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.
Sorry for using the cliches about feeling collars/velvet and cats/bags in the context of Mrs Merkel’s furry parts. It was not intended I promise. It was collateral damage from my sub-conscious, poetic licence and unintended, anti-elite, mysogynist, racist even, but yo! this is a political blog and you know what I meant. Sorry.
“To correct this asymmetry and deny the West another Afghan war ‘bleedout’ Russia will contemplate the use of advanced tactical weapons, despite the implication.”
That means nukes to you and me – strangely enough this doesn’t count as a war for many supporters of our Stop the War coalition.
Imagine the wailing and the gnashing of teeth if the US , UK or France were to say they could contemplate the use of nuclear weapons in the Middle East.
Portentious warning, redux:
the sound of jingle bells in the stores is another sign of an approaching January 2016.
History will never consign to oblivion this illegal war and illegal weapons:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/iraq.usa
http://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/nuclear-threats-against-iraq
Sarin materials brought via Turkey & mixed in Syrian ISIS camps – Turkish MP to RT:
https://www.rt.com/news/325825-sarin-gas-syria-turkey/
Russia just needs to cut off the Gas to Europe, The pipe line goes under the Baltic Sea to Germany. It doesn’t need to use any weapons. The affect would devastate US economy. Another great depression.
Mary come back.
US/UK France have armed the world with nuclear weapons. They will be responsible for their use. University of California. Hiroshima. They are now supplying Iran. Iran has enough Oil, Gas and Sun for fuel.
The Tories are spending £170Billion on Trident. . People can’t heat, eat or sleep making them sick with worry because of Tory policies. Killing, maiming and starving people all over the world. Creating the biggest migration crisis in Europe.
Aamer says he will not be pursuing his illegal detention and imprisonment through the courts, as expected above. He also appears to think that Tony, given immunity from prosecution, will break (a)down in tears and (b) the habit of a lifetime, and tell the truth.
Fourteen years in the hands of the septic military has probably clouded his judgement, and god knows what coercion “we” are applying, so no blame to the man. However, the law has undoubtedly been broken, and in a big way. Score another point for the antidemocratic effects of terrorism – or the fear of it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/12048316/Shaker-Aamer-Grant-amnesty-to-Tony-Blair-to-hear-truth-about-war-on-terror.html
It’s shocking Mark, that it having been established unquestionably that neither Syrian government or Syrian forces carried out this hideous chemical weapons attack, the matter apparently ends there. So much for ‘red lines’.
It has now become clear that the US and its supposed allies, Turkey, the UK, Israel, Saudi Arabia etc., together did in fact carry out this chemical weapons attack which killed at least 1500 people, moving the bodies to the ‘set’ afterwards, and in fact did so in order to falsely implicate the Syrian government, before UN inspectors and the world, to continue with and to justify their long held goal of regime-change in and destruction of Syria, it’s fabric, its integrity, its people, culture and history.
We’d been had, briefly, as with each false-flag they get sloppier and sloppier, more desperate or simply no longer care that the public in their own countries and around the world find out what they’re up to. They can retroactively re-write history as they please, of which they’re rather proud and don’t care who knows that too.
I see the ‘Terrorism and Deflection’ super-thread has vanished. It seemed incongruous and rather wandering, unfocused anyhow.
Any insights into what is turning out to be a perplexing POTUS race? The candidate over whom the gellers may have least control has used their own created Islamophobia to leapfrog ahead of the rest of the pack.And they cant suddenly start defending the muzzies either to break Trumps momentum.
If Obama cannot deliver in this lame-duck state,an errant bibi chomping at the bit for what has become an ersatz opportunity, after Putins intervention, for an eretz grab, may decide to take matters into his own hands.We have already seen a similarly frustrated erdogan take a swipe at Iraq instead.
Its all getting a bit WW3ish, a major false flag can trigger off a full-scale jamboree, we can only hope for some divine intervention from his latter day Son Putin !!!
It’s good that in Turkey and in its parliament there are those still prepared to speak out and tell it like it is, at great personal risk.
