Strange Submarines

All over Europe in the last few weeks odd things have been going on involving the presence of strange submarines; there have been at least two such incidents. The first was in Sweden in October. Several members of the public called the police to report sightings of a submarine in Kanholmsfjärden and Ingaro Bay, two large lagoons on the coast just a few miles from the capital Stockholm; somebody even took a photograph of it. The Swedish admiralty immediately organized a full-scale submarine hunt involving helicopters, minesweepers and special stealth boats. A nearby electronic intelligence post picked up encrypted digital signals being transmitted which are thought to be Russian in origin. This comes at a time when Russian military activity in general is at an unprecedented height. The submarine was never located and must have slipped away; it was almost certainly on a mission to spy on Sweden, especially on a naval exercise that had been in progress. This is not the first time Sweden has endured covert maritime gatecrashers of this kind; in 1981 the "Whiskey on the Rocks" incident took place. The Soviet submarine S363 surfaced a few miles from the Karlskrona Naval Base; it had been damaged after running aground. The Swedes sent an officer to board the submarine and demand an explanation from the captain. The captain claimed that he'd got lost and entered Swedish territorial waters by accident. This was a flimsy excuse seeing as the submarine must have successfully navigated many hazardous rocks and shoals to reach the point where it was caught. Things got very sticky when the Soviet Baltic Fleet sent a task force to rescue the sub. There was a tense standoff between the Soviet and Swedish navies as the Russian ships attempted to enter the harbour. Matters were made worse when it was discovered that the sub was armed with nuclear weapons. Eventually, after a long period of interrogation, the Soviets were allowed to send in a tugboat and salvage the S363. That was a long time ago in the heart of the Cold War, yet today Russia has regained its status as an A-list world power and it has been expanding and modernizing its navy considerably in the last few years. Far less had changed in the political relationship between Russia and its neighbours than you might think; the Swedes still regard Russia as a threat and still have to deal with Russian espionage in the form of secret invasions by submarines, see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29722500. It's not just Sweden that has experienced these clandestine invaders from the deep either. The following month there was a very anxious week which began with the passage of a fleet of Russian warships through the English Channel. There's nothing illegal in that per se; the ships were careful not to stray out of international waters, yet the Royal Navy still deployed the coastal patrol vessel HMS Tyne to escort those menacing passers-by during their transit. However a few days later somebody spotted a submarine periscope off the west coast of Scotland, close to where the Royal Navy's Trident submarines operate. This caused a furore as the UK military tried to locate the underwater snooper; it had to call on NATO allies to help because the British military has scrapped all its long range antisubmarine aircraft, see: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/spy-submarine-sparks-search-after-4780565.

