Totalitarian British State vs. Chris Spivey - Censorship & Social Media

Totalitarian British State vs. Chris Spivey Censorship & Social Media British Justice says to Spivey – Shut The Fuck Up – or we’ll destroy you Fri 5:07 pm UTC, 14 Aug 2015  https://youtu.be/7ABAWtFd7oM Article http://tapnewswire.com/2015/08/british-justice-says-to-spivey-shut-the-fuck-up-or-well-destroy-you/ Other  - MSM:  Daily Mail "Internet troll, 52, who posted 'sick' claims that Lee Rigby's murder was a conspiracy to provoke anti-Muslim hatred is spared jail for harassing soldier's family http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3212837/Internet-troll-52-posted-sick-claims-Lee-Rigby-s-murder-conspiracy-spared-jail-harassing-soldier-s-family.html ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Not entirely sure what's going on here and I'm not personally huge on conspiracy theories, but I think that the state and law enforcement harassment of those that hold differing opinions is absolutely disgusting and totalitarian. Video interview with victim of state harassment, Chris Spivey, notes the police did not have relevant warrants, turned up 1:30am raid etc.   NUMEROUS IRREGULARITIES.  Arrest illegal.  Local police 'investigating' itself.  Case based on x4 Witness Statements.  Allegedly, Witness Statements full of "easily provable lies" / "outrageous claims".  Prosecution prevented witnesses from appearing in court; right to face accusers denied:  breach of human rights - Article 6. Material relied upon as evidence was from 15 MONTHS prior & no notice of objection ever given.  Irrelevant material reportedly introduced to court. Spivey says:  convicted on hearsay and blatant lies. Site attack conducted on Spivey site. AND the British state appears to have alleged something that is denied, going by the first article, indicating that the address published is an address that was publicly available etc. This is unbelievable. And the Daily Mail headline referring to this bloke as 'internet troll' is also a disgusting abuse and attack on free speech and civil liberties. Tabloid sensationalisation & tabloid smear or vilification adds to the media propaganda that leads to further loss of civil liberties and additional totalitarian censorship, as it misinforms, influences and shapes NEGATIVE public opinion, and eventually leads to a public that is more WILLING to accept these ludicrous infringements. --- JESUS! Plain clothes detectives -- on tape -- kicking down the door!!!! Stitched up with images!!!  Crown dropped case. Judge refuses to hand over forensic 'evidence' re Spivey computer!!

FBI Caught Pants-Down - FBI Illegal Practices 1970s - the 'Hacktivists' of Yesteryear

ꕤ FBI Caught Pants-Down FBI Illegal Practices 1970s - the 'Hacktivists' of Yesteryear 1971 FBI Illegal Tactics Program Exposed city:  Media, Pennsylvania, USA Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI ('CCIF') -- leftist activist group USA early 1970s -- breaks into 2-man FBI office Media, Pennsylvania -- theft of over 1,000 classified documents -- documents mailed anonymously to several USA newspapers -- some news outlets refused to publish info Stock rationale: -- related to ongoing 'operations' -- disclosure might 'threaten lives' of agents or informants Complete collection published for first time 1972 -- publisher WIN Magazine -- WIN mag associated w. War Resisters League FBI COINTELPRO op revealed (ie counter intelligence program) EXTENSIVE list of FBI POLITICAL SURVEILLANCE  etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO Led to: 1.  Church Committee inquiry 2.  FBI cessation of op Noam Chomsky statement re analysis of FBI docs: -- 1% re organised crime (gambling) -- 30% manuals, forms etc -- 40% POLITICAL SURVEILLANCE     - x2 right-wing groups     - x10 immigrants     - x200 left or liberal groups -- 14% draft resistance -- 15% serious crime: murder, rape, robbery etc FBI documents self-incriminating: use of postal worker snitches use of switchboard operator snitches use of like civilian services snitches to spy on: -- black college students -- various non-violent black activist groups Statement to media: EXTRACT "These files will now be studied to determine: one, the nature and extent of surveillance and intimidation carried on by this office of the FBI, particularly against groups and individuals working for a more just, humane and peaceful society. Two, to determine how much of the FBI's efforts are spent on relatively minor crimes by the poor and the powerless against whom they can get a more glamorous conviction rate. Instead of investigating truly serious crimes by those with money and influence which cause great damage to the lives of many people—crimes such as war profiteering, monopolistic practices, institutional racism, organized crime, and the mass distribution of lethal drugs. Finally, three, the extent of illegal practices by the FBI, such as eavesdropping, entrapment, and the use of provocateurs and informers." FBI Fail: -- 200 FBI agents investigation followed -- investigation was closed when 5-year statute of limitations ran out -- unsolved *Members of group revealed IDs recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_Commission_to_Investigate_the_FBI ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Don't think anything's changed since the early 1970s. Take a look at UK political policing and New Zealand political policing, also.  It's much the same thing, even today. The leftist activist groups of the early 1970s are a lot like the 'hacktivist' & whistleblower groups of today:  only difference is technology. It looks like the American agencies that serve plutocracy may regard the left as the most dangerous threat to maintenance of power by the American elites ... going by the 1970s. Mainstream Western media has a long history of failing to go to print and of  unreliability as far as whistleblowers are concerned.   So how is this any different to the suppressive techniques of the governments that are maligned as 'repressive regimes' by the US and West, the hypocrites? ꕤ

