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Thursday, March 31, 2011

2010 Least and Most Corrupt Countries in the World

2010 Least and Most Corrupt Countries in the World


Below is the list of countries sorted from most to least corrupt countries:



1 Somalia 1.1

2 Afghanistan 1.4

2 Myanmar 1.4

4 Iraq 1.5

5 Sudan 1.6

5 Turkmenistan 1.6

5 Uzbekistan 1.6

8 Chad 1.7

9 Burundi 1.8

10 Angola 1.9

10 Equatorial Guinea 1.9

12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 2.0

12 Guinea 2.0

12 Kyrgyzstan 2.0

12 Venezuela 2.0

16 Cambodia 2.1

16 Central African Republic 2.1

16 Comoros 2.1

16 Congo-Brazzaville 2.1

16 Guinea-Bissau 2.1

16 Kenya 2.1

16 Laos 2.1

16 Papua New Guinea 2.1

16 Russia 2.1

16 Tajikistan 2.1

26 Cameroon 2.2

26 Côte d'Ivoire 2.2

26 Haiti 2.2

26 Iran 2.2

26 Libya 2.2

26 Nepal 2.2

26 Paraguay 2.2

26 Yemen 2.2

34 Maldives 2.3

34 Mauritania 2.3

34 Pakistan 2.3

37 Azerbaijan 2.4

37 Bangladesh 2.4

37 Honduras 2.4

37 Nigeria 2.4

37 Philippines 2.4

37 Sierra Leone 2.4

37 Togo 2.4

37 Ukraine 2.4

37 Zimbabwe 2.4

46 Belarus 2.5

46 Ecuador 2.5

46 Lebanon 2.5

46 Nicaragua 2.5

46 Syria 2.5

46 Timor-Leste 2.5

46 Uganda 2.5

53 Armenia 2.6

53 Eritrea 2.6

53 Madagascar 2.6

53 Niger 2.6

57 Ethiopia 2.7

57 Guyana 2.7

57 Mali 2.7

57 Mongolia 2.7

57 Mozambique 2.7

57 Tanzania 2.7

57 Vietnam 2.7

64 Benin 2.8

64 Bolivia 2.8

64 Gabon 2.8

64 Indonesia 2.8

64 Kosovo 2.8

64 Solomon Islands 2.8

70 Algeria 2.9

70 Argentina 2.9

70 Kazakhstan 2.9


70 Moldova 2.9

70 Senegal 2.9

75 Dominican Republic 3.0

75 Sao Tome & Principe 3.0

75 Tonga 3.0

75 Zambia 3.0

79 Burkina Faso 3.1

79 Egypt 3.1

79 Mexico 3.1

82 Bosnia and Herzegovi 3.2

82 Djibouti 3.2

82 Gambia 3.2

82 Guatemala 3.2

82 Kiribati 3.2

82 Sri Lanka 3.2

82 Swaziland 3.2

89 Albania 3.3

89 India 3.3

89 Jamaica 3.3

89 Liberia 3.3

93 Malawi 3.4


93 Morocco 3.4

95 China 3.5

95 Colombia 3.5

95 Greece 3.5

95 Lesotho 3.5

95 Peru 3.5

95 Serbia 3.5

95 Thailand 3.5

102 Bulgaria 3.6

102 El Salvador 3.6

102 Panama 3.6

102 Trinidad and Tabago 3.6

102 Vanuatu 3.6

107 Brazil 3.7

107 Cuba 3.7

107 Montenegro 3.7

107 Romania 3.7

111 Georgia 3.8

112 Italy 3.9

113 Rwanda 4.0

114 Croatia 4.1

114 FYR Macedonia 4.1

114 Ghana 4.1

114 Samoa 4.1

118 Latvia 4.3


118 Slovakia 4.3

118 Tunisia 4.3

121 Malaysia 4.4

121 Namibia 4.4

121 Turkey 4.4

124 Kuwait 4.5

124 South Africa 4.5

126 Czech Republic 4.6

127 Hungary 4.7

127 Jordan 4.7

127 Saudi Arabia 4.7

130 Seychelles 4.8

131 Bahrain 4.9

132 Lithuania 5.0

132 Macau 5.0

134 Cape Verde 5.1

135 Dominica 5.2

136 Costa Rica 5.3

136 Oman 5.3

136 Poland 5.3

139 Korea (South) 5.4

139 Mauritius 5.4

141 Brunei 5.5

142 Malta 5.6


143 Bhutan 5.7

144 Botswana 5.8

144 Puerto Rico 5.8

144 Taiwan 5.8

147 Portugal 6.0

