Open Letter to Switzerland’s Leading Newspaper: “A Step Towards Further Oppression and Tyranny”. The Media Have an Obligation to Tell The Truth
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Read the German version:
“Ein Schritt zur weiteren Unterdrückung und Tyrannei”: Offener Brief an die Redaktion der NZZ
By , November 24, 2022
Good day editors,
On November 23, you wrote:
“This is why it is important: Because of Western sanctions, Russia stopped natural gas deliveries to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline in mid-June. Since electricity is also generated by gas, there is therefore a threat of an electricity shortage. Switzerland is in a dilemma: Because the country has no gas storage facilities of its own, it is dependent on imports. The lack of an electricity agreement with the EU is proving to be an accelerant in this situation.”
This is a lie. Switzerland may not have its own gas storage facilities, but it does have an agreement with Germany to supply gas to Switzerland. In Germany, gas storage facilities are up to 94% full, more than ever in the last five years. This article testifies that Europe is fully loaded with gas – as never before.
The media have an obligation to tell the truth, so that people understand what reality is, instead of continuing to lie to the people and scare them – such as announcing threats that fines may be imposed if someone heats their household above, say, 19°C in a freezing winter, which, as you and professors at ETH (Swiss Federal Polytechnic University) know, can be manipulated or “geoengineered”. Just as the summer heat was in Switzerland and in the Global North.
Such lies and the corresponding punitive measures – such as threats of controlled limited residential heating to a minimum of, say, 19°C – are pure intimidation of the population. You don’t mention that much more energy could be and should be saved by big industry. They are exponentially larger energy users than household. Yet, they are left alone – and not even addressed by you, the media.
Intimidation of the kind you and your masters in Bern have been sewing, eventually lead to physical and mental morbidity.
A step towards further oppression and tyranny.
It is necessary that the truth get to the people so that we can defend ourselves against an ever-growing tyranny.
Where do you think, ladies and gentlemen editors, you will end up under a total tyranny? Have you already thought about this? At some point, your conscience may tick in and play a role of good will vis-à-vis your otherwise innocent readership.
This does not only concern Switzerland, but most of the 193 UN member countries, but Switzerland is small enough to becoming an example of fighting tyranny.
You, the NZZ, as one of the most important newspapers in Switzerland, have a key role to play in spreading the truth – and NOT in spreading lies.
Yours sincerely,
Peter Koenig
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Note: So far, Koenig has not received a reply from the NZZ.
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