Swedish Authorities & Media Suppress MOB RAPE Stockholm - Blame Putin & Suppress the Reporting Media

ꕤ Article SOURCE English Translation https://archive.is/gELtv#selection-2013.25-2086.0 In Summary Background: Sweden police cover up mob sex attacks committed by migrant men at youth festival in Stockholm since 2014 Whistleblower approaches Dagens Nyheter newspaper & discloses Sweden police cover-up. Dagens Nyheter (who, along with their other Swedish mainstream media colleagues, are coincidentally active press participants in smearing Australian journalist, Julian Assange, the victim of Sweden authorities 'rape' allegations & Sweden-UK-USA political persecution following revelation of US & Western government misconduct & war crimes) Picture this: Sweden a 'bastion' of 'feminism' with its very own shiny, new 'feminist foreign policy' that's proudly trotted out by Swedish politicians and press ... The same Sweden that has ... permitted Swedish women to be raped, gang raped & violently beaten by immigrants for DECADES (and now, apparently, mob sex attacked / raped, as well) ... while suppressing disclosure, attention and discussion,  re these crimes & thus attention on & discussion of policies which have resulted in this orgy of sexual assault by foreigner,  that may well require review given that:  feminist fantasy Sweden does not fit UGLY REALITY Sweden. Swedish politicians get away with this because their agenda is supported by the mainstream Swedish press, who keep obedient and quiet regarding the issues. Dagens Nyheter bastion of feminism that it is proceeds to SUPPRESS the migrant mob rape of Swedish women whistleblower disclosure story re Swedish police suppression of mob rape scenario since 2014 & does so for 6 months Nyheter Idag (as I understand) subsequently reports on suppression of mob sex attacks by both: 1.  Sweden police. 2.  Dagens Nyheter newspaper. Subsequently,  in a debate on Norwegian TV Martin Aagård journalist Aftonbladet champions PRESS SUPPRESSION LEGISLATION in Sweden that would effectively SILENCE Nyheter Idag the very newspaper that disclosed: 1.  Sweden police suppression of mob rapes. 2.  Sweden press suppression of mob rapes. Martin Aagård Aftonbladet Journalist considers publications such as Nyheter Idag as a 'defeat' of what he refers to as the 'real' media ie the corporate media that suppressed  SWEDEN POLICE SUPPRESSION of mob rape information   It is reasonable to assume that this is also the same Swedish media that in all probability: continues to suppresses other information Martin Aagård Aftonbladet Journalist holds out that he does not make this appeal on behalf of Aftonbladet / which he describes as 'Scandinavia's largest site' Instead, clever boy Martin Aagård, is relying upon ETHICAL RULES and consideration. Excuse me while I pick myself up off the floor, having pissed myself laughing.   The mainstream media guy wants to exploit 'ethics' to protect an unethical mainstream press, unethical law enforcement and unethical Swedish politician SUPPRESSION of information, news, facts, political suppression, sex assault / rapes suppression and so on. Ethical rules? Are we talking about the same press/media that is: ON RECORD FOR HAVING SUPPRESSED NEWS OF SWEDEN POLICE SUPPRESSION OF MOB SEX ATTACKS BY IMMIGRANTS IN STOCKHOLM SINCE 2014? SWEDEN WENT DOWN THE TUBES COMMENCING 1960s Apparently, way back in the bad old days in 1960s Sweden, the press was FREE (or freer?) -- and it was ruthless So the Swedish press was reined in via a 'press ethics system' and threat of regulatory consequences (I think) HOWEVER the newspaper targeted, Nyheter Idag, began publishing in 2014 and has voluntarily joined such Swedish 'press ethics system' press group in 2014. Nyheter Idag newspaper which disclosed Sweden police & press SUPPRESSION has abided by press ethics rules in its reporting of DN's censorship NONETHELESS Martin Aagård, Aftonbladet journalist, proposes legislative action against news sites such as Nyheter Idag. THE DUCKS ARE PECKING Meanwhile, in Sweden: SEVERAL SWEDISH NEWSPAPERS are nastily pecking at Nyheter Idag for 'breaking rank' by PUBLISHING NEWS ... and the TRUTH Nyheter Idag is getting ATTACKED as: working for Sweden Democrats (anti-immigration party) working for Russian state interests (blame Putin) Martin Aagård Aftonbladet Journalist claimed that Nyheter Idag is owned & run by Sweden Democrats (anti-immigration party) DESPITE THE FACT that the Nyheter Idag site is owned by a member of the PIRATE PARTY  (liberties focus:   to protect civil & digital liberties) SOURCE English Translation