Secret Societies: Myths and Realities of a Parallel World
They act in the shadows, they are extremely secretive and they practise ancient rituals. Secret societies play a far larger role in our everyday lives than we are aware of. Publications like those of bestselling author Dan Brown have brought them back into the limelight. The three-part documentary, ‘Secret Societies’, accompanies historian Dr Marian Füssel on his search for clues surrounding history’s most famous secret societies and conspiracy theories.
The secret brotherhood of the Illuminati was only active for ten years. They dreamed of having members of their brotherhood occupy crucial positions of power, thereby creating a new, fairer state. Banned as early as 1785, rumours that ‘the enlightened ones’ still exist in secret cannot be dispelled. Terra X investigates the legendary Illuminati brotherhood, also exploring other secret organizations that allegedly have their roots in Antiquity.
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Depopulation Agenda - Systematically Poisoned (2019) - Documentary
From flint michigan's water crisis to nestle's evil plan to own all the water. This film goes into depth of topics long forgotten by the public. The fluoridation of our tap water, as well as bp's impact on our environment.
Can this be part of a satanic depopulation plan? Agenda 21? Illuminati? You be the judge! The so-called "Elite" psychopaths who rule over us want to reduce the world population down to 500 million, research "The georgia guidestones" and speak out, take action, take the truth to the streets!!
Knowledge is power, we have been enslaved through lack of knowledge, educate yourself and those around you if they will listen, careful though most will hate you if you try to pull them out of the matrix, they love the system they suffer from stockholm syndrome they love the very ones that are oppressing them and holding us as humanity down. Wake up sheeple, we must end human enslavement and kill the illuminati!!
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Are you being told the truth? - Wake Up Call (2021) - Documentary
We are still being deceived by the public mass media about the circumstances behind the Covid-19 project.
Although the propaganda flowing from the televisions proclaimed by the governments of most countries in the world does not stand for any scientific evidence, and there is no science behind it, most people demonstrate complete indifference, lack of rational critical evaluation and absolute submissiveness.
It is the naivety of people and selfish thinking about measurable comforts that brought us to the present situation.
If we don't wake up NOW then the future of mankind will be wasted.
Our future and the future of our children is in our hands, so stand up and fight for your rights - FIGHT FOR THE TRUTH RIGHT NOW !!!
RESOURCE: https://www.oraclefilms.com
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The Architects of Western Decline - Cultural Marxism
The Architects of Western Decline - A Study on the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism
A Study on the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism
The Cloward Piven Strategy was written in 1966 by a pair of radical socialist professors from Columbia University, Richard A. Cloward & Frances F. Piven. Their plan was to overburden government systems by reducing employment and increasing the welfare state to the point of social & economic collapse. At which time America would have to accept socialism & then communism.
This is the long-overdue study of the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxist philosophy which now controls Western intellectualism, politics, and culture. It was by design; it was created by an internationalist intelligentsia to eradicate Western values, social systems, and European racial groups in a pre-emptive attempt to spark a global, communist (think liberal) revolution.
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How to Survive "The Golden Horde" Violent Mobs
Will you be a part of the golden horde?
How can you prepare for unruly crowds, and how bad will the desperate mobs get?
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New Plandemic ready to go - WHO & EU Cooperation
New restrictions, New Lockdowns, New Travelling regulations.
WHO’s Global Digital Health Certification Network
EU-WHO digital partnership
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DMT - The Spirit Molecule (2010) - Documentary
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.
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Depopulation Agenda Implementation - Secret Cabal?
The New World Order’s main focus is complete world dominance. Population control, better known as Depopulation, is the UN’s tool to annihilate the majority of the masses, so that no more than 500 million people are left on the face of the earth. A neat number, easy to control, dominate and subjugate. How are we, the people, being attacked in the name of population control? By means of 10 different Extinction Tools. Let’s take a look at the first 4: wars, (natural?) disasters, famine & drought, and plagues & diseases…
By Janet Ossebaard & Cyntha Koeter
Music: Alexander Nakarada, Chopin, Keys of Moon, Punch Deck
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An Interview withJohn Shipton -Julian Assange’s father (June 2022)
The pacifist John Shipton is Julian Assange’s father. Robert Cibis interviews him exclusively about the judicial decision to extradite his son to the US. This discussion reveals political interference in the legal system. How far will Western governments go to set themselves apart from their pre-set values?
RESOURCE: https://www.oval.media/en/75fc7f35-8fb4-4db2-a399-effae15b25e0/
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Why Big Oil Conquered The World (2017) - Documentary
Environmental advocates have long protested the role that oil companies play in exacerbating the climate change crisis. Their voices have rattled some of the world's most influential leaders, inspired meaningful reforms, and galvanized a desire for more clean energy solutions. This has led many to believe that the age of Big Oil is on its way out. But according to the feature-length documentaryWhy Big Oil Conquered the World, its reign has only just begun. The film theorizes that the industry is actually based entirely on the principle ofexerting power over the people. Up until this point in history, oil has served as a means to that end.
