Japanese and Koreans invaded Asia. We apologize.

”女性を採用するのはリスク”

2013年07月30日 23時57分53秒 | Weblog
(参院の注目新人)就活で自殺、ひどすぎる 吉良佳子氏

聞き手・土佐茂生】――選挙で就職氷河期の実体験を訴えていました。


 「60社ぐらいにエントリーして1社しか内定を取れなかった。今の就職活動って、7、8次面接は当たり前。12次面接とかあるんですよ。面接では『女性を採用するのはリスク』とも言われた。就職ではこちらが圧倒的に弱い立場。気に入られなければならない、と思うと、その面接官に何も反論できなくなって悔しい思いをしました」
 「役員面接まで行って『あと一押しだ。この会社に入るんだ』と思った会社にも落とされた。人格を否定されるような思いだった。両親に落ちたことを報告したら、泣いてしまいそうで、両親に心配をかけないように電話線を引っこ抜いて連絡を絶ち、本当に引きこもりのような思いをした」



 女子学生に小型マイクでももたせて、面接を録音して、こういう企業は、どんどん告発していくべき。

 女性が戦える武器、女性の声を社会に伝える機関がない、と。

 男性支配的なマスメディアでそうしたことがうまくできてこなった。

 共産党は外交はまるで駄目だと思うが、こうした弱者の権利強化の面で頑張ってもらいたい。

 口先では一応、女性活用政策を言っている安倍氏もせいぜい女性の社会進出、地位向上の促進に努めてもらいたい。


 

アマゾン アメリカのブラック企業?

2013年07月30日 23時24分31秒 | Weblog
TUESDAY, JUL 30, 2013 08:44 PM +0900
Amazon is worse than Walmart
The company's war on bookstores and book culture is increasingly supported by, yes, the Obama administration
BY DANIEL D'ADDARIO


Amazon’s also been painted as a pretty terrible place to work: A report on Gawker describes a Tennessee warehouse where employees take forced overtime and perform monotonous work with minimal break time, while a 2011 newspaper report on Amazon’s warehouse in Allentown, Pennsylvania, told of over 100-degree temperatures and “a pace many could not sustain.”

During summer heat waves, Amazon arranged to have paramedics parked in ambulances outside, ready to treat any workers who dehydrated or suffered other forms of heat stress. Those who couldn’t quickly cool off and return to work were sent home or taken out in stretchers and wheelchairs and transported to area hospitals. And new applicants were ready to begin work at any time.



HAMILTON NOLAN
Yesterday 12:48pm
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What Is Life Like For an Amazon Worker?


You don't actually get hired by Amazon. Almost everyone is employed by a staffing service. First though, you have to kill an hour and a half of your time filling out an application online and taking insane personality test. I'm not sure why they have such a lengthy test (I've filled out a lot of applications lately and they run anywhere from 15-45 min not 1.5 hours!) since A) this isn't even a monkey's job, its a job your dog could probably grasp and B) they seem to hire anyone who has a pulse.

Next you show up for your "interview" and possible on spot hire. Here you are herded around a series of stations, take some more test that prove that you are able to read or at least recognize the alphabet letters, sit and watch corporate video propaganda and wait on your "interview". Mine was with a very nice young lady who essentially asked if I was a U.S. citizen and asked if I could meet the physical requirements. There's none of that "what are your strengths" business. She essentially ran down all the requirements and questions that I already did online. I think the lady felt a little sorry for me since I was way overqualified and dressed up better than anyone else there so she tried to give me a challenging position although I don't feel this is possible in this line of work....

So now you are about 3 or 4 hours in and of course you don't get paid for any of that time it took to get hired. Training was really funny. They sent many of us to the wrong door of the warehouse (which ain't cool due to its size which I'll explain later), when you go into the right place you are herded once again. The whole process is standing in line, walking or sitting where they tell you and you are behind a big fenced off area. My initial thought was this is prison, the comparisons were obvious. I felt like asking anyone sitting by me or standing in line next to me "so, what are you in for?" It would have been a completely appropriate question.

