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.
NATO, Russia and the Muslim (Freemasons) brotherhood:
http://www.voltairenet.org/article190102.html
Bevin:
“Incidentally, Republic of Scotland, it ill becomes the Prime Minister of a government which is directly responsible for making several countries uninhabitable for millions driven to seek asylum in Europe to trivialise the fate to which he and his mates have consigned them.”
Cameron’s maggie moment
https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/4/8/1365456662820/Steve-Bell-09.03.2013-013.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.theguardian.com/politics/interactive/2013/apr/11/margaret-thatcher-legacy-best-writing&h=376&w=512&tbnid=IAL53yX_JObZxM:&docid=vh-9_HbDWNMs8M&ei=XNipVqKsGoqtU9X-ndAN&tbm=isch&ved=0ahUKEwiiyqGNkszKAhWK1hQKHVV_B9oQMwhfKDgwOA
Billions of pounds of corruptly gained money has been laundered by criminals and foreign officials buying upmarket London properties through anonymous offshore front companies – making the City of London the world capital of money laundering.
Ever wondered why London house prices are beyond affordability? Well Russian money, most of it illegally gained, is not only distorting house prices, but also our foreign policy, according to Rowan Bosworth Davis here.
“Transparency International, the respected anti-corruption organisation, reports that some 36,342 properties in London have been bought through hidden companies in offshore havens and vast numbers are thought to have been bought anonymously to hide stolen money. The flow of corrupt cash has driven up average prices with a “widespread ripple effect down the property price chain and beyond London”, according to property experts cited in the most comprehensive study ever carried out into the long-suspected money laundering route through central London real estate. by Transparency International.”
http://rowans-blog.blogspot.co.uk/
There is also an article on the ‘Ridley plan’ to undermine the Miners under Thatcher, the strike in 1984 was well prepared and planned for by that awful woman.
Bevin
From your N. Ireland link:
“The British authorities were unperturbed by the murder spree committed in its name to the extent of exporting the modus operandi.
Whether anything will change as a result of this week’s revelations is greatly to be doubted. It isn’t rogue officers we deal with here, but a rogue state.”
I learned about the toxic effect of British ( you can’t call it the UK when it’s attacking itself ) dirty politics in N. Ireland from a lady who’d been brought up in Belfast, talking about ‘rough justice’.
One of the purposes of dirty politics is to dismantle all social norms through terror by means of a never -ending cycle of blame. this is what is intended in the War on Islam.
Another chilling aspect of Syria which we seem to have imported from the US is bringing in orphan or parentless, child refugees in order to re-educate them in Christianity.
USUKIS is one indivisible component, Its covering tattered rags of civility are intervention and aid, meaning destruction and re-programming.
Add or subtract its allies in this process, USUKIS is the core evil in the world.
Trolls on this blog are the bogeys of the satanic nose. please note Habitat4microbes
Bevin:
“”“Britons ignorant of Saudi ‘successes’ on human rights, claims Foreign Office Minister.”””
Was this Philip Hammond?
When he retires from his present post, might I suggest ‘Count Dracula’ as a title for him?
The US Intervention in Libya was such a smashing success that a sequel is coming.
https://theintercept.com/2016/01/27/the-u-s-intervention-in-libya-was-such-a-smashing-success-that-a-sequel-is-coming/
Today from IT….The President of the United States is Weeping.
http://internationaltimes.it/the-president-of-the-united-states-is-weeping/
Sweden, which has already restricted its borders to immigrants, the country will expel over 80,000 failed asylum seekers.
Swedish Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said the mass expulsions of people who arrived in the Scandinavian country last year would require the use of specially chartered aircraft and be staggered over several years.
It does appear that European countries, (such as Denmark France, Austria, and others) are beginnig to restrict or limit immigration.
Greece appears to be under increasing pressure, with the likes of Macedonia closing its borders periodically to halt the flow of immigrants.
I of course blame the UN, for not setting up safe zones in the immigrants own countries, and Nato for not overseeing their protection in those countries. Instead of swanning off around the globe, creating wars for profit.
Instead the UN has sat on its hands and watched as millions of refugees have poured into European countries, some of which, were, already financially struggling, before the migrant influx.
But what can one expect of the UN, when the headquarters is based in a confirmed warmongering country. The USA has far too much influence over UN affairs.
Migrants and refugees will continue to pour into Europe, until EU nations say, enough is enough. That scenario appears to be approaching sooner than later. The immigrants need more help and support in their own countries, to remain there, the UN must step up to the plate.
