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Swiss man chooses jail over fine for 'transphobic' FB post stating only two genders


RT
Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:43 UTC
Emanuel Brunisholz
Emanuel Brunisholz was convicted of violating an anti-discrimination law after pointing out the differences between men and women

A man in Switzerland is facing jail after refusing to pay a fine for a comment courts have ruled discriminates against the LGBTQ community after a three-year legal battle.

Emanuel Brunisholz, a Swiss wind instrument repairman, was convicted under the country's anti-discrimination laws for an old Facebook comment.

In 2022, he pointed out that the biological differences between men and women are obvious by their skeletal structure.
"If you dig up LGBTQI people after 200 years, you'll only find men and women based on their skeletons. Everything else is a mental illness promoted through the curriculum," he wrote on Facebook.
The post was reported to police, and Brunisholz was questioned a few months later. He was found guilty of discrimination and incitement to hatred by a court in Bern.


Comment: One wonders how the high judges found the incitement to hatred. They must really be professionals as to the layman that is hard to see.


Comment: Freedom of speech is under attack in the Western world and Switzerland is no exception. Good to see that some people stand up for the right to post truisms on social media.

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BC ostrich farm fights to keep animals alive after cull order from government: 'This is what's wrong in Canada'

David Krayden
Post Millennial
Mon, 29 Sep 2025 20:52 UTC
Universal Ostrich Farms
© The Post MillennialUniversal Ostrich Farms owner Karen Espersen and her birds
"This is not just about our ostriches. We keep saying that this is about our cattle farmers, our dairy farmers, our rights, our freedoms..."

It has been a week since the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and RCMP stormed Universal Ostrich Farms, just outside of Vernon, British Columbia. Today, the stand-off continues, as the family farm fears for the lives of their livestock and the future of their livelihood.

The police and food inspectors - ironic since the ostriches are not sold for food but used in antibody research - came to enforce an order to kill 399 healthy animals because of an apparent outbreak of avian flu last November.

The farm is owned by Karen Espersen and Dave Bilinski. Espersen's daughter, Katie Pastiney, also works on the farm and has become an increasingly busy spokeswoman for the site. Her story of government overreach to the point of violating private property to steal and kill livestock while destroying their livelihood has been likened to a second Freedom Convoy story for Canadians. And Pasitney is appealing to the same conservatives and libertarians who supported Tamara Lich and Chris Barber in the trucker rebellion.

Comment: The birds are part of a much larger tug-of war with Agro/Big Pharma. They clearly have developed immunity to bird flu, which might be bad for business?



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Ignore the click-bait headline. It's a good rundown on the situation:



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Star of David

How it's done: Israeli cycling team excluded from Italy event amid concerns of pro-Palestinian protests

Jackson Thompson
Fox News
Sat, 27 Sep 2025 19:51 UTC
spain protest israel bike race team veulta
© Getty ImagesPro-Palestinian protesters and the Israel Premier Tech cycling team
Decision follows disruptions at Spanish Vuelta, where protesters interrupted seven of 11 racing days

The Israel Premier Tech cycling team has been excluded from an upcoming race in Italy because of concerns over potentially disruptive pro-Palestine protests.

Organizers of the Giro dell'Emilia, which is scheduled for Oct. 4, made the decision after protesters repeatedly disrupted the recent Spanish Vuelta in the presence of Israel Premier Tech.

There, seven of the past 11 days of racing at the Vuelta were cut short or interrupted because Spain's government estimated more than 100,000 people were on the streets in Madrid during the final stage this month.

Comment: About time. Officially applying South African BDS measures to the genocidal state should have started long ago. Israel has more than earned its growing pariah status.

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George Galloway speaks out about UK detention upon return from Russia


RT
Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:55 UTC
Galloway
© Anthony Devlin/Getty ImagesLeader of the Workers Party of Britain George Galloway
The veteran politician and his wife were briefly held at Gatwick Airport under the Terrorism Act.

Politician George Galloway has accused UK counter-terrorism officers of interrogating him and his wife about their political views and trying to obtain confidential information. The pair were detained at Gatwick Airport on Saturday after returning from Russia.

The 71-year-old Workers Party of Britain leader says he was questioned for around four hours and his wife Putri Gayatri Pertiwi for about five. They were released without charges after their phones and laptops were confiscated.

In a post on X on Monday, Galloway described the experience as "ugly" and said police put politically loaded questions to both of them. He recalled being asked:
  • "Why is your fingernail painted in the Palestinian colors?
  • What's your attitude to the conflict in Gaza?
  • Why do you admire Mr Lavrov?
  • Why are you so friendly to China?"
He suggested the real motive behind their detention was "to gain access to our communications, to confiscate phones, to confiscate laptops, and to enter and burgle and see what they can do with our private communications."

Comment: See also: UK police detain George Galloway on return from Russia

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Arrow Up

Swiss voters narrowly approve plan for electronic ID cards

Imogen Foulkes
BBC
Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00 UTC
downtown Swiss city
© AFP/Getty Images
Swiss voters have narrowly approved a plan to introduce voluntary electronic identity cards.

With all votes counted, 50.4% of those who voted said yes to the proposal, while 49.6% rejected it.

The closeness of the ballot is a surprise. Opinion polls had suggested up to 60% backed digital IDs, which also had the approval of the Swiss government, and both houses of parliament.

