It's not anything strange that there are corrupt officers in police departments.

And the corrupt officials?

Corrupt Media and the Bankruptcy of Trust

We are not mafia, politicians and corrupted rich men!

The corrupt officials are coming from the people, while anti graft characters are above the people.

Are bumbling politicians guilty, or grasping oligarches, corrupt apparatchiks, the mafia, or the IMF?

Traditional parties and the administrations that preceded the caudillo are dismissed as corrupt and elitist.

Those bastard government officials and corrupt businessmen should die instead.

We are not allowed to ruin, must not destroy nature, we must not destroy the trees. we should save as much as possible.

Your country talks about democracy, but you support corrupt governments like my own.

Yet the Nordic states have thrived, not suffered, from a large social welfare state, with much less public sector corruption and far higher levels of voter participation than in the US.

Corrupt regimes, through intimidation and bribery, insisted on the loyalty of the bureaucracy, police, and armed services.

It is no surprise that corrupt regimes routinely clamp down on the press, trade unions, and on professional associations.

The two most corrupt parties in history (on top of the disgruntled PPC and Solidaridad ) censured Ana Jara.

All our aid will come to nothing if countries are ruled by corrupt dictators.

Poorly equipped or corrupt institutions are a primary obstacle to the effective protection and promotion of human rights.

In its current form, India s parliamentary system can produce only non performing, corrupt governments.

Such continuous and willful blindness helped corruption to thrive and a tiny group of oligarchs gain control of the economy.

Even after revolution, women are consistently used for political grounds by crony political parties.

Many foreign companies, intent on cashing in, fuel the pathology of corrupt regimes by peddling in bribes and political protection.

The bribe money taken by politicians, political parties and corrupt higher officials of government are invisible in the Indian monetary system.

The environmental destruction of the delta is part of a larger saga corrupt companies operating hand in hand with corrupt government officials.

They don't overthrow corrupt regimes, and the entire entertainment industry doesn't even contribute that much to our economy.

Basically, prices soar and crooked politicians then milk the rents from the sector, but it doesn't generate any jobs.

Later, these criteria were abandoned when NATO began to invite even the most backward and corrupt states to join.

None of this should be surprising, given how our corrupt rulers systematically incite regional and ethnic hatred.

Some people in Russia traditional leftists and corrupt bureaucrats afraid of a more open system indulge in anti American rhetoric.

The recently completed stress tests of US banks are but the latest indication that crony capitalists have now captured Washington, DC.

Corrupt bosses put to shame petty government bureaucrats who steal a measly few thousand dollars even a few million.

In the Corruption Perceptions Index 2012, Bhutan is ranked 33rd out of 174 countries for corruption (least corrupt countries are at the top of the list).

Corrupt financial institutions that facilitate money laundering and terrorist financing exist even in certain regimes that appear to have adequate laws on the books.

All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

And if a system is so intrinsically corrupt, will the old corrupt figures not simply be replaced by others with similar values?

Indeed, he told me just a few days ago that one source of insecurity was corrupt police officers recruited under the former regime.

Corrupt rulers can use the billions they receive from oil and mining corporations for personal extravagance, or to buy arms for troops to crush democratic resistance movements.

That person s son in law, this person s son, that person s brother, this person s nephew Do these corrupted people only get their positions because of their relationships with powerful people?

At one extreme, some view Russia as an industrialized banana republic whose corrupt institutions and insurmountable demographic and health problems make decline inevitable.

It will further block the avenues for capital flight, through which corrupt officials from developing countries loot and siphon off public funds to the financial institutions of the developed countries.

Wherever demographic growth outstrips economic growth, the fault lies primarily with corrupt and inefficient regimes and the obstacles they put in the way of entrepreneurship and wealth creation.

The time is long past when corrupt leaders plundered public funds and Government coffers and thousands of young people were unable to educate themselves and fell victim to rampant unemployment.

The 2X4 that Errol Louis described it implies that there is so much to change, that such a tipping point has been reached that some easy to apply band aids just are not going to be enough, and it implies that the commentators and politicians, and monnied interests that do not come to understand the scope of what must change will be without influence and without power before they realize that the change has happened.

The way both governments operate is quite similar party bosses, tycoons, and corrupt bureaucrats divide the spoils, while promoting chauvinism and traditional values whether those of the Orthodox Church or Confucianism.

At the same time, as was seen in Yasir Arafat s Palestine Authority, a corrupt regime encourages people to turn to radical Islamists, who work hard to present themselves as honest.

But they are not only turning away from mainstream political parties and following populists who promise to clean out the corrupt elites from the centers of power they also share a taste for political entertainers, or clowns if you like.