公務員給与―引き下げ法案を通せ

このままでは、国民に復興増税を求めながら、官が身を削らず、復興財源に穴を開けることになる。さらに民間企業の動向にあわせた人事院勧告の０．２３％引き下げも実現しない。

　まさに、「ルーズベルトは狂気の男」　フーバー元大統領が批判
2011.12.7 22:41 （1/2ページ）［歴史問題・昭和史］

日本軍による米ハワイ・真珠湾攻撃で、黒煙を上げる米海軍の戦艦アリゾナ（ロイター）

　

【ワシントン＝佐々木類】ハーバート・フーバー第３１代米大統領（１８７４～１９６４年）が、日本軍が１９４１年１２月８日、米ハワイの真珠湾を攻撃した際の大統領だったフランクリン・ルーズベルト（第３２代、１８８２～１９４５年）について、「対ドイツ参戦の口実として、日本を対米戦争に追い込む陰謀を図った『狂気の男』」と批判していたことが分かった。

　米歴史家のジョージ・ナッシュ氏が、これまで非公開だったフーバーのメモなどを基に著した「ＦＲＥＥＤＯＭ　ＢＥＴＲＡＹＥＤ（裏切られた自由）」で明らかにした。

　真珠湾攻撃に関しては、ルーズベルトが対独戦に参戦する口実を作るため、攻撃を事前に察知しながら放置。ドイツと同盟国だった日本を対米戦に引きずり込もうとした－などとする“陰謀説”が日米の研究者の間で浮かんでは消えてきたが、米大統領経験者が“陰謀説”に言及していたことが判明したのは初めて。

　ナッシュ氏の著書によると、フーバーは第３３代大統領のトルーマンの指示で戦後の日本などを視察。４６年に訪日し、東京で連合国軍総司令部（ＧＨＱ）のマッカーサー元帥と会談した。国会の無作為を象徴するような展開である。

その際、フーバーはマッカーサーに対し、日本との戦争は「対独戦に参戦する口実を欲しがっていた『狂気の男』の願望だった」と指摘。在米日本資産の凍結など４１年７月の経済制裁は「対独戦に参戦するため、日本を破滅的な戦争に引きずり込もうとしたものだ」と語ったという。

　マッカーサーも、「ルーズベルトは４１年夏に日本側が模索した近衛文麿首相との日米首脳会談を行い、戦争回避の努力をすべきだった」と批判していた。

　著書ではフーバーが「米国から日本への食糧供給がなければ、ナチスの強制収容所並みかそれ以下になるだろう」とマッカーサーに食糧支援の必要性を説いていたことも詳細につづられており、フーバーの対日関与の功績に光を当てるものにもなっている。

　ナッシュ氏は「この著書が、今でも米国の英雄とされているルーズベルト大統領への歴史評価を見直すきっかけになってほしい」と話している。

Revisionist History That Matters
By TOM BETHELL on 11.18.11 @ 6:08AM

Herbert Hoover's long buried assessment of Franklin Roosevelt and "The Good War."

Another "major blunder," Hoover thought, was FDR's decision in 1941 to throw the U.S. into an "undeclared war with Germany and Japan, in total violation of promises upon which he had been elected a few weeks before." Roosevelt's "total economic sanctions" against Japan in the summer of 1941, and his "contemptuous refusal" of the Japanese prime minister's peace proposals in September, Hoover saw as the crucial precursors to Pearl Harbor. The day after the attack, Hoover told a friend that FDR's "continuous putting pins in rattlesnakes finally got this country bitten."

日本を巧妙に対米戦争へ…「幻の禁書」邦訳で日の目
2011.12.8

　

今月２５日に全訳刊行（上巻）される「ルーズベルトの責任－日米戦争はなぜ始まったか」（藤原書店、下巻は来年１月刊行）には、ルーズベルト米大統領が、巧妙な策略によって日本を対米戦争へと追い込んでいった過程が、米側公文書などによって、浮き彫りにされている。

　著者は、米政治学会会長や歴史協会会長などを務めた第一人者、チャールズ・Ａ・ビーアド元コロンビア大教授（１８７４～１９４８年）。順次解禁された米側の外交公文書や連邦議会議事録など膨大な資料を詳細に調査・分析し、１９４８年４月に米国内で発刊されたものの、政府側の圧力などによって激しい不買運動が起き、事実上の禁書扱いとなってしまった「幻の名著」だ。いわゆる「ルーズベルト陰謀説」が終戦直後に、米側公文書などによって裏づけられていた意味は大きい。

Charles A. Beard
From Wikipedia

Charles Austin Beard (November 27, 1874 – September 1, 1948) was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century........


Beard was famous as a political liberal, but he strenuously opposed American entry into World War II, for which he blamed Franklin D. Roosevelt more than Japan or Germany. This stance destroyed his career

UK cop doublespeak: Peaceful protest is terror?
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Published: 06 December

Police in City see occupiers as 'terror' risk

KEVIN RAWLINSON MONDAY 05 DECEMBER 2011

The City of London Police force was facing criticism last night after including the Occupy London demonstration in a letter warning businesses about potential terrorist threats.

The letter, a "Terrorism/Extremism Update", lists al-Qa'ida, the Colombian dissidents Farc, and Belarusian terrorists who bombed the Minsk underground. It also lists Occupy London under the heading "Domestic".

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Occupational hazard: Brutal arrests in Re-Occupy Portland
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Published: 04 December, 2011, 14:12
Edited: 05 December, 2011,

At least one protester has been injured as riot police were clearing an OWS encampment in a downtown Portland park area in Oregon, USA, on Saturday night. The teenager was hit in the face with a police baton. Several others were arrested.
Police say officers began detaining demonstrators at South Park blocks around 8:30pm after the park was closed 30 minutes early, AP reports.
Protesters are posting photographic evidence of police brutality during their raids. One of them shows 15-year-old Walker Prettyman, who was injured during the Occupy Portland protest in Shemanski Park. According to the young man, a police officer hit him in the face with his baton.

Police brutality



Americans leaving US in record numbers
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Published: 08 December, 2011



Tue, Dec. 06 2011 04:45 PM EDT
Younger Americans Going Abroad for Work
By Amanda Winkler
Brain drain reverses course, flows away from America
By Chris Taylor, Reuters

In fact, according to a survey by marketing consultants America Wave, the percentage of Americans aged 25 to 34 actively planning to relocate outside the U.S. has quintupled in just two years, from less than 1 percent to 5.1 percent. "Those numbers have shot through the ceiling," says America Wave founder Bob Adams, who has run nine such surveys over the years. "They're very surprising, and not something I anticipated. They're looking for work because of the sluggish economy, and they've lost confidence that the U.S. is going anywhere."
Younger Americans seem even keener to look abroad, with 40 percent of those 18-24 expressing interest in foreign relocation, which is up from 15 percent two years ago. "There's a feeling among more entrepreneurial Americans that if you really want to get anything done, you have to get out of country and away from the depressing atmosphere," says Adams, who lives in Panama. " There's a sense of lost direction, so more people are looking for locations that offer more hope about the future."

Mom shoots children and kills self after being denied food stamps
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Published: 08 December, 2011

Girl Posted on Facebook During 7-Hour Welfare-Office Standoff
By ALYSSA NEWCOMB
Dec. 7, 2011


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DECEMBER 7, 2011 · 5:32 AM
NAACP Petitions United Nations Over Alleged Voter Suppression Of Minorities In US

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is petitioning the United Nations over what it sees as a concerted efforted to disenfranchise black and Latino voters ahead of next year’s presidential election.

[Source: The Guardian]

選挙　不正

EASTERN EUROPE | 04.12.2011
Right-wing extremist violence on the rise in Bulgaria

Since the 1990s, nationalism has become a major part of politics and society in Bulgaria. Racist violence, too, is becoming more and more a part of everyday life. The state, however, is doing little to counteract this.

ブルガリア　極右台頭

Australia's most hated TV ad 'racist' via kwout

The video, marketing an "energy umpire" service, was taken off the air in August after receiving 75 complaints for portraying an Indian man as a potentially untrustworthy door-to-door salesman.

