4. "it is high": Ibid.
PART TEN
1. "97 smallest nations": Wikipedia, "List of Countries by population," #List.
2. All Told: "Voting Practices in the United Nations," 2010, www.state.gov, In 2011, Freedom: Freedom House, "Combined Average Ratings-Independent Countries," 2011, "A Partly Free": Freedom House, "Freedom in the World 2012: The Arab Uprisings and Their Global Repercussions," 2012, p. 4.
5. Here"s How Freedom: Freedom House, "Combined Average Ratings-Independent Countries," 2011, "Corruption is the": "What is the Corruption Perceptions Index?," transparency.org, They take a: Ibid.
8. "the perceived likelihood": Ibid.
9. They issue a: Ibid.
10. "series of in-country": Ibid.
11. "Here are the": "Demands for Better Government Must Be Heeded," transparency.org, The program included: d.i.c.k Morris and Eileen McGann, Outrage (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), p. 44.
13. "Corruption of the": "Probe: $1.8B diverted to Hussein regime," CNN.com, October 27, 2005, Paul Volcker estimated: Morris and McGann, Outrage, p. 59.
15. A year later: Ibid., p. 60.
16. "Un funding arrangements": Ibid., p. 64.
17. "As far as I am": Robert M. Appleton, "Chairman of the United Nations Procurement Task Force, to the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs."
18. "the most disappointing": Ibid.
19. "The General a.s.sembly"s": "Internal Oversight and Procurement Controls and Processes Need Strengthening," GAO.gov, April 27, 2006, "produce a doc.u.ment": George Russell, "U.N. Judges Charge Ban Ki-moon with Power Grab, Distortions of Their Rulings," FoxNews.com, November 11, 2011, "despite a net": Freedom House, "Freedom House Worst of the Worst," "His government ... uses": Ibid.
23. "President Lukashenka systematically": Ibid.
24. "The State Peace": Ibid.
25. "The junta drastically": Ibid.
26. "has never": Ibid.
27. "The Chinese government": Ibid.
28. "Freedom of the": Ibid.
29. "is home to": Ibid.
30. "torture remains widespread": Ibid.
31. "one-fifth of all": Robert Zubrin, Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism (New York: New Atlantic Books, 2012).
32. "Longtime President": Freedom House, "Freedom House Worst of the Worst," "of cannibalism, specifically,": Joshua Norman, "The World"s Enduring Dictators: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea," CBS News, May 22, 2011,
34. "has never held": "Freedom House Worst of the Worst."
35. "intensified its suppression": Ibid.
36. "corruption and abuses": Ibid.
37. "Religion freedom is": Ibid.
38. "protection of human": Ibid.
39. "the political process": Freedom House, "Freedom House Worst of the Worst." freedomhouse.org, "the police and": Ibid.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
d.i.c.k Morris served as Bill Clinton"s political consultant for twenty years. A regular political commentator on Fox News, he is the author of eleven New York Times bestsellers (all with Eileen McGann) and one Washington Post bestseller.
Eileen McGann is an attorney who, with her husband, d.i.c.k, writes columns for the New York Post and for their website, d.i.c.kmorris.com. She has written extensively about the abuses of Congress and the need for reform.
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