US Gov. Software Creates 'Fake People' on Social Networks to Promote Propaganda

From The Examiner.com (Feb. 18):

The US government is offering private intelligence companies contracts to create software to manage "fake people" on social media sites and create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues.

The contract calls for the development of "Persona Management Software" which would help the user create and manage a variety of distinct fake profiles online. The job listing was discussed in recently leaked emails from the private security firm HBGary after an attack by internet activist last week.

According to the contract, the software would "protect the identity of government agencies" by employing a number of false signals to convince users that the poster is in fact a real person. A single user could manage unique background information and status updates for up to 10 fake people from a single computer. [read more]

Why does the gov’t have to create “fake people” anyway? I mean can’t the gov’t find enough real people to create accounts on social media sites? Oh, that’s right to the Left truth is optional especially when very few people agree with your viewpoint.  First, the Left have  dead people and illegals vote for a candidate. Now, this.

What’s next Leftist robots running for Congress? Have someone at a distance control their voting? A progressive’s dream come true.

Comparing the Antichrist and the 12th Imam

From the www.666soon.com website this definition of the 12th Imam:

Within the Shiite, (which is predominate in Iran ), it is prophesied that there is a coming 12th Imam [an anointed leader or ruler] who is the great spiritual savior. This Imam is named Abu al-Qasim Muhammad or also called Muhammad al Mahdi. He is said to have been born the son of the 11th Imam, Hasan Al-Askari and his wife, the granddaughter of an Emperor. There are conflicting statements of her name being either Fatima or Nargis Khatoon.

Most accounts of the story say that al Mahdi went into hiding as a child around the age of 5 years (about 13th Century). It said he has been ‘in hiding’ in caves ever since but will supernaturally return just before the Day of Judgment.

Here are the comparisons:

                               The antichrist                                                         The 12th Imam

The antichrist's kingdom will rule the world for seven years.	12th Imam will rule the world for seven years.
Bible speaks of 3 ½ years of tribulation before the antichrist reveals himself by desecrating the Jewish temple.	Three years of chaos before the revealing of the 12th Imam.
The antichrist is described as a deceiver who will claim to bring peace, but will actually bring widespread war.	The anticipation of the 12th Imam is that he will bring peace through massive war with the rest of the world.
Beheading is Antichrist's preferred method of execution according to Revelation.	The antichrist has any non-believer beheaded. This practice is done today in Muslim countries.
The world will marvel after Antichrist.	The world will love the 12th Imam.
Antichrist will be helped by the Beast.	The 12th Imam will be helped by Jesus.
Antichrist and Beast will have great power on earth.	The Mahdi will be rich and will give wealth to the people of the world freely. He will cause crops to grow.

 

Spooky huh. Why is this comparison important? Because the leader of Iran wants the 12th Imam to return soon and that means chaos in the world. It does not matter if anyone else believes what Ahmadinejad believes. It only matters what he believes. Because actions follow beliefs. Just like Hitler’s actions followed his belief system.

To make my point clear, here is what Ahmadinejad says at the end of almost speech he gives:

"hasten the emergence of your last repository, the Promised One [the Mahdi or 12th Imam], that perfect and pure human being, the one that will fill this world with justice and peace"

This is what I am talking about. Should make you nervous.

Obama, Egypt and the Media

Isn’t that a cute poster? Wait a minute. I’ve seen a similar poster somewhere else….Hmmm….But not quite like that one. Don’t remember seeing that poster in the media.

Talking about the media, CNN sent  reporter Nic Robertson to the Egyptian protest and asked this “intelligent” and  “news worthy” questions to protesters: What do you think of Obama?  What is your message for Obama?

I kid you not. I am really getting tired of this adulation that the media has with Obama. If you are going over there and possibly risking your life to get the story and ask questions, I would think asking dumb questions like these would not help anything.  By the way, the protester answers were: Obama, he wasn't with us. Obama, he's been all over the ballpark. Obama, we have no message for Obama. So, much for Obama’s speech in Egypt he gave before being elected POTUS. Obama really has influence with the protesters. Not!

