こやなぎ名人の まちおこしレター
第15話 よそ者・ばか者・若者がまちを変える
よそ者
地元の気づかない視点で、そこのよさを発見してくれるものです。
ばか者
もちろんここで言うのは、いい意味での「馬鹿」。馬鹿になって、真剣に 打ち込んでくれる人がいてこそ、ほかの人も真剣になれます。
若 者
若さというエネルギーは、いつの時代でも大きな推進力に違いありません。
という訳で、まちづくりには、よそ者・ばか者・若者の力を大いに活用しましょう。
Dec 10, 2011 9:08pm
Nativity Scene Is a ‘Superstition,’ Says Atheist Group, But Santa Can Stay
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation has taken offense with a nativity scene displayed outside a courthouse in downtown Athens, Texas.
The Keep Athens Beautiful Committee has been putting up the nativity scene since 2002, and County Judge Richard Sanders says it’s not violating any law, according to ABC News affiliate KBMT.
“Because we have all the other decorations, it’s legal,” Sanders said. “Our county attorney has looked into it.”
A Henderson County resident complained to the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based atheist group, and the foundation notified the committee that the nativity scene was in violation of federal law. The foundation asked for the baby Jesus to be removed, or for a sign to be put up next to his crib that would read: “At this season of the winter solstice may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.”
But while some believe Santa is “but myth and superstition,” no one has asked for a sign to be placed next to him, clarifying his non-existence. The town has several other seasonal decorations up, such as reindeer, garden gnomes and snowmen, but the nativity scene is the only decoration has been criticized as a religious symbol. As for Santa, he’s more of a tradition than a religious icon, so the foundation has not taken issue with him.
Henderson County Commissioner Joe Hall says he’ll fight to keep the nativity scene in place.
“Don’t come down here and tell me there is no God. This nation is a Christian nation regardless of what those fruit loops and fruitcakes in Washington D.C. say. Hell will freeze over before I vote to have it removed,” Hall said.
無神論・政教分離・宗教国家
What happens in Europe doesn't stay in Europe
The debt crisis in the eurozone is far from 'just a European affair', author says.
Danny Schechter Last Modified: 09 Dec 2011
ユーロの影響
Playing with fire: Obama's threat to China
Obama says US influence will turn from the Middle East towards the "vast potential of the Asia-Pacific region".
Michael Klare Last Modified: 10 Dec 2011
Indeed, as President Obama said in Canberra, the US is now in a position to begin to refocus its military capabilities elsewhere. "After a decade in which we fought two wars that cost us dearly," he declared, "the United States is turning our attention to the vast potential of the Asia-Pacific region."
By securing naval dominance of the South China Sea and adjacent waters, the Obama administration evidently aims to acquire the 21st century energy equivalent of 20th century nuclear blackmail. Push us too far, the policy implies, and we'll bring your economy to its knees by blocking your flow of vital energy supplies.
油ー → シーレーンの安全確保 → 米中の利益対立 → 軍事的緊張
Is the European dream over?
Europe's current crisis stems from a lack of cross-border solidarity or any sense of belonging in the supra-national EU.
Ian Buruma Last Modified: 10 Dec 2011
Is this possible in a supra-national body like the EU? If the answer is no, it may be best to restore the sovereignty of individual European nation-states, give up on the common currency, and abandon a dream that is threatening to become a nightmare.
This is what the more radical Eurosceptics in Britain think, having never shared the EU dream to begin with. It is easy to dismiss this as typical British chauvinism - the insular attitude of a people living in splendid isolation. But, in Britain's defence, its citizens have had a longer and more successful democratic history than have most continental Europeans
ブルマ・EU危機・イギリス
下院選の不正に抗議、ロシア各地で大規模集会
Thousands across Russia protest poll fraud
Up to 60,000 take to streets demanding an end to Putin's rule and a rerun of election in biggest protests in decades.
Last Modified: 10 Dec 2011
Moscow faces biggest protest in years (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
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Published: 10 December, 2011
Sociologists: Opposition more popular in cyberspace
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Published: 08 December, 2011
ロシアの春
‘US uses double standards in election criticisms’
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Published: 10 December, 2011
Annulling elections a road to chaos – Public Chamber
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Published: 09 December, 2011
月の石など大量紛失 ＮＡＳＡ、ずさん管理発覚
2011.12.10
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NASA Has Lost Hundreds of Its Moon Rocks, New Report Says
by Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff WriterDate: 09 December 2011
NASA has lost or misplaced more than 500 of the moon rocks its Apollo astronauts collected and brought back to Earth, according to a new agency report.
In an audit released Thursday (Dec. 8), NASA's Office of Inspector General states that the agency "lacks sufficient controls over its loans of moon rocks and other astromaterials, which increases the risk that these unique resources may be lost."
