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U.S. Plunges To 46th In World Press Freedom Index... Below Romania
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
One of my most popular posts of 2013 highlighted the decline of America’s once large and enviable middle class. It was titled: How Does America’s Middle Class Rank Globally? #27, and it helped to dispel many myths Americans (particularly the mainstream propaganda media) continue to tell to themselves.
As you might expect, the economic decline of a nation into rule by a handful of corrupt oligarchs will have many other negative repercussions. One of these is a loss of civil rights and freedoms that many of us have taken for granted. Reporters Without Borders puts out their Press Freedom Index every year, and the 2014 ranking came out today. It was not a good showing for the USSA. Specifically, the U.S. registered one of the steepest falls of all nations, down 13 slots to the #46 position. As the screen shot shows, just above Haiti and just below Romania.
More coverage from the AFP:
Paris (AFP) – Conflicts continued to weigh heavily on the media last year but press freedom was also under increasing threat from abuses by democracies like the United States, Reporters Without Borders said Wednesday.
In its annual World Press Freedom Index, the Paris-based media rights watchdog warned of the “growing threat worldwide” from the “tendency to interpret national security needs in an overly broad and abusive manner”.
The United States was singled out for its pursuit of intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, the conviction of WikiLeaks informer Bradley Manning and the secret seizure of phone records from the Associated Press.
The group, known by its French acronym RSF, said the United States had suffered “one of the most significant declines” in press freedom last year, dropping 13 places to 46th in the 180-country index, wedged between Romania and Haiti.
“Countries that pride themselves on being democracies and respecting the rule of law have not set an example, far from it,” RSF said.
Repeat after me: USA! USA!
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"Specifically, the U.S. registered one of the steepest falls of all nations, down 13 slots to the #46 position. As the screen shot shows, just above Haiti and just below Romania."
This is intolerable.
Somebody hand me a machete so I can go hack a few people to death on the street corner, I can get us past Haiti all by myself!
USA! USA! USA!
LOL! Where are all the libtards who voted for this police state? F Them. And no - the Bush klan are all the same ***king NWO scum like the Clintons.
The libs could have bailed in 2012 but they doubled down - F*** Them!
I for one have no idea what you're all complaining about...
Now, where'd I put those Voodoo dolls and Needles?
You used them all up, remember? But a new UN shipment arrives tomorrow ;-)
My ouija board shorted out last week knucks.
Lemme know how that Haitian and Zombie stuff works out for you. I may be a bidder.
I don't know about you guys But i see this a foward step to clamping down on the channels of propaganda used by those gun-toting ,shiny-my-preshuss-golem-gold-grabbering, inciful, violant, nutjob anarchists...
United we standeth peering down upon the abys of choas and behold! our savior glows with the majesty of fukishima tuna... Big brother to protect us, and to fight for us, and to feed us, and to medicate us and, and, and...
Fuck the EU
....er, sorry, wrong thread....
Fuck yeah!
Alternative media has seen a corresponding rise. And fewer and fewer people listen or watch mainstream trash.
The people are still winning the battle. The war between the banks and the people becomes greater by the day.
From your lips to god's ears, but I don't see it yet.
I will say that nothing has changed in the articles of the WSJ, but the comments in the online version soumd more like ZH all the time.
The WSJ is a total joke like Barrons. People are slowly waking up. Until AmerKans start unplugging TV and Hollywood enamsse - nothing will change. I tell conservatives that they are idiots because they say they only watch Fox. Their cable or sat TV subscription is divided among all the channels.
TV is ***king joke. I have relatives who have no clue.
We're getting there.
The MSM is going to wake up one day unemployed, with a complete stranger in their room, surrounded by a world of smoking debris that was their home, that its own vacuous fawning, preening, social engineering and general sucking up to their masters (and each other) created for themselves.
