Transperancy International (TI)

[ec1968]

Hi Folks

I noticed in this week's Time magazine that Transparency International has just released the results of its 2010 survey 'Corruption Perceptions Index'. This reports the perceptions of business people and ordinary citizens across the world as to the level of corruption in their governments. Denmark got the best rating, with Somalia getting the worst. Out of 178 nations, the UK is ranked 20th and the US 22nd. Seems we have nothing much to worry about and can all sleep soundly in our beds (I'm not sure how to imply incredulity and sarcasm in a written statement!).

Regards

Eúnan

 

[Atreides]

I don't know, 20th and 22nd aren't really feathers in your cap. Awareness is growing, considering the amount of propaganda and suppression/distraction in both of those countries I was more surprised that they weren't number one, guess I am just a cynic.

 

[knowledge_of_self]

I don't know, 20th and 22nd aren't really feathers in your cap. Awareness is growing, considering the amount of propaganda and suppression/distraction in both of those countries I was more surprised that they weren't number one, guess I am just a cynic.

You're not the only one Atreides. I'm quite surprised to..

Imo, it should be
1) Israel
2) USA
3) UK

So who was 1,2,3 on the Times Magazine survey I wonder.

 

[go2]

The United States has transparent and legal corruption. The legislative and judicial branches of government have colluded with powerful financial, military, and industrial interests to make legal torture, fraud, confiscation of labor, and confiscation of capital from the American people and people of the entire World on behalf of powerful criminal organizations and their constituents..

We perceive corruption when an official expects and demands a personal bite in addition to the officially sanctioned fee. This a mosquito bite relative to the manipulation of buying power of the official legal tender and direct taxation of income and property to maintain a war machine and public assumption of financial risk on behalf of favored friends and constituencies. This is blood flowing from from the veins of humanity to those who benefit from the pyramidal pathocracy of economics and politics in America.

So, Transparency International is a disinformation system, contrived to convince the naive and to obfuscate larger crimes. These crimes are legal as were the Nazi and Soviet Gulug murders. Transparency International is a limited hang-out operation. The recent vote in the United States is a similiar deception. People are convinced they have a choice in the United States. It is now a police state tyranny where police power is used to protect the transparent corruption of the pathocratic system of economics and politices in the United States.

Read http://www.sott.net/articles/show/217318-Your-Vote-Doesn-t-Count- for a more complete picture of the massive transparent fraud called the United States.

 

[Buddy]

Hi Folks

I noticed in this week's Time magazine that Transparency International has just released the results of its 2010 survey 'Corruption Perceptions Index'. This reports the perceptions of business people and ordinary citizens across the world as to the level of corruption in their governments.

Isn't it interesting that all that surveying work is directed to the "perception" of corruption instead of actual corruption, or even some positive production index or whatnot? As far as I'm concerned, this survey is proof enough that corruption is considered a 'given' and that the only thing worth measuring is how much of it people can see.

Seems we have nothing much to worry about and can all sleep soundly in our beds (I'm not sure how to imply incredulity and sarcasm in a written statement!).

Regards

Eúnan

It came across well enough for me! :)

 

[Pierre]

So who was 1,2,3 on the Times Magazine survey I wonder.

According to Transparency International "corruption perception index", the 3 "best" countries are:

Denmark
New Zealand
Singapore

and the 4 "worse" countries are:

Somalia
Myanmar
Afghanistan
Irak

Here is a story published by Source Watch about Transparency International (bolding mine):

In 2008, TI attracted controversy by claiming in a report entitled Promoting Revenue Transparency that Venezuela's state-owned oil firm PDVSA had failed to disclose basic financial information such as their revenues and how much royalties they paid, and had not produced properly audited accounts.[3] As a result, the report gave PDVSA the lowest possible ranking in assessing the oil companies in 42 different countries, and ranking them according to whether they were of high, medium or low transparency.[4]

In fact, the report was incorrect, and all the data was publicly available, leading to claims of a bias by TI against the Venezuelan government.

When questioned about the apparently biased report, TI initially claimed that information was not available at the time of publication – a claim which was also false - and then refused to answer further questions about the matter.[2]

The data in TI's report was gathered by Mercedes de Freitas, the head of their Caracas bureau and a longtime opponent of President Hugo Chávez. De Freitas' previous job was running a US government funded opposition "civil society" group, the Fundacion Momento de la Gente, which is subsidized by National Endowment for Democracy, a US government agency.[2]

[2] Calvin Tucker, "Seeing through Transparency International", Guardian (UK), May 22, 2008.
[3] Transparency International, "TI calls on leading oil and gas companies to increase revenue transparency: New report shows companies should provide greater accountability", Transparency International, April 27, 2008.
[4] Transparency International, "Table 1: Overall company results", Transparency International, April 27, 2008.

 

[Vulcan59]

Well I've lived in 2 of the top 3 countries and I can tell you that corruption in these 2 countries is a fine art. Sure, the civil service or police don't accept bribes or outright cash but the top echelon receive kick backs, sweet million dollar deals, discounts, etc and all of this is considered legal.

For example I know that when travelling, they buy economy class tickets and invariably they and their entire family get upgraded to business or first class. If they don't get upgraded, they usually make a fuss and the chief purser gets into trouble. So cabin crew have learnt not to ask questions and just upgrade them whenever seats are available in business or first class.

We had ministers wanting to use the crew rest (before the days when full reclining seats were available) and the company would ask the captain if it was okay to let these parasites, err VIP's I mean, to use the bunk and if the captain said no, it was okay they would get someone else. Meanwhile, this particular captain doesn't get promoted, doesn't get the best flights, etc.

I also now that if you have a member of your family in parliament or in positions of power, you automatically get promoted, never mind that you are not capable nor the best person for the job. I could go on and on to cite more such examples but you get the picture.