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.
” Shocking because the woman is moving around in a clearly Islamic district with her legs showing. ”
Yes she should be gang raped and then whipped to within an inch of her life in accordance with Sharia Law.
Old Mark; “Macky the reason Herr Albers got the boot was that he was found out doing exactly the opposite of what you allege.”
That’s one version, another is that he has been made a scapegoat, yet another, got rid off for trying to correct/suppress the delibrate hyping-up exaggerations.
Old Mark; “has also been endorsed by JK Rowling”
What you trying to do, put me off ?! 😀
BTW Is that the real “Nevermind” ? If so, perhaps he’s had a serious knock on the head !
“BTW Is that the real “Nevermind” ? If so, perhaps he’s had a serious knock on the head !”
I was thinking the same. Nevermind Talking sense, except being swayed a bit by the comrade at 4.41.
Rwanda????
Of course it is likely to be being exaggerated and the timing and bizarreness of it strike me as resembling a spectacle. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone paid these men to do what they alleged did. Of course, such things – the inaccuracies in initial/early/general media reportage – tend to come out only many years later. It plays on very old ‘European/White’ fears/fixations – violation of white women by black/brown men and the stereotype of the ‘lascivious Muslim/Arab/Oriental’. Franz Fanon would’ve had a lot to write about.
That was in response to Macky’s post some time ago relating to the Cologne situation.
“BTW Is that the real “Nevermind” ? If so, perhaps he’s had a serious knock on the head !”
On the other hand it could be an attempt at sarcasm. 😀
Suhayl 5.09 – “I wouldn’t be surprised if someone paid these men to do what they alleged did.”
I agree. It seems highly unlikely that recent refugees (genuine ones anyway) would risk being sent back. Who in their right mind would go through what they have been through then do something like this? And people making a show of saying they are refugees? – just wierd. Somebody wanted to stir things up.
From the latest accounts it sounds like the actions were organised. If so they were an act of terrorism – aimed to cause fear amongst the local population. Of course ISIS and their sympathisers will have no love for refugees who try to escape Syria rather than join ISIS. Neither will the backers of ISIS.
We simply do not know as yet what happened – there is a need for vigorous police work to find out.
Is anyone counting how many articles, news reports, columns, blog posts, radio and TV discussion topics, letters to the editor, etc there are about the media being afraid to publicise Muslim sex attacks?
I don’t want to be too critical of the map Nevermind keeps going on about because I have no idea how it was sourced. What I will say is that Brigham Young was a prophet of Joseph Smith who gave us the book of Mormon. 🙂
Now here is a witty writer, Sophia Akram, on Hungary’s ditching of the IMF. She finishes by saying that Greece should stick two fingers up to the IMF.
http://www.neonnettle.com/news/1450-victory-hungary-orders-the-rothschild-banks-to-leave-the-country
I agree with her because now Greece has precedent with Ukraine not honouring its debts to Russia and the IMF still lending that illegitimate government money to keep the war-mongering puppets afloat.
Suhayl Saadi
9 Jan, 2016 – 5:09 pm
Suhayl, I’m really surprised to see your skepticism. Yet, it appears you have not flatly denied that this groping etc. happened. Can you please clarify your views on whether in fact this stuff did happen, conspiracies aside?
John
You link is a little outdated. As things stand the IMF isn’t sure it wants to have anything to do with Greece. http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/imf-greece/ Ireland also repaid the IMF early, as would any country in a position to do so. The IMF is not supposed to be a development institution it is supposed to provide bridge finance only, so deliberately sets high rates to give borrowers an incentive to find longer term financing elsewhere.
It seems highly unlikely that recent refugees (genuine ones anyway) would risk being sent back.
Philw- in reports of Merkel’s flailing attempts to calm these troubled waters it has been stated that immigrants in Germany are only usually deported if sentanced to 3 years or more. The reports of the New Year sexual assualts that I’ve seen are almost all of the wandering hands/frottage variety, rather than full on rape- in which case, under the rules currently applying in Germany, the immigrant perpetrators will not be sent back, as their sentances (if convicted) won’t meet this threshold.
