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: As a reader and occasional contributor of this site, I’m perfectly entitled to tell you that the distracting and worthless mass postings you’re putting down – rather obsessively – detract from its usefulness. And you can ditch your silly accusations while you’re at it.
Glenn_Uk
The question I’m asking myself, from the amount of furniture and junk being cast in my path today by frit bridge-dwellers like you , is this was Poppi Worthington’s father a freemason. Was Erdogan’s son, who murdered Jackie Sutton in an Istanbul international airport, a freemason?
When the bridges corbel arch weakens, the whole structure will come down.
Asylum seekers forced to live in houses with red doors thanks to a policy which has compared to 1930s Germany today launched an impassioned plea to be allowed to change the colour.
Hundreds of refugees have been living in the instantly recognisable homes, in a move which as been compared with the yellow stars that the Nazis forced Jews to wear.
The coloured doors make homes occupied by the refugees in poor areas of Middlesbrough easy to identify and have been blamed for numerous attacks in which people were victims of abuse from racist thugs.
I can’t quite see how changing the colour of a house door will stop someone from being abusive, if they already know where they live then the door colour is irrelevant.
To compare this story to 1930’s Nazi Germany, and the persecutions is, quite appalling.
Staying on the theme of ethinicity, this particular story shows just how paranoid and controlling the British security services intend to be.
A 10-year-old Muslim boy who wrote that he lived in a “terrorist house” – when he meant “terraced house” – during an English lesson at school has been interviewed by police.
Police called at his home in Accrington, Lancashire, the following day and examined the family laptop, according to the BBC
Teachers have been obliged to report any suspicious activity ever since the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act became law last year.
The boy’s family said they were shocked by their treatment last month and want apologies form the school and police.
The disgusting racism and paranoia have made the persecution of the Jews circa 1930s look like a picnic compared with the treatment of the Muslims these days;
This is the direct result of the neocon and their zionist lobby bringing about yet another huge almighty fuck up, that has been exacerbated by a daily two minute hate sessions.
This is the pitiful institutional response;
Note the “not by anyone from prevent”:
“John: Why are you referring us to a far-right hate site, specialising in crazed right-wing conspiracies, pro-Israel propaganda, and Muslim bashing?”
Which site is that then?
all the doors on the Hales estate are blue, houses smarting this colour all belong to to the Bacon family and they get painted regularly.
ROS “To compare this story to 1930’s Nazi Germany, and the persecutions is, quite appalling.”
could not agree more.
Giyanne you have not said much but posted a lot of bile, flailing would be another word for it.
Thanks to old Mark on his thoughts on feminism, I suppose as a movement that demands equality on all levels it still has a lot to achieve, not just for some achieving women but for all.
Here are a few reasons why not to get on twatter.
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/online-harassment-epidemic-against-women-reveals-a-crisis-of-masculinity-84d979b1ea7b#.5j3qarq01
Meanwhile in Paris the centre of the militarisation of Western cities, by their governments due to a rather debatable event, hosted, Ash Carter US Defence Secretary where he met America’s allies.
The allies in question are the ones most involved in controlling or trying to control, Syria and Iraq. Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands were all included in the meeting.
Unsurprisingly not one Arab nation was invited to the soirée in Paris.
Canada’s defence minister Harjit Sajjan, (a Sikh) was conspicuous by his absence.
I think everyone is going a bit mad including me. Maybe that is the planned agenda. It takes a lot to get me annoyed, especially over something so trivial, but the level of incompetence of some UK government agencies (the work of which is largely outsourced to private companies staffed by people on minimum wage – some of who try their best – but who are completely incapable of resolving even the simplest thing) is so frustrating, that its almost beyond belief.
I won’t bore you with the details, but have already demanded compensation for their own incompetence, and referred it to the highest level I could yet find.
Despite having done everything correctly, exactly as instructed – including providing their own documentary evidence of their own incompetence, they are not only still harassing me, but now threatening to send the bailiffs round to collect a debt, I paid in full, less than 3 hours after incurring it.
