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UK scientists can’t wait to get their hands on thousands of frozen human embryos

Dec 15, 2023 | mercatornet.com | Michael Cook |Sofia Hörder

It’s hard to find a better case study of how experts exploit the media and democratic procedures to advance unethical agendas than the push in the United Kingdom to create “embryo banks” for scientific research. This might seem like a niche topic, but bear with us. Stupendously important issues concerning human dignity are at stake. The story begins with an unexpected setback for stem cell scientists in the UK.
With Israel at war and haemorrhaging workers to harvest crops, Africa fills the gap

Dec 14, 2023 | mercatornet.com | Mathew Otieno |Michael Cook |Sofia Hörder

Over 10,000 foreign agricultural workers have left Israel since Hamas attacked the country on 7 October, triggering the ongoing war. Among those killed or taken hostage were dozens of Thai, Nepalese and Filipino labourers who worked on Israeli farms.
In the city of slaughter

Dec 14, 2023 | mercatornet.com | Daniel Kane |Michael Cook |Sofia Hörder

I grew up on stories of Jewish tragedy and Jewish heroism — of unbearable suffering and unfathomable courage. Many such stories were still well within living memory during my childhood, and I was blessed to know people who lived through them and could pass them on to me. But, as I was also blessed to have been born in Texas at the turn of the twenty-first century, these stories never seemed particularly relevant to me or the world I was raised in.
Why did schools and officials collude in this destruction of a child's life?

Dec 12, 2023 | mercatornet.com | Michael Cook |Sofia Hörder

The following is the story of a 15-year-old girl, Sage Lily. The author, her adopted mother (who happens to also be her grandmother), wants the world to know what is happening to vulnerable trans identified children like her daughter. After Sage’s harrowing experiences became public, a bill was introduced into the Virginia legislature, House Bill 2432, or “Sage’s Law”.
Why I don't think the population will collapse in the long run

Dec 10, 2023 | mercatornet.com | Peter Jacobsen |Michael Cook |Sofia Hörder

The irrational pandemonium of the 20th century was the fear of a population explosion. Estimates from scientists such as Paul Ehrlich projected population growth would lead to mass starvation, death, and environmental degradation. None of that happened. Instead, food became more plentiful, life expectancy increased, and the environment got cleaner. This is because, as economist Julian Simon pointed out, human beings are the ultimate resource for improving the world. Population growth is good.
Russia's resolve: the family comes first

Dec 10, 2023 | mercatornet.com | Louis March |Michael Cook |Sofia Hörder

A valuable lesson from my days toiling away in the imperial capital was how little Americans know about what is going on in the rest of the world. Back in the heady days of hegemony, the default American setting was ethnocentric. Wherever we went, there was CNN Headline News, American entertainment, tourist menus, guides and cordial concierges ensuring that our language deficit was not an impediment to spending money.
Corpus Christi gets a new harbour bridge — eventually

Dec 10, 2023 | mercatornet.com | Karl Stephan |Michael Cook |Sofia Hörder

When my wife and I took a short vacation down to the Gulf Coast in October, we used part of a day to visit the Texas State Aquarium in the North Beach part of Corpus Christi. To get there, we had to take the (old) Harbour Bay Bridge that crosses a large industrial canal through which pass tankers going to the main industry of Corpus Christi, which is oil refining. That bridge was built in 1959, and about twenty years ago, plans began to be made for a new bridge.
The Elon Musk interview that nearly broke the internet

Dec 7, 2023 | mercatornet.com | Kurt Mahlburg |Michael Cook |Sofia Hörder

The prestige press has its knickers in a twist over Elon Musk’s interview at the annual DealBook Summit in New York City last week — an interview that nearly broke the internet.
Australian court rules ‘voluntary assisted dying’ is suicide

Dec 7, 2023 | mercatornet.com | Michael Cook |Sofia Hörder

Such is the stigma surrounding suicide that advocates of “voluntary assisted dying” insist vehemently that it is by no means suicide. For instance, Go Gentle Australia, a leading lobby group for VAD, explains in its website’s FAQ that:“People seeking voluntary assisted dying are not suicidal; they don’t want to die but are dying of a terminal illness and simply want to control how and when it happens and how much they need to suffer at the end.
10 Rillington Place and the pro-death campaign

Dec 7, 2023 | mercatornet.com | Ann Farmer |Michael Cook |Sofia Hörder

In 1950, Timothy Evans was hanged for the murder of his wife Beryl and baby daughter Geraldine. However, it later emerged that the real murderer was their landlord, John (‘Reg’) Christie, who lived at the same property in west London — 10 Rillington Place, the name of a chilling 1971 film on the subject.