SAUDI ARABIA - A Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia’s second busiest airport threatens to drag Britain deeper into another conflict in the Middle East. On October 10, a missile strike on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport caused an explosion that killed 13 people and injured 308 in the deadliest attack on the Gulf state in more than a decade. Wes Streeting, the Defence Secretary, labelled the attacks “despicable” and announced that the UK would deploy RAF Typhoon fighter jets to the kingdom to help defend Saudi airspace from drones and missiles. Analysts say London is likely to deepen assistance further if the attacks continue.
USA - What Valéry Giscard d’Estaing called America’s “exorbitant privilege” still seemingly reigns supreme. But for how much longer? The one-time French prime minister was referring to the commanding position that the American dollar occupies in global finance as the world’s dominant reserve currency, a role that allows the US federal government to borrow almost without limit at relatively favourable interest rates.
EUROPE - A trip to Flanders has served as a reminder of the catastrophes the conflict wrought. I’m standing in Tyne Cot Cemetery, in the rolling fields of Flanders. In front of me the graves go on and on, as they are meant to do, because this is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery on Earth. Nearly 12,000 men are buried here, most of them unidentified; 35,000 more are just names on the wall behind me. The sadness is almost unbearable; it is also, for me, unexpected. I visited the Somme 30 years ago, as a younger man, and it was certainly poignant. Yet now I feel bleaker than ever, and I have a hunch why.
USA - Red-Green Alliance is two groups who hate each other a little less than they hate us. Muslims fighting the patriarchy. Queers for Palestine. The contradictions only make sense when we realize the alliance is built on a common enemy, not common goals. They despise each other’s doctrines. Marxists treat religion as opium for the masses and view any faith that rejects gender ideology or “LGBTQIA+ supremacy” as a threat that must be outlawed. Islamists treat free thought and expression as heresy the moment it collides with Sharia. One side wants to abolish God. The other wants to enforce Allah’s law by the sword. One celebrates the very things the other would execute people for. Yet they march together because they hate Western society, America, and Christianity more than they hate each other.
ISRAEL - Could we soon witness nuclear war in the Middle East? Benjamin Netanyahu seems to think so. I realize that what I have to share in this article is not pleasant to think about, but the truth is that we are far closer to an apocalyptic scenario in the Middle East than most people think. The US and Israel are going to start striking Iran again very soon. It probably won’t happen until after the midterm elections in the United States, but it is coming. As you will see below, Iran is threatening to respond with overwhelming force if the US and Israel attack. In fact, we are being warned that Iran intends to make Israel uninhabitable in less than one hour. Needless to say, that cannot be accomplished with conventional weapons. If Iran uses unconventional weapons against Israel, the Israelis will break out their own unconventional weapons. We really are on the brink of the unimaginable, but hardly anyone seems to realize it.
EUROPE - France is working with 10 other European nations to expand its capacity as a nuclear weapons power on the continent and a deterrent to Russian aggression as Europe's faith in the US's commitment to its security wanes, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday morning. The 'forward deterrence' plan involves the creation of new infrastructure, communications, early-warning and intelligence-sharing links with France's allies as well as deployments of French nuclear-enabled Rafale jet fighters across Europe. The UK, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have all joined the project with varying degrees of involvement since French President Emmanuel Macron announced it in March. The plan comes as faith in the US's willingness to defend Europe wanes.
IRAN - Ebrahim Azizi, head of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, wrote in Hebrew on his social media account that any action against Iran's security and national interests would make the occupied territories uninhabitable in less than an hour. "Know that in the event of any action against our security and national interests, making the occupied territories uninhabitable will take less than an hour," Azizi stressed.
GERMANY - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned on Saturday that Germany was facing pressure from extremist parties and from foreign enemies, including a "massive threat" from Russia, which he said was seeking to destabilize Germany. Speaking at a party conference of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of his conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), he said the parties had the responsibility to push through economic reforms to reinforce Germany's social stability. This is a developing story.
IRAN - Tehran is threatening to respond to a renewed US and Israeli air campaign with strikes on an expanded list of targets, including civilian infrastructure, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The warnings, issued publicly and over diplomatic communications, said that Iran would attack not only American bases and warships, but also natural energy infrastructure, natural gas pipelines, airports, and other civilian targets in the Persian Gulf region. Tehran has also threatened to utilize a new array of weapons, including nuclear bombs. According to Iran International, a media outlet opposed to the regime, the head of the Iranian parliament's International Affairs Committee, Mohammad-Saleh Jokar, asked "The Islamic Republic's authorities, in defense of the country and for the purpose of deterrence, to permit the use of deterrent weapons, including nuclear weapons, in the event of a US attack on Iran?”
IRAN - Iran has drawn up plans to target undersea internet cables in the Gulf if attacked again by the US and Israel, potentially disrupting regional networks. Tehran has drawn up detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the United States and Israel attack Iran again, two senior Iranian security officials told Reuters. Their comments followed warnings by Iranian officials that undersea cables in the region could become targets in any renewed conflict if diplomacy with Washington collapses. "If Iran is attacked, there will be no more red lines ...from undersea cables to military bases, including covert ones," one of the officials said. The official warned Washington not to "play with fire," and said Iran had full access to the undersea cables and could easily destroy them.
UK - Pig breeders have warned of a potential crisis for British farming after a dramatic plunge in the price of livestock. Farmers said the Government should provide more support after nine native piglets fetched £2 each at auction, less than a supermarket packet of sausages or bacon. Dan Bolton, who sold the seven-week-old Saddleback weaners in Dorset, said he ended up losing money once he had paid the market fees. He said the price was a “record low” and was exacerbated by soaring prices of feed, fuel and electricity. Cheap imports reared to lower standards had also “flooded the market”, lowering prices further, he added.
USA - America provided safe refuge to some who now seek to dismantle it from within. US Representative Ilhan Omar and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani are just two examples in a long line of turncoats – those who strive to undermine the very values that protect them. As Americans prepare for the November 3 elections, the federal investigation into congresswoman Ilhan Omar brings to mind a warning from Shlomo Hamelech (King Solomon), “Whoever repays good with evil, evil will never depart from his house” (Proverbs 17:13). America has offered refuge, freedom and opportunity to generations escaping war, persecution and tyranny. Yet today, some of the fiercest debates concern political movements seeking to transform the very institutions that made those opportunities possible. Omar arrived as a refugee from Somalia’s civil war. America offered protection, citizenship, and the opportunity to rise to Congress. Today, she is a leading voice of the Squad, whose progressive agenda challenges American economic institutions and whose positions on Israel have generated repeated controversy.
UK - For a decade or more, “preppers” have been tarnished with the reputation of extreme hoarders or conspiracy theorists, kitting themselves out with crossbows and gasmasks for an apocalyptic disaster. But prepping may be about to go mainstream after the defence secretary told the British public that they too must be prepared for a national crisis. Wes Streeting told people to stockpile three days’ worth of emergency supplies as he launched a “national resilience conversation” on Friday. He urged people to prepare for food shortages and disruption to essential supply chains caused by cyberattacks, state-sponsored terrorism and other threats. The government recommended households keep extra water, food, medical supplies, cash, passport copies and key phone numbers written down.
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