In the newspapers today the Tories pledged to revamp the railways to ensure they provide a better service because they are afraid Labour could win the election by saying they will nationalize the rail service.
Hundreds of new recruits have joined Labour to support Jeremy Corbyn, says Gordon Dimmack, because of the antisemitic smears.
If RT is correct about Labour surging ahead in popularity, then it would explain the constant “anti-Semite” smear campaign against Corbyn. The Tories, the Blairite neoliberals, and the media outlets despise him.
ReplyDelete“In the newspapers today the Tories pledged to revamp the railways to ensure they provide a better service because they are afraid Labour could win the election by saying they will nationalize the rail service.”
For the Tories, “revamp” means the opposite of nationalization. It means privatizing whatever aspect of the British rail system has not yet been privatized. Most of the system was handed to the rich in the 1990s.
Much of the UK population works in large cities, but lives in suburbs that can be quite distant from large cities. Therefore the rail system is crucial to U.K. society. Therefore the rail system has been a gold mine for its private owners.
Incidentally I notice that under every RT video on YouTube are the words, “RT is funded in whole or in part by the Russian government.”
So is the BBC, plus corporate media outlets in the USA. For example, The Washington Post (owned by Jeff Bezos, the richest man in human history) collects $600 million a year from the CIA.
I hope the anti-Semite smear against Corbyn is backfiring. That is sickening. But on the good side, the issue introduced me to Norman Finkelstein:
ReplyDeletehttps://mondoweiss.net/2018/08/chimera-british-semitism/
The current hysteria engulfing the British Labour Party resolves itself into a pair of interrelated, if discrete, premises: Anti-Semitism in British society at large and the Labour Party in particular have reached crisis proportions. If neither of these premises can be sustained, then the hysteria is a fabrication. In fact, no evidence has been adduced to substantiate either of them; on the contrary, all the evidence points in the opposite direction. The rational conclusion is that the brouhaha is a calculated hoax—dare it be said, plot?—to oust Jeremy Corbyn and the principled leftist politics he represents from British public life.
But even if the allegations were true, the solution would still not be to curb freedom of thought in the Labour Party. At its worthiest, the Left-Liberal tradition has attached a unique, primordial value to Truth; but Truth cannot be attained if dissentients, however obnoxious, are silenced. Given the fraught history of anti-Semitism, on the one hand, and its crude manipulation by Jewish elites, on the other, an objective, dispassionate assessment could appear beyond reach. Still, it must be attempted. The prospect of a historic victory for the Left might otherwise be sabotaged as, thus far, Corbyn’s supporters, whether it be from fear, calculation, or political correctness, dare not speak the name of the evil that is afoot.
Dan, apparently it is backfiring as hundreds of people have been recently joining the Labour Party to support Jeremy Corbyn because of antisemitic claims. I have added a Gordon Dimmach video.
ReplyDeleteThe UK has a kind of civil war. On one side are...
ReplyDeleteConservatives (Tories)
Most Jews
All corporate media outlets
Bairlite (i.e. neoliberal) members of the Labour Party
Identity politics militants
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On the other side are
Average Britons
Non-neoliberal members of the Labour Party (e.g. Corbyn)
Corbyn could win (i.e. become PM) if average Britons would strip believing corporate media lies.
I have a very friendly neighbour a few doors up and I saw her putting Conservative leaflets through the front doors and she handed me one. I just said thanks. If only she knew the truth, I thought, that the Tories only care about the elite. If only she know how Britain backs the head chopping terrorists because they want Assad toppled so they can get the Saudi gas pipeline through Syria to Europe. If only she knew that large sections of the ruling class, the Tory Party, the top brass of the millitary, and members of the Royal Family make their money out of war and by fleecing the tax payer when they are made to pay for the weapons they make. If only she knew how the main banks bankrupted thousands of small businesses around the country to make even bigger profits while this out thousands more people on the role and tax revenues got further reduced. She doesn't know any of it, she probably just reads the Daily Mail.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, try this Konrad, I wasn't sure if I could put this out on MNE's. It has a lengthy article by Rob Unz, a Jew. It's a very brave article.
From PCR's article you can get the Rob Unz article.
Washington’s Belligerence Can Produce A World Holocaust
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/09/04/washingtons-belligerence-can-produce-a-world-holocaust/
Some typos.
ReplyDeletewhile this put thousands more people on the dole...
@ Kaivey:
ReplyDeleteAbove when I typed “Bairlite” Labour members, I meant Blairite, i.e. MPs who support Tony Blair's warmongering and neoliberalism.
Regarding your neighbor distributing leaflets for Conservatives, how could an average Briton do that? I think there are two reasons.
[1] Many Britons associate Conservatives with “fiscal responsibility.” They stupidly believe the lie that the U.K. government has a “debt crisis” and must “live within its means.” They also think that Conservative MPs oppose immigration. In reality the only thing that Conservatives stand for is widening the gap between the rich and the rest.
[2] Many older Britons negatively associate Labour with identity politics (i.e. with militant feminism, gay rights, trans rights, etc). They imagine that Conservatives represent a U.K. of forty years ago. They don’t grasp that their real enemy is neoliberalism, and that all the Tories and most Labour members are equally neoliberal.
The problem with "Jews" in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is Zionism based on the belief that God gave a certain territory to the descendents of the exodus from Egypt that conquered "the land of Canaan" in perpetuity, according to scripture. Look at the assumed boundaries of that territory.
ReplyDeleteOnce religious premises are allowed in contemporary political arguments, it becomes certain that the world will descend into chaos.
We are seeing this not only in Israel-Palestine, and chaos is ensuing, although not only for that reason. We are again in an era of religious wars based on supernatural (ideological) assumptions.
“based on the belief that God gave a certain territory to the descendents of the exodus from Egypt that conquered "the land of Canaan" in perpetuity, according to scripture. Look at the assumed boundaries of that territory.“
ReplyDeleteOnly one way to reveal that as untrue (if it is....) and it ain’t pretty.....
Another thing is you guys are pretty hypocritical (your dialectic training at work...) where you’re going all around all the time saying we shouldn’t get involved yet at the same time you are all over the Palestinian issue all the time...
ReplyDeleteYou’re hypocritical in your thinking here..,, it’s a result of your dialectic synthesis
Your thesis is “no foreign empire” and your anti thesis is “help Palestinians “ then you merge the two and become big hypocrites....
“And describing these negative traits as Jewish even when not held by Jews“
ReplyDeleteRight Dan these are all human traits across the board.... could happen to anybody... obviously...
Only one way to reveal that as untrue (if it is....) and it ain’t pretty.....
ReplyDeleteAnd then there is the argument, "Whatever happens, we''l be back. God promised us this land. You just wait and see, however long it takes."
Another thing is you guys are pretty hypocritical (your dialectic training at work...) where you’re going all around all the time saying we shouldn’t get involved yet at the same time you are all over the Palestinian issue all the time...
ReplyDeleteBeing non-interventionist and even anti-war in every case doesn't preclude calling out the perps and advocating corrective policy that is non-violent.
Should US policy be supporting Israel in light of the Palestinians or Saudi Arabia in light of Yemen. Should Israel and KSA be sanctioned, for example. Why Iran and not Israel or KSA?