the unbalanced evolution of homo sapiens

More than 20,000 Mideast war refugees and irregular migrants are now stranded in Greece, while numbers at the Idomeni border crossing with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) are growing alarmingly and reception facilities are reaching capacity, the migration policy ministry reported on Friday. The reception centres in the greater Athens were filled to overflowing, the ministry said, with 2,000 people currently staying at a camp set up the former Olympic facilities in the coastal Elliniko, 1,200 at a centre in downtown Athens, 1,200 in Schisto port site and 1,150 waiting at the port of Piraeus. Similarly, 2,000 had filled a new reception centre at Diavata, Thessaloniki, in northern Greece. Large numbers of third country nationals have started congregating at the border crossing at Idomeni after fYRoM authorities slowed the passage of registered refugees entering to roughly 50 an hour earlier this week. There were 4,000 people waiting at a tempora

Those who profit from human misery In the 15 years since the declaration of a ‘war on terror’ and the invasions of first Afghanistan and then Iraq, the world has witnessed an enormous proliferation of private military and security companies (PMSCs) seeking to profit from instability and conflict. Hundreds of companies have been established in the past few years alone, and there now exists a vast private industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Sadly, rather than introducing binding regulation of the industry, the British government has decided to allow the mercenaries to regulate themselves. Report by waronwant.org Key Points: The UK is an important hub for the PMSC industry. At the height of the occupation, around 60 British companies operated in Iraq. Now there are hundreds of British PMSCs operating in areas of conflict around the globe, working to secure government and corporate presence against a range of ‘threats’. At the

‘ EU Flag’ (2016) - from Mariana Bisti The European Union was formed to share democratic, humanitarian and liberal values. Yet, on today’s real life, Europe’s ideals and values sound like a parody and its foundations look shaky. Several EU states have closed their borders to thousands of refugees and, as Syria’s humanitarian crisis is spinning out of control, more borders are likely to close. Europe is undermining its moral values by turning its back on hundreds of thousands of people who are in despair. In this regard, the making of the ‘New EU flag’ is a means to comment on the death of the European Dream, principles and values. The raising took place at the Slade School of Fine Art, after an initial request to use UCL’s central pole was rejected. The act attempts to underline how a ‘dream of unity’ has turned into a nightmare. The sound of the ‘Ode to Joy’, EU’s anthem, amplifies the irony in this otherwise dramatic situation. Many thanks to David Blac

του Άρη Χατζηστεφάνου Το πραγματικό της πρόσωπο – αυτό δηλαδή που υπηρετούν εδώ και χρόνια οι Ε.Ευρωπαϊστές της δεξιάς και της «αριστεράς» – έδειξε για άλλη μια φορά η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, που όπως φαίνεται βάζει τις τελικές πινελιές για τον εγκλωβισμό δεκάδων χιλιάδων προσφύγων και μεταναστών στην Ελλάδα. Σύμφωνα με την Wall Street Journal αξιωματούχος της ΕΕ δήλωσε ότι «η Ελλάδα δεν είναι το χειρότερο μέρος για να έχουμε μια ανθρωπιστική κρίση τους επόμενους μήνες». Άλλοι αξιωματούχοι, σύμφωνα με το ρεπορτάζ της εφημερίδας, ανέφεραν ότι μια τέτοια κρίση θα έχει θετικά αποτελέσματα καθώς θα λειτουργήσει αποτρεπτικά για την άφιξη νέων μεταναστών. Η «Ευρώπη των λαών», την οποία υπηρετούν από την εποχή του Μάαστριχτ το ΠΑΣΟΚ, η ΝΔ και οι διάφορες μετεξελίξεις του Συνασπισμού/ΣΥΡΙΖΑ θυμίζει τις χώρες της Δυτικής Ευρώπης και της Βόρειας Αμερικής πριν από το Δεύτερο Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο, όταν σφράγιζαν τα σύνορά για τους Εβραίους παραδίδοντάς τους στον Χίτλερ. Ήταν η

For over two decades, the battle between privacy-minded technologists and the U.S. government has primarily been over encryption. In the 1990s, in what became known as the Crypto Wars, the U.S. tried to limit powerful encryption – calling it as dangerous to export as sophisticated munitions — and eventually lost. After the 2013 Snowden revelations, as mainstream technology companies started spreading encryption by putting it in popular consumer products, the wars erupted again. Law enforcement officials, led by FBI Director James Comey, loudly insisted that U.S. companies should build back doors to break the encryption just for them. That won’t happen because what these law enforcement officials are asking for isn’t possible (any back door can be used by hackers, too) and wouldn’t be effective (because encryption is widely available globally now). They’ve succeeded in slowing the spread of unbreakable encryption by intimidating tech companies that might otherw