The report stresses the importance of maintaining stricter guidelines for the release of lunar materials to researchers, and more meticulous inventory procedures for their storage and return.
下半身まひ…奇跡の克服 オランダ女性が五輪挑戦へ
2011.12.9 23:18 ［世界仰天ニュース］
アムステルダムの競技場内で、不要になった車いすの前でポーズを取るモニク・ファンデルフォルストさん＝２０１０年１２月２１日（ＡＰ）
２００８年北京パラリンピックの車いすを使った競技で２つの銀メダルを取ったオランダの女性の下半身まひが、昨年、練習中に遭った交通事故をきっかけに奇跡的に回復。このほど健常者として同国のプロ自転車チームと契約し、１６年のリオデジャネイロ五輪出場を目指すことになった。
ロイター通信などによると、この女性はモニク・ファンデルフォルストさん（２７）。来年のロンドン・パラリンピック出場に向け、車いすで練習中、自転車と衝突した。治療を受けているうちに、次第に足に痛みを感じるようになり、やがて少しずつ足を動かせるようになった。
その後、数カ月のリハビリで両足を自由に使えるようになり、１３歳から患っていた下半身まひを克服した。奇跡的な回復の理由は医師にも説明できないが、事故の衝撃が体の機能を取り戻させたとの説もあるという
DECEMBER 10, 2011 · 10:33 AM
Two Canadian Men Face Charges For Violent Racist Attacks On Non-Whites
Mounties say they’ve put a dent in organized hate in British Columbia after arresting two alleged neo-Nazis for racist, violent attacks dating back to 2008.
The two men are accused of belonging to the B.C.-faction of the white supremacist group Blood and Honour, which has tentacles around the world. Their crimes, police say, occurred in Vancouver.
Robertson De Chazal, 25, is charged with aggravated assault and assault causing bodily harm in connection with two incidents, while Shawn MacDonald, 30, faces three counts of assault. Both are from the Vancouver area.
De Chazal is one of three people accused in an apparently random October 2009 attack.
Police say a 25-year-old Filipino man, who fell asleep on a discarded couch outside after a night of drinking, was doused in accelerant and set on fire. He suffered burns to his arms, neck and head.
The second charge relates to a beating one month earlier in which a black man was knocked unconscious.
The charges against MacDonald relate to incidents in 2008 and 2010 that injured a black man, a Hispanic man and an aboriginal woman.
Neither MacDonald nor De Chazal has a previous criminal history.
[Source: CTV]
カナダ ヘイトクライム
動画 Motswako: Skin Lightening Part 1
South African Singer Bleaches Skin, Has a ‘Passion For Whiteness’
FRIDAY DEC 9, 2011 – BY BRITNI DANIELLE
ブラックフェイス 化粧
UN researcher slams ‘racist’ Oslo police
Published: 09 Dec 2011 06:22 GMT+1
Shuaib Lwasa was stopped near the city’s Central Station in October as he stretched his legs during a break in a meeting with Norway’s Climate and Pollution Agency, newspaper Aftenposten reports.
Lwasa, a researcher with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said a police officer asked him where he was going and requested that he show identification. Before he had time to answer, the officer went through his pockets as passers-by looked on, the paper said.
Shaken by the incident, Lwasa wrote a complaint to the police demanding a formal apology for the “disrespectful” and “humiliating” encounter.
The Norwegian government’s climate agency also took the police to task, asking if they should now start warning future guests of the risk that they risked falling foul of the forces of law and order.
The police clarified in a letter that it was permitted “in certain situations” to search somebody for their identity papers, but admitted that in this case it was “incorrect and shouldn’t have been carried out.”
Lwasa accepted the subsequent apology but remained angry at what he described as “lies” by the police officer who stopped him on Karl Johans Gate.
スイス レイシャルプロファイリング 職務質問
Critics Play the Race Card on New Comedy ‘The Sitter’
by Christian Toto
It’s bad enough the new Jonah Hill comedy “The Sitter” is getting blasted by most movie critics. More than a few film scribes are claiming the R-rated comedy is racist to boot.
Let’s back up a moment. The film casts Hill as a slacker forced to babysit three precocious teens. Consider it “Adventures in Babysitting” with a very foul mouth.
