The year draws to a close pretty much in the same state that it first opened 360 days ago.
Whining,whingeing,cantankerous,obfuscating,disingenuous,blathering non sequiturs,otiose cant and vacuous platitudes ad nauseam being excreted from that prominent orifice on the faces of Remoaners that is usually located at the opposite end on the rest of us homo sapiens.
The bogus #The3Million #OpenBritain #Labour et al have demonstrated amply that reason,common sense,logic and economic reality have no part to play in their deluded fantasies of what #brexit does or doesn't do.
You'd probably have more success in trying explaining the workings of a digital camera to a peasant from the Middle Ages,than you would economic theory to the metropolitan elitist EU shills masquerading in their variety of pantomime costumes who're pretending they're not intellectually and economically subservient to and dependent upon the European Union for their existence.
Capitalism 101 - an increase in the supply of goods is accompanied by downward pressure on the price of those goods. The same inexorable iron law applies to the supply of labour in any given market.The greater the number of workers available leads to downward pressure on wages.
These iron laws are immutable.Capitalism does not alter.
Unless,of course you're an university academic or professional scientist or cultural arts luvvie or metropolitan domiciled legal shyster where,amazingly there never has been nor is there ever likely to be a sudden,cataclysmic increase in the numbers of those vying for employment in these rarified almost reserved for the elites' occupational groupings.
Or if you're a City finanicer of some ilk.then you get to deliberately engineer the wholesale annihilation of the global economy,cash in your winnings and then after the Deluge blackmail the stupid political classes to dig you out of the hole,cover your losses and ensure your continued career in the same manner as before.
17.4 Million of the UK electorate -52% of those that voted -gave their verdict as Leave on the proposition of should the UK withdraw from the EU.
Again something vehemently denied by the metropolitan elitist remoaners and their insidious,seditionist campaign.
2018 is,I fear going to be more of the same.
More zero hours Agency contracts because the supply of endless cheap compliant toadying labour from eastern europe is not going to be cut off.Which turn keeps wages down and GDP chronically handicapped.Which in turn prolongs Austerity.Which in turn keeps up the DWP onslaught of sanctions against the long term unemployed and other benefits dependent claimants;because there are fewer and fewer jobs,and less housing and longer GP surgery and Hospital queues etc etc.
Nothing to do with economics according to the anti-democratic, anti- populist Remoaner seditionists.
We'll see in 2018.
Tuesday 26 December 2017
Tuesday 19 December 2017
fahrenheit451:223
From the pages of History comes a warning.
European Union members entered uncharted political waters last night by threatening to boycott Austria if Jörg Haider's far-right Freedom party joins a new government.Portugal, the current holder of the EU's rotating presidency, issued an unprecedented statement saying that all member states, with the obvious exception of Austria, would refuse all bilateral contacts with Vienna if that happened.
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The members also served notice they they would not back any Austrian candidate seeking a position with an international body.
17 years on and the tyrannical authoritarian Superstate continues its swaggering,hubristic,venal practices as if nothing has changed or is ever likely to change in the world at large.
It has bullied and coerced member states, Denmark and Ireland, to re-run democratic national plebiscites that delivered democratic verdicts against the interests of the EU. In other instances,such as France and Holland, the EU has simply chosen to ignore results of inconvenient plebiscites.
Austria in 2000 was subjected to a EU instigated and led unparalleled international campaign of slander and denunciation that violated its national sovereignty.
At the present time it is Hungary and Poland that have been targeted by the EU for special treatment.The EU arrogates to itself a right to interfere in the domestic political discourse and decision making of member states as and when it chooses to do so.Apparently the EU does not like the tenor of the debate over attempts to reform the method of senior judicial appointments and the supreme courts either in Poland or Hungary.
And if the UK wasn't the size it is,it would long since have been bullied into submission over its already floundering effort at #brexit.
The EU is mortally wounded and dying a slow,lingering death.The accompanying Wagnerian cacophony seems designed to add some faux-gravitas to the sorry business of its own squalid demise.
Former EU parliament President Schulz ,now leader of the ailing and electorally crippled German SPD characterised the formation of Austria's new government in conjunction with Hungary's Orban led government as a return of the Hapsburg Monarchy. Which he meant in a disparaging way but one that has no contemporary resonance.
What is true, is that the Visegrad 4 grouping of Hungary,Poland ,Slovakia and Czechia/Czech republic now have a natural ally in Vienna which makes it exceedingly problematic for the predominant neoliberal/globalist cliques to resort to anything as ruthless as they once could with impunity.
The UK au contraire ought really to be banging on the table and throwing its actual global diplomatic weight around in Brussels.If only we had the perspicacity of the Austrians.
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The members also served notice they they would not back any Austrian candidate seeking a position with an international body.
17 years on and the tyrannical authoritarian Superstate continues its swaggering,hubristic,venal practices as if nothing has changed or is ever likely to change in the world at large.
It has bullied and coerced member states, Denmark and Ireland, to re-run democratic national plebiscites that delivered democratic verdicts against the interests of the EU. In other instances,such as France and Holland, the EU has simply chosen to ignore results of inconvenient plebiscites.
Austria in 2000 was subjected to a EU instigated and led unparalleled international campaign of slander and denunciation that violated its national sovereignty.
At the present time it is Hungary and Poland that have been targeted by the EU for special treatment.The EU arrogates to itself a right to interfere in the domestic political discourse and decision making of member states as and when it chooses to do so.Apparently the EU does not like the tenor of the debate over attempts to reform the method of senior judicial appointments and the supreme courts either in Poland or Hungary.
And if the UK wasn't the size it is,it would long since have been bullied into submission over its already floundering effort at #brexit.
The EU is mortally wounded and dying a slow,lingering death.The accompanying Wagnerian cacophony seems designed to add some faux-gravitas to the sorry business of its own squalid demise.
Former EU parliament President Schulz ,now leader of the ailing and electorally crippled German SPD characterised the formation of Austria's new government in conjunction with Hungary's Orban led government as a return of the Hapsburg Monarchy. Which he meant in a disparaging way but one that has no contemporary resonance.
What is true, is that the Visegrad 4 grouping of Hungary,Poland ,Slovakia and Czechia/Czech republic now have a natural ally in Vienna which makes it exceedingly problematic for the predominant neoliberal/globalist cliques to resort to anything as ruthless as they once could with impunity.
The UK au contraire ought really to be banging on the table and throwing its actual global diplomatic weight around in Brussels.If only we had the perspicacity of the Austrians.
Friday 15 December 2017
fahrenheit451:222
If nothing else, they are at least consistent and persistent. The following is gleaned from online media sites.
" The European Union’s 27 remaining leaders have just voted unanimously to start the second phase of the Brexit negotiations with the U.K., meaning that discussions on a transition period are likely to start in the coming weeks. The two sides will begin work on the outlines of a trade deal after a summit in March.
After endorsing the European Commission’s assessment from a week ago that U.K. and EU negotiators had made “sufficient progress” on priority separation issues, the leaders will publish a set of guidelines. to direct negotiators over the coming months.
The commission is planning to unveil a more detailed position on the transition period on Wednesday, with the 27 governments scheduled to formally approve it at a meeting on Jan. 29. It will then be up to the U.K. to decide whether to accept the proposal wholesale or try to negotiate.
Officials say it will resemble EU membership but without the U.K. having a voice in the bloc’s decision-making. It’s likely to be limited to two years ".
Got that have we? March 2018 for the start of preparatory waffle and cant on trade preceded by an agreed transition period prior to the aforementioned part on trade talks.
Is that,strictly speaking a non-sequitur? Sure seems like it from where we're listening/reading/viewing or otherwise consuming this official EU news.
Which is to say the least odd,but not in a good way. After all, whatever the outcome or however far we've got during the time limited Article 50 period,that's it folks,we're done,gone and left.There will be no more time.That's what Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty says.
It's a measure of the political cowardice and charlatanry of the metropolitan elites that they continue on as if the referendum n a) Never took place or b) Gave a verdict other than the one it did.
Patience is a virtue,but alas the EU has outlawed virtue.
" The European Union’s 27 remaining leaders have just voted unanimously to start the second phase of the Brexit negotiations with the U.K., meaning that discussions on a transition period are likely to start in the coming weeks. The two sides will begin work on the outlines of a trade deal after a summit in March.
After endorsing the European Commission’s assessment from a week ago that U.K. and EU negotiators had made “sufficient progress” on priority separation issues, the leaders will publish a set of guidelines. to direct negotiators over the coming months.
The commission is planning to unveil a more detailed position on the transition period on Wednesday, with the 27 governments scheduled to formally approve it at a meeting on Jan. 29. It will then be up to the U.K. to decide whether to accept the proposal wholesale or try to negotiate.
Officials say it will resemble EU membership but without the U.K. having a voice in the bloc’s decision-making. It’s likely to be limited to two years ".
Got that have we? March 2018 for the start of preparatory waffle and cant on trade preceded by an agreed transition period prior to the aforementioned part on trade talks.
Is that,strictly speaking a non-sequitur? Sure seems like it from where we're listening/reading/viewing or otherwise consuming this official EU news.
Which is to say the least odd,but not in a good way. After all, whatever the outcome or however far we've got during the time limited Article 50 period,that's it folks,we're done,gone and left.There will be no more time.That's what Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty says.
It's a measure of the political cowardice and charlatanry of the metropolitan elites that they continue on as if the referendum n a) Never took place or b) Gave a verdict other than the one it did.
Patience is a virtue,but alas the EU has outlawed virtue.
Monday 11 December 2017
fahrenheit451:221
The Referendum on whether the UK would choose to Remain within or choose to Leave the European Union was ineluctably flawed from its inception. Parliament voted to undertake to accept and implement the referendum's verdict whichever way the vote went.Of course,why wouldn't they?
Except that nobody in the hallowed corridors of Westminster and Whitehall,not a single MP or civil servant nor any of their expert advisors had given the slightest passing thought nor consideration to the EURef. coming out with the verdict in favour of Leave. Nobody.
Great events in History that mark a sea change in the fortune and destinies of Peoples and Nations tend to manifest themselves and occur more often through mis-steps and fortuitous accidents than meticulous planning,organisation and disciplined execution.
The least mistake ridden,the least error prone, the least incompetent and idle of any given set of contending and mutually irreconcilable parties tends to be favoured by the driving,determining forces of Historical development.
In the wake of the preposterous announcements of a breakthrough in the Brexit negotiations,the last few days have seen a Comedy of errors parlayed into an farce of operatic proportions.
The insidiously venal and ideologically corrupt Remain campaign run by #Labour aka #LabourIn re-emerged as the more robust amongst the plethora of contending and lacklustre combatants simply because of the inexcusable insincerity and errant stupidity of the useless UK government in its conduct of our side of the withdrawal negotiations.
No doubt other historically significant movements and events that have shaped and informed our Great Nation such as The Reformation,the English revolutionary aka Civil War,the Chartists and so forth endured similar dilemmas and encountered painful vicissitudes.
One thing remains certain; come April 2019,Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty will have run its course. We shall be free again.
That is of course unless all 27 constituent national parliaments and the faux-EU parliament happen to agree unanimously to extending the time allowed under Article 50.
Make mine a Schadenfreude, shaken not stirred.
Except that nobody in the hallowed corridors of Westminster and Whitehall,not a single MP or civil servant nor any of their expert advisors had given the slightest passing thought nor consideration to the EURef. coming out with the verdict in favour of Leave. Nobody.
Great events in History that mark a sea change in the fortune and destinies of Peoples and Nations tend to manifest themselves and occur more often through mis-steps and fortuitous accidents than meticulous planning,organisation and disciplined execution.
The least mistake ridden,the least error prone, the least incompetent and idle of any given set of contending and mutually irreconcilable parties tends to be favoured by the driving,determining forces of Historical development.
In the wake of the preposterous announcements of a breakthrough in the Brexit negotiations,the last few days have seen a Comedy of errors parlayed into an farce of operatic proportions.
The insidiously venal and ideologically corrupt Remain campaign run by #Labour aka #LabourIn re-emerged as the more robust amongst the plethora of contending and lacklustre combatants simply because of the inexcusable insincerity and errant stupidity of the useless UK government in its conduct of our side of the withdrawal negotiations.
No doubt other historically significant movements and events that have shaped and informed our Great Nation such as The Reformation,the English revolutionary aka Civil War,the Chartists and so forth endured similar dilemmas and encountered painful vicissitudes.
One thing remains certain; come April 2019,Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty will have run its course. We shall be free again.
That is of course unless all 27 constituent national parliaments and the faux-EU parliament happen to agree unanimously to extending the time allowed under Article 50.
Make mine a Schadenfreude, shaken not stirred.
Wednesday 6 December 2017
fahrenheit451:220
Alzheimer's is a truly terrifying disease.
Its most egregious manifestation is in the manner it destroys a person's ability and capacity to remember. Paradoxically the disease wipes out memories of who a person talking to them is and the events of the previous day for example; but you might be able to recall perfectly an incident or event from decades ago as if it were current.
I only share this about Alzheimer's in order to get a handle on the not entirely dissimilar inability of the Labour Party to recall what earth shattering democratic event occurred on June 23 2016.
Though leading seditionist Labour antidemocratic hellions such as Starmer,Umunna,Corbett, Lammy,Creagh etc. all fail to recognise and acknowledge as equals those who they routinely verbally abuse when disparaging the 17.4 million fellow UK citizens who as the majority,voted for #brexit.
Gleaned from Guido Fawkes online ,
" Keir Starmer says the UK should leave open the option of staying in the single market and customs union. 18 months have passed since we voted to Leave and still Labour haven’t progressed from here. Labour’s position means continuing freedom of movement." They conclude their snippet with the rather droll observation that- " It is not Brexit"
The aforementioned quotation was uttered and recorded on December 5 2017. Perhaps in Keir Starmer's idiolect his painfully Humpty-Dumpty style usage of otiose terms such single-market,customs union,freedom of movement have some special nostalgic significance attached to the chimera of a world that ceased to exist for him on June 23 2016.
It's either that or he's just one of many thoroughly malevolent,cynically manipulative,disingenuous metropolitan elitist demagogues who wish to ensure that the peoples of the UK never ever enjoy sovereign independence again.
