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.
“And the father thinks that the KGB did it because he was a traitor.”
No he does not. He was grieving when he said that.
‘He says he regrets his participation in the smear campaign against Russia in general and Prime Minister Putin in particular.
“I have cured of this disease. It was a disease. I am a psychiatric doctor myself and I know it was, this blunt hate,” he explained.’
As to your comment “Divert and distract” that is what you do. I am simply trying to get cause-of-death verdicts back into the Coroners’ Courts where they belong. Only you have followed your masters with the blame Putin, wanted for murder, fixation arrived at through a kangaroo inquiry. You did the same with Kara Murza. You ascribe guilt before there has been an investigation. Like Robert Owen you start off with a verdict and make the narrative fit the result.
Doug a hunch just come out of the blue and is a kind of a hunch you know!!!! Hunches occur more frequently in our democracy because our superior democratic values need more plausible whitewashes alas our democratic values have also turfed out any intelligent persons at the expense of promotion of yes men bereft of any imagination and intelligence, hence the leaking of the story in
chunkshunches and bit and bobs to set the stage up for the next step.===========
Mark Golding I am had a really loud laugh reading your snippet and now all my colleagues are looking at me strangely!!! Thanks for the laugh mate
“No he does not. He was grieving when he said that.”
A peculiar way of grieving if I may say so – saying your some deserved it because he was a traitor. One can only imagine the pressure he has been put under to change his views at least twice.
“One can only imagine the pressure he has been put under to change his views at least twice.”
But he’s not in Russia. He’s in Italy. He wants to get back to Russia. As to changing his mind, Alexander Litvinenko, was renowned for it. He was an agent. He signed a document for Scaramella and later said he had been tricked into it. Anyway the Inquiry (all 300 pages) is not worth the paper it’s printed on. More debt to the taxpayer.
On this issue, and very few others, Theresa May was right. The inquest should have been concluded. Now there is no possibility because it would make all involved look even more t=stupid than they look already.
Are you going to the match?
With regards to polonium-210 poisoning the US use to inject polonium-210 into humans in experiments just after the the second world war.Not just polonium-210 but plutonium also.Having myself worked in nuclear physics I find it Inconceivable that two trained officers of the Russian secret service would have used polonium-210, handling is extremely dangerous and would need a glove box and other precautions such as positive pressure respirators.
Perhaps Mr Goss from his privileged position could have a look through the adjacent sphincter and tell us how the Russian state inquiries into the poisoning of Kara Murza, the murder of Boris Nemtsov and the corruption of the Attorney General are going (there are other loose ends but these will be enough for the present).
“Having myself worked in nuclear physics I find it Inconceivable that two trained officers of the Russian secret service would have used polonium-210, handling is extremely dangerous and would need a glove box and other precautions such as positive pressure respirators.”
True. But they might have been smuggling it for Berezovsky. What did he want something so dangerous for? David Cameron’s an expert on smuggling nuclear weapons. Wonder if he knows what they might want something so volatile for.
“Inconceivable that two trained officers of the Russian secret service would have used polonium-210”
They didn’t know what they were handling and they were not trained KGB officers – read the report.
“Perhaps Mr Goss from his privileged position could have a look through the adjacent sphincter and tell us how the Russian state inquiries into the poisoning of Kara Murza, the murder of Boris Nemtsov and the corruption of the Attorney General are going (there are other loose ends but these will be enough for the present).”
Why don’t you read my article and criticise it instead of perpetually trying to divert and distract? There’s a like button but I don’t think there is a dislike button. 😀
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/01/feminism-a-neo-con-tool/comment-page-17/#comment-574855
“They didn’t know what they were handling and they were not trained KGB officers – read the report.”
I’ve read the report. After preliminaries it starts by trying to make Berezovsky and Litvinenko look like nice friendly people, the kind you would wish to have as neighbours. It makes Lugovoy and Kuvton look like they were Litvinenko’s enemies. As I said it is not worth the paper it is printed on. Demand an inquest.
“You should see what his father has to say about him if he actually did work for MI5/MI6. He does not blame Putin.
http://www.sott.net/article/310762-Litvinenkos-father-The-British-duped-me-Putin-did-NOT-kill-my-son”
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Does Litvinenko pére live in Russia by any chance? 🙂
Anyone else getting a Google translation bar popping up at the top of the page when they refresh?
I’m using Firefox 43.0 and it doesn’t happen with any other website or blog or on Opera browser.
“They {the Russian authorities}even felt it necessary to prosecute Sergei Magnitsky after he had been murdered in prison.”
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There are many enemies of the West on this blog who are dismayed that Lord Janner is not being prosecuted after HIS death.
Birds of a feather……
Comment on Moon of Alabama:
It’s sadly typical of the West-haters on here that they only thing they can say about the lifting of sanctions on Iran is to post on the USS Vincennes incident (posts from the Pugnacious One at 23h04 and 23hé& yesterday refer).
As someone pointed out – probably Anon1 – there seems to be a certain sense of disappointment in the air…..
My point about the Vincennes (for those too thick to have understood it) is that it shows that it is dangerous to conclude anything from the fact that a government rewarded someone after he did something awful.
What I hate is what the West has become under the plutocrats. I have decades of military service in defense of the West against Communism to show that I did not and do not hate what the West used to be.
“Does Litvinenko pére live in Russia by any chance? 🙂 ”
If you or Resident Dissident had read the article instead of just the headline, or my comment at 11.30 a.m., you would know that Litvinenko’s father is living in Italy.
