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Government officials and some scientists say there's no link between vaccines and autism -- and they're often backed by independent experts. But how "independent" are they? Sharyl Attkisson reports. Author: CBS Keywords: Health Medicine Mental Illness Ethics Added: July 25, 2008

Stuart Brown, a physician and director of the National Institute for Play, says that pleasurable, purposeless activity prevents violence and promotes trust, empathy, and adaptability to life's complication. He promotes cutting-edge science on human play, and draws on a rich universe of study of intelligent social animals.

Well, just a few thoughts. Author: joebot1 Keywords: god jesus christ christmas atheist atheism christian christianity debate religion RRS good morality ethics evil bible Added: July 24, 2008

How much should personal, supernatural experiences count in one's faith? Does God afford everyone an equally convincing supernatural encounter? Join Emery and Jesse as they discuss Jesse's own "Damascus Road" experience.

Last week, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed charges for the first time against a sitting head of state, charging President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan with three counts of genocide, five counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes. Fareed Zakaria had Sudan s ambassador to the United Nations on his CNN show, GPS, to discuss the charges, which he called a joke and cited the U.S. 2002 withdrawal from the ICC treaty as an example of why Sudan does not recognize the court s authority and will not cooperate with it: Download | Play Download | Play ZAKARIA: Will your government mount a defense in the International Criminal Court? MOHAMAD: We have no relation with the International Criminal Court. We don t recognize its authority. We are not going to cooperate with it. ZAKARIA: But of course, you know that other governments that did not recognize the Criminal Court were still forced to extradite their leaders. I m thinking of Yugoslavia. MOHAMAD: No. I don t care about them. As far as we are concerned, we are not members. We have been told these days repeatedly that the ICC is an independent body. And so, OK, if it s an independent body, I am not a U.N. organ. We have full right to be part of it or not. And we choose not to be part of it, like the United States. (full transcript) Complicating the ICC s ability to pursue war crimes charges, as referenced in the interview by Sudan s UN ambassador, is President Bush s unsigning of the International Criminal Court treaty in 2002. Though President Bush has publicly denounced the killings in Sudan as genocide, the administration has soft-pedaled sanctions against the Sudanese government to preserve its extensive intelligence collaboration with Sudan, once a safe haven for bin Laden that has become a crossroads for Islamic militants making their way to Iraq and Pakistan. The most major impediment to ending the genocide in Darfur has been China s longstanding diplomatic protection and economic support in return for its access to the 500,000 barrels of oil that Sudan produces daily. China, also not a signatory to the ICC treaty, was revealed in a report about a week ago by the BBC to be in violation of the UN arms embargo there through its export of weapons and training of fighter pilots. Supporters of Barack Obama who would like to see the United States reembrace the International Criminal Court (ICC) treaty, thereby reaffirming its commitment to human rights, have created a group on the candidate s website, my.barackobama.com.

Author: QIP1 Added: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:55:04 -0800 Duration: 55This 1950's social etiquette film overtly encourages good citizenship and proper manners to young school children, as well as unintentionally representing Cold War culture. The narrator of the film introduces Harvey as the happiest boy in school. While he walks through the school yard, he waves and smiles at the other children, and they all happily wave back as though he is royalty. And why shouldn't he be treated royally, he's a productive member of society (by being an utter conformist)! The film teaches the importance neatness and cleanliness, simply helping others, and being conscientious about making even new kids feel welcome, all examples of good citizenship. American family values and ethical behavior are stressed as vital to teaching teens good manners. Only slightly touched upon by the film are examples of bad manners: little Tommy is always late, which is poor etiquette! While the content of the film remains utterly positive, the underpinnings of all of the ...

Author: QIP1 Added: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:55:04 -0800 Duration: 53This social etiquette film discusses how honesty can become difficult in situations where the stakes are high. One of the top high school basketball players at his school, Bob, is seen leaving the locker room, and shortly thereafter another teammates money has been stolen. Was Bob stealing? Are all the witnesses telling the truth? The highschoolers in this film must figure out for themselves where the answers lie. The film features strong acting for its genre, and the story becomes interesting: when one of the witnesses, a girl whos dating the number two player on the basketball team, confesses that she wants Bob to fail so her boyfriend can be the top player. As everyone works towards finding the truth, typical American family values are investigated as well as social conformity in the 1950's. Without question, the truth hurts, but the cost of dishonesty is greater. This educational video asks people to discover the difference between an honest mistake and being dishonest.

