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"Kamm's behaviour is a scandal, but even more shocking has been how powerful individuals in the British neocon Establishment have not only protected the Internet stalker, but promoted him."
This post first appeared on Russia Insider
This post lays out in excruciating detail how a 'lead writer and columnist' (Wikipedia) for the London Times, Oliver Kamm, engages in bizarre, obsessive, cyber-stalking of people he disagrees with, engaging in multi-year vengeance campaigns using fake social media and email addresses. His victims over the years include Seumas Milne, Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, George Galloway, and Nafeez Ahmed.
One victim of the abuse for 11 years! running, Neil Clark, a highly respected UK journalist who publishes at The Spectator, The Guardian, and is a regular contributor to RT and RI, finally had enough, and has launched a crowdfunding campaign to sue Kamm, The Times, and Rupert Murdoch. Over £2,000 has been raised so far of a £10,000 goal.
Clark is quite simply one of the best writers writing on Russia, although he covers much else. His articles have received record-breaking view counts on RI, because he combines great style with important observations others miss.
This past Spring he went on George Galloway's excellent weekly talk show on RT and discussed the creepiness of Kamm's stalking, and who else might be behind it. We thought it was interesting enough then to put it on our own Youtube channel.
We heartily endorse Clark's campaign and lawsuit and will be watching it with interest, and we encourage the RI audience to support it, with money if you can, and if not by sharing and spreading the word.
Clark's account of Kamm's mind-boggling behavior follows below, complete with comments, taken from Clark's blog. It is disturbing.
I'm launching a crowd-funded legal action for libel and harassment against Oliver Kamm, The Times newspaper and Rupert Murdoch. Here's why:
The author of a-pro Iraq war book sees it critically reviewed in a national newspaper. He then spends over ten years stalking, attacking, hounding and defaming the anti-war author of the review. He even tweets the Minutes of the reviewer's local parish council meetings in an attempt to discredit his 'enemy'. He attacks articles written by the wife of the reviewer on the rare occasions she ventures into print. He boasts about his efforts in 'destroying' the reviewer's career in a blog post.
He tweets obsessively about the 'obscure' reviewer and when the reviewers' work is cited or praised by someone with a high profile on Twitter, he intervenes to warn them off with claims that the reviewer is a 'fake', a 'fraud', a 'crank' and a 'genocide denier'.
Then, after he is finally questioned under caution of arrest by the police in relation to stalking/harassment activities, the author accuses the person he has been relentlessly persecuting of harassing him- and falsely claims that his victim has been ordered by the police not to contact him, his family and his employers!
Sounds like pretty disturbing behaviour, don't you think? I certainly would agree, but as I've found out over the past decade, waging vicious vendettas - and telling lies in an attempt to destroy the reputation of his 'enemies' is par for the course for Mr Oliver Kamm, 'former banker, Leader Writer and Columnist, The Times' and author of 'Anti-Totalitarianism-The Left Wing Case for a NeoConservative Foreign Policy'.
Kamm's behaviour is a scandal, but even more shocking has been how powerful individuals in the British neocon Establishment have not only protected the Internet stalker, but promoted him.
My review of Kamm's book was published by the Daily Telegraph on New Years Eve 2005. It was critical, but as reviews go, not particularly harsh- and certainly nowhere near as harsh as the bile-dripping book reviews that Kamm himself writes for The Times. What I did not know, when I filed copy, was that the book's author was an incredibly malicious and vindictive individual with a history of cyber-stalking and online persecution of people whose views he disagreed with.
The day after the review appeared, Kamm attacked me on his blog- and accused me of not reading his book. The first of over twenty-five posts devoted to attacking/denigrating me (or my wife) over the next two years, was no mindless rant, but was clearly designed to discredit me with newspapers who commissioned my work.
In subsequent blog posts that month Kamm made further allegations against me which I responded to on my own blog. I had said that the source for one of my claims in the review was The Institute of Strategic Studies Organisation. I had meant The International Strategic Studies Association. Kamm attempted to build this up into a heinous offence, writing that 'a reasonable person might readily take this as a reference to the well known International Institute of Strategic Studies'. I think 'a reasonable person' would think Kamm was making a mountain out of a molehill in a deliberate attempt to discredit the reviewer of his book.
Kamm's initial attempts to discredit me didn't work, but then there was a more sinister development. A poison-pen style email, from a 'George Courtenay' was sent to Tom Switzer, the opinion editor of The Australian newspaper, who regularly commissioned me. The email read:
'I see you have published an opinion article by Neil Clark today. That's all good to print a range of views but you may be interested that Oliver Kamm of the London Times has been investigating Mr. Clark's use of sources. Mr.Clark doesn't say the same thing in his new article but as he's lied to other editors I'm bringing it to your attention'.
G. Courtenay
FW: Neil Clark sources
Switzer, Tom
Tue 21/02/2006, 07:20
You forwarded this message on 06/12/2015 18:47
FYI -- I have no idea who this guy is....
-----Original Message-----
From: George Courtenay [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, 21 February 2006 12:33
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Neil Clark sources
I see you have published an opinion article by Neil Clark today. That's all good to print a range of views but you may be interested that Oliver Kamm of the London Times has been investigating Mr. Clark's use of sources.
Mr.Clark doesn't say the same thing in his new article but as he's lied to other editors I'm bringing it to your attention. G. Courtenay
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'George Courtenay' included links to two of Kamm's recent blog posts about me. He cced his email to Kamm.
Courtenay was asked to provide an address and telephone number- but he never responded. Suspicious about his identity, I google-searched the name and found that the only traces of the mysterious 'GC' was to write comments in praise of Oliver Kamm when Kamm had been criticised on a website.
After publicizing my findings about him on my blog, 'Courtenay' disappeared into the ether, but Tom Switzer continued to receive very similar poison emails, this time sent by 'anonymous', urging him to replace me.
Later on IP addresses for 'George Courtenay' were identified. On 24th December 2005 Courtenay - with the same email address as the person who had contacted The Australian-was posting from Denmark (IP address of83.91.105. 126
(to see, scroll down to the Tom Watson MP blog post of 12/22/05 entitled 'Oliver Kamm vs Noam Chomsky'http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/big1
Oliver Kamm's wife was/is Danish.
Did Kamm go to Denmark that Christmas with his wife?
On 23rd December, Kamm had announced to his blog readers that there would be 'no posts for the next few days'- indicating that he was not expecting to post over Christmas. But he did publish a blog entry on 25th December -so clearly had access to a computer that day.
On New Years Day 2006, Kamm posted his first attack on me. We know that on 13th January 2006, 'George Courtenay' was definitely back in the UK and posting on the same blog thread on TomWatson's website from an IP address 220.127.116.11- (which was traced to Bexhill-On-Sea, East Sussex.) A further clue is that Courtenay/ 'anonymous',( in emails to Tom Switzer 3rd May 2007 and 17th October 2007 following publication of my articles), used words/phrases such as 'erudition', 'doctrinaire' , 'perfervid' 'zealotry' historical literacy' 'bounds of decency'-hardly everyday words or phrases- but all used by Kamm on his blog and elsewhere- and in some cases on many occasions. In addition Kamm'smiddle name is George.
The leader writer of the Times could easily have cleared up the George Courtenay mystery by publicly stating that he was not in Denmark at any time on Christmas Eve 2005, but he has refused to answer the question when asked.
How should I respond to these extremely malicious attempts to destroy my career as a journalist? I decided I had no other option but to sue Kamm for defamation to prevent links to his attacks from being emailed to more of my employers. For financial reasons, I brought the case in my local County Court. But to have a libel case heard there requires the consent of the other party and Kamm did not give his consent. Instead he portrayed my putative action as an attempt to infringe his freedom of speech to criticise my work, and cast himself- not for the last time- as the innocent victim.
The attacks on me by Kamm and his mysterious trolls intensified throughout 2006 and 2007. Anonymous or pseudonymous comments, linking to Kamm's blog posts on me, were left on websites where my articles appeared. Inquiries with one newspaper (The Guardian) revealed the sender, although he used different aliases, was posting from just one computer. Kamm regularly popped up early in the comments section of my pieces to put the boot in. Here are just a few examples:
Whenever someone praised my work online, 'Anonymous' would arrive on the scene very quickly. A typical example was when Derek Wall, a Green Party spokesperson, described an article I had written as 'great' and quoted from it on his blog. 'Anonymous' duly arrived to warn Wall to be 'careful' of me, saying that I had been 'exposed' and copy and pasted an attack on me by- guess who? Oliver Kamm!
