Wednesday 15 August 2012

Sleepwalker

Sleepwalker - An idea I had for a short film. 
Invariably things happened and I never completed the film, these images are a basic concept of how it  might have looked. I later used them to apply for a graphic novel job, hence the captions.

Keeping up With the Gardening

 

"...In a decaying society, art if it is truthful,
Must also reflect decay...”
 Ernst Fischer

What is it about suburban decay ? Perhaps it is the appeal of the fantasy element, the idea that one day, our once indomitable empire may fall prey to the ravages of nature and time, or is it a simple inevitable thing that happens ? I have often thought that civilisation is really about keeping up with the gardening. Mankind, his technologies, his architectural ingenuity, his various empires of supposed dominance upon this globe. All have fallen sway to the power of nature sooner or later...

Battersea Power Station 
London


Nelson’s Column
Trafalgar Square,  London



Clarence Pier
Southsea, Portsmouth
 
Originally built in 1861, Clarence Pier has seen many changes: with various extensions and other renovations added over the years but due to severe Luftwaffe air raid damage during Second World War,  it’s final refurbishment was not for some twenty years later in 1961. Once the mainstay attraction to the seaside for holidaymakers and locals alike, the Pier, its related amusement arcades, cafes, bars and fair ground rides have seen steady decline over recent decades. With no one left to maintain it, much of these aspects will become too costly to run and with most locals forced to  leave the area in search of work elsewhere, the Pier will eventually close to the public sometime in the latter part of this Century. Over the course of the next ten years the area will suffer from severe storm damage, high tides will have swept shingle into most parts of the lower levels and across the main sea road towards the Clarence Pier Bus Interchange, swamping most vehicles in the deluge. Thus, the area may reside in many rare forms of flora, boasting some of the most intricate biospheres along the south coast...


The Kings Theatre -Auditorium
The Kings Theatre, Albert Road, Portsmouth.

Even such majestic architectures as the Kings Theatre must fall eventually. Wood beams must rot with termites and water damage. Root systems find their way into the substructure, causing roofing to collapse and opening it to the elements. Alcoves and balconies that once seated patrons now become nests for various forms of flora and fauna...


Kings Theatre
View From Albert Road, Southsea, Portsmouth

 One has only to consider that such things are merely provisional, that all we can hope for is the eternal staving off of nature, who's vines and creepers wait patiently for the time when the gardening becomes too much for us to cope with...

A3 Bridge
(leaving Portsmouth)
As one of the main arteries leading into Portsmouth, (connecting it directly to London) with thousands of vehicles crossing over and under it everyday, such bridges as these are particularly susceptible to inclement weather. Rainwater has the knack of getting into everything, including cracks formed in the brittle concrete of bridges and buildings, a process known as imbibition, by which water molecules seep into a porous material causing it to swell, enabling plant life to creep their eventual way into the joints and supports that make up the backbone of such bridges. Water molecules within the root system expand, eventually breaking concrete apart, purely because concrete has no room for expansion and excess pressure from roots growing within, will force it apart. Bridges such as these, may stand more chance of lasting a little longer than their conventional contemporaries, simply because of their arched design. The roads beneath them however will not. With growing concerns over pot holes developing over the countries ridged arteries systems, our roads cannot be maintained forever. Motorway maintenance costs on average £3000 per mile per year. The M1 alone is 200 miles long and costs £600,000 per year to maintain. Privatisation of our motorways to foreign investors will only exasperate an already difficult financial problem. For road taxes will rise respectively, eventually forcing motorists to use other means of transport altogether. The problem is overly cyclical: motorists ultimately unable to afford to run their vehicles. Staff shortages and lowly wages mean the very petroleum in the tankers will be not be delivered to their outlets as the cost of living increases. Road fatalities will rise, due to the state of the roads and so on, the fall of the economy, creating a domino effect on our very lives...
Spinnaker Tower
and View of Gun Wharf, Portsmouth

