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.
Snipping from the side the spelling bee has made it’s début, wow so clever and so ………………
Says the cretinous banned villager, whilst going on record insulting John Goss’s wife the other night!!!
“But the whole childish deal about asking for x, y or z to be banned, really does come from a loser’s mind.”
No it does not. It comes from a sense of decency. It comes from respect at keeping the blog clean from bigots. You look how far back this abuse goes, and how long it has been tolerated. If people had made the same derogatory comments about Jews that Anon1 has made about Muslims and Islam the blog would have been closed down long ago. I am saddened that I am the one charged with having to bring it to the mods attention because I rather hoped they would have acted before now.
It is no excuse that Anon1 and Habbabkuk are incapable of putting forward cogent arguments. I know that most people just skip their comments. That’s not the point. Abuse is abuse. We should not be asked to put up with their perpetual bigotry and hatred. They need a cooling-off period.
Node this may prove of interest to you
The Dirty War on Syria: Washington, Regime Change and Resistance
Habbabkuk (respect racism)
30 Jan, 2016 – 3:02 pm
Especially those swarms of young, single, fit males whose presence back in Syria will be eventually be needed (1) to work to rebuild the economy, and (2) marry and produce more young Syrians to replace present losses.
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How do you know “those swarms” are single Habbabkuk?
(1) Why do you think their economy needs rebuilding? Has somebody demolished it? If so, who?
(2) “…marry and produce more young Syrians…” Marry? Are they not allowed to produce young Syrians out of wedlock by order of Habbabkuk?
“…to replace present losses.” You mean dead children Habbabkuk.
Anonymity gives people the power to say what they want without being held accountable.
There are genuine reasons why some people need anonymity but you hide behind yours because you are a coward and don’t have the courage of your convictions; likewise, your fellow supporters.
The “my cats would miss me” episode was shown to be a complete lie but you can’t resist repeating it because some people are daft enough to believe it.
I am not suggesting we were completely innocent – but I went to The Police Station to declare it…I took my Ordnance Survey Map of Stonehenge and drew the plans…that is how we are going to get in…in 1985…I just told them…these are the plans…
And they just told me…so we tried to get in…but it was all Barbed Wire and Battle of The Beanfield stuff…so we went on to Glastonbury – queued up for hours and paid £10 to get in and got a Rocket through our tent..
So I gave it all up in 1985 – We got Married and we had enormous fun Making Babies…
Forest Hill, London (where My Mum was Born)
Then I thought – Oh Shit…
They moved in Next Door But One…and the first thing they did was to cover The Downstairs Windows of their front room with Metal..so that no one could see in…and I understood all the rest…but had absolutely no involvement whatsover…I was a baby man..I didn’t do it – I had given it up…years before
I knew what the metal covering their windows was for…(stop the f’kin bullets)
It took us 3 years to sell our bungalow.
We have got a big old house now.
Our family live here.
We have a few guitars and even drums – but we have no guns.
Tony
“Says the cretinous banned villager, whilst going on record insulting John Goss’s wife the other night!!!”
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LOL , that was a retort to Goss calling people at random here ‘trolls’ — same old Loser mentality. Any way I’m glad you saw that Fedup before it was deleted, so it wasn’t entirely wasted.
girl ‘admits making up’ claim she was raped by refugees in Berlin
This story would not have made it out into the oligarch owned media if it were not for Russia bashing.
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Sure it was not wasted, I took a screen shot of it too!
Re the Syrian Horrors –
1. The Migrants Are Only ‘Fit Young Men – There Are No Women or Children…’ ( paragraph 4 )
According to the UN, more than half of the millions of Syrian refugees are under the age of 18. And according to the recent UNHCR Global Trends Report 58% of all refugees are children. Proof of children being among the waves of refugees have of course been there the whole time; if you choose, for whatever reason, not to see it, that’s your
Problem – it has no basis in the reality. Doctors visiting the Hungarian border reported on pregnant women being particularly at risk, many of whom have walked for weeks on their journey from the war-zones and danger areas of the Middle East. “We have a lot of pregnant women who are just exhausted and can’t take it anymore,” one medical volunteer from Vienna says, visiting the Hungarian camps. One volunteer described finding a 12-year-old girl who had walked several kilometres with a broken knee after being hit by a taxi in Serbia.
1. The Migrants Are Only ‘Fit Young Men – There Are No Women or Children…’ ( Last paragraph )
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7. ‘Syrians, Iraqis, Libyans, etc, Should Sort Out Their Own Problems’ (Otherwise Known as ‘It Has Nothing To Do With Us’)…’
That would be a questionable view even in the best of circumstances for people in Western nations that claim to uphold the virtues of human dignity and freedom and also claim/aspire to be the guardians of civilisation and progress. But in this current state of affairs, it’s a sentiment that doesn’t remotely hold any water.