Its most egregious manifestation is in the manner it destroys a person's ability and capacity to remember. Paradoxically the disease wipes out memories of who a person talking to them is and the events of the previous day for example; but you might be able to recall perfectly an incident or event from decades ago as if it were current.
I only share this about Alzheimer's in order to get a handle on the not entirely dissimilar inability of the Labour Party to recall what earth shattering democratic event occurred on June 23 2016.
Though leading seditionist Labour antidemocratic hellions such as Starmer,Umunna,Corbett, Lammy,Creagh etc. all fail to recognise and acknowledge as equals those who they routinely verbally abuse when disparaging the 17.4 million fellow UK citizens who as the majority,voted for #brexit.
Gleaned from Guido Fawkes online ,
" Keir Starmer says the UK should leave open the option of staying in the single market and customs union. 18 months have passed since we voted to Leave and still Labour haven’t progressed from here. Labour’s position means continuing freedom of movement." They conclude their snippet with the rather droll observation that- " It is not Brexit"
The aforementioned quotation was uttered and recorded on December 5 2017. Perhaps in Keir Starmer's idiolect his painfully Humpty-Dumpty style usage of otiose terms such single-market,customs union,freedom of movement have some special nostalgic significance attached to the chimera of a world that ceased to exist for him on June 23 2016.
It's either that or he's just one of many thoroughly malevolent,cynically manipulative,disingenuous metropolitan elitist demagogues who wish to ensure that the peoples of the UK never ever enjoy sovereign independence again.
Monday 4 December 2017
fahrenheit451:219
Both nominally " Left " and " Right " have spent decades progressively infantilising political discourse.
With few exceptions, mainstream political parties and a significant swathe of extra-parliamentary fringe groups have embraced and conformed themselves to the prevailing hegemony of Politically Correct,globalist metropolitan elitist thought and all that entails.
Daily life in civil society is awash with the sacrosanct shibboleths of -isms.A veritable faux-litany of " gender " and " race " has metastasized across western democratic nations.
Otiose cant and vacuous platitudes are the default responses of the metropolitan-domiciled cultural/political elites and these twins of evil are again rearing their foul ugly heads.
Brexit, aka the stumbling ,fumbling half-witted series of impotent actions undertaken by HMG to enact the Will of the Sovereign Electorate on the matter of withdrawal of the UK from its bondage and servitude under the EU,is one such quasi-permanent target; the other is President of the US,Donald Trump.
As of December 4 2017, the putative visit of POTUS to the UK is being pencilled-in and underlined and magic-marked,no doubt in technicolour green ink, for a Leftist/Liberal Pro-Islamic terrorist " mass " demonstration of disapproval.
And that's only the next instalment.
Stay tuned for more...
With few exceptions, mainstream political parties and a significant swathe of extra-parliamentary fringe groups have embraced and conformed themselves to the prevailing hegemony of Politically Correct,globalist metropolitan elitist thought and all that entails.
Daily life in civil society is awash with the sacrosanct shibboleths of -isms.A veritable faux-litany of " gender " and " race " has metastasized across western democratic nations.
Otiose cant and vacuous platitudes are the default responses of the metropolitan-domiciled cultural/political elites and these twins of evil are again rearing their foul ugly heads.
Brexit, aka the stumbling ,fumbling half-witted series of impotent actions undertaken by HMG to enact the Will of the Sovereign Electorate on the matter of withdrawal of the UK from its bondage and servitude under the EU,is one such quasi-permanent target; the other is President of the US,Donald Trump.
As of December 4 2017, the putative visit of POTUS to the UK is being pencilled-in and underlined and magic-marked,no doubt in technicolour green ink, for a Leftist/Liberal Pro-Islamic terrorist " mass " demonstration of disapproval.
And that's only the next instalment.
Stay tuned for more...
Thursday 30 November 2017
fahrenheit451:218
It's really hard trying to keep a " straight face ", whenever something otherwise minor and insignificant gets shoved to the top of the MSM agenda for the day.
President Trump retweeted links to some highly contentious video content which purported to show certain egregious acts perpetrated by islamic extremists.
Of and by themselves the video footage are not particularly informative and are singularly devoid of any semblance of gravitas and credibility.
Apparently Sharks have the ability to sense 1 globule of blood amid 25 million globules of water. It took no time at all for the full panoply of Corporate MSM and every social media platform under the sun to join in the feeding frenzy over what charitably might be described as the President's gaffe.
What exacerbated the whole incident was that Trump directed his initial tweet at the UK Prime Minister,after having initially tweeted the wrong Theresa May.There followed,quite naturally a response and of course POTUS then sent a rejoinder tweet.
It might be instructive at this juncture to note,perhaps even to make a not entirely attenuated historical analogy, that in 1913 ,the Daily Telegraph , in the midst of a persisting Anglo-German diplomatic hiatus, published an unexpurgated interview with Kaiser Wilhelm in which he was invited to give his considered opinions and insights into the British people. Oh boy...
These current miscreant videos and their tendentious content originated from a microscopically tiny,politically utterly peripheral and impotent cult like grouping with the adopted grandiose moniker of " Britain First ". Which of course elevates the entire imbroglio to unwarranted and undeserved heights of quasi-relevance.
Our nation's Intelligence and Security Services and their ten a penny agents provocateur harvested from the anonymous remnants of the likes of the BNP have provided us all with a hugely specious divertissement for which, I'm sure they will not be held to account.
President Trump retweeted links to some highly contentious video content which purported to show certain egregious acts perpetrated by islamic extremists.
Of and by themselves the video footage are not particularly informative and are singularly devoid of any semblance of gravitas and credibility.
Apparently Sharks have the ability to sense 1 globule of blood amid 25 million globules of water. It took no time at all for the full panoply of Corporate MSM and every social media platform under the sun to join in the feeding frenzy over what charitably might be described as the President's gaffe.
What exacerbated the whole incident was that Trump directed his initial tweet at the UK Prime Minister,after having initially tweeted the wrong Theresa May.There followed,quite naturally a response and of course POTUS then sent a rejoinder tweet.
It might be instructive at this juncture to note,perhaps even to make a not entirely attenuated historical analogy, that in 1913 ,the Daily Telegraph , in the midst of a persisting Anglo-German diplomatic hiatus, published an unexpurgated interview with Kaiser Wilhelm in which he was invited to give his considered opinions and insights into the British people. Oh boy...
These current miscreant videos and their tendentious content originated from a microscopically tiny,politically utterly peripheral and impotent cult like grouping with the adopted grandiose moniker of " Britain First ". Which of course elevates the entire imbroglio to unwarranted and undeserved heights of quasi-relevance.
Our nation's Intelligence and Security Services and their ten a penny agents provocateur harvested from the anonymous remnants of the likes of the BNP have provided us all with a hugely specious divertissement for which, I'm sure they will not be held to account.
Monday 27 November 2017
fahrenheit451:217
The lamentable farrago over the UK's impending departure from the EU - aka the brexit negotiations - continues unabated.
The UK domestic Remain campaign/Referendum verdict deniers are currently in the midst of throwing the kitchen sink at Brexit.
Having already deployed the mendacious blackmail demands of the so-called " Divorce settlement " alongside the bogus lamentations and woefully insincere pleading of EU Citizens against the sensitive heartstrings of the May minority regime; the globalist plutocratic denizens of domestic metropolitan elitism and their Controllers in Brussels have now opened up a third front- that of the largely fictitious "problem" surrounding hypothetical difficulties envisaged around the Irish Border post- Brexit.
Why is the failing minority Dublin regime stirring the proverbial merde at this time? The Irish Times lends an insight into the lickspittle grovelling demeanour of the bankrupt,inconsequential grubby little Irish state's pathetic posturing- all as it happens at the behest of their lords and masters - das Deutsche Reich.
German parliament votes to back Irish debt restructuring
Social Democratic Party opposes move which will save exchequer estimated €150m
cting finance minister Peter Altmaier told the German parliament Ireland had fulfilled all conditions of its EU/IMF programme and was part of a rescue “success story” that included Spain and Portugal.
After a heated Bundestag debate, Germany voted yesterday to back Ireland’s request to restructure crisis-era loans and save the exchequer an estimated €150 million.
The request from Dublin turned into a proxy battle between Germany’s two leading parties, which are locked in a growing coalition battle.
Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) backed Ireland’s request, along with the Greens and the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), calling Ireland a model crisis country.
But the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) voted against, calling on Dublin to adopt a “fairer tax policy” that prioritised its EU partners over multinationals.
In turn, the SPD’s critical stance saw Bundestag rivals accuse it of “playing politics” over Ireland – and EU rescue policies the party had backed in the past.
Motion
The heated debate ended with disagreement over the show-of-hands vote, prompting a full lobby vote that saw the motion passed by 348 to 283.
Dublin has applied to refinance an IMF loan, as well as two bilateral loans from Denmark and Sweden, using funds borrowed at lower rates from financial markets.
As Ireland has also borrowed €40.2 billion from two EU bailout facilities, all European Union states must agree to waive the right to get early repayment at the same time.
The Bundestag is one of a handful of European parliaments whose permission is required to change Ireland’s crisis-loan terms and allow early repayment. Elsewhere, the decision is made by government.
Acting finance minister Peter Altmaier told the German parliament that Ireland had fulfilled all conditions of its EU/IMF programme and was part of a rescue “success story” that included Spain and Portugal.
Ireland had restructured its banks and welfare system, won back trust of financial markets and was back in growth, he said, proving EU crisis measures had been appropriate.
Poison
Backing Dublin’s request and reducing the Irish debt burden, he said, would increase further market trust in “this small but important country”, and was thus in the interest of Irish and German taxpayers.
“I welcome today that I spoke with the Irish finance minister and he is ready to continue the technical co-operation and oversight with the IMF,” added Mr Altmaier. “This is in the interest of Ireland and will increase credibility in Irish politics.”
SPD parliamentary secretary Carsten Schneider attacked Ireland’s request, given its refusal to collect from Apple €13 billion in tax the European Commission says is outstanding.
“If a liberally minded country relinquishes tax revenues … then, for us in the SPD, our solidarity is at an end,” he said. “Tax dumping cannot be a business model in a social and progressive EU … it is poison for democracy.”
Mr Schneider suggested that Ireland had failed to honour two crisis-era promises to revisit its tax model and had “run the stop sign twice”.
Not everyone in Dr Merkel’s CDU had warm words for Ireland, with MP Hans Michelbach conceding that Ireland was a “tax haven and accessory for tax tricks of transnational concerns”.
“This is not acceptable,” he said. But, turning to Mr Schneider, he added: “You cannot use a mallet against another European country … and mix loan repayments with tax policy.”
Schadenfreude or what ? the Taigs sold out to the Huns.
Friday 24 November 2017
fahrenheit451:216
Ceremony and tradition play the central role in the UK's parliamentary operations.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer's perfunctory fiscal state of the nation speech is and has been for quite a long time now just that; ceremonial. The same government policies could as easily be outlined in bullet -point form and then voted on without all the accompanying Barnum & Bailey hoo-ha.
The announcements are in any event of miniscule practical import and merely sustain that which is practically untenable.
Facts trump wishful thinking.And once the customary flim-flammery had been tossed to one side, the sober economic analyses zeroed in to what little meat there was on the bone.
The UK's GDP was still in the doldrums at the Financial Crash level of 2008 and wages are expected to continue in their parlous state for perhaps another decade.
The anti - democratic, referendum verdict denying, brexit-sabotaging majority of MPs used the Budget day contretemps to inveigh further against a pathetically weak and timid government and its miserable handling of the Brexit negotiations vis a vis the EU.
In all, it was a disappointing exposition of what ought to be a lively parliamentary democracy where the Parties first instinct should be fundamentally aligned to the demands of the UK's inalienable national sovereignty.
Fat chance of that.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer's perfunctory fiscal state of the nation speech is and has been for quite a long time now just that; ceremonial. The same government policies could as easily be outlined in bullet -point form and then voted on without all the accompanying Barnum & Bailey hoo-ha.
The announcements are in any event of miniscule practical import and merely sustain that which is practically untenable.
Facts trump wishful thinking.And once the customary flim-flammery had been tossed to one side, the sober economic analyses zeroed in to what little meat there was on the bone.
The UK's GDP was still in the doldrums at the Financial Crash level of 2008 and wages are expected to continue in their parlous state for perhaps another decade.
The anti - democratic, referendum verdict denying, brexit-sabotaging majority of MPs used the Budget day contretemps to inveigh further against a pathetically weak and timid government and its miserable handling of the Brexit negotiations vis a vis the EU.
In all, it was a disappointing exposition of what ought to be a lively parliamentary democracy where the Parties first instinct should be fundamentally aligned to the demands of the UK's inalienable national sovereignty.
Fat chance of that.
Tuesday 21 November 2017
fahrenheit451:215
Even in the depths of our uttermost despair,the faint rays of hope still flicker..
Several weeks have now passed since Merkel's ruling CDU/CSU regime suffered a significant reversal of fortune at the German Bundestag elections.
That damage was primarily inflicted by the emergence of the AfD who smashed their way into national federal contention with 12% of votes cast and the concomitant losses of the SPD who plummeted to a post-1945 electoral nadir.
All this left Frau Merkel floundering at a disadvantage in a morass of political,factional horse trading that was supposed to lead to the formation of a new and dynamically unstable governing coalition.Which the newly reinvigorated FDP then proceeded to spectacularly torpedo with all the acumen and elan of a U-Boot menacing a hospital ship.
For all the deserved vituperative mockery heaped on hapless,spineless ,creedless May for her doldrumesque clarion calls for a strong and stable government; Merkel careered spectacularly into the same briar patch with all the alacrity of a Panzer blasted off its caterpillar tracks.
Which is all rather fortuitous for the prospects of the Brexit negotiations,assuming of course that May's failed pantomime troupe actually do manage something more vigorous in their approach than a white flag as has been the case thus far.
Still,Merkel sinking and the Teutons floundering do send a welcome shudder of Schadenfreude throughout the spectating multitudes.
Several weeks have now passed since Merkel's ruling CDU/CSU regime suffered a significant reversal of fortune at the German Bundestag elections.
