Scatterbrainのブックマーク / 2010年6月10日

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2010年6月10日のブックマーク (68件)

AP IMPACT: BP spill response plans severely flawed - Yahoo! News
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
腐ってるね

BP oil spill

Environment
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"A Convicted Serial Environmental Criminal," Ctd
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
写真キャプションに笑

BP oil spill

Obama
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Barack Obama to write foreword for Nelson Mandela's diaries
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
South Africa

Apartheid

Obama

Book
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David Cameron admits sympathy with Obama before discussing BP crisis
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
BPの株価、原油流出事故後、約半値に。BP株は英国のほとんどの投信・年金ポートフォリオとかに組み込まれてるから、株価の下落や減配は英の深刻な社会問題になり得る。キャメロンも必死。ペトロチャイナに買収観測も

BP oil spill

US

UK

Obama
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David Cameron sets stage for eventual UK withdrawal from Afghanistan as he visits Kabul
David Cameron today set the stage for an eventual withdrawal of British forces from Afghanistan when he declared that Brit ain and the US needed to move "further and faster" in stabilising the country. In his first visit to Kabul as prime minister, Cameron said that nobody in Brit ain or Afghanistan wanted troops to rem ain a day longer than they were needed. Speaking in Kabul after flying in amid ti
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
Cameron today set the stage for an eventual withdrawal of British forces from Afghanistan when he declared that Britain and the US needed to move "further and faster" in stabilising the country

Afghanistan

UK

Military
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BBC Trust partly upholds Jeremy Bowen complaints
The BBC Trust has upheld in full or in part three complaints about two reports on the Middle East by veteran correspondent Jeremy Bowen. In a report published today, the trust's editorial standards committee ruled on the three complaints relating to an edition of Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent and a BBC News website report by Bowen, the BBC's Middle East editor. The BBC Trust received one co
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
[Israel/Palestine][journalism][UK]　→http://b.hatena.ne.jp/entry/www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/10/jeremy-bowen-attacks-bbc-trust
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Jeremy Bowen attacks BBC Trust for Gaza ruling
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
[Israel/Palestine]米イスラエルロビーによる報道操作がBBCにも"Last year the BBC Trust, wrongly in my view, found me guilty of some inaccuracies, because of [complaints from] a campaign group in the USA, and in this country, who are the enemies of impartiality. They got through to the BBC Trust. I was

journalism

Gaza
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Glastonbury festival at 40: Your pictures
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
もうすぐだねー泥んこパーティー、よいね、よいね

Photo

Music

UK
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ECB holds eurozone interest rates at 1%
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
Spending cuts and tax rises are expected to cool eurozone growth and inflation, meaning the ECB can afford to keep interest rates low.The ECB forecasts eurozone 1.4%-1.6% inflation for 2010, a slight upward revision from its March forecast.It also forecasts growth of 0.7%-1.3% this year

EU

Economy

Finance
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口蹄疫　宮崎深刻、感染さらに拡大　西都や木城でも（毎日新聞） - Yahoo!ニュース
口蹄疫の感染疑いがあるとして殺処分された牛を埋却する作業が行われている農場＝宮崎県都城市で２０１０年６月１０日午前１０時５７分、和田大典撮影農林水産省と宮崎県は１０日、都城市高崎町の農家で家畜伝染病の口蹄疫（こうていえき）特有の症状を示していた肥育牛が遺伝子検査の結果、陽性と判明したと発表した。日本最大級の畜産地帯である都城市で感染疑い例が確認されたのは初めて。県と市は１０日、この農家が飼育する２０８頭すべてを殺処分し、埋却した。口蹄疫特有の症状を示す家畜は１０日、宮崎▽日向▽西都の３市と木城、川南両町でも見つかり、宮崎での感染拡大は歯止めがかからない状況だ。【写真特集】現地の様子を写真で　口蹄疫、感染拡大が深刻化県と都城市は近く、この農家を中心に家畜を動かせない移動制限区域（半径１０キロ）、運び出せない搬出制限区域（同１０〜２０キロ）を設定する。市によると、半径１０キロ内の牛・
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
感染力の強いウイルスの恐ろしさ。そもそも（海外に輸出できなくなるからという理由で）ワクチン接種なしで防疫体制ってところに根本的な無理があるのでは。犬の予防接種は70年代パルボが欧米で大流行してから普及し

