動物虐待秘密法

Graphic cow abuse video released as Idaho advances 'ag-gag' bill
By Paresh Dave
February 18, 2014, 6:30 p.m.

Striking back at a proposed Idaho law that would ban undercover filming at farms, an animal rights group released video Tuesday of a dairy worker sexually abusing a cow.
The graphic scene, recorded in 2012, was not initially released when Los Angeles-based Mercy for Animals pushed authorities to investigate animal abuse at Bettencourt Dairies in Idaho. The original video showed about two minutes of lashings, beatings and stompings suffered by cows.
The dairy quickly fired five people after that video was released and installed surveillance cameras throughout its facility. The man seen fondling a cow’s vagina in the newly released video eventually spent 102 days in jail.
Idaho lawmakers have proposed legislation to punish people who cause damage or videotape farm work after entering through force, threat, misrepresentation or trespass. It would be a misdemeanor punishable by a year in jail or a $5,000 fine -- the same as convicted animal abusers.
The dairy industry says the law is needed to protect dairies from animal rights advocates who lie about their backgrounds on job applications so they can gain access to sites for filming. The bill's sponsor has compared the animal rights groups to terrorists, alleging that they seek economic damages as much as reforms by demanding that the dairies' corporate customers sever ties.

Ag-gag
From Wikipedia


アメリカなぞで、畜産家などで行われている動物虐待の映像がときどき放映されますけど、それってのは、動物の権利団体のメンバーが、従業員に応募して、それで、隠密に、撮影して暴露しちゃうわけですね。

　で、そんなことされると、畜産農家に経済的打撃があるので、そうした、隠密撮影を禁止する法律がある州もあるそうであります。

食肉になる動物に対する虐待

File:Gestation crates 5.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

動画

WATCH: Walmart Pork Supplier Caught Abusing Mother Pigs and Piglets

Is That Sausage Worth This?
FEB. 19, 2014

A video, taken secretly by an undercover worker and scheduled to be released on Thursday by the Humane Society of the United States, pulls back the curtain on the banal brutality of a huge hog operation in Kentucky called Iron Maiden Farms (which declined to comment). The video shows barns filled with hogs jammed so tightly into tiny individual pens that they can’t move, chewing forlornly on the bars that restrain them.

It also shows workers gutting dead piglets and turning their intestines into a purée that is then fed back to the mother pigs, or sows.



My family raised pigs on the Oregon farm where I grew up. Our hogs were as smart as dogs and had personalities just as distinct. I also learned that it’s a misconception to think of pigs as filthy. On the contrary, when they have space, they are quite tidy and don’t defecate near where they sleep. They cover themselves in mud partly to avoid sunburn.


While forcing hogs to be solitary and immobile in gestation crates for their entire adult lives is soul-crushing, popular disgust is leading to a revolution in industrial farming practices. Whole Foods and Chipotle and Burger King were among the first companies to avoid pigs raised in gestation crates, and, in the last few years, McDonalds, Safeway, Costco, Oscar Mayer and dozens of other companies have announced similar moves, often after a transition. It doesn’t seem as though costs will rise significantly.

　クリストフの豚虐待について、です。

　豚ってのは、ちょっと大きくなると、身動きのできない檻に入れられて、妊娠、授乳、から、死亡まで、ずっと動けない状態にしておくわけですね。
　養豚場によっては、動画にあるように、従業員たちから、たたかれたりといった虐待がある。
　さらに、死んだ子豚の内臓なぞは、母豚に食べさせたりしているそうであります。

　で、こうした残虐な養豚場からの豚は飼わないようにしよう、という消費者の声が高まって、バーガーキングなど大手の企業が動き出した、というわけです。

　日本でも、問題にしている人たちはいるのですが、食肉になる動物に対する虐待についての問題意識、というのは、日本でも、もっともったほうがいい。この点、日本のマスコミは報道の仕方がたりない。


　それは、それとして、檻をなくしたところで、イルカほど自由じゃないですからね。
NYTというのは、アメリカ人が食べている、より不自由な豚の殺害について、また、アメリカ兵が搾取した、まだ、謝罪も補償もされていないアジア人性奴隷については、何もしないか、多めにみて、他方が、より自由なイルカの殺害について、また、すでに謝罪を受けた性奴隷については、いまだに大騒ぎにする。


　要するに、NYTは、アメリカのご都合にそった雑誌なわけです。







　

アニメ声でセクシー？

動画

I'm a very sexy baby

動画
What is Upspeak?




