自民党政治

石破茂首相が自民党の新人議員15人へ10万円の商品券を配っていた問題。
いろんな人が、「10万円は庶民の感覚からかけ離れている」と感想を言っているが、ちょっとピント外れではないだろうか。

以前、「民主主義はお金がかかる」と言っていた自民党だ。民主主義にお金がかかるのではなく、「自民党政治にお金がかかる」が本当の所だ。彼らは、お金を右から左に動かす事で「仕事をしている＝政治をしている」と思い込んでいる。

右から左へ動かくお金の原資は、もちろん、企業献金であり、消費税だ。企業に有利な政策を行う、庶民のお金を巻き上げることで、彼らの言う「政治」に必要なお金を紡ぎ出す。声を大きくし、他の者を委縮させるため、お金をばらまく。今回は商品券だったわけだが。。。

問題は、庶民の10万円の価値観ではなく、自民党が政権を担っていることだ。お金がかかる「自民党政治」であるかぎり、金権政治は永遠に続く。だれが党首になろうともだ。

この金権政治を是正するためには、金で動く政治を、さらにお金がかかるものにすればよい。政治資金規正法に違反したら、その金額の大小にかかわらず、1000万円の罰金。国庫への納入。企業献金には、99％の不労所得税をかけるのが良い。100万円のパーティ券に対して99万円の税収。政治団体にお金を実質100万円献金するには、企業は一億円の支払いが必要となる。自民党はこの総額100万円をあちこちにばらまく。一人当たりの受領金額は、例えば、今回の商品券とすると7万円弱。しかしながら、金額にかかわらず金品を受け取りがばれると1000万円の罰金だ。

これくらいの強い規制がなければ政治と金の問題は断ち切れない。

Limit of force comparison

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was attacked, and NHK and commercial broadcasters were immediately in the press. Television stations use the videos taken by the general public with smart phone. As a result, definitive video will be used. I don't watch those images because I don't watch TV, but NHK news seems to have aired a video of being shot by a gun and lying bloody. Then, there was a flood of complaint calls, and the video seems to have stopped flowing after that.

It's clearly overkill. The video with a loud gunshot was projected over and over again. Didn't the people involved think about how the vividness of the sound would affect the viewers? There is a great deal of lack of decency, such as continuing to play old war movies forever, which was called a historical drama that airs from 20:00 on Sunday.

NHK should once again think about what good coverage is. Leave the vivid and shocking coverage to the third-rate media aiming for audience ratings. A lot of violent images and sounds. At least it's not something that professionals who take money from viewers should do.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe passed away following shooting

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe passed away after being shot in the street in broad daylight while making a campaign speech in the central city of Nara, in an attack that has shocked the nation. Mr. Abe was making a speech in support of LDP candidates ahead of the upcoming Upper House elections scheduled for Sunday.

A suspect, identified as Tetsuya Yamagami, a local man in his 40s, was arrested and charged with murder. It appears the suspect used a handmade gun in the attack, though the motive remains unclear. He is being held for questioning at Nara Nishi police station. In response to the investigation, Yamagami-former Maritime Self-Defense Force member-  said, "I wanted to kill former Prime Minister Abe," but stated that "it is not a grudge against former Prime Minister Abe's political beliefs." ..

Mr. Abe was thinking of returning Japan to its prewar state (especially the period from the early Showa period when the went out of control to the defeat). Political and administrative policies that aroused fear of the unknown stood out.

 Mr. Abe's shooting has shocked Japan, which has one of the lowest rates of gun crime in the world due to its extremely strict gun control laws. 

Because it's a war?

It is wrong as a person those anything can be admitted because it is a quarrel.
Two Britons and a Moroccan sentenced to death by pro-Russian court in separatist part of Ukraine.

Three foreigners were judged to death, after accusing them of being "mercenaries" for Ukraine. The three -- British citizens Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, and Moroccan national Brahim Saadoune -- were foreign fighters who had been captured in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol by Russian forces in April.

Russia is the only country that considers the DPR independent. The international community does not recognize the region and its institutions, and considers the territory to be part of Ukraine. Independent watchdog groups have long accused the separatists of a dismal human-rights track record and ill-treatment of prisoners.

All foreign volunteers to be members of its armed forces and to be lawful combatants entitled to treatment as prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.

The judgment had absolutely no legitimacy. They are prisoners of war. This is a sham judgment with absolutely no legitimacy. 

nightmare?:North Korea assumes leadership of top disarmament group

North Korea, which is under sanctions for developing nuclear weapons in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolutions, has taken over as head of a UN body aimed at striking disarmament deals amid scorn from critics.

This year North Korea has tested a flurry of ballistic missiles -- also banned by UNSC resolutions -- and appears to be preparing to conduct a new nuclear test for the first time since 2017.

The UN prohibits North Korea from ballistic and nuclear weapons tests, and has imposed strict sanctions after previous tests. Its overarching aim is to end the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war. However it's failed to produce any deals of note since 1996.