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野田内閣支持６２％、小沢氏処分解除に反対７７％　共同通信世論調査
2011.9.3
まずまずの出だしではないか。
他のを抜き書きすると

政党支持率
民主党　２７．２％
自民党　２３．６％

東日本大震災復興費用を賄うための増税
「賛成」「どちらかといえば賛成」　５８．７％
「反対」「どちらかといえば反対」　３８．３％

消費税率を段階的に１０％に引き上げ
「賛成」「どちらかといえば賛成」　４９．７％
「反対」「どちらかといえば反対」　４７．０％

政策的にも逆風とはいえない。国民をいかに説得していくかが問題だ。くれぐれも政策を中心にして、小沢派などの動向で左右されるのは避けて欲しい。


野田首相：靖国「公式参拝しない」　「閣僚も　毎日新聞　2011年9月3日」

　野田佳彦首相は２日の記者会見で、首相在任中の靖国神社への参拝について「これまでの内閣の路線を継承して、首相、閣僚は公式参拝はしないようにしていきたい」と述べ、野田内閣として公式参拝はしないと表明した。

こうした問題にも、政治エネルギーを浪費したくないし、

野田首相にも在日外国人献金

　外国人による献金は政治資金規正法で禁じられている。公訴時効は３年で、すでに過ぎている

こうした問題にも議会や大手メディアの議論を浪費したくない。

これなどは自民党や他の民主党の議員でもありえる。

セコイ問題で優先順位の高い論議を先送りしたくない。

立法府であれば、例えば、献金するときに、国籍を申請させるとか、そうした立法で解決してほしい。

ロシアトゥデイ

WikiLeaks reveals murder of Iraqi children by US troops
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Published: 01 September, 2011

While this week marks the one-year anniversary since the US formally ended military operations in Iraq, a diplomatic cable exposed by WikiLeaks unearths a gruesome incident in which Americans handcuffed and executed children during a 2006 raid.

LA　Times

On the Media: A grim reminder from WikiLeaks
A cable among the latest release of government communiques corroborates an account that detailed U.S. troops' killing of a family in Ishaqi, Iraq. It also shows the importance of determined reporting.
By James Rainey
September 2, 2011,

Even the reporter who wrote the story didn't want to believe it. Could U.S. troops in central Iraq really have handcuffed and executed an extended family, including four women and five small children?

Matthew Schofield of McClatchy Newspapers wrote the story about those allegations more than five years ago, based on reports from Iraqi authorities and a medical examiner in the town of Ishaqi, an incident American forces allegedly tried to cover up with a subsequent airstrike.

デリメ

U.S. troops 'executed Iraqi civilians with shot to the head then tried to cover it up with an air strike' claims U.N. investigator
By EMILY ALLEN

ウィキリークイラクでおきた米軍による一般市民の虐殺事件とその隠蔽工作

BBC


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S Korea activists gather in protest at Jeju naval base

対中国警戒の要　済州島海軍基地計画　反対激化

マーモットでは、

Jeju Island – The Island of Peace?

by robert neff on September 2, 2011

I have said this before but it seems as if Jeju is slowly distancing itself from the mainland.

済州島の地方政府が中央政府に距離をおきはじめている、ことに注目している。

BBC

2 September 2011 Last updated at 01:17
Convictions for sex offences on children up 60% in six years
By Rebecca Cafe
BBC News

The number of people convicted of sex offences on children aged under 16 in England and Wales has increased by nearly 60% in six years.

イギリス、ウエールズ　児童に対する性虐待の有罪数の上昇


動画
ちょっと古いが
カンボジアの児童買春

日本人男性の児童買春

関連法


児童買春、児童ポルノに係る行為等の処罰及び児童の保護等に関する法律

（児童買春）
第四条 　児童買春をした者は、五年以下の懲役又は三百万円以下の罰金に処する。

（国民の国外犯）
第十条 　第四条から第六条まで、第七条第一項から第五項まで並びに第八条第一項及び第三項（同条第一項に係る部分に限る。）の罪は、刑法 （明治四十年法律第四十五号）第三条 の例に従う。

ガーディアン

The Right Word: battling far-left political correctness
The topics varied this week – God, Dick Cheney and courage – but the theme is the same: save America from the pinko PC mob

Sadhbh Walshe
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 1 September 2011


