The World After Amazon

 

I've come across a literary project called The World After Amazon. I found it via Cory Doctorow whose book I recently reviewed, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-masque-of-red-death.html. It brings together thirteen employees or ex-employees of Amazon who have written short stories. In this way they can express themselves in a manner they otherwise never could. Amazon is truly the mega-corporation of mega-corporations. It dominates the retail world like no other organization in history. Like many giant corporate multinationals it often recruits the poorest people it can find and pays them the lowest wages possible. Because of this, I was not surprised to find that all the stories have a futuristic dystopian setting and rather grim themes such as societal collapse, anti-humanism, cyberpunk technocracy and ecocide. As always, futuristic fiction describes the present more than it predicts the actual future. Some of the authors are anonymous, presumably because they might face repercussions at work as a result of their involvement in the project which has an irreverent policy towards Amazon, to say the least. All the entries in the anthology are worth reading, but I think the best by far is Thalia in Albios by Cory Gluck. It is about a young woman called Thalia who lives in a post-apocalyptic city which consists of shanty towns of poverty in which there are little pockets of opulence, gated communities where the wealthy live in seclusion. Thalia works as a maid for one of the rich households and her employer is an older woman called Linda who lives in a mansion with her family. She is a very two-faced person who treats Thalia either with kindness or cruelty dispending on her mood. Sometimes she reprimands Thalia for damages and messes caused by her children that are not Thalia's fault. This story, and some of the others, are very revealing about what it is like to be a low status citizen in a harsh and conformist world; something that really spoke to my heart, being a former hospital porter. (Have I mentioned that before? Maybe once or twice perhaps.) The anthology is available as a free ebook or audio-book, see: https://afteramazon.world. However, you can buy a paperback copy if you prefer. Ironically, this can also be purchased on Amazon.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/12/leave-world-behind-review.html.
And: https://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2024/05/everything-for-everyone-piw-in-fiction.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/02/doomsday-bunkers.html.

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.

Online Safety Act goes Live

 

The above is what you will see if you try to access the Kiwi Farms website from the UK. This is because the "Online Safety Act 2023" is now law. Starting off as the "Online Harms Bill" this monstrosity has been grinding its way through Parliament for several years. It was blocked by the House of Lords over the "legal but still harmful" clause; but I knew they wouldn't give up. (I won't hear a word against the House of Lords, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-starmerlution-continues.html!) As I predicted, the rise of Starmer would lead to a rereading of the bill and it did. They've changed the name, but it still has the same basic message and the same effect. Obviously the government don't give a toss about the public's safety or any harms we might come to. This is simply their excuse; they could hardly admit the truth and call it the "Internet Censorship Act" could they? The act compels online platform to accept a duty of care in which they take personal responsibility for content posted by their users and will face a massive fine if it breaches a set of parameters under the headings of: "child sexual abuse, controlling or coercive behaviour, extreme sexual violence, extreme pornography, fraud, racially or religiously aggravated public order offences, inciting violence, illegal immigration and people smuggling, promoting or facilitating suicide, intimate image abuse, selling illegal drugs or weapons, sexual exploitation, foreign interference, terrorism, hate offences." What strikes me about that list is that most of what is on it is already illegal and there are already laws in place to deal with them. The exceptions being "intimate image abuse" which I take it means what is known as "revenge porn", publishing private images of somebody during a miscarriage of romance which were meant to be kept secret. As for "illegal immigration and people smuggling", the government themselves are the worst offenders of that. And what does "foreign interference" refer to? Russians I assume; but they are already being blamed for everything anyhow. The key point is "hate offences" because, as we've seen, that could mean almost anything. I've seen very benign phrases such as "white people are not evil" being designated as hate speech. The emphasis on protecting children has been repeated again and again throughout the media, for example it's in the title of this BBC article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68225707. If the government gave a damn about children it would do something about the nonces in its own ranks. Obviously this is meant to head off any dissent at the pass with moral blackmail: "What? You oppose this? Don't you care about children then?"