Animals

food

Japan
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Japan - Defying Gravity
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
Secondly, dissaving is very likely to become a binding constraint in Japan at some point which would epitomized by how Japan would need to borrow from foreigners in order to finance an external deficit. In this case, and I agree with Grice here, it is game over

Japan

Economy
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Edward Hugh Mainpage
Site Under Construction. Please Bear With Me For A Few Weeks. Thanks For Your Interest And Understanding. "Economists hitherto have tried hard enough and often enough to change the world, the real difficulty however is to understand it." "In a world where expectations are (nearly) everything, to change our understanding is already to change our reality. Not only that, changing things this way is t
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
エドワード・ヒューさんのブログ

Economy

Financial Crisis

Euro

EU
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The Blog Prophet of Euro Zone Doom (Published 2010)
For years, Edward Hugh predicted that the euro zone could not survive. These days, people are listening to him.Credit...Lourdes Segade for The New York Times BARCELONA, Spain — For years, almost nobody paid attention to the sky-is-falling alarms of Edward Hugh, a gregarious British blogger and self-taught economist who repeatedly predicted that the euro zone could not survive. Living a largely han
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
ユーロ危機を専門家の誰よりも早く予測したスペインの片田舎に住む英語教師兼ブロガーのエドワード・ヒューさん。おもしろい人だ;It was the height of policy folly, he warned, to think that aging, penny-pinching Germans could successfully coexist un

Euro

Financial Crisis
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South Korea rocket 'explodes' moments after take-off
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
South Korea

Space
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Life for Bosnian Serbs over genocide at Srebrenica
A UN tribunal has convicted two Bosnian Serbs for committing genocide in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and sentenced them to life in prison. Vujadin Popovic, 53, and Ljubisa Beara, 70, were among seven former high-ranking military and police officials to be sentenced.
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
ICTY、ボスニア内戦時95年のスレブレニツァの大虐殺でセルビア人軍･警察幹部2人に終身刑、他の5人に5-35年の懲役刑

war crime

Bosnia

Serbia
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Nato-led Kandahar operation 'to go slower than planned'
The Nato commander in Afghanistan says a military operation to drive militants out of Kandahar will move at a slower pace than planned. General Stanley McChrystal said the operation would happen "more slowly" in order to ensure local support.
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
マクリスタル、NATO軍のカンダハル作戦、地元の支持を確保するため予定より長期化／タリバンがヘルマンド州で7歳男児をスパイ容疑で公開処刑の疑い

Afghanistan

US

Military
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Turkish Doctor Describes Treating Israeli Commandos During Raid
I.H.H./Flickr A photograph from the Flickr page of I.H.H., a Turkish aid organization that helped organize the flotilla of ships raided last week on its way to Gaza. Dr. Hasan Huseyin Uysal, a Turkish doctor, said the image was taken as he tended to an Israeli commando captured during the raid. Updated | 2:53 p.m. In an interview with The New York Times, Dr. Hasan Huseyin Uysal, a Turkish doctor,
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
[Gaza/Flotilla][Israel/Palestine]マビマルマラ号船上で負傷したイスラエル兵を手当てした医師の証言I had our dead bodies and injured people lying in front of me and I was treating the soldiers that actually killed and wounded them. None of our friends in the center approached to harm or hurt them.

Turkey
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Turkey Goes From Pliable Ally to Thorn for U.S. (Published 2010)
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
“They are ambitious, and this gives them a major role on the world stage,” said a senior American official. “But there is a risk that Americans won’t understand what Turkey is doing, and that will have consequences for the relationship.”

Turkey

US

Middle East
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Two (unrelated) thoughts from Paris
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
雨男だったのか^^;現在の米国とトルコの緊張をイラク戦争時の基地使用問題と対比：Well, who looks wiser now? In retrospect, maybe it was the United States that needed to "stay in its lane," instead of jumping the median strip and heading straight into oncoming traffic

journalism

Turkey

US
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China's Got a Secret
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
So the Chinese quietly conceal the military advances they make and insist that they pose no threat to U.S. influence in the region. PLA thinkers have preserved, but refined and reinterpreted, the late Deng Xiaoping's long standing dictum to "hide brightness, nourish obscurity," and advance increment

US

China

defense
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Guilty Until Proven Guilty
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
[Gaza/Flotilla][Israel/Palestine][US]
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Who was the tougher World War II enemy, the Germans or the Japanese?
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
The German was far more skilled than the Japanese. Most of the Japanese that we fought were not skilled men. Not skilled leaders. The German had a professional army. . . .

defense

Germany

Japan

war
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How China's hybrid cars could change the world
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
China announced considerable subsidies for consumers who buy electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles. Beijing will pay the first $7,800 to $8,800 of the sticker price for the first 50,000 such vehicles bought in five designated Chinese cities, or roughly 31 percent, for instance, of BYD's $25,000 F3DM.

