Tuesday, 14 February 2012

"It's the JOOOOOZZZ!"


When I first became conspiratorially-aware a number of years ago now the question passed through my head that probably passes through everybody’s when faced with the revelations which such awareness brings: If there’s a conspiracy, who’s behind it? If you go online or read a few books you’ll find any number of accusations and nominees queuing up to answer your question: Americans, Muslims, the British, aliens, undersea monsters, big business, the Devil; there’s even a very long and detailed speech by Michael Shrimpton of the Marlborough Group claiming that it’s Germany, another name to add to that long, long list! See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai5XSVZ5Adg Finger-pointing of this kind is a very serious matter; firstly because any errors can lead to terrible injustice; and the labelling with congenital liability of entire creeds and nations of people as accountable for the actions of their rulers or authorities comes with devastating consequences for them. History has shown that this can lead to horrific suffering and even mass-murder, and often as a result of allegations far less heinous than being behind the New World Order. The particular theory I’m going to address in this article is one of the most widespread in the conspiratorial community: that the New World Order global super-conspiracy, and all the systemic auxiliary conspiracies that come with it, is organized and implemented by Jews. This is a question that is one of the most politically incorrect it’s possible to mention and just to ask it, regardless of your answer, can lead to charges of antiSemitism, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-anti-semitic-are-you.html . However on HPANWO we do not back down to such hysterical nonsense and if there’s a suggestion that the culprits of the New World Order are the Jews then we’re going to address it, after all if it’s true then what good can we gain by denying it? Don’t the people of the world have a right to know?

The Jewish Theory is the term I will use for convenience; I mean it to relate to all the various super-conspiracy notions involving Jews as the main perpetrators. It is one commonly held both within the conspiratorial community and beyond it into the realms of the extremities of conventional politics and religious philosophy, like radical Islam and the Far Right. It is based out of analysis into almost all areas of human activity, from religion, politics, human races, and especially economic. Jews, as a distinct racial group as well as being a religion and culture, are said to be behind the various oppressive machinations of the world’s financial system that is currently afflicting most countries in the world, especially Greece at the time of writing, and has done so throughout history. These ideas have a long history that date back to the Gospels and the story of Jesus’ attack on the money-lenders in the Temple of Jerusalem; it’s the only scene in the Bible in which Jesus exhibits physical violence and so has become one of the most renowned. Jews are often called “Christ-killers” because they were the ones who had Jesus executed. A motive for this is often hard to pin down, but it ranges from revenge from those aforementioned Jewish money-lenders; to the Jews as a people killing Christ simply because they work for the Devil! These ideas are said to be promoted in Mel Gibson’s 2004 film The Passion of the Christ. The theories linking Jews to economic oppression are numerous, and they have spread out from the Biblical precedent of the Temple scene; they claim that all Jews are rich, tight-fisted and greedy. They bamboozle the common people out of their wealth through their financial expertise and their control of the banks, and they plan to economically enslave the entire human race, with themselves as masters of the world. There is said to be evidence supporting this from the lips of world Judaism itself: even the most fundamental Jewish text, the Talmud, outlines the concept of Jewish supremacism and their contempt for the rest of humanity whom they regard as mere goyim, “cattle”. Not only that, but anybody who defends the Talmudic influence by saying: “It’s only a very old book! How many Christians follow every word of the Bible?” will be immediately shown a more contemporary document: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a do-it-yourself guide to taking over the planet; this is apparently proof that the Jews of the world still scheme and plot the downfall of mankind into the modern era. Many well-respected figures in the early 20th Century spoke out against the Jewish peril and tried to alert the ignorant masses to the perceived Nemesis which faced them. Among them was Henry Ford, pioneer of the personal motor car that is such a major part of today’s world; and Charles Lindbergh, the great businessman and aviator who first flew an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean from the United States to France. For people with these viewpoints Adolf Hitler was effectively a civil rights advocate and freedom-fighter! His emergence onto the world stage was like the coming of the Messiah. After his defeat in the Second World War it is said that the victorious Jews decided to psychologically traumatize the world with a new ruse: the Holocaust. They pretended that millions of their people had been viscously exterminated by the Nazis. The shame of this crime gave them the ability to moral blackmail their victims as well as steal their money and seize their lands. By putting their own people into management of the mainstream media and ensuring Jewish nepotism in show-business they found that they could also control the minds of the populace to ensure they never rebelled against God’s Chosen. Through their engineering of the revolutions in America, France and Russia the Jews made sure their kind of people stayed in control of the world.

It all sounds very neat and simple, doesn’t it? We have a problem, the cause of the problem has been identified and therefore the solution is obvious; but is that how the world really works? I have no doubt that the world is being conspired against completely and on every level, but is it because of the Jews? Can that possibly be the basic solution? To answer this we need to understand who the Jews are and where they come from. Judaism as a faith and culture is very old, by far the oldest major international religion in existence. It dates back to the beginning of history; as the Bible states, it emerged among the Bronze Age tribes in what is now the Holy Land. The early Jews were cruelly enslaved and persecuted by the first historical civilizations of Egypt, Persia and Iraq, but according to the Bible they won their freedom, and a new and exclusive homeland with the help of God’s direct intervention, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2011/12/ark-of-covenant.html . This immediately raises a question regarding the theory I outlined above: Civilization is far older than we’ve been led to believe by conventional academia; the Earth is littered by artefacts and highly sophisticated stone constructions that are far older than academia says human societies with the ability to erect them have existed, see Graham Hancock’s website on the Links column. However history begins with the rising of two civilizations in the late 4th Millennium BC: Egypt and Sumer. This is a big subject that needs to be explored fully in its own article; but suffice to say for the purposes of this discussion I suspect that these two civilizations, especially the Sumerian one, were secretly sponsored by the covert organization that I call the Illuminati. The Illuminati itself has its origins in prehistory in one of the societies that left behind the ancient monuments that conventional scholars deny even exist. This immediately makes it clear that the Illuminati cannot be Jews; this is because the Illuminati is far older than Judaism and that Judaism arose outside the Illuminati’s original sphere of influence. Judaism was from the outset very much a pre-Illuminati culture that was one among many. Not only that, but the early Illuminati-sponsored societies fiercely oppressed and imprisoned the Jews. The objective of the Israelite prophets also doesn’t match the theory that Jews are behind the New World Order: the goal of Moses and his successors has always been the establishment of a homeland for their people in the country currently occupied by the modern state of Israel (Israel in reality has nothing to do with Jews, but I’ll come to that in a moment); this is the original and basic definition of the term Zionism. It was never and has never been the ambition of the Jewish people to take over the world, nor impinge their will on any non-Jewish person other than those who threaten the safety of the “Promised Land” and its citizens. Critics of this defence and proponents of the Jewish Theory point to the racist propaganda in the Talmud; they say that the Talmud promotes viewing gentiles as donkeys, prohibits sex and marriage between Jews and gentiles, and that it’s right by God to abuse gentiles etc. This has been challenged as a misunderstanding or deliberate distortion of the Talmud, see: http://talmud.faithweb.com/ . The supposedly offending passages are dialogues discussing various ideas in an academic hearing and the conclusion of that hearing is that these bigoted notions are not true. Jewish lore contains a lot of egalitarian wisdom about how all humans are descendents of Adam and are children of God; the Talmud contains strict rules of good conduct in its dealings with gentiles. This has allowed Jewish communities to flourish in many areas of the world and, contrary to popular belief, they have had many successful and peaceful political relationships with the gentile populations they share their lands with. A classic example is Palestine. After the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Islam the Sephardic Jews continued to live in the Holy Land for over 1500 years and got on perfectly well with their Muslim neighbours. So when a bomb goes off on a bus in Jerusalem or the Israeli air force bombs a housing estate on the West Bank, it is not the modern manifestation of some kind of ancient struggle; it is a conflict that did not exist before 1947. Don’t believe the hype!