It's telling that the big social media companies have been behaving for many years now as if this law were already in place. I myself have fallen foul of it, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/08/video-banned.html and: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/08/you-know-what-portal-banned.html. It's as if somebody had a word in their ear to say: "Hang in there. This will all be in black-and-white soon." OFCOM will not use this law to keep anybody safe. It will be applied selectively to silence outspoken critics of government activities. So far no perverts have been arrested or shut down. All that has happened it that forums for cycling and hamster keepers have had to close; I kid you not! Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STi8t2OWkr0. This could affect HPANWO. Certainly I am the kind of user who threatens official narratives. I'm not sure how I would access websites in such a scenario. Logging in normally identifies my location in the world. I hope there is a way round that or else I won't be able to add new content to my alt-tech pages, Substack, Minds, Odysee etc. The good news is we still have our beloved alt-techies who are the best in the world; and they now include Elon Musk. He is opposing this, as is Andrew Torba of Gab, see: https://x.com/BasedTorba/status/1904947417637634176. Sites filtered off the UK web can still be seen using a VPN; I find the Tor browser a very good option. I expect there will be some way to remain a content creator even under this tyranny. I'll continue in any way I can. This is an IT arms race and the bad guys have made an advancement, but the good guys will catch up.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2016/12/is-hpanwo-fake-news.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2020/05/ive-been-zucked.html.

Spiral in the Sky

Yesterday evening there was an info explosion on social media about a strange apparition being reported in the sky. Photographs and descriptions flooded the cyberways, including the one above. The phenomenon looks slightly different depending on the location and probably the type of camera used, but all of them depict a glowing two-barred spiral object. It was visible from most of the British Isles and a few other places in Western Europe. It appeared just before 8 PM and lasted a few minutes; then it faded. People near where I live reported it, but I unfortunately never saw it myself. I was inside. My first thought was that it resembled the Norway Spiral a similar phenomenon that appeared above Norway 2009, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyWrxY15s6Y. There are other examples from around the world; Africa, China etc. It took a few hours, but the mainstream news eventually began reporting on it. The prevailing explanation for the phenomenon is that it was caused when a SpaceX rocket stage began venting excess fuel which froze solid in the coldness of the upper atmosphere. It glowed because of sun and moonlight hitting the ice crystals. Source: https://www.gbnews.com/science/glowing-spiral-white-spinning-orb-uk-sky-met-office. The spiral pattern is caused by the movement of the reusable rocket as it returns to its launch pad on earth. This explanation was provided by the Met Office alone; at the time of writing SpaceX have yet to comment. There was a launch a few hours earlier. A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off on a classified government contracted mission; my guess is to deploy a reconnaissance satellite. Source: https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/03/24/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-national-security-satellite-for-nro-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral/.

This theory has been elevated to the status of fact instantaneously. Actually all the skeptics I know on social media were speculating in the same fashion even though they had no information at all. This is a typical example of the "clown's day off" fallacy, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/10/calvine-clowns-day-off.html. I'm quite surprised that there is no reference at all to the possibility of this spectacle before the spiral actually appeared. This is uncharacteristic for SpaceX. Generally Elon never misses an opportunity to draw public attention to his products. This was the wonder of the Starlink satellites. Being able to see something artificial in space from the earth's surface is a rare treat. Oddly enough there was a similar cover story for the Norway Spiral. It was apparently a missile test that went wrong. Russia launched a Buleva ballistic missile from a submarine in the Barents Sea, without a warhead of course, and its engine failed causing the missile to go into a tailspin. The spiral was caused by its exhaust flying out from the rotating rocket engine in an effect similar to a Catherine wheel firework. Some time later more information emerged that showed that a missile failure could not possibly have produced that effect. If these spirals are not rockets then what are they? I don't know. Some people have claimed that they are "portals", the entrances or exits of wormholes in spacetime. These either form naturally or can be generated synthetically by advanced technology in the hands of an extraterrestrial, or extra-dimensional, civilization. As outlandish as that sounds, some dedicated researchers have gathered evidence for it, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2022/05/programme-464-podcast-dave-altman-and.html. Whether this spiral can be included in this area of research is more than I know or anybody knows. Certainly I've seen nobody yet claiming that flying saucers dropped out of the spiral. I'm just kicking myself for being cosied up indoors at the time and not catching it myself. Maybe next time I'll be luckier.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2015/10/sky-city-in-china.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2015/04/city-in-sky.html.

