rusak parah.
Deni menceritakan, asal-usul penamaan Maroko di wilayahnya dikarenakan pada zaman dulu asa kebiasaan emak-emak yang menghisap rokok sehingga disingkat menjadi Maroko.
Kampung Maroko semula hanya melingkupi 3 RW. Namun lantaran semakin terkenal akhirnya kampung-kampung lain yang berdekatan akhirnya kerap juga disebut Kampung Maroko.
"Jadi kalau dulu ngobrol sama orangtua, Maroko itu sebetulnya dari 'Emak-emak Ngarokok'. Kemudian disebutlah kampung itu dengan Kampung Maroko," terang Deni.
Deni meyakini tak ada alasan di balik penyematan Maroko untuk menamai kampung tempatnya lahir tersebut. Sebab sejak sebelum ia lahir, orangtuanya mengatakan tak ada nama lain yang berkaitan dengan sejarah kampung tersebut.
"Karena sebelum saya lahir juga sudah Kampung Maroko namanya. Jadi tidak ada dulu kampung ini namanya ini, atau bukan Maroko, nggak ada," tutur Deni.
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a televised address, in which he announced a partial mobilization, noting that only reservists will be subject to conscription, first and foremost, those who have relevant experience and military professions.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin:
Friends, the subject of this address is the situation in Donbass and the course of the special military operation to liberate it from the neo-Nazi regime, which seized power in Ukraine in 2014 as the result of an armed state coup.
Today I am addressing you – all citizens of our country, people of different generations, ages and ethnicities, the people of our great Motherland, all who are united by the great historical Russia, soldiers, officers and volunteers who are fighting on the frontline and doing their combat duty, our brothers and sisters in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions and other areas that have been liberated from the neo-Nazi regime.
The issue concerns the necessary, imperative measures to protect the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Russia and support the desire and will of our compatriots to choose their future independently, and the aggressive policy of some Western elites, who are doing their utmost to preserve their domination and with this aim in view are trying to block and suppress any sovereign and independent development centres in order to continue to aggressively force their will and pseudo-values on other countries and nations.
The goal of that part of the West is to weaken, divide and ultimately destroy our country. They are saying openly now that in 1991 they managed to split up the Soviet Union and now is the time to do the same to Russia, which must be divided into numerous regions that would be at deadly feud with each other.
They devised these plans long ago. They encouraged groups of international terrorists in the Caucasus and moved NATO’s offensive infrastructure close to our borders. They used indiscriminate Russophobia as a weapon, including by nurturing the hatred of Russia for decades, primarily in Ukraine, which was designed to become an anti-Russia bridgehead. They turned the Ukrainian people into cannon fodder and pushed them into a war with Russia, which they unleashed back in 2014. They used the army against civilians and organised a genocide, blockade and terror against those who refused to recognise the government that was created in Ukraine as the result of a state coup.
After the Kiev regime publicly refused to settle the issue of Donbass peacefully and went as far as to announce its ambition to possess nuclear weapons, it became clear that a new offensive in Donbass – there were two of them before – was inevitable, and that it would be inevitably followed by an attack on Russia’s Crimea, that is, on Russia.
In this connection, the decision to start a pre-emptive military operation was necessary and the only option. The main goal of this operation, which is to liberate the whole of Donbass, remains unaltered.
The Lugansk People’s Republic has been liberated from the neo-Nazis almost completely. Fighting in the Donetsk People’s Republic continues. Over the previous eight years, the Kiev occupation regime created a deeply echeloned line of permanent defences. A head-on attack against them would have led to heavy losses, which is why our units, as well as the forces of the Donbass republics, are acting competently and systematically, using military equipment and saving lives, moving step by step to liberate Donbass, purge cities and towns of the neo-Nazis, and help the people whom the Kiev regime turned into hostages and human shields.
As you know, professional military personnel serving under contract are taking part in the special military operation. Fighting side by side with them are volunteer units – people of different ethnicities, professions and ages who are real patriots. They answered the call of their hearts to rise up in defence of Russia and Donbass.
In this connection, I have already issued instructions for the Government and the Defence Ministry to determine the legal status of volunteers and personnel of the military units of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics. It must be the same as the status of military professionals of the Russian army, including material, medical and social benefits. Special attention must be given to organising the supply of military and other equipment for volunteer units and Donbass people’s militia.
