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The view from Moscow: What's the US endgame in Ukraine?
Imagine for a moment Putin and his aides are sitting around, trying to figure out what the West is doing in Ukraine.
Last updated: 06 May 2014 11:47
Alexander Nekrassov
Alexander Nekrassov

But when it comes to the bigger perspective, the endgame, Putin and his people suspect that the US plans to use the crisis in Ukraine to drive a wedge between Europe and Russia, with the aim to take over the European markets under a trading pact with the EU. The Kremlin believes that the crisis in Ukraine has a much bigger dimension and involves a US desire to redraw the economic map of Europe, to start sorting out its enormous debts that are spiralling out of control.

In order for it to start cutting down the debt, the US needs a vast market for its goods and services and the EU is currently the biggest one of them all. So the US endgame, as Moscow sees it, is to run Europe while freezing out Russia. And the response that Moscow sees to that? Do what the Yanks are doing: Drive Europe and the US apart.

Moscow has been quite good at it up to now. And that's what the new "cold war" is all about really. Russia battling with the US over Europe. And in this fight, regrettably, Ukraine is coming out as the biggest loser.

ロシアは、アメリカは欧州とロシアを分断して、欧州の市場を手に入れようとしている、と見ており、ロシアとしては、欧州と米国を分断しようとしている、と。

敗者は？－－－ウクライナだろう、と。

警官におっぱいつかまれて７年の刑 ・ 不倫して集団強姦されて鞭打ちの刑

OCCUPY WALL STREET
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Why Occupy Protester Cecily McMillan's Guilty Verdict is a Travesty
She might serve 7 years after cop grabbed her breast. The cop? Nada.

May 6, 2014 |
The verdict in the biggest Occupy related criminal case in New York City, that of Cecily McMillan, came down Monday afternoon. As disturbing as it is that she was found guilty of felony assault against Officer Grantley Bovell, the circumstances of her trial reflect an even more disturbing reality – that of normalized police violence, disproportionately punitive sentences (McMillan faces seven years in prison), and a criminal penal system based on anything but justice. While this is nothing new for the over-policed communities of New York City, what happened to McMillan reveals just how powerful and unrestrained a massive police force can be in fighting back against the very people with whom it is charged to protect.




When the police moved in to the park that night, in formation and with batons, to arrest a massive number of nonviolent protesters, the chaos was terrifying. Bovell claimed that McMillan elbowed him in the face as he attempted to arrest her, and McMillan and her defense team claim that Bovell grabbed her right breast from behind, causing her to instinctively react.

ウォールストリート占拠デモで、警官とのすったもんだのなか、背後からおっぱいさわられ反射的に腕でよけたら、結果的に警官に肘鉄したことになり、７年の刑に処せられる女性ーーーアメリカ




Gang-rape victim in Indonesia faces caning for violating Sharia law
By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 11:29 EDT

既婚男性との不倫が発覚して集団強姦の被害にあったが、不倫は許されないとして、イスラム法に従って、鞭打ちの刑にあう女性ーーー　インドネシア。

パリのぼったくりタクシー

Paris tourist taken for a €400 ride by fake cabbie
Published: 05 May 2014 11:45 GMT+02:00
Updated: 05 May 2014 11:45 GMT+02:00

パリの空港では、ぼったくりのタクシーが有名だとか。

ある観光客は、白タクに乗り、偶然、警察に追跡されて、２００ｋｍの逃走劇に付き合わされたあげく、おりるときにに、４００ユーロ取られた、と。

”待つことそのものが治療”

統合失調症？　幻聴の不安、切迫して訴える女性（前編）

待つことそのものが治療であると、繰り返し伝えた。

統合失調もどき以外でも、病といわれるものの多くに通じることかもしれないね。

泣き相撲

タイムラインの写真 - 朝日新聞（Asahishimbun）

Librarian53 • 9 days ago
Seems kind of mean spirited, even if it is a tradition.

Sumo Wrestlers Bring Babies to Tears as Part of Centuries Old Festival - ABC News

泣き相撲

勝敗に関係無く、見ている方は楽しいが、幼児には大いに迷惑であろう。

見ているのは可愛いと思うがかもしれないが、ちょっと意地悪、幼児にとっては大きな迷惑、という意見があることも知っておこう。

おかあさんに優しい国ランキング

おかあさんにやさしい国ランキング



The best country to be a mother is... Finland tops the list - but high-risk pregnancies and natural disasters see U.S. drop to 31st spot
The U.S. ranked number 31 on Save the Children's 15th annual State of the World's Mothers Report, down from its place in the top ten in 2000




Singapore best place in Asia to be a mother

シンガポール　１５位
韓国　　　　　３０位
米国　　　　　３１位
日本　　　　　３２位

The report looked at health, educational and economic factors in 178 nations to determine which are the safest and happiest places for mothers to live in.

