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2009 Corruption Perceptions Index: Who’s Corrupt, and Who’s Not So Corrupt

November 21, 2009 – 6:49 pm

CPI 2009 Table/2009/cpi/surveys_indices/policy_research
According to the Index, New Zealand and Denmark and numbers 1 and 2 as the least corrupt. followed closely by Singapore and Sweden tied for number 3.
The United States comes in at number 19. We would probably do better except for Congress. But Puerto Rico is counted separately, coming in at number 35.
Russia […]

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Hard To Swallow

January 11, 2009 – 10:04 pm

Pattaya Mail Columns
Freak accident
A circus dwarf, nicknamed Od, died recently in the North when he bounced sideways from a trampoline and was swallowed by a yawning hippopotamus which was waiting to appear in the next act. Vets on the scene said Hilda the Hippo had a gag reflex which automatically caused her to swallow. They […]

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Bangkok New Years Fire

January 5, 2009 – 2:10 am

There was a terrible fire in a nightclub in Bangkok on New Years Eve. More than 60 people died and over a hundred injured.
Here is an unedited video taken during the fire.
WARNING!!!
This video is quite graphic. If you can’t take seeing injured and dying people, DON’T WATCH THIS!! That’s why I put the link instead […]

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