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// The Global Gender Gap Report 2008
Norway (1) leads the world in closing the gender gap between men and women, according to the overall ranking in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2008. Three other Nordic countries – Finland (2), Sweden (3) and Iceland (4) – also top the Report’s Gender Gap Index.
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日本の「男女平等指数」は98位に後退 世界経済フォーラム
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/shakai/20081112AT1G1200K12112008.html
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2008年11月12日水曜日
2008年10月26日日曜日
AppleもGoogleも 同性婚支持を表明
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Apple joins Google in fighting Prop. 8
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Apple Inc. is donating $100,000 to fight Proposition 8 ... Apple joins Google, which came out publicly against Prop. 8 last month. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page reportedly have donated a combined $140,000 to fight the measure.
Apple.com > Hot News
No on Prop 8
October 24, 2008
Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights -- including the right to marry -- should not be affected by their sexual orientation. Apple views this as a civil rights issue, rather than just a political issue, and is therefore speaking out publicly against Proposition 8.
The Official Google Blog
Our position on California's No on 8 campaign
9/26/2008 03:23:00 PM
... we see this fundamentally as an issue of equality. We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8 -- we should not eliminate anyone's fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love.
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| "Marrying You" - Green and Root | "I Do" - Maryann and Ron Sfarzo |
Apple joins Google in fighting Prop. 8
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Apple Inc. is donating $100,000 to fight Proposition 8 ... Apple joins Google, which came out publicly against Prop. 8 last month. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page reportedly have donated a combined $140,000 to fight the measure.
Apple.com > Hot News
No on Prop 8
October 24, 2008
Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights -- including the right to marry -- should not be affected by their sexual orientation. Apple views this as a civil rights issue, rather than just a political issue, and is therefore speaking out publicly against Proposition 8.
The Official Google Blog
Our position on California's No on 8 campaign
9/26/2008 03:23:00 PM
... we see this fundamentally as an issue of equality. We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8 -- we should not eliminate anyone's fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love.
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2008年10月24日金曜日
言論自由指数を発表、 国境なき記者団 (RSF)
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Reporters Without Borders / Reporters sans frontières (RSF)
Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index - 2008
Only peace protects freedoms in post-9/11 world
читать на русском
It is not economic prosperity but peace that guarantees press freedom. That is the main lesson to be drawn from the world press freedom index that Reporters Without Borders compiles every year and from the 2008 edition, released today ... The economic disparities among the top 20 are immense. Iceland’s per capita GDP is 10 times Jamaica’s. What they have in common is a parliamentary democratic system, and not being involved in any war.
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Reporters Without Borders / Reporters sans frontières (RSF)
Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index - 2008
Only peace protects freedoms in post-9/11 world
читать на русском
It is not economic prosperity but peace that guarantees press freedom. That is the main lesson to be drawn from the world press freedom index that Reporters Without Borders compiles every year and from the 2008 edition, released today ... The economic disparities among the top 20 are immense. Iceland’s per capita GDP is 10 times Jamaica’s. What they have in common is a parliamentary democratic system, and not being involved in any war.
| Rank | Country | Note |
| 1 | Iceland | 1,50 |
| 1 | Luxembourg | 1,50 |
| 1 | Norway | 1,50 |
| 4 | Estonia | 2,00 |
| 4 | Finland | 2,00 |
| 4 | Ireland | 2,00 |
| : | : | : |
| 13 | Canada | 3,33 |
| : | : | : |
| 23 | United Kingdom | 5,50 |
| : | : | : |
| 28 | Australia | 6,25 |
| 29 | Japan | 6,50 |
| : | : | : |
| 35 | France | 7,67 |
| 36 | United States of America | 8,00 |
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2008年10月22日水曜日
格差は拡大しているか：OECD 諸国における所得分配と貧困
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// 格差は拡大しているか：OECD 諸国における所得分配と貧困
長期的に見て所得格差は拡大しているのか。所得格差の拡大で誰が得をし、誰が損をしているのか。... 本報告書はOECD 加盟先進国30 カ国を対象としたものであり、少なくとも1980 年代半ばから、おそらくは1970 年代半ばから、所得格差が拡大していることを示している。... 児童貧困率は上昇しており ... 。多くの国は政策上、児童貧困率の上昇に現在より注視する必要がある。... 格差縮小への唯一の持続可能な方法は賃金と資本所得の根本的な拡大に歯止めをかけることである。特に、人々が就職でき、自身と家族を貧困状態に陥らせないだけの賃金を稼得できるようにしなければならない。
//
// Income inequality and poverty rising in most OECD countries
21/10/2008 - The gap between rich and poor has grown in more than three-quarters of OECD countries over the past two decades, according to a new OECD report.
OECD’s Growing Unequal? finds that the economic growth of recent decades has benefitted the rich more than the poor. In some countries, such as Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway and the United States, the gap also increased between the rich and the middle-class.
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs
Social Policies > Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries
Income inequality and poverty rising (Video)
Growing Unequal? : Income Distribution and
Poverty in OECD Countries
Summary in English
Has income inequality increased over time? Who has gained and who has lost in this process? Has this process affected all OECD countries uniformly? ...This report looks at the 30 developed countries of the OECD. It shows that there has been an increase in income inequality that has gone on since at least the mid-1980s ... child poverty has increased, ... The increase in child poverty deserves more policy attention than it is currently receiving in many countries. ... The only sustainable way to reduce inequality is to stop the underlying widening of wages and income from capital. ... In particular, we have to make sure that people are capable of being in employment and earning wages that keep them and their families out of poverty.
