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Idiot / Savant

Idiot/Savant is an anonymous blogger living in exile.  He blogs about human rights, international affairs, and politics from a left - liberal perspective. Check out his blog

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Vision of Humanity has released its second annual Global Peace Index. The good news? We're the fourth most peaceful country at the world, coming in behind the usual Scandinavian suspects. The bad news? Last year, we were second. Our ranking has increased, but others have improved faster (mainly due to having lower imprisonment rates, which is the oozing sore in our stats).

For those interested in other comparisons, Australia dropped two places to 27th, the UK stayed static on 49th, and the US dropped 1 to 97th (this is from looking at last year's rankings; their "compare" page seems to have some funny data in it).

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  • Sam says
    "The US dropped from 1st to 97th!!" Wow!! Now lets analysis that.
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  • Evan says
    How accurate does one really think the Global Peace Index is? It is merely made up of facts and figures arising from scholarly made calculations. It does not measure the actual rate considering factor like people mental attitude.
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