CLASS STANDARD: A business is ethical if in addition to complying with the law it: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Protects the privacy of the stakeholders when applicable; Uses veracity in its practices; Is socially responsible in a way that does not unduly harm the business; Keeps its promises in line with reasonable expectations; and Provides fair and equal treatment to similarly situated stakeholders.

Final Presentation: Instructions. As the term draws to an end, we have come to the time when you will be working on your final presentations. In order to do this, you will need to select a topic of your own choosing and analyze one actors conduct within that topic against our class ethics standard. You will then be concluding whether the actors conduct you have chosen to analyze complies or does not compy with our class standard. To pick a topic, you can use newspapers, internet news, or any other source of current events. Examples could range from politics, the presidential election, product recalls, Wall Street current events, etc. You will be given a 4 minute maximum time limit to do your presentation. You will begin by stating your name and introducing the topic you chose to analyze. Then give a BRIEF synopsis of the important facts followed by a step by step analysis of each component of our class standard and how it either was or was not violated in the case you are analyzing. If one of the components does not apply, then dont just skip it. Say it does not apply and then move on to the next one. That way I will know you are not just leaving out one of the components. Remember, to satisfy our standard, each component has to be met because it is worded in the conjunctive.

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Editor's note: Bernie Sanders is an independent senator from Vermont. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 after serving 16 years in the House of Representatives and is the longestserving independent member of Congress in American history. (CNN) -- Gas prices approaching $4 a gallon on average are causing severe economic pain for millions of Americans. Pump prices spiked 5% in the past month alone. Crude oil prices stood at $108 on Friday, up from only double digits at the beginning of the month. What's the cause? Forget what you may have read about the laws of supply and demand. Oil and gas prices have almost nothing to do with economic fundamentals. According to the Energy Information Administration, the supply of oil and gasoline is higher today than it was three years ago, when the national average for a gallon of gasoline was just $1.90. Meanwhile, the demand for oil in the U.S. is at its lowest level since April of 1997. Is Big Oil to blame? Sure. Partly. Big oil companies have been gouging consumers for years. They have made almost $1 trillion in profits over the past decade, in part thanks to ridiculous federal subsidies and tax loopholes. I have proposed legislation to end those pointless giveaways to some of the biggest and most profitable corporations in the history of the world. But there's another reason for the wild rise in gas prices. The culprit is Wall Street. Speculators are raking in profits by gambling in the loosely regulated commodity markets for gas and oil. A decade ago, speculators controlled only about 30% of the oil futures market. Today, Wall Street speculators control nearly 80% of this market. Many of those people buying and selling oil in the commodity markets will never use a drop of this oil. They are not airlines or trucking companies who will use the fuel in the future. The only function of the speculators in this process is to make as much money as they can, as quickly as they can. I've seen the raw documents that prove the role of speculators. Commodity Futures Trading Commission records showed that in the summer of 2008, when gas prices spiked to more than $4 a gallon, speculators overwhelmingly controlled the crude oil futures market. The commission, which supposedly represents the interests of the American people, had kept the information hidden from the public for nearly three years. That alone is an outrage. The American people had a right to know exactly who caused gas prices to skyrocket in 2008 and who is causing them to spike today. Even those inside the oil industry have admitted that speculation is driving up the price of gasoline. The CEO of Exxon-Mobil, Rex Tillerson, told a Senate hearing last year that speculation was driving up the price of a barrel of oil by as much as 40%. The general counsel of Delta Airlines, Ben Hirst, and the experts at Goldman Sachs also said excessive speculation is causing oil prices to spike by up to 40%. Even Saudi Arabia, the largest exporter of oil in the

world, told the Bush administration back in 2008, during the last major spike in oil prices, that speculation was responsible for about $40 of a barrel of oil. Just last week, Commissioner Bart Chilton, one of the only Commodity Futures Trading Commission members looking out for consumers, calculated how much extra drivers are being charged as a result of Wall Street speculation. If you drive a relatively fuel-efficient vehicle such as a Honda Civic, you pay an extra $7.30 every time you fill your tank. For larger vehicles, such as a Ford F150, drivers pay an extra $14.56 for each fill-up. That works out to more than $750 a year going directly from your wallet or pocketbook to the Wall Street speculators. So as speculators gamble, millions of Americans are paying what amounts to a "speculators tax" to feed Wall Street's greed. People who live in rural areas like my home state of Vermont are hit harder than most because they buy gas to drive long distances to their jobs. It doesn't have to work this way. The current spike in oil and gasoline prices was avoidable. Under the Wall Street reform act that Congress passed in 2010, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission was ordered to impose strict limits on the amount of oil that Wall Street speculators could trade in the energy futures market. The regulators dragged their feet. Finally, after months and months of law-breaking delays, the commission in October adopted a rule. It was a weak version of a proposal that might have put meaningful limits on the number of futures and swaps contracts a single trader could hold. Even the watered-down regulation adopted by the industry-friendly commission was challenged in court. The Financial Markets Association and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association wanted free rein to continue unregulated gambling in the oil markets. So today, Wall Street once again is laughing all the way to the bank. Once again, federal regulators should move aggressively to end excessive oil speculation. We must do everything we can to lower gas prices so that they reflect the fundamentals of supply and demand and bring needed relief to the American people. The time for real action is now.