In the frame Bevin – thank-you for the link.
Giyane, thank you for amplifying the links that I posted. Regarding your point about Syria, I wonder whether it is fair to blame the US for inventing evils that Britain’s agents have been practising for decades, if not centuries? It is a matter of record that President Obama’s father was the carefully educated son of a man interned and tortured by the colonial authorities in Kenya. It was there, too, that the technique of organising gangs of pseudo-Mau Mau terrorists was developed. It may be that the “Sunni awakening” gangs that General Petraus organised in Iraq, which subsequently merged with other elements to form IS(IS) (to differentiate them from Cliff’s followers) were another of those US brainwaves, like Strategic Hamlets in Vietnam, which that nation of plagiarists borrowed from the British.
Boohoo – Eat your heart out Mr President.
The war in Libya This was supposed to be the supreme model of Humanitarian Intervention. It achieved vanishingly few humanitarian benefits, while causing massive humanitarian suffering, because — as usual — the people who executed the “humanitarian” war (and most who cheer-led for it) were interested only when the glories of bombing and killing were flourishing but cared little for actual humanitarianism (as evidenced by their almost complete indifference to the aftermath of their bombing). As it turns out, one of the few benefits of the NATO bombing of Libya will redound to the permanent winners in the private-public axis that constitutes the machine of Endless Militarism: It provided a pretext for another new war.
The US Intervention in Libya was such a smashing success that a sequel is coming.
Looks like it. Blair’s been plugging the idea, too, and his scripts are always approved by the State Department….only question is, which of the two Libyan governments will the US (and us, naturally) be backing? Let alone which of the armed factions –
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24472322
Mystic Ba’al foresees a meticulous re-enactment of Syria. Possibly because her sleep has been troubled by F15’s exercising all this week.
What is UN?
Is UN country?
Is UN an independent organisation?
Is UN a club of nations, that pretend; there exists a modicum of law and order and civilised discourse among the nations of this planet?
Is UN only a firewall for the people of the world to be hoodwinked into believing that brute application of force is not the only currency?
Fedup – you only need to research how the UN is funded and which state/country contributes the most to see who controls the “debate”, policy and outcomes.
Guess who?
The economic sword of Damocles has threadbare support. Durable goods is the engine of commerce. You need shit to make shit. This sword will fall before the hegemonists complete their objectives. This link is dated, but watch the trend in 2016
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-25/durable-goods-orders-in-u-s-unexpectedly-dropped-in-february
War is a racket. Major General Smedley Butler, a First World War veteran puts his finger on the problem of war, the general public footing the bill, the bankers creaming the profit. “War is the only business in which profit is measured in dollars and loss is measured in human lives.” A wise man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0
Yes, loads of air activity and some high revving manoeuvres above, indeed Ba’al. But this is our lot, no F 15 here.
Soon we’ll hear the F35B as well.
My regards to mystic Ba’al, earmuffs might do the trick, they work for fireworks, apparently.
http://www.aircraftspruce.eu/pilot-supplies/pet-supplies/mutt-muffs.html?cmd=setshippingcountry&c=se&lang=se&gclid=CJHztYnm1LoCFfN4cAodhBMAZA
Exexpat, I agree that the US wields undue influence upon the United Nations. In part, it manages to do so via its “special relationship” with the UK, both countries being permanent members of the UN Security Council and both therefore holding Veto power. The history of the UN and its involvement with the regulation of nuclear weapons and the promotion of nuclear power is also instructive.
The UN is deeply flawed in many ways, but it is a forum of international debate, democracy and to some extent cooperation. In short, it’s the best global authority we’ve managed to develop so far.
In principle that is true, but in practice US arrears to UN are a continual trend, ie being a member on the never cheap and still wield power. The fact that UN is a trojan horse has not dawned on many whom still live in a bipolar world of USSR V USA, which the UN was designed for and operated in. After the disastrous leadership of Gorbachev, ending in the demise of the multi/bipolar world and the start of a uni polar world, that still has continued with the structures and constructs of a multi/bipolar world. Furthermore the “victory complex” of the US reinforced by the opportunist neocon that took full advantage of the international power vacuum and without any opposition set about pushing the world to the nightmare that it has shaped up to.
Personal freedoms no longer sacrosanct, and rampant corporate greed as an accepted given, the resultant of the confusing and contradictory data set available to we the people has resulted in almost infantile musings that have come to read/pass as the accepted wisdom.
