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.
As the solicitors firm Leigh Day begins to look into allegations that British soldiers committed unlawful acts in Iraq.
The (SRA) Solicitors Regulation Authority, has come out and made strenuous accusations against the firm. The allegations come swiftly on the back of a statement by British prime minister David Cameron, who claims such law firms are spurious.
In my opinion, the statement by the PM, and the allegations by the SRA, are a ploy to hinder and frighten not just Leigh Day, but any other law firm from taking on such cases.
https://www.leighday.co.uk/News/News-2016/January-2016/Statement-in-relation-to-referral-to-Solicitors-Di
Craig won’t like it…but John Ward (yes I’ve been banned for years for mentioning 9/11 and the football team he used to play for on Sundays in Ancoats, Manchester – I find these tribal loyalties fascinating) was completely Brilliant today – with his analyses (or rather verbal destruction of the fascist EU). So many highly concentrated cutting refined words.
Not bad for a bloke even older than me. He ain’t lost a marble…but I can’t thank him – cos he has banned me. This Essay is Dripping with Quality…He can not only see through…but write about it so well.
“THE SATURDAY ESSAY: the way is open for Britain to destroy EU fascism. Read why we won’t.”
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2016/01/23/the-saturday-essay-the-way-is-open-for-britain-to-destroy-eu-fascism-read-why-we-wont/
Tony
I spoke to The Fraud Team at my bank today – well they texted me telling me to phone them up and I did…The Banking System – I don’t know whether it was the Americans or The British who wouldn’t allow my donation of $10 to Tom Feeley of Imformation Clearing House in California.
I didn’t have any problem a few years ago donating $10 to Feeding America.
http://www.feedingamerica.org/
I feel sorry for poor Americans and try to send them money….but it seems the banking system won’t let me any more.
I didn’t do anything wrong.
Has the UK place Sanctions on The USA – without telling anyone?
Tony
As the French PM Manuel Valls, has said Europe cannot take in all the refugees fleeing wars in Iraq and Syria without putting the concept of Europe itself in grave danger.
It may sound a bit of an over exaggeration, but is it really?
Countries, such ad Greece, Italy and Spain, the latter which has very high unemployement. May find a influx of refugees of a greater number, put pressure on already hard pressed amenities, such as housing, schools hospitals, and infrastructure.
Even now we see some European nations tightening up their borders, Austria and Finland have already taken measures. It’s possible if the migration continues others will break and follow, and like the domino effect, the EU could fracture, as borders close and Schengen topples down.
So what can be done to ease pressure on EU nations whilst safeguarding refugees?
This is a job for the UN, in my opinion the UN has dragged its heels for far too long on such matters.
It’s not beyond the realm of possibility for the UN to set up “Safe zones or Green zones”, in a refugee/immigrants native land until an agreement over the conflict in their nation/s can be reached, afterall Nato projects power, power to enforce peace should also be a remit.
The UN has the power and the means to impliment such facilities, but instead it has sat back and watched many refugees drown trying to enter Europe, which has put the emphasis on struggling nations like Greece and Italy, to keep accepting them.
Such nations are now overawed by refugees, and in reality no one really knows who has entered EU nations through such ports.
Is it really any wonder then, that attacks can or could occur throughout Europe, by those completely disinfranchised, by EU/Western actions in their homelands.
The UN, with the aid of the EU and the supposed omnipotent Nato, really need to step up to the plate and sort this horrendous mess out once and for all, or borders could be restricted, and minds become suspicious.
“Anybody see any more?”
Yes, loads, google is full of them.
Here are a few in one article.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/France-begins-burying-victims-of-Paris-attacks
The last time…no maybe we have seen them since was at the end of Brighton Pier…and when I just occasionally think about these things (we (my wife and I got them the gig)) at our local pub…Its the hardest job in the world to get the sound perfectly…most bands manage it on their third or fourth time…
I says to the pub manager…I think they will go down well….
Get some more bar staff on
I’m ready to go..The band will be warming up and testing the sound..they have never played here before.
Tony
John Goss – you have a big fan here.
You’re a real asset to this board!
Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide
Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948.
Article 1
The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
Article 2
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Nothing murkey or ambiguous about the definition unless your agenda demands you make it so.
OK Fred that jamaica observer link has done it for me… It MUST of happened. All those rumours of intelligence assets in news agencies MUST be wrong.
But what is it with the semiotics in these type of fake articles?
