昨日取り上げたフィフィさん。
アイ・チテル1／2 動画
アイ・チテル1／2 動画
面白いね。
で、彼女の投稿を少し取り上げると、
2011-02-05 03:10:21
エジプトの夜明け～国民の想い
ところで、ムバラク支持派は外国人ジャーナリストを襲撃したり、無理な情報操作を試みたり、イメージを悪くするだけの動きをみせて、ムバラク自身最後のあがきのように大統領の座に粘り続けるのはなぜでしょう？これはあくまでわたし個人の見かたですが、自分の資産を整理するのに手こずっていてそれまでの時間稼ぎなのではと思うのです
なのかもしれない。
アルジャでは、
Mubarak's third force terror tactic
President Mubarak unleashed his 'personal' thugs in a failed attempt to silence protestors seeking an end to his regime.
David Africa Last Modified: 03 Feb 2011
The tactics of deploying so-called third forces is a tried and tested method of autocratic regimes, usually utilised when the regime realises that it is on the strategic defencive politically. The focus of the regime then shifts from merely ruling as usual to extending its reign as long as possible, while at the same time sapping the material and political energy of its opponents.
In South Africa this tactic was intended to legitimise the regime as the only thing standing between an orderly transition to democracy on the one hand, and chaos on the other. At the same time it sought to drain the energy of the liberation movement by killing some of its leaders, forcing it into a defencive mode of thinking and compelling it to accept a compromise favourable to the regime.
こうした第３の勢力を混乱勢力を使って、相手勢力を弱体化するとともに、仲介役を買ってでて政権が延命戦術にでているのだ、という憶測もある。
2011-02-03 00:50:03
エジプトの夜明け～新たな一頁へ
国民はその親米による独裁に憤慨しているのです。
こういった認識は在米エジプト人にもあるようである。
アルジャ
A message to Obama
Egyptian-Americans call on Obama to stand firmly on the side of the Egyptian people.
Karim Haddad Last Modified: 04 Feb 2011
The protesters in Washington want to see an end to US military aid to the Mubarak regime. One of the signs being carried in front of the White House bore the inscription: "Dictator made in the USA."
”米国製の独裁者”というのぼり
米国のエジプト人たちはオバマが民衆の側にたつことをうったえている。
では具体的に国民は何を求めているのか、というと、
ロシアトゥデイ
Violence engulfs Egypt
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Published: 04 February, 2011,
“The requirements for a revolution are that a specific paradigm is put in place of an old paradigm and we don’t know exactly what the people of Egypt are calling for yet,” he said. “We do know that they have grievances. We do know that they are sick of living under the despotic rule of Hosni Mubarak.”
不満があり、また、独裁者ムバラクを追放したいというのは確かだが、それに代わる具体的なビションはまだ、ないようである。
もっとも、この論者も、
He argued the people are upset, but the real blame falls on international influence from America. American influence and support of the Mubarak government and contribution to the class war in the nation is to blame.
やはり、アメリカの影響についての非難があるのではないか、と。（もちろん、報道機関がRTということも考慮にいれる必要もあるが・・・）
もう一人の論者は、
“That might change tomorrow,” Benjamin commented. “I have never seen so many people literally ready to give their lives for this revolution, so they might very well be willing in smaller groups take to the streets and try and move to the presidential palace.”
Being on the ground it is evident the revolution is not easy to control. There is little organization and no clear leader, just a universal cry for greater democracy and the removal of President Mubarak.
抗議デモがやみそうにないこと、ムバラク退陣、民主主義の要求、などについて指摘している。
もう一つ注目した発言は、エジプトではわりに多様性は確保されていて、イスラム教徒でも礼拝したい人はし、そうしたくないひとはそうしないし、また、キリスト教徒なども歓迎、といった態度がある、という。
それともう一つ、「エジプトの人達に決めてもらえばいいのであって、外国の勢力が影響を及ぼすべきではない、」というロシア外務大臣の発言をRTは取り上げている。
他方アメリカは、
オバマ政権、ムバラク氏の即時退陣案協議…米紙
【ワシントン＝山口香子】米紙ニューヨーク・タイムズ（電子版）は３日、オバマ米政権がエジプト政府高官との間で、ムバラク大統領を即時退陣させスレイマン副大統領を長とする暫定政府を発足させる政権移行案を協議していると報じた。
実現すれば、スレイマン副大統領が軍の支援を受けて速やかに憲法改正手続きに着手し、ムスリム同胞団も交えた野党勢力と選挙制度の協議も行うという。
しかし、下手に手出しすると、後にしっぺ返しがくる可能性もある。
因みにフィフィさんも指摘しているが、
It's time for Obama to say Kefaya!
He took the White House armed with hope and promise of change, but has Obama already been beaten down by Washington?
Mark LeVine Last Modified: 25 Jan 2011
Update II (2/2/11): As I write this, the curfew in in Cairo has prevented my flight from arriving there. For the last week President Obama has apparently worked with the leadership of Egypt to formulate a plant to ease Mubarak out while retaining the existing political-military-security structure in place. It must be remembered here that the tanks in Egypt's streets are American made Abrams; the planes that buzzed Tahrir square are paid for by American tax dollars. The newly appointed Vice President, Omar Suleiman, isn't just the former intelligence chief, but is someone who personally supervised the detention and torture of victims of CIA-rendition. He is, as much as Mubarak, "America's man."
