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.
Tony_0pmoc
20/01/2016 10:52pm
Think you might like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40G3sPdVtuw
Warm regards,
John
Clark
“Defo, 3:54 am; with the power off there’s no way to pump the water, no way to remove decay heat, so the core melts down. This happened in three of the four reactors at Fukushima.”
You would need to bomb the power stations too then !
Destroying the grid network won’t do anything to the back up generators, or the power generated by the reactor itself.
Also, the beauty of a grid means you would need to take out a large, and geographically diverse proportion for it to fail at all.
Fred
“So do you think it’s just coincidence that the health minister is married to the deputy leader?”
Well, it’s a long shot, but maybees they met at work ?
What isn’t coincidence. You being here tomorrow , whining SNP BAAAAD.
“Well, it’s a long shot, but maybees they met at work ?”
And there was me thinking nepotism might be involved.
“What isn’t coincidence. You being here tomorrow , whining SNP BAAAAD.”
Unlike the Natz who whine every other party except the SNP BAAAAD.
Re. 30,000 Guillotines In America.
Rumours going around Royston Vasey, that Hillary Briss has pitched a bid to FEMA for the black pudding concession have been poo pooed as wishful thinking by a market expert.
Kraft have sucked up the Meat/ MRM contract, and with their scale ranged against the plucky Local specialist butcher, blood products look to be out of his price league too.
My source says that the organ contract is likely to be offered on an ‘individual bidder basis’. Chinese knowhow re on demand is thought to be crucial to winning the deal.
Ebay and Amazon have refused to comment.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=hillary+briss&view=detailv2&&id=B40FB7118DCBC57B0C7EC3FFAA901E36A43C6699&selectedIndex=0&ccid=ujWnR4LL&simid=608038018450457930&thid=OIP.Mba35a74782cb063918b58f59e4eac215o2&ajaxhist=0
The first time I flew in my life was from London Southend Airport in 1962…We had travelled from Oldham on a bus (My Mum and Dad and me (the youngest)).. flew from Southend to Ostend (the plane’s engines were incredibly loud..but the countryside of the Continent..the fields just looked so beautiful – the field were all different colours in the sunshine..
We had one day in Paris – I still have the photograph..feeding the pigeons with my Mum and Dad in a Park in Paris..some of these od photos slip through….
And then Nice, Monaco and Diana Marina…all on the bus package paid from Oldham..and I was not yet 10 years old….
So Spivey should know Southend Airport..even if he does come from West Yorkshire….
Its just at the bottom of his road from where he lives..a bit like mine actually..
Did they bomb you too (well before like me – you were born – the old people who are still alive – near where you live)
My Dad used to get The Spitfires Back Up in The Air – about 15 mins walk from where we live now.
Wouldn’t You…if you were a kid and bombs were landing in your back garden and the houses where you live…
I would have been the first fucking one in there to learn to fly The SPITFIRE if I had only been born 30 years before..My Dad would have got me back up there.
Even Ozzy Popped up this Week..
“Well I ain’t Dead Yet.”
Never met him either but I did see Black Sabbath at The Manchester Apollo about 1974 and they were f’kin Brilliant..
and Spivey is trying to tell me these kids from Birmingham were being programmed by the the ‘kin CIA…
No it was Us British. We were Programming Them
We were The RESISTANCE when we were Kids
Still Are – We Ain’t Dead Yet.
“Black Sabbath Live in Paris 1970 (Full Show) ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yZA4TC_pt4
Tony xx
Fedup
“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;
A 10-year-old Muslim boy was quizzed by police after mistakenly writing that he lived in a “terrorist house” rather than a “terraced house”.
The youngster made the error during an English lesson at a Lancashire school, and the following day police arrived at his home to interview him and examine the family laptop.”
Error my arse. It looks awfy like a silly wee 10yr olds attempt at a joke goes spectacularly wrong.
