BLACKOUT Documentary on Channel 4 A warning????

[kersley]

I find it strange that Channel 4 a major television broadcasting channel here in the UK would show something like this when so many are talking about major earth changing events due to happen soon.

It would appear to me that this is a warning to the general public preparing us for what's to come.
(copied from the Channel 4 website)
Drama documentary exploring the effects of a devastating cyber-attack on Britain's national electricity grid, combining fictional scenes with footage recorded during real blackouts

Click on the link below to see a preview.. What do you guys think? all comments are welcomed.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/blackout

[Lifebringer]

Can't see it. They won't let it be shown.

[kersley]

Channel 4 is at it again .. oh dear.

[ghostrider]

If we are the light of the world , it can never really go dark anywhere ... lol

[Flash]

Channel 4 seems to have decided to live by fear, make money through fear or through destructing others. I would not base much of what they present to the public.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Well, as negative as the TV media tries to be,

the idea of Ebombing and High altitude nuclear EMP is very much part of our reality.

everyone who knows this wonders when, not how...

i hate to be a negative nancy but it's true, it *could* happen and if you recall V for Vendetta, UK terrorizes itself @_@

unless somehow they piss off Russia LOL

[ghostrider]

I tried to watch it but , they don't want it viewed ...

[Free Bird]

I've just finished watching it. I felt some of it was rascist and islamophobic. But worse still, they portrayed the character who was best prepared for the Blackout as being smug and a bit of a loser who in the end was bound to commit crime like everyone else.

Basically, the film was saying that there is no point being prepared because you all will go the same way in the end. In other words, a propaganda hit piece on people who are awake and aware and know how to deal with catastrophe.

Peace & Love
-x-

[Sérénité]

Ive kind of fallen out with Channel 4 after the Ammach incident...
But, I will give it a whirl seeings I have a free hour and see what serious issues they try to mock this time round!

Funny! The intro advert is a sales pitch from British Gas to install smart meters in our homes...

[Nick Matkin]

Well... I've just watched it. About what I'd expect things to be like if it happened. And quite disturbing, particularly the last few minutes.

I don't believe any nonsense about 'the government preparing the people' or similar sentiments. Of course I can't prove it, but I've worked in the media and do you know what? Some programme makers probably got together a year or so ago and thought it was high time they made that docudrama. It pulls a lot of things together that have been simmering away in the public consciousness for a while now. No government direction, just programme makers doing a lot of research and making a programme.

Neither do I think the docudrama was some sinister plot to discourage what the US call 'preppers'. It just shows it like it is; when society starts to collapse, those who have made provisions will be raided by those that have not. Simple. If anything, it should be interpreted as trying to get more people prepared who have homes and gardens where they can do something. But how do you protect yourself from the starving/thirsty city tower-block dwellers? Oh yes. I forgot. Guns!

Nick

[Gardener]

Sry Nick I am confused, is it a repeat? You say you watched it, its not broadcast until 9pm tonight (tues 10th). Or am I wrong.

[Nick Matkin]

I don't think it's a repeat. I just scrolled down to the 'catchup on 4' link. It's not broadcast till tonight, (9pm BST 10 Sept), but the whole programme is available on the Ch4 website.

Not sure if it's geo-locked or not, so maybe it can't be viewed outside the UK.

Nick

[scanner]

Sry Nick I am confused, is it a repeat? You say you watched it, its not broadcast until 9pm tonight (tues 10th). Or am I wrong.It was aired on the 9th at 9pm

[Sérénité]

It's on ch4 catch up, was aired last night and tonight at 9pm, is tonight's a repeat of last nights or is it part 2?
...I'm still only 30minutes in so can't comment yet, but very predictable so far.

[brenie]

Sry Nick I am confused, is it a repeat? You say you watched it, its not broadcast until 9pm tonight (tues 10th). Or am I wrong.

Hi Gardener, I think it depends which area you are in, I believe it run in Norfolk last night.

[Gardener]

Ahhh! thank you all, I get it now, sometimes it takes a while, my neuro database has got huge and the search takes longer. That's my excuse but I think it's a good one. :)
Will watch.

[kersley]

Maybe someone can record it and upload it here on Avalon for others not in the UK to watch??

[Gardener]

I watched it and yes it is disturbing but as Nick says 'predictable' people surviving in their own way. It followed several scenarios, groups of people, families, a hospital. The drama factor was high for maximum effect. None of it was beyond feasable given the circumstances. The 'prepper' guy was made to look kinda ridiculous throughout and ended quite dramatically, which gave insight into what a person might be capable of in given circumstances.
What I didn't see were any armed services on the streets in any number, there were riot police etc, but I think in a reality situation there will be plans which we are not privy too at this time. For instance, during the tension week where we came close to nuclear war in the early 60's, here in the UK there were plans in place for road blocks on all strategic main routes, and many secondary routes to ensure traffic could not mobilse, everywhere was contained. This was if I recall, down to local police forces to action, it may be in force still.

Whether this is some kind of pre-warning I wouldn't like to guess, I tend to think like Nick that it was a creative media enterprise; but lets not forget the London tube event on 7/7 was acurately depicted on BBC as a drama/reality challenge scenario for emergency response. (for entertainment). Channel 4 have external production companies who make the program and propose it to channel 4 hoping they buy.

It is a sobering reminder of how vulnerable we have become as a society, and how expectations can far exceed reality.

