tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58064677489323051062024-03-12T22:24:17.127-07:00Arbolioto| Activism is democracy. Activate! | Peaceful and Legal | Twitter @arbolioto |arboliotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11811360930625670719noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806467748932305106.post-57748661462615065232013-10-16T02:38:00.000-07:002013-11-17T05:16:44.388-08:00METHOD OF RESEARCH EXPLAINED FOR ARTICLE ON RUSSIA TODAY, BBC AND OTHER TV CHANNELS NEWS AND COMMENT.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This research is not about numbers of viewers but about quality, variety and veracity of information and their profile in the day's news on a number of key international and domestic issues that affect and have affected UK and US directly. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In term of numbers, the profile of Russia Today has risen exponentially, we believe, but BBC and American channels still have the numbers in their favour in their own countries.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no doubt now that Russia Today has become a key player of news and current affairs in the world stage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A novel method of research was used for this project. The researcher used Arbolioto Twitter feed in real time over many months to record the different comments given by pundits, presenters and journalists from all forms of media about different global and domestic events in several countries, principally UK and US.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Facebook and Twitter started to become prominent in news and comment, social media was added to the method to record the research. This started during the Egypt protests against Hosni Mubarak, which ended with his resignation in 2011.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The very early seeds of this research started shortly after the Iraq War of 2003 -albeit without a given purpose and with a different format. At that time, there were many different opinions about the need for that war, which meant research had to be taken to understand all the positions. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately one sole news channel can never be trusted, particularly not the ones coming from nations involved in a war.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the subsequent years the researcher analysed mainstream media response to single world events depending on the origin and type of media, being Internet, TV or press. All comments were recorded on the twitter account @arbolioto. As well as other information related to what was going on at the time around the world. British press and some world press research and coverage of events were also included as reference.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shortly after the Egypt revolt in Tahrir Square in 2011, Russia Today TV was added to the research principally on the back of the Keiser Report as there appeared to be a huge discrepancy between what mainstream media was reporting about the banking debacle of Wall Street and the City of London, to what Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert were saying on their programme.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The method of research continued to use @arbolioto Twitter in real time to record the main quotes from the many different programmes on TV and press reports. On TV specifically this was done through a hard drive recorder connected to the TV. With this device, several simultaneous news and comment programmes about an event were recorded simultaneously and watched 'a posteriori' only a few minutes later to compare. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">News and comment programmes on Sky News, ITV News, BBC News, ABC News, BBC Newsnight and Russia Today News were recorded and analysed. Quotes were posted on Twitter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over time, a pattern was discovered, that as a matter of course, TV in the United Kingdom and the United States were consistently mis-reporting, un-reporting or under-reporting certain events considered 'difficult' such as protests against the banking system, the protests against against austerity, the several wars and bombing campaigns, the torture, quantitative easing, bombing of Libya, and others. This was then compared to 'easy' programmes like a royal wedding, Barack Obama dinner at Buckingham Palace, for example, which was covered extensively by US and UK television.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The events following the setting up of the Occupy camps in 2011 (@OccupyWallSt and @OccupyLSX),</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the bombing of Libya and the London summer riots of August 2011</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">were used as benchmarks for study, as they were very controversial and many media outlets</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> found them difficult to report. News and comment from various sources were recorded and analysed, including ABC, BBC, SKY and Russia Today news. During some events, tweets from reliable eye witnesses on the scene were compared with media dispatches.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many other news stories were analysed individually using the same method of hard drive recording. In particular, the royal wedding, the jubilee, the Olympics, the Egypt coup d'etat, the cases of Bradley Manning, John Kiriakou, Julian Assange and TV coverage of the Guardian articles on Edward Snowden and US dirty war in Baghdad were studied as well as BBC comments on the US-UK 'Special Relationship' and the recent Russia Today programme on 'American Exceptionalism' were also investigated. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Output of WikiLeaks, Salon, Democracy Now, YourAnonNews, Occupy Wall St, Occupy LA and Occupy London were also researched and compared to mainstream media coverage of events and issues.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">For many months output from BBC current affairs TV programmes such as Daily Politics, BBCNewsnight, BBC Question Time, BBC daytime and night time news were monitored, recorded and analysed. Same thing with BBC correspondents such as financial correspondent Stephanie Flanders and Robert Peston, but also royal correspondents, political correspondents, etc were compared to their countersparts in Russia Today, ITV, ABC, Channel Four and others. Real time quotes and analysis can be found on the Twitter timeline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A photographer covered the 'word on the street' in many UK legal and peaceful demonstrations and protests, including March Against Monsanto, Occupy London Stock Exchange, Occupy Los Angeles, NHS Block The Bridge, Frack_Off, CND and Stop The War Coalition, UKuncut Bedroom Tax, to name but a few. These can be seen on this Arbolioto Blog. A photographer also photographed the TV screen on many occasions and press reports. The ones included here are only some of them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In short, a massive research programme which could only be done step by step without a clear indication of the final result. The findings of this research on Russia Today, the BBC and other news outlets is only the first instalment of the study as more findings and associations can be gleaned from the work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A variety of documentaries were also recorded and studied, some shown on BBC and Channel Four and compared to ones of the same or </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">similar events, showed by Russia Today. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Comments on these documentaries and programmes were also tweeted on @a</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbolioto Twitter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quotes, photos, analysis and comments from all these programmes and events can be read in the @arbolioto Twitter real timeline of the last three years. But it will take you a long time to go through it all as it includes nearly 60,000 tweets. In our case, Twitter allows the owner of the address to download the entire Twitter timeline feed into one file, so it is easier to go through it and study in a computer with any simple find engine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In all, it has been a fascinating experience. There's more to come in the next few months.</span></span></div>
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Russia Today TV is beating the BBC and other news channels at their own game of TV news and comment, according to our research study involving the monitoring of several news channels over more than two years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> research was not about numbers of viewers but about quality, variety and veracity of information and their profile in the overall day news. It is at this level where Russia Today scores highly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In term of numbers, Russia Today viewers have risen exponentially but BBC still has the numbers in its favour in Britain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While the original BBC's 'News 24' was killed off as the endless repetition of manufactured news was losing credibility, the new format 'BBC News Channel' isn't fairing much better either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the Russia Today news format is gaining so many news watchers in the UK that it is already influencing selection of news items on BBC and other channels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the same time, Russia Today appears to be filling the international space that Al Jazeera left empty after their initial success on the Iraq war coverage and the first couple of Arab Spring cases. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This has helped Russia Today to appear as a more open channel, less restrictive in opinion than the BBC.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One would have to be stupid not to notice that most of Russia Today's TV presenters are pretty and young.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This could bring accusations of sexism and ageism. But the apparent weakness is counterbalanced by the courage of their opinions. The females (it's a very feminist channel) seem to have their own opinion about what is going on and how news can strike a chord with viewers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the US, UK and most of the EU, mainstream TV viewers can't get full information on what is even happening in their own countries, let alone <u>to</u> their own countries There seems to be an interest to support the status quo, even if that status quo appears to be in need of urgent discussion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Russia Today TV makes global news worth watching again. It's a different voice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let's face it. Russia TV presenters and correspondents don't mince words when criticising the US and EU domestic and foreign policy mistakes and fallacies in all fields of human endeavour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But who can blame Russia Today for doing that? After the demise of the Soviet Union, Russia has kept its distance from intervening in world affairs so it had a lot of time to watch what was going on. And what is going on is not a pretty sight. It found that EU and US have turned the world into their own playground with wars, bombing and financial collapses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As examples of innovative programming there's Peter Lavelle's CrossTalk. He finds expert opinion from different parts of the world, with new ideas and points of view, just like Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert also do for Keiser Report, another ground-breaking programme. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Quite surprising it is that the BBC and other UK and US channels can never find those types of guests, especially as they speak perfectly good English.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Other programmes such as Breaking The Set and World's Apart as well as Keiser Report create the dynamism in news and comment that is setting Russia Today apart from mainstream TV media.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The difference may reside on the fact that Russia Today not only gives the news but also gives an alternative explanation to the causes and consequences of war and peace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The following issues have been constant in Russia Today TV roster of news in the last few years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">- US and UK Iraq War, illegal under international law</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Depleted Uranium use in Fallujah</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">- US drone bombing of Pakistan and Yemen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Libya War, illegal under international law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All the above events have given Russia Today the edge over EU and US channels simply because Russia was not and is not involved in any of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">EU and US channels have been compromised by their need to support their government's own war efforts, such as NATO countries in Afghanistan; US and UK in Iraq; and UK, US and France in Libya.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As if the above news items had not provided enough material for a different approach in Russia Today's news programmes, the US and UK banking collapse, followed by the Occupy movements of those countries, with added student and workers' protests in Greece, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal provided extra unadulterated material for Russia Today editors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was clear for everybody that something very rotten was going on in the West's financial system and that traditional news programmes were not reporting it critically enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It took at least a month for the BBC, CBS, SKY and ABC to pick up on the huge Occupy movement in America and Great Britain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If it didn't get the correct coverage while it was going on, less so now, when it is less apparent as the original camps were violently overrun by local police, providing even more up-to-date coverage for Russia TV viewers and silence from mainstream TV channels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Had Snowden stayed in the US or travelled to a 'friendly' country such as UK he would've been thrown into prison, just like Chelsea Manning (formerly known as Bradley Manning) and Julian Assange.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While Assange lingers on under house arrest in a foreign embassy in London and Manning is serving 35 years in a US prison, Snowden is a free man in Moscow and can walk at least to Siberia if he wants to without the fear of a US Navy Seals rendition team nabbing him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The cases of Snowden, Manning, Kiriakou and Assange were widely covered by Russia Today. But not just covered like the BBC does with a few seconds. They were made into headline news for several weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The documentaries are produced in the US but don't get distributed there nor in any UK channel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While BBC takes many months and millions of pounds to set up documentaries that toe the official BBC editorial line (not too critical of anything and always underlining that our societies are much better than others), Russia TV has been mining the documentaries of the US and world independent sector. The kind of committed, hard-hitting, really riveting documentaries that don't find a conduit in the traditional mainstream democratic TV media. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Subjects covered are poverty, war, banking fraud, unemployment, surveillance and pollution. All the subject that are no-no's in most Western TV channels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Have you seen any anti-Monsanto documentary on American of British TV? We don't think so, since the US Congress even approved a law to make Monsanto the company and its executives free from any future prosecution if their crops turn out to be toxic in 50 years time. Russia Today has aired a number of amazing documentaries about GMO crops. Unheard of on the BBC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Documentary highlights includes 'Genetic Chile' (GMOs), 'The Big Fix' (BP's oil disasters), 'The Fear Has A Thousand Eyes' (urban surveillance), 'Golden Rice' (food corruption), 'Toxic Leather' (industry) and Russian documentaries such as 'Black October 1993' (Moscow putsch), My Son Ex Terrorist' (terror recruitment) and hundreds more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The editorial of Russia Today is not apparent but soon they will have to reconcile some adverse news such as domestic gay issues, and the Pussy Riot and Greenpeace activists imprisonment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But as long as Russia remains distant from world interventions in the scale of Iraq or Libya, it will be easy for Russia Today editors to appear independent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is countered by the fact that the influential post of Chairman of the BBC was recently given to former Conservative Party member Chris Patten. He was chosen by UK prime minister David Cameron himself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Patten then proceeded to choose not one but <u>two</u> Director Generals of the BBC. First the hapless George Entwistle, then Tony Hall a couple of months later, after dramatic events that left the reputation of independence of the BBC tarnished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fronting their famous programme introduced as "Markets! Finance! Scandal!" Keiser Report have educated Britons and other countries about what really goes on behind the scenes in the City of London and Wall Street, under the protection of our own governments. A must see to find out about #banksters and how they operate. The hot topics covered by Keiser Report are never even acknowledged by BBC or other mainstream TV channels. They are simply ignored. This has increased the number of viewers of Russia Today and Keiser Report among UK viewers and transformed its presenters into cult figures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">OK. Agreed. Yulia Shapovalova is devastatingly attractive. But so are BBC's news presenter Fiona Bruce and ITV's Nina Hussein. Some kind of physical attraction seems the norm in world TV these days. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The difference is in what they are allowed to say, how free they feel to speak their heart. But if you have conservatives and defenders of the status quo on TV, they will always say the things that protect it, making it dull.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">British TV journalists must feel free to answer the public's need without fear or favour. They were all surprised by the public revulsion against Syria bombing, as in 2008 they were caught by the banking collapse. This year also many TV journos called the Egypt bloody coup a 'revolution' at the beginning. Despite getting it wrong many times, British TV insists in being an uncritical media.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The difference is that @Yulisha covers the news with poise and passion. She appears freer than her counter parts in British TV. You get the message clearly when UK or US have done something wrong. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On the other hand Fiona Bruce and Huw Edwards are excellent when reporting royal news such as jubilees, weddings and births. Unbeatable at that. Real poise, we have to admit.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All three are first with their microphones where the news that matter happen but the mainstream TV fears to tread, such as the Occupy Movement, Monsanto marches, unemployment, NHS marches and protests, CND and Stop The War coalition marches, Julian Assange interviews, Banksters fraudulent operations, Frack_Off camps and many, many more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The impact of Russia Today on modern TV journalism covering world events without editorial limits has been noticed by many. However, they claim it's a '<a href="http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/russia-today-biased-%E2%80%98facts-are-my-religion%E2%80%99-says-london-reporter" target="_blank">Kremlin Propaganda Machine</a>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The point is that as long as they report the facts that we can't get from our own TV channels, they will continue to rise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is a fact that Russia Today's vast array of correspondents around the world has created a new interest in TV journalism without frontiers or banners. For the time being at least.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't think that it's just the presenters. Alyona Minkovski was poached from hard hitting The Alyona Show on Russia Today to present a gossip show on Huffingdon Post. Money is not everything in journalism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NOTES: (1) Edward Snowden has confirmed in an interview with the New York Times on Oct 17 2013 that he was in possession of no documents when he went to Russia and that there is "zero chance" that Chinese or Russians obtained them by subterfuge. It is believed that several newspapers have the documents hidden in computers around the world. Obviously Snowden does not need to carry heavy luggage to be a US dissident of the highest order. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LINKS. There is only one link to this research for the reason that we wanted the research to be read as a unit in one go. However, some links may be added later to reference the material. In any case, all the relevant references can be seen in the @arbolioto Twitter. Some on this blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A novel method of research was used for this project. The researcher used Arbolioto Twitter feed in real time over many months to record the different comments given by pundits, presenters and journalists from all forms of media about different global and domestic events in several countries, principally UK and US.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Facebook and Twitter started to become prominent in news and comment, social media was added to the method to record the research. This started during the Egypt protests against Hosni Mubarak, which ended with his resignation in 2011.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The very early seeds of this research started shortly after the Iraq War of 2003 -albeit without a given purpose and with a different format. At that time, there were many different opinions about the need for that war, which meant research had to be taken to understand all the positions. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately one sole news channel can never be trusted, particularly not the ones coming from nations involved in a war.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the subsequent years the researcher analysed mainstream media response to single world events depending on the origin and type of media, being Internet, TV or press. All comments were recorded on the twitter account @arbolioto. As well as other information related to what was going on at the time around the world. British press and some world press research and coverage of events were also included as reference.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shortly after the Egypt revolt in Tahrir Square in 2011, Russia Today TV was added to the research principally on the back of the Keiser Report as there appeared to be a huge discrepancy between what mainstream media was reporting about the banking debacle of Wall Street and the City of London, to what Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert were saying on their programme.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The method of research continued to use @arbolioto Twitter in real time to record the main quotes from the many different programmes on TV and press reports. On TV specifically this was done through a hard drive recorder connected to the TV. With this device, several simultaneous news and comment programmes about an event were recorded simultaneously and watched 'a posteriori' only a few minutes later to compare. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">News and comment programmes on Sky News, ITV News, BBC News, ABC News, BBC Newsnight and Russia Today News were recorded and analysed. Quotes were posted on Twitter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over time, a pattern was discovered, that as a matter of course, TV in the United Kingdom and the United States were consistently mis-reporting, un-reporting or under-reporting certain events considered 'difficult' such as protests against the banking system, the protests against against austerity, the several wars and bombing campaigns, the torture, quantitative easing, bombing of Libya, and others. This was then compared to 'easy' programmes like a royal wedding, Barack Obama dinner at Buckingham Palace, for example, which was covered extensively by US and UK television.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The events following the setting up of the Occupy camps in 2011 (@OccupyWallSt and @OccupyLSX),</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the bombing of Libya and the London summer riots of August 2011</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">were used as benchmarks for study, as they were very controversial and many media outlets</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> found them difficult to report. News and comment from various sources were recorded and analysed, including ABC, BBC, SKY and Russia Today news. During some events, tweets from reliable eye witnesses on the scene were compared with media dispatches.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many other news stories were analysed individually using the same method of hard drive recording. In particular, the royal wedding, the jubilee, the Olympics, the Egypt coup d'etat, the cases of Bradley Manning, John Kiriakou, Julian Assange and TV coverage of the Guardian articles on Edward Snowden and US dirty war in Baghdad were studied as well as BBC comments on the US-UK 'Special Relationship' and the recent Russia Today programme on 'American Exceptionalism' were also investigated. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Output of WikiLeaks, Salon, Democracy Now, YourAnonNews, Occupy Wall St, Occupy LA and Occupy London were also researched and compared to mainstream media coverage of events and issues.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For many months output from BBC current affairs TV programmes such as Daily Politics, BBCNewsnight, BBC Question Time, BBC daytime and night time news were monitored, recorded and analysed. Same thing with BBC correspondents such as financial correspondent Stephanie Flanders and Robert Peston, but also royal correspondents, political correspondents, etc were compared to their countersparts in Russia Today, ITV, ABC, Channel Four and others. Real time quotes and analysis can be found on the Twitter timeline.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A photographer covered the 'word on the street' in many UK legal and peaceful demonstrations and protests, including March Against Monsanto, Occupy London Stock Exchange, Occupy Los Angeles, NHS Block The Bridge, Frack_Off, CND and Stop The War Coalition, UKuncut Bedroom Tax, to name but a few. These can be seen on this Arbolioto Blog. A photographer also photographed the TV screen on many occasions and press reports. The ones included here are only some of them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In short, a massive research programme which could only be done step by step without a clear indication of the final result. The findings of this research on Russia Today, the BBC and other news outlets is only the first instalment of the study as more findings and associations can be gleaned from the work.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A variety of documentaries were also recorded and studied, some shown on BBC and Channel Four and compared to ones of the same or </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">similar events, showed by Russia Today. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Comments on these documentaries and programmes were also tweeted on @a</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rbolioto Twitter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quotes, photos, analysis and comments from all these programmes and events can be read in the @arbolioto Twitter real timeline of the last three years. But it will take you a long time to go through it all as it includes nearly 60,000 tweets. In our case, Twitter allows the owner of the address to download the entire Twitter timeline feed into one file, so it is easier to go through it and study in a computer with any simple find engine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In all, it has been a fascinating experience. There's more to come in the next few months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This research is not about numbers of viewers but about quality, variety and veracity of information and their profile in the day's news on a number of key international and domestic issues that affect and have affected UK and US directly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In term of numbers, the profile of Russia Today has risen exponentially, we believe, but BBC and American channels still have the numbers in their favour in their own countries.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no doubt now that Russia Today has become a key player of news and current affairs in the world stage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As for Arbolioto Twitter, our original profile description "News, opinions and blogs around the world on politics, art, gossip, ideology and humour" is still upheld today, as when it was first created. Our research is part of that too, to understand what surround us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But then at some point the laws that they voted for have to be enforced. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is when it gets ugly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It involves the innocent people that had nothing to do with the financial crisis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But politicians in government don't represent them anymore. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This Brixton eviction picture story is the cutting edge of the Conservative and Liberal Democratic polices of austerity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Police is sent in big numbers, including abseiling teams and bailiffs to make the property available to other tenents that can pay more. </span><br />
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BRIXTON. Violence between locals & police. Thumping noise of police breaking and entering. <a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-pre-embedded="true" dir="ltr" href="http://t.co/Urb1FOl7jb" style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;">pic.twitter.com/Urb1FOl7jb</a></div>
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BRIXTON. To Let & Auction signs on Rushcroft Rd are connected to current evictions. Council to capitalise on the Govt induced property 'boom' <a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-pre-embedded="true" dir="ltr" href="http://t.co/8LAmM55Fz9" style="color: #0084b4; text-decoration: none;">pic.twitter.com/8LAmM55Fz9</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A few of the evicted left their record collection on the side of the pavement. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"People Of The World" and "Illustrious" can be seen among them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What can't be seen anywhere at all are the politicians and the Councillors that ordered the evictions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Evictions took place at several properties on Rushcroft Road, Brixton, off Coldharbour Lane during the morning of Monday July 15, 2013..</span>arboliotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11811360930625670719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806467748932305106.post-5817574077403354072013-07-11T05:26:00.002-07:002013-07-12T04:41:44.243-07:00#GREENPEACE #LONDON #SHARD CLIMB FOR #ARCTIC #PROTEST - EXCLUSIVE PICTURES AND LINKS:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">72 stories, 309.6 meters high. 1,016 feet high. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was in the City of London where the 2008 financial collapse of the UK was created in great part as a result of Thatcherism's policies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Thatcherism has wreaked the most heinous social, economic and spiritual damage upon this country".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Our local hospitals were running on empty. Patients were staying on trolleys in corridors".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"I tremble to think what the death rate for pensioners would have been this winter if that version of Thatcherism had been fully up and running this year."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Our schools, parents, teachers, governors, even pupils seem to spend an inordinate amount of time fund raising in order to be able to provide basic materials such as paper and pencils." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The plaster on our classroom walls was kept in place by pupils' art work and miles of Sellotape".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Schools libraries were dominated by empty shelves and had v</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ery few books and those books were being held together by the ubiquitous Sellotape."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"In metropolitan areas across the country every single shop doorway, every single night became the bedroom, the living room, the bathroom for the homeless."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"They grew in their thousands and many of those homeless people had been thrown out onto the streets from the closure of the long term mental hospitals."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"It was called 'Care in the Community'. What in effect it was 'no care at all in the community.'"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"After her Right to Buy, it's a pity she didn't start building more social houses so there would've been fewer homeless people."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"As a friend of mine said 'during her era London became a city Hogarth would've recognised'."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"We were told that everything I had been taught to regard as a vice under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees. They were the way forward." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"We heard so much that barriers had been broken down by Thatcherism, that the establishment was destroyed." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The words that have been circling around is that she created an 'aspirational' society. It aspired for 'things'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Glenda Jackson's full speech can be heard and seen posted on YouTube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDtClJYJBj8">here</a>. At the time of writing this blog, the speech had been seen by 1,356,613.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenda_jackson">Glenda Jackson</a> has been a British MP for 20 years. She is also an actress and has won two Academy Awards. Official website is <a href="http://www.glenda-jackson.co.uk/">here</a>. Her Twitter address is <a href="https://twitter.com/glendajacksonmp">here</a>. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The mood is jovial among the supporters of Julian Assange on the pavement right outside the Ecuador Embassy in London's fashionable neighbourhood of Knightsbridge, only 25 yards from Harrods, the top London department store for the rich and famous.