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.
Exexpat, you are certainly right about Chomsky as he made out that JFK was the worst proponent of militant anti-communism, the forerunner of the loony Reaganites, when he was assassinated because he definitely wasn’t.
“OK, What do you think about these points taken from a Guardian article?”
I think they show that the Nationalist claims of inequality in the UK just are not true.
North Korea has hit back at complaints of its H-bomb test. If indeed it was a H-bomb.
They have dropped over one million propaganda leaflets on South Korea.
Both countries have up their loudspeaker broadcast across the borders
Glenn_UK
Yesterday David Cameron came on Radio 4 to blame housewives for radicalisation.
The MSM condemns Islamic State, but the BBC World Service supports Islamic State.
Cameron has been encouraging imams to send UK born, young Muslims to Syria for jihad.
This pushme pullyou tripe comes from bullshit geyser from the Bullingdon Club.
The head of the Deobandi jamat lectured on the subject of adultery and non-Muslims and let them off the hook. the head of the Muslim brotherhood came and put them on the hook again. Both in my hearing. Both in the mosque.
We don’t want expediency of the moment from our political or religious leaders.
In a strict legal code, such as Electrical work, or UK law or Shari’ah, nobody minds what the law is so long as it’s consistent.
If the \building regulations Part P say it’s no junction boxes under the floor boards in domestic houses, how come some people regard it as a matter of personal choice ?
We all know that hacking phones has been easy for long time, so why do we have to have the charade of denials by the fatcat Murdoch? Who do they think they’re trying to kid?
The maulana dismisses adultery as none of our business, and the police cover it up , so where does that leave the rest of us Muslims who think it’s disgraceful? Looking stupid.
Putin has made a very strong case against USUKIS hiring of Al Qaida and setting up of Daesh, because we have long established international law, but we have to get to half the population of a civilised country being starving and homeless before anyone can bring USUKIS to book.
If it’s ok to make people homeless, let’s draw up a list, starting with the richest, to hand over their properties to us , not one rule for the poor and another for the rich.
The quasi-lawless and religiously fanatical state known as Pakistan has allowed YouTube to launched a local version of its mainstream brand.
Pakistan banned YouTube in 2012, because it showed a film called Innocence of Muslims, the films sparked violent protests across the pathological religious country.
Also Section 295 C, of Pakistans penal code says that whoever defiles the name of the prophet Mohammed shall face death, or a life sentence in prison.
Here is a prime example of the madness of blasphemy.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D2PTDPmDEeU
Nevermind
“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.”
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1/. There was no “gaping hole” left on Squonk, lieber Ingo. On the contrary, there was a brief but interesting discussion on the matter. The sort of polite discussion one could have on here if you and some others didn’t immediately go into insult mode…..
Readers , if interested, can look up the discussion on Squonk and make up their own mind.
2/. Re Begin, yes, that’s correct, he and his party and the actions of Irgun at Beir Yassin were the subject of Einstein’s letter. Is anyone saying the opposite?
But what you and other Israel-haters either don’t know – or, rather, probably do know but choose not to recall or bring to readers’ attention is
a) Begin and the small party he founded in 1948 were not Israel and were representative of neither the main political forces in Israel, nor of its then leaders
b) the Irgun massacre at Beit Yassin was strongly condemned by the Jewish Agency and its leaders and by the main political forces in Israel at the time (and afterwards).
Republicofscotland
“SNP MSP Joan MacAlpine’s office vandalised by hooded thug.
http://www.thenational.scot/news/msp-joan-mcalpine-vows-not-to-be-intimidated-after-brick-attack-on-her-constituency-office.12555”
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If this were another slaying by Islamist terrorists, you would be saying that it was either a false flag or that it never happened.
RE: North Korea: you’ll notice that the CIA/MSM haven’t explicitly called it out as an H-bomb. This is because hydrogen bombs have a distinctive isotope signature, which wasn’t there with the recent North Korean test.