Paranormal- Britain's Last Witch

 

A couple of weeks ago, my friend Margaret Hahn told me that the BBC were about to broadcast a TV documentary about her grandmother, Helen Duncan. I was interested to watch it and see what it was like seeing as I've researched this case in such detail myself; see the background link below. All four episodes dropped on the same day. BBC productions on paranormal subjects vary in quality and so I started watching with an open mind, waiting to see which way this one would go. The format and style is very typical of the BBC. It has a very dramatic feel to it, almost fictional, with a lot of visual and sound effects. It has some quaint features as well, such as archaic technology to give a sense of the past; VHS video, cassette tapes and CRT televisions. The presenter is the central protagonist in the drama and the subject matter is described primarily through her own personal journey of discovery. She is the token "solo intrepid young female", another BBC cliché, called Sian Eleri, who is best known as a radio host. Although she is white she is a Welsh-speaking Welshwoman, so probably that gives her just enough oppression cred to push her over the threshold of acceptability. Another standard BBC trope was the very predictable white-male-bashing of Harry Price. The programme states that he subjected Helen to a full body search while omitting the fact that his nurse Mary McGinley actually did that. This was something Helen not only volunteered to undergo; she insisted on it, desperately wanting to prove herself genuine. Despite this, and although I don't countenance smearing his character, I'm not a fan of Harry Price. As I've detailed before, he himself misrepresented Helen Duncan and published a fraudulent case study about her. The programme regurgitates the ridiculous regurgitation of cheesecloth theory. They don't mention the review by Will Goldsten of the Magic Circle. For the sake of balance, of course I don't object to them including the skeppers. Sian does some interviews with skeptics in Callander and also Prof. Richard Wiseman. I honestly wished our debate opponents would say something original and interesting, but they didn't. Wiseman said what he always has done. Some of the people in Helen's old hometown were openly hostile to her. "Good riddance!" said a lady who runs the local bookshop. The claims made about HMS Barham etc are nothing new. Dr Kate Cherrell makes an appearance, somebody I also have interviewed, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2025/02/hpanwo-show-577-podcast-kate-cherrell.html. The Christian church has made comments about spiritualist communication. The real dead cannot communicate and nobody should attempt to; and they also reject it as something dangerous, possibly leaving you exposed to demons. Another of Helen's relatives warns of this; saying that you have to close to the door to the Spiritworld and never leave it open. That's actually a real hazard, but in no way does it justify alarmism. Responsible and sincere people who get involved with spiritualism are perfectly safe, in my view, and have a lot to gain. Against a priest's advice Sian decides to go to a séance herself. I've also done that, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/03/jayson-harrington-live-event.html.