Bill O'Reilly　Rush Limbaugh　Glenn Beck　などアメリカ右翼論客が現在の左派的潮流を嘆く。
一つだけ取り上げると、

Perry, who stirred up controversy recently by leading a prayer convention for evangelical Christians in Texas, believes that evolution "is just a theory that's out there". Bachmann shares Perry's feelings about evolution and thinks that intelligent design should be taught in schools, that homosexuality is "personal enslavement", that the recent hurricane that tore up the East Coast was a wake-up call from God and that the bible obliges her to be submissive to her husband. O'Reilly was more incensed by Keller's remarks that "every faith holds beliefs that will seem bizarre to outsiders", that many Americans believe in aliens and that he himself grew up "believing that a priest could turn a bread wafer into the actual flesh of Christ".

Now, you can imagine if Mr Keller had denigrated the Jewish faith or the Muslim faith in stark terms like that, all hell – pardon the pun – would have broken loose. But in America today, you can kick Christianity around all day long.

He discussed the matter with regular guests Mary Katherine Hamm and Juan Williams, suggesting to them that "this wafer business was a little over the top, was it not?" O'Reilly did concede that Keller had a point about politicians needing to be questioned about their theology. Williams, who is a Christian, said that he didn't like the wafer business either, nor did he understand the need to "equate aliens with the body of Christ". He did think it was very worrying that a potential president would be opposed to teaching evolution in schools, but O'Reilly was more concerned about the alien reference.

And this is really the heart of far left and Mr Keller is a far left individual. It's the heart of the far left attack mode. When you throw a basic Christian tenet that a priest a minister has the power through ordination to change bread into the body of Christ, à la the last supper when Christ Jesus gave the dictum to his apostles to do that … when you say you know that's like believing in aliens and that's like doing this, that and the other thing. You know, it doesn't offend me and I'll tell you why. There are a lot smarter people than Bill Keller who do believe that happens and it's a belief system – you just believe it or you don't.

NYTの記事がキリスト教信仰を宇宙人の存在を信じることと同視していることに怒っている。
キリスト教の神というのは宇宙人の存在が証明されるようには証明できないから、違いはある。
身勝手な証拠だけで、宇宙人の存在を頑強に信じるようとする人はしかし、進化論に反して聖書の話を信じようとする人と似ているところがある。

もう一つの論点は、こうしたことが、イスラム教徒の信者（大統領候補）に言ったら、問題になるが、キリスト教信者候補だと許される傾向があるのはいかがなものか、と。

これはあたっているのではないか、とも思う。一方で巷ではイスラム教徒の教えについて愚弄する言説があり、他方、主流の公共のメディアでは、腫れ物を触るようにこの点に関しては口を閉ざす、といったそういった雰囲気はあるのではないか、察する。


Nina Goes to Texas

6才のニーナちゃんテキサスに行く。おじさんと上半身裸で走っている場面があるのだが、コメント欄で面白い議論が起きている。

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Nina is too old to be running around shirtless...
MissLauraAlexandra
@MissLauraAlexandra For heaven's sake, she just turned six.
Lein42
@MissLauraAlexandra no she is not. she's 6 years old for heaven's sake. what the hell, people.
infraball
@MissLauraAlexandra She is no where near the age when breasts start to develop so why does it matter if she's shirtless? She's just a kid give her a break.
Aarendir
@Aarendir she is at the age where she is learning what is and is not acceptable in different situations. i think she is a stunning child, be she has to act the part too.
MissLauraAlexandra
@MissLauraAlexandra ok, WHY is it unacceptable for a 6 year old to be topless, exactly? what i find unacceptable is expecting children to act beyond their age. especially considering childhood is very, very short. when i was six i barely even realised i was a girl, sure i knew there were differences between my brother and me but i thought nothing of it. never mind worrying about my lack of clothing.
infraball
@MissLauraAlexandra wow, "she has to act the part too"? That's harsh. If I'm still six and you say thing like this, I'd be either "what's this old lady is rambling about?" or I'd cry to have a lady scolded me for something I don't know why! She's six for God's sake! Kids that age go around shirtless all the time, and no one even care, except you. pfft
sodasirap
@MissLauraAlexandra I ran around shirtless till i was about 7 so i see nothing wrong with Nina running around shirtless. I like being shirtless when i was little, just one less thing to put on but again i grow up in a tropical country so going around without a shirt on is really not an embarrassing thing to do when i was a kid.
lolagurl007
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この年齢ではもう上半身裸はまずくないか、と。

