Europeans Slammed by Austerity Measures Now Enraged by Political Corruption

AFP
April 6, 2013

A wave of corrosive political scandals at a time of economic woe is exacerbating the outrage of European citizens, who are channelling resentment into street protests or at the polls.

Italy, Spain and Greece have all been hit by fraud or graft cases allegedly involving the top brass. France joined the ranks of scandal-hit nations this week after its former budget minister was charged with tax fraud.

“Everything is coming [...]

500,000 People Sign Petition Asking Prime Minister Rajoy to Resign

By Mike “Mish” Shedlock

The indignation of citizens over payouts and graft in Spain is highlighted by a flood of protests on Spanish social networks. A campaign on Change.org, a platform with 25 million registered has collected a record 500,000 signatures calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Marinao Rajoy.

Via Google translate from El Pais, please consider 500,000 People Sign Petition Asking Prime Minister Rajoy to Resign.

 The indignation of the public by publication [...]

WOW!!!! James O’Keefe BUSTS THE SHIT out of NY state legislators and UNION BOSSES! “Jobs bills” are a complete SCAM

Says he is looking for public funds to dig holes and then fill them back up again. Union boss admits that much of “Greening New York” program is nothing but a make-work scam with no real purpose. Admits jobs bills are just fraud, waste and graft. O’Keefe has balls the size of grapefruits. This is his biggest BUST yet!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHYFONbT8EM&feature=player_embedded#!

Here’s the unedited video. Okeefe’s a loser.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/07/18/james-okeefe-fails-to-find-a-scandal-union-and/187215

AMAZING! First vein grown from human stem cells successfully transplanted into a young girl

A team led by Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson at the University of Gothenburg took a 9 centimeter-long snippet of vein from the groin of a deceased donor, stripped it of all cells and then reseeded the resulting hollow tube with stem cells taken from the recipient’s own bone marrow. Two weeks later, the surgeons transplanted the engineered conduit into the young girl. She remained healthy for close to a year, although a [...]

SHOCK: Prisoners in UK prisons HAVE TO HAVE a 5 choices of meal every day and are called CUSTOMERS!!!

via SMH:

“I’d been struck by a detail in the publicity notes about the show, which made a point of stating: “Gordon is not there to fix prisons or mentor prisoners. Gordon is not there to fix prison food.” His determination to make this very clear makes sense as soon as he starts talking about what he found behind bars.

“What I wasn’t prepared for was how easy it was for them [...]

Hold on! Help is on the way!

January 24, 2012

Joe Doakes’s Speech On The State of The Union in the form of a letter:

Dear President Obama,

I didn’t see your speech.  Why should I?  Why should any America hear one more syllable you utter?  What purpose would it serve?  Would it change what you have done in these last three years?  Would it change the waste, fraud and abuse that has occurred?  No.  In Cuba, in the not [...]

Chinese official proposes death penalty as deterrent to government corruption amounting to about $100,000 or greater.

By Xu Pingting
China Daily/Asia News Network
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012

If corruption of over 500,000 (S$99,426) yuan is punishable by death, no official will dare to do that anymore, said Zhao Runtian, a deputy to the National People’s Congress, on Monday. His speech draws heated comments online.

The light punishment against corruption may be encouraging graft, added Zhao, who is also secretary of the Heze Municipal Committee of the CPC in Shandong province.

Zhou [...]

New legislation could eliminate competitive bidding in TN… How would labor and unions react?

by Chas Sisk, The Tennessean

A bill in the Tennessee legislature could give the state’s new procurement officer broad discretion to award contracts without competitive bidding, a change that critics say would upend decades of practice.

The state Senate is debating a bill that would let Tennessee’s top purchaser negotiate directly with suppliers whenever he or she determines that talks are “in the best interest of the state.” The bill would delete a requirement [...]

A quote from Francisco’s ‘Money’ Speech from “Atlas Shrugged”

“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t [...]

IMF begin takeover: Afghan gov’t OK $825 million bailout for Kabul Bank bailout

Yahoo! News
October 17, 2011

KABUL — Afghan lawmakers agreed on Saturday to reimburse the government for bailing out the Kabul Bank, which nearly collapsed last year because of mismanagement and hundreds of millions of dollars in questionable loans.

The lower house passed a bill to provide up to $825 million over the next eight years to recapitalize Afghanistan’s central bank — a move that smooths the way [...]

9/11 hero gets prison in NYC bribery case

NEW YORK (AP) — A former government official hailed for helping two people escape the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 was sentenced Friday to at least a year in prison, his second term behind bars after two separate bribery cases turned his story of heroism into a tale of graft in the wake of the attacks.

Friday’s sentencing was specifically [...]

UPDATE on Vincent McCrudden

by Fishinator

New development in the story:

There is an innocent man in jail for an email that he didn’t send and JP Morgan wives are collecting $220 million of the TARP money?  COME ON !  Where does it end?!  Isn’t ANYONE GOING TO DO ANYTHING?!
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-real-housewives-of-wall-street-look-whos-cashing-in-on-the-bailout-20110411

On Monday, April 25th, the day after Easter, at 11:00 am Vincent McCrudden goes to court.
…Because these corrupt financial regulators that are supposed to [...]

NEXT: INDIA UNREST?

via FT:

The $39bn telecoms corruption scandal in India is threatening to trigger popular discontent among the country’s 1.2bn people like no other scandal in the country’s post-independence history, the Tata Group, India’s largest company, is warning.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Kishor Chaukar, executive director of Tata Sons, the holding group of the Tata Group, said civil society’s growing frustration with widespread corruption [...]