19 January 2010

Corruption a major obstacle to Israeli membership of OECD

Unfortunately, this remains the considered OECD opinion at the moment.

In the picture above: Angel Gurria, the secretary-general of the OECD, refuses again to accept from Shimon Peres the portfolio of all-paid two weeks holiday at an exclusive retreat in Maldives (including full-time escort services, masseuse and all-you-can-drink minibar) as an incentive to more creative thinking regarding the corruption issue.

10 comments:

Katie said...

Too much corruption or not enough?

8-)

snoopythegoon said...

He he he. Guess!

David All said...

Since Italy is a member of OECD, I would guess Israel is not corrupt enough.  

Note: Better enjoy the Maldives while you can, with global warming, melting Arctic Ice Cape and rising ocean levels, the Maldives will soon be under water.

snoopythegoon said...

Ha! Do you know what a week at one of the Maldives' resorts costs?

You really have to be an OECD chief ;)

David All said...

OT: Proof that the airlines are not looking at Muslims alone before they go into hysteria.
"Jewish religious item leads to false bomb scare on U.S. plane" at http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1144252.html
A bit more information in "Bomb Scare Diverts Plane to Philly" at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/21/national/main6123671.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody

This is not a spoof, it really happened!

snoopythegoon said...

Yeo, I have seen that one. Funny how people are driven to stupid reaction by fear. TSA has to rethink its patterns, I guess.

David All said...

Snoopy, I wonder how long it will be before we have to fly naked and strapped to our seats for the entire trip.

snoopythegoon said...

Well, some people wouldn't mind ;)

David All said...

Snoopy, I am not able to access the comments section directly. The comment section will not appear when I click on a specific post. Only way I can is by clicking on the sidebar of one of the Recent Comments. That will let me into the comments section.

Have a good weekend everyone and see you Monday.

snoopythegoon said...

David,

What browser (and version) do you use? Thanks for notifying me, I hope with time to get the kinks out of this Echo thing, but it takes time.