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.
Answers:
1/ in a secular world, governments create divisions among the people extend their control over people through religion zionists claiming authority from the bible, Islamist from the Qur’an.
2/ In a multipolar world, governments appeal to the people for the need to extend their power both in scope and in geographical area beyond what they already have.
3/ In the religions of Christianity and Islam nobody knows who God will guide the closest to the truth. In the sects of Judaism and Salafism the same crime will be either exonerated or punished on the basis of belonging to or not belonging to a particular group. e.g. Most Sunni Saudis keep foreign maids in their homes whom they seduce, while a Shi’a women is raped by 7 criminals organised by the state for travelling in a car with a man who is not a relative, something in the UK 500,000 Sunni Muslim taxi drivers do without batting an eyelid.
4/ In both cases state-funded militias and prison authorities attack, kill, wound and imprison their own citizens. Palestinians live in foreign-occupied Israel, Syrians live in foreign-occupied Syria. The only difference between the 2 groups is that Israel is funded by the world Jewry and the US and Al Qaida is funded by Gulf states and the US.
Well done , you got all the answers right. not
habbabkuk, I’ve got muscles in places you haven’t even got places. Do keep up!
807
You’ve got a long way to go to reach 007, agent fat sea-lion.
Come to think of it, you’ve got a long way to go to reach Mr Bean, your compatriot.
“I wager 100 New Israeli Shekels that you’ll collapse a long time before the UK does.”
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Depends what you mean by collapse, Brexit, could see the break up of the UK.
And those squatting in the North, who hadn’t a good word to say, would slink across the border, or they could FOAD.
Incidentally I couldn’t possibly take your wager, blood money and all that.
The quoted comment – couldn’t possibly guess whose it might be – is blissfully unaware of the true position. That’s what comes of deferring to Etonians.
This is nearer the actualite:
http://www.gerryhassan.com/blog/the-great-british-economic-miracle-is-an-illusion/
The British political establishment has in recent decades told the world how the UK has been transformed economically, and is a model to everyone else in the developed world.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The British economy is like the English Premiership – built on quicksand with no firm foundations, no focus on long -term investment or planning…
Crunch time is just around the corner. For all of us.
Ba’al
807 is stuck in traffic on his way to GCHQ on the M5 roadworks which opened this morning.
The British establishment is lying on every front about the economy, which is why Mark Carney is like a blindfold person trying to put a tail on the donkey.
This catastrophic figure is manipulated here and he does an interview saying that interest rates might go up, then another pack of lies is issued over there and the interest rates get quickly put back in the bag.
The latest pack of lies was on employment and of course the biggest pack of lies of all was the UK and Scottish election results.
Thanks Brian bevin and Uphill for some good posts.
Its becoming clear that the economic EU was always more important than the socially progressive, democratic EU, fact.
Camerons wild efforts will be scuppered by new states wanting to join the EU, his self inflicted conundrum will come to pieces because his compassion bypass and lack of sincerity does not wash with other countries in the EU.
Cameron and Osborne are stooges for the establishment and the City of London, money orientated inhumane bombers who just can’t say no to bankers and arms dealing w…..s.
NATO is finished as well, being unable/unwilling to control rogue’s such as Turkey, which during the last weekend has come out with all sorts of trumpets, warning Russia not to overfly its territory,. but willingly trade with and train ISIS terrorists, sell them communication equipment and arms on behalf of NATO?
NATO has failed to stay on the path it has set for itself, its in the hands of some very unsavoury characters in lieu with arms manufacturers world wide, an organisation out of control.
The vast majority of refugees are genuine and to not offer them help is callous. off course there will be some who have joined along the way, who tried their chance with the masses, maybe some with a different agenda altogether, but, and here lies the crux, they can’t hide without registering in Germany, for example, they will have to be registered to find work or a home, if they are in camps they will be registered.
A Brian pointed out, every nation has the responsibility to accept refugees from war torn countries, especially when they are part of the cause of the upheaval, bombing these refugees out of their homes does not exclude you from humanitarian actions and to put a timetable on your efforts, when your bombing is relentless, is obscene, psychopathic even.
The internationally agreed acceptance that refugees cannot be sent back into harms way is an important part of this article 51. I can’t hear our wannabe invigilators, ex diplomats and non doms mention it, they seem to be fully behind Camerons ‘bombing for EU reform’.
I’m beginning to think that these refugees were a deliberate plot to destabilise and bring down the EU and accept TTIP.