Gap between rich, poor growing, OECD finds
BERLIN (AFP) — The gap between rich and poor has grown in most developed countries over the past 20 years, leading to an increase in child poverty, ...
'More inequality' in rich nations
The gap between rich and poor in most wealthy nations has widened, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has said. Across the 24 OECD countries where data was available, the cumulative rise in inequality was 7% over the past 20 years ...
Unequal growth, unequal recession?
A B Atkinson, Nuffield College, Oxford
Whether the burden of any recession is felt by some social groups and countries more than others depends largely on public policy. ... Small savers, as well as bankers, are affected by the financial crisis. Is it a case of “heads, the rich gain; tails, the poor lose”? ... If governments can take on the role of lender of last resort, then we should be willing to see government as the employer of last resort.
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// 格差は拡大しているか：OECD 諸国における所得分配と貧困
長期的に見て所得格差は拡大しているのか。所得格差の拡大で誰が得をし、誰が損をしているのか。... 本報告書はOECD 加盟先進国30 カ国を対象としたものであり、少なくとも1980 年代半ばから、おそらくは1970 年代半ばから、所得格差が拡大していることを示している。... 児童貧困率は上昇しており ... 。多くの国は政策上、児童貧困率の上昇に現在より注視する必要がある。... 格差縮小への唯一の持続可能な方法は賃金と資本所得の根本的な拡大に歯止めをかけることである。特に、人々が就職でき、自身と家族を貧困状態に陥らせないだけの賃金を稼得できるようにしなければならない。
//
// Income inequality and poverty rising in most OECD countries
21/10/2008 - The gap between rich and poor has grown in more than three-quarters of OECD countries over the past two decades, according to a new OECD report.
OECD’s Growing Unequal? finds that the economic growth of recent decades has benefitted the rich more than the poor. In some countries, such as Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway and the United States, the gap also increased between the rich and the middle-class.
//
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs
Social Policies > Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries
Income inequality and poverty rising (Video)
Growing Unequal? : Income Distribution and
Poverty in OECD Countries
Summary in English
Has income inequality increased over time? Who has gained and who has lost in this process? Has this process affected all OECD countries uniformly? ...This report looks at the 30 developed countries of the OECD. It shows that there has been an increase in income inequality that has gone on since at least the mid-1980s ... child poverty has increased, ... The increase in child poverty deserves more policy attention than it is currently receiving in many countries. ... The only sustainable way to reduce inequality is to stop the underlying widening of wages and income from capital. ... In particular, we have to make sure that people are capable of being in employment and earning wages that keep them and their families out of poverty.
Gap between rich, poor growing, OECD finds
BERLIN (AFP) — The gap between rich and poor has grown in most developed countries over the past 20 years, leading to an increase in child poverty, ...
'More inequality' in rich nations
The gap between rich and poor in most wealthy nations has widened, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has said. Across the 24 OECD countries where data was available, the cumulative rise in inequality was 7% over the past 20 years ...
Unequal growth, unequal recession?
A B Atkinson, Nuffield College, Oxford
Whether the burden of any recession is felt by some social groups and countries more than others depends largely on public policy. ... Small savers, as well as bankers, are affected by the financial crisis. Is it a case of “heads, the rich gain; tails, the poor lose”? ... If governments can take on the role of lender of last resort, then we should be willing to see government as the employer of last resort.
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2008年10月21日火曜日
レガタム繁栄指数
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レガタム繁栄指数で豪が１位 アジア太平洋地域上昇
民間の研究機関、レガタム研究所が毎年発表している、世界１０４カ国の「豊かさ」を測るレガタム繁栄指数で、今年はオーストラリアが第一位となった。この指数は、経済競争力と生活の質の度合いの双方から４４の指標を指数化し算出するもので、....
Accounting for Happiness: The 2008 Legatum Prosperity Index
What does it mean to prosper? Is prosperity just the accumulation of material wealth, or are there other determinants to overall well-being? Why is there a great divide in life satisfaction between Denmark and Hong Kong despite their seemingly equal levels of prosperity?
// Australia tops global prosperity index
October 15, 2008
"Strong norms or civic participation, robust health, and plenty of leisure time contribute to the high liveability ranking."
While Asian powerhouses Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong scored well economically, their livability dragged down their performance.
"True prosperity consists of more than money - it also includes happiness, health and liberty," he said.
"The Prosperity Index shows that in addition to economic success, a society's prosperity is based on strong families and communities, political and religious liberty, education and opportunity, and a healthy environment.
//
The 2008 Legatum Prosperity Index
The 2008 Legatum Prosperity Index (PDF)
"... Several Nordic countries score very well on liveability indicators, but poorly on some wealth drivers, most notably in the promotion of entrepreneurship. Many Asian countries on the other hand, score well on the economic competitiveness indicators, but have comparative weaknesses in liveability, including limited equality of opportunity for women, a degraded natural environment, and long working hours."
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レガタム繁栄指数で豪が１位 アジア太平洋地域上昇
民間の研究機関、レガタム研究所が毎年発表している、世界１０４カ国の「豊かさ」を測るレガタム繁栄指数で、今年はオーストラリアが第一位となった。この指数は、経済競争力と生活の質の度合いの双方から４４の指標を指数化し算出するもので、....
Accounting for Happiness: The 2008 Legatum Prosperity Index
What does it mean to prosper? Is prosperity just the accumulation of material wealth, or are there other determinants to overall well-being? Why is there a great divide in life satisfaction between Denmark and Hong Kong despite their seemingly equal levels of prosperity?
// Australia tops global prosperity index
October 15, 2008
"Strong norms or civic participation, robust health, and plenty of leisure time contribute to the high liveability ranking."
