The British Bullshit Corporation moves into overdrive

The BBC, especially Newsnight, is keeping up the pressure in what increasingly seems to be a co-ordinated campaign to widen the public perception of who could be subject to current and future anti-terror legislation.

Last night Newsnight aired another 'unnamed sources' spoon fed piece, this time on bedroom-based Jihadist 'Terrorist 007'. Lord Patel has shared his observations on last night's bollocks-fest here and the clip in question is currently available on Gootube until someone in authority notices and wangs my account...





and here's the previous night's Newsnight scoop on the announcement of 'Al Qaeda UK'...





To call this material propagandist arse would be an insult to propaganda, and arses

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edit: and now for the money shot

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edit#2: and for those innocent in the Ways of the World who do not know what a Money Shot is - Lord Patel provides a reliable and accurate explanation here

Mr Money Shot himself - Jim Bowen

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There's no way I'm not linking to this...

Judaism = Beware G-d's wrath

Christianity = God loves you

Islam = Bring others into Allah's truth

Scientology = Volcano Aliens ate my soul...





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edit:

"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing [sic] our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!"

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We're all potential terrorists now - pt 428

"Well John, it looks like were up to our ass in Limey terrorists all over again"

Anyone lucky enough to have caught Newsnight last night will have enjoyed its opening article about a Jihadist website which has reportedly declared the inauguration of Al Qaeda UK

Proof once again that the rigorously objective journalists at the BBC understand that the only material on the Internet worth relying on is the Jihadist stuff you find hosted on Langley/ Cheltenham/ Australian based/ controlled servers

Al Qaeda's Internet prowess is truly marvelous to behold - capable of setting up Western-based web sites and communicating directly with young asians working in chip shops in West Yorkshire but yet at the same time evading the best efforts of a multi-billion dollar transglobal counter-intelligence effort. Quite remarkable

Newsnight viewers were also treated to the sight and sound of that geriatric pin-up of the anti-terror/ risk management industry Dame Pauline Neville Jones doing her usual insane, ever so slightly senile, turn

"Woof! Woof! I'm a teapot..."

and as someone over at J7T pointed out there also was a nice little Derren Brown moment during the Newsnight piece . . . background images of arabic text filled internet pages flitted over the screen, finally halting over the word "Blogger" . . . . blogger . . . terrorist . . . tax paying, law abiding citizen . . . ah . . . what's the difference?!? . . .

And some of us couldn't help joining the dots between a spate of apparently unconnected stories which have been spoon fed to the MSM over the last week or so. Stories such as...


Al-Qaeda's white army of terror

Two and a half years on from the 7/7 attack on London, MI5 has identified a worrying new trend in Al-Qaeda recruits

HUNDREDS of British non-Muslims have been recruited by al-Qaeda to wage war against the West, senior security sources warned last night.


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US fears Europe-based terrorism

One of the biggest threats to US security may now come from within Europe, US Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff has told the BBC.


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FBI wants instant access to British identity data

Americans seek international database to carry iris, palm and finger prints


not to mention the handy coincidence of timing with...

'The First International Conference on Radicalisation and Political Violence'

...which starts in London tomorrow. The cast list makes fascinating reading

Over the last couple of years many of my non Conspiraloon chums who have had the decency to hear some of my ideas out have raised several reasonable objections to the particular world view I espouse. One of those objections is that they couldn't see how fear and paranoia that has been generated with regards to British Muslims could be expanded to encompass non Muslims.

I'm starting to think that 2008 might be the year in which they're going to find out

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We're all potential terrorists now - redux

A new twist on an old favourite...

Just in case anyone missed this amusing little piece in last weekend's Scotland on Sunday...


Al-Qaeda's white army of terror

Two and a half years on from the 7/7 attack on London, MI5 has identified a worrying new trend in Al-Qaeda recruits

HUNDREDS of British non-Muslims have been recruited by al-Qaeda to wage war against the West, senior security sources warned last night.

As many as 1,500 white Britons are believed to have converted to Islam for the purpose of funding, planning and carrying out surprise terror attacks inside the UK, according to one MI5 source.

