Michael Shermer Update 2

In the links immediately below I describe how I have been following the career of the arch-skeptic "rock star" Michael Shermer since he made some statements indicating that he was wavering in his faith-of-choice, see: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2016/08/michael-shermer-update.html and: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2014/10/michael-shermer-traitor.html. Since my last update in 2016 we still see no obvious public change in his position. He has written a new book called Heavens on Earth which I have not yet read, see: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heavens-Earth-Michael-Shermer/dp/1627798579. It has the rather drawn-out subtitle of: A Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality and Utopia. I must say, I am curious to read it and it's a pity that I will probably not have time to give it a full review for several months because I am writing my own book, see: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2018/02/roswell-redeemed-sample-first-chapter.html. However, there are some intriguing suggestions in the book's blurb and in some of the recent media spots Shermer has taken part in that he is entertaining alternative thoughts, ones that may have been beyond him previously. He describes humanity's interest in the afterlife and immortality as an "obsession". I have not heard such strong language coming from Shermer before on this subject. It's the kind of talk I'd expect from James Randi.

Michael Shermer returned to the Joe Rogan Experience in January to discuss his book and a lot of what he says is rather unoriginal. He talks about transhumanism, which is fairly interesting; but his statement on near-death experiences is totally cliche. Then Shermer makes an astonishing announcement; he says that Graham Hancock has invited him to an ayahuasca workshop, see at 00.26.01: http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/michael-shermer-3. Ayahuasca is a traditional psychoactive drug taken by the natives of the Amazon jungle. Hancock wrote a gripping book called Supernatural all about the subject, see: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Supernatural-Meetings-Ancient-Teachers-Mankind/dp/0099474158/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8. I expect this eventuality emerged out of another of Joe Rogan's podcasts where Hancock and his fellow guests, including Michael Shermer, have a heated debate, see: http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/graham-hancock-randall-carlson-michael-shermer. I would be very keen to hear what Shermer had to report if he did have an ayahuasca session. These experiences have changed people's lives. Do I sense some suppressed indecision within Shermer? As I said in my previous analysis of Michael Shermer, people who change their minds about one of their very fundamental worldviews rarely do so in a straightforward manner. There are all kinds of psychological effects that can include some very extreme backtracking. Could this backtracking be what Shermer is undergoing when he talks about an "obsession" with the afterlife? Either that or he's after an upgrade to his MBA! We shall see. I'll write more on this subject when Shermer says more.

See here for more information: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2018/01/skeptics-2018.html.

And: http://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2014/10/programme-106-podcast-victor-and-wendy.html.

And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2014/09/fluoride-and-pineal.html.

And: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2013/07/sally-morgan-skeptic-fail.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones Live in Newcastle

I will be speaking at an event in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on Friday the 6th of July at the Ray Gray Community Centre, Stotts Road, Walker, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, NE6-4UH. The event starts at 7.30 PM and costs just £3. It is organized by Truth Seekers North East. My talk will be entitled Energy Politics and UFO's. Energy is everything; it is the foundation and structure of civilization. What are the politics of energy? Something far deeper and more complicated than you might think, and believe it or not, it connects to UFO's. Why? The answers... and more questions, will be revealed.

See here for my previous talk at Truth Seekers North East: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2018/06/ben-emlyn-jones-at-truthseekers.html.

Bilderberg 2018

The Bilderberg Group is no longer secret. It was from its establishment in 1954 until about the 1990's, but since then it has been exposed to the point that its covert status can no longer be maintained. Bilderberg's exposure is a perfect example of conspiracy theory activism dragging a black organization into, if not the white then at least the grey, world. It used to operate in total secrecy with a watertight media blackout imposed in it. For example, when the Group met in 1998 at the Turnberry Hotel in Ayrshire, Scotland, the security for the conference was the biggest police operation in Scottish history, but not one word about it was breathed in the press. However several dedicated researchers steadily broke down this palisade of lies, such as Daniel Estulin, David Icke and Alex Jones; but I think the turning point came when a journalist called Jim Tucker began reporting on it in his newspaper, The Spotlight. That's an apt name because, bit by bit, the actual spotlight shone more and more in the Bilderberg Group's direction until this culminated in the Bilderberg Fringe Festival of 2013, when the Bolderbergers met in Watford, England; and it had considerable mainstream news coverage and which I attended myself, see background links below. In 2006 the organization was forced to set up an official website. It is crude and austere, but it includes basic information and contact details, see: http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/. The latest meeting of the Bilderberg Group took place on the 7th to the 10th of June at the Torino Lingotto Congress in Turin, Italy. It has published a page on the site with a list of participants and a basic agenda, see: http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/press-release.html. All the usual suspects are there, the Kissingers and the Osbornes and the Stoltenbergs and the Carneys of this world; but I was surprised to see Anne Applebaum on the list. She is a fairly prestigious journalist in the USA, but not a political powerplayer... well, not until now. Amber Rudd also attended, which is strange because she has just resigned as the UK Home Secretary after a major scandal. Something tells me her success flag will not be at the bottom of the pole for long.

