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.
Labour’s James Kelly, kicked out of Holyrood for being a complete prat.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7r0q-vPnrQ
Kelly is the epitome of London Labour in Scotland, this is the man who once had the chamber in fits of laughter when he said.
“Where’s the money coming from to set up an oil fund.”
Panjandrum of statistics and hunter of “truths” as per usual has observed in by now the customary arse about tit fashion!!!
Fact that heads of state can be in south America and lose their lives to clandestine cancerous chemical attacks (a long way from the old days of exploding cigars getting shipped to Castro), or happen to to be the poor swine that gets shot, or hanged and or drops from his balcony etc. and then add the total heads and divide the years and you get a very low figure unlike the well fed and kept vassals in the West!
Cheney (Ever Ready/Duracell man has been dying ever since before his rise to be the stealth POTUS, but that don’t count does it?
Here’s an idea, RoS. Why don’t you go to the Church of Scientology’s main offices, and ask them if they really are absolutely genuine, and L. Ron Hubbard is truly a visionary? That should settle the matter – right?
While you’re about it, call by a Mormon church, and ask them if theirs is the One True Faith or not. Then we’ll know for sure.
If you want to know if any given suspect is guilty or not, simply ask them! What’s all this nonsense about gathering evidence, witnesses and so forth?
Your world is wonderfully straightforward, it must make life very simple.
Craig may find this interesting as the BBC props up his favourite tabloid.
https://archive.is/KEckE
MerkinScot
“Node, thank you for posting an update of the Israeli Atrocities which the biased BBC doesn’t really want us to know about.”
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Shouldn’t that have read:
“Node, thank you for posting an update of the Israeli Atrocities which the un-biased Mary really wants us to know about.” ?
Keep up the good work and keep referring to that mysterious website which remains so coy about who’s running it, who’s financing it, what its aims are, etc….
“Here’s an idea, RoS. Why don’t you go to the Church of Scientology’s main offices, and ask them if they really are absolutely genuine, and L. Ron Hubbard is truly a visionary? That should settle the matter – right?
While you’re about it, call by a Mormon church, and ask them if theirs is the One True Faith or not. Then we’ll know for sure.
If you want to know if any given suspect is guilty or not, simply ask them! What’s all this nonsense about gathering evidence, witnesses and so forth?”
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Just as I thought Glenn all talk.
If memory serves,you’re the one bitching about CCS yet when provided with the means to contact them and do some research, you, start spouting nonsensical dross, about a dead comic book writer who founded a weird violent semi-religion called Dianetics.
Time to give it a rest Glenn, don’t you think?
Loony
ok suppose you give a subsidy for someone shopping in your supermarket, you still have to pay for what you buy. Only a part of the FiT is subsidy. the deadline has been extended I understand but after that Messers Cameron and Co want you to put electricity into the grip for virtually zero.
Now do you get it, boyo?
Trolls get subsidised for wasting time on this blog, other people have lives.
Oh Gawd, I see that Fedup’s dug up that old conspiracy theory again:
“Fact that heads of state can be in south America and lose their lives to clandestine cancerous chemical attacks”
A reference, one supposes, to the late, unlamented El Presidents Hugo Chavez.
Two questions for you:
1/. on what are you basing this idea of yours ‘assuming you really believe it?
2/. as a doughty internet warrior, you might do better defending his successor, the hapless El Presidente Nicolas Maduro Moros. God knows he could do with some help; 🙂
Venceremos! (or, perhaps, not)
RoS: “If memory serves,you’re the one bitching about CCS yet when provided with the means to contact them and do some research, you, start spouting nonsensical dross, about a dead comic book writer who founded a weird violent semi-religion called Dianetics.”
That —WHOOOSH— sound you were wondering about was a concept going straight over your head.
Take care, RoS.
Sixer
Well, the important thing is that you give (or that one gives). The rest is just detail in the end.
But I don’t share your down on those food banks which work on the basis of referrals and don’t know exactly what you mean by “no strings attached” food poverty initiatives (unless that’s just another way of describing the referrals system – could you elucidate?).
