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A Tea Party Taxonomy
共和党予備選で大物候補を相次ぎ蹴落とす草の根保守派連合の実力とは
2010年10月13日（水）

いったいティーパーティーとは何者で、何を求めているのか。

　さまざまな調査や集会の参加者を見る限り、この運動の中心となっているのは「大きな政府」を嫌い、社会の変化に敵意を抱く中流層で中年の白人男性だ。その横顔は実のところ、過去の右派運動（78年の「カリフォルニア納税者の反乱」など）の参加者や、ティーパーティー自身が敵意を向ける共和党支配層とぴったり重なる。

　ティーパーティーの特徴は、そのアナーキーな性格だ。彼らはあらゆる権威に敵意を示し、いつもけんか腰の言動を取り、自分たちが非難する政策に対して建設的な代替案を示すことはない。ある意味で、60年代のニューレフト（新左翼）の右派版という見方もできる。ただしニューレフトが若者中心で未来志向だったのに対して、ティーパーティーは年齢層が高くて考え方も後ろ向きだ。

So who are these people and what do they want from us? A series of polls, as well as be-ins like Glenn Beck's Washington rally last month, have given us a picture of a movement predominated by middle-class, middle-aged, white men angry about the expansion of government and hostile to societal change. But that profile could accurately describe the past several right-wing insurgencies, from the California tax revolt of the late 1970s to the Contract with America of 1994, not to mention the very Republican establishment that the Tea Party positions itself against. What's distinctive about the Tea Party is its anarchist streak - its antagonism toward any authority, its belligerent self-expression, and its lack of any coherent program or alternative to the policies it condemns.

　ということで最近よくでてくるTEA　PARTYについての説明


もっとも、”黒人”のメンバーがいないわけではない。

So much for the 'post-racial' president　
Lloyd Marcus

　共和党は、”黒人”が選挙の日に家にいて投票しないこと望んでいる、というオバマ大統領の発言を取り上げてオバマ氏が人種カードrace cardを使っている、と非難している。

で、こっちはTEA　PARTYではないのだろうが、変わり種で、

Republican Senate candidate under fire over PR tactics

Published 14 October, 2010,

In her early career she campaigned for Christian values, making clear her views on masturbation and her belief in no sex before marriage.

　キリスト教の価値観を唱道し、オナニー、婚前交渉禁止を唱える女性議員候補を取り上げている。
当選する確率は少ないが、

Some blame the media, for giving so much coverage to candidates whose qualifications are questionable.

”The American media is so screwed up on matters of substance and so ready to do the flashy, the superficial. They love a quick quote from a pretty face,” said political analyst Brent Budowski.

　メディアが軽薄で、可愛い娘ちゃんの簡単な発言を引用するのが好きだから、こうした人までメディアでとりあげられるのだ、という意見を紹介されている。

　いずこも、ですな。


US media silent following months of sensationalism

Published 13 October, 2010,

テロ容疑者について当時はあれほど騒いでいたアメリカメディアがその裁判については無関心である、と。
その理由として、

Americans have less of an emotional attachment to this case because it is not a 9/11 case. It is the case of a 1998 embassy bombing in Tanzania, an incident far fewer Americans are aware of.

This first case may be a bad case for the US to begin its civil prosecutions of terror cases with.

“The judge has already decided that the key whiteness against him cannot be heard, there are legitimate questions of torture and so-called enhanced interrogation that he’s gone through. So, the government could come out of this not looking very good,” said Schechter.

９．１１のケースでないこと、証言が拷問によって得られたのではないか、という嫌疑があることなどで、政府が見栄えがよくないこと、などをあげる人がいる。

　権力・政府のチェック機関でもあるメディアが政府の都合のよい報道だけするという可能性はアメリカのみならず、日本でもどこでもある。


　

で、RTついでに、貧困にあえぐアメリカが大好きなRTのNYのホームレス報道

Homelessness hits record high in NYC
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Published 14 October, 2010,

“There are more than 37,000 homeless people, including nearly 15,000 children who are homeless each night in New York City. A nearly record number of homeless families, nearly 10,000 homeless families,” said Patrick Markee of the Coalition for the homeless.

NYで記録的なホームレス増加


でもって、
America’s rich are hurting too

Published 12 October, 2010,

アメリカでは金持ちも大変なんですよ、と。家が強制執行で人手にまわる、と。

With millionaire’s collecting unemployment, and being squeezed out of their homes; are America’s rich suffering from the recession too?

