Corruption

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Corruption
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Stench of corruption

• Headline
• Stench of corruption lingers over New Europe
• Headline The Times 3 December
• Event
• The tangled relationship between Eastern Europes
  political leaders and organised crime has become
  a pressing issue for the EU as politicians across
  the region face accusations of corruption.
• Comment
• The article continued to list a number of
  countries where corruption is affecting the
  governments and political leaders. Leaders
  affected are Polish Prime minister, Lithuanian
  President, Czech Prime Minister, Slovakian senior
  politician and others. We are told the world will
  be like the days of Noah before Jesus returns.
  Those days were violent and corrupt.
• Bible Quote Genesis 6
• 11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and
  the earth was filled with violence.
• 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold,
  it was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted his
  way upon the earth.

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Rooting out Corruption

• Headline
• Supreme Court supports moves to route out
  corruption
• Headline DT 12 December
• Event
• The United States Supreme Court has endorsed
  sweeping reforms to curb the influence of money
  in American politics. The judgement spoke of
  corruption and in particular the appearance of
  corruption throughout the political process.
  Reformers have been fired up in recent years by
  controversy surrounding links between Mr Bushs
  administration and the bankrupt energy giant
  Enron.
• Comment
• We will never know the full extent of corruption
  in the governments of the world. Of course the
  Lord God sees all. Corruption we know will be
  prevalent at the return of Jesus. We should
  therefore watch for corruption occurring in the
  world and avoid it in our lives at all costs.
• Bible Quote Genesis 6
• 11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and
  the earth was filled with violence.
• 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold,
  it was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted his
  way upon the earth.

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Bishops in Chauffeur Cars

• Headline
• Bishops ignore plea to cut spending on
• Chauffeur cars
• Headline DT 12 December
• Event
• Most senior Church of England bishops still use
  chauffeur-driven cars despite advice that they
  should switch to hire cars or taxis, an official
  report said yesterday. 35 of the 44 diocesan
  bishops had full-time, or part-time or occasional
  drivers last year, said the study. They
  collectively spent more than 400,000 on
  hospitality. The Archbishop of Canterbury led the
  list, with a bill of 41,199.
• Comment
• The Lord Jesus helps us all identify false
  religious leaders. His words apply as much today
  as they did to the Scribes and Pharisees of his
  day. They may not have had chauffeur driven cars
  back then but they lived off what was put into
  the treasury and loved the highest seats and the
  feasts. They even wear long robes!
• Bible Quote Luke 20
• 46 Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk
  in long robes, and love greetings in the markets,
  and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the
  chief rooms at feasts
• 47 Which devour widows houses, and for a shew
  make long prayers the same shall receive greater
  damnation.

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MOD corruption

• Headline
• MoD corruption leaves troops with substandard
  equipment - Headline DT 30
  December
• Event
• Corruption in the defence trade means that
  British troops are being supplied with bogus and
  sub standard equipment, the Ministry of Defence
  will tell its staff today as it begins a campaign
  to clamp down on fraud.
• Comment
• Corruption is rife in all areas of commercial and
  political life. It was predicted to be so by
  Jesus at the time of the end and it is worth
  noting when the word appears. It is a sign that
  we are living at the time of the end. Just one
  other quick point as a I have some space, the
  National Trust renowned for the splendour of its
  stately homes is now offering a new attraction at
  its properties homosexual weddings. The Trust
  has signed an agreement with a company called
  Pink Weddings which arranges blessings for same
  sex couples.
• As we look at the state of the world as we enter
  2004 let us pray that this is the year that our
  Lord Jesus returns.
• Bible Quote Revelation 22
• 20 He which testifieth these things saith,
  Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord
  Jesus.

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Sharon accused of corruption

• Headline
• Sharon may face corruption charge
• Headline BBC News online 21 January
• Event
• A defiant Ariel Sharon insisted yesterday that he
  would not step down as the prime minister of
  Israel over a bribery scandal. His vow came as
  the Israeli police prepared to question him and
  prosecutors weighed corruption charges. "I
  arrived here as prime minister and as chairman of
  the Likud, a position I plan to fill for many
  more years, until 2007 at least," he told
  cheering Likud party supporters in Tel Aviv.
• Comment
• Ariel Sharon is the first Israeli premier to be
  accused of bribery. As we have mentioned many
  times before corruption is going to be rife
  before our Lord returns. Here we have an Israeli
  leader also accused of corruption. We know that
  Gods judgement is to be poured out firstly on
  his people and then the nations he caused to come
  against them. As the verse in Micah indicates God
  has always held the leaders and rulers of his
  people responsible.
• Bible Quote Micah 3 (NIV)
• 1 Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of
  the house of Israel. Should you not know justice,
  you who hate good and love evil

