A map showing the most corrupt countries in red and the 'cleanest' countries in yellow, Europe is the best continental region, while Africa is mired in corruption at the top levels of government
Daily Mail: The world’s most corrupt countries revealed: Somalia is named as the worst, with Denmark considered the fairest… while experts warn the US is ‘one to watch’
* Experts believe Trump is a symptom of broader problems with democracy in US
* Somalia topped the list for corruption, followed by Syria and South Sudan
* Denmark was the 'cleanest' nation, while Britain came eleventh with Germany
* Hungary received its worst post-Soviet rating with populism blamed for a shift
Somalia is the most corrupt country in the world, Denmark the least, while America's falling score is a 'red flag', according to a global corruption watchdog.
Transparency International highlighted Hungary and the United States in their Corruption Perceptions Index for 2018, with America being knocked from the top 20 'cleanest' list.
Trump's America lost four points and dropped out of the top 20 least corrupt nations for the first time since 2011, while Hungary's politics has taken on more autocratic overtones, according to the researchers.
'A four point drop in the CPI score is a red flag and comes at a time when the US is experiencing threats to its system of checks and balance, as well as an erosion of ethical norms at the highest levels of power,' the Berlin-based organization said.
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WNU Editor: The link to the report is here .... Corruption Perceptions Index 2018.
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The World's Least Corrupt Countries: The U.S. Drops Out of the Top 20 -- Newsweek
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Eastern Europe, Central Asia Failing To Make Progress In Corruption, Says Watchdog -- RFE
China, Vietnam seen as more corrupt while Indonesia, Philippines clean up their act: Transparency International report -- SCMP
U.S. Slips In Annual Global Corruption Rankings -- NPR
Transparency International: 'Crisis of democracy' and corruption go hand in hand -- DW
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" Experts believe Trump is a symptom of broader problems with democracy in US"
Utter crap. The same hi tech wall that they say they want now, is the one that Barack Inssein Obama and Janet Napolitano said was infeasible and too expensive in 2011, when those 2 goons stopped work on the wall.
The wall is 1/3rd of the reason why Trump got elected. If the mealy mouther asshole politicians did not want Trump to get elected they would have built the wall.
The U.S. before Trump is one, where the Democrat Party pays violent street gangs to get out the vote.
America has problems. America has had serious problems long before Trump. Trump is the solution.
"the Berlin-based organization said ..."
Notice how some German elite said the French to the West, the Poles to the East, the British to the NW are all more corrupt.
IMO Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are incredibly corrupt 1 party states. Sure you have window dressing, but it is just that window dressing.
For instance a full listing of politicians and journalists, who colluded with the Soviets, has never come out in Denmark to protect corrupt people.
So they still have more influence than they would have otherwise.
"'Trump told the Colombian government and mafia to kill me', claims President Maduro as Russian jet arrives in Venezuela 'to remove gold worth $840 million from central bank'"
- Daily Mail
The Venezuelan people will not see the 840 million in gold ever again. The Russians and the Chinese will keep it. It is legal and it is somewhat moral. The government of Venezuela did have loan agreements and this is one way to pay.
Making contracts and treaties with illegitimate governments bears discussion. Is a contract with an illegitimate government any more binding than say a contract with v an elderly person with dementia?
An election is not legal, when you rig the vote. Maduro rigged the vote. At that point Maduro has no more right to rule than Genghis Khan had to rule Persia, Kiev, or Moscow.
Trump did not tell Columbia to get Maduro. Columbia probably could not get it done. But Maduro has to make some excuse for running an economy into the ground and being obese.
840 million will go mostly to the oligarchs, but it may help the Russian people. God knows that Maduro would have squandered it, so it remaining or not remaining in Venezuela was inconsequential iof Maduro remains in office 2 more years.
Yet, if Maduro was overthrown that 840 million would have rebuilt a lot of roads, improved the oil industry infrastructure, repaired hydro electric system. Now that 840 million is not around to repair the grid in say Maracaibo, so they will have to do without. Some birdbrain will claim that the lack of electricity is not due to lack of capital reinvestment (maintenance) but a drought.
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