Regular reader, and fellow blogger, Richard W. Symonds is protesting tomorrow against the recent interest rate increases outside the Bank of England
He’ll be alone but I still think he’ll be able to kick up a fuss.
10:30-11:30 – if you’re local go along and offer your support.
BBC South will be interviewing Richard at 09:30.
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I adviced Richard to rethink that decision, but once he has reached it he deserves my support. If I were in London, or if I could fly over to London, I would be by his side.
I look forward to his comments.
You can be there with me in spirit, Jose. Thanks.
And thanks, Aaron, for writing “Support RWS”. Appreciated. Here’s hoping Gatwick is open on Saturday morning !
What an exhausting day in London ! The Bank of England protest this morning took place - on the same day that the Bank of England gave a list account names of ’suspects’ to the media. Mmmmm…
“Freddie”, from BBC South spent the whole morning with me (and son), filming and recording away outside the Bank…and then paid for a taxi to take us to BBC’s Westminster Studios, where he edited what he’d done - and something was broadcast in the South at lunch-time (We knew that cos I received a call straightaway on the mobile from my rather shocked (but pleased) dear old Mum who lives on the South Coast !)
BBC Freddie also set up a ‘meeting’ with myself and Brian Haw, who you might know has spent over 5 years outside the Houses of Parliament protesting at the Iraq war etc. ‘They’ have been trying to turf him off but without success (yet).
I think we both felt a little ’set up’ by BBC Freddie, who continued to film away, but I have to say it was a privilege to have met Brian. One amazing guy.
Then, in the early afternoon my son and I went to the Orwell Archive in Hampstead Road. That was good.
Then train home to Ifield. Phew !
Congratulations, Richard. By the way I’ve been trying to post in your blog to no avail. I’m sure I’m taking rather the wrong steps.
I look forward to reading more about your feat yesterday, and your experience with Brian Haw and the interview with the BBC.
Thanks, Jose, but I don’t think there will be much BBC coverage of my “feat” yesterday. I might be proved wrong, but it would put the Bank of England in too much of a bad light; something the BBC would not dare do amid this ‘Muslim media frenzy’ at the moment.
My gut feeling is that the story will be ’spiked’ by those higher up in the BBC - despite a whole morning spent with Freddie.
I am not normally an Financial Times reader, but recent events have attracted me to it (and it’s not of the Murdoch ’stable’!). The FT made this comment today (”Suspects named as Bank freezes assets/Tensions arise over handling of information”, August 13) :
“The Bank of England named 19 male suspects, one as young as 17, whose assets had been frozen…Whitehall insiders spoke of a clash at Friday morning’s meeting of COBRA, the Government’s Emergencies Committee, where one senior police officer was said to have objected to the publication of the identities of 19 arrested terrorist suspects whose assets were frozen by the Treasury…”
This raises a ’snakepit’ of critical issues, but for my little “feat” on the same day, it probably means it will be spiked. I would love to be proved wrong…if BBC South had the freedom, they could make an amazing story out of it…and analyse the “octupus head” as well as its “tentacles”…tying in my meeting with Brian Haw etc.
Pigs might fly !
Why not? We can make them fly, Richard. Don’t despair. We must talk about this and other issues and perhaps those pigs will fly.
By the way, Richard, I solved my problem with accessing your blog by making myself a blogger. It seems there is no other solution, although with Tyger I just had to give my e-mail and my name.
Well perhaps this new blog will help us to progress in our aims.
If we add to your strength, that might help.
Where can we find your Blog, Jose ?
Something to ponder : “I think a climate of fear is being instilled in the public deliberately” (Birmingham Pharmacist, Nadim Hussain).
If there is truth to that statement (and I think there is), then the specific question we must seek an accurate answer to, is :
Who exactly is deliberately instilling that climate of fear ?
Im not quite sure if I “buy” into this conspiracy mularky.
But certainly in the sense that the terrorists are most certainly instilling the climate of fear.
As FDR said, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” He was then, and is now, right. Fear is one emotion that cannot be suppressed, or controlled, it is raw and it is the most dangerous.
If you have ever watched Band of Brothers (and you should, its excellent) you might remember Albert Speer. He spoke to a young cadet who was having trouble believing in himself and that he could fight. What Speer said was, “until you accept your already dead, you can’t function properly as a soldier.” Perhaps people should wake up to this reality, and the view that the terrorists are using, perhap if people were actually prepared to accept the deaths of soliders terrorism could be properly dealt with in the world.
It all depends what you mean by “terrorist”, Spyder.
As for your non-purchase of a “conspiracy mularky” - I don’t buy it either. I am not a conspiracy theorist.
If, for example, Murdoch’s News Corporation is accused of maximising profits and power, that’s not a ‘conspiracy theory’ - that’s an institutional analysis.
We are simply digging deeper than the vaults under the Bank of England.
“You can blow out a candle
But you can’t blow out a fire.
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher”
(’Biko’ by Peter Gabriel)
Thanks for that, Andrew (’Skuds Sisters Brother’ Blog)
Richard,
What is your main blog URL?
Richard,
http://politicalproblems.blogspot.com/
You’ll see only greetings there. I have enough time to spend with Tyger’s and your blogs on top of my posts in Respect Discussion Group and other small contributions in another group, to be able to do anything in my own blog. As I told you I had to open it because that was the only way to write in your blog. I’ll drop some notes from time to time just to keep the torch ablaze.
I am with Richard that there is no conspiracy. What exists actually is facts, facts that may be hidden from the open air, but that are there, nonetheless.
It is too much coincidence that we learn through the internet, the blogs, the forums, that all economical measures that are taken in the western world are one and the same, not to at least suspect that the norms must come from a higher instance.
If we have the Central Banks in each and every country, what do we need the IMF and the WB for? Why are we meant to understand that the economical politics of a country are but the outcome of a fruitful policy by the incumbent government when we all know that oil prices can always tumble it? That inner commercial policy - as happens with subsidies - can always affect a branch of the economy of another country?
Why are all the citizens of the western hemisphere gagged with debts simultaneously? Why can’t we have individual economical politics in each of our countries? Why are we interdependent?
It isn’t conspiracy. It is just a way to carry out an international policy that does not permit individual economies to thrive by themselves.
Please let’s forget the word conspiracy.
Fear is another weapon more dreadful than the nukes. Perhaps it would be a good idea for you to look up the following site and you’ll see what I mean.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss
The chapter about the Noble lies and the deadly truths is well worth reading.
Perhaps you’ll also be interested in knowing who some of today’s celebrated politicians were Strauss’s disciples.
In the web you may also find sites who study Leo Strauss. They are also worth reading, but I’ve preferred to give Wikipedia for obvious reasons.
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My main blog : “Crawley Independent”
Ahhh, thank you!
link
Will add to blogroll when I get chance.