この年齢なら別にいいではないか、と。乳首がでていないからいいのだ、という人も。

１）女の子でも上半身は隠すべき
２）乳首がでるまではOkay
３）成人女性でも乳首を隠すのは男性中心主義的文化的強制也。

などなどいろんな意見があろう。

池田信夫ブログ
2011年08月28日 15:51

本

原子力は「文明の選択」ではない

　、一部の反原発論者は反対、反対だけで、一部の反フジテレビ韓流ドラマの論者と同じよな稚拙さを感じないことがないわけでもない。どちらも、あやふやなデマで不安をあおったりして、説得力のある理由をしっかり論述しないと、結局大衆は離れていくだろう。

　この間のNHKのエネルギーの討論番組で、弁当屋のおばちゃんが、原発はなくてもいいが、電気料が上がる分補助金がなければ困る、といっていたが生活者としての実感であろう。原子力エネルギーを消耗しながら、涼しい顔をしてエコエコといっていられる連中とはわけがちがう。

原子力は技術的な効率は高いが、政治的なリスクが大きいので、エネルギーの国家統制をやめて電力を自由化すれば原発は減ってゆくだろう。

　反対論者も賛成論者も、現状の既得権益擁護派でなければ、電力の自由化は賛成できるのではないか。そして、国民に電力源選択権を与えれば、自然と民主的な形で、エネルギー政策が決まってくる。

性的未開人 他

9/3-9/9
MODEL MINORITY: Emerging as an Asian American
Posted on 01 September 2011
Tags: Harrison Lo, SYLP 2011

My illusion was shattered by Connie So, who is a professor at the University of Washington. She teaches Asian American studies and talked with us about the stereotypes of the “typical” Asian American, the kind that Hollywood portrays.
We are the kung fu masters, the guys with really cool samurai swords ― but no one mentions the fact that we don’t get the girl and that we don’t speak English.
Connie revealed the facts of how we are portrayed in the media. Asian women are called lotus blossoms, erotic, yet submissive. Do all girls these days just obey men and look incredibly beautiful? To think that the media is spreading false facts about human beings is just frightening.
When listening to Connie So speak, I was shocked to see how old racist stereotypes are still intact today after the Civil Rights Movement. Have we not been in America long enough to be rightfully recognized?

これはアジア系アメリカ人学生による記事。アジア系アメリカ人に対するステレオタイプが強くて、自由がない、と。

男性は、カンフーにサムライ、モテずに、英語がしゃべれない、女性は蓮の花、エロティックで、従順、など。

アジアアメリカ人の親の世代も、出世主義で金儲けできればいい、と考えているからその子供もつらいよ、と。自由がほしい、と。

この前のデンマークのおにいちゃんや、ヘンタイ日本にあこがれて、日本にくる変態っぽい欧米人の中にはこうしたイメージにそってブログなどを書いている人がいる。たいてい日本語ができない。日本語の読み書きができるくらいになってくると、さすがにそうした固定観念がじょじょに払拭されてくる。もっとも、海外特派員でも固定観念にそった論述をする人は多い。

　で、こうした固定観念を補強するような線の描写というのは、日本のメディア界も同じ傾向があるので、気をつけた方がいい。


New UBC course takes on representation of Aboriginals in media
By Katie Hyslop September 1, 2011 02:25 pm 2 comments

When you turn on the evening news or click on a local news site, coverage of Aboriginal people and their communities are not easy to find in the days top stories, and when they are found, factual errors are not uncommon. The University of British Columbia's School of Journalism hopes to change this with the launch of a new course about reporting on Aboriginal people in Canada.

これはカナダの先住民に対する固定観念。そうしたものがあるから、なくそう、という活動。

で、典型的先住民像

Common Portrayals of Aboriginal People

the portrayals of Native characters―either as primitive, violent and deceptive or else as passive and full of childlike obedience

先住民の表象というのは、原始的で、暴力的、ずるがしこい、あるいは、受け身で、子供のように従順、というのですが、これ、日本人に対してももそうでしょう。

参考

Part of what made dealing with Asians rather than Europeans
attractive to Asia-Ž rsters was the sense that backward Asians could still be saved under American tutelage.102 Asians were viewed as “barbarian but obedient,” and Asia was thought of as “a region of vast resources and opportunities, populated by dutiful and cringing peoples who followed white leadership.
アメリカはなぜNATOアジア版を推進しなかったか？

日本人やくざものが特にウケるのは、やはり、この線にそっているし、創造性がないなどという言説もこの線に沿っている。

Nor is the Native ever allowed to tell his or her own story. Most stories are conveyed through the lens of the European experience.