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">BREAKING. Police arrive to evict </span><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23Assange&src=hash" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #0084b4; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="color: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Assange</b></a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> supporters from outside Ecuador Embassy London</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Somebody high above decided that the peaceful supporters had to be removed at any cost, even in front of the world media, based on the opposite side of the road.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">About 20 police initiated the move into the crowd. Which caused much aggravation and pushing and shoving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"I saw this kind police tactic employed before in Central London", a supporter said. "Police provokes the crowd with excuses like 'breach of the peace' and 'causing an obstruction'". </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"How long can democracy go on like this?" said the same supporter moments later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The supporter has a point. Authorities in London seem to believe that there is only one way to see things: the Government way. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dissidence and protest is not tolerated beyond a few minutes. Shortly after assembling at any street in London, police will move in to break up the demonstration.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Government and police authorities do not want damaging long term demonstrations like Occupy London Stock Exchange and the Peace Camp outside Parliament, even though they may be necessary.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First indications of the new zero tolerance started with the royal wedding last year and continued with the Queen's Jubilee and the Olympics this year. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In all these events demonstrations were banned within a large perimeter that the police and the government decided upon.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hugely undemocratic but nobody seems to bother, except the dissidents.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">140 COMMENT. After good will Olympics stance against friendly Ecuador cannot be justified. Police brutality against supporters neither</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pushing and shoving continued for a few minutes. Police officers were singling out the leaders of the demonstration. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The supporters resisted the bullying. Scenes of violence and brutality were seen by everybody.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the pushing and shoving to arrest, London police ran over two world media cameraman, one broke his expensive video camera. Unnecessary.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Shouts of "police brutality" rang out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">10:49am. Have you seen this man before? Yes, we pointed him out to you at 10:29am. He's the cameraman of the <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupynewsnetwork" target="_blank">Ustream live feed</a> (now off the air for reasons unknown) for the London Occupy Movement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">T</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">he point made by the police is very clear. If you are a dissenter you and not welcome in this city.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This makes dissenting beyond a few banners a very difficult and dangerous activity in Central London. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In a democracy this should not happen. Anybody should be able to dissent and protest. The government should take protest into account. Ecuador very probably have investigated this new trend in British policing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It being proven right in front of their embassy. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">I told the woman Met Police commanding officer at Ecuador Embassy London: "show of force & eviction was unnecessary"</span><br />
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Police arrested me for asking why we should move! Now they keep me confined but "dearrested" with an order that I specifically cannot move!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Arbolioto went for an espresso close to the Ecuador Embassy.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was a lucky move. As I sat at the bar, I had a big flat screen in front of me tuned to Sky News. It so happened that at that very moment Ecuador Foreign Office Minister Ricardo Patiño was starting a momentous press conference in Quit</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">o. I twitted almost everything he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Legal evidence shows <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23Assange&src=hash" style="color: #0084b4; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="color: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Assange</b></a> will not have fair trial in the US" Ricardo Patiño, Ecuador Foreign Minister in Quito</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Patiño seemed very pissed off with the threats by the UK Foreign Office about storming the embassy if Ecuador did not comply with the order of handing over Assange.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The British Govt macho threat sounded very similar to when Bush and Blair warned the Taliban to hand over Osama bin Laden after 9-11. </span></div>
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BREAKING. William Hague is responsible as acting PM of issuing damaging threat to Ecuador while Cam-Clegg were on hols. shambolic. <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23Assange&src=hash" style="color: #0084b4; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="color: inherit; font-weight: normal; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Assange</b></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was a serious 'faux pas' by William Hague his counterpart in the United Kingdom. I heard this last night in BBCNewsnight and I couldn't believe it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Late at night on Thursday August 16th it transpired that Hague is the acting Prime Minister, while both Cameron and Clegg were on holidays. A real shambles for the country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Could it be that after 10 years of bombing and war the British Government and the Foreign Office had forgotten everything about diplomacy and would use force as an every day first resort? The threat of storming the embassy was real enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The whole thing was pionting in the right direction for Julian Assange. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Did Al Fayed -another favourite of British Foreign Office- sent a hamper to Julian Assange? Harrods truck leaves Ecuador Embassy side cul-de-sac.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The First Casualty of War is Truth". In the case of Julian Assange, probably more than ever.</span><br />
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5 Anonymous protesters stand outside Ecuador Emb each with a sign "I'm Julian". <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23Assange&src=hash" style="color: #0084b4; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="color: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Assange</b></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Police outside Ecuador Embassy London not sure if should keep supporters of Assange or British Govt out of Embassy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Earlier police brutality outside Ecuador Embassy London makes even less sense now that asylum has been granted. <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23Assange&src=hash" style="color: #0084b4; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="color: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Assange</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Celebration at Ecuador Embassy for the amazing news. Shock waves around the world too.</span><br />
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No question of "storming an embassy" or "attacking diplomats". There is a question of making sure that building is no longer an embassy.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Expel Ecuadorean Ambassador, break off relations, enter former embassy, arrest fugitive, extradite."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">13:42. Impromptu demo on the street outside Ecuador Embassy by Ecuadorean nationals and some sympathisers is celebrating the granting of asylum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ecuador Embassy London. UK police unsure now who the culprit is: British Govt, Ecuador, Correa, Assange, Cameron, Hague, Boris?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mood outside Ecuador Embassy London is tense but satisfied of outcome. Police perplexed doesnt know what to do. <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23Assange&src=hash" style="color: #0084b4; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="color: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Assange</b></a><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23Asylum&src=hash" style="color: #0084b4; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">#</s><b style="color: inherit; font-weight: normal; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Asylum</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Huge miscalculation by British Govt on Assange. Olympic good mood might be wiped out around the world in one day. Especially in LatinAmerica</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">British Govt bully boy tactics has backfired on Assange asylum. What step next: storm Embassy with SAS?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Atfer widespread torture, renditions & invasions why should world still have confidence in UK, Sweden, Poland, US justice system</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Too often Britain presents itself as only good in the world and often it isn't the case" Vaughan Smith <a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/frontlineclub" style="color: #0084b4; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">@</s><b style="color: inherit; font-weight: normal;">frontlineclub</b></a> z#Assange</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We should get used to the idea that there are dissidents & one of them has been given political asylum" Vaughan Smith <a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/frontlineclub" style="color: #0084b4; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">@</s><b style="color: inherit; font-weight: normal;">frontlineclub</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Assange has the right as an individual to seek political asylum. We all have that right if we feel persecuted" Vaughan Smith<a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/frontlineclub" style="color: #0084b4; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">@</s><b style="color: inherit; font-weight: normal; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">frontlineclub</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Assange believes his life & liberty is being threatened. I don't know but he believes that" Vaughan Smith <a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/frontlineclub" style="color: #0084b4; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">@</s><b style="color: inherit; font-weight: normal;">frontlineclub</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">William Hague, the British Foreign Minister, disappeared from the public eye for several days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He was singled out as the principal architect of the British diplomacy disastrous position.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ecuador president, Rafael Correa, and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ricardo Pati</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ño, his foreign minister, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">came out from the stand-off with their worldwide reputations enhanced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the battle is on-going.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is an analysis of a British Royal Family poster displayed during the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, on the banks of the river Thames, London.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The British Royal Family poster was erected in early May 2012 and remained there until</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> after the London 2012 Olympics, which were held during August. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Similar posters are also used by the North Korean Kim Sung Dynasty since the 1950s, to portray the larger-than-life charisma of their members.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"A cult of personality is similar to a hero worship except that it is established by mass media and propaganda." Max Weber.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Each head in the poster is approximately 6 meters high. A similar size of head is displayed in North Korean 'Great Leader' Kim il-Sung and 'Dear Leader' Kim Jong-il posters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The purpose is to produce an impression that the leaders are bigger than other human beings, with a 'larger-than-life' personality to boot, capable of great heroic deeds in all fields of human endevour. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A notion of unattainable position and power is transmitted to the rest of the population, who are unlikely to ever meet the leaders in person.</span><br />
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This is the case of British tourists and journalists visiting North Korea. They are shocked at the adulation and cult of personality shown by public officials to the Sung Family but don't to see that the techniques being applied in their own country are also part of a cult of personality propaganda, like the giant poster of the British Royal Family described here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Only one of the decorated persons in the British royal family group photograph actually saw active service. All the others are only pretending to be military leaders, a remnant of 'hero worship'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Charismatic authority grows out of the personal charm or the strength of an individual personality. Followers obey the charismatic leader because they believe in him. Fidel Castro is a classic example of this authority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. Traditional Authority </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(patriarchs, patrimonial, feudal).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monarchy falls largely into this category. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The legitimacy of the authority comes from tradition or custom described as "the authority of the eternal yesterday". Inequalities are created and preserved by traditional authority. Should this authority not be challenged, the dominant </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">group will stay in power for decades or even centuries. In the past, traditional power blocked the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">development</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of rational-legal authority. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Known as legal-rational authority where an individual exerts power by virtue of the legal office that they hold, such as a Prime Minister or President.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Philosopher Max Weber did not live through the late XX century mass media of film and TV so he missed out on what it could possibly be a fourth type of cult of personality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This new type could refer to the authority granted purely by the repetition of a of a deed as multiplied by mass media. Sportsmen, actors and musicians could enter a position of authority via way of being accepted by the majority of the population of the world, continent or country. Such would be the case of Gangnam Style, David Beckham, David Bowie, Ronald Reagan, George Clooney, Rolling Stones, Angelina Jolie, Pele, John Lennon, Usain Bolt and many others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The British Royal Family poster was erected to be part of a 'Water Parade' involving 1,000 boats on the river Thames. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The British cult of personality also included a concert for 30,000 'subjects-worshipers' outside Buckingham Palace and numerous public appearances and state lunches and dinners. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Events during the four days were widely covered by the British mass media, mainly in the form </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">of 24-hour coverage by the state television channel BBC. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In North Korea mass media is controlled by the State, which follows cult of personality activities by the leaders, which are all members of the Kim family dynasty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These pictures of shop windows were taken in Venice, Italy during March 12 to 17 2012 shortly after the Venice Carnival month of February.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A year ago, they were almost unknown anywhere in the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anonymous masks have been seen as part of the Occupy Movement in New York, Oakland, London, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Liverpool, Leeds, Melbourne, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro and many other locations.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is the sinister development that appalled many of the honest Londoners who were marching on Wednesday November 30th through the streets of Central London.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For the first time ever I saw disbelief in their faces. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They were being kept out of their own city by what had all the hallmarks of a Berlin Wall.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div>arboliotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11811360930625670719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806467748932305106.post-7470548993747754932011-11-18T04:52:00.000-08:002012-01-07T09:42:00.847-08:00OCCUPY LOS ANGELES IN PICTURES<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pictures taken on November 6, 2011 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with a BlackBerry 9780. All pictures by Arbolioto Blog, please credit.</span><br />
