The victim, who lived in Leicester, woke from a drunken slumber to find Mauro Eric Catamo De Oliveira sexually touching her in bed before raping her in the early hours of September 28, 2016. Mail.
Friday, February 25, 2022
The Study of History ...
.. means that anyone who believes that weaponry and armed forces must be cut and cut again in order to produce the so-called 'peace dividend' is a numpty.
History teaches us that being nice to dictators DOES NOT WORK.
George the Third's government tried to pare military spending to the bare bone and - lo and behold - up popped Bonaparte. Result - much harder to win the inevitable Napoleonic Wars with our ground forces at their lowest ever level.
From 1904 at the latest, and possibly right back into the 19th century, The Schlieffen Plan and its predecessors were underway with the objective of massive German expansionism under Kaiser Wilhelm. These preparations were known about yet successive governments reduced UK military spending!
Consequently, when Germany invaded Belgium in 1914 - their military might (navy excepted) was the strongest in the world.
This meant that WW1 probably lasted at least two years longer than it needed to.
Disarmers and appeasers were rife across political parties between WW1 and WW2. Britain's forces were reduced to absurd levels - but this was okay because 'nobody could ever be stupid enough to commence another war after he War To End All Wars."
Unfortunately, this was not explained to Hitler!
Had we been fully armed in 1939 - perhaps we could have avoided Hitler's incursions into Poland in early September and prevented his lebensraum policies being enacted.
Pacifists, appeasers and those who advocate mythical peace dividends may (perhaps?) be well-meaning but are, in practice, a major enemy within!
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Boris Impresses In The Commons.
The PM has shown genuine leadership quality.
Parties seem pretty small beer by comparison.
Burkina Faso: Paul-Henri Damiba. Let Us Hope That What He Suggests Is Honouring God.
Burkina Faso coup leader sworn in as president, vows to defeat Islamic extremism.
Demonstrators hold a photo of Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba the leader of the mutiny and of the Patriotic Movement for the Protection and the Restauration (MPSR) as they gather to show support to the military in Ouagadougou, on February 19, 2022. (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images) | Olympia De Maismont/AFP via Getty ImagesBurkina Faso coup leader Paul-Henri Damiba has been sworn in as president and vowed to win the war on Islamic extremism that has plagued the country in recent years, leading the U.S. government to restrict $160 million in aid.
“To ... gain the upper hand over the enemy, it will be necessary ... to rise up and convince ourselves that as a nation we have more than what it takes to win this war,” Damiba said at the swearing-in ceremony Wednesday, Reuters reported.
Once considered relatively peaceful, Burkina Faso has seen an exponential rise in Islamic terrorism since 2016 that has led to the displacement of over 1.5 million people. The United Nations stresses that a 50% rise in internal displacement in the former French colony in 2021 is the “highest proportions of internal displacement on the continent.”
Since 2016, there has been an increase in Islamic State fighters fleeing from the Middle East to Africa, which has led to a sharp rise in extremism across the Sahel and other regions in Africa.
To fight extremism, Damiba said, he would improve the coordination between the armed forces and the intelligence service. He vowed to make logistical support more flexible.
Damiba was a lieutenant colonel who commanded the military region in charge of protecting the national capital, Ouagadougou. He serves as head of the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration, which oversaw the Jan. 24 coup overthrowing President Rock Kabore’s administration in response to an inability to thwart extremist violence.
The new president has said he would work with the Economic Community of West African States to make sure that the country returns to democratic elections.
After last month’s coup, the ECOWAS suspended Burkina Faso from its governing bodies.
During the January coup attempt, Kabore’s political party headquarters was burned and looted by protesters as gunshots rang out at military bases around the city.
On Friday, the U.S. State Department spokesperson confirmed that $158.6 million in foreign assistance that benefits the government of Burkina Faso will be restricted under a U.S. law that prohibits foreign aid from going to countries where a military coup has overthrown a country’s elected leader.
According to Reuters, the State Department stated in a notice to Congress that it would try to work around the aid restrictions in light of U.S. national interests and to provide humanitarian assistance to those impacted by the conflict.
Since 2020, coups takeovers have occurred in African countries Mali, Guinea and Chad.
The rise of extremism in Burkina Faso has caused international concern, with the U.N. vowing in 2020 to step up its response after displacement in Burkina Faso rose 1,200% in 2019.
