Thursday, January 5, 2023
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
5 Anime Series You Must Watch
Demon Slayer
Action-adventure anime series created by Ufotable studio. The story revolves around a young man that destined to fight demons, whom murdered his family and turned his sister into one. Streamed on both FUNimation and Crunchyroll. The series is two seasons long and the third season will be released this year, starting in volume 10 of the manga.
Vinland Saga
Action-Adventure anime series with historical fiction created by
MAPPA studio. Streamed on Netflix, Amazon Video and Crunchyroll. The story revolves around a young man named Thorfinn, who is seeking revenge from his father's killer and looking to reach the land of Vinland. The series is on its second season, which is being released this year.
Jujutsu Kaisen
Action Supernatural anime series created by MAPPA studio. This series
revolves around a boy who got cursed by swallowing a demon's finger, he is destined to locate the rest of the demon and get rid of the curse by himself. The series is on its second season which will be released this year. The series is streamed on Crunchyroll, HBO Max, FUNimation, Netflix,
and Disney Plus.
Attack on Titan
Action Supernatural anime series with some mystery created by MAPPA studio. This series revolves around a group of friends that survived a vicious attack by giant monsters, referred to as titans, the group has sworn to kill every titan and they are humanity's last hope. The series is on its fourth season's final episode, which will be released this year. You can watch this popular series on Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Crunchyroll or FUNimation.
One Punch Man
Action-Comedy series created by Madhouse studio. The series is based on a Japanese superhero manga, it revolves around a boy that can defeat any enemy with a single punch. The series is on its second season, third season is to be announced. You can stream this series on Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus or Crunchyroll.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2023
These 5 Holiday Traditions are Weird
Five Strange Holiday Traditions
number five, KFC for Christmas
In Japan, its relatively small Christian population, would celebrate Christmas eve with a KFC meal that consist of fried chicken, cake, and champagne. The idea was marketed by KFC in the 70s and called it "Kentucky for Christmas". Since then, it has become a delicious holiday tradition thanks to KFC.
number four, The Gift-giving witch
This holiday tradition takes place in Italy, On the night of January 5th, the gift giving witch referred to as La Befana, like Santa Clause, she visits people homes to deliver toys to kids, Italians leave sausage and wine for her instead of cookies and milk. La Befana is believed to have been an old kind witch that traveled to visit baby Jesus and bring gifts to him.
Number three, Hide the Brooms
In Norway, its believed that evil witches and spirits begin to haunt the skies during Christmas Eve, so what a better way to prevent that? is to hide all the brooms to prevent the witches from using them to fly, because broomsticks are known to be their mean of transportation, some locals also fire gunshots to scare off any witches or spirits that may be lurking around.
Number two, Night of the Radishes
On December 23rd of every year, in Oaxaca, Mexico, locals attend a festival, referred to as la Noche de Rabanos or "The Night of The Radishes, where merchants and artists sell Christmas centerpieces designed out of radish carvings, to depict scenery of wildlife, architecture, and various local displays. A monetary prize is given to the best radish display.
Number one, Krampus
During December, in Germany, Austria, and Hungary, some locals dress up as a devil looking monster, called Krampus, believed to be the evil version of Santa, who specifically targets kids that have been troublemakers or on the "naught list", Krampus would frighten those kids and throws them into his sack and tie them to his basket, then take them to the pits of hell, as a punishment.
Friday, December 30, 2022
These 5 Ancient Languages Nobody Understands
Hundreds of civilizations had existed before us,
but we have not fully understood many of them
until today. The major reason for that is the
inability to translate the languages they used.
In this video, we will talk about five languages
that were used in major civilizations, existed
over thousands of years ago, but have yet to be
translated and fully understood.
5. Meroitic Script:
The Meroitic language was once used in the Kingdom of Kush,
modern day Sudan, about 2300 years ago. The script have been
deciphered, however, the language is not fully understood.
Kush consisted of a large ethnic group referred to as the Nubians,
of whom still exist today in southern Egypt and Sudan.
4. The language of the Harappan civilization
or also referred to as the Indus Valley Civilization, which existed
around today's modern Pakistan, India and Iran, approximately 4000
years ago, they were also referred to as the Meluhhans by some
Mesopotamian literature.
3. Linear A
A language used by the Minoans who lived and thrived on the island of Crete,
an island Part of Greece, around 4500 years ago. The first Minoan Script was
found in the city of Knossos, however no scholar has been able to translate
the text until today.
2. Proto Elamite
Around 5,000 years, one of the first writing systems emerged in what's known
today as modern Iran. The language was used by the early Elamites, whom were closely
influenced by Mesopotamia, later in history, Elamites adapted the Sumero-Akkadian
language, and proto-elamite became a lost language that yet to be translated.
