BBC
4 March 2011 Last updated at 11:51 GMT Share this pageFacebookTwitterShareEmailPrint
China's fear of Middle East-style unrest
By Damian Grammaticas
BBC News, Beijing
There are tensions and conflicts like this every day all over China. Despite the booming economic growth there are millions who feel shut out, angry at official corruption, at inequalities that are rising, at land grabs. That's why the government is so concerned about the possibilities for unrest.
中国
官僚の腐敗、格差、土地収用などに対する不満で中国全土で毎日のように緊張と衝突が続いているが、中東のようになっては困るので、デモを弾圧している、と。BBCの記者もやられたらしい。
アルジャ
Saudi Arabia bans protest rallies
Interior ministry vows to use all steps "to prevent attempts to disrupt public order" following recent Shia protests.
Last Modified: 05 Mar 2011 1
Saudi Arabia has banned all protests and marches following recent anti-government protests in the kingdom’s east, reports say.
State television on Saturday quoted the interior ministry as saying that security forces would use all measures to prevent any attempt to disrupt public order.
The ban on public demonstrations comes amid media reports of a huge mobilisation of Saudi troops in Shia-dominated provinces in order to quell any possible uprising.
やはり、中東のドミノ効果を懸念してか、サウジでは、公共のデモを禁止。
BBC
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Wisconsin: Thousands protest in budget dispute
Thousands of people have joined protests in the US state of Wisconsin against proposals that will limit the power of trade unions.
米国
労働組合の権限を制限する立法に反対して数千規模のデモ。
マイケルムーアも参加
読売
蒋介石との直談判促す書簡…吉田茂、近衛文麿に
第２次世界大戦で対英米戦に反対し、戦後は首相として日米関係の基礎を築いた吉田茂（１８７８～１９６７年）が、戦争末期、元首相の近衛文麿に中国・重慶政府の蒋介石を訪ねて和平の直談判をするよう訴える書簡を出していたことが分かった。・・・・・
手紙は１９４４年１２月２４日付。同年１０月のレイテ沖海戦で海空戦力の大半を失い、戦局の悪化を受けて書かれたものとみられる。
吉田は、〈外交局面打開之途ハ唯対支干係（関係）、重慶ニ通するの途ハ以て米英ニ延長連繋
と、日中戦争が終わればこれに介入した英米も戦争継続の意義を失うと指摘。日中戦争の泥沼化を招いた近衛に〈閣下自ら渡支、（中略）日支相提携して全世界和平発議を提唱せられんか〉と説いている。しかし、近衛の訪中は実現せず、当時の小磯国昭内閣は戦争を継続した。
（2011年3月6日03時05分 読売新聞）
吉田っての実際的な政治家だったんだろうね。
“What you must understand is we Chinese all hate Japanese.”
Japan Probe
Japan Timesの中国における反日ナショナリズムの記事を紹介している。
コメント欄が面白い。歴史をほじくればいろいろ骸骨はでてくる。
朝日社説
規制仕分け―全面公開テコに大胆に
・・・・・新しいビジネスの芽を育て、日本経済を活性化させるうえで、やはり大胆な規制改革は欠かせない。
規制改革はまた、菅政権が掲げる「平成の開国」を実現する鍵も握っている。欧州連合（ＥＵ）との経済連携協定（ＥＰＡ）の締結には、ＥＵが強く求める非関税障壁の見直しが必要だ。環太平洋経済連携協定（ＴＰＰ）への参加を目指すなら、規制改革を通じた農業の強化だけでなく、投資やサービスなど幅広い分野で、規制の見直しは避けて通れない。
新規参入を阻止し、既得権益を守りたい業界団体。規制を通じて権限と仕事を維持したい霞が関。業界団体の意向を代弁することで政治的な見返りを得たい族議員。自民党政権時代、この「鉄のトライアングル」が規制改革を阻む岩盤と言われた。・・・・・
この岩盤をぶっこわさないと、自民でも民主でも同じ。
最近朝日の社説はわりに読める。
アルジャ
Gaddafi: Fighting for survival?
Will ICC involvement make the Libyan leader respect human rights or will he just fight harder to avoid prosecution?
Inside Story Last Modified: 05 Mar 2011
The investigation is seen as a way to pressure Gaddafi loyalists to defect, thus weakening the war against the rebels. But is ICC involvement an incentive for the Libyan leader to respect human rights or will he simply fight harder for his political survival so as to avoid prosecution?
リビアでのガダフィに対する国際刑事裁判所の捜査が開始されたが、それでよかったどうか？ 訴追されるとわかっていれば、国内でより強硬に反政府組織を叩く方に傾くのではないか？かといって、いまさら、国外に出国させてお咎めなし、というわけにもいかない。
他にも、そもそも、今回以前のガダフィの悪行についてなぜ国際司法の対象にしなかったのか。西欧諸国の欺瞞があるのではないか？
もっというと、米国、中国などは、締約国ではない。
States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
From Wikipedia,
ここらへん、CNN、NYT、ガーディアンあたりがメディアキャンペーンをして非締約国に圧力をかけたらどうだろうか？
あんたらの正義ってなんぼ？
ロシアトゥデイ
Joseph Stalin dead, denounced and debated
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Published: 05 March, 2011
The so-called "People's Father", Joseph Stalin, ruled the USSR with an iron fist, and despite the terrors, persecutions and executions, he was almost worshipped. This love is still something not easy to account for.
Psychoanalyst Gio Di Feo says it reminds him of the Stockholm syndrome, “where after you have been kidnapped by some bad person, you start loving him. The love is not true love, it is a way to save yourself, to keep your balance ok.”
