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Corruption And Development

هل ضايقت القبضة الحديدة مطربة الأوبرا الصباغ؟؟
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The Fifth Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption in Panama City (25-29 November 2013)

Panama City – Vienna, 24 November – The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) believes corruption is the single greatest obstacle to economic and social development around the world. Every year it is estimated by the World Bank that between US$20 to US$40 billion dollars are lost from developing countries due to corruption and bribery. But corruption does not just steal money from where it is needed the most; it leads to weak governance, which in turn fuels organized criminal networks and promotes crimes such as human trafficking, arms and migrant smuggling, counterfeiting and the trade in endangered species.

Rooting out corruption has become critical to the achievement of targets such as the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals and the post-2015 agenda with its focus on sustainable development goals. Fighting this scourge is also a major policy priority for development agencies and a rapidly increasing number of countries.

 Identifying the challenges

• Less prosperity: corruption stifles economic growth, undermines the rule of law, and squanders talent and precious resources. Where corruption is rife, companies are reluctant to invest as the costs of doing business are significantly higher. In corrupt countries which are
• rich in natural resources, the population often does not benefit from this wealth. Ultimately, corruption prevents people, countries and businesses from fulfilling their potential.
• Less respect for rights: corruption undermines democracy, governance and human rights by weakening State institutions that are the cornerstones of fair and equitable societies. Vote buying at election times harms the democratic process and justice is challenged when criminals are able to bribe with impunity.
• Less provision of services: corruption diverts funds intended to provide essential services such as health care, education, clean water, sanitation and housing.
• Less employment: when jobs are given not on merit, but through nepotism, opportunities are denied. Often for the poor, women and minorities, corruption means even less access to jobs. Additionally, as corruption discourages foreign investment, this leads to fewer employment opportunities.

The facts

• According to the World Health Organization, fraud and abuse in health care has been estimated to cost individual Governments between US$12 billion and US$23 billion every year.

• In 2012, 50 per cent of Afghan citizens paid a bribe while requesting a public service and the total cost of bribes paid to public officials amounted to US$3.9 billion (Corruption in Afghanistan: Recent Patterns and Trends, UNODC, 2013).

• The percentage of businesses in the Western Balkans experiencing bribery over a 12-month period: in Serbia: 17 per cent, in Albania: 15.7 per cent; while bribes paid by businesses in Croatia: 8.8 bribes per year and in Kosovo*: 7.7 bribes per year. The most expensive bribes are paid in Kosovo (average 1,787 EUR per bribe) and Serbia (average 935 EUR per bribe). (Business, Corruption and Crime in the western Balkans: The impact of bribery and other crime on private enterprise, UNODC, 2013)

• Migrants pay bribes at border crossings, transport corridors, and where police are encountered. Bribes range from between US$6.50 and US$260.23. Police may collect from employers based on a monthly, per head basis. (Transnational Organized Crime in East Asia and the Pacific: A Threat Assessment, UNODC, 2013).

• Small and medium enterprises (SME’s) pay a much higher percentage of their annual revenues in bribes to public officials than large companies. (Corruption prevention to foster small and medium-sized enterprise development, UNODC/UNIDO, 2012).

UNODC: working towards viable solutions

Preventing and combating corruption requires a comprehensive approach, but only in a climate of transparency, accountability and participation by all members of society, is this possible. The UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) is an international pact to say no to corrupt practices. It covers four main areas: prevention; criminalization and law enforcement measures; international cooperation; and asset recovery. The Convention now has 168 States parties, and contains innovative and globally accepted anti-corruption standards applicable to both the public and private sectors.

UNODC also partners with the World Bank on the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR Initiative), which supports efforts to end safe havens for corrupt funds. StAR works closely with developing countries and financial centres to prevent the laundering of the proceeds of corruption and to facilitate more systematic and timely return of stolen assets.

