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Mike Pike
148 Views · 3 years ago

The Premise
Watts began the lecture noting that the extension of the network by electronics may abolish individual privacy. During the lecture, he made some astonishing predictions about the world we live in today.

The Approximate Time and Place
Watts died in 1973, it is safe to say that the lecture that this information was summarized from was delivered to a group of people, in the afternoon sometime in the late ‘60s or early ’70s near a military base. The author is vague about the year but specific on the time of day only because of clues heard in the recording. At the beginning of the talk Watts states that during a lecture that morning the subject of privacy had come up and he was going to address it now. In the middle of the lecture, a jet is heard to roar overhead. Followed by silence then Watts exclaims, “Complete with bombs!”

The Predictions
Watts with the help of some futurist and possibly advertising from Bell Telephone Watts predicted a few familiar devices we use every day and some still futuristic devices and processes. Some predictions were very accurate, some are still waiting for the right time to appear.

Your Information is Out There
Even in the 1960s insurance agencies, credit agencies, law enforcement, and all manner of the establishment were collecting information on people and reducing the information into computer data. Watts warned that an enormous amount of information can be instantly known. At the time that progress was made using keypunch operators and very little networking. Watts never imagined the information we would freely divulge instantenously today.

Desk Top Computers
Watts described the desktop pretty accurately as a box on your desk with a TV screen and a dial. With this, you could send a code to the Library of Congress and Read any Book ever written. If he added a typewriter to the equation he would have had everything correct.

Mobile Telephones
Alan Watts just about nailed this, here are his words:
“…they project that not many years hence the ordinary telephone will disappear and every individual will carry it around with him a thing about the size of the old pocket watches one side of it will be a TV screen and a speaker the other side of it will be a set of buttons over which you just place your finger to activate them you will be able to dial world information who will give you the number of any given individual if he doesn’t answer he’s dead…”

Holograms or Zoom Meetings
Watts had great hope for perfect holograms that he described as TV with laser beams. He noted that if reproduction could become technically perfect, that will be a new kind of confusion.
“We can easily take this a step further when we develop a form of electronic communication such that you don’t even need to take a plane you want to see supposing I want to see my father in England we both have these laser beam TV jobs and just like that I can recreate in front of him myself and my exact environment everything around just if he was sitting in the room and I can do that with his set on the other end so that eventually we don’t need to take the plane…”

Replacement Organs
Plastic was the future in the 1960s according to the movie, The Graduate, and Watts thought this would be the answer to providing new organs as the old ones wore out.
If everything is replaced are you the same individual?

Not a Fan of Uber Eats
Watts noted:
“…you can conceive as some science fiction writers have what seems to us a rather appalling situation where you never never need to leave the place
where you’re sitting all food supplies and everything is automatically
delivered you just dial what you want.”
He was probably thinking more of something approximating food arriving through a tube rather than a mildly ‌warm dish from your favorite restaurant arriving by car.

More than 3 Channels
Watts discusses that with electronic communications everyone sees the same thing on NBC and ABC news at 6:00 PM. He called this temporary, the more we develop microelectronic machinery, the greater discrimination on the dial. As technology becomes more perfect you can get an enormous number of stations. With a videotape machine costing $6,000 and a Sony television camera costing $250, you can do a tv show with only one technician. The average television show produced in a studio takes 14 technicians. There can be an increasing variety of the type of material presented.

The Real Message
Alan Watts was not a futurist, he was a philosopher who captured audiences on the West Coast with Eastern Thought through writings, radio, public television, and lectures. His recorded talks before audiences and broadcasts have survived and have found new life on YouTube.
In the 55 minute lecture, Watts uses predictions to support his thoughts on the nature of privacy and humanity.

Pros and Cons Regarding the Loss of Privacy
Pro: how great to have nothing to hide and to give up all worries of ownership. No worry about possessions, no worries about dirty little secrets.
Con: the more we do this with everyone thinking the same thing and owning nothing, then everyone becomes the same. It is the phenomena of each city looking just like the other with the same stores and restaurants.

