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.
Jeremy Corbyn appears to be getting it from all directions.
A recently elected Labour MP has pledged to openly “knife” Jeremy Corbyn as party leader if it becomes clear he cannot win the next general election.
Jess Phillips, who was elected in May to the Birmingham Yardley seat, said she regularly criticised the Labour leader and his office in person and preferred open criticism to behind-the-scenes leadership plotting.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-mp-jess-phillips-pledges-to-openly-knife-jeremy-corbyn-if-he-fails-to-perform-a6772566.html
Look at what Trump is saying…
Why? The pub at closing time offers (a) the same expertise in political analysis and (b) one for the road.
As i’v said, this place is a bad influence.
And things do rub off. I hate it. The constant antagonism. But people should know about stuff, I’m happy for them to decide for themselves.
And at the end of the day it seems all Mary did (other than her personal remarks, that she is welcome to) is post links to different thing’s, not all about Israel, but it links to a lot of corruption imo. By no means all.
Why look at what Trump is saying?
Because it’s significant that leading Republican candidates for the presidency (Cruz is also calling for leaving Assad in power) are dissenting from the administration/neocon line on Syria.
Front National fail to win a region in France, even though the Paris incident is still clear in the memories of the voters.
Thankfully the electorate didn’t panic and vote for Le Pen or her niece.
France’s Front National (FN) failed to win a single region in elections Sunday despite record results in the first round, as voters flocked to traditional parties to keep them out of power, according to early estimates.
The leader of the anti-immigration FN, Marine Le Pen, lost out to the centre-right opposition in the northern Nord-Pas-de-Calais Picardie region after the ruling Socialists pulled out of the race before the second round.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/12/13/front-national-fails-to-win-seats-after-political-establishment-conspire-through-tactical-voting/
I get the impression some people here are ineducable, in any real sense of the word.
Ishmael: No, not just 7. I reproduced the first 6 posts, concluding with “and so on, the list is extensive”. Fact is CM posts about Palestine very often, maybe you don’t read his posts because you’re too busy churning out insults and baseless assumptions yourself.
RoS: Give me one example of where I’d accused you of “Islamophobia” – kindly put up or shut up. You do not have a record of decency, reasonableness or honesty, which is presumably why you talk to your betters like Suhayl in this disrespectful manner.
Yeah, yeah. But what the guy actually says is unimportant except that it is designed for the lowest common denominator. You can hear it in any barroom. It’s the Palin woman all over again. It’s so predictable, you don’t need to listen to it. What’s worrying is that so many Americans do. And you’re not going to stop your less cerebral citizens voting for the douchebag unless you take a long, hard and effective look at your educational AND electoral systems. Don’t ask me to listen to the petulant, flabby child-man, the one triumph of whose intellect is to imagine that he’s got one. Your problem, first and foremost, over which the UK has no control whatever.
He asserts too that:
“All basic materials are purchased from Europe. Western institutions should question themselves about these relations. Western sources know very well who carried out the sarin gas attack in Syria. They know these people, they know who these people are working with, they know that these people are working for Al-Qaeda. […]”
Which state actor(s) in Europe have vast experience of nerve gas production and could supply precursor materials and productionising equipment? Did Malcolm Rifkind know the source and type of the nerve gas used when took to his heels from the House of Commons after his Jackanory performance turned apopleptic and ugly, was the source and the decision to supply them made far closer to home than anyone in England ever dare tell?
Thanks Squonk, LNG it is then, I think.
“Yeah, yeah. But what the guy actually says is unimportant except that it is designed for the lowest common denominator.”
Lysias is correct.
You’re paying too much attention to the irrelevant.
The most important thing about Trump is his articulation of US Isolationism.
More on Genie, since someone insisted:
http://newswatchinternational.com/news/company-shares-of-genie-energy-ltd-nysegne-drops-by-19-18.html
The Company has disclosed insider buying and selling activities to the Securities Exchange, The Securities and Exchange Commission has divulged in a Form 4 filing that the director of Genie Energy Ltd., Rosenthal Alan B had purchased shares worth of $71,900 in a transaction dated on March 13, 2015. A total of 10,000 shares were purchased at a price of $7.19 per share. The information is based on open market trades at the market prices.Option exercises are not covered.
The share price continues to oscillate.