先住民自身からの語りは求められておらず、ヨーロッパ人の枠組みから語られるのみなわけです。

これは難しいところで、　英語圏での議論しているときに、日本の物差しをダイレクトには、使えない。だから、やれ、功利主義がどうだとか、カント主義がどうだとか、いったほうが通じやすい。そういう意味で、彼等の思考の根底にある哲学を知っているというのは有利なわけですけど、それも似合わない服を着せられているような気がしないでもない。
なお、太地町ーーーサバルタンにも似たも参照

The Indian Princess
The Indian Princess is the Native beauty who is sympathetic enough to the white man's quest to be lured away from her tribe to marry into his culture, and further his mission to civilize her people. "The Indian princess is strictly a European concept," writes Native American Joseph Riverwind. "The nations of this country never had a concept of royalty. We do not have kings, queens or princesses."

Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, director of research for Canada's Aboriginal Healing Foundation, agrees. In a 2000 exhibit called Indian Princesses and Cowgirls―Stereotypes from the Frontier, Valaskakis and Marilyn Burgess traced the use of the Indian Princess, from romanticized paintings intended to represent an "exotic, beautiful and dangerous New World" to gratuitous brand labels on fruit cans and cigar boxes. None of these women, says Valaskakis, remotely resemble the "powerful, competent, articulate" women she grew up with on her reserve in Wisconsin.

The Native Warrior
Surely one of the most widely used stereotypes in cinematographic history, the Native Warrior is fierce and formidable and a threat to civilized society. Bare-chested and brandishing a war lance, this warrior is the epitome of the savagery that must be courageously overcome by "progressive elements" pushing West. A more recent incarnation is the romanticized (and eroticized) figure of the strong silent brave flashing, as journalist Paul Gessell notes, "a lot of skin, [and] looking for some White woman to ravish."

These images appear in many forms and in surprising places. In his photo exhibit Scouting/For Indians, 1992-2000, Jeff Thomas, from the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, captured images of the Warrior in forms ranging from historical statuary, and coats of arms carved on the walls of Ottawa banks and office buildings, to contemporary book covers. Thomas says he took these photographs to raise awareness of the often unconscious "demonization and eroticization" of Indians.

The Noble Savage
In an effort to redress past wrongs, there has been an increase in another time-honoured romantic stereotype -- the mythic Noble Savage. Elevated to a sphere of goodness unreachable by those in contaminated white society and usually possessing some spiritual connection to the land, the Noble Savage (who American academic Rennard Strickland calls "the first ecologist") communes in a cloud of mysticism and places no value on material possessions. Not even the popular Thunderheart avoids the romantic brush. "That movie says that every time you get half a dozen Native people in a room, you can get a prophecy or a vision," says Canadian Cayuga actor Gary Farmer.

先住民のお姫様が、自分の部族から逃れて文明社会に惹かれていき、文明社会の男とともに、自分の部族を文明化していく。
ーーーこのイメージは強烈で、日本にくる欧米人の中にも、抑圧された日本人女性を救い出し、文明的欧米社会で生活させてあげる、という妄想を持った人もいるし、また、日本人女性の中にもそうしたナラティブが頭にたたき込まれている人も一部いるわけだ。

　日本人女性の力強さを無視している。

When she is included, it is most often as a "sexual savage" (who cannot be tamed and must therefore be degraded and eventually conquered)

で、先住民の女性は性的に野蛮人と表象される、と。これ、日本に移し替えると日本人女性＝Yellow Cabなわけです。

　あとは武者、高貴な野蛮人のイメージ。日本に重ねると、サムライ、あるいは、”白人”女性を強姦しようとする男性のイメージ、あるいは、禅宗の虚無僧のようなイメージか。

で、要するに、こうしたイメージというのは、”白人”男性的視点から見られた周辺他者のイメージなんですね。

"White people create the dominant images of the world, and don’t quite see that they thus construct the world in their image."