The answer to all the above is often the publication only about a century ago of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. As with the Talmudic commentary, this does make sense on the surface. The text is very straightforward and unequivocal, containing sentences like: “The political has nothing in common with the moral. The ruler who is governed by the moral is not a skilled politician... ... The Goyim are bemused with alcoholic liquors; their youth has grown stupid on classicism and from early immorality, into which it has been inducted by our special agents - by tutors, lackeys, governesses in the houses of the wealthy, by clerks and others, by our women in the places of dissipation frequented by... ... Ever since that time we have been leading the peoples from one disenchantment to another, so that in the end they should turn also from us in favour of that King-Despot of the blood of the Jews, whom we are preparing for the world. The King of the Jews will be the real Pope of the Universe...” The problem is that this entire document is a forgery. It may well have been based on a real political textbook because it resembles so many more recent ones like Silent Weapons for a Quiet War, but the Jewish angle has been fraudulently transcribed into it by its publisher; that’s a proven fact and I describe that in more detail in this article: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2008/02/protocols-of-zion.html . The film The Passion of the Christ has caused a massive controversy and in some cases the demonization of its director Mel Gibson. However once one digs beneath the fanatical veneer one sees a different story. Gibson has his defenders, among them Whoopi Goldberg, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ccAPIEfAIU . As she says, would a black woman like her really be friends with Mel Gibson if he were a racist? Would she invite him to her home as a guest and allow him in the same room as her children? The Passion of the Christ is no more antiSemitic than the story it follows very faithfully, one of the oldest and most famous stories in the world. If Gibson’s film of it is to be banned as antiSemitic then we’d also have to ban the Gospels. The Passion of the Christ differs from other interpretations of Jesus’ last days only by its realism in its use of reconstructed Latin, Aramaic and Hebrew dialogue; and the very brutal scourging scene which has been described as one of the most violent and disturbing ever released in the cinema. It’s also interesting to note that the Gospels themselves are not as antiSemitic as they’ve usually been interpreted. For instance, from a theological point of view, the despising and rejecting by the Jews of Jesus was foretold and preordained by the prophets. This means that the Jews were effectively just following a script. Even the much-maligned Judas Iscariot; imagine how pissed off God would have been if Judas had refused to betray Christ! He’d have been in worse trouble than he ended up in anyway! He can’t win! This was a point not lost to my Catholic mother who caused a bit of a stir one Easter by making a Simnal cake with thirteen apostles on it. She felt sorry for Judas for the reasons I’ve just mentioned and wanted to redeem him. The way Jesus was executed was by crucifixion, a punishment that led to the crucifix being adopted as the symbol of the entire Church (a rather gruesome and morbid motif, I used to think as a child). This was a uniquely Roman form of punishment and it was used throughout their empire; if you ever saw the film Spartacus you’ll see the hero and his comrades being dispatched in the same way. This indicates that the death sentence on Jesus was a strictly Roman affair for an act of treason against the Roman state, not the Pharisees’ dominion. It’s unlikely that the Romans would release a convicted traitor just because of the Passover. A Jewish execution would have involved stoning, as we saw in earlier part of the Gospels where Jesus defends an adulteress with the classic line: “Who among you is without sin? Let him cast the first stone!”

On the 9th of February 1933 the following appeared in a newspaper called Jewish World (Thanks to *Kia* on the HPANWO Forum for digging this one up, although I can’t locate a source; as far as I can see there’s never been a newspaper of that name. EDIT: It might be this one. See: http://jewishworldnews.org/): “The great ideal of Judaism is that the whole world shall be imbued with Jewish teachings, and that a universal brotherhood of nations- a greater Judaism in fact. All the separate races and religions shall disappear.” Unfortunately in all cultures, races and religions there are ignorant and bigoted people. You could take that sentence and replace the word “Judaism” with white, black, Christian, American, almost anything you can imagine and it could match what some idiotic person has said at some time; and this needs to be challenged and resisted. But we must not fool ourselves by thinking this is the problem, that this is the basis for the New World Order. We’ve already established that Jews were not part of the original Illuminati foothold on planet Earth, they developed independently and were sworn enemies of those Illuminati-occupied states. Then, goes the theory: if they are behind the New World Order then they must have somehow infiltrated those states and taken them over. But does this then mean that there was no New World Order originally planned by the Illuminati before the Jews got involved? You see that the idea just doesn’t logically add up. Is there any other evidence from history that Jews were a malign and corrosive influence on society? According to some historians the evidence lies in the fact that Jews were banished from so many kingdoms during the Middle Ages. However these kingdoms were ruled by kings and queens that were definitely part of the Illuminati network; their lineage and involvement with the Occult can be traced right back to the Illuminati beachhead states of Sumer and Egypt so if Jews were somehow involved with their conspiracy you’d have thought the European Crowns would have welcomed them in with open arms; “OK, Ishmael, come on in and have a cigar. You take care of the money and I’ll deal with the wars!” There is a theory that there is some kind of secret conflict between different “sides” within the Illuminati; this is a possibility, but I can’t see how it can be the “Jewish Illuminati” versus the “non-Jewish Illuminati” to any great extent. How could such a fundamental conflict not have brought down the entire New World Order thousands of years ago? If I’m wrong and this conflict is real then how does it do us any good to take sides in it ourselves? Are the non-Jewish Illuminati somehow our allies?

In today’s world we see a planet on which Jews have supposedly been given a part of it as a homeland by the international community: Israel. This aberrant fiefdom has developed into one of the most brutal and corrupt regimes in the modern world; it carries out atrocities with impunity against its neighbouring lands and people, and suppresses them within its own borders. It exploits the tragedy of those who suffered under the Nazis to generate sympathy and guilt among other nations. What a terrible memorial Israel is to all the many Jews who died at the hands of others throughout history! See: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2011/01/holocaust-memorial-day_26.html Israel has multiple foreign support organizations in the powerful Western countries like AIPAC and the British Israeli lobby, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E70BwA7xgU Any Jew who criticizes Israel is lambasted under the absurd label of being a “self-hater”. Any gentile who criticizes Israel, like me, courts accusations of antiSemitism, despite the fact that this whole article is intended to be a long and detailed defence of Jews! Jews financial and banking activities are said to be behind the revolutions in America, France and Russia; the most common accusation is that Communism is a Jewish front because Karl Marx was a Jew and the Russian Revolution was funded by Jews. Actually Marx is credited with inventing Communism; but he was inspired by many pervious thinkers like John Ruskin who was an English gentile. What’s more, although Western involvement in the Bolshevik Revolution was real and deeply suspicious there’s no reason to think that there was something directly related to Judaism about it. There’s no doubt that the banking system is clearly a terrible burden on this world and one of the central tools of Illuminati power, but not all bankers are Jewish by any means. It’s true that a disproportionate number of them are Jewish, but sheer weight of numbers does not always count as evidence of control. Jewish culture has always traditionally been very fiscally sound. All nations have their particular areas of expertise; the Germans are good at science, the British are great seafarers, the Spanish are great fashion designers, the French are great cooks and Jews are very sensible with money. This means that Jews may have naturally gravitated towards banking for very innocent reasons long before the modern banking system arrived. In the same way that the French are not in control of Monsanto and the GMO food agenda just because they’re good cooks, the Jews are not the instigators of the money conspiracy just because they happen to be good bankers. If you look into the history of the banking system it lies primarily with the Black Nobility in Italy and the Knights Templar, much more Catholic than the Jewish. There’s nothing inherently evil about banking and money, indeed money has existed since pre-Illuminati Neolithic times; it’s the manipulation of money as a tool of control that is the problem. What’s more I do wonder about the ulterior motives of Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh for their antiSemitic remarks; could it be envy and insecurity as a result of business rivalry? Lindbergh was not a man of good mental health anyway. He had five children all of whom died in infancy; the first was kidnapped and murdered amidst much publicity. I don’t think this could possibly have washed over him without leaving a few marks. Another claim is that Jews control the media. In fact the BNP leader Nick Griffin once wrote a book in which he made a big deal out of the fact that 11% of the BBC’s employees were Jewish, that’s double the number you’d expect based on the national British ratio of Jews to everybody else in the country, roughly 5%. But as with the banks, Jews have a long traditional cultural association with show-business that dates back to the ages of the Diaspora before their emancipation in Europe when the Theatre and other performing arts were the only places they could use their talents to earn a living. Many Jews have honoured this tradition by becoming film directors, producers and script-writers, and why on Earth shouldn’t they? Somebody on the David Icke Forum a few days ago issued me a challenge: “Name me ten Hollywood producers who are not Jewish”; I couldn’t. But my reply to him was: “So what?” Does the asymmetrical presence of Jews in Hollywood mean Jews run Hollywood for the purposes of the conspiracy according to the Jewish Theory? I’d say “no”. If you look at what Hollywood is and what it produces you’ll see a huge variety of different themes and subjects. There are many instances where people have analyzed Hollywood films for all kinds of propaganda, like Robbie Graham and his Silver Screen Saucers blog: http://silverscreensaucers.blogspot.com/ (Also see my HPANWO TV reportage on the 2011 Leeds Exopolitics Conference: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2011/08/exopolitics-leeds-2011.html). I myself have written about famous films and the encoded messages within them. However when it comes to Hollywood we find that there is no single direction of persuasion at all. Hollywood proudly releases as many very progressive and anti-establishment films as it does pro-authority ones. Even individual directors like Stephen Spielberg, who is a Jew, has made many films on the subject of UFO’s and aliens which project very diverging Exopolitical ideologies. One of his early ones from 1977, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, was a very nonConformist and anti-establishment film yet he also remade War of the Worlds in 2005, a very depressing and pessimistic prediction of mankind’s interaction with ET’s. This wouldn’t make sense if Spielberg was somehow an agent of a Jewish cabal controlling Hollywood. What muddies the waters of this theory even more is that some of the most hyped films in the recent history of cinema have been a series of extremely reactionary and monolithic pro-establishment movies made by Roland Emmerich; examples are Independence Day, Godzilla and 2012. In my view these films count as the most overrated ever, but the relevant point here is that Emmerich comes from an upper class German gentile background. Another interesting film maker is Ridley Scott; his films are of infinitely better quality than Emmerich’s, but they also contain powerful militaristic and authoritarian conceptions. Scott is a British gentile too. Interestingly he’s also produced promotional videos by Common Purpose, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2009/11/ridley-scott-makes-common-purpose.html . So how does this relate to the concept of Jewish control? I don't think it does.

