O’Reilly, Fox News, And Sexual Harassment…AGAIN

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The journalism establishment desperately needs a news source that covers the stories the mainstream news media embargos, distorts or delays. Fox News is all there is, and its management undermines its credibility and lives down to the hoariest conservative stereotypes by cultivating a gender-biased culture right out of "Mad Men."

April 04, 2017 at 03:20AM

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Comment Of Te Day: “From The Ethics Alarms ‘Do The Ends Justify The Means?’ Files: The Breast Cancer Survivor’s Inspiring Scam”

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"Is it even possible for reporters to be fair and still remain employed these days when writing about such emotion-driven issues?"

April 04, 2017 at 12:23AM

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Signature Significance: The Democratic Party’s Irresponsible And Petulant Gorsuch Tantrum

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The Democratic Party has made a decision that its core supporters would rather have it throw a tantrum and embarrass itself than act like a responsible governing entity.

April 03, 2017 at 09:13PM

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When the World Acknowledges Genocide, Still Turns Away

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By: Elijah Brown
Genocide rumbles forward in Darfur even as powers around the world turn a blind eye and roll back sanctions. With 3 million Darfuris at risk, the U.S. is set to lift sanctions after a review period ends in July.

April 03, 2017 at 04:43PM

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Adults Who Love Jesus But Not Church Mostly White, Women

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By: EthicsDaily Staff
U.S. adults who say they "love Jesus but not the church" represent a growing percentage of the population, the Barna Group says. Nearly two-thirds are female and white.

April 03, 2017 at 04:43PM

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From The Ethics Alarms “Do The Ends Justify The Means?” Files: The Breast Cancer Survivor’s Inspiring Scam

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"If even one woman's life was saved thanks to a conversation Paulette started, wasn't that enough? So what if our hero was flawed?"

April 03, 2017 at 08:20AM

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Penn State Trustee Al Lord Says He’s Running Out Of Patience With Jerry Sandusky’s “So-Called Victims”

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As long as Lord is on its board, we will know that Penn State isn't serious about changing the sick culture created by Joe Paterno, and that if another Jerry Sandusky is suspected of molesting boys in the showers, the response of its officials is likely to be, again, "What's best for the football program."

April 02, 2017 at 08:52PM

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The Mind is Willing, but the Situation Constrains: Why and When Leader Conscientiousness Relates to Ethical Leadership

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Abstract

While previous research has established that employees who have a more conscientious leader are more likely to perceive that their leader is ethical, the underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions of this linkage remain unknown. In order to better understand the relationship between leader conscientiousness and ethical leadership, we examine the potential mediating role of leader moral reflectiveness, as well as the potential moderating role of decision-making autonomy. Drawing from social cognitive theory, results from two samples of workgroup leaders and their immediate reports situated in Africa and Asia show that leader conscientiousness is positively related to leader moral reflectiveness, which in turn, is positively associated with employees’ assessment of ethical leadership. Furthermore, and consistent with our hypothesis, results from the two samples show that leader decision-making autonomy moderates the indirect path from leader conscientiousness to ethical leadership through moral reflectiveness, such that only morally reflective leaders who have high (versus low) decision-making autonomy at work engage in ethical leadership behaviors. In our discussion, we highlight the theoretical and practical implications of our findings and suggest ways in which organizations can better foster ethical leadership.

April 02, 2017 at 02:31PM

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New Year resolutions and tripartite human nature

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Written by Charles Foster

‘I do not understand my own actions’, grumbled St. Paul. ‘For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate….I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do….’¹

That’s a fair summary of the evidence about the fate of New Year’s resolutions. The University of Hertfordshire psychologist, Richard Wiseman, found that only 10% of New Year’s resolutions succeed. Most of them are abandoned by 23 January.

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When we fail in our resolutions, we rebuke ourselves in very Pauline language.^{2, 3, 4} The higher parts of ourselves, we say, are in a battle against the lower parts. We even give Pauline names to the parties in the battle: he distinguished clearly between ‘…spirit and soul and body…’⁵ So do we. ‘The spirit was willing’, we complain, after a losing battle with the body over the last of the mince pies, ‘but the flesh was weak’. These self-rebukes have distinct normative moral colour: we are not merely regretting the consequences of our failure.

This tripartite division of human nature was Christian orthodoxy until Augustine. He abandoned it, substituting a bipartite model (body and soul) because he wanted to insist on human fallenness, and the presence of a spirit (which presumably had a divine origin⁶) made it harder to emphasize human depravity. The Roman Catholic church has long been in thrall to Augustine: so, in this respect at least, were the Refomers (notably Calvin, and with the honourable exception of Luther).