That damage was primarily inflicted by the emergence of the AfD who smashed their way into national federal contention with 12% of votes cast and the concomitant losses of the SPD who plummeted to a post-1945 electoral nadir.
All this left Frau Merkel floundering at a disadvantage in a morass of political,factional horse trading that was supposed to lead to the formation of a new and dynamically unstable governing coalition.Which the newly reinvigorated FDP then proceeded to spectacularly torpedo with all the acumen and elan of a U-Boot menacing a hospital ship.
For all the deserved vituperative mockery heaped on hapless,spineless ,creedless May for her doldrumesque clarion calls for a strong and stable government; Merkel careered spectacularly into the same briar patch with all the alacrity of a Panzer blasted off its caterpillar tracks.
Which is all rather fortuitous for the prospects of the Brexit negotiations,assuming of course that May's failed pantomime troupe actually do manage something more vigorous in their approach than a white flag as has been the case thus far.
Still,Merkel sinking and the Teutons floundering do send a welcome shudder of Schadenfreude throughout the spectating multitudes.
Saturday 18 November 2017
fahrenheit451:214
The following was gleaned from twitter -
Discussed with PM @theresa_may the calendar of #Brexit talks. Only if UK makes progress by early December, will I be ready to propose new guidelines on transition and future relations at December #EUCO.
The current UK withdrawal negotiations with the EU are predicated on three points being met before any negotiations on the future trading relations between the UK and EU can commence.
These three points relate to the status,( some might argue legally bogus in any event,but in the interests of brevity we'll let that pass for now,) of EU citizens sojourning in the UK; the status of the Irish border post-brexit and more substantially,the amount demanded by the EU as a " financial settlement " aka " Divorce Bill " in tabloid speak.
Tusk is to all intents and purposes a jumped up, strutting,venal,little tinpot fleamarket Pilsudski who has the audacity to be telling the UK what the EU expects from us!
And he's being allowed to get away with it pretty much in the same way as the EU as a whole has been getting away with it's treatment of and behaviour toward us for the past 45 years.
Tusk is President of what is officially designated the European Council.The European Council Presidency is one of five such presidencies within the EU. There is also President of the European Commission;currently held by a former wine salesman from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.Then there is the Presidency of the European Parliament that has a mafioso politician from Italy in its seat.Then there is the Presidency of the European Central Bank; run by another corrupt goombah,greaseball guinea.
And finally there is the six-monthly rotating EU Presidency that allows peripheral Teutonic satrapies such as Croatia and Latvia to wallow in the delusion that their homeland actually counts for a little more than nothing in the vast EU scheme of things.
And to this menagerie May is making us kowtow and pay respect to.
Unforgivable.
Wednesday 15 November 2017
fahrenheit451:213
On Friday 13,November 2015 this happened in Paris ( gleaned from Reuter's online ).
NOVEMBER 14, 2015 / 12:06 AM / 2 YEARS AGO
France in shock after Islamist attacks kill 129
PARIS (Reuters) - French prosecutors said on Saturday that three coordinated teams of gunmen and suicide bombers carried out a wave of attacks across Paris that killed 129 people in what President Francois Hollande called an “act of war” by Islamic State.
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Two years on and ISIS/DAESH inspired/instigated Islamic Terrorism still runs rampant across western europe.
Two years on and a BBC News investigation uncovers the previously secret deal between ISIS/DAESH and the US /NATO led Syrian Democratic Forces.
An agreement allowing some 250 battle hardened islamic fanatics,their families and a 6 kilometers long truck convoy of weapons & sundry logistics to depart the city of Raqqa unmolested .
The day after the BBC News' journalistic coup is the news across MSM and social media platforms,what does tottering UK Prime Minister May choose to do?
That's right, launch an unbridled bellicose tirade against Russia and Putin's foreign policy.
Not the wisest, let alone most strategically savvy diplomatic thing any leader can do given the prevailing circumstances.
MI5 estimate, at least in public , that there are some 23,000 islamic extremists active within the UK of whom they consider 3,000 to pose an immediate threat.
And so Machiavelli May and her indolent,tawdry regime expend their energies to conspire with the other subservient satrapies of the Teutonic European Union in imposing,at the behest of their US masters, unlawful sanctions against named individual Russian citizens and organisations.
Supposedly in connection with Russia's actions regarding the existential crisis in the Crimea or some such peripheral matter of interest to the western kleptocracies.
In May's partially paralysed mind all the aforementioned is of a far greater and more urgent priority than the on going imbroglio ( or should that be farrago ) that is Syria.
Where the US and its european NATO satrapies embeded their armed forces on Syrian sovereign territory to bolster and maintain the anti-government Syrian Democratic Forces in contravention to accepted International Law.
As in fact did NATO member Turkey; but their in-theatre confederates are in active competition with the SDF.
And both those US/NATO backed lumpen aggregations of armed rabble are vying with ISIS/DAESH as well as the legitimate sovereign government of Syria and its international allies.
The city of Raqqa utterly flattened by US/NATO air force bombing, was subsequently faux-liberated by the SDF and the western MSM cheered it to the rafters!
And now we know why the SDF managed to stroll relatively unmolested into what had served as the ISIS/DAESH capital.
It's also worth noting, as if any of this actually mattered,that the US insists that it is inside Syria in accordance with International Law.
Good luck with that!
Friday 10 November 2017
fahrenheit451:212
Remoaner metropolitan elitists are nothing if not brazen and calculating beyond the bounds of cyncism.
Their latest wheeze is to announce as loudly and screechingly as possible from within the confines of their own straitjackets, the egregiously moronic supposition that Article 50 can be reversed and or withdrawn.
For the excessively pig ignorant and monumentally indifferent , this snippet gleaned from The Daily Telegraph:-
Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon gives any EU member the right to quit unilaterally, and outlines the procedure for doing so. It gives the leaving country two years to negotiate an exit deal and once it's set in motion it can't be stopped except by unanimous consent of all member states.
The putative auteur of this Bonapartist shyster-speak sits in the British House of Lords and goes under the moniker Lord Kerr.
(Wayne) Kerr's forthright criticism of the ailing May regime's pronouncements on EU withdrawal, as being lies certainly lit up an otherwise dull morning across the vast echo chamber of MSM and social media.
For all their many faults and failings, the minority Tory regime has not uttered any falsehoods regarding the implementation of Article 50.
What the harbinger of this latest twisted Remoaner psychodrama is actually saying is that the government of the United Kingdom must declare the EU Referendum held on June 23 2016,null and void.That's how you terminate the Article 50 proceedings.
Prominent Remain OCD sufferers,such as Chuka Umunna ,Keir Starmer and Mary Creagh will be getting themselves so excited they'll end up doing what they've been doing on the Voters in their constituencies except this time only their beds will be getting wet and someone'll have to fetch the Nurse.
Their latest wheeze is to announce as loudly and screechingly as possible from within the confines of their own straitjackets, the egregiously moronic supposition that Article 50 can be reversed and or withdrawn.
For the excessively pig ignorant and monumentally indifferent , this snippet gleaned from The Daily Telegraph:-
Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon gives any EU member the right to quit unilaterally, and outlines the procedure for doing so. It gives the leaving country two years to negotiate an exit deal and once it's set in motion it can't be stopped except by unanimous consent of all member states.
The putative auteur of this Bonapartist shyster-speak sits in the British House of Lords and goes under the moniker Lord Kerr.
(Wayne) Kerr's forthright criticism of the ailing May regime's pronouncements on EU withdrawal, as being lies certainly lit up an otherwise dull morning across the vast echo chamber of MSM and social media.
For all their many faults and failings, the minority Tory regime has not uttered any falsehoods regarding the implementation of Article 50.
What the harbinger of this latest twisted Remoaner psychodrama is actually saying is that the government of the United Kingdom must declare the EU Referendum held on June 23 2016,null and void.That's how you terminate the Article 50 proceedings.
Prominent Remain OCD sufferers,such as Chuka Umunna ,Keir Starmer and Mary Creagh will be getting themselves so excited they'll end up doing what they've been doing on the Voters in their constituencies except this time only their beds will be getting wet and someone'll have to fetch the Nurse.
Wednesday 8 November 2017
fahrenheit451:211
There's a NHS Providers conference being held today, 8 November and it's all about the putative underfunding of the National Health Service.Well,there's something new!
The NHS Chief Executive Simon Stevens set his stall out pretty early ensuring that his tawdry,bombastic posturing was top of the agenda.And not necessarily the Conference's agenda but rather every news agenda.
"Trust in democratic politics will not be strengthened if anyone now tries to argue you voted Brexit, partly for a better funded health service, but precisely because of Brexit you now can't have one." - Sir Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England
The entire exercise in gargantuan,egotistical virtue signalling by Stevens merits the epithet Straw man :-
The NHS Chief Executive Simon Stevens set his stall out pretty early ensuring that his tawdry,bombastic posturing was top of the agenda.And not necessarily the Conference's agenda but rather every news agenda.
"Trust in democratic politics will not be strengthened if anyone now tries to argue you voted Brexit, partly for a better funded health service, but precisely because of Brexit you now can't have one." - Sir Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England
The entire exercise in gargantuan,egotistical virtue signalling by Stevens merits the epithet Straw man :-
straw man
noun
- 1.an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument.
- 2.a person regarded as having no substance or integrity.And that's about it.Sufficient unto the day the blathering bow scraping humbug nonsense of the seditionist metropolitan elitist EU shill thereof.
Monday 6 November 2017
fahrenheit451:210
It is five weeks now since the question of independence from the Spanish State was put to the people of Catalonia in a referendum.
That exercise was deemed by the Constitutional Court, sitting in Madrid, to be ultra vires vis a vis the Spanish Federal Constitution.Consequently they invoked Article 155 and effectively sacked the Catalan regional administration en bloc.
Were it have been so simple as they had imagined it would be; alas not.
Some of the pro-independence Catalan leadership relocated to Brussels whilst some others were apprehended and taken into Spanish legal custody in whose gaol they now languish.
The late great Dario Fo would no doubt have revelled in the absurdity of it all and have composed The Accidental Death of the Spanish State.
Clearly,the tenuous post-Francoist constitutional legitimacy of the Iberian regime has been cast into doubt.
Monday ,6 November has news reports from Belgium that a Judge,in the wake of the authorities there having received a request under a European Arrest Warrant for their extradition ,has released Puigdemont and his tiny band of confederates on what amounts to own their own recognizance.They are due to appear in a fortnight's time at an extradition hearing to be held in Brussels.
All of which is making an even bigger diplomatic/political pig's ear out of what is already Spanish premier Rajoy's commedia dell'arte handling of what might otherwise have been a rational,circumspect and consensual dialogue over the possibility of Catalonia's aspirations for independence.
Instead "Europe " aka the moribund and decrepit system of Supranational Teutonic State Vassalage aka the EU is in the middle of a Merde tsunami,where all the leading european state actors are madly pretending that it isn't even happening and if it were it's something they're not going to get all het up about.
So much then for the Rule of Law ,transparency,accountability,democratic institutions, the internal affairs of supposed sovereign national states etc.etc. It is all otiose cant where even the actors have stopped pretending to adhere to the agreed script.
There is something rotten in the heart of Brussels.
That exercise was deemed by the Constitutional Court, sitting in Madrid, to be ultra vires vis a vis the Spanish Federal Constitution.Consequently they invoked Article 155 and effectively sacked the Catalan regional administration en bloc.
Were it have been so simple as they had imagined it would be; alas not.
Some of the pro-independence Catalan leadership relocated to Brussels whilst some others were apprehended and taken into Spanish legal custody in whose gaol they now languish.
The late great Dario Fo would no doubt have revelled in the absurdity of it all and have composed The Accidental Death of the Spanish State.
Clearly,the tenuous post-Francoist constitutional legitimacy of the Iberian regime has been cast into doubt.
Monday ,6 November has news reports from Belgium that a Judge,in the wake of the authorities there having received a request under a European Arrest Warrant for their extradition ,has released Puigdemont and his tiny band of confederates on what amounts to own their own recognizance.They are due to appear in a fortnight's time at an extradition hearing to be held in Brussels.
All of which is making an even bigger diplomatic/political pig's ear out of what is already Spanish premier Rajoy's commedia dell'arte handling of what might otherwise have been a rational,circumspect and consensual dialogue over the possibility of Catalonia's aspirations for independence.
Instead "Europe " aka the moribund and decrepit system of Supranational Teutonic State Vassalage aka the EU is in the middle of a Merde tsunami,where all the leading european state actors are madly pretending that it isn't even happening and if it were it's something they're not going to get all het up about.
So much then for the Rule of Law ,transparency,accountability,democratic institutions, the internal affairs of supposed sovereign national states etc.etc. It is all otiose cant where even the actors have stopped pretending to adhere to the agreed script.
There is something rotten in the heart of Brussels.
Thursday 2 November 2017
fahrenheit451:209
Another day,another Islamic terrorist outrage.
This time it's the turn of New York City to have a fanatic drive a truck into crowds of innocent bystanders going about their daily lives.
The Police managed to apprehend the perpetrator who the neocon warmonger Senator for Arizona John McCain called for to be treated as an enemy combatant.
McCain was of course being his usual odious cynical machiavellian self.Given the US neocon interventionist agenda and use of Al Qaeda and ISIS/DAESH as surrogates in their regime change skulduggery in Syria and elsewhere.
The Washington based Institute for the Study of War, ISW prior to this latest outrage had shared:-
" ISW's@JennyCafarella in September: ISIS is waging a social and informational campaign targeting populations in the West. "
A view, the perp Saipov ,confirmed willingly of his own volition from the hospital where he is currently receiving medical attention following his arrest at the scene.
What then needs to be done to counter and eliminate the Islamic terrorist threat,if indeed the ruling elites and their political class in the western democracies really want to achieve such an objective?
Amongst the many and continuing terrorist outrages that assail us here in the west, the Manchester Arena bombing on May 22 led to more than the usual expected outpouring of otiose cant and vacuous platitudes.
Former high-ranking Scotland Yard official Tarique Ghaffur gave a warning that the UK faced an "unprecedented terrorist threat", and that mass incarceration was needed to prevent future attacks because there were too many potential terrorists for security services to monitor.
His demand that thousands of suspected extremists should be detained in internment camps highlighted the latest national security assessment from MI5, who suspect 23,000 of being Islamist extremists, of whom 3,000 are still considered a threat.
