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Canada’s Liberal Government Pushes Bill Allowing Doctors to Euthanize Unwitting Dementia Patients

Canada’s Liberal government has introduced legislation that would allow doctors to euthanize unwitting dementia patients.

The bill, introduced Tuesday, would allow Canadians to request euthanasia in advance, meaning doctors could carry out the procedure after a patient becomes incapable of providing informed consent.

Justice Minister Sean Fraser said the legislation would ensure that people diagnosed with incurable illnesses could have their wishes respected even if their condition deteriorates.

He insisted that the government would introduce safeguards to prevent patients from being pressured into ending their lives.

The proposal marks another expansion of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, which allows the euthanasia of vulnerable and seriously ill patients.

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New Dementia Cases Projected To More Than Double Globally By 2050

The number of new annual dementia cases worldwide is estimated to increase more than twofold by 2050 from 2023 levels, according to a recently published peer-reviewed study.

Published in the JAMA Neurology journal on Oct. 12, the study analyzed data from more than 38,000 individuals across 18 nations and territories.

Based on the calculated incidence rate of dementia, the researchers estimated that in 2050, there would be 24.7 million new cases worldwide, up by more than 116 percent from 11.4 million new cases in 2023.

Gender-wise, incidence rates were found to be higher among women than men.

Middle-income and lower-income nations had higher rates than richer countries.

In an Oct. 13 statement, the University of New South Wales Sydney, whose researchers led the study, said that dementia already affects more than 57 million people globally.

Prof. Henry Brodaty, co-author of the study, said in a statement that the findings reinforce the urgent need to invest in dementia prevention measures.

“Twenty-four million new cases of dementia every year would place enormous pressure on individuals, families, health systems and economies around the world,” Brodaty said.

“Population ageing means we cannot simply wait for people to develop dementia and then respond,” Brodaty said.

“We need to act across the spectrum – from reducing modifiable risk factors and identifying people at risk earlier, through to improving diagnosis, treatment and care.”

Understanding incidence rate was critical as it helps estimate future demand for diagnoses and clinical care, while contributing to preparing the requisite preventive measures, the statement said.

Prof. Perminder Sachdev, senior author of the study, said that higher incidence rates in low- and middle-income nations were “particularly concerning because these regions are experiencing rapid population ageing while often having the fewest resources for prevention, diagnosis and care.”

Dementia is used to describe a decline in mental ability that interferes with daily life, with the most common type being Alzheimer’s.

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WHAT? Jill Biden Entertains the Possibility That Joe Was DRUGGED Before His Awful 2024 Debate

During a recent interview, former First Lady Jill Biden entertained the idea that Joe Biden may have been drugged before the debate in the spring of 2024.

This was the debate that ended Joe Biden’s presidency and his candidacy for reelection. His performance was so awful that Democrats and the media immediately began calling on him to drop out of the race.

But drugged? Really?

It is amazing to see Jill Biden take such a suggestion seriously.

FOX News reports:

Jill Biden entertains possibility Joe was drugged before debate, asked point blank if doctors ruled out stroke

Former first lady Jill Biden doubled down on the possibility of her husband, former President Joe Biden, being drugged ahead of the 2024 debate and was asked during a podcast Thursday whether doctors ruled out a stroke that night.

Podcast host Jamie Kern Lima asked Biden if a stroke was ruled out by doctors the night of the debate.

“Well, they did. They said, I mean, I didn’t say to them, when I was writing my book, I was reflecting, but I didn’t say, ‘God, did Joe have a stroke?’ I just said, ‘Is he OK? Is he OK?’” Biden responded.

Lima asked the former first lady what her gut told her happened, and Biden said she didn’t know.

“I mean, there’s all kinds of theories — you know, he had been traveling,” she said. “I know he was tired, he didn’t feel well that day, when I saw him, but there was nothing definitive that I could point to. And I had been on the road for two weeks up until that moment. So, I wasn’t with him. I didn’t see him days before, weeks before. I saw him maybe one hour before.”

Lima asked, “There’s no way anyone could have, God forbid, laced his drink or something?”

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Pelosi Plays Stupid, Claims She Didn’t Know Biden Was Mentally Declining – Takes a Veiled Shot at Jill Biden

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday claimed she didn’t know that Joe Biden was mentally declining until she saw his June 2024 debate performance.

