Canadian euthanasia doctor gushes about how much she enjoys killing people
In the recently released BBC documentary Better Off Dead?, disability rights activist Liz Carr interviewed Dr. Ellen Wiebe, Canada’s most notorious euthanasia doctor. ...
... It is interesting that so many people were so uncomfortable by the glee Wiebe expressed about her work. Even many who support euthanasia felt that she should be more solemn and thoughtful about it, somehow. But why? If euthanasia—killing—is healthcare, why should she not cheerily dispatch her patients? Perhaps the discomfort in her cheery demeanor—the fact that she finds ending lives rewarding on both ends of life’s spectrum—is because we know, deep down, that there is something profoundly wrong about the normalization of medicalized killing. That discomfort just might be the conscience speaking. We should listen closely.
Yes, maybe that is peoples' conscience speaking.
Loving your job THAT much, when your job is MAiD, is super creepy.
But it is good news that people are starting to realize that.
As Carbon Dioxide Grows More Abundant, Trees Are Growing Bigger, Study Finds
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/carbon-dioxide-climate-change-bigger-trees
Groundbreaking! Yale University has just discovered photosynthesis:
Trees are feasting on decades of carbon dioxide emissions and growing bigger as a result, according to a new study of U.S. forests. ... “While we’re putting billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we’re actually taking much of it out just by letting our forests grow,” Sohngen said in a statement. “We should be planting more trees and preserving older ones, because at the end of the day they’re probably our best bet for mitigating climate change.”
Seriously: the fact that a top level "woke" university is admitting this is actually significant. Thin edge of the wedge in displacing the cult of environMENTALism.
The Anti-Woke Counterrevolution Is Spreading | A gradual move back to normalcy has become apparent
https://archive.ph/0gGpy#selection-671.21-675.77
...As progressive-provoked excesses multiply on campuses and well beyond, many ordinary citizens are saying “enough is enough.”
Article goes on to mention as examples:
- growing Catholics interest in more traditional liturgies
- serious Protestant denominations growing as more liberal/mainstream ones decline
- donations to "woke" universities falling off (along with a sharp decline in admission applications)
- Bud Light / Disney
I would add the following as other hopeful signs:
- Harrison Butker
- rise of "clean your room" self-responsibility launched by Jordan Peterson
- falling support for Big Tranny nonsense, especially "trans kids"
- rise in "Freedom Movement" type resistance to unreasonable government regulations (Canadian truckers, Sri Lankan and Dutch farmers, "gilets jaunes" in France)
- rise of MAGA and Q movement
But, wisely, the article says:
...I am not predicting a dramatic move to the right in this year’s election. This is a gradual, long-run move back to normalcy, where traditional values largely prevail over radical interference by forces on either the left or right.
It took decades to get to this point; it will take decades to crawl back out of the pit.
But it is worth taking note of the fact that we ARE better off now than we were even 5 years ago in terms of "the Great Awakening."
More US Youngsters Are Turning Away From Climate Alarmism
https://principia-scientific.com/more-us-youngsters-are-turning-away-from-climate-alarmism/
This decline is most pronounced among the younger demographic, with only 50 percent of 18 to 34-year-olds viewing it as a very serious issue, down from 67 percent in 2021.
This shift could show a growing skepticism and a reprioritization of immediate concerns such as economic pressures.
The poll also notes a decrease in support for government action on ‘climate change’, with 59 percent in favor of more federal intervention, a drop from past years. ...
This stable trend suggests that the decrease in perceived urgency and importance among the American public, especially younger adults, may be influenced by an observable lack of escalation in the direct impacts of climate change.
That "an observable lack of escalation in the direct impacts of climate change" bit is probably why we are seeing so much media hysteria around normal weather events like warm days in the summer. Around these parts, we were continually being drummed about 2023 being the "hottest summer on record" in a year where we didn't need to turn on the A/C even once!
Graphs in the main article give a bigger picture over all age ranges. Support for "government action" on climate has fallen for everyone except the 55+ boomer crowd, for whom it is holding steady.
