QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"Global capital doesn’t have a social conscience. It will go where the returns are."
KEVIN SHARER, the former head of the biotech giant Amgen, on some of the market forces that may hinder President Trump’s goal of bringing back domestic manufacturing jobs.

JANUARY 24, 2017

（０）Opening Salvos（お世辞） in President Trump’s Trade War
A border tax would probably be illegal under American law and would definitely violate treaties with other countries.

（１）Trump Abandons Trans-Pacific Partnership, Obama’s Signature Trade Deal
The decision at the start of the new administration was a signal that the president plans to follow through on promises to be aggressive with foreign competitors.

（２）Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers
President Trump used his first official meeting with congressional leaders to blame his nearly three-million popular vote loss on illegal ballots. President Trump met with leaders of Congress from both parties on Monday at the White House.

（３）Call to Create Jobs, or Else, Tests Trump’s Sway
President Trump told corporate leaders that they could face tariffs if they don’t bring back manufacturing jobs, but he is fighting against larger market forces.

（４）New York City to Pay Up to $75 Million Over Dismissed Summonses（要求）
The city will settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the police of issuing hundreds of thousands of criminal summonses later found to lack legal justification. The city has agreed to pay up to $75 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the Police Department of issuing hundreds of thousands of criminal summonses that were found to be without legal justification. 　ＮＹ市が集団訴訟をする

（５）Quandary in South Sudan: Should It Lose Its Hard-Won Independence?
The five-year-old country is in woeful（悲哀） straits as a civil war drags on. But a proposal to create a trusteeship of outside powers is meeting resistance.
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60-Second Civics: Episode 2775, Religious Conflicts in Europe
Before the United States was founded, religious turmoil in Europe paved a path for a religiously free nation. 米国誕生前、欧州では宗教闘争が宗教的にフリーな国へと歩を進めた。
What era, beginning in the 16th Century, led to bloody religious conflicts in Europe?
a. the Reclamation　土地改良
b. the Inquisition　異端尋問
c. the New Republic　
d. the Reformation　再構成
Outstanding! Choice d is correct.

＊　The Religious Reformation

While the southern humanists were busy redefining the relationship between humans and God by ignoring what the Pope said, the northern Europeans, far and away from the Pope and remote from his political intrigues, still took him seriously and took church practices seriously. Therefore they sometimes would try to initiate serious debates with the Pope. In the 16th century, from a questioning of the church’s practices, northern Renaissance quickly snowballed into a religious and political movement that separated the “protestants” against the church into a separate religious denomination.