“The best way of enlarging and multiplying one's desires is to try and limit them
Athens has seen a number of recent attacks blamed on leftist militants.
Bomb attacks earlier this month targeted the home of a Pakistani community leader and the office of a far-right anti-immigration group.
Earlier attacks targeted banks and government buildings and were attributed to far-left or anarchist groups.
Athens has seen a number of recent attacks blamed on leftist militants.
Bomb attacks earlier this month targeted the home of a Pakistani community leader and the office of a far-right anti-immigration group.
Earlier attacks targeted banks and government buildings and were attributed to far-left or anarchist groups.
ギリシャ：大規模ストライキ及びデモに対する注意喚起（2010/03/10）
１．ギリシャでは、例年2月～3月は国内の様々な労働団体によるストライキ
や集会・デモが頻発する時期ですが、特に今年は、ギリシャ政府が巨額の
財政赤字問題に対処するために大規模な財政緊縮化措置を発表したことに
対し、国内各労働組合は「市民生活を圧迫する」と強く反発しており、例
年以上に大規模なストライキ、デモがアテネ、テッサロニキ等の都市部で
頻繁に実施されています。
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英国：北アイルランドにおける爆弾テロ事件等に関する注意喚起（2010/02/26）
１．北アイルランドでは、ベルファストを中心に各地でIRA(アイルランド共
和国軍)分派によるとみられる爆弾テロ事件やテロ未遂事件が発生してい
ます。警察、裁判所、軍等の職員や施設がテロの標的とされている模様で
すが、一般市民がテロに巻き込まれる危険性は十分考えられますので、常
に十分な注意と警戒が必要です
House Minority Leader Gary Odom, a Nashville Democrat, then released a list of alleged racist activities by Tennessee Republicans. It included the former chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party sending out Christmas music entitled “Barack the Magic Negro,” and a Republican Senate staff person sending a racist e-mail about Obama from her state computer.
The e-mail showed a portrait or photo of each U.S. president except Obama, who was depicted in a cartoon fashion as only a set of wide eyes in a black background.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.―A Sacramento federal jury has convicted a man of a hate crime for punching a black man at a Chico bar because of his race.
Eric Loren Clawson of San Francisco was found guilty Wednesday of a hate-based violation of Carl Whitfield's civil rights. The federal jury deliberated about 2 1/2 hours.
The 28-year-old Clawson, a one-time amateur mixed martial arts champion, knocked Whitfield down after using racial epithets.
By: Selena Robinson, Freelance Journalist for WorldNewsVine
Washington, D.C. – The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced on Friday that two religious hate crime incidents in Tennessee and Alabama were moving to resolution. In Mobile, Alabama, Christian Rodney Ice pled guilty to covering a Jewish synagogue with anti-Semitic messages in support of Hitler. The 19-year-old, who was charged with violating the Church Arson Act, is facing up to a year in prison and a maximum fine of $100,000. He will be sentenced on September 23.
Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the FBI, said in a statement, “This case should send a clear message to others who would carry out similar criminal acts that they will be brought to justice and held accountable for their actions.” Kenyen R. Brown, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama added that the government would “continue to use all the tools at its disposal to stamp out hate crimes and instances of bigotry”.
In an unrelated case in Tennessee, Eric Ian Baker was sentenced to 183 months in prison for setting fire to the Islamic Center in the city of Columbia. According to an FBI press released, Baker admitted to the crime and added that he committed the act because of “the religious character of the property”. During the fire, he also painted swastikas and the phrase “White Power” on the building.
Underscoring the severity of religious intolerance, Assistant A.G. Perez said that “the right to worship without fear of this kind of violent interference is among our most fundamental civil rights. We will aggressively prosecute anyone who seeks to intimidate or injure any congregation because of what they believe, how they worship, or who they are.”
If current trends are any proof, these incidents will continue to occur. In 2009, the FBI reported that the number of hate crimes against religious groups had increased 9% from 2008.
この問題は、首相のあまりに拙劣な手法や外交感覚の乏しさもあってこじれきってしまった。しかし、安保の負担を沖縄だけでなく国民全体で分かち合おうという提起は間違っていない。
必要なのは、本格化する米政府との交渉や地元との協議の中でそうした方向に知恵を絞り、実をあげることだ。
より多くを本土が分担する。大規模な恒久施設の建設は、極力避ける。県内の負担が当面一部残る場合でも、将来の縮減の展望を示す
朝日新聞の最近の世論調査では県内移設に反対が３９％で賛成の２８％を上回ったが、回答保留が３３％もあった。抑止力と沖縄の負担の間で国民世論も迷っているように見える。
【名護】米軍普天間飛行場移設問題に関し、政府が５月末に米軍キャンプ・シュワブ陸上部への移設を最終決定した場合、名護市の辺野古、久志、豊原の久辺３区が、同基地内に保有する区有地について、軍用地契約が切れる２０１２年５月以降、契約を結ばない方針であることが２７日分かった。
政府は沖縄県の米軍普天間飛行場移設問題で、同県が負担軽減の要求事項に挙げている鳥島と久米島の両射爆撃場返還、沖縄本島東側の訓練水域の一部解除を米側に提起する方針を固めた
（2010年3月29日14時36分 読売新聞）
核の脅威はより身近になったとも考えられる。核拡散防止条約（ＮＰＴ）が認定する５カ国（米英仏露中）の他にも核兵器を持つ国が現れ、特に北朝鮮の核兵器は大きな脅威を近隣に及ぼしている
The problem is that history reveals they do have value, whatever we might belatedly say―not necessarily in their actual use but merely in their possession. They elevate one's standing in a region (see Pakistan); they deter others from attacking (see China in the mid-1960s or North Korea now); they can be brandished as a way of keeping others from responding to lower level forms of aggression. (If Saddam Hussein had built some nukes before invading Kuwait in 1990, it's doubtful that George H.W. Bush and James Baker could have amassed a large coalition to push him back.)
WSJ日本版：外国企業はどう対応していますか。事業をやめて撤退すると思いますか。
ジェーソン・ディーン：全体としては、答えはノーです。
これをみると1990年代に、労働時間が横ばい、ないし拡大している米国に対し、日本は時短が進み、日米が逆転した点が目立っている。
•The stability of US-China relations;
•The Japanese leadership’s ability and/or willingness to adhere to alliance agreements and clearly articulate to the Japanese people the rationale for US bases in Japan;
The credibility of the US commitment to peace and stability in the region and its security guarantee to Japan;
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Economic health and the ability to maintain needed/necessary defense spending; and
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Domestic politics in both nations.
In a hypothetical situation characterized by open conflict between the US and China (e.g., over Taiwan), if China were to threaten an attack on Japan in an attempt to forestall or – if hostilities between US and Chinese forces had already commenced – stop the US from using its bases in Japan to launch attacks against Chinese forces, Japanese leaders would be faced with a very difficult choice. It is conceivable that a Japanese decision to forbid the US military from using its bases in Japan in the middle of a conflict, even if the choice was made to protect the lives of innocent Japanese civilians, could lead Washington to abrogate the alliance.
If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself.
- Bob Dylan, “Trust Yourself”