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468,301,278 output3.36 estimated printed pages | use the edit tools to save paper and ink! edit Norway killer Anders Breivik ruled sane, given 21-year prison term - CNN.com help By Laura Smith-Spark , CNN updated 12:25 PM EDT, Fri August 24, 2012 CNN.com Could Oslo massacre have been avoided? Oslo, Norway (CNN) -- Anders Behring Breivik, the man who killed 77 people in a bomb attack and gun rampage just over a year ago, was judged to be sane by a Norwegian court Friday, as he was sentenced to 21 years in prison. Breivik was charged with voluntary homicide and committing acts of terror in the attacks in Oslo and on Utoya Island on July 22, 2011. The issue of Breivik's sanity, on which mental health experts have given conflicting opinions, was central to the court's ruling. Breivik, who boasts of being an ultranationalist who killed his victims to fight multiculturalism in Norway, wanted to be ruled sane so that his actions wouldn't be dismissed as those of a lunatic. He says he acted out of "necessity" to prevent the "Islamization" of his country. But prosecutors had asked that Breivik, 33, be acquitted on the grounds of insanity, in which case he would have been held in a secure mental health unit. Suspected Breivik sympathizer arrested, arms seized The unanimous verdict was delivered at Oslo district court by a panel of five judges. Breivik, dressed in a dark suit and tie, had a slight smile on his face as the decision was given. He was sentenced to the maximum possible term of 21 years and was ordered to serve a minimum of 10 years in prison. The sentence could be extended, potentially indefinitely, in the future if he is considered still to pose a threat to society. Norway does not have the death penalty. Breivik has said he won't appeal the verdict. The chief prosecutor also confirmed Friday

that the prosecution does not intend to lodge an appeal. Bjorn Ihler, a survivor of the Utoya Island attack, told CNN he was glad the trial had concluded and that justice had been done. "It's been an amazingly difficult process. It's been a constant, constant reminder of why we have to fight extremism in every way possible," he said of the trial. "We have to make sure nothing like this ever happens again." The court's judgment that Breivik is sane means that the far-right views he espouses can be confronted in Norway without being dismissed as those of a madman, Ihler said. "There are extremist people around, they are not insane, and we have to be able to take a proper debate with them," he said. Asked whether the verdict meant closure for him, Ihler said: "This case is going to live strongly with me for the rest of my life probably." Send us your reaction to the verdict Reading out the court's ruling, Judge Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen spoke of Breivik's "manifesto," a document published online in which he set out his ultranationalist political views. Breivik claimed to belong to a far-right group called the Knights Templar but the court found no evidence of its existence, the judge said. He described his actions as a pre-emptive attack in defense of ethnic Norwegian people and culture, the court heard. Breivik trained for his attack by working out in the gym, running with a backpack filled with rocks and practicing at a shooting club, the court heard. He was under the influence of ephedrine, a stimulant, at the time of the attacks, and the possibility that this contributed to his behavior cannot be ruled out, Judge Arne Lyng said. He used meditation techniques to cut off his emotions, Lyng said. In the course of the 10-week trial, which wrapped up in June, the court heard chilling evidence from some of those who survived Breivik's shooting spree on Utoya Island, in which 69 people died -- most of them teenagers attending a Labour Party summer youth camp. Opinion: Does the internet breed killers? In his own testimony, given without emotion, Breivik recounted firing more bullets into

teenagers who were injured and couldn't escape, killing those who tried to "play dead" and driving others into the sea to drown. His fertilizer bomb attack against government buildings in Oslo also killed eight people and injured many more. It was only luck that more people were not killed and hurt in the blast, the court heard. Breivik blames politicians, and the Labour Party in particular, for promoting multiculturalism in Norway. He has been held in a "particularly high security" wing of Ila Prison since his detention immediately after the killings. The prison's governor, Knut Bjarkeid, said Wednesday that the institution was ready to hold Breivik securely whether the court ruled him sane or not. "Our job is to protect the community," Bjarkeid said. Over the past year, Breivik has had three cells for his use, one for physical exercise and another for reading and writing, as well as a separate outdoor exercise space, he said. Breivik cannot mix with prisoners from other wings, but does have contact with prison staff. Norway attacks and multiculturalism "As of now, we think there is a need to subject Mr. Behring Breivik to a particularly high security regime," Bjarkeid said. The high security regime "puts a heavy strain on an inmate, especially if it lasts for a longer period," he added, so Breivik's continued detention under these conditions will be kept under constant review. Defense lawyer Geir Lippestad has previously said it is important to Breivik that people see him as sane so they don't dismiss his views. The court had to consider conflicting opinions from medical experts in reaching its verdict. An initial team of psychiatrists found Breivik to be paranoid and schizophrenic, following 36 hours of interviews. However, a second pair of experts found he was not psychotic at the time of the attacks, does not suffer from a psychiatric condition and is not mentally challenged. Their report said there is a "high risk for repeated violent actions."

Mark Stephens, a partner at law firm Finers Stephens Innocent, told CNN Friday: "The general public will think only a madman can commit these offenses, but in law madness is defined very narrowly. Basically it requires a doctor to come to court and say this person has a definable medical illness -- in this case the prosecution said he was a paranoid schizophrenic, and that can be treated with drugs and behavioral therapy. "If, however, he had a personality disorder or was just ... motivated, as in this case, by a misguided political belief that this was the only way to stop the Islamization, as he would have it, of his nation, then in those circumstances he has be found guilty because he understood what he was doing was wrong." Disturbing look into mind of Norway shooter Breivik's rampage, the worst atrocity on Norwegian soil since World War II, prompted much soul-searching. Norwegians reasserted their commitment to multiculturalism and tolerance at a series of mass public tributes held in the immediate aftermath of the massacre. And earlier this month, Norway's chief of police stepped down after an independent commission detailed a catalog of police and intelligence failures. It concluded that those errors cost police 30 minutes in getting to Utoya, and that dozens of lives might have been saved. Speaking last month on the anniversary of the killings, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg urged Norwegians to "honor the dead by celebrating life," and said Breivik had failed in his attempt to change Norway's values. CNN's Diana Magnay and Per Nyberg reported from Oslo and Laura Smith-Spark from London. 2012 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Share this article Tweet