New Study From Czech Republic Confirms Covid Vaccines Have Around Zero Efficacy Against Death
In 2021, we were flooded with visuals showing us how effective the mRNA vaccines were against death from Covid. ...
Much of this was an illusion. Back then, they did not display comparable graphs for non-Covid deaths. If they did, we would have seen that the vaccinated also fared better on non-Covid mortality. Of course, no one expects these vaccines to prevent death from cancer, heart disease, stroke and so on.
The pseudo-effectiveness of Covid vaccines against death from unrelated causes is not a new observation. The same kind of pseudo-effectiveness was discovered long ago for the flu vaccines. It is called the ‘healthy vaccinee effect’.
For various reasons unrelated to the vaccines, people who are vaccinated have better background health on average than people who are not, and therefore they are less likely to die from ‘anything’, including flu and Covid. Vaccinated or not, they would have had lower Covid mortality than their unvaccinated counterparts. ...
A recent study from the Czech Republic has made significant contributions to the scientific literature on Covid vaccines and the healthy vaccinee effect.
The main article (linked above) is good background reading. The actual scientific article is here: https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(24)00046-8/fulltext But read both: the main article explains a lot of the statistics in the scientific article.
Good material to circulate.
How Christians are fighting back against the EU’s radical left-wing agenda
The article is about the EU context and how one organization is fighting on the pro-life/pro-family side within it. However, there are some good, tactical, lessons that can be drawn from it.
...Van Schothorst began his fight against the international left after working as a staffer for a member of the European Parliament for seven years beginning in 2000. During his time in Brussels, van Schothorst became acquainted with the “enormous power of the unelected bureaucratic elite,” especially the European Commission.
Lesson 1: He understood how the bureaucracy works. To fight the entrenched Liberal/Progressive ideologies in the bureaucracies, one has to know how the mechanisms work and where to apply pressure.
The pro-life/pro-family groups in Canada are not all so savvy; Right Now is pretty good and understands how to work the system, but Campaign Life not so much.
But back to the article:
...Seeing that no one was fighting the liberal agenda of the U.N., van Schothorst thought through what he wanted to see accomplished and decided to establish the Transatlantic Christian Council in 2013.
...All the while, van Schothorst began applying for consultative status internationally, seeing that the only way to win the court cases was by implementing his objectives. Once he received consultative status, he could enter the U.N. headquarters in New York and the premises of other international institutions to lobby and promote his objectives.
So, Lesson 2: He worked through existing channels that had legitimacy within that bureaucracy.
...Van Schothorst recalls that the push for LGBT ideology from the U.N. and other organizations began almost a decade ago with a resolution at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. He says that that organization was chosen because it was smaller, having only 47 member states and the members “rotating” every three years. ... After failing to stop the resolution in Geneva, van Schorthorst went to New York to try and convince U.N. member states to vote against the resolution, warning that the adaptation of LGBT issues in law is a Western phenomenon and that they should look to their own laws and constitutions regarding the issue.
The final vote resulted in 84 countries in favor, 77 against, and 16 abstentions.
He was not successful in preventing the passing of that vote, but has some good observations that the Liberal/Progressive side has been working very strategically for YEARS to line up all their ducks to get things through.
Lesson 3: Our side is definitely playing catch-up. We have to focus our efforts and be strategic and solid. But we're wasting a lot of effort and money. I read an article recently about how a lot of the lawsuits launched post-covid about how unfair it was to fire/punish/etc. the unvaxxed ended up going nowhere because the legal arguments were so weak. People had donated a fair bit of money to these various efforts, but the funding was wasted because the efforts, though well meaning, were not well executed and strategic.
...van Schothorst speaks about the irony of how non-Western countries are upholding Christian values while the places directly formed by Christian civilization are not. For van Schothorst, the Bible is a “standard” that “applies to everyone and for every policy.” To look at the scriptural commandments, van Schothorst notes, is to know right from wrong, good from evil, and that we can use this lens to examine resolutions and treaties.