With it's iconic shape, chosen by local residents due to its association with Portsmouth’s Maritime history, the Spinnaker Tower has unfortunately been over shadowed by its own controversial history. Originally referred to as the Millennium Tower and at a height of 170 metres (a shortfall in itself ) extensive delays and budget overruns meant that the lottery funded tower was not complete for the Millennium Celebrations, opening to the public some five years after its initial deadline. Notorious for its extensive construction costs (36 Million, 11 million paid by Taxpayers)  many disgruntled residents may recall the flurry surrounding the towers eventual opening in 2005. Whereby the Project manager and representatives from Mowlem (the builders) and Maspero (the Italian Lift suppliers) became trapped in the Towers infamous glass elevator, suspended some 40 feet in the air. To this day, the lift has never worked properly and will be removed by the end of 2012. As the centre point of Gun Wharf Keys and the historic Portsmouth Dockyards, the tower is extremely susceptible to the elements and must be maintained with weatherproofing paint at all times. Due to the high salt content of the area, its protective paint will eventually peal away exposing the concrete beams beneath. The tower will then begin to develop cracks in its super structure, allowing water to seep in and corrode vital metal supports, some of which will become loose and eventually fall upon the concourse beneath. To paint the tower, it costs on average £300,000. Within the next few decades, lack of funding into the towers maintenance will run mean closer to the general public, as the entire area thus becomes unsafe and falls prey to the rigours of time. Unkempt foliage will eventually work its way across Gun Wharf, into the cafe at the base of the tower and work its way up inside the Spinnaker Tower itself. The tramlines that once supported the glass elevator, will become the basis of a trestle, encouraging vines and various floras to creep up the tower until they engulf the derelict cafe at the top. Eventually, the site may well become a centrepiece of ornithological interest, as sea gulls, starlings and other coastal birds begin to reside within the various stairwells, lattice supports and other parts of the abandoned Spinnaker tower...

Guild Hall Square
Portsmouth

The recession is not only about lack of work, it is also about a mind set, that has existed since the dawn of the industrial revolution. The idea that capitalism holds the key to our comfortable living is an illusion, simply because the idea of running a community on such a system is ultimately flawed.  If we regard the mechanisms by which it runs on, we only need to look at the state of our own environment. The Guildhall square was heavily bombed during the second world war in Luftwaffe air raids. It has been rumoured that the Luftwaffe were sold the additives to their petrol driven planes by American conglomerates. Money is always the problem, for such corporations have no allegiance to any flag.  It is time that we took a more mature look at the potentials of pulling our resources together, rather than fighting over them. It is time we looked to other alternatives rather than the stalemate concept of money. This could be classed as an open source system or library system. If our civilisation cannot understand this, then we have no hope in keeping up with the gardening.  For example, in a recession, schools and colleges close accordingly, highly skilled work then becomes scarce, communities must then move further afield in order to survive. Leaving behind them relative ghost cities such as Portsmouth to the mercy of nature. This is true of every empire that has come and gone before us, for once the resources have been used up in that locality, the dynasty of Egypt and  Rome and so on, were all doomed to dwindle and perish over the passing centuries. It is time now that we learn from these mistakes and begin the process of working together as a united planet, rather than as a series of petty divided countries...

Houses of  Parliament
London 
 


...and unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Ernst Fischer
So long as we keep up with the gardening we have a chance. So please - trim your hedges, mow your lawns, prune your rose bushes. Before it is too late...


THE CONTROVERSIAL ESSAY



THE  CONTROVERSIAL ESSAY 
(the one that almost cost me my degree)


Below is my famous essay on conspiracy theory, which nearly got me kicked off my film degree. I hastily wrote it in my first year, inspired after watching the documentary Zietgiest (2007) and recieved a letter in the post during the summer break saying I had failed miserably and would not be allowed back on the course until my grades had improved. However there was little explanation why I had failed and it took a lot of running around the university trying to find somebody who would help me. Subsequently I was sent for evaluation for 'Dyslexia'. However, not only was I made to do all sorts of odd tests to evaluate the extent of my 'problem' but asked if I knew what the Quran was all about and what the word Zietgiest actually meant.  It could be that the essay was not impartial, referenced properly (wikipedia) and hastily written by a dyslexic. On the other hand, has anyone actually read the official 7/7 report ? Where the hell are the references at the end of that fairytale ? 
View 7/7 Official Report- Here
Anyway, this is my conspiracy theory rant, enjoy ...

Unit Name: CULTURAL INDUSTRIES
Unit Co-ordinator: Terry Daniels
Student Number: 2622595
Assignment Name:
Essay question 6 :
 
Do the London bombings of 7 July 2005 
fit Dayan and Katz's concept of an media event?

