Nautilus

 

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne's classic proto-science fiction novel from 1870, has been adapted numerous times; but the least faithful of these has just dropped. Nautilus, a Disney+ production, is a virtual rewrite of the entire story. One of the attractions of the book is the author's preservation of the mystery surrounding Nemo; a name which means "nobody" in Latin. We know very little about him except he can speak an unknown language and he is a great engineer, being the builder of the Nautilus as well as its captain. It is only in the sequel/spin-off novel The Mysterious Island that we find out he is Indian and of royal lineage. This enigma is neutralized at the very start of the TV series. We are given Nemo's life story in the opening scenes. The Nautilus is not primarily built by him; instead it is the brainchild of a French scientist called Benoit who claims to have been forced to work for the East India Mercantile Company, although his story is questioned. Nemo himself is reduced to a slave in the shipyard being pushed around and beaten by EEEEEEEvil white Englishmen. Nemo steals the submarine during an uprising by the slaves and manages to escape with Benoit and a handful of the other prisoners. He picks up a few stragglers along the way, including a young woman called Humility, who certainly does not live up to her name. She is a Mary Sue who knows everything and can do everything, an icon of feminist perfection. She is accompanied by her austere French governess called Loti. The rest of the makeshift crew are a very international bunch of Africans, Indians, Chinese, a New Zealander and a mysterious bearded bald guy who nobody knows anything about. They are pursued by the Company who have a ship called Dreadnought which is very similar to a real ship of that name from the beginning of the 20th century. Like Verne's novel, the series is set in the 1850's yet the technology is about half a century ahead of its time; more so in the case of the Nautilus sub. They also visit a house with a refrigerator. This gives the series a distinct steampunk ambiance that reminded me of Dune, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/07/dune-watchread-party-review.html. The characters and their situation remind me a bit of Blakes 7, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2007/10/blakes-7.html. The baddies are all typical white British imperialists which include Humility's fiancé who is a spoilt and selfish aristocrat. They are cardboard cut-outs of white colonialist monsters, straight out of the pages of Frantz Fanon, sporting charisma in the minus figures. I'm surprised none of them wore monocles. There is a slight exception when it comes to Billy Millais, an old schoolmate of Nemo's. Humility is destined for an arranged marriage, but "breaks away!" to study science at university; but she has to disguise herself as a man of course because "Women!" are so "Oppressed!" Part of her disguise is a false moustache... I'm not sure that would work in reality.

The programme has its good sides. There is one scene where the submarine surfaces and the crew bribe some whalers not to kill some whales. Whaling has always been something that evokes horror and heartbreak in me, for some reason, and so I was inevitably drawn emotionally into that storyline. Some of the characters are quite likeable. Nemo himself is a kind, intelligent and courageous man, even though he is totally different in many ways from his original literary namesake. He is played by Shazad Latif, best known for his role in the TV programme Spooks. My favourite character is probably Jagadish, an elderly Indian who professes Marxist beliefs while seeking luxury wherever he can find it. He is an amiable buffoon, but when danger strikes he shows a lot of loyalty and bravery. His ending is tragic yet heroic. Even Humility develops and I warmed to her a bit in later episodes. There is also a storyline involving mind control. There are some amusing scenes, like when they have a 1914-style truce and the two sides play a game, not of football but cricket; and they play it on the Arctic icecap. As with Blakes 7, some of the Nautilus crew are rather shady and two-faced; and the viewer wonders which side they are really on. I was interested in the submarine itself. This is described in great detail in the book. At the time Verne was writing, submarines were very primitive and the inability to invent a power source that didn't need air hampered their capabilities. This problem was arguably only solved in the 1950's with the advent of nuclear power. (Interestingly the first nuclear-powered sub was also called Nautilus.) In the book the sub is driven by electricity generated from a sodium water machine. The sodium to fuel it is mined on one of Nemo's islands. It is doubtful that such a system could ever work because the reaction is too violent to release energy in a controlled manner. It would be like trying to power a car with dynamite, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODf_sPexS2Q. Several film adaptations have Nemo secretly inventing nuclear power, such as my own favourite, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvrK4G6xKZQ. In the case of the 2024 TV series the submarine has several additional features that make sense. It has hydroplanes to change the boat's angle, a way of extending or retracting the ram blades and armoured covers for the front windows. She is armed with torpedoes as well as a ram that are fired from internal reloadable tubes. But how is this Nautilus powered? I was hoping there might be a free energy plotline to this programme. I'd actually really welcome an adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with the submarine being driven by a zero point power-plant. It would make perfect sense because free energy, something like the Schauberger coil, would be the perfect propulsion system for a submarine. It is air independent, requires no fuel and can deliver a very high energy level for the volume and weight of its engine. My own fictional work, Roswell Redeemed has this as part of the story, see: https://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2018/12/roswell-redeemed-is-here.html. There is a tiny hint of such a plot element, especially at the end; and the series is obviously intended to have a sequel. Despite all its positives, I quickly grew tired of the show's anti-whiteness, its misandry. It was the ruination of Star Trek, Star Wars and Doctor Who all over again. Despite my hopes that we had passed "peak woke", the forces of mind-bending are not letting go of their prey just like that. In one episode Nemo and Humility are arguing over who has the most victimhood and in the same episode they meet a "Black!" "Woman!" who used to be a slave on a sugarcane plantation. Game, set and match I think. So generally I have mixed feelings about Nautilus, including regret that it could have been so much better if they just cooled it with the white male historical guilt trips. Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15286302/.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/08/free-energy-portal.html.