Technology as an Extension of Humanity
Just as the wheel and all forms of technological transportation are extensions of the human ability to move. The radio, telephone, television and the computer is an extension of the human nervous system.

The Human as a Pattern
An old-established university will retain the same name through the decades even though the buildings, grounds, and people change. The pattern retains an identifiable continuity. A person is the same, changing throughout the years, but the soul remains the same, only the bodily expression keeps changing. “We are electronic echoes of ourselves being perpetuated through the ages.”
We will come to the astonishing conclusion that that is what we already are. We are the most remarkable electronic patterns from the standpoint of physics

The Etheralization of Humans
…Every need is eventually supplied through electronic stimulation until you finally have to get rid of the black box, the electronic gadget, you have become Etherealized. By then all privacy is gone, your thoughts are easily read. Humanity is converted to an anthill, this is to be dreaded.

Are Your Thoughts Really Your Own?
In your head lives thoughts that are not yours because you think in the English language and that was given to you by other people along with the prejudices that are inherent. You are in the sphere of public influences. Think of the tone of your thoughts and you will hear the tone of others that have told you those things. Myriads of voices and influences work on you even when you are alone. So you are not as private as you think you are. You influence others as well as they influence you, so your voice lives in the heads of other people. We are the sum total of all of society, and the reactions of people to you. You know who you are in terms of your relations with others.

Enjoy the View
He ends with a description of how living a plugged-in existence is not that different from an old Italian woman enjoying watching life flow by on the street below. There is something fundamentally good about that. but you see that that sort of thing of watching an ever-varying panorama of life is not completely excluded by electronic technology.

Alan Watts-Privacy, Surveillance, Transhumanism & Singularity.
If you would like to hear the lecture in its entirety it can be found at the link below.
The link was removed due to copyright restrictions, however, just use your favorite search engine and look for Alan Watts and predictions.

https://therecoveringeducator.....medium.com/the-futur

Mike Pike
147 Views · 3 years ago

⁣"State of control", the control society is increasingly becoming a reality.

What is the price of convenience?

The CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) and the digital passport can make our lives easier and more efficient. But new international legislation shows that the purpose of these possibilities, has far-reaching implications for our privacy.

In this documentary international experts such as Edward Snowden, Arno Wellens, Catherine Austin Fitts express their serious concerns and criticisms. It compiles the range of facts and opinions, creating a shocking picture about the future of mankind. A crystal-clear narrative that can''t be ignored.

RESOURCE: https://debunkproductions.com

Mike Pike
146 Views · 3 years ago

⁣A detailed and engaging look into the world of a personal favourite album, covering Porcupine Tree's backstory and how this career pinnacle was born, over nearly two hours that fly by.


PT main man Steven Wilson has a lot of interesting thoughts and insights about music - both his and more generally - but it's hard to deny that he also has some occasionally pretty cringey takes that verge on typical, jaded, middle-aged "everything was better in my day" views (this tracks pretty well with the content of his recent solo material, too). It's also quite sad hearing some of Gavin Harrison and Colin Edwin's concluding statements about the synergy and chemistry in the band, and how any other lineup would just not be the same, in the light of the announcement of the recent Porcupine Tree reunion which features neither Edwin or long-time live guitarist/backing vocalist John Wesley. Also, Richard Barbieri seems weirdly uncomfortable and almost scared of visual mastermind Lasse Hoile, though that could just be general awkwardness.


Regardless of any of that, all four members give their share of entertaining and informative peaks behind the curtain that will be of great interest to any fan of the band and/or album.
REVIEW RESOURCE: https://letterboxd.com/film/po....rcupine-tree-in-abse
LISTEN TO FULL ALBUM HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8sfqB0J7i4&ab_channel=ProgressiveVinyl


Let me know your thoughts in the comments below 👇

Against Everyone
146 Views · 3 years ago

⁣(2002 LEAKED DOC) Secret Covenant of the Illuminati - Satanic Globalist Evil SECRET PLAN
The document was anonymously sent to the email of bankindex.com in June of 2002.

