Hillary Clinton points out there is an undeniable connection between how a government operates and whether its people flourish. When a government invites its people to participate, when it is open as to how it makes decisions and allocates resources, when it administers justice equally and transparently, and when it takes a firm stance against corruption of all kinds, that government is, in the modern world, far more likely to succeed in designing and implementing effective policies and services. It is also more likely to harness the talents of its own people and to benefit from their ideas and experiences, and it is also more likely to succeed investing its resources where they are most likely to have the best return.
Graecokleptocrats span the gamut of political corruption. Bribe is the gift bestowed to influence the recipient's conduct. Kickback is a payment to a person in a position of power or influence for having made an income possible. Embezzlement is outright theft of entrusted funds. Patronage is favoring supporters. Nepotism is favoring kin. Cronyism is favoring kith. Graft is an unscrupulous use of a politician's authority for personal gain. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Cinton notes that when a government hides its work from public view, hands out jobs and money to political cronies, administers unequal justice, looks away as corrupt bureaucrats enrich themselves at the people's expense, that government is failing its citizens. And it is failing to create an environment in which the best ideas are embraced and the most talented people have a chance to contribute. And it is also denying people often access to education, health care, electricity, or a justice system and a market economy that work for them.
And most importantly, that government is failing to earn and hold the trust of its people. And that lack of trust, in a world of instantaneous communication, means that the very fabric of society begins to fray and the foundation of governmental legitimacy begins to crumble. Throw them all out!
Graecokleptocrats have made their culture of corruption the norm of the national character of Greece. The debasement of the Greek soul is due to huge political corruption, statist propaganda, and religulous brainwashing. Plato and Aristotle asserted that different regimes produce different types of human beings, and regimes ought to be judged by the character of their citizens. In Fourth Reich, the growth of interventionist welfare state has damaged personal responsibility and integrity, fostered dependence, undermined families, rejected freedom, and promoted corruption.
Especially in Greece, the most corrupt country in Occident, political corruption is accepted as a normal thing, and most Greeks rely on bribes, graft, sinecures, cheating, incivility, nepotism, cronyism, cancer of socialism, jingoism, iconolatry, perjury, lies, and kickbacks. The character of modern Greece is the opposite of the character of ancient Greece of Plato and Aristotle.
On October 18, 2010, the Greek government stole my computer and my life at gunpoint. Mr. Papademos, bring my computer back! Enough is enough! Needless to say, I also demand my life back. Greece, the bully of blogosphere, has crossed the Rubicon against civility, terrorizing and robbing dissident bloggers. http://venitism.blogspot.com
A sensitive issue cannot be fully explained in a post, but only in a speech, in that magic eyeball to eyeball contact, baring my soul, and declaring truths that cause shock and awe. That's why I look forward to the invitation of your organization to speak at your conference. Basil Venitis, venitis@gmail.com
As we have seen with the protests that have broken out around our world this year, when people are kept away from participating in the work of their governments or the actions of their leaders, when they have no idea how decisions are made or tax revenues are spent, when they have no voice in the political process, eventually they will say, "Enough." And it might have been possible for governments to just refuse to be transparent because there were monopolies on sources of information and channels to people. But that is no longer the case.
And we've also seen the correlation between openness in government and success in the economic sphere. Clinton asserts that countries committed to defending transparency and fighting corruption are often more attractive to entrepreneurs. And if you can create small and medium size businesses, you have a broader base for economic activity. At a time when global competition for trade and investment is fierce, openness is not just good for governance, it is also good for a sustainable growth in GDP.
Greece is the queen of political corruption in Occident. The impunity of the 300 MPs of the Grand Brothel on Syntagma Square is the most freakish thing on Earth. Even though Graecokleptocrats looted many billion euros in kickbacks and churning, not a single Graecokleptocrat has ever gone to jail! Graecokleptocrats are protected by the parliamentary immunity, and nobody can touch them, no matter what. Moreover, they have the nerve to jail dissident bloggers. It's a long way from the 300 Spartans of Leonidas! Allons enfants de la Grece! http://venitism.blogspot.com
Graecokleptocrats are frequently booed, mutzaed, and yogurted by the indignant crowds calling them traitors! Some students parade sending a moutza to Graecokleptocrats! Moutza is the most traditional gesture of insult among Greeks which consists of extending all fingers of one hand and presenting the palm towards the insulted person in a forward motion.
