ITV Faces Worst Ad Slump as Adspend Forecasts Slashed
Due for release today, the report predicts that ITV's ad revenues will drop 8.9% this year, far worse than the 4.7% decline forecast for commercial television ...
ITV warns over 'challenging' ad outlook as annual profits fall
ITV cautioned over a “challenging” ad spend outlook amid economic uncertainty in the UK, predicting ad sales to plunge by around 11% year-on- ...
ITV giants hit by £70m ad slump
ITV warns of declining ad revenue in 2023
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/633819
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Belgium euthanises psychiatric patient
ReplyDelete“A Belgian woman who murdered her five children … has been euthanised at her own request …
“[Genevieve Lhermitte] was sentenced to life in prison in 2008, before being moved to a PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL in 2019 …
“Belgian law allows for people to chose to be euthanised if they are deemed to be suffering from 'unbearable' psychological, and not just physical, suffering that cannot be healed.
“The person must be conscious of their decision and be able to express their wish in a reasoned and consistent manner.
“‘It is this specific procedure that Mrs Lhermitte followed, with the various medical opinions having been collected,' her lawyer said …
“Last year 2,966 PEOPLE DIED VIA EUTHANASIA in Belgium, an increase of 10 percent compared to 2021, according to the authorities …
“Cancer remains the number one reason cited, but officials said for nearly three out of four requests the patient presented 'several types of suffering, both physical and psychological'.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11813359/Belgian-mother-slit-throats-five-children-aged-three-14-euthanised-16-years-later.html
* Yes, she was ‘a murderer’.
She was also a psychiatric patient.
Even more pertinently, a human being.
‘ Life unworthy of life ‘, Nazism
ReplyDelete“The phrase ‘life unworthy of life’ (German: Lebensunwertes Leben) was a Nazi designation for the segments of the populace which, according to the Nazi regime, had no right to live. Those individuals were targeted to be murdered by the state (‘EUTHANIZED’) …
“The term [‘life unworthy of life’] included people with serious medical problems and those considered grossly inferior … [Psychiatrist Alfred Hoche from the University of Freiburg] believed that killing such people was useful …”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_unworthy_of_life
First they euthanised the murderers, and I said nothing, for I am not a murderer.
ReplyDeleteThen they euthanised the bank robbers, and I said nothing, for I am not a bank robber.
Then they euthanised the homeless beggars, and I said nothing, for I am not a homeless beggar.
Then they euthanised … Can you guess?
‘The truth about Ukraine’
ReplyDelete“The last Ukrainian President elected by the whole electorate of that country was overthrown in a violent, lawless putsch in 2014 … The country has since then had no true parliamentary opposition … Its media are shut down arbitrarily on occasion … And Ukraine is very corrupt …
“The history of Crimea [is] highly complex. Leaving aside the [transfer] of that peninsula from [Russia] to the [Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic] in 1954, it *IS* now largely populated by ethnic Russians, and even a fair referendum … would probably have endorsed its return to Russia in 2014.
“… Crimea was disgracefully prevented, by threats of ‘bloodshed’ (unspecified) made by the Kiev government, from holding a referendum on seceding from Ukraine in 1992 …
“[There has been an] admission by Robert Kagan, a leading anti-Russian neoconservative … that the war was in fact provoked … [Indeed,] Nato expansion was chosen by the USA when it need not have been …
“… [The] Yanukovych government, which [was] legitimate and properly elected, was overthrown by mob force … The [revolution leaders] simply preferred force to the ballot box, and violence to constitutional law … [Former US ambassador to Moscow Jack Matlock said] these events were ‘an illegal coup d’etat’ …
“… [There was] open involvement of Western politicians in supporting the Kiev crowds in 2014 … [Even] while Yanukovych was still in office, the USA was actively seeking to form a new and more nationalist government in Kiev … [A] very nasty war [then] broke out in the Ukrainian East … The massacre of Russians in Odessa … remains a striking blot on Ukraine … Ukrainian nationalism grew greatly in importance after the 2014 coup …
“The unapologetic persistence, by some, in the use of Nazi symbols such as the Wolfsangel (worn with official permission on the Ukrainian army uniforms of acknowledged units such as the Azov battalion) is a fact … Even in Russia … the state Army has not permitted the use of avowed Nazi symbols on its uniforms.