CM　コマーシャル




Australia's most hated TV ad 'racist'19:30 AEST Mon Dec 5 2011





Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 | Posted by Neil Pooran
Student tells of Edinburgh racist bus attack
By Neil Pooran

A SOUTH African teenager has told how he was threatened with being stabbed and racially abused in a vile attack by a stranger on a bus.
Riaz Moola, 19, now says he feel safer in his native South Africa, infamous for its astronomical crime rates, than the Scottish capital.
The student says he was targeted for no reason, and had abuse hurled at him on a number 33 bus in Edinburgh as he went home.
The driver threw the thug off the bus, but passengers had to step in to prevent him getting back on.
Mr Moola posted an account of his ordeal, which happened around 5pm on November 17, on YouTube.
The video was in response to several clips of women going on racist rants on public transport in England, which have become viral hits.
Mr Moola said: “Edinburgh’s not safe, things like that never happened to me in South Africa, supposedly one of the most dangerous places in the world.
“I actually feel safer in South Africa after what has happened to me here.
He described the terrifying ordeal, where the man also tried to grab him by the throat.
Mt Moola said: “I sat next to a guy on the bus and he tapped me on the shoulder and told me to move, I just did it because he looked a bit scary.
“There was a couple sitting nearby at the back of the bus, they began scolding him and saying he couldn’t tell me to move like that.
“So I decided to go back to the seat and asked him why I couldn’t sit there.
“He said he thought I was from Pakistan and he started swearing and saying I was raping his country.”
Mr Molla initially laughed after the man said this, but the man then stood up and threatened to stab him.
“A man grabbed him to stop him from getting to me, and I moved away.
“I ran to the front of the bus, he was coming towards me and nobody could stop him.
“He came up to me and tried to grab my throat.”
He said the man was saying ‘I’m going to slit your throat, I’m going to kill you’ as he ran along the bus towards him.
Mr Moola said the driver, who tried to call the police, had to remove the abusive passenger before shutting the doors.
“But the guy walked down the side of the bus to my window and through the window continued to scream threats,” Mr Moola added.

ヘイトクライム　バス　スコットランド


Denver settles racial profiling suit, but police won't admit wrongdoing

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Eli Stokols
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9:12 p.m. MST, December 6, 2011

DENVER -- One day after the city council approved a $20,000 settlement for two apparent victims of racial profiling, a Denver Police Department spokesman tells FOX31 the officers involved didn't necessarily do anything wrong.

"A settlement by the city is not necessarily an admission of guilt," said Lt. Matt Murray. "That shouldn't be a red flag or an indicator to anyone out there that the Denver Police Department is guilty of any allegation that's been made against us. All that indicates is that the city was willing to settle a case."

警察　傲慢　レイシャルプロファイリング


Name-calling attacker pleads guilty in hate-crime case
By: Mike Aldax | 12/06/11 3:29 PM

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A racist thug admitted in a San Francisco courtroom Tuesday to assaulting a mixed-raced couple near the Civic Center farmers market after calling their two young children a derogatory term, prosecutors said.

Hosea Matavao, 48, pleaded guilty to felony battery and admitted to the hate crime allegation, which will keep him in jail until Dec. 28, Assistant District Attorney Omid Talai said. Matavao has been in custody on $500,000 bail since the Oct. 19 crime.

Although the family was not seriously injured in the attack, the hate crime admission bumped the assault from a misdemeanor to a felony, leading to more jail time, Talai said.

Around 1:30 p.m. at Eighth and Market streets, the white husband and his black wife were pushing their two sons, 3 and nearly 2, in a double-baby stroller, Talai said.

Matavao called the children "“n----- babies” as they passed. After the wife responded to the comment, Matavao punched her multiple times in the face. The husband was also punched while trying to hold the thug back.

Matavoa then followed the wife as she tried to flee with her children. He kicked in the stroller’s tarp, which hit the 3-year-old’s head, prosecutors said.

ヘイトクライム　国際結婚、ハーフ

Tokyo Reporter: Bust of Gas Panic bars in Roppongi due to “poorly behaving” foreigners

Posted by debito on December 6th, 2011

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Bust of Gas Panic bars in Roppongi due to ‘poorly behaving’ foreigners
December 1, 2011

A journalist who covers the adult entertainment industry says the chain of foreigner-frequented bars is popular for those on low budgets, but in recent times police have been taking notice of trouble. “Recently, poorly behaving foreigners from the Middle East and South-East Asia have started showing up,” says the source. “They make others not want to come around, and maybe some neighbors complained.”

まず、翻訳がわざと誤解を与えるようにしている。


六本木の老舗クラブ　どうして摘発されたのか

2011年12月02日10時00分

提供：ゲンダイネット

「ガスパニックと９９は明け方まで営業している上、入場無料でドリンク代も５００円程度と安いので、お金がない若者のたまり場でした。最近は、中東や東南アジア系の不良外国人がたむろしていて、ちょっと近寄りがたい雰囲気もありましたね。近隣からの苦情があったのかもしれません。騒音の問題もあり、クラブの摘発は増えています。無許可営業のクラブはゴマンとありますが、ガスパニックは有名だし、警察からの再三の指導を無視したので、悪質とみなされ、見せしめにされたのでしょう」（風俗ジャーナリスト）

しかも、日刊ゲンダイ

ヽ(－＿－;)ノ


Toward a Gentler, Kinder German Reich?
The Realpolitik behind the European Financial Crisis
by Tony Corn

Journal Article | November 29, 2011 - 8:32am

Since the Berlin Republic now defines itself almost exclusively as a “geo-economic power,” there is no doubt that the first priority of a German-dominated EU China policy would be to lift the arms embargo in place since 1989. American taxpayers would thus continue to provide for the defense of the “civilianized” Germans (who spend only 1.3 percent of their GDP on defense) while Germany would be making money selling advanced military technology to America’s peer competitor.

@mozumozumozu
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Toward a Gentler, Kinder German Reich? bitly.com/spnOaa 独中心の欧州の未来図。欧州連邦における独はビスマルクのライヒにおける普に相当。新ライヒは権威主義的ではなく社会政治的に今より民主的で金融財政の面でも機能する云々
しかし、この独の支配する慈悲深き連邦は地政学的にはロシアや中国に接近し、米国にとってやっかいな存在になるだろうと。これまでに目にした第4帝国モノの記事の中では一番洗練されている。説得的かどうかは別にして。

Women in Britain are fed up
Why British women are being turned off the men in charge of the country "who haven't got a clue what matters to women".
Siobhan Courtney Last Modified: 05 Dec 2011

Childcare in Britain costs more than any other country in the world, according to research by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Maybe, in this instance, the UK would like to look to Europe and learn a thing or two from Belgium and Portugal's example, as, in Britain, 33 per cent of a family's net income is spent on childcare. This has resulted in a situation where it actually doesn't make sense for thousands of parents to return to work because they are financially worse off - I know, it took me a while to get my head around that one too. The fact that thousands are not able to go back to work has contributed to 1.07 million women out of work - the highest level for 23 years. Guess who was in power then, too?

男女格差　女性差別



DECEMBER 6, 2011 · 1:18 PM
NYPD Investigating Officers’ Racist Posts

The New York City Police Department says it will investigate a report officers made racist and inflammatory comments on Facebook about West Indian parade-goers.

The New York Times reports that in the postings, people participating in the September parade in Brooklyn were described as “animals” and “savages.” One posting suggested, “Drop a bomb on them and wipe them all out” while another read, “Let them kill each other.”

The Times said it obtained a copy of postings made on the Facebook page, titled “No More West Indian Day Detail,” before it was taken down in September.
[Source: UPI]

警官腐敗


DECEMBER 6, 2011 · 1:55 PM
Jail Sentences Handed Down To Trio In Massachusetts Racial Attack

A Marshfield woman was sentenced to two to three years at the state prison in Framingham and two men were given jail sentences after a jury found them guilty of carrying out a racially-motivated attack on a black man three years ago.

