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Swiss Army Chief Warns Of Social Unrest, Calls Upon Citizens To Arm Themselves

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Swiss army chief André Blattmann warned, in a Swiss newspaper article on Sunday, the risks of social unrest in Europe are soaring. Recalling the experience of 1939/1945, Blattman fears the increasing aggression in public discourse is an explosively hazardous situation, and advises the Swiss people to arm themselves and warns that the basis for Swiss prosperity is "being called into question."

As Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten reports, speaking on the record for the first time since the November Paris terror attacks, Blattmann told the paper that despite a rise in security incidents over the past two years Switzerland’s means of defence were being reduced.

The situation is growing increasingly risky, Blattman begins.

 

"The threat of terror is rising, hybrid wars are being fought around the globe; the economic outlook is gloomy and the resulting migration flows of displaced persons and refugees have assumed unforeseen dimensions."

 

Blattmann: "Social unrest can not be ruled out", the vocabulary in public discourse will "dangerously aggressive."

 

"The mixture is increasingly unappetizing" Blattmann sees the basis of Swiss prosperity, "has long been once again called into question."

 

He recalls the situation around the two world wars in the last century and advises Switzerland, to arm themselves.

 

The Swiss Armed Forces had held many years ago maneuver, in which the starting point was focused on social unrest in Europe.

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Swiss politicians, of course, responded with disbelief to the army chief and hold his warnings are exaggerated.

 

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Wed, 12/30/2015 - 17:11 | 6979565 MrSteve
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The French joining the colonists in their revolution against the English crown was made possible by the victory at Saratoga. The Yankees were experienced wilderness fighters and the British generals were bureaucrats.

Per your train of wars thought, see Kevin Phillip's The Cousins' War, how the English Civil War, the American Revolution and the American Civil War are a continuum of the same social  / cultural conflict.

good Cousins' War summary at:

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=3085

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 17:18 | 6979592 jcdenton
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Posted with no further comment ..

http://blog.milesfranklin.com/fact-or-fiction

With the exception that ZH needs to make this a feature story. Being that this tale was published one year ago ~this month, also make note of conversations happening that same time period ..

https://app.box.com/s/hfgvcqg7gqh7i27at6sv53ywu87lwarp (Read Me First)

And especially the discussion taking place 6 months prior to that ..

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/07/30/the-coming-return-of-the-real-us...

Why are most (even here including the Tylers) in the shoes of Jack and Jill? If enough were informed either via the discussion posted in July '14, and further reinforced in Mar. '15 we could avoid a lot of coming panic. At least most would comprehend the better news, and the relatively short transition ..

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 17:35 | 6979642 TRM
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Want to have some fun? Sign the petition to the US gov to list Turkey as a state sponsor of terror!

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/list-erdogans-turkey-state-spo...

Just to bug them. Of course they won't but let's have some fun with this and provoke them.

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 17:42 | 6979659 Sorry_about_Dresden
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The Swiss have always been the beneficiaries of world war. They, through the Bank of International Settlement (BIS), remain neutral and launder all gold and booty of the victims while claiming to be neutral. The BIS is a state within a state, enjoying diplomatic immunity from prosecution of their crimes, and enjoy privileges only reserved for sovereign nations. The criminal BIS facilitated the continuation of the slaughter by converting the stolen gold of victims into currency so warlords could continue conquest that would be impossible w/out the BIS facilities. The rape of Czechoslovakia, and the confiscation of their gold reserves, financed the Third Reich's invasion of Poland and France through the low countries. The invasion of Russia then followed, again, financed by French booty. This is an indisputable fact. They also handled transactions between NAZI Germany and neutral Spain and Portugal to facilitate Rockefeller oil sales to the Third Reich. Patents of the Ethyl Corporation were crucial for Hermann Goering's Luftwaffe. He could not have conducted operations without Ethyl Corporation's top secret patent/recipe for the manufacture of TetraEthyl Lead. An undisputable fact.  It is an undisputable fact that Union Bank, run by Prescott Bush, was seized and held by the U.S. Treasury Department for trading with the enemy. All of these machinations and crimes would have been impossible without Swiss, and Allen Dulles', complicity. Allen Dulles claims he was in Switzerland, during the entire war, working on behalf of the Allies but, was in fact, in Basel, Switzerland acting as the middle man for Brown, Brothers, Harriman to launder the NAZI spoils through Martin Bormann, the real power in Germany. Hitler was just Bormann's puppet. You never read anything about Bormann. Every NAZI asset, wealth and the patents of I.G. Farben, were transferred to South America when he realized the war was lost after Stalingrad. This, again, is an undisputable fact. The only conjecture on my part is Martin Bormann survived the war and was instrumental in putting Peron in power in Argentina......just look at Peron's uniform and the influence is obvious. 

