Switzerland

nation state

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Location	Europe
Leader	President of Switzerland
Type	nation state
A mountainous, hence easily defended country in central Europe which has established itself as a world banking center.

Switzerland is a small, historically neutral, mountainous country in central Europe. It was one of the first three countries which complied with the European Parliament's directive to investigate Operation Gladio.

Deep state

Full article: Switzerland/Deep state

Switzerland has a rather idiosyncratic form of government, which historically has not emphasised strong central leadership.

History

Switzerland's mountainous (easily defended) nature recommends it as a haven for cash. Together with banking secrecy laws, this has made it the destination of choice for people secreting money, e.g. to avoid accountability. It was neutral in WWI and WWII.

After the 1990s, the banking secrecy laws have been hollowed out, after heavy US pressure. Now the US government has the right to inspect Swiss bank accounts on demand, a privilege not given to most other countries.

• A memorandum from Bernard Montgomery to Prime Minister Anthony Eden, which historian Mauro Mantovani discovered in a British archive in 1995, revealed that Switzerland was not a neutral country. According to it, the Swiss Defense Minister Paul Chaudet had assured Monty in 1956: "If war ever breaks out in Europe, Switzerland will join the Western alliance."

Banking

Full article: Bank of International Settlements

The BIS tower of Basel

The Bank of International Settlements (the central bankers' central bank) is based in Basel, Switzerland.

Financial Fraud

Banking secrecy laws mean that Switzerland is an attractive location for funds of uncertain origins.

Bearer Bonds

The Swiss-Italian border became notorious after border guards caught people attempting or suspected of planning to take bearer bonds from Italy to Switzerland. The amounts involved are quite staggering - one hundred billion dollars or more, on even trillions of US dollars.

The general pattern is that the perpetrators to be arrested, but names and/or nationalities and other basic information not to be disclosed, and the commercially-controlled media to quickly lose interest in the story. The involved parties are often released for undisclosed reasons - quite consistent with the thesis that these are the visible traces of large financial crimes by deep state run groups.

COVID-19

Bilderberger Christoph Franz, as Hoffmann-La Roche President, called for mandatory injections in Switzerland. His vice-chair, fellow Bilderberger André Hoffmann, was a WEF trustee.

School

Compulsory school attendance is 9 years, lower in Switzerland than many other nation states.

Nuclear testing?

Rheinmetall is operating a production facility for anti-aircraft ammunition near Unteriberg in the Schwyz District. It has taken over contracts and construction approvals from the former Swiss defense contractor Oerlikon-Bührle. On the 4th of June 2024 an earthquake occurred at this location, officialdom giving the "Pragelpass" as the center, but coordinates pointing to the Rheinmetall facility according to reports. The seismic activity having a strength of 4.4 on the richter scale, with characteristics of an earthquake missing, point to an explosion between 2,5 and 9 kilotons. Since there are no indications that this much explosives were stored at the site (2500 to 9000 tons of dynamite), speculation about an underground nuclear test was reported in the alternative media sphere.

Mohamed El Ghanem

Full article: Mohamed El Ghanem

The Swiss government imprisoned Dr. Mohamed El Ghanem, an Egyptian refugee, without charge for seven years, from 2007 through 2013, after he refused to spy on Geneva's Muslim community leaders. He was released after the Swiss Supreme Court ruled his detention wrongful, and required he be released in October 2013.