Category: Ethics, Morality & Religion
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Nor do subordinates come with the office. Once again, the news cycle is dominated by stories of powerful men embroiled in sexual behavior which is at best unsavory in one instance and probably criminal in another. Boys will be boys, right? And it is none of our business, most of the time. But older men in positions of power are not adolescent boys and predatory behavior resembling a rutting chimpanzee…
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The Effect of Meditation on the Brain activity in Tibetan Meditators: Frontal Lobes The Effect of Meditation on the Brain activity in Tibetan Meditators: Parietal Lobes Can Anyone Meditate? (Norman Costa) This video is an excerpt from an interview of Andrew Newberg, conducted by Robert Wright. Andrew Newberg teaches at the university of Pennsylvania both in the…
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Compare the following, a few examples of the new English translation of the Roman Missal, the book of texts used in Mass. The revisions are meant to be more faithful to the liturgical Latin that was used for centuries by the Catholic Church, until recently. The first one represents the language in use currently and the second italicized…
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In 2008, I had reported on the unlawful exploitation of foreign workers during the rebuilding efforts in Louisiana following Katrina. It seems that the practice is quite common and the financial and physical abuse is sometimes aided by the governments of the countries from where the workers are imported by US companies. GALVESTON — A lawsuit filed…
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A couple of weeks ago I posted the news about KV Pharmaceutical's price gouging tactics involving a common drug used to prevent premature labor in pregnant women. The FDA, which gave exclusive manufacturing license for the drug Makena to KV, has now reacted to the massive bad press generated by the extortionist ways of the pharmaceutical…
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This news story is beyond absurd; it smacks of ethics violations. The company awarded the special privilege doesn't even have the excuse of recuperating the costs of R&D! And we wonder why the health care costs go up? Still think the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has your best interests in mind? According to new reports,…
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And they don't bode well for Hope & Change, at least not of the kind I had in mind. The violent video I posted showing bigots in Orange County heckling and threatening Muslim families was terrible enough. But more awful news keeps dribbling out on the front pages of the newspapers and TV headlines. Some news items lead me to believe…
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Actually, this is not surprising at all, given the xenophobia and paranoia that have taken hold of the psyche of some Americans. I don't care which idiotic and exploitative political and religious leaders are fanning the flames, this is disgusting. Update: The offensive video has been withdrawn due to copyright reasons.
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"Give Us What We Want, or We Kill the Mothers and Babies!" I was reading an article on Robert F. Drinan, S.J., a Jesuit priest who served in the U.S. Congress for 10 years, ending in 1980. He was the first Catholic clergy to serve in Congress. His departure came at the order of Pope…
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Manipulated over the past century and a half by greedy outsiders and their own repressive leaders, many Arabs in the middle east and north Africa are saying, "Enough already!" In country after country from Morocco to Bahrain, popular uprisings are now a raging fire. The long simmering resentment of ordinary people against widespread corruption, unemployment, grotesque inequalities and curtailment of freedom which is now a growing explosive…
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