Salmon Confidential


Twyla Roscovich
Dissident Voice

The documentary Salmon Confidential lays bare a massive ongoing cover-up over the effects of disease-bearing salmon farming operations in British Columbia, Canada that are imperiling the wild salmon populations.

Disinformation has long been a plank in the salmon-farming industry. First Nations, commercial fishers, recreational fishers, environment lovers, consumers of healthful fish (meaning nature’s omega 3 fatty acid-rich wild salmon and not the vegetable-fed omega 3 fatty acid deficient, toxin-loaded, emamectin benzoate-treated, chemically colored, virally infected, genetically modified Frankenfish from corporate salmon pens) and the public are the losers and Norwegian multinationals are the winners. The Canadian and BC governments are complicit with corporations in the cover-up.  [DV editor].

The film follows biologist Alex Morton as she unravels the mysteries of BC’s declining salmon stocks using some of the world’s top fish labs. What she uncovers will surprise anyone who cares about our fish and all that depends on them. This 70-minute film documents Morton’s journey as she attempts to overcome roadblocks thrown up by government agencies and bring critical information to the public in time to save BC’s wild salmon.

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2045: ‘Man Becomes Machine’ – The Transhumanist Agenda

Over the decades, technology has progressed faster than any other time in human history. Electronic machines are being used to improve our everyday lives and it is believed that by 2045 humans will become one with machines. RT’s Liz Wahl has more on the future of the human race… facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterest

Sacred Knowledge of Vibration and the Incredible Power of Human Emotions

When waves and ripples are emitted, energy vibrating at a certain frequency will become waveform and sound. Only now we are discovering the extraordinary world through the lens of quantum observation.  Likewise, water is an uncanny transformative storer of information, and as the human body is composed of some 90% of water, it is recording everything – our environment, our emotional state and our bio rhythm. Thought and intent have a dramatic effect on what form of well-being we take – minute to minute. What we know, what we thought we knew… ….facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterest

‘Golden Spike’ Space Tourism Start-Up Company: ‘To the Moon!’

By Joel Achenbach Dec 7, 2012 It had to happen: A start-up company is offering rides to the moon. Book your seat now — though it’s going to set you back $750 million (it’s unclear if that includes baggage fees). Led by heavy-hitter former NASA executives, the Golden Spike Co. would boldly go where humankind went 40 years ago, this time commercially, hawking tickets to foreign governments or space tourists. “Two seats, 750 each,” former NASA associate administrator Alan Stern said on Thursday, shortly before he appeared at the National Press Club in Washington to announce the formation of the company. “The trick is 40 years old. We know how to do this.” You won’t have to joystick the lunar lander yourself, so don’t worry about dodging killer craters and boulders on the way down. Everything will be automated and controlled from Earth. It’ll be like taking a train, the company said. “We realize this is the stuff of science fiction. We intend to make it science fact,” Stern said at the news conference. He added: “We believe in the price points that we’re talking about.” The company has assembled some credible advisers, with a board chaired by former NASA Johnson Space Center director Gerry Griffin. The business model requires economies of scale — lots of customers and lots of missions to the moon to offset the very high start-up cost. The company sees 2020 as a plausible date for that initial trip. Golden Spike would need to commission a lunar lander and moonwalking suits, but most of its mission architecture would rely on commercial rockets and capsules already flying or under development. For example, the company could use a rocket and capsule developed by Elon Musk’s commercial start-up SpaceX, which has successfully flown cargo to the international space station under a NASA contract. The primary targets for Golden Spike are foreign countries that want to do lunar science or attain the prestige of putting their own astronauts on the moon. Because of political sensitivities, the company would not sell a moon trip to China, which has been expanding its space program, Stern said. Nor would the company sell rides to any country restricted by law  from access to U.S. technology that could be used for military purposes. Stern said the company has no billionaire backers but has had a serious discussion with one potential lunar tourist. He wouldn’t give the name. “If you come to me and you’re not an unsavory character, we’re going to fly you,” he said before the news conference… Read more at Washington Postfacebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterest

THE LASTEST SCAM: U.S. ‘Climate Aid’ Targets Poorest Nations with Free Cash

21st Century Wire says… This website had successfully debunked the mythology of climate change and global warming as far back as 2009, when we ravaged Al Gore & Co.’s get-rich by charging for air theft model in Copenhagen, leading to the collapse of his Chicago Climate Exchange carbon stock market – a total failure because it was based on lies and completely made-up science. Now they are simply paying off people with taxpayer money in order to get them on board…   Pat3_bwBy Patrick Henningsen One thing which I have learned over the years is that Marxists never give up willingly. Their socialist philosophy is extremist in nature, where political survival depends on the preeminence of the state to regulate every aspect of life. The only way to stop them is to cut them off their ideological air – and the only form of political oxygen they have is their collectivist ideology. It’s not easy to do as we will find out. We have a Marxist-Fascist ideology that is still pervasive in our culture today – it’s called Climate Change, and in this scenario the Marxist masses are working to advance ideas which will ultimately profit elite fascist corporate elites. So who benefits? The carbon neutral gravy train was chugging along nicely for a while, until it went off the rails. Like with Wall Street, a lot of people were making a lot of money off doing very little. This working model is the essence of any good scam, and what could be better than regulating air?
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Albert Arnold Gore Jr: One of the planet greatest liars of all-time.

It’s quite astonishing that almost no advocate of anthropogenic global warming or “climate change” (it’s quite a semantic luxury they have, being able to shape-shift between two different names) will appear in public or on TV anymore to extol the virtues of their half-baked ‘Kinder Surprise-science’. That’s mainly because they have run out of rope for their argument. “The science is settled”, as Al Gore once proclaimed, only he lost the debate and the IPCC was exposed as an multi-million dollar fraud – and exposed over and over again. Even the Royal Society in Great Britain finally dumped it in 2010. But that hasn’t deterred the collectivists and social engineers behind the great global warming swindle. While they lost the scientific and logical debate, they quietly moved ahead on their ‘flat Earth’ political/policy making front – to devastating effect. Their goal from the beginning, has been to pull out as much middle class and working class wealth away, through their fake crisis which was package initially as man-made global warming. The War on Terror has cost already between US and Europe’s expenditures upwards of $4 Trillion in 10 years. Many could argue a higher figure. All the money spent on that fake crisis landed softly into the hands of an exclusive collection of corporations. The same is happening with their ‘War on Climate’. Now that the collectivist criminal cartel have failed in convincing a cooling world that man-made global warming exists, they have simply ignored their failure and moved on with their policy of using the made-up threat of climate change in order to push forward globalist, world government-oriented policies onto weaker nations – as well as their own. Climate Bailouts for Corporations http://gulfnews.com/polopoly_fs/1.842948!/image/4135708433.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_475/4135708433.jpgUS Foreign Aid has been an oxymoron for decades now – it’s essentially a taxpayer-funded bailout for selected government contractors who will be supplying goods and services to third world countries – paid for by the magical “foreign aid”. It’s dollar laundering on a mass scale. This pre-selected group of corporations are normally the very same ones who have lobbied tirelessly for the US Federal Government to institute an “Aid” program. What else is it, but a scam? It’s ultimately about controlling ideas. Now the collectivist/communist leaning leaders of the West have decided to use the foreign aid system to achieve, using the likes of known CIA front organisations like “US AID” and other bent corporate and ‘NGO’ players, in order to bribe third world/developing world nations with new “Climate Foreign Aid” and thus accepting the elite’s derived mythology that CO2 is somehow driving global climate change. As with all expensive foreign aid which is sent overseas, almost none of the money handed out actually goes towards the intended cause (see Washington Post article below). That’s simply business as usual. Very sad to see the US government having to scrape to a level – where their last resort is to bribe the developing world’s leadership so as to accept a disingenuous ideology created by elite collectivist European Think Tanks like the Club of Rome (inventors of man-made global warming theory in the 1970′s), and the Club of Budapest to name only a few. Their goal is global government – and nothing less. Desperate, to say the least. But how stupid are Americans to fall for it – and pay for it? Let’s watch and see… (SEE THE PROOF BELOW) ….