Firstly, the War in Syria wasn’t solely the doing of Syrians: it was in large part a foreign-orchestrated crisis. Rebels and terrorists, including the Islamic State, have been armed and funded by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, America, Britain and others, and directly aided by Turkey and Israel, for the purposes of overthrowing the secular Syrian government. On the other side of it, the Syrian government has been aided by Iran and Russia. There’s very little about the Syrian War that could qualify it as a ‘a Syrian problem’ in the strictest sense: it has always been an international battlefield where clashing geo-political agendas have been played out. The Syrian people have been caught in the middle of all this for four bloody, horrific, desperate years.
The 2012 Houla massacre (pictured in part below) was one of the many incidents that came from foreign governments arming and funding ‘rebels’ in Syria. As a policy, I usually don’t show upsetting images on this site, but in this instance it is warranted – if for no other reason than to remind petty people of what it is Syrians are fleeing from; these aren’t people crossing continents in order to ‘get on welfare’.
8. ‘We Have No Obligation to Accommodate Refugees…’
Not true. The 1951 Refugee Convention was adopted after World War II, at a time when hundreds of thousands of refugees were displaced across Europe. The treaty defines refugees as those who seeking refuge from persecution or war. It also affords them another very important right – the right to not be sent back home into harm’s way. The treaty was also amended in 1967, in part to include refugees from all over the world. 142 nations (including Hungary, by the way) have signed to both the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 protocol and should consider themselves bound by it.
https://theburningbloggerofbedlam.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/the-refugeemigrant-crisis-simplified-part-ii-fully-exposing-the-lies-racist-propaganda/comment-page-1/#comment-3282
Vanessa: Beeley ( From Elsewhere )…
” Um did you not just tweet to thousands, utterly incorrect statistics from Syria. According to you Assad personally killed 200,000. That is a barefaced lie even by the US Government standards and to state that in conjunction with the heinous execution of Sheikh Nimr without even including his title out of respect for this visionary man of peace and unity and with no reference to the continuing policy of execution both in Saudi Arabia and globally by their Frankenstein monsters that your Government helped create..you are the propagandist sir, Camille’s article is at least well researched. Your statement is a lie, that we have all stopped believing. You saw the execution of a Saudi Muslim faith leader and opposition speaker against the despotic Saudi regime as an opportunity for propaganda, both against Syria and Iran..shame on you. Where is your respect? All figures coming out of Syria are skewed by your propagandists on the ground and you know that. Where are the figures on the US Coalition bombing civilian deaths in Syria? Al Bab, Aleppo bombing of civilians covered up by Congress. Where are the figures for the “rebel” mortar victims in Damascus and Homs & across Syria, the “mod reb” suicide bomb attacks across Syria, the “moderate rebel” snipers, the “rebel” hell cannon attacks in Aleppo? When are they ever mentioned by your pet UKFO CIA/Soros propagandists, aka the White Helmets?…..
” I have respect for the Syrian civilians who are losing their lives and enduring the horror inflicted upon them by your terror gangs and “moderate rebels”, I have respect for those raped, crucified, tortured, shelled, bombed and torn apart by these monsters you have unleashed upon Syria. You are right I have, not one iota of respect for one of those terrorist lives lost. Nor should you!” –
http://www.eraofwisdom.org/robert-fords-shameful-support-of-terrorism-in-syria-and-the-moderate-rebel-myth/
LOL , that was a retort to Goss calling people at random here ‘trolls’
He actually called them troll…………..ops – so the comment made in response was quite apposite.
I would not say this but if I did what would you think. Look at the video from 14 minutes on. I could not find a video with a larger panel where Jews debated other Jews. I typed in “messianic jews, zionists, traditional jews” and went to videos. It could be Google settings or it could be that Jews just do not debate their faith. With another search I found the link below but imagine there was a panel instead of a handful of debaters. And I were to leave this comment:
“Does anyone else watch the multi-culti show with (show host) on Sunday mornings? It’s meant to be a cross-religious discussion but inevitably ends up with Jews shouting at each other about Judaism this and Judaism that. It’s given me a splitting headache already.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IanpaBa2R3c
There would be uproar.
“Of course the locals were too thick and stupid to want to get rid of the benevolent state set up by the Assad monarchy – which had an impeccable human rights record and wonderful policemen.”
The reality is that the locals, who are extremely sensible of what has occurred in Iraq, for example, and Libya took the eminently conservative view that any complaints they might have against the government, and there were many, amounted to nothing when compared with the likely consequences of calling in the wahhabi terror militias, requesting NATO to bomb them, their homes and their cities and throwing out Assad in order to replace him with a US puppet anxious to privatise everything and break the country into pieces.