I wonder if you could tell me how a food distribution centre which doesn’t rely on referrals works in practice?
Let us suppose that I felt like some free food – would I be able to go down to one of those particular centres, looking reasonably prosperous and well-fed,
ask, and receive without any questions asked? I suspect not – surely any food bank would have ways of weeding out the inevitable chancers? And would not those ways consist of some sort of assessment, in other words, something similar to what I suppose the CAB and social workers do?
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While I’m at it – do you know anything about the Centrepoint charity (it claims to help to get homemess kids in London out of danger and back on their feet)?
Speculation about today’s meeting;
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/15/putin-gives-kerry-a-chance-to-pull-back-from-the-brink/
Also includes this relevant piece of info on that mysterious airstrike last week;
“Firstly, the Syrian military base that was hit by the air strike was apparently the scene of a bitter battle between the Syrian military and the Islamic State. It seems that shortly after the air strike – and most probably as a result of it – the Islamic State’s fighters were able to storm it.
Inevitably, that begs the question of whether the aircraft that carried out the air strike were providing air support to the fighters of the Islamic State.”
“While I’m at it – do you know anything about the Centrepoint charity (it claims to help to get homemess kids in London out of danger and back on their feet)?”
I’m considering that one, and in particular another one Crisis, which provides meals, accommodation and sorts out the individual with a full set of clothes and so on, albeit only over the xmas holiday as a 1-off.
Centrepoint appears to be a long term commitment, you actually make a room available there on pretty much a permanent basis. Seems good, but as always one had to watch whether our donations are going to pay for fat-cat style executive salaries.
What does tick me off about these outfits is the way you have to write to them separately – at a different address! – should you not wish to be bombarded with other items “you might wish to know about”. As we know, they sell on your details, which is why they make it difficult to get them to stop doing so. I wonder how many people are put off altogether, due to all these extra hoops you need to jump through.
The British Red Cross really ticked me off a few years back. Gave them a fairly generous one-off donation, and made it clear I did not want to hear from them about anything else. We got a deluge of begging letters, calls, even a couple of people coming to the door (given we had a relationship with them, they assumed we’d be very happy for such visits, replete with glossy brochures illustrating the intended targets).
The one that did respect the no-contact request was the Richard Dawkins charitable setup – and it was very easy to tell them so.
MerkinScot
Shouldn’t that have read:
“Node, thank you for posting an update of the Israeli Atrocities which the un-biased Mary really wants us to know about.” ?
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No.
If I had meant that then I would have posted it.
Instead I posted, on topic, about BBC bias :
“Node, thank you for posting an update of the Israeli Atrocities which the biased BBC doesn’t really want us to know about.”
@Giyane Trolls get subsidised for wasting time on this blog
Yes but with their STRATFOR leaked enterprise workstations that feature 10 plausible personalities per workstation, nearly everyone here, including me, could just be electrons. We could be one bored pimply faced youth, playing with himself.
The yanks were nice enough to suggest to Congress in the military financial appropriations/solicitations disclosures when buying these workstations that they would only be used abroad. GCHQ (and don’t forget the other UK locations of Dad’s Army of attack typists) are using them at home, not on the beaches, aimed squarely on the great unwashed public. Hell, GCHQ might even be trying to fix the xmas voting figures on the various TV shows! Dastards
Thanks for the Mike Whitney article Macky. At least somebody in the US talks sense. Those of us who only watch MSM for entertainment purposes know that the article is spot on. Unfortunately there are some dickheads who think the US can dig itself out of the forthcoming depression and failure of the dollar with a nuclear war on Russia are sadly mistaken. There will be no first-strike victories only annihilation and the world will go black. Craig Murray’s blog will no longer exist and computer laptops can be used for resting your cup on if you can find something clean to drink.
Kerry’s problem is that he is one of the rich elite, and might be stupid enough to take the risk.
I have friends who support the murderous USA against a largely peaceful and peaceloving Russia. What is more some of them are very bright people in other respects. I despair.
