Dr.LUKE'S iDLE UTTERANCE

午前はプールとサウナ。午後は映画の巡航モード。作品はスティーヴン・ソダーバーグの『コンテイジョン』*1。マット・デイモン、ケイト・ウインスレット、ローレンス・フィッシュバーン、ジュード・ロウといった主役級役者があたかも端役のように淡々と演じている。昔の『アウトブレイク』のような盛り上がりがないままに、淡々とCDCのドクターたちによる感染経路の特定から対策までをドキュメンタリー・タッチで描く。大衆が見えない恐怖に対してマスクで対応する姿はわがニッポンを彷彿とする。かくして、淡々とした展開がかえってリアリティがあって、後ろの席から聞こえる「ごほっ、ごほっ」に過敏に反応してしまう。

不安に煽られた大衆は、CDCや政府は真実を隠しており、信頼できないとして、アクセス数を誇るペテン的個人ブロガーのいい加減な情報に頼る。うーん、どこぞでも起きていることだ。かくして全世界の10％が感染する予測の中で、ついに軍隊が出動、さらにFEMAが出てくるのだ。これがかなり怖い。現在のアメリカのOCCUPY運動は結局アメリカを警察国家とし、いずれFEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPなるものも出現すると言われている。まだまだ感染症もアウトブレイクがあり得るし、ハリウッド映画は『ノウイング』などをはじめ、ある面で予言的なのだ。ウイルス感染よりも恐れやデマの感染と蔓延が怖いのだ。

ドイツがEU崩壊後の青写真を提示。

• German memo shows secret slide towards a super-state

An intrusive European body with the power to take over the economies of struggling nations should be set up to tackle the eurozone crisis, according to a leaked German government document.

The memo will prompt fears that Germany's euro crisis plans could result in a European super-state with spending and tax plans set in Brussels.

The six-page memo, by the German foreign office, argues that Europe’s economic powerhouses should be able to intervene in how beleaguered eurozone countries are run.

The confidential blueprint sets out Germany’s plan to tackle the eurozone debt crisis by creating a “stability union” that will be “immediately followed by moves “on the way towards a political union”.

It will prompt fears that Germany’s euro crisis plans could result in a European super-state with spending and tax plans set in Brussels.

The proposals urge that the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a eurozone bailout fund that will be established by the end of next year, should be transformed into a version of the International Monetary Fund for the EU.

The European Monetary Fund (EMF) would be able to take full fiscal control of a failing country, including taking countries into receivership.

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The German plan begins with a proposal to create “automatic sanctions” that could be imposed on euro members spending beyond targets set by the European Commission. Germany is demanding that if euro rules are “consistently violated”, it should be able to demand action from the European Court of Justice.

Germany, Finland, Austria and the Netherlands would be able to ask EU courts to impose sanctions, from fines to the loss of budgetary sovereignty, to protect the euro.

The memo states the EMF would be given “real intervention rights” in the budgets of euro members who have received EU-IMF bailouts.

Open Europe, a think tank, has called for Mr Cameron to demand concessions from Mrs Merkel in exchange for the plans, which need the consent of all 27 EU countries, giving Britain a veto.

*1：contagion:接触伝染病