[NOTICE to READERS] – SUNNI & SHIA – The Herd – Spies – Sinking Feeling – Big-Ag – The Enemy– HMG Bust – Critical Thinking – Dr. Death – Diesel Engine - Letter from Great Britain - [10-28-23]

Anyone dwelling in the secret place of the Most High will lodge under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to God, “You are my refuge and my stronghold, my God in whom I trust.” [Psalm 91:1-2]

READERS NOTICE – PLAN 'B' –Phase 2 ends – Phase 3 to Cape Town

My wife, Yvonne flies to her sister in Joburg today and my chattels are on the high seas due for Cape Town at the end of November. I am now in Plan ‘B’, Phase 3 and will fly to CT early in December.

Due to workload, I am suspending my 'Letter from Great Britain' until early 2024, after I have settled in Simons Town, when I will publish a biweekly, 'Letter from South Africa'. However I will continue to publish:

• BOOM re-posts on Tuesdays

• Part 2 – Chapter 2 every other Saturday (paywall)

• 'Special' occasional posts on Thursdays in event of financial/economic/wartime crises.

Thank you all for your forbearance.

HAMAS versus IDF - UPDATES - It doesn't take too much to understand where the problem lies when considering these ‘religious’ wars in the Middle East.  Israel is threaten from all sides but even Lebanon, with no stake in the Arab confrontations and no particular religious affiliations, has been taken over by Hezbollah and backed by Shite Iran.  As an observer, I take no sides as I reported last week.  Here's the bigger picture:

It's no different in Britain where the Catholics confront the Protestants in Ireland; suffering has continued for centuries.  Although a fragile ceasefire has been in place following the Good Friday agreement, the new IRA continues to agitate.   https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-anti-imperialist-movement-that-supports-palestinian-liberation-and-runs-part-of-the-uk/

However much we may wish to rectify Britain's decision to return the Jews to their claimed homeland after WW2, it's done now and a fiat accompli; we can't change the past but we can change how to react in the present, in the NOW.

The Palestinians rightly want their own state, as any displaced people would, which may be likened to Poland, Hungary, and other Eastern European states when they were occupied by Soviet Russia; they resisted until finally winning their freedom using any method available.

Military capabilities of Hamas and Hezbollah versus IDF - Hamas has excavated a sophisticated system of tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip, as well as parts of Israel and Egypt. These tunnels are designed to conceal and cover militants, making it difficult for the IDF to track and locate them. Hamas can execute surprise attacks on the IDF if/when a ground incursion of N. Gaza is invoked - shades of Nam.

Lt. Gen. Andrey Gurulev, a member of the State Duma Commission, says, “Israeli bombings have no effect militarily. Armed people in Palestine are in shelters, civilians are dying in residential buildings.  In Damascus, for example, they sit in underground tunnels and come out only when necessary.  Hamas has prepared 100%, it was not without reason that they did this, and they have reserves of weapons and food.

The Israelis are in columns on tanks, on infantry fighting vehicles; what are they waiting for?  Are they waiting for drones to fly over them?  We went through this during the Special Military Operation. Tanks in urban areas are practically ineffective.”

An anonymous source close to Hamas told Reuters in October that the group has a military academy that offers specialised training, including cybersecurity and a 40,000-member military wing with a naval commando unit.  The wing’s possession of anti-tank guided missiles and shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles (MPADS) places it among the world’s best equipped guerrilla armies.

Long-range missiles come from Iran, Syria, and other sources through Egypt; Hamas secures cryptocurrency and cash-funding from a variety of non-transparent sources, including a global network of NGOs. 

Hezbollah has defence systems like the Russian SA-22 which can target aircraft, helicopters, ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as drones. These assets pose a substantial challenge to the IDF which relies heavily on its air superiority.  However the IDF maintains the upper hand.  For example, in the 2006 war, Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets into Israel which responded by killing approximately 1,200 civilians in Lebanon; Israel saw fewer than 160 casualties, most of them military personal.

The IDF ranks among the world’s most powerful militaries, according to the Global Firepower Index.  Their arsenal includes advanced missile boats, tanks, attack helicopters, a large drone fleet with 'suicide drones', like Harop and Harpy models, which can track and eliminate moving targets.   However, the IDF’s primary strength lies in its air force, which is largely composed of American aircraft, including hundreds of F-16s and F-35s.

According to the Global Firepower Index, the IDF maintains 169,500 active troops. Recently, the government called-up about 360,000 reservists out of an available 460,000 non-Arab citizens aged 18-40 who undergo annual training sessions. The US provides substantial support in money and materiel and they have deployed two Carrier Strike-Groups and combat aircraft to the eastern Mediterranean.

Iran is a longtime support of Gaza's rulers, Hamas and finds itself in a quandary trying to manage the spiralling crisis according to nine Iranian officials with direct knowledge of their Clerical Establishment.

Three security officials said a consensus had been reached among Iran's top decision-makers… for now. They give their blessings for limited cross-border raids, by its Lebanese proxy group Hezbollah, on Israeli military targets over 200 km away from Gaza, as well as low-level attacks on U.S. targets by other allied groups in the region, thus forestalling a major escalation which could draw Iran itself into the conflict.

Vahid Jalalzadeh, the chief of Iran's National Security Committee, said on Wednesday, according to Iranian state media, "We are in contact with our friends Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah [and] their stance is that they do not expect us to carry out military operations."    

Israeli intelligence sources said, "It's a high-wire act for Tehran; we have seen Iran build up a network of armed proxy groups across the Middle East, from Hezbollah in Lebanon to the Houthis in Yemen".  Iran has long championed the Palestinian cause against Israel, a country it refuses to recognise and casts as an evil occupier.  Avi Melamed, a former intelligence official and a negotiator during the first and second intifadas said, "The Iranians are facing the dilemma of sending in Hezbollah in order to try to save their arm in the Gaza Strip or maybe they are going to let go of this arm and give it up. This is where the Iranians are," he added, "Calculating their risks."

Three senior Israeli security sources and a Western security source told Reuters that Israel did not want a direct confrontation with Tehran, and while the Iranians had trained and armed Hamas, there was no indication that they had prior knowledge of the October 7 attack.

The Israeli and Western security sources said Israel would only attack Iran if it was directly attacked by Iranian forces from Iran, cautioning that the situation was volatile and an assault on Israel from Hezbollah or Iranian proxies in Syria or Iraq, that caused heavy casualties, could change that calculus.

On his way back from a visit to Israel on Wednesday, October 18, Biden bluntly denied an Israeli media report saying that his aides had indicated to Israel that if Hezbollah initiated a war, the U.S. military would join the Israeli military in the fighting.  From a tactical point of view it looks like it's a war which neither side can decisively end in common with many others before it.

The 1953 historical statement by President Dwight Eisenhower is prescient: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone; it is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, and the hope of children." [President Dwight Eisenhower: address to the North American Society of News editors, April 16, 1953] Sources

• The Tragedy of Palestine: Cui Bono?  https://www.unz.com/pescobar/the-palestinian-tragedy-cui-bono/?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=pescobar

• IRAN – The Dilemma   https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/irans-quandary-how-to-stay-out-of-israels-war-on-hamas

• Sunak takes British support for Israel to new extremes  https://www.declassifieduk.org/sunak-takes-british-support-for-israel-to-new-extreme/

• Britain raised its colonial project, through the Balfour Declaration in 1917, establishing a Jewish “national home” in historic Palestine where Jews constituted fewer than 10% of the population at the time  https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-political-leaders-bring-shame-on-the-country/

• “Justified Vengeance” and the Invasion of Gaza: Palestine is Portrayed as “The Aggressor”  https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-invasion-of-gaza-operation-cast-lead-part-of-a-broader-israeli-military-intelligence-agenda/11606

STOP PRESS

It's amazing how the herd rush from one event of the moment to another, forever hysterically screaming vulgar expletives at the opposing ‘team’. This is of course what our psychotic rulers wish to encourage: "Divide and Rule" is their cry.  Please don't play their game – take no sides – observe and state your truth, plain and simple – for me LOVE conquers all, and Love is Letting Go of Fear

So, Ukraine news has been buried under the Israeli catastrophe, but the emerging multipolar world is challenging the bipolar collective west. Yes, let's not beat about the bush, the leaders of the collective West are seriously mentally challenged, if not insane, not by diagnosis or by their weasel words – but by their actions!

