Euthanasia in Belgium

     Countries where euthanasia are accepted as normal “medical treatment” nonetheless tend to ignore, gloss-over, or ignore the most egregious cases of state-sanctioned “medical” homicide. This only means, though, that what they do admit to is considered so within the pale that it is almost revolutionary to have any qualms over it!

     The Belgium Federal Commission on the Control and Evaluation of Euthanasia presents such antiseptic homicides as the bare minimum of acceptance with incidents that are beyond even their capacity to find problems with. A summary of their report can be found here, but for the sake of unbiased reporting, the full reports in the original untranslated text can be read below.

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Begun, The Meme Wars Have

     The so-called Parliament of the European Union has passed sweeping copyright laws that are tantamount to a proactive censorship that would require licenses to link, pre-clearance of posts, and 24/7 monitoring to enforce vague requirements.

“The Copyright Directive, first proposed in 2016, is intended to bring the issue of copyright in line with the digital age. Articles 11 and 13 have caused particular controversy, with many heralding their adoption as the death of the internet. Article 11, also known as the ‘link tax’, would require online platforms such as Google and Facebook to pay media companies to link to their content, while Article 13, the ‘upload filter’, would force them to check all content uploaded to their sites and remove any copyrighted material. How this will affect regular internet users is still subject to debate, but it could seriously limit the variety of content available online — and it could pretty much spell the end of memes.”

     It should be noted that there is no provision for fair use. This in effect means censorship of information that others claim outside of the others’ recognized control. Commentary has been kneecapped; parody throttled; and memes effectively outlawed.

     The internet is on a conceptual basis an interconnected network with linking between sites. Taxing and licensing it turns it from something open and free to regulated utility with a very different idea of what “freedom” is.

     A Free Speech Panel held with UKIP MEPs expounds upon the details of what happened further:

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News of the Week (September 16th, 2018)

 

News of the Week for Sept. 16th, 2018


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Watermelons of the Global Elite

     By “watermelons”, it is not meant the delicious food, but of those of the political bent that can be described as “red on the inside; green on the outside”; in other words, eco-socialists.

     There is no greater concentration of such “watermelons” than at that elitist proving ground of globalist post-Western tyrants than the United Nations, whose toady “scientists” have declared the absolute necessity of outlawing the free interaction of free individuals in opposition to the whims and desires of a distant and delusional elite:

“A climate change-fueled switch away from fossil fuels means the worldwide economy will fundamentally need to change.

“Capitalism as we know it is over. So suggests a new report commissioned by a group of scientists appointed by the UN Secretary-General. The main reason? We’re transitioning rapidly to a radically different global economy, due to our increasingly unsustainable exploitation of the planet’s environmental resources.”

     Except that it isn’t unsustainable. Moving towards economical energy sources is not “unsustainable”. If those now economical energy sources become scarce, than an incentive towards alternative energy sources, either extant or impetus for development towards, will become more economical and thus the “energy crises” will solve themselves.

     But such freedom is anathema to the governing elites, and only totalitarian control, under their guiding hands of course, can be allowed, as outlined in the following report:

“… Rapid economic transition requires proactive governance – markets cannot accomplish the task

“It is clear from these examples that strong political governance is required to accomplish the key transitions. Market-based action will not suffice – even with a high carbon price. There must be a comprehensive vision and closely coordinated plans.”

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Quick Takes – Unconstitutional Denial of a Constitutional Right: From Illinois and California to Vermont and Florida

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: What other Rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights can be taken away from adults based on some arbitrary age requirement?

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     There are moves to ban any adult, who even in absence of a criminal conviction, from exercising their Constitutional Rights as guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment, and then there are moves to ban scary looking guns.

     Illinois can decided to move on both, but only where they intersect, via HB 1465 as passed by the Illinois Legislature, which bans anyone between the ages of 18 and 20 from owning the vast majority of semi-auto long guns, with the bill that:

“Defines ‘assault weapon’ as any rifle that has a belt-fed ammunition system or a detachable magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition”

     A last minute amendment “grandfathered” in current 18-20 year old owners, likely to avoid the “gun grabber” headlines.