One of the most bizarre claims made by Jewish Theorists is that Jews control pornography. This begs the question why pornography has anything to do with the New World Order, especially when they’re also reputed to be the engineers of Feminism. I personally regard pornography as pretty harmless; contrary to popular belief 99% plus is completely legal and features only consenting adults. What I find far more sinister are what have become known as “Lad Mags”, ones with titles like Front, Loaded, Nuts and Zoo etc. Porn merely panders to our natural biological instincts whereas Lad Mags try to change the way men think, but that’s a story for another article. There are several radio shows discussing pornography as it relates to Jews; it’s a favourite topic of discussion on the Far Rightist podcast Goyfire, see: http://www.goyfire.com/ The hosts change from episode to episode but the shows almost always include a very angry little man called Alex Linder who vocally and furiously explains what he thinks is going on. It’s a supposed plan to exterminate the white European race, “europids” as he calls us, by a process of “miscegenation”; this is a form of genocide carried out by forcing or manipulating a people to interbreed with another race until the original race no longer contains any members with a pure genome. And who does Linder think is behind this plot? You guessed it! Jews in control of the porn industry are promoting interracial sex and therefore the production of half-cast children in order to eliminate all white people. There is indeed a category of pornography called “interracial” which portrays black and white people having sex together. However Linder doesn’t explain why this is just one of many categories of pornography that cater to every individual porn-viewer’s tastes; interracial sex is not promoted above all the others. Strangely enough Alex Linder seems to object to interracial porn more vociferously when it involves black men with white women. He is curiously not so narked when it’s vice versa; white men with black women trouble his mind much less, and this could reveal something very interesting about his personal psychology. He rants on about “cuckold interracial”, this is a porn film in which a black man makes love to a white woman, usually she’s a pretty blonde with blue eyes, in front of her jealous white husband. I can’t help wondering if Alex Linder is actually just expressing his own personal insecurities through false political activism. Maybe he just can’t stand the thought of white women preferring black men to him. A lot of women find black men attractive, not only because they tend to be very “well-blessed”, but because black people in general are mesomorphic; this means they have naturally better muscle-tone than whites, giving them a more appealing physique. There’s another interesting website run by a British man who is anonymous, but goes by the Internet soubriquet of “Guessedworker”, see: http://majorityrights.com/ He has a terrible bee in his bonnet about the singer Seal’s marriage to the German supermodel Heidi Klum, obviously because she fits into the Nazi Aryan stereotype and that Seal is a good-looking black man, who no doubt has the physical characteristics to give her a good time in bed. Perhaps “Guessedworker” is worried that he doesn’t. Interracial sex is not something that bothers me at all, and indeed there are plenty of black women I find very sexually desirable so I’d be a hypocrite if I did; does this really spell the death-knell for white people? It strikes me that if somebody was serious about wanting to exterminate the white race, then miscegenation seems a poor way to go about it. Firstly, in humans, this would take many completely cooperative generations, and then only if the ratio of blacks with whites in society was far greater. Anything remotely short of 50%, about 10% in the case of Europe, would result in black people being miscegenated themselves, as has actually happened many times in the past. If you go to Lisbon in Portugal today you’ll see very few black people, and they’re all recent immigrants, but there was a time when there were a large number of black servants and freed slaves in Lisbon. Where did they go? Nowhere, they were miscegenated into the population and their descendents are the white people of Lisbon today. Race-mixing is not like mixing paint; you don’t end up with everybody “grey”, half-cast to different degrees. It’s more like picking black and white balls out of a bag. Genes can be recessive and active, as Gregor Mendel discovered, and which they are will depend on how they’re sorted. So a black and white person might have a baby that is half-cast, but that child will not produce “quarter cast” offspring; their subsequent children will be either black or white and with succeeding generations the minority genes become more recessive until they cease to have an effect. Also if Jews are really doing this then why? What is their motive for using black people as a weapon against whites? How will this aid their New World Order? Is the presence of white people in the world inimical to the New World Order? If so why? And wouldn’t this also mean the Jews will be exterminating themselves? How racially different are Jews to the rest of us anyway? Although the DNA of Jews does contain particular signatures and are from “haplogroups” that display their origins among the Ashkenazi of central and Eastern Europe, their physical characteristics look fairly indistinguishable from anybody else. There are certain traits that have become known as “Jewish looks” like the big nose, pasty skin, dark hair and eyes, but many gentiles have this physiognomy too. For instance, although Jewish actors like Sacha Baron Cohen and Daniel Radcliffe do have these kinds of looks, so do the gentile actors Liam Neeson and Aidan Turner. So I suspect we’re dealing here with a mixture of a misunderstanding of genetics and Alex Linder’s and Guessedworker’s feelings of sexual inadequacy.



Aidan Turner and Liam Neeson, they look Jewish but are not.

The idea that Jews were behind 9/11 is based on two reports: firstly that the Jews working at the World Trade Centre were phoned up by Mossad and warned to stay off work on September the 11th 2001. In actual fact over 300 Jews died in the attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon, including 5 Israelis. If Mossad had really been behind 9/11 then they’d not have left such a red flag in the record by rescuing the common Jews from disaster. No, they’d have left them to die, sacrificed for political goals as they have been so many times in the past. An even bigger giveaway was the “dancing Israelis”, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRfhUezbKLw I can understand that the most ruthless Zionists would celebrate 9/11, knowing that the US would now be galvanized into supporting a more aggressive anti-Islamic policy in the Middle East that would benefit Israel, but I’d have thought that if these men were Mossad agents who were actively involved in the plot to carry out 9/11 they would keep a slightly lower profile. As I explain in my article linked above, How AntiSemitic are YOU?, this is a very difficult topic to ever explore in a rational and equitable way. Any mention of it can cause explosions of hysteria. Criticism of the Israeli tyranny is equated as hatred of Jews; opponents of babies being circumcised are labelled as racists against Jewish rites, although there are distinct secular and healthcare motives for opposing infant circumcision.

It’s indisputable that the agenda for the New World Order exists; most of what I upload to HPANWO is about exposing that fact; but in our desperate search for answers we must not be lazy, nor let our anger run away with us, nor be too eager to accept the easiest and quickest answers we find. The real perpetrators of the Global Conspiracy want nothing more than for people who are becoming aware of their existence to get sidetracked down a blind alley. I'm certain that the New World Order is not in any way shape or form the work of Jews. When we yell: “It’s the Jews!” we not only condemn millions of completely innocent people to what is effectively Original Sin. We’ll be in a position where we can demand anything from them and do anything to them. What depravity is there that we will not stoop to and not be able to justify? It’s vital that we therefore hold onto our rationality, our understanding and our temperance at all times during the turbulent years to come. The I-Ching, the ancient Chinese book of divination, has a hexagram entitled Revolution. It says that in a revolution two mistakes must be avoided at all costs: Firstly, it is important not to move with excessive haste, in thought or deed, nor be excessively harsh. Secondly any revolution must be based on a higher and inner truth. Any revolution not founded on a divine purpose will come to grief.