ヘイトクライム　判決


黄色い声、チンパンジーは理解…人間は？

　

若い女性や子どもの甲高い声を「黄色い声」と表現するように、チンパンジーも音に色のイメージを結びつける“表現力”を持つことが、京都大霊長類研究所の松沢哲郎所長らの実験でわかった。

　霊長類の中で人間だけが言葉を獲得した秘密に迫れる可能性があり、近く米科学アカデミー紀要電子版に発表する。

　松沢所長によると、「高音は明るい」「低音は暗い」といった音に対する色のイメージを持つことを人では共感覚的知覚と呼ぶ。

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日本が変わるスイッチが入っている映像 - 裸の男とリーダーシップ



日本政府ＯＢ　ＴＰＰで“ガイアツ”要請

2011年12月4日 朝刊

　【ワシントン＝久留信一】「日本の元政府関係者からガイアツを頼まれた」。米通商代表部（ＵＳＴＲ）のカトラー代表補は二日、環太平洋連携協定（ＴＰＰ）への日本の参加問題で、日本政府ＯＢからの働き掛けがあったことを明かした。
　野田佳彦首相が、ＴＰＰ交渉参加に向けて関係国と協議に入る方針を表明した十一月十一日までの国内協議の最中、数人の元日本政府関係者が訪ねてきて同代表補に「少しガイアツをかけて、ＴＰＰ参加が日本にとってよいことであると伝えてもらえないか」と、ＴＰＰ参加を日本に促す働き掛けを求めたという。代表補は、関係者の具体名は明らかにしなかった。
　同代表補は要請について「日本経済の将来にかかわるような大きな決定に、通商相手国がどうこう言うべきではない」との判断を強調。「米政府は日本の国内協議に一切介入しなかった。決定は日本自身の決断だ」と述べた。
　野田首相の交渉参加表明については「勇気があり、歴史的な声明だった」と評価する一方で「米政府としては決定は必ずしも簡単なものではなかったと認識している」との見方を示した。

～2011年12月5日19時21分


鳩山氏また「辺野古以外でも」普天間移設巡り講演で主張

　「辺野古以外があるか。私は決してないとは思っていない」。民主党の鳩山由紀夫元首相は５日、東京都内で講演し、沖縄県の米軍普天間飛行場の移設先について、同県名護市辺野古以外を検討すべきだとの考えを示した。

おぼっちゃまご乱心


読売が清武氏を提訴　「巨人の名声踏みにじる」
2011.12.5

ナベツネ巨人軍のほうがよほど。

通訳案内士、東電に賠償求め仲介申し立て　事故で収入減

2011年12月5日20時13分

日本政府観光局によると今年１～１０月に来日した外国人客は５０９万人で、昨年同期より３０．５％減。国の審査会は中間指針で、外国人客の風評被害は「５月末までのキャンセルによる減収分」が賠償されるとしたが、ガイド側は「５月以降もキャンセルされた旅行は多く、限定するのは不適切」と主張している。

DECEMBER 5, 2011 · 5:33 AM
Report Finds Racial Gap In Milwaukee Traffic Stops

A black Milwaukee driver is seven times as likely to be stopped by police officers as a white motorist, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Sunday.

The newspaper based that on an analysis of nearly 46,000 traffic stops that also found Milwaukee police pulled over Hispanic motorists nearly five times as often as white drivers.

It also found that police searched black drivers at twice the rate of whites, but those searches didn’t lead to higher rates of seized weapons, drugs or stolen property.

[Source: JSOnline]

レイシャルプロファイリング

DECEMBER 5, 2011 · 12:42 PM
Suppressed Footage Shows Racist Attacks On Non-Whites By EDL

A suppressed video from June 2011 has emerged that shows unprovoked attacks on non-whites in Britain as officials ignore the threat of racist groups such as the English Defense League.

The video, which came out on YouTube but was later removed allegedly due to graphic violence, shows a man, who is identified as EDL member Cobz Smith, targetting non-whites on London’s Underground and launching assaults on them with slaps and kicks.

Cobz Smith originally posted the video on his Facebook account under the name of “Da Cobmeister” on June 21 and commented “paki got what he deserved,” referring to the beatings of a man who is apparently an Asian.

The video could have been shot before the date specified by the EDL thug, yet the violence it graphically pictures, does provide an example of the wave of racist violence that keeps going as officials refuse to ban self-acknowledged far-right groups such as the EDL and the BNP.

This comes as none of the major British news outlets have said anything about the footage, neither back in June, nor later or up until the present moment, while the police and government officials have also remained silent on the issue.

[Source: Press TV]

ヘイトクライム　メディア偏向



Over 30 arrested at Occupy DC
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Published: 05 December, 2011

A crackdown on the Occupy DC encampment in downtown Washington ended with 31 arrests on Sunday following a nine-hour standoff with District police.
The demonstration in downtown Washington DC has been spared from police crackdowns since it began, setting it apart from sites in New York, Los Angeles and other major cities where cops have closed down spaces to protesters as the Occupy movement swells in size. Law enforcement arrived early on Sunday in DC’s McPherson Square, however, and ordered protesters to dissemble a wooden structure that was erected overnight in their encampment. The consensus among demonstrators was to keep the building, a wooden barn-like framework, intact, and police responded by arresting more than two dozen protesters early in the day.
The Washington Post reports that 15 demonstrators were arrested and charged with crossing a police line, with another 16 apprehended for disobeying a lawful police order.

Clash at Occupy DC camp could alter tenor of largely peaceful relations with police

By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, December 6, 3:42 AM

WASHINGTON — The arrest of 31 protesters at the Occupy DC site is a rare flare-up with police and risks creating new tensions in what’s been a largely peaceful coexistence.

The arrests happened Sunday after Occupy DC members refused to disassemble and get down from a wooden building they had erected in preparation for the winter. U.S. Park Police deemed the structure unsafe. Officers used a cherry picker to remove a handful of people who refused to come down from the roof.

Police brutality


Unequal partners: UK rethinks US extradition treaty
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Published: 05 December, 2011,

Dozens of British MPs are calling for a review of what they see as a one-sided extradition policy with the US. Drawn up in the post-9/11 panic, it decrees that Washington can demand anyone's extradition without proof, and London is obliged to obey.
All take and no give – that is the growing feeling in Britain’s parliament against America’s controversial extradition treaty. It was signed in 2003 and makes it far easier for the US to take people from the UK than the other way around.
Now, 45 members of British parliament from three main parties have crossed the political divide and joined forces. They have finally forced a debate and parliamentary vote on what they call an injustice.
“I think [signing the treaty] was a mistake,” says Keith Vaz, an MP and chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee. “It's not a level playing field. Even with a partner like America, we need to make sure that we are being equal and we are being fair to our citizens, and that is not the case at the moment.”

不平等条約

DECEMBER 5, 2011 · 12:36 PM
Update: Seattle Settles With Five Landlords Accused Of Refusing To Rent To Blacks


The city of Seattle has settled with five landlords accused of discriminating against black and disabled renters, in a case that involved a months-long investigation originally targeting 48 properties.

In October, the city’s Office for Civil Rights said its investigation – involving undercover testers posing as renters – had revealed a widespread pattern of discrimination against black and disabled people.

Officials said more than half of the properties tested had showed evidence of housing discrimination, in what they called a revealing snapshot of “normal, everyday business practices” in Seattle.

Practices included quoting higher rent to blacks than whites, neglecting to tell black renters of a move-in special, and doing credit and criminal checks not done on whites.

Regarding disabled renters, the city said some landlords had refused to accommodate service animals or had asked for a pet deposit.

The investigation resulted in administrative charges against six properties alleged to have broken fair-housing laws.

Five of the landlords or leasing managers settled with the city in November, the city said Friday. They admitted no wrongdoing and agreed to attend fair-housing training, provide their rental policies to the city for review, and post notices about housing laws.

They also each agreed to reimburse the city $600 for the cost of testing. No punitive damages were assessed.

The properties included Citywalk Apartments and Summit at Madison Park, both accused of racial discrimination. Mercedes Apartments, Eastlake 2851 and The Sedges Apartments were accused of disability bias.

Olympus Apartments in Belltown, accused of discriminating against blacks, did not settle with the city. That prompted a now-pending review by a city investigator.

After the investigation’s results were announced, the Office for Civil Rights acknowledged it had mistakenly tested a property owner outside Seattle limits.