Give him a bit of slack though. How was he to know it would kick off a knee jerk, reactionary policy programme, which doubles as a tax payer funded job creation scheme for those with opaque, even questionable motivations.
Probably the enemies of Giyane too, but with so many it’s hard to keep up with who’s who.
PCs raking through your PC hardly equates with a pogrom !
Tony
Just listened to the full hour of Tinariwen – Live at Womad. Thank you. Never heard them before but will again – many times. That’s a keeper. Just like Orchestra Baobab Orchestra Baobab that Sophie linked to a couple of years ago, life enriching. You still around, Sophie?
“Wavy thing…maybe A. Node…you are off my screen mate……”but I made a massive mistake..when I booked the tickets for the Roundhouse in 2014…I had never been there before…(she had)…very short notice…
I was literally amazed to get the tickets for Robert Plant…and we were both dancing near the front
They made us sit down three days later for Tinariwen when we seriously wanted to dance..and I tried to slip in…
So I thought Fuck This…Since Then we have been to see Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Hawkwind, and We are Soon To See MASSIVE ATTACK at The Brixton Academy
STANDING TICKETS ONLY
They took All The Seats Away on The Floor at Wembley Arena, and The Coronet Theatre Elephant & Castle and They Will at The Brixton Academy in 13 days time…its a Wednesday…I have never been there before in my life…but I know my wife will be there…
On The Dancefloor
DANCING
Tony
With these buggers for friends….
http://www.lbc.co.uk/jp-morgan-hands-cash-to-pro-eu-campaign-123565
My enthusiasm for the EU wanes further.
Ba’al, the borders are going up and regardless what tax evader Junckers talks about open borders and transport of goods being endangered by this move, it will happen soon.
next thing you will get special transit visas and border controls of all vehicles.
Britain is hard at work bringing down the EU by bombing a little more, 30.000 refugees in the first month so far, and nobody is giving a toss about Italy and Greece bearing the brunt of these poor wretches trying to get away from their bombed Heimat.
All the bankers are interested in is to further corporatise public life in the EU.
BTW. Did anyone see the exploits of FAIR TAX Crickhowell yesterday, a plucky Welsh village trying to get other villages to join in, some have already, like Hebden bridge, but after yesterday this may become very popular.
The idea is to join the Fair tax campaign and threaten to take your small businesses locally, the largest employers in the country combined, into a tax haven such as jersey or the isle of Man.
http://www.fairtaxmark.net/crickhowell-first-fair-tax-town/
Its incredible, Hutton who sealed Kelly evidence for another 70 years via an “truth” inquiry, has been surpassed ! We have a Judge Probably now, possibly a freemason with no sense of shame and probably with MI5 having pics of the twin Kochs up his backside.
Itsy
20 Jan, 2016 – 1:42 pm
“Do any of you realise how boring this place has become?? Giyane, Fedup, Doug Scorgie and Macky make it intolerable with their juvenile insults and attempts to start fights – not forgetting Giyane’s constant harping on about Islam…”
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In 15 pages of comments Itsy the above is your first remark – don’t you have anything constructive to say?
An interesting easy read on Trump from America:
http://rall.com/2015/12/21/6-crazy-things-donald-trump-says-that-are-absolutely-right
The post 9/11 river of geopolitics may be ready for a bend.
If it does and Trump wins, it’ll inevitably have a marked effect on UK politics and foreign policy. The outcome of the 2020 election here is by no means clear with likely very different manifestos by the Tories and Labour on offer.
Further with the oil price drop, the Middle East (why is not called the Near East?) becomes ever more uncertain.
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-planet-nine-20160120-story.html
As I said once earlier in a discussion about the Cosmos/Universe/Multiverse, it as important, if not more so, to recognise what we don’t know, as much as what we do know, which weighed on the balance of a scale tips strongly in the favour of the former. And with an unobservable possible Multiverse, probably always will.
Habbabkuk
20 Jan, 2016 – 6:22 pm
“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?
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LOL. My nomination for the riposte of the month.
