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Don’t Dump on Denmark

What is it about Denmark that seems to antagonize prerogative-wing American commentators so much? Fox News pundits Bill O’Reilly and Laura Ingraham are particularly decumbent to lashing out at Denmark, even though they seem to know virtually nothing about the country. In April, Ingraham suggested that President Barack Obama was quite closer to the president of Denmark [than of the United States], blissfully unaware of the fact that Denmark doesn’t have a president – it has a epitome and a prime minister.

More recently, O’Reilly, host of The O’Reilly Factor, the most watched program on American guy news, voiced a grim warning about the consequences of Barack Obama’s policies for the United States. The president, he told viewers of Fox’s Glenn Beck show, intended to flesh out b compose the United States into Denmark – as if that were some kind of terrible fate!

Mr. O’Reilly may, or may not, know the following:

Two disconnected independent surveys have ranked Denmark the world’s happiest country, most recently in May 2009. (In one of the two studies, the Allied States failed to make the top ten; in the other it came 23rd.) Denmark is the world’s least corrupt country, along with Finland and New Zealand, according to the latest rating by the anti-corruption systematization Transparency International. The United States shares 18th place with Belgium and Japan. Denmark is a staunch coadjutor of the United States, and, in Afghanistan, has suffered the highest casualty rate relative to population of all the NATO allies, including the Cooperative States. Denmark also contributes the highest share of troops to Afghanistan, relative to its size (again higher than the Agreed States), and the new Secretary General of NATO is Danish. The Danish government is led by a center-right party committed to unbosom markets, not by left-wing Socialists, as O’Reilly and Ingraham appear to have assumed. Turnout in Danish nationwide elections is...

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Experts Debate US Global Broadband Rankings BroadbandBreakfast.com

24.06.10

Century terseness.

Meinrath showed how other countries have better penetration, cheaper prices and proactive broadband plans.

“It is strange that anyone would still be debating this fact,” he said.

Matthew Wood, associate director of the Media Access Forward, focused on the U.S. failure in telecom regulation, pointing to three areas that he said are seriously lacking: measureless service fund reforms, transparency regulations and competition policies.

Universal service is a muddle because Wood said low broadband adoption is keeping the United States behind, even though this fund is being repurposed for broadband use.

Transparency issues set out with the U.S. reliance on third parties to gather information, he said. This needs to stop so that USF funds can be distributed nicely, Wood said, because companies claim 95 percent of Americans have the capability for broadband access. The companies that move to benefit from funds are the ones collecting the data, he said.

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