Richard Dyer

”白人”が世界の支配的なイメージを作り出すのだが、作った本人たちはそれが自分たちが作ったとは自覚していない。

わけです。

most protagonists (86 per cent) were white males

non-white males were portrayed in stereotypical ways―seven out of ten Asian characters as fighters, and eight out of ten African-Americans as sports competitors

nearly nine out of ten African-American females were victims of violence (twice the rate of white females)

79 per cent of African-American males were shown as verbally and physically aggressive, compared to 57 per cent of white males

Ethnic and Visible Minorities in Entertainment Media

　ビデオゲームなんかでも主人公は”白人”という相場になっているそうです。
　マッハゴーゴーなんてアニメがハリウッドで映画化されていましたけど、あれなんかも、主人公”白人”になってしまう。

　で、世界的に言えば、”白人”男性中心主義なんですけど、日本に限って言えば、日本人男性を中心にした世間像が蔓延し、その上にーーーあるいはその根底になのかもしれませんけどーーー”白人”男性中心主義のイメージがある。

　こうした固定観念的なイメージとか、ナラティブというのは、否定的に評価されている人達にとっても迷惑なわけなのですが、社会的に評価されている観念を押し付けてられている方にとっても、窮屈なわけです。男はかくしかじかであらねばならない、そうでなければ、なさけない、といった”男”のイメージが窮屈に感じている男性もおおい。


More Britons face questions over links to Utøya killer Anders Breivik
Names emerged from interviews with Breivik and English anti-Muslim blogger Paul Ray, say Norwegian police

Matthew Taylor
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 1 September 2011

Norwegian police say they are to question several British citizens in their search for potential accomplices of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik.

Officers in Oslo said the names of individuals and several far-right groups emerged from questioning of British anti-Muslim blogger Paul Ray as well as further interviews with Breivik.

ノルウエーの事件で、極右のイギリス人たちが共犯関係にあったのではないか、と。

Is Britain burning with racism and economic inequality?
September 1, 2011

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by Colin Benjamin

これはイギリスの暴動についてですね。

There is one more outrage to address here: mainstream media’s failure. This uprising is instructive in its similarities to the underclass uprisings that happened in America during the ‘60s. They all stemmed from the same socio-political problems: economic inequality, institutional racism and police harassment.

根底に経済格差、制度的差別、そして、警官によるハラスメントがあったんじゃないか、と。主流のメディアも悪い、といって、

Why isn’t the BBC telling us how 333 Blacks were killed in police custody since 1998, without a single conviction?

BBCはなぜ、1998年からイギリスでは、333人の”黒人”が勾留に殺害されているのを報道しないのか、といっているのですが、ググると

Deaths in police custody since 1998: 333; officers convicted: none
IPCC study finds failure in care of vulnerable prisoners – and says juries are unwilling to convict police officers

Caroline Davies
The Guardian, Friday 3 December 2010
たしかに、拘留中の死亡例が333件あったわけすが、

Out of the total of 333 deaths, 87 people had been restrained, most commonly being physically held down by officers. In 16 of those cases, restraint was linked directly to the death, and four were classed as "positional asphyxia".

The majority were from natural causes, with nearly three-quarters relating to drug or alcohol abuse.
・・・・・
Those who died in custody were mostly white (75%), male (90%) and aged between 25 and 44.

死亡したケースの大半は薬物などを原因にした自然死であり、７５％は”白人”、ということですから、引用を間違えている。たぶん、自分の説に有利なように事実を曲げてしまったのではないか、と思う。



SEPTEMBER 2, 2011 · 2:17 PM
Houston Man Says He Endured Open, Violent Racism At Workplace

“He (an employee) came to me and put his arm around my neck and began singing a song an old song like, ‘How you kill a n***a? We kill n***s, we slice their necks and split their belly and let the guts hang out.’ It brought tears to my eyes. I’m getting talked to like this as work, why are you talking to me like this?”

But he says the worst was yet to come.

A supervisor confronted him in a warehouse on Aug. 13. Jackson says the supervisor was angry with him for wearing his (supervisor’s) protective gear.

“So I was standing up and he jumped behind me and put a knife to my neck and threatened to kill me and said, ‘N***a, what you gon do about it?’ I said man, let me go, let me go and other employees standing around said, y’all on camera stop it.”

これは職場での上司による”黒人”差別ですね。ホラー映画みたいなかんじですね。


SEPTEMBER 2, 2011 · 2:05 PM
Texas Fire Department Accused Of Racism

There are allegations of ongoing racism within the Selma Fire Department, according to one firefighter who said he quit because it was so bad.

Matt Carr said there were numerous uses of the N-word among fire department brass, along with derogatory names for Hispanics.