Lord Carlile, the Government's independent reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation, said many of the converts had been targeted by radical Muslims while serving prison terms.

Security experts say the growing secret army of white terrorists poses a particularly serious threat as they are far less likely to be detected than members of the Asian community.

Since the 7/7 and 21/7 London bombings, police and intelligence services have had considerable success in identifying, disrupting and stopping extremist plots. As a result, groups such as al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen have been forced to change tack. Converting white non-Muslims has been one response.

The trend is well established in the United States. American-born Adam Gadahn is one of the FBI's top 10 most-wanted terrorists after converting to Islam and rising through al-Qaeda's ranks to become a prominent spokesman.

One British security source last night told Scotland on Sunday: "There could be anything up to 1,500 converts to the fundamentalist cause across Britain. They pose a real potential danger to our domestic security because, obviously, these people blend in and do not raise any flags.

"The exact figure of those who have converted to Islam and turned to terror is not precisely known. Not everyone who converts becomes radicalised and it may be that just two-fifths go down that path, but it remains a significant and dangerous problem."

Carlile said he was not aware of specific numbers, but confirmed to Scotland on Sunday that Whitehall was aware of the new threat and was actively tackling it. He said: "These people are an issue and are potentially very dangerous. There have been cases of non-Muslims converting before, and of these, Richard Reid, the so-called Shoebomber, is the most obvious example.

"They are more difficult to detect and the security services are right to place some focus on this issue."...


Well, We didn't see that one coming


And here, for as long as Youtube permits, is Fox News' sensitive and thoughtful treatment of this 'news' (hoho) story...

'...because they're not Muslims. They look just like regular British people'

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Telling the BBC to go f**k itself proving to be contagious...

Back in 2006 a film about the 7/7 bombings called Ludicrous Diversion was published on the Internet.

I had a few personal quibbles with the film but nothing major. I consider it to be the best film to date explaining why people should mistrust the Official Narrative of that day...



And it comes as excellent news to discover that the producers of Ludicrous Diversion have, like the July 7th Truth group, told the BBC why they won't be participating in its Conspiracy Files documentary/ hit piece on (Unofficial) July 7th Conspiracy Theories. Their response, along with an email from the BBC, are available on the J7T blog but I'm reproducing it here because it pleases me so...


Dear Susan

Thanks for your invitation to come and discuss the 'conspiracy' issues surrounding 7/7. Unfortunately we must decline. The BBC's credibility amongst so-called 'conspiracy folk' is so non-existent that it's laughable. If you don't know why this is, check out youtube regarding the BBC and 911.

So you intend to find the definitive account of 7/7 – why wait until now? The BBC not only never questioned a single fact within the 'Official Story', but was itself responsible for disseminating the information without giving most of it even the most cursory investigative glance.

We draw your attention, for example, to the issue of what train the supposed bombers took into London. For well over a year the BBC continued to publish on its website the time given by the police and offered in the official investigation – despite the fact that particular train was cancelled - and this fact was widely available across the internet. The BBC only changed its story when the official story was itself changed and the train time altered. Worth thinking about. . .

In fact, in matters such as 7/7, i.e. matters of crucial importance to the British public, the evidence strongly indicates that the BBC is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the British government and intelligence agencies, relying on its historical reputation to create in the public mind exactly the picture that these bodies would like the public to see.

You, no doubt, will claim that you are coming at it afresh, with independent eyes. In that case, (after suggesting you wake up and smell the coffee) we think you should really dedicate the entire program not to the validity of the 7/7 `conspiracy theories`, but to an proper examination of the central conspiracy - how a web of lies was presented by the government, police and intelligence agencies and then disseminated without question by the mainstream media, your good selves at the BBC included.

The idea of the BBC presenting any sort of unbiased presentation would be comedic if it was not so tragically absurd. Their 'conspiracy series analysis of 911 was criminally negligent in its presentation of the facts and lapdog acceptance of the official story and will be correctly adjudged so in time. Your latest hitpiece on 7/7 'conspiracies' will sadly, but inevitably, be cut from the same branch.

