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.
John you may want to look into these sites as well.
As I said previously John, I shall remain neutral on “Guillotine Gate.”
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2012/10/fema-ordered-102000-boxcars-with-shackles-2-2482624.html
http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2012/10/27/fema-prisoner-box-cars-with-shackles-and-guillotines-in-america/
John the latter site purportedly has pictures of the guillotines on a train.
Dow currently down 560 points.
Both WTI and Brent just above $27 barrel
One wonders how prosecutors could miss so many occasions to prosecute Lord Janner. To the common man and woman it would most definitely appear, that the so called echelons of society, are less likely to ever see the inside of a prison cell.
Three chances were missed to prosecute late peer Lord Janner over sex abuse claims, an inquiry has found.
The independent inquiry, commissioned by the director of public prosecutions, found police and prosecutors missed opportunities to charge Lord Janner in 1991, 2002 and 2007.
Before he died in December, the ex-Labour MP – who then had dementia – was accused of 22 counts of sex offences against boys between the 1960s and 80s.
I’ll be very surprised if anyone in the judiciary is held accountable for this utter shambles, which clearly makes a mockery of English law.
Glenn
“John: Why are you referring us to a far-right hate site, specialising in crazed right-wing conspiracies, pro-Israel propaganda, and Muslim bashing?”
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Cos people of Mr Goss’s proclivities will use anything, no matter how nasty, to further their propaganda ends.
After all, didn’t Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany come to a nice little understanding in 1939?
“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”
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Sounds rather sensible to me for a land with a high population density and a rapidly expanding number of inhabitants (both Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel. Fallow land benefits no one (and wouldn’t even qualify for one of Node’s recurring “7 acts of agricultueal and economic sabotage”)
It reminds me a little abut the power UK local councils have to take over private properties which have remain vacant for more than a certain time in order to provide housing for homeless people in their area…..
“John Goss, I wouldn’t bother my backside replying to Glenn’s comments..)
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Does your backside write your “comments” as well as replying to those of others?
“Sounds rather sensible to me for a land with a high population density and a rapidly expanding number of inhabitants (both Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel. Fallow land benefits no one (and wouldn’t even qualify for one of Node’s recurring “7 acts of agricultueal and economic sabotage”)”
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Of course it sounds sensible to you, you’re a ardent supporter of all things Israeli.
I’m just glad that no Israeli’s were killed in the process. The last time that happen Israel (stole) oops, I mean’t worked fallow land as you say, too the amount of 1000 acres.
“The last such move by the Israeli government, in August 2014, involved the appropriation of nearly 1,000 acres of West Bank land near the site of the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens months before.
The Israeli army declared that there was no claim of Palestinian ownership on the land in question, but the action was roundly condemned by the US and European governments.”
“Does your backside write your “comments” as well as replying to those of others?”
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Dear oh dear, the above Habb, is of a very poor standard compared to others I have read, it’s neither funny or satirical.
Giyane and Mackie, not to mention Fedup,with respect, have written far more interesting comments. Yet you have the audacity to slate them.
The extent of the intellectual dishonesty constipated in the above sentence is the traits of those busy guarding the sacred “historicity” that forgoes the current tsunami of the Muslim’s persecution by inverting the Muslims’ plight to further reinforce the racist stereotypes current.
Thes deliberate dishonesty then is used as a platform to go on with the customary denunciations that are the trait of unconscious savages;
Although the use of multisyllabic words are bent on projecting the intellectual prowess of a moron whom cannot synthesis from the most basics of observations, as well as remaining bereft of any human compassion;
The “contributor” evidently has not seen the queues of refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, that are leaving the epicentre of the persecution of Muslims and running into the bosom of the aggressors whom have turned the whole of the mid east into an uninhabitable cauldron of violence, pestilence, hunger and death.
The fact that these hoards of desperate people are seeking refuge will ultimately have to face further prejudice, hatred, and discrimination at their destinations; is a given that the hoards of these refugees of the persecution of Muslims are expected to accept and live by is further sought by various guardians of the “historicity”. This is evident as the trite and baseless attacks on the said Muslims on this board and elsewhere are a frequent occurrence.
