I am involved quite extensively in the making of what I believe to be a valuable independent documentary. It is based on George Ponsonby’s excellent book London Calling, and has the working title How the BBC Stole the Referendum. We have already done a few hours filming of my contribution.
The film is being directed by Alan Knight. It still requires some finance, having raised over £12,000 so far from crowd sourcing. If any readers of this blog can make a contribution, it would be gratefully received. I vouch for the good faith and commitment of the production team, though I am not in any sense connected with the management or finances.
I should like to ask for a couple of other bits of help as well. Can anybody find the BBC footage of the appalling Gavin Esler puff piece for the “Vote No Borders” PR campaign. The BBC broadcast it repeatedly on every TV news programme on 2 May 2014, but seem to have managed to erase all trace of it from the internet. It might also be useful if somebody could take a little video footage of the company nameplate of Acanchi Ltd at 24 Chiswell Street, London, EC2Y 4YX. Footage of the nameplate, the street sign and a little of the surroundings, just to visually establish it is in London. The technical quality of that little bit of video is not terrifically important.
UPDATE
See Gill R’s comment below. The company may be at Unit 311 Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, London N1 0QH. If anyone can easily get to either address and see what they can film it would still be helpful.
There is a nice picture of the Business Design Centre on Google Maps: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5355053,-0.1049026,3a,75y,329.08h,96.95t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s7fNmKUd1f90AAAQpiUOzEA!2e0!3e2!7i13312!8i6656. But no clue as to who does business there.
Been a long time since I’ve seen John Goss around, anyone seen or heard from him lately?
@Tony M, Stop teasing John ! 😀
Here John, in super HD for you to enjoy ! 😀
http://www.ft.com/fastft/files/2015/12/GettyImages-500917206.jpg
Tony M said;
Do we know how many languages have died in the last month? Is anyone taking any note of these dead languages, and which is the next dying language, does anyone care?
Whilst the great the good are busy haranguing at we the people about the man made disasters that is evidently making the globe warmer, based on some weird and wonderful wizardry, as well as lamenting the passing of the flora and fauna, the same luminaries never even hint at the rapidly disappearing cultures and tribes and their languages thereof?
It is open season on human beings!!!
The misanthropy sown through variances on the same old “race” (complete nonsense and a political construct) that in turn discounts the disappearing cultures and languages without so much as lamenting the passing of a virulent virus. In fact the disappeared viruses are deemed more important as the task forces are set to go and rediscover these from the bone fragments of the affiliated human beings whom were laid to waste by the said viruses.
Trouble is what have lost that we don’t know of? Do we even know or can we even quantify the opportunity cost?
What about Guardian bias? I am currently loving The Guardian’s Onion-style headline:
“Trump a disgrace to his country says billionaire Saudi Prince.”
Alwaleed bin Talal, apparently, who I recall was heavily involved with Rupycorp, and hugely supportive of the old digger himself. Looks like the oligarchs are increasingly displeased with Trump, though I’m not clear why. His views are odious, but so are the views of the oligarchs. Presumably Trump is being a bit too blatant.
As to the beeb, I personally just don’t access the bbc website. Sadly, the bbc hasn’t been an objective source in a long time, if it ever was. I begin to wonder if the people at Medialens, though well-meaning, are unwittingly engaged in a Sisyphian task. The corporate media just is what it is, and all the accusations of bias, and all the fact-checking, are all just so much shoulder to the boulder. I’ve thought for a while that consuming such corporate-media is, ultimately, bad for one’s mental health. Read a good book, chosen wisely instead.
Very sad to learn today that Ian Bell has died.
The Sunday Herald is running a selection of his columns on its website. Those who did not know this marvelous political writer should go there and get an idea of the loss, to humanity as a whole, that the death of this honest, principled and intellectually gifted writer represents. Ian was, in the best tradition of Scots nationalism, a real internationalist with an unswerving commitment to the poor and the vulnerable everywhere.