A simple message of wisdom: “By their deeds you will know them. Does a man gather grapes from thorns or figs from briars?” [Matthew 7:16].  And here is what is happening in Ukraine, hidden from view, a defeat of massive proportions for the West:

SITREP 10/24/23: Avdeevka Victories Confirmed as Mid-East Continues Slide Toward War

NEWS FLASH

The Farage/NWB Saga rumbles on – now he's a Russian spy! [LOL]. New bombshell documents seen by GB News reveal, in a discussion with NWB colleagues, a worker who said: “He got paid from the Kremlin. Bet he’s a spy [sic].”  The discussions are part of a 600-page dossier Nigel Farage received following a 'Subject Access Request'.  As a result, NatWest have supplied him with all information it contains on him.  Yesterday he revealed that one staffer wanted to throw a milkshake over him!  Maybe you too should find out what the bankers are saying about you?  Source

• Nigel Farage fumes at NatWest after document reveals staff wanted to 'throw milkshake' over him   https://www.gbnews.com/news/we-bailed-these-people-out-and-she-is-on-course-to-walk-out-with-11-5m-40-of-which-is-paid-for-by-gb-news-viewers-the-taxpayer

FUN TIDBIT

A British cargo ship, named 'Verity', crashed into German flagged vessel in the German Bight this week. An experienced Chief Mate observed, "It is one of the busiest sea areas in the world. The collision occurred in a traffic separation area called "German Bight VTS" or as we Germans jokingly call it 'North Sea Autobahn'.

I have often had almost panicked radio calls because my colleagues are told that a CPA less than 0.8 nautical miles is verboten.  Ships from Hamburg have to change the radio channel 4 or 5 times before reaching the VTS German Bight."

Maybe the German radio operator had a problem understanding English? 

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

Why are US corporations buying up all the Farmland in Ukraine?  One of the results of the Ukraine War has been the increased global recognition of the important role played by Ukrainian grain in feeding large swaths of the international population. Now it turns out that a number of international firms, including notorious financial institutions like BlackRock and Vanguard, have been snapping up Ukrainian farmland.  Guest host, Craig “Pasta” Jardula and journalist Don DeBar discuss how these firms dump cheap Ukrainian wheat on the Polish market undermining Poland’s support for the war.

BREAKING NEWS:  Follow this link at UK Column which is a truly independent, multimedia, and real-news website: supported by its members

MAKE NO MISTAKE, WE are the ENEMY – 'THE ENEMY WITHIN'

The years of living with increasingly oppressive Covid restrictions and mandates is a tale of many villains complicit in tyranny and a few heroes of resistance. It’s a story of venal, incompetent politicians and brutish police – thugs in uniform – acting at the behest of power-drunk apparatchiks.

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” - Winston S. Churchill

Medically idiotic, economically ruinous, socially disruptive and embittering, culturally dystopian, and politically despotic; what was there to like in the Covid era – 2020-22? Billions, if you are Big Pharma. Unchecked power, if you are Big State:

• It was Power over the whole population hysterically addicted to the Covidian Cult and fame with extended daily TV appearances on all channels… if you were a chief medical officer

• There were grotesque amounts of money and power over the world’s governments by the WHO, Gates, Dr. Death, et al, and all their paid-for lackeys

• It was a 'Template for Action' for the climate zealots and their cult

• And it was Dreamtime for Cops given free rein to indulge their inner bully which, if you feel the need for a uniform, the scamdemic gave you limitless powers.

• However there was anguished despair, if you were a caring, concerned citizen who loves individual freedom and autonomy https://dailysceptic.org/2023/10/20/our-enemy-the-government/ 

• Clearly we know that the military goons are going against ‘The People’ right now, but why is the military carrying out orders to depopulate the planet, which likely will include many of their own cannon fodder?  There are 138 corporations involved in making and distributing the Vaxx and they’re all military contractors - The Pentagon and NSA ran the entire scamdemic response!

