Flitst het leven voor de ogen bij het sterven?

Studie: Specifieke golfpatronen opgenomen in een stervend brein

 De dood is altijd een mysterie geweest voor de mens. Wat kunnen mensen zien of voelen als ze sterven? Wetenschappers die de hersengolven van een stervende patiënt registreerden, hebben misschien inzicht in het mysterie.

Bij het gebruik van continue elektro-encefalografie (EEG) om de hersengolven van een 87-jarige epileptische man op te nemen, volgde een internationaal team van wetenschappers zijn hersenactiviteit terwijl hij een hartaanval kreeg en stierf. De studie werd gepubliceerd in februari 2022 in de editie Front Aging Neuroscience.

The Patrushev Oversight

In a recent interview with Russian media, Nikolay Patrushev, an intelligence officer who is the former director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and the current secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council, spoke about the nature of power in the West. In keeping with the previous address of President Putin at Valdai, Patrushev shared many of the criticisms made by disillusioned Western commentators.

While some observers may think aspects of Patrushev’s critique accurate, fewer seem to have noticed that many of his criticisms are equally applicable to the Russian state and its “partners.” It’s as if the practically identical power structures are considered, for some unfathomable reason, different in Russia.

On the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine

A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to NewsGuard’s charge that Consortium News published false content about its extent.

The U.S. relationship with Ukrainian fascists began after the Second World War. During the war, units of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) took part in the Holocaust, killing at least 100,000 Jews and Poles.  Mykola Lebed, a top aide to Stepan Bandera, the leader of the fascist OUN-B, was recruited by the C.I.A. after the war, according to a 2010 study by the U.S. National Archives. 

Science! Blessed be Thy Name

Freedom of Religion can no longer bring about the freedom that it could have in past ages had it actually been implemented; only a Freedom of Belief System could do that today. The reason for this is straightforward; Freedom of Religion would have been a big deal back when the dominant belief system was a religion; Freedom of Religion would have meant the freedom not to have the dominant belief system imposed upon you.

But Freedom of Religion can no longer shield you from having the dominant belief system imposed upon you because today the dominant belief system is The Science as dictated by the state. The Science now serves the same role for rationalizing political power that the church used to do.

Nine False Historical Facts About the Ancient World

Our understanding of the past is fluid. Very often things we think we know about the past turn out to be false or highly distorted. Historians aren’t perfect; sometimes they make mistakes, other times they outright lie. There’s a long list of historical facts that we take for granted that aren’t true. Here are eight of the most commonly spread historic lies that are still being repeated today.