While Asian powerhouses Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong scored well economically, their livability dragged down their performance.
"True prosperity consists of more than money - it also includes happiness, health and liberty," he said.
"The Prosperity Index shows that in addition to economic success, a society's prosperity is based on strong families and communities, political and religious liberty, education and opportunity, and a healthy environment.
//
The 2008 Legatum Prosperity Index
The 2008 Legatum Prosperity Index (PDF)
"... Several Nordic countries score very well on liveability indicators, but poorly on some wealth drivers, most notably in the promotion of entrepreneurship. Many Asian countries on the other hand, score well on the economic competitiveness indicators, but have comparative weaknesses in liveability, including limited equality of opportunity for women, a degraded natural environment, and long working hours."
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2008年10月16日木曜日
ガンダーウェア(Gunderwear)・モデルオーディション 開催、豪空港で
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// New airport body scanners spark privacy debate
By Adrian Raschella
The Government has defended controversial new airport body scanners as safe, but prominent civil libertarian Terry O'Gorman says the technology is an invasion of privacy....
Using this technology, security officers can detect metal and plastic weapons and also they can see through your clothes....
Mr O'Gorman, who heads the Council for Civil Liberties, says the technology is a "total invasion of privacy", allowing virtual strip searches and has overstepped the mark.
... there will then be calls for it to be introduced at public malls to deal with teenagers...//
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// New airport body scanners spark privacy debate
By Adrian Raschella
The Government has defended controversial new airport body scanners as safe, but prominent civil libertarian Terry O'Gorman says the technology is an invasion of privacy....
Using this technology, security officers can detect metal and plastic weapons and also they can see through your clothes....
Mr O'Gorman, who heads the Council for Civil Liberties, says the technology is a "total invasion of privacy", allowing virtual strip searches and has overstepped the mark.
... there will then be calls for it to be introduced at public malls to deal with teenagers...//
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2008年10月9日木曜日
自分を見つけるために
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Tourism Australia's campaign by Baz Luhrmann:
"Sometimes we have to get lost to find ourselves. Sometimes we gotta go walkabout"
walkabout A temporary return to traditional Aboriginal life, taken especially between periods of work or residence in white society and usually involving a period of travel through the bush.
Walkabout is an Australian English word originally referring to the belief of non-indigenous Australians that Aboriginies were prone to "go walkabout" - a pidgin expression meaning that they would stop doing their jobs and wander through the bush for weeks at a time. This was a time of reflection and a chance to connect with nature and to rediscover one’s self.
Walkabout may be used to refer to a person's desire to travel without a planned itinerary or set destination.
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Tourism Australia's campaign by Baz Luhrmann:
"Sometimes we have to get lost to find ourselves. Sometimes we gotta go walkabout"
walkabout A temporary return to traditional Aboriginal life, taken especially between periods of work or residence in white society and usually involving a period of travel through the bush.
Walkabout is an Australian English word originally referring to the belief of non-indigenous Australians that Aboriginies were prone to "go walkabout" - a pidgin expression meaning that they would stop doing their jobs and wander through the bush for weeks at a time. This was a time of reflection and a chance to connect with nature and to rediscover one’s self.
Walkabout may be used to refer to a person's desire to travel without a planned itinerary or set destination.
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2008年10月1日水曜日
シンプルライフ
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
// Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
Mama told me when I was young
Come sit beside me, my only son ...
Take your time, dont live too fast,
Troubles will come and they will pass ...
And be a simple kind of man.
Be something you love and understand.
Be a simple kind of man.
Wont you do this for me son,
If you can?
Forget your lust for the rich mans gold
All that you need is in your soul,
And you can do this if you try.
All that I want for you my son,
Is to be satisfied....//
// Walden by Henry David Thoreau
10. Baker Farm
An honest, hard-working, but shiftless man plainly was John Field; and his wife ... told me his story, how hard he worked "bogging" for a neighboring farmer ... I tried to help him with my experience, ... that I did not use tea, nor coffee, nor butter, nor milk, nor fresh meat, and so did not have to work to get them; again, as I did not work hard, I did not have to eat hard, and it cost me but a trifle for my food; but as he began with tea, and coffee, and butter, and milk, and beef, he had to work hard to pay for them ... he was discontented and wasted his life into the bargain; and yet he had rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could get tea, and coffee, and meat every day. But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain the slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things... If he and his family would live simply, they might all go a-huckleberrying in the summer for their amusement. John heaved a sigh at this, and his wife stared with arms a-kimbo... But as I ran down the hill toward the reddening west, with the rainbow over my shoulder, and some faint tinkling sounds borne to my ear through the cleansed air, from I know not what quarter, my Good Genius seemed to say ... Let the thunder rumble; what if it threaten ruin to farmers' crops? That is not its errand to thee. Take shelter under the cloud, while they flee to carts and sheds. Let not to get a living be thy trade, but thy sport. Enjoy the land, but own it not. Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs. //
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
// Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
Mama told me when I was young
Come sit beside me, my only son ...
Take your time, dont live too fast,
Troubles will come and they will pass ...
And be a simple kind of man.
Be something you love and understand.
Be a simple kind of man.
Wont you do this for me son,
If you can?
Forget your lust for the rich mans gold
All that you need is in your soul,
And you can do this if you try.