In both the Scottish and Swedish cases the intruder was never caught and their identity as Russian is pure supposition. Although Russia is by far the most likely culprit it is far from not certain that they're to blame. The problem is that the submarine is the first weapons platform ever devised in which stealth is its inherent property. The concept of an underwater ship can be found in the ancient world; Alexander the Great was obsessed with the idea, but it was only in the last couple of centuries that the technology has been available to make practical designs for them. The American Revolution and Civil War both involved the use of simple submarines, but it was when electric motors were first used around 1900 that the first capable open water submarines were invented. These had onboard generators to charge the motors' batteries, powered by petrol and diesel engines, which allowed these craft to carry out long range missions far out to sea. Submarines were a devastating ingredient in both world wars. Because they could not be seen, new acoustic detection systems had to be invented to deal with them. Submarines could be found by listening with underwater microphones, called "hydrophones" or by analyzing to the echo of transmitted sounds, called "ASDIC" or "active sonar". The anti-NWO activist Brian Gerrish used to command a Royal Navy antisubmarine destroyer and he described how his ship once detected a Russian submarine two hundred and fifty miles away. The job was made easier by the fact that submarine motor batteries had a limited charge which required the vessel to surface and run the generators at regular intervals, or at least come to periscope depth and raise its snort mast to bring air into the boat; but in the 1950's nuclear power came along which gave submarines an almost unlimited underwater endurance. This was a trade-off though; nuclear propulsion includes a lot of heavy machinery which makes a lot of noise. That noise is easily detected by hydrophones and a lot of the subsequent engineering work in the sphere of nuclear submarines since then has been to make their reactors and powerplants as quiet as possible. In more recent years, simpler and stealthier chemical propulsion systems have been devised that do not rely on surface air and are also far quieter than nuclear power. Today defence analysis sources state that there are almost five hundred submarines in the world; Russia has only sixty-three. This means it's perfectly possible that the strange submarines which escaped the Swedish and UK authorities were from somewhere else. What's more the defence sources only include submarines known to be in service in the navies of the world's sovereign states. There are almost certainly a good number of submarines that are privately owned. We know of a few used for tourism and there are even one or two submarine "yachts". Drug smugglers also have a couple of submarines, as well as dozens of semi-submersibles, vessels that can sail below the surface of the water with a small portion above. Could ocean-going submarines have been built or purchased privately for the use of persons or organizations? Certainly many corporations and individual billionaires have the money for them. I'm reminded of Hagbard Celine, the leader of the Discordians in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's novel The Illuminatus! Trilogy. He is captain of the Leif Eriksson, a submarine owned by himself and completely unknown to the outside world. Could one of these "off-grid" submarines have been responsible for the naval activity in Europe these last few months? However, the story is complicated still further when we ask the question: are all submarines even man-made? We all know about UFO's- unidentified flying objects, but fewer people have come across USO's- unidentified submerged objects. These are like UFO's except they're located underwater. They're very like UFO's in appearance and behaviour, so much so that they're probably the same phenomenon in a different medium. Indeed some USO's can fly up out of the water and become UFO's; this was what conspiracy researcher Bill Cooper saw once. He was on board a normal submarine himself, USS Tiru, when he saw a saucer-shaped craft the size of an aircraft carrier suddenly burst out of the sea and fly off into the sky. When his sub returned to port he was "debriefed" by a very rough and abusive intelligence agent who harshly warned him to keep quiet about what he'd witnessed. Another famous incident took place in Shag Harbour, Canada in October 1967 in which a large object crashed into the sea off the coast of Nova Scotia and was seen by multiple witnesses. A massive search and rescue operation was conducted by the Canadian military, but the object escaped. Is it possible that the latest two European incidents I describe above are USO events? Probably not based on the reports, even though some of the UFO websites are reporting it as such, see: http://www.openminds.tv/unidentified-floating-object-hunted-swedish-military/30682. The radio signal intercepted in Sweden was described as being Russian. As for the Scottish incident; the witnesses report a distinct periscope, an instrument that almost all submarines have for peering above the waves. Undoubtedly normal man-made submarines can be labelled USO's at times, in the same way aircraft and weather balloons can sometimes be mistaken for UFO's; there is a direct parallel. However there are far fewer familiar artificial structures below the sea than there are in the skies above our heads. When somebody does report an underwater object that doesn't seem to fit with what we know of when it comes to our own submarines, then it behoves us to take them seriously. For now we still have the spectre of Russia looking more and more belligerent and the western powers responding in kind.

Background article: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/replacing-trident.html.

James Randi- the Dishonest Liar

The title of his movie did seem strange, and Randi's whole life is an oxymoron; the tautology in the title I've chosen for this article illustrates that. The Daily Telegraph post below that I discovered (thanks to Don Philips) is probably the most dispassionate and professional coverage of James Randi I've ever seen in the mainstream media. It's about the only one which even questions his status as The... Last... Word... in what is or is not genuine in the world of the paranormal. In his biopic An Honest Liar, see background links, we learn of Randi's past. He was an eccentric and solitary youth, a homosexual in 1930's Canada whom society dictated to hide that part of his nature. His passion for magic tricks led him into a career as a stage conjuror where he swore he would never pretend that his sleights of hand were true supernatural powers. He supposedly "fell in love with the truth". However, as the background links show, he has a shadow side to his nature which he carefully packs out of sight when his public persona is on display. In his Daily Telegraph article Will Storr bravely breaches some of Randi's most famous misdemeanours. I have no problem with anybody questioning climate change, indeed I do so myself, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/anything-to-save-planet.html; in fact my problem was that once some of the Skeptic congregation had sat him down and given him a talking to, Randi recanted. If he'd stuck by his guns like Perry deAngelis or Penn and Teller I'd have thought more of him. I'm not surprised that Randi has a soft spot for social Darwinism; he is known to be essentially a misanthrope whose skill in the world of performance and publicity allows him to keep it under a large bushel most of the time. He can be very polite, even charming, any time he needs to be, but I've heard he can be deeply malicious and capable of very antisocial behaviour when the cameras are switched off. It's important to remember that James Randi is not really a person, he's a product; like Coca Cola or Persil washing powder. This product is bound to have an exceptionally high IQ and to have learnt Egyptian hieroglyphs by the age of twelve, an incredible feat of intellect which ought to have made him world famous in itself. His parents never named him "James Randi"; he was christened Randall Zwinge and only took on the stage name by which he's known as an adult. Will Storr is a Skeptic himself, but still retains the intellectual integrity to be a Randi iconoclast, see: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11270453/James-Randi-debunking-the-king-of-the-debunkers.html.