There was some new information in this documentary. As a child Helen predicted the death of a local doctor in a car crash, something that actually came true and Sian Eleri finds a newspaper report about it from when it happened in 1907. She then goes on to interview Margaret. Helen's granddaughter has always been the medium's most vocal and passionate defender, having run the pardon campaign for over forty years. In the background link below you'll find details of that. The part of the programme I was waiting for was the séance. Sian goes to the same spiritualist centre in the Netherlands that was included in Leslie Kean's documentary Surviving Death, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-mind-set-podcast-programme-436.html. I was quite excited to see what would happen, as Sian was too very clearly. She was also apprehensive. I can sympathize with her, having felt a similar concern when I went to Jayson Harrington's event, see above. She is open to the idea that she might see something genuinely supernatural. The service is different from Jayson's, and indeed Helen's, in that it is held in total darkness without even a dim red light. Margaret Hahn revealed something in the programme she only previously told me privately, that she had been in contact with somebody claiming to be connected to the intelligence services who gave her vital information about her grandmother. There's also a recorded interview with Chief Constable Arthur West from a radio programme in 1979; this is another new piece of information for me. It's an astonishing discussion because in it West essentially confesses. A pair of solicitors who are campaigning to get Helen a pardon, along with others like her who have long passed away, believe that there was a conspiracy to crowbar Helen into prison, but they don't accept the element that I and others have noted, that there were those in authority who didn't think she was being used by enemy spies; they thought she was a real medium. The programme concludes appropriately with the description of Helen's demise soon after the police raid. Sian asks "how could she get two burns from that?" Well, the medium at the Dutch centre explained it to her earlier, so does Kate Cherrell. The series ends dramatically with Sian attending a second séance attempting to channel Helen Duncan herself. Paranormal- Britain's Last Witch was not perfect, but it definitely was not as bad as it could have been; as bad as some documentaries about the paranormal indeed are. It was reasonably factual. I don't know how all the participants were treated, but I think Margaret was represented fairly. Despite this, I'll ask her about what was edited out. I sense that mainstream media publications about the esoteric and occult are slowly improving. Maybe that's a sign of good times to come; I hope so. The two-hour four-part series can be watched here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00298xz/paranormal-britains-last-witch-1-dark-premonitions.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/helen-duncan-portal.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones and The Crafty Nihilist 5

 

I have been featured on a livestream by The Crafty Nihilist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6uyNU6xs9c.
An informal panel featuring myself talking to The Crafty Nihilist. This was a spontaneous interview which I "jumped on", but sometimes those are the best ones. I had to leave to prepare for my own livestream and so my exit was more abrupt than usual. I meant no offence and the Crafties have made an extra short about it, see: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yJD43s6NYE8.
See here for my previous appearance on the Crafty Nihilist's channel: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/01/divide-and-rule.html.

Oxford Anti-Racist Protest

 

I was in Oxford city centre today when I came across a poster advertising an event in Cornmarket Street. I recall seeing this poster around town several times over the last few weeks, but never planned to attend it; however I decided spontaneously that I would check it out. It was a street protest by a coalition of several organizations united by the mission to "stop racism!" and "stop fascism!" This is an issue I have discussed many times and I won't repeat all the points I've made here; you can read about them in the background links below. The event was advertised as a "march", meaning a mobile demonstration, but it was in fact just a static protest beside St Michael at the Northgate church, opposite KFC and Itsu with lots of Saturday crowds continuously walking past. There were about fifty people there and the different groups had stalls on both sides of the pedestrianized street; the Socialist Workers' Party, Revolutionary Communist Party and a few trades union, including my old one, Unison. There was also a free Palestine exhibition. The protesters were not what I was expecting. I had a popular image of them as all being young students, but they were in fact people of all ages; mostly white, but with a few brown and black. Several wore traditional Muslim clothing. They had a row of placards without poles set up to look like police "wanted" posters. They read "WANTED- FOR RACISM!" and then with the name of the person underneath. These included Elon Musk, shown in the famous still of him supposedly making a Roman salute. Other names included Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Tommy Robinson and a few people I don't know much about such as Shri Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India. Even though he is, of course, Indian, he is listed as a racist for his alleged anti-Muslim bigotry. Another person I have heard of, but know very little about was Alice Weidel. She is the leader of the AFD "Alternative for Germany" party; and she's likely to become the next deputy chancellor of that country. Strangely enough one of the mugshots was of Javier Milei, president of Argentina. What has he done to be considered a racist? Mind you, it doesn't take much, if anything real, to justify that slur according to those who hurl it. I didn't make myself known to these people and took a few random photos of the church to make myself appear to them like a typical tourist. I don't know if any of them recognized me; if they did they didn't show it. I didn't even get any weird looks as I stood a few feet away watching, taking photos and making notes. They handed out some flyers to passers-by including me, and you can see them below. I think it's ironic they call Nigel Farage a racist when he has recently infuriated many of his former supporters by accusing other people of that, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/03/nigels-nasty-side.html.

