The Masque of the Red Death

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/02/doomsday-bunkers.html.
Following my exploration into the world of doomsday bunkers for the elite, I came across a story from a British-Canadian author called Cory Doctorow, The Masque of the Red Death. This is of course the title of a famous 1842 novella by Edgar Allen Poe about the attempts of the wealthy elite to lock themselves away in a castle while the plague devastates their land. Doctorow's 2019 story has the same basic plot, but it is set in the present day and is about super-rich doomsday preppers, the same kind who might be planning to "bug out" to New Zealand when "the shit hits the fan". The novella is one of four in an anthology called Radicalized. It was inspired by the author's feelings of living in the United States during the Trump era. (Unlike me, he is very leftwing; I regard that era a bit differently, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/01/donald-trump-portal.html.) The central character is called Martin Mars and he is a high level financier with a very ruthless and pragmatic outlook on life. He knows something is coming which he calls "the Event"; this has the same meaning as the "black swan event" although in this story there is no doubt that it is a spontaneous, natural and unplanned crisis. At the moment he thinks is just perfect, not too soon and not too late, he leaves his luxury mansion in the city and heads for the hills in his armoured car where he has built a luxury underground doomsday bunker. He invites thirty of his friends to join him. He plans to wait out the apocalypse in comfort until things have calmed down and then return to resume his privileged lifestyle. He feels no sorrow at the fate of the millions left behind to die. He sees this is a normal dialectic of society in which the human herd is organically culled, what he euphemistically terms "market adjustment". The common folk who have no bunker to retreat into and so will inevitably perish Martin gives the chilling epithet "unnecessariat". In his bunker he has a radio scanner so he can keep up with what's going on in the outside world. Also sometimes he and his fellow hideaways venture out to see what they can scavenge. This goes very badly in some cases; for example when they try to raid a community of heavily armed hillbillies. They also have to threaten prowlers who drop by in the hope of a place inside the bunker. In the city where they used to live, the breakdown of sanitary infrastructure has led to an outbreak of dysentery that kills most of the people it infects. Martin and his smug bunker dwelling cohorts assume that they are safe from such epidemics, but they are wrong. Despite the very grim ending to the story I don't see it as a tragedy. In fact I can't help feeling a sense of satisfaction, that Martin is receiving just desserts for his own attitude and choices. It also exposes the entire fantasy of elite survivalism that I detail in the background link above. The book Radicalized contains three other novellas but if you want to read The Masque of the Red Death as a standalone, it is available as a free audio-book on the author's website, one that has a great name, see: https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/03/13/the-masque-of-the-red-death/.
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.

Manifest

 

Manifest is described as a "supernatural TV drama"; that sounds right up my street, and it is. It is about a group of people who are passengers on an airliner that disappears in mid-flight... sound familiar? Then it suddenly reappears five and a half years later for reasons not explained up to the point I've been watching it. No time at all has passed for the passengers and crew except the normal duration of the flight. They've effectively gone through a time slip. As a result they have to face numerous problems. During their absence they were presumed dead, and their friends and family have moved on without them. Partners have found new spouses; siblings are much older or younger than each other. Life insurance has to be paid back. The passengers and the people around them have to rebuild their lives. They suffer a lot of media attention and public infamy; not to mention harassment and kidnapping from an intelligence agency and secret government scientists. Some people worship them as deities. However, there is even more; they all find they have extrasensory perception, what they nickname "the callings". These can be useful. One of the characters is a policewoman and she solves several crimes by using her callings. Another is a doctor and her callings give her insight into curing her patients. There are four seasons so far, but I stopped watching it a few episodes into season two because it had lost a lot of the energy that made the first season very good. Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8421350/. The series is clearly inspired by the disappearance of MH370. How close is it to the truth? Do I think MH370 will somehow just reappear in the sky? No. I don't know where the Malaysian Airlines plane is; one day it might be found. Probably in the meantime it will inspire more works of fiction.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2024/05/mh370-portal.html.

UFO Truth Magazine- Issue 66

 

UFO Truth Magazine Issue 66 is now available. It can be purchased on this page as a single copy, but please subscribe and save money if you want to read it regularly, see: https://www.ufotruthmagazine.co.uk.
Issue 66 includes an article in my column entitled Is the Door Open for "Catastrophic Disclosure?".
 
Also you will find in Issue 66: the revelations of Adm. Gallaudet, KONA BLUE declassification, developments in space, and much much more.
Also in this HPANWO Show programme I interview the UFO Truth Magazine's editor Gary Heseltine: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2023/06/hpanwo-show-514-podcast-gary-heseltine.html.
See here for details on UFO Truth Magazine Issue 65: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/03/ufo-truth-magazine-issue-65.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones and Rin Michaelis 11

 

I have been interviewed again by Rin Michaelis on her YouTube livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY_BTamLR6A.

