UPDATE
Minutes after I posted this article, the ludicrous Jess Phillips published an article in the Guardian which could not have been better designed to prove my thesis. A number of people have posted comments on the Guardian article pointing this out, and they have all been immediately deleted by the Guardian. I just tried it myself and was also deleted. I should be grateful if readers could now also try posting comments there, in order to make a point about censorship on the Guardian.
Catching up on a fortnight’s news, I have spent five hours searching in vain for criticism of Simon Danczuk from prominent or even just declared feminists. The Guardian was the obvious place to start, but while they had two articles by feminist writers condemning Chris Gayle’s clumsy attempt to chat up a presenter, their legion of feminist columnists were entirely silent on Danczuk. The only opinion piece was strongly defending him.
This is very peculiar. The allegation against Danczuk which is under police investigation – of initiating sex with a sleeping woman – is identical to the worst interpretation of the worst accusation against Julian Assange. The Assange allegation brought literally hundreds, probably thousands of condemnatory articles from feminist writers across the entire range of the mainstream media. I have dug up 57 in the Guardian alone with a simple and far from exhaustive search. In the case of Danczuk I can find nothing, zilch, nada. Not a single feminist peep.
The Assange case is not isolated. Tommy Sheridan has been pursuing a lone legal battle against the Murdoch empire for a decade, some of it in prison when the judicial system decided his “perjury” was imprisonable but Andy Coulson’s admitted perjury on the Murdoch side in the same case was not. I personally witnessed in court in Edinburgh last month Tommy Sheridan, with no lawyer (he has no money) arguing against a seven man Murdoch legal team including three QCs, that a letter from the husband of Jackie Bird of BBC Scotland should be admitted in evidence. Bird was working for Murdoch and suggested in his letter that a witness should be “got out of the country” to avoid giving evidence. The bias exhibited by the leading judge I found astonishing beyond belief. I was the only media in the court.
Yet even though the Murdoch allegations against Sheridan were of consensual sexual conduct, Sheridan’s fight against Murdoch has been undermined from the start by the massive and concerted attack he has faced from the forces of feminism. Just as the vital messages WikiLeaks and Assange have put out about war crimes, corruption and the relentless state attack on civil liberties have been undermined by the concerted feminist campaign promoting the self-evidently ludicrous claims of sexual offence against Assange.
As soon as the radical left pose the slightest threat to the neo-con establishment, an army of feminists can be relied upon to run a concerted campaign to undermine any progress the left wing might make. The attack on Jeremy Corbyn over the makeup of his shadow cabinet was a classic example. It is the first ever gender equal shadow cabinet, but the entire media for a 96 hour period last September ran headline news that the lack of women in the “top” posts was anti-feminist. Every feminist commentator in the UK piled in.
Among the obvious dishonesties of this campaign was the fact that Defence, Chancellor, Foreign Affairs and Home Secretary have always been considered the “great offices of State” and the argument only could be made by simply ignoring Defence. The other great irony was the “feminist” attack was led by Blairites like Harman and Cooper, and failed to address the fact that Blair had NO women in any of these posts for a full ten years as Prime Minister.
But facts did not matter in deploying the organised feminist lobby against Corbyn.
Which is why it is an important test to see what the feminists, both inside and outside the Labour Party, would do when the leading anti-Corbyn rent-a-gob, Simon Danczuk, was alleged to have some attitudes to women that seem very dubious indeed, including forcing an ex-wife into non-consensual s&m and that rape allegation.
And the answer is …nothing. Feminists who criticised Assange, Sheridan and Corbyn in droves were utterly silent on the subject of Danczuk. Because the purpose of established and paid feminism is to undermine the left in the service of the neo-cons, not to attack neo-cons like Danczuk.
Identity politics has been used to shatter any attempt to campaign for broader social justice for everybody. Instead it becomes about the rights of particular groups, and that is soon morphed into the neo-con language of opportunity. What is needed, modern feminism argues, is not a reduction of the vast gap between rich and poor, but a chance for some women to become Michelle Mone or Ann Gloag. It is not about good conditions for all, but the removal of glass ceilings for high paid feminist journalists or political hacks.
