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.
“The International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on Nov. 30, 1973. It has been ratified by 110 countries, which are very few of them now under Communist rule”
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I wonder why Lysias linked to that Convention but called it the “Genocide Convention” in his post?
Was it a simple error (question – can an Oxford Greatsman err?)or was he giving an impressive title in the hope that no one would follow the link (since Node’s post, which he was “supporting”) babbled on about “genocide”)?
For the record, the Apartheid Convention was specifically directed against the Republic of South Africa, as the date of its adoption indicates.
Top secret police files detailing covert spying on Scots political activists have been condemned by trade unionists and campaigners.
Isobel Lindsay, a member of Scottish CND since 1960 and the group’s vice-chair, said she has been an activist since 1960 and attended protests in London in the 1980s.
“I spoke at one of them – I think 1982. We always assumed that Special Branch would infiltrate and certainly keep files on activists and activities.”
“The only thing that is a little surprising is the absurdity of the quantity of detail that they gathered at public expense while real criminals went undetected.”
“We were always non-violent and could only be a threat to the government if we gained public support.”
https://theferret.scot/secret-police-files-political-activists-scotland/
I’m no fan of Chomsky, or otherwise, not that I know much of him.
This extract from an interview does make one think of the Big Picture:
” Just take a look at the records of the last 15 years. The last 15 years is what’s called the “Global War on Terror.” The method that has been used in the “Global War On Terror” is violence. That’s what we’re good at. Violence. So we invade. We kill people with drones. We have all kinds of ways of killing people. What has been the effect? Take a look. Fifteen years ago terrorist groups were concentrated in a small tribal area in Afghanistan. That was it. Where are the now? All over the world.
The worst terrorist crimes are going on in West Africa with Boko Haram, a lot of which is an offshoot of the bombing in Syria. They’re in West Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia. They carry out attacks in Turkey, in Paris and so on. We’ve succeeded in spreading it from a little corner of tribal Afghanistan to most of the world. It’s a great achievement for the use of violence. Can we draw some lessons from that? ”
http://zcomm.org/znetarticle/enormous-sense-of-hopelessness-and-anger/
Ba’al is watching and commenting on the blue ball at one end, while others are watching the green ball at the other.
No, Giyane. It’s all balls by this stage in a thread. If I see one close to me I give it a kick. It’s just that Putin is a c**t and a conscienceless liar, (ie just another world leader), and I cannot believe the staggering naivete of those who bat for him here. But I’d like them to settle on just one story. The alternatives are these.
1. Litvinenko wasn’t murdered. It was all a bad dream.
2. Litvinenko was murdered, by someone definite, like Berezovsky*, for unknown reasons. Or possibly to frame Putin. Ingeniously using Putin’s hoods to do it.
3. Litvinenko was murdered by someone indefinite, for unknown reasons (or see (2))
4. Litvinenko committed suicide….for unknown reasons, but perhaps to make Putin look bad by blaming him on his deathbed?
These – and total wide-eyed innocent denial – are being alternated in the Russian state-backed propaganda outlets, with no attempt made to substantiate any of them.
Against which,
5. Litvinenko was murdered for a Russian state agency / pet oligarch with Putin’s knowledge and approval, for reasons which are all too clear, viz, Litvinenko was a close associate of Berzovsky, Litvinenko was hostile to Putin – had indeed acted as a whistleblower -, and Litvinenko was working for MI6 (and, incidentally, Spanish intelligence, for whom he had helped pull in other of Putin’s pet oligarchs, as well as investigating then-pet-oligarch Abramovich’s alleged money-laundering operation)
Sorry, chaps. All you’ve got is smoke and mirrors. And if you go on defending a criminal business oligarchy run by a dictator, I think we shall have to continue disagreeing.