Media Events : The Live Broadcasting of History:
"These are the events that hang a halo over  the television set and transform the viewing experience."
(Dayan and Katz p1)
In the mid-70s, inspired by the peace-making initiatives of the third President of Egypt, Anwar El Sadat,  (which made him an Egyptian hero) Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz  began assembling a library of historic moments within the latter half of the 20th century from  the funeral of JFK to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond.
Representing 15 years of collaboration, their 1992 book, Media Events theorised
the mechanisms that constituted their 'media event' model for the live broadcasts
of historic occasions that enthralled a whole nation, or the world.
(Wikipedia, retrieved 12/5/08)
However, do the 7/7 bombings fit Dayan and Katz's concept of a media event?
This essay will attempt to answer, by analysing the model Dayan and Katz used for the media event and comparing it to media events over the last century bearing in mind that the truth behind certain historical events may have been ‘covered up’ by men in power.
This is an example of Dayan and Katz model:
Britain 1953 - The Queen's Coronation attracted 20 million viewers to their television sets.
What is the significance of this to the media event ?
World War 2 was still fresh in peoples minds, many husbands did not come back from the war, public moral is very low.
However, their spirits are lifted by the ‘new thing’…….

Television.  

Everyone is encouraged to invest in a purchase.
Suddenly everyone can participate in the coronation without even leaving the living room.
The nation is re-united at last.
We have sovereignty, identity and every single night, before we go to bed, the National Anthem is played to remind us of who and what we are - less we forget.
So this is the Dayan and Katz model, a media event by there definition is a’break’ from the norm, the ‘interruption’ of routine, where by there is a 'public holiday' from the daily grind.
However Dayan and Katz have maintained that media coverage of incidents (such as the exploits of terrorist’s) do not fit into their ‘media event’ model and are discarded despite any similarity to the contrary.
They define such acts of journalism (such as the media frenzy over the Hindenburg disaster) as ventures by the media into ‘voyeurism’, that such spectacles are often un-edited and completely biased.
Instead they would concern themselves with the aftermath of such an event, focusing on the public in mourning, lengthy journalistic monologues of the people in passing, footage of the smouldering twisted metal wreck, where the once great Airship stood, of the firemen deployed to sweep it up (with the proverbial dust pan and brush)
and consign what’s left,
to the dustbin of  ‘history’.
However if one wishes to look deeper and not just at some random conjecture, but something that has significance, you can still apply Dayan and Katzs model.  
For the sake of argument You can look at it as cause and effect.
You may apply the same question

Does the Hindenburg disaster fit Dayan and Katz's concept of an media event?
There is the ‘Media Event’ itself :
1937 The Hindenburg disaster
“…During its second year of service, Hindenburg  went up in flames and was destroyed while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester Township, New Jersey, U.S., on 6 May 1937. Thirty-six people died in the accident…”
Wikipedia 14/5/08
You can then analyze what the media is reporting;
It’s broadcast everywhere, everyone is told about it, the country is shocked.
You apply Dayan and Katz model and recognize it does not conform
as the media became a voyeuristic frenzy.
It was a festive occasion that turned into a nightmare and planning went out of the window. 
But again, look at it as cause and effect.
Ask yourself, how is the future formed by this incident, how is this one event going to effect me?
Ask yourself, would Dayan and Katz model still apply if the dice was heavily loaded?
Ask yourself  
What is the significance of this to the media event ?
For the model to still apply you have to look at competitiveness.
This is an  aspect of the Dayan and Katz’s model.
Take into account that public opinion is swayed whether it’s bad journalism or not.
There are always competitors.
One can research the history of aviation and discover some key points:
Zeppelins were (and still) considered the future of passenger aviation.
(Witigonen)
“...the ocean liners of the skies..”
(zeppelintours)
One can look at the cause and the many opinions that surround it.
You might come up with:
“..The Hindenburg explodes without reason, many conspiracy theories are formed…”
You look at movies and books based on the subject, one book tells you
(with absolute  certainty)  it was the volatile fuel the airship was using,
However, another guy will tell you it was static electricity’  in the atmosphere….
20 books in and your brain has an overload.
But it does not matter – the media has told you:
 Zeppelins are ‘dangerous’.
You can draw again upon Dayan and Katz model, they take into account that
‘media events’ such as the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin were all about
competition.