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 17:54 | 6979702 GhostOfDiogenes
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Blah blah blah Nazi blah blah Hitler Blah blah blah blah

The BIS is ko$her, and run by rich 'jews' named rothchild.

https://arcanumdeepsecrets.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/bis-how-the-rothschi...

You hasbara trolls are all the same.

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 21:54 | 6980376 Sorry_about_Dresden
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You might try reading something written by someone who actually sites his sources, else it is mere conjecture.

Might I suggest "Tower of Basel" by Adam Lebor?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/books/review/tower-of-basel-by-adam-le...

I had to look up the term "hasbara trolls". It seems to be describing you perfectly!

to wit:

Hasbara Troll attributes

  • Supreme point of view
  • The Hasbara troll knows best
  • Condescending & Patronising
  • Socialist (Smart and 'caring')
  • Do not have to be Jewish but Pro-Israel
  • Internet experts
  • Narcissistic
  • Provocative
  • Dis-ruptive
  • Like to ask the questions, not answer questions
  • Control freaks
  • Inflamed by anyone being critical of Israel
  • 'Moral' Guardians
  • Classic insults: Anti-semite, Neo- Nazi, White Supremacist, Holocaust denier
  • Adept with social networks well trained on IT             

So obvious! 

Live and let live I say!

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 19:44 | 6980023 SmedleyButlersGhost
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Good one - I was going to post an ask of wtf the Swiss did 1939/1945 that gives them any ground to lecture from. Everybody on ZH seems to hate bankers - wtf are the Swiss if not bankers?

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 22:06 | 6980443 Sorry_about_Dresden
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Seems the Swiss are salivating at the prospect of another win, win, for the Swiss i.e.

it is my belief the CIA was created to bury the fact that there were many families in America, and elswhere, who made vast fortunes during both World Wars. It was 

Henry Morgenthau, Sr., if I recall correctly, that wanted to keep Germany weak and powerless after the WWII, and was successful, until his death at with time the Marshall Plan was initiated and Germany rebuilt. 
Thu, 12/31/2015 - 08:16 | 6981222 css1971
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Well of the ones you've heard of Switzerland is Glencore, Roche, Novartis, Nestle, Liebherr, Ciba etc et.

Mostly chemists and pharmacists it seems.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 04:40 | 6981110 NordikAvenger
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Are you Dave Emory in disguise?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 03:56 | 6984734 Sorry_about_Dresden
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never heard of him

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 18:06 | 6979731 silverer
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"Swiss politicians, of course, responded with disbelief to the army chief and hold his warnings are exaggerated."

Imagine that?  Politicians expecting to be believed? 

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 18:18 | 6979762 SuperTech
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The only European Country worth anything is the Swiss Confederation, All Males are armed and trained in Homeland defense!

Also secure your borders, register all foreigners, deport illegal aliens!

This is how you preserve Freedom and Liberty!

Arm all non criminal taxpaying citizens, train them in firearms safety and profociency,

Keep your government issued automatic Rifle at home and stand by!

Also listen to the wishes of your citizens, if they do not want islamist refuse entering their country then keep them out!

Let the international islamist and other criminals/terrorist vermin try an attack then!

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 20:25 | 6980143 SmedleyButlersGhost
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Yea and they're all the Van Trapp family. Read your history - bunch of bankers. What more is there to say?

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 22:00 | 6980460 V for ...
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The liar 0.01% zionists hide in Basle Switzerland, and hijacked the USA,but they want guns in Switzerland to defend them.
The USA Constitution and right to bear arms against tyrannical government is undermined in the USA, while the gnomes of Zuriich demand neutrality in war, gun up, and fear their Frankenstein.

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 22:11 | 6980485 V for ...
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How ironic, super tech.
The home of rootless cosmopolitans, permanently neutral, profit off all wars , USE THE USA, conspire to ruin the Constitution, harbour nazionists, and lectures me and mine who bailed out your failed banks.
FUCK OFF.

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 18:30 | 6979800 steveo77
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Song About "When a Crazy Person Shoots Someone, Obama is going to Blame THE GUN" Funny parody as a song set to Billy Joels "only the good die young"
About Obama and gun control.

Many sites already shut down for "copyright reasons in your country"

hmmm….who ever made this….do you think they did it to make money? Do you think they are worried about the copyright or getting the message out?

It just shows the hands of the Matrix operators.

- See more at: http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/#sthash.ZmQpCECy.dpuf Song About "When a Crazy Person Shoots Someone, Obama is going to Blame THE GUN" Funny parody as a song set to Billy Joels "only the good die young"
About Obama and gun control.

Many sites already shut down for "copyright reasons in your country"

hmmm….who ever made this….do you think they did it to make money? Do you think they are worried about the copyright or getting the message out?

It just shows the hands of the Matrix operators.

- See more at: http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/#sthash.ZmQpCECy.dpuf

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 20:21 | 6980129 SmedleyButlersGhost
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OT - I live in a very rural area. Guy around is known as Steveo. He's on my short list if TSHTF and he doesn't even know I exist. If in a drunken post I insult you - it's because of that.

