How long do you think we humans have? This is the opening question in Michael Moore’s new movie, “Planet of the Humans,” free to watch on YouTube for a month.
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Legalizing Euthanasia Is Becoming More Common
The ethical and legal justification for different methods of assisted dying is an on-going topic of debate all over the world. The last Western country to make a movement towards a more permissive direction was Germany, overturning a ban on assisted suicide, on 26, February 2020. In a landmark decision on passive euthanasia, the Indian...
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Abuse of Power: Trump in the Dock – the USA on Trial
Abuse of power: You have seen the President of the US and his understanding of power, summarized below. You can enjoy the contrast with Osho’s understanding here: What Lies Behind the Abuse of Power? Anyone with even half an eye on the news out of the US knows perfectly well that Trump used the power of...
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Catastrophe Chronicle – Updated Regularly
“We are on the deathbed. Humanity cannot survive – the way it has been behaving with nature – for more than fifty years, sixty years, or, at the most, one hundred years, which is nothing. If the Third World War does not happen, then we will be committing a slow suicide. Within a hundred years,...
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Science Trumps Belief!
November 26, 2018, should go down in history as the most dramatic metaphor for everything that is insane about the way Homo sapiens organizes itself. Dramatically, an international team of scientists dropped the Mars Lander onto the surface of Mars, some 300 million miles away. The video stream from NASA showed this wonderfully dedicated team...
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The Death of DJ Avicii
In 2018, acclaimed DJ, Avicii, died from apparent suicide aged 28, at the height of his success. In 2017 he told Rolling Stone: “It’s about consciousness. None of us today can fucking handle our emotions – most of us are running around being reactive. That’s why I had to stop touring, because I couldn’t read...
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