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.
RobG
Thanks for the party political broadcast for Scottish Independence.
Try making it in Turkey, Kurdistan or Saudi Arabia.
OK I’m leaving for now. RobG and Alcyone, you have driven me away.
“ROS, threats are threats. Are you deliberately trying to be a cunt or is it all coming to you naturally this evening?”
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Oh please give it a rest Alcyone not one has threatened you, you establishment boys are so melodramatic at times.
No one even knows anything about you, I and others find it far more sinister when you and your establishment buddies refer to those who pose questions as “persons of interest” a term often used by British security forces.
So less of the acting and profanity if you please.
Clark, the people you seem to be defending are responsible for murdering their own citizens.
Whatever religious spin you put on this, murder is murder, and all these vermin feckers are going to be held to account for it.
Make no mistake about that.
No Clark, you have that the wrong way round. The problem we have is that the keepers of the true religion of Islam are playing political games with nutters like Cameron and Obama.
Pigs roll in muck. That’s what they are supposed to do. But The custodians of the true religion of Islam should not be rolling in the same muck as pigs. Should they?
How European Media Defends Human Rights – By Concealing Mass Rape
Europe’s mainsteam media doesn’t just lie to cover up western governments’ crimes abroad, they also systematically conceal crimes domestically when reporting would be politcally incorrect
For five days following the assaults the German media failed to report them.
When under public pressure they eventually did, it turned out that a string of similar assaults had also happened simultaneously in various other German cities.
Over the following week it turned out that mass assaults of a similar nature had also happened in cities in Scandinavia.
Recently it has become known that similar assaults took place on a mass scale earlier last summer in Sweden, and went unreported.
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.
It is the silence of the European media.
http://russia-insider.com/en/media-criticism/how-european-media-betrayed-women-europe/ri12235
Giyane
16/01/2016 9:38pm
As I’ve said before: stupid as well as a liar and a coward. I’ve told the forum myself, at least twice, that I am not a lawyer and have no formal legal training.
Decided to apologise yet for your misattributions and deliberate lies, or are you as gutless as ever?
John
RobG
““Wasn’t the above asked – and dealt with – a couple of threads ago?
I recall that a couple of posters supplied the requested links.”
Perhaps you can supply these links to Paris terror attack funerals again; after all, it is rather important yet is noticeably missing from the mainstream narrative.”
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No, I shan’t do that, Rob. They have already been supplied (others can probably confirm that) and it’s up to you to look them up if you wish to check your claim that there was no mention in the press of the victims’ funerals.
Over and out on this one, I’m afraid.
RoS
“you establishment boys are so melodramatic at times”
Tarts.
Habba’s walking in a funny way, have you noticed? Like Sodom and Gomorrah.
JSD
I have opened the doors and windows and your smell has disappeared.
Rob G
Je le vous avez dit. Si vous le voulez savoir, allez voir. C.est pas loin. Rien de ce qui se passe en internet est vraiment direct. Si vous croyez pouvoir tout savoir sur votre cul devant votre écran, vous êtes vraiment perdu.
Still waiting for the mobile phone footage from a busy Friday night in Paris.
Still waiting for news coverage of the 130 funerals that should have taken place in the week or so after the November attacks in Paris.
Still waiting… it goes on and on with this one.
Here’s the famous ‘hanging woman’ (6 months pregnant, apparently) from the Paris attacks…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he7Hw7Ir6hc
Fredi
That link was given here yesterday. The problem is that the rapes were orchestrated by the imams, who use sexual violence to attack our society. These Muslims guys are working on instructions from above. Perfectly nice guys when the Mullas don’t interfere.
Giyane
16/01/2016 10:20pm
I don’t want to be addressed directly by a liar and a coward. Get stuffed and stop bothering me, you gutless weakling.
John
RobG
“And I will say for the umpteenth time that all the spooks here are going to be brought to justice, and you will face people like me”
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Speaking of facing you in person, you might remember that I have expressed interest in spending some time (around Easter, possibly) at the gite you own/run in Poitou-Charentes and to this end asked you to be kind enough to let me know how much you charge per person per night.
