The art of Homeopathy (1) was developed by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann in 1796. It got never to be the preferredtherapy in the medical world. Scientific proof could never ascertain, that Homeopathy really works. It is believed that the effects of Homeopathy are like Placebos. Still Homeopathy exists and has it’s followers. And it got, a kind of, support from modern physics. Quantum physics (2) is about the same level of size...

The last post in this website was about the way of life of former British prime minister Mr. Tony Blair and how he sees the way ahead. Mr. Blair, together with former US president George W. Bush, was responsible for the second Gulf war. The incentive for going to war were the alleged Weapons of Mass-destruction and the will to get rid of the dictator Saddam Hussein and to bring Democracy to Iraq. The Weapons of Mass-destruction...

There was never really peace during the reign of humanity on earth. The reasons were always different but there was always one final answer – war.  Wars about a way of life. Either mine or yours! Today it is a clash of cultures and the respective ways of life. The still very powerful way of the western culture is being challenged by many different ways of life. All the emerging Superpowers, like China, India and South America exert...

Mankind is the only being on earth which needs an excessive amount of resources. Some animals also need resources, like the birds need the material to build their nests. But this is still part of the natural cycle and is constantly recycled. And only as much is used as is really needed. While we human beings use the resources provided by nature as though it is inexhaustible. And we use the resources even when we don’t need it....

The Germans have a beautiful language, although it isn’t very melodic. But some things can only be expressed in German. Just to name a few; Ersatz, Doppelgänger, Hinterland, Kindergarten and, at last but not least, Zeitgeist. Zeitgeist links two words to a new one and gets a different meaning. Zeit means time and Geist means Spirit. Therefore the meaning of Zeitgeist could be translated as the spirit of the time or, rather,...

Greenpeace, the internationally renowned environment organization, has almost mythological proportions. No one can deny Greenpeace its accomplishments. At the time the organization was established the environmental concerns were almost non existent in the public. Greenpeace has its fair share in building up public awareness. For this even a member got killed, when the French secret service blew up the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in New...