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NHK WORLD English 2012年7月12日

暫くご無沙汰していました。
暑い日が続いてもう何もする気持ちが湧きません・・・・アップするネタも無くて(笑)
今日もプールでビート板30分、水泳10分、水中ウオーキング30分でした。

今日のNHK WORLD English は昨日の事でニュースとしては遅くなりますが例の国政茶番劇のニュースです。

Ozawa launches new party, pledges to stop tax hike
小沢一郎、新党立ち上げ、増税阻止を誓う
Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa has launched a new party named "Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi," which literally translates as "People's lives first."
Ozawa and 48 other lawmakers formed the new party on Wednesday. Ozawa was chosen as its leader.
In a speech to his colleagues, Ozawa criticized the Democratic Party for the changes it has undergone since taking power from the Liberal Democratic Party 3 years ago.
He said the Democratic Party's agreement with the opposition Liberal Democratic and New Komeito parties on the consumption tax-hike bill deprives the public of their right to choose policies.
Ozawa pledged that the new party will try to stop the tax-hike bill from becoming law.
Last week, Ozawa and other lawmakers tendered their resignation to the Democratic Party. The move came after a bill to double the consumption tax to 10 percent by 2015 passed the Lower House of the Diet late last month.

「国民の生活が第一」とは泣けてきます。
"People's lives first."・・・・”non Peaple's Live first"の入力間違いかと思いましたよ(笑)
それとも”Our Post is first"が本音かな~?
増税反対、原発廃止、TPP参加阻止だけの内向きのスローガンだけで国の将来は保てるでしょうか?
外交のこと、経済のことも考えないとですね。
全員がゴールキーパーだけしかいないサッカーチームの取りあえず集団みたいですね。
世論調査で8割以上が新党に期待しないというのが肯けます。



それよりも九州北部は大豪雨でした。
ここ福岡市内は豪雨の影響は殆んどなく午後は雲の切れ間も現れて蒸し暑い一日でした。
特に大分県、熊本県はひどい状況のようです。

10 dead, 18 missing in heavy Kyushu rains
九州大豪雨で10人死亡、18人行方不明
最新情報では11人死亡、16人行方不明となっています。
Torrential rains have lashed Kyushu island in western Japan, leaving 10 dead and 18 missing. The meteorological agency says the region has never experienced such severe rain and warns of further rainfall.
The rain began in the early hours of Thursday morning as a seasonal rain front was activated by warm and moist southerly winds. In Kumamoto and neighboring Oita prefectures, hourly rainfalls of 100 millimeters were recorded.
In Aso, Kumamoto, hit by a record 500 millimeters of rain, and neighboring Minami-Aso, landslides washed away houses. The police say 9 people died and 17 are missing.
In Taketa City, Oita, a man in his 70s drowned in a swollen river and another man in his 80s is missing. He had left his home to check on his rice paddies.
Precipitation is now weakening as rainclouds move off the eastern coast. But the weather agency is warning torrential rains may return tomorrow as the seasonal front again extends across the Kyushu region.
It says another 200 millimeters of precipitation is expected in Kyushu and other regions in western and central Japan.
Experts say hourly rain of 100 millimeters, the amount that hit some areas of Kyushu, has enough destructive power to spark a large-scale disaster.
The Meteorological Agency says hourly rainfall of over 80 millimeters causes fear and stress. It makes driving hazardous and can cause a major disaster.
Chuo University Professor Tadashi Yamada says heavy rain of the type that hit Aso, located on a caldera of Mount Aso, flows down the surfaces of mountains before being absorbed into the soil.
The quick erosion of the soil is likely to cause mudslides, and the water rapidly raises river levels, increasing the risks of flooding.
Yamada says accurately forecasting torrential rain is difficult. He advises locals to check the state of rainclouds on the weather bureau's websites and evacuate quickly when needed.
On Thursday, the meteorological agency warned Kumamoto and Oita prefectures that the size of the expected rainfall was unprecedented.
The agency decided to use the expression a month ago to send out a strong warning that the rainfall was of a type that only hit once in 50 years.

今朝午前11時現在、福岡市内もかなり強い雨が降り続いいます。
竜巻注意報も出ています。
中央大学山田教授談では最近の激しい雨の予測は難しく、気象庁のウエブサイトで現地の雨雲の状態をチェックし、必要ならば早く避難することをアドバイスしています。
気象庁では熊本、大分の予想される降雨量の規模は先例のない(unprecedented)ものだと注意を呼び掛けています。

福岡市の博多部では今博多祇園山笠の神事の真っ最中。
今日は午後一時から集団山見せといって博多部から福岡部へ山笠が初めて入る日で、久し振りに見に行こうかと予定していましたが、今の雨模様では傘さして沿道へ立つことさえ躊躇するような雨脚です。
15日早朝の追い山笠でフィナーレを迎える頃には不思議と梅雨が明けて夏本番を迎えていましたが、今年はどうなることやら。

by tarohazuki8580 | 2012-07-12 23:51 | その他