Shadowbanned? Be Damned!

 

A few days ago I wrote an article entitled Don't Call it "Wales"! which has generated a lot of feedback, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/10/dont-call-it-wales.html. I have had three original comments under the article itself plus entire threads of replies on the Facebook post, on my own timeline and the two groups I shared it with. Despite this, at the time of writing, late afternoon on Friday the 4th, you can see that according to my Blogger stats illustrated above this article has had only forty-seven views. The afternoon after I posted it, it was showing just thirty-three, even though most of the comments had been posted by then. As I say in the background articles below, I think Blogger is seriously undercounting my viewing figures, probably on purpose. They are fabricating a diminished Google footprint for me and are throwing it in my face. This is more than just shadowbanning; it is trying to make me think I have an even smaller reach than the one they are trying to engineer. Silicon Valley has overplayed its hand though. I've always been suspicious of my stats, but this is the first time they have ever arranged viewing figures for me that are lower than the number of comments I've had. Do they think I'm stupid? Did they think I wouldn't notice? Do they really think I'm just going to give up? Do they really think I'm going to believe these figures and say: "What's the point of me writing these articles when no bugger reads them?" Not a chance! I now have effective proof that my audience is far larger than my Blogger statistics are claming and so I shall continue to produce content for all those people to read, watch and listen to.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/01/hpanwo-safari-warning.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/01/fake-stats.html.

Soma ARah Interview 6

 

I have been in discussion with Soma ARah, aka Carol Noonan, see: https://somaarah.substack.com/p/ben-emlyn-jones-and-soma-arah-interview.
Subjects discussed include: political corruption in the USA, sexual abuse in the music industry, the challenges of being a starseed and much much more.
See here for Soma ARah's website: https://www.somaarah.love.
See here for my previous discussion with Soma ARah: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/02/soma-arah-interview-5.html.

Don't Call it "Wales"!

 

I've come across a worrying increase in content from Welsh social media users discussing whether the English name for Wales should be abolished and replaced with Cymru. They say things like: "Rename our country Cymru!" This is a nonsensical statement because it is already called Cymru; this is the name for the country in her own language, Welsh or Cymraeg. When speaking Welsh you always refer to Wales as Cymru, in the same way you refer to England as Lloegr, France as Ffrainc and Germany as Almaen. However, if Frenchmen want to refer to Wales they have their own indigenous term: Pays des Galles. What these keyboard warriors are saying is that the specific name for Wales should be abolished from only the English language. The next edition of the Newspeak Dictionary would therefore list the country as being called "Cymru". We've seen this kind of thing a lot in geography lately. Names that I used to know for countries and cities such as Turkey, Peking, Bombay and Burma have vanished from maps, travel brochures and the media. In the recent Paris Olympics the BBC insisted on addressing the Turkish medal-winning shooting team as "Türkiye". There are movements to continue this practice. New Zealand should be changed to Aotearoa and India, one of the oldest nations on earth, is to be called Bharat. This is nothing more than a typical vulgar act of wokery, no doubt justified by a platitudes about "colonialism" and "Eurocentrism". I refuse to comply with it, as I do all of this cultural Marxist mind-venom. As far as Wales goes, my own homeland, this development is actually very predictable. Y Senedd Cymru, the Welsh parliament, which I visited recently, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/01/visiting-senedd.html, love this kind of thing. It's what you'd expect from such a bunch of glorified town councillors when they're suddenly put in charge of a country. Here's an earlier example of their malice: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2021/07/sarah-everard-update.html.

This is all toxic rubbish that feeds what I call the CVD- Celtic Victimhood Delusion. It is one of the most destructive deceptions ever played on us and it has allowed Brussels globalists to take over half of our home islands, see background links below. Sadly, it is believed in by most Welsh people. I'm not just criticizing my own country; in fact Scotland is far worse. The CVD is a very culturally ingrained myth. They truly believe that it is physically impossible for our country to have any other foreign enemy than England. As a result other foreign enemies have just waltzed in unopposed; in fact they have even been welcomed. Perhaps this is an understandable mistake considering our history, but it's time to get over it! We Welsh people must update our mental and cultural software. Those days are over and we now live in a very different world. The CVD is inspiring a cascade of lies such as English people being "not really native British" and calling them "Anglo-Saxon invaders"; which is false, as I explain in my Senedd video linked above. Like all people who gain power, lack responsibility, suffer from low intelligence and feel demographic hatred, they are poised to commit cruelty and injustice. For example, a community council in Gwynedd wants council houses to be granted only to Welsh-speakers. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg17r60lkvo. This is supported by many people as "encouragement" to learn Welsh; yet this is not encouragement, it is actually tantamount to coercion. It is only encouraging people in the same way Justin Trudeau encouraged Canadian lorry drivers to have a medical treatment, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/01/trevors-trucker-footage.html. This council is calling for people to be forced to use the language, against their will if necessary. At this rate a time is going to come when the Anglophone Welsh are going to have to fight for their rights. The only solution to this dark path Wales is heading down is to speak out and oppose it. We can hope that our words find their way to more sensible ears who have the ability to change things before it is too late
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/political-correctness-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-portal.html.