 He has looked into the various allegations of fraud by several non-Skeptics who have had dealings with Randi. Storr doesn't say it outright, but this obviously includes applicants for the Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge; details I've compiled myself can be found in the background links. Storr writes in length about the short-lived collaboration between Randi and Rupert Sheldrake which ended acrimoniously when Sheldrake discovered that Randi lied. Sheldrake is a properly qualified scientist who is completely willing to work alongside Skeptics who play fair, and he has done so many times with Richard Wiseman and Chris French. Sheldrake's most famous experiments involve testing dogs which appear to have psychic powers. Randi deliberately misrepresented this study to his own audience for an article in a dog-owners' magazine, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB3SAD-gHTc. When Storr confronted Randi personally over his conduct in relation to Sheldrake's work Randi prevaricated and evaded. Randi also has a nasty habit of pulling very elaborate and high-profile hoaxes on people to supposedly show them up for being dupes and therefore encourage people to engage on more critical thinking; personally I think he's just indulging the very prominent sadistic side of his personality. This would be my assessment even if he represented these little pranks honestly, but he does not. His own media reports grossly overplayed the impact his "Carlos" hoax had in Australia. This was an incident in which he employed Jose Alvarez, real name Deyvi Peña, to impersonate a mystical channeller. Alvarez is an artist and actor who is based in the offices of General Dynamics, see background links. However other sources paint a very different picture of Randi's glorious coup; few people were impressed with "Carlos" and far more were sceptical of him than Randi has admitted. Storr doesn't mention it, but the same goes for the Project Alpha hoax. In fact Nexus magazine published a report with an alternative view a few years ago:

Project Alpha

Today a reader, Travis, asked me about Project Alpha, the famous episode from the early 1980s in which super-Skeptic James Randi arranged for two young magicians to infiltrate a parapsychology lab in order to confound the researchers. Over the years, this strange incident has assumed almost legendary proportions in the minds of some Skeptics and reporters, who claim that the researchers were totally fooled. Here, for instance, is the way the story is told in Las Vegas Style magazine, with my comments and corrections in brackets and in bold font:

By 1979 BANACHEK [one of the magicians in question, whose real name is Steve Shaw] was starting to draw national attention as a gifted performer in extra sensory perception crafts. That was also the year that McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft awarded a $500,000 grant to Washington University in St. Louis for the establishment of the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research. [Incorrect - the grant was not bestowed by the corporation, but by James S. McDonnell as a private gift.] The lab was supposed to come up with evidence that things like bending a fork with your thoughts was a real thing. If the idea of spending half a million clams on fork bending seems just a little soft in the head, you're not alone. James Randi was an internationally known magician and an active investigator of paranormal claims when McDonnell-Douglas [sic] made the grant. He decided to send two young illusionists into the MacLab to debunk it. BANACHEK was one of the illusionists.

For three years [he] was subjected to every test the pros could come up with to prove he had authentic psychic powers. He bent things, burned things, moved things and knew things. He passed every test with flying colours [false - see Thalbourne's article, linked below] and at the end of the three year period the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research proudly announced to the scientific community that they had the real thing in the form of BANACHEK [false - no such announcement was made]. OMNI Magazine did a spread on BANACHEK. Discover Magazine said "...his demonstrations were just phenomenal." Even the National Enquirer called him a "Prodigy. Nobody like him in his field."

