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.
Clark
Chin up Till we Meet Again –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVvMd3Ydk7M
Glenn you’re still discussing about discussing 9** ?
Since Clark educated me on an english expression I have been researching them and believe I have found one that describes the 911 thread perfectly:
“Can’t see the wood for the trees”.
“I ‘m afraid Mr Goss needs to realise that not all conflicts fit nicely into his Nato vs the Soviet Union prism.”
It’s pretty much NATO versus Russia and China these days.
Are you suggesting that Turkey is going it alone on this.
Surely their actions can be seen as supplemental to larger NATO oobjectives in the region.
Doug Scorgie @ 7.57pm:-
Is not the reason that so many refugees at the Calais ‘Jungle’, and elsewhere, are so desperate to reach Britain merely because English is their second language, and thus it is so much easier for them to come here, rather than to have to learn a new language from scratch in order to find work? That as well, of course, as many having relatives in the UK
Looks to me as if the 9/11 issue, whatever it was, was a very successful distraction. Now – here’s the Wee Ginger Dug lifting his wee ginger leg on the latest Blair frightener , that the UK leaving the Eu would lead to the Scots becoming independent (all media, everywhere, spuriously looking as if astute hack found Europe 1 interview with freeloading scumbag all by himself, but in fact yet another press handout from Blair, Inc.)
https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/ (Jan 26th, 2016)
Unfortunately even the Dug hasn’t picked up on the other blairing, in the same interview, that what Europe really needs to do is to form a multicultural army and go and reinvade Iraq and stuff. Which is actually a far more frightening indicator of the man’s psychopathy.
The header underneath my moniker just did hit the media and the Tory’s are in deep doodo.
Young and promising activist Elliott Johnson’s suicide, not investigated by the police, oh no, but by some congealed Law firm, will not have been in vain. Those involved will have to stand up and their past allegiances, bullying, coercion will be in the spotlight, no doubt.
This scandal goes to the heart of a top down indoctrinator’ y party structure that sees no individuals, their life’s,wants and loves, but numbers for campaigns, vested interests and ruthless pursuit of the status Quo, to be used for the aims of the establishment.
Elliotts parents are not going to let go and the tactics used by that law firm will be judged by public and professional scrutiny, never mind the media’s spinning tops.
Thanks for that u tube video Brian, I’m sure Clark enjoys it.
Ba’al
“Looks to me as if the 9/11 issue, whatever it was, was a very successful distraction”
I’m fairly certain the millions of people dead from the ensuing “war on terror” might disagree, were they still able? Or the tens of millions maimed, injured, orphaned, displaced?
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/unworthy-victims-western-wars-have-killed-four-million-muslims-1990-39149394
“Can’t see the wood for the trees”.
Yup.
I suspect many of the detailed discussions are in part a distractive PR.
I mean, what does it matter how it was done.
What matters is who dunnit, surely.
That’s so much easier to understand if you look at from the perspective of the whole game.
Dissecting the moves and plays here and there’s all well and good.
It doesn’t tell you much about the larger game.
But an understanding of the larger game does tell you much more about the event and its place in History, than details ever can.
No, I decline to rise to the obvious bait from XXpat.
Instead, Nevermind, I’m much more concerned about the rising numbers of suicides of psychiatric patients as funding is withdrawn from social services (to name but one area of increasing social stress due largely, but not entirely, to the Tories) than the fate of someone who couldn’t stand the heat from the young conservative bastardocracy and hadn’t the wit to get out of the kitchen and join something honest.
Is there a clear path to resolution of these matters, (ahem-9/11 and JFK flounder without closure) whose subject matters twist our sensibilities without an end-game, except the legion of distractions we amuse ourselves with? If it’s merely masturbatory and recreational exercise then it just results in a pathetic squirt quickly followed by slumber. Productivity will escape us unless we cease trying to resurrect our worm-eaten, but well-intentioned democratic fantasies.
This system is beyond salvage.
Oh, and I offer a challenge to our host. Debate the bona fides of our electoral sink. I ask Craig to list the Pros and Cons of his strategy of internal reform like a Ben Franklin close. I think the Cons have it.
BrianFujisan, 10:46 pm; thanks Brian. Good band, nice video. See you Doune the Rabbit Hole, or preferably before.
I agree Ba’al, the figures here in Norfolk and Suffolk are the highest in the country, it is another cuts scandal to break, BUTT, would the media feckless notice? would people care about the fabric of society disintegrating?
I think the bastardy has existed for a very long time, spinal to the beast, but the same structures exist in Labour, back stabbing and cajoling, election fraud and tribal mongering, they are both as bad as each other.
