BOERS & BLOOD – No WW3? – Dispossession – A Flood? – Rainbow Nation – Crime Wave – Human Motivation – Poorer People – Euthanasia – Letter from South Africa – [04-20-24]

“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.” [George Orwell]

IN 1891, Rhodes became prime minister of the Cape Colony, a position he would hold for the next five years. Addressing the Cape Parliament, Rhodes proclaimed: “If you were to sleep for five and twenty years, you might find a gentleman called your prime minister sitting in Cape Town and controlling the whole, not only to the Zambezi but to Lake Tanganyika.”

Now known as the “Colossus,” he initiated railway systems that ran from the Cape through the Orange State of the Boers.  But before this venture got underway, matters within the Cape Colony remained to be settled. The discovery of seemingly limitless gold reserves in Witwatersrand brought thousands of “Uitlanders” (“foreigners”) to the Transvaal, which remained under the rule of the “Boers” (Dutch settlers).

The foreigners, for the most part, came from Great Britain, Australia, and the United States.  Few spoke Dutch or German, the dominant European languages in the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, and they were subjected to restrictions, including a four-year residency in the Boer territories before receiving the right to vote in public elections.

The Uitlanders were also subjected to heavy taxes, including an onerous tax on dynamite that did not apply to Boers.  Rhodes, believing that the situation in Johannesburg was on the verge of armed insurrection, organised an invasion of the Boer Republic under Sir Leander Starr Jameson.

A physician by profession, Jameson was also a member of Rhodes’s Secret Society, a director of the ‘British South Africa Company’, a drunkard, a fool-hardy adventurer, and one of Rhodes’s sexual partners.  Jameson was Cecil Rhodes’s right-hand man. He conducted the failed Jameson Raid but did bring about the Second Boer War.

If the raid had succeeded it would have eliminated the two Boer Republics – the Transvaal and the Orange Free State ­ and enabled Rhodes to paint more of the “dark continent” in British “red.”  It also would have represented a step toward the creation of a world federation of English-speaking dominions and allowed the Rothschild family to massively increase their gold reserves.

The raid showed that the ‘Society of the Elect’ had become, within a few short years, a formidable force of empire. Thanks to the machinations and financial support of Lord Rothschild, Rhodes maintained a stable of “angels and lambs” (young boys to furnish his sexual needs).  He had gained his appointment as the Cape Colony’s prime minister, and Archibald Primrose, the Fifth Earl of Rosebery and a new member of the Society, had become Britain’s prime minister.

Lord Rosebery married Hannah Rothschild, the daughter of Mayer Amschel Rothschild II, in 1874.   A notorious pederast, Rosebery was sheltered from scandal by his father-in-law, even when he was condemned for “buggering” the son of the Marquess of Queensberry.

Reginald Brett, Second Viscount Esher, became permanent secretary to the Office of Works and Queen Victoria’s closest advisor.  Brett, too, engaged in pederasty and had a string of affairs with a host of Eton boys, including his son, Maurice.  Arthur Balfour, yet another accused pederast and alleged sadomasochist, became First Lord of the Treasury.

The British nobility have maintained their dysfunctional depravations to this very day and yet none have faced retribution or criminal charges being fully protected by the British Deep State. The British Empire robbed and looted have the world for two centuries but in the 21^st century their time is up.  Britain I declining both geopolitically and economically as the Global South exert an irresistible challenge to the Western hegemony.

THE JAMESON RAID – On December 29, 1895, Sir Jameson set out for Johannesburg with a meager force of 494 men, including 400 members of the Matabeleland Mounted Police.  He thought that this small army was sufficient to conquer the seventeen districts of the Transvaal since it was equipped with eighteen Maxims, the first recoil-operated machine guns.  He claimed, “I will simply blow [the Boers] away,” Jameson bragged to Frederick Hamilton, editor of the Johannesburg Star saying “I shall draw a zone of lead a mile on each side of my column, and no Boer will be able to live in it.”

The Boers knew that the raid was coming.  Armed with German Mauser rifles, they waited until Jameson and his column marched into a valley beneath the hills of Krugersdorp before opening fire at long range. Thirty of Jameson’s men fell at once. Thirty more, including Jameson and Frank Rhodes (Cecil’s brother), were captured. The remainder retreated in disarray.

