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.
Well I’m sorry to hear that Nevermind.
I find my religion effervescently exiting. If it were not for the insane political ambition of neo-con total swivel-eyed nutcases in the US and UK to conquer the whole world including the Muslim bits, and the similar swivel-eyed idea of political Islam that the neo-cons will place them in charge of Islam, I find Islam exciting and fresh.
i did ot come into Islam to fight against the swivel=eyeds, but when I see the swivel=eyed necons salivating at the possibility promised by politcal Islam to gift them hegemony over the Muslim world, and political Islam salivating over nthe possibility of the swivel=eyed neo=cons gifting them power, then I have to do something.
I must admit that I had not realised how far gone down the swivel-eyed dream of power, most of the imams have gone. Anyone who thinks that swivel-eyed neo-cons are going to give them power,
1/hasn’t read the history of the loss of the Caliphate in 1918 or
2/ read the Qur’ans instruction not to take the swivel=eyed Jews and christians as politcal partners.
But being swivel-eyed, they probably red my remarks and declare me to be a spy against Islam.
exciting even
So how come I have to bring this subject up here, Giyanne? whatever are you doing here?
Cameron shoot himself in the foot by making out that certain religious groups have to learn English when the facts are clear, politicians have interfered in education for far too long, they have disrupted when routine was needed and they used their ‘moral charm’ to dumb down pupils and teachers. Academies are nothing but de-skilling schools of properly educated teachers.
This is a deeply disturbing trend towards a class society that denies some the higher education that has been decided to bring up the ruling classes, the establishment ticklers/mongers.
“… 16 per cent, or 5.2 million adults in England, can be described as ‘functionally illiterate.’ They would not pass an English GCSE and have literacy levels at or below those expected of an 11-year-old… Many areas of employment would not be open to them with this level of literacy and they may also struggle to support their children with reading and homework, or perform other everyday tasks.”
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/david-cameron-s-illiterate-proposal-to-counter-radicalisation-by-targeting-muslim-women-f6069bfee942#.mvjnxngxq
Another excellent article by Nafeez Ahmed (not a mullah)
Loony
“Technical constraints means that you cannot import electricity from China!”
Actually all the technical constraints on an efficient worldwide HVDC (High Voltage DC) grid have been solved. The political will to do so is the constraint.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/lets-build-a-global-power-grid
Meanwhile back in the real world.
The Ambulance service in Caithness has been stretched to breaking point with much of the time only two ambulances on duty and one of those frequently having to be missing for hours on an emergency transfer as the hospital becomes increasingly under staffed.
http://www.himsps.org.uk/2016/01/concern-over-stress-on-caithness-ambulance-service-due-to-increased-hospital-transfers/
In further news.
The Scottish government is planning to take paramedics off duty and pay them to learn a language hardly anybody speaks.
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/scotland/807740/paramedics-could-learn-gaelic-under-new-scottish-ambulance-service-plans/
Squonk, 11:03 am; thanks.
I’d wondered why governments have nuclear power stations built when they’re so expensive and such a liability. Then I remembered that when the US/UK began their devastation of Iraq, they very quickly destroyed the power grid. This is common to these “humanitarian interventions”.
Well an attacking government can’t just destroy the power grid of a country with nuclear power reactors because the reactors would melt down, blow up like two of the Fukushima reactors did, fill the atmosphere with cancer-causing radioactive pollution and thereby poison the attackers own population and those of their allies. There’d be a massive outcry, resistance from within. The reactor sites could not simply be attacked by air forces for the same reason. Ground troops would be needed; elite troops at that, to take control of the reactor sites and either run them or shut them down in good order.
So presumably, governments pepper their own territory with massive, fragile canisters of radioactive poison as a defensive measure. It might seem mad, but that’s modern life for you.
Quick drive-by…
http://www.wam.ae/en/news/emirates/1395290138575.html
…. the two countries’ efforts to enhance regional peace and their coordination in countering extremism and terrorism.
What might they be, I wonder?
& @ the scotophobic Fred…
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/17/scottish-workers-more-disposable-income-london-earners
Better bite the bullet and stay, Fred.
“& @ the scotophobic Fred…”
Fuck off cunt.
“Better bite the bullet and stay, Fred.”
Don’t tell me what to do retard.
Iran has been involved in energy supply since the 90s and most of her neighbours are buying the power generated in Iran. This sector of Iran’s economy also has been under constant pressures of sanctions.