The compensation, I will now demand – in court if necessary has now just doubled.
I have had some success in similar situations with private companies several years before, when in one case the bailiffs actually did turn up, and threatened my wife, trying to collect a debt we did now owe.
The Government however maybe rather more difficult to deal with. I get more sense trying to communicate with a brick wall. I do not owe you any money. Here is your receipt (AGAIN) for the Fourth Time. You now owe me £500. Maybe I should threaten to send my bailiffs round.
Tony
According to reports in the Whitehall Gazette aka the Telegraph newspaper. Islamic State, is to half the salaries of its fighters due to the economic downturn (is this April Fools day?).
The British based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims it has seen documents published by IS, that state fighters in Syria and Iraq, are to see their wages slashed (I’m really trying not to laugh…honest).
What next for Daesh, war pensions? Free bus passes? Chelsea pensioners uniforms?
Of course there could be some substance to this story, Osborne may well be imposing austerity on his proxy armies in Syria and Iraq.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/12110196/Islamic-State-forced-to-halve-its-jihadists-monthly-salaries-in-tough-times.html
JG: “which site is that then?”
Well… the one you referred to immediately above, the “Sharia Unveiled” site. Don’t you remember, you posted it at 14:10 – the one _still_ insisting that these FEMA camps are being set up, after raving on for over 7 years that Obama is about to imprison “patriots” because he’s a secret Muslim and so on.
Do you seriously believe 30,000 guillotines are being produced for some mass murder exercise against the population? Seriously?
Saudi Arabia has seen its predominant ally the USA tilt towards Iran on some aspects, under US president Barack Obama.
Also the deal struck between Saudi Arabia and America to keep pumping oil into a already swamped market, to hinder Russia’s economy, has seen the US manipulate the oil price to its advantage by stock piling it.
King Salman, now 80, will be the last of the sons of King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, the founder of the country that bears his family’s name, to use the title Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques – a reference to Mecca and Medina.
The choice of Bin Nayef as crown prince last spring means that power will finally pass to the next generation.
There is however resentment at royal wealth and privilege, and gossip about the monarchy is magnified by Twitter, used by more Saudis per capita than any other people in the world.
Polish president Andrzej Duda, has made an impassioned plea to Nato, to base a large military force in the East of the country to safeguard it from Russia.
Poland will host Nato’s next summit in July of this year. Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of Nato, told Duda, he would back Poland’s desire for a significant Nato presence.
The Cold war is vey much alive and kicking, though in Poland’s defence, Russian control over Polish affairs, in relatively recent history, must still loom large in Polish minds.
“Do you seriously believe 30,000 guillotines are being produced for some mass murder exercise against the population? Seriously?”
Have you any conflicting evidence about the FEMA prisons?
I do not see an anti-sharia site as being right-wing. I am anti-sharia. Connecting the dots I see that the slave-state of Qatar owns more property in London than Her Majesty and that worries me. Everybody should be worried, including you.
Tony_Opmoc
20/01/2016 11:34am
Okay. Latest exchange has been fully deleted, which is welcome news.
I will be responding to Giyane’s latest stream of falsehoods at 11:48am in due course – I will post a note to advise people to scroll past if they are not interested – but for the moment it might be useful to note the principles under which I have been operating for some time in dealing with Giyane, just so you know who to blame in further exchanges (if any, that’s not in my hands).
– I do not respond to anything Giyane posts which does not concern me directly. I am not interested in his postings.
– Jeers and insults which are not addressed directly to me, or postings about me but not to me, are ignored. Not interested. I reserve the right to correct false statements of fact, as I did, for example, on the Coe/Blatter thread (04/01/2016 6:24pm).
– Jeers and insults and lies which are addressed directly to me are responded to, with vigour, and with a request that Giyane no longer addresses me directly. I am not interested in engaging with him. For the record, the last three exchanges have occurred because I have been insulted directly by Giyane, with no provocation whatsoever. Three separate occasions. If you want dates and times you are welcome to them.
If you see me breaking these boundaries, I invite you or anyone to call me to account directly, and I will apologise and correct.
