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Walking While Black: The Senseless Killing of Trayvon Martin
By Darron
The recent slaying of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin is yet another reminder of the every day presence of racism in the United States. I find it necessary to remind everyone that this is not an isolated incident, but one that occurs daily across America for most black men. The difference here is that the normal threats and harassment that Trayvon would typically encounter on any given day as a black man, turned into his innocent death. As Malcolm Gladwell discussed in the death of Amadou Diallo, an innocent black man in New York City who was mistakenly shot 19 times by 4 police officers (who fired a total of 41 shots), the decisions that George Zimmerman made about Trayvon Martin were done in a “blink of an eye”. His actions, on the other hand, were done in justification of his already conceived (and likely subconscious) thoughts about this young man rather than in response to Trayvon’s clearly non-threatening behavior. Any one of Zimmerman’s compilation of actions that fateful evening, if terminated, would have likely resulted in a different outcome, one where Trayvon would still be alive today. But Zimmerman is operating on societal-based stereotypes and assumptions of anti-black racial frames about black men that has been around since the mid-1600’s and continues in today’s white-dominated society.
I Could Be Trayvon
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The empire smiles back: Taiwan's Japanese cherry festival j.mp/GRmoCY
— mozuさん (@mozumozumozu) 3月 25, 2012The empire smiles back: Taiwan's Japanese cherry festival
By Benjamin Yeh (AFP) – 13 hours ago
TAIPEI — Taiwan loves cherry blossoms. In fact, it loves almost everything Japanese. For a nation that ruled the island for 50 years, often with an iron fist, Japan has left a very favourable impression.
In the latest triumph of Japanese soft power in its former colony, tens of thousands of Taiwanese have taken up planting cherry trees to revel in their colourful bloom for a few precious moments each spring -- just like in Japan.
"When you see the flowers, you almost feel as if you're in Japan," 50-year-old businesswoman Susan Wu said as she walked up a hilly road flanked by white and pink cherry blossoms in Beitou, a Taipei suburb.
In an annual routine that has become increasingly popular over the past two to three years, Taiwanese flock to remote sightseeing spots at the risk of being trapped in huge traffic jams -- only to catch a glimpse of the cherry blossoms, known as "sakura" in Japan.
The mountainous Beitou area has become a particular visitor magnet after a local official started a campaign urging locals to plant cherry blossom trees, which has so far caught the imagination of more than 400 households.
"Not many people knew this place in the past, but now it's famous because people associate it with cherry blossoms," said Ching Rong-hui, an official who oversees the daily administration of Beitou's cherry blossom area.
Other parts of Taiwan have joined the trend, putting money in the pockets of farmers in Sanchih, a rural area outside Taipei that now supplies up to 600,000 cherry tree saplings a year.
"Lots of our cherry tree farmers have benefited from the booming demand," said Chou Zheng-nan, an official at the Sanchih Farmers Association, but declined to provide figures.
Japan is known to use cherry trees as a gesture of goodwill, and in Washington DC, one beneficiary of Tokyo's flower power diplomacy, the blossom season is an annual party highlight.
But in Taiwan, it is more than that. Analysts say the obsession with sakura -- a key symbol of Japanese civilization -- is a measure of the enormous cultural clout Japan wields on the island, second only to China in its impact.
"Japan's influence has been huge, ranging from infrastructure to local people's mindsets and behaviour," said Lee Shiao-feng, a professor at the Taiwan culture graduate school of National Taipei University of Education.
China's last weak imperial dynasty ceded Taiwan to Japan in 1895 after a brief but disastrous war, and the island did not return to mainland rule until 1945 following the surrender of Japan at the end of the Second World War.
The first years under the Japanese around the turn of the last century were harsh, and scattered resistance was crushed brutally, but then the new pith-helmeted administrators went on to develop Taiwan economically.
They built a railroad linking the south and north, constructed harbours and power plants, eradicated disease and boosted literacy rates, while also passing on their own cultural habits such as baseball.
"Japan's development projects laid the foundation for Taiwan to move into a pre-modern society," Lee said.
"In the process, Taiwan people gradually learned to play baseball as well as appreciate cherry blossoms and revel in hot springs, as they tried to imitate their rulers."
Since 1945, the Japanese influence has gone on nearly unabated and has been embraced by Taiwan's younger generations, exposed to Japanese soap operas, pop music and TV programmes featuring Japanese cuisine and sightseeing spots, he said.
This is entirely different from the Korean peninsula, which was ruled as a Japanese colony from 1910 to 1945 and is still haunted by memories of how brutal and harsh life was under the banner of the Rising Sun.
The Japanese did promote cherry blossoms, too, and South Korea has kept that particular tradition, but in a telling twist, it has replaced the Japanese trees with indigenous ones.
The contrast with Taiwan is obvious, and yet academics on the island say it may take the island's cherry blossom lovers some time to digest the philosophical connotation of the cherry blossoms in the Japanese culture.
"When Taiwanese people appreciate cherry blossoms, they are simply impressed by the beauty of the flowers. That's it," Maa Yaw-huei, the director of the Department of Japanese at Taipei's Tamkang University.
"But in the eyes of their Japanese counterparts, there's a sense of sadness associated with the transient beauty. Watching the fading of such pretty flowers is associated with mortality."
The people of Taiwan may behave like the Japanese, but not think like them, according to observers.
Chinese culture, first introduced from the mainland more than three centuries ago, survived Japan's colonisation despite policies aimed to turn the Taiwanese into loyal subjects of the Japanese emperor.
"Although the Japanese have added new cultural elements to Taiwan, the structure of Chinese culture has remained intact," Lee said.
不都合な事実、赤裸々に ローチ親子が作品への思い語る
ルート・アイリッシュ
英中部リバプールで育った主人公ファーガスは、幼なじみのフランキーとともにイラクで従軍。退役後も、２人は民間兵としてイラクで勤務していた。だが、フランキーは親友が帰国している間に、テロが頻発するバグダッド空港と米軍の管轄区域を結ぶ道路「ルート・アイリッシュ」で謎の死を遂げる。
ファーガスは、亡き友が残した携帯電話から、２人の少年が民間兵に銃撃される映像をみつける。真相を探り始めると、妨害工作が次々と起きる。着目したのは「戦争の民営化」だ。「市民を射殺しても、民間兵は（米軍人らに免責特権を与える）指令１７号のおかげで、何のおとがめもなしに帰国する。企業が軍の役割を引き受けたことで、事態は悪化した」
バグダッドでは２００７年９月、米民間軍事会社の要員が市民１７人を射殺する事件が起きた。脚本はこうした事件も参考に、従軍した兵士に聞き取りを重ねて作られた。「実際の出来事に近いフィクションだ」という。
Ken Loach: EXCLUSIVE - "Route Irish" Trailer
CPA Order 17 granted all foreign contractors operating in Iraq immunity from "Iraqi legal process," effectively granting immunity from any kind of suit, civil or criminal, for actions the contractors engaged in within Iraq.[9]
Coalition Provisional Authority Order 17
Route Irish (film)
オレンジと太陽
Oranges and Sunshine Trailer - Oranges and Sunshine Movie Trailer
'Pull her by the ear, beat her by hand or stick': How the Islamic guide to a happy marriage advises husbands to treat their wives
By RICK DEWSBURY
PUBLISHED: 22:12 GMT, 24 March 2012 | UPDATED: 22:12 GMT, 24 March 2012
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2119846/Muslim-guide-marriage-tells-husbands-beat-hand-stick.html#ixzz1q9to3GPJ
偏向報道
Rolling in it: Romanian gangs behind nine in ten cashpoint robberies rake in £30m a year
More than 90 per cent of cash machine fraud in UK attributed to Romanian criminal gangs
Most of those arrested have links to the same city: Bacau in eastern Romania
Proceeds of crime 'now makes up 70 per cent of Bacau's economy'
By NICK MCDERMOTT
PUBLISHED: 12:11 GMT, 25 March 2012 | UPDATED: 19:21 GMT, 25 March 2012
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2120049/Romanian-fraudsters-net-35m-cash-machine-scam.html#ixzz1q9uJ4Kgi
ルーマニア
Pimps tattooed BAR CODE on wrist of woman imprisoned, whipped and forced to work as a prostitute
'Bar code pimps' also 'beat and whipped prostitutes'
Police arrest 22 Romanian suspected pimps
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 15:15 GMT, 25 March 2012 | UPDATED: 15:56 GMT, 25 March 2012
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2120110/Spanish-police-investigating-Madrid-prostitution-ring-free-woman-19-ownership-tattoo-wrist.html#ixzz1q9uRWSPN
ルーマニア 慰安婦
Patient care 'will suffer' under plans to throw out migrant nurses
Government's own assessment predicts 48% of non-EU nurses will be excluded from Britain under new rules
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Daniel Boffey, policy editor
The Observer, Sunday 25 March 2012
Theresa May, the home secretary, has announced that migrants from outside the European Union earning less than £35,000 will not be allowed to settle in the UK. The pay threshold, which will see people beginning to be removed in 2016, is the first time that a British government has imposed an economic test on the right to settlement in the UK and is designed to break the link between working and settling in the country.