“You see, when I was Speaker, I saw the president all the time, but when I wasn’t then I saw him maybe 3 times that whole year and so I didn’t know, and I think he had his sort of ups and downs,” Pelosi said on Tuesday at Politico’s The California Agenda: Sacramento Summit.

But I do think those who did know should have acted upon that information…whoever knew,” Pelosi said.

Pelosi took a veiled shot at Jill Biden.

“There was staff saying the family knew. The family said the staff,” Pelosi said without mentioning Dr. Jill’s name.

Pelosi said that she learned about Biden’s mental decline during the June 2024 debate against Trump.

“When you think of the debate and how sad that was, that’s really when we learned,” Pelosi said.

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Craziest Part Of New Biden Tapes Is That Media Who Covered For Him Still Have Jobs

Newly released audio of former President Joe Biden shows him struggling to remember names and dates and losing his train of thought during 2016 and 2017 interviews. But the most damning part about the audio tapes is that the propagandists masquerading as journalists who spent four years concealing his decline are still employed.

The Oversight Project, a government watchdog group, fought for more than two years to get the tapes released. The tapes and transcripts cover Biden’s conversations with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, between 2016 and 2017. These tapes were used by Special Counsel Robert Hur during his investigation into whether Biden mishandled classified information.

Ultimately Hur found “Biden’s memory was significantly limited” during both the interviews with Zwonitzer and Hur himself. Hur also concluded that “Mr. Biden’s recorded conversations with Zwonitzer from 2017 are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries.”

The newly released tapes show Biden struggling to recall the names of two of his former economic advisers in April of 2017: “including the two guys who I think were with me, were — oh, God. The guy at Princeton now. Economist. Good guy, was our, our chief economic advisor. Not Kaufman. I’ll think of his name.” Biden later said: “I should write the names down because I keep forgetting them.”

In another instance Biden could not recall the date of a memorial service for a fallen service member: “I think I went to that memorial service in Wilmington. It says [REDACTED] December the 4th, but I don’t — I know what this means. Memorial service — [REDACTED] gets names really f–ed up,” Biden said.

“So it says memorial service for [REDACTED]. I don’t think her name was [REDACTED]. Or I forget [REDACTED].”

In another instance Biden couldn’t recall what he was going to say.

“What was I going to ask you?” Biden said. “Oh, gosh. I, I can’t think of what it is.”

These recordings don’t just add additional proof of Biden’s cognitive decline; they also prove that the problem was noticeable before Biden reentered the White House in 2021. Biden only continued to decline, and Americans watched it unfold. Yet Democrats and legacy media assured Americans repeatedly that Biden’s cognitive decline, which was on full display during the 2024 debate, was a sudden development rather than the culmination of years of warning signs.

The Biden administration understood how politically damaging his decline was, with Hur having testified that the White House urged him to alter the “references to the president’s poor memory” in his report on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. Hur also testified that Zwonitzer “attempted to destroy evidence following Hur’s appointment to investigate the mishandling of classified information,” as The Federalist reported.

But White House officials could not have kept up the deception on their own. They needed an accomplice willing to tell Americans not to believe what they could hear and see. That accomplice? The propaganda press.

Days before the infamous debate, The New York Times had a report that read: “How Misleading Videos Are Trailing Biden as He Battles Age Doubts.” The Times’ editorial page had an essay entitled “I’m a Neuroscientist. We’re Thinking About Biden’s Memory and Age in the Wrong Way.”

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Joe Biden Told Ghostwriter He Kept Classified Docs in His Home — Years Before His 2020 Campaign

Recently released tapes of former President Joe Biden’s conversations with the ghostwriter of his 2017 memoir reveal he admitted to retaining classified documents and already had notable memory issues.

The Oversight Project’s Mike Howell was the plaintiff in the case fighting for the release of the tapes, which Biden’s team has long fought against. However, the former president’s attorneys dropped their bid to prevent the release, resulting in the recordings and transcripts from his conversations with his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer for the 2017 memoir, Promise Me, Dad being made public.

“We now know what has been long assumed: the autopen scandal extends far back beyond just when Joe Biden ‘ran’ for president from his basement,” Oversight Project President Mike Howell said in a statement. “These tapes have so many pauses and ‘ums’ that it sounds like Biden is buffering like a dial-up Internet connection.”