Anyway, random ball…
Most frightening picture of Cherie Blaaaargh yet unearthed (courtesy Getty Images and a toughened-glass camera lens)
http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/1441668-actor-kevin-spacey-laughs-with-cherie-blair-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=OCUJ5gVf7YdJQI2Xhkc2QPSXzz2CjiAXme0z5Iuy3U6djt3NuZKJpqNTO0R5dcJ%2BSIe%2B4g5BeXbs5DRa9O7ROA%3D%3D
Was it not Cecil Rhodes who urged the English to “always remember, that in the great lottery of life, you as an Englishman have won first prize”
Despite recent assaults on the reputation of Rhodes it appears that his views still hold some sway. Witness the reaction to the (in all probability) execution of a Russian dissident by the Russian state. Now compare this to the mix of obfuscation, hand wringing and general dis interest surrounding the deaths of people ranging from Dr. David Kelly, to a man who locked himself in a suitcase prior to committing suicide.
The British Foreign Secretary is able make remarks regarding the amount of civilians killed by Russian bombs in Syria. These remarks remain largely unchallenged even though he, and the people that fail to hold him to account, must be drowning in the blood of the uncounted masses slaughtered by proxy in Iraq and Libya.
What about the extra judicial killing of Gaddafi? Ah no the state employed proxy killers for this action – so much more civilized than actually getting blood on your own hands.
Is there not an old saying about pot calling kettle black.
Sure the Russians kill people that threaten them. The problem the British have is that Russians don’t care what you think and are perfectly capable of killing you too. Oh what a blow that you cannot fire your humanitarian love bombs at Moscow without being instantly vaporized.
Witness the reaction to the (in all probability) execution of a Russian dissident by the Russian state. Now compare this to the mix of obfuscation, hand wringing and general dis interest surrounding the deaths of people ranging from Dr. David Kelly, to a man who locked himself in a suitcase prior to committing suicide.
That suitcase job was certainly interesting. Hanging your dissident with an orange in his mouth and a gay porn video in the player is more the British way, and I doubt if it was one of ours. Kelly – there was a lot of fuss at the time, and it rumbles on. You can’t claim it’s been ignored. Sadly though, the Masonic Rothschild lizards didn’t give him polonium and leave the unused portion in a London hotel drain, so, to the great fun of conspiracy theorists, the method, motive, means and opportunity remain obscure, even if the official line is not credible.
As the following in the Independent set out, Litvinenko had enough time and enough exposure to reel off the “damaging data” about Putin.
In the world of fishwives prevarication, denunciations, are the major currency for any transaction. Given the fishwives diplomacy that has been the stuck in trade of the UK et al for more than a decade in the present century. These violent has beens as John Goss pointed out;
However the screeching Theresa of May has not understood that Putin is about to be giving zero flying fucks about her pontifications and accusations! Furthermore this trend will be true of the Russians too; ie giving zero flying fucks about the
Poloniumstorm in the teacup. However given that the current empire has basically ran out of any other credible option other than fear, foreboding, suppression, and perpetual war, the resultant conduct is a natural and “elegant” follow up of the policies of war, mass murder and theft!As Looney observed;
Meanwhile back at the ranch the new empire on the block stays on message;
Chinese president offers development as “new path” to resolve Middle East crises
Many thanks to the contributor who requested clarification of the definition of genocide in respect of Israel’s actions in Palestine. As we can see from the extract below, Israel commits acts of genocide on a daily basis, and in fact is guilty of not just some of the horrific qualifying crimes listed, but every one of them. Every decent person should shun Israel and its produce until it ceases this barbarity.
On behalf of Palestinian supporters everywhere, I would like to express my gratitude to the contributor who provided this opportunity to document the legal basis on which Israel is guilty of genocide.
Thanks for your clarity, Rob G., Ba’al and Loony, well appreciated after this wave/flood of events, some unproven, unfamiliar to many and rather dusty.
Local radio here featured a little debate as to whether British soldiers in combat should be getting away with killing civilians by accident, the small wedge underneath the human rights pillars, the trickle, day by day acidic erosion to the opposition to torture.
It ended with a comment by a soldier who confessed to killing a person in Northern Ireland and how desperate the situation was over there.
