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Daily Telegraph hack Richard Alleyne LIED to smear OLSX

Reprographics | 26.10.2011 09:11 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements

Police deny being the source of press allegations that 90% of Occupy London Stock Exchange tents are empty overnight. It's a measure of the occupation's true impact that mainstream media hacks like Richard Alleyne are reduced to lying about police intelligence to try and smear protests against corporate greed. Contact Richard Alleyne at  richard.alleyne@telegraph.co.uk .....

"The camp forced St Paul's to close for the first time since the Blitz and is costing local businesses thousands of pounds a day. But most of the protesters are heading home to sleep in their own beds at night. Infra red images taken by a police helicopter during the early hours show that only around 20 of the 200 tents on the encampment actually have people staying in them." - Richard Alleyne, Daily Telegraph, 24 Oct 2011

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8846402/Only-one-in-10-St-Pauls-protesters-stay-overnight.html

"Activists camping outside St Paul's Cathedral have denied press reports that only 10% of their tents are occupied at night, and police said they were not the source of the figure... Reports quoting the 10% occupancy rate appeared in the Times, Telegraph, Sun, and Daily Mail on Tuesday, apparently based on evidence gathered by a police helicopter equipped with thermal imaging cameras. However, City of London police told the Guardian that they could not confirm nor deny the reports, saying only that neither details of the thermal imaging cameras nor the occupancy estimates had come from them." - Sam Jones & Peter Walker, Guardian.co.uk, 25 Oct 2011

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/25/occupy-london-tents-night

After lying about the Metropolitan Police, The Telegraph have since published their OWN thermal image, which was taken from the ground and definitely NOT from a police helicopter, and which, with a very narrow field of view, instead of showing the entire protest in fact shows no more than 10 tents, ie - showing 5% of the overall protest. The photograph does not therefore prove anything about the occupancy of the other 190 plus tents and there is no proof the image was even taken at this protest -

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/8847958/Pictures-of-the-day-25-October-2011.html?image=18

Predictably Richard Alleyne tries to use the "Blitz factor" to alienate his readers from the OLSX protests, despite the fact that protestors are trying to DEFEND Britain from attacks on services which were instituted by Britons immediately after and in response to the suffering of WW2. Far from being the stereotypes the hard-right media try to characterise them as, in fact The Guardian says one protestor is a 48 year-old former Tory councillor from Wokingham.


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Christian Flashmob St Pauls tonight *****

26.10.2011 14:43

There's a Christian flashmob / choir planned for St Paul's this afternoon to protest against the closure of the Cathedral.... tactically, if it materialises, the choir should be welcomed with open arms - "Jesus was the first socialist", "kicking the money lenders out of the temple" etc. Please notify OLSX people immediately.

 http://flashevensong.weebly.com/

Also, although it's a different strand of Christianity - "The Vatican aligned itself with anti-capitalism protesters around the world on Monday when it condemned "the idolatry of the market" and called for a radical shake-up of the global financial system" -

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8846595/Vatican-sides-with-anti-capitalist-protesters-and-attacks-global-financial-system.html

The hypocrisy of the Vatican is stunning, but nonetheless, where tossers like the Daily Mail have an audience of over 2 million, Vatican pronouncements have an audience of 1.2 BILLION - this is potentially the biggest PR coup the Occupy movement's received so far

Anonymous


Comments

Display the following 21 comments

  1. Addition — Repro
  2. The Blitz — Anti-Fascist
  3. speaking of traitors!! — salvador dali
  4. re hospitals — Smash PWC
  5. Reply to Smash PWC — Repro
  6. 0.9% — 99.1%
  7. Daily Telegraph hack Richard Alleyne LIED — Amazed at your naivety
  8. 99% — Parliament...its own museum.
  9. Naivete? — Jean Paul Sartre
  10. "And cynicism see's everything but itself." — Grown Up
  11. obvious question — i do not count
  12. Urgent request to Indy mods — Anon
  13. Grow Up — 41
  14. Well Done, you prove my point perfectly — Amazed at your naivety
  15. Reply to Amazed — Cheers
  16. Trade and Commerce prevent war? — Oh joy :)
  17. Richard Alleyne — Beeeehind you!!!!
  18. Nice try — Father Christmas
  19. TOM KELLY and DAMIEN GAYLE of The Daily Mail — Holy Smoke
  20. We need to dig the dirt on establishment journalists — anon
  21. Thermal cameras don't see sleeping bags....... — Winnebago
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