The Skeptocrats are on the move again! The British Humanist Association is trying and block state funding of a new Steiner School in Frome, Somerset. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpiRYqZvAAc Steiner Waldorf Schools are a system of education based on the work of the German philosopher Rudolf Steiner; one of the speakers at the Alternative View conferences, Terry Boardman is an expert on Steiner and I wonder what he thinks about all this, see here for background: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/alternative-view-ii-part-6.html Steiner’s ideas covered all areas of life from child-rearing, to medicine, to technology, to farming and cuisine etc etc; see: http://www.steinerwaldorf.org.uk/ His is a complex set of philosophies which take a lot of study to understand, but they were essentially nonConformist and spiritual. It’s true that Steiner had racial opinions, but most people did in the days when he was alive; Winston Churchill and HG Wells did too. It is very unfair to demonize Steiner as a racist. Sadly in this world of Cultural Marxist political correctness anybody who even mentions the R-word tends to get the Government eating out of their hand. I'm getting scared by how authoritarian Atheo-Skepticism has become. The protest that we "Woo-woo's" pay tax too now falls on the deaf ears of those who consider themselves an intellectual elite whose destiny they believe it is to cleanse society of “superstitious nonsense!”. This is why they are trying to outlaw Spiritualism.
See here for important background: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/richard-wiseman-skeptocrat.html
I’m not an avid adherent of Rudolf Steiner and I didn’t send my own daughter to a Steiner School. As I said in the article linked above about Richard Wiseman, this is not an issue to debate whether Rudolf Steiner was right or wrong in his notions; this is completely a matter of civil liberties related to a parent’s choice for their child’s education. I’m primarily a libertarian. I’d hate to live in a religious dictatorship and if anybody tried to ban state funding of an atheist school, I’d be the first to leap to that school’s defence; but I feel equally uncomfortable about living in the Atheo-Skeptocracy that is currently looming over the horizon.
Friday, 30 November 2012
Nurse Sacked for Writing Stories
(Thanks to my friend Ellis Taylor for bringing this to my attention)
A nurse is facing deregistration, being banned from working as a nurse in the UK for the rest of her life, for writing stories! See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2225168/Nurse-wrote-sexually-explicit-fantasy-seducing-killing-patient-sold-book-clinic-visitors.html?ito=feeds-newsxml The actual charges includes one in which the author, Kathleen Pugh, “advertised” her literature in the course of her job and sold her book, a short story anthology called Aristocracy or Not, to other staff members and patients; she was allegedly observed putting up posters for the book at her clinic. However I suspect that this is an embellishment; it’s more likely she sold the books to willing patients after getting into a discussion about the subject with them. I’m an author too and know that when I bring that subject up, people are often curious and ask me more about it. I’ve made a few book sales that way and I don’t apologize for it. Besides, the conclusion of the disciplinary investigation was that the subject matter of the story itself was their main cause for concern. So they’re not trying to hide it!
There is a parallel with this lady’s plight in the past because of Robin Cook. In this case I’m not talking about the assassinated Government minister, but the American author who has written dozens of medical thrillers involving themes of organ snatching, human experimentation, necrophilia, neurological mind-control, pandemics, murderous and corrupt medical organizations and many other frightening subjects. Like Kathleen Pugh’s story, Cook’s novels contain explicit sex and violence and are intended for a purely adult readership. He’s an extremely influential writer, has had several of his books turned into films and has inspired other authors like Tess Gerritsen and Michael Creighton, see: http://www.robincookmd.com/ … Yet Dr Robin Cook is also a practicing physician! During the height of his career, in the 1970’s and 80’s, there was never any question that he was a writer on one hand and a doctor on the other and that he could effectively do both. Nobody was concerned that his fictional settings mirrored his own medical activities; why? Because they were just stories! Duh!
The world has definitely changed. As I’ve explained with Robin Cook, a few short years ago it would be unthinkable to persecute a person through their employment for simply writing fictional stories, but now it’s completely acceptable. The patients who bought tKathleen Pugh’s book probably didn’t think twice about complaining about her. You’d think that Kathleen Pugh had written a real description of something she herself had really done and forced the book onto their shelf, deaf to their protests! The authoritarianism of the modern world has crept up on us so slowly that we haven’t even noticed it. We’re still “free”, technically; but there are so many strings attached to our freedom and so many hoops to jump through to get it, that a lot of people will simply give up on it. It’s particularly revealing that this woman has been slated for an act of artistic creativity; it’s almost punishment for that very act itself! We’re not allowed to be creative! We’re only machines after all, designed to do a job for the Big Brother State we live in. This is why it is vital that we defend our rights to be creative and have free expression in our creations.
I can sympathize with Kathleen Pugh because I was once a health care worker who lost my job out of activities in my off-duty life in suspicious circumstances, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/ben-emlyn-jones-on-richplanet-tv.html and: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/ben-emlyn-jones-live-at-ldidg.html I wish her luck with her writing career now that she’s out of nursing. And who was it who said: “The only bad publicity is no publicity”? This article in The Daily Mail, even though it supports the establishment position and is pretty disparaging of her, will spread her name across the land and hopefully get her a big pile of purchases.
A nurse is facing deregistration, being banned from working as a nurse in the UK for the rest of her life, for writing stories! See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2225168/Nurse-wrote-sexually-explicit-fantasy-seducing-killing-patient-sold-book-clinic-visitors.html?ito=feeds-newsxml The actual charges includes one in which the author, Kathleen Pugh, “advertised” her literature in the course of her job and sold her book, a short story anthology called Aristocracy or Not, to other staff members and patients; she was allegedly observed putting up posters for the book at her clinic. However I suspect that this is an embellishment; it’s more likely she sold the books to willing patients after getting into a discussion about the subject with them. I’m an author too and know that when I bring that subject up, people are often curious and ask me more about it. I’ve made a few book sales that way and I don’t apologize for it. Besides, the conclusion of the disciplinary investigation was that the subject matter of the story itself was their main cause for concern. So they’re not trying to hide it!