https://archive.is/gELtv#selection-2013.25-2086.0 After the DN-revelation: Now flagging Aftonbladet Aagård for legislation against Nyheter Idag Published:  18-01-1916  19:27 STOCKHOLM After Nyheter Idag revealed how the newspaper Dagens Nyheter deliberately chose not to report on sexövergreppen [comment:  'sex assaults'] in the Kungsträdgården [Royal Garden] last year, the criticism of Nyheter Idag has been great. Now flagging Aftonbladet journalist Martin Aagård that it may come legislation to stop Nyheter Idag. The news that the newspaper Dagens Nyheter deliberately chose not to tell us about the great amount of sexual assault that hit the young girls in the Kungsträdgården [Royal Garden] last year has hit like a bomb.  EDIT trans:  After [whistleblower] unveiling [to the newspaper paper] Dagens Nyheter (DN), instead of choosing to publish a major article [disclosing the mob sexual assaults covered up by Sweden police], DN chose to suppress news that police mörkat [had concealed] events. [Edit:  NYHETER IDAG - Doing Its Job Informing the Public - Subsquently ATTACKED by Stalinist Swedish Press Publication Peers ] Several newspapers in Sweden published articles with allegations that Nyheter Idag [EDIT: newspaper that broke the mob sex assaults cover-up by Swedish authorities story] is working on assignments for the Sweden Democrats. It has also published other claims, such as Nyheter Idag in fact working on behalf of the Russian state interests. But despite the accusations, the Norwegian trade magazine journalist confirmed the story Nyheter Idag revealed that DN darkened [EDIT censored/suppressed mob sex assaults] sexövergreppen. In a debate between the Norwegian writer Elin Ørjasæter and Aftonbladet journalist Martin Aagård came the matter was discussed in the Norwegian television channel TV2. "A defeat for us in the real media" In the live debate, Aagård claimed that Nyheter Idag is owned and run by the party Sweden Democrats, despite the fact that the site is clear that the site at all times owned by a member of the Pirate Party. Furthermore Aagård very critical of media  Nyheter Idag scrutinized. - It is a defeat for us in the real media if people turn away from us. It is not an Aftonbladet problem, we are still Scandinavia's largest site, if I get the opportunity to brag a little here. But you can, of course, attract readers in every way, there are other sites that post images of rape victims, who outsource everything, everything. Who do not have any ethical rules, explained Aagård in the box. Furthermore, Aagård [saw] fit to draw a parallel with what it previously looked like in Sweden when the media perceived as ruthless. One consequence of this was to become the press ethics system where all printed newspapers are automatically members and which Internet sites can voluntarily join. Nyheter Idag is a site voluntarily been connected to the particular press ethics system since 2014. - The press behaved similarly in Sweden in the 60s, it was very uninhibited. When threatened it with legislation, it would be stopped by regulators and then introduced to a pressure ethical system, then we got the current rules. But despite, or perhaps because of, the Nyheter Idag followed regarding press ethics rules in their review of Dagens Nyheter flagged Martin Aagård to the legislature should take action against sites like the one you're reading now. - I suspect that something similar will happen with these sites and Nyheter Idag, as I said a political body and not a journalistic, he declared before the debate in the Norwegian TV2 was over. English Translation https://archive.is/gELtv#selection-2013.25-2086.0 Norwegian Trade Journal Norwegian trade magazine journalist examines the Dagens Nyheter blackout 14-01-2016 17:18 OSLO Norwegian Journalists newspaper journalist has a probing article noted Dagens Nyheter's cover-up of sex crimes in Kungsträdgården in Stockholm during the festival "We are Sthlm". Swedish Journalists' counterpart has instead taken the DN of the defense and would not comment on the Norwegian article.  - Unfortunately I do not have time to talk to you, says the magazine's editor in chief Helena Giertta to Nyheter Idag. [ CONTINUED AT SOURCE .. ] https://archive.is/E2I2D#selection-2203.0-2230.0 ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT This is a demonstration of EXACTLY how information, news, public debate, and political activity, discussion of REALITY etc, as well as dissent, is being suppressed and otherwise hijacked in Sweden. Norwegian trade article sounds interesting.  No time to look now.  Must do dishes and shower.  lol ꕤ

