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Freedom is one of the most important factors influencing a person's everyday quality of life. In addition to making it easier to live one's life, human freedom recognizes individuals' dignity and is inherently valuable, playing a vital role in human progress. Despite this importance, determining which countries' citizens have the most freedom can be challenging to do so objectively. Fortunately, individual indices can be used to determine which countries have the highest level of human freedom. Introducing the Human Freedom Index The Cato Institute in  Washington  D.C. and the Fraser Institute in Vancouver,  Canada  co-published the annual  Human Freedom Index  Report for 2021, which helps observe relationships between freedom and other social and economic phenomena. The  Human Freedom Index Report for 2021  ranked 165 countries and territories in two distinct categories: Personal Freedom and Economic Freedom, which are then combined to form the f...

  Excerpt from ICT article on oppression of Tibetan people by China's communist authoritarian government. While no new policy guidelines were introduced during the Congress, Xi Jinping made clear his priorities and intensification of the existing policies, as well as the central task of the CCP. In Xi’s own words: From this day forward, the central task of the Communist Party of China will be to lead the Chinese people of all ethnic groups in a concerted effort to realize the Second Centenary Goal of building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects and to advance the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts through a Chinese path to modernization. Fro m t he trends observed in the past decade of Xi’s rule and the goals set for the future, it is highly discernable that the Tibetans as an “ethnic minority” in China will undergo intensified and accelerated assimilation and heavy ideological indoctrination during Xi’s indefinite rule. The uptic...

  All of us with a mind focused on actual reality, as opposed to groundless unsupported conspiracy theories that Trumpublicans are in love with, know Trump is a pathological liar suffering from extreme narcissism as well as  being a dangerous sociopath. It is inexplicable what has happened to the once proud Party of Lincoln. In 2015-2016, before that fateful day when Trump secured the old GOP's nomination, 16 other republican candidates all recognized and spoke to Trump's myriad failings. Each and every one of them spoke disparagingly of the man who cannot be trusted, Donald J. Trump. Their words then were correct. So, what happened? Trump went on to galvanize the support of the republican party (now the Trumpublican Party) and so-called conservatives and independents. Six years later the old GOP has become a sycophantic cult with individuals supporting the very BIG LIE and seem to be actively embracing fascism in the parties rush to authoritarianism, White Nationalism, a...