10.13.21
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Posted in Europe, Patents at 4:46 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
The political right shifts Switzerland to thug culture like in New Zealand
Mathieu Bock-Côté. Nothing like raiding a judge’s office, in the name of judicial integrity and “independence”.
Summary: The EPO‘s French dictator, Benoît ‘Vichy’ Battistelli, might be relieved to hear that his enabler in the adjacent Switzerland also enlisted armed bullies to keep the population down (the father of António Campinos might know a thing or two about those; it’s why he fled to France)
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