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Don Pierson [right] explains how a young Prince Charles made a request to join the Radio London fan club. |
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Prince Charles explains 'pebble theatre'.
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Don Pierson [right] explains how a young Prince Charles made a request to join the Radio London fan club. |
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The chronology of 1963 news covers more than the beginnings of Radio Caroline, because it also covers a strange sequence of events involving President John F. Kennedy and his arrival in West Germany; West Berlin; the Republic of Ireland; at the home of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in England, and finally in Italy, before he returned to the USA - just months before he was murdered in broad daylight during the middle of the day and surrounded by onlookers. Ronan O'Rahilly was not in Europe. He was in Houston and then Galveston, Texas, and yet, his 'hero' was supposedly the man he never met, but could have met - in Ireland! See our companion Blog for more. (Use the link above.)
In June 1963, President John F. Kennedy was paying an "informal" visit to the home of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
Ronan O'Rahilly was in Houston, Texas. On November 22, 1963, a most absurd murder took place in broad daylight watched by crowds of people in person, and probably by millions of people on television. President John F. Kennedy was dead. A few weeks later at the end of December 1963, one ship left Galveston, Texas in a hurry, and a few hours later another ship left Copenhagen, Denmark. Both ships were to become broadcasting vessels using the call sign of 'Radio Caroline' and anchor just outside British territorial waters. What did Kennedy and Macmillan discuss in secret, and why was Kennedy murdered in front of an audience of millions? What was the hurry? Ray Orchard used to pose that question at the start of the Capitol Show on Radio Luxembourg, and it was a good question followed by a good answer. In popular British parlance, the answer really did describe "what was on the tin", or in this instance, what was on the title of that time slot.
Unfortunately there is a body of printed and recorded work in circulation that consists of answers to questions where the person providing the answer has no direct knowledge of the real answer, so they invent one. A word often used to describe this practice is gossip - which is the palming off to another person, information that has been gleaned from someone else, but whose authenticity regarding the original source is unknown to the person doing the gossiping. In other words, that person has no direct or first-hand knowledge to impart as an answer to the question being asked. Such is the case of "Jimmy Ross". Without the story of "Jimmy Ross" there is no story about the origins of Radio Caroline in 1964. Think about it. Think about all of those books and magazine and newspaper articles and all of those radio and television documentaries. How did their authors get away with it? If "Jimmy Ross" is but the expanded fiction about a man named "Jimmy" whose fictitious surname was "Shaw", then how on earth did "Jimmy Ross" become a fixture in the minds of the average anorak? "Jimmy" is the name of a person invented as the name for a fictitious father to a character named "Paul Shaw" in a novel by Ian Cowper Ross. Ian Cowper Ross never claimed that his character was named "Jimmy Shaw". What Ian Cowper Ross did claim in his novel, is that someone (another fictitious character), called "Paul Shaw's father" by the name of "Jimmy", even though the fictitious "Paul Shaw" never claimed that the fictitious father of this make believe person was named "Jimmy". In fact, the inference in the novel is that the fictitious father of the fictitious "Paul Shaw" was not named "Jimmy", and therefore he was not "Jimmy Shaw". The fictitious "Paul Shaw" only called his fictitious father "Daddy". Now it is true that the surname of "Ross" did crop up in news accounts before Ian Cowper Ross wrote his book, and that by 1967 the actual name of Ian Cowper Ross' father was occasionally referred to as "C.E. Ross", but that is as far as that reporting goes. No one ever said what this "C.E. Ross" did for a living, that emerged in vague terms later on when others decided to add job descriptions to this man. The question then is this: Did Ian Cowper Ross' father have any connection to Radio Caroline, and where is the proof of that claim? It cannot be found. What can be found is the family tree of the real Charles Edward Ross that stretches back to New Zealand, and the several addresses that Charles Edward Ross resided at, and the two marriages of Charles Edward Ross; the step-brother of Ian Cowper Ross by the first marriage of Charles Edward Ross, and the growing franchise business in dry-cleaning that began in Scotland that employed Charles Edward Ross, and