Lysias
The resident inquisitor feels, as Fedup has pointed out, a sense of victory in the game of blink with Mary. Swelled with false pride he has started to reveal his identity. He is an old, European History historian, possibly a teacher of Craig’s at Dundee University. He possesses the ability to construe political/historical double-thing, i.e. he art of lying.
I was reared by a very similar character at school. These people have whole-hearted contempt for empathy with the victims of political intrigue and they are political snobs of the highest order. Mary detests the blatant lying of the Zionists, and their domination of public discourse in the media and in politics. The bristling of macho pride at Mary having appeared to blink, is a victory of political dark arts of basic humanity.
Now that the troll has foolishly exposed himself, I am so glad that I have spent so many hours persecuting him, as my history teacher supervisor spent so many years tormenting me, for doing nothing more than truthseeking. These people are religious but their religion is woven into their lying. They believe that lying is a manifestation of religious mystery.
Oh the soft troll skin, the white, cuckolded loins of the history professor whose students are too polite to mention the bitter smell of stolen domestic bliss amid the volumes of obscure writings. The female Russian caretaker who keeps him and his lair clean, is a poor substitute for a loving wife and family. A troll indeed, self-engrossed with his own self-pity and feverishly jealous of anything that smells of normal humanity.
I hope Mary , who God has preserved from cancer for a few years of blessed life is now relishing her friends and family while the sour old troll sits on his hoard of knowledge of political dark arts like an old dragon his thanegeld glistening jewel embroidery that once belonged to humankind.
That’s him spiked. As to Anon1’s Islamophobia, the simple way to counter it is to substitute the word Muslim in his racist, Zionist jokes with the word Jew and see how funny it looks with this minor alteration. Jews do go and kill Palestinians for the IDF, so the substitution is fair.
Mods are unable to delete the spoof without deleting the original, which for some reason they are unwilling to do. Don’t forget to copy all your work so that you can re-submit its content without drawing attention of the rockers when they are in a better mo(o)d.
Hieroglyph
Yes the Zionist BBC can damage your health, but so can solitary confinement. This evening as I sat here with half an ear on the World service re-writing history re. the War on Islam in Afghanistan from 2001, mixed with some cultural grunge music and a bit of plug for gays in the time of the miners’ strike, I let the corporation pretend it cares, listen to a bit of news.
Craig complains of BBC bias. Really it is the political establishment that is biassed and it has a spokessheet called the BBC. Spookshit maybe.
Here’s the proof about that global warming hoax that Opmoc must have been talking about:
http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/2919/6591/original.jpg?w=600&h
Really, Opmoc – I thought better of you than being a climate change denier, jumping into bed with the fossil fuel industry, being one of their useful idiots. I wouldn’t call you a stooge, because you’re an honest fellow.
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RobG: You might like this:
http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1212/ML12122A949.pdf
Of course, it’s nothing like the disaster of climate change. In fact, Fukushima hardly bares a mention compared with the impending disaster of climate change.
Macky, thank you.
One day, we will share a bottle of wine.
Salut.
Habbs has been critical of Mary and at times I thought unnecessarily so and / or too personal or persistent. Nonetheless I had thought that Mary quit because she had been moderated and she concluded that she was wasting her time and effort if her posts were not going to be published.
If I have misunderstood why Mary left then she might say so or perhaps she may have found a better use of her time in which I wish her well in that.
If Mary did quit because some of her very many posts were censored then yes she might be angry, yes she might think how can that fool fwl have his drivel allowed and my own posts taken down, and perhaps she might think that the moderator has somehow allowed Habbs to win.
I do not know Mary and although she posts (posted) in support of the Palestinian people I do nit recollect that she has ever indicated that she follows Islam. I have thought that Mary is a caring humanist socialist, which is a good thing to be. Or course not everyone wears their religion on their sleeve. I say this by way if apology for the following Sunday morning sermon.