Otherwise, I suggest that you or anyone else wishing to see no more of this politely request Giyane to stop insulting me directly without provocation. There will then be no further trouble from me except corrections of falsehoods about the facts. That’s probably the most useful way forward.
Kind regards,
John
North Korea has created a hangover-free liquor that is between 30 and 40 per cent alcohol but leaves you clear-headed in the morning, state media says.
The Pyongyang Times said the drink, Koryo Liquor, used a cunning combination of six-year-old, top quality ginseng and “scorched glutinous rice”.
The resulting tipple is a subtle blend of sweet and savoury that is “highly appreciated by experts and lovers as it is suave and causes no hangover.
Could this story be another H-bomb porky pie?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-20/north-korea-creates-hangover-free-alcohol/7103026
For those like Glenn-UK who are not concerned about recent derogations of legal and human rights, you should be aware that the bank accounts of Cage and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign have been closed down together with many personal accounts of Muslims. Since 9/11 laws have been introduced or amended to take away civil-rights, including changes in coronial law. This is very important because tomorrow the coroner in the Litvinenko Inquiry will report. As with Dr David Kelly there has been no completed inquest into the death of Litvinenko so we will never know whether he was murdered, or whether he died acting as a mule for the late oligarch and criminal Boris Berezhovsky.
I am put in mind of Martin Niemöller who spoke out about Nazi abominations at a time when it was not prudent to do so. But it was an honourable thing to do.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392
That’s a bit of a cheek, John – I expect more from you than lies and slurs against someone who disagrees with you. That’s RoS’s job, after all.
Ring wing groups – teabaggers, nut-jobs, Nazis, KKK-Clan members and so on, have been foaming at the mouth since Obama was elected. This BS about FEMA prison camps has been doing the rounds for years – almost since the day he was sworn in, in fact. Rather than expect me to prove a negative, why don’t you say whether you’re seriously of the opinion that 30,000 guillotines are about to be rolled into operation?
For those hard of thinking, having doubts about these 30,0000 guillotines does not mean the same person doesn’t care about human rights or legality. Got it?
Glenn_Uk
Blimey, Glenn, I thought you were talking to me!
Don’t do this to me – got a weak heart 😉
Kind regards,
John
John Spencer-Davis,
I can’t comment on lies that you claim have been deleted, but would just like to warn you, in the nicest possible way, that this site which I have been following off and on for nearly 10 years can have very strange personal effects on people who I would assume are otherwise quite rational in normal life. It varies enormously from highly interesting detailed political discussion to an uncontrolled custard pie throwing competition in a mad house.
Some people get extremely upset, and ban themselves because they cannot take any more insanity. I’m sure this includes some of the moderators, and probably Craig himself. We are all vulnerable human beings, and its easy to get upset, particularly when attacked by someone who is not only coming from an opposite point of view, but who is also apparently skilled in psychological warfare. I am convinced that some of, even the regular posters, are here to be deliberately disruptive in order to promote their own political agenda, and to suppress opposing views, even if those opposing views are backed by very strong evidence.
This makes life exceedingly difficult particularly for anyone prepared to take on the role of moderator, because like a referee they try to be fair and balanced to opposite points of view, when they too will undoubtedly have strong political views themselves.
Some subjects, particularly those deemed as “conspiracy theories” have been almost completely banned or confined to their own buried threads initiated many years ago.
Yet some people are 100% convinced that their own point of view, that others deem a conspiracy theory, is backed up by extremely strong hard scientific evidence, that is not present in the “official” consensus view that most people still believe.
When such things cannot be freely discussed, or even if they are, and those discussing them are subjected to a stream of insults, it can be extremely frustrating.
I suggest you don’t get too personally involved, and simply ignore insults as best you can.
Tony
‘The disgusting racism and paranoia have made the persecution of the Jews circa 1930s look like a picnic compared with the treatment of the Muslims these days.’
So, are these muslims queuing at the exit doors of the countries, pincipally Germany and the UK, which treat them so awfully, as the Jews did in Germany post 1933& Austria post 1938 ? Or is Fedup once again prodly displaying his lobotomy scar like some srofulous medieval beggar ?
