ウクライナをどう非武装化したと言うのか。実際、ウクライナを武装化させたではないか

プリゴジン氏は24日、自身のテレグラムに投稿した約１時間のインタビューで、ウクライナ軍の戦いぶりを称賛しつつ、プーチン大統領ら政権幹部が戦争を正当化するため掲げたウクライナの「非ナチ化、非武装化」の目標を酷評。「われわれが主張した非ナチ化がウクライナを正当化し、ウクライナを全世界に知られる国にした」と述べ、「ウクライナをどう非武装化したと言うのか。実際、ウクライナを武装化させたではないか。ウクライナは今や、世界最強の軍を持つ国の一つだ」と続けた。 https://www.bloomberg.co.jp/news/articles/2023-05-24/RV69SDDWLU6801

太陽光パネル発電もうすでに「微々たる」ものとは言えない重要な発電源となっています。

日本の太陽光パネル発電量は国内総発電量の１０％を占めています。石炭による発電量が２９％なので、石炭による総発電量の３分の１にあたる発電量を太陽光パネルはすでに供給していることになります。LNGも３０％なので、LNGによる総発電量の３分の１にあたる発電量を太陽光パネルは供給しています。原子力発電の占める量は4.8％なので、その二倍以上の発電量を太陽光パネルは供給しています。つまり、太陽光パネル発電もうすでに「微々たる」ものとは言えない重要な発電源となっています。 https://www.isep.or.jp/archives/library/14364#:~:text=%E3%81%9D%E3%81%AE%E7%B5%90%E6%9E%9C%E3%80%812022%E5%B9%B4(%E6%9A%A6%E5%B9%B4,%E5%9B%B31%2C%20%E8%A1%A81)%E3%80%82&text=MISSING%3A%20summary%20MISSING%3A%20current%2Drows.

IRI Ukraine Poll Shows Strong Confidence in President Zelensky, a Surge in Support for NATO Membership, Russia Should Pay for Reconstruction

Kyiv, Ukraine – The latest public opinion survey in Ukraine conducted by the International Republican Institute’s (IRI) Center for Insights in Survey Research (CISR) shows sustained confidence in President Zelensky, a surge in support for NATO membership, and a strong desire for Russia to pay for post-war reconstruction. View Full Survey Report When asked about the activities of President Zelensky, 91% approved of his performance. Ninety-seven percent of Ukrainians believe they will win the war against Russia and 74% believe Ukraine will maintain all territories from within its internationally recognized borders defined in 1991. “Even after a year of relentless attacks from the criminal regime in Moscow, Ukrainians continue to rally behind their wartime leader, President Zelensky,” said Stephen Nix, IRI’s Senior Director for Eurasia. “Vladimir Putin has not only failed to dent their resolve, he’s hardened Ukrainian support for winning the war without any territorial concessions,” said Nix. The poll also showed that support for joining NATO has increased. Eighty-two percent would support joining NATO if a referendum were held today. That is an increase of ten percentage points from a poll in June 2022 and an increase of 23 percentage points from April 2022. Ukrainians believe that Russia should pay for any postwar reconstruction. Eighty-nine percent said that Russian seized assets or payments should finance damaged infrastructure. Further, 54% feel that reconstruction decisions should be made by the citizens of affected cities and towns while 37% support local elected authorities making those decisions. “Ukrainians are steadfast in their belief that Russia should pay for the damage they have caused,” said Nix. “They are also confident that their fellow citizens and local authorities will make the best decisions on how to rebuild their cities and towns when the war is over.” Methodology   The survey was conducted by the Sociological Group “Rating” on behalf of the Center for Insights in Survey Research of the International Republican Institute throughout Ukraine (except for the in the occupied territories of Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk oblasts) from February 1-5th, 2023, through computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI) based on a random sample of mobile phone numbers.​ The total sample consists of n= 2,000 Ukrainians aged 18 and older.  The sample excludes any Ukrainians not currently in Ukraine.​ The survey data obtained was weighted by regional and age indicators using data by the State Statistics Service of Ukraine as of January 1, 2021.  The margin of error at the 95 percent confidence level does not exceed 2 percentage points for the full sample.​ The response rate was 16 percent.  The study was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).  https://www.iri.org/news/iri-ukraine-poll-shows-strong-confidence-in-president-zelensky-a-surge-in-support-for-nato-membership-russia-should-pay-for-reconstruction/

