Japanese and Koreans invaded Asia. We apologize.

愛する人がいる、と。

2016年10月31日 13時41分43秒 | Weblog


スーパーで、「じっちゃん、こんにちわ、今日は私の誕生日よ、」と4歳の少女。いっしょに写真を写して、FBに掲載。じっちゃんを知る人が、連れ合いがなくなってから、じっちゃんのあんな笑顔をみたことがないと連絡先を教えて、それから仲良しに。82歳の誕生日もいっしょに。




“If I didn’t have anything else to do the rest of my life,” he said, “I have her to love.”


何もすることもなく余生をおくっていたかもしれんが、いまは、彼女という愛するひとがいる、と。

フロリダ トランプ46% クリントン42%

2016年10月31日 04時14分00秒 | Weblog
フォローする

buvery
‏@buvery

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/?ex_cid=rrpromo … ヒラリーの勝率81%、ウータン19%。アリゾナとオハイオ、アイオワに寝返られたので、じりじりと勝率が落ちています。それでもフロリダを抑えれば勝つ。ただし、その差2.2%なので、ここを落とすと、本格的にヒラリーに黄色信号がつく。






英露の激しい情報戦

2016年10月31日 03時27分49秒 | Weblog



Every week Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, finds new ways to scare the world. Recently he moved nuclear-capable missiles close to Poland and Lithuania. This week he sent an aircraft-carrier group down the North Sea and the English Channel. He has threatened to shoot down any American plane that attacks the forces of Syria’s despot, Bashar al-Assad. Russia’s UN envoy has said that relations with America are at their tensest in 40 years. Russian television news is full of ballistic missiles and bomb shelters. “Impudent behaviour” might have “nuclear consequences”, warns Dmitry Kiselev, Mr Putin’s propagandist-in-chief—who goes on to cite Mr Putin’s words that “If a fight is inevitable, you have to strike first.”


ロシアが欧州における武力配備で脅威が高まっている、プーチンをなんとかせな、と英エコノミスト


Plotting WAR with the West? It’s stupid and unrealistic says Vladimir Putin

VLADIMIR Putin insisted he is not plotting a war with the West and the threat is being exaggerated to justify military spending by other nations.

By HELENE PERKINS
PUBLISHED: 07:36, Fri, Oct 28, 2016 | UPDATED: 08:14, Fri, Oct 28, 2016


The Russian president said it was “stupid and unrealistic” to believe he wanted to attack another country.


どこの国も攻撃などせんよ、アホちゃうか、とプーチン




Russia could overrun Nato’s current military force in the Baltic states in a matter of hours, according to a US think-tank, leaving the Western alliance with few options but to concede the loss of some of its most vulnerable members.


ロシはNATOのバルト諸国に配備されている戦力を数時間だ叩きのめす戦力があるって、おっそろしいなあ、と英インデペンデント




NATOとロシアの防衛費や陸海空の戦力具体的に比べてみなはれ、ロシアのよほどしょぼいやろ、とロシア系メディア


安倍ちゃん、情報省でもつくって、情報収集、分析、発信をしっかりやってほしいね。



サウジが選出、ロシアが落選

2016年10月31日 03時09分39秒 | Weblog
日本、国連人権理事会に4度目の当選
2016/10/29 9:13


Spica
‏@Kelangdbn

勝負あり クリントン、期日前投票でトランプに大差のリード http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/us-election-hillary-clinton-poll-lead-early-voters-donald-trump-a7387341.html … 有権者の20%は既に投票済みで15パーセントポイントの差がついている。投票人獲得数は320 vs 174との予想


トランプとクリントンで、トランプが何をしでかすかーーフィリピン大統領といっしょでーーー予想がつかないところが恐いところだが、クリントンだって、オバマよりも強硬な外交に姿勢にでて、何をしでかすか、わからない。






2006年のパレスチナの選挙、米に都合のいい人が当選するように仕組もう、というクリントン発言が流出。

アメリカってのは、裏からいろいろやっているわけですね。





Saudi Arabia, a theocratic absolute monarchy that carries out mass executions of dissidents, beheads drug dealers, systematically subjugates women and has supported extremist groups like al-Qaida and ISIS, was re-elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday.

Russia, however, was not. Croatia defeated it in a bid for re-election by just two votes.

The U.S. government has previously welcomed Saudi Arabia’s ascension to the head of a U.N. Human Rights Council panel, noting the two are “close allies.”