the merchant bank called Close Brothers that helped to sell shares in that dry-cleaning franchise. Connections are also drawn from the same novel to two other fictitious characters who are then morphed into real people without any foundational fact. We have been going over back issues of Offshore Echos Magazine to see what it has to say about this phantom story. The answer is not much, and what it does say is second-hand gossip. Now if there never was a "Jimmy Ross", then how did the partially well-documented story of 'Radio Atlanta' come to morph into a story about Radio Caroline? The silence is deafening and the library shelves are empty and gathering dust for want of a published and documented answer. Radio Caroline "just happened", and then a ramshackle series of events occurred until a new law forbade marine broadcasting without a license, and a tug company towed away the two boats that were the known homes of Radio Caroline North and Radio Caroline South, and briefly as Radio Caroline International. I guess according to this standard of Q and A, Ray Orchard should have replied to his own question "Well, what do you know?" "I dunno"! If education is defined as expanding a memory base without critical thinking, or the inability to assess the information going into that memory base for later recall, perhaps we have defined the age in which we now live as it applies to that brand of radio enthusiasts called 'anoraks'. We are drowning in information and our minds are gulping it all down into our brains. But very few people seem to be developing the mechanism or critical analysis that is able to sift through all that data, and then assess its relative value. It is similar to a computer storing data but without the software to analyze its value in a some form of comprehendible presentation. Welcome to the world of the anorak, which is but a part of the lunatic fringe who might best be described by this text which is paraphrased below regarding the following quotation: "A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." .... The section, "You Can't Win an Argument," in Dale Carnegie's popular book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, [the section containing the quoted phrase above] is separated from the main text, indicating that it was meant as a quotation and not an original saying, but he gives no indication of where the original saying comes from. The origin of this old adage appears to go back a long time. So long, in fact, that no one is really sure where it originally came from. It also appears in many different forms in many different places. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), the famous British writer and feminist (and mother to the author of Frankenstein), included the quotation "Convince a man against his will, He's of the same opinion still." in the notes to Chapter 5 of her 1792 treatise, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. This adage is placed in quotes, denoting that it wasn't original text, but without reference to the source. So either she didn't know the origin of this saying or she assumed that it was so popularly known that citing the source was unnecessary. She might, however, have misquoted two lines from Samuel Butler's (1612-1680) ginormous 17th-century poem Hudibras. Part III, Canto iii, lines 547-550 read thus: He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still Which he may adhere to, yet disown, For reasons to himself best known Butler might have penned an original thought here, or he might have been borrowing what was already an old saying even in his time. We'll probably never know.
What we do know for a certainty is that the brand of lunacy that is often described by the word 'anorak' when applied to supporters of the cult of believers who engage in endless hours of nonsensical debate about the origins of Radio Caroline in 1964, have adopted a patron named Ronan O'Rahilly and a scribe named Ian Cowper Ross as their means of interpreting information about a yesterday that never was. In other words, no matter what is revealed, the yesterday that never was is firmly fixed in their minds as a yesterday that did take place, even though the weight of evidence proves beyond any reasonable doubt that it did not. Consequently we are now slamming the door shut upon these lunatics and moving on as if they never existed. We will however, continue to re-examine the illogical and unfounded data upon which they have established their cult. But we will no longer enter into further correspondence with them, if their intention is to defend and debate an idea that is without foundation in fact. Anoraks have at their disposal a pile of news clippings and other documentation that they continually shuffle and reshuffle to produce more of the same illogical and totally untrue accounts about the start of Radio Caroline in 1964. They do so while claiming the use of titles such as the "true story" about Radio Caroline, when they in fact have no idea what that story really is.
