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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.


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  • Peter

    Yes, feminism is a Neo-Con Tool but who cares!

    Vladimir Putin: It’s better not to argue with women. But Ms Clinton has never been too graceful in her statements. Still, we always met afterwards and had cordial conversations at various international events. I think even in this case we could reach an agreement. When people push boundaries too far, it’s not because they are strong but because they are weak. But maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman.

    http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/45832#sel=71:3,71:72

  • Habbabkuk (Easter holiday)

    Rob

    “During 2015, the north Pacific herring fishery collapsed, as did the salmon fishery and the shellfish stocks, amongst many others. The MSM whores report it in segments because they could hardly do otherwise: multi-million dollar businesses are being wiped out; but they never report it in context of all the other specis that are being wiped out as well, and it’s always reported as a ‘mystery disease’ or a ‘mystery illness’.

    Every single one of the vermin who have enabled this disaster, including the media whores and the trolls, are going to be put on trial for crimes against humanity.”
    ____________________

    Are crimes against salmon and herring crimes against humanity?

    In other words, Rob, are fish human?

    Is your wife called Wanda?

  • Doug Scorgie

    Alcyone

    17 Jan, 2016 – 1:30 pm

    “It’s the other way round. One needs to set aside all one’s preconceptions, prejudices, beliefs, the whole conditioning before you can investigate into the truth.”

    “Elementary.”
    ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    Complete crap Alcyone!

    “…preconceptions, prejudices, beliefs, … conditioning…” cannot be thrown off like a cloak; they are ingrained but the truth sustained by constant punches on the nose will eventually get through.

    This is what the power elites fear so they are constantly changing the goalposts and upping their control over information and spying on everyone and persecuting “whistle-blowers.”

    People like you are running scared.

  • Habbabkuk (Easter holiday)

    RobG

    Last chance to tell us what you charge for staying at your gite, Rob. Make it easy on yourself, there’s a good chap.

  • Habbabkuk (Easter holiday)

    Exexpat

    “Anon1 and Habba = (Necon) Tools”
    __________________

    Absolutely not, Just a couple of voices speaking the truth unto the pensee unique.

    And now tell us a little about yourself. You were once an expat and now you’re back in “fascist” Britain?

  • Alcyone

    “People like you are running scared.”

    Dougie boy are you drinking out of the same glass as one RobG?

  • Habbabkuk (Easter holiday)

    ““As the prophet Daniel might have said: “The writing’s on the wall.” Apartheid Israel denies a voice to decent people by arresting them.

    http://icahdusa.org/israeli-peace-activist-and-human-rights-defender-ezra-nawi-arrested-under-gag-order/”
    ___________________

    Following on from my response at 19h15 (still unanswered), it might be worthwhile to point out the following.

    If the authors (“anonymous Israeli activists”) of the article linked to by Mr Goss know what the charges are, it is strange that they did not tell us what they are in their article.

    If, on the other hand, the authors really do not know what the charges are (perhaps because of the “gagging order”), then on what basis do they affirm that those charges are “trumped up”?

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    As a general rule, it is always better to be wary when trawling the internet….

  • Doug Scorgie

    Anon1

    17 Jan, 2016 – 3:13 pm

    “They do not need you to convey to them the horror of war. It is taught in every classroom…”

    …………………………………………………………………………

    The horrors of war are not taught in any classroom Anon 1 only our “glorious victories!”

  • Habbabkuk (Easter holiday)

    Mr Scorgie

    “The horrors of war are not taught in any classroom Anon 1 only our “glorious victories!””
    ___________________

    That, I’m afraid, is a plain lie.

    Sorry to have to be so blunt.

  • RobG

    Habba, at least one quarter of the world’s population depends on the Pacific Ocean for food and/or livelihood.

    The ignorance of the trolls on this board is quite breathtaking; but I suppose that’s why they’re trolls.

    You may subscribe to being dumber and dumber, as our little planet is not so slowly trashed, but I’m sure you are aware that ignorance has no defence in law.

  • fedup

    Is this the beginning of a Yank spring?