There is a parallel with this lady’s plight in the past because of Robin Cook. In this case I’m not talking about the assassinated Government minister, but the American author who has written dozens of medical thrillers involving themes of organ snatching, human experimentation, necrophilia, neurological mind-control, pandemics, murderous and corrupt medical organizations and many other frightening subjects. Like Kathleen Pugh’s story, Cook’s novels contain explicit sex and violence and are intended for a purely adult readership. He’s an extremely influential writer, has had several of his books turned into films and has inspired other authors like Tess Gerritsen and Michael Creighton, see: http://www.robincookmd.com/ … Yet Dr Robin Cook is also a practicing physician! During the height of his career, in the 1970’s and 80’s, there was never any question that he was a writer on one hand and a doctor on the other and that he could effectively do both. Nobody was concerned that his fictional settings mirrored his own medical activities; why? Because they were just stories! Duh!
The world has definitely changed. As I’ve explained with Robin Cook, a few short years ago it would be unthinkable to persecute a person through their employment for simply writing fictional stories, but now it’s completely acceptable. The patients who bought tKathleen Pugh’s book probably didn’t think twice about complaining about her. You’d think that Kathleen Pugh had written a real description of something she herself had really done and forced the book onto their shelf, deaf to their protests! The authoritarianism of the modern world has crept up on us so slowly that we haven’t even noticed it. We’re still “free”, technically; but there are so many strings attached to our freedom and so many hoops to jump through to get it, that a lot of people will simply give up on it. It’s particularly revealing that this woman has been slated for an act of artistic creativity; it’s almost punishment for that very act itself! We’re not allowed to be creative! We’re only machines after all, designed to do a job for the Big Brother State we live in. This is why it is vital that we defend our rights to be creative and have free expression in our creations.
I can sympathize with Kathleen Pugh because I was once a health care worker who lost my job out of activities in my off-duty life in suspicious circumstances, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/ben-emlyn-jones-on-richplanet-tv.html and: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/ben-emlyn-jones-live-at-ldidg.html I wish her luck with her writing career now that she’s out of nursing. And who was it who said: “The only bad publicity is no publicity”? This article in The Daily Mail, even though it supports the establishment position and is pretty disparaging of her, will spread her name across the land and hopefully get her a big pile of purchases.
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
St Frideswide's Night Photoes
Many of you will remember my adventures at the church in Binsey on St Frideswide’s Night, see: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/st-frideswides-night.html. As you can see, my companion, Geoff Ambler of Contact International, took a number of photographs. I have been given permission by Geoff to publish these photographs on HPANWO. Photoes 1, 2 and 4 are simple interior shots of the church with nothing anomalous apparent in them at all. Photoes 9 and 10 are completely blank and are probably shots of the outdoor open spaces with all the features out of range of the flash, however if any HPANWO-readers have the skills and facilities to intensify them and find anything notable, I’d be very grateful. Photoes 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 14 capture patches of the exterior ground in the graveyard; these all look completely normal to me, although if any of you disagree please let me know and explain why. Photo 15 is one of the church gates which you can also see in the film. The only images of any immediate interest are Photoes 3 and 6. In Photo 3 we see a swirl of thin dark red across the lower middle of the frame and another blob of red to the upper left; this one of denser and a lighter shade. The background is black. I suspect this might be an article of Geoff’s clothing. Geoff’s technique involved taking some of the shots over his shoulder and so he wouldn’t be able to train the camera very well and might have accidentally photographed his own collar. Again, if anybody doesn’t think this is the case could you let me know?
The most interesting snap is Photo 6. It’s one of the exterior ground shots, but it’s the most remarkable because it contains a distinct orb in the upper mid left. It’s the only photo Geoff took that night which contains a visible orb. Geoff told me that taking photos over his shoulder tends to produce more orbs. Attempts have been made to explain orbs away as being artefacts of digital photography caused by the light source, usually the camera flash, being located close too the lens so reflecting the light directly back into the camera from a small nearby object, like a grain of dust or raindrop, see: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Orb. No doubt some of them are indeed just that, but are all orbs explicable as glints of light off motes and pollen grains? No. See here for a non-Skepper overview of orbs: http://www.ghoststudy.com/main/fakepageorbs.html. I also recommend the book Beyond Photography by Katie Hall and John Pickering: http://www.lights2beyond.com/. Geoff too has had a lot of experience photographing orbs and thinks that this one is the genuine article. Of course if we’d been slightly more competent and professional supernatural researchers we’d have kept an exact record of when and where each photo on the roll was taken, but unfortunately we are not and so we didn’t. The reason I’d like to know was because Geoff took one of the shots at 20.46 in Part 6 of the film linked above, and this was just a few seconds before I heard that strange voice. If the orb Geoff photographed is real, and Photo 6 was the one you saw him take at that moment, then could there be a connection?
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Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Plan to Nuke the Moon
(The theme of this article is article is similar to this one: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/lcross-pearl-harbour-in-space.html but it is about a completely different subject)
A recent article in the Daily Mail has revealed how the US Government planned to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon. The title of the newspaper story is an exaggeration; the moon itself would not be seriously harmed by the blast, however the explosion would have created a flash of light visible to people on Earth, including in the USSR. See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2238242/Cold-War-era-U-S-plan-bomb-moon-nuclear-bomb-revealed.html. It’s important to understand that the Cold War was as much about psychology and playground domination tactics as it was about missiles, spies and bunkers. The intention of this operation was to “shock-and-awe” the people of the world, especially in the Soviet Union, into submission to the Democracy and “Freedom” of the West. The Soviets were equally irresponsible and childish, exploding the world’s largest hydrogen bomb, the fifty megaton “Emperor of Bombs”, over the Novaya Zemlya islands in 1961. It broke windows as far away as Helsinki, Finland and caused terrible damage to the surrounding environment, see: http://sonicbomb.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=90 The pilots dropping the bomb were on a semi-suicide mission because the planners of the test were not certain that the aircraft would be able to fly away quickly enough to survive the blast. The purpose of this test was the same: “shock-and-awe” the world into accepting global socialist “Freedom”.
The secret project to nuke the moon had a very euphemistic and pacifying name: “A119- a Study of Lunar Research Flights”. This is often the case with these kinds of government operations; the first nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima was called “Little Boy” instead of something like “Jap-Killer”. After the Soviets triumphed with Sputnik in 1957 the Americans wanted to strike back, and like every humiliated bully-ego they became extreme to the point of madness. I was surprised to see that Carl Sagan had been involved in the project because he was also renowned as a peace campaigner and advocate for nuclear disarmament. A119 was shelved before it reached the advanced planning stage, supposedly because of fears to public safety if the rocket failed at launch, but the testimony of Prof. Robert Jacobs might indicate an alternative hypothesis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdCMiDOFy2s I’ve made a mistake in the past in which I thought Jacobs’ UFO experience was directly related to plans to bomb the moon, but in fact Jacobs’ encounter took place a few year later, in 1964, during the test of an intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile. Jacobs was in the US Air Force and his job was to film the launch with optical instruments. His memories of what happened after the experience, together with the testimony of his commanding officer, Major Mansman, indicates that by 1964 the US Government already had experience of dealing with UFO encounters and had a contingency plan of action in place. This is why these men in “grey suits” were on the scene so quickly and the film suppressed and confiscated so methodically. There was no hesitation or indecision apparent in the aftermath of Jacob’s encounter. Perhaps this is the real reason why “a Study of Lunar Research Flights” was cancelled.
