From: | "Jim Powell" <autoinfo(at)acenet.co.za> |
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Date: | Fri, 5 Jun 2009 08:02:35 +0200 |
Subject: | RE: [WDDM] Democracy rating |
Nice one Bruce J Our current president had his over 700 charges of fraud dropped because there was a “political conversation” over the timing of the charges 2 weeks before the elections. The person who gave him the money was sentenced to 15 years in prison for fraud and was released on unknown medical grounds 3 weeks before the elections. He was acquitted of rape charges when he had sex with the daughter of a late good friend. He then had a shower to reduce the likelihood of getting HIV. He has 3 wives and 19 children Check out the site http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/gov_cor-government-corruption . Iceland is the cleanest at #1 with a rating of 9.7, America is 17th with a rating of 7.6, South Africa is 46th with a rating of 4.5, Chad is at the bottom, 159th with a rating of 1.7. I do not know how they put the stats together. Regards Jim Powell South Africa From: Bruce Eggum
[bruce.eggum(at)gmail.com] USA like some other country's
on the list is not a democracy. It is a republic run by 565 representative
politicians. On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:36 AM, <Joshua N Pritikin> wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at
01:00:30PM +0200, Jim Powell wrote: The Corruption Perceptions Index would seem to be highly
correlated with |