If Corbyn doesn’t have the decency to offer us a fair proportional voting system soon, he’s just another pawn. There is no H for hereditary in my democracy book, demos has never existed here.
To pander to it, is being a lackey to minority rule and consensus.
bedtime por moire
Anyone heard of Michael Springmann or his book Visas for al-Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World?
http://michaelspringmann.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Springmann
Nevermind, goodnight.
Anyway.
Turkey. Its regional expansionist plans, and NATO.
It’s an important world crossroads, and logistical centre:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AARtO88G5Ag&t=41m40s
No kiddin!
I thought it was all just lush carpets, perfume, brothels, boys and opium.
No.
It’s murky politics as well.
Like Belgium.
And horrible gangs.
Must be Putin’s up to his old tricks again, eh.
Russia, Resident Dissident, is not opposing the Kurds and wishes for them to be in settlement negotiations.
http://tass.ru/en/defense/852179
Ha ha, this should stir things up again.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3417346/Russian-foreign-minister-claims-Kremlin-SUE-Britain-slander-claims-Putin-ordered-assassination-Alexander-Litvinenko.html
Russian foreign minister claims the Kremlin could SUE Britain for slander
Bet you an e-beer it doesn’t.
“A thread to which nothing on this site guides the user, even if it may remain open.” (Lysias on the 9/11 thread)
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The regulars on this blog are well aware of the existence of the dedicated and still-open 9/11 thread.
And people are still adding to it.
So now you know.
“Of course the trolls are eager to keep discussions of 9/11 well hidden.”
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We look forward to your contributions to that discussion – on the correct thread.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35411684
Maths study shows conspiracies ‘prone to unravelling’
“There’s a link under “Still Discussing” at the top-right.” (from Clark)
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I hope the Pugnacious One has taken good note and will now find it in himself to confine his observations on 9/11 to the dedicated thread.
No more excuses now! 🙂
“Your memory fails you.”
I don’t think so – all we got was praise for yet another fascist. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2013/06/talking-turkey/
The modern day Kemalists would probably be more pro Nato than Erdogan and history shows their record regarding Kurds and Armenians.
“Russia, Resident Dissident, is not opposing the Kurds and wishes for them to be in settlement negotiations.”
Well of course they do now – within limits that do not upset relations with Iran. Only an idiot would claim that Russian/Soviet support for the Kurds has been consistent over the years and driven by principles rather than opportunism.
Strangely enough Erdogan was rather more popular when Turkey was the number 1 destination for Russian tourists and it took its gas supplies from Russia. Little Dima was a great fan by all reports.
More on Russia may sue. I bet Cameron is shitting himself. Especially if in open court the missing nukes are brought into the equation.
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/01/26/447476/Russia-Lavrov-UK-government-Litvinenko-/
Still the story of Elliott Johnson and the refusal of most to get involved with the tawdry inquiry planned is not attracting any comments from the media.
The MSM whores to the Government and their falsehood addicted BiBiCe are too frit to cover this cover up of a young activists death. Newsnight’s not too intensive look at the issue last night has not produced a peep of interest in this sordid story which goes to the heart of the Tory’s campaigning methods.
There are now many who want to speak out about this, no doubt some who were part of the bussed in 300 strong by-election army that helped Chloe Smith to win her seat by distributing approx. 6 tons of leaflets (some 26 leaflets).
The establishment around Lord Feldmann, oh isn’t it lovely to have two British tennis players in the semi finals, are trying their best to keep this story out of the news. Thanks to Rupert ruping Mrs. Hall, he’s too busy noticing, he says, what the heck…. can you hear the grass grow?
I bet Cameron is shitting himself.
The help does that for him. He might otherwise get his hands dirty. When you’re funded by oligarchs, you can afford that sort of thing…..eh?
““Your memory fails you.”
I don’t think so – all we got was praise for yet another fascist.”
Not true. As I said your memory fails you. I have always been opposed to Erdogan (and his family) wielding power in Turkey and supportive of the protestors. This comment contains a link to protests which started in May 2013 were still ongoing in September when Turkey illegally shot down a Syrian helicopter near its border. That Erdogan is still shooting down planes shows what a meglomaniac dictator he remains.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2013/09/blair-and-kanye-west-are-prostitutes/comment-page-21/#comment-429831
By the way, Russia Today, carried a report this morning that even the apartheid state of Israel’s foreign minister visiting Greece condemned the Turkish government for buying illegal ISIS (Daesh) oil and supplying safe passage for ISIS rebels and weapons to fuel the conflict.
So check your facts next time.