Michael Christoforakos, former president of the Greek subsidiary of Siemens, revealed some names of the 200 Graecokleptocrats, who shared two billion euros in kickbacks, to the prosecutor of Munich, where he escaped from Greece. He also deposited all names with two public notaries in Munich, in case he gets murdered by agents of Graecokleptocrats. This way he stays alive! But the Greek government has not pressed charges against the 200 Graecokleptocrats, because they are protected by immunity and they are in power in Greece, members and ex-members of the Greek government and parliament. You just cannot press charges against yourself! Moreover, the Greek government does not even reveal their names for the voters to know who they are voting for.
Christoforakos also revealed the names of twenty journalists who received many million euros in kickbacks to keep their mouth shut about the billion euro kickbacks to the 200 Graecokleptocrats. Needless to say, those Graecokleptocrats who did not receive kickbacks are also guilty, because they all knew about the bribery of their colleagues and said nothing about it. The suitcases with the cash were whistling around them. There is no way they could not hear all that loud whistling! So, in reality we are talking about four hundred guilty people! Since Greeks continue to vote for the same crooks again and again, they deserve what they get!
Greeks accumulate yogurt in order to hurl it at all Graecokleptocrats they could find, especially Venizelos, who introduced the stupidest law on Earth which states ministers of the Greek government are immune to prosecution! As a result of this infamous law, there was not even one Graecokleptocrat that could be prosecuted, even though Graecokleptocrats stole many billions of euros. This socialist bulldog has transformed hoi polloi to slumdogs!
The largest kickbacks originate in the military industry. Military procurement is a corrupt business from top to bottom. The process is dominated by advocacy, with few checks and balances. Most people in power love this system of doing business and do not want it changed. War and preparation for war systematically corrupt all parties to the state-private transactions by which the government obtains the bulk of its military products. There is a standard 10% kickback to kleptocrats for military purchases.
Participants in the military-industrial-kleptocrat complex (MIKC) are routinely blamed for mismanagement, fraud, abuse, kickbacks, and waste (FAKW). All of these unsavory actions, however, are typically viewed as aberrations, malfeasances to be covered-up, while retaining the basic system of state-private cooperation in the trade of military goods and services and the flow of kickbacks. These offenses are in reality expressions of a thoroughgoing, intrinsic rottenness in the entire setup.
Yogurted Graecokleptocrats galore! Graecokleptocrats are scared to walk in public, because Greeks hurl yogurt at them. If you are Greek, do not leave home without yogurt, because you could have the enormous pleasure of hurling yogurt at a Graecokleptocrat you might meet that day. This is the best way to release the elastic energy of discontent accumulated inside you. Tomatoes, eggs, coffee, bottles, leftovers, garbage, and stones could also do the job.
We all know what happens at Olympics, an international competition of steroids, not athletes. People feel well during the games, but feel miserable after the games when they find out Olympics cost them ten times more than projected, and most of it went to kickbacks of kleptocrats! The Athens Olympics cost was projected to two billion euros, but it finally cost Greek taxpayers 20 billion euros, with all that extra money going not to the games, but to the private pockets of Graecokleptocrats.
Phooey you Graecokleptocrats! You are the socialist robber barons that stole my computer, my files, and my life, but you couldn't steal my soul. Pooh on you yogurted shitscum of planet Earth! You thought you could shut me up, but blogosphere declared a war on you. You thought you could bend my spirit of freedom, but millions of free spirits are now against you. I demand my life back! http://venitism.blogspot.com
Sunday, April 1, 2012
[kitchencabinetforum] OPENNESS IS GOOD FOR GOVERNANCE AND GROWTH
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