Sorry for alarming you there, JSD. But rest assured – I know that you’re way too sensible to go looking around far-right hate-sites, and then accusing people who don’t like them of having no respect for human rights.
Tony_0pmoc
20/01/2016 4:45pm
Thank you, that is a very warm and caring posting which is much appreciated.
Oh no, the lies have not been deleted. The lies are still there, and I will be clearly demonstrating that they are lies as soon as I can. It’s the insulting exchange that has been deleted.
I can assure you, I am as cold as ice regarding this matter, and not in the least personally distressed, but thanks ever so much for your concern.
You are personally attacked exceedingly seldom, because everyone loves you and rightly, but I seem to remember you hitting the absolute roof of the world on the occasions when you have been!
Kind regards,
John
John Goss, I wouldn’t bother my backside replying to Glenn’s comments he hasn’t posted anything remotely interesting in quite awhile, infact I find him so insignificant now I can’t even be bothered to post a retort to his slur.
RoS: Why bother with the truth when lies will do, eh? My “slur” was to point out John Goss was referring to a far-right, racist site with nothing but extremist scare-mongering.
John Goss’s response was to accuse me of not respecting human or legal rights.
Now in your book, that’s all very reasonable, I take it?
The Israeli government will announce the allocation of 370 acres of the West Bank agricultural land near the Palestinian city of Jericho as state lands, the largest such land appropriation since August 2014.
The area, part of which has been worked in recent years by Israeli farmers, is situated north of the West Bank settlement of Almog, in the Jordan Valley, according to an Army Radio report on Tuesday. Additional details about the move were to be published Wednesday morning.
Israel has previously used an 1858 Ottoman law stating that land which lies fallow for several years could revert to government property as the legal basis for such moves.
The procedure was approved by Israeli government officials and was to receive final approval in the coming weeks, according to the report.
Pay attention folks this is how you (permanently) steal land from an oppressed people of whom you intend to practice genocide on.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-announce-major-land-seizure-in-jordan-valley/
This is the best info I can find in a short time on 30,000 guillotines
“30,000 Guillotines In America? PNN sets it straight”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3as4_l9a_Q
There is strong evidence that it is an old recycled story going back as far as 1970. Its a bit like the 6 Million figure re something else, which we are not allowed to discuss which goes back for well over 100 years….or even The Story of Christ which I am convinced is several thousand years old.
I of course shouldn’t mix the three stories up, but it seems to me highly unlikely that the US Government has recently ordered 30,000 Guillotines.
And for Christ’s sake don’t start discussing the other things..or nearly everyone is going to get upset..
Tony
John Goss: You generally take a principled stand, so I ask that you look at the sources for these FEMA camp scares. This is compiled by the good people at Right Wing Watch:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/search/node/FEMA%20camps%20type%3Ablog?page=1
That tells you about the baseless, yet relentless fear-mongering about “FEMA camps”, Obama, the impending takeover (by Muslims, the UN, or whatever other bogie-man they’re raving on about at any given moment).
This takeover has been predicted every year since Obama was elected, just like Obama’s coming for everyone’s gun and about to impose Sharia Law.
You don’t like Sharia Law? Neither do I. That hate-site you referenced just hates Arabs, Muslims, Mexicans, Latinos, foreigners generally. They don’t give a toss about Sharia law, it’s just a convenient vehicle to peddle their hate.
Please reconsider.
John Goss, I’m taking a neutral stance over “guillotine Gate” as it may become known as.
However you may want to look into this, I can’t however vouch for the veracity of the site, but neither can I deny it on first glance.
http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/retired-fbi-agent-tells-patriot-group-that-obamas-feds-have-set-up-30000-guillotines/
“Nowtheendbegins” – a Biblical prophesy site? My word, you have the most impeccable sources, RoS! 🙂
I’d stick to cut-and-pasting from the NYT and so on, rearrange the paragraphs and rephrase it a bit, and then pretending it’s your own work if I were you.