A doctrine such as bipartism, so discordant both with intuition (see the mince pies) and holy writ, can only survive if it’s turned into an essential article of faith. And so it has been: bipartism has been proclaimed from the highest pulpits in Western Christendom, and is part of the Roman Catholic catechism.⁷

 There is a similar dogmatism in neuroscience: but a dogmatism of silence; an emphatic refusal to address the obviously important questions. There is a large and growing literature on the neuroscience of moral deliberation.⁸ It is meticulous, rigorous, and rather dull. It typically indicates which areas light up on a fMRI scan, and which don’t, when subjects are considering moral quandraries. To this essentially descriptive work I find myself saying, respectfully: ‘So what?’ It says nothing about the mince pies; nothing about the curious fact that ‘I’ refer to myself as being in conflict with ‘myself’.

It’s not surprising: the Stalinist reductionism of neuroscience knows that it can’t begin to get to grips with the mince pies, and that its inadequacy will be embarrassingly demonstrated if it tries. Out of self-preservation it refuses to ask the big, obvious, central questions. St. Paul has a lot more explanatory power than the fMRI data.

 References

1. Romans 7: 15, 18-19: New RSV
2.  Marlatt, G.A. and Kaplan, B.E., 1972. Self-initiated attempts to change behavior: A study of New Year’s resolutions. Psychological Reports, 30(1), pp.123-131.
3. Norcross, J.C., Ratzin, A.C. and Payne, D., 1989. Ringing in the new year: the change processes and reported outcomes of resolutions. Addictive behaviors, 14(2), p.205.
4. Polivy, J. and Herman, C.P., 2002. If at first you don’t succeed: False hopes of self-change. American Psychologist, 57(9), p.677.
5. ‘…may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless….’ 1 Thessalonians 3:23
6. As indeed, scripturally, it did. Genesis 2:7 says that ‘…the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.’ New RSV
7. The Catechism of the Catholic Church http://ift.tt/2g98kPs states: ‘The unity of soul and body is so profound that one has to consider the soul to be the “form” of the body: i.e., it is because of its spiritual soul that the body made of matter becomes a living, human body; spirit and matter, in man, are not two natures united, but rather their union forms a single nature…. Sometimes the soul is distinguished from the spirit: St. Paul for instance prays that God may sanctify his people “wholly”, with “spirit and soul and body” kept sound and blameless at the Lord’s coming.²³⁶ The Church teaches that this distinction does not introduce a duality into the soul’: paragraphs 365 and 367
8. See, amongst very many examples, Borg, J. S., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Calhoun, V. D., & Kiehl, K. A. (2011). Neural basis of moral verdict and moral deliberation. Social Neuroscience, 6(4), 398–413; and Parkinson, C., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Koralus, P.E., Mendelovici, A., McGeer, V. and Wheatley, T., 2011. Is morality unified? Evidence that distinct neural systems underlie moral judgments of harm, dishonesty, and disgust. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(10), pp.3162-3180; Tillman, J.J., 2016. An Integrative Model of Moral Deliberation. Springer.

April 02, 2017 at 02:13PM

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South Korea: Park faces charges including bribery, power abuse in 13 cases

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Ousted leader Park Geun-hye, arrested early Friday, faces charges of bribery, coercion, abuse of power and the leak of state secrets in 13 cases, according to court officials. If convicted, she could face life in prison.

After a grueling nine-hour hearing, Judge Kang Boo-young acknowledged the need for her arrest, saying there is probable cause to charge her and a concern of evidence being destroyed.

The full original article can be found at english.yonhapnews.co.kr

April 02, 2017 at 12:46PM

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Brazil: Former Brazil house speaker Cunha sentenced to 15 years for graft

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A federal court sentenced Brazil’s former speaker of the lower house, Eduardo Cunha, to more than 15 years in prison on Thursday for corruption, making him the highest-profile political conviction yet in the “Operation Car Wash” scandal.

The former politician’s defense team said they would appeal the decision. Cunha will remain imprisoned pending appeal.

Cunha, who drove the successful impeachment of former President Dilma Rousseff, was forced from his position as speaker in July and arrested in October on accusations he received millions in bribes from the purchase of an oil field in Benin by state-controlled oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA.

The full original article can be found at reuters.com

April 02, 2017 at 12:46PM

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Malaysia: 1MDB has cleared RM3 billion in debts, says Malaysian PM

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State fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) has cleared more than RM3 billion (US$678.96 million) in debt over the past two years, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Wednesday, amid ongoing money-laundering probes linked to 1MDB in at least six countries.