UNODC also offers technical advice on anti-corruption, helps to build the capacity of countries to prevent and confront corruption, and supports the successful peer review mechanism regarding the implementation of UNCAC. Finally, UNODC is working closely with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UN country teams, and in partnership with countries to prioritize anti-corruption activities.

 The Private Sector

Companies need to take a zero-tolerance attitude towards corruption and put policies in place covering issues such as gifts, supply chains and whistleblowers, in order to promote a fair and just environment. Through their actions and attitudes towards corruption, the business community can promote fair competition by working together and supporting countries in developing and strengthening public anti-corruption infrastructure.

 * All references to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).

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Ismaelism

First see the true confession of faith.

Traditional Catholic Prayers: Confession of Faith in the True God « BellesHeures's Weblog

Traditional Catholic Prayers: Confession of Faith in the True God « BellesHeures's Weblog



See link: Confession of Faith in the True God « BellesHeures's Weblog

[excerpt]

Confession of Faith in the True God

GOD is the Truth. The Most Holy Trinity is God and none other is God. The Most Holy Trinity is Three Persons Who are One God. These Three Persons are The Father and the Son, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. The Father is the fountainhead of the Trinity, the Son proceeds from His engendering in the Father’s bosom, the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father in the unity of the engendering of the Son from the Father. This procession of the Son and the Holy Spirit from the Father is immortal from before all time and creation and unto eternity never-ending. This Triune God alone has Aseity, that He is immortal without beginning and without end, self sustained in His existence which preceded all time and creation and, His existence, continues forever; God’s existence is infinite. This God is above all that He has created and transcendent in all that He has created. There is nothing apart from nor outside of God that He has not created. He created all that has been created ex nihilo, that is from nothing by His infinite power. Nothing that is created has aseity. Time is only an aspect of that which has been created by God. Time is therefore part of God’s creation. God is not limited by His creation, this includes that God is not limited by time. God is Omnipotent and Omniscient and Ubiquitos and with eternal complete foresight: Almighty and All seeing and knowing and equally present everywhere and knowing all things before their creation and all events before they come to pass unto eternity. There is no way to God but through the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity Who is the Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom alone there is salvation by His Most Holy Cross and Resurrection. Creation had a beginning but will continue unto the eternal ages to come. At the return of Jesus Christ from God the Father’s right hand in the third heaven and the just judgement of Christ of His creatures, creation will be cleansed by fire (the damned, both angels and men consigned to hell forever) and renewed with paradise restored, with the presence around God of all His elect angels and saints, and continue in this way forever.

Salvation by Christ is by His Kenosis (the elect angels do not stand in need of salvation for they never sinned and are God’s servants forever).

Holy Holy Holy Lord God of hosts who will return in glory and in flaming fire taking vengeance upon those who know not God and who obey not the Lord Jesus Christ

Heb:5:
1 ¶ For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins:
2 Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
3 And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
4 Neither doth any man take the honour to himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron was.
5 So Christ also did not glorify himself, that he might be made a high priest: but he that said unto him: Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee.
6 As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech.
7 Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.
8 And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
9 And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation:
10 ¶ Called by God a high priest, according to the order of Melchisedech.
11 Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear.
12 For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that is a partaker of milk is unskilful in the word of justice: for he is a little child.
14 But strong meat is for the perfect: for them who by custom have their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil.
(DRV)

St. Paul explains this same thing with different wording in Philippians.

Phil:2:
5 For let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man.
8 He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.
9 For which cause, God also hath exalted him and hath given him a name which is above all names:
10 That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth:
11 And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.
(DRV)