Macky
“Speculation about today’s meeting;
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/15/putin-gives-kerry-a-chance-to-pull-back-from-the-brink/”
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Ah – speculation. We love speculation on here, don’t we.
Glenn
“Centrepoint appears to be a long term commitment, you actually make a room available there on pretty much a permanent basis. Seems good, but as always one had to watch whether our donations are going to pay for fat-cat style executive salaries.”
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Thanks for that. I agree with you about the one-offs.
The thought in your second sentence there is exactly what I was thinking about. I wonder if it would be possible to get hold of their accounts. The Charity Commission, do you think?
Giyane A long time ago UK electricity supply was completely controlled by the CEGB. Under the system operated by the CEGB producers of spill generation (which substantially all wind and solar would have been categorised as) were required to pay the CEGB i.e. they received a negative payment.
This was justified on the basis that non firm or spill generation imposes costs on the wider system – which it does. Hence people that create costs were required to pay for those costs.
Current policy actually rewards people for creating wider costs. Thus the subsidy is two fold (i) A direct payment so as to incentivise people to create costs for others and (ii) wider system costs that smeared across all users of the system.
In addition it is likely (although arguable) that “green” energy when viewed in its totality actually increases the very emissions we claim not to want.
I understand how the electricity system operates, but what I don´t understand is how people can believe the exact opposite of what is true. No-one seems to have a problem accepting that the BBC is biased when it comes to UK foreign policy, but then believe that they are telling the gospel truth with regard to energy policy. Why would that be?
“Who ends up with all the money from this subsidy regime? Answer cash rich homeowners who put a few solar panels on their roofs, large corporations who get a risk free investment but a risk adjusted return, and Wall Street investment banks who securitise the income stream and then buy up local distribution networks.”
Why should a local group wanting to come off grid and generate their very own renewable energy not be allowed to do so?
If Britain votes to leave the EU that is one law will fall by the wayside, a sob to the subsidised nuclear power applicants and a drive to shut us into dependency on Russian oil and Franco Chinese nuclear power with all the legacies Loony seem to parcel up at great costs and leave for his children;s children.
The UK has the greatest capacity in Europe for alternative powers, it has very windy coastlines, it has ferocious currents eating away at the realm, all able to generate power.
Where are the engineers of the future?
with increasingly violent and chaotic weathers we need stronger storm generators who come into their best at force ten plus.
And with 600 like minded villagers, using a friendly bank to finance a long term deal, by which a fixed local tarif is found that is also offered to neighbouring villages for take up, repaying the bank for the investment, perfectly feasible under current EU legislation, then that s something to treasure.
Those who want us out of the EU will argue the case for global companies using taxpayers NFFO subsidies, millions per year, to build expensive and dangerous PWR nuclear power stations for us all to be enslaved to. So do some who want to stay in Europe.
But nobody wants to answer the question whether it is a logical and apt decision to make by a public representative with no mandate for the idea, why should our future be powered by a dangerous plant whose worse cases scenario can not be controlled or stopped from producing dangerous radiation to us all?
anyone who dispels the future of our children by their greed for lute and best of all, to keep us in dependencies, is a danger to the public.
MerkinScot
“MerkinScot
Shouldn’t that have read:
“Node, thank you for posting an update of the Israeli Atrocities which the un-biased Mary really wants us to know about.” ?
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No.
If I had meant that then I would have posted it.
Instead I posted, on topic, about BBC bias :
“Node, thank you for posting an update of the Israeli Atrocities which the biased BBC doesn’t really want us to know about.””
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Yeah, sure. A Craig post on BBC bias in a UK affair serves as your justification for taking over Mary’s weekly list of Israeli “atrocities” (by the way, you should look up that word in a reputable dictionary – I recommend the Shorter OED in 2 vols).
Rather tenuous, that.
I think the truth is that you, apart from being an Israel obsessive, see yourself as Mary’s locum. Or perhaps her Vicar on earth.
Poor fellow.
Node
BTW, I’ve forgotten – were you one of the guys pleading for a second Coming? “Oh, we miss you so – do come back – you ARE this blog – things will never be the same without your insight and wisdom – such insight and wisdom – BASTARDS !!” 🙂
This is what Kerry had to say at the press meeting before Putin took him in for a rousting presenting him with hard evidence of the AWACS and who did the bombing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Pog4PMGHtak&app=desktop
I don’t believe a word of Kerry wanting to mutually destroy ISIS/DAESH. His aim would be to destroy Assad. Nuland, who helped create a failed state in Ukraine, is there too looking bloated. What a shower of shit to send anywhere.
I think it is quite reasonable in an article by Mr Murray about BBC bias to write the following :
“Node, thank you for posting an update of the Israeli Atrocities which the biased BBC doesn’t really want us to know about.”
You are right. It may be that evidence of these atrocities is readily available but many of the readers here are not as computer literate as others.
In that case, it seems to equally reasonable to help them to realise the full extent of BBC bias.
That is why I wrote :
“Node, thank you for posting an update of the Israeli Atrocities which the biased BBC doesn’t really want us to know about.”
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.
There is nothing wrong with disconnecting from the grid if you can develop and construct your own power sources that supply all of your requirements (i.e. you do not need back up supplies from the grid).
Obviously the less people that are connected to the grid then the more expensive it becomes to remain connected since the costs are fixed and must be paid by fewer people.
Aware of this problem Spain has passed a law whereby you can be fined up to 30 million Euros for disconnecting from Red Electrica (the magnitude of the fine is calculated to dissuade commercial enterprises from disconnecting).
As far as I know this has nothing to do with the EU and is a decision taken by Spain to preserve the integrity of its network. Actions have consequences, and widespread voluntary disconnection has the ultimate effect of denying the poorest access to electricity.
Glenn
Bingo – found something on Centrepoint Soho on one of the Charity Commission’s website. As you sounded interested, I’ll share a little of what appeared. No substitute for the audited accounts, of course, since I’m uncertain about what’s covered by some of the terms (you’ll easily see why) but better than nothing.
Charitable spending : £ 22.449.000
broken down as follows:
generating volontary income : £ 6.080.000
governance : £ 90.000
charitable activities : £ 16.270.000
N° of employees : 301
N° of volonteers : 671
Habbabkuk: “I wonder if it would be possible to get hold of their accounts. The Charity Commission, do you think?”
This is just the sort of information Mary was always good at ferreting out. Nevertheless, I did find this:
http://www.centrepoint.org.uk/media/972766/financial_statement_final_version_october_2014.pdf
The CEO appears to get around £110K or so. Not on skid row, exactly, but not really fat-cat stuff either.
If you look at page 41, you’ll see something like this:
Loony
“Nevermind etc etc. Reading is apparently not your strong point.”
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He’s more into vocals. Bellowing in his case.
Glenn
Our posts crossed and thanks for yours. I shall read it all. Many thanks.
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re your comment “his is just the sort of information Mary was always good at ferreting out” I disagree and feel that you are being over-generous (after all, you managed, didn’t you, so Mary didn’t possess some magical power not vouchsafed to ordinary mortals). Most of all, though, the info you turned up was useful in a very concrete sense, in that it might help you, me and perhaps other readers to decide whether or not to support Centrepoint. Contrast that with Mary’s digging up stuff on (as only one example) Rona Fairhead’s previous career, her husband, her education, her earnings, etc, which is fuck all use to anyone (knowing or not knowing is not going to keep Ms Fairhead in her job or the contrary)and is offered in a spirit of mean mindedness for the purpose of reputational assassination.
“Contrast that with Mary’s digging up stuff on (as only one example) Rona Fairhead’s previous career, her husband, her education, her earnings, etc, which is fuck all use to anyone (knowing or not knowing is not going to keep Ms Fairhead in her job or the contrary) and is offered in a spirit of mean mindedness for the purpose of reputational assassination.”
Which is why I often thought that in Mary’s case
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo