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.
“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.”
So what you are saying is that when wages in Scotland lag slightly behind wages in England it is Westminster deserves the blame but when they edge slightly ahead the SNP get the credit.
I don’t like reading too much into one set of figures covering one aspect of the economy at one point in time but like I said, looks like the union is beneficial to the wage earners of Scotland.
Clark
“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.”
If you’re using “massive, fragile canisters of radioactive poison” as a euphemism for the troll presence on the internet, correct.
If not, yes. They are. But just not in the way you imply.
Inserting (graphite does, I think) control rods, you can shut down a reactor pretty quick mate.
The energy gets dumped in the sea. That’s why they are built there.
Still, as a power source, Nuclear is mental stupid. Built partly to produce weapons grade plutonium, it was sold to the plebs as “so cheap it’s not worth metering”.
Building reactors for scientific research is a different ‘matter’.
Whatever State it’s in. 😉
They are terrified of this (which I linked to last night)…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQPx2UVhTUc
The scum, the worms, the vermin, who exist entirely from hatred and fear get blown away by ‘people power’, a huge force that the scum know they can’t beat.
Do you tie your guests up and force them to watch it?
““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.” ”
Shona Robison? Didn’t her husband’s aide just get suspended for sending some very nasty racist text messages?
So once again when things are falling apart the SNP government deny all responsibility. The Scottish Ambulance Service is nothing to do with them except when they are politicising it.
“Flambe away. I can take it big guy.”
I wasn’t going to but since you insist. Fuck off and die retard.
“Still, as a power source, Nuclear is mental stupid.”
But not as mental stupid as a power source which doesn’t produce power.
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
Freddo baby. Settle.
“Didn’t her husband’s aide…” No, it wasn’t. It was her Aunties fucking Valet. Allegedly.
Are you responsible for your wifes (ex ?)personal trainers actions.
Try harder. This is so 2013 smeary trolling.
Your faculties are obviously struggling with the simple, logical fact that people, apart from the first time reader (at a push), will have you sussed by the unremitting obsessional hatred displayed here. Day after day.
Which naturally leads one on, to question your motivation.
Paid, on price per smear ? Your proliferation lends weight to this, but doesn’t really explain your dribbling vitriol.
Cuckolded by a ginger sweaty ?
Your Lord Foulkes, posting in the lucid moments between alcoholic stupors ?
‘One of the most common names amongst Jamaicans, believe it or not is Campbell.’
Grant and Gordon are also very common names in Jamaica, confirming the Scottish connections of many of the plantation owners.
“Noam Chomsky is and always has been A SPOOK”
Bollocks, he is, as Peter Dale Scott has pointed out on several occasions, an orthodox leftist ‘structuralist’ who combines an aversion to anything smelling of ‘conspiracy theory’ with a refusal to acknowledge that (as Scott and others argue), the ruling class in the US comprises a number of competing factions- and that these factions often conspire against each other.
Old Mark
20/01/2016 12:03am
“a refusal to acknowledge that (as Scott and others argue), the ruling class in the US comprises a number of competing factions- and that these factions often conspire against each other.”
Have they engaged in debate on the matter, and can you give me references to any critiques Peter Dale Scott has produced, please?
Thanks, John
” No, it wasn’t. It was her Aunties fucking Valet. Allegedly.”
I could have sworn it was her husband, SNP deputy leader Stewart Hosie’s aide, SNP councillor Craig Melville who was suspended for sending racist text messages.
http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/2016/01/19/craig-melvilles-job-could-be-untenable-if-hate-text-claims-true/
Fred:
“SNP councillor Craig Melville who was suspended for sending racist text messages”.
1/ They weren’t racist, they were Islamophobic
2/ Defo amongst many others on CM blog would agree with every word
3/ These are trite MSM type stereotypes that no-one should take any notice of
4/ It is not the religion of Islam to terrorise other creatures/humans.
5/ Can we take it that the neo-cons who support IS and Al Qaida should now all resign?
John- happy to oblige; this video from 3.40 onwards summarises PDS’s critique of the chomskyites-
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385×38319
Fred, I’m coming to the conclusion you’re utterly humourless.
