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.
Busy defending the world against terrrsts: UK department of work & pensions, oops!
Mary was doing a fine job in exposing the connections of those who make up the pool of those fronting public bodies in the UK.
Fairhead’s previous employment, for example, includes banking and weapons manufacturing.
Banks who launder drug money and weapons that blow the shit out of people.
That’s what habby wants hidden.
Thanks, MerkinScot, for establishing the relevance of my post to this thread’s subject. You’re quite right, my sumMary was intended to highlight BBC bias in its reporting of the illegal occupation of Palestine. That list of murder, assault, theft and vandalism happened in just one ordinary day in Palestine. When you multiply those crimes by 365, then by 70 years, the sum total is genocide, no other word for it. And day in, day out, the BBC pretends it isn’t happening. That’s bias all right.
“exposing the connections”
E.g. some of their in-laws were joooos!
H: Yes, our posts did indeed cross. I’m inclined to think they’re worth supporting. It must rankle with some people (for good reason!) that they are asked to shell out their own hard earned, often after tax, when that money is going to the salary of someone vastly better off than themselves.
I used to work for Amnesty on an entirely voluntary basis, and give them money on top. Their CEO (Irena Khan, if I recall) made an embarrassing misjudgement in an official capacity for AI, and was rewarded with over 1/2 million pounds in a payoff, plus more for her chief of staff, resulting in some £800K going for a settlement that was not even a legal requirement. Then again, she did have a very generous salary, living allowance, company car and so on – so this was pretty much par for the course.
Takes a lot of coffee-mornings and fund-raisers to get that kind of cash. I very much doubt if people would have dug deep into their pockets, had they known the beneficiary of their largess.
That rather sapped my enthusiasm for supporting the organisation.
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Some good people aren’t here anymore. I’m glad Suhayl is posting again, but I miss the likes of Clark, and Dreoilin. Wonder what drove them away, and what can be done to encourage their return. Change in atmosphere, maybe?
“Some good people aren’t here anymore. I’m glad Suhayl is posting again, but I miss the likes of Clark, and Dreoilin. Wonder what drove them away, and what can be done to encourage their return. Change in atmosphere, maybe?”
I believe Clark is still on his travels and has little internet access right now.
1707 Union – Betrayed by bribed Lord Hamilton. Riots in Edinburgh and all over Scotland. 1715 & 1745 Jacobite Rebellion. 1750 ‘Scottish Enlightenment’.
“Some good people aren’t here anymore. I’m glad Suhayl is posting again, but I miss the likes of Clark, and Dreoilin. Wonder what drove them away, and what can be done to encourage their return. Change in atmosphere, maybe?”
Yes I hope very much that Clark, Dreoilin and Topcat TC are all well! And since all the recent discussion, Jon too. Would be nice if they popped by. Craig too 😉 , hope he’s well.
Loony
15 Dec, 2015 – 7:01 pm
“Nevermind etc etc. Reading is apparently not your strong point. My point has to do with the iniquity of subsidies. It therefore follows that nuclear is not a good idea as always and everywhere it requires subsidies, either overt or implied.”
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Loony, never mind Nevermind. It’s his comprehension–he’s a bit of an ignorant mutt.
And thanks for the very interesting flow of the subject since I asked my first question.
Aw, cheer up. It’s Christmas:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV8PoItXAAAmtKZ.jpg
The accurately self-styled Loony sure has a down on renewables. They can’t be subsidised, sorry subsidized, and you can’t disconnect from the grid to run your own. Subsidised coal – in Germany – is wonderful. Any idea which industry, whose entire operation in the UK was State-funded (including R&D) from 1948 to 1991, he might be looning for?
The Scottish Parliament that passed the Act of Union with England in 1707 was as undemocratic and had as little authority to bind future centuries as the Irish Parliament that passed the Act of Union with the United Kingdom in 1800.
Baal – Loony is in any case not looning for nuclear “not a good idea as always and everywhere it requires subsidies, either overt or implied”
Clark is on [email protected] if anyone wants to send good wishes. I don’t know about the others.
Kind regards,
John
I’m just wondering why Loony thinks fossil fuel producers and burners aren’t hand in glove with the wonderful world of corporate financial fiddling, while the renewable folks are. I’m wondering why much of the UK’s energy supply is owned by foreigners, and how secure that makes us. I’m wondering why UK plc spends 2 1/2 times as much on fossil fuel projects in developing countries as on renewables there. I was guessing Loony was into shale oil, but even they have expressed alarm at the cutbacks to renewables.
But I now think Loony is just a sealion.
“Security of the population is of zero concern to planners” Noam Chomsky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3xkdmFXDnw
My question is have they already gone over the edge, should people tell their children they may die soon.
Ps, You are just like them you know, ego competition. For what? And you want to talk abut recourse, power consultation, 90% is used for the same thing. Ie, Capitalist Consumerism, being it’s manifestation.
And there will be no solutions because it’s not about that to psychopathic people you all obey. Evey day. Just keep funding them taxes gladly why don’t you. And it’s not a people problem, “the wrong people” it’s a power problem.
This blog must reach one or two people, can’t any of you advocate anything but,,,effectively nothing.
1 in 4, even if you buy into this nonsense ‘representation’ system anyway.
You think your going to argue and strong arm policy with reasonable arguments, bend this system away from it’s present coarse. With the embedded elite that control it?
