Japan is right to be angry at QI atom bomb joke
Joking about nuclear survivors reflects Britain's tendency to revel in a false memory of a 'good war', ignoring the messy reality
Clinton Godart
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 8 February 2011
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2重被爆者お笑いネタについてである。
こうした背後にやはり、イギリス人の歴史認識の浅さがあるのではないか？と。
日本の歴史認識にも問題がある、とした上で、
The apathy around the BBC incident in Britain is a sign that for many people, Hiroshima and the Asia-Pacific war is something that does not concern them. Britain seems more and more to revel in a romantic memory of the "good war" and especially the blitz. Just look at the finale of The King's Speech: all together, standing firm against tyranny. Apparently it is still necessary to remind people that the reality was messier.
Britain was not just standing up to the tyranny of the Nazis. In the same war, Britain was fighting Japan in Malaya, Burma and India trying to defend a colonial empire that was fundamentally racist and undemocratic. The Japanese, in their quest to become an equal partner to the western great powers, had since the 1890s acquired their own colonial empire in Taiwan, Korea, Micronesia and Manchuria. When war came, the Japanese hailed their military offensives in 1941 against the western powers in Malaya, Singapore, Burma, the Philippines and Indonesia as the "liberation from western colonialism". The brutal occupations that followed can hardly be called that. At best, this was a war of one colonial empire against another. But it remains an uncomfortable truth that the Japanese caused the end of the British (and Dutch and French) empire in Asia.
Of course, Britain did not drop the bomb, but it did play a key role in the evolution of the practice of bombing civilians, which ultimately led to the atomic bombings. Ironically, it was Britain under Winston Churchill that developed terror bombing, in Iraq in the 1920s. The harsh reality of the blitz also provided new lessons for the bombing campaigns against Germany and later Japan. In developing bombing strategy with the US, the RAF was the big advocate for carpet bombing of civilian targets.
The strategic bombing campaign in Japan wiped out most major cities and more than sixty smaller cities. The M69 incendiary cluster bombs were especially designed to break through the roofs and release burning oil jelly inside Japanese wooden houses; Napalm delivered in your living room. On top of this came the nuclear attacks. A traumatised Yamaguchi remembered crossing a river packed with "charcoaled bodies, floating one next to the other like log rafts." General Curtis LeMay famously said that "if we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals". American historian Mark Selden has called the allied bombing campaign a "forgotten holocaust".
This was not the "good war." And tasteless jokes about A-bomb victims thrive on misplaced nostalgia and historical amnesia.
帝国主義国、植民地主義国同志の争いであったにもかかわらず、あの戦争は英米が正しい戦争をした、、くらいの認識しかないところに問題がある、と。
ーーー でしょうね。
Simultaneous silliness or coincidence?
Posted by ampontan on Thursday, February 10, 2011
菅氏に期待するインテリこそ愚民
宮島理提供：フリーライター宮島理のプチ論壇 since1997
2011年02月05日
たしかに、、エコノミストの選挙に打ってでろ、というのは的外れ。菅首相落選なんてことにもなりかねない。
TPP あるいは、税制改革がどうなるのか、はわからない。なぜ、わからないか、というと多分、菅首相もわかっていない。みんな顔色みながらちょこっと言ってみただけ、といった感じで、この人、将来の日本の設計図があるわけではない。首の皮がつながっているのは、そうコロコロ首相をかえるのはまずくね、という気持と、かといって、自民党もいまだ、権力闘争にあけくれて、変わった！という感じがしないからではないだろうか？
その自民党、
石原知事に出馬要請続々…本人は「左右されぬ」
・・・・・自民党系団体などから出馬を要請する動きが相次いでいる。・・・・・
いかに人材がないか、若手を育成していないか、丸出しではないか？
かつて「常識的に３期」と発言
個人的にいえば、常識的にいえば、せいぜい２期だと、思う。３期でも長すぎる。４期？・・・勘弁してくれよ。
ロシアトゥデイ
What it means to get old in Russia
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Published: 10 February, 2011
Maria Petrova gets her daily exercise by breaking the ice in the well, though she would much rather do without it. But then she would have no water. The 77-year-old lives in her native village, Novy Karambay, on her own.
“We don't mind living like this. We don't want to die, but we do have a huge problem with water,” she says.
Water seems to be the main concern for the locals, but once they start talking, more problems come to surface.
“We can't get an ambulance out here, probably because we're old, and they think we're not important,” Maria Petrova complains.
Out of 30 people in this village, 20 are over the age of 60. They have no access to running water, food, or medical help. For them, it is not so much about living as it is about surviving. The main problem for local people is their age.
Miniscule pensions and poor healthcare make the lives of Russia's elderly all but unbearable. But many say the way the elderly are perceived in the country is even more lamentable.