This thesis begins with eugenics, a Darwin-inspired movement that supported genetic manipulation, and the breeding of new generations that would possess only the most desirable human characteristics. Many members of the elite threw their support behind the study and implementation of eugenics, including John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and their goals soon took on an even more sinister tone. They proposed the isolation, containment and complete control of "subnormal" populations, such as the disfigured, uneducated and impoverished. They lobbied for the power to decide who lived or died.
Their approach might have changed over the intervening years - and their harsh rhetoric softened - but their ultimate goals have remained unchanged. They've simply adopted a more polished public relations image. Meanwhile, the masses are oblivious to their nefarious ulterior motives. The oil oligarchies even worked to hijack the environmental movement, and perverted the message of conservation by suggesting population control as a means of reducing our carbon footprint. In recent years, their vocal support of the Paris Climate Accord has proven equally suspect. Can the culprits behind our current environmental catastrophes really be trusted to free us from them?
At times, the film plays like a science fiction based horror movie, but it provides substantial footage and extensive research in support of even its most outlandish claims. Direct quotes and on-camera sound bytes prove especially damning to the powerful figures at the center of these schemes.
Whether you embrace the film's premise wholeheartedly, or remain skeptical of many of its accusations,Why Big Oil Conquered the Worldprovides a wealth of eye-opening revelations that are worthy of consideration.
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How Big Oil Conquered The World (2015) - Documentary
Oil. From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate, pipeline to plastic product, it is impossible to think of an area of our modern-day lives that is not affected by the petrochemical industry. The story of oil is the story of the modern world.
Parts of that story are well-known: Rockefeller and Standard Oil; the internal combustion engine and the transformation of global transport; the House of Saud and the oil wars in the Middle East.
Other parts are more obscure: the quest for oil and the outbreak of World War I; the petrochemical interests behind modern medicine; the Big Oil money behind the “Green Revolution” and the “Gene Revolution.”
But that story, properly told, begins somewhere unexpected. Not in Pennsylvania with the first commercial drilling operation and the first oil boom, but in the rural backwoods of early 19thcentury New York State. And it doesn't start with crude oil or its derivatives, but a different product altogether: snake oil.
“Dr. Bill Livingston, Celebrated Cancer Specialist” was the very image of the traveling snake oil salesman. He was neither a doctor nor a cancer specialist; his real name was not even Livingston. More to the point, the “Rock Oil” tonic he pawned was a useless mixture of laxative and petroleum and had no effect whatsoever on the cancer of the poor townsfolk he conned into buying it.
He lived the life of a vagabond, always on the run from the last group of people he had fooled, engaged in ever-more-outrageous deceptions to make sure that the past wouldn't catch up with him. He abandoned his first wife and their six children to start a bigamous marriage in Canada at the same time as he fathered two more children by a third woman. He adopted the name “Livingston” after he was indicted for raping a girl in Cayuga in 1849.
When he wasn't running away from them or disappearing for years at a time, he would teach his children the tricks of his treacherous trade. He once bragged of his parenting technique: “I cheat my boys every chance I get. I want to make ’em sharp.”
A towering man of over six feet and with natural good looks that he used to his advantage, he went by “Big Bill.” Others, less generously, called him “Devil Bill.” But his real name was William Avery Rockefeller, and it was his son, John D. Rockefeller, who would go on to found the Standard Oil monopoly and become the world's first billionaire.
The world we live in today is the world created in "Devil" Bill's image. It's a world founded on treachery, deceit, and the naïveté of a public that has never wised up to the parlor tricks that the Rockefellers and their ilk have been using to shape the world for the past century and a half.
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Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined (2010) - Documentary
In the tradition of his first Internet blockbuster,Loose Change, which has had over 100 million visits, Jason Bermas has created yet another outstanding documentary film,Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined.
This film documents very clearly that some of America's most powerful elected officials, including all recent presidents, have been part of an international cabal to establish a socialist New World Order that would eradicate national sovereignty and many of the God-given freedoms vouchsafed in the Constitution of the United States, making all citizens mere slaves of the state.
It has an amazing collection of video footage of these leaders stating their unabashed ambitions to establishing this New World Order. It also shows just who is behind this international cabal and their nefarious intentions and true sinister nature. It is deeply troubling and very important.
Again, its relevance to Free Energy technology is two-fold. First, these same forces are behind many of the instances of suppression of breakthrough free energy, which would empower the individual, contrary to the NWO agenda to enslave. Second, the emergence of breakthrough free energy technologies will help unseat these criminals. It is a powerful antidote to the poison being administered.
