DUMB INSOLENCE #9

 DUMB INSOLENCE #9

Set aside world changing events such as the on-going military imbroglios and various bellicose standoffs in Libya,Syria,Yemen,oh and let's not forget Afghanistan.

Schools are set to re-open across England in a few weeks time.You know,those institutions which at the behest of this govt. cancelled their exams the last academic year.The schools re-opening are reckoned to be a bellwether for the national situation as a whole.More like the proverbial canary down the coalmine.

All kinds of partial and peripheral economic indicators are getting trotted out stage front and centre as indicators of some kind of nascent resurgence in the general economy. In psychology it's called being delusional.

More online home shopping? more use of local convenience stores? or the govt's own subsidised pig out at the taxpayers' expense ,Mon-Wed during August.scheme to rejuvenate the comatose hospitality sector.

I think that other great exponent of fiction,Raymond Chandler had it down pat with this snippet of dialogue from "The Big Sleep". "The blind don't get to see,the lame don't get to walk and the dead stay that way." With lines like that,Chandler was probably a latent Calvinist.

Okay,so let's take another random,peripheral metric of consumption,of disposable income.

Last week's official UK Cinema takings were published as follows:- The Top Ten grossing films amassed £800k. usually at this time of year,Cinemas expect around £24m.in the week for the top ten grossing films across the UK.

Christopher Nolan's "Tenet" has been heralded as the coming "saviour" of mass cinema going when it's long delayed and much postponed is finally released in another week or so.

No chance.Cinema is one dead canary.

DUMB INSOLENCE #8

 DUMB INSOLENCE #8

And so it goes..

The UK government, as part of its non-strategy for responding to the non-pandemic,decide to enforce by antidemocratic diktat, the cancellation of all school exams.It was agreed by all stakeholder parties in the "education" "system" that the year's exams results would be determined by an algorithm furnished by Ofqual.

After all,once the biggest,dumbest decision is made to scuttle the cruise-liner that we're on ,you need some kind of serviceable life-raft to lend the rest of the disbelieving,gobsmacked world that you at least haven't abandon reason and intellect in the face of the global non-pandemic.

The devolved Scottish govt. was first in dealing ( swiftly ) with an unforeseeable and p.r. damaging outworking of their agreed to Ofqual algorithm.The same algorithm that hit the exams results in England,Wales and the Northern Ireland statelet. Only this time Sec.of State Williamson and his Universities subaltern Gibbs offered up a rerasoned and valiant defence of the outcomes.

Even though in broad p.r. terms the vent-axia was inundated by the incoming faeces storm.But rather than acquiescing to the historically necessary expedient as pioneered by the Edinburgh administration;the Whitehall elites attempted a Rorke's Drift defence,clinging to their chosen mantra of " grade inflation".

Well,that line didn't see out the full week after it was first pronounced.The other 2 devolved administrations in Belfast and Cardiff herlmed by Opposition parties cottoned on quickly to the Scots' realpolitik.Whitehall and No10 don't do realpolitik or any other kind of viable politik it seems.

They do however do capitulation,in the most craven and cowardly manner possible and in full view of their unforgiving,revenge driven opponents and enemies.

And hey presto! The algorithm has been superceded by teachers' assessments of grades.and the entire Universities calendar and admissions have been screwed up a right treat.

That's what happens;whirlwinds are better left unsown.

DUMB INSOLENCE #7

 DUMB INSOLENCE #7

It's official,as if anything "Official" these days means anything at all, the UK is into its worst recession ever and its relative position vis a vis other OECD countries is the worst of all.As is its Covid-19 fatalities by whatever broad measure is used to determine such an ndeterminable figure.

The good news is that the global capitalist economic system has suffered and is ineluctably going to suffer further significant damage.Those sovereign nation states that have kept their nerves and a modicum of discipline are being impacted to a less egregious developments than those such as the UK,US etc. who went full on mental breakdown and ended up wetting their own beds over,more or less nothing at all.

20 weeks in to the Lockdown, the UK govt by "Statutory Instrument" silently introduced this edict:-

From today, Monday 10th August, it is now mandatory to wear a face covering when visiting theatres, museums and our public libraries.  For details please go to the Libraries page here.

Statutory Instrument No. 296 of 2020

The edict was signed by Hancock -Health Gauleiter. But he omitted the customary "Heil Hitler".

DUMB INSOLENCE #6

DUMB INSOLENCE #6

Every crisis is an opportunity,at least for some.And whether or not any group,party,movement or individual can successfully exploit the opportunities arising from any given crisis depends to a large degree on how how well organised,disciplined and determined they happen to be going into the crisis. 

It truly is axiomatic that in any given situation the most determined wins.

Self-proclaimed,Marxist led Back Lives Matter (BLM) are a case in point.Their actions,tactics and strategy for furthering their militant,antidemocratic marxist-millenarian vision and policies validate the presupposition about the most determined.

Others too,such Extinction Rebellion (XR) and their fellow-travellers in the wider mainstream environmentalist activism movements have also joined the chorus of hyenas wanting a share of the providential feast on the fallen Polity.

A polity barely recovered from the 2008 induced recession and kicked right back down again through a woefully managed quasi-pandemic that wrought many more times the socio-economic carnage than even the straightforward systemic financial reverse engineering conducted by the City & Wall St. oligarchs and dark Corporate globalising forces had previously attained.

BLM, swaggering and cocksure of their own impeccable,pseudo- spiritual righteousness and Leninist predestination are alpha predators with the sharpest claws and an insatiable appetite for grandiosely moronic and infantilised re-interprtation and sectarain-identity redacting of accepted  Canon of western historical narrative.

And even as the long drawn out surrender and self-abasement of our metropolitan ruling elites ,their governments and political class continues,their is some consolation to found in schadenfreude.

Two young lawyers from New York City ,participants in the BLM wave of organised violent,armed acts of sedition,decided to fire-bomb a police car.They were filmed ,photographed and even interviewd about their actions at the time.

They both face a minimum period of incarceration of 30 years and probably 45 years.And the US doesn't do namby-pamby parole.

DUMB INSOLENCE #5

                                                  DUMB INSOLENCE #5

Trying to avoid getting sucked into a blogging black hole over Covid-19,as happened with the three years long tortuous imbroglio of the Brexit aftermath is going to be difficult.Very difficult.

For example, China and the US instigate and stage-managed worsening relationship between the world's two economic superpowers ought to be No1 on any news agenda.

So should Libya,where the faction-riven,on-going low-level civil war has attracted foreign vultures to both sides.At the moment Turkey and its Arab backers,mainly Head-Choppers of Mecca are in an ever more dangerous stand-off with the KSA's Gulf opponents alongside Egypt, France and probably Italy and Greece should push come to shove.Sultan Erdogan has already begun the pre-emptive emotive rhetoric of the bog standard third rate demagogue by verbally abusing Greece and blathering on about making up for the mistakes the Ottoman Empire made during the first Balkans War of 1912.

Back in 2011, the UK's very own PM Cameron and French President Sarkozy took all the acclaim for overthrowing Gaddafi. Though they didn't take any further responsibilities for the tsunami of islamist terrorism,cataclysmic mass economic migration into Europe and the destabilisation of the Sahel right into Nigeria that came storming out of the Pandora's Box those two cretinous imbeciles wrenched open with so much alacrity.

And so on and so forth.But hey,let's talk the new voodoo practice that's sweeping the Uk and the rest of the advanced,liberal capitalist democracies. Wearing a mask to combat evil miasmas that might or might not be lurking in the air.And this voodoo practice carries with it the full sanction of The Law.

If you can impair,sabotage or bring to a dead halt a state's national economy,you undermine its security and military preparedness and thereby weaken its diplomatic heft in the big bad world of global realpolitik.

Game over.