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2010年4月21日のブックマーク (57件)

The Times & The Sunday Times
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
In an unusually candid admission — and a pitch for one of the most powerful municipal jobs in America — Mr Emanuel said that he hoped that the incumbent Mayor, Richard Daley, would run again in November but that if he did not, “one day I would like to run”.

US

Politics
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The Times & The Sunday Times
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Goldman Sachs was at the centre of a political storm last night as senior Republicans began an investigation into the possibility that the White House colluded with Wall Street’s regulator over the decision to sue the bank for alleged fraud.

US

Obama

financial regulation
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BBC News - David Cameron egged during a visit to a college in Cornwall
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Election

UK
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Gates's memo focused on options between sanctions and war - Laura Rozen - POLITICO.com
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Gates's memo called specifically for "prudent planning and preparation" for the showdown with Iran, according to one senior official quoting from the text. The defense secretary requested that the "principals committee," the top officers of the National Security Council, discuss the range of issues

US

Iran

nuclear

war

Military
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The Man the White House Wakes Up To (Published 2010)
From the Politico newsroom in Arlington, Va., Mike Allen makes an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”Credit...Larry Fink for The New York Times Before he goes to sleep, between 11 and midnight, Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, typically checks in by e-mail with the same reporter: Mike Allen of Politico, who is also the first reporter Pfeiffer corresponds with after he wakes
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
US

Politics

journalism
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Opinion | Reform and Massachusetts (Published 2010)
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Health Care

US
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Eyjafjallajokull, the Musical
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
NYTでも紹介されてる。

Iceland

Music
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The Dandelion King
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
I reached a few years ago: the war on weeds, though not unwinnable, isn’t winnable at a morally acceptable cost.I hope you’ll agree with me. As the spring lawn-care season unfolds, I’d like to enlist you in the war on the war on weeds. I want you to aspire to make your yard look like my yard,

Environment

funny stuff
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Pictures of the Day: Iceland and Elsewhere
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Iceland

China

Iraq

photo
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BBC Radio 4 - Black and White Towns
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
In Swindon, he meets Andy Partridge of the seminal band XTC, who has always insisted on living in a place he knows drives him mad, so his creative fires don't go out. In Colchester, he delves into the experiences essayed by those Britpop pioneers Blur and hears from Damon Albarn.

Music

UK
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In pictures: Thousands gather for the climate change summit in Bolivia
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
At least 15,000 people from worldwide indigenous movements and civil-society groups, as well as presidents, scientists, activists and observers from 90 governments, are expected to attend what is being called the "Woodstock" of climate change summits

Environment

climate change

photo
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Adam Ant's new album to pay tribute to Malcolm McLaren
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar In Marrying The Gunner's Daughter (we cannot repeat that title enough) will also feature a song written in tribute to the late Malcolm McLaren. Entitled Who's A Goofy Bunny Then? On account of the Sex Pistol's manager's "quite prominent teeth", the song was written b

Music

UK
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Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio | Pop review
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Music
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Fundamentalist Rally Bombed in Pakistan, Kills two Dozen
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
The district deputy superintendent of police was killed, and some think he was the target of the blast. Others believe that the JI rally was itself the target.

Pakistan

Terror
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BBC News - Election: Nick Clegg attacks 'desperate' Gordon Brown
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
容赦ない"Do I think Labour delivered fairness? No. Do I think the Labour Party, in its heart, has a faith in civil liberties? No. They are clutching at straws."

Election

UK
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BBC News - Turkey offers to mediate on Iran's nuclear programme
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Turkey - currently a member of the UN Security Council - may find itself with a difficult choice - either reluctantly to back the US and the Europeans or to side with Iran. Iran is Turkey's second largest supplier of natural gas, and any new round of sanctions could have a knock-on effect on the Tur

Iran

UN

Turkey
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BBC News - Explosion in Iran city near Iraq border kills two
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Two people have been killed and several wounded when a car blast in the western Iranian city of Ilam, reports say.