The foursome get mixed up with an effeminate drug dealer (Sam Rockwell) as well as some thuggish black characters (including rapper Method Man). It’s here where some critics are crying foul. Consider the following comments:
The movie tries to mine laughs from its mincing homos and scary black people, then excuses its racist, prejudiced stereotypes by making one of the kids gay and giving Jonah an African-American love interest (Kylie Bunbury). See? We’re only kidding! We don’t really mean it! This is the Birth of a Nation of low-brow comedies. – Rene Rodriguez, The Miami HeraldThe movie’s also a serious racial offender, parading a gang of black actors around as hoods stealing cars, talking jive or looking for a fight. – David Germain, AP“The Sitter” seems to have a good heart, so why all the glib racism? Rodrigo is no less a walking ethnic joke than the Asian exchange student in John Hughes’ “Sixteen Candles,” and there are way too many scenes of angry black people turning all smiles at Hill’s jive talk. – Rafer Guzman, Newsday
Film critics play the race card almost as readily as mainstream reporters covering Tea Party events. The tricky aspect to “The Sitter,” and to most comedies in general, is that they routinely mine humor from cultural stereotypes – the husband who can’t change a diaper, the housewife who wouldn’t know a linebacker from a free safety, etc.
What matters in “The Sitter” is that the ethnic characters in question are allowed to grow to some degree. The young Latino boy in the main character’s charge evolves over the course of the movie. So do the black characters who confront Hill’s character mid-film.
Had each character stuck to the initial script the racist charges would have more merit.
映画・固定観念
Police Commissioner's Order Was Not Enough: NYPD Continues to Make Thousands of Illegal, Racially Biased Pot Arrests
While arrests have dropped ever so slightly since Police Commissioner Kelly issued his order, the NYPD is still using stop-and-frisk to make thousands of unwarranted pot arrests.
December 8, 2011 |
Last September, in the face of rising pressure to end racially biased, illegal and costly marijuana arrests in NYC – which have skyrocketed to more than 50,000 annually – NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly issued an uncharacteristically stern order to officers, directing them to follow the state’s existing decriminalization law. But new data released this week show that while arrests have dropped ever so slightly -- just 13% -- since Kelly issued his order, NYPD is continuing with its marijuana arrest crusade.
In the state of New York, since 1977, possession of a small amount of marijuana has been a mere violation, which is a non-arrestable offense – unless it’s burning or in plain public view. But in 2010 one out of every seven arrests in New York City was for marijuana possession in public view – even though the vast majority of the people arrested did not actually possess marijuana in public view. Research by Queens College professor Harry Levine and valuable investigative work by WNYC’s Ailsa Chang clearly demonstrates that the vast majority of the marijuana arrests in New York City – up to 75 or even 80 percent in some precincts – are the result of illegal searches and false charges.
警官腐敗・職務質問・マリファナ
Senate refuses abortion rights for rape victims in the military
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Published: 09 December, 2011, 23:34
Senate refuses abortion rights for rape victims in the military
TAGS: Health, Military, Law, USA, Employment, Government Spending, Culture, War
In addition to turning America into a warzone and allowing indefinite torture and detainment for US citizens, Congress this week decided that women raped while serving their country won’t be provided coverage for abortions.
The military, it turns out, is pro-life.
December-01-11
No Senate Vote on Lifting Ban on Military Abortion Coverage for Rape, Incest
Senate leadership indicated yesterday that they will not permit a vote on an amendment to the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act introduced by Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), which would remove the military's ban on health coverage for abortions in instances of rape or incest.
レイプ・強姦・堕胎・
Mumia – political prisoner? 30 years behind bars
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Published: 10 December, 2011
Accused of killing a police officer in the 80s, 57-year-old Mumia has spent 30 years of his life behind bars in the U. – on death row.
"This was a police frame-up against a revolutionary journalist and activist, very well known organizer in Philadelphia, outspoken against police abuse," said co-director of the International Action Center Sarah Flounders.
Mumia an honorary award-holding citizen in over 20 cities, with a street named after him in France, dubbed “the Voice of the Voiceless” by human rights activists. His work translated into several languages and distributed across the world.
冤罪
Yakutian Hachiko in bitter vigil for dead mate
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Published: 09 December, 2011, 17:18
Edited: 10 December, 2011, 19:10
A stray dog in Russia’s Far East stood on guard beside his dead mate in biting cold for over two weeks. The “Yakutian Hachiko” tried to warm her up with his own body.
The two stray dogs had been guarding local garages until one of them was allegedly poisoned. The other refused to leave his dead pal’s side even when the temperature dropped to -50 degrees Celsius.
He was nicknamed the "Yakutian Hachiko" after a Japanese dog remembered for his remarkable loyalty to his dead owner, waiting for him at a train station for seven years.
忠犬ハチ公
Russian poll protests: calm after the storm
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Published: 11 December, 2011
FOX, lies & the wrong videotape: What’s NOT happening in Moscow
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Published: 07 December, 2011,
ロシアの春
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フランス 原発産業
Monday, Dec. 12, 2011
Health ministry to offer grief counseling to Tohoku orphans
Kyodo
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is planning to start providing grief counseling to children early next year in the three northeastern Japan prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, the hardest hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami where over 1,500 children are estimated to have lost parents, sources familiar with the move said Saturday.
心理カウンセリング