記事

Why Middle-School Girls Sometimes Talk Like Babies
And how teachers can respond
JESSICA LAHEYFEB 18 2014, 11:10 AM ET

　向こうでも、幼児声やアニメ声で話す人がいるらしく、その効果として、

“It does make me softer and more merciful, more likely to expend extra energy to help, and so on.”

　聞いている人は、やわらかくなるし、おこっちゃいけない、なんかしてあげたい、ような気になる人がいるのだそうだ。

　セクシーで、色っぽいと思う人もいるそうで、大人がそれをやるのは勝手だが、、それを真似た中学生あたりの生徒が性的に利用されるとまずいので、自分の受け持つ生徒のなかにアニメ声幼児口調で話す生徒は、そのしゃべり方を変えるように躾けた、と。

A school official blame female students for acts of sexual violence committed against them

WEDNESDAY, FEB 19, 2014 06:03 AM +0900
Rape culture and evangelical culture collide at “God’s Harvard”
A reporter details how the evangelical Patrick Henry College systematically failed victims of sexual assault
KATIE MCDONOUGH

After a student named Sarah told the school’s dean of student life Sandra Corbitt that she had been sexually assaulted, she was told, “He’s a nice boy. Are you sure you want to report this?”



Another student, who disclosed to Corbitt that she had been receiving emails from a male student threatening to “forcibly take” her virginity, was told, “The choices you make and the people you choose to associate with, the way you try to portray yourself, will affect how people treat you.” The student was later instructed to think about her clothing and “the kinds of ideas it puts in men’s minds.”

That a school official would blame female students for acts of sexual violence committed against them is (unfortunately) far from shocking in this culture, but as Feldman goes on to report, because Patrick Henry College is a private institution that does not accept government funding, it does not have to comply with the Clery Act,




The problems of rape culture are not unique to Patrick Henry College, but the confluence of its evangelical Christian worldview ― which penalizes sex outside of marriage, strictly regulates women’s behavior and lauds men as God’s representatives on earth ― and the broader institutional and cultural forces that silence victims and punish those who speak out has produced a devastating result for its female students.

　そもそも、レイプに寛容なレイプ文化というもののがあるが、キリスト教系の学校では、男性のほうが神に近く、結婚生活以外の性行動など、女性の行動は厳しく規制されことも手伝って、女性が性的暴行を受けても、被害者の女性のほうを非難する傾向がある学校がある、と。アメリカ。

Chinese Military Trains for Short War With Japan

「中国軍、尖閣奪取へ電撃戦想定訓練も」　米軍幹部発言
2014.2.20 19:25



Navy Official: China Training for ‘Short Sharp War’ with Japan

By: USNI News Editor
Published: February 18, 2014 1:25 PM




February 20, 2014 8:30 am
China training for ‘short, sharp war’, says senior US naval officer
By Geoff Dyer in Washington

China preps military for 'short, sharp war' with Japan, US Navy analyst says
By Perry ChiaramontePublished February 19, 2014FoxNews.com

あの爺、大事なときには必ず馬鹿発言するんですよね。

森元首相、フィギュア団体は「負けると分かっていた」

　森元総理は２０日、福岡市での講演でソチオリンピックのフィギュアスケートに出場している浅田真央選手のショートプログラムの演技について、このように述べました。

　「あの子、大事なときには必ず転ぶんですよね。団体戦、負けるとわかっている団体戦に何も浅田さんを出して、恥かかせることなかったと思うんですよね」（森喜朗元首相）

　その上で、日本時間の今月９日未明に行われた団体戦に出場して、ジャンプで転倒したことがショートプログラムに響いたと分析。協会は、トリプルアクセルが成功すれば、団体戦で３位になれると浅田選手を出場させたが、「見事にひっくり返った」と述べました。

　森元総理は、東京オリンピック・パラリンピック組織委員会の会長を務めています。（20日16:36）

この爺、大事なときには必ず馬鹿発言するんですよね。



そっとしておいてあげようよ。



更新

Twitter / hirakawah: 「失言すると分かっていた。森元首相を五輪組織委会長にして恥を ...