A point to taking orphans at a time when many children’s and social services are in tatters, have a backlog of abuse cases, a service that needs some 30.000 social workers to make it tick over. It is a crazy and insincere undertaking and I hope that these children will be monitored by someone independent.
Off course, it takes politically aware artists like Ai Wei wei and Banksy to keep awareness in the public mind. The MSM and their failure to question our bombing, the fact that we have caused Europe to be undermined by the volume of hardship and need, has never been more vivid than now.
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/ai-weiwei-posiert-als-alan-kurdi-protest-gegen-asypolitik-a-1074996.html
Merkel has bought Erdogans acceptance and he is fencing off Syria, allegedly, whilst the smugglers are laughing.
As long as bombs rain down on Syria and rebels fight each other, this western stoked scenario to undermine and destroy the EU with refugee numbers will not stop.
“Refugees from Afghanistan, who now make up 20 percent of those arriving in Greece, represent a completely different problem. They arrive to Turkey by land, particularly from Iran, where around 2 million Afghans have fled. Officially, they need a visa to enter Turkey, but the mountainous border region is poorly monitored. Furthermore, it is part of the Kurdish areas, where the Turkish army is doing battle with the Kurdish rebel group PKK.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/unexpected-consequences-of-german-dependence-on-turkey-a-1074643.html
How does it increase Israel’s security to steal a child’s school-bag?
Firing live bullets at farms and fishing boats, terrorising schoolchildren and stealing their school-bags, destroying and stealing computers in a university, destroying the tents of 30 Bedouin families, waking and terrifying families in the middle of the night, firing stun and gas grenades into a mosque, etc, etc, etc, …….
It’s psychological persecution to complement the physical brutality, and it’s been going on for decades. It’s a policy of genocide.
Wanton viciousness on 28th January 2016:
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Israeli Navy opens fire on Palestinian fishing boats
Israeli Army position opens fire on Gaza farms
Israeli troops pursue, terrorise and rob Palestinian schoolchildren
Israeli Army orders destruction of 30 Bedouin family dwellings
Israeli Army vandalism at Al Quds University
Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in refugee camp and 9 towns and villages
4 attacks (4 Israeli ceasefire violations) 19 raids including home invasions
1 abducted (aged 17)
3 acts of agricultural/economic sabotage
18 taken prisoner – 8 detained – 86 restrictions of movement
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http://palestine.org.nz/phrc/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3126&Itemid=44
Nevermind, thanks for your insightful comments.
Yes, “Fuck the EU” has more scope than its use in that leaked ‘phone conversation.
Node, thanks for filling in in Mary’s absence, though I think you need some practice yet. I do hope that Mary will return.
Node, thanks for filling in in Mary’s absence, though I think you need some practice yet. I do hope that Mary will return.
I don’t have the time or skills to replace Mary, but I don’t want those who drove her away to benefit from it. I’ve therefore taken responsibility for just one of her regular tasks, publicising the daily brutality of Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine. I’m trying to be more forceful in that one particular task than Mary was to make her tormentors question whether they’ve actually made things worse for themselves.
If you think I can do it better, I am happy to hear your suggestions. Anon1 has already been very helpful in this regard. He insisted that I include a link to further information about Israeli atrocities and also confirmed I am correct to characterise Israel’s overall policy as genocide.
TY as usual, Node. Add to that, this:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/uns-ban-takes-on-israeli-critics-who-twisted-his-criticism/
Good to see Ban sticking to his guns. The usual whining about Ban’s perfectly rational and unexceptionable comments is reproduced near the end of the piece.
Sorry to see Ban still seems to think that a Palestinian state is, however feebly and remotely, part of Israeli thinking. The time for pretence has passed. Coercion – at least – will be needed to obtain rights for the Palestinians. That is the sad truth.
Node, my skill-set is not the same as Mary’s; sorry I can’t be of more help. But another of her specialties is exposing covert Israeli power and influence within British government and economic power, and links and associations among the elite in general. I’m trying to contact her, but she is not well.
Node, please e-mail me. I can’t say everything in public.
The ugly face of the occupation of Palestine as zionistan lays siege onto yet another Palestinian city this time one of it’s main cities.
zionistan Severely Restricts Access To, From Ramallah
Even Ban Ki Moon has gone on record;
Western compliant Turkish dictator (ring any bells Saddam Gaddafi etc) has been shelling pro-Assad forces from Turkey’s Northern border as the NDF take most of Souther Syria. Erdogan’s shelling has for the most part been ineffective.