Here are some questions the “reporter” (I know you are getting tired of the quotes, but can you really call this guy a reporter?) could have asked:

• What do you think of the Muslim Brotherhood?
• Do you think the new government of Egypt should break the non-aggression treaty with Israel?
• What do you think of America? What is your message to America?
• Do you think Sharia law should be implemented in Egypt?

You know questions like these about Egypt and the rest of the world would be a good start.  I am surprised the reporter did not ask the protester what he thought about Obamacare. Would have been the same type of question if he did.

An Interpretation of the Georgia Guidestones

I first heard of these guidestones on Brad Meltzer’s Decoded show. No-one other than the stonemasons knows who contracted to build these guidestones in June 1979. The stonemasons know but are not saying. What’s interesting is not who had them built but the inscription on them.

Here are the inscriptions:

1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9. Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.
10. Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature.

Inscription #1 sounds like population control from Paul R. Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb book.

Inscription #2 sounds like eugenics.

Inscriptions #3 #5, and #6 sound like parts of the New World Order.

Inscriptions #4 and #9 aren’t too bad.  Kind of new agey. It would been nice if he used the word “God” or “Almight” or even “The Creator” instead of “the infinite.”

Not sure what inscription #7 means. The word “petty” is not well defined. And how do you define “useless”?   Is the author talking about gov’t bureaucrats when he mentions “officials”?

Inscription #8 sounds like collectivism. What “social duties” does the author mean?

Finally, inscription #10 sounds environmentalism. “Cancer” is a strong word to use.

If these stones are meant to help people after a global catastrophe to restart society again then I think the guidestones will fail. Putting the 10 Commandments or even The Bill of Rights on them would have been a better idea. Heck, even the Buddha’s Precepts would be better and I’m not even a Buddhist. I don’t think the author put much thought into the advice.

We may not know who the author is but I can tell you what his ideology is: He’s a far-Leftist.

Four Divisions of the Land and Freedom Society

This Marxist society was pre-revolutionary Russia. It was formed before the Bolshevist Revolution. Here are the four steps they wanted to do to destabilize Russia and overthrow the czar:

1. Agitation--passive and active. Passive agitation included strikes, petitions for reforms, refusal to pay taxes, and so on. Active agitation meant riots and uprisings.  (Bottom-up?)
2. Organization--the formation of a fighting force prepared to bring about a general uprising. (Bottom-up again?)
3. Education--the spreading of revolutionary knowledge and ideas, a continuation of the work of the Tchaikovsky Circle. (Inside out?)
4. Secularization--the carrying on of systematic work against the Orthodox Church through special channels. (Inside out? Get people to turn away from God and lose their faith.)

This sounds similar to what the Leftist radicals are doing today. Of course, the top-down part is where the Communist Party became the rulers.

Source: Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy (1919) by John Spargo.

20 Something “TEA” parties?

I think the 20 somethings should form their own “TEA” parties and protest paying into Society Security. They are not going to get their money back when they retire (actually anyone under 47 won’t get their money back) so why should they pay into it? They should put pressure on Congress to make it optional. They could also put pressure on Congress to balance the budget too. That’s a burden on the young  and their future children.

The Islamists Conning the Far-Left

How’s that for a title? But I believe it is true. The far-Left think they have commonality with the militant Jihadists. This is true. Both groups hate the free-market system and both hate Israel. You can read Unholy Alliance : radical Islam and the American Left (2004) by David Horowitz for more similarities. Even the Islamists are using the term “social justice.”  There is even a socialism called “Islamic Socialism.” That should make the radicals smile.
The far-Left think there is an alliance between them and Islamists. This is what the Islamists want the far-Left to believe. This is the con. The Islamists are just using the naive far-Left for their own purposes. The Muslim Brotherhood’s third step of their plan is to “infiltrate America’s political, social, economic, and educational systems…”
Just like Hitler duped the leaders of the Soviet Union (he broke the treaty with them before WWII), the far-Left are being duped by the Islamists. The Left are so naive. They cannot control the Islamists. Once the Islamists are doing using the Left they will kill them. Well, if they are Jewish or Christian they might try to convert them to Islam. If that doesn’t work then it is either slavery or death. If a Leftist is an atheist or agnostic or any other religion they are dead. If a Leftist is a homosexual they are dead.
If a Leftist insults Allah, Muhammad or the Quran then they will be killed.
Make no mistake, the Islamists are not friends of the radical Left. As long as the radical Left are not Muslim fundamentalists then they will be treated as the enemy.

