John Stossel: Where Does Your Home State Fall on the Freedom Index?
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Washington, May 4 (IANS/AKI) North Korea, Iran and Syria are among the top 10 countries deemed worst for press freedom, according to an annual ranking by a Washington-based watchdog.
"Just 14 percent of the world's population lives in societies that enjoy vibrant coverage of public affairs, a legal environment that undergirds a free press and freedom from intrusion by the government or other political forces," the Freedom House watchdog said.
"In the world's 10 worst rated countries, independent media are either non-existent or barely able to operate," the watchdog said.
North Korea was ranked the worst country in the world for press freedom.
The one-party state owns the press in its entirety, and devotes considerable energy and resources to preventing North Koreans from hearing alternative interpretations of events, the watchdog said.
"Though foreign journalists are sometimes allowed in the country, they are being monitored carefully by special minders," Freedom House said.
North Korea, like many of the countries with the least press freedom, has kept internet penetration low and censures new media, recognising its propaganda potential.
Pyongyang has its official YouTube and Twitter handles, and web access is available only to a nationwide intranet, the Kwangmyong, that does not link to foreign sites, the watchdog noted.
The index reported no progress or backsliding in the vast majority of countries in the Middle East and North Africa, notably in Egypt.
"While two of the Arab Spring countries, Libya and Tunisia, largely retained their significant gains from the previous year, Egypt moved back into the 'Not Free' category," the report said.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and national media are demonizing law-abiding gun owners in the wake of recent violent acts, National Rifle Association leaders and political allies said on Friday at its first convention since the Connecticut school massacre.
"Our freedom is under attack like never before," Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, said during a leadership forum. "When a deranged criminal murders innocent children, they blame us."
The NRA is the nation's leading advocate for gun ownership. It works assiduously to defend the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution setting out the right to bear arms.
Organizers expect some 70,000 attendees at the 142nd NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits in Houston, which began on Friday and continues through Sunday. Since last year's meeting, a national debate about gun laws sprang up after the December shooting at Newtown, Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 children and six adults were killed.
The NRA scored a major victory in Congress last month when it beat back a proposal supported by Obama to expand background checks for gun buyers.
At the leadership forum, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, thanked those who fought against the background checks proposal and other efforts to tighten gun control.
"That's your victory," Cruz said. "It's the victory of the American people."
But Cruz cautioned that the fight is not over. Supporters of the proposal, which is a key part of Obama's gun-control effort sparked by the Newtown shooting, have vowed to revive it.
Texas Governor Rick Perry, who burst onto stage after a video showing him shooting a gun, described what he sees as a pattern: When a hate-filled person commits a horrific act, people who hate guns and hate gun owners call for more gun laws, he said. Creating more laws that criminals will ignore is not the solution, said Perry, a Republican.
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President Barack Obama and national media are demonizing law-abiding gun owners in the wake of recent violent acts, National Rifle Association leaders and political allies said on Friday at its first convention since the Connecticut school massacre.
"Our freedom is under attack like never before," Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, said during a leadership forum. "When a deranged criminal murders innocent children, they blame us."
The NRA is the nation's leading advocate for gun ownership. It works assiduously to defend the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution setting out the right to bear arms.
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Organizers expect some 70,000 attendees at the 142nd NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits in Houston, which began on Friday and continues through Sunday. Since last year's meeting, a national debate about gun laws sprang up after the December shooting at Newtown, Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 children and six adults were killed.
The NRA scored a major victory in Congress last month when it beat back a proposal supported by Obama to expand background checks for gun buyers.
At the leadership forum, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, thanked those who fought against the background checks proposal and other efforts to tighten gun control.
"That's your victory," Cruz said. "It's the victory of the American people."
But Cruz cautioned that the fight is not over. Supporters of the proposal, which is a key part of Obama's gun-control effort sparked by the Newtown shooting, have vowed to revive it.
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Media outlets and advocacy groups mark the 20th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day with complaints about what they see as a decline in the level of press freedom over the past year.
Some point to increasing dangers faced by journalists and new reporting restrictions, such as those recently introduced in Russia.
The proportion of the world's population living in societies with a fully free press has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade, according to a report by the Washington-based advocacy group, Freedom House.
