元総務官僚の小西議員、ＮＨＫとフジテレビについて「喧嘩を売るとはいい度胸だ」

　立憲民主党の小西洋之参院議員は２９日、憲法審査会を巡る自身の発言を報じたＮＨＫとフジテレビについて、「（総務省）元放送政策課課長補佐に 喧嘩けんか を売るとはいい度胸だ」とツイッターに投稿した。「ＮＨＫとフジテレビに対し、放送法などあらゆる手段を講じて、報道姿勢の改善を求めたい」とも書き込んだ。 小西洋之議員 　小西氏は元総務官僚。参院予算委員会では、総務省の行政文書を元に、政府が放送法の解釈を変更してテレビ局に圧力をかけようとしたなどと批判していた。 　自民党幹部は「言っていることとやっていることが真逆だ。報道の自由を巡って批判していた人の言葉とは思えない」と述べた。 https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/20230331-OYT1T50071/

'A good day for Europe's energy transition': EU negotiators reach deal to double renewables by 2030

'A good day for Europe's energy transition': EU negotiators reach deal to double renewables by 2030 https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/03/30/a-good-day-for-europes-energy-transition-eu-negotiators-reach-deal-to-double-renewables-by European Union member states and members of the European Parliament on Thursday reached an agreement to double the production of renewables across the bloc by the end of the decade. Under the provisional deal reached shortly around 07:00 CET following overnight negotiations, the share of renewable energy in the EU's overall energy consumption will need to be 42.5% by 2030 with an additional "aspirational" 2.5% top-up in a bid to reach 45%. In 2021, renewable energy represented 21.8 % of energy consumed in the EU, according to Eurostat. The new binding target set in the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) is below the 45% asked by MEPs but above member states' preferred 40% and ups the current target in vigour by just over 10 percentage points. ,,,, The new rules, which are part of the Fit for 55 package presented in summer 2021 to speed up the energy transition and slash EU emissions by 55% by 2030, now have to be formally approved by member states and by the entire European Parliament.

