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Facebook社のシェリル・サンドバーグCOOが、官邸へいらっしゃいました。
アメリカにおいて、子育てと仕事を両立して活躍する女性の象徴となっているサンドバーグさん。「女性の活躍こそ成長戦略の中核」という安倍内閣の方針に「いいね！」と言ってくださり、私も大変刺激を受けました。
[E]veryone knows that the pay gap between the big executives and the average Joe has been growing. The surprise・・・・is the striking lack of method to the madness: America’s CEOs are paid a lot largely because other American CEOs are also paid a lot.
It would be wrong to say that compensation for America’s chief executives is handed out randomly, but there’s certainly no clear link to corporate performance, and even the link to corporate size is surprisingly vague
American chief executives are systematically better paid than CEOs from continental Europe or Japan. CEOs of U.K., Canadian, and other Anglophone firms tend to earn at close to American levels.
And big American investment management firms―also led by American corporate executives―likewise think this makes sense. Which is all quite nice, but if you tried convincing one of these very same executives that he shouldn’t replace an American factory worker with a cheaper Chinese one, he would laugh you out of the room.
A Syrian Catholic priest has been beheaded by jihadist fighters in Syria, it has been claimed.
The death of Franciscan Father Francois Murad has been confirmed by the official Vatican news agency.
The gruesome killing has raised further concerns about the West arming rebels in the fight against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
A 'vulnerable' man who went missing for 13 years has claimed he was kept as a slave by Irish travellers.
Darrell Simester, now 43, disappeared after arguing with friends on a holiday in Wales in August 2000.
His desperate parents Tony, 66, and Jean, 61, contacted the police around 50 times but were never able to locate their son.
But after years of searching, they have finally tracked him down in a remote farm in south Wales following an anonymous tip-off.
He added: 'These type of people roam the streets picking up the vulnerable and offering them a new life. Then they are treated like dogs.'
Jailed: Student Xuanyu Zhong, 25, drugged and sexually assaulted his female victim after becoming obsessed with date rape pornography
The son of a Chinese government official who was obsessed with date rape pornography has been jailed for six years after drugging an unsuspecting girl before sexually assaulting her.
Northumbria University student Xuanyu Zhong, 25, spent months researching how to carry out his ‘fantasy’ before buying drugs off the internet.
Newcastle Crown Court heard how Zhong then secretly laced his victim’s drink and forced himself on her
while she lay helpless.
Zhong, whose dad is a government official in China, had intended to rape the girl but, ‘for some reason’, changed his mind at the last minute and instead sexually assaulted her.
The student was eventually caught when his victim remembered certain parts of the assault and reported it to the police.
Zhong, originally from China but living in Newcastle at the time, claimed the incident was consensual but was found guilty by a jury.
He finally admitted what he’d done in a letter to the judge ahead of his sentencing on Friday when he was jailed for six years.
West, from Croydon, was also handed a 24-month community order for offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm against her partner and assaulting a police officer in the execution of his duty as she appeared for sentencing at Croydon Crown Court.
When we sided with "the West" watching 80's Cold War movies, we were actually siding with USA, and when we watched war movies, we desperately wanted "our side" to win.
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Every time we hear the "we never spy on US citizens" line, it’s another reminder that we are not equal (and that even if we became citizens, our parents, siblings and friends back home would still be fair game). Every CSPAN clip we see reminds us that some are more equal than others. It was always true, but we were blissfully ignorant. The leaks bring the issue into sharp relief and the national reaction to the leaks make it clear we don’t belong.
George Bush famously proclaimed: "You’re either with us, or against us". He asked foreigners the world over to choose. The wholesale spying on "foreigners" says how we chose made little difference at all.
Patients are being kept in ambulances for up to eight hours because there are not enough beds in A&E, figures show.
More than 3,400 patients were made to wait in vehicles parked outside hospitals for at least two hours, a rise of two thirds compared to 2011/12.
Freedom of Information requests from eight of England’s ten ambulance trusts show that last year 3,424 patients were made to wait in ambulances for at least two hours, compared to 2,061 the previous year.
And this included 96 who were made to wait four hours or more, treble the number recorded in 2011/12.
The figures also showed that in March, one patient was forced to wait outside the Royal Truro Hospital in Cornwall for eight hours, while two others waited for seven hours.
Another patient waited almost six hours outside Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Greater Manchester, with a further patient kept for more than five hours outside Tameside Greater Hospital, in Lancashire.
There is widespread suspicion that NHS managers are deliberately keeping patients waiting in ambulances to meet their targets.
Hospitals have been told to ensure that 95 per cent of patients spend no more than four hours in A&E before being discharged or sent to another ward.
But the clock starts only once a patient is formally admitted, so if the emergency unit is particularly busy bosses will be inclined to leave patients waiting in an ambulance.
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The End of the American Dream? By Niall Ferguson http://j.mp/1avbgv9 @newsweekさんから
Americans have a much higher toleration for inequality. But that toleration is implicitly conditional on there being more social mobility in the United States than in Europe.
. In other words, problems that used to be disproportionately associated with African-American communities are now endemic in the trailer parks and subprime slums inhabited by poor whites. You get born there, you stay there―unless you get sent to jail.
How can social mobility increase in a society that cares twice as much for Grandma as for Junior?
Perhaps those in charge of Ivy League admissions have good reasons for their decisions. Perhaps it is right that they should do more than simply pick the most academically talented and industrious students who apply. But the possibility cannot be rejected out of hand that, whatever their intentions, the net effect of their pursuit of “diversity” is in fact to reduce yet further this country’s once unique social mobility
Through new capabilities like the Osprey and F-35, the U.S. and its allies are building a 21st century attack and defense enterprise.
“Speed, range and presence are crucial to the kind of operations we participate in throughout the Pacific. The Osprey clearly fits perfectly into the types of missions we are tasked to perform.
To illustrate hypothetically, if we were tasked to counter challenges in the South China sea, such as to bolster the defense of Ayungin Shoal, also known internationally as Second Thomas Reef, with one of our treaty allies, the Philippines, the U.S. has several options, but not all are efficient or even timely. We could use USAF assets, such as B-2 bombers or B-52 aircraft from Guam, or Navy surface or subsurface assets that are patrolling in the South China Sea, but the location of those assets may not provide timely arrival on station.
“But using the Osprey, we can fly down quickly from Okinawa with a platoon of well-trained Marines or Special Operations Forces (SOF) forces, land on difficult terrain or shipping, and perform whatever task that may be required in not only a timely but efficient manner.”
The German government has failed to protect the public from the NSA's surveillance program and should be held accountable. On both a national and an EU level, there needs to be an independent investigation into the scandal.
Obama is, at best, telling only a small portion of the truth.
The Americans' colossal spying operation smacks of totalitarianism.
In it, the NSA openly refers to Germany as both a friend and a foe. "We can, and often do, target the signals of most 3rd party foreign partners," it boasts.
When it comes to correspondence, the private sphere was even a top priority for those who drafted Germany's constitution
Rumors persist that the US coordinated at least part of their surveillance program on German soil with German authorities.
The NSA is striving for "Information Superiority." What any constitutional state must now strive for is "Information Sovereignty" -- a return to self-determination and its basic right to decide itself what happens to its data
