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.
This guys funny.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=38&v=AQN1KOR3c_E
Brian here’s a link to the full story.
http://www.thenational.scot/news/experts-warning-270m-fund-for-aberdeen-will-not-save-the-oil-sector.13014
“That’s as maybe, and open to free interpretation by all sides. But it unequivocally contradicts the thesis of the pro-EU Blair, as handed to Europe on all media …”
So you agree with Tony Blair then.
He has been known to get things wrong you know, according to him Iraq had WMD.
Personally I wouldn’t believe a word he said but suit yourself.
Thanks RoS..
I shall Go in there…
I Got Banned from the National a wee bit earlier Today… Ta for Info… Have a Good Week end
“Thanks RoS..
I shall Go in there…
I Got Banned from the National a wee bit earlier Today… Ta for Info… Have a Good Week end”
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Cheers Brian, you’re welcome, have a good one too.
Fedup, 4:13 pm; thanks for the link to the FOP leak. There’s some more information on The Cthulhu home page: https://www.thecthulhu.com/
Permalinks to the relevant article:
https://www.thecthulhu.com/fraternal-order-of-police-data-dump/
Fred, 4:45 pm:
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Fred’s Barclays link:
http://capx.co/exploding-the-myth-that-brexit-would-trigger-scottish-independence/
I immediately suspect that Barclays made this up to try to influence things – propaganda.
There’s a simple test. If it’s true, the EU will give in to all of Cameron’s and the Conservative government demands just to keep the UK in the EU. If the EU doesn’t capitulate to Westminster, Barclays are talking out of their arse.
When they use the law against you, and you know you are completely innocent and have already provided even their evidence to them…and then they still attempt to prosecute you…just hope in hell that the law still works…
It is the first time in over 6 months, that I got an intelligent response.
The Judge completely Rejected Your Case on The Evidence Submitted…
What are You Going To Do – Go For Appeal….or Settle Out of Court???
I want Serious Compensation and am already in contact with the Highest Member of Government Responsible. He Knows.
When They Use The Law against You…Use The Law against Them.
Thank You,
There is some Life and Justice in British Law Yet.
Tony
As always the gubiment is scamming the people and as ever saving the “British Sausage” .
As it stands the gubiment has set up a three months grace for any of the EU immigrants to come and find a job or else get out of the country, furthermore those whom have been here for six months are then eligible for any kind of benefit! See the catch 22?
How do the fiendish immigrants manage to get benefits is a question that seems to have a lot of answers but not much of a substance in fact! As the gubimnet has failed to produce any measure of these facts in the EU for actuality of the guilt of the sponging EU immigrants. However the gubimnet has another demography in mind; the Brits who are resident abroad and come back to the dear old blighty to claim benefits! This group under the new arrangements would be ineligible to their benefits too!!
The brexit is just a storm in the tea cup with the oligarch owned media taking full advantage of to forsake any other bad news that is; the actualities that concerns we the people.
Finally remembering when Irish Republic came out with the wrong conclusion in their EU referendum and was sent to re referendum and get the right conclusion, all is well in the EU land and all are at peace!!!
The UK has a foaming at the mouth swivel-eyed neo-con Special Representative for Syria.
His name is Gareth Bayley. He has kissed the NWO blarneystone and he was spouting crap about Assad’s army may as well give up now on Radio 4’s World at One this afternoon.
I have never heard so much compressed Foreign Office lies in such a short space of time.
Don’t take my word for it, judge for yourselves at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06yjvp0 exactly 30 minutes in
This what the neo-cons really want from Syria, unconditional surrender of the Syrian people to NATO’s Muslim Brotherhood stooge.:
Here are the principles of the Perthes-Feltman plan
– the sovereignty of the Syrian People will be abolished ;
– the Constitution will be repealed ;
– the President will be relieved of his functions (but a vice-President will remain in charge of formal functions) ;
– the People’s Assembly will be dissolved ;
– at least 120 leaders will be considered guilty and banned from any political function, then judged and condemned by an international Tribunal ;
– the Direction of Military Intelligence, the Direction of Political Security and the Direction of General Security will be dismantled and dissolved ; “political” prisoners will be freed and anti-terrorist procedures will be repealed;
– the Hezbollah and the Guardians of the Revolution will be made to withdraw ;
then, and only then, will the international community fight terrorism [8]
http://www.voltairenet.org/article190102.html
NYT: U.S. and Britain Spied on Israeli Drone Flights, Documents Show:
Israeli air force missions over Iran?
