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.
“Fred, do you think this is it, and oil prices will stay this low until the damn stuff runs out?”
No, I expect them to fall further when Iran brings their oil wells online.
Ba’al Zevul, 4:03 pm, I didn’t say it would be easy!
Thanks for that link Macky. So the BBC cowards have finally accrued enough guts to report an alleged child abuser it helped to evade justice via its reporting style, yonks ago.
Frank Becks guilty excuses were seen as not trusted, his allegations were not followed up and Lord Janner continued.
Justice has not been done! and just as the reasons that led to Elliott Johnsons tragic death are being covered up, more victims are created by this filthy lick spiteling establishment by the day.
But one day this will change, either principles will win over with massive change, or we’ll be marching into hell duffing our caps.
So who else joined the frequent royal visitors to children’s homes in jersey? who did Saville tell about Haute de la Garenne and what did he discuss during his weekly South Yorkshire police meetings at his abode?
“Fred, what will you be saying if there’s a revolution in Saudi Arabia and the oil price goes through the roof again?”
Times are always changing and the world in 50 years time can be completely different to the world now. However I think many of the changes will lead to greater fuel efficiency and lower fossil fuel dependence driven by ecological factors rather than economic. The driverless car could be a big game changer.
Even at this stage the Beeb is punting the simply ridiculous line that ‘Lord Janner’s family insist that he is innocent’.
What next?
Peter freed on appeal because Sonia insists he didn’t do it?
Fred, I’m looking forward to autonomous vehicles, too. But fuel efficiency is unlikely to be a game-changer, not with three quarters of the global population aspiring to European levels of average liquid fuel consumption. It’s not the cars that matter so much as the tractors, trucks, combine harvesters and aircraft. If we didn’t have liquid fuel in Earth’s crust we’d have to make it to achieve the sort of affluence we see now.
What do you expect of oil prices in the next two, five and ten years?
Fred, 6:12 pm, I can’t see why you bothered to quote my question since the answer you gave was essentially unrelated.
“It’s simple enough, oil revenues are £8 billion less than forecast. An independent Scotland would have been running a deficit even with the £8billion so that money would have to be found from somewhere, the tax payers of Scotland would have to make up that £8 billion between them.”
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Less than forecast, yes Fred, that’s why it’s called a forecast, even the Westminster forcast, didn’t see the drop in price.
But oil revenue is oil revenue, and that’s still a bonus any country in the world would see it as an asset. However unionists have been programmed to see it as a deficit because it’s not $100+ a barrel.
As for Scotland having a deficit, what century are you living in Fred, all countries now run a deficit why would an independent Scotland be any different.
However Westminster’s pathetic leadership over many decades has seen them accumulate an unpayable debt. And you have the audacity to question what position an independent Scotland would be in due to a drop in oil forcasts. Time to get real Fred don’t you think?
“Time to get real Fred don’t you think?”
That’s precisely what I have been doing. It’s the independence at any cost people who are driven by emotion not reason.
“Fred, 6:12 pm, I can’t see why you bothered to quote my question since the answer you gave was essentially unrelated.”
So what answer did you want me to give?
Fred, what do you expect of oil prices in the next two, five and ten years?
Clark at 5.36 p.m
I took a look at the Usmanov link and agree he is a nasty piece of work. But I could not understand why the gravatars for Paul, Craig, Jon and Anonymous appeared to be the same.
“Fred, what do you expect of oil prices in the next two, five and ten years?”
I expect them to fall when Iran starts exporting.
Other than that I don’t have a crystal ball.
John Goss, 6:56 pm, that article is from before this site ran on WordPress; it used to be on blogging software called MoveableType. You didn’t need to give an e-mail address to comment, so WordPress just produces a default Gravatar for all comments.
John Goss, here’s the post where this blog was converted to WordPress:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/02/preparing_for_d/
John Goss, three more posts during the transfer process:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/02/is-this-thing-on/
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/03/dont-panic/
Including Craig’s first post on the new platform:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/03/it-looks-wonderful-but-does-it-work/
The United Kingdom National Debt is the total quantity of money borrowed by the Government of the United Kingdom at any time through the issue of securities by the British Treasury and other government agencies.
As of Q1 2015 UK government debt amounted to £1.56 trillion, or 81.58% of total GDP, at which time the annual cost of servicing (paying the interest) the public debt amounted to around £43bn.
