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.

DUMB INSOLENCE #4

                                                       DUMB INSOLENCE #4

In the midst of an ongoing sniffles & coughing state of emergency, HMG of the UK (now independent) has found the elbow room to posture and strut their hour upon the world stage.

Giving Russia a ticking off would be under normal circumstances,seen as the trilling of a parrot who without realising it  has just told the listener to eff off.

But the UK Pandemic Hysteria Regime has gone one better,it has gotten itself embroiled in a toe to toe slanging match with The Peoples' Republic of China. 20x the UK'spopulation and No.2 soon to be No1 economic global superpower.

Its own entire historical narrative backstory of previous centuries aside for the moment, does the Westminster coven of chancers,footpads,embezzlers,hypocrites and liars have a tenuous claim to some ahistorical,over-arching inherent morality so lacking in the actions and behaviours of other sovereign nstion states and their foreign and domestic political agendas on whose own peoples' behalf they administer and govern with inalienable legitimacy?

The brief response is,of course,ineluctable,no.No,the Westminster Regime has no such basis,since no such basis has ever existed in time,space and history of this our World,ever.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Wahabi Islamic zealots and funders of islamist terrorism) would not be capable in the slightest degree of waging a prolonged war of aggression and its corollary of genocidal war crimes in Yemen against the Houthi populace without the massive support and backing of the UK.

The UK's co-equal USNATO satrapy,Turkey is also allowed to lavishly indulge president/Sultan Erdogan's insatiable appetite for foreign invasion,occupation and ethnic cleansing inside Syria.To which, of course the UK is wholly in agreement.

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We don't have to worry about when WW3 might start or not. It has already started. A couple of weeks ago one of the myriad groups embroiled in the Syrian conflict, the so-called US-led Coalition consisting of the anti-Assad Syrian Free Army et al, bombed and destroyed  a convoy of those fighters directly allied to the Syrian government.That in itself violated quite few international legal norms.This US-led Coalition has since that incident gone on to carry out two further attacks of a similar nature. Subsequently the US has directly reinforced its illegal front operating base that houses those SFA elements with additional US personnel and upgraded heavy field artillery. This is to counter the success of President Assad's allies in reaching the Iraq border that has hemmed in the US' allies advance northward. To say nothing of Turkey's equally unlawful partial occupation of sovereign Syrian territory and its partisan support of yet more various and diverse factions who in their turn are at odds with not only the Syrian government and its allies,but also the various elements of the FSA as well. And so on and so forth ad nauseum.  The other,supposedly main conflict against ISIS/Daesh against which all the other 3 rivals are supposed to be directing the majority of their ire and wrath continues apace not only inside Syria but over in Iraq where the balance of contending forces are somewhat different but nevertheless contain an equally combustible array of ethnic/national/international and confessional factions.The Republican neocons in Washington and their liberal interventionist Democratic co-conspirators are not up for even trying to contemplate a grand strategic/diplomatic bargain with the other major players in this conflict. Rather the imbeciles in and around the Capitol continue to pursue and enforce sanctions against Russia and Iran for a whole host of specious,contradictory and bellicose reasons. Throw in the Saudi led intervention in the Yemeni civil war,the new Qatar imbroglio,the developing cataclysm in Libya,unrest in Morocco and Egypt and Israel's duplicitous and underhand role in virtually all of them and you know that none of this bodes well for the rest of us. The government in Tehran let it be known that the illegal US forward base in Syria is now within their missiles range. And of course nobody is going to back down anytime soon. Epic schadenfreude?

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A couple of days ago,worldwide mainstream media platforms were alive with the " news " that the European Union's " Parliament "  called for the suspension of EU membership talks with Turkey. 479 in favor, 37 against, 107 abstentions. Scary.

The parliament is the most moribund and redundant of all the multi-headed EU Hydra's appendages.  The Hydra that constitutes that monumental obscenity of international politics, the European Union. Kleptocracy, nepotism,corruption and incompetence are its true four fundamental characteristics. Quite what business its dysfunctional castrato chamber of deputies manque has in censuring the sovereign,democratic nation state of Turkey - or anywhere else for that matter - is beyond the intellectual capacity of most sentient and rational beings on this planet to comprehend. EP ( european parliament ) has pretensions way beyond its capacities ever to realise them.It may as a body, scrutinise and debate and recommend but it does so void of any institutional power and authority. The one thing EP does do with remarkable alacrity, devoid of any grasp or understanding of global Realpolitik, is pass Motions declaring this,that and t'other. The failing,western pluralist democratic consensus around neoliberalism, neoCon military intervention and dishing out economic sanctions is at the very heart of EP. Sovereign nation states such as Turkey are deemed to be " out of order " for acting in the defence of  their own legitimate interests. Arresting newspaper editors, closing oppositional TV stations ,restricting the rights of communities openly colluding with terrorist insurgents might all be " unacceptable " to the political classes and Commentariat in Sweden or Germany, but what exactly the hell else do they expect from a government headed by President Erdogan?  the only mystery here is why does the leadership in Turkey persist with an essentially delusional policy of wishing to join and integrate with the european union? An orientation toward the nascent Shanghai Cooperation Organisaton of China,Russia and four former central Asian soviet republics would make far more sense. There you go. Oh and since the USA and its EUNATO satrapies extirpated Saddam Hussain's Iraq and Qadaffi's Libya and just about did the same to Assad's Syria, the only bulwark against totally catastrophic unrestricted mass migration into continental europe is now to all practical intents and purposes, Erdogan's Turkey. Game on European Parliament!

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NATO is when all's said and done, merely a convenient instrument by which the United States carries out its foreign policy objectives. These imperial policy goals are enacted through a flexible combination of of political sophistry, economic intimidation and military acts of aggression. Yugoslavia, Afghanistan,Iraq,Libya,Syria,Iran,Ukraine are amongst the most recent targets. Each " intervention " with or without any additional  legitimising UN authorisation, has brought about far wider and longer lasting  geopolitical ructions than perhaps even the most hawkish Washington neocon warmonger could possibly have contemplated. A direct Turkish military invasion of Syria was, most likely, not on the neocons list of what could possibly go wrong list when they set about engineering the destruction of what is now disparagingly in the West called , " The Assad Regime ". Likewise Russia being granted operational capabilities on Iranian airfields was another scenario Washington couldn't see coming. The emergence of ISIS/Daesh, the rise of ethnic Kurdish militias inside Syria. Flashpoint upon flashpoint until what the underlying neocon policy objectives were to begin with are now enmeshed in an ungovernable vortex. Despite all its proselytising Commentators and Experts intellectual /quasi-philosophical pretensions about " order " and predictability, the capitalist system is itself predicated on continuing chaos and greater or lesser degrees of innate instability. The Ruling Elites and their fervent, obedient acolytes of the political class believe as an article of faith, in the efficacy of " market forces ". Profit and loss. Thaumaturgy for the 21st,century.The neocon global military strategists and thinkers are there to formulate policies that are intended to reinforce the economic doctrines and practices of neoliberalism. Which in essence equate precisely with the defined policy objectives of the western industrialised liberal democracies under the hegemony of the  United States.  It's a good thing therefore that this depraved and dysfunctional nostalgia for a western dominated unipolar world is being successfully,albeit incrementally challenged by the likes of China; of whom it was widely reported the other week:-

China’s official Xinhua news agency said in a commentary that recent visit by Guan Youfei, the Chinese military official charged with overseeing international cooperation, signaled Beijing’s willingness to boost military cooperation with the Damascus government.

And I bet that wasn't on the US State Department's Top 10 list of what could possibly go wrong in Syria either.

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As the ISIS/DAESH contagion has spread, so too has the deployment of NATO forces. And in the last few days, the number of official announcements as to the " success " of aircraft and " special forces " of various NATO member states has also increased. Libya and Iraq seem to be front and centre of Washington and its satrapies' current round of bellicose media pronouncements as to the much vaunted efficacy and impact of  US imperialism's aggression. Not Syria though, where the hydra-headed multiplicity of identities which are in effect Al-Qaeda in disguise, are maintaining their brand of psychotically deranged carnage against an encircled and besieged civilian population long since dissuaded of any romantic notions of  domestic political reform, let alone liberation from any such arrangements driven by moronic jihadi nihilists. Even the, newly awaiting-Brexit, lost sovereignty in remission, UK has managed to wade in with its two Tornado strike aircraft. Those self same two Tornadoes lionised by that idiotic, now former shadow foreign secretary Son of Benn, during his stupefyingly crass and verbose parliamentary petomainage that legitimised the UK's volte-face in assisting  the US to bomb Syria.  Ho-hum, such are the quotidian concerns of everyday Imperialism, the footpads to Global Corporate Capitalism's Ruling Elite Moriarty - the Napoleon of Crime.

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So, anyway we're now into a fully fledged-motoring toward an existential abyss -Plebiscite on the question of our once Sovereign Nation's continuing subservience and deeper incorporation into the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation under the aegis of Empress Angela.

Or at least it would seem so from the requisite prominence being accorded this most vital of concerns throughout the mainstream and not so mainstream Media. But,hang on a mo' what's this being sneaked past our ever vigilant parliamentary watchmen,those heroes of Labour ?

The Daily ProperToryGraph  reports :-

18 APRIL 2016 • 10:00PM

 " Britain is prepared to send troops to Libya to bolster the country against Islamic State without asking for Parliament’s permission, the Foreign Secretary has said.

Philip Hammond said MPs need not be given a vote, as they were for air strikes in Iraq and Syria, because British troops would be deployed on a training rather than combat mission.

The Foreign Secretary spoke as the Government rejected Labour calls for a legal guarantee that MPs could veto sending troops to war in future.

Enshrining in law the current agreement that MPs vote on sending troops to fight would tie the hands of a future Government and limit options in a crisis, the Defence Secretary said.

Defence chiefs are considering offering as many as 1,000 troops as part of an international effort to train the police and army of the fledgling Tripoli government.  "

So,where's Shadow Foreign Secretary Benn's impassioned,hyperbolic,quasi-moralistic outrage when you need some ? After all ,during the "Can We Bomb parts of Syria,please "debate , he managed to invoke the entire,largely bogus mythology surrounding the events in Spain 1936-39 with such aplomb that many a grown politician,ekeing out a pitiful existence on parliamentary expenses,were reduced to weeping aloud and gnashing their privately maintained teeth and some,those on the proper Left may even had cause to rend their garments.

But not this time,a diplomatic " piss off " is all that our sojourners on the benches of Westminster are getting by way of reasoned argument sans actual debate in the hallowed Chamber. The Chamber of the Commons which has seen many an eloquent rhetorical defence of,the continuation of slavery,arrest and imprisonment and execution of various opposition leaders and people who the majority wanted rid of, ( circa 1630-49 ).

And so it goes,bomb a country,destroy a country,lament the ensuing chaos,look aghast at all the people who flee the chaos and then cobble together something anything with a lot of heavily armed gangsters who are only in it for the money and the power. And of course there are also the diverse Libyan factions to deal with as well.

Postscript :-

Oh and don't forget to comply and endorse in a personal and meaningful way your own desire that the place you were born and brought up in remains a peripheral maritime province of the Imperial Tyranny.Who ,quite honestly couldn't care less one way or t'other.Unless,of course you happen to be someone who shares the intellectual rigour and comprehensive worldview of someone like, Mary Creagh MP.