Whether, in the light of recent events, these rules are retrospectively amended, remains to be seen.
We are safe from Mehmet who is handicapped from capturing our women since his religion bars him from eating either pork or pus@y. No problem there for his semite cousin Kempe, who regards the tongue as his better weapon and will even risk papilloma to snare a top shiksa like a Michael Douglas.
Now regarding Rochdale and Cologne ……..its just Bercow (and Anon1) deflecting us towards the damned muzzys when his cousin Koch is fully up our backsides in virtually all affairs of state and the economy, right from the PMs office downwards. Whatever happened to the Englishman who used to rule the world, I wonder?!
It’s also a pity Russia did not join the debt relief deal agreed with Ukraine’s other creditors http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-27/ukraine-reaches-restructuring-deal-with-20-writedown-to-bonds but Ukraine seems not to have shown great political skills in convincing them and with the oil price where it is I can see that the Russian Finance Ministry has to count the pennies
“Ukraine seems not to have shown great political skills in convincing them and with the oil price where it is I can see that the Russian Finance Ministry has to count the pennies”
Why be Ordinary: I think Russia has another plan.
http://russia-insider.com/en/business/russia-wants-launch-its-own-oil-market/ri12115?
Providing there is no nuclear war when the melt-down of petro-dollar reliant currencies takes full effect Russia – because it has vast resources and reserves – will not be the main sufferer. We in the UK have nothing. The square mile is our main industry and we are a net importer.
Off topic, but I’m sure you will all want to know that next month Michael Moore has a new film out called “Where to invade next”. Trailer.
https://www.facebook.com/WhereToInvadeNext/videos/1710180862534594/?theater
Let’s have more of this:
http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/jews-and-arabs-kiss-to-protest-book-ban/
L O V E is the answer.
Texas, we have a problem.
The basic question regarding asylum seekers is: why are they in Europe in the first place? Since the introduction of the Euro as a currency it has been a threat to the dollar. Those who watch US films may think everywhere in the US is beautifully clean and all its inhabitants are rich. The reality is much different. Rather than clear up its own mess it has invested in giving Europe a similar problem with homelessness.
http://yournewswire.com/major-us-cities-in-states-of-emergency-over-homeless-crisis/
John Goss
09/01/2016 7:19pm
Maybe David Cameron could offer to take 20,000 homeless United States citizens to ease the crisis.
Kind regards,
John
“Maybe David Cameron could offer to take 20,000 homeless United States citizens to ease the crisis.”
Thanks. I needed a laugh. 😀
^ Soooooo funnnneeeee K.R. (‘Kind Regards’) John.
Followed by the Chief Russophile’s laugh.
I never thought it possible in my lifetime that my English Christian culture could be so infiltrated, infested and corrupted by Neocons, American Born Again Evangelists (just waiting for Jesus to come back so that they can be Raptured straight to heaven) and outright Fascists…and I now see our only defense is coming from places like Russia and China.
And even Craig Murry believes the Official bollocks about 9/11
Didn’t he do physics and maths at school?
Wake Up to The Truth…yes it is incredibly EVIL…but if we don’t stand up to this obscenity of wars and lies….then they will be coming for you next…if they don’t nuke you.
Tony
“Feminism a Neo-Con Tool”
Of course, this sweeping generalisation is a lie in the same way as those you detract lie. This isn’t even liberal nonsense. It’s reactionary. Like a line of Justice For Fathers lined up to climb something very tall in superman outfits the sexist under current is, well, not really under much at all. No claim to be helpfully provoking thinking amongst simple minded readers disguises this.