Kamm also regularly wrote in to publications where my work appeared claiming there were significant mistakes in my articles and asking for corrections to be published. Each time his complaint was rejected. No corrections to Kamm's alleged significant mistakes were published.
Another disturbing development was the repeated sending of threatening/bullying comments to my blog. They often included an implied threat to 'expose' me for some 'serious' offence- asking me if such and such a newspaper which I wrote for 'knew about this/that'- 'offences' which only one person in the world- Oliver Kamm- had accused me of.
The comments were clearly designed to cause me maximum distress. I identified regularly recurring IP addresses for these malicious communications. There was a large number coming from Sussex and the City of London. The Sussex ones tended to come in late at night, the London ones usually during the day time, indicating that the person was someone who commuted from Sussexto the capital and who was totally obsessed with Neil Clark.
Kamm fitted the bill, as he lived (until 2013), in Hove, Sussex,
and worked in London. Many of the London malicious comments sent to my blog in 2009 came an IP address which I traced to the Royal Society of Arts. I contacted the RSA to report what was going on. Then the posts from the RSA dried up. Was there anything to link Kamm and the RSA? Well, we know Kamm was at a meeting at the RSA in early 2009 and also wrote for the RSA blog.
While admittedly this is not conclusive proof that my RSA harasser was Kamm, once again there was a link between a location from where my stalker was operating and Kamm.
In early 2008, I decided to go the police, on grounds of criminal harassment. After reading through all the material I gave them, the police phoned Kamm at his London hedge fund office, and by his own admission, he gave the police an undertaking that he would cease commenting on my work.
Once again, my persecutor tried to portray himself as the victim. After the police intervention, the attacks did die down for a while. But not long afterwards, it was business as usual for my cyber-stalker.
In May 2008, Kamm boasted on his blog,(in the comments section to this post
"I can reasonably claim to have done more than anyone in destroying (Neil) Clark's career as a political commentator", adding menacingly: "I am not a commentator whose work will last, but I'm effective in my own way."
But despite his barrage of attacks, Kamm had not succeeded in destroying my career. His attacks therefore became ever more desperate.
After I had complained to senior wikipedia editors over the repeated malicious editing of my page by an editor called 'Philip Cross (of whom we'll hear more in Part Two) Kamm popped up on the discussion page to argue for the page's deletion on the grounds that I was 'non-notable'. Yet despite his haughty dismissal of me as a 'highly obscure figure', Kamm never explained why, if that was indeed the case, he devoted so much time attacking me. In an article chronicling Kamm's obsessive Internet smear campaigns entitled 'The Oliver KammSchool of Falsification' the US writers David Peterson and Edward Herman wrote "A glance at a number of (Neil) Clark's writings online shows that Kamm seeks out websites where Clark's writings appear, and then posts the same allegations against Clark over and over again, no matter how off-topic these allegations are".
I'm not the only person to have been pursued by Kamm in such a creepy way. Peterson and Hermann have documented Kamm's 'pathologically obsessive' attacks on the US anti-war academic Noam Chomsky. "One feature of the Kamm pathology is the vendetta, and in pursuit of his vendettas, Kamm displays few constraints", they added.
I knew the truth of that only too well.
In Part Two- how the mysterious wikipedia editor 'Philip Cross' assists Kamm in his campaigns- Kamm's Twitter policeman routine and his war against 'fake news channel' RT.
The advent of Twitter gave Obsessive Oliver a new forum in which to carry out his persecution campaigns.
In addition to regular tweeting about his enemies, he also monitors very closely who retweets them, and if it's someone he deems important enough, he intervenes to warn them off. Kamm's smears are tailor-made to the tweeter- he writes whatever he thinks will best put them off the person he is targeting.
So when people on the Left cite with me with approval-Kamm's strategy is to smear me as an 'obscure far-right blogger' and falsely claim that I'm opposed to immigration and gay rights. When someone on the centre or centre-right retweets me- I'm a hardline communist.
Kamm also monitors very closely who his targets retweet too- to find them 'guilty by association'- a classic McCarthyite technique. In April 2016, I retweeted someone called Patrick Harrington, who had praised an article I had written for the Morning Star newspaper. Unbeknown to me Harrington, had been involved many years earlier in the far-right National Front party. My stalker Kamm used my retweet to try and discredit both me - and RT.
The anti-war media monitoring organisation Media Lens is also a regular target of Kamm's obsessive stalking. The Times leader writer is a usually very quick off the blockswhen they get cited with approval - or if someone with a following clashes with them.
Media Lens wrote about Kamm's relentless smearing of them here- in a post in which they also discussed their attacker's own journalistic record. Media Lens believe that Kamm was probably behind the threat of legal and police action made against them by News International in 2008- that was clearly meant to stop them once and for all.
Kamm works tirelessly to make sure that positive mentions of his 'enemies' by people of high profile on Twitter are corrected. Here is he is intervening when I was cited by Mehdi Hasan, who has over 230K twitter followers.
I have tried to ignore Kamm's obsessive tweeting about me. But sometimes that's not possible.
On the afternoon of Saturday November 7th 2015, I received a 'DM' from a Twitter follower, which said : 'Have you got a stalker? I mentioned your name in a tweet and a certain Times 'journalist' crawled out of nowhere to comment. He must follow mentions of your name because there's no way he would have seen that comment otherwise'. Yes, on a Saturday afternoon in early November, when many people in the UK would have been out Christmas shopping with the family, attending a football match or sports fixture, or watching tv, Kamm was obsessing about a journalist he calls 'obscure' and seeing who was citing him on Twitter. The word 'Pathetic' goes nowhere near to describing this behaviour, as I'm sure you'd agree.
Kamm's regular libelling of me as a 'Srebrenica denier/genocide denier' is typical of his dishonesty. He bases the claim on one article I wrote for The Guardian in 2004 in which I wrote of the 'massacre of between 2,000 and 4,000 men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995 '
I used these figures as I- and the Guardian editorial/comment team, believed they were probably the most accurate ones at the time. But in every subsequent published piece which I have mentioned Srebrenica I have used the higher, now widely accepted 8,000 figure- and fully accept that a genocide took place. Here I am in The Week in 2008, and in RT last summer, on the 20th anniversary of Srebrenica.
Kamm monitors everything I write, so he would know of the later pieces ( and I've also linked to them when he's libelled me). Only someone with very clear malicious intent could read my articles and then label me a 'Srebrenica denier/genocide denier'.
Accusing people he doesn't like of 'genocide denial'- usually in connection with Srebrenica, is a favoured smear of Kamm's. His robotic 'genocide denier' smearing of his 'enemies' even led to a parody @Oliver KammBot twitter account being set up.
On the subject of Kamm's libelling antiwar writers as 'Srebrenica deniers': there's been a dramatic new development. The US website Mondoweiss has published an article on the neocon smear campaign against the left-wing anti-war academic Noam Chomsky.
Internal memos from the first meeting of the Henry Jackson Society outlined the group's main agenda. 'One of the items on the minutes, listed prominently in fourth place, was to discredit Chomsky,' writes Theodore Sayeed. 'Their tack was to allege that he is a "denier" of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia. In the art of controversy, slapping the label "denier" on someone is meant to evoke the Holocaust. Chomsky, the furtive charge proceeds, is a kind of Nazi.' 'The task of getting this slur into circulation was delegated to Marko Attila Hoare and Oliver Kamm'
When Kamm was first attacking me in early 2006, and trying to destroy my career as a political commentator, the Balkans historian he enlisted to help his cause was- you've guessed it- Marko Attila Hoare
Kamm has recently tried to distance himself from the Henry Jackson Society. But although his name no longer appears on the group's website, he was a signatory to the statement of principles in 2005
The Times leader writer has received enormous help in his internet smear campaigns from one 'Andrew Philip Cross'- a mysterious individual to whom we must now turn our attention.
Cross- like Kamm- follows very closely who retweets Neil Clark and Media Lens and obviously has our names on Google Alert. When I was asked via Twitter by a Sky News producer if I'd like to come on and be interviewed on Royal Mail privatisation- I found that before I had the time to reply, 'PhilipCross63' had already suggested that the producer got a female pundit instead.
Cross shares Kamm's obsession with me, even publishing a blog entitled 'Anti-Illiberal'- largely aimed at attacking my wife and I and regurgitating Kamm's smears.
While Cross assists Kamm's campaigns on Twitter, his main focus is on editing Wikipedia.
Kamm wrote a piece in 2009 criticising Wikipedia, saying that 'The loudest voices and most obsessive contributors become the arbiters of truth.' How true. He should have addressed these remarks to 'Philip Cross'.