“I immediately suspect that Barclays made this up to try to influence things – propaganda. ”
While that honest as the day is long Tony Blair is telling the truth?
Sure.
No, the intercepts were in case the zionistani thugs decided to strike Iran. However since the news of the Iranian drone flying over the aircraft carrier Truman has come out this story is taking a different turn, in a kind lame.
Iranian sub marines and drones have been taking films of Truman in Persian Gulf. This is in line with the story of Chinese that popped up next the US aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk -as she was carrying out manoeuvres!
the 33 day war with Lebanon proved how the “invincible zionistan” came unstuck and unglued as the hezbualalh fighters pummelled its thugs in uniform, and sent its people scurrying into the shelters which were overflowing and not enough with some ending up at on the beaches.
George Galloway MP Educates Anna Botting
I can’t do better than quote from Brian Fujisan’s post (29 Jan, 2016 – 1:07 pm) to demonstrate that I am not alone in calling Israel’s actions genocide.
genocidal acts committed by Israel on 27 January 2016 :
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Israeli Navy opens fire on and hijacks Palestinian fishing boat
Israeli Army opens fire towards children in Tulkarem (17:20, the Israeli Army opened fire with live ammunition and stun grenades at a group of children in the al-Shuweikh neighbourhood.)
More Israeli Army home invasions: vandalism and abductions
Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in 3 refugee camps
and 14 towns and villages
2 attacks (1 Israeli ceasefire violation) 26 raids including home invasions
2 beaten – 2 injured – 3 abducted (aged 12 to 17)
4 acts of agricultural/economic sabotage
37 taken prisoner – 10 detained – *85 restrictions of movement
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http://palestine.org.nz/phrc/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3124&Itemid=44
Israel flies attack drones — an open secret that the Israeli Government won’t acknowledge. Under a classified programme code-named “Anarchist,” the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, working with the National Security Agency, systematically targeted Israeli drones from a mountaintop on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. GCHQ files provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden include a series of “Anarchist snapshots” — thumbnail images from videos recorded by drone cameras.
http://icj.einnews.com/article/308922540/RzNWrJy6jlzVEe9P
Japan speaks for the world in denouncing Israel. The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Thursday, issued a statement denouncing Israeli plans of approving new housing units in West Bank settlements. “Settlement activities are in violation of international law, and Japan has repeatedly called upon the Government of Israel to fully freeze settlement activities,” statement said. “Taking this opportunity the Government of Japan also expresses its deep concern about recent announcement by Israel declaring the land in the West Bank as ‘state land’.” http://www.imemc.org/article/74758
Attacking churches in Palestine: An Israeli policy since 1948. Israeli documents have revealed that the Israeli Army deliberately adopted a policy based on the destruction, vandalism and harm of the sanctity of churches in Palestine, during and after the 1948 war. An Israeli book, which will be published next month, explains how the Israeli Army carried out seizure and destruction operations against churches located in the Palestinian cities, towns and villages the Army took control of after expelling their people.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/middle-east/23590-attacking-churches-in-palestine-an-israeli-policy-since-1948
Clark,
Can you please check this for content, before I publish it. The band tonight were just simply Brilliant..at least one of them comes from Scotland..I could kind of tell from the way he sung and spoke – and also the Scottish Flag on his guitar..
The politicians in control of us English, are not working for us, they are working for the Americans.
Die Politiker die Kontrolle über uns Deutsche sind nicht für uns arbeiten , sind sie für die Amerikaner arbeitet .
Mae’r gwleidyddion yn rheoli ohonom nad yw’r Gymraeg yn gweithio i ni , maent yn gweithio ar gyfer yr Americanwyr .
Na polaiteoirí i gceannas ar dúinn nach bhfuil Gaeilge ag obair dúinn , tá siad ag obair do na Meiriceánaigh .