Swedish Media Censoring Migrant Crime Stories 16 Years

ꕤ Article SOURCE as marked Swedish Media Censoring Migrant Crime Stories 16 Years Google Translation Swedish to English Reporters angles not to promote SD Published January 16, 2016 at 07:32  |  Sakine Madon Blinds journalists information and news for not favoring SD? The claim is dismissed as tin foil hat theory. But journalists who I am in contact with testifies problems. Jesper Strömbäck, professor of media and communications, said the other day: "The media would cover up any berries in my estimation powerful lure of conspiracy theory." (Summary, 12/1). Sometimes opt out information about news values, he points out. And it is true in general. Meanwhile, for example Skånska Dagbladets then editor Jan A Johansson, the journalist Björn Hagers book "Party Problem", where SD acknowledges that data has been omitted to avoid a "hell damage to society". The other day I asked the question of social media: "You, who worked as / journalists. Have you been part of the editorial staff wanted to downplay or avoid substances because 'can benefit sd'? "Journalists of various ages, men and women, with different backgrounds and from different media, approached him. Those who responded publicly on Twitter gave mostly no answers, they had not encountered it. Those who approached him privately gave a more distressing picture. A journalist who has conveyed the news on integration and immigration for many years expressed that "this subject is super sensitive". There is a younger generation who think black and white, according to the person: "If something the interviewee says complicates the thesis and one's own worldview you cut it out of the story." When the journalist himself has let different voices to be heard, it has led to attacks from other journalists. Nowadays, I am very cautious reports, tell the person. "Can not be bothered to have enemies," is the explanation. Another journalist that contact has been working on a few different media newsrooms. "Before the last election in 2010, when I remember especially a completely bizarre discussion, the reporters at the coffee machine stood talking about 'how should we respond to the Sweden Democrats, we can not take them as an ordinary party" he says. And testifies to the directives from the new boss to "take it easy" when he examines the integration-related topics. The call to be careful recur[s]. One person has been worshiped be there when asked about problems at an accommodation for unaccompanied youths arrived at the speech. Another person reported that a senior colleague with strong political views have stopped reportage about mess at an asylum accommodation. Others describe a caution with the choice of words, of news or signalement [comment:  description] in order not to encourage xenophobia. A journalist who has worked in several major editorial says that in all workplaces has been a spoken or unspoken policy not to promote SD and xenophobia. And remember especially honor the murder of Pela Atroshi: "We did not write a line about it." These journalists are no foil hats. On the contrary, highlights several that most journalists and news executives are honest people. Yet the problem is there. The country's media editorial offices need to consider a lap: we should explicitly be against SD? If not; how do we ensure that journalism was shot? It is easy to shout "conspiracy theory" to any criticism. The harder it is to see their own role in that trust in the media falls, while the SD sites celebrating victory after victory. https://archive.is/agVtX ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT What kind of questions is:  should we explicitly be against SD (ie Sweden Democrats), which is a pro-nationalist and anti-immigration party? Who are journalists to decide whether they will 'back' given political parties or not, and how is this remotely considered the right thing to do? Their job is to deliver information to the public so that the public may make informed choices; and not to decide for the public in advance what is 'good' for the public or otherwise. However, the press does the OPPOSITE of its role:  it DENIES the public information.  And when the press does throw a few crumbs of information at the public, it comes along with truckloads of mind-bending propaganda that most people would not recognise for what it is, because most people do not have the time to widely research every detail of what they are being fed (or the ability, therefore, to pick up what they are being denied) by the press. In this warped Swedish politics, press & intelligentsia world, keeping Sweden open to what (in my view) amounts to a genocidal immigration policy, that has already resulted in various negative social impacts, is considered a positive and resistance to genocidal immigration policy is considered undesirable and 'xenophobic'. It appears the problem of censorship or suppression comes from top down as well as sideways, from colleagues who disapprove and attack those that permit other voices to be heard. The problem of censorship or suppression, of information that the public is entitled to, goes well beyond the censoring Swedish press:  'liberal' ideology and propaganda has permeated all Swedish institutions and is espoused by all mainstream political, academic, media and cultural figures, in what is a hysterical, self-sustaining ideological grip. Just as potential press 'dissenters' (ie those that perhaps might stray in some way to challenge accepted 'reality' or  ideology & so forth) are silenced from above and attacked by colleagues, other professionals are no doubt likewise at risk of suppression and attack, and are precluded from voicing alternate views (were they willing to take the risks involved, and were they given a platform to do so) for fear of the social and economic consequences. Another thing that is not mentioned here is the potential for violent consequences: (a) street riots, which Sweden has already seen in its no-go suburbs of immigrants. (b) the potential threat of individual murder (as well as Charlie Hebdo type attack) from minorities with a custom of threatening the lives of those they do not agree with. If point (b) sounds far-fetched, look at the Netherlands politician Geert Wilders (Party for Freedom) who has 24/7 security due to the death threats:  "Death threats regularly arrive at his office ... " [Newsweek]. Pela Atroshi is an Iraqi Kurdistan female honour killing victim (here). As nothing was written of Pela Atroshi's 1999 murder: which was planned in Sweden by 11 members of her  Iraqi Kurdish tribal clan/family and executed in Iraq after she was lured to Iraq on the basis of arranged marriage the Swedish press has been censoring (ie suppressing) immigrant related issues for at least 16 years, if not longer, given this statement: "And remember especially honor the murder of Pela Atroshi: "We did not write a line about it."" Sweden Pela Atroshi Iraqi Kurdistan - Honour Killing 1999 LINK | Post From the Pela Atroshi article, it looks like the Australian and Swedish authorities' collaboration goes back a long way. ꕤ