Iran

Iraq
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BBC News - Argentina former ruler Bignone jailed for 25 years
Argentina's former military ruler Reynaldo Bignone has been sentenced to 25 years for human rights abuses committed almost three decades ago. Gen Bignone, 82, ordered abductions and torture while second in command of the country's largest torture centre between 1976 and 1978. Relatives of victims held up photos of their loved ones and cheered at the end of the trial in Buenos Aires. Six officials
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Gen Bignone, who served as de facto president between 1982-83, was found guilty of involvement in 56 cases of murder, torture and kidnappings.Human rights groups say some 30,000 people died or "disappeared" during the period, which saw the military target left-wing opponents

Argentine

Military

torture
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BBC News - Ousted Kyrgyz leader Bakiyev 'remains president'
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
"I do not recognise my resignation. Nine months ago the people of Kyrgyzstan elected me their president and there is no power that can stop me. Only death can stop me," he said. He called on international leaders not to recognise Ms Otunbayeva's administration, calling them an "illegitimate gang".

Kyrgyzstan
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Secret Prison Revelations may Hurt al-Maliki's bid for Reelection
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Posted The announcement of the discovery of a secret prison in Baghdad where Sunni Arabs suspected of involvement in guerrilla activities were held and sometimes tortured may have an effect on the shape of the next Iraqi government. Over 400 Sunnis were held at the facility. The revelation starts on

Iraq

Election
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Filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi on Iran – Interview by Kayvan Farzaneh | Foreign Policy
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Ninety percent of the artistic production in Iran is now underground, and most foreigners are unaware of it. For 31 years, and even before the revolution, we've had these young artists, but you just can't see them. It was even a shock to me when I discovered them. I realized that beneath the undergr

Iran

Music

film
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The nuclear backlash begins
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
the Egyptian envoy said the five major nuclear powers are seeking to impose new demands on non-nuclear powers while failing to fully live up to their own disarmament obligations, and permitting a special group of nations -- India, Israel, and Pakistan -- a free pass to produce nuclear weapons, witho

US

nuclear

UN
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THE READ: J.D. Salinger's Private Letters
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
US

literature
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Head Lock
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
US

Politics

financial regulation
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Charlie Crist Is Not Going To Be A Republican Senator
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
I think his best chance of winning that Senate seat lays in pulling a Specter and running as an independent or, somehow, a Democrat. Maybe Crist stays in the GOP because he thinks the Tea Party fever will pass and a moderate like him will become acceptable again. But if he wants to hold office in 20

US

Politics
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Getting Inside Their Heads
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
US

Politics
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Logjam Breaking?
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
US

Obama

Politics
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Matthew Yglesias » Jews for Sarah Launches; Palin Announces America is a “Christian Nation”
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
In some ways the really noteworthy thing here is that Palin specifically combined her denunciation of religious minority groups with an attack on Barack Obama’s insufficient fealty to Israeli government policies. The two themes were in the very same sentence. It’s an interesting glimpse of a tre

US

Politics

Palin
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Matthew Yglesias » Chamber of Commerce Flies In Executives to Front For Derivative-Dealing Banks
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
It’s another example of the tremendous solidarity that the corporate executive class in America displays. It’s not absolutely uniform, of course, but to a tremendous extent Big Finance & Big Pollution can count on their corporate brethren and nearly everyone is united by their passion for union-

US

Politics

financial regulation
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Matthew Yglesias » Broccoli: The Elmo Factor
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Advertising dollars tend to flow to high-margin products and vegetables don’t fit the bill. But if subsidies turned broccoli into a high margin item, that would spur investment in broccoli marketing which, in turn, might do more to boost consumption than any price change at the margin

US

food

health
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Matthew Yglesias » Good News for Bank of America
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
When Wall Street is not mentioned, net public support (percentage in favor minus percentage opposed) for banking reform legislation is +3 points, but when it is mentioned, net support is +14. [...By contrast, Republicans show greater support for reform when “Wall Street” is invoked than when it