And still the authorities refuse to act.
Assuming of course that the likes of Senator McCain actually would ever want them to.
This time it's the turn of New York City to have a fanatic drive a truck into crowds of innocent bystanders going about their daily lives.
The Police managed to apprehend the perpetrator who the neocon warmonger Senator for Arizona John McCain called for to be treated as an enemy combatant.
McCain was of course being his usual odious cynical machiavellian self.Given the US neocon interventionist agenda and use of Al Qaeda and ISIS/DAESH as surrogates in their regime change skulduggery in Syria and elsewhere.
The Washington based Institute for the Study of War, ISW prior to this latest outrage had shared:-
" ISW's
A view, the perp Saipov ,confirmed willingly of his own volition from the hospital where he is currently receiving medical attention following his arrest at the scene.
What then needs to be done to counter and eliminate the Islamic terrorist threat,if indeed the ruling elites and their political class in the western democracies really want to achieve such an objective?
Amongst the many and continuing terrorist outrages that assail us here in the west, the Manchester Arena bombing on May 22 led to more than the usual expected outpouring of otiose cant and vacuous platitudes.
Former high-ranking Scotland Yard official Tarique Ghaffur gave a warning that the UK faced an "unprecedented terrorist threat", and that mass incarceration was needed to prevent future attacks because there were too many potential terrorists for security services to monitor.
His demand that thousands of suspected extremists should be detained in internment camps highlighted the latest national security assessment from MI5, who suspect 23,000 of being Islamist extremists, of whom 3,000 are still considered a threat.
And still the authorities refuse to act.
Assuming of course that the likes of Senator McCain actually would ever want them to.
Monday 30 October 2017
fahrenheit451:208
Sclerosis -rigidity,the inability to adapt.
It is four weeks since the constitutionally legitimate Catalan regional government conducted its referendum on the question of independence from the Spanish state on October 1st.
Four weeks on, Carles Puigdemont the Catalan President faces the possibility of being arraigned by Spain's public prosecutor on charges of rebellion.Other elected members of the Catalan Assembly might also face similar charges.
These are prominent amongst the sombre notes being struck in a mounting cacophony of death knells sounding out across Europe announcing the temporal demise of the EU globalist tyranny.
The post- Francoist federal Spanish state has proven to be just as institutionally,politically and diplomatically sclerotic as its European Union mothership of whom it is the merest vassal.
Any reasonably adept political leadership, skilled in the arts of statecraft and the exigencies of realpolitik could have and would have negotiated a way out of the Catalan imbroglio before it had deteriorated to the state of it being such a quagmire as at present.
The Rajoy administration in Madrid is wholly incapable of overcoming, let alone partially resolving, its ingrained incompetence,hubris and stupidity.
Equally so the so-called European Union that was never intended to actually function as some kind of legitimate ueber-democracy.Hand wringing and the expression of vacuous platitudes and otiose cant long ago replaced actual Bismarckian/Bonapartist/Machiavellian purpose and intent.
And so we are stuck in the realm of quasi-idiots who utter inane drivel and all of whom want to enjoy an aspirational petty bourgeois lifestyle without wishing to deal with let alone encountering the vicissitudes of dialectical and historical materialism.
So far, at least, no-one has been tortured or shot over the Catalonia Affair.
Though quite what a public trial and all that will inevitably entail with the political mass media martyrdom of Puigdemont and his confederates is likely to achieve is at this stage unimaginable.
It is not something the Pendejos of Madrid quite had in mind when they put on their stupid tricorn hats and struck their venal poses in front of their mirror on a morning trying to convince themselves just how tough they were.
It is four weeks since the constitutionally legitimate Catalan regional government conducted its referendum on the question of independence from the Spanish state on October 1st.
Four weeks on, Carles Puigdemont the Catalan President faces the possibility of being arraigned by Spain's public prosecutor on charges of rebellion.Other elected members of the Catalan Assembly might also face similar charges.
These are prominent amongst the sombre notes being struck in a mounting cacophony of death knells sounding out across Europe announcing the temporal demise of the EU globalist tyranny.
The post- Francoist federal Spanish state has proven to be just as institutionally,politically and diplomatically sclerotic as its European Union mothership of whom it is the merest vassal.
Any reasonably adept political leadership, skilled in the arts of statecraft and the exigencies of realpolitik could have and would have negotiated a way out of the Catalan imbroglio before it had deteriorated to the state of it being such a quagmire as at present.
The Rajoy administration in Madrid is wholly incapable of overcoming, let alone partially resolving, its ingrained incompetence,hubris and stupidity.
Equally so the so-called European Union that was never intended to actually function as some kind of legitimate ueber-democracy.Hand wringing and the expression of vacuous platitudes and otiose cant long ago replaced actual Bismarckian/Bonapartist/Machiavellian purpose and intent.
And so we are stuck in the realm of quasi-idiots who utter inane drivel and all of whom want to enjoy an aspirational petty bourgeois lifestyle without wishing to deal with let alone encountering the vicissitudes of dialectical and historical materialism.
So far, at least, no-one has been tortured or shot over the Catalonia Affair.
Though quite what a public trial and all that will inevitably entail with the political mass media martyrdom of Puigdemont and his confederates is likely to achieve is at this stage unimaginable.
It is not something the Pendejos of Madrid quite had in mind when they put on their stupid tricorn hats and struck their venal poses in front of their mirror on a morning trying to convince themselves just how tough they were.
Friday 27 October 2017
fahrenheit451:207
Remoaner metropolitan elitists have lots of friends in lots of high places both domestically and abroad who they can call on to intervene in the on going Brexit debate.
Or rather the debate on the contents of any negotiated settlement which the EU might wish to conclude prior to the advent of March 30 2019 by which time the UK shall have left the EU.
On Tuesday October 24 the seditionist Remain campaign wheeled out possibly one of the biggest guns it still hadn't got round to using.Michael Bloomberg -whose Bloomberg business celebrated the opening of its brand new London offices on Tuesday.
Which Politico online reported:-
Not necessarily a good example of the proverbial adage on " how to win friends and influence people ". Although prime metropolitan Labour elitist and Chief EU seditionist shill,Mayor of London Sadiq Khan was at the Bloomberg launch to receive his customary 30 pieces of silver. After all nobody else has tried quite so hard to betray our country as much as him.
Seeing as how putting in your proverbial two penn'orth is still in vogue,I got my retaliation in on the Monday:-
Or rather the debate on the contents of any negotiated settlement which the EU might wish to conclude prior to the advent of March 30 2019 by which time the UK shall have left the EU.
On Tuesday October 24 the seditionist Remain campaign wheeled out possibly one of the biggest guns it still hadn't got round to using.Michael Bloomberg -whose Bloomberg business celebrated the opening of its brand new London offices on Tuesday.
Which Politico online reported:-
Michael Bloomberg: Brexit is ‘stupidest thing any country has ever done’
Except the election of Donald Trump, that is.
Not necessarily a good example of the proverbial adage on " how to win friends and influence people ". Although prime metropolitan Labour elitist and Chief EU seditionist shill,Mayor of London Sadiq Khan was at the Bloomberg launch to receive his customary 30 pieces of silver. After all nobody else has tried quite so hard to betray our country as much as him.
Seeing as how putting in your proverbial two penn'orth is still in vogue,I got my retaliation in on the Monday:-
On Monday 23 October I launched this missive aimed at the Readers'letters pages of our two local newspapers. "Wakefield Express" and "Yorkshire Post". The Yorkshire Post published the letter with only minor redactions on Thursday 26 October. The weekly "Wakefield Express" had not published in its regular Friday print edition on 27 October.
" There is a hostile foreign power at work in our country endeavouring to undermine the government and our democratic politics.
This foreign power has been allowed to do its work for the last 40 odd years with the active collaboration of many of our own elected
" There is a hostile foreign power at work in our country endeavouring to undermine the government and our democratic politics.
This foreign power has been allowed to do its work for the last 40 odd years with the active collaboration of many of our own elected
politicians who by and large failed to defend and uphold the ancient Rights and Liberties of the British people.
By great good fortune the Referendum on EU membership went against all experts' expectations and delivered a verdict that the UK leave the EU.
Having agreed beforehand that all parties accept the outcome as binding, the Labour Party in particular has spent its time deliberately
undermining the legitimacy of the referendum result and the process of withdrawal itself.
The calculated and cynical media onslaught against the all those who voted Leave has been the most egregious display of political hate mongering since Germany in the 1930's.
Stupid,under-privileged,uneducated,xenophobic bigots have been amongst the oft used terms deployed in particular by Labour MPs against their own constituents especially in those areas where the MP chose to back Remain.
From highly remunerated University Dons ,academics of every sort through to lavishly public sector funded artists and " creatives ",the plethora of anti-democratic rhetoric and demonisation of ordinary folk has known no bounds.
Yet,Brexit continues apace. By the end of March 2019 we will have left the dysfunctional EU globalist tyranny.And the greatest post-war anti-democratic conspiracy ever mounted by the metropolitan elites will have failed."
By great good fortune the Referendum on EU membership went against all experts' expectations and delivered a verdict that the UK leave the EU.
Having agreed beforehand that all parties accept the outcome as binding, the Labour Party in particular has spent its time deliberately
undermining the legitimacy of the referendum result and the process of withdrawal itself.
The calculated and cynical media onslaught against the all those who voted Leave has been the most egregious display of political hate mongering since Germany in the 1930's.
Stupid,under-privileged,uneducated,xenophobic bigots have been amongst the oft used terms deployed in particular by Labour MPs against their own constituents especially in those areas where the MP chose to back Remain.
From highly remunerated University Dons ,academics of every sort through to lavishly public sector funded artists and " creatives ",the plethora of anti-democratic rhetoric and demonisation of ordinary folk has known no bounds.
Yet,Brexit continues apace. By the end of March 2019 we will have left the dysfunctional EU globalist tyranny.And the greatest post-war anti-democratic conspiracy ever mounted by the metropolitan elites will have failed."
Tuesday 24 October 2017
fahrenheit451:206
How much better can this really get?
Three days ago the general election in the Czech republic (Czechia) saw maverick billionaire Babis' ANO party come out on top with 30% of the vote. Generally, anti-EU, anti- mass immigration oriented parties made a strong showing.None of which is in the slightest bit good news for the European Union.
In Italy,the following day, two Northern League run provinces,Lombardy and Venetto held non-binding,advisory referendums on the question of seeking greater economic autonomy from Rome for those regions. The results were on the whole surprising and heartening to the proponents of greater regional autonomy.
The situation in Catalonia continues to deteriorate with the Rajoy administration in Madrid resorting to so-called constitutional powers,contained in their Article 155,to stymie the burgeoning and spontaneous pressure for Catalan independence.
The Bundestag in Germany has assembled for the first time since the AfD's spectacular gains and the SPD's historic reversals, and Merkel's putative coalition talks aren't expected to be resolved for some weeks yet to come.
In Austria the new Chancellor Kurz reckons it'll be December before agoverning coalition between his OVP and the FPO will be up and running.
Throw in the rapidly disintegrating talks on the UK's withdrawal in March 2019 from the EU and what confronts the globalist tyrants in Brussels isn't just some everyday problems but rather the labour of Sisyphus.
And we all know how that particular story in Greek mythology ended.
Schadenfreude , however is a German word.
Three days ago the general election in the Czech republic (Czechia) saw maverick billionaire Babis' ANO party come out on top with 30% of the vote. Generally, anti-EU, anti- mass immigration oriented parties made a strong showing.None of which is in the slightest bit good news for the European Union.
In Italy,the following day, two Northern League run provinces,Lombardy and Venetto held non-binding,advisory referendums on the question of seeking greater economic autonomy from Rome for those regions. The results were on the whole surprising and heartening to the proponents of greater regional autonomy.
The situation in Catalonia continues to deteriorate with the Rajoy administration in Madrid resorting to so-called constitutional powers,contained in their Article 155,to stymie the burgeoning and spontaneous pressure for Catalan independence.
The Bundestag in Germany has assembled for the first time since the AfD's spectacular gains and the SPD's historic reversals, and Merkel's putative coalition talks aren't expected to be resolved for some weeks yet to come.
In Austria the new Chancellor Kurz reckons it'll be December before agoverning coalition between his OVP and the FPO will be up and running.
Throw in the rapidly disintegrating talks on the UK's withdrawal in March 2019 from the EU and what confronts the globalist tyrants in Brussels isn't just some everyday problems but rather the labour of Sisyphus.
And we all know how that particular story in Greek mythology ended.
Schadenfreude , however is a German word.
Friday 20 October 2017
fahrenheit451:205
Arch-bootlicker and Kowtowing Toady-in-Chief to the EU, Theresa May is at present sojourning in Brussels.
We know this to be the case as the Corporate MSM is currently reporting on the prevailing status of Brexit negotiations.
The term " negotiations " is purely an arbitrary one that's used for ease of reference. Imbroglio is nearer the mark.
Various pro and anti - brexit factional interests are in the throes of vying over the putative content of the much vaunted " deal " that might or might not be struck between the UK and the 27 remaining satrapies governing the former's exit from the EU.
And yet, despite the EU's very best propagandistic endeavours and the hundreds of millions spent on multimedia platform campaigns to persuade the British people otherwise, Brexit remains intact and the UK's impending departure from satrapydom is secure for the end of March 2019.
It is that straightforward. The Labour sponsored front organisation " The 3 Million " can whine and stamp its tiny feet and repeatedly chuck its toys from the pram as much it wants; nothing alters. We are leaving.
The Maastricht Treaty 1992 -which was never approved by the UK electorate- created the egregious legal fiction of " Citizen of the EU ". Just how you can be a citizen of a non-nation is itself a bizarre a notion as the human intellect could ever possibly have to deal with.
Nevertheless the EU created and our supine,spineless Parliament agreed to accept this legal impossibility a la Lewis Carroll's Humpty Dumpty " Words mean precisely what i want them to mean.." And ever since the EU Citizens were conjured into faux-existence,these cozening wretches have been going around slitting their morally superior consciences and bleeding them all over the rest of us.
