Samadhi- "Maya, the Illusion of the Self" (R)

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   Samadhi- "Maya, the Illusion of the Self"



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What is the significance of Jeeva Samadhi? Sadhguru

Published on Mar 10, 2017

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Why China is the Most Powerful Country in The World Full Documentary

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Why China is the Most Powerful Country in The World Full Documentary

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Published on Nov 14, 2016

China has a lot of things going for it(high population, incredible manufacturing capabilities, fairly cheap labor, and lots of natural resources), but even with those things China will have a hard time succeeding.

 For one the government interferes WAY too much with the economy. As someone who has a lot of friends working in finance, I know the last place businesses are looking to invest now is China. They are scared with all of the Chinese currency manipulation, stock market freezes, and other interference from the government which falsifies information and misleads them. China is not ready to go autonomous from foreign investors, if it wasnt for foreign countries investing in the country for so long China would probably still be a third world country that has a poor economy, but because of all the foreign trade and business going on China has really developed economically. 

Now that foreign investment is pulling out and going to other places(such as Vietnam and India), China will have a shortage of capital until the government stops manipulating the economy. With this shortage of capital business in China will suffer and when business suffers, the economy suffers. If China has a recession, it is likely that they will quickly lose status on the world stage.

The other issue related to economy is that China just doesnt really have that much innovation going on. For a country almost 5 times the size of the US you would think they would have tons of great ideas and companies emerging. You would think that China would have companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc, and to some extent China does have these companies, but the companies just aren't innovative at all. I mean in the case of Baidu, they pretty much just copied a couple western websites(namely google) and used already existing technology to do it. Same thing with Xiaomi, China isn't actively developing the next big thing(such as the iPhone), they in the past have just waited for the Americans to develop an idea and then they just reproduce it for China. Without this innovation China just doesnt have the same influence because they dont really have all this great technology to leverage economically.

On the political end of the spectrum China is indeed very powerful, as a country with 1/5th of the world’s population should be, but they have few allies which will certainly hurt them. With their shenanigans in the South China sea they have pretty much alienated all of their neighboring countries. Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, India, and Indonesia have problems with China and so being influential politically will be extremely difficult for the Chinese because they have made so many enemies.

On the demographic end China is experiencing population aging problems right now. Not as severe as Japan is experiencing but if you look at the linked population graph you will see something that looks pretty sickly.


This is what a good population chart looks like. Narrow at the top, and gets larger as it nears the bottom. This was China 63 years ago. Now look at the chart for 2010:


What you see is something that, again, is rather sick looking. The bottom is narrower than the majority of the chart, this means that China’s days of growth are numbered. As we have already seen with Japan, it is extremely difficult to post positive economic growth statistics with a population that is old. Look at this chart, the fattest parts are people between the ages of 25(this chart is from 5 years ago, so thats how old they are now) and 55. In 20 years this chart will probably be even more sickly with that big middle bulge moving up 20 years and being supported by a very thin base. Japan and China are very similar places so comparison between the two is often done to predict the future of China. During the mid 20th century Japan received A TON of foreign investment and business exploded, much like what happened in China, Japanese products dominated global trade and many were of the impression that Japan could surpass the US in terms of economy, but they didnt. For demographic comparison here is what happened to Japan in 1975:

WILD LIFE - DOCUMENTARY :: Wild Life in Africa Documentary

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Endless plains - that's what Serengeti means in the Maasai language. 30,000 square kilometers of African Savannah shared between Tanzania and Kenya. Wildlife filmmaker Reinhard Radke spent two years in this wilderness in the hunt for spectacular images. It's the first German cinema film about the Serengeti after half a century. The most recent technology's been used. Footage with up to 2,000 frames per second opens up new worlds. Shooting a film in the Serengeti is a difficult task full of surprises and adventures.

The day starts early in the Savannah. You need to use the first light as many animals only hunt in the cool morning hours. Reinhard Radke is a biologist and he's been coming regularly to the Serengeti for 30 years. First he came on field trips, then for television and now a film. To get better footage a 4x4 has been converted into a camera platform. The roof's been strengthened and as a filming balcony every camera angle should be feasible. With such a large number of wildebeest the predators can't be far away... the difficulty is finding them.

Reinhard got footage of an extraordinary hunt and now it's time to think about his own food supply. Despite the vehicle's idiosyncrasies it proves to be a jack of all trades. There's a compartment for everything. The car has been equipped with everything that may be required for an impromptu overnight stay in the wilderness... in case it's too far to drive back to the base-camp.

The filmmaker's not alone; he's assisted by a lookout. His main job is to spot the film's main characters. You have to know the animals' behavior patterns very well for this job and Reinhard's sidekick does. Storm clouds gather in the evening. The overnight rain has turned the sandy tracks into deep mud. Even an off-road vehicle can get stuck, but help can be found even in the remotest areas.