US

Politics

financial regulation
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Matthew Yglesias » Wal-Mart’s Modest Profits
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
The worrying trend is the domination of the corporate landscape by super-profitable firms in the heavily regulated energy, banking, and telecom sectors. Similarly, if you want a CEO pay outrage note that ConocoPhillips paid CEO Jim Mulva $10.44 billion in 2009 even though the firm he runs was spect

US

Economy
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Matthew Yglesias » The UK After Election Reform
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Which is to say that if electoral system reform happens, the UK would seem to be looking at a long series of Labour/LibDems coalitions unless the Conservatives suddenly start drawing a drastically higher share of the vote than they’ve gotten in many decades

UK

Election

Politics
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Matthew Yglesias » Plan B
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
I think we’re going to see all the hard-hitting rhetoric Krugman could dream of. But I continue to think that people overestimate the good that kind of thing will do. The fundamental problem Democrats keep running up against is that there are zero incumbent Senate Republicans facing tough re-elect

US

Politics

financial regulation
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Lucy And The Football
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
And let’s be clear: there’s a sort of tribal thing going on (and I don’t necessarily mean race, although that’s part of it). The hard right has managed to convince a large number of Americans that it consists of people like them, whereas progressives are alien and untrustworthy; in the face

US

Politics

financial regulation
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BBC News - Third Iraqi al-Qaeda leader killed: Iraqi military
Page last updated at 18:58 GMT, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 19:58 UK US and Iraqi forces have killed another al-Qaeda leader in the north of Iraq, army officials say. The man identified as Ahmed al-Obeidi was killed in the northern province of Nineveh, Iraqi military spokesman Maj Gen Qassim al-Moussawi said. The news comes the day after the government announced two leading insurgents had been killed.
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
The man identified as Ahmed al-Obeidi was killed in the northern province of Nineveh, Iraqi military spokesman Maj Gen Qassim al-Moussawi said. Gen Moussawi said Mr Obeidi, also known by the name Abu Suhaib, was in charge of al-Qaeda in Iraq's operations in the northern provinces of Kirkuk, Salahudd

Iraq

al-Qaeda
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BBC News - Clever New Caledonian crows can use three tools
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Animals

Science
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How real is the Obama effect?
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
The Bush administration, at the depths of its unpopularity, was still able to get the UN Security Council to pass three rounds of sanctions against Iran, as well as measures against North Korea. The Obama administration, despite a serious effort to open a dialogue with Iran, is encountering resista

US

Obama
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Dissents Of The Day
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
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Listening to Turkey’s foreign minister: The Ottoman past looks like the future
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Middle East

Turkey
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Justices Reject Ban on Videos of Animal Cruelty (Published 2010)
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Tuesday’s decision arose from the prosecution of Robert J. Stevens, an author and small-time film producer who presented himself as an authority on pit bulls. He did not participate in dogfights, but he did compile and sell videotapes showing the fights, and he received a 37-month sentence under a

Animals

justice
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Listen free to the Hold Steady's new album, Heaven Is Whenever
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
US

Music
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Film Director Pays for Supporting Iran Protests
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
One month after he was arrested, Jafar Panahi, an internationally celebrated Iranian director who openly sided with opposition protesters last year, is still being held without charge and interrogated in a Tehran prison, the opposition Web site Jaras reported on Friday.

Iran

film
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The Air Force’s gay Catch-22 revisited: First you’re out but in, then you’re out
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that a lesbian Air Force officer was told she couldn't be discharged for outing herself because you can't out yourself just to get a discharge. Now, reports the intrepid Julian Barnes of the Los Angeles Times, the Air Force has decided to release her.

US

Military

gay rights
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The U.N’s Go-To Guy
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
2003年、バグダッドの国連施設爆破テロで亡くなったセルジオ・デメロ特使の伝記映画。Dennis McNamara, a U.N. diplomat, describes him in the film as "one of the bright stars, maybe the brightest. He was the master magician, mediator, manager, massager of egos."

