[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]

PROTECT & SURVIVE

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

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:
Simplicius’s Garden of Knowledge
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-102423-avdeevka-victories?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web

 

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

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 who produce nothing of value.  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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Author: Austrian Peter

Peter J. Underwood is a retired international accountant and qualified humanistic counsellor living in Bruton, UK, with his wife, Yvonne. He pursued a career as an entrepreneur and business consultant, having founded several successful businesses in the UK and South Africa His latest Substack blog describes the African concept of Ubuntu - a system of localised community support using a gift economy model.

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Saami Jim
Saami Jim
October 28, 2023 10:01 am

All the best on your journey and move Peter.
I will miss these weekly columns on TBP, but look forward to when you start again next year.
May God bless you & yours in your new home.

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Austrian Peter
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  Saami Jim
October 30, 2023 11:10 am

Thank you so much Saami for your kind wishes – there’s so much love out there but often not shouted about. 🙂

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Jdog
Jdog
October 28, 2023 10:29 am

The world is changing. It no longer takes hundreds of billions of dollars to build an effective military when thousand dollar drones can destroy multi million dollar tanks, and hypersonic missiles can put aircraft carriers on the bottom of the sea. When anti aircraft missiles determine air superiority and when unchecked immigration makes sabotage of critical infrastructure an easy target.
The world is sick and tired of the hegemony of the US and NATO and their pit bull in the Mid East. It is past time for the Nations of the Middle east to form their own military alliance as the countries of Asia are doing and to end the crimes of Israel against humanity. Israel, the US and the European countries that have supported Israel are all equally guilty of the war crimes that Israel has committed against the Palestinian’s. More that 4000 innocent children have been cold bloodedly murdered, and the people responsible must be punished.
For the Middle East, the tree of liberty must be nourished with the blood of its oppressors, and not just the innocent people who have died in the millions, over the past 70 years.

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  Jdog
October 28, 2023 10:46 am

What is your favorite brand of coffee?

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VOWG
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  Jdog
October 29, 2023 7:14 am

When America is fixed give me a call.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
October 28, 2023 10:49 am

A “The Sunni and Shia Show.
I Used to watch it in the 70s.
Shia was titillating when she would ‘vamp’. ”

B “Um, you’re thinking of the ‘Sonny and Cher’ Show.”

A “Never you mind.”
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God bless and godspeed Peter!👍

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Austrian Peter
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  Anonymous
October 30, 2023 11:41 am

Many thx Anon – I will always be here on TBP! 🙂

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formerly anonymous
formerly anonymous
October 28, 2023 12:36 pm

“The bigger picture”….Let’s hear it for organized religions !!
All the love and peace and compassion for our fellow man they have brought us!
What would the world be like without them?

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VOWG
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  formerly anonymous
October 29, 2023 7:16 am

Love your neighbor as yourself, but not if your neighbor wants to kill you.

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Austrian Peter
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  VOWG
October 30, 2023 11:46 am

Um that really is an impossible one VOWG – but Jesus did turn the other cheek anyway. Perhaps He knew He couldn’t be ‘killed’ (only on this earth)? I am guessing He was aware of a multi-dimensional universe? I guess I am old enough to be finding out soon LOL.

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Anonymous
October 28, 2023 12:42 pm

South Africa Peter?
Good Luck …. and I mean that seriously.

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overthecliff
overthecliff
  Anonymous
October 29, 2023 12:01 pm

Peter, you must enlighten us about SA. You must know something we don’t. You are gonna need that good luck.

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Austrian Peter
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  overthecliff
October 30, 2023 11:49 am

Many thanks OC – I will be writing my ‘Letter from South Africa’ early in 2024. If you don’t get any more Letters you will know why! LOL.

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Austrian Peter
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October 30, 2023 11:47 am

Thanks Anon, my angels will look after me as they have done all my life. 🙂

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Iska Waran
Iska Waran
  Anonymous
October 30, 2023 1:21 pm

The Southern Hemisphere could prove safer for a while. It’ll take a long time for fallout from Australia and New Zealand to make it to South Africa.

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mark
mark
October 28, 2023 1:55 pm

Best wishes to you and yours Peter!

Keep us posted buddy!

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Austrian Peter
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  mark
October 30, 2023 11:51 am

Many thanks my good buddy Mark. I shall of course be writing from SA early in 2024. I will never forget your help with HCQ – stunning stuff! Go well old friend and stay safe in the Big Country.

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BL
BL
October 28, 2023 2:22 pm

If this isn’t just the guinea biscuit, Peter. Packing up for the SA yacht club before all the fun and games commences.
🙂

I may join you guys, save me a space and safe travels.

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  BL
October 28, 2023 3:10 pm

Looks like he got out in the nick of time!
Best of luck friends!

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Austrian Peter
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  BL
October 30, 2023 11:53 am

Many thanks BL – you are always welcome in Simons Town – I shall be living on a 42′ yacht and preparing for sea next year; we always need good crew and TBPers will make a positive addition! 🙂

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  Austrian Peter
October 30, 2023 12:02 pm

Peter, the SA Rand is 18 to the dollar so not too bad. We would at least get a little more for our money.

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Austrian Peter
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  BL
October 30, 2023 2:48 pm

My living costs in SA are 25% of UK, BL – WOW – I’m rich LOL. Check out my wonderful restaurant on the beach at Simons Town:
https://www.seaforthrestaurant.co.za/

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JDE
JDE
October 28, 2023 4:41 pm

“The Anglo/Saxons have never been ‘compassionate’. They are Germanic tribes with the most vicious Nazi nature”

makes me feel all warm and fuzzy

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Cannuck21
Cannuck21
October 28, 2023 8:17 pm

Gods speed to you Peter. May you and your family find safety and a challenge in your new (almost) home.

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Davidbee
Davidbee
October 29, 2023 2:02 am

Some good news from South Africa for you Peter: One, the electricity black outs have slowed to virtually nothing as the ESKOM crisis seems to be finally stabilized and two, the Springboks won the Rugby World Cup for the fourth time last night!
Now we await Cyril’s promised public holiday to celebrate that win.
We all know it was by a single point but the country could do with a bit of a cheering up after all those dreadful years of electricity Load Shedding!
Hope you enjoy the Western Cape pal, they do enjoy the benefits of a Democratic Alliance provincial government, a very wise choice over the ANC that’s for sure..

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Austrian Peter
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  Davidbee
October 30, 2023 12:04 pm

Thanks you for your good wishes David and yes WC is the best province and most of us have solar anyway especially on boats! Here’s a snippet:
https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/solar-pv-applications-at-record-levels-in-cape-town-ad2344f1-bf74-455e-812b-a872010cc5ca

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