1. Cypro Minoan
A writing a system used by the Minoans who lived on the island of Cyprus around 3000
years ago. The Cypro-Minoan scripts that have been found are short and difficult to
translate due to the nonexistence of a bilingual text that can be used to decipher the text.
Monday, November 28, 2022
Top 5 TRUCK DRIVING SIMULATORS OF 2022 #trucksimulator #truckdriving #...
5. TRUCK AND LOGISTICS SIMULATOR
4. MUDRUNNER
3. SNOWRUNNER
2. EURO TRUCK SIMULATOR
1. AMERICAN TRUCK SIMULATOR
Sunday, November 27, 2022
TOP 5 FLIGHT SIMULATORS OF 2022 #trending #flightsimulator #flightgamer ...
Top 10 TRUCK SIMULATORS OF 2020
5. TRUCK AND LOGISTICS SIMULATOR
4. MUDRUNNER
3. SNOWRUNNER
2. EURO TRUCK SIMULATOR
1. AMERICAN TRUCK SIMULATOR
Sunday, May 1, 2022
Monday, January 11, 2021
Tiny Kitten Shows Up at my Door Step Begging for Help
This tiny poor little kitten showed up at my door step, she looks very sick and hopeless, her left eyes and face are infected, the mom cat comes around but cant do anything to help. I gave her some milk and I hope she gets better.
Sunday, January 3, 2021
Sunday, December 20, 2020
Woman inhumanly dragged through store in California
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Sunday, September 29, 2019
They Shouldn't Give Me A Sniper | Ghost Recon Breakpoint Review Walkthro...
A brief review walkthrough gameplay of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint Open Beta, this game is amazing and I cant wait for its release in October 4th 2019, the graphics are awesome, game mechanics are wonderful, you get to drive vehicles, motorcycles, and fly helicopters and god knows what else.
Friday, January 19, 2018
Top 10 Flight Simulator Games and Trainers 2018
We picked the best Top 10 Flight Simulator Games and Trainers of 2018 special for you to enjoy!
10. Extreme Landings
9. Take Off8. Fire Flight7. Google Flight Simulator
6. Flight Gear4. Microsoft Flight Simulator X
5. Flight Sim World2. Lockheed Martin Prepar3D
3. Aerofly Flight Simulator 21. X-plane 11
Friday, December 2, 2016
Top 10 Largest Stars in Our galaxy and The Universe
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Top 10 Shooting Games For Android and iOS iPhone
Top 10 Shooting Games For Android and iOS iPhone
10. Zombie Frontier 3
9. Stick Squad 3 - Modern Shooter
8. Sniper Shooter
7. Sniper 3D Assassin
6. Dead Trigger 2
5. Frontline Commando: D-Day
4. Brothers in Arms 3
3. NOVA 3: Freedom Edition
2. Major Mayhem
1. Heroes of 71
Friday, May 13, 2016
Top 10 Best Bus Simulators For Android and iPhone iOS 2016
Top 10 Best Bus Simulators For Android and iPhone iOS 2016
9. Off-Road Hill Climber: Bus SIM
8. City Bus Simulator Craft
7. Bus Driver 2015
6. Bus Simulator Driver 3D Game
5. City Bus Driver
4. Bus Simulator 3D
3. Party Bus Simulator
2. Bus Simulator 2015
1. Public Transport Simulator
Sunday, May 8, 2016
Top 10 NonCombat Airplane Flight Simulator Games For PC
Top 10 NonCombat Airplane Flight
Simulator Games For PC
10. Google Earth Flight Simulator
9. Orbiter
8. Aerofly Flight Simulator
7. Flight Gear
6. Xplane 8
5. Flight Simulator 2004
4. Flight Smulator X
3. Xplane 9
2. XPlane 10
1. Prepar3D
9. Orbiter
8. Aerofly Flight Simulator
7. Flight Gear
6. Xplane 8
5. Flight Simulator 2004
4. Flight Smulator X
3. Xplane 9
2. XPlane 10
1. Prepar3D
Saturday, April 30, 2016
Corruption vs. Democracy
According to the Corruption Perception Index of 2015, researched
by Transparency International, 68 percent of countries around the world have
critical corruption issues (Corruption Perception Index 2015, 2015) . Corruption is a
serious problem that humanity has faced and still facing for a long time. It is
a barrier to democracy, the achievement of prosperity, political and
socioeconomic stability. Corruption happens around the world every day,
affecting the lives of millions of people, halting the advancement of civilizations,
making developing countries undeveloped and developed countries hypocrites. Corruption is the result
of unethical behavior and actions, that an individual or group take to satisfy
their self-interest, ignoring the short and long-term consequences that are
caused by their decisions. Sometimes, these consequences are not significantly
severe and tend to be ignored, others can be very severe, affecting a large
number of people and factors. Significant consequences are resulted when the
corrupt individual or group have a big role in society, in which they control
many aspects that depend on their decisions, such as politicians and
businessman. This paper will be
discussing corruption cases that have an impact on the world economy. It will
explain why corruption might be a barrier to democracy, and how on the other hand
it can be crucial for the existence of democracy, and what can be done to
eliminate it or prevent corruption from happening, through a series of examples
and evidence.