Shermer Woos Up

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2016/08/michael-shermer-update.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2018/06/michael-shermer-update-2.html.
As I said, these things can take a long time, with a lot of backtracking, doubts and regressions. However, based on Michael Shermer's recent Tweets I'd say he has just taken "the next step". On New Year's Day Matthew Livelsberger allegedly drove his Tesla Cybertruck up to the entrance of the Trump hotel in Las Vegas and blew up the huge stash of explosives it contained. Since then many issues and questions have arisen about this incident, which I cover here: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/01/ufo-disclosure-2025-disclosure-president.html. One of those questions is how Livelsberger's military ID survived the destruction where everything else inside the car was incinerated. This is reminiscent of the infamous hijacker's passport of 9/11. Shermer posted the following extraordinary statement: "While I'm posting like a crazed conspiracist, before I regain my rationality let me wonder how it is that the Cybertruck driver's body was burned beyond recognition inside a vehicle that contained the blast so well that no one else died and the hotel glass doors didn't break... but his ID and phone with explanatory letters were fully recoverable, just lightly singed. Alrighty then...!" Source: https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1875367852037042296. One of the most remarkable things about this Tweet is the slightly tongue-in-cheek joke at the start about the conspirasphere and skeptisphere. It feels like he already understands the conundrum of his own society and has been harbouring subversive thoughts for quite a while. He followed up a bit later with this: "I know, eventually we will have explanations for why the fire mostly destroyed his body but preserved his ID and phone, why even though his family says he loved Trump and Musk he blew up a Cybertruck in front of a Trump hotel, why he was suicidal even though his girlfriend says he wasn't and how PTSD explains all this. I'll probably make that case myself. But for now, you have to admit, this is most peculiar." Source: https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1875383421918474714. Here he is clearly being sarcastic. He also sounds a slightly bitter, possibly as a result of the replies he received from his peers on the first Tweet. Some were exactly as I have always predicted they would be: "Wouldn't expect this from you, Michael!"... "lol conspiracy theorist/crank is now your brand." Others were from our side teasing him a bit, reminding him of his past; such as how he had written an article over twenty years ago explaining how the 9/11 passport story was AOK. I decided to do a bit of that myself in a light-hearted manner. I reTweeted his first entry with an adapted quote from Star Wars: "I find this lack of SKEP disturbing..." "Skep" being a word I invented, meaning an umbrella term for everything skeptical, the inversion of "woo-woo". I also sent him a meme that said "Don't lose the faith. Come on!"

One of the characteristics that define a cult is that there is never a legitimate reason to leave it. Former believers who break away are shunned by those left behind and inside the cult they are castigated, demonized and held up as scapegoats for everything else that goes wrong. Source: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2016/09/truth-mobbed-again.html. I have seen this trait in atheo-skepticism. (To be fair it also exists in the conspirasphere, to a certain extent, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/09/conspiracy-theory-deprogramming.html.) You can see it among skeptic publications and discussions whenever a former atheist speaks out. Also, look at the way Simon Holland has been treated since he switched sides. He's been called "Simon Hogwash" and has been accused to grifting. Yet Simon is the same person he always has been and when he was a skeptic his channel was monetized too; they didn't object to that back then. Why not treat him compassionately? Why not ask him why he has changed his mind instead of lashing out at him for doing it? If Michael Shermer crosses the aisle it will result in the most extreme example of hell having no fury like a skeptic scorned. All we can do is wait and see what happens; and we need to be there for him when his former supporters reject and turn on him. We must be ready to forgive him and give sanctuary to him. I actually Tweeted later in the day: "I was only kidding earlier, Michael. I respect you for going against the skeptic flow on this." Source: https://x.com/Porterhood/status/1875647140644712468.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/skeptics-portal.html.