It was Switzerland's second vote on digital IDs. An earlier proposal was rejected in 2021, amid concerns the data would be held centrally, and controlled largely by private providers.

Sunday's revised proposal keeps the system in government hands. Data will be stored only on the smartphones of individual users, and digital IDs will be optional.

Citizens can continue to use national identity card if they choose, which has been standard for decades in Switzerland.

To further ease privacy concerns, a particular authority seeking information on a person - such as proof of age or nationality, for example - will only be able to check for those specific details.

Comment: Privacy and anonymity require neither card nor proof.

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Warning

Best of the Web: Attacks on US churches have risen significantly since 2021, report finds

Landon Mion, Lauren Green, Fox News
New York Post
Mon, 01 Sep 2025 18:44 UTC
Minnesota Catholic school
© Christopher Oquendo for NY PostAttacks targeting churches in the U.S. have increased significantly in recent years, according to a report, and the recent shooting at a Minnesota Catholic school is the latest example.
Attacks targeting churches in the U.S. have increased significantly in recent years, according to a report, and the recent shooting at a Minnesota Catholic school is the latest example.

In the report, the Family Research Council, an evangelical nonprofit and activist group, identified 1,384 incidents of hostility against U.S. churches between January 2018 and December 2024.

The group recorded 50 incidents in 2018, 83 in 2019, 55 in 2020, and 98 in 2021.

The report then found a dramatic rise in incidents beginning in 2022, when there were 198 recorded instances, followed by 485 in 2023 and 415 in 2024.

Comment: More examples of violence at churches.

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Nuke

Why Russia was right to be skeptical of the green agenda

Dmitry Samoilov
RT
Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:33 UTC
Energy sources
© Dasha Zaitseva/Gazeta.Ru
Half a century ago, Greenpeace was founded with a noble purpose: to slow the destruction of the planet. In the early decades, its imagery was powerful. Inflatable boats faced off against whaling ships; campaigners chained themselves to trawlers and reactors. On television, pressure cookers stood in for nuclear plants, exploding in a warning of disaster to come. For many, it felt like a battle between ordinary citizens and faceless industries.

But with time, the story has shifted. Today, the environmental agenda no longer inspires - it frustrates. People have begun to ask whether decades of activism have made the planet cleaner. The answer, sadly, is not obvious.
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Gavel

Giuliani settles $1.3 billion Dominion defamation lawsuit

Filip Timotija
The Hill
Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:58 UTC
Rguiliani
© UnknownRudi Giuliani, onetime personal lawyer of US President Trump
President Trump's former attorney Rudy Giuliani settled his $1.3 billion lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over disseminating a false theory about the 2020 presidential election, according to court documents.

Dominion Voting Systems and Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, agreed to the "dismissal of all claims and causes of action asserted in this matter by Dominion against Giuliani with prejudice."

"Each party shall bear its own attorneys' fees, expenses, and costs," Dominion's lawyers said in the Friday court filing. The details of the settlement are unclear, including the amount of money.

Dominion filed the lawsuit against Giuliani in early 2021, alleging he made several defamatory statements about the voting machine company, including that the company engaged in election fixing and voter fraud.
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Family

Gaza flotilla: The tide of defiance against Israel is now an unbreakable wave

Soumaya Ghannoushi
Middle East Eye
Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:40 UTC
gaza flotille crew thunberg sumud
© ReutersGreta Thunberg and a crew member flash victory signs from their ship, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla aiming to reach Gaza in Crete island, Greece on 25 September 2025
They set sail not with missiles, nor with bullets, nor with armies, but with bread, medicine, and the stubborn conviction that conscience still has a voice in this world.

The first boats were small and few, most campaigns consisting of only a single vessel.

Today, the Global Sumud Flotilla sails on a scale the world has never seen: more than 50 vessels, carrying several hundred activists, lawyers, parliamentarians and journalists from over 44 countries.

From Spain, Italy, Tunisia, and Greece, it rose like a fleet of defiance, bearing on its decks the scattered humanity of the earth - writers, doctors, athletes, artists, and ordinary men and women who refused to let Gaza starve unseen.

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AK47

The Big Lebowski Civil War

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00 UTC
Antifa guys and guns
© UnknownAntifa
"We really are living through Bloody September"
— Will Chamberlain
When the newly-formed Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, April 1861, they ignited the Civil War. They, at least, had a clearcut goal: to maintain an economy (and society) based on slavery. It was patently evil, but it was firmly established and it was their engine for daily life, and they didn't want it to end.

When Charlie Kirk was murdered in 2025, Civil War 2.0 kicked off. The enemy this time are not Confederates with a coherent command structure and a goal. They are an army of nihilists like the gang in The Big Lebowski, who, for one reason or another, have failed to launch lives of meaning and purpose, and so have adopted the purpose of destroying the country they cannot thrive in. Unlike The Big Lebowski, this is not a joke. But, it's obviously a different sort of civil war than the first one.

It appears that many of these nihilists, especially the ones amalgamated as Antifa, are straight-up mentally ill — crazed young women too untamed to find a mate, many obese and self-mutilated like tattooed savages with steel bones in their noses. . . young men, hormones afire, likewise frustrated, escaping into sexual fetish and psychotic obsessions with demons, violence, blame, enmity. They are warriors for their own deformed ids.
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