Memory Holed Movies

 

Sony Playstation Store is a popular retailer that millions of people use to purchase computer games, software and other kinds of media, including films and TV programmes. I have never used it myself, but I have used similar sites like Amazon, ITunes and Vimeo; but I do so reluctantly for a good reason that I'll explain. A Facebook friend has informed me that Sony Playstation Store have started deleting some of their products. In fact 551 movies and TV series are now no longer available. By no longer available I don't just mean that they are no longer for sale; I mean that they have been deleted from the platform for everybody, including people who have already rented or bought them. The titles include such classics as First Blood, Terminator 2- Judgement Day and Bridget Jones' Diary. The reason for this is that Sony PS' licence with the distributor Studio Canal has just expired and has not been renewed. The users who paid for these products are receiving no compensation at all; no refunds, no discounts, no vouchers nothing. Users who "bought" the products are being treated as if they did not actually buy them; which in a strange way, they never did. You might think this is a violation of customers' statutory rights, even theft, and it should be; but technically it isn't. You see, when you buy an online movie it's not like buying a physical product. As an analogy, if I buy an apple from a greengrocer and walk out of the shop, the shopkeeper can chase after me and snatch the apple back, but in doing so he has to give me my money back by law. However, in the case of streaming service, all you are really buying is the right to stream the product from the site indefinitely, rather than for a fixed period of time, like with Amazon's rental. That purchase time period is indefinite, but not necessarily eternal. The platform retains the legal right to terminate that access at any time unilaterally. What's more the distributor can force them to do so. Your personal user licence agreement is therefore completely non-exclusive and revocable. Read the small print next time your given the "purchase or rent the movie" option; it's completely watertight I'm afraid. Source: https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/legal/psvideocontent/.

I know many people who do not own a DVD player and discs, paper books or even read hard copies of newspapers. They live in a bare habitat of monitors and devices that provide all their entertainment and education from remote online sources. "It's ever so convenient!" they gush. "I no longer have shelves of bulky plastic cases taking up all the room in my house." They are perfect devotees of Klaus Schwab's proclamation that "You vill own nossingk und you vill be happy." Perhaps this news from Sony PS will make them think again and realize that although those shelves might be obtrusive and make your home constrictive, they are actually very precious because they contain media in digital or print form that you have purchased in the literal sense and once it is in your hands and the money has been exchanged it is completely isolated from any interference, recall or control from the retailing body. It is totally and one hundred percent your property. They cannot take it back and they cannot alter it. In previous eras before online streaming became a thing, what Sony and Studio Canal have done would be impossible. They would just have to cope with the fact that all the people who bought their products can keep them. This is why I cherish my huge collection of books and DVD's, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2017/03/dvds-on-my-shelf.html and: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2017/03/books-on-my-shelf-part-2.html. Short of an accident or theft or me deliberately ripping them up and shoving them down the toilet etc, these items are indestructible. Remember how oppressive regimes always ban books. When those regimes fell the books were always recoverable because inevitably somebody somewhere would have a copy that the censors will have missed. Imagine if modern technology had existed in those days! No need for flaming pyres in the street, the propaganda ministry would just need to press a button. There's more though. Even things you think you own on Netflix or Kindle, even if they are not withdrawn, they can be altered remotely without your knowledge or permission. This has happened to me, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2020/12/1984-removed-from-kindle.html and: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/03/roald-dahl-memory-holed.html. This is extremely sinister because it gives the authorities a capability to commit censorship more terrible than at any other time in history. So, please! Get DVD's, downloads and good old-fashioned paper books! I know this is tricky with movies because some home media releases aren't even doing DVD runs anymore; but the more people who buy the DVD's the more the studios will be encouraged to invest in them. People ask me why my own books aren't on e-book outlets; well, this is your answer. If you want to read Roswell Rising and its sequels then I'm afraid it's paperback or nothing, see: https://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2016/08/roswell-rising-is-here.html.