While acting to attain the main goals of defending Donbass in accordance with the plans and decisions of the Defence Ministry and the General Staff, our troops have liberated considerable areas in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions and a number of other areas. This has created a protracted line of contact that is over 1,000 kilometres long
This is what I would like to make public for the first time today. After the start of the special military operation, in particular after the Istanbul talks, Kiev representatives voiced quite a positive response to our proposals. These proposals concerned above all ensuring Russia’s security and interests. But a peaceful settlement obviously did not suit the West, which is why, after certain compromises were coordinated, Kiev was actually ordered to wreck all these agreements.
More weapons were pumped into Ukraine. The Kiev regime brought into play new groups of foreign mercenaries and nationalists, military units trained according to NATO standards and receiving orders from Western advisers.
At the same time, the regime of reprisals throughout Ukraine against their own citizens, established immediately after the armed coup in 2014, was harshly intensified. The policy of intimidation, terror and violence is taking on increasingly mass-scale, horrific and barbaric forms.
I want to stress the following. We know that the majority of people living in the territories liberated from the neo-Nazis, and these are primarily the historical lands of Novorossiya, do not want to live under the yoke of the neo-Nazi regime.
People in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, in Lugansk and Donetsk saw and are seeing now the atrocities perpetrated by the neo-Nazis in the (Ukrainian-) occupied areas of the Kharkov region. The descendants of Banderites and members of Nazi punitive expeditions are killing, torturing and imprisoning people; they are settling scores, beating up, and committing outrages on peaceful civilians.
There were over 7.5 million people living in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions before the outbreak of hostilities. Many of them were forced to become refugees and leave their homes. Those who have stayed – they number about five million – are now exposed to artillery and missile attacks launched by the neo-Nazi militants, who fire at hospitals and schools and stage terrorist attacks against peaceful civilians.
We cannot, we have no moral right to let our kin and kith be torn to pieces by butchers; we cannot but respond to their sincere striving to decide their destiny on their own.
The parliaments of the Donbass people’s republics and the military-civilian administrations of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions have adopted decisions to hold referendums on the future of their territories and have appealed to Russia to support this.
I would like to emphasise that we will do everything necessary to create safe conditions for these referendums so that people can express their will. And we will support the choice of future made by the majority of people in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
Friends, today our armed forces, as I have mentioned, are fighting on the line of contact that is over 1,000 kilometres long, fighting not only against neo-Nazi units but actually the entire military machine of the collective West.
In this situation, I consider it necessary to take the following decision, which is fully adequate to the threats we are facing. More precisely, I find it necessary to support the proposal of the Defence Ministry and the General Staff on partial mobilization in the Russian Federation to defend our Motherland and its sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to ensure the safety of our people and people in the liberated territories.
As I have said, we are talking about partial mobilization. In other words, only military reservists, primarily those who served in the armed forces and have specific military occupational specialties and corresponding experience, will be called up.
Before being sent to their units, those called up for active duty will undergo mandatory additional military training based on the experience of the special military operation.
I have already signed Executive Order on partial mobilization.
In accordance with legislation, the houses of the Federal Assembly – the Federation Council and the State Duma – will be officially notified about this in writing today.
The mobilization will begin today, September 21. I am instructing the heads of the regions to provide the necessary assistance to the work of military recruitment offices.
I would like to point out that the citizens of Russia called up in accordance with the mobilization order will have the status, payments and all social benefits of military personnel serving under contract.
Additionally, the Executive Order on partial mobilization also stipulates additional measures for the fulfilment of the state defence order. The heads of defence industry enterprises will be directly responsible for attaining the goals of increasing the production of weapons and military equipment and using additional production facilities for this purpose. At the same time, the Government must address without any delay all aspects of material, resource and financial support for our defence enterprises.
Friends, the West has gone too far in its aggressive anti-Russia policy, making endless threats to our country and people. Some irresponsible Western politicians are doing more than just speak about their plans to organise the delivery of long-range offensive weapons to Ukraine, which could be used to deliver strikes at Crimea and other Russian regions.
Such terrorist attacks, including with the use of Western weapons, are being delivered at border areas in the Belgorod and Kursk regions. NATO is conducting reconnaissance through Russia’s southern regions in real time and with the use of modern systems, aircraft, vessels, satellites and strategic drones.
Washington, London and Brussels are openly encouraging Kiev to move the hostilities to our territory. They openly say that Russia must be defeated on the battlefield by any means, and subsequently deprived of political, economic, cultural and any other sovereignty and ransacked.
They have even resorted to the nuclear blackmail. I am referring not only to the Western-encouraged shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, which poses a threat of a nuclear disaster, but also to the statements made by some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO countries on the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction – nuclear weapons – against Russia.