UFO’s do seem to take an interest in human activity related to nuclear weapons and nuclear power. As you can see in the linked video above, it also discusses the experience of Capt. Robert Salas in which UFO activity disabled an entire field of ballistic missiles a few years later. I myself took a photo of a UFO near another nuclear weapons facility, the Trident base at Faslane, Scotland: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/long-lost-ufo-photo-update.html Many of the most significant UFO incidents take place around these facilities. Obviously it is not every day that UFO’s directly intervene in human rocketry endeavours, but it is clear that if necessary they will act against us. In this case maybe there’s some kind of message they’re giving us; there’s no way to know for sure but to me it runs something along the lines of: “We don’t approve of you having nuclear weapons, but if you insist of using them, please keep them on your own planet.”
A recent article in the Daily Mail has revealed how the US Government planned to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon. The title of the newspaper story is an exaggeration; the moon itself would not be seriously harmed by the blast, however the explosion would have created a flash of light visible to people on Earth, including in the USSR. See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2238242/Cold-War-era-U-S-plan-bomb-moon-nuclear-bomb-revealed.html. It’s important to understand that the Cold War was as much about psychology and playground domination tactics as it was about missiles, spies and bunkers. The intention of this operation was to “shock-and-awe” the people of the world, especially in the Soviet Union, into submission to the Democracy and “Freedom” of the West. The Soviets were equally irresponsible and childish, exploding the world’s largest hydrogen bomb, the fifty megaton “Emperor of Bombs”, over the Novaya Zemlya islands in 1961. It broke windows as far away as Helsinki, Finland and caused terrible damage to the surrounding environment, see: http://sonicbomb.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=90 The pilots dropping the bomb were on a semi-suicide mission because the planners of the test were not certain that the aircraft would be able to fly away quickly enough to survive the blast. The purpose of this test was the same: “shock-and-awe” the world into accepting global socialist “Freedom”.
The secret project to nuke the moon had a very euphemistic and pacifying name: “A119- a Study of Lunar Research Flights”. This is often the case with these kinds of government operations; the first nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima was called “Little Boy” instead of something like “Jap-Killer”. After the Soviets triumphed with Sputnik in 1957 the Americans wanted to strike back, and like every humiliated bully-ego they became extreme to the point of madness. I was surprised to see that Carl Sagan had been involved in the project because he was also renowned as a peace campaigner and advocate for nuclear disarmament. A119 was shelved before it reached the advanced planning stage, supposedly because of fears to public safety if the rocket failed at launch, but the testimony of Prof. Robert Jacobs might indicate an alternative hypothesis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdCMiDOFy2s I’ve made a mistake in the past in which I thought Jacobs’ UFO experience was directly related to plans to bomb the moon, but in fact Jacobs’ encounter took place a few year later, in 1964, during the test of an intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile. Jacobs was in the US Air Force and his job was to film the launch with optical instruments. His memories of what happened after the experience, together with the testimony of his commanding officer, Major Mansman, indicates that by 1964 the US Government already had experience of dealing with UFO encounters and had a contingency plan of action in place. This is why these men in “grey suits” were on the scene so quickly and the film suppressed and confiscated so methodically. There was no hesitation or indecision apparent in the aftermath of Jacob’s encounter. Perhaps this is the real reason why “a Study of Lunar Research Flights” was cancelled.
UFO’s do seem to take an interest in human activity related to nuclear weapons and nuclear power. As you can see in the linked video above, it also discusses the experience of Capt. Robert Salas in which UFO activity disabled an entire field of ballistic missiles a few years later. I myself took a photo of a UFO near another nuclear weapons facility, the Trident base at Faslane, Scotland: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/long-lost-ufo-photo-update.html Many of the most significant UFO incidents take place around these facilities. Obviously it is not every day that UFO’s directly intervene in human rocketry endeavours, but it is clear that if necessary they will act against us. In this case maybe there’s some kind of message they’re giving us; there’s no way to know for sure but to me it runs something along the lines of: “We don’t approve of you having nuclear weapons, but if you insist of using them, please keep them on your own planet.”
Monday, 26 November 2012
"That's just Human Nature, Man!"
On Thursday afternoon I was on the coach to Nottingham to meet Ustane before heading for Manchester where I was speaking at the Critical Mass Radio Conference. The coach stopped at Leicester for a one hour stopover and when I alighted to the pavement at the coach station I realized my mobile phone was missing from my pocket. As some HPANWO-readers know, I no longer use a mobile phone because of the cost and for the sake of my health; but I still keep my old mobile phone, with its inactive SIM card, to use as a clock, alarm, and to store and play music and radio show recordings. How it disappeared from my pocket I do not know; my best guess is it fell out at some point because I was keeping it in a pocket without a zip, so I could check the time regularly during the journey. It’s also remotely possible that somebody picked my pocket, but this is unlikely while I was sitting in my seat. However one certainty is that the phone disappeared while I was on board the coach, because I definitely had it with me when I came aboard.
I’ve called the coach operators, National Express, to make a lost property report. Some of you might be wondering why I’m bothering; since of all the many mobile phones get lost and stolen, how many are ever returned to their owner? A tiny proportion that’s for sure, and I admit that what I’ve done is a long shot. However I remember speaking to somebody at a coach station a couple of years ago who told me a massive amount of lost property gets handed in and they keep it in a huge storeroom for as long as they can before throwing it in the rubbish. The biggest problem, he said, was that passengers rarely bother to inquire and see if their property has been found because they immediately assume that if somebody finds it they will steal it. And I myself have noticed this cynical attitude among my own family, friends and acquaintances. But why is that when, as the man at the lost property office told me, a lot of people do not steal things they find; and a lot of them do hand in what they find in to be retrieved by its owner?