This is crucial to our understanding of Christ’s mission to save us. In the above “emptied” is kenosis in the Greek. Christ’s kenosis (He Who is the Immortal Son of God and has always existed from before He created anything, His emptying out of Himself for us and to us) consists of “taking the form of a servant” at His incarnation of the Blessed Virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit, “being made in the likeness of men” extremely important — His incarnation in the flesh, “in habit found as a man” this part explains phrases like “learned obedience”. Jesus never had to learn anything for Himself since He is God and Omniscient – All Knowing. But He willed to be born and grow up and be taught by Joseph and Mary. Think about it, it was the Blessed Virgin who taught Him the Psalms that He was the Mediator for David to receive by inspiration of the Holy Spirit and record for us. In simple terms He taught David the Psalms and willed that Mary would teach Him on earth the same psalms, though, of course He knew them already. So all references to His learning and growing and being perfected are only those things that He willed to go through for two basic reasons for our sakes. Number two first: to show us what our attitude and efforts should be on His behalf as His ambassadors to the rest of mankind. He “learned” but is actually teaching us. Number one in importance: “being made in the likeness of men” extremely important — His incarnation in the flesh. St. Athanasius Contra Mundum (against the world [opposing heresy]) addresses this when he explains that had Christ the Immortal Son of the Father in the Unity and Power of the Holy Spirit simply have erased Adam’s sin then the natural debt we all inherited to die from that sin would have meant that all men would die forever and be lost since God doesn’t lie and He pronounced that the separation of man from God due to sin would by the natural property of human nature make anything else impossible. In other words if God simply erased the sin He would have erased men as well thereby. Worst yet, St. Athanasius tells us, the devil would thereby have won that round. But what God did, the Son, Who because of His Divine substance/essence – nature cannot die, is to take upon himself the real human nature of all men subsumed from Mary — and therefore of Adam (see the genealogies in St. Matthew’s, Chapter 1, and St. Luke’s, Chapter 3, Gospels; in St. Luke’s Gospel all the way back to Adam). Since of Adam, then, of all men. Since He had and has that nature in total union with His divine nature, when he suffered and died (it is in this sense that St. Paul says “learned obedience”) in our place as the ransom from death then we become sons and daughters by adoption unto real eternal life at the future Return of Christ and the General Resurrection of the flesh, each of us, our bodies reunited with our same soul and same spirit. Therefore death, which insured that God’s law would be obeyed, was originally God’s way to insure that man would not become a diabolic creature totally in bondage to the devil, incapable of being in union with the Holy God, Himself. Christ took death, merited by all men, upon Himself preserving what God had said to Adam and Eve “upon that day (of disobedience) you will die”. Therefore, Christ’s death, then becomes the ransom to bring us out of thralldom to the devil and into union with God in Christ. Christ’s Resurrection then becomes the guarantor of our resurrection — which will absolutely happen. This is a brief description of Christ’s kenosis. Christ’s kenosis is the weightiest subject in the whole Bible. Christ’s obedience loosed the debt of Adam’s disobedience as Mary’s obedience undid the knot of Eve’s disobedience (that last is from St. Irenaeus). A note of warning: those who retie the knot of Eve’s disobedience and who bind themselves again in the debt of Adam’s disobedience by becoming part of pagan religions, who profess atheism or agnosticism, who follow after the Antichrist or who walk not in God’s commandments though they pretend to be Christ’s, will certainly be resurrected, but to eternal undying destruction in the lake of fire with the devil and all the fallen angels and all of the demons. Only the saints will inherit paradise with the elect angels in this universe recreated by God at the second coming of Jesus Christ at the end of this age of grace.

The Antichrist, the evil foe of Satan's connivance, opposes all that is of the true God. The True God is the Blessed and Holy and Undivided Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 

The Final Trial: The Truth: The coming of the Antichrist, ad-Dajjal All forms of iniquity will be summed up in that.

The Medieval Freemasonic sponsorship of the Beast from the Earth begins with Ismaelism - the English Freemasons own description of their roots in that is here: Secret Sects of Syria and the Lebanon or here: Secret sects of Syria and the Lebanon (Open Library) or here:

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to the West"

The below is the pagan Graeco-Egyptienne pre-Islamic Arabian root to the Jews' Kol Nidre and their false god hashem and the Ismaeli and Hurufi and occultic mahdi Shia heresies which are khufar and shirk.