Latest HPANWO Voice articles (All new material): http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2012/02/council-prayers-banned.html
And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2012/02/hospital-porters-go-on-strike.html
And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2012/02/shakespearean-humanoid-to-star-at-2012.html
And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2012/02/lake-vostok-breached.html
And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2012/02/letter-of-appeal.html
And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2012/02/my-letter-to-nexus-magazine.html
And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2012/02/non-military-memorials.html

Latest HPANWO TV films: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2012/02/nothing-works-anymore.html
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Wednesday, 1 February 2012

The Other Side of James Randi


This article is based this David Icke Forum thread: http://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?t=5601
See here for background: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2011/07/skeptical-renaissance.html
And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2011/08/skeptocrats-attack.html
And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2010/10/tam-london-2010.html
And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2011/11/london-skeptics-in-pub-141111.html

As far as James Randi goes there's a sense that he is "The Last Word” on any Paranormal claim, even among those who are not among his closest of supporters. James Randi is wont to be the Alpha and Omega, The Final Arbiter, on them because he has his Million Dollar Challenge, and/or that all the scientists love him etc etc. He has a reputation of being "lily-white" in his conduct and totally above-board, transparent, honest-as-the-day-is-long and flawless; but is this justified, or is there another side to the one-sided Angel that Randi is supposed to be? Firstly it’s important to bear in mind that Randi is a showman, he has a lifetime’s experience in communicating with and entertaining the public on stage and screen; this will have given him a “way” with people. He is also a stage conjuror, an illusionist who can make rabbits pop out of hats, cards change suits and watches disappear. Who’s to say he may not even be capable of carrying out a few tricks under supposed “laboratory conditions”? Amidst the throngs of adulation, there are some voices raised that will hopefully give us a moment of pause; one is the book Randi’s Prize by Robert McLuhan which I recently read myself, see: http://www.skeptiko.com/randi-prize-exposed-in-new-book/ This is an excellent critique of the rarely-questioned “Skeptical Norm” that is accepted almost on the nod by millions around the world. If you listen to James Randi you’ll notice that he talks as if he’s the only real Paranormal investigator in the world. He occasionally refers to his peers briefly, but usually only to denounce them in an extremely patronizing manner as naive babes-in-arms who glide around haunted houses like Tolkienian Elves: "Ah, I'll put a camera there!... Ah, I'll put another camera there!... Ah, I'll put a crystal there!" It is he alone whom he regards as a streetwise “lean, mean gangsta”; to me he stinks of a “Hey-man-I’ve-been-there”- Poser, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2008/11/hpanwo-guide-to-being-ive-been-there.html , a bit like Project Avalon’s “Charles”, see: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2011/03/charles-doing-washing-up.html I think this Randi Bubble needs busting! Let’s see if I can help do it...

Project Alpha was the scheme devised by James Randi in 1981 to expose what he saw as deficiencies in parapsychology investigations. For some reason he seems to enjoy doing tricks to make people look and feel like fools; he says his motives are benevalent, to get people thinking critically about their own beliefs, but are they? I wonder if there's a hint of sadism and intellectual oneupmanship behind his activities. Another example is the Carlos hoax, which starred the actor Jose Alvarez (who just happens to be the cousin of 9/11 Truth campainger Willy Rodriguez), see: http://www.skepdic.com/carlos.html Here’s an official video about Project Alpha: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1S5CRcqJQo Randi planted two illusionists in a parapsychology institute to see how far they could get pretending to have real supernatural powers, when all they were doing was stage magic. According to Randi, the scientists investigating them swallowed their claim hook, line and sinker. They declared unequivocally that this was the “real thing”. Then, at the moment the two were presented to the world, they came clean and admitted the whole thing was a hoax. Project Alpha has attained the status of D-Day or Trafalgar in the Skeptic community. However does it deserve to be so? This is what I found on a webpage that has now been removed:

Project Alpha
Today a reader, Travis, asked me about Project Alpha, the famous episode from the early 1980s in which superSkeptic James Randi arranged for two young magicians to infiltrate a parapsychology lab in order to confound the researchers. Over the years, this strange incident has assumed almost legendary proportions in the minds of some Skeptics and reporters, who claim that the researchers were totally fooled. Here, for instance, is the way the story is told in Las Vegas Style magazine, with my comments and corrections in brackets and in bold font:

By 1979 BANACHEK [one of the magicians in question, whose real name is Steve Shaw] was starting to draw national attention as a gifted performer in extra sensory perception crafts. That was also the year that McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft awarded a $500,000 grant to Washington University in St. Louis for the establishment of the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research. [Incorrect - the grant was not bestowed by the corporation, but by James S. McDonnell as a private gift.] The lab was supposed to come up with evidence that things like bending a fork with your thoughts was a real thing. If the idea of spending half a million clams on fork bending seems just a little soft in the head, you're not alone. James Randi was an internationally known magician and an active investigator of paranormal claims when McDonnell-Douglas [sic] made the grant. He decided to send two young illusionists into the MacLab to debunk it. BANACHEK was one of the illusionists.

For three years [he] was subjected to every test the pros could come up with to prove he had authentic psychic powers. He bent things, burned things, moved things and knew things. He passed every test with flying colours [false - see Thalbourne's article, linked below] and at the end of the three year period the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research proudly announced to the scientific community that they had the real thing in the form of BANACHEK [false - no such announcement was made]. OMNI Magazine did a spread on BANACHEK. Discover Magazine said "...his demonstrations were just phenomenal." Even the National Enquirer called him a "Prodigy. Nobody like him in his field."

Mid bow for the McDonnell folks James Randi drops his bomb that BANACHEK had been working for him for the past three years and what's more everything he did was an illusion. Remember? Illusions are ideas creating misleading appearances. And mislead BANACHEK did. You know you have a major coup in your pocket when you sting the National Enquirer. [Really?] The guys at the Laboratory for Psychical [Research] were crushed. [False - they had already suspected Shaw and his partner of fraud, and had dismissed them both more than a year earlier.]

I guess Las Vegas Style subscribes to the motto "print the legend." The actual facts behind this case are thoroughly presented in a paper I found online in PDF (Adobe) form: "Science Versus Showmanship: A History of the Randi Hoax," by Michael A. Thalbourne.

Originally I had thought of summarizing this article, but there's no need to do so because it speaks for itself. Thalbourne, who was a participant in some of the events, writes in a straightforward, engaging style and lays out the key facts and timeline in the clearest possible way.
The case is also covered, in less detail, by John Beloff in Parapsychology: A Concise History.

As both Beloff's and Thalbourne's accounts make clear, there is much less to Project Alpha than its cheerleaders would have us believe. Regardless of what the National Enquirer may have said, the researchers never publicly committed themselves to the view that the phenomena they observed were genuine. They remained properly cautious in their published remarks. Indeed, they privately came to the conclusion that the two test subjects were not worth studying any further, and politely terminated the experiments. Even so, Randi had the chutzpah to hold a press conference claiming that the lab had been successfully duped - a story that is repeated to this day.

To nail down this point, I direct your attention to the appendix that follows the bibliography in Thalbourne's paper, where the published conclusions of the researchers are reproduced. This document is dated September 1, 1981, more than one year before Randi's January, 1983, press conference exposing the hoax. Regarding the test subject Mike Edwards (Shaw's partner in trickery), the researchers write:
The outcome of this research is suggestive of psychokinesis but inconclusive; due to its exploratory nature ... ordinary explanations exist for these effects, given the conditions under which they have been observed. Thus, although several events of interest have transpired, we do not claim that evidence conclusive of "psychic ability" has yet been demonstrated in our research. [Emphasis added] [Thalborne article: http://www.aiprinc.org/para-c05_Thalbourne_1995.pdf Source: http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/2007/03/project_alpha.html


A very prominent critic of James Randi, Rupert Sheldrake, who was mysteriously attacked by a man wielding a knife several years ago, has spoken publically about his misgivings to do with Randi here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB3SAD-gHTc . He says unequivocally that Randi is a liar. Not only is his Million Dollar Challenge far from being the bottom line on the issue of the Paranormal, but Randi has misrepresented Sheldrake’s own work. No doubt Randi regards (or says he regards) Sheldrake as being one of these white dress-wearing, wide-eyed flower-children who make up the entire world of Parapsychology, apart from himself.

These critiques and accusations may be true or they may be false; they involve details of investigations and commentaries that I myself have not had a part in. This article is not intended to be a one-sided and unequivocal disparagement of James Randi; I merely wish to provide a leaning-post of balance from the one-sided and unequivocal worship and adoration he has had showered upon him in abundance over his 50 year career of Skeptic debunking. I encourage all HPANWO-readers to research for themselves and make up their own minds.

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And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2012/01/tavistock-institute-invade-occupy.html
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And: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2012/01/ditchley-park.html
And: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2012/01/read-rockall.html

Friday, 27 January 2012

The Obscurati Chronicles- Part 12

Part 12 of my new novel-draft The Obscurati Chronicles is up on Ben’s Bookcase now, see: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2012/01/obscurati-chronicles-part-12.html Sorry it’s been so long since I last wrote anything on the book. I intend to publish the draft as I write it, at least to begin with; I’m not sure if I’ll put it all up online, seeing as I do want to eventually sell some books too!

I found writing this part of the novel very harrowing and poignant because it addresses some very upsetting subjects: school bullying and the emotional, physical and sexual abuse of children. Some of what you’ll read in there is directly based on my own personal experiences.