Detox

 

Since early September last year I have been practicing a detox. This is short for "detoxification". It can mean many things and can be carried out in numerous ways. It usually means temporarily eating a healthier diet, not necessarily to lose weight but to purify the body and make oneself fitter; removing toxins stored in body organs and tissues, especially fat. More intense regimes can include colonic cleansing and other invasive interventions. There are entire clinics set up for people to have detox treatments, usually in pleasant countryside locations. In my case, my decision to go on a detox was for occult reasons. This sounds alarming because it conjures up a mental picture of pentagrams, naked witches and goats on altars, but you don't have to go full Aleister Crowley to practice the occult. In fact, almost everybody practices the occult at certain times in their lives. Every time your child blows out the candles on their birthday cake and you say "make a wish" you and they are doing something occult. The emblem of the UK National Lottery is a hand with fingers crossed for luck; that's occult. The word occult just means "secret" because at its higher levels it has been preserved and disseminated through mystery schools. These simple occult rituals are just a way of attempting to make changes to the universe beyond the normal physical abilities of one person by specific mental intent; this includes wishes, pilgrimages, Ramadan, Lent, good luck gestures and saying prayers. In the New Age this is sometimes called an "affirmation"; and that is the purpose of my own detox. Basically, I want something good to happen in the world and I've made a promise to whatever consciousness there is in the universe to take action to demonstrate my commitment to that. I'm only eating food and drink for the purposes of very basic nutrition for a certain period of time. When I came up with the idea, my pledge was to do so until the US presidential election on November the 8th last year. Then, if the outcome I wanted happened, I would continue the detox until January the 20th, Inauguration Day. I have taken time off, for a week after the election and also if I am away from home with friends socializing. I took a week off for Christmas and New Year's Eve as well. As it happened Donald Trump won, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/11/post-us-election-2024-livestream2.html, which is my desired result so I am currently continuing the detox for just over a fortnight from the time of writing. My daily diet is a lettuce, six tomatoes and a can of tuna with a bit of olive oil. Previously I was allowing myself some celery and peanut butter every other day, but I've quit that now because of the urgency of the current world, which I'll say more about below. I am drinking no alcoholic beverages. I am still drinking tea and coffee with milk and sugar, restricting myself to two cups of each per day. Four days before the inauguration I will switch to liquids only. I've learned that tomato juice is a great food substitute if ever you're on a liquids only diet and so will have two cartons of that a day; although for the last twenty-four hours I will allow myself nothing but water; as I did before November the 8th.

I am increasing the severity of my regime because of the "scorched earth" policy of the Illuminati. They're trying to cause as much damage, chaos and economic woe as possible for President-Elect Trump to deal with when he takes office, so hoping to tie him down in diplomatic nets for as long as possible so he can't introduce his reforms. I have noticed that this second phase of my detox is more difficult than the first. I'm not sure why, but my guess is because my reserve energy is now exhausted, in the form of easily combustible body fat. I have indeed lost a lot of weight and I'm surprised at how thin I am now. I am renowned for being a rather corpulent individual so if you haven't seen me for a while my current physique will shock you. This lack of fat has made me feel hungrier and I am craving "normal food" worse than I did before the election. An unexpected side effect is that I feel the cold a lot more now and have to wear thicker clothes. Body fat must be an insulator; this is the wrong time of year to lose it. My energy levels have taken a tumble too; but it's only seventeen more days, I can survive until then. The relief I will feel when I end my detox will be symbolic and an act of gratitude. It will match my relief, and many other peoples' too, when we see Trump sworn into office. If you want to know more, then a very good book on the subject is one simply called The Occult- A History by Colin Wilson. Colin Wilson was a very intelligent and interesting person; but most of all he was a Brother, see: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2018/07/colin-wilson-was-hospital-porter.html, so you can be sure he really knows what he's talking about!
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/01/donald-trump-portal.html.

UFO Truth Magazine- Issue 70

 

UFO Truth Magazine Issue 70 is now available. It can be purchased on this page as a single copy, but please subscribe and save money if you want to read it regularly, see: https://www.ufotruthmagazine.co.uk.
Issue 70 includes an article in my column entitled The Ups and Downs of UFO Hearings.
 
Also you will find in Issue 70: Government silence about the "drone" flap, American trail camera photos, a tribute to Howard Hughes and much much more.
Also in this HPANWO Show programme I interview the UFO Truth Magazine's editor Gary Heseltine: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2023/06/hpanwo-show-514-podcast-gary-heseltine.html.
See here for details on UFO Truth Magazine Issue 69: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/11/ufo-truth-magazine-issue-69.html.