China

Energy
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Iran's 'Twitter revolution' was exaggerated, says editor
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
Oxfordgirlの件"The west was focused not on the Iranian people but on the role of western technology," he says. "Twitter was important in publicising what was happening, but its role was overemphasised."

Iran

Internet

protest
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Iran election anniversary protests face severe crackdown
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
But this Saturday, on the first anniversary of the disputed elections that gave rise to the biggest challenge to the Islamic republic's authority in its 30-year history, a repeat of such tumult is hard to imagine. Months of brutal repression that included mass round-ups, a succession of show trials,

Iran

protest
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Afghan president 'has lost faith in US ability to defeat Taliban'
President Hamid Karzai has lost faith in the US strategy in Afghanistan and is increasingly looking to Pakistan to end the insurgency, according to those close to Afghanistan's former head of intelligence services. Amrullah Saleh, who resigned last weekend, believes the president lost confidence some time ago in the ability of Nato forces to defeat the Taliban. As head of the National Directorate
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
先日辞任したサレハ長官：Privately Saleh has told aides he believes Karzai's approach is dangerously out of step with the strategy of his western backers. "There came a time when [Karzai] lost his confidence in the capability of the coalition or even his own government [to protect] this c

Afghanistan

Pakistan

US
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Death And Conservatism
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
「ミネルヴァのふくろう」There is a core element of the tragic in conservatism. And yet America resists tragedy, denies it, moves past it, feels threatened by it. But until you have truly grappled with tragedy, you haven't ful

idea
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The Hidden Toll
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
The number of carcasses recovered is important, as it will play a role in determining the liability BP faces under federal law. But this number should not be mistaken for the true impact on wildlife. Past history teaches that the great majority of birds that die after exposure to spills simply disap

Animals

BP oil spill
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Hunker Down With History
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now. Israel fights Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south, but its most formidable enemy is history itself

Israel

Jews
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The Washington Post - Breaking news and latest headlines, U.S. news, world news, and video - The Washington Post
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
Meanwhile, helping Greece may be a bailout, but even that doesn't make it a bad policy decision. So on the one hand, the word "bailout" is being used promiscuously and inaccurately. And on the other hand, it doesn't even tell you that much when it's used correctly

Economy
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Matthew Yglesias » Life is a Series of Bailouts, and Then You Die
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
But, heck, economic growth is corporate bailout! Growth is a bailout for feckless state and local politicians! Everything is either a bailout or else it’s collapse

Economy
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Matthew Yglesias » The Best Case I Can Make for Fiscal Retrenchment
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
The story I would tell is that we’re seeing a bit of an ironic switcheroo in which the liberals who normally tell me markets aren’t perfect are now telling me not to worry about the US (or German or Japanese) fiscal deficit because interest rates are so low.

budget deficit

US

Japan

Finance
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Matthew Yglesias » Sanctioning Iran
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
Iran

Sanction
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Matthew Yglesias » Maybe Israel Doesn’t Offer to the Leave the West Bank Because It Doesn’t Want to Leave the West Bank
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
[Israel/Palestine][US]These aren’t tactical blunders, they’re substantive commitments. And they’re appalling ones. We just had a nice nationwide Two Minute Hate over Helen Thomas’ desire to purge Israel/Palestine of its Jewish population, but her vision and Netanyahu’s are nearly mirror images
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Matthew Yglesias » Why More Support for Taxes Would Make a Freer Market
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
But the American right offers, in practice, no support for these kinds of market-oriented policies. Instead it’s spent thirty years deeply investing in rabid anti-tax politics that have completely conquered the Republican Party and largely conquered the Democratic Party as well. Now it’s nearly