Worldwide and large scale corruption can be broken down to three
main types, which are political corruption, business corruption, and mixed
corruption; which means involving unethical deals between governments and
businesses. Some of most recent corruption cases are the theft of oil money and
anti-terrorism funds in Nigeria, bribery and governments’ accounts manipulation
in Brazil, bribery and fraud practices by FIFA officials, tax evasion and
unethical offshoring by many leaders revealed by the Panama Papers, and illegal
contract securing bribery; between oil extraction facilitator and contractor Unaoil
and Iraqi government officials, and tax evasion by unethical offshoring
revealed by the Panama Papers.
The first example of political corruption
is the
theft of Nigerian oil and government’s anti-terrorist operations funds. Revenues
from oil sales in Nigeria makes up seventy five percent of the Nigerian
economy, but Nigerian economists cannot get an accurate estimate of how much
oil is being produced, because thousands of oil barrels produced are stolen by
unknown groups and individuals (Can Nigeria's president defeat
oil industry corruption?, 2015) . Difficult part of
solving corruption issues is being able to identify the source, because it’s
hard to hold anyone accountable, since it’s done by many people. However,
sometimes it’s possible to trace where the money or assets are being used. The
current Nigerian president has called for the arrest of the former security
advisor Sambo Dasuki, for stealing $2 billion dollars that were assigned to
fund military equipment purchase, in order to fight the terrorist group Boko
Haram (O'Grady, 2015) . Tracing where a
certain fund has ended up is one way of identifying the source, if it was not
used for its purpose. The result of losing government funds due to theft by
officials, causes devastation to the economy and hinder the goal of these
funds, when funds did not go into purchasing weapons to fight Boko Harram,
military operations failed, therefore allowing these terrorists take wide areas
of Nigeria, killing hundreds of people, plus taking over oil fields and private
properties. When the Nigerian government loses the money due to oil and funds
theft, it is difficult to pay employees’ salaries and fund their budget, the
education system, health system, infrastructure, resulting in over sixty
percent poverty (Can Nigeria's president defeat
oil industry corruption?, 2015) . High rate of
poverty, indicates the failure of achieving democracy. When it comes gaining
large sums of money, some individuals tend to get blinded by it and ignore
basic life ethics, laws, and consequences, hurting many others who depend on
for their basic life necessities. At some point, these corruptive actions gets revealed
by the system, when it is enlightened enough.
The second example of political corruption, is the bribery and
governments accounts manipulation in Brazil. Public funds were unlawfully used
by governments officials in a corruption scheme investigators called “Mensalao”, to bribe congress
members to gain their vote in important government decisions (Rousseff
impeachment: How did Brazil get here?, 2016) . Politicians purchase votes
that will serve their interest by draining the public funds of the country, in
which could be used to invest in improving the economy. When the society is
enlightened enough such as in Brazil, it will revolve and put emphasis on
identifying and stopping corruption. The current Brazilian president Rousseff
got impeached and could be removed from office, for manipulating the government’s
accounts in 2014, she denies such actions and accuse her opponents for using
this idea to take her position (Rousseff impeachment: How did Brazil get here?,
2016) . Denial and reversing the
accusations are ways for corrupt individuals to get out of the trouble. Many member of congress who are currently
serving were associated with corruptive acts, and they are going to be charged
for bribery, and electoral fraud (Pecanha & Romero, 2016) . Normally, a corruption
action takes place between two parties, in this case a bribery takes place
between the briber whom are the government officials and the acceptor whom are
the congress members. Corruption does not only exist in governments, it widely
exist in business as well.
Business
corruption can be as sever and dangerous as government corruption, especially
if a certain corrupt business impact the society in so many ways, such as financially,
environmentally, and ideologically.
An example of recent business corruption
would be the FIFA scandal, in which fourteen company officials and executives were convicted by
police, for a request by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Siciliano
& jamieson, 2016) . Through enough investigation
and tracing of evidence of unlawful deals, law enforcement can identify
business corruption. When a business is structurally corrupt, it is important to
question the highest authority of that business, such the president or CEO. In
this case, FIFA president Sepp Blatter was suspended for eight years for paying
over $2 million to Platini, the president of the Union of European Football
Associations, in 2011 (O'Grady, 2015) . Corrupt business is sometime
the reflection of a corrupt leader or businessman. The investigation in the FIFA scandal
reveal more than just a corrupt leader, but also so many other corrupt
practices by officials, who either bribing or accepting bribery, game selling
to certain nations that want to host it, and these practices took place around
the world, such as North America, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean (O'Grady, 2015) . The consequences of
the corruption in this case does not seem to have a significant impact on the
world economy, however, it did effect other nations that could have benefited
from hosting the soccer games, if the selection process was fair, money that
used in bribery could have been used to improve business conditions and
invested in community projects. Business corruption tend to have a more
significant impact when it involves governments as part of the corruption,
which makes it a mixed corruption.
