[000:00:00;00] ah, some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries, the united states of america is different. wherever people long to be free. they will find a friend in the united states. ah, with a human being so love to have it out by the body bolts. anybody? basie? since only city, if you draw, you look at the book they incentives of each cigarette. a few color revolutions is

one among several means to reach the goal of conquering foreign lands and bringing them onto the help of u. s. weston economic interests. people been sad. it. i didn't that he did what i grew by the democrats. yeah. yeah. you trinity coral activate sol, suite best say low their soft bower mary cast. the final goal of these theme revolutions to ensure that there are no independent players in the world anymore. ah, people likely. and in most cases, it's good to be as close to one as possible in regards to the world freedom. is it a coincidence or the allies of united states, or in the top it all in conflict or in the box?

what does this say about the ability and the criteria of the ranking system? was kind of this edition of 315. we're going to ask is the world of freedom index, just a ranking made by the west side justification into involvement and foreign complex . ah. since 20 spelled an index of the civil liberties has been published by candidates. frasier institute, germany liberality institute, and the us based cato institute. now the annual freedom index created rankings based on measures of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, individual economic choice for the association. freedom of assembly violence and crimes, freedom of movement and women's rights as switzerland, new zealand, denmark, estonia and ireland rank in the top 5 with syria, venezuela, yemen, sudan in egypt at the very end with iran being 6 from the bottom. but just like with almost everything there is sometimes

a large difference between what is being presented and what is actually occurring. sure, leaders from countries like the united states, great britain and france, can almost never go an entire speech without dramatically saying the word freedom. but ask the citizens and those countries, how much freedom they enjoy and their answers will be different. even more concerning is how many citizens feel they are enjoying less freedom than prior generations. during me now to discuss is ed martin, president of the official chef, like eagles. thank you so much for joining us. talk about the freedom index free am . when an interesting term these days, there is this technical definition of freedom and then there's this actual enactment of freedom has either changed from where used to be to now. well, you know, you and i were just talking off the air about this. i think the number one thing that we've seen change everything about what's going on is the dominance of big tech and big media together, misleading us,

or not covering something. so if you go to coven for a 2nd. so i think people now looking back and see the coven, and say what we were told, one thing, and something else was true, right? and you look at that, you say, this is crazy. some people more angry than this is crazy, right? but you look at like the current political, international set of issues in america. big tech and big media does not allow descent from the argument that one side is got a white hat and the other side's got a black hat. and if you do, even if you're in congress and you jump up and say, wait a 2nd, let's do some different. you get back bang down. so when you talk about freedom, you don't have freedom if you can't know what's happening. and i really think that's the biggest change we've seen. so whatever the freedom index says to me is almost a irrelevant to what's happening on the ground to your lesson. it's almost like 2 different standards are different, but they're saying versus what's actually happening. yeah. and regarding this index, how much credibility do you actually put into it based on the organization who put it out when you hear those 3 terms of who it is, what comes to mind? well,

one of the fun things about the last 5 years in the midst of lots of things that worry us, you know, nuclear war, a pandemic. all these things that were us is i think we all distrust the experts right now it's, it's like the river, it's a whatever the mirror of reagan not trust and verify it's distrust and verify. and when you see these organizations that have an angle, again, it shouldn't surprise us that human beings act, you know, out of self interest. that doesn't, but you have these organizations a for a long time decades. we'd all say all, well, they've got the common good at heart done, then look like it anymore. so you just kind of chuckled to yourself. the hard part is young people and you and i talked about this to our kids and others that they don't know who to trust, right. they're, they're sort of adrift and they're looking at tick tock and other places and, and getting a sort of worse advice. so i don't trust any of it, it makes me laugh. hello, look, you know, in your experience, 10 years ago you want to cover that story more seriously. now you look at and go, come on. ok. so what does that have to do with freedom? then we're talking about these organizations and they're getting to get in there,

putting out these indexes. they're basing world policy, trying to justify it. does that not make an impact? you know, i lived in italy for couple years right after school after college, and i remember the government fell and someone said, relax, the government falls in italy all the time, right? so where you are in the world where you hear terms will make a difference for us in america, you hear the term freedom. and you expect to see the rule of law to see sort of a fair dealing except right now in america, you look up and you say none of that seems to be working. and yet the freedom index is saying x or y, right? i'm this in this moment, freedom to me is the most important, perhaps in, in expressing what you believe confidently and most people won't. you know, our kids and others, they're afraid of the environment around them. and that's our problem in america. but now you see it more and more around the europe and the european union and other places to retaliation from their peers, retaliation from their government. either way, the key words, they're retaliation, so they're kind of living in fear,