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existing Lord on earth, except our Lord El Hakem [pagan Satanic Osirus-Horus is meant] (may his name be praised !) I do give up myself, soul and body, unto him ; and undertake to submit to all his orders, and to know nothing but the obedience of our Lord, who appeared in Egypt in the human form. I shall render the homage due to him to none else, whether past, present, or expected. I submit to whatever he sees fit to decree respecting me. I shall keep the secrets of my religion and speak of them
1 The Epistle on Warning and Exhortation. "

The Vatican Apostasized to the Houses of the Dragon - in full at Vatican II. The Jews' Apostasy to Babylonian paganism is far later than the original post flood Apostasy to the religion of Nimrud by the Mesopotamians but opposed to all biblical truth the Babylonian 5th century B.C. Israelite Apostates began an oral tradition of Kabbalah claiming to be from that much earlier root of apostasy from God. That religion of Nimrud is the beginning of the Houses of the Dragon which millennia later resulted in the Gentile Bavarian Black Nobility which is the real power and sponsor of the more recent Illuminati banking which includes the very recent Jew banks of the Rothschilds and Warburgs. That Black Nobility banking had its roots in pre-Islamic Egyptian Arab banking. That pre-Islamic Egyptian Arab banking went through the Phanariot Byzantine and then Venetian channels to reach Bavaria and Switzerland in centuries after the spread of Islam. That banking was brought to Europe by the Gentile European Knights Templar  Crusaders who are the first European Freemasons who carried with them the Nizari assassin doctrines also and had the intent even then of thwarting the True God and rebuilding the temple He cursed forever. All of this is the later base for the Kennedy Assassination and Operation Gladio and the IMF and World Bank etc.

The Jews are being used by the Freemasons - not the other way around. In the end however, the Antichrist, who will be a Jew, will turn it around on the Gentile Pan-european Freemasons (and their American colonies) and this will cause the Beast to hate the Harlot (Antichrist Israel and Jerusalem) and burn it with fire.

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Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

World Bank Complains About Inefficient PA Institutions

البنك الدولي يدعو السلطة الفلسطينية إلى تقليص نفقاتها وترشيد العمل في مؤسساتها
The President Who Can Be Described As A Fat Cat
ملايين عباس تقض مضاجع دافعي الضرائب في امريكا وبلاد الغرب

In a surprise new report of the World Bank about the Palestinian authority, the bank called for reducing the expenses of the Authority and the rationalization of work in formal PA institutions. The bank urged Palestinians to follow the example of East Asian countries that have achieved steady growth through exports, saying those that have focused on local markets have stagnated.

The report noted that the measures taken by the Israeli occupation continue to impede the increase of investments in the occupied territories under the Palestinian Authority, saying that as long as there is no reach for a political settlement, it is hard to work to remove these constraints.

The report released today Wednesday 25 2012, titled “Towards Economic Sustainability of a Future Palestinian State: Promoting Private Sector-Led Growth”, states: The lifting of Israeli restrictions on the access to markets and the access to natural resources is still a prerequisite for the growth of the Palestinian private sector, saying that the sustainable growth will come only through an emphasis on trade, integration and creating a dynamic private sector”.

The report noted that only a dynamic and rapidly growing private sector will be able to provide the jobs needed by the expanding Palestinian population and generate the revenues required to fund essential government services.

For the past two decades, donor countries have propped the Palestinian economy by giving billions of dollars. The report said such aid has led to 7.7 percent gross domestic product growth between 2007 and 2011.

The growth has been primarily in government services, real estate and other non-tradable sectors. In contrast, the report said manufacturing and agriculture have dropped significantly.

The study indicates that the Palestinian Authority has made steady progress toward establishing a future state, but the economy is currently not strong enough to support such a state.

“The Palestinian Authority has made steady progress in many areas towards establishing the institutions required by a future state but the economy is currently not strong enough to support such a state,” said Lead Economist and Lead Author of the study John Nasir.

“Economic sustainability cannot be based on foreign aid so it is critical for the Palestinian Authority (PA) to increase trade and spur private sector growth,” he added.

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