Due to the Government’s significant budget deficit, the national debt is increasing by approximately £73.5 billion per annum, or around £1.4 billion each week.
In February 2013 Moody’s downgraded UK credit rating from Aaa to Aa1.
This is real Fred.
Westminster is sinking in a sea of debt, but it could still find £500 billion quid of taxpayers money to bail out its banking buddies. The banks then went on to rip off customers with schemes such as Libor.
The (FCA) Financial Conduct Authority wanted to carry out an indepth report on banking culture in Britain. But the Chancer of the Exchequer Gideon Osborne put a stop to it making sure his banking buddies can continue robbing the taxpayers.
And you say you are “getting real” Scotland oil revenue low or not must break away from the ball and chain known as Westminster.
Grief, those posts were from 2011, before planet Nibiru came hurtling through and the world turned upside-down…
Take an ‘I’ out from ISIS and you’re left with the ISS.
Another world. Why do we humans live the way we do?
Ba’al Zevul
13 Jan, 2016 – 4:34 pm
“Assange has not yet been interviewed by the Swedes.”
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But has he been interviewed by the Turnips?
“Brain Life in The Old Dog Yet.”
Check this out, including the Ted talk embedded:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-two-most-dangerous-numbers-in-the-universe-are-threatening-the-end-of-physics-a6814826.html
(I am very much of the multiverse view and that we will never be able to prove a theory of everything.. Though string theory is fascinating.)
Macky
15/01/2016 8:09pm
“That is, it should be the case, I would think, that where there is direct participation in self-management, in economic and social affairs, then factions, conflicts, differences of interests and ideas and opinion, which should be welcomed and cultivated, will be expressed at every one of these levels. Why they should fall into two, three or n political parties, I don’t quite see. I think that the complexity of human interest and life does not fall in that fashion. Parties represent basically class interests, and classes would have been eliminated or transcended in such a society.”
Noam Chomsky, “The Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism”
https://chomsky.info/19760725/
J
“And you say you are “getting real” Scotland oil revenue low or not must break away from the ball and chain known as Westminster.”
The UK has a deficit, that is the point of austerity measures, to reduce the deficit.
However Scotland’s deficit is far higher as a percentage of GDP than the UK deficit.
By their own figures:
http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2015/03/1422
For the year to March 2015, including oil revenue when there still was some, fiscal deficit of 8.1% compared to a deficit of 5.6% for the UK. Budget deficit 6.4% compared to 4.1% for the UK.
““Fred, do you think this is it, and oil prices will stay this low until the damn stuff runs out?”
No, I expect them to fall further when Iran brings their oil wells online.”
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Fred is not alone in his expectation – many economic forecasters are looking to $20 once Iran restarts selling.
Oil at $20 is of course bad news not only for the SNP’s economic credibility (as Fred has pointed out) but also for various unpleasant regimes around the globe.
Speaking of unpleasant regimes, expect further falls in govt social expenditure in Russia.
On the positive side, however, now would appear to be the time for Putinistas to visit their spiritual homeland since the Russian rouble is almost at its historic low against the US dollar.
@JSD, talks a lot of sense that Chomsky bloke ! 🙂
Hopefully Lysias will confirm, that one of the wise ancient Greeks stated that in an ideal society, no individual should be more than three times richer than the poorest person.
La vita e bella! 😉
Macky
15/01/2016 9:00pm
I think Orwell said somewhere in “The Road to Wigan Pier” that it was only necessary to know how someone thought about one matter to know how he or she would think about an entire host of other matters. He was attacking sandal-wearing, Brazil-nut eating socialists at the time, mind.
I hope we are a bit past that now, but the conformity you note is still remarkable.
J
John Hilley, whose tenacity is extraordinary, has written to the BBC regarding the resignation of Stephen Doughty – the “reply” is shown here. J
http://johnhilley.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/media-lens-expose-kuennsberg-daily.html
Alcyone
Hello there, good to see you’re still here – I trust that you, Anon, Resident Dissident and a couple of others have been holding the fort in my absence?
Have I missed anything of interest?
“..one of the wise ancient Greeks stated that in an ideal society, no individual should be more than three times richer than the poorest person.”
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That’s quite interesting. Does anyone know who said that and how wealth was calculated in those times – was it by the numbers of slaves owned, for example?