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We are heading into one of the most epic famines in world history, where the poor will freeze in the dark and burn in the sun while they starve.
Michael Yon, one of America’s youngest Green Berets at 19 years old, joins Dr Jordan B Peterson to discuss the current state of affairs across the globe.
Michael has traveled and lived over half of his life abroad in more than 80 countries. Author of three books in the United States and three others in Japan, he is America’s most experienced combat correspondent.
‘Aids and Abet: The Truth About AIDS’ is a lengthy documentary that unveils the crimes and frauds that were committed by the medical establishment, completely disproves the ‘HIV=AIDS’ model, and conveys the truth regarding the real reason why people developed the symptoms that are commonly associated with ‘AIDS.’
‘Aids and Abet: The Truth About AIDS’ is part of our new series - The Real Cause Of Disease - RealEyesation Specials. Obscurations of modern vested interests have mislead the world into believing the lies that pertain to the causes of disease.
The real causes however, do not relate to any foreign invaders, as the Germ Theory has postulated for a great many years. In this series we will go through each and every commonly known disease and we will unravel the truth that lies beneath the consensual narrative. Whereby you will be able to apply the principle of Ockham’s Razor, and understand the truth for yourself.
Articles and resources mentioned in the video:
• https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/previ....ew/mmwrhtml/rr5710a2
• https://www.fda.gov/media/73256/download
• http://www.theperthgroup.com/C....ONTINUUM/Papadopolou
• https://academic.oup.com/jid/a....rticle/194/10/1450/8
• https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/previ....ew/mmwrhtml/june_5.h
• https://archives.drugabuse.gov..../sites/default/files
• https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/....10.1056/NEJM19811210
• http://www.ummafrapp.de/skanda....l/haart/the_failure_
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12799487/
• https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/....10.1056/NEJM19870723
Recommended books:
Virus Mania, by Torsten Engelbrecht & Claus Köhnlein:
https://www.goodreads.com/book..../show/2498755.Virus_
The Aids War, by John Lauritsen:
https://www.goodreads.com/book..../show/1399719.The_AI
The Contagion Myth, by Dr. Tom Cowan & Sally Fallon Morell:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54786062-the-contagion-myth?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=U8vnoLsstn&rank=1
Inventing The AIDS Virus, By Dr. Peter Duesberg:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79375.Inventing_the_AIDS_Virus?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=wZYgnlKZqE&rank=1
And The Band Played On, by Randy Shilts:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28212.And_the_Band_Played_On?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=QyVEvKdAR7&rank=1
Good Intentions, by Bruce Nussbaum:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2421929.Good_Intentions?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=lr3aXbu5Gp&rank=2
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https://realeyesation.com/status-quo/ and discover more about the world of esoteric philosophy!
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https://realeyesation.com/blog....-en/what-is-healthy-
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Is this how it all started? The mystery of human origins. Where did we come from? With many leading explanations being highly improbable.. Could this be the missing piece to the puzzle?
The 5th Kind Presents: Improbable Cause - A Film & Animation by Giovanni Lodigiani. Music Credits: https://www.trax4pro.com/ - Pro Tracks Available for Licence and use your own Projects. Visit the website for more information.
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Strikes have been removed so I can now post this here! The book, that the great prophet, Dani’el was told to seal, has been unsealed! By Yahuwah’s great mercy and kindness, through HIS Ruach Ha Qodesh, by faith in Yahushua Ha Mashiach, He has completely, revealed the fullness of the end time deception. You do not want to miss watching this. You can also order the ‘Abomination of Desolation’ on DVD order by email at emailus@FollowersofYah.com.
Disclaimer: we here at FOY, feel strongly against receiving anything that can alter one's DNA. However, with that said, we by no means can pass judgment on any individual person as Yahuwah is the Judge. One's Salvation is based on belief in Yahushua Ha Mashiach.
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Martin Miller
Session Band plays Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. Recorded live at
Weltklang Studio, Plauen on 10th August 2017.
