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.
“John you should know by now the measure of these predictable cretins, you are asking the impossible.”
Thanks for the support Fedup. To be honest I’ve got fed up myself. When it rains you know its going to end. But this!
“If its a civil war in Syria, how come we are part of it?”
If it isn’t a civil war in Syria how come so many people on this blog, including Craig, call it a civil war?
More to the point how come only one person on this blog gets hassled for it? Nobody called Craig a neocon sympathiser for talking about the civil war in Syria, when Mary said it nobody said she was playing dumb, nobody else who has said the words has been accused of having ulterior motives.
“If anybody went on about Jewish people in that manner they would be banned straight away.”
That I very much doubt – look at all the Rothschild guff we are treated to – all the hiding of anti-Semitism behind being anti-Zionist.
But at least we were spared the annual desecration of Holocaust Remembrance Day by you know who.
It’s hilarious to see Mr Goss posing as the defender of “J**ish people”.
He of the “Rothchilds run the world’s central banks” and “New York J**s financed Stalin and the Bolsheviks” persuasion!
It’s ebough to make a cat – or a Fedup – laugh.
Israels government fear the group Breaking the Silence.
The government particularly fears Breaking the Silence because its testimonies show the army isn’t investigating evidence of brutality and wrongdoing by soldiers,” said Yossi Gurvitz, an Israeli analyst who has followed Im Tirtzu’s activities.
This is a campaign of intimidation and incitement, and it is being orchestrated at the highest levels of the Israeli political establishment,” said Yehuda Shaul, a former Israeli military commander and co-founder of Breaking the Silence, which collects testimonies from serving Israeli soldiers that highlight abuses of Palestinians.
The Israeli governmenyt wants to crackdown on democratic organisations that speak out against the slaughter of Palestinians.
The United States and Europe have condemned the Israeli government’s draft bill, with the European Union describing an early version as “reminiscent of totalitarian regimes.
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2016-01-30/behind-israels-campaign-to-vilify-peace-groups/
As to the Rothschild family, they are proven Zionists and financiers of war. They have nothing to do with being Jewish or Judaism except they claim Jewish ancestry – they are manipulators of people and countries. I would say, and have done, the same of the House of Said.
I hope the mods arrive soon to analyse the anti-Islam garbage we have been subjected to in recent days.
If subscription to an ideology makes you a member of a race, where in your DNA is that subscription encoded? After all, so-called races are defined by inheritable genetic attributes. If not, then to argue that antipathy towards an ideology is racist, is a blatant display of ignorance and/or mischief. When did we last hear of someone being called a racist for being anti-Fascist?
The genetic definition of race put to one side, obsessing over the ideas of race is clearly the new racism with its excited, irrational, aggressive outbursts of hatred. And the most vociferous of those racists are people who purport to be anti-racist. By constantly spotlighting perceived slights & offences with hysterical overreactions, they spread anxiety and unreasonable suspicions that lead to social divisions. The Left are major purveyors of this social division while presuming to be the natural leaders for its solution. How convenient.
Then there are the pseudo-intellectual narcissists who patronise critics of protected ideas with the slyly vexatious insistance that criticism is a product of irrational fears. Let’s just ignore the fact that people rationally reject objectionable ideas for valid reasons. So presumably, anti-racist activists’ fears of right-wing attacks on migrants are similarly “irrational”. Such snide apologists of extremist ideologies can’t see how ridiculous they appear to ordinary people because they are thoroughly deluded about themselves and the animal nature of humanity.
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John
The Bank of England was nationalised in 1946. The Government owns the shares and takes the profits
I would like to see Mr Goss put on his cartoon clown outfit (as seen in his previous gravatar) when he next promotes himself as Defender of the Jews.
(He can reserve the serious distant stare surrounded by communist literature for when he defends Ceaușescu.)
If it isn’t a civil war in Syria how come so many people on this blog, including Craig, call it a civil war?
Ha ha, that’s a desperate argument. If it IS a civil war, how come so many people on this blog say it isn’t?
More to the point how come only one person on this blog gets hassled for it?
Yeah, that is a mystery, it’s not as if you invite argument, is it?
A civil war does not preclude external intervention for or against the legotomate government
No pasaran!
Resident Dissident
If you see the word “Zionist” being used, you can be sure that nine times out of ten it is code for “Jew”.
The ranks of racist and bigots is swelling jemand the proven pervert and racist scum now is pulled out of the profiles and proceeds to pontificate genetics and is posing as a geneticist, these zionist parasites indeed game the system don’t they? Classing Islam an “ideology”, this is to pose as secularist and suck up to the militancy of the secularists whilst we all have witnessed this pervert and racist to jump to defence of Judaism and to wax lyrical about the various aspects of Judaism.
The proven racist anon1 is still hanging around and pouring bile and hate all the while massaging the blog owners soft spot, by bursting into a tirade against Putin. and as usual denouncing anyone who does not share this hatred of Putin.
Then there is this:
the “dissident” in his haste to suck up to the usurer and bankster family Rothschild equates this family with Jews as in the whole of the tribe and finds anyone critical of these usurers and abnksters as an antisem……. To further prove his point the “dissident” goes further denouncing anyone who is antizionist as an antisemi……. too.
Why such a weak and unconscious drivel is plastered around? As in evidence defence of the indefensible coming unstuck there always is route of the olde chestnuts to hang onto and denounce the “undesirables”.