All that I want for you my son,
Is to be satisfied....//
// Walden by Henry David Thoreau
10. Baker Farm
An honest, hard-working, but shiftless man plainly was John Field; and his wife ... told me his story, how hard he worked "bogging" for a neighboring farmer ... I tried to help him with my experience, ... that I did not use tea, nor coffee, nor butter, nor milk, nor fresh meat, and so did not have to work to get them; again, as I did not work hard, I did not have to eat hard, and it cost me but a trifle for my food; but as he began with tea, and coffee, and butter, and milk, and beef, he had to work hard to pay for them ... he was discontented and wasted his life into the bargain; and yet he had rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could get tea, and coffee, and meat every day. But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain the slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things... If he and his family would live simply, they might all go a-huckleberrying in the summer for their amusement. John heaved a sigh at this, and his wife stared with arms a-kimbo... But as I ran down the hill toward the reddening west, with the rainbow over my shoulder, and some faint tinkling sounds borne to my ear through the cleansed air, from I know not what quarter, my Good Genius seemed to say ... Let the thunder rumble; what if it threaten ruin to farmers' crops? That is not its errand to thee. Take shelter under the cloud, while they flee to carts and sheds. Let not to get a living be thy trade, but thy sport. Enjoy the land, but own it not. Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs. //
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2008年9月30日火曜日
平常心とは、造作なく、是非なく、取捨なく
| Inner Light - George Harrison | Inner Light - Jeff Lynne & Anoushka Shankar |
// Inner Light - George Harrison
Without going out of my door,
I can know all things on earth
without looking out of my window,
I can know the ways of heaven.
The farther one travels
the less one knows
the less one really knows.
Arrive without travelling,
See all without looking,
Do all without doing. //
戸を出でずして天下を知り、窓を窺わずして天道を見る。
其の出づること彌々遠ければ、其の知ること彌々少し。
是を以て聖人は行かずして知り、見ずして名かに、為さずして成る。
- 『老子道徳経』
Happiness is a chemical
OPINION: Ruth Ostrow | September 27, 2008
More real and more sustainable is contentment. As one contented person told me: “I find pleasure in simple things nowadays. My life isn’t thrilling, but it’s deeply satisfying.” Perhaps as a species we need the quest for the Holy Grail to keep us performing. But for me and many other recovering happiness junkies, the thing we most crave now is an end to the craving. Contentment is the road home.
"I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. A man who has enough to live on, if he knew how to stay with pleasure at home, would not leave it to go to sea or to besiege a town." - Pensées (1670), Blaise Pascal
人生、一分を減省すれば、すなわち一分を超脱す。
もし交遊減ずれば、すなわち紛擾を免る。
言語減ずれば、すなわち愆尤寡なし。
思慮減ずれば、すなわち精神耗せず。
聡明減ずれば、すなわち混沌完うすべし。
かの日に減ずるを求めずして、日に増すを求むるは、真にこの生を桎梏するかな。
- 『菜根譚』
学を為せば日に益し、道を為せば日に損す。
之を損し又た損して、以って無為に至る。
無為にして為さざる無し。天下を取るは常に無事を以てす。
- 『老子道徳経』
How to ... be content
Saturday September 27 2008
Happiness is a fine marmalade but contentment is a citrus grove. Children are naturally content because they don't know any different. It's the knowledge of difference that breeds discontent and it's when you finally realise that difference makes no difference that you can reclaim contentment. ...It may sound dull, but being content is a profoundly radical position. It means you have no outstanding needs that other people, events or corporations can satisfy. You can't be manipulated, corrupted, conned, heartbroken or sold unnecessary insurance policies. ...Being happy with your lot seems to be the essence of contentment. ...Restless discontent is often held up as the great wellspring of personal and artistic progress. ... It's worth remembering your lot can quite easily be an epic struggle against overwhelming odds but, even if it is, you can still be content with it.
春、百花あり。秋、月あり。
夏、涼風あり。冬、雪あり。
もし閑事の心頭に挂ることなくんば、
すなわち是れ人間の好時節。
- 『無門關』
「平常心是道」（へいじょうしんこれどう）:
若し直ちに其の道を会せんと欲すれば、平常心是れ道たり。
何をか平常心と謂わん。
造作なく、是非なく、取捨なく、断常なく、凡なく聖なきなり。
維摩経に云う、凡夫行に非ず、聖賢行に非ず、是れ菩薩行なり、
と。只だ如今の行住坐臥、応機接物、尽く是れ道たり。
- 馬祖道一禅師 (709年 - 788年)
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2008年9月29日月曜日
スローライフ 、スローデザイン
| Days - Jon Anderson | Take Your Time - Jon Anderson |
Eko-Laborative Fashion Week Exhibit
"Eko-Laborative was a fine example of slow design ..."
根気よく育てた家具や椅子:
● Plantware
● grown furniture
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"Short-Haired, Yellow-Bellied, Son Of Tricky Dicky"
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// Just Gimme Some Truth - John Lennon
Im sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
I've had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope ... //
救済案に反対するデモ活動 :
"People Over Profit"
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// Just Gimme Some Truth - John Lennon
Im sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
I've had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope ... //
救済案に反対するデモ活動 :
"People Over Profit"
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2008年9月24日水曜日
2008 腐敗認識指数を発表した
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Iggy Pop - Corruption
Transparency International
23 September 2008
2008 CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX
Persistently high corruption in low-income countries amounts to an “ongoing humanitarian disaster”
Against a backdrop of continued corporate scandal, wealthy countries backsliding too
Complete list ....
