24 September 2018 (Wall Street International)* – The cosmos is a depositary of great many mind blowing notions, be the dark energy, the dark matter, the notion of infinity, the billions of galaxies each with billions of stars, the big-bang narrative and the breath-taking space ship journeys…
The cosmos is a depositary of great many mind blowing notions, be the dark energy, the dark matter, the notion of infinity, the billions of galaxies each with billions of stars, the big-bang narrative and the breath-taking space ship journeys…
‘When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it – always.’ M.K. Gandhi
Gandhi in 1942, the year he launched Quit India movement | Kanu Gandhi– gandhiserve.org | Public Domain
As we remember Gandhi Jayanti on 2 October, the Mahatma’s 149thbirthday and the International Day of Nonviolence, there is plenty of room for despair.
Never before has the Earth and its many inhabitants been under siege as they are now, more than 100 years after Gandhi started warning us of the predicament in which we are embroiled and presenting his strategy for addressing it before it spiraled out of control.
Bolsonaro, who is leading Brazil’s presidential polls, has a long history of embracing torture and making violent comments against vulnerable groups.
Bolsonaro supporters carry a doll of “The Legend,” as they call him. | Photo: EFE | Posted from teleSur.
29 September 2018 (teleSUR)* — Jair Bolsonaro, the leading candidate in Brazil’s presidential race, has been criticized nationally and internationally for his sexist, homophobic, racist, and authoritarian comments.
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Most recently, a petition signed by 190,000 Brazilians warns about how Bolsonaro represents a “clear threat to our fundamental civilizational heritage.”
More than half of the world’s killer whales are threatened by a group of toxic industrial chemicals that accumulate in their blubber and can be passed on from mother to calf. That’s according to a new study led by scientists in Denmark and published in the journal Science. Killer whale populations found in the most polluted seas around Japan, Brazil, the UK or in the northeast Pacific, the authors report, are “tending toward complete collapse”.
**Dutch whalers near Spitsbergen, their most successful port | Artist: Abraham Storck, 1690 | Stichting Rijksmuseum het Zuiderzeemuseum. 022296 | Public Domain
24 September 2018 (Wall Street International)*– Religious practice in ancient China dates back over 7,000 years ago. Long before the Confucius, Lao Zi and the Buddha got accepted and developed philosophical and spiritual teachings, the people believed, developed and worshipped personifications of nature and concepts like “wealth” or “fortune” which eventually developed into a religion. Such thoughts and beliefs still influence religious practices today.
Evidence suggests Chinese mythological symbolism from the 12th century BC carved in the Oracle bone scripts. Legend of creation were passing down for over a thousand years before was written in books such as Classic of Mountains and Seas 山海經 (4 BC – 2 BC).
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