Track List:
1. Speak to Me
2. Breathe
3. On the Run
4. Time
5. The Great Gig in the Sky
6. Money
7. Us and Them
8. Any Color You Like
9. Brain Damage
10. Eclipse
Martin Miller - Guitar & Vocals (http://www.martinmillerguitar.com)
Felix Lehrmann - Drums
Benni Jud - Bass (https://www.bennijud.com/)
Marius Leicht - Keyboards & Vocals
Special Guests:
Jenny Marsala - Vocals (
/ jennymarsala
http://www.instagram.com/jenny_marsala)
Michal Skulski - Saxophone
Studio: Weltklang Studio, Plauen (Germany)
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André Gorjatschow - Director & Camera
Dirk Meinel, Christian Roscher - Audio Engineering
Matthias Prokop, Morgan Reid, Susanne Bartels, Josh McMorran - Camera
Ulrich Wichmann - Camera Assistant
Audio mix & video edit - Martin Miller
Additional Guitars - Martin Miller
Additional Keyboards - Marius Leicht
Background Vocals - Matthias Prokop & Martin Miller
Spoken Words - Levi Clay, Cheryl Harford, Fenn Alexander, Mike McLaughlin
Geoengineering Chemtrails Expert Rosalind Peterson - Alex Jones Infowars Documentary,
United States citizen scientist, researcher, and anti-geoengineering activist, Rosalind Peterson of Mendocino, California, proved both pioneer and prophet.
She helped catalyze a global grassroots anti-geoengineering movement through her decades-long work crusading for clearer skies, cleaner water, healthier trees and plants, and a more resilient planet free of geoengineering fallout. Peterson combined scientific data collection and research, publishing, public speaking, and political advocacy to educate the world about the many negative environmental consequences of clandestine geoengineering.
Founder of the California Skywatch in 2002 and the Agricultural Defense Coalition in 2006, Peterson built an extensive collection of multimedia materials over three decades, now being archived and curated through Our Geoengineering Age for public use by the global scientific community. As an initial “sort” of her extensive archival collection reveals, Peterson proved a tenacious and courageous citizen scientist who wore many hats: environmentalist, photographer, field scientist/researcher, writer, speaker, and activist/publicist.
Peterson’s decades-long effort to uncover the myriad toxic environmental impacts of clandestine geoengineering also provides a compelling, scientifically researched alternative to the widely accepted theory advanced by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that global warming is primarily caused by anthropogenically released carbon dioxide.
This documentary brings up several questions about the secret space program: what it is, who is behind it and why Is there a human civilization living off-world with highly advanced technology and knowledge about the existence of aliens Why are we being kept in the dark?
The moovie exposes the fact that the NASA space program is actually a continuation of the Space Projects funded by the Royal-Bavarian Elite, who, under the custodianship of Hitler and Himmler planned to voyage to the Moon and create a LUNAR BASE. Project Paperclip, the Van Allen Radiation Belts and literally dozens upon dozens of UFO clips filmed from aboard the flight-deck of the SPACE SHUTTLE by NASA astronauts makes this motion picture documentary a special collector's item.
…as David Icke, Jaime Maussan, Marcus Allen and Valery Uvarov spoke, the veil of secrecy at NASA, the sordid history of the ex NAZI SS Officers at the heart of the Apollo Space Missions and the interplay of Masonic symbolism in the names of rockets and spacecraft all started to become frighteningly clear. Chris Everard presents what can only be described as the most startling UFO footage ever seen.
The Space Serpents flying around the upper atmosphere have to be seen to be believed. What’s more, is that all the UFO clips come direct from NASA – filmed by astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle! I must admit that I originally thought the premise for this film was ridiculous. Two hours later, I found myself staring blankly at the end credits. My phone rang unanswered. I lit my first cigarette for 20 years and realised that some kind of Alien Invasion is happening. Colonel Philip Corso was right. They’re Here!”
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Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China served the “strategic interests” of the country’s communist government and military — and may have imperiled American national security, claims a new documentary exclusively previewed by The Post.
“Riding the Dragon: The Bidens’ Chinese Secrets” highlights several deals that Hunter Biden was involved in as a board member of the Beijing-based BHR Partners investment firm.
The film also alleges that Hunter was only able to get meetings with Chinese officials — and secure $1 billion in funding — “because of who his father was: vice president of the United States” and then-President Barack Obama’s “point person on US policy towards China.”
The 41-minute documentary is narrated by best-selling writer Peter Schweizer, who authored 2015’s “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich” and has previously written about Hunter’s business dealings in China.
Under any circumstances should you watch this movie if you want to stay in your pleasant state of hypnosis, which you allowed yourself to be implanted by the tyranny and totalitarianism of the psychopathic elites of the modern world.
The Great Awakening is the third installment of the Plandemic series. This documentary experience assembles forbidden puzzle pieces to reveal the big picture of what's really happening in America and beyond. The Great Awakening is intended to be a lighthouse to guide us out of the storm and into a brighter future.
https://plandemicseries.com/wa....tch-the-great-awaken
Over the past year the sporting world has witnessed an alarming increase in the number of professional athletes (and fans alike) suffering from cardiac arrest and other serious health complications. In this exclusive interview, Matt Le Tissier provides his view on what has been happening over the last year in sport.