If there was any question of whether or not we’re still in a recession, the long lines at a foreclosure modification event in Los Angeles, California may give you the answer. Thousands of people lined up before dawn in a last ditch effort to save their homes.
It’s a scene that reminds some of the Great Depression.

“I’m standing in a soup kitchen line and I’m a psychologist, and I’m a PhD. So that’s the economy for you,” said distressed homeowner Sheida Ashley.

　心理学の博士号もっているひとでも無料食堂の列にならんでいる、という。


で、こっちはBBCだが、

7 October 2010
The 'hidden hunger' in British families
By Mario Cacciottolo
BBC News

Food collected locally is sorted and distributed within a foodbank's community
Food parcels are associated with famine-struck parts of the world. Yet there is a "hidden hunger" in Britain, according to one charity, which has seen a surge in demand for its emergency supply boxes.

Sara is a married mother of two school-aged children. She lives in a four-bedroom house, drives an expensive car... and has relied on food handouts to feed her family.

While the idea of food parcels has echoes of Dickensian London or a famine-struck corner of the developing world, they are becoming more common in 21st Century Britain.

　慈善事業による食料に頼っているイギリス人家族が案外いる、と。

で、コメント欄で入人さんにおしえてもらった記事


【オピニオン】ファシズムは偏狭な欧州にのみ訪れる
ジェームズ・カーチック
2010年 10月 13日

米リベラル派は国内の保守派が米国にファシズムを持ち込もうとする（ブッシュ政権2期の間に試みたが失敗した）偏狭な人たちだと非難する時、ファシズムへの純粋な懐古の念が残る、西側のこの部分を無視していることになる。

　欧州中を旅した人は、進歩主義の手本、多様な倫理観や宗教というそのイメージが、米リベラル派の想像の産物だと分かっている。

米リベラルは欧州の偏狭さについて眼をつむっている、と。

日本のリベラルにも似たようなところはあろう。

で、mozuさんのといったから、


Italy's crackdown on Gypsies reflects rising anti-immigrant tide in Europe


By Anthony Faiola
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, October 12, 2010; 12:25 AM

MILAN - This venerable city, long known for savory saffron risotto and the leggy models of Fashion Week, is moving to establish itself as something else: a zero-tolerance zone for Gypsies.



Anti-Gypsy campaigns in neighboring France have sparked international criticism, with officials there in recent months deporting more than 1,000 ethnic Roma - a clannish people migrating west in large numbers from Eastern Europe. But with great bravado, Milan is taking the lead in responding to Italy's own "Gypsy Emergency."

Blaming rising crime on the new waves of Roma immigrants, authorities are moving to dismantle Milan's largest authorized Gypsy camp, Triboniano, a teeming shantytown of street musicians and day laborers that officials decry as a den of thieves. At the same time, Milan is bulldozing hundreds of small, impromptu camps inhabited by newer arrivals and issuing mass eviction notices to Roma families living in another long-established camp in the city's largest immigrant neighborhood.

"These are dark-skinned people, not Europeans like you and me," said Riccardo De Corato, who is Milan's vice mayor from Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ruling party and who is in charge of handling the camps. He later added: "Our final goal is to have zero Gypsy camps in Milan."

The campaign underway here is part of what observers are calling the most intense wave of anti-immigration sentiment to wash over Western Europe in years.

The immigration debate in Europe, just as in the United States, has dramatically intensified in the wake of the Great Recession, with voters increasingly blaming immigrants such as the Roma for taking away jobs, driving up crime rates and disturbing time-honored traditions.

Across the continent, governments are boldly throwing up new barriers to immigration, increasing enforcement and targeting groups such as the Roma, who are also known as Gypsies. Even in some of the most progressive nations in the region, such as Sweden, voters are showing new support for ultra-right politicians whose platforms center on a tougher line on immigration.



In Britain, the new Conservative-led coalition government has slapped a temporary cap on immigration from non-European Union nations, limiting the ability of companies to hire foreign nationals in a bid to drive down the unemployment rate. A permanent cap set to go into effect next year is expected to make it more difficult for even Americans to get long-term work visas there.

In France, a proposed law could strip citizenship from foreigners naturalized for less than 10 years if they commit violent crimes against the police or a government official. New detention centers would be set up to make it easier to deport illegal immigrants. Citizens of other European Union countries - who theoretically enjoy freedom of movement across the 27-nation zone - would find it harder to stay in France if they are not law-abiding and gainfully employed.

