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Somalia is world's most corrupt country
Radio Netherlands ^ | September 26 2007

Posted on 09/26/2007 2:52:36 PM PDT by knighthawk

Berlin - Transparency International, an anti-corruption organisation in Berlin, says Somalia and Myanmar are the most corrupt countries in the world. Denmark, Finland and New Zealand top the annual Transparency International list as the least corrupt countries. The Netherlands has moved from ninth to seventh place in the list of 180 countries. Transparency International stresses that even the least corrupt countries have still got more work to do. The organisation is positive about developments in South Africa, Namibia and Swaziland, which have shown that corruption can be combatted and that they are striving for political reform. The Transparency International list is based on data from twelve independent organisations.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; minneapolis; somalia

1 posted on 09/26/2007 2:52:38 PM PDT by knighthawk
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2 posted on 09/26/2007 2:53:03 PM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: knighthawk

...depends on which Somali government they investigated...

There are like three right?


3 posted on 09/26/2007 2:53:33 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: knighthawk

Somalia may once have been a “country.” But now it’s not. It’s just lines on a map.


4 posted on 09/26/2007 2:55:08 PM PDT by Hawthorn (duncanforprez + fredforveep = Hunter Thompson!)
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To: knighthawk

They have not been to Philly - have they?


5 posted on 09/26/2007 2:55:30 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: knighthawk
The US came in 20th. We would probably be in the top ten except that Congress was in session when they calculated the score.

http://www.transparency.org/news_room/in_focus/2007/cpi2007/cpi_2007_table

6 posted on 09/26/2007 2:58:20 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
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To: knighthawk

We shouldn’t quibble here. The United Nations as a whole is a corrupt organization, led in large part by corrupt countries.


7 posted on 09/26/2007 2:59:03 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: knighthawk

Zimbabwe should be #1.


8 posted on 09/26/2007 3:05:51 PM PDT by dynachrome (Henry Bowman is right.)
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To: knighthawk

Somalia is Swahili for Atlanta.


9 posted on 09/26/2007 3:07:20 PM PDT by arbooz ("Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man." H.L.Mencken)
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To: knighthawk

now the countries that didnt make #1 will have meetings to find ways to be more corrupt. “come on guys, let’s try harder, we can do it!”


10 posted on 09/26/2007 3:20:35 PM PDT by isom35
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To: isom35

Maybe they could import some Democrats.


11 posted on 09/26/2007 4:39:47 PM PDT by attiladhun2 (Islam is a despotism so vile that it would warm the heart of Orwell's Big Brother)
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To: Hawthorn

A foreshadowing of what’s possibly coming the U.S. way if the U.S. isn’t careful. A socialistic U.S. will truly become a third world country for the long-term!


12 posted on 09/26/2007 4:46:47 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore
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To: knighthawk

More corrupt than Pakistan, Zimbabwe or Nigeria?

I find that very hard to believe....


13 posted on 09/26/2007 4:55:18 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: arbooz
"Somalia is Swahili for Atlanta."

Ouch, that left a well deserved mark..

I'm amazed Atlanta's infrastructure doesn't collapse under the corruption, ineptness and incompetence of its "leadership"...

14 posted on 09/26/2007 4:58:31 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: arbooz
Somalia is Swahili for Atlanta.

Or Detroit, but unlike Atlanta or Cleveland, without the glitter.

15 posted on 09/26/2007 9:12:00 PM PDT by jws3sticks (Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime, and the sooner the better!)
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To: knighthawk

I thought Mexico was at the top of the list?


16 posted on 09/26/2007 9:13:20 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
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