Iraq

UN
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BBC News - IMF proposes two big new bank taxes to fund bail-outs
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Insurers, hedge funds and other financial institutions must also pay the taxes, the IMF argues, despite them being less implicated in the recent crisis. If they were not included, activities currently carried out by banks would be reclassified as, for example, insurance or hedge-fund services to esc

financial regulation

Economy
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BBC News - Saharan states to open joint military headquarters
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Four Saharan desert states are to open a joint command headquarters in Algeria to co-ordinate efforts to counter the growing regional threat from al-Qaeda.The Joint Military Staff Committee of Algeria, Mali, Mauritania and Niger will be based in Tamanrasset. They want to increase co-operation and mo

Africa

al-Qaeda

Terror
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More hype about Iran?
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
One might add that Iran hasn't invaded anyone since the Islamic revolution, although it has supported a number of terrorist organizations and engaged in various forms of covert action. The United States has also backed terrorist groups and conducted covert ops during this same period, and attacked

Iran

US
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The Times & The Sunday Times
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
The IMF is proposing a double-tax regime for banks that would fund future bailouts and penalise both the profits and pay of lenders. The first tax, a Financial Stability Contribution, would be a levy to fund any future government support. The second would be a Financial Activities Tax on the sum of

Economy

financial regulation
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YouTube - David Foster Wallace interview 2003 part 3 of 10
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
freedom of choice is a kind of slavery.

US

literature

DFW
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YouTube - David Foster Wallace interview 2003 part 2 of 10
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
US

literature

DFW
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Opinion | Gambling With the Economy (Published 2010)
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
But the financial bailout has demonstrated that big Wall Street banks fall firmly within Washington’s regulatory authority, and regulation confers implicit bailout protection. Protected entities should not be using (potentially) public capital to run non-productive gambling tables.

Economy

Goldman
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Now we know the truth. The financial meltdown wasn't a mistake – it was a con | Will Hutton
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Tourre could see what was coming. In one email in January 2007 he wrote: "More and more leverage in the system. The whole building is about to collapse anytime now… only potential survivor, the fabulous Fab[rice Tourre] .. standing in the middle of all these complex highly leveraged exotic trades

Economy

Goldman
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Google releases tool to show government censorship requests
Google has hit out at state attempts to clamp down on the internet by revealing governments' requests to remove data from the web and get information about users. Tonight it released a web page with a map showing country by country where it has had government requests or court orders to remove content from the YouTube video service or its search results, or to provide details about users of its se
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Tonight it released a web page with a map showing country by country where it has had government requests or court orders to remove content from the YouTube video service or its search results, or to provide details about users of its services.中国からの検閲要求は国家機密で公開さ

Internet

cencorship
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Women to blame for earthquakes, says Iran cleric
A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes. An Iranian woman waits for the bus under a poster of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images Iran is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, and the cleric's unusual explanation for why the earth shakes follows a prediction by the president, Mahmo
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
Iran is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, and the cleric's unusual explanation for why the earth shakes follows a prediction by the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that a quake is certain to hit Tehran and that many of its 12 million inhabitants should relocate

Iran
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Lebanon: Syria has not supplied Scud missiles to Hezbollah
The Lebanese government today angrily denounced Israeli claims that Syria has supplied Hezbollah militia with Scud ballistic missiles, comparing it with the misinformation about weapons of mass destruction in the leadup to the Iraq war. The prime minister, Saad Hariri, was speaking after the US state department gave credence to the Israeli allegations by summoning a senior Syrian diplomat late on
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
The Lebanese government today angrily denounced Israeli claims that Syria has supplied Hezbollah militia with Scud ballistic missiles, comparing it with the misinformation about weapons of mass destruction in the leadup to the Iraq war.

Middle East

Lebanon

Syria
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UK airports reopen as flight ban ends
Scatterbrain 2010/04/21
All UK airports are reopening tonight, after the Civil Aviation Authority announced it was removing restrictions on airspace.

UK

volcaninc disruption
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