The Syrian government forces, after imposing full control over Nawareh village in the Northeastern side of Otayreh and purging terrorists from the strategic al-Barakah and al-Khadhra mountains, are very close to Lattakia’s border with Turkey.
Scores of Jeish al-Fatah’s militants have been killed or wounded in the attacks.
Assad, Putin and Rouhani appear to be kicking Nato’s proxy army in the bollocks….ouch!
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13941110001395
What Israel is engaged in amounts to a template for genocide.
It begins with the lie that Palestinians are not a people and do not constitute a nation, being simply wanderers passing through the lands on which they have lived since time immemorial.
Or to be a little more precise: are the descendants, for the most part of the people who were living there when Christ was around. It is to deny this-that the Palestinians are descended from those who were once Jews and Christians- that it is necessary, to sustain Zionist mythology, to erase the Palestinians from the face of the earth.
Firstly by driving them out of their homes, razing their villages, stealing the land which sustained them and ethnically cleansing them from their cities. It was, history records, a process which began with organised terrorist attacks designed to kill and to terrorise into flight and submission, carried out by Zionist militias heavily armed and well trained by imperialist sympathisers.
This was done to clear the land of its indigenous inhabitants in order to make room for the makings of the projected Israeli ‘race.’ This involved, in turn terrorist attacks and provocations throughout the Arab world, designed to force Egyptian, Tunisian, Iraqi, Yemeni and other long established, well integrated and pacific communities of Jews to leave their homes, give up their nationalities and flee into the hands of the Zionists, who were desperate to build up their numbers, to fill the ranks of their militias and to settle on the regions that they had de-populated.
There are monuments in Israel dedicated to the memories of the Israeli fascist terrorists who set of bombs in Cairo marketplaces to provoke pogroms against a community which had lived in the land since Joseph’s day.
In Israel itself the poison of racism is so deeply imbued in the state that not only are the few Palestinians who remain there victimised but so also are wide swathes of the population, some practising Judaism, who are held, by the eastern Europeans who brought fascism to the land, to be inferior, by virtue of their colour, their languages, their genuine claims, through ancestry, to land in the region.
Properly defined genocide is not designed to kill all the members of an ethnic group but to break up its culture, wipe out its language and distinguishing characteristics. Once denationalised and disoriented the survivors of a broken people make cheap and biddable labour which no entrepreneur would sneeze at.
Which is why Israel looks with such complacency on the wahhabi heretics who are marching through Arabia, and other muslim lands, wiping out the established, time hallowed and constantly evolving forms that Islam has taken in its various homes. Wiping out the religion of the inhabitants of Al Quds is more important than killing every teenager or burning every baby. Hence Israel’s arming of ISIS, its provision of military hospitals for Al Qaeda/Nusra and its regular attacks on Syrian strongpoints to assist in terrorist offensives.
It is always important to remember that Zionism is not just another C19th nationalism but one specifically modeled upon colonial ideology. Zionism was not a Jewish idea but a Puritan one: the first Zionists colonised, attacked, cheated, infected and finally drove out the inhabitants of Virginia and New England. The first Zionists were English. And many of them had taken a practice run at genocide on Ireland before they moved to a more capacious venue.
It was after being inspired by the examples set in Australia, Tasmania, Canada and the United States, even Algeria that the first eastern European Zionists began to construct their own plan for Empire. So obvious was this that British Imperialists could not but sympathise with a movement flattering them by imitation. Thus it was that, from the Balfour Declaration onwards the British Mandate authorities constantly and instinctively favoured the “white” Zionists over the “Arabs.”
So it is that decent people in Britain, contemplating the daily horrors of Israeli chauvinism and struck by the wide ranging regional suffering that can be traced back-as can the Iraq war and the current carnage in Yemen- to the harm caused by Britain’s betrayal of its Mandate in Palestine, are constantly aware of the part our government and our ancestors have played in visiting unprecedented suffering and misfortune on the people of Palestine, betrayed under our care, betrayed after they had allied themselves with us in war.
Britain has much to be ashamed of but perhaps it has no greater reason to blush than the continuing tragedy of Palestine, an open wound born of arrogance, racism and selfishness.
Since the Google saga erupted, much has been dredged up about Osborne’s personal tax affairs. His family firm, Osborne & Little, in which he holds a 15% stake, has undergone some scrutiny.
Osborne & Little reported a pre-tax profit of £722,000 on turnover of £34m and incurred a corporation tax charge of £179,000. But the accounts for the year to March 2015 show it ended up paying precisely zero “United Kingdom corporation tax” as the company was able to claim for “timing differences” from previous years that offset the £179,000.