The U.S. State Department created a special envoy position to maximize U.S. diplomatic efforts to address the terror threats in the region, which have also impacted countries like Cameroon, Mali and Niger.
Both Muslims and Christians bear the brunt of Islamic extremism in Burkina Faso. According to the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, Christians comprise just over 20% of Burkina Faso’s population, while Muslims make up over 60%.
In its "Persecution Trends 2022" report, Release International said, “The situation facing Christians in Burkina Faso is now similar to Nigeria,” where terror groups like Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province have killed thousands and displaced millions.
In 2021, jihadis targeted Christians in the north of Burkina Faso, forcing churches to close and meet in secret, the report notes. The attacks ranged from bombings, killings, kidnappings and school burnings to assaults on religious leaders and places of worship.
Pressure in the region is likely to continue in 2022, particularly following the drawdown of French troops in the area, Release International warned.
Open Doors USA, which monitors Christian persecution in over 60 countries, ranks Burkina Faso No. 32 on its 2022 World Watch List of countries where its hardest to be a Christian.
In a January 2022 report, Open Doors warned that the impact of Islamic extremism has expanded as jihadis have made their influence felt “even in cities that had previously been beyond their reach.”
Militant groups that operate in Burkina Faso include Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen, Islamic State West Africa, Islamic State Greater Sahara, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Murabitoun, Ansar Dine and Boko Haram.
“Christians have been targeted and killed and churches have been destroyed,” the report states. “Christians of Muslim background are the most persecuted Christian group in the country. Similar attacks in Niger, Mali and the greater Sahel region is making the situation in Burkina Faso very serious. Christians have been targeted in villages, churches and workplaces. Hundreds of churches have been closed due to jihadist activities.”
According to the U.N., the Sahel region is facing an “unprecedented rural exodus” as many displaced people are “moving to urban areas under governmental control.
Boris Cheshirkov, a spokesperson for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, told reporters last month that Burkinabe refugees have told UNHCR staff that “civilians had been killed and their homes burnt down by extremists.” CP.
As The World Teeters on The Brink of War ...
... let us always remember that irresponsible, Democrat voters plonked a wishy-washy ultra-leftist into the White House.
This was a nod towards Putin that he can do whatever he pleases. Rabid dictators do not ever respond to weakness.
Please pray as you never have done before that this new tide of evil can be prevented from erupting onto our world.
Phew.
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/pastor.greg.locke.defends.deliverance.ministry.chased.6.witches.church/138211.htm
Blogger: some may mock the concept as a whole but whereas I cannot speak for this particular situation, it would be folly to pretend that such things do not occur. I have some, admittedly second hand knowledge of similar situations.
Just One More Form of Child Abuse.
Texas attorney general calls trans surgeries, puberty blockers 'child abuse' in formal opinion.
A sign outside a classroom taken in 2016. | REUTERS/Tami ChappellTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton has released a formal opinion concluding that performing certain gender reassignment procedures on children constitutes child abuse under state law.
In Opinion No. KP-0401, released last Friday, Paxton said that certain sex-change procedures and treatments “can legally constitute child abuse under several provisions of chapter 261 of the Texas Family Code.”
Such procedures and treatments include castration, the removal of healthy body parts as well as the prescription of puberty-blocking drugs among others.
“Beyond the obvious harm of permanently sterilizing a child, these procedures and treatments can cause side effects and harms beyond permanent infertility,” the opinion states.
“The medical evidence does not demonstrate that children and adolescents benefit from engaging in these irreversible sterilization procedures.”
Paxton argued that such invasive gender reassignment procedures, like removing private parts, “would deprive the child of the fundamental right to procreate, which supports a finding of child abuse under the Family Code.”
“Because children are legally incompetent to consent to sterilization, procedures and treatments that result in a child’s sterilization are unauthorized and infringe on the child’s fundamental right to procreate,” the opinion continued.
“The lack of authority of a minor to consent to an irreversible sterilization procedure is consistent with other law. The federal Medicaid program does not allow for parental consent, has established a minimum age of 21 for consent to sterilization procedures, and imposes detailed requirements for obtaining that consent.”
In a statement Monday, Paxton said that there was “no doubt that these procedures are ‘abuse’ under Texas law, and thus must be halted.”
“The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) has a responsibility to act accordingly. I’ll do everything I can to protect against those who take advantage of and harm young Texans,” he added.