In total, there are 2 hours and 45 minutes of recordings and a heavily redacted transcript of the conversations, which showcase Biden’s poor memory and feature a variety of long pauses as he struggled to remember dates, order of events, and people.

“I think I went to that memorial service in Wilmington. It says [REDACTED] December the 4th, but I don’t — I know what this means. Memorial service — [REDACTED] gets names really f—ed up,” Biden said. “So it says memorial service for [REDACTED]. I don’t think her name was [REDACTED]. Or I forget [REDACTED].”

“I’ll think of his name,” Biden said in another part of the recording, adding, “I should write the names down because I keep forgetting them.”

He also openly discussed retaining classified information, even warning Zwonitzer at one point, “Some of this may be classified so be careful with it.”

He also said, “So this was, I early on, um, in ’09 I just found all the classified stuff downstairs.” In another section, Biden states, “The next thing I have here is, um, this is classified …”

This connects with the investigation by special counsel Robert Hur, who led the Biden classified documents investigation. As Breitbart News reported in 2024, “Hur’s investigation, which concluded in February, found Biden ‘willfully’ retained classified documents but [Hur] declined to prosecute him, citing ‘insufficient evidence.’”

Hur characterized Biden as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” At the time, Biden could not remember when he announced his candidacy, when he stopped serving as vice president, or when his son Beau died.

The Oversight Project noted that people should not overlook the number of redactions in the transcript, explaining that it indicates that Biden was revealing sensitive information.

“At several points in the tapes, Biden references the information he is reviewing is likely classified, which is followed by significant audio redactions for classified information,” Oversight Project said. “This was not just once or twice, these classified redactions cover significant portions of the audio files released.

“The listener shouldn’t overlook the audio redactions because those redactions are intended to cover the disclosure of classified information,” the group emphasized.

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Oversight Project Releases Recordings of Biden Interviews with Ghostwriter…”Some of This May Be Classified… So Be Careful”

Last Friday, Joe Biden gave up the fight and declined to seek further review of an appeals court ruling on the release of 70 hours of conversations with his ghostwriter.

The Oversight Project on Monday afternoon began to release recordings of Joe Biden’s interviews with his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer.

Click here to read the full transcript of Biden’s conversations with Mark Zwonitzer.

“The tapes make clear that Biden disclosed massive amounts of classified information to his ghost writer Mark Zwonitzer,” the Oversight Project’s VP of litigation, Jeff Clark said.

“Some of this may be classified…so, be careful. I’m not sure — It’s not marked classified but,” Biden says to Mark Zwonitzer.

At another point in his conversation with Zwonitzer, Biden says, “The next thing I have here is, um, this is classified.”

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Joe Biden Gives Up, Declines to Seek Further Review of Appeals Court Ruling on Release of Audiotapes with Ghostwriter

Joe Biden has given up the fight and declined to seek further review of an appeals court ruling on the release of 70 hours of conversations with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Monday denied former Joe Biden’s emergency motion for an injunction pending appeal that sought to block the Justice Department from releasing redacted transcripts and audio recordings of his private conversations with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer.

The 2-1 order, in Heritage Foundation and Mike Howell v. United States Department of Justice, was signed by Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan (Obama appointee) and Judge Gregory Katsas (Trump appointee). Judge Florence Pan (Biden appointee) dissented and would have granted the injunction.

“Today, The Oversight Project obtained a complete and total victory over President Joe Biden’s autopen in his sad, but predictable efforts to withhold the recordings of his interviews with his ghost writer. Biden’s declination to seek further review of the D.C. Circuit’s ruling paves the way for the release of the interview tapes,” the Oversight Project said in a press release on Friday.

“Today’s victory is the latest in a string of Oversight Project wins over the autopen President. The autopen’s efforts to block transparency here were decisively rejected by both the Court of Appeals and the District Court,” they said.

“Last year, we secured the release of the audio recording of President Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. Our work uncovering the prolific and unlawful use of the Biden autopen has revealed the serious threats to our constitutional republic that Democrat leadership poses,” the Oversight Project said.