Climate Change
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Matthew Yglesias » AZ Treasurer Wants to Build “Tent City” to Facilitate Mass Detention of Immigrants
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
Arizona state Treasurer Dean Martin, a Republican candidate for governor, called on Tuesday for the creation of statewide tent cities to house the expected increase in the number of illegal immigrants expected to be arrested under the state’s controversial new immigration law.

immigration

US
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Matthew Yglesias » Primaries
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
^^;If anything, what we’ve learned over the past 3-4 years is that whether or not the crazier candidate prevails in these contested races, whoever prevails ends up needing to adopt full-spectrum craziness

Election

US
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The Washington Post - Breaking news and latest headlines, U.S. news, world news, and video - The Washington Post
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
So if we can't price carbon, perhaps we can implement a regulatory strategy -- maybe through the EPA, maybe through Congress -- focused on electricity generation and industrial energy that would approximate the main effects of cap-and-trade, at least for the next 20 years

Climate Change

Congress

US
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The Washington Post - Breaking news and latest headlines, U.S. news, world news, and video - The Washington Post
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
不良債権Because local governments can't borrow directly, they set up special entities and then they guaranteed their debts. Banks saw this as riskless. Now the central government has revoked all the local government guarantees on those loans! And I've heard estimates that these loans accounted f

China

Economy

Finance
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Afghanistan blast at Kandahar wedding a 'suicide bomb'
A blast in southern Afghanistan which killed 40 people appears to have been a suicide bombing, Afghan officials say. The explosion ripped through a wedding party in Kandahar province on Wednesday evening, leaving 70 more wounded. Children were among the casualties. Reports said many of the guests had links to local police or an anti-Taliban militia and that is why they were targeted.
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
An explosion in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan has killed at least 39 people, Afghan officials say.

Afghanistan

Terror
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Helen Thomas, veteran reporter: why she had to resign
Fidel Castro was once asked to define the difference between democracy in Cuba and the United States. "I don't have to answer questions from Helen Thomas," the old revolutionary replied. The grand dame of the White House press corps, who outlasted nine American presidential administrations – and Castro's rule – was finally forced to halt her determined, often opinion-laden questioning and into ret
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
[Israel/Palestine][journalism]A fortnight ago she challenged the president over what is increasingly known as "Obama's war". "When are you going to get out of Afghanistan?" she asked. "Why are we continuing to kill and die there? What is the real excuse? And don't give us this Bushism, 'If we don't go there, they'll all come her
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Europe crisis 'causes growth hurdles' says World Bank
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
　Demand stimulus in high-income countries is increasingly part of the problem instead of the solution," said Hans Timmer, director of the Prospects Group at the World Bank

Economy

EU

Financial Crisis
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UN votes for new sanctions on Iran over nuclear issue
The UN Security Council has voted in favour of fresh sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme. The council voted 12 to two, with one abstention, in favour of a fourth round of sanctions, including tighter finance curbs and an expanded arms embargo. US President Barack Obama said the sanctions were an unmistakable message on stopping the spread of nuclear arms.
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
アフマディ： "I gave one of the [world powers] a message that the resolutions you issue are like a used handkerchief which should be thrown in the dustbin. They are not capable of hurting Iranians."

Sanction

Iran

Obama
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BBC News - Is that woman pregnant or fat?
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
肥満の人が多い国だと、実際まぎらわしい。

funny stuff
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Study identifies 'many more' autism genes
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
自閉症には最大300もの遺伝子が関与。これまでは8-9個と考えられていた。英国ではその程度は様々だが、自閉症の人が約50万人いると推定される

disease

Medicine
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Google accused of criminal intent over StreetView data
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
グーグル、ストリートビューのWiFiデータ収集に作為性。30カ国の通信傍受法に違反、ドイツで訴追確実

Google

Privacy
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Genetic study sheds light on Jewish diaspora
The researchers analysed genetic samples from 14 Jewish communities across the world and compared them with those from 69 non-Jewish populations. Their study, published in Nature, revealed that most Jewish populations were "genetically closer" to each other than to their non-Jewish neighbours.
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
ユダヤ人は世界中に離散したがインドとエチオピア以外では混血化、localizationは進まなかった"It seems that most Jewish populations and therefore most Jewish individuals are closer to each other [at the genetic level], and closer to the Middle Eastern populations, th

Science

Jews
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BBC News - Barbara Kingsolver wins Orange Prize for Fiction
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
The role leads to a job in Riviera's house, where Harrison makes himself useful to the muralist, his wife Frida Kahlo and the exiled Bolshevik leader, Leon Trotsky.