Being of Viking heritage and knowing my history, I have always ascertained that the Anglo-Saxons are a warlike tribe of robbers and looters.  History surely proves me right yet these Britons never learn.  Having lost just about all their colonies they remain pugnacious and aggressive throughout the world.

As the UK hosts the world’s largest arms fair and global military spending, fuelled by the Ukraine War, which has never been higher and Britain continues to export weapons around the globe regardless of the consequences.  The recent 4-day Exhibition in London is a case in point and here are recent examples:

Israel

• UK foreign secretary James Cleverly rejected the view that Israel is an, “apartheid state” at the 'Conservative Friends of Israel' reception at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester.

• Israeli authorities prevented Cleverly from visiting Ein Samiya, “a village that was emptied in May after years of settler violence”, it was revealed.

• The Labour Party banned the 'Palestine Solidarity Campaign' (PSC) from labelling Israel an apartheid state at its conference in Liverpool.

China

• Cleverly said that China’s economy “would collapse” if it went to war with Taiwan. He added that a war between these countries would be a, “massive failure of foreign policy” because “disruption across the Taiwan Strait is everybody’s business”.

• Declassified reported on how the media, “are targeting the public for a war with China”.

• The destruction of Nordstream is the key to understanding how Washington plans to deal with China.

Rwanda

• The ambassador for Rwanda was filmed in an undercover 'sting operation' claiming that the HMG’s immigration policy is, “absolutely wrong”.  He added that it was “immoral” for Britain to claim to be a compassionate country.  The Anglo/Saxons have never been 'compassionate'.  They are Germanic tribes with the most vicious Nazi nature leaving the Khazarians in the shade!

INFLATION WATCH

You might have noticed that HMG is not exactly flush with cash. The national debt stands at almost 100% of GDP.  Interest payments on Gilts have surged.  Despite record tax revenues, there is depressingly little money to invest in public services, infrastructure or economic growth.

To fill the gap, our politicians are tempted to cast around for other sources of funding to pump into 'productivity-enhancing' schemes –[yeah, right].  The trillions of pounds sitting in British private pensions look particularly inviting.  In July, the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, unveiled the so-called 'Mansion House' reforms, whereby more of our pension savings would be invested into British infrastructure and private companies.

Billed as a, "voluntary initiative," one high-stakes proposal is that defined contribution pensions must change their, "default fund" allocation so at least 5% of assets are invested in unlisted stocks by 2030.  HMG forecasts this would direct £50bn into projects that support economic growth with nine of Britain's largest workplace pension schemes signed up. (SPACS anyone?)

Unsurprisingly, HMG presented this as a 'win-win deal', which would boost Britain's growth prospects and achieve greater returns for pension savers, two birds, one stone? But, as many commentators pointed out, if unlisted UK stocks are so attractive, investors wouldn't need to be strong-armed into buying them! Yes, it’s just another scam to rip off prudent savers.

For decades, Britain has struggled to build infrastructure and invest in growth and, after the fiasco of HS2, they have even fewer pounds to invest.  Decisions such as the curtailment of HS2 will not fill investors with confidence that there is a robust long-term plan [has there ever been?].  Would you invest in a country that can't even build a simple electric train set?  Check out what China has achieved in only 25 years as they grow their economy.

SURVIVAL MONITOR

Critical thinking is one key to surviving the onslaught from the Globalist silent weapons.  Eight Barriers to Critical Thinking, by Mike Saxton, PhD [Extract: "Evaluating a statement based on who said it instead of on the merits of the statement itself. In this case, people accept a statement as true, simply because they like or respect the person who said it (regardless of whether the statement is actually true). In contrast, they reject a similar statement when it comes from a person they do not respect".]

THE NARRATIVE BATTLE

FINALLY

COMING NEXT WEEK

• The Financial Jigsaw Part 2 – Chapter 2 – 'The Westminster Declaration' and more. 

• ‘Letter from Great Britain’ and ‘Letter from South Africa’ due early 2024

REFERENCES

My Book: “The Financial Jigsaw” Parts 1 & 2 Scroll:   https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358117070_THE_FINANCIAL_JIGSAW_-_PART_1_-_4th_Edition_2020   including regular updates.

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