Last August, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Commissioner Jamie Masters published a letter asserting that “genital mutilation of a child through reassignment surgery is child abuse, subject to all rules and procedures pertaining to child abuse.”
Masters' letter came after Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott requested that the agency “issue a determination of whether genital mutilation of a child for purposes of gender transitioning through reassignment surgery constitutes child abuse.”
Last December, Paxton’s office announced an investigation into Endo Pharmaceuticals and AbbVie Inc. under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act due to the promotion of medications as puberty blockers. The Food and Drug Administration has not approved the use of puberty-blocking drugs for the sake of gender transition but has approved such medication for children who start puberty at a very young age.
Some medical organizations, however, contend that puberty blockers and other gender transition procedures for minors can be beneficial to children suffering from gender dysphoria.
The American Medical Association, for example, released an open letter last April arguing that state governments should not prohibit gender reassignment procedures for youth.
“Such decisions must be sensitive to the child’s clinical situation, nurture the child’s short and long-term development, and balance the need to preserve the child’s opportunity to make important life choices autonomously in the future,” stated the AMA in a letter.
“We believe it is inappropriate and harmful for any state to legislatively dictate that certain transition-related services are never appropriate and limit the range of options physicians and families may consider when making decisions for pediatric patients.”
According to the Mayo Clinic, the benefits of puberty-blocking medicines for gender dysphoria “might” include reducing depression among youths and preventing the need for future surgery.
Nevertheless, the clinic warns that taking puberty blockers remains a “big step” that can have a long-term impact on bodily growth, bone density and fertility.
“In addition, delaying puberty beyond one’s peers can be stressful,” the Mayo Clinic explained. “Your child might experience lower self-esteem.”
The conservative American College of Pediatricians, an association of physicians and healthcare professionals "dedicated to the health and well-being of children," has long voiced its opposition to using puberty-blocking drugs on children with gender dysphoria.
"There is not a single long-term study to demonstrate the safety or efficacy of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for transgender-believing youth," the association says in an online statement. "This means that youth transition is experimental, and therefore, parents cannot provide informed consent, nor can minors provide assent for these interventions. Moreover, the best long-term evidence we have among adults shows that medical intervention fails to reduce suicide."
Professor George Yancey.
Professor George Yancey is sounding the alarm, with one volume actually titled, So Many Christians, So Few Lions: Is There Christianophobia in the United States? (He defines Christianophobia “as an unreasonable hatred toward conservative Christians” — and he wrote this in 2014).
Buy on Amazon.
The Folly of the 'Green' Total Absence of Joined-Up Thinking.
Through its obsession with “climate change,” the west handed Putin his greatest weapon
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Western nations are shocked — shocked! — by Russian president Vladimir Putin’s onslaught against Ukraine.
There are many reasons why the west must bear considerable responsibility for this crisis. As I wrote here, these include the fantasy indulged in until this week by western nations that Putin posed no threat and was instead a person through whom westerners could enrich themselves.
Thus Britain’s capital has been dubbed “Londongrad,” because British governments have allowed so many of Putin’s fellow oligarchs to use its infrastructure to launder stolen Russian funds — contributing in the process so much to Britain’s GDP.
Then there’s the European embrace of pacifism, which has led Britain and other European states to cut their defence spending and rely instead on America’s protective umbrella which they all took for granted.
That parasitic illusion went belly-up with the advent of the Biden administration, whose refusal to defend the free world and its preference instead to throw in the towel wherever possible — as demonstrated most graphically by America’s disorderly scuttle from Afghanistan — has been duly noted by Putin, along with the regimes in China and Iran, as evidence that the Biden administration would take no effective action to counter their own aggression.
But even more shocking that all this is that, through their unhinged obsession with “climate change,” America, Britain and Europe have handed Putin his greatest weapon against them.
In their determination to reduce carbon emissions by turning against fossil fuels, and having put so many of their eggs in the basket of renewables which are desperately unreliable as national sources of energy, they have made themselves overly dependent on gas.
Not only that, but they have made themselves reliant upon gas sold to them by Russia. As Senator Marco Rubio has observed:
While Biden's been working on this Green New Deal which is a joke and ridiculous and terrible, Russia's become the second-largest natural gas supplier in the world, the third-largest oil exporter.
So now Putin, with his hand on the gas spigots which he can open or shut at will, has the power to restrict gas supplies, send the price of gas shooting up and inflict on western nations both power outages and eye-watering increases in their cost of living.
