[cryptome] Re: Cryptome is Back: BBC Monitoring Service.
- From: Neal Lamb <nl1816a@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 08:30:38 -0700
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On Saturday, June 28, 2014 5:23 AM, doug <douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Shaun,
Glad you raised that. One of the problems I have in life is about
the meaning of words and concepts and the older I get the more
abstruse do the meanings become...to the point of illusion...or is
it elusion...When I was young I knew the meaning of everything and
the answer to everything...at least that is what me dad used to
say. Now that I am older I have reached the stage of where I
mistrust everything, but without quite accepting everything...to
paraphrase Oscar Wilde.
Such thoughts of mine apply to the words democracy, impartiality,
independence and concepts of such ilk. Not that I am the only
person to suffer from such a thing. One hears those words bandied
about every day like they have some kind of precise and universal
meaning, like sliced bread; when in fact the very opposite is
true.
For instance, one could raise the question...in the wartime of
World War 2 the BBC was the only link that some countries had with
information which was different from that of the Nazi Propoganda
machine. In fact the BBC did even more than that, it was used as
a channel of information by the government to inform and guide
liberation movements and struggles in occupied territories. It
also fulfilled the role of keeping the British speaking peoples
informed, in a positive way, i.e. Dunkirk...of how the war was
coming along, and how to make spam, an American food import, which
is rather ubiquitous today. It used music from Beethoven's 5th
Symphony for instance, one of his dreariest in my view...I can
never remember the meaning of the words, though da da di da, I
think it was in Morse Code and Chanson d'autoumne was used by
Radio Londres as the French called it, for briefing la
Resistance. This use made by the government of the BBC facilities
is, of course to be expected...if not welcome...in wartime.
see url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Londres
for an intro to the subject. And it shows the close links which
there are between government and a nation's communication
systems. When married to the London Clubs of the time, that
little phrase, "It just won't do, old chap" was very effective in
the world of censoring words or actions.
Of course no one can broadcast television or radio, even amateurs,
in our society without having some kind of licence or being
registered...that is not just about keeping tabs on people or
organisations, or censoring content, but necessary for helping to
ensure that electrical interference doesn't stop people from
watching the BBC...;-) . This is of course, called dual or multi-purpose
use, like exporting munitions from the United States, once even included
cryptographic software. Nowadays it is allowed, if only because governments
export so much of it. Of course such attempts are never absolute, as there are
many local radio stations which operate around the country, illegally,
providing copyrighted material for free to our young people, great nashings of
teeth of the copyright industry.
Much as in the same way the UK's first nuclear plant for power
generation at Sellafield which was opened by our Queen in a much
vaunted publicity stunt in the 1950's actually had the dual
purpose of providing plutonium for our nuclear bomb making
industry. How I, as a child, marvelled at the idea at the time,
almost free and unlimited power for the nation. I first read about
it in the National Geographic magazine, whilst I was at the
dentist with toothache. I become so absorbed in it, that it
removed the pain. What would we do without Sellafield today...all
those nuclear fish and large storage tanks leaking chemicals into
the soil and Irish sea. Millions has been spent on trying to
clean it up, and they can't agree on where to store it. Still, we
have renamed the place...that should help solve the problem.
I have a funny feeling that those words, democracy, independence
and impartiality have all sorts of meaning to all sorts of people
and organisations and depend so much on context too, that they are
meaningless, certainly to me. It's a bit like science being
objective really, when I think science has much more to do with
faith...
ATB
Dougie.
P.S. Now, would you care to tell me what you mean by the phrase
that
"PRIVACY IS A BASIC RIGHT - NOT A CONCESSION"
Not that I disagree with your sentiments, you understand...:-\
On 28/06/14 00:20, Shaun O'Connor wrote:
well that information Frankly does not surprise me one iota. oh and on the
question of the BBC being impartial. I question whether they even know what the
word means.
and obviously they serve the governments hidden(?) agenda
beautifully because there have I think been a number of occasions
whereby if everything was played directly by the book the BBC
should have been stripped of its charter.
<<snip>>
"PRIVACY IS A BASIC RIGHT - NOT A CONCESSION"
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