In 1964 Paul Rusling was 6 years of age. By the time that Radio Caroline ceased to be an operation within the scope of 1967 UK law, Paul Rusling had gained three years. When its ships were finally hauled away in March 1968 he was a few months older. But he was still a juvenile having no direct knowledge about the people behind the scenes who created the station. Rusling, like his mentor that he calls "Sir Hans Knot", simply filled in the blanks of his knowledge by connecting dots in his mind that did not exist in fact. Rusling did not do any research but drew conclusions that were the result not of a working hypothesis, but more akin to "Chinese Whispers". That is, gossip that originated with people who did not know the answers, so they made up stories to puff themselves up, like Johnnie Walker who then repeated those same false stories to other people. Some writers who have not created books, but who have attempted to document what they knew as a result of limited first hand knowledge, have indeed attempted to find the real story, but they have not succeeded. It has taken our team decades as well as some degree of luck, and quite a lot of time and money. That is why people like Rusling steal from us, it gives their vanity a quick fix of self-imagined glory. Rusling was not the first to steal from us, that claim belongs to Chris Eliot who stole our documentation in order to slap together a photocopy publication for Howard Rose, and then a lavish book for which the printer went on a tirade when Ray Anderson decided to declare bankruptcy instead of paying for what he purchased. That book was about 'Radio London', and it gained material from us via a project involving the now deceased Ben Toney, who also made-up nonsense to inflate his own ego. In fact there is more illegal activity surrounding the publication of rubbish in the name of fact about the subject of offshore broadcasting, then there was in the original and only legitimate phase from 1964-1967 of Radio Caroline. But to understand the history of Radio Caroline it is necessary to understand the history of Captain Plugge and his pre-WWII activities, and prior to Captain Plugge came the history of the 'Daily Mail' which existed before the creation of the British Broadcasting Company Limited. However, in order to understand the history of Radio Caroline it is necessary to understand the history of the 'Daily Mail', because that radio station and that newspaper share a common lineage that will shock and surprise everyone who thinks that they understand the background story about the creation of the BBC. That is the story we have, and we are still working on, and to our knowledge no one else even knows that the story is there to be uncovered and documented. That is why readers should avoid paying Rusling for rubbish and understand that rather than deal with petty thieves and small time self-promoting print-on-demand self-publishers, we would rather work with like-minded individuals who want to document this story for the first time, before everyone who could reveal the true story is deceased, and generations to come will only find the rubbish created by Rusling and his childish pals on dusty bookshelves. Ronan O'Rahilly was a fool.
He not only played the part of a fool, but he was a fool. The Oxford Dictionary defines a fool as: "a person who you think behaves or speaks in a way that lacks intelligence or good judgment." That was Ronan O'Rahilly. He became sillier as he got older, and then mental illness finished him off, but the loss of memory was not his biggest problem, that was his willingness to 'sell his soul' for cash and become the bogus mouthpiece for the original Radio Caroline project. There is perhaps no greater memorialization of Ronan O'Rahilly's total stupidity than the 'tribute' pages that appear in the English Edition of OEM (Offshore Echos Magazine) for June 2020 and number 200. Turn to page 44 of OEM 200 and read what this fool has to say about nuclear war and its prevention. Ronan O'Rahilly morphed into the politics of anarchy. He used and abused those he came into contact with, pocketed money for himself, and nearly placed Simon Dee in prison after he got Simon Dee to steal from his employer to benefit a stunt by Ronan O'Rahilly. Ronan O'Rahilly was a cult leader with the powers of persuasion that any 'gifted' religious evangelist has to have in order to con and then fleece his flock. But unfortunately, for the most part, religious believers don't quit, and they cannot come to accept that they made a mistake, and this is why anoraks are perhaps among the dumbest idiots walking the face of this Planet. They won't accept exposure to the facts. 