[Source: SeattlePI]

外国人お断り

Japan's 10 years since 9/11

柳澤協二　元内閣官房副長官補(安全保障担当)　2010.11.2

Michael Cucek - Profile - Al Jazeera English via kwout

Is Japan cracking up?
Mainstream parties in Japan are losing the trust of the people as renegade politicians gain support.
Michael Cucek Last Modified: 03 Dec 2011


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No, America's unemployment rate is not 8.6 percent
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Published: 02 December, 2011


Robert Reich
Jobs report positive, but don't get too excited
Friday's report is a step in the right direction, but there's a long way to go before the unemployment problem is solved


By Robert Reich, Guest blogger / December 3, 2011

失業率



Senate approves indefinite detention and torture of Americans
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Published: 02 December, 2011

Guantánamo for US citizens? Senate bill raises questions
The National Defense Authorization Act passed by the Senate this week could allow the US military to detain American citizens indefinitely. Civil libertarians are alarmed, and President Obama says he might veto it.


By Brad Knickerbocker, Staff writer / December 3, 2011


Ceding Liberty to Terror: Senate Votes Against Due-Process Rights
DEC 2 2011,

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The US immigration system is broken
Huge amounts of money are wasted on immigration detention in the US – it's inhumane, unjust, and possibly unconstitutional



SE Smith for This Ain't Livin', part of the Guardian Comment Network
guardian.co.uk, Friday 2 December 2011

Under the US constitution, people are entitled to all sorts of rights, particularly around personal liberties and freedoms. The current state of the immigration system in the United States is clearly violating some of these rights, in spirit if not in actual fact. Case in point is immigration detention; under the law, immigrants can be indefinitely detained while awaiting decisions on their cases, although a recent court case may change that. As my colleague Flavia Dzodan has pointed out, immigration detention is a global, multibillion dollar industry.

People put in prison in the US are at least passed through some sort of semblance of a justice system. It is usually a mockery, it is classist and racist, it all but ensures that certain people accused of certain crimes will go to prison for it, but it is at least a pretence of constitutionality. People in US prisons, on paper, have been allowed an opportunity to go to court, to receive fair trials. The fact that trials are not fair is inescapable, and the fact that the system is in urgent need of reform is undeniable.

Immigrants, though, are detained purely on suspicion. They have not been convicted of any crime. They are being held while the government determines if they committed a crime. This differs from jailing in other cases, when people may be held if they are considered flight risks or threats to the safety of the community, while others are allowed out on bail, with the understanding that they will return to their communities. Mandatory detention laws in the US require that people accused of immigration violations be detained until trial. This translates into indefinite confinement.

外国人移民　起訴前勾留



TSA keeps pregnant woman from plane over her purse
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Published: 03 December, 2011

空港管理



San Diego-area suicide kit seller agrees to stop sale of devices
El Cajon woman came under scrutiny when one of her products was found on a dead 29-year-old in Oregon.




By Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times
December 3, 2011

９３歳の米女性、「自殺キット」を通販　少なくとも５人死亡
2011.12.4

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被災地の子に「塾・習い事券」　兵庫の団体が１５０人に

　クーポンは、１人あたり２５万円分。文部科学省による子どもの学習費調査（２００８年度）などを参考に、学校外の教育にかかる１年間の平均額として、この額に決めた。有効期間は１３年３月末まで。子どもからクーポンを渡された塾などは、ＣＦＣからクーポン分の代金を受け取る仕組みだ。

ドナルド・キーン記念館設立へ　新潟・柏崎で蔵書贈呈式

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第1回　アジア　民衆に包囲された戦場via tomojiro


Five Myths
Challenging everything you think you know
Five myths about Pearl Harbor
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1. The U.S. government had no knowledge of a potential Japanese attack before Dec. 7.

Beyond the obvious signs of Japan’s increasing aggression — including its sinking of an American naval vessel in the Yangtze Riverand its signing of the Tripartite Pact with fascist Italy and Nazi Germany — various specific war warnings had been sent by Washington to military commanders in the Pacific for some days before Dec. 7.

The War Department had been intercepting and analyzing secret cables between Tokyo and the Japanese Embassy in Washington and thought at one point that the Japanese would attack Hawaii on Sunday, Nov. 30. A Hawaii newspaper even warned, in a blaring headline, of a possible attack.

On Dec. 4, Roosevelt received a 26-page memo marked “Confidential” from the Office of Naval Intelligence detailing Japanese espionage efforts. The possible outbreak of war is mentioned, followed shortly by this paragraph: “The focal point of the Japanese Espionage effort is the determination of the total strength of the United States. In anticipation of possible open conflict with this country, Japan is vigorously utilizing every available agency to secure military, naval and commercial information, paying particular attention to the West Coast, the Panama Canal and the Territory of Hawaii.”

These were just general warnings, however, and a huge Japanese armada was able to travel thousands of miles from Japan to Hawaii undetected. The U.S. military and government officials were caught off guard by the attack.



3. The U.S. military responded quickly and decisively.

For months after Pearl Harbor, the United States suffered defeat after defeat in the Pacific theater. Rumors swept the country on Dec. 8 that the Navy was in pursuit of the attacking Japanese fleet, but these were false. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, in command of the Army garrison in the Philippines, sent Roosevelt a telegram pleading for naval assistance, including for U.S. subs to target the Japanese vessels delivering troops, but the requests went unanswered. There was little assistance to offer the beleaguered general, and the Philippines fell.

歴史問題


British soldier stabs 10-year-old Afghan boy with bayonet after 'heavy vodka drinking session'
Grenadier Guardsman is jailed for 18 months and dismissed from the army
Boy's father says he has received 'no apology' from British forces
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 12:34 PM on 3rd December 2011

戦争犯罪


'These are the actions of a sadistic human being': Hunt for twisted thug who fed kitten to python in sick video
By CRAIG MACKENZIE
Last updated at 4:03 PM on 3rd December 2011

動物虐待





DECEMBER 3, 2011 · 8:55 AM
Interracial Eatonton Couple Unlawfully Denied Chance To Rent House, Judge Rules

A Putnam County judge has ruled that two Eatonton residents violated state housing laws by refusing to rent a house to an interracial couple.

In August 2009, the couple, Michael and Deanna Joseph, tried to rent a house in Eatonton owned by Roy Embry, according to a news release from state Attorney General Sam Olens’ office.

Initially, Embry’s rental agent, Rhonda Tuttle, met only with Deanna Joseph and agreed to rent the property to her and her husband.

Once it was discovered that Michael Joseph is black, Tuttle informed Deanna Joseph that Embry would not rent to an interracial couple and refused to rent the house to the Josephs, according to Olens’ statement


[Source: Macon]

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外国人お断り　不動産差別



DECEMBER 3, 2011 · 8:55 AM
Study Sees Wall Street Pay Tilted Toward White Men

[Source: NYTimes]

給与差別　職場差別



Young black males are stopped and searched the most often stats show

By Ayo Johnson
Published Dec 2, 2011 at 9:15 am (Updated Dec 2, 2011 at 9:14 am)

Every young black male in Bermuda is subject to being picked up by police multiple times due to the use of police stop and search laws, according to statistician Cordell Riley.

“Theoretically, every black male between the ages of 18 to 36 could be stopped four times,” Mr Riley said after a brief analysis of Police statistics.

“We know there’s a lot of double counting in those data. And so therefore we know there are people being stopped five, six, seven and eight times.”

He noted that the number of stop and searches had been on an uphill climb from less than 1,000 in 2008, 3,700 in 2009, and around 9,500 last year to likely 19,000 by the end of this year.

He said 90 percent were black and 85 percent were male. And 64 percent were between 18 and 36

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Group accuses Darden's Capital Grille of racial discrimination in report

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By Sandra Pedicini, Orlando Sentinel
December 1, 2011

A New York-based group that advocates for the nation's servers, cooks and busboys is accusing Orlando-based Darden Restaurants' Capital Grille chain of racial discrimination.

Restaurant Opportunities Centers United makes the allegation in a report released today, saying workers had asked the advocacy group for help.

