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2-0-Sixx

Sicc OG
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www.socialistworld.net
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According to this report.

1 Finland 0,50
- Iceland 0,50
- Netherlands 0,50
- Norway 0,50
5 Denmark 1,00
- Trinidad and Tobago 1,00
7 Belgium 1,17
8 Germany 1,33
9 Sweden 1,50
10 Canada 1,83
11 Latvia 2,25
12 Czech Republic 2,50
- Estonia 2,50
- Slovakia 2,50
- Switzerland 2,50
16 Austria 2,75
17 Ireland 2,83
- Lithuania 2,83
- New Zealand 2,83
20 Slovenia 3,00
21 Hungary 3,33
- Jamaica 3,33
- South Africa 3,33
24 Costa Rica 3,83
25 Uruguay 4,00
26 France 4,17
27 United Kingdom 4,25
28 Portugal 5,17
29 Benin 5,25
30 Timor-Leste 5,50
31 Greece 6,00
- United States of America (American territory) 6,00
33 Poland 6,17
34 Albania 6,50
- Bulgaria 6,50
- Nicaragua 6,50
37 Bosnia and Herzegovina 6,83
- Chile 6,83
- El Salvador 6,83
40 Paraguay 7,17
41 Mauritius 7,25
42 Ecuador 7,67
- Spain 7,67
44 Israel (Israeli territory) 8,00
- Japan 8,00
46 Madagascar 8,17
47 Cape Verde 8,25
48 Ghana 8,75
49 South Korea 9,17
50 Australia 9,25
51 Bolivia 9,67
- Macedonia 9,67
53 Italy 9,75
- Panama 9,75
55 Peru 10,25
56 Hong-Kong 11,00
- Mali 11,00
- Namibia 11,00
59 Fiji 11,50
- Romania 11,50
61 Taïwan 12,00
62 Botswana 13,00
63 Congo 14,00
- Mozambique 14,00
65 Honduras 14,17
66 Senegal 14,50
67 Argentina 15,17
68 Niger 15,75
69 Croatia 16,50
- Tanzania 16,50
71 Brazil 16,75
72 Dominican Republic 17,00
73 Georgia 17,33
74 Mexico 17,67
75 Lesotho 17,75
76 Burkina Faso 18,00
77 Gambia 18,25
- Mongolia 18,25
79 Comoros 18,50
- Kenya 18,50
81 Cambodia 19,50
82 Thailand 19,67
83 Cyprus 20,83
84 Malawi 21,00
85 Serbia and Montenegro 21,33
86 Zambia 23,25
87 Sierra Leone 23,50
88 Chad 24,00
89 Sri Lanka 24,83
90 Armenia 25,17
91 Uganda 25,75
92 Burundi 26,25
93 Seychelles 26,75
94 Moldova 27,00
95 Togo 27,50
96 Venezuela 27,83
97 Angola 28,00
98 Cameroon 30,50
99 Guatemala 30,83
100 Haiti 31,00
101 Gabon 31,25
102 Kuwait 31,33
103 Nigeria 31,50
104 Kyrgyzstan 32,00
- Malaysia 32,00
106 Lebanon 32,50
107 Central African Republic 32,75
108 Algeria 33,00
109 Guinea 33,17
110 Egypt 34,25
- Indonesia 34,25
- Rwanda 34,25
113 Azerbaijan 34,50
- Tajikistan 34,50
115 Qatar 35,00
- Turkey 35,00
117 Bahrain 35,17
118 Guinea-Bissau 35,25
- Philippines 35,25
120 Djibouti 35,50
121 Mauritania 36,67
122 United Arab Emirates 37,00
- Jordan 37,00
124 Ethiopia 37,50
- Iraq 37,50
- Swaziland 37,50
127 Democratic Republic of Congo 38,50
128 India 39,00
- Pakistan 39,00
130 Palestinian Authority 39,25
131 Morocco 39,67
132 Liberia 40,00
- Ukraine 40,00
134 Afghanistan 40,17
135 United States of America (in Iraq) 41,00
136 Yemen 41,83
137 Côte d'Ivoire 42,17
138 Kazakhstan 42,50
139 Equatorial Guinea 44,75
140 Somalia 45,00
141 Zimbabwe 45,50
142 Sudan 45,75
143 Bangladesh 46,50
144 Singapore 47,33
145 Maldives 47,50
146 Israel (Occupied Territories) 49,00
147 Colombia 49,17
148 Russia 49,50
149 Tunisia 50,83
150 Nepal 51,50
151 Belarus 52,00
152 Oman 57,75
153 Libya 60,00
154 Uzbekistan 61,50
155 Syria 67,50
156 Saudi Arabia 71,50
157 Bhutan 77,33
158 Turkmenistan 82,83
159 Vietnam 89,17
160 Iran 89,33
161 China 91,25
162 Eritrea 91,50
163 Laos 94,83
164 Burma 95,50
165 Cuba 97,83
166 North Korea 99,50

http://www.rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=8247
 
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NOSTRIL KING

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Everytime I hear anyone in the CIA or the Bush Administration talk about Israel it's always that "They're a noble, just democracy," and "Our little sister in freedom,"

And they're ranked lower than Sudan. How shocking.
 