Psionics the Movie

 

Psionics- The Minds that Summon UFO's is the long-awaited debut feature film by Patrick Scott Armstrong, well-known already in the UFO community as the presenter of the Vetted YouTube channel. Patrick has been working on this project for several years and has provided behind the scenes commentaries on his channel for all that time. He has travelled long distances across the United States and interviewed many people, including me! Rather than focusing on the usual stories of congressmen, whistleblowers and hearings, which is the more conventional UFO documentary these days, Patrick addresses the phenomenon of personal contact by visiting skywatchers, contactees, experiencers and those who study the consciousness connection to UFO's and aliens. The word "psionics" is a recent popular neologism, although it can be found in limited use from 1952; but it means something that has been delved into throughout the modern UFO era. It connects to psychical research and remote viewing. John Keel was an early pioneer of this field of study and that mission has been carried forward by many people in the modern world, including Jake Barber, a military helicopter pilot who recently made an amazing announcement that he had been involved in crash-retrievals. During this mission he has had telepathic communication with the object, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/01/egg-ufo.html. He has since founded an organization called Skywatcher that does exactly what its name says. It has been the subject of a News Nation feature. During these events, usually at night, objects appear, most often luminous; and they perform manoeuvres and respond to the participants' voices or light signals. The best known method is Dr Steven Greer's "CE5 protocols". Skywatchers claim the viewers' mental attitude is a major factor. Positive thoughts attract more aliens. This adds to the idea that ET's communicate directly through the brain and can read our minds. Some places are what are known as "portal areas", like some places in Arizona, where a particular geology might be perfect for generating electricity which has an effect on the presence of ET's. Sometimes the people record strange noises too. These sounds are very similar to the ones picked up in English crop circles. Sometimes they allegedly contact us directly through walkie-talkies. This is not unlike the EVP or "phone calls from the dead" mystery. But aliens are alive and well, so why are they doing the same thing? Patrick and his assistant Gino try remote viewing and spoon bending, as I have done. It's strange how this also connects to extraterrestrial beings. Patrick was also accompanied on these expeditions by Ron James who has just made his own UFO themed movie, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2026/05/hpanwo-show-632-ron-james.html.

Patrick's quest led him to last year's Contact in the Desert which I also attended, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/ben-in-desert-2.html. He interviewed me there and a brief segment can be seen about seven minutes into the main feature; I also returned the favour at the same meeting, see: https://youtu.be/SsvSlRRR4sI?si=TG7AyZQdF4iYVm6V&t=2006. The film also features one of the many posthumous appearances of Nick Pope still waiting in numerous film cans. Patrick came across many people at the conference who were happy to report their experiences to him. Patrick is very cautious and rational the whole time. Psionics is essentially a scientific investigation and he even advises all the viewers to try these techniques for ourselves; and anybody can do this. We don't need the help or approval of the government. He interviews Mick West to learn about the skeptic side of the issue. However, Patrick remains open-minded and impressed by some of what he encounters. UAP interaction can have very positive benefits to a person's life. One man he met was healed of a drug addiction and criminal behaviour by his skywatching activity. UFO's are also nothing new. In a remote part of Utah, Patrick and Gino's guide show them ancient Amerindian rock art a thousand years old that appears to depict bizarre beings in the air and strange lights. They even carved one of the rocks into a seat in just the right place to observe the sky. What's clear in Patrick's new movie, and in many others, is that UFO's are far more complicated than we might previously have thought. It may not be as simple as creatures like us, but from another planet, visiting us; or at least not in all examples of the phenomenon. There seems to be a distinct overlap between UFO's and the rest of the paranormal. We are faced with a lot of contradictory evidence. Aliens have this aetheric element to themselves, like ghosts, who can appear and disappear or become invisible etc; but they are also obviously flesh-and-blood organisms that are closely equivalent to terrestrial animals. They make footprints where they walk and when they die they leave behind a corpse. Their vehicles are constructed of known metallic or ceramic elements, albeit with extraterrestrial isotopic ratios, and do seem to be mechanical in some way. What's the solution to this conundrum? Well, unfortunately there's still a very long way to go before we find one. Even Disclosure probably will not give us all the answers because I doubt the secret government has completely solved this mystery either. Hopefully time will tell. Psionics- The Minds that Summon UFO's has a somewhat poignant subtext for anybody who has followed Patrick on social media for a long time. This project took him several years and so much of the material could have been filmed as early as 2024. So we are seeing the last ever historical document of Patrick pre-backslapper, before he took his "second red pill". In the last few months Patrick's output has changed considerably. The man himself has reached the point, of which I sympathize, where the deficiencies of the Disclosure movement became too much to tolerate. As a result he has become cynical and bitter, even quite misanthropic towards many of the researchers and commentators whom most people rely on to keep us informed; especially those who are admittedly making money off their activities. For those of us who still maintain some positivity and patience with this process, it's getting harder and harder to justify our dogged optimism; and persuade detractors like Patrick not to quit. In my view, something is still rolling along, often behind the scenes. I have explained why many times, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html. Ross Coulthart has a typically Australian bluntness towards his critics; that this is not some kind of entertainment for #UFOTwitter, it's a serious business and people directly uninvolved are not always entitled to know what's going on. If Patrick is proved right I will feel disappointed, but if I am proved right, Patrick will miss out on all the fun! He has uninvited himself from the party. Psionics- The Minds that Summon UFO's is now available on a house site for a reasonable fee, see: https://www.psionics.film. The basic payment also grants you access to the extended reel with longer form interviews with some of those featured... but not me this time.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2018/06/skywatching-in-devon-2.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2022/08/skywatching-triangle.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2021/06/pentyrch-skywatch.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones Live at Unite The Tribes

