Doctors should not be involved in ending lives, says Archbishop of Canterbury

Kill them all, God will know his own? You know, don’t bother to listen to those doctors things, just inject everyone?

‘Mazin’ly, it’s actually a bishop with the right idea:

She wrote: “If passed, the Bill will signal that we are a society that believes that some lives are not worth living. That would become our state-endorsed position, and the NHS would be active in its delivery.”

But then the soft left at least – the Fabians, all that lot – has believed this for well over a century. Eugenics was very Webbs.

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Backers of the bill have stressed that MPs should see the vote as a moment to assert the Commons’ decision-making power, rather than rerun the arguments.

Not that it’s a good one. Don’t actually cnosider whether it’s a good idea to kill everyone or not, just impose it because of those bastards questioning your authoritah. You know, Cartman logic.

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Thousands of Germans have staged protests against the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) after the party’s watershed victory in a state election, warning it posed a danger in two more polls this month……..Police reported 5,000 protesters, while organisers said they drew more than 14,000 people in a campaign to mobilise voters against the AfD.

Well, OK. As opposed to 44% pf the adult population of the entire State of Saxony Anhalt?

You might have some work to do there.

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This is what neoliberalism chose to do. For those old enough to remember, the plan was clear from the start. When Thatcher reached office in 1979, her first goal was to destroy British industry

Is it worth reading more of such frothings?

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Conflict, migration and economic upheaval will accompany the global move away from oil, unless governments act urgently to help the worst afflicted countries to cope, research has found.

Nigeria, Iran, Angola and Algeria are among the countries that will be severely affected, as they rely strongly on oil revenues for their government and provision of public services, but have little diversification and too little capital to cushion the blow.

Because we stop using oil therefore we’ve got to pay those we don’t buy it from. At the same time as everyone has to pay for having used oil in the past. Except, presumably, these suppliers of all that oil.

Consistency’s a lovely thing, no?

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For example, we discussed unemployment and agreed that instead of thinking of it as the absence of useful things to do, we should describe it as a state-imposed prohibition on people doing work society plainly needs because wages have been pushed too high for the worker to do the task.

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Worse, this was a deliberate attempt to prevent lives from being saved at sea, and national and international law has long treated this as a priority. I have not bothered to investigate the law, but I suspect it is backed by that.

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A landmark petition is to be handed to King Charles by Jamaica over slavery reparations, aiming to confront historical crimes that still disadvantage former British colonies, the Caribbean nation’s culture minister has said.

Anyway, the base point here is that the people of Jamaica today are richer than the people of Ghana today. Therefore slavery made today’s Jamaicans better off. Therefore for reparations they c’n bugger off.

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The enduring cult of male genius is keeping down female film-makers, one of the only two female directors in the running for the top prize at this year’s Venice film festival has warned.

“I’ve never ever read an article where a female director is promoted as a genius,” said the Danish-Egyptian director May el-Toukhy, whose film Woman Unknown has been selected for the Golden Lion competition on the Lido this year.

Different shapes of the bell curve between genders. Well known fact, that.

Even tho’ saying so cost Larry Summers his job as President of Harvard it’s still one of those true things.

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The populist, far-right, anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has surged to a resounding victory

What happens if the people decide to do something the people who promote democracy don’t like?

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The stated aim of QE I was to increase asset prices. Make more money, lower interest rates, increase asset prices. This will then spark a boom opf asset creation as borrowing to invest is cheaper and thus we’ll have a lovely investment boom – as we did in the 1930s – to drag us out of recession/depression.

This isn’t a “but” this is the aim. Widely distributed aim at the time too.

Now, that it didn’t quite work out like that was because we’ve an idiot planning system. But that was indeed the aim.

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Left-wing opponents accuse the organisers of using the pork-heavy menus with a side of patriotic conviviality to ostracise Muslims and disguise a far-Right political project before the presidential elections.

Well, right-wing plot is a bit too far but:

Inside a packed market, a crowd of 1,800 belts out the Marseillaise, hunting horns sound and roars erupt as Asterix and Obelix rush past, banging a giant magic potion pot.
As local charcuterie is served and wine flows, classic French songs such as Michel Delpech’s 1974 Le Chasseur prompt guests to rise from their long wooden tables, sing, sway and dance.
Long lines of conga form but suddenly scatter when the DJ announces: “Le cochon, le cochon.” Pork is served.
The setting could scarcely be more French and for the guests, many clad in berets and stripy tops, that is precisely the point.
They have gathered in the central city of Bourges for the latest iteration of a phenomenon sweeping France: banquets géants, or giant banquets, mass feasts built around traditional food, wine, music and a celebration of all things français.

