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.
BDS is starting to gain momentum. It was from the campuses that Vietnam War was brought to an end. It was from the campuses where South African apartheid was brought to an end. I praise these UK doctors for making a stand against Israel’s occupation, genocide and torture of Palestinians.
http://nsnbc.me/2016/01/22/71-uk-doctors-call-for-removal-of-israel-from-world-medical-association/
Tony_0pmoc, 6:37 pm: I think Craig is OK. He went to Ghana a couple of weeks ago; he might be heading back to Edinburgh today, or soon anyway. I haven’t heard from him for over a week but he was fine then.
Any tickets left for Massive Attack?
If this site had an edit function, I would have corrected my slip of “Genocide Convention” to “Apartheid Convention”. Unfortunately, it does not.
I just read a 1996 book about British intelligence, UK Eyes Alpha: Inside British Intelligence, by Mark Urban, where at one point what was obviously meant to be “Shin Bet” was replaced with just a slash, “/”. Was it forbidden to refer to Shin Bet in a book published in 1996 in Britain?
And still the Putinistas carry on with their distortion and deflection.
If they really think the odious Berezovsky did it then why does Putin shelter and reward those who carried out the work for Berezovsky? It isn’t as though they were bosom pals. I suspect the evidence to the inquiry from the security forces made it pretty clear also made it pretty clear who Lugavoi and Kuvton were working for.
Perhaps Mr Lawton should also ponder what would have happened to him in Russia if he had blown the cover of KGB allies while at the same time not blowing the cover of foreign agents – and then reflect how our superior Western values still allow him to spout his shit.
There is a Cartoon here – but I can’t draw it
I have actually so far as I know bought The Russian’s book – who lives in America – and the book will probably be delivered in the morning.
I have spent 30 mins trying to send Tom Feeley
$10 for running the Best website in The World
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
I have filled in all the details correctly…
but The American Banks will not accept my Donation…
no matter what I try…I get Card Rejected.
Do you want it in Pound Coins?
I have never come across such stupid people as the psychopaths currently running America’s Banks..I look at my mate….ffs (yes they really are that stupid)
Oh Dear
Tony
I think its in the genetics..some of us just have to go through these phases of our life…and literally take the risk to the limit…such that it becomes incredibly dangerous…and then realise the risks – and look at yourself in the mirror at the age of 25..and think shit..if I don’t stop doing this riding my motorcycle like a complete lunatic..I ain’t going to make 30
So I gave up the bikes just kept the gliding up.
I wanted to PULL
She says this may calm you down a bit…
And she sent me to Infinity…
So I had to give her up too
But I can never give up the girl I met later after all this…
She just calmly jumped out of a WWII Russian Aircraft at 10,000 feet over Cuba…
I thought..well I will keep that one as our daughter is just so proud of her Mum
The photo is on our pin board in our hall
Tony
Young guitarist of the year – about 20 years go..well I didn’t know who he was..I couldn’t even remember his first name (but my mate Barry knew him – he told me he was young guitarist of the year)
I guess he is only about 37 now…he always said hello Tony..and I always thought..shit what is his name…
He told me that next week (Saturday) in 7 days time…
he said a bit about it…
so one Saturday he was playing in our local pub in front of 100 or so people…
the next Saturday he is playing in front of 80,000 people in Quebek (Canada)
and all the band got through the US border patrol except the drummer – cos well basically he looked liked Bob Marley..They said you are a Terrorist..He says no..I am just The Drummer in The Band Yes???
No You Can’t Come into The USA
So Rick Wakeman and the Rest of The Band had a conference…over 24 hours they negotiated with The US Authroities…
They said…if you don’t let Our Drummer In..Then The Entire US Tour is OFF
They Did Not Let The Drummer In..
So The Entire Band Said
Fuck You USA
And They All Flew Home Back to The UK
YES Said Fuck You USA
Tony
“If they really think the odious Berezovsky did it then why does Putin shelter and reward those who carried out the work for Berezovsky? It isn’t as though they were bosom pals. I suspect the evidence to the inquiry from the security forces made it pretty clear also made it pretty clear who Lugavoi and Kuvton were working for.”