Mixed Corruption is when a business corporation and governments
make deals unlawfully, for the self-gain of individuals or groups that work in
either sides. These individuals or groups ignore the constitutional laws,
policies and regulations to achieve profitable deals, such as awarding business
contracts to control oil fields for key turn projects, giving unfair investment
opportunities in exchange for a bribe.
An example of mixed corruption is
the corruption of the Australian corporation Unaoil, which is an industry
facilitator and contractor that provides industrial projects facilitation,
specifically oil, through linking governments in Middle-East, Central Asia and
Africa with the technology companies around the world (Ahsani, n.d.) . Investigation by
Fairfax Media and the Huffington Post, discovered that government contracts
worth billions of dollars were awarded unfairly, by bribes paid on behalf of
tech giant companies such as Rolls Royce, Halliburton, and Samsung, revealing
that Unaoil has provided the proper connection for such deals to take place (McKenzie,
Baker, Bachelard, & Quinlan, 2016) . Unaoil abusing the
concept of Facilitating Payments, in which it’s using it to securing contracts
deals with corrupt government officials who accept these payments, but in
terms, these payments are bribes because they do not end up in government
treasury or investment, instead it’s transferred to private banks that serves
those corrupt officials According to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the
OECD convention on bribery, facilitating payments are allowed, but not when
it’s used to secure contracts and get special treatment (Hill, 2015) . The report confirms that Iraqi minister of
oil, Hussein al-Shahristani had accepted millions of dollars in bribes, to
allow for the awarding of contracts to Unaoil (Iraq to probe claims of Unaoil
corruption against top officials, 2016) . Government officials
abusing their power and taking advantage of the weak communications, poor check
and balance structure in the government, in order to benefit themselves,
accepting bribes that is only making the system even more corrupt. The scandal
was discovered from a number of leaked emails, that provided evidence of
communications between the corrupt parties, discussing the deal, receiving
payments and making illegal agreements (Shankar, 2016) . The government officials, Unaoil and
other businesses involved are denying the existence of such corruption, even
though there more than one evidence to prove it. As bad as this corruption
sounds, some economists argue it’s sometime vital for the growth of the economy
in hostile, developing countries, by providing the opportunities of investment
to create jobs and business transactions (Hill, 2015) .
However, it can create unfair investment competition, it can serve politicians
agendas. When business has to pay large sums of money to invest in foreign country, it incur a large
expense, which in turn reduce the business profitability, making it an
unfavorable investing environment.
Another example of mixed corruption,
except this one is arguably beneficial to the world economy and international
business in some ways, however, it does not mean it is ethical or has no
negative impact on the society. This corruption case is called the Panama Papers.
As it is described on the dedicated website, it says that it is a “A giant leak
of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that
enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore
companies” (The International Consortium of
Investigative Journalsts, 2016) . It’s described by the ICIJ, the International Consortium of Investigative
Journalsts, as the discovery of large amount of documents, that shows
transfer accounts and offshoring deals, created by a lot of famous and
non-famous politicians and businessmen. The Panama Papers reveals that there is
a firm called Mossack Fonseca based in Panama that control a lot of offshoring
services around the world, such as in Switzerland, Cyprus, and the British
Virgin Island, it makes these places a tax havens for those who deposit their
large sums of cash in its affiliated shell banks, it is exploited by 143
corrupt and non-corrupt politicians to evade paying taxes on their incomes (Harding,
2016) .
The unintended consequences can have a negative impact on some governments’
budget, in which tax revenues are collected to be used in public services and
welfare, however, it can be beneficial to the economies of countries that it’s
being invested in or offshored to (El-Erian, 2016) . The tax avoidance can cause a loss of
government revenues, it cause frustration to tax payers who think it is unfair
that the wealthy get to become even wealthier by exploiting a crooked system. The
money that these rich and unethical individuals deposit in foreign countries,
is helping these countries’ economic growth such as in Cyprus and Switzerland,
supporting the achievement of democracy and prosperity. Nevertheless, it does
not make it ethical to evade taxation and or hide the actual income of these
wealthy individual, in which they do to repel suspicion of where they get it
from.
Corruption is the reflection of the unethical
behavior of government officials and businessman. While a certain corrupt deal
may not have a significant impact on the economy or the international business,
it’s still a reflection of how unethical and careless these individuals are.