Xi Jinping Says He Is Preparing China for War

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/print/node/1130106 Xi Jinping Says He Is Preparing China for War The World Should Take Him Seriously BY JOHN POMFRET AND MATT POTTINGER March 29, 2023 JOHN POMFRET, former Beijing Bureau Chief for The Washington Post, is the author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present. MATT POTTINGER is Chair of the China program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. From 2019 to 2021, he served as Deputy National Security Adviser. Chinese leader Xi Jinping says he is preparing for war. At the annual meeting of China’s parliament and its top political advisory body in March, Xi wove the theme of war readiness through four separate speeches, in one instance telling his generals to “dare to fight.” His government also announced a 7.2 percent increase in China’s defense budget, which has doubled over the last decade, as well as plans to make the country less dependent on foreign grain imports. And in recent months, Beijing has unveiled new military readiness laws, new air-raid shelters in cities across the strait from Taiwan, and new “National Defense Mobilization” offices countrywide. It is too early to say for certain what these developments mean. Conflict is not certain or imminent. But something has changed in Beijing that policymakers and business leaders worldwide cannot afford to ignore. If Xi says he is readying for war, it would be foolish not to take him at his word. WEEPING GHOSTS, QUAKING ENEMIES The first sign that this year’s meetings of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference—known as the “two-sessions” because both bodies meet simultaneously—might not be business as usual came on March 1, when the top theoretical journal of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) published an essay titled “Under the Guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army, We Will Advance Victoriously.” The essay appeared under the name “Jun Zheng”—a homonym for “military government” that possibly refers to China’s top military body, the Central Military Commission—and argued that “the modernization of national defense and the military must be accelerated.” It also called for an intensification of Military-Civil Fusion, Xi’s policy requiring private companies and civilian institutions to serve China’s military modernization effort. And riffing off a speech that Xi made to Chinse military leaders in October 2022, it made lightly veiled jabs at the United States: In the face of wars that may be imposed on us, we must speak to enemies in a language they understand and use victory to win peace and respect. In the new era, the People’s Army insists on using force to stop fighting. . . . Our army is famous for being good at fighting and having a strong fighting spirit. With millet and rifles, it defeated the Kuomintang army equipped with American equipment. It defeated the world’s number one enemy armed to the teeth on the Korean battlefield, and performed mighty and majestic battle dramas that shocked the world and caused ghosts and gods to weep. Even before the essay’s publication, there were indications that Chinese leaders could be planning for a possible conflict. In December, Beijing promulgated a new law that would enable the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to more easily activate its reserve forces and institutionalize a system for replenishing combat troops in the event of war. Such measures, as the analysts Lyle Goldstein and Nathan Waechter have noted, suggest that Xi may have drawn lessons about military mobilization from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s failures in Ukraine. The law governing military reservists is not the only legal change that hints at Beijing’s preparations. In February, the top deliberative body of the National People’s Congress adopted the Decision on Adjusting the Application of Certain Provisions of the [Chinese] Criminal Procedure Law to the Military During Wartime, which, according to the state-run People’s Daily, gives the Central Military Commission the power to adjust legal provisions, including “jurisdiction, defense and representation, compulsory measures, case filings, investigation, prosecution, trial, and the implementation of sentences.” Although it is impossible to predict how the decision will be used, it could become a weapon to target individuals who oppose a takeover of Taiwan. The PLA might also use it to claim legal jurisdiction over a potentially occupied territory, such as Taiwan. Or Beijing could use it to compel Chinese citizens to support its decisions during wartime. Since December, the Chinese government has also opened a slew of National Defense Mobilization offices—or recruitment centers—across the country, including in Beijing, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Shanghai, Sichuan, Tibet, and Wuhan. At the same time, cities in Fujian Province, across the strait from Taiwan, have begun building or upgrading air-raid shelters and at least one “wartime emergency hospital,” according to Chinese state media. In March, Fujian and several cities in the province began preventing overseas IP addresses from accessing government websites, possibly to impede tracking of China’s preparations for war. XI’S INNER VLAD If these developments hint at a shift in Beijing’s thinking, the two-sessions meetings in early March all but confirmed one. Among the proposals discussed by the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference—the advisory body—was a plan to create a blacklist of pro-independence activists and political leaders in Taiwan. Tabled by the popular ultranationalist blogger Zhou Xiaoping, the plan would authorize the assassination of blacklisted individuals—including Taiwan’s vice president, William Lai Ching-te—if they do not reform their ways. Zhou later told the Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao that his proposal had been accepted by the conference and “relayed to relevant