The Swiss government and the United Nations convened a summit on artificial intelligence (AI) in Geneva on July 6, with the goal of garnering advice on how to control the spread of AI in a globalist framework. The U.N. summit is titled “AI for Good Global Summit,” with 3,000 experts from companies like Microsoft and Amazon,…
Geneva UN Summit on AI Explores Globalist Interventions
July 8, 2023
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No Major Trading Partners Named as Currency Manipulators by US Treasury but China and Others Being Monitored
The U.S. Treasury Department confirmed in a new foreign-exchange report that no major trading partner met the criteria to be labeled a currency manipulator in the four quarters through December 2022. The Treasury regularly publishes a report that reviews and assesses the policies of major trading partners to determine if they are attempting to influence…
Thanks to Netflix, This Tiny Swiss Town Has More Visitors Than Locals
The small fishing village of Iseltwald, Switzerland, is home to just about 400 people. Located on the southern shore of Lake Brienz, it’s long been quiet and uneventful, rarely visited by outsiders—until a popular South Korean TV show put it on the map for global travelers, practically overnight. Since September 2022, Iseltwald has been hosting…
Mass of Rock Slides Down Swiss Mountainside Above Evacuated Village, Narrowly Missing Settlement
BERLIN—A huge mass of rock slid down a mountainside above a Swiss village that was evacuated last month, stopping just short of the settlement, which remained unscathed, relieved local officials said Friday. Some 1.9 million cubic meters (67 million cubic feet) of rock had been deemed at risk of breaking away—and potentially of destroying the…
UBS Completes Takeover of Credit Suisse in Deal Meant to Stem Global Financial Turmoil
June 12, 2023
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BERLIN—UBS said Monday that it has completed its takeover of embattled rival Credit Suisse, nearly three months after the Swiss government hastily arranged a rescue deal to combine the country’s two largest banks in a bid to safeguard Switzerland’s reputation as a global financial center and choke off market turmoil. A statement from the bank…
Bern, Switzerland’s Classy yet Fun Capital
The sidewalk along the Aare River is congested with wet and happy Swiss, hiking upstream in swimsuits just to float back into town. I join them—marveling at how this exercise brings out the silly in a people who are generally anything but goofy. Every hundred yards a railing with concrete steps leads into the rushing…
Plane Crash in Swiss Mountains Kills 3
Three people died when their light aircraft crashed on Saturday morning in Switzerland’s Ponts-de-Martel area close to the French border, the Swiss police said. The crash occurred around 10:20 in the morning local time (0820 GMT) in a forest near the village of La Combe Dernier in the canton of Neuchâtel, the local police said….
Credit Suisse Rescue Package Rejected by Swiss Parliament
April 13, 2023
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BERN—Switzerland’s parliament rejected on Wednesday the government’s 109 billion Swiss francs ($120.82 billion) aid for Credit Suisse’s merger with UBS, leaving the fallen bank’s hastily arranged rescue without a largely symbolic parliamentary blessing. While the upper house had approved the government’s contribution to the rescue package, parliament’s lower, and larger chamber, pushed back again on…
Switzerland Stops Recommending COVID-19 Vaccination
Swiss authorities have stopped recommending COVID-19 vaccination, including for people who are designated at high risk from COVID-19. Switzerland’s Federal Office of Public Health now says that “no COVID-19 vaccination is recommended for spring/summer 2023.” People designated high risk are also not recommended to get a COVID-19 vaccine, authorities said. They attributed the change to the…
Swiss Prosecutors Probe Credit Suisse Ahead of UBS Takeover
April 3, 2023
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GENEVA—The Swiss attorney general’s office says it has opened a probe into the events surrounding embattled bank Credit Suisse, which is to be taken over by rival UBS. Switzerland’s government and financial regulators helped engineer the hastily arranged, $3.25 billion agreement that was aimed in part to help calm worries about the global financial system…
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