Well Whadda You Know

Since the news has declared that the chief suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, died in 2009, it appears that we will never know the truth.

I still have a few questions however.

Are most people really dumb enough to believe what they read in the papers?

Take the "White Widow" story. Is it only me who finds this a little hard to swallow? A woman, as the international kingpin in a terrorist organisation that is known for the denigration of...women!

Do they really care about the coherence of the fiction they expect us to believe? It appears not. I hope I'm being paranoid here.

If the media is really involved in a sustained campaign of disinformation, then the question arises as to why? What deems it right to lie to the populace? Is it some kind of superiority complex that allows a select group to mislead the masses? Is this permissible now that we are in a "post christian" era? Even the "Established" (note emphasis) Church, don't get it. Did they ever? Jesus called the Pharisees "Children of satan" due to their fondness of lies.

Maybe it is the reserve of the rich and powerful to indulge in antinonianism, as if somehow, they are helping to fulfill mans destiny, The "enlightened", moving  on wards towards the final stages of cosmic conscienceless.

Not so sure myself.

Do you know who lives in your neigbourhood?

Cyber terrorism is on the increase. Recent hacks have proved that the systems we rely on for our daily surf, e-mail etc are highly vulnerable.
We are fools if we believe that access to the Internet will still be available, in the midst of serious civil unrest.
So who are your on line buddies? do you have their names and addresses? Phone numbers? Probably not.
You are going to feel awful lonely when the net gets turned off. Nothing is designed to cause widespread confusion more than a shut down of communication channels. Apart from not knowing how your friends and family are, you will lose touch with the common consensus (to the extent that we are able to know it via the web) The mainstream media will be our only source of news. How frightening! but do not worry, it matters little what they want you to know as long as you don't believe it.
For example, need to know the weather? Look outside. How high is inflation? Go shopping, you will find out soon enough. The problem is that we have stopped (or never learnt in the first place) thinking for ourselves. We have become conditioned to roll over to the collective knowledge of society, without realising that, society doesn't really know anything apart from what it is told is the truth. This is invariably not the truth at all.
Mostly, what we are told in place of truth, results in someone, or some organisation, making profit. Look at the way that government think tanks have industry insiders insinuated into them so that they and up preferring the profitable course of business rather than that which is best for the public.
Its shameful that government have allowed this state of affairs to come about while, all along, pretending to represent the people.

So...  get to know your neighbours. Help them out with their garden if you can, Fill in a form for them if you are good with that type of stuff.
Just talk to them. You may find that they can sew up your son's school trousers or have some other amazing skill.
It may transpire that you and they, will be working together to overcome some serious obstacles one day. Its good to know who they are in advance.

57 Bedroom Tax protests this Saturday throughout the UK



A series of protests against the "bedroom Tax"were organised via Facebook yesterday.

Its remarkable how social networks play a part in mobilising protests. We all saw how Facebook and Twitter were instrumental in the Arab Spring uprisings, particularly in Egypt, where the networks were closed down in an effort to thwart demonstrators.

While the people of Egypt, have a right to dislike, even detest, the tyranny under which they live, that discontent was very effectively harnessed by NGOs which were connected with western intelligence services.
Probably the most obvious of these organisations was "Freedom House", which ran courses designed to equip young Egyptian activists in the effective use of social networks to organise demonstrations.

In a Freedom House article entitled, “New Generation of Advocates: Empowering Civil Society in Egypt,” It stated that:

Egyptian visiting fellows from all civil society groups received unprecedented attention and recognition, including meetings in Washington with U.S. Secretary of State, the National Security Advisor and prominent members of Congress. In the words of Condoleezza Rice, the fellows represent the “hope for the future of Egypt.”

Freedom House fellows acquired skills in civic mobilization, leadership, and strategic planning, and benefit from networking opportunities through interaction with Washington-based donors, International organizations and the media. After returning to Egypt, the fellows received small grants to implement innovative initiatives such as advocating for political reform through Facebook and SMS messaging.

It seems that this article is no longer available. They were found out. Egypt court adjourns trial of 'US spies' to April

The Bedroom Tax demonstrations share a common element with the Egyptian revolt. It is the discontent of the people, being harnessed or even hijacked by big organisations with an agenda.

So what do we do? If we sit and do nothing, we are walked all over by self serving politicians, if we protest, we fulfil the agenda of another set of self serving politicians. They may even be the same lot.

Here is a suggestion. The real battle is for your attitude. This is the key area in which it is determined where you stand on everything.
I say that part of the answer is to ease off, on the concept that, "Freedom" is a licence to live in utter selfishness.

Madeleine Hunt Continues

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4842474/New-Madeleine-McCann-lead-as-police-hunt-for-six-Brit-cleaners.html

There is surely no missing child that has been headline news so often, and for so long, as Madeleine McCann.
As tragic as her disappearance was, and still is. The media has made a circus of it with the papers running headlines such as "Madeleine is alive", and then, just as our hopes were raised, we read in the smaller print, that there is no evidence of this, just that Kate McCann, "believes it".

Now, as Madeleine's picture, makes it onto the front page again, the tragedy is firmly established in the annals of conspiracy theory, mainly based on the principal that dogs don't tell lies,

Whatever happened in Praia da Luz, the McCanns have to live with it.

The point here, is that while the media indulges us in fantasy, real stuff is happening, but who does the average man trust to tell it to him straight?

Making a Documentary Film

I decided this year, that I should be producing documentary videos. Exactly how to do this, I am still trying to figure out.
Video is a much more dynamic format than written words or even audio, because it can utilise all three, or four formats if you include, background music, narration, images and subtitles.
It can draw people into your subject in a way that standard blogs can't.

 Of course, like every other blogger in the universe, I think that I have something uniquely worthwhile to say.
In fact I do (I can hear the "Yawn, they all say that don't they?") No I really do!

So to the details of how to make film.
I'm OK with audio, being a musician of many years now. I'm also reasonable with a camera, so two of the boxes are ticked already. It just seems as though my approach to this needs to be consolidated. Something which does not sit well with my standard way of doing things, IE randomly.

A lot of time can be wasted forever by not having a structured approach to a project so I'm determined that it must be planned to some degree.
How do you plan a video project?
Maybe I need to learn the very basics. Yep that sounds about right.
I might even keep a journal of the process for my own coherence.