We do indeed live in interesting times.
And that's cold bloody comfort for the 99.999% of human society who are at best mere spectators of the events unfolding in the Middle Eastern imbroglio aka Iran /Iraq /Syria.
Having brazenly violated recognised tenets of International Law as well as long held diplomatic norms and conventions, POTUS Trump as Commander-in-Chief threatened in the most egregiously graphic terms to annihilate Iranian cultural sites should the government in Tehran consider some sort of retaliatory action against the US for its assassination of General Soleimani.
Even the most reliably docile and compliant lickspittle NATO lackeys of the US were moved to point out that Trump's apocalyptic threat,if enacted,would constitute a war crime.
Trump and his coterie of war-mongering Neocon hawks -Pompeo et al blithely acknowledged this a couple of days later and muttered something about of course the'll be obeying international law on this matter.
Meanwhile, elements within the Iranian leadership ordered the firing of some ballistic missiles at targets inside Iraq being used as airbases for US led coalition forces.
Trump's tweeted response to this Iranian violation of International Law etc. was "All is Well"...
The UK government's posture on any of this is utterly and entirely superfluous and irrelevant and has no bearing on the situation.
Bluff,bluster and a vainglorious recapitulation that Britain used to be something 100 years ago are simply the ill rehearsed soliloquy repeated by idiots; full of sound and fury and signifying nothing.
Footnote: Book of Romans 3:10-12
Wednesday, 8 January 2020
Friday, 3 January 2020
fahrenheit451:362
There is no need for a disquisition on this matter.Brevity will suffice.
On the third day of the beginning of a new decade,POTUS Donald Trump ordered the assassination of Iran's leading military Commander General Soleimani. The drone strike took place at Baghdad International airport in Iraq.
You could argue that several ,what are considered inviolable,tenets of International Law were violated.
One head of state ordering the killing of a prominent general of another state whilst they are not at war with one another, on the territory of a third state is indisputably gangsterism.
Then again, the conservative Republican neocon faction and their liberal Democrat overseas interventionist counterparts in Washington DC are the very bedrock of US imperialist foreign and military policies.They are both the authors of chaos and the harbingers of cataclysm.
The Rubicon has been crossed.
The only scenario left to ponder is,when it will be deemed expedient to eliminate a Chinese or Russian general in such a similar fashion.
On the third day of the beginning of a new decade,POTUS Donald Trump ordered the assassination of Iran's leading military Commander General Soleimani. The drone strike took place at Baghdad International airport in Iraq.
You could argue that several ,what are considered inviolable,tenets of International Law were violated.
One head of state ordering the killing of a prominent general of another state whilst they are not at war with one another, on the territory of a third state is indisputably gangsterism.
Then again, the conservative Republican neocon faction and their liberal Democrat overseas interventionist counterparts in Washington DC are the very bedrock of US imperialist foreign and military policies.They are both the authors of chaos and the harbingers of cataclysm.
The Rubicon has been crossed.
The only scenario left to ponder is,when it will be deemed expedient to eliminate a Chinese or Russian general in such a similar fashion.
Tuesday, 24 December 2019
fahrenheit451:361
And so it goes...this is my final blog of 2019.A year of consistent achievement,innovation and progress seen on my many fronts -some personal,some of wider significance.And at the centre of them all,Wakefield. Google #WakeyLit19 ,checkout all 3 of the articles published by Wakefield Express , go to the #WakeyLit19 facebook page. As a pioneering project on its first test run, it succeeded in proving that its underlying ethos and theory works.
Mary Creagh back in May 2019 however wanted nothing to with it.This from her email to me :-
"I must admit I felt some surprise when I received your email, given you have made several negative comments about me on Twitter and Facebook. I attach a couple of these but, as we know, there are many more.
I hope you understand my apprehension about your request following your comments on social media. Using language like ‘traitor’ ‘shill’ and ‘paranoid delusions’ to attack me on a personal level makes it difficult for us to work together constructively.
I am therefore unable to accept your invitation to be Patron of your project."
In December ,after 14 long years as Labour MP ,the leading Labour EU supporting Remoaner was defeated by the Tories' last minute replacement candidate and for the first time since 1932,the parliamentary constituency of Wakefield elected a Conservative MP.
"Traitor" "shill" and "paranoid delusions". Confirmed.
Clinical,disinterested,unbiased observations on objective psychological and political phenomena are never personal.