European Politicians, Law Enforcement Authorities & Press - Cover Up Immigrant RAPE of European Women

ꕤ [  updates to follow ] WEIL, GERMANY Police & Media Cover Up NYE Immigrant GANG-RAPE [CLICK image for clarity / enlargement] ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. LINK | SOURCE Note:  such immigrants are not necessarily 'Syrian'.  Majority of immigrants arriving in Germany and in Europe on Merkel's 2015 invitation came from places other than Syria:  without ID, or having destroyed IDs, or having obtained fake IDs.  The 'Syrian' claims are a by-product of Merkel having announced open-door policy to the entire Middle East, to Asia and to Africa, along the lines that Germany (and thus Europe) will take unlimited numbers of 'Syrian refugees'. Irregular immigrants who are not refugees, who have destroyed their identity documentation, are next to impossible to deport. COLOGNE, GERMANY [CLICK image for clarity / enlargement] ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. BEHAVIOURAL 'PROTOCOLS' FOR GERMAN WOMEN RECOMMENDED BY:  Henriette Reker COLOGNE PRO-IMMIGRATION MAYOR [Location of Assault Unknown] [CLICK image for clarity / enlargement] ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. [Location of Assault Unknown] [CLICK image for clarity / enlargement] ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. LINK | SOURCE [CLICK image for clarity / enlargement] ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Ralf Jaeger German Interior Minister Trivialises Rape of German Women [CLICK image for clarity / enlargement] ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. LINK | MORE     [  updates to follow ] ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- ꕤ

