They rail on about Darwinism. They argue for Creationism rather than evolution. They claim to be devout adherents to the Bible, particularly the New Testament, and worship Jesus. Why, then, is the fundamentalist Christian Right so goddamned fond of Darwinism when it’s social Darwinism? Here’s the thing. Real Christians are
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The Disaffected Lib: The World 20-Years From Now Will Not Resemble the World Today
Change is happening and the pace of change is accelerating. Most of the changes that are nearing will not be welcome. Some will be enormously challenging. The global consulting giant, KPMG, has identified 10-megaforces that it contends business will have to confront within the next twenty years. And the firm
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With the NDP about to embark on a principle-shredding popularity drive to the top and the Liberals who knows where (or what), organizations like ForestEthics may be the face of future opposition politics in Canada. ForestEthics is about to go to war – on Harper. To do it they’re jettisoning
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: U-N-Believable. Harper Closes BC Oil Spill Centre
The Harper government is closing British Columbia’s command centre for emergency oil spills just as that fundamentalist degenerate guts fisheries protections and ‘streamlines’ environmental approvals for the Northern Gateway bitumen pipeline and Kitimat tanker port. The oil spill operations will be centralized in Quebec. The move comes as Kinder Morgan
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Prepping Business for a Turbulent Environmental Future
‘Business as usual’ is on the way out. And that warning is coming from global consulting giant KPMG. Business is finally recognising what Buddhists have taught for thousands of years and development NGOs have struggled with for decades – that everything is connected and no problem can be effectively dealt
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: London’s Formula 1 Buses
A flywheel from a Formula 1 car will be tested on London buses in hope that it can improve fuel efficiency as much as 30%. The flywheel, developed by racing car builder Williams F1, captures energy from deceleration which is then re-used when the vehicle accelerates. Unlike massively heavy flywheel
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Arms Race Update
Korea may not yet be able to successfully launch a long-range missile but India can. India has test fired a nuclear-weapon capable, Agni-V missile capable of reaching Beijing or Shanghai and plenty of cities in Europe also. India’s DefMin singled out China in his announcement. He noted that China has
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: They Would Say That
“As long as Afghanistan is not able to ensure by itself the security in the country, the artificial timelines of withdrawal are not correct and they should not be set” – Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Russia says Western forces have no business getting out of Afghanistan by 2014. No, we
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: From the "He Said WHAT?" File
A Florida fire department Captain knows who’s to blame for the killing of Trayvon Martin. In Miami-Dade Captain Brian Beckmann’s mind, it’s all the fault of “shitbag, ignorant, pathetic, welfare dependent parents” of urban youth. I guess Cap’n Beckmann wasn’t aware that Martin’s mother works for the same Miami-Dade government
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: From the "They Did WHAT?" File
It wasn’t even close. By a 28-1 margin the Tennessee state senate has approved a bill updating the state’s sex-education curriculum to declare holding hands and kissing “gateway sexual activities.” Since the bill specifically bans teachers from “demonstrating gateway sexual activity”, educators would be prohibited from even demonstrating what hand-holding
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: In Afghanistan, Success Equals Failure
Afghan farmers are on target to produce a bumper crop of opium in 2012. Opium farming will increase across Afghanistan in 2012, driven by insecurity, massive corruption and economic fears for the future, and spreading to more areas than it has in the past four to five years, the United
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Norway’s Grotesque Travesty
He’s sane. He’s freely admitted the senseless and brutal murder of 77 people. He’s not raising anything that could remotely be recognized as a defence or mitigation. Why then is a Norwegian court allowing Anders Breivik’s trial to turn into theatre of the absurd, a grotesque travesty? Providing Breivik a
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Afghanistan, Why Do We Insist on Defeating Ourselves?
Okay, according to America’s own counter-insurgency doctrine, Western forces in Afghanistan have long passed the point where, in Afghan eyes, they transformed from liberator/defender to occupier/oppressor. And, okay, the drone attacks aren’t helping nor the burning of the Korans or that video of Marines pissing on Afghan corpses and that
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Afghanistan Reels Under the Weight of Victory
It’s typical of the war in Afghanistan that all sides are claiming victory in the wake of the recent insurgent attacks on Kabul and other cities. We seemed relieved that Afghan security forces, now believed to number 190,000, were able to put down the attacks albeit after several hours of
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is the British Potato in Peril?
It is estimated that the people of the United Kingdom consume their way through their country’s annual agricultural production by about Easter each year. Overall, therefore, Brits rely on imports for about two-thirds of their foodstuffs. Put another way, for two-thirds of the year, Brits eat other peoples’ food. In
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Krugman Puts Europe on Suicide Watch
Princeton economist, New York Times columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman wonders if Europe’s political leadership has a death wish. “The question then was whether this brave and effective action [of the European Central Bank] would be the start of a broader rethink, whether European leaders would use the breathing
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Stupid, Stupid Harper
The man who speaks with forked tongue is at it again. Furious Leader Steve Harper says he accepts that the war on drugs, especially South American drug cartels, isn’t working. Cue the Straw Men. “There is increasing doubt about whether we are taking the best approach to doing that, but
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is China Out for Revenge?
China may be looking to the future to avenge real and perceived wrongs from the past. The Guardian reports on war games undertaken by US and Chinese commanders that have taken an eerie twist. The US and China have been discreetly engaging in “war games” amid rising anger in Washington
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: It’s Like Living With Crazy People
Case in point. A great guy. We’ve been friends for almost 40-years. He’s devoutly Conservative and has been actively involved in the party longer than I’ve known him. Well educated, well traveled, well spoken. He has had a career as a lawyer, judge and an elected official in two levels
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