‘New U.S. climate aid reaches across globe’

By Juliet Eilperin At NASA headquarters, part of a map of Kenyan waterways blinks repeatedly in blue-gray, indicating where stream flow is heaviest and likely to cause flooding over the next 72 hours. Halfway around the world, officials at Kenya’s Ministry of Water and Irrigation can see the same data, which they use to try to reduce the loss of life and property from increasingly frequent floods linked to global warming. The mapping technology is part of a collaboration by the space agency and the U.S. Agency for International Development that helps cash-strapped nations deal with the challenges of a changing climate. Over the past three years, the United States has ratcheted up support for foreign countries to cope with global warming, spending nearly $1.4 billion. A small slice of the total, $18 million, has transformed the satellite-based mapping program, called SERVIR, from a modest effort targeting seven countries in Central America to one serving 32 countries worldwide. But even as spending rises, a central question remains: Are rich countries, which bear the historic responsibility for putting carbon dioxide into the air, doing enough to help the poorest nations prepare themselves for the negative effects of greenhouse gas emissions? In 2009, the world’s leaders — including President Obama — promised to give $30 billion between 2010 and 2012 to a “fast-track finance” program to help cut the emissions worldwide and make the most vulnerable nations more resilient in the face of global warming, a process called adaptation. That same year, they pledged that by 2020, they would mobilize $100 billion for the two goals. The United States has provided $7.5 billion in international climate aid over the past three years, nearly $1.4 billion of which has been spent on adaptation. David Waskow, who directs Oxfam America’s climate-change program, praised the United States for ramping up the assistance, but he noted that while leaders agreed to a balanced division between cutting emissions and helping poor countries adapt to climate change, only 19 percent of the funding has gone toward adaptation. “The percentage of what’s going to adaptation is not adequate,” Waskow said, noting that it is often hard to tell how much of the climate assistance is money that the United States and other countries would have given as foreign aid anyway… Read more at Washington Postfacebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterest

Native American land used as toxic dump

The Wind River Reservation in Wyoming is the home to over 8,000 Native Americans and now the tribe is sharing the land with nearly a dozen oil and gas fields. For the Native Americans, the waste water from the natural resource companies has become a vital component in providing drinking water for livestock and the EPA has allowed the practice until now, but should this be allowed to continue? facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterest

SKY-WRECK ON THE SHORE OF PLANET EARTH

Chemtrail Air-craft Has ‘Planet Under Pressure’
By Patrick Lynch
21st Century Wir
Guest Columnist

For almost two decades now the planet has been in the grip of a chemical and biological attack from the air. These weapons of mass destruction can actually be seen and there is a mountain of evidence that these methods of weaponry actually exist.

The chemical trails, the aerial spraying by unmarked aircraft, are so horrendous on certain days the sky resembles a ‘noughts and crosses’ board. The relevant ‘authorities’ that one might expect to deal with any external threats to a sovereign country’s airspace have had the exact science sent to them and most evidence has been passed to them. Yet the public’s concerns are uniformly met with silence, denial, ridicule and worse.
The environment, the people of the planet, every country is being sprayed with such abandon, such wanton destruction, that even the soil’s pH level is changing and plant life is dying off. After heavy spraying, flu-like symptoms that persist, respiratory problems, fatigue, cramps, and even fibres poking through people skin are reported, worldwide. In the case of the fibres an exact match between what the Chemtrails contain and the fibres taken from Morgellon’s sufferers has been found. Read more here: http://www.carnicominstitute.org/

And just for the record, condensation trails, also known as ‘con-trails’, are water vapour that turn to ice in certain conditions (just as your breath does on a cold day). Contrails disperse after about 30 seconds, tops. “Chemtrails” are chemical trails. They do not need certain conditions to cover the sky. They hang around and form banks of cloud, often for hours, because they are laden with three main materials – aluminium oxide, barium, and strontium.

From my own research many other materials such as arsenic, titanium and thorium have been found to be present in samples. Just as the declassified documents of the Dorset Biological Trials state (bacteria, and e-coli in the case of Dorset), molds, fungus, bacteria and even red blood cells have been identified from the Chemtrail fall out and in the blood samples of sufferers. So what can one expect from government representatives, the military, mainstream news and even long established ‘Green groups’ when genuine concerns are raised and in thousands of cases even outright panic is voiced? People who’s very lives are in mortal danger and are rightly extremely outraged, angered and dumbfounded that this is allowed to go on while their children play outside in such an overtly toxic environment, what reply do they get, what help? None. More silence, more denial, more ridicule and worse, as is evidenced in this example from Greenpeace. Christopher Monkton states (a well known global warming debunker), Greenpeace was successfully infiltrated after only one year of it’s inception. One of it’s founders, Patrick Moore, felt the trend was serious enough that he had to leave the charity.