Funny how you keep seeing the same odd numbers 7,9,11,13,22,33 over and over again.
What can this mean? Is it a code for “This article is intelligence bullshit!”?
BINGO!
Not to mention the rumors that French newspapers print in a language other than English
And 22 is not odd
Why Be…. so quick to defend? Odd as in the opposite of your predictable trolling, troll.
Aidworker1, thanks. I was moved by your comment at 8:53 pm. Of course we’re all in it together. Even those who criticise us help. They may not realise it but they do. When Craig’s blog runs amicably it is a very pleasant place to be.
And still, absolutely nothing on Iran.
Massive disappointment all round?
Looking back to the past. History repeating itself.
“Newly discovered documents show how in 1957 Harold Macmillan and President Dwight Eisenhower approved a CIA-MI6 plan to stage fake border incidents as an excuse for an invasion by Syria’s pro-western neighbours, and then to “eliminate” the most influential triumvirate in Damascus.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/sep/27/uk.syria1?cat=politics&type=article
http://internationaltimes.it/a-blast-from-the-past/
I`m not proud because I witnessed what went down.Most of the UK public believe the myth.
“British Empire compared to ‘Isis on steroids’ after UK public says it is ‘proud’ of colonial past.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-empire-compared-to-isis-on-steroids-after-uk-public-says-it-is-proud-of-colonial-past-a6822636.html
John Goss
“Many on this blog have strong suspicions that 9/11 was an inside job – the dirtiest cynical attack on Americans by their own leaders. Whether Putin has actually said he is going to release evidence which proves that the 9/11 ‘attacks’ were controlled explosions I do not know.”
Oh yes, whether he has said it or not or ‘released’ it or has any evidence at all does not matter. We’ll just leave that hanging out there. What matters is that the blog’s most deranged Putinista in the absence of Macky tells us what Putin knows but daren’t tell, the twat.
What is it about the old Soviet propagandists in like Mr Goss that makes them think they can get away with crap like the above without anyone noticing?
Dave
Charles Edward Frith. Quoted by the Independent. LOL.
Certainly right about history repeating itself, Dave.
Just look at how democracy has advanced itself in the Anglo-American world.
Two hundred years ago the UK was worried about the hijinks and treating that went on in constituencies like Old Sarum.
Now Americans have to worry about media giant, and most successful capitalist Michael Bloomberg determining who is the next POTUS.
Some democrztic advance!
Well worth watching this one again.
Lavrov and Kerry, last week.
It’s not just the Nuland snub.
It’s frosty throughout.
Apart from the specific pieces to camera and photograph, this is not a happy meet.
A Family event, to be sure, but like a funeral or unfortunate marriage event.
That kinda thing.
Not a joyous family event.
Anyway.
What does this mean?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bLcla0AiLA
Who won. Who lost.
In terms of what was in dispute.
I’d say Lavrov looks to have adopted a subordinate position, albeit with some rather moderate macho teenagery resistance.
That’s telling.
I mean, look, Kerry is prepping him for the Photo Op.
Sold out, I’d expect. The Russians.
You see. You just can’t beat experience.
You want a real evil leader of the world.
Go to the Experts!
What about kerry trying to portray the meet as a cordial event because otherwise there is the danger of even worst to come the US way?
Empire has to keep the appearance of being in control and getting its’ way kinda like the bully in the school and its’ little coattail hangers who would only respect him so long as he is Da Man!!! Otherwise the bully’s days are over pronto!
The fact that Diyarbakır is now a war zone and effectively Turkey is experiencing a national emergency is not even hinted at, and none of the pictures of the war zone are making the oligarch owned media. There is a world of shit out there and Kerry needs to keep up the appearances, in the wile the alpha ape gets groomed by the lesser apes remember.
JSD/Diatribe/ 1/ Wrong/ I didn’t think you had written it. so so..!
JSD?Diatribe/ 2/ Right/ I am a lovely man and I hate freemasons
JSD/Diatribe/ 3/ Wrong/ I am not compelled to agree with your opinion
JSD/Diatribe/ 4/ Right/ It’s pointless engaging with someone who has no interest in honest discussion.
In conclusion, gonk would appear to be the appropriate term.
Fedup
Diyarbakir has been like Belfast for years. Upturned police cars, watercannon, arrests.
Having been elected to a 5 year term, Erdogan now thinks he’s the Sultan of his corner of Islam. Not much preparation for the day he gets voted out again. This is the same type of arrogance that led caused the rest of the Islamic world to conspire with the Brits to dismantle the Ottoman Empire.