The Nazis, touting Aryan supremacy against the world.
You plough thru all this stuff but you must still answer the question :
What is the significance of this if it is to fit Dayan and Katz's concept of an media event?
Its about competition.
 Public awareness is swayed from using Zeppelins.
Air travel is subsequently dominated by American passenger jet’s, run by the airships competitors: TWA
You could look at anything as a competition of beliefs and then apply Dayan and Katz model.
On one hand, 7/7 could be construed as this, in terms of geographical nature.
 On the other hand the world is at constant difference, its nations divided by politics, religion etc
War is the daily grind in almost every corner of our planet, and people make millions of $ from it.
How many wars are going on right now ?
As a Nation we consider ourselves to be at peacetime, surviving two world wars, the Cold War, the IRA, the poll tax etc
We are content, subservient almost, to sit back and view the comings and goings on this sphere with little consequence beyond our TV dinners and our brand new television sets.
As civilians, we can switch off from the rest of the world, while the war and the media event unfolds in Burma, China, Germany, it does not matter.
As long as it interrupt’s some other country and does not bother us.
So what does fit with the mode Dayan and Katz have provided for us?
In modern terms, for the media event to have total validity it must :
1) Be Pre-planned
2) Broadcast Live (Such as the Queens Coronation)
3) Incorporate the public sphere to partake in the event.
Dayan and Katz define it as:
 "carefully organized staged occasions in which press and broadcast media cooperate with government..."
(Liebes)
It is ceremonial, in as many aspects because it is organized, like a 3 day marathon, with daily lethargic updates and news coverage, all designed to keep people glued to their TV sets or participate in the ceremony itself.
However the question begs,
 What is the significance of this if it is to fit Dayan and Katz's concept of an media event?
Did the events of July the 7th 2005 correlate in what we understand as media event?
The media would argue in defense of course, that 7/7 was not pre-planned.
It was an unprovoked attack on our soil…..
It was those pesky 'terrorist’s' (who ever they are) ask any fireman in New York and they will tell you that ;
 "nobody...and I mean nobody saw 911 coming..."
However voyeuristic the news coverage of 911 appeared, it could still be applied  within the media event model :
It was broadcast live in marathonic continuity, it still fits the Dayan and katz model, even if they themselves will tell you otherwise.
Like a 3 day marathon, with excited news coverage updates of  people jumping from windows, buildings collapsing,  then daily lethargic updates on firemen digging for bodies and debates over who is to blame. 
All designed to keep people glued to their TV sets or participate in the 'ceremony' unfolding.
Like 911, the London bombings of 2005 could be summed as a 'disaster marathon' (Liebes)

The same model fits 7/7 (and 911) if you assume, (just for the moment) that these 'terrorist attacks' were pre-planned by government agencies.
These could be purported as a 'veiled media event', or False Flag Operation
(Jones)

There is a now a wealth of information to corroborate this as fact.
However these facts are biased and contradict each other.
So again, what are the common attributes of the media event model?
The public opinion is swayed by the unification of a huge (and if possible) broadcastable event.

Conjectures:
Media Events in History  - some examples
1912 – Titanic is a media spectacle, the largest most luxuriant vessel ever built and said to be ‘unsinkable’*.
*(Snopes)
She hits an ice burg in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and sinks in 2 hrs.
It is her maiden voyage, there are not enough life boats.
1,517 souls are lost.

What is the significance of this if it is to fit Dayan and Katz's concept of an media event?
Many of society’s most influential representatives and rich are on board, attracted like moths to the flame by the media attraction of this majestic vessel.
Most of these ruling class citizens also openly opposed to the introduction of 
The Federal Reserve Bank, spearheaded by Titanic’s financer and ultimate owner:
JP Morgan.
J.P. Morgan, photographed by Edward Steichen in 1903

Morgan dominated the corporate finance and industrial consolidation of Western
Society, during the late 1880’s and early 1900’s.