Greenpeace claimed: We cannot pass comment on a political party in that way, but I am sorry – we have yet to see any strong evidence that there is any campaign to mass inoculate the general populace using contrails and the like. If the governments wanted to mass inoculate then they would do far better putting into the water systems for example – as they do with fluoride.

Thanks for the update I will pass it to the media team but honestly just because the Cyprus Green Party say is a go, doesn’t mean it is – always look at something from all sides before buying into it. there are sensible and rational if not pleasant reasons for the contrails etc. that we see in our skies. Cyprus may not be urban but it has a lot of flights to and from and over it for example all of which will be on the increase in recent years all of which produce their own contrails.

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Geoengineering

The scientists proposing spraying the skies with particulates of metals to reflect the sun ray’s and combat global warming call it geoengineering. Many speak of placing mirrors in space for this purpose too and of course dumping huge amounts of iron into the ocean termed ocean acidification, also in the name of saving the planet. One thing the Geoengineers do agree on however is that it’s not happening yet and it’s still under discussion even though it’s been going on, across the planet, yes, every country, since around 1996. Of course, this is the real climate denial. Yet global warming alarmists (heavily funded by many U.N. linked groups), are happy to tag anyone who challenges the scam of global warming with a monstrous allusion to the genocides and call them ‘climate deniers’.

Premiere globalist think tank Club Of Rome’s quote from the First Global Revolution 1993:  

“…divided nations require common enemies to unite them, “either a real one or else one invented for the purpose.” Because of the sudden absence of traditional enemies, “new enemies must be identified.” “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill….”
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All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”

So while the public are routinely blamed for trashing the planet with their consumerism and ordered to pay through their nose with individual carbon taxes, (many big corporations are largely exempt), the scientists advocate spraying the entire sky of the planet with toxic chemical and biological materials, um, to save the planet. while it’s actually been going on for nearly twenty years. Supreme Orwellian double-think. A House of Commons report entitled, The Regulation of Geoengineering, from 2009, clearly detailed the ‘proposed methods’ of spraying our skies and hundreds of patents are filed for the specific methods of Solar Radiation Management. (S.R.M). Clearly a more digestible term for massive pollution. Read the full report here.

No longer can The Royal Society be held in such high regard. This previously esteemed organisation is not working for the betterment of our society. In fact it’s purely psychopathic structure and it’s twisted Utopian ideals for the betterment of ‘their’ society is to be held accountable as it’s their yardstick that blazes a trail of destruction across our planet, quite literally. One patent that is typical of the hundreds viewable on the internet and in the patent offices is…

REPORT: Stratospheric Welsbach Seeding for the Reduction of Global Warming 

Bill Gates is openly funding ‘research’ into geoengineering. He of, “now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that (number of 9 billion) by perhaps 10 or 15 percent” fame.

If you sense a pattern emerging here you would be right. See eugenics. It’s the key to understanding the scientific dictatorship we are now under, globally. Something the current White House Science ‘Czar’ John P. Holdren is happy to tell you in his co-authored book Eco-Science. Also stated as saying “we don’t have the luxury of taking any approach off the table”.

Watch Bill Gates’ disturbing vaccine comment in video:


From 2001, Air Force University, U.S.A:  Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather by 2025, clearly states an intent to use technology to control the weather and the father of weather weapons, Ben Livingstone, states that for decades aircraft have been able to start, stop and steer storms by seeding the clouds. Oxbridge is especially on board as many of their pre-notables recently spoke at the Geoengineering talks at the recent U.N. backed Planet Under Pressure conference in London. So where are we now? After almost two decades of warning folks of, what in my opinion, is the greatest threat to humanity in history, let alone life on earth itself, how close are people to actually stopping this? When i began alerting the public to this not many knew of Chemtrails or grasped the significance of what i was telling them. That has altered dramatically. Now many more people have heard of Chemtrails, geoengineering, aerial spraying, (and i don’t mean crop spraying), call it what you will… more people than ever now understand the mortal danger they are in. So much so, that if one were to walk out after a nuclear attack they would be presented with much the same environmental toxicity as the Chemtrail materials. Many more people are beginning to see this scenario being played out in the real world every day and view it as such. That the sky is a toxic plasma and that’s the real climate change. We should be screaming from the bell towers about this humanicide instead of being calm and measured though only through constant sharing of information can one make a decision how to proceed. Critical mass is also key though the human race is on to stop the Chemtrails before too many perish. This war on humanity has stepped up a gear and it’s up to the individual to reassert their rights to a healthy life before it’s too late.

