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California just made a huge positive step in Healthcare

Governor Jerry Brown made California the fourth state in the US on Monday to allow physician assisted dying. Yes, only the fourth, and it's disappointing that the numbers (or the lack of) overshadow the real achievement. Everyone has the right to live, and everyone should have the right to die. Of course life is sacred, but the opponents of this law must not seriously think that California's true intentions are to have a genocide. They simply just want to help those people who have no hope of a cure, and are suffering. That's it, there is no story here, Everyone is allowed to make their decisions about their life and body. If you can go and get an abortion from a professional, you should also be able to go to your doctor to die. They are there to help you and to lessen your pain. In any way possible. Of course we support that background checks must take place, and several doctors (including psychologists) should sign off before you are allowed to die. You sho...

UK starts airstrikes against ISIS

The UK has joined its coalition partners in carrying out airstrikes on ISIS in Syria. The Parliament overwhelmingly voted in favour of Prime Minister David Cameron's proposal late on Wednesday night, with a margin of 397 to 223. Within an hour, UK airplanes took of their base in Cyprus, and carried out the first round of attack inside Syria, mostly on oil fields. One of the most important goals of the government is to limit the income of the military group, and they are thought to be earning most of their money through selling oil. It has not be an easy road for David Cameron. After 2013's failed attempt to get the support of the MP's, most people thought that it is impossible to intervene. But something always intervenes. This time it was Paris. Since ISIS' attack on Paris three weeks ago, the public sentiment shifted. And David Cameron used it effectively. The British people are more afraid that this could happen to them as well, so latest polls show that t...

Paris was attacked again

EPA On Friday, the 13th of November, everything was normal in Paris. People were happy that the weekend is here, and went out with friends and loved ones for some dinner and drinks, or for their favorite band's concert or cheered for their home nation as France took on Germany in an International friendly. The same night though, the evil also descended on the French capital and took away 130 souls. It was an absolute tragedy. People have been shocked to their cores. It is with great sadness that we write about this topic. It touched us very deeply too. That is partially why it took us so long to reflect on this issue, the other being the fact that there is still so many new developments surfacing continuously. The whole picture is not clear yet. It may never be. What is perhaps one of the most striking facts about this attack beyond the number of casualties, is the fact that this is the second tragedy in Paris this year alone. It has only been 10 months since gunm...

Why the US should be more worried about China than it currently is

Ever since the end of World War II, China has been rising in prominence and in about every other way possible. They are the most populous nation on the globe, and their economy is expected to overtake America's in approximately two decades. Yet, the US (government, at least officially) still lives in denial about the dangers of this lurking catastrophe that China could represent. There are many things that Americans in general disagree with Republicans about, but they do trust them about China. And they should. As the Republican race for the White House is in full swing, the candidates have been expressing their foreign policy aspirations too. And China was in the first place, even ahead of ISIS. They are worried about the debt and China's increasing ownership of American assets and the government itself. About the mass influx of Chinese influence and products that also take away US jobs. About the cyber warfare and the various hackings. And abou...