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And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2012/01/ufo-down-on-baltic-seabed.html
And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2012/01/tavistock-institute-invade-occupy.html
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And: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2012/01/ben-civilian.html

Saturday, 21 January 2012

Rockall on Amazon Kindle

My novel Rockall is now available on Amazon Kindle, see: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rockall-ebook/dp/B006ZZO8DY/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1327141478&sr=1-2 The ISBN is 978-0-9542229-2-5 and this will shortly be listed on Nielsen-Bookdata.

Rockall is my second novel that was published as a book by The Aldyth Press in 2004. My first novel Evan’s Land came out from the same publisher in 2002; for a couple of years, sales of these books provided for me the equivalent of a reasonable part-time income. Both books are now out of print, but Evan’s Land is currently available as a free audio book, see: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2010/11/evans-land-audio-book.html I consider Rockall a vastly superior novel in every way, but the most important way I think is that by the time I wrote it I had become conspiratorially-aware and the book has powerful conspiracy and paranormal themes. It’s about a group of people who set out to explore an unknown island and everything that happens to them; the blurb goes:
Rockall- the last undiscovered place on Earth!
Since the dawn of time the island of Rockall has defied the ambitions of the human race. It's small, remote, constantly ravaged by Atlantic gales and encircled by 700-foot cliffs. Inaccessible and so forgotten by history... UNTIL NOW! Four intrepid friends set out on a mission to finally land on Rockall and survey it. But Rockall refuses to give up her secrets without a fight! And when that fight is finally lost every human eye turns towards Rockall with gapes of astonishment. This tiny, insignificant island has held a secret that could change the future of mankind... or destroy it.

This is the third edition of the novel, newly edited and updated from the two previous editions. I know that no author is ever completely satisfied with anything they write, but I’m tempted to think this edition is as good as the book will ever be!

I personally don’t have an Amazon Kindle and never read ebooks at all if I can help it. The reason for this is simply that because of the threat of the New World Order and its desire to censor information, relying on an electronic database for literature is putting all our eggs in a very shaky basket and then handing it over to the lion to take care of in his den. On my Kindle account there’s a single-button option that I’m given to delete Rockall, and if I press it the entire book just disappears! If I can do that so can the Government! Ian R Crane mentions in one of his lectures that Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four one day just vanished off his Kindle reader. He also pointed out something else interesting and sinister: what does the word “kindle” mean?: Firewood! Could this be a reference to the burning of books? But of course with Kindle there’s no need for any bonfires in the streets fuelled by flaming copies of Einstein’s Relativity; you just press a button and the offending material just evaporates into the electronic ether forever. If you are at all concerned by freedom-of-information then you have to understand that good old-fashioned paper book publishing is essential. Once a book has been published and has sold a certain number of copies over a wide enough area it becomes virtually indestructible. No matter how hard a censor tries he can never be sure that he’s located and destroyed every single copy of the banned title, and so far he has never succeeded. In fact in oppressive regimes like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union this became very apparent when those tyrannies fell. People came out all over the place proudly holding the formerly outlawed books saying: “Oh yeah, I had a copy in my attic all along.” However I know not everybody shares my concern; or many of you may agree with me, but have a Kindle anyway just for convenience. In which case I will provide what the customer demands.

Since I was discharged from the Hospital Portering Service, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2012/01/trystan-swales-article-blogging-costs.html , many of you have suggested that I set up a donations fund, like plenty of other anti-New World Order researchers and activists have done. Some of you thought I should do that even before my suspension and dismissal. I might well take those people’s advice, no longer out of choice but necessity; I hope this won’t be unavoidable, but I must be realistic and consider the possibility that I might have to rely on that as my sole income. On the other hand, if possible, I’d like to give donors something in return for their generosity, and this is why if any HPANWO-readers want to help me out financially then please buy a copy of Rockall on Amazon Kindle. In this way you don’t only assist me in my continuing mission, as well as keeping a roof over my head, but you will be able to read what I hope you will enjoy as a great example of quality conspiracy fiction. This novel contains many of the themes that I write about on HPANWO in the non-fiction world, so if you enjoy my articles and HPANWO TV films, then I can almost guarantee that Rockall will work for you too. Write us a review as well if you can. Thank you.

Latest HPANWO Voice articles: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2012/01/david-icke-discussion-group-lecture.html
And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2012/01/wikipedia-protests.html
And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2012/01/wittgensteins-poker.html
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And: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-lights.html

Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Trystan Swale's Article: Blogging Costs Jobs

See here for background: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2010/10/tam-london-2010.html
And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2011/07/skeptical-renaissance.html
And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2011/11/london-skeptics-in-pub-141111.html

As regular HPANWO-readers will know, I’m different from many of my fellow Conspiracy and Paranormal researchers in that that I often attend Skeptic events. With the rise of Conspiratorial awareness and interest in the Supernatural, the Skeptic Movement has similarly burgeoned and organized itself as a reaction, and has become an antithesis of our own world; with conferences, groups, websites, Internet forums writers, researchers and speakers all with a surprisingly similar structure (See the background links at the top of the article). I’ve come to know a few of the people involved in this community, like Jack of Kent, see the Links column. One person who keeps dropping in at all of these conferences and events is Trystan Swale.

I first met Trystan in 2010 at the Weird 10 Conference in Warminster, see here for my report (Sorry it’s so brief): http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2010/08/weird-10.html He is an Internet radio host and had a stall for his old Righteous Indignation podcast, see: http://www.ripodcast.co.uk/ This appears to be now defunct and Trystan is between shows at the moment. Rather like a mirror of myself, Trystan the Skeptic often delves in to the “wacky” world of the “Woo-osphere”. Although I’ve not yet seen him yet at Probe or AV (qv) he does attend the Fortean, “demi-monde”-type conferences like Weird and ASSAP. I always take time out to chat with him and we get on well despite our ideological differences... then again if I disliked everybody who disagreed with me I’d be a pretty lonely person! Also throughout history we’ve often seen many examples of relationships that appear to be bonded not in spite of, but because of differing opinions. A classic example is Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2009/05/houdini-code.html . I always remember that there was a boy at my school who was involved in a die-hard Marxist group called the Workers’ Socialist League and he spent most of his time hanging out with the leader of the school’s Young Conservative club (Well, he was the Young Conservative club to be honest; nobody else ever joined!) When I saw that Trystan has written an article about my recent expulsion from the Hospital Portering Service (See: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-i-became-ex-hospital-porter.html) I was worried for a moment that I was about to get a Skepti-bashing, but actually he has let me off quite lightly. He’s avoided judgmental statements and treated the incident as a misfortune. He also believes as strongly as I do in Free Speech; believe me I’d kick up like hell if I heard that a Skeptic was about to lose their job for their beliefs, which is why I supported Simon Singh in his legal case.

Here’s his article: http://www.bio.parafort.com/blog/?p=42 Trystan has not used my best photo to illustrate his post, and I hope nobody thinks I always look like that. In fact the picture comes from this article: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2008/10/aahh-theres-reptilian-under-my-bed.html Trystan makes an attempt to see both sides of the story, being sympathetic my own cause, yet putting himself in the shoes of the Management, as he sees it. I suppose I have to accept that in a way my own literary and cinematic style backfired on me. My lack of tact and inhibition, along with my disdain for Political Correctness, has always meant that I am vulnerable to actions like these. However this was not an oversight on my part, but a deliberate policy; I’ve always admired satirical comedy. Some of my favourite sit-coms were the serials starring the character Alf Garnett, played by Warren Mitchell. These programmes have been totally disowned by their producer, the BBC, yet I think they’re a brilliant indictment on racism and general social ignorance, and I must admit that Alf did inspire my character Butt U Doonuthin in the Microchip a Muslim Day video. I’ve always treated my viewers as intelligent intellectuals capable of more than just one-dimensional literal thinking, and the mostly positive feedback I’ve received from them seems to vindicate that. However the problem with satire is that it can always be misinterpreted, either by accident or deliberately: in other words, an attack by false misinterpretation, feigned naivete, “twisting things”. This did actually go through my head when I first published Microchip in September 2010. I wondered to myself: What if somebody gets the wrong idea? Have I made it clear through the dialogue, style and costume etc that this is a satire? I hope this won’t make people at work think I’m a racist... and so on. A couple of weeks went past and I got lots of positive comments, and no more rude ones than I normally get from the troll element. Also, I knew that within a fortnight or so all my viewers at work would probably have seen it, including many of my bosses, so if there was anything they regarded as a bit dodgy they’d probably have had a quiet word with me and asked me nicely to remove it, or at least make changes to it. My bosses and I generally got on well and if they had any criticism of me it was usually carried out in an informal and cooperative manner. I think if that had happened I’d have probably agreed to their request, either by producing it again in a toned-down remake or putting up a disclaimer of some kind. However after a week or two more I relaxed in the knowledge that my fears were unfounded. Everybody who saw the video understood that the satire was as plain and blatant as I tried to make it.