性転換を経て花嫁に！

性転換した大学講師・吉井奈々が「美容整形の今」に迫る



【おネエ】 性転換を経て花嫁に！ "おネエの吉井奈々さんに聞く！" 大竹まこと　ゴールデンラジオ

性転換した大学講師・吉井奈々が「美容整形の今」に迫る | 日刊SPA!

外資買収のバランス

やまなか けんじ - 新自由主義の帰結

基幹産業の技術力を失う　また、本社が移って、税収減　に繋がると。

結局、利回りの良さそうな企業は外資に渡り、それら企業は国民経済とは無縁のものになる。利が回らなくなれば国ごと使い捨てにされる。今日、そして明日の日本の姿がイギリスにある。

記事によると、金融市場主義に走るのも危険だが、かといって、企業を国有化して国際競争力をなくして英国病にかかる道もないわけですね。

”靖国参拝はnot helpful(何の得にもならない）”

2014/02/20 3:17 pm
TPPは日米関係にプラス、靖国参拝は何の得にもならず＝米議員団

議員たちは安倍首相の参拝への批判を手控えるつもりはなさそうだった。議員たちは19日午後、同首相と会見する予定になっていた。

センセンブレナー議員は「靖国参拝がnot helpful(何の得にもならない）と言う同僚議員たちに賛成だ」と述べた。同議員は「これ（靖国参拝）が日本の総理大臣に勧められるべき行動だと考える人は、米国では皆無だと思う」と語った。

February 19, 2014, 7:28 PM
D.C. View: Trade Trumps Tensions, But Yasukuni ‘Not Helpful’

Article
Comments (1)
JAPAN REAL TIME HOME PAGE »
By Jacob M. Schlesinger

But the visiting Americans didn’t seem shy about continuing to criticize the move by the prime minister, whom they were scheduled to meet later in the day.


“I would concur with my colleagues in saying that the Yasukuni Shrine visit was not helpful,” Mr. Sensenbrenner summed up. “I don’t think there’s anybody in the United States that thought that this was something that was advisable for the prime minister of Japan to do.”

アメリカの失望発言やら、イルカ発言もnot helpfulだがな。

Sorry for implying Gordon Brown was surly because he was Scottish

surly


スコットランド住民投票まで７カ月　英政府　独立阻止へ攻勢


Dear Scotland: here are 76 things we'd like to apologise for, love England
Hadrian's wall, Culloden, the poll tax, Jacob Rees-Mogg: yes, England has inflicted an awful lot of angst and pain on Scotland down the centuries – but, look, we still don't want you to leave
Share 1531


1
inShare
3
Email
Stuart Jeffries

謝るから、スコットランドよ、イギリスから去らないでくれ、と。

背景がよくわからないのも多いが、ウケるのもある。

空しい幸福 Life is made unbearable by lack of meaning.

WEDNESDAY, FEB 19, 2014 10:30 PM +0900
A meaningful life does not guarantee a happy one
Research suggests that while happiness and a sense of meaning often overlap, they also diverge in surprising ways
DAISY GREWAL, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

　Psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl once wrote, “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”　For most people, feeling happy and finding life meaningful are both important and related goals. But do happiness and meaning always go together?




As one might expect, people’s happiness levels were positively correlated with whether they saw their lives as meaningful.However, the two measures were not identical – suggesting that what makes us happy may not always bring more meaning, and vice versa.


