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High UN Official Supports Nature Rights and Environmental Lawfare 

Nature doesn't really go to court. People with political agendas do

Lawfare and the resulting usurpation of public policy by courts allows the elites to decide environmental policies by diktat.

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Australia’s Social Media Ban and Children’s Mental Health

An Australian psychiatrist hopes that his job might become easier in the future due to Australia's coming ban on underage use of social media

Is it any wonder that Silicon Valley CEOs ban their own children from social media? When did a phone become more fun than parties and people?

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Questionable Study on Assisted Suicide and Suicide Correlation

Bioethicists find a way to make suicides "disappear" from a study

Euthanasia activists claim that legalizing assisted suicide doesn’t increase overall numbers. But their study actually shows a significant impact.

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Digital Espionage: Vector Art of a Hacker in Action

Last Year Saw the Worst Telecom Hack in Our Nation’s History

While millions of Americans’ metadata were compromised, the specific targets seem to be important political figures and people of interest to the Chinese government

Who is responsible for allowing the Salt Typhoon hack to go on so long and infiltrate so deeply? Government and telecoms currently blame each other.

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Voters Grant Rights to a River in Everett, Washington

Scientific certainty about potential damage to the river need not even be demonstrated

This article is reprinted from National Review with the permission of the author. More than 30 U.S. cities have adopted nature rights ordinances, mostly to prevent fracking. And now in the recent election, 57 percent of voters in Everett, Wash., granted rights to a geological feature, specifically, the Snohomish River watershed. From the initiative: The Snohomish River Watershed possesses the rights to exist, regenerate, and flourish, which shall include the right to naturally recharge, the right to naturally flow, the right to water quality necessary to provide habitat for native plants and animals, the right to provide clean water, and the right to restoration. The Snohomish River Watershed shall also have the right to be free from activities or projects which violate those rights. This is Read More ›

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Flashes of Genius: Hal Philipp’s Journey of Invention, Resilience

His groundbreaking work on optical sensors for automated doors and faucets laid the foundation for his career

Reflecting on his 100-hour workweeks and legal battles, he cautions against solo ventures without financial and legal backing.

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Humpback Whale Migration

Now the New Rights Cause Is Whale Rights

A big international law firm is promoting the whale rights project pro bono

This article is reprinted from National Review with the permission of the author. The “nature rights” project — and its ancillaries — keeps advancing, mostly ignored by those who could stop it in its tracks with legislation declaring that only humans and our associations and juridical entities have legal standing in courts or enforceable rights. Now, a “whale rights” project has commenced, pushed pro bono by a big international law firm, Simmons and Simmons. From the Legal Cheek story: These frameworks centre on the concept of a “legal person” — an entity acknowledged as having “standing” within the judicial system. Traditionally, this status has been reserved for humans, community organisations, and corporations. Granting this designation to whales represents a groundbreaking shift, acknowledging the value Read More ›

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West Virginia: Constitutional Amendment Bans Assisted Suicide

I just wish my mentor on this issue, Rita Marker, had lived to see it

Also, the great anti-assisted-suicide and disability-rights campaigner Diane Coleman — who founded Not Dead Yet — who recently passed away.

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Rita Marker, the Great Anti-Assisted-Suicide Champion, Dead at 83

I am convinced that in her time, Rita was the most effective anti-assisted-suicide/euthanasia champion in the world

Unlike organizations on the other side of this issue, anti-assisted-suicide work doesn’t have the backing of billionaires like George Soros.

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How To Sue A Chatbot For Causing Suicide

If your child committed suicide because an online chatbot effectively encouraged him to do so, could you sue the chatbot makers?

Sewell killed himself at the urging of a speaking and texting chatbot. The next gen is nearly flawless human impersonation video bots. Protect your children.

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Fighting for the Rights of . . . Antarctica?

Environmentalism is growing increasingly irrational. Advocates are now pushing to give rights to a continent

Policy-makers should pass laws declaring that only humans and our associations are entitled to rights and standing in courts.

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Will Colorado Allow Elephants to Sue?

The Nonhuman Rights Project wants to become the guardian of five elephants at the Colorado Springs zoo and take control of their care

The zoo, where the elephants have lived for years, has a sterling reputation but the advocates believe that they know better what elephants would want.

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Jason Allen’s Battle With AI Copyright Law

There is no doubt that this commitment warrants a copyright. Allen used Midjourney as a tool and not as the source of his creativity.

The only solution I can see to the AI copyright problem is to verify that numerous highly detailed prompts were used to create an image.

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Jack Phillips Wins the ‘Cake-Baking’ Case

. . . but not on the merits, unfortunately. His legal troubles may not be over

What the country really needs is a strong Supreme Court decision unequivocally reinvigorating the free-exercise clause by overturning Employment Division v Smith

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California Censorship Law Loses First Round in Legal Battle

Court zeroes in to protect First Amendment rights to vigorous political speech and expression

Unless deepfake technology is outlawed wholesale, the collection of piecemeal laws and regulations aiming to fix this or that problem will grow without limit.

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California: The New “Deepfakes” Ban Violates the First Amendment!

Outrage over the AI-generated imitations of Kamala Harris’s voice distracts from the issues around the state’s power grab over media

AB 2839 targets political speech, the most protected form of expression under the First Amendment. There are 7 meritorious challenges

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In Canada? Don’t Say You Don’t Feel Well…

In his new book, Historian Richard Weikart discussed the rampant and rapid growth of euthanasia in the Western world

Weikart: The circle of people deemed eligible for euthanasia or assisted suicide keeps widening, because a culture of death will tend to spread…

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Delaware Governor Vetoes Assisted Suicide Legalization

Both a Democrat and a Republican governor have vetoed the practice. Opposition to the practice is culturally and religiously diverse

The longer the euthanasia movement is held at bay, the more likely that America can avoid becoming a culture of death like that in Canada.

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Universal Infant Genetic Screening Pushed in Science Journal

It’s hard to opt out of a procedure that you don’t know is going to be performed. Think of the eugenic possibilities!

And imagine the mischief when eventually everyone’s genome — which should be private — becomes identifiable and hackable.

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Google Decision Challenges Trillion-Dollar Internet Gatekeeper

How one company cornered the market for the human mind

The judge ruled that Google operates unlawfully: It effectively excludes competitors while its prices and services are unresponsive to consumer market demands.

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