H-bombs are fusion weapons, as opposed to A-bombs which are fission weapons. Splitting an atom (fission) is now relatively easy. Fusing atoms together (fusion – which creates X 10 the energy released) has been and remains a difficult technical feat to pull off, because of the incredibly high temperatures needed to start the process. They do this by first exploding a fission bomb, which creates the incredibly high temperatures to allow a fusion bomb to go off. This is all packed into one warhead, and the two explosions happen within fractions of a second. The Strangeloves have further refined this by making weapons that have two or three further fission explosions, after the initial fission and fusion explosions.
Don’t you just love the human race.
Exexpat@4:07
I worked at Bristol University during the 1960s it was spy central,left right and centre.
I worked in the Physics lab and outed two while I was there who were working for the CIA.
They were trying to spy on the Soviet spys.And then there was the English department and
the CIA funded Encounter magazine.
“But it was also when Kermode showed that he was less than astute politically. He had written for Encounter magazine for years, and in 1965 allowed himself to be persuaded to take over its editorship from Stephen Spender. In the course of the next two years it became clear that the organisation that funded the magazine was a CIA-front, at a time”
Worth a read. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sir-frank-kermode-academic-and-pre-eminent-literary-critic-who-reached-out-to-a-non-specialist-2058091.html
“If this were another slaying by Islamist terrorists, you would be saying that it was either a false flag or that it never happened.”
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Habb the exaggerator.
Or Begin’s Mossad, only you can make a mountain out of a mole hill ?
Netanyahu’s Likud Party is of course the same party as the Likud Party which Begin and Shamir led in earlier decades. It was long the principal party of Zionist revisionism, an ideology devised by Ze’ev Jabotinsky, whose secretary was Netanyahu’s father.
Siegfried Hecker, a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, was interviewed on television after the North Korean bomb or device went off. He said that he thought it was probably not a hydrogen bomb, but he would not say categorically that it could not have been.
“If this were another slaying by Islamist terrorists, you would be saying that it was either a false flag or that it never happened.”
And if that brick had been thrown through the window by Islamists shouting “Allah Akbar”, the entire country would now be on lock-down, don’t you think?
Fred : I think they show that the Nationalist claims of inequality in the UK just are not true.
Come on Fred, how about a bit of intellectual honesty here? You regularly criticise SNP governance. Now here’s a report which shows they are doing a better job than Westminster EVER did. Never mind what you claim the SNP claim – address the points in the report. Here they are again :
Take the second point : “workers north of the border are typically earning more than their English counterparts for the first time since records began.” How can this be attributed to bad governance by the SNP?
“And if that brick had been thrown through the window by Islamists shouting “Allah Akbar”, the entire country would now be on lock-down, don’t you think?”
No.
Yesterday we saw four young ‘British’ Muslims, including a medical student, in court to answer charges of plotting to slaughter soldiers, police officers and civilians on the streets. They were found to be in possession of handguns, silencers and ammunition.
Day after day the news is full of these cases. They’re barely even news worthy any longer. But no lock-down nor anything approaching it.
So stop exaggerating, Glenn.
Lysias, the North Korean nuclear test earlier this month was reported to be just 10 kilotons…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_North_Korea
The uranium fission bomb dropped on Hiroshima and the plutonium fission bomb dropped on Nagasaki (both civilian targets of little military consequence) were both bigger than that.
Whilst North Korea is a basket-case state, it is absolutely no threat at all, and is used in just the same way as Iran and ISIS to con the public in the west into giving their tax money to the military-industrial complex, and to go along with the ever increasing police state.
Anon1 said: “Day after day the news is full of these cases. They’re barely even news worthy any longer. But no lock-down nor anything approaching it.”
That is, if you’re stupid enough to believe all this propaganda bullshit.
That people like Anon1, just like the Daily Mail, et al, are paid to propagate.
HATE, HATE, HATE; FEAR, FEAR, FEAR.
You can’t beat it, ay, when it comes to controlling the plebs; who, if they knew the truth, would lynch you lot in a second.
Node
Great news! Can Scotland fuck off now?
RobG
“That is, if you’re stupid enough to believe all this propaganda bullshit.”
Don’t tell me. The accused are actors/patsies/holograms.