You will 'consider' a few of the enormous number of lines of investigation, a blend of the most easily dismissed and the most obviously insane. You will do exactly no independent investigation of any kind. And your conclusion will be that most of the questions being posed by 'conspiracy theorists' regarding 7/7 are without any real basis, but some questions do need asking about the role of the intelligence agencies in following the four men before the event. How do we know this will be your conclusion? Because that is the official line. Feel free to prove us wrong.

If you think this is unfair, here is a list of the essential questions to consider – and to use your BBC-backed weight to obtain answers. We'll take a little wager that not one of these issues is seriously and sensibly addressed in the course of your film.

Why did the mainstream media including the BBC, choose not to question a single police report, political statement or any part of the official report? Is this now outside your remit? Is the BBC somehow under the impression that the police, the government and the intelligence agencies with their anonymous leaks are infallible and more importantly trustworthy? Given a verifiable history of deceit by all three, why would the BBC simply report as fact what these organisations claim?

Why won't the police release the enormous number of images and moving footage of the four bombers in London that they have claim to have and which must exist? Surely, with this much time passed, and in a serious documentary by the BBC there can be no harm in showing the moving CCTV footage of these four bombers - the footage which has condemned them, despite having never been seen by the british public?

How is that the police, intelligence agencies and media all falsely reported the time of the train the bombers took into London for over a year, given that the police has by its own statements, actual CCTV footage of the four bombers getting on this non-existent train?

Here`s a suggestion for a very interesting and enlightening sequence for your film.

Take a camera to Luton station, film the entire journey from there to the underground platforms that the bombers departed from (we were denied permission to do this, but we have a feeling the Beeb will be allowed) – time the journey and count the number of CCTV cameras that filmed the four alleged bombers along the way. Then calculate how many hours of footage of these men must exist if the official story of the mens journey to Kings Cross and onwards is true. Then reveal, perhaps with a crescendo of music – that not one single second of this footage has been presented. In fact, other than a still photo of Hussain outside boots, there is not one single frame of the four men in London. Does it exist? It must, if the official story is true. What possible reason could there be for not showing it?

What a scoop for the BBC it would be if they actually got this footage that has been denied from the British public! What a triumph to force the police into releasing the hours of moving images of the four suspects! And if they don't give you this footage straight away, what a wonderful opportunity to try and uncover why they won't! Exciting journalistic opportunities await, if you want to take the leap. Sadly, this won't happen, but again please – feel free to prove us wrong.

Yours sincerely

LD


This is an unparalleled response from the two sanest and most reliable sources of information about the flaws in the Official Narrative of 7/7. For too long, producers of mainstream media bullshit have taken it for granted that people who question the word of the proven liars in our governments will drop their pants at the slightest opportunity to get access to mainstream media - however biased, insulting and outright dishonest that coverage might be

At last, it seems that some people finally understand the nature of the struggle in which they are engaged

Absolutely brilliant, kudos all round

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PS and whilst on the subject of how the whores at the BBC treat 'conspiracy folk', this comment over at the J7 Forum, made in response to J7T's statement of its rejection of the BBC Conspiracy Files, is worth a peek...


"My brother, Richard Chang who was a senior risk analyst at Abbey National, headquarters, London died after a fall on 13th July 2004 shortly after an interrogation by Kroll associates. The circumstances of his death are highly suspicious. Guy Smith producer of the propaganda film 9/11 BBC Conspiracy files whom I met personally offered to produce a documentary BEFORE the Coroner's Inquest only if the family publically stated that Richard committed suicide and on condition we did not talk to any other journalist. We declined on the grounds that we did not believe this to be true. After the Coroner's Inquest ruled a verdict of suicide I spoke to Guy again about making a documentary to which he responded that he was not interested because it was too late."

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Domestic Weapons Systems of the Week

A lot (well, more than one, less than three) of people are asking me what do I think people should do to prepare themselves for the impending implosion of the global economic system and the end of civilisation as we know it.