My comment, you leave them in advance, what would have happened if My Lai was not investigated and prosecuted, never mind the sentence…..
and what of the Gibraltar saga? well they didn’t ring back.
Talking of sentence. Woman who killed a paedophile who was out on bail, has had her sentenced increased by the ‘conditioned’ judges, from 3.5 to 7.5 years.
So anyone thinking of finding this toddler rapist, now abroad, done a runner as they say in Canning Town, you’ve been told, don’t you dare take justice in your own hand……
imho a disgraceful judgement.
What’s up with this blogger? Is he being lazy, ill or just dead? Anyone know?
Sorry I meant to praise MarK G. above, not Rob G., apologiesif they are required.
Thanks for your frequent updates on our allied ME rotten scion, Node.
My problem is that this ongoing violence is a daily event, stupefying and conditioning the human psyche to expect it as a normal occurrence.
With no thanks to our paedo blind BBC and the Neocon media at large who will fall over themselves to not report or macerate the facts so they become ever more unbelievable.
The gulf between reality and actual facts visa-vis the over bearing neoconcloud nine dreamers is increasing by the day.
Defo. 1.30am
There is a difference between the death of Litvinenko and Britain’s covert operations in Yemen.
The main difference is the British government want to shout from the rooftops about one, and stay shtum on the other.
With regards to Yemen, Saudi Arabia are trying to crush the Iranian backed Houthis, who are Shia.
Britain is covertly (though it seems to be the worst kept secret) training and planning strategies for the Saudi military. We have also sold them the weapons to carry out attacks in Yemen, that have led to many civilian casualties.
As for the untimely demise of Mr Litvinenko in 2006, who would have access to Polonium-210 ?
There are some who feel that Putin wasn’t involved.
Many publications in Russian media (is Russia media reliable?) suggested that the death of Litvinenko was connected to Boris Berezovsky.
Former FSB chief Nikolay Kovalyov, for whom Litvinenko worked, said that the incident looks like the hand of Berezovsky.
I am sure that no kind of intelligence services participated.This involvement of Berezovsky was alleged by numerous Russian television shows.
Then we have those who are pretty sure the FSB assassinated Mr Litvinenko.
Many theories regarding the Litvinenko poisoning circulated after his death. Circumstances led to the suspicion that he was killed by the Russian secret service.
Viktor Ilyukhin, a deputy chairman of the Russian Parliament’s security committee for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, said that he “can’t exclude that possibility.
The likes of Berezovsky who was one of the original “Robber barons” certainly had the financial clout to have Mr Litvinenko killed.
Berezovsky, 50, who owns/owned the national Lada car dealer network as well as the All-Russia Automobile Alliance, a company that raised $50 million in a public offering in 1993 on the so-far-empty promise to build a Russian people’s car. Berezovsky and allies also control Russian public television and No. 9 oil concern Sibneft.
He’s got a life Winkeltoe, meaning he does work, could even be abroad.
CND have slammed the MoD for showing a “promotional” video which take place inside one of Britain’s nuclear subs.
The vote to renew Trident will be held soon if the MoD are to be believed, and this tour of a nuclear subs showing staff eating and carrying out everday tasks, is in aid of “normalising” WMD’s.
In one photo you see a submariner holding the red trigger switch that fires the WMD’s. In my opinion it trivialises the enormous dangers that WMD’s pose to the world in general.
Lt Cdr Woods, the man who, on this submarine, would pull the trigger if the time came, said it was an “honour and a burden”.
“An honour that our political lords and masters trust me with this sort of awesome responsibility.
It’s even more disconcerting that Lt Cdr Woods, refers to the rather unhinged (to a certain degree) politicians who want to renew Trident as his “Lords and masters.”
http://www.thenational.scot/news/nuclear-tour-ministers-are-accused-of-showing-off.12707
Well, if you’re sure of that, I’ll relax, though it would be nice if it included time for the occasional post.
Meanwhile SNP staff at Bathgate have had their cars vandalised. Staff have also noticed that two sinister men have been seen videoing them on their mobile phones.