Mid bow for the McDonnell folks James Randi drops his bomb that BANACHEK had been working for him for the past three years and what's more everything he did was an illusion. Remember? Illusions are ideas creating misleading appearances. And mislead BANACHEK did. You know you have a major coup in your pocket when you sting the National Enquirer. [Really?] The guys at the Laboratory for Psychical [Research] were crushed. [False - they had already suspected Shaw and his partner of fraud, and had dismissed them both more than a year earlier.]

I guess Las Vegas Style subscribes to the motto "print the legend." The actual facts behind this case are thoroughly presented in a paper I found online in PDF (Adobe) form: "Science Versus Showmanship: A History of the Randi Hoax," by Michael A. Thalbourne.

Originally I had thought of summarizing this article, but there's no need to do so because it speaks for itself. Thalbourne, who was a participant in some of the events, writes in a straightforward, engaging style and lays out the key facts and timeline in the clearest possible way.

The case is also covered, in less detail, by John Beloff in Parapsychology: A Concise History.

As both Beloff's and Thalbourne's accounts make clear, there is much less to Project Alpha than its cheerleaders would have us believe. Regardless of what the National Enquirer may have said, the researchers never publicly committed themselves to the view that the phenomena they observed were genuine. They remained properly cautious in their published remarks. Indeed, they privately came to the conclusion that the two test subjects were not worth studying any further, and politely terminated the experiments. Even so, Randi had the chutzpah to hold a press conference claiming that the lab had been successfully duped - a story that is repeated to this day.

To nail down this point, I direct your attention to the appendix that follows the bibliography in Thalbourne's paper, where the published conclusions of the researchers are reproduced. This document is dated September 1, 1981, more than one year before Randi's January, 1983, press conference exposing the hoax. Regarding the test subject Mike Edwards (Shaw's partner in trickery), the researchers write:

The outcome of this research is suggestive of psychokinesis but inconclusive; due to its exploratory nature ... ordinary explanations exist for these effects, given the conditions under which they have been observed. Thus, although several events of interest have transpired, we do not claim that evidence conclusive of "psychic ability" has yet been demonstrated in our research. [Emphasis added] [Thalborne article: http://www.aiprinc.org/para-c05. Thalbourne_1995.pdf Source: http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/2007/03/project_alpha.html.

These various tableaux of Randi's career are not impartially factual; they are a highly slanted fictional account based on real events. If you ask anybody else involved they will usually give you a very different story. Yet few people question them, whether mainstream media representatives or members of the Skeptic movement. When somebody does, Randi's hubris is laid bare for all to see; maybe because Storr is a Skeptic himself he was able to penetrate Randi's inner defences and find a way of engaging that secret inner world he seems to operate in with his hundreds of collaborators, both knowing and unknowing. It is vital to do some background research whenever you hear or read anything by James Randi. Randi is, by his own admission, an expert at chicanery and illusion. How do you know that he is being an honest liar even when he says he is? The good news is that it appears his house is falling and you'll see in the background links below. What that will mean for the future, I'm not sure; but the understanding of the true nature of the Skeptic establishment can only aid the quest for a positive outcome.

See here for background: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/randi-in-crisis.html.

And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/james-randi-and-military-industrial.html.

And: http://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/programme-48-podcast-steve-trueblue.html.

Stargazing Live Producer sees UFO

I've written about Stargazing Live before because it is one of the TV programmes... one of the many many TV programmes... presented by Prof Brian Cox. A couple of years ago the BBC's management overruled the show's presenters and prevented them examining a new planet during a live broadcast in very odd circumstances, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/bbc-blocks-brian-cox-over-alien-fears.html. Cox is a staunch Skeptic and regards UFO's as a pseudoscientific myth; so I wonder what he said when the producer of Stargazing Live saw a UFO. Keaton Stone Tweeted this: "Ok - I know this sounds crazy & I'm supposed to discount this kind of stuff but I SWEAR I HAVE JUST SEEN A UFO OVER CANNOCK / HEDNESFORD!!!!" A short while later he followed up with: "Genuinely not joking! It was turquoise then white & flying around all over the place!! There is the mother of all storms here as well?!..." At first he thought it was just a lightning bolt, but discounted that because of the object's colour and movement; it was performing tight manoeuvres at high speed, the kind of activity that is frequently reported in UFO sightings, see: http://www.openminds.tv/stargazing-live-producer-sees-ufo-in-england-1101/23161. The area he had his encounter is near Cannock Chase, a well-known hotspot for all things unexplained. Has this effected his relationship with Cox in any way? According to IMDB, Stone is still working at the BBC. The series ran until January this year so presumably they're still on speaking terms; that's a relief because Cox is one of the most passionate members of the Skeptic community. For more information on Prof. Brian Cox, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/prof-brian-cox-watch-this-space.html.