That will be my boot on their neck Kai, looking down at them, I want to look deeply into their eyes, showing all the feigned concern for them, as they did for you and I...and see if there is anything they would like to comment on, before the camera light goes out.
I'd like to read about that but I'll probably have to get a copy of the Haitian Herald.
Make sure you get some pictures man.
I've got a few freelancers in mind ;-)
...and then something takes a shot at you that you never saw coming, denying you your chance at unearned victory.
It has never been about, me. It has always been about, you.
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is just public relations." ~ Orwell
+1
Apple and Tesla will save the world - not everything is so bad, when people are creating new things with governments taking it all away...
Apple's M&A chief reportedly met with Tesla CEO Elon Musk
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Telsa-Google much better pairing.
Tesla-DeLorean even better.
Hey tip e. I got the ebook from that guy that built his house out of rough-sawn oak.
His name is Tim, and he asked me how I landed on his blog. I told him ZH and linked him to where we were last talking about it.
He wrote back and said "that's a very interesting site"...last I heard he was awaiting Tyler's approval lol!
sweet, the more the merrier, eh?
I bet he fits right in...dude did some cool stuff alot of people here would probably like to do.
So far I've just scratched the surface of the book [190 pp] and hope it has some woodworking tips. I do my best woodworking with a 5 hp Stihl at full throttle.
I like Tesla-Yugo myself
Damn, does this explain MSNBC?
The press here DOESN'T want freedom. They happily market an agenda. It's less work for them as the white house or RNC just sends them talking points. And they script/adlib accordingly.
The president was fucking spying on their phone calls. And they were apoplectic for a whole five minutes over the abuse. Then they were back to cupping his balls and swallowing.
BTW - NBC/Cumcast Olympics coverage sucks almost as bad as Windows 8.
Frickin' 10 minute commercials and Tom Brokaw vignettes pushing an Angelina Jolie movie instead of showing the fucking games; and the banality of the ads is staggering.
I stopped watching shit TV years ago. I am amazed ZH'ers are still sheep watching it. Is NBC/Cumcast still promoting the gayness of the Olympics? Does Bob Costas and the rest still have pink eye or stink eye. F them all.
And some guy reporter is dressed up like a girl.
Seriously.
Wait, gotta run, curling is on again and I love those flowered Russian guy's pants...
One of the few things I miss from shitty O TV is the Winter Olympics and the Scandinavian gals doing cross country or downhill skiing including the more Alpine gals. Some of them are smoking hot.
I remember going to Scandinavia when I was a bit younger. I thought I freaking died and went to heaven. Even average looking women in Sweden are pretty incredible.
Costas is out of commission; left eye was redder than red and almost shut his last night.
In his stead we've had to suffer through with Meredith Vieira, ugh. I suppose I should be grateful it isn't Kathie Lee and Hoda, *gag*.
I like the atheletes and the competition, just wish it wasn't buried in so much tripe and manure.
Mute button or HDMI to the PC at the ready at all times.
WTF is with the dude's eye? You would think someone would fly in some eye drops. Maybe Putin is ***ing with him. Maybe he gave him some eye drops with Polonium.
The people on TV are the devil's spawn and Illuminati puppets.
If you haven't figured out that Zh'ers are the sheep being led to the slaughter, then you haven't been paying attention to who is feeding the meter.
Hello! My name is Ebworthen! I wallow in shit, then complain about the stink!
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Frickin' 10 minute commercials and Tom Brokaw vignettes pushing an Angelina Jolie movie instead of showing the fucking games; and the banality of the ads is staggering
He watches the vomitorium of the MSM and complains about it? Really?
I know his posts, and I know he knows better.
Ok, I apologize for being snippy (cabin fever perhaps) but it's possible to enjoy hockey without supporting gay Bob Costas and the new world order. We choose not to have cable but if I could pull in the olymics OTA, we'd probably put up with (mock/ridicule) the bullshit you speak of.
I enjoy his posts. I enjoy your posts.
Fuck our news readers, the POS' that they are.
Yes, but we're ABOVE Romania on the medals count. So there's that.
We beat Haiti?
I'm back (pant pant pant) I'll tel ya all about it in a minute but I've gotta return this machete first and take a quick shower.
(Sirens in the background)
You are just not right in the head, nmewn,
Snorted my wine again, but worth it;)
Sorry bout that...lol...but the shitstorm created for us needs a little color commentary, to put it in the proper context sometimes ;-)
De nada. WB7 does it to me all the time,
and I keep coming back for more;)
Luminol is not your friend !!!
Still awaiting the score from the judges.
lol Russia. It's a giant black whole of despotism on that map. The world is sinking bank into the 1930's. How long before Nazis get elected and we align ourselves with Putin to stop them?
Putin is light years better than Obama, the Democrats and RINOs.
W74 supports Putin.
Hell yes. How many gold medals has Putin won so far, and why isn't the Lame Stream Media reporting on that?
He did win the jack knife vs polar bear round-up, right?
Paging Wild Bill 7...
Except that you've completely ignored the endemic levels of Russian corruption that the US couldn't even reach in 50 years time.
The worst that the US has to offer is better than the best that Russia has to offer. This is especially so when the US doesn't have to have as many gated communities to protect its own versus the ones that are all but required in Russian society.
The Russians need to get rid of the Jewish mafia. Just kicking ass on a few Oligarchs isn't enough. of course we have our own jewish mafia that largely controls the media, Congress, wall Street and tthe presidency-not to mention the sports world as I watch the new NBA commissioner Silver award the all star MVP trophy. .
The trend "ain't" our friend. The USSA is heading towards a police state at light speed. Also Putin does not hold the Russian people or Russia in total contempt like our Islamo-NWO-zio usurper does towards Americans and the USA.
The USA is **k'ed'ed and thank libturds and RINOs. You must be one or the other.
You'd have gotten more greens if you'd said "The hole world is sinking back into the 1930s."
That would have been tight.
You can write what whatever you want so long it's about Miley Cyrus, All else requires a press-pass or license.
"I am guillotine."
Fuk u
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Five per cent GDP growth is these days more associated with the fittest Asian and African emerging economies than the sluggish EU fringe, but Romania has sprung a surprise with its Q4 2013 figures, its best for five years.
A flash estimate from Bucharest’s National Institute of Statistics on February 14 suggests that the economy grew by 5.2 per cent year-on-year in the final quarter of last year. This takes its full-year rate to 3.5 per cent, among the fastest in Europe and appreciably above a recent IMF forecast of 2.8 per cent. Meanwhile inflation, once a serious concern, fell to an all-time low of 1.1 per cent in January.
A research note by BCR, Romania’s biggest bank, said in a research note that “external demand (exports of goods and services) most likely remained the main growth driver in 4Q, as in all of 2013”. A strong harvest is also likely to have been a factor – not to mention the recent contract win to export 42m sheep to China over the next 72 years."
With economic growth comes press freedom. Romania exports it sheep; in the U.S. sheep all stay at home.
Romania exports it sheep; in the U.S. sheep all stay at home.
+1
To the Romanians credit - they took old Nickolai C and his wife out and they shot them.
Freddie "God bless ya"... You still watch TV! "ocassionally". I'll rip you into an new sphincter, if you say otherwise!
Oh goodie!
I get to watch... I got a press pass!
WTF? Just tell me bro what the yen is doing this coming week vis a vis the dollar. I may have some options spreads on.
Where is David Bird?
"Countries that pride themselves on being democracies and respecting the rule of law have not set an example, far from it. Freedom of information is too often sacrificed to an overly broad and abusive interpretation of national security needs, marking a disturbing retreat from democratic practices. Investigative journalism often suffers as a result.
This has been the case in the United States (46th), which fell 13 places, one of the most significant declines, amid increased efforts to track down whistleblowers and the sources of leaks. The trial and conviction of Private Bradley Manning and the pursuit of NSA analyst Edward Snowden were warnings to all those thinking of assisting in the disclosure of sensitive information that would clearly be in the public interest.
US journalists were stunned by the Department of Justice’s seizure of Associated Press phone records without warning in order to identify the source of a CIA leak. It served as a reminder of the urgent need for a “shield law” to protect the confidentiality of journalists’ sources at the federal level. The revival of the legislative process is little consolation forJames Risen of The New York Times, who is subject to a court order to testify against a former CIA employee accused of leaking classified information. And less still for Barrett Brown, a young freelance journalist facing 105 years in prison in connection with the posting of information that hackers obtained from Statfor, a private intelligence company with close ties to the federal government."
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A distinction if made by obtaining documents by illegal means for the sake of investigative journalism and the legal purposes of not disclosing documents for the sake of national or commerce purposes.
Rule of due process of law is superior to the rule of law for transparency, investigative journalism and all other purposes.
I would like to take a survey of Doctors Without Borders, Engineers Without Borders and NGOs re the backlash of Journalists Without Borders illegally obtaining restricted documents.
blatant lies...we no longer have a free press....just Disney and 4 or 5 other owners of the 'news'...Drudge can only compile that which is available....here in Las Vegas we lost the commie Sun and even the formerly great Review Journal is just AP postings and recipes.
If and when the people unleash a firestorm of lead on their opressors that the world has never seen, freedom is gonna skyrocket.
Until then...
WHAT?!?!?! At the "Newseum" in Washington D.C. they said the US was #1.
USA num ber one!!! U S A num ber one!!! U S A num ber one!!!
Low press freedom??? Well, I'll just have to say, "Fuck You" to the so-called "press" in this country. They've committed suicide and sold out to the Marxists, Socialists, and other anti-American scum. Fuck them.
There no longer is a "main stream media" in America. They are now the old dinosaur prestitutes and have become nothing but state-run propagandists and I'll go as far as calling the majority of them traitors, plain and simple.
The new "main stream media" are actually the alternative media who are busting their asses out there on the internet to do the hard investigating and reporting that the "main stream" quit doing decades ago.
The old media is practically dead...barely on life support. No morals, no ethics, no principles or values, and absolutely zero credibility.
That goes for Fox as well, even though they're the ones pulling in more ratings than all other "media" channels on cable combined. But I gave up on them nearly 2 years ago. Or more like they gave up and quit on us. They caved in and now just barely put out anything worthwhile. They've become extremely weak.
When Fox Business caved into government and corporate pressure and cancelled Judge Napolitano's Freedom Watch, that was when I stopped watching Fox. After Beck and the Judge were gone then so was I, and I'm sure they lost a lot of others like me as well.
But this is exactly what this corrupt, criminal government wanted to happen. To corrupt and destroy the media...infiltrate it with insider Socialists and other subversives to destroy the integrity it had from within like a rotting cancer. They have succeeded.
One day soon there will no longer be actual reporters or broadcasters. There will be CGI images reciting whatever the government scum programmed it to say. Once the NWO shuts down the internet or throttles it down to such an extent that it can hardly be used for information then it'll be game over for what was left of freedom of information and access to truth.
AKA Pravda Amerika.
ALL of TV is total shit along with Hollywood. Judge Napolitano has my utmost respect. It seems like a few Italian-American guys have the guts to speak up like the judge, Steve Santelli and Gerald Celente.
Gerald said when he was a young boy, he told his dad something from the news. His father sort of mocked him and said Papagallo! Pappagallo means parrot. He told his son that he should not believe anything the news media said.
Hey now, look at the bright side, we are still a couple places above north korea.
Hell Yeah! USA-better than North Korea. Just look at the medal count in the winter Olympics. We're kicking their commie asses.
Sounds like another index that is skewed against the US by a European firm. Is there an index that Europe (or some US thinktank) hasn't used to "get back" at the US?
The RSF really hates Americans and would do anything to make it look bad - like any European entity. The same thing has happened with Europe-based PISA index, with the US-based Mercatus index, and that the common denominator is that they generally hate the US in some form or fashion.
They should be thankful that the US has a large enough military to handle all their enemies.
Just because you flash the journalist card doesn't mean that you get a pass on justice. It doesn't matter if you're Manning, Snowden, or the people that helped them. You take due process the way we're all given or expect to be "written off" by government or private actors.
ZH is the new 'radio free europe'.
ZH is Voice of America online, e.g. they are the NSA/CIA/MOSSAD delivered on one shit bagel.
One need only look at how many "journalists" quit their jobs to join the Obama ministry of truth.
https://www.google.com/#q=another%20journalist%20joins%20the%20obama%20a...
Sieg heil you journo-fuckin' cunts.
This is not news.
Even 40 years ago low level reporters would write suck-up storys and then get hired by gubmint, and later become politicians themselves the DEM party has been doing this forever.
This is why DEM largely owns the PRESS/MEDIA/
Of course PUG(right) like FOX, they just buy the MEDIA.
AIPAC doesn't give a rat's ass they OWN the LEFT&RIGHT.
Is anyone here really shocked by this? Welcome to Dumbfuckistan, formerly known as the USA.
Pure nonsense. I am free to buy shit and get myself into a lifetime of debt servitide. I can enroll my kids into college with no prospect of a decent job upon graduation and enslave them into debt servitide also.
You asshole fukkerz are all missing out on the 'murican dream!
Or, to paraphrase a smart poster over at TF (Karls place)..."I can not spend today like a motherfukker"
I highly doubt the accuracy of this dribble!
I have never seen any of the society page reporters, TMZ or Access Hollywood complain. Think about it - has the press ever failed to mention who won the latest edition of DWTS, American Idol or America's Got Talent? Well, have they? How long have you had to wait before ou found out who won a Grammy, Oscar or Tony? Don't he GLAAD folks have instant access to media?
I rest my case!
Oh....and ya'll be good 'muricans and keep voting. Consent to the assraping.
at leat we are not the worst. itake that as a silver lining. now i will put my head back in the sand
Five corporations now own the entire US "mainstream media."
The values of those companies are tied up in licenses regulated by the federal government.
Whorin'.
Simple as pie.
what I want to know is: if it's the epitome of the Iron Maiden's socialist 'stealing' just who does Norway's oil actually belong to anyway?
Oh and foff with the whinging,
"Oh, but it's only temporary you know,mmmhmmm".
Dream on
Seems to me it's been 'temporary' a lot longer than wished. Not to mention I'm sure any nation wouldn't mind the odd 'temporary' budgetary surplus these days.
Anyway, as you neoliberal soakanomic quacks well know, we've been over this a thousand times before, and you just can't seem to get it through your fat heads that you get to say "I told you so", if and only if, Norway ever runs a budgetary deficit. And that's me being decent. By rights I could claim you should have to wait until they actually have a freaking NATIONAL DEBT.
Until then you get to STFU and suck it up buttercup
“You know what I am? I’m (a neoliberal’s/Akak's) worst f-ing nightmare, man: a (mixed economy) with a (national balance sheet deep in the black). That means I got (license) to kick your ass anytime I feel like it” -Eddie Murphy (edited)
Norwegians may not be millionaires…
Sure, like anyone else they got 99 problems, but national debt peonage ain’t one.
GoinNowhere, you are truly going nowhere with your wildly disingenuous and cherry-picked example of Norway as the supposed "socialist utopia", due to their disproportionate and near-unique levels of (temporary) natural resource wealth due to undersea oil, and eveyone here but you recognizes that fact, which is why so few here will even bother to address your ludicrous and intellectually insulting pro-statist bullshit.
Go back to the Mother Country and kiss the Queen's asshole.
Norway is 'near unique' in fiscal responsibility; I'll give you that.
RE: Your 'Everyone here knows the future' missive. Yeah every wishful thinking backward echochambermaiden soakanomic quack you mean.
I confess it amuses me to watch you lot drone on and on about the very real importance of fiscal responsibility; until you start to foam at the mouth and fall backwards over a nickel in the drum for another drunken bum only to puff up like indignant bullfrogs the moment you're presented with an actual existing example of true fiscal responsibility. Why? because it was done not by cutting programs, but while increasing the quality of public services rather than expanding the public debt. Yeah, that's a 'tell'.
GFY, And quit trying to reach up my ass to move my lips while your'e at it, throwback.
GoinNowhere, you are the most ridiculous of trolls, because in thread after thread you keep making the EXACT SAME FUCKING DISINGENUOUS ARGUMENT that Norway's oil-boom wealth somehow "proves" that socialism works, and when you are called-out on your highly selective cherry-picking of Norway with its (temporary) oil wealth and cradle-to-grave welfare state instead of, say, Spain or Italy or Denmark or the USSR or North Korea, you steadfastly REFUSE to engage, fleeing into your smug and cowardly statist foxhole, being able to do no more than mutter "Norway, socialism, good, Norway, socialism, good, Norway ....." Can't you realize what a dishonest, sophomoric, idiotic asshat you prove yourself to be by doing so? Evidently not.
And by the way, your Canadian natives are NATIVES, not "First Nation Aboriginal Noble Savage First Peoples", or whatever your hyper-PC terminology-du-jour might be. They were NEVER nations, only (at best) loosely-affiliated tribes --- the same as my Eastern European ancestors were 1200 years ago, when NOBODY, then or now, spoke of "The Polish Nation", circa 800 AD, because whle there was indeed a collection of culturally similar Polish tribes at that time, a Polish nation as such DID NOT YET THEN EXIST. Your laughable attempts to call your native peoples "nations" dishonestly implies a cultural and political equivalence that never existed.
Fuck, I cannot stand your type. I wish I could punch you your arrogant statist face, you utterly worthless piece of shit. Go kill yourself and do the world a favor.
It seems these subjects upset you. I wonder why. Perhaps you should refrain from bringing them up for awhile. Or maybe you could find the single fuck I might give as to what you think about anything. I think I must have lost it.
Norway is "near unique" because it is about 97+% white. These people generally do not eat at McDonalds, smoke crack, go to Vegas or do amazingly stupid shit like Obvomit voters. The libtards try to see Scandinavian socialism as a nirvana for Amerika. Norway and Amerika are not alike.
Sweden has lower taxes, less socialism and less of a police state than Amerika.
One thing is certain now. People no loger admire the rich and are not jealous of them. It is now assumed that those who are rich have lied, cheated, defrauded and stolen; with the aid of their crony networks and the puchasing of laws, to get to where they are at.
Similarly, people no longer admire mass murderers who call themselves political leaders.
I'd mostly agree that you're right, reasonable people do not admire the rich. But the feral lower class still seem to love the rich. I think Trump is popular with the ghetto dwellers.
As for freedom of the press, what the fuck do you expect when you let a few plutocrats control virtually all the media...
The were once well thought out simple rules to control this... But that legislation was gutted...
"... a few plutocrats ..."
Bit general, is there a specific precise uniquely identifiable subset of said plutocracy to which you refer here?
It is sumarized rather well here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownership
8 corporations control the overwhelming majority of TV, Radio and Newspapers....
Not exactly a diverse Fifth Estate....
Sweden is pretty high up.
Would the reporters like to try and publish an article criticising mass immigration in Sweden without getting mail bombs through the post...nah, didn't think so.
But multiculturalism is our strength! Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White countries for EVERYONE (except those evil whites that must be race mixed to extinction)
All bow down and give thanks to tge allah azz kissing arogant y narcissist lying ilegal alien kenyan muslim sociopath for these gummint blessing.
Freedom of the press in the US? That's an oxymoron. I don't think the press wants to be free. It is just the damn talking points of the corporation and the Federal Govt presented by the mainstream media. The only free press is alternative news like Zerohedge. All news is bias; however, it doesn't need to be the ass kissing wing of the President (whether he/she be Republican or Democrat).
Note to ZeroHeroes: The Era of the Common Man(denoting a relative not absolute state) is over. There was a counter revolution, you lost. You may be damsels in distress, but as others have alluded you won't be saved by Norway or 18th century America. The Crime Syndicate Model has emerged triumphant. It's really, really obvious but of course you can't admit it. You must continue to recycle the old obsolete terminology and ideological arguments. And since there are a limited number of organizational models enough similarities are present to employ them all as a distraction. Oligarchy, fascism, socialism, capitalism, democracy, plutocracy, feudalism. Let's apply Occams Razor, you're cowards.
Hahahah!
Hear! Hear!
Obama [ AIPAC GIMP ] Calls Al-queda 'moral equivalent of USA founding fathers' ... post-American Afghanistan.
Obama lost Syria, he Lost Ukraine, and now if PUTIN has his way OBAMA will lose AFGHAN, ... the Show is going to get interesting.
So what’s left to Washington after an interminable, multi-trillion-dollar war that ends with a monumental whimper - for all practical purposes a hardcore Pashtun victory? Not to abandon the battlefield entirely, as in Saigon 1975 (Gromov crossing the Friendship Bridge 25 years ago would pale in comparison). The solution is to leave a “residual” force of at least 10,000 that will keep enabling the CIA drone war in the Pakistani tribal areas, which will go on as long as Islamabad cannot clinch a deal with the Pakistani Taliban.
No powerful regional actors want this state of affairs, from Iran to Russia and China, not to mention the AfPak consortium. Throughout 2014, expect Iran, Russia, China and India to weigh heavily toward an Afghan solution without the Americans. Yet the “residual force” will remain the Pentagon’s wet dream. If they can't have Full Spectrum Dominance, even partial spectrum will do. That certainly beats crossing the Amu Darya back to Uzbekistan with a Saigon taste in their mouths.
"FREEDOM of the PRESS"
Means one thing in all time of USA history, it meant that those who owned the presses has the right to print what they wished for money.
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Never did it say that the poor or weak had a right to a voice of any kind.
Today, the USA is just want it has always been, a place where ONLY the rich have a voice.
That's because "US" is no longer the acronym, but rather the pronoun for the ruling elite.
They hate us for our non press-freedom
I was surprised that USA was quite as low as it was. Then I looked at their methodology at http://rsf.org/index2014/data/2014_wpfi_methodology.pdf .
In regards to my curiosity, the most illuminating statement I found was "In the event of a military occupation of one or more territories, any violations by representatives of the occupying force are treated as violations of the right to information in foreign territory and are incorporated into the score of the occupying force’s country".
Given that our civilian, intelligence, and military government forces "occupy" (to one extent or another) an enormous proportion of the world, and certainly work to pacify the locals to our presence and purposes, I'm kind of surprised now that we are as high as #46.
BTW Mike Krieger, ever since I registered at your Liberty Blitzkrieg blog , I've been getting SPAM to the email address that I gave to absolutely no one but you.
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The measurement criteria doesn't capture the self-censorship that occurs.
If it did, most western countries would get even lower scores.
MSM self-censorship is a massive problem in the UK. The BBC, Sky News and ITN all have some very statist practices even though they present their stories as if they are holding government to account. No way. They will rarely wheel on anybody for interview who might not toe the official line. Eg: the chances of seeing anybody from Mises on air to talk about economics are close to zero.