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The Spectacle Blog
Washington Times reported this morning that the Global Peace Index ranked the United States 85th most peaceful out of 149 countries. Libya was rated 56th, China was 80th, while Israel came in at 144th. Peace was defined as “an absence of violence.” Among the factors considered were “prison populations in each nation, the likelihood of violent demonstrations… [and] ‘ease of access to small arms and light weapons.’”
Many of the “most peaceful” countries are conveniently covered under the American nuclear umbrella. An interactive map can be found here.
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Flee| 6.8.10 @ 4:36PM
Clearly the more free you are the more possibility you can be violent and purchase weaponry. Who thinks up such worthless rankings?
Alan Brooks| 6.8.10 @ 4:45PM
Agreed. IMO social progress has become illusory, or at least very "far" in the future.
We call what we live in civilization, but it isn't.
Christopher Holland| 6.9.10 @ 1:26AM
Right on, comrade, right on! What's so good about reducing poverty, giving women the vote, ending slavery, getting rid of Jim Crow laws, finding cures for diseases like polio, eradicating diseases like plague and small pox, educating millions of people, inventing countless products that make life easier and more productive! Mere bagatelles, all of them, any screwed up third world dictatorship could do these things. American civilisation is a dismal failure, we need another model, and quickly. Its time to smash the dominate paradigm.
Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 6.8.10 @ 6:06PM
This interactive map is hilarious!! If you go back to 2007, the USA is ranked 96 (Red-meaning very bad), and Mexico is ranked 79 (orange-not so bad, but bad). Now here it is, just four years later, and we're ranked 85 (yellow-not nearly as bad as before ), and Mexico is ranked 107 (more bad than before). Umm? What happened in the USA four years ago, that had us ranked worse than Mexico? I was in Iraq at that time, so maybe I missed it?
Now speaking of Iraq, back in 2007 Iraq was ranked 121 (red-just at the beginning of the surge), and I think I might have agreed with that at the time. But here it is four years later, and Iraq is ranked 149 (even more red), but I was just there, and it was a lot better this time, than it was in 2007. So I'm calling B.S. on this whole Global Peace Index. Are these the same people who give out the Nobel Peace Prize to a person after just two weeks on the job?
Margie| 6.8.10 @ 6:19PM
Gotta love ya, SGT. LLL's!
Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 6.8.10 @ 6:56PM
Hi Margie: Just to prove to you how funny this map is, in 2007, the USA was ranked 96, and I hope you're sitting down for this, otherwise you might fall down laughing, but Iran was ranked 97. You didn't fall now did you? I'm sorry!! But there's more (so stay seated), do you know who was ranked 95, just above the USA in 2007? Yemen!! Yemen, the country that always comes to mind, when you're asked about a country that's better than the United States!! This is so friggin' funny!! What the hell happened here in 2007, I have to know? I missed it!!
Margie| 6.8.10 @ 9:27PM
No, I didn't fall down, SGT. LLL's, but I am smiling. Only because I'm so glad to know you! You just happen to be one of our country's finest!
Occam's Tool| 6.8.10 @ 6:40PM
I think I'd rather live in Israel than China or Libya.
LiveFreeOrDie| 6.8.10 @ 6:41PM
Your BS detector is right on. GPI is operated by liberal, peacenik, australian Steve Killelea.
This "index" took things like 'military capability' into account, except the thinking was backwards. More capable military = less peaceful.
Plenty of middle eastern countries get better marks than the US in the "Relations with neighboring countries" category. We only have Canada who is just happy to be here and Mexico who we consistently bend over for so how do we not get top score in this category? See the whole disgusting thing at www.visionofhumanity.org It's ridiculous, which is why every lib news shoutlet will be running this story.
Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 6.8.10 @ 7:22PM
Thanks LiveFree: You just got me very interested in this Douchebag Steve Killelea, so I visited the site, and watched his vision video (link below). He wants us all to become Global Citizens, but he's really worried about overpopulation too (uh-oh!!). So maybe he only wants us to become Global Citizens, if we first survive Planned Parenthood. It must be so nice, to be so rich, and to be such an elitist!! And what an ugly mother fudger too!! Inside and out!!
http://www.visionofhumanity.org/our-vision/