We watched a hilarious sexual harassment video and than a dude from loss/prevention spoke to us. This was actually the bulk of our training - to have it pounded into everyone's skull not to steal. He claimed there was 500 visible cameras and over 500 more you could not see in the warehouse. They even had to install them in the break room because people's lunches were getting stolen. He yammered on and on about how you will never get away with stealing so please don't try. That they terminated 120 people in 6 months just for theft. And he told funny stories about people getting caught in various ways. Sadly, the number one stolen item is condoms. Sex toys are high up the chain too. After working there a couple days now though, I feel like all cops, he was untruthful and exaggerating. I wouldn't say its easy to steal, especially with having to walk through metal detectors every time you go to lunch or leave the building, but there are ways. And eating the food is definitely possible as I've seen wrappers and other evidence of food on the floor...

I have to touch on the size of this place too. [...] like bigger than 12 city blocks. Last night when I drove to work it took me about 15 min - when you arrive there is a line of cars to get in. Waiting in that line to get to a parking space took 15 min the same time as my commute! There's no way for me to fully describe the size of this place. There are over 7 miles of conveyor belts. The two ends of the warehouse is where product is stored. Think of a library with very small isles. Now imagine over 250 isles deep. Now imagine over 13 long isles across. Now imagine three floors of that. And finally imagine that double since there are two of these "libraries" - one on each side of the building.

Your break is 15 min twice a day and 30 min lunch. But if you are in the wrong place of the warehouse you could easily walk a half mile to a mile to get to break and that time supposedly counts
. So sometimes you get to your break sit down for 5 min and start your fucking hike again...

The job is to scan a cubby, count the shit in the cubby, enter the number into your scanner and repeat this shit for 10 hours. If your count comes up wrong you have to empty the cubby and recount. You are supposed to count 125 cubbies an hour. My second day I did 285 and coulda broke 300 but my battery went out. Ever since than I slack the fuck off and stay around 150 or so. I still have time to look at any book or movie that looks interesting, get plenty of water breaks, stretch, etc. Its not a hard job just monotonous and boring as fuck. The crazy part is the number of people there who can't get 125 counted in an hour. That's like counting one box every 30 seconds. Most boxes have less than 10 items. This brings us to the workforce...

Probably the best thing about working here is the diversity of the workers. All over the fucking map. From a dude that looks like a college professor to people living in their car to grandmothers to mohawk punks and on and on. In one way, I think its cool these people can't meet their quota cause its like 'fuck you this is too much work' but on the other hand I worry for the physical and mental composition of some of these people as this isn't a political statement, they really can't do the job. At the beginning of your shift and after lunch we all do these lame stretching exercises which reminded me of the old 80s videos of Japanese factories where they worked out and shit before shifts and than proceeded to put in more work hours than any other industrialized country. At our stretching circle its a bunch of obese people pretending to stretch.

I have only worked one week now and already we have forced overtime for the unforeseeable future. I have no desire to work more hours but will lose the job if I don't. The only thing working more hours does is take away time from me finding a better job:) Seriously though, I realize I'm in a position of privilege to have better options out there. Some of my co-workers have looked at me like I'm crazy whenever I talk about how shitty this job is and how I am applying for other jobs all the time. Really? Not even a line to blow me off like "well, I just need the money". Its shocking the lack of disgust for their work environment or their lack of wanting to escape from the prison we're all working in.


 休憩も殆どなく、やりたくないのに労働時間を延長させられる、など、アマゾンの労働環境がかなり悪いらしい。 ブラック企業といえるかもしれない。


 シフトの始まりと、昼食の後で、ストレッチ体操をするのだそうだが、それが、80年代にみた日本の工場のビデオを彷彿とさせる、と。


 どんな、映像だったか、知らないが、80年代はアメリカが日本の台頭におびえて、映画でも何でもジャパンバッシングされていた時期ですね。





中国包囲網 US is Encircling China

2013年07月30日 23時18分31秒 | Weblog
US is Encircling China with Fighter Jets and Stealth Bombers
By Zachary Keck

July 30, 2013



Over at Breaking Defense, Colin Clark reports that Carlisle said that the first Air Force F-35’s will be deployed to the Pacific, and are likely to be stationed at bases in Misawa, Japan; Kadena, Japan; Osan Air Base, Korea; and Kunsan Air Base, Korea. Singapore will also purchase the F-35s. Clark also quotes the general as saying the USAF will send "fighters, tankers, and at some point in the future, maybe bombers on a rotational basis," to a base in Darwin, Australia.