And: https://www.bitchute.com/video/TY_BTamLR6A/.
Subjects discussed include: UFO's, media psychology, social media censorship and much much more.
See here for my previous appearance on Rin's channel: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/12/ben-emlyn-jones-and-rin-michaelis-10.html.
See here for Rin's channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RinMichaelis/featured.
And her Twitter: https://twitter.com/RINMichaelis.

I Backed a Winner!

 

How much did I win?... No it wasn't a horse; it was Ian Yeatman, candidate... and now elected city councillor, for my ward in Oxford. The last time I voted in an election for somebody who actually won was in 1997 when I backed Labour under Tony Blair in the general election... I know, and I'm not proud of myself. Ian's party, the Independent Oxford Alliance, is not perfect, but it is by far the most positive and has the potential to do the best job. It opposes the Big Brother reforms for which Oxford has been made a national, and even international, guinea pig. See the background link for details. Source: https://independentoxfordalliance.org. As you can see, Ian is the party secretary. He received 842 votes, once of which was mine, beating his nearest rival, Labour, by over 200. I'm pleased to see that the other IOA candidates were also very popular. Chaka Artwell, somebody I've met, came second in Barton and Sandhills, only slightly behind the Labour winner. Halima Banaras came third in Donnington, beating the Lib Dems and Tories. Ben Christopher got 391 in Hinksey. Anne Stares got elected in Littlemore, as did Judith Harley in Lye Valley and David Henwood for Rose Hill and Iffley. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/england/results. Nationally, Labour have swept the board. They have gained at least 170 councillors while the Tories have been eviscerated; they've lost 422 at the time of writing. Keir Starmer is doing a victory dance all over the media, but is he justified in his vainglory? The fact that the Lib Dems, Greens, small parties and independents have gained so much, and a predicted low turnout, indicates Labour's triumph is somewhat anticlimactic. The electorate have not been captured by Starmer's dream for a better Britain. They probably see him as a slimy greasy-haired knob just like I do. It's just that most of his supporter base stayed at home, or voted Green or for a leftist party. At the moment we're all waiting to see if Sad Git Khan will be still be London Mayor; we will not know for sure until tomorrow evening. Is this a herald for the upcoming general election? Probably; but time will tell. Sunak will surely delay it for as long as possible; it is for the Conservatives, after all, a stay of execution. It might not happen until January next year, but will probably be in the autumn.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/02/oxford-freedom-protest-alt-tech.html.

Lotus Eaters go Full Woo

 

One of my favourite YouTube channels is Podcast of the Lotus Eaters, a political discussion project set up by Carl Benjamin, "Sargon of Akkad". Every day they present a show of about an hour to two about various topics. They are very much on the side of the "anti-woke" movement, just like me; but they have up till now been either silent or evasive about conspiratological ideas, for example: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/02/sargon-on-ufos-again.html. They occasionally dip their toes into those shark infested waters, for example the Bigfoot episodes behind the paywall, but generally they are not a woo-woo publisher. That has now changed very suddenly. In programme 904 they have a segment on the moon landings and the content astonished me. Dan is normally one of the more centrist and level-headed members of the panel, yet he essentially comes out of the closet in this show as a tinfoil hatter. He begins by listing a series of conspiracy theories that have been proven true such as Tuskegee, Gulf of Tonkin, Iran-Contra and MK Ultra; but after that it becomes clear he is open to some others that are yet to be proven true but probably are. This includes all the usual ones; JFK, 9/11 etc. Previously he always left the moon landings alone, considering it too far out; but the Covid issue weakened his certainty and he gradually went from a true NASA believer to "about fifty-fifty". He was challenged by Beau who is convinced the Apollo moon missions were completely real and they have an interesting back and forth. Towards the end Beau is clearly dallying with the concept himself. Of course, I am familiar with both sides of this debate and most of what they talk about, but Dan does bring up some new points. AI fake image spotters have identified much of the Apollo TV and photographic record as suspicious. I also have never heard of the arm appearing outside the command module. The third member of the panel, Callum, sits there in total silence like the quiet man at a pub table who just wants to stay out of it. He occasionally scowls. It's impossible to know what he thinks of this subject. I will watch closely to see what levels of Ickian occult ET HPANWO-esque mumbo-jumbo the Eaters will descend to next. You can listen to the whole audio episode here: https://www.lotuseaters.com/the-podcast-of-the-lotus-eaters-904-30-04-2024, or watch the video of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3kf-LcXJIU.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/12/moon-landing-portal.html.