The answer is that a cynical view of other people has been deliberately induced in our society. The media and culture has a general theme of distrust and suspicion between people. Images and stories of war, crime and abuse, both real and fictitious, fill our senses continuously: Every man is a potential rapist, every woman a cheat, everybody in a suit will con you out of your savings, every young teen with a hoodie will beat you up, every black man will mug you, every foreigner wants to take over your country. However the most preliminary factual analysis will immediately show that this is not the case. The vast majority of human beings are respectful, cooperative and mutually supportive. We have evolved as a social species and therefore it’s instinctive on our part not to harm each other, to look after each other, to resolve conflict amicably. But conventional notions say otherwise; we are supposedly “hardwired for violence”; that it’s a “dog-eat-dog world out there, Man” and it’s “Law of the Jungle”, “survival of the fittest”. As I’ve asked many times before: in that case why is it that this “just human nature, Man” requires constant maintenance? The manipulators jump through hoop after hoop and sweat buckets in their effort to keep us at each other’s throats. If it’s “just human nature, Man” why don’t they just sit back and watch the show as we tear each other to pieces? (See here for more detail: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/friday-13th-man.html) For whatever reason, it suits the New World Order agenda for us to have that attitude.
So my main motive for filing a lost property report with the coach company is not so I can get my mobile phone back, although if on the off chance I can that would be a welcome bonus; my main motive is to strike back at this social engineering, this drive to turn me against my fellow man in a paranoid delusion of mistrust. That way I’m sticking up two fingers to the New World Order and telling them that I refuse to become what they want me to be.
(Edit: I've heard back from the coach company and they've found it. They're going to send it to me in the post.)
I’ve called the coach operators, National Express, to make a lost property report. Some of you might be wondering why I’m bothering; since of all the many mobile phones get lost and stolen, how many are ever returned to their owner? A tiny proportion that’s for sure, and I admit that what I’ve done is a long shot. However I remember speaking to somebody at a coach station a couple of years ago who told me a massive amount of lost property gets handed in and they keep it in a huge storeroom for as long as they can before throwing it in the rubbish. The biggest problem, he said, was that passengers rarely bother to inquire and see if their property has been found because they immediately assume that if somebody finds it they will steal it. And I myself have noticed this cynical attitude among my own family, friends and acquaintances. But why is that when, as the man at the lost property office told me, a lot of people do not steal things they find; and a lot of them do hand in what they find in to be retrieved by its owner?
The answer is that a cynical view of other people has been deliberately induced in our society. The media and culture has a general theme of distrust and suspicion between people. Images and stories of war, crime and abuse, both real and fictitious, fill our senses continuously: Every man is a potential rapist, every woman a cheat, everybody in a suit will con you out of your savings, every young teen with a hoodie will beat you up, every black man will mug you, every foreigner wants to take over your country. However the most preliminary factual analysis will immediately show that this is not the case. The vast majority of human beings are respectful, cooperative and mutually supportive. We have evolved as a social species and therefore it’s instinctive on our part not to harm each other, to look after each other, to resolve conflict amicably. But conventional notions say otherwise; we are supposedly “hardwired for violence”; that it’s a “dog-eat-dog world out there, Man” and it’s “Law of the Jungle”, “survival of the fittest”. As I’ve asked many times before: in that case why is it that this “just human nature, Man” requires constant maintenance? The manipulators jump through hoop after hoop and sweat buckets in their effort to keep us at each other’s throats. If it’s “just human nature, Man” why don’t they just sit back and watch the show as we tear each other to pieces? (See here for more detail: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/friday-13th-man.html) For whatever reason, it suits the New World Order agenda for us to have that attitude.
So my main motive for filing a lost property report with the coach company is not so I can get my mobile phone back, although if on the off chance I can that would be a welcome bonus; my main motive is to strike back at this social engineering, this drive to turn me against my fellow man in a paranoid delusion of mistrust. That way I’m sticking up two fingers to the New World Order and telling them that I refuse to become what they want me to be.
(Edit: I've heard back from the coach company and they've found it. They're going to send it to me in the post.)
Monday, 19 November 2012
Ben Emlyn-Jones on The Mind Set Podcast
I
have been featured as part in a round table discussion on The Mindset Podcast. Subjects
we discuss are David Icke, anti-Semitism, tasers, Internet censorship and much much
more. It was great fun to be involved in the show. Thanks to my friends who invited
me.
See here for The Mind Set Podcast-
Episode 128: http://www.mindsetcentral.com/archives/9585
Sunday, 18 November 2012
Skeptics Troll Their Own
Some
regular HPANWO-readers will be aware that I've been on the receiving end of a
very intense troll campaign for about five years. Trolls are basically Internet
bullies who travel round cyberspace harassing and insulting other Net users. They
are some of the worst people imaginable; in my view they encapsulate the most
despicable and depraved mentalities in existence. I feel more contempt for them
than almost anybody else. They're not only sadists, they're cowards who could
never summon the gumption to confront anybody face-to-face; they just attack
from behind the impunity of a keyboard and monitor. My antagonists are an
infamous group of trolls calls "Team Droike"; who are still a regular
and recurring problem on the HPANWO Forum. At first I thought they were just
one person, they posted from a single user account; but then I noticed that
their spelling and grammar varied in accuracy for different posts. They also
seemed to be constantly online and I never had to wait more than an hour or two
for replies at any time of the day or night, as if they were working shifts. Of
course I'm a big, tough, ugly ex-Hospital Porter and so I'm not vulnerable in
any way; but there are others who have been hounded to depression and even suicide
by trolls. Team Droike are Skeptics and have obviously targeted me because I'm
a "Woo-woo"; some trolls are non-Skeptics who hunt for Skeptics to
abuse. I personally find both equally
abhorrent. But a disturbing new development has emerged that has come to my attention
via a friend of mine in Australia ,
Steve Trueblue, whom recently I interviewed on HPANWO Radio, see: http://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/programme-21-podcast-steve-trueblue.html
Skeptics have started trolling their own. The victim in this case is a lady
called Rebecca Watson, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nloor6dfwoY
Rebecca Watson is a Skeptic blogger and radio show host who founded and runs Skepchick, a website primarily for women who are Skeptics, see: http://skepchick.org/ It combines general Skepticism with associated feminist and women's interest issues. For example it has campaigned against misogyny in the Christian Right and witchcraft persecution in rural parts ofAfrica .