Thing is will we roll out the red-carpet for President Trump, or will he bring his own?
Mary, you shouldn’t have taken that personally, you were being used….
Your comments were deleted, not because there was anything “wrong” with them, but simply to detract from the fact that one truly, telling comment – from some other,way less ubiquitous commenter, was also deleted.
Note how Habbafuk and Habbphil, also chimed in that they had comments removed – that was just more smoke and mirrors and it was all about deleting, without fanfare, some completely different comment which CMs paymasters in Cheltenham couldn’t possibly allow to remain once it was spotted.
Switch and bait, bait and switch, don’t watch dat, watch dis!
Anyone who hasn’t yet worked out that CM is a gatekeeper, and the various Habbas his useful, onside, online tools, should wise up to that.
“Russia just needs to cut off the Gas to Europe, The pipe line goes under the Baltic Sea to Germany. It doesn’t need to use any weapons. The affect would devastate US economy.”
I would have thought providing a market for all the LPG America can produce fracking would give the American economy a boost. Higher prices and larger market share.
I see ‘Rumbled’ -contaminating the conductor to adulterate and undermine trust from the orchestra is a well known and conspicuous tactic, succinctly illustrating the role of Mr Troll here, even though I exposed and banished the anomaly years ago.
What a change even a couple of days make!
Although there are still a few spurts of lava now and then and the occasional ephemeral puff of smoke from the crater, it’s my impression that this blog has already improved considerably as far as its comments section is concerned.
Contributors appear somewhat more focussed, the tone is calmer and less hysterical; there are fewer obsessions being aired (and encouraged!), the discourse is politer and more respectful, some of the more solid contributors seem to be returning (eg Baal) while some out-and-out nutters have fallen silent.
I put this down to to the absence of ringleaders who were encouraged and, indeed, lavishly aped by weaker spirits plus some quietly vigorous action behind the scenes by the moderators.
Let’s hope this new dawn is not a false dawn.
The BBC, and the MSM, continue to ridiculously discredit themselves, and to insult to everybody whose brain hasn’t been lobotomised by perjudice & ignorance;
“Europe’s so far unflinching stance over Ukraine – and the alleged involvement of Russia in the war there – is partly explained by a principled protection of Ukraine’s sovereignty.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35060398
As Turkey does its best to drag tghe World into WW3, where’s the principle protection of the sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus for the last 40 years, where’s the principle protection of the sovereignty of Iraq, whose territory has just been invaded by Turkey ?
If the “principle protection of the sovereignty” had been enforced against Western “Allies” such as Turkey & Israel, imagine how much bloodshed would have been avoided upto now; the hypocrisy & double-standards shown toward certain countries is exactly why the World is in such a downwards spiral of lawlessness & endless conflict.
Meanwhile Europeans continue to allow their leaders to act against their own interests by obeying the arm-twisting from Washington, and even the corrupt oil-rich puppet Gulf States have been forced to tax their people for the first time because of the oil-price war they have been forced to adopt against Russia, all acting like lemmings for the benefit of the US.
The capacity of the US or anywhere else to supply LPG, as well as the existence of the infrastructure, here or in mainland Europe, to handle it in any great volume, is untested. Western Europe has had satisfactory, in fact advantageous terms for and reliable supply of gas from Eastern Europe for more than half a century, even in the hotter moments of the long Cold War. Russia is making, had made, no such threat, though have every justification to turn east and leave always unfaithful, carping, threatening, untrustworthy, ungrateful Europe, lifting their floorboards for firewood.
The Last Day must be near, the truth has become falsehood and the falsehood is trumpeting as the truth !!