Our contrite supplicant of a PM, has now gone along with this idiocy and caved in to this alien agitators' charter thus ceding a significant advantage to the EU side in the so-called negotiating process.Just how much more else she will hand over without a murmur before the end of March 2019 is open to strenuous conjecture. Quite a lot, one imagines.
So,on with the motley!
We know this to be the case as the Corporate MSM is currently reporting on the prevailing status of Brexit negotiations.
The term " negotiations " is purely an arbitrary one that's used for ease of reference. Imbroglio is nearer the mark.
Various pro and anti - brexit factional interests are in the throes of vying over the putative content of the much vaunted " deal " that might or might not be struck between the UK and the 27 remaining satrapies governing the former's exit from the EU.
And yet, despite the EU's very best propagandistic endeavours and the hundreds of millions spent on multimedia platform campaigns to persuade the British people otherwise, Brexit remains intact and the UK's impending departure from satrapydom is secure for the end of March 2019.
It is that straightforward. The Labour sponsored front organisation " The 3 Million " can whine and stamp its tiny feet and repeatedly chuck its toys from the pram as much it wants; nothing alters. We are leaving.
The Maastricht Treaty 1992 -which was never approved by the UK electorate- created the egregious legal fiction of " Citizen of the EU ". Just how you can be a citizen of a non-nation is itself a bizarre a notion as the human intellect could ever possibly have to deal with.
Nevertheless the EU created and our supine,spineless Parliament agreed to accept this legal impossibility a la Lewis Carroll's Humpty Dumpty " Words mean precisely what i want them to mean.." And ever since the EU Citizens were conjured into faux-existence,these cozening wretches have been going around slitting their morally superior consciences and bleeding them all over the rest of us.
Our contrite supplicant of a PM, has now gone along with this idiocy and caved in to this alien agitators' charter thus ceding a significant advantage to the EU side in the so-called negotiating process.Just how much more else she will hand over without a murmur before the end of March 2019 is open to strenuous conjecture. Quite a lot, one imagines.
So,on with the motley!
Wednesday 18 October 2017
fahrenheit451:204
Just 72 hours on from Sunday October 15th's Austrian parliamentary elections and confidence and optimism for the future abounds.
It was a case of a lot more than just the " Subterranean Homesick Blues " for Austria's once pre-eminent Socialist party. Blue being the party colours of the Freiheitliche Partei who came within one seat of replacing the obsolescent SPO as Heimat's second party.
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. It's blowing from the Right. Or rather more accurately from a rejuvenating populist mood that is being harnessed by forces once described in now moribund Cold War terms as being on the Right.
The complete elimination from Austria's Nationalrat of the irksome Greens provided an additional doubleplus feelgood factor to the awaited ascension to the Chancellorship of Sebastian Kurz.
The decrepit and increasingly dysfunctional European Union and its many and varied illegitimate and egregiously authoritarian institutions has been by a volley of damaging bodyshots from Elections all across its once supinely conformist satrapies since 2016.
Once again people are awakening to the prospects of a brighter sovereign future,albeit at a pace that still significantly hobbles their desires and longings for a speedy demise of the EU.
The UK's 23 June referendum put a flame to the trail of gunpowder.
The Netherlands and France saw not only a good increase of electoral support for the policies of Geert Wilders and Marine LePen, but it also signalled the accelerating historic demise of their respective Labour /Socialist parties and the burgeoning electoral irrelevance of other,what were once called "Left " forces.
The Left have signally failed to engage with and align themselves to the sea change in the popular mood against the neoliberal /globalist EU and for a re-establishment of nation states.
The German Bundestag elections hammered this crucial point firmly home.Out of nowhere the AfD scored a 1/8th share of the national vote and the antedeluvian SPD suffered its biggest slump ever.
And so we come back to Austria,to heimat.
Once the dust has settled , no doubt as with #brexit and the 52% who voted for it,the EU will get around to instigating and promoting its usual hallmark campaign of insidious slander and defamation against Austria's politicians and against Austria itself just as they're doing already against the UK.
No retreat, no surrender.
It was a case of a lot more than just the " Subterranean Homesick Blues " for Austria's once pre-eminent Socialist party. Blue being the party colours of the Freiheitliche Partei who came within one seat of replacing the obsolescent SPO as Heimat's second party.
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. It's blowing from the Right. Or rather more accurately from a rejuvenating populist mood that is being harnessed by forces once described in now moribund Cold War terms as being on the Right.
The complete elimination from Austria's Nationalrat of the irksome Greens provided an additional doubleplus feelgood factor to the awaited ascension to the Chancellorship of Sebastian Kurz.
The decrepit and increasingly dysfunctional European Union and its many and varied illegitimate and egregiously authoritarian institutions has been by a volley of damaging bodyshots from Elections all across its once supinely conformist satrapies since 2016.
Once again people are awakening to the prospects of a brighter sovereign future,albeit at a pace that still significantly hobbles their desires and longings for a speedy demise of the EU.
The UK's 23 June referendum put a flame to the trail of gunpowder.
The Netherlands and France saw not only a good increase of electoral support for the policies of Geert Wilders and Marine LePen, but it also signalled the accelerating historic demise of their respective Labour /Socialist parties and the burgeoning electoral irrelevance of other,what were once called "Left " forces.
The Left have signally failed to engage with and align themselves to the sea change in the popular mood against the neoliberal /globalist EU and for a re-establishment of nation states.
The German Bundestag elections hammered this crucial point firmly home.Out of nowhere the AfD scored a 1/8th share of the national vote and the antedeluvian SPD suffered its biggest slump ever.
And so we come back to Austria,to heimat.
Once the dust has settled , no doubt as with #brexit and the 52% who voted for it,the EU will get around to instigating and promoting its usual hallmark campaign of insidious slander and defamation against Austria's politicians and against Austria itself just as they're doing already against the UK.
No retreat, no surrender.
Monday 16 October 2017
fahrenheit451:203
The Great War of 1914-18 didn't end with the Armistice of 1918.
Neither did it end after WW2, (the 1939-45 resumption of the Great War) was itself concluded.
All the subsequent divisions and animosities remain as unresolved today as they were post-1918 and 1945.
And that applies equally to " lesser " localised / regional conflicts that were tributaries to the main show.
At present,the main military conflict involving ISIS/Daesh appears to be hobbling toward some semblance of a cessation on the battlefields and in areas of civilian habitation across Iraq and Syria.
This is now appears to be the least of the existential dilemmas facing the region.
Iran ,Iraq and Turkey have reacted to the burgeoning unrest incited by the Kurdish regional regime's referendum on Kurdish independence by ways and means of a military response and diplomacy couched in terms of threats of economic sanctions.
Not that those three sovereign nation states are somehow necessarily acting in an unjust or reckless manner but rather in a timely and prudent manner in order to head off an even greater existential calamity withing the region.
The reckless, venal posturing of the US and its NATO /EU satrapies has provided the accelerant to this conflagration and will continue to provide it for all the conflicts yet to arise out of the present one unfolding today.
The post-Cold War era of the unipolar global hegemony of the US is over, it's just that the Washington neocons haven't come to terms with it yet.Perhaps they never will.
Ascribing some ephemeral,inherent moral virtue or superiority unique to one side among all the many sides, adds only another drop of accelerant to the impending conflagration.
Russia,Iran,Turkey and China all seem able to grasp this irrefutable aspect of Realpolitik and so go
about dealing with ultimately intractable problems in a reasonable and realistic manner.
On the other hand the US and its deluded liberal satrapies endlessly conjecture and habitually resort to megalomaniacal levels of violence and intimidation against all those nation states who disagree with washington's globalist worldview.
Kurdistan or rather its contemporary facsimile is the tumbleweed that's now getting blown about by the winds of change.Ancient genealogies and arcane vendettas are asserting their malign influence on a historic process that could,if all major parties were so minded be resolved- for however long or short a span of time - a la Berlin 1884 or Vienna 1815.
Let's not hold our breath.
Neither did it end after WW2, (the 1939-45 resumption of the Great War) was itself concluded.
All the subsequent divisions and animosities remain as unresolved today as they were post-1918 and 1945.
And that applies equally to " lesser " localised / regional conflicts that were tributaries to the main show.
At present,the main military conflict involving ISIS/Daesh appears to be hobbling toward some semblance of a cessation on the battlefields and in areas of civilian habitation across Iraq and Syria.
This is now appears to be the least of the existential dilemmas facing the region.
Iran ,Iraq and Turkey have reacted to the burgeoning unrest incited by the Kurdish regional regime's referendum on Kurdish independence by ways and means of a military response and diplomacy couched in terms of threats of economic sanctions.
Not that those three sovereign nation states are somehow necessarily acting in an unjust or reckless manner but rather in a timely and prudent manner in order to head off an even greater existential calamity withing the region.
The reckless, venal posturing of the US and its NATO /EU satrapies has provided the accelerant to this conflagration and will continue to provide it for all the conflicts yet to arise out of the present one unfolding today.
The post-Cold War era of the unipolar global hegemony of the US is over, it's just that the Washington neocons haven't come to terms with it yet.Perhaps they never will.
Ascribing some ephemeral,inherent moral virtue or superiority unique to one side among all the many sides, adds only another drop of accelerant to the impending conflagration.
Russia,Iran,Turkey and China all seem able to grasp this irrefutable aspect of Realpolitik and so go
about dealing with ultimately intractable problems in a reasonable and realistic manner.
On the other hand the US and its deluded liberal satrapies endlessly conjecture and habitually resort to megalomaniacal levels of violence and intimidation against all those nation states who disagree with washington's globalist worldview.
Kurdistan or rather its contemporary facsimile is the tumbleweed that's now getting blown about by the winds of change.Ancient genealogies and arcane vendettas are asserting their malign influence on a historic process that could,if all major parties were so minded be resolved- for however long or short a span of time - a la Berlin 1884 or Vienna 1815.
Let's not hold our breath.
Friday 13 October 2017
fahrenheit451:202
Either blatant crass stupidity or an inability to engage with,read and comprehend written english as regards Article 50 is having a widespread debilitating effect on the legions of Remoaner,metropolitan elitist,seditionist EU shills.
Their OCD driven campaign to sabotage,stop and annul the UK's withdrawal from the EU aka Brexit, has clearly impaired the Remoaners' cognitive functions to such a degree that they have all reverted to some pre-industrial primitivism where thaumaturgy and vocal appeals into the ether have substituted themselves for human intellectual reason.
And that is cause enough to celebrate the cathartic benefits, to the rest of us in civilised human society,of Schadenfreude!
Parliament was scheduled to undertake serious and grown up scrutiny and debate related to the ineluctable passage of the EU Withdrawal Bill.These proceedings has now been delayed due the submission of an unprecedented and inordinate amount of proposed amendments and putative additional clauses to the original legislation.
Not that any of it effects the assigned due date for the UK's termination of EU-Serfdom and satrapyhood -March 29 2019.
The European Union and its various democratically nebulous institutions,Council,Parliament et al are themselves struggling pitifully under a burden of bureaucratic and legalistic flim-flammery which only abject citizens born under the yoke of the precepts and practices of the wholly alien and absurdist Code Napoleon could possibly endure.
None of which effects the implementation of Article 50.
Michel Barnier, the EU's putative chief negotiator is clearly labouring under the illusion that by rigidly sticking to his masters' formula for conducting the withdrawal negotiations,that somehow this will impair,dissuade or discourage the UK government to such a degree that Brexit will to all intents and purposes never take place.
Again,this is the very best news that Brexiteers could possibly have.
The EU's insistence that the issues of " a divorce settlement ", EU citizens rights in the UK post- brexit and the future status of the Northern Ireland /Republic of Ireland's border arrangements are ALL to be settled to the EU's satisfaction prior to any trade negotiations commencing with the UK; is of course to be embraced!
For whom the bell tolls.It tolls for the EU.
Their OCD driven campaign to sabotage,stop and annul the UK's withdrawal from the EU aka Brexit, has clearly impaired the Remoaners' cognitive functions to such a degree that they have all reverted to some pre-industrial primitivism where thaumaturgy and vocal appeals into the ether have substituted themselves for human intellectual reason.
And that is cause enough to celebrate the cathartic benefits, to the rest of us in civilised human society,of Schadenfreude!
Parliament was scheduled to undertake serious and grown up scrutiny and debate related to the ineluctable passage of the EU Withdrawal Bill.These proceedings has now been delayed due the submission of an unprecedented and inordinate amount of proposed amendments and putative additional clauses to the original legislation.
Not that any of it effects the assigned due date for the UK's termination of EU-Serfdom and satrapyhood -March 29 2019.
The European Union and its various democratically nebulous institutions,Council,Parliament et al are themselves struggling pitifully under a burden of bureaucratic and legalistic flim-flammery which only abject citizens born under the yoke of the precepts and practices of the wholly alien and absurdist Code Napoleon could possibly endure.
None of which effects the implementation of Article 50.
Michel Barnier, the EU's putative chief negotiator is clearly labouring under the illusion that by rigidly sticking to his masters' formula for conducting the withdrawal negotiations,that somehow this will impair,dissuade or discourage the UK government to such a degree that Brexit will to all intents and purposes never take place.
Again,this is the very best news that Brexiteers could possibly have.
The EU's insistence that the issues of " a divorce settlement ", EU citizens rights in the UK post- brexit and the future status of the Northern Ireland /Republic of Ireland's border arrangements are ALL to be settled to the EU's satisfaction prior to any trade negotiations commencing with the UK; is of course to be embraced!
For whom the bell tolls.It tolls for the EU.
Tuesday 10 October 2017
fahrenheit451:201
Things really can only get better!
After the recent German federal elections and the even more impressively visceral imbroglio of the regional Catalan referendum, the European Union has now to address another impending controversy.This gleaned from euObserver online :-
( Their slightly cack-handed translated into euro-english online news snippet conflates just what exactly is being voted for in Austria.These are parliamentary elections and whoever is leader of the winning Party becomes Chancellor. )
Polls indicate that foreign minister Sebastian Kurz ( leader of the OVP -Peoples Party -) will win the crown, becoming the EU's youngest head of government at just 31 years old, with 34% of votes.
They also indicate that his centre-right People's Party will form a coalition with the far-right Freedom Party (25%).
