Switzerland Tries To Stop Suicide Tourism
Roger Boyes writes for The Times: Switzerland announced plans yesterday to crack down on “suicide tourism”, signalling that it might close the Dignitas clinic that has helped hundreds of terminally ill...
View ArticleSwitzerland To Turn Over Secret Bank Account Names
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Swiss government will be revealing to the U.S. government the names of all U.S. taxpayers holding Swiss bank accounts with balances greater than 1 million Swiss...
View ArticleThe Swiss Ban Makes Me Shudder
From The Guardian: I can’t help imagining how I would feel if the attitudes reflected in the minaret vote were directed at my own community. It’s a crude reaction but it’s the first one I had on...
View ArticleNEW! Extra Small Condoms For 12-Year-Olds
Can you see this happening in America? Alexandra Williams reports that extra small condoms for boys as young as 12 are going on sale in Switzerland, in the Telegraph: Called the Hotshot, the condom has...
View ArticleDid Google Street View Find God Above a Swiss Lake?
So, even God can’t hide from Google Street View? Max Read writes on Gawker: Who are those blurry, possibly robed figures hovering above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland, visible on Google Street View?...
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush Cancels Swiss Trip To Avoid Prosecution For Torture
Mr. Blair (left) and Mr. Bush There was a British television drama a few years ago that had ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair being sent for war crimes prosecution at the International Criminal Court in the...
View ArticleSwitzerland’s Anti-PowerPoint Party
The best up-and-coming political force may be Switzerland’s Anti-PowerPoint Party. The intrepid Party is fighting the use of PowerPoint presentations in business, government, and education, arguing...
View ArticleSwiss Santa Claus’s Terrifying Alter-Ego Schmutzli
The harsh Germanic Santa Claus equivalent known as Krampus has seen his celebrity rise in recent years, but he’s not Northern Europe’s only the only psychologically scarring Christmas figure....
View ArticleSwitzerland Starts Sex Drive-In
Hard to imagine that stuffy Switzerland, land of conservative bankers, would launch such a progressive project as a sex drive-in, but it’s an effort to ghettoize prostitution reports Reuters: Greeted...
View ArticleMysterious Figure In Gas Mask Has Haunted Swiss Wilderness For A Decade
Imagine bumping into him alone on an isolated trail in the Alps. Via the Australian: Known only as ‘Le Leyon’, the mysterious stranger has puzzled locals and authorities in Switzerland for years. He...
View ArticleSwitzerland To Vote On Radically Limiting CEOs’ Pay Nationwide
Most likely with fists clenched and all the blood drained from its face, the Wall Street Journal reports: Switzerland is expected to vote later this year on a proposal to place further limits on...
View ArticleOfficials in Zurich call ‘sex box’ drive-in a success
This is an example of giving up the ghost, addressing the elephant in the room, and turning a con into a pro. via The Raw Story Switzerland’s first sex drive-in, which opened two months ago in a bid to...
View ArticleApartment Building Caters To Needs Of ‘Multiple Chemical Sensitivity’ and...
PIC: OSO (CC) In Switzerland, people who claim to be affected by multiple chemical sensitivity, WiFi illness, or both, can try to get an apartment in a building specially built for their needs. Via Raw...
View ArticleWorld Leaders Call For End of Criminalization of Drug Use
Today in New York City, the former presidents of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland join with Kofi Annan and others to call for the end of drug criminalization. They are...
View ArticleSwitzerland Tries To Stop Suicide Tourism
Roger Boyes writes for The Times: Switzerland announced plans yesterday to crack down on “suicide tourism”, signalling that it might close the Dignitas clinic that has helped hundreds of terminally ill...
View ArticleSwitzerland To Turn Over Secret Bank Account Names
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Swiss government will be revealing to the U.S. government the names of all U.S. taxpayers holding Swiss bank accounts with balances greater than 1 million......
View ArticleThe Swiss Ban Makes Me Shudder
From The Guardian: I can’t help imagining how I would feel if the attitudes reflected in the minaret vote were directed at my own community. It’s a crude reaction but it’s the... The post The Swiss Ban...
View ArticleNEW! Extra Small Condoms For 12-Year-Olds
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