これは、消防署のなかでの”黒人”ヒスパニック差別。
ひどいので辞めた、というのですが、そういった事態はない、という人も。


News investigation Scandal of the 'tomato slaves' harvesting crop exported to UK
Andrew Wasley

1st September, 2011

Across Italy an invisible army of migrant workers harvests tomatoes destined for our dinner plates. Paid poverty wages and living in squalor, medical charities have described conditions as 'hell'. Andrew Wasley reports from Basilicata, southern Italy
In the parched countryside outside the town of Venosa, in Basilicata, southern Italy, along a rough track fifteen minutes' drive from the nearest road, you come to a series of ruined farmhouses. Overgrown and run down, the brickwork crumbling, and surrounded by the detritus of poverty – rubbish, abandoned water butts, washing draped out of windows, dogs roaming – at first glance it's difficult to believe anyone lives here.

The slums are in fact home to several hundred migrant workers about to harvest the region's abundant tomato crop. Every August, thousands of itinerants, mostly from Africa, some from Eastern Europe, descend on southern Italy to scratch a living picking tomatoes that will eventually be processed and exported across Europe – including to the UK – to be sold in tins, or as pastes, purees or passatas, or used as an ingredient in other food products.

But an Ecologist investigation has revealed how the lucrative trade is blighted by exploitation and abuse: workers – some of them illegal immigrants – are forced to toil for up to 14 hours a day picking tomatoes in harsh conditions for meagre wages, frequently under the control of a network of gangmasters who make excessive deductions or charge inflated rates for transport, accommodation, food and other 'services'. Those complaining can face violence and intimidation.

Workers frequently live in appalling squalor: home is often a derelict building without power or any form of effective sanitation. As many as thirty people can be crammed into a single, filthy, one floor house. Healthcare is virtually non-existent and contact with the outside world minimal.

So bad are the living and working conditions endured by the migrants that campaigners have dubbed them 'Europe's tomato slaves'.

これはイタリアのトマト畑での移民（”黒人”東ヨーロッパ人）の搾取　トマト奴隷である、と。

（サワー・ストロベリーズ ）


Controversial Dutch Novel About Jewish Man In Search Of “Real Negro Women” Getting Film Treatment

His mother is a lawyer and his father is a well known television presenter. He has a girlfriend named Naomi and they both live in the posh district Amsterdam South, where ‘only decent people’ live. The word ‘decent people’, which is also the title of the novel, refers to people who are not ‘allochtonen’ and especially not Moroccans. ‘Allochtonen’ is the Dutch word for non-western foreigners. But, as IDTV wrote in the synopsis, “David discovers he has a craving for black beauties with huge boobs and bum from the suburbs. He dumps his girlfriend and sets out on a quest for his dream, drops out of college and woman.

オランダ　論争の多い小説の映画化。
”まともな”オランダ人がその環境を捨てて、郊外のデカパイ”黒人”女性を渇望する物語、というわけですが、
Allochtoonというのは、オランダ語で、モロッコ人でない非西洋人なのだ、そうです。
なんてことはない、欧州でも、外国人、外人に近い用法というのはあるわけですね。


Allochtoon
From Wikipedia,


Racial Profiling Allegations Against Anniston Police

ANNISTON, Ala (WIAT) - An Anniston City Council member is launching accusations of racial profiling against his city's own police officers.

Councilman Benjamin Little says a 17-year veteran of the department came to him with the information. Little claims that officer, who has not been identified, says other officers routinely discriminate against minorities. The councilman says the officer resigned as a result.

Glen Ray, who is black, says he son was arrested on what he considers bogus charges. He says the arresting officers used racial slurs and threatened violence during the arrest.
・・・・・

Little says that officers resignation came after he became fed up with what he considers a racist culture in the department. Little is asking the FBI to investigate.

Meanwhile a group of residents showed up to Little's press conference Thursday to show support of police.

レイシャルプロファイリング　”黒人”の側は人種プロファイリングだああ、警察は否定し、それを支持する住民も、



SEPTEMBER 2, 2011 · 2:14 PM
Massachusetts Moms Say School Rule Hurts Whites
で、これは逆差別問題。

学校の生徒を人種別に割り当てがあるが、”白人”の生徒はそのために自由に転校できない、と。

ロシアトゥデイ
6-year-old kids handcuffed in class
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Published: 02 September, 2011,

A lawsuit out of Chicago, Illinois alleges that several 6- and 7-year-old students at a city public school were handcuffed and threatened for hours all for talking during their first grade class.