UN is a club, it is not an arbiter, it’s at the mercy of the only remaining super power since 1991 that has been used to cloak the military adventurism of the unhinged and untethered elements within the US political structures/constructs.
Fact is even a super power understand the limitation of the kinetic power and relies on kidding the masses along, and manage the public opinions, worthless as it may seem to the the opinion holders ie we the people.
UPDATE ON EDWARD SNOWDEN:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/edward-snowden-being-bombarded-nude-7217046
From Godfather III:
New docs confirm CIA had rendition flight lurking in Europe to catch Snowden:
Lysias @8:30pm
I see you’ve started the understanding Putin course at long last!
Coppola was thinking of Giulio Andreotti, not Putin.
Even RoSy has run out of steam. That can’t be good for the C&P brigade, so I’ll help buoy them up.
Interesting piece on the War in Syria:
“Another “What the Fatucchi?” moment in Syria Both US and Russia are refurbishing airfields in Syria’s extreme northeast near the Turkey border, apparently 50-km from each other (distance subject to correction). Russia is acting with Syrian permission; US, which talks of international law and how everyone must adhere to it, is doing it unilaterally. Of course, the American public doesn’t care about legalities, but for heaven’s sake, can we stop with our hypocrisy already? In a pathetic effort to divert attention from its own misdeeds, US is going “Oh, look at the bad Russians and see what they’re doing”. As usual, US motives are obscure, Russian motives brutally straightforward. And then the Americans used to say the East Asians it warred against were inscrutable.
· The Russians have simply taken over the Syrian Kurd rebels while we diddled and fiddled and piddled. They’ve been working with them for some time now. The aim is (a) to whack Islamic State, the Syrian Kurds being the only ones who are fighting IS with any success; (b) to encourage Kurd separatism in Turkey; and (c) to keep Syria united. So you say, “okay to (a) and (b), but how is Russia keeping Syria united by helping the Kurds in their rebellion against Assad?” Simple. The Russians will try and get the Kurds to settle for autonomy and turn their attention toward unravelling Turkey. We have no idea if this will succeed or not; we’re saying this is one reason for their support. Besides, as anyone knows – except us Americans, who know nothing – in a war you make allies where you can, and when the war is won, if necessary, you settle accounts with those folks.
· So what is the US doing? Honestly, if we could figure that out, we’d be charging $3000/hour as a consultant. The US from the start has lacked a coherent policy for Syria. On a micro-level we can say that the US, having failed to support the Kurds to the extent it should have, even if this ran afoul of Turkey, has come to its senses and understands it must do more, assuming IS is the greater threat and Assad the lesser. The realization – at last! – that the US was not able to create a “Free Syria Army” who would take over from Assad and destroy the Islamists has surely much to do with boosting support for the Kurds, which the US has been doing. An airbase inside Kurd controlled territory is obviously critical. The successful Russian wooing of the Kurds probably also has a lot to do with this sudden wakening. Of course, the US being the US can never get anything right, and so we getting stuck in the usual “we must vet before we support”ritual.
· Now, to be fair, when the US first started with this FSA obsession, it seeming had a good reason for the vetting thing. The FSA essentially surrendered to the Islamists and a bunch of weapons landed up with the latter. But this is what we mean the US doesn’t know what it is doing. Why did FSA give up? Because the US was giving too little help to make a difference, and each time the FSA was sent off to do battle, it got severely smacked. Had the US from the start decided that it needed an FSA of – say – 100,000 fighters, and gone all-in, things would have been different. BTW, Editor knows he is vastly simplifying US errors, and US Administration supporters will have 100 rationalizations for why the US acted as it did. But see, having a theoretical rationalization does not translate into realities on the ground. You have to move hard and fast, otherwise the enemy adapts and defeats you. This is what happened with the FSA, what happened with the Afghans, and the Iraqis. We assumed we were in a static war and we could take our time about building up local armies. That we didn’t see this – and still don’t – shows only how complete morons rule us.
· The Russians, on the other hand, are simply going at the problem in their usual subtle way: mass maximum force and bludgeon the enemy to little pieces. It’s not elegant, but folks, it works. This used to be the American approach too. Please to remember Lawrence of Arabia and also paraphrase our own Rummy Rumsfeld: you work with what you have in the field, and not futz around until you get what you want. By definition, given the huge disparity in resources between the locals and the US, we will never get them up to snuff in our own terms. You won’t find Russian proxy Syrian Kurds surrendering to Islamic State because Russia will back them to win, not waste time coming up with theoretical constructs of unsurpassed, dazzling beauty.