In fact, Osborne & Little has not had to pay any UK corporation tax for the last SEVEN years as it has claimed variously for “capital allowances”, “adjustments in respect of prior years” and historic losses – even as the company generated a total of over £200m in sales between April 2008 and March 2015.
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/01/31/osborne-tax-avoiders-dream-look-tax-affairs-prove/
The leader of “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) – a German Eurosceptic, anti-migration party – has said that police should have the right to use firearms, if necessary, to prevent migrants and refugees from crossing the German border illegally.
https://www.rt.com/news/330819-germany-afd-refugee-shoot/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
Okay the report is from RT, but I’ve also in the past posted BBC links, RT’s British equivalent.
Back to the story, they want to exactly what Israel is doing and has done for decades, shoot first, ask questions later.
Well said, Bevan (2.30). I’ve bookmarked your post to be used for the future education of those claiming Israel is not committing genocide.
Clark, if you manage to contact Mary please pass on my best wishes for her recovery. Thanks. I knew she was not well. Sorry to hear she is still not well.
Meanwhile Saudi Arabia has been funding thousands of Madrassas schools in the semi-lawless and religiously fanatical state of Pakistan.
These breeding grounds for hate, preach anti-Shia, anti-Western ideologies. Saudi Arabia has the financial resources and has set up these kind of schools all over the Middle East, and possibly in some European countries.
The ideology behind it is to pre-programme the young to accept Wahhabism over all other claims on Islam, and if necessary kill to enforce that belief.
Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against Yemen, would if victory prevails, lead to the setting up of hundreds of Wahhabist hate factories, with the intention to push anti-Western, and anti-Shia agendas.
Saudi Arabia is one country I would like to see crushed by Western coalition forces.
Yes, thanks Bevin, I’ve bookmarked it too.
Sorry Bevan, not the CO Bevin of Bevin Boys infamy. What a cock-up. Apols.
“He insisted that I include a link to further information about Israeli atrocities and also confirmed I am correct to characterise Israel’s overall policy as genocide.”
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No, he didn’t “confirm” anything of the sort.
As to whether Israeli policy and actions amount to “genocide”, I would suggest that Node – and others – take the time to read carefully Article 2 of the so-called “Genocide Convention”.
“Western compliant Turkish dictator (ring any bells Saddam Gaddafi etc) has been shelling pro-Assad forces from Turkey’s Northern border as the NDF take most of Souther Syria. Erdogan’s shelling has for the most part been ineffective.”
If he’s shelling them from Turkey’s Northern border he would be.
re the website from which Node – and others – get their information about Israeli “atrocities” and “genocide”:
“http://palestine.org.nz”
It would be good if someone could investigate the bona fides of that website and reassure readers that the information contained therein is correct and not made up (at least in part).
Is this a website based on Palestinian sources and if so, what are those sources? For example, have the so-called “atrocities” been verified bu independent observers (eg, UN agencies on the ground)?
So the branch office of London Labour in Scotland, are at loggerheads with Finance Secretary John Swinney. Mr Swinney want all councils in Scotland to pay the living wage, but Labour in particular are bleating they’ve no cash to do so.
Yet for the past 19 months the branch office of London Labour in Scotland, have publicly berated through social media and the unionist press, that the SNP government should pay the living wage.
http://wingsoverscotland.com/the-living-end/
And I thought Alistair Carmichael was a twisted b#stard.
“What Israel is engaged in amounts to a template for genocide.”
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Most people would agree that the Nazi period provided the template for genocide.
Both the 1946 UNGA Resolution and the subsequent UN so-called “Genocide Convention” were inspired by events during the Nazi period.
Staying on the “useless b#stard party” aka the Labour branch office in Scotland.
Jackie (three breakfasts) Baillie, Scotland’s equivalent to London’s Tommy (two dinners) Watson, had the audacity to berate SNP MP cancer surgeon Philippa Whitford, for carrying out life saving breast cancer surgery on women over the Christmas holidays.
Baillie, a Labour lickspittle had the temerity to say that the cancer surgeon was neglecting her MP duties to earn cash. When in reality the cancer surgeon was asked by the NHS to perform the surgeries due to a lack of staff.
Miss Whiteford gave up her Christmas holidays to save lives, and all that Labour can do is attack the good deed.
Is it any wonder that London Labour’s branch office are heading for an almighty doing at the voting booths.