Assassinations in America

What do these assassins have in common:

                          Assassin                                     Target                           Ideology of assassin

Guiseppe Zangara	FDR	Anarchism
Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola	Harry Truman	Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Charles Guiteau	James Garfield	N/A; just crazy
John Wilkes Booth	Abe Lincoln	Anti-government
Lee Harvey Oswald	JFK	Marxism
James Earl Ray	Martin Luther King	N/A; wanted notoriety; racism
John Hinckley Jr.	Ronald Reagan	N/A; just crazy
Leon Czolgosz	William McKinley	Anarchism
Sirhan Sirhan	Bobby Kennedy	Anti-Semitism
Mark David Chapman	John Lennon	N/A; just crazy

It’s not that they were all men or they all used a gun which is all true. No, the commonalty is that none of these assassins were conservatives.

Now, far-Left bomb-throwers might say Booth and Ray are conservatives. Booth because he was anti-gov’t and Ray because he was a racist.

Well, Booth was from the south during the Civil War and he was against the Union. That’s why I classified him as anti-gov’t. Plus, conservatism wasn’t even an ideology back then. And the Republican party was brand new too.

As for James Earl Ray well anyone can be a racist. That might not be the real motive for the assassination anyway. This murderer had a history of crimes and probably wanted to be infamous.

You can’t say Hinckley Jr. is a conservative. I don’t remember the press ever questioning if he was on the far-Left or not though. I wonder why. Hmmm….

China blocks 'Egypt' from Internet searches, concerned anti-Hosni Mubarak riots could inspire unrest

From NY Daily News.com (Jan. 31):

The protests raging across Egypt are captivating the rest of the world -- except for China.

The country's Communist Party has ordered Internet censors to block the word "Egypt" from Twitter-like micro-blogging sites out of apparent concern events in the Middle East will stoke unrest closer to home, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Chinese authorities are also busy having comments on the crisis in Egypt scrubbed from those sites. [read more]

So, if a Chinese national wants to do research on let’s say Egyptian mummies he or she is pretty much out of luck.

If the Chinese gov’t is nervous about Egypt I bet other dictators around the world are nervous as well.  Like the king of Saudi Arabia. He probably is watching closely—he could be next.

Obama (and I’ve heard another Lefty say this too) that Egypt’s change of gov’t is good when Mubarak leaves. I am really getting tired of the term “change” being used all time.  Change is not always good. In this case if the Muslim Brotherhood takes over Egypt then that is definitely not good. Hamas has already taken over Palestine's gov’t. Can you imagine what Israel's leaders (and probably Israel’s citizens) must be thinking. If change means a democratic republic with bill of rights like America’s then that is good change.

It’s funny that CBS Evening news last night described Egypt’s protesters as “moderate and peaceful.” How does the press know how strong the protester’s religious views are? I am not saying they are not, but who really knows? It would have been nice if the press would have given that benefit of the doubt to TEA partiers. Oh, well. That’s just wishful thinking.

The Trouble with Wind Farms

From the Telegraph.co.uk (Jan. 1):

Despite high demand for electricity as people shivered at home over Christmas, most of the 3,000 wind turbines around Britain stood still due to a lack of wind.

Even yesterday , when conditions were slightly breezier, wind farms generated just 1.8 per cent of the nation’s electricity — less than a third of usual levels.

The failure of wind farms to function at full tilt during December forced energy suppliers to rely on coal-fired power stations to keep the lights on — meaning more greenhouse gases were produced. [read more]

Make sense to me. If you don’t have wind, you don’t have energy. Plus I don’t think the turbines store any energy either.

To make things worse British customers face huge bill for wind farms that don't work in the cold as reported in the Telegraph too.