Another point of relevance is that the film touches on the fact that Al Gore is one of the New World Order insiders helping to accomplish their objectives by politicizing climate change and using it as a reason to impose global carbon taxes; all while personally becoming super wealthy from his various involvements that include serious conflicts of interest. He should not be seen as a hero figure in the free energy movement.
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Camp FEMA - American Lockdown (2009) - Documentary
Evidence of Internment Camps in America. Recent legislation attempting to legitimize the use of internment camps to detain U.S. citizens in the event of an uprising or civil unrest has many people asking what nation they live in. In a country born out of political dissent, we watch our leaders in Washington slowly pass bills that label ordinary Americans as thought criminals and potential domestic terrorists for simply questioning the actions of their government.
We see third party candidates and their impassioned supporters listed in secret government reports that call their allegiance into question and brand them as fanatics and extremists. Senate committee hearings and official FBI documents further illustrate the mindset of our elected officials as they classify homeschoolers, gun rights activists and anti-abortionists as threats against the existing social and political order; by default creating an entire nation of radicals and revolutionaries - where everyone is a suspect… equally guilty until proven otherwise.
How has our government shown that they will deal with these people? The same way as every other totalitarian regime throughout history - marginalize their activities then lock them up. Prisons are being built; internment camps constructed and laws passed that deal severely with anyone who dares to step out of line or ask too many questions.
Who are the potential domestic terrorists that will end up in these camps? Read the documentation for yourself and hear what our experts have to say. States rights take a front row seat in this new political thriller that is guaranteed to send shivers up your spine.
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Ritual Abuse and Cannibalism
Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith announced an investigation into what he described as “a child sex abuse ring that operated in Utah, Juab, and Sanpete counties between 1990 and 2010,” under which Utah County Attorney David Leavitt and his wife Chelom Leavitt had been previously accused. Leavitt denied the allegations, saying they were politically motivated, and said the accusations had been debunked over 10 years ago.
Meanwhile, an official study on the NIH National Library of Medicine website says that a condition is causing more deaths in people with COVID-19 vaccines than without. Its autopsy study found there was a “significantly increased rate of generalized viral dissemination within organ systems in vaccinated cases versus nonvaccinated cases.”
RESOURCE: https://www.theepochtimes.com/utah-sheriff-investigating-ritual-abuse-and-cannibalism-vaccine-high-viral-loads-causing-deaths_4512884.html
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Crop Circles - Evidence of Intelligence (2019) - Freddy Silva’s Lecture
People have seen crop circles created by a tube of light in less than fifteen seconds, bending the plants without damage, altering the electromagnetic field and soil, and encoding new math theorems. Now that you know what humans can't do, discover who can.
“It is perfectly natural to ask if crop circles are hoaxes, but very difficult to explain why they cannot be hoaxes satisfactorily,” remarked NASA engineer Pat Delgado. And he was right, because people cannot steam plants at right angles without damage, alter the local gravitational field, change the mineral structure of the soil, encode unknown mathematical theorems, or apply permanent electromagnetic signatures when attempting to replicate crop circles.
Eighty people have witnessed crop circles manifesting in less than fifteen seconds. Many describe a descending tube of light that rotates and bends the plants without causing any damage. These are just some of the anomalies behind the world’s most important phenomenon. Leading expert and best-selling author Freddy Silva discusses these and many more topics in this fast-paced, live presentation from Contact in the Desert.
Now that you know what humans can’t do, discover who can — and why.
REVIEW RESOURCE: https://www.gaia.com/video/crop-circles-evidence-intelligence
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Med Beds, Replicators, Free Energy, Stargates & Antigravity
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.
I wish you all wellness and joy, though I'm not responsible anybody's but my own. Take care.
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The End of Medicine (2022) - Documentary
‘THE END OF MEDICINE’ INVESTIGATES LINK BETWEEN DISEASE AND ANIMAL CONSUMPTION
While Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara have starred in many movies together, they’ve now teamed up to make a movie. The duo–who are as equally respected by Hollywood as they are by the animal rights community–lend their influence to a new feature-length investigative documentary calledThe End of Medicine. As executive producers, Phoenix and Mara team up withBAFTA-winningdirector Alex Lockwood (73 Cows) and producer Keegan Kuhn (Cowspiracy,What The Health)to expose a disturbing, dirty little secret that the food industry has been trying to conceal for decades.
In a swift 73 minutes,The End of Medicinedraws attention to the underreported link between global disease–pandemics and antibiotic resistance included–and our (mis)use of animals. The film gets its momentum from whistleblower Dr. Alice Brough, a young vet who first grew intolerant toward the industry’s “acceptable” practices of animal agriculture. As we see, Dr. Brough risks her professional career and livelihood to denounce the corruption within the industry by sharing insider information about the reality of factory farming and animal disease. Through her tears, we can clearly see how distressed she is as she talks directly to the camera, remorseful for her contributions to the industry in the past.
