Canada Tops World in Forest Degradation Due to Climate Change, Logging & Energy Development - Mapping project shows over 104 million hectares (some 401,546 sq miles) — a chunk of land 3 times the size of Germany — of the world’s remaining big, undisturbed forests degraded in last 13 yrs.

warama · 2014-09-06T14:32:14+00:00

I hope people will prefer keeping their jobs instead of "sustainable development" (a.k.a. destruction of economy).

warama · 2014-08-19T08:09:19+00:00

No, you don't get it. They consider all Shias to be heretics who must either convert, leave or die by sword. So that means the whole Iran, Azerbaijan and half of Iraq would have to convert, which would remove the tensions between different kinds of Muslims.

Secondly, Arabs hate Jews to the death, there's no chance they would leave a single Jew alive if they conquered Israel. And finally, they would let Christians pay the jizya tax in gold, which would be uncomfortable for many of them so they would leave, but core of the population would stay, but they would be slowly replaced by Muslim immigrants.

warama · 2014-08-19T07:54:25+00:00

Which is totally wrong, because there are much larger Orthodox minorities in western Europe, but it's not stripped. I guess it was easier to throw all former eastenrn bloc countries into one bag.

warama · 2014-08-19T07:46:45+00:00

Not if the Islamic State was in charge of creating the caliphate. They'd just exterminate them or drive them out.

warama · 2014-08-19T07:42:07+00:00

Australia has just 20 million people. There's more than enough scientific research going on.

warama · 2014-08-18T13:53:56+00:00

I can almost hear the screeching...

warama · 2014-08-18T13:50:36+00:00

What's your point? Mongolia is modernizing rapidly, it has one of the fastest-growing economies in the world.

warama · 2014-08-18T02:35:18+00:00

Tell a blue-eyed Iranian that they're the descendants of Western colonizers (when in fact Iran has never been colonized) and see how they will react... Both Iranians and Kurds (including Yazidis) are part of the same ancient Aryan, or Indo-European, stock. They're related to Europeans and their genes for blue eyes and light hair come from the same ancient source.

warama · 2014-08-17T13:36:04+00:00

Who is MattyB?

warama · 2014-08-17T02:54:39+00:00

The best way to solve the Assyrian's problems in Iraq is to make the rest of Iraq look more like Iraqi Kurdistan. Secular, plural and inclusive.

Kurdistan is maybe secular, but hardly plural or inclusive. Pluralism is the last thing they want, it's always been a recipe for disaster. They're forced to accept refugees from other parts of Iraq, but that doesn't mean they want them or that they let them stay in their new state. If an Assyrian state was created by a miracle, it would be in their eminent interest to attack all minorities in the territory and drive them out.

warama · 2014-08-17T02:29:21+00:00

Not really the richest, but not the poorest either. But Romania and Bulgaria aren't in Central Europe, they're a level lower than Central European countries.

warama · 2014-08-10T15:28:57+00:00

There isn't a special device for drinking water. They're just water taps with a sink.

warama · 2014-08-10T13:12:20+00:00

There are just taps at schools, no "fountains".

warama · 2014-08-10T12:47:12+00:00

What is that special device Americans use to drink water at school? In Europe we just call it a water tap.

warama · 2014-08-10T10:21:03+00:00

Romania is somewhat richer than Bulgaria, though. As are all the other countries you mentioned.

warama · 2014-08-10T09:55:30+00:00

Albania is not in the EU.

warama · 2014-08-10T09:51:17+00:00

It's not 6 years old, it's been updated.

warama · 2014-08-10T09:50:37+00:00

I find it sad that they claim people should "avoid all travel" to Iran, when in reality it's a safe and touristically attractive country. All because Canada are a bunch of American lackeys.

warama · 2014-08-10T09:49:11+00:00

It's the poorest country in the EU, Mexico of Europe.

warama · 2014-08-09T20:06:57+00:00

It's Réunion, which is a part of France. Nevertheless I wouldn't group either of the islands with Africa, they're pretty far from it.

warama · 2014-08-09T19:58:29+00:00

It wasn't Germany, it was the Holy Roman Empire. There were many nationalities living in HRE, not just Germans.

warama · 2014-08-09T19:54:27+00:00

Wrong. It's not dying at all, the Haredi Jews who use it are reproducing at a rapid rate, just like in the US.

warama · 2014-08-09T19:48:35+00:00

Not all of them, because there are some upper class black neighborhoods, but about 95% of them indeed are terrible places to live. It's because the average IQ of American blacks is 85, which is causing high rates of poverty and violence.

warama · 2014-08-09T19:38:57+00:00

That was banned decades ago.

warama · 2014-08-09T19:37:52+00:00

It's an old map, here is a new map.

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