従業員７０人のうち４割は、中国、韓国、スペインなど海外１２か国の出身者。他の日本人スタッフも留学経験などがあり、２０か国語以上に対応できる。外国語が苦手な宿泊客には、日本語でも対応する。
北九州市小倉南区から夫婦で訪れた島偉信
ひでのぶ
さん（７４）は「聞き慣れない言葉が飛び交い、外国の雰囲気を味わえるのが新鮮。日本語も通じるので安心して旅行を楽しめる」と笑顔を見せた。
（2011年7月19日15時05分 読売新聞）
これはこれで、いいが、しかし、日本では、欧米人に対する会話で、原則、日本語で対応してもいいのだ、日本語を貫徹してもいいのだ、という公衆教育もしっかりすべきである。
また、そうしないと、従来の欧米人風外見の固定観念に該当する日本人、あるいは、日本語が流暢な欧米人、帰化人に日本語で話さない、という失礼を犯してしまうことにもなる。
「秋以降もやるつもりか」に首相、険しい表情
２０１１年度第２次補正予算案の基本的質疑が行われた１９日の衆院予算委員会で、自民党は東日本大震災の復旧・復興策が遅れているとして、菅首相らを厳しく追及した。
こうした政策運用面での批判はいい。なぜそれができなかったのか。足のひっぱりあい、や優先順位の低いことで時間の浪費をするのはメディアも議員ももうやめていただきたい。
ソウル高層ビル激しい揺れ、２千人避難の原因
【ソウル＝門間順平】ソウル市内の３９階建てオフィスビルで今月５日、入居者約２０００人が避難する騒ぎとなった激しい揺れの原因は、フィットネスクラブでの運動だったとみられることが１９日、ビル管理会社の実験でわかった。
クラブは１２階にあり、実験では揺れが起きた当時と同じテコンドーの動きを取り入れた運動を約２０人で行った。その結果、３８階に設置した振動計測器の値が平常時の１０倍を記録したという。
（2011年7月19日20時36分 読売新聞）
・・・・・やっぱ、テコンドーってすごいんだなあ。
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London's top 2 police resign in 'News of the World' hacking scandal
Published: Monday, July 18, 2011, 11:12 AM Updated: Monday, July 18, 2011, 11:36 AM
Associated Press
London's Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates has resigned.
LONDON -- Britain's spreading phone hacking and police bribery scandal forced two of London's top police officers to resign in less than 24 hours and prompted Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday to call for an emergency session of parliament.
この影響はひろがりそうですな。
ちょっとたまっていたのを展開すると、
ガーディアン
MPs misled over impact of welfare changes on homelessness
Liam Byrne insists leaked letter from Eric Pickles office shows ministers 'haven't been straight with the House of Commons'
Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 3
Ministers have been accused of repeatedly misleading MPs about the impact of their ￡26,000 cap on welfare payments after it emerged that Eric Pickles, the communities secretary, secretly warned the plan would cost more money than it saved and increase homelessness by 20,000.
福祉の上限を定めた場合のホームレスに対する影響について大臣による情報操作、と。イギリス。
あと、ロシアトゥデイから拾ってみようか。
Obama lies about dying mother, book claims
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Published: 15 July, 2011
Much of America has come to terms with President Obama being not the most truthful guy at times. He campaigned on ending US wars and has only started new ones. He vowed to close Gitmo yet the infamous prison is still in operation.
But will you get a load of this one? One author is saying that the president lied ? get this ? about his mother. The gull!
In a new biography of President Obama’s mother, former New York Times reporter Janny Scott writes that Barack was fibbing about a make-believe ordeal his mom went through while fighting cancer.
Back on the campaign trail, Obama often alluded to the problems with American health care. The then-Senator would regularly make references to his mom’s own struggles with insurance companies and would speak out about her dying days marred by health care woes.
"I remember in the last month of her life, she wasn't thinking about how to get well, she wasn't thinking about coming to terms with her own mortality, she was thinking about whether or not insurance was going to cover the medical bills and whether our family would be bankrupt as a consequence," said Obama in one September 2007 speech.
"She was in her hospital room looking at insurance forms because the insurance company said that maybe she had a pre-existing condition and maybe they wouldn't have to reimburse her for her medical bills," he said another time months later.
In Scott’s new book, however, she reports that Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, was actually insured the whole time.
オバマ大統領は母ちゃんが健康保険で苦労していた、などいっていたが、ちゃんと、健康保険でカバーされていた、と。
それは、それとして、つくづく、ロシアトゥデイは、CNNやNYTの海外報道にそっくりの視点、固定観念の繰り返しをアメリカにむけているなああ、と思う。
US government is like “Alice in Wonderland” - expert
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Published: 01 July, 2011,
The US Civil Liberties Union is debating with the Department of State over the release of classified documents on the US war on terror. But as Alison Weir, president of the Council for the National Interest told, RT, it is absurd to keep them classified.
The diplomatic cables that were declassified in the US expose Washington's methods of abduction, interrogation and detention of suspected terrorists. The ACLU is demanding they are made public for an official investigation, despite the fact the documents have already been published by the online whistleblower Wikileaks.
“The cables have now been published in the New York Times and many other newspapers across the US and the rest of the world. They should not have been classified in the first place ? they have nothing to do with national security issues, they were just classified because they are violating US laws and because they would be very embarrassing to the US government,” stated Weir.
