爆発の時は迫っている

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North Korea nuclear war threat: US troops 'poised to respond' as madman Kim Jong Un says attack is 'authorised' | Mail Online via kwout

North Korea nuclear war threat: US troops 'poised to respond' as madman Kim Jong Un says attack is 'authorised' | Mail Online via kwout

The statement, which was carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), stated that 'the merciless operation of its revolutionary armed forces in this regard has been finally examined and ratified.'
But the Pentagon said the anti-missile shield would be ready within weeks to address the 'real and clear danger' that the communist state presents to the U.S. and its allies


U.S. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said: 'Some of the actions they've taken over the last few weeks present a real and clear danger and threat to the interests, certainly of our allies, starting with South Korea and Japan, and also the threats that the North Koreans have leveled directly at the United States regarding our base in Guam, threatened Hawaii, threatened the West Coast of the United States,' Hagel said yesterday

CNN
「爆発の時は迫っている」　北朝鮮が警告　核攻撃も示唆
2013.04.04 Thu posted at 11:44 JST
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北朝鮮、米への核攻撃を「承認」と表明＝ＫＣＮＡ

　［ロンドン　３日　ロイター］　北朝鮮は、「多様な核攻撃」の可能性を含め、米国に対する攻撃を「承認した」と同国政府に通知したことを明らかにした。朝鮮中央通信社（ＫＣＮＡ）が報じた。

　実際に攻撃能力があるのか、現在の政権が滅亡すること覚悟で、攻撃する意志があるのか、がなかなかわからないところですが、北朝鮮も、挑発の度合いを深めており、米軍も対生物化学兵器部隊を派遣、と。



RT

Seoul says N. Korea missiles don’t target US as Washington shows military build-up
Get short URL Published time: April 04, 2013 09:40

Seoul-based correspondent Joseph Kim says the US pursues its own interests when getting more involved in the conflict. It“continuously monitors and gains more influence in the region.”

“They are technically trying to get back to East Asia to be able to counter China and its growing power in terms of the economy. And why not use North Korea?” Kim told RT.




Pyongyang has expressed a desire to “start communication” with Washington, Joseph Kim told RT, but

“Washington’s presence in South Korea is growing larger.” Anti-war activist Eugene Puryear from the ANSWER coalition believes that a peaceful solution to the crisis is possible but blames the United States for hampering it.

“What people need to understand is that the North Korean government - the DPRK - has consistently put forward four basic principles to the United States in negotiations. One is to sign a peace treaty to end the Korean War - most people don’t realize this, at least in the United States, after the war ended in 1953 the United States has refused to sign any sort of peace treaty, they’ve only signed an armistice,” he explained to RT.

“North Korea has consistently asked for a peace treaty, with the de-militarization of the peninsula, and bilateral talks with the United States to reduce tensions. So I think if the United States would put down their weapons, sign a peace treaty, and let North Korea know that they were not aiming to overthrow their regime, as they have consistently hinted towards, then they would be able to back out of this crisis in a very peaceful way.”



As for the means the US chooses to achieve its ends, there are questions remaining as to the efficacy.

Gregory Elich, a member of think tank for the advisory board at the Korea Policy Institute, told RT the United States is interested in the collapse of the North, as the US “can establish their military bases right on the border with China, meaning an encirclement of that nation.” He added that America never “never tolerated a country that won’t put its economy at the service of foreign corporations.”

　北朝鮮はそもそも、一貫して、アメリカとの平和条約締結を望んでいるのだが、アメリカの方が拒否しており、この一連の危機を利用して、アメリカは中国に対抗するプレゼンスを東アジアに築き、北朝鮮政権が崩壊して、中国との国境に、米軍基地を設置できることを望んでいる、と。

ーーーーロシアトゥデイですから、北朝鮮よりの視点を紹介しているわけですね。北朝鮮のキチガイ政策に同調するつもりは毛頭ないですけど、反対側の視点を知っておくことは重要。


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朝鮮学校への防犯ブザー配布中止　東京・町田市教委
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　【斉藤佑介、清水大輔】東京都町田市教育委員会が小学校の新入生への防犯ブザーの配布を朝鮮学校に限って取りやめていたことがわかった。市教委は中止の理由を「北朝鮮をめぐる社会情勢」と説明。学校側は「政治と子どもの安全を結びつけるのはおかしい」と主張している。

　市教委の説明では、防犯ブザーは登下校時の子どもの安全を守るため、２００４年度から市立小学校の新入生全員に配布。要望があれば、市内にある私立学校と西東京朝鮮第二初中級学校にも配ってきた。

　市教委は今年２月下旬、前年度までと同様、同校にも防犯ブザー（１個２９９円）の必要個数を知らせるように連絡。同校から３月上旬、この春に初級部に入学する６人と在校生の故障分など計４５個の要望を受けた。だが、２月中旬の北朝鮮の核実験などで安倍政権が北朝鮮への強硬姿勢を強める中、市教委の職員から「市民の理解が得られない」「今はまずい」との声が上がり、３月下旬に学校に配布の中止を伝えた。

　防犯ブザーを配布しない、という結論もおかしいが、自ら必要個数を知らせるようにしていたのに、結果的に配布しない、という手続き上の瑕疵もある。

DM

Alienated white working classes should attend citizenship ceremonies to help them feel part of British society again, says Cameron's poverty tsar
Labour MP Frank Field said white working classes are unsure of identities
He told conference that English society has 'lost confidence in what it is'
Concerns over immigration's impact on white working class communities
By DANIEL MARTIN
PUBLISHED: 15:36 GMT, 4 April 2013 | UPDATED: 15:36 GMT, 4 April 2013

　イギリスの労働者階級の白人の疎外感が高まっているので、そうした白人は、帰化セレモニーに出席すると、イギリスに対する帰属意識が深まっていいのでは、と。




Alja


Scientific racism, militarism, and the new atheists
Leading figures in the new atheist movement are heirs to the disreputable scientific racists of the past, argues author.

Last Modified: 02 Apr 2013 13:16

Famous philosopher Voltaire - whose works were among the most significant of the French Enlightenment - wrote of his empirical research on those humans who possessed dark skin:

"They are not men, except in their stature, with the faculty of speech and thought at a degree far distant to ours. Such are the ones that I have seen and examined."





Harris' pseudoscientific characterisations of Muslims dovetail nicely with his extreme right-wing views on military intervention in Muslim-majority countries. As he has said:

"It is time we admitted that we are not at war with terrorism. We are at war with Islam."





Where once scientific racism was trotted out to justify the horrific institution of slavery, today it is produced to justify the wars of aggression, torture and extra-judicial killings of the 21st century. Scientists in the service of power, who once employed Phrenology to "prove" the racial inferiority of blacks, now enthusiastically push forward the belief that Muslims as a people lack basic humanity.






Just as it is incumbent upon Muslims to marginalise their own violent extremists, mainstream atheists must work to disavow those such as Harris who would tarnish their movement by associating it with a virulently racist, violent and exploitative worldview.

　有色人は人間以下の存在だ、とフランス人哲学者ヴォルテールはかつて、説き、我々は、テロリズムと戦っているのではない、イスラム教と戦っているのだ、と説く論者が現在ではいる。かつて、科学的な人種主義が奴隷制度などを正当化するために使われたように、現代ではイスラム教徒が人間以下の存在として描写され、イスラム国に対する戦争や、イスラム教徒に対する拷問が正当化されようとしている。　イスラム教徒がその過激派を抑えるこむのが必要なように、イスラム教徒を差別する論者たちを抑え込む必要もある、と。


NYT

Campaigns on Multiple Fronts Against Whale Hunting
By KATE GALBRAITH
Published: April 3, 2013

The nation that has hunted the most whales in recent years is Japan. It does so under a scientific exemption, saying that the whale hunts are for research purposes. But the whale meat is sold to consumers ― officially, as a byproduct of the research. Environmentalists charge that the Japanese whaling program relies on heavy subsidies.

“The fact is that more than half a million Antarctic minke whales can easily support an annual harvest,” Yoshihiro Fujise, director general of the Institute of Cetacean Research, which conducts Japan’s Antarctic whaling program, said in a statement last year. Minke are the type that Japan mostly hunts.

The International Whaling Commission’s most recent estimate, published in 2012, shows that there were about 515,000 minke whales in Antarctic waters in the period between 1992 and 2004.

Tensions over Japan’s whaling practices have existed for years. An anti-whaling group, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, regularly pursues Japanese whaling boats, igniting confrontations on the high seas. Japan has complained bitterly about these tactics. Recently, a three-judge panel of a U.S. court in San Francisco took its side.

In a dramatically worded ruling in February, the chief judge, Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, wrote: “You don’t need a peg leg or an eye patch. When you ram ships; hurl glass containers of acid; drag metal-reinforced ropes in the water to damage propellers and rudders; launch smoke bombs and flares with hooks; and point high-powered lasers at other ships, you are, without a doubt, a pirate, no matter how high-minded you believe your purpose to be.”

　オーストラリアが捕鯨の件で日本を訴える、と。

　それはそれでいいですけど、NYTというのは、反マクドナルド、反牛肉ではないのに、捕鯨に関しては、反捕鯨寄りな論調なわけです。アメリカ中心主義的な雑誌であることは識っておくべきでしょう。

　それと、こうした国際司法の活用というのは日本も考えるべきで、領土問題について国際司法に訴えることをなぜしないのか、それが全く理解できない。

BBC News - Aryan Brotherhood of Texas: How did neo-Nazi prison gangs become so powerful? via kwout

　アメリカで、裁判官が殺されたが、白人至上主義者たちの逆恨みか、とも。

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors hate in the US, describes the ABT as "the most violent extremist group in the United States". It says the gang, thought to have around 2,000 members, has committed "at least" 29 murders in the US between 2000-12.



Today the Southern Poverty Law Center estimates that the California-led Aryan Brotherhood has some 20,000 members both in and out of custody. In 2011 the FBI said it was active in 16 states as far apart as Washington, Virginia, Tennessee and Indiana.

こんなに強烈な過激グループがいるわけですね。

おもしろいのは、

Although its constitution demands that members must be "genetically of European ancestry" and believe in "the racial purity of the white race", its leaders have proved pragmatic in their dealings with non-white outsiders.

"They are a criminal syndicate first and the ideology comes second," says Levin. "They will work with other criminal syndicates even if they belong to ethnicities they dislike - it even says so in their constitution."

　欧州の血の純潔がメンバーの資格なんだけれども、犯罪を達成するには他の民族とも協力する、と。

　アメリカ的なプラグマティズムかな、なぞと不図、心によぎってしまった。