Monthly Archives: November 2008

King Solomon’s Mines

Unlike other faiths, biblical faith is rooted in history. That the result is discoveries “straight out of an Indiana Jones’ movie” just goes to show how truth, in the end, really can top fiction. Read the full article hear by Mark Earley in Crosswalk.

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Forced Abortion Protest

China’s Population Control Policy and Gendercide.
Protests rise as Chinese govt. edicts abortion for woman reported the Baptist Press News.
International media pressure appears to have brought a reversal in that particular case but China’s population control policy must result in unsolvable future social, political and economic crisis.
“Chinese officials have given no clues as to how they [...]

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2008 Debt is £76,000 Per Household?

“The IMF believes the UK will suffer the deepest recession of any leading nation” says John Major

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2008 A Year We Will Remember

A World In Financial Crisis:
It’s an emergency. Long-term cures must wait.
“The slow-moving cancer that the world economy was suffering until August was caused by excessive borrowing, property speculation and reckless and dishonest banking practices. A still-deeper cause of this credit cancer was the global imbalance between exuberant consumption and house-price speculation in America, Britain, Spain, [...]

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BBC: Jonathan Ross & Russell Brand #2

Another incident that the Ross-Brand affair brought to my mind happened back around August/September 2001. Taunton is like many other towns - it has traffic lanes that can merge unexpectedly - a motorist’s frustration. It was a baking hot day and all car windows were down as we stopped and started, slowly making our way [...]

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BBC: Jonathan Ross & Russell Brand

Or should it be Brand and Ross? It was Brand’s BBC Radio 2 programme. Anyway, after the dust has settled will the lawyers now want their say? I read a report in the business section of The Times yesterday titled, “The Ross-Brand affair stripped bare” with the subheading, “What puzzles some employment lawyers is how [...]

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Cultural Divides in the UK?

UK Health Trusts spend £50m on translators says The Times.
Should the NHS provide translators or by doing so is multicultural Britain creating cultural isolation?

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Student Drinking Problem

University and Alcohol - Do they have to go together? How do non-drinking students relate to their university environment? How would a non-drinker or non-binge drinkers attract the opposite sex? It’s a serious question put to Dr. Tanya Byron in The Times.

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Social Divide In UK Pensions

Public sector pensions will cost £1 trillion
“Ministers are accused of recklessness as state workers’ schemes are revealed to be 15 times bigger than those of private workers.” Read the article in The Sunday Times by Robert Watts

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The Harm Caused By Faith - #1

CURE
In The Sunday Times Culture Magazine 21 October 07 The God Delusion paperback was down as being in the top ten for the last 22 weeks. Black Swan £8.99 (254,000). Each week The Sunday Times provided the information: “Powerful arguments on the irrationality of and harm caused by faith.” We have had more of this [...]

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