Blessed be British humour! Enjoy the 12 Days of Christmas carol, with specially adapted lyrics by BBC News. Published on December 23, 2019.

Pete Redfern writes about the impact of a painting by Banksy showing the House of Commons run by chimpanzees. Published in SOTT and NewsThump on October 4, 2019.

Osho speaks about the constant effort to defeat the other at whatever the cost.

As part of his ongoing series, ‘Enneagram of Famous Figures’, Subhuti examines two current political leaders.

Marc comes across corruption on his first trip to India, and in this essay, he explains the various practices that are intimately related to dishonesty or criminal activity to acquire illicit benefit.

Osho states, “I am not concerned with politicians but with the way politics functions: it is ugly, it is inhuman, it is barbarous.”

“Out of the mind and you are out of politics; otherwise, whatsoever you do is politics,” states Osho.

While in Kulu Manali, Osho answers a question by M. Achana of Nawabanath, India: “Have you a message for the press?”

Osho declares “the greatest enemy today is science.”

Apparently there’s a rather unknown world government group that was established in 1889 and in operation since then; its background and implications are explained by Aaron Dykes in this video by Truthstream Media, published on June 2, 2018.

Osho answers the question, “Why do revolutions fail?”

Arjuna (aka John Hogue) just released his 44th book expressing his vision for a community of Americans to emerge after a grassroot revolution, writes Bhagawati.

When looking at the world today, one gets the impression of living on a sick planet, with sick world leaders in an ailing democracy. Peter van Els looks at the situation and larger picture.

… and all politicians are criminals, says Osho.

Democracy has become mobocracy, claims Osho, the enlightened mystic. As India celebrates the 70th anniversary of Independence on 15 August, it is a tantalizing issue worth examining, writes Swami Anand Kul Bhushan. Published by coastweek.com, Kenya.

Does Earth Day really mean anything to the 7,5 billion people who crowd this planet? – asks Bhagawati.

Donna reviews a compilation of excerpts from Osho’s talks on a very contemporary topic.

Almost every person is split – for such silly and stupid things you cannot believe. You will not allow a saint just a little bit of smoking?

Iam Saums writes about the illusion of choice, reality and fear, ultimately resulting in manipulation and the totalitarian approach.

A quote by then Senator John F. Kennedy.

So now scientists are almost in the hands of the politicians. … The world has to be one, and it has to be governed by creative people, not by politicians.

Beloved Osho,
We find that many intelligent people, like scientists, philosophers, and even politicians, express great admiration and respect for us individually and for the way we live together – but they refuse to understand that we point to you as the source of this. Where is the block?

Arjuna comments on the apology: Leave it alone Hillary, or be prepared to have your abuse and your husband’s abuse of women exposed.

To possess another person is political.

Only a psychopath could read someone else’s lies from their teleprompter with such feigned emotion. Video by The Corbett Report, published July 21, 2016.

A couple, newly returned from the West, are present. The man says that whenever he has to deal with authorities – for example to get a visa – or even sees a policeman, he feels tense.

e. e. cummings has said: “A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.”

Life is a discontentment because we are living it in a very wrong way.

Beloved Osho,
Many contemporaries and enlightened ones – Raman Maharshi, Meher Baba, George Gurdjieff and J. Krishnamurti – have worked with people, but people get more offended by you than by anybody else.

Beloved Osho,
What did you do in those years immediately after your enlightenment?

It is the whole idea of private property that has created the father, that has created the family, that has created the ownership of the woman by the man.

Cosmic Comic Pundit Swami Beyondananda Calls for Evolutionary Upwising. Posted on Conscious Life News.

Q: Osho, I am a radical revolutionary politician. Have you something to say to me?

A poem by Madhuri

Osho speaks on Swami Anand Maitreya.

If the world becomes a little more conscious, soldiers will throw away their arms and hug each other, sit down together under a tree and gossip.

Naina’s reflections on politics and change published in the Assam Times, India, on April 22, 2014.

A selection from an article in The Guardian.

Published in Russia Today on February 1, 2014.

BBC Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman talks to Russell Brand about voting, revolution and change.

“If You Can’t Hear the Drums of War You Must Be Deaf.”
Henry Kissinger

What do you call freedom? – mostly the political, the economic, the outside freedom, which is not in your hands, which has been given to you.

A spectacular display of two realities … one shows the politician’s attitude, the other the heroic rescuers – both military and civilians.

Strikingly different images from Obama during his candidacy and now, during his presidency, and alarming changes in speech and context, in particular about the NSA surveillance program.

The Daily Mail reports on June 1, 2013 a ‘sensational’ love affair:

A political parody on the upcoming elections in the USA, based on the book and musical of ‘Les Miserables’.

The majority of well-informed folks interested in maintaining a healthy body know about Monsanto. This is an urgent call to all those on this planet (who might be still in the dark) to wake up and understand that they are being poisoned and duped and can take action – now.

Should there be any illusions left about the true state of American politics and government, George Carlin shreds them to pieces.

A spontaneous music mix by Amareesh for Iranian friends

Maneesha and Amrito write their ‘final’ questions during the uncertain times in Uruguay