Meanwhile, John Reed of Foreign Policy reports that Carlisle also said (in Reed’s words) that the USAF will also be, “sending jets to Changi East air base in Singapore, Korat air base in Thailand, a site in India, and possibly bases at Kubi Point and Puerto Princesa in the Philippines and airfields in Indonesia and Malaysia.” As Reed sums it up, “This means the Air Force will sen[d] large numbers of F-22 Raptors, F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, and B-2 stealth bombers to the region.”

In other news likely to thrill China, in response to a letter from U.S. Representative Robert Andrews (D-NJ), the Defense Department has confirmed it is still considering a request by Taiwan for a design and feasibility study of it potentially purchasing diesel submarines. “The Department of Defense will continue to consider carefully any Taiwan requests for defense articles and services,” Under Secretary of Defense for Policy James Miller said in a response to the letter, according to Taipei Times.


 中国を、ジェット機、ステルス機で、包囲網、さらには、潜水艦でも・・


 さすが、戦争、戦略にかけては、アメリカの右にでるものはないな、こりゃ。王手必勝の構えみたいな・・・

権力者の公式 

2013年07月30日 12時03分27秒 | Weblog
Can We See Our Hypocrisy to Animals?
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: July 27, 2013




Today, the challenge is factory farming, which produces food exceptionally cheaply, at huge cost in animal welfare.

“There are still tens of billions of animals suffering horribly in factory farms every year, around the world,” Singer told me.

Big Agriculture has dug in its heels, backing “ag gag” laws that punish whistle-blowers who secretly document abusive conditions for livestock or poultry. The House of Representatives recently had the gall to amend the farm bill so as to nullify many state laws protecting farm animals. “In a single legislative act, it could undo two decades of state lawmaking to protect animals,” said Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States; let’s hope the Senate-House conference committee will drop this amendment.



McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, Safeway, Oscar Mayer, Costco and others had announced in 2012 that they would move away from gestation crates.



Look, I confess to hypocrisy. I eat meat, albeit with misgivings, and I have no compunctions about using mousetraps. So what? We have the same inconsistencies, controversies and hypocrisies in dealing with human rights. We may disagree about waterboarding terror suspects, but almost everyone shares a revulsion for genocide, the use of poison gas or the torture of children.


We may disagree about eating meat, but growing numbers share a disgust for extreme behavior, like the force-feeding of geese (now banned in California) to produce pâté.

We as a global society have crossed the Rubicon. We disagree about where to draw the line to protect animal rights, but almost everyone now agrees that there is a line to be drawn.

May our descendants, when, in the future, they reflect uncomprehendingly on our abuse of hens and orcas, appreciate that we are good and decent people moving in the right direction, and show some compassion for our obliviousness.



 NYTのクリストフ氏の記事である。動物の権利の範囲については、論争があるが、動物に対する極端に残酷な行為に関しては禁止という同意ができつつある、と。マクドナルドやバーガーキングなども身動きのできない状態でなども養育された家畜を使わないようになってきている、と。


 まず、日本人はこうした世界の動向を知っておく必要があるし、マスコミがこうした問題意識を日本社会に伝えることは義務だと思う。

 それはともかく、本人は肉食で、自分が偽善家であることを認めている。それが悪いか、といわんばかりである。さらに、ずるいのはそれだけではなく、アメリカにちょうど都合のいい基準でしか、評論しないことだ。

 肉食をやめて、アメリカの偽善を非難しない。

 それまでは、動物愛護・権利団体のなりゆきにまかせて、自分はいまでも肉を食らいながら、欧米で同意が形成されつつあるところで、We われわれに同意があるかのように語り、たぶん、そうでない国を今後非難していくのであろう。(ーーー中国のケースも出しているがそれは極めて特殊な例外的ケースであろう)。

 自分が無理しないで、他人を批判できる基準をグローバルな基準として設定するのだ。

 グローバリゼーションはアメリカを中心としたアメリカニぜーションと言われる所以である。

 基準が正しければ採用してよいわけだが、乗り遅れるととんだ非難を受けることになるので、日本は、このやり口に警戒しておくべきだ。だからこそ情報収集をなおざりにしてはいけない。


 そして、権力者というのは、他が自分たちに追いつくとルールを自分たちに都合のいいように変える癖がある。これにも警戒すべきだ。






The Plight of the Babe in the American Workplace 女性は職場で元気で可愛く?? !

