VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel

$ 280 BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation; $ 150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contracts
Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State.

Happy New Year all y’all! Apologies for the delayed start to my column this year. The demands of the day job, including a Habeas Corpus appeal to the UK Supreme Court, have limited my writing time I’m afraid. It’s going to be an interesting year, I suspect, better than 2022. I might even get my Royal Pardon!

The Coronation

The big event happens on May 6th. Since it’s a Saturday there will be a Bank Holiday on Monday the 8th. Naturally, there will be Coronation mugs and plates. It will be the biggest piss-up since VE-Day.

The Cabinet Office wreckers in Buckingham Palace are of course trying to water the whole thing down. They’re even trying to force the King not to wear silk breeches, which is absurd. They’ll want him turning up in a smoking jacket next!

Happily, there are signs that the Bad Guys, a.k.a. the Cabinet Office, are losing the battle. Plans for a mini-Coronation, thankfully, have been abandoned, although there won’t be 8,000 in the congregation. (It’s a religious as well as state occasion, so strictly it’s a congregation, not an audience.) Health and safety rules have moved on a bit since Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation in 1953 when they built tiered stands inside Westminster Abbey.



The Great Trouser Battle is also likely to be lost by the Bad Guys. I imagine that King Charles, Who respects tradition, will want to be dressed for the greatest day of His life in the same manner as His beloved grandfather and great-grandfather were.

Very few people living can remember the last Coronation. It was seventy years ago. Moreover, it was only broadcast in black and white. This one will be broadcast in glorious technicolor. It’s going to be quite an event. I suspect that younger generations will be taken back by the awesome solemnity of it.

The moment when St Edward’s Crown is placed upon the King’s head will be dramatic. The continuity of the Constitution and the great responsibilities of kingship will be on display for all to see. I have not been surprised by the overwhelming support for the new King. It will only grow after the Coronation.

The Royal Palaces ought to be handed over to the King, Who should also receive the entire income from the Crown Estate, free of tax of course. It is His right. The resulting financial independence will better enable the Palace to resist pressure from the Cabinet Office.

A coalition government?

Of course, a just settlement for our new King will require a new government, to replace the current mob of house-trained idiots, no offense intended. The easiest way to achieve a sensible conservative government, if that is not a tautology, would be for the European Research Group of patriotic Tory MPs to defect en masse to the Reform Party. (That’s where I’m headed – I’ve given up on Rishi, who’s been a disaster.) They could then bring down this useless, rudderless government and fight a general election as a coalition, alongside sensible Tory candidates and those nice people DUP.

The Northern Ireland Protocol would be toast, alongside the unequal Trade and Cooperation Agreement. The agreement isn’t binding anyway, because of the bungs paid to secure it. A patriotic, pro-British government could scrap the failed National Health Service and retire the National Debt by collecting the huge sums of money owed to the taxman who are sitting offshore.

The railroads could be reorganized, strikes in essential services banned and the country put back on its feet. Controlling inflation is simply a matter of controlling the money supply, which in turn means shutting down the offshore high-yield trading programs. The absurd net zero commitment would go, of course.

The Ardern resignation

Jacinda Ardern’s welcome resignation on Thursday means that Chris Hipkins (no, me neither) becomes New Zealand’s new Prime Minister. He’s unlikely to be in office for very long, since there will be an election in October, which I predict a National Party-led coalition will win, probably comfortably.

Whilst the MSM have been shocked by Ardern’s departure they shouldn’t have been. Her absurd lockdown and climate change policies have been hugely damaging for New Zealand and her popularity had been on the wain.

The international implications are interesting. As word spreads that the most important influence on planetary climate is the Sun and that our star entered a cyclical period of reduced activity around the turn of the century more pollies like Jacinda Ardern who have pushed global warming are going to fall from grace.

Global warming nutter Al Gore, no offense intended, apparently came across like a wild man at Davos this week. As a Gore, he was pretty wild to start with of course, but as his side is starting, at long last, to lose the argument, he seems to be getting even wilder.

The War

It’s not going to be a peaceful year, sadly, any more than 2022 was. It’s not been an easy war to predict, although it was easy enough to see it coming. I’m not sure it’s going to remain a war of attrition though. Once ground conditions firm up I predict a joint Russian/Byelorussian offensive, probably against Kiev.

The Ukrainians seem to be expecting a big tank battle. At any rate, they’re screaming for modern main battle tanks. Reporting suggests that the Russians have finally started to deploy their excellent new T-14 Armata Main Battle Tank, armed with the 125 mm gun developed for the T-95. It has modern armor and a new fully automatic turret, the three-man crew being housed in a forward armored compartment.

The gun can fire missiles as well as armor-piercing and HE rounds and has an anti-aircraft capability. The Armata poses a serious threat to the Ukrainians and it’s beginning to look as though the Russians, sensibly, started to ramp up production from the beginning of last year.