Book

Literature
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US defence secretary Robert Gates issues Afghanistan warning
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
The US defence secretary, Robert Gates, warned that public opinion in Britain and America would no longer tolerate the loss of their soldiers in Afghanistan unless Nato/ "all of us, for our publics, are going to have to show by the end of the year that our strategy is on the right track and making s

Afghanistan

US

Military
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BP downplays Obama attack on Tony Hayward
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
"It would be inappropriate to comment on the politics of the situation," replied Conn, adding: "What we are focusing on is the operational response [to the Deepwater Horizon rig disaster.]"

BP oil spill

US

Obama
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Clip joint: cats
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
In the words of Charles Bukowski: "Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is."

Animals

Film

猫
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Barack Obama announces $400m aid package to Gaza and West Bank
President Barack Obama said today the US would send $400m of aid to the Palestinian terr itories following 10 days of international focus on Gaza, which Israel has blockaded for more than three years. The announcement came as Obama met the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in Washington to discuss the progress of proximity talks between Israel and the Palestinians, as well as the dire situation
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
[Israel/Palestine][Aid]"They will send the first course. We are waiting for the main course," the Palestinian economy minister, Hassan Abu Libdeh, was quoted in the Israeli media as saying. "We are waiting for this unjust siege to end."

US
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Was Israel A Mistake?
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
[Israel/Palestine][US]Not to see this context, indeed to claim that any and all grievances against Israel's existence - and, much more significantly, ongoing expansion - are entirely a function of Jew-hatred is to lose any nuance in diplomacy or human relations
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My once-in-a-generation cut? The armed forces. All of them | Simon Jenkins
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
For the past 20 years, Britain's armed forces have encouraged foreign policy into one war after another, none of them remotely to do with the nation's security. Asked why he was standing in an Afghan desert earlier this year, Brown had to claim absurdly that he was "making London's streets safer".

defense

UK

budget deficit
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Weak Tea
After a year’s worth of diplomacy, the United Nations Security Council finally passed a fourth round of Iran sanctions on Wednesday. The vote passed easily, with 12 states voting in favor and only two, Brazil and Turkey, voting against the sanctions resolution. At various points in the previous months, Barack Obama’s administration has promised that these sanctions will be "crippling," "smart," an
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
However, the White House paid a huge price for their agreement: It agreed to water down the obligations in the resolution, making its most important restrictions voluntary. As a result, the resolution is not strong enough to change Iran's strategic calculation any more than the three resolutions tha

Iran

Sanction

US
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Obama Pledges New Aid to Palestinians (Published 2010)
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
“The president has described the situation in Gaza as unsustainable, and it demands a significant change in strategy,” /Nor was it immediately clear how Mr. Abbas, who has authority in the West Bank but no authority in Gaza, would be able to administer it

Palestine

Aid

Gaza

Obama

US
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The Twitter Devolution
Before one of the major Iranian protests of the past year, a journalist in Germany showed me a list of three prominent Twitter accounts that were commenting on the events in Tehran and asked me if I knew the identities of the contributors. I told her I did, but she seemed disappointed when I told her that one of them was in the United States, one was in Turkey, and the third — who specialized in u
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
Far from being a tool of revolution in Iran over the last year, the Internet, in many ways, just complicated the picture.However, good old-fashioned word of mouth was by far the most influential medium used to shape the postelection opposition activity

Internet

Iran

protest
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Amish Farming Draws Rare Government Scrutiny (Published 2010)
Matthew Stoltzfus, left, on his farm in Lancaster, Pa., where a government program is working with Amish farmers to try to instill more environmentally sound methods for handling runoff.Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times LANCASTER, Pa. � With simplicity as their credo, Amish farmers consume so little that some might consider them model environmental citizens. “We are supposed to be stewards
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
アーミッシュが家畜の糞尿を河川に垂れ流し、深刻なチェサピーク湾海洋汚染の原因に。当局の言うことを聞かず、対応に苦慮

Environment

US
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One half of Malawi gay couple 'moves in with a woman'
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
Malawi

gay rights
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US Defence Secretary Gates blames EU for Turkey 'drift'
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
"I personally think that if there is anything to the notion that Turkey is, if you will, moving eastward, it is, in my view, in no small part because it was pushed, and pushed by some in Europe refusing to give Turkey the kind of organic link to the West that Turkey sought."

