See-through Corruption
I MUST admit, several years ago I found myself impressed by a report from the self-appointed watchdog, Transparency International. America had just slipped out of the top 20 countries said to have the least corruption in the world. Indeed, whilst the 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index now had the U.S. sitting in 22nd place with a score of 71, just behind France and one place ahead of the United Arab Emirates, in 2017 America actually finished in the less impressive position of 16th. Congratulations to our powerful Zionist friends for all their hard work, although they still have a very long way to go before they can reach the staggering levels of corruption attained by lowest-ranked countries Syria (99th) and Somalia (100th).
Oh, and a special shout-out to the Transparency International's Peter Eigen, who is involved in something known as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and which claims to set “a global standard for the good governance of oil, gas and mineral resources”. You probably won't be surprised to learn that each member-country has its own national secretariat and multi-stakeholder group that is comprised of government and corporate representatives. Needless to say, the multi-stakeholder group “takes decisions on how the EITI process is carried out” in the countries concerned. Peter Eigen is also involved with the Africa Progress Panel (APP), described as
“a group of ten distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa.”
Being a member of the APP panel, he apparently “facilitates coalition building to leverage and broker knowledge” and “convenes decision-makers to influence policy for lasting change in Africa” itself. Interesting, don't you think? Peter Eigen has also served as a manager for a series of programmes carried out by the World Bank in both Africa and Latin America. This was all done under the auspices of the Ford Foundation, said to have assets of US$12.4 billion and the capacity for bestowing grants to the tune of US$507.9 million. In 2012, by the way, the foundation transferred its offices to the Rockefeller Archive Center in New York. Nice to know that the Transparency International is living up to its name.