変態男が女性の裸をちょっと見たいぐらいの理由で、簡単にできることではありません

「多くの変態男が「自称女性です」って女性専用に入って来ます」 まずないです。少数派を認めることのできない時代錯誤の古い頭のおじいさんたちの言い訳にすぎません。そもそも、男性として生まれた人が女性であると認められるためには、医学的かつ法的手続きが必要です。生殖能力を永久的に失わせる不可逆的な外科手術「性別適合手術」（男性から女性の場合ちんちんの切除など）も行われます。変態男が女性の裸をちょっと見たいぐらいの理由で、簡単にできることではありません。 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn1P1ENnuD4&lc=UgxRL17zfBuH9fdWpRp4AaABAg.9prnBwwzIup9ptJfyvn-fm

自民党の支持層でも、57.2％がLGBT理解増進法を「成立させるべきだ」と答えている

時事通信が3月に行った世論調査によると、LGBTなど性的少数者に対する理解増進法案を今国会で「成立させるべきだ」と答えたのは50.8％。「成立させるべきだと思わない」と回答した16.9％を大幅に上回っている。自民党支持者の間でも、「成立させるべきだ」は46.6％にのぼり、「成立させるべきだと思わない」と答えた21.1％の2倍以上だった。また、産経新聞社とFNNが2月18、19両日に行った合同世論調査によると、慎重論が根強い自民党の支持層でも、57.2％がLGBT理解増進法を「成立させるべきだ」と答えている。他の多くの世論調査でも、LGBT法案や同性婚に過半数が賛成している。 https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/9d9c670974d986301c5787f162d1bb5cb5c61f2d?page=3 産経新聞社とＦＮＮ（フジニュースネットワーク）が１８、１９両日に行った合同世論調査で、ＬＧＢＴなど性的少数者への理解増進を図る法案について尋ねたところ、慎重論が根強い自民党の支持層でも５７・２％が「（国会で）成立させるべきだ」と答えた。同性婚を法律で認めることにも自民支持層の６０・３％が「賛成」と回答した。年代別では、高齢層より若年層が、性別では男性より女性の方が同法案の成立や同性婚の法制化を積極的に認める傾向が強く出た。 性的少数者に関する法案を成立させるべきか聞いたところ、立憲民主党支持層の６８・１％、日本維新の会支持層の７４・８％、無党派層（「支持政党はない」と回答）の６７・１％が「成立させるべきだ」と答えた。 法案は令和３年に超党派の議員連盟が中心となってまとめたが、「性的指向および性自認を理由とする差別は許されない」との表現が不明確などとして自民内で反対論が高まり、党内了承を見送った経緯がある。 法案は立民、維新、共産党など野党のほか、与党の公明党も賛成している。ただ、内心に関わる「性自認」や、定義が不明確な「差別」の禁止など法案には課題が多い。自民支持層の３２・６％は「（国会で）成立させなくてもよい」と慎重な考えを持っている。 同性婚の法制化に関しては、立民支持層の７４・０％、維新支持層の８６・９％、無党派層の７６・３％が賛成した。反対と答えたのは自民支持層で２９・３％、立民支持層で２０・５％、維新支持層で１０・６％、無党派層で１３・５％だった。 性別では、性的少数者に関する法案を「成立させるべきだ」と答えたのは男性６２・４％、女性６５・７％だった。一方、同性婚の法制化に賛成したのは男性６５・０％、女性７６・７％と男女で差が生じた。 年代別では、法案について６０代までは６～７割が「成立させるべきだ」を選んだが、７０歳以上は４８・６％と半数を割った。 https://www.sankei.com/article/20230220-PQDZSMO6ORMX5GHJ5BHHAZOCGM/ サンケイとFNNの合同世論調査によれば、 　自民党支持層の57.2% 　立憲民主党支持層の68.1% 　日本維新の会支持層の74.8% 　無党派層の67.1% が今国会で成立させるべきと回答。 男女別では、 　男性62.4% 　女性65.7% が成立させるべきと回答。