They began by shouting a series of rhyming slogans and chants. These included: "Refugees welcome here!" and "Black and white, unite and fight, stop Reform UK!" They've been using those for years, but a few were more original: "Brick by brick, wall by wall, racist borders have to fall!" and "No borders, no nations! Stop the deportations!" Then there were a series of speakers and performances. One of the speakers was a city councillor called Jabu Nala-Hartley who hails from South Africa. She described the anti-Apartheid struggle in glorious and romantic terms, carefully omitting what has happened to the white people in that country since. Another speaker took a dim view of Nigel Farage because he said that the Southport protesters had "legitimate concerns". Why is that a criticism? Do they not? Is having our children attacked and killed in a hate rampage not a reason to be concerned? There was only one heckler, which shows how staid and conformist Oxford is. A trio of young men walked past and one shouted: "No, Farage is a fuckin' ledge!" One of the protesters just replied with: "fuck you!" There was a very loud protester who was clearly on the same side as the anti-racists, but he was sitting in the verandah area of Itsu yelling very loudly. He was obviously drunk. This protest was not what I had expected, not just because of the participants' age. A common stereotype is that they are a bunch of rabid haters who despise white people, men and heterosexuals. How much you are hated depends on how many intersections of evil you have... and I am afflicted by all three! Having listened to them attentively for a whole hour I actually suspect that some of them don't literally feel that way, especially the musicians and rappers. They truly believe that a better world can be built by changing it in the way they want, removing so-called "racism" and "fascism"; and that when this is done we will all bask in a utopian paradise, and there will be no retaliations at all against white straight males. All they will do is remove this alleged "privilege" and "white supremacy" people like me supposedly enjoy; and then we will all live happily ever after. History teaches us that this is impossible. In the past, whenever people who feel demographic hatred take power that society enters a very dark place indeed, a cesspit of atrocity and genocide. I could give you an historical example... but you've just thought of one, haven't you? However, I truly do not believe most of these people are evil. They are sincere in their opinions and vision for the future. Sadly, that does not alter the effects such a dystopia would have. Below are more images from the event.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/political-correctness-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/01/donald-trump-portal.html.

Pyramid Underground Works

 

The title of this post is not very good, but I can't think of a better one right now. Some information has emerged that there has been a new discovery under the Pyramid of Khafre. This one of the three pyramids of Giza, the three biggest and best known pyramids of Egypt. Khafre is less famous than its neighbour the Pyramid of Khufu or Great Pyramid, but it is almost as big and is very distinctive because some of its limestone cladding has survived in a cap around its peak, while on the Khufu and Mencaure pyramids this has completely worn away. The report is that a team of archaeologists have discovered some objects under the pyramid that are so incredible that they defy credulity, even mine. The discovery consists of eight gigantic cylindrical structures positioned in two rows of four under the pyramid. Their tops are at the base of the pyramid and they descend two thousand feet into the bedrock. To give you a sense of scale, the Pyramid of Khafre itself is 448 feet tall. There are also spiral structures running along the outside of the cylinders like threads on a screw. At the bottom of the cylinders are two cuboids or oblong shaped objects 260 feet across. Along with the subterranean anomalies, there are also five features inside the pyramid itself near its base that resemble the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid. I wonder who is buried in those, if indeed anybody is. In fact there have been questions throughout the history of Egyptology over whether this was a tomb at all. When I first heard this story I rejected it as too amazing to be true. This was not helped by the most popular source, a TikToker called @Funnyoldeworld. Her presentation style is not a reason to be skeptical of her per se, but she does come across as a little overdosed on youthful exuberance, see: https://www.tiktok.com/@funnyoldeworld/video/7483482367852629270.