The effects of the debacle were immediate. Rhodes was forced to resign as prime minister and as chairman of the Charter Company.  A heavy ransom for the prisoners was paid to the Transvaal by Rhodes and Alfred Beit.  Jameson was brought to England, where he was charged with mounting a military attack on a friendly state. He was sentenced to fifteen months’ imprisonment.

Then came an unexpected blowback. Upon hearing the news of the raid, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany sent a telegram to Paul Kruger, the president of the Transvaal, in which he said: “I express my sincere congratulations that, without calling on the aid of friendly powers, you and your people, by your energy against the armed bands which have broken into your country as disturbers of the peace, have succeeded in re-establishing peace, and defending the independence of the country against attacks from without.”

The cable caused such an uproar that the British people clamoured for war against Germany. The Kaiser had congratulated Kruger for killing English settlers without mentioning a word about the plight of the Uitlanders.  Under mounting pressure, Queen Victoria sent this telegram to her grandson, Kaiser Wilhelm: “I cannot refrain from expressing my deep regret at the telegram you sent to President Kruger.  It is considered very unfriendly towards this country, which I feel it is not intended to be, and has, I grieve to say, made a most unfavorable impression.”  The English hatred of Germany, provoked by the Kaiser’s condemnation of Jameson, was a contributing cause to the outbreak of World War I.

Thanks to the cable, Rhodes regained the esteem of his countrymen, and Jameson became a folk hero. Alfred Austin’s first published poem as Britain’s Poet Laureate was a tribute to the leader of the raiders called “Jameson’s Ride.”   It appeared in The Times of London on January 11, 1896, and opened with these words:

“Wrong! Is it wrong?  Well, maybe; But I’m going, boys, all the same. Do they think me a Burgher’s baby, to be scared by a scolding name?  They may argue, and prate, and order; Go, tell them to save their breath:  Then, over the Transvaal border, and gallop for life or death!  Let lawyers and statesmen addle their pates over points of law: If sound be our sword and saddle, and gun-gear, who cares one straw?  When men of our blood pray us to ride to their kinsfolk’s aid, not Heaven itself shall stay us from the rescue they call a raid.”

In the wake of the raid, the Boers, thanks to the Germans, became armed to the teeth, and Alfred Milner, thanks to Lord Rothschild, became the new governor of the Cape Colony. The gold of Witwatersrand could be left to the Dutch, and so, a war was rigged.  The rigging was made possible not only by the Milner appointment but also by Jan Smuts, a prominent Boer, who had graduated from Cambridge.

Smuts was a vigorous supporter of Rhodes and had acted for many years as his agent in Kimberley.  In 1898, he settled in the Transvaal and became the state secretary and the chief political advisor to President Kruger.  As soon as Smuts was in place, Milner ordered provocative troop movements on the Boer frontier.

In keeping with the script, the movements persisted until Smuts drew up an ultimatum, which threatened war if the threatening troop activity persisted. Milner rejected the request and Kruger declared war on October 9, 1899.  The conflict was, as G. Edward Griffin writes in “The Creature from Jekyll Island,” “an act of careful engineering” by Milner, Rothschild, and the Society of the Elect on both sides (British and Boer), “one making outrageous demands and the other responding to those demands in pretended indignation.”

In the first weeks of fighting, the British suffered casualties that exceeded 3,000. In 1902, by the time the conflict came to an end, 7,582 British soldiers had been killed in action, 13,139 died of disease, 40,000 were wounded, and one had been eaten by a crocodile.

Six thousand Boers were killed in action, while 26,000 white civilians and 17,182 African natives died of disease and starvation in concentration camps that had been set up in the Cape and Orange River colonies.  The war had salubrious results for Rhodes and Milner, including the incorporation of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State into the British Empire.

The 20,000 children who had died in the British concentration camps were of little consequence to Milner.  When faced with criticism about the atrocities, Milner responded, “If we are to build up anything in South Africa, we must disregard, and absolutely disregard, the screamers.”