Like every prominent Internet personality, she received her fair share of
trolling, but one day these attacks suddenly escalated. Because of her
disbelief in the paranormal and related subjects she felt she had found a group
of like-minded comrades when she got involved with the Skeptic Movement. However
she soon discovered that some of the male Skeptics she worked with were capable
of even worse vicious behaviour than their non-Skeptic counterparts. During one
conference a man politely, but rather clumsily, attempted to seduce her and she
mentioned this incident on stage at the conference in a light-hearted way. The
response was that she was immediately inundated with violent tirades ranging
from spiteful jokes, sexist slurs and criticism of her looks and character, to
threats of violence, torture, rape, mutilation, and even murder. Photographs of
dismembered bodies were sent to her (and this makes me wonder if these are the same
Skeptic trolls who tormented Meryl Dorey, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKEMPf_DRMg
) She managed to obtain information on the profiles of some of her abusers and
discovered that they were often adults active in the Atheo-Skeptic Movement.
That grand Maharishi of Atheo-Skeptics, Richard Dawkins, was not one of her
abusers, but he was extremely unsympathetic; in fact he wrote a sarcastic false
letter about it. To be honest I'd say that Rebecca Watson's failed-seduction
experience alone does not justify any complaint, but when it is combined with
the backdrop of her existing issues with male Skeptics I can understand why it
would upset her; and Dawkins' response is highly insensitive, especially if what Watson
says is true, that she had already told
him about the existing threats she was receiving, see: http://skepchick.org/2011/07/the-privilege-delusion/
Watson's ordeal intensified as this very highly organized trolling campaign took
shape. Other members of Skepchick were struck at too, frightening one so much she
left her home. Entire forums and blogs were set up by male Skeptics disparaging
female Skeptics. The Skeptopaths have shown their true colours.
Rebecca Watson is a Skeptic blogger and radio show host who founded and runs Skepchick, a website primarily for women who are Skeptics, see: http://skepchick.org/ It combines general Skepticism with associated feminist and women's interest issues. For example it has campaigned against misogyny in the Christian Right and witchcraft persecution in rural parts of
I'm not an advocate of feminism, in fact I'm a very harsh and vocal critic of it, but when I look at the conduct of some Conformist males I can sympathize with women who feel drawn into it. Watson is not a "man-hater"; in fact she got married to Sid Rodrigues, a male Skeptic who helps run London Skeptics in the Pub who has always been very welcoming to me, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/london-skeptics-in-pub-141111.html So one cannot generalize, but Steve thinks that the problem lies with the mentality of those attracted to the Skeptic Movement, something we talk more about in the radio interview linked above. Rebecca Watson has stood her ground in the Skeptisphere and continues to do her work. This is very courageous of her, but Steve thinks it's naive and foolhardy. As you can see in the linked video, Watson still believes that the Skeptic Movement is a good thing which has the power to change the world for the better. Steve thinks she's better off out of it, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnp_Cmlwq3o Steve calls the Skeptic Movement a hate group comparable to the Ku Klux Klan. I think that's slightly too severe... just slightly. But I think it's certainly wise to treat the Skeptic Movement as an emergent hate group, because it has the symptoms of a proto-tyranny, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/richard-wiseman-skeptocrat.html Also see the list Steve quotes from the FBI here from 0.45: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKEMPf_DRMg As for Rebecca Watson, I agree totally with Steve's advice; get the hell out, Rebecca! She should get out and do her own thing beyond the umbrella of the Skeptisphere completely. She doesn't have to change any of her opinions or change anything else about herself; all she has to do is reject the institution that has created the "head-kicking" culture as Steve calls it. Team Droike are Skeptics, just like James Randi and Richard Dawkins are Skeptics, and Team Droike have decided to attack me. I wonder if Team Droike are among those who have decided to brutalize Rebecca. It's different for me, being a big 'ard feller, but for a young woman like Rebecca Watson it's far worse. I must say that if a pro-conspiracy/paranormal organization treated me like the Skeptics have treated her, you wouldn't see me for dust!
Friday, 16 November 2012
Palestinian "Rockets"
I've
got two questions for you:
1. What is the difference
between a submarine and a U-boat?
2.
What is the difference between an astronaut and a cosmonaut?
Think
about these questions for a bit before reading the rest of this article.
The
answer is: Nothing at all. They are synonyms for the same objects which were used
in the media to designate nationality for political reasons. By giving them different
names it created in the mind of the receiver of media stories different mental
concepts for them. It kept the viewer or reader focused on the "them-and
us" aspect of these objects. The word "U-boat" is derived from the
German word "U-Boot" which is
short for "Unterseeboot"
which translates as "submarine" (It literally means "a boat that
is under the sea" German is full of these logically-pure terms) However German
used the word, and still does today, to refer to any submarine of any nation. The
term "U-boat" was coined to discern mentally for English-speaking media
receivers a false difference between the two. The word "astronaut" was
coined in 1930 and derives from Greek where it literally means "star sailor".
"Cosmonaut" derives from the Russian "KOCMOHaBT" which itself comes from a Greek word meaning "sailor
in the universe". But of course, as with "U-boat", there's no practical
need to use two separate words because both words refer to the same thing. The reason
two separate words were used in the media was for the same reason as "U-boat":
to keep people aware of the Space Race and Cold War "good guys" and "bad
guys" situation. As the modern Chinese space programme steams ahead there's
even a ridiculous new piece of media jargon: "taikonaut"; this embeds
the word "taikong" which is
Chinese for "outer space" and the Greek "vautnc" for "sailor". Official translations from China
itself never use this word; in stead they use "astronaut" whereas Russian
translations of Chinese use "KOCMOHaBT".
I'd be interested to know if Russian made the same Cold War political distinction
as English. If any HPANWO-readers know, please tell me.