Eye witness accounts from the last few days have fostered a wave of reports that Chem-webs, as they are commonly called, are dropping upon the Isle of Wight, southern England. In Yorkshire only a few weeks ago these phenomena were filmed covering whole areas of park in a web-like film. These are not spider’s webs. They are gone when poked with a stick. They must not, under any circumstances, be touched by hand as numerous independent studies have revealed they are polymers sprayed from aircraft and a favourite way of being the carrier for many molds, fungus and bacteria to ride on their backs. See more here: http://www.carnicominstitute.org/

I myself witnessed the fallout, clearly visible to the naked eye, like ash from chimneys, the very same morning the Chem-webs were filmed in south Yorkshire. See video here:

Also from November 14th 2012 thousands of birds are reported to be falling out of the sky ten miles off the Portsmouth coast. So anyone who sees small birds washed up in these numbers should get an independent analysis done and this would add to the evidence. This may be connected.

Bird species are suffering globally as a result of chemical spraying in our skies.

In the language certain globalists, the crux of the matter is that this enterprise is hidden in plain sight and the great media deception is incomplete so not perfect. While we have the internet let’s use it until we’re back to pigeons, pamphleteering and piracy. The mainstream does not yet have a grip on the independent alternative media though it is tightening it’s clammy, predatory paws. Read more about this incident here.

In this only too brief article, it is hoped that many more awaken from their chem-slumber. This writer is convinced that when enough critical mass is reached, when enough people know of Chemtrails, the aerial assault on our skies will be halted. There is no doubt in my mind that this will happen. It is imperative, once the reader has researched enough, that they add to this information battle so that a peaceful resolution can be accomplished. There has never been a more important time to act. Humanity is being made so sick that in the near future we may not be fit enough to resist. In an effort to present to the public as much information as i possibly could in a talk, I have included this film of a recent event in Portsmouth, England:

We need you help urgently in order bring this issue to the forefront of the public consciousness. Please alert as many people as you can.

Humanity, as we know it, is running out of time.
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WHO ARE WE, WHERE DO WE COME FROM AND WHY ARE WE HERE?

Watch this amazing introductory course into our Quantum reality… Narrated by Mike Adams, this short film takes you through a mind-expanding documentary on “conscious cosmology” – covering consciousness, particle physics, the nature of reality, the Big Bang, quantum physics, origins of life, free will, and explaining where Stephen Hawking has got it wrong in his quest to master “the theory of everything”… See more articles, videos and explorations of conscious cosmology at: www.DivinityNow.com ….facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterest

The Return of the Mammoth? Russian and South Korean Scientists Sign Deal to Bring Extinct Beast Back To Life

Huffington Post Russian and South Korea scientists have teamed up to recreate a woolly mammoth – a prehistoric creature that last walked the earth some 4,500 years ago. The deal was signed on Tuesday by Vasily Vasiliev, of North-Eastern Federal University of the Sakha Republic and stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-Suk of South Korea’s Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, AFP revealed. The team aim to get to work on thawed remains of the extinct mammal recovered after global warming thawed Siberia’s permafrost. The mammoth’s tissues are to be cloned by using eggs taken from a modern Indian elephant, the Korea Herald reported. Once the tissues have undergone a nuclear transfer process, the eggs will be implanted into the womb of a live elephant. Hwang lost face in the international scientific community in 2005 when his breakthrough human cloning research involving embryonic stem cells was found to have been faked. He is also responsible for creating the world’s first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005, an achievement which was independently confirmed. Last year Hwang and his team unveiled eight cloned coyotes in October last year. Sooam specialises in dog cloning, and claims: “Cloning technology is possible at Sooam for any dog no matter its age, size, and breed. Sooam not only performs dog cloning research, but we also heal the broken hearts.” facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterest

Savile Psychology: ‘Betrayal Blindness’ is Why We Remain Oblivious to the Lies of Our Time

By C. L. Cook 21st Century Wire Guest Columnist The current unravelling of the suddenly repellant BBC television presenter, Sir Jimmy Savile’s reputation provides the opportunity for much greater revelations…

Birds of a feather: Child abuser Savile having a bubble with British PM and pal, Ed Heath.