Lesson 4: Never forget, the battle is first and foremost a spiritual one. We fight not against flesh and blood--our political opponents are not our enemies. We fight against principalities and powers--our enemies are the demons that inspire the evil ideologies. Our political opponents have been "captured" by the enemy, but can be "rescued" from evil. Always, always, always pray for a change of heart.
Link to the 48 minute episode is within the article.
Climate Scientist Calls for Mass Depopulation to Fight ‘Global Warming’
https://slaynews.com/news/climate-scientist-calls-mass-depopulation-fight-global-warming/
... Professor Bill McGuire argues that a “pandemic with a very high fatality rate” is required to wipe out a large portion of the human race. According to McGuire, a mass depopulation event is “the only realistic way” to “avoid a catastrophic climate breakdown.”
...A backlash to the comments quickly ensued as social media users blasted the professor over the comments. McGuire responded to the blowback by deleting the post. In a follow-up post, McGuire claimed that people were deliberately taking his words out of context.
...McGuire is also not the first radical globalist to suggest wiping out the human population to “save the planet” from “climate change,” however. Members of the unelected World Economic Forum (WEF) have long been pushing this anti-human agenda, as Slay News reported.
The Switzerland-based globalist organization recently revealed details of a so-called “Noah’s Ark” that will supposedly “save the elite” during an event that would wipe out most humans on Earth.
...Dennis Meadows, one of the main authors of the Club of Rome’s 1972 pro-depopulation book “The Limits to Growth.”...argues that most of the world’s population must be wiped out so that the survivors can “have freedom” and a “high standard of living.” During a 2017 interview, Meadows claimed that genocide of 86% of the world’s population is “inevitable.”
They are being very open about their agenda. We are aware of this because we follow those things, but normies are not. Publicizing their words will help convince the normies of the global rulers' evil agendas.
But we also have to push back against the "climate change" narrative which is being used as an excuse, because that one has sunk into the public conscience very deeply after 40+ years of propaganda.
La Leche League Erases Mothers | The charity that taught me how to breastfeed is eliminating women by calling it ‘chestfeeding.’
https://www.thefp.com/p/la-leche-league-erases-mothers
The La Leche League is/was a "mother to mother" group that provides breastfeeding training to new mothers.
But it's gone woke:
... Meanwhile, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, a guidebook by La Leche League that’s been around since the 1950s, is being rereleased in October under a new title: The Art of Breastfeeding—erasing the word woman entirely. So here we are, in the run-up to Mother’s Day, watching an organization that once celebrated motherhood cave to political correctness.
When I asked La Leche League if they would explain why they’ve made these changes, they declined to comment. ...
The comments are a good read, too:
... institutions can be captured by a small but vocal minority to the determent of the majority. ... Yes, but they can be taken back by larger and more vocal majority. See Vox Day's "Corporate Cancer" for a blueprint for how to do that: https://arkhavencomics.com/product/corporate-cancer/
One mother who was a member complained about this and:
... I then was kicked out from the group, but only after receiving a warning from a leader which stated “This is an inclusive group. Transphobia is not allowed. We are happy to support you in your journey, but this group may not be the right fit for you.” They also stated I had engaged in hate speech and bullying. ... This is about women abandoning women, throwing us to the wolves for not complying with their games, forgetting why they are there in the first place. Lactation support isn’t just about milk supply and latches and weaning-it is about seeing one another as fully actualized women who are integrating the female experience. In inviting men into that space, La Leche League is turning their backs to real women who need the witnessing required to work through hard motherhood moments.
How Motherhood Liberated Me | ‘My daughter doesn’t care if I’m exceptional. She just cares that I am hers.’
https://www.thefp.com/p/motherhood-liberated-me-mothers-day
A bit late for Mothers' Day, but an essay by a young, bright, ambitious woman discovers that motherhood is measured on a whole different metric:
...It was disorienting for a twenty-five-year-old who’d spent more than a decade trying to prove I was exceptional. I had defined myself by what I believed would make me valuable in the markets where I competed: college admissions, job opportunities, the dating pool. ...