However, after a period of time had elapsed and the usual debunkers were silent I returned to the subject and found some other news sources. It turns out that the two Italian scientists involved are real, Corrado Malanga from the University of Pisa and Filippo Biondi from the University of Strathclyde. (The latter is still Italian and not Scottish.) Their research papers are real too, but have yet to be published in full. They used a method called Synthetic Aperture Radar Doppler Tomography to detect these objects. You might say that radio waves cannot penetrate solid objects, and that's true; but the discovery came from analyzing tiny movements of the surface monuments due to seismic waves, small earthquakes. In this way they could build up a sonograph of the world beneath the ground under the Giza Plateau. This is a different method to the "muography" used by Operation Scan Pyramids that I reported on a few years ago, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-corridor-in-pyramid.html, but it can deliver similar data. There has apparently been a press conference by the scientific team. This was a private event and all the dialogue was in Italian, but there is some amateur footage taken of it and translators are currently at work. We will know more when the full paper and transcript are published. I'm surprised to see that it's not only the skeppers who are currently mute on this matter; so is Graham Hancock. His feed is infested with comments by hundreds of people atting him and demanding his take on the subject. I assume his DM's are similar. However, Graham has yet to say a word about it. Is this a bad sign? Not necessarily. Graham may just want to wait and see. He has been so badly burned before by the trolls and flamers that he has become very cautious in recent years. He likes to "bulletproof" everything, to use his own terms. I can't help feeling excited by this and will be looking out eagerly for updates. Obviously if this is true it will turn our vision of the past on its head. Who built such an underground working? Or what; where they even human? When was it built and for what purpose? How long ago was it built? What else lies hidden under our feet?

JFK Files Release

 

President Trump's executive order number 14176 is due for another harvest. I must admit not to have been overly enthused after the anticlimax of the Epstein files, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2025/03/third-rail-radio-programme-201.html. As it happens his disclosure team, led by Anna Paulina Luna and Chairman Comer, have arranged for the declassification of 63,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of President John F Kennedy. So far 50,000 are published and more are coming tomorrow. I've not had time to go through them all personally, but a number of professional journalists are in the process of doing so, for example Ross Coulthart. He has been up all night reading them; I admire his tenacity, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqMkhr5UffA. So far there are no rumours breaking out of anything explosive within these copious pages. What's more some of the documents are redacted; this is primarily over data protection issues. You can download them all here: https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release-2025. So far the picture looks very like it does with the Epstein files; copies of papers already released before or material leaked to the media a long time ago. The evidence that Oswald didn't do it or that there was more then one gunman remain, as do all the other suspicious elements; but if these details were planned and orchestrated on written records then these lie deeper within the national security state. I respect what President Trump and his team have taken it upon themselves to do, but I did say at the time that it would not be easy. I'll report back when there is more information, should anything worth reporting on emerge.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2023/11/jfk-portal.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones and Rin Michaelis 18

 

I have been interviewed again by Rin Michaelis on her video channel: https://rumble.com/v6qpvw4-is-donald-trump-an-accelerationist.html.
Subjects discussed include: What's Trump playing at?, Why did a man climb Big Ben?, What's going on in Israel? and much much more.
See here for my previous appearance on Rin's channel: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/01/ben-emlyn-jones-and-rin-michaelis-17_26.html.
See here for Rin's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RinMichaelis/featured.
And her Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/RinMichaelis.
And her Twitter: https://twitter.com/RINMichaelis.

I'm a Why Files Supporter

 

