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Women.   Reviews of Books on Women.   By 'Rerevisionist'

These reviews have been separated from big-lies.org/reviews for space reasons. v. Sept 1 2024


  BOOKS BY AND ABOUT WOMEN. INCLUDING 'USEFUL IDIOTS'  
Susan Brownmiller: Rape
Ivor Catt   Elderly male struggles with Jews & Jewish feminists
Lena Dominelli: Anti-Racist Social Work
Maggie Gee: Ice People
Jacqueline Gold: Good Vibrations
Kate Hudson: CND   and see link below to nuclear protestors
Melanie Jarman: Climate Change
Carla Lane: Autobiography
Barbara Lawson-Reay: VOTES FOR WOMEN: The North Wales Suffragists' Campaign 1907-1914   2015
      Suffragette 2015 Film
Anthony Ludovici: Woman: A Vindication 1923
Virginia Nicholson: Two Million Women without Men
Ann Oakley: Miscarriage   1984
      Ann Oakley: Taking It Like a Woman 1984
      Ann Oakley: The Men's Room 1988
      Ann Oakley: ...Eden 1993
Erin Pizzey: Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear
Jane Robinson: First Women to Fight for an Education
Sheila Rowbotham: Women in Britain & the US 20th Century
Angela Saini: Inferior Advert for women in science ... but not her! ...
    PLUS note on Christmas 2020 Royal Institution
‘Social Media’ Debate on Feminism, Voting, Jewish Control
Dale Spender: Women of Ideas (and what men have done to them) 1982
Esther Vilar: The Manipulated Man
Simon Webb: Suffragette Bombers? German Bombers?
Rae West: Mother Teresa
Rae West: Women Nuclear Protestors as Useful Idiots 2011, on nuke-lies site .
Naomi Wolf: Beauty Myth
Bibi van der Zee: Protestors Handbook


  A FEW REVIEWS OF OLD MOVIES  
50 Shades of Grey (2015)
The Iron Lady (2011)
Bride Wars (2009)
Two Weeks Notice (2002)
Bridget Jones (2001)
Educating Rita (1983)


 

Suffragette   DVD 2015.
UK (Jewish Channel 4 tv) & National Lottery

SARAH GAVRON   director   I'd wanted to do a film about the suffragettes for years. Here were a group of women, fighting inequality, turning to acts of civil disobedience to achieve it...
      There's always a responsibility in making a film about real events ... we did a huge amount of research and we had lots of historical consultants on board [This amused and disgusted me; Jews lie about anything they can make money from. Consider all the wars in the 20th century.]
      We had a great visual effects team...
ABI MORGAN scriptwriter.   The thing that actually amazed me was when Sarah Gavron, the director, gave me the material I just didn't realize how contemporary these women's voices were going to sound and how vivid and relevant their issues were!
      I really didn't want to write a biopic [she rhymed this with myopic, oddly]
FAYE WARD producer.

[Judging from the DVD commentary, all the work on filming and construction and green screen/CGI is done by others, presumably regarded as techies, and (I'd guess) paid in a minimalist way. On CGI, think of the faked crowds inserted into static images of Saddam Hussein. The 'National Lottery' and other sources—Channel 4 in the UK is Jewish-run—are arranged by the producer]


Parts were filmed (we're told) for first time 'in centuries' in the Houses of Parliament.

This film (movie? DVD?) is unusual in getting only 4-star reviews, even from the universal fellow-traveller 'news' sources. Though Double quotes from an anonymous source says it's the “THE BEST FILM OF THE YEAR”. Well, it worked—I picked it from a clutch of old DVDS.

The 'suffragette' of the title is a composite figure drawn from notes and comments, and experts, all of whom appear to be women. Much of this information is from the 'Audio Commentary by Director Sarah Gavron and Screenwriter Abi Morgan'.

The period of c. 1900 to the First World War is of great interest for its part in the modern world. There were:–

Of the various characters, we might select Emmeline Pankhurst, played by Meryl Streep, who can't manage an English or Manchester accent. Presumably she was picked to rouse American audiences from their slumbers. This film and commentary (of course) sticks to the convention of not mentioning Jews. I think Pankhurst was, and this was the source of her war fever—she went round speaking in favour of war.
      Emily Davison. Accounts of the time say she was fanatically devoted to a cause; no prizes for guessing what. Or for guessing how she was portrayed. They tried to show her horse-race death, including lots of cameras (when in fact only one blurred photo was published). (Natalie Press at about 1:24).
      I see Dame Ethyl Smythe's March of the Women was worked in. Smythe, a composerr, was compared with Bach by an incautious commentator. Inspector Arthur Steed was a composite character, acted by Brendon Gleeson, shown with his new tricks, including portable cameras. This was a time when Jews committed a lot of crime, but the Steed chap knows nothing about that. Probably Irish Garda now, resemble the character in taking no action at the invasion of Ireland.
      Edith Ellyn appears to have been a real person—hard to tell with trash like Wikipedia around. It is a fact that dynamite, relatively new at the time, was used in some atrocities, with anonymous notes 'Vote for Women' left lying around. Whether people like Ellyn really did this, is another matter. Very reminiscent of 'Black Lives Matter' other Jewish-funded phoney movements. Here's a debate with a Jew called Webb, who calls himself a 'historian'—judge for yourself.
      Don't take the stories of women being chucked out seriously, at least without careful checking. Jews secretly funded such things as violence against protestors who disliked the Boer Wars, for example. Same story about WW2, Vietnam War, and so on.


At this point, I have something like Jew fatigue and Critics Elbow, and will stop. But please don't imagine you'll get the full story from people with a very long history of lying! And watch for half-truths: a man I vaguely know thinks ordinary women were the cause of the Great War, and I can't dissuade him. But remember that the slow appreciation of Jewish influence is growing, and this may be the greatest change in human beliefs for thousands of years.

  © Raeto West 1 September 2024


Women of Ideas, first published in 1982. c 800 pages. This is by ARK PAPERBACKS (London, Boston, Melbourne, Henley-on-Thames.) There are other covers.
    'Ideas' turn out to be novels and often unhelpful diatribes. The book is vol II of History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage. As far as I can tell, this was expanded to six volumes by 1920.
    The faded ribbon has the colours of the British suffragettes; see Lawson-Reay's book. She clearly sets out the dispute between Suffragists and the violent suffragettes, without understanding the Jew angle, promoting world war.
    I was put onto this by a 'historian' on 'suffragette bombers' attributing atrocities to women to direct from Jews. I hadn't known until prompted by a Jew that the suffragettes were used by Jews as a force towards world war. Simon Webb: Suffragette Bombers?

An online collage of Jewish 'feminists'. Feminism in quotes, because the aim is typically Jewish, hidden behind a fa&csadil;cade, to harm non-Jews. It's not a 'Jewish war for women'; it's a Jewish policy of making 'goy' relationships and families difficult.
    'Gay marriage' is a typical scheme for goyim, unthinkable before the Jewish victory of World War 2, and promoting homosexuality. So is race mixing for non-Jews. So is abortion, though Jews encourage this in particular for negroes in New York. Jewish publishers and advertisers output is obsessively of this type.

Review of   Dale Spender   Women of Ideas.   (And what men have done to them).

'From Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich'.   First published 1982.
Disappointingly, all her work looks like controlled opposition, manipulated by the usual quasi-eternal suspects. Nothing very helpful resulted for British or Australian people, though gains in technology obscure this.
      I've aimed at a thoroughly 'revisionist' review, which many readers will never have been exposed to; I hope they will have th courage to face the facts, even in the face of Jewish strangleholds on knowledge.
      The whole subject repays serious study. Here's some of it.


Typical 'academic' 1970s study literature, telling the reader what to think: published by Penguin Books, Jewish publishers and propagandists. Has the 'Glorious Revolution' and other unanalytical stuff; Walter Scott's importance is slid away. 'Jane Austen' is another misrepresented author. But the principal censored topic is Jews, and their influence.

Invisible Women–The Schooling Scandal (1982 book; this is the 1988/9 edition). Intro by Sue Adler, of course Jewish.



Reported to almost zero extend in the UK. Such events are routinely censored by the Jew-controlled media.
    At the same time, such media have promoted race-mixing and immigration since 1945. Victims get no coverage in the Jewish media. Not (as may be thought) putting politics first—but because Jewish policy is to care nothing for 'goyim'.
Biographical info:   (Partly taken from her books): Dale Spencer (born 1943) was brought up in Australia, and has a sister Lynne. She has gained ‘degrees in English, Education, and Sociolinguistics', actual qualifications not given. She ‘taught in Australian secondary schools for nine years and has been involved in teacher training.’ So she left Australia aged about 30, around 1973. She has expressed dislike for the Vietnam War—many young Americans and Australians were given, for the first time in their lives, not money, but equipment and weapons, travel and uniforms and food, and bribes with the prospects of rape and cheap prostitutes, gifts from Henry Kissinger.
      I remember being told in c. 1975 that many single women left Australia, despairing of the poor quality of young male Australians. Probably this wasn't unusual. Earls Court in London was nicknamed 'Kangaroo Valley'.
      London's Fawcett Library is mentioned; it no longer exists where it was, but seems to have been subsumed by the LSE into the Women's Library, part of the Jewish infiltration into London's official academic life since the 19th century, including people like Soros.
      As far as I've followed the topic, she lectured at the Institute of Education; I remember meeting Barbara Tizard, who adopted a black girl and was part of the Jewish education thrust. Education was, or is, part of the London University assemblage of buildings including the School for Tropical Medicine, and SOAS, the 'School for Oriental and African Studies', though they now seem to discourage this phrase, and concentrate on getting paying students, often from exploitative but Jew-run territories.
      No prizes for guessing the intensity of their avoidance of discussion of Jews and their horrifying belief and deeds. It's impossible without genealogical research to know whether Dale Spencer home background was Jewish. She certainly seems totally ignorant of Jews, but in a world of very severe censorship that's not sound evidence. Australia has been a supplier of Jewish corruption, from Murdoch and control of goldfields to support for Jewish wars and propagandists such as Pilger.
      Publishers and career administrators and their puppets seem to have joined by 1980 to form Jew-subservient 'Feminist' groups; Dale Spender being one. These include Piatkus Books (1979), Carmen Callil (1973). imprints such as Virago, Women's Press, and Ark, and older publishers such as Routledge and Kegan Paul. Experienced researchers get to know the prevailing attitudes of such publishers. Nearly fifty years later, their work needs examination.

The Woman Question:   It's essential to grasp that British society was getting richer, through the entire century from 1800-1900 and until 1914. But increasing Jewish infiltration introduced a secret movement to ruin this in favour of Jews. All this was very much cloaked by Jewish-funded groups, chiefly the Church 'of England' and the Freemasons, both of which were bought out.
      English women with money worked for good causes, but the Jewish policy was to aim for world war (to ruin and subjugate Russia and Germany, and take assets from Britain and the USA). The 'Women's Social and Political Union' (1903, I think) looks like such a movement, at the tipping point between the two groups. Finance included 'death duties' which later impoverished families with sons killed in the 'Great War'.
      Looking back, it's clear the slogan 'democracy' was designed to allow very few parties to be controlled. So the movement for women said nothing about any other issues than suffrage. Jews found by trial that they easily had the power to change minds via newspapers.
      When you read 'Votes for Women was the headline in every paper', and atrocities had bits of paper reading 'votes for women', and a photo was produced of Davidson's death at a horse-race, you know it's been organised.
      A 1918 Act of Parliament included women of 30 or more; in 1928, all men and women of 21.

Women have often been accurately criticised for having no understanding of science, though of course many men have no understanding either. Dale Spender has an online clip where she tries to work an iPhone, finding (corrctly) there's no manual. So she thinks it's time to find out what 'digital' means. I frowned to see DS believes in the 'rule of thumb' error. She seems to wear only purple and green, the suffragette colours. Her online audiences seem mostly female, some being fat, at long-term vascular risk. It's the physical analogue of Jewish mental harm.

Manchester:   Manchester was important for its cotton mills, and had (like Leeds) a fairly secret Jewish population. The Manchester Man was a novel, by a woman, of the time. Cheetham Library is famous as a haunt of Marx and Engels. A good paper by Miles Mathis reveals Marx's family connections and wealth. The Manchester Guardian to this day has a special type of Jewish propaganda, and in fact is used by the media to advertise their jobs! The rather evasive anti-Capitalism books and pamphlets never mention financing by Jews, a tricky balancing-act of lies, subterfuge, and legal actions.

London   became a university town mostly in the 19th century, its ideology a mist of 'Non-Conformist Religions'. There were serious non-Jewish movements, notably in science, but also in social science. The Fawcett Library and early newspapers had some serious messages. The English Woman's Journal (founded approx 1850s) was 'financed by Barbara Smith' who may or may not have been Jewish. There was a National Association for the Promotion of Social Science. The Married Women's Property Act of 1870 was a very significant step, possibly deliberately suppressed. The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was formed in 1903, and looks like a concealed Jewish front: by 1910 it declared a "state of war" with the British Government. Emmeline Pankhurst, as is obvious now, was an agent for Jews, doing everything she could to promote European War, including a truce 'for the duration' of the war.
      All this was tied up with the 1913 Federal Reserve in the USA, giving Jews more or less endless paper money supply. The War starting 1914 led to inflation, removal of gold currency, income tax and death duties.
      Whatever views you may form (if any) please factor in the infinite callousness of Jews, happy to sacrifice many tens of millions.

Important !   Understanding Suffragists and Suffragettes and the Difference:  

Very Important note:   The first votes-for-women people were called 'suffragists'. That link is Bertrand Russell on suffragists. It is not a technically demanding work. His argument is that unpleasant things happened often in the past, to people without votes. So if women have votes, unpleasant things will be less likely to happen. The intricate mechanisms by which reforms may, or may not, happen, and people may, or may not, understand the issues, and the way politics can be controlled, are elided away completely. Russell considered that (at that date) women were legally weak compared to men; he did not consider the evidence for this—which was available at that time from Belfort Bax—something as true today.
      That word has been almost suppressed; Jews wanted war, and supported 'suffragettes', who explicitly supported violence, instead.   Another example of Jewish media control & propaganda power. This link to my 2015/6 article expands on the idea; Blaming Women for War is a fascinating misdirection, which Simon Shappard continues to promote, illustrating this point: When one of several causes is suppressed, the others seem magnified in importance.
      A 2023 ad campaign in the UK (for genealogy) shows a woman whose great-grandma was 'made to work' and joined 'the Suffragettes' so women got the vote. Deliberately misleading background stuff is typical of Jewish-owned advertising agencies.

Belfort Bax   The best writer on gender and law at that time (known to me in English) is E. Belfort Bax; his 1913-published book, The Fraud of Feminism (free download from e.g. archive.org), suggests to me that 'sex war' was a Jewish slogan to split Britain and the USA, either to damage them or lead to war. Unfortunately Bax is not for my taste a systematic, or numerate, writer; he was tutored in 'March of Mind' Victorianism, and taught music and German philosophy, but appears to have drawn on other people for legal material. [Note: I may be wrong about this man; I haven't looked very carefully]
      The hypothesis about Jews and women might be tested against the experiences of Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Germany—each with high Jewish populations—though there are large language barriers.

Education:   is a fascinating subject which has barely begun to be studied seriously. The methods by which Jews ruled over children have never been researched, and have been allowed to extend over much of the world.
      Women's education is traditionally imitative; maybe this will change. It's obvious that Spender has no aptitude or interest in producing independent thinkers and doers; mimicry is her aim, and achievement, which of course is infinitely saddening. Solid achievements of Victorian education (such as Hygiene as a subject) are routinely ignored. Male education is misunderstood—Greek and Latin were taught but with little result in practice or in theory. The women's educational equivalents such as (from a list) St Paul’s Girls’ School, Guildford High School for Girls, City of London School For Girls, James Allen’s Girls’ School, The Godolphin and Latymer School are ignored. The Jewish money-driven Church of England had as much effect on male education—see the figures for vicars in England. Personal contacts were the important thing, including family histories, parents, flogging and fagging.
      None of this is addressed by Spender or her fellow-travellers. Their educational theories apply to state education: so-called 'public schools' and private education by tutors, and secret Jewish education, and Jewish-derived religious education, and even technical education, are ignored. When a friend of mine was asked by Greenham Common women for expertise in electromagnetism, there was not one woman they could find.
      Unionised teachers have proved harmful; they are run by Jews. It's essential to understand this very-censored fact, if you wish to understand the modern world. Reachers' Unions and the National Union of Students perhaps do many things that ordinary unions would do&m,dash;with the exception that, if Jewish interests are involved, heavy pressure is put on members to take the Jewish side. Even if they have no idea about Jews. This is the cause of puzzling behaviour to many members. The system operates in other fields: unions will be told to support wars, for example, if thy are for Israel. Unions will be told to accept immigration, however much they oppose it. Political parties operate in the same way.
      When I say 'in Jewish interests' I mean in the way most Jews in a top-down, 'Chief Rabbi' style, consider their fiecre race bias ought to determine their conduct.
      A particularly sharp form of Jewishness comes into force when there's discussion on placing leaders. As I write, there has been a 4-part TV thing on the Post Office in Britain, nominally headed by a woman called Paula Vennells, who was clearly incompetent to occupy the position. (She was recommended in turn by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Welby, of Jew descent, to be Bishop of London). When you see such appointments, watch for the Jew influence. Similarly with nuclear experts. And with biological sciences. The science and engineering 'experts' popped up by the US system are a joke.
      And similarly with police forces. Jew and Freemason influence means they tend to neglect crimes against 'goyim' and assist Jews in their crimes. The later may be difficult to detect without inside knowledge of Jew aims; for example, illegal immigration into white, or once-white, countries has been Jewish policy since Coudenhove-Kalergi, but this is not widely publicised. So is corruption of sexual habits; Jews favour sex with 3 year old s and above.

First and Second World Wars. And More:   Simon Sheppard attempted to link feminism and war in 2014; ‘In this article I shall argue that the rise in 'feminism' led directly to two disastrous world wars. These of course involved the death of over 50 million people, with many adverse social and political effects in addition.' (Words as Weapons, showing how the suppression of information on Jews leads to misunderstanding or world issues).
      These world events have impacted on non-Jewish women, though without being noticed by the 'feminists' after about 1900, by which time the healthy analysis of the 'woman question' had been taken over by its malign Jewish perversion. In my 25 reviews of books on women, taking differing views from each other I've collected book reviews, including Virginia Nicholson's Two Million Women Without Men on the 'Great War' and its results..
      The Second World War has fortunately been subject to some Internet analysis, which has done more than the entire Anglo-American history and media establishment. My How the Master Race Won the Second World War gives some idea. The women 'useful idiots' controlled by Jews continue to praise worldwide massacres, Churchill and Stalin and Roosevelt, scientific frauds.

Review: Mainly Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them:
As an intro, Invisible Women: the Schooling Scandal (cover design of a negro girl, froma group that never even developed written language) has a remark I'd hoped might be developed: page 84 says:

      '... there is a documented pattern of 'appropriation' of women's ideas in other areas. Hilary Simpson (1979) ... has shown how D H Lawrence appropriated the writings of women ... Wordsworth used Dorothy Wordsworths's diary as the source of many of his ideas ... F Scott Fitzgerald used the diaries of Zelda Fitzgerald. Marion Glastonbury (1978) indicates that the process continues today...'
I'd hoped there might be some rather intricate discussion of 'ideas' and what they are, their history and transmission (or non-transmission) by education, but of course that was a forlorn hope.

Page 104 shows the way real (or invented, or massaged) comments are deployed by Spencer; a rather sad passage with three inarticulate participants,      

Female Student: But why did they go to war? They didn't really have a reason. It seems such a stupid thing to have done.
Male teacher: Yes, well I don't expect you would understand. It's the men who make these decisions and they had lots of reasons, didn't they? Appealing to the boys.

      Women of Ideas is an interesting but not first-rate book. She seems to have spent about a year on it, advised by two librarians at thee Fawcett Library in London (no longer at the same address), writing notes which were laboriously typed for her. Her acknowledgements express great thanks to friends and family, even a few males. I'd guess her chapters took about 3 or 4 days each to write.
      Her introduction is in the tradition of Jewish introductions: long enough to include their slogans and beliefs, and also long enough to hide them. The longest illustration of this pattern is the insertion of Biblical rubbish from Jews into anyone forced or paid to accept them: existence of God, exactly one God, and no others, and in the image of Man, and not female, begotten not created, God's gift, God's forgiveness, Guod up there (looking up), someone's soul overhead ... ad nauseam.
      In this case, we have a lot of men vs women assertions: patriarchy, male-dominated society, Friedan, Millett and Greer (Jews), why didn't we know?, the suffragettes. (Suffragists isn't even indexed). The section ends with 10 pages on Aphra Behn (1640-1689), whose surname is from her marriage. Her unmarried name seems unknown, despite presumably being recorded in the marriage ceremony. Spender says apparently from a biography by Angeline Goreau that 'Aphra Behn was an adventuress ... long and dangerous voyage to the West Indies ... involved in a slave rebellion ... a spy for Charles II against the Dutch ... debtor imprisoned ... vociferously defended the right of women to an education ... sexual pioneer ... argued to Royalist point of view ... an early aboliotionist [of slavery] ... had seventeen plays produced in seventeen years ... wrote thirteen novels...' John Dryden was her friend and colleague. Both were buried in Westminster Abbey, though she was buried outside.
      Half her assessment dealt with the way Behn had faded from view, attributed to male power.
      Without looking at reference books, there are many problems with this depiction. Perhaps she was bawdy, and maybe her plays were calculated with that in mind, with a bit of help from Dryden. A female Rochester? Or perhaps she was an agent, or double agent, working for or agents Charles II in the war against Cromwell and the Dutch Jews. Maybe she was a crypto-Jew educated by Jews (though the Jews' Free School in London seems to date from 1732). I don't know, but of course neither does Spender.
      Mary Wollstonecraft comes next, 'and her foremothers'. Spender gives her a lot of attention, though largely as someone whose image may need updating. Wollstonecraft's ten pages occur later in part I, in the last section. Considering her alleged importance, these pages are disappointing: Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792. The bibliography lists an 1891 edition) is mostly discussed in a walk-through way, with extracts and comments by Spender and by others. I noted one thing: 'To Mary Wollstonecraft, prostitution in and out of marriage was work, ... forced upon women as a means of obtaining the necessary financial resources for survival.' Note the assumption that finance is the essential thing, i.e. a working system of money, presumably run by men! I'm not sure if Shelley got a mention (or Byron), but it's in keeping with this book's approach that they probably weren't. Spender's meandering failure to squeeze Wollstonecraft's essence, plus the 'French Revolution' date, incline me to think she was just another psyop, not intended to be taken seriously, in the way Godwin can be interpreted. She may well have been a distraction from the serious issues of the day.
      Sceptics will note that the publication coincided with the so-called 'French Revolution', now known to have been as Jewish as the 'Glorious Revolution' in England. So it might well have been a distraction. This chapter includes Fuseli ('both Turk and Jew'–Blake) and Rousseau and other potentially interesting persons.
      Grub Street and Bluestockings are two sections on the 18th century. By this time, the Bank 'of England' takeover had been in place for long enough to cause widespread impoverishment, but with money for the Church 'of England', imposing new rather unsustainable buildings. These events are out of the range of Spender, who attends to hack writers and women friends doing their best to run Salons in the French style. I'm afraid both sections disappointed me.