政府が公開を拒むマル秘文書について、
She doubts, however, if these revelations can influence America's methods of tackling terrorism.
“The main reason it is so important for the cables to become officially public is because they reveal a certain Alice-in-Wonderland nature of the government, in which up is down and back is forward and black is white; the absurdity of what’s going on in Washington,” concluded Weir.
アメリカ政府はアリスの不思議の国のアリス。上が下で、後ろが前で、黒が白と。
まさに、オオニシが日本にむけて書くような文章ですな。
Sex. Drugs. Cheating. Lies. Tabloids USA.
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Published: 16 July, 2011
“Let’s not forget ? he owns The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal and The Daily,” said Musto, to name a few.
At a protest outside Rupert Murdoch’s Big Apple pad, protesters demanded an investigation into his publications at home.
“We don’t know if newspapers are hacking other people in this country yet, but I see no reason to put it past them,” said demonstrator Harry Wasbren.
So how far from potential public embarrassment do American newspapers stand?
“The ones that are owned by Rupert Murdoch ? without question. The New York Post is one of the most hideous, deceitful tools of criminals that there could be,” said musician and journalist Will Gallison
No publication would admit to paying for information, but that’s also often a technicality.
“What a lot of news publications can get away with doing is they won’t explicitly give someone money in exchange for an interview, someone might set up a charitable organization and then the news will happen to donate twenty thousand dollars to that charitable organization,” explained Lilit Marcus.
The culture of sensationalism in the press is putting the future of journalism on the line.
“The Anglo-American style is trashy, it’s rye-balled, with this snickering tone that is very American. We are a juvenile society, we are a young society. I don’t really know what the Brits’ excuse is ? they’ve been around a long time. Hey, we blame it on them, because we are their children,” said Rall.
アメリカのタブロイド紙もひどいですよ、と。センセーショナリズムでジャーナリズムが危険にさらされている、と。アングロアメリカスタイルは、屑同然、（rye-balled って何？）イギリスのせいにしてやろう、おれらはやつらの子孫である、と。
もちろん、これはそういって自己批判しているわけですね。
こうした自己批判をするから偉いのですが、なぜか、NYTやCNNも、こうした自己批判する日本人ばかり引用したりするところが、RTとそっくりなわけです。
Americans remain calm to crisis as Spaniards revolt
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Published: 14 July, 2011
Spaniards are outraged and many of them blame pressure from the States as the reasoning behind their own war. Why is Spain resorting to violence and Americans remain mostly silent, though?
“The short answer is US corporate media is lousy,” says David Swanson, campaigner for Roots Action. According to him, there isn’t a single entity in corporate media that isn’t making money off of the war machine.
“Twenty-five percent of Americans think the US should spend three times the next competing nation,” remarks Swanson on the US military budget. In reality, though, America spends seven times that of China.
“Nobody wants it!” says Swanson.
Americans remain largely ignorant of the connection between the economy and the cost of war, and Swanson says that is because you never hear about it on the radio or on the TV
スペインでは財政削減と軍事費に割合について怒っているのに、アメリカ人はこの点おとなしいですなああ、これいかに、と。
それはメディアにだまされているのだ、と。
Mainstream media won't report on CIA's secret sites
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Published: 15 July, 2011,
As the CIA expands covert missions, it’s no surprise than many of their operations go unreported. Jeremy Scahill of The Nation says, though, that many outlets are aware of some injustice carried out by the CIA and are just failing to report them.
“Both CNN and ABC have allowed their media outlets to be used as conveyor belt for the spin of the CIA,”
Scahill says to RT. He claims that he has stumbled upon secretive CIA sites in the African country of Somalia, and that US officials are operating a prison and paying the salaries of Somali national security agents yet no one else will admit to it.
CIAはソマリアで秘密作戦をしているのに、主流のメディアはCIAの手先になって、目をつむっている、と。
Julie Bass of Oak Park Michigan May God to Jail For Organic Garden
by Huffington Post
Sunday Jul 10th, 2011 1:06 PM
Years ago Grosse Pointe Michigan banned organic gardens. Now once
again a Michigan city administration harms the environment and
represses citizen rights.
http://huffingtonpost.com
Julie Bass, of Oak Park, Michigan, wanted to grow her own food. She was a fan of organic vegetables, so she decided to convert her front yard from the grass-and-tree landscaping typical in her neighborhood into an edible garden. Because she had just torn up the front lawn to install a new sewer system, she had a perfect opportunity to start fresh. She planted cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers and herbs in raised wooden planters, and waited to reep her produce.
A neighbor didn't like her choice of landscaping.
The neighbor called the city and complained that Bass's yard disrupted the look of the neighborhood. The city agreed, and issued Bass a ticket.
Bass was offended. Organic produce is expensive. If she wants to grow her own, she reasoned, why shouldn't she be allowed to? She refused to change her yard. The city insisted; she lawyered up.
Now, with neither party being willing to back down, the case is likely to go to a jury trial. If Bass loses, she faces up to 93 days in jail. All for following the example of the White House! Has news of Michelle Obama not yet made it to Michigan?
家庭菜園で有機農業をやったら、近所からクレームがきて市が制裁した、と。
「ああ、なんてアメリカは窮屈な社会なんでしょう」という印象操作か？