要因を詳細に調べて、環境を改善して、日本もがんばってもらいたいものですね。

最低賃金に関する議論

Conservative Myths About the Minimum Wage, Debunked
Contrary to conservative myths, raising the minimum wage would boost the economy, benefit all workers, and won't hurt consumers.

“It’s a monstrous job-killer”

We also have real-world experience with higher minimums. In 1998, the citizens of Washington State voted to raise theirs and then link future increases to the rate of inflation. Today, at $9.32, the Evergreen State has the highest minimum wage in the country – not far from the $10.10 per hour proposed by Barack Obama. At the time it was passed, opponents promised it would kill jobs and ultimately hurt the workers it was designed to help.

But it didn’t turn out that way. This week, Bloomberg’s Victoria Stilwell, Peter Robison and William Selway reported: “In the 15 years that followed… job growth continued at an average 0.8 percent annual pace, 0.3 percentage point above the national rate. Payrolls at Washington’s restaurants and bars, portrayed as particularly vulnerable to higher wage costs, expanded by 21 percent. Poverty has trailed the U.S. level for at least seven years.”

“It will hurt mom-and-pop businesses”


small business owners support a hike to $10.10 per hour by a 57-43 margin. Eighty-two percent of those surveyed say they already pay their employees more than the minimum and 52 percent agreed that if the wage floor is raised, “people will have a higher percentage of their income to spend on goods and services” and small businesses “will be able to grow and hire new workers.”



“Major costs will be passed along to consumers”


raising the minimum wage to $12 per hour – two bucks more than what’s currently on the table – would increase the cost of an average shopping trip to Wal-Mart by just 46 cents – or around $12 per year. And another paper published last September by economists Jeannette Wicks Lim and Robert Pollin estimated that a hike to $10.50 an hour would likely result in the price of a Big Mac increasing by only a dime, from $4.50 to $4.60, on average.

If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation since its inception in 1968, it would now stand at $10.74 per hour. With the share of our nation’s output going to workers’ wages at an all-time low ― and inequality on the rise ― it’s easy to understand why the idea of raising it to $10.10 is so popular. And despite opponents’ dire warnings, there’s really no good reason that we shouldn’t do so.

　最低賃金引上げにまつわる弊害に関する嘘。

　最低賃金を引き上げると弊害として、雇用減少があげられるが、しかし、最低賃金を引き上げ、インフレとリンクさせたワシントン州では、むしろ、雇用率はあがった、と。
　ただ、ググルと、PDF]
最低賃金の引き上げは - 一橋大学経済学研究科
　そうなっていない、実証データもあるようである。


　零細な自営業とって損害になる、ともいわれるが、過半数の零細企業家は最低賃金の引き上げに賛成であり、８割方の店主は、すでに、最低賃金より高い賃金を払っている、と。

　引き上げ分が物価に転嫁されるというが、ウォールマートでも年間１２ドル、ビックマックが１０セント程度上がる程度であろう、という試算。


　　経済の素人だからなんともいえないが、貧困と所得格差の問題は、もっと具体的に議論を活発化してもらいたいものである。

サッカーに興じるおばあちゃん。

Italian football-playing 'granny' goes viral - The Local

サッカーに興じるイタリアのおばあちゃんの動画が人気に、と。


じいさん、ばあさんになっても、若い人のやることをちょこっとやってみたいね。

似たような人間、似たような社会

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クラブ元経営者に無罪判決　ダンス「性風俗乱さない」
阿部峻介2014年4月25日11時53分


NOON裁判　無罪判決全文

　


警察はよほど暇だったんかいな、といった事件。

ジェイク・エーデルスタイン氏のの記事が必ずしも適切だとは思わないが、

Japan has a lot of dumb laws that are really just used for convenience and not generally enforced, and this is one of them.

