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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Apr 30, 2025 01:30 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Solar Farms Failure Behind Spain Blackouts, Grid Operator Confirms ? as Tony Blair Turns on Net Zero Tue Apr 29, 2025 19:00 | Sallust
Solar farm failures were likely behind the blackouts in Spain and Portugal, Spain's national grid operator has said ? as Tony Blair comes out against Starmer's Net Zero plans and the phasing out of fossil fuels.
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offsite link Spain and Portugal?s Blackout Reveals the Achilles? Heel of Electricity Grids Dominated by Wind and ... Tue Apr 29, 2025 17:00 | Anonymous Engineer
The power outage in Spain and Portugal wasn't caused by extreme weather, but by an over-reliance on wind and solar. If the UK continues on its headlong path to Net Zero, we can expect similar failures.
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offsite link An Excess of Pity: Why We Fail to Deport Those Whom We Should Deport Tue Apr 29, 2025 15:00 | Dr David McGrogan
Why do we fail to deport those whom we should deport? It's due in the end, says Dr David McGrogan, to an excess of pity. We are pitying ourselves into disorder and social decay. We need to be willing not to be nice.
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offsite link Reeves Set to Bring in Milkshake Tax Despite Failure of Sugar Tax and Pledge Not to Raise Taxes Tue Apr 29, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Rachel Reeves is set to bring in a milkshake tax to cut obesity levels despite the failure of the 2018 sugar tax that has seen obesity levels accelerate rather than fall. What happened to no tax rises for working people?
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Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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"Love me & help me Die" Dignitas returns to UK news

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Wednesday January 25, 2006 15:53author by belladonna Report this post to the editors

Dignitas was set up in 1998 by Swiss lawyer, Ludwig Minelli, who runs it as a non-profit organisation to assist people whose paliative care is felt to be too ardous and who rather favour euthnasia as an option.

["Dr Michael Irwin said he had provided "advice and encouragement" to five Britons about visiting the Dignitas clinic in Zurich during the past two years. The 74-year-old, who was struck off the medical register last year for obtaining drugs to help a friend die on the Isle of Man, also insisted he was willing to face jail over the issue.
Dr Irwin told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "In the past two years I have given advice and counsel and encouragement to five terminally ill people to go from England over to Dignitas."]

The "right to die with dignity" is one of the most interesting of the new rights being articulated in Europe and beyond in the last years. It has found its way into the recent Catalan estatut, yet without any supporting qualifying laws. Its a right, but we can't decide how to protect or enshrine it or how far that right may be allowed to supercede other rights - the right to refuse medical treatment &c...

The possibility that Dr (non licensed) M. Irwin
may face criminal proceedings in the UK has meant the return of the "Dignitas" debate.


news links

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=122552006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,1694235,00.html?gusrc=rss
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=121112006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4645650.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article340822.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/25/neuth25.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/25/ixnewstop.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/25/neuth125.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/25/ixnewstop.html

other links-
UK support group
http://www.dignityindying.org.uk/
the original Swiss group
Dignitas
Postfach 9 - CH 8127 Forch
Telefon national: 044-980 44 59
Telefon international: +41 44 980 44 59
Telefax national: 044-980 14 21
Telefax international: +41 44 980 14 21
http://www.dignitas.ch/


[ Of course, all you have to do is buy a few grammes of smack now, and keep them carefully for that final day. ]

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   induction of coma (kills all types of people except of course Sharon)     info    Sat Jan 28, 2006 12:12 
   Chantal Sebire's autopsy "inconclusive" - she rests & the debate continues.     rest    Sun Mar 23, 2008 20:02 


 
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