北方中国の仙人洞という洞窟では２万年前の土器が発見されており、いまのところ、それが世界で一番古い土器です。縄文土器ではありません。

北方中国の仙人洞という洞窟では２万年前の土器が発見されており、いまのところ、それが世界で一番古い土器です。縄文土器ではありません。

Asked to Delete References to Racism From Her Book, an Author Refused

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/books/scholastic-book-racism-maggie-tokuda-hall.html The case, involving Scholastic, led to an outcry among authors and became an example of how the culture wars behind a surge in book banning in schools has reached publishers. Alexandra AlterElizabeth A. Harris By Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris Published May 6, 2023 Updated May 8, 2023 It was the most personal story that Maggie Tokuda-Hall had ever written: the tale of how her grandparents met and fell in love at an incarceration camp in Idaho that held Japanese Americans during World War II. The book, called “Love in the Library,” is aimed at 6- to 9-year-olds. Published last year by a small children’s publisher, Candlewick Press, it drew glowing reviews, but sales were modest. So Tokuda-Hall was thrilled when Scholastic, a publishing giant that distributes books and resources in 90 percent of schools, said last month it wanted to license her book for use in classrooms. When Tokuda-Hall read the details of the offer, she felt deflated — then outraged. Scholastic wanted her to delete references to racism in America from her author’s note, in which she addresses readers directly. The decision was wrenching, Tokuda-Hall said, but she turned Scholastic down and went public, describing her predicament in a blog post and a Twitter post that drew more than five million views. Tokuda-Hall’s revelations sparked an outcry among children’s book authors and brought intense scrutiny to the editorial process of the world’s largest children’s publisher. The blowup came at a time when culture wars are fueling efforts to ban books in schools — particularly books on race or sexuality — and raising questions about whether already published works should be re-edited to remove potentially offensive content. “We all see what’s happening with this rising culture of book bans,” Tokuda-Hall said. “If we all know that the largest children’s publisher in the country, the one with the most access to schools, is capitulating behind closed doors and asking authors to change their works to accommodate those kinds of demands, there’s no way you as a marginalized author can find an audience.” Scholastic moved quickly to contain the fallout. It apologized to Tokuda-Hall and the illustrator, Yas Imamura, and offered to publish the book with the original author’s note. Tokuda-Hall turned them down, saying that she was not convinced by the company’s efforts. The company also delayed production of the collection that would have included “Love in the Library,” which was likely to include around 150 books by or about Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, while they evaluate what went wrong. [photo description] A cover of a children's book, with the title, Love in the Library, at the top, over an image of a couple looking at each other in a library. The book was the most personal Tokuda-Hall had ever written: It told the story of her grandparents, who met at an incarceration camp for Japanese Americans during World War II.Credit...Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Illustrations by Yas Imamura. Candlewick Press [photo description] A tear sheet showing edited text, with some lines scratched out in red. Scholastic asked Tokuda-Hall to delete parts of her author’s note, in which she connected past bigotry against Japanese Americans to other manifestations of racism past and present. In the case of Tokuda-Hall’s book, Scholastic’s proposed edits included deleting a sentence where she contextualized her grandparents’ experience as part of “the deeply American tradition of racism.” The company also asked for the removal of a paragraph connecting bigotry against Japanese Americans to current and past manifestations of racism, in which Tokuda-Hall describes a culture that “allows the police to murder Black people” and “keeps children in cages on our border.” In an email to Tokuda-Hall, which was shared with The Times, Candlewick conveyed Scholastic’s request and the company’s concern that schools might shy away from purchasing a book with such a frank comment about racism during this “especially politically sensitive” moment. On Amazon and Goodreads, some readers have complained that Tokuda-Hall’s message is too political for its young audience. Shortly after Tokuda-Hall posted about the incident on April 12, several authors and educators who were brought on by Scholastic to consult on and curate the series that would have included Tokuda-Hall’s book condemned the company’s actions, and demanded an overhaul of the editorial process. One of the authors who consulted on the collection, Sayantani DasGupta, resigned in protest. “They’re pre-emptively censoring the collection, saying, ‘Hey, we’re going to put out diverse stories, but we’re only going to put them out in the most palatable form’,” DasGupta said. Similar controversies have arisen recently around efforts to remove discussions of racism from school textbooks. One textbook publisher, Studies Weekly, faced criticism after it revised an elementary school textbook so that Rosa Parks’s story no longer included references to segregation or race. But many were shocked to hear that a leading commercial publisher like Scholastic was seeking such revisions. More than 650 librarians and educators, who make up a large segment of Scholastic’s customer base, sent a petition to Scholastic demanding that the company release the book in its original form and “take public responsibility for the decision to censor a book.” Jillian Heise, an elementary school librarian in Wisconsin who organized the petition, said that the original author’s note was something that young children — many of whom experience racism in their daily lives — could grapple with. “Kids are capable of understanding at a simple level that when we treat people differently because of who they are, or how they identify, or what they look like, that that’s not fair,” she said. That conversation, she continued, “helps their self-perception and perception of the world develop with empathy.”

