Credo Mutwa Attacked!

The lovely and wonderful old Zulu shaman Credo Mutwa has been attacked. He was tricked into travelling to Swaziland where some thugs tortured him. They then stole his precious Necklace of Mysteries, one of the few remaining sacred artifacts of the Zulu people that hasn't already been plundered for the black market or western museums. Please join me in sending thoughts of healing to Credo and the wish to have his necklace returned.

See here for details: http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/37830-the-torture-of-credo-mutwa-and-the-theft-of-the-necklace-of-mysteries-

Starchild Skull DNA Test Results

The results on Lloyd Pye's "Starchild" Skull are now complete. Lloyd has taken a lot of stick from critics, including those who should know better. Hopefully this will vindicate him.

See: http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/37390-starchild-skull-2010-dna-result-

(Related article: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2010/04/starchild-skull-dna-extracted.html)

Roman Polanski NOT to be Extradited

See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10609084

Roman Polanski, the film director of such meaningful films as Rosemary’s Baby, will not be extradited to the US to face charges of having sex with an underage girl in 1977. No, it seems European nations are far more interested in handing over UFO-hackers like Gary McKinnon, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2010/05/gary-mckinnons-extrdition-suspended.html . When you think about it, Polanski might have technically done wrong, but his “victim” was a streetwise teenage girl, not some little toddler with a teddy-bear. So it’s not fair to call him a “paedophile” and categorize him with the likes of Gary Glitter.

As I’ve said before, maybe there’s a reason why the authorities are coming down on him so hard now!: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2010/04/ghost-writer.html

Big Brother- When the Rules go Out the Window!

A friend of mine works at a hotel and has told me something very interesting and very relevant to HPANWO. His hotel, like most workplaces… and everywhere else… has installed a CCTV system for security purposes. But recently he was pulled up by management. His boss called him into the office and reprimanded him for putting his feet up on a chair while he was sitting at reception. My friend apologized, but it was only later that he asked himself the question: How did the boss know? The incident took place when the boss was not in the building. My friend did a bit of investigating and discovered that the boss had seen him on the hotel’s CCTV recording. My friend was furious and made a formal grievance. Those cameras are intended for security purposes only, not so that the management can spy on the staff. The recorded data from the CCTV is supposed to be strictly controlled and not open to anyone to access it, no matter how high their position. Luckily my friend’s grievance was sustained and the boss was himself given a bollocking, but I wonder how much more this kind of thing is going on. I know for a fact that there is one institution not far from where I live where security guards’ locations are monitored while they’re on patrol by making them swipe their ID badges through the electronic door locks. Such door locks are now almost as commonplace as CCTV; my hospital has them. Again we see the same thing: the door locks, like the CCTV was installed allegedly for “purely security” purposes and has been expanded into its Big Brother role without so much as a nod!

This for me is a sign of endemic corruption and it proves the point I’ve always made: that the Big Brother infrastructure will not be hurled at us violently, it will be delivered in an attractive, decorated parcel that we will open without hesitation or a morsel of fear. When even the rules and ethical guidelines accompanying Big Brother that are meant to protect us go out the window, nobody can pretend any more that the innocent have nothing to fear.

RIP Subway

Background article: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2008/08/save-our-subway.html

Related news story: http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/display.var.2437369.0.3m_scheme_threatens_murals.php

This is all that’s left of the London Road Subway in Headington. Builders have filled it in with concrete and are now building a new pedestrian walkway on top of it:

The council went ahead and bowed to pressures of the national government (apparently the redevelopment was engineered with London commuters in mind) and filled in this pedestrian thoroughfare, art gallery and vital piece of local culture. But rest assured I still have all the photos I took of the subway’s glorious street art and I reproduce it here on HPANWO! RIP Subway. The originals may one day be uncovered by future archaeologists. I hope those descendants of ours will raise their hands in shock and disbelief at our stupidity in the same way they do today at the desecration of the Aztec sacred sites and idols by the Conquistadors:

(Addendum- 4/7/10): The local press is covering this subject again and has interviewed me: http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/8253852.Keeping_Headington_subway_memories_alive/

Michael Wood and the Jeevika Trust

Jeevika Trust website: http://www.jeevika.org.uk/index.htm
Michael Wood’s website: http://www.mayavisionint.com/

Background articles: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2009/09/guilds.html
And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2008/04/welsh-pound.html
And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2008/05/basic-income.html
And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2007/09/workers-cooperatives.html
And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2009/03/credit-crunch-what-credit-crunch.html

Last night I went to a lecture by the historian Michael Wood at the Royal Geographic Society in London (See: http://www.jeevika.org.uk/MichaelWoodLecture2010.htm) Wood is a TV personality I admire a lot, and not because of his TV appearances in tight jeans! Although many do; in fact I couldn’t help noticing that the majority of the audience were female! He is known actually as "thinking-woman's crumpet" because of his combination of looks and brains. I like him for his ability to educate and inspire; not only through his considerable knowledge but also his passionate and charismatic style. His programmes are like poetry! He did a speech on the culture and history of southern India, one very distinct from that of the north. The lecture was organized by the Jeevika Trust, an organization that promotes a lot of the Post-Illuminati World ideas that I do; see links above. India is the oldest living nation on Earth and its traditional smallholder farms and local village economics have existed for over 5000 years. They have survived the onslaught of modern Western cultural imperialism which has polluted much of Indian city life as it has everywhere. A third of India’s population still live in villages, that’s almost 500 million people! Poverty is still a serious problem there, and village society faces new threats, from GM crops (See: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2009/06/alternative-view-ii-part-2.html) and from Big Brother policies. The Indian government is becoming more belligerent. It’s been building nuclear submarines and has new longer range missiles. It announced recently that it wants all its citizens on a biometric database, that’s 1 in 6 of the world’s population, so this has implications for us all! But I feel optimistic because of movements like the Jeevika Trust which aim to preserve traditional human-scale society. This desire has influenced many Western thinkers, most notably EF Schumacher (See: http://www.schumacher.org.uk/). I’ve recently bought a copy of Schumacher’s book Small Is Beautiful. Ideas like these can spread from India all over the world.

I got to talk with Michael after the lecture and he told me that his 1990 series Legacy, will soon be out in a new edition on DVD. I've wanted to know this for years because it's his best programme and I've only got a scratchy old VHS of it.

Iarael Attacks Gaza Aid Ship

See: http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Turkish-PM-Slams-Israel-for-Bloody-Massacre-on-Ships-95310499.html

The murderous Zionists in control of the Middle East have attacked an unarmed merchant ship on its way to Gaza to provide humanitarian aid! I hope David Halpin and Cynthia McKinney were not aboard. See here for background: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2009/06/alternative-view-ii-part-5.html

The good news is that the Turkish government, because the 10 people killed were Turks, is going to provide a naval escort for future aid runs to Gaza.