Le Tissier is a former professional footballer and television pundit. Renowned as a creative attacking midfielder with exceptional technical skills, Le Tissier is the second-highest ever goal scorer for Southampton; where he spent his entire professional club career. He was voted PFA Young Player of the Year in 1990 and was the first midfielder to score 100 goals in the Premier League.
Following his retirement as a player, Le Tissier became a football pundit, and worked as a panellist on the Sky Sports show Soccer Saturday until August 2020.
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RESOURCE: https://www.oraclefilms.com/ma....ttletissier?fbclid=I
Who is Bill Gates? A software developer? A businessman? A philanthropist? A global health expert?
This question, once merely academic, is becoming a very real question for those who are beginning to realise that Gates' unimaginable wealth has been used to gain control over every corner of the fields of public health, medical research and vaccine development.
And now that we are presented with the very problem that Gates has been talking about for years, we will soon find that this software developer with no medical training is going to leverage that wealth into control over the fates of billions of people.
GATES: [. . .] because until we get almost everybody vaccinated globally, we still won't be fully back to normal.
STEVE JOBS: We're going to be working together on Microsoft Office, on Internet Explorer, on Java, and I think that it's going to lead to a very healthy relationship. So it's a package announcement today. We're very, very happy about it, we're very, very excited about it. And I happen to have a special guest with me today via satellite downlink, and if we could get him up on the stage right now.
The work of two research groups was crucial in shaping the decision of the UK and US governments to implement wide-ranging lockdowns, and, in turn, governments around the world. The first group, the Imperial College COVID-19 Research Team, issued a report on March 16th that predicted up to 500,000 deaths in the UK and 2.2 million deaths in the US unless strict government measures were put in place.
The second group, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Bill Gates' home state of Washington, helped provide data that corroborated the White House's initial estimates of the virus' effects, estimates that have been repeatedly downgraded as the situation has progressed.
Unsurprisingly, the Gates Foundation has injected substantial sums of money into both groups. This year alone, the Gates Foundation has already given $79 million to Imperial College, and in 2017 the Foundation announced a $279 million investment into the IHME to expand its work collecting health data and creating models.
Anthony Fauci, meanwhile, has become the face of the US government's coronavirus response, echoing Bill Gates' assertion that the country will not "get back to normal" until "a good vaccine" can be found to insure the public's safety.
RESOURCES: https://www.corbettreport.com/gateshealth/
Delicate Sound of Thunder is a concert film by Pink Floyd, filmed during their A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour from 19 August 1988 to 23 August 1988 at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, with some additional footage from 21–22 June 1988 at the Place d'Armes of the Château de Versailles, Versailles, France. It was initially released on VHS, Video CD and Laserdisc formats. The film was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video at the 32nd Annual Grammy Awards.
The film was reissued on DVD and Blu-ray in 2019 as part of The Later Years 1987–2019 box set. This version was fully re-edited, remastered and restored from the original 35 mm film, and featured the fully remixed audio from the 2019 CD album. On 20 November 2020, a standalone version of the 2019 edit of the film was released, along with a deluxe box set containing both the DVD and Blu-Ray discs, as well as the album on CD and a 40-page booklet.
Track listing
1 "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part I intro)"
2 "Signs of Life"
3 "Learning to Fly"
4 "Sorrow"
5 "The Dogs of War"
6 "On the Turning Away"
7 "One of These Days"
8 "Time"
9 "On the Run"
10 "The Great Gig in the Sky"
11 "Wish You Were Here"
12 "Us and Them"
13 "Money" NTSC USA version only
14 "Comfortably Numb"
15 "One Slip"
16 "Run Like Hell"
17 "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts II-V)" (audio only; end credits)
The band line-up:
David Gilmour - guitars, console steel guitar, vocals
Nick Mason - drums
Richard Wright – keyboards, piano, Hammond organ, vocals
with:
Tim Renwick – guitars, vocals
Jon Carin – keyboards, piano, programming, vocals
Scott Page – saxophones, oboe, guitar
Guy Pratt – bass, vocals
Gary Wallis – percussion, additional keyboards on "Comfortably Numb"
Machan Taylor – backing vocals, lead vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky (third verse)
Rachel Fury – backing vocals, lead vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky (first verse)
Durga McBroom – backing vocals, lead vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky (second verse)
The vinyl edition of Delicate Sound of Thunder features nine additional performances not included on the original double album. This 23-track count is the same as the new double-CD set. Additionally, the three-album set is packaged in a slip case, includes a 24-page booklet and the albums are housed in poly-lined sleeves in individual album jackets. The albums are pressed on 180-gram vinyl and the tracks were remixed from the original master tapes.