authorities for evaluation and consideration.” Proposals like Zhou’s do not come by accident. In 2014, Xi praised Zhou for the “positive energy” of his jeremiads against Taiwan and the United States. Also at the two-sessions meetings, outgoing Premier Li Keqiang announced a military budget of 1.55 trillion yuan (roughly $224.8 billion) for 2023, a 7.2 percent increase from last year. Li, too, called for heightened “preparations for war.” Western experts have long believed that China underreports its defense expenditures. In 2021, for instance, Beijing claimed it spent $209 billion on defense, but the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute put the true figure at $293.4 billion. Even the official Chinese figure exceeds the military spending of all the Pacific treaty allies of the United States combined (Australia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand), and it is a safe bet China is spending substantially more than it says. But the most telling moments of the two-sessions meetings, perhaps unsurprisingly, involved Xi himself. The Chinese leader gave four speeches in all—one to delegates of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, two to the National People’s Congress, and one to military and paramilitary leaders. In them, he described a bleak geopolitical landscape, singled out the United States as China’s adversary, exhorted private businesses to serve China’s military and strategic aims, and reiterated that he sees uniting Taiwan and the mainland as vital to the success of his signature policy to achieve “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese ethnos.” In his first speech on March 6, Xi appeared to be girding China’s industrial base for struggle and conflict. “In the coming period, the risks and challenges we face will only increase and become more severe,” he warned. “Only when all the people think in one place, work hard in one place, help each other in the same boat, unite as one, dare to fight, and be good at fighting, can they continue to win new and greater victories.” To help the CCP achieve these “greater victories,” he vowed to “correctly guide” private businesses to invest in projects that the state has prioritized. Xi also blasted the United States directly in his speech, breaking his practice of not naming Washington as an adversary except in historical contexts. He described the United States and its allies as leading causes of China’s current problems. “Western countries headed by the United States have implemented containment from all directions, encirclement and suppression against us, which has brought unprecedented severe challenges to our country’s development,” he said. Whereas U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has emphasized “guardrails” and other means of slowing the deterioration of U.S.-China relations, Beijing is clearly preparing for a new, more confrontational era. On March 5, Xi gave a second speech laying out a vision of Chinese self-sufficiency that went considerably further than any of his previous discussions of the topic, saying China’s march to modernization is contingent on breaking technological dependence on foreign economies—meaning the United States and other industrialized democracies. Xi also said that he wants China to end its reliance on imports of grain and manufactured goods. “In case we’re short of either, the international market will not protect us,” Xi declared. Li, the outgoing premier, emphasized the same point in his annual government “work report” on the same day, saying Beijing must “unremittingly keep the rice bowls of more than 1.4 billion Chinese people firmly in their own hands.” China currently depends on imports for more than a third of its net food consumption. In his third speech, on March 8 to representatives from the PLA and the People’s Armed Police, Xi declared that China must focus its innovation efforts on bolstering national defense and establish a network of national reserve forces that could be tapped in wartime. Xi also called for a “National Defense Education” campaign to unite society behind the PLA, invoking as inspiration the Double Support Movement, a 1943 campaign by the Communists to militarize society in their base area of Yan’an. In his fourth speech (and his first as a third-term president), on March 13, Xi announced that the “essence” of his great rejuvenation campaign was “the unification of the motherland.” Although he has hinted at the connection between absorbing Taiwan and his much-vaunted campaign to, essentially, make China great again, he has rarely if ever done so with such clarity. TAKING XI SERIOUSLY One thing that is clear a decade into Xi’s rule is that it is important to take him seriously—something that many U.S. analysts regrettably do not do. When Xi launched a series of aggressive campaigns against corruption, private enterprise, financial institutions, and the property and tech sectors, many analysts predicted that these campaigns would be short-lived. But they endured. The same was true of Xi’s draconian “zero COVID” policy for three years—until he was uncharacteristically forced to reverse course in late 2022. Xi is now intensifying a decadelong campaign to break key economic and technological dependencies on the U.S.-led democratic world. He is doing so in anticipation of a new phase of ideological and geostrategic “struggle,” as he puts it. His messaging about war preparation and his equating of national rejuvenation with unification mark a new phase in his political warfare campaign to intimidate Taiwan. He is clearly willing to use force to take the island. What remains unclear is whether he thinks he can do so without risking uncontrolled escalation with the United States. Copyright © 2023 by the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. All rights reserved. To request permission to distribute or reprint this article, please visit ForeignAffairs.com/Permissions. Source URL: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/xi-jinping-says-he-preparing-china-war