Here are some scattered notes, rather than blocks of review comments:–
Spender mentions "middle-class white men" as causative agents. Under the world-wide Jew super-layer, these men are small beer and generally do what they're told.
On censorship, Spender probably doesn't know about such things as atrocities in China, the East India Company, the 30 Years War in Europe, and such things. I can't ell if she censors or just doesn't know. However, she does at least know James Mill was the father of John Start Mill.
She knows about the US Civil War, if a sentence or two in passing counts. This must have had effects on women, but Spender takes the Jewish line and omits them. She's more interested in the supposed 'emancipation' of slaves, but doesn't mention their redundancy, in my view prompted by the powerful new steam engines; nobody else seems to have noticed. And she doesn't mention that slaveholders were actually compensated!
Spender, characteristically, says nothing about such things as cheap paper, mass printing and binding, typewriters, which at the time were leading technologies.
On the 'Pankhursts', it seems in 1898 Emmeline Goulden married a Pankhurst. Anything golden suggests Jew ancestry. Her husband allegedly died, leaving 'no money, and 4 children'. So she decided to open a shop, in Manchester. Of course. The general rule is that by the last decades of the 1800s, there were huge influxes of Jews into the West. The 1913 Federal Reserve Act in the USA was the coup-de-grace. I'm pretty certain that Emmeline Pankhurst's career was Jew-funded and aimed at war—in effect, civil war in Europe.
      The WSPU has its 8 pages in Spender, dating from this time
Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898. Lived mostly in New York State). Gage gets one of the longest sections in Spender's book, which Spender evidently considered a major research effort. Gage's book WOMAN, CHURCH AND STATE: A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE STATUS OF WOMAN THROUGH THE CHRISTIAN AGES: WITH REMINISCENCES OR THE MATRIARCHATE: BY MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE (I left it in capitals, unsure how she would have written it) was published in 1893 in Chicago, by Charles H. Kerr & Company. It's available online, for example at archive.org, which of course did not exist when Spender wrote. Spender calls in Woman, Church and State, which is misleading: it's clear Gage thought the world before Christianity had one or many 'Matriarchates', with women treated as responsible and skilled, before the Christian era with such things as 'St Paul' and scriptural evidence of women's sinfulness. Spender goes into some detail on this book, helped out by comments by Sally Roesch Wagner, presumably yet another Jew. There were clashes with Gage and women like Susan B Anthony, based (my reading) on attitude to Christianity, which most of them presumably viewed as shocking. Part of her dedication reads: Dedicated to all Christian women and men, of whatever creed or name who, bound by Church or State, have not dared to Think for Themselves. Her thought, however, stopped with Jews.
      Gage gives many examples of exceptional women (Spender prints some on p. 317, and others from 321-323. These are not sourced and rely on other people's judgments. She reminds me of Florence Deeks, a Canadian woman pioneer type, who took legal action for copyright infringement against H.G. Wells. Spender's praise therefore seems overdone.
Ida B. Wells is in Spender on black women. There's the usual problem here, that Spender uses or may use the intentional confusion with mixed races. Remember Obama being described as 'black', despite having a 'Jewish' mother and something like a Arab father? Jews at present call them black, if they're useful for propaganda.
William Thompson (1775-1833) gets a favourable mention as a socialist. This may have been at the time when socialism wasn't yet promoted strategically by Jews; or it may be part of that scheme. I don't know, and Spender isn't telling, if she does.
There's some heart-warming stuff on Miss Beale and Miss Buss, and Newnham and Girton Colleges. At least they seem to have tried.

The 20th century takes up about 3/8 of the book. Anything ancient has no place in the Spender world! We have 10 pages on Emma Goldman, a Jew described as an 'anarchist' by Spender. I was interested to see Mary Ritter Beard in there, probably an ancestor of today's classics professor, who tells stories of Rome almost in a casual, guidebook fashion, superficial and unquestioning. I remember talking to a Jewish 'philosopher' and wondering how much approval and liking the Roman Empire had at the time. I didn't know that Jew have very fixed ideas on Rome, and was surprised that he should take a simple view of all the millions then.
Dora Russell (later Countess Russell; how these people love titles!) in her Tamarisk Tree has a foreword by Dale Spencer. '57 years of writing and journalism, 1925-1982'. I don't think she's aged well. Her essays have a review feel - e.g. the one on women's lack of power starts with a comment on an NCCL document. Comments on e.g drugs etc suggest similar action to something she's read. General feeling of copying from news sources. She quotes phrases probably from Russell: 'passionate belief in matter', 'profound effect of the Greeks', and a ragbag of stuff about the past, all cliches: cave-man; those intellectual Greeks; 18th century. She had a disgusting worship of Jewish Russia: In Russia an attempt at a constructive modern synthesis has been made (1927). Sad pointlessness dominates: 'The Right to be Happy', 'In Defense of Children'

In section D, 'AND WHEN THERE WERE NONE', all the names seem Jewish—Beard, Viola Klein, Mirra Komarovsky, Ruth Herschberger, Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead, 1950s, 1960s. Margaret Mead had not yet been exposed; Sartre I think hadn't either.
      There may be a few sound names; Rebecca West. for example.

Conclusions:   Perhaps I may sum up traditional opinions on marriage. Agatha Christie, at her girls' school, said it was an exciting business to speculate on who might marry you. Doctor? Architect? Racing driver?—and she picked an Egyptologist. A once well-known 19th century law case in England involved a wrongly-performed wedding ceremony in a corner of England, which implied none of the people were legally married. None of them wanted to change, says the story.
      The start of the 'Great War' in 1914 revealed some oddities: Barbara Cartland, a fluffy romantic novelist said all these men were afraid they might die—and so, for women, it was a "tremendously exciting time". Women were bribed by being paid to do war work which they probably hated; but under the paper money arrangements put together by Jews, it's what they did. Much easier than rational discussions of ways to give women more.

This leads to the top-secret Jewish question, and the almost-equally secret Freemason question. If anything is to be done, there will be in future legislation about secrecy. Until that happens, we're in a speculative world. The situation is truly amazing; in its way, it's an astonishing achievement. People are basically fairly standardised, with similar structures and features. Apparently, just one single group has convinced itself that it is infinitely superior to all others, and has developed a fantastically detailed rule-book as to what to do to others. Their outlook, modified for inferiors, has seeped and oozed slowly through the world. The secrecy is so hermetically-sealed that its separate developments are barely noticed by its victims. As just one example, Dr Lorraine Day (RIP) became well aware of Jews in her department in a San Francisco hospital. But at the same time she had no doubts whatever about the long-term Jewish-constructions about 'God' and 'Jesus'. Another example was Hilaire Belloc, greatly troubled by Jewish enrichment during the Great War, who remained a devout Catholic.

Spender's technique when pushing an opinion is to pick an example or two, hope it's accurate, and hope readers will be moved into some sort of action. In fact, any change is likely to have effects which ought to be analysed; for example, we now have a situation with ouster injunctions, no way to check affidavits, and divorces which seem to favour women (I'm not sure). We have rather absurd mixed crits such as 'Feminazis' which show serious misunderstandings. Legal systems ought to be assessed on probability bases, so the effects can be predicted society-wide. But of course this level of skill is outside Spender's range.

This book may be useful as a source-book, listing names and book-titles, before checking online.

It's tempting to think people like Spender are harmless, even if they may be batty and ditzy biddies in odd clothing. But, I beg you, please examine and grasp the Jewish issue. It really may save you life.

Raeto West   19 January 2024

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Ivor Catt: Elderly male struggles with Jewish 'radfems' and 'feminazis' without understanding the issues

It's impressive, and terrifying, to watch the effectiveness of Jewish censorship. Jewish policy—this is part of their 'religion'—is never to discuss Jewish activities if they are 'negative' in the modern sense. Jewish murderers, rapists, fraudsters, thugs, schemers, medical crooks are simply not mentioned, or, if there's some mistake, are hushed up as soon as is practicable.
      Several facts in the modern world facilitate this process. World-wide co-operation and a secret language permits exchange of information. The 1913 Federal Reserve Act in the USA permits Jews to print money, and with this huge advantage they have purchased all important media channels, including the newer radio and TV. They have also been able to penetrate all professions which normally need years of preparation, including the law, education, and politics. They have also co-operated with groups who may not even know they're dealing with Jews: Freemasons and 'Common Purpose' are fairly clandestine groups, but something similar applies from centuries past to religious groups such as the 'Church of England', whose funding is traditionally obscured.

I knew Ivor in the 1990s, mainly as a protestor against what I now identify as Science fraud. (See my piece on science revisionism on this). Science fraud as a topic was perhaps written about first by Martin Gardner who contributed maths material in Scientific American.

But Catt was also a protestor against legal incompetence and in particular family law, which includes children caught up in divorce proceedings. For a short time long ago, he assembled an online listing of British newspaper items, called Ill Eagle. I haven't copied any of these to this site; this is the opening page on his site. More specific is the page on all 2002 issues which of course has names from 20 years and more old.
      What Ivor did not understand—no-one told him, or most of his associates—is that Jews have a very long-standing hatred of their 'host societies' and wish to harm them. By encouraging divorce, sexual dysfunction, harm to children, homosexuality, unwanted immigration, assaults on English girls, death in wars, poor education, selective funding of foreigners, and no doubt other things, they can work towards what they want. Or perhaps what they think they want—the whole process seems to resemble a parasitic instinct.
      Looking at many of the names he quotes from, it's obvious to Jew-watchers that many are Jews, in spite of their hush-hush policy. The Guardian and Sunday Times are Jewish-owned, their entire history showing their relentless promotion of Jewish causes. Stanko plays a large part, immediately identifiable as a Jewess probably from Polish or Russian ancestors, with some history of Jew activity on the continent. Ivor doesn't realise that Jews get selective academic promotion; he thinks she is a genuine professor. Melanie Phillips is a Jewish journalist whose life has been spent pushing Jewish causes; probably she has her own Rabbi to wag his beard at her. Dworkin is a fat Jewish American; the reason she gets publicity is, of course, that Jewish editors like her rubbish. Jewish control of money allows money to be directed to lawyers they like, who will do damage if they can. Penguin Books was and is a typical Jewish publishing company; if it's silly rubbish, for example 'LGBT', they will promote it and the suckers buy it. The legal system has many Jews at many levels, including government, and these love laws on immigration, for example, to offload the costs not so much on to taxpayers, as the more hidden process of borrowing from the Jewish bankers, over many years.
      Ivor's vocabulary includes 'radfems' and 'feminazis', and other traces of Jewish propaganda.
      This is now all many years ago. I hope more recent activists are more switched-on, though I have do doubt it, since Jew-aware people are unlikely to make a living, and 'activists' are usually funded by Jews.

-RW   21 Jan 2023

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Anthony Ludovici: Woman: A Vindication (1923)

Warning! Ludovici's style is pre-1914: not well-sourced, and too ordinary for comfort. He had little idea of Jewish pervasiveness, and little of the problems introduced by the 'Fed' in 1913. And he is too oratorical, failing to get to his points. He referred to Roman Catholicism as 'the mother Church'.

The book can be read online at archive.org. I think I reviewed this book in detail, but I shan't bother now. He takes an evolutionary view, in line with people like Bergson. He is rather scathing about women's thought, giving a parable on a young woman wanting to study political economy. He thought women were evolved to want children and use their large reproductive equipment, which he compared to a rhino's horn. And this (like a female butterfly testing a leaf for her caterpillars) led to a careful weighing-up of men. A friend of mine told me that he'd learned a few things selling jewellery, and one was that women furtively survey a man's shoulders, clothes, shoes, tidiness, to decide on his suitability, or not. It has to be furtive; cannot be open. Ludovici says much the same, because of the imperative matter of selection of his qualities. (This was written before DNA was discovered). Hence by a bit of convolution women like money, and sports cars, and men with them.
      Ludovici says this is laudable; and hence the title of his book. He thinks women on their own should consider having children; after the 'Great War' he was not the only man to think this—though I know of no political movement to that end, very likely because Jews wouldn't want it.
     
      Ludovici wrote in Kegan Paul's series of small brown hardbacks Lysistrata, or Woman's Future and Future Woman at about the same time. Dora Russell's Hypatia was supposed to answer it.

Anthony Ludovici: Man: An Indictment (1927)

This follow-up book is typical of many Jew-influenced books poking fun at men. They must have annoyed and puzzled the survivors of the 'Great War', who'd been soldiers or sailors, heroic in the face of mechanical death, but also were aware that their aristocratic betters had done little. The exception must be for junior ranks from places like Eton, who died in large numbers.

Ludovici had little sense of perception of errors lurking in popular stories. He made fun of the poor quality of men—teeth, height, strength—without understanding that volunteers turned up in huge numbers, so the officials had to find reasons to turn them away. Jews of course were keen not to be called up.
      Ludovici has pages on the 'suits of armour' argument: the surviving suits of armour, he said, were built for big men. Ludovici includes stone coffins, evidence from skeletons, the size of jousting poles like small trees, all unsatisfactory. He has an interesting comment on doctors, whom he considers are biased in favour of modern men, who'd had their medical services. Ludovici was unsophisticated with such arguments. And of course had no idea that Jew-derived techniques were harmful, something coming to light only today.
      It (I suppose) goes without saying that aristocracies prefer to command rather than risk their lives. Ludovici had no mental model, that I can see, of numbers of men needed to fight other numbers of men, or of their attrition rates. He has no mental model of how many aristocrats should be expected in all populations. He had little idea of inheritance patterns. Nietzsche, whom he liked, had a similar outlook. Overall, not much help to anyone; he was just another 'individualist' who didn't see through to the big pictures.

RW 18 Feb 2022
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Postcard cover design 'unusual in [showing] both the Suffragists' red & the Suffragettes' purple, white, and green'.
  I could find no explanation in the book for those colours

VOTES FOR WOMEN: The North Wales Suffragists' Campaign 1907-1914
Barbara Lawson-Reay


By chance, I've reviewed Webb's Suffragette Terrorism below. Click here to get to it, then return here. Webb was unwittingly helpful to me, pretending to be unaware that Jews were terrorists in eastern Europe and Russia, their motives no doubt to cause wars between nations, thus assisting Jews. This is likely to be a new idea to most readers, who have been trained not to enquire into the causes of the Great War with its crop: legal preliminaries such as death duties, borrowings from Jews, deaths, poverty and disease, refugee arrangements, and Versailles arrangements, which included Jews from all the countries involved.
      The first section on Webb gives an account of the reported events, with H G Wells' summary. My suggestion is that the demonstrations were funded by Jews, accustomed to such things by the Boer Wars. I may as well summarise Wells after the war and after some women were allowed to vote for what became a one-party state with the 'national government'. Wells said: '... as Europe collapsed into war, the Vote was flung to women simply to keep them quiet, and how the only traceable consequence has been the further enfeeblement of the waning powers of Democracy. ...'
      The second section included longish comments from Webb, and from opponents, from which you may draw your own conclusions as to his lack of honesty.
I'll put another link, to Bertrand Russell's Anti-Suffragist Anxieties of 1910. Not a technically demanding article, though it is full of assumptions about remote past history and legal systems at the time. And he assumes that votes translate into action, though obviously this can't always be true. And the present two-party system, a side-effect of the first-past-the-post arrangement, can be undercut with any overall system of power—such as Jews wield.

This book, Votes for Women, was published by Carreg Gwalch with financial support of the Welsh Books Council, at Llanrwst, in Conwy. I bought my copy in Portmadog. I wish I could feel more warmth for this book. But I think the real hidden currents of change were out of the mental range of these people, mostly women, who 'deserve to be remembered'.
      The true version, as far as I can find behind the secrecy, is that Jews wanted long-term harm to civilised countries, including Europe, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire under that approximate rubric. They assumed they end on top, as suggested by the Rothschilds and others. They wanted disruption, were paid for it, and got it. They tended to support war, having no idea what that involved. They paid little attention to Lloyd George and President Wilson and others as they manoeuvred for the US' Federal Reserve, income tax, death duties, official secrets, conscription, and other moves to empower the state, particularly Jews, against the rest.

There are 9 chapters, 8 being 1914 The end of an era, and 9 The War and afterwards. The first seven chapters look at 1907 to 1913. Each chapter's contents is arranged chronologically by months. The sources seem to have been local newspapers in the National Library of Wales (I'm not certain, but there's a good bibliography). The authoress has no idea that newspapers could be inaccurate. The first date (1907) may have been selected to distract from Jewish assassinations on the continent, or such events as the Jewish-funded Russo-Japan war; at any rate, the presentation suggests ever-growing disturbances, and this seems correct.
      Emily Wilding Davison in June 1913 was something like a peak of alarm. The end-point was war 'breaking out' (Britain declared war—saying that war 'broke out' avoids that awkward fact) and the Pankhursts making peace with Lloyd George and supporting war.

The second part has Appendices A to G (seven of them) listing names of 'Visiting Dignitaries' and 'Officers, Committee Members and Supports' from Llandudno through to Carnarfon and other places. Proofread by Mr Lawson-Reay, I believe. Some of the names are well-known to people aware of the places and times, for example Emily Wilding Davison died at the Epsom Derby; she looks to me a Jewish activist, but no official publication would say so. She's one of many names listed in the index.
      A glance at the chapter on Llandudno finds Harold Stewart RATHBONE 'part of the Liverpool merchant shipping industry' . His uncle was William Rathbone, Liberal MP, anti-slavery campaigner and philanthropist' and his cousin was Eleanor Rathbone, a keen suffragist.' On slavery, Michael Portillo (Spanish Jew descent) takes the conventional view but in fact 'abolition' meant that slave-owners got huge sums in 'compensation' paid out of taxes. The entire subject is related to the invention of steam engines, whose power of course far exceeded slave manpower; it's another subject cossetted by repeated Jew lies.
      Historians of employment must find some of the accounts fascinating, e.g. Caroline Raw whose school with Mabel Bennett employed 'an art teacher, two English teachers, a music teacher and a Parisienne French teacher.'
      Leonora COHEN (p 188) has a long account; she seems to be a perfect example of a hostile Jew, born in Leeds, attacking property etc. The index gives some indication of the importance of entries; Pankhursts have many, Lytton and Evelyn Matthews, and Pethick-Lawrence listed with the Ls, as examples.
      The appendices list 'Officials and Committee Members' of the organisations; I'm not clear on what they named themselves, but 'cells' was one name used. They clearly had bureaucracies, with Presidents and AGMs, and it's easy to imagine status battles and takeover attempts. Some of these women acted during the Great War to prevent 'immorality' and counter prostitution—along the lines of Mrs Amos 'devoted to prostitution'.

Notes at the start distinguish the NUWSS ('National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies')—non-militant Suffragists, from the WSPU (Women's Social and Political Union')—Militant, Suffragettes. The latter look likely to be Jewish or freemason-funded. The notes say 'double-barrelled' surnames are listed under the second name. These were considered superior, and hereditary—one of C P Snow's novels notes a mixed English-Jew couple put the English surname at the end, so the Jewish name could be dropped in the next generation.

This is not a great book, and in the course of time and possible increase in understanding something more combative may emerge. It's of course entirely possible that parts of the surname of Lawson-Reay are Jewish, undeclared as usual, and indifferent to, or welcoming, deaths of Europeans.

It's interesting to consider how little anything practical was influenced by female votes, and the obvious suspicion is that 'votes for women' distracted from action on serious issues, for example prostitution as I've mentioned. Very probably the idea was to add another push to the forces for war, in this indirect form. And of course many people see little connection between actions and their results.
      I've just read a booklet on St Wilfrid's Church, in Preston, a Roman Catholic concern, and the booklet is mostly concerned with the original north-south plot of land, the income likely from rents of benches, the various marbles used, and the stained glass window makers in London. In a similar way, Lawson-Reay provides masses of detail, but loses sight of the objectives. But perhaps it's intended to be that way.

RW 6 Dec 2022

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The title is Inferior. And so is the book.

Inferior by Angela Saini.
Review by Rae West 29 Sept 2020.   2017 4th Estate 'An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers'. London
My paperback copy says it's 'not for resale' and an 'Exclusive edition for schools from the UK crowdfunding campaign'. It has a foreword by 'Dr Jess Wade', who caims to be a physicist, and has given away copies of the book and campaigned to get a copy into every state secondary school in the UK'.
      Saini, in her acknowledgements, thanks the K. Blundell Trust for a research grant (amount unspecified) including travel; she had access to Darwin's correspondence at Cambridge, the Wellcome Library which I'd thought was taken over by Sackler, the Jewish OxyCOntin 'drug king', and two outfits with 'Intersex' in their name. Credits include Robert Trivers of speculations on the evolution of deception.
      Her claims have vague edges, something often found with women 'intellectuals'—'In 2020 Angela was named one of the world's top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine' is one; a Masters in Engineering from Cambridge University is another (Cambridge automatically issued a 'master' to its graduates after a year, and I presume still does); 'award-winning journalist' is another. A few years ago the EU started some sort of advertising project to try to get girls (and 'minorities', who in fact are majorities in the world). The abbreviation 'STEM' ('Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics') has 'STEM Ambassadors', all perhaps stemming (apologies) from EU advertising agencies.
      The book's contents are not new, perhaps assembled since about 1950 when Jews won the Second World War and started to spread their debts, corruption, and incompetence. Saini even quotes 'Ashley Montagu' (real name something Jewish) on the 'superiority of women'. They cover health (Saini doesn't bother much with dangers of childbirth, or abortion for that matter), brain size or rather weight (a perennial issue), work (plenty of scope for statistical errors on pay), but not much substantial on mental differences. All these issues are pushed by Jews, including 'intersexuality', and Jews carefully avoid mentioning they are the most racist group in the world, as does Saini. Saini hates 'eugenics' in a laughably insane way.
      I was fascinated to find a scientific dispute between Robin P. Clarke and Simon Baron-Cohen on autism, here in which Baron-Cohen is identified as a holocaustianity fraud. One has to have sympathy with Cambridge; probably they'd lose a lot of Jewish paper money if they insisted on truth-telling. Bit sad, though.
      Saini has written for the New Scientist; I had a collection of these around the 1970s and noted they had nothing on weaponry and war crimes, or any such topic. I haven't bought it for many years; it's pitifully feeble trash. She also appears on BBC Radio, which is of course trash. Oh—and the Guardian, also trash—I wouldn't attempt to rank these by their rankness! She has a few Youtubes, a guarantee of unoriginality. She needs acting lessons: she couldn't even remember her routine Jewish lies about race.
      She appears to have been born in 1980, and therefore is now about 40. Publishing as a perilous business, especially now with Internet's ability to corrode and snipe at reputations. And it's expensive to pay for whole industries of frauds: think 9/11 and Silverstein, think of the repulsive frauds like 'Astronaut Buzz Aldrin', think of the huge scam of 'coronavirus', think of the 'Holohoax' as it's sometimes known, think of the 'Federal Reserve'. In the Middle Ages, churches had something like a monopoly of timewasting scams; now, in place of Scriptoria producing handwritten MSs, we have junk propaganda, in each case with Jews behind-the-scenes.

This book by Saini is ostensibly aimed at girls at school. I doubt it can have had any success in view of its obvious insincerity and feebleness. In a way this is tragic: the world faces crises—for example in India, ancestral home of Saini—and unrealistic bravado is not much of a response. There are vast issues of food and water, population, energy, buildings, education, which need competent people worldwide if they are to be alleviated. The era of Jewish parasitism and large-scale murder must (I hope) come to an end fairly soon.

RW 29 Sept 2020


Christmas 2020 had three television programmes from the Royal Institution's lecture room. On BBC4 TV. Three one-hour Christmas Lectures on 'Planet Earth'. They weren't quite 'lectures', but, rather, fun things for kids which I hope appealed more to them than to me: all of course mixed race etc, childish visual aids, technical diagrams from nowhere, outputs from unexplained machines. The kids were all at home, 'isolated' from the fake 'COVID 19' virus. The two or so assistants in the stage area wore black masks, I suppose for emphasis. The three episodes has three presenters; I suppose they'd be called 'talent' by the BBC's retards. All the supposed experts were young women; one had a Muslim name. A TV linked showed someone supposedly from Chad, videod perhaps by traditional native electric magic. The first part was presented by a 'black' as they call them, called Chris Jackson. He was supposed to be a geologist. The second, mostly on the oceans, by Dr Helen Czerski. The third, by Dr Tara Shine, on the atmosphere, with an Irish accent ('warming' as 'worming').
      The final section introduced 'greenhouse gases' as though the expression is accurate (not much glass in the atmosphere...) and assumed carbon dioxide causes heating. Incidentally, the enormous contribution of China to CO2 was ignored—I wondered if Tara Shine blushed slightly. I'd guess from the name she thinks she's a Jew—it's exquisitely amusing that simple believers should be presented as scientists. The odd fact that oil, taken from underground, then burnt, on the face of it an immense sink of oxygen, isn't mentioned, itself deserves a mention. Underground strata which once held oil don't seem to be 'sexy'. The spare CO2, in its tiny percentage form, must help plants (and the tiny creatures, of collective vast biomass, which photosynthesise). A possibly Muslim woman seemed to think electrolysis of water might be helpful, though the vast volumes, their explosive nature, and the huge amount of hardware doesn't sound very unpolluting to me. I don't think anyone mentioned 'nuclear power': this is in a state of phased retirement, so the Jewish frauds can hold on to their loot—see the insane cost of 'nuclear power' and other articles in nukelies.org . Another non-mention was I think power stations in South Africa, in very serious difficulties: they can't get the staff, the supposed customers don't pay, that sort of thing. Still, the audience all thought they knew what 'batteries' are.

