Scatterbrainのブックマーク / 2010年8月5日

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2010年8月5日のブックマーク (15件)

US judge overturns California same-sex marriage ban
The judge found "California has no interest in discriminating" against gays and lesbians A US federal judge has overturned California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. The judge found it unconstitutionally discriminated against same-sex couples who sought to wed. The state measure, known as Proposition 8, was passed by voters in 2008. It banned same-sex marriage, although the state offere
Scatterbrain 2010/08/05
Prop8、違憲判断

US

legal

gay rights
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What Is This Vast "Defense" Structure For?
Scatterbrain 2010/08/05
But while there are credible alternatives to the United States serving in its current dual role as world policeman / armed social worker, the foreign policy establishment in Washington has no interest in exploring them. The people here have grown accustomed to living at the center of the earth, and

US

defense
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Seven thoughts about Ramallah
Scatterbrain 2010/08/05
As noted previously, the Israelis are pretty happy. Fatah is less happy - they feel like they're doing the dirty work to enhance Israeli security without realizing any benefits in terms of peace negotiations. They worry that unless progress is made on final status negotiation soon, they will lose

Palestine
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What was the Lebanese army thinking?
Scatterbrain 2010/08/05
This incident underscores the fragility of the current peace between Israel and Lebanon. When security is precarious, military personnel will be more inclined to shoot first and ask questions later, and may also engage in provocative actions to show that they can't be intimidated. The problem is th

Israel

Lebanon
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Michelle Obama walks into race row on Spanish holiday
Scatterbrain 2010/08/05
"We have received isolated reports that racial prejudice may have contributed to the arrest or detention of some African-Americans travelling in Spain," the bureau of consular affairs had warned on its travel advice website.

Spain

racism

US
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Bloggers ordered to remove Radiohead material
Music bloggers posting parts of Radiohead's In Rainbows album have reportedly received letters from recording industry groups, ordering them to take down the files. Although Radiohead once offered fans the chance to pay nothing for their 2007 album, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) are now targeting sites that pro
Scatterbrain 2010/08/05
This week, Torrent Freak drew attention to two cease-and-desist notices, dated September 2009 and January 2010. In these letters to Google, owner of the Blogspot blogging service, the RIAA and IFPI cited hundreds of blogs sharing material by U2, the Doors, Aretha Franklin, Radiohead and many more.

Music

file sharing

copy rights
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Paul Romer is a brilliant economist – but his idea for charter cities is bad
Scatterbrain 2010/08/05
Trouble is, the idea stinks. With little track record in dealing with poor countries, Romer has come up a grand scheme for lifting Africa and Asia out of poverty. What they need to do, he argues, is give up a big chunk of their land to a rich country. Policy experts from Washington can take over a p

Economy

Poverty

Colonialism
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U.N. Supports Israeli Account of Border Clash (Published 2010)
Scatterbrain 2010/08/05
The United Nations peacekeeping force in South Lebanon, Unifil, said on Wednesday it had concluded that Israeli forces were cutting trees that lay within their own territory before a lethal exchange of fire with Lebanese Army troops on Tuesday, largely vindicating Israel’s account of how the fight

UN

Israel

Lebanon

Military
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Kashmiris Storm the Street, Defying Curfew (Published 2010)
Scatterbrain 2010/08/05
India has struggled to counter Kashmir’s often-violent protests, which have flared the past three summers with increasing ferocity. The protesters may not have guns, but they can inflict serious injury. P. Chidambaram, India’s home minister, told the lower house of Parliament on Wednesday that 1

India

Pakistan

Kashimir
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Sarah Palin, "Mama Grizzlies," Carl Jung, and the Power of Archetypes
Scatterbrain 2010/08/05
This is the realm Palin is working in -- I'm sure unintentionally -- and it's why she has connected so deeply with a large segment of the public. In fact, her evocation of mama grizzlies has a particularly resonant history in the collective unconscious.

Palin

Tea Party
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The Cordoba Mosque - And Conservatism
Scatterbrain 2010/08/05
And that, one fears, is what conservatism has become in the new millennium: a paranoid, infantile grasping for cultural dominance - white, evangelical, rural - that is only one part of America, and not the whole, and a minuscule part of the wider world, not its defining hegemon

Islam

conservatism

GOP
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This Is Not My Normal Beat (Bloomberg & Mosque Dept) ...
Scatterbrain 2010/08/05
Apart from the lofty sentiments, I love the plain "That's life" -- part of the thick-skinned, no-nonsense realism that Americans like to think exemplifies our culture, but doesn't always. Nothing is more admirable about this country in the rest of the world's eyes than the big-shouldered unflappable

911

US

Islam

GOP

Tea Party
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宝くじ３億円当てた！幸運「招き猫」クロちゃん : 社会 : YOMIURI ONLINE（読売新聞）
東京・三鷹駅南口の宝くじ売り場に、「大当たりを引き寄せる」と話題の黒猫がいる。同駅前で不動産会社と宝くじ売り場を運営する「高山不動産部」（東京都三鷹市下連雀３）が飼っているクロちゃん。従業員が会社近くの路地に生後間もない４匹の猫を見つけたのは５年前の冬のこと。３匹は逃げたり、近所の人に引き取られたりしたが、クロちゃんだけが会社付近に居つくようになった。以来、１００万円単位の宝くじの当たりが続き、２００６年には１億円の当たりが、昨年の年末ジャンボ宝くじでは３億円が出た。「猫の御利益かも」。従業員らがそう話すようになり、徐々に近所の評判に。最近では、うわさを聞きつけてクロちゃんをなでていく人やお土産を持ってくる人もいるという。同社営業担当の徳山泰子さん（３５）は、「クロちゃんが来る前と来てからでは宝くじの当たる確率が全然違う。幸運を招く猫であることは間違いないと思いますよ」と笑顔で語った
Scatterbrain 2010/08/05
一昨日、数年ぶりで三鷹に行ったばかり。宝くじ、買ってくればよかった＾＾;

Animals

funny stuff
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Michael Bloomberg delivers stirring defense of mosque - War Room - Salon.com
Scatterbrain 2010/08/05
ブルームバーグ見直したWhatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religi

911

US

Islam

GOP

Tea Party
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Tough Love
Scatterbrain 2010/08/05
J Street is no doubt sincere in its belief that Israel would benefit from a more dovish line. But, if the conservative definition of "pro-Israel" raises the threshold too high, J Street's sets it too low. Even people we think of as harsh critics of certain countries would embrace them if they were w

Israel

US
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