Author: QIP1 Added: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:55:04 -0800 Duration: 51This educational video discusses the three methods of social control in 1950's United States: American customs (what we usually do), American morals (what we should do), and American law (what we must do). A group of teenagers serve as a microcosm of society, with the parents as the governmental authority. The story is about the group and how their teen curfews are causing difficulty at work (they work at the "Teen Canteen") and at home. The adults are ready to give parenting tips about curfew that mirror American laws. The teenage behavior is pretty tame by today's standards, and it's interesting to see how different parenting and parenting resources were in the fifties. To get to the heart of the matter, the teens and the adults responsible for them have a discussion and decide together what to do about this teenage behavior problem. The youngsters make the right choice, falling in line with their parents' wishes and social conformity in general. This film is an excellent ...

This week, Roy Jenkins’ guest is Dr Gary Parker, a surgeon who works in some of the poorest countries of the world, restoring the faces of those who have been affected by deformity or disease. He talks about his remarkable and challenging work and about the Christian faith which inspires him.

CNN s AC 360° on Friday took a look at both of the Democratic and Republican candidates and their wives, and the short bio they did on John McCain gave viewers little reason, if any, why he would be very well suited at all to become our next President or our military s Commander in Chief. Download | Play Download | Play In fact, it helped reveal a McCain who was an underachieving party boy during his military career - lucky to have graduated at all, much less fifth from the bottom of his class in the Naval Academy, and reminded viewers of his involvement in one of the biggest financial scandals to touch the capitol in the 80s and 90s. As the CNN report tells it, the lessons John McCain learned during his time as a POW were that one of the most important things in life - along with a man s family - is to make some contribution to his country, and that his involvement in the Keating 5 scandal which resulted in the Congressional finding that he had exercised poor judgment for intervening with federal regulators on behalf of his good friend and largest political contributor/fundraiser, Charles Keating, led to his becoming a crusader for campaign finance reform and transparency. While the lessons learned parts may sound nice, what the segment didn t reveal was the fact that his own actions have in large part belied that account. The McCain that learned the importance of family as a POW returned to divorce his first wife in a manner that offended many of his friends and colleagues to this day, and his supposed commitment as a crusader for campaign finance reform and transparency went out the window when he began skirting or breaking many of the very campaign finance laws he used to champion just as soon as they would have applied to him during this campaign. Seriously, what part of John McCain s past would lead anyone who actually looked at it to believe he s the one who should lead this country forward? What part of what little we know about his military record suggests he s leadership material? Is there any significant policy position that John McCain currently holds, on any topic, that he s consistently held about anything?

Author: QIP1 Added: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:54:49 -0800 Duration: 49This absorbing vintage film explores the issue of cheating in school. John, a Student Council representative, is having trouble with algebra. He knows he has to maintain his good grades for his social status, so he gets his girlfriend Mary to allow him to copy from her answers on a test. Later, after hes been caught, his fellow students come down on him hard, eventually punishing him by kicking him off the Student Council. What makes this film different from others of its ilk is the Film Noir quality that the film employs to heighten tension and fear. The characteristics of film noir are ever present. The beginning is quite dark and scary, with a young boy's loneliness, with many different close ups of a phone, faces, and disembodied voices. And of course, shadows and sharp angles are focused on with the stark black and white picture exploding off the screen. As this was part of the Discussion Problems in Group Living series, this film focuses not on what the adults do to ...

This absorbing vintage film explores the issue of cheating in school. John, a Student Council representative, is having trouble with algebra. He knows he has to maintain his good grades for his social status, so he gets his girlfriend Mary to allow him to copy from her answers on a test. Later, after he’s been caught, his fellow students come down on him hard, eventually punishing him by kicking him off the Student Council. What makes this film different from others of its ilk is the Film Noir quality that the film employs to heighten tension and fear. The characteristics of film noir are ever present. The beginning is quite dark and scary, with a young boy's loneliness, with many different close ups of a phone, faces, and disembodied voices. And of course, shadows and sharp angles are focused on with the stark black and white picture exploding off the screen. As this was part of the Discussion Problems in Group Living series, this film focuses not on what the adults do to John, but on what his peers think of his actions, and whether they will offer peer support or more peer pressure. This series of films was made specifically to stimulate discussion among young audiences who viewed it, instead of making rigid pronouncements about what is right or wrong. Cheating on tests in school is an ever growing issue and it's fascinating to see how cheating was perceived in the 1950's. Author: QualityInformation Keywords: 1950s character cheat cheating code conduct education ethics family film filmstrip morality noir social values Added: July 18, 2008