Challenger 2 MBT

The Ministry of Defence has come up with a coming plan. Why not give the Russians our latest Dorchester armor, which is probably better able to resist penetration than even the new armor on the Armata? Obviously, we couldn’t just give the Russians a license, since that would be contrary to EU, sorry government, policy. The Russians do a nice line in the armor of course, but it’s a bit like white people singing gospel music – missing that something extra.

So instead we’re gifting the Russians a couple of tanks, the cunning plan being to give them to the Ukrainians, who are bound to lose a few. You can knock out a tank in any number of ways that don’t involve wrecking its armor. My prediction is that the plan will work and the Russians will get Dorchester, allowing them to upgrade the Armata. Moscow might wish to view it as a long-delayed thank you for that naval codebook off the Magdeburg.

SMS Magdeburg, sunk in 2014

Unsurprisingly Jerry is getting wet feet about handing over his Leopard II panzers to Kiev, correctly calculating that he might need them should the Russians and Byelorussians come screaming over the Oder. I doubt we’ll see a war with Germany this year, but then folk was saying that in both 1914 and 1939. The Leopard II is a nice tank, but compared with the T-14 it’s like Lieutenant Gruber’s little tank in ‘Allo ‘Allo.

As to timing, I predict a ceasefire at some point in 2023, leaving Russia largely in occupation of the territories she has captured or very properly annexed. Since Russian war aims have never included annexing the whole of Ukraine that nice man President Putin would be able to declare a win. This would upset the CIA, the State Department, and the Foreign Office, which would be lovely to see.

I also predict more helicopter crashes. Ukrainian helicopter flying is starting to look as dangerous as flying EasyJet, no offense intended, although not as bad, yet, as flying United, or Yeti Air.

One thing I do know. I am going to learn things in 2023 that I didn’t know in 2022. I’ve already discovered that Yeti Air has a frequent flyer program, very obviously aimed, like United’s, at incurable optimists.

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI

I was genuinely saddened to hear of His Holiness’s passing on New Year’s Eve. We never met, but we did, once, speak on the phone, even if that nice man Archbishop Georg Ganswein did the translating. (Pope Benedict’s English was actually quite good, but he was never particularly confident in the language.) In addition, we had a number of mutual friends.

Born Joseph Ratzinger on 16th April 1927 (he was on my birthday card list) in Marktl, Bavaria, he was forced to join the Hitler Youth on his 14th birthday. He was never a Nazi however, indeed a cousin was murdered by the bastards, and the Ratzingers, to their credit, was an anti-Nazi family.

A brilliant theologian, as both a Cardinal and Pope, Benedict was firmly on the conservative wing of the Catholic Church. Many of his positions, however, for example, his stance on abortion, were both morally and theologically defensible. Contrary to MSM smears, he was a deeply private and humane man, arguably the nicest Pope that there has ever been.

Although his health undoubtedly suffered in later years he was forced out by the Jesuits in 2013. It wasn’t strictly a retirement and led to the unusual situation of there being two Popes, one Catholic and one Jesuit.

Benedict was greatly distressed by the DVD’s kidnap in 2007 of British toddler Madeleine McCann, who was Catholic. He was aware of the DVD of course and had been for some time. The Vatican offered splendid assistance to the Gerard Group team, led by myself, which took over the hunt after MI6 was warned off by the Cabinet Office, but like us were frustrated by a lack of cooperation from the British government. At one point Pope Benedict even agreed to brief Madeleine’s parents, but the offer was withdrawn after a fierce protest from London, channeled through the British Ambassador to the Vatican.

We had better success with the funeral of the last Austro-Hungarian Emperor, Otto von Hapsburg, in 2011, who was a child when Austria declared herself a republic. The Austrian government was reportedly gob-smacked when the Imperial Ensign turned up on His Royal Highness’s casket and Haydn’s moving Imperial Anthem was played during the service. I gather that His Holiness was tickled with my point that since the office of the Holy Roman Emperor was a Papal appointment, not an Austrian one, the Austrian Parliament was not competent to deprive him of it. Put another way Otto, a nice man, was entitled to be buried with all the dignity of an Emperor.

Benedict had a marvelous network. If I needed to get through to a cardinal, for example, one holding a Requiem Mass for a Holy Roman Emperor, I only had to go through Pope Benedict. Spare a thought in your prayers for this lovely, kind, and decent man.



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12 COMMENTS

  1. So odd that Edward mentioned Ushant, which is on my bucket list of places to go. Maybe we will meet there someday.

  2. I love Sumeria as much as anyone could, who never had the chance to go there in person. I cried like a baby prior to both the Gulf War and the Iraq War, as I knew what would happen to the museums… But Nadhim Zahawi is still toast, I think.

  3. High-priest upon temple / Ninurta & Marduk, prepared for battle.

    RUSI Annual Security Lecture 2022 with Sir Jeremy Fleming, Director of GCHQ
    Tuesday, 11 October 2022
    14:30 – 15:30 (BST)
    Online / London location
    This year’s Annual Security Lecture: ‘If China is the Question, What is the Answer? given by Sir Jeremy Fleming KCMG CB, Director of Government Communications Headquarters, on the evolving technological environment in the context of national security and geopolitics.
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    “Wars are always partly decided by the application of technology. And one of the most important legacies of WWII was that our predecessors realised the power that comes from staying ahead in the technology race.”