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Seeing in black and white in Australia
Lauren Fritsky is finding it hard to deal with racist attitudes in her new home

9:32AM GMT 02 Dec 201132 Comments
I attended a networking event the other night in Sydney during which an American friend and I struck up a conversation with an older Australian man. We were talking about a pretty bland topic – Australian television – when the man said he had a joke for us.
“An Aboriginal man walks down the street wearing only one thong. Someone calls out, ‘You’ve lost a thong!’ The Aboriginal man says, ‘No mate, I’ve just found one.’”
An uneasy look crept across my friend’s face and my guts started churning. We swiftly changed the subject. I made it my mission to distance myself from this man for the rest of the night.
Incidents like this one have played out in many a public setting since I moved from America to Australia in early 2010. There was the random man in Woolworths who thought it appropriate to tell me Indians run all the 7-Elevens; an old roommate who called Lebanese people “Lebos”; the friend of a friend at a rugby match who made comments about the indigenous players. The proliferation of jabs at or generalisations about minorities takes on a new level in the land down under, at least for me.
The subject of whether or not Australia is “racist” as a whole has been debated heavily over the years in major newspapers and on news shows throughout the country. Part of the concern stems from actual statistics. For instance, 36 per cent of Australians do not think certain Middle Eastern and Asian groups fit in with Aussie society, as reported in a 2009 survey by VicHealth. The same report said one in 10 Australians does not think all races are equal.


Most countries practice some form of racism or ethnic intolerance, and Australia is not necessarily worse than the others. Both Australia and America mistreated certain indigenous and minority groups well into the second half of the last century. In my experience, however, Australians seem to be more permissive of derogatory mentions of race or ethnicity than Americans. And that makes me uncomfortable.
The last place I lived before Sydney was Philadelphia, a city that, while diverse, still harbours its fair share of racist people. I remember the ex whose elderly father still used the “n” word, the kids in heavily Caucasian areas who shouted racial slurs at minority classmates, the fellow reporter who made sweeping generalisations about certain ethnic groups and races in the newsroom. But in this corner of America, I less often heard out-of-the blue jokes about race spewed from the mouths of strangers at a happy hour or other public event.
In Sydney, such comments are almost like an ice breaker. Words like “chocko” and “Abo” are as accepted in the vernacular here as “mate.” The political correctness that has come to permeate my mother country is sorely missing from conversation in Australia.

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Anti-Semitism in Australia increases by 31%, study shows
Study director Jeremy Jones says Internet forums allow for proliferation of anti-Jew behavior, denies link between incidents of anti-Semitism to actions of Israel or behavior of Jews.

By Aimee Neistat
Tags: Jewish World anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitic violence in Australia has increased by 31% over the past year, a recent study that was presented Monday in Melbourne showed.


"This year, ten times a week, every week, Jewish Australians were attacked or threatened,” said Jeremy Jones, the Director of Community Affairs for the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council, who prepared the study.

Jones presented his findings, which included data from annual studies that he conducted over 22 years, at the Annual Meeting of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.

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Sikh origin taxi driver blames racism for Melbourne bashing
Melbourne, Fri, 02 Dec 2011ANI

Melbourne, Dec.2 (ANI): A Sikh-origin taxi driver, who was bashed by four men in Melbourne's south-east on Thursday, fears the attack was racially motivated.

Ravisher Singh said his turban was ripped from his head as he was repeatedly punched during the attack in Chelsea.

The Age quoted Singh, 22, as saying that he picked up the group at the Mentone Hotel shortly before 12.

オーストラリア　ヘイトクライム



The terror of Babar Ahmad
The Islamophobia behind his seven-year ordeal in prison fighting extradition can no longer be ignored


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Victoria Brittain
guardian.co.uk, Friday 2 December 2011

Five other men, including three Britons, are in the same position of having been fighting extradition to the US for years from prisons in the UK, where they are accused of no crime. The stress on their lives can be gauged from the fact that one has been moved to Broadmoor after a breakdown in the special detainee unit where Ahmad is held.

Ahmad's ordeal has had particular resonance in part because of the saga of the 73 injuries he received during his arrest, and his subsequent court case against the officers involved. In 2009 the Metropolitan police made an unprecedented admission that officers subjected Ahmad to a brutal beating causing multiple injuries, and offered him £60,000 compensation. The case exposed shocking behaviour by some officers, in which racism and islamophobia were overt; and incompetence, or worse, lay behind the curious disappearance of many sacks of vital evidence.

Two years later, in a criminal case against the officers, the jury was not told of the Met's admissions, or the payment it had offered, and the four officers concerned were found not guilty.

The US immigration system is broken
Huge amounts of money are wasted on immigration detention in the US – it's inhumane, unjust, and possibly unconstitutional



SE Smith for This Ain't Livin', part of the Guardian Comment Network
guardian.co.uk, Friday 2 December 2011

Under the US constitution, people are entitled to all sorts of rights, particularly around personal liberties and freedoms. The current state of the immigration system in the United States is clearly violating some of these rights, in spirit if not in actual fact. Case in point is immigration detention; under the law, immigrants can be indefinitely detained while awaiting decisions on their cases, although a recent court case may change that. As my colleague Flavia Dzodan has pointed out, immigration detention is a global, multibillion dollar industry.

People put in prison in the US are at least passed through some sort of semblance of a justice system. It is usually a mockery, it is classist and racist, it all but ensures that certain people accused of certain crimes will go to prison for it, but it is at least a pretence of constitutionality. People in US prisons, on paper, have been allowed an opportunity to go to court, to receive fair trials. The fact that trials are not fair is inescapable, and the fact that the system is in urgent need of reform is undeniable.

Immigrants, though, are detained purely on suspicion. They have not been convicted of any crime. They are being held while the government determines if they committed a crime. This differs from jailing in other cases, when people may be held if they are considered flight risks or threats to the safety of the community, while others are allowed out on bail, with the understanding that they will return to their communities. Mandatory detention laws in the US require that people accused of immigration violations be detained until trial. This translates into indefinite confinement.

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Poverty on the rise among immigrants: study
Published: 2 Dec 11 12:18 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
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Two thirds of the people in Sweden relying long term on social benefits have a foreign background, while child poverty in the same group is becoming more and more serious, according to new reports.


”It is a real problem that poverty in Sweden has taken on an ethnic dimension,” said Björn Halleröd, sociology professor at Gothenburg university, to dail Dagens Nyheter (DN).

The report published in the paper revealed that 67 percent of those on long term benefits were born overseas, with unemployment being the main cause.

Using statistics from 2010, of the 117, 000 people on long term benefits, (defined in this case as over 10 months), 78,000 were from foreign countries.

Meanwhile the charity Save the Children has also flagged the problem of child poverty in Sweden.

In a recent survey carried out by the organisation, child poverty is markedly over-represented among those from a foreign background whose parents are unemployed.

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November 29, 2011 6:46 pm
The UK now faces a ‘lost decade’
By Martin Wolf

It is the foreigners wot done it. That was George Osborne’s excuse on Tuesday for how far the economy and the public finances are now off track. This was, of course, also the excuse used by Gordon Brown, Labour chancellor of the exchequer and prime minister, for the disaster that befell the economy in 2007 and 2008. Mr Osborne scorned Mr Brown’s excuse. Should we now scorn the chancellor’s?
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The big facts are that the UK is set for a lost decade and a longer period of stringency than expected. The government’s position is that there is no alternative. That has now become a self-fulfilling prophecy. So blame foreigners: that always works.

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The Japanese Economic Miracle
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Jesmyn Ward: 'I wanted to write about the people of the south'
The winner for the US National Book Award for her novel Salvage the Bones on how the book was inspired by her family's gut-wrenching experience during Hurricane Katrina in 2005


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Emma Brockes
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 1 December 2011

Her biggest struggle was getting out of DeLisle, a place which for years she hated, for its smallness, its racism. The wealthy family her mother worked for paid for Ward to attend a private school, where for a while she was the only black girl in the entire student body. It wasn't a happy experience. When she was about 12, a boy came into her classroom one day, sat on her desk, "and started telling nigger jokes. And no one said anything. And I was looking at my papers. And I thought, he wants me to freak out, to start crying or to get angry. And I sat there and kept writing, and probably failing, and attempting to ignore him. When he saw he wasn't getting any response he said: 'Come on Mimi, I know you know some good honky jokes. Why don't you tell them to us?'" The teacher came back in and kicked the boy out, but Ward didn't tell anyone what had happened and it wasn't discussed in her friendship group. "No one else said anything and I was very aware of the fact that I wasn't part of their community, racially or socially."