Unethical and careless politicians provide poor service to the society that
depend on them. Businessmen that perform unethically can reduce their business
productivity, create hostile work environment, negatively impacting their
stakeholders. When unethical politicians and government officials meet together
to make an illegal deal, they diminish democracy. Large scale corruption can be
broken down to three main types, corruption in government, between politicians;
corruption in business, between businessmen; and corruption between government
and businessmen. Some examples that this paper discusses are the theft of
Nigerian oil by politicians, manipulation of government accounts and the
purchase of votes in Brazil, fraud practices by FIFA, bribery to award or gain
business contracts between Unaoil Company and Iraqi government, and tax evasion
by offshoring revealed by the Panama Papers.
The conclusion of this paper is that corruption
creates a barrier to democracy, the transparency in governments, the growth of
economies, the creation of fair and healthy business environment, and the
achievement of prosperity. Identifying the source of corruption might be a
difficult task, but with persistence and tracing evidence, it can be achieved.
Enlightenment in the society, can help eliminate corruption. Enlightenment can
be achieved with good education and dedication. International cooperation and
awareness is crucial in eliminating corruption. Some corruption scandals may
not have a significant impact on the world economies, but some other can put
many people’s lives in jeopardy, hindering the advancement of society and
civilizations, allowing for terrorism, wars, poverty and hunger, and unfair or
hostile business environment. Although some argue that corruption sometimes
help democracy, it is still outweighed by the negative effects of corruption. Denial
and manipulation of evidence are tools used by the corrupt individuals to
escape punishment, making hard to hold anyone accountable for the sever issues
that a country or a business have. No corruption case should be ignored,
because if it does not have a direct impact, it might be a reflection of a
spoiled system, a signal for change to improve the political and economic state
of a country.
According to the Corruption Perception Index of 2015, researched
by Transparency International, 68 percent of countries around the world have
critical corruption issues (Corruption Perception Index 2015, 2015) . Corruption is a
serious problem that humanity has faced and still facing for a long time. It is
a barrier to democracy, the achievement of prosperity, political and
socioeconomic stability. Corruption happens around the world every day,
affecting the lives of millions of people, halting the advancement of civilizations,
making developing countries undeveloped and developed countries hypocrites. Corruption is the result
of unethical behavior and actions, that an individual or group take to satisfy
their self-interest, ignoring the short and long-term consequences that are
caused by their decisions. Sometimes, these consequences are not significantly
severe and tend to be ignored, others can be very severe, affecting a large
number of people and factors. Significant consequences are resulted when the
corrupt individual or group have a big role in society, in which they control
many aspects that depend on their decisions, such as politicians and
businessman. This paper will be
discussing corruption cases that have an impact on the world economy. It will
explain why corruption might be a barrier to democracy, and how on the other hand
it can be crucial for the existence of democracy, and what can be done to
eliminate it or prevent corruption from happening, through a series of examples
and evidence.
Worldwide and large scale corruption can be broken down to three
main types, which are political corruption, business corruption, and mixed
corruption; which means involving unethical deals between governments and
businesses. Some of most recent corruption cases are the theft of oil money and
anti-terrorism funds in Nigeria, bribery and governments’ accounts manipulation
in Brazil, bribery and fraud practices by FIFA officials, tax evasion and
unethical offshoring by many leaders revealed by the Panama Papers, and illegal
contract securing bribery; between oil extraction facilitator and contractor Unaoil
and Iraqi government officials, and tax evasion by unethical offshoring
revealed by the Panama Papers.
The first example of political corruption is the theft of Nigerian oil and government’s anti-terrorist operations funds. Revenues from oil sales in Nigeria makes up seventy five percent of the Nigerian economy, but Nigerian economists cannot get an accurate estimate of how much oil is being produced, because thousands of oil barrels produced are stolen by unknown groups and individuals (Can Nigeria's president defeat
oil industry corruption?, 2015) . Difficult part of
solving corruption issues is being able to identify the source, because it’s
hard to hold anyone accountable, since it’s done by many people. However,
sometimes it’s possible to trace where the money or assets are being used. The
current Nigerian president has called for the arrest of the former security
advisor Sambo Dasuki, for stealing $2 billion dollars that were assigned to
fund military equipment purchase, in order to fight the terrorist group Boko
Haram (O'Grady, 2015) . Tracing where a
certain fund has ended up is one way of identifying the source, if it was not
used for its purpose. The result of losing government funds due to theft by
officials, causes devastation to the economy and hinder the goal of these
funds, when funds did not go into purchasing weapons to fight Boko Harram,
military operations failed, therefore allowing these terrorists take wide areas
of Nigeria, killing hundreds of people, plus taking over oil fields and private
properties. When the Nigerian government loses the money due to oil and funds
theft, it is difficult to pay employees’ salaries and fund their budget, the
education system, health system, infrastructure, resulting in over sixty
percent poverty (Can Nigeria's president defeat
oil industry corruption?, 2015) . High rate of
poverty, indicates the failure of achieving democracy. When it comes gaining
large sums of money, some individuals tend to get blinded by it and ignore
basic life ethics, laws, and consequences, hurting many others who depend on
for their basic life necessities. At some point, these corruptive actions gets revealed
by the system, when it is enlightened enough.
