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Sweeping protests around the world made it an extremely difficult year for the media, and tested journalists as never before, the annual report into press freedom reveals. The annual report by Reporters Without Borders shows the United States fell 27 points on the list due to the many arrests of journalists covering Occupy Wall Street protests.

Does China Have a Superior Economic Model?

In a recent piece for the Wall Street Journal, Andy Stern, an Obama insider and one of organized labor's more aggressive personalities, praised what he called "China's superior economic model."

Does China have a superior economic model? That depends: Superior to what?

Freedom of the press has declined for the eighth year in a row, according to Freedom House’s annual report. And while the media has focused on the lack of media freedoms in such places as China and Venezuela, they’ve virtually ignored the U.S. position – No. 24

In the last quarter of the year we could even see Martial law, which is more likely for the first 6 months of 2011. The FDIC will collapse in September 2010. Commercial real estate is set to implode in 2010. Wall Street believes there is a 100% chance of crash in bond market, especially municipals sometime during 2010. The dollar will be devalued by the end of 2010.

The Fraser Institute released its annual rankings report for B.C. elementary schools on Monday, and a school in Bountiful, B.C., got a perfect score.

This study comprehensively ranks the American states on their public policies that affect individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres.For this new edition, we have added more policy variables (such as bans on trans fats and the audio recording of police, Massachusetts’s individual health-insurance mandate, and mandated family leave), improved existing measures. based on our data and a survey of state policy experts.

Nevadans Know How To Fix America

In the land of boom and bust, even the economic winners are looking for a change.

Watchdog: Corruption ignited this year's protests
(AP) BERLIN — Widespread corruption ignited protests this year across the Middle East and in those nations badly shaken by Europe's debt crisis as citizens demanded accountability from their governments, an international watchdog said Thursday.

The state of our union is broke, indebted, languishing in economic malaise with no end in sight, and on the verge of full-blown economic catastrophe...