Monday, September 12, 2011

7/7, Alex Cox and The Parallax View

Earlier on today I posted links to a couple of videos - one about 7/7, the other about 9/11

A few issues came up, either in the posts themselves or as comments underneath the posts, which have just converged for me in a nicely synchronisitic way

In my post about Tom Secker's 7/7 documentary I mentioned that there was a time, 15 or 20 years ago, when the State Broadcasting Company would occasionally air material of a parapolitical nature which nowadays it wouldn't touch with a barge pole. The example I chose to link to was the Timewatch documentary on Operation Gladio broadcast in 1992

In a comment underneath my post about James Corbett's excellent 9/11 satire I drew a parallel with the montage at the end of Corbett's video and the brainwashing scene that pops out of nowhere in the middle of The Parallax View - made back in the 70s when off the hook conspiraloonery and six minute long photo montages appeared with satisfying regularity in major motion picture productions (that decade gets an undeservedly bad rap imho)

That would be this scene...


Here's the nice convergence

Whilst watching that scene from The Parallax View I recalled an interesting introduction film director Alex Cox (maker of the 'intense' Repo Man) gave to The Parallax View when it was aired on Cox's Moviedrome series back in the late 1980s/ early 1990s

And, joy of joys, the Cox introduction is currently available on Youtube...



That was shown on BBC2 in 1993

The chances of Cox getting away with stuff like that on the State Broadcasting Company are now absolutely, no doubt about it whatsoever, fuck all

Which is a shame as Cox had one or two things to say about 7/7 in his blog which, in turn, kicked off an extended debate on the now defunct Alex Cox forum. That was back in the distant days of 2005 when the Official 7/7 Narrative was still being defended by 'official' 7/7 survivors engaged in frontal assaults, rather than the more indirect defence of the Official Narrative being mounted today by peddlers of perfidious harm and faulty arguments

Cox's original 7/7 article and the subsequent debate are now preserved for whatever passes for posterity these days on the J7 website here

I mention all this because it's only when, and fortunately I'm old enough to do this, I concentrate and think back to how wide the range of permitted public discourse used to be, in comparison to today, that I realise just how much has been taken away from us

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9 comments:

KingofWelshNoir said...

Thanks for the Link to Alex Cox's introduction, it was wonderful.

rob said...

A sophisticated new camera system can detect lies just by watching our faces as we talk, experts say. The computerised system uses a simple video camera, a high-resolution thermal imaging sensor and a suite of algorithms. Researchers say the system could be a powerful aid to security services.

gyg3s said...

^"The researchers acknowledge, though, that these tests can never be 100% accurate." from the given link.

Fair enough ... but what about the false positive rate? What about the false negative rate?

If this was an assay for cancer, no credible medic would use it as a diagnostic tool if these two parameters were not known, yet we accept this stupidity when it comes to suppression disguised as crime prevention.

This ignorance can be seen in the use of sniffer dogs to try and disguise illegal stop and searches whilst further ignorance will be seen when we get the results of the Scottish fingerprint inquiry.

Oh, and lastly, what exactly is the probability that someone has done it, given that they've been convicted for it? Ten percent?

Hu Bris said...

A screen-shot of a scene from the Parallax View I thought might interest you.
This shot takes place approx 48 minutes in, just after the lead character is narrowly escapes being murdered in a Boat-Bombing incident,

Notice anything? ;-)

http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/9816/parallaxview.jpg

The inquiry into freemasonry was first suggested by a Labour member of the committee, Chris Mullin, who was disturbed at the number of freemasons who appeared to be involved in the Birmingham Six caseMasons told to reveal themselves

rob said...

ROBERT GREEN / HOLLY GREIG UPDATE - YouTube

Came across this by accident.Very bizarre stuff.Off topic I know.But all related.

rob said...

SACL Robert Green Holly Grieg Campaign May 2010
In the summer of 2000, Hollie told her mother, Anne, that she had been repeatedly sexually abused by her father, Denis Charles Mackie and brother Greg. The abuse had begun when Hollie was just six years` old. Hollie said that Greg had also been abused by his father.

Anne Greig reported this immediately to the local police station in Aberdeen. During the course of that summer, Hollie, who has Down`s Syndrome, began to provide more names of abusers. It transpired that Denis Mackie had been sharing his daughter with a ring of sexual abusers, which included a serving police officer with the Grampian force, Terry Major and an Aberdeen sheriff, Graeme Buchanan.

Medical and other evidence supported Hollie`s account and Grampian Police accepted the truth of Hollie`s statement. Nonetheless, no action was taken by Grampian Police against the perpetrators and despite Anne Greig`s persistence, the Procurator Fiscal, now Lord Advocate, Elish Angiolini prevented any police action taking place.

gyg3s said...

I found the following quote,

"We must not allow [Court] decisions to construct our reality."

from the Employment Law Blog.

Thought it might be of interest.

Fish said...

Ho ho ho, Monbiot!

Monbiot enters loon territory (again) with reference to Fractional Reserve Banking and the economic 'loons' of the previous decade that foresaw what everybody can now see as the backdrop behind the money manufacturers, money manipulators, bankers and States that continue to fiddle as the Rome of fascist fictional Finance Capital burns:

It's in all our interests to understand how to stop another Great Depression | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

If Monbiot really wanted to be radical, he could have made reference to the way in which Marx forsaw it all ~150 years ago.

Fish said...

Ho ho ho, Monbiot!

Monbiot enters loon territory (again) with reference to Fractional Reserve Banking and the economic 'loons' of the previous decade that foresaw what everybody can now see as the backdrop behind the money manufacturers, money manipulators, bankers and States that continue to fiddle as the Rome of fascist fictional Finance Capital burns:

It's in all our interests to understand how to stop another Great Depression | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

If Monbiot really wanted to be radical, he could have made reference to the way in which Marx foresaw it all ~150 years ago.