Fred. She must have told her husband to tell him to (allegedly) do it.
Defo !
IF the local councillor did as your link purports, then the guy should be forcibly sterilised, so as to take stupid out of the gene pool.
Not for the nasty stuff mind, just the idiocy. I’m pro free speech. Let arseholes Trump.
It’s authored by Will Lyon, who takes the unionist penny.
Straw was interviewed on BBCs Hardtalk.
Giyane
“2/ Defo amongst many others on CM blog would agree with every word ”
I thought alcohol was haram ?
You seem quite confused friend. Enemies everywhere !
Let’s get this straight. The head of the Deobandi sect, which forms the majority of Islamic centres in the UK, also threatened in one of his talks in Birmingham Central Mosque back in the early ’90s that when the Muslims were strong enough in the UK, they would fight the non-Muslims on the streets of UK cities.
Or as the Haji in Green Lane Mosque once put it: ‘ The English are the Pharaoh and we are the Children of Israel. God wants to turn the tables round on them.’
Great stuff, great rhetoric. But just how does fighting a political war in Syria on the side of the neo-cons, against the Sunni Muslim people actually achieve this end?
This is the scarey bit. The Deobandi sect has agreed to David Cameron’s demands for large numbers of young jihadis to go to jihadi training and fighting in Syria, not because they have a quarrel with the Syrian people they are fighting against, or their leader who is still in power, but because they want them to learn jihad so that they can bring it back to the streets of England.
David Cameron fully understands why offerring jihad experience to young Muslims will make him popular in the colonially angry amongst the Muslims. He knows full well that he is training them to fight us. What does that say about David Cameron? It tells me that he and his Thatcherite class feel safe in their Tory strongholds, with their fat portfolios of privatised shares.
He does not worry at all about the ordinary citizens coming to blows with Turkey and Syrian trained jihadis on the streets of Bradford and Birmingham.
The Tories/ Red Tories are already represented by a large number of wealthy, professional Muslims whom he will select as the true representatives of Islam while these battles rage. Even though these posh Muslims with their valets and dressing rooms long ago left Islam.
David Cameron will make room in the House of Lords for the fat imams on the benches of the Church of England Bishops as a reward for colonising the Middle East for the USUKIS Raj.
When the religion of Islam comes to power in the UK it will be in the hands of sharp=dressed ex=jihadis who cut their teeth on the killing grounds of Syria, and later the remains of the Soviet Empire.
This is a deliberate policy by the UK elites, not to allow Islam to come as a ground=swell of witness to truth, but rather come to power in the pocket of the priveledged, teaching the peeps to obey their local=born British Raj imams.
Cameron kills 2 birds with one stone.
1/ He tames the anger of the oppressed under the Britsh Raj by getting the UK peeps to take the brunt of their ancestral rage. He appoints the Muslim leaders to power in the new British UK Raj. The bought imams bring the Muslims to heel. Rebels are marginalised,
2/ he uses the Muslims to colonise the Middle-East, genociding the faithful Syrians, and destroying the independence of their traditions. He brings them to heel under the stooges from the Muslim Brotherhood, equipped with top tech spy technology to keep their peeps down.
The disgusting troll Habbabkuk suggests that I have a personal gripe against the Asian Muslims. No, I live with them and they are decent people. My gripe is with political Islam that collaborates with the USUKIS elites for some kind of power from them, sacrificing millions of Muslims in their path. Their road is utterly haram and I totally condemn it. They have not read or understood the Qur’an or Hadith in their knowledge.
Our prophet SAW said that the Muslims will follow the Jews and the Christians even down a lizard’s hole. I see it now, the Bentleys, the Mercedes, the huge extensions on the Victorian houses of Moseley. They think they are doing well. They are. On the blood and bones of the genocided Muslims of Syria, whom they glibly blame Assad for persecuting while they pocket the proceeds of David Cameron’s Thatcherite swivel-eyed capitalism.
Defo
maybe you didn’t read Fred’s link to SNP Councillor craig Melville’s text messages.
No mention of Alcohol here:
“According to reports, Mr Melville is alleged to have sent a number of texts to an unnamed woman within the party, a day after the Paris terror attacks.
One text, which contained several grammatical errors, allegedly read: “It’s not personal I just ******* hate your religion and I’ll do all in I’m life do defeat your filth.”
Another reportedly said: “And in your favour we live in an uneducated left lift loopy left wing society who is more interested in claiming benefits and being ignorant to the threat of your horrible disease which is a make believe **** in the sky.
“Horrible murdering Islamic *****.”
A newspaper report said another message apparently referred to the SNP’s international development minister, Humza Yousaf, who visited the Greek island of Lesbos in October to see the plight of Syrian refugees.
It allegedly said: “And Muslim politicians in the UK have a duty to speak out and educate. That should be their number one priority, not staged photos taking refugees off boats and writing patronising messages of support.””
Anon1 19 Jan, 2016 – 9:00 pm :Node – Great news! Can Scotland fuck off now?
Is there anybody that you don’t hate apart from Israelis?
Defo:
“You seem quite confused friend. Enemies everywhere !”
Matthew 10:16King James Version (KJV)
16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Jesus, Christ, Messiah, son of Maryam.
Daniel:
“Straw was interviewed on BBCs Hardtalk.”
Hardtalk being a showpiece of MI6’s World Service.
Straw: Gaddafi and Assad were the 2 best renditioners ever. Can we have them back again?
fred 19 Jan, 2016 – 10:31 pm : So what you are saying is that when wages in Scotland lag slightly behind wages in England it is Westminster deserves the blame but when they edge slightly ahead the SNP get the credit.
No, I said nothing of the kind. I pointed out that during centuries of Westminster rule, Scots ALWAYS earned LESS than the English, but then the SNP took over and Scots now earn MORE than the English. I invite you to explain this situation in the light of your habitual claim that SNP rule is bad for Scotland.
Defo, 19 Jan, 10:33 pm; graphite is a nuclear moderator. By converting fast neutrons to slower “thermal” neutrons it causes more neutrons to be captured by other nuclei, increasing the rate of nuclear reaction.
But yes, you can shut down the fission chain reaction with the control rods – I forget what they’re made of. Trouble is, the reaction products already produced are not stable isotopes. They continue to decay, continuing to release heat. That heat is enough to melt the core, so the core must continue to be cooled even after the control rods have been inserted.
This is exactly what happened at Fukushima. The seismic sensors detected an earthquake and automatically inserted the control rods. At this point, the reactors were officially considered to be “shut down”. The pumps continued to circulate coolant through the core to remove decay heat.
Then the tsunami swept in. It wiped out the power grid depriving the pumps of electric power, so the back-up diesel generators kicked in. But the flood water choked the diesel generators, the electricity died, the pumps stopped pumping and three of the cores melted down.
They’re still bubbling away down there somewhere. The plant owners have officially declared “cold shutdown” but they don’t even know where the melted fuel is; presumably it has melted its way out of the bottom of the reaction vessels. They tried to get a robot camera in to have a look. They hoped it would last two hours but it got fried after twenty minutes by the neutron flux. Oh well, at least that proved that the nuclear reaction was still going.
Until Fukushima, this was a theoretical scenario; now it’s three real, ongoing meltdowns. No solution to it has ever been proposed; as some nuclear engineers put it, the last chapter of the nuclear accident textbook has never been written.
There are over four hundred nuclear power reactors on our little planet, and many governments want to build more…
The alcohol comment wasn’t referring to the link Giyane !
You seem to have cut the word “musl!m” out of your quote from the link mate.
Mistake no doubt.
Again I say, what kind of stupid would TEXT that stuff, to a female follower of your faith no less. And a colleague of his too!
Might be he was pished and DID do it. He could have been doing a Basilesque faulty towers goose step too at the same time for all it has to do with his bosses wife.
Fred was trying to smear not just by one, but two steps removed. That ranks as a pretty desperate attempt. Nul points.
Anon1, 19 Jan, 10:05 pm: regarding the boy who cut his own hand off; it’s about indoctrination, not Islam.