'Jimmy Ross' the sometimes fishmonger, sometimes phone salesman, sometimes stockbroker, is claimed by anoraks to have financed Radio Caroline when he persuaded his pal John Sheffield to get Jocelyn Stevens to front the project. Never mind that 'Jimmy Ross' never existed, or that Ian Cowper Ross' made this character up for a novel. Never mind the fact that Charles Edward Ross made his money by promoting a dry-cleaning franchise; or that John Sheffield managed a dry-cleaning manufacturer through his Norcros holding company, or that Jocelyn Stevens was a director of a companion Norcros company and had been since 1960. Never mind their merchant banking connections that developed in the Nineteen Fifties. Never mind that there was a girl named 'Carolyn' who was the basis of a magazine style sheet which was then twisted to turn that young girl whose father aspired his daughter to join the ranks of the debutants, and that Jocelyn Stevens decided to turn her into a teenage slut by tweaking her name, or that the editor of Jocelyn Stevens magazine 'Queen' decided to quit the day that Stevens made it clear that he was going ahead with his plans by using Ronan O'Rahilly to front the mythological story of Radio Caroline; never mind that truth is the antonym of the word anorak; never mind all of that, because anoraks are true believers in sheer stupidity. None of them will ever challenge the stated facts reproduced here, what they will do is always attack the messenger and never the message. Ronan O'Rahilly had no message other than the words of a fool. While John Reith became manager of the British Broadcasting Company Ltd., which was a monopoly holding company licensed by the GPO on behalf of the British Crown, John Reith did not have a free hand in creating a unified broadcasting operation covering the United Kingdom. He was opposed by many fronts, and they included the people who have over the decades hidden the fact that John Reith is the 'father' of British offshore broadcasting. We will explain why in a later Blog, after you have read our background assessment of John Reith. Click here.
The 1979 movie called the 'Life of Brian' should be revisited by all of the anoraks who have created a split religious cult that one of their own called the 'Church of Caroline'. That cult accepts the mythology about 'Caroline', but it is divided as to which 'branch' of their church its members should follow. The movie 'Life of Brian' had its followers split between those who followed the sandal, or shoe, and those who followed the gourd or water flask.)
In 1927, which was the year that the second BBC began offshore broadcasting for the first time, an interesting controversy burst on to the pages of British newspapers regarding the right to broadcast in the United Kingdom. Here is one of those reports. (Please notice the final paragraph about who held all the power to decide who could broadcast, and who could not. The typographical error in the headline is as it was originally published.) It is possible that the original British Broadcasting Company Limited may have experimented with transmissions from offshore (as opposed to onshore), but we now know for a fact with press reports and a picture, that in 1927 the then newly formed and licensed British Broadcasting Corporation did commence transmissions to its listeners from a vessel. You can now see a picture of this event on our companion Blog. Use the link button above.
Our original research began in the Nineteen Sixties, and when Don Pierson gave us his financial and legal archives, we thought that we understood the story of offshore broadcasting. Then along came 'Radio Man' and it undid everything we thought that we knew about Radio Caroline. Out of that discovery came the following article to which we are now awaiting publication of part two.
As a result of that discovery we have refocused our attention upon four people: Charles Orr Stanley, Alfred Nicholas Thomas; the son of C.O. named John, and designer Alan Bednall. From this line-up we can go from the birth of British broadcasting to the birth of Radio Caroline. Here is the first article in the present series .... Read for yourself the details that others don't know or understand about the foundation of British offshore radio. It seems to have begun with the BBC! Use the link above to visit our companion Blog where you can read free of charge the story that reveals the hidden links from 1927 to 1964 and the real root origins of Radio Caroline!
We worked all through Christmas and New Year, and now we are taking a short break for the remainder of this week while we sift through and file some of the latest material that we have uncovered, If you been astute, you will have got the key clue to what we now know about that offshore radio station that began testing on March 27, 1964. We will be back on January 10, 2022, unless something that can't wait to be told happens in the meantime.
You might have thought that you knew all that there was to know about the birth of broadcasting and the creation of Radio Caroline, but in fact, while the pieces of that gigantic jigsaw puzzle about aspects of yesterday have been hinted at, no one, until now, has ever attempted to put this fragmented picture together. The yesterday that you thought that you knew, never happened.