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Jesmyn Ward on ‘Salvage the Bones’
August 30, 2011 | by Elizabeth Hoover








DECEMBER 1, 2011 · 1:21 PM
UK Shop Owner Suspects Murder Of Sri-Lakan Man Was Racially Motivated

A Sri-Lankan shop worker at Stanley News and Wine may have been the victim of a racially motivated killing, his employer feared today.

The 30-year-old dad of two, who has children aged three and six, was stabbed in the neck as he manned Stanley News and Wine in Kingsway, Huyton on Tuesday night.

While detectives said they were keeping an open mind as to the motive for the attack shop owner Gunapale Welhengama, 63, said he believed it was race-related.

Dr Welhengama, who owns a string of newsagents in Huyton, today paid tribute to the shop assistant, who the ECHO is not naming while police attempt to locate his family in Sri Lanka.

He said: “It was not a robbery – nothing was taken from the shop. I can’t see any motive other than a racial one.

“There are a lot of Sri Lankans running newsagents in Liverpool and Wirral and a lot of [racial] incidents go on but this is a big one. It is a brutal murder.

“We are absolutely stunned by what has happened. He was one of the most polite, most courteous and hard-working men I have ever known.

[Source: Liverpool Echo]

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DECEMBER 1, 2011 · 5:57 AM
Australian Police Officer Accused Of Tipping Off White Supremacist

A former policeman tried to tip off a man associated with a known white supremacist to warn him that phone calls were being intercepted by police, a Perth court has heard.

Robert David Critchley, 43, is on trial in the Perth District Court, charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.

[Source 2: ABC News]

警官腐敗






Kentucky church votes to ban interracial couples
Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church votes on resolution that says the church 'does not condone interracial marriage'


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A tiny church in rural Kentucky has voted to ban interracial couples from joining its congregation, pitting members against each other in an argument over race.

Members at the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church in Kentucky voted on Sunday on the resolution, which says the church "does not condone interracial marriage".

The church member who crafted the resolution, Melvin Thompson, said he is not racist and called the matter an "internal affair".

"I am not racist. I will tell you that. I am not prejudiced against any race of people, have never in my lifetime spoke evil about a race," said Thompson, the church's former pastor who stepped down earlier this year.

"That's what this is being portrayed as, but it is not."

Dean Harville, the church's secretary, disagreed - he said the resolution came after his daughter visited the church this summer with her boyfriend from Africa.

外国人お断り　黒人お断り



Israeli ads implore Jews to not marry Americans
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Published: 01 December, 2011

Netanyahu Government Suggests Israelis Avoid Marrying American Jews
NOV 30 2011


The Netanyahu government's Ministry of Immigrant Absorption is sponsoring advertisements in at least five American communities that warn Israeli expatriates that they will lose their identities if they don't return home.

The Ministry is also featuring on its website a series of short videos that, in an almost comically heavy-handed way, caution Israelis against raising their children in America -- one scare-ad shows a pair of Israeli grandparents seated before a menorah and Skypeing with their granddaughter, who lives in America. When they ask the child to name the holiday they're celebrating, she says "Christmas." In another ad, an actor playing a slightly-adenoidal, goateed young man (who, to my expert Semitic eye, is meant to represent a typical young American Jew) is shown to be oblivious to the fact that his Israeli girlfriend is in mourning on Yom HaZikaron, Israel's memorial day.

世界汚職番付…日本１４位、最下位は北朝鮮

世界の汚職状況を監視する民間団体「トランスペアレンシー・インターナショナル」（本部・ベルリン）が１日、２０１１年の「汚職番付」を発表した。


　番付１位の最も清潔な国はニュージーランド。汚職が最も多い最下位は北朝鮮とソマリアだった。日本は１４位（昨年１７位）と番付を上げた。

Corruption index 2011 from Transparency International: find out how countries compare

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DECEMBER 1, 2011 · 5:59 AM
For Byron Thomas, the Confederate battle flag isn’t about race.

The flag that the black 19-year-old University of South Carolina Beaufort student hung from his dorm room window is about Southern pride — pride that even a black Southerner can feel, he said.

Thomas, who grew up in North Augusta, said the South has been good to him. It’s a land of church, football and “good eats,” he said.

Thomas researched the history of the flag for a class project. That research convinced him the banner was about states’ rights rather than slavery.

“That’s all people want to see is racism. They want to see the KKK. They think of slavery. But that flag is a battle flag used for communication (during the fighting),” Thomas said.

[Source: Island Packet]

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011 · 2:23 PM
Update: Texas Man Sentenced For Burning Black Church


A West Texas man has been sentenced to more than 37 years in prison for torching a church in a hate crimes case.
[Source: The Republic]

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POSTED: Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011

On World AIDS Day, blacks remain outcasts
BY JULEYKA LANTIGUA-WILLIAMS

Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, and in the United States we must draw attention to the need to combat AIDS in the African-American community.
Blacks make up only 14 percent of our population but account for 44 percent of all new HIV infections, making them the racial/ethnic group most affected by HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS, according to the Centers for Decease Control and Prevention.
One in 16 black men and onein 32 black women will be diagnosed with HIV at some point in their lifetime, the CDC predicts. In 2009, black men had an HIV infection rate more than six and a half times as high as white men, and two and a half times as high as Latino men, as reported by the CDC.

In 2009, black women accounted for 30 percent of new HIV infections among blacks. A whopping 85 percent of black women with HIV acquired it through heterosexual sex.
"The rate of new HIV infections for black women was more than 15 times as high as the rate for white women, and more than three times as high" as that of Latinas, the CDC found.
Blacks are especially at risk for social and economic reasons. First, 27 percent of blacks live in poverty, compared to 9.9 percent of whites. That often translates into limited access to high-quality health care and HIV prevention education.Second, blacks experience higher rates of other sexually transmitted infections, which can significantly increase the chance of contracting HIV.
Third, the cultural stigma associated with HIV/AIDS in the black community is so high that it discourages people from even finding out their health status. "Many at risk for infection fear stigma more than infection and may choose instead to hide their high-risk behavior rather than seek counseling and testing," the CDC states.

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Couple caught on camera repeatedly throwing their dog in the sea are banned from keeping animals
Pair denied charge but were found guilty and cannot keep pets for 10 years
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 5:00 PM on 1st December 2011

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Sex deficit bad for Japan’s bottom line

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外国人実習生が半減、放射能不安？帰国後戻らず

巨大地震

中国人実習生全員がいなくなったアパレルメーカーの作業場。奥の製造ラインは止まっている（１１月２４日、宮城県登米市で）
　岩手、宮城、福島の３県で、外国人技能実習制度を利用して企業などで働いていた外国人の実習生が、いったん帰国した後、戻ってこない例が相次いでいる。

　法務省入国管理局によると、実習生の数は東日本大震災前の昨年末に比べて約２０００人減り、ほぼ半数になったと推計される。原発事故による放射能などへの不安が背景にあるとみられる。

　昨年新設された「技能実習」の在留資格を持つ実習生は今年９月末時点で、岩手県９９９人、宮城県３４１人、福島県９０９人の計２２４９人。同局の推計では、昨年末には、旧来の在留資格を持つ実習生を含めて４５００人近くがいたとみられる。

　津波被害を受けた宮城県石巻市の水産加工会社では、中国人実習生１７人が魚介類のパック詰めなどを担っていたが、震災直後、全員が帰国。１０月に操業再開したが、戻ってきたのは２人だけ。「戻りたいという人もいるが、親の反対が強いようだ。日本人従業員も自宅の片づけなどでフルタイムで働けず、生産量が落ちた」（会社幹部）という。