　Feeling happy was strongly correlated with seeing life as easy, pleasant, and free from difficult or troubling events. Happiness was also correlated with being in good health and generally feeling well most of the time. However, none of these things were correlated with a greater sense of meaning. Feeling good most of the time might help us feel happier, but it doesn’t necessarily bring a sense of purpose to our lives.


　Interestingly, their findings suggest that money, contrary to popular sayings, can indeed buy happiness. Having enough money to buy what one needs in life, as well as what one desires, were also positively correlated with greater levels of happiness. However, having enough money seemed to make little difference in life’s sense of meaning. This same disconnect was recently found in a multi-national study conducted by Shigehiro Oishi and Ed Diener, who show that people from wealthy countries tend to be happier, however, they don’t see their lives as more meaningful.


Perhaps instead of saying that “money doesn’t buy happiness,” we ought to say instead that “money doesn’t buy meaning.”



In Baumeister’s study, feeling more connected to others improved both happiness and meaning. However, the role we adopt in our relationships makes an important difference. Participants in the study who were more likely to agree with the statement, “I am a giver,” reported less happiness than people who were more likely to agree with, “I am a taker.” However, the “givers” reported higher levels of meaning in their lives compared to the “takers.” In addition, spending more time with friends was related to greater happiness but not more meaning. In contrast, spending more time with people one loves was correlated with greater meaning but not with more happiness. The researchers suspect that spending time with loved ones is often more difficult, but ultimately more satisfying, than spending time with friends


More broadly, the findings suggest that pure happiness is about getting what we want in life―whether through people, money, or life circumstances. Meaningfulness, in contrast, seems to have more to do with giving, effort, and sacrifice. It is clear that a highly meaningful life may not always include a great deal of day-to-day happiness. And, the study suggests, our American obsession with happiness may be intimately related to a feeling of emptiness, or a life that lacks meaning.

　これはわりに面白い記事。


　幸福と感じるほど、人生に意味を感じる場合が多いがしかし、幸福な人が人生に意味を感じるとは限らす、人生に目的をもったひとが幸福とは限らない、と。　気楽で、楽な人生、困難も病気も少ない人生、欲しいものが得られる人生を人は幸福に感じるがしかし、そこに意味を感じるとは限らない、と。金で幸福は買えるが、意味を買うことできない、と。

　逆に、人生に意味・目的がある人にとっては、困難や苦しみがあっても、捧げ、努力し、犠牲をも厭わない、と。

　人生はまわりの環境によって耐えられなくなるのではない、その人が意味、目的を失うことによって、耐えられないものになるのだ、とホロコーストを生き抜いた精神科医のフランクルは言ったが、人生の空虚さに耐えかねて、幸福ばかり脅迫的に追及する人たちもいるのではないか、と。

くそみそいっしょ

2014年2月14日(金)
ヒトラー生誕パーティー呼びかけ

田母神氏の支援者

Buzzurlにブックマーク Yahoo!ブックマークに登録

　政治団体「維新政党・新風」の元副代表・瀬戸弘幸氏（２００７年参院選で落選）が「アドルフ・ヒトラー生誕１２５周年記念パーティ」（４月）参加を呼びかけています。

　「偉大なる総統閣下が生誕された日に、皆でワインを飲みながら語らいましょう」と呼びかけている瀬戸氏ですが、同氏と維新政党・新風が今回の東京都知事選（９日投開票）で応援したのが、元航空幕僚長の田母神俊雄氏です。同党の鈴木信行代表は田母神氏の選挙カーの上からの応援演説まで行っています。

　田母神氏に対しては、ヘイトスピーチ（憎悪表現）を繰り返し、京都地裁から損害賠償などを命じる判決（昨年１０月）を受けた右翼排外主義団体の在特会（在日特権を許さない市民の会）の桜井誠会長ら関係者も支持しています。瀬戸氏も「会員」として同会の活動に参加してきました。

　在特会のウェブサイト上の「行動する保守運動のカレンダー」は「ヒトラー生誕１２５周年記念パーティ」の日程も掲載。核武装が持論の石原慎太郎・維新共同代表や、他の都知事選候補を「人間のクズ」呼ばわりした百田尚樹ＮＨＫ経営委員らの支援に加え、ヒトラー賛美の勢力まで田母神氏の背景に存在しています。