Welcome to 2022. Now, get ready for shock after shock after shock! As promised, our book is already appearing free of charge and it will continue to be added to in 2022 as an ongoing and copyright partwork. Now that Paul Rusling and his band of con-conspiratorial thieves have been disposed of, we can push ahead, although we obviously wish that he had taken up our offer to apologise, instead of repeating his project of theft. But you will soon be able to read the ongoing review of Rusling's rubbish over on Mike Wilson's dedicated site. Click here to go there. In the meantime, here is a 'gift', a clue from Merle Haggard, and it will take a smart anorak to figure out what the connection is with this song and what we are working on. (Don't ask Paul Rusling, he won't know.) .... Happy New Year from Caroline Brooks and 'The Trio'!
The Blog contribution on our companion site that appeared yesterday, and was updated yesterday, has been updated - or we should claim - expanded - again today. It looks awfully like the outline of a book that is appearing before your very eyes! (Use the link button above. Access to read is granted to you free of charge. One caveat: it is copyrighted.)
We can now reveal an outline of part of the true story behind the 1964 creation of Radio Caroline, which you can read over on our companion Blog. Please use the link above.
Hit the button above for our companion Blog and travel back in time to when this story began to come alive. It's not what you think!
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After a long, long wait, we finally received Rusling's 'updated' 'Bible' and as expected it has made a bad situation even worse. Rusling has now amended his corrupt storytelling with a nod to the likes of 'Pinky', but omitted any genuine, authentic sourced references.
So we are now sending both the original and updated versions of Paul Alexander Rusling's 'The Radio Caroline Bible' to Mike Wilson at Radio Now and Then for his independent review. If you want to read an annotated and unexpurgated account of what Paul Rusling has been selling to gullible supporters of the Malcolm Smith eponymous but unrelated radio station, then you should go to Radio Now and Then for details that will be upcoming. On this site and on our companion Blog following the delay created by Paul Rusling, we will begin to reveal the actual and factual story about Caroline: the girl who never was by tailoring everything to our unique YesterCode. But before we start to do that on this Blog which will serve as the 'feed' for our manuscript web page, we want to tell you how we got a 'last laugh' about Paul Rusling's ongoing thefts. As previously explained, for legal reasons, should we choose to really hammer Paul Rusling in courts of law, we have to mitigate future damages in view of his seemingly never-ending promise to publish his 'updated' 'Bible' with material stolen from us. Therefore, once we knew what his intentions were, we had to halt giving away new information that he might continue to steal from us. Rusling tried to pretend that this information is 'free', but it is not. We have spent an incredible number of hours and amount of research money in trying to uncover the real story behind the creation of Radio Caroline, while unmasking the likes of Ronan O'Rahilly, Ian Cowper Ross and Oonagh Leigh. We succeeded in finding the truth about all three of them. But in all this we decided to have some fun and set a trap for Rusling to walk into. Actually, we set several, but here we will cite just one of them and perhaps allude to some others. On page 56 of his original book, Rusling writes that "The Mi Amigo had on board not only her two previous transmitters as used for Radio Nord off Sweden ..... but a further two new units from the same manufacturer." But on page 60 of his 'updated' edition, the line: " .... but a further two new units from the same manufacturer" is missing. Rusling gets himself into a pickle over this by resurrecting the bogus insertion of "Arthur Carrington" to help explain how the mv Caroline got its transmitters - which he still insists were delivered to Wijsmuller in Rotterdam. In his original book he explains that the Mi Amigo docked at Sun Cay in the Bahamas where the two new transmitters were unloaded and transferred to a ship which took them to Rotterdam. Not so in his 'update' book. The reason being that we invented (with reason) a hypothetical explanation as to how the two new transmitters got on board the mv Fredericia, renamed Iseult and then Caroline. At least he has now acknowledged the name Iseult, but not the back story about O'Rahilly Senior, because Rusling does not appear to know that story which really gets in the way of his narrative to build up the image of Ronan O'Rahilly as an entrepreneur, who