Now if you make a list of all the public figures that Oliver Kamm can't abide, you'll find- lo and behold- their pages have been edited-to show the subject in the worst possible light- by Philip Cross.
Media Lens are a case in point. Criticism by Kamm of Media Lens- put up there by Cross, is prominent in theirwikipedia page-
When Kamm mentions Media Lens in an 'approved source', Cross posts links to the criticism with great alacrity. On Saturday 27th February 2016, Kamm called ML a 'far-left' group in his Times column on grammar- and at 15.47 that same day Kamm's comment had been put, by Cross, on the Media Lens page.
You can read a full history of Cross editing of the Media Lens page here.
Media Lens posted Kamm's February attack on the group on their Facebook page noting:
'In the 'mainstream' press, nobody writes or Tweets about us more than a certain Times propagandist. Impressive that he should devote so much attention to an 'obscure far-left pressure group'
Others figures who have clashed publicly with Kamm or who don't meet with his approval and who have had their pages edited by Philip Cross
include investigative journalist Dr Nafeez Ahmed (see the talk page herehere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Nafeez_Mosaddeq_Ahmed
antiwar journalist Seumas Milne, (who is now Press Officer for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn)
award-winning anti-war journalist and broadcaster John Pilger and the anti-war politician George Galloway
See the talk page of Galloway also.
On Milne's page, Cross worked to keep off a link to my piece written for Sputnik International defending Milne when he had come in for attack. On the talk page Cross gave his reason: 'The Putin-backed Sputnik website is not a reliable source.'
But he also kept another article defending Milne, by my fellow RT OpEdger John Wight, written for the Huffington Post, off the page.
Cross's obsessive hatred of me even extended to him taking down links to my articles in other people's wikipedia pages, as he did in relation to a Guardian article I wrote about philosopher Erich Fromm.
When it comes to Oliver Kamm's own wikipedia page however, Cross edits in a very different way. He is The Grand Protector of Kamm's online reputation, making sure his wikipedia page is maintained as a puff page (with handy links to his agent's Janklow and Nesbit's page)
and that criticism is kept to a minimum, even if it comes from legitimate sources. It goes without saying that Cross worked to keep mention of the recent Mondoweiss article cited above off Kamm's page, as well as the earlier piece on Kamm by Messrs Peterson and Herman. Yes, you've guessed it. They're not reliable sources….
Read Cross here in the Talk section of Kamm's page.
Media Lens noted earlier this year::
Philip Cross' is putting up a valiant fight to fend off criticism of Oliver Kamm on Wikipedia. He seems particularly unhappy that a new section has appeared, titled:
'Kamm, Noam Chomsky and The Guardian controversy' noted Media Lens on Facebook on 23rd February.
Cross, when challenged about his identity responded: 'Sorry David, I have never met Oliver Kamm, nor am I Charles Mingus (above and left)'. He then predicted; ' I am certain the extended largely off-topic section in Kamm's Wikipedia article about your (sorry, Chomsky's) pyrrhic victory against the Guardian a decade ago will be removed soon enough.'
Cross, who says he edits wikipedia in his 'real name',
has refused to post proof of his identity, and tried to make out that if he did so, he'd be some kind of a 'victim'
Interestingly, 'Philip Cross' hasn't just edited Kamm's page, but also the pages of Kamm's parents, a translator called AntheaBell, and one Anthony Kamm, described as a 'publisher, author, historian and cricketer'..
Once again, its only good stuff that gets posted there. On Anthony Kamm's page, Cross edited to include a mention that the subject's son, Oliver, was 'now a journalist on the Times' and to add a link to Kamm's ownwikipedia page, of which he has been the main editor.
Another shared obsession of Kamm and Philip Cross is the television news channel RT (Russia Today)..
On the one hand, Kamm denigrates RT as a channel thatnoone, or hardly anyone watches, misrepresenting viewing figures.
But if no one was bothering to watch RT- why does Kamm spend so much time attacking it? It's very similar to the way Kamm loves to label his 'enemies' (like me) as, 'obscure'- again if we really are so 'obscure', why spend so much time attacking?
When RTUK launched in October 2014, Kamm went into overdrive.
He penned a ferocious opinion piece for the Times calling for Ofcom, the UK media regulator, to act against 'this den of deceivers'.
Kamm's fierce criticism of RT figures prominently on the RTUK wikipedia page, in the third paragraph.
And the editor who's made four of the last eight edits to the RTUK wikipedia page? Why.. It's none other than Philip Cross!
Kamm tweets obsessively about RT-routinely labelling it a 'fake news channel'
It's contributors and pundits are- you've guessed it are 'fakes/frauds/fantasists' and of course, 'genocide deniers'
He likes to pompously declare that he refuses to go on the channel.
Yet, despite his hatred for RT- or rather because of it- he seems to spend an awful lot of time monitoring its output. Again, if no one was watching RT- as Kamm claims- and it was obvious that RT experts were 'cranks, fantasists and fabulists'- then why does he devote so much time and energy to attacking it?
In March 2015, the American writer Glenn Greenwaldwrote about the anti-RT campaign.
'The most vocal among the anti-RT crowd - on the ground that it spreads lies and propaganda — such as Nick Cohen and Oliver Kamm — were also the most aggressive peddlers of the pro-U.K.-government conspiracy theories and lies that led to the Iraq War.
That people like this, with their histories of pro-government propaganda, are the ones demanding punishment of RT for "bias" tells you all you need to know about what is really at play here".
In the summer of 2015, Kamm's attacks on me intensified still further.
On Saturday 1st August, my new biography of Edgar Wallace, the crime writer, received a very positive reviewin The Guardian.
Kamm acolyte Max Dunbar (and fellow 'Euston Manifesto' signatory) wasn't too pleased..
Shortly afterwards, both Oliver Kamm and 'PhilipCross63' turned up on the thread. I said to my wife that it wouldn't be long before an attempt was made to post a 'George Courtenay'-esque comment underneath the Guardian review. Sure enough, at 23.56 on Monday 3rd August, 'Peter Tarlan' arrived.
There's no prize for guessing what the first sentence was.
'Neil Clark has denied the massacre of 8,000 men and boys at Srebrenica.' 'Peter Tarlan' went on ' I draw this to the reader's attention as it says something profound about his contempt for the canons of evidence and scholarship. Something readers may want to consider before deciding whether or not to spend their hard-earned money on a work of non-fiction by this man'.
.'Tarlan' then went on to ridicule a piece I had written in 2010 for the Sunday Express on the beauty of winter landscapes. The only person who had passed such comment on the piece before was- yes, you've guessed it- Oliver Kamm (see entry of 7th January 2010)
To try and make sure that readers had got the Kammite message about Neil Clark, 'Peter Tarlan' finished his attack with 'I suggest no sane person should accept either historical claims or literary judgments from this man'.
I discovered that 'Peter Tarlan' had set up his Guardian account on 26th January 2011 (here is his Guardian profile page , just five days after my piece on the Socialist Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, which Kamm commented on ( and didn't much like), appeared on the Guardian website. Shortly after a comment appeared which said 'A very special article. One of the very few that are unashamedly dedicated to intellectual honesty', Kamm, no doubt fuming at the gills, arrived to accuse Kreisky - a Jew- of anti-Semitism- and to add: 'Mr Clark describes himself in his CiF biography as a regular contributor to The Times, and this ought perhaps to be corrected'.
At the same time he set up a Guardian profile, 'Peter Tarlan' set up a protected Twitter account.
In an attempt to share the workload, Kamm also tries to 'subcontract' his vendettas. He's begun tweets about with me with the words 'One for' such and such a person- hoping that they'll join in his persecutory campaign. He tweeted Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat to inform him that I was a' plagiarist and fraud'.
In addition, other pro-war journalists and 'Euston Manifesto' supporters have joined in from time to time in Kamm's campaigns. I won't name and shame them here-(at least not for now); they know who they are.
Kamm has repeatedly lied that 'only RT' publishes me and that 'no serious British newspaper will touch him'- my articles are carried by a wide number of publications (in fact a far wider range than Kamm's) and includes the Guardian, Sunday and Daily Express, the Mail on Sunday, and the Morning Star. But of course saying no serious British newspaper will touch me is part of the campaign to destroy my career as editors who follow him on Twitter might just believe it if they read it enough times.
In the summer of 2015, Kamm positioned himself at the forefront of the Blairite campaign against Jeremy Corbyn becoming Labour leader. He complained that Corbyn had refused to be interviewed by him for the Jewish Chronicle newspaper. Kamm has also- as Simon Wood notes here- been at the forefront of the campaign to portray Corbyn supporters as 'anti-Semitic'.