Do you think you could let me have that info as soon as possible, time is pressing somewhat.
Thank you.
Republicofscotland
““persons of interest” a term often used by British security forces.”
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D’ you know, I wasn’t aware of that.
The expression has a certain ring to it thought, doesn’t it, and is probably more accurate in most cases than the expression “an interesting person”.
BTW, I should imagine that the DGSI cooperates quite closely with UK services (and vice-versa) in these somewhat troubled times.
JSD
La ilaha illa Allah
Muhammaduu Rasulullah.
You are a magician and satan worshipper.
Habba, rest assured, it won’t be the likes of you putting the likes of me up against a wall and shot, it will be the other way around.
In fact, over the coming months and years I would strongly advise you to review your life insurance policy.
Just a bit of friendly advice…
Giyane
16/01/2016 10:42pm
You aren’t man enough to admit to your errors and lies, so you have to resort to jeers and insults and name-calling. Either get some guts and apologise, or get stuffed and cease to address me.
Coward.
John
Fredi
The asian imams are trained to resist the politics of Hinduism. This involves the dark arts of sexual politics. They have no training to deal with the people of the book, the Christian people of europe, so when God doesn’t deliver them a stream of obedient converts, on account of their obsession with acquiring wealth, which puts off English Christians, they revert to nasty sexual politics.
They try to exercise their nasty sexual politics on me, an English Muslim revert. They are directly responsible for creating the Swedish and German rapes and gropes, and the widespread sexual abuse of vulnerable English girls here.
Fortunately their Hindu- dirty politics has completely back-fired.
Rob G
OK in English this time. None of the families who died are under any obligation to allow media intrusion for the voyeristic satiafaction of those who don’t believe their grief. And no media channel is reporting stuff from last November. You could try trawling the media archives of the French TV stations, but as you are trying to make a debating point rather than genuinely get an answer I will not expect you to. If you want to find the truth, get out from behind your computer screen and go look. That’s what Tintin would do.
And you seem awfully scared of visitors.
BTW
Young asian imams dress in Middle eastern gear, leather jacket and trousers with fashion beards. They were filmed during the German festival of New Year directing the Muslims young men to acts of sexual aggression. They are not dressed like Noah with flowing white beards and long cotton clothes.
I live with these people . I know their politics and I understand their dirty games. I refuse to pray behind the asian imams who either use dirty sexual politics or send Young Muslims to help USUKIS in the genocide of Syria. They are not Muslim, they are Hindus or worse, satan-worshippers.
Habba – Will you need wheelchair access?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Davros_Wisher.png
Why Be Ordinary 9iro RobG)
“And you seem awfully scared of visitors.”
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No, I don’t think that’s fair; RobG seems quite gregarious sort to me and since he’s running a gite by definition he can’t be afraid of visitors (unless he’s a kind of Basil Fawlty, of course.
But I do find his reluctance to tell us what he charges rather strange for someone running a gite.
“D’ you know, I wasn’t aware of that.”
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I find that rather hard to believe Habb, as you’ve used that exact term on this blog in previous threads.
I suppose you are not aware of that either.
It’s good to see your enforced sabbatical from this blog hasn’t blunted your sense of irony.
Exexpat
“Habba – Will you need wheelchair access?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Davros_Wisher.png”
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No, I’m reasonably mobile but it was a kind (if unexpected) thought.
By the way, it appears that Mr Tsipras, the SYRIZA PM of Greece, will be attending this year’s WEF in Davos.
@Why be ordinary
16 Jan, 2016 – 10:55 pm
Total bullshit. I live in France and read the French media.
You strike me as being a CIA shill/clown.
Maybe you should go down on Habba.
You seem to be made for each other.
“(unless he’s a kind of Basil Fawlty, of course.”
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Habb old boy.
I see John Cleese has starred in an advert, a close remake of the scene where he gives his non starting car a damn good thrashing with a branch from a tree. After all those years I still find it rather funny.
Why Be Ordinary
Given the time of night it might of course just be a case of “Through a (third)bottle, darkly”.
EU, US lift Iranian sanctions
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-nuclear-deal-implementation-day-472448909
Perfect!