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Iggy Pop - Corruption
Transparency International
23 September 2008
2008 CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX
Persistently high corruption in low-income countries amounts to an “ongoing humanitarian disaster”
Against a backdrop of continued corporate scandal, wealthy countries backsliding too
| 2008 CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX (Top 20) | ||||
| country rank | country | 2008 CPI score | surveys used | confidence range |
| 1 | Denmark | 9,3 | 6 | 9.1 - 9.4 |
| 1 | New Zealand | 9,3 | 6 | 9.2 - 9.5 |
| 1 | Sweden | 9,3 | 6 | 9.2 - 9.4 |
| 4 | Singapore | 9,2 | 9 | 9.0 - 9.3 |
| 5 | Finland | 9,0 | 6 | 8.4 - 9.4 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 9,0 | 6 | 8.7 - 9.2 |
| 7 | Iceland | 8,9 | 5 | 8.1 - 9.4 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 8,9 | 6 | 8.5 - 9.1 |
| 9 | Australia | 8,7 | 8 | 8.2 - 9.1 |
| 9 | Canada | 8,7 | 6 | 8.4 - 9.1 |
| 11 | Luxembourg | 8,3 | 6 | 7.8 - 8.8 |
| 12 | Austria | 8,1 | 6 | 7.6 - 8.6 |
| 12 | Hong Kong | 8,1 | 8 | 7.5 - 8.6 |
| 14 | Germany | 7,9 | 6 | 7.5 - 8.2 |
| 14 | Norway | 7,9 | 6 | 7.5 - 8.3 |
| 16 | Ireland | 7,7 | 6 | 7.5 - 7.9 |
| 16 | United Kingdom | 7,7 | 6 | 7.2 - 8.1 |
| 18 | Belgium | 7,3 | 6 | 7.2 - 7.4 |
| 18 | Japan | 7,3 | 8 | 7.0 - 7.6 |
| 18 | USA | 7,3 | 8 | 6.7 - 7.7 |
Complete list ....
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2008年9月22日月曜日
保守派は簡単に驚く
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Dir en Grey - Agitated Screams Of Maggots
"our political views may be an integral part of our physical makeup"
18 September 2008
By Matt McGrath
Science reporter, BBC World Service
"... physiological responses to a series of images and sounds ... people who are sensitive to fear or threat are likely to support a right wing agenda .... were more easily startled ... these political positions were protective of the volunteers' social groups"
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Dir en Grey - Agitated Screams Of Maggots
"our political views may be an integral part of our physical makeup"
18 September 2008
By Matt McGrath
Science reporter, BBC World Service
"... physiological responses to a series of images and sounds ... people who are sensitive to fear or threat are likely to support a right wing agenda .... were more easily startled ... these political positions were protective of the volunteers' social groups"
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2008年9月20日土曜日
「宇宙の支配者」
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HAWKWIND - Master Of The Universe
// Science unveils hidden drivers of stock bubbles and crashes
Sep 19, 2008
"In standard economic theory, ... This way of looking at things is almost completely wrong..."
"The 'Master of the Universe' really does believe in his own invincibility," Mr Tuckett said.
"Even though many of the traders I interviewed told me 'this boom can't go on forever', they kept on investing in it."// - AFP
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HAWKWIND - Master Of The Universe
// Science unveils hidden drivers of stock bubbles and crashes
Sep 19, 2008
"In standard economic theory, ... This way of looking at things is almost completely wrong..."
"The 'Master of the Universe' really does believe in his own invincibility," Mr Tuckett said.
"Even though many of the traders I interviewed told me 'this boom can't go on forever', they kept on investing in it."// - AFP
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2008年9月19日金曜日
『格差はつくられた』と「史上最大の企業救済劇」
| 岡林信康 山谷ブルース 1968 | 岡林信康 山谷ブルース 2008 |
Author analyses consequences of deregulation
18 September , 2008
MARK COLVIN: The Canadian writer Ronald Wright, whose latest book is "What is America?" says the current financial crisis has roots deep in the last decade of deregulation.
A world of inequality
September 18 2008
As economies slow down, people in the developing world who did not gain from the boom will face deteriorating conditions.... Contrary to general perception, most people in the developing world did not gain from that boom.
Exploiting Poverty Caused The Financial Crisis
September 18, 2008
But instead of prioritizing poor and even middle class families who are increasingly struggling, our government is spending billions and billions to bail out the Wall Street firms that created this crisis. Instead, we should be spending our taxpayer money to help the families who were taken advantage of in the "anything goes" unregulated financial system that years of misguided never-really-did-trickle-down economic policy created.
Wall St rallies, Bush vows more action
Sep 19, 2008
Wall Street staged its biggest one-day rally in six years overnight as US President George W Bush vowed his administration would meet the challenges of the global financial crisis and the US Federal Reserve injected $US180 billion ($224 billion) into the banking system.
Socialism: Brought to You by the Republican Party
September 17, 2008
Why won't anyone (anyone!) among our nation's leaders call this government bailout business what it is -- corporate socialism?
「法人社会主義」－－ 利潤の私有化、リスクと違法行為の社会化－－は、資本主義的規範を消滅させつつある。
McCain Says U.S. Should Let AIG Fail to Prevent `Moral Hazard'
By Nancy Moran
Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential nominee John McCain said the U.S. government should let American International Group Inc. fail to prevent the financial burden from being placed on taxpayers.
House Republicans Criticize U.S. Action on Crisis (Update3)
By Brian Faler
Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- ...``These massive federal bailouts have exposed taxpayers to literally tens of billions of dollars of new risk,'' and created a ``moral hazard where companies are absolved, not punished, for excessive risk taking,'' the letter said.
Bailout raises moral issues
By ROBERT J. SHILLER
Sept. 15, 2008
... Is it fair that innocent taxpayers must now pay for their mistakes? ... The world is discovering capitalism and its power to transform economies. But capitalism relies on good faith. A perception of unfair treatment can be deadly to economic growth, because it means that people will lose trust in businesses, and hence be less willing to offer to them their precious capital and labor. Is that outcome morally superior to a bailout?