A lot of social media content creators include a paywall. Most commonly they have a basic amount of material that they publish for free and then a selected annexe that they sell, usually for a periodic fee. The fees tend to be low, just a few pounds a month. I respect dedicated content creators, obviously I am one myself; and I'd like to support them all, but I can't afford to. I decided my budget could cover two of them and one is The Why Files. The Why Files is a series of videos, primarily on YouTube in which the host AJ Gentile describes a particular paranormal, UFOlogical or conspiratorial phenomenon; each episode is dedicated to a single subject. Technically the show is very sophisticated, with video clips, images and sound effects. AJ himself clearly makes an effort to be balanced and present as many perspectives as possible. He is a calm and professional broadcaster. However, he has a co-host who is very different. Always sitting next to him is a goldfish in a bowl called Hecklefish Moriarti. Hecklefish is really the id of AJ, the believing side of the host with all rational filters removed. He yells and cheers through the presentations, constantly interrupting AJ and making jokes in his brash New York accent. AJ tries to do the show while putting up with Hecklefish and the interaction between the two is very entertaining. Source: https://www.youtube.com/@TheWhyFiles. If you visit The Why Files' Patreon page you can join at various levels, all named after fish. I chose "Koi", the most popular tariff. If you buy a year's subscription in one go there is a discount. Supporters are given certain privileges, such as seeing the new uploads early, access to a special Discord community and private hangouts with AJ and the crew every so often. At the end of the show all the supporters are shown in the credits and you'll see my name there. I feel proud to be an official supporter of this project. What I love about The Why Files is its nostalgia. It takes me back to my own past. I've been a conspiracy theorist for over thirty years now, but my feelings about the Conspirasphere and the world I see through it have changed. The Why Files hearkens back to an era when these subjects were fun instead of frightening. You may be wondering about whether I plan to set up my own paywall. The answer is no; but then again I already have one, of sorts. My books. If you want to support me financially and enjoy additional HPANWO-esque information, simply buy them, see below.
Roswell Rising is here!: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2016/08/roswell-rising-is-here.html.
Roswell Revealed is here!: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2017/10/roswell-revealed-is-here.html.
Roswell Redeemed is here!: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2018/12/roswell-redeemed-is-here.html.

Icke vs Brand

 

David Icke has Tweeted at Russell Brand in a manner that the receiver calls an "attack". David says: "When Russell Brand calls himself the 'independent media' the words should stick in his throat. He is a fully-dependent Trump-Musk-MAGA arselicker and professional shill. Here he quotes Alex Karp, co-founder of Palantir, the intelligence and military surveillance tech supplier, in support of his masters and says Karp is dropping 'truth bombs'. This is the Karp who has bragged that Palantir kills people. Clearly Mr Brand has no shame. Karp is on the steering committee of the GLOBALIST Bilderberg Group along with fellow Palantir founder Peter Thiel, the funder of JD Vance's political career and orchestrater of the AI dystopia via Trump with his friends like Elon Musk. Brand claims to be 'anti-globalist' just like Vance. You had better laugh or you would weep. Brand says in effect that Democrats can't criticise billionaire Musk taking over government when George Soros supported them, thus perpetuating the diversionary left-right puppet show when it's a one-party state. NEITHER unelected billionaire should have the power over government that they do. Try that for size Mr Brand. Ah, but if you spoke the truth and exposed the puppet show you would not be able to arsekiss Trump and Musk which gets you invites to Mar-a-Lago and oh, so much besides. Not only are you not the 'independent media', Mr Brand, with the virtue-signalling fly on your forehead. You are an insult to those that are. If you take this guy seriously as a 'truth-teller' you have really lost the plot." Source: https://x.com/davidicke/status/1898865927522799969. Russell has responded, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RU3DQCWhbY.

It's ironic that I am not a Russell Brand fan, in fact I generally hold David Icke in far higher esteem. David has made many criticisms of Russell in the past that are perfectly legitimate. "Walk the talk or walk away!" as he once said in one of his live shows; I can't remember which one. This was after Russell gave an interview to Kerrang Radio in which it was clear he was only interested drawing fame and attention to himself for his own purposes. However, this time I find myself agreeing more with Brand. It's not so much David's actual statements about Russell, it's the bitter and scathing tone he uses. He's really starting to sound like a backslapper. I've always disagreed with David on a lot of things and I still do. I know very well that David does not believe Trump is a genuine alternative and thinks he is just another insider. As you know, I believe otherwise and explain why in the background links below. I don't think it's a good idea to associate with Thiel and Karp, but David does not grasp the true agenda behind Trump's current policies. David also has taken a conventional partisan stance in the Israel vs Gaza conflict; I have not, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/10/israel-war-livestream.html. I don't like Russell Brand's personality particularly, but David is still very unfair to him in this situation. What would David think of me? I know a lot of people who think I'm wrong about Trump etc too, but they aren't disparaging of me. I think they understand that we are all on our own journeys and we're all trying our best to navigate our way through this world we live in; as Russell says: "trying to plot some... Dao, some path... through the chaos." There was a time when the David Icke I used to admire would understand that. Does he not anymore?
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/08/david-icke-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/01/donald-trump-portal.html.