It says an overall downturn in global media freedom in 2012 was punctuated by a dramatic decline in Mali, a deterioration in Greece, and a further tightening of controls in Latin America.
Seven international broadcasters, including the BBC, meanwhile condemn challenges to what they describe as their "legitimate role" in offering free access to global media and coverage of events.
Alongside the blocking of internet services and cyber attacks, they highlight the deliberate jamming of both satellite and shortwave radio transmissions as part of a "concerted campaign of disruption" not seen since the end of the Cold War.
Some newspapers bemoan a disparity between constitutional rights and the actual restrictions they face. Hong Kong's South China Morning Post (SCMP) recalls an incident in January when a censor was alleged to have changed the headline and content of an editorial in the Southern Weekly newspaper without informing staff, prompting them to go on strike.
"Censorship is incompatible with progress towards a genuine advanced industrial economy," the SCMP says. "If China insists on holding back public debate, whether on web forums or in its press, it is likely that its phenomenal progress will stall."
Burma officially marked its first World Press Freedom Day after relaxing censorship and formally abolishing its censorship board earlier this the year.
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NEW YORK (AP) Exiled Chinese author Yu Jie joined other writers including Salman Rushdie on the 20th observance of World Press Freedom Day in appealing to China to live up to its own constitution and laws guaranteeing freedom of expression, and calling on the public to put pressure on governments that crack down on writers.
Yu and other writers and activists were on a PEN International panel Friday highlighting a report on trends of the last five years in China's crackdown on free expression. It also marked the 20th anniversary of the U.N. General Assembly's designation of May 3 as World Press Freedom Day.
Other writers who signed onto the appeal included Mario Vargas Llosa, J.M. Coetzee, Marjane Satrapi, Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, Andrei Bitov and Tomas Transtromer.
Yu came to the U.S. in January after receiving asylum. He was detained several times in China last year and said he was beaten so badly that he passed out. He has said he thinks Chinese authorities will not allow him back because he has accused them of torture.
"The Chinese Communist Party's secret police hooded me and kidnapped me," said Yu, who wrote a critical biography of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, titled "China's Best Actor."
"And they bent back my fingers one by one and said that as my fingers typed 10 million characters in articles on the computer opposing the Chinese Communist Party, all 10 of my fingers should be broken. They said that they only needed to make a phone call to their senior, and then they could dig a hole and bury me alive in half an hour," he said Friday.
"In numerous nightmares, I have dreamed of the torture I experienced. That is China," Yu said.
Calls to China's U.N. Mission seeking comment Friday were not returned. In January 2012, when Yu left China, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said he was unaware of Yu and reports of his departure.
"These regimes do not like being highlighted," Rushdie said. He said that when PEN focuses on a writer who has been imprisoned, 90 percent of them are freed within six months.
Is the effort worth it? "The people in trouble think this is important," Rushdie said, adding that he knew this from his own ordeal.
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Former Strikeforce women's featherweight champion Marloes Coenen is looking forward to her rematch with Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos this summer.
Needless to say, the Golden Glory fighter is expecting a different outcome this time around.
In an interview with BJPenn.com, "Rumina" explained that she felt her first fight with Santos in January 2010, which she lost by TKO in the third round, was stopped to early.
Well you know, the first time my face was like jello after the fight, but I didnt want to give up. We had a male referee and every fight after that my trainer would tell the ref up front dont stop the fight [too] early cause Marloes can take a punch and she will not give up. I thought it was stopped to soon. Maybe it was because men [have] to get use to seeing women punch each other. Men want to protect women, I think that was part of it.
After the loss, Coenen dropped down to bantamweight, posting a 2-1 record, including a title win over Sarah Kaufman in October 2010.
Her sole blemish during that span was a hard-fought submission loss to Miesha Tate, in which she also lost theStrikeforcebantamweight title, in July 2011.
Coenen is 2-0 in the Invicta Fighting Championships' featherweight division, which is why she will be battling Cyborg again for the promotion's inaugural 145-pound championship in July.
Coenen believes that Santos only won their first matchup because of steroids, something that will not play a factor the second time around.
She looks more feminine now, I also think her strength is less and last time she really out powered me, so I think this time it will be a very interesting fight ...I already thought she was on something when I was fighting her for the first time. But then I was like Ah, whatever, I dont care you know. But when I was actually in the cage I felt her power and was like Oh my god I never been hit this hard in my whole life. This time I dont think shes on the stuff anymore.
Criticized for using performance-enhancing drugs for the majority of her mixed martial arts career, Santos failed a drug test for the first time in January 2012.
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Home News World Starved sea lion pups washing up on California beaches HUNDREDS of starving sea lion pups are being washed on to Californias beaches. Published: Sun, May 5, 2013
More than 1,400 dying baby sea lions have been found in two months
More than 1,400 dying babies have been found in two months.
Marine biologists are baffled by the more than tenfold increase in pup deaths and the US government has pledged funds to help solve the mystery.
Sea lion pups wean in April and May and, while some fail to thrive, it has never been at this rate
Sea lion pups wean in April and May and, while a number fail to thrive, it has never been at this rate
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One recipient will be the Pacific Marine Mammal Centre in Laguna Beach, south of Los Angeles.
Development director Melissa Sciacca told the Sunday Express: Sea lion pups wean in April and May and, while a number fail to thrive, it has never been at this rate.
Scientists are focusing on food shortages and disease as likely causes.
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The last spring coastal razor clam digs were approved for May 8-14 at Twin Harbors and May 10-11 at Long Beach, but Copalis and Mocrocks beaches are now closed for the season.
Digging on the two open beaches will be allowed until noon each day.
We still have clams available for harvest at Twin Harbors and Long Beach, and we want to give diggers a chance to catch their limit before the season comes to an end, Dan Ayres, the head state Fish and Wildlife coastal shellfish managersaid in a news release. After this opening, well take another look at how the catch on those beaches measures up against the harvest guidelines.
Low tides: May 8, Wednesday, 6:22 a.m., minus-0.5 feet; May 9, Thursday, 7 a.m., -0.8; May 10, Friday, 7:37 a.m., -0.9; May 11, Saturday, 8:12 a.m., -0.8; May 12, Sunday, 8:48 a.m., -0.7; May 13, Monday, 9:23 a.m., -0.5; and May 14, Tuesday, 10:01 a.m., -0.2.
Digging April 24-30 was excellent with 15-clam daily limits being the rule although turnout seemed to be on the light side.
A total of 51,208 digger trips were taken for a total of 770,023 clams harvested at Long Beach, Copalis and Mocrocks beaches open April 26-29, and Twin Harbors open April 24-30. Digging since the season opened on Oct 13 has been excellent when the weather allowed diggers out onto beaches.
Diggers must keep the first 15 clams dug regardless of size or condition. Each diggers clams must be kept in a separate container.
All diggers over age 15 or older must have a fishing license. For details, go to https://fishhunt.dfw.wa.gov.
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NAPLES A dispute over how to renourish Collier Countys beaches later this year ratcheted up Friday with a letter of objection from Naples City Hall.
The Naples City Council, through a letter from Mayor John Sorey to county commissioners, called on county leaders to toss out sand haulers proposals to truck sand to the beach and rebid the beach renourishment project for dredging companies only.
Hauling the sand from an inland pit in Immokalee to beaches in central Naples, Park Shore and Vanderbilt Beach would clog city and county roads with 23,000 truck trips, damaging roads and causing traffic tie-ups, Sorey writes in his letter.
Periodic beach renourishment is essential, but it must be accomplished in ways that will least disrupt the Collier County community, Sorey wrote.
Collier County staff received beach project bids late last month, but only truck haulers submitted proposals. A dredging company said the bid documents were too complex for dredgers, who pump sand to the beach from offshore, to be able to make an accurate bid.
The county opened the bidding to both sand haulers and dredgers and asked for bids to be made on various-sized beach projects in an attempt to save tourist tax money that pays for the project.
County purchasing agents were unable to declare a low bidder at the deadline for submitting bids because of the way the truck haulers responded to the bids.
The bids have been under review to come up with a cost, but project managers have hinted that the bids might have to be thrown out.
Sorey wrote that past truck-haul projects, even though they amounted to a few hundred truck trips, still were disruptive: lines of up to 10 trucks blocked traffic, trucks strayed from prescribed routes, police officers needed to direct traffic and trucks were noisy and spewed exhaust.
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