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</div>arboliotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11811360930625670719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806467748932305106.post-83076367596083594272011-11-18T04:50:00.001-08:002013-03-13T05:25:51.890-07:00AMERICA: THE DREAM IS RIGOR MORTIS<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I won't use many words or statistics. Both have been used before and they don't even begin to describe was is really happening in Venice Beach, California.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In America we have an image. An image embedded or 'incepted' by decades of Hollywood films and the media. It's part of 'The American Dream' pumped out by a factory of dreams.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We don't see the real people any more. We see characters.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But this time I went out in search of the real people. And I did see them. Like I have never seen them before.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I began to think, is America haunted by what it has become and the way it got here? Or is it all about fiction, sitcoms and canned laughter?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">America is haunted all right. The ghosts are here. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found the dream in rigor mortis soon to become a nightmare. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is already a nightmare in some parts of the City of Angels. The angels have given way to ghouls, demons and ghosts.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a graffiti mural on Venice Beach. During the day, you can't see it. It comes alive at night and stays alive until the first lights of the morning.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I saw this graffiti the day I was leaving. It was one of my last photos.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had spent a week already in the city where these demons live by night. Once I saw them, it all came together. Every piece of the puzzle fitted perfectly.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I had seen every day in street corners suddenly had a meaning. I had discovered the meaning of what I had seen.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Venice Beach is world-famous. Shakira shot her latest video there. It's supposed to be the part of Los Angeles where everybody can play a role. The role of the super-cool.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it ain't super-cool any more. Reality caught up with it in a big way.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is my first shot as I arrived in Los Angeles. If this is not an omen, then what is it?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unsurprisingly, a group of young filmmakers were shooting the scene of a film. A grotesque figure half scarecrow, half boogieman stood still in the middle of the beach.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A man approached the figure and shot it with a flare. The figure caught fire and the fire consumed it entirely The whole scene became a vision of what was to come. I didn't know it at the time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will come to know it by the time the week was over.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next morning.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The visions started appearing. One after the other. Wherever I looked, there they were. They were not actors. They were living their own drama. For real.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I came across Karen and her trolley. She looked at me scared. I approached her. I wanted to know who she was.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were alone in the street. In Los Angeles, that was unusual. Those who walk are strangers and must have evil in the mind.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She asked me to move on. I was curious. Her clothes did not match the wreckage I saw in her face.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Move along" she said.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I asked her if she was happy in America. She said she was and followed with "can you spare a couple of dollars?". I said I could and gave here two.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I asked her for a picture. She obliged. Her expression didn't change at all. Here eyes were lost somewhere else. As I asked her another question she said again "Move along, please". I did what she said.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple of meters away I saw a second person with a trolley. The ghetto-blaster looked bizarre within the scene. There was no music.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought: "The American Dream is well and truly over for this man too".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Was he dead? Alive? Nobody gave a shit. He seemed asleep. I didn't check but took the picture and moved along.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I looked up North Venice Boulevard. It was deserted. Karen and I were the only ones there. Who were alive, at least.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A car passes by and the passenger looks at me in horror. What was he looking at? What did he see?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this stage I began to think if I was the protagonist in my own scary movie. Was I alive or was I just the scarecrow I had seen the day before? Nobody seemed to give a shit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Had I already seen the worst of America? Had I come with tainted glasses? Was I imagining things?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had been to America many times before. I had never felt like this. Something was going on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pictures in this blog are almost chronological. This is how it happened. America was unfolding its deepest secrets to me. Why? Would I live to tell the tale? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How much more I had to take in to prove that what I was seeing was the truth of what I came here to find.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">America was telling me something. Something I had to tell the world about. Did I want to?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was compelled to keep on walking and watching.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some familiar icons on Victoria Avenue. The tall palm trees reaching for the sky launched a million failed dreams.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An even more familiar icon. The M for Murder or McDonalds. This picture doesn't do it justice. The yellow and the red were jaded, almost pale in reality. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This picture is not reality. It's the trick of a trade. A</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> trade that has learnt to lie so well that all colors are always bright and all emotions always fake. Because that's how we want to see them. Bright and vibrant and fakish. Not too real.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In America, everything exists in your imagination. And if that is not enough they will give you Hollywood and Disneyland and more Hollywood and Halloween. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until you believe everything they tell you. Everything. Until you do everything they tell you to do. Everything.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I came across this sign on Lincoln Boulevard. "We The People" struck my mind. This line still resonates. It's the first line in the Constitution of the United States of America.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it was bizarre to see it lost in a sea of accusations, prizes, costs, numbers, dollars. Is this what it all has become?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I came across this image the next day while surfing the Internet trying to find where Occupy Los Angeles was camping. It's the only picture in this blog that I did not take with my BlackBerry 9780. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Using the mobile phone camera has an advantage. You don't look like a professional. People don't perform for you every time you raise it to take a picture. I'm just another extra.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is an unreal sight. The president of the United States behind an Anonymous mask. What does it mean?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is based on the famous picture before Barack Obama won the election. But that poster said "Hope" or "Yes We Can". Now it said "Occupy". Something in America is going seriously wrong.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I asked a few people. Where is OccupyLA? Nobody knew. I met Dolly instead.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dolly: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I've seen better days".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I liked Dolly. I asked her if I could take her picture for a dollar. She said yes. I'm not sure what to call Dolly. Some would call her a drifter. I say she was a thinker. Later on she would tell me she was planning to go "up north". I didn't ask her where exactly. I knew what she meant.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is when reality meets fake and then comes back to be reality. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a contagion now.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am trying to cut out the images that Hollywood has incepted in my mind. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I can't do that, everything will be fake. I want to look at reality without the Hollywood credits "Directed by". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In her case, I 'm going to give in. Dolly reminded me of a film I saw recently. It's called "Into the Wild". I will say no more about that film other than it's based on reality.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How can you live reality without reverting to celluloid images which are better looking and more long-lasting than memories? And where nobody really every dies.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is America. Celluloid can be tampered with and then burnt into your mind forever. And it's all fake. Even if it's based on a truth.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I saw Dolly every other night but I never took another picture of her. I did take a picture of her two friends.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was sitting on the same pavement as Dolly, a few meters away. He was making strange gestures as if talking to a ghost.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I asked Sven for a picture. He obliged. For a moment he stood still. Was he an actor? Had I given him the break he always wanted? Sven was pleased I took a moment with him.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dolly, and her friends are only an avant premiere of what I would see in Los Angeles. In a few days I would see things that would shock me out of my socks.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I saw Dolly a number of nights. Unfortunately, when I left, I didn't say goodbye.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another vision from hell. A crow cohabiting with a seagull on the fishing pier of Venice Beach. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought it was a parable for America: when people take on other skins and pretend to be someone else. I wrote a tweet at the time "Crows are pretending to be seagulls".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The crow flew away when I discovered the hoax.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other side of America, the 1%. This is when people dreamt the dream and won. Countless others didn't, as we shall see, about the 99%.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I expected to be arrested any minute after taking these pictures. Look at this sign. "Armed Response". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought: "They will shoot me first and ask questions later". One more statistic.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The US media. A quick review shows the 'misunderstanding' of the new Occupy movement is complete. Politicians and the media expect people to go home quickly after a protest march so they can quickly resume the normal service of bombing and bailing out.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the Occupy Movement is changing all that. The permanent camping of a good number of people somehow gets under the skin of everybody with power to lose. Social and political issues cannot be brushed under the carpet any longer. They are worried now.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The public supports their cause but not actively. The risk has to be taken by the activists.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The media doesn't talk about the 99% much. There's not one single mention of the banking protests all over the US in the LA Times today. They publish conflicts abroad and when it comes to local issues, Dr Murray, the killer of Michael Jackson, takes center stage.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember tweeting: "Is Barack Obama the Dr Murray of Americans? <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">"</span>Here inject some cash so you can dream some more<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">"</span>. While we kill some more".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 99% doesn't pay much of the media's bills. Inside, it's all adverts are paying big money in a pre-Christmas drive for sales.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inside, another vicious attack on the campers. The Murdoch press is 99% behind the 1%. And they remind you every day about it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Preferred adjectives: "depravity", "madness", "violence", "chaos". All in the first couple of paragraphs just in case you get bored early. Notice the message to Bloomberg under "Enough".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I picked up a Vanity Fair. Good article and even better cartoon about the vicious Murdoch entourage. But these articles have been published for 20 years and nobody gives a damn anymore. Murdoch in the US is more powerful today than 20 years ago.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"This is why the Occupy movement is so important" I tweeted. I don't think anymore. It gets me nowhere.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excuse me. I didn't come to America to review the papers. I came to America to find its mouth and its arsehole. The two most important non-reproductive holes in the body that tells you a lot about it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where the vomit and excrement are secreted. They will be the true measure of what America is today, what it has become. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rest is bullshit for media consumption and Hollywood scripts.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd love to make this article long and winding because the elements are here. But I need to get to the point.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wrote in my Twitter: "I'm not interested in art. I'm interested in proof. Proof is art. Sometimes".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The American Dream is fast becoming an American Nightmare. Full of ghouls, demons and ghosts. Not the Halloween types. The ones that are real. The ones that eat your brain.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tweet: "If you take away people's capacity to think what do you get? Halloween". You get the ghouls, demons and ghosts. Because we can't see the future any more.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We thought America could destroy countries and the world financial system and nothing would happen to Americans. But it has.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It had effect. And the effect is devastating.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I drove towards OccupyLA I crossed South Broadway, the road that cuts Downtown LA in half. I looked around. Do these people exist in America? Who are they? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why do I never hear about them? Is this the 99%? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are they all extras in a blockbuster from hell?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to stay and soak up the atmosphere in Downtown. But with the sun dying fast I had only one hour before darkness to take some pictures of OccupyLA. I drove straight through it and never came back.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Probably I wanted to get the hell out of there. I felt the ghosts coming after me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Downtown LA is real enough. There is nothing fake here. They look like the 99% who were left behind in New Orleans as the levees broke.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You don't see these people in American TV series. Even down-and-outs in movies look like celebrities. Nick Nolte's 'Down and Out in Beverly Hills" comes to mind.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Ugly Betty' a relatively 'risque' TV series about a ugly Mexican girl had to be surrounded by the most glamorous and attractive male and female actors Hollywood can find for a lot more than the dollar I gave Dolly in Venice Beach two days ago. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Otherwise it won't sell.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The scale of the lie is becoming embarrassing. While trillions upon trillions are being spent in foreign wars and local banking, millions live in a desperate state. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">America is falling. Now more than ever.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to see OccupyLA. At least there they are fighting.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Downtown LA, they are dying. "Rulers want their people docile, quiet, subdued, slaves" I tweeted.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">City Hall, the local government building. OccupyLA is all around it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the Info Tent at OcuppyLA, the camp has 350 tents and 400 permanent residents with another 200 to 300 visiting every day.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Never before such spontaneous protest galvanised people all over America and the world.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Media, politicians and city authorities are unaware yet of the amount of collective energy required to set up a 400-strong camp in the middle of a city like Los Angeles, Oakland, London, New York or Seattle.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Occupy movement is as big a revolution as you can get in a democracy. It should be respected. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fact that it is not, says a lot about the people we are in power right now.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But in my view there is something bigger going on in this society. That we can't see it is part of the problem. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am going to uncover it towards the end of this blog. You shall see.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The American dream is inexorably moving towards a nightmare. All the signs are there.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Venice Beach was waiting to show them to me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Venice Beach is where the homeless of Los Angeles come to die. Beggars, addicts, down-and-outs and the homeless all descend to the Ocean Front Walk every day from all over the city. They hang around until they die.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The government doesn't pay for them. When they die, they are picked up and taken away. This is America, remember?" said Goldie. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Goldie works in a cafe right in front of where they all gather. She should know.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were sitting at the terrace of her cafe. A friend of mine couldn't finish his hamburger. A down-and-out came and asked if he could have it. He did.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I told Goldie the story. She asked me who it had been with some anger. I told her I couldn't remember. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I could see the man munching the hamburger in the distance. I am not publishing the pictures to protect the guilty.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember tweeting "The measure of US corruption is that despite this society teetering at the abyss, the Pentagon continues with its gargantuan spending". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not to mention the trillions given to Wall Street.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But look carefully. It's not tourists feeding the pigeons. It's the homeless of America waiting to be fed. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dream is over, the nightmare has begun. There are hundreds of them on Venice Beach. Thousands on Venice itself. Millions in America.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The stench of the lie is making me feel sick.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dan represents a group of churches that collect food from local restaurants and brings them to the poor in Venice Beach. I spoke to him. I told him to get his work on Twitter.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The pyramidal structure of media has been broken with Twitter" I tweeted earlier. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I told Dan "You don't need the LA Times to send a journo here to check what is going on. You can tell it to the world yourself." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Stay in touch", I asked him.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I turned around from this vision of hell-on-earth and it hit me. The ghouls, demons and cadavers that America has created suddenly surrounded me. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were being called into to action. Night-time is when they live. Nightmares is what they do. Venice Beach is where they pounce.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was early in the morning. They were still around. You won't see them during the day and I will tell you why.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rulers created them and now they were free to haunt the people of America. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tears of blood are streaming down.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">America! Wake up! There is still time! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Here, take this!". Graphic illustration of how a bullet pierces a skull. Notice the dollar sign in the eye. Touching.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Five thousands Americans died in the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of Arabs killed. Tens of thousands maimed and damaged forever. Ten years of war and counting. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ghosts are having a great time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is now the Empire of Dementia. Evil rules with a smile and a commercial break. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many Americans also die on Venice Beach every day.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tweet: "One can of laughter free for every two cans of Coke". America is depressed and requires new forms of marketing to keep the dream alive.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All in the front page</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, from a supposedly liberal newspaper.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the end. It must be.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THE END.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can read my Los Angeles tweets on http://www.twitter.com/arbolioto Twitter address. Go to Favourites section and check tweets between Nov 2-12. They will also be posted in my blog soon.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, a photo essay of OccupyLA camp is available at <a href="http://arbolioto.blogspot.com/2011/11/occupy-los-angeles-in-pictures.html">OccupyLA in Pictures</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Saturday October 15 2011 </span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/arbolioto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Arbolioto Twitter</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and </span><a href="http://www.arbolioto.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Arbolioto Blog</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> in association with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/newsreeldemocracy"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Newsreel Democracy</span></a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">joined forces to produce a team photographers, videographers and observers that took up strategic positions in and around the London Stock Exchange to report on the occupation attempt by a number of London pressure groups.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These events led to Occupy London Stock Exchange camp which remained in place for four months. This is how that historic day developed.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On that day our aim was not only to faithfully cover the proceedings but also, if possible, to have a good time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are not against the police. We are against some of their tactics to deal with legitimate protests.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When you read the word 'police' please remember it's the UK Government and the London Stock Exchange we are referring to. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">London Stock Exchange occupation was organised by a number of activist groups as a peaceful protest. It started in the morning of Saturday, October 15 2011.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The initial aim was to occupy Paternoster Square, which is where the London Stock Exchange is located.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Earlier that day, Twitters had reported that owners of Paternoster Square had put up signs warning that the square was private and that nobody would be allowed into it without a security pass. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This photo is by Twitter @KeirSimmonsITV which he tweeted at around 10am Saturday. The photo received 4,105 views within a couple of hours which gives an idea of the interest this occupation was getting among the London public and the world.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12:43. Police strengthens cordon preventing entrance to Paternoster Square, target of the Occupation of London Stock Exchange activists - #occupyLSX on Twitter.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Contact with local owners of private land is a tactic usually used by police against protesters. They count with the support of property owners to justify their presence in the area. Sometimes they even pressurise owners to allow the police to evict protesters. This will backfire on this occasion as we shall see.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this blog we will endevour to be as objective as possible (bar a few digs). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hope it will be forensically tested by readers to draw their own conclusions. Timeline is all true as each digital picture carries date and time information.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12:45. A protester disguised as City Financier carrying a regular Stock Exchange security pass (stash of dollars in briefcase) tries to enter Paternoster Square. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Police quickly concludes that he's not in the same league as your regular City fraudster (not carrying big enough stash of dollars). Some police smile.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12:50. Police surveillance unit is already present at the scene occupying high ground. Later, the high ground will be occupied by protesters outside St Paul's.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The police video unit has the task of filming protesters for future prosecutions. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are a constant presence in every demonstration these days. Police is pre-empting that all marches are intent on trouble-making. This leads to attitudes and prejudices that affect relationship with the crowd from the start.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12:58. All sorts of 'celebrities' appear at the entrance of Paternoster Square trying to get closer to the 'London Stock Exchange of Lies'. Here's an Australian Aborigine freedom fighter trying his best to convince police to let him in. He failed. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Earlier, our bloggers think they saw an Ashton Kutcher lookalike being interviewed by Fox News. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These stunts were some of the many salvos OccupyLSX activists had prepared for the day. It emphasizes the good humour and wide appeal of the demonstration. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was totally lost on police commanders. Things were going to get nasty. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the background, a Sightseeing Tour of London bus is caught up in the police blockade. The protesters were now a tourist attraction that visitors to the city had not bargained for.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13:03. Police vans arrive at the scene. Three in this picture but in a few minutes they will increase to 50 police vans all carrying around 6 to 10 policemen and women each. A crazy overreaction.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In total between 300 to 500 police in a space of minutes. There was no reason for this. It included experts in street clashes like the Territorial Support Group with riot-helmets and heavy-duty batons. Unnecessary.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Following the misstep of closing down Paternoster Square with no alternative plan, Met Police commanders started compounding their mistakes at every decision-making junction.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In our view, there was an initial attempt to dislodge protesters from St Paul's Cathedral steps and courtyard that lead to some outrageous maneuvers in total disregard of the Cathedral itself -an icon of cultural and religious heritage in the country- let alone the safety of a total peak of approximately 4,000 people.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The protesters didn't want to be there. They were forced to occupy it by police closing Paternoster Square. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, as it happens, it turned out to be a better place to protest. They took over the steps which allowed them a sweeping view of the area. They were on the high ground. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A strategically vantage point which they are still holding today.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you look carefully (above picture) there's a pigeon in mid flight to the right of the picture. For a moment we thought it was part of a stunt organised by activists to bombard the London Stock Exchange with biological warfare. But it flew away.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At about this time police begin their pressure on protesters. A police kettle is in progress right now. Its ultimate aim is to dislodge protesters and arrest them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13:09. Now about 3,500 people of the Occupy London Stock Exchange demonstration gather in the main church courtyard unaware there's a kettle procedure in operation. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many restaurants and shops still open in the area. Marks & Spencer and Starbucks, for example.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The aims of the police unit is to dislodge. From our vantage point we could see that encroaching on so many demonstrators was a bad idea. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With so many people of various political & social denominations it is obvious that some were going to take offence at the police (read Government and Stock Exchange, don't forget) openly encroaching on their civil liberties and right to protest.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For many, the occupation was a peaceful demonstration. They were intent on making a peaceful point: the theft of billions of pounds, euros and dollars by financiers and bankers in and around the London Stock Exchange and thus enslaving millions in the wider economy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13:10. The crowd is about to reach its peak of 4,000. This is because many were round the corner trying to get into Paternoster Square, north side of St Paul's Cathedral.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13:13. Inexplicably, police press-on. Did they know how many people they were dealing with? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13:16. Police cordon reaches crowd and starts pushing. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"That's it. You got me. I tried my best to dislodge and discourage you but you've won!"</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead, they decided to press-on. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is more to come.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13:21. Police is right up the noses of the peaceful protesters. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A spark could blow the whole thing into a mass enchilada, a mayhem of batons, crushed noses, pushing and shoving. The usual.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many started wondering here: is this what the police is intending? Cause such mayhem that it will scatter, dislodge, arrest and terminate the protest? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this stage, it's obvious Met Police Territorial Support Group soldiers have taken over the procedures from Bobbies-on-the-Beat. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is now a full-on eviction operation hiding behind a fig leaf.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the large crowd staying put. There is no violence. Just astonishment towards the way events are unfolding. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People keeps their nerve. Police press-on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13:23. More Met Police Territorial Support Group soldiers take up positions around the stationery demonstration. What's the plan officer? Do you really want to cause a catastrophe?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Riot helmets, batons, boots, hand-cuffs and who knows what else is at the ready. The operation is in full swing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"But officer, there's women and children inside the crowd". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13:23. A detachment of Met Police Territorial Support Group dashes up the stairs of St Paul's Cathedral intending to take control of the high ground.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">St Paul's Cathedral! Is this really happening? They would stop at nothing? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Just press-on!" is the order from officers behind.