Feminism has become the main attack tool in the neo-con ideological arsenal. I am sceptical the concept can be redeemed from this.
Everyone loves an artist such as Bowie and whence it comes to dying from cancer, the collective sadness in us holds far longer than that of the fickle addicted MSM.
I will remember him for his music. His death, much felt by us all was a relief, far more than sorrow, and it was a happy relief, because he managed to finish his last album, leaving us as he wanted to, via an exquisite exit, he left in the same style he introduced himself to us.
David Bowie achieved everything he wanted, he must have been a contented person during his last hours of agony. I for one feel happy for him, having cancer that is inoperable and deadly does focus your mind and makes you yearn for the moment of release.
RIP David Bowie, you have enlightened our world immensely.
Paul Barbara
Your comment explains a lot about Iraq, Libya and Syria. Thanks.
Germany’s Ms. von der Leyen, defence minister, has decided to lease Israeli fighting drones of the type Heron TB. This is to join the global illegal use of this weapon type asap. I despair and hope that the next Government will be fielded by social democrats.
If you are unable to translate what you want to know, ask please and I will try my best in the time I have available.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundeswehr-will-israelische-kampfdrohne-heron-tp-leasen-a-1071557.html
now off doing some work.
Blow-back or false-flag?
Istanbul bomb:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/turkey/12094350/Explosion-in-Istanbuls-central-square-causes-casualties.html
Dead Pop Singer Recalibrates Genius Scale –
British astronaut Tim Peake tweeted his sadness from outer space aboard the International Space Station, while London Mayor Boris Johnson said “No-one in our age has better deserved to be called a genius.”
(CBS News)
Jesus.
Still, a good day to bury bad news…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/12093807/RBS-cries-sell-everything-as-deflationary-crisis-nears.html
Fred will be incoherent with joy if oil goes to $10. Always look on the bright side.
“Fred will be incoherent with joy if oil goes to $10. Always look on the bright side.”
Just can’t leave off your nasty nationalist intimidation can you?
Other news:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-35291874
Only good thing is we didn’t fall for the nationalist lies before the referendum.
Fred: “Just can’t leave off your nasty nationalist intimidation can you?”
You mean you weren’t crowing with delight every time the price of oil dropped, and it wasn’t you who posted the good news here on hundreds of occasions?
“You mean you weren’t crowing with delight every time the price of oil dropped, and it wasn’t you who posted the good news here on hundreds of occasions?”
Posting reality for the brainwashed who would rather believe the nationalist fantasies. There are still nationalists claiming there is no crisis.
Node keeps posting the latest atrocities in Palestine but I don’t accuse him of crowing with delight about them.
Now did you have anything relevant to Scottish economics say or are you just going to keep on sniping at other posters hoping you can badger them into keeping quiet?
“Now did you have anything relevant to Scottish economics say or are you just going to keep on sniping at other posters hoping you can badger them into keeping quiet?”
Oh, I’m just going to keep on sniping at – Ahh! wait a minute, I saw what you did there, you sneaky devil!
@giyane 12 Jan, 2016 – 10:49 am
False Flag, obviously. “Turkey’s determined position will not change. We don’t make any difference between the names or abbreviations (of terror groups)” Erdogan adds.
“The first target of all the terror groups active in this region is Turkey. Because Turkey fights them all with the same determination.”
Just who does Erdogan think he’s kidding? ISIS poured across the Turkish border in columns of brand-new American manufactured Toyota pick-up trucks, mounted with powerful heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft guns and other weaponry. The ISIS thugs had been trained and equipped in Turkey. Turkey charged a commander and his troops of treason, or something similar, for stopping and searching three MIT lorries containing arms and ammo on the way into Syria.
Where is the rationale for ISIS/ISIL to bite the hand that feeds them? And, of course, ISIS/ISIL move unimpeded back and forth across the Turkish border, and it’s wounded thugs are treated in Turkish hospitals.
And one way to get such a perfect shot of the moment the bomb exploded was to know it was coming, and to have an SLR running taking umpteen shots a second.
To add a bit of icing, ‘The President has already said he blames a Syrian suicide bomber for today’s explosion’.