The first example of political corruption is the theft of Nigerian oil and government’s anti-terrorist operations funds. Revenues from oil sales in Nigeria makes up seventy five percent of the Nigerian economy, but Nigerian economists cannot get an accurate estimate of how much oil is being produced, because thousands of oil barrels produced are stolen by unknown groups and individuals
The second example of political corruption, is the bribery and
governments accounts manipulation in Brazil. Public funds were unlawfully used
by governments officials in a corruption scheme investigators called “Mensalao”, to bribe congress
members to gain their vote in important government decisions (Rousseff
impeachment: How did Brazil get here?, 2016) . Politicians purchase votes
that will serve their interest by draining the public funds of the country, in
which could be used to invest in improving the economy. When the society is
enlightened enough such as in Brazil, it will revolve and put emphasis on
identifying and stopping corruption. The current Brazilian president Rousseff
got impeached and could be removed from office, for manipulating the government’s
accounts in 2014, she denies such actions and accuse her opponents for using
this idea to take her position (Rousseff impeachment: How did Brazil get here?,
2016) . Denial and reversing the
accusations are ways for corrupt individuals to get out of the trouble. Many member of congress who are currently
serving were associated with corruptive acts, and they are going to be charged
for bribery, and electoral fraud (Pecanha & Romero, 2016) . Normally, a corruption
action takes place between two parties, in this case a bribery takes place
between the briber whom are the government officials and the acceptor whom are
the congress members. Corruption does not only exist in governments, it widely
exist in business as well.
Business
corruption can be as sever and dangerous as government corruption, especially
if a certain corrupt business impact the society in so many ways, such as financially,
environmentally, and ideologically.
An example of recent business corruption would be the FIFA scandal, in which fourteen company officials and executives were convicted by police, for a request by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Siciliano
& jamieson, 2016) . Through enough investigation
and tracing of evidence of unlawful deals, law enforcement can identify
business corruption. When a business is structurally corrupt, it is important to
question the highest authority of that business, such the president or CEO. In
this case, FIFA president Sepp Blatter was suspended for eight years for paying
over $2 million to Platini, the president of the Union of European Football
Associations, in 2011 (O'Grady, 2015) . Corrupt business is sometime
the reflection of a corrupt leader or businessman. The investigation in the FIFA scandal
reveal more than just a corrupt leader, but also so many other corrupt
practices by officials, who either bribing or accepting bribery, game selling
to certain nations that want to host it, and these practices took place around
the world, such as North America, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean (O'Grady, 2015) . The consequences of
the corruption in this case does not seem to have a significant impact on the
world economy, however, it did effect other nations that could have benefited
from hosting the soccer games, if the selection process was fair, money that
used in bribery could have been used to improve business conditions and
invested in community projects. Business corruption tend to have a more
significant impact when it involves governments as part of the corruption,
which makes it a mixed corruption.
An example of recent business corruption would be the FIFA scandal, in which fourteen company officials and executives were convicted by police, for a request by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mixed Corruption is when a business corporation and governments
make deals unlawfully, for the self-gain of individuals or groups that work in
either sides. These individuals or groups ignore the constitutional laws,
policies and regulations to achieve profitable deals, such as awarding business
contracts to control oil fields for key turn projects, giving unfair investment
opportunities in exchange for a bribe.
An example of mixed corruption is the corruption of the Australian corporation Unaoil, which is an industry facilitator and contractor that provides industrial projects facilitation, specifically oil, through linking governments in Middle-East, Central Asia and Africa with the technology companies around the world (Ahsani, n.d.) . Investigation by
Fairfax Media and the Huffington Post, discovered that government contracts
worth billions of dollars were awarded unfairly, by bribes paid on behalf of
tech giant companies such as Rolls Royce, Halliburton, and Samsung, revealing
that Unaoil has provided the proper connection for such deals to take place (McKenzie,
Baker, Bachelard, & Quinlan, 2016) . Unaoil abusing the
concept of Facilitating Payments, in which it’s using it to securing contracts
deals with corrupt government officials who accept these payments, but in
terms, these payments are bribes because they do not end up in government
treasury or investment, instead it’s transferred to private banks that serves
those corrupt officials According to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the
OECD convention on bribery, facilitating payments are allowed, but not when
it’s used to secure contracts and get special treatment (Hill, 2015) . The report confirms that Iraqi minister of
oil, Hussein al-Shahristani had accepted millions of dollars in bribes, to
allow for the awarding of contracts to Unaoil (Iraq to probe claims of Unaoil
corruption against top officials, 2016) . Government officials
abusing their power and taking advantage of the weak communications, poor check
and balance structure in the government, in order to benefit themselves,
accepting bribes that is only making the system even more corrupt. The scandal
was discovered from a number of leaked emails, that provided evidence of
communications between the corrupt parties, discussing the deal, receiving
payments and making illegal agreements (Shankar, 2016) . The government officials, Unaoil and
other businesses involved are denying the existence of such corruption, even
though there more than one evidence to prove it. As bad as this corruption
sounds, some economists argue it’s sometime vital for the growth of the economy
in hostile, developing countries, by providing the opportunities of investment
to create jobs and business transactions (Hill, 2015) .