148 Israel 6.1

148 Spain 6.1

150 Cyprus 6.3

150 United Arab Emirates 6.3

152 Slovenia 6.4

153 Estonia 6.5

154 France 6.8

155 Uruguay 6.9

156 Belgium 7.1

156 United States 7.1

158 Chile 7.2

159 United Kingdom 7.6

160 Qatar 7.7

161 Barbados 7.8

161 Japan 7.8

163 Austria 7.9

163 Germany 7.9

165 Ireland 8.0

166 Hongm Kong 8.4


167 Iceland 8.5

167 Luxembourg 8.5

169 Norway 8.6

170 Australia 8.7

170 Switzerland 8.7

171 Netherlands 8.8

172 Canada 8.9

174 Finland 9.2

174 Sweden 9.2

176 Denmark 9.3

176 New Zealand 9.3

176 Singapore 9.3

Source: http://www.bazics.net/2010/10/2010-most-corrupt-countries-in-world.html#ixzz1IEmQW12J


Monday, March 28, 2011

Change the World

Today I'm gonna try and change the world
Johnny Reid







TODAY I'M GONNA TRY AND CHANGE THE WORLD
GONNA TAKE IT ONE DAY AT A TIME
I'VE MADE MY RESOLUTION
I'VE OPENED UP MY EYES
TODAY I'M GONNA TRY AND CHANGE THE WORLD

I'M GONNA SAY HELLO TO MY NEIGHBOR
GREET HIM WITH A SMILE
SHAKE THE HAND OF A STRANGER
SIT AND TALK FOR A WHILE
TELL SOMEONE I LOVE THEM
FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART
TODAY I'M GONNA TRY AND CHANGE THE WORLD

(REPEAT CHORUS)

GONNA MAKE SURE MY CHILDREN

KNOW THERES A RIGHT AND WRONG
I'LL NEVER TURN MY BACK
ON THOSE OF US WHO NEED SOMEONE
I'M GONNA TRY TO SEE MYSELF
THROUGH ANOTHERS EYES
TODAY IM GONNA TRY AND CHANGE THE WORLD

(REPEAT CHORUS)

TODAY I'M GONNA TRY AND CHANGE THE WORLD
TODAY I'M GONNA TRY AND CHANGE THE WORLD
NOT FOR ME, BUT FOR THOSE I'LL LEAVE BEHIND
I'VE MADE MY RESOLUTION
CHANGE IT ONE DAY AT TIME
TODAY I'M GONNA TRY AND CHANGE THE WORLD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7yAu1agsUk&feature=related

Muslim man at Costco asking for Charity


March 28, 2011

He came up to me in Costco with a medical prescription. He said his prescription is for $28.00 and he only has $8.00 and something. He wanted $20.00. I was reluctant because I was thinking, how does he afford a Costco membership and he doesn't have $20.00 for his prescription. I gave him $10.00. Afterwards, I felt I should have gone with him to the Pharmacy counter and bought his medicine for him. InshaAllah I hope next time Allah will guide me to do the right thing.


Gather the loose change and give to the needy people

March 16, 2011 - Muslim woman with Hijab at St. George Station with an empty coffee cup begging. I had 2 packets of these coins in my handbag. Into her coffee cup they went. She looked at me and smiled. Her smile was sad.


How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Why Canada needs a split from its messy divorce laws

Why Canada needs a split from its messy divorce laws

Erin Anderssen
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Published Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 6:16PM EDT

Love is grand, the saying goes, divorce is 100 grand.