... I knew that providing my baby with milk was the most useful, necessary thing I’d ever done in my life—but it made me feel the opposite of extraordinary. ...
That is, until my daughter turned six weeks old—and she did something that changed my world forever: she smiled at me.
That smile blew all those traditional status markers out of the water—better than a million Instagram likes, an Ivy League acceptance letter, a competitive job offer—even though making my baby smile was one of the easiest things I’d ever done.
All this makes me so glad that, despite all my attempts to distinguish myself, I’ve ended up like every other mother....
Motherhood isn’t the only path to accepting this, but for me, it was my daughter’s love that freed me from my delusions of grandeur. It liberated me from the tyranny of trying to prove myself.
The reason that traditional society did not want women out "in the workplace" was not because women are not capable of being diligent and responsible workers. Daily experience has shown that they certainly can be.
But rather the reason traditional society did not want women out in the workplace is because the work of a mother at home raising her children is a far more valuable contribution to society as a whole than anything she could have been doing in the work-world.
The contribution an office worker makes through their office job to "society as a whole" pales in comparison to the contribution a mother raising sane, mentally healthy, members of the next generation.
In Pakistan, Non-Muslim Children Are Brutalised and Forcibly Converted to Islam
... Pakistan has an endemic of abductions, rapes, forced conversions, and forced marriages of minority children and women. The Associated Press reported in 2020 that, each year, nearly 1,000 non-Muslim girls are forcibly converted to Islam in Pakistan, largely to pave the way for underage marriages that are non-consensual. ...
Happens in other Muslim-majority countries, too. And the Left is all over it: because both Islam and the left are founded on a core of hatred for Jesus Christ.
Female darts champion refuses to compete against male, withdraws from tournament
A world champion female darts player is being praised for taking a stand against wokeism after forfeiting a match against a gender-confused man at the Denmark Open last weekend.
Deta Hedman was born in Jamaica 64 years ago. She has been a top-ranked professional darts player in the United Kingdom since the 1980s. Over the past several years, she has aggressively pushed back against LGBT incursion into her profession. ...
Good to hear she's been pushing back for some time; glad she is now getting recognition for that.
When women EN MASSE push back, it will be over.
George Washington University Now Begging DC Police for Help as Student Protesters Start Calling for the BEHEADING of School President and Trustees (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/george-washington-university-now-begging-dc-police-help/
... They allowed this situation to go on for too long and now it’s completely out of control. As you’ll see in the video below, these students are actually chanting ‘Guillotine, Guillotine!’
And this hot on the heels of reports of mass-conversions to Islam: https://greatawakening.win/p/17t1k7QU0R/cosplaying-student-activists-inc/
As they say, "that escalated quickly."
#Another Outlandish Overreach by the CDC https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/another-outlandish-overreach-by-the-cdc-5619202?ea_src=au-frontpage&ea_med=opinion-6 via https://dissectleft.blogspot.com/2024/04/doctors-force-fda-to-remove-false.html
...As it turns out, the CDC had quite a large role in guiding election processes. ... The theory was that people gathering in a polling place would be a super-spreader event. What science did they cite to demonstrate this? None at all. So far as I know, and I’ve looked far and wide, there is not a single study anywhere that purports to show some relationship between disease spread and in-person voting. The CDC just made that up. ...
...There is simply no way that the CDC could not have known about the uncertainties and vagaries created by absentee ballots. They are banned by half the countries in the world for that reason. ...
...The crucial point here is that the CDC massively overstepped the bounds of its mandate by intervening in the processes by which Americans select its leaders, strongly pushing a method that was a known source of fraud. Nor has the CDC ever been held to account for this, not to my knowledge in any case. ...
...Speaking of which, who actually did this and why? Aren’t these interesting questions? Why is no one asking them? Where are the investigations? Where is the outrage?
