Guest post by Thomas Fuller
Well, with the calming passage of 24 hours, let’s take another look at the 10:10 video showing the splatterfest of gore as skeptics play the more volatile roles from the worst portions of the movie ‘Scanners.’
It’s still disgusting.
I spent four years in the Navy and have seen a lot. The film did not upset me physically or emotionally. My reaction was mental (Cue Michael Tobis: “See? Fuller’s going mental…”)
What disgusts me first is its target. The video is meant for the young. Young people get blown up by a calm and engaged teacher in the first scene, and music and sports and film figures appealing to the young are both victims and perpetrators throughout.
Our reaction is irrelevant. They are not talking to us. They are talking to our children.
What are they saying? That it’s okay to ostracize, bully and dismiss those who don’t agree that climate change is uber alles (Oops! Godwin alert, Godwin alert) and that skeptics or the children of skeptics are fair game for… whatever.
As there is no real attempt at humour in the video, there’s no point in pretending it’s a parody. It’s instructional. It’s not even aimed at helping children work towards reducing emissions. It’s about helping children take aim at those who do not.
This is worse than Orwellian, although Eric Blair would certainly understand the meaning behind this message. And I don’t want to (and internet traditions would forbid me in any case) link this to the propaganda tactics of World War II. So somewhere in between those two, there is a special place in hell reserved for those whose intent it is to legitimize the cruelty of children towards each other based on what has evidently become a religious belief. And I hope that none of the film’s makers reaches that special place ahead of their allotted timespan–but I hope they get there.
Joe Romm and Bill McKibben have already announced they are ‘Shocked! Shocked!’ that gambling is going on in their casino and that their perpetual campaign of invective and calumny has produced people who actually believe them and hate skeptics. So I guess it’s no harm, no foul. Just as it was not their fault when a disturbed environmentalist took hostages at the Discover Channel headquarters, just as when the WWF made an ad showing planes flying into New York skyscrapers, just as when a Greenpeace blogger told skeptics the world over that ‘we know where you live.’ And as Anthony Watts knows full well, they also know where you work. But none of this is the fault of those who whip up the frenzy and the furor of those stupid enough to believe their hyperbole, enough to do something vicious, cruel, stupid or illegal.
So I guess I can’t blame hysterics like Romm and McKibben, who spend their days babbling about hell and high water and related mystical miseries, for any of the troubles we’ve seen. Except for the kids who will be downloading that video tonight. Both William Golding (Lord of the Flies) and J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan) knew full well that children need no help in being cruel. But this gives them license and legitimacy. And for that, Joe and Bill, I do hold you responsible. You sent the message first–it took years for 10:10 to make it explicit.
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When tracing the structure of organizations such as 10:10, their footprint in cyberspace can be of some value in ferreting out the various affiliations of the groups involved and their current and future plans. The 10:10 website is at http://www.1010global.org, by examining the hosting web server we learn the 10:10 has plans for future fund raising through websites such as http://www.1010trust.org. I would expect nothing less from a want-to-be new age religion; what good is a religion without the obligatory collection basket. The Domain registrant is Franny Armstrong of Spanner Films at http://www.Spannerfilms.net . Franny Armstrong also appears to be the person behind two web servers and the hosted websites list below. Here is the Wikipedia page on Franny Armstrong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franny_Armstrong which failes to mention that Franny finds it goodsport to blowup anyone who disagries with her. Browse the websites listed below and enjoy some of Franny’s cretive videography. Leni Riefenstahl could only admire Franny Armstrong talents.
Michael Ronayne
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Note: All of the information provided below is from public records which are available on the Internet.
Websites hosted at ec2-79-125-120-121.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com (79.125.120.121):
http://www.1010global.org
http://www.1010trust.com
http://www.1010trust.org
http://www.1010charitabletrust.org
Here is the WhoIs Registartion information for the Domain 1010global.org which lists Franny Armstrong of Spanner Films as the Domain owner.