“… [This nationalism] has been so active in (for example) diminishing the status of the Russian language, making it harder for Russian speakers to be fully integrated into a Ukraine they suddenly found themselves citizens of in 1991. …
“The truth is that lethal large-scale violence was brought to Ukraine - in 2014 - by the lawless deposition of Yanukovych … [In 2008] Bush began to push for Nato membership of Ukraine and … some kind has been inevitable since then …”
‘The truth about Ukraine’
ReplyDelete“The last Ukrainian President elected by the whole electorate of that country was overthrown in a violent, lawless putsch in 2014 … The country has since then had no true parliamentary opposition … Its media are shut down arbitrarily on occasion … And Ukraine is very corrupt …
“The history of Crimea [is] highly complex. Leaving aside the [transfer] of that peninsula from [Russia] to the [Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic] in 1954, it *IS* now largely populated by ethnic Russians, and even a fair referendum … would probably have endorsed its return to Russia in 2014.
“… Crimea was disgracefully prevented, by threats of ‘bloodshed’ (unspecified) made by the Kiev government, from holding a referendum on seceding from Ukraine in 1992 …
“[There has been an] admission by Robert Kagan, a leading anti-Russian neoconservative … that the war was in fact provoked … [Indeed,] Nato expansion was chosen by the USA when it need not have been …
“… [The] Yanukovych government, which [was] legitimate and properly elected, was overthrown by mob force … The [revolution leaders] simply preferred force to the ballot box, and violence to constitutional law … [Former US ambassador to Moscow Jack Matlock said] these events were ‘an illegal coup d’etat’ …
“… [There was] open involvement of Western politicians in supporting the Kiev crowds in 2014 … [Even] while Yanukovych was still in office, the USA was actively seeking to form a new and more nationalist government in Kiev … [A] very nasty war [then] broke out in the Ukrainian East … The massacre of Russians in Odessa … remains a striking blot on Ukraine … Ukrainian nationalism grew greatly in importance after the 2014 coup …
“The unapologetic persistence, by some, in the use of Nazi symbols such as the Wolfsangel (worn with official permission on the Ukrainian army uniforms of acknowledged units such as the Azov battalion) is a fact … Even in Russia … the state Army has not permitted the use of avowed Nazi symbols on its uniforms.
“… [This nationalism] has been so active in (for example) diminishing the status of the Russian language, making it harder for Russian speakers to be fully integrated into a Ukraine they suddenly found themselves citizens of in 1991. …
“The truth is that lethal large-scale violence was brought to Ukraine - in 2014 - by the lawless deposition of Yanukovych … [In 2008] Bush began to push for Nato membership of Ukraine and … some kind has been inevitable since then …”
https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2023/03/good-versus-evil-right-versus-wrong-in-a-complicated-world-sometimes-it-really-is-that-simple-or-is-.html
Ron DeSantis: Why I stood up to Disney
ReplyDelete“On Monday, I signed the law ending the Walt Disney Co.'s self-governing status over 43 square miles in central Florida ... Disney no longer has its own government …
“… [Activists] working at the company's headquarters in Burbank, Calif., pressured Disney to oppose Florida's Parental Rights in Education Act … Disney executives were seen on videos boasting about the company's plans to inject sexuality into its programming for children …
“… [Publicly] traded corporations have become combatants in battles over American politics and culture …. Having private companies wield de facto public power isn't in the best interests of most Americans … Leaders must stand up and fight back when big corporations make the mistake, as Disney did, of using their economic might to advance a political agenda …”
https://archive.is/Etgw3
61% believe Feds helped incite the U.S. Capitol ‘riot’
ReplyDelete“Voters overwhelmingly support releasing all videos of the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, and a majority think it’s likely that government agents helped provoke the riot.
“The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 80% of likely U.S. voters believe it is important that the public be able to view all the videos of the Capitol riot, including 58% who think it’s Very Important …
“Sixty-one percent (61%) of voters believe it is likely that undercover government agents helped provoke the Capitol riot, including 39% who think it’s Very Likely …
“Seventy percent (70%) of Republicans, as well as 57% of both Democrats and unaffiliated voters believe it is at least somewhat likely that undercover government agents helped provoke the Capitol riot …”
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/61_believe_feds_helped_incite_capitol_riot