As a child, I was being brought up as a Jehovah’s Witness by my adoptive mother. I would have argued against accepting a blood transfusion should I have needed one. That was how powerful its effect was upon me, yet I was the only JW in my school. That poor lad is immersed in it.
Our governments should support secular governments, but mostly instead try to overthrow them. Assad’s government that Cameron wanted to bomb a year ago is secular, whereas the “moderate rebels” Cameron wants to offer air support are Wahhabist extremists. Our government never suggest “regime change” for Saudi Arabia, the source of Wahhabism. Libya, Iraq – not nice governments, but secular at least until “our side” destroyed them. Both countries now overrun with fake-religious extremists and far worse than they were before our governments “humanitarian interventions”.
Vronsky, 19 Jan, 2:26 pm
Well he was right, wasn’t he? We were told 9/11 was the work of Saudis, so of course the US attacked Afghanistan followed by Iraq.
Hi Clark. I thought it was graphite, but what I was attempting to remember was Boron.
Wiki makes it almost too easy, almost like cheating.
“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”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_rod
Destroying the grid would cause a Fukushima type meltdown / explosion ?
How, when you have automatic control rods to soak up the chain reacting neutrons, and a handily placed sea to dump the excess energy (clean hot water) into ?
I am dead against building any new Power generating reactors, and we should have been planning on how we were going to cover base load needs decades ago(but hey that’s vested interests in Westminster. Again), but lets not do the nose/face/spite thing.
Scientific research reactors, internationally regulated, are worth the decommissioning cost. IMHO
Pragmatically, so is keeping what we have going until we can solve the base load/renewable balance problems.
Hinkley Point C is wrong. On so may levels.
Its story pretty much sums up the sorry state we are in. Foreign talent (France), building what looks like a dodgy foreign (China?) design, using foreign (China) finance. The deal lubricated on a promise of a rip off generating rate. Guaranteed for 30 of your tax payer years.
That should fill the trough a fair ways too no doubt.
On a happier note, a Chemistry Prof at Edinburgh Uni I know is working with a team on a method to drastically reduce the half life of the nasty stuff. Some sort of transmutation method.
Lets hope that the clever monkeys ingenuity saves their day again.
We could have been using Thorium instead of Uranium all these years, and been in a lot less trouble decommissioning and storage wise, but you don’t get weapons grade plutonium as a waste product with that so…
Of course, it did matter who pulled off 9/11 or who assassinated JFK which Chomsky continues to deny.
The suicide bombers of 9/11 were said to be hijackers by Meir Dagan’s Mossad who was overjoyed when the WTC came down, and iraq was added to the list for regime change to help keep the whole plot covered up.
Women’s Rights vs Feminism (a Neo-Con Tool)
Let’s keep it brief. The historical demands by women who sought fair treatment and the removal of impertinent obstacles to their well-being was a just movement amongst many others. Good for them.
But having formalised the movement with organisations and departments within government and universities, it became an organic political entity that could be steered, for better or worse. That transformation is when Women’s Rights became Feminism, a political ideology that is concerned more with power than with well-being.
The origins of Feminism (as opp. to WRs) can be traced back to American college campuses and the simmering stew of civil rights activism of the 1960s. The cultural leanings and identities of the leading personalities is significant.
Of course many things fed into the evolution of Feminism. And one thing was its relationship with establishment power which always seeks new means of garnering political support for various agendas – in this case, by allying with the apparent leaders of a disparate mindset.
No surprise then that the promise of money and power to the main players in Feminism could steer the narrative and focus to suit the contemporary needs of the establishment – now decidedly Neo-Con. And similarly, its silence in respect of inconvenient events – eg. Cologne. How many Feminists want to imperil their comfortable, high salaried jobs speaking out for Women’s Rights?
The lesson here is not about what something was 100 years ago. Nor is it about what it ‘should’ or ‘shouldn’t’ be.
The lesson here is about what it is, right here and now. And how an abstract thing like ideology can be hijacked or transformed by the evolutionary forces of social politics.
Old Mark
20/01/2016 12:53am
Thank you very much. I will study with interest.
Kind regards, John