The devils who defend this https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=palestinian+land+loss&tbm=isch&imgil=Sr45vEvGupGDVM%253A%253BGrRiFJfq25U13M%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Felectronicintifada.net%25252Fblogs%25252Fabraham-greenhouse%25252Fpopular-palestine-activism-outreach-tool-reappears-loss-land-map-cards&source=iu&pf=m&fir=Sr45vEvGupGDVM%253A%252CGrRiFJfq25U13M%252C_&biw=1376&bih=641&ved=0ahUKEwiBsLS_mdvJAhXDwBQKHcPyAMoQyjcIKQ&ei=gqFuVoHnDMOBU8Plg9AM&usg=__vbbiwXkaRmuBAvL_kPz9yWuknLI%3D#imgrc=Sr45vEvGupGDVM%3A&usg=__vbbiwXkaRmuBAvL_kPz9yWuknLI%3D land grab are telling us, no its the fault of the
Seems like a fair summary, Habby.
More breathing space, more oxygen, more pause for thought and greater pertinence.
Every attempt by Russia to further improve supply of gas to Europe, by new pipelines, capacity improvements, redundancy, is being thwarted and foiled by Europe, sucking up to America’s entrenched neo-con deep-state, decidedly against Europe’s immediate and long-term interests. Putative alternative suppliers are fickle flaky tin-pot Gulf micro-states, as stable as a house of cards built on shifting sands. I know which I prefer. The proven existing reliable Russian and soon Iranian option.
“What a change even a couple of days make!”
This is EXACTLY the same kind of yiddish chosen hubris over goyim that cameron was using when he pushed the envelope with his opposition being “terrorist supporters” comment.
I would bet my house habba is a similar former east european of refugee stock, in the mould of a robert maxwell, now living in Wolverhampton.
Just born evil rubbish !!
“Every attempt by Russia to further improve supply of gas to Europe, by new pipelines, capacity improvements, redundancy, is being thwarted and foiled by Europe, sucking up to America’s entrenched neo-con deep-state, decidedly against Europe’s immediate and long-term interests. ”
Tony, any sources for that, please?
Interesting to note that howls of ‘troll’ have minimised to revealing true trolls as called out by Mark. The comments seem more mature.
Alcyone/Villager. In your sad case we’re not dealing with feigned stupidity, but the real thing.
For those who would like to understand the Russian patience in dealing with the devils, Alexander Solhenitzyns Final Work here:click on “200 Years Together”
http://www.radicalpress.com/?attachment_id=8335
Zionism in practice –
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life,
Limb, Liberty and Property
HEADLINES for 10 December 2015:
Israeli Army theft and vandalism raids on
homes, charity offices and infirmary
Israeli soldiers terrorise 3 children
aged 10 to 13 for several hours
Israeli soldiers raid shop and
plunder scientific equipment
Night peace disruption and/or home
invasions in 9 towns and villages
3 attacks
(although, technically, there were no Israeli ceasefire violations,
58 Gaza residents were wounded by Israeli crowd-control weapons,
including rubber-coated steel bullets)
13 raids including home invasions
3 dead – 127 injured – 1 abducted – economic sabotage
17 taken prisoner – 9 detained –
119 restrictions of movement
http://www.indymedia.org.nz/articles/4564
Rumbled: “Note how Habbafuk and Habbphil, also chimed in that they had comments removed – that was just more smoke and mirrors and it was all about deleting, without fanfare, some completely different comment which CMs paymasters in Cheltenham couldn’t possibly allow to remain once it was spotted.”
Indeed!
Of course, the vastly more likely (not to say pedestrian) explanation could be that a mod – attempting to follow the directives set out by the blog owner – deleted a whole bunch of posts that were way off topic, of a personal nature, rambling, insulting, irrelevant to anything very much, and so forth.
Such an exercise did serve to show who feels the most entitled around here, not to mention those most able to come up with paranoid theories to explain the bleedin’ obvious.
Just out of interest, any theory on why this vital, super-special comment couldn’t have been reposted, say on the previous thread, where it would likely have remained undisturbed? Or even putting it down again right now?
Alcyone
“More breathing space, more oxygen, more pause for thought and greater pertinence.”
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Exactly so and very well put.
Your comment about there being far fewer – almost no, in fact – shouts of “troll” is also correct and another sign that the blog is cleansing itself with the ringleader departed.
My only fear is that certain onfluences will return and reverse, by their pernicious example, the improvements which are already evident.