I would like to remind those who make such statements regarding Russia that our country has different types of weapons as well, and some of them are more modern than the weapons NATO countries have. In the event of a threat to the territorial integrity of our country and to defend Russia and our people, we will certainly make use of all weapon systems available to us. This is not a bluff.
The citizens of Russia can rest assured that the territorial integrity of our Motherland, our independence and freedom will be defended – I repeat – by all the systems available to us. Those who are using nuclear blackmail against us should know that the wind rose can turn around.
It is our historical tradition and the destiny of our nation to stop those who are keen on global domination and threaten to split up and enslave our Motherland. Rest assured that we will do it this time as well.
The regime has drawn widespread international condemnation after executing two men in the past week in connection with the unrest. (Reuters)
Courts in Tehran have sentenced 400 people to jail terms of up to 10 years over their involvement in protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, Iran’s judiciary said on Tuesday.
Iran has been gripped by nearly three months of protests — which officials describe as “riots” — since the death of Amini after her arrest for an alleged breach of the country’s dress code for women.
“In hearings on cases of rioters in Tehran province, 160 people were sentenced to between five and 10 years in prison, 80 people to two to five years and 160 people of up to two years,” Tehran’s judiciary chief Ali Alghasi-Mehr said.
The regime has drawn widespread international condemnation after executing two men in the past week in connection with the unrest.
Majidreza Rahnavard and Mohsen Shekari, both 23, were hanged on Monday and Thursday respectively on the charges of “moharebeh” — or “enmity against God” under Iran’s law.
Prior to the two executions, Iran’s judiciary said it had issued death sentences to 11 people over the protests, but campaigners say around a dozen others face charges that could see them also receive the death penalty.
The world union of professional footballers FIFPRO said it was “shocked and sickened” by the risk of Iranian footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani being sentenced to death in connection with protests.
Nasr-Azadani was arrested in the city of Isfahan two days after allegedly taking part in an “armed riot” in which three security agents were killed on Sept. 16, Isfahan’s judiciary chief Abdullah Jafari said.
“FIFPRO is shocked and sickened by reports that professional footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani faces execution in Iran after campaigning for women’s rights and basic freedom in his country,” the union tweeted on its page.
“We stand in solidarity with Amir and call for the immediate removal of his punishment,” it added.
France’s foreign minister said she would summon Iran’s charge d’affaires over the country’s role in crackdowns on protesters at home and the treatment of seven French nationals, currently in custody.
The UK announced new sanctions against Iranians and senior Russian military commanders, involved in the producing and supplying drones to target Ukraine.
Iranian-manufactured drones supplied to Russia have played a “central role” in such attacks, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office said.
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the Tehran regime, which has been hit by a wave of civilian protests in recent months, was “striking sordid deals” with Moscow “in a desperate attempt to survive.”
Rencana Pemerintah Kota Depok merelokasi SDN Pondok Cina 1 menjadi polemik. Banyak penolakan dari beberapa pihak terkait pemindahan SDN Pondok Cina 1 untuk pembangunan masjid.
Menanggapi hal ini, Kementerian Pemberdayaan Perempuan dan Perlindungan Anak (KemenPPPA) berkomitmen untuk memastikan upaya pemenuhan hak anak salah satunya hak untuk mendapatkan pendidikan dasar.
KemenPPPA bersama Kemendikbud Ristek dan KPAI, Ombudsman, dan beberapa organisasi peduli Pendidikan anak menyambangi kantor Walikota Depok, pada hari Senin, 12/12/2022. Kunjungan ini dilakukan untuk membahas polemik rencana relokasi SDN Pondok Cina 1 untuk pembangunan rumah ibadah.
KemenPPPA melalui Plt. Deputi Bidang Pemenuhan Hak Anak, Rini Handayani menekankan kepada Walikota Depok bahwa setiap pengambilan keputusan yang berkenaan dengan hidup anak wajib memerhatikan 4 (empat) prinsip hak anak dan kepentingan terbaik anak.
Kementerian Pemberdayaan Perempuan dan Perlindungan Anak (KemenPPPA) juga meminta Pemerintah Kota (Pemkot) Depok untuk membangun sarana pengganti terlebih dahulu sebelum menggusur SDN Pondok Cina (Pocin) 1 di Beji, Depok, menjadi masjid.
Jangan sampai siswa dipindahkan di dua gedung yang berbeda sehingga berdampak pada sulitnya proses adaptasi siswa dan munculnya kasus kekerasan/bullying.
