Based Keanu

 

The actor Keanu Reeves has just turned sixty years old. It seems hard to believe and is perhaps another sign that the predicted "reverse quickening" has not yet appeared, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2014/02/programme-78-podcast-2012-redux.html. I remember him well as a young actor in teen flicks like Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Parenthood. He did graduate to more mature cinema as he aged and eventually starred in his definitive adult role, Neo in the Matrix series. Now officially elderly, the actor has featured in a short documentary that has astounded me. It reveals a lot of details about his personal life and the history of the Matrix movies that is almost as dramatic as the films themselves. He was born in the Middle East to Canadian parents and when he was three years old they divorced; his father left his life and made no effort to contact him. Keanu only met him again at the age of thirteen. After that, the two hardly ever saw each other again. Sadly the tragedies of his life did not end there. His only child was stillborn at eight months and shortly afterwards his wife was killed in a car crash. Emotional pain on that scale might be why he became a very shy eccentric person. Unlike many Hollywood stars he does not live the playboy lifestyle and instead spends most of his time working for charities and collecting motorcycles. However, he has done a few interviews where he talks candidly about his observations on life, and this includes the profound mystical ideas at the heart of the Wachowskis' famous franchise. The documentary explains, partly through Keanu's testimony that the films were a labour of love for both the creators and himself, but they were also a monumental struggle; and this reveals a lot to me. I always sensed there was something missing from them; not so much in the original, but definitely with the first two sequels. (I have not seen Resurrections, the most recent.) It turns out that the project was almost cancelled. Keanu and the rest of the cast and crew donated funds to keep it going and they were locked in a constant battle with the studio over content. The cast and Wachowskis wanted to centre the story on its renowned spiritual themes, but the studio wanted an action movie. This would explain why the first two sequels feel so watered down. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJbjkw-jwgA.

There is no doubt that Keanu Reeves is what is commonly known as based. This is probably both a cause and effect of his Neo role. Even before The Matrix, however, he showed symptoms of outside-the-box thinking. As long ago as 1993 he took on the eponymous role in Bernado Bertolucci's fabulous Little Buddha. This was criticized as bad casting, but I think Reeves plays the part with extraordinary gusto and charisma. You can see he is genuinely interested in the life and ideas of Prince Siddhartha. (The director's cut is currently on YouTube; the age of this upload suggests it is authorized, hence I don't mind sharing it, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UR1C_Z8swU.) As for the Wachowskis, their subsequent film Cloud Atlas, which I also adore, allowed them to express many of the ideas that they wanted to put into The Matrix, but were forbidden from doing so, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2013/07/cloud-atlas.html. Keanu has also appeared in one scene on Ancient Apocalypse, Graham Hancock's latest series, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzh7r9MKTew. He has futhermore written a book, co-authored by a writer I'm very familiar with, China Miéville, see: https://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2023/12/piw-in-fiction.html and: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-city-and-city-by-china-mieville.html. This is another sign that he is both intelligent and radical in his mentality. Keanu Reeves sits forever in my childhood memory as this scruffy haired teenager breathlessly delivering lines in Californian surfer slang, but this just goes to show you should never underestimate anybody. The most conformist and mundane exterior can sometimes conceal the beating heart of a true maverick and prophet.

Tesco Butlerian Jihad Update

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/03/tesco-butlerian-jihad-continues.html.
The Tesco Butlerian Jihad has reached a crucial turning point and I'm pleased to say humanity has won a significant triumph over the machines. I went to the same branch of Tesco and this time the four human tills were all unmanned. People were sadly trooping obediently into the auto-checkouts so I decided to set a good example. I parked my trolley in front of the human tills and waited. Good job I never chose a basket. After a while a few people joined me and a queue of about five shoppers began to form. I eventually managed to wave to one of the assistants in the auto area. I didn't make a big deal and I never put on an irritated tone. It would be tempting to Karen out at that point, but I kept my cool. I just asked her politely: "Could somebody come and open one of these tills please." She acknowledged me and walked off. I wondered if she had understood me, unlike two of her colleagues in the past, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/04/whose-street-my-street.html. No, this time somebody appeared within two minutes, a cheerful old lady. She took her place behind the cash register and invited us to come and pay. She was very nice and friendly. "You want to pay with cash, do you?" she asked rhetorically. I asked: "Where are Beverley and Lemoncini?" These are the two staff members who most often man the cash tills. She told me they were away that day. I asked this question primarily because I wanted to make the point that because I am a cashie who refuses to use the computer checkouts I actually talk to the people who serve me, and I've have even learned their names and have conversations with them. Just for five minutes or so every visit, but it's still enough to develop a basic relationship. This is what the auto-till sheeple are missing out on. They're turning their back on human interaction to save a few minutes before they rush back to their pod or work cublicle. I thanked the old lady who served me and told her that I would always refuse to use the AI card machines. I hope the message is passed along that Tesco should always keep somebody on one of the manned checkouts. So I went in, bought my groceries and left without once dealing with anybody other than a human being. So the machines lose! I don't care how many seconds you give me to comply.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/12/auto-checkouts-are-off.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/01/tales-from-cashless-island.html.