The notion of incomparable stories of Muslims and Jews persecution is paramount, for no one can then voice the hard cold fact; history is repeating itself, and are we going to sit by in silence, and let happen again?
Listen to the “wisdom”emanating from Davos; “we know we have fucked up big”!!!
“Does your backside write your “comments” as well as replying to those of others?”
most definitely ‘intellectual’ from someone who couldn’t differentiate between dumbing down and de-skilling.
Mr. Pomposity and self importance has landed
“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?”
It is possible at some time in the future they will be used. There have long been provisions for such executions which will enable the harvesting of organs which other methods of execution do not.
http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/Archives/19951996/leg/fulltext/hb1274.htm
What I do know is that the Obama administration has invaded foreign countries and has no compunction in killing anybody who gets in the way of its aims (and even those who do not). The use of drone-killings would never have been condoned before 9/11 and the so-called war on terror. Homeland Security is armed to the eyeteeth against an insurgency the US clearly believes is going to happen. My guess is this will be sparked by the collapse of US markets.
As to the Right Wing watch site. I took a look. I could nowhere find any mention of Sharia Unveiled, which appears to be some kind of Christian apocalyptic influenced organisation run by Schuyler Montague. On further investigation it does appear to be connected to the tea-party, and is therefore not my cup of tea. However, it does not mean this is not what is being prepared when the US economy pops. It has been used before by extremist regimes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2538973/How-Nazis-slaughtered-16-000-people-guillotine-Found-Munich-cellar-death-machine-reveals-forgotten-horror.html
Before today, yesterday was the coldest day of the year. The demand for gas would suddenly have risen dramatically. I actually have enormous respect for the UK Gas delivery industry – which is now seperate from the marketing organisations who sell it. The reason for this is that gas is extremely dangerous stuff, and is delivered in pipes like water is. The water industry is appalling, in that water leaks, all over the place all the time. Gas leaks and gas explosions – are very rare. Of course they do happen – and are always treated as an emergency – and dealt with exceedingly quickly.
Yesterday, when my central heating went on – and the cooker and the other gas fire was on, one of the gas fires went out. It switched itself off so there was no gas leak.
This is normally a result of low gas pressure – which can be incredibly dangerous, and is treated as an emergency and should be reported immediately – to what was Transco / National Grid / or whatever they are called now.
http://www2.nationalgrid.com/uk/our-company/gas/
“If you smell gas, detect carbon monoxide or want to report an explosion, please call
0800 111 999”
I didn’t immediately phone them up, but thought that the low gas pressure maybe due to everyone else locally suddenly turning all their gas things on full blast.
I have had this problem before – and did phone them up – and the engineer turned up within the hour – and changed the gas regulator next to the meter – all for no charge.
This time I didn’t immediately phone them up – because they would be snowed under – but thought about the problem – because low gas pressure can be caused by other things that are not the responsibility of the UK Gas delivery industry.
If they check what is their responsibility, and its O.K., the engineers who are normally extremely competent (they have to be) will simply disconnect your gas supply – and tell you to contact a gas engineer responsible – for your appliances – internal plumbing etc. This can lead to an extremely expensive and very cold nightmare – but that is preferable to your house blowing up – which is entirely possible with varying gas pressures – and gas devices that do not automatically shut off when the gas supply resumes.
The problem was actually quite simple to resolve. It was simply a question of maintenance of one of my gas fires. Its an open coal effect gas fire. Yes, I have had my chimneys swept (and so should you – even if you have a gas fire. It wasn’t soot so much, but fine brick mortar – much like sand which had accumulated at the bottom of my gas fire (together with the crystalline chips – which you need) which form the base around the gas jets below the artificial coal.
I carefully removed all the artificial coal and the base crystalline chips, and various dust…cleaned up the entire thing – and sived out the brick mortar – and carefully put the whole thing back together minus the dust – but including the chips.
The brick dust had been blocking the gas jets – but only when the gas pressure dropped as a result of all the other appliances being on.
Maintenance of gas appliances is extremely important, particularly gas fires, boilers, chimneys, as is adequate ventilation. Most of these things have by law to be done by qualified gas engineers – and the best time to get them to do it is in the summer.