When Stead expressed his outrage at the war in an article that appeared in the ‘Review of Reviews’, Rhodes chastised his journalistic friend as follows: “That is the case which will be fatal to our ideas – insubordination. Do not you think that it is very disobedient of you? How can our Society be worked if each sets himself up as the sole judge of what ought to be done? Just look at our position here. We three are in South Africa, all of us your boys, I, Milner, and Garrett, all of whom learned politics from you. We are on the spot, and we are unanimous in declaring this war to be necessary. You have never been to South Africa, and yet, instead of deferring to the judgment of your boys, you fling yourself in violent opposition to the war.”

Milner had the grace to confess his role in the war. “I precipitated the crisis, which was inevitable before it was too late,” he wrote in a letter to Lord Frederick Roberts. “It is not very agreeable, and in many eyes, not a very creditable piece of business to have been largely instrumental in bringing about a big war.”  However, the 20,000 children who had died in the British concentration camps were of little consequence to Milner.  Sources

• Robin Brown, The Secret Society: Cecil John Rhodes’s Plan for a New World Order (Cape Town, South Africa: Penguin Books, 2015), p. 129.
• Robert Blake, A History of Rhodesia (London: Eyre Methuen, 1977), p. 114.
• Brown, The Secret Society, p. 174, pp. 179- 180. 8.   Ibid., p. 184.
• Robert I. Rotberg, The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 640.
• Martin Meredith, Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa (New York: Public Affairs, 2008), p. 265.
• Russ Winter, “Cecil Rhodes and His Warmongering Buggery Hegemony,” The New Nationalist, May 1, 2017, http://www.newnationalist. net /20 17/05.
• Brown, The Secret Society, Winter, “Cecil Rhodes and His Warmongering Buggery Hegemony.”
• P. E. Aston, The Raid on the Transvaal by Dr. Jameson (London: Dean and Sons, 1897)Jameson, quoted in Meredith, Diamonds, Gold, and War, p. 89.
• John Hays Hammond, The Truth about the Jameson Raid (Boston: Marshall Jones, 1918)
• The Kruger telegram in Jean van der Poe!, The Jamestown Raid (Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1951), p. 135.
• Queen Victoria’s telegram, in Brown, The Secret Society, p. 180.
• Alfred Austin, “Jameson ‘s Ride” (1896), in Books and Boots, July 10, 2012, 20
• Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A history of the World in Our Time (New York: Macmillan, 1966), pp. 137-138.
• G. Edward Griffin, The Creature from Jekyll lsland: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve (Westlake Village, CA: American Media, 2008), p. 278.
• Megan French, “Boer War Soldiers’ Records Published Online,” The Guardian, June 24, 2010, hccps://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jun/24/boer-war-soldiets-records-online.
• Owen Coetzer, Fire in the Sky: The Destruction of the Orange Free State ( Johannesburg: Covos Day, 2000), pp. 82- 83.
• Philip Ziegler, Legacy: Cecil Rhodes, The Rhodes Trust, and Rhodes Scholarships (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008), p. 12.
• William T. Stead, The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes (London: Review of Review Books, 1902), pp. 109-111.
• Milner, quoted in Thomas Pakenham, The Boer War (New York: Random House, 1979), p. 115. 27. Ibid., p. 483.

STOP PRESS – WW3 Kick-off?  Maybe not.

Over the years, ties between the Hashemite Kingdom and the Revolutionary Guards have known ups and downs and it seems that since October 7 relations between the two countries have deteriorated.  Jordan, like Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and others, is trying to “butter their bread on both sides,” on the one hand to avoid conflict with Iran and on the other to strengthen their ties with the West.

A security source said on Monday that Israel is considering entering Rafah earlier than planned due to Hamas’s refusal to accept a deal to release the hostages. “The answer that Hamas gave to the mediators is so unequivocally against a deal and it is bringing an offensive in Rafah closer by giant steps,” the source told Galei Tzahal.

However, an expert Intel correspondent, Scott Ritter, understands how geopolitics have now changed: “The ‘Missiles of April’ represent a sea-change moment in Middle Eastern geopolitics—the establishment of Iranian deterrence that impacts both Israel and the United States. While emotions in Tel Aviv, especially among the more radical conservatives of the Israeli government, run high, and the threat of Israeli retaliation against Iran cannot be completely discounted, the fact is the underlying policy objective of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the past 30-plus years, namely to drag the US into a war with Iran, has been put into a checkmate by Iran.”  Source

• Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel will go down in history as one of the greatest victories of this century  https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/04/15/the-missiles-of-april/

The response from Israel came on Friday – a token-only attack on Iranian military installations.  We wait, and pray for peace; ‘standing by’ now (as of writing).  Here’s another angle: Astonishing Scenes From Gaza Today – not what we are told!