Serigo Leone
144 Views · 3 years ago

⁣This video by The Mirror Project explains whether or not you can choose to have blood containing mRNA if you were in hospital or needed emergency care or a transfusion following an accident.
The movie makers - THE MIRROR PROJECT invites everyone to copy and share this documentary. Feel free to spread this information, so you have the chance to save the lives of many sentient beings.

If you have experienced serious side effects following Covid vaccine jab.
Please inform your healthcare provider and ensure a report is submitted to your country’s relevant authority.


The theatres of this film asking people that would like to document
and share their story, to send us their details to info@mp-22.com

RESOURCE: https://www.mp-22.com

Mike Pike
138 Views · 3 years ago

⁣This brilliant documentary reveals how a small group of superrich criminals have been buying virtually everything on earth, until they own it all. From media, health care, technology, travel, food industry, governments... That allows them to control the whole world. Because of this they are now trying to impose the New World Order.

Mike Pike
135 Views · 3 years ago

⁣DMT: The Spirit Molecule investigates the world’s most potent psychedelic drug, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), and its effects on human consciousness. DMT is a naturally occurring psychoactive compound found within both plants and animals, including in the human brain. It has been linked to hallucinogenic effects such as near-death experiences, alien abductions, and visions of angels

The film focuses on the work of Dr. Rick Strassman, who was granted permission in 1990 to undertake a five-year study of DMT at the University of Mexico’s School of Medicine. In weighing the spiritual link of DMT and the opposing scientific stance towards hallucinogens, DMT: The Spirit Molecule asks more questions than it answers. It challenges the ideologies of the world, pointing out the rudimentary nature of contemporary science and spirituality.

In addition to Dr. Strassman, many other experts voice their opinions along the way. Each with their own theories, speculations and personal opinions attempt to explain the DHT experience. The documentary’s graphics provide the perfect ambiance for the issue at hand, with the film itself challenging the religious, scientific and philosophical knowledge of consciousness till date.

Mike Pike
135 Views · 2 years ago

⁣Carlos Castaneda (1925-1998) is often called the "godfather" of the human potential movement. His name and life are surrounded by many contradictions, fictions and legends.
This film feature Castaneda's closest apprentices as well as major experts in modern spiritually oriented psychology who lift the veil on the greatest mystery of his life: the stormy search of how to become real.

Serigo Leone
134 Views · 3 years ago

⁣In 2020 London Real TV - Icke claimed pandemic was a cover story. As we know now - he was right.
The local television station London Live is facing sanctions after the media regulator, Ofcom, found it had posed a threat to the public’s health by showing a lengthy interview with David Icke about the coronavirus pandemic.
The little-watched channel, owned by Evening Standard boss Evgeny Lebedev, broadcast an 80-minute interview with the former footballer and noted conspiracy theorist earlier this month.
Icke used the broadcast to claim without evidence that the pandemic was cover for a supposed global world order to purposefully crash the economy, end the use of cash payments, and track every individual.
In a separate ruling on coverage relating to Covid-19, ITV was also warned to take care how it reports on repeatedly debunked claims linking 5G mobile phone networks to coronavirus, following comments by This Morning’s Eamonn Holmes.
Ofcom said London Live’s decision to broadcast the Icke interview “had the potential to cause significant harm to viewers in London during the pandemic” because his views were not sufficiently challenged by the host and viewers were not given extra context on the claims.
The channel had argued that it should not be sanctioned for showing the interview with Icke on the basis he was exercising freedom of expression. London Live said this was particularly important in the current circumstances, when civil liberties are being “constrained” and “threatened”. The station also said it was essential to question “conventional wisdom” and government action in a “responsible” manner.
Among the material London Live covered were assertions by Icke that Covid-19 was being used as a weapon of war by the US and Israel against Iran, as well as suggestions that any plan to immunise the world with a coronavirus vaccine was a plot to infect people with a “tidal wave of toxic shite”.
The broadcast was edited by London Live staff from a longer interview conducted for the similarly named but unrelated YouTube channel London Real.
David Icke had his visa revoked just hours before boarding a flight to Australia for a speaking tour
Conspiracy theorist David Icke hits back after Australia revokes visa.
In a sign of how different forms of media are regulated, the London Live broadcast was watched by just 80,000 people, but has attracted regulatory scrutiny and sanctions. Meanwhile, a version of the original London Real interview remains available on YouTube, where it has racked up almost 6m views with no regulatory issues.
London Live unsuccessfully argued that it would be “illogical” and “unfair” for Ofcom to penalise it for broadcasting material that was still available on YouTube. A different interview involving Icke and London Real has been removed by YouTube, although none of it was broadcast on London Live.
Icke has enjoyed the attention paid to him as a result of the controversy around the broadcast, with Google search interest in his name spiking as a result.
Ofcom separately concluded that Holmes’s comments on ITV’s This Morning that people should challenge “the state narrative” around 5G phone masts “were ill judged and risked undermining viewers’ trust in advice from public authorities and scientific evidence”.
Although it said this was irresponsible, given recent attacks on mobile phone masts in the UK, it concluded that his subsequent clarification and other comments making clear the link was “fake news” meant there was no need to formally sanction ITV.
REVIEW RESOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/me....dia/2020/apr/20/tv-s