2013年07月30日 11時10分07秒 | Weblog
How S exy Should A Worker Be? The Plight of the Babe in the American Workplace
By Amanda Hess | Posted Monday, July 29, 2013, at 5:28 PM




When the Borgata hires a new babe, it puts her on the scale, then requires her to weigh in periodically throughout her career to ensure that her weight does not increase by more than 7 percent of her initial poundage. If it does, the c asino reserves the right to suspend the babe until she slims down.



Last week, 22 of these babes lost a lawsuit against the c asino. They had alleged that the Borgata discriminated against them based on both weight and s ex. Male servers at the Borgata, they said, are not judged on their babeliness, or their poundage. But Judge Johnson found that the Borgata’s requirements were lega






While the Borgata babes are heading back to the scale, three women who worked for Merrill Lynch have filed suit against the company for s exing up their own job descriptions. The women allege that their employer forced them to attend female-only seminars on how to dress, to act “perky,” and to read a book called Seducing the Boys Club


The book counsels women to stage workplace interactions with their coworkers that play out like “great s ex.” It tells women that it’s “important to reinforce his hunk status,” to tell him “I love you,” and to use comments like “Wow, you look great. Been working out?” to curry favor among their male peers





 カジノのウエイトレスさんに体重制限があって、太ると停職というのもすごいが、メリルリンチなどの一流企業でも、男性同僚にへつらうための講座に出席しなくてはいけない、とはたいへんですね。


アメリカ。

 欧州とかアフリカとの比較文化論になっていないところがいい。てか、それが普通だろう。



フィリピンで慰安婦(性奴隷)にされた被害者女性たちが抗議デモ  プラカードの一部文字起こし

2013年07月30日 10時56分57秒 | Weblog
フィリピンで慰安婦(性奴隷)にされた被害者女性たちが抗議デモ


プラカードの一部文字起こし
PM Shinzo Abe
We are victims of Japan's military sexual slavery
安倍晋三総理
私たちは日本軍性奴隷制度の犠牲者である

We are the proof the living witness of Japan's war crime
私たち生存者が日本の戦争犯罪の証拠だ

We want justice now!!
私たちはいま正義を望んでいる!!

We were forced
We were abused
We were violate
We were raped
by Japanese military during World War II
第二次世界大戦のあいだ日本の軍隊によって
私たちは強制された、虐待された、レイプされた、犯罪だ

他にも、「我々に起こったことが次の世代に起きてはならない」、「我々は、船(安倍氏がODAの名目でフィリピンに供与する巡視船)ではなく正義を望む」などのプラカードが掲げられたとのことです(他の報道による


なるほど、補償を求めているわけではない、わけですね。

、それでも、裏に何らかの政治的勢力があるのではと思わざる得ないが、それにしても、安倍氏の場合、一部右翼に迎合した発言がすべて国際的に裏目にでているのはたしか。


 支援金を払うと申し出て、米軍や各国政府に強制され搾取された性奴隷は名乗りでてほしい、などして、積極的に韓国、米軍などに搾取されたアジア人性奴隷の正義まで、実現してあげないかぎり、この問題は収拾がつかない。

 「国家の意思として」とか、へったくれとか言って下手な否定からはじめると失敗する。強制されたケースがあったからである。




核軍縮という茶番

2013年07月30日 08時27分53秒 | Weblog
米、極秘核施設を同盟国に開示 核の傘、不信拭う狙い

2013年07月30日08時00分



 【ワシントン=牧野愛博】米国が極秘としてきた核関連施設を昨年から、日本など同盟国に見せ始めた。オバマ政権が核軍縮に取り組むなか、「核の傘」で米国が同盟国に与える抑止力に不信感を持たれないようにする措置。日本政府は歓迎しているが、米国の核戦略への関与という重い課題も背負うことになる。