EU

US

Turkey

Israel
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Immigrant youths riot in Sweden, burning down school
Rioters in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, have burned down a school building and thrown stones at police in a second night of disturbances.
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
ラーションの世界　Rinkeby is home to a large number of first- and second-generation immigrants. Many of them are from Somalia, so the area is sometimes nicknamed Little Mogadishu

violence

Sweden

Immigrants
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UN votes for new sanctions on Iran over nuclear issue
The UN Security Council has voted in favour of fresh sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme. The council voted 12 to two, with one abstention, in favour of a fourth round of sanctions, including tighter finance curbs and an expanded arms embargo. US President Barack Obama said the sanctions were an unmistakable message on stopping the spread of nuclear arms.
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
US

nuclear

Iran

UN
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サヨクはイスラームの味方なのか
ガラにもなくイスラエルのガザ支援船攻撃に対する抗議行動に顔を出してきたのですが、イスラーム関係の呼びかけだったせいか、ほとんどは非日本人ムスリム、少し日本人の市民運動系の人がいて、日本人ムスリムはほとんどいませんでした。わたし一人だったかもしれません。といっても、この活動自体について何か言いたいわけでもなく、ただそこに居合わせた「反戦平和」系の人々を眺めていて、ふと思い出したことがあっただけです。それは「ムスリムはサヨクを味方だと思っているのだろうか？」ということです。パレスチナやイラク、アフガニスタン繋がりだと、反戦平和系の市民運動家と多くのムスリムではある程度方向性に一致が見られるので、「共闘」するのは大いに結構だとは思います。また日本や欧米ではムスリムは少数派であり、多くが外国人で、ここから外国人労働者や南北経済格差などの問題に連なっていくため、「サヨク」がイスラーム寄りに見え
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
[Israel/Palestine][Gaza/Flotilla]「イスラームの歴史を紐とけば、戦争そのものが根本的な悪とされているわけではない、」「戦争＝絶対悪、という見方を第一原理にしている人々とは、根本のところでは相容れない」

Islam
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北方領土について考える
大学院のゼミでは北方領土問題が論じられた。ゼミでこの問題を論じるのは、20 年間大学にいてはじめてである。沖縄基地問題についての論及回数とは比較にならない。南島とくらべてそれだけ扱いにくい論件だということなのかもしれない。学生たちがこの論件を忌避する理由の一つは、たぶんこの問題をリアルかつクールに分析することに対して、きわめてパセティックな「抑圧」がかかるせいである。領土問題になると、国民国家の成員たちはどの国でもすぐに熱くなる。「国境線については絶対譲歩するな」という言説が幅をきかすのはどの国でも同じである。「国境線を譲歩しても、隣国との友好関係を構築するほうが国益にかなう」というタイプの議論をする人間は袋だたきに遭い、うっかりするとテロリストの標的になる。国境線を少しでも拡げた政治家は「英雄」ともてはやされ、国境線を少しでも失った政治家は「売国奴」と罵られる。それは古
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
「北方領土の進展を阻んでいるのは米国、それというのも日本が米国の軍事的属国だから、以上。」　米ロ間の取り決めとか、あるのかな。

Russia

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Okinawa

Northern Territory
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Amazon.co.jp: 動物感覚アニマル・マインドを読み解く: テンプルグランディン (著), キャサリンジョンソン (著), 中尾ゆかり (翻訳): 本
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
Animals
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Finland in double-dip recession
Finland's economy slipped back into recession during the first three months of 2010, official figures have shown. During the January to March quarter, its economy contracted by a seasonally-adjusted 0.4%, after a decline of 0.2% in October to December of last year. It is the first eurozone country to re-enter recession after emerging from it, in what is known as a double-dip. Finland, whose main e
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
Economy

Finland
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The Washington Post - Breaking news and latest headlines, U.S. news, world news, and video - The Washington Post
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
Climate Change

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Matthew Yglesias » This is the Sound of Hope Dying
Scatterbrain 2010/06/10
Climate Change

Congress

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