これは、適切な指摘である。


　存在はするが、執行されていないstupid laws、 archaic lawsというのはしかし、どこの国もあるものだ。　新聞を読んでいれば英語圏でも、ときどき記事にもなっている。


　日本独自論とか、日本Wacky論にはしる論者というのは、たいていの自国や外国の歴史や実情について疎い場合がほとんどではないだろうか？

　日本人が欧米人を同じ人間だと思うほどに欧米人が日本人を同じ人間だと思っていない場合を発見して驚くことがしばしばある。
　もっとも、日本人の中にも、日本独自論をひっさげていい気分になっている人もいるのであるが・・・・

EPA締結するしないに関係なく、死刑制度は廃止しちゃえば？

EU、日本に「人権条項」要求＝侵害なら経済連携協定停止
時事通信 5月6日(火)2時31分配信

　ドイツに戦時中の性奴隷問題があるからといって、フランスがいまでもロマをいじめているからといって、協定停止してもなんの意味もないしなああ。

　いずれにせよ、EPA締結するしないに関係なく、日本の死刑制度は廃止しちゃえば？


因みに、アメリカの死刑囚の
US death row study: 4% of defendants sentenced to die are innocent
Deliberately conservative figure lays bare extent of possible miscarriages of justice suggesting that the innocence of more than 200 prisoners still in the system may never be recognised

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およそ２５人に１人は無実の罪で殺されるんだ、と。

Adult Math Score

The Common Core makes simple math more complicated. Here's why. - Vox

数学ってのは基本的には論理的思考能力だからなあ。

Abe lays flowers at Tomb of Unknown Soldier

首相、パリで無名戦士墓に献花　靖国参拝の理解狙う
2014年5月6日 08時09分

Abe lays flowers at Tomb of Unknown Soldier | Photos | Kyodo News

政府用語 deeply concerned の意味

ところで、

The State Department Is 'Deeply Concerned'
by LINTON WEEKS
May 01, 201411:11 AM ET

世界中の出来事について　deeply concerned　深い懸念を表明しているわけであるが、

Each time Secretary of State John Kerry or a department spokesperson speaks of being "deeply concerned," Kori says, "It's more than a passing concern, but not 'gravely concerned.' "

Detailing the many usages of the words last month, she says, actually shows "how much the State Department believes its work is communicating bilaterally with countries ― since to utilize the phrasing so often about so many issues on which we are doing little suggests they expect no cross-checking."

それは憂慮a passing concern　以上、重大な懸念gravely concerned　以下、特に何もしない、程度の懸念なんだ、そうである。

国際社会での正義の回復、人権強化についても、日本はもっと貢献すべき。

「奴隷にして売る」＝ナイジェリア女生徒誘拐－イスラム過激派

こうした犯罪に対して
Britain and US join hunt for 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria as a further eight girls are taken overnight by terror group
British Foreign Secretary confirms Britain will help in the search for the girls
United States have also called in FBI agents to assist in finding them
A further eight girls also taken from village by gunmen overnight
Happened near a Boko Haram stronghold in north east Nigeria
Comes as video was released of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau
In it he threatens to sell the girls on the market
Around 270 girls were kidnapped from a school in Chibok last month
By JENNIFER NEWTON
PUBLISHED: 12:21 GMT, 6 May 2014 | UPDATED: 13:48 GMT, 6 May 2014

英米政府が、少女たちの発見、解放に協力する、と。

ここらへん、英米の対応はしっかりしているね。


アフガンの地すべりなんかのニュースもあったけど、日本はちゃんとなんかしたのだろうか、とググルと、


アフガンへ緊急援助物資　政府、地滑り被害で
2014/5/4 21:50

　政府は４日、大規模な地滑りで多数の死傷者が出たアフガニスタンにテントや毛布など物資1100万円相当を緊急援助すると発表した。安倍晋三首相はカルザイ大統領に被災者へのお見舞いと遺族へのお悔やみのメッセージを送った。

やっていないわけではないんだね。

軍事的ななにかができるわけではないんだから、人命の救済など、できる国際貢献はどんどんすべき。

誘惑

クリントン氏の元愛人・モニカさん「後悔と悲しみ」告白
2014年5月7日6時0分 スポーツ報知

Monica Lewinsky returns to say she is sorry about doing that ‘thing’ men like with that guy

Lewinsky says she is sorry for causing America to feel such pain and Bill Clinton to feel such joy :

“I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened.”

この絵は傑作だ、笑える。

因みに、当時、「不適切な関係」などといった言葉が、日本でも少し流行ったような気もするが・・・