Today, Wayne Turmel talks to Clint Korver, one of the authors of Ethics for the Real World- Creating a Personal Code to Guide Decisions In Work and Life. We also look at a 2500 year old business book. Plus an offer to get one of the first free copies of my new book!!! Show Notes 0:00 Welcome to The Cranky Middle Manager. Today we re talking ethics with no yeah buts . Life is complicated but the rules are pretty simple. so simple, in fact we ve known them for thousands of years. We dedicate the show to Tao Zhu Gong, business guru and still relevant 2500 years later. 2:43 Our quote of the week is from Tao Zhu Gong as well . good advice is good advice. By the way, here s an exciting opportunity to get a free copy of my new book 125 Quotes for Whacking Weasels- Wisdom, Motivation and Snappy Comeback from the Cranky Middle Manager Show . Simply write and say why you listen to the Cranky Middle Manager, and what you like about the Quote of the Week. One answer will be chosen to go on the back cover of the book and if it s yours you ll get a free copy. Just drop a line to wayne@crankymiddlemanager.com or post to the blog site. 4:00 Welcome Clint Korver, one of the authors of Ethics for the Real World- Creating a Personal Code to Guide Decisions in Work and Life. Ethics is a word that gets thrown around -and out- a lot. What is it and how is it different from morality? Ethics are your personal standards of right and wrong. Morality is the social code. 6:30 it s the little things that try your soul and your ethics. What harm can come from little white lies? Rationalization is the enemy, which is tough cause it s also my best friend. How good are YOU at telling the truth? 15:00 There are three reasons we test our ethics: Prudentia (your self interest)l, Legal (letter of the law) and Ethical (spirit of the law). 17:50 What happens when your ethics and the situation don t seem to coincide? You have to talk to your boss and lay it out. He gives us a good example from the consulting world .interesting choice. I have a horror story of my own. 22:50 Clint and Ronald suggest setting up a very explicit personal code.. how do we do that? Can you make ethical decisions with a matrix? Listen up. It s one thing to have a rule like tell the truth at all times but then what are the exceptions? 29:30 Clint s resources 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey Don t let the weasels get you down!

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Download | Play Download | Play (excerpt courtesy of Bill W, full video available at Times Online) Steve Benen: Fundraising for a presidential library has always been controversial, in part because, unlike contributions to U.S. political campaigns, donations to libraries can come from foreign sources, and are easier to conceal. But this kind of corruption is striking, even by the Bush administration s standards. The Sunday Times reports Stephen Payne, a Bush pioneer and a political appointee to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, was caught on tape offering access to key members of the Bush administration inner circle in exchange for six-figure donations to the private library being set up to commemorate Bush s presidency. In an undercover video, Payne is seen promising to arrange a meeting for an exiled leader of Krygystan with Dick Cheney or Condoleezza Rice. (Not President Bush because he doesn t meet with a lot of former Presidents these days, Payne says. I don t think he meets with hardly anyone. ) All it will take for him to arrange this high-level meeting, says Payne, is a couple hundred thousand dollars, or something like that. Specifically, Payne tells a Kazakh politician he knew as Eric Dos that Payne would come up with the exact budget, which would be somewhere between $600,000 and $750,000, with about a third of it going directly to the Bush library. The contribution would be a show of ‘we re interested, we re your friends, we re still friends. The TimesOnline piece makes no specific mention of the politician that Dos is representing, but both Benen and BooMan narrow it down to former Krygystan President Askar Akayev, and possibly a motive as well: (T)he prospective client who is being asked to pony up $600,000 - $750,000 ($200,000-$250,000 of which will go to the Bush Library) is former President Askar Akayev, as he is the only exiled former president of Kyrgyzstan in existence. Akayev s human rights record is mixed. For the region, it was better than average, but in the years just prior to his ouster he began to restrict and harass political and media freedoms. The Times of London sting operation is curious. The video shows a meeting between Stephen Payne, [who is a Bush pioneer, a political appointee to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, and a Senior Advance Representative traveling internationally in advance of and with President Bush and Vice President Cheney], an unidentified representative of Askar Akayev, and an undercover reporter who is surreptitiously videotaping the conversation. It appears that the latter two gentleman colluded in setting up the sting and that part of the agreement was that the Times would not mention Akayev s name or country in print. What possible motivation would Akayev have to embarrass the Bush administration? Let s look at who Akayev blamed for his ouster: The ousted Kyrgyzstan president, Askar Akayev, last night accused the US of being behind the anti-constitutional coup which forced him to flee the country last week, and said he wold only resign if given sufficient a guarantee of his personal safety. I believe we have what is known as payback time, ladies and gentlemen.

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Roy Jenkins and a panel of guests reflect upon the decision by the Church of England on women bishops. And, in the week when the Lambeth Conference gets underway, they ask what is the future for the worldwide Anglican Communion?

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The spiritual is celebrated in American culture and beyond. It is the source from which gospel, jazz, blues and hip-hop evolved. It was born in the American South, created by slaves, bards whose names history never recorded. The organizing concept of this music is not the melody of Europe, but the rhythm of Africa. And the theology conveyed in these songs is a potent mix of African spirituality, Hebrew narrative, Christian doctrine, and an extreme experience of human suffering.

Teresa Ghilarducci, the Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Chair of Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research and the 2006-2008 Wuf Fellow at Harvard Law School