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World power swings back to America - Telegraph
Some good news from the Telegraph's international business editor Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: America is supplying nearly three-quarters of its energy needs, up from half a decade ago. Wage inflation in China is encouraging manufacturing to come back home as the cost gap closes. A caution: "The switch in advantage to the US is relative. It does not imply a healthy US recovery. The global depression will grind on as much of the Western world tightens fiscal policy and slowly purges debt, and as China deflates its credit bubble." But the advantages are real: "It is almost the only economic power with a fertility rate above 2.0 - and therefore the ability to outgrow debt - in sharp contrast to the demographic decay awaiting Japan, China, Korea, Germany, Italy, and Russia."
World Value Survey Cultural Map
Mapping survey results on a two-axis graph: Traditional vs. Secular-Rational and Survival vs. Self-Expression. There's an interesting Anglosphere cluster (US, UK, Australia, Canada, NZ, Ireland) straddling the Traditional vs. Secular-Rational line but well in the direction of Self-Expression over Survival. (Via Ace of Spades HQ overnight thread.)
Migrations Map: Where are migrants coming from? Where have migrants left?
Interactive HTML5 map. Click a country and see the top 10 sources for immigrants and the top 10 destinations for emigrants. Migrants are defined as people born in one country now residing in another, so these numbers are cumulative.
A searchable database of two centuries' worth of speeches, debates, and reports in the British House of Commons and House of Lords.
Cranmer: Nadine Dorries is a victim of Lib-Lab sexism
There's a bill in the British Parliament that would require independent counselling prior to abortion. "At the moment, abortion providers like BPAS and Marie Stopes offer counselling to women, but they are paid only when the termination is carried out." Nadine Dorries MP, a sponsor of the bill, says, "Abortion has become a factory-efficient process that denies women the right to independent, professional counselling. Many women who are given the opportunity to talk through their situation in a calm environment cease to panic and begin to consider other options. It is every woman's right to be given the choice of access to professional help at the time of a crisis pregnancy."
ConservativeHome's Platform: Bernard Jenkin MP: The bomb that was meant to kill Margaret Thatcher
25 years ago: Remembering the IRA terrorist attack on the Conservative Party conference in Brighton
ConservativeHome's Platform: Maurice Saatchi: These are our values
A distillation of conservative policy values, in honor of the 35th anniversary of the Centre for Policy Studies, founded by Margaret Thatcher and Keith Joseph.
"It is wrong that the majority of people in Britain are financially beholden to the State. This makes the State the master; the complicated tax and benefit system the chief instrument of its power.
"A paternalist government, based on the benevolence of a ruler who treats his subjects as dependent children, is the greatest conceivable despotism and destroys all freedom."
CentreRight: The Queen costs us each a mere 69p a year - and she wants all MPs to know it
Turns out that it's cheaper to be ruled by a monarch than a messiah.
Ace takes a Times headline about Obama's visit to troops in Iraq and uses it to lead into a fascinating and valuable analysis of perspective bias in the media. (Note how I made Ace the active subject of that sentence, rather than a passive responder to the headline.)
iowahawk: This Post Brought to You By the Green Movement
No satire this time. It's about the death of a Togolese boy that iowahawk sponsored for five years through Childreach: "Bakouma was one of approximately one million people who died of malaria last year. Almost all of them were like him: poor, young, and African. And almost all of those deaths could have been prevented through vaccines, insecticide-treated netting, and (gasp) DDT spraying.... [A]1996 DDT ban in South Africa, pushed by environmental groups, led to a malaria epidemic with over 60,000 cases reported in 2000. After DDT spraying resumed in 2001, infections dropped 80% in one year. Facing a mounting death toll across Africa the World Heath Organization and USAID have recently lent support to IRS using DDT, but its adoption continues to be opposed by environmental extremists relying on shoddy science and fearmongering."