For a region that prides itself as a bastion of progressive thought, the campaigns in Europe have nevertheless taken on a decidedly ethnic and religious bent similar to the debates in the United States over the proposed Islamic center in Manhattan and the Arizona law targeting illegal immigrants.

A new law in France will ban Muslim women from wearing full-face Islamic veils in public, with similar laws pending in the Netherlands and Spain. Switzerland has prohibited the construction of mosque minarets. But the campaigns against the Roma in France and Italy have stoked accusations that politicians are targeting unpopular immigrant groups to shore up flagging support.・・・・・


Nowhere has that campaign been as sharp and swift as in Milan, Italy's center of industrial wealth, which is dominated by Berlusconi's party and the ultra-nationalist Northern League. Over the past two years, Milanese officials have expelled 7,000 Roma, leveling 346 illegal settlements.

Now the city is targeting several formerly authorized camps. Although officials initially said Triboniano must go to make room for a new highway, De Corato described the move as more of a social decision.

"Many of them are criminals," the vice mayor said in an interview. "They prostitute their own women and children." He later said that "there is no reason for the camp to stay."

A few families, including Ilie's, were to be granted public housing to show Milan's willingness to embrace Roma prepared to integrate into Italian life. But two weeks ago, officials rescinded the offer after an outcry from local residents and the national government. Officials say camp dwellers who do not leave voluntarily will be taken to the city limits; those with criminal records or no jobs could be deported.

Privately, even some in Triboniano say the camp maintains an unemployment rate of more than 60 percent and is home to some engaging in criminal activity. But Ilie, a carpenter who left Romania for Italy with his family in 1999, said Roma are being painted with a broad brush and that many, like him, are eager to integrate.

His children - Ana Maria, 16, and Luigi, 11 - no longer speak their native dialect. Both go to Italian schools and have Italian friends. "I don't care what happens to this camp anymore; what I care about is my family," he said. "We want to integrate, but they won't give us the chance."

The hard-line approach in Milan contrasts sharply with one in Rome. There, the local government is relocating Gypsies to camps with tighter security and constant video surveillance but also with better sanitary conditions, including running water and electricity. Gypsy immigrants from Eastern Europe will be given four years to find jobs and educate their children. Those who do will be allowed access to public housing. Those who don't, officials say, will face deportation.

　欧州でのロマ・ジプシー、あるいは、イスラム教徒に対する差別についての報道。イタリアは特にひどいようだ。




The player: racism in online gaming
Old hatreds rear their heads in our new fantasy worlds

Naomi Alderman
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 13 October 2010 22.00 BST

Of all the imaginary problems around gaming – no, playing games won't make you more stupid or less empathetic – there's one genuine issue that goes underdiscussed: racism in online multiplayer games.

A 2003 piece of games journalism, titled Bow, Nigger, describes a racist battle the author – playing a character called Always Black – experienced. And things haven't improved. "Online gaming is completely full of racist comments about black and Hispanic people. You'll find it in any online gaming with chat," Yoz Grahame, programmer and technologist, told me. "But then, nice people don't tend to be very loud, so the idiots seem louder by comparison."

Games producer Kim Plowright has also witnessed ethnic tensions in World of Warcraft: "A Serbian guy was standing in the middle of [game city] Orgrimmar venting about how Serbs are the Balkan master race." And actuary Matt Phillips told me he'd even encountered racism in online poker.

　オンラインゲームでは、人種差別発言が跋扈している、と。


Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010

Taiji reportedly kills dolphins but frees young
The Associated Press


AP経由でJapanTimes

　伝えられるところによれば、太地ではイルカが殺害されたが、若いイルカは難を逃れた、と。

・・・・・・こんなことまでニュースにするか？

　そのニュースを取り上げるJapan　Times も徹底しているよな。

　伝えられるところによると、

　駱駝のラー君と　カンガルーのかんちゃんが今朝オースロタリア政府によって殺害されました。
　
　また、豚のブー子がアメリカの食肉業者により解体されました。

なお、駱駝のこぶ平と、カンガルーのギャル子、豚のブーフーウー兄弟はいまだ無事の模様。

　ついでに、動物愛護協会の人の悲しみのコメントなど入れたりして？

　世の中かわったねええ。