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Pledge to Global Society

     An Atlanta school decided to sideline the Pledge of Allegiance and instead have students recite together, during their morning meeting, a pledge to “global society“:

“Teachers and the K-5 leadership team will be working with students to create a school pledge that we can say together at morning meeting […that…] will focus on students’ civic responsibility to their school family, community, country and our global society.”

     Considering that there have already been plenty of moves to push a “pledge to the Earth” and other such calls for such “global” pledges of subordination, this is hardly surprising anymore.

     At least in this case, the outrage was great enough to get the school to reverse course, though even then they tried not to mention the desire to create a pledge to “global society” in order to hide the fact that the mask slipped.

     Gaia will just have to wait for xyr pledged minions…

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Seventeen Years Ago Today – NEVER FORGET

     Seventeen years ago today, America was attacked. Never forget the victims who died, and those who fought back.

     In Pace , Requiescat.

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No Dissent From Diversity!

     Once upon a time, during the Cold War when literal Communists who were literal agents (or useful fools) for the Soviet Union that literally plotted to bring down America, many universities and colleges required loyalty pledges of employees stating that they were not part of this literal Communist conspiracy. The Left, at the time, were outraged that any employer would dare what their employees thought!

     Of course, the Left asked for tolerance because that was in the nature of the American they so loathed. Now that they have seized power, they eschew it so as to protect their own power from a take-over such as the one that they successfully perpetuated.

     No better example of this hypocrisy can be seen than the recent spate of “diversity oaths” that require employees to monomaniacal support the good sounding yet intentionally vague idea of “diversity“. California Polytechnic University San Louis Obispo even developed a thirty page plan to implement this.

“For Cal Poly, requiring the diversity statement is one part of a larger effort school officials are engaged in to ‘improve diversity’ via dozens of various endeavors outlined in its 30-page action plan. As part of the diversity initiatives plan, the university also has a goal of ‘increasing, in a Proposition 209-compliant manner, the hiring of diverse faculty utilizing cluster hires every other year.'”

     The mentioning of Prop. 209, the 1996 California ballot initiative, also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative”, which outlawed racial discrimination (and sex-based discrimination in most cases), makes it clear that this isn’t just about uniformity of thought, but also a way to circumvent the prohibition on racial discrimination in hiring and employment.

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News of the Week (September 9th, 2018)

 

News of the Week for Sept. 9th, 2018


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Milk: It Does A Nanny State Good

     Many fast food restaurants have moved from offering carbonated soda beverages in children’s meals and instead have pushed milk or apple juice, by their own choice. California now wants to make that mandatory. SB 1192, which has passed the California Grand Soviet Legislature aims to ban the default offering of any drink other than water, unflavored milk (or milk substitute).

“114379.10. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:

(a) “Children’s meal” means a combination of food items and a beverage, or a single food item and a beverage, sold together at a single price, primarily intended for consumption by a child.

(b) “Default beverage” means the beverage automatically included or offered as part of a children’s meal, absent a specific request by the purchaser of the children’s meal for an alternative beverage.

(c) “Restaurant” means a retail food establishment that prepares, serves, and vends food directly to the consumer.

“114379.20. (a) A restaurant that sells a children’s meal shall make the default beverage offered with the children’s meal one of the following:

(1) Water, sparkling water, or flavored water, with no added natural or artificial sweeteners.

(2) Unflavored milk.

(3) A nondairy milk alternative that contains no more than 130 calories per container or serving. For purposes of this paragraph, “nondairy milk alternative” means a non-dairy fluid milk substitute that meets the standards for the National School Lunch Program as set forth in Section 210.10 of Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

(b) The beverage listed or displayed on a restaurant menu or advertisement for a children’s meal shall be one of the default beverages listed in subdivision (a).”

     Note that this means that the server can not offer an alternative that is available or even note that alternatives are available, even if that alternative is chocolate milk, which sounds kinda racist and oppressive

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