in reality became a sponging anarchist. So when we saw just how much information Rusling had stolen, we made a big issue of our stolen hypothesis and indicated that we had discovered that it was untrue - which we have not. But Rusling thought that we had, so he removed it and left his readers with no explanation as to how Radio Caroline obtained its two transmitters from Dallas, Texas. Rusling also invented a story about KILT's Bill Cook. He claims that Bill Cook gave Ronan O'Rahilly a lesson on how to set up an offshore station. The only lesson we know of that Ronan O'Rahilly was given in Houston, Texas, was how to pick a pair of cowboy boots. But O'Rahilly never admitted to going to Houston in June 1963, that information came from us, including the story about his cowboy boots. Rusling never went to Houston to interview the people involved. In the 1970s, not only did we do just that, but one of our team was living in Houston and another was born in Dallas. Later in the 1980s, all three of our team were in Texas. One was at university writing about offshore radio and two others were working with Don Pierson, the creator of Radio London; Radio England, and Britain Radio. But those are not the only mistakes that Rusling made. Rusling claimed that Charles Edward Ross (the father of Ian Cowper Ross), was named 'Jimmy' in order to use the fake story spun by Ian Cowper Ross to Ray Clark. That story was invented by Ian Cowper Ross in a novel about a man named Jimmy Shaw. Then a year later on television, Ian Cowper Ross was very careful not to use the name of Jimmy Shaw, but to talk only of his 'Daddy', but the scenario he used was the same one that he used in his book. Ian Cowper Ross then told Ray Clark enough for Ray Clark to start writing his own story about Radio Caroline in which 'Jimmy Shaw' had become 'Jimmy Ross' and then all manner of really stupid information was padded out on Wikipedia in support of this idea. Trying to decipher the truth in Rusling's two versions (the original and updated), is impossible, and we will leave that chore to Mike Wilson. It will be for Mike to fathom how he wants to deal with it. But Ray Clark and Rusling have both turned Charles Edward Ross into some sort of City of London stockbroker or merchant banker. In fact, Charles Edward Ross was promoting a dry-cleaning franchise that began in Scotland! Now enters John Sheffield whose daughter married Jocelyn Stevens - just before Jocelyn Stevens bought 'The Queen' magazine. Initially in his original book, Rusling claimed that Stevens inherited money from his uncle and then bought the magazine from him. Neither of those statements is true! But how would Rusling know? He does no research and steals from incomplete hypotheses - some proving to be true, and some untrue. But we work like the police work in solving 'cold case' crimes. First of all you have to identify the 'likely' suspects and then you have to work through the list. Some get cleared with a sound alibi, and some do not. The ones who do not are the ones who are then charged with having committed the crime. We do the same thing sifting through the available evidence, and then we embark on a search for the information that others missed. Rusling does none of this! So Rusling ends up with all kinds of ridiculous claims. He is unaware that back in 1960, Jocelyn Stevens was the director of a spin-off holding company started by John Sheffield, or even that Jocelyn Stevens for a brief time, took control of Planet Productions Ltd in Ireland and listed his directorship on the company documents! We know all this because we bought the entire company file of Planet Productions Limited from the Irish government! Chris Edwards of OEM also acquired the entire company file of Project Atlanta Limited with its shareholders. What we did is to go on a long and expensive search to identify these people! When we discovered who one of them was, an amazing story about Churchill's top secret World War II agencies came to light. We will be telling you more about that later on. As for 'Arthur Carrington', he was the long discarded figure who was really an expert on television camera installations! There is absolutely no credibility for Rusling's statements where he tries to paper over the missing bits in his story by using the person of Arthur Carrington. He did exist and we have tracked-down his career record, and it does not include being the electronic mastermind of Radio Caroline. Perhaps that is one of the most glaring lines of rubbish that constantly appears in Rusling's work about the origin of the Radio Caroline project, and how it really began. Forget 1964, or 1963 when Project Atlanta was formed which is also the year when Crawford first met O'Rahilly. Turn the clock all the way back to 