{"id":1473009,"date":"2024-01-30T23:05:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T23:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=147811"},"modified":"2024-01-30T23:05:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T23:05:24","slug":"gallup-poll-confirms-americas-soaring-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/01\/30\/gallup-poll-confirms-americas-soaring-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallup Poll Confirms America\u2019s Soaring Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Whereas the national corruption ratings of the various countries by the corrupt Transparency International organization, which was a spin-off from the U.S.-controlled World Bank in 1993<\/a> created by it so that countries whose leaders resist the demands by the U.S. Government will receive from TI poor corruption-ratings<\/a> that scare away international investors and thereby starve their country of international capital and force up the interest-rates that those countries have to pay on their foreign debt, the people inside<\/i> a given country \u2014 its own citizens there \u2014 have a much more realistic rating of their own country\u2019s corruptness than do the hired outside \u2018experts\u2019 that TI selects to evaluate that in accord with TI\u2019s vague criteria. Thus, the suite of Gallup polls that Gallup published on January 30th concerning Americans\u2019 perceptions of \u201cHonesty and Ethics\u201d in America<\/a> provides a far more accurate indication of the amount of corruptness in this country than TI\u2019s score on this country does. So: here, I shall present the core from that Gallup article, and then will discuss it:<\/p>\n

Line Chart: Ethics ratings for five professions in the U.S., 1976-2023.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Trust in U.S. Senators, and in what Gallup calls \u201cMembers of Congress\u201d (which means members of both Houses, but sometimes \u201cCongress\u201d is misused to refer to only <\/i>members of the U.S. House of Representatives) has declined precipitously since the year 2000, when, starting on 9 December 2000, the far-right U.S. Supreme Court \u2018Justice\u2019 Antonin Scalia abruptly violated the U.S. Constitution and stopped the vote-count in the Florida U.S. Presidential contest and declared that (his fellow far-right Republican) George W. Bush had won that election (against the moderate Democrat Al Gore). This decision, by the 5-to-4 Republican majority on that Court, who butchered the Equal Protection Clause in the U.S. Consititution<\/a> (in its 14th Amendment) in order to \u2018justify\u2019 their treasonous act, led to 9\/11 and the invasion of Iraq on the basis of lies, and the takeover of the U.S. Government by the military-industrial complex even more than had been the case before, and thrust America into what is virtually martial law in this country (including massive censorship for the Government) ever since that time, so that America now spends more than half of the entire world\u2019s military costs and the U.S. armamants-manufacturers get half of all that money<\/a>, which causes soaring U.S. federal debt and declining new federal spending on the health, welfare, and environment, of the American people.<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s news, there is another stark example of what this increasing U.S. corruptness has led to, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean: On January 28, the Financial Times<\/i> headlined<\/a> “Brussels threatens to hit Hungary\u2019s economy if Viktor Orb\u00e1n vetoes Ukraine aid: EU strategy aims to spook investors by cutting off funding to Budapest in stand-off over \u20ac50bn package\u201d, and reported that the effort by Hungary\u2019s leader, Viktor Orban, to halt the financial bleeding of the people of his country and even of the entire people of the EU, which is pouring unprecedentedly high sums into paying for weapons, the EU is now threatening to blacklist Hungary and drive it into an economic ailspin unless he will relent and do as they demand and approve an additional $50 billion+ in armaments and other support for Ukraine\u2019s war with Russia. No mention is made there that the U.S. Government initiated and created the EU as part of its \u201cCold War\u201d against first the Soviet Union<\/a> and then (after 1991) continued it secretly against Russia. Similarly, the February 2, 2024, issue of the U.S. edition of the British The Week<\/i> magazine aims to fool Americans to support further increasing the \u2018defense\u2019 budget, by posting on its front cover along with a cartoon showing an evil-looking face of Putin, the headline “Giving up on Ukraine: Will Johnson and House Republicans block desperately needed aid for Kyiv?<\/a>” The story inside it says nothing about Ukraine\u2019s having become a U.S. colony by means of Obama\u2019s February 2014 coup there<\/a> (hidden behind Kiev’s Maidan anti-corruption demonstrations) that overthrew a neutralist Government and installed a rabidly anti-Russian one that Putin finally responded to by his invasion of Ukraine on 22 February 2022. (Trust in \u201cjournalists\u201d is shown by Gallup there as being at a record low of only 19%.)<\/p>The post Gallup Poll Confirms America\u2019s Soaring Corruption<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.\n

This post was originally published on Dissident Voice<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whereas the national corruption ratings of the various countries by the corrupt Transparency International organization, which was a spin-off from the U.S.-controlled World Bank in 1993 created by it so that countries whose leaders resist the demands by the U.S. Government will receive from TI poor corruption-ratings that scare away international investors and thereby starve [\u2026]<\/p>\n

The post Gallup Poll Confirms America\u2019s Soaring Corruption<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473009"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478851,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473009\/revisions\/1478851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}