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New Euthanasia Laws Show There Will Never Be an End to the Killing

New Euthanasia Laws Show There Will Never Be an End to the Killing

Alex Schadenberg mercatornet.com Alex Schadenberg is Executive Director and International Chair of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. He is based in Ontario, Canada. On Monday, 13 October, Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge announced that the Dutch government will amend its euthanasia law to permit child euthanasia — an announcement that

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Cannabis Referendum

Cannabis Referendum

If the referendum fails If the referendum fails it means not only that legalisation of cannabis is off-the-table but probably also decriminalisation. It would be easy to blame the misinformation campaigns and scare tactics of groups like Family First and SayNopeToDope. But to me that’s too simplistic. People voting

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Lockdowns See Millions Seeking Mental Health Help

Lockdowns See Millions Seeking Mental Health Help

Jacinda Ardern likes to boast – contrary to the public record – that she “went hard and early” with New Zealand’s lockdowns, thus saving the lives of countless New Zealanders. But only one of St Jacinda the Kind’s boasts is in any way true. The harsh truth is that she

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What’s behind the WHO’s Lockdown Mixed-Messaging

What’s behind the WHO’s Lockdown Mixed-Messaging

Stacey Rudin aier.org Last week, in a major departure from months of pro-lockdown messaging, Britain’s envoy to the WHO Dr. David Nabarro called for world leaders to stop locking down their countries and economies as a “primary method” of controlling COVID19. “I want to say it again: we

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You Know What Solves Obesity? Venezuelan Style Socialism, or Communism

You Know What Solves Obesity? Venezuelan Style Socialism, or Communism

Yesterday we had more plain-speaking from Judith Collins, who put the so-called obesity epidemic down to a lack of personal responsibility. National leader Judith Collins says Kiwis shouldn’t blame the “system” for obesity, because it is “generally” a weakness that people need to take personal responsibility for. On the

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More on the Cannabis Referendum

More on the Cannabis Referendum

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Dr Graham Sharpe, former President of the New Zealand Anaesthetics Association, is a long time mate and a man of libertarian views. He’s forwarded me his recently published contribution to the debate which I’ve reproduced below. Dr Graham Sharpe ONZM FANZCA is a

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The Cognitive Dissonance Award Goes to…

The Cognitive Dissonance Award Goes to…

Apparently, mental health problems are on the increase but now is the perfect time to make a drug well known for causing mental illness even easier to access. “Ok Cupcake.” Actually, mangled messages and cognitive dissonance aside, Chlöe Swarbrick is on to a winner with her idea of a Ministry

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The Cannabis Referendum

The Cannabis Referendum

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com As a libertarian, I strongly believe in people making their own decisions as to how they live their lives. Some people are risk-takers seeking, in the case of say self-employment, a higher than standard income and the dignity they feel in being their own master.

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Lockdown: The New Totalitarianism

Lockdown: The New Totalitarianism

Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Every political ideology has three elements: a vision of hell with an enemy that needs to be crushed, a vision of a more perfect world, and a plan for transitioning from one to the other. The means of transition usually involve the takeover and deployment

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The Science of Disease

The Science of Disease

Chris Sellars Scientific Method – the system of advancing knowledge by formulating a question, collecting data about it through observation and experiment, and testing a hypothetical answer. Over a century ago there was rivalry between two French research scientists who apparently had too much time on their hands. The first was

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Teaching Climate Change is Terrifying Kids to Death

Teaching Climate Change is Terrifying Kids to Death

Why isn’t Greta Thunberg, the poster child for climate change, considered a very poor model for children’s mental health? Greta should be accompanied by a warning about the mental strain that alarmist, unproven climate change theory has on young impressionable minds. This is serious stuff. Greta Thunberg suffers

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The Context of Choice as Compassion

Danielle van Dalen maxim.org.nz The conversation around the End of Life Choice Act has often focused on a desire to be compassionate at the end of life, which is an excellent place to start. But it is important to consider what compassion at the end of life looks

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