I’m not sure why this time around the Islamic world, are backing and fighting for him, while Germany, the old ally of the Ottomans is taking a lead in the world at mopping up the refugees caused by him, and them.
Maybe the same arrogance that makes them think they can ignore me on this blog criticising them. They just think they own Islam. In this war in Syria, the political branches of world Islam are politically allied to USUKIS and therefore have no claim to the name of jihad. The supporters of Assad are defending their country against outside invasion, one of the specific criteria for jihad.
What we have here is the same as 1918, the political Muslims collaborating with who they think are the most powerful side, regardless of the fact that they are their sworn enemy, while assuming that Russia is weak, which it is not, and assuming that it hates Islam because it destroyed Grozny, which it did because they could see that the US was using the Muslims to penetrate its outer defences. The destruction was of US influence, not Islam.
Russia has now become the champion of Islam, and why not? Ethnically, USUKIS classes Russians, Bulgarians, Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Afghans, Chinese etc as Asians. why should not Russia stick with its own ethnic population when USUKIS wants to take control of them, using perfidious, treacherous political Muslims?
We are the alpha males, the truth-seekers. That’s why I’m grooming you at 7 clock in the morning. These politicians are chanceless apelings. They wouldn’t know what to do with a mate even if one pointed her bum at them.
Comparing Diyarbarkir to Belfast is Gonk, as you say Giyanne, do educate yourself.
The problem lies with the usual miscreants, the Sykes Picot manipulators for Queen and empire, as well as the bickering of other countries who could only see oil and gas (mon dieu, we have no oil or gas reserves in France), who never had any inkling of the complicated tribal and religious facts on the ground, when they tried out their new pencil and linear.
They had the advice and the knowledge of it, but ignored with their straight lines and money in mind.
https://www.quora.com/Kurdistan-region/Why-didnt-the-Kurds-get-their-own-country
You might not like JSD or freemasonry but once you have got used to this blog, grown up, you will have to realise that people here are allowed to speak up, that this is not your blog.
John Spencer-Davis
23 Jan, 2016 – 4:02 pm
Tony_0pmoc 20/01/2016 11:34am
And the forum. (Posting re Giyane/John Spencer-Davis disputes, please scroll past if not interested)
(Posting 4 of 4, reference #004/4)
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LAUGH OUT LOUD!
Has the analyst lost the plot? ”
(Posting 4 of 4, reference #004/4) Reference? WTF?…..pat comes the answer: Yes indeed he has! And not just the plot, he has also lost his way! It’s just a Blog for Heaven’s sake.
Well, well, well, as I have been saying for some time now: The analyst needs an analyst.
A fine example of a vindictive bulldog with the bit-between-its-teeth, a.k.a. Compulsive-Obsessive-Disorder, a.k.a. K.R. John.
Molehills, mountains, etc all rooted in THE EGO! The compulsion to be RIGHT, the NEED to be LIKED by others, etc, etc. All manifestations of THE EGO in operation. OBSERVE. Yes, we are all guilty of it to some extent. But, long laborious posts like that? What can one say, except one is sane enough, like many others here, probably most, not to read them.
Interestingly, Habby’s advice is right: Cast Out Your Inner Devils!
If you think John Goss is bad then you should read this idiot, although he has adopted Mr Goss’s fascist 5th columnist label. We should remember that the last time Russia had a leader driven by such paranoia it all ended badly.
http://thesaker.is/putins-biggest-failure/
Not enough on Iran, some here say, well Iran is mightily pee’d off with the west and will want closer ties with our great leader Xi Ping of China. Iran is the most stable country in the east, despite its neighbours who are infused with aggressively posing foreign forces in the PERSIAN GULF.
“Iran is the most reliable country in the region for energy since its energy policies will never be affected by foreigners,” Khamenei was quoted by his official website as saying at a meeting with Xi.”
And within here lies the hypocrisy of Cameron’s Government, trying to make out that he’s the friend of Both Saudi Arabia and China. Trying to help the Wahabi’s who pay ISIS/Daeshto bomb Yemen.
“While China seeks closer ties with Iran, earlier this week it signalled its support for Yemen’s government, which is fighting an Iran-allied militia, during Xi’s visit to Saudi Arabia, Iran’s rival for influence in the region.”
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-iran-china-idUKKCN0V10A0
“Russia has now become the champion of Islam, and why not?”
Have you ever been to Russia or met any Russians?