The allocation of resources in a coherent fashion takes away the opportunity of “unusual returns” from the banksters and their agents granted the relevant licenses albeit with a wink and nod. Therefore it is not the imagination or the lack of technology that hampers human progress but the imperatives of banksters and their rickety Pozi schemes that ensure the current chaos exist, and is further consolidated to coalesce into a more violent and chaotic world without a great deal of progress in the right direction whilst promoting an ample emphasis on regressive and reactionary outcomes.
The patent problem as outlined in Clark’s comment is our inability to admire the whole of the jigsaw before us; survival takes many forms, some of which may prove to be counter intuitive.
Freds seem to melt down quite easily too, but with less devastating consequences.
World Economic Forum, Davos, 2016.
Very faint glimmer of hope in the darkness: two messages which have been conveniently ignored for years may, I stress may, at last have penetrated the consciousness of the extremely rich bastards who gather annually at Davos to discuss how best to rip the rest of us off, and even the grovelling gobshites of politicians whose willing tongues supplement the function of the paper in the toilets there. (David Miliband, Peter Mandelson, George Osborne and Callme Dave will all be there).
Climate change:
http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/what-are-the-top-global-risks-for-2016
Globalisation isn’t quite the best thing since sliced bread:
The empirical evidence suggesting that globalisation is indeed affecting the income distribution in industrialised countries is much stronger than initially thought, at least as far as the manufacturing industry is concerned. In fact, the productivity gains from having access to cheaper inputs through offshoring are not being distributed equally between different economic actors in our rich societies. Consequently, political resistance to free trade by certain groups has a clear rationale as long as the effects discussed above are not addressed through more effective redistribution policies.
http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/12/is-globalisation-affecting-income-distribution
I think Fred is reading a statement of self-evident fact – “Scotophobic” – as a personal attack. I am sorry to think his innocent sheep have to listen to that sort of thing all day.
Probably – sheep aren’t very bright – some of them do fuck off and die, which can’t be a good thing on market day.
Could it conceivably be due to the latest moves to open a diplomatic shop for zionistan in UAE?
present in the meeting were; Chief abdul alnahyan, Cook bin alnahyan, bottle washer mostafa alnahyan, and not forgetting logistic support ahmed alnahyan ………. ROFL the should called alnahyan and sons stead of UAE!!!!!!!! Dunchyoufeeel so warm dealing with these small
dictatorships“democracies”?Giyane
“..my link to this collective murder of a woman for criticising an imam for selling amulets.
He shouted out that she was an American and had been seen burning the Qur’an.
Simply on the calling up of tribal hate against the US, and without any evidence at all they murdered her with stones, dragged her by car, and set her mutilated body alight.”
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Look, let’s be serious for a moment.
No one is saying there are not imams around in the West who pose a threat to public order and cultural harmony. Nor that certain fundamentalist imams are not the very incarnation of evil. That, of course, is why the UK (and French for that matter) authorities have deported several of them and refused entry to others.
But that is a long way from hawking your kind of assertions, namely that there is a conspiracy between certain of those undesirable imams and the state authorities to organise the sort of events we’ve been reading about (Cologne, etc).
I repeat my question of some time ago – arther than repeating the same guff ad nauseam, could you perhaps provide reputable sources to back up your assertion?
Surely an Oxford graduate should be capable of doing that?
“I think Fred is reading a statement of self-evident fact – “Scotophobic” – as a personal attack.”
It was a personal attack.
Now fuck off.
Thanks for that Ba’al, so when Germany’s Steinmeier is saying that Shia Iran holds the key to middle east peace, our security advisors are briefing Sunni’s on….??? what exactly? escalating the situation, some false flag scenario, or the latest arms they could buy from us? which is it?
“Miranda had said the police had acted unlawfully and breached his right to freedom of expression under the European Convention on Human Rights.
However, the court did say that the clause of the Terrorism Act under which Miranda was detained was incompatible with the convention, which protects freedom of speech in relation to journalistic materials. ”
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-security-snowden-miranda-idUKKCN0UX1E4
Glen Greenwald has yet to comment on today’s judgement which looks biased in favour of the establishment and their heavies
Habbabkuk, there certainly has been such collusion, for instance the “Covenant of Security” secret services policy, whereby islamist-extremists were protected in the UK on the understanding that they would commit atrocities only in other countries. This policy contributed to the 7/7 London bombings.
