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.
And one more from the splendid Thomas G. Clark, a one-man antidote to the entire establishment press of the UK.
http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/self-appointed-moderates-delusional.html
Bed for me, worn out.
Good night.
John
Fred your link to the figures includes “a population” share of North sea revenue not total revenue from the North sea.
Even with the stolen seas and oil rigs condoned in secrecy by Westminster and old Droopy Chops Lizzie to appropriate a percentage of North sea oil and gas Scotland would command 90% of the revenue not 8.1%.
So independence would be the right thing to go for.
Cheers for the Link JSD
Here is another good one Re Corby Bashing “”” Impartial bbC “””
” Nobody with a questioning mind seriously expects impartiality from BBC News. Certainly not anyone who has followed its reporting on the National Health Service, Scottish independence, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn or a myriad of other important issues…
“As one Twitter user noted:
‘I thought Chomsky was exaggerating a bit about the media and its role in Gov propaganda…until Corbyn became leader’.
A particular obsession of Kuenssberg is the question of whether Corbyn has the necessary capability to inflict violence, as all political ‘leaders’ are supposed to. Would he push the nuclear button? Would he countenance a ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy by British police? Would Corbyn agree to drone strikes?
In an alternative universe – one in which the BBC actually challenged power – the political editor would be grilling Prime Minister David Cameron with questions like these:
‘Why did you destroy Libya?’
‘Why preach “democracy” when you’re supporting Saudi tyranny?’
‘Why aren’t you tackling Britain’s floods?’
‘Why aren’t you taking proper action on climate?’
Contemplating how unlikely is this scenario highlights the bitter propaganda deceptions being perpetrated every day by the BBC on the public it ‘serves’.
‘Our Only Fear Was That He Might Pull His Punches’ – BBC Caught Manipulating The News
http://medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2016/810-our-only-fear-was-that-he-might-pull-his-punches-bbc-caught-manipulating-the-news.html
Macky, Again Thanks for LBN tip.
Nevermind
Great to hear you and The wife are keeping your ears to the Ground Re SGR
YEW CHOOB presents SCOTLAND SALUTES BOMBER DAVE (warning, for those who easily faint: lots of bad language)…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBBc0cMnVhY
Clark, thanks for the explanation. I knew it had to be something like that. Sorry, I had to run out to an appointment. 🙂
Re BBC bias; this is chap who posted the link at Lifeboat (not Lighthouse !) to his articles about the BBC. There are two, this is the second as it has a link to the first (but not vice-versa!);
https://markdoran.wordpress.com/2016/01/08/close-it-down-2/
@John Goss, this will be of interest to you, & all those seeking the truth about MH-17;
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/01/15/mh-17s-unnecessary-mystery/
Node
Cheers For the Genocide updates..
Also Re Madaya: – Again From thewallwillfall –
Questions the Mainstream Media should have asked but didnt –
“The information age is actually a media age. We have war by media; censorship by media; demonology by media; retribution by media; diversion by media – a surreal assembly line of obedient clichés and false assumptions ~ John Pilger
Some of 36 questions that the main stream media should have asked but didnt:
30) Why do we not register the fact that the same Red Cross spokesperson stated clearly that they have no problem entering Government held areas with the exception of Deir Ezzor but they cannot enter any “moderate rebel” held areas.
31) Why, if the FSA are the recognised “moderate rebels” are they working with Al Nusra [Al Qaeda] and Ahrar al Sham [Al Qaeda affiliate] in Madaya?
32) Why are hundreds of residents of the town of Madaya Rural Damascus fleeing toward the Syrian army positions asking to be evacuated to government controlled areas?
33) Where does all the money go that is raised by the Government agencies loosely masquerading as NGOs?
34) Why do we condemn before we have asked the right questions?
35)Why do we never discuss the NATO US GCC Israeli siege of Syria?
36) Why do we lie and keep lying even when the truth is looking us straight in the eye?
37) How do we sleep at night?
https://thewallwillfall.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/madaya-questions-the-mainstream-media-should-have-asked-but-didnt/
As I have explained on numerous occasions to those too pc to hear, the continual sexual abuse of English girls in various cities is a direct result of fatwas by the UK Islamic Scholars. The Muslim men are taking revenge on the imperialist armies for the rape, plunder and pillage of the colonial British Raj, not because they want to, but because of the political machinations of the UK scholars.
When a whole lot more sexual abuse occurs in Sweden and Germany, that’s not because these young men don’t know how to behave, that is because the political ambitions of the scholars have been emboldened by the success of Al Qaida/Daesh/ so-called moderates in Syria and Iraq to do the abuse in public.
Their stupid plan is not the system taught by the prophet SAW, who clearly made the distinction between those who believed in God from the teachings of the prophets peace be on all of them, and those who were in total ignorance. The Indian scholars have lived with polytheists for 1200 years and their political expertise lies with dealing with people of total ignorance.
