Our cover story in Britain, meanwhile, focuses on Sir Keir Starmer. Is the opposition Labour Party, which he leads, ready to govern? And what exactly is “Starmerism”? Labour enjoys a big, if narrowing, poll lead and has been deft in the way it has positioned itself as a government-in-waiting. Our Britain team interviewed Sir Keir in Middlesbrough in northern England and came away with a deeper understanding of who he is and the ambitions he has for the country.
A long war will increase political and economic pressure on western governments. Joe Biden’s comment for Vladimir Putin to go may have been undiplomatic, but the west might need regime change in Russia to avoid political turmoil.
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Opinion: The war in Ukraine risks destabilising the west
A long conflict causing economic damage could fracture the unity of
Greek Crisis Raises New Fears Over Credit-Default Swaps Greece's debt restructuring is dragging credit-default swaps back into the spotlight.
The last time this financial instrument was on the global stage was in 2008, when the American International Group's credit-default swaps brought the insurer, as well as the wider financial system, to the brink of collapse. A.I.G. had unique weaknesses, and regulators have started to overhaul the credit-default swap market since 2008.
European policy makers have nonetheless looked warily at credit-default swaps, at least until recently, while they structured the Greek rescue over the last six months.
They aimed for a voluntary debt exchange that would not initiate the default swaps, fearing that payments on the swaps might set off destabilizing chain reactions through Europe's financial system.
But now, with Europe's $172 billion aid package for Greece, it appears that the nation is going to take a step that substantially increases the likelihood that its swaps take effect.
CEO goal: Fix France Télécom
France Telecom's chief executive in-waiting Stephane Richard plans to make rebuilding bruised employee morale in the wake of several
destabilizing suicides a top priority when he takes the helm of the company next month.
Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment.[1] It may evoke changes in them such as cognitive dissonance or low self-esteem, rendering the victim additionally dependent on the gaslighter for emotional support and validation. Using denial, misdirection, contradiction and misinformation, gaslighting involves attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim's beliefs.
煤氣燈效應是一種心理操縱的形式，其方法是一個人或一個團體隱秘地讓受害人逐漸開始懷疑自己，使他們質疑自己的記憶力，感知力或判斷力，其結果是導致受害者的認知失調和其他變化，例如低下的自我尊重。因為其使用否定，誤導，矛盾和錯誤信息，煤氣燈效應使受害者心理上去穩定化以及使受害者不再相信她/他們原來的的信仰。在現實案例中的範圍，可以從虐待者否認先前發生過虐待事件，到虐待者意圖使受害者迷失方向的怪異事件的發生。
該術語起源於劇本《煤氣燈》（Gas Light，1938年，但最初在美國以「安吉爾街」為名稱演出）及其1940年和1944年的改編版電影。該術語已用於臨床心理學文獻[1] :31–46 [2]以及政治評論和哲學中。 [3]
The verb rebuild has one meaning:
Meaning #1: build again
Synonym:
reconstruct
[動]（〜ped, 〜・ping）((略式))(他)
1 〈物を〉（物と）交換する(trade)；取り換える(exchange)((for ...))；…を（人と）交換し合う((with ...))
She swapped her watch for the book.
腕時計とその本を交換した
I swapped seats ［places］ with him.
彼と席をかわった.
2 ((俗))〈妻・夫を〉（セックスのために）交換［スワッピング］する(swing).
━━(自)（←(他)）物々交換する, 取り換える((over, round)).
━━[名]交換, 取り換え；交換（に適する）品；((俗))夫婦交換, スワッピング
in a swap
交換で
a swap meet ［market］
((米))（中古品などの）交換会［市］
do a swap
交換する
interest rate swap
金利スワップ（変動金利と固定金利の債務を交換する取引）.
swáp transàction[swáp transàction]
［中英語swappenより. 原義は「打つ」, 次に「手を打って商いをする」］
swap・ping
[名]
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