 米国は日米同盟の一環として「核の傘」の提供を日本に確約してきたが、核兵器や関連施設、核戦略の詳細などは明らかにしていなかった。米側関係者の一人は「オバマ政権の核軍縮政策で同盟国が動揺しないよう、透明性を高めた」と説明している。北朝鮮の核に対抗して日韓が核武装に向かうといった「核ドミノ現象」を抑え込むねらいもあるとみられる。



 アメリカの核兵器はしっかりしていますよ、と、要するに、核軍縮というのは茶番、ということを再確認すべき。

核軍縮を叫ぼうとも、核施設を開示しようとも、米は米の優位を一貫して維持しようとしていることも認識しておくべき。

”どんなことがあっても、まず兄貴分の英国と相談してから”

2013年07月30日 08時06分21秒 | Weblog
元駐タイ大使・岡崎久彦 知られざる多国間協議の陥穽
2013.7.30 03:39

5月の訪米の際、朴槿恵韓国大統領は米議会で次のように演説した。・・・・


この韓国の首相は、普段なら、韓国大統領末期にみられるルーピーぶりを初っ端から発揮しているが、それはおいておいて、

 私は従来、この前の戦争に至った原因をただ1つ挙げろといわれれば、日英同盟の廃棄であると言ってきた。昭和天皇も、その重臣も、海軍も親英米派であったから、同盟が続いていれば、どんなことがあっても、まず兄貴分の英国と相談してからということで、英米路線からはずれることはなかったからである。「英米と共に采配の柄を握っていれば良い」という西園寺老公の意見が通ったであろう。


この人のいっさいの評論は、英国が米国にかわっただけで、「どんなことがあっても、まず兄貴分の米国と相談してから」ということに尽きる。

おじいさんで同じ話を何度も何度もうれしそうに繰り返すひとがいるが、あれに近いかもしれない。



主婦が再就職したら経済効果は6兆円以上 "women could actually save Japan

2013年07月30日 07時43分05秒 | Weblog

Mariko Oi | 大井真理子 ‏@MarikoOi 21時間

主婦が再就職したら経済効果は6兆円以上 http://huff.to/1e4RELG Dentsu: If #Japanese women return to work after marriage/kids, \6tr impact http://bbc.in/TgzTC3


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Japan's women: Can they save the country's economy?
By Mariko Oi
BBC News, Tokyo





"If Japan could close its gender employment gap, we estimate that Japan's workforce could expand by 8.2 million," says Kathy Matsui, a Goldman Sachs strategist.

Ms Matsui has been writing about the importance of women's role in contributing to Japan's economic growth since 1999.

In her latest report she says that increased participation of women in the workforce could boost Japan's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by as much as 15%.

The International Monetary Fund's first female Managing Director agrees.

Christine Lagarde told reporters during the IMF World Bank annual meetings in Tokyo that "women could actually save Japan".



日本経済浮揚のため、さらに、女性の地位向上のため、もっと、女性を活用しよう、また、そのためにも、保育所など、子供をもつ人が働きやすい環境をつくろう、というのは賛成




According to Goldman Sachs, less than a third of Japanese children under the age of three spend time at daycare centres.

That is much lower compared to 63% in Denmark, 43% in France, and 40% in the US.


この統計はどうかな?アメリカなどベビーシッターのような社会習慣があるし、単純に比較できないのではないかな?

そもそも比較の対象として、フランスや米国をもってくる意義はなにか? 欧米とくらべて、欧米のようになろう、という発想があるとすれば、やめたほうがいい。日本は日本のやり方でやればよい。欧米は欧米で問題がありすぎる。


。あるいは、まねしたいというなら、米国やフランスのように、核武装したり、植民地にした謝罪や補償は撤回するなり、社会的最下層の黒人やジプシーになにもしない、とか、本格的に米国やフランスのようになる覚悟をしてもらいたい。