Here's an article on my site from a real scientist on Global Warming: Fact or Fiction? which (believe it or not) was recorded by me 25 years ago at Kew Gardens in south-west London.

RW 30 December 2020

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Social Media Debate on Jewish Media: Texts I Noticed

Note on the difficulty of multiple causation; very likely people have evolved to concentrate on single threats

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Passer by: January 8, 2016 - 4:52 am

I could discuss that. I believe that there is a connection between feminisation of society and third-worldization of society.

Men evolved to protect the perimeter against males from other (mainly patriarchal) tribes (chimps do the same). Having women make decisions about the perimeter results in what we see – open borders, multiculture, diversity, “tolerance”.

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/37574195_Social_exchange_and_solidarity_In-group_love_or_out-group_hate

https://business.rice.edu/uploadedFiles/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Research/VikasDonations.pdf

Women, for the most part, care about resources and smoothing conflict over. They evolved to fill that role. Stockholm Syndrome is more pronounced in female captives. Women were frequently taken captive by (or in some cases traded to) other groups, and so they evolved to smooth things over with distant groups (whereas their male kinfolk were simply killed)

So, women tend to vote for resource redistribution and being nice to everybody (including those who aren’t in their group), and for helping everybody in need, regardless of their group (say hello to refugee crisis).

Women are also more mainstream. They do not like extremes. So you will rarely see them taking political positions where they risk being called a bigot. Women prefer safer and non-confrontational political positions, where society will approve their behavior and pat them on the back.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=445_1430428588

For every five men in a far right party you will be lucky to see one woman. You will see lots of women in pro-refugee/pro-immigration groups though.

Have a look at pro-immigration demonstration (lots of women) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8c3_1442068850

and anti-immigration demonstration (very few women) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a6b_1442695250

In Scandinavia for example, women vote for the pro-immigration parties, while men vote for the anti-immigration parties. In Sweden, women were only 35 percent of those who voted for the anti-immigration party, the Swedish Democrats party.

“The only major political party in Norway that has voiced any serious opposition to the madness of Muslim immigration is the rightwing Progress Party. This is a party which receives about two thirds or even 70% male votes. At the opposite end of the scale we have the Socialist Left party, with two thirds or 70% female votes. The parties most critical of the current immigration are typically male parties, while those who praise the Multicultural society are dominated by feminists.”

You can check this article by Fjordman, where he argues that Swedish feminists, by popularizing victim-mongering behavior, quotas/affirmative action, by supporting the welfare state, and by being against “bigotry” and “hate speech”, created an environment that is particularly well suited for the spread of other parasitic groups who also, like the feminists, behave like victims, demand quotas/special treatment, demand more welfare handouts, and want to silence criticism and free speech.

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1300

When German feminists protested against the recent migrant rape wave in Germany, they tried to change the subject from German vs Arab issue into men vs women issue, implying that all men are to blame for what happened in Cologne. It is hard for a feminist to be pro white, because it is very easy to jump from gender equality ideology into racial equality ideology, from anti-sexism to anti-racism, from male privilege to white privilege, from condemning patriarchal oppression in the past to condemning colonial oppression in the past. Both ideologies claim that they support the oppressed weak vs the strong, the oppressed victims of men or the oppressed victims of white colonizers.

So not surprisingly, German feminists in Cologne protested both against sexism and against racism, mixing them into one.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/06/09/2FD1A3CD00000578-0-image-a-3_1452072178035.jpg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3386673/Women-Cologne-lockdown-council-admits-no-longer-safe-wake-African-Arab-mob-s-rapes-declares-upcoming-carnival-no-area-females.html

If you need more information about this issue, you can check my posts here. http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2015/09/wanted-strong-men/

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JEWISH WOMEN

Karen T January 8, 2016 - 8:07 am | Permalink

Bella Abzug, Susan Brownmiller, Gene Boyer, Phyllis Chester, Andrea Dworkin, Rian Eister, Susan Faludi, Betty Frieden, Shulamith Firestone, Emma Goldman, Lucy Kamisan, Gerda Lerner, Robin Morgan, Annie Meyer, Maud Nathan, Karen Nussbaum, Letty Pogrebin, Geri Palest, Anita Pollitzer, Ernestine Rose, Gloria Steinem, Rose Schneider, Naomi Wolf, and this is merely a sample. Google Jewish Feminists for a much longer list.
      The White woman is not the thorn in the White mans achilles heel, but another unwitting tool in this all out assault coming from all directions, and if White men persist in indicting his natural allies, mothers, sisters, lovers, they too are unwitting tools.

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Rerevisionist

I think this is too simple. All Swedish media are dominated by the Jewish Bonnier family, who pump out lies about Swedes all the time. (NB they have an animus against Sweden for being neutral in WW2, instead of warring against the horrid Nazzies, as of course all goyim should do, preferably dying in the process). The central bank money is presumably controlled by Jews; I can’t be bothered to check. Jews love lending money to governments, as they get interest, and also control over the country. The women you speak off aren’t particularly employable, and are offered pseudo-jobs of the sort you describe.
      In other words, they are paid to work at soup kitchens, shout slogans etc. How many of them train as doctors and move to Africa? How many go to Africa to help? How many give away their money to invaders? How many give up their houses to help? How many offer to train the invaders in useful skills? How many work for them? How many bequeath their assets to invaders? These are genuine markers of altruism. And I’m guessing there are something like zero of them.


Note that the Daily Mail (mentioned above) is a 'newspaper' printed in Britain, but of course Jew-controlled, is garbage, which had for example supported mass atrocities by Americans in Vietnam, frauds by Jews, and atrocities in the Middle East. In simple language, it is shit.

Some whites have been led to believe that (for example) women caused the First World War. Heretical.com is one. In fact there were many criminal outbreaks before the 'Great War', mostly due to Jews. See this piece on the use of suffragettes by Jews.

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brownmiller rape cover   Review of Shallow Jewish view of a nasty issue     Susan Brownmiller: Against Our Will - Men, Women and Rape

Jewish-American Attitudes to Rape 15 March 2013

1975 book which seems to have been reprinted forever after. 450 pages in my paperback version; acknowledgements, sources, long index, and with endnotes. Author was about 40 when this was published.

I don't think any reviews have drawn attention to the specific Jewish biases, which are such a depressingly characteristic part of post-1945 American semi-academic life. So I'll do it here.

Presumably, every single person on earth has ancestors who were raped. For that matter, everyone must have female ancestors who would have preferred someone else; and ditto males. I've sometimes wondered if smaller females are an evolutionary by-product; perhaps races of strong women may have selectively been squeezed out?

Brownmiller (whose parents were New York 'Jews'; Braunmuller a name given by Germans?) is not strong on biology. Her book is rather scrappy, anecdotal, and under-researched. Her writing style is reminiscent of Naomi Woolf: anything vaguely relevant is shoehorned in. She says she 'researched' for four years, largely in New York's public library. Though she clearly limited her own research times.

Part of her Jewish bias is shown in her topics: she has little idea about anthropology, tending to quote fairy stories (Little Red Riding Hood is in there), and stories glorifying rapists, which she seems to think are universal. She doesn't give many examples, probably to avoid stories by Jews glorifying rape of non-Jews, for example in Germany in 1945: not having a Jewish supremacist race background, all I could think of is Old Testament stories; and maybe Jupiter reshaping himself for Leda. Jack the Ripper gets a few pages: several people she quotes are claimed by her to have described him as a 'hero'. She doesn't mention the likelihood he was a Jew immigrated into east London. She includes bits from Freud, the unloved author of much unlovely material, which Jews seem to think they are obligated to mention. Naturally, penises figure largely: Brownmiller seems to think men had to be tamed at some point in history; the obvious fact that no society could survive unless children were supported for ten years or so, at the minimum, escapes her. A typical quotation is: From the earliest times, when men of one tribe freely raped women of another tribe to secure new wives...—when of course there is simply no evidence about 'the earliest times'. The oddest Freudian-style idea, possibly not in this book, is that rape isn't about sex at all, but is a way to control or demean women; the Guardian, an absurd British newspaper in its Jewish way maintains this, incredibly.

There's quite a bit on war, mostly 20th century. She recounts German war atrocities in Belgium. These were reported in 1917 (her endnotes give this date). She doesn't seem to know the Bryce Report (1915) was published by the British in 1915, and in about twenty languages. This of course was propaganda to keep people fighting: the British joined up with great enthusiasm (at least according to newspapers and newsreel media) in 1914, but when many failed to return, they had to be forced by conscription and propaganda. Brownmiller doesn't mention the Balfour Declaration to get President Wilson into the war. Hence of course the 1917 stories. The British government made some sort of apology after the war to Germany; I don't know about the USA, but, since the Fed, and Baruch, had in effect been dictator of the USA after about 1916 I'd guess not.

The Second World War is treated from a purely Jewish propaganda viewpoint: the word 'Holocaust' is not yet used, but Germans are blamed for mass rapes. The truth—rapes of Russian women before WW2, and rapes of central and east European women, notably German, but in all Jewish-controlled countries, go virtually unmentioned. Solzhenitsyn gets a single mention, but not his long poem on WW2. Deir Yassin is unmentioned; so are Jews held in German camps, let out to rape German women., as boasted by the multiple liar 'Wiesel'.

I suspect this book was driven largely by the Vietnam War; accounts from this occur near the beginning of Brownmiller's book. At the time she was working on her book (say, 1970-1975) this war was coming to an end; the USA had almost 25 years in the far east, Jews having made money from control of paper money and from weaponry—helicopters, bombs, rifles, rounds, experimental explosives, napalm, ships, shells, airplanes, chemical warfare, building contracts, and so on, mostly under Kissinger, one of the most repulsive members of the most repulsive group ever to have power in our planet. What they wanted was an exit strategy—the phasing out process to avoid enquiries, blame, and, in particular, examination of the racket aspect.

Whether consciously or not, Brownmiller is part of this process, making no attempt to attach blame at source. Her whole attitude, that rape is universal and constant and part of human life for as long as human beings existed, of course helps that process—if it always happens, why blame LBJ or Kissinger?. I won't quote examples (there are some in the Russell Tribunal, on this site and elsewhere). She tends to pick shooting and mass murder incidents, as I suppose these are more shocking than rapes, where there were helicopter landings, then presumably a translator to tell villagers to line up girls to be raped.

Brownmiller is unfair on male victims here, though admittedly it's a different issue. Traditionally, males were expected to be killed in wars, and many must have found the possibility terrifying, and unfair. I'd guess most Americans, brainwashed by the Jewish media since birth, simply had no idea they were being used: their role was to make money for Jews, and preferably also die to free up real estate. Worth remembering that Vietnam (about the size of New Mexico) had more bombs dropped on it than were used in the whole Second World War). There was (I believe) quite an amount of fragging of officers.

Brownmiller has speculative material on the US Civil War, red Indians, and for example Bangla Desh. She has no idea that the Quran specifically allows/recommends rape, which gives an idea of the shallowness of her work. She mentions pogroms, now of course known to be almost entirely fabricated by 'Jews' so host countries would take them in.

As is a staple at present of Jews, she pretends races don't exist, apart from Jews of course. The far higher rate of black on white rapes to the other way round (40 times is often quoted; 40,000 white women in the USA per year—to be fair, this is not a huge proportion of women there) gets no mention; just the faux Jewish NAACP-style sympathy, designed of course to be anti-white.

There are other issues: false claims, no doubt a lawyer-induced money-making scam. Nothing on technical change—there's more mobility than ever in human history, with cars and air travel. Nothing on what in effect is rape within closed societies, notably Muslim: women can be kept in fear easily enough. Brownmiller mentions, in a very minor way, that there have been death penalties for rape; she instances some in England. In some Arab desert countries, anyone attacking women going to wells for water were killed; Genghis Khan is reported to have had the death penalty for adultery, and therefore presumably rape, among his followers.

It's sad that sound books on this topic seem unavailable; or perhaps wouldn't sell. Brownmiller in effect says, men, hairy and savage, have always been like that so there's nothing much we can do. The final chapter, WOMEN FIGHT BACK, is just verbose inconclusivity.
NOTE: Jewish attacks are usually partial, typically omitting Jewish practices. A good example is Andrea Dworkin who in theory campaigned against pornography. But she never mentioned that Jews control pornography, and Jewish child sex and rape policies.

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image   Review of More Jewish destructive pressure   Lena Dominelli: Anti-Racist Social Work (BASW)

One star for content; but 'Frankfurt School' investigators will be interested, 10 Feb 2012

1991 was the date (I quote from 'Racist Murder and Pressure Group Politics' by Dennis & Erdos) of the start of the racism industry, when CCETSW ['Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work'] Diploma in Social Work guidelines 'set out in detail... the 'self-evident truth' that 'racism is endemic in the values, attitudes and structures of British society.' ... Colleges and courses that did not accept it would lose their licence to train social workers. ..'

The Macpherson Report into Stephen Lawrence's 1993 murder—the panel of three included a Jew and a black C of E promotee—was the next phase, despite the complete absence of evidence. Macpherson invented the phrase 'institutional racism' which has been used by the media ever since. That murder has been used in a cynical campaign of lies ever since.
      [ here's a long commentary on the Macpherson Report, in 2012 by Dr Frank Ellis. 'Jack Straw' had been appointed Home Secretary by Jews; I'd guess Macpherson regarded himself as a Jew, and had descent from East European immigrants in the 19th and 20th century, then changed his name, typically into something somewhat foreign.]

Dominelli's book is dated 1988. About 50 other titles are listed in the same series, and the book says it is (c) 'The British Association of Social Workers'. Assuming the author really was Lena Dominelli, 'Professor of Social Administration at Sheffield University' as then, I recommend all students of the subversion of Britain and white countries, via Frankfurt School style methods, get a copy.

About a dozen organisations are listed in the back; some have changed their names subsequently; no detail is given of their funding or ideologies. There's also a bibliography, virtually all of the shrieking ideological type. There's no mention of Jews. There must be 250 authors mentioned, most of them not indexed, so one assumes the reader is not expected to actually read them.

I don't want to go into detail—this book is repetitive, of course. It's touchingly unintelligent; there's a dedication to 'little girls who long[ed] for blonde hair and blue eyes...' which might stand as a general appearancist comment. It seems to be targeted at areas such as Tower Hamlets. Islam and Judaism—two racist cults—are unindexed. The costs, in terms of misallocated resources, timewasting, and societal damage, remain to be assessed. It is trash, but worth having a copy as a memento and horror story.
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Maggie Gee Ice People   Review of   Maggie Gee   Ice People (1998)

Brainless in Gaza   Apr 4, 2016

An attempt at a 'dystopic' novel. Gee clearly believes: nonwhites were trying to invade Europe because of 'global warming'. Therefore, with unpredicted global cooling, whites are trying to invade Africa. Her scene-setting appears to be based on those of a naive Londoner from northwest London: bits about London are followed by France and Spain, though she doesn't attempt Africa. She does her best to deal with the controlled media's flood of scares. However, she thinks the media, and political action, reflect the real world. So we have bizarre juxtapositions: gangs roam the world, yet people go on picnics; what she thinks are 'basic services', such as clean tapwater, exist, while huge areas collapse and fail; governments 'run out of money'—the realities of fiat money are out of her range; news media report what worries people, and officials make embarrassed explanations; a women's party wins an election despite opposition. Her main characters are successful: the quarter-African hairy male does vaguely-described computer research, and the petite red-haired female is on top of her profession—which is something like a women's counsellor quango.
      There are rather painful intrusions: clothing and styles, in the female way, and the effects of twenty years or so of the story on women characters, are detailed. Oh, for a new Churchill. Old films have such good plots. Propaganda films of 'African history'. Airports are heard to have collapsed, though for most of the novel air travel is unaffected. International phone calls are unaffected. The medicos (pregnancy problems...) all have foreign names, such as Zeuss. 'LibLab' join the Conservatives—in a time of chaos, Gee thinks elections will continue. More or less irrelevant robots are invented: I wonder if Gee works in advertising? She seems keen on slogans and marketing campaigns—as though new products would apply amid the destruction. Her robots do housework—surely a bit of wishful thinking, there. These can absorb 'organic' material as fuel in blissful disregard of scientific principles.
      Sex is a surprisingly large part of this book; possibly this was the 'page-turning' aspect. She does her best to project a male principal character; much of this is no doubt what women think men do—he is given illegal guns (confiscated weapons), and we have a few macho passages, for example against a dozen sinister foreigners. There's a curious prefiguring of the Jewish-promoted homosexual 'marriage', in supposed sexual segregation; there is of course nothing about somewhat different mores of alien imported groups.
      Part way through, there seemed to be a Day of the Triffids emergent storyline, which however came to nothing: very possibly her editor tactfully suggested something more on the lines of Brave New World. Or Lord of the Flies? (They are 'classics'). The book may even have been set up for a sequel. But it doesn't matter.
Note on the video (not a film!) The Day After Tomorrow. 'Released' in 2004; it has a similar plot to Gee's book. The usual rubbish from 'Hollywood', as the digital studios are still collectively described. It has [1] Computer graphics 'on a large scale'; [2] What seems inevitable with these films, a ridiculous contrast between huge events involving millions, and a tiny cast of actors, all as convincing as Jewish 'crisis actors'; [3] Laughable 'science' which I suppose provides a gauge of audience levels; [4] US politicians presented as serious actors. I think this film only had the Vice-President of the USA; I may have dozed off, however. But the point here is the Jewish race agenda: happy black male with white wife, whites migrating to the Third World—just as nonwhites according to Jew lies were invading white countries because of climate issues.

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Jacqueline Gold   Good Vibrations     1995

Thanks, Jews
24 March 2015
Biography of a woman (b. 1960 in Kent) who built or expanded Anne Summers sex shops. (She appeared on BBC's rather ludicrous 'Dragon's Den', I seem to remember). There are amusing lists of items, for example the best-selling lines—most are clothes; only one is a vibrator. There's an account of objects offered for sale, which they rejected. Her dad '.. was a typical East End businessman who managed to dodge the war by claiming he suffered from hayfever.' No prizes for guessing what ethnic group he thought he belonged to. I wonder if he sold overpriced goods to the Brits as a 'spiv'.

Get other people to fight wars, tell lies, sell porny things made in China. Thanks, Jews!

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campaign for nuclear disarmament   Review of Completely Standard Quasi-History Ignoring Jewish Money and Frauds
  Kate Hudson: CND. Now More Than Ever - The Story of a Peace Movement


The 19th-century South Bank Polytechnic was enlarged and changed and renamed South Bank Poly University in 1992. 2003 seems to have been the date of its rechristening as LSBU. Kate Hudson seems to have been teaching Russian and east European politics and history. The book's biographical note describes her as 'Head of Social and Policy Studies at London South Bank University'; she was presumably appointed when LSBU was newly reorganised, and this seems to coincide with her being 'Chair of CND' in September 2003. She wrote several books, one on the collapse of Yugoslavia, which left Amazon reviewers unimpressed. She was in the Communist Party of Great Britain until recently, of course a Jewish front.


Added Jan 1st 2020: Interesting point on Peter Reilly (peterlvt@gmail.com) whom I happened to talk to on a train into Liverpool, where he seemed to be escorting a man. He showed this man a card with three or four maps of Israel, showing removal of Palestinians. He said he's a mongrel Palestinian and Syrian. He says he was born a few years before 1948. I don't remember an explanation for his non-eastern name.

He seems to be part of Merseyside CND at mcnd.org.uk. Their website includes comments by Kate Hudson.

My site of course includes debunking of 'nuclear weapons', including this book review. He never replied to my two emails. I suspect he's just another Jewish agent; so beware. He told me he'd taught at Lancaster University, without detail; possibly he was an outsider, not on their staff. Lancaster has some connections with Jew fanatics, I think 'Hope Not Hate' or a similar bunch of Jew-funded liars.


A (not very helpful) website of LSBU yielded a mention in issue 1 of 'Connected', a magazine of that University, in winter 2006:–
Social sciences mark 40 years at the cutting edge
In May, the Department of Social and Policy Studies celebrated its 40th anniversary. Head of department Dr Kate Hudson hosted a celebration for everyone involved in teaching and research over the past 40 years. `The Department has made a significant contribution to the development of social science, both nationally and internationally, and been at the cutting edge of theoretical developments in the study of sociology, social policy and politics,' said Dr Hudson.
    "At the same time, our commitment to active practitionership means that our work is actually helping to shape the society in which we live."
I could find no information on what 'Dr' means here; I would guess some rehashed material given a Ph. D.

The University website, curiously, puts huge emphasis on the employability of its graduates: we learn their starting salaries are quite high. It's probably true to say it's an organisation funded by Jewish paper money, ultimately at taxpayers' expense, to produce gullible half-trained young people.

The claim 'our work is actually helping to shape ... society' seems false. CND had no effect, and her 'Communist' pseudo-leftism hasn't either, unless 'Communism' is equated with 'Jews': there are wars everywhere, for example.

CND is the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. This meant unilateral disarmament of Britain. Kate Hudson's 'CND' is the official history of the 'nuclear world' including the UN, World Court and so on, interleaved with fragments on CND personalities—Bertrand Russell, Canon Collins, Tony Benn, up to E P Thompson, Ken Livingstone, Bruce Kent; all of them utterly ignorant of the tricks being played—and the organisation itself. And other arguably-related activists and activities.

The book is indexed, fairly usefully. The content is absolutely standard official history. Everything in her book could be taken from the New York Times. Her sources (listed at the back) include books by journalists, popular authors, and 'useful idiots'; her staple source for background, in 3 volumes, is Lawrence S Wittner, 'The Struggle Against the Bomb' vol 1 -1953 (pubd 1993); vol 2 1954-70 (pubd 1997); vol 3 1971-present (pubd 2003). Stanford University Press.

It's a strange experience to read a revisionism-free book - the first nuclear sceptical Youtube was 2008 - in all senses. It's not correct to say Hudson knows nothing; she actually knows a negative amount, far more errors than truth.

She has absolutely no knowledge of sciences/ scientific method, or statistical calculations, or history. Thus, her introductory chapter (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) quotes a few old publications, including Osada, translated into English. She has no idea of the dubiousness of this material, or the effects of US censorship for years in Japan after WW2. She has no idea about radiation, and how difficult it is to detect; and the fact that no evidence of genetic damage whatever was found. One of the amusing aspects of the book is the way that every stage seems to be more dangerous than the one before: probably the book was written as separate chapters. She can't separate the effects of chemical warfare from other effects: I could find no mention of chemical warfare in Vietnam, for example.

On statistics, she does not (for example) present a chronology of scares, and see if conclusions can be drawn. On history, she has little grasp of population figures: it may, for example have been better if Hitler had wiped out the British forces at Dunkirk, since it's possible Stalin would have been defeated and eastern Europe spared mass rapes and murders. She prefers to quote Rotblat. She has no idea how the media can shape perceptions; she thinks some events capture the attention of the media, and doesn't understand the way the media can force fakes, wars, corruption onto the public. Vanunu is a perfect example of a faked scoop.

Hudson has no idea Jews control the fount of money, mostly as far as I know through the Fed. No doubt some of it went to her university department. She has no idea of the net effects of wars - cui bono? How much money do Jews make from wars? What were their motivations around the year 2000? She has no idea about 9/11, the subject of her final chapter.

The only value of this book is as a reference list. The chapter headings look at 1 Hiroshima etc/ 2 Aldermaston / 3 'Vietnam War to neutron bomb' (poor Russell's Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal isn't even mentioned)/ 4 Cruise missiles/ 5 Cold War, Gorbachev/ 6 Post Cold War/ 7 9/11 'World Trade Center'. Disputes and debates and publications of CND are described in a rather perfunctory way: there's no discussion of who funded whom, and which organisations promoted what. Many of the people involved must have known nuclear weapons were a fraud all along; there must have been a lot of cynical laughter behind the scenes.

The most important missing element is, of course, Jewish influence: she may be Jewish herself, or believe herself to be Jewish - certainly her associates and life and memberships are consistent with that, as are her whole treatment of history, for example the USSR. She does however mention Palestinians and UN resolutions about Israel a few times. Much of this is in the past, though the waste and devastation remains. As to the future, Hudson mentions NATO and people like the neo-cons and the 'Project for the New American Century' (PNAC) but not AIPAC. So her futurology is worthless.

It's tempting to say that women just can't handle serious issues, and, disappointingly, that seems truer now than ever. But of course there are plenty of males going along with nonsense, too.