Serigo Leone
132 Views · 3 years ago

⁣Facebook has a director of social good. She is called Hema and if she has a surname, we weren’t privy to it. The BBC’s Horizon team, as if bewitched at being granted unprecedented access to the social network, bowed to its ethos by captioning interviewees by first name only. But access is like sex: it’s not what you have, but what you do with it that matters.
We met David, the director of harmful behaviour (tough gig, if his task is to stop it, rather than enable it), Monika, who is head of global policy management, and Vlad, Facebook’s head of artificial intelligence, though he will always be The Impaler to me. Sadly, we didn’t get to see Nick, but David Cameron’s former fig leaf has become Mark Zuckerberg’s now he is Facebook’s vice-president of global affairs. Mention Cleggmania in Menlo Park and nobody will know what you are on about.
By rolling over and waving its paws in this way, Horizon abolished critical distance from the global techno-oligarchy with 3.1 billion users and pretensions to ensnare the rest of us. (Facebook is building eight more data centres in the next few years with the aim of doubling storage to accommodate our data.) It put us on chummy terms with the outfit at a vexed moment. Can it change after last week’s $5bn (£4bn) fine for privacy violations in the Cambridge Analytica data breach?
In a meta sense, that was fitting: murdering distance and importuning strangers with simulations of friendliness is Facebook’s MO. It is why revenue exceeded $55bn last year. In another sense, though, this documentary almost amounted to an hour-long commercial for which Zuckerberg didn’t pay.
We witnessed how Facebook is ostensibly striving to use technical fixes to annihilate the human bugs out there – the scammers, hatemongers, sextortioners, e-groomers, Nazis, hackers and black marketeers. This was fascinating in its own right. Can artificial intelligence be used to detect other artificial intelligences posing as humans? How can hate speech by emoji be eliminated?
Fascinating, too, was the cult-like induction ceremony for incoming engineers, tens of thousands of whom are being hired, to ensure Facebook no longer has difficult years like 2018. Soon, they will join the Facebook faithful. Why are there so many balloons in Facebook offices? Because staff have two birthdays, the second celebrating when they joined this evangelising outfit.
“We’re not a company that is designed to make money,” Kyle, director of product, told a room of so-called Newbs in London. No one so much as rolled an eye. “That means every product we make is tuned for ‘does it do good in the world?’” he continued. But what is good? Maybe connecting the world to Facebook, monetising data and believing both are self-evidently good are the problems.
Facebook treats its difficulties as external ones and its task is to seal itself from them. But the corruption is inside, part of the very organisation’s ethos. It is Horror Movie 101. Everyone interviewed here was, as it were, wearing Clegg’s fig leaf to hide that unacceptable truth. “We’re a community that is designed to create communities and let those communities make a difference in the world,” Kyle added.
But Facebook is a business not a community, and when it creates communities they sometimes make a difference in a bad way. “We don’t tolerate dicks,” said Jonny, head of internal communications. Instead, Facebook enables them. Tommy Robinson was jailed earlier this month for live streaming, via Facebook, defendants arriving at court in a sexual grooming trial.
One critic complained about how Facebook had “destabled democracy”. Horizon needed more eloquent dissenters. Maybe she meant that if Facebook is a horse and democracy is a door, the former has bolted and the latter is coming off its hinges. It was hard to be sure.
Back to the commercial. Hema told how her father, who had liver cancer, lost a litre of blood an hour. If there had been an online facility matching blood supply to demand, he need not have died so quickly.
So she made it her mission to establish just that facility for 70 countries where blood transfusions don’t happen because of supply problems. Cut to her team, thrilled that 11 million users have signed up to its blood market. We learned later, though, this initiative enables a black market for blood in India. An unintentional consequence, perhaps, but given earlier online scams, a foreseeable one.
The Horizon team never met Hema’s opposite number, the director of social bad. Chet (no surname) works in a basement tasked with reversing what happened in Facebook’s difficult 2018. Not the data breaches or live-streamed mass murder in Christchurch, but the really unacceptable thing, namely how 20% was slashed from the value of Facebook shares on news that its ad revenue per user was declining and user growth slowing. Such things can never happen again, Chet realises.
Fake news. Facebook has no director of social bad. No Chet in a basement. Nobody in the social network is tasked with squeezing more money from its users. Facebook is all good.
REVIEW RESOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/tv....-and-radio/2019/jul/