Western countries are already paying dearly for their supreme green folly.
US president Joe Biden’s decisions to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline and not renew drilling leases helped caused American gas and energy prices to spike in recent months.
At the same time, last year Biden green-lighted the final construction of Nord Stream 2, the gas pipeline from Russia to Germany which bypasses Ukraine and, if it comes on stream, would give Putin a devastating weapon with which to blackmail western Europe with the threat of cutting off its energy supplies.
This gas weapon is all the more ludicrous given that both America and Britain have the natural resources to be energy-independent. Yet they have utterly squandered this resilience through their unfounded fixation that carbon emissions will destroy the planet.
Britain phased out its coal-fired power stations and banned fracking — even though the Warwick Business School study of March 2020 calculated that UK production of shale gas could meet between 17 and 22 per cent of UK cumulative consumption between 2020 and 2050. The trade body Offshore Energies UK has warned that domestic production of oil and gas will decline sharply over the next five years, which will increase Britain’s dependence on imports to fill the energy gap.
Now — all too belatedly — some in Britain are having second thoughts about the green bandwagon onto which the prime minister Boris Johnson has so opportunistically clambered. The Sunday Times reported:
In recent weeks, UK ministers including Greg Hands, the energy minister, and Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, have signalled greater support for new North Sea projects. Hands said Britain must keep drilling for gas in the North Sea for “reasons of energy security”.
As Tim Newark wrote earlier this month in the Daily Express:
With foresight we could have been exporting British natural gas to Europe now facing higher prices thanks to tension in the Ukraine and Russian control of energy supplies to Germany and their neighbours. Instead, we are throwing away this potential goldmine because of a handful of eco-campaigners spreading rumours of dire consequences.
So far, however, Johnson has resisted the increasing calls from Tory MPs to lift the 2019 moratorium on fracking.
Germany and mainland Europe are particularly vulnerable to Putin’s blackmail since they now get around one third of their energy supplies from Russia. Germany, which backed the Nord Stream pipeline, has now come under extreme pressure from the Biden administration to resist its coming on stream.
As a result, Germany’s new chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has said its operation is suspended. But he should have said it was now cancelled altogether. Suspension will reinforce Putin’s probable assessment that, before too long, the west will tire of fretting over Ukraine and will return to business as normal — just as it did after he annexed Crimea.
It gets worse. As Andrew Bolt noted on his HeraldSun blog, Europe was so eager to posture as defenders of the planet against man-made global warming that it shut down factories with high carbon emissions — only for factories making the same goods to open up in China, a world leader in carbon emissions, and export such goods from there. This not only merely outsourced carbon emissions from Europe to China, but in the process made China richer and Europe poorer. How brilliant was that?!
Now the potency of the energy weapon that the west has gifted to Putin means that it won’t undertake the measures necessary to resist his aggression. Italy, for example, which imports some 90 per cent of its gas from Russia, wants European sanctions to exclude energy. As the Wall Street Journal commented:
This kind of pre-emptive surrender is exactly why Mr. Putin figures the price of an invasion would be lower than advertised.
And all this is in obeisance to a theory of man-made global warming which, as I have repeatedly written over the past three decades, is backed by no reputable science whatsoever. Changes to the world’s temperature show no variation from the normal fluctuations that have occurred throughout history. Moreover, with carbon emissions continuing to rise, global temperatures have nevertheless remained flat for the past seven years or more — flying directly in the face of the iron-clad dogma that carbon increases invariably result in global temperature rise.
Western commentators are calling Putin a madman. Britain’s defence minister, Ben Wallace, says the Russian president has “gone Tonto”.
Well, maybe he has; or maybe he is merely exceptionally driven by nationalist sentiment, ruthlessness, cynicism — and rage.
But it’s the west which over “climate change” really has totally lost its mind.
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My most recent exclusive post for my premium subscribers argues that America is enabling a new world order controlled by Russia, China and Iran. This is how the piece begins:
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Agreed - But Don't Forget To Pray!
To stop Putin from further aggression, we call on partners to impose more sanctions on Russia now. First decisive steps were taken yesterday, and we are grateful for them. Now the pressure needs to step up to stop Putin. Hit his economy and cronies. Hit more. Hit hard. Hit now.
Putin - Why The Delay?