Published by visionpaperbacks, a tiny publisher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkG7Ac6ZprM
Is a video (Titled 'ADHOCRACY: A Rally of Speeches: Models of Resistance and Moments of Resilience') with this blurb:
Kate Hudson, General Secretary of CND uses the CND experience as a framework to discuss politics and protest, effective methods for bringing about change, and the practice and principles necessary for success.
Note on Pete Reilly added 1 1 2020

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image   Review of Science fraud   Melanie Jarman: Climate Change: Small Guides to Big Issues

Disconnected series of claims and causes with little evidential basis, September 28, 2011

Everyone knows now (after the leaking of computer proof that results had been rigged) that the global warming/ climate change issue has problems. This little book is obviously intended to side with the claimants for climate change. But it's not even successful for that purpose. It has a ragbag of human interest stories—Joanna in Mozambique, an Indian village with 'low energy' light bulbs; mixed with statements from vested interests—the World Bank, the 'carbon market'—people such as Goldmann Sachs are tactfully omitted; with statements from people who may or may not be scientific—Friends of the Earth, Oxfam's Pakistan project, the Stern Review, the Stockholm Environment Institute. Plus about 50 acronyms including the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and various World Banks schemes, plus agencies and institutes. And boxes and graphs which bear some relation to the surrounding chapter, but not usually much.

There are 'resources' at the end of the book—books and magazines, and organisations, all I think explicitly activist groups toeing the line. There are endnotes, listing books and journals, with no indication of reliability or believability (for example NASA gets a few quotes!) The book is indexed.

I'm not sure this book was ever intended to be read; it's possibly more like Chairman Mao's little red book, to be held aloft and waved by chanting protestors, or leafed through to get an alarmed and worried feel. Certainly this can work, up to a point. No doubt their secretive funders cash in and collect their percentages. The book may have been designed to look formidable, assuming most people are too idle to try to check. There isn't for example as far as I could find any estimate of the total CO2 in the atmosphere, to compare with emissions. Nor any estimate of the amount dissolved in seawater. Nor any indication of how the temperature can be measured *of the entire globe*—there must be huge inaccuracies and doubts there. The author naturally is weak on coal and oil, with not much sign of an overview, and has no idea about question marks over nuclear power, if indeed it exists.

One star may seem harsh. But this book is supported by Oxfam and by several publishers (Pluto in the USA and UK—a 'left wing' publisher which is probably part of the Jewish fake left). If they were serious, they'd make a better effort. Is it, for example, even possible that the entire world can be supplied with electricity? Anyway, disappointing. But the book is several years old now, and I see nobody has reviewed it, unless you count quoting the blurb as a 'review'. Hence this warning review.'

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image   Review of Media: BBC interest   Carla Lane: Someday I'll Find Me: Carla Lane's Autobiography

Disappointingly thin: romantic haze plus umbilical link with the BBC desert, 21 Sep 2010

Published 2006. Quite a short book for an autobiography. Born in 1937 as (I think) Carla Barrack; I think her dad (Da?) was Italian. Her life was scriptwriting, plus her animal welfare work. Only two of 36 chapters consider her childhood and life up to about 30: her earlier life is almost entirely omitted. It must have been a bit of a mixture; she has a love for Liverpool and its people and its—arguably—decayed scruffiness, but preferred to spend her life in rather more upmarket surroundings.

Her main writing achievements were the Liver Birds (1969-79—jointly written), Butterflies (78-82) and Bread (86-91). If I've read the book correctly, for most of this time she had a 'relationship' with a BBC producer, who is kept entirely anonymous (and unphotographed) throughout the book. It's impossible to guess whether there was an effect analogous to the casting couch. I suspect the episodic approach has affected her entire writing style; typical chapters are about six pages, and one feels they are designed for careful reading, taking about five minutes per page (or four, allowing for advertising in overseas sales). There is almost nothing on her writing techniques and ideas and approaches, which is disappointing, nor on fan mail, reviews, or other feedback.

She got into scriptwriting with a female friend (there are a few photos of them both, with top-heavy late 1960s hairstyles) when they wrote from Liverpool to the Head of Comedy (with capitals) in London, submitting a Monty Pythonesque bit of writing. This could not have been earlier than about 1970, when she was about 33. They took a train to London, and were commissioned to write about girls sharing a flat. This sounds very much like a female version of the 'Likely Lads' (64-66), one character being essentially risk-taking and slightly adventurous and assertive, the other more plodding and respectably middle-class. So the viewers can admire the bold one, but be mentally reassured by the other. It must have been felt to be a sound formula—it lasted ten years. (Americans and others might like to know the 'Liver Bird' is a sculpture on top of a Liverpool building, famous locally for having been removed the day before German bombs dropped. It's now known Churchill was aware the bombing was about to happen). The woman singer of the Eurythmics (from Durham I think) discovered from this series that it was possible to share a flat in London—so maybe it had a powerful effect, in the same way that travel programmes on Spain had influence.

Butterflies was for my taste an agonisingly prolonged will-they-do-it series, then will-they-do-it-again, with romanticised off-screen once-off adultery. Bread, for my taste, was also an agonisingly prolonged series about Liverpudlians who were meant to be witty, characterful, wise in their own way, quirky, and all the rest of it. They seemed stupid, grasping, dishonest, ordinary in most senses, repetitive, and without many redeeming features. But, hey, the BBC liked them. Probably they fell in with the BBC's ideas of provincials: the BBC archives have insulting 'documentary' films from the 50s and 60s—black and white and filmed with orange filters to make the brickwork stand out, blokes in flat caps on bikes, women scrubbing their front steps, and casual BBC acceptance of their unemployment.

Carla Lane was flown out to Los Angeles, in about 1980 I suppose, and like others—Billy Connolly, Johnny Speight (see my Private Eye review), Rowan Atkinson I think, and for that matter Aldous Huxley—found the godawful conveyor belt of garbage not to her taste, though she can't convincingly explain why not.

Carla Lane seems—as one imagines a great many media people regarded as creative or talented—entirely oblivious or ignorant of one main point of the mass media, its brainwashing or propaganda function.

Quite a bit of this book concerns animals and animal suffering. Bertie Russell commented once that film stars had glory, but the House Un-American Activities Committee had power. It's striking how little influence people like the McCartneys and sundry animal rights people have (Brigitte Bardot isn't mentioned, but could have been). I wonder if Carla Lane is involved with anti-Halal and anti-kosher activity, if there is any? Almost certainly not. There must be limits to heartache. I'll give the last words to an evolutionary biologist: '.. it is reasonable to suppose that people who are prone to developing close relationships are more likely than average to be exploitable in this manner. [I.e. 'manipulation by pets of evolved systems designed to underlie close human relationships (Archer 1997)'. This] .. fits well with the proposal that romantic love and attachments are more typical of western societies..'
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image   Review of WW1   Virginia Nicholson: Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War

Fantastic confusion—ideas, sources, overviews are all over the place, 22 Sep 2010

Published in 2007. Subtitled 'How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War' (author's capitals). My first puzzle was numerical: about 700,000 dead British soldiers, and 1.5 million or so wounded—but how seriously? 'Two million women' might be an exaggeration. I don't think the author is strong on statistical surveys: she implies, but doesn't show, that the headmistresses' warnings that only one in ten of her girls (in paid schools) could expect to marry seem to be based on selective class death-rates. It's very clear that Nicholson prefers impressionistic bits and pieces to reliable overviews. Let me try a sensible crit: -

[1] The sources are an odd mixture of novels, published non-fiction including biographies and autobiographies, and unpublished material, mostly I think memoirs. There's a long list of acknowledgements, which appear to be not reflected in the book itself; I'm reminded of American mass market books with a huge list of credited assistants, who on average must have done almost nothing.

[2] The chapter headings are gnomically baffling. For example, chapter 5 is entitled 'Caring, Sharing...'—surely 1970s phrasing rather than 1920s. Its contents include (my list, not taken from the book): Loneliness, as reflected in novels and modern non-fiction works and biographical works; Companions—i.e. women inseparable after the War; Sisters—including two who struck lucky with radio showbiz, and three Dillons, one of whom refurbished Dillons bookshop; Mothers and daughters; single women resigned to being unmarried; Nannies—including some comments from Gasthorne-Hardy's book; Pets, as exemplified by Elizabeth Gould's huge lifetime totality—Gould also had a companion; and commentary on lesbians.

[3] I'll try to further convey the odd disconnected ramblingness of 'Singled Out' by listing the material starting chapter 5: (i) Bertrand Russell quoted on love; (ii) a quotation from 'The Single Woman and Her Emotional Problems' (1935 book); (iii) the regrets of May Wedderburn Cannan, whose fiancé died; (iv) 'Oxford scholar Enid Starkie' who never found a permanent relationship; (v) a novel by Winifred Holtby—Virginia Nicholson treats novels as evidentially on the same level as all the other sources; (vi) accounts of the lives of Norah Elliott, Ethel Wragg, both teachers; (vii) Harriet Warrack, a lab worker....

[4] Some authors impressed Virginia Nicholson more than others: Winifred Holtby appears passim throughout the book. Poor Ludovici, who wrote both on women and men, is represented only by one short book, despite his defence of women—he thought women were evolved to seek to produce new life. On the other hand, as might be expected 'The Well of Loneliness' and Marie Stopes figure fairly prominently. There are some illustrations, from Punch and women's magazines and the like, which at first sight seem interesting, but in fact turn out to be rather commonplace and unilluminating.

Let me try to summarise Nicholson's attitude:-
*** She doesn't come to any sort of consistent conclusion. Some women's attitude to male deaths was purely selfish: Barbara Cartland said (in effect) it was a tremendously exciting time, because all these men thought they would die, so they wanted to seduce you. Real excitement, eh! One glaring omission—once you notice it—is that women's supposed expansion into what were men's roles does not include anything military. Let the males die! Equality here is entirely undesired!
*** Her accounts of women's post-war achievements are two types: very extreme and atypical—Rani Cartright 'celebrated catwalk model' who was half what's now called Thai; a woman stock exchange manager; a 'courtesan' who had 'thousands of boyfriends' and never paid for anything; the Dillon woman. The others are, as might be expected, teachers and nurses. And some domestic workers. Nicholson hasn't made much effort to unearth plebeian stories.
*** Another aspect of female achievement, which is of course infinitely depressing, is the lack of any female progress in anything needing a lot of thought. (Rowbotham's 'Century of Women' and Robinson's 'Bluestockings' fail to make the same point—see my witty reviews of them, and the large number of 'unhelpful' votes they attracted!) This lack of progress applies to all the big issues, notably the avoidance of war, but also money and industry. For instance, if it's damaging for men to make money, why would it be good that a female stock exchange manager should emerge? Nicholson doesn't even begin to consider this point.
*** I think it's fair to say that Nicholson admires, or envies, or thinks it's better, to have some forms of activity, which for want of a better word I'll call exciting or stimulating. Some of the bohemian activities for women mentioned are smoking pipes, dancing to jazz music, wearing bright clothes. I'm not sure millions of deaths world-wide were justified by the the thrills offered by such things! Nicholson doesn't put much stress on sex and affairs; she states at one point that affection between women exceeds anything possible between a man and a woman.
*** Nicholson simply cannot decide whether marriage is desirable or not. If survival without men was so admirable, why not recommend man-reduced living? If not, why despise women who were desperate to marry? Her whole book veers one way or the other, depending on the accidental situation of the woman she happens to be writing about. Incidentally there are extracts from a lonely hearts magazine of the time, and its advice to readers, which read remarkably like Internet dating sites now apart from the disabled men aspect.
*** Another huge gap is the population and eugenics issue; Nicholson's frivolity is a bit alarming. She doesn't seem to be aware of the 'race suicide' alarms. Ludovico thought single women should have children; I don't think this possibility is considered by Nicholson. She is also weak on the legal aspects—some things must have been perfectly legal, and yet conventionally frowned on.

A very unsatisfactory book. I'm teetering between one and two stars—I think I'll pick two since there's some evidence of effort.

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Ann Oakley & Ann McPherson & Helen Roberts: Ann Oakley Miscarriage Miscarriage [1984]
-About 400,000 miscarriages supposedly in UK every year; much commoner than I'd realised. I wonder if this book sold well? Some emphasis on physical abnormalities e.g. of uterus, of chromosomes. Infertility has two pages only in the index ('sterility' is omitted). Lots of stuff on hormones - these seem acceptable as mass discourse topics, though how they're detected etc isn't made clear. Toxic exposure (lead, anaesthetics) gets a small mention. Section on Ectopic pregnancy. And on 'trying again'. Fertility pills seem not to be mentioned anywhere.

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Ann Oakley: Taking It Like A Woman [1984]   LONG REVIEW!
Ann Oakley in about 1993 Blurb says she's 'one of our foremost feminist writers.' This book is more or less autobiographical. She is an undeclared Jew. It's depressing to watch as the post-1945 Jewish war victory spreads. Libraries, Universities, Departments grow. Her intellectual contribution is negligible; she occupies a lightweight niche something like that of a Victorian vicar, preoccupied with nothing much, but receiving her stipend and no doubt complaining of its insufficiency. Her accounts seem accurate, and her blinkered views just as accurately captured. I made these notes in about 1990; now I'd identify the pushes against the family, the faked Cold War, the evasions of the US Empire, the fake of the Labour Party, the gullibility of nuclear campaigners, the secret Jew networks, and of course the ignorance of paper money, debt, official but evasive budgets, the extraction on money by Israel.

    - Other titles: 'Sex, Gender and Society' [?1972], 'The Sociology of Housework', 'Housewife', Joint editor of 'The Rights and Wrongs of Women', 'From Here to Maternity', 'Women Confined' [1980], and 'Subject Women'. Notes at the back also have: 'Creative Women in Changing Societies' 1980 pp205, and 'Interviewing Women: a contradiction in terms?' 1981 pp 207, and 'Living in the Present: a confrontation with cancer' 1979. She was brought up in a 'late Edwardian monstrosity' in Acton, went to a poly in west London, and after Oxford seems to have lived part of the time in Ealing. [Of her educational establishments, she only names Somerville; oh. I found Chiswick Polytechnic gets an indirect reference]

    - Unindexed, though the chapters have notes though without page numbers: Liv Ullman, Sheila Rowbotham, 'Rise and Fall of CND' (Observer 1964!), Account of the Ban-the-Bomb movement, Philip Slater's Pursuit of Loneliness stupidly dated 1975, titles on psychotherapy, women, depression, suicide (175-177: 'Against all the evidence - of their own creative power, of their sensitivity and genius - women feel they are worthless creatures.'), Marcus Aurelius, Mehta's Fly and the Fly-Bottle, David Cooper's Death of the Family, Laing oddly absent, Adrienne Rich, Erving Goffman's Asylum, Betty Friedan (pp70, 73), Germaine Greer, Simone de Beauvoir, Verena Stefan, Susan Sontag, Office of Population Censuses and Surveys on cancer figures, and others quoted.
    - Blurb says: '.. 'breakdown' and analysis before she went up to Oxford, which amazed those who knew her' [pp 34-5 have some of her diary notes
    - Father was 'eminent..' [and we can work out, though with some effort, he was Richard Titmuss; he wrote several books most or all I think with his wife: 6: Poverty and Population (1936), Our Food Problem (1939), Birth, Poverty and Wealth (1943). No indication that she even opened them.
    - She I imagine 'read' English at Oxford (how she got there isn't revealed, I think, though there's some reference to difficult questions on entrance exams about which she says she wasn't happy with them (though incidentally she got the right answers): she quotes Aldous Huxley's Brave New World with approval: 4 'We must claim the right to pain and passion'/ Sylvia Plath gets a few lines/ so does T S Eliot's East Coker/ and Donna, sung by Joan Baez and others [Note: unconscious scientific ignorance:] about a calf bound for slaughter and how it's better to grow wings and fly away. I find on page 36 she went to Somerville, Oxford, to do Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. I haven't yet read this chapter: the question is, will she say anything at all about the work she did there, if any, or just write about women and men?
    - in fact, she does, on pp 36-42, provide some sort of overview; she seems not to rate Oxford highly, though of course hasn't anything to suggest to improve it: philosophy was then in linguistic throes and she read Augustine & Aurelius (and I think was later influenced by existentialism, no doubt through Simone de Beauvoir); economics which she disliked and began to 'grapple uncomprehendingly' with; not much on politics except Marx, Weber, 'an appreciation of Ralf Dahrendorf's Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society.' 40: 'Why did no one incite us to read Marx? .. accepted body of doctrines.. In 'Theory and Working of Political Institutions' and 'British Political and Constitutional History since 1865', the two elements of the politics syllabus.. in our second and third years we were 'farmed out' to more exciting intellects.. these were always men.. though now I wonder why Somerville.. should have harboured such mediocrity.' She wrote two essays and attended two 1-hr tutorials a week for most of her 3 years (p 47). 45 she won the Somerville College PPE prize for a long essay 'The Family and Industrialization'. [There's an amusing point somewhere where a Somerville woman says in effect their graduates have changed the world, and listed second-rate novelists. And cp my notes on Rantzen] She 'first saw Robin at a seminar on Marxism.. 1964.. Beatles..' 47: married in Caxton Hall Registry Office..' 48: '.. card index of aides memoires.. 'Growth and the Trade Cycle', 'The Keynesian System', 'Liberty and Punishment', 'Good and Bad Acts', 'Pressure Groups', 'Social Stratification', 'Durkheim and Merton on Anomie'. ..'
    - Note: I think her father gave her the idea of 'writing books' and suggested perhaps an underlying amateurism or pragmatism which equates publication, or being well-known in a small circle, with serious work. 7: 'His work was always difficult to classify... he had no professional academic training.. persisted in calling himself a student of society.' See under DEATH below for his supposed achievements. 1: '.. a world away from academic papers and investigations, house improvements and clean laundry.' Also somewhat hypocritical attitude to socialism and poverty: no indication that this is anything other than a sort of self-pity, with plenty of thoroughly class-conscious and class-rooted statements throughout, including remarks on 'The Third World'. [I wrote earlier: .. daughter of a Labour Party official or intellectual; did PPE at Oxford; despite the title, mainly self-congratulatory and 'feelingist' stuff. Similar type to people like the Tizards (he was a postman from New Zealand, I'm told) but with a different slant. Cp also Webbs, with 'lower class' male]
    - She's keen on the idea of her own terrific individuality, though it's hard to see why. Blurb says: '.. Marriage at twenty.. first two children in the late 1960s
    - a time when there were no social supports for combating depression.. made a case study.. in BBC's Television Doctor.. decided to go for her PhD. [This seems to involve Open University work] Along with forgoing her academic credibility, she gained recognition of domesticity as a legitimate area of study. .. joined a women's liberation group in Ealing and initiated feminist research. .. conceived three more children, only one of whom lived.. This is the merest outline of a life which has so far never embraced easy answers..' and 2: 'This book is about my life, but it is also about others
    - for it would be arrogant to suppose I'm unique; I'm not. ..'
      35: 'He [psychoanalyst] ventured the opinion that if life treated me gently.. I would have no further major problems. It did not, and I did.'
      She says she was toilet trained early, like many of her generation, and that this must have had some effects. This shows the way thoughts can be influenced by theory. It occurred to me watching people in supermarkets and through introspection that of course peoples' decisions are often very silly: junk food, stuff which is eye-catching, thoughts of delicious sweet food/ and money
    - the contradiction between wanting others to give it to you, but not wanting to spend yourself/ attitude to new people and unconscious weighing of them
    - any of these things and many more examples of course: adventurousness? Aggressive competitiveness? Herd feeling?
    - must surely be more important than the results of toilet training. But Freud didn't talk about money training or part of the herd training.
    - She consistently ignores the economic dimension of life in this book, which gives it a strange lopsided quality. See for example pp 119-122 giving examples of three women having affairs. Another oddity is her refusal to face female conflicts; describing adulterous etc women she typically doesn't consider the rival wife; see e.g. 122; cp my notes on letters to Eve from Rhodesian friends, where exactly the same outlook appears: ".. his wreck of a wife.." (Though on 14 she mentions competition between women for high status men, I think she implies 'as Nancy Chodorow and others have shown' though in the sense of rivalry with her mother for her father's love. 193 says There is a law.. 'that mothers and daughters could not teach each other, could not inherit, could not relate. ..' [Marge Piercey])
    - Joke: following from latter, it would be amusing to consider the reaction of e.g. young working class woman to lack of economic stuff in this book, or the idea that nearly all marriages are a mistake!
    - She takes for granted that all men screw around, and implicitly therefore that women do; I recall a similar attitude in Mary Winchester and in Margaret.
    - She has an odd attitude to the family, in view of her admission e.g. that she became pregnant mainly through curiosity: 'A historian friend of mine remarked.. as a foreigner.. it has taken him by surprise to see how deeply embedded were the values of the established church in the lives and minds of people.. no firmer proof.. than that the family has become the repository of religious values, a religion apart. Families.. are not sustained by love, by enjoyment, by relaxation, by passion. They are sustained by commitment and decision and loyalty hard-gathered from the once-good times; .. future welfare is placed above present happiness.. Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.'
    - NHS: She footnotes someone's alternative theory that treating the plebs like shit is a result of patriarchal set-up, or something
    - Somewhere she mentions that the very language of history excludes the poor etc.
    - I found the style of this tiresome: blurb says '.. chronicles the battle between love [seems to mean sex and 'finding herself'] and the family.. scenes of confrontation and intimacy.. interweaves the account .. haunting and disturbing love affair, blending fiction and memoir seamlessly..' She writes things like: 'Visions are not for solitary figures in supermarkets, lonely travellers, tired husbands and wives. They are not for public consumption. And they are not intended to make real hearts bleed.' and like 54: 'the other day I saw a man plugged into a tape recorder..' and like 1: 'It is the end of a summer that had no proper middle or beginning. .. a boat holds a man and a woman. They are almost middle-aged, but quite good-looking still: probably professional people, middle class, not suffering from any obvious kind of deprivation.
      What is most striking about them is their vitality. Everything about them is alive..
      .. There is little passion in professional urban circles in the 1970s. ..'