Naturally enough, America leads the way and people worried about coping with a post-apocalyptic future could do a lot worse than picking up a couple of these babies...


The Back-Up

"Many customers are buying one for each side of the bed!!"

The Tank Chair

"...a Custom off-road wheelchair that can go anywhere outdoors. Conquers Streams, Mud, Snow, Sand, and Gravel, allowing you to get back to nature, and can also climb up and down stairs."

Quite wide stairs, obviously...


The iTaser

The device's stun gun fires a 50,000-volt electric charge AND can hold 1GB of music!!

"A spokesman in Las Vegas said the inclusion of a music player would encourage purchases by women who want a form of self defence while out jogging, but who would otherwise take an iPod instead of a weapon."

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International War on Terror News Roundup - New Zealand edition

The News Zealand press - even faster with the news that matters than the BBC

A recent story from the New Zealand Herald...


Corrections boss defends 'Zaoui and Bain' lookalikes
12:00PM Saturday January 05, 2008

The Corrections Department has defended the actions of two staff members who attended a work Christmas function dressed as former prison inmates Ahmed Zouai and David Bain.

The staff members turned up as asylum seeker (and alleged terrorist) Zouai and accused murderer Bain for a themed party where head office staff dressed up as their favourite notable New Zealanders.

National Party Corrections spokesman Simon Power said the workers' choice of dress was irresponsible given their role in a government justice organisation.

However, Corrections acting chief executive Phil McCarthy told the Dominion Post newspaper the pair were juniors and not directly involved in managing offenders, even though most staff went as sportspeople.

"In the context of a staff Christmas party, I don't think it matters a jot."

It would be different if the two workers were employed as probation officers or warders, or had had contact with the former inmates, he said.

However "they're as likely to have been a clerk or information officer".

The pair were simply masquerading in costume -- "in David Bain's case it involved no more than a rather large cardigan", Mr McCarthy said.

He said he did not know how Ahmed Zaoui had dressed but said "a certain physical resemblance" was thought to have been the biggest motivation for the costumes.

New Zealand's foremost alleged familicidal murderer and leisureware icon David Bain

and for anyone not up to speed with fascinating story of David Bain you can either check out his Wikipedia entry here or, alternatively, a blog post which attempts to collate every sick joke about Bain ever cracked in New Zealand

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and commiserations to my Kiwi friends over the tragic news of the recent death of that great New Zealander and leading exponent of the national haircut - Sir Edmund Hillary



Truly the end of an era, and a reminder of more innocent times when leaving someone to die on a mountainside because you were in a bit of a hurry wasn't a prerequisite for having a movie made about your climbing exploits

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NB Connoisseurs of ballsed-up and gratuitous anti-terror raids and nonsense items labeled by police as terrorist equipment may enjoy this story which was reported in the aftermath of the truly epic series of ballsed-up and gratuitous anti-terror raids in New Zealand last year (all completely justified by the appalling toll taken by terrorists in New Zealand in recent years)...


Pensioner feels violated by police raid
5:00AM Thursday October 18, 2007

A Tauranga pensioner feels "violated" after armed police stormed his home, "trashed" the place, and left with three jackets and an air rifle.

Clive Martin, 67, said he learned from neighbours that the armed offenders squad had raided his property on Tuesday afternoon while he was out.

His home is one of dozens police are searching as part of a massive operation after the discovery of alleged weapons training camps in the Bay of Plenty.

Police have so far made 17 arrests.

Mr Martin's Redmond St home was left with a smashed window, a broken window latch and a mess in his shed after the raid. He said he was upset when he found a 20-page search warrant sitting on his table stating there "is reasonable ground for believing" there were items inside which were an offence relating to either "participating in a terrorist group", or the unlawful possession of firearms or restricted weapons.

The warrant stated the home could contain clothing from "camps" in January and June this year, which Mr Martin said he had no involvement in.

Other items suspected of being at the property are detailed on the warrant's four-page list of military-style equipment, some of which has appeared on the internet auction website Trade Me.