Islam is actually the religion of surrender, not surrender to your political foe, but surrender to God, to the mystery and power of God. Christianity too. When you look closely all religions are concerned with surrender, with the surrender or death of the ego. Even freemasonry teaches this. Of course this is also why religions are easily subverted. There is a potential for mischief and for misusing it as a tribal badge to keep elites in power and to persuade others to risk health wealth conscience and lives where they need not be risked. Perhaps religion is too hard a path for the solitary traveller, but the traveller on that path must choose his fellow travellers with caution, care and be watchful he or she is not mislead.
All of that was by way of saying we all have egos (and fools like me who caution against the ego have the biggest egos when pretending that we don’t), but Mary don’t take slight at the work of the moderators. If you think your work here is worthwhile do it. If you don’t then yes quit or find another vehicle but don’t quit because 1 or 2% of your posts are censored.
I do recognise that my own posts are simply the egotistical waste product of some of my finer thoughts. Sorry for that folks.
I hope you all have a meaningful Sunday interacting with family friends neighbours foes and whatever life has to throw at you today.
Good morning Suhayl and just to say good answer there to Macky’s belligerence.
Fwl
1. I agree one should not wear one’s religion on one’s sleeve. I reject all organised religions as another form of tribalism. If one wants to know the Truth , one has to meet it directly, through a lot of hard work of self-study. Not through some prescribed ‘book’. I like the nuance of the wird pre-scribed there. One can only know one’s self through reading one’s own book, realising that one’s brain is the brain of thousands of years of human evolution.
2. There can be no death of the ego. Only an awreness that it is there, put together by thought. And all thoughts need to be put in their place, again through self-knowledge.
“The self is still the self at any level you may place it” — K
http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20151202.php
Fwl:
” I do recognise that my own posts are simply the egotistical waste product of some of my finer thoughts. Sorry for that folks.”
I should add: good sense of awareness.
Have a good day yourSELF!
Time for a new thread, I think, to put a stop to the navel-gazing and idle theorising and speculation about unimportant recent (non)events on here.
” Perhaps religion is too hard a path for the solitary traveller, ”
If that traveller has stepped out of the stream of the messy consciousness, which is the Consciousness of all human beings, its contents being all the conflict, greed, envy, desire, pain and suffering of mankind, and through awareness has stepped out of that murky river of humanity, what happens? In that solitude and state of clarity he may well be better connected to Universal Intelligence.
Einstein spoke of a Cosmic Religious Feeling . He got there without the help of any religious ‘books’.
Ponder over this:
“Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.”
– Albert Einstein, Response to atheist, Alfred Kerr (1927), quoted in The Diary of a Cosmopolitan (1971)
Also this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Albert_Einstein#Cosmic_spirituality
Rivetting stuff!
Fwl
, re ‘solitary’, the etymology of alone is incredibly interesting:
alone
Origin
Middle English: from all + one.
Habby,
Have you read Einstein’s ‘Ideas and Opinions’ and ‘The World as i see it’?
Recommended reading.
One has to give credit to Shaker Aamer for not betraying ‘hate’. He could be part of the solution.
I agree with his plea that ‘Jihadis should get out of Britain’. Good message.
Somebody once said that religion is like a penis, it’s fine to have one and fine to be proud of it but don’t go whipping it out and waving it in everyone’s faces all the time.
There are disadvantages and advantages to the climate changing. Unpredictable though it can be. It is the way the weather can affect human behaviour. Migration is the history of the world. Population trend is down, There are more obese people in the world, than starving. It is a question of distribution. Medical science, the Pill, has changed the world. With improved healthcare systems people can chose to control their fertility. People should have a right to vote.
Poverty, starvation and lack of emancipation have more affect on people’s lives, than religion. The physical rather than the spiritual. A group of misogynistic men holding on to abusive power. They do not practise their religion. The Ten Commandments and the ideals of Islam are the same. Except Muslins have to give ten% to charity. Same rules. It is people who do not follow their religion that cause distress, distrust and trouble. Religion can be an excuse for non religious behaviour. A badge of deception for obsessive possessive ones. Some people who have issues of control which need to be addressed.