However, it can create unfair investment competition, it can serve politicians
agendas. When business has to pay large sums of money to invest in foreign country, it incur a large
expense, which in turn reduce the business profitability, making it an
unfavorable investing environment.
Another example of mixed corruption, except this one is arguably beneficial to the world economy and international business in some ways, however, it does not mean it is ethical or has no negative impact on the society. This corruption case is called the Panama Papers. As it is described on the dedicated website, it says that it is a “A giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies” (The International Consortium of
Investigative Journalsts, 2016) . It’s described by the ICIJ, the International Consortium of Investigative
Journalsts, as the discovery of large amount of documents, that shows
transfer accounts and offshoring deals, created by a lot of famous and
non-famous politicians and businessmen. The Panama Papers reveals that there is
a firm called Mossack Fonseca based in Panama that control a lot of offshoring
services around the world, such as in Switzerland, Cyprus, and the British
Virgin Island, it makes these places a tax havens for those who deposit their
large sums of cash in its affiliated shell banks, it is exploited by 143
corrupt and non-corrupt politicians to evade paying taxes on their incomes (Harding,
2016) .
The unintended consequences can have a negative impact on some governments’
budget, in which tax revenues are collected to be used in public services and
welfare, however, it can be beneficial to the economies of countries that it’s
being invested in or offshored to (El-Erian, 2016) . The tax avoidance can cause a loss of
government revenues, it cause frustration to tax payers who think it is unfair
that the wealthy get to become even wealthier by exploiting a crooked system. The
money that these rich and unethical individuals deposit in foreign countries,
is helping these countries’ economic growth such as in Cyprus and Switzerland,
supporting the achievement of democracy and prosperity. Nevertheless, it does
not make it ethical to evade taxation and or hide the actual income of these
wealthy individual, in which they do to repel suspicion of where they get it
from.
Corruption is the reflection of the unethical behavior of government officials and businessman. While a certain corrupt deal may not have a significant impact on the economy or the international business, it’s still a reflection of how unethical and careless these individuals are. Unethical and careless politicians provide poor service to the society that depend on them. Businessmen that perform unethically can reduce their business productivity, create hostile work environment, negatively impacting their stakeholders. When unethical politicians and government officials meet together to make an illegal deal, they diminish democracy. Large scale corruption can be broken down to three main types, corruption in government, between politicians; corruption in business, between businessmen; and corruption between government and businessmen. Some examples that this paper discusses are the theft of Nigerian oil by politicians, manipulation of government accounts and the purchase of votes in Brazil, fraud practices by FIFA, bribery to award or gain business contracts between Unaoil Company and Iraqi government, and tax evasion by offshoring revealed by the Panama Papers.
The conclusion of this paper is that corruption creates a barrier to democracy, the transparency in governments, the growth of economies, the creation of fair and healthy business environment, and the achievement of prosperity. Identifying the source of corruption might be a difficult task, but with persistence and tracing evidence, it can be achieved. Enlightenment in the society, can help eliminate corruption. Enlightenment can be achieved with good education and dedication. International cooperation and awareness is crucial in eliminating corruption. Some corruption scandals may not have a significant impact on the world economies, but some other can put many people’s lives in jeopardy, hindering the advancement of society and civilizations, allowing for terrorism, wars, poverty and hunger, and unfair or hostile business environment. Although some argue that corruption sometimes help democracy, it is still outweighed by the negative effects of corruption. Denial and manipulation of evidence are tools used by the corrupt individuals to escape punishment, making hard to hold anyone accountable for the sever issues that a country or a business have. No corruption case should be ignored, because if it does not have a direct impact, it might be a reflection of a spoiled system, a signal for change to improve the political and economic state of a country.