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Cuba is in 165th position, second from last. Twenty-six independent journalists were arrested in the spring of 2003 and sentenced to prison terms ranging from 14 to 27 years, making Cuba the world's biggest prison for journalists. They were accused of writing articles for publication abroad that played into the hands of "imperialist interests." Eritrea, in 162nd position, has the worst situation in Africa. Privately-owned news media have been banned there for the past two years and 14 journalists are being held in undisclosed locations.
 
nefar559

nefar559

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BaSICCally said:
Cuba is in 165th position, second from last. Twenty-six independent journalists were arrested in the spring of 2003 and sentenced to prison terms ranging from 14 to 27 years, making Cuba the world's biggest prison for journalists. They were accused of writing articles for publication abroad that played into the hands of "imperialist interests." Eritrea, in 162nd position, has the worst situation in Africa. Privately-owned news media have been banned there for the past two years and 14 journalists are being held in undisclosed locations.
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26 journalist?

http://www.siccness.net/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=78848
 
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Should I not trust this "objective site"? So are you telling me that this site is incorrect when it says that at the bottom of the heap is the communist countries?
 
nefar559

nefar559

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Havana. August 8, 2003

Who has given the U.S. government moral authority to create an opposition in Cuba?

Letter written by René González, one of the five Cuban political prisoners in U.S. jails, in response to the statement by the Campaign for Peace and Democracy (CPD), denouncing Cuba for the trial of the counterrevolutionaries that took place on the island in March 2003. Joanne Landy headed the CPD campaign against Cuba.


Dear Ms. Joanne Landy:

Being a Cuban revolutionary all of my life, having fought in Angola
against the South African invasion and being, at the present time,
incarcerated in a U.S. federal prison for protecting the Cuban
people from the terrorist actions supported, encouraged and silenced by the United States government, I hope that - if being progressive is still to fight for a better world - I might be entitled to the benefit of being considered a progressive person.

So, when I opened a magazine called precisely, The Progressive, and read an ad by the Campaign for Peace and Democracy requesting signatures in order to condemn Cuba for its alleged "repression on dissidents," I was, at best, in disbelief.

I can't imagine that somebody can consider himself a progressive
person and then take at its word the endemic slandering and lies of
the U.S. media in regards to Cuba. It would only take a little bit of intellectual honesty and some research to discover that the money to pay "dissidents" is appropriated, overtly and openly, by the U.S. authorities to be distributed through entities like NED and USAID among whomever, on the island, decides to make a living as a dissident.

Who gives any moral authority to the American government to create a paid opposition in Cuba? What international principle of law applies to this behavior? Since when it is a role of a U.S. diplomat to tour the island organizing the "opposition" and giving out money?

Whoever, in his country, receives money from a foreign power to undermine his government, is considered a traitor, be it in Cuba or in any other nation of the world, including the United States.

These so-called "dissidents" have - contrary to what appears in the
ad - all the right to express their opinions in Cuba. All they have to do is to stand up at a nomination meeting and explain to their neighbors that they want to take the country back to 1959, return the Cuban land to the United Fruit Company, recall the terrorists that now live in Miami to the island and give them their properties back, sell the country to the transnationals and become themselves the political class who will take care of all those people's petty interests. If their neighbors agree with them they will be nominated would happen to them for looking stupid while expressing their political platform in front of the electorate.

But if they run into a revolutionary constituency - and their neighbors are committed to their country and support the government of the people, for the people and by the people; and having fought and died for their society, don't want to betray the memory of the patriots who have given their lives for the sovereignty and independence of Cuba - no "dissident" will be nominated nor will he obtain any vote.

And if they don't deserve the confidence of their people, they don't have the right to go to the American embassy - the last place I would think of as a haven for democracy - to find a source of sovereignty that only lies in the Cubans.

Cuba, for more than 40 years, has faced a state of hostility and war that has caused more than 3,000 deaths and more than 2,000 injuries on account of terrorist and armed actions carried out by traitors paid, trained and supplied for by the U.S. government. Those mercenaries were dealt with through the legal system. They weren't arbitrarily declared "enemy" or "illegal" combatants, or disposed of through a drone-launched rocket so that Fidel could pose to the cameras declaring them "no longer a problem," or subjected to secret military tribunals, nor were their families' homes demolished by the Cuban military.