He was arguably the richest man in the world.  
He was scheduled to board the Titanic himself, but backed out at the last moment, due to ‘sudden illness’
It is no coincidence that after Titanic sank, the Federal Reserve bank came into existence within 3 years.
After Titanic, it is has been suggested nobody of any real power was left to oppose it’s creation.*
*(Thruthasour)
1915 The Sinking of  The Lusitania
What is the significance of this if it is to fit Dayan and Katz's concept of an media event?
World war One.
Within 2 years of the sinking, (with the help of  media support) America finally enters the war with Germany .
It is possible The Federal Reserve Bank could have profited from this.
USA -The 1940's radio broadcast by Orson Welles of War Of the Worlds,
Cause’s widespread panic…
What is the significance of this to the media event ?
Is a classic example of  miss-interpretation of fictional events.
People actually believed they were being invaded from another world.
If they could believe something as dumb as this, then who knows what else
they could be told to believe.
1941 Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is attacked by Japan, the public is informed of the bare facts
and America enters the Second World War.
What is the significance of this to the media event ?
President Roosevelt placed a stranglehold on foreign trade retaining a posture of aggression against Japan.*
*(Jospeph, Zeitgeist)
The Harbor is destroyed and the overall death toll reached 2,350 lives lost.
It is possible The Federal Reserve Bank could have profited from this….
The wheels of the media machine start turning once more….
Dallas, 1963 The assassination of JFK.
What is the significance of this to the media event ?
By the 1950's, the Russians succeed in producing Nuclear weapons and developing their own space program.
The Cold War ensues.
Media attention in the U.S rally to the cause, suddenly
the Russians are the new enemy, communism would not
be tolerated and such slogans as 'Better Dead Than Red' came into the public psyche.
They perpetuate a ‘myth’* on a scared and misinformed society.
*(Barthes)
JFK is murdered, the American dream dies.
Lee Harvey Oswald is blamed, any released data purports he is a ‘communist’.
The media circus implies communism’s influence, is like a disease
As a result the Vietnam War continues for another 10 years, costing the lives of approximately 50,000 young servicemen.(Bowman,p220)
It is possible The Federal Reserve Bank could have profited from this also…
1969 Moonlandings
Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the surface of the Moon
The world is gathered around their TV set’s…

What is the significance of this to the media event ?
Media attention is paramount, in order that the Russians ‘get the message’,
They are "beaten" in the Space Race.
By the end of the 1970's, interest in space exploration had dwindled and NASA's budget is slashed, the money, poured into the Arms Race instead.
By the end of 1980’s and early 1990’s the cold war and the USSR has been consigned to the dustbin of history

1990's - Media attention turns to the deployment of U.S. and British soldiers in Iraq

What is the significance of this to the media event ?
It is possible The Federal Reserve Bank had severe cash flow problems after the cold war had ended (but this is merely conjecture) however…..
In America,  President Bush is Elected President.
In Britain, Labour comes into power…

2001 - 911
The World Trade Centre is destroyed -  Media attention is paramount.  Al-Qaeda is instantly conjured, as the main culprit.
Words such as Terrorism, The Taliban, Bin laden and Islam are on everyone’s lips….
What is the significance of this to the media event ?
Many talk shows of this period debate about America's involvement with Iraq and 911 as a spectacular facade, for gaining control of the oil fields.
America has become a 'dirty' word in the British publics mind.
At the same time media manipulation ensures there is a 'divide' of public opinion on both sides of the continent.
Many Muslim citizens are suddenly singled out by the press and public opinion of ethnic minorities is at an all time low.
2005 - 7/7 Bombings
London Underground Tube Trains and other public transport are destroyed in "Terrorist" attacks.
Do the 7/7 bombings fit Dayan and Katz's concept of a media event?
Blaire’s 7 year administration was flagging in the parliamentarian poles, losing votes down to 28% and a re-election seemed unlikely, due to the involvement of British soldiers in the Iraq war.
7/7 happens – Suspects are instantly pulled out of thin air.
Once again the Media Event is paramount, however, there is also
a 'media blackout' concerning contradictions in the official reports: that this was the work of  "four extremists", related to Al'Queda or other supposed terrorist organizations.
This coincides with the G8 summit meeting at Gleneagles in Scotland.
Blair uses the 1994 Civil Contingencies Act  to declare marshal law in Britain, limiting freedom of speech, perpetuating propaganda and using tyrannical means (such as the implementation of  ID cards) in order to boost support for the war in Iraq.
On the 15th of July 2005, during the height of the paranoia, Jean Charles de Menezes  is shot dead by police on the subway as a ‘potential terrorist’, because he ‘looked’ like one…
Let us now look at how the media serves to function any government,
First of all you need a good staff…
Propaganda
Edward L Bernays was a spin doctor, and nephew of  Sigmund Freyed.
He became the pioneer of what we now call public relations and the use of psychology for public persuasion campaigns.
He wrote a book called Propaganda which (on page 71) outlined his theories on controlling the masses using his psychology techniques.
His writings attribute to the mass media as we know it today, working for CBS television, Dodge Motors,  US Tobacco companies and helped orchestrate the introduction of fluoride into drinking water.
He was also employed by several U.S. Presidents in the 20th Century (and the US army) to implement these tactics on the American people to oppose communism.
Does all this sound familiar?
Nazism Tactics
Joseph Goebbels was Hitler’s chief propaganda officer, in WW2, during this time, he aided Hitler in the single fight against inferior races, such as the Jewish Community and their ultimate internment into concentration camps and the Nazis subsequent attempts on their genocide.
Goebbels praised Bernays work and publicly stated his work was the blue print for the Nazis seizing control of the Reich.
Many writers from Orwell to Bradbury have written about this subject in one form or another.
Writer Aldus Huxley, envisioned hope in “a brave new world “ but had been impressed so much by George Orwell’s book 1984 that he corresponded with him, regarding this subject congratulating Orwell on :
 "How fine and how profoundly important the book (1984) is".
His letter to Orwell contained the prediction that: "Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience".
(Wickepedia)
Conclusion
In conclusion, we can see a pattern that fits very well with Dayan and Katz’s models for media events.
Particularly in contest.
We have the competition (struggle for world domination)
The process is broadcast live (ceremony)
It can be said to be pre-planned (by whoever) and the Ceremony itself (people glued to the TV) is result of the interruption of normal routine.
The spectacle evoked the enthralled response of a willing audience (via propaganda) and invoked deeply rooted senses of heroics (people joining the army for example) looking for ‘payback’ on the ‘terrorists’
Do the 7/7 bombings fit Dayan and Katz's concept of a media event?
Dayan and Katz’s model can only correlate to the 7/7 bombings if one is willing to take into account that the official record of these events is subject to the same conjecture as the examples I have presented in this essay.
The models they present, in their own books have nothing to do with terrorism but they can be re-applied as a template in order to work out some home truths about the way media and governments operate in order to keep on top.
Governments use the media as the new religion.
It is all the alibi certain quarters need for a new world order...