If you’re not in Britain, there’s a chance haven’t followed the Jimmy  case, where Savile’s comic mug adorns practically every front page. Sir Jimmy died late last year, following a six decades-long career in the public eye. Savile began in radio, broadcasting from the famed “pirate radio” ship, Radio Luxembourg in the late 1950′s. From there, Savile went into television, hosting the iconic, ‘Top of the Pops,’ and later the child’s wish fulfillment program, ‘Jim’ll Fix It.’ Children and young adults were the common feature throughout Jimmy Savile’s career, and his personal life. In his off hours, he spent time travelling around to children’s hospitals and care homes, where his charity work garnered millions of pounds for various institutions, and provided him special access to, what we now discover was, an endless supply of victims. Sir Jimmy was a serial paedophile, preying on both boys and girls, (and adults too where he could manage it) to satisfy his sexual perversion. He was brazen in his abuse, described by a psychologist recently interviewed about the case as following the classic “opportunist” pattern. Offered an apartment at one hospital within the nurses’ residence to accommodate his frequent visits, Savile was often seen coming and going in the late hours, always accompanied by one or more teen-aged girls. Yet no question about either the inappropriateness of this arrangement, or the legal status of his companions was raised. Nurses at one children’s home Savile routinely favoured advised their charges feign sleep to avoid “Good Uncle Jimmy’s” not so good ministrations. Whether on a visit to an orphanage, hospital, at work, or even at family functions, Jimmy just couldn’t keep his hands to himself. A now infamous clip from one of his programs features the host molesting a teen-aged girl in a crowd of girls, reaching beneath her dress as he signs off another episode of ‘Top of the Pops.’ When that girl attempted to file a complaint, a BBC producer told her: “Get lost!” As the story grows ever more salacious, a retinue of alleged victims is coming forward, (more than 300 at last count) implicating not only Jimmy Savile but some of the stars who appeared on his program back in the day. Former glam rocker, Gary Glitter, already convicted for child porn, and imprisoned in Vietnam in 2006 for having sex with children, was last week called in for questioning and charged for a years-old alleged attack against a young girl in a BBC studio dressing room; and former comedian, Freddie Starr has too been arrested and charged with a molestation he allegedly perpetrated in Savile’s own dressing room. The revelations paint a picture of Savile and his friends running with impunity a veritable paedophile carnival out of the BBC. And yet, nothing was done over the long years this carried on.

Media men like Thompson now use ‘deniability’ like politicians, in order to protect their lucrative media careers and golden pensions.