I'll now examine the list of topics for discussion at the 2018 Bilderberg Group conference with what I think are probably the true thoughts of the Group beside them in quotes and bold:

1. Populism in Europe "Why the hell couldn't we stop them voting for Brexit!?"

2. The inequality challenge "How are we going to lower the wages of the poorest people even further?"

3. The future of work "Anybody know where we can get some cheap shackles and chains?"

4. Artificial intelligence "Let's get the peasants microchipped as soon as possible!"

5. The US before midterms "Damn it! I can't believe we let Trump win!"

6. Free trade "This is how we're going to do Agenda 21."

7. US world leadership "We're going to crash the US economy and fund the NWO with Chinese gold."

8. Russia "FUUUUUUUUUUUCK!"

9. Quantum computing "The latest database system for Big Brother."

10. Saudi Arabia and Iran "What's the best way to do a new false flag terrorist attack?"

11. The "post-truth" world "Our propaganda needs sorting out; the peasants are getting wise to it."

12. Current events "A list of everything that's going to happen in the year ahead."

Of course there will be items tabled that are hidden from the published agenda. No doubt the revelation of the Bilderberg Group will not end the clandestine nature of its operations, as with Area 51 merely being formally acknowledged, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2013/08/area-51-revealed.html. They have probably already set up a "group within a group" of its most senior figures. This is still progress though. Despite our success, the work of the conspiracy theoretical activist is not yet over.

See here for more information: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2013/06/bilderberg-2013.html.

And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2013/04/jim-tucker-dies.html.

And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2010/04/alternative-view-4-part-2.html.

And: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-bilderberg-delusion.html.

And: http://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2014/07/programme-96-podcast-jackie-noise.html.

Portal in Woolwich Foot Tunnel

One of the oldest and most famous underground crossings of the River Thames in London is the Woolwich Foot Tunnel. It was opened in 1912 and runs under the river from the forecourt of the Waterfront leisure centre in Woolwich to Pier Road in Newham. It is 1,654 ft long but only wide enough for pedestrians and cyclists, pushing their cycles; riding is not allowed. It has suffered numerous technical problems over the years and was shut completely in September 2010. This was supposed to be for one year only, but in the end this stretched to over two years. The reason for this closure, the council said, was to carry out essential repairs to stop the tunnel leaking. However, according to a local researcher, there could be another, covert, motive for this closure. They claim to have interviewed a builder working on the refurbishment and he told them a dark tale. It seems there was some kind of space-time anomaly inside the tunnel, a portal. Time ran at a much faster rate down in the tunnel. In fact a worker could walk across the entire length of the tunnel almost instantly. This led to some strange antics among the builders; some of them fun and some of them serious. They caused the site manager stress by calculating the extra pay for the additional time they spent inside the portal, which far exceeded their actual measured time in the normal world. At one point some of the men decided to carry out an alarming experiment that almost led to a causality paradox, an incident that is theorized might split the universe in two. Since the tunnel reopened there have been no strange experiences reported and the portal is believed to be inactive, see: https://portalsoflondon.com/2017/07/02/the-woolwich-anomaly/. I still feel another HPANWO TV outing coming on.

See here for more information: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2015/05/stargate-brighton.html.

And: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2011/09/gateway-to-parallel-universe.html.

And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2015/10/sky-city-in-china.html.

And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2008/09/flatland.html.

