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[photographies prises le 3 septembre]Transparency and Tricks
(transparent et tours)
Transparency International made public the data on state of corruption in the world.
http://www.ti-j.org/corrupt/06/CPI2006TableSourcesEnglish281006.pdf
Rank..... Country..........Confidence Score
1.............Finland............9.6
1.............Iceland.............9.6
1.......New Zealand...........9.6
4.............Denmark..........9.5
5.............Singapore.........9.4
6.............Sweden............9.2
7..........Switzerland..........9.1
8.............Norway.............8.8
9.............Australia...........8.7
9........Netherlands...........8.7
11...........Austria..............8.6
11.......Luxembourg..........8.6
11.....United Kingdom.....8.6
14..........Canada...............8.5
15........Hong Kong.............8.3
16.........Germany.............8.0
17...........Japan................7.6
18...........France..............7.4
18...........Ireland...............7.4
20...........Belgium.............7.3
20...........Chile..................7.3
20...........USA..................7.3
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34...........Israel.................5.9
34...........Taiwan................5.9
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70..........Brazil..................3.3
70..........China..................3.3
70..........Egypt..................3.3
70..........Ghana.................3.3
70..........India...................3.3
70..........Mexico................3.3
70..........Peru....................3.3
70........Saudi Arabia.......3.3
70..........Senegal................3.3
As with most of this kind of statistics, you can neglect high scores or superiority of small countries in Europe as well as city states in Asia.
The matter is comparison among nations with population more than 50 million or roughly 100 million or more.
In addition, you have to remember that most of European countries are in essence not so democratic. For example, the U.K. is regarded as democratic society but it is more class society. In that case, transparency is not a key to assessing the society in terms of fairness and equity.
Multi-race and multi-culture nations such as the United State have also other more important key factors than transparency.
Autocratic states such as China can make itself look transparent to any degree, but it has no meaning. People cannot even request any correct statistics to the Government.
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But, you can see why you have to be alerted to American elites if they say to you that China and India are more legitimate friends to the U.S.
Indeed, American elites must be then manipulating and brainwashing US voters and consumers so as to make them dislike Japan. It is one of their indecent strategies to get more money from Japan through a tie up with China and India while having a monopoly on profitable relationships with governments and businesses in China and India.
Yet, Japan has almost no problems with American people in general except some ethical frictions often found in New York and cultural frictions often found in California.
Indeed, to local Americans, Japan has been always a good friend since before the Civil War.
Truly, we hope that local Americans not to join New York as well as biased metropolitan culture. You had better visit Japan rather than New York to get rid of the state of materialism devils have successfully implanted in the minds of arrogant winners of competition in the modern urban civilization.
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For Japanese, you have to also check the site: http://www.ti-j.org/
Even small crimes, sinful deeds, and misdeeds by Japanese politicians might make whole Japan a joke in the world.
US President Mr. George W. Bush has really wisely fought to protect his Secretary of Justice though a kind of in vain eventually, no matter how poor, doubtful, and full of illegality the performance of the Secretary has been.
Unless Japanese politicians become twice wiser, world citizens would keep silent to US corruption but laugh at Japanese minor domestic illegality, following the Anglo-American media.
(Princess Diana deserved more love, didn't she? If she chose death for that cause, she cannot be blamed. Will you, though, praise her? Shall I praise you? Truly, the God should weigh corruption against magic of romance...)
"HAPPY ARE THOSE WHOSE SINS ARE FORGIVEN AND WHOSE WRONGS ARE PARDONED"