Britain: Feminist Intelligentsia Hypocrisy Serves Corrupt State Powers

ꕤ Article SOURCE https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/01/feminism-a-neo-con-tool/ https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/01/feminism-a-neo-con-tool/ Craig Murray Vauntie Cybernat, Former Ambassador, Human Rights Activist https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/ Feminism A Neo-Con Tool by craig on January 7, 2016 6:01 pm 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. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/01/feminism-a-neo-con-tool/ ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Professional / paid and associated, middle-class intelligentsia feminism isn't feminism at all, by the look of things.  It's about privilege for the few, hypocrisy, & hoodwinking of the many, to the advantage of corrupt and criminal state powers that are publicly and politically aided in wielding the force of undemocratic (and thus illegitimate) state power against targets of political persecution  -- such as WikiLeaks journalist-publisher, Julian Asssange -- that have had the courage and determined will (in the face of danger) to challenge the corrupt state, that is inflicting injustice and destruction on a global scale. Julian Assange Editor, WikiLeaks Justice4Assange WikiLeaks Site WikiLeaks Twitter BOOK:  The WikiLeaks Files (2015) Link | here ꕤ

Illinois USA - How the Rich Bought Political Power

ꕤ Article SOURCE as indicated Illinois USA Bruce Rauner Governor of Illinois Swedish-German descent venture capitalist private equity firm GTCR (30 years) father lawyer / senior VP Motorola Wife #1 Beth Konker Wessel (3 ch.) Wife #2 Diana Mendley Rauner (3 ch.) Son: "In 2010, Eric, then 21, got arrested for trying to rob a Walgreen’s drive-through in Missoula, Montana. He gave a pharmacist “a note threatening to blow his head off unless he handed over prescription painkillers, according to charging documents in the case,” reported the Daily Missoulian. The paper further reported that he told authorities that he was drunk at the time and addicted to pills. Originally charged with felony robbery, Eric, who had been unarmed, pleaded guilty in July 2012 to an amended charge of felony criminal endangerment and received a three-year deferred sentence." [Comment:  Eric was 1 years old when his parents separated, before divorcing (affair allegedly discovered by wife #1)   Siblings were 4 and 6 years old] http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/October-2014/Bruce-Rauner/ D.I.V.O.R.C.E. Article & Divorce Court Documents Affair allegedly discovered by Wife #1 Rauner allegedly sought reconciliation & continued to live in house However, Wife #1 allegedly discovered  consultation with lawyer http://www.businessinsider.com.au/bruce-rauner-1993-divorce-2014-5?r=US&IR=T ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- NYT Wealthy Governor & His Friends Remaking Illinois Unprecedented Political Spending By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE NOV. 29, 2015 SUMMARY - as per my understanding Kenneth C. Griffin billionaire founder one of the world’s largest hedge funds -- Griffin & friends ('the families') -- poured tens of millions of dollars into the state -- concentration of political money -- unprecedented in Illinois history -- wealth forcefully shifted state’s balance of power -- 2014:  'the families' helped elect Bruce Rauner governor -- Griffin friend of Rauner (elected governor) [Wealthy Election Buyers] Agenda: cut spending overhaul state’s pension system impose term limits weaken public employee unions Formula: change the power structure change way business conducted change status quo taking advantage of shifts in: regulatory factors legal factors cultural factors Rich families remaking Illinois: channelled vast wealth into political power infusion of money into campaigns via newly carved paths "reshaping government with fortunes so large as to defy the ordinary financial scale of politics" 2016 USA Presidential Campaign - 158 Families New York Times analysis -- just 158 families -- provided nearly HALF of early campaign money -- donors from FINANCE INDUSTRY -- finance field = more new political wealth than other Following helped elect Rauner: John Childs -- Florida-based leveraged-buyout pioneer Sam Zell -- private equity investor Paul Singer -- hedge fund manager, NY Richard Uihlein (Dick) -- Chicago suburbs businessman -- General Bindings Corp -- plastic binding manufacture, family business -- family co-founded: Schlitz Brewing -- Uline, Inc - shipping supplies distribution company Philosophies of donors becoming widely adopted blueprint for public officials in USA -- critical of powerful unions -- want reduction of public (government) spending -- want reduction of taxation -- want to undermine govt-led efforts to redress gap b/w rich/poor -- consider strong public unions root of all evil -- re governance:  Chicago, New York & California Increasing Amounts of Money -- much stronger last 5-6 years To usurp political power in Illinois -- the rich have pumped BIG money into political campaigns -- money that outstrips that of unions --{unions were formerly 'financial lifeblood of both parties'} -- Rauner:     "triggered a state law that removes limits on campaign contributions when a wealthy candidate spends heavily on his or her own race."     "The law, intended to limit the influence of the wealthy by providing a level playing field, had the opposite effect: Freed of the restraints, supporters of Mr. Rauner poured millions more into his campaign, breaking state records." Rauner - Campaign Spending v. Unions -- abt half of $65 million Rauner spent in 2014 -- came from Rauner & x9 others -- (other individuals, families or companies they control) -- $13.6 million Griffin family contributions -- MORE than --> 244 labour unions combined donations Kenneth C. Griffin Biggest Donor - re Rauner -- Griffin:   $5.5 million -- private plane at Rauner’s disposal HOW MILLIONS OF ELECTION FUNDS SPENT -- political advocacy groups -- research organizations -- party committees -- credit union on Chicago’s predominantly black South Side -- depositing $1 million to support small-business loans -- $20 million (Rauner, Griffin & Uihlein)     Note:  Rauner as given “$27 million of his own money to public education, both CPS and charters.” (Rauner publicly stated figure is:  $20 million) [ChicagoMag] -- to beat back union pressure Other -- Rauner advocacy of school choice -- African-USA voter appeal - stuck in worst schools [ChicagoMag] Result -- Rauner elected -- agenda to shrink govt -- agenda to make state more business friendly -- however:  Democrats supermajority in both houses DEMOCRATS Democrat majority want: -- minimum wage -- millionaires-only income tax increase -- both items against Rauner position REPUBLICANS Rauner - governor (thus opposed to Democrat majority) Chicago Sun-Times  |  PRESS -- reversed no-endorsement policy to back Rauner -- Rauner, part-owner prior to run for governor Illinois State: -- mismanagement by state officials -- both parties -- over $100-Billion in UNFUNDED pension liabilities -- x10 governors went to prison -- public employee unions unaware re absence of retirement benefit funding by state -- lobbied for other spending -- state owes billions in unpaid bills NOTE:  Illinois state constitution BANS raising taxes solely on rich SOURCE http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/us/politics/illinois-campaign-money-bruce-rauner.html?_r=0 Illinois' flat income tax places it in the 'Terrible Ten' Written By sswerdlow Posted: 06/25/2014, 06:52pm Illinois is one of the ten most regressive states in the country ... A state is regressive if it requires the poor to pay a greater share of their income in taxes than the rich. In Illinois, the state’s poorest residents—those in the bottom 20 percent of the income scale—pay almost three times as much of their earnings in taxes as the top one percent do. Illinois’ flat income tax is one of the primary reasons ITEP ranks the state as the fourth most regressive. A flat income tax means the state takes the same percentage of income from everyone, regardless of how much or how little they earn. Illinois is one of only ten states with a flat tax rate. There are seven states that collect no taxes on individual income. See which states have flat, graduated, or no income taxes in the map below. Illinois increased the tax rate on individual income from 3 percent to 5 percent in 2011. That increase is set to expire January 1, 2015. Speaker Michael Madigan reports that the House Democratic caucus is almost 30 votes shy of the 60 needed to make what was a temporary increase permanent. If Illinois fails to extend the tax rate of 5 percent, it will have the third lowest individual income tax rate of any state with a flat tax. According to the Tax Foundation, only Indiana and Pennsylvania will have lower rates, at 3.4 and 3.07 percent respectively. Illinois depends on individual income taxes for 42 percent of its tax revenue, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Taxes on individual income bring in more money for the state than any other tax. This wasn’t the case in 2009, when half of the state’s tax revenue came from sales tax. Sales tax revenue has steadily declined since then, though, due to the Great Recession. http://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/7/71/876236/chicago-budget-revenue-tax-ideas ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT The word 'gubernatorial' is unpleasant sounding to me: "C18: from Latin gubernator governor." Really enjoyed checking this out. American politics is sooooooo disgusting. USA doesn't even pretend to be democratic. This story has everything ... & the state's broke.  Quick, someone write a TV-series.  It should be interesting to see what happens when the opposition (Democrats) have the majority in both houses.  Second article on income tax is also very interesting.  Those rates are bizarre.  It's so low it's like there is just about no income tax. ꕤ