The moral of this story is if you rely on an energy source that is not at a consistent level all the time you will have these problems. Ask T. Boone Pickens about his investment in wind farms. He is not putting wind farms in Texas as he originally intended. Solar power is a little better. Even then you have to worry about the sun going behind a cloud or even setting. When dealing with inconsistent energy sources you always have to take into account the location of the source or you’ll have more scenarios like the one in England. 

The Progressive Manual for the Masses

If message in the above picture is not clear to you then let me spell it  in simple language:

In society there are two types of classes: Cattle and Ranchers. Ranchers are not shown in the picture above.

You are Cattle. Which means you are dumb, instinctive, emotional and have very little control of your life.

The elite Progressives are not Cattle. We are Ranchers. We are smart and have total control of our lives. Ranchers are the politicians, newspaper publishers, TV anchormen, college professors, union leaders and lawyers.

Ranchers have all the rights. Any rights Cattle have are at the whims of the Ranchers. After all you are property.

The fence in the picture is there for your own good. The width of the fence is at our discretion.

Do not worry about any needs you have. We, the Ranchers, will take care of them.

All Cattle are the same. Don’t think you are different.

Here are the rules that Cattle must follow at all times:

1. Always follow the orders of your Rancher without question. If you are confused about any order please let your Rancher know. It is his responsibility to make sure you understand his message or order.
2. Don’t cause trouble. This will make your fellow Cattle upset.
3. You cannot assemble into herds by yourself unless you have permission from a Rancher.
4. Weapons are not allowed. Cattle owning weapons is dangerous to themselves and to Ranchers. Only Ranchers can own weapons.
5. You will always be Cattle. Never think you are a Rancher.
6. Religion is not allowed. This will only confuse you and make you rebellious.
7. The above rules must never be questioned. They are there for your own good. Any rule breaking is punishable.

(This analogy is not meant to be an insult to real Ranchers. I am just trying to make a point.

Of course, the elite Left does not think people are real cattle. The Left just perceive them to be and wish they were cattle. That way people are easily managed or easily controlled.

Interestingly enough, there were schools of thought in psychology that thought people did not have very much free will. One was Freudism and the other was Behavorism. Freudism though people were controlled by instincts. Behaviorism thought people were conditioned by the environment. Basically people were programmed like robots was the prevailing “wisdom” of the day.)

Socialism 101 Part 2

It follows directly from socialism’s fundamental moral and political premise, which is that the individual does not exist as an end in himself, but as a means to the ends of “Society.”

Private slave owners were motivated to treat their slaves with at least the same consideration they gave to their livestock, and to see to it that their overseers acted with the same consideration. But under socialism, the slaves are “public property”—the property of the state. Those who have charge of the slaves, therefore, have no personal economic interest in their lives or well-being. Since they are not owners of the slaves, they will not derive any personal material benefit if the slaves are alive to work in the future, nor suffer any personal material loss if the slaves are not alive to work in the future.

The fact that [an] enterprise is government owned merely means that it is operated without benefit of profit-and-loss incentives and the freedoms of individual initiative and competition. The result is almost always gross inefficiency, high costs, poor service, and low quality of products.

Government ownership does not give the alleged citizen-owner the psychological security that the possession of capital gives to a capitalist. Because, unlike the capitalist, he cannot sell his share in a government enterprise. Nor—except in the most unusual cases—does he receive dividends on his share.

Six Powers of the Secretary of HHS under Obamacare

The following powers of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) are from the Center for Health Transformation:

1. The Secretary will decide what clinical drugs seniors can access. (Section 3307)
2. The Secretary will instruct physicians and nurses exactly how to give a drug to their patients in long-term care facilities. (Section 3310)
3. The Secretary will determine how dentists and dental hygienists should examine your teeth. (Section 4102)
4. The Secretary can overrule states on what insurance rates can be whether they like it or not. (Section 2101)
5. The Secretary can use comparative effectiveness research to determine access to care for seniors, like they do for patients in the British National Health Service. (Section 3102)
6. The Secretary can set standard hospital charges that hospitals have to follow.

If go the the CHT website they have a chart that lists 1,968 grants and powers of Obamacare. That’s quite a few.