The scholars made a group of young Muslims living next door to me , who most respectfully called me uncle , and returned my salaams, make a little performance every time me or my wife left our house at night, of coming out onto the pavement and studiously looking up and down the street for guests departing from my door. That is how low and misguided the scholars are, that they would try to cause mischief using the high status they hold amongst fresh immigrants.
To silence me for criticising them they would be prepared to show their own people how mischievous they really are. Is this brains?Is it knowledge? No, it is a group of people who have become accustomed to not being questioned, panicking at the thought of the opening up of Islam to new ideas.
Connect the dots. State rape of Shi’a ladies in Arabia, suggestions of female infidelity in Birmingham, sexual abuse in Oxford and Rochdale etc, groping in Cologne.
All instigated by the people in charge of Islam who think it is their Islamic duty to de-humanise the other, the Westerner, to scare them with long beards and executions and control them by fear.
Not the way of our prophet SAW, but a very good way to make Cameron happy that Islam is not recruiting here.
Nice one Macky
From Macky’s Link above Re Resignation of Stephen Doughty Live on bbC –
” pause and consider that the only reason we ever found out about this abuse of BBC power is that one dim-bulb BBC employee actually asked another one to blog about it. What on earth have these people been getting up to that we have never heard about…?
” After uploading that last posting, I heard from one of my spies about the amount of licence-fee-payers’ money being spent on what I called ‘the broadcasting farce’ that is BBC Four. Here is what she told me (figures for the year 2014/15; i.e. up to April 2015):
BBC Four: Content £46m, total incl. infrastructure, distribution &c £63.1m
BBC Four’s content cost was the same as Radio 2’s (£46.2m) but just more expensive on transmission costs, being television.
£46m content spend for a TV channel is jaw-droppingly little, though that doesn’t excuse what they choose to spend it on. […] As I gather, the savings from making [BBC] Three online only will largely be spent on BBC One — already the most expensive channel at over £1bn p.a. on content, £1.5bn in total.
Pardon my maths; but those total annual costs of £63.1 million work out at £1.2 million per week for the proud beacon of ‘arts, music and culture’ broadcasting that is BBC Four. Do you want to see what the allotted portion of that money — your money, not mine! — is buying you tonight? Here’s the BBC Four schedule
(be sure take a deep breath before you look)
And that listing –
https://markdoran.wordpress.com/2016/01/08/close-it-down-2/
Again…Cheers Macky
Talking of pure sex, which I see the bottom of Tony Opmoc’s comment at the top of my page, another weird idea the Islamo-fascists have is that you can screw a woman into accepting Islam through pure sex. This is part of Islamic=fascist dogma.
Pity they don’t realise that the reverse is the case. If you are a fascist neo-con feminist, you can screw a believing Muslim man into accepting your neo-con Satanist fascist cabbal ideas. Now that is definitely possible.
Islamo-fascism is here. It deprives its opponents of the right to work, through corporate black-listing, it creates jobs for its own unemployable adherers, sitting on their builders bums and spying on the Muslim ummah.
The right wing Tory neo-cons do not criticise Saudi state rape of the Shi’a because they are allies with all like-minded fascists in the world, whether it be daesh in Turkey or Ukranian fascists who shoot down civilian planes killing all their passengers.
Wake up peeps, Fascism is here like a rat brought in by Mrs Thatcher and placed on your kitchen floor.
OK, back on topic. Russia Insider often gets to the heart of a story when the western media fails. But the western media never fails to unjustly and inaccurately criticise the Russian media.
“The most disturbing fact about these assaults is not the assaults themselves, or the fact the assaults seem to have been carried out mainly by immigrants and refugees from Muslim countries.
Nor is it the silence of Western politicians, seemingly embarrassed by a bad consequence of their immigration and refugee policies.
Nor is it even the bizarre behavior of some Western feminists — unsparing in their criticism of Julian Assange — against whom nothing has been proved — whilst rationalizing and relativizing the criminal behavior of immigrants and refugees from Muslim countries who carried out the assaults.”
http://russia-insider.com/en/media-criticism/how-european-media-betrayed-women-europe/ri12235
As most people know I am impartial in my criticisms and judgements. I say it as I see it. The article in the above comment, though critical of our media and governments, might tend to make some people think I have changed my views on freedom of movement and the removal of immigration barriers. For the record I have not. 🙂
Can men and women cross the border hand-in-hand from an analogue to digital world order avoiding power-based stereotypes which lead to male dominance? Meltem Arikan explores.
http://newsjunkiepost.com/2016/01/15/fear-of-women-without-guilt/
Also from Macky’s link above –
http://ponsonbypost.com/index.php/news/56-london-calling-how-the-bbc-stole-the-referendum-read-for-free
Some potent stuff in this free pdf book.
Chapter titles:
Chapter One – Turning Yes into No
Chapter Two – Where it all began
Chapter Three – The Lockerbie Bomber
Chapter Four – A Blizzard of Attacks
Chapter Five – Referendum Battle Begins
Chapter Six – Murdoch, Banks and Councils
Chapter Seven – The European Union
Chapter Eight – Anti-English, Nazis and Crackpots
Chapter Nine – BBC Guilty
Chapter Ten – Economical with the Truth
Chapter Eleven – It’s All Academic
Chapter Twelve – A Healthy Service?