Trystan has guessed correctly that my film David Icke’s New Book is a parody of the cover of one of that author’s previous titles, I am Me- I am Free. Also, as I explained, it is not indecent really and if it were YouTube would have removed it and possibly banned my account on the site. The same goes for I’m Thinking about Sex, in which you see nothing of me below my chest. It is there to make a serious point and, as I say, I like to do this in my own way and have no concern for potential oversensitive viewers who take things too literally. Actually if we pursue this line of analysis then almost anything could be seen as offensive when presented in that way. The Big Issue recently published an article about how some Americans are complaining about British childrens’ TV shows, they are supposed to be indoctrinating their youth with subversive radical liberal themes. Teletubbies is said to contain anarcho-syndicalist undertones because Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa-laa and Po live in a state of communal economic and social equilibrium inspired by the conclusion of Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto. Noddy and Big Ears are clearly a homosexual couple because they live in the same house and every time they meet Mr Plod there are hints in the dialogue that they would like a civil partnership. To apply that to HPANWO TV: My Che Gue-Veitch films insult both the Scots and French people because I talk with a fake Scottish accent and wear a beret (See: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2011/10/see-hello-its-charlie-che-guevara.html) Also Charles doing the Washing-Up is male chauvinistic and is encoded with extreme anti-feminist propaganda, because it attacks housewives (See: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2011/03/charles-doing-washing-up.html) You see where this mindset could lead? If I comply with it I will spend my whole life tip-toeing around with my shoulders hunched and my arms pressed to my sides, vetting every move I make and word I say just in case one of the billions of people who use the Internet decides to complain about it. I will never do that!

Trystan tried to see it from the Management’s point of view, and I think in my report linked above I made an attempt to relate their case to the reader too; you’ll notice that I quote them several times when they explained their position to me at the hearing. Actually in the above cases the only reason I didn’t cooperate with them was not so much the accusation itself, but the suspicious way that it suddenly arose and the violence with which Management reacted agianst me. I explain in my report, that is not how they normally operate and it’s a huge coincidence that this complaint arose at that moment in time and in the form that it did. If I had hurled racial abuse at somebody while on duty then I would have been suspended on the spot in that fashion, and would have richly deserved it! All accusations of gross misconduct are acted upon in that way; so, as I said in my report, I have ask myself if my suspension had another motive.

Being instantly suspended in that way was effectively a declaration of war, as was the most serious and hurtful allegation made against me, and also the most outrageous and grotesque, which Trystan does not address in his article: The accusation that I bullied another member of staff. The idea that I would ever do such a thing strikes right at the heart of my persona and self-esteem... and perhaps it’s meant to. It becomes yet more curious when you understand that the “complaint" against me must have been fast-tracked. The Trust receives far more complaints and adverse incident reports than you might think; in fact a figure quoted to me by my union was 30,000 a month. That’s a thousand a day! I can well believe it because I’ve received training in Health and Safety. I was a manual-handling officer and trainer for many years and I’ve had to submit quite a few of these reports myself. I found that the average processing time is about two to three months and this seems to be acceptable. Priority is given to cases of severe clinical hazards that pose severe danger to the wellbeing of patients and personnel. However this complaint against me was dealt with in eight days, maybe sooner because there was a weekend and one day of my leave in between. So my situation was regarded as being of the highest possible importance to Management and it was processed and acted on immediately.

The other night I called a friend in the Truth Movement to tell them what had happened, somebody who used to present an online TV show. They had already found out about my dismissal, but said very forthrightly that they thought there was nothing suspicious about it; they dismissed my concerns and thought that I'd made a mistake. I was dismayed at their attitude, but I didn't get angry with them. I have to accept that not everybody is going to believe me. I can sympathize in a way, especially if one is not familiar with hospitals and how they work. And it is true that I have no direct evidence at all, only overwhelming circumstantial evidence. I still think I did the right thing. I was put on the spot and had to make a decision on what my line of defence would be and I choose that one. I could have ignored all the suspicious coincidences and breaches of normal practice and fought the case on Management's turf, but I chose not to. Whatever the rights and wrongs, it’s over now, for better or worse.

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Saturday, 7 January 2012

How I became an ex-Hospital Porter

Important background article: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-interview-on-critical-mass-show.html Since this radio show was recorded I’ve received confirmation that the case against me was centred around my appearance in the national newsprint media, as I always suspected; this was clearly published in the Management’s case dossier. The only thing revealed to me about the “complaint” against me was an email that was like no other I’ve ever seen from a member of the public. I was told that it was anonymous and it simply read: I have reason to believe that Ben Emlyn-Jones, one of your hospital porters is behaving in an unprofessional manner on the internet. I would not like to visit your hospital with this person as a porter in my care, or one of my family. I thought I would bring this to your attention. Thank you. And it contains a brief list of some of my videos that this “person” feels “concerned” by. However in pride of place at the top of the list is a link to the online edition of my interview in the Wales on Sunday. I’ve seen letters of complaint from members of the public before. They're usually long and rambling and tend to be self-referring, like: "I'm not somebody who often makes complaints, but..." or “This badly affected my experience of being X-rayed...” etc. This email is totally different in style: it’s short, factual and uses terminology more commonly used by political and senior administrative officers than outsiders. This very thin paper trail was to be the backbone of my defence case, and unfortunately it was too thin. Yesterday I was discharged from the Hospital Portering Service. I am now a civilian. I was so mentally exhausted last night when I came home that I only had it in me to write a brief notice on the Voice, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2012/01/porter-no-more.html

I met with my shop steward on Thursday evening to make a plan of action and we totally disagreed on what should be done. Lately he has been coming round to seeing things my way. To begin with he was very sceptical of my suspicions and denied that the newspapers had anything to do with what’s happened to me, but since the dossier came out and my prediction was confirmed he's changed his mind. However he still wanted me not to use that to defend myself and instead try to counter the specifics of the allegations; I, on the other hand, thought it best to refuse to discuss the specific allegations and instead focus on why I thought they were a complete charade to disguise the real reason I was in trouble. I don’t blame my shop steward at all; he advised me and I went against him. However if I’d gone along with his course of action I doubt if the results would have been any different. As I said in the radio interview linked above, I know how NHS management works and I recognize the symptoms of bloodlust when I see them. They wanted me out, and they were determined to get me out! They have a number of methods for doing this and many of them were deployed against me at yesterday’s hearing.

The hearing was due to start at 1.30pm and I felt strangely calm and relaxed as I walked the few miles from my home to the hospital yesterday lunchtime. This was odd because the afternoon before I had been very anxious, dreading what was to come the next day like a dentists appointment. I strolled at a leisurely pace and walked through the parkland and wooded areas on my journey, avoiding the quicker and more direct route along the main roads. For some reason that I couldn’t fathom at the time, I kept humming to myself the song Feed the Birds from the musical Mary Poppins, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABc1-6o9cF0 The hearing was held in one of the conference rooms and was presided over by a squad of six officers from the Trust’s central administration Management. It’s important to realize that this “complaint” had originated from outside the hospital; there's a rumour going round that an MP is involved. Therefore neither the Head Porter nor any of her deputies from my own department, my immediate bosses, were allowed anything to do with it. I was charged under the category of “conduct outside work”, in other words they had no problem at all with the quality of my job or anything else that went on while I was on duty; it was instead alleged that what I was saying and doing in my personal life off-duty had a direct and major impact on the Trust’s reputation and ability to perform its designated purpose. This is a highly unusual situation; most disciplinary cases are very straightforward, for instance: a member of staff turns up for work drunk or steals money from a cashbox etc. When I was first suspended I was given a copy of the NHS’ Disciplinary Action Procedure handbook and under the category of “conduct outside work” it only covers suspected criminal activity. For example, if a member of staff were accused of abusing a child that operative would be suspended to protect the children who were patients, which is fair enough. My case was totally different; it was “conduct outside work” but involved no criminal allegation, and so has no precedent in the published policy.