TESLA SALES FIGURES

TESLA SALES FIGURES 2013 22,442 2014 31,655 2015 50,792 2016 75,890 2017 103,014 2018 245,491 2019 367,656 2020 499,647 2021 936,222 2022 1,313,851 https://www.investing.com/academy/statistics/tesla-facts/#:~:text=Tesla%20has%20sold%201%2C917%2C450%20units,more%20than%201%20million%20sales.

EU、35年以降もエンジン車販売容認 合成燃料利用で (Nikkei.com)

EU、35年以降もエンジン車販売容認　合成燃料利用で ヨーロッパ 2023年3月25日 19:41 (2023年3月25日 22:39更新) [有料会員限定] 【フランクフルト=林英樹】欧州連合（EU）の欧州委員会とドイツ政府は25日、2035年以降も条件付きでガソリン車など内燃機関車の新車販売を認めることで合意したと明らかにした。温暖化ガスを排出しない合成燃料を使う場合に限り販売を認める。電気自動車（EV）化で先陣を切ったEUの政策方針が大きく転換する。 欧州委員会のティメルマンス上級副委員長は25日「自動車における合成燃料の将来的な使用について、ド... https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOGR252US0V20C23A3000000/ BERLIN (AP) — Germany and the European Union announced Saturday that they have reached an agreement in their dispute over the future of cars with combustion engines, allowing the registration of new vehicles with such engines even after 2035 provided they use climate-neutral fuel only. https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/germany-eu-reach-agreement-in-combustion-engine-row

Populism is not a democracy

https://japantoday.com/category/politics/south-korea-to-restore-japan's-trade-status-to-improve-ties Populism is not a democracy. He was chosen by Korean votes, a democratic process, to be the leader of Korean Government for 5-year-term. Unlike many of his predecessors, he does not seem to succumb to populism, such as anti-Japanese sentiments, to popup his popularity ratings. He seems genuinely thinking about a long term benefits of Korean people. He seems to have a strong intent to be judged by history, not by temparment of mass emotions. ポピュリズムは民主主義ではありません。 彼は、民主的なプロセスである韓国の投票によって、韓国政府の 5 年任期の指導者に選ばれました。 彼の前任者の多くとは異なり、彼は反日感情などのポピュリズムに屈して、人気率を急上昇させたようには見えません。 彼は、韓国人の長期的な利益について真剣に考えているようです。 彼は、大衆の感情の気まぐれではなく、歴史によって判断されたいという強い意図を持っているようです。

株主の義務は、引き受けた株式の価額を出資することだけであり、その他の義務は一切負わない。

株主の義務は、引き受けた株式の価額を出資することだけであり、その他の義務は一切負わない。

California Solar Mandate

In 2018, California mandated that new single-family homes, as well as multi-family dwellings up to three stories high, must include solar panels starting in 2020. A second mandate was also voted into law, requiring new commercial buildings to have solar panels and battery storage as well. This mandate will be enforced at the beginning of 2023. The California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) still needs to approve the mandate, which is expected to happen by the end of the year. This will give the construction industry a year to prepare for the mandate. The goal of the mandate is to reduce pollution and help buildings rely less on natural gas. It’s estimated that the solar mandate will “provide $1.5 billion in consumer benefits” over the next 30 years, which includes savings from net metering, and reduce 10 million metric tons of greenhouse gasses. This provides the same impact on the environment as removing nearly 2.2 million cars off the road for an entire year. https://www.currenthome.com/blog/california-solar-mandate-how-it-impacts-homeowners/#:~:text=In%202018%2C%20California%20mandated%20that,and%20battery%20storage%20as%20well. https://project.nikkeibp.co.jp/ms/atcl/19/feature/00003/122700119/?ST=msb&P=3 CPUCによって発表された「時間別電力購入と買取価格の例」を見ると、夜7～8時前後以外は、買取価格が極端に安いことが分かる（図3）。現在、NEM2.0下の平均買取価格はkWhあたり23〜35セントであるが、NEM3.0下では、1kWhあたり平均5～8セントに引き下げられそうだ。 「図」 　CPUCは今回の価格変更の理由を、「NEM2.0は、カリフォルニア州が現在、直面する系統運用の信頼性確保と気候変動の目標に沿っていない」と説明した。その背景には、電力需給バランスのミスマッチがある。午後遅くから夕方にかけて太陽が沈み始めると、太陽光発電の出力が低下するが、その頃電力需要が上がり、化石燃料のガス火力発電所を中心とするその他のエネルギー資源を増やして、ギャップを埋めなければならない。 その結果、午後4時から9時の間が温室効果ガスの排出量が最も多くなる。 　今回のような価格設定にした目的は、太陽光発電への蓄電池併設を促し、昼間は発電量を貯め、夕方のピーク時に太陽光発電をグリッドに送り込むことにより、系統運用の信頼性を保ちつつ、化石燃料の使用を削減することだ。

