Sleep Deprivation

A while ago I came across a short but extremely disturbing video discussing an experiment supposedly carried out in Russia in the late 1940’s. A group of five political prisoners were promised freedom in exchange for taking part. They were placed inside a hermetically sealed chamber in which the air they breathed was controlled to include a stimulant gas that prevented them from sleeping. The chamber was well stocked with food, drink and equipped with toilet facilities as well as books to read to pass the time, which was planned for thirty days. For the first few days the test subjects behaved normally, prevented from feeling drowsy by the gas. Then the psychological symptoms of sleep deprivation began to take effect and they started to become paranoid and delusional; they stopped speaking to each other and acted strangely when conversing with the scientists outside the chamber through the intercom. On the ninth day one of the men started running up and down the chamber screaming at the top of his voice until he became hoarse. Then the others did the same. Normal toiletry practice broke down and they began urinating and voiding their bowels everywhere. They ripped pages out of their books and plastered them over the observation window on the chamber; this also meant that the experimenters could no longer see their charges because there was no CCTV in those days. After that all five men went completely silent, however measurements of the air coming out of the chamber showed that they were all still alive and breathing normally, deeply even as if they were undergoing intense exertion. On the fifteenth day the scientists decided to terminate the experiment prematurely and used the intercom to announce to the prisoners that they would shortly be opening the chamber. To their surprise a calm voice replied: “We no longer wish to be freed.” At midnight at the end of the day the air supply to the chamber was flushed of the stimulant gas in preparation for breaking the seal on the chamber. Immediately the voices inside began pleading for the gas to be switched back on. When the chamber was opened a horrific sight met the eyes of the researchers. One of the subjects was dead and the other four had been cannibalizing his body; their food rations had not been touched for over five days. The floor was covered in water and blood because the drain had been blocked by some of the dead man’s flesh. The surviving prisoners had also been eating parts of their own body. They’d even removed some of their own internal organs, which somehow continued to work outside the body. The subjects all displayed superhuman strength and fought desperately to prevent themselves being removed from the chamber; they begged to be left inside and the supply of stimulant gas to be restored. They were simply terrified of falling asleep. In the process of being restrained and removed another of the prisoners died and the three remaining ones were taken to the hospital where surgeons attempted to replace their organs in their bodies. They were all immune to the sedatives given to them and it took far more anaesthetic than usual to put one of them under; he died. The last three men told the doctors that they’d prefer them to operate without anaesthetic; anything was better than going back to sleep again. The doctor in charge of the surgery stated that is was medically impossible for any of these men still to be alive. At the end of the operation the scientists agreed to give the prisoners the stimulant gas again; at this point they stopped struggling and appeared relived; “We must stay awake!” they said. One of the researchers asked one of the men why they wanted so badly to remain in forced wakefulness and feared sleep, a natural process that everybody does, so dreadfully. “What are you!?” he demanded. The man answered: “Have you forgotten so easily? We are you. We are the madness that lurks within you all, begging to be free at every moment in your deepest animal mind. We are what you hide from in your beds every night. We are what you sedate into silence and paralysis when you go to the nocturnal haven where we cannot tread.” The researcher then shot the subjects dead. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEwbfnCpKA4.

 

