For the past few months, 21st Century Fox has been using the infamous Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape during company seminars to give Fox staffers an example of bad behavior in the workplace — a fact that became especially awkward this week as President Trump defended one of Fox’s biggest stars, Bill O’Reilly, who is facing his own harassment scandal.

…Someone joked about getting fired for harassment and wondering if the defense could be, ‘We were only told a behavior was bad once in a seminar,’ but Fox News said it was ‘just locker room talk’ over and over again.”

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“We have no knowledge of Russian involvement in this attack, but we will investigate any information that might lead us in that direction,” a senior official told reporters during a background briefing at the Pentagon.

…“We don’t know why somebody or who struck that, we don’t have positive accountability yet, but the fact that somebody would strike the hospital potentially to hide the evidence of a chemical attack, about five hours after is a question that we’re very interested in,” the official said.

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A slightly more convoluted strain on the left: Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the chemical weapons massacre to help Trump — distracting Americans from an investigation into Trump’s campaign ties to Russia by provoking the missile strike.

…“Wouldn’t it be nice,” O’Donnell asked a nodding, smiling Rachel Maddow, “if it was just completely, totally, absolutely impossible to suspect that Vladimir Putin orchestrated what happened in Syria this week — so that his friend in the White House could have a big night with missiles and all the praises he’s picked up over the past 24 hours?”

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The latest attacks come after a missile strike early Friday by the United States on a base in western Syria that the United States says was used to launch Tuesday’s chemical attack, which left more than 85 people dead and hundreds more injured.

…In a statement Saturday, Johnson said his priority was to continue contact with the United States and others in the run-up to a meeting of G-7 foreign ministers in Italy on Monday and Tuesday, with the aim of building “coordinated international support for a ceasefire on the ground and an intensified political process.”

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It has been a head-spinning week watching the Trump administration stumble into its first international crisis only to emerge with a transformed policy on the use of force in the Middle East, announced on Thursday with the unleashing of 59 sea-launched cruise missiles against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

…Despite a brutal six-year civil war in which Mr. Assad’s forces have been responsible for the deaths of about 200,000 civilians, and despite near universal opposition to his rule by leaders of the civilized world, Ms. Haley thought it was the right time to send a signal to Mr. Assad and his allies, Russia and Iran, that the new American president’s priority “is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out.”

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(CNN)US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in an interview airing Sunday on CNN that until Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is out of power, she doesn’t see a political solution to the conflict in Syria.

…Haley’s remarks come just a day after she warned that the United States was prepared to take further actions in Syria during a special session at the UN following a US military strike against a Syrian air base.

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The two men are eager to bring back the national crime strategy of the 1980s and ’90s from the peak of the drug war, an approach that had fallen out of favor in recent years as minority communities grappled with the effects of mass incarceration.

…As his first step, Sessions told his prosecutors in a memo last month to begin using “every tool we have” — language that evoked the strategy from the drug war of loading up charges to lengthen sentences.

…“We are not just sweeping away everything that has come before us.” said Robyn Thiemann, the deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Policy, who is working with Cook and has been at the Justice Department for nearly 20 years.

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European countries take the next three places on the list: Germany in fourth position, with a $3.3 trillion economy; the United Kingdom in fifth with $2.9 trillion; and France in sixth with $2.4 trillion.

…The UK could be down to 10th place by 2050, while France could be out of the top 10 and Italy out of the top 20 as they are overtaken by faster-growing emerging economies such as Mexico, Turkey and Vietnam.

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Digital Transformation Review N° 09 9 DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION REVIEW The view from digital’s front-line “The new formula of success is that you don’t do it all yourself – you have to know what you have to be uniquely good at.” – Beth Comstock “You can invest millions of dollars in technology but if you don’t have a culture that enables you to collaborate across the organization, then nothing will change.” – Monty Hamilton “We are building a new digital mobile operator model with the organizational DNA and agility of an internet player.” – Subhra Das “The importance of a long-term strategy is to give people something to hang on to and act as a broader guide during times of uncertainty.” – Rita McGrath “The pace of technology change dictates that we need to invest in people whose full-time job is to focus on things beyond 12 months.” – Mark Jamison “Start by asking ‘What is the minimum viable platform, what is the minimum interaction that’s going to create the most value for your external users?’” – Marshall Van Alstyne a stranglehold on digital talent.

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Organizations will use these reinvigorated lean methods to implement a new way of working for three dimensions that have long been recognized as pivotal: technical systems (processes and tools), management systems (organization and performance management), and people systems (capabilities, mind-sets, and behavior).

…Based on our experience working with clients on digital and Industry 4.0 transformations, we have identified five principles that can help companies successfully convert Industry 4.0 solutions into real value and bottom-line impact.

…In this case, companies will need to address the entire value chain, apply a full set of levers or solutions, and have a clear plan for scaling up new approaches across their entire network.

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“If 20% of your revenue is not an insight stream by 2020, you won’t have a digital biz model.”

…”2015 is not the year of the crowd, it’s the year when the crowd realizes they are the product and they don’t like it.

…”The gap between the top 3 companies in every category and everyone else is startling. 43% to 71% of the market share and 53 to 77% of the profits.

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“No matter how well funded a security team is, it can’t buy its way to high security using traditional approaches that have been demonstrably failing and that don’t stand a chance of working in the anticipated digital complexity of our economy in 10 years’ time.”

…As Vectra CISO Gunter Ollmann blogged about recently, buzzwords “have made it appear that security automation is the same as AI security” – meaning there’s a danger of CISOs buying solutions they don’t need, while there are further concerns over AI ethics, quality control and management.