    - 2: 'None of us can hope to solve our basic problems: why we are alive, how we should be born, behave, think..'
    - 2: [Note: words: Oakley confuses 'discomforted' with 'discomfited']
    - 3: 'The questions I had in mind .. included..:
      1 What makes someone into a feminist?
      2 What sort of person is a feminist?
      3 How can a feminist be part of a society organized in terms of sexual difference and 'the family'?
      4 What is the nature of the love between men and women?
      5 How do we deal with the fact that we're not going to live for ever?'
    - 6: 'No family is conventional when you take a hard look at it, ..'
    - 7: '.. parents.. worked together.. on a poignant unpublished manuscript.. Crime and Tragedy.. dedicated to 'those who laid down their lives that others might uphold the Divine Right to use Bombing Planes'. It reminds one that the passionate idealism of youth is either new nor, depressingly, lasting. ..'
    - 7: 'The late 1940s marked a period of retrenchment for women's position in the labour force. 'Good' mothers then and in the 1950s simply didn't work outside the home.'
    - 8: 'I went to school at the age of four.. private establishment.. We said our prayers with our eyes oddly raised to the skies of Chiswick, ..'
    - 8: 'A powerful memory is of an arithmetic test I did one day at the age of five. The sums were written on the blackboard.. I looked at them and thought I would do the most difficult ones first. But.. I got into a terrible muddle and cried.. When I returned after lunch I found I was the only child who had not only done all the sums but who had got them all right. .. The lesson .. was for me that following the conventional pattern may be safer, but it is unlikely to be the route to the highest achievement of all. .'
    - 10: 'At six I went to.. a Girls' Public School.. It was always held against my father, who for most of his life was an ardent socialist (in 1950 he had become the first Professor of Social Administration in Britain at the London School of Economics (RW
    - Surely nonsense? Webb was, for one?), a place with an erroneously radical reputation), that he never sent me to a state school. My strongest memories .. are.. of being a social outcast. .. Thin.. squint.. Titmouse.. no real friends..'
    - 11: [description of Girls' Public School: classrooms, staff of the school, essays on Men of the Stone Age, motto .. 'serve and obey' which 'did seem to me deeply significant as a summary of its philosophy..'
    - 16: [MENSTRUATION:] '.. One by one my classmates 'started' .. tell-tale bulge in their navy-blue knickers.. Sept 15, 1957. I was tremendously happy and excited.. But .. my mother.. confined me to bed and brought breakfast on a tray. I wanted to tell my father and she said I mustn't. .. I thought, if being a woman is a good thing, why isn't there a public celebration..?'
    - 17: '.. privileged middle-class girl.. I knew no boys. .. I had actually never spoken to a boy my age. .. It does, I think, account for a certain difficulty in accepting men as fully human..'
    - 17-18: [FIRST KISS and first love or 'love' going to cinema etc
    - Date with Disaster and Carleton-Brown of the F.O./ Her kiss was more memorable than loss of virginity/ He was a Catholic; 24 she wrote to the Catholic Information Centre. She says he was 'an extremely bad Catholic'.]
    - 19: [Labour Party, Richard Crossman, Peter Townsend later Prof, John Vaizey later Lord and R H Tawney there from time to time] 'I remember well how my father, Brian Abel-Smith and Peter Townsend, in their work demolishing the notion of Britain as a post-war haven of class equality, were known.. as the 'Holy Trinity'...'
    - 21-22: [Socialism, National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, CND; she has nothing on the actual arms situation, but quotes the text of the song 'Don't you hear the H-bomb's thunder.. Ban the bomb for evermore' and newspapers on the supposed preponderance of teenagers in the movement.] '.. when I began to relax my limbs in Whitehall, they grew horrified instead. My mother told me that if I got arrested she had no intention of bailing me out of prison. I thought this cruel; ...'
    - 22-23: [SEX: She quotes Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (qv) on losing virginity, and Schofield 'The Sexual Behaviour of Young People'; the latter apparently said 'for girls.. to become sexually experienced.. required a much greater repudiation of the family and striving for personal independence.' I simply don't know if this is true; consider e.g. Judith Robinson, who implied the opposite, 'tawdry' Audrey, and Margaret.]
    - 31: [Aged 15 diary notes about being womanly]
    - 33: [Description of her 'analysis']
    - 35: '.. I found some of her [Karen Horney's] thought pre-dated Freud..'
    - 36: [OXFORD in 1962; Blackwell's, Fresher's Fair, Gaitskell's daughter, Labour Club, etc etc]
    - 42: [Description of Oxford by 'James Morris, later Jan']
    - 43: '.. I did not want to leave Oxford without at least the prospect of getting married. .. Even today there are few girls who envisage an entirely marriageless future. .. in 1968 [i.e. aged c 24] I wrote in my diary: "Oh God, why am I not married and happy with two kids? .."
    - 46: 'I felt that Robin was coming down in the world by marrying me, though according to the Registrar-General, chartered accountants and university professors' families both belong to social class 1.'
    - 49: [Writes novels, gets rejection slips: both on women, mothers, babies]
    - 54: '.. The problem is feeling too much. .. As a woman, in the first place, my emotions rule my life. .. There is nothing that I do or think which is not inspired by feelings. .. I want to know why I am like that. I ask a friend, a psychoanalyst, why women are like that; she doesn't know..'
    - 55-56: [Quote saying 'there are few feminine wiles better documented than the willingness of young women to build up the male ego by underplaying their own talents..' [Jessie Bernard, 'Women and the Public Interest', 1971]'
    - 58: [Pregnancy and birth aged c 23; lots of stuff about clinical hospitals, giggling medical students, being left alone, nurse taking bell away, needing stitches, panic that medical students had found defects, etc etc] 'Curiosity had been my main motive for wanting a baby; I had a tremendous desire to find out if I would conceive, how I would look..'
    - 61: '.. pethidine.. After that a fog descended. .. Life was oceanic; I was tossed from one gigantic wave to another..'
    - [DRUGS: Oakley seems to know a surprising number of them by name: pethidine; 68 & 120 stelazine and imipramine. 70 antidepressants, tranquilizers. 104 oblivon. Elsewhere e.g. 131, 140 valium]
    - 63: [Son now 72 inches etc etc/ Oakley impressed by growth rate of foetuses and babies. Note absence of female input in child-rearing, e.g. 64: Dr Hugh Jolly, self-appointed British paediatric adviser to mothers, says that mothers have to fall in love with their babies or there is no mother-child bond. ..'
    - 66: [HOUSING ETC] 'We had.. bought a small house in Chiswick with help from our families. .. curtains.. hoover.. mice.. nappies.. Robin earned £1,000 a year as Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Bedford College, University of London. ..'
    - 67: [I noted this earlier, before buying this book; its apparent selfishness and self-indulgence irritated me:] 'About the same time, I wrote a list of all the things I wanted most in the world but didn't have. 'a Mini or eleven hundred (car)/ a Hotpoint automatic washing machine/ lots of cupboards/ two more babies/ three pints of cream/ two garden chairs/ a mincer/ a side on my bath/ a wig for the baby/ some gin/ a new bath hat/ some white boots for next winter/ a pushchair/ a cleaning lady/ a portable television/ some huge meals in posh places.'
    - 68: [DEPRESSION:] '.. GP.. should have told me that around four-fifths of women in our society are depressed after birth, a third some of the time. .. March 3rd 1969.. BBC television..'
    - 70: [New Statesman ad for work: phoning to advertise a publication 'which would presumably raise their profits' and 'market research' into paint and bras.]
    - 73: '.. Hannah Gavron.. 'The Captive Wife'.. 1966.. worked at Bedford College... killed herself..'
    - 74-75: [Department of Education; GETTING GRANTS: long correspondence for money for her research into housework]
    - 75: [Article in New Society, 'Deprivation of Paternal care' called after John Bowlby; they called it 'The Myth of Motherhood']
    - 76-80: [She visits a women's meeting in Ealing, with two American speakers, Debbie and Elyse; then a Chinese meal ten years later: one has a baby, one is an HGV driver, one's a vegetarian librarian, Elyse, an acupuncturist, a silversmith, dental receptionist who 'felt she had less education than the rest of us', and Oakley]
    - 81ff: [Passages somewhat like Virginia Woolf's 'The Waves', but they combine descriptive flattening and coalescence with domestic detail] '.. We make tea and observe that it is raining. .. I am on the telephone yet again to a publisher.. a sick child, an Open University Unit to complete.. advertisements in the local paper.. You ask me if I have ever slept with anyone else since I married your father.. you of the unkempt room and melodramatic tempers, of the too-quick retort and hidden Mars bars.. Elastoplast and Oxo cubes.. The salt has been forgotten.. There is a knife missing and the dishwasher is still churning away like the Queen Mary ..' / 101 has more domestic stuff, which evidently Oakley believes to be a part of nature: '.. welcome background.. creak of the pipes, water running in the kitchen, the hiss of the central heating controls, cars outside in the streets. ..'
    - 92-95: [Chapter 'The War between Love and the Family I', which turns out to be a woman's view of a 'relationship' with someone else's husband, written of course from a self-justifying point of view. Mensa mags have a couple of rather similar pieces] 'A man cannot love a woman the way a woman loves a man. That is one point. .. the 'package' of his wife and children. .. yes, she can see why one would not want to lose that. But, on the other hand, consider her own position in this love affair. She is an unequal partner in this relationship. His wife doesn't know.. However, her husband does know.. what her lover and she are able to share together must be determined not so much by what his wife can bear but by what he thinks she can. .. How can one compare love for a child and love for a man? .. On one hand they are a man and a woman enjoying a torrid international love affair
    - really enjoying its dangerous deceit, the hours prized [note: word] away from anything else..'
    - 98: '.. It's like Doris Lessing's Four-Gated City in which the [sic] nuclear holocaust is prefaced by the breakdown of all domestic appliances. .'/ 179: '.. consider this: that the nuclear catastrophe when it comes will not come upon us out of the blue.. It will be a consequence of a million other disasters, trivial mistakes we all, in our time, have made. ..'
    - 104-112: [DEATHS: Mainly her father; also 109 grandmother; and near death 108 of young girl allergic to 'iodine dye'. He died of cancer which was described as 'treatable' which Oakley didn't realise wasn't the same as 'curable'. I think it was lung cancer, in his NHS 'tiny mean hospital room', though there's a puzzling reference to 'dry rot at the top of your ribs' and students being allowed four-letter words if "cancer" was uttered
    - R M Titmuss, in 'Social Policy', 1974. 111-112: service in St Martin-in-the-Fields with Crossman and Wilbur Cohen, ex-Secretary of the U S Dept of Health, Education and Welfare, and Trevor Huddleston, Bishop of Stepney. Apparently he was compared to 'Lloyd George, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Churchill, Queen Elizabeth I, and Seebohm Rowntree', and was 'pensions advisor to the Labour party, Deputy Chairman of the Supplementary Benefits Commission, creator of health and social services for Mauritius, influential friend of Julius Nyerere, critic of income tax dodges, charismatic teacher.'
    - 116: [Note on China taken from M H Kingston. 'The Woman Warrior' 1981, generally suggesting horridness etc of Chinese]
    - 116: [Example of what I take to be 'existentialist' influence:] '.. The question is: can love exist without oppression? And, if it can't, who is being oppressed? The question is: why, if my utopia doesn't contain men, are you my utopia?'
    - 117: '.. Our lives are organized around men. .. men belong to the world, they own it, they run it, its representation is in and comes from their heads. Women have difficulty owning even their own wombs, which is important, because within these organs lies their only countervailing kind of power. ..'
    - 118: 'Adolescent boys are a distraction to adolescent girls.. [Note: unconscious ignorance:] Marriage for women is almost always a mistake. Married women without paid work are the unhappiest people in the world. But the mental health of men is improved by marriage. [Source for this is Jessie Bernard, 'The Future of Marriage' 1973, New York
    - Note: American attitude to measurable mental health] Why is this? It is easy to see why. If you're a woman, marriage promises everything and guarantees nothing. .. men go out in the storm and the rain [this is in reference to a supposed Arapesh saying] to see what's around. What they end up with is both kinds.. the little unselfish domestic ones and the selfish dry-breasted ones. That way they get the best of both worlds.
      But women don't. Women, of both kinds, suffer. .. As mistresses.. I speak as a wife and as a mistress, for that is what all women are. ..
      Three women I know are wrapped up in the consequences of men's bifurcated mystique of women: the feminine and the feminist. All three women are married and all three are mothers. All are in love with another woman's husband.

      [SEX RELATIONSHIPS: 119 ff gives account of man fucking two women, from their point of view; then a woman 'married to a gentle, professional man' fucking another (married) man ['.. they found that they couldn't live without one another (to use the well-worn phrase, which.. hides the fact that it's scarcely ever true)'] who however goes off with another woman, not his wife ['No, he didn't want to talk about talk about it. He didn't want to face facts or feelings of any kind with anyone']; the third 'analyses the distress.. All three women are equally upset.. All three men involved have double vision. All seek the conveniences of marriage and the freedom of the sexual chase. All three women want sexual joy and security to be combined in the same person: their image of men is an integrated one. Therefore the desires of men and women are incompatible. .. 'bitchiness' of teenage girls together: .. This is how they have seen their mothers behave. It is clever to make pointed and salacious remarks about other women. ..
      Feminists know that we women should put each other first. .. But it isn't easy, because women can be their own worst enemies. ..'
      [182 has another long sex relationship, this time supposedly fictional involving the authoress and chap who flies a lot; seems to me indistinguishable from Mills and Boon: '.. You pretend to be overendowed with the ability to act while cowering passively in the shadow of your dilemma: your family or love? .. I threw away your ring.. "I'll lie again," you said. "Anything to keep this relationship going. I can't get you out of my mind or my life." But you didn't try, did you? ... Yes, I know you love me. I know this isn't just any relationship. But I am not just anybody....']

    - 124: 'If my aspirations had been for a husband, a house and two babies by.. twenty-five, by the time I was thirty they were rather different. .. I might have echoed Dora Russell's words.. that two babies and three books by my thirtieth birthday enabled me to feel I had done rather well. ..' [125: first book was 'Sex, Gender, and Society' written in six weeks]
    - 126: [APPLYING FOR MONEY: Cp EU] '.. I designed a simple study of first-time motherhood and applied to the Social Science Research Council for money to do it. The application was initially deferred, and then accepted.. I had to gain entry into the medical world.. I spent about a year in that hospital, and I learnt a lot.. took me some time to recognize.. my own ambition to be a doctor.. Why had medicine never been suggested to me as a career? .. profound miseducation of obstetricians and gynaecologists. [Diane Scully 'Men Who Control Women's Health' 1980] .. male doctoring is ultimately about control over women.. nowhere more true than in the domain of reproduction. .. doctors are human beings too.. jargon.. '.. attempt to integrate oneself in the field is not without negative consequences. ..' .. In other words after two hours of a busy ante-natal clinic I too would sigh.. 128: The first woman I saw having a 'normal' delivery .. gave me quite a shock. .. epidural.. machine.. wires.. just lying there.. 130ff: [Pages on her own pregnancies and abortions (in the medical sense) which make her complaints at other women's excessive discussion of their babies seem insincere. Long tale of misdiagnosis, though I'm not quite sure of what: 'He found a ruptured tubal [sic] pregnancy. .. haemorrhaging internally.. Two pints of blood were extracted from my abdomen..' 134: '..twins were diagnosed.. contractions.. went to the lavatory and passed the fetus.. It hung there.. I looked at it in horror. It was an alien object. ..'
    - 137-146: [CANCER OF THE TONGUE; apparently the source of an article; 'I had many letters in response to my BMJ piece'. She was treated with radioactive wires made of 'a substance called iridium' she says; 141 says she got radiation burns, ulcers all round her mouth: 'I would have liked to have been told about them in advance.' 'Illness is either a visitation from the Divine for personal wrongdoing, or it is a condition of human beings with a specific physical cause. Or it is a process set in train by an unquiet mixture of forces in the head as well as the body... Why had all these things happened to me? ..'
    - 143, 177: [Susan Sontag 'Illness as a Metaphor' 1977. See note under Sontag]
    - 149: '.. Lines from Lamartine's 'Le Lac' .. 1817 perorations to the tubercular Julie..'
    - 152: [HOUSEWORK and classic obsessional tendencies.. 'I am now (I think) able to regard housework as just another task to be done. ..'
    - 158: A Things that annoy you about me... (One is 'That I'm always right when we have a disagreement..; another is 'That I'm so bloody efficient and good at everything..') B Things that annoy me about you
    - 161-165: [MORE ABOUT HOSPITALS; Resigned old patients, three conspiracies against patients, arrogance of doctors, waiting. Her tongue cancer hasn't recurred]
    - 172: '.. France.. suggestive of much older peasant habits. Medieval shepherds' families in Montaillou, a village not far from here, never washed: a strong odour was a good sign, a sign of humanity. De-lousing was a companionable act; .. children often died but not without being first treasured and later mourned. [Cp. Book on Papua New Guinea, where new-borns aren't specially greeted; they mayn't live] Time was marked visually, aurally, or simply physiologically: .. sunset.. sleep. cock.. etc'
    - 178: 'In a patriarchal and patrilineal society, children only belong to men because women tell men they provided the sperm to start them off, but who actually did so must remain, to all men, a matter of conjecture. ..'
    - 181: [More existential:] 'Actually, there were four possible solutions.. viz: death
    - physical, of one or both/ death
    - of the relationship/ life
    - living together/ life
    - living apart'
    - 186ff: '.. I still bore the burden of three misconceptions: that domesticity and the public world are for women opposed fields of labour, that illness is a punishment for misdeeds.., and that the greatest misdeed of all women is infidelity to marriage and motherhood [sic]. I therefore resigned from every committee I was on.. .. It was logical now for me to seek.. an academic position with more administrative responsibility, more duties to do with overseeing the work of other people rather than doing my own.. 188: National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit.. among the six core staff positions was one for a social scientist.. I have achieved all of what I dreamed about.. Successful work
    - even a degree of international repute; love, friendship, marriage, motherhood. And yet, and still, I am not satisfied. .. Yes, I know I am Ann Oakley.. the author of six books, Wellcome Research Fellow at the NPEU, Honorary Research officer in the Department of Sociology, Bedford College etc.. mother of three children and friend to various adults in my social network.. [Existential:] Is writing easy? If it's easy, then it's hardly an achievement. If it's difficult, then I'm a masochist. This is what Thomas Mann said about writing in Tonio Kröger: the urge to write is a curse born early in one's life 'by your feeling yourself set apart, in a curious sort of opposition to the nice, regular people; ..'
    - 189: [Error: she thinks Darwin wrote 'The Origin of the Species'. And 'Expression of Emotion.'
    - 192-4: [Dreams, typically of having children; described in semi-real-life way]
    - 196: 'In my own life I can see the significance of some factors, viz: being born to parents who did not in their own personalities conform to conventional gender role stereotypes.. ; [14: '.. my father's 'feminine' gentleness and my mother's 'masculine' anger; my father's lack of education and my mother's middle class origins..'] perceiving the difficult reality, for my mother, of a traditional marriage; having a close intellectual and emotional relationship with my father; imbibing in childhood the.. sentiments of socialism, i.e. a moral condemnation of social and economic inequality; receiving conflicting expectations from both my parents and my formal education.. marrying and bearing children and caring for them myself.. but.. also.. a brilliantly successful career..'
    - 197: '.. To see groups of dark-suited, busy, pugnacious and self-important men at conferences, in the street, in hotel lounges, sitting lined up an aircraft being served drinks by lipsticked stewardesses, is to be made more sharply aware that it is men who rule the world... If any one of them makes any kind of sexual overture to me, my anger can't be borne: it makes an impotent, inarticulate wreck of me. ..'
    - 199: '.. Mary Ingham commented that 'Intellectually we demanded to be equals; deep down, emotionally and sexually, we were still looking for the awe-inspiring Mr Right.' .. Alexandra Kollontai.. in 'A Great Love'.. became involved with [sic] a married Russian economist called Maslov in 1909; .. French-born Bolshevik woman called Inessa Armand, who was having an affair with Lenin..' [Cp PC notes somewhere on Trotsky who was I think fancied by Isaac Deutscher's wife]
    - 201: 'Male-dominated culture has designated as female all labours of emotional connectedness. .. the greater sensitivity of women means that they possess an enhanced capacity to relate to others and find themselves very often in the position of being the only ones able to carry out this life-saving task. ..'
    - 204: [FINAL PARAGRAPH:] 'Life is worth living. Not because there is nothing else, but because of what we may give one another; pain, joy, anguish, peace. It's not an easy journey. You may even call it an adventure. It doesn't matter about the problems, the contradictions. In our hearts we understand everything. We understand it's the struggle that counts.'

RW review written c 1990


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Ann Oakley: The Men's Room [1988]
Ann Oakley The Men's Room Novel by the same Ann Oakley as above; presumably written to try to make money. The title must be based on 'The Women's Room', an American book the author of which I forget, since the title has nothing prima facie to do with the contents. (Though the phrase does occur once).
The 'imprint' is Flamingo, of Fontana, itself part of Collins (and presumably now of HarperCollins).
[NB: I found in 1996 this was made into a film; I'm sure if I noted its date anywhere]

    -About academic sociologists in north London and their kids (and the importance of A-levels, travel expenses, library book stealing etc). Interesting to try to work out how the hierarchy maintains itself; e.g. there's a male, a 'computer programmer', and a female 'junior researcher' who are evidently considered inferior.
      Each chapter has a motto from de Beauvoir's Second Sex.
      Very women's view comments; clothes are noticed (with conditioned gasp! horror! stuff); certain amount of trade name stuff though not in the same world as Irma Bombeck; familiarity with trade names of tranquillisers; some familiarity with disease as expected since women spend more time on this; e.g. endometrium problem, sort of over-heavy period.
      Changes due to progress of women: some fields of knowledge opened up - e.g. it was discovered that the cervix [+ Lat. of the womb] doesn't look like a nose.
      Quite a lot of sex writing, but it doesn't sound properly convincing to me; perhaps it was vetted or added by a man friend?

    -SOCIOLOGY: Some random remarks:
    -6: '. Regent's College.. As [sic] the college had grown, its premises had not, and the sociology department had been moved round the corner.. the other departments.. tended to discount it and could do so more easily if it wasn't there.. But the effect on the sociologists.. was to give them a quite audacious sense of their own grandeur. They might have become like a gentleman's [sic] club, swanning time away in armchairs under tomes of Durkheim's ..'
    -15: '.. and most of them you've never read. They're just a symbol. A cultural symbol. A product' 'Who sounds like a Marxist now? Such materialism, from the lips of a liberal economist!..'
    -20: '.. Denby's review article on 'Political Marriages: Conflict and Collusion' came back.. dimly from the unread recesses of the Sociological Review. ..'
    -59: 'Mark assumed the junior researcher would be female.. she was. The post, when advertised, drew fifty
    -six replies.. because there weren't many jobs around. Delia Cook wore black dungarees.. Her father was a bricklayer. She had a first-class degree from Sussex. ..'
    -126: '.. fourth floor of the Social Science library in WC1. ..'
    -128: '.. talk to the Whiteman Foundation about the funding of his project on the sociology of everyday life. ..'
    -129: 'Want to apply for a readership,' .. 'Do you?' .. The request struck him as absurd, given the shoplifting misdemeanour and [his] general lack of qualification for such an elevated and expensive position. ..'I'm fifty. .. Can't wait for ever.'
    -131-2: '.. he launched into a soliloquy on the UGC and its underlying and overlying agendas, outlining the points of possible conflict, where the department needed especially to impress. .. getting together a batch of documents about the external relations and internal workings of the department
    - its essential democracy and accountability, its worthy research record, the great teaching it did, its amazing esprit de corps. '.. our postgraduate degree record.. work out our completion rates.. new option we're doing on the social economics of the household
    - no one else is doing that.. we're not doing badly with the overseas students, either. They'll want to know we're raking in the money.' ..'
    -133: '.. Roger Strangeway, the Foundation's Research Director..' [always capitalised]
    -136-7: ' ...'Everyday life is non-philosophical in relation to philosophy and represents reality in relation to reality,' read Mark. 'The study of everyday life... exposes the possibilities of conflict between the rational and the irrational in our society and our time...' He paused, with his finger on the page, in order to think about the point. He was sitting in the New York Public Library reading Lefebvre's Everyday Life in the Modern World. Strangeway had told him his project lacked a theoretical rationale. 'Now that doesn't worry me.. But.. We're talking here about something that's going to cost at least three million dollars. I think you need to tighten up on your theory.' ..'
    -140: 'Margaret Lacey was waiting to see him, anxious to tell him how well the UGC visit had gone. .'
    -149: '.. The rest of July and August were occupied with costing the everyday life project. How much did notebooks cost in Alma-Ata? Sixteen plane trips to Trieste. Should Italian fieldworkers be paid the same as Swedish ones? What about the unions? ... How many interpreters were required to cope with the minority dialects of South China, supposing it proved possible to include South China? ..'
    -151: 'Rose's first task was to unravel the shoplifting project. Swinhoe had years of unanalysed data on the social background and self-professed motives of several thousand shoplifters in towns across the country, including Glasgow, so Scotland wouldn't get left out. Since McKinnon hadn't managed to run off even the simplest tabulations..' [Chap who left sabotaged the figures in some unspecified way which Oakley wouldn't grasp.]
    -172: '.. she got a job in a medical research unit in a London hospital. The job.. was to serve as the unit's sociologist: to give their research a sociological perspective, and do research of her own; also to teach medical students. ..'
    -301: '.. 52.. She holds a senior university position in social science research, a personal chair: not the one she had had her eyes on in the beginning.. She has published six or seven books, she heads the editorial board of a left-wing academic journal and has acquired a solid reputation as a theorist in the health and illness field. ..' [300, same woman: '.. brought along.. a new book.. Being and Doing: Feminist Existentialism and.. [Her] mood is not, however, up to the onslaughts of feminist theory. ..'
    -Joke: Russia: 219 '.. Mark ['exuberant' Professor of sociology] read the bundle of material.. He learnt that Russia was twice the size of China and spanned eleven time zones; however, only 53 per cent of Russians were really Russians. The rest were ethnic minorities. These included the Khazars of Central Asia, who'd been having conflicts.. with their Russian hosts since the sixteenth century. Kazakhstan had its own customs and its own culture.. it had been created an autonomous republic by the Central Executive Council of the USSR in 1924. Together with Siberia, it formed about 70 per cent of the total area of the Soviet Union [this seems misleading; Siberia must be about 5/6 of RSFSR] much bigger than K for this to be true], although it contained at the moment only 16 per cent of its people.'
    [Note: reference books: Amusing to check this; Whitaker of 1987 doesn't list Russia as a geographical entity, but seems to conflate RSFSR with Russia. Siberia is not listed as an entity at all! though mentioned as a source of raw materials etc. There isn't even a map showing the regions!]
    -241: [Note: meme:] '.. I suppose you think voting should be compulsory? It is in Australia and Belgium, you know. I wouldn't mind having proportional representation
    - the Nazis only got 37 per cent of the vote and it enabled them to get power. What a wonderful system! ..' [NB this is the heroine supposedly ruthlessly attacking a male architect]
    -304: '.. early 1980s. Margaret Thatcher was systematically eroding the quality of life in Britain, schools were shut much of the time, hospitals were closing, the universities had become bastions of relative poverty. Feminism, real feminism, was nearly underground. ...'
    -306: [Rather sad perfunctoriness about author's conditioned attitude to 'culture'; e.g. heroine occasionally puts on Mozart, 43 someone goes to a prom, but actually notices and comments on Dire Straits, but:] '.. Celia Johnson and - who was it? - in Brief Encounter had had Rachmaninov; the music in Casablanca [this film also mentioned 150] hadn't been bad either, and that old film [sic] about the Danish writer Karen Blixen she and Mark had seen.. had had a similar emotional musical strength. [Then dialogue between Robert Redford and Meryl Streep as recorded by Oakley follows]. [302 has another film - Peter Sellers trying to piss, with his leg in plaster] [29 has dialogue on not mentioning contraception, or peeing, in films] [15 someone says all the great writers were poor. Madame Bovary gets quite a long mention. So does Roald Dahl. 283 lists Patricia Highsmith, Dorothy Sayers, the radical feminist science fiction writer Olanda Hughes, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Donne, W H Auden, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson & Proust [though only Swann in Love seems to get read]

RW review written c 1990


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Ann Oakley Scenes Originating in the Garden of Eden   Rerevisionist's Review of   Ann Oakley   Scenes Originating in the Garden of Eden
    Review 22 May 2016
Published by Harper-Collins in 1993, and presumably paperback in 1994, under the 'Flamingo' imprint. The inside front cover of the paperback has a monochrome photo of the author. Following the detective tracks—mother's name and family background suppressed, surnames, influences such as Marx and Freud, it's obvious enough she is some sort of Jew. These days she appears to resemble Melanie Phillips: another 'Jew' with short grey hair, stern expression, and a body of work which on examination is unimportant.

