<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">>…So much for the United States supposed freedom of the press. <br><br><a href="https://rsf.org/en/ranking" target="_blank">https://rsf.org/en/ranking</a><br><br>C.<u></u><u></u></p><div>Well, if 40 countries have greater freedom than we do (highly doubtful) I think that's a great thing,</div><div><br></div><div>I have heard no complaints from our press about their freedoms, with the exception of providing secrecy for their sources - with some journalists jailed - rare.  So I think we cannot be much freer, but I have not looked into it.</div><div><br></div><div>Group?</div><div><br></div><div>bill w</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:10 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@<wbr>lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Christian Saucier<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] sugar industry corruption<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">>…So much for the United States supposed freedom of the press. <br><br><a href="https://rsf.org/en/ranking" target="_blank">https://rsf.org/en/ranking</a><br><br>C. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Julian Assange’s mission was to bring the US Constitution’s first amendment to the world.  He recently commented that the hardest place he has found to sell that notion was in the USA.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><div><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 9:46 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p></span><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">  Maybe our greatest freedom after free speech.  <u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><span class=""><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">### Amen to that.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Rafał <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br><br><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Brevity is next to godliness.  Assuming a highly abridged dictionary that knows the meaning of brevity.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></font></span></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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