The build up of Russian forces (Oops, I nearly wrote Soviet!) has been more or less complete for a good month.
Is this all just sabre-rattling in the hope that Putin simply can bully Ukraine into relinquishing the parts of their nation with Russian minorities?
Wait for the voices of wimpish sell-out merchants across the globe demanding capitulation 'in the name of peace'.
For those who do not know History - do study the between-the-wars period of Hitlerian tactics, sabre-rattling and a huge mean streak!
Defending Christians in The UK - It Is Getting Ever More Necessary.
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/defending.christian.freedoms.in.the.public.square/138205.htm
A Simple Truth.
Divided, compromised and gormless, the West has abandoned its post-Cold War guiding mission
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The liberal order has effectively collapsed. This is the elephant in the room as the Ukraine crisis reaches its climax. A Western elite that was once almost puritanically pro-freedom – and self-confident to the point of hubris – now stands by largely divided, compromised and gormless, as Russia smashes international norms. The Anglo-American story of liberty that inspired the West for much of the 20th century is coming to a feeble end.... DT.
Blogger: Spanish philosopher George Santayana is credited with the aphorism, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Please compare to the leftist wimps in the UK between the wars who believed that there is such an animal as a 'peace dividend'.
Myanmar.
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Humanitarian crisis in Myanmar/Burma – send more aid urgently |
Thank you for campaigning for Myanmar/Burma since the coup one year ago. We’ve seen breakthrough in sanctions against the military to cut off their financial lifelines. Now we also need to provide a lifeline to the people. Remember, you can also sign up for Myanmar/Burma Day of Prayer on 14 March |
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‘Thank you for being at our side…’ |
Thank you so much to those of you have been supporting Pastor Lorenzo and his family in Cuba over the past seven months. Your prayers, love and encouragement are being felt across the world. Maridilegnis, Pastor Lorenzo’s wife, sent us this message for you: ‘God has done so many things through my brothers and sisters to remind me of His inexhaustible love, a covenant, that does not give up, that never forgets. I thank each brother and sister for taking some time, and despite the great distances, for giving me and my family a word of encouragement. Thank you for being at our side. We continue to pray for his freedom.’ |
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
World Health Care Systems 2021 Listed In Order:
CEOworld Magazine.
| Health Care Index (Overall) | Infrastructure | Professionals | Cost | Medicine Availability | Government Readiness | ||