スターリンは残虐な独裁者だったのにもかかわらずなぜ、支持者が多かったか？ーーーストックホルム症候群。
誘拐者を愛することによって自分の生存率を高めるのと同じような機制がはたらいていたのではないか、と。
ロシアトゥデイ
Baltimore a sign of crisis in America
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Published: 04 March, 2011,
Leonard Gray used to leave his house in Baltimore every day to come to the Inner Harbor. It was a job, a living and a piece of Baltimore’s million-dollar revival. Until one day, Gray and the other 160 employees of Disney’s ESPN Zone were laid off.
"I worked here at ESPN Zone for six years and without notice they gave us the ax, they threw us out like we was just some paper cups," Gray said.
That’s how Leonard joined the ranks of Baltimore’s unemployed – it’s a crowded place with 11.4 percent of the city’s residents.
"Right now, I'm struggling to survive, struggling to pay my bills, sometimes I can't go to the market to eat," Gray said.
But business is booming in the Inner Harbor, a luxury retail and dining district that the city has sunk millions into and made its model of economic development.
"People think that the Inner Harbor is a happy-go-lucky place, but they don't know what's going on behind the scenes. People are being disrespected, people are getting unfair wages," said Gray.
Like much of America--where the richest 20 percent own 84 percent of the wealth--Baltimore’s harbor is split along class lines, said Luis Larrin, a labor organizer with the grassroots United Workers organization.
"The workers who work in these restaurants can’t even eat what they’re cooking because they’re charged the same price," Larrin said. "$7.00 for a hamburger, an hour’s wage. They could never even think of bringing their families to spend the day here."
It's also split along racial lines, said sociologist and Professor Kris Marsh.
"You can say it's a class thing, but ironically enough most of the people who are pushed out by this new development happen to be blacks, or happen to be Latinos," said Marsh.
Just a few blocks East or West of the Harbor, the reality is much different--a city crumbling under the weight of foreclosures and crushing economic crisis.
It was against this backdrop that President Obama announced 1.1 trillion dollars in cuts to the budget last month. On the domestic spending chopping block were 13.9 billion dollars in cuts to food stamp programs, which about 530,000 Maryland depend on. Maryland has seen a 32 percent increase since in food stamp recipients since 2008.
Currently, 20 percent of Baltimore residents live below the poverty line--six percent more than when Obama stopped here days before his inauguration in 2009.
米国、ボルチモアを例にあげたロシアトゥデイお得意の米国の失業・貧困・格差問題。
階級問題のようにみえるが貧困層は”黒人”やラティーノが大半なので、実は人種問題ではないか、と。
もっとも、
BBC
March 2011 Last updated at 21:49 GMT Share this pageFacebookTwitterShareEmailPrint
US unemployment rate falls to 8.9%
米国の失業率は減少している。
MAR
04
Race, Racism and Online Housing: What the Research Tells Us
By Jessie
米国
不動産賃貸などの差別について。（不動産差別）
Craigslist sued over discriminatory ads
Fair housing case could revive question of who's liable for online postings
updated 2/9/2006 9:55:25 PM ET
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CHICAGO ― A federal lawsuit accuses the online site Craigslist of violating fair housing laws by publishing discriminatory classified ads, reviving the question of what legal boundaries, if any, should exist for postings on the Internet.
But legal experts say the lawsuit against Craigslist, a fast-growing online network of classified ads and forums, faces an uphill battle because of laws in place to protect online service providers.
The lawsuit, filed by a Chicago fair housing group in U.S. District Court last Friday, contends that Craigslist's Chicago site distributed more than 100 ads that violated the federal Fair Housing Act by excluding prospective buyers or tenants on the basis of race, gender or religion.
Among the housing ads cited as objectionable by the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc. were ones that read "NO MINORITIES," "Requirements: Clean Godly Christian Male," and "Only Muslims apply."
March 18, 2008
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee v Craigslist: Yet Another Reason Newspapers are Dying
Friday’s decision in the Craigslist case in the Seventh Circuit offers yet another reason why newspapers are losing ground―and quickly―to their online competitors: newspapers face tougher laws than the online firms. As (our) Judge Easterbrook’s opinion makes clear, publish a “No Minorities Welcome” ad in the Chicago Tribune and the Trib violates the Fair Housing Act. But put the same ad on Craigslist and, after Friday at least in the Seventh Circuit, Craigslist faces no liability under the FHA given the protection given to it under the Communications Decency Act of 1996. We often talk about media neutrality―the idea that a particular set of rules should apply independent of the medium via which the content is delivered. This is just the opposite―media bias―but not the usual version; this is bias against one medium―classified ads in newspapers―in favor of another―the Internet.
マイノリティーお断り、清潔なクリスチャン男性以外お断り、イスラム教徒以外お断り、という広告を新聞に出すのは違法だが、ネット上の広告なら広告掲載サイトは違法でない、という判例があるそうな。
・・・・えっ！！？？？ そもそも、ネットでそんな広告あるのけ？
日本を非難する英語圏の投稿者の口ぶりだとそうは思えなかったが、騙されていたのだろうか？
（外国人お断り）
ロシアトゥデイ
Sex trafficking targets children in Washington
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Published: 05 March, 2011
America is quick to condemn other nations for the sexual exploitation of girls, when in fact it occurs daily in the United States – many times right under the noses of powerful politicians.
Contrary to popular sentiment across the United States, the sexual exploitation of children does not only take place in developing nations.
The trafficking of minors is a big moneymaker – even in the United States. It is the third highest profit driver among organized crime in the US. Often, American teens and children are recruited in public areas, such as malls, entertainment centers, theaters, and even in their schools.
この記事は前にも紹介したような気がするが、3月5日というから別記事だろうか？
米国は他国の人身売買について説教するが、お膝元の、児童の人身売買もひどいでっせ、と。