    Mesopotamian Gods & Kings
    Mesopotamian Artifacts & Texts
    MESOPOTAMIANGODS dot COM, WHERE HISTORY & MODERN MAN BEGAN
    The Exploits of Ninurta (Ninurta Lugal-E)
    Source: Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Robson, E., and Zólyomi, G., The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oxford 1998-.

    Ninurta, Enlil‘s son & heir, born of the “double seed.”

    • “Myth” also known as “Lugal-e” or “Oh Warrior King!”. In it, Ninurta is feasting with the other gods, when he receives bad news from Sharur – his mace and loyal weapon, whose name means Smasher of Thousands, an artifact capable to move around independently and to communicate with the gods.

      Ninurta defeats Marduk in the war over pyramids.

      An enormous hurricane, irresistible, went before the Hero, stirred up the dust,

      caused the dust to settle, leveled high and low, filled the holes.

      It caused a rain of coals and flaming fires; the fire consumed men.

      It overturned tall trees by their trunks, reducing the forests to heaps,

      Earth put her hands on her heart and cried harrowingly; the Tigris was muddied, disturbed, cloudy, stirred up.

      He hurried to battle on the boat Ma-kar-nunta-eda;

      the people there did not know where to turn, they bumped into the walls.

      The birds there tried to lift their heads to fly away, but their wings trailed on the ground.

      The storm flooded out the fish there in the subterranean waters, their mouths snapped at the air.

      It reduced the animals of the open country to firewood, roasting them like locusts.

      It was a deluge rising and disastrously ruining the Mountains.

      Ninurta, son and heir of the throne of Enlil, savior of the kingdom of the Akkads about 6000 years ago in Iraq originally was the god of irrigation and agriculture but the growth of Imperialism transformed him into a god of war. It is at this point the Origin of the Maltese Cross.

  4. Dear Shrimpi, why do You support a degenerated & corrupted German on the British throne? He is more or less a traitor and not the real king. The real British king is a norman Plantagenet, who lives in Australia. Here a part of a Tony Robinson (an Anglo-Saxon) docu which proves it https://youtu.be/bH4kiu8Lxo8
    The German Leopard II tanks are the best on the planet, but there are not so many of it. During the Cold War West-Germany had 5.000 heavy fighting units, most of them Leopard I & II. Now the Bundeswehr has only 6 tank-batalions, which means on paper between 300 and 400 battle-tanks, but in reality only 10 tanks as per bataillon are combat-ready, which means in total 60. This is ridiculous. The Eurofighter is obviously the best fighter jet on the planet at the moment, but with a little bit of luck, the German Luftwaffe might bring 60 up in the air. This is ridculous, too. The fighting value of the German army, the Bundeswehr, is 0. Because guys like You, stripped the Bundeswehr apart form every tradition or German identity, both, the most eminent factors for a soldier to fight for his country. Ursula von der Leyen forbade pictures of the former chancellor Helmut Schmidt, as a young soldier, in Bundeswehr-caserns. So every German soldier now knows what will happen with his own pictures after conflicts in the forthcoming future. If the Russians invade Poland with 1 Mio. men and 5.000 battle tanks, they are in 2 weeks in Brest. It will become a cakewalk.

    • The Bundeswehr is perhaps able to collect 10k men as a fighting unit, boots on the ground, but at the moment they are spreaded in different countries due to the demand of their cowboy-masters in DC. The French Foreign Legion has only 10k men, too. The Brits had alreaady difficulties in the 80s to collect 11k men to fight the Falklands-war. This is all ridiculous. NATO-idiots playing da dangerous game and the Island of the apes northeast of Ushant is not save anymore.

    • It’s a bit late to go back and install the Plantagenets, and the guy in Australia thinks it’s funny. And why bother, as King Charles and Diana’s 2 sons have bloodlines that go farther back than that. They combine the bloodlines and royalty of both England and Scotland. What’s not to like?

      I do not think that Germany will fight for the Ukraine. I do think the German people just might help toss out the elite WEF Davos scum that everyone is starting to make fun of. Then there will be peace.

  5. Absolutely true about Otto van Hapsburg: “I gather that His Holiness was tickled with my point that since the office of Holy Roman Emperor was a Papal appointment, not an Austrian one, the Austrian Parliament were not competent to deprive him off it.” Good job!

  6. Good thing that May 8 is a bank holiday in the UK. Not to sound churlish, I hope, but it should be a holiday anyway, as it’s VE Day for the western Allies (May 9 in Russia). In my family, VE day is a holiday, as that’s when my parents (engaged at the time) put the wedding plans into high gear, like millions of others around the world. They wasted no time, getting married 1 month later, with the men still in uniform and on leave just for the wedding. Awesome.

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