References
Dayan and Katz (1992). Defining Media Events: High Holidays of Mass Communication
Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History (ch1:pp1-25) Cambridge: Harvard

Dayan, and Katz, E (1995) . ‘Political Ceremony and Instant History’ in
Smith, A (Ed.) Television. An International History. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Liebes, T (1998) Televisions disaster marathons ; a danger for domestic processes?
In T Liebes and j Curran (Eds) Media, Ritual and Identity

Hepp, A (2006) . World Cup G8 Summit and World Youth Day:
Media Events, Globalization and Translocal Media Cultures
Public  talk presented at “Media Events, Globalization and cultural change “,
University of Bremen, Germany.

Liebes, T and Blondhiem (2002) ‘Live Televisions Disaster Marathon of September 11 and its Subversive potential’, Prometheus, vol.20(3)
September 2002, pp 271-276)

Joseph, P(2007 US) zietgiest the movie
URL: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5547481422995115331&q=&hl=en
retrieved 9th May 2008

Jones, A Terror Storm
Terror storm URL :   
Also Alex Jones website
Prisonplanet.com
retrieved 9th May 2008

Olympics photo
Retrieved 15/5/08

Titanic conspiracies

http://truthasaur.com/secret_history/titanic_jp_Morgan.html

Retrieved 14/5/08

Unsinkable
http://www.snopes.com/history/titanic/unsinkable.asp
Retrieved 15/5/08

Photo of family around TV
Retrieved 15/5/08

Wreckage of Hindenburg
Retrieved 15/5/08

Zeppelin luxury akin to ocean liners
Future of aviation
http://www.witigonen.com/2007/09/06/zeppelins-and-why-they-kick-ass/
Retrieved 15/5/08

1984 George Orwell
Orwell, G (1949) 1984
Copywrite Harcort Brace and Co 1949
Penguin Ltd 1983
Hammondsworh ,
Middlesex ,
England

Plane hitting WWTC
http://knighthospitilar.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/911-attack.gif
Retrieved 15/5/08

Newspaper on Pearl Harbor http://www.berkshirecc.edu/library/a_headlines_Pearl_Harbor.jpg
Retrieved 15/5/08

http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/Titanic-expert-dismisses-theories-.4010317.jp
Published Date: 23 April 2008
By Philip Bradfield
Retrieved 13th May 2008