Les politiciens dans le contrôle de nous Français ne travaillent pas pour nous, ils travaillent pour les Américains
Los políticos en el control de nosotros españolas no están trabajando para nosotros , que están trabajando para los estadounidenses
الساسة في السيطرة على لنا نحن العرب ، لا تعمل بالنسبة لنا ، وأنهم يعملون لصالح الأميركيين .
alssasat fi alssaytarat ealaa lana nahn alearab , la taemal balnsbt lana , wa’annahum yaemalun lisalih al’amirkiiyn .
הפוליטיקאיםבשליטה שלנו , יהודים , לא עובדים בשבילנו , הם עובדים עבורהאמריקנים .
Οι πολιτικοί σε έλεγχο από εμάς ελληνικά , δεν εργάζονται για εμάς , που εργάζονται για τους Αμερικανούς .
Oi politikoí se élencho apó emás elliniká , den ergázontai gia emás , pou ergázontai gia tous Amerikanoús .
I politici nel controllo di noi italiani , non stanno lavorando per noi , stanno lavorando per gli americani.
在我們中國的控制權的政治家，都為我們工作，他們的工作不是為美國人
Zài wǒmen zhōngguó de kòngzhì quán de zhèngzhì jiā, dōu wèi wǒmen gōngzuò, tāmen de gōngzuò bùshì wèi měiguó rén
Политики в контроле нас, русских , работают на нас , они не работают на американцев .
Politiki v kontrole nas, russkikh , rabotayut na nas , oni ne rabotayut na amerikantsev .
हमें भारतीयों के नियंत्रण में राजनेताओं, हमारे लिए काम कर रहे हैं, वे अमेरिकियों के लिए काम नहीं कर रहे ।
hamen bhaarateeyon ke niyantran mein raajanetaon, hamaare lie kaam kar rahe hain, ve amerikiyon ke lie kaam nahin kar rahe .
Do The American Psychos in Washington have a clue, whilst they think they are constructing Their New Reality?
Apologies for any mistakes in Translation.
Tony (English – UK – London) xx
Fred, 11:13 pm, no, Blair’s probably saying what he’s saying as propaganda to try to keep the UK in the EU.
The Barclays article is clearly an anti-EU propaganda piece.
Fred, I’m sick of you playing dumb for propaganda purposes. Fuck off and die.
It was actually quite hard to write that – well to use The Google Translation bits and remember to try and make my words come from e.g. South America..or Africa..but I have never tried such a thing before if you read it all and translate it back ..use Google all of it…
you may notice a change towards the end when I change the meaning of Yes to No…in a different language…I hope you understood what I tried to write
The No is The Entire World Telling The Americans
To Go Home and Sort Out Their Own Country Out.
They Really Do Not Have a Clue.
We do not need your help guys – yes thanks for that…but that was enough…can you please first make your own Country The United States of America a Very Attractive Place To Live In..such that even My Wife and I may want to visit you..
You Americans have to Improve an Enormous Amount…Currently You Americans..not us British..they still like us…
The Rest of The World Thinks You AMERICANS are The Slugs, The Parasites that are Destroying Us Human Beings and Destroying Our Planet Earth…
We Seriously Do Not Like You
If You Do Not Improve…
My Wife Will Do The Twist
The Slugs Go Under Her Heel
I do The Snails
Well they are Crunchy Aren’t They…and The Welsh Country Snails light up at night and are probably nearly as big as Ours in The English Country…
The French rather like them…they actually eat them.. english frogs too…
Our cats catch them out of the pond..and play with them…the frogs sometimes really squeak and scream…but then the frogs play dead…The cats lose interest and go back through the cat flap for their whisker’s supermeat..and after they have fcked off – I rescue the frogs that were playing dead..and put them back in the pond at the end of the garden.
Tony
Sometimes, particularly as you get Older, you have to do Your Duty and Fight For The Queen.
She did too particularly in World War II when she was a kid..She Really did Drive Ambulances during The NAZI Blitz..
After WWII had ended She did her very Best to try and encourage all the Countries in The World that were part of The British Empire (around a third of the entire world) to seek their Independence…I think Queen Elizabeth did an absolutely Fantastic Job…She could only try her best…and She Did
Thank You, Your Majesty.
I did too
Tony
I have no claim whatsoever to English Royalty..(I couldn’t be arsed) but some of my Family have traced it back to before 1601 (the oldest Gravestone I have yet found in England)..and we are quite clearly of French origin and we retained our French Family name.
