Is Europe Too Corrupt to Save? Can Transparency cure the
corruption endemic to the southern tier culture of Europe, a Catholic culture
except for the Greeks? Ireland, Spain,
Portugal and Italy all good Catholic cultures with blind fascist obedience to a
Leader or Dictator or a Pope being the historic cultural background. This is not anti-Catholic where I am taking
this but it is part of my background argument.
Can a lack of transparency be the reason why RC bishops
protect pedophilia? The Pedo State (Penn State) child rape and child
trafficking ring trial is under way in Pennsylvania just as the Monsignor Lynn
Child Abuse trial has been sent to the jury, also in Pennsylvania.
I for one am not eager to hear any more adult male penis in
child mouth or anus testimony in a secular case as opposed to a religious pedophile
trial. No doubt Bill Donohue at the “Catholic”
League will regularly be reporting to us
and mentioning to his drinking buddy Cardinal Dolan on the daily jury trial activities of secular Coach Sandusky at Penn State – actually no, Sandusky is a good Catholic adult
male and has been recognized as such with awards from the likes of the Knights
of Columbus etc. …. (Can’t go there? Librul eastern media? Right?)
The nuns have shot back across the bough at the anti-female
Vatican quest to sack the nuns' American real estate holdings through trumped up liberal, progressive humanist charges with a simple idea within their June one response to the boys in the Vatican:
“The board members raised concerns about both the content of the doctrinal assessment and the process by which it was prepared. Board members concluded that the assessment was based on unsubstantiated accusations and the result of a flawed process that lacked transparency.”
"Transparency". That’s
the word Carl Anderson as board member of the Vatican Bank IOR (Institute for
Religious Works) kept tossing around the librul press when their token part
time consultant Gotti Tedeschi, President of the Vatican Bank, got sacrificed as
a scapegoat(?) in the recent scandal over there.
No transparency – real transparency – and European
banks don’t want to deal with the Vatican Bank without a trustworthy rating regarding money laundering and terrorism funding.
If Carl Anderson ran his Knights of Columbus Insurance business like the Vatican Bank….(Let’s not go there.)
And let’s not forget – Too Big to Fail in America?
I keep running into the “T” word – TRANPARENCY – all over
the web. And the TRANPARENCY word seems
not to have a SYNONYM like MORALITY.
TRANSPARENCY - just a word without an energy or force - MORALITY
and or ACCOUNTABILITY
The secular world has broken away from the traditional
superstitious world of religion in the west.
The west invented Christianity or remodeled Jesus stuff under Constantine
in the fourth century and church fathers remodeled or plagiarized Aristotle,
Plato and other concepts of morality from the pagan world.
Now that Christianity is on life support in the west, the
most, best you can get in the public forum is a bunch of women hating closeted homosexuals running the RC
church trying to preach morality without transparency or accountability in the day to day
operations of the church. That and fundamentalist creationist political hack party
evangelicals.
Businesses preach profit without morality and most
importantly of all without transparency and definitely without any accountability whatsoever.
Government preaches democracy and law and order, verbal code
words for morality, without transparency and or accountability for no-bid Bush
Cheney type government contracts etc?
The simple truth is that a lot of corruption in western
society lies with the separation of actions, any actions not tied to any transparency and or accountability.
That is why trillions have disappeared on Wall Street and
nobody except Madoff is in prison.
Corruption equals Transparency minus Accountability minus
Morality – all in the same category or all divorced from each other these days?
The end of western civilization as we have known it for
thousands of years?
I give some credit for part of the idea of this article to
the below article in Al Jazeera English which as an outsider news agency of sorts is witnessing the meltdown
of the West in mentioning some “Emperor Has No Clothes” observations ignored
here in the west regarding the present Eurozone monetary crisis.
The warning comes in a new report that says poor governance contributed to financial and political scandals in almost every European country during 2011.
Greece, Italy and Spain are listed as among the most corrupt countries on the continent.
Political parties, businesses and the public sector are said to be the worst institutions for corruption, while electoral commissions and state auditors performed the best.
The report named Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain – the eurozone's most financially-troubled nations – as having deeply-rooted problems in their public administrations where officials are not accountable for their actions.
Political lobbying is also seen as a major cause for concern. Out of 25 European countries 19 have no regulations on political lobbying.
Party funding, with the influence of lobbyists on decision-makers remaining veiled in secrecy, is seen as ripe for abuse by big businesses. The report says Europe's political parties must do more to make funding transparent.
(Like regulations on lobbying could really provide any
protection from corruption? – Look at Washington DC as an example.)
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