Talking about month, Craig has made just one substantive post in the last month, well maybe two. Not so long ago he was hammering out three a day?
Mr Scorgie
“In 15 pages of comments Itsy the above is your first remark – don’t you have anything constructive to say?”
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Haven’t seen anything constructive from you either, Doug.
Q: Why did the U.S. government recently purchase 30,000 guillotines?
A: It didn’t. You’ve been hoaxed.
A June 19, 2013 article claiming the feds recently bought 30,000 guillotines (yes, exactly 30,000) and that Congress passed a law authorizing their immediate use for “governmental purposes” (would there be any other sorts of purposes for government-owned guillotines?) has sparked a conspiracist feeding frenzy.
Never mind there’s not a shred of evidence to support either allegation. The first clue that they’re fictitious is the fact that the author to whom they’re attributed, retired FBI agent Ted Gunderson, died two years before the article was published.
In point of fact, this selfsame rumor, accompanied by now-familiar claims about the federal government supposedly building “FEMA concentration camps,” ordering mass shipments of body bags, coffins, and ammunition, all the while operating under “tyrannical” executive orders, has been circulating among conspiracy theorists for well over a decade.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2013/06/21/government-purchased-30000-guillotines.htm
All the bankers are interested in is to further corporatise public life everywhere
Fixed.
And they’ll get it. IMO The EU is much less about the welfare of people who live in Europe than about maximising the profits of international corporates by creating an insecure cheap labour pool, abolishing customs controls, and making it far easier to base your tax affairs outside the country you’re making your profits in.
Homogenising diverse societies so that they all buy what they’re told to is another facet. As is the creation of a mammoth bureaucracy, the creation of unnecessary tasks for it to do, unproductive local regulatory bodies to ensure that the tasks are carried out, and the surrender of national sovereignty. I’m definitely wobbly when it comes to Europe. I preferred the atmosphere when I lived in the UK rather than Europe. The way we did things wasn’t the way other countries did things, and that was fine by me.
There’s a lot of tut-tutting going on at Davos, principally about the chaotic state of The Markets, with some tolerant smiles in the direction of inequality, climate change and resource – driven conflicts. A bit more inequality, extracting every last drop of oil from the ground and selling arms to the right side in the conflicts will sort out The Markets, though. The elite knows what to do. Trusssst me.
You get white smoke from gun powder, the easiest explosive to make.
It’s not a high explosive (now read the post to which you are replying) and there are even simpler (high) explosives. If I told you what they were, I’d have to blow you up….
Not that we can expect much on topic from our resident bridge dwellers patting each other on the back.
This is a debate between two feminists and two devils advocates from der Spiegel. It seems that in Germany only women speak about feminism, rape and integration.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-feminists-debate-cologne-attacks-a-1072806.html
SPIEGEL: Do you consider Ms. Schwarzer to be a racist?
Wizorek: It is racist to act as though it is only immigrant men who (commit sexual assault). I would really like to see a more nuanced debate about sexual violence. Such violence is a problem for all of society, for all genders, and it cannot be allowed to become the standard in gender debates that only male migrants are considered to be those responsible.
Schwarzer: It is always the right move to take a closer look. Of course we in Europe also have epidemic, structural sexual violence. Violence is always the dark core of dominance. The men who are now coming to us from Islamic cultural circles are, of course, shaped by conditions there, which are still much more antiquated than here. That’s a problem that we have ignored for far too long. In the name of a false tolerance, we have accepted that women are kept at home like prisoners and are forcibly married.
Wizorek: But now we have reached the core of the issue. We have to engage an integration debate, not an exclusionary debate.
Schwarzer: But who’s leading an exclusionary debate?
Wizorek: The majority society in Germany.
So the report has finally concluded that Mr Litvinenko, was “probably” murdered on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
I find myself agreeing with the report, Mr Litvinenko, was in Russian opinion, far too friendly with the British security services. He was according to some reports, also rather antagonistic towards president Putin.