（2011年12月3日14時38分 読売新聞）

中国人実習生訴訟：賃金差額一部支払う　園芸会社側が方針－－初弁論　／群馬

　外国人研修・技能実習制度を利用して来日した中国人女性３人が研修の実態は労働だったなどとして、富岡市内の園芸会社に最低賃金との差額や時間外賃金など計約６６１万円の支払いを求めた訴訟の第１回口頭弁論が１５日、前橋地裁（水橋巌裁判官）で開かれた。会社側は答弁書で、３人が１年目の研修期間中、日中の研修に加え「内職」があったとして、時間外労働分も含めた最低賃金額との差額を一部期間について支払う方針を示した。

　訴状によると、実習生３人は０８年７月に入国し、同社で洋ラン栽培などに従事。今年１月、有期雇用期間満了（今年７月）前に解雇されたが、正当な理由はなく無効と主張。１年目の研修期間中の実態は労働だったとして、受け取った月５万円の手当と最低賃金額との差額などを支払うよう求めている。

　会社側は答弁書で、１年目について最低賃金額との差額を支払う方針を示す一方、８カ月分は時効が成立しているとして、支払期間は４カ月分計約１５３万円に限られると主張した。また解雇理由は、実習生が無断欠勤するなど勤務態度に問題があったためと主張し、解雇後の賃金支払い義務を否定した。【塩田彩】

　◇管理責任を強化　不正は潜在化か
　「外国人研修・技能実習制度」は途上国の人材育成を目的に、９０年代前半に導入された。１年の研修後、実習生として２年間就労できるシステムだが、研修生から「実態は研修ではなく労働だ」と未払い賃金請求訴訟などが絶えず、国は１０年７月に「外国人技能実習制度」に改正。１年目から関連労働法規の適用を受けることになったほか、企業との橋渡しをする実習生の受け入れ機関に管理責任強化などを求めた。

　法務省東京入国管理局によると、受け入れ機関の不正行為認定は０９年の４４４件から１０年は２１９件に半減したが、実習生問題に詳しい指宿（いぶすき）昭一弁護士（第２東京弁護士会）は「新制度で管理体制が強化された分、不正行為が潜在化しており、数字は実態を反映していない」と話している。

　同制度で国内に滞在する外国人は約１４万５０００人（１１年９月末現在）で、県内は約２３００人（１０年１２月末現在）。【塩田彩】

Working women are 'ultimate multi-taskers’
Women really are better multi-taskers than men - according to a study showing that they spend nearly half their time doing at least two things at once.

7:00AM GMT 01 Dec 2011
Working mothers multi-task for more than 40 per cent of their waking hours, researchers found.
The study showed that mothers spend 48.3 hours per week multi-tasking, compared with 38.9 hours for their partners.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the researchers found that most of the women described multi-tasking as a “negative” experience, which creates stress.

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The researchers also believe that multi-tasking – particularly at home and in public – is a more negative experience for working mothers than for fathers because mothers’ activities are more susceptible to outside scrutiny.
Barbara Schneider, co-author of the study and a sociology professor at Michigan State University, said: “At home and in public are the environments in which most household and child care related tasks take place, and mothers’ activities in these settings are highly visible to other people.
“Therefore, their ability to fulfil their role as good mothers can be easily judged and criticised when they multi-task in these contexts, making it a more stressful and negative experience for them than for fathers.”
Working fathers do not typically face these types of pressures, according to Prof Offer. “Although they are also expected to be involved in their children’s lives and do household chores, fathers are still considered to be the family’s major provider,’’ she said.
The study was published in the American Sociological Review.

女性差別


Dads are doing more, but moms are more stressed, study finds
A study of 500 dual-earner families finds that fathers and mothers are spending roughly equal amounts of time doing paid and unpaid work, but mothers are spending nine more hours a week multitasking.


By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
November 30, 2011, 10:59 p.m.

With growing evidence that the American dad has stepped up his game when it comes to housework and child care, U.S. households would seem to have been swept clean of gender inequity. But a new study finds that women outpace men in doing more than one task at a time — and they are paying an emotional cost for doing so.

The findings, published Thursday in the American Sociological Review, come from a two-year study of 500 middle-class, dual-earner families from eight urban and suburban communities across the country. They show that while fathers and mothers log nearly equal time performing paid and unpaid work combined, mothers spend nine more hours per week multitasking at home and work than do their husbands.

It also finds that men and women respond differently to the challenges of multitasking — not so much at work, where both sexes find it stressful, but at home and in public places. While multitasking men tend to get that heady "superdad" feeling while juggling kids at the playground and a client on the BlackBerry, multitasking women are more likely to report feeling stressed, pressed for time and guilty about not spending more time — or more quality time — with their families.

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In an age when parenting has become "more intensive," as the study puts it, the challenges and rewards of raising children have become a matter of growing research and national debate. Researchers consistently find childless Americans to be among the happiest, and have documented a drop in mental well-being among parents that does not lift until the kids leave the nest.

"We have this cultural belief that children are the key to happiness and a healthy life, and they're not," said Wake Forest University sociologist Robin Simon, who in 2005 found that no parents — irrespective of their kids' stage in life — were happier than adults who had no children. Simon called the latest study "fascinating."

'Because I said so': Modern mums impart exactly the same words of wisdom as their own mothers
Survey reveals we're repeating the well-worn phrases from our own childhood
Two thirds admit stopping mid-sentence when they realised what they were saying
By KERRY MCQUEENEY
Last updated at 10:46 AM on 1st December 2011

It's often said women end up turning into their own mothers.
And a survey appears to reinforce this theory after it was revealed modern mothers are coming out with exactly the same well-worn phrases which were once used on them.
'Wait and see', 'Because I said so' and 'Ask your father' have come out on top as the things most often said to children in a survey of 2,000 British mothers.

女の役割





Failure to solve Ku Klux Klan-linked murder prompts anger, 47 years on
Family of Frank Morris, black shopkeeper burnt to death in Louisiana in 1964, demand to know why justice still eludes them


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Ed Pilkington in New York
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 30 November 2011




NOVEMBER 30, 2011 · 5:52 AM
David Duke Arrested In Germany, Faces Deportation

David Duke, a notorious American white supremacist, has been arrested in Germany and is facing deportation, according to his website and German media.

Duke, 61, is one of the United States’ most prominent racists, who has served in the Louisiana state legislature and is a former leader in the Ku Klux Klan. He has gained a huge following on the internet, where he promotes “white nationalism” and anti-Semitism.

He is said to have been living off and on for the last two years in Austria, which he has used as a base for his regular speaking appearances before extremist gatherings in Europe, including in Germany.

But according to the daily Die Welt newspaper, Duke was picked up by German police last Friday while trying to speak at a neo-Nazi gathering just outside Cologne. He was later released and has remained in Germany while authorities here institute deportation proceedings.

According to Die Welt, Duke was trying to talk to a gathering of about 60 extremists. But police had advance knowledge of the event and conducted extensive identity checks on attendees in order to disrupt it.

[Source: The LocalGermany]

極右　白人至上主義　職務質問







It's official: More than half of adults in the UK are not married as changing face of the UK's relationships is revealed
Just 48 per cent of UK adults now married
Trend follows pattern of decline in marriage since 70s
Trend towards 'freemales' choosing careers over family
By STEVE DOUGHTY
Last updated at 12:37 AM on 30th November 2011

The statistics also highlight the rise of the so-called freemale, revealing that almost one in three women have never wed.

結婚観・未婚女性



'Porn obsessed recluse' who had 10,000 images of child abuse on his computer is spared jail
By LEON WATSON
Last updated at 1:47 AM on 30th November 2011

オタク　ひきこもり　変態　幼児ポルノ

Tram passenger who allegedly hurled racist abuse arrested
Woman's complaints about ethnic minorities living in UK filmed by fellow passenger on London tramlink route and put online


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Staff and agencies
guardian.co.uk, Monday 28 November 2011


A woman has been arrested for allegedly making racist comments to other passengers on a packed tram. The incident was filmed and posted online, prompting police to investigate.

The clip (which contains explicit comments some viewers may find offensive) had been viewed more than 124,000 times by Monday afternoon after being uploaded to YouTube on Sunday, and shows a woman with a child on her lap shouting abuse at passengers. The incident happened on the Croydon to Wimbledon tramlink. British Transport police said a 34-year-old woman had been arrested on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence.