The HPANWO-reader will doubtless be relieved to know that this story is probably untrue. The source document for the video just ends with “author unknown”. Sure, in the Soviet Union under Stalin some despicable acts were carried out in the name of scientific progress, but there’s no evidence that this experiment was one of them. However, this concocted fable does bring up the subject of sleep and sleep deprivation. What happens to us if we don’t sleep when we should? Most people know what it’s like to lose a small amount of their sleep quota, staying up all night at a party or when they’re ill etc. In the morning you’ll no doubt feel very drowsy and keep yawning. You’ll probably find yourself dozing if you sit down etc. Some of you may have lost more than a single night’s sleep in a row, perhaps from work duties in the military or as a doctor. I myself did occasionally due to my shift schedule at the hospital. I found it caused very strange symptoms. I became more than just sleepy, I felt I was entering an altered state of consciousness. I found myself hearing voices calling my name and I saw faces jumping out at me from patterns on the walls and floor, or in running water. These hallucinations resemble the psychoactive states that can be induced through some drugs and some shamanic practices involve ordeals of continuous wakefulness or physical exhaustion. Is there really a subconscious or superconscious part of our minds which can be accessed from changes in our brains when we withhold sleep from it? If so then I hope sincerely it is not some demonic monster lurking inside us that the dubious Russian story above describes. Unlikely, but still I think any sleep deprivation experiment should be conducted responsibly and with caution. There are health risks associated with lack of sleep such as confusion, mania, malaise, irritability and paranoia. Never try to drive when you’ve not had enough sleep. Some people voluntarily stay awake competitively to break endurance records. The Guinness Book of Records no longer lists these endeavours because of the health hazards involved, but people still engage in them privately. It requires a massive amount of willpower to stay awake for extended periods. As Menachem Begin said, a former Israeli prime minister who was once tortured through sleep deprivation by Soviet intelligence: “I had one sole desire: to sleep. Anyone who has experienced this desire knows that not even hunger and thirst are comparable with it.” The all-time record was recently broken by a Cornishman Tony Wright, one that has stood unchallenged since 1964. In 2007 he remained awake non-stop in observed conditions for 266 hours, eleven and a half days, beating the previous official record by two hours, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnf2YH2jms. What’s interesting is that Tony’s method involved a special diet that he says allowed each hemisphere of his brain to sleep separately, taking it in turns. This is something whales and dolphins do naturally, but Tony had trained his human brain to do it too. See here for background on the way the left and right brain work, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/shift-2-with-ian-r-crane.html. Tony is a researcher into this subject and has written a book; here’s his official site: http://leftinthedark.org.uk/.  

15,000 Kids and Counting

Channel 4 have broadcast the first in a new three part fly-on-the-wall documentary called 15,000 Kids and Counting and it follows child protection social workers on their rounds, and the families in which they intervene. It’s currently available on 4OD, see: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/15000-kids-and-counting/4od. The social workers featured are only identified by their first name so they can’t be checking for involvement in Common Purpose, see: http://www.cpexposed.com/graduates. They are portrayed as heroes who care deeply about the welfare of children and who have the painful but essential duty of separating children from their parents, but it’s all for the child’s own good. Conversely the viewer is shown the parents as bad-tempered and alcoholic chavs who hurl abuse and threaten both each other and the social workers they have to deal with. One of the parents, Emily, has had her child placed under an emergency protection order because of her supposedly young age, eighteen, and her partner’s criminal record. Her partner, Matthew, protests his innocence, interspersed with a shot of a CCTV camera surrounded by an anti-vandalism cage. But also Emily had to undergo multiple psychological assessments and even an IQ test. I’ve heard of mothers being promised the return of their children on condition that they take Prozac. I can deeply sympathize with their predicament because in 2005 my own daughter was almost taken into care. I felt that social services were actively searching for ways to condemn me and my ex-partner, my child’s mother, as incompetent and irresponsible. I was also assessed by a psychologist and was pronounced as mentally ill and incapable of being a decent father. I still find this difficult to write about because my memories of the episode are very sore. The scene in which Matthew loses his temper at 14.28 reminds me of one thing that I definitely detected when I was at similar meetings. The social workers deliberately tried to provoke me through subtle inflammatory digs and passive aggression. Luckily I was a Hospital Porter and therefore trained in conflict management and their tricks did not work with me. There are many falsehoods in this programme, for instance the idea that any care order will first attempt to place the child within the parents’ extended family; this is not true. There was never any question of this in the care order looming over my own family. I was told from the outset that my child would be placed with a foster family. In the end we managed to avoid the care order, but only because I agreed to move into a house and live with my ex-partner, a very difficult situation for me. The ultimate nightmare would be forced adoption, in which your child is moved into another family under permanent custody. In these cases the parents often never see their child again.

 

Today there are over a hundred thousand children living in care away from their natural family, that’s an average-sized city of people who are wards of the state. As Brian Gerrish has exposed, the Government has an agenda to break up families, destroy the lives of parents and raise children itself, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxouBETvcI. Millions of perfectly loving and responsible parents are being threatened with losing their children. Evidence is being fabricated and their characters are being assassinated in order to achieve this. Social services are issuing more care and protection orders than ever before; this is seen as a success, defending the youngest members of society from child abuse and preventing tragedies, like Victoria Climbie, see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2002/victoria_climbie_inquiry/default.stm. The truth is very different; it’s a plan to engineer society into a totally different form in which the natural family no longer exists. Unless we put a stop to it, I predict that child care law will change so that instead of the need to issue court orders to take children away, all couples will need to apply for “parenting licenses” and will be unable to raise children without that. The end result will be a situation in which the whole concept of parents will vanish from society and all children are brought up communally by the state. There was a lot of clever camerawork in 15,000 Kids and Counting. A good TV producer can manipulate perception with as much skill and duplicity as social services use and I think they have. This TV show is another piece of propaganda. I’ve spoken about this kind of thing before, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/on-benefits-and-proud.html and: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/confessions-of-alien-abductee-aftermath.html.   