Mr Martin said he had no idea why his home was searched and was "gutted" police had linked him to people potentially involved in terrorist crimes.

"It is a big mystery and I feel violated. As far as I'm concerned, I've been violated," he said. "They've trashed my house. I just vacuumed it out - there's dirty mud all over the floor. They've trashed my shed, they've trashed my linen cupboard."

Police took an old oilskin jacket, a raincoat, a polarfleece jacket and magnets that he used to hold loose change. They also took an air rifle...

Part of the Polartec TerrorFleece™ range - absolutely lethal in trained and desperate hands
(though, obviously, still not a patch on the ultimate WMD that is the awesome Delta 6250 - aka 'Satan's lunchbox')

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It's the Bankers stupid pt428

I've just discovered via the most reliable source of news in the Cosmos, The Daily Mash, that Tony Blair is now working for The Bankers in a more official capacity than in the past

Maybe he got the idea from that other staunch socialist and man of the people his former chief of staff Jonathan Powell

And still, people who consider themselves to be left wing will keep supporting that shower of sleazy, corrupt fucks called the Labour Party, in the belief that it somehow represents the interests of ordinary people

...and it's 'the conspiracy theorists' who are supposed to be lunatic fantasists!?

A pop quiz for all you Christian Capitalists out there - what's the one thing, the one practice that drove ace-pacifist Jesus Christ so mental that he kicked off and started a ruck?

Earlier on today I left a comment on someone else's blog which, given Blair's much publicised conversion to Catholicism and reportedly profound Christian faith, seems vaguely relevant...

As I hope you realise, I have no problem with Christianity, provided people claiming to be Christians at least try to follow the teachings of the person they believe to be the Son of God

But I can’t help noticing that an awful lot of people who claim to be Christians feel a lot more comfortable quoting from the Old Testament or the apocrypha than JC’s direct teachings as recorded in gospels

I remember a chat I had with a Christian a few years ago. He was very fervent about his faith and, as it happened, very rich. I asked him how he reconciled his wealth with his faith and I quoted Jesus saying that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God

his answer?

‘Jesus said it was harder, not impossible’


Belief in a Supreme Deity is one thing, believing that She/He/It is a dumb bastard who'll fall for the same lawyers' tricks that so many mortals do is something else altogether

You really do have to be something quite, er, special to think you'll pull that one off

God ... unlikely to be impressed by the terms of reference or wording of the Hutton or Butler Reports

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It's the Bankers stupid pt427

US Currency in Circulation 1984-2007

I bang on a lot about money supply and its impact on everybody's lives. On the face of it it is a very dry, technical subject but I believe that it is important because it is one of the principal instruments used to control us all and, when it suits, fuck large numbers of ordinary people up

So, I'm always on the look-out for decent explanations of how the money supply system works. I've just come across this comment on Guido Fawkes' blog which I think is worth (though not perfect) flagging up in its own post...

Real Schadenfreude said...

"The number 1 cause of general cost rises in the economy is not the BoE it's the Government anti-productivity policies."

No. Rising prices can only be caused by more money in the system. If it was a closed system where the amount of money was fixed, then prices could not rise - price of product A could only rise at the expense of product B, but in general prices could not rise. Over the past ten years we have seen prices of houses soar at perhaps three times their starting value. But we have not seen any decrease in the price of food, or fuel or other products. In fact the prices of such things have also risen - by about 4% per annum over the last ten years.

It follows that this can only happen as a result of money NOT being in a closed system, i.e. there is more money in the system now than 10 years ago. A lot more. This is possible primarily because banks are permitted to loan more "money" than they have in deposits. In fact they don't loan "money" in reality - because your bank statement is just a bank IOU - it only gets converted to real money when you go to an ATM and withdraw some cash (notice that you have to provide all sorts of ID to withdraw your own cash but only a credit card number if you want to pay for something over the phone using debt. Debt is something the bank likes to encourage. Withdrawing cash is something it doesn't want to encourage. It is you they want to discourage from withdrawing your own cash - not the crooks).