· No doubt the Russians will make mistakes and arm some of the wrong Syrian Kurd groups. But they will let the other Syrian Kurds take care of those who defect. Generally, there is a very complex mechanism for dealing with defectors and traitors. It’s called killing them where they are found. No due process. And yes, the Russian approach also causes large number of civilian casualties. But the Russians kill a large number in a short time and win. We kill very few by comparison but win nothing. It makes us feel noble, but satisfying no one else in the world, because if we kill even a hundred civilians, everyone gets after us. Because we let them. Because we can’t say “We will do our best not to kill civilians, but when you have an enemy who fights from among civilians, then innocents are going to die. Sorry about that.”
· If you can’t face the realities of what it takes to win, come home and take up yoga or something useful instead.”
http://www.orbat.info/
You can’t criticise this because it is on topic (if you can remember what that was). Put bluntly as a Yorkshireman might this article asks have European men become so dandified (is that a word?) that they can no longer protect their women. I watched the change from my parents’ society (patriarchal) to what we have become today which almost defies description. I’m not saying whether I agree with it but when I was serving my apprenticeship and all the footballers were wearing shorts up to their groins, the older guys talked of the likes of Stanley Matthews and Tom Finney and the “days lad, when men were men, and women were glad of ’em.”
“Instead of a single-minded focus on imposing liberal feminist values on Muslim males, it might well be much more beneficial for Europeans to consider if the feminist war on masculinity might be the underlying cause of the weakness of European culture – feeble and defenseless as it is – against the culture of immigrants and refugees. The irony is that the vacuum feminism has created means that women become victims of an aggressive male culture.” Discuss!
http://russia-insider.com/en/society/europes-tragedy-too-much-angela-merkel-too-little-masculinity/ri12472
Did not think anybody would want to take on the feminist mantle so here’s another one. The state’s biggest whore is putting its staff on zero hours.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/bbc-news-staff-incredulous-after-redundancy-panorama-reporter-raphael-rowe
Oh well, I did my bit. Goodnight readers.
Comrades –
Just a bit off-topic, if I may be forgiven (at only page 23 of the current post), but the BBC have seen fit to release every episode of the Reith Lectures. This includes those from Bertrand Russell back in 1948. I found them fascinating, anyway.
John Goss
“European men become so dandified (is that a word?) that they can no longer protect their women.”
I’m sorry if I repeat myself, but Egyptian women, in their Arab Spring, did not use c**t- power( my ex’s phrase, not mine ) to drive political change as Mrs Thatcher did in the UK.
What happened to me, was that adultery, which Muslims are advised in the Qur’an as the door to every other evil, broken homes, broken children, broken bank balance, broken health etc etc, was used as a tool to break down the power of insurgent socialist rebellion against swivel-eyed capitalism. We were too busy fighting female stupidity in deliberately breaking everything in sight to fight the fucking capitalist take-over make-over at the helm.
Craig puts his finger on the pulse that feminism is un-redeemably associated with neo-con destruction of UK post-war social reform and UK post-war exit from colonialism.
In a word, Mrs Thatcher led the way for the UK’s social, financial and monetary collapse. To many of us who were wrestling with our partner’s adultery at the time this was fully foreseen. Even Iain Orr had agreed with me on this one.
I am batle-hardened against cunt-power. It has taken 15 years of single life and 10 years of marriage to a Muslim wife, for me not to think the same will happen again.
Therefore I have to tell you John, that this sneering at dandified European men has the same emotional taste as the cunt-power neo-cunt program. The smartly dressed, black leather jacketed men in Germany organising the grope fest on new year’s day may have been Mrs Merkel’s agents, Turkish Muslim Brotherhood imams, or Asian imams. They are, in my book, all the same.
But I warn them. I warn them with God’s Holy word of the Qur’an, that those who wish for adultery to be prevalent in the nationhood of the prophet Muhammad, may God’s peace and blessings be on him, will have a painful doom. You are already up to your eyeballs in a bloodbath in the Muslim world. Don’t follow Mrs Merkel’s NWO neo-con gestapo into messing with sexual politics for the Muslims.
The Nuslim Brotherhood has shown its true colours. Previously it was disrespected because it was too lax on mixing of men and women. Now it is adopting sexual politics as an active toxic element into its drive for USUKISNATO-given power in the Muslim world.
Don’t even go there. Or as God puts it don’t even go near to there.
You have been warned.