He's also been prominent in the neocon campaign against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
The former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, accused Kamm of lying after he was aggressively attacked by Kamm in a radio interview about the Wikileaks founder earlier this year.
Murray wrote about what happened next:
'On 7 February I published an article calling out Kamm for publishing a blatant and deliberate lie about me. The very next day, 8 February, my Wikipedia page came under obsessive attack from somebody called Philip Cross who made an astonishing 107 changes over the course of the next three days. Many were very minor, but the overall effect was undoubtedly derogatory. He even removed my photo on the extraordinary grounds that it was "not typical" of me'.
Last year, with Kamm's attacks on me becoming even more unhinged, I felt I had no option but to go to the police for the FOURTH time. When I had gone to the police in 2009, I had been told by an officer that a Crown Prosecution Service action against Kamm might not be in my best interests- a strong hint that the person persecuting me had elite protection.
On 24th November 2015 the leader writer of the Times newspaper was questioned, under caution of arrest at Stoke Newington Police station. But, against my wishes, he was questioned before I had been able to send all the evidence of Kamm's stalking and harassment through and it seems the key question 'Were you in Denmark on 24th December 2005- the day George Courtenay was posting from there)? was not asked.
Failure to arrest or even caution Kamm, unfortunately emboldened him still further.
I have an complaint against the Metropolitan Police for the way they have handled the case, which is ongoing.
By now my policy was to forcefully respond to Kamm's attacks on Twitter- to put the record straight.
Whether it was the advice given to him by lawyers, or his own decision, he has decided to accuse the person he has been stalking and harassing for years- of doing the same things to him. It seems Kamm believes he has every right to attack people, but the people he targets have absolutely no right to respond.
Kamm sent me five emails between 23rd December 2015 and 26th February 2016 (and another in early July 2016), which I did not open as I knew from past experience they were sent in order to cause me distress. But a Twitter follower of mine informed me that Kamm had been tweeting these emails- which included the wholly false claim that I had been ordered by the Met Police to stop harassing him.(italics)
Accusing people of doing thing that you've been doing yourself is of course classic sociopathic behaviour. As is pathological lying and never recognising the rights of others.
When I went public about going to the police, I urged others who had been targeted by Kamm to come forward. I thought nothing I could ever learn about Kamm would shock me, but I was mistaken.
I have learnt that it wasn't just me who Kamm has tried to silence through making legal threats. He had threatened a Twitter follower with less than 150 followers after he had retweeted a piece critical of Kamm. It seems the Times Leader writer likes to send his threatening communications at holiday periods- at, or just before Christmas, or at Bank Holidays.
One blogger (who asked me to keep his name private as his health was fragile and stress made his condition worse)- informed me that he was sent an email entitled 'Libellous Tweet' from Kamm on a Bank Holiday- around 18 months after he had tweeted a link to my blog post on Kamm's harassment of me.
Kamm did not include a link to the tweet that was supposed to be 'libellous'.
Another person who said that Kamm had threatened him with legal action was the US web activist Aaron Swartz. Kamm clashed with Swartz over Noam Chomsky and Chomsky's claim that Kamm had misquoted him.
Swartz wrote on his blog: 'On June 11 he (Kamm) threatened legal action to enforce the challenge and calling my response "evasive, graceless and puerile". I informed him I was presently on vacation and intended to deal with the matter when I got back. He replied on June 12 again insisting I act quickly.
On June 14 he accused me of "surreptitiously [] alter[ing]" the challenge (which he called "my suicidal endeavour") and suggesting mercy if I act quickly.
…He then pressed the point again in two further emails.'
Kamm responded to Swartz's claims with four comments underneath the blog post and also under an earlier one. 'Disappointingly, Mr Swartz has now disappeared sooner than meet his financial obligations', Kamm noted in his last comment to the second post. He was still posting on the first post as late as 15th May 2007.
Just over five and half years later, Swartz did indeed disappear-on 11th January 2013 the young man committed to a free and open internet was found hanged in his Brooklyn apartment- with claims that he was hounded to death by the authorities for his hacking activities. He was only 26.
Michael Prescott is another writer who has clashed with Kamm.
'He seems to be aboil with rage and indignation almost from the start. He repeatedly characterizes his opponents as cranks and worse, yet seems honestly perplexed that anyone could accuse him of using ad hominems', Prescottwrote.
Kamm's strategy when faced by his accusers is indeed to loftily dismiss them as 'cranks and worse'. And then, as we've seen, write threatening missives to them to try and intimidate them into keeping schtum. He has falsely accused me of being a 'serial correspondent', but the truth is excepting my corrective replies to attack tweets of his, I have not written to him since 2006. By contrast Kamm- or his legal representatives- has written to me on around ten occasions since then.
As obnoxious as Kamm's behaviour undoubtedly is, we must not overlook the role played by those who have enabled and promoted him- and have continued to support and protect him even when evidence of his activities was presented to them.
The man who appointed Kamm, to be a Times leader writer in 2009, despite his never having worked before on a newspaper (he was an ex-banker and Mayfair hedge fund manager), was the then Times editor James Harding.
I wrote to Harding about Kamm's stalking/harassment. My aim was not to get Kamm the sack, as 'George Courtenay' had tried to do with me, but to get The Times to rein their employee in. Harding never replied to me.. Today, he is the £340,000 a year Head of News and Current Affairs at the BBC.
I have also written on four occasions to the current Times editor John Witherow and Rupert and James Murdoch, of News International, with evidence of their employee's stalking. Not one of my letters (sent by registered delivery) or emails, received a reply.
When I asked Times deputy editor Emma Tucker on Twitter why the paper had not responded to me over Kamm's stalking/harassment campaigns, her response was to block me.
In February 2016, another of Kamm's targets, the blogger David Lindsay, claimed that he had twice come close to suicide on account of Kamm's relentless persecution of him- admitting he 'almost a broken man'.
(Police traced the IP addresses of attack comments left underneath Lindsay's online articles to two locations: The City of London, and Hove in Sussex.)
But still the Times have failed to take any action against Kamm- and he carries on with his stalking and smear campaigns as if he is totally above the law.
I was advised earlier this year by a firm of top Londonlibel lawyers that my most promising course of action would be against The Times holding them vicariously liable for their employee's actions. In the past, issues of cost have prevented me from suing Kamm, but now I have decided I have no other option but to seek to crowd-fund an action for libel and harassment against The Times, Kamm and the Times owner Rupert Murdoch. I will be seeking substantial damages.
The ex-hedge fund trader has shown just how much you can get away with if you have the right connections in the Establishment and have the 'right' ie pro-war, neocon views on foreign policy.
If roles had been reversed, and I- or indeed any other anti-war writer- had persecuted Kamm in the way he has persecuted me and others, I'm sure arrest and the end of a career would have followed. Let's be clear: we're talking about harassment and stalking on a major scale.
If I've one regret, it's not publishing a full account of Kamm's stalking campaigns earlier. I can't stay silent while this very unpleasant bully continues to persecute and smear those whose only 'crime' has been to critically review his pro-war book, or hold views on foreign policy that he does not agree with.
So it's time to throw light on the darkness in the hope that full public exposure of what's been going on will mark the end of Obsessive Oliver's vicious vendettas and the wikipedia editing of his equally malicious ally, 'Philip Cross'. And that those who could have reined Kamm in, finally do so.
UPDATE: If you'd like to donate to my legal action to have Oliver Kamm, The Times and Rupert Murdoch properly held to account, you can do so via the 'Donate' buttons on the top- and also at the top right of this blog. All moneys raised will go on legal costs, which are likely to be considerable. All donations are hugely appreciated.
(Details of how to donate by cheque will be posted shortly.)
FURTHER UPDATE: Many, many thanks to those who have donated in the last five days- almost £1,000 has now been raised! My initial target is for £10,000 to be able to properly initiate legal proceedings on a number of fronts (defamation, malicious falsehood & harassment). All donations, large or small, that can help me achieve this target are hugely appreciated.
FURTHER UPDATE: Nov 12th. Again, many, many thanks to those who have donated- over £2,000 has now been raised!
Posted by Neil Clarkat 20:47
20 comments:
Anonymous said...
I can't see a link to the crowdfunding? Where to donate please?
nan said...
I will send you a few quid if you set up crowdfund.
Unknown said...
I sincerely wish you all the best. When you get your crowdfunding campaign off the ground I would be more than welcome to contribute. Daniel.
Alliomack said...