Giyane – 12 Jan, 2016 – 10:49 am – ad rem; the question uncovers the naked truth that Turkey, a NATO partner required a major terrorist incident to distract attention away from the embarrassment of sharing the same corner with ISIL.
Concurrently the corrupt media peddle and hawk stories that civilians are dying of starvation in the besieged Syrian town Madaya, blaming sick Assad supporters for denying daily bread & butter using earlier taken unrelated images of skin and bone bodies, widely circulating and falsely claiming they reflect the Madaya starvation while wrongfully blaming Damascus for imposing siege conditions i.e to vilify Assad’s government, notably ahead of this months peace talks.
The reality according to ‘one-leg John’ is that mercenaries (terrorists) have ambushed government vital aid, moved it to warehouses and sell it at blood-sucking prices, blocking its availability.
These Western paid terrorist fighters have also prevented Madaya residents from fleeing to safe havens, their snipers killing them. It is these elements who bear full responsibility for dire humanitarian conditions throughout the country.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3391913/Regime-supporters-trolling-Syrians-starving-besieged-town-Madaya-tweeting-pictures-dinner.html
Glenn, wrt RobG, you may have missed the exchange recently where he proved himself to be denying that the Paris attacks took place at all. That is was all actors and tomato ketchup. An extreme case of denial. Plus his usual refrain of living in a police-state etc. One cannot take him seriously, at least I speak for myself.
Well said, Mark, and worth repeating :
“The reality according to ‘one-leg John’ is that mercenaries (terrorists) have ambushed government vital aid, moved it to warehouses and sell it at blood-sucking prices, blocking its availability.
These Western paid terrorist fighters have also prevented Madaya residents from fleeing to safe havens, their snipers killing them. It is these elements who bear full responsibility for dire humanitarian conditions throughout the country.”
‘Posting reality for the brainwashed’….
Well, superior Fred, this morning accusation of….
“Just can’t leave off your nasty nationalist intimidation can you?”
…was referring to??? absolutely nothing, no attack whatsoever,once again its just in your head. Take your pills Fred, you are a tad irate, for nowt.
“…was referring to??? absolutely nothing, no attack whatsoever,once again its just in your head. Take your pills Fred, you are a tad irate, for nowt.”
I don’t think that’s for you to say.
So why not all just leave off the personal attacks against other posters and you mind your own business.
“Lysias’ point was about timing, not numbers.”
I suspect that you may be right.
I would add that Hitler’s murders were already legion- and his concentration camp system, staffed by sadists at this stage, was well established in 1934. The Night of the Long Knives-much as it will have appealed to dictators everywhere- was not the beginning of anything. The NAZI regime got worse but it was always bad.
So far as Stalin’s purges- and they were aimed at the right as well as left factions- are concerned they involved large numbers but they did not include “genocide” in the Ukraine.
I do not defend the purges but we owe it to the victims, as well as ourselves, to understand what was going on, and who they were, and not to deny “the Holocaust” by suggesting that NAZIism was just one more political experiment and its crimes equaled by, for example, those of the British Empire, the US or the Soviet Union.
The idea that the Soviet Union was as bad as NAZI Germany began with Goebbels (who seems to have been the first to report ‘the Holodomor’ and began the practise of using photographs of famines in 1921 or the C19th as ‘evidence’) and was established in the US by the House Unamerican Activities Committee when it was persecuting dissidents and terrorising the left.
So those dastardly chaps at the MoD tipped of Police Scotland that CND were onto the convoy of nuclear missiles from the Burghfield bomb factory in Berkshire, on their way to Coulport.
The missiles travelled by road in HGV’s on Saturday through Glasgow and Stirling, escorted by armed military personnel. The SCND the Scottish branch of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, followed the unwanted WMD’s around Scotland. But several members were abruptly stopped in their cars by jobs worth bobbies on the behest of the MoD.
Police Scotland had no real reason to stop the cars, but spend hours checking the road worthiness of the vehicles. Those hours wasted could’ve been put to better use, in a force already marred with controversy.
The sooner those WMD’s are removed from Scotland the better.