Fred you are an anemone, a thin skinned flower that just does not like 45% of Scottish people. You want to get the fuck out of there and let somebody else do the crofting.
lets face it, you are spending far too long on the PC, its eating you up and you keep forget taking your pills.
yes, yes, I know f…o…r..
Should we try to cool Fred with sea water, or would that release too much Ire131?
Just to address the gaping hole someone has left on Squonk, first promising to deal with it after their usual sceptic ramblings, but then letting senility rule their response, i.e. they just forget about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_political_violence
Menachem Begin was called a terrorist and a fascist by Albert Einstein and 27 other prominent Jewish intellectuals in a letter to the New York Times which was published on December 4, 1948. Specifically condemned was the participation of the Irgun in the Deir Yassin massacre.
As long as it is cold water, Clark, it might do the trick.
Giyane: Assuming you regard yourself as an observant Muslim, would you go and sexually molest a child if your Imam ordered you to do so? I’m astonished at your low opinion of ordinary, decent Muslim men, and do not believe for a moment that they’re any more capable of such depraved behaviour than any other group of people.
For instance, there’s absolutely no way I (as a paid-up atheist) could be persuaded to do so. Following your argument, that makes atheists morally superior to Muslims. I imagine nearly every Muslim would find your argument insultingly ludicrous, boarding on incitement to race hatred.
On the other hand, perhaps you are simply acting as an apologist for these pedophile men of Asian origin, who thoroughly enjoyed their depravity, taking full advantage of those for whom they have no respect, and a police force bound by an idiotic subservience to political correctness (and a fear of charges of racism).
You do all Muslims a great disservice, and raise rather worrying questions about your own tendencies.
“Fred you are an anemone, a thin skinned flower that just does not like 45% of Scottish people.”
I don’t like you and you’re not Scottish.
Baal isn’t Scottish, Clark isn’t Scottish.
The cultural differences between the Highlands and the Lowlands is greater than the cultural difference between the Lowlands and England yet the SNP, and people like you are trying hard to create a culturally unified Scotland and manufacture cultural differences between Scotland and England.
Nationalism reminiscent of 1930s Germany.
I posted the facts on the Scottish Ambulance Service without reference to anyone here and as usual it was met with personal attacks and name calling against me. Typical Natzi tactics.
“Should we try to cool Fred with sea water, or would that release too much Ire131?”
Just try explaining why forcing a dead language on people who don’t want it has a higher priority to the SNP than saving lives.
“Fred you are an anemone, a thin skinned flower that just does not like 45% of Scottish people.”
I don’t like you and you’re not Scottish.”
never said I was, I’m European though and hence like our common culture in Europe. Its only sad characters who revel in diversity, who try and make out that their personal complications and inbred animosities must also apply to the rest of society.
From what I remember is that the enforced unionism has had a terrible impact on Scotland, a society that was forged by its divisions, but this has not diminished the warmth and openness of its people.
Culture is not defined by its divisions.
“Objection. Leading the witness”.
“From what I remember is that the enforced unionism has had a terrible impact on Scotland, a society that was forged by its divisions, but this has not diminished the warmth and openness of its people.”
Unionism was not enforced.
Nationalists pretend Scotland was colonised by England but the fact is Scotland stood shoulder to shoulder with England and together they colonised much of the rest of the world.
Squonk: Yeah, but no, but. The technical capacity exists to put a man on the moon. That is different from being able to put every man on the moon.
The UK is a small densely populated country and yet its transmission losses are around 2.3%. Surely if a global super-grid were to exist and be capable of operating “without significant losses” then UK losses should be be barely measurable.
There is no national grid in the US for example. This in part is an attempt to minimize transmission losses – losses which increase with distance.
Is it not surprising that prior to developing a global super-grid at least one nation state has not utilized the technology either to reduce its own national losses, or to access other efficiencies available to national transmission systems.
Glenn, something religions share with science is that, taken piecemeal, out of context their concepts can be used to mislead and manipulate. The mass news media’s pronouncements beginning “Scientists say…” are similar in this sense to fake-religious pronouncements “God says you must so-and-so”. Eugenics was promoted as being based on science.
I recommend you read The Spire by William Golding.
Loony, the UK and most other power grid use AC, alternating current. AC suffers losses through induction. DC, direct current, eliminates these losses making long distance transmission viable.