It might be a good idea to leave a link to where people can crowdfund this. Maybe even open a twitter account as a crowdfund source? The behaviour of this one individual has caused so much distress to so many & by the sound of it may have been the catalyst to someone's suicide. Oliver Main has serious mental health issues & you are doing exactly the right thing. I am disgusted at the Murdoch press doing FA to address this very serious behaviour, but there isn't a day goes by that I am not disgusted by the Murdoch press.
Unknown said...
It seems pretty obvious that Phillip Cross, George Courtenay and Peter Tarlan....are all ALT accounts opened and created by Oliver Kamm.
At this point, i would seriously question his mental health
Anonymous said...
Kamm is a very nasty piece of work. He tried to smear me as an anti-semite for criticizing the US Congress' servile attitude towards Israel.
Needless to say, I would love to help with the lawsuit. Please provide a link.
We will defeat this pathetic bully.
Anonymous said...
There is another irony of course. Oliver Scum is always attacking Wikipedia however it seems that his friend Phillip Cross is determined to sanitise Scum's Wikipedia entry.
What a frickin' pair of hypocrites.
Anonymous said...
I would love to contribute, and know many others who also would. Look forward to seeing a link for contributions
Anonymous said...
Oliver SKamm looks sinister… wish you luck Neil
Anonymous said...
Thank you for yr diligent work in uncovering this sad assailant - a link to the crowdfund account will be forthcoming, I hope.
Neil Clark said...
Thanks to everyone for the support. It's hugely appreciated.
For anyone wishing to donate to the costs of legal action, I now have installed a donation button in the top right of the blog. All donations will be gratefully received.
Anonymous said...
Greetings Neil, haven't seen much of you on the ex-Media Lens noticeboard lately. Might I suggest that you can improve your case by avoiding adjectives and adverbs in your descriptions? Regards
Anonymous said...
Fearful of harassment myself, I feel I can comment only anonymously. Nonetheless, I have donated and wish you the very best of luck in bringing your case to justice.
A fellow journalist.
John Edwards said...
You are doing absolutely the right thing. I was aware Oliver Kamm was a piece of work but the most shocking thing is the way the people in the Murdoch organisation think they can ignore your complaints because ordinary people don't have the resources to sue.
Neil Clark said...
Anonymous @10.23 - many thanks-that's much appreciated.
John- many thanks. Agreed- my complaints were very reasonable but were totally ignored. That will cost them dearly in court.
Brambo of Salopia said...
To be so egregiously shafted by this Kamm is not simply cricket, please have £20. Keep up the excellent work Neil.
Anonymous said...
If you can provide evidence that Cross IS Kamm to admins on Wikipedia then at least the Cross account can be topic banned from editing his and families' pages and at worst be banned from Wikipedia for rules violations. Editing your own biography on Wikipedia is a nono.
del stead said...
Hi Neil great work keep this up donation gladly sent
Neil Clark said...
Brambo & Del- Thanks so much. Your support is hugely appreciated.
Anonymous said...
Hi Neal, your "anonymous" Jugoslav reader showing support too. As what now those neocon criminals like that desperate and delusional creature obsessing with you - thus confirming how much great stuff you write - cal a "Croat" who was around when Srebrenica really happened (nearly 5 000 Serbians killed by the west-armed and supported muslims, which was the trigger for all the hype around "muslim victims in Srebrenica two years later", I can confirm that that creepy and mentally deranged person is a liar and a criminal who should be in the white shirt and safely locked up forever.
Along with many, many other people from his circles.
Congratulations on your measured and civilised style under the pressure form that bacteria-sized incurable individual. His world is crumbling apart today. Let that be the source of strength in your efforts. And knowing that you have many, many more supporters than that loser.
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O' Sullivan summarized his view this way:

And that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us.

Many white Americans agreed with O'Sullivan's view. Since the arrival of the first European colonists to what would eventually become the United States of America, many of the newcomers had believed that they were God's chosen people. Some of these same people had believed that the North American continent was destined to be under white control. Europeans drove the
Indians away from their lands, including those in Ohio, throughout the 1600s and the 1700s. During the 1800s, the United States government began acquiring more land from both the Indians and from European countries claiming land in North America. Through various treaties, land purchases, and wars, the United States, by 1848, acquired all of the territory that comprises the continental United States today.

While manifest destiny united many Americans with a shared belief that God had a grand mission for them, it also divided them. As the United States acquired more territory during the first part of the nineteenth century, the issue of slavery and where it would be permitted began to divide the country. Increasingly through this period, many Southerners and some Northerners wanted slavery to exist everywhere in the United States, including in the new territories added to the country. Many other Americans did not want slavery to expand at all, and some people wanted slavery to be prohibited across the entire nation. Eventually these tensions would lead to the American Civil War.

The concept of manifest destiny did not end with the American Civil War. Throughout the late nineteenth century and well into the recent history of the United States, many Americans continued to believe that it was their nation's duty to spread the American political and economic system around the world.

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Saturday, November 6, 2010
The Conversion Experience
The conversion experience is an important aspect of belief systems. Due to one cataclysmic event, a person "sees the light" and is inalterably changed. As a rule, this epiphanic moment happens suddenly, converting the individual from a suffering, despairing human being into someone who has found peace and salvation. It is a seemingly magical experience that appears to happen without rhyme or reason.
Many of my patients have talked about their earlier conversions. Things must be going badly — this is the sine qua nonfor the conversion experience. Further, the difficulties must have endured for some time before the defense system begins to crumble. The individual's current situation, compounded with past trauma, becomes more than the person can handle. Suddenly there is breakdown and conversion.
I recall how one patient put it: "I was broke, divorced and alone for some time. One day, sitting in the park alone at dusk, I felt something grab me and I screamed out all to myself, 'I've been saved!' What I discovered later in therapy was that I had been saved from a feeling that I was never saved, that my parents let me drown in my misery without so much as batting an eye. They did nothing to help me, turned me out at the age of 15 because I didn't behave, and let me flounder in life through drugs and alcohol without once reaching out to help."
Naked before this neglect, unloved, alone, she fled into the arms of the mystical, where she no longer felt alone or unloved. Now that she had been saved, she no longer had to feel that there was no one to save her from her childhood hell. She now had renewed hope, the same hope she had lost very early in her life. This was the essence of her conversion; she had converted hopelessness into hope.
Therein lies the paradigm for the conversion experience. I call it a primal crisis. It usually occurs to people when they are in enormous pain or on the brink of it. It is really the snapping point and it occurs when the person can no longer defend. There's nothing else left for her to do but to be "saved" by God.
Very often, when my patients are on the verge of tremendous feelings, particularly the feelings that predate verbal abilities, they begin to shake and tremble enormously; they thrash and writhe as the force of the pain almost lifts them off the ground. One patient, while convulsing violently, screamed out that she felt a "force" shaking her. Finally she cried, "I've been saved, I've been saved!"
This occurred during a personal crisis, a period of utmost despair and hopelessness. For weeks she had been seriously contemplating suicide. Finally, her conversion experience told why she was suffering so much. By being "born again," she had been "saved" — saved from the discovery that she had absolutely no one in her life, not now, not ever. Her "rebirth" spared her the profound hopelessness that comes with the realization that she was utterly alone in an indifferent universe, that no one loved her.
Why do people tremble and shake while undergoing "religious conversion?" It's really a very short leap from the feeling fueling these convulsions to sensing a new, magical, benevolent force that controls one's destiny. It is childhood pain converted to a belief in childhood magic, the belief that anything is now possible. The form doesn't matter: Jesus, Buddha, Allah, pyramid power, communication with an omniscient seer from centuries past. One is now in another realm, another universe.
What we see in the conversion experience is how pliable feelings are; how easily they are turned into ideas and how those ideas have the strength of feeling. This process is not as freakish as one might imagine, since it aids in survival.
36 comments:
So… cognitive therapies "saves" lives... "saving" lives to be preserved in their illness... a psychological manifestation of physiologically content... a manifestation retention on the earth as flat as a pancake until the day mankind will destroy itself.
Thank you very much for posting this.
You are ingenious. It could be seen because you are developing such complex and contemplate theory based on the work for more than 40 years. You are helping people. Your books helped me to understand life, to get from life something I really want and need, and to have state about a lot in my life based on truth and honesty and little bit simplicity, but not stupidity and naivety.
To understand your books we need natural intelligency, empathy, and to be honest toward truth.
You are, as I can see from your work, enthusiastic, filantropic, altruistic...
It is very noble to help people.
I cant read any more articles from other scientists, who pray to god and still believe in Evolution, who have shallow theories about pieces, yet they are respected more, more than you from larger community. they dont have solutions, or they have instant solutions talking to your mind and lef brain...
You are one of the greatest.