Nice Try asshole
Sorry Esclavo.. Do yoy have serious conversation on these materes
John Goss
16/01/2016 8:10am
Regrettably I think this is a very poorly written article. I may present a critique on there or here later. I am astounded, for example, that while the writer mentions several (and to my mind rather fanciful) motives to “men” for the subjugation of “women”, the writer does not mention at all the desire to be certain of paternity, which one might think was quite important to “patriarchal” societies.
Kind regards,
John
BrianFujisan
16 Jan, 2016 – 9:06 am
Nice Try asshole
BrianFujisan
16 Jan, 2016 – 9:11 am
Sorry Esclavo.. Do yoy have serious conversation on these materes
Brian,
What on earth do you mean?
“Regrettably I think this is a very poorly written article.”
JSD, thanks for your comment. Do you mean poorly-written or poorly-argued? Considering English is not Meltem’s first language I would not say it is badly-written. Remember too that if your background is Turkish, and you have written critical articles on patriarchy in that country, you may have a different slant from someone brought up, for example, in Birmingham, UK.
“Meltem Arikan is a Turkish novelist and playwright who has dedicated her life to the fights against the patriarchal system and for freedom of speech and expression. Arikan has written seven novels, one book of research and three plays. Her fourth novel, Yeter Tenimi Acitmayin (Stop Hurting My Flesh), was banned in early 2004 by the Committee to Protect Minors from Obscene Publications, with the accusation of “Writing about the non-existent fact of incest in Turkey and attempting to disturb the Turkish family order with a feminist approach.” The ban was lifted after two months when Arikan was awarded the Freedom of Thought and Expression Award 2004 by the Turkish Publishers’ Association. In 2013 she was short-listed for the Freedom of Expression Award by Index on Censorship for her play Mi Minor, which the Turkish authorities claimed was a rehearsal for the Gezi Park demonstrations. Their subsequent hate campaign, fueled by state sponsored media, forced her to leave Turkey and take exile in the United Kingdom. Her articles on topics such as the digital world, censorship, women’s rights, child abuse, and freedom of expression regularly appear internationally in various news sites, including Index on Censorship.”
John Goss
16/01/2016 9:31am
Sincere apologies. I meant poorly argued, of course. The writing is excellent – better than I could do. I have the greatest possible respect for people who can write or speak fluently in a tongue other than their native tongue – it could hardly be otherwise, since I speak nothing but English myself.
Kind regards,
John
John Goss
16/01/2016 9:31am
I also need to remember that the writer might have written a more nuanced and subtle article if writing in her native tongue.
Kind regards,
John
JSD, by all means write a critique. It is the essence of debate. I do not always agree with articles I post links to totally.
John Goss
16/01/2016 9:46am
Yeah, but I seem to myself always to be complaining! I have spent considerable time on here defending feminism and here is an article by a serious and committed and knowledgeable feminist and I don’t like it! What a bloody shambles! Never satisfied. Ah, well.
Kind regards,
John
BrianFujisan,
I followed a link provided by Macky. On the page linked to I found a reference to Ponsonby’s book. I overviewed the book and read parts of chapters and felt that this was something relevant to Craig Murray’s blog and its followers. So I posted a link to it and listed the chapters so that people could see it contained relevant material.
I don’t see anything wrong, or unusual about that; but in response, and posted immediately below, I get from you, “Nice Try asshole”. WTF?
Five minutes later, you post: “Sorry Esclavo.. Do yoy have serious conversation on these materes”. What is that about? I do not have to involve myself in “serious conversation”. I do have very serious thoughts about all these matters, and Ponsonby covers much without need of addition from me. And seeing some of the responses on this blog over the years (including yours in this case), I wouldn’t say it was the ideal place to have a serious conversation.
If you’re looking to put off someone who previously had high regard for you, from both here and Squonk’s, you’re going about it the right way.
Please explain.
John Goss
16 Jan, 2016 – 8:10 am
Can men and women cross the border hand-in-hand from an analogue to digital world order avoiding power-based stereotypes which lead to male dominance? Meltem Arikan explores.
_____________
“It naturally follows from this that women are inherently guilty.”
Utter tripe! Taking a leaf out of Brian Fujisan’s book: “Nice Try asshole” 😉
This place gets hilarious sometimes, usually only, without people trying.
Esclavo fond
i Should have Said Habby Fuck ofF
Esclavo
Do you Rally want to Go there
I think the society Meltem is looking for is Utopian. But what a brave woman to have stood almost alone in a country where women have scant opportunity to voice their opinions against male abuse and protected privilege, in a country today where journalists and academics are being imprisoned for criticising the Erdogan government’s import of ISIS oil, export of weapons to ISIS and mass murder of Kurds from this NATO ally.
No