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| 1 | South Korea | 78.72 | 87.16 | 14.23 | 83.59 | 82.3 | 87.89 |
| 2 | Taiwan | 77.7 | 79.05 | 13.06 | 78.39 | 78.99 | 65.09 |
| 3 | Denmark | 74.11 | 90.75 | 30.01 | 82.59 | 92.06 | 96.3 |
| 4 | Austria | 71.32 | 86.18 | 20.25 | 78.99 | 88.23 | 91.8 |
| 5 | Japan | 70.73 | 78.77 | 21.6 | 74.88 | 74.18 | 93.2 |
| 6 | Australia | 67.99 | 92.58 | 17.37 | 96.22 | 67.51 | 89.91 |
| 7 | France | 65.38 | 77.86 | 13.24 | 71.82 | 55.1 | 81.38 |
| 8 | Spain | 64.66 | 86.28 | 34.25 | 75.81 | 83.82 | 96.8 |
| 9 | Belgium | 64.63 | 72.48 | 24.51 | 68.68 | 64.78 | 94.9 |
| 10 | United Kingdom | 61.73 | 88.63 | 14.66 | 75.61 | 90.25 | 88.41 |
| 11 | Netherlands | 60.16 | 79.09 | 13.56 | 69.93 | 67.29 | 85.03 |
| 12 | Finland | 59.6 | 77.76 | 13.41 | 68.97 | 59.65 | 84.59 |
| 13 | Thailand | 59.52 | 98.7 | 29.05 | 94.99 | 98.74 | 96.1 |
| 14 | Czech Republic | 57.96 | 76.39 | 14.96 | 67.47 | 71.33 | 88.86 |
| 15 | Norway | 56.71 | 79.73 | 21.24 | 68.59 | 75.73 | 92.6 |
| 16 | New Zealand | 54.86 | 86.58 | 16.55 | 71.23 | 73.86 | 89.51 |
| 17 | Germany | 52.3 | 78.93 | 13.6 | 66.04 | 60.94 | 85.68 |
| 18 | Switzerland | 52.25 | 77.77 | 16.4 | 65.42 | 69.68 | 89.49 |
| 19 | India | 52.1 | 74.2 | 17.84 | 63.51 | 97.84 | 89.98 |
| 20 | United Arab Emirates | 51.99 | 68.21 | 14.95 | 60.36 | 55.08 | 88.74 |
| 21 | Israel | 50.15 | 73.53 | 13.84 | 62.22 | 74.19 | 87.72 |
| 22 | Portugal | 49.58 | 98.3 | 14.25 | 75.25 | 83.54 | 87.95 |
| 23 | Canada | 48.64 | 62.39 | 16.89 | 55.73 | 52.91 | 89.75 |
| 24 | Singapore | 48.54 | 82.67 | 13.35 | 66.15 | 81.98 | 81.63 |
| 25 | Ecuador | 48.27 | 69.37 | 45.24 | 59.16 | 66.11 | 98.2 |
| 26 | Greece | 48.13 | 96.87 | 19.39 | 86.79 | 98.21 | 91.2 |
| 27 | Argentina | 47.15 | 78.03 | 20.31 | 63.08 | 75.19 | 92.1 |
| 28 | Sweden | 46.24 | 70.06 | 25.05 | 58.53 | 62.6 | 95.1 |
| 29 | Mexico | 45.84 | 75.2 | 21.56 | 60.99 | 66.54 | 92.7 |
| 30 | United States | 45.62 | 84.18 | 13.1 | 65.52 | 76.28 | 76.21 |
| 31 | Lithuania | 45.3 | 83.43 | 14.65 | 64.98 | 85.77 | 88.38 |
| 32 | Estonia | 45.3 | 71.12 | 42.86 | 58.62 | 64.48 | 97.8 |
| 33 | Qatar | 45.29 | 67.54 | 51.28 | 56.77 | 60.69 | 98.5 |
| 34 | Malaysia | 45.1 | 64.17 | 15.05 | 54.94 | 52.11 | 88.89 |
| 35 | Colombia | 44.72 | 78.39 | 19.88 | 62.1 | 74.03 | 91.7 |
| 36 | Hong Kong | 44.55 | 98.1 | 14.71 | 66.02 | 64.34 | 88.47 |
| 37 | Italy | 44.43 | 83.38 | 23.66 | 87.03 | 98.43 | 94.3 |
| 38 | Philippines | 43.06 | 85.38 | 13.2 | 64.9 | 72.19 | 80.68 |
| 39 | Uruguay | 42.99 | 64.37 | 41.72 | 54.02 | 55.79 | 97.5 |
| 40 | Sri Lanka | 42.92 | 71.54 | 16.25 | 57.69 | 53.28 | 89.48 |
| 41 | Iceland | 42.5 | 65.97 | 13.64 | 54.61 | 47.94 | 85.9 |
| 42 | Croatia | 42.31 | 88.12 | 14.15 | 72.84 | 91.25 | 87.87 |
| 43 | Jordan | 41.99 | 76.84 | 25.14 | 59.97 | 74.42 | 95.4 |
| 44 | Chile | 41.97 | 74.88 | 19.47 | 58.95 | 69.12 | 91.5 |
| 45 | Lebanon | 41.63 | 71.55 | 16.67 | 57.07 | 65.42 | 89.54 |
| 46 | China | 41.4 | 69.67 | 15.42 | 55.99 | 65.36 | 89.31 |