Sorry but 90% of what goes on here is bulshit talk. I don’t know why people waste time on it. ‘hero’ leftists, who continue this that legitimizes those who have none, have never had. Government is illegitimate by first assumption. Ones who seek to maintain that disparity and power doubly so.
Want ‘in’? This is not an alternative.
Ba´ál Zevul. It is not a question of being a cheerleader for anything in particular. It is a question of rationality.
The UK has an integrated electricity supply system that provides electricity on demand. This is something that people seem to want and value. This can only be delivered by despatchable generation i.e. you can turn it on or off in line with changes in demand. Most forms of renewable generation are non despatchable. The more renewables you have on the system the greater the reserve margin of despatchable plant you need. This raises costs becuase you now need to construct more capacity than you have demand for. (Not many single person households have 5 cars for example). The need for this extra capacity is created by the presence of renewables – and they do not bear the associated costs of the problems they have caused.
Despatchable generation requires a source of fuel, and mostly that fuel is either oil, coal or gas. Who owns, or controls the price, of these fuels does not impact on the fact that you need them in order to maintain an electricity system.
These fuels cause pollution – but so do renewables. They need to be manufactured, transported and installed – all of which are polluting activities. Once they are operational they force thermal plant to operate in a load balancing mode, thus thermal plant is operating sub optimally and producing more emissions (per Mwh) than they would if they were able to operate optimally.
Ask yourself how, with regard to energy, you have you come to believe what you believe. Is there any possible chance that the media has lied to you, and that those lies have been absorbed because they help to construct an idealistic story that everyone would like to believe.
Renewable energy is just one more front in the war on the poor – but no-one wants to believe that and so the media report some idealistic nonsense that does not stand up to rational analysis. But hey we all want to believe the story so we will skip the rational analysis part.
Now finally, and in line with the broad theme of this blog, ask who is to blame. The media for reporting lies, or the consumers of media who are so anxious to believe those lies.
Loony
“The UK has an integrated electricity supply system that provides electricity on demand. This is something that people seem to want and value”
O yea, not me. and don’t you mean centralised….. I think that attitude is promoted as result of being held by people that believe we can just exhaust the world as much as we like.
We are trying to get solar now for the house, and if we did not have a crazy consumption society, and usury of daily work (mainly for capitalists) I don’t think being careful about power would be such an issue.
As usual all arguments are made from a class perspective. Embed in those think everything is as they see it. (ie, as they like, not close to reality)… So no solutions.
It’s them selling the power to us, that’s what they want.
De-centralized, Self generating power. ‘No no’, People don’t what that do they. And green also.
Must keep the dept slaves working init. For nuclear waste up-kepp. That’s why are Children are born nowadays.
“The Scottish Parliament that passed the Act of Union with England in 1707 was as undemocratic and had as little authority to bind future centuries as the Irish Parliament that passed the Act of Union with the United Kingdom in 1800.”
It was as democratic as you could get in the early 18th century and Scotland did well from the deal with Glasgow, not an English city, soon becoming the second most prosperous in Britain.
How did the Native Americans fare? Would they say the union was undemocratic?
‘Rationality’. ha, you have to laugh don’t you. I do.
Ishmael, the likes of YouTube are currently awash with guides to home solar power. Here’s one example…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3blIaj1rmoM
Anyone who argues against this free and unlimitless form of energy is a troll.
Fullstop.
“Anyone who argues against this free and unlimitless form of energy is a troll.”
Unlimitless?
Ishmael – “…and don´t you mean centralised…” No I don´t, otherwise that is what I would have written.
The CEGB was centralised and it operated an intergrated electricity supply system. The 1989 Electricity Act de-centralised the electricity supply system, but through law and regulation sought to preserve the integerated aspect of the system.
You claim not to want access to electricity on demand – although I suspect that in this regard you are telling lies. Have you never availed yourself of simple things like traffic lights or have you never bought food that has been subject to refrigeration?
I would agree that there is a problem of sustainability, and that this problem is exacerbated by the narcastic and consumption obsessed nature of society. My point is that “green” energy is no solution to this wider problem, and neither is delusion.
Node
“Thanks, MerkinScot, for establishing the relevance of my post to this thread’s subject. You’re quite right, my sumMary was intended to highlight BBC bias in its reporting of the illegal occupation of Palestine.”
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So if that’s the case, now that you’ve exposed this example of BBC “bias”, you won’t be repeating your list of Israeli “atrocities” every week like Mary did, will you.
Unless of course you wish to repeat your point about BBC “bias” every week and, strangely enough, use the same example every time?
“Anyone who argues against this free and unlimitless form of energy is a troll.”
Selenium is not free.Nickel costs less and will still create the new fire when the sun don`t shine.
http://atom-ecology.russgeorge.net/category/nickle-hydrogen/
Fred, last time I looked the sun rises every morning (and I should add that solar panels do not need direct sunlight, just light).
“Mary was doing a fine job in exposing the connections..etc”
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To what purpose, Herbie?
To demonstrate to you and other Eminences what a Miss Marple she was?
Isn’t it a case of someone preaching to the converted?
Do her bits of “sleuthing” (well, just scrabbling around on the internet for most of the day) actually empower the oppressed and duped masses? Will they, fired by righteous indignation after having absorbed her “findings”, rise up and cast the moneylenders out of the Temple?
Dave, if you been through the Benelux countries and Germany recently you will see that there are solar panels springing-up everywhere.
In the meantime, the totally corrupt/rotten UK government gets the Chinese to build a new nuclear power station.
Huh?!