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.
Giyane,
The plumbing in our house in Oldham was all lead…but Oldham’s water is actually incredibly pure and clean…and it didn’t dissolve the metal.
All the pipes in my house are copper..apart from the plastic pipes to connect the dishwasher and washing machine…
I can do plumbing too – to quite a high standard actually..I was taught when I was 15 between “O” and “A” levels…
Highly sensible question to ask…
I have not had a cup of coffee yet..but my wife has had a pint of water…with one third boiling water from the kettle..and she can tell the difference between milk delivered by our milkman in a glass bottle and the stuff you buy in a plastic container in the Supermarket…and she hasn’t complained yet…just amazed to see a new kettle so quick in the kitchen after the kettle fire (the base literally melted).
Tony
Brent just opened. $27.74 a barrel Ouch!!
RobG,
“Governor Jerry Brown has finally declared a state of emergency following a massive gas well blowout at the Aliso Canyon Underground Storage Facility”
Well I don’t know about California…but to my eternal shame, I actually signed a petition to prevent an area of outstanding natural beauty where my wife and I sometimes go walking…its a natural very large chalk well – completely perfect for storing an enormous amount of natural gas…
We won. The Application by Star Energy was rejected….so there is no well where we go walking… They can still use it to do Hollywood Movies…
We do however have a problem…and that is why I feel guilty…
The UK has the lowest gas storage reserves of any country in Europe per head of population…
And the UK runs on Gas…even a large percentage of our electricity is generated from gas…and we have so far been incredibly lucky this winter which is unusually mild to not run out of energy – and widespread rolling black-outs…
If we had got the winter like we had in 1962-63 ,,,and we will eventually..an extremely large number of people will literally freeze to death.
We have virtually no contingency..and that applies to food reserves too…Even if a volcano goes off and blacks out the sun for a couple of years..we do not have sufficient food stored to survive.
If there is no sun and there is no energy you can’t grow anything..
From 1789..”A famine caused by a massive eruption in Iceland. A volcano so dangerous and destructive that its eruption changed the earth’s weather patterns for years causing crops to wither and die. The resulting famine stretched from Iceland to Egypt decimating populations in its wake.”
https://antiquewarehouse.ca/2015/03/20/how-a-volcano-contributed-to-the-french-revolution/
Tony
Tony,
That model was in production into the 90s and spares are still available. However it has an efficiency rating of 65%. Modern condensing boilers are over 90% efficient because you don’t lose the heat out of the flue. If you are happy with it and the extra you are paying for gas then that’s fine but there are still good UK made boilers.
Anyone in the UK in financial difficulty (I’m not suggesting that anyone on here is), particularly if over pensionable age, can look into whether or not they are eligible for a boiler grant (for example, those on guarantee pension credit).
http://www.boilergrants.org.uk/
There are also a large number and range of charitable grants available for necessary one-off capital purchases – I have applied for and received quite a few such grants for clients.
https://www.turn2us.org.uk/Find-Benefits-Grants
Kind regards,
John
Those who doubt that the US neocons and Zionists are pushing to legitimise the stolen land from Palestine with the ultimate goal of creating a greater United States of Israel based on the US model should read this. Do not be fooled. The writing is on the wall.
http://prospect.org/article/why-are-democrats-voting-israeli-settlements?platform=hootsuite
“Maybe she should be asked to look into the Assange case.
Kind regards John”
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Didn’t Sweden and Ecuador recently sign a diplomatically negotiated agreement facilitating the way fwd with Assange?
One can only imagine that Sweden’s Foreign Affairs Minister would have been involved, no?
Keep up!
My breakfast was ruined this morning by Bullshitboy on Radio 4 trying to blame divisions in society on urdu speaking housewives.
The British elite have always exploited the nest of spies who come for asylum, who have caused division in their own countries and fled the consequences of their CIA inspired troublemaking.
British foreign policy is shaped by the information they glean from these disaffected voices, whose hit and run terrorism in their own countries makes them the experts MI6 needs for subversion abroad.
Cameron bombs Syria , but he creates the wars from information he receives from his nest of spies about the fault lines in the Muslim world. Then to blame the housewives whose urdu connects the children to their culture in liberal culture-less Britain, for the divisions in society is completely disgusting.
Thanks to RobG for the bullshit video of Cameron yesterday. Porkpies popping out his mouth while talking about liberal values sums up the vermin.
Tony:
” Oldham’s water is actually incredibly pure and clean…and it didn’t dissolve the metal.”
it’s not its cleanness that matters, it’s acidity.
Alcyone
Leave some for tomorrow, darling.
Anon1
leave some for tomorrow, there’s a darling
Where’s everyone gone?
The site has been down Rob Royston. At least I have not been able to get in.
@Rob Royston
18 Jan, 2016 – 7:54 pm
We’ve all been illegally renditioned by the CIA and MI6, and are now all wearing orange jump suits in warmer climes.
Because of course we live in ‘wonderful democracies’ that are the bastien of law and order and the civilised world.
Well the bots have passed. Considering that NSA, GCHQ, Doha etc run synchronously, and the customer services line from the Philippines has no time lag, no one can tell where the bots might have been sent from.
The trolls just fart rubbish, so can’t be anything they said. So it must have been either the new world order of freemason neo-cons angry about revelations pointing the finger at Ukranian fascists downing passenger planes, or Squonk wanting to poach the 12 imams of troll gob-shite from CM.
Taster from Squonk: ” Villager be a good chap and stop felching habby – save some for anon1 and the other feeders ”
I thought my language was foul enough, but I see now there is a parallel bot-land over there, that makes CM blog look highly respectable.
As I have mentioned occasionally the Rothschilds and other big banking mafias own the world. One day it will end and people jointly will own the world and work for its environmental protection. If your country is not on this list of countries with a Rothschild-owned central-bank please let me know. Unless you live in North Korea where you may not have access to this blog. 🙂
http://humansarefree.com/2013/11/complete-list-of-banks-ownedcontrolled.html
At long last BDS is taking effect.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/inquiry/23389-israels-qwarq-against-bds-is-increasingly-desperate
‘Choir! Choir! Choir!’ are an organisation based in Toronto, Canada. On Saturday evening, ‘Choir! Choir! Choir!’ invited members of the public to come to the Art Gallery of Ontario, to pay tribute to Bowie by singing a rendition of Space Oddity. More than 500 complete strangers turned up, and this is the result…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQPx2UVhTUc
Now, whether you’re a fan of Bowie’s music or not, the point here is that what happened in Toronto on Saturday night was a display of ‘people power’, which is something that ‘they’ are totally terrified of (‘they’ are the blood-soaked psychos who run this world). It’s why we have the huge propaganda machine that is the MSM, and the army of trolls on comment threads.
Bowie again, and written more than 30 years ago…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EOlZyD26T4
Cue the photo of David Cameron, the most corrupt and incompetent prime minister that the UK has ever seen.
I am not sure if you have read this chap? a search should be of interest to you
bank of international settlements Henk Ruyssenaars
One of the greats of true journalism that passed away quietly.
Henk Ruyssenaars did a good piece Fedup on how all the oil-money Khodorkovsky filched went straight into the Rothschild bank account in a previously unknown agreement.
“Arrested oil tycoon passed shares to banker.”
LONDON (Agence France-Presse) – Sunday, November 2, 2003 – Control of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s shares in the Russian oil giant Yukos have passed to renowned banker Jacob Rothschild, under a deal they concluded prior to Mr. Khodorkovsky’s arrest, the Sunday Times reported.
Voting rights to the shares passed to Mr. Rothschild, 67, under a “previously unknown arrangement” designed to take effect in the event that Mr. Khodorkovsky could no longer “act as a beneficiary” of the shares, it said.
Mr. Khodorkovsky, 40, whom Russian authorities arrested at gunpoint and jailed pending further investigation last week, was said by the Sunday Times to have made the arrangement with Mr. Rothschild when he realized he was facing arrest.
Mr. Rothschild now controls the voting rights on a stake in Yukos worth almost $13.5 billion, the newspaper said in a dispatch from Moscow.” – [end quote]*
Where are they? You would have thought at least Resident Dissident would have been here to defend the Rothschilds. Is he ill?
John, I think GCHG, et al, are re-thinking their propaganda bullshit; or maybe they’ve got Craig nobbled.
Our host hasn’t posted here for quite some time.
In the meantime, whether you agree with him or not, Paul Craig Roberts continues to be outspoken…
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/01/18/the-21st-century-an-era-of-fraud-paul-craig-roberts/
RobG you forget that our host never posted here for a fortnight before this current post. I have no doubt he has good reason (possibly putting the finishing touches to his book) or perhaps enjoying a sabbatical. Good luck to him.
“The Tree of Monkeys” – Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
“An organization is like a tree full of monkeys, all on different limbs at
different levels. Some monkeys are climbing up, some down.
“The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces.
“The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.”
Cheers, John
RobG
18/01/2016 10:10pm
Your Paul Craig Roberts commentary:
“Today 50% of 25 year-old Americans are living with their parents or grandparents because they cannot find employment sufficient to sustain an independent existence.”
Sounds very familiar. I wonder what the proportion is here in the UK.
Kind regards, John
This gives a similar picture and it is not funny.
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jan/21/record-levels-young-adults-living-home-ons
J
John, it only takes a few, quick posted lines to call out the latest tory bullshit on the housing crisis (see last week’s PMQs).
But no one is calling out the bullshit.
I wonder why…
Organizations or ‘Bureaucracies’ are a petri dish of bacterium. They operate as an entity with a conscious, but decrepit and evil intent. The highest order is it’s own survival, even at the expense of those it claims to serve. If you have good sense and ethical propensity and wish to improve the organization from within, it will devour you without a moment’s hesitation. It’s is like a wild beast who’s hunger for power and position deprive’s it of reason and compassion. It has no goal except acquiring more power and position and will juggernaut right over every lame ass getting in it’s way.
Whilst paedophile janner was let off the hook, here is a paramedic, a young 95 years old paramedic;
Will nat an yahoo et al stand trial in the years to come?