quote:Originally posted by Henry:
‘Transparency’ International.. is typical of the neocolonialist traps. The deception starts with the naming of the trap of course, with references to ‘transparency’, despite its own financing being more opaque than a gorilla’s ‘nether end’! (Thanks, Geoffrey Chaucer).
This particular contraption, which we shall call ‘Opacity International’ in fairness to authenticity of language, was created in 1993 by a neocolonialist agent named Peter Eigen who was (and probably still is) a World Bank operative in charge of creating the organizational infrastructure for the much heralded panacea for the developing world at the time, of Globalisation.
The expressed objective of TI was to ‘fight against corruption at the national level’. Since its founding, the TI virus has spread to over 90 countries. TI is funded by western ‘development agencies’ (read intelligence agencies, USAID, NORAD etc) and multinational companies renowned for bribery and corruption in the developing world.
Amongst the truckloads of ideological hogwash put out by TI, there are concepts such as ‘The National Integrity System (NIS) assessment approach’ and corruption perception index (CPI). The true objectives behind the totally contrived TI corruption prevention campaigns and the totally meaningless nature of the ‘pseudoscience’ behind concepts such as NIS and CPI are now beginning to attract the attention of genuine university academics, exposing the business serving purpose of CPI.
In 2008, Dr William De Maria of the Business School of The University of Queensland published a number of research papers on the bogus science of TI. In a paper titled “Measurements and markets: deconstructing the corruption perception index” (International Journal of Public Sector Management, 21: 7, 777 – 797) Dr De Maria examines how the measurement of African “corruption” has been manipulated to serve western economic interests. In another paper, “The New War on African “Corruption”: Just another Neo-Colonial Adventure”? (Ch. 8, Against the Grain: Advances in Post-Colonial Organisation Studies), De Maria, proves that the CPI is a flawed, business-centric instrument that is oblivious to cultural variance: so much for intellectual corruption!
Another intriguing aspect of TI’s existence is its total focus on the developing world, and more particularly on the Middle East; it sponsored a larger study “to explore and evaluate the experience of Arab states of Egypt, Lebanon and Morocco in terms of systems of integrity”. It is not surprising at all that Israel is not included. How can Zionists behind the project cast aspersions about their Utopia?
But it went on to evaluate the implementation of a national integrity system, would you believe, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)! The PNA is similar to a town council, but without any institutional capacity to perform its functions due to its territory being under Israeli military occupation, with its borders and border-crossings fully controlled by Israel. But TI is hell-bent on teaching the oppressed Palestinians some morals!
Amongst its ideological hogwash, TI defines corruption as “the abuse of the public office for private gain”. Assuming TI itself is ‘public’, Weliamuna violates his own gospel! Weliamuna should be required by law to declare his assets including overseas bank accounts and receipts from foreign ‘aid’ agencies before he can inquire about others. Sri Lankans including any young graduates considering ‘careers’ at TI under Weliamuna’s tutelage need to be appraised of the fraud that is TI.
This pickpocket needs to be taken to task.
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