The dumb ones were the few who, after seeing the results of other western interventions, thought that they would be treated differently.
As to Russia, the Russians would be very happy to leave, which is why they have insisted, from the first on the need for genuine negotiations and a political solution agreed upon by Syrians.
The truth is that the US, NATO and their allies in the Gulf states plus Saudi Arabia have not the tiniest interest in restraining the secret police in Syria- if they had they would have done so in Jordan or Egypt and put pressure on the tyrants in the Gulf states to behave with minimal decency. They have no interest in democracy in Syria, for reasons so obvious that they do not need stating. Their interests are to introduce instability, promote chaos, make millions of refugees and build up the wahhabi jihadist forces for further attacks on Russia and China.
It requires far more stupidity than the Syrian people have ever evinced to doubt for a moment what the declining empire is about and to fail to understand, as Europeans are beginning to understand, as they attempt to deal with the conjunction of austerity with three million desperate and hungry immigrants from the African and middle eastern warzones, that as its dreams of eternal and global hegemony (the End of History) dissolve in the cold reality of human equality, the empire is desperate and will sacrifice anyone or anything for its purposes.
The Syrians see this, most of the world understands this. Only the first victims of empire, the people of the metropolis refuse to see that their rulers are not their friends, have no rewards in mind for them, care nothing for their living standards, health or education and are confident that no loyal European will ever turn down the opportunity to drink deeply of the Kool Aid that Rev Jones or Obama has prepared for them.
You missed the trollops saga too Resident Dissident. It was a previous comment that Tony_Opmoc made about the company he was in that prompted my comment. I cannot believe it was deleted. Why?
It has suddenly occurred to me that Craig has let the dissenters moderate the blog for a month. 😀
“It has suddenly occurred to me that Craig has let the dissenters moderate the blog for a month. ? ”
Hope it’s not for a year.
Brutal Repression in Egypt Exceeds Conditions Under Mubarak (1/2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcqSmdDPGDk
“Depends what you mean by collapse, Brexit, could see the break up of the UK.”
So make up your mind. Will you vote to stay in Europe? Or will you vote for the break up of the UK?
I am going to be a Grandad yet (in about 4 weeks time)
My Grandson currently looks like this. We are going to see ’em on Wednesday – Brixton Academy
“Massive Attack – Teardrop”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7K72X4eo_s
Tony
Mr Goss
“And I were to leave this comment:
“Does anyone else watch the multi-culti show with (show host) on Sunday mornings? It’s meant to be a cross-religious discussion but inevitably ends up with Jews shouting at each other about Judaism this and Judaism that. It’s given me a splitting headache already.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IanpaBa2R3c
There would be uproar.”
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Don’t be such a sanctimonious, hypocritical old fool, Mr Goss.
Far from there being uproar, many people would probably agree.
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Having decided you can’t out-argue the true dissenters, nor shout them down, nor make them look silly (remember your use of “Noddy”?), you'” now trying the big lie technique by calling the true dissenters racists and fascists.
But that won’t work either, you’re too transparent. 🙂
Great video Tony. Better music than your heavy rock. He looks just like you. And sings better.
“Far from there being uproar, many people would probably agree.”
Yes, I think I know where you would stand. You’d be phoning HQ and telling them to take down the blog, like one of you did last time.
John the Planets Link seems Broken..might be just from my end..Cheers Though..off to bed Nighty O
Brian that link comes up with a 404 message now for me. So try this.
http://bnonews.com/news/index.php/news/id3468
There’s plenty out there on it. Thankfully, as far as I know, no casualties.
Terrorist Attack at the Bottom of My Road???
My wife is home now – safe and well – and has more information (it’s not because of this I didn’t go out tonight). I am not going to be intimidated. I am going to be a Grandad in about 4 weeks time. She is going to be a Grannie (PMSL)…(Yes My Rock Chick is old enough)
My Grandson currently looks like this. We are going to see ’em on Wednesday – Brixton Academy
“Massive Attack – Teardrop”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7K72X4eo_s
I do know the pub…its an Irish pub now Re-Christened with an Australian name…but its still an Irish pub..and I really like the Irish when they don’t steal my car – but I quite liked them even then – cos – it looked like a nice car..but the auto gear box was fucked..The police phoned me back..well do you want the good news or the bad news…
I says just tell me…well we have found your car – that is the good news…O.K. come on what is the bad news….well you seriously will not want to see it..They were not impressed and torched it…What the Irish??? (well I am not saying they were Irish…but they sure as hell weren’t South Americans)
So apparently on the latest gossip my wife has heard…they had a lock in (yes I do know local pub lock ins) they lock the doors and you can’t come in…and they bring out the ash trays…the beer still costs the same price…)
So am I supposed to believe – whist all the Irish were locked in..at the pub at the bottom of my road…there was some nutter waving a gun outside and was so pissed off he just blew his own brains out (was this before or after (according to my Son) ) he was Tazered by The Police???