米貧困層１２.５％へ増加、無保険率は１５.３％へ減少 ２００７年米国民所得状況
2008.8.27
米国勢調査局が２６日発表した２００７年の米国民の所得状況の報告書によると、貧困層は３７２７万６０００人と前年の３６４６万人から増加した。全人口に占める貧困率は１２.５％と前年の１２.３％から微増した。
Where’s the Prosperity?
Published: August 26, 2008
A closer look confirms what Americans already know: most families reaped none of the benefits of the previous six years of solid economic growth. Median household income last year was still 0.6 percent less than it was in 2000 ... The number of people living under the poverty line rose by 5.7 million since 2000, to 12.5 percent of the population. And the number of impoverished children increased to 18 percent.... What is clear is that economic growth alone will not cut it for most American families. The benefits must be shared more broadly. This means more progressive taxation, increasing access to affordable health care, investing more in public education.
// 今週の本棚：伊東光晴・評 『格差はつくられた』＝ポール・クルーグマン著
一九二〇年代の大きな不平等社会を是正するのは、ルーズベルト治下の税制の改革が第一である。二〇年代の所得税の最高税率二四％が、何と六三％、ついで七九％へと引上げられた。この流れは戦後もつづいた。法人税も二九年の一四％から五五年の四五％へ、相続税もしかりである、と。
不平等を是正した第二の要因として、クルーグマンがあげるのは、ニューディール政策による労働組合の権限拡大であり、第三は戦中の賃金統制による賃金格差の是正である。。。。
。。。。レーガンは巧みに差別感情を利用し、煽（あお）り、選択の自由、市場原理主義をかかげ、政権につくと、高額所得者の税率を大きく下げ、労働組合の力を抑える。最低賃金で生活する人は拡大し、大きな不平等と格差社会がつくられていく。
本書の原題は「リベラル派の良心」であり、。。。//
Most rich nations stagnant or near recession - IMF
Fri Sep 19, 2008
Wall Street crisis raises questions over IMF inaction
The International Monetary Fund has in the past been accused of treating rich countries with kid gloves. Its critics had a point
Mark Tran
guardian.co.uk,
Thursday September 18 2008
CBI predicts 'shallow recession' and 2m jobless
By Sean O'Grady, Economics Editor
Monday, 15 September 2008
Canadian economy faces further challenges despite dodging brunt of U.S. troubles
TORONTO — The American economy has been battered and left bleeding from scuffles with the credit crunch and a bout with subprime mortgages but so far its Canadian cousin has walked away with only some scratches and bruises.
In hard times, tent cities rise across the country
By Evelyn Nieves
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Posted 19 September 2008
Nearly 61 percent of local and state homeless coalitions say they've experienced a rise in homelessness since the foreclosure crisis began in 2007, according to a report by the National Coalition for the Homeless. The group says the problem has worsened since the report's release in April, with foreclosures mounting, gas and food prices rising and the job market tightening. "It's clear that poverty and homelessness have increased," said Michael Stoops, acting executive director of the coalition.
Fear shrivels US
Geoffrey Garrett
September 19, 2008
The halcyon days of high-paying, secure jobs in steel, automobiles and other American manufacturing industries are long gone. It is no surprise that the immediate reaction of the candidates to this week's bloodbath has been to rail against the Bush administration as aiding and abetting the gargantuan excesses of the super elite gambling away the country's hard-earned money on the Wall Street casino.
社説：米国発金融危機 日本は緊急施策の見直しを
毎日新聞 2008年9月18日
大手金融機関が経営破綻（はたん）や政府による救済にまで立ち至った米国の金融危機は、日本経済にも悪影響を及ぼす。。。。米国経済が金融危機の影響でより不況色が強まれば、日本は輸出の減少のみならず、海外需要を当てにしてきた民間設備投資の停滞も深くなる。企業業績が悪化すれば勤労者の賃金も伸び悩み、個人消費も抑えられる。
Billy Joel-Allentown
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2008年9月18日木曜日
貧困を観光産業化し、スラム街を奥地・秘境にする
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Slum tours: a day trip too far?
May 7 2006
A new travel experience gives visitors a glimpse into the harsh lives of Delhi's street children. But is it a worthy initiative or just an example of voyeuristic 'poorism', asks Amelia Gentleman
Poverty tourism: A dose of reality
Guides explain the concept—and how to find an excursion right for you
Feb. 4, 2008
While the critics of so-called "poverty tourism" say that it exploits people, turning neighborhoods into zoos, the tours' organizers argue that it can raise awareness about poverty, fight stereotypes, and bring money into areas that don't benefit from tourism. ... Good intentions aren't always enough, however, and these excursions should be approached with sensitivity.
Poorism? What Is Inequality Coming To?
Posted March 11, 2008 | 03:46 PM (EST)
It says something about the extremities of inequality in our world when rich people are now paying money to take tours of poor people.
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Slum tours: a day trip too far?
May 7 2006
A new travel experience gives visitors a glimpse into the harsh lives of Delhi's street children. But is it a worthy initiative or just an example of voyeuristic 'poorism', asks Amelia Gentleman
Poverty tourism: A dose of reality
Guides explain the concept—and how to find an excursion right for you
Feb. 4, 2008
While the critics of so-called "poverty tourism" say that it exploits people, turning neighborhoods into zoos, the tours' organizers argue that it can raise awareness about poverty, fight stereotypes, and bring money into areas that don't benefit from tourism. ... Good intentions aren't always enough, however, and these excursions should be approached with sensitivity.