RobG
Has anyone reviewed your gîte on TripAdvisor? I want to know what the customers are saying.
This famous recording has now just about been wiped-out on video sharing sites, courtesy of the military-industrial complex and other assorted psychos…
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfj1bu_the-beatles-all-you-need-is-love-live-on-stage-agy_music
In the meantime, Anon1 seems obsessed with a gite I run in France; but Anon1 is quite obviously not obsessed with the untold millions who have been slaughtered in US/UK wars of aggression…
http://www.globalresearch.ca/staggering-civilian-death-toll-in-iraq-un-report/5502314
Or you can try this…
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/01/19/martin-luther-king-paul-craig-roberts/
The Work Capability Assessment kills people and makes them very sick.
‘First, do no harm’: are disability assessments associated with adverse trends in mental health? A longitudinal ecological study (Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health,16/11/2015)
Abstract (edited)
Background
In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had their eligibility reassessed using a new functional checklist—the Work Capability Assessment. Doctors and disability rights organisations have raised concerns that this has had an adverse effect on the mental health of claimants, but there are no population level studies exploring the health effects of this or similar policies.
Results
Each additional 10 000 people reassessed in each area was associated with an additional 6 suicides (95% CI 2 to 9), 2700 cases of reported mental health problems (95% CI 548 to 4840), and the prescribing of an additional 7020 antidepressant items (95% CI 3930 to 10100). The reassessment process was associated with the greatest increases in these adverse mental health outcomes in the most deprived areas of the country, widening health inequalities.
Conclusions
The programme of reassessing people on disability benefits using the Work Capability Assessment was independently associated with an increase in suicides, self-reported mental health problems and antidepressant prescribing. This policy may have had serious adverse consequences for mental health in England, which could outweigh any benefits that arise from moving people off disability benefits.
Note: Nearly 40% of those who have appealed against the initial assessment decision have had this decision overturned,11 and five independent reviews have raised concerns about the fairness and effectiveness of the process.
http://m.jech.bmj.com/content/early/2015/10/26/jech-2015-206209.full
Kind regards,
John
Anon1 “Day after day the news is full of these cases”
No it isn’t.
So stop exaggerating, Anon1
Staggering.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35341256
Glenn
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“If this were another slaying by Islamist terrorists, you would be saying that it was either a false flag or that it never happened.”
And if that brick had been thrown through the window by Islamists shouting “Allah Akbar”, the entire country would now be on lock-down, don’t you think?
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I doubt it, Glenn. The authorities are much more sensible than the false-flaggers and conspiraloons on CM.
Meanwhile back in the real world (the real world here being inside the clinically obsessed, nay disturbed mind of our Caithness correspondent)
Freds first link, to a Lsbour website press release, quoting the frothing spittle of one who knows their jaiket is on a very shoogly peg come May.
“Mrs Grant also wrote to Health Minister Shona Robison on the ambulance issue, but Ms Robison said it was one for the Scottish Ambulance Service and NHS Highland to solve as the NHS board was responsible for the design, delivery and management of its NHS services.”
Nul Points deary, do try harder.
Second link, to the Press and Journal. Nuff said.
I rest my case re disturbed, but would like to add desperate into the mindset here displayed.
Flambe away. I can take it big guy.
Alfred Einstein was not alone in condemning the Irgun massacre at Beit Yassin. It was also strongly condemned by the Jewish Agency and its leaders and by the main political forces in Israel at the time (and afterwards).
Lysias
I forgot to welcome you back. Hope you enjoyed your winter break in the sunny Caribbean!
Exexpat
You never got round to answering my question. Is the “felchng” you wrote about something old expats go in for when they return to “fascist” Britain? 🙂
@Anon1
19 Jan, 2016 – 10:05 pm
Staggering, is why you expect people to believe this kind of bullshit.
Perhaps instead you could give us a report on American drone strikes in Pakistan?
Perhaps you can tell us why a failed state (by UN report) like Pakistan is allowed to have nuclear weapons?
Perhaps you can relate all the other Alice In Wonderland crap that you’re paid to tell us.
You are all going to be put on trial, make no mistake about that.