Tony Buckingham Tribute

 

A Tribute website has been set up for Tony Buckingham who passed away a couple of weeks ago. It is very moving and respectful. You can donate to Tony's charity of choice or contribute in another way by lighting a virtual candle with a message, add an event, send a gift or add a message in written, video or audio forms. I've chosen to make a short video. I'll be broadcasting a HPANWO Show tribute for Tony as well soon.
See here for the site: https://anthonybuckingham.muchloved.com.
See here for Tony's HPANWO Radio tribute show: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2025/02/hpanwo-show-578-podcast-tony-buck-in.html.

The 3 Body Problem Book

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/03/3-body-problem.html.
This article was meant to be a review of the indigenous Chinese TV adaptation to The 3 Body Problem novel by Cixin Liu, 三体, but my plans had to change. The series has thirty forty-five minute episodes and therefore I expected it to have a slower pace and include more details than the Netflix one. It did indeed and it was far better. There are several reasons, probably because it was a native production based on a native book. It's a Chinese story and so in my view only real Chinese writers, directors and actors could capture its essence. This is why I always call for "natural casting" in any TV programme or film. So many beloved franchises have been ruined when they break that rule. What's more it is happily devoid of wokery, that particularly occidental vice. That being said, the actor playing Shi Qiang in the Netflix series, Benedict Wong, is better; even though they changed his name to Clarence Shi (It's not unusual for expat Chinese people to give themselves a second name that matches the local anthroponomy.) Yu Hewei just doesn't portray the hard-bitten cynical chain-smoking cop with quite the same aplomb. However, just when I was getting into it, disaster struck. I was pleased to think that the series was free on Amazon with ads; these were short and unobtrusive, only about two or three one-minuters per episode. I loved the first two episodes; but then when I came to move on to episode three I was faced with a paywall, and a very high one at that. Each episode of forty-five minutes was £2.49 and the entire series in HD was a whopping £62. That is extortionate! It's very manipulative of Amazon to let people watch the first two episodes, getting them hooked, so they are then enticed into forking out for the rest. (Before you remind me, I'm very well aware that I do that myself with my books too, see: https://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2015/07/aurora-novel-of-disclosure-sample-first.html, but my books are not overpriced.) I could probably have found the rest of 三体 in "other places" if I looked hard enough, but instead I simply decided to read the book. I had picked up a second-hand paperback from a freecycle stall on somebody's garden wall a few months ago and it has been sitting on my to-read pile gathering dust with the other hundred or so volumes.
 
Cixin Liu's book is distinctly better than the Netflix series; in fact having read the book, the shallowness, pinkness, derivativity and insincerity of the Netflix adaptation is thrown into even sharper relief. Most of the Netflix characters do not exist in the original story. The "Oxford Five" are a rather plastic amalgam of Prof. Wang Miao, an applied physicist who is head of the nanomaterials project. Ye Wenjie and her story are pretty much the same and her ill-fated daughter, the first of the mysterious scientist suicides, is called Yang Dong instead of Vera Ye. Unlike the Oxford Five, Wang knows Yang Dong and is her close friend and colleague. He nurses a secret crush on her, but she is dating another scientist, a hippy-like fellow named Yi Ding. The back-story of Ye Wenjie's youth at the Red Coast observatory is reproduced quite well, but her actions in the book are far more extreme. The reader will see her ruthless streak developing very early on. She will do anything to achieve the objectives that only she, Mike Evans and their organization know about. In that way she reminds me a bit of J Posadas and his own belief in saviours from the stars, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2021/01/j-posadas-and-alien-communists.html. In the book, the aliens are called "Trisolarans" and not "San Ti". Mike Evans is not Vera/Yang Dong's father; Yang Weining is, a Red Coast engineer Ye Wenjie married in the late '60's. There are lots of footnotes, which is rare in a novel. They explain various linguistic idioms and cultural or historical details that a non-Chinese person might not know about. No doubt the Chinese find some of the subtleties of being British equally peculiar. The timecodes do not just cloud people's vision, the Trisolaran "sophon" agents have the power to place them onto photographs. Despite their misanthropic revolutionary vision, the Earth-Trisolaris Organization develops its own schisms... they're only human after all! The Adventists seek the total obliteration of the old order by the extermination of mankind, but the Redemptionists have projected onto the Trisolarans a divine persona; they become a cult. They call the Trisolarans "Our Lord". There are also the Survivors, Adventists who plan to maintain a small human population after the invasion, but totally enslaved to their Trisolaran occupiers. The reader is introduced to the ETO's enemies fighting them and the aliens, called "Frontiers of Science" and their "Battle Command Centre", right at the beginning of the story. The reason Yang Miao is asked to stop the nanotech project is because the material could be used to help humans explore space more effectively, threatening extraterrestrial civilizations. The computer game is used to test potential ETO recruits, but it is played with a full-body suit, not just a headset. The sky projections don't happen; they are merely engineered in radiation beyond visible light. It is understandable for dramatic effect that an adaptation in the visual arts would change that scenario to the more dramatic version. In the book Thomas Wade, the character possibly based on Miles Johnston, also does not exist; although some of his dialogue and role is given to another character absent from Netflix, a Colonel Stanton. Most interestingly of all, a couple of the scenes actually take place on Trisolaris; the real one, not just the computer game. This reveals to the reader that there is no fake alien invasion going on; it's a very true occurance. The book ends with postscripts by the author and translator, and a teaser prologue for the sequel. This is definitely the best story I've ever read about SETI, the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence. It even beats the film Contact, which is very good. The book ends before a lot of the narrative from the later Netflix series takes place, which shows that the latter is also an adaptation of some of its sequel, The Dark Forest. The "wallfacers" do not appear in The 3 Body Problem. I found a commentary resource that says Netflix do not cover the complete second novel and that one can enjoy book two without spoilers if you've seen the series. Indeed, I sensed that the Netflix one had a rather abrupt and truncated ending. Needless to say Sarah, Miles, myself and any other truther did not inspire Liu's 2008 novel. I'll look forward to reading and reviewing the rest of the "Remembrance of Earth's Past" trilogy.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/11/climate-change-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/04/seti-success.html.

