Tag: Burma

Aren’t jobs a kind of bribery?

Corruption is on the rise according to a survey by Transparency International.

The Berlin-based nonprofit organization based this partially on a finding that one quarter of 91,500 surveyed people paid a bribe to an institution or government-provided service. 90 percent of Liberians and 86 percent of Nigerians reported paying a bribe.

And the most corrupt countries–Somalia, Afghanistan, Burma, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Sudan and Turkmenistan–achieved their most corrupt nations’ status by attempting to bribe Transparency International for better rankings.

Burmese embassy just like 60s Mick Jagger

What? It's, like, totally the same thing. Panty, panty. In one of the strangest protest ideas ever seen, a group in Quebec is asking women all over the world to send their panties to Burma to pressure the government towards democratic reforms—which will be effective since apparently Burma’s military leaders are superstitious enough to believe that “contact with women’s underwear will sap them of their power.” This is actually like the opposite of a kooky fetish.

Human rights activists say the leaders believe that contact with women’s underwear will sap them of their power.

Let me repeat that again:

Human rights activists say the leaders believe that contact with women’s underwear will sap them of their power.

This is a strange, strange world we live in.