Permintaan itu dikatakan langsung saat KemenPPPA bersama Kemendikbud Ristek, KPAI, Ombudsman, dan beberapa organisasi peduli pendidikan anak menyambangi kantor Walikota Depok. Kunjungan dikhususkan untuk membahas penggusuran SDN Pocin 1 yang menuai polemikm
“Pemindahan SDN Pondok Cina 1 dengan alasan keselamatan anak dan kepentingan terbaik bagi anak, harus diimbangi dengan ketersediaan dan kesiapan sarana prasana sekolah sesuai dengan aspirasi dan masukan dari anak dan orang tua/wali termasuk kesesuaian jam belajar. Hal ini perlu dikomunikasi dan didiskusikan bersama seluruh warga sekolah agar anak-anak tetap memperoleh hak atas pendidikannya. Kesiapan sarana dan prasarana menjadi penting karena hal ini menjadi prasyarat terselenggaranya proses Pendidikan dengan baik,” ujar Rini dalam keterangannya, hari Senin, 12/12/2022.
Rini juga menambahkan bahwa keputusan relokasi perlu dikomunikasikan dengan 3 pilar, yaitu anak, orang tua, dan satuan pendidikan, dan harus memenuhi hak anak dan dilakukan dengan proses yang layak anak.
“Utamakan dulu kelengkapan sarana dan prasarana pengganti bagi anak-anak SDN Pondok Cina 1 agar dapat bersekolah dengan layak. Komunikasikan tahapan relokasi yang tentunya tidak menghambat proses belajar dan mengajar di sekolah. Jangan sampai polemik ini justru memunculkan rasa trauma pada anak. Pastikan anak-anak merasa aman dan nyaman, termasuk memberikan akses ke sekolah dan kembali ke rumah juga dipastikan aman,” tutur Rini.
KemenPPPA menilai Pemerintah Kota Depok perlu mempersiapkan terlebih dahulu sarana prasana pengganti untuk kebutuhan siswa jangan sampai siswa dipindahkan di dua Gedung yang berbeda yang berdampak pada sulitnya proses adaptasi siswa dan munculnya kasus kekerasan/bullying.
“Kami menyambut baik atas upaya yang dilakukan Dinas P3AP2KB Kota Depok yang telah melakukan monitoring, termasuk akan menyediakan tenaga psikolog dari PUSPAGA untuk orang tua dan anak yang memerlukan layanan konseling dan pendampingan,” jelas Rini.
Rini berharap polemik pemindahan siswa SDN Pondok Cina 1 Kota Depok tidak semakin berlarut-larut. Komunikasi antara Pemerintah Daerah, Satuan Pendidikan, orang tua, dan murid harus terus dilakukan, sehingga informasi yang diterima oleh berbagai pihak seimbang.
“Pemerintah Daerah perlu membuka kanal-kanal pengaduan seluas-luasnya sehingga masyarakat dapat ikut memantau dan melaporkan setiap kasus pelanggaran hak anak yang terjadi. Kami akan terus mengawal langkah-langkah yang diambil pemerintah Kota Depok. Tugas kita semua sebagai pemerintah adalah melindungi anak bersama masyarakat. Maka penting melihat permasalahan ini dari perspektif anak, sehingga kebijakan yang ditetapkan betul-betul mengupayakan kepentingan terbaik bagi anak” tutup Rini.
Menanggapi hal ini, Walikota Depok menjelaskan bahwa pihaknya menerima dengan baik masukan dari KemenPPPA. Walikota Depok menjelaskan seluruh tahapan akan berupaya dilakukan. Kedepannya Pemerintah Kota Depok akan menindaklanjuti polemik yang ada dengan memperhatikan kepentingan terbaik anak
Foreign weapons being supplied to Ukraine, including Javelin anti-tank systems, are sold on the black market, in particular to Africa, Denis Pushilin, acting head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), said in an interview with Sputnik.
“I haven’t seen anything new lately, but the arms that continue to come to Ukraine can now be easily bought. And now Ukraine is becoming one of the central suppliers of weapons on the black market, on the darknet you can buy the weapons that are supplied to Ukraine as part of assistance and support by Western countries," Pushilin said.
The acting head of the DPR specified that this included Javelins, which, he said, can now be easily found on the darknet.
"This kind of weaponry is being moved in large quantities to African countries, too," Pushilin said.
