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"Pica Pica" has replaced my old blog at google, but without the dharma related material, which has gone to the chagchen site under the DangZang title, and without the translation material, which is now at my work site.

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Friday May 22nd, 2009. Posted by Alex:

Australians in particular might need this

The Australian Government considers that knowledge about good methods of voluntary euthanasia should be forbidden, and would like to ban this website about the use of nembutal. Take note before it’s too late!

I guess I’m not entirely sure what I feel about euthanasia, but I’m quite sure that I don’t concede my right to know about these things to the government, or to a list that it draws up in secret.

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