Pink Floyd’s performances were taken from five August 1988 shows at the Nassau Coliseum in New York, on the heels of the release of 1987’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason – their first album after the departure of Roger Waters. The core group of David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright was joined by Jon Carin, Tim Renwick, Guy Pratt, Gary Wallis and Scott Page, with Margret Taylor, Rachel Fury and Durga McBroom on backing vocals.
Delicate Sound of Thunder kicks off with “Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts 1-5” and then for the rest of the first album and Side A of the second album, there are 10 songs from Momentary Lapse of Reason. After the only song that dates to Pink Floyd’s early career, “One of These Days” from Meddle, the rest of the set features music from Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, and then one more song from A Momentary Lapse of Reason. There are no songs from Animals or The Final Cut.
Not only are there additional performances included on this reissue, but several tracks – “Sorrow,” “On the Turning Away,” “Comfortably Numb,” “Dogs of War,” “Another Brick in the Wall, (Part Two),” “Us and Them,” “Run Like Hell” and “Time” – feature unedited versions available now for the first time on vinyl. Occasional editing has been done to remove an ’80s-era musical gloss that sometimes marred the original performances, notably on “Money” and “Learning to Fly.”
Hearing these tracks in their remixed and in some cases dramatically changed ways, straight through on all three vinyl discs, is about the best official live album Pink Floyd audio experience – outside of the rare Pulse four-LP analog vinyl set.
Delicate Sound of Thunder is, in fact, one of only three official stand-alone live Pink Floyd albums. Pulse was released in 1995 as a four-LP or two-CD set from the tour to support The Division Bell, another post-Roger Waters project. The third is Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81, released on CD in 2000. Prior to that, one disc of the 1969 double-album Ummagumma contained live material.
Neither Is There Anybody Out There? nor Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii – originally issued in 1972 on film with a subsequent releases on DVD in 2000 and on compact disc in 2016 as part of The Early Years box – has been reissued on vinyl. Pink Floyd fans, I’m sure, would love to have all of this concert material on their turntables in the future.
There is also a wide assortment of live material from many periods in Pink Floyd’s career to draw from on the Early Years and Later Years sets that would make for excellent vinyl releases. Who knows what else lurks in the vast Pink Floyd archives? Releasing the new mix of A Momentary Lapse of Reason would be the most obvious next vinyl project that fans would love to see.
Wim Hof is a Dutch world record holder, adventurer and daredevil, commonly nicknamed the Iceman for his ability to withstand extreme cold.
Undoubtedly one of the most fascinating guests ever to have appeared on the JRE, Wim Hof is a Dutch extreme athlete nicknamed The Iceman for his incredible ability to thrive in completely inhospitable temperatures.
Hof espouses the benefits of learning to control your breathing through a meditative system he refers to as the Wim Hof Method, in which he denotes just how important one's mental state is in influencing physical performance.
Like many of the other athletes featured on this list, listening to Hof isn't just motivational for the things that he has achieved, but rather the perspectives he offers to help you or me to achieve feats that we didn't believe possible.
Joe has shown repeatedly throughout the years that the quality of the podcast significantly improves the more he appears to respect the guest which is particularly evident here. If anyone is looking for a way to better endure physical pain, while also becoming more in tune with their thoughts this podcast is a must-watch.
RESOURCE: Joe Rogan Experience #712
This documentary from Jeff Orlowski explores how addiction and privacy breaches are features, not bugs, of social media platforms.
That social media can be addictive and creepy isn’t a revelation to anyone who uses Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the like. But in Jeff Orlowski’s documentary “The Social Dilemma,” conscientious defectors from these companies explain that the perniciousness of social networking platforms is a feature, not a bug.
They claim that the manipulation of human behavior for profit is coded into these companies with Machiavellian precision: Infinite scrolling and push notifications keep users constantly engaged; personalized recommendations use data not just to predict but also to influence our actions, turning users into easy prey for advertisers and propagandists.