1959-1960. That was the beginning! In 1960 Jocelyn Stevens teamed-up with John Sheffield, but Stevens was primarily interested in printing and publishing. In fact, Stevens apprenticed himself to learn the craft of printing! But how many of you know that the first local UK radio station went on line in 1960, or that it was quickly followed by a second station? Both had station names and both were tied into the initials of CBC - which are not a reference to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. However, CBC was the financial backbone of Project Atlanta Limited, and that company morphed into becoming the backbone of Radio Caroline. Beatrix Miller quit Jocelyn Stevens on the very day that Planet Productions Limited was formed in Ireland. Why? Because Stevens was embarking on a plan to turn her aristocratic fantasy girl named Caroline, into a teenage slut with money! That is how Radio Caroline got its name, with a reputation. Rusling claims that the Peter Sellers' home movie became known as the 'Duchess of Caroline'. No it didn't. The movie title is called 'I Say, I Say, I Say' and Peter Sellers' made-up coat of arms and his home movie dedication are to the "Duke and Duchess of Caroline" - who are identified in that film as Mr and Mrs Jocelyn Stevens! There is so much that Rusling does not know and so much that he and others have made up, that the blending of his mixture of fiction with proven researched fact has made it a headache on a major scale to separate one from the other. We will leave that for Mike Wilson to deal with. Sorry Mike! What we are now going to do now is scrap our original manuscript and create another, still as a partwork publication, but this one will be structured around our unique YesterCode. It will simplify this complicated story and make it more difficult to steal. Keep an eye on what Mike Wilson will be doing after we ship the two Rusling volumes to him. Being the holiday season, there may be a longer than usual delay in getting both books to him. Also keep returning here and to our companion Blog for more information about the real story behind Radio Caroline. We guarantee that it is nothing like the nonsense that others have published to date. See our gift to all who have the best interests of humanity at heart on our companion Blog.
But here's good news. We collected a copy of Paul Rusling's latest literary swindle today, and yes, he tried to do what we thought he would do. Our own authentic review will follow after a slight pause for a holiday ....
Still no book from Paul Rusling.
What is Rusling playing at? No person that we have located Online seems to have received and then reviewed his so-called 'updated-bible' book. When we announced plans to have Mike Wilson review the 'updated' Rusling book in depth - after we have received it and performed a quick glance-through - which will be prior to sending it on to Mike Wilson by Priority Mail - Rusling wrote that he would offer to give everyone who bought the first version of his 'bible' a free copy in pdf of his 'updated' manuscript. Overnight an Admin on the Garry Stevens Forum amended that post. Then, the next day Rusling wrote that he was 'clarifying' his offer. He was offering to give buyers of the original version a 'compendium' of changes in the 'updated' version. But we do not trust anything that Rusling writes or says and here is why: First he offered to become a financial contributor to our team and he visited our sub-library twice, as well as sending us numerous emails. Then he stabbed us in the back with his ridiculous 'bible' and got someone that he branded "Sir" to write that we had endorsed it! What cheek. So we complained and he removed that endorsement and claimed that it was not really an endorsement but a thank you for allowing him to steal our research and then twist it to fit the stupid O'Rahilly-Smith 'Caroline lives' narrative. When that didn't work, Rusling claimed that what we had researched and uncovered was public knowledge - which it wasn't and still isn't - because we have continued our research uncovering information that Rusling did not, and still does not have access to. Now the problem with Paul Alexander Rusling is that before releasing his original 'bible' he published several pages as 'samples' which differed from the text in his published 'bible'. So his first edition was really the first complete edition and not the first edition. Then he announced publication of his second or 'updated' edition for November 2, 2021, which we still don't have, even though we placed an order at the end of October in advance of the publication date. Now he is offering to send out free of charge a manuscript - but his offer has even changed in description within a 48 hour time window. Rather than tip our hand and show Rusling