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新薬開発「日本は無力」…国の推進役、米大学へ

発足直後に仙谷長官は退任し、１０月の第３回医療イノベーション会議には、それまで出席していた経済産業省や内閣府の政務三役も欠席。今年度の補正予算や来年度の予算案策定でも、各省庁が個別に予算要求を出すだけで、「日本全体の青写真を描けなかった」（中村教授）という。

　中村教授は、ゲノム（全遺伝情報）研究の第一人者で、国際ヒトゲノム計画でも中心的な役割を果たした。中村教授は「国の制度や仕組みを変えようと頑張ったが、各省庁の調整機能さえ果たせず、無力を感じた。日本で研究した新薬を日本の人たちに最初に届けるのが夢だったのだが。せめて米国で新薬を実現したい」と話している。

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Canada to withdraw from Kyoto Protocol

京都議定書　カナダ離脱

Netherlands apologises for Indonesia massacre
Apology comes on 64th anniversary of killing of at least 150 people in village of Rawagede by the Dutch colonial army.
Last Modified: 09 Dec 2011

オランダ・インドネシア　歴史問題

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Virginia Tech: Ross Truett Ashley named as gunman

バージニア工科大

Jeffrey Sachs: 'That's not a free market, that's a game'
The controversial economist talks about the collapse of the global financial system and how to end the crisis.
Talk to Al Jazeera Last Modified: 11 Dec 2011

"The banks have said, leave us deregulated, we know how to run things, don't put government in to meddle. Then with that freedom of maneuver they took huge gambles, and even made illegal actions, and then broke the world system. As soon as that happened then they rushed out to say 'bail us out, bail us out, if you don't bail us out, we're too big to fail, you have to save us'. As soon as that happened, they said 'oh, don't regulate us, we know what to do'. And they almost went back to their old story, and the public is standing there, amazed, because we just bailed you out how can you be paying yourself billions of dollars of bonuses again? And the bankers say, 'well we deserve it, what's your problem'? And the problem that the Occupy Wall Street and other protesters have is: you don't deserve it, you nearly broke the system, you gamed the economy, you're paying mega fines, yet you're still in the White House you're going to the state dinners, you're paying yourself huge bonuses, what kind of system is this?

When I talk about this in the United States, I'm often attacked, 'oh, you don't believe in the free market economy', I say, how much free market can there be? You say deregulate, the moment the banks get in trouble, you say bail them out, the moment you bail them out, you say go back to deregulation. That's not a free market, that's a game, and we have to get out of the game. We have to get back to grown-up behaviour."

経済・所得税

Donations 'not funding' whale slaughter

by: Staff writer From: Herald Sun December 08, 2011 7:10PM 2 comments

THE Japanese Embassy today issued a statement refuting claims donations by Australians to those affected by the recent natural disasters were being used to fund Japanese whaling.

In the statement, the embassy confirmed the money collected for the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami was going straight to those devastated by the natural disasters.

“None of the donations made in support of relief and recovery efforts from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami have been used or will be used to fund Japan’s Scientific Whaling Research Program,” the statement read.

“We sincerely appreciate the warm support we have received from the Australian public.”

“Therefore, we hereby confirm that donations from the Australian public are only being used to rebuild people’s lives in the devastated areas and for no other purposes.”

捕鯨　

'You're so gorgeous': Tributes to girl, 12, found hanged at home after being 'bullied over her looks'
Isabelle Guyler's body was found on Friday
Police say there were no suspicious circumstances
By CHARLES WALFORD
Last updated at 11:06 AM on 12th

US asks Iran to return downed drone
"We have asked for it back. We'll see how the Iranians respond," says Obama during a news conference with Iraqi PM.
Last Modified: 12 Dec 201

In a letter to Ban Ki-Moon, the secretary-general, Iran's ambassador to the UN said his government considered the drone incursions "tantamount to an act of hostility" and "violations and acts of aggression".

無人機　イラン侵略

Message From Tohoku: We Will Always Remember You

３１１　感謝・

Japan quake and tsunami propel charity focused on orphan care

By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
December 11, 2011

"Even now I can't stop crying when I remember," she later wrote to workers at Ashinaga. "At the end, when I was leaving, I said to my mother 'Thank you' and 'I love you' again and again. Then I swam away."

Then there was the mother of the boy who had witnessed his father's drowning. The woman called to say her 17-year-old had overcome his fear of water and used his assistance money to train to become an emergency response diver; he wants to shield others from the fate of watching a parent die.

The old man smiles when he hears such stories.

３１１　養子・トラウマ・あしなが

Japan couple left childless by tsunami find solace
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
December 8, 2011, 5:16 p.m.

３１１　トラウマ

Newburgh Four: poor, black, and jailed under FBI 'entrapment' tactics
In June, four men were jailed for 25 years over a US terror plot. The FBI painted them as dedicated fanatics, but were they lured by the promise of cash from a fake informant?

Paul Harris in New York
guardian.co.uk, Monday 12 December 2011

おとり捜査

Italian girl's rape claim sparks arson attack on Gypsy camp
Sixteen-year-old confesses she made up story that prompted mob to torch camp in Turin district

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Tom Kington in Rome
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 11 December 2011

イタリア　ジプシー・ロマ問題　人種緊張

SWAT points gun at 8-year-old grandson
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Published: 12 December

Friday, December 09, 2011Last Update: 4:31 PM PT
Detective Is on the Hook for Way-Off Warrant
By TIM HULL
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(CN) - A California couple can sue the detective whose faulty warrant set off an early morning SWAT team search of their home for their already incarcerated son, the 9th Circuit ruled Friday.
Santa Maria Police Department Detective Louis Tanore and others figured that Javier Bravo Jr. had been one of several suspected gang members who stashed weapons used in a 2006 drive-by shooting in Santa Barbara County. Based on tips from witnesses, Tanore got a warrant to search the home of Bravo's parents, Hope and Javier Bravo Sr., which was listed as the younger Bravo's residence.
Though the affidavit supporting the warrant included Javier Jr.'s rap sheet and noted that he had spent the last six months in prison serving out a two-year sentence for receiving stolen property, the SWAT raid went ahead as planned. The team showed up at 5:30 a.m. with flash-bang grenades, burst into the home and pointed their weapons at the Bravos and their 8-year-old grandson, who ran screaming into the bathroom, the ruling states. The officers left after Hope Bravo showed them a recent letter from her son, mailed from prison.

police brutality

Undercover cops spied on Occupy LA in search of ‘domestic terrorists’

By Reuters
Sunday, December 11, 2011

By Jason Kandel

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Undercover police officers infiltrated Occupy LA’s tent city last month to spy on people they suspected of stockpiling human waste and crude weapons for resisting an eventual eviction, police and city government sources said.

Authorities also used security cameras mounted outside City Hall, where the camp was located, and monitored publicly available Internet chatter and video on social-networking sites such as Twitter, sources said.

Evidence gathered through the surveillance led to more than 40 arrests for drug use, public intoxication and other offenses in the weeks before police shut down the camp on November 30, one senior official in the Los Angeles Police Department said.

That official and most other sources spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity because of department policy barring police from publicly discussing undercover operations.

They insisted that covert surveillance of the camp was aimed not at anti-Wall Street activists exercising their constitutional right to freedom of expression but at those they considered anti-government extremists bent on violence.

Civil liberties advocates said they were troubled by law enforcement’s infiltration of peaceful demonstrations, although the LAPD’s undercover efforts were not unique.