As I took my place at the table I had a definite strategy at hand. Firstly and throughout the meeting, I kept my gaze fixed on the tabletop in front of me and avoided all eye-contact with the presiding officers. I also kept my hands clasped in front of me and sat straight up in my chair. Many officials in Government operations of all kinds are trained in interrogation techniques, such as reading body-language and subliminally influencing the minds of other people. Organizations like Common Purpose are said run courses in it, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2009/06/alternative-view-ii-part-5.html and even TV celebrities like Derren Brown demonstrate it, see: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/derren-brown-mind-control/4od I was concerned that the people in that meeting room with me might be some of them. From the very start I knew that Management had anticipated my defence from reading my submitted statement, and perhaps also by listening to my radio show or watching HPANWO TV, because the chairman said in his introduction: “It may be necessary for me to remind us all to stay focused on the allegations themselves and not deviate onto supposedly related matters”. The Management’s advocate opened their case by repeating what was written in the dossier. The Wales on Sunday article was mentioned only when the “complaint” letter was dictated and not referred to again. The Management advocate’s whole testimony was based on the notion that some of my HPANWO material was "offensive", most notably my films Microchip a Muslim Day, see: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2010/09/microchip-muslim-day.html , David Icke’s New Book, see: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2010/05/david-ickes-new-book.html and I'm Thinking about Sex, see: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2011/04/im-thinking-about-sex.html There’s no doubt that Management have gone to a lot of expense and effort to build this case against me. They must have set up an entire office for weeks on end to create this file; regular HPANWO-readers will know how many articles and films I’ve made! Despite the 20 billion pounds cut from this year’s NHS budget and staffing levels at an all-time low, the Trust's Management felt that getting rid of me was money and time well spent. How flattering! I remember that this was what happened to Kevin Annett, see: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2011/03/kevin-annett-liverpool-lecture-12311.html . This also brings me back to the question of why I was suspended straight away, without any discussion first. For an employer, suspending somebody is very awkward; it generates a lot of paperwork, takes time and costs a lot of money. It’s something you normally would only do when you have to, if for instance one of your staff has committed an act of gross misconduct, like getting drunk on duty, as I said above. I hadn’t done that, so why didn’t they just ask me nicely first to remove the objectionable material? This is not how they normally operate, and this adds to my suspicion. However, my suspension does make sense if you suppose that their motivation was to break me down psychologically. When I was suspended I was told next to nothing about what I’d done wrong and was left for an entire week at home before they contacted me, to lie awake at night and bite my nails. This is a standard technique used by torturers and interrogators. They always lock their victim up alone in a cell for a while first, to let them “stew in their own juice”. So before the interrogation even begins, the victim is thinking: “What have I done!? What are they going to ask me!? What are they going to do to me!?” and so when they finally come for you you’re “softened up”. I suspect Management hoped that when I walked into the investigation meeting a week later I’d be a nicely-compliant nervous wreck. Well I wasn't! It didn’t work! I was offered a deal: To remove the “offensive” material and they'd reconsider my suspension, which I refused. Firstly I had already guessed that this incident was generated by my appearance in the media and so experience says I was doomed anyway; secondly, they were a bit vague about exactly what they wanted removed. It started with just the Butt vid, but then they said they were concerned that I had my uniform on in a few vids. They could have eventually decided everything I’ve ever done was for the chop; and thirdly I know people, like Kevin Annett whom I mentioned above, who have made a stand against the Man when they’ve had far more to lose financially than I do. I’m in a lower-paid job with no mortgage or anything; I’ve even got a very sympathetic landlord who’s going to let me carry on living where I am for “a few months” without paying rent, so what excuse do I have? How could I look Kevin Annett or Tony Farrell in the face and tell them I was too scared to stand up to all this when they weren’t!?

According to Management my film Microchip a Muslim Day is racist which is complete nonsense! It is, I think, a very obvious anti-racist satire; this is what I intended it to be and this is how I think it comes across. My character is smoking a fake cigarette and wearing pink sunglasses! In that entire series Butt is presented a figure of contempt. The theme of the film is to warn people not to be goaded into feeling hostility for Muslims, or other creeds and colours, which is what our media and political leaders seem to want us to do as a standard divide-and-rule tactic. However when I tried to make this point the Management appeared to feign an attitude of forced obtuseness. The chairman said: “What? It’s a comedy, yet it makes a serious political statement? That’s a contradiction.” I then had to explain, not that the film was a satire, but what satire was! I asked the chairman if he’d ever seen the politically satirical film Dr Strangelove and he replied: “that’s not relevant”. This is a phrase that they would repeat again and again; a tactic to confuse my points and twist facts. In fact using these tactics it’s possible to persuade somebody that almost anything anywhere is offensive! Skeptics are trained in the same methods, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2011/11/london-skeptics-in-pub-141111.html . The other films were supposedly considered unsuitable presumably because I’m unclothed in them, but this is equally ridiculous. I’m not any more unclothed than anybody you’d see in any public swimming pool or on the beach. If I had posted HPANWO TV films of myself naked then YouTube would quickly have removed them and given me a stern warning. There are some online video sites that don’t mind members posting videos of themselves naked, indeed some keenly encourage you to do so! But YouTube is definitely not one of them. At any rate, I refused to say this in the meeting. Apart from my discussion over the Butt film, my policy was not to address the allegations; this was the basis of my defence which I had my chance to present next.

There was one point that my shop steward managed to get struck from the record and that was the most hurtful and insulting allegation of all: That I had bullied another member of staff. What had really happened was that I and another member of staff decided to make a comedy video together for our own mutual amusement and post it on HPANWO TV. This person was a very close friend of mine at work (Still is I hope!) and I’d never dream of doing anything to harm him. This person is a grown man in the same age group as myself; however because he suffers from a comparatively minor learning difficulty and is registered as a vulnerable adult my accusers have reduced this completely harmless, enjoyable and innocent project to some kind of “happy-slapping” attack on my part. Anyway, a member of this person’s family contacted me privately and asked me to remove the video in the first week of my suspension, one of the many peculiar coincidences that have struck in the last couple of months.

My shop steward remained in the room although he didn’t speak at all for this session other than to confirm that I was presenting a case that he did not approve of. I said that I was not going to address the allegations directly because there was a fundamental difference between the Management’s view of matter and my own. I didn’t think it would do any good for my case to “play along” with Management, but instead take a step back and base my defence on the bigger picture. As I said above, my shop steward advised me to cooperate with Management by directly addressing the allegations made. If I did this, he said, I would apparently have stood a good chance of being allowed back to normal duty. After that things would probably return to normal and there’d be no reason to suppose that any further complaints would be made against me. I doubt that very much because what has happened to me has happened to several other people; and the outcome of their own disciplinary procedures has been very different. What I strongly suspect would have happened would be that more complaints would soon be made against me, Management would inevitably make more and more demands of me, want more material removed, and have me jump through more hoops generally. The pressure against me would increase until I either couldn’t face it anymore and resigned of my own accord, or got sacked for some other reason. During the investigation meeting back in October I mentioned that I was suspicious that this “complaint” had been received so soon after I had been featured in the national newsprint media and the investigating officer did not reply. Why was this not revealed to me in the investigation meeting? Why were there no references to it in the report other than the pictures? We have an “elephant in the room” situation here. The only real reason I was in trouble was because of me being in the newspapers. As you can see if you take a look, I’ve been running HPANWO for over 5 years and the HPANWO TV channel for nearly as long. I make no secret of this and have many viewers and readers among the hospital’s staff, including managerial grades, yet nobody has ever complained about me before; not once! Nobody has even approached me privately, in a friendly manner, to warn me that I am breaching regulations with my content. Yet now, less than a month after appearing in the newspapers, complaints are flooding in. Am I supposed to believe that this is some kind of bizarre coincidence? Is it also a coincidence that Kevin Annett and some other people I know of have also been harassed when they start speaking out publically in the media about certain subjects, not just given a reprimand or warning, but threatened with losing their career and livelihood!? It seems that there is a hidden policy in place to destroy the careers of people who talk about certain things openly.