Internal evidence suggests this novel was written in separate chapters. It is overweighted with description in possibly a typical female way - flowers, clothes, superficialities: Lincoln Cathedral described as '... triple towers .. like decorated lemon lollies against a peacock-blue sky' illustrates the type of thing. There's no suggestion of grasp of (say) geology, history, technology or biology, though there is a sex scene containing the word 'cunt' about midway for people deciding whether to buy.

ann-oakley-c-1993
It's difficult to guess how autobiographical this novel is: the heroine's mother is (this is unstated) a Jew 'researching' an obscure woman who figured in the 'Russian Revolution'. We have mentions of Karen Horney, a follower of Freud. And of Sorokin, whose first name is spelt unconventionally. She works in an Islington Arts Establishment, funded by some supposedly humanophile outfit, which has decided to cash in, and perhaps boot her out. She 'directs' it - it occurs to me 'director' has an appropriate double meaning, one being as in films. I can't remember much of an earlier novel, The Men's Room, except that all the backup staff seemed better qualified than the director. Some interesting insights might have been provided - beyond a china in-tray, with faxes in those days - as to what the director, in this novel, actually did. I'd guess awarding cash to supplicants with a claim to feminist art.

The heroine had a few lovers, including her about-to-be discarded good looking and impecunious actor. Her favourite was a Scandinavian married man supplying waterside shags. I suppose these days it would be blacks on sex holidays combined with the new Jewish lie that they would 'pay our pensions' ('Only two percent of ... nonwhite invaders who have entered Germany over the past few months stands any hope of getting work, ... according to one of Germany’s leading economic think tanks.' - 2015).

Ann Rosamund Oakley (née Titmuss; born 17 January 1944), is a distinguished British sociologist, feminist, and writer. She is Professor and Founder-Director of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London and in 2005 partially retired from full-time academic work to concentrate on her writing and especially new novels. - thus Wikipedia. Which adds information on her Ph.D., which resulted in The Sociology of Housework (1974).

Anyway: her 39-year-old heroine decides to sell her flat (10% to the actor, I think) and moves to a mythical county with (she finds later) a submerged valley reservoir. There's a subplot involving infertility: I simply couldn't make the effort to discover the implications (if any); water pollution? As with Gee's novel (next review) there are Jewish media stories: in this case 'AIDS' risks. There's acknowledgment of the start of Jewish wars over Iraq, though not in those words.

The heroine shows her masterfulness in dealing with estate agents, and arithmetic of house prices, though the implications of inflation are outside her range: the future can pay. She has a pension. Anyway, she finds a cottage and settles in, becoming a centre of attention - perhaps this is a female attitude. They all talk about her. She finds an attractive man, or more accurately waits till he finds her. He reads Marxism Today, which lost some lawsuit (I think) on misrepresenting victims of war in Europe - they must have been surprised, since this is a favourite occupation of Jews in publishing. He was a farmer, who liked wine, was not 'organic', and supplied free dead animals who hadn't managed to live.

Another favoured Jewish theme of course is sinister and antagonistic whites in their village hovels, and the novel appears to veer off into menacing byways which I could not fathom (or perhaps 'thread'). There's an odd lack of realism: does any family really refer to other family members as 'Mother' and 'Father'? A Lord of the Manor type appears. There are boxes of papers from her deceased dad, probably a reflection of Titmuss in real life. There's a subplot involving a housing scheme (27 houses) and a marina. The novel ends with a birth: it seem all she wanted was a good shag and a child.
The real-life Oakley went on in triumph to avoid all serious issues. Here's a website presumably controlled by her: 'In 1990 [First Iraq War about to start, part of the Jewish policy for the entire Middle East:] she set up a new research unit at the Institute [of Education, London University], with a brief to conduct policy-relevant research across the health, education and welfare sectors (SSRU). Her own research interests since 1990 have increasingly been in the area of social science methodology and the contribution the social sciences can and should make to public policy. ...' 'Research'—by someone with little or no or negative grasp of medical science, education, and finance and races?
    An exquisite irony of the Jewish expansion is the continued sex differential: Jewish males take their traditional roles of lying and swindling goyim, and fomenting the most vicious wars through the control of media and puppet politicians and generals. The females screech and complain, and waste time, while attacking whites and their families. As long as Jews control money, this is likely to continue.

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ERIN PIZZEY: SCREAM QUIETLY OR THE NEIGHBOURS WILL HEAR [1974]

I wrote these notes in 1995. I was aware of Ivor Catt's work on family law, though neither I nor him knew of the Jewish issue. He worked for a number of years on the issue of fathers' rights, but, largely because of his blind spot, got nowhere.
      This book was a Penguin Special on women being beaten up; mostly (without overview) a collection of unpleasant stories. I know now that 'Penguin Specials' indicated some collaborative Jewish pressure group was weighing in. In short, a red flag. See for example my reviews of Penguin Specials urging the Second World War, and post-1945 on capital punishment, evils of capitalism without mentioning Jewish money control, race relations (of course!)

- Anyway; here is a Penguin Special on women being beaten up; mostly (without overview) a collection of unpleasant stories, and with a number of important points, which presumably led to changes in procedure:
      - uselessness of solicitors who e.g. would say a divorce couldn't be had for two years, despite the fact there is explicit provision along the lines of unusual cruelty;
      - uselessness of supposedly helping bodies; e.g. statement in one place that if an emergency call is received it's ignored for 24 hours, by which time it will have gone away (usually);
      and legal system which appears callous and indifferent and inactive - she mentions a few solicitors who act promptly, but typically there are delays over whole weekends etc when bailiffs and tipstaffs don't want to work. Or custody or access rights given to men with history of violent assaults.
      - [Note: conflicts of interest:] internal conflicts among supposedly helping bodies: e.g. local authorities won't rehouse women who leave in desperation; the Chiswick refuge tended therefore to attract women who needed rehousing and this seems unfair on its borough; social workers vs hospitals vs police - in many cases hospitals wouldn't inform police and/or social workers; e.g. a surgeon who'd mended a woman's nose half a dozen times but who took no interest in reporting the cause of this
      - psychology of certain type of man: realises women want to get married; is very charming; then starts to beat new wife up and also deliberately gets her pregnant as often as possible so she's immobilized. When criticized or whatever appears very contrite and thus many social workers etc tend to side with them - no doubt to avoid difficulties for themselves.

- Note: important to bear the following in mind when hearing criticisms of legal system biased in favour of women (and presumably children too, though this isn't usually ever mentioned)
      [Note: population: One wonders whether huge families of in some cases brain and psychologically and otherwise damaged children is another cause for state action on this point]
      - [Note: class interest:] extension to 'middle class' men; some examples given of e.g. bank manager, I think; plus comment that so long as it was seen as working class inarticulate behaviour only, nothing much would be done
      - [Note: 'fairness':] At the very end is a comment on the cycle of violent behaviour and such men being trapped etc - perhaps just added on as an afterthought and sweetener.


Thus my puzzled notes in 1995. Looking back, there are obvious omissions:
    (1) On Race, Jews and their collaborators worked hard to force immigration into Britain. Combined with their campaigns against 'racism', the Jewish media made it seem that they were entitled to housing, money &c.
    (2) White males were targeted by Jews. Many of course had been killed fighting for Jews, under the influence of Jewish propaganda. They were used as a taxable resource, though of course most had no understanding of the methods by which they were swindled.
    (3) On race, it was important to Jews to suppress all mention of violence by alien races. Rapes of white women were ignored. And violence against their imported women were suppressed, too. All this is natural to the Jewish deception mindset.

© Rae West   1995 and 2021


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image   Review of female education   Jane Robinson: Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education

Smug, with no good reason, June 28, 2010

This is Britain-only (apart from a few asides on US women's colleges) and university only—the subtitle ('.. First Women to Fight for an Education') is misleading. There's a chronological table which incidentally dates Oxford from post-Norman Conquest. As other commentators have stated, it's anecdotal—the author contacted elderly women and interviewed them. The result is attractive enough and makes a nostalgic impression. Worth mentioning is that the academic studies are barely referred to—if you want to know what work these women actually did, you'll be disappointed—but this of course is a feature of very many biographies with Oxbridge and redbrick as background.

BUT

[1] The hermetic, isolated nature of university education is unconsciously emphasised—the author (a graduate in—of course—English) isn't even aware of this. For example (p. 176) 'Nineteen-eighteen was a momentous year for several reasons. ... the first dance to which Girtonians could invite male partners was held. ... permission to smoke in their own rooms was granted to lady students.'
[2] The underlying social conditions are similarly skated over ... the main period she deals with (19th and 20th centuries) was on the whole characterised by increasing wealth. Robinson seems to present it purely as a battle against reactionary males. She has little idea of the way token education can be used to mop up new wealth.
[3] It follows, I suppose, that the single most important part of this book, the essential few chapters, are missing. We have female new blood trickling, then flowing, into education. Where are the tremendous exciting achievements of educated women? What did they do? What new breakthroughs, and corrections of errors, were made by these women? --- Unfortunately, to ask these questions is to answer them. Despite the pother about education, there are few if any contributions by women to science, technology, or applied science—such as medicine; nor in any sort of critical activity, from history to criminology, from psychology to studies of religion. Most went in for conventional careers, in many cases of course teaching or administering teaching.

If you think women vicars are a mark of great social progress, you'll like this book rather better than those who think there's little value in increasing the numbers of rather parasitic and uncreative retailers of feeble ideas.

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image   Review of Women   Sheila Rowbotham: A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century

Uncritical trot through other people's quotations, June 26, 2010

Disappointingly dim (and also English-language only) book. It describes life for women—and describes occasional protests—but of course has no suggestions how they could themselves improve matters. At the end of the book is a list of famous women with brief biogs—example Kate Adie [she read out censored material about Iraq wearing camouflaged clothing] and Diana [married a rich royal] and Margaret Mead [phoney academic]—generally women of no great character. The cover design perhaps sums up the book—a woman perched on metal eagle's head on a skyscraper, holding a large bellows camera—all the artefacts being designed by males.

She went to St Hilda's College, Oxford. One of her books says '.. my intense visionary moments didn't help.. read Gibbon and Macaulay or study the growth of the judiciary in the Middle Ages or the boundaries of the Austro-Hungarian empire. I found this kind of history boring at the best of times.' She seems to have been influenced far more by her experiences later, for example with supposed lefties influenced by what everyone still calls the 'Russian Revolution'.

The social material is entirely convention—Suffragettes, World War 1, then World War 2 with judgments about e.g. Jews, 'appeasement', strikes. Then 'the pill', civil rights, capitalist use of the labour of married women...

She has the usual inability to grasp the importance of science; and of course power structures aren't analysed. So weapons or cars or medical advances or whatever 'develop'. 'Poverty' is the 'cause' of hardship. 'Capitalism brought new relationships of property and domination. It brought into being a class which did not own the means of production, 'free' labourers who had to sell their labour on the market.' She doesn't face the fact that consumers could presumably have still bought hand loom stuff, but preferred the new machine stuff.

Rowbotham had two books published in 1973, Hidden from History—300 years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It, which is a bit of a ragbag or conspectus, arranged by topics pre-selected by other writers. She has a footnote on the 'Churching of Women' perhaps taken from Dora Russell.

And another 1973 book, Woman's Consciousness, Man's Worlds, she was influenced by Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique' which Rowbotham dates 1968, and steals from: 'graphically describes a sense of isolation.. suburban coffee meeting in an American city.. dissatisfaction.. yearning.. 'Is this all?''. Rowbotham is, compared to these Americans who were funded deliberately to promote agenda, a very soft type.

I'd guess most of the material in this book is taken from other works, and that she has taught women's issues—in fact, I checked using Google and she seems to have been at Manchester.

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Esther Vilar - Manipulated Man   Review of 1971 book on Male/Female War   Esther Vilar: The Manipulated Man

Part of the post-1945 Jewish Subversion of White Society
  20 March 2016
I vaguely remember seeing, many years ago, probably on BBC TV, a typically staged debate on women's issues. Only with Internet was I able to recover the name 'Esther Vilar'. Youtube now has a reprise: Alice Schwarzer and Esther Vilar in a staged German TV chat. Vilar made quite a good case for males being exploited by women, with work until retirement and differences in life expectation. This of course is not in Third World conditions, with white expectations of competence! Vilar seemed to have little grasp of the medical and nutritional reasons for life expectation differences. Schwarzer presented a rather comical post-1945 'feminist' viewpoint. The clue here seems to be that both are/were Jews, or perhaps near-Jews. The only things they agree upon are 'fascism', and upon mutual implicit indifference to world upheavals at that time.

It is true that women, like men, can calculate advantages and disadvantages. And it is true women's styles are likely to be a matter of pleading rather than strength. And it is true marriage can be hugely advantageous. (Vilar writes: 'Women are physically much weaker than men, their brains demonstrably smaller and not constructed for problem-solving [sic], so dependency could have distinct evolutionary advantages. But the real answer has to be discovered ... in the hormones which race so headily through a man's bloodstream.') Anyone who is shocked by these simple facts might benefit from reading Vilar. Deeper readers will perceive the incipient promotion of 'pornography', homosexual marriage, support for mentally ill persons, Jews using women as prostitutes, men as rapists and child molesters, money-making from divorce, abortion support, family court corruption, and what have you.

This turns out to be just more useful idiocy and divide-and-rule pseudo-debate.
An earlier writer in English on women as cunning gold-diggers was Ludovici; in Woman—A Vindication (1923) he puts women's desire for a family as her motive—testing men rather like a female butterfly testing its food plant. Vilar just puts acquisitiveness there. Vilar says 'The average American woman is a whore. Her vagina is a business, and this business is extortion. Her most cherished goal is to live at a man's expense, to luxuriate in a life without work or responsibility'. Note the misuse of the word 'whore'—the danger, the short-termism, the decline with age, is a typical Jewish misuse of a word. In any society with mobility, and choice, and a legally-policed structure without much in the way of shotgun weddings and rapes, and with control over fertility, such attitudes are going to occur. Possibly in 1923, with deaths of men during the Great War, Ludovici seemed new, but I think by 1971 it's surprising Vilar attracted much attention; assuming of course that the publicity resulted in sales—it's usually impossible to know even approximate figures.
It's worth noticing the specifically Jew-blind attitude of Vilar. 'Moreover, it is women who control 80% of the nation's wealth...' is her claim; the realities of Jews and paper/ e-money are ignored. The publicity given to these people is just another aspect of the Jewish impulse to harm whites. And it's been fairly successful: in the American 'academic' world, many female 'professors' are a bad joke. Vilar has the post-1945 Jewish view of 'feminism', i.e. not the earlier moderate versions: 'Never before have females been so brazenly mercenary as today's "liberated" woman. Feminism, which masquerades as a philosophy which would celebrate character over materialism, has become nothing more than a license to exploit men.'
    And in the legal world, there's been very little attempt to work out rational rules for divorce. There's a parallel with blacks, where Jewish lies have successfully suppressed rational discussion on race differences.
A message here, which many people seem unable to learn, is to follow the money—or in this case follow the funding. When Jewish money is to be used for some harmful purpose, one of the stages is to secretly pay 'activists', propagandists, thugs, or whatever, and to tip off the Jewish media. It's a similar process to advertising some new Hollywood film, or some new target for war.

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Webb Suffragettes Terrorism   Review of   Simon Webb   Suffragette Terrorism
Suffragette Terrorism? Explosions in Britain Attributed to Suffragettes before the 'Great War'     12 Sept 2015
Webb appears to be a Jewish author who spreads all the modern media mythology about 'terrorism'. This book has accounts of outrages, typically from 1909 to early 1914—explosions and/or arson in barracks, churches, libraries, and public buildings. I'd ask serious historians to consider the hypothesis that these explosions were carried out secretly by Jews, leaving behind false flag tokens—books, letters, 'clues', written notes, things supposed to be part of the lives of white ladies.
[Here's H G Wells in his Experiment in Autobiography: 'It is no part of the plan of this book to tell the tale of that nagging, ignoble campaign which ended abruptly with the Declaration of War in 1914, to detail once again the window-smashing, the burning of country houses, churches and the contents of letter boxes, the squawking at meetings, "votes for women" until the discussion of public affairs became impossible, ...']
    Why the hell would anyone want to do something so repellent? I think probably part of the motive was to make people feel nervous and worried and apprehensive: in short, to make them follow the authorities. The feeling must have been: What could happen next? Certainly when war 'broke out', as the evasive phrase has it—in fact, Britain declared war—the suffragettes made peace with Lloyd George. And there was a newspaper campaign suggesting men needed war, civilisation was jaded and dull, battle was a cleansing influence. I'd suggest that Jews had a history of bomb throwing; consider 1905 in Russia. It's hard to believe genteel Englishwomen were skilled in the use of the then-new dynamite; whereas so-called 'anarchists', a code-word for Jews from eastern Europe. And the targets—churches (Christian artefacts are hated by Jews), libraries (full of non-Talmudic material, hated by Jews), splendid public buildings and country houses (evidence of white skills, hated by Jews), and barracks (white soldiers—hated by Jews), make sense as part of a Jewish campaign. Here's a naive remark by Webb: '... no responsibility for these two attacks was claimed by the WSPU, it is hard to know who else could have been to blame. The suffragettes were the only terrorist group operating in Britain at that time.' Note the phrasing: 'no responsibility was claimed'; note that no evidence seems to have been found, either. Webb maintains the destructiveness of these attacks has been underestimated, or forgotten. An alternative interpretation is that, having helped achieve war, retrospective propaganda would simply omit them once their work had been done, in case people might guess, and investigate, what really happened.
    Anyone, now, who thinks all protests and demonstrations are spontaneous and honestly-motivated, to be taken at face value, must be an extremist in naïeveté.
[I was amused to see comments by the tenth-rate Peter Hitchens, avoiding the issue, online. Jews stick together, don't they.
SUMMARY: [Added after Webb showed he can't read]:
I believe (though he isn't honest enough to say so) that Webb thinks he's a 'Jew' and therefore presumably is entitled to lie. The fact is - at least if his 'research' was correct - that the explosive atrocities before WW1 were NOT acknowledged by suffragettes; all that happened was bits of paper were found with 'votes for women' on them. So it's possible, in fact likely, that they were a false flag. Webb also lies in stating there were no bomb-throwers etc around at the time. In fact of course Russia was plagued by them, and they were Jews. Webb is 'raving mad' etc etc.
Added June 2019: ‘Timothy Messer-Kruse's The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks (Urbana: Uni of Illinois Press, 2012). Messer-Kruse documents two trans-Atlantic connections for groups with knowledge of dynamite: the first is the Fenians; the second, German Jews. This knowledge of explosives helps explain the Chicago anarchist bombing, for example, which the author shows was then covered up by Jewish-American New Left academics in the 1960s, who ignored the transcripts of the trial and advanced their own ideology of these anarchists as a bunch of romantic dreamers. If German Jews had connections with Jews in the United States, isn’t it somewhat likely that they had connections with both Russian Jews and Jews in England?’
      –Yes, of course it is! And 'dreamers' of course is yet another Jewish expression, to pretend some group being covertly backed by Jews are harmless. The situation strikes me as analogous with Jewish activity in long-suffering Africa. - RW
This is Bertrand Russell in 1910: Anti-Suffragist Anxieties from which it's clear Russell had no idea that front organisations can lead subversions up to the level of war.

Initial post: 13 Sep 2015   S. Webb says: It is hard to know where to begin with such a criticism as this. Perhaps dealing with the obvious misconceptions would be a good place to start. Dynamite was not a new substance in the years before the outbreak of war in 1914; it had been patented in 1867. In any case, it was not used by the suffragettes, who restricted themselves to the more widely available gunpowder and, very occasionally, nitro-glycerine. I have no idea why Mr West believes that 'anarchists' is a code-word for Jews from eastern Europe. He does seem to have Jews on the brain! Those convicted of anarchist attacks in this country at the end of the nineteenth century were not Jews at all. Perhaps Mr West might like to read up on Rollo Richards, who bombed the post offices of south London in the 1890s, or Martial Bourdin, who blew himself up at the Greenwich Observatory. Neither these men nor any of the others convicted for bomb making or arson in this country were Jews.

As for the Jews being responsible for bombing churches in Edwardian Britain; this is a little fanciful. Certainly those caught for such offences, such as Annie Bell, who was found in the act of bombing the St John the Evangelist church in Westminster, were not Jewish. I might recommend another of my books on the subject of terrorism, Dynamite, Treason and Plot; Terrorism in Victorian and Edwardian London, for a more detailed account of bombings during this period. Not one of these attacks was, as far as it known, carried out by Jews. Readers might bear in mind that Mr West has given a five star rating to Mein Kampf; which might shed some light upon his political leanings and explain why he wishes to blame the Jews for everything!

Rerevisionist says: Ah - you must be the author. I read a report that dynamite with a fuse was thrown over a wall somewhere; it was relatively new. the idea Victorian ladies would use the highly dangerous nitroglycerine is absurd.

However, Webb seems to know nothing of jewish actions in eg. Russia (e.g. murder of Stolypin), Jewish support for 1905 war of Japan vs Russia, or the attribution of atrocities to 'anarchists'. Who of course were Jews. However, the point here is that there seems no evidence at all that suffragettes carried out the violent attacks. The use of false flags by jews is a long-standing tradition, in force today. So is (e.g.) the destruction of churches, notably Orthodox churches in the USSR. It's a pity Webb has so little knowledge or interest in genuine history. There's little point reading authors like him, who aren't even aware of the issues.

Incidentally I don't blame jews for 'everything', as Webb flippantly claims. They have large numbers of defenders, collaborators, and so on.

Since Webb doesn't even understand my point, I'd suggest his book is not worth reading.

S. Webb says: As I think I have already explained, dynamite was not relatively new and had been around for almost fifty years at the time of the suffragette bombings. The idea that Victorian women would use nitro-glycerine was not at all absurd; they had the services of an analytical chemist called Edwy Clayton, who subsequently appeared at the Old Bailey. Rather than being a Jew, he came from a Methodist background. It is of course perfectly true that Stolypin was assassinated in 1911 by a Jewish anarchist called Dmitry Bogrov, but this tells us little about anarchists in general. None of those arrested in this country for terrorism in the late nineteenth century were Jews.