Japanese blogger calls for party to celebrate Hitler’s birthday, whines when criticized
Preston PhroPreston Phro

　まあ、こういうのに支援されるのは迷惑だろうが、最近の右翼は褒め殺しというのはやらんのかね？　

　糞みそいっしょにされたくないなら、糞は糞と批判しなさい、糞からは離れなさい、と。

　安倍首相は、南京虐殺がなかった、という嘘をつく人がいると聞けば、いれば、それは嘘だ、と。

　Japan Timesは、　日本人が糞好き人種だと、さけぶ、ヘイトブロガーをコラムニストとして雇っていたら、早く契約を切りなさい、と。

Questions about what it takes to become a U.S. ambassador.

その国に行ったこともない民間人、米大使に指名



‘Ambassadors for Dummies’: Obama’s payback diplomatic posts make mockery of foreign service
Published time: February 16, 2014 14:23
Edited time: February 16, 2014 19:38



Recent confirmation hearings raise eyebrows at ambassador nomination criteria
February 17, 2014 at 6:39 PM EST

a campaign "bundler" – a wealthy fund-raiser who bundle contributions from multiple donors –

NICHOLAS BURNS, former U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs: Well, I think, in recent decades, the big question at that White Houses of both parties have asked is, how much did this person raise for my campaign? Were they bundlers? Did they raise money from other people?

And it seems that that is now one of the major criterion to select ambassadors. Our presidents have done best when they have asked another question: Is this person qualified? Do they have some experience in the country? Do they speak the language of the country? Have they done business in that country?

And there are plenty of very good political ambassadors in the past, from Averell Harriman, who was FDR’s link to Stalin as ambassador to the Soviet Union, Edwin O. Reischauer, the great Japan expert at Harvard whom President Kennedy appointed to be ambassador to Japan.

We have tremendously qualified people in our country, but we ought to be looking at the skills required to be successful in the job. And that’s language and experience and a deep knowledge of history and economics. And that increasingly is not the question that a lot of our presidents are asking.



　オバマ外交がボロボロのわけだわな。


　そんなオバマ来日を控えて、竹島式典に参加をとりやめる、属国安倍”ナショナリスト”首相ってなんだかなああ。

台湾関係法制定を

To Counter Beijing, Japan Moves Closer to Taiwan
Rumors of a Japanese Taiwan Relations Act hint at a possible strategy to court Taipei at Beijing’s expense.

shannon-tiezzi
By Shannon Tiezzi
February 20, 2014



自民有志、台湾関係法策定で関係強化
2014.2.17 21:21



中国、日本版「台湾関係法」の策定に断固反対

2014-02-20 11:28:19

　アメリカ版とちがって、武器云々の話ではなく、経済的深化促進なのだから、中国にとっても悪い話ではあるまい。

　ASUS　万歳！

おしりぺんぺん法案

February 19th, 2014
09:50 AM ET
37 minutes ago
Spanking bill in Kansas sparks controversy

The legislation specifically would allow for spankings "up to ten forceful applications in succession of a bare, open-hand palm against the clothed buttocks of a child and any such reasonable physical force on the child as may be necessary to hold, restrain or control the child in the course of maintaining authority over the child, acknowledging that redness or bruising may occur on the tender skin of a child as a result."

In her statement, Finney said that "Parental corporal discipline in Kansas, along with 49 other states, has always been permitted. Unfortunately, Kansas has never affirmatively, expressly defined corporal discipline in Kansas statute, leaving the interpretation of that matter to administrative officials in the executive branch, law enforcement personnel, and the judicial branch."

　親など保護者は、子供のお尻を１０回までなら、たたいてよいという法案がカンサスで策定中、と。

　親による体罰ってのは、アメリカでは法律上許されている、が、何が体罰にあたるかあいまいなだったので、明瞭にするためだ、と。