Come back Mary. The Palestinians need you, to publicise their plight. It’s not about religion, it’s about cruelty, greed, unfairness and inequality.
Yes, Fred, perhaps a mental projectile that inevitably manifests itself as physical projectiles? It’s one major strand of why Wars happen. Another is Nationalism?
The planet would transform in one minute if we disbanded all religions. In a second we would become a Type One Global Civilisation, from a Type Zero.
But it’s a slow boat that we are on. If aliens visited us and told us to get our house in order…
@Suhayl Saadi, thanks but I wouldn’t want to contribute to further diminishing your credibility as a Muslim defender of Muslims, by giving you an excuse to drink alcohol.
Frankie Boyle gives his first ever lecture, and it’s a good one;
http://www.frankieboyle.com/one-time-4-mind/
^ This one typifies the Type Zero woman who would rather enjoy a good fight than a shared glass of wine.
Mackay, as you’ll know, there are Muslims who drink alcohol. They are no less Muslim for it.
We all are more than simply, ‘Muslims’.
I’m no-one’s defender. More like a centre forward.
🙂
Fwl
13/12/2015 8:04am
“When you look closely all religions are concerned with surrender, with the surrender or death of the ego. Even freemasonry teaches this.”
Does it? I would be interested to see references.
Thanks and kind regards,
John
Thanks for the HD Getty image Macky.
Of all the Yatsenyuk memes I think the Titanic is the best because as someone has commented Ukraine is going down.
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/12341450_523586044481448_2780765782754653595_n.jpg?oh=20fda557e87bac46bb0d6bb81ffbf3df&oe=56D5C8EE
“I’m no-one’s defender. More like a centre forward.”
LOL brilliant metaphor, Suhayl.
“Poverty, starvation and lack of emancipation have more affect on people’s lives, than religion. The physical rather than the spiritual.”
It is thought, the me, that has created all this. That is rather more the ‘psychological’ than the ‘physical’. Or rather more accurately, perhaps both, since the brain is that.
As we come to Christmas, let’s be completely cler that Christ did not create Christianity:
““That reminds me of a good joke I heard the other day. The Pope dies and goes up to the Pearly Gates where he meets St. Peter. He says to him, ‘You must be St. Peter.’ St. Peter answers, ‘And who are you?’ The pope is taken aback, ‘You don’t recognize me? I’m the Pope.’ St. Peter picks up his list and goes over the names, ‘Pope, Pope—I’m sorry, there is nobody here by that name. I’m sorry, but you can’t enter heaven.’ The Pope is shocked. ‘There must be some mistake. It’s impossible—I must be on that list. Please, look again: I’m the Pope!’ St. Peter gets impatient and tells him to buzz off. By now the Pope is in tears and begs him, ‘Please, St. Peter, I’m your successor and the representative of Jesus on earth. I’m the head of the Holy Roman Church. I have a right to enter heaven.’ St. Peter is getting annoyed and says, I’ve never heard of anything so foolish. If you don’t immediately buzz off, I’ll call the angels with the flaming swords.’ The Pope is in utter despair. ‘No, please don’t, I beg of you. Can’t you ask somebody, who knows me? Maybe Jesus or one of the saints will vouch for me.’ St. Peter gives in and says to the chap, ‘All right, I’ll go and ask inside. You stay here. And don’t touch anything.’ So he goes inside, and there are Jesus, his mother Mary, the apostles and several angels and saints. ‘Excuse me, Lord,’ says St. Peter, ‘there is a chap by the name of Pope wanting to enter heaven. He claims to have been your representative on earth.’ Jesus laughs, ‘My representative on earth? That’s absurd, isn’t it? And I’ve never heard of anyone named Pope?’ No one seems to know the Pope, until suddenly the Virgin Mary speaks up, ‘Wait a minute. Pope—isn’t he the one who spread all the rumors about me and the Holy Ghost?’”
Please excuse me if you’ve read this before.