Peace disruption raids: dawn, Silwan – dawn, al-Jadirat – 18:00, al-Eisawiya – 03:30, al-Eizariya – 03:30, Abu Dis – 19:30-22:20, Beitin – midnight, Shuqba – 00:10, Deir Abu Mash’al – midnight-03:35, Beit Rima – 22:55, Kafr Zibad – 00:10, Kafr al-Dik – 02:00, Qarawat Bani Hassan – 10:25-12:20, Fasayil – 22:00, al-Jiftlik – 19:45, Nahalin – 09:40, Nabi Na’im – 23:30, Nabi Na’im – 01:15-05:10, Sa’ir.
No justification, just deliberate disruption and intimidation aimed at civilians. They do this EVERY night. It’s against international law. It’s one of the many acts of routine brutality that add up to genocide
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Israeli atrocities for 19 January 2016:
Israeli Army sniper shoots and wounds Palestinian youngster
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Israeli Army positions open fire on Gaza farms
Home invasions: 1 home destroyed, more selected for demolition
Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in refugee camp and 16 towns and villages
4 attacks (2 Israeli ceasefire violations)
24 raids including home invasions
3 injured – 3 abducted (aged 15 to 16)
4 acts of agricultural/economic sabotage
25 taken prisoner – 7 detained – 80 restrictions of movement
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http://palestine.org.nz/phrc/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3105&Itemid=44
Lysias When reason and logic fail, and are an scarcity then emotions run rampant! Note the “West Haters” What does this inanely trite epithet convey?
As you have pointed out the plutocrats long ago hijacked whatever there was left of a civil construct and turned the entire countries into a sordid enterprise for the banksters benefit only.
No point in engaging or justifying any of your sentiments to a bunch of paid stooges whose “loyalties” are in fact bought and paid for through the various revenue streams of Western tax payers funds that are diverted under various pretexts and funnelled into the shitty strip of land.
Rogers was given the star treatment whilst Liberty’s Capitan was honoured in the hush of a Naval scrapyard! History shall recollect unkindly those whom presided over the destruction of the whole of the planet in the way of preserving the status quo in favour of the banksters.
As I said yesterday which I think some might have missed.
“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/ “
I have on many occasions berated Israel on its behaviour in Palestinian lands. It however seem fair to comment on them, when they do the right thing, even if it’s not that often.
Government forces in Israel have evicted over 80 J**ish settlers a day after they moved (illegally) into two buildings in the heart of the West Bank, city of Hebron.
If only Israel acted in a more civilised and responsible manner, then reports like the one above could find their way onto not just this blog, but many other blogs.
Seems like grabbing for straws to me, RoS, like the authirtes enforcing the law against all kinds of infractions that Israelis commit.
And are the authorities offering other accommodations to the settlers?
Chaos and rioting, have broken out in Haiti, after a opposition leader pulled out “citing corruption” in the run to the presidential election on Sunday.
It’s claimed the previous incumbent Michel Martelly has hand picked his successor. The opposition want the election put back to a later date.
However the US has supported the elections to the tune of £33 million dollars, and are very keen for the election to go ahead on Sunday.
In my opinion reading between the lines so to speak, the US has shall we say to be polite, influenced immensely who’ll become the next president of Haiti.
The country of about 10 million people, of which a fifth, are registered to vote, has struggled to build a stable democracy since the overthrow of the 1957-1986 dictatorship of the Duvalier family and ensuing military coups and election fraud.
The latest round of political volatility has distracted from the reconstruction after the earthquake.
“And are the authorities offering other accommodations to the settlers?”
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Trowbridge H.Ford, the article I read on the matter, doesn’t mention the re-housing of the J**ish settlers. They claim that, they bought the houses from Palestinian residents.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/23/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank.html?_r=0
John Goss is quite wrong about campus protests stopping the Vietnam War
They peaked during the 1968 presidential campaign, and stopped after the Ohio National Guard carried out its massacre in 1970 at Kent State.
The war was stopped by Nixon, Ford and Congress after the North Vietnamese invaded the South.
Student protests were a covenant scapegoat when America;s covert government lost its war.
Fraud is fraud, RoS, even in Israel.
I see the British government have reignited the desire for a “British Overseas Memorial” to all British personnel who’ve fallen to terrorism.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-memorial-for-terrorism-victims
Staying on that particular idea, we could widen the initiative a tad more by having a British memorial in Britain to all those terminally ill and disabled folk who’ve fallen to the DWP.
Or we could have a British memorial based overseas or at home for all those civilians killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria from British sorties.
I rather like the idea of a British memorial, dedicated to the press and the BBC, (based in London of course) that one could go to and lay flowers at, and mourn the death of truthful and impartial reporting.
I’m sure many of you will have your own ideas as to which section of society merits a memorial.
Memorials for victims just feeds the mayhem, just look at what happened after WWI, the Vietnam War, 9/11, and now the massacres in the Middle East.
“The war was stopped by Nixon, Ford and Congress after the North Vietnamese invaded the South.”
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In other words Trowbridge H.Ford, after the US were beaten. As they fled Saigon in numerous helicopters, leaving the residents to their fate.
Alas Ho Chi Minh, (bringer of light ) didn’t live to see that particular event, he died in 1969.
Although it’s said he told LBJ to get the hell out of Vietnam. Russia aided militarily and economically Vietnamese forces, in a similar fashion as the US did when Russia invaded Afghanistan in 1979.