Writing for The New York Times, Nicholas Kulish reports the efforts of British freelance journalist, and former executive at BBC competitor, Channel 5, David Elstein to discover why the BBC had cancelled an expose of the rampant criminality allowed to continue so long within the Corporation’s studios. When questioned about the BBC’s decision to shelve the Newsnight expose on Savile, then director-general of the BBC, Mark Thompson denied knowledge of either the accusations against Jimmy Savile of paedophile attacks, or editorial decisions made to drop the expose. An incredulous Elstein, who formerly worked too at the BBC, said of Thompson’s denials;
“This was in six different newspapers in January and February.” Adding; “The big failing internally, and this is where Mark comes into the picture, is the deliberate incuriosity of the senior executives; there is a culture of avoiding knowledge so as to evade responsibility.”
Mr. Thompson, who has since moved to New York to serve as the chief executive and president of the The New York Times Company, later admitted another reporter had made him aware of Newsnight’s Savile investigation, but only after the report was buried. Appearing on the Canadian Broadcast Corporation radio program, The Current, psychologist and author of the forthcoming book, ‘Betrayal Blindness,’ Dr. Jennifer Freyd describes a kind of institutional amnesia that takes hold of people who so completely fear losing their sinecures. Freyd’s research began with children betrayed by family members, people essential to the child’s survival, and the repression of memory psychologically necessary for the victim’s existential continuance. In these cases, the need to live trumps the sense of injustice and impropriety done, a sense arguably inherent, in effect short-circuiting danger signals that would otherwise trigger a fight-or-flight response. Extrapolated to an institutional setting like the BBC, where producers, directors, talent handlers, (and even lowly technicians) may be privvy to rumours, the choice to acknowledge and inform against wrong-doing could jeopardize not only an individual’s career, but could possibly endanger the show employing all her colleagues. Dr. Freyd outlines a few key points, saying: Often people betrayed personally seem to not remember the betrayal. They don’t acknowledge it, or speak to others of it; as if it’s something, “in the corner of their eye, not something they’re looking directly at.”  Like the proverbially “last to know” spouse being cheated on, denial is refuge. From their observations at the University of Oregon, Dr. Freyd and her colleagues formulated a theory and conducted studies to understand this apparently willful ignorance, coming up with the concept of “betrayal blindness.” Freyd observes, for a person caught in this dilemma of choosing either to know what is going on, or protecting the relationship, especially where the survival of the victim is, or is believed to be at stake, protecting the relationship will come first. Of the Savile case she notes:
“Some individuals were presumably aware of what was going on, and made the conscious decision not to deal with it because it would get in the way of their own goals. But, in order for this to stay undercover, the way it did for so many decades, it also requires a lot of good people, who would want to tell the truth, didn’t let themselves fully know what was going on. So, the institution setting is a kind of trust situation, where people need that institution, need it for a number of goals that they have, and by being aware they risk their own comfort within that institution. So, without consciously knowing it, they push the information away; they don’t speak out, they don’t fully know, and thus they collude with the perpetrator and with the individuals who do know and don’t want to talk about it.”
In her essay, ‘Lies in a Time of Threat: Betrayal Blindness and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election,’ Eileen L. Zurbriggen cites Freyd’s work, applying some of her findings to the electorate, or mass mind. Zurbriggen remarks upon exit polls taken during 2004, where Bush supporters, by a large margin, claim “honesty” to be among their core concerns in choosing a candidate. The release of these polls, at a time when the litany of Bush administration lies leading to the invasion of Iraq were widely known perplexed the researcher. To make some sense of the dissonance, Zurbriggen invokes the Betrayal Trauma Theory, or ‘BTT’. Most extensively studied were victims of child abuse, where BTT finds memory impairment increases the closer the perpetrator is; that is, if the abuser is a family member, or someone perceived to be existentially integral, the victim suffered correspondingly greater. She argues, because the president embodies a protector figure, specifically amplified in the case of “war time” president, George W. Bush, voters who perceived Bush as their defender were unable to recognize, even after the facts were known, his layers of lies and misrepresentations leading to war and disaster. According to Zurbriggen, it may not simply be that Bush supporters just didn’t want to know the truth about his mendacity, or were merely too dim-witted to realize it. She offers, they were being taken in by a psychological correlative linking threat perception to an inability to recognize BS. Or, as she puts it, a “blindness to deception.” With another American election on the near horizon, and Bush era threat mongering an accepted strategy for both camps, it’s important we now remember to be unafraid. If we are to choose between easy and hard truths, let’s leave the road well-travelled and allow courage be our companion. There are real dangers out there to be sure, and we cannot face them properly if habituated through terror into denial. Zurbriggen offers advice for the necessary separating of lies from truth, saying;
“Political activists have long argued that resistance and social change are most effective when they are collective (rather than individualistic) projects. One reason for this effectiveness may be that taking collective action breaks the feeling of dependence on politicians and the government, leading to many positive outcomes, including an enhanced ability to judge the veracity of governmental pronouncements.”
Yes, there are real monsters, like Sir Jimmy Savile and his perverse crew out there, but they can only do harm when allowed to remain in the shadow of our fears. Author Chris Cook is managing editor at www.pacificfreepress.com based in British Columbia, and also radio host of the weekly public affairs program, Gorilla Radio, regarded as one of the best, and long running shows in the alternative media sphere. See more of Chris’s articles here at his Gorilla Radio’s blog.facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterest