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PBS NewsHour Feb. 9, 2023
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[00:00] 今日の番組内容
[02:09]★今日のおすすめ★ トルコ・シリア地震 届かない救援
[05:52] JANE FERGUSON: But the White Helmets organization [*= The Syria Civil Defence, better known as the White Helmets, consists of about 3,000 volunteer first responders who "come from all walks of life," including bakers, tailors, pharmacists, firefighters and engineers, according to the organization's website. Unpaid and unarmed, they risk their lives to help those in need "in all areas" of Syria that they "can access," the organization says.(ABC News)] said the U.N. assistance is part of regularly scheduled aid deliveries to Syria organized before the quake and not specific aid and equipment for the disaster relief effort.
[08:53] 今日のその他の主要ニュース
[12:01] House Republicans investigating the Biden family have made their first official request for documents from the president's son Hunter and brother James. The House Oversight Committee chair, James Comer, sent letters today seeking material on foreign business pursuits [* business pursuit = 事業] linked to the Chinese Communist Party.
[12:25] Hunter Biden's lawyer accused Comer of using the investigation to air [* to air = to expose to public view or bring to public notice] baseless claims.
[13:28]★今日のおすすめ★ 中国の偵察気球 バイデン政権の対応に批判強まる
[14:19] It means it [= spy balloon] can pick up communications from U.S. military bases as it flew over them. The official said -- quote -- "It had multiple antennas, to include an array likely capable of collecting and geolocating [* to geolocate = to use GPS to provide map coordinates to a person or an object.] communications
[15:00] Also today, the House of Representatives passed a resolution unanimously that calls out [* to call out = to criticize, denounce 非難する] China's -- quote -- "brazen violation of U.S. sovereignty" and also "efforts to deceive the international community through false claims about its intelligence collection campaigns."
[17:31] The U.S. doesn't want Beijing to start instinctively shooting at U.S. assets [* asset = An intelligence asset = Any resource by means of which intelligence is gathered.(wiktionary)] that are near China or above China,
[19:14] 一般教書演説の途中で合意!? 社会保障プログラム削減は本当にないのか
[20:28] SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC): We're down to a small fraction of the federal pie to run the discretionary part of government. [* discretionary < discretionary spending = In American public finance, discretionary spending is government spending implemented through an appropriations bill. This spending is an optional part of fiscal policy, in contrast to social programs for which funding is mandatory and determined by the number of eligible recipients (wikipedia)] So, entitlement reform is a must for us to not become Greece.
[21:24] So, Lisa, let's dispense with [* to dispense with = to set aside 省く。横に置く。] the politics just for a second, shall we, and talk about the underlying issue. Medicare and Social Security both face the same basic problem, in that people are living a lot longer than they did when these programs were created. Where are we with the solvency of both of these programs?
[23:16] GEOFF BENNETT: So this all ties in to [* to tie in to = to connect to (something)] the country's debt problem. What would it mean for the bottom line if Congress does nothing to address the solvency issue?
[24:47] He's using the word sunset. And he says he wants to sunset every federal program every five years, basically look at every federal program every five years. [* to sunset = sunset lawに基づき見直す、あるいは廃止する < sunset law = a statute that includes provision for automatic termination of a government program or agency at the end of a specified time.] As part of that are Social Security and Medicare.
[25:57] 増加する心臓疾患 狭まる医療へのアクセス ミシシッピデルタ地帯の現状
[32:56] JULIAN MILLER, Tougaloo College: Mississippi has a history of chattel slavery [* =A form of slavery where slaves are the legal property of an individual.], of course. These health disparities also are a result of this -- these racial and economic injustices of the system that was -- that was forced upon us.
[33:12] He is also a fifth generation Deltan [* = Mississippi Delta（ミシシッピデルタ地帯）の住人] with a family history of heart disease.
[35:28] 肥満治療薬 保険適用されるべきか
[44:13]★今日のおすすめ★ 最高裁のBruen判決 銃規制が困難に
[45:20] And, in this case, they vacated a person's sentence who had been -- or vacated the conviction of a person who had been convicted under this law. [* to vacate = To have a court judgement set aside; to annul. 無効にする。取り消す。]
[47:03] After Bruen [* この後、Bruen判決の説明が続く ] last year, the Supreme Court essentially told lower federal courts that the only thing that they can take into account is history and tradition. Basically, what they said is, if a law wasn't around, around the time of the founding, around the colonial period, the early days of the U.S., then it can't exist today. So they basically told the lower courts that they can't consider these other things like public safety.
AMNA NAWAZ: Yes, I found this line really striking, Chip. In applying the new standard, they say the law is -- quote -- "an outlier that our ancestors would never have accepted." So they're essentially saying, what, because domestic violence wasn't a crime in the 18th and 19th centuries, then this law is unconstitutional
[48:34] This is the biggest decision since Heller in 2008.[* = Heller判決
= District of Columbia v. Heller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller]
[50:28] 追悼：Burt Bacharach
[51:09] It was a signature romantic sound mixing orchestration with pop hooks,[* hook = (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song. (wiktionary) 曲のさび] and his music was everywhere.
[52:05] Years later, he even played himself in the "Austin Powers" Bond spoof films. [* spoof = a light humorous parody]