Rom
13:7 KJV
Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due;
custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
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Our president has kept his campaign promise to "fundamentally
transform" America.
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('“We are five days away from
fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” — Barack Obama,
October 30, 2008' - Excerpt from National Review Online article - http://j.mp/OxformsUSA )
' Achtung! Germany named world's favorite country -
' Achtung! Germany named world's favorite country -
'[...] "Germany
appears to have benefited not only from the sports prowess it displayed
… at the FIFA World Cup championship, but also by solidifying its perceived [N.B.
"perceived" is obvious loyal leftie media lying spin.] leadership in
Europe through a robust economy and steady political stewardship,"
said Simon Anholt, who created the index in 2005.
'[...] The USA, which held first place
since 2009 and is still seen as No. 1 one in creativity, contemporary culture and
educational institutions, suffered from its perceived [N.B.
"perceived" is obvious loyal leftie media lying spin.] shaky record in global peace and security.
'"In a year of various
international confrontations, the United States has lost significant ground
where tension has been felt the most acutely,"
said Xiaoyan Zhao, senior vice president and director of the index. "[Citizens
of b]oth Russia and Egypt have downgraded the U.S. in an unprecedented manner,
particularly in their perception of [N.B. "their perception of"
is obvious loyal leftie media lying spin.]
American commitment to global peace and security, and in their assessment of
the competence of the U.S. government."'
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The above excerpt is from the following article:
Achtung!
Germany named world's favorite country - USA
Today Network Matthew Diebel, 1:05 p.m. EST November
18, 2014 http://j.mp/USA2nd
[Photo caption] German national football team
players cheer as they ride in an open-deck bus to Berlin's landmark Brandenburg
Gate to celebrate their FIFA World Cup title.(Photo: Jan Woitas, AFP/Getty
Images)
Well, it took about 70 years.
Yes, from being the world's pariah in the
decades following Nazism and World War II, Germany is now the world's favorite
country, according to the Anholt-Gfk Nations Brand Index, which measures the
image of 50 leading nations.
The Teutonic powerhouse knocked the United
States from its longtime perch at the top of the ratings, which measure
"twenty-three different attributes that make up the six overall dimensions
on which national image is based."
"Germany appears to have
benefited not only from the sports prowess it displayed
… at the FIFA World Cup championship, but also by solidifying its perceived [N.B.
"perceived" is obvious loyal leftie media lying spin.] leadership in
Europe through a robust economy and steady political stewardship,"
said Simon Anholt, who created the index in 2005.
The index is compiled from a total of 20,125
interviews with people in 20 countries, according to Anholt-GfK, which is based
in Denmark.
The result was welcomed by Alan Posener, a
commentator and blogger for Berlin's Die Welt newspaper. "As a German of
the baby boomer generation, I can remember a time when many Germans my age
would speak English when abroad so as to hide their nationality," he
wrote. "German children might find themselves ostracized on a Danish
beach. German teens on a pilgrimage to Swinging London might be confronted by
people giving them the Nazi salute."
The USA,
which held first place since 2009 and is still seen as No. 1 one in creativity,
contemporary culture and educational institutions, suffered from its perceived [N.B.
"perceived" is obvious loyal leftie media lying spin.] shaky record
in global peace and security.
"In a year of various
international confrontations, the United States has lost significant ground
where tension has been felt the most acutely,"
said Xiaoyan Zhao, senior vice president and director of the index. "[Citizens
of b]oth Russia and Egypt have downgraded the U.S. in an unprecedented manner,
particularly in their perception of [N.B. "their perception of"
is obvious loyal leftie media lying spin.]
American commitment to global peace and security, and in their assessment of
the competence of the U.S. government."
Russians' perceptions may have put the USA in
second place, but they had a much more dramatic decline, dropping from 22nd to
25th place in the index.
"In previous years, Russia had shown
upward momentum," said Zhao, "but in the 2014 NBI study, it stands
out as the only nation out of 50 to suffer a precipitous drop. Russia's largest
decline is registered on the Governance dimension, especially for the attribute
of its perceived role in international peace and security. This is the most
drastic score drop seen for any single attribute across the 50 nations."
Rounding out the top 10 are the United Kingdom,
France, Canada, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, Australia and Sweden.
USA TODAY staffer Matthew Diebel is of German
ancestry. However, that had nothing to do with why this story was written.
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