The police have been notified and staff have been warned not to be alone in the office.
Those members of staff, probably now know how Willie MacRae felt before his forced demise.
http://www.thenational.scot/news/exclusive-fears-over-sinister-filming-of-snp-staff.12703
The people of the Philippines aren’t standing by and allowing China to illegally possess large swathes of the South China seas.
In protest many Filipinos have occupied a man-made island built by China to initiate a claim in the area, that Chinese sovereignty applies.
Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.
China is of course (wrongly in my opinion) copying Western ideologies, with the likes of the US, Britain, France, Belguim, Italy, Germany and several others, and in recent times Israel who have appropriated land whilst systematically murdering the lands rightful owners.
Infact Westminster appropriated 6000 miles of sea from Scotland, without an angry word.
Nicely Put Node
They are out of control, Hateful Cowards.. As well as Node’s frequent Updates.. there is a mountain of Video Footage of idf’s evil executions..terrorizing, and kidnapping of children.
” In 2016, one doesn’t have to be Adolf Eichmann to be executed in Israel – it’s enough to be a teenage Palestinian girl with scissors.
By Gideon Levy
” We should call it like it is: Israel executes people without trial nearly every day. Any other description is a lie. If there was once discussion here about the death penalty for terrorists, now they are executed even without trial (and without discussion). If once there was debate over the rules of engagement, today it’s clear: we shoot to kill – any suspicious Palestinian.
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan outlined the situation clearly when he said, “Every terrorist should know he will not survive the attack he is about to commit” – and almost every politician joined him in nauseating unison, from Yair Lapid on up. Never have so many licenses to kill been handed out here, nor has the finger been so itchy on the trigger.
In 2016, one doesn’t have to be Adolf Eichmann to be executed here – it’s enough to be a teenage Palestinian girl with scissors. The firing squads are active every day. Soldiers, police and civilians shoot those who stabbed Israelis, or tried to stab them or were suspected of doing so, and at those who run down Israelis in their cars or appear to have done so.
In most cases, there was no need to shoot – and certainly not to kill. In a good many of the cases, the shooters’ lives were not in danger. They shot people to death who were holding a knife or even scissors, or people who just put their hands in their pockets or lost control of their car.
They shot them to death indiscriminately – women, men, teenage girls, teenage boys. They shot them when they were standing, and even after they were no longer a threat. They shot to kill, to punish, to release their anger, and to take revenge. There is such contempt here that these incidents are barely covered in the media.”
http://normanfinkelstein.com/2016/01/17/murder-inc/
“It`s like statements from he Media put out the the only place you could obtain polonium 210 was from Russia. BS I say.You could buy it on the internet at the time.”
I remember debunking this one at the time. The polonium you could get on the internet was a microscopic amount fused into a resin disc. There is no way it could be used to poison someone.
Republicofscotland
22 Jan, 2016 – 3:44 pm
Looks like Trident will lose its edge to submarine drones –
“In a line of workshops along the quay, technicians tinker at the innards of the next generation of naval weapons. They may look like large bright yellow torpedoes, but they are in fact underwater drones, capable of being remote controlled on the surface and taking autonomous actions in the deep. Several will be able to stay submerged for months, eventually for years, only surfacing to report an encounter with an enemy submarine.
“For half a century, big missile submarines, known as boomers, have been arguably the most decisive weapon systems in modern warfare – the queen on the strategic chessboard – because of their capacity to remain unseen until the critical moment, unleashing enormous destructive force without warning. Now that dominant position is under threat. A submarine can hide from a few noisily obvious ships and planes, but it is harder to hide from a swarm of small, virtually undetectable drones.”
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/16/trident-old-technology-brave-new-world-cyber-warfare
No sense of humour the Russians! That’s what I say.
http://russia-insider.com/en/litvinenko-plot-revealed-last/ri12379?