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Appeals court rejects Biden’s attempt to block release of ghostwriter interview recordings

In a 2-1 decision on Monday, a panel of three judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC) Circuit rejected Biden’s effort to stop the Heritage Foundation from obtaining the materials under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

In an unsigned opinion, Judges Sri Srinivasan and Gregory Katsas stated, “We conclude that Biden has not shown a likelihood that the requested materials must be withheld from disclosure.”

“We conclude that any remaining incursion on personal privacy from disclosure of the now-redacted materials likely does not outweigh the public interest in disclosure,” Srinivasan and Katsas continued. “In that regard, although there is generally a substantial privacy interest in not being identified as the target of an investigation that results in no charges … [the] DOJ announced the Special Counsel’s appointment and the purpose of his investigation, and the Special Counsel Report describes at length that Biden was investigated for allegedly retaining and disclosing classified materials.”

They explained that the materials would affect the investigation and the ultimate decision, therefore making them “likely to advance the public interest at stake.”

Judge Florence Pan wrote in her dissent that the D.C. Circuit’s decision “will result in the premature release of Biden’s concededly private conversations.”

“In my view, Biden has shown a substantial privacy interest,” Pan wrote. “The conversations at issue took place in Biden’s home, and the recordings of them were obtained by the government in the course of a criminal investigation that did not lead to an indictment.”

The investigation began in 2022, when the first batch of documents was found at the Penn Biden Center, a Washington think-tank where Biden had an office after serving as vice president. Biden’s attorneys notified the National Archives, which alerted the DOJ, leading to searches that uncovered more classified documents stored in the garage, offices and basement of Biden’s home in Delaware.

U.S. Attorney Robert Hur was appointed as special counsel in 2023 to investigate whether Biden had violated the law. His report concluded that there was evidence that Biden had retained classified documents relating to military and foreign policy, kept notebooks containing writings about national security that included classified information and allegedly disclosed classified information to his ghostwriter while working on his memoir after leaving office.

Biden met multiple times with author Mark Zwonitzer, who ghostwrote his 2017 memoir, “Promise Me, Dad,” after he served as vice president under former President Barack Obama. These discussions later became part of the Justice Department’s investigation into Biden.

Hur later concluded that criminal charges were not warranted against Biden due to the difficulty of proving Biden intentionally violated the law, plausible defenses Biden could have raised about how he came to possess the documents and his cooperation with investigators.

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The Woman Who Came Back: What One Dose of Psilocybin Revealed About the Self We Thought Alzheimer’s Had Erased

In 1971, psilocybin was declared to have “no accepted medical use.” In 2026, it appeared to reach into the ruins of an advanced Alzheimer’s brain and switch a human being back on.

Not permanently. Not by reversing the disease. But for days and weeks—long enough for her family to have her back, long enough to force a question that mainstream neurology has spent decades trying not to ask.

I’ve reported before on psilocybin as a longevity molecule—the Emory findings showing psilocin extending human cellular lifespan by up to 57%, aged mice surviving 60% better, telomeres preserved, neuroplasticity switched on. In that piece I listed Alzheimer’s among the “neurological frontiers” where this ancient fungal ally was beginning to be tested. I did not expect the frontier to move this fast.

The paper is titled, in the careful language of clinical medicine, “Transient multidomain functional improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin-containing mushroom administration.” Behind that title is a woman.

She was an octogenarian Japanese-American woman living under continuous family and caregiver supervision. Her Alzheimer’s had been progressing for roughly ten years. For the last five, her speech had collapsed into monosyllables. She was chronically incontinent. She could not dress herself, could not walk unaided, struggled to swallow, and had lost most of her capacity for spontaneous interaction. Her affect was flat. By every conventional measure, she was in the late, “irreversible” stage of the disease—the stage where medicine offers comfort and little else.

Under supervision, she was given a single oral dose of 5 grams of psilocybin-containing mushrooms (the “Enigma” strain)—a deliberately high dose, well above what modern psychiatric trials typically use.

The acute phase was not gentle, and I want to be honest about that up front. She showed signs of autonomic overdrive: clinically suspected hyperthermia, profuse sweating, and a long, deep, sleep-like state. This is not a small detail, and I’ll come back to why it matters enormously.

Then, approximately nineteen hours later, at 3:30 in the morning, she woke up and began to talk. Not in fragments. She spoke about her own life—autobiographical, spontaneous, coherent—for something on the order of four hours.

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