 

I will be speaking at the Unite The Tribes event organized by Nathan Lucius of Truthseekers Teesside. The conference will take place on Saturday the 26th and Sunday the 27th of September this year. The venue is Long Compton Village Hall, Long Compton, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire CV36-5JS. Despite its rural location there are good transport links to Chipping Norton, Stratford-upon-Avon, Witney and Oxford. My fellow speakers include Mark Devlin, John Hamer and Mark Byford the "Bowler Hat Farmer". The ticket price is £70 for the weekend and £40 for one day. Tickets available here now: https://ko-fi.com/nathan_lucius/shop/eventtickets.
See here for a HPANWO Radio interview with Nathan: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2023/10/hpanwo-show-524-podcast-nathan-lucius.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones on Explaining the Unexplainable

 

I have been featured on the Explaining the Unexplainable show on the W.E.B.B. Radio Network with Bishop Joshua Sparks and Mercedez Lucke Benedict. Subjects discussed include: Bigfoot, becoming a believer in mysterious things, Disclosure Day and much much more.
See here for the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWX6sThXEok.
See here for a HPANWO Radio interview with Mercedez: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2024/02/hpanwo-show-535-podcast-mercedez-lucke.html.

Neil and Ben at Changing Times

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/03/ben-emlyn-jones-at-changing-times.html.
The recording of the event with Neil Ward and myself is now available. Many thanks for Neil for the filming, editing and production. Many thanks for Andy Thomas and everybody else at Changing Times for hosting this event.
See here for the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNT2AaViOAg.

A Weekend in Politics

 

They say the political world stops for the weekend, but obviously not this one. I'm sorry I didn't write about these updates sooner, but I've been away at the Bases conference. The unflushable turd is finally round the U-bend; yes, Keir Starmer has resigned as prime minister. He will remain in office until Labour chooses a new leader, probably when Parliament returns from their summer break. This is a complex process, far more so than with the Conservatives, and it has happened far less often. There has not been a contested Labour leadership change since 2015; and only once before during a government, when Jim Callaghan succeeded Harold Wilson. Two-Tier Starlin's announcement followed the Makerfield by-election that was won by Andy Burnham, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2026/06/hpanwo-show-635-makerfield-election.html. This is a disappointing result, in my view; although Sargon of Akkad is pleased Restore Britain came third right on the polling prediction. I had hoped for better, but maybe my expectations were too high. Labour did not only win they actually doubled their majority. It could be this is just residual Northern tribalism, after all the Makerfield area has been a Labour stronghold since the party was founded in 1900; but it could also be because the official rightwing opposition in the shape of Reform UK has not won the public's trust. Good; it does not deserve it. At the same time fewer people than was necessary dared to leap over the chasm and back Restore. At the same time a few Restorers still voted tactically for Reform, despite the amazing opportunity Restore presented in Makerfield. The fears about vote splitting were unfounded; it would have made no difference to the outcome. Reform was polled to lose by a narrow margin, but in the end they only got 15,000; this is a huge failure for Farage's party. Hopefully this will be a lesson learned for those closet Loweists. A tactical vote for Reform is jumping into a lifeboat that is also sinking. There are more seaworthy alternatives currently paddling away from the Parliamentary Titanic. I suspect this "Reform-or-bust" delusion kept a lot of the electorate away from the polls and hampered the success or Restore. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehu6C3jK9bw.