They are trying to ostracise those non-French in that cultural sense. They’re doing so very well.

“This is us, this is ours”, however exaggerated and over the top, is indeed meant to be exclusive of those who are not us, ours.

Having been right the lefties then get it wrong again. What the Hell is wrong with indigenes being indigenous?

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A ‘violent’ air passenger was duct-taped to his seat in the US after attacking another traveller and racially abusing a flight attendant.

Arthur Lundeen, 67, of Arizona, allegedly began choking the person next to him two hours into an American Airlines flight between Texas and Newark, New Jersey, on Friday, witnesses claimed.

Of course, an Englishman would already have been informed by the campaign here to show that choking is Bad, M’Kay, and therefore would not have done that.

It’s that burden of Empire again, having to show the Fuzzie Wuzzies how to behave.

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What we all seem to think in common is that we have now, beyond doubt, reached the point where the current economic system is utterly unsustainable.

Rightie Ho.

The neoliberal process Thatcher and Reagan put in place, based on the thinking of Hayek and Friedman, promoted the idea that ever-increasing financial wealth mattered more than meeting people’s real needs, and this was always bound to fail. You can increase a house price as many times as you like, but you create no new wealth for society as a result. At some point, the financial claims based upon this false understanding of wealth were bound to collapse, and I think John, Guy and I all think that this moment is arriving.

Isn’t it just lovely that house prices have been falling for a few years now. Raising interest rates was all it took too. But, of course, increasing interest rates is, as the Elyian thinking goes, the wrong thing to do.

But, of course, falling real house prices are evidence of the failure of neoliberalism. Not the inevitable result of reversing QE, ho dear, no. To think that would be to misunderstand the intricacies of FatControllerThought.

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Workers at the leftwing news outlet the Canary fear it will not survive beyond this year amid access to funds being blocked and allegations of financial mismanagement and internal turmoil.

The site, which was founded in 2015 against a backdrop of the wave of support for the then Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, appeared set to expand after a multimillion-pound injection of funds last year.
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Some journalists at the Canary, however, have said they believe the banking issues had been used to distract from wider financial mismanagement.

They claim the funding, believed to be more than £2m, has been squandered on projects including a short-lived newspaper and the purchase of other websites.

Do not forget these are the wise lefties who insist that if only wise lefties were in charge than Britain would be a land of milk and honey. Rather than, you know, a bankrupt wasteland?

Snigger.

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This is going to go on for months and months…..

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There are currently two category 4 hurricanes and one category 1 hurricane in the Pacific at the same time. Meanwhile, the Atlantic has been devoid of hurricanes so far this season, making it only the eighth year in the satellite era (about 1960 to present) to go into September without a hurricane. Forecast activity remains quiet for the next seven days at least.

Oh. Rightie ho.

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A federal judge has declined to stop the Pentagon from firing journalists who say they were illegally punished for speaking out about the need for the Stars and Stripes publication to maintain its editorial independence.

The ruling by US district judge Trevor McFadden allows the Pentagon to proceed for now in exerting greater editorial control over the historically independent military news outlet.

They’re trying to claim that journos are soms especially protected species?

The journalists are unlikely to prove that the Pentagon violated their first amendment free speech rights, according to McFadden, a Donald Trump appointee. He said Stars and Stripes’ editorial independence “is not at stake here”.

“Plaintiffs argue that their termination will chill the protected expression of themselves and others at Stripes,” McFadden wrote. “Plaintiffs have failed to demonstrate a chill here.”

Now that’s truly exotic. The First means you can never fire a journalist?

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He is warning that too much money is being borrowed to buy shares. This is happening in ETF funds, as they’re called.
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Bailey thinks too much borrowed money is being used to buy shares through Exchange Traded Funds

One of the points about ETFs is tha tthey are not internally geared. A mutual fund could be, maybe, even often is, buit an ETF isn’t.

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It is hoped a legal opinion, stating that slavery was illegal under English law at the time it was practised, would expose Britain to future litigation and make it responsible for reparations.

Which is why we didn’t have slavery in England. Not so much because it was illegal but because there was no law making it legal. But, obviously, English law only covered England…..

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