The Republicans should focus on the unconstitutionality of Obamacare. The gov’t does not have the right to force any citizen to buy health insurance. That would be like them forcing a person to buy low-fat ice cream. Force the advocates of Obamacare to defend the position that they can force you to buy health insurance.

I am not saying the other issues of Obamacare are not important. Increasing unemployment and increasing the debt are important. But  Obamacare is against what  America fundamentally stands for---freedom. The Senate should vote up or down on whether the Washington has the right to force citizens to buy insurance.

Climate change study had 'significant error': experts

From news.yahoo.com (Jan. 19):

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A climate change study that projected a 2.4 degree Celsius increase in temperature and massive worldwide food shortages in the next decade was seriously flawed, scientists said Wednesday.

The study was posted on the website of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was written about by numerous international news agencies, including AFP.

But AAAS later retracted the study as experts cited numerous errors in its approach. [read more]

The whole climate change theory is flawed in my opinion.

A scientific advisor to the report said: “We are headed to 2.4, it is just not going to happen in 2020." Try never going to happen period.

Comprehensive List of Tax Hikes in Obamacare

The following list of tax hikes comes from the Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) website:

• Individual Mandate Excise Tax
• Employer Mandate Tax
• Surtax on Investment Income
• Excise Tax on Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans
• Hike in Medicare Payroll Tax
• Medicine Cabinet Tax
• HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike
• Flexible Spending Account Cap – aka “Special Needs Kids Tax”
• Tax on Medical Device Manufacturers
• Raise "Haircut" for Medical Itemized Deduction from 7.5% to 10% of AGI
• Tax on Indoor Tanning Services
• Elimination of tax deduction for employer-provided retirement Rx drug coverage in coordination with Medicare Part D
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield Tax Hike
• Excise Tax on Charitable Hospitals
• Tax on Innovator Drug Companies
• Tax on Health Insurers
• $500,000 Annual Executive Compensation Limit for Health Insurance Executives
• Employer Reporting of Insurance on W-2
• Corporate 1099-MISC Information Reporting
• “Black liquor” tax hike. This is a tax increase on a type of bio-fuel.
• Codification of the “economic substance doctrine”

Wow, that’s a lot of tax increases! As Will Rogers might have said, The Left never met a tax increase they did not like. Man I hope Obamacare gets repealed. You can read more info about the tax increases at the ATR web page.

City puts a stop to homeless outreach

From chron.com (Jan. 13):

Bobby and Amanda Herring spent more than a year providing food to homeless people in downtown Houston every day. They fed them, left behind no trash and doled out warm meals peacefully without a single crime being committed, Bobby Herring said.

That ended two weeks ago when the city shut down their "Feed a Friend" effort for lack of a permit. And city officials say the couple most likely will not be able to obtain one.

Anyone serving food for public consumption, whether for the homeless or for sale, must have a permit, said Kathy Barton, a spokeswoman for the Health and Human Services Department. To get that permit, the food must be prepared in a certified kitchen with a certified food manager.

The regulations are all the more essential in the case of the homeless, Barton said, because "poor people are the most vulnerable to food borne illness and also are the least likely to have access to health care." [read more]

They were shut down because they did not have a “certified” kitchen with a “certified” food manager? I think the the city managers are certified nuts. Then again that’s bureaucracy for you. Just wait, someone will be fined for giving a sandwich to a homeless person. After all the sandwich might not be made in a certified kitchen. Who knows.

The HHS department said they made this regulation to protect the homeless from food poison. I would think not starving to death would be more important to the homeless than getting sick. True, getting sick would be bad, but not as bad as starving to death. Couldn’t HHS just fined the outreach program instead of just shutting them down? Seems kind of harsh.

I wonder if the HHS would shut down homeless shelters if they weren’t “certified.” Probably. They would say the shelters did not keep the homeless warm or cool enough depending on the season. Didn’t have a certified temperature manager.

So, some police officers asked the outreach program to move to a location on city park land. Guess what happened next? If you said they weren’t allowed there either you would be correct.  They didn’t have permits (one from the parks department and one from health department) to move there! Sounds like a badly written comedy skit save for the fact it actually happened.

