{"id":1010,"date":"2016-04-01T00:26:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T00:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2016-04-01T00:26:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T00:26:53","slug":"same-country-different-data-the-ease-of-creating-propaganda-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/04\/01\/same-country-different-data-the-ease-of-creating-propaganda-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Same country, different data &#8211; the ease of creating propaganda posters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Denmark.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1011\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1011\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Denmark.gif\" alt=\"Denmark\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a>TL; DR Summary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>All true.<\/li>\n<li>Illustrates the ease of creating propaganda posters.<\/li>\n<li>Share if you agree!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As I continue <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/03\/29\/denmark-has-free-child-care-uh-no\/\">to cross-check the very popular (on social media) Denmark propaganda posters<\/a>, I created one of my own!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nPoints that did not fit on this poster:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Denmark has the highest taxes in the world<\/li>\n<li>Denmark has the highest personal debts in the world with household debt equal to 321% of disposable income.<\/li>\n<li>Banks pay negative interest rates &#8211; meaning that savers pay the bank to hold their money<\/li>\n<li>One of the easiest countries in which to fire workers!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Sources<\/h2>\n<p>My poster is, of course, slightly misleading. The general concepts are true but are sometimes limited to &#8220;the EU&#8221; rather than the implied &#8220;world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcrf.org\/int\/cancer-facts-figures\/data-cancer-frequency-country\">Cancer Rate, Denmark<\/a>. Highest in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Violence against women, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-26444655\">BBC<\/a>. 2nd highest in the EU.<\/li>\n<li>Anti-depressant usage, <a href=\"http:\/\/dadaviz.com\/i\/3124\">DadaViz<\/a>. And more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opposingviews.com\/i\/society\/worlds-happiest-countries-take-most-antidepressants\">here<\/a>. 2nd highest in Europe.<\/li>\n<li>Alcohol, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldlifeexpectancy.com\/denmark-alcohol\">WorldLifeExpectancy.<\/a> 6th highest alcohol related death rate in the world<\/li>\n<li>Taxes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.dk\/20141210\/danes-face-the-worlds-highest-tax-burden-oecd\">Denmark media<\/a>. Highest in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Personal debt is world&#8217;s highest as percent of disposable income (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2014-01-06\/world-s-highest-household-debt-burden-probed-by-danish-council\">Bloomberg<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Banks pay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalbanken.dk\/en\/marketinfo\/official_interestrates\/Pages\/default.aspx\">negative interest rates<\/a> &#8211; meaning that savers pay the bank to hold their money<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/denmark.dk\/en\/society\/welfare\/flexicurity\/\">One of the easiest places to fire workers! <\/a>(True, with a link to the official Danish government web site page that explains why and how this works.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Screen snapshot from Denmark&#8217;s NationalBanken (Central bank)<\/h2>\n<p>Taken April 5, 2016<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NationalBanken.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1031\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1031 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NationalBanken.gif\" alt=\"NationalBanken\" width=\"360\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Original<\/h2>\n<p>The original poster, the content of which, <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/03\/29\/denmark-has-free-child-care-uh-no\/\">is mostly not true or misleading<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11745935_1665704370329445_941328983120687525_n.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-114\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-114 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11745935_1665704370329445_941328983120687525_n.png\" alt=\"11745935_1665704370329445_941328983120687525_n\" width=\"425\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL; DR Summary All true. Illustrates the ease of creating propaganda posters. Share if you agree! As I continue to cross-check the very popular (on social media) Denmark propaganda posters, I created one of my own! &nbsp; &nbsp; Points that did not fit on this poster: Denmark has the highest taxes in the world Denmark has the highest personal debts in the world with household debt equal to 321% of disposable income. Banks pay negative interest rates &#8211; meaning that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/04\/01\/same-country-different-data-the-ease-of-creating-propaganda-posters\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19,24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotion","category-fear","category-in-practice","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}