The
so-called "nation", this aberrant fiefdom of Israel ,
has begun another attack on its Palestinian neighbours; the same Palestinians who
lived quite happily side-by-side with Sephardic Jews for well over a thousand
years before 1947. The BBC has been covering this in a way that looks on the surface
impartial, but this supposed fairness is superficial. A lot has been written on
the media's refusal to use the word "genocide" although Israel's actions
fulfill the United Nations Genocide Convention checklist as well as it can be, see:
https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/
(As for "holocaust", forget it! That's virtually hallowed ground; and
definitely a trademark, with or without a capital H). What interests me is its current
use of the word "rocket". Up until now, to the best of my knowledge,
the Beeb has only ever used that word to describe an object that carries something
or somebody (as astronaut or cosmonaut!) up into space. To describe similar devices
that are designed to carry an explosive or other destructive payload, for warlike
purposes, onto enemy territory during battle, it has always used the word
"missile". So why has it changed now? The linked article describes this
Palestinian ordnance as "not sophisticated", and it's true that some of
them are amateur constructions made on the Gaza Strip itself, however the article
also refers to the way Palestinians have acquired military surplus Iranian and Chinese
missiles, yet it still uses the word "rocket". In a BBC TV news broadcast
this morning it used the word "rocket" and "rockets" every time
except on one occasion, and this was when something strange happened. BBC news'
Wyre Davies was shown reporting from Gaza
City
and he used the word "missile" to refer to the weapons bombarding Israel
and the transmission failed; the screen froze for a few seconds. Was the feed cut
off in order to give Davies a hasty bollocking?
So
with the word "rocket" we could be looking at another attempt by the
media to colour our perceptions and opinions using language. I have to also question
whether these "rockets" in fact do come from the Palestinian militants
at all; are they instead false flag attacks by Mossad? I know this is the British Broadcasting Corporation, but it's
important not to underestimate the influence the Israeli lobby has in this country.
They make people comply in several ways. Firstly they throw accusations of anti-Semitism
around the place like sweeties at anybody who criticizes Israel ;
99% plus of those accused are innocent. In fact I'm bracing myself for such an attack
as this article goes online! See: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/how-anti-semitic-are-you.html
Another method is to hold up the Holocaust as a human shield, which is a very cruel
and disrespectful thing to do; yet they do it all the time, see: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/holocaust-memorial-day_26.html
It's important we do not shy away from this kind of moral blackmail; that way millions
of innocent lives in the Middle East, on
both sides, can be saved.
Thursday, 15 November 2012
GMO Ash to Beat Dieback
A
friend of mine on YouTube was watching BBC News and saw the story about Ash
Tree Dieback Disease and heard somebody suggest using genetically-modified Ash
trees to tackle the problem of the disease, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD6TWu-ls90
This leads me to wonder where Ash Tree Dieback actually comes from. Is it a
natural condition or does it come from Fort
Detrick
or Porton Down? It certainly seems to have been allowed to spread into the
country through a process of culpable negligence; according to George Monbiot,
see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2012/oct/25/ash-dieback-cameron
(I'm not normally a fan of Monbiot, but credit where credit is due). I found this Forestry Commission page, see: http://www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/INFD-5SUK5C
which claims that the British Government currently doesn't have plans to
introduce genetic modification, but when was this page last updated? It fits
very well with the ethics and strategy of the Illuminati that they would target
native hardwood trees rather than the coniferous timber crops; these weird
forests planted in straight lines that have no birds or squirrels or other
organisms of an extended ecosystem living in them. The Ash is an important sacred
tree in indigenous pre-Illuminati spirituality and this has been under attack
since the Roman Conquest and continues to this day. I've not been able to find
any further evidence of the Government's present intentions about what "Backtoindia1"
has told us. If anybody else saw that BBC News story please let me know.
Sunday, 11 November 2012
"Lest we Remember"
Well,
it's that time of year again! That day when we're all expected to fall on the
ground in a frenzy of religious worship, not of God but of... other people.
Why? Because... they do a particular job. (It's usually two days, but
this year the 11th of November falls on a Sunday) Yes, this is Military
Religion high season! I've written and spoken about this subject so many times
before, but every year I feel compelled to come back to it because it's so
important.
See
these articles and films for background: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/remembrance-poppies.html
Does
the Military Religion exist? Is there any justification for it? Why is it
promoted so vigourously in our culture, society and media? Well there's no
doubt it exists. Anybody who is in the armed forces, or has been in the armed
forces, is forever marked out as a superior class, almost a separate species. I
remember during the firemen's strike a few years ago, which the army filled in
for, there was a debate in the media about the army's aging “Green Goddess”
fire engines, a design that has changed little since the 1930’s, and whether
the forces should be allowed to use modern fire appliances. Both myself and all
my friends agreed that they should, but I pointed out that the army are not
trained to use modern fire-fighting equipment; in fact the Fire Brigade have to
train for a long time to become proficient enough to use it properly. Who was
going to give the army that training? “But, Ben,” said one of my mates, “these
are soldiers!” These are soldiers, he thought, superhuman Man-Gods who
know everything and can do anything; only we mere mortals need training!
There's even this ridiculous word: "civilian" (I know I use that word
too, but I only do so facetiously and ironically) which implies that there is
some kind of fundamental difference between somebody in the military, or has
been in the military, and somebody who is, or has, not. I don't see it
personally. The effect all this propaganda has on the soldiers themselves is
remarkable. If I’m talking to somebody who is in the forces or used to be, they
will find some way to slip it into the conversation within two or three
sentences. They then always expect me to immediately change the subject and
talk about it. I’ve found that some of them can become quite peeved with me
when I don’t. They see themselves as separate and superior from
everybody else and feel uncomfortable in the presence of somebody else who does
not. They need recognition of their status from non-military people they meet
in social situations; better still, envy! This is why they like it when they
get trouble from others, because they know it's based on envy. What they cannot
abide is indifference. I was once challenged by a group of uniformed soldiers
in a London pub... because I wasn’t looking at them! The way they acted towards
me you'd think I'd just dumped rubbish in their garden! If a soldier is in the
news for a non-military reason then their status as a soldier will always be
alluded to, even if it is irrelevant to the story? For example: no article or
interview about the singer James Blunt has so far failed to address the fact
that he used to be an army officer. Why is it that very little journalistic
literature about another singer, Marc Almond, refers to his former life as a
Hospital Porter? In the same vein, a man recently rescued a group of pensioners
from a burning building in Oxfordshire and every news report about the incident
declared the information that he was an army sergeant. But how often do you see
the headline: Insurance Broker Chases off Mugger or Painter and
Decorator Saves Child From Flood? As if this Remembrance Poppy-Cult holy
day wasn't enough we now even have Armed Forces Day too! See: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/armed-forces-day.html
Is
there any justification for it? Let's look at it logically. To join the army or
other forces is to do a job that inevitably carries some risk. We see this
today in Afghanistan where, sadly, young men and women are currently being
killed or injured fighting there. In fact I think it is correct to feel respect
towards somebody who does a difficult and dangerous job, like a solider. But is
fighting in Afghanistan the only dangerous job in the world? No. There are many
other jobs in which those doing it have to face equal danger, or even more,
than a solider in Afghanistan: Miner, oil rig worker, fireman, deep sea diver;
according to The American and Canadian Almanac of 2008 the most
dangerous job you can do is to be a fisherman. So why is there not a
Fishermen's Memorial Day? Why are there no trawler disaster monuments in the
centre of London? Why do we never open up a copy of The Sun and see the
word "HERO" jump out at us concerning a young man who got killed or
maimed so that we can enjoy eating something with our chips? Why is his body
not paraded through Wootten Bassett with people on the street doffing their
hats? It's true that there are non-military memorials, in fact I've been on a
search for them, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/non-military-memorials.html,
but you'll only find them tucked away in smaller local areas. They are also
invariably far less ostentatious in nature. They're often only erected on a
very low budget, sometimes after a long campaign by their beneficiaries. Conversely
it’s impossible to walk through any city centre without seeing the military
memorials. In London there is a gargantuan mausoleum, covering the entire area
around Buckingham Palace and Parliament, featuring enormous structures standing
in pride of place like sacred temples, a separate one for each war and each
branch of the Services. It's so difficult to study this subject, to ask these
questions, because to do so one has to strip away such an enormous amount of
cultural baggage. One inevitably encounters those who will react angrily to the
questions one asks. There are many people in the Truth Movement who still don't
get this!
