On the good side, I listened to the podcast this morning during my train commute in Toronto, Canada: listening to a UK show to get a very interesting interview with Allison Crowe who is originally from Nanaimo, just up the road on Vancouver Island where I lived for over a decade. So wherever you are in the world, it’s now easy to pick and choose from interesting items all around that world and you are not forced to restrict yourself to only local things; Interesting stuff has a freedom to travel anywhere, and ironically sometimes come back to you via far away locales.

But the downside of this freedom of movement is that manufacturing goods is also traveling around the world nearly as easily, and the supply chain in our local stores now rarely comes from close by, but is often from oceans away. And that distance often bring obscurity to process on how they were made in the first place, i.e, child labour, corporation trying to influence the politics of countries like Zimbabwe. Customers and suppliers often go that route to be able to bring costs down, but these choices bring other problems we tend to forget, or tend to simply look away because it is the easy and cheaper choice. Computer people have the term “security by obscurity”; maybe we should label this “manufacturing by obscurity”.

So the good and bad side of globalization and the internet. Thanks for another great show Matthew and Neil.

As for the Civic Centre, after that very interesting piece on it, I had to go find pictures of that building since I have never visited Wolverhampton. They really do seem to be proud of the plastics plants in it:

http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/government_democracy/council/civiccentre/gallery3.htm

I’ll respond to your questions one by one:

Yes, Nick Pope (I think he droppped the middle name “Fucking” when he started work at the MoD).

Yes, our programme carried the assertion that most truthers are white.

Yes, it does operate like a cult.

It’s a good job MI5 and MI6 *do* pay us to make shill documentaries, because otherwise just what would you people do with your time?

9/11 truth is mainly a white organization?????????????

cult?????

this is absolute bullshit…

and you all MI5/MI6 bitches know it