This conflation mirrors the idiotic paranoid conspiracy bull peddled in comments here. Neocon zionism, freemasons, feminists. They’re to blame. Year after year chasing ghosts to berate for the mayhem we endure, such blogs become an end in themselve. Whatever you can come up with to deny the obvious. That capitalism is the problem.
Germans spoiled the fun and stopped the war in its tracks and now they should be punished for their insolence for unilateral their scupper of WWIII !!
Imagine the following scenario;
As in the case of early 1990s Macedonian border scenes, thousands of dishevelled refugees, dirty looking, frail, hungry dying of a plethora of diseases; typhus, typhoid, malnutrition, sars, etc. Can you imagine the oligarch owned media feasting on such a misery and the all out heart wrenching stories about the fate of these displaced people whom were there because of Assad and his “monstrous regime”?
Soon the carpetbaggers presiding in the seats of power would have discharged their duties as dutiful gofers and delivered the troops and the assets for a WW! In the frenzy of the moment, the opposing voices of reason that nukes are not weapons to kid around with would have been drowned and as in the case of WW1 the fighting would have started long before anyone had made enough preparations for such a calamity.
As even the least brightest individuals would have noticed that every area of human endeavour has been affected by the progress of technology, albeit the political constructs that have been propping a bankrupt notion of fractional reserve banking systems and the money supply. Fact that these sectors are using the technology to its full capacity and are busy employing the physicists whom have improved these technological constructs, in the same fashion as the generals did in the past.
The hairless apes presiding in the stealth power structures whom still have their own traditional apish imperatives, verily believe they can control the many aspects of the human society and the human endeavour appertaining to their supremacy to perpetuate their rule even if it calls for WWIII.
Hence the current hatefest unfolding in Cologne is only but a pearl in the string of pearls that shall be the price of WWIII. However all it not lost, because dinosaurs used to roam the planet that became to be called Earth for a brief time, and then they surrendered to the crushing blow of the nature, giving way to weasels, rodents, and banksters. Hence in time we all can be comforted that the hairless apes lording over we the clueless people will be frying alongside the rest of us in the grand scheme of the natural order, despite their firm belief that they will survive any such a catastrophic outcome!
A short prayer
Fact is our predecessor did not have the technology to become aware of the dastardly plots afoot, so they can be excused, but what does that mean regards we the people here and now?
Far more surprising is the reluctance of feminists to condemn the treatment of women as constitutionally inferior beings in all Islamic cultures. Perhaps you will comment on that, Craig?
Fedup,
” busy employing the physicists”
My mate’s kid – he’s only about 24 years old now, got a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College – and Imperial College is by far the best place to study physics in the world….and this kid is also really nice…bit shy with girls maybe – but also incredibly looking..
So what’s he doing now…Recruited, before he had even finished…
I can’t remember which one – Goldman Sachs – or Morgan Grenfell or one of the others…
Do want to be a scientist working in a lab (20- 30K) – or do you want to make big money? (brand new Red Ferrari – you should be able to pull in that)
I told him to go for it.
Can I drive it too?
Tony
14 years ago on Monday that awful Gulag of torture and shame, Guantanamo Bay Prison, was opened. Good people like Andy Worthington have campaigned relentlessly for its closure. If you’re in London go along and meet the seven UK detainees outside the US embassy on Monday. If you meet any of the former detainees apologise to them on my behalf. Thanks.
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2016/01/09/seven-ex-guantanamo-prisoners-unite-in-london-to-call-for-prisons-closure-on-jan-11-shaker-aamer-photographed-with-inflatable-figure-of-himself-outside-us-embassy/
Phil the Ex Frog; “That capitalism is the problem.”
And you think that the Neocons are not part of the spearhead of a very agressive form of Capitalism ?!
In total agreement with Craig re the Guardian. The moderation on articles covering social issues such as feminism and child abuse is brutally Stalinist. Not only was I censored but my comments on all articles went thereafter into a prolonged period of pre-vetting. I suppose the Guardian wanted me to beg forgiveness. It was easier to give them the middle finger.