Westminster’s proposed new internet spying legislation the draft Investigatory Powers Bill could threaten key rights if passed unchanged, a group of UN rights experts has claimed.
A trio of special rapporteurs said it could threaten the rights to freedom of expression and association both inside and outside the country, and called for a comprehensive review of the bill.
The bill would allow the government (if they aren’t already doing it now covertly) to access all your Internet and telephone activities and hold them for 12 months. These records of your activities could be wheeled out again at a later date and used against you.
Also your telephone and internent activities will be used to build a profile on you that will either be deemed as passive or subversive depending on what the governments guidelines show.
The government then would have database of (dissidents) they could then try and stifle those people’s free speech on the web.
Mods:
They say a week is a long time in politics. Perhaps even a longer time away from the discussions here on the Blog. Grateful if you can please confirm whether Habby is free to comment here?
Best wishes to you, and Craig if he’s reading. Best wishes to Habby too, if he’s reading.
Why would Jerry Hall get engaged to Rupert Murdoch? It’s not as if she’s short of money. She has four kids to Mick Jagger, I’m reasonably sure Mr Jagger would have seen her alright on the cash front.
But what of Rupert Murdoch who’s 84 years of age compared to Jerry Hall’s 59 years of age does love really know no barriers?
Mr Murdoch has been around the block a few times this will be his fourth marriage, maybe he likes wedding cake. Still a shrewd and calculating man of Mr Murdoch’s stature, must know what he’s doing.
Love is indeed blind.
Bevin
12/01/2016 2:53am
Bevin,
Just for the record, could you state for how many deaths you believe Joseph Stalin is responsible, under what circumstances and for what motives they occurred, and from where you obtain your estimates or statistics?
Also I note that you make reference to Stalin’s “crimes”. Could you give as exact a sense as you can as to why you place the word in inverted commas?
Many thanks,
John
She moves to the absoluteTop League. Money and status are anything but blind.
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America, makes his final State of the Union address tonight.
Traditionally one of the biggest nights of the year in Washington DC, the State of the Union speech sees the President give an account of their year just past and sets out their legislative agenda for the year ahead.
He basically tells Congress and the American just how everything is going.
It could read something like this.
At home I still haven’t disarmed those pesky American citizens.
On the upside big pharma and my Zionist handlers have made their biggest profit margin since I became president.
Obamavilles are now beginning to spring up all over the USA, a sure sign my handlers policies are working.
On the Foreign policy front, we’re running out of countries in the Middle East to asset strip and raze to the ground, our obedient ally Britain assures us that Africa is rip again for plundering.
I haven’t always agreed with policy on Israel, but after a dressing down from my handlers I’ve decided to increase foreign aid to Israel, it’s the right thing to do.
I’m bitterly disappointed that Russia and China haven’t failed or collapsed completely, both nations contain minerals my corporate betters would love to own. Still it may happen yet.
I would like to finish by wishing my successor Hilary Clinton all the best, you’ll already know most of my Zionist handlers so the transition should be smooth.
The consensus among historians is that the Soviet regime was responsible for killing several million people, authoritatively estimated at 15 or 20 million.
Must say that I don’t see the merits of debating any ideology, especially feminism, as they are all utopian schemes which avoid all the inconvenient facts.
Women are not just like men, no matter what the clones say.
Trowbridge H. Ford
12/01/2016 3:42pm
Please state the inconvenient facts for us!
Thanks, John
What utter guff. Assange is on trial for rape. What he is accused of is rape. He’s a misogynist little turd. And a racist. If a woman consents to sex only a with a condom, raping her without one is rape in both English and Swedish law. Can’t wait to see him on trial.
Your article is the purest bullshit.
I hope this helps. Louise
Louise Mensch
12/01/2016 3:51pm
If you cannot wait to see him on trial, lobby the Swedish state to give an assurance that Assange will not be extradited on to the USA. On receipt of that assurance he can return to Sweden, and if the evidence warrants it you can have your wish.
Kind regards,
John
Interesting interview of James Corbett, by Bonnie Greer, exploring the history of Big Oil’s transition to control of our lives through Foundations and so on:
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1122-james-corbett-on-guns-and-butter/