Corruption

Corruption is a form of dishonest or unethical conduct by a person entrusted with a position of authority, often to acquire personal benefit. Corruption may include many activities including bribery and embezzlement, though it may also involve practices that are legal in many countries.Government, or 'political', corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts in an official capacity for personal gain.

The word corrupt when used as an adjective literally means "utterly broken". The word was first used by Aristotle and later by Cicero who added the terms bribe and abandonment of good habits. Stephen D. Morris, a professor of politics, writes that [political] corruption is the illegitimate use of public power to benefit a private interest.

Economist Ian Senior defines corruption as an action to (a) secretly provide (b) a good or a service to a third party (c) so that he or she can influence certain actions which (d) benefit the corrupt, a third party, or both (e) in which the corrupt agent has authority. Daniel Kaufmann, from the World Bank, extends the concept to include 'legal corruption' in which power is abused within the confines of the law — as those with power often have the ability to make laws for their protection.

Corruption (interactive fiction)

Corruption is a text adventure game by Magnetic Scrolls released in 1988. In this game, a successful stockbroker suddenly finds himself embroiled in a world of crime and danger.

Gameplay

The game is a standard text adventure with static graphics in all versions but the Apple II and Spectrum +3 ones. It focuses primarily on character interaction instead of object interaction. The Amiga version has a "speech mode", though Computer Gaming World noted it only as a novelty.

Reviews

  • Sinclair User:
    "This adventure is set in the modern day world of high finance. Your partner has framed you and you must prove your innocence... CORRUPTION is different from normal adventures as it depends more on the gathering and correlating of information than puzzle solving. In time, though you'll be able to find out the answers to all the questions except one - why can't I use the loo?"
  • Your Sinclair:
    "All in all, I enjoyed CORRUPTION far more than I thought I would ... but not quite as much as the previous Magnetic Scrolls games."
  • Corruption (1968 film)

    Corruption is a 1968 British film directed by Robert Hartford-Davis, from a screenplay by Derek Ford and Donald Ford, and featuring Peter Cushing, Sue Lloyd, Noel Trevarthen, Kate O'Mara, David Lodge, Antony Booth, Wendy Varnals, Billy Murray, and Vanessa Howard.Corruption stars horror icon Peter Cushing in a shocking and atypically villainous role as a homicidal doctor.

    Plot

    Cushing plays Sir John Rowan, a plastic surgeon whose young fashion model and fiancée’s face (Sue Lloyd) is badly disfigured in an accident, caused in part by a jealous rage of his. Rowan pledges to reverse Lynn's disfigurement, experimenting with laser technology to revive her skin, eventually coming up with a cure-all, a Frankensteinian transplantation of glands. Driven by combination of guilt and love, Rowan goes on a murder spree, killing young women in order to use their glands to restore his fiancée’s beauty. The couple goes off on holiday to a seaside cottage and all is fine until her face starts to show signs of deterioration. In need of more surgery and a new "donor" the couple tries to entice a young girl (Wendy Varnals) who they meet at the beach and take back to their cottage. Complications ensue, first because Rowan doesn't want to commit another murder, and then because this girl isn't what she seems to be.

    Podcasts:

    developed with YouTube
    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Corruption

    by: Exodus

    The lowest form of life that's crawling in our streets
    From seedy dope pushers to the politicians we meet
    The sorry religious vomit that infests in our TVs
    The weapons that we sell to the trash in the middle east
    Murderous drug smugglers pay their way to pass
    They look the other way when they take the kickback
    We've got to put a stop to this senseless bullshit
    Take all these people and throw them in the pit
    Let us know! Where our tax dollars are spent
    Tell us how! How much it costs to repent
    Time has come! For us to take a stand
    Let us know! When you meet our demands
    You can take this all to hell
    Shove it up your ass where the sun ain't shining
    We know now what it takes to defend
    If disaster strikes then they'll be hiding
    You can take this all to hell
    Shove it up your ass where the sun ain't shining
    We know now what it takes to defend
    If disaster strikes, then they'll be hiding
    Corruption!
    Corruption!
    Corruption!
    Corruption
    From laundering money to hookers on the make
    There's always a scandal, someone's on the take
    They payoff for secrets, sell plans to a spy
    They cover their asses and say it's a lie
    Society cries when the vermin go free
    When they're done, what's left for me?
    This social disorder that's causing us pain
    Indecent disease, it's they who are to blame
    Let us know! Where our tax dollars are spent
    Tell us how! How much it costs to repent
    Time has come! For us to take a stand
    Let us know! When you meet our demands
    You can take this all to hell
    Shove it up your ass where the sun ain't shining
    We know now what it takes to defend
    If disaster strikes then they'll be hiding
    You can take this all to hell
    Shove it up your ass where the sun ain't shining
    We know now what it takes to defend
    If disaster strikes, then they'll be hiding
    Corruption!
    Corruption!
    Corruption!