Serigo Leone
132 Views · 3 years ago

⁣A horrific tale of misogyny, rape and 10,000 deaths
This shocking, methodical documentary uses first-hand testimonies to expose a toxic culture where abusers prey on the vulnerable – while hiding behind a cloak of saintliness.
Not the United Nations as well. We live resigned to the knowledge that our political parties, law enforcers, independent standards agencies and sport governing bodies are functionally corrupt and deeply chauvinistic. Now Whistleblowers: Inside the UN (BBC Two) is here to tell us that the nearest thing we have to an expression of global conscience is a source of shame as much as hope.

Anyone who has studied the mechanics of the UN security council knows the United Nations is an instrument of iniquitous power, not a check upon it, but Whistleblowers suggests the parts you could still naively have thought of as pure – the collective effort to fight disease, hunger and climate change – ripple with the familiar stench of powerful people who are concerned, it seems, only with how to preserve and abuse their positions.
The documentary combines disparate accounts from former senior UN staff, to accumulate a breadth and depth of evidence that becomes crushing.

We start with Emma Reilly, claiming a boss overruled her when she refused to let China see the names of Uyghur activists who were to attend a human rights council meeting. She feared they would be targeted by state repression. One of those activists says his family was targeted.

OK, perhaps that’s just one blase manager, and in any case the programme-makers have been sent a UN statement contesting Reilly’s claim. But then we hear from James Wasserstrom, who says he found evidence that the tendering process for the construction of a power station in Kosovo was compromised by kickbacks, and John O’Brien, who raised concerns that an environmental programme in Russia had succumbed to local money-laundering scams.
Reilly, Wasserstrom and O’Brien all separately allege that once they spoke out, the UN went after them. O’Brien was suddenly accused of solicitation and viewing nude photographs on his phone at work (O’Brien sees the allegations as vexatious). Wasserstrom was promised whistleblower protection, then had his identity leaked to the very people he had accused. Reilly has footage of Swiss police entering her flat and refusing to leave: she says the UN had sent them, and had told them Reilly was a suicide risk. “Effectively,” she recalls, “the UN tried to have me sectioned.”
By the time she’d convinced them it was a false alarm, she had missed an online meeting at which she had planned to raise the disclosure of activists’ identities – it so happened that the cops arrived just as the meeting was beginning.

Still, although the trio’s tears seem real, perhaps the odd viewer might, somehow, think all three are lying and the UN’s flat denials are the truth. But we are not even halfway into a 90-minute programme that never feels short of material.
Next, the journalist Jeremy Dupin relates how he came to suspect that leaking latrines at a UN base in Haiti caused a catastrophic cholera outbreak that began in 2010 and ended up costing more than 10,000 lives. Attempts to hold anyone accountable were stonewalled.