I think we need different approach to some sciences and different scientific establishment.
I wish you all the best
Dr. Janov,ReplyDelete
Very important and strait to the point. I love it.
It is always the powerless, the underdog, the one who feels worthless, the one who never found its own identity (buried under a mountain of trauma) who surrenders to a pyramid power.
The idea that we have an identity must be dismissed, because the pattern of trauma is the imprint worthlessness and that we are nothing without God.
The success of religion is to use this primal experience (coming close to who we really of our disabling pain) as a God send enlightenment, to stay in power.
I don't think there has ever been before an attempt to explain psychologically the epiphany experience (seeing the light). I see it as a last ditch attempt to hold back on rising pain from the subconscious and only makes sense to anyone having had a re-living experience and integrating it. It becomes so easy to pass it off as supernatural--the real meaning is too unbearable to contemplate--except that to do so actually offers the ultimate relief. It's perhaps possible that Danny Wilson was not the first to go through a full re-living experince, but no-one, it seems, ever talked or wrote about it until 1967.ReplyDelete
It perhaps sounds super arrogant to suggest that all religious, spiritual and supernatural explanations are merely rising feelings that the defense system is compelled to reject, and give an explanation--though absurdly irrational--but not uncommon. It is the common-ness of it, that gives it credence. We now know better, as a result of Primal Theory, but the acceptance of that better-knowing is slow to become acceptable.
It is amazing that we can be so close to our feelings… yet they are led away to something completely different. It really shows that the pain at the moment is overwhelming ... so overwhelming that the process of life… virtually wiping out itself. Today ... with the good memory of that primal therapy exists it can be said that there is a fundamental human abuse that happens in our churches ... but who dares to stand up for the liberation as the belief in God means… against a tremendous pain? Madness around the world is frightening. I can still imagine that there are ways to capture this suffering before ending up in a conviction of god.
And I guess similarly that goes on to a degree when we come to therapy "Save me Art!" In the 1980s I met a number of people who were pissed that Primal didn't 'save' them in the way expected. Ah well, at least we still have Superman!ReplyDelete
Brian Collecott
London, UK.
- AnonymousNovember 7, 2010 at 11:00 AM
I think feeling depressed and in despair is what happens when the world does not make sense and therefore a persons relationship to experience threatens the current ego organisation. A religious experience may help give coherence and meaning by the illusion that a divine caregiver is on your side. This may aid survival only in the sense of restoring social function and a feeling of positivity. But the illusion means the person is more remote from perceiving the world as it is that he was before. In this sense it is a less adaptive state, e.g. it may promote less caution than necessary because you think god is on your side. When it comes to letting go and restoring feeling the belief will be threatened again in a therapeutic context.ReplyDelete
Because of a technical difficulty I am not sure that some comments I made yesterday in fact did get to Dr Janov. So here goes again:ReplyDelete
I found this article fascinating and so important , and all writings by Dr Janov on belief systems potentially revolutionary in their cultural consequences.What Janov describes in the first paragraph is exactly what happenned to Bill Wilson, a founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous organisation, while he was in a hospital for the upteenth time due to the consequences of a painful life and alcoholism. All AA people ,though, think that he actually did have an encounter with God, and explaining away his experience would totally undermine that organisation`s foundations. Well, if Science triumphs, that will inevitably happen, all for the good; in the meantime they continue to convert and not drink, and now we know why...
I have one big question though: what is the difference between this breakdown of defenses leading to conversion, and the breakdown in defenses leading to some liberation with Primal? Is it like with LSD: that the person on the way to converting is too overloaded with ascending Pain , and so shuts down with a conversion and symbolisation?
It is truly amazing what you write ... quite buff term incredible ... we are caught off guard by our own internal incapacity of "knowledge"... knowledge about the content of pain… which is the consequence of the choice of God as relief from suffering ... we "know" about god but we do not know about primal therapy. What I mean is... the dissemination of information about primal therapy must take off ... to find ways of spreading information. I return to my wish of how... we must get a commercial representation ... limited to information from The Primal Center?
Dear Art ,i wonder why on earth the "victims...? of an epiphany in general do function in their lives (profession and school/university career) and some of them crumble in psychic pieces -likeReplyDelete
my diseased friend .
I remember once driving with him to see his doctor and suddenly he told me "let`s look whether I am God or not" and then he drove right
on the car before us !!
A female friend of mine could finish her university studies o n l y with her catholic epiphany conversion otherwise "she would gone crazy..!"
And why do I -"free -thinker ...forgive my self
boasting... did it not in life ?
yours emanuel
Incredible !! It seems this text give me an answer I was looking for a long time to understand how it was possible .... I couldn't understand what helped me to change so immediately after my two suicide attempts (in 1993) with a week interval the first one from the second one.ReplyDelete
......."It is really the snapping point and it occurs when the person can no longer defend. There's nothing else left for her to do but to be "saved" by God....."
Here I have a little problem because I do not belive in God.
Frank: All I can do is write and think. I leave it to all of you to promote. Art JanovReplyDelete
Marco: I will write more on this soon. AJReplyDelete
Marco: I could answer but for now I will leave it to the brilliant readers to provide answers. AJReplyDelete
Brian. I think you will find that most of those people went to mock therapists and thought they were experiencing primal. Not often the case. art janovReplyDelete
Nenad: Well thank you. If my work helps it is all I ask. art janovReplyDelete
Sieglinde: always wonderful comments. art janovReplyDelete
Sabina. that is indeed a small problem. art janovReplyDelete
Not to suggest I'm brilliant, but I'll have a go with your question...
I think you had it right with the LSD thing (Bad trip from LSD = chemically induced psychotic episode? I think that would be right).
The individual in a "conversion experience" can't cope (their defences are seriously breaking down) and is getting too close to severe early trauma/s that they are [not yet] able to integrate. This leaves the defence system with no choice but to heavily symbolise (just like in a psychotic episode). The symbolism is ultimately the brains way of dissociating consciousness from the direct experience of the repressed pain. The conversion experience a serious compromise because the individual is forced to become even more divorced from reality, but it can be a necessary 'emergency' compromise so it happens anyway.
If the subject were in fact able to integrate their pain then they would indeed probably Primal. That's all primal is - approaching pains that you are ready to integrate, and therefore will.
I would guess that Art would say that conversion experiences are what happens when you 'buck evolution' - that is, confront serious pains before you're ready to.
Hi everybody,ReplyDelete
Religion is legally paranoid, not condemned by society, yet desirable in every almost culture in the world?
Do I have opponent in this statement?
Nenad: France says it is institutionalized hope. Or as I say, it is socially approved delusion. AJReplyDelete
thanks. I am on it. AJ
Andrew: YEP AJReplyDelete
May I comment:ReplyDelete
Religion is co-dependency indoctrinated - for traumatized people with no identity.
Another form of delusional disorder ICD 10: F22.0 or 297.1
Don't trust Janov? My cousin Marion had wild suspicions until she saw Janov talking on a TV show. She said "You know what, Richard? He was actually sooo cool".ReplyDelete
She admired his ability to speak in such a normal and effortless way. Marion is always very interested in personalities. She still shows little interest in life-saving information (because I try to force the information down her throat).
During the TV show, her previous thoughts of "freaky cult leader" were instantly destroyed. Now she listens more to her own feelings (sometimes I wish she wouldn't), instead of all the people who try to convince her that Primal Therapy is crap (none of those people have read anything on Primal Therapy).
Marion is waiting for me to do it first before she makes a decision. that's quite a leap from "freaky cult leader". I think videos have the ability to tap into a person's intuition. That's why I am looking forward to the primal documentary (no hurry) so I can show it to a few special people. I MUST convert them.
If and when you start with primal therapy… you will understand the parable between primal therapy ... god and drugs. The pain is what will make you understand the difference...god and drugs provides an instant "gratification" that will not primal therapy.
Just by daily terns touch feelings... feelings of pain... it will do a difference in the way I look at things… not least my courage changes. Feelings of fear in memory of hopelessness… sort of blurs my daily feelings… feelings of shyness etc… but it also makes coloring sharper. This remembers me of what Art ones said "you don't need drugs to live… you need drugs because you don't live.
Andrew: Your clear explanation sounds plausible to me, and confirms what I thought. Our good Dr J. backs your explanation, so my confusion is resolved.ReplyDelete
Frank: thank you also for your comments.