Bigfoot Hoaxer Confesses

There are people in this world who lie and deceive others for a comprehensive purpose, usually to profit in some way parasitically; but every now and again somebody will tell a lie which makes me wonder what on Earth motivates them. Case in point: Rick Dyer, the so-called Bigfoot researcher. In 2008 Dyer and his friend Matthew Whitton make the explosive announcement, that they had discovered the dead body of a Bigfoot while out walking in the woods in Georgia USA. They said they took the corpse to a secret location and put it in a deepfreeze to preserve it. They published photoes of the supposed body and became overnight media stars. Their scoop was enthusiastically aided by a cryptozoologist called Tom Biscardi. The three of them sounded extremely confident as they faced the cameras and flashbulbs of the press, describing in detail the anatomy of the cadaver, down to its intestines. Then a few days later Whitton and Dyer admitted that the body was just a model made of rubber and a fur coat. Really? Why did they pull such a futile hoax? They sat in front of those cameras knowing... knowing... that the very first question both the media and Bigfoot research community would ask is: "Well, can we see the body please?" Why would anybody launch themselves into a duplicity that they knew very well could never come off? However, it gets much much worse. In September 2012 Dyer burst out into the street again with yet another incredible story. He had shot and killed a Bigfoot, and this time he was for real... honest! He had lured the beast into a pit trap baited with beef ribs and deer urine. He then shot it. This time he decided he would reveal the body... or at least show it to people in the boot of his car... for a fee of course. He went on a road tour of the United States and people queued up at every stop to view "the corpse of Bigfoot!". Dyer also claimed to have had this body tested by scientists with DNA analysis and MRI scans; and he planned to publish the results, very soon. Then, a few days ago Dyer confessed that it had all been a hoax. He said: "I'm a joker. I play around; that's just me. I have made lots of people mad but a thousand times more smile!"

I've discussed Bigfoot several times before, see: http://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/programme-51-podcast-cryptozoology.html and: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/yeti-found.html. I'm almost certain it exists. This cryptid, an animal not yet formally recognized by science, is said to inhabit the remote regions of North America and is clearly some kind of primate, from the biological family of apes and monkeys. However, despite being covered by fur like most apes are, it is very different from the rest of them. It has never been seen climbing a tree and it has flat feet. It also stands upright. There's only one other primate in the world which has these features, and you can view a specimen by looking in the mirror. This means that Bigfoot, the Yeti, the Yowie and creatures like it, must be either a part of the genus Homo which also includes Neanderthal Man and modern humans; or it's a completely different genus of primate that split off from the apes much earlier, but has evolved in parallel with all the Homo species and developed similar traits such as permanent ground dwelling, erect stance and a large brain. Could it share our level of intelligence? I can't help wondering if somebody out there knows very well that Bigfoot and his cousins exist but wants to keep it quiet. This doesn't just involve secrecy and suppression, but also what Andrew Johnson calls "muddle up", disseminating contradictions and disinformation to breed confusion. Maybe the authorities in this world are afraid of how the revelation of a new species so unsettlingly similar to ourselves might have on our psychology and culture. It would cause a serious rethink on many issues, from religion to animal rights. Thanks to Biscardi and Dyer this agenda is now well advanced. I don't know whether Dyer is actually doing what he does deliberately or whether he's just a cretin, but the effect is much the same both ways. A friend of mine, Trevor Murray, is not only a Brother Porter and a colleague on Mind Set Central, see HPANWO Radio, but he's a Bigfoot researcher. I sometimes wonder what would happen if he ever came up with some convincing evidence for the existence of Bigfoot. I have a nasty feeling that people would be far more hesitant to believe him than they would have been if it wasn't for these brainless and preposterous deceptions by mountebanks like Rick Dyer. Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/bigfoot-hunter-admits-lied-killing-beast-article-1.1740325. 