Another lesson the people did not seem to understand was that their constituency has been exploited by the Westminster elite, the gaggle of suited bureaucrats, mostly Southerners, who are the nation's demolition crew. The man they elected, Josh Simons, has been removed, with his permission, and therefore their decision has been spat on; and for what? For a greater national and international political agenda. Andy Burnham is being considered to be on some sort of hero's journey, a Paul Atreides who is destined to save the Labour Party. It is extraordinary to think that a man who was not even an MP until last Friday could be prime minister within two months. What's more this outcome is being discussed in the media as a certainty, as if it were all planned from the start, before Josh Simons'.... sorry! Lord Simons'... resignation. It's as if the leadership contest is a mere formality, a foregone conclusion. This displays a major problem with the British political system that most other countries don't suffer. We, the people, cannot elect our head of government. They are merely selected by the majority party in the House of Commons. Other nations, such as the USA, have a separate election to appoint their head of executive power, in this case it is President Trump. I agree with Jacob Rees-Mogg, election to public office is a sacred duty and is not something to be bought, sold, bartered or traded for the fools' gold of more widespread power struggles. If I were Josh Simons I would never have quit. The party could then expel me; fine, I would sit on as an independent MP. Another good point Jacob makes is that this situation really does require a general election, even though it is not constitutionally necessary. This transformation is too radical and there is too much public disapproval. What will happen if... when Burnham gets into number 10? Nothing will improve, that's for sure. Probably most people won't even notice the difference. The one bit of good news from the Makerfield by-election is that the Tories came in just above Count Binface... By the way, Happy Brexit Day, ten years on!
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-portal.html.

What UFOlogists Say about Disclosure Day

 

In my recent review of the new film Disclosure Day, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/06/disclosure-day-film-review.html, I did an analysis of the mainstream critics' pronouncements of Spielberg's summer blockbuster. I deliberately avoided all reviews and interviews until after I had seen the film so I could make up my own mind. When I read the various movie columnists I saw that opinion was very divided. Then reviews started coming in from the UFO community. This took a few days longer because, unlike official journalists, we do not get invited to press previews. I was surprised, and a bit dismayed, to find that generally the UFO-osphere regards the film much less favourably than the mainstream media; and that is quite rare. I think a lot of it was disappointment. Our hopes were so high for Disclosure Day and we were hyping it up to be some kind of miracle. I myself tried to keep that instinct in check, and in my opinion it lived up to my expectations. That wasn't the only reason though; I suspect the way many UFOlogists have become more downhearted lately also contributed. (I'll avoid links to the following because there would be too many.) I was not surprised to find that the backslappers tended to be the ones who were most anti. They took their usual cynical "It's all a grift!" line. The skeptics were, of course, even more opposed. PZ Myers called it "mush-brained mystical bullshit through and through." His video is called I saw Disclosure Day so you don't have to. The thumbnail is the well-known image of Scanlon sitting in the dive chair with his gum-shield and grimace and the words: "This is what I looked like when I was watching Disclosure Day." One thing I did not expect was the hostility from the ultra-woo contingent; the believers in blue chickens, time travel and Antarctic temples etc. They all hated it. I recall one lady, whom I will not name, being furious at the idea of empathy towards the greys because she regards all greys as evil. "If I see a grey I'll kick its arse!" she hissed. Not all aliens are good guys by any means, but to make such a sweeping judgement of all greys is totally false and ignorant. Another woman, somebody I know and usually like, also took a very boorish line. She said she'd read a load of reviews and decided it was a total psyop so she decided to avoid it. Why can't she make up her own mind?

Condemnation is not universal though; Ross Coulthart, Dave Hodrien Andrew McGrillen and Richard Dolan enjoyed it. I think those with a more widespread interest, hopeful feelings about Disclosure and a more positive attitude are suited for getting the most out of this film. There are exceptions though. Surprisingly Bryce Zabel was not impressed; he felt it was not credible and too much like an action movie. Darcy Weir had mixed feelings about it. Steven Greenstreet astounded me. I assumed he would hate the film, but he actually had a lot of positive words to add along with his predictable scorn. I actually even agreed with some of his points. He said that the bad guys were too incompetent, and that's true. See how easy it was for Daniel to steal one of their cars and how they fell for the trick when he and Jane dumped it over the cliff. Boyd couldn't shoot straight during the train scene even though the range was almost point-blank. Why are Wardex such a threat to the truth coming out when they are that amateurish? I found it interesting to read what my fellow conspiratorial questers thought of Disclosure Day. Would it surprise you? I think it did me... I have yet to find any review from anybody as pro-DD as my own.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2008/06/critics.html.