I now feel like walking to the end of the road with my camera – to see if there is any blood – or any evidence at all that anything actually happened..I mean one of The Press photographers was down another pub with me. last night They didn’t tell him…
Has it been on The Telly?….Did they bring a full BBC Camera Crew?
I don’t know. I don’t watch the Telly..
I suppose I should check the News.
Tony
Ach, the dearth of critique makes for vibrant discussions. Neutered bulls are peaceful warriors. Can we mass produce without long-term negatives worse than the cure for revolution? I certainly hope so.
Hospbot
“Having decided you can’t out-argue the true dissenters”
Tories always present their ultra conservatism as ‘radical’.
Here is the troll trying to present feudal slavery, either under the takfiri Daesh in the Middle East or here under Ian Duncan Smith , as ‘true dissent’.
The time will soon come when the black leather-jacketed UK imams and police arrive at your door to force you to pray behind the government-approved imams returned from bringing the Syrian people under the yoke of USUKIS.
They have government approved imams in Turkey. The real imam would fulfil his duty to join the communal prayers, and then go round the corner to pray a second time in case God didn’t accept the prayers led by the hypocrite.
The UK imams who have collected 70,000 UK Muslims to fight for David Cameron, in exchange for political power, are hypocrites. Or as Habba would call them, true dissenters from freedom of conscience and freedom of speech.
Why not stick up a totem pole, call him or her the Pope, beatify him or her and declare their words inviolate revelations from God?
In the absence of such blind submission to government in the UK for 400 years, it looks quite attractive to the neo-cons if they could re-instate theocracy.
Mrs Thatcher put it, it is our moral religious and radical responsibility to eradicate socialism and look after just your own self.
Wallahi billahi tillahi, she was the real caliph to whom these trash imams make obeisance.
Bevin:
“The reality is that the locals, who are extremely sensible of what has occurred in Iraq, for example, and Libya took the eminently conservative view that any complaints they might have against the government, and there were many, amounted to nothing when compared with the likely consequences of calling in the wahhabi terror militias, requesting NATO to bomb them, their homes and their cities and throwing out Assad in order to replace him with a US puppet anxious to privatise everything and break the country into pieces.”
I am rocking my head in admiration of and agreement with these wise words.
No wonder the chief troll is trying to present the zionist/ islamist, hegemonist/caliphatist, apartheid/takfiri, IDF/jihadists as ‘true dissent’.
Blimey, I have got my daughter back home who was educated at one of the best universities in the world…Sure she flares up in my face…but she is telling me all the things with an enormous amount of Passion and thought and I gently Respond..
She is Like a WILD Cat.
But now, I have someone home to talk to about Politics and think well Blimey..she is trying to Educate me – and may well yet..I have my Ears wide open (I’m getting a bit deaf)
Her Mum ain’t like that..she is dead cool..ahe might occasionally nag a bit…but nothing like my daughter…
Maybe we will tell ’em all to Fuck Off
It’s Our house and Number 1 rule is do not piss off your Mum.
Number 2 rule is do not piss off your Dad…
If you kids and even grand kids manage to do both at the same time…Then we will sell our house and move back Up North
And all you lot were born in The South and Talk Posh…
So you had better behave – or We are out…
See what the Fuck You can do Then…without a house to live in.
I Love My Wife..You lot are just kids.
(Dad is happy to have his Daughter Back – Mum ain’t that impressed…but they kind of share the same girly stuff – whilst bitching at each other quite a bit – she’s even brought her cat home – he’s no problem but our youngest female cat ain’t that impressed – the older one is The Queen and has massive respect.
Its Family…its just normal….we would all do anything for each other in a crisis (and for anyone else) – its the just the way we are. We try to help and do our best..God she is on fire…
Tony
So I replied to her bereavement with a photo taken a few years ago…She said that is not your ex…that is your wife…And she still looks the same..and she is. I love her so much.
Haven’t you got an Ex-Girlfriend???
Yes – She’s Lovely too.
Tony
Mr Scorgie
“The “my cats would miss me” episode was shown to be a complete lie”
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Maybe so. Links and evidence, please.
8.07
Sea-lion you need to lose weight
8.07
You can start by a short work-out which hopefully will bring you into a small sweat.
In these four categories, what are the main characteristics of difference between:
1/ zionists and islamists
2/ hegemonists and caliphatists
3/ israeli apartheid and saudi takfir
4/ IDF and jihadists
Time for completing the questions : 15 minutes.