But this time around, with similar sanctions in the air on Poland's anti-democratic government, the risk of deepening divisions in the Union could be too high to repeat the move. "
All of which is outstanding news and a cause no doubt for Te Deums to ring out across my Heimat.
Ah yes, 2000AD and the EU's most pernicious and unprecedented interference in the internal constitutional affairs of a member state.
One,incidentally they've used as a template in their meddlings in the UK's polity since the referendum Vote of June 2016.
But back to Austria and the broader context of the EU diplomatic boycott of one of its member states.
It was only in the previous year,1999,that the US and its NATO satrapies had completed their annihilation and dismemberment of what had been the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Across the EU we had Blair in the UK ,Chirac in France and Schroeder in Germany.
The participation of a newly vibrant and increasingly popular Freedom Party in the Austrian government as junior coalition partner provided another opportunity for the US to extend the scope of its busybodying after the earlier successful Yugoslav expedition.
The angle of attack,the spinning of this narrative, was predicated on the Freedom Party's leader Jorg Haider on the premise that (1) his Father had been a Nazi and (2) that Jorg Haider maintained an outlook sympathetic to the views his Father had espoused.
And that was it.
17 years on and parts of the then freshly dismembered Yugoslavia - Slovenia and Croatia are now EU satrapies as are most of the states inhabiting what was the territory of only just recently deceased Warsaw Pact/COMECON member states.
And of course the UK is or isn't actually in the throes of forsaking the EU for good;who knows at this stage.
The OVP with Kurz at the helm will in all probability join with the FPO in a governing coalition.The continent wide inexorable historic decline of Socialist parties such as the Austrian SPO will continue unabated.
Reason enough to cheer!
After the recent German federal elections and the even more impressively visceral imbroglio of the regional Catalan referendum, the European Union has now to address another impending controversy.This gleaned from euObserver online :-
( Their slightly cack-handed translated into euro-english online news snippet conflates just what exactly is being voted for in Austria.These are parliamentary elections and whoever is leader of the winning Party becomes Chancellor. )
Austria
" On Sunday 15 October, the EU could face another political storm when voters in Austria pick their new leader.Polls indicate that foreign minister Sebastian Kurz ( leader of the OVP -Peoples Party -) will win the crown, becoming the EU's youngest head of government at just 31 years old, with 34% of votes.
They also indicate that his centre-right People's Party will form a coalition with the far-right Freedom Party (25%).
But this time around, with similar sanctions in the air on Poland's anti-democratic government, the risk of deepening divisions in the Union could be too high to repeat the move. "
All of which is outstanding news and a cause no doubt for Te Deums to ring out across my Heimat.
Ah yes, 2000AD and the EU's most pernicious and unprecedented interference in the internal constitutional affairs of a member state.
One,incidentally they've used as a template in their meddlings in the UK's polity since the referendum Vote of June 2016.
But back to Austria and the broader context of the EU diplomatic boycott of one of its member states.
It was only in the previous year,1999,that the US and its NATO satrapies had completed their annihilation and dismemberment of what had been the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Across the EU we had Blair in the UK ,Chirac in France and Schroeder in Germany.
The participation of a newly vibrant and increasingly popular Freedom Party in the Austrian government as junior coalition partner provided another opportunity for the US to extend the scope of its busybodying after the earlier successful Yugoslav expedition.
The angle of attack,the spinning of this narrative, was predicated on the Freedom Party's leader Jorg Haider on the premise that (1) his Father had been a Nazi and (2) that Jorg Haider maintained an outlook sympathetic to the views his Father had espoused.
And that was it.
17 years on and parts of the then freshly dismembered Yugoslavia - Slovenia and Croatia are now EU satrapies as are most of the states inhabiting what was the territory of only just recently deceased Warsaw Pact/COMECON member states.
And of course the UK is or isn't actually in the throes of forsaking the EU for good;who knows at this stage.
The OVP with Kurz at the helm will in all probability join with the FPO in a governing coalition.The continent wide inexorable historic decline of Socialist parties such as the Austrian SPO will continue unabated.
Reason enough to cheer!
Friday 6 October 2017
fahrenheit451:200
How to light the blue touchpaper in one easy lesson and what to do once its lit.
That just about sums up the entire Catalan independence imbroglio.
Following the recent catastrophic events in Catalunya, where the rest of the world was witness to the most nauseating scenes of Authoritarian-State depravity committed on the continent of Europe since WW2 ; events have taken a turn for the worse.If indeed such a thing were ever possible,then the Spanish State with King Felipe to the fore have achieved this nigh on impossible feat.
The Catalan Regional Parliament's scheduled session for Monday 9 October 2017 has been suspended by the Spanish Constitutional Court.To say that this has caused widespread consternation is to state the all too obvious.
But one needs to restate that now, in case at some future point in an as yet unwritten future scenario some Power redacts or alters the facts of this particular matter.And given the current direction of travel of the European Union and its constituent quasi-national satrapies, I wouldn't be too surprised at such an eventuality occurring.
With heretofore unimaginable courage and audacity the elected regionalist representatives advocating a free and independent sovereign nation state of Catalunya have taken the initiative in the war against the neoliberal/globalist ruling elites and their European Union.
According to latest MSM reports, the Catalan Parliament intends going ahead with its scheduled session on Monday 9 October. It is also highly likely that they will discuss and debate and perhaps even vote on the issue of a Declaration of Independence for Catalunya.
By suspending the Catalan Parliamentary session, the Spanish Constitutional Court has not only automatically de-legitimised the Rajoy government's own authority; it has left the supporters of a unified spanish state inside the EU hanging in a morally indefensible anti-democratic limbo.
And all the apparatus of the EU superstate and all the EU's kowtowing bootlickers such as the UK's three major parties, will be unable to put this particular humpty-dumpty back together again.
Long Live The Catalan People! Long Live Catalunya!!
That just about sums up the entire Catalan independence imbroglio.
Following the recent catastrophic events in Catalunya, where the rest of the world was witness to the most nauseating scenes of Authoritarian-State depravity committed on the continent of Europe since WW2 ; events have taken a turn for the worse.If indeed such a thing were ever possible,then the Spanish State with King Felipe to the fore have achieved this nigh on impossible feat.
The Catalan Regional Parliament's scheduled session for Monday 9 October 2017 has been suspended by the Spanish Constitutional Court.To say that this has caused widespread consternation is to state the all too obvious.
But one needs to restate that now, in case at some future point in an as yet unwritten future scenario some Power redacts or alters the facts of this particular matter.And given the current direction of travel of the European Union and its constituent quasi-national satrapies, I wouldn't be too surprised at such an eventuality occurring.
With heretofore unimaginable courage and audacity the elected regionalist representatives advocating a free and independent sovereign nation state of Catalunya have taken the initiative in the war against the neoliberal/globalist ruling elites and their European Union.
According to latest MSM reports, the Catalan Parliament intends going ahead with its scheduled session on Monday 9 October. It is also highly likely that they will discuss and debate and perhaps even vote on the issue of a Declaration of Independence for Catalunya.
By suspending the Catalan Parliamentary session, the Spanish Constitutional Court has not only automatically de-legitimised the Rajoy government's own authority; it has left the supporters of a unified spanish state inside the EU hanging in a morally indefensible anti-democratic limbo.
And all the apparatus of the EU superstate and all the EU's kowtowing bootlickers such as the UK's three major parties, will be unable to put this particular humpty-dumpty back together again.
Long Live The Catalan People! Long Live Catalunya!!
Monday 2 October 2017
fahrenheit451:199
It is Monday 2 October and we're living in the historic aftermath of the events which unfolded across Catalonia on Sunday 1 October. Needless to say,( but we're going to say it anyhow ) all of which could quite easily have been avoided.
Social media erupted as social media is wont to do in comparison to the ailing corporate MSM, which spun the events as " clashes between.." and carried calls from the EU and its compliant commentariat for " both sides " to " de-escalate ".
The good thing is that corporate MSM no longer controls and directs the narrative nor the ensuing discourse as certainly or competently as it once did pre-social media.
The plethora of on-line video footage laid bare the capricious and often brutal behaviour of the Spanish Guardia Civil toward citizens of Barcelona and elsewhere in Catalunya going about their lawful business in wishing to exercise their inalienable democratic rights.
Globalist neoliberal Ruling elites all across the continent of Europe are getting seriously pissed off with their recalcitrant electorates.
First with #brexit ( more of which later in this post ) ,then with the excellent showing of the Freedom Party in Austria, Geert Wilders in Holland ,LePen in France and just the other week, the AfD in Germany. Each in turn has been characterised ( slandered and defamed ) by their electoral opponents as being the veritable nemesis of western civilisation and the destroyers of PC mutliculturalism ( which of course to that degree they earnestly aspire ).
Only the ideological progeny of Franco and inheritors of his soiled mantle, the Rajoy Regime in Madrid, has proven thus far to be intemperate and politically illiterate in addressing the challenge from the people against the neoliberal Authoritarian State.
Here in the UK on Sunday, at about the same time as many tens of thousands of law abiding Catalonians were being subjected to the armed violence of the State , the anti - #brexit front organisation " Stop Brexit " was holding a demonstration in Manchester where the Concservative Party conference was taking place.
The UK domiciled fraction of the cosmopolitan ruling elite learned long ago to use subtler methods when going about annulling the expressed democratic will of the British people.
They have the Labour Party and its lapdog trade unionist leadership entourage, the Conservative Party,LibDems,Greens, and virtually all the non-parliamentary Left to call on and those parties don't wear jackboots ,use batons or rubber bullets.
But the intended outcome of those parties' propaganda- weaponised command and control of the narrative,its interpretation and subsequent discourse- for the people is exactly the same. They want Brexit annulled,just as surely as " they " want the Catalan referendum annulled.
Though whether " they " necesssarliy " win " any argument in particular with whatever methodology they choose to deploy on given day in any given situation ; that, it seems, is still open to question.
On Sunday 1 October 2017 " their " mask slipped. The EU and all that it stands for and all its mainstream Parties supporters were nowhere to be seen.
The struggle continues.
Hail Brexit,Hail The Peoples' Victory!
Friday 29 September 2017
fahrenheit451:198
The trouble with hornets' nests is that the more you kick them the angrier the hornets get and if you decide that the best option once you've agitated the hornets is to keep on kicking their nest even harder,well ..
The Barzani led Kurdish provincial regime in Iraq has held what they've asserted to be a non-binding advisory referendum on the question of Kurdish secession.
This mendacious sectarian political manoeuvre has caused a great deal of apprehension in Iraq itself but also amongst neighbouring countries including,Turkey and Iran. Turkey in particular has endured a decades long Kurdish PKK led campaign of terrorism against the Turkish state.
Were all that not enough, the Kurdistan Question/dynamic is enveloped inside and now inextricably bound up with a quasi-regional/global conflict surrounding ISIS/DAESH and all of its implications and possible consequences.
It is worth reiterating that Russia ,Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah are assisting the legitimate,constitutional government of Syria at that government's request.
The United States and its various NATO satrapies are in gross violation of International Law by in effect invading Syria.
The anti-government ( largely Syrian-Kurd led ) SDF - heavily supplied and supported by the US - are in the throes of making a grab for Deir Ezzor city and province and are clashing with the Syrian Arab Army and its Russian allies amongst others.
The recent targeted assassination in the field of Russian Lt.General Asapov and two of his Colonels has added yet another twist to an already volatile situation.
South Front reported online:-
" Russia will not allow the United States as well as any other foreign power to limit an area of operations of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in Syria’s Deir Ezzor province, Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov announced on 29 September
Syromolotov added that the Russian military has informed the United States about the area of the SAA operation against ISIS and will not tolerate US attempts to slow down the liquidation of terrorists in Syria.
The diplomat emphasized that the situation when some power that operates in Syria without any legitimate right attempts to limit government forces efforts to liberate their country from the terrorism is nonsense.
He also described the US-led coalition’s air campaign as questionable saying that it has led to a full-scale humanitarian crisis in Raqqah city. "
Raqqah , the former ISIS/Daesh capital is currently in the throes being " liberated " by the SDF.
Clearly the best resolution lies with Russia ,Turkey and Iran relinquishing their petty antagonisms and isolating the US western imperialist block from all substantive future undertakings to bring the conflict to a close.
The Barzani led Kurdish provincial regime in Iraq has held what they've asserted to be a non-binding advisory referendum on the question of Kurdish secession.
This mendacious sectarian political manoeuvre has caused a great deal of apprehension in Iraq itself but also amongst neighbouring countries including,Turkey and Iran. Turkey in particular has endured a decades long Kurdish PKK led campaign of terrorism against the Turkish state.
Were all that not enough, the Kurdistan Question/dynamic is enveloped inside and now inextricably bound up with a quasi-regional/global conflict surrounding ISIS/DAESH and all of its implications and possible consequences.
It is worth reiterating that Russia ,Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah are assisting the legitimate,constitutional government of Syria at that government's request.
The United States and its various NATO satrapies are in gross violation of International Law by in effect invading Syria.
The anti-government ( largely Syrian-Kurd led ) SDF - heavily supplied and supported by the US - are in the throes of making a grab for Deir Ezzor city and province and are clashing with the Syrian Arab Army and its Russian allies amongst others.
The recent targeted assassination in the field of Russian Lt.General Asapov and two of his Colonels has added yet another twist to an already volatile situation.
South Front reported online:-
" Russia will not allow the United States as well as any other foreign power to limit an area of operations of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in Syria’s Deir Ezzor province, Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov announced on 29 September
Syromolotov added that the Russian military has informed the United States about the area of the SAA operation against ISIS and will not tolerate US attempts to slow down the liquidation of terrorists in Syria.
The diplomat emphasized that the situation when some power that operates in Syria without any legitimate right attempts to limit government forces efforts to liberate their country from the terrorism is nonsense.
He also described the US-led coalition’s air campaign as questionable saying that it has led to a full-scale humanitarian crisis in Raqqah city. "
Raqqah , the former ISIS/Daesh capital is currently in the throes being " liberated " by the SDF.
Clearly the best resolution lies with Russia ,Turkey and Iran relinquishing their petty antagonisms and isolating the US western imperialist block from all substantive future undertakings to bring the conflict to a close.
POSTSCRIPT ( Added 30 September )
Lo,and behold the hornets' nest just got another kicking..
South Front reports -
The Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) will declare an independence of Iraqi Kurdistan unilaterally, if the Iraqi Federal Government does not enter negotiations on the terms and condictions of this move, Vahal Ali, director of communications in the office of Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani said on September 29 https://southfront.org/iraqi-kurdistan-to-declare-independ…/
Monday 25 September 2017
fahrenheit451:197
Good week, bad week.Just when things are turning out really badly, such as May's travesty in Florence and further hindrances get thrown into the path of Brexit, along comes a glimmer of hope, a scintilla of light in the encroaching darkness.
The Federal Republic of Germany concluded its Bundestag elections the other day and my word, things really have turned out for the better!
Merkel's governing CDU recorded it's lowest share of the Vote since 1949 at one-third of votes cast.Her heretofore grand-coalition partners,the Social Democrats went even deeper into the electoral mire with an all time low of just one-fifth of votes cast.
The emergent, populist, right-of-centre AfD scored a magnificent tally of just over one-eighth of votes cast.
This remarkable expression of constitutional democratic praxis immediately ignited the contrived outpouring of venom,derision,abuse,slander and defamation that,alas accompanies any worthwhile showing by populist parties anywhere across the continent of europe.
A cursory examination of various nations across western europe, for example France, Holland,the Scandinavian countries, shows an endemic historic decline in the fortunes of mainstream Socialist / Social democratic/Labour parties .
The blight currently assailing the German SPD ( the oldest and most electorally successful of all so-called Socialist/Labour parties ) ,is of singular historic significance. The SPD more than any of its "comradely" sister parties with say the exception of the socialists in Sweden. has been the prominent bulwark of post-1945 social democracy.
Its decline is to be greatly welcomed.One can only anticipate the British Labour party finally meeting its nemesis at the ballot box some time soon.
None of the aforementioned has been acknowledged let alone accepted as even remotely legitimate by the indistinguishable agglomeration of neoliberal,globalist Hydra of parties that support,run and ideologically reinforce the EU Fascist Superstate.
Even the vaguely anti-EU parties of the Left and their extra parliamentary front organisations,have been found to be totally ineffectual and organisationally impotent in opposing the EU.
The British Labour Party was holding its annual conference in Brighton when the results from Germany came in.it was on the same day that their conference was subjected to an anti- brexit protest organised by the Greens, whose slogan for the day was " brexit is racist! ".
History has already passed the both of them by.They just don't know it yet.
Anyone for some Schadenfreude ?
The Federal Republic of Germany concluded its Bundestag elections the other day and my word, things really have turned out for the better!
Merkel's governing CDU recorded it's lowest share of the Vote since 1949 at one-third of votes cast.Her heretofore grand-coalition partners,the Social Democrats went even deeper into the electoral mire with an all time low of just one-fifth of votes cast.
The emergent, populist, right-of-centre AfD scored a magnificent tally of just over one-eighth of votes cast.
This remarkable expression of constitutional democratic praxis immediately ignited the contrived outpouring of venom,derision,abuse,slander and defamation that,alas accompanies any worthwhile showing by populist parties anywhere across the continent of europe.
A cursory examination of various nations across western europe, for example France, Holland,the Scandinavian countries, shows an endemic historic decline in the fortunes of mainstream Socialist / Social democratic/Labour parties .
The blight currently assailing the German SPD ( the oldest and most electorally successful of all so-called Socialist/Labour parties ) ,is of singular historic significance. The SPD more than any of its "comradely" sister parties with say the exception of the socialists in Sweden. has been the prominent bulwark of post-1945 social democracy.
Its decline is to be greatly welcomed.One can only anticipate the British Labour party finally meeting its nemesis at the ballot box some time soon.
None of the aforementioned has been acknowledged let alone accepted as even remotely legitimate by the indistinguishable agglomeration of neoliberal,globalist Hydra of parties that support,run and ideologically reinforce the EU Fascist Superstate.
Even the vaguely anti-EU parties of the Left and their extra parliamentary front organisations,have been found to be totally ineffectual and organisationally impotent in opposing the EU.
The British Labour Party was holding its annual conference in Brighton when the results from Germany came in.it was on the same day that their conference was subjected to an anti- brexit protest organised by the Greens, whose slogan for the day was " brexit is racist! ".
History has already passed the both of them by.They just don't know it yet.
Anyone for some Schadenfreude ?
Saturday 23 September 2017
fahrenheit451:196
On 22 September 2017, the UK's Bootlicker-in-Chief to the German EU Reich, Theresa May, made a speech in Florence on the topic of the UK's supposed previously assumed departure from the EU.
Little can be gained from recapitulating it in the same way that little would have been got from a similar exercise with the full text of Chamberlain's squalid,miserable foray at Munich.
Suffice for him that it all came down to a shred of paper being waved on some aeroplane steps. suffice therefore for his ideological progeny and inheritor May that it is all perfunctorily recalled as if any of it mattered other than as another shameless public incidence of treason against the British People.
A year ago on this day I published my blogpost on the then current state of play of #brexit. Worth recalling. As you will read,the metropolitan neoliberal elites and their political henchmen and footpads have in effect managed to take us all back in time to before a vote was cast in the EU Referendum.
" When it comes to sheer brass-necked impudence, the 200+ Labour Party parliamentary benchwarmers that constitute the official #LabourIn campaign, take first prize.
Unmitigated Petainist trash that they are,they had and still have, as their sole political objective the continued subjugation of the British people to the diktats and tyranny of the European Union.
200+ Sediton preaching, street corner rabble rousing demagogues who tried in vain to persuade the British electorate that We somehow,were really " Europeans ", and that the British have a european identity or values in common with say Poland or Latvia or whomever. They might've well as said that a dog shares a common identity and has values in common with the fleas that infest it.
And #LabourIn ,the very heart and sinews of the campaign to maintain EU servile lackeydom, pre-planned and co-ordinated demonstrations with platform speakers such as that vile treasonable wretch Lammy inciting crowds of euro-zealots to attempt the overthrow of the UK's constitutional government.
At the time of posting, there are still quite significant legal challenges to the Referendum result in the offing.
And given what seems to be a significant highly motivated anti-democratic upper middle class and academically elitist bias in the ranks of the #Remain zealots' camp,no doubt we can expect further inordinately complex tactics and strategies to be launched by them against the implementation of the Will of the Sovereign British Electorate.
Though not all the news is bad for the Victorious #Brexit . Gleaned from the 19 September edition of Huffington Post :-
Labour needs to stop “sulking” about the EU referendum result and vow to end freedom of movement, one of the party’s northern heartland MPs has warned.
Jonathan Reynolds, who has represented the Greater Manchester seat of Stalybridge and Hyde since 2010, believes keeping the EU’s free movement rules in exchange for Single Market membership would be “unacceptable” to millions of Labour voters.
The Remain-campaigning Reynolds told HuffPost UK that people’s “genuine emotional concerns” about uncontrolled immigration cannot be dealt with just by pointing to reports and statistics which talk up the economic benefit of freedom of movement.
In a dig at colleagues such as Chuka Umunna who are calling for the Government to try and negotiate a compromise over freedom of movement in a Brexit deal, Reynolds said a “tweak” to the status quo “would not wash with people.”
UPDATE: Chuka Umunna: We Should Be Prepared To Sacrifice Single Market Membership To Axe Freedom Of Movement
The European Union and all that it stands for and all of its works is merely the bacteria on the toilet seat of history. Time for some cleansing,don't you think?
And let that be a lesson to us all.
Little can be gained from recapitulating it in the same way that little would have been got from a similar exercise with the full text of Chamberlain's squalid,miserable foray at Munich.
Suffice for him that it all came down to a shred of paper being waved on some aeroplane steps. suffice therefore for his ideological progeny and inheritor May that it is all perfunctorily recalled as if any of it mattered other than as another shameless public incidence of treason against the British People.
A year ago on this day I published my blogpost on the then current state of play of #brexit. Worth recalling. As you will read,the metropolitan neoliberal elites and their political henchmen and footpads have in effect managed to take us all back in time to before a vote was cast in the EU Referendum.
" When it comes to sheer brass-necked impudence, the 200+ Labour Party parliamentary benchwarmers that constitute the official #LabourIn campaign, take first prize.
Unmitigated Petainist trash that they are,they had and still have, as their sole political objective the continued subjugation of the British people to the diktats and tyranny of the European Union.
200+ Sediton preaching, street corner rabble rousing demagogues who tried in vain to persuade the British electorate that We somehow,were really " Europeans ", and that the British have a european identity or values in common with say Poland or Latvia or whomever. They might've well as said that a dog shares a common identity and has values in common with the fleas that infest it.
And #LabourIn ,the very heart and sinews of the campaign to maintain EU servile lackeydom, pre-planned and co-ordinated demonstrations with platform speakers such as that vile treasonable wretch Lammy inciting crowds of euro-zealots to attempt the overthrow of the UK's constitutional government.
At the time of posting, there are still quite significant legal challenges to the Referendum result in the offing.
And given what seems to be a significant highly motivated anti-democratic upper middle class and academically elitist bias in the ranks of the #Remain zealots' camp,no doubt we can expect further inordinately complex tactics and strategies to be launched by them against the implementation of the Will of the Sovereign British Electorate.
Though not all the news is bad for the Victorious #Brexit . Gleaned from the 19 September edition of Huffington Post :-
Labour needs to stop “sulking” about the EU referendum result and vow to end freedom of movement, one of the party’s northern heartland MPs has warned.
Jonathan Reynolds, who has represented the Greater Manchester seat of Stalybridge and Hyde since 2010, believes keeping the EU’s free movement rules in exchange for Single Market membership would be “unacceptable” to millions of Labour voters.
The Remain-campaigning Reynolds told HuffPost UK that people’s “genuine emotional concerns” about uncontrolled immigration cannot be dealt with just by pointing to reports and statistics which talk up the economic benefit of freedom of movement.
In a dig at colleagues such as Chuka Umunna who are calling for the Government to try and negotiate a compromise over freedom of movement in a Brexit deal, Reynolds said a “tweak” to the status quo “would not wash with people.”
UPDATE: Chuka Umunna: We Should Be Prepared To Sacrifice Single Market Membership To Axe Freedom Of Movement
The European Union and all that it stands for and all of its works is merely the bacteria on the toilet seat of history. Time for some cleansing,don't you think?
And let that be a lesson to us all.
Thursday 21 September 2017
fahrenheit451:195
It is 21 September 2017 and democratically elected politicians have been arrested in Barcelona, their offices as well as other regional ministerial buildings raided and property seized on the orders of the Spanish central government.
Amongst items confiscated were,apparently 9.6 million official ballot forms prepared for the planned Catalan Referendum on Independence scheduled for 1 October.
The leading Spanish mass circulation El Pais reported on-line :-
" Spain’s Constitutional Court will study an appeal by the central government against the Catalan parliament’s recently passed law preparing the region’s transition into an independent republic.
The court’s decision to accept the case on Tuesday automatically puts the law on hold, although it is unclear whether Catalan authorities will heed the suspension.
Before this, the Constitutional Court had already put a freeze on another law passed by the Catalan parliament last week paving the way for an independence referendum on October 1.
In the meantime, state prosecutors in Catalonia have ordered top officials within the National Police, the Civil Guard and the regional Mossos d’Esquadra police force to seize any and all items meant to help prepare or hold the “illegal self-determination” referendum, including ballot boxes, printed material and computer equipment.
The judiciary police have been instructed to stop any acts by authorities, public employees or “individuals working in connivance with the former” to organise the referendum. "
Whether any of this can be construed, let alone accepted, by wider world public opinion as legitimate in any sense is yet to be established.
What is immediately disturbing and ought to be of pressing concern to neighbouring and allied states of Spain, is the authoritarian manner, more akin to Erdogan's Turkey, with which forces of the Spanish state have ridden roughshod ,without the slightest compunction, over the legitimacy and dignity of Catalonia.
Where are the messages of support for the People of Catalonia and their elected government ?
Where is the outrage against the actions of the Popular Party regime in Madrid ?
What have the European Union , the national parliaments across the continent ,the Trades Unions and social democratic and liberal parties far and wide to say on this hideous outrage?
Or are the metropolitan ruling elites and most of their political class more than a little afraid now of what an existential threat referendums pose to their ramshackle EU neoliberal order in the wake of the UK's 23 June 2016 magnificent decision to #brexit
Amongst items confiscated were,apparently 9.6 million official ballot forms prepared for the planned Catalan Referendum on Independence scheduled for 1 October.
The leading Spanish mass circulation El Pais reported on-line :-
" Spain’s Constitutional Court will study an appeal by the central government against the Catalan parliament’s recently passed law preparing the region’s transition into an independent republic.
The court’s decision to accept the case on Tuesday automatically puts the law on hold, although it is unclear whether Catalan authorities will heed the suspension.
Before this, the Constitutional Court had already put a freeze on another law passed by the Catalan parliament last week paving the way for an independence referendum on October 1.
In the meantime, state prosecutors in Catalonia have ordered top officials within the National Police, the Civil Guard and the regional Mossos d’Esquadra police force to seize any and all items meant to help prepare or hold the “illegal self-determination” referendum, including ballot boxes, printed material and computer equipment.
The judiciary police have been instructed to stop any acts by authorities, public employees or “individuals working in connivance with the former” to organise the referendum. "
Whether any of this can be construed, let alone accepted, by wider world public opinion as legitimate in any sense is yet to be established.
What is immediately disturbing and ought to be of pressing concern to neighbouring and allied states of Spain, is the authoritarian manner, more akin to Erdogan's Turkey, with which forces of the Spanish state have ridden roughshod ,without the slightest compunction, over the legitimacy and dignity of Catalonia.
Where are the messages of support for the People of Catalonia and their elected government ?
Where is the outrage against the actions of the Popular Party regime in Madrid ?
What have the European Union , the national parliaments across the continent ,the Trades Unions and social democratic and liberal parties far and wide to say on this hideous outrage?
Or are the metropolitan ruling elites and most of their political class more than a little afraid now of what an existential threat referendums pose to their ramshackle EU neoliberal order in the wake of the UK's 23 June 2016 magnificent decision to #brexit
Tuesday 19 September 2017
fahrenheit451:194
Sabre-rattling and venal bellicose posturing are back in the spotlight at the UN.
Already confused and flummoxed over the internal affairs of DPRK ,the failing US and its imperialist satrapies are getting sucked ever deeper into the Syrian imbroglio with little prospect of achieving even an insignificant percentile of their original war aims in that country.
The USA's imperialist satrapies are in even worse military and socio-economic shape than their Washington domiciled neocon lords and masters,who clearly are expecting big things from their hirelings and footpads.
Al-Masdar News (AMN) reported the following online 19 September :-
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (12:00 PM) – British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has stated that the United Kingdom has no intention of supporting the rebuilding of Syria as long as Syrian president Bashar al-Assad remains in power.
The former mayor of London made the remarks during a meeting with nations that supported anti-Assad forces during the Syrian Civil War, in the fringe of a United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York on Monday.
Johnson even stated that not only would the UK refuse any development aid for the reconstruction of Syria after the end of the war, but so would any of the other states that sided with Syrian rebels in past. This would include the United States, France, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, all of whom had representatives in the meeting that Johnson spoke to.
“We believe that the only way forward is to get a political process going and to make it clear to the Iranians, Russians and Assad regime that we, the like-minded group, will not support the reconstruction of Syria until there is such a political process and that means, as Resolution 2254 says, to a transition away from Assad,” Johnson said.
Interestingly, the UN Resolution 2254 that was voted into effect in 2015, makes no mention whatsoever of the removal of Assad from power, contrary to what Boris Johnson seemed to imply.
Johnson’s statement seems to contradict earlier statements by representatives from other former anti-Assad states. US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Satterfield earlier stated that “there has got to be a political process if there is to be any international participation in the reconstruction of Syria,” seemingly supporting the Russian mediated peace negotiations going on in Astana currently.
Boris Johnson.The world trembles at his every utterance.
If only.
Already confused and flummoxed over the internal affairs of DPRK ,the failing US and its imperialist satrapies are getting sucked ever deeper into the Syrian imbroglio with little prospect of achieving even an insignificant percentile of their original war aims in that country.
The USA's imperialist satrapies are in even worse military and socio-economic shape than their Washington domiciled neocon lords and masters,who clearly are expecting big things from their hirelings and footpads.
Al-Masdar News (AMN) reported the following online 19 September :-
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (12:00 PM) – British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has stated that the United Kingdom has no intention of supporting the rebuilding of Syria as long as Syrian president Bashar al-Assad remains in power.
The former mayor of London made the remarks during a meeting with nations that supported anti-Assad forces during the Syrian Civil War, in the fringe of a United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York on Monday.
Johnson even stated that not only would the UK refuse any development aid for the reconstruction of Syria after the end of the war, but so would any of the other states that sided with Syrian rebels in past. This would include the United States, France, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, all of whom had representatives in the meeting that Johnson spoke to.
“We believe that the only way forward is to get a political process going and to make it clear to the Iranians, Russians and Assad regime that we, the like-minded group, will not support the reconstruction of Syria until there is such a political process and that means, as Resolution 2254 says, to a transition away from Assad,” Johnson said.
Johnson’s statement seems to contradict earlier statements by representatives from other former anti-Assad states. US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Satterfield earlier stated that “there has got to be a political process if there is to be any international participation in the reconstruction of Syria,” seemingly supporting the Russian mediated peace negotiations going on in Astana currently.
Boris Johnson.The world trembles at his every utterance.
If only.
Friday 15 September 2017
fahrenheit451:193
Another day, another test missile fire from DPRK aka NorthKorea. The missile was again reported as flying over sovereign Japanese airspace.
US Secretary of State Tillerson has " demanded " that both China and Russia take firm measures against DPRK.
This is what an international diplomatic relations kind of Groundhog Day looks like in a world of supposedly independent sovereign nation states.
The UN security Council is due to convene later on today in order to discuss this latest North Korean missile incident.
It's only a few days ago that the security council passed a resolution imposing additional sanction against DPRK for its nuclear bomb tests.
Business Insider UK of 11 September applied lateral thinking to this seemingly intractable and worsening Korean imbroglio.
" When Jocko Willink, a former US Navy SEAL who is now an author and occasional Business Insider contributor, was asked on Twitter how he would handle the North Korean crisis, he gave an unexpected answer that one expert said just might work.
Willink's proposal didn't involve any covert special operation strikes or military moves of any kind. Instead of bombs, Willink suggested the US drop iPhones.
"Drop 25 million iPhones on them and put satellites over them with free wifi," Willink tweeted last week.
While the proposal itself is fantastical and far-fetched, Yun Sun, an expert on North Korea at the Stimson Center, says the core concept could work.
"Kim Jong Un understands that as soon as society is open and North Korean people realize what they're missing, Kim's regime is unsustainable, and it's going to be overthrown," Sun told Business Insider.
For this reason, North Korea's government would strongly oppose any measures that mirror Willink's suggestion.
Sun pointed out that when South Korea had previously flown balloons that dropped pamphlets and DVDs over North Korea, the Kim regime had responded militarily, sensing the frailty of its government relative to those of prosperous liberal democracies. "
The off the cuff proposal has the major advantage of not involving as a central feature of its implementation the thermonuclear annihilation of several million people.
China and Russia have seemingly been placed in the onerous position of having to do a favour for their greatest adversary and most potent military threat aka the USA.
And its all China and Russia's fault if the USA has to resort to military action against DPRK if events don't work out as the neocon Washington establishment wants them to.
I'd go with the iphones strategem.
US Secretary of State Tillerson has " demanded " that both China and Russia take firm measures against DPRK.
This is what an international diplomatic relations kind of Groundhog Day looks like in a world of supposedly independent sovereign nation states.
The UN security Council is due to convene later on today in order to discuss this latest North Korean missile incident.
It's only a few days ago that the security council passed a resolution imposing additional sanction against DPRK for its nuclear bomb tests.
Business Insider UK of 11 September applied lateral thinking to this seemingly intractable and worsening Korean imbroglio.
" When Jocko Willink, a former US Navy SEAL who is now an author and occasional Business Insider contributor, was asked on Twitter how he would handle the North Korean crisis, he gave an unexpected answer that one expert said just might work.
Willink's proposal didn't involve any covert special operation strikes or military moves of any kind. Instead of bombs, Willink suggested the US drop iPhones.
"Drop 25 million iPhones on them and put satellites over them with free wifi," Willink tweeted last week.
While the proposal itself is fantastical and far-fetched, Yun Sun, an expert on North Korea at the Stimson Center, says the core concept could work.
"Kim Jong Un understands that as soon as society is open and North Korean people realize what they're missing, Kim's regime is unsustainable, and it's going to be overthrown," Sun told Business Insider.
For this reason, North Korea's government would strongly oppose any measures that mirror Willink's suggestion.
Sun pointed out that when South Korea had previously flown balloons that dropped pamphlets and DVDs over North Korea, the Kim regime had responded militarily, sensing the frailty of its government relative to those of prosperous liberal democracies. "
The off the cuff proposal has the major advantage of not involving as a central feature of its implementation the thermonuclear annihilation of several million people.
China and Russia have seemingly been placed in the onerous position of having to do a favour for their greatest adversary and most potent military threat aka the USA.
And its all China and Russia's fault if the USA has to resort to military action against DPRK if events don't work out as the neocon Washington establishment wants them to.
I'd go with the iphones strategem.
Wednesday 13 September 2017
Tuesday 12 September 2017
fahrenheit451:191
Late last night on 11 September the House of Commons voted to continue with the EU Withdrawal Bill ( aka Repeal Bill aka The Great Repeal Bill ).
Essentially this will be an Act of Parliament that by and large will incorporate into domestic UK law all so-called EU laws that have been accepted and entered into the UK body politic these past four decades.
The Repeal Bill once passed will give government Ministers, what its detractors and opponents misrepresent and wilfully misconstrue ,as " Henry VIII " powers.
In practice such " powers " are the necessary bureaucratic discretion whereby Parliament does not have to be consulted over minor and peripheral adjustments and tidying up of the preceding EU Laws that perhaps translate maladroitly into UK legal understanding and practice.
In the broader context of the UK's departure from the EU at the end of March 2019, this Bill has been " sexed up " by the reactionary anti - brexit metropolitan Labour Party.
Corbyn,Starmer et al have misrepresented the actual facts of the Bill in the same sensationalist and hyperbolic manner adopted by Blair and the now notorious Iraqi WMD dossier. That dossier was predicated on lies, equally Labour's assertion of a governmental power grab from this Bill are also predicated on lies.
This what is what can be gleaned from Labour List had to say on the late night Commons vote :-
Seven Labour MPs defied a three line party whip announced byJeremy Corbyn last night to back the Brexit bill.
Ronnie Campbell, Frank Field, Kelvin Hopkins, John Mann, Dennis Skinner, Graham Stringer and Kate Hoey. defied party orders and supported the Tories in voting for the EU Withdrawal Bill – which overturns the European Communities Act 1972 – by 326 votes to 290.
The so called Repeal bill, which had the adjective “Great” until it was dropped by the Tories, shifts the entirety of EU law on to the British statute books.
Shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer described it as a “deeply disappointing” night.
Immediately after the vote Starmer published a statement in which he repeated Labour’s claim that the Tories were trying to sideline parliament to seize greater powers for themselves.
“This is a deeply disappointing result. This Bill is an affront to parliamentary democracy and a naked power grab by government ministers. It leaves rights unprotected, it silences parliament on key decisions and undermines the devolution settlement,” he said.
“It will make the Brexit process more uncertain, and lead to division and chaos when we need unity and clarity.
“Labour will seek to amend and remove the worst aspects from the bill as it passes through parliament. But the flaws are so fundamental it’s hard to see how this Bill could ever be made fit for purpose”.
And so it goes. Corbyn and his erstwhile allies have fully assimilated the #LabourIn position and rhetoric that hasn't changed one iota following the EU Referndum result in favour of Leave.
Metropolitan Labour Remoaner EU shills, of whom there are 200+MPs such as Wakefield's Mary Creagh, regurgitate the same otiose cant and utter the same vacuous platitudes that they've done all along.
According to Creagh , Labour " Recognises and respects the referendum result ". Note the ongoing absence of the two most important signifiers, " accept " and " implement ".
This is Humpty Dumpty on a heretofore megalomaniacal scale that even most Tories wouldn't dare to attempt.
Words mean precisely what the likes of Creagh say they mean,no more and no less. Recognise clearly means accept and respect means implement,obviously!
And that is why Corbyn,Starmer et al and their hobnailed acolytes and lackeys throughout the broader labour and trades Union movement are officially calling for the UK to remain inside the Single market and The Customs Union after March 2019.
Because according to them that will recognise and respect the result of the EU Referendum when 52% voted to "Leave " which of course also means stay.
And now you know why I do genuinely and most fervently hate loathe and despise the EU, all of its works and everything it stands for and the same now goes for the Labour Party.
Essentially this will be an Act of Parliament that by and large will incorporate into domestic UK law all so-called EU laws that have been accepted and entered into the UK body politic these past four decades.
The Repeal Bill once passed will give government Ministers, what its detractors and opponents misrepresent and wilfully misconstrue ,as " Henry VIII " powers.
In practice such " powers " are the necessary bureaucratic discretion whereby Parliament does not have to be consulted over minor and peripheral adjustments and tidying up of the preceding EU Laws that perhaps translate maladroitly into UK legal understanding and practice.
In the broader context of the UK's departure from the EU at the end of March 2019, this Bill has been " sexed up " by the reactionary anti - brexit metropolitan Labour Party.
Corbyn,Starmer et al have misrepresented the actual facts of the Bill in the same sensationalist and hyperbolic manner adopted by Blair and the now notorious Iraqi WMD dossier. That dossier was predicated on lies, equally Labour's assertion of a governmental power grab from this Bill are also predicated on lies.
This what is what can be gleaned from Labour List had to say on the late night Commons vote :-
Seven Labour MPs defied a three line party whip announced byJeremy Corbyn last night to back the Brexit bill.
Ronnie Campbell, Frank Field, Kelvin Hopkins, John Mann, Dennis Skinner, Graham Stringer and Kate Hoey. defied party orders and supported the Tories in voting for the EU Withdrawal Bill – which overturns the European Communities Act 1972 – by 326 votes to 290.
The so called Repeal bill, which had the adjective “Great” until it was dropped by the Tories, shifts the entirety of EU law on to the British statute books.
Shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer described it as a “deeply disappointing” night.
Immediately after the vote Starmer published a statement in which he repeated Labour’s claim that the Tories were trying to sideline parliament to seize greater powers for themselves.
“This is a deeply disappointing result. This Bill is an affront to parliamentary democracy and a naked power grab by government ministers. It leaves rights unprotected, it silences parliament on key decisions and undermines the devolution settlement,” he said.
“It will make the Brexit process more uncertain, and lead to division and chaos when we need unity and clarity.
“Labour will seek to amend and remove the worst aspects from the bill as it passes through parliament. But the flaws are so fundamental it’s hard to see how this Bill could ever be made fit for purpose”.
And so it goes. Corbyn and his erstwhile allies have fully assimilated the #LabourIn position and rhetoric that hasn't changed one iota following the EU Referndum result in favour of Leave.
Metropolitan Labour Remoaner EU shills, of whom there are 200+MPs such as Wakefield's Mary Creagh, regurgitate the same otiose cant and utter the same vacuous platitudes that they've done all along.
According to Creagh , Labour " Recognises and respects the referendum result ". Note the ongoing absence of the two most important signifiers, " accept " and " implement ".
This is Humpty Dumpty on a heretofore megalomaniacal scale that even most Tories wouldn't dare to attempt.
Words mean precisely what the likes of Creagh say they mean,no more and no less. Recognise clearly means accept and respect means implement,obviously!
And that is why Corbyn,Starmer et al and their hobnailed acolytes and lackeys throughout the broader labour and trades Union movement are officially calling for the UK to remain inside the Single market and The Customs Union after March 2019.
Because according to them that will recognise and respect the result of the EU Referendum when 52% voted to "Leave " which of course also means stay.
And now you know why I do genuinely and most fervently hate loathe and despise the EU, all of its works and everything it stands for and the same now goes for the Labour Party.
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