The woman, who has not been named, was in her 20s and had gone through sexual abuse starting from age five to 15, according to the Dutch Euthanasia Commission. Being a victim of child sex abuse, she underwent excruciating depression, severe anorexia and PTSD.

Although her psychiatric conditions did improve, doctors believed that her multiple problems were incurable and decided upon ending her life.

The doctors said she was “totally competent” and that there was “no major depression or other mood disorder which affected her thinking”. Her death has ignited a debate over the issue of mercy killings. Nikki Kenward, who is associated with the disability rights group Distant Voices, said, “It is both horrifying and worrying that mental health professionals could regard euthanasia in any form as an answer to the complex and deep wounds that result from sexual abuse.”

While Labour MP Robert Flello was of the opinion that, “It almost sends the message that if you are the victim of abuse, and as a result you get a mental illness, you are punished by being killed, that the punishment for the crime of being a victim is death.” He added: It serves to reinforce why any move towards legalising assisted suicide, or assisted dying, is so dangerous.

But even that very open license is too narrow for the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons – which infamously wants every doctor forced by law to be complicit in killing patients. From the Waterloo Region Record story:

Canada’s largest medical regulatory authority is warning that most or all doctors in some Ontario communities could be disqualified from approving requests for a medically assisted death under the federal government’s proposed new law.

The province’s college of physicians told a Senate committee that some of the safeguards the government wants to impose are so stringent they will prevent many otherwise eligible patients from accessing an assisted death. It is a very alarming day when a medical association is so into the killing agenda that it wants a radical legislative proposal to go even further!

The transgendered and their supporters claim that people are merely assigned a sex at birth, their gender identity (how they feel) may or may not match their assigned sex. The goal is to force everyone to accept that gender identity should take precedence over the biological reality of sexual identity and men who claim to be women should be treated as though they were women. The ACLU complained that the school district challenged their “client’s identity as a girl,” which is true because their client is not a girl, but a boy. According to the ACLU, all “she wants to be accepted for who she is.”

The problem is that he wants to be accepted for who he is not. Their client claims that not allowing him to change with the girls stigmatizes him, “making me feel like I was not a normal person.” The simple answer is that it is not normal for a male to want to be accepted as female. The Bruce Jenner celebrity blitz and the battle over bathrooms, have brought the issue of gender to the fore and people are wondering how we got to the point where boys who think they are girls can use the girls’ locker room. What happened to common sense?

In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself.

One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. The girls forced to accept a boy in their private space are being targeted for just this kind of humiliation. This is about much more than bathrooms.

War is Peace: “Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia,” Orwell wrote of two of the three remaining nation-states on the planet. Though it analogizes Russia’s mercurial relationship with Nazi Germany, the same volatility aptly fits US involvement in the Middle East — where, though propaganda would purport a decisive enemy, the truth remains far murkier. A constant state of undeclared but active war rules foreign policy — driven almost exclusively by the war machine’s profiteering from plundering of foreign lands’ natural resources.

Big Oil, Big Pharma, and the multi-faceted defense industry have experienced exponential profits since perpetual war became the de facto basis of foreign policy — and Big Banks share in the reward. But all of this war requires the US government to maintain support from the public — and what better way to win them over than appeal to fear of the Other?

Freedom is Slavery: How does a government persuade its citizens their enslavement would be desirable and beneficial? Frame it as necessary protection against any threat to their fundamental security — and implement more contentious aspects of said servitude in palatable microsteps. Fear of terrorism — or, more directly, xenophobia — constitutes sufficient reason for many to cast off basic human rights through increasingly invasive laws and governance.

Legislation, however, isn’t by far the sole vehicle available to the government. In a culture so utterly imbued in paranoia, neighbors aren’t only willing to spy on neighbors — or complete strangers, to that end — they’re willing to alert law enforcement should they observe … Something. Freedom to simply live one’s life, without harming another, has been co-opted by a State hell bent on maintaining slavish control of its people.

Erdogan's argument is that he wants the money to be transferred over to him directly to dispense with as he pleases, while Europe insists that UN agencies oversee that the money be spent as designated for refugee needs, instead of funding another wing for Erdogan's palace.

Of course, the only reason why Erdogan is confident he has leverage is because Turkey is currently hosting over 3 million Syrian refugees that he is holding back from flooding into Europe once more, potentially resulting in the most acute episode of Europe's refugee crisis. If the deal falls apart, Turkey will surely flood millions more in refugees who will unleash far more political havoc across Europe, and certainly Germany, than Greece ever could.

So for all those focusing closely on the risk of Brexit or developments in Greece this summer where the third Greek bailout may or may not give the insolvent nation a few more months before its next payment to the ECB is due while it pretends to "reform", a far bigger risk is what Greece's neighbor to the east, ruled by an unhinged, irrational president, will end up doing, and how Europe would respond if he actually follows through with his bluff.