The video footage, which sparked a Twitter trend with the hashtag #MyTramExperience on Monday, shows a woman complaining about ethnic minorities living in Britain. She starts by saying: "What has this country come to? … with loads of black people and a load of fucking Polish. You ain't English either. None of you are fucking English. Get back to your own fucking, d'you know what?

"Sort out your own countries. Don't come and do mine. Britain is nothing now. Britain is fuck all."

One of the passengers on the tram asks her to mind her language, saying: "There are little kids on the tram." The woman points to the child on her lap and says "I've got a little kid here."

My tram experience' is shocking – but should it be cause for arrest?
29 Nov 2011: Sunny Hundal:

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Occupy Wall Street's anarchist roots
The 'Occupy' movement is one of several in American history to be based on anarchist principles.
David Graeber Last Modified: 29 Nov 2011

Democracy in America?

According to the official version, of course, "democracy" is a system created by the Founding Fathers, based on checks and balances between president, congress and judiciary. In fact, nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or Constitution does it say anything about the US being a "democracy". The authors of those documents, almost to a man, defined "democracy" as a matter of collective self-governance by popular assemblies, and as such they were dead-set against it.

Democracy meant the madness of crowds: bloody, tumultuous and untenable. "There was never a democracy that didn't commit suicide," wrote Adams; Hamilton justified the system of checks and balances by insisting that it was necessary to create a permanent body of the "rich and well-born" to check the "imprudence" of democracy, or even that limited form that would be allowed in the lower house of representatives.

2011年11月28日 10:36

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民主主義を抑制する憲法



Why Naomi Wolf got it wrong
In the US, political repression - such as the crackdown on Occupy protests - doesn't require top-down coordination.
Corey Robin Last Modified: 29 Nov 2011

The US is somewhat unique in how decentralised it is in terms of both policing and politics. In much of Europe you're dealing with national police forces and national political parties that have real influence over local mayors - neither of which is true in the US. Local police in the US will take resources from the center and at times advice and even some coordination, but they are generally loath to give up any real autonomy. And they are quite capable of coming up with their own harebrained initiatives based on primarily very local politics. Much of the Oakland crackdown came in the wake of pressure from local business improvement associations that had little to do with national politics.

It's not surprising that, faced with the crackdown on Occupy protests, Wolf would immediately turn to a theory of national, centralised repression. It's part of our national DNA, on the left and the right, to assume that tyranny works that way.

The Century of the self - 1of4 (English subtitles)

Meine Sache

'The White Ambassador:' Whiteface on the Streets of Harlem via kwout

ブラックフェイス


Sweden Democrat: 'a negro is a negro' to me
Published: 28 Nov 11 16:42

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According to the paper there have been many reports to the Swedish Equality Ombudsman (Diskrimineringsombudsmannen, DO) pertaining to the word and several companies and government agencies have been made to pay damages to people who feel discriminated against when that particular word has been used.

But Rydh told the paper that it is not the word but how it is used that is important.

“It shouldn't be an insult to be called a negro. There is the red race, the yellow race, and then there's me, who is of the white race. A negro is a negro. There is nothing demeaning with that,” Rydh told Smålandsposten.
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“No, I don't know many negroes, there aren't that many in our area,” Rydh told the paper.

She retained the firm belief that it is the context that should determine when it is acceptable to use the term, and if someone feels insulted they should just say so.

Annika Rydh is one of two Sweden Democrats on the municipal council in Älmhult.

プロバガンダ　PR　消費主義


社説：沖縄防衛局長発言　言語道断の地元侮辱だ

沖縄防衛局は防衛省の地方組織の一つだが、政府の出先機関として沖縄の米軍基地問題を担当する同局には、とりわけ重要な役割がある。その責任者が「県内移設」推進を「暴行」と同列視したことは、「沖縄の同意を得て普天間移設を進める」という野田佳彦首相らの発言とは裏腹に、最後は沖縄の意向を無視して強行するというのが本音ではないか、沖縄をさげすむ気持ちが底にあるのではないか、との疑念を生む。そう受け取られても仕方ない。

沖縄侮辱発言―アセス強行はあり得ぬ

野田政権は、沖縄の基地負担を軽減する具体策を少しずつ積み上げてきた。

　米軍嘉手納基地での訓練の一部をグアムに移す。米軍属の公務中の犯罪を日本で裁判にかけられるよう、日米地位協定の運用を見直す、などだ。

　いずれも不十分な内容だし、辺野古移設のための懐柔策という底意も否定できない。それでも、沖縄の信頼を取り戻したいという政府の心構えを示す効果はあったかもしれない。

　そんな努力も水の泡だ。

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　私たちは辺野古案はもう不可能であり、日米両政府は新たな策を探るべきだと繰り返し主張してきた。この騒動は辺野古案撤回への決定打に見える。

防衛官僚“オフレコ暴言”バレた！女性冒とく「犯す前に…」
2011.11.29

　防衛省関係者は「犯す」という言葉は使っていないとしたうえで、「何かをやる前に、いちいち『やる』とは言わないとの趣旨の発言。女性への暴行という趣旨の発言はしていない」と説明している。

　現に、琉球新報や共同通信は「犯す前に～」としているが、日経新聞などは田中局長の発言を「やる前にやらせろとは言わない」と報じている。

'Swedish society forces 'immigrants' to emigrate'
Published: 28 Nov 11

Swedes possess, aside from their reputation as the Scandinavian Japanese (quiet, polite, punctual, conflict-shy, nature-lovers) a characteristic which ethnologists continually return to: Sweden is the country where similarity is appreciated more than anywhere else.

This peculiarity causes us trouble when faced with that which constitutes the contrast to similarity: difference. People who differ - for example, immigrants, emigrants, returning Swedes, odd personalities, those with high ambitions or unwillingness to adapt to the social regulations - are at high risk of being met with negative attitudes.

In New York, there are currently around 25 other Swedes who meet to play football. Not as a pros, but as happy recreational amateurs. The team is called Blatte United, and consists mainly of Swedish-born guys who, when they lived in Sweden, were regarded as immigrants (sometimes classified into second or third generation...).

We lost them to foreign shores, because they diverged from Swedish norms and were never given a chance.

They thus chose to build their lives elsewhere. Today, they run lauded, world-renowned restaurants and advertising companies, or hold senior positions within banking and finance. Some of them can, without exaggeration, be called “Zlatans” within their respective fields.

We hold them up as Swedes who have succeeded internationally, but the truth is we bullied them away and showed them the door.

スエーデン


NOVEMBER 29, 2011, 9:32 AM SGT
In Singapore, a Tangled Web of Race and Religion


NOVEMBER 29, 2011 · 6:48 AM
US Singer Attacked By Neo-Nazis In Czech Republic

The Czech Press Agency reports that singer Tonya Graves of the band Monkey Business has confirmed that a group of racist promoters of the ultra-right extremist Workers’ Social Justice Party (DSSS) attacked her on Saturday evening after a rally in Vimperk.

“I encountered some people from the Workers’ Social Justice Party at the restaurant. I was alone and it was unpleasant, they were not glad to see me there. They started shouting racist slogans at me, pulling me by the hair and spitting at me,” the dark-skinned singer, who has been living in the Czech Republic since 1995, told the Czech Press Agency.

Graves went on to say that even though two police officers were in the restaurant, they were apparently not on duty and did not assist her. Some of the other customers and a waiter came to her aid.

“The police who arrived on the scene when everything was over told me that they couldn’t do anything about it because the people who had assaulted me were not locals,” the singer says.

The Czech Press Agency is still waiting to hear from the Vimperk Municipal Police as to whether that was the case.[Source 1: Romea CZ]

チェコ


European Parliamentarians Condemn White House Treatment of Bradley Manning

Representatives of Several Political Parties call on Obama to Allow Meeting with UN Torture Investigator

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — Speaking at a press conference this morning at the European Parliament, elected officials representing a broad spectrum of political parties expressed their strong concerns about the mistreatment of accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower Bradley Manning. They released a letter signed by dozens of Members of Parliament to officials in the White House and U.S. military, which read in part:

“We are troubled by reports that Mr Manning has been subjected to prolonged solitary confinement and other abusive treatment tantamount to torture.”

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