But my Wife, Her Mum (Still Alive) and my daughter are quite clearly Totally Authentic English Princesses – Directly descended From King Henry VIII
I asked Her Mum’s Mum and Sister..about …well a very long time ago…they wouldn’t make that up…and you can see from just comparing their appearances to the paintings…Definitely the same Family…English Royalty.
I’m just a French peasant (like My Mum) – but I am Married to Royalty (My Wife is a Total Princess) and I can’t ask for more than that..I am totally in love with her…
Tony
BBC Radio 4 Today
0710
A team of negotiators representing the major groups of the Syrian Opposition is expected in Geneva later today after boycotting yesterday’s launch of UN mediated peace talks. Our correspondent Imogen Foulkes is in Geneva.
Starts off with re-stating the one-sided blag from Gareth Bayley yesterday that Assad has killed the majority of civilians. USUKIS mercenaries Al Qaida use occupied areas as human shields. This is a USUKIS war crime.
Blag is blag and just spouting more and more of it will not solve anything.
The starting point for any negotiation is that USUKIS using terrorists as proxies is totally illegal. If USUKIS break international law un=challenged by the UN, the war will continue and spread. Political Islam that collaborates with the international law breakers must never be allowed to come to power in Syria or anywhere else in the world.
David Cameron is paying Turkey to pay criminals to drown refugees to stop the flow to this Europe. Don’t let’s wait 400 years to proclaim UK state criminality with much wringing of hands and crocodile tears.
“Blag is blag and just spouting more and more of it will not solve anything.”
A message that the writer perhaps needs to understand.
Node
“I can’t do better than quote from Brian Fujisan’s post (29 Jan, 2016 – 1:07 pm) to demonstrate that I am not alone in calling Israel’s actions genocide.”
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1/. With respect, you could do better.
For example, you could try to show that the actions you mention with boring regularity (“4 acts of agricultural/economic sabotage”, etc…) are examples of “genocide” in the terms of Article 2 of the Genocide Convention”.
In fact, you could try to read said Convention carefully.
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2/. The fact that you are not alone on here in calling Israeli actions “genocide” still doesn’t make those actions “genocide”.
Support from Brian (Weeper) Fuji-San – and indeed from the usual other Israel-haters – is, with respect, somewhat less than convincing.
Is this blog, in its present form, dying?
Craig might conclude that there are more productive uses of his time than to provide a forum for others to squat in and present their rather curious view of the world.
A good way forward would be for him to continue blogging and giving us what are very often interesting views and insights but not to allow comments.
“…provide a forum for others to squat in and present their rather curious view of the world.”
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After all, as I pointed out some time ago, no more than a dozen individuals account for 80%-90% of the comments (and those comments usually have little to do with the subject Craig posts about).
Habbabkuk, what makes you ask if this blog is dying?
The BBC put out a shit documentary to endorse the very dubious findings of Sir Robert Owen in the Litvinenko Inquiry about Putin’s Secret Riches. This was to let the gullible BBC viewers know just how much worse and more corrupt he was than say, Cameron and his Etonian classmates running this country.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06z9584
You remember the ‘Blame Putin’ findings of the Inquiry which relied on probability rather than fact and made the said judge, David Cameron and the British judicial system look more stupid than they already did. Russia Today had a field day.
https://www.facebook.com/inthenowrt/videos/570302336453473/
“Fred, I’m sick of you playing dumb for propaganda purposes. Fuck off and die.”
Then just don’t reply to my posts.
You are the one joined the discussion with “Fred’s Barclays link:” trying to discredit my reference.
If you can’t debate without being abusive and insulting then just don’t join in the debate.
MODS.
Have the blog settings for page translation been altered in the last while? For at least a week, this blog is triggering my translation add-on. A translation bar appears at the top of the page every time I load or refresh. It’s slowing things down considerably. It doesn’t happen on any other blog or website. I have an option to “Turn off translation for this site” but it doesn’t work for this site, although it works for other sites. The only solution is to disable the add-on which is a nuisance when I need it on other sites.
I am running Firefox 43.04 on Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon 2.6.13, 64 bit.
The add-on is S3.Google Translator 5.16.
Anybody else having similar problems?