18 U.S. Code § 2384 - 扇動的陰謀

18 U.S. Code § 2384 - 扇動的陰謀 いずれかの州、準州、または合衆国の管轄下にある場所で、2 人以上の者が共謀して、合衆国政府を転覆、鎮圧、または力ずくで破壊する、または彼らに対して戦争を仕掛ける場合、 強制的にその権限に反対すること、または強制的に米国の法律の執行を妨害、妨害、または遅延させること、または強制的に米国の権限に反して米国の財産を押収、取得、または所有すること 、彼らはそれぞれ、この称号に基づいて罰金を科されるか、20年以下の懲役、またはその両方を科されるものとします。 18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, § 1, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384

Report: Israel got intel on Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program from executed spy

https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-israel-got-intel-on-irans-secret-nuclear-weapons-program-from-executed-spy/ Russian intelligence reportedly helped Iran discover that a dual Iranian-British national who once served as its deputy minister of defense was leaking information about its top-secret nuclear weapons program. In January, Tehran hanged Ali Reza Akbari over accusations of espionage, an execution that was harshly denounced by the UK and other Western nations. According to an in-depth New York Times report released on Monday, Akbari was indeed a spy and began leaking Iranian nuclear secrets to the British in 2004 — keeping his activities hidden for 15 years. The report said that in 2008, a senior British intelligence officer told Israeli security officials during a meeting in Tel Aviv that the UK was working with an Iranian spy who had significant information about Tehran’s nuclear activities. Citing “three Western intelligence and national security officials,” the newspaper reported that the UK passed on information from Akbari to Israel about Iran’s nuclear activities at the Fordo site and their ties to the country’s efforts to produce nuclear weapons — information not previously known to Western intelligence officials. Iran has long denied pursuing a nuclear weapon and says its program is for civilian research purposes, but Western officials believe the country was actively pursuing weapons production until at least the early 2000s. In 2019, the NY Times report claims, Iran was aided by “Russian intelligence officials” in pinpointing Akbari as the source of the leak about activities at Fordo. The newspaper wrote that it was not clear how Russia had been able to discover this. This December 11, 2020, satellite photo by Maxar Technologies shows construction at Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility. (Maxar Technologies via AP) Akbari also reportedly turned over the names of around 100 senior Iranian officials to British authorities, including that of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was killed in November 2020 in an attack that Tehran blames on Israel. Akbari, who ran a private think tank, had not been seen in public since 2019, when he was apparently arrested. He was executed in January after being sentenced to death for “corruption on earth and harming the country’s internal and external security by passing on intelligence,” the website of Iran’s judiciary reported. Iranian state media reported that the 61-year-old Akbari had held high positions in the country’s defense establishment. His posts included deputy minister of defense for foreign affairs and a position in the secretariat of the Supreme National Security Council. Akbari had also been an adviser to the commander of the navy, as well as heading a division at the defense ministry’s research center. Ali Reza Akbari speaks at a meeting to unveil the book ‘National Nuclear Movement,’ in Tehran, Iran, on October 14, 2008. (Davoud Hosseini, Islamic Republic News Agency via AP) In videos released by state media following his execution — which Iran touted as a confession and his family said was forced — Akbari said he was recruited by British intelligence in 2004 with the promise of visas for him and his family. Authorities did not release any details about his trial. Those accused of espionage and other crimes related to national security are usually tried behind closed doors where rights groups say they do not choose their own lawyers and are not allowed to see evidence against them. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said at the time that he was “appalled” by the execution. “This was a callous and cowardly act carried out by a barbaric regime with no respect for the human rights of their own people,” Sunak said in a statement.

A psychologist shares 6 toxic phrases ‘highly narcissistic’ people always use

1. “I don’t want to make this about me, but...” [n]arcissistic people know they shouldn’t dominate the conversation, yet they do it anyway. 2. “I’m sorry you feel that way.” Narcissists have a hard time admitting fault 3. “Why are you doing this to me?” Narcissists have a stunning capacity to shift from being the offender to being the victim 4. “I’m a busy person. I don’t have time for this.” The hallmarks of a narcissist are entitlement, a lack of empathy and the inability to maintain reciprocal relationships 5. “If you ever do wrong by me, I’ll make your life a living hell.” This tactic of dangling menace and the possibility of vengeance is how they create an illusion of power and a sense of fear in you. 6. “It’s not fair.” Narcissists believe there should be a set of rules for them, and separate set of rules for everyone else. When they have to comply, or a consequence is enforced, it’s a reminder that they are not special. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/30/psychologist-shares-toxic-phrases-highly-narcissistic-people-always-use-and-how-to-respond.html