The sovereign wealth fund, founded by Najib, is at the centre of civil lawsuits filed by the U.S. Department of Justice that allege more than US$3.5 billion was misappropriated from 1MDB. The fund is also being investigated in Switzerland and Singapore.

Najib, who chaired 1MDB’s advisory board until it was dissolved in May 2016, has denied all allegations of corruption.

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April 02, 2017 at 12:46PM

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Greece: Greek FinMin presents new tool to combat tax evasion

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Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos presented on Thursday a new tool which will help the Greek state to combat widespread tax evasion.

He also acknowledged the increased strain on the middle class from the tax hikes implemented to address the debt crisis.

An automated application will help tax office inspectors trace tax dodgers by crosschecking within two minutes their tax declarations of past years to bank deposits and other assets, the minister announced in a press briefing.

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April 02, 2017 at 12:46PM

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Ukraine: USAID pauses on new Ukraine anti-corruption agency projects

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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will not engage in more projects with the Ukrainian anti-corruption agency NAZK at this point but remains open to future cooperation, the U.S. Embassy in Kiev said on Thursday.

NAZK has been mired in controversy and blamed by the prime minister this week for delays to a flagship scheme obliging public officials and lawmakers to declare their assets in a publicly searchable database by the start of April.

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April 02, 2017 at 12:46PM

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China: War on graft a top priority

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Prosecutors will keep up their pressure in the fight against corruption this year amid ongoing reform, a senior anti-graft official from the top procuratorate said.

Corruption in elections, environmental protection, food and drug safety and production safety will remain the primary targets, said Lu Xi, director of the General Bureau Against Corruption and Bribery of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate.

Job-related crimes by officials in financial sectors such as banking, securities and futures markets, as well as other graft issues that might hinder the development of reforms, also will get special attention from the graft-busters, Lu said in an exclusive interview.

The full original article can be found at china.org.cn

April 02, 2017 at 12:46PM

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China: China will use ‘other options’ to return fugitives as extradition treaty falters

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Chinese authorities would use “other options”, such as persuading fugitives to return by pressuring family members, if an extradition treaty with Australia is not ratified, analysts said.

The director of Peking University’s anti-corruption study centre, Zhuang Deshui, said the extradition treaty was only one way for China to return fugitives and recover stolen funds as part of its anti-corruption drive.

The full original article can be found at smh.com.au

April 02, 2017 at 12:46PM

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Thailand: Thai ex-tourism boss Juthamas Siriwan gets 50 years’ jail over US$1.8 million bribe

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The former head of Thailand’s tourism department was given a 50-year jail sentence for accepting US$1.8mil (RM7.9mil) in kickbacks from an American couple lobbying for rights to host a Bangkok film festival.

Juthamas Siriwan, 69, accepted the bribes while she was tourism chief in the early 2000s, according to the verdict delivered yesterday at a new Bangkok court handling corruption cases.

Judges also sentenced her daughter, Jittisopha, to 44 years for helping hide the cash in overseas bank accounts, and ordered Thai authorities to seize the money.

The full original article can be found at thestar.com.my

April 02, 2017 at 12:46PM

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United Kingdom: UK court dismisses Unaoil case against anti-fraud agency

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The English High Court on Wednesday dismissed an attempt by oil and gas services group Unaoil and the wealthy Ahsani family to force the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to return or destroy material collected during raids in Monaco last year.

Unaoil alleged the SFO had relied on misstatements and omissions when it asked Monegasque authorities to raid properties, seize material and arrest the men for questioning.

“…We shall continue to assert our legal right and we are confident that once this investigation is concluded we will be cleared of all wrongdoing,” Unaoil said in a statement.

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April 02, 2017 at 12:46PM

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Europe: EU top court upholds sanctions against Russia’s Rosneft

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Europe’s top court on Tuesday upheld European Union sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, including on its largest oil group Rosneft , in a ruling that asserts the court’s jurisdiction over the bloc’s foreign policy.

The EU slapped sanctions on Russia after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and stepped them up as Moscow went on to support a separatist rebellion in Ukraine’s industrial east.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) said “restrictive measures … in response to the crisis in Ukraine against certain Russian undertakings, including Rosneft, are valid.”

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April 02, 2017 at 12:46PM

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“We’re Environmentally Conscious, So Buy Our Cereal!”

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And if you are really just cynical, reckless virtue-signalling grandstanders? How good does that make your cereal?

April 02, 2017 at 04:43AM

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