Somehow, after this allegation the programme manages to be shocking in a new way.
Because, of course, we’re not talking here about powerful people. We are largely talking about powerful men and, in its latter stages, Whistleblowers switches its focus to an organisational culture of misogyny and rape. We hear how peacekeeping troops in Haiti and Central African Republic were implicated in numerous horrific sexual assaults against vulnerable locals, and we meet one of the victims – as well as the former assistant secretary-general Tony Banbury, who resigned in dismay at the UN’s indifferent response to a child in CAR being raped: “I needed the organisation to prioritise that girl. They prioritised the perpetrators.”

Purna Sen, former UN spokesperson on sexual harassment … Whistleblowers: Inside the UN. Photograph: Ben Steele/BBC
The most pained testimonies – presented, like everything else in this methodical dossier, with a sober lack of sensationalism – are from three women who worked for the UN to help those affected by floods, poverty or Aids. They make detailed allegations about their careers being derailed when they reported senior colleagues for serious sexual misconduct.
When Purna Sen, formerly the UN’s spokesperson on sexual harassment, claims that the United Nations badge is “a fantastic cloak for abuse”, it highlights what’s so particularly disturbing here: the nature of its work ought to make the UN a safer institution to work in or deal with than, say, a multinational corporation, but its supposed inherent goodness gives bad apples natural impunity. One is reminded of the infallibility afforded to the Catholic church in the 20th century; in the 21st, the UN’s secular saintliness offers the same sort of men similar protection. A stronger one, in fact, since – as the Haitian cholera victims discovered when they tried to sue – if you work for the UN, you generally enjoy legal immunity.


And so Whistleblowers slots in with one of the themes of the age: we have placed our trust in certain institutions to enforce vital rules, but we’ve constructed those institutions as toxic boys’-club hierarchies where the rules, depending on who you are and how much power you wield, do not always apply.

REVIEW RESOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/tv....-and-radio/2022/jun/

Mike Pike
130 Views · 3 years ago

⁣Space travellers or demonic deceivers? This is the first, and only, documentary that answers the question of who the pilots of UFOs really are, where they come from, and what their intentions are.

Unidentified Flying Objects have been recorded in various forms since the creation of man: Crudely drawn on Stone Age murals...chiseled in Egyptian stone...noted in the journals of ancients like Alexander the Great...even described in the ship's log of Christopher Columbus.

More than a stunning catalog of UFO photography, video, and eyewitness recordings, hear startling scriptural evidence from noted scholars like Dave Hunt (The Archon Conspiracy) and I.D.E. Thomas (The Omega Conspiracy) which reveals the hidden truth about UFOs and the beings who operate them.

Director: Brian Barkley
Writer: Brian Barkley
Starring: Joe Leahy, Kenneth Arnold, Jimmy Carter, Ellie Crystal, Paul Deutsch, Frank Edwards

Serigo Leone
130 Views · 3 years ago

⁣AI is taking over and nothing can stop it. Soon Artificial Intelligence will take over the planet and dispose of human life in the process. Robot rebellion is no longer fiction, it's reality and we have to act now for humanity to survive.

Mike Pike
130 Views · 3 years ago

⁣Dr Judy Wilyman will blow your mind about the truth about Covid. Share this with everyone.
Dr. Wilyman has a Master of Science degree (Population Health) and a PhD in the History of the Control of Infectious Diseases in Australia. Judy was a science teacher for 20 years before completing her PhD in this public health issue.

More info about Dr. Judy Wilyman you will find here:
https://www.vaccinationdecisions.net/about-us/

The mentioned book by Dr. Judy Wilyman's title Vaccination: Australia's Loss of Health Freedom is available here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book..../show/56483908-vacci
https://thesoundtemple.com.au/....shop/vaccination-aus

Book description here:
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Mike Pike
129 Views · 3 years ago

Watch PART 1 (One) here => ⁣https://vajratube.com/v/SXRrCw
⁣After a long summer of feasting, their bodies stately and plump, the emperor penguins of Antarctica begin to feel, toward autumn, a need to march inland to the breeding grounds "where each and every one of them was born." They are all of a mind about this, and walk in single file, thousands of them, in a column miles long. They all know where they are going, even those making the march for the first time, and when they get there, these countless creatures, who all look more or less the same to us, begin to look more or less desirable to one another. Carefully, they choose their mates.

