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Topic started on 24-12-2009 @ 08:20 PM by Misoir

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I used the indicies of freedom which are (Civil Liberties & Political Rights, Economic freedom, Press freedom, and Democracy index).

Here are all countries with a score over 80.0, which I register as 'Free'.
1. Denmark 91.0
2. Iceland 90.9
3. New Zealand 90.0
4. Netherlands 89.8
5. Sweden 89.6
6. Switzerland 89.5
7. Republic of Ireland 89.3
8. Finland 89.3
9. Norway 89.3
10. Luxembourg 88.6
11. Canada 88.1
12. Australia 87.9
13. United States of America 86.2
14. Germany 85.7
15. Belgium 85.4
16. United Kingdom 85.4
17. Estonia 84.6
18. Austria 83.8
19. Czech Republic 83.3
20. Spain 82.7
21. Portugal 82.4
22. Chile 82.1
23. Malta 82.0
24. Costa Rica 82.0
25. Japan 81.5
26. Cyprus 81.5
27. Lithuania 81.4
28. Uruguay 81.0
29. France 80.5
30. Slovakia 80.2
31. Mauritius 80.1
32. Hungary 80.1

If you want to know the score of any country just ask and I will post it ASAP.

reply posted on 24-12-2009 @ 08:23 PM by watcher73

Last time I saw one of those maps was when GW was president. The US was black. One of the least free countries. Nothing has changed but the president and now were one of the most free?

Doubt it.

reply posted on 24-12-2009 @ 08:37 PM by Misoir

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I don't recall anything that used all the combinations I used to rate freedom, besides this is 100% unbiased. I was shocked America came in 13th with that high of a score too.

reply posted on 24-12-2009 @ 09:33 PM by TheCoffinman

i dont see any muslims countries...

reply posted on 24-12-2009 @ 09:44 PM by Jazzyguy

Originally posted by watcher73
Last time I saw one of those maps was when GW was president. The US was black. One of the least free countries. Nothing has changed but the president and now were one of the most free?

Doubt it.

Yeah, somehow I doubt it.. that the US is not a flawed democracy. It's a flawed democracy during the previous admin, it's a flawed democracy now.

reply posted on 25-12-2009 @ 03:04 AM by Bobbox1980

Freedom House puts out the Freedom in the World report.

Freedom House gets 66% of its funding from the United States government and has been accused by people including Noam Chomsky of being a propaganda arm of the United States government.

I would take their analysis of the U.S. with a grain of salt, they've given the U.S. perfect scores every year. They are probably largely fair when analyzing most countries, those that haven't gotten on the U.S.'s bad side any way.

Why the report's details are on Wikipedia I have no idea, they don't put any old report on wikipedia like NIEs or CBO documents. It makes me think propaganda artists from Freedom House or U.S. intelligence agencies got it added.

reply posted on 25-12-2009 @ 04:20 AM by NuclearPaul

I wouldn't call Australia free. It's "free" as long as you do what you're told.

And I know there are places that are worse, but I see that as irrelevant. We're either truly free, or we're not.

Being forced to "work for a living" is not freedom. You should only have to work for luxuries. Food, water, and shelter should be provided to us free from our masters. If a farmer doesn't do it for his animals, he's in big trouble...

reply posted on 25-12-2009 @ 07:23 AM by Misoir

Please don't shoot the messenger I only did what the Indicies of Freedom are and it is not my fault if the reports lie or anything. I do not believe the US should be that high up and that in fact there really are no truly free countries these are just as free as they get. If anyone knows of another way for me to get the 'freedom report' that is not from Freedom House I could change this.

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