Around 66% of Wakefield's electorate had voted Leave in the EURef 2016,of whom Creagh and other leading Labour Remain MPs said variously at times were- thick,uneducated,stupid,racist xenophobic,insular,little englanders.
Now we know who's on the right side of History and whose analysis and insights accord with reality.
Her party political acolytes had long since prostituted and devalued the once impeccable stature of the Black Horse Poets - of whom Creagh had been appointed as Patron back in 2008- by relocating the group's base to the sectarian,party political shithole venue aka The Red Shed.
Their subsequent official ideologically motivated boycott of the proceedings of #WakeyLit19-in the wake of Creagh's idiotic email came as no surprise.
Vacuous sloganising and faux-moralising about world and national political events and personalities - in lieu of writing and developing Poetry-has long since been de rigeur for Performance Poet/Spoken word artists/poets across the UK.
What an epitaph to mediocrity.
Thursday, 19 December 2019
fahrenheit451:360
This should be my final blog posting for 2019.
If nothing else the year brought to mind the time worn adage,attributed to Karl Marx, that History repeats itself,first as a tragedy then as a farce.
2019 is drawing to a close with the US House of Representatives voting to have President Trump Impeached.The so-called impeachment trial will take place in the US Senate,who it seems from a party partisan perspective will in effect nullify the charges which the Democrat party controlled House of Representatives have passed against POTUS.
The Democratic Party's insidious Long War to overturn the 2016 Presidential election result enters what are,its final stages.
The malevolent,anti-populist campaign that sought unceasingly to slander,defame,denounce and vilify Trump's upset victory over the odds-on favourite,globalist,deep state warmonger champion Hilary Clinton has now gone on for so long that the constitutional electoral cycle is now prepping for the 2020 Presidential election.
This particularly American Grand Farce had (has?) its mirror image here in the UK,where our domestic equivalent of the globalist deep state aka the metropolitan ruling elite aka the establishment had similarly conducted an EU financed campaign of slander,defamation,denunciation and vilification of the 2016 EU Referendum Result and all those whose Voted to Leave upset the elites' apple cart.
The Tory electoral triumph- with an overall Commons majority of 80 seats, led by a barnstroming PM Boris Johnson has finally drawn a line under the do we-don't we actually carry out the mandate for Brexit. Yes we bloody well do.
The UK's farce unlike the one across "The Pond",doesn't end in an impeachment or trial of any kind,but rather in a brutally divisive internecine Labour leadership contest of all whose putative candidates helped spearhead the EU funded,seditionist,metropolitan elitist run Remain campaign.
Oh,and on a more personal note, another one of the driving forces behind the Remoaners ,Mary Creagh's 14 year long occupation of the Wakefield parliamentary constituency as Labour's resident deluded haridan,ended in well earned ignominy losing the seat to the Tories who last held it in ...1932.
SCHADENFREUDE!!!
If nothing else the year brought to mind the time worn adage,attributed to Karl Marx, that History repeats itself,first as a tragedy then as a farce.
2019 is drawing to a close with the US House of Representatives voting to have President Trump Impeached.The so-called impeachment trial will take place in the US Senate,who it seems from a party partisan perspective will in effect nullify the charges which the Democrat party controlled House of Representatives have passed against POTUS.
The Democratic Party's insidious Long War to overturn the 2016 Presidential election result enters what are,its final stages.
The malevolent,anti-populist campaign that sought unceasingly to slander,defame,denounce and vilify Trump's upset victory over the odds-on favourite,globalist,deep state warmonger champion Hilary Clinton has now gone on for so long that the constitutional electoral cycle is now prepping for the 2020 Presidential election.
This particularly American Grand Farce had (has?) its mirror image here in the UK,where our domestic equivalent of the globalist deep state aka the metropolitan ruling elite aka the establishment had similarly conducted an EU financed campaign of slander,defamation,denunciation and vilification of the 2016 EU Referendum Result and all those whose Voted to Leave upset the elites' apple cart.
The Tory electoral triumph- with an overall Commons majority of 80 seats, led by a barnstroming PM Boris Johnson has finally drawn a line under the do we-don't we actually carry out the mandate for Brexit. Yes we bloody well do.
The UK's farce unlike the one across "The Pond",doesn't end in an impeachment or trial of any kind,but rather in a brutally divisive internecine Labour leadership contest of all whose putative candidates helped spearhead the EU funded,seditionist,metropolitan elitist run Remain campaign.
Oh,and on a more personal note, another one of the driving forces behind the Remoaners ,Mary Creagh's 14 year long occupation of the Wakefield parliamentary constituency as Labour's resident deluded haridan,ended in well earned ignominy losing the seat to the Tories who last held it in ...1932.