この暗い世界を「虹色で包もう」という希望のメッセージで終わりますが、今回の収録においては、そこのところをクレシェンドで力強く歌い上げるスーメタルの表現が圧巻

ベビーメタルの新曲発表において、「神撃」のあとに「Monochrome」が来たときは、ぼくはちょっとショックを受けました。と同時に、ベビーメタルらしいとも思いました。 「神撃」では二人が馬に乗って戦いに挑む勇ましいメッセージの歌でしたが、なんとそのあとに来た「Monochrome」は悲しくて暗いイメージのものだった。「Monochrome」とは、色あせた世界、すなわちダークサイドの物語だった。そして原爆を思い起こさせる「黒い雨」。戦いを挑んだものが直面したのは「敗北」という現実。今回のThe Fast Takeで黒い背景にこだわったのもまさにそのゆえで、他のコメントでも言及されているように、東京大空襲の記念日に行われたのも偶然ではないと思います。 詩は、この暗い世界を「虹色で包もう」という希望のメッセージで終わりますが、今回の収録においては、そこのところをクレシェンドで力強く歌い上げるスーメタルの表現が圧巻でした。

Bitcoin Surges Nearly 20% Following Silicon Valley Bank 'Bailout'

The price of Bitcoin is surging, up 19.8% in the past day after regulators and the Joe Biden Administration stepped in to assuage investors that depositors in the failed Silicon Valley Bank would be made whole—and that the U.S. banking system remains on stable ground. https://decrypt.co/123326/bitcoin-price-surges-silicon-valley-bank

ビットコイン価値変動 イーサ価値変動

ビットコイン価値変動 ２０２１年４月　＄６０１４１ ２０２２年４月　＄４６２９６ ２０２３年３月　＄２０３５８ イーサ価値変動 ２０２１年１１月＄４６４４ ２０２２年４月　＄３５２３ ２０２３年３月　＄１５６６

US Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Nord Stream Pipelines -NYT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New intelligence reviewed by U.S. officials suggests that a pro-Ukrainian group carried out the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines last year, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. There was no evidence that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy or his top lieutenants were involved in the operation, or that the perpetrators were acting at the direction of any Ukrainian government officials, the newspaper reported, citing U.S. officials. Reuters could not independently verify the report, and U.S. officials could not be immediately reached for comment. Representatives for Kyiv and Moscow also could not be immediately reached. The United States and NATO have called the September 2022 attacks on the gas pipelines "an act of sabotage," while Moscow has blamed the West and has called on the United Nations Security Council to independently investigate. Neither side has provided evidence. The intelligence review suggests the who carried out the attacks opposed Russian President Vladimir Putin "but does not specify the members of the group, or who directed or paid for the operation," the Times wrote. "U.S. officials declined to disclose the nature of the intelligence, how it was obtained or any details of the strength of the evidence it contains. They have said that there are no firm conclusions about it." https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-03-07/us-intelligence-suggests-pro-ukrainian-group-sabotaged-nord-stream-pipelines-nyt

「所有者と開発を進める事業者に関して、都として施工の認可は法令にのっとって適切に行っている」

東京都の小池百合子知事は3日の定例会見で、神宮外苑再開発事業の工事施工を認可した都を、地域住民らが提訴したことについて問われ「訴状が届いておらず詳細が不明なので、コメントは控えます」と、述べた。 再開発事業については「そもそも明治神宮の私有地の開発をめぐる話」として「所有者と開発を進める事業者に関して、都として施工の認可は法令にのっとって適切に行っている」と話すにとどめた。 https://www.nikkansports.com/general/nikkan/news/202303030001073.html

