Tavistock Square. A Reposting.
This is the re-post of an article I originally posted on 12th July this year. The original has been hacked and the article address changed to an impossibly big number that makes it impossible to find unless you read everything I've posted. It is not linkable in its present state.
The piece is about the London bombing of 07.07.05 and a Psy-ops article carried by the Guardian on 12.07.05. I think it is still relevant.
"I bought The Guardian again this morning, as I have done for the last 30 years. It will probably be the last time. The lead article in G2 is what has made me come to this.
John Lanchester, a name I hope I never see in print again, has a two page spread about the road that runs from Hampstead High Street to The Strand. It's name changes along the route many times. There is a point where it becomes known as Tavistock Square. Of the bombs that exploded across London on 07.07.05, the only one above ground was on the bus in Tavistock Square.
Not once in the article is any mention made of the significance of Tavistock Square as a site dedicated to the ideals of non-violence and peace. There is a statue of Ghandi and tributes to the victims of Hiroshima and prisoners of concience in the Square (see previous post). Since the outrage of the bombing the Guardian has only carried four lines, on it's letters page, of this crucial information. It's not as if this is top secret information.
It is inconceivable that Lanchester is not aware of Tavistock Square's peace credentials. He spent six years working in the BMA building on Tavistock Square. He knows the area well.
But this omission is as nothing compared to the content of the article.
What is emphasised is a story about an Hungarian physicist and friend of Einstein, Leo Szilard, who had a moment of epiphany 300 yards south along the same road that also comprises Tavistock Square. That day, 12th September 1933, the newspapers had reported a talk by Ernest Rutherford on the splitting of the atom. As walking and thinking deeply Szilard came to a sudden realisation. If smashing a neutron into an atom could be made to release two neutrons from one of the atoms and these two neutrons were to do the same, they would release four neutrons. Each time this was repeated it would double the number of neutrons and, in the words of Szilard, "It might be possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction, liberate energy on an industrial scale, and construct atomic bombs."
In one paragraph in the article he writes about the occultist and poet WB Yeats losing his virginity close by in Woburn Place. This paragraph of puff has no import other than to link sex with atomic death.
Reading this paragraph reminded me of the back cover blurb on the Journeyman publication, 'Let The Rail Splitter Awake and other poems' by Pablo Neruda. I quote, 'As Neruda has said, before the hawks of Wall Street and Washington can hurl the atom bomb they must annihilate us morally. That is the mission of their poets - the Eliots and Pounds who degrade life and stultify the will to resist.'
The 'Nuke Them' brigade in the White House has made unprecedented advances since 11th September 2001. The continuous propaganda and Orwellian language that has been directed at the American people since then, has to a certain extent innured them to the immorality of using nuclear weapons. It is not as if a majority of Americans are demanding their use. It is just that after any nuclear attack by America it would be thought as having been inevitable anyway. An acceptance after the event and for which the psychological groundwork is being laid. This process is now being accelerated in Britain following the bombings of 07.07.05
The foregrounding of atomic death and sex and the relegation of peace and non-violence from the story of Tavistock Square, in the Guardian of all papers, is one of the most profoundly irresponsible acts in journalism I have had the misfortune of witnessing."
The piece is about the London bombing of 07.07.05 and a Psy-ops article carried by the Guardian on 12.07.05. I think it is still relevant.
"I bought The Guardian again this morning, as I have done for the last 30 years. It will probably be the last time. The lead article in G2 is what has made me come to this.
John Lanchester, a name I hope I never see in print again, has a two page spread about the road that runs from Hampstead High Street to The Strand. It's name changes along the route many times. There is a point where it becomes known as Tavistock Square. Of the bombs that exploded across London on 07.07.05, the only one above ground was on the bus in Tavistock Square.
Not once in the article is any mention made of the significance of Tavistock Square as a site dedicated to the ideals of non-violence and peace. There is a statue of Ghandi and tributes to the victims of Hiroshima and prisoners of concience in the Square (see previous post). Since the outrage of the bombing the Guardian has only carried four lines, on it's letters page, of this crucial information. It's not as if this is top secret information.
It is inconceivable that Lanchester is not aware of Tavistock Square's peace credentials. He spent six years working in the BMA building on Tavistock Square. He knows the area well.
But this omission is as nothing compared to the content of the article.
What is emphasised is a story about an Hungarian physicist and friend of Einstein, Leo Szilard, who had a moment of epiphany 300 yards south along the same road that also comprises Tavistock Square. That day, 12th September 1933, the newspapers had reported a talk by Ernest Rutherford on the splitting of the atom. As walking and thinking deeply Szilard came to a sudden realisation. If smashing a neutron into an atom could be made to release two neutrons from one of the atoms and these two neutrons were to do the same, they would release four neutrons. Each time this was repeated it would double the number of neutrons and, in the words of Szilard, "It might be possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction, liberate energy on an industrial scale, and construct atomic bombs."
In one paragraph in the article he writes about the occultist and poet WB Yeats losing his virginity close by in Woburn Place. This paragraph of puff has no import other than to link sex with atomic death.
Reading this paragraph reminded me of the back cover blurb on the Journeyman publication, 'Let The Rail Splitter Awake and other poems' by Pablo Neruda. I quote, 'As Neruda has said, before the hawks of Wall Street and Washington can hurl the atom bomb they must annihilate us morally. That is the mission of their poets - the Eliots and Pounds who degrade life and stultify the will to resist.'
The 'Nuke Them' brigade in the White House has made unprecedented advances since 11th September 2001. The continuous propaganda and Orwellian language that has been directed at the American people since then, has to a certain extent innured them to the immorality of using nuclear weapons. It is not as if a majority of Americans are demanding their use. It is just that after any nuclear attack by America it would be thought as having been inevitable anyway. An acceptance after the event and for which the psychological groundwork is being laid. This process is now being accelerated in Britain following the bombings of 07.07.05
The foregrounding of atomic death and sex and the relegation of peace and non-violence from the story of Tavistock Square, in the Guardian of all papers, is one of the most profoundly irresponsible acts in journalism I have had the misfortune of witnessing."
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