Poorism? What Is Inequality Coming To?
Posted March 11, 2008 | 03:46 PM (EST)
It says something about the extremities of inequality in our world when rich people are now paying money to take tours of poor people.
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貧困と格差、マスコミが取り上げない話題
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UK news media ignores the realities of poverty according to Joseph Rowntree study
10 September 2008
Poverty and the effects of economic exclusion are largely ignored by the UK news media according to a new report by a major research charity. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation today releases a study showing that poverty is only a marginal issue in the news and that journalists rarely explore the causes or consequences.
A poor show on UK poverty
September 15 2008
... not, he said, "a Sunday-morning read". The pictures did not show a place "where I would want to go for a Sunday-morning walk".... being indifferent to poverty.... The media's attitudes are well illustrated by coverage of a recent report from the World Health Organisation. It concluded that "social injustice is killing people on a grand scale".
The media, poverty and public opinion in the UK
This report analyses how the media reports UK poverty and its impact on public understanding and opinion.
Publication date: 10 September 2008
Published by: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
PDF File size: 0.38MB
Poverty is UK's hidden child killer
August 24 2008
Government has failed to tackle the epidemic of chronic illness and early deaths among the most disadvantaged in society, says a new report
Poverty triples likelihood of mental health problems
Children from disadvantaged families are three times more likely to suffer from mental health problems than those from wealthier families, according to new research.
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UK news media ignores the realities of poverty according to Joseph Rowntree study
10 September 2008
Poverty and the effects of economic exclusion are largely ignored by the UK news media according to a new report by a major research charity. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation today releases a study showing that poverty is only a marginal issue in the news and that journalists rarely explore the causes or consequences.
A poor show on UK poverty
September 15 2008
... not, he said, "a Sunday-morning read". The pictures did not show a place "where I would want to go for a Sunday-morning walk".... being indifferent to poverty.... The media's attitudes are well illustrated by coverage of a recent report from the World Health Organisation. It concluded that "social injustice is killing people on a grand scale".
The media, poverty and public opinion in the UK
This report analyses how the media reports UK poverty and its impact on public understanding and opinion.
Publication date: 10 September 2008
Published by: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
PDF File size: 0.38MB
Poverty is UK's hidden child killer
August 24 2008
Government has failed to tackle the epidemic of chronic illness and early deaths among the most disadvantaged in society, says a new report
Poverty triples likelihood of mental health problems
Children from disadvantaged families are three times more likely to suffer from mental health problems than those from wealthier families, according to new research.
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2008年9月9日火曜日
百千万億劫 ... Bang! 小千世界、中千世界、大千世界 ... 三千大千世界だわね
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"When it comes to atoms, language can only be used as in poetry. The poet, too, is not so concerned with describing facts as with creating images" - Niels Bohr
And when it comes to LHC (Large Hadron Collider), language can be used as in Hip-Hop. The rapper, with her percussive verses, is as concerned with describing facts as with creating images:D
欧州合同素粒子原子核研究機構は9月10日に世界最大出力の粒子加速器「大型ハドロン衝突型加速器(LHC)」を稼働させます。
Next Stop: The Fourth Dimension, With Large Hadron Collider Experiments
How did the universe come to be? ... Can science prove that there are other dimensions? ... The notion of new dimensions is stranger than science fiction, though the possibility of their existence is quite real. Prof. Etzion believes that other dimensions may exist in parallel to ours, but that -- until now -- they were too small for us to experimentally detect. “For the first time we will reach a new energy scale in our lab, the Tera electron volt regime, and we expect to discover new phenomena there,” he says. “At such high energies, we may be able to stimulate particles to jump through dimensions and can measure this by the disappearance of mass or energy, or the appearance of new excited state towers of particles.” Prof. Etzion’s research falls within a branch of theoretical physics known as string theory.
Fingers Crossed, Physicists Are Ready for Collider to Roll
The collider, 14 years and $8 billion in the making, is the most expensive scientific experiment to date. Thousands of physicists from dozens of countries have been involved in building the collider and its huge particle detectors. It is designed to accelerate protons to energies of seven trillion electron volts — seven times the energy of the next largest machine in the world, Fermilab’s Tevatron — and smash them together.... At stake is a suite of theories called the Standard Model, which explains all of particle physics to date, but which breaks down at the conditions that existed in the earliest moments of the universe. The new collider will eventually reach temperatures and energies equivalent to those at a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. There are many theories about what will happen, including the emergence of a particle known as the Higgs boson, which is hypothesized to endow other particles with mass, or the identity of the mysterious dark matter that provides the invisible scaffolding of galaxies and the cosmos. But nobody really knows for sure, which is part of the fun ... The whole world will be watching.
BBC - Big Bang Day
Radio 4 joins CERN on 10 September 2008 as scientists attempt to discover more about the origins of the Universe by recreating the aftermath of the Big Bang.
'Will the Collider be able to prove to scientists that many other dimensions exist as well as ours?'
'What are the possibilities of multiple Big Bangs creating multiple parallel universes?'
BBC > Atom: The Illusion of Reality
The final part of Professor Jim Al-Khalili's documentary series about the basic building block of our universe, the atom. He explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself, discovers how there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist and finds out that 'empty' space isn't empty at all. Al-Khalili shows how the world we think we know turns out to be a tiny sliver of an infinitely weirder universe than which we could have conceived.
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"When it comes to atoms, language can only be used as in poetry. The poet, too, is not so concerned with describing facts as with creating images" - Niels Bohr
And when it comes to LHC (Large Hadron Collider), language can be used as in Hip-Hop. The rapper, with her percussive verses, is as concerned with describing facts as with creating images:D
欧州合同素粒子原子核研究機構は9月10日に世界最大出力の粒子加速器「大型ハドロン衝突型加速器(LHC)」を稼働させます。
Next Stop: The Fourth Dimension, With Large Hadron Collider Experiments
How did the universe come to be? ... Can science prove that there are other dimensions? ... The notion of new dimensions is stranger than science fiction, though the possibility of their existence is quite real. Prof. Etzion believes that other dimensions may exist in parallel to ours, but that -- until now -- they were too small for us to experimentally detect. “For the first time we will reach a new energy scale in our lab, the Tera electron volt regime, and we expect to discover new phenomena there,” he says. “At such high energies, we may be able to stimulate particles to jump through dimensions and can measure this by the disappearance of mass or energy, or the appearance of new excited state towers of particles.” Prof. Etzion’s research falls within a branch of theoretical physics known as string theory.
Fingers Crossed, Physicists Are Ready for Collider to Roll
The collider, 14 years and $8 billion in the making, is the most expensive scientific experiment to date. Thousands of physicists from dozens of countries have been involved in building the collider and its huge particle detectors. It is designed to accelerate protons to energies of seven trillion electron volts — seven times the energy of the next largest machine in the world, Fermilab’s Tevatron — and smash them together.... At stake is a suite of theories called the Standard Model, which explains all of particle physics to date, but which breaks down at the conditions that existed in the earliest moments of the universe. The new collider will eventually reach temperatures and energies equivalent to those at a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. There are many theories about what will happen, including the emergence of a particle known as the Higgs boson, which is hypothesized to endow other particles with mass, or the identity of the mysterious dark matter that provides the invisible scaffolding of galaxies and the cosmos. But nobody really knows for sure, which is part of the fun ... The whole world will be watching.
BBC - Big Bang Day
Radio 4 joins CERN on 10 September 2008 as scientists attempt to discover more about the origins of the Universe by recreating the aftermath of the Big Bang.
'Will the Collider be able to prove to scientists that many other dimensions exist as well as ours?'
'What are the possibilities of multiple Big Bangs creating multiple parallel universes?'
BBC > Atom: The Illusion of Reality
The final part of Professor Jim Al-Khalili's documentary series about the basic building block of our universe, the atom. He explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself, discovers how there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist and finds out that 'empty' space isn't empty at all. Al-Khalili shows how the world we think we know turns out to be a tiny sliver of an infinitely weirder universe than which we could have conceived.
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2008年8月31日日曜日
健康格差は 不健全な社会政策や経済的な不公平など
| Time for Change - Motley Crue | Time And A Word - YES |
// Inequities are killing people on a "grand scale" reports WHO's Commission
"(The) toxic combination of bad policies, economics, and politics is, in large measure responsible for the fact that a majority of people in the world do not enjoy the good health that is biologically possible"
"Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale."
INEQUITIES WITHIN COUNTRIES
Health inequities – unfair, unjust and avoidable causes of ill health – have long been measured between countries but the Commission documents "health gradients" within countries as well.
WEALTH IS NOT NECESSARILY A DETERMINANT
Economic growth is raising incomes in many countries but increasing national wealth alone does not necessarily increase national health. Without equitable distribution of benefits, national growth can even exacerbate inequities.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Based on this compelling evidence, the Commission makes three overarching recommendations to tackle the "corrosive effects of inequality of life chances":
* Improve daily living conditions, including the circumstances in which people are born, grow, live, work and age.
* Tackle the inequitable distribution of power, money and resources – the structural drivers of those conditions – globally, nationally and locally.
* Measure and understand the problem and assess the impact of action.
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2008年8月16日土曜日
ヒッピー・ヒッピー・シェーク
| Hippy Hippy Shake - Chan Romero | Hippy Hippy Shake - Swinging Blue Jeans |
Hippie Hippie Shake (2008)
Plot: An account of counterculturalist Richard Neville's ....
// The Push
.... Anti-authoritarian, anti-elitist, anti-careerist and anti-censorship, these men and women chose an eccentric lifestyle that united social and political criticism with drinking, gambling, sex and anarchy....
Key members of the Push
Reflecting a general aversion to ambition and career success, many of the figures in The Push are names that are not well recognised in Australia or internationally.
Oz magazine was launched in 1963 .... Richard Neville and Richard Walsh were its editors and renowned Australian designer Martin Sharp did many of the graphics. Many of the contributors to Oz were part of the Sydney Push ....
The group shared an anti-authoritarian stance with anarchists. However, they were critical of utopian ideals (ideals founded on a belief in an imaginary perfection) within anarchy that looked toward a future 'free' society. Libertarians were more interested in the here and now. They rejected the values of family, sobriety, authority and work put forward by the Menzies government of the time. However, they did not align themselves with either the Labor or the Communist parties. ... like most baby boomers, the Push members were young and optimistic, jobs were plentiful, intellectual curiosity was encouraged in universities and more people were seeking a 'bohemian' lifestyle.
// (source: The Push - Australia's Culture Portal)
Oz Magazine (1963-1973)
In Australia, the editors - Richard Neville, Richard Walsh, and Martin Sharp - were charged under obscenity laws. In England, Neville, Felix Dennis, and Jim Anderson were put on trial for corrupting public morals. ... The London editions of Oz magazine (1967-1973) ...
London OZ (January 1967 - November 1973)
A Rough Guide to OZ and Some Stuff Therein ...
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