First-grader handcuffed for 'talking in class'

By Joel Hood
Chicago Tribune
Wed, 08/31/2011 - 10:14am

CHICAGO -- The attorney for a family suing Chicago Public Schools over the alleged handcuffing of a first-grader in 2010 said Tuesday the boy was among several 6- and 7-year-olds who were detained and handcuffed for hours for talking in class

児童が教室でおしゃべりをしていたら手錠をかけられた、ということで、学校をうったえている。

ーーーーアメリカの教育はどうなっているのか？？？？なんてね。

ロシアトゥデイ
9/11 causes cancer
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Published: 02 September, 2011

It took a decade, but doctors are now confirming that firefighters that responded to Ground Zero during the September 11 terrorist attacks have a higher risk of getting cancer.

9/11 firefighters have higher cancer risk
Rates of cancers of all kinds 19 percent higher among those exposed
By Julie Steenhuysen

updated 9/1/2011 8:03:31 PM ET

CHICAGO ― Male firefighters who were exposed to toxic dust and smoke from the 9/11 attacks on New York's World Trade Center have a 19 percent higher risk of getting cancer of all kinds than colleagues who were not exposed, U.S. researchers said Thursday

９．１１のビル崩落で最初に乗り込んでいった消防士さんのガン罹患率が高い、と。
こうした医学的な証明がないと治療費の援助が受けられないわけですね。


Man faces life in prison for filming cops
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Published: 02 September, 2011

When cops in Illinois started inspecting Michael Allison’s vehicles parked on his mom’s property, he turned on his camera while he went to see what the hubbub was about.
When cops in Illinois started inspecting Michael Allison’s vehicles parked on his mom’s property, he turned on his camera while he went to see what the hubbub was about. That didn’t put that happy of a face on the police officer, and now Allison is facing 75 years in prison for hitting “record.”
Authorities have charged Allison, 42, with five counts of eavesdropping, each with a maximum of 15 years in prison. He is looking at spending the rest of his life behind bars because the state is applying an archaic law to modern technology to keep citizens from snooping around cops.

Illinois Man, Michael Allison, Facing Life for Recording Police
September 01, 2011 02:45 PM EDT
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The state of Illinois wants to prosecute resident Michael Allison for videotaping police officers on duty, which could result in him going to jail for the rest of his life.

Couldn't happen in America, you say? Well, apparently, the state has some of the toughest eavesdropping laws on the books, and if prosecutors go after the 41-year-old mechanic, they could charge him with wiretapping, according to Infowars.com.

It is a complete hoax that average citizens aren't allowed to tape the police in public. Judge after judge has ruled that is legal to tape officers while they are on duty. After all, aren't police supposed to be public servants, considering they are paid with tax dollars?

Each of the five wiretapping counts carries four to 15 years in prison, so the maximum he could receive is a whopping 75 years.

"If we don't fight for our freedoms here at home we're all going to lose them." Allison said.

かあちゃんちの自転車を警官が調べているのを息子がビデオで撮影したら盗聴法で逮捕されて、無期懲役になるかも、と。


DA causing rape hysteria with witch hunt in Maine
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Published: 01 September, 2011

Without any physical evidence of a sexual assault, Assistant District Attorney Mary Kellettt crusaded against Vladek Filler and had him arrested and charged with rape and assault.

UPDATE: VLADEK FILLER ACQUITTED OF EX-WIFE’S FALSE RAPE CLAIMS

“American Legal System Is Corrupt Beyond Recognition” --Judge Edith Jones, U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
“We are not going to forget here about Thomas James Ball. We are not forgetting about Vladek Filler. They're more and more sort of iconic men beginning to emerge in this culture that represent the problems with the system.