Substack Exclusive Notice 14/3/25

 

I have published an article on the HPANWO Free Substack blog that will not be posted to Blogger, see: https://benemlynjones.substack.com/p/covid-five-years-on.

Nigel's Nasty Side

 

I'm sure a lot of you will be responding to this article with: "Told you so, Ben!" Reform UK have suffered a catastrophic split following a comment one of their MP's made in the press. Rupert Lowe, the Commons member for Great Yarmouth, did an interview with The Daily Telegraph suggesting Reform could be reformed. He suggested it should not be so centred on Nigel Farage himself as a personality and structure itself more like a traditional political party. The very next day the police were called and Lowe was accused of bullying; or to be precise somebody accused somebody in his office of bullying. Lowe was immediately suspended from the party and had the whip removed. He has returned to Parliament as an independent, reducing Reform's MP tally to four. This has deeply upset Reform's membership and supporters, for whom Lowe is very popular. He has a reputation for being gentle and agreeable man; and he has definitely won the heart of his constituents. Nobody seems to believe these allegations; and what's more, Andrew Bridgen has been told by one of the accusers that Lowe himself is not the alleged culprit. The complaint was made three months ago and so seems to have been picked up by Farage and his confidants, people like Richard Tice and Zia Yusuf, in an opportunistic way. They've even suggested Lowe is coming down with dementia. Source: https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/reform-uk-investigating-rupert-lowe-after-complaints-of-serious-bullying/.

This unhappy development has brought to light something of an open secret, that Nigel Farage is essentially a careerist. He is motivated by personal gain and power, not principle. He projects false sentiments to lure people into voting for him; not a rare flaw in politicians, let's face it. Despite the fact I have made approving noises about Nigel at times in the past, I have had my own concerns for a number of years; and the background link below records them. He had trodden on quite a few people's hands while scaling the rungs of the political ladder; most recently the original prospective parliamentary candidate for Clacton, whose name I cannot even remember and had to look up: Anthony Mack. There are many other examples. The pattern emerging is that Nigel regularly turns against people, not just for their political opposition, but for their popularity within the party and electorate; and therefore the possibility that they might rival him personally. From what I've seen of social media, Rupert Lowe has effectively resigned from Reform UK. I suspect he will not go back even if they ask him. He made the following Tweet: https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1899446243488563317. I'm reminded of the line from the Gladiator movie: "But you have not yet been corrupted by Rome's politics!" Perhaps this is a stab too far for Nigel, one he will regret. What he has done is extremely unpopular and his supporters may well now turn against him, even those previously most loyal. Also Ben Habib has reached out to Lowe, another ex-Reformer. Habib was rejected by Reform for recommending mass deportation; something Nigel is constantly opposed to, despite the fact it would be an open goal for gaining enormous public popularity. (Why will Nigel not kick the ball? That's a big subject which deserves its own article.) Elon Musk, in his usual flamboyant style, has offered to fund a new political party for Rupert and Ben; although I'm not sure how that works legally considering Musk is not British. I do hope that plan goes ahead because the alternative would probably be Ben and Rupert collapsing seamlessly into the cesspit of the Tories. If it works then there will be yet another populist radical right party and Reform will go the same way as UKIP, another skeleton stripped bare by Nigel Farage's ambition. At least there's no rush. It's both bad and good news that there will be plenty of time before the next general election.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-portal.html.