It is also true that some churches may well have been destroyed by Jews in other parts of the world. Those which were set fire to and bombed in Britain between 1911 and 1914 were invariably targeted by suffragettes and not Jews. Alice Wheeldon, for example, was responsible for the burning down of the church at Breadsall on 5 June 1914, Annie Bell detonated the bomb at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London on 10 May 1914 and so on. Neither Wheeldon nor Bell were Jews. I'm not at all sure why Mr West seems to believe that there is no evidence that suffragettes carried out violent attacks. There is no shortage at all of evidence for this. Following the bombing of Lloyd George's house at Walton-on-the-Hill on 18 February 1913, Emmeline Pankhurst was convicted at the Old Bailey of inciting terrorism. The bomb itself was planted by Emily Davison, who later threw herself in front of the King's horse at Epsom. Neither Emily Davison nor Mrs Pankhurst were Jews.

If there is any evidence that Jews were responsible for any of these attacks, then of course it would be interesting to see it. Unfortunately, Mr West appears to have something of a bee in his bonnet about Jews and thinks them responsible for many of the world's ills. In this particular case he is mistaken, although any evidence which he wished to produce in support of this hypothesis would be welcomed. The fact that some Jews were in favour of the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 tells us little about who planted bombs in Britain between 1911 and 1914. Looking through Mr West's reviews of other books on Amazon reveals a common thread; he nearly always mentions Jews. Spending a lot of time hunched over a keyboard in a darkened room, writing about the Jews is bound to give anybody a distorted view of the world and it is to be hoped that some friend of Mr West's might have a quiet word with him and encourage him to get out more and find another hobby; preferably one which does not involve Jews!

Rerevisionist says: I don't care much for Webb's dishonest points here. Any serious historian knows Jews murdered tens of millions of Russians, after the Federal Reserve in 1913 put them in the position to dominate the USA economically, which of course Bernard Baruch did. If Webb thinks mass murder is a matter of having bees in bonnets, I'd recommend he either seeks psychiatric help or volunteers for investigation by psychologists.

However all this is somewhat of a waste of time; the hypothesis of Jewish involvement is an obvious one and any serious historian ought to examine it. Obviously it's unlikely the evidence will be freely available.

Clearly I was confusing Webb with someone with a serious interest in the past (and future). Perhaps he should find a new hobby appropriate to his skill level.

S. Webb says: The problem here is really a simple failure of logic. Even if it were to be true that tens of millions of Russians had been murdered by Jews, this would shed no light at all on either suffragette terrorism or the anarchist movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mr West's thought process seems to be as follows. Some anarchists, such as the man who assassinated Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin, were Jews; therefore anarchism was an eastern European, Jewish plot. This is why it is suggested that anarchists is a 'code-word for Jews from eastern Europe'. Of course, the great majority of anarchists were not Jews from eastern Europe at all; many of them were Italians from Catholic families. We remember, for instance, Luigi Lucheni, who assassinated Elizabeth of Austria and in this country, Francis Polti and Guiseppe Farnara, who appeared at the Old Bailey on 30 April 1894, charged with plotting to blow up the London Stock Exchange. One might as well describe anarchists as being a code-word for Catholics from southern Europe. In fact many of the most famous anarchist bombers such as Ravachol and Emile Henry were French atheists. Perhaps we should say that 'anarchists' is a code-word for atheists from western Europe!

Unfortunately, Mr West sees almost everything from the perspective of Jewish conspiracies. Whether we are talking about anarchist and suffragette terrorism, world wars and economic crises or immigration and mixed marriages, there is one solution; it's those pesky Jews, at it again! Unless, and until, we are given some solid evidence to consider, I think that we may safely dismiss this particular hypothesis. Mr West has here a public platform to show us why he thinks that it was the Jews, rather than the suffragettes, who bombed Lloyd George's house and also why he believes anarchism in the early twentieth century to be a Jewish plot. Until he does so, his ideas on the subject are best described as 'bare assertion'.

14 Sep 2015 13:09:17 Rerevisionist says: Unfortunately Webb is too ignorant to face the issue, as his mass of irreleventsia shows. And unfortunately it's therefore clear his book is worthless.

15 Sept 2015 S. Webb says: We are, alas, destined never to learn what grounds anybody would have for supposing that Jews were running around planting bombs in Edwardian Britain. This is a pity, because there is something quite entertaining about the idea of sinister rabbis fooling about with sticks of dynamite! Mr West is apparently a sensitive soul and I have inadvertently put him out of countenance. It is to be hoped that he changes his mind and tells us a little more about this hypothesis. History can be a rather dry topic sometimes and many of us would welcome a lighthearted diversion of this sort.
T. T. Rogers says: Mr. Webb,

I agree that any allegations of Jewish involvement must be supported by evidence. So far, what Rerevisionist says in this matter remains an interesting hypothesis, nothing more.

That said, you must of course know that when Rerevisionist refers to Jews in this context, he is not (or at least, not primarily) referring to 'rabbis'. That you would characterise the supposition in this way is, perhaps, telling.
Rerevisionist says: Thanks for your comment.

I'm in fact grateful to Mr Webb, though he may be surprised to hear it. It simply hadn't occurred to me before that it's extremely unlikely that suffragettes would have started bombing campaigns; after all, the whole point of parliament is to debate and discuss things, and suffragettes were wealthy enough to print 'literature' and make speeches.

And of course Jews in Russia, Germany, and for that matter the east end of London were aggressive and violent and now known to have been prime movers in the disasters of the 20th century.

I don't know Mr Webb's working methods: it may be he has copies of trial transcripts, for example, in which case he could probably investigate the hypothesis without much extra work.

And plenty more in this fruitless vein. It transpires that Webb claims to have lived in Israel for a few years; he comments on the middle east in a twitter account simonwebb54 full of anti-Palestine hate, and shares comment fantasies with a 'Black' and a 'Morgan'. It seems my initial suspicion has been unexpectedly confirmed.

Added 30 Oct 2021.   Simon Webb, Anti-aircraft shelling and deaths in Britain:

Jan Lamprecht (of historyreviewed.com) mentions and indeed promotes Simon Webb as an 'author and historian'. Unfortunately Jan will not communicate with me and seems to be unaware of, and have made no attempt to check, Webb's Jewish status.
      As regards the actual issue, which involves Britain and France declaring was on Germany, essentially is fighter planes not bringing down bombers, itself dangerous or people on the ground, and artillery shells trying to shoot down bombers apparently inland, we have:

The strange thing is that during the war, the number of injuries and deaths from anti-aircraft fire was common knowledge and widely reported in both national and provincial newspapers, despite the censorship. On 29 March 1944, for example, the Western Mail reported that:

Anti-aircraft shells, one of which exploded in a crowded factory, killing 12 people, including seven women, and injuring as many more, were the chief cause of damage during activity over the South Wales coastal area on Monday night.
It's not clear to me whether 'artillery shells', 'anti-aircraft shells', 'flak' were publically known to hit the ground in a dangerous state. Possibly they might have been used to enrage native Brits; probably the archives of 'Mass Observation' have comments buried within them. One obvious inference is that Jewish targets would be avoided.

There's a relationship between these issues. Which is the Jewish-promoted idea that women benefitted from WW1 by being paid to help make explosives and shells. The use of women by Jews is fascinating sub-topic. Consider the indifference of Jewish publicity to rapes of white girls, obviously considered not to be part of Jewish interests.

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image   Review of women   Naomi Wolf: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women

Sun 24 May 2009

My copy says 'Vintage 1991', 27th impression. I'd guess Wolf gets 50p a copy. References are collected at the back, listed by page; generally they are simple book titles. Page numbers in those books aren't given, so the reader, if inquisitive, has a bit of burrowing to do. None of the references dated later than 1991, as far as I could find; maybe after the 1990 edition was edited, it's been reprinted unchanged. Salaries therefore seem very low. Wolf is described online as having modelled for a magazine, and as being married to a magazine publisher. This is a bit of a warning to women who may be taken in by this book—if you think no makeup etc is the way to go—Wolf doesn't!

Many people are aware publishing in the USA is Jewish-dominated; this is part of the key to this book. I suspect some dogsbody was told to visit a reference library, maybe in New York—supplemented by some English feminist writings, and magazines—and told to find statistics, real or imagined, on anorexia, plastic surgery, fraudulent claims of cosmetics, rape figures, laws on sex discrimination, pornography, and so on. (Obviously, omitting taboos around race, censorship, money, war, and so on!)

The 'myth' of the title isn't used to mean that 'beauty' is mythical. (The title I'd guess was chosen to arouse curiosity). It's a 'myth' in the sense that beauty, in the promoted sense, is unattainable and out of reach. Wolf says the myth intentionally weakens and unbends women's power impulses and abilities. Some Amazon reviewers think the book changed their thoughts, or even their lives, but it's hard to believe anyone could be quite that unreflective. After all, girls are aware of the idea of desirable rich men from an early age and are perfectly aware of women as rivals and all the other related issues.

Some reviewers think this book is a serious attempt to put forward a reasoned argument. It isn't. It's to make money, probably (I'd guess) from the goyim. Any old rubbish goes in, provided it can be dressed up sensationally. There's a bit of anthropology and monkey behaviour, which may, or may not, be accurate, and some science, which, also, may or may not be accurate. Wolf's skill, such as it is, is to invent or find keywords and phrases ('PBQ', 'iron maiden', 'beauty myth', 'object lessons' meaning women as objects, 'cultural conspiracies' etc etc).

Any ideal is liable to corrosion and corruption. Think of 'democracy', 'state education', 'national health service', 'political union', 'universal suffrage'. I take it many or most people support feminism in the sense of encouraging independent free-thinking women, as opposed to bullied breeding-machines, or drudges, or hopelessly uneducated. But Wolf is remote from that. For example she agonises over women being unwanted for TV journalism [p 34]. It doesn't occur to Wolf that a team of one male and one female is competitive not just for women, but for men too. That's if they want to do the work: "I won't be pretty enough to do the news" agonises someone—essentially they are actresses reading out censored rubbish, to which again Wolf shows no sign of objection.

Wolf several times [e.g. p 17] quotes figures:
$33 billion diet and thinness industry
$20 billion cosmetics
$7 billion porn
$0.3 billion cosmetic surgery

Frivolous expenditure of course is men's fault. There's material on violence: for example Wolf pretends surgery is 'violent'. I'll spare the detail. For those interested in the actual thesis of the 'beauty myth' linking female power with unreal images of women, here are some bits of evidence:-

1918-1925: 'dieting ... female preoccupation when Western women received the vote around 1920' [p 184]
1939-1945 women responded and took men's higher paid work [63]
1945-1990: 'women swelled the work force' [p 21] they were immigrants 'feared for .. grueling work at low pay' [p 21]/ 22 women work twice as hard as men./ women have always been paid less than men for equal work [p 48]/ 23 a Pakistani woman spends 63 hours a week on domestic work [p 23]/ 'awesome potential of this immigrant group must be thwarted' [p 25]
1965 'Twiggy appeared in .. Vogue .. simultaneous with the advent of the pill'
1970s 'women streaming into the professions' 33
1980s for every feminist action there is an equal and opposite beauty myth reaction [p 28]
1960-1990 woman lawyers, judges, doctors, engineers etc 7 to 25 times more [my figures]/ but women ... know that achievement is considered ugly and punished... [p 30]
1980-1990 '.. women breached the power structure; .. eating disorders rose exponentially and cosmetic surgery became the fastest-growing medical specialty.' [p 10]
1990: 'Western economies are absolutely dependent now on the continued underpayment of women.'

It's simple-minded stuff... However, she did get a marriage and presumably money from it! Her website is naomiwolf.org—see what she's up to now.
Instauration, November 1999 has a review of Nancy Escoff's Survival of the Prettiest... a presumably Jewish version of Darwinian ideas of attraction as a mark of physical suitability, plus medical information - 17 June 2020.

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  Review of Jewish interest   Bibi van der Zee: The Protestors Handbook

Women Protestors as 'Useful Idiots', Staying Within the Box

The Protestor's Handbook, Guardian Books 2008, retitled and reprinted unchanged 2010

Guardian Books seems to be an imprint of the Guardian newspaper. In the most hypocritical manner possible, the Guardian is owned by or connected with the Scott Trust, or Scott Trust Limited, which does everything in a purely profit-making and tax-avoiding basis.

The authoress of this book appears to be purely journalistic; there are sections contributed by four lawyers, on subjects related to activism and protest, but her contributions are mainly interviews, with a few accounts of visits (e.g. to south America). It's not clear whether the interviews were hers, or the result of raiding Guardian files. Some may have been telephone interviews. Much of the material is biographical—a few random examples are: a Palestine Solidarity Group, protected by police, at a 'crucial' football match with Israel; Jon Trickett, a (then?) Labour MP who lobbied for a clause 'to include in their annual review anything that might harm profits because it endangers the company's reputation'; Sue who wanted to throw eggs at Tony Blair's car; Ralph Nader; Dave Currey, a wildlife trafficking investigator.

Some of the material is historical flashbacks over the last few centuries—sometimes at unnecessary length—there's quite a bit on Gandhi, Tolstoy, M L King—she doesn't seem to know Indian partition resulted in massive deaths, Tolstoy's Russia was swept away by Jews, M L King failed in his aims. She also for, presumably, traditional reasons includes Marx, and groups liable to suspicion, such as the British Nutrition Foundation. She does not extend her scepticism to other funded groups which she approves of.

The material is arranged in chapters, but these don't really reflect their contents properly—I think the book, including the bibliography, was put together from fragments. There are 17 chapters, including e.g. Fundraising, Boycotts, Lobbying parliament, unions, Going into politics, and Legal action.

I noticed that van der Zyl is a Jewish surname; possibly van der Zee is—in fact it seems likely.>

How useful is this book? Well—the legal sections could be valuable: there are sections—which are indexed, but a bit hard to find—on e.g. defamation (watch what you write), demonstrations (arrange beforehand etc), Freedom of Information (only three pages on this). In common with all popular presentations I've ever seen on law, it's not made clear what happens if things go wrong. A friend of mine makes FoI requests to his council, but they break the law by ignoring them. So what can he do?

An aspect the book is the DIY side—get people together, hold meetings, arrange strategies, and lo and behold, things may get done. Bibi van der Zee recommends an outfit called Seeds of Change to help set up organisations with the help of 'facilitators'; its website reads rather like Common Purpose transposed into 'green' imagery. There's a section on forming your own political party (she doesn't recommend it). There's nothing on websites.

Is this book in fact useful? I made a list of possible issues: What action could be taken to bolster free speech in universities, when it comes under attack by thugs? Is there some way to make the authorities take action on 'grooming' of underage girls? Can action be taken when lies are shown up retrospectively—for example when Kraft closed Cadbury's after promising to keep it open? What can be done about racial groups, which are encouraged when white/English groups are prohibited? What about fluoridation? What about PFI ('Private Finance Initiative') and huge debts? What about paper money and the Rothschilds? What about the RSPCA doing nothing about ritual slaughter? --- It's perfectly clear from this book that only a small subset of issues troubles van der Zee. She thinks climate change is the most important world issue.

This leads to the question of information. She says (p 98) with agonising naivete 'Most of the time the facts are readily available.' Chapter 10 'Getting the facts' make sit clear she has no idea about in-depth research, praising people like Woodward and Bernstein, and recounting 19th century muckrakers. Incidentally there is one mention (only) of 9/11 (p. 180)—it's obvious she hasn't a clue.

Who is the book aimed at? I think the clue is in her introduction, when she quotes Charlotte Despard—"For me... militant suffrage was the very salt of life. ... like a draught of fresh air ... that sense of being some use.." Van der Zee says 'Trade union activists don't have time to find girlfriends, and they're always very thin and handsome and intense and sex mad..' I remember a friend of mine telling me about an Amnesty International meeting in Guildford, England; a man announced he worked for the BBC, and 'an erotic thrill went round the room.' Some time later, the BBC man dropped out of the group and could not be contacted. It was found he'd slept with 'the more attractive women'. Page 165 has an amusing account of the early days of Greenpeace and 'beautiful, intelligent, liberated.. etc females'. Lesbians are not left out, of course. The psychology seems similar to women who convert to Islam, or have mixed race children, or shag people like Assange.

Let's not forget the career element, though. Dave Webb (p. 69) joined CND, and now teaches 'a peace and conflict resolution MA'. Billy Bragg was interviewed—a fairly obscure singer, notorious as promoting immigration, but living in a big house, which was in some magazine—House Beautiful?—in Dorset. A few professional lobbyists are described. Van der Zee seems to have understandably drawn the line at professional managers of charities (which, she fails to point out, are immune from the FoI Act) and civil servants who supposedly dispense foreign aid. She also says nothing about infiltrators—the police amuse themselves as actors entering these groups; recently one was revealed to have fathered a child, presumably on a gullible activist, before disappearing. No wonder some people call them 'the filth'!

This is a book for people who aren't well informed, or particularly intelligent, but are, or want to appear to be, passionate. There's security in numbers, up to a point; so there you are. Van der Zee does have a few passages which actually examine whether protest works. Of course these are mostly in the 'west' where it's less likely you'll be shot or kidnapped. She concludes violence sometimes works (without quoting the IRA). But such passages are rare. Most of the book resembles Samuel Smiles—a lot of stories which may shame people into action, at least for a time. I wonder how many abandoned and failed groups there are out there. Sigh.

Keywords: women, protestors, women's groups, women protestors, activists, selective activism, funded activism, pseudo-activists, directed activism, useful idiots, chauvinists, male chauvinist pigs

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50 Shades of Grey.   2015 movie

Review: Rae West   28 Jan 2023


This review is really for people who haven't seen this movie; just like me, before I found this in an Oxfam shop.

The male lead looks a bit like Colin Firth, and the female lead a bit like a brunette Amanda Seyfried. Just so you know. He turns out to be an amiable bearded Celt (I think). An odd aspect of the film is the number of voice actors, about twelve of them. Better than aluminum-voiced western-hemisphere voices. There's quite a bit of blue-screen work; with that intense deep blue; I wonder if their trade press has fights with green-screeners.
      A casual glance made me think the male was called Dakota, well-suited for jokes about flyover territory, with Jamie named in the style of some woman singers, but in fact the names are the other way round. The action mostly takes place in Vancouver; I have no idea why (or why not). The very urban cityscape appears to be Vancouver. Even the helicopter (with the shrouded fan on the back, so people don't get cut up) was filmed there.
      The color-grading is generally blue-grey (eyes and background) or brownish (hair and furniture and umber tones), varied with some outdoor coloring, and with white indoor bedding.
      Billionaire surroundings are entirely modern, largely float glass (British) only visible edge-on. I didn't find this very convincing: we have his own grey skyscraper entrance, but not much more. I thought the music wasn't adapted to very rich tastes; but who knows. Maybe they like 'easy listening', or employ their own orchestral players. I'd guess E L James isn't very interested in the fine points of corporation ownership and shares; in her world as interpreted by scripts and the director, Sam (who is female), a billion is much the same as a million, and share values stay much the same.
      'Anastasia' seemed to me to have an easier acting task: she had to walk nicely, and open her mouth and close her eyes, with sinuous movements, to signal bliss. But 'Christian'/Jamie had several more-or-less incompatible roles. He had up to age 15, I think, an older 'dominant' woman. He chaired a meeting, which no doubt billionaires do, but might have been given more lines showing his impressive grasp of the finances of a telecomms empire: at one point he said "I'll send a check" to Anastasia who wanted money back for her old car. He did a James Bond sequence, specifying his gin & tonic. He (I think) bit open a condom package, and elegantly spat it out, which looked a several takes shot to me, and I suppose was a nod the the Jewish HIV fraud. I haven't read the books and have no idea if this reflects E L James, who had a few parts in the bonus stuff: she looked a bit hard-edged to me, like a biker chick. At least, that's what I thought at first, but she's shown at a book-signing session in Vancouver, wearing what looks like a wig, and otherwise different, so she might have a stand-in. I'd have liked to hear her talk, but the bonus had nothing.
      The main part of the plot is the S & M stuff; the first I heard of that was in a Dire Straits song a long time ago. In the film, 'Christian' unlocks a door, with a suggestion of naughtiness; a model railway perhaps? But 'Anastasia' finds a room, quite small, furnished for S & M. I'd guess the set-dresser bought (or rented) from a store; much of the material was less vicious than it might have seemed, which seems to be a correct observation. And there was emphasis on the firmly obligatory nature of the submissive's commands on giving the code word. No rape, which is a relief; maybe that, or perhaps choking, or knife play, waits for following two films.
      The other parts of the plot supply the framework: she is in their final year for her degree, I think in Vancouver, and has a room-mate, presumably cast as the less-attractive girl. 'Christian' asks her whether Thomas Hardy, someone else, or Jane Austen led her to take up lidder-a-chewer. (This postdates the time Austen was shown not to have written 'her' stuff; bit of a black mark!) She collects her degree, the ceremony being addressed by 'Christian', who funds them to some extent, in what seems an unlikely way. This, I'd guess, allows for future plot twists. There are meetings with family members, and 'Christian' reveals he had a hard life. Cynics will wonder whether this could be even approximately true. Anyway, this DVD ends with 'Anastasia' turning him down, for flogging her six times. My edition was supposed to have an alternative ending; but I couldn't find it. This is now eight years in the past; all the actors are 8 years older; I'd guess about 10% of the participants are dead.
      I wonder whether 'Anastasia' and 'Christian' refer to Jew hostilities against Russians and Christians. Forbidden fruit? And in Jewish finance is very obliquely referenced. I suppose not. And I doubt if the situation in Canada gets any sort of indirect mention. I couldn't see anything like that: no funding for immigrants, for example. Sigh. Very unlike the real world. It had an '18' certificate. How much was under legal control I don't know: you see more on porn sites ("Porn is a Jewish Psy-op"–Eugene Michael Jones). I couldn't help but wonder if 'Christian' had a large 'package', perhaps circumsized, but it was not shown.

Fascinating escapist stuff, a world where the biological facts are rather buried: nothing on digestion, nothing on old age. A world where Jews don't call themselves 'philanthropists' and arrange frauds and plan mass killings between goyim; a world of women who know little but at least show a residual interest in reproduction. I haven't followed the next parts of this series (and have no idea how many books actually sold) but would expect Christian Grey's tearfully heart-breaking early life to emerge fitfully, while Anastasia in 'Jane Austen' mode realises how wonderful he is. I can't imagine the ending would be anything other than happy.

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The Iron Lady

2011.   Meryl Streep and a lot of middle-aged male actors, including Richard E Grant, Roger Allam.   c. 110 mins.

Margaret Thatcher ('MT', 1925-2013 and Prime Minister 1979-1990), and Dennis Thatcher ('DT', 1915-2003). Actors: Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent (plus two more of them when younger). There seem to have been at least four producers, plus unspecified sums from the 'National Lottery' presumably as one of its 'good causes', which I think included funding a life of two Jewish crooks, the Krays.

Abi Morgan: Screenplay.   Director: Phyllida Lloyd.   Costumes by Consolata; see the DVD's extra stuff on this, naturally considered important by the largely-women team.
Curiously repellent movie. It's regarded as a visual treatment of Thatcher, with facts at a minimum. Largely shows Thatcher in the years after DT's death, as she approached 90, accompanied by her ten-years-older husband as an intermittent ghostly presence. Broadbent seems to have been directed to be an annoying asshole (US spelling), in which he succeeds. In life, this part of her life was almost as long as the "eleven and a half extraordinary years" in which she was Prime Minister. We have some short flashbacks, combined with some then-current visual material plus intercut new stuff which Abigail considered fitted in.
      The notes below are more-or-less in sequence from the film, but I've added Jew-aware material not of course present in it. The film successfully omits everything significant in understanding the period. No doubt that was the intention. I'd guess reviews of the time praised the acting styles. In my view the film is worthless trash.
      I had intended to review Sophie's Choice as an example of Jewish lies, but I can't find a copy. Perhaps just as well!

FILM NOTES

The film omits lots of detail which even within its limitations were part of the full story: Jimmy Saville's sex stuff (he spent Christmases with MT) perhaps because Jewish bosses decided blackmail is less important than it was. DT's work, I think something in oil, isn't included at all; I'd guess Abigail wasn't confident with it. John Major, her successor, hardly appears. (The link is to an interesting page by Miles Mathis). There's surprisingly little on mortgage rates nearly doubling; as I'll show, all the insider aspect of Thatcher is omitted.

