Written on 13 October 2025.

The incident took place at the Montagnese bakery in Hirschlanden district. At the beginning of February, two women appeared in the shop, one of them wearing a niqab
The baker took a look at the situation himself and asked the customer to remove her veil. He did so politely, he said.
The customer became aggressive. She recorded parts of the
argument on her cell phone, which obviously made the situation
worse.   "You can't walk around like that, we're not
in the Middle Ages," the baker told her. 

The baker ends the argument by asking the veiled woman to leave the store, apparently in no uncertain terms.

The state security criminal department is investigating. It is looking into whether racist insults can be heard in the video of the veiled woman.

 87 percent of the people who voted on Schwäbische.de are
on the master baker's side. As of February 20, 2025, at
9 a.m., nearly 17,400 people had cast their votes. Around five percent cannot understand the baker's reaction.

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Written on 10 October 2025.

Wladimir Putin steht mit dem Rücken zur Wand. Er verliert den Wirtschaftskrieg schneller, als er militärische Vorteile in der Ukraine erzielen kann.
Die gefürchtete Offensive Russlands verlief im Sommer mit 800 Opfern pro Tag und wenig Erfolg im Sande. Dem Kreml gelang es nicht, den Verteidigungsgürtel der Ukraine zu durchbrechen oder das Blatt im Krieg zu wenden.
„Die Russen belästigen uns immer noch und jagen Zivilisten mit Drohnen, was eine schreckliche Praxis ist, aber sie erreichen damit kein strategisches Ziel“, sagte Andriy Zagorodnyuk, der ehemalige Verteidigungsminister der Ukraine.
Die ukrainischen Drohnenangriffe richten so große Schäden an der russischen Ölinfrastruktur und den Raffinerien an, dass das Land Notfall-Kraftstofflieferungen aus China, Korea und Weißrussland importieren muss.
Die Moskauer Agentur Neftegaz gibt an, dass 38 % der primären Raffineriekapazitäten des Landes außer Betrieb sind, obwohl Russland Möglichkeiten hat, die Lücken zu schließen.
„Sie haben riesige Gebiete, die sie mit Luftabwehrsystemen nicht verteidigen können. Russland kann nichts Wesentliches tun, um diese Anlagen zu schützen“, sagte Zagorodnyuk.
Zagorodnyuk sagte, die alte Kriegsführung sei im Wesentlichen tot. Ein Großteil der enormen militärischen Ausrüstung Russlands sei nutzlos. Der Krieg ist zu einem Hightech-Wettlauf geworden, und die Ukraine ist einen Schritt voraus.
Der Kreml sucht verzweifelt nach neuen Steuereinnahmen. Er erwägt sogar eine „Parasitensteuer“ für Drückeberger, von der nur Rentner, Behinderte und Schwerstkranke ausgenommen wären.

Putin hat das tatsächliche Defizit verschleiert, indem er die Banken dazu gezwungen hat, Kredite an den militärisch-industriellen Komplex zu vergeben, aber das führt zu einer Bankenkrise und ist nun am Ende angelangt.
Die Uhr tickt für Putin, und genau das ist die unmittelbare Gefahr, der Europa gegenübersteht.
„Er erhöht immer den Einsatz, wenn die Dinge schlecht laufen. Um nicht zu verlieren, könnte er versuchen, über die Ukraine hinauszugehen“, sagte Zagorodnyuk, der heute Leiter des Zentrums für Verteidigungsstrategien in Kiew ist.
„Meine Kollegen in Osteuropa sind der Meinung, dass die Wahrscheinlichkeit einer Eskalation des Krieges in Europa derzeit extrem hoch ist, und sie sind sehr besorgt“, sagte er.
Seine Kriegswirtschaft produziert Waffen auf Hochtouren, während Deutschland und die europäischen NATO-Länder gerade erst beginnen, die Lücke zu schließen. Die Gelegenheit wird sich so schnell nicht wieder bieten.

Written on 12 October 2025.

France is already the country most affected by cancer: worse still: cancer rates are expected to double in near future.

Cancer: France must find out why it is overexposed  (Le Monde)

France ranks among the countries with the highest number of cases of the disease, with incidence rates rising sharply.

In September, a study published in The Lancet even placed France at the top of the list of most affected countries, with 389.4 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. This top ranking is alarming, especially since it remains largely unexplained.

France currently ranks as one of the countries with the highest cancer incidence rates globally, according to a recent study published in The Lancet, reporting 389.4 cases per 100,000 inhabitants—a figure putting France at the very top alongside Monaco. This high incidence is likely driven by a combination of elevated rates of tobacco and alcohol consumption, environmental pollution, and possibly unique national exposures to carcinogens such as cadmium and pesticides. However, it's essential to interpret these rankings with care due to methodological differences: different studies place France as high as first or ninth globally.​

The number of new cancer cases in France is projected to double from 216 130 in 1990 to 433 136 in 2023, according to two new studies. The studies show increases of 98% for men and 104% for women, due largely to the growing and ageing population, but also to risks linked to “our behaviour and lifestyles”, says the National Cancer Institute (Institut National du Cancer, INCa; Paris, France) in its 2023 Panorama of Cancers. The risks include tobacco, alcohol, obesity, poor nutrition (!), pollution, and lack of exercise.

A healthy lifestyle could prevent more than 170 000 (40%) new cases of cancer, which is the most common cause of death for men in France and second most for women.

Particularly worrying now is the rise in lung cancer in women caused by smoking and pancreatic cancer. Also on the rise are breast, liver, colorectal, and lip, mouth, and pharynx cancer cases. By contrast, cervical cancer cases dropped by 20% over the same period. For men, there were declines in lip, mouth, and pharynx, colorectal, and lung cancer cases, but increases in prostate, liver, and pancreas cancer cases (although less than that for women). Of particular concern is melanoma among both groups due to greater UV exposure.

This should also be the case for ccancers associated with involuntary exposure to pollutants through the environment and food. While it has been proven that the French population is particularly exposed to cadmium (a carcinogen found in many fertilizers) and pesticides (of which France is one of the world's largest users), the link with overexposure to cancer remains to be clarified.

Written on 06 October 2025.

Activists demanding ‘reparations’ for slavery must read this polemic:

Group-think has replaced serious history, and some facts have become unsayable, as Nigel Biggar eloquently shows in his new book

The death, in May 2020, of George Floyd, at the hands of the Minneapolis police, prompted an international spasm of outrage, often among well-to-do white people, about the treatment of less well-to-do black people.

These events underpin Nigel Biggar’s book Reparations, which is, quite simply, one of the most important of our times. It is so for two reasons. First, it is a rare blend of well-researched history, well-reasoned philosophy and well-argued polemic, with a coating of theology typical of a writer who is also emeritus Regius Professor of moral theology at Oxford (and an ordained priest in the Church of England). Second, it addresses a question now morally cancerous in our discourse: not racism, but the idea that the historical enslavement of black people by white people was an expression of racism so profound and so embedded in our culture that contemporary society must flagellate itself economically to achieve some degree of repentance.

In Reparations, Biggar exposes the false basis upon which demands for Britain to pay compensation to the descendants of slaves are constructed. He examines the philosophical implications of slavery and, while naturally accepting its iniquity, argues that it is not uniquely wicked. He shows that it was a practice universal before the modern era, not confined to white people exploiting those from different ethnicities. In ancient Europe, white people enslaved other white people, both for economic purposes and as a punishment by victors of the losers of wars and victims of conquests.