So
why has the Military Religion been created and why is it maintained? I think
this is best summed up by Dr Lawence Britt in his Fourteen Signs of Fascism:
"Soldiers and military service are glamourized and glorified." The
Military and war are so important to the Illuminati-occupied
governments; that's why they do it. To make sure people keep signing up and to
keep everybody else supporting them they make it a career in which you become a
social God. Who could turn down such an opportunity? Would anybody do the job
otherwise? It's made worse by the disgraceful treatment of "conshies"
and "peaceniks" in conventional society. This improved after the
horrors of World War I, but you'll still get accusations of cowardice and
"chicken!" to this day. As if it takes a real man to blow
somebody up so that an oil company can build a pipeline through their village!
The Military Religion has always had a place in Illuminati-controlled societies
throughout history, but in the last few years it's got far stronger, being
spread more and more thickly by the methods I describe above, and in the linked
articles and films. I do think it is right to show respect and hold memorials
for those killed in wars, and for those who fight in them, but for me it is a
tragedy; it's not something to sanctify and revel in. "Lest We
Remember" to keep our eyes clear of religiously-tinted spectacles and keep
our heads clear of media propaganda. The words on the side of the Cenotaph are:
"THE GLORIOUS DEAD". Well, I've seen the victims of the
Afghanistan war who come back to my hospital! There's nothing glorious about
dying in war at all.
Friday, 9 November 2012
Immigration- "Something must be done!"
The
British Government has announced that the full scale of the backlog of
immigration applications is over 320,000 people, this exceeds the population of
Iceland .
See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20252160
(Personally I'd like to award both Minister Mark Harper and the interviewer for
their acting skills!) In the inimitable words of David Icke... Altogether?...
One... two... three: "Something must be done! This can't go
on! What are they going to do about it!?"
Many
people theorize that mass immigration is about breaking down national identity
to lubricate mondialism in order to aid the New World Order. I used to think
this too, but now I doubt it; it would take too long, even if the native
population didn't resist; and they don't have that much time. If it is true
then it is merely a secondary and partial objective. The real motive for mass
immigration is very different and "what are they going to do about it!?"
is what I've long predicted. I give the full details in this article, The New Iron Curtain, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/immigration-and-new-iron-curtain.html
But basically this is a very obvious case of what David calls
"Problem-Reaction-Solution." The supposed "problem" has
exploded out on BBC News today, the reaction will be outrage, fear,
desperation; and the solution will be increased border restrictions and the
forced repatriation of so-called "illegal" foreign nationals, which
sadly most of the British public will probably support. The most recent of the public
comments underneath that news story says it all: "The ONLY way of tackling this issue is by in-country checks on
passports/visas when accessing jobs, National Insurance numbers, healthcare,
benefits, and housing." What people like this won't be told is that
they will also be supporting the increase in Big Brother methods across the board,
and the development and implementation of more and more technology along those
lines. It will require not only asylum-seekers, but also every native Briton,
to register on an electronic database which will be needed to function in
society, applying for jobs and benefits, getting on the list of a doctor or
dentist etc. It will be a fundamental change in society towards greater
authoritarianism, surveillance and mutual distrust and hostility. There are
already clues in the BBC coverage of this story. They film a raid on a house,
with the UK Border Agency officers being shot in heroic poses, rounding up
foreigners who look dirty and diseased. I was chilled to the bone once when I
saw UK Border Agency guards at Manchester Coach Station, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/uk-border-agency-not-just-borders.html
Just get out an atlas and look at it; how close to any border is Manchester?
You
might be wondering now if I think that mass immigration can't possibly do any
harm. Well I don't think that. It can do harm, not as much as hysterical
propaganda machines like the BNP try to persuade us, but it can still generate
social and economic problems if left unchecked. However there is no frying pan so
bad it warrants us jumping into a fire to escape from it. The real solution to
mass immigration has to address the cause. What is absent from all news
coverage about this subject is a very obvious question: Why do so many people want to come to Britain in the first place?
And the answer is very simple: Life in this country is so much better than life
in so many other parts of the world. Immigrants are not "lazy
scroungers!", they are ordinary people just like you and me who are doing
exactly what we would do if we were in their shoes. Most immigrants are not
coming from wealthy Western nations; they are coming from Africa ,
the Middle East ,
Eastern Europe
and other regions hit by extreme poverty, famine and war. The solution to the
"problem"... if you see it as a problem... is to improve the quality
of life in those regions so that people won't want to leave their homelands;
after all, who's going to come to England for the weather!? Let nobody kid you
into thinking that is not possible; it's actually very easy: Release Third
World countries from their economic bondage through the cancellation of debt
and land occupation. End all the manipulated wars over the resources in these
regions. That alone would probably do the trick, before we even begin delving
into the more outlandish elements like the declassification of Free Energy and
natural farming methods like ORMUS and Terra Preta, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/terra-preta.html
This
world will one day be liberated from the New World Order conspiracy, but only
when we gain a full understanding of what is involved. We must realize that
either the whole Earth can be freed or none of it. We're all in this together
and must stick by each other, both as individuals, races and nations. The
moment we fall into the manipulators' trap and start pointing fingers at our
fellow man, we've lost. We cannot allow this to happen. It is therefore vital
that we do not rise to the bait.
