corruption
A prime locale to talk bribery, suspect campaign funding, and all other instances of political corruption. The shadier, the better.
Sir Keir Starmer: Government Should Reveal Those Fined.
International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan said fines have been issued for those that had broken lockdown regulations. Fines were given to those who had attended garden parties at 10 Downing Street. Fines were also issued to party attendees in Whitehall. Ms. Trevelyan made her comments on Sky News. Dominic Raab Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary said the same thing as Ms Trevelyan.
Nicholas BishopPublished 2 years ago in The SwampLegislative corruption
“Corruption in Iraq is with intent not to show.” This phrase I have been repeating frequently in my writings since 2006. I have also talked a lot about what I call “legislative corruption”; It is the corruption that occurs within the framework of the law that the corrupt themselves legislate in order to establish the clientelist structure that governs the state, or in order to cover up their corruption, or at the very least, in order to provide an opportunity for this corruption! After the adoption of the 2005 constitution, the legislative and executive institutions colluded in passing laws that legitimize corruption through their authority, and perhaps the most prominent example of this is the so-called social benefits! The federal budget laws allowed to grant members of the Presidency Council/President of the Republic and his two deputies, the Prime Minister and his deputies, the Speaker and his deputies, the right to improvise an amount of one million dollars per month, without any controls or subjection to real oversight or scrutiny! And these “social benefits” were not canceled until 2012! The legislative and executive authorities continued to frame corruption legally, by “designing” the federal budget laws so that every article and paragraph in it would serve the political forces/parties that transformed state institutions into mere fiefdoms for the leaders of those forces and parties; By subjecting the budget of ministries, agencies, or entities not linked to a ministry or governorate, to bargaining, deals and extortion; From the parliamentary committees concerned with the budget, to the moment of approving this budget! The funny thing here is that the follower of the approval of the legal articles, can easily know the entity or the investor who is behind this article, or that paragraph, by analyzing the articles of the budget law! For example, a “person” put a paragraph of his own personally in the budget law for the year 2021, which is an article that provides a solution to a nation that one of his companies is going through, and it is certain that he could not have passed that article without agreement with the Legal Committee, and the Finance Committee (and he was its vice-chairman ), and an agreement with the Presidency of the House of Representatives, and finally with the deputies themselves who voted on that paragraph, complicity or ignorance! Another attempt is recently being made to pass the point of major corruption, through a law currently being discussed in the Iraqi parliament, which has been called the “Emergency Support for Food Security and Development” law, with allocations of more than $24.1 billion! In order to pass it, the atmosphere was prepared by electing a special temporary financial committee to pass this law, and the majority of the members of this committee have nothing to do with a specialty called economics or finance! is supposed to legislate laws, no one noticed that this law violates the internal system of the Council of Ministers No. 2 of 2019, which is determined in Article 42 / second, which stipulates that it is not within the authority of the government to manage daily affairs / Conducting business “proposing bills or contracting loans”!The Federal Financial Management Law No. 6 of 2019 stipulated in Article 13 that in the event of delay in approving the Federal Budget Law, the disbursement will be made at a rate of 1 to 12 or less of the total actual expenditures for the current expenditures of the previous fiscal year on a monthly basis, until the approval of the federal general budget , as well as the disbursement of the total annual allocations for the ongoing investment projects whose allocations are included during the previous and subsequent year according to the preparation and implementation accounts, which allows the government to conduct daily affairs to carry out its duties without any problem, and the evidence is that three months have passed without a federal budget for 2022 and there was no confusion! The argument that the law “made up” and promoted by its main investors, is that this law is necessary for food security, development and poverty alleviation, with an inevitable focus, of course, on the current crisis in global markets as a result of the Russian-Ukrainian war, especially with regard to wheat! Simply the political actors behind this law want to convince us that after the failure of 17 federal budgets, and hundreds of billions of dollars, a complete failure to provide services, or to alleviate poverty, they will succeed today in achieving food security, through a temporary law until the approval of the general budget for the year 2022! It is clear that the “urgency” in “tabbing” this flimsy law made them get involved in a real legal farce. Article 2/3 talked about financing the account designated for this law through “external and internal loans” with no more than 6.7 billion dollars. However, Article 3 / IV of the law talked about allocating 10% of the entire account, i.e., the amount of 2.41 billion dollars, to “pay off the external debt and the debts of importing gas and purchasing energy,” meaning that the law borrows an external debt to repay, with these loans, part of the external debt ! If there was a real need to secure food security for the Iraqi citizen because of the recent developments, and because of the delay in forming the Iraqi government, and thus the adoption of the Federal Budget Law for 2022, it would have been possible to go to the adoption of an exceptional law that would allow the Ministry of Finance to provide twice the amount that was allocated for importing basic materials that enter into The ration quota for the Iraqi citizen, and this amount would be more than enough not only to achieve food security, because international prices did not reach double their price, and will not reach it in any way, but to provide a strategic stockpile of these materials, and this amount will not exceed 2 billion dollars At most. The “emergency support” law has exposed the ploy of the influential in immoral investment in the funds that were achieved recently due to the rise in oil prices in global markets, especially that the current political impasse with regard to the election of the President of the Republic and thus the formation of the government, and then the approval of the federal budget, may delay this Investing for an indefinite time, so it was necessary to circumvent this by using propaganda expressions such as food security, development and poverty alleviation!