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this stage a man in his 50s climbs up on one of the side walls at the top of the stairs and shouts at police, which at this stage was climbing up the stairs: "I am practicing my religion!" and repeats louder moments later with more anger.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The man is bundled by several police officers for no apparent reason. The situation is bizarre.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Territorial Support Group soldiers mill around in the background trying to make sense of it all.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They look perplexed about who exactly is issuing these mad orders. It's an impossible operation.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, behind them, tourists tuck into pizzas with the added entertainment of a police operation in progress.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey guys in blue! This is St Paul's Cathedral. Show some respect! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13:24. London Met Police Territorial Support Group has achieved the high ground. But what for? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Top left of the picture, the door of the Cathedral is still open and some foreigners leave the iconic tourist destination not understanding what on earth is going on. A bit like the Territorials themselves.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the right, two children are starting to get worried. What does this all mean? Behind them there is a three meter drop. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's all starting to look like a scene for a forthcoming sequel of "Apocalypto". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"OK, chief. We got the high ground. Now what?" Await instructions.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13:35. All around the St Paul's Cathedral area, police reinforcements block all exits. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exit to the East? "Covered, chief".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exit to the South? "Covered, chief".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exit to the West, "Covered, chief"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exit to the North: "All covered, chief! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Now what?"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What: there are more than 3,500 people inside the kettle at this stage, not counting tourists, pedestrians, workers and worshippers. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If protesters were really intent on mischief, they would've stormed the Cathedral itself. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But something else is occupying protesters minds: the occupation of the London Stock Exchange and the message to the world: "Things are changing in Britain".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13:35. Meanwhile, at the opposite end of St Paul's Kettle, things are not going to plan...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Errr... chief. A group of protesters have broken through and are now dancing in the streets".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chief's response: "~@!! 8>#!! &+€!!!" (unprintable). Translation: "You're fired!"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13:40. Obviously the protesters were not causing too much trouble. This police officer displaying a big yawn probably would prefer to be at home watching the Liverpool-ManU match, being placed on this day.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We found many officers who disagreed with the orders "from above". But they had to press-on. A major review is required and the government will have to listen to protesters to avoid escalations.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14:17. View from the Starbucks cafe, where many journos had take refuge during the worst of the kettling. A girl presses here placard "We are the 99%" against the window. In the evening the same window would be the backdrop of a serious hand to hand combat of 5 or 6 police against lone protester - video further down.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14:28. The arrival of Julian Assange was electric. The entire demonstration got shoulder to shoulder against the steps of St Paul's. People hushed up and sat. In one instant, the whole atmosphere changed</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some people will say the movement is not about one man and we agree. But humanity being humanity, at that very moment the sudden appearance of a 'leader' seemed to galvanise the hope of the people. We do not think Assange himself wants that 'accolade'.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Julian Assange is under the 'T' of the banner. He was happy to be there and spoke a few words.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14:30-17:30. It's odd to see some sections of the protest having fun while at the other end some people are put under pressure by police.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Officers arrest a suspect in a 'Snatch & Grab' style operation. From now on the police will be execute guerrilla-style actions against the crowd with sporadic pressure and arrests. They can turn in a six pence against you. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They have been ridiculed a few hours earlier so they were going to take no chances second time around.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Police says "we know some activists are inside the crowd". But there are 3,000 there and they should not attack the crowd just because they want to snatch a couple they have identified as 'trouble-makers'.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">17:35. Protesters respond to police actions with the best way they can: humour. A Jesus Christ impersonator arrives with a large placard. "I threw money lenders out for a reason". Later, divine intervention would save the camp for the protesters.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite the violence and the intimidation "The 300" heroes stay</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> put at the foot of St Paul's. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a big effort after so much intimidation and for so long. Many have never been in a protest before. But this time they thought they had to.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Divine intervention. The word in the camp was that at some stage the bosses of St Paul's Cathedral had enough with the police and asked them to leave.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was corroborated by the Guardian newspaper on Monday 17th. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Rev Dr Giles Fraser thanked police for their "protection" and told them the church will allow the protesters to stay.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So the police left in big numbers, something that they should have done much earlier. Tempers among the crowd calmed down after this.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We visited the camp on Sunday 16th. It was still there. They had survived the night.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is an independent summary of the same events as above published on Monday October 17, 2011 by The Guardian. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/16/occupy-london-protest-st-pauls?newsfeed=true">Move along please, canon tells police</a>. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We thought it was important to publish our findings early so people can judge the behaviour of police in these kind of situations especially since it's likely that more protests will take place in the coming months. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has taken a lot of work and some corrections had to be made after posting. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The aims of the police during the St Paul's Kettle was to bring as much discomfort as possible to the peaceful protesters so as to scatter them and evict them, by use of force, if necessary.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Misconceptions about protests and protesters among the police are huge. Our reporters spoke to some of them and we believe they are in urgent need of some understanding or clarification about modern protesting. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Police is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> obsessively against activists. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They should not preempt arrests only because they think there are trouble-makers among the crowd. If all activists and dissenters were put in prison democracy would die quickly.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is customary for police to invoke the all encompassing "breach of the peace". But many times, as in this case, the "breach" came from the police.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their mission was clear. Control, disrupt, scatter, evict and if required, arrest protesters.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The so called 'kettle' (corralling under pressure) is their weapon of choice when it should be used only in extreme circumstances for a short period of time - if at all used. All too often kettling maneuvers are being prepared for execution during a protest.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kettle is designed to pressure on legitimate demonstrators. This is not democratic or legal. But illegality is difficult to prove when you are in the street being a victim of abuse of power.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The situation never developed into a full violent repression operation as we have seen in some parts of Europe and the United States. We acknowledge that this was a credit to the UK police on this occasion. But with police under pressure from government to 'produce results' things might change.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to travel to the French capital to see for myself what was going on in France. Would it be rife with rumour and innuendo as during the heady days of La Grande Revolution?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having missed a London-Paris cheap return ticket by Eurostar I decided to go on my motorcycle, the trusty British-made Triumph Speed Triple 900cc. The bonus was that I would travel down the Parisian hinterland and environs for a better view of French reality beyond the scant images offered by British and American networks.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I packed my all-round BlackBerry 9780 with photo, GPS, email, text, Twitter and BBM facilities. The new technology allows any citizen (notice the term 'citizen') with a free mind to be an instant correspondent. I also packed my iPad for more in-depth analysis and looks.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Thursday morning I started making the bookings. £26 for a B&B (Longfield Guest House) overnight </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in Dover </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for an early 7:20am ferry crossing on Friday. With this move I stole 2 hours of sleep. Worth every penny.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good-bye Cameron, hello Sarkozy. Is that a tear in my eye?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At about 9am I was on the outskirts of Calais heading south towards Paris. I was excited at being able to find the facts for myself: who is Sarkozy, what motivates him? Ambition? A Napoleonic complex? Sex?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I negotiated the medieval-sounding villages of Le Chemin de Nedon, Auchy-au-Bois, Cauchy-a-la-Tour towards Arras I realised I was in God-fearing, manure country.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The stench of the recently fertilised fields penetrating my expensive Shoei helmet were punctuated only by the large Christian crosses at the entrance of every village.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Approaching Arras and reading my latest tweets I expected a road-bock of sans-culottes looking for a new royalist head to chop off. They hate the English, royalists as ever. We are prime candidates of any self-serving sans-culotte wishing to ascend the new greasy pole of the French Republic. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Euros are a predatory kind. Years of empires, slavery, internecine wars and colonial exploitation point unmistakably in that direction. Yes. The Euros would bomb each other to oblivion, as the Second World War testifies. More about this later.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For me, the most pressing reason for being in Amiens was to find a restaurant and a rest room. It was now 2pm and I had only eaten a croissant at seven in the morning on the P&O Ferry. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the distance I saw what appeared to be a popular cafe with the grand name of Bar Brasserie Aux Sans Soucis. Tables and chairs were sprawled on the pavement with customers enjoying the local produce of beer and beef.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plat du Jour: Boeuf Bourguignon. I checked a few nearby tables and the locals were tucking into it with relish. Definitely the right thing to have in farming country. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My portable encyclopedia Wikipedia.org says about the Bourguignone: "one of the many peasant examples of dishes being refined into <i>haute cuisine</i>". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The same could been said about the sans-culottes because several hours into France and I hadn't seen a single one of them. Were they disguised as well-to-do farmers and gentile townspeople?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The passage of the desperate masses into petty middle classes has been the norm in recent centuries. Once a modicum of respectability is achieved, we all become great big consumers of everything that represents aspirations of something higher and better of who we think we are. In this case, <i>haute cuisine.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Munching away the delicious 'boeuf' I started elaborating my theories about Sarkozy.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What if Sarko, the ruthless Conqueror of Libya, was an impostor of the weakling President of France, Nicholas Sarkozy?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Could it be that Sarko and Sarkozy were two different men, both pulling the wool over the eyes of Cameron with the Libya campaign being just a clever gambit for a master plan involving something bigger, much bigger?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought I was on to something. I now had to get to Paris to prove it. I had coffee and left the Sans Soucis but not before saying good by to the pretty girl with the 'clivage'. Noblesse oblige like with any proper Crusader. I would've attempted more but I think the guy behind the till was her father.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wow. That will sure make the headlines worldwide. Things certainly were hotting up in Paris. But were my tweets coming from some kind of time-warp? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4pm. Ah Paris! Very inauspicious. The typical satellite tenements of any modern city gave me the welcome party. This was definitely Muslim country. Had it also been bombed by Sarko forces?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The black lines on the side wall are old chimney shoots from an earlier life. Santa Claus would find them difficult to negotiate them even today. The Three Kings would've opted for a knock on the door.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had heard that Parisians make sure that environ dwellers never venture into the heart of the capital city, least of all near their venerable Notre Dame de Paris. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It may be true because I didn't see a single foreign minorty beyond this point. In 1980 I remember eating loads of Merguez Frites at the junction of the Boulevards St Germain and St Michel. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Noticeable difference in the architectural lines, as you can see. This is the expensive rue Etienne Marcel, not too far away from the colonial enclave of Sebastopol, Boulevard de Sebastopol.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I texted some friends in London. "I'm having a coffee in a funky cafe called Le Cafe". They didn't believe me but here's the proof. On the foreground, my bike fully loaded.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wonder if we, the English, are living in a time warp somewhere in the XIX Century. Maybe the tweets I have been receiving from Paris were part of that too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Le Cafe, in my view, epitomises the essence of La Grande Revolution. Simple, practical, democratic, citoyen. In England we are supposed to be 'subjects' and 'consumers'. Neither have any rights. The citoyens, on the other hand, have rights by the bucket full. The right to chop off the heads of their useless elite if they perpetuate themselves in power, uselessly. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A 'citizen' is a person in control of its destiny. The term came to widespread use after the French Revolution, better known then as 'citoyen'. On the other hand, a 'subject' is somebody else's property. A 'consumer' is a person suffering from a severe case of material glutony.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Probably in another era the name of this cafe was Le Cafe King Louis XVI. We know what happened to Louis' head. So his name was chopped off the awning too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But what about La Revolution today? As it happens, revolutions are too successful for their own good They convert honest, care-free sans-culottes into petty, ambitious, desperate right-wing middle classes that bomb other countries. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah, the Parisians! Engaging in their favourite passtimes: love, politics and bombing. Alfresco dinner in Rue Sant Andre des Arts, the heart of the Latin Quarter, birthplace of revolutions. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These two in the foreground couldn't keep their hands off each other. The two men behind them seemed to be on the verge of fixing the problems of the world. "What do we do with Cameron", I overheard them saying. Suspicious.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A 'Salade Nicoise' was slapped together like in any London pub. The head of the chef should be chopped off forthwith for bringing France's cuisine into disrepute. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to warn the world that Sarko and Sarkozy may be two different persons. One, under the command of the French State, to wrestle the world from the Anglo-Saxon grip of the United States and England double whammy. Sarko could be the new Napoleon.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other hand we had Sarkozy, an embarrassment of the best traditions of the French Revolution. An 'arriviste', a lackey of the French banking aristocracy sold lock, stock and barrel to the highest bidder. What a predicament, to rid the French of this awful engender.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Iraq 2003, the French president Chirac played spanner-in-the-UN-wheel and derailed an untidy Western Alliance headed by Bush and Blair against Saddam. This is probably why now with Sarkozy in power things are changing. France is bombing Libyans, killing Afghanis and court martialling Jacques Chirac on embezzlement charges.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things have moved on since the times in which France believed in an independent nuclear deterrent. Now it's all about non existant 'markets' and 'branding'.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somewhere in the deep vaults of the French State a decision was taken to work for the downfall of the English Monarchy to appease the French Left and their accusations that the descendants of the sans-culottes have gone soft on royalists.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"All necessary means" have been contemplated, from conspiracies to demise Windsor princesses on French soil to chopping off the heads of visiting English aristos.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am no James Bond to stop this conspiracy but what a coup for my blog if could I uncover that Sarko is a French agent disguised as Nicholas Sarkozy to finish off the English monarchy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sounds crazy? It probably does but for that reason all the more plausible. There have been other examples on French soil involving dastardly plans More of this later.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to dig deeper into my hunch. I planned a 'chance meeting' with a Parisian student so I could ask her a few questions point-blank. It happened at the Caffe Lafayette, near the Gare du Norde, on rue La Fayette. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She had long brown hair and was wearing a pullover that accentuated her pretty figure of about 22 years of age. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The perfect example of a French student as we have seen in countless Luc Besson, Francois Truffaut and Jean Luc Goddard movies like Betty Blue, Jules et Jim and Alphaville. Here name was Olivia, a beautiful French name but could also be a Spanish and even an English name.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Armed with my iPad to appear more professional I told her I was a journalist doing interviews in Paris for a newspaper. The questioning was staccato-style to catch her off guard and also because her English was as bad as my French.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At first she was suspicious perhaps thinking I was an English undercover agent intent on sabotaging La Revolution.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I assured her my intentions were not honourable. She liked that.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Extracts of my interview appeared on my Twitter page that day. It went somewhat like this.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"In 2007 I voted for him because I thought he had good ideas for France. But we need somebody else now"</b>,<b> </b>she said. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At first I had to extract her answers using a corkscrew. I pressed on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"What do you think of Sarko's Libya campaign?" </b>Her first comments on this subject were conventional, automatic even. They were the accepted wisdom churned out by media and the governments involved in the bombing. She mentioned something about Human Rights and democracy. The usual stuff you can't go wrong with. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I dug in a little deeper and her true feelings were more forthcoming about the bombing:<i> "</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Libya is a good opportunity for Sarkozy's reelection campaign". </i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olivia was now less guarded in her answers. I assured her total anonymity to ease here suspicions. People have become less honest in their first opinions because the media has been relentless in the prosecution of half-truths. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nobody wants to go against the 'Official Version' of events. So people have ready-made answers for social and political reasons. They don't want to get into big arguments or draw attention to themselves.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olivia reminded me about what happens even in a democracy when the government puts out a disinformation campaign about a foreign country. There have to be kernels of truth, of course. For example, that Gaddafi has been a ruthless dictator for 40 years and that the Libyan people are yearning for freedom.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the wider issues of self-determination of peoples and interference in foreign countries is brushed under the carpet once more. The important thing is to conquer markets that have money to buy Western products.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everybody knew that a war with Libya was not that important or necessary. But what the hell. We have the firepower and we need to sell more Renaults so let's beat the shit out of all Gaddafists.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I chatted to Olivia about the implications of the bombing and that ultimately speaking the French and the British are in the doldrums with heavily indebted economies and no expectations of trade with anybody.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oil rich countries open for trade will be good business for Chanel, Renaults, Moet & Chandon, Burberry and HP sauce. It will also be good busines for bankers. But French, British or American bankers? We shall have to see.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olivia agreed on the predicament of the Libyans.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"I think Libya should be allowed to to choose the economic and political system that suits them"</b>, she said.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only a couple of days before my trip to Paris, Sarkozy and Cameron were seen in Tripoli and Benghazi slapping their backs for "a job well done". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a Bush-style "Mission Accomplished".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olivia summed it up well: "<b>Sarkozy & Cameron went to Libya for personal showmanship only".</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would've taken a picture of pretty Olivia for this blog page. But I assured her total anonymity. People do not like to be truthful on delicate matters of State. Private and public employers look into the Internet, Twitter and Facebook to check who they are employing these days. A small blemish in the profile could mean somebody else gets the job.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olivia said good-bye as she had to catch a train to Lille, where her family lived. I stayed in the cafe for a few more minutes tweeting her responses.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also continued elaborating my theory about the ruthless Sarko, Conqueror of Libya, and Sarkozy, the ineffectual president of France.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Was he one and the same suffering from acute multiple personality disorder or just two different people? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One under the control of shadowy forces deep within the French State, the other one a facade for public consumption and back slapping.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I checked my map and found that I was only a few minutes away from the Elysee Palace. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The best way to see if Sarko and Sarkozy are the same man is to check if they are both in the same place, at the same time: the bedroom of the First Lady, ex model Carla Bruni.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That would be in the Palais de l'Elysee, the Number 10, Downing Street of the French presidency. Only round the corner from Caffe Lafayette, on the rue du Faubourg Saint Honore, 8e Arrodisment, the chic-est addresses in the French capital.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Approaching this corner of the Rue du Faubourg Saint Honore I came across these two Men in Bleu with funny hats. This surely meant I was close to the dormitory of Madame Bruni. The question was if Carla was there, would Sarko and Sarkozy be there too in what could be blockbusting 'menage a trois', the classic French case of duplicity?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The best way to gate-crash a party is by going straight in through the front door oozing sense of purpose and chutzpah, treating everybody like underlings.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was stopped on my tracks . "Sarkozy is not giving any more interviews today". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The guard told me that 6pm was closing time. It was about 6:05.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I missed my chance of getting the easy way in. I walked a bit further down the road to see if I could find a trap door into Carla Bruni's bedroom. In my favourite films of the period 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' and 'The Three Musketeers' a trap door always appeared handy for quick and easy access into the right bedroom.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My attention was drawn to these anti-demo barriers. Same as in London. Obviously the facade of Entente Cordiale goes beyond pummelling Gaddafi and includes also crowd control against our own sans-culottes, aka 'The Rabble' by the English elite.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was looking for a way in when I found two more Men in Bleu. They were talking to a couple of innocent tourists when I took this picture. The one on the right didn't like his picture taken and was brusque. But immediately I queried point blank in my best French:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Arbolioto: "C'est Sarko the meme homme as Le President Sarkozy?" </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Is Sarko the same man as Sarkozy?<b>)</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The officer hesitated and uttered some expletives among which I recognised <b>"merde" </b>(shit) before responding with a terse:</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Oui".</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I understood to be French for "Yes". I was perplexed about his hesitation. Did I catch him off guard?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was my conclusion that these two officers were well drilled in the disinformation game played by the French State against England. But I was one step ahead of them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sarko and Sarkozy are not the same man, I concluded. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the last known caricature of Nicholas Sarkozy before being replaced by the look-alike Sarko. Don't know who the other geezers are.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the day drawing to a close I was pretty happy with the results of my investigations so far. I decided to return to the safer Latin Quarter via Place de la Concorde, formerly known as he Place de la Revolution and where many a royal met their maker - minus a head.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I got to the Place de la Revolution (I prefer to use the old name) I was surrounded by a posse of French Gendarmes, known throughout the land as 'Les Mastiff'. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Was my cover blown? Why were they there?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Must remind everybody that Place de la Revolution was where the last French King Louis XVI got his head chopped off. So did other French royals, such as Marie Antoinette. I think the Gendarmes being there was significant and had something to do with my presence in the area enquiring about the dual Sarko-Sarkozy personality disorder or perhaps the French plot to execute by Guillotine Queen Elizabeth II and other member of the English Royal Family.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A chilly wind blew down my spine. I suddenly had Shakespearean visions of members of English monarchy being carted into the Place de la Revolution where a Guillotine would've been waiting for them, re-commissioned from la Conciergerie museum and put to good use one more time. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The English royals that betrayed the Thermidor would finally be dealt with. A bit like the forthcoming movie 'Barack Obama's Navy Seals Team 6 against Osama bin Laden - The Revenge'.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The plan that started in that fateful tunnel d'Alma in 1997 finally completed with the rest of the English Royal Family. Master stroke for La Republique Francaise? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes it's better not to know these things and let events take their course.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For foreign correspondents the world over a cab driver is the man with the finger on the pulse of the city. They are the first guys they meet at the airport and the last. They all provide good copy for the morning papers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Governments know this so they make sure cab drivers in sensitive areas are all informants on the State's payroll.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got luckier that most. I got a true Communist from the pre downfall of the Soviet Block era. He provided me with inside information about what was happening in France. At the beginning he was circumspect. I asked him to locate the demo the Gendarmes had spoken about to justify their presence in la Place de la Revolution. He told me there were small protests all the time in Paris which he called "mini revolutions".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"I used to be a Communist"</b>, he said. <b>"But it was utopia. It couldn't work. Then I became a Socialist. Now I'm a liberal."</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I asked him if he supported the current government of France. He responded <b>"I said I was a liberal. I didn't say I was an extremist ultra-liberal, which is what we got now. They will destroy the country".</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was dissolutioned with his ideals as a young man so like so many others he was now trying to embrace the only alternative: the banking aristocracy, the politicians sold off to capital, the invasion and bombing of foreign countries, etc.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I could see that that Danton was trying hard to accept the new reality but couldn't really stomach it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Communist or Socialist it doesn't matter. The French left was destroyed by the proliferation of currency as a mirage of growth and prosperity. After the demise of the Soviet Union it was every man for himself. Grab what you can. Elbow thy Neighbour.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bankers become the Aristocracy of the new enlarged European Union. Money was cheap. They had to prove that socialism didn't work. Surely, that must be true. Look at the loans, the mortgages, the Nina Ricci, the Rolexes. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We can all be rich! Socialism is dead.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I reminded cab driver Danton of the French Revolution. There was no socialism then and it still happened. <b>"Social justice is much bigger than ideologies. Names are not important" </b>he retorted.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I was walking back to the hotel I noticed this crepe shop next to the St Germain underground station. It was the same shack I had seen twenty years before. But it's gone mental now</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. He has developed his business into a minimarket of soft drinks, ice-cream and bananas. I stuck to the old recipe.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time for a croissant and a morning coffee in Les Deux Magots. Next to my table a sparrow helps itself to some breadcrumbs. This place is now far away from the plotting of revolutions of yesteryear. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I arrived in Paris on Friday evening exhausted after about 8 hours of riding. I dumped my bike in the first slot I found without asking any questions. Three days later, it was still in the same place, nobody had taken any notice of it, least of all any parting ticket psycho. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Down Sebastopol I couldn't ignore this pretty girl looking at me from a poster. I don't think she was worried about anonymity so took her picture.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wondered how on earth the French went from the revolution of the sans-culottes to being the Mecca for the most beautiful fashion models in the world. The French have a lot to answer for.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is this a poster for a remake of the 1958 movie 'Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" starring Giselle Bunchden? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A last look at Giselle to remind me of the dream. She's big so it can be seen by the viaducts above me. Is she giving me a 'come on' look?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Full speed ahead down the E-15 at a steady 120 kms an hour. But there was one more place I wanted to check before boarding the P&O ferry at 8:30pm</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Near the town of Saint Omer I had seen posters advertising the museum of La Coupole. It's where the Nazis built a futuristic bunker under a hill to assemble and fire V2 rockets against the world. It was designed to store 100 rockets and fire 35 every day.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The technology appears crude by today standards but the design and the idea is exactly what is still in use today in the United States, Russia and China. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looking back at the three days in Paris, this man kept cropping up</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Inspector Clouseau style in the most unlikely disguises. Was it Sarko in disguise following me or just a sans-culotte protecting me like a guardian angel? I hope the latter.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been back in London for a week now and I thought I saw him loitering with intent outside Buckingham Palace and Number 10, Downing Street playing the same instrument.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Credits and refrences will be posted here over the weekend. I'm exhausted of writing this blog.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Journalists accepted to be embedded in Phantasmagoria platoons for better face-to-face imagery as enemy heads exploded. But who is the enemy? Anything that moves and looks suspicious. Take your pick. You have the firepower.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Surely, the United States of America is the pinnacle of civilised evolution, we are told. Advances in medicine, filmmaking and democracy testify to that. Academy Awards continue to be churned out as thousands are being slaughtered. We must be right.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inhumanity comparable only to the one shown by bin Laden himself on September 11 2001. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's as if the terrorist raised the bar ten year ago and Americans still today think they ought to jump it too. So we were all terrorists now.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only now, with the death of bin Laden assured, the Washington Post feels sufficiently liberated to say that Bush's battle cries may have been slightly flawed after all (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-osama-bin-laden/2011/05/05/AFkG1rAG_story.html">Five myths about Osama bin Laden</a>). How elegantly put. No blood, no pieces of liver flying in the air, no bombs.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is curious how the article starts with Michael Moore, the American filmmaker and thorn in the thigh of the Bush Administration during the entire decade. With films like Fahrenheit 9/11 he was the only one with any guts to confront the United States White House propaganda machine.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Washington Post starts with Bush's fiercest critic because "he may have been flawed too". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This technique of mainstream media is well known. They start with a uncontroversial half told truth before telling us the controversial, palatable, double-sized untruth. All beautifully packaged so nobody gets too upset. It's a way of ensuring themselves against losing too many sales for never telling it like it is.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hundreds of thousands of Arabs are now dead despite having had nothing to do with bin Laden. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thousands of men, children, babies, women were all wiped out by a button in a computer game console developed for the next level of Phantasmagoria (info <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/sunshinepress#p/a/u/1/is9sxRfU-ik">Apache video attack</a>). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even the WikiLeaks video showing the indiscriminate obliteration of a group of people is relevant 'only' because of the death of two Reuters photographers and not because perhaps a few others in that group may have been also innocent.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The point is, Iraqi insurgents were fighting against an invading army that was killing their people. But that doesn't cut any ice. The war was approved at the highest level and it will be prosecuted to the bitter end. Victory is more important than justice.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"What is 'moral authority'? Where does it come from? How do you achieve it? Who bestows it upon you?" asked writer Harold Pinter. His answer was clear: "You don't have to bother. What you have is power. Bombs and power. And that is your moral authority".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nobel Prize in Literature Harold Pinter objected to the use of 'moral authority' by powerful nations and he made a video about it (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km1uqgTPUmo">Pinter on moral authority</a>). The occasion was the attack against Serbia by NATO forces in 1999. The US president was Bill Clinton and the British prime minister a young Tony Blair.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pinter would never have thought his words would become prophetic only a few years later with a new US president. This time the theater of war would be Iraq and Afghanistan, two wars he also vehemently opposed. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pinter died in 2008. He must be cursing from his grave that a new president and a new British prime minister in 2011 are using in Libya the same arguments he denounced in 1999, 2001 and 2003. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But he had a long history of destroying US arguments since Reagan's Iran-Contra affair that toppled the revolutionary Sandinista government in Nicaragua in 1986. He already had no illusions then.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Harold Pinter </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">revolutionised modern writing with plays like The Caretaker and films like The Go Between and The Servant. When he won the Nobel Prize he was not held in great esteem by the British media. Pinter's rhetoric was too strong and real for the academicians of Shakespeare. In England official intellectuals prefer the safety of the past.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Any Iraqi that took up arms against the Iraq Authority (the United States) was deemed an Al Qaeda terrorist, a Saddamist or an Islamist. In short, an enemy of America. An enemy of common sense, of justice, of morality. And as such "you will never walk on this earth again". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These days, superior firepower decrees superior morality, according to the American credo. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The pretence of having any morality at all has long disappeared from Washington DC. Guantanamo Bay saw to that.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other nations death doesn't exist anymore. Only ours matters so we can keep on killing. Reload. Engage. Again, again. Reload. Engage.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Until your finger is as stiff as a penis. War is sexy. Or we can make it look sexy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The stories of those killed in foreign lands are never told. Iraqi and Afghani media doesn't have the time, the money or the interest to tell the personal stories of hundreds of thousands killed in their conflicts. They are just too many of them to count and most of them lie in unmarked graves.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Occupied countries' media survives on handouts from US government organisations involved in the reconstruction of a society they themselves destroyed. As the media is controlled by the invader, the culture of secrecy crosses frontiers, permeates the subconscious.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Iraq and Afghanistan became the materialisation of the worst dreams of the prophetic film The Matrix. This film foresaw the blurring or reality and double-speak in America (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/">IMDb The Matrix</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_matrix">Wikipedia: The Matrix</a>) just as George Orwell did in 1984 in Britain. The lie perpetuated into endless levels of Phantasmagoria.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Soviet Union has been replaced by the United State of America as the focus of creative attention.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A New York Times article expresses some shame (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/world/middleeast/07photo.html?_r=2&hp">Six hard years later</a>) about the murder of a family at a checkpoint. Six hears later they traced the girl who survived the burst of firepower. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But, somehow, the murder of hundreds of thousands of other Iraqis and Afghanis is sanitised. It does not have the same 'ring' as the callous murder of 3,000 Americans by Osama bin Laden. Is that so?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yes it is so because we keep on killing and we will keep on finding good excuses to keep on killing some more. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">None of the reasons why we have been at war in two countries for the past ten years have been fulfilled. We still have every reason to kill as we have had for ten years. The death of Osama bin Laden does not matter anymore. In the new levels of Phantasmagoria, we have killed him many times before but he morphs into others and then comes back to threaten us, to taunt us, to ask as to shoot him down without mercy. Or so we believe it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But that is not all. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">New conflicts are being lined up such as Libya, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea. This is a war with no end and when these are done and dusted the military machine has to keep on killing and new victims will be found.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is because the real enemy is not out there, in the world. The real enemy is not abroad. It's well within US borders. It's called the American Citizen </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Americans themselves are the only ones capable of putting a stop to the death, the destruction and to the expenditure a permanent state of war is consuming in a gargantuan scale.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Current deficit is 14.5 trillion. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">US citizens will pay the deficit with their lives if it can be proven there is an outside threat (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Archive Example: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.vho.org/GB/Journals/JHR/9/3/Marchetti305-320.html">Propaganda & Disinformation</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For this reason the American Citizen has to be kept away from decision-making and all their wishes must be interpreted by a tiny minority of vested interests. This is why we have had ten years of war and counting. The country is on its knees but the wars have to be paid for.<br />
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(Second Part of this article is being updated with recent wars and drone tactics)</span>arboliotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11811360930625670719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806467748932305106.post-78894442477091558182011-05-01T02:28:00.000-07:002011-12-19T17:52:49.410-08:00CLERKENWELL GREEN: ASSEMBLY POINT OF ALL THINGS SOCIALIST - MAY DAY 2011<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Assembly point of all things socialist at Clarkenwell Green, opposite Marx Memorial Library, prior to march to Trafalgar Square for mass May Day 2011 rally.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The purpose of a flashmob is to highlight a person or organisation of influence that normally works in the shadows. This enhances their influence so they have to be exposed to the light of day and held accountable. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ARBOLIOTO BLOG got wind of the flashmob plan and sent an independent photographer to follow the action minute by minute as it unfolded. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We would like to pay tribute to the tireless campaigners and activists who work hard (in their spare time) - for what they believe in, for no financial reward. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is an ARBOLIOTO BLOG independent investigation and we are not in contact with members of the NHS Direct Action Flashmob. Click on the pictures to enlarge.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>TIMELINE: HOW IT ALL HAPPENED.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12:00. All is quiet on the West End front. People and tourists go about their business. The only suspect in the area is our</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Arbolioto photographer.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12:30. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The word in the street is that a flashmob contingent of the NHS Direct Action unit is planning to hit a 'high value target' in the Parliament Square area. Who could it be? A government minister? A Whitehall department? The Prime Minister himself?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flashmob is assembled and ready for action. All is clear. The element of surprise has not been lost. The GPS coordinates of the target will be revealed on a 'need to know' basis, just in case one of the members of the group falls into enemy hands and spills the beans. But, who is the enemy?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13:23. The Flashmob is on the move. They try to blend in with the surroundings of Parliament Square so as not to give any warning to the intended target.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13:50. At this time the flashmob stages a mock massacre to highlight what is going to happen to the NHS and its patients if the privatistation of UK Coalition Government goes ahead. Shouting and commotion as lots of blood pours from injuries. A crowd of worried onlookers surround the flashmobbers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Policy Exchange was hit today by NHS activists in a flashmob manoeuvre to expose them as the kind of people who research ideas to feed into right wing politicians, banks and government officials intent on finding excuses for extreme measures.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Essentially, they provide 'academic' cover for policies that normally would never see the light of day. Think tanks work in the shadows until there is some requirement for them to make a stage appearance. Washington DC is full of them with the most obscure names. Copying the US system, London is now more prone to create them and use them. It is always an issue who funds them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Think tanks come into their own when some big privatisation or big invasion has to take place. In such opportunities they appear with an array of numbers, academic references, obscure case studies that nobody bothers to check but that serve the purpose in hand. Then they return to the shadows.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Think tanks never analyse critically the hand that feeds them, like banks and big corporations. But they make sure they provide victims for them to feed on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By hitting the Policy Exchange the NHS Direct Action Flashmob is drawing attention to a very real danger.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>POLICY EXCHANGE - WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT THEM</b>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their website has numerous testimonials which are designed to show what kind of influence they have.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DAILY TELEGRAPH: "The largest but also the most influential think tank on the right"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GEORGE OSBORNE "Policy Exchange has been a wellspring of new ideas"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OLIVER LETWIN "Policy Exchange has become one of the seminal influences on the political debate"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BORIS JOHNSON "Produces a torrent of invaluable studies which are powering the renaissance of the centre right"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>POLICY EXCHANGE - WHAT THEY DO</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It would be interesting to have a breakdown of who donates to their causes so we can have a better idea of where they are coming from. We would welcome Policy Exchange to volunteer information. There's none in their website. They like to call themselves 'centre right' probably because to be just 'right' will put them on a par with English Defence League and British National Party. Some people believe that for strategic reasons they promote themselves as being politically to the centre-right. However, in economic terms they are clearly in the far right.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's no area in public life about which they don't put some research document or publication. Their sphere of influence includes Arts & Culture, Crime & Justice, Economics, Environment & Energy, Foreign Policy, Government, Health & Social Care.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- We are particularly interested in free market.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">- Completely reinventing the way government traditionally works.</span></span><br />
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