SCHADENFREUDE!!!
Friday, 13 December 2019
fahrenheit451:359
Well,that's one great big effing surprise if there ever was one!!
A 70+ seats overall majority and Labour's worst result since 1935.
Considering that my own best guesses were centred around a small Tory majority or essentially a hung parliament - you can never be too pessimistic when it comes to Election outcomes ;after all where would the overwhelming joy & mood of celebration be in the wake of a really great and unexpected triumph if you had confidently predicted precisely that beforehand ? exactly; relief is part of joy,the thrill of the ride.
There was also the added bonus,the doubleplusgood frisson of Schadenfruede :-
#GeneralElection2019 #Wakefield #MaryCreagh It's carnage time at the twitter coliseum Steve McQueen announces "14 Years A Constituent" -follow-up to "12 Years A Slave".in which the ordinary folk of #Wakefield are liberated from their patronising metropolitan Labour Remoaner slave -vote owner #MaryCreagh in #GeneralElection2019 pic.twitter.com/AeB0EzzwrB
This is now the third time in succession that the EU / Soros funded seditionists of the metropolitan elitist run Remain campaign have been beaten.
And Labour joins pretty much all of the rest of their comradely sister Socialist parties from all across the continent of Europe in the coffin with the final nail getting hammered in.
Schadenfreude indeed!!
Goodnight and Hail Brexit ,Hail Victory!!
A 70+ seats overall majority and Labour's worst result since 1935.
Considering that my own best guesses were centred around a small Tory majority or essentially a hung parliament - you can never be too pessimistic when it comes to Election outcomes ;after all where would the overwhelming joy & mood of celebration be in the wake of a really great and unexpected triumph if you had confidently predicted precisely that beforehand ? exactly; relief is part of joy,the thrill of the ride.
There was also the added bonus,the doubleplusgood frisson of Schadenfruede :-
#GeneralElection2019 #Wakefield #MaryCreagh It's carnage time at the twitter coliseum Steve McQueen announces "14 Years A Constituent" -follow-up to "12 Years A Slave".in which the ordinary folk of #Wakefield are liberated from their patronising metropolitan Labour Remoaner slave -vote owner #MaryCreagh in #GeneralElection2019 pic.twitter.com/AeB0EzzwrB
This is now the third time in succession that the EU / Soros funded seditionists of the metropolitan elitist run Remain campaign have been beaten.
And Labour joins pretty much all of the rest of their comradely sister Socialist parties from all across the continent of Europe in the coffin with the final nail getting hammered in.
Schadenfreude indeed!!
Goodnight and Hail Brexit ,Hail Victory!!
Tuesday, 10 December 2019
fahrenheit451:358
#YellowRose #NotinMyName are the latest hashtags -the flotsam and jetsam of Soros' deep pockets to fan the flames of a EU orchestrated make-believe persecution complex about the supposed fate or otherwise of EU citizens working and sojourning within the borders of the UK.
The Maastricht Treaty (formally, the Treaty on European Union or TEU) undertaken to integrate Europe was signed on 7 February 1992 by the members of the European Community in Maastricht, Netherlands.[1] On 9–10 December 1991, the same city hosted the European Council which drafted the treaty.[2] Upon its entry into force on 1 November 1993 during the Delors Commission,[3] it created the European Union and led to the creation of the single European currency, the euro. The Maastricht Treaty has been amended by the treaties of Amsterdam, Nice andLisbon.
A referendum was expected to take place in the United Kingdom in 2006 to decide whether the country should ratify the proposed Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. However, following the rejection of the Constitution by similar referendums in France in May 2005 and the Netherlands in June 2005, the UK vote was postponed indefinitely.
The question was rendered moot when the constitution was superseded by the Treaty of Lisbon, which Parliament ratified in 2008 without holding a referendum.
And here we are,the bogus #The3Million aka #PeoplesVote aka EU funded seditionists spearheaded by Labour actually sabotaged Brexit and in effect won!
Thursday, 5 December 2019
fahrenheit451:357
Yes indeed, things can go from bad to worse and from fraught situations to terribly fraught situations in the twinkling of an eye.
With just over a week to go of the General Election 2019 aka GE2019, NATO held their Leaders'summit in London,the occasion also marked the organisation's 70th. anniversary of coming into existence.