As in his documentaries about climate change, “Chasing Ice” and “Chasing Coral,” Orlowski takes a reality that can seem too colossal and abstract for a layperson to grasp, let alone care about, and scales it down to a human level. In “The Social Dilemma,” he recasts one of the oldest tropes of the horror genre — Dr. Frankenstein, the scientist who went too far — for the digital age.
In briskly edited interviews, Orlowski speaks with men and (a few) women who helped build social media and now fear the effects of their creations on users’ mental health and the foundations of democracy. They deliver their cautionary testimonies with the force of a start-up pitch, employing crisp aphorisms and pithy analogies.
“Never before in history have 50 designers made decisions that would have an impact on two billion people,” says Tristan Harris, a former design ethicist at Google. Anna Lembke, an addiction expert at Stanford University, explains that these companies exploit the brain’s evolutionary need for interpersonal connection. And Roger McNamee, an early investor in Facebook, delivers a chilling allegation: Russia didn’t hack Facebook; it simply used the platform.
Much of this is familiar, but “The Social Dilemma” goes the extra explainer-mile by interspersing the interviews with P.S.A.-style fictional scenes of a suburban family suffering the consequences of social-media addiction. There are silent dinners, a pubescent daughter (Sophia Hammons) with self-image issues and a teenage son (Skyler Gisondo) who’s radicalized by YouTube recommendations promoting a vague ideology.
This fictionalized narrative exemplifies the limitations of the documentary’s sometimes hyperbolic emphasis on the medium at the expense of the message. For instance, the movie’s interlocutors pin an increase in mental illness on social media usage yet don’t acknowledge factors like a rise in economic insecurity. Polarization, riots and protests are presented as particular symptoms of the social-media era without historical context.
Despite their vehement criticisms, the interviewees in “The Social Dilemma” are not all doomsayers; many suggest that with the right changes, we can salvage the good of social media without the bad. But the grab bag of personal and political solutions they present in the film confuses two distinct targets of critique: the technology that causes destructive behaviors and the culture of unchecked capitalism that produces it.
Nevertheless, “The Social Dilemma” is remarkably effective in sounding the alarm about the incursion of data mining and manipulative technology into our social lives and beyond. Orlowski’s film is itself not spared by the phenomenon it scrutinizes. The movie is streaming on Netflix, where it’ll become another node in the service’s data-based algorithm.
REVIEW RESOURCE: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0....9/09/movies/the-soci
‘The Truth Illusion’ investigates one of the most profound questions that philosophers through the ages have tried to address. From Plato to Immanuel Kant to Gilles Deleuze, thinkers have asked: what can we prove to be the truth?
The investigation examines these questions in the context of United States today. Is it possible, in such a deeply divided society, for people to view different "realities"?
The documentary by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit features commentary from philosophers, psychologists, social scientists and political commentators who discuss how the U.S. is now riven by radically differing views on what is real, and what is not.
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SUPPRESSED SECRET TECHNOLOGIES Med Beds, Replicators, Free Energy, Stargates & Antigravity
Top secret Advanced Technologies involving; Advanced Healing Devices, Replicators and Free Energy. Featuring Emery Smith and Corey Goode.
If you don't like what I like, just remember that it's not my problem and that I never signed a contract with you to take responsibility over your happiness - you do you, boo, and leave the rest of us to our rights to be true to our own realities which you have no rights over.
A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world. The Oscar-winning The Times of Harvey Milk, directed by Robert Epstein and produced by Richard Schmiechen, was as groundbreaking as its subject.
One of the first feature documentaries to address gay life in America, it’s a work of advocacy itself, bringing Milk’s message of hope and equality to a wider audience. This exhilarating trove of original documentary material and archival footage is as much a vivid portrait of a time and place (San Francisco’s historic Castro District in the seventies) as a testament to the legacy of a political visionary.
This documentary examines the political life of the self-proclaimed "Mayor Of Castro Street," N.Y. stockbroker turned San Francisco activist Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician elected to public office in California. Milk was elected to a City Supervisor position in the '70s, when a successful gay politician was an anomaly, but Milk made the most of his brief time in power. When Dan White killed Milk and Mayor George Moscone, the loss experienced by Milk's supporters was profound.
White robbed the gay-rights movement of a charismatic leader and eloquent voice, but he accidentally gave it something a smart political operative like Milk would surely have appreciated the power and value of: a bona fide martyr.
Based upon Theosophy (the Secret Doctrine) this documentary focuses on the evolution of consciousness over millions of years while revealing the secret chronology of human history from ancient Lemuria and Atlantis to our current root race, while following the natural cyclic deluges between races.