OPEC ministers say world can handle $100 oil

From MSNBC.com (Dec. 26):

CAIRO — The global economy can withstand an oil price of $100 a barrel, Kuwait's oil minister said on Saturday, as other exporters indicated OPEC may decide against increasing output through 2011 as the market was well supplied.

Arab oil exporters meeting in Cairo this weekend said they saw no need to supply more crude as stocks were high and prices had been inflated temporarily by cold weather in Europe.

Asked by Reuters if the world economy could stand a $100 oil price, Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Abdullah al-Sabah said: "Yes it can." [read more]

America really needs to start drilling for oil again so we don’t have to rely on OPEC so much. And the POTUS putting a moratorium on off-shore drilling is just plain stupid. It wasn’t an American drilling rig that spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

We can all use sources of energy to be energy independent but oil is the blood of the economy. Almost every product uses it. Corn-based ethanol isn’t the answer either.

Oh, by the way, didn’t America save Kuwait’s butt in the Gulf War? You would think they would give countries that helped them out a break. I guess not.

Retracted autism study an 'elaborate fraud,' British journal finds

From CNN.com (Jan. 6):

A now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an "elaborate fraud" that has done long-lasting damage to public health, a leading medical publication reported Wednesday.

An investigation published by the British medical journal BMJ concludes the study's author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study -- and that there was "no doubt" Wakefield was responsible.

"It's one thing to have a bad study, a study full of error, and for the authors then to admit that they made errors," Fiona Godlee, BMJ's editor-in-chief, told CNN. "But in this case, we have a very different picture of what seems to be a deliberate attempt to create an impression that there was a link by falsifying the data." [read more]

It’s one thing if scientists make human errors when doing a study, but it’s a completely different matter when they deliberately falsify data. Governmental policies are made from scientific studies. Bad studies lead to bad policies. Politicians and the public who are not an expert in the field of a specific science trust the study. 

Once upon a time science was about finding the truth. Early scientists wanted to know the mind of God when they were searching for the truth. Now it seems sadly that modern scientists are about politics,  money and/or status (read: to get published in a major science journal). Truth is not a priority anymore. I really hope that trend doesn’t continue or science will get a bad reputation and no-one will trust it anymore.

Russia Wants "Impenetrable" Missile Shield by 2020, General Says

From NTI.org (Jan. 6):

Russian General Staff chief Gen. Nikolai Makarov said the nation's armed forces intend by 2020 to field an "impenetrable" missile defense system, the Washington Times reported today (see GSN, Dec. 8, 2010). [read more]

Now isn’t that interesting! Russia did not want America to have a missile shield in central Europe but they want one themselves.

Look I don’t blame any country for protecting themselves. That’s fine. What I do mind is any country telling America we can’t have one.  Then to have our naive leaders believing  that not having any kind of protection will make America and the world safe. That’s not just plain nuts. It’s dangerous too.

Concern over proposed Greek border fence

From CNN.com (Jan. 4):

Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Greece's decision to build a 12-kilometer (7.5-mile) fence along its border with Turkey in a bid to curb illegal immigration has caused mixed reactions, with humanitarian agencies saying the fence could prevent asylum seekers from reaching safety.

Greek Public Order Minister Christos Papoutsis announced the decision, saying "action is necessary" because more than 100,000 people have entered Greece illegally in the past year, and the country "can no longer tolerate such high numbers."

The European Union border control agency Frontex has said that in October 2010, an average of 245 people per day crossed into Greece illegally, mostly from the overland crossing with Turkey in northeastern Greece. That's where the proposed fence is to be built. [read more]

What? Greece doesn’t believe in open borders? Someone alert George Soros. The Communists in Greece are upset about the fence. Well, they are upset because if countries put up fences then that kind of ruins the New World Order plan.

As a side note Turkey’s population is 99% Muslim while Greece’s population is 98% Christian (Greek Orthodox).  If I was a Leftist I would think that Greece had Islamophobia and that’s why they are building the fence.

Then again Greece’s “freedom” ranking is much higher than Turkey’s freedom ranking.  Could that explain the mass migration to Greece? Just a thought.