@ Fred
@ Why be Ordinary
Was Vietnam a civil war?
Node
“Ha ha, that’s a desperate argument. If it IS a civil war, how come so many people on this blog say it isn’t?”
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Might the answer be that those “so many people on this blog” are wrong?
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On any case, one needs to clarify the notion of “so many people on this blog”.- As I have pointed out several times – and no one has contradicted me- 80%-90% of the traffic on this blog comes from a small dozen of commenters and a few of their hangers-on. My recent list refers.
Mods
I wonder if Mr Goss would join me in suggesting that the Mods take a close look at Fedup’s post (17h23) with a view to establishing whether it breaks several of Craig’s rules for posting?
Presumably Mr Goss would not allow such a “comment” to appear on his own blog?
80%-90% of the traffic on this blog comes from a small dozen of commenters and a few of their hangers-on. My recent list refers.”
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You Habb must be one of the hangers-on, as I’ve yet to see you make a credlible comment. But don’t worry, I’d imagine like your pals at Thames House and Denison barracks, they’re are plenty of lurkers waiting with bated breath to read your next folly oops, I mean’t comment?
“If you see the word “Zionist” being used, you can be sure that nine times out of ten it is code for “Jew”.”
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Anon1, bearing in mind that Zionism was created largely by athestic J**s.
So when one quotes either, it is inherent, to the other.
You are obviously lacking on that description, the little state cyberbot needs to brush up on the matter.
“Was Vietnam a civil war?”
There have been civil wars in Vietnam however during the last conflict North Vietnam and South Vietnam were two countries separated on the 19th parallel with two separate governments.
As ever the modality of the acting rabbi when all else fails then rushing crying and whaling to Mods complaining the standards have been breeched, this coming from an operative that has broken every rule in the book, gaming the system as ever to further it’s cause; defence of genocideers, child abusers, and child torturers.
Ban whaling
Five Palestinian youths, known as the “Hares boys,” after their home village in the West Bank, have concluded a nearly three-year military trial by agreeing to a plea deal with Israeli occupation authorities.
They will each serve 15 years in prison.
Ali Shamlawi, Muhammed Kleib, Muhammed Suleiman, Ammar Souf and Tamer Souf, all 16 and 17 when they were arrested in March 2013, were charged with 20 counts of attempted murder.
Israel alleges they threw stones on a highway that connects Israeli settlements in the central West Bank to Tel Aviv and other towns in present-day Israel.
The young men all maintained their innocence and said that the Israeli accusations were based on confessions extracted by torture.
A settler crashed her car into a truck, causing significant injury to her three young daughters. The woman claimed she had crashed the car due to Palestinians throwing stones. There were no eyewitnesses.
No evidence, or proof coerced through torture, and done up like Turkeys at Christmas with a military trial. No wonder Breaking the Silence are seeing more and more disillusioned Israeli soldiers tell their stories.
Also is it any wonder the Palestinian people are fighting back against neferious injustices.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/palestinian-youths-get-15-years-prison-stone-throwing-they-denied?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=39408b0e7e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-39408b0e7e-290660781
Fred
Just checking whether you believe all wars are civil wars. What about the current war in Afghanistan? is it a civil war?
Staying on the land of blood and injustice aka Israel. It would appear Israel may be planning to murdrer a second Swedish minister. But then again what can one expect from a occupying oppressive force squatting on stolen lands.
Swedish security officials are investigating Israeli death threats directed at their foreign minister Margot Wallström.
Last week, Zvi Zameret, a former official of Israel’s education ministry, published an article in Hebrew implying that Wallström deserved the same fate as Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish UN diplomat murdered by a Zionist militia in 1948.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/sweden-investigating-israeli-death-threats-against-its-foreign-minister?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=39408b0e7e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-39408b0e7e-290660781
“Ban whaling”
and breeching
Still on the stolen land temporarily called Israel.
In a step towards joining an Israel boycott, the U.S. is now requiring goods originating from the West Bank (also known as Judea and Samaria) to be labeled separately from products from the rest of Israel, following the European Union’s crackdown on products from the disputed territories.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has issued new mandates requiring that West Bank products not be marked “Israel,” citing a notice from the year 1997 that offers such instructions.
I didn’t think the number one warmongering country in the world had ut in them to oppose anything Israeli, still you live and learn.
The US had better keep its ships back from Israel just now incase one of them is mistaken for a hostile ship, we wouldn’t want another USS Liberty incident now, would we.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/28/report-obama-joins-israel-boycott/
Nothing like a few pertinent comments from myself, Resident Dissident and Anon1 to bring the J*w-haters out in force, eh…..
I hope having to do overtime in the hate factory doesn’t spoil their Sunday evening
🙂
“As to the Rothschild family, they are proven Zionists and financiers of war. They have nothing to do with being Jewish or Judaism except they claim Jewish ancestry”
That isn’t what it says on the websites you promote – you do know that the Protocols of Zion was a forgery probably by Russian intelligence?
Node
Afhgans have been fighting other Afghans with outside help since Шторм-333 deposed Hafizullah Amin. Whether it was a “Soviet Invasion” is a matter of rehtorical choice. Immediately prior to 2001 Tajik resistance (with support from all Afghanistan’s neighbours except Pakistan) against the Taliban (backed by Pakistan) would fit most people’s definition of civil war and the current situation is an extension of that with different foreign backers but still largely Afghans fighting other Afhgans