Mr Lugovoy and Mr Kovtun were friends of the KGB/FSK/FSB/MI5/MI6 agent Alexander Litvinov. Of course Putin being a former KGB man must be an awful person. But not a double agent!
The commander and weapons officer of the USS Vincennes, who were responsible for shooting down the Iranian Airbus, were able to return in honor to the U.S. They were both promoted and received decorations.
Does that mean that the U.S. government had told them to shoot down the Airbus? Or was it just politically impossible to punish them after the fact?
John Goss
“Of course Putin being a former KGB man must be an awful person. But not a double agent!”
Thank you John for your timely caution that of course Mr Putin is a double agent.
Last time I made friends with a double agent it took a few years to realise that I had only made friends with one side, the human side:
https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.avsforum.com/photopost/data/2204128/f/f7/f79437b5_arnold-terminator-face-25058-20111114-154.jpeg&imgrefurl=http://www.avsforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo%3D240603&h=350&w=450&tbnid=crq3wbdt8dWCwM:&docid=Z9ao8pAuLbxztM&ei=xLaiVvHHEsbpUujcp9gG&tbm=isch&ved=0ahUKEwjxubOKxb7KAhXGtBQKHWjuCWsQMwg8KAowCg
Just in case you thought I was lying
At Cropredy
http://postimg.org/image/wh9g8ewej/
Tony
Lysias:
” politically impossible ”
Nothing is politically impossible. Many agents working for the CIA are subsequently tortured by the CIA, to turn them into Terminators. The guys who shot down the Iranian Airbus must have been working for some other agency.
I remember once speaking about the commander of the Vincennes, Capt. Rogers, with my boss when I was working in the Pentagon. He told me that Rogers had a reputation in the military of being trigger-happy.
Herbie:
“””“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.””””
(Not attributed to Herbie, please note dum dum.)
taking ‘The global financial system’ as meaning the people who stole the global capital or who operated the system that enabled them to do so, they need to crash in order to deter them from ever trying it again. The Capitalist system should have crashed in 2008 because of its pure stupidity in trusting people who like money to handle money every day. They should be kept as far away from money as physically possible.
If either Obama had been a Democrat or Gordon Brown a Socialist, it would have been perfectly possible to fire up the system on the Chinese centralised model. We would now have the double benefit that:
1/ The zio=bankers would have had no more funds for the War on Islam (donated by us peeps’ savings and
2/ We would not be heading for an even bigger crash further down the line.
Oh well , they’ll just have to learn the hard.
way
@Resident Dissident “Perhaps Mr Lawton should also ponder what would have happened to him in Russia if he had blown the cover of KGB allies while at the same time not blowing the cover of foreign agents – and then reflect how our superior Western values still allow him to spout his shit.”
I will tell you why. Agents of Awe and Boredom were poking their nose in and spying on their colleagues because the paranoid reds under the bed US policy. Great quantum Physicist like David Bohm who was persecuted during McCarthyism came the UK and to Bristol.You really need
to get yourself a few history lessons obviously you are a bit of a ignoramus I don`t know who you are but come over like gobby kid who has no experience of life.And what work do you do then?
Lysias:
Not wishing to cause offence, but do you have a reputation for being a Big Mouth, in these lofty echelons of military service? How do you get away with being so trigger happy on the ethernet, cowboy? Do you have some kind of immunity from the NSA?
https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.happytrails.org/_images/trigger/01-sm-Illustration%2520Photo.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.happytrails.org/trigger.html&h=756&w=800&tbnid=087qy4MmJ4ScpM:&tbnh=186&tbnw=196&docid=w8mm51BFsQKFaM&itg=1&usg=__KBLxXF4Ds8nKelBbOpHvBTpvwh4=
Dave Lawton, apparently you’ve had your first exposure to that obnoxious creature, the hasbarist troll.
