Render Unto Darwin That Which Is Darwin’s

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The New Atheist writers from Richard Dawkins to E.O. Wilson to Sam Harris have become the high priests not of science but the cult of science.

Hackers harpoon US executives with phony email subpoenas

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Thousands of powerful US executives have received the bogus emails that contain links which, if clicked on, install software letting hackers take control of computers and swipe passwords or other sensitive data.
Internet security insiders refer to the attacks as “whaling” because they use social-engineering trickery involved in “phishing” but target individual “big phish” [...]

Global Warming and the Iraq War

Source: climateandcapitalism.com
March 19, 2008
In 2006. the US spent more on the war in Iraq than the whole world spent on investment in renewable energy.
On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, an advance edition of a new report from Oil Change International, entitled A Climate of War (pdf) quantifies both the greenhouse gas emissions of [...]

Quote of the Day - Of Course the people don’t want war…

Of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war: neither in Russia, [...]

Tasers a form of torture, says UN

 This article stood out to me because I recently heard that American women are now having “Taser Parties” in their living rooms.  Remember the good old days when living room parties were for Tupperware and sex toys?  Now they’re for protective torture devices.  I guess we’ve entered the brave new world.
 From correspondents in Geneva for [...]