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...recent months, Nitschke has become an increasingly visible - and divisive - figure in Britain despite living in Australia. In October, he provoked outrage by holding a workshop in London, attended by 50 people, on how to commit suicide. A second workshop in Bournemouth was canceled after local authorities intervened. And on March 30, Nitschke joined historian and Holocaust denier David Irving as one of the very few speakers to have their invitation to debate before the Oxford Union revoked. Fellow panelists in a planned euthanasia debate had refused to speak alongside him. (Read a TIME story on Irving...
Nitschke says he has chosen Britain as a battleground because of the nation's "enlightened" attitude. The most recent poll on euthanasia by the London-based National Centre for Social Research found that 80% of Britains feel the law should allow voluntary euthanasia carried out by a doctor for a patient with a painful, terminal illness like cancer...
...damaging charge given veganism’s place within a broader progressive program. PETA has unapologetically commandeered the female body to promote its agenda, from its long-running “rather go naked than wear fur campaign” to last month’s London showcase of a pregnant woman, breasts exposed, caged, and on all fours, intended to protest the maltreatment of pigs. And the Vegan Vixens, an animal-activist twist on the Pussycat Dolls, pose for pin-up shots in pleather between appearances at the Playboy mansion and on the Howard Stern show...
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...such a decision would butt up against the laws of dozens of nations, which do not allow merchant marine ships to dock at their ports with weapons aboard. "We as an association are opposed to arming crews," said Tony Mason, secretary general of the International Chamber of Shipping in London. "They are not trained for it, they're more likely to get hurt, and ultimately the ship owners' primary responsibility is to its crew...