You should also have at least one carbon monoxide alarm in the house. This is at least if not more important than a fire alarm cos you can’t see carbon monoxide – which is a silent killer.
Don’t attempt to do any of these things yourself – even cleaning your gas fire – unless you have the relevant practical experience. Most people don’t have a clue. They can’t even understand the instruction manual or safely empty a vacuum cleaner. That dust is carcinogenic too…yet many people can’t afford to employ a qualified engineer either.
I have to admit, that I am somewhat over-cautious, and I expect at some point everything to go wrong for everyone at the same time…such that everything fails…maybe just because we have a 3 month arctic winter (like 1962-62). No Electricity. No Gas. No Transport. No Food. No money.
It might still happen this winter.
At some point it is almost inevitable.
Have enough alternatives to survive, until the spring comes.
We have got coal, food, camping gear, snow chains, ice grips, skis, water butts, torches, candles, DC-to AC converters and cats.
We don’t have any guns though.
This is England.
Keep safe and warm.
Bring on the snow.
Tony
Fedup.
These were near the lows for the day (so far anyway)
Plunge Protection Team must have seen my comment 🙂
Anyone who knows about explosives will tell you that you don’t get white smoke from an HE detonation. You’ll always get dark/black smoke. Suicide bombers, unless they’re incredibly stupid, always use high explosives. So, let’s look at the supposed suicide bombers in Jakarta last week…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46V21x9Am7s
Ladies and gentleman, you are being conned big time.
“This is England.
Keep safe and warm.
Bring on the snow.”
Don’t want to disappoint Tony but by Friday we’re going to be back in double figures after this temporary blip.
More on the outfall over Britains refusal to take refugees it bombed out of Syria.
Merkel’s relations with the CDU’s coalition partner, the CSU, has turned cold and some are talking of Border controls. This is just people for now, but all commercial transports will soon be checked and investigated as the EU’s past agreements melt in the heat of right and left argumentations.
But we don’t like to talk about taking more refugees here, its an issue that is strangely alien to island dwellers.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/critique-of-merkel-on-refugee-issue-deepens-a-1072549.html
I went to my local optician – and the examination was very detailed and thorough, and the optician who examined my eyes was exceedingly nice…if I’d have been 40 years younger I might have asked her out for a date…
So she introduced me to these range of spectacles…all very nice..and I said thank you very much..can I just have my prescription please..She had measured everything…tested everything…she said yes you are fine – no sign of diabetes, glaucoma, or high blood pressure (what no high blood pressure – whilst I have got you looking into my eyes?) she even gave me the puff test.
Now, she just wanted me to buy some extremely expensive specs…
I am at the age that I need progressive lenses – which are very expensive…
She gave me all the numbers but one – my pupillary distance – which she had also obviously measured and knew…
Ahh go on tell me that..”nah can’t – I will get sacked”…O.K.
Thanks very much…
So I went on the internet and found out how to measure my own PD which involves focusing on infinity and taking a photograph of yourself with a ruler stuck to your head.
I could have paid £275
£35 direct from Karachi Pakistan
Delivered in about 10 days.
Best vision I have had since a kid.
Tony
“Anyone who knows about explosives will tell you that you don’t get white smoke from an HE detonation.”
You get white smoke from gun powder, the easiest explosive to make.
Fred, I’ve yet to hear of a suicide bomber who has used gun powder.
Perhaps you can provide me with some links?
It’s all totally laughable bullshit, that the totally laughable internet trolls try to tell us is real.
You lot are all going to be put on trial. No mercy.
John Goss,
I would just love to meet you and Mark Golding and Craig Murray and maybe a few of the other people who write here.
I have enormous respect for you guys.
Whilst it is a rather strange thing to do, to actually meet a group of people you have got to kind of know through the kinds of things we write on the internet…
I used to do this kind of thing several times…a rather long time ago…
You kind of have this visual image ( yet have no visual information )
Just what they write…
We had some very exciting times and made good friends long before 9/11 and even afterwards…
Nothing to do with sex, religion or politics.
In my experience most are really nice – if they have the courage to express themselves on the internet – regardless of their point of view.
