Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt to Japan

Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt... by Brotkrumen on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @03:53AM (#16156720)

Hey there! I'm a citizen in a country where the current minister of finance was caught with a briefcase of 100.000 DM illegal "donations" from an arms manufacturer to the ruling party. The then-chancellor of 16 years took the fall to protect black party accounts, but nobody spent time in jail. That same party produces nepotism scandals in their home state but nobody cares because nepotism is an open secret through all state institutions. Every citizen knows this dt a continuing functioning press.

What is a German like me to do?

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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt... by nicolas_t on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @06:39AM (#16157452)

100,000 DM is quite small change no? All countries will have corruption, the difference is the scale of it and in third world countries, the amounts are much much higher (look at Wen Jiabao's family in China or Mahatir in Malaysia)

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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt... by Brotkrumen on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @11:15AM (#16159231)

Isn't that worse? People in the highest echelon of power in Germany are corruptible by a mere 50.000€? I could understand millions, but our Democracy being threatened by chump change is ridiculous.

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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt... by toopok4k3 on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @06:20AM (#16157384)

Talk to your friends, vote differently. Or bust your balls and go into politics. Fix it yourself.

You can blame the system only for so long if you want change.

"Talk is cheap. Show me the code"

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