Seriously Strange 2024 by Neil Ward

 

My good friend and collaborator Neil Ward has produced his own reportage of the ASSAP Seriously Strange 2024 conference.
See here for the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jBoOW0KGKs.
It includes some footage of the speakers' talks and some scenes with me.
See here for my own HPANWO TV reportage: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/09/assap-seriously-strange-2024.html.

Objectgate Yukon Photo

 

More than a year and a half after Objectgate an image has finally been published reporting to be one of the objects shot down by the US Air Force during that remarkable and confusing week, see background links below. A document has been released after a FOIA request which includes a crude photocopied image of a photograph, illustrated above. There's also a description by a senior military officer: "A cylindrical object. Top quarter is metallic, remainder white. 20 foot wire hanging below with a package of some sort suspended from it." Minister Anand also said that the object was cylindrical, but there was no mention of any wires or packages. There is also no reference to a retrieval of the debris from the ground, except to say that the search was called off until the spring because of the remoteness of the area and the cold climate. A successful retrieval was carried out in the case of the Alaska crash in an area which is also very cold in February, so why couldn't one have happened in Yukon? If it happened when the weather got warmer, what did they find? If they found anything, will they tell us? Despite the Canadian photo being declassified, the decision was made to hold it back from publication until now because "Given the current public environment and statements related to the object being benign, releasing the image may create more questions and confusion"; in other words, they were scared of public panic. How little bureaucrats think of the people they govern! Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/image-released-of-mysterious-object-shot-down-over-yukon-in-2023-1.7049241. The civilian researcher who made the FOIA wishes to remain anonymous. I wouldn't be surprised if it is John Greenewald Jr, see: https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/.

Mick West has already jumped on his usual debunking bandwagon, calling this something from the "low information zone". I Tweeted back at him, correctly: "But when better photos are produced the cry goes out: 'That's a fake!' (Sadly in this day and age anything can be) We can't win!", see: https://x.com/Porterhood/status/1838682452614631533. Somebody has replied: "Nonsense, show us any 'better' UFO pictures... They don't exist.  The entire reason these pictures are ALWAYS fuzzy blobs is because when an image is clear people can tell what it actually is and therefore they don't report it as an UFO because they can see it's not. That's his entire point." I riposted: "Poppycock! This is a facsimile of the Calvine photo case. Everything that was said now was said about that, because it was a crude Xerox (photocopy). Then a full quality print emerged and even Dr David Clarke admitted it wasn't a balloon. (I hope we don't have to wait 30 years for THIS!)" I am right about that, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2022/08/programme-474-podcast-another-typical.html. The Canadian image shows a white ring shaped object with a segment cut out of it. Alternatively it could be a circular or spherical object obscured by something. Many are saying this proves it is another Chinese spy balloon. The white sphere is its envelope and the shadow cast on it is the gondola; filmed from below. However there is no way to verify or discredit that until we see a better copy of the photo. CTV News have put in their own request for a full quality copy of the photo. I wish them luck.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/06/objectgate-mini-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.