Both Scottish independence and UK withdrawal from the EU are of course themselves positionings with reference to the impending Great Financial Tectonic Shift.
They’re sold to the peeps in colours, images, music, flags and emblems and so on, but that ain’t what they’re about.
Oh no.
Just elites jockeying for positions better able to bear the fallout and how to sell it to the masses.
Anyway, looks like the UK is cosying up to China.
That’s one way of doing it from a UK perspective, but what about the EU and Russia, or America, for that matter.
And where are the Bankers in all this.
Does it matter to elite Bankers that the solution to their problem lies in uniting British “know-how” and Chinese production.
I mean, the Americans have been taking the piss with their infinite credit petrodollar 70% consumer economy, for ages.
Even elite bankers know that can’t last forever.
But yeah. Doesn’t look as if Russia was still supposed to be a problem. That job was thought completed in the late 90s.
With China onside, Russia’s future may well be in jeopardy again.
I’ve heard that the BBC is doing lots of cute docos about China, and then there has been this War and Peace costume thingy and there’s that blond historical bird doing the Romanovs and all the rest of it, Russian history and everything, almost voodoo like.
Devouring it, they are.
Must be 1910 again.
What work do you do then? I clean the toilets on a busy international political blog.
You know, use my mop to collect the germs and spread them on all vertical and horizontal surfaces evenly.
giyane 22 Jan, 2016 – 11:56 pm
Made me laugh. Made me think back to all those “If wit was shit . . .” creations. 😀
This is from 1983 – Over 10 years after YES started
Dave The Guitarist would have been about 4 years old in 1983
The rest of them must be even older than Lemmy and Me
Who’s out Next?? Both Ozzy and Neil Young ain’t dead yet…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELpmmeT69cE
And neither am I ..We are going to see Massive Attack Next…
at Brixton Academy
04 Feb
2016 Thu
19:00
SOLD OUT
Age restriction 8+
O2 Academy Brixton
211 Stockwell Road, Brixton SW9 9SL London
How should I do My Hair?
and what should I wear?
Tony
Herbie:
“And where are the Bankers in all this.”
Oh dear. they obviously didn’t know, because they believed the Thatcher God, the Market, that if you continuously removed money from your account holders through leveraged interest, you would eventually suck them dry. That was their, and her, undying stupidity.
Now that the bankers do know they are stupid, they also know that the QE that has re-stocked their portfolios is not real money. They are sucking on a long finished sugar-soaked dummy, long after they gave up milk anyway.
That’s why they have turned back to straight colonialism again. beat up wogs. sell arms. con muslims. play political games. keep the people at home busy with sport and cheap food.
Trouble is they’ve also forgotten that this modus operandi also causes world wars.
So where are they? hiding under the bedclothes waiting for the threads of civilisation to twang snap.
John Goss
You may laugh. I think I’ve contracted an STD by using wee-soaked toilet paper gone dry in a factory loo. i think I’m going to have to get a doctor to swab my winkie again. it’s too embarrassing. i told the doctor I’d got an ear infection to get a course of anti-biotics.
There is only one clean toilet, the old-fashioned hole in the ground Asian toilet with a tap in the loo.
“How should I do My Hair?”
Blow-wave, like we used to do. Or Brylcream. And for the ladies a super-perm. Yeah!
“There is only one clean toilet, the old-fashioned hole in the ground Asian toilet with a tap in the loo.” Reminds me of the old schott (squat) toilets in rural France. Vivre le joi! Is that French?
Want to be super-rich?
Be Bill gates for 30 seconds and see how much money you can give away.
Only thing is, what with your companies not paying tax and Microsoft shares going up and up, and your huge investment portfolio, you can’t give it away fast enough to stop getting richer.
http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/infographics/saveusbillgates/
Too much information?
What about this poor girl who was encarcerated with other women ready for being processed for marriage to daesh men?
Why are UK Muslims not being told the truth about Islamic State?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-woman-who-took-toddler-4987566
Trop de voyelles. Ces Français.