Mindreading Technology has Arrived

Our thoughts are the keep of the fortress when it comes to privacy, freedom and individuality. In the past, oppressive regimes have dictated what people do, read, watch and say (only in the past!?); yet even in those societies there were those who rebelled inwardly while maintaining an outward appearance of conformity. In the book 1984 by George Orwell, which I often site on HPANWO, the main character is a man who is undergoing mental upheaval while displaying the regulation persona of subservience to the Big Brother regime. Of course there are many physical and outward methods such a regime can use to reveal "thoughtcriminals" and enforce internal acquiescence through propaganda, torture and psychological warfare, but even in the world of Orwell's book there was no technology available that could directly perceive or direct a person's thoughts. It has long been known that the human brain is a natural electrical machine. It is a vastly complex network of circuits with constantly flowing currents and it has an electrical field, "brainwaves" which can be detected using an EEG- electroencephalograph. From the EEG trace it is easy to work out whether the brain is of somebody awake or asleep, dreaming or not, and alert or sedate. However in recent years far more sophisticated devices have been invented that can decode the brain's electromagnetic field in far more detail, like FMRI- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and PET- Positron Emission Tomography. Using this technology, scientists can now work out the kinds of things you're thinking about. Most recently a team led by the neuroscientists Brian Pasley and Prof. Robert Knight have constructed a system that can read your inner dialogue; for instance if you're reading a line of text and repeat the words in your head, the system can detect and reproduce those words simply by analyzing the electrical field of your brain. We already know from previous research that people's brains are all very similar in how they light up when thinking the same thoughts, so there is probably a universal language in the electrical field when it comes to words too. What can be done with words can probably be done with imagery, feelings and other psychological aspects. The scientists are obviously promoting the positive applications of their discovery. It can help people suffering from locked-in syndrome or Lou Gehrig's disease, terrible conditions in which the entire body is paralyzed and so the sufferer, though alive and sentient, cannot communicate or interact with the world around them. This technology could allow them to speak through their thoughts alone, see: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2814896/The-mindreading-machine-listen-voices-head-let-paralysed-speak-again.html.

However, like most technology, the benefits of it lay side-by-side with its potential for abuse. The above article briefly addresses this: "but many will be concerned about the implications of a technique that can eavesdrop on thoughts and reproduce them." The power this could give a real Big Brother state is almost unbounded. It means that the direct monitoring and policing of thoughts could be possible; "thoughtcrime" might become a crime in a far more literal sense than it did inside the imaginary dystopia of George Orwell. What's more all electronic media in the past involves both playback and record; if it's possible to read the thoughts inside somebody's head then could that same technology be adapted to implant artificial thoughts in it too? The keep of the fortress is in danger of falling. Nevertheless, there is a growing awareness of the hazards inherent in brain-reading science; pressure groups and campaigning organizations have been formed to counteract the threat posed by the weaponization of psychotronic technology, for instance see: http://www.stopeg.com/ and http://www.icaact.org/. This is good because I suspect that the threat is even greater than we've been told publicly in projects like Pasley's and Knight's. Black budget unacknowledged special access programmes are probably years ahead of those in the public domain. There are people, including friends of mine, who are "targeted individuals", those being used in mind control experiments against their will. A few weeks ago there was a major international conference on the subject in Brussels, Belgium, see: https://www.covertharassmentconference.com/. Therefore we should remain vigilant and active, but also hopeful. Any plans the government has to shackle our minds in some future pseudo-utopian transhumanist empire is not going to be able to maintain its secrecy and it will not proceed unchallenged.

Young People and 1984

The scientist at Sheffield University and TV personality Prof. Noel Sharkey has voiced his concerns about how information technology could be weaponized and laments at how the new generations seem oblivious or indifferent to that. Prof. Sharkey has the very field of expertise to know; he's an expert in artificial intelligence and robotics. He has entered the public eye as a pundit on the use of robots in the military. The sixty-five year old is very cautious about his personal data online. He is wary while posting on Facebook or Google. He knows that all kinds of people monitor what individual internet users do. This could be for comparatively harmless reasons, targeted marketing and advertizing for instance, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/big-spammer-is-watching-you.html. However, the government security services do the same for their own covert motives. Google have been very active in working alongside organizations involved in the surveillance and cybernetics industry, like the companies Deep-Mind and Nest Labs, see: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2651145/Young-people-wary-giving-privacy-online-read-1984.html. The fact is, this kind of technology could be very useful; I don't object to being able to switch my central heating on and off while away of holiday. Nevertheless in this world we have a malicious authority structure so we have to address capabilities, not professed intents; locks to improve security in a hotel can be adapted into a system for monitoring the movements of staff, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/big-brother-rules-go-out-window.html. That's just the start; when you look into the transhumanism agenda you'll have an idea what the final objective might be, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/bases-project-live-in-london.html. However Prof Sharkey can take heart from something. He describes himself as "part of the generation which all read 1984; I think we are less happy about giving up our privacy." He believes younger people don't read that book often enough. Yet Orwell's classic allegory of totalitarianism is still in print and can be purchased at all good bookshops for a reasonable price. A few years ago I saw 1984 for sale at a Nottingham branch of Waterstones in the charts at number thirty-nine, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/1984-at-number-39.html. So all is not lost.

Welsh Pagan Site Destroyed

It's not often I hear news from Lampeter, my place of birth, but I have now. I was just eight years old when I moved from there to live in my current hometown of Oxford. Lampeter is a small town in west Wales, quite remote and home to less than three thousand people; however it is very unusual. Its most prominent feature is its college, part of the University of Wales, Trinity St Davids probably making Lampeter the smallest university town in the world. The presence of Lampeter College attracts people from around the world; this  gives the town a far more cosmopolitan atmosphere than other rural Welsh settlements of its kind. However this hasn't stopped it from being a major stronghold of Welsh culture and the Welsh language is dominant in the local community (After years of living in England I'm pretty rusty myself in that respect). In the grounds of the college, where my friends and I used to sneak in under the noses of the security guards and play illegally, there is an outdoor neopagan temple. This consists of a circular stone structure with an altar and fire pit where people who believe in Druidism and the other ancient spiritual faiths of Britain hold ceremonies, mostly members of the university's pagan society. However in 2011 this shine was vandalized. What's more it wasn't done just by naughty schoolboys or a rampage by a bunch of drunks either; it was highly organized and methodical. The site was damaged beyond repair; the college is currently raising money to build a new one. The destruction was so extensive that pickaxes, crowbars and other heavy weapons must have been used. Even the steps leading down to the circle were smashed. People who teach and study at the college have commented that the attack may well be connected to the internal politics of the university. The pagan society in Lampeter has seventy or so members yet the college is world famous for its theology courses and Anglican seminary. Some suspect theology tutors and students of conspiring to destroy the temple; the case is being treated as a hate crime. Apparently there's a traditional Christian tendency in the department which is very fire-and-brimstone. The department includes a Muslim studies course. Muslim extremists have been known to desecrate pagan holy places, like the Taliban did to the Buddhist shrines in Afghanistan, but when doing this Muslims tend to shun secrecy. On the contrary they often carry out their sacrileges openly and vocally, see: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8925373/Pagan-stone-circle-may-have-been-destroyed-in-religous-hate-attack.html.