Registrant Name:franny armstrong
Registrant Organization:Spanner Films
Registrant Street1:9 Delancey Street
Registrant Street2:Camden
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Registrant City:London
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Registrant Postal Code:NW17NL
Registrant Country:GB
Registrant Phone:+44.01654702413
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Registrant Email:franny@spannerfilms.net
Here is where the Spanner Files website is hosted and associated Domains.
Websites hosted at aos.dh.bytemark.co.uk (89.16.178.150):
http://www.Spannerfilms.net
http://www.Ageofstupid.com
http://www.Ageofstupid.net
http://www.Frannyarmstrong.com
http://www.Frannyarmstrong.net
http://www.Frannyarmstrong.org
http://www.Goodscreenings.org
http://www.Indiescreenings.net
http://www.Notstupid.org
I’ve never posted here before, but I have new sympathy for you guys now that I have seen this video. In fact, I have been told I am one of you for trying to discuss this with my (now) former friends on the left. I have been red-buttoned at 2 sites where I have been a regular contributor as I tried to raise awareness of this clueless action so that people would know what had transpired. I did not “godwin” or swear or call names. I just tried to warn people about this controversy, and to express my horror.
At one site on the left I saw the incredible: a person who did not know the backstory has posted this video and claimed:
Oy. Teh irony. I’ve also seen multiple claims that this was planted by a rat, sabotage, and various other conspiracies. This is off the rails. I have seen the underbelly. And it’s rotten.
> London Underground, July 7th, 2007 …… 50 dead. Countless more scarred for life. What was the bloody difference between that and the this 10:10 video ?
7/7 actually happened.
The Nazi party did a very similar thing in the 30’s. It happened again in Rwanda a media campaign saying and showing that they aren’t real people because the’re different than us, when the distrust/hate is there you strike.
I know I’m simplifying it a bit but the idea has been used by many.
How people die from biofuel programs. Biofuel programs are a part of global warming hysteria.
>>THOSE THAT PROPGATE THIS FILTH WILL BE PROSECUTED.
They will only be prosecuted if you go to the police and make a complaint. (Under the hate crimes offences, and be sure to add that a high-court judge has already decreed that AGW is a belief system or religion.)
Have you made an official complaint?
I have.
http://www.met.police.uk/csu/hatecrime.htm
You must have seen the video while in London, to use the online form – otherwise you must go to your local police station..
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Benjamin P.,
Even the people that made the video have apologized. They aren’t trying to tell people they are wrong for not thinking it’s funny. They have acknowledged people have been offended.
Even Joe Romm doesn’t like the video.
You somehow think that only the people who are regulars at this web site are offended by the video. You know, that speaks something about you—can you at least begin to see that?
To call the video free speech is an unintelligent argument the same that used to defend things like 2Live Crew, or urinating on photos of Mother Teresa, or burning the American flag. Some of the same people that claim these things are fine because they are “free speech” have no problem with taking down Nativity Scenes.
Some “free speech” is more equal than others.
Lucy Skywalker says:
October 2, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Has nobody else noticed the following?
I hadn’t noticed it. But it may be true.
davidmhoffer says:
October 2, 2010 at 8:42 pm
“10:10 and Osama bin Laden are not so much mutually exclusive as they are competitors with near identical products. Only the faith is different, although it could be said that one is more advanced than the other in terms of implementation.”
Probably no surprise, but I am buying that.
He has to vy with Ahmadinejad too.
It’s a cutthroat ( ahem) business.
Caleb@7:16pm
I made this correction on another thread, but there were actually 8 people killed in the movie: 2 children, 4 office workers (one can be seen lowering his hand but did not get a close-up), 1 soccer player and 1 Scully. So Fanny’s was only slightly off in her estimate given as fact. Someone else responded:
“No – the ‘Five’ figure is the correct number, reached after applying a correction to the body count to bring it into line with what it had been predicted to be by our video model. No, you cannot have access to any of the maths which we have used to derive our corrections….”