Seriously – we turned virtual reality into real reality by actually meeting each other…
Someone suggested name labels, but that was never necessary.
Just courage to have the balls to meet.
Tony
There’s a ‘major event’ going on in California at the moment…
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/methane-leak-california-1.3385262
… and the corporate media whores aren’t even properly reporting it.
‘A total joke’ is not the phrase for western democracy at the moment.
And have I mentioned Fukushima and the death of the Pacific Ocean?
Naw, don’t worry about it, just watch the latest garbage on the tv and fuck around on FaceBook.
Although the guillotine seems to me a more humane way to execute people (if we are going to execute people) than injection of poisonous chemical, Americans seem to be prejudiced against the guillotine method. Perhaps a horror of blood, and an attitude that favors medicalizing execution.
However, since all too many Americans were persuaded by the Bush-Cheney administration that torture is OK, I suppose the people behind the guillotines (if they exist) might be confident that Americans can be persuaded to use them too.
That methane leak was fully reported on Democracy Now! the other day.
Lysias, the methane leak has been going on since October and will probably kill millions of people.
In all of history, I’ve never known a society as sick, warped and twisted as the United States.
It makes Stalin look like a scout leader.
I was brought up in a big old terraced house in Oldham, Lancashire that was always full of people..Mum and Dad – and lots of kids – my older brothers and sisters and their friends – a house of people – Family Life – just normal…I didn’t know anything else…
Then I left home all alone – and my own place..I paid for the deposit for the mortgage, from my money I had earned..from working very hard…very long hours..O.K. I lived at home..and gave my Mum £7 a week..She was great..and used to get up at 6:00am to make my breakfast to quickly eat before I left for work at 6:30 am…
And life goes on…
((I don’t know if I can write this below (Hopefully My Son’s point of view..currently lighting a coal fire with his beaming pregnant girlfriend and her sister both beaming at him in the hall sat on the stairs and I ask is this your Sis? – I’m his Dad….me)….))
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(((((((‘”‘I was brought up in a big old detached house not in Oldham, Lancashire that was always full of people..Mum and Dad – and lots of kids – my younger sister and our friends – a house of people – Family Life – just normal…I didn’t know anything else..'”‘)))))))
The difference is …I am going to be a Grandad…and have My Grandchild running round his house…our house…where he was born…here…well next month.
LIFE – what else has changed for you?..Its much the same for me.
I just got Older.
Tony
Not everyone has the means or ways of getting to a meeting, be it financial, distance or time or lack thereof, courage is something else Tony.
Mind I am glad you mentioned the method of determining the PD that is despite the corporate tricks of not letting you have your PD. As you know it is fixed for life and never changes (for adults at least), yet this figure is not given out by the opticians, that is despite the fee they charge.
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You know that kidding Americans ie the population is akin to stealing candy from babies! Not so difficult, at all! Otherwise how else can you explain the country that was stolen from it’s nationals and handed over to a bunch of greedy sharp operatives setting themselves above the government and its charge (ie they the people)?
US started sliding down the shitter the day after invasion of Philippines or was it before that? To read the “private property” mantra being autonomic ally uttered in the richest nation on Earth that has not safety net for its people who are left homeless, ill, and penniless while the greedy swine direct the same government to go attack other countries at enormous costs so that the few sharp operatives can have more.
Hence 62 persons (if you can call these) have as much wealth as half of the planets population ie 62/3,600,000,000 ratio of wealth. How did this absurdity come to be? Simple avuncular Sam managed to muscle in and make possible the biggest hiest of the wealth from the poor to the rich!
We do have to test this stuff in a real home environment when it is very cold..
I am almost certain, that the smokeless coal, sold as coal has never been anywhere near coal in it’s life
That ain’t coal..its not even soggy wood.
I know coal…the heat from coal is intense
They are a bunch of liars ..flogging blackened wood as if it was coal.
“Natalie Cole – When I Fall In Love (Virtual Duet with Nat King Cole)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxS0Trxc59k
Tony
Ok, Mods, but maybe you’ll take note of what I said.
Ok, let’s ignore the false flag that is Jakarta, and all go along with Tony’s Eagles stuff.
Are you really that stupid?