Pakistan’s Hidden Shame: Documentary

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Pakistan’s Hidden Shame: Documentary

Published on Apr 8, 2015

 

 

Powerful documentary about the sexual exploitation and abuse of many thousands of poor and vulnerable children in Pakistan's north-western city of Peshawar.

Director Mohammed Naqvi,and British producer Jamie Doran's film Pakistan’s Hidden Shame depicts the shocking reality of sexual abuse faced by small boys in the Northern areas of Pakistan.

The documentary premiered on September 1 on Britain's Channel 4 and shows the "dark reality of a society living in denial."

Set mainly in Peshawar, the film shows homeless boys of different ages recalling their experiences of sexual exploitation.

In an interview with CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour, the director of the documentary told her what puts children at risk in Pakistan and around the world.

"Pedophiles by their very nature are inadequate, it's about power over children."

"Where these individuals are able to use and abuse vulnerable children, Pakistan in particular because of the poverty. That's one of the other factors that really plays here."

Director Mohammed Naqvi,and British producer Jamie Doran's film Pakistan’s Hidden Shame depicts the shocking reality of sexual abuse faced by small boys in the Northern areas of Pakistan.

The documentary premiered on September 1 on Britain's Channel 4 and shows the "dark reality of a society living in denial."

Set mainly in Peshawar, the film shows homeless boys of different ages recalling their experiences of sexual exploitation.

"Where these individuals are able to use and abuse vulnerable children, Pakistan in particular because of the poverty. That's one of the other factors that really plays here."

In the documentary, the narrator introduces Pakistan as 'one of the most important Muslim populations, a democracy, a nuclear power and a supporter of the Western bloc.' But it soon reveals the silence and denial on one of the most taboo topics: pedophilia.

The documentary alleges that 9 out of 10 children in Peshawar have been victims of pedophilia. It also contains interviews with truck drivers who have committed such crimes.

Shockingly, one of the drivers admits, without any remorse, to having raped 11 or 12 boys.

Pakistan’s Hidden Shame: Documentary reveals horrors of pedophilia in K-P

Doran also questions Imran Khan whose party Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) formed the government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which has Peshawar as its capital.

"It's one of the most sad and shameful aspects of our society. I am totally embarrassed by this and that we have not really been able to protect them," Khan said.

Disturbing Rotherham child abuse report

The release of the documentary overlaps with the alarming revelations of a report released from Rotherham, the Northern English town where abuse, grooming and trafficking of 1,400 girls by predominantly Asian men over a 16-year period.

According to Reuters, the independent report last week exposed the scale and graphic nature of the crimes and raised difficult questions about whether timidity about confronting the racial aspects of the abuse had prompted authorities to turn a blind eye.

Some of the victims, mainly white girls in social care homes, were as young as 11 and were plied with drugs and alcohol before being trafficked to cities across northern England and gang-raped by groups of men, predominately of Pakistani heritage, the report said.

Those who tried to speak out were threatened with guns and made to watch brutal gang rapes. Their abusers said they would be next if they told anyone. One girl was doused with petrol, her rapist threatening to set her alight.

The report added that senior managers in social care "underplayed" the problem while police regarded many victims with contempt.

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                 Cloning the Woolly Mammoth

 

 

 

 

 

Scientific research and practices are advancing at a rapid pace. Many of the breakthroughs have exceeded the expectations of our most vivid imaginations, and have forced society to grapple with challenges related to ethics and morality. The most glaring example of this dilemma lies in the field of cloning.

 

 

The new documentary Cloning the Woolly Mammoth tackles this debate by taking us on a journey around the globe in regions where researchers are making great strides in replicating various species in their laboratories.

 

 

The world was abuzz when the news broke that species such as sheep and dogs were successfully cloned. Now, scientists are working diligently to make their next cloning experiment a reality, and it's the kind of quest that most of us have only witnessed through the imaginings of Hollywood movie makers. Can advances in cloning allow us to resurrect a long extinct and prehistoric species like the woolly mammoth?

 

 

This quest begins in South Korea, where cloning has become a widely accepted reality, and a profitable business to boot. Wealthy consumers can even have their beloved pets cloned for $100,000 per specimen. But the next evolution in cloning technologies makes these accomplishments seem tame and antiquated in comparison. Utilizing mammoth tissue samples imported from Siberia, scientists inject these long dormant cells into the Asian elephant; thereby, attempting to recreate a species which has been extinct for over 4,000 years.

 

 

Why the mammoth? Scientists state that it's simply because it's within the realm of possibility. "Someone on this Earth will have to do it and I think it's us," says interview subject Dr. Jeong Yeon Woo, the director of the Sooam Mammoth Rebirth Project. "Don't you think it will be fun to find out what comes out?"

 

 

The ethical implications of the experiment don't end there. Siberian tusk hunters are one of the major groups who profit from the woolly mammoth project, and their efforts play a primary role in supplying the samples which make the experiment possible.

 

 

Cloning the Woolly Mammoth explores the many controversial variables involved in this brave new world of scientific research; a world which may be ill-prepared if these experiments should reap success.

 

Watch the full documentary now