スレイマン氏は親米あるいはアメリカの傀儡同然だ、と指摘する論者もいる。
・・・・なかなか状況が読めない。ムバラク氏が退陣するまで、続くだろう、ということはたぶんたしかだろうが、それ以外、どっちにどうなっていくのかさっぱりわかならい。
RTで他のネタを続けると、
Police brutality or sacrifices for security?
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Published: 04 February, 2011
The police have an increasing a rocky relationship with the people they are supposed to serve and protect. When news broke in the early 1990s that a political activist named Rodney King had been brutally beaten by police, people began to question the aggressive tactics used by authorities.
After surveying many Americans, a few facts become clear. While most people don’t seem to feel threatened when police are in plain view, most everyone agreed on one simple fact: police use excessive force far more than is necessary.
警官の暴行について。
不必要な暴力を行使しているのではないか、と。（Police brutality)
これについては、３日のABCで、
Caught on Tape: Cops Kicking Teen
Surveillance video shows Houston police beating teenage burglary suspect.
02/03/2011
容疑者が降参して伏せているにもかかわらず暴行を続ける警官の映像を放映している。
RTに戻ると、
American cities go bust!
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Published: 04 February, 2011
Overdrawn US cities could face financial collapse in 2011, defaulting on hundreds of billions of dollars of borrowings and derailing the US economic recovery.
But as cities are choosing between devastation and default, analysts say really it’s about the fall of American cities and the coming collapse of the Union.
It’s the reality America cannot escape, news of debt cash-strapped cities and states all over the country. All together it could amount to two trillion dollars and a bill many of them may not be able to pay.
“The problem of the state and local debt is more serious than the real estate bubble,” said Michael Hudson, Wall Street analyst and professor of economics at the University of Missouri.
Serious because with millions of Americans still unemployed and losing their homes, there isn't enough taxpayer money to pay creditors. Local governments which aren't allowed to operate in the red must come up with the cash. This means some may be choosing between default and devastation.
“I think most cities will be able to avoid default by cutting services,” said Joe Weisenthal, deputy editor at The Business Insider.
Cities and states coast-to-coast seem to be trying the latter route and the toll it's taking on the streets of America is undeniable.
Camden, New Jersey is the second most dangerous city in the country. You didn't see many cops on the streets to begin with and now you may rarely see any. The city's had to lay off nearly half of their police force.
In Detroit a city where people have been too broke to bury their dead, the city is too broke to repair dying infrastructure, to fix roads or lights.
In the desert state of Arizona, cuts have been a matter of life and death. Organ transplant patients have died since the state cut funding for the victims.
In New York City huge piles of uncollected garbage are the alleged result of budget cuts.
“There isn’t enough wasteful spending to cut you do have to cut services people depend on,” Weisenthal pointed out.
Analysts say the slashing will amount to an increase in unemployment and a lowering of wages dragging more Americans down and the economy with it. Meanwhile, they say the prospect of bankruptcies threaten the pensions of public workers and may cause a run on municipal bonds.
Either scenario seems to be causing a widespread decline in the American city, once relegated to ancient history.
"It's a feedback toward economic shrinking, downsizing, and de-urbanization,” Hudson predicted. “Exactly the same thing happened in the Roman Empire when in the end Rome was left almost a deserted city and all of the production shifted back onto the land. That's what you’re faced with here although the land on this case will be abroad rather than in the United States."
Investment that flees to other countries threatening to take with it the American dream.
Richard Wolff, a professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts explained people without jobs, without secure income, impact city taxation because people spend much less bringing in less revenue to cities.
常日頃、日本について言われているようなことがアメリカについて言われている。
国の借金もたいへんだが、地方の借金も大変で、このままだと、デフォルトか、あるいは歳費削減、しかし、歳費削減すると、必要な公共サービスまでカットしなくてはならず、街が機能しなくなる。事実、いくつかの街ではそうしたことが起きている、として、廃墟にちかくなった街などを紹介。
ローマ帝国もこうして滅びていったのだ、というものまでいる。
で、こちらは、ガーディアン
EDL protest attracts European far-right activists
Matthew Taylor and Rowenna Davis
guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 February 2011
UK-based members will be joined by activists from recently formed copycat "defence leagues" in Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands – as well as supporters of more established far-right groups from France, Germany and Denmark.
"The significance of the EDL marching in Luton extends way beyond our shores," said Lowles. "Across Europe and in North America anti-Islamic groups are watching the EDL with interest, increasingly copying their tactics, even replicating their name. The attendance of so many international supporters is testament to the EDL's role in the international anti-Islam movement."
"For some of the young people I work with the EDL are very appealing – people like street cred. When you're young you want people to respect you and this is one way of gaining respect. There are some kids who are being manipulated – they think they're the big guns."
Sam Adofo, the director of the Salmon youth centre in Southwark, south London, echoed this view.
"People who say the EDL are stupid are naive ... The way they are targeting youth now is extremely strategic, and it's working for them. They've tried to be inclusive and add young people to the whole idea of what it is … The techniques they are using are the basics – interacting with the working class, meeting in the pub, watching the games. It gives young people a sense of belonging that is key."
EDLネタ
欧州各地から極右団体を惹きつけている、と。
それと、やはり、居場所、というか、どこかに属して、仲間がいる、という意識が薄くなった若者を標的にしてリクルートしているらしい。
極右といえば、
自民、石原氏４選に動く 都知事選「今から探せない」
2011年2月4日
もういいだろう。
自民党も石原氏しか候補がないとすれば、自民党への信頼もなくなる。