If You Can't Beat 'em Ban 'em!

 

Breaking news! France has just done the unthinkable, yet inevitable. It has made a political prisoner out one of its most senior and longest sitting statespeople. No, this is not an April fool joke. Marine Le Pen, many times presidential candidate and leader of the biggest party in the French parliament, has been convicted of embezzlement of EU funds which for politicians is a bit like slapping somebody with a speeding fine at the French Grand Prix. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0ylgjew1xo. Like Boris Johnson, her prosecution was selective and has an underlying political motive, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/07/why-did-boris-fail.html. The same goes for Donald Trump, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/04/trump-in-court-livestream.html. I predicted this would happen after the elections last year. It left the country with a terrible political crisis and I said back then that they would put it on hold until the Paris Olympics were over; and then all hell would break loose, and it did, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2024/12/third-rail-radio-programme-194.html. Where they failed with Trump they have succeeded with Le Pen. She has been sentenced to four years in prison with two suspended. So far she has not yet been locked up, pending an appeal; but she is banned from standing in elections for public office for five years, and that is probably the objective of the prosecution. What will happen now? Ironically, like with Trump, her martyrdom will probably add to her popularity. At the same time we must remember that France is a very different kind of political society to Britain. The French do not stop for tea and play games of cricket; they have revolutions instead. France is naturally a very unstable nation. In the background links I describe other aspects that might give clues to what the next outcome might be once the dust settles from this bombshell. Time will tell how this crisis will develop.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/04/french-election-2022-first-round.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-warning-from-france_25.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones on Fockham Hall Radio 16

 

See here for the programme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vlLFqhpsZI.
I have been featured again on Fockham Hall Radio. Topics discussed include, an Austrian artist in Argentina, portholes to wormholes, Beltane rituals and much much more.
See here for my previous interview on FHR: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/11/ben-emlyn-jones-on-fockham-hall-radio-15.html.

Malaysia has NOT Signed!

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/03/malaysia-signs.html.
I must make an urgent correction to the background article posted above. It turns out that rumours of Malaysia signing the contract with Ocean Infinity were greatly exaggerated. How this mix-up happened I cannot imagine. How was it the families group got told the news with such certainty, on headed paper etc? To be honest, I felt a niggling doubt from the start. The fact that it was not done with a public ceremony and that OI would not confirm it was a bit dodgy. The new latest release also does not refer to a time limit for the search period. It could be that the families simply misunderstood an older press release. I don't know why there is so much confusion following Malaysia's originally very positive stance on OI's project. They were quite happy with OI's proposal for an eighteen month period in which the company would be paid £70 million IF the search yielded significant new forensic evidence, ie wreckage from MH370. Oliver Plunkett, the CEO of Ocean Infinity describes MH370 as "unfinished business" and clearly feels very passionate about it on a personal level. He has put in a lot of emotional commitment to this search. Last night Armada 7806 ended the bathymetric survey of the Blelly-Marchand hotspot. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RssJOP0pbro.

At the same time this update broke, Armada 7806 turned north and began steaming with all dispatch. At first the ship tracker followers thought she might be heading for a new search area, but then her destination statement changed to Singapore, which is the ship's home port. She had enough fuel and victuals for a further six days of operations, so the search team ended it early. The fact that the ship is heading for Singapore and not Fremantle is a bad sign. It indicates that their mission has been aborted. We don't know why this has happened or what the future plans are because neither OI nor Malaysia has made any further statements. We'll have to wait and see; but really if nothing is done in the next couple weeks then it looks like a total cancellation of the search for MH370. By late April or early May the weather in that part of the Indian Ocean tends to get very bad so making searches impossible. It won't improve again until November. Jeff Wise thinks that Armada 7806 is too small for the task anyway, and it lacks the range and facility for mass AUV deployment. I can't help wondering if deep down a lot of people in control of this situation are well aware that the plane really is not at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. There's clearly a lot of conflict between Jeff and the remainder of the Independent Group. I know Jeff does not believe in WSPR, but the issue goes beyond that and gets quite personal. He implies that Richard Godfrey is some kind of shill. Jeff suspects Godfrey has committed stolen valour related to his past qualifications in the space programme. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHZOn0xF858. I don't know once way or the other, but I am well aware that, generally speaking, when two people in the Conspirasphere fall out they will usually accuse each other of being a government patsy. One thing Jeff has confirmed as true is that Richard Godfrey did work for Marconi is the early 1970's. Luckily he had left by the time the infamous suicide epidemic broke out, see here for details: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2022/04/programme-460-falklands-war-40_14.html and: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2022/06/falklands-war-40th-anniversary.html. This may not be the end of the story. Ocean Infinity may choose to return in the southern spring and continue the operation from where they left off; but that is months away, and all this political toing and froing must be terribly frustrating and upsetting for the MH370 families.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2024/05/mh370-portal.html.