The Russian foreign minister appeared to be on the backfoot claiming the report was “far too politicised.”
The two assassins involved in Mr Litvinenko’s death Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun, both denied killing Mr Litvinenko, by poisoning his tea with deadly Polonium-210.
Russia has a policy of not extraditing its citizens to stand trial. Instead Russian authorities prefer that the accused stand trial in Russia. Where on occasion a verdict that suits the state will often prevail.
The real challenge (over the assassination of Mr Litvinenko using radio-active materials in a densely populated area) for the British government is how to react to the report. It may prove difficult to impose more sanctions on Russia.
It also may prove difficult to impose any kind of blockade in the Middle East as well. Especially in Iran where Russia appears to have a good relationship with Rouhani.
her trump seems to have both Scottish and German blood oiling his veins, poor confused mutt he is. very canny to claim Scottish acenstry on behalf of his grannies part of the family. Next he’ll be wanting to build a trump golf course in Kallstadt.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-visit-to-the-german-ancestral-home-of-the-trump-family-a-1072975.html
I guess a couple of ‘diplomats’ will be asked to leave the Russian embassy. Then a couple will return here from our diplomatic corps in Moscow, and honour will be satisfied. And the Met will be issued with Geiger counters. If anything happens at all.
Schwarzer: But who’s leading an exclusionary debate?
Wizorek: The majority society in Germany.
If the democratic consensus is for an exclusionary debate, who are we to object? Eh?
Amnesty International and the arms control organisation Safeworld, claim the British government have broken national, EU and international law and policy by supplying weapons to Saudi Arabia for the military campaign in Yemen.
Add to that, British military personnel are training Saudi pilots and planning bombing and attack strategies for them as well, which have killed thousands of innocent Yemini civilians, without any parliamentary approval.
Then you can see why Amnesty International and Safeworld are at odds with Westminster.
Britain does indeed appear to be partaking in the war in Yemen, just not openly.
Another victim of a paranoid schizophrenic state that is loosing support from many Jews, in Israel and worldwide.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/eritrean-man-was-lynched-israelis-uniform-new-video-shows
Doug: Thanks for that debunking of the 30,000 guillotines hoax. I think a bunch of people (not confined to this blog) have a serious problem in examining their sources. They’ll look up, say, “30000 guillotines” and take the first reference as gospel. Literally so, in the case of people reproducing something from a blasted Biblical Prophesy site, “Answers in Genesis” and utter crap like that.
If you want to check the veracity of a crazed right-wing conspiracy theory, don’t go to a teabagger’s site, Wing-Nut-Daily, “prison planet” or other fact-free rumour mill. If you’re wondering if “clean coal” is a plausible technology, the PR website of that industry is probably not the most objective source. And so forth.
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“Never believe everything you read on the Internet.” – Winston Churchill
“I guess a couple of ‘diplomats’ will be asked to leave the Russian embassy. Then a couple will return here from our diplomatic corps in Moscow, and honour will be satisfied. And the Met will be issued with Geiger counters. If anything happens at all.”
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Yes Baal, I tend to agree with you on the prognosis of the Litvinenko affair. Although the British judicial system has made much political hay over the affair, I feel very little action will be taken.
A few minor expulsions and a few harsh words, Theresa May’s, are a good example, then back to business as usual.
Of course in all honesty, apart from a bit of chest beating there isn’t really anything Westminster can do.
Litvinenko! What did you expect. Blame Putin. Had to be. However there is a lot more to this than meets the eye. I should like to know why there has been no inquest finding. All the bullshit is purely that. But what is worse is these new laws are going to work very badly for everyone. An inquiry instead of an inquest. 10 years after his death. It stinks. The first coroner never even ruled that he was murdered. When he asked to see MI5/MI6 documents on the case they took him off it and replaced him with good old reliable Sir Robert Owen – and there you have it – another whitewash, just like Dr David Kelly.