Neil's Videos of Dreaming Saucers

There are house recordings of all the Dreaming Saucers talks on HPANWO TV, for example: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2018/05/dreaming-saucers-deborah-hatswell.html, but Neil Geddes-Ward has made his own recordings of the proceedings that are different in style and have far better audio quality. They are all available now. Many thanks to Neil for taking the time and effort to produce these videos.

Ben Emlyn-Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_lraAOPvJo.

Philip Kinsella: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxThN7CKPeA.

Ronald Kinsella: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UY2EW6usCo.

Nik Hayes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j8z3bK96dQ.

Marcus Allen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8o481Yt-mE.

Mark Devlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1PlMyWZ-DE.

Neil Geddes-Ward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbOZ3E_CWiU.

The Southend Ratman

The following is one of the most unnerving cryptozoological and/or supernatural cases I've ever come across. I must thanks Mark Antony Raines of the Holsworthy Mark Show for the background, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2018/04/ben-emlyn-jones-on-holsworthy-mark-show.html. There is a subway in Southend-on-Sea, Essex which is said to be haunted by a grotesque and malevolent creature called "the Ratman". As its name suggests, it is a cross between a human and a rat. It has been reported by many people, including numerous schoolchildren. Whether this counts as a paranormal phenomenon, classroom banter or an urban legend remains to be seen. There are several explanations for its origins. One tells the story of an elderly tramp who used to take shelter in the underpass when the weather was unpleasant. One cold winter's night, in a scene reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange, he was brutally beaten by a gang of teenage thugs who stole is blanket. Deprived of his only source of warmth, he perished in the cold. When he was found in the morning, rats were nibbling at his corpse. His suffering and death produced the Ratman as a psychic projection, some kind of tulpa. Another story is that the Ratman is a real flesh-and-blood cryptid. It is the mutant bastard offspring of a promiscuous Southend mayor who had the subway constructed specifically to hide the entrance to a secret chamber where the monster is kept. The creature is cannibalistic and so is only allowed out at night to hunt its human prey... I think another HPANWO TV outing is called for. Source: http://cryptidz.wikia.com/wiki/Ratman_of_Southend.

I'm not sure what it is about the rat that arouses such horror and disgust in so many people. They are merely large mice, basically. They are very hardy and will almost certainly outlive humans as a species. If they had furry tails they would look like squirrels and everybody would think they were cute. It might be a subconscious folk memory from the Black Death. During the Middle Ages millions of people all over the world were killed by this epidemic of plague. It was only known much more recently that the plague was spread by fleas from rats biting humans, but obviously areas with the largest rat populations would be worst hit by the epidemic. The sight of rats close to plague-hit communities must have become intuitively iconic with the Black Death, even if we didn't know why on a rational level. Many horror stories feature rats, usually just to create atmosphere, but also sometimes as the central plot, as in James Herbert's The Rats, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rats_(novel). The rat population of British cities is growing and I have seen rats many times above ground in the last few years, whereas I never saw one previously because they rarely left their usual home in the sewers. The cause of this is primarily a degeneration of local authority public hygiene services. Dustmen now only carry out fortnightly collections when they used to come weekly. This had led to excess waste being left lying around outside homes. Councils have become very authoritarian, issuing fines to people who break the Byzantine waste processing rules. This has caused people to resort to fly-tipping household rubbish, including leftover food. Nature is finding its own balance, as always. The increase in rats has attracted birds of prey into the cities when they only used to patrol only rural areas. I regularly see hawks of all kinds cruising above my hometown's rooftops.

See here for more information: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2015/02/monster-rats.html.

And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2014/01/ship-of-rats.html.

And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2016/10/monster-in-sewer.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones on the Kev Baker Show 34

I have been interviewed again on the Kev Baker Show (aka MrGlasgowTruther) on Truth Frequency Radio, see here for the podcast: http://tfrlive.com/eye-of-the-tommy-storm-with-ben-emlyn-jones-78792/.

And here for the illustrated YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxEYRP6wLZs.

Subjects discussed include: Tommy Robinson imprisoned, Harry and Meghan tie the knot, UFO's around nuclear power stations and much much more.

See here for my previous appearance on the Kev Baker Show: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2018/04/ben-emlyn-jones-on-kev-baker-show-33.html.