He further noted that the damage that Ukraine has caused to the DPR already exceeds 1.3 trillion rubles ($20.5 billion).
"If we talk only about destroyed housing, the figures since 2014 are very approximate - 1.3 trillion rubles, even more. But here we also need to take into account destroyed enterprises, here we also need to take into account the destroyed infrastructure, critical infrastructure facilities," Pushilin said.
"We are counting and recording everything, and after the victory we will figure it out," he said.
Pushilin's comments come as the Pentagon earlier indicated that there was no credible information that US weapons delivered to Ukraine had been diverted elsewhere through "illicit means."
To date, billions in weapons have been dispatched to Ukraine, with the International Conference on Civilian Resilience pledging some $1.1 billion in aid earlier Tuesday.
The rhetoric of Paris, comprised of peaceful statements by President Emmanuel Macron and belligerent statements by the Foreign Ministry, looks like a split performed on two chairs, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on her Telegram channel Tuesday.
The diplomat pointed to the statement made by Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, who said that Paris will soon ship a new batch of air defense systems to Kiev.
"Is Paris roleplaying a good President that advocates peace and a bad Foreign Ministry that exacerbates hostilities? On the other hand, is looks more like a split on two chairs," Zakharova said.
Previously, Macron said in an interview for TF1 after his visit to the US that the future security architecture must include guarantees for Russia. According to Macron, this issue will be a part of peace discussions, so it is necessary to think how France and the EU can defend its allies and at the same time provide Russia with guarantees of security when the sides return to the negotiation table.
At the same time, Macron underscored that he sees no military options to resolve the Ukrainian conflict and said that the only way out of the situation is through negotiations.
The Progress of The Special Military Operation in Ukraine
Russia’s MoD report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:
The Russian Army eliminated up to 70 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, and five cars in the Kupyansk and Krasny Liman directions;
Russian troops eliminated up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, two infantry fighting vehicles, and three pickup trucks in the Donetsk direction;
Ukrainian forces suffered losses in manpower and equipment in 156 districts;
Russian troops destroyed a Ukrainian ammunition depot in the Zaporozhye region;
The Russian Army destroyed a Smerch MLRS in the Kharkov region and a Grad MLRS in the DPR;
Russia air defense systems shot down two Ukrainian MiG-29 jets and two Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters;
Russian troops destroyed six UAVs;
Russian forces intercepted two Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles and two HIMARS shells.
In the first hour, Lee and Carmine Sabia spoke with Jason Goodman about the Twitter files part five, Dr. Fauci's daughter, and Viktor Bout's attitude since his release. Jason discussed the recent Twitter files dump and how the media colluded to censor President Trump. Jason commented on the mainstream narrative about Elon Musk and the IRS's failures to investigate non-profits.
As Dr. Anthony Fauci prepares to step down as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the end of the year, the leading immunologist faced derision on social media over the weekend from tech billionaire and Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
"My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci," Musk tweeted on Sunday. The jibe, shared largely without context, drew support from prominent conservatives such as right-wing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — whose account was reinstated with Musk's decision to end the platform's COVID-19 misinformation policy last month, and who has been criticized in the past for her own comments mocking the use of gender pronouns — as well as backlash.
While Musk's tweet acquired roughly half a million likes in its first few hours online, health experts like Peter Hotez, a vaccine scientist and virology professor, defended Fauci's work at the forefront of U.S. pandemic mitigation efforts and urged Musk to remove the post.
"For the record: Dr. Fauci has done nothing wrong, except serve our nation. In the meantime, Mr. Musk should know that 200,000 Americans needlessly lost their lives from Covid due to this kind of antiscience rhetoric and disinformation. Elon, I'm asking you to take down this Tweet," Hotez wrote. Musk has not responded publicly.
For the record: Dr. Fauci has done nothing wrong, except serve our nation. In the meantime, Mr. Musk should know that 200,000 Americans needlessly lost their lives from Covid due to this kind of antiscience rhetoric and disinformation. Elon, I’m asking you to take down this Tweet https://t.co/t3ffWQsXnb
Fauci must be tried and locked up for the rest of his natural life. And the many, many others who were and are part of the medical tyranny must also be tried. Accountability is the only way to begin to restore trust.
About an hour before posting the tweet about Fauci, Musk shared a meme with a caption that read in part, "Just one more lockdown," which could be interpreted as an allusion to Fauci's advocacy for safety mandates that public health specialists, including those at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, agreed were helpful in slowing the spread of COVID-19 before vaccines became widely available.
