China: Government Starts Phasing Out American Processors, Operating

It never ceases to amaze me how tenaciously people can maintain religious beliefs that were drilled into them from a young age.

Jeroen Belleman

(Coming out of such a mold myself, I also wonder how I became an atheist...)

Cromwell got sick of Charles attempts to get France to restore him to the throne. Anti-anglicanism didn't come into it.

My wife's great-great-grandfather was the first Catholic Antorney General of Ireland -first Catholic Attorney General of Ireland

Michael O'Loghlen MP for Dungarvan, September 1835 to October 1836.

Clearly not outlawed.

The burqa has a lot of room to conceal weapons, and France has had some murderous incidents where this has been exploited.

America does seem to be oddly tolerant of nut cases with guns killing lots of Americans. The French take precautions against it happening to French citizens.

Off-shore detention in neighbouring countries for asylum seekers who try top jump the queue in boats is being phased out. The government that introduced the idea got voted out about two years ago, and the current government is trying get other countries to take them. Some are hard to place.

Hindus and Moslems come to Australia on the same basis, and openly practice their religions here. They don't get forced into ghettos - we haven't got any.

Not an aspect of British economic history that I got taught about.

My father's family were Congregationalists and my mother's family included one prominent Methodist - he got a state funeral as the Methodism Chaplain General of Australia in 1926.

Both protestant religions were fully integrated into British economic life. The Quakers were a bit odder, but they didn't have their own economy either.

How about love the people around you?

In a manner of speaking. Historically, peace only endured when a major military power decided it was good for business, and so enforced peace by force of arms. This spans from local police to national armies.

Joe Gwinn

Covered by the same rule, no problem. You wouldn't want the people around you to ignore you entirely, now, would you?

Jeroen Belleman

I can understand warfare as ruthless competition for scarce resources, or maybe as a preemptive action for a perceived future threat. I don't understand religion, despite having been brought up in that environment. Where many people think they see the hand of some god, I see just chance and a perfectly indifferent nature.

I cannot believe in a superbeing said to be benevolent, if he also created pests, predators, parasites and pestilence.

Jeroen Belleman

No, but the other side of the coin is global warming, which at the core is really just a matter of overpopulation.

--scott

Sometimes being warned of things is enough to prevent them from happening.

Swill

Consider the horror that they might be correct.

Your belief is irrelevant. It is or it is not.

Malthusian starvation regulated the size of the human population until the agricultural revolution allowed it to expand - initially only in few countries.

The population bomb is real

The world population growth rate seems to have peaked in 1963 and the total human population is expected to peak in 2086, though this may not figure in the effects of more anthropogenic global warming.

They aren't, but John Larkin is a gullible sucker for climate change denial propaganda.

That's the prediction.

They have been so far. A proper catastrophe gets rid of both the catastrophists and the people who are sceptical of their predictions, so there isn't anybody around to mention that a catastrophist finally got it right.