　夫婦ですったもんだがあって離婚訴訟なんだが、夫が妻を強姦したということで、夫が収監された、というもの。
なんの物理的証拠もなしに、というところに注目しておきたい。
（司法）


キーン氏「私から日本をとったら何も残らない」

ニフコJapan　Timesの有道ブログで酷評されていた方ですね。

　「東北は必ず、復興する」。そう信じる理由などを語った。

　３月１１日直後は、ニューヨークでテレビ画面を通じて「黒い津波」の脅威に打ちのめされた。しかし、「家が流されても取り乱さず、人を思いやる日本人の姿を見て誇りがわき上がった。私から日本をとったら何も残らない。日本人として残りの人生を生きたい、と強く思いました」。

ありがたいですね。

どじょうすくい 他

ドラえもん官房長官…ドジョウの２倍は地味な人

　政治活動の原点は「弱者救済」。あしなが育英会（東京）副会長も務め、学生時代から共に活動する山北洋二・同会常勤監事は「実直な人」と話す。

いいんじゃない？


産経
「攻めどころ満載」野党、山岡、安住両氏を標的に
2011.9.2

また、子ども手当の推進役を務めてきた初入閣の小宮山洋子厚生労働相も標的の一人

どうなのかね。私は小宮山さんみたいな落ち着いた対応をする政治家は好きで、今現在子供手当てについてどう考えているかはわからないが、うまくかわすじゃないかな。

読売
防衛相「安保は素人、これが本当の文民統制」

これは痛い。

・・・・・
国民目線で、国民が安心できるような政策が大事だと（いう意味で発言した）」と釈明した

というが「安保は素人」、というのは本音かも知れない。

しかし、まあ、やらせてみなさい、と。緊迫する具体的な政策論争のなかで、追い詰めていく、というのならいいが、この発言だけを取り上げて国会で税金の無駄使いしてもらいたくはない。


@mozumozumozu
mozu

[世界の論調批評]「南シナ海をめぐる将来の紛争」bitly.com/qD9dRC　カプラン氏というかホワイト氏の議論の批判。

カプランによれば、ホワイトは、中国は南シナ海において一種の宗主国として、寛大な国となることを目指しているだけであり、中国の力が強くなるのは抗し難い必然なのだから、米国はそれに順応すべきだ、と論じているようですが、米国を東南アジアの不安定要因と考えているのには驚きます。また、カプランもこのホワイトの論に影響を受けているようです。

しかし、世界にとっても中国にとっても、東アジアの将来の最大の問題は、台湾問題であり、南シナ海は台湾問題の小さな付属物に過ぎません。台湾海峡のバランス・オブ・パワーの変化に米国が屈した時こそ、全アジアひいては全世界のバランス・オブ・パワーに決定的な変化が起こると考えられます。

ということでしょうね。

従って、中国に台湾の併合を許さないことが21世紀の米国の国家戦略の最大の課題です。

としても、その影響は別にして、そうしたことを想定している論者がいる以上、そうしたことが起きてしまうこともありえる。想定外とは言っていられない。

その場合に日本はどうするかの具体的な選択肢の準備をしておかねば、戦略家とはいえまい。


元駐タイ大使・岡崎久彦　国家を玩具にした時代の終わり
2011.9.2

・・・・・
反米、親アジアなどという、最も幼稚な戦後リベラル的発想

鳩山は普天間問題で阿呆だったか、反米だったか、というとそうは言えまい。

◆自民も政治空白危機に対処を

　この間、自民党も変わってきている。教育三法の改正、国民投票法の制定を行い、集団的自衛権の行使の容認の直前まで実現した安倍晋三首相が病気で退陣した後、戦後レジームからの脱却が挫折してしまった

こうした法案が通ったのも、小泉内閣での議員の貯金があったからであろう。あのころ、メディアもヒステリーだったが、慰安婦問題などの対処の仕方などもひどいものであった。知恵を授ける参謀はいなかったのか、あるいは、愚かな参謀のためにああなったのか？

　安倍さんは悪い人とは思わないが、しかし、ポンポンが痛くて辞任というのはいかにもお坊ちゃまであった。
　海江田氏は国会で泣いちゃうし、戦後レジームの政治家はどうしてしまったのだろう？

　今度の政権に対しても、民主党の評判が戻って次の選挙に影響するのを心配したりするケチな考えでなく、政策協調のオファーがあれば謙虚に受け止めて協力することが望ましい。もう何年も空白が続いているという日本の危機に対処する方が重要である。

この点は民主・自民お互いそうで、ケチなこと、ケチな発言のバッシングはタブロイド紙にまかせておいて、優先順位の高い政策論で競合あるいは、協力しあってほしい。

ついでに、

平成２３年８月３０日
文部科学省及び茨城県による
航空機モニタリングの測定結果について

文部科学省による（放射性セシウムの土壌濃度マップ[PDF]

土壌の除染については、周辺住民にとっては、一大事である。国家をあげて、ドジョウ首相はドジョウすくいの方もがんばってもらいたい。