not necessarily freedom. i want to get these rankings. i find a very interesting new zealand talking about credibility. they were ranked number 2 . yeah, 2 in 2022. but during the pandemic, they have is a 0 tolerance policy. they locked on everyone 1st to do this mandatory vaccine, which now they repeal, right? so how can they still maintain such a high ranking in the freedom index when they want people that had least amount of freedom for the past 3 years? well, that's where you can see how there's a hole in this whole system because for them, if you don't walk down, you're somehow being on free right. in other words, and that, that may be, scotty is sort of made me think a moment ago. and i wish i'd said it sooner. this freedom index is about control, right, new zealand, extruded control. what they mean is when they can control what's happening to us, the government. then they'll us when we have freedom as opposed to freedom is kind of messy, right? freedom is people that say of noxious things, and you say, i don't really want to stand next to him if he says that, but you don't bring the government down and you don't usually fire them and you

don't usually ostracize them. that's part of learning. so look, i think that was really funny, that new zealand got them is like a people, they're more sheep, you know, the job more sheep than people. and they're going to tell us after the locked down and she said it was brutal australia, same way. doesn't look like freedom from where we, we sit and more what you, most of most americans and others are looking at it. i mean, it's common sense to think of its freedom, the government telling you you're free. are you really free for, you know, what do you think of you when you hear a later one country saying that they are going to engage involve themselves and another country's foreign policy, all in the name of freedom. this is, excuse me, here. we've heard it for generations, but currently that's being used to justify other countries getting involved well and back when we've talked about this before i, i sat on the republican national committee, i was chairman of the missouri republican party and i got in that room with 168 others and you suddenly realize that a lot of these people didn't understand what national sovereignty was. this was now

2013, so people still were coming off the wars. right. building nations, bringing our values abroad. that's a failed experiment. now we all see now that that failed dramatically, not only in cost of, of dollars but cost of blood and, and so when you, when people say, oh, let us figure out for other parts of the world. again, i lived in indonesia for a year too. and anesha, they have no time for the western values that we're pushing on them, even though there are lots of modernization, lots of things going on as years ago now. but when it comes to this idea that my sovereign nation is going to teach yours or in other countries, it never works. and in fact, it's a form of, of, of totalitarianism for the e. u, for example, that by the way it's happening all the time that he was forcing africa to act in ways. and we don't know why we don't hear about it because he doesn't want to hear about it. and frank, it's racist. you know that all black people down there, they're being forced to live in the way that they're told from their freedom, not from the peoples it's, it's a terrible system. the best system is more sovereignty for the nations and for

local communities. they'll figure out what freedom is for them. sometimes we'll point to it and say that doesn't look as free. we'd like a free market. we'd like a free expression, but that's not nobody can manage that for other people. okay, so then to deny states still have the right to actually label itself the land of the free considering everything right now that we are battling here in the u. s. and we tell the world for the land of the free, is that really? well, i always like to put it this way there's, there's always room to, to improve. but you look around the world, i think we still have the best operating system, the constitution, the founding values. we do have to get back to it. we don't need to get a new constitution. we don't need to get people that are more more in tune with that. but i look, i think that term is aspirational anyway. right. and i think, but ultimately our constitution and the rule of law, it's one of the reasons why the fight over 776 people hear it. and 6197076. it became for us a way we thought about who we were. that's how i think of the land of the free. but boy, boy, i, again, we want to talk, i'm

a lawyer too. and i represent some of the guys that are in jail for january 6th. when you see how the rule of law is misapplied. there is no other term than political prisoners that's in america, that's not even in get mo, that's in america. so you say, how is that working out? but again, i go back to our operating system is great. we just have to do a better job of getting there. we have to do a better job of fighting for that system. and more and more people have to have a chance to speak up and be heard because a lot of folks like you and me we're, we're lucky to talk like this. many people just stay, i'll say i'll just stay quiet for like user error. i feel like i will think you had martin present the photoshop that eagles for him for being with us today on the subject. great to be with you now after the break, a leading professor from tehran dispute. iran ranking of on the bottom of the list and says if a raw was actually close for hours with the west, it's a ranking would be much higher. stay tuned to the $350.00 for