    Latest News for: corruption

    Illinois pols talk ethics as Madigan corruption trial nears end

    Mount Carmel Register 22 Jan 2025
    (The Center Square) – Some Illinois lawmakers are expressing hope that the General Assembly will get serious about ethics reform in 2025 ... .

    Ukraine's chief army psychiatrist arrested on $1m corruption charge

    Saudi Gazette 22 Jan 2025
    KYIV — Ukraine has detained its army's chief psychiatrist for alleged "illegal enrichment" charges related to earnings of more than $1m (£813,000) accrued since the start of Russia's ....

    WATCH:�Lawmaker protests bill imposing death penalty for corruption

    The Manila Times 22 Jan 2025
    ... found guilty by the Sandiganbayan of corruption, plunder, graft, and malversation.

    PTI's anti-corruption claims exposed in £190 million scandal: Ahsan Iqbal

    Urdu Point 22 Jan 2025
    <p>ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Jan, 2025) Federal Minister for Planning, Ahsan Iqbal, on Wednesday said that a £190 million corruption case has exposed the reality of a ...

    'Lying': Trump slammed as critics say he dismissed 'blatant corruption' with a chuckle

    Raw Story 22 Jan 2025
    Trump gave a rambling answer. "Well I don't know if it benefitted. I don't know where it is. I don't know much about it other than I launched it ... ALSO READ ... "Blatant corruption, dismissed with a chuckle," wrote Democratic strategist Sawyer Hackett on X ... .

    Firing squad for convicted corrupt officials proposed in House

    Sun Star 22 Jan 2025
    DEATH penalty by firing squad has been proposed at the House of Representatives for public officials -- from the President to the lowest barangay official -- convicted with finality of corruption-related criminal charges.

    Fighting corruption will make us targets of smear campaigns, and death threats, but we won’t be deterred at all (DA - Democratic Alliance)

    Public Technologies 22 Jan 2025
    ) Fighting corruption will make us targets of smear campaigns, and death threats, but we won't be deterred at all ... Minister Macpherson is doing the right thing by unearthing and investigating serious corruption, and by stopping the IDT deal.

    Calls for Tulip Siddiq to be extradited to Bangladesh after major corruption probe as opposition ...

    The Daily Mail 22 Jan 2025
    A Bangladeshi politician has called for ex-Labour MP Tulip Siddiq to be extradited to the country as she is investigated over corruption claims ... 'It was clear at the weekend that the anti-corruption minister's position was completely untenable.

    North’s power supply in peril as Kib-Tek ‘embroiled’ in Turkey corruption scandal

    CyprusMail 22 Jan 2025
    The north’s energy supply may be in peril after a boat carrying fuel oil to power its power stations was seized by the Turkish authorities as part of a large-scale investigation into a corruption scandal ... “We have no connection with Ickale ... ....

    Taking Taiwan: Will Xi or won’t Xi?

    Asiatimes 22 Jan 2025
    The PLA is corrupt ... “If Xi and the PLA were in the disarray that some myopically focused on their system’s chronic corruption imagine, there’s no way China’s military could be developing, deploying, ...

    America Withdraws from the World Health Organization

    Armstrong Economics 22 Jan 2025
    Donald Trump has stayed true to his word and withdrew America from the World Health Organization (WHO) ... The WHO is closely partnered with the United Nations, but usurps power under the guise of public health ... Absolutely nothing ... ....

    Former Gujarat IAS Officer Gets 5 Years In Jail In 2004 Corruption Case

    NDTV 21 Jan 2025
    A sessions court on Monday sentenced former IAS officer Pradeep Sharma to five years in jail and fined him Rs 75,000 in a corruption case dating back to 2004 when he was the collector of Kutch... .

    Former Gujarat IAS officer Pradeep Sharma gets five years in jail in 2004 corruption case

    The Hindu 21 Jan 2025
    The court of principal district and sessions judge KM ...

    Most Viewed

    ×