... exist. If you cannot prove it exists, you cannot convince me to believe it exists. If you cannot prove it exists, you cannot prove it is all-powerful and acts on matter. Examples: The recent terrible cyclone in Myanmar, over 100,000 dead. The recent terrible earthquake in China, over 80,000 dead. In the 2004 tsunami near Sumatra up to 100,000 innocent children were killed in just one hour (in total an estimated 220,000 innocent people...

...I wonder if people actually realise Mumbai is the same place as Bombay?), Kolkata maybe, but how about Banglore? Or Pretoria? Myanmar is particularly complicated because of the politics - if you say Burma, you are an evil western colonialist. If you say Myanmar, you are an evil propaganda tool of the junta. Some of the Indian changes aren't quite as simple and universally...

... just as well take their "word" for it) . {Snigger} Feel free to nip over to Georgia, Iraq, Myanmar or Somalia and let us know how things are. :-) True. I had just assumed Gordon Mac Shite-Features and Milliband were ... world. BICBW. Maybe that's his next gambit. If pressed maybe he will resort to claiming his comparison referred to Georgia, Iraq, Myanmar or Salamia all along ? Far be it from me ... ;-) Derek

.... Strange how Gordon Mac Shite-Features and Milliband have resorted to the similar lie that everywhere else in the world is suffering worse than we are (but most people don't travel except to resorts on holidays, so they might just as well take their "word" for it) . {Snigger} Feel free to nip over to Georgia, Iraq, Myanmar or Somalia and let us know how things are. :-) -- Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

...number is 3.5 (confidence range: 3.0 to 4.2). 10 would be perfectly clean. In 2007, the highest score was 9.4 (Denmark). 0 would be completely corrupt. In 2007, the lowest score was 1.4 (Somalia & Myanmar -tie). Not surprisingly, there are virtually no long-term democracies with an index score worse than China's. South Korea is typical of countries scoring around 5. Taiwan is at 5.7. Japan is at 7.5. ...

...number is 3.5 (confidence range: 3.0 to 4.2). 10 would be perfectly clean. In 2007, the highest score was 9.4 (Denmark). 0 would be completely corrupt. In 2007, the lowest score was 1.4 (Somalia & Myanmar -tie). Not surprisingly, there are virtually no long-term democracies with an index score worse than China's. South Korea is typical of countries scoring around 5. Taiwan is at 5.7. Japan is at 7.5. ...

...number is 3.5 (confidence range: 3.0 to 4.2). 10 would be perfectly clean. In 2007, the highest score was 9.4 (Denmark). 0 would be completely corrupt. In 2007, the lowest score was 1.4 (Somalia & Myanmar -tie). Not surprisingly, there are virtually no long-term democracies with an index score worse than China's. South Korea is typical of countries scoring around 5. Taiwan is at 5.7. Japan is at 7.5. In other words, China...

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...s Bangkok remarks devote only a few sentences to criticism for the "tyranny" in Myanmar, Thailand's neighbor, which is ruled by a military junta. He called ... Though Samak, the Thai prime minister, regards himself as a friend of Myanmar's generals, Bush heaped praise on his Thai hosts, calling them ... activists while in Thailand, and his wife is traveling to the Myanmar border to visit a resettlement camp and clinic. "She's looking ...

...s Bangkok remarks devote only a few sentences to criticism for the "tyranny" in Myanmar, Thailand's neighbor, which is ruled by a military junta. He called ... Though Samak, the Thai prime minister, regards himself as a friend of Myanmar's generals, Bush heaped praise on his Thai hosts, calling them ... activists while in Thailand, and his wife is traveling to the Myanmar border to visit a resettlement camp and clinic. "She's looking ...