Amino@11:52am
As for the 300,000 figure, as AAM pointed out to Rowdy Roddy people are dying now because of biofuels. About 6 MILLION children die annually from hunger! So Roddy if you see this, this isn’t science but news based on reality, something you have apparently been avoiding. Perhaps you can “try reading” and then attempt to [snip] and that [snip] tattoo on your upper lip:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14909771.htm
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725975,00.html
http://www.poverty.com/
Check out AAM’s video as well. You and your AGW ilk could give a crap about people, as was proven in this unbelievably out-of-touch film, so take your “red” button and [snip]
WTF is this load of happy horse s@it all about? I would unload a bazuka in those eco-terrists asses before I let them brain wash me with their happy horse s@it. I just thank God every day for the 3 year extended solar minimum that lets them know who is really in charge.
I did not find anything funny in this video ,their sense of humor is no laughing mater.I think that the predictions made of climate disaster are just as unreal as this video.The point of this video is to frighten the population into believing that something awful is going to happen to the earth soon if we don’t change ,nothing is going to happen.It is very much like the communist scare in the 20th centuary but opposite in effect.
This post is purely satirical:
I wonder what would happen if someone produced an anti spoof video targeting AGW/CC believing diehard ‘extremist’ greenies to help reduce their CO2 footprint?
Could be title:
Hold your breath for 10 minutes on 10/10/2010.
That should go a long way in help reducing all that ‘dangerous’ GHG hotair they spout. 🙂
Greeniegate ?
Well, in metaphysical theories, crowds and groups can sense coming disasters even though they may interpret them wrongly. One disaster that waited for us was the economic melt down that happened a year or so ago, and may continue full force, according to some prophets. It is possible we are at the beginning of the fall of the western civilization, as we knew it, and these clowns are just misinterpreting the message. Maybe that is what AGW is all about, “since western civilization is doomed lets give it a shove to go faster into economic melt down”.
Now if you’d rather have conspiracies, I have one to sell.
OMG says:
October 2, 2010 at 9:18 pm
In fact, I have been told I am one of you for trying to discuss this with my (now) former friends on the left. I have been red-buttoned at 2 sites where I have been a regular contributor as I tried to raise awareness of this clueless action
Welcome to the desert of The Real.
I think the excuses and deflection are the saddest part of this whole fiasco. When someone can’t let something bad go as just a bad idea, it does in fact mean that they don’t really think it’s a bad idea. What does it say about someone who can front bad weather station data, misleading statistics, cherry-picked data and deliberate conflations… but they can’t bring themselves to disown something like this?
Just… wow.
mike roddy said on October 2, 2010 at 2:59 pm:
*sniff* *sniff*
Smells like troll.
The term genocide applies to one group of a species attempting to eradicate another group of the same species. Will Earth’s nature soon be trying to eradicate another planet’s nature?
Perhaps you think you are on a site for governmental authorities for what may recently be considered the British Empire. From New Zealand to Australia to Canada to the UK, the efforts to disarm the general populace have been very successful. Except for very tiny percentages, their governments have all the guns. When the time comes for those who oppose the encroaching totalitarian regimes to be rounded up as Enemies of the Earth and sent off for Green Remedial Education in Advanced Sustainability Efforts (i.e. to be GREASEd), they will be unable to fight back. Nor will they be able to plaintively look to the US and her citizens for assistance. The Green Reich (aka Green Workers Party) long ago co-opted our educational systems, our news media, even the entertainment industry. Quite a war would have to be fought and won internally before any Americans could help, providing afterwards they were in any condition to help those outside the US at all.
Those with practically all the guns are the governments, in the countries where the Green Reich is nearly ready to take control, or already has done so. The Masters of the Green don’t want to sully their delicate lily-white hands with filthy vulgar guns and prefer to control the governments that will handle the guns. Although they do seem to find shiny sterile red buttons to be particularly appealing…
Jimmy Haigh Oct 2 11:28:
My Hero!!!!
Much of what concerns was summarised to me by a late, brief comment on the Graun article (which I did take to task):
You lot need to lighten up
(I think there was something further irony free about ‘we british’, rather ignoring near all appalled commenters, by a factor of about 100:1, were indeed from our fair isles)
In that short sentence, this person set up a superior, false majority tribal grouping (in their own minds at least), with a god-given right to instruct others how to think and behave.
