2012年3月18日日曜日


F-35 failure forces countries to reconsider contracts
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Published: 15 March, 2012

American military top-brass met with foreign officials overseas this week after growing problems with the US Air Force’s F-35 program has caused a handful of nations to consider terminating their contracts with the States to purchase warplanes.



Both Britain and Australia have confirmed that they will wait until a later date before formally signing off on the acquisition of the fleets they had in mind. In the end, however, the US says the still expect to sell more than 700 of the jets overseas within the next decade.

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仕事やめ被災地の前線へ 外国人ボランティアの献身‎


日本経済新聞 - 3 日前
被災地の復興の支え手として存在感を増す外国人ボランティアたち。その実数はどれくらいだろうか。被災３県の社会福祉協議会による ... 今年１月、米海軍に勤務経験のあるナタン・ウィリアムスさん（41）を安全管理を担うセーフティーチーフとして採用






2012年3月17日18時0分
オリンパス告発者２人が手記出版へ　元社長と現役社員
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オリンパス元社長のマイケル・ウッドフォードさん


　オリンパスの不正を内部告発した２人が４月に、それぞれ手記を出版する準備を進めている。元社長のマイケル・ウッドフォードさん（５１）と現役社員の浜田正晴さん（５１）だ。

オリンパス現役社員のブログ 「公益通報者が守られる社会を！ネットワーク」


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目を覚ませオリンパス～現役社員として闘った４年間
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　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　オリンパス株式会社　浜田正晴　


胸打つ「鉄の女」の後悔　映画「マーガレット・サッチャー」に主演　メリル・ストリープ

「年齢を重ねると人は人生を振り返り、その人生のために払った代価を考えます。あれほどの人生を歩んだ人が、どれだけの代価を払い、その代価を振り返ることがどれほど苦痛か。そんな思いを込めました。この映画は、人間のありようを描いた詩です」

　自身は彫刻家の夫の助けを得て、多忙でも充実した家庭生活を送ってきた。しかし「４０歳から役がなくなる」といわれるハリウッドで現在のキャリアを築くことは、容易ではなかったはずだ。「私は私なりに色々なドアを開けてきたつもりです。そのことで、若い女優たちが少しは歩きやすくなっている、そんな自分であれたらいい」（浜田奈美）


An acclaimed Apple critic made up the details
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Marketplace for Friday, March 16, 2012






記事2012年3月18日9時35分


震災時、ツイッターでＳＯＳ→都のヘリ、気仙沼で救出劇
ヘリコプターを見ると、今も感謝の気持ちでいっぱいになる――。東日本大震災の際、宮城県気仙沼市で一時孤立し、東京消防庁のヘリで救助された人たちが１６日、東京都の猪瀬直樹副知事に謝意を伝えた。孤立先からの携帯メールがきっかけで猪瀬氏がヘリ出動を指示し、子どもを含む４４６人が救出された。
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内海さんがロンドン在住の息子・直仁さん（３２）に「火の海、ダメかも」と携帯メールを送ると、直仁さんはツイッターで救助を要請。猪瀬副知事の目にとまり、１２日未明、急きょヘリ出動が決まった。ヘリは３機出動し、１２日朝から２日間かけて全員が無事救われた。


2/22　人種差別や宗教差別―起訴されるケースが大幅増加
2012年 2月 22日(水曜日) 17:19


By Sonia Elks - 14th February, 2012
'Racist Britain' fears fuelled as hate crime prosecutions rise
Hate crime prosecutions have risen ten per cent sparking fears that discrimination is increasing in Britain.
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Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer says the outcome of hate crime cases is continuing to improve (Pic: Reuters)
Racist attacks accounted for nearly four fifths of the hate crimes that reached court in 2010/11, according to figures released by the Crown Prosecution Service.
The report comes after Liverpool footballer Luis Suarez refused to shake the hand of Manchester United’s Patrice Evra before Saturday’s match at Old Trafford, fuelling the row over racism in sport.
The figures were broken down to represent different types of prejudice for the first time, showing that 12,711 racist attacks reached court last year – representing 83 per cent of hate crime prosecutions.
Rose Simkins, chief executive of charity Stop Hate UK, said the football racism row had highlighted the fact that ‘people still feel it is OK to say racist comments’.
The number of hate crime prosecutions increased to 15,284 cases, of which 12,651 resulted in a conviction – an increase of 11 per cent on a year earlier. A total of 86 per cent of those convicted pleaded guilty.
Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer QC said: ‘Outcomes in cases of hate crime are continuing to improve. We should be proud of the work we have done to secure this significant increase but I am determined that we build on this success.’
A further 565 cases motivated by religious hatred were prosecuted, while others included homophobic/transphobic and disability hate crimes.
Campaigners believe most hate crime still goes unreported. The Institute of Race Relations said the figures ‘are not a surprise’ and success in following up hate crimes has been ‘patchy’.