The letter of complaint was very strange in tone, as I’ve said above. I can’t help but wonder if this is a genuine letter of complaint from a member of the public or something contrived and fabricated. I realize now I should have seen this coming because I speak out about the same subjects that the other people I refer to do, and they’ve all either been sacked and dragged through the courts or threatened with being sacked and dragged through the courts. These secretly-taboo subjects are, among other things:
1. That children are being abused, and even sometimes murdered, on an institutional level by the state, corporations and Churches.
2. That the attacks on the United States of America on September the 11th 2001 were a false flag military operation carried out by the government itself, rather than the crimes of foreign terrorists.
3. That the Unidentified Flying Objects that are becoming more and more common in the skies above our heads are actually the artefacts of an extraterrestrial civilization, or one that might be “otherworldly” in a different way.
(In my statement underneath all that I wrote: “This list is not exhaustive”. It was a bit of a micky-take and confidence booster because this is a catchphrase Management always likes to use in its documents!)
I added that if the notions on the list above are all “wacko”, “conspiracy theories”, the work of “nut-jobs” etc, then why are our leaders so defensive about them? What I was being accused of here is a Thoughtcrime. I think I’m being persecuted for my beliefs. For example, did the “letter of complaint” include a link to my film Butt’s Winter Wonderland because of Butt’s foul mouth or because the film is a satire against the prevailing theory of man-made climate change? Everything about this case indicated that this is what was happening to me. What is happening here is that people are expected not to express certain viewpoints about certain subjects when off-duty. This is a Thoughtcrime by every definition of the word. I have a completely clean work record and am respected by many of my colleagues, both Portering and civilian. I’ve been running the HPANWO franchise for over 5 years so the question that you should be asking, and any behavioural psychologist will back me up on this, is not: “Does it call into question his ability to perform his duties in the future?” but: “Has it done in the past?” And the answer is an undeniable and resounding “no”. In Devon there’s an MP called Dr Sarah Wollaston who is not only a Member of Parliament with very outspoken anti-establishment views, and who is very critical of current Government NHS policy, but she’s also a practicing GP. I might also add the example of one of the John Radcliffe’s favourite sons and a well-known local character, Dr Evan Harris, until recently another MP and still a man with staunch political views. So you see, if these two people are allowed to be part of an NHS profession and hold political views outside their working hours then so can I. I was always professional and respectful to the patients and other staff. I didn’t preach the subjects I talk about on HPANWO to them when I was on duty. I have never given any cause for complaint in what I do when I’m off-duty before so there’s no reason to think I will do so in the future. The evidence provided in the dossier looks suspiciously like a fabrication and the timing of this incident is beyond what any reasonable person would dismiss as coincidence. For this reason I categorically and emphatically rejected all the allegations made against me.

The chairman listened carefully to me and then replied: “So you don’t want to offer any defence against these allegations?” I answered that this was my defence. He responded: “No, this is not a defence, this is just a reason why you don’t want to make a defence.” I disputed that and the argument went round in circles. Eventually I managed to get Management to respond to my points, but their response was to state that it was not their concern and so not relevent. On the nature of the email they said: “Our job is to investigate complaints made by clients and members of the public. It’s not our place to speculate on whether the letter was written in a particular tone or how long it was or what words it used. All that concerns us is that the complaint was made.” They also dismissed my concerns over the coincidental timing of the “complaint”: “It’s not a part of our duty to ask questions like that. Our duty is to investigate complaints and a complaint has been made. It doesn’t matter when, where or how. It doesn’t matter how it relates to the timing of other events in your personal life.” And so this went on like a stuck record. I suddenly realized that I believed them! These are not the people who want me out of the Hosptial Portering Service; these are the people who were automatically enforcing the will of whoever it was above them who had demanded my removal from the Hospital Portering Service. I doubt if they know any more about the email of “complaint” than I do. They’ve just been told that their superiors want something done and so they do it, with the obedience of soldiers on a parade ground. It is these long, exponentially-increasing networks of administrators and jobsworths that allow a very small number of Elite individuals to impose their will on a vast population. It’s also why this system reacts so brutally against anyone in that chain who doesn’t play their assigned role of obedience; like Kevin, Tony Farrell and me. We are literally fatal to its function.

After this session we took a half-hour break while the panel considered, and then I was called in and the meeting reconvened for the decision. The tone became very formal, like a Crown courtroom with the chairman like a judge. I amused myself by imagining that he had a black cap over his head sentencing me to be hanged. He said that he had given me every attempt available to submit a defence and I had not done so; this is untrue, but, as I said, they refused to accept my defence as a relevant testimony. “You clearly believe that you are the victim of some kind of conspiracy.” He said (“Ha ha!” everybody else thought!). “But we’re not here to listen to a defence based on your beliefs; we are here to consider these allegations based on agreed facts and nothing else; therefore you have not defended yourself at all against these allegations. So therefore my decision is that you are to be deseconded from the company and dismissed from the Oxford University and Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust.” I then realized that what had happened was something I knew all along would happen. All I could do at that point was to make sure that I was discharged with as much dignity as I’d always tried to serve. They asked me if there were any personal belongings in my locker and I told them that I had a brew-kit consisting of some teabags, coffee, powdered milk and sugar; and that I’d like to donate those to the other Porters. When I was asked if there was anything else I'd like to say I replied: “I’d just like to say that if anybody in this room is unhappy with what has taken place here today, and you have any information you think I should know, then please contact me privately in the strictest of confidence.” It was by now almost 5PM, and I was then solemnly escorted to the site entrance from where I walked home.

I don’t feel as sad I thought I would. I think that this experience has taught me that a lot of what I’ve loved about being in Portering has already been lost, and lost a long time before I was called into the Head Porter's office that night last October and suspended. It’s withered slowly over the last few years. A lot of the camaraderie and fun has gone out of the job, and this goes for nursing, medicine and many other NHS professions too. Low pay, more difficult management systems and increasing workload have taken most of the enjoyment out of being in the Health Service. Nowadays people don’t have the time or energy to play; they have to “meet targets” and “deliver services” and “maintain budgets”, and that’s those who are lucky enough to have contracts and are not just seconded from some poxy casual agency. It’s very synchronous that a week or so after I was suspended I heard that the hospital’s Social Club is going to close down in March (See: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2011/05/st-theos-day-party-2011.html) Estates are withdrawing the lease. I’m frankly surprised that it has lasted this long with the lack of interest in it from the staff. I’ve known people who’ve been at the JR for years and when I mention it they reply: “The Social Club? What’s that?” When I joined the JR the location of the Social Club was an essential part of your basic orientation! Apparently the JRSSC is one of the last social clubs in any NHS hospital in the country. 20 years ago all of Oxford’s four major hospitals along with the JR: the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, the Churchill and the Radcliffe Infirmary had social clubs. This is a very poignant and revealing symptom of the breakdown of community spirit at hospitals. They’ve lost their soul. This is not by accident, it is by deliberate design, but none of it would be possible without the obedient and robotic rubber-stampers like the ones who have just taken Portering away from me. And this is why I have no regrets about what I did.

This is despite the fact that I also face major financial challenges now as my income stops. I have to find a new one, build a new monetary life for myself. But as I said above, my financial problems are minor compared to other people who have stood up against the hideous machine that society has been made into, so I have to follow in their footsteps. I’ve always said on HPANWO that words are no good unless they inspire action. I’ve done an awful lot of waffling on HPANWO these last 5 years! But waffle is all it is unless I’m willing to do something, to model my own life on my knowledge and principles at a practical level. I feel satisfaction for having done that. In fact if I wasn’t willing to do that then everything I’ve ever written or filmed is worthless and I might as well throw it all away. I should try to remain positive about the future; fortune favours the bold, as they say. When I posted my HPANWO Voice notice on Facebook last night somebody replied: “Maybe this is a time to start writing, Ben”, and maybe that’s true. Perhaps I should see this as an opportunity, an adventure. This experience may liberate tremendous creative forces in my life. In a few years time I might look back and think: “I’m glad that happened!”

One thing I have to do is not to give in to what Andy Thomas talks about when he says: “everything is designed to break our spirit”. I must maintain my identity and personal integrity at all costs. Whatever floods wash over me I must not be carried away with them. I must not be tempted into the seductive lair of Conformism. Maybe this was why that song Feed the Birds was going through my head as I walked to the hospital to attend my hearing. The song is about an old woman who sits on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral in London and sells birdseed to people for 2d a bag, hence the lyrics: “Feed the birds. Twopence a bag”. In the scene in the story, the two children whom Mary Poppins cares for are given twopence by their father and are then faced with a choice: Whether to buy a bag of the old lady’s birdseed or invest it in the bank. The following scene has song about investing money in the bank which is a brilliant satire of materialism, “Twopence, frugally invested in the bank...” see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wzTdW5_2vo This illustrates the choice given to the children in the story: follow the Conformist path to materialism or do something more spontaneous, more spiritual, more free-thinking, more compassionate and emotional, more human. I think I now have that choice too and that song popping into my head was my subconscious mind telling me so!

On a final note, I’d like to think all HPANWO-readers, all HPANWO TV-viewers, all HPANWO Forum-members who have supported and consoled me over these past couple of months. And of course I'd like to pay homage to all my Extremely Proud and Dignified Brother and Sister Hospital Porters. It was an honour to serve alongside you and I intend to stay in touch with you all. Nobody can take you away from me!

Latest HPANWO Voice articles: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2012/01/porter-no-more.html
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And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-years-day-2012-race-to-line.html
And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-come-woo-woos-never-see-santa-claus.html

Latest HPANWO TV films: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2011/12/its-now-2012.html
And: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2011/12/its-christmas-day.html
And: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-lights.html
And: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-winter-solstice-2011.html