True words for 49-year-old Lucas Kott, a self-employed construction worker who estimates that after all the lawyer's fees, affidavits and court appearances, he and his soon-to-be ex-wife will have spent nearly $125,000 arguing over custody of their two young children. His half has already put him $20,000 in debt, even before a five-day trialscheduled for the fall – money he knows would have been better spent on his kids. Now, he can't afford to move out of his two-bedroom Vancouver apartment......
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.That cautionary lesson might have spared Tania Thompson long days in court and the $50,000 she paid in legal fees, most of it borrowed from her father. Now a single mom with two young children in Mississauga, she wishes that she and her ex-husband had been ordered into mediation before a judge was even an option. “The lawyers all of a sudden make it more of a tense situation.” And a courtroom, she says, is a cold place to reorganize your family for the future....Read More







Friday, March 25, 2011

West is West

Mystery of the missing Muslims in the movies

'West is West' is a witty and authentic film, says Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, but it's a lone star in an industry devoid of Muslim life- Friday, 25 March 2011
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/mystery-of-the-missing-muslims-in-the-movies-2252171.html

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Japan's Chaos is a Wake-up Call

Japan's Chaos is a Wake-up Call
It's time for a nuclear energy time-out. by Alice Slater

Sometimes chaos comes along as a wake-up call to humanity. Japan's double-whammy earthquake-tsunami is overwhelmingly tragic. Being at the mercy of the total chaotic effect of the elements--able to be wiped out by a wave of water from the sea--is an insult to the arrogance of modern humanity that thinks it can insulate and protect itself with technological know-how from the calamities visited upon our earth by Mother Nature....Read More



Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Skyscrapers swaying like trees in the breeze , Japan’s Strict Building Codes Saved Lives, # earthquake, #Japan

"What was scariest was to look up at the skyscrapers all around. They were swaying like trees in the breeze. " ~WILLIAM M. TSUTSUI, a professor at Southern Methodist Univeristy, who was in Tokyo when the earthquake hit.

Japan’s Strict Building Codes Saved Lives

Friday, March 11, 2011

Quotes - Tuesdays with Morrie, non-fiction novel by American writer Mitch Albom about Morrie Schwartz

Quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie,  non-fiction novel by American writer Mitch Albom about Morrie Schwartz that made me think

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they are busy doing things they think are important. This is because they are chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning..~Tuesdays with Morrie (Schwartz)", ~ Taking Attendance

Death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another

We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage,

getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it  breaks- we're involved in trillions of little acts to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and  saying. Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?" ~ The Third Tuesday

"This is part of what a family is all about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them.... Knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money, Not fame." ~ The Fifth Tuesday

“There is no experience like having children. That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend, You cannot do it with a lover. If you want to have the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.”
~ The Fifth Tuesday

"You know what the Buddists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent" ~ The Sixth Tuesday


Vietnam, Antiwar, Drafting
Brandeis University - Students who did not maintain a certain grade point average could lose their deferments and be drafted. The professors decided not to give any grades. The administration said who didn't have a grade will fail . Morrie had a solution, he gave everyone "A" . Morrie had many of the radical students in his class, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Angela Davis. ~ The Professor

At Brandeis University, the students took over Ford Hall and draped a banner that read Malcolm X University. Morrie negotiated with the students to end the protest.~ The Professor

Small Talk
Baby boomer generation are great at small talk: "What do you do?" "Where do you live?" Do people really listen to people without trying to sell you something, pick them up, recuit them, or get some kind of status in return..~ The NinthTuesday

Marriage
Friends are great , but friends are not going to be here on a night when you are coughing and can't sleep and has to sit up all night with you, comfort you, try to be helpful.

- If you don't respect the other person , you're gonna have a lot of trouble
- If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.
- If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.
- And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike. The biggest one of those values is the importance of marriage.




more quotes
http://blog.cliffano.com/2006/02/26/quotes-by-morrie-schwartz/

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Understand that we can experience miracles if we're inquisitive...., #fb

How to Be Curious. Cultivate a habit of asking good questions. Understand that we can experience miracles if we're inquisitive. Realize that we know very little and there's discovery and adventure around every corner. Inquire into new ideas, people, situations, places. Open our minds to others' points of view. Unleash our inner child, who is naturally inquisitive. Suspend judging and evaluating, there's always time for that later


One of my favourite quotes. I don't know who said it..