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9/11 hate crime victim's kin becomes U.S. citizens
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Durreshahwar Hasan smiles after a naturalization ceremony at the office of U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., Friday, March 16, 2012, in West Windsor, N.J. Hasan, the widow of a Pakistani immigrant killed by a white supremacist in a 9/11 revenge attack, became a U.S. citizen along with her daughters Friday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
WEST WINDSOR, N.J. -- Anum Hasan has seen many conflicting visions of America: the hope of a better life that brought her family from Pakistan, the hate-filled act that ended her father's life in the name of American vengeance; and an outpouring of compassion that her family has come to feel is the true face of the country they now call home.
"I think about what story I'll tell her one day about what happened to our family," Anum Hasan said, cradling her 1-year-old daughter Aisha on her lap. "It's important for her to know there's always a lot of hate going around in the world, but there is so much more good."
Hasan's father, Waqar Hasan, was shot to death four days after Sept. 11, 2001, in Texas, targeted by a white supremacist looking for revenge against Middle Eastern men for the terror attack. The family had every reason to want to leave, but on Friday, Hasan's widow and three of her four daughters were sworn in as U.S. citizens.
It was what happened in the aftermath of Hasan's killing that reinforced the family's decision to remain in the U.S.
The doorbell of their Middletown home did not stop ringing. Letters started pouring in. Hundreds of phone messages from across the country were left with their local congressman, decrying Hasan's killing. Fruit baskets and baked goods were brought to their home. Neighbors in their small town organized a candlelight peace vigil and Waqar Hasan's widow, Durree Hasan, recalled her amazement that the elderly, infirm woman who lived next door had found a way to attend the vigil, despite the pouring rain.


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Texas man allegedly killed soldier for not believing in God

By Stephen C. Webster
Thursday, March 15, 2012 13:41 EDT

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Topics: California ♦ Clay County ♦ El Centro ♦ Jose Ramirez ♦ Texas

Can being an atheist in America get you killed? If police in the small Texas town of Petrolia are to be believed, the answer to that question is yes.

Officials in Clay County, Texas revealed this week that human remains uncovered near the Oklahoma border last month were those of Spc. Jose Ramirez, an El Centro, California native who went missing from Fort Sill, Oklahoma more than seven years ago. A former friend of Ramirez’s, 30-year-old Justin Green, was charged with the murder in February.

Three others, including Green’s mother and sister, also face charges related to helping clean up the crime scene and hide the body, and the story was carried earlier this week by The Associated Press.


But one shocking detail in that story seemed to be overlooked in the AP’s lead: A criminal complaint against the group, obtained by Raw Story on Thursday, shows that Green’s sister believes he killed Ramirez “because Ramirez did not believe in God.”

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Senators Demand DOJ Release Secret Spy Court Rulings
By David Kravets Email Author March 15, 2012 | 6:26 pm | Categories: politics, Sunshine and Secrecy

Two Democratic senators urged the Obama administration Thursday to declassify secret court rulings that give the government far wider domestic spying powers under the Patriot Act than intended.

The 10-year-old measure, hastily adopted in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks, grants the government broad surveillance powers with little oversight that can be used domestically.

While much has been written and debated about the bill’s powers and efficacy, there’s evidently much more going on than the public knows.

A secret tribunal known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court has issued classified rulings about the Patriot Act that U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colorado) say expand the government’s surveillance powers even more.


Sen. Ron Wyden. Photo: Courtesy Sen. Wyden
At issue, the lawmakers said, is section 215 of the Patriot Act. The sweeping power, one of the most controversial in the law, allows the secret FISA court to authorize broad warrants for most any type of record, including those held by banks, internet companies, libraries and doctors. The government does not have to show a connection between the items sought under a section 215 warrant and a suspected terrorist or spy: the authorities must assert the documents would be relevant to an investigation. Those who receive such an order are not allowed to tell anyone, ever, that such records were requested.

The senators, in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, wrote:

“We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted section 215 of the Patriot Act. As we see it, there is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows. This is a problem, because it is impossible to have an informed public debate about what the law should say when the public doesn’t know what its government thinks the law says.”







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NYPD marks OWS anniversary with violent crackdown, mass arrests (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
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Published: 18 March, 2012, 07:58

Russia slams US revision of WWII Soviet strike
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Published: 16 March, 2012,
Moscow has expressed its indignation over a statement released by the US Embassy in Estonia, timed to coincide with official events commemorating the anniversary of Soviet air strikes on German positions in Tallinn during World War II.
"Claims that the air strike aimed to 'beat down the spirit of the Estonian people' in the fight against 'foreign occupation' – the phrase which the U.S. Embassy, like the Estonian leadership, uses to describe the entire Soviet period in Estonia's history – are particularly outrageous," the Russian Foreign Ministry said on its website on Friday.
After Nazi Germany unleashed an invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, Nazi Army Group North reached Estonian territory in July.

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