Global corruption report

[kallend 2,230]

Fascinating:

www.globalcorruptionreport.org/gcr2005/download/english/corruption_research_%20I.pdf

Scroll down to the table.

Scandinavian countries perceived as least corrupt.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[skydyvr 0]

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Fascinating:

www.globalcorruptionreport.org/gcr2005/download/english/corruption_research_%20I.pdf

Scroll down to the table.

Scandinavian countries perceived as least corrupt.

Ever thought about getting the fuck out of here?

I can help.

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[ReBirth 0]

Is it really so impossible for someone to imagine that there's room for improvement in the US? That in reality, it's not the ultimate pinnacle, the Nirvana, of human existence on Earth?

Yes...it's a fantastic, unique, powerfull, great nation. But it's not the best of everything possible for man kind. Why is it so offensive to learn others might be doing something better than us, and maybe learning from them instead of dismissing it as "foreign"?

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Why is it so offensive to learn others might be doing something better than us, and maybe learning from them instead of dismissing it as "foreign"?

Don't get the wrong idea from skydyvr.

I just read today that the US has fallen from fourth to sixteenth in broadband per-capita ratios, and I believe it.

I only bitch to/about the US citizens who make that sort of shit happen. We could've been a contender, dammit.

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[StreetScooby 5]

Doesn't Scandinavia have an even worse case outlook re: retirement?

We are all engines of karma

[rasmack 0]

Me not understandink

(Tied for 3rd. with Iceland. Damn you Iceland!!!)

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[miked10270 0]

Look on the bright side.

"Your" country is not only more honest than Haiti... It's also warmer than Finland"

Mike.

Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable.

Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

[EricTheRed 0]

At least we're in the top 20.

illegible usually

[beowulf 1]

Perceptions can often be incorrect. I can't imagine any way to validate those perceptions with real information. How do you ask a Gov. employee if he/she is corrupt?

[Wopelao 0]

Fairly easy, just offer them an "incentive" if they get you the right answer

[IanHarrop 43]

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How do you ask a Gov. employee if he/she is corrupt?

No need to ask

"Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

[mik 2]

I wonder if the UK's position took account of the level of corruption in the London Metropoliton police force (both police and civilian workers)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8192964.stm (August 2009 report that 1 in 3 Met Police officers and staff - that is 1183 people - misused corporate credit card leading to 3.7m pounds being unaccounted for at one point ($5,000 per person) ... and the people have been given w'words of advice' - not the prosecution for false accounting and theft that would typically be applied to lesser mortals than the police)

And recent report that it continues to take place...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8407688.stm

I live in Russia now, but at least no-one here pretends that such abuse does not take place. In the UK it is staggering, in my view, that police were able to get away with such action, with virtually no action taken. Too many to dismiss in one go, I guess. And of course, totally unprofessional management from those at the top who introduced such a poorly controlled system and allowed a culture that supported the misappropriation of so many millions of public funds..

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