ロシアでは老人が年金も少ないし、医療も手薄。場所によって水道もない。
毎日井戸の氷を割って水の工面をしている老女
「別にこうした暮らしが嫌というわけではない。もっとも、死にたくもない。水については、すごく困るわあああ」
質素 かつ、逞しさ、を感じて、なにか、こう 尊厳 まで感じる。
そのロシア
Russia expecting year of “intensive contacts” with North Korea
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Published: 10 February, 2011
キタチョーと親密に接触をとっていく、と。
キタチョーについては、
北朝鮮、ほぼ全土で口蹄疫 緊急防疫対策を発令
2011.2.10
北朝鮮で大規模な家畜伝染病が伝えられるのは異例で、食糧事情がさらに悪化する懸念もある。
ともいわれるが、国家としては、ロシアと中国に支えられて当分なんとか生き延びるだろう。
そのロシア 北方領土問題
1
中露の嘘を逆利用
2011.2.10
櫻井よしこ
・・・・・日本の４５倍の国土に住む１億４千万余の人口はすでに減少し始めた。平均寿命は男性５８・９歳、女性７２・５歳（２００６年）で伸び悩む。・・・・・北方領土に中国や韓国の資本を呼び込み、中国人や韓国人労働者を入れようとしているが、結局それは、極東ロシアが中国化するのと同じ結果
中ロが仲良くいくわけがない、というのはそうだろうと思うが・・・
対策として、
歴史の真実を広めればよい。
北方領土に資本投下したり技術協力する第三国の企業を日本市場に入れない、あるいは日本の企業との取引を制限、または禁止
どうかな？
まず、北方領土についてやるきがあるのか、どうか、この手段を現実的にとれるのかどうか、とるとして、効果があるのかどうか？
あとはロシアトゥデイのアメリカ チクチクねた
Geographically-challenged US politicians mirror public
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Published: 10 February, 2011,
It is very easy to manipulate people when they don’t know anything. On foreign policy generally Americans are indifferent. They don’t pay any attention to the world events and you can easily manipulate them. The costs of our public ignorance are ghastly,” says Rick Shenkman, associate history professor at George Mason University.
After waging wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for years, figures show most Americans still have difficulties finding the countries on the map.
If the public is not able to notice the ignorance of their politicians, than they will not be able to hold them accountable for their decisions. Some say that is one of the biggest threats to democracy in America.
アメリカの政治家の地理を知らないから、トンデモ発言をするが、国民も地理を知らないから、間違ったこと言っても、それを批判もできない、と。
CIA rewards mistakes with big promotions
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Published: 09 February, 2011
ある、CIAのエージェントは、テロリストとして誤認逮捕したことがあったが、それでも昇進。
CIAはとちるとご褒美とはこれいかに？と。
Genital mutilation: America’s double standard
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Published: 09 February, 2011,
アメリカの二重基準
イスラム圏で女児の性器を切除する慣習が非難されているが、アメリカでもやっているではないか、と。
An estimated four to five of these surgeries are performed in America every day.
毎日４，５人この手の手術を受けている、と。
で、なんなのか、と思ってググると、
Dr. Dix Poppas's Incredible Clitoris Reduction and Stimulation Program at Cornell University
女児のクリトリスの一部を切除して、その後に刺激を与えて、それでも感覚があるか、どうかみる、ということであるが、これがなんのためにやられているのか、よお、わからない。
“Many of these surgeries have no medical necessity. It really is a cosmetic surgery that is done on infants and on children. There are people that are doing these surgeries, because they think it will prevent their child from being a lesbian,” said Green.
女児がレズにならないようにやっている、という人もいるが・・・・なんだかわからない。
Sex Scandal! GOP Congressman resigns after seeking women on Craigslist
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Published: 10 February, 2011
共和党議員 女性問題で議員辞職
LowKey: Egyptian protesters reject US backed status quo
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Published: 10 February, 2011
Lowkey
From Wikipedia,
Lowkey という こんな
LOWKEY - TERRORIST? (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
音楽をつくる音楽家だそうだが、今回のエジプトのデモについて
Have America and the UK been subjecting the Middle East to oppressive policies for years? Is the uprising in Egypt merely the people working to reclaim their dignity and independence?
“It is also a report against US imperialism and a revolt against US neocolonial interests in the region as a whole,” he said. “It is also a revolt against Israel’s wishes to keep the people of Egypt subservient. Subservience to Israel is being rejected as we speak.”
Through the thirty plus years of Mubarak’s rule the people suffered under a reign heavily influenced by the US, including US military backing.
“These democracy activists have had bullets from American guns shot into them by Egyptian torturers and Egyptian security forces who were trained by the United States and fully backed by the United States,” LowKey remarked. “These democracy activists, as we speak that are in Liberation Square, are having their pictures taken by the State Security and State Television and by media all over the world and those activists are being targeted. They are being targeted with the full support of the United States. What the United States is trying to do at this stage is maintain the status quo, but change the face. They want a more acceptable face to the exact same status quo and the people are rejecting that status quo.”
あれは尊厳と独立を求めていると同時に、米国帝国主義、ネオコロ主義に対する反発でもあるんだ、と。