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...
Jeremy Corbyn has been elected as the new leader of Labour Party. At the special conference today in London, it was announced that the veteran Socialist MP won nearly 60% of the vote in the race, beating Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall. Many thought that the party hit rock bottom when the Tories got re-elected. Now more people say that this is the true rock bottom. After months of campaigning, Labour has elected a leader who is not electable. It was already going to be a very hard and complicated task for the party to get back into power, but now it looks even more impossible. Jeremy Corbyn as a person, is a very nice and smart gentleman. But Jeremy Corbyn as a politician is representing something that is not sustainable. In fact many call him the last torchbearer of socialism (together with Bernie Sanders). Corbyn barely got onto the ballot paper, as many MP's only voted for him to broaden the debate, that was going to elect either Burnham or Cooper. W...