Thursday, 8 November 2012
BBC blocks Brian Cox over Alien Fears
(Thanks
to my friend Val for bringing this story to my attention)
The
pop physicist Prof. Brian Cox has been told by the BBC that he is not allowed
to point the Jodrell Bank radio telescope at the newly-discovered planet
Threapleton Holmes B during his live TV show Stargazing Live. See: http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/bbc-feared-breach-by-alien-signal-1
This planet is not in orbit around the sun like Venus and Jupiter etc, but is
an "exoplanet"; it orbits a completely different star, in this case
one over 600 light year away. It is the first exoplanet ever to be discovered
by amateur astronomers. Cox was told by the producer that if Threapleton Holmes
B has intelligent life on it that is broadcasting radio signals which could be
picked up by the telescope, one of the most powerful in the world; then these
signals might breach the BBC's editorial guidelines. The corporation claimed
that it might also cause an issue over health and safety regulations! As you
can see in the linked article, a radio interviewer joked with Cox that they
were worried that the aliens might swear on live TV!
Prof.
Brian Cox has recently emerged onto the Skeptic scene, and I've written about him
before, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/knobs-for-cox.html
(I never did send him his doorknob. Sorry!) He therefore probably doesn't quite
appreciate that there's a sinister undertone to this humourous story. The BBC
may well have been briefed by people who take very seriously the idea of extraterrestrial
intelligence and also understand the social, cultural, economic and political implications
of the publicly acknowledged revelation that it exists. In 1960, right at the start
of the American space programme, the psychological think tank The Brookings Institute
released a report in which is advised NASA on what to do if the signs of extraterrestrial
civilization, present or past, were to be discovered by one of their projects.
The answer: It would be best not to shout it from the rooftops! In other words,
there's every chance that the Government knows extraterrestrial life does exist
and is covering it up. This is why they've also made programmes ridiculing and dismissing
the idea of UFO's, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/bbc-conspiracy-road-trip-ufos.html
I'm not sure UFO's are actually extraterrestrial in the conventional sense of
the word, in that they're from other planets like Threapleton Holmes B, but whatever
they are and wherever the do come from similar concerns obviously apply to them.
The BBC has probably been given a secret contingency plan relating to extraterrestrial
intelligence which is why they reined in Coxy's programme. As you can see from
the linked article, the BBC are keeping an eye on what he plans to do while examining
Mars. Mars today is a freezing, dry and airless world, but there is evidence that
in the distant past there was flowing water on the planet. This means that it
must have once had a thicker atmosphere and been an awful lot warmer. Perhaps warm
enough for complex life to evolve, including an intelligent animal species capable
of building structures that could survive until long after their creators had become
extinct. The Brookings Report specifically mentions the danger posed by ancient
ruined artifacts being spotted on the inner planets. Maybe this is why NASA have
so furiously downplayed the significance of the Face on Mars and the rest of the
Cydonia complex, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI5BzQ4VwNk
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Sheila's Funeral
As
regular HPANWO-readers will know, my daughter's grandmother, Sheila, died
recently; see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW_zO7Wd6G0
I say "recently", but it was way back on the 8th of August. However
we couldn't hold her funeral until today; that's almost three months. It
shouldn't normally take this long between a person passing away and their
funeral taking place, but there's been a scandal in Oxford
over long delays for funerals. It's very undignified for people's bodies to
pile up in undertakers' morgues while the grieving relatives, distraught at
their loss, have to sit around waiting for the chance to bid their loved one
farewell. The local newspaper has covered it, see: http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yourtown/oxford/9974911._I_can_t_afford_to_bury_my_brother_/
and our local MP Andrew Smith has taken up the cause. I've given Andrew Smith a
lot of stick over the years. He was one of "Tony's cronies" and was
Blair's Chief Treasurer and Employment Secretary, however I very much respect
him for taking a stand on this issue. The problem comes when people who can't
afford to pay for a funeral apply for special Government benefits to fund it; Sheila's
family is one of those, see: https://www.gov.uk/funeral-payments/overview
The moment we applied to this office for benefits they dragged their heels and dithered
for such a long time that we became suspicious. Then the story about Michael Walton
came out and we realized that the office was, in all likelihood, stalling funeral
expenses benefit claims on purpose. The reason was simply money; they're so terrified
of straying over their budget that they've decided to do something as desperate
and reckless as this. This is all thanks the Government's "Austerity"
policies! Expect much more of this to come in the years ahead. The truth of the
matter is that economic depressions and booms are not a natural cycle at all; they
are triggered artificially by the Banksters, a term coined by Anthony J Hilder many
years before it entered the popular lexicon. Sheila is actually one of about six
recently-deceased people in Oxford
who have had this problem.
Sheila's
funeral took place at Oxford Crematorium and was simple but very sweet. All her
family turned up and flowers were sent from her many friends, even those who live
in Canada
whom she hasn't seen for years. The vicar from her local church was a very nice
man, and he spoke very kindly about her; we had live organ music playing some hymns.
We also had played a recording of two songs by Tom Jones, Sheila's favourite singer.
After that we went back to her son's house for a wake while Sheila's body was
taken away to be cremated. A budget funeral or an expenses-paid funeral doesn't
have to be any less fitting and respectful than the Queen Mother's. However the
long wait has played heavily on the family's nerves; the vicar mentioned during
his sermon that "there's a lot of anger associated with Sheila's passing."
I think things are getting so bad that I might just arrange to leave my body to
medical science. Alternatively, if I know I'm on my last legs I might just go to
some remote piece of woodland and lie down in the middle of it, away from any paths,
and let the foxes and crows have me. See here for background: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/bereavement-fee.html
Obviously I hope to live to see the day when we the people can enjoy a happier world,
but naturally this is not certain; I could be run over by a proverbial bus or come
a cropper in countless other ways before my time, so I need to take precautions.
In some parts of Africa
it's traditional to have a big feast after somebody dies and the main course on
the menu is... the body of the deceased! Yes, it's even considered a mark of respect
to eat somebody who's died! Of course in our society we have a taboo against cannibalism
and the very concept is shocking, but I have to ask myself if it's any less shocking
than keeping somebody on ice for three months so the Government can pay trillions
of pounds to banks which already own most of the wealth in the world anyway.
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