Category Archives: Social Issues

Eugenics Shame Revealed In US History

Eugenics is something we generally associate with the Nazi regime, so when we read of America that, “Some reports estimate that 33 different states had eugenics laws that allowed for forced sterilization and that more than 60,000 American were sterilized in the process, ” we might well be surprised by that.
“How did our country get [...]

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Windows Technical Department Phone Scam

Earlier this week my wife got a phone call from someone with an Indian accent saying he was calling from ‘Windows Service Station’. At first my she thought it was about our car, but he went on to tell her that her computer was sending out a lot of errors and hacking into other computers. He [...]

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The Indulgent Rich V The Starving Poor

 
‘£100,000 of handbags and £70,000 of shoes in poor little rich girl Tamara’s wardrobe’ said the Daily Mail, 26 October 2011.
27-year-old Tamara Ecclestone, daughter of the 4th richest person in Britain, admitted that as well “as a shoe collection to rival Imelda Marcos - she owns countless designer bags, dresses worth £1000 that she doesn’t [...]

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UK Elderly Being Bullied Into Downsizing?

It has been on BBC radio and TV News - and one can find it being discussed elsewhere.  That’s the view of one charity, not being viewed charitably. If you are over 60 and the children have flown the nest then it is time for you to fly the nest too to make room for [...]

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The US Is Challenged On The Definition Of Marriage

‘Same Sex Partnerships’ is currently challenging the representatives in the United States Senate:
“A historic Senate hearing on a possible repeal of the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) revealed a large divide on beliefs about the definition of marriage but also showcased opposing arguments on a subject traditionalists say is often misunderstood — the purpose of [...]

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The World Watches England Ablaze 2011

It has been watched on television around the world. How could a once Christian country have come to this? The riots in London and other cities in England have really been tragic for the victims, tragic for the perpetrators that they should think and behave the way they have. It is tragic for the country [...]

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“The Lady” Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi is a most remarkable lady. She is a lady to be admired for her great courage and determination against such adversity to uphold before her people the foremost of human values - to be free to think and communicate freely and responsibly with fellow humans to bring out the best in [...]

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America: Land Of The Free - 4 July 2011

A prominent Christian in the US, Richard Land gives his 4 July speech emphasising the uniqueness of America from other nations - freedom rates for me as the highest in human values. But do we value other people’s rights to hold their freedoms with our own? Land is right to draw attention to what happened [...]

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Can UK Prisons Become As Bad As California Prisons?

Says Chuck Colson:
“It’s not simply that the system currently houses 142,000 inmates in a system designed to house 80,000 — it’s that the overcrowding makes basic regard for human decency and dignity next-to-impossible. As justice Kennedy pointed out, accommodating that many prisoners means more than double or triple bunking, it requires turning every bit of [...]

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74,000 People In The UK Have Been Lost!

“74,500 people have been ‘lost’ because officials do not know whether they have left the country or died.” And that is just asylum seekers! What about all the illegal immigrants? The author of a letter to Mr Cameron has a solution to offer the government. Go to the end of the letter and the solution [...]

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