(continues)Genie Energy Ltd. consists of IDT Energy and Genie Oil and Gas (GOGAS). IDT Energy is a retail energy provider supplying electricity and natural gas to residential and small business customers primarily in the Eastern United States. GOGAS focuses on providing technologies to produce transportation fuels from the worlds oil shales and other fuel resources. GOGAS resource development projects include a conventional oil and gas exploration program in Israel and in-situ oil shale projects in Colorado, Israel and Mongolia.
What of the Occupied Territories now, my masters? But it’s hardly BP…whose activities might also be scrutinised more closely.
The most important thing about Trump is his articulation of US Isolationism.
He ‘articulates’ anything which will get him a cheer from the rednecks and damn the self-contradictions. And he’s very pro-Putin. Probably sees himself in the same mould. The problem remains, how does the US (and the UK) guard against the possibility of putting a complete c**t in power? That’s the relevant bit.
Ba’al: You don’t unless you throw democracy (or the show of it) out the window.
“He ‘articulates’ anything which will get him a cheer from the rednecks and damn the self-contradictions.”
He may well do that, and curiously, like those rednecks, it does seem to be what you focus upon as well.
What’s more important is that he articulates geostrategic policies that many business people agree with.
And not just in the US, but in Europe, Russia, China and elsewhere.
“And he’s very pro-Putin”
Yes. They’ve both an interest in a multipolar world, as do many others in the US, Europe, Russia, China and elsewhere.
In short, he’s addressing the most important political issue of the day.
And we’ve been doing it for years, [with heavy irony till the end of this sentence] with no perceptible ill effects. Being a complete c**t is a requirement, and the voters down South wouldn’t have it any other way.
Lysias 3;42.
Cheers for that.. Stephen Lendman put up the same info at Global Reasearch.
I remember at the time Mother Agnes was virtually the Soul voice amid all the Western media Propaganda.. Brave wee Heroine –
” The key evidence is that Reuters made these files public at 6.05 in the morning. The chemical attack is said to have been launched between 3 and 5 o’clock in the morning in Guta. How is it even possible to collect a dozen different pieces of footage, get more than 200 kids and 300 young people together in one place, give them first aid and interview them on camera, and all that in less than three hours? Is that realistic at all? As someone who works in the news industry, you know how long all of it would take.
The bodies of children and teenagers we see in that footage – who were they? What happened to them? Were they killed for real? And how could that happen ahead of the gas attack? Or, if they were not killed, where did they come from? Where are their parents? How come we don’t see any female bodies among all those supposedly dead children?
I am not saying that no chemical agent was used in the area – it certainly was. But I insist that the footage that is now being peddled as evidence had been fabricated in advance. I have studied it meticulously, and I will submit my report to the UN Human Rights Commission based in Geneva.
RT: Recently you’ve visited Latakia and the adjacent areas, you’ve talked to the eyewitnesses to the massacre of civilians carried out in Latakia by Jabhat al-Nusra. What can you tell us about it?
MA: What I want to ask first of all is how the international community can ignore the brutal killing spree in Latakia on Laylat al-Qadr early in the morning of August 5, an attack that affected more than 500 people, including children, women and the elderly. They were all slaughtered. The atrocities committed exceed any scale. But there was close to nothing about it in the international mass media. There was only one small article in “The Independent”, I believe.
We sent our delegation to these villages, and our people had a look at the situation on-site, talked to the locals, and most importantly – talked to the survivors of the massacre.
I don’t understand why the Western media apply double standards in this case – they talk about mass murder that the use of chemical weapons resulted in non-stop, but they keep quiet about the Latakia massacre.
RT: Do you know anything about the fate of hostages captured in Latakia?
MA: In the village of Estreba they massacred all the residents and burnt down their houses. In the village of al-Khratta almost all the 37 locals were killed. Only ten people were able to escape.
A total of twelve Alawite villages were subjected to this horrendous attack. That was a true slaughterhouse. People were mutilated and beheaded. There is even a video that shows a girl being dismembered alive – alive! – by a frame saw. The final death toll exceeded 400, with 150 to 200 people taken hostage. Later some of the hostages were killed, their deaths filmed
http://www.globalresearch.ca/mother-agnes-mariam-footage-of-chemical-attack-in-syria-is-fraud/5348939
I guess Donald Trump is not going to win Man of the Year award on this blog.
Pointing toward the scale of the crimes committed by Hilary must be just too much to contemplate.
Calling a moratorium on muslim immigration is oh so different from the internment of Jpanaese nationals post Pearl Harbor, and the expulsion of Iranian students and the ban on Iranian nationals imposed by Carter post the Embassy siege.
Wanting to prevent nuclear armageddon by reaching a deal with Putin just shows the arrant stupidity of the man. After all who would want anyone to live if all they have to look forward to is the possibility of being victimes of micro aggression.
“That will be a neat trick for the USA to start exporting LNG in any significant quantity seeing as how the US is still a net gas importer (pipeline from Canada) as of the most recent EIA annual data for 2014. Although production is up in 2015, like oil, that production rise is going into reverse now with production 0.5% lower than the same week last year.”
America is one of the world’s major exporters of LPG exporting nearly 729,000 barrels a day up from 445,000 in December last year.
Turkey, following their falling out with Russia is switching to American LPG.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/12/02/turkey-goes-after-russian-gas-wants-to-replace-it-with-u-s-lpg/
“Just on a technical point, LNG is Liquefied Natural Gas (methane) as in “mains gas” at home. LPG is Liquefied Petroleum Gas (propane/butane) as in Calor gas and LPG car etc.”
Gas fired power stations will happily burn LPG their fuel air ratio is electronically controlled.
I wonder how often this has happened and is going to happen.
French teacher invented Aubervilliers school attack:
I guess this means it wasn’t terrorism: NBC News: Parents of Accused Mosque Arsonist Carl Dial Describe Him as Loner:
Yeah the Americans will save our scawny necks, a well inculcated myth, not borne out by history, in ww1 they came late only to replace hardened troops moved from the Western Front to seize, with France the prize, the whole point of ww1 -the middle-east. In ww2 the Russians done all the heavy work, the US, shut-out after ww1 missed the boat and the plunder, second time round was ‘in’ late again, only for the spoils and nothing else, included in which was the British Empire itself, going the way of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires in the First. They twice then helped our elites out of the consequences of starting and embroilment in a big fight they couldn’t ever win, for booty and loot, profiting handsomely all the while, this has become a comforting noose round out neck.
I’m reminded of The Day of the Triffids, when “there were no Americans any more”.
The dying embers are working overtime to prove they’re not.
In vain, I fear.
I see that RoP adherent, Nadir Sayed, who was previously filmed stamping on a poppy and kicking it into a drain, has been found guilty of plotting to behead a member of the public at the Remembrance Day commemorations, having been apprehended trying to purchase a foot-long knife for the occasion.
Of course, this has nothing to do with Islam, which, as everyone knows, is a peaceful religion. And mass-immigration of Muslims to the UK is a wonderful, enriching experience.
You’ll be supporting Trump then, Anon1.
As you supported Farage.
Bit of a muppet, aren’t you.
“But RoS’s reference is quite apt for a race-baiting intolerant bigot”
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There you go Glenn UK, I’ve put up.
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Glenn UK adds.
“why you talk to your betters like Suhayl in this disrespectful manner”
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Now, now Glenn, declaring someone one better than another person, is straying away from your politically correct dogma. I could refer you to your top comment.
Try thinking before you comment.
Why would the religion of this self-immolation be kept a secret? As we are by now used to seeing a parking ticket was issued to Muslim who tried to stop little old ladies from catching the bus in time!!!!
“Shale oil and gas is not as magical as the US media would have you think. There’s a lot of smoke and mirrors.”
It costs considerably more to produce than the current market price.
“Of course, this has nothing to do with Islam, which, as everyone knows, is a peaceful religion. And mass-immigration of Muslims to the UK is a wonderful, enriching experience.”
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Careful Anon1, or you’ll have the triumvirate on your case as quick as a flash, screaming blue murder.
Two separate U.S government officials have conceded to Turkey’s role in the Islamic State’s illegal oil trade, with one admitting that the terrorist group has earned more than $500 million from the oil trade so far, while at the same time attempting to deflect attention away from the complicity of the Turkish government.
On Thursday, U.S. Treasury Department official Adam Szubin admitted that the Islamic State is moving the contraband oil into Turkey, but attempted to rationalize these actions by claiming that the majority of the stolen oil is being sold to the Assad government.
A nifty bit of deflection there by the US Treasury official, however it fails to hide the fact that Turkey is importing terrorist controlled oil. A Nato member aiding and abetting a terrorist organisation for profit.
Some things never change.
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/12/u-s-govt-finally-admits-that-turkey-allows-the-islamic-state-to-transport-stolen-oil-across-border.html