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6 different reports of corruption

• Headlines
• Sharon tapes contain stink of corruption DT 25
  January
• Ex French PM guilty of corruption BBC online 30
  January
• China wave of suicides in clamp on corruption DT
  30 January
• MEPs urged to end abuse of travel expenses DT
  27 January
• Scientists got millions for nuclear secrets DT
  27 January
• Euro MPs voice their anger over collapse of cash
  control DT 28 Jan
• Events
• Israeli police are examining more than 50 hours
  of potentially explosive taped conversations
  between Ariel Sharon and his sons. / A political
  crisis engulfed Jacques Chirac after his closet
  ally and heir apparent was found guilty of
  illegal party funding. / Chinas corruption
  crisis has been laid bare. / Etc etc
• Comment
• From Israel to China, from Europe to Pakistan
  (selling nuclear secrets) corruption is
  everywhere. Surely we are living in the days
  similar to Noah.
• Bible Quote Genesis 6
• 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold,
  it was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted his
  way upon the earth.

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Oil for food scandal

• Headline
• Oil for food scandal
• Headline DT 23 April
• Event
• Tony Blair yesterday demanded a thorough
  investigation of allegations of corruption in the
  United Nations oil-for food programme in the
  pre-war Iraq. Senior UN, French and Russian
  officials were alleged to have connived at the
  scandal, said Claude Hankes Drielsma, who is
  leading the Iraqi Governing Council into the
  affair.
• Comment
• It is interesting that the corruption allegedly
  involves the UN, France and Russia. These were
  the very organisations that did not want the
  invasion of Iraq. The Daily Telegraph ran an
  editorial entitled The EU a rotten state in
  relation to this scandal. It said the less
  accountable an organisation is, the more
  corruptible it is likely to be. There is
  something rotten in the superstate of Europe.
  This comes as no surprise to us who know that
  corruption will be rife at the return of our King
  and that France and Russia are on the same side
  is no surprise either!
• Bible Quote 2 Peter 2
• 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to
  be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things
  that they understand not and shall utterly
  perish in their own corruption

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Israel overturns 2000 yr old ban

• Headline
• Israel overturns 2,000-year-old ban on betting
• Headline DT 8 August
• Event
• Israeli Punters will soon experience the
  exhilaration of cheering their horse to the
  winning post after a religious ban on gambling
  was overturned.
• For the first time, the Jewish state has approved
  organised betting on horses. The gambling ban
  dates back 2,000 years to a rabbinical ruling, or
  prohibition, in the oral Torah. It rules against
  pigeon racers which has come to be interpreted as
  a religious denunciation of gambling generally.
• Comment
• We may have been surprised there was no gambling
  in Israel. People have circumvented the ban on
  gambling on the land by using floating casinos
  on ships moored off the Red Sea resort of Eilat.
  But why should this interest us? Gambling is an
  ungodly pursuit. It is not earning our wages but
  trying to win them. Risking what we have been
  given (by God) to get more. Israel far from being
  a light to the nations round about is becoming
  more and more like them. Their judgement is
  coming.
• Bible Quote Deuteronomy 13 Israel worships the
  gods of the nations.
• 30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared
  by following them, after that they be destroyed
  from before thee and that thou enquire not after
  their gods, saying, How did these nations serve
  their gods? even so will I do likewise.

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Corruption hits world fight against poverty

• Headline
• Corruption hits world fight against poverty
• Headline DT 21 October
• Event
• Corruption is crippling the global battle against
  poverty and robbing oil-rich nations of their
  development potential, a Berlin based watchdog,
  Transparency International, said yesterday.
• The watchdogs chairman, Peter Eigen, said
  corruption was rampant worldwide, draining
  public funds and hitting economic policy.
• Comment
• Corruption is rampant worldwide. When God
  summarised the state of the world before he
  destroyed it with the flood he used the word
  corrupt 3 times in 2 verses. The word corrupt
  means to ruin / decay, to pervert or deal
  corruptly. It is translated destroy many times
  as well. In fact when God says the world was
  corrupt he then says to Noah in Genesis 613
  that he would destroy the people. That is the
  same word corrupt. So we could say that
  corruption brings destruction. It indicates a
  breakdown of society. It indicates that the
  judgements of God are near. When there is
  corruption there is no trust. If this happens on
  a national basis the nations stop trusting and
  wars become far more likely. In Genesis 6 it also
  says the world was full of violence.
• Bible Quote Genesis 6 See Luke 1726 - last days
  will be like days of Noah
• 11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and
  the earth was filled with violence.