It’s a commonplace to hear people say movies changed their life, but with Owen Suskind that statement is meaningful in an unexpectedly profound way. His remarkable story is so unusual you would dismiss it out of hand if it were fiction, but the documentary “Life, Animated” demonstrates that it’s completely true.
Not just any films changed Suskind’s life, but rather the classic animated features from the Walt Disney Company. Films like “Dumbo,” “Bambi,” “Peter Pan,” “The Lion King” and “Aladdin.” You’ve probably watched them yourself. But Owen Suskind has not just watched them, he’s absorbed them so completely he’s practically lived them.
As directed by Roger Ross Williams (who won Sundance’s documentary director prize) and based on the bestselling book by Owen’s father, Ron Suskind, “Life, Animated” joins Owen’s life at a pivotal moment and shows us where he’s been and what his future looks like.
At 23, Owen Suskind is a cheerful and energetic young man who wears his autism lightly. He has a girlfriend, is just finishing school and is nervous and excited about living by himself for the first time in an assisted living facility on Massachusetts’ Cape Cod.
Owen talks to himself when he’s anxious, but almost exclusively in the dialogue of Disney films. He has seen them so many times he’s memorized every word, and no wonder. They have proved to be a lifeline that has brought him back to the world and helped him make sense of it.
When we first meet Owen, it’s in a family home movie, an antic 2-year-old being read to by his father. Then, without warning, at age 3, this lively boy stopped talking entirely.
“His language processes broke down,” says his mother, Cornelia, who still tears up at the memory, while father Ron says it was as if his son “vanished,” adding “it was like looking for clues to a kidnapping.”
Doctors were initially baffled as well, eventually diagnosing “pervasive developmental disorder,” where the world and its noise become too intense.
One of the only things the Suskinds, including older brother Walt, could still do as a family was watch the Disney family movies Owen had always loved, and they did.
The specific circumstances and episodes of how Owen returned to speech are so remarkable they’re best left to be discovered in the film, but though he did return, it did not mean that things would always go smoothly for him, either as the child he was or the young adult he now is.
No matter what Owen is dealing with, starting with childhood bullying when he “walked the halls of fear” or more adult problems that make him wonder “why is life so full of unfair pain and tragedy,” he uses his Disney animation fascination to work through it.
As a child, for instance, he created an entire cartoon universe he called “The Land of the Lost Sidekicks” and cast himself as the protector of sidekicks against the evil Fuzzbutch. One of “Life, Animated’s” loveliest touches is a beautiful animated sequence, created by France’s Mac Guff Animation, that brings that world completely to life.
Better even than the animation, however, is the sense of the people involved that the film provides, especially of Owen, a remarkable young man who, as director Williams says, “has raw emotions - he doesn’t have filters.”
Williams, whose last feature-length documentary was the very different “God Loves Uganda,” an exposé of how evangelical fundamentalists demonized homosexuality, spent two years on this project, and the trust everyone involved placed in him allowed for an emotional honesty that is “Life, Animated’s” greatest strength.
By the time Owen says, “the future? I’m still searching for it,” we feel his life is in very good hands. His own
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The documentary “Second Opinion: Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering” examines a brief period in the 1970s when a respected doctor’s research into the unconventional, often-banned and quack-labeled therapy laetrile — a modified chemical substance found in apricot pits — appeared to promise a remedy for cancer patients. (Results showed slower tumor growth in mice.)
The movie’s central figure is Ralph W. Moss, who recounts his stint as Memorial Sloan Kettering’s head public relations guy and his bristling at the New York institute’s effort to squelch the findings of Dr. Kanematsu Sugiura, a 60-year veteran of the center and a pioneer in the use of chemotherapy to treat cancer.
Moss took the whistle-blower route, first secretively (starting an underground publication called Second Opinion) and then openly, which cost him his job, and it’s all director Eric Merola can do to give this story the feeling of “The Insider.”
It’s an intriguing tale, for sure, but “Second Opinion” isn’t journalism, because only Moss, his family and a supportive cohort or two are interviewed. We don’t hear from anyone on the other side of the story. The film isn’t history either, since little else about the long campaign to legitimize laetrile is explored. This one’s for the conspiracy-minded only.
Ralph W. Moss PhD, a young and eager science writer, was hired by Sloan-Kettering's public relations department in 1974 to help brief the American public on the center's contribution to the War On Cancer. One of his first assignments was to write a biography about Dr. Kanematsu Sugiura, one of the Center's oldest and leading research scientists as well as the original co-inventor of chemotherapy.
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