Big Six and Fracking

There has been an interesting debate on fracking on the BBC's Question Time. It's at the very start of the programme in which an audience member brings up the inquiry by the energy regulator OFGEM into whether the "Bix Six" energy companies: British Gas, Npower, SSE, Scottish Power, E-on and EDF, had cornered the market and are now tacitly colluding to shaft the customer for every penny they could get out of them. This was something I brought up last year, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/energy-price-rises.html (E-on used to be called Powergen and ran a series of wonderful nonconformist adverts that I loved, featuring the actor Simon Day as "Bob", a nonconformist mystic, see: http://uk.adforum.com/creative-work/ad/player/35462. I think it's more than sad that they rebranded, it's sinister!). Lord Wolfson responds by saying that the Big Six should be left within the market as it is, but in doing so added: "This country could have cleaner, cheaper energy if we adopted gas, if we went for fracking." I'm glad to say he got a loud boo from the audience, one from the Bohemian heartland of Brighton. However the presenter David Dimbleby, a Bullingdon Club-member, skilfully steered the conversation away from fracking and we had to wait over ten more minutes before somebody else in the audience picked them up on it again. Roger Helmer of UKIP made a good point, that Government energy policy is dithering so badly at the moment that nobody knows exactly where we're going over future energy; although I don't think he appreciates that this confusion is probably deliberate. My own suggestions are simple and clear, see the link above, and fracking should be out of the question. In fact I consider it a weapon of mass murder and ecocide.

Sources: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26772518 and: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03zjzhq/Question_Time_27_03_2014/. 

Ben Emlyn-Jones live at BUFOG

I will be speaking live at the Birmingham UFO Group on Thursday the 15th of May. See here for details: http://bufoevens.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/may-2014-ben-emyln-jones-lecture.html.

The venue is the Hot Shots Snooker Club, 100 Crosswells Road, Oldbury, Birmingham, B68-8HH. The event begins at 7.30 PM and costs £5.00 for BUFOG members and £5.50 for non-members.

My talk is entitled Energy Politics and UFO's and is based on this previous one I did, see: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/ben-emlyn-jones-live-at-truth-juice-hull.html. However it will include some important new updates. Hope to see you there!

Gay Marriage

Today, for the first time in history, couples of the same sex can be legally married in England and Wales. One of the first was Sean Adl-Tabatabai, an acquaintance of mine who works closely with David Icke, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1trURHhdtJY. They got legally married in Camden Town Hall, London, just a few minutes after midnight. I didn't even know he was gay; just goes to show you can't always tell by looking! Congratulations to Sean and his new husband. He and I have not always seen eye-to-eye on everything, but I do wish them both all the very best. Peter Tatchell, who is involved with The People's Voice, was a witness at another a few miles away in Islington. Since 2005 same sex couples have been allowed to enter into what's been called a "civil partnership"; this contains all the rights and obligations in law that marriage has but cannot formally use words traditionally associated with marriage like marry, wedding, wife, husband etc. This has now changed. Although a significant majority of Britons support the change, about a fifth say that if they were invited to a gay wedding they would decline. I'm not one of those; in fact I was once invited to the civil partnership ceremony of a lesbian nurse and her partner and couldn't attend for purely incidental reasons. I have been to a gay porter's wedding. I have no objection at all to two people in love getting married, whether they are a homosexual couple or not; and ironically rates of marriage between men and women have been declining for decades now. Love is such a rare and precious thing in our society that every windblown seed of it should be rigourously cultivated wherever it lands. Objections to this change in the law come mostly from the church; the idea that marriage is a traditional institution between a man and woman ordained by God and regarded as sacred. There are some who oppose gay marriage for secular reasons too; these people claim that the law was "rushed through Parliament" without being thought through properly. There's a feeling from some that this change in the legal definition of marriage will undermine society. Also if civil partnerships are a legal facsimile to marriage then isn't it just a question of semantics?

