Comments by "G58" (@G58) on "People Are Deep" channel.

  1.  @233kosta  The documentary is banned in the UK. It covers the UK inquiry into an accident in Paris in 1997.
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  2.  @StudioFox33  That’s a good point. Smiley is the ultimate grey man. There’s a very low intellect desire for an unrealistic fake amalgamation of the official narratives of what spying is, and the crass action genre that appeals to the lowest common denominator. Bond fills that perfectly. When I tell people that I spent six hours lying flat between the plough furrows in a rain sodden field (in X country), observing a storage depot containing two of five items we were tasked to ‘recover’, it sounds boring. You can’t even make it sound exciting in a book, and certainly not on film. But those of us who’ve been there and done stuff, tend to replay such scenarios in our minds occasionally, and the memory of surviving them is enough to cope with the absurdities of both fiction and ‘reality’.
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  3.  @233kosta  Anyone who carries out orders without question is liable. Or have we learned nothing since Nuremberg?
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  4. Don’t put your daughter on the stage: The best advice any parents can receive.
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  6.  @StudioFox33  Well, George is so much the grey man, he even blends into the background of other grey men. It was a long time ago. Another life. I grew up in a family of war veterans. My grandfather was born of English parents in Chicago in 1892, but he was in Canada when WW1 broke out. He ended up fighting in five major battles on the Somme, and was among the men who took Vimy Ridge. My dad was in the desert with Monty, and worked with LRDG. I have photos of him dressed as an Arab! He stayed in Palestine after the main Allied forces left for Italy. That story is a prelude to everything that happened next in that region. We had family in Rhodesia, so, when the bush war escalated, I volunteered. Every boy wants adventure. Maybe there’s a book one day. Peace 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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  7.  @StudioFox33  You’re welcome. For various reasons, the one on my grandfather is probably the most likely to get written. I have his letters, and all his papers. The stuff he did during WW2 was less dramatic, but ultimately it had far greater impact on the world today. Both world wars were very very carefully planned, but not by the usual suspects. And they had very specific long term goals, which are only possible to fully understand now, many years later, and after piecing together a lot of evidence - some of which is deemed highly controversial, and is being heavily censored. There are very few reliable histories, or historians. Instead there are official narratives written by trusted, hand-picked intelligence officers. And the official narratives of world events are full of Contradictions, Inconsistencies and Anomalies. Peace 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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  8.  @ibukunojediran8135  Thank you for making my point for me, by demonstrating that you fell for the entertainment industry version of what makes a real intelligence officer.
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  9. The entire notion of all Bond narratives is ludicrous. The primary purpose of the Bond nonsense is to entertain and distract the domestic populations with spectacle. They play no role whatsoever in the big game with agencies of other countries. It’s ludicrous to assume that for instance the Russians or Chinese would believe that British agents operate in any particular way, or are somehow less capable or easily detectable.
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  10. The primary purpose of the Bond nonsense is to entertain and distract the domestic populations with spectacle. They play no role whatsoever in the big game with agencies of other countries. It’s ludicrous to assume that for instance the Russians or Chinese would believe that British agents operate in any particular way, or are somehow less capable or easily detectable. The most overt intelligence operation I ever witnessed was on a Northern Line Tube train in 2000. Four Zimbabwean CIO operatives were overtly tailing a well known public figure who we will call Mr B. It was actually rather surreal. Whilst most people just keep to themselves and avoid all eye contact, I usually can’t resist people watching. When you do this, you notice that others are doing it too. The giveaways are the little smiles of recognition. Anyway, the best way to scan a Tube carriage is to stare out of the window. As soon as you hit the tunnel, the windows become mirrors. That’s when you see the true dynamics. So, I spotted Mr B looking very harassed. I knew that he’d protested Mugabe, so I mentally scanned all the other people I’d paid no attention to as I got on the Tube train. I remembered two heavy set athletic looking black African men in dark suits. Heavy set black African men don’t usually wear suits. They looked out of place. Then I became aware of two more. So I looked back towards Mr B in the window mirror, he was not there. Then I sensed a flurry of eye activity between the CIO guys. They had obviously lost him too. The expressions on a group of people close to a door gave the impression that they were politely ignoring someone either crouching or sitting on the floor. As we came into Angel station, two CIO guys moved closer to the nearest door to them, as the others tried to make their way against the tide of passengers moving to exit. Suffice to say, due to a very British mistake on someone’s part, the team of four got split into two, and Mr B got clean away. It was an amusing interlude on my way to the MacExpo at Islington. The message? Excuse me here. Try to be less rude.
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  11. The primary purpose of the Bond nonsense is to entertain and distract the domestic populations with spectacle. They play no role whatsoever in the big game with agencies of other countries. It’s ludicrous to assume that for instance the Russians or Chinese would believe that British agents operate in any particular way, or are somehow less capable or easily detectable. The most overt intelligence operation I ever witnessed was on a Northern Line Tube train in 2000. Four Zimbabwean CIO operatives were overtly tailing a well known public figure who we will call Mr B. It was actually rather surreal. Whilst most people just keep to themselves and avoid all eye contact, I usually can’t resist people watching. When you do this, you notice that others are doing it too. The giveaways are the little smiles of recognition. Anyway, the best way to scan a Tube carriage is to stare out of the window. As soon as you hit the tunnel, the windows become mirrors. That’s when you see the true dynamics. So, I spotted Mr B looking very harassed. I knew that he’d protested Mugabe, so I mentally scanned all the other people I’d paid no attention to as I got on the Tube train. I remembered two heavy set athletic looking black African men in dark suits. Heavy set black African men don’t usually wear suits. They looked out of place. Then I became aware of two more. So I looked back towards Mr B in the window mirror, he was not there. Then I sensed a flurry of eye activity between the CIO guys. They had obviously lost him too. The expressions on a group of people close to a door gave the impression that they were politely ignoring someone either crouching or sitting on the floor. As we came into Angel station, two CIO guys moved closer to the nearest door to them, as the others tried to make their way against the tide of passengers moving to exit. Suffice to say, due to a very British mistake on someone’s part, the team of four got split into two, and Mr B got clean away. It was an amusing interlude on my way to the MacExpo at Islington. The message? Excuse me here. Try to be less rude.
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  12. The primary purpose of the Bond nonsense is to entertain and distract the domestic populations with spectacle. They play no role whatsoever in the big game with agencies of other countries. It’s ludicrous to assume that for instance the Russians or Chinese would believe that British agents operate in any particular way, or are somehow less capable or easily detectable.
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  13.  @johnflanagan9382  The primary purpose of the Bond nonsense is to entertain and distract the domestic populations with spectacle. They play no role whatsoever in the big game with agencies of other countries. It’s ludicrous to assume that for instance the Russians or Chinese would believe that British agents operate in any particular way, or are somehow less capable or easily detectable.
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  14.  @233kosta  That’s an unreasonable assumption. Politicians are elected by the public. But they swear an oath to serve the monarch and all their heirs and potentates. Yet we only know that because a man who gave up his hereditary peerage, told us that fact in a documentary about the (long delayed) investigation into the (allegedly judicial) unlawful killing of the future monarch’s ex wife. The depth of irony here is almost as deep as the sadness.
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  15.  @233kosta  That’s an unreasonable assumption. Politicians are elected by the public. But they swear an oath to serve the monarch and all their heirs and potentates. Yet we only know that because a man who gave up his hereditary peerage, told us that fact in a documentary about the (long delayed) investigation into the (allegedly judicial) unlawful killing of the future monarch’s ex wife. The depth of irony here is almost as deep as the sadness.
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  16. Crisps are too noisy.
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