Supposedly predicated on the axiom of one for all and all for one,the truth is it hasn't been doing a terribly good job at even maintaining some sort of superficial yet agreeable pretence that the rule of law or some such ludicrous notion actually operates within NATO.
The US and Turkey's machiavellian machinations in the Syria imbroglio is the prime case in point.France's President Macron reiterated with the typical verbal elan oft ascribed to his countrymen,that NATO must be brain dead and that what Turkey was doing in Syria vis a vis the Kurds was not acceptable.
US President Trump on the contrary demurred in his customary,erm,style.
A tisket,a tasket NATO's heads all in a basket.Member betraying member by failing to appraise them of some strategic ledgerdemain?
Well how about NATO member Turkey invading and conquering the northern part of Cyprus in 1974?The UN member island state remains partitioned to this day.The British forces garrison at the time was made to look on in stunned disbelief and diplomatic abasement before the Turkish military's coup-de-main.
Moving forward in 1982 and when NATO member state Great Britain was attacked by Argentina of all countries,the organisation's Three Musketeers-esque cri-de-coeur was hastily ignored as everyone looked elsewhere hoping to avoid making diplomatic eye contact with the British.
The French,in revenge no doubt for the British sinking the French fleet at Mers el KIber in 1940, addressed the Argentinian aggression in the Falklands,by promptly supplying the Argies' airforce with the exocet missiles they needed to sink British ships.
And then in 1983,there were the Yanks storming into the tiny Caribbean island nation state of Grenada - a member of the British Commonwealth ,without informing beforehand the bemused Thatcher government in London at the time.
And so on and so forth.
Then there's NATO's ignominy in Yugoslavia and its various component republics,Iraq (twice),Afghanistan,Libya and Syria.But they call them successes and in any case the burgeoning 29 nation state member alliance has more more pressing matters to worry over at this moment,when Trump called Trudeau two-faced on the record.
Terrorism,Russia and the emerging threat of China are vying for top spot in NATO's contrived moral panic list.
In conclusion,with the wannabe great Ottoman Sultan Erdogan getting effective carte-blanche to do whatever in Syria,one can only conclude that by NATO's own historic criteria,rules and policies -NATO itself is a terrorist organisation.
With just over a week to go of the General Election 2019 aka GE2019, NATO held their Leaders'summit in London,the occasion also marked the organisation's 70th. anniversary of coming into existence.
Supposedly predicated on the axiom of one for all and all for one,the truth is it hasn't been doing a terribly good job at even maintaining some sort of superficial yet agreeable pretence that the rule of law or some such ludicrous notion actually operates within NATO.
The US and Turkey's machiavellian machinations in the Syria imbroglio is the prime case in point.France's President Macron reiterated with the typical verbal elan oft ascribed to his countrymen,that NATO must be brain dead and that what Turkey was doing in Syria vis a vis the Kurds was not acceptable.
US President Trump on the contrary demurred in his customary,erm,style.
A tisket,a tasket NATO's heads all in a basket.Member betraying member by failing to appraise them of some strategic ledgerdemain?
Well how about NATO member Turkey invading and conquering the northern part of Cyprus in 1974?The UN member island state remains partitioned to this day.The British forces garrison at the time was made to look on in stunned disbelief and diplomatic abasement before the Turkish military's coup-de-main.
Moving forward in 1982 and when NATO member state Great Britain was attacked by Argentina of all countries,the organisation's Three Musketeers-esque cri-de-coeur was hastily ignored as everyone looked elsewhere hoping to avoid making diplomatic eye contact with the British.
The French,in revenge no doubt for the British sinking the French fleet at Mers el KIber in 1940, addressed the Argentinian aggression in the Falklands,by promptly supplying the Argies' airforce with the exocet missiles they needed to sink British ships.
And then in 1983,there were the Yanks storming into the tiny Caribbean island nation state of Grenada - a member of the British Commonwealth ,without informing beforehand the bemused Thatcher government in London at the time.
And so on and so forth.
Then there's NATO's ignominy in Yugoslavia and its various component republics,Iraq (twice),Afghanistan,Libya and Syria.But they call them successes and in any case the burgeoning 29 nation state member alliance has more more pressing matters to worry over at this moment,when Trump called Trudeau two-faced on the record.
Terrorism,Russia and the emerging threat of China are vying for top spot in NATO's contrived moral panic list.
In conclusion,with the wannabe great Ottoman Sultan Erdogan getting effective carte-blanche to do whatever in Syria,one can only conclude that by NATO's own historic criteria,rules and policies -NATO itself is a terrorist organisation.
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