IN UKRAINE – Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has admitted that the situation on the front line is deteriorating

NEWS FLASH – YOU DON’T OWN WHAT YOU BELIEVE YOU DO – THE BANKSTERS OWN YOU

Klaus Schwab (now hospitalised) says that in the ‘Great Reset’ which the World Economic Forum is preparing for us “you will own nothing and you will be happy.” Well, we already own nothing.  Our bank deposits and stocks and bonds, in the event of a depository institution going bust, the depository institution’s creditors will own your assets, not you.  All assets are pooled and serve as collateral whether or not labelled “segregated.”

FUN TIDBIT – “THIS IS A FLOOD”…Jesus had a similar problem

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – Is SA better off than during APARTHEID?

All I can say is, I speak as I find: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/economic-reality-budget-2024-interest?r=hhrlz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&open=false

BREAKING SOUTH AFRICAN NEWS

Churches reported a rise in criminality where mobile phones and money have been robbed from congregants, with some cases ending in assault, kidnapping, and murder.  However, this seems to have continued into 2024, with Pillay noting the recent killings of a caretaker in Phoenix and Catholic Priest William Banda during robberies, that took place a couple of weeks ago and have unsettled church-going communities.  Pillay strongly urged church leaders to take proactive measures to protect congregants from crime. “Don’t be so heavenly-minded that you have no earthly good,” he warned.  Source

• https://businesstech.co.za/news/lifestyle/763431/warning-for-churches-and-congregants-in-south-africa-this-easter-weekend/?utm_source=everlytic&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=businesstech

SURVIVAL MONITOR – Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Now think about how “less is more”.  Here is Eric Peters, at The Burning Platform (TBP), talking about ‘disposability’ and how we can survive the coming catastrophe.

The generation that lived through the Great Depression of 1930-40 learned, through hard necessity, about the value of frugality.  About not wasting money on things they didn’t need. Especially things that caused them to waste even more money.  My mother saved cash from Dad’s earnings in pots marked for all the household expenses.  It was a crude budgetary system but it worked.  My grandad would undo string on parcels rather than waste it by cutting.

Then along came techy gimmickery. The physical key was replaced by an electronic fob and electronic push buttons. The door is unlocked automatically, just by touching the door handle (the electronic lock recognises the signal from the fob). The engine is started by pushing a button that registers the signal from the fob and sends a signal to the computer to turn the starter.”  Source

• Landfill Economy   https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/03/29/embracing-disposability/

INFLATION

That might seem obvious, no one likes being made poorer, but a new paper finds that people hate high inflation even if real wages are rising.  Stefanie Stantcheva of Harvard argues that even when inflation leads to bumper wage increases, people attribute their pay rise to their own skill and job performance.

“This perception of diminished living standards due to inflation is intensified by the observation that individuals rarely ascribe the raises they receive during inflationary periods to adjustments for inflation. Rather, they attribute these increases to job performance or career progression.”  In other words, if inflation is 5% and an employee gets a matching 5% salary increase, they think of it as inflation gobbling up their hard-earned pay rise and feeling worse off than before; inflation is politically toxic.

The whole point of an independent central bank, like SARB, is that it can make crucial, and sometimes unpopular, policy decisions without needing to heed an arbitrary electoral calendar. But, in reality, central bankers are flawed like everyone else. They are subject to pressure from the public, media, and unelected officials who are at pains to appear apolitical.

NARRATIVE BATTLE – Should terminally sick people be given a dignified death?

My position has always been clear.  I was given my earthly body and mind, free of any encumbrance.  It does not belong to me, my Creator gifted me a magical temple of His Creation, and therefore His Will must prevail in my life until His final call.

COMING NEXT:

• BOOM weekly global review – Tuesday, April 23, 2024
• The Financial Jigsaw Part 2 – Chapter 3 –  RESISTANCE IS WINNING – Saturday, April 27, 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. View all posts by Austrian Peter