Zernouh.abdoPublished 2 years ago in The SwampLegislative corruption
“Corruption in Iraq is with intent not to show.” This phrase I have been repeating frequently in my writings since 2006. I have also talked a lot about what I call “legislative corruption”; It is the corruption that occurs within the framework of the law that the corrupt themselves legislate in order to establish the clientelist structure that governs the state, or in order to cover up their corruption, or at the very least, in order to provide an opportunity for this corruption!
Zernouh.abdoPublished 2 years ago in The SwampVladimir Putin Has Already Won, but Nobody Wants to Admit It
I get it now. Nothing made sense until today, when Germany announced that it plans to keep buying oil and natural gas from Russia, even as Vladimir Putin continues committing every war crime on the books. China also recently came out in support of Russia, refusing to condemn the invasion of Ukraine and calling them a chief “strategic partner.”
Isabella StarcPublished 2 years ago in The SwampWhat Do the Koch Brothers and the Super Rich Really Want – Our Lives
Photo by Jonathan Cutrer Who are the Koch Brothers? What do they and their ilk want, and what drives them for more? It’s a question that perplexes me.
Rich MonettiPublished 2 years ago in The SwampSIGNATURE SAFETY!!
Signing your name on any type of document whatsoever needs to be done with caution. You need to read it, understand it, agree with it 100%, AND if need be, go over it with your lawyer, otherwise, NEVER under ANY circumstances sign ANYTHING from ANYBODY. In the eyes of the law, a signature is more often than not taken as an agreement, so in other words, once you put your signature on a document of any kind, you are agreeing to and/or with whatever it is that the document says. Removing your signature from said document could be possible, but it is not a guarantee, so the absolute best thing to do would be to not apply your signature to anything that you are even slightly conflicted about.
Crazy-InkerPublished 2 years ago in The SwampDrugs and Street Art vs. the US Government
Keith Haring’s “Crack is Wack '' mural stands tall, 35 years after its creation and although Haring has passed away and the crack cocaine epidemic has subsided the mural serves as a lasting reminder of both. Additionally, the mural is an emblem of grassroots activism in its purest form, street art. Keith Haring, born in 1958, is well known for his distinguishable art style characterized by bright colors and a cartoonish depiction of people. Haring began his work in New York subways. With black paper and chalk in hand he would ride from station to station looking for blank spaces in walls or trains that he could draw on. Haring did most of his work during the height of the AIDS epidemic, which he was passionate about due to his own sexual preferences as well as having contracted the disease himself. Unfortunately, AIDS is what took Haring’s life in February of 1990 at the age of 31. He used his talent in order to call attention to the disease, and most importantly put an end to the hurtful stigmas surrounding gay men at the time. Additionally, he used his art to advocate for other large issues such as the crack cocaine epidemic which took many young lives in the United states. The United States media and government were constantly broadcasting wrongful and stigmatized information about AIDS and crack cocaine, thus making these matters of public health taboo. Haring explicitly went against this taboo and created graphic images of sexual reproductive organs and sexual positions when it came to his artwork about AIDS. In an article about the relationship between AIDS and art, Mary Wyric states that “social realities for disenfranchised people are represented in accessible forms that educate and promote political intervention at a grassroots level,” Haring knew this and used it to his advantage in order to bring attention to another large issue, the crack cocaine epidemic (46).
Beca DamicoPublished 2 years ago in The SwampQatar Drained 6,500 Workers to Death
Qatar is a tiny but super-wealthy country in the Arab Gulf with a GDP worth 183.47 billion US dollars (2019)[1] and a population of 2.8 million inhabitants. In 2014, the Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence accused Qatar of sheltering and hosting international blacklisted jihadi moneymen like Jarallah al-Marri. Soon after, the country was accused by Trump of financing terrorism, which spark a diplomatic crisis in 2017 between Qatar and the rest of the middle east[2].
Ayoub BouamriPublished 2 years ago in The SwampAre Conservatorships A Problem?
For every positive, there is a negative. Some negatives can give you a false positive and I am not talking about pregnancy tests. What I mean is, a lot of negative people, negative feelings, and negative behavior hide behind the guise of coming from a place of love or working towards the greater good. This type of behavior is manipulative, misleading, and a form of gaslighting.
Christina DeFeoPublished 3 years ago in The SwampLabor Unions
Labor Unions in the U.S. brought our country weekends, minimum wage standards, and stopped child labor. Now, as living conditions change, many workers in the industrialized sector are fighting for more changes to match 21st century standards.
The ever-increasing fuel prices in India.
India is not new to inflation, especially when it comes to fuel prices. The ever-increasing petroleum and diesel prices are taking a steep upward ride in recent times. Currently, petroleum and diesel prices stand above Rs.100/L in almost all the states. It’s well above 100/L in all the metropolitan cities. As of 1st November 2021, the oil prices have increased for the sixth consecutive day. Diesel prices have gone up 30 times in the last 38 days. Every 6 a.m. in the morning new prices become applicable and it changes every day. The increase in recent times is almost frightening.
Shreyan GhoshPublished 3 years ago in The SwampThe BBC Is Dead
We live in truly extraordinary times. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is falling apart. The institutions which we have come to trust as the standard bearers of British culture and history have since eschewed their responsibility to those who pay their wages and chosen to sacrifice their integrity at the altar of expediency.
Adebayo AdeniranPublished 3 years ago in The Swamp