Interesting bit on your veggies:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/frying-vegetables-in-oil-healthier-than-
boiling-them-and-may-prevent-cancer-study-finds-a6827561.html
The bit about frying in olive oil puzzles me though. I’m sure I’ve read over and over again that heating olive oil to high temperatures, turns it toxic. Anyone know more about this aspect?
correct the link:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/frying-vegetables-in-oil-healthier-than-boiling-them-and-may-prevent-cancer-study-finds-a6827561.html
This one’s amusing. Meeting in Zurich just Wednesday past.
Lavrov snubs Nuland. Look at her face!
Still there at top table though.
“The body language between Russia’s foreign minister and one of Washington’s most infamous color revolution plotters says it all”
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/lavrov-warmly-greets-kerry-zurich-snubs-blood-soaked-witch-nuland-video/ri12381
They’re all as bad as one another, eh, except when they’re Putin.
Which argument is always a defence of Western oligarchic interests.
Cute.
Is Craig OK? This is his blog and he hasn’t written anything for over 2 weeks.
I know he suffers from manic depression (now renamed as bi-polar)…and I know its real though I have never suffered it myself. I just accept that I am a bit mad, and I try and be nice, when I am feeling like shit…I make a special effort to try and appear normal, particularly on Mondays.
Personally I prefer Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
Even Saturdays and Sundays can be fine…
But Mondays…can be really depressing..unless I am almost completely sober on Sundays…
It looks like a full moon tonight..but even the girls seem fine tonight…
Meanwhile, I just posted this on Tom Feeley’s website
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
in California
He maybe an American…but I honestly think I should send him a few dollars.
I really respect this guy.
· 31 minutes ago
Apologising is an extremely powerful tool, regardless of who is in the wrong in a dispute. Not only does apologising defuse a conflict situation, it gives you the moral high ground. It is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of strength. You have risen above the dispute, and you just want the problem resolved.
I can’t imagine, the current Washington administration apologizing for anything.
They have no morality, and they have no strength (its an illusion). They are just a bunch of crazed psychopaths. They are an embarrassment to the human race. I am not even completely convinced they are human. They behave like aliens from outer space, trying to destroy the human race.
Tony
@Republicofscotland 3:29
“Many publications in Russian media (is Russia media reliable?) suggested that the death of Litvinenko was connected to Boris Berezovsky.”
That reads about right,I remember Berezovsky being intervieved on TV just after Litvinenko died. What a performance he should have been awarded a Oscar.He made the claim it was Putin because the only country you could obtain Polonium 210 was Russia.It is well known a lot of the time for the guilty party to divert the blame else where. It was in plain sight.
“They have no morality, and they have no strength (its an illusion). They are just a bunch of crazed psychopaths. They are an embarrassment to the human race. I am not even completely convinced they are human. They behave like aliens from outer space, trying to destroy the human race.”
Makes me wonder too Tony. What puzzles me is they believe they are better than the rest of us. They believe America is a great nation. Can you believe that? I can’t.
Must congratulate the keyboard warriors fighting the holy war on this blog and elsewhere for such a wonderful job they have done, through their assiduous defence of the indefensible; genocide, land theft, and mass murder through wars on the neighbours of the shitty strip of the land. As their degree of success is being kept pretty low key and very much under wraps.
Rob G take note!
This argument is more the kind of thing peeps need to be thinking about as they observe the unfolding drama.
You don’t need to agree with its conclusions, but you do need to ensure that your own argument contains the elements in dispute.
“Economic growth has stopped (the situation has stabilized, although it is experiencing an insignificant decline) and it is already clear that keeping things as they are for everybody will be not be possible. As this specifically regards the financial system, it means that it is necessary to decide whether to save the U.S. economy at the expense of the resources of the global financial system or to save the global financial system at the expense of the U.S.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44007.htm
You see, it’s not about Putin being a baddie as some here repeat ad nauseam. When has the West ever worried about baddies.
No. It’s about how people are positioned in the unfolding financial drama.
And it’s not simple.
US elites are divided. European elites are divided. Russian elites are divided.
So, try to figure out where these divisions lie, where there’s agreement and indeed what the hell they’re all fighting about.
Only then will peeps fully understand the world they live in.