I had not heard that mail-in ballots were pushed by the CDC. Like the article says, this is tremendous overreach. And like the article says, I've heard no follow ups on that subject.
England: Police Ban a Citizen to Comment on Evolutionism, Islam
https://www.gloria.tv/post/NNb6w9AC3s7f4ZRD8zKnY7upN
Police in Bristol have attempted to ban Dia Moodley, a father of four, from commenting on other religions. Moodley has been doing occasional street evangelism for five years. In 2021, the police 'warned' him not to comment on or compare religions, including atheism and the evolution myth, with Christianity.
The hilarious part is that this is happening in ENGLAND where ANGLICANISM is the official state religion.
And you are not allowed to argue in favour of THE STATE RELIGION in public!
If an adherent of ANY OTHER religion were promoting their religion there would be no issue. If an atheist were arguing against all religion there would be no problem.
Only if a Christian is arguing that Jesus is the way the truth and the life and that no one is saved except through Him--only then do they get all upset.
No more obvious sign that "wokeness" is from the demons than this.
Milei ends Argentine government use of ‘inclusive language’ promoted by gender ideology advocates
So-called “inclusive language” promoted by gender ideology advocates usually requires the modification of the grammatical gender of words so that they do not directly refer to masculine or feminine, using letters such as “x” and “e” or symbols like “@,” thus changing words like “todos” (a masculine generic for “everyone” whether men or women) for the gender neutral “todxs,” “todes,” or “tod@s.”
Excellent!
Like the article says, so-called "non-inclusive language" was never meant to be "non-inclusive". It was already inclusive to say "all men must pay their taxes"; women were not exempt from taxation, and no one would have ever understood it to be so back in the day. Etc.
The ONLY reason for inclusive language is to MAKE THE PAST LOOK BAD. Make us THINK they were sexist back in the day.
It's actually part of the Left's culture war to thoroughly cut the present off from the past, so THEY can be the "be-all, end-all".
It has nothing to do with inclusivity; it's all about power for the elites.
Nearly half of Canadians support banning surgery and hormones for trans kids: exclusive poll | 'On the policies, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's not wildly off the mark with respect to where public opinion generally is starting from'
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-poll-transgender-policies
“On the policies, she’s not wildly off the mark with respect to where public opinion generally is starting from,” said Andrew Enns, an executive vice-president at Leger.
Enns admitted that he was “a little bit surprised” by the findings given “the kind of reaction” that came when Premier Smith first tabled the legislation.
I'm disappointed it's so FEW people who oppose this. "Nearly half" of Canadians oppose surgery/hormones for kids means "over half" actually support that kind of mutilation.
Less than a quarter (24 per cent) believed guardians “need not be notified” when educators teach about “gender identity, sexual orientation, or human sexuality.” Nearly a third (32 per cent) said that parents “must” be notified and given the option to “opt into” such classes. Almost three in ten (27 per cent) of respondents fell in the middle, siding with the need to inform parents but not mandate opt-ins.
Again, less than an overwhelming support for sanity. Almost a quarter of Canadians are just fine with sexual topics being secretly taught to chilren.
Most Canadians (68 per cent) agree that transgender women should not be allowed to physically compete against biological women in sports or athletics.
That's a bit better, but I would have like to see that percentage into the high 90s.
Archbishop Viganò: I express my ‘complete solidarity’ with farmers fighting the New World Order
... The only real emergency is our betrayal by our rulers – and by the Catholic Church leadership itself – to the detriment of the entire human race. The servility of the entire political class, the media censorship, the silence of the judiciary, and the complicity of the law enforcement and armed forces in the face of this coup are scandalous.
The time has come for the peoples to courageously and firmly claim their natural and inalienable rights, which have been endangered by the WEF’s global coup d’état. The resignation of those who rule us on behalf of a subversive elite and against the people must be obtained. ...
Whole thing at that link or on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/CarloMVigano/status/1752638914404266245
Viganò is always worth reading. He calls out the Bishops' (and the Pope's) failure to be spiritual fathers.
