{"id":842,"date":"2007-01-31T15:19:02","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T22:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2007-01-31T15:19:02","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T22:19:02","slug":"cross-the-palm-with-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2007\/01\/cross-the-palm-with-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"cross the palm with silver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the WSJ, front page, there is an article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.siemens.com\/index.jsp?sdc_p=ft4mlsuo1002159ni1398412pc194z1&#038;campaign=google_kw_corp\">Siemens <\/a>getting caught in bribery scandal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soxfirst.com\/50226711\/siemens_bribery_scandal_grows.php\">SCANDAL!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A good portion of the world uses bribery as a matter of course. We, the &#8220;western democratic&#8221; countries, say that&#8217;s bad and we can have no part of it.<\/p>\n<p>Shame on Seimens! Don&#8217;t they know, they are supposed to hire an intermediary company that does the bribery for them? Then the intermediary can disband before they get caught, re-form as a different company, and do the whole thing over again.<\/p>\n<p>Hypocrisy makes the world go round. How many times has the world changed because someone wagged a finger at it and said &#8220;Shame! Shame!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have long thought that any MBA that includes international business should have a Bribery 101 class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the WSJ, front page, there is an article about Siemens getting caught in bribery scandal. SCANDAL! A good portion of the world uses bribery as a matter of course. We, the &#8220;western democratic&#8221; countries, say that&#8217;s bad and we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2007\/01\/cross-the-palm-with-silver\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2007\/01\/cross-the-palm-with-silver\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}