An example of mixed corruption is the corruption of the Australian corporation Unaoil, which is an industry facilitator and contractor that provides industrial projects facilitation, specifically oil, through linking governments in Middle-East, Central Asia and Africa with the technology companies around the world
Another example of mixed corruption, except this one is arguably beneficial to the world economy and international business in some ways, however, it does not mean it is ethical or has no negative impact on the society. This corruption case is called the Panama Papers. As it is described on the dedicated website, it says that it is a “A giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies”
Corruption is the reflection of the unethical behavior of government officials and businessman. While a certain corrupt deal may not have a significant impact on the economy or the international business, it’s still a reflection of how unethical and careless these individuals are. Unethical and careless politicians provide poor service to the society that depend on them. Businessmen that perform unethically can reduce their business productivity, create hostile work environment, negatively impacting their stakeholders. When unethical politicians and government officials meet together to make an illegal deal, they diminish democracy. Large scale corruption can be broken down to three main types, corruption in government, between politicians; corruption in business, between businessmen; and corruption between government and businessmen. Some examples that this paper discusses are the theft of Nigerian oil by politicians, manipulation of government accounts and the purchase of votes in Brazil, fraud practices by FIFA, bribery to award or gain business contracts between Unaoil Company and Iraqi government, and tax evasion by offshoring revealed by the Panama Papers.
The conclusion of this paper is that corruption creates a barrier to democracy, the transparency in governments, the growth of economies, the creation of fair and healthy business environment, and the achievement of prosperity. Identifying the source of corruption might be a difficult task, but with persistence and tracing evidence, it can be achieved. Enlightenment in the society, can help eliminate corruption. Enlightenment can be achieved with good education and dedication. International cooperation and awareness is crucial in eliminating corruption. Some corruption scandals may not have a significant impact on the world economies, but some other can put many people’s lives in jeopardy, hindering the advancement of society and civilizations, allowing for terrorism, wars, poverty and hunger, and unfair or hostile business environment. Although some argue that corruption sometimes help democracy, it is still outweighed by the negative effects of corruption. Denial and manipulation of evidence are tools used by the corrupt individuals to escape punishment, making hard to hold anyone accountable for the sever issues that a country or a business have. No corruption case should be ignored, because if it does not have a direct impact, it might be a reflection of a spoiled system, a signal for change to improve the political and economic state of a country.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
What made Madam CJ. Walker the First Female Millionaire?
What made Madam CJ. Walker the First Female Millionaire?
Madam
CJ. Walker became the first female millionaire in a time when female and
minorities were discriminated against. She used several business strategies, in
which are used until today by many businesses. Some of her strategies were,
branding her products, structuring her company, following ethical codes, creating
a manufacturing process, setting up business goals and success goals,
contributing to her community and race, recognizing social responsibility and
building trust relationship with her customers and employees.
She
structured her company wisely, she organized her management team, sales agents,
manufacturing facilities, and owned all of the stocks of the company. She
communicated with her general manager well, giving him/her detailed
instructions on what has to be achieved, especially in her absence. She located
her facilities in many different locations, such as Indiana and New York, to
reach her customers in many different areas of the country and avoid
transportation cost.
She
created ethical codes that her company has to follow, in which her employees
must follow to maintain the company’s integrity and productivity. Such as being
honest, clean, dressing well to work, being on time, having a friendly attitude
with co-workers and customers, being professional when communicating and
behaving around others.
She
created a manufacturing process to her produce product efficiently, maintaining
quality and low cost.
She set
up goals for her business and defined her business success. Her goals were to
create a beneficial product that helps many ladies have a healthy and good looking
hair, she wanted her business to prosper to prove that skin color doesn’t
matter when it comes to entrepreneurship, she wanted to create jobs for many
poor and discriminated African-Americans, and she wanted to set up an example
for self-esteem, integrity and professionalism. She toured around the country
to spread the word about her products.
She
contributed to her community, especially the black community through many ways.
She created jobs for many black women and men, she donated large sums of many
to charities that helped educate the poor, feed the hungry and fight for the
weak, for example donating to the YMCA. She motivated men and women to seek
success through professionalism and entrepreneurship.
She
recognized her social responsibly and helped eradicating racism and
discrimination African-American and women, she was a motivational public
speaker and funded humanitarian organization that seeks justice to those whom
being mistreated because of their color, such the black soldiers in the Army.
She had
an army of agents, of whom she build a trust relationship and taught them
important business and personal ethics that shaped their behavior and decisions
when communicating with her customers to maintain value and loyalty, such as
the way they dress, the way they speak and the way they speak.
Madam
CJ. Walker is one of the greatest businesswomen in history, who was first to be
a woman millionaire of black color in times when black were discriminated
against. She created and followed many business strategies that helped shape
the business world of today, such branding product, company structure, setting
business goals, contributing to the community, recognizing social
responsibility and building trust relationship with her customers and employee
through professional treatment.
Sources:
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Top 10 Best Largest Eagles in the World
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4. Bald Eagle
3. Berkut Golden Eagle
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1. Stellars Sea Eagle
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