But honestly, "every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God" (Heb 5:1). When the quality of the people is not very high, the quality of the priests is not very high. It goes back to the family: you need strong, devout, and big families. Then, 25-30 years later, you will have strong devout men ready to be ordained. It's a long-term building project. The senior clergy nowadays grew up in the crazy 1960s and 1970s, so it's not surprising at the poor quality of them.
2022: The Year That Many Brits Learnt to Love Cash Again | Small slivers of hope in the Global War on Cash.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/12/2023-the-year-that-brits-learnt-to-love-cash-again.html
However it may seem, the title of this article does not include a typo. It mentions the year 2022, not 2023, for the simple reason that the publication of data on payment habits in the UK has roughly a one-year lag. As such, it wasn’t until late 2023 that it became apparent that the use of cash had rebounded in 2022, for the first time in ten years. This is potentially an important trend reversal. ...
Another data point, along with the war on ULEZ cameras, that show Brits are feeling the sand in their pants. (And, apparently, the Swiss and the Spanish, who are also mentioned as seeing a jump in cash transactions).
Cash useage had gone from around 60% of payments in the the 2010s to a low of 15% in 2021 at the height of the covid-induced "contactless payment" thrill, but has now risen by 7% to 22%. Another measure pegs it at 19%.
A consortium of large retailers, big banks, and payment companies issued a report calling this "still fairly minimal", but these all have a bias towards electronic payments anyway so it may be a bit of whistling in the dark.
Reasons for the jump are proposed, including a return to "cash envelope budgeting" due to rising inflation, but they also allude indirectly that some fraction of this may be deliberate rebellion:
... This raises a key point: cash use is reboundind despite the concerted efforts by the government, banks and retailers to limit its use, which I believe makes this trend reversal all the more impressive. ...
The EU stepped in and forbade Slovakia and Austria from enacting laws to protect the use of cash, saying that they would require EU permission to do so!!!
... It is a reminder that while small but key victories have been achieved in defence of cash this year, the global war against physical money continues unabated.
I've deliberately upped my use of cash and cheques significantly purely as a rebellious gesture and many on GAW seem to have done so as well.
Spreading the word about the joys of cash can be done indirectly by simply praising how "quick and easy" cash is whenever someone in line ahead of you in the grocery store is having tap or PIN problems (which is remarkably often, actually).
Canadians Flee The Country In The Fourth Highest Volume In 73 Years
https://betterdwelling.com/canadians-flee-the-country-in-the-fourth-highest-volume-in-73-years/
... Canada is set to have a banger of a year when it comes to resident outflows. There were 74,017 emigrants year to date (YTD), already hitting 79% of the total last year. The final quarter of 2023 can come in lower than the previous two years and still print one of the biggest years ever for outflows.
74K going out but 500K coming in is still extreme influx.
Also, I'd love to know who exactly is leaving and why. I think that's critical info.
... In short, Canada is being run like a dodgy, fly-by-night credit card company. Its operators don’t really care about losing clients, as long as the inflow of new ones outpaces the old ones. At a certain point though, a reputation develops and turns into a warning for new clients. Canada may have reached that point, with study permit applications declining sharply, indicating future population growth won’t be so robust. ...
Looks like good news, but maybe not. I think it means immigrants with skills will be shopping around, but "migrants" without skills are not going to be so picky. But perhaps that's Trudeau's plan anyway as he seems to be deliberately overloading the public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis which he can then swoop in to solve; textbook Cloward–Piven.
Has the Left Finally Blown It?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/11/has_the_left_finally_blown_it.html
... Addressing a pro-Hamas rally while dressed like a bag lady, Sarandon made an obtuse, imbecilic, and unforgiveable remark concerning Jews and Muslims that doesn’t really bear repeating. The industry reacted swiftly. Within hours Sarandon was dumped by the United Talent Agency. This is a first. You can look as long as you like to find another leftie rabble-rouser discarded by Hollywood and you will not succeed. Let this be the first of many.
