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世の中に怒ることは多々あれど、笑っちゃうこともある。Boris Johnson. ヒジャブやブルカを着用する女性を「郵便ポストみたいだ」、「銀行強盗みたいだ」と言い放ち顰蹙を買い、メディアに追いかけられ、ユーモアなのか皮肉なのか、天然のままなのか、Oxfordshierの自宅に押し掛ける記者さんたちに、でっかい、上品とはいい難いマグカップにドバっと紅茶を入れて、「まぁ、まぁ、お茶でもどうぞ！」という。批判を浴びるのは承知の上だと思うけど、そのユーモアに思わず大笑い、Boris。 君はおかしすぎる！

“I have nothing to say about this matter except to offer you some tea…

Steve Bannon claimed Boris Johnson had "nothing to apologise for" over burka comments
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Tory investigation into Boris Johnson burka comments must not be ‘whitewash’

The row over Boris Johnson’s burka comments is rumbling on. Credit: PA
The Conservative Party’s investigation into Boris Johnson’s controversial comments over the burka cannot be a “whitewash” the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has said.

Following the former foreign secretary’s comments that Muslim women who wear the burka look like “letter-boxes” or “bank robbers”, the MCB’s letter to Theresa May is expected to state that “no-one should be allowed to victimise minorities with impunity”.
Miqdaad Versi, the Assistant Secretary General of the MCB, told ITV News that there must be “transparency” around the investigation into the comments, which were a “a deliberate action to stoke tensions”.
「ブルカ」発言で非難されるジョンソン前英外相　質問答えず記者にお茶を
批判と擁護の両方
英政府の平等人権委員会（EHRC）は10日、ジョンソン氏の発言が「ムスリム女性を中傷する」恐れがあると懸念を示した。レベッカ・ヒルセンラス委員長は、「民主主義社会は表現の自由にその実効性を依存しており、不見識な意見や不寛容な意見の表現は一般的に、違法ではない」としつつ、「今回のボリス・ジョンソン氏の言葉遣いは、ムスリム女性を人間ではなく物扱いし、中傷するおそれがあり、扇動的で社会を分断する。政治関係者が指導者となるからには、社会の手本となり、しっかり責任のある態度で議論するべきだ。このような表現は、正当な対話を妨げる物になりかねない」と声明を発表した。
EHRCは市民からの苦情に応えてコメントしたものと見られる。同様に保守党の理事会も、多数の苦情を受けて、ジョンソン氏の発言が党の規則に違反するかを調査しているという。
党内調査について元保守党党首のイアン・ダンカン・スミス議員はBBCに、「下院議員の発言について、党内部の仕組みを使って下院議員をだまらせるべきではないと思っている」と、ジョンソン氏を擁護した。

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Mandela lecture: Five things Barack Obama said

Barack Obama has used his first high-profile speech since stepping down as US president to take swipes at “strongman politics” and politicians’ disregard for the facts. His comments are seen as thinly veiled criticism of the current US administration’s use of what has been described as “alternative facts”.
Here are five key points from his Nelson Mandela lecture, made to the world’s media and an audience of some 15,000 people in South Africa’s main city, Johannesburg.
 Jul 19

Mandela Day is about taking action to change the world for the better. In these young people, I see Madiba’s example of persistence and hope. They are poised to make this world more peaceful, more prosperous, and more just.

4. Viva democracy!

Politicians using “politics of fear, resentment, retrenchment” were rising “at a pace unimaginable just a few years ago,” Barack Obama warned.

Democracy is messy, he said, “but the efficiency of an autocrat is a false promise”.

“It is time for us to stop paying all of our attention to the world’s capitals… and focus on the world’s grassroots. That is where democracy comes from,” he added.

Warning against creeping populism and “strongman politics”, he made the case for liberal democracy, saying that he believed it offered the better future for humanity.

“I believe in Nelson Mandela’s vision” for the world’s future, he said, “I believe that a world governed by such principles is possible”.

“It can achieve more peace and more cooperation in pursuit of a common good,” he added.

“I believe we have no choice but to move forward… I believe it is based on hard evidence. The fact that the world’s most prosperous and successful societies happen to be those which have most closely approximated the liberal progressive ideal that we talk about.”

Things may go backwards for a while, but – ultimately – right makes might,” Mr Obama said. “Not the other way around.”

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The Telegraphより（7/15）
France win World Cup 2018 final in breathless six-goal thriller against Croatia

Truly, madly, deeply. We will miss this World Cup like no other. The day after Bastille Day France are champions and deservedly so. But only after the most remarkable, crazy and controversial encounter against a courageous Croatia in which there was a VAR storm, and an actual storm in the skies above Moscow, a first-ever own goal in a World Cup Final, a cool strike from a new global superstar, an horrific goalkeeping blunder by the man who lifted the trophy – and a Pussy Riot pitch invasion.
To secure its status as the best ever World Cup the tournament needed a memorable final. It got it. What a finale it was to this 31-day festival of football, as Gareth Southgate called it, and it was the highest-scoring final since England beat West Germany 4-2 in 1966. Well, they sang football’s coming home. At least the score was the same and while England and their fans will never stop dreaming of what might have been – just 22 minutes from the final, if anyone needed reminding – France have the 18-carat gold, 14-inch, 11lb trophy for the second time ever and the second time in 20 years.

 

Kylian Mbappe: The making of a global sensationKylian Mbappe pictured in 2012

Kylian Mbappe pictured in 2012
The other boys used to laugh at the way Kylian Mbappe ran down the wing. Not in a malicious way, and not with any intention of upsetting him, but simply because it was so unusual. They would stare, giggling to themselves, as the young Mbappe, with his elongated limbs and oversized head, appeared to leave his left arm behind every time he broke into a sprint.
As the rest of his body flowed, that left arm extended and locked into position. It would jut out like a sail, hanging away from his torso, and whip across his chest with each stride.
Watch him now, five years later, and the kink is harder to spot. Those arms have become swollen with muscle, and the legs pump with such speed that you would…(stop)
★　試合経過

ちょっと辛口BBC

Pussy RiotメンバーとハイタッチIntruder high-fiving Mbappé
こちらも印象的！

Junko MasudaさんのFBより（Sept. 12、2018）

フランス🇫🇷語の綴りではBの前のンはNではなく、Mだと。それをMbappeの名前で覚えるんだ、と。でもエムバペではなく、ンバッペと呼んで下さいね。とーちゃん🐢人ですから。

[b]も[p]も口を閉じて発音。その直前には口を開けて発音する[n]でなく口を閉じて発音する[m]を置く。（次の音の準備）。number, remember, camp, jump・・・。rainbowはrainとbowの意味を崩さないため発音より意味重視！？（このセンテンスはJunkoさんのママ）

World Cup 1

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ずっと騒いで、騒がれていたワールド・カップも終盤。日本は戦い前の悪評を覆して善戦、ベスト16まで到達。香川選手も1点Goal。「最後の輝き」だったことになるのだろうか。長年の努力と苦闘に感謝を。長谷部と大迫、乾、昌司くんらが輝いて見えた。「おっさん」たちの活躍も光った。
　 　
　 　Kylian Mbappé#29 　Kylian Mbappé
　

セネガルの監督シセさん・・かっこいい
　

日本の西野さん　西野さんの左にいた審判さんのBodyにクギづけ

セネガル人マラン・ディディウ主審の“フェアプレー”な裁きが光った
Malang DIEDHIOU
どんどん横道へ逸れたようだ。優勝は？フランス、かな？ベルギーかな？
 Kylian特集(?)

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すばらしく論理的、積極的、斬新なアイディア、決して妥協しない、何者をも恐れない、実に”はっきり”、”ズバリ”と言う。望月衣塑子さんよりすごいかもしれない。勇気があり、迫力があり、明るいすばらしい女性だ。
今、日本各地で影響力を広げている。Abe は「日程の都合」とか理由をつけて会わないようで、Fihnさんにズバリ「世界から見放される危険を冒している」と指摘した！ここまではっきり言う人・団体が今の日本にはあまりいない、少ないのがとても残念だ。
「核抑止力の効果を言う人がいるが、北朝鮮の現実を見れば「抑止力」の考えが間違っていることがハッキリする。核は廃絶するしかないのだ」と。また、「核兵器使用禁止は日本政府が決めるものではない、日本の国民が決めるものだ」とも！その通りだ、すばらしい。

 

On Twitter: It was really special to visit the memorial sites of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So much suffering and pain, yet today these are two cities of hope, devoted to working for nuclear disarmament. They are an inspiration to all of us.

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Everyone in Trumpworld Knows He’s an Idiot

Michelle Goldberg 

Opinion |NYT
President Trump is furious about a new book set for release Friday. Doug Mills/The New York Times 
 One of the more alarming anecdotes in “Fire and Fury,” Michael Wolff’s incendiary new book about Donald Trump’s White House, involves the firing of James Comey, former director of the F.B.I. It’s not Trump’s motives that are scary; Wolff reports that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were “increasingly panicked” and “frenzied” about what Comey would find if he looked into the family finances, which is incriminating but unsurprising. The terrifying part is how, in Wolff’s telling, Trump sneaked around his aides, some of whom thought they’d contained him.

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「DPRK」という表現は2004年にPeace Depotで働き始めて初めて聞いた表現だった。「北朝鮮」ではなく正式国名を使おう、でもできるだけ簡単な字数の少ない表現で、しかもそこに親しみと尊敬を込めて。
今もその表現を使う梅林さんは、DPRK問題の長年の研究者だ。北朝鮮問題を自分で論ずることはできないけど、もっとも納得できる論説に巡り合ったので、ご本人の了解は得てないものの私が有料で入手した資料なので、後の日の勉強のためにここに貼り付けておく。

 

 

 

 

 

 

1日も早い解決を願って。

ICANのノーベル平和賞受賞をめぐって（12/23東京新聞）

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  • Obama calls President Trump’s decision to end DACA ‘wrong,’ ‘self-defeating’ and ‘cruel’

    By Jenna Johnson

September 5
On Jan. 20, President Barack Obama, right, poses with President-elect Donald Trump at the White House. (Evan Vucci/AP)
Former president Barack Obama said Tuesday that it is “wrong,” “self-defeating” and “cruel” for the Trump administration to end an Obama-era program that allowed younger undocumented immigrants to continue to live in the United States without fear of deportation.
“Let’s be clear: The action taken today isn’t required legally. It’s a political decision, and a moral question,” Obama said in a lengthy statement posted on his Facebook page on Tuesday afternoon, following an announcement earlier in the day that the Trump administration will unwind the program, pending action from Congress in the next six months.
“Whatever concerns or complaints Americans may have about immigration in general, we shouldn’t threaten the future of this group of young people who are here through no fault of their own, who pose no threat, who are not taking away anything from the rest of us. … Kicking them out won’t lower the unemployment rate, or lighten anyone’s taxes, or raise anybody’s wages.”Read More →