bribing

Claim the UK is bribing every government it can find - sure, Cameron and Blair were hardly discreet.

EDS and Boeing will know if the other is underselling, bribing, receiving subsidies, etc.

Of course, the US is too much of a saint to ever consider bribing.

With bribing, the power balance is in favor of the person being bribed.

While we also have corruption at all levels of government in Europe, we still consider bribing illegal.

Well a load of Journalists in the UK got of with the argument that they didn't know that bribing police officers/civil service wasn't illegal.

Generally they are probably bribing institutions to get their work done.

I think this is referring to bribing foreign officials, not officials of the European country.

At least bribing folks, you can get stuff done.

There is a difference between petitioning and bribing.

Businesses are bribing, countries are spying, Fifa, well...

I think dictators are more empowered by weak economies than foreign wealth - China is contributing a lot, not just bribing officials for mining rights.

At some point it is right to say "Let's not do that even if it means people will suffer." That's definitely before killing people, obviously, but is it before bribing people?

But there's this thing called "psychopaths", and they do seek out bribing opportunities and they don't have any problem whatsoever with paying bribes too.

There are a few cases where harmonization is needed (mostly between small and poor countries), but overall "harmonizing" laws is just a propaganda presentation of giving exorbitant benefits for an external company that is bribing your government.

If they're bribing people then they should report that - not the details (although maybe they should), but they should at least be saying "We raised $500m, and spent $50m on bribes so we could get the job of helping people done.

The other problem is that if implemented, any future elections would boil down to which party is going to raise basic income the most (Bribing the electorate).

Bribing politicians to get corporate contracts, etc.