Despite this, the police have made no arrests. That's very odd because I remember well how difficult it was to keep anything secret in Lampeter. The town's gossip mill was renowned, probably due to the small size and isolation of the place. Are the authorities turning a blind eye? If so why? Do they just want to "sort it out in their own way", or is there more to this story than there appears to be on the surface? The pagan establishment in Lampeter is not an ancient sacred site; in fact it doesn't date back further than 1822 when the college was founded. However what happened to the temple is disturbingly similar to what Graham Hancock reports from Malta. In his book Underworld- Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age Hancock embarks on a trip to the Mediterranean island nation of Malta to investigate the mysterious and really ancient prehistoric constructions such as the temples of Gigantija and Hagar Qim. These beautiful stone monuments have been badly damaged by gangs wielding pickaxes, sledge hammers and even mechanical diggers. The Maltese government has been forced to post armed guards on as many of the sites as it can, see: http://www.grahamhancock.com/archive/underworld/. Again, these attacks have a specific motive; they're not just the handiwork of hot-headed mobs. It is no secret that in the past groups of powerful individuals connected to the Vatican and the European empires attempted to wipe out the legacy of older indigenous cultures both at home and abroad. This is what the Conquistadors did in the Americas during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Yet one and a half millennia earlier the Roman Empire did the very same thing. Here in Britain, in Wales too in fact, the Roman legions sacked the sacred island of Anglesey and destroyed the Druid groves, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E1TiN1dCqc. Yet in Africa the British Empire did the very same thing almost two thousand years later, as Credo Mutwa has described, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4apWOUNOx64. Is this just a coincidence that these very different power-structures which rose and fell many centuries apart carried out the exact same actions? The elites of this world, all through history, seem to have a peculiar and inexplicable aversion to native natural spirituality; why is that? Could this be because such knowledge is a threat to the unnatural and inhuman malevolent consciousness that has infected this universe though their agents in the Illuminati? The above link to David Icke's famous interview with Credo Mutwa does a good job in addressing these questions. The temple in Lampeter was a modern replica, yet the people using it may well have been genuine truthseekers who were in touch with the real spiritual past of these islands; that is the threat. It's not the empty lumps of stone that count, it's the spirit within them that works through the people who worship through them. At the same time, at first glance paradoxically, authorities in England and Wales are commissioning public art and sculpture that resembles the style of ancient prehistoric monuments; I call this "neo-Neolithic" or "neo-megalithic", see:  http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/milton-keynes-henge.html. It's as if they want to destroy the original and then build their own copy of it. Could this simply be arrogant vainglory and triumphalism? Perhaps; they're certainly capable of that, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmT8-FgVgy4. Or is that also part of an agenda for a specific occult purpose? 

Mysterious Explosions Update

The mysterious explosion that struck Manchester last week was followed up by similar events in Yorkshire, New York and a few other places. I covered these phenomena in two articles and a film, see links at the bottom. In my article on the Manchester incident I asked HPANWO-readers living in the area if they could do me a favour and take a look at the location in Salford which is what was initially reported by the media to be the location of the blast. A friend of mine did, the same lady I mention in the article who heard the noise at her home seven miles away. I'd already had a brief look on Google Street so was familiar with the area, but those images can be several years old; my friend took some photos to see what is going on right now:

The industrial estate at Hessel Street is what was proposed as the source for the explosion, but the only evidence for this was a column of smoke rising above the area. The emergency services headed for the scene, but found nothing untoward. Everything looks entirely normal in the above photos and my friend told me that nothing there appeared out of the ordinary. In her own words: "Ben I went down to Salford earlier if you look at the piccies there is an industrial estate facing a block of flats. There is nothing there at all that shows signs of anything out of the normal". The epicentre of the explosion appears to be somewhere in Salford, Greater Manchester, but it's pretty obvious that it was not caused by anything conventional. Just opposite the industrial estate you can see there's a residential block where several hundred people must be living. If an explosion of that yield had taken place anywhere on Hessel Street then the noise would have been deafening. Their ears would probably still be ringing right now; what's more there would have been a shockwave that would have damaged the buildings and maybe even killed or injured people. This did not happen. I think this also makes it very unlikely that a UFO crashed there; this is not the "Manchester Roswell". The same goes obviously for secret aircraft. So if the source was not on the ground it must have been in the sky or underground. Earthquakes can produce very loud explosive noises, yet there was no earthquake recorded in the area. And as for above ground; there was no meteor either, or anything else similar, because that would have produced a bright light along with the noise. The Manchester explosion was completely dark. Also fragments of the object would have fallen to the Earth's surface. So I'm afraid there are no firm answers yet. In the film and two articles I suggest some possibilities, but right now all we can do is guess. If any further information comes to light you can be sure of reading it first here on HPANWO.

Important background: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/mysterious-explosions.html.

And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/another-mysterious-explosion.html.

And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/mysterious-explosion-in-manchester.html.