Emphasis mine.
The left has overplayed their hand in this, as in so many things since the fall of 2019. The article mentions the "global warming panic" and the tranny movement (supported mostly by suburban females).
... Can anything turn this around? It’s difficult to see what. One of the dangers of appealing to the crazies is that you have to accept them as they come – including their obsessions, fixations, and refusal to act rationally. ...
Yes, actually--mockery. Massive massive mockery.
And non-compliance with their program of bug-eating, electric-car-driving, pronoun-sharing tyranny.
And self-discipline and prayer. The left is inspired by the demonic; the left is flabby with no self-control and are targets for demons. Spiritual warfare (getting "right with God" and prayer and fasting) will cast them out.
TEXAS: Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Pfizer and Tris Pharma for Defrauding Texas Medicaid and Providing Adulterated Pharmaceutical Drugs to Children
... Pfizer contracted with Tris, a drug manufacturer, to produce a pediatric attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder medication (“ADHD”), Quillivant XR. Pfizer knowingly distributed Quillivant to children on Medicaid despite the drug’s pattern of failing quality control tests due to flawed manufacturing practices. For years, Tris altered the drug’s testing method in violation of federal and state laws to ensure Quillivant passed regulatory hurdles and could continue to be sold.
Despite knowing about these serious problems, Pfizer misrepresented to the Medicaid program that Quillivant was in compliance with federal and state law, and concealed from Medicaid decision-makers the fact that Quillivant was an adulterated drug. As a result of these misrepresentations and concealments, Pfizer and Tris obtained the benefit of taxpayer-funded Medicaid reimbursement for Quillivant. ...
Great news.
Pfizer is a pretty slimy company. They have faced thousands of lawsuits (according to this website: https://www.drugdangers.com/manufacturers/pfizer/) and have had to pay out billions.
Nice to see another shot being taken at them (see what I did there?)
Americans want more kids, survey says
https://farmersforum.com/americans-want-more-kids-survey-says/
... Gallup started tracking this data in 1936 and found then that 64 % of Americans wanted at least three children. The preference for three children peaked at 77 % in 1945.
While preferences for family size do not significantly differ between genders, demographic factors change everything. Most groups, from young adults aged 18-29, blacks and Hispanics to Republicans, conservative independents and lower-income earners prefer more children. Democrats, non-religious individuals and the wealthy want fewer children, one or two at most. ...
That's a reasonably healthy sign.
However, inability to conceive is the sticking point, and that has multiple causes, from declining sperm counts to extended education that delays marriage past the optimum fertility window--once upon a time, women were married at 18 or 19 and now its late 20s early 30s.
Why I am now a Christian | Atheism can't equip us for civilisational war | BY AYAAN HIRSI ALI
https://unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-am-now-a-christian/
This is wonderful news! I've read quite a bit of her writings, and am glad she has found Christ.
Some 20 years ago, Ayaan Hirsi Ali had left Islam for atheism:
... It was a relief to adopt an attitude of scepticism towards religious doctrine, discard my faith in God and declare that no such entity existed. Best of all, I could reject the existence of hell and the danger of everlasting punishment. ...
Mind you, she was one of those atheists who was not hostile to religion, Christianity in particular, just "it was not for her".
And then:
... So, what changed? Why do I call myself a Christian now? ...
... But we can’t fight off these formidable forces unless we can answer the question: what is it that unites us? The response that “God is dead!” seems insufficient. So, too, does the attempt to find solace in “the rules-based liberal international order”. The only credible answer, I believe, lies in our desire to uphold the legacy of the Judeo-Christian tradition. ...
... Yet I would not be truthful if I attributed my embrace of Christianity solely to the realisation that atheism is too weak and divisive a doctrine to fortify us against our menacing foes. I have also turned to Christianity because I ultimately found life without any spiritual solace unendurable — indeed very nearly self-destructive. Atheism failed to answer a simple question: what is the meaning and purpose of life? ...
Excellent article; I urge people to read the whole thing.