    An armed anti-government group vowed to continue to occupy a federal wildlife-refuge building in rural Oregon on Sunday, in protest of the government’s treatment of two ranchers.
    .
    .
    “These men came to Harney County claiming to be part of militia groups supporting local ranchers, when in reality these men had alternative motives to attempt to overthrow the county and federal government in hopes to spark a movement across the United States,” the Oregon police said in a statement on Sunday.

    The occupation began with a peaceful demonstration on Saturday, in which more than 100 people marched through downtown Burns, Ore., to protest the prison sentences of two ranchers convicted of arson — Dwight Hammond, 73, and Steven Hammond, 46.

    Militia members occupy U.S. building in Oregon after protest

  • RobG

    Notice that the Habba troll and its various identities do not address the first link I posted here this evening, which provides evidence that the British Government doesn’t officially recognise the Paris attacks as a terrorist event. I’ll repeat the link again…

    http://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-4ea4-Still-No-Aid-for-Isis-Victims

    The Habba troll and its various identities also seems to think that the death of the Pacific Ocean is a laughing matter.

    Watch PMQs any Wednesday to see the bunch of psychos that Habba & Co are part of. Here’s last Wednesday’s, when our glorious, pig shagging prime minister refused to answer any questions, as always, and effectively chucked low paid workers out on the street…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOfkvGJ7xCg

  • Doug Scorgie

    Anon1

    17 Jan, 2016 – 3:03 pm

    “Feminism A Neo-Con Tool”

    “Where is feminism on the mass-rape and abuse of European women by migrants, on Rotherham, FGM, honour killings, stoning of adulterers, and so forth?”

    …………………………………………………………………………………………………

    Everyone, I’m sure, on this blog abhors the cultural/religious practices you mention above Anon 1 but you and certain other posters here are quite happy with the US/UK having normal relations with the countries that carry out such atrocities and the MSM glosses over the crimes of these countries because they are regarded as “allies” of the West.

    The word hypocrisy is not powerful enough to describe the horrendous double standards of governments (particularly the enlightened modern democracies) and their apologists like yourself and others here.

  • RobG

    Fedup, to state the obvious, if the protesters in Oregon were black or hispanic they would have been shot dead instantly by federal authorities.

    The revolution in America is coming, from within the power structure. The American people are now way too dumbed-down and propagandised to do anything; much like in the UK.

  • RobG

    @Alcyone
    17 Jan, 2016 – 9:18 pm

    You link to a documentary about quantum mechanics, funded by the Koch brothers.

    Are you serious?!

    I wouldn’t spend an hour of my life watching such propaganda garbage. However, I do know a bit about QM, if anyone has any questions.

  • fedup

    The revolution in America is coming, from within the power structure. The American people are now way too dumbed-down and propagandised to do anything; much like in the UK.

    Rob you have been reading too much of the keyboard warriors bilge to believe people are dumbed down! They may be, they may be stupid, they may be many things, but by golly when they start marching there will be precious little to stop them. They are the stuff of the nightmares hence the comprehensive seamless echo chamber that you see spanning the state media, the oligarch owned media and the cyber space dispatched warriors all bent on keeping the echos current the very same sound bites over and over again, but the nostrum is not doing the trick hence the almost shrill threats and outright aggression as exhibited in the trolls conduct here.

    Have faith in the next pilgrim along, he/she may be a lot more clever than he/she is letting on!

  • RobG

    Fedup, whilst I don’t want anyone to suffer, I almost wish that the economy does collapse this year, as has been widely predicted. That will be a better outcome than a five year term of the present government, who make Thatcher look like a Marxist. By 2020 there’ll be nothing left of the UK. These vermin are stealing everything that’s not nailed down, they’ve doubled the national debt and have completely destroyed the post-war consensus.

    The Cons should not only be put out of office, they should also be put on trial.

  • giyane

    Humbug:

    ” Now it is well known that young unmarried males coming from certain traditions and cultures are sex-starved”

    On the contrary Westerners are un-naturally sex-accelerated by the constant glowering threat of sexual betrayal, adultery in Biblical terms. It provokes a completely unnatural and unnecessary self-defence mechanism, by which young people are compelled to sexual activity as a teddy-bear coping mechanism. Afghans would express that as coming under the influence of Shaytan. They don’t feel sex-starved as Westerners do because their religion and their community protect their expectations of societal protection from sexual betrayal.

    in spite of that, for fear of their politically motivated corrupt imams, and fear of arrest and deportation, they might be persuaded against their will to molest females.
    But it very much goes against their grain.

    shut up Habba. You’re talking through your backside again.

