Clean image, where is that coming from? You mean the Queen, Kate and George? That clean image?
Let's see, there is the Italian guy, take your pick, Silvio Berlusconi or the covert gay gang at the Vatican.
There is the Princess in Spain supposedly involved in corruption. What's her name? Christina.
There is Libor. What was that bank? Barclays? Yeah, Barclays.
Germany had that mess with arms sales to Greece that set them back gazillions. Well, it wasn't that much, but it was millions to the national debt.
There is that entire political mess in the Ukraine and Poland. The list is long and distinguished.
Some of the smaller countries in Europe will do anything for money. They pander to the demands of the US. It is nonsense. They are willing to commit human rights violations in the name of freedom.
US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has said in Warsaw that the US-Polish partnership can "withstand testing and questioning" over allegations of a secret CIA prison in Poland.
31.1.14
...Chuck Hagel’s two-day visit to Poland (click here) comes after the Washington Post reported last week that CIA operatives handed over 15 million dollars in cash to Polish intelligence officers when setting up the alleged ‘black site’ in north east Poland, where terrorist suspects were held and tortured in 2002 and 2003. Hagel thanked Poland for support in Iraq and Afghanistan and looked forward to a "new era of defence cooperation"....
This isn't even new. During the time of Tony Blair there were US rendition flights through Great Britain all the time.
So, I suppose it is a matter of whom one asks in regard to a clean image. I suppose the gossip magazines love the royals for profits, but, as far as what the governments actually do and their business sector, think again.
Not to say there aren't moral standards within the governments, but, when it comes to the USA throwing it's weight around, they all crumble. There is a For Sale sign on Europe in regard USA demands on their allies.
So, do I think Europe has a clean image? Not yet. And the banking sector needs a lot of rehab.
Europe with a clean image. They wish.
Then if one really wants to get down and dirty there are United Nations reports that place the quality life of UK children in the basement and not even owning a book. The list of corruption and devaluing citizens is long. Very long. The US is not innocent on those counts either.
The citizens of these nations have to start asking the question, "Where's the money?" Better it should be in the pockets and well being of citizens than anywhere else.
PARIS — Despite its relatively clean image, (click here) the European Union is losing at least 120 billion euros a year to corruption, and more than three-quarters of citizens believe that the problem is widespread in their countries, the bloc’s home affairs commissioner said Monday.
Let's see, there is the Italian guy, take your pick, Silvio Berlusconi or the covert gay gang at the Vatican.
There is the Princess in Spain supposedly involved in corruption. What's her name? Christina.
There is Libor. What was that bank? Barclays? Yeah, Barclays.
Germany had that mess with arms sales to Greece that set them back gazillions. Well, it wasn't that much, but it was millions to the national debt.
There is that entire political mess in the Ukraine and Poland. The list is long and distinguished.
Some of the smaller countries in Europe will do anything for money. They pander to the demands of the US. It is nonsense. They are willing to commit human rights violations in the name of freedom.
US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has said in Warsaw that the US-Polish partnership can "withstand testing and questioning" over allegations of a secret CIA prison in Poland.
31.1.14
...Chuck Hagel’s two-day visit to Poland (click here) comes after the Washington Post reported last week that CIA operatives handed over 15 million dollars in cash to Polish intelligence officers when setting up the alleged ‘black site’ in north east Poland, where terrorist suspects were held and tortured in 2002 and 2003. Hagel thanked Poland for support in Iraq and Afghanistan and looked forward to a "new era of defence cooperation"....
This isn't even new. During the time of Tony Blair there were US rendition flights through Great Britain all the time.
So, I suppose it is a matter of whom one asks in regard to a clean image. I suppose the gossip magazines love the royals for profits, but, as far as what the governments actually do and their business sector, think again.
Not to say there aren't moral standards within the governments, but, when it comes to the USA throwing it's weight around, they all crumble. There is a For Sale sign on Europe in regard USA demands on their allies.
So, do I think Europe has a clean image? Not yet. And the banking sector needs a lot of rehab.
Europe with a clean image. They wish.
Then if one really wants to get down and dirty there are United Nations reports that place the quality life of UK children in the basement and not even owning a book. The list of corruption and devaluing citizens is long. Very long. The US is not innocent on those counts either.
The citizens of these nations have to start asking the question, "Where's the money?" Better it should be in the pockets and well being of citizens than anywhere else.
FEB. 3, 2014
The awarding of government business and political party financing are two areas dogged by shady dealings, Cecilia Malmstrom, the European commissioner for home affairs, told a news conference in Brussels. But she said that less obvious sectors also had problems, including health care, where some patients were forced to pay under the table to obtain necessary treatments.
“Corruption undermines citizens’ confidence in democratic institutions and the rule of law, it hurts the European economy and deprives states of much-needed tax revenue,” Ms. Malmstrom said in introducing the report. ...