Lawmakers react to Musk's call to prosecute Fauci
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle responded on Sunday to Twitter owner Elon Musk's call to prosecute National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci.
Driving the news: "My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci," Musk tweeted early Sunday morning, prompting a barrage of replies from officials.
Musk hinted at a fifth "Twitter files" release of internal documents that purport to reveal how Twitter operated under prior management and which Musk has framed as an effort to show that his predecessors at the company engaged in censorship.
What they're saying: "Re Musk tweet? Courting vaccine-deniers doesn’t seem like a smart business strategy, but the issue is this: could you just leave a good man alone in your seemingly endless quest for attention?" Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) tweeted Sunday.
"Elon Musk wants to criminalize Anthony Fauci because he disagrees with him. Elon is no champion of free speech," Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) tweeted.
"It’s America. You can select any pronouns you damn well please. But Anthony Fauci has likely saved more human lives than any living person in the world. Shame on you," Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) tweeted.
"Dr. Fauci is a national hero who will be remembered for generations to come for his innate goodness & many contributions to public health. Despite your business success, you will be remembered most for fueling public hate & divisions. You may have money, but you have no class," former CIA director John Brennan tweeted.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemned the tweets as "incredibly dangerous" when asked at a briefing on Monday.
Republicans made clear prior to the 2022 midterm elections they intended to investigate Fauci's role in the COVID pandemic if they won control of the House or Senate. Fauci has previously said he would testify before Congress if called to do so.
"If I become a punching bag, I’m a punching bag. But I am very happy to testify before any congressional oversight committee, I have nothing to hide, I can explain and validate everything that I’ve done," Fauci said during an interview in a new episode of "Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace" that dropped Friday.
Raut wajah kecewa pria yang sudah mengabdi selama 8 tahun sebagai pegawai UPK Badan Air itu mengaku, tidak ada sosialisasi sebelumnya dari pihak Pemprov DKI Jakarta. Bahkan aturan tersebut disebutnya muncul secara dadakan.
Perasaan kecewa tampak dari raut wajah anggota UPK Badan Air Palmerah Jakarta Barat, Azwar Laware (56). Kekecewaan itu ia rasakan setelah dirinya membaca Keputusan Gubernur DKI Jakarta Nomor 1095 Tahun 2022 tentang pedoman pengendalian penggunaan Penyedia Jasa Lainnya Perorangan (PJLP).
Azwar menilai, aturan tersebut sangat merugikan sejumlah pegawai berstatus pengadaan PJLP yang ada di Jakarta. Sebab, dalam pedoman tersebut, tercantum batas usia PJLP yakni minimal 18 tahun dan maksimal 56 tahun.
"Dengan hal ini kami merasa keberatan, satu karena kesannya keputusan (Pj Gubernur DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono) ini mendadak untuk diterapkan," kata dia kepada wartawan, pada hari Selasa, 12/12/2022.
Azwar bilang, batas usia maksimum 56 tahun itu merupakan hal yang baru pertama kali didengar para pegawai. Sehingga, pegawai yang baru memasuki usia 56 tahun sepertinya, terancam tidak bisa melanjutkan perpanjangan kontrak tahun depan.
"Di UPK Badan Air Palmerah saja ada 12 termasuk saya, Tamansari 25. Belum kecamatan lain, bahkan dinas lainnya. Di Jakarta bisa mencapai seribuan barangkali," kata Azwar.
"Artinya kami ini bulan depan terancam menganggur, situasi lagi serba sulit, cari kerja di mana dalam waktu singkat? Mau buka usaha, modal dari mana, kami ini tidak ada pesangon," ungkap Azwar.
Karena itu, ia berharap kepada Pemprov DKI untuk menunda penerapan batas maksimal tersebut hingga tahun depan. Hal itu agar dirinya dan para PJLP lain dapat mengumpulkan modal untuk membuka usaha.
"Mohon kepada PJ Gubernur, Pak Heru Budi, saya yakin dan percaya beliau adalah orang baik. Beliau hadir di Pemprov tidak mungkin untuk membinasakan masyarakatnya, saya yakin hadir untuk membina masyarakat. Di masa sulit, kalau bisa, ditunda lah aturan itu, setidaknya setahun," harap Azwar.
Sebelumnya, Pj Gubernur Heru Budi Hartono telah menandatangani Keputusan Gubernur DKI Jakarta Nomor 1095 Tahun 2022 pada 1 November 2022. Aturan tersebut mengatur batas usia PJLP yakni minimal 18 tahun dan maksimal 56 tahun.