• The film starts with what looks like a bagwoman getting a small plastic container of milk in an immigrant-run shop. There's a puzzling inconsistency in the film, which makes fun of Thatcher's parents for running a shop, but seems keen on immigrants doing something similar, except of course for their subsidies.
The King and I musical occurs now and then: Rogers & Hammerstein, Yul Brynner described as a 'gipsy from Vladivostock'.
• She signs a few hardbacks of her life, which are given to her, perhaps to save on extras. Forgetfully, she signs as Margaret Roberts. Flashback time—
• Her father, who became mayor of Grantham (or something) describes himself as self-reliant, and regards a 'nation of shopkeepers' as praise. (Abigail misses the Adam Smith reference).
• She gets a place at Oxford University. For chemistry, in fact, though this isn't mentioned or even hinted at. I believe she worked on cell surface structure, now known to have been a fake. It seems to have left her with suspicions about science and academics.
• Scene with Carol Thatcher: old Thatcher with tatty hair hears carers say "It's taken 8 years to get her to let his things go .. sometimes forgets to take her pills". Unlike the Blairs, who made a lot of money, MT is shown as impoverished.

Finchley in north London had a Jewish subculture, which is important when it comes to money, its modern, paper, form. The Jewish aspect of British politics—its importance going back at least as far as Cromwell's war—is nowhere hinted at, by Abigail. Possibly a bit too complex for her. But bear this in mind.

• Another flashback scene: Grand Hotel, Brighton: flames and noise, and presumably reconstructed colour video or film. This was before 9/11, so probably they had no advance warning to set up cameras. Voiceover: "The IRA claim responsibility". Then a scene of MT saying "We must never give in to terrorists".

The part played by the 'Intelligence Services' is uncertain, and of course very likely to remain so. But Ireland has been one of their playgrounds. So have nuclear weapons and the 'nuclear age' which possibly MT had some insight into; I doubt it, but it's possible. Both too tricky for Abigail, though.

• Scenes vaguely related to the younger Thatcher actress's candidacy for Dartford in 1950. She failed. I haven't looked up her election record, or tried to determine to what extent she was subsidised by anonymous types.
• Proposed to by "a moderately successful businessman" as opposed to a grocer's daughter. Then twins, Mark and Carole. Then Finchley in 1959, Mrs Margaret Thatcher elected MNP for the Conservative Party. Implication, of small car with stickers, of low budget campaign.
• House of Commons scenes with statues, leaded glass roof, only men, no lady members.
Actor playing Airey Neave (odd name unexplained) friendly; then she's Secretary of State for Education. Speaking on union paymasters and teachers.

The education systems in England and Scotland and Ireland have been politically complicated since state education started. Part has been technological:– science and technology, and medical equipment is expensive; the US system of payment for everything is not successful; and so on. Religious education is mostly Abrahamic, i.e. Jewish in origin. There are taboo subjects. Unions are often run by Jews, since they can be discreetly funded by Jews and inserted into place. A bit difficult to put into simple forms for simple 'writers'. (I've a piece on this website on an edited book, roughly of the time, called Student Power.)

We have scenes suggesting demonstrations and chaos, 1974, breakdowns of electricity, sanitation (plastic bags piled up), miners wanting 35% increase, power cuts. All this is impressionistic and unquantified, as to be expected from moronic writers. I was amused that the US merchant banker with a bag over his head wasn't shown.
      A big problem here is that the Jew-controlled media had no wish to interview or discuss Jew-controlled imitation protestors. And they were very successful; to this day the Jew-controlled BBC has had no investigations into such activity. There was analogous activity against the family. And analogous activity with forcing immigration. Whether Thatcher had detailed knowledge of any of this, is not known to me.

• "One must say the unsayable. Run as party leader!" She's shown being groomed as party leader; the Prime Ministerial ambition being thought impossible at the time. Michael Foot, 'Labour' leader about then—his manner and intonation well-acted—may have been planted to keep voters little choice. She's shown given a TV interview: "Americans are unafraid of success"—an astounding lack of knowledge of US life.
• Schemes of being groomed: hat ... pearls ... hair ... voice ... and talking to small business people. There a suggestion of Hitler influence: small shopkeepers resenting Jews is part of their mythology. The word 'appeasement' catches it perfectly. Put the 'Great' back into 'Great Britain' has a similar feel.
Airey Neave car bombed scene which must have been reconstructed. The 'Irish Liberation Army' claimed it. More than 30 years later, I doubt if anything has come to light. Maybe after fifty?
• 1979 General Election with TV graphics and the 'swingometer'. Conservative win. Then the 'St Francis of Assisi' quotation.
• "'What we think, we become' my father always said to me." A bit of Kipling: "The female of the species is more deadly"
• The end of the Cold War with Reagan and Thatcher. And demolition of the Berlin wall. It's painfully clear now that the whole thing was rigged up internationally by Jews. Who were tired of leeching of Russia and wanted to leave owning their raw materials and move away.

Sweeping 'privatisation' followed. What this meant of course was that Jews bought up companies for themselves. Mortgage interest rates went up; Jewish banks took over much housing and also installed immigrants as a weakening policy. Government has its capacities reduced.
      Michael Foot of the opposition said unemployment was high, steel and coal, and industrial production down to 1920s levels. He did not say anything about Jewish finance.

• Anxious cabinet man: "... draft budget has been leaked ... budget cuts ... if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt"
• Miners and police fights shown or reshot. Bombs detonated: "The IRA have claimed responsibility." Grand Hotel Brighton speech shown being worked on alone by MT without any colleagues. Explosion,

About 10 minutes on the Falklands, the Belgrano, Exocet missiles (it's not mentioned they're French and presumably part of the world arms trade). And Al, the US Secretary of State, saying they were politically and economically insignificant. (May be true; but maybe there was oil...).
      Argentina has many Jews, and had a 'fascist junta'. Maybe the war was rigged up by Jews; the usual motive is to make money, kill goyim, or gain territory. Just a thought.
      Thatcher is shown arguing that when Pearl Harbor was bombed, America of course fought back! Al might have said Japan was controlled by Jews, and Jews wanted war. — If he'd been honest.
      The conditions and history of 'Jews' in Japan and China are recent revisionist topics.

• The European single currency is another issue, not seriously shaped. The poll tax (not all taxes)—"if you live in the country you must pay for the privilege". It occurs to me that Thatcher's statement that people are afraid of being swamped is unmentioned. Thanks, Abigail. Jews are the chosen people of their own 'G-d', after all. Anyway Geoffrey Howe resigns, MT fails to get outright win as party leader under (I take ot) newly made up rules, the Conservative Party's constitution being a mystery. She leaves, saying in the manner of Biden, that she'd left the country "in a much better state than when we took office."
• DT, the ghost, finally leaves with his suitcase. Thatcher groups herself with Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. Correctly enough


Abi (Abigail) Morgan (b 1968) is credited with writing the screenplay. A glance online gives as films: Shame (2011), The Iron Lady (2011) and Suffragette (2015), and Brick Lane. On suffragettes (as opposed to suffragists) and the link with the Great War, see for example my review of Simon Webb's Suffragette Bombers
      She has 'worked for television' ... 'Sex Traffic', and The Hour, Skinned, Sleeping Around, Splendour, Tiny Dynamite, Tender. I'd be surprised to find the 'Sex Traffic' includes Jewish traffic in girls, but Abigail is a wonderfully honest person, so perhaps it does. Her mother is listed as Patricia England; she's described as Welsh, working in London. She is said to have two children by Jacob Krichefsky. She was given an OBE in Elizabeth's birthday honours list. Probably regards herself as a Jew, therefore.

Phyllida Lloyd, director. The Iron Lady was funded by Britain's 'National Lottery'; four producers are listed. She is said to have directed Mamma Mia! in 2008. The 2017 Mamma Mia! - Here we go again seems to have had her as one of the 'producers'.
© Raeto West   6 February 2023
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Bride Wars

2009.   Kate Hudson & Anne Hathaway   c. 85 mins   28 scenes

On its face, simple enough story about two neighbor girls from New Jersey, friends for life so far, who fall out in competitive wedding mode, but are reconciled when they find fighting is dumb. One blonde, one brunette is one distinguishing feature. The other is that one's a successful lawyer—money-making— with a 'stylish wardrobe' and the other teaches and wants the best in life ... for everyone else, as the cover notes put it.

Those people skilled in identifying money streams for movies could predict how the balance works, subsidies and hidden incomes and remuneration. I'm not one of those—if they exist—and will just note a few guesses.

Diamonds and gems generally look to me rather like coloured glass, but nobody is allowed to say that. This may be a contribution of Africa to the world. Certainly Japan had no such tradition, but may be in the process of acquiring a fake tradition. Inevitably our actresses say "Gee, it's real beautiful" , in this case Tiffany's getting the attention.
      The marriage ceremony site and the whole bridal magazine complex is the my next consideration. Being Jewish, there's no planning for weddings in church. But they both choose a hotel, one where their parents (I think) were married a number of years back. Here we have the primacy of th Plaza Hotel. I checked it was still there, in an architectural style vaguely suggesting a 19th-century cotton mill, or warehouse. I have no idea to what extent this was product placement. There are lots of hotels in New York and lots of visitors; competition may be fiercer than I'd guessed.
      Wedding dresses are also part of the scene-setting in the movie. They pushed Vera Wang; perhaps it was part of a big promotion. I don't know, but imagine in thousands of years in the future something similar will occur, if cities and life survive. In the Special Features, there's only one deleted scene, The Perfect White Dress, which is solely an ad for Vera Wang's chic, sophisticated, elegant &c wedding dresses. For some reason the link foxinternational.com cannot be reached.
      And we have wedding planners. I found websites with a few dozen of these, all heavy with white flowers bought wholesale. The movie made up their own; Marianne StClaire or something like that. I suppose the real elite have their own planners, their own rituals, and their own family banks.
      I feel a certain agonised sympathy for brides and their hubbies subjected to these pressures. Just me, I expect. Men may feel the best day of their lives was paying off the mortgage; women may feel the same about their marriage.
      Even the bridal chorus has its associated difficulties. Wagner (from Lohengrin) has been partly stolen by Mendelssohn.

Bride Wars has flickers of Jewish schemes here and there. After the wedding dress fight scene, the two women decide fighting is "dumb". One says "I'm awake!" in prevision of the 'woke' campaign. There's a same sex marriage scene, previewing another Jewish scheme.

The ending has both pregnant and due on the same day. I expect there was intense debate on that.

My feelings on this movie weren't very positive, but I did take away an impression on the longevity and intensity of DNA and its origins and results, and the astounding fact that human beings, with their malleability and flux and sillinesses, despite assaults and debilitating attacks, have the robustness go on, seemingly forever. So thanks, girls.

Rae West 4 Feb 2023

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Two Weeks Notice

2002.   Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock.   c 90 mins.   28 scenes   Writer Marc Lawrence

I'm not aware of ever noticing this film (or 'movie' if 'film' is too early for you). While inspecting of charity shop DVDs, I wondered what happened to Hugh Grant, not realising how old this was. At the time he was still at his peak. But maybe it contributed to (what I take was) his downward path. Bullock is listed as producer. I have no idea if Grant has tried his hand at risking money. The intro has AOL Time Warner, surely a marker of some sort; the writer appears to be yet another New York Jew. The intro sequences show a 'No Nukes' child, probably an intra-Jew joke.

Promoted as a 'RomCom', the 'Rom' part being obvious enough, but the 'Com' revolving around local New York, and property companies, and somewhat disguised Jewish interests. At the time, New York's skyline had been modified by Silverstein, but there's nothing about it, which must have annoyed the propagandised audience. The multiple specialists in Jewish frauds seem to have failed to confer.

The universe of discourse is parts of New York, including Coney Island, named in remote times for rabbits rhyming with 'honey'. 'Community Theatre 27th precinct' and 'Brooklyn's Renaissance', assumed to have started!, got a mention. So in effect did destruction of landmarks; a little-known side-issue of Jewish power; the movers hate whites, and like shaking their products away. And N’York as a giant Jewish ghetto.

The writer evidently likes scene-setting from the start (or 'get-go'): "I am an attorney" is Bullock, here called Lucy Kelson, no doubt to avoid a Jewish lawyer style name. She and two others are opposing a wrecking operation by lying down in the road—just like Hitchhiker's Guide. The 'US Constitution' is worked in, to show how patriotic Jews like to appear. There's a giant wrecking-ball that Sauron would have avoided and looks an unrealistic device for demolition. But I suppose opening scenes have to make an impact.

Trump (before his mock-political stuff) and I think Zygmund brothers got a sentence, but the main point of the property empire imagined as assembled by Hugh Grant and his fellow but thin-on-top actor is to appear non-Jewish in their Wade Corporation. There's not much on the sort of thing Jane Jacobs protested against (perhaps).

Hugh Grant is supposed to be a goodie through donating millions to a medical center's pediatric wing (which he confused with pediatric—one of the subthemes is 'IQ', of which Hugh Grant is supposed to be deficient compared with Bullock).
      This 'segues' into being driven home (by a black actor, interested in chess, and living with his mom—several points being inserted there) and into another scene with his elder brother who gives a comic list of previous attorneys and now wants someone from 'Yale or Columbia or from CONUS'. 'Hire a real attorney by tomorrow.'

The ‘tikkun olam’ (transliteration into English) shows throughout in various details: 'Saving the whales', 'Homeless legal aid fund'. Her mom, a law professor strangely with little money and supposedly high principles. Her father, perhaps another lawyer, lists the satisfying victories in the USA: "civil rights, equality for women (except 'Shiksas'), fair housing" though absent-mindedly forgets to mention funding and discrimination for blacks, family destruction, hatred of whites, Jewish landlords—and that's just in the USA. As he ruminates meditatively, "as long as people can change the world can change".
      Bullock talks of "a degree in yenta". Her "heroes are Clarence Darrow, Thorgood Marshall, Ruth Ginsburg". Well, she can't list them all... What about Wilson's advisors, through the neocons.
      She cried when Bush won—both of them. The two-party system is assumed, not even implied. There was an odd passage about 'chiropractors': very odd. I'd guess it's another Jewish fraud.

There's filler material on Wade's phone calls, the bride on a stage throwing bouquets, impact reports and non-recyclable paper, all backed by easy-listening music non-stop. So where do you come off?

Raeto West   4 Feb 2023

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Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones films
Here's a tiny ten-year window into Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Richard Curtis, and lots of others:
1993 Four Weddings and a Funeral, written by Richard Curtis
1999 Notting Hill, written by Richard Curtis, based around an implausible bookshop, in a Jew-approved-for-others multirace area with a history of race violence.
2001 Bridget Jones's Diary. 27 songs in 93 minutes for 'product placement' types.
2002 About a Boy including Rachel Weisz (later acting a fantasy Deborah Lipstadt), and Nicholas Hoult (now 30)
2003 Love Actually, commentary Curtis and others

Helen Fielding's diary (some of it on the DVD) started in 1995 in the Independent and soon developed a cult following. Or so claims the DVD; sceptics may point out that the Independent was a new start-up, presumably aimed to help Jewish neocons to get others to kill Iraq; the BBC promoted the Independent, but its sales were tiny. Fielding was a 'restaurant and food critic'. Andrew Davies and Richard Curtis commented.
      A blurb somewhere says ‘Bridget Jones's Diary is a 2001 British-American-French romantic comedy film directed by Sharon Maguire (it took three years) and written by Helen Fielding, Richard Curtis, (and Andrew Davies who wrote Pride and Prejudice on TV, the version with Colin Firth, in 1995). I had to look them up on Internet—the Playbill fount tiny credits on my DVD are nearly unreadable.


The Bath. Photo by Eve Arnold. Some connection with Bridget Jones.
I looked up what's online about Curtis (apparently married to Emma Freud); it seems likely he's another Jew who received what's regarded as a good education in Britain. Sharon Maguire featured largely on the factual parts of the DVD. She did an English and Drama degree, and a 'postgrad degree in journalism' which seems to have taken a year. I've just noticed (June 2021) that a Ben Maguire is the CPS prosecutor in a case against Alison Chabloz, the keyboard player/ guitarist/ songwriter. Maybe the Maguires are another Jewish family. But let's hope not.
      Sharon Maguire appears on the DVD. I had no idea that the London background scenery was computer-generated; I suppose by then software allowed buildings to be invented from a map, with detailing and textures and colours selectable fairly easily. She mentioned an edit suite, things you 'have to kind of settle for.' She said the scene where Zellweger said she'd rather wipe Saddam Hussein's arse than work for him, Hugh Grant as Cleaver, the publisher or agent or whatever was a 'wish fulfilment scene ... leaving a job'. Helen Fielding on Breakfast TV (started 1980 in embryonic form) had humorous anecdotes. A lot of the story seems to have been her life story:–
      Sharon Maguire was a first-time director, a friend of Helen Fielding. Judging by her commentary, her budget was on the low side, typically two takes in hasty circumstances. She talks of 'rushes' (notably of Hugh Grant in an Anglo-Japanese embrace—though it could be Jew-on-Jew; maybe 2000 had some Japanese world plot?) and I think the film was partly digital and partly 35mm. Maguire doesn't say much about the techniques; most of her commentary, in her very well-spoken voice, is about persons, though she mentions a locked-off camera, steadicam, and an aerial shot.

Why Zellweger was given the job is a question skated over in the informative part of the DVD. I'd guess she was part of the group of Jews in Texas, west coast immigrants, of the same stock that spawned Lyndon Johnson, described (not of course on the DVD) as a 'full Jew on both sides'. Another point worth mentioning is that, under Jewish money control, not only can aliens be given more money than locals, but Jews can up to a point take their pick. I remember listening to a then-young woman, who was pregnant by one of the Chosen People, and who wouldn't marry her—being unaware and uneducated in the realities of Jewish parasitic wealth.

Based on publicised Jewish themes, Curtis (after Blackadder) might be expected to leave a trail including homosexuality, immigration, anal sex, anti-white family material, mixed race adults, and replacement by non-whites in all non-Jewish jobs. Much of this is present in all these films, but in Jones there is a woman-making-a-career element, and there's also Jewish activity for immigration into white countries, represented by the highly-paid barrister Colin Firth, and a made-up Kafir Ogani-Eleanor Healey case, which everyone is supposed to have heard of. This presumably was fairly realistic; many immigration cases seems to have had a couple of dozen barristers, taking Jewish paper money. I would guess such a plot-line would be viewed more uneasily now: Firth defending Muslim rape gangs, or Jewish pornographers and perverts, or absurd money-laundering art, might not work.
      It's quite painful to reflect that many women must view news presentation—reading heavily-censored bullshit (there was a short video of BBC tricks by Nick Griffin, on Bitchute, before Bitchute was revealed to be owned by a Jew called Vahey who supports mass murder by Jews)—as a positive career for the new empowered woman. The film is almost half-way through when she determines to start a new life, from publication, to TV. She thinks she's finally in a job showing her intellect. "No self-esteem - no confidence .. trying to find her confidence - begins to find her self esteem". Inner voice says: am now a hard-headed journalist - ruthlessly committed to etc. Firth: "I came to congratulate the new face of British current affairs". On Zellwegger's humble rented flat in south London, imagined as near Borough market, with its cast iron and Crystal Palace style. Maguire said "This is what a 30-something's life is like - believe me!" It all reminded me (slightly) of Withnail and I. "Loneliness, but dressed up as comedy".
      At the time, mass invasion by aliens had been planned. They were well-funded, the result being that many immigrants were housed before Britons, and also were given handouts by the Jew schemers behind the scenes. Though I doubt whether there's be much filmic mileage in Bridget tempted to shag tinted foreigners, however much Curtis might have leaned to such a project.

The infinitely sad lifestyle—the fatuous imbecilities of press releases, the junk unsubstantiated 'documentaries', the money thrown away, the refusal to consider anything informative—must I imagine repel any person with intelligence and guts. The 'successes' resemble parasitised creatures acting against their own interests, like caterpillars on cabbages eating to support ichneumon flies. I suppose the pecking-order provides some solace: Bridget's mum has an affair and a sort of career demonstrating things on daytime TV, as supported by Alan Sugar, starting with an egg-peeler made to resemble a dildo, a TV life ridiculed in a slack sort of way.
      The 'blue string soup' scene led to blue soup parties, we're told. Hugh Grant's Anglo-Japanese subplot seemed unconvincing to me; I suppose twists and turns have to be implausible. The book has more than three friends. The fight scene is not in the book. Scenes of fumbled expressions of feelings, though a scene in which Bridget said she loved Firth was excised. A 90 minute romcom. It ended with Hugh Grant fumbling around with male impersonators of women, possibly a payback by Maguire to anonymous men in her past. After all, it's hard to believe Grant would have such difficulties.


Prompted by Miles Mathis on families and actors, I noted the backgrounds of some of these people: Curtis got a First (in English), though ever since I found out that A J Ayer was awarded a First despite, not because, of his performance in final exams, I've been sceptical about these things; and of course in the US Jews are awarded professorships more or less ad lib. Nicholas Hoult, shown as attending a London school containing unwanted immigrants—but wanted by Jews—is a specimen of another such conflict. Looking at Love Actually we see a comic wedding with Keira Knightley and some presumably half-caste actor (i.e. not 'black'), part of course of the Jewish push for miscegenation of non-Jews, which has infected all visual advertising. As is the financing by Jewish paper money of fake refugees: in Germany, they get more money than working Germans, no doubt to the delight of such 'Chosen people' as Merkel. They must love idle but financed aliens, though not in Israel of course. Come to think of it, a comedian was promoting drugs—hilarious. The homosexuality—early-death risks and all the rest—is a fascinating instance of universal Jewish media dominance; I read, and believed, that every single instance of on-screen homosexuality was treated favourably, in about the years looked at here. The odd thing about Love Actually was how little love was in it. As with Erich Fromm's book The Art of Loving. I doubt if Jews can even think of whites without some manipulative scheme inserting itself. How they must hate whites.

Rae West 15 Dec 2019


Christmas 2020-New Year 2021. Radio Times the (((BBC))) mag, has a piece on Helen Fielding, including a photo of her plus a much larger image of Zellweger 20 years younger than now. It's fascinating to read the inbred stuff of Jewish lies. I'd guess she's just another Jew with a cover story. 'Studied' at Oxford, knew Curtis, presumably got a degree, worked as a journalist, sweetened the Jew-project of the absurdly-named Independent, married a now-dead person on the Simpsons, comments on sexual politics, comments on the absurdly-named 'human rights' industry. Something worrying may have happened in the USA; she talks of community and 'the solid core of decency' in Britain, which Jews are working to destroy. Amusingly she comments on Keir Starmer, another (((Labour Party))) Jew, who she's quoted or misquoted as saying he's good, decent, and intelligent. Not intelligent enough to know about 'COVID'. The only thing he's done is make people realise that Keir Hardie must have been another Jew.

9 Feb 2021

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Educating Rita   1983

• Michael Caine & Julie Walters
• From a play by Willy Russell; Produced & Directed by Lewis Gilbert; Music by David Hentschel, Produced by John Gilbert.


Stage play promoted to film, with experienced director, musical hopes, and probably avoidance of tax


Says it was filmed in Dublin; including Trinity College; I suspect this was for tax reasons, since the Irish Republic offered inducements to actors and artists. But it looked like London University.

The screenplay started on stage, it's said; It's probably possible to work out what parts work on stage—indoor demolition of wall, scenes in the Doctoral room, party scene, irrelevant suicide scene, though the more extravagantly-extraed scenes might not fit.

Michael Caine earlier starred in spy thrillers: Jewish Cold-War stuff, omitting wars. This seems to have been a reinvention, with Julie Walters I think as a Liverpudlian. I glimpsed her in 2020 at a celebration of Downton Abbey, BAFTA awards plus no solid information, nothing on Fellowes the supposed solo writer, and the oily presenter whose name escapes me. But in the film she says she's 26.

There's a subplot with her hubby, and Rita not wanting a baby—always popular with Jews—but wanting what's called 'education'. This evolves around fat books, the Open University, English-only literature (nothing old), and correct answers. I imagine the film was met with stony reactions from students of English at advanced and further levels; the timing is vague, but it seems Rita got remarkable results in about a year.

The music is composed in two styles: one, a not very good pop song, rendered without enthusiasm in a pub; the other, title music with some sort of synth. I think someone hoped for success with these.

Lewis Gilbert directed a surprisingly large number and variety of films, including some James Bonds.

This is something of a tear-jerker, but not for reasons you'll readily find discussed.

Rae West - 18 Aug 2020

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