As I replied, in context of this story… ‘Or… what?
Now wishing I’d added the sweet further invitation ‘…no pressure’ to that.
I see this term becoming rather potent in this regard, if used effectively.
As an ex-Civ Eng/ad man, I am now a passionate, if pragmatic enviro-campaigner, concerned more with proactive DOING and reward-based, end-benefit-driven inspiration by high enviROI example over £/$-squandering, predominantly negative guilt, shame, threat, fear, nag or nanny ‘talk’ (from endless worldwide events to vast ‘awareness’ campaigns) and initiatives that simply don’t add up unless you are a lobby-pleasing, subsidy-addicted, box-ticking pol, quangocrat and their high paid mates in the often well-funded NGO/charity/activism sector. That these guys get bonusses based on using public money to run ads designed to drive up hits that drive up their bonusses offends me as clear examples of conflict of interest if not fraud.
But I do dip in to the odd chat to try and haul focus back to all the good that is DONE, and can be achieved by DOING, so long as it is well-assessed and targetted. For ages I have been dismayed that near all in green has been hijacked by usually self-elected, single issue messengers clearly utterly incapable of appreciating the complexities in doing the overall message (and hence topic) justice.
And they seem to be spiraling out of control, rationalising their abject professional failures to communicate and/or persuade as a) the failure of the public to grasp their ‘wisdom’ and, worse, b) trying to blame them for it. I know how that would have gone done in the commercial world with client and audience alike.
So as much as I am concerned about our environmental futures, I am now as concerned with the mindsets being embraced by some, with clear abuses of free speech and democracy in pursuit of narrow, dogmatic agendas that brook no counters.
And so, when next any from this extreme element get on high horses and presume to lecture broadcast only or dictate, I will be simply saying, in future… ‘Or else what?… No pressure’.
A rather nifty edited version of the film has been put up at b3ta (UK animator site, a bit like 4chan but safe for work viewing):
http://www.b3ta.com/links/how_to_solve_the_problem_of_climate_change
A bit of a Godwin at the end, but very well executed. Oops perhaps that is the wrong word to use…
I think someone pulled a classic fifth column job on the warmest in the 10:10 org. The most dangerous people in the game now are people that have been fanatical warmists and have then discovered the magnitude of the lie. They are angry, they are militant activists, and no one knows they have switched sides. They can push through this kind of thing sounding all enthusiastic and arthoritative while their really setting the other warmists up for a huge fall.
Remember this was done with government funds after the election. The conservatives are sceptics but the liberal democrats are warmists and their in coalition. The coalition can’t oppose global warming out right that would shatter the coalition. So someone’s let this ‘no Pressure’ campaign go all the way through to its embarrassing conclusion.
Who ever pulled this off is a hero. A master double agent in the war of ideas. There may come a day when that person steps up and can proudly say they pulled a fast on on the fanatics.
The corporate sponsors seem to have disappeared from the 10:10 website.
Just put a complaint in to the BBC News site about them burying the 10:10 news item. It didn’t even make it to the Science and Environment pages! So unless you do an historical search, it’s like it never happened. Odd as it’s been really quiet on their Science and Environmental pages. No bias there of course! Bet I get a stock answer back.
@Jan
That email deserves MUCH wider circulation:
“It’s a fairly simple and to-the-point premise, I’m sure you’ll agree: we celebrate everybody who is actively tackling climate change… by blowing up those are aren’t.”
I must be a very bad Brit. My irony/sarcasm circuits appear to be malfunctioning.
Even reading that sentence “in context”, I find no other way to interpret this than as a hostile challenge.
My comment disappeared, but I meant to say the burden of proof lies with those claiming OBL is dead. We just won’t know unless and until they find him, dead or alive.
It is funny how the CAGW/CC/CD Belief is useful for all kinds, even terrorists. Usually the motive is financial, as the piggies line up at the trough, waiting for the shakedown of the West, but the motive of harming the West financially will do as well.