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the kremlin. yup. machines. the state aren't russia to date and r t spoke neck. even our video agency, roughly all band on youtube with me at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people,

and to defend the world from great danger. with we will bring to the iraqi people, food and medicine, and supplies and freedom with a welcome back to you with me. you're has to study. now, we're talking today about the freedom index and whether or not the ranking is really fair and impartial as a claims to be or whether it is just another tool of american foreign policy. jamie now is a professor mohammed randi professor at the university. ron and a political analyst professor is the freedom index. really a just a measure of who is playing nice with the ruling elite in washington? in my opinion, yes, that's the problem. the freedom index is

a tool basically that is used in order to put pressure on countries that united states in this allies have problems with. and to make those countries that are close to the united states feel more comfortable. it's not just the freedom and index, it's a host of different human rights organizations and other institutions that are used by the united states. they're funded by the united states are funded by major corporations that are close to the us government. and therefore, you will see that dictatorships in west asia, north africa, or in latin america, or in africa and europe that are close to the united states or having close to the united states in the past. they will get a favorable trail. yes, country is to have policies that are in conflict with that of the united states and

other nato countries. they will be presented in a very negative life. so how do other countries look at these indexes? do they really look at them and try to improve their society based on the metrics? not that i know of. i don't think any serious person in iran or in other parts of the world. i deal with conferences or in seminars or think tanks. i have never seen anyone take into account these are largely for media, therefore, schools, school projects, universities, largely in the united states. there are means of propaganda. i don't take any of these seriously at all. and i don't think any one serious in the united states really takes them to be that important either. however, since the united states is a m m's hans of europe. but the nice, it's more than anyone else, since it is

a very propagandized country. they tend to believe a lot of what celebrities say, a lot of what t v says television says, mainstream website say, say, so the united states is a an exception to the rule. but outside the united states, i haven't seen these indexes taken seriously. again, that's still anecdotal. do you think it is a realistic expectation to think there could be an accurate freedom index and what organization would have enough non parson credibility to facilitate? that's very difficult to say because different countries have different situations or different parts of the world that comprise a different populations. some of them are much more complex society than others. on the other hand,

there are countries that have the problem of external pressure. and in the case of iran or venezuela, the united states tries to use political parties to undermine the state it use this propaganda t out that cyber armies to influence internal politics. so for example, in the case to be run where the united states, as your country is, have over 200 tv stations that they fund directly or indirectly that are against iran. many more efficient than actually it actually exists inside iran. and they have many websites and thousands of trolls, many of them and our baby, a big tag. cooperate with the united states when the united states direct it's rap and it's negative propaganda towards iran or, or countries like what brand is when it's, it's virtually impossible to compare them jenny,

at the country because very few countries in the world have a foreign power or foreign powers trying to do with their internal politics in the way in which the united states us and i don't even want to include terrace organizations that are used to undermine several countries. what role is the media and a freedom of the press playing and whether or not a country is considered free? well, for example, in iran, we have a very large number of news agencies and we have many websites that are affiliated to different political parties. they attack the president, they attacked administration, they criticize the leader, they criticize parliament, those who support the president or the administration and him these, these exist and there are quite a few of them. but the national radio and television in the country is

different. it's much more mild. it the criticism directed towards the administration is much more polite. it does criticize but not necessarily not nearly as harshly as do these websites. but it, but that media that government media is a part of the constitution and the, the constitution constitution which was past 43 years ago, basically says that radio tv must be in the hands of the states because it was believed back then that the private sector would use the media to gain control for a liberal elite. in other words, it would gradually, the wealthy would gain control of of the means to

to control public opinion that that is in the running constitution. even if the government right now wants to privatize and television, we can do so. so how do you gauge this or in some index? each country has its own experiences, it has its own constitution. those constitutions were created within a particular context. since the iranian state television or radio and television is uh, this particular nature. does that mean that the index for freedom and iran is low? no, because websites that exists in iran, they occupy offices, they are very harsh, they have their own online interviews and programs. they are very activists, and after corona, especially, overwhelmingly people are online. so it's very difficult to gauge what

cnn is private own, but it's not in the hands of the public. it's in the hands of a millionaire or the media in the united states that handle a handful of millions or big tech. does that make it more democratic than a state own tv network? not necessarily. when i talk india's and what role do you see and he has play in these type of indexes? well, wanted jose, i think shouldn't be a part of any index or freedom index the united states, uses and yos in iraq to create instability. americans have roughly 2000 and joe's there, and they use them as tools whenever they want to undermine a government that they don't like. and the same issue in other parts of the world. in iran, the united states had numerous and jose until about or to years ago.

and those and yos had a very negative impact on the ryan society. so when there's an edge yo, that is influenced by a foreign country or by a foreign power, especially major power like the united states. then i think that that it shouldn't be included in any freedom that's in fact i think such organizations impede freedom in society because they create mistrust tours and jose altogether. do you think the freedom index assert more like a target on the back of certain nations in the lower down? your look out here comes some regime change attempts. yes, the freedom index is used to demonize countries. it's used to put pressure on countries just like human rights watch, human rights watch or i'm this international may do good things with on the whole,

they're very close to western governments. where does their funding come from? their funding comes from institutions and organizations that are close to the state that are close to western western political establishment that had an amnesty usa in the past was a close friend of hillary clinton. so when amnesty international of human rights watch, i think who's boss has been charged for decades when they are so closely affiliated to the state. even though they may do some good things here, they're not, of course, this things like the freedom index or us support and jose are nothing more than mere tools of western governments to put pressure on their antagonists. thank you. professor mohammed miranda from the university of taylor i freedom, a term often used in a speak by those in power,

but lost in action. a society based on a freedom is supposed to granted those who exist within it, the ability to live their lives into as they wish, without interference from others or hindrance from their government. total freedom to sum might be considered utopia, but the reality would probably be more like a nightmare. and orderly existence with any land can only occur with the presence of carefully crafted laws and rules, meant to protect its citizens. laws are crafted with the concept of promoting the good, while the scourging, the bad responsibility and personal choice are the priority. now radically, if good laws are in existence, then a freedom is allowed to thrive within the boundary set. however, bad laws can get the freedom for individuals to do wrong. what is even more dangerous is when the concept of freedom is used to justify actions which can lead

to war. sadly, this is the concept most often used when a country has refused to submit to the wishes of the west and evoking freedom upon the people that land becomes the major talking point by invoking the concept of freedom. those wage in the battle hope to stop further inquiry into the more than a far motivation. i'm sorry now he is and this is been your 360 view of the news. i think you, thanks for watching this i ah, with by the middle of the 19th century,

practically the whole of india had been under the rule of the british empire. the colonial authorities had imposed that heavy death bringing the people into poverty and were exporting natural resources. and moreover, these authorities absolutely had no consideration for the provisions of the local population, treating them like 2nd class citizens. the british were showing signs of disrespect even to those who cooperated with them. the fact of ignoring the religious beliefs of the hindus led to the mutiny embassy boys, mercenary soldiers serving under the british crown. rebellion began on the 10th of may 1857 in the garrison town of may river, north of india. in the form of a mutiny. the rebels quickly took over daily. the heroic resistance of the indian people lasted for one and a half years. however, the forces were not equal. the colonial authorities dealt with the rebels cruelly thin slaves. the boys were tied to the mouth of the cannon and were shot right

through their bodies for the amusement of the public. these type of execution was called the devils with the obliteration of the mutiny resulted in the death of 800000 inhabitants of india. however, the british empire never broke the free spirit of the indians and their will are resist. mm. mm museums are important for preserving our history so that it is a lot to future generations. but our fiscal museum spaces themselves a relic of the past. this is one of the best museums in the world. huh. tyson, st. petersburg, how prophy is the director here, and i bet he has met ah, when this conflict ends and it will let and it must get, there will be again, commercial relationships. there will be social relationships. they'll be family

relationships. it's going to take some time, but it's natural. and you know, there isn't going to be a great wall built between ukraine and the russian federation. a headlines stories this our, the russian defense ministry said ukraine has lost more than 6000 of its soldiers over the pilots in the states. the u. s. western allies are seeking to prolong that conflict with all the m. o t reports russian troops are facing fierce resistance around and they don't both ton of money and gap, but have captured at least $10.00 prisoners. we're exclusively problem fighters on the front line a more after a short hit key after