They were given sentences according to their involvement in their terrorist activities instead of the irrational punishment accorded here to the Puerto Rican patriots, just for their affiliation to a given organization, or the vindictive treatment given to me and my co-defendants for protecting Cuba from those mercenaries who now, with their money and connections to the U.S. administration, sponsor schemes like the one of the "dissidents" or the encouragement to illegal immigration from Cuba in order to justify the aggressive policy against Cuba.

The Cuban people has had no other option than to take their losses and to keep building the socialist society that too many have fought for, leaving it to history to make us justice and relying on extreme patience and enormous courage.
I don't know how many real progressive people are adhering to this campaign against Cuba, being things here so relative that somebody can be labeled as liberal just for eating a hamburger with the left hand and having grown used to see some, on TV, advertised as leftist just because they are a little to the left of George Wallace.

But I assume there must be some genuine progressive people among them; people who really care about human rights and who honestly believe in justice, misguided by a perverse media which leaves them without any other reference when it comes to know what happens around the world. To this people I want to say this:

Consider for a moment the awesome power accumulated by the U.S. imperialist government. Consider the enormous sense of impunity that right now can be felt by this people who just accomplished a war of aggression defying the whole world, lying in front of everybody like nobody did before to justify it, creating a criminal and illegal doctrine of preemptive war, breaking any principle of international relations in the process and getting away with all of it. Compare this overwhelming power with the little island of Cuba and it won't be hard to see how much damage this fascist establishment can inflict to my country with so little.

I've always had the best of respect for the honest Americans who, overcoming the immense power of the most sophisticated machinery of deception ever designed, have been able to look beyond all of that to have a view of world events that pays homage to this country. It takes a lot of intelligence, curiosity, courage and, above all, a lot of sensitivity.

I want to appeal to that sensitivity and, with all my respect, invite you to think of this: One thing was to be a Roman citizen, with all privileges accorded to full citizenship, discussing democracy and liberty on the senate or on the streets of Rome; and another thing, completely different, was to be fighting for that democracy and that liberty, in the field, against all odds, under the siege of Pompeii legions, defending your very life together with Spartacus.

Very truly yours,

Rene González Sehwerert
Federal Correctional Institution
Edgefield, South Carolina
 
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Mcleanhatch

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2003/11/16/161215.shtml
Sunday, Nov. 16, 2003
Castro Finally Releases Journalist From Prison

After six years of beatings and brutal treatment, a courageous Cuban journalist has finally been released from prison, where he had been confined for the crime of insulting Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Cuban journalist Bernardo Arevalo Padron founded the outlawed independent press agency Linea Sur Pres in 1996 and reported on human rights violations in Castro's Cuba, according to the BBC. In 1997 he was given a six-year sentence for having insulted Castro and, despite protests from all over the world that he be granted an early release, was forced to serve the full term.

BBC reports that Reporters Without Borders, based in Paris, say Padron was beaten during his detention and that he deteriorated physically and psychologically. His friends, however, say that since his release he has been in good health and is with his family.
 
nefar559

nefar559

Sicc OG
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BaSICCally said:
nefar- how can we trust that article? how do we know that it isn't propaganda spread by the Cuban governemnt?
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a lot of it is true, Coldblooded can lay it out for you. Point a part where you think its wrong.


"These so-called "dissidents" have - contrary to what appears in the
ad - all the right to express their opinions in Cuba. All they have to do is to stand up at a nomination meeting and explain to their neighbors that they want to take the country back to 1959, return the Cuban land to the United Fruit Company, recall the terrorists that now live in Miami to the island and give them their properties back, sell the country to the transnationals and become themselves the political class who will take care of all those people's petty interests. If their neighbors agree with them they will be nominated would happen to them for looking stupid while expressing their political platform in front of the electorate.

But if they run into a revolutionary constituency - and their neighbors are committed to their country and support the government of the people, for the people and by the people; and having fought and died for their society, don't want to betray the memory of the patriots who have given their lives for the sovereignty and independence of Cuba - no "dissident" will be nominated nor will he obtain any vote.

And if they don't deserve the confidence of their people, they don't have the right to go to the American embassy - the last place I would think of as a haven for democracy - to find a source of sovereignty that only lies in the Cubans."
 
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Mcleanhatch

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nefar559 said:
"These so-called "dissidents" have - contrary to what appears in the ad - all the right to express their opinions in Cuba. All they have to do is to stand up at a nomination meeting and explain to their neighbors that they want to take the country back to 1959,
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LOL, thats got to be the most outrageously stupid thing i have heard in a while
 
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