The bank IOUs are tradeable between banks so we can pretend they are real money. That is what M4 money supply measures - the amount of ALL tradeable money as cash and bank debts taken together. It is a better measure of inflation than the RPI since it measures all impact on prices including housing. The M4 money supply has trebled in the last ten years. A lot has been absorbed in property prices as the banks have compensated for the low profit they can make when interest rates are low by pushing more loans and causing house price inflation - thus the capital value of the mortgage increases. Note that whilst the bank may have given you a tradeable IOU to pay for your house - you need to repay the bank with real money. Oh, and you also need to pay the interest with real money too, of course.

In theory the banks are limited in what they can lend as digital IOUs - they have to remain within a certain ratio with respect to the deposits on their books. However, with interest rates being low the banks have been keen to find new ways around these rules and have turned to credit derivatives. What they do is package all their debt up in bundles and call it a credit derivative which they sell on to other parties. Thus they no longer have the debt on their books and can carry on lending digital IOUs willy nilly. Or they could until the market for credit derivatives suddenly dried up as people realised the risks involved in buying them.

So now the banks can't flog the credit derivatives. In fact they have had to take back some of the derivatives they had hoped to sell. Thus they are in breach of the reserve rules or close to being in breach so now they are refusing to loan out any more money. This can be seen in the M4 money supply figures which are collapsing at present as the banks refuse to offer further loans. The central banks are trying to cure this problem by lowering base rates but it is very unlikely to help - the problem is not that debt is too expensive to take on, the problem is that we are now maxed out on the debt that banks are allowed to sell. This is the source of the real credit-crunch and it is only tangentially related to the "US sub-prime" fiasco - that was merely the trigger of an inevitable maxing out of the credit boom.

Unfortunately very many companies need big bank loans just to operate - perhaps to start big new construction projects or to provide short-term finance to cover losses. With the banks failing to provide loans to these companies cash-flow problems and insolvencies will be the result. Many people will get made redundant, and many of those will get little redundancy pay.

The government has little time to sort this problem out before we hit a real and very severe recession. At the moment the government is doing the wrong things to sort it out. They are the cause of the problem and thus they are wedded to the concept of continued credit growth to drive the economy. They are wedded to an idea that has broken the economy and their shared ego will not allow them to admit this and take the necessary steps to cure it. A change of government will be required, but by then it will be far too late.


Of course, the really interesting question arising from this is are you one of those crazy Conspiraloons who believes that this insanity is at least partly deliberate, with intentional consequences, or are you one of those crazy Coincidence Theorists who believes that shit like this 'just happens'?

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edit: and thanks to G. for sending me a link to an article from last year on the incredible rags to riches (?!) story of Nat Rothschild.

It's difficult to pick out any one highlight from this mass of chunder-inducing sycophancy but this euphemism-laden quote is ominously special...

"What he needs is one of those historic opportunities like the ones seized by his ancestors. If he gets that golden moment, he could be the richest one of his generation."

Yes, very funny

Anyone with even a passing knowledge of the history of the Rothschilds and their banking dynasty chums will not be betting against such an historic opportunity presenting itself in the not too distant future, though they might question the use of the word 'seized' instead of something more appropriate like 'engineered' or 'created'.

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Grab a bargain on eBay

A few days a go I wrote a post about how the image quality of new compact digital cameras was in many ways worse than older models. I mentioned that, as a consequence, one particular camera, the Fuji F31fd, was currently fetching more second hand than it was selling for new (£100-110) when it was discontinued

Well, I think someone has just set some kind of record on ebay for a second hand F31fd...




I'm guessing we're looking at someone with much more money than sense. Maybe someone like this Legend of Rock who didn't realise that you have to take the lens cap off your £3,000+ Leica before it can take any pictures....

Leica M series camera and lens ... £3,000
Knowing that removing the lens cap is an essential prerequisite for optimum image quality ... priceless

Unlike the Leica, the Fuji's built-in lens cap opens automatically when you turn the camera on - that's got to be worth at least a few hundred quid

I wouldn't buy one of those Canon's though, they do strange things...



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