Eric Zuesse – Gallup Poll Confirms America’s Soaring Corruption

Gallup Poll Confirms America’s Soaring Corruption

Whereas the national corruption ratings of the various countries by the corrupt Transparency International organization, which was a spin off from the US controlled World Bank in 1993 created by it so that countries whose leaders resist the demands by the US Government will receive from TI poor corruption ratings 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 a given country, its own citizens there, have A much more realistic rating of their own country’s corruptness than do the hired outside ‘Experts’ that TI selects to evaluate that in accord with TI’s vague criteria. Thus, the suite of Gallup polls that Gallup published on January 30th concerning Americans’ perceptions of “Honesty and Ethics” in America provides a far more accurate indication of the amount of corruptness in this country than TI’s score on this country does. So, here, I shall present the core from that Gallup article, and then will discuss it.

Line Chart: Ethics Ratings for Five Professions in the US, 1976 – 2023

https://archive.is/Vdj8P#selection-147.0-199.163

Trust in US Senators, and in what Gallup calls “Members of Congress”, which means members of both Houses, but sometimes “Congress” is misused to refer to Only members of the US House of Representatives, has declined precipitously since the year 2000, when, starting on 9 December 2000, the far right US Supreme Court ‘Justice’ Antonin Scalia abruptly violated the US Constitution and stopped the vote count in the Florida US 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 US Consititution, in its 14th Amendment, in order to ‘Justify’ their treasonous act, led to 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq on the basis of lies, and the takeover of the US 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’s military costs and the US armamants-manufacturers get half of all that money, which causes soaring US federal debt and declining new federal spending on the health, welfare, and environment, of the American people.

In today’s news, there is another stark example of what this increasing US corruptness has led to, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, On January 28th, the Financial Times headlined Brussels Threatens to Hit Hungary’s Economy if Viktor Orbán vetoes Ukraine Aid: EU Strategy aims to Spook Investors by Cutting Off funding to Budapest in Stand Off over € 50 Billion package, and reported that the effort by Hungary’s 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’s war with Russia. No mention is made there that the US Government initiated and created the EU as part of its “Cold War” against first the Soviet Union and then, after 1991, continued it secretly against Russia. Similarly, the February 2, 2024, issue of the US edition of the British The Week magazine aims to fool Americans to support further increasing the ‘Defense’ 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? The story inside it says nothing about Ukraine’s having become a US colony by means of Obama’s February 2014 Coup there, 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 “Journalists” is shown by Gallup there as being at a record low of only 19%.

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to US and allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘News’ media but the social ‘Sciences’, duping the public.
Eric Zuesse blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/.

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