Last month a Polish man named Robert Dziekanski was killed at the Vancouver Airport after RCMP tasered him. Yesterday a video surfaced from a witness who recorded the event on his cell phone, now the story has really taken off. Google has hundreds of news stories related to Robert, so go ahead and pick your poison. The video below is from CBC The National has some pretty good nuggets of information, like how 286 people have now died from Tasers. Who would have thought 50,000 volts of electricity could be so dangerous? Well Canadian lawmakers are now calling for a moratorium on Taser use, I simply think cops should go back to using the old reliable lasso, what do you think about Tasers?

If been reduced to a state of shock after reading the comments in my last two posts about Global Warming er..sorry Climate Change, I wonder how or why so many people choose not only ignore but actually fight against protecting the environment. None of us are climate scientists so it really does boil down to where you get your information from, AOLers have been quick to assume I get all my information from Al Gore, but I have been quite interested in the subject well before Gore made his documentary. So where do you get your information? Climate Scientists or Public Relation campaigns funded by Oil Companies?

This documentary below is quite fascinating. You'll learn about the scientists who speak out against Global Warming and where they get their money from. Ironically the same scientists speaking out against Global Warming are literally the same scientific experts who provided evidence that smoking doesn't cause cancer. Also included is the short history of anti-global warming talking points. It all started not too long ago when PR expert Frank Luntz created a talking point manual for oil companies. The document is still the Global Warming bible for both Canadian and American governments.

CBC Fifth Estate Documentary - The Denial Machine.

So how did it happen, how could this crucial situation which many believe could determine the future of our planet become such a partisan battleground. After all global warming is widely accepted around the world as scientific fact, a recent study by the British government determined that the long term cost of ignoring the problem could be as great as the two world wars the depression added together, tonight we'll show how a relatively small group of scientists and corporations has managed to create a standoff that could undermine the international cooperation that many believe is our climates only hope. A standoff that reaches all the way to the White House.

Full Length Documentary. Enjoy.

Atheism documentaries are few and far between, but on October 5th, the CBC aired this documentary about the current rise of Atheism in the mainstream.

This Atheism documentary is nothing like Dawkins' Root of all Evil. Basically it's an unbiased presentation from a skeptical host who speaks with Sam Harris. Harris shares a few mind blowing facts about religion, and also speaks to Iraq veteran turned Atheist rapper, Greydon Square, who promotes free thought through his music.

Either way, it's safe to say that the Atheists are all godless loons who are all going to Hell. I pray to FSM that they will see the light and join the "right" religion.

CBC's Avi Lewis asked Richard Dawkins what he thought about the segment of the Republican debate where three candidates admitted they didn't believe in evolution, this clip also includes a short discussion on religious moderates.

you can watch the complete interview here.

"Good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things-that takes religion." -Stephen Weinberg, physicist

Vatican: condoms don't stop Aids - Guardian UK 2003

The Atheism Tag Archive is currently 2nd place in this weeks Tag Series.

Author Christopher Hitchens spoke on the CBC with George Strouboulopoulus about his latest book "God Is Not Great". New York Times Reviewed this book back in May, and you can also read an excerpt on Slate.

In this interview Hitchens explains for himself what the book is about. The interview touches on the recent renaissance of popular Atheism, anyway, go ahead and watch, it's about ten minutes long.

"Battle for Baghdad" - CBC

Four years after the invasion of Iraq, American troops battle it out with insurgents on Haifa Street in downtown Baghdad ... paying the price for four years of military and political miscalculations.