P.S. Steveo - if this is you - you are so fuked.

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 19:34 | 6979990 Jack Oliver
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Whatever Zionism is supposed to mean, what it actually means is that a false d o c u m e n t called the Balfour Declaration gave real estate that did not belong to Britain to atheist Khazarian gentiles, posing as Jews, who have never had the right to any of that land, regardless that the name 'Israel' was cleverly selected to call it, in order to dupe millions of Christians around the world.  WWII was created for the specific purpose of establishing a headquarters as close to the newly discovered oil fields in the Middle East and to disrupt all governments in the region and seize the oil, and 'Israel' is that headquarters, doing exactly that !

I realise this is unrelated to this article - However people need to know the TRUTH !

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 20:45 | 6980216 flysofree
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Another 'thing' with posting privileges posting racist pro-Palestinian drivel as usual. If Jews are from Khazar than Europeans are gypsies' cousins from India, I mean the mythical land of Araina. Say hello to your Aryan uncle in Iran and Pakistan.

I didn't know that Houston is in Israel?

 

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 20:43 | 6980210 Jack Oliver
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NO Laws - NO Lawyers - I can't see a problem with that ! 

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 22:19 | 6980506 V for ...
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'Kill the lawyers '. (Shakespeare). It is the intent of King, Queen and .gov to steal everthing, and Shakespeare was referring to tax collectors.
Expressing a literary defiance today would get one put on a watch list.
F'em. Fascist, 0.01%, their Talmud, their nazionist filth.

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 22:02 | 6980423 V for ...
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Jews and muslims are guests, not owners. We are the northern people. Chatting with a Scot clan chief tonight, we disagree on many things, but we know the northern people are tolerant...but furious when push comes to shove, and alien ideas threaten our existence. We are tolerant of everything and everyone. But we northern people are not stupid.
Our patience wears thin with the lies of career politicians and their zionist masters.
It is no surprise that the Swiss centre of international financiers keep guns, and fear what they have wrought: permanent war and financial ruin everywhere else. Nasty lil nazionists.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 08:05 | 6981205 css1971
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Scottish Clan Chiefs sold their people off the land and installed sheep in their place, today the nation is still largely made up of sheep. They were given large estates in England in return for turning their backs on the battle for independence.

Scottish clan chiefs are contemptible creatures.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 00:40 | 6980856 Wow72
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Can I please remind everyone of this article the one which our government makes certain gun owners instant criminals? WTF? What more is it going to take?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-28/new-gun-control-bill-hits-congress-ensure-right-keep-and-bear-arms-not-unlimited#comment-6980827

 

Our government is silently conquering us with law.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 01:32 | 6980949 Bopper09
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And 90% of Western people are applauding govt's for doing it.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 07:00 | 6981168 Wow72
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Un fucking real.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 10:03 | 6981404 AgentScruffy
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Holy crap. I missed this. Yeah people please go read this: 

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4269/text

They have conveniently (while you were celebrating the holidays) created a new term: "semi-automatic ASSAULT weapon" and want to OUTLAW the following: 

Any firearm that can take more than 10 rounds 

-Any semi-auto rifle with a pistol grip -Any semi-auto with a threaded barrel (goodbye ear protection)  -Any semi-auto shotgun with pistol grip or a folding stock -Any semi-auto rifle that can take more than 10 rounds (except for 22 rimfire using a tubular device) 
Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:58 | 6983930 flyingcaveman
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Why not just call it the SHALL be infringed bill?  because that's what it is.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 02:17 | 6980996 AgentScruffy
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"Our left flank would be pressed up against a country with 300,000 rifles, which would be ready to be used ...against us...the total balance remains negative for the time being...." --The German envoy to Bern, Ernst von Weiszsacker, on Switzerland

"When the Nazis conquered France, they decreed the death penalty for any person who failed to surrender firearms." --Author Stephen Halbrook


The Swiss and the Nazis: How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich
http://www.amazon.com/Swiss-Nazis-Alpine-Republic-Survived-ebook/dp/B004...

 

 
Thu, 12/31/2015 - 04:07 | 6981048 Jorgen
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"Sweden has chosen Sharia. (Swedistan)."

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 07:37 | 6981187 Manipuflation
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OK.  Did that.  Not helping.          

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 08:34 | 6981237 MrNosey
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Give up your right and means to protect yourself and you end up with this, the law of the jungle......

http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2015/12/gangs-in-london-can-you-g...

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 09:14 | 6987692 mondoredondo
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Able bodied adult Swiss are required to join the Army reserves and maintain their issued weapons at home. With their large reserves they have a trained force comparable to the U.S.. Anyone who's been hiking in Switzerland has probably scene the large bunker doors out in the forests.  That's why no one's ever invaded them. They own Europe's High Ground. This story must be taliking about the wider population. When trouble starts, you don't have time to run home and get your gun.

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