Going gently or at least when you want

Some days ago I read an article (here) reminding me how little freedom we have in some areas.
Here is the first paragraph:
"ON JULY 10th two people died whose lives, though long, were shortened by design and with others’ help. Sir Edward Downes, a British conductor, and his wife Joan had travelled to Switzerland, where the law on assisted suicide is the world’s most liberal. He was 85, partly deaf and almost completely blind; she was 74 and had terminal cancer. Holding hands and watched by their son and daughter, they drank a lethal dose of barbiturates and died."

And to know that I will not be able to end my life when ever I wish feels like a tremendous lack of freedom to me! Of course as long as you have freedom of movement noting can stop you from going to a shop to by barbiturates or even jumping from a high building of a cliff.

But that we live in a society where, even though you have all your head and you clearly decide to end your life, you are not allowed to do so (except in Switzerland and few other places) is incredible.
Is it the in heritage of our judeo-christian culture?

Special report on ageing populations

In the issue dated from June 27th 2009, The Economist has a special report on ageing populations. It is an eye-opener in many regards and I highly recommend it !
Huge population changes are ahead of us and will influence our lives more than the current economic crisis...
You will finds the links to all the articles in the top part of the left column.

John Pilger at Democracy Now

Good interview from Democracy Now.

"Award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker, John Pilger, joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the media, health care, and Obama’s wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pilger has has written close to a dozen books and made over 50 documentaries on a range of subjects including struggles around the world for a more just and peaceful society and against Western military and economic intervention."
The page with the audio and video is here.

Wildlife crisis

Thanks to all humans, the wildlife is in grave danger...

But let's carry on polluting, reproducing and overloading this poor planet by any mean we see fit!
Fuck wildlife, fuck Nature and he, even fuck ourselves...

Being smart when not seeing the big picture is of no use.

"Life on Earth is under serious threat, despite the commitment by world leaders to reverse the trend, according to a detailed analysis of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™."
The whole article is here.