After the U.S. lobbied heavily against the Russians, Hungary finished substantially ahead in the voting, with Croatia receiving 114 votes and Russia garnering only 112 votes of the 193 member countries.



テロ支援国家のサウジが選出、ロシアの落選の裏にアメリカ有り。


アメリカを敵に回したら嫌がらせ、同盟になったら、同盟特権みたいのが、多少はあるみたいですね。

いずれにせよ、この国連人権理事会、国連の権威をますます下げるものではないの?

Is China mature enough to own its history?

2016年10月31日 02時38分05秒 | Weblog





In party-speak, historical nihilism means denying the “inevitability” of China’s march towards socialism (the country is currently deemed only to be in the early stages of it). It is a term that came into vogue among party officials after the crushing of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Jiang Zemin, who was then party chief, declared that historical nihilism was one of several ideological vices that had “seriously eroded” the party. Other, more obvious ones, included yearnings for freedom and democracy. By reviving Mr Jiang’s rhetoric on nihilism, Mr Xi is signalling that the party could again face regime-threatening danger unless it tightens its grip on the way history is told.



So what are the nihilists doing that so troubles China’s leaders? Mr Jiang’s main concern was a television series broadcast in 1988 called “River Elegy”, which had portrayed China as a country weighed down by a long history of backwardness and inward-looking conservatism. The documentary programmes had prompted energetic debate among intellectuals about how to reform China that helped foment the following year’s unrest.

No reflection on history has stirred the public in recent years as much as “River Elegy” did in the build-up to Tiananmen. But there has been a steady stream of articles chipping away at the party’s account of history. Some have appeared in officially published journals; the more revelatory ones have circulated in samizdat form in print and online. They have included a Chinese journalist’s investigation of the famine of 1958-1962 during which tens of millions died, and accounts of the horrors of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s.

Mr Xi sees such writings as a challenge to the legitimacy of party rule. Already in 2013 the party issued secret orders (subsequently leaked) that its members must be on guard against historical nihilism. The following year Mr Xi said an important reason for the Soviet party’s collapse had been historical nihilism, including attacks on Lenin and Stalin. Mr Xi sees Mao’s legacy as being under similar assault.


In one case a historian, Hong Zhenkuai, was told by a court to apologise for challenging the party’s story of how five Communist soldiers had jumped off a cliff during the second world war rather than surrender to the Japanese. Mr Hong said two of them may simply have slipped.


There have been other examples, too: a blogger who was detained for several days in 2013 for retweeting a claim that the cliff-leaping soldiers had bullied local civilians; four others who were hauled in that year for questioning the frugality of Lei Feng, another model soldier (two of them were later jailed for publishing these and other online “rumours”); and a television anchor, Bi Fujian, who was fired for poking fun at Mao at a private party.


中国の後進性と内向きの保守の長い歴史のドキュメント番組によって改革論争がおき、天安門事件に繋がった。

歴史論争は危険である。

習は、社会主義に連なる共産党の栄光の歴史からはみ出る語り口はすべて排除する方針に打ってでた、と、中国。

(歴史問題)

Is New Zealand mature enough to own its history?

2016年10月31日 02時33分08秒 | Weblog
What a nation chooses to remember and forget: the war for New Zealand's history
Vincent O’Malley
Those who tell Maori to stop living in the past rarely apply the same logic to first world war commemorations. Is New Zealand mature enough to own its history?


via mozu



For a time in the 1860s there were more British troops in New Zealand than almost anywhere else in the empire outside India. And the Waikato war was the defining conflict in New Zealand history – a battle between two competing visions of the nation’s future. British victory paved the way for settler and European hegemony, casting aside Māori aspirations for partnership and shared prosperity for at least the next century. Instead, sweeping and indiscriminate land confiscations pushed Māori tribes to the margins of colonial society, condemning generations to lives of poverty.

That history was barely acknowledged beyond the descendants of those on the receiving end of British bullets. Few students learn about it in school. Many of the sites where these conflicts took place are neglected (many are not even signposted). There were no official commemorations, no museums and few memorials.

For many Pākehā (non-Māori) New Zealanders the wars were part of a troubled past they preferred to forget. Anzac Day, by contrast, provides a ready opportunity to rally around the flag, patriotically remembering those who died at Gallipoli or on the Western Front. And this has been reflected in government priorities.


原住民虐殺略奪の歴史は忘れて、白人の犠牲者については、記憶にとどめようとしているのではないか、と、ニュージーランド。


(歴史問題)