I like what Madame Janov has to say about religion as "institutionlised hope", or "socially approved delusion" as Janov says (aside - Mme Janov, ne pourrait-elle pas venir ici nous parler parfois?). No wonder these delusions of a sick society had always confused me and enraged me! My only quibble with her use of the word hope, and the way Dr Janov usually uses it in his writings, is that this so-called "hope" is a false hope, a compensatory drug-like "hope", perhaps to be very clearly distinguished from the true hope of the more open human being that has faced, to a certain extent, his unconscious despair, Pain, or whatever you want to call it.
Nenad also makes the important point that almost all human cultures seem to have these religions, which begs the question as to why human beings seem to be so sick on the whole.I often ponder that question. There is perhaps another distinction , though, that needs to be made between the religions of so-called "civilised" people like in our Western civilsation, and the religions of "primitive" peoples which seem to be on the whole more "pantheistic". Reich though that the dynamics of these latter where different from "civilised" religions and wrote about this in one of his books. He was very influenced by an anthropologist named Malinowski, while the Freudians at the time had their pet anthropologist, Geza Roheim (?), who used Freud's theories to "analyse" these "primitive" cultures. But I don't know enough about anthropology , and this aspect of Reich's work, to say more than that.
Sieglinde: I've often wondered about this "identity" thing. I don't know if I have one as such, or even want one.ReplyDelete
Is an identity a reality or a kind of subjective decision? I'm not sure. I notice people don't listen to certain kinds of music (and other) if it doesn't integrate with their 'identity', and that kind of behaviour to me often seems like a kind of unnatural suppression - that is, the identity regulates what we do and do not respond to, and in what kind of way.
I'm suspicious that what we recognise as an identity may be (or can be) only a defence in its own right.
Dear Art,ReplyDelete
You are probably aware of this recent article
about the role of epigenetics in psychiatric disorders, but just in case I am sending this link. In a few years, much will become known about the effect of early traumas on gene methylation, etc., and the possible reversal by drugs or environmental conditions.
Marco: If you want France to come and lecture in France you need to get a group of people who can pay just her expenses to get there. There is no salary asked for. AJReplyDelete
"a primal crisis...usually occurs to people when they are in enormous pain or on the brink of it. It is really the snapping point and it occurs when the person can no longer defend."ReplyDelete
And so...what?
Is the solution to face the black hole of nothingness and commit suicide?
Do you know anyone, really, who lives without hope?
What is hope-less life about? Buddhists monks promoted "detachment" while using children as sex and labor slaves. They also said life was ephemeral while building stone temples decorated in gold. Hypocrites? All too human? What?
What if the "despairing" person finds that love is as real as "nothingness"?
Why cry if nothing means anything? Are tears just for cleaning our eyes?
Whenever I read philosophers/writers who say life has no meaning, I know they've not been loved enough. Only someone who is unloved would try to deny the existence and power of love. All the books in the world can't contain the love in one Granny hug.
Maybe that's the problem: A zillion "art" objects can't fill the hole in one's soul caused by the loss of a Rosebud sled.
Religions aren't wrong because they espouse hope. They err when they try to prevent congregations from feeling and expressing real feelings. Hope is real because love is real. Trying to deny hope is just another way to try to moderate the pain of needing and not getting. It's an attempt to kill need.
If you think life has no meaning you are saying you aren't loved.
Even if the "universe" were created by El Retardo (a blind unfeeling block of endless obsidian), so what? We still love and feel and need.
If nothing matters, why do children cry when pets die? Why aren't they content being told Fido morphed into inert matter composed of x chemicals?
It's not cloth that makes teddy bears important.
Primal Therapy runs the risk of becoming too intellectual. It can become as "stuck" as cognitive therapy. I mean, c''mon: Did Immanuel Kant ever get laid? Is soma subservient to psyche? I"m not advocating pure sensualism, just saying over-thinking is no better than sexual compulsion.
We hear a lot about dysfunction. What does "healthy" living look like? What is "good enough"? Is PT now the "one and only true way," Art as Jesus-Moses-Mohammed-Buddha-Krishna?
Sometimes, when the world is too much with me, I put on Kurt Elling's "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing" and feel great. Does that mean I'm effed-up? Should I be staring at blank walls, instead, "getting" the futility and pain of life?
DR Janov: My invitation was for your wife to come and exchange with us here on this blog, not to come and lecture where I live, which is in Quebec, not France. Sorry if I was not clear. But, come to think about it,that might be an interesting project to plan a lecture for her. However, since I am in no professionnal milieu, know no one into Primal in Quebec apart from one person in your network, and know of no other sponsoring organisations here as yet that would be interested in such a lecture,I would have to put that off for the long-term future.ReplyDelete
One last thing: I alluded , in one of my posts on this thread, to the typical conversion experience that Bill Wilson, a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, underwent, as a pillar of the AA organisation's approach. Someone pointed out to me that perhaps one key aspect of this otherwise typical conversion was that the drug belladonna , an hallucinogen (I beleive), was administered to him just before his conversion (there were some experiments going on with the drug for alcoholics at that time).Perhaps what happenned to him was more akin to what happens to some of those taking LSD ,than a "pure" conversion experience (or are these experiences perhaps basically the same thing, in the Primal sense?). Bill Wilson, by the way, took some LSD with Aldous Huxley in the early 50's , which threw many in the AA organisation for a loop, considering their drug- abstinence orientation.
Here is my (here always relevant) opinion:ReplyDelete
A more or less curative 'primal therapeutic replay' of a long-previously automatically made 'recording' of - or replay of what was in the past 'conditioned-in' by - a "traumatizing" or, more precisely put, not just a "specific hibernation (SH) imploring" but SH-inducing combination of milieu factors, can only occur if the 'LTP'ed (Long Termed Potentiated) output of excitatory signals *aspect*' of the totality of the conditioned-in aftermath of such a predicament (or ordeal or adverse challenge of this type) is thereby made (or induced) to undergo highly specific LTP-extinguishing change (plausibly involving the endocannabinoid system) OR, if the primal therapeutically facilitated "replay" leads to that the same "conditioned-in" central neural source of motivation receives highly specific inhibitory feedback from neurons recruited FOR THE FIRST TIME by help of a properly primal-therapeutically provided facilitation of such a most-precise feedback within a "PTSD-plagued" person's actention selection serving system.
The "LTD'ed (Long Term Depressed) aspect" of by traumatic predicaments conditioned-in Pain (primal pain) the ASSS will thereby also tend to 'wither away'.
If someone think they have a better science-aligned hypothesis, please let me (Art and the rest of us who have some sort of penchant for primal therapy) know about it!
Hi Art,ReplyDelete
This is wonderfull!!
There is one intelectualist here in Serbia who says that there is in every human being property of "homo religiosis". It means that every person have need to believe in something.
What do you think about that? Still, we have cortex and thinking mind and abstract mind, we are not without that parts of brain...so we use these parts, and we believe, plan, think, judge risks of something etc...
Being religious does not means necessary, believing in god, we can believe in something rational and real:for example: love and hope(which are also used by bible) and theories which our brain suggests to us, which are not necessary irrational, just because we believe, right or wrong?
It is better to read and believe and to use Art Janov's work than Bible, because it is advanced in my criterium, realistic, and also can give a hope for better tommorow(if you go to Primal therapy or trying to act normally in harmony with Primal)
We dont need super being, faith in that being, someone who will save us in our mind from approaching cataclism...
There is mundanely theory, which also good encompassing, right?
Trevor, you are getting what I write backwards. Look in my Primal Healing and Biology of Love about love. OK? art janovReplyDelete


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Investors Value Twitter at $3.7 Billion in New Round of Funding
Well, you knew Twitter would need more money some time. And Kara Swisher of All Things D reports that the some time is now. The company will take $200 million in fresh funding in a round led by legendary VC firm Kleiner Perkins.
Twitter has completed its latest round of funding-$200 million at a $3.7 billion valuation-with Kleiner Perkins as the lead investor, according to sources familiar with the situation. Sources said the San Francisco microblogging service is also adding two new board members: Flipboard's Mike McCue and former DoubleClick head David Rosenblatt.
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Report on effect on input capacitance on the SAMPA chip [1]
People on site: Carlos, Steve, Eric Pooser, Ed and Arun
Carlos: Welcome!
Steve: Working on the toy simulation and trying to incorporate ionization yo get ADC values
Ed and Eric: Nothing much from the steaming readout side. Working on developing JANA2 OMQ interface. Also two sources of noise were identified.
* 50 kHz noise from lights * 58 kHz from the bus pirates
Ed is looking into shielding needs. Eric will look into making a docdb for TDIS.
Arun: Looking into digitization and catching up with work done by Marco. Also pondering on what could be a signature of energy deposited by each particle (difference in ionization trail i.e. chunks of energy deposited at different places). Asked Nilanga if the GEM pads can tell the difference between the energy deposited by the ionization trail and the proton when it strikes the pad.