[Gardener]

Sorry K I dont have the means to do this but it would be good if someone could, maybe it will appear on the tube at some point.

Maybe someone can record it and upload it here on Avalon for others not in the UK to watch??

[WhiteFeather]

I no longer watch The Tell Lie Vision and started to read books instead. So it doesn't effect me personally. Some Words of Wisdom . Throw your TV in the f...g garbage pail. You'll feel so much better tomorrow. Trust me on this one.

[Gardener]

I so totally agree with you WF, I don't watch at all, only on the PC when something is recommended. There are however millions out there watching this stuff, and there is little likelyhood they are going to heed your good advice sadly.

I no longer watch The Tell Lie Vision and started to read books. So i guess it doesn't effect me personally. Some Words of Wisdom . Throw your TV in the f...g garbage. Youll feel much better tomorrow. Trust me on this one.

[Free Bird]

I knew I forgot something, perhaps the most important thing! And it's the fact that in nearly all disaster situations, rather than rioting taking place, you have unprecedented cooperation.

The following article reminded me of this important fact.


The Disaster Myth Narrative: No One Panics, No One Loots, No One Goes Hungry

Posted by: Daisy Luther | on September 10, 2013

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ~ George Orwell

Panic? What panic?

According to newspaper articles written after Superstorm Sandy devastated the East Coast and after Hurricane Katrina caused countless billions in damage in New Orleans, people were calm, benevolent and peaceful. Heck, they were all standing around singing Kumbayah around a campfire, sharing their canned goods, calming frightened puppies, and helping the elderly.

Apparently studies prove that the fear of anarchy, lawlessness, and chaos is nothing but the “disaster myth”. Reams of examples exist of the goodness and warmth of society as a whole after disaster strikes. All the stories you read at the time were just that – stories, according to the mainstream media:


Yet there are a few examples stubbornly fixed in the popular imagination of people reacting to a natural disaster by becoming primal and vicious. Remember the gangs “marauding” through New Orleans, raping and even cannibalizing people in the Super-Dome after Hurricane Katrina? It turns out they didn’t exist. Years of journalistic investigations showed them to be racist fantasies. They didn’t happen. Yes, there was some “looting” — which consisted of starving people breaking into closed and abandoned shops for food. Of course human beings can behave atrociously – but the aftermath of a disaster seems to be the time when it is least likely. (Source (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-myth-of-the-panicking_b_837440.html))

The rest of the article continues here ... (http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/the-disaster-myth-narrative-no-one-panics-no-one-loots-no-one-goes-hungry-09102013)

Daisy Luther is a freelance writer and editor. Her website, The Organic Prepper (http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/), offers information on healthy prepping, including premium nutritional choices, general wellness and non-tech solutions. You can follow Daisy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/TheOrganicPrepper?ref=hl) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/DaisyLuther), and you can email her at daisy@theorganicprepper.ca

So to my mind, this C4 production was definitely intended to instill fear and mistrust within society. As if there isn't enough of it already!

Peace and Love
-x-

[Sérénité]

Not such a happy ending, but I think it made its point clearly enough! Im not sure it was aired as a warning of impending doom, that said I do feel if the proverbial hits the fan here in the UK it will be via the utilities going down.
A stark warning to everyone really that, we really do take the modern day developed world luxuries of electric, gas and water 'on tap' very much for granted.

It may have been a bit of unnecessary fear mongering, but sometimes people do need a wake up call to the fragility of life and how easily things can get out of hand, look at what happens after a few days of bad snow or a fuel shortage. Being as prepared as possible for unexpected events, be it man made or natural, is something we should all be aware of.

[avid]

Isn't there going to be a grid take-down drill around November 13th in USA?
http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/09/08/after-the-lights-go-out/

Forgive me if I'm wrong....., don't you just hate it when these drills go live :mad2:

[Nick Matkin]

The strange thing is that up until say the 1970s or maybe 1980s it would not have been possible to 'take the grid down' like that. The UK had a fully interlinked national grid since about the late 1940s - early 1950s, without any significant date-link connections.

It worked; probably not as efficiently as it works now, but robust and probably impossible to maliciously shut down the whole thing at once! It was probably the same for the telephone network until the 1960s.

So what the hell are we doing connecting all this stuff up and thus exposing our infrastructure like this? It's madness being able to close a country down in a way that would have been completely impossible only 30 years ago!

Nick

(PS: I have solar panels that work even when the grid goes down and don't make any noise!)

[Lone Bean]

:) Decided what I had to say was totally irrelevant.

[kersley]

Question..
When the lights goes out and your down to your last candle, when all the fuel in your car is done.
all supermarket shelves are empty and your down to last tin of bake beans in your cupboard. Hold on.. I can smell roast chicken? maybe? whatever it is, it sure smell good.
yes it's coming from across the street. what do you do? surely at this point no one is willing to share? How long can I feed the family next door?

[avid]

Keep your neighbours close - form a 'safety-net' group. If everyone 'shares' then even perpetrators of greed should be welcomed to be 'safe' and to 'share' their so-called spoils. Keep your friends close - and your enemies closer..... However, hopefully this will never come to this circumstance. Just be prepared as well as one can, extra tinned food/dried food/ water storage in collapsible containers, and a couple of camping stoves with spare gas, torches, wind-up power radios/lamps. Candles. Matches et al - we've been onto this since 1996! I curse Chet B Snow for putting panic into our society - it has really spoiled our innocent lives and choices. http://dwij.org/forum/future_link/future7.htm