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A la Uruguaya

Feb 04, 2013 20:02

http://www.fraserinstitute.org/uploadedFiles/fraser-ca/Content/research-news/research/publications/towards-a-worldwide-index-of-human-freedom.pdf

The latest Personal Freedom Index ranking shows some interesting surprises. For instance, one could conclude that it is unfortunate that only three and a half million people live in a country like Uruguay ( Read more... )

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mahnmut February 4 2013, 18:12:11 UTC

Wait, there are places that are greener than the U. S. of Awesome? And Uruguay is one of them??

I call UN conspiracy.

htpcl February 4 2013, 18:18:35 UTC

I notice SA is greener than BG.This really says it all.

mahnmut February 4 2013, 18:19:13 UTC

I'm not sure how accurate that greenness is.

rimpala February 4 2013, 18:42:06 UTC

Mali is still in the green and they kind of have a war going on right now...

mahnmut February 4 2013, 18:52:22 UTC

Something tells me that particular shade of green ain't exactly very nice.

htpcl February 4 2013, 18:53:41 UTC

You might be on to something. Apparently it includes countries like Mexico, Colombia, Indonesia, Serbia and Turkey.

mahnmut February 4 2013, 18:55:32 UTC

Actually Turkey appears yellow-er.

htpcl February 4 2013, 18:58:34 UTC

Point taken. After all, Erdogan recently ordered the moviemakers who are filming The Magnificent Century to stop "smearing Suleiman the Magnificent" by portraying him as a decadent hedonist. Seems like Erdogan didn't like how his idol was being shown to be human, so he told them to be careful.

airiefairie February 4 2013, 19:01:16 UTC

That was to be expected in a country of such a deep shade of yellow. =)

They are trying to craft a neo-Ottoman image of their society for the world to see (but mostly for domestic consumption), and movies or books that venture into deviations from that project cannot expect a lot of tolerance from the powers that be.

htpcl February 4 2013, 19:05:38 UTC

Evet, tamam.

rimpala February 4 2013, 23:12:38 UTC

What are we measuring here anyways? Democracy? Ah shit that ain't everything.

htpcl February 5 2013, 07:34:18 UTC

I'm sure, I'm sure.

But then again, that country seems to be doing pretty fine in other respects as well.

rimpala February 4 2013, 23:22:30 UTC

Well... apparently it's more democratic then many of the nations surrounding it, it's still not a very nice place to be in on account of being in a war. I'm surprised at Australia, considering it is supposed to have some strict censorship laws

mikeyxw February 6 2013, 01:18:46 UTC

Well, they recently had a counter-coup to restore democracy, which let them catch up with the likes of Argentina and Columbia and surpass Venezuela... Or else there are some serious problems with how such countries were rated.

the_rukh February 4 2013, 22:30:39 UTC

Well, personal freedom isn't everything.

mahnmut February 5 2013, 07:25:19 UTC

Yep. Gun freedom matters too.

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