五輪談合で清算法人に都職員派遣 小池知事表明

東京都の小池百合子知事は７日の都議会予算特別委員会で、東京五輪・パラリンピックを巡る談合事件に関し、大会組織委員会の清算法人に都職員を派遣し、事件に絡んだ事業者に対する損害賠償請求などの対応を確実に進める考えを示した。「対応の実効性を確保する業務体制が重要だ」と述べた。 小池氏は損害賠償請求や公費返還などの対応について「都民の納得を得る上で不可欠だ」と指摘。清算法人には、大会運営や組織委の実務に通じた職員を派遣するとした。 小池氏は２月の都議会代表質問で、公正取引委員会が事業者の談合を認め、排除措置命令を出すなどした場合、「清算法人に損害賠償請求など適切な対応を行うよう強く働きかける」と述べていた。 https://www.sankei.com/article/20230307-BPYP46RFSRPY3IMTXZCBTS4ZLE/

El Salvador’s Bitcoin holdings are now worth less than $40 million

Though Bukele has refused to disclose how much taxpayer money he has spent on Bitcoin, the best guess, based on his purchase announcements, is $107 million, with a further $200 million on administration and infrastructure—equivalent to nearly 4% of the developing country’s 2023 budget. El Salvador’s Bitcoin holdings are now worth less than $40 million. To cap it all, Salvadorans just aren’t that into Bitcoin: an in-person survey of 1,269 residents published by the José Simeón Cañas Central American University (UCA) in October found that less than a quarter of respondents had used the cryptocurrency in 2022. Just 17% said the Bitcoin rollout had been a success, while 66% said it was a failure. And 77% want Bukele to stop using public funds to buy Bitcoin. https://time.com/6236899/el-salvador-bukele-bitcoin-crash/

コラボが2021年度に支出した約2900万円のうち、約192万円を経費と認めなかった

東京都監査事務局は3日、都の若年被害女性等支援事業を受託している一般社団法人「Colabo」の会計に関し、都が実施した再調査結果を公表した。コラボが2021年度に支出した約2900万円のうち、約192万円を経費と認めなかった。ただこれを差し引いても、支出総額は委託料の上限2600万円を上回っているため、返還請求はしない。 　経費性が認められなかったのは、管理台帳への誤記載で過大計上していた人件費や、旅費交通費の受領者に関する情報提示を法人側が拒否したケースなど。 　都はコラボに18年度から同事業を委託。21年度の委託料について「不正受給がある」との住民監査請求があった。監査事務局は今年1月、請求の大半を退ける監査結果を公表。一方で、比較的高額な食事代や宿泊代があるなどとして、都に再調査を求めていた。 　都は食事代や宿泊代については、支援対象者の自立を図る目的で「必要性が認められる」とした。（共同） 【関連記事】「Colabo」めぐる住民監査請求　経費精算が一部不当　東京都に再調査指示　監査委員　請求の大半は退ける https://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/234464

天皇家の親せきとしてのアメリカ人の家系が生まれる

ふたりに子供ができて、アメリカに天皇家の血統を継ぐ子孫が生まれると、天皇家の親せきとしてのアメリカ人の家系が生まれることになります。 今のような厳しい少子化が続く日本で、将来もし天皇家や元宮家の世継ぎがすべてなくなってしまうという一大事が起こると、継体天皇のときのように、新しい天皇は遠方（アメリカ）から呼ばれて即位する、ということもあり得ますね。 そのことを考えると、二人がアメリカに来て本当に良かったと心から思います。これから二人ともアメリカで活躍し、天皇家の子孫がアメリカの大地で大いに増えることを期待します。