| 47 | Slovenia | 39.85 | 89.83 | 14.41 | 65.29 | 87.57 | 87.98 |
| 48 | Latvia | 39.65 | 75.65 | 13.89 | 58.23 | 65.85 | 87.81 |
| 49 | Hungary | 39.37 | 73.88 | 14.71 | 57.18 | 74.7 | 88.48 |
| 50 | Costa Rica | 39.03 | 68.39 | 18.75 | 54.18 | 65.81 | 90.86 |
| 51 | Poland | 39.02 | 67.54 | 13.18 | 53.73 | 47.83 | 78.63 |
| 52 | Indonesia | 38.95 | 76.14 | 13.81 | 58.14 | 62.74 | 87.58 |
| 53 | South Africa | 38.65 | 91.58 | 20.88 | 65.96 | 94.29 | 92.3 |
| 54 | Slovakia | 38.48 | 72.36 | 21.82 | 55.97 | 67.42 | 93.5 |
| 55 | Saudi Arabia | 38.43 | 66.73 | 13.73 | 53.04 | 50.02 | 86.72 |
| 56 | Panama | 38.13 | 90.55 | 31.24 | 79.67 | 97.21 | 96.6 |
| 57 | Belarus | 37.94 | 70.93 | 17.12 | 54.96 | 64.1 | 89.78 |
| 58 | Russia | 37.76 | 64.76 | 21.83 | 51.7 | 57.85 | 93.8 |
| 59 | Tunisia | 37.71 | 74.99 | 13 | 56.95 | 63.39 | 62.18 |
| 60 | Macedonia | 37.16 | 70.83 | 18.39 | 54.54 | 73.01 | 90.84 |
| 61 | Nepal | 37.08 | 71.76 | 14.07 | 54.98 | 73.65 | 87.85 |
| 62 | Peru | 36.74 | 74.26 | 47.16 | 56.1 | 80.07 | 98.4 |
| 63 | Brazil | 36.31 | 69.21 | 14.77 | 53.29 | 52.97 | 88.62 |
| 64 | Puerto Rico | 36.26 | 64.57 | 24.43 | 50.87 | 59.31 | 94.6 |
| 65 | Turkey | 35.96 | 97.4 | 14.43 | 68.59 | 92.72 | 88.32 |
| 66 | Vietnam | 35.85 | 45.46 | 12.81 | 40.81 | 43.32 | 60.14 |
| 67 | Bulgaria | 35.64 | 77.18 | 17.35 | 57.08 | 72.25 | 89.84 |
| 68 | Algeria | 35.61 | 72.04 | 19.72 | 54.41 | 71.68 | 91.6 |
| 69 | Romania | 35.32 | 75.31 | 14.86 | 55.96 | 64.15 | 88.65 |
| 70 | Kenya | 35.16 | 69.92 | 16.86 | 53.1 | 51.23 | 89.62 |
| 71 | Kuwait | 35.09 | 89.14 | 15.32 | 70.55 | 89.2 | 88.98 |
| 72 | Dominican Republic | 34.97 | 66.12 | 21.08 | 51.05 | 62.85 | 92.5 |
| 73 | Nigeria | 34.78 | 96.34 | 16 | 66.82 | 82.83 | 89.38 |
| 74 | Albania | 34.78 | 67.9 | 36.44 | 51.87 | 63.47 | 97.2 |
| 75 | Bosnia And Herzegovina | 34.63 | 70.82 | 12.91 | 53.3 | 59.3 | 60.88 |
| 76 | Cyprus | 34.61 | 72.31 | 13.46 | 54.06 | 58.37 | 85.01 |
| 77 | Serbia | 34.37 | 69.88 | 16.19 | 52.7 | 66.16 | 89.42 |
| 78 | Iran | 34.28 | 73.69 | 14.92 | 54.62 | 59.64 | 88.71 |
| 79 | Georgia | 33.84 | 70.73 | 22.76 | 52.88 | 64.43 | 93.9 |
| 80 | Ireland | 33.65 | 75.32 | 13.87 | 55.16 | 58.24 | 87.74 |
| 81 | Ukraine | 33.38 | 68.87 | 14.33 | 51.69 | 53.55 | 87.97 |
| 82 | Kazakhstan | 33.22 | 49.97 | 12.8 | 41.87 | 52.56 | 59.08 |
| 83 | Morocco | 33.01 | 67.36 | 15.17 | 50.73 | 63.2 | 88.91 |
| 84 | Egypt | 32.94 | 69.5 | 28.16 | 51.81 | 62.68 | 95.7 |
| 85 | Bangladesh | 32.89 | 70.58 | 22.84 | 52.34 | 68.18 | 94.2 |
| 86 | Azerbaijan | 32.88 | 77.8 | 13.76 | 56.06 | 59.35 | 87.38 |
| 87 | Iraq | 32.55 | 73.74 | 14.59 | 53.81 | 57.45 | 88.36 |
| 88 | Pakistan | 32.52 | 73.36 | 18.25 | 53.59 | 58.14 | 90.81 |
| 89 | Venezuela | 32.42 | 71.39 | 17.16 | 52.53 | 53.7 | 89.84 |
| Blogger: interesting how high up the list the UK stands. Not too much for the USA to boast about, is there? |
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