I Feel Fantastic!

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/07/payback.html.
Since that happy incident I've had another opportunity to confront "Cathy" and this time I really meant business! This was not something I planned; the chance just dropped into my lap yesterday. It made me realize that our previous encounter was not as healing as I hoped it would be. It was only a temporary patch, not a permanent repair. I am a member of an email group containing my family members and two of our closest friends, de facto relatives essentially. I will omit a lot of the details for the sake of anonymity, but it began when Cathy said something I disagreed with. I was about to write out a simple and typical rebuttal, but then stopped. After sleeping on it and thinking about it all day today at work, I decided to send her this response:
 
Hi Cathy.
(The first paragraph describes the issue we differed on.)
Obviously we may continue to disagree on this. That's fine with me, but there are right and wrong ways to disagree. A good example of the wrong way is when I told you that I had voted Leave in the Brexit referendum. I approached you and my dad in good faith over this matter. (I wish I had kept my mouth shut and will never make that mistake again.) There a dozen ways you could have responded. You could have explained, calmly and politely, exactly why you think I am wrong. We could have had a productive discussion, built a consensus, and you may even have been able to change my mind. I am a rational person and my position is always falsifiable. But instead you just yelled at me: "You've never run a business, Ben! What would you know!?" This is a prime example of an ad hominem fallacy. That is why I pointed out to you: "So, what if somebody who HAD run a business made the same point as me?" You replied: "I doubt if that would happen." Do you not see the absurdity of your position? All I have to do then is produce one Brexiteer ally who runs a business and you've lost the "debate" hands down. Tim Martin, CEO of JD Wetherspoon, is the most famous of these. I put the word "debate" in quotes because the next thing you said was: "Everybody who voted Leave is stupid!" That is not an axiom in a debate; that is an insult and an attack; an insult against me personally and an attack against all the millions of people who dare to disagree with you... And you wonder why people vote for Farage!? I almost walked out at that point and I should have! So could I request that you please do not address me with that kind of disrespect in future disputes? If you acknowledge my good faith and trust I'm sure we could have a far more honest discussion. Thank you.
Regarding your general conduct towards me, it goes beyond just debating one issue. Nobody is a rubber ball that you can just toss against a brick wall again and again in the reassurance that they will not break... although some members of my family pretend to be that. Maybe this has led you into the delusion that we are. A few Christmases ago I bought you a book that I thought you might enjoy as a present. It was called Screwed by the Aliens by Timothy Green Beckley (a good friend of mine who has since passed away.) You looked at it and decided you didn't think you would enjoy it. I have been in this situation myself a few times. On those occasions I try to treat the person giving me the unwanted present with sensitivity and tolerance, in the knowledge that they have thought of me with kindness and a desire to make me happy; and have put consideration, time and money into an effort to make my life better. I might return the gift to them privately afterwards with an: "I appreciate this, but..." conversation. Or I might just say nothing and donate it quietly to a charity library. You could not or would not show me that consideration. You tossed the book contemptuously onto the coffee table with a sneer and the words: "Oh, no thank you!" You did this in front of my entire family and (the name of one of our friends). This made me feel incredibly uncomfortable, humiliated and embarrassed, but I bit my tongue to maintain the sacred "doing Christmas" decorum. (In this HPANWO TV video at about twenty minutes in I talk about the conflict in more detail: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2019/11/lapis-conference-2019.html.) I must insist that you do not behave like that towards me again. I think I am entitled to request that little bit of basic human respect from you. Not a lot, just a little. I do not think that is unreasonable. What's more I think the same goes for other members of this family, should they feel they too have been mistreated in a similar way, but are suffering in silence to "avoid the hassle." I, for one, will suffer in silence no longer! I'm not just talking about my own welfare. If I detect any violation of other members of this family, or our circle of friends, from any individual, expect me to take action.
I will not read any more letters posted in this email group. I look forward to joining you in (an upcoming birthday party.)
Best wishes and kind regards.
Ben
 
Well, I've really pulled the pin there! I CC'ed the entire group; since when has she respected my personal sovereignty? I feel fantastic! I feel wonderful! I don't know if you've ever picked up a heavy bag and carried it around for so long that it begins to feel normal, a thorn in your flesh that will be there forever and you just have to put up with it... And then suddenly you drop the bag. That feeling of relief! Freedom! Empowerment! It's overwhelming. I don't know what will happen as a result of my sacrilege and I don't particularly care. I did what needed to be done. There was no other way out of this predicament than to confront my antagonist head on... I have one or two other names on my list. Watch this space!
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-portal.html.