看護師 介護師
猫の五輪決定に賛否、有森「心情的には複雑」
2012.3.26 08:29 ［マラソン・駅伝］
カンボジア五輪代表に決まった猫ひろし
猫ひろしのカンボジア代表決定について、往年の名ランナーで日本陸連理事の瀬古利彦氏は「本当におめでたいこと。五輪は参加することに意義がある。選ばれた以上、カンボジア国民の夢を背負って頑張ってほしい」とエールを送った。
猫の自己記録は２時間３０分台で女子のトップ選手にも及ばない。それでも日本陸連強化委員会の木内敏夫統括ディレクターは「最近の成長を見ると、ただの市民ランナーの走りではない」と評価した。
国籍を変更しての五輪出場に批判的な意見もある。マラソンを通じてカンボジアとの国際交流に尽力する五輪メダリストの有森裕子さんは「心情的にはこれが本当にいいことなのか複雑だ」とコメントした。
カンボジア国内ではあまり話題になっておらず、今のところ強い批判は起きていない。同国陸連のペン・ブティ専務理事は「猫さんは経済大国から来てくれた。猫さんのような日本人がカンボジアのために身をささげ、努力してくれることは、カンボジアにとって誇りだ」と歓迎した。（共同
鷹匠は１７歳の女子高生…独学で技磨く
武雄の女子高生「鷹匠」
中国 裏切り者から愛国者へ 死後も翻弄、数奇な女スパイ
ストーカー殺人、第三者の再調査を遺族要求へ
２５日に遺族で話し合い、「警察内部で再調査した結果は信用できない」として、第三者での調査を求めることにしたという。
刑事司法改革―信頼回復の遠い道のり
捜査員一人ひとりが自覚をもって仕事に向きあい、国民から支持される存在でなければ、法制審で成案を得ても実現までの道のりは険しいものとなろう。
新聞社が自覚などの道徳心に訴えるだけで、警察検察を調査する第３者機関を発想・提言できない、というのも問題。
福島でうつ病などと診断、原発事故と関連３割超
東京電力福島第一原発事故後に福島県内の医療機関の精神科や心療内科外来を受診し、うつ病などと診断された患者の３割以上が、原発事故と関連があるとみられることが２６日、福島県立医大（福島市）の調査で分かった。
「ＫＯＮＹ２０１２」って何？
まだ難関だけど… 外国人看護師国家試験 合格率１１％に上昇 インドネシア人ら４７人が合格
2012.3.26 19:46 ［病気・医療］
厚生労働省は２６日、経済連携協定（ＥＰＡ）に基づき受け入れたインドネシア人とフィリピン人計４１５人が看護師国家試験を受験し、４７人が合格したと発表した。合格者には、帰国後に受験したインドネシア人１人が含まれている。合格率は１１・３％で、昨年度（４％）に比べ大幅に上昇したが、依然低い合格率にとどまった。全体の合格率は９０・１％だった。
政府は昨年３月、平成２０～２１年度に来日の看護師、介護福祉士候補者について、不合格の場合でも試験の得点や、本人の意向など一定の条件を満たせば、滞在期間の１年延長を決定していた。
２０年度に来日し、滞在延長したインドネシア人は２７人が受験し、８人が合格した。また、今回の不合格者のうち滞在延長の対象となる両国の２１年度来日組で、得点基準を満たしたのは１６３人だった。
Japan in Uproar Over Censorship of Emperor's Anti-Nuclear Speech - The Atlantic j.mp/GSgCDR 退行的な心理としか思えないけれど
— mozuさん (@mozumozumozu) 3月 26, 2012一部の投稿につられて、読み込みすぎ。
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天皇陛下 東日本大震災追悼式典でのお言葉（12/03/11）
tokyomx さんが 2012/03/11 に公開
東日本大震災の発生からきょうで1年を迎え、各地では午後2時46分に合わせてさまざまに追悼式が行われました。
政府主催の追悼式典で天皇陛下は「被災地の今後の復興の道のりには多くの困難が予想されます。今後、人々が安心して生活できる国土が築かれていくことを一同と共に願い、御霊への追悼の言葉といたします」とお言葉を述べられました。この追悼式には両陛下のほか、野田総理大臣ら政府関係者や遺族代表らが参列しました。心臓の手術を受けられた陛下にとっては初めての公務となりましたが、体調を考慮して20分で追悼式を退席されました
8 : 竹島は日本固有の領土です。 : 2012/03/11(日) 22:05:42.34 ID:IBXzwpru0 [1/1回発言]
ＮＨＫは陛下のお言葉を生中継してたけど、他の民放局はどうだったの？
10 : 名無しさん＠１２周年 : 2012/03/11(日) 22:07:02.93 ID:K4f5PuKP0 [1/1回発言]
>>8
テレ東以外は全局やってた
11 : 名無しさん＠１２周年 : 2012/03/11(日) 22:07:38.85 ID:CJkvR37y0 [1/1回発言]
ＮＨＫニュースでは「放射能・・・」のくだりは、カットしたそうだ。
さらにこの震災のため原子力発電所の事故が発生したことにより、危険な区域に住む人々は住み慣れた、そして生活の場としていた地域から離れざるを得なくなりました。再びそこに安全に住むためには放射能の問題を克服しなければならないという困難な問題が起こっています。
As this earthquake and tsunami caused the nuclear power plant accident, those living in areas designated as the danger zone lost their homes and livelihoods and had to leave the places they used to live. In order for them to live there again safely, we have to overcome the problem of radioactive contamination, which is a formidable task.
翻訳もまずい。
formidable
1(不安・疑惑を引き起こすような)恐るべき.
用例
present a formidable appearance 恐るべき様相を呈する.
2〈敵・仕事など〉手に負えそうもない，手ごわい.
用例
a formidable enemy 手ごわい敵, 強敵.
3膨大な; 非常にすぐれた，格別の.
用例
a formidable knowledge of astronomy 天文学のたいへん深い知識.
formidable
1
: causing fear, dread, or apprehension
2
: having qualities that discourage approach or attack
3
: tending to inspire awe or wonder : impressive