I don't agree with any of those arguments above; however there are some elements to gay marriage that concern me and have caused conflict in my mind. I think it could pose a threat to free speech if those who dislike gay marriage are not accommodated in society with the sheer basics of respect and humanity. What's clear to me is that the majority of gay marriage sceptics are not raving queer-bashers; even some homosexuals themselves argue against it, like the famous historian David Starkey. A few months ago a marriage registrar was sacked from her job for refusing to carry out civil partnerships. As I explain in this article, in the last paragraph, I get the distinct impression that the action against her was based on ideological grounds, a Thoughtcrime; see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/discrimination-against-christians.html. I've also written before about my deep concerns related to feminism, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/clares-law-feminist-snoopers-charter.html and: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/anti-feminist-demonization.html. As a white, straight male I can't help feeling that I'm under attack. I almost always sense blatant double-standards and Orwellian double-think whenever I hear words like "equality" or "human rights", in practice if not also in theory. I have to remind people that white, straight males are human too; we have rights like everybody else. Yet I feel that it is seen as immoral just to mention that. I can be refused promotion at work because I am a WSM, I can be turned down for a job because an employer feels obliged to favour a non-WSM above me. In South Africa I can even be brutally murdered and the international community will turn a blind eye, because I'm a WSM. There are institutions and pressure groups for non-WSM's yet none for WSM's; in fact the bare suggestion of setting one up can lead to accusations of racism/sexism/homophobia etc. There are specially designated non-WSM areas in my own hometown where I am banned along with dogs, such as baby-care facilities, two Oxford colleges and swimming pools. I have researched this and discovered that it is actually a very long-running and widespread form of psychological warfare called cultural Marxism and it has its roots in organizations like the Frankfurt School and the Fabian Society which have been enormously powerful and influential for over a century, even though you won't hear their names mentioned in the news much. If you think you've managed to escape its indoctrination then ask yourself this: Have you ever said something like: "Could I have a cup of black coffee please?" and then mentally pulled yourself up with the thought: "Oh no! Have I just said something racist!?" Do you then feel guilty as a result, even though what you actually said was completely benign? If the answer is yes then you are a victim of cultural Marxist brainwashing. In light of this revelation some WSM's get angry; they then lash out by joining a neo-Nazi party or the English Defence League or something. I'd strongly recommend against that because it in itself is a controlled response, a part of the same conspiracy. The aim of cultural Marxism is to break down our minds, and an element of that is divide-and-rule. They want black hating white, women hating men, gay hating straight... and of course vice versa on all counts. The real solution to cultural Marxism has to come from understanding what it really is; so I'd say to my fellow WSM's, don't feel guilty, but don't go crazy either. Cultural Marxism was not created because the elite prefer non-WSM's to the rest of us and want to exterminate WSM's. It was created to destroy the psyches of all human beings using methods tailor-made to each group of us in different ways. So I look forward to receiving an invite to a gay wedding; I'll do everything I can to attend. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26793127.

Nanny State invades Spiritualism

The closest I ever come in my life to any kind of religious practice is when I attend a Spiritualist church, something I do about once a month. In fact I'm not even sure Spiritualism counts as a religion in the normal sense of the word, even though in most countries it is recognized as one and enjoys rights under freedom-to-worship laws.  Part of the Spiritualist practice is what's called "hands-on healing"; this is where a healer treats a person's illnesses by placing their hands on their body and channelling energy from Spirit. It's similar in many ways to Reiki, see: http://www.snu.org.uk/healing/healing.html. The main difference being that Spiritualist healing is free, aside from a voluntary donation. I've always found Spiritualist healing very effective and have used it to treat eczema, stress, hayfever, an impacting wisdom tooth and much more. Of course Skeptics don't believe that it works... well, when it stops working for me, I shall stop using it, OK? A few weeks ago I went with Ustane to have Spiritualist healing at a church in Nottingham. I had been suffering from a painful hip, something that has been afflicting me on and off for over twenty years and the healing is always highly effective in easing it. When we arrived there we were both dismayed and worried to find that we had to fill out a form with all our personal details, including our GP's address and any long-term medical complaints we might have; this has only recently become a necessary condition of having the treatment. So Ustane and I filled them out and they were carefully filed away in a large drawer in the church's office. Why is all this paperwork necessary now? It never used to be. I asked the healers at the church and they said it was new rules that have come down from the management at the Spiritualist National Union. I've made inquiries at my local church in Oxford and it's exactly the same, even though that church is part of a different Spiritualist organization, the Greater World Christian Spiritualists, see: http://www.greaterworld.com/. It must be a directive from Government. This was most disquieting; hands-on healing is an ancient art that stretches back all the way down through history in one form or another; and it is less invasive than having a haircut. Why all of a sudden is it being regulated? Could this be Codex Alimentarius at work? Is this a sign that the authorities are clamping down on people's freedom to make choices about their own health? See here for more details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PQ7QmFIq6M.