This is not a casual commitment. After the female delivers one large egg, the male gathers it into a fold of his abdomen, plants his feet to protect the egg from the ice below, and then stands there for two months with no food or water, in howling gales, at temperatures far below zero, in total darkness, huddled together with the other fathers for warmth. The females meanwhile, march all the way back to the sea, now even more distant, to forage for food, which they will bring when the spring comes, if they know it must. When the females return to the mass of countless males, they find their mate without error and recognize the cries of chicks they have never seen.

"March of the Penguins" is simply, and astonishingly, the story of this annual cycle. It was filmed under unimaginable conditions by the French director Luc Jacquet and his team, including the cinematographers Laurent Chalet and Jerome Maison. There is not much to choose from in setting up their shots: On the coldest, driest and (in winter) darkest continent on Earth, there is snow, and there is ice, and there are penguins. There is also an ethereal beauty.

Although the compulsion to reproduce is central to all forms of life, the penguins could be forgiven if they'd said the hell with it and evolved in the direction of being able to swim to Patagonia. The film's narrator, Morgan Freeman, tells us that Antarctica was once a warm land with rich forests that teemed with creatures. But as the climate grew colder over long centuries, one lifeform after another bailed out, until the penguins were left in a land that, as far as they can see, is inhabited pretty much by other penguins, and edged by seas filled with delicious fish. Even their predators, such as the leopard seal, give them a pass during the dark, long, cold winter.

"This is a love story," Freeman's narration assures us, reminding me for some reason of Tina Turner singing "What's Love Got to Do With It?" I think it is more accurately described as the story of an evolutionary success. The penguins instinctively know, because they have been hard-wired by evolutionary trial and error, that it is necessary to march so far inland because in spring, the ice shelf will start to melt toward them, and they need to stand where the ice will remain thick enough to support them.

As a species, they learned this because the penguins who paused too soon on their treks had eggs that fell into the sea. Those who walked farther produced another generation, and eventually every penguin was descended from a long line of ancestors who were willing to walk the extra mile.

Why do penguins behave in this manner? Because it works for them, and their environment gives them little alternative. They are Darwinism embodied. But their life history is so strange that until the last century, it was not even guessed at. The first Antarctic explorers found penguins aplenty, but had little idea where they came from, where they went to, and indeed whether they were birds or mammals.

The answers to those questions were discovered by a man named Apsley Cherry-Garrard, in one of the most remarkable books ever written, The Worst Journey in the World (1922). He was not writing about the journey of the penguins, but about his own trek with two others through the bitter night to their mating grounds. Members of Scott's 1910-1912 expedition to the South Pole, they set out in the autumn to follow the march of the penguins, and walked through hell until he found them, watched them, returned with one of their eggs. Cherry-Garrard retired to England, where he lived until 1959; his friends felt the dreadful march, and the later experience of finding the frozen bodies of Scott and two others, contributed to his depression for the rest of his life.

For Jacquet and his crew, the experience was more bearable. They had transport, warmth, food and communication with the greater world. Still, it could not have been pleasant, sticking it out and making this documentary, when others were filming a month spent eating at McDonald's. The narration is a little fanciful for my taste, and some of the shots seem funny to us but not to the penguins. When they fall over, they do it with a remarkable lack of style. And for all the walking they do, they're ungainly waddlers. Yet they are perfect in their way, with sleek coats, grace in the water and heroic determination. It's poignant to watch the chicks in their youth, fed by their parents, playing with their chums, the sun climbing higher every day, little suspecting what they're in for.

REVIEW RESOURCE: https://www.rogerebert.com/rev....iews/march-of-the-pe

Mauricio Delgado
128 Views · 3 years ago

⁣Documentary about Jimi Hendrix's four sensational years in London told by those who knew him, admired him and loved him. Driven by the testimony of Hendrix's fellow rock musicians, this is the story of Hendrix's journey in the UK and the enduring impression he made on those who witnessed his playing and got to know him well.