While Jerusalem remains adamantly opposed to the French diplomatic initiative, enshrining Palestinian recognition of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people would be an important step, Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold told The Jerusalem Post.

“There are many problems with the French initiative, one of them is the lack of recognition of a Jewish state,” Gold said Thursday. “But even if that were changed, it wouldn’t alter many fundamental problems with the French initiative.” Gold voiced anger at France’s vote last month at the UNESCO executive board meeting in favor of a resolution on Jerusalem that expunged any Jewish connection to the Temple Mount.

“When French diplomats vote for a resolution at UNESCO that rejects the historic Jewish connection to Jerusalem, it should not come as a surprise that Israel rejects the French initiative and the political horizon it aspires to ultimately expose,” he said.

Indeed you wouldn’t, except that in the case of Mr Cameron’s EU referendum, checking under the bonnet or commissioning a full structural survey of the implications of a Brexit vote is impossible - and designedly so. The uncertainty that underpins the EU referendum and Cameron's strategy for winning the vote on June 23, is also its greatest flaw. If the UK plumps for the exit door, we find ourselves in correspondingly much, much deeper trouble.

If the trick works - and the UK votes to remain - then Mr Cameron will congratulate himself on an unfair fight, well won. But if it doesn’t… well, that as the Prime Minister knows, that is where the serious problems begin.

In the event of a Brexit, we genuinely don't know what happens, and nor do the financiers and bureaucrats responsible for keeping the world spinning on its axis. We don’t even know the basics, such as who stays on as PM, or whether Article 50 would be instantly triggered, or how Germany and France would react, or what would happen to Sterling... there are simply too many variables to make sound predictions on these questions.

Which means that during this dispiritingly one-eyed campaign we also don’t know – can’t know – who is telling us the truth. Perhaps that’s the real reason why, as the polls tighten, as surveys show businesses warming to the idea of Brexit and the BBC 10 O'clock news implicitly ridicules the prime minister’s warnings of World War III with footage of Spitfires dog-fighting over the Channel, that Mr Cameron could be seen at his lectern, visibly starting to sweat.

The latest poll yesterday was a shock to her and her advisers in Berlin - coming on a day when new figures on asylum seeker arrivals show they have dwindled to a fraction of what they were at their height. The survey conducted by INSA for Germany's Cicero magazine asked respondents if Mrs Merkel should run for a fourth term. A staggering 64 percent said she should not.

Other results showed Germany's two main political parties - her conservative CDU and the centre-left SPD - would get just 50 percent of the vote between them. This represents a staggering 17 percent drop from the general election.

Mrs Merkel has squandered her vast reserves of political capital on a policy towards the refugees that has torn the social fabric of Germany and pushed tens of thousands of voters into the embrace of the hard-right.

More than 1.2 million migrants have arrived in the country in the last 17 months. The scenes in Cologne on New Year's Eve - when mobs of migrant men sexually molested and robbed hundreds of women - irrevocably turned the public attitude against them.

According to reports and its own propaganda material, the EU “Gendarmerie,” as the force is known, will apparently be charged with putting down protests and civil unrest, raiding illegal political meetings, propping up foreign governments, and even confiscating weapons. Police and troops from numerous African and Middle Eastern nations were also involved in the controversial EU force's latest EU-funded training exercises. Critics are fighting back, though, warning of the dangers of such a force and of the EU itself.

The EU's military-police force is merely one component of the broader transnational police-state apparatus being quietly imposed on the formerly sovereign peoples of Europe. It includes everything from transnational police and transnational army units to EU air and naval operations. Virtually all of it has grown up in the shadows.

But in recent weeks, a controversial training operation, which took place in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia last month, has sparked concern and alarm across Europe and beyond as media outlets shone a light on the troubling developments. The story was first reported by Breitbart's UK operation before being picked up by British newspapers and alternative media outlets around the world.

The European Commission plans to unveil long-delayed ‘ecodesign’ restrictions on small household appliances in the autumn. They are expected to ban the most energy-inefficient devices from sale in order to cut carbon emissions. The plans have been ready for many months, but were shelved for fear of undermining the referendum campaign if they were perceived as an assault on the British staples of tea and toast.

Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the Vote Leave campaign said: "The EU now interferes with so many aspect of our lives, from our breakfast to our borders. If we vote remain we will be powerless to prevent an avalanche of EU regulation that Brussels is delaying until after the referendum."

Today he has announced plans to stop the flow of dirty money through the London property market. He said overseas firms will have to sign up to a new public register if they own or buy property or if they want to bid for central government contracts. The conference will have three main sessions, including one chaired by the Prime Minister which will also include on the panel the president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is scheduled to deliver a keynote address entitled: "Why We Must Tackle Corruption Together". Participants will include US Secretary of State John Kerry, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. Fifa has not been invited, despite wrong-doing in sport being a key focus of the event.

Also not represented at the major London gathering will be countries like Panama, and UK overseas territories like the British Virgin Islands (BVI), which have been at the centre of recent controversy.