Apollo Detectives 14

 

See here for the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Vgyyygt7Q.
This Apollo Detectives film brings more new and original information that casts doubt over the official story of the first moon landings. It includes new analysis by Neil Ward of interviews with Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo 14 astronaut. Joining us on the panel are Scott Henderson, Marcus Allen and Robert Williams. See here for background: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/12/moon-landing-portal.html.
HPANWO Radio interview with Marcus Allen: http://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2022/12/programme-488-podcast-apollo-17.html.
See here for Neil's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/neilgedd.

Malaysia Signs

 

The government of Malaysia has finally signed its agreement with Ocean Infinity in their quest to find MH370. Even though the government have yet to comment officially, the families' organization has published a letter with a Malaysian government header stating the signing has been done privately. Normally there is a public ceremony with a press contingent for things like this. What took them so long? OI offered them a no-find-no-fee deal; it is a no-brainer. What was left to negotiate? Still, Malaysia dithered, looking the gift horse in the mouth for weeks on end. Perhaps there are bureaucrats in Kuala Lumpur who don't want the wreck to be found for political reasons; even the obvious ones, like their conflict with China. This doesn't include some of the more arcane elements that I'm sure some Malaysians are only too aware of. Still, Malaysia started to come across like one of those annoying people at the front of a checkout queue at the grocers saying: "I'll sign this cheque in a moment... honest." All this time Armada 7806 was diligently doing its job. It refuelled in Fremantle and headed back out to the search area. At the time of writing it has almost completed its bathymetric survey of the Blelly-Marchand hotspot. This is not the search as such, it is simply building a detailed map of the seabed in the area for which the search is planned. Later in the week it will be running low of fuel and supplies, and have to return to port again. Perhaps now the contract is signed OI will be able to commit more resources to the project; so Armada will be joined by more vessels with more AUV's and personnel. So far the sole ship has been carrying out a standard coverage pattern, not stopping in one place for long periods, which makes it clear it has not found anything of interest yet. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1msAFMq-rCc.

I'm still watching Richard Godfrey and Geoffrey Thomas' daily bulletins, but I sometime do find those two quite tiresome. They are staunchly "anti-conspiracy theory" which is a nonsensical statement because all of MH37-tology is by its very definition a conspiracy theory. What they actually mean is they think their own conspiracy theory is right because it's based on the official story and Richard's WSPR technology. Their antipathy for Jeff Wise is palpable. They also made a video which included a letter they received from a Boeing engineer who described his revulsion towards the "grifters!" who spread "nonsense!" about the missing aircraft; not caring about the "pain!" they inflict on the "families!" This is a dishonest and snide manoeuvre that I'm all too familiar with, see: https://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2009/01/show-some-respect.html. I don't need to add anything else to the comment I left on the video: "That rather mawkish and conniving letter from Mr York is illogical as well as unfair. Is he going to go up to a police detective investigating a murder and call the detective a "shameless grifter" because he earns a police salary? Right now we don't know for sure that Jeff Wise or Ashton Forbes are wrong. They might be right. In the absence of information a lot of differing ideas emerge. I was hoping we could be adult about this and disagree with others without making slurs against their character and dark assumptions about their motives. Mr York does not OWN the 239. He is not their officially appointed mourner. Nobody is showing respect and sensitivity to their loved ones by keeping quiet about information or trying to moral blackmail others into doing the same." Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX2Xd9xx6Vc. On the subject of Ashton Forbes and Jeff Wise, their work means that there is an important alternative because it might exonerate the MH370 senior pilot Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah. Never before in history has one man been so demonized by so many based on so little evidence. Richard and Geoffrey think its likely Shah was to blame. In a way it is understandable, if you believe the official story. As senior pilot in a situation with such a huge element of mystery he will inevitably be a prime suspect. However, the only real evidence against him is the Flight Sim file. Richard and Geoffrey think it's suspicious he deleted it. Why? His PC will not have infinite storage space. I sometimes play MS Flight Simulator and I delete old scenarios all the time to save disk space. There were no other odd elements to Shah's behaviour. He was acting normally at home just before leaving for work. Earlier in the day he did his usual charity job delivering meals on wheels. He left no note or manifesto. Clearly if Jeff or Ashton are correct; and I've come down more on the side of Ashton, then its totally likely Capt. Shah had nothing to do with his aircraft's disappearance. He may have fought hard to stop the plane being taken or destroyed. We'll have to wait and see what happens next.  
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2024/05/mh370-portal.html.