Contributors include Eric Clapton, Dave Mason, Ginger Baker, Eric Burdon, members of Crosby, Stills and Nash and Hendrix's girlfriend Kathy Etchingham.

Hendrix won many of the most prestigious rock music awards in his lifetime, and has been posthumously awarded many more, including being inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005.

An English Heritage blue plaque was erected in his name on his former residence at Brook Street, London, in September 1997. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame [at 6627 Hollywood Blvd.] was dedicated in 1994. In 2006, his debut US album, Are You Experienced, was inducted into the United States National Recording Registry, and Rolling Stone named Hendrix the top guitarist on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all-time in 2003. He was also the first person inducted into the Native American Music Hall of Fame.

Against Everyone
127 Views · 3 years ago

⁣An instrumental cover of the Jimi Hendrix/Bob Dylan song.

Gear Used:
1960’s Harmony 1270
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Against Everyone
126 Views · 3 years ago

⁣In the spring of 2019 we started creating a short film series, “PIONEERS OF SCIENCE” with the Sacopee Valley Middle’s School’s 8th grade science class taught by Steve Bridges about Wi-Fi and its potential health risks.
The students have been amazing to work with and the first experiment we did exposing cress seeds to Wi-Fi was incredibly powerful and thought provoking. We’re looking forward to running a number of experiments and documenting our different discoveries.

RESOURCE: http://pioneersofscience.org/

Mauricio Delgado
124 Views · 3 years ago

⁣Federal Reserve, Bank Of England, NWO, Rockefeller, Goldman Sachs, Grat Reset, Baksters, Banking Cartels, Depopulation, Mind Control, Genocide

Though Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and Carlos Slim are supposedly "the richest men in the world," their combined wealth of $180 billion would qualify them as mere servants for the House of Rothschild.

Rothschild owns the Bank of England and the London gold bullion exchange where Rothschild sets the daily international market price for gold. Rothschild owns the gold and diamond mines of S. Africa and major extractive industries such as Rio Tinto and British Petroleum.

Rothschild financed England and France in the Napoleonic wars. Rothschild knew who won the Battle of Waterloo a day before the King of England and British investors. Rothschild caused a selling panic in the London bond "consul" market intimating to investors that England lost to Napoleon. Bonds issued by the Bank of England to finance the war crashed and sold for pennies on the dollar.

Rothschild sold to drive the price down and then bought all the bonds back at rock bottom prices. The next day when word of England's victory over Napoleon hit the market, bond prices soared. Rothschild made 40 times his investment in one day on insider knowledge. Rothschild also made 30 percent interest on the gold he loaned to the kings to fight each other.

The king issued bonds as a debt obligation to Rothschild to be paid by future taxes on British citizens. The ensuing debt was so much that Rothschild was able to take over ownership of the Bank of England, which subsequently financed the mercenary German Hessians to fight the American revolutionaries in colonial America because Washington issued its own money called greenbacks. It wasn't about tea.

Rothschild owns major European Central Banks: England, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Belgium – central bank for the Euro. Rothschild partnered with the original seven American families who became the regional depository banks in the US Federal Reserve. The Bush family and J.P. Morgan are the political and financial dynasties evolved from their original ownership of the Federal Reserve. Political propaganda confuses American citizens into thinking the U.S. government owns and prints its own money. Not so. Bush, J.P. Morgan and five other banking family institutions own the Federal Reserve in partnership with Rothschild.

Rothschild owns Reuters News Service, which bought the Associated Press. Rothschild owns or virtually controls every major media outlet in America, Europe and Israel. Rothschild controls the message of who really owns $500 trillion of hidden untaxed wealth equal to half of annual world GDP.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sect....ions/arts-letters/ar

https://paulsalmons.associates..../blog/conspiracy-the

Mauricio Delgado
124 Views · 2 years ago

⁣Nobody owns the air. A look at the deception being perpetrated by the aircraft manufacturers and airlines charging for fuel they don't use.
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