Nilanga's answer: Since there is no gas multiplication at the readout pad locations, there is only a very small, negligible chance that a proton hitting the pas directly will have a detectable signal (compared to the signals due particles depositing energy in the ionization region of the GEM).
Working with low energy protons, we will have gain factors due to gas multiplication in the GEM of at least a few hundred or more (in a GEM used for MIP detection, this is a factor of few thousand or more) , so the signals coming from ionization near or at the readout will be well below the threshold cut on the electronics
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Hello! So, over the past few months, I have been working on a small secret project and now I can tell you all about it. Essentially, I got increasingly grumpy and decided to do something about it. Grumpiness is a very good motivational factor! My grumpiness centred about the increasing realisation that the women writers I collected and loved were so often erased from literary histories. Much of this I think comes from out conceptualisation of literary history itself and how it is so driven by patriarchal concerns and the like. You hear a lot about people like Charles Dickens, right, but you very rarely hear about people like Angela Brazil who basically defined the term popular bestseller. E Nesbit only just got the really decent biography she deserves (here's an affiliate link to the one I mean – it's really a very good book and I do recommend it). Bessie Marchant was the GA Henty of her day, but there's like three articles on her in the entirety of Google Scholar and a ton of him. And The Chalet School In Exile is begging for a Netflix adaptation, but I'll bet you good money that nobody there has ever heard of it.
So! What to do in such circumstances?
You set up a micropublisher, call it Hot Pot Press, and teach yourself how to publish and publish these stories. You teach yourself how to do it (this is no vanity press btw) and you undertake projects for friends and family until you figure it all out.
And when you do, you launch herstory, which is a range of formerly out of print and forgotten children's classics by female authors – the first of which is Miss Wilmer's Gang by Bessie Marchant – and you give them a new introduction and a further reading list and all of the added content you can stuff into them on the tiniest and most non-existent of budgets.
You tell people that this is about rewriting wrongs, about bringing these women back into the critical picture, about making them part of the literary world once more. You adopt the mantra that publishing is a feminist act. You realise that this is your academic attitudes made flesh, that research is nothing unless you bring people and stories with you.
You set up options for people to support your publisher by micro-donations or simply following it on Twitter as the world is a lot to handle right now and support is welcome in all and any forms, and when you've done all that, that's when you draft a post all about it on your blog.
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
Small harvests
You've had more than your fair share,
I'd say, if I had an inkling what fair might be in this world.
You've left daily clues —
Strawberry blossoms and green fruit
Inexplicably vanished overnight, summer squash nibbled
At the tender tips, apple cores abandoned on the fencepost —
But it wasn't until the day I saw
You deftly removing a prickly zucchini leaf
From its stem, holding it like an umbrella
Before it toppled, that I believed.
You have left us a single strawberry.
I've yet to harvest an intact zucchini.
Tomatoes you don't seem to care for and
So they line my kitchen windowsill,
Glowing globes of orange, red and yellow
Sunlight brought indoors. And the basil,
Heaven-scented, remains untouched.
What must I do? I ask the air above the garden. Visions appear
Of nets encasing the whole plot, wiry cages against
Your small probing claws and teeth, scent of frightening
Predators deposited in strategic locations —
But even the dog, whose agility, speed, and sharp
Teeth have killed your cousins,
Hasn't kept you away this summer.
My, you are bold and quick. Are you really so hungry?
Or are these green and red temptations you steal each day
Merely easy snacking?
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After leaked Trump administration memos, trans Memphians plea for help from allies
Responding to a report that the Trump administration was moving to define gender as biologically determined at birth and unable to be changed, supporters of transgender rights gathered Sunday in front of Memphis' LGBTQ community center, OUTMemphis.
Kayla Gore, an African-American trans woman who is in charge of resources and programming for trans people at OUTMemphis, calls the report a direct threat to the existence of transgender people and said it cannot go unnoticed.
Gore set to work on organizing a rally for trans visibility that delivered condemnation of any federal attempt to erase the gender identity of an estimated 1.4 million Americans who identify as trans.
"We're already marginalized," said Gore, "This just adds on to that. It adds more barriers and more layers to our oppression that we experience on a daily basis. It gives people the right to discriminate against us."
As a transgender woman of color, Gore is statistically more vulnerable to violence than white trans people.
In 2017, the Human Rights Campaign tracked every killing of a trans person. Twenty nine trans people were killed, and of those, more than 80 percent were trans women of color.
With two months left to go in 2018, 23 trans people have been killed this year.
Possible restrictions to name changes, medical care
If violence stemming from hatred didn't give trans people enough pause for concern, Gore said, the federal restrictions suggested within Trump's administration will.
"In relation to gender identity, now currently we're able to change our name and change our gender markers on government documents," Gore said. "These regulations would cancel that out, and they could cause problems for people who have already changed their gender on identifying documents."
Gore also lists medical care as one of the most basic needs likely to be affected.
"After surgery, I may need services typically only available to a biological woman. We have access to these services now, but with this implication — we may not be able to access those," Gore said. "This threatens lives."
The memo is proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services, and could directly affect programs and activities funded by federal subsidies. This could translate to services provided by health departments that must comply with the federal definition of gender.
At Sunday's rally in front of OUTMemphis, dozens of people gathered on the lawn and around the house that the organization occupies: some cisgender - people who identify emotionally and psychologically with the sex they were were assigned at birth - and some trans.
One by one, speakers told about their day-to-day lives as a trans person, highlighting their formative years when their trans identity was not fully understood.
"I knew...I knew when I was five years old," said Dr. Jami Woods, now 63 and a clinical psychologist with the University of Tennessee system. "I put my mom's high heels on and her lipstick and I'm thinking, girl — you lookin' so pretty."
Speaking about her relatively recent transition at a later point in life, Woods acknowledges that trans youth growing up today have more resources, like YouTube, for understanding their identity. But none of that matters, Woods said, if your own society won't protect you.
She likens it to having to hide who she was for decades, sometimes waiting for her family to go out for the day before she, then living as a cisgender man, would put on her dress and high heels and breathe freely.
"I didn't tell anybody that I was trans for 50 years," said Woods. "And there's a problem with gender dysphoria guys. It doesn't get better, it gets worse."
Gender dysphoria is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as a condition in which the gender you are assigned based on biology does not match the emotional and psychological gender you identify with.
Woods was just one of the speakers at Sunday's rally. Other speakers used only their first names out of concern for their safety, according to Gore.
Gore closed the rally with yet another plea from the transgender community to the allies in their lives: help them.
"We don't know any other way we could ask for help at this point," said Gore. "We are under attack and we need you, we need everyone to stand with us."


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- Do Outside Lights Deter Burglars?
- Do Dogs Deter Burglars?
- How To Keep Thieves Off Your Property
- 5 Things Burglars Are Looking For
- 11 Ways To Prevent A Burglary
- 5 Ways To Deter Burglars From Your Home (Infographic)
- 7 Smart Devices To Protect Your Home
- How To Protect Your Home While On Vacation
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While having a dog does reduce your risk of being burglarized, we don't recommend considering your dog an element of your security system. Burglars don't want a dog to be barking at them and alert others of their presence and most will simply choose another home to burglarize. However, not all burglars think this way and unfortunately, too many dogs have been injured or worse during burglaries. Deterring intruders should not be your sole reason for owning a dog, but their barking does help.
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- High privacy fence, so others cannot see them breaking in
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- Office – credit cards, electronics, personal information, safes
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- Get a home security system. Having a residential burglar alarm system is known to reduce crime.
- Don't post company-specific alarm signs; this gives burglars a heads-up for how to disarm the system.
- Lock all doors and windows — many burglars enter a home through an unlocked access point making entry into your home simple.
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- Use deadbolts on exterior doors to make them even more difficult to enter.
- Close your garage door, leaving it open all day (even if you're home) lets others see what valuables you have inside. See more garage security tips.
- Close your curtains so burglars can't see what's going on inside.
- Don't mention when you'll be away from your home to strangers or online. Keep your vacation plans to yourself until after you return.
- If you are away for a while, have a trusted neighbor collect any newspapers or other items that may be on your front step.
- If it snows and you're away, have a neighbor walk/drive through your driveway to make it look like someone has been home recently.
- Use home automation devices to time the lights or television inside your home to turn on and off even when you're away.
Video: Additional Home Security Ideas
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5 Ways To Deter Burglars From Your Home (Infographic)
Here's a handy graphic you can reference on what to do (and what not to do) to attract burglars.
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