what we now know, we decided to wait until we saw what Paul Rusling is claiming to be his updated manuscript in a book. That is why we bought his 'updated bible', and perhaps that is why we have not received it. Something is being shipped to us, the bookseller says, but since Rusling's updated cover is exactly the same as his original cover - apart from a tiny yellow sticker in the bottom left-hand corner of the illustration of his own book, his manuscript could contain anything. In view of his constant changes he could be churning our weekly 'updates' for all we know and trying to stay one jump ahead. Therefore, if we tell our readers what we now know - in detail - Rusling could steal that information and put it in a new manuscript and send it out to his readers and by so doing claim that he had already 'published' material that we claim is new! The legal definition of the word 'publishing' would allow him to do just that. Rusling is an intellectual property thief and a plagiarist. He will stoop to any low level necessary to achieve his end, but we cannot be seen legally to have assisted him in his theft. The law requires that we mitigate our loss (as a result of his theft) by taking all steps necessary not to allow Rusling to continue stealing and get away with it. That is what the law requires us to do if we want to seek financial damages from him. So at the moment we cannot publish anything (other that what is on our blogs, or in academic articles or journalistic articles or in radio and TV program scripts, or in books! By constantly claiming that one person and not three people are behind this work, Rusling thinks that he is being clever by demanding to know where is that promised book by the person he has called 'Haggerly'? But no such promise has been made and that person as described does not exist. There was even this anonymous (Rusling?) post on Mike Wilson's 'Conversation Now' at 08:34:44 am on December 18, 2021 and headed "Dial 999 for Caroline". It referred to a statement posted on November 24, 2020 at 11:55:36 am: "Over at yesternoir.org an announcement will be made very soon how you can get a copy of 'Dial 999 for Caroline' - almost free of charge for a limited time to a limited few." That was long before Rusling announced his 'updated' book and before we placed an advance order for it. By the precise quoting of our comments it is obvious the Paul Rusling and his cronies are well aware of what we are publishing, and both he and they are quite capable of lifting our own research for Rusling's use - which they have done before. Therefore, until we see a time and date stamped 'updated' manuscript by Paul Rusling, we are not able to move ahead for legal reasons of mitigation of damages. Once we receive something in the name of Paul Rusling that is time and date stamped, that puts a halt to his ability to steal and claim that he already knew something that our PAID research has uncovered, then, and only then, can we tell you what we now know for a fact! When that will be is entirely in the hands of Paul Alexander Rusling. Posted by Paul Rusling on December 20, 2021, 11:53 pm: "Yesterday we contacted those on our list who bought the Caroline Bible and offered them the latest updated text, free. Some buyers though are unknown to us and we have no contact details. I am making the same offer to others who email me and show you bought a copy. "
Then one day later on December 21, 2021, at 12:36 pm, he posted this: "Just to be clear, what is on offer to previous buyers is a PDF copy of the text that has been updated, i.e. it's a compendium of the pages that have changes on them." So, after we announced that Mike Wilson would be undertaking a review of this book, Rusling tried to pre-empt our receipt of the book to allow a review to go ahead. But then the penny dropped and Rusling realized that he would be giving the book away free of charge, because the anoraks are pirates and it would only take one pdf to get into circulation before it found its way on the Internet to be shared by everyone free of charge. Rusling has now substantially modified his offer to what amounts to an addendum of notes, rather that his book manuscript. Never-the-less, once we receive his book (if we ever do), the game will be over for Rusling because we will expose his entire textual fraud - free of charge to anyone who wants to read it. Read our companion Blog for more details. We made a short video that explains when Ronan O'Rahilly arrived in London, and how he morphed from a Roman Catholic into an anarchist from which point in time he seems to have lost not only his mind, but taken Paul Rusling on a joy ride into insanity as well. Check it out on our companion Blog using the link above.
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