  • fedup

    The Cons should not only be put out of office, they should also be put on trial.

    Agreed, the extremism tacked by the lot of carpetbaggers will be Enroned sooner than you think question remains what will happen the day after?

  • Tony_0pmoc

    Welcome back Habbabkuk (Easter holiday). I hope you had a nice one…though your timing is a bit out…You are even too late for The Russian and Greek Orthodox Christmas…

    It’s January 17th now…and Easter is not for weeks…are you trying to sell those American Cadbury Creme eggs….cos they don’t taste the same now (I can’t do the Jewish equivalent…who the hell do you think is going to come back and take you to heaven? – that’s American “Born Again” Christian??? Evangelist isn’t it? “Rapture?” and the rest of you your religious loonies’ nonsense)

    They are all cults and we have to put up with you. We have to tolerate you.

    So what do you make of this…

    I was just trying to make a cup of coffee for my wife and me this afternoon. I put the kettle on like you do. The kettle had enough water in it for at least 3 cups of coffee – 4 really…and the base of it was dry…I hadn’t splashed….and then my wife rushed past me..I thought well I will go to the one upstairs…

    And whilst we were both trying to have a crap…opposite ends of the house..there was a large bang and the kettle literally burst into flames..Fortunately my lad was just outside the kitchen and heard it happen and then he saw the flames…he didn’t panic…just turned the electric off at the plug…. and opened the door and went back outside….

    The entire house stunk…The kettle was junk – and its only about 3 years old….so I went on the internet and ordered another one (exactly the same)….and a bloke delivered it to us on a Sunday night at 7 pm on time for £3.95 and the kettle only cost £17…

    The new one stinks too??? or can I still smell the dead one…

    Even so I have filled it up and boiled it about 10 times…and used the hot water to melt all the lamb fat that occasionally blocks our drains under the house when it is really cold.

    They are trying to poison us with chemicals…so be sensible and take precautions..or your cup of tea will taste of metallic, chemical shit…and is not safe to drink.

    Tony

  • giyane

    Tony

    There is a new religion on the block. It’s called Islam.

    “The new one stinks too??? or can I still smell the dead one…”

  • giyane

    Tony

    If your water tastes horrible and metallic you’ve probably got lead water pipes. Half the chemicals they put into water are to chemically line the pipes and neutralise their poison.

    And all this time we were rudely making the assumption that your highly original comments were due to a completely different imbibation. Touche.

  • Tony_0pmoc

    The Boiler in my house is a King Fisher II…the British company who built it – maybe 40 years ago…..has almost certainly gone bust by now (I don’t know – the manufacturer of the cooker has)

    The boiler still works fine…sure we occasionally get a local professional from a small company to check it out…and the rest of the system….and he realised…he will for a few seconds try and flog me a new boiler….and then he sees what we have got…and strips the entire thing down and cleans all the parts…

    Puts it back together..tests it…Good as new…

    So he had been working for hours in my house..and I asked how much???

    I asked can I pay by cheque – he said sure…I said and this is a thank you sir,,I gave him a tip it was only £10…he could have charged me several thousand pounds…

    So why if a British Boiler can last for 40 years and still be fine after all this time….does a Chinese Kettle burst into Flames after 3 years.

    There is absolutely no reason why a kettle can’t last as long and be as reliable as my Potterton King Fisher Boiler.

    http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q52/freshys/kingfisherCF125.jpg

    Tony

  • giyane

    fedup:

    ” They are the stuff of the nightmares hence the comprehensive seamless echo chamber that you see spanning the state media, the oligarch owned media and the cyber space dispatched warriors all bent on keeping the echos current the very same sound bites over and over again, but the nostrum is not doing the trick hence the almost shrill threats and outright aggression as exhibited in the trolls conduct here.”

    I just wanted to repeat these noble words of hope again.

    As for the trolls, as my mother-in-law no. 1 would say to the dog licking her bum.
    ‘Leave some for tomorrow, there’s a darling.’

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