Where to watch:‘The End of Medicine’ is available on VOD May 10th.
While Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara have starred in many movies together, they’ve now teamed up to make a movie. The duo–who are as equally respected by Hollywood as they are by the animal rights community–lend their influence to a new feature-length investigative documentary calledThe End of Medicine. As executive producers, Phoenix and Mara team up withBAFTA-winningdirector Alex Lockwood (73 Cows) and producer Keegan Kuhn (Cowspiracy,What The Health)to expose a disturbing, dirty little secret that the food industry has been trying to conceal for decades.
In a swift 73 minutes,The End of Medicinedraws attention to the underreported link between global disease–pandemics and antibiotic resistance included–and our (mis)use of animals. The film gets its momentum from whistleblower Dr. Alice Brough, a young vet who first grew intolerant toward the industry’s “acceptable” practices of animal agriculture. As we see, Dr. Brough risks her professional career and livelihood to denounce the corruption within the industry by sharing insider information about the reality of factory farming and animal disease. Through her tears, we can clearly see how distressed she is as she talks directly to the camera, remorseful for her contributions to the industry in the past.
In typical call-to-action-type documentaries,The End of Medicineprovides an overwhelming number of facts that are meant to shock the viewer into making immediate lifestyle changes. Industry insiders, government advisors, politicians, scientists, and leading doctors share unnerving statistics that at times, feel more hopeless than optimistic.
One claim that caused me to sit up a little straighter was hearing that 3 out of 4 emerging infectious diseases come from an animal source. This tends to happen because an animal’s immune system is lowered when they’re stressed, and they’re stressed because they’re so densely packed in cages in unsanitary conditions. It’s easy for the animal, then, to catch an infection and spread it to the rest of their cage-mates and eventually, the humans who consume them. Not surprisingly, COVID was used as an example: We socially distance ourselves from other sick humans but are doing the exact opposite to animals. This film asks, “Why?”
The End of Medicinehas one goal in mind, and that is to get its audience to think twice about consuming animal products. Ideally, Phoenix and Mara would be able to convince all of us to go completely vegan (but it may take a few more documentaries for that to happen). While the note the film ends on isn’t the most optimistic in tone, aside from the standard “transform yourself to transform the world”, its intentions are pure and worthwhile. Films like these are important, and ifThe End of Medicinecauses you to pause before ordering the burger–even for a moment–then it’s done its job.
REVIEW RESOURCE: https://cinemacy.com/the-end-of-medicine-review/
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Montauk Chronicles (2015) - Documentary about Montauk Project
ALFRED Bielek died in October 2011 but he will forever be associated with mysterious experiments allegedly conducted by the United States government known as theMontauk Project.
Not much is known about the highly secretive military experiments which supposedly took place during the Cold War era, but the conspiracy theories that surround them make the idea that the Moon landing was faked sound like child’s play.
The Montauk Project is an alleged series of secret experiments conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station in Long Island, New York.
With the help of scientists like John von Neumann and the work of Nikola Tesla, military officials sought to conduct experiments for the purpose of developing psychological warfare techniques and carry out exotic research into time travel, or so the story goes.
According to the tin foil-hat wearing true believers, during the tests a man named Alfred Bielek travelled through time and reached a confidential test site in 1983.
It’s a story he himself spent many years trumpeting from the late 1980s after Mr Bielek claimed he uncovered memories of his involvement in the experiments that had been suppressed to assure confidentiality.
The radar dish at the mysterious Camp Hero US Army base near, Montauk, New York.
It goes without saying that such conspiracy theories need to be taken with more salt than you should probably ingest in your lifetime but despite the crazy ramblings of a mad man, there are many questions about the alleged Montauk Project that remain unanswered today.
Camp Hero, the US army base built in World War II to defend the coast, sits in 400 acres of woodland near Montauk. During the Cold War, the top secret base was the centre of a series of radars trained on the Atlantic to detect any incoming Russian attacks.
But after closing in 1981, it became shrouded in mystery as rumours of secret government experiments in mind control and telekinetic powers emerged as people claimed to have been abducted as children and subjected to violent beatings and forced drug-taking to test the limits of the human mind.
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Aliens On The Moon: The Truth Exposed (2022) - Documentary
An alternative take on the 1969 lunar landing presents a different picture of the event that governments may be secretly covering.
Absolute Documentaries brings you the best of entertaining and fascinating documentaries for free. Whether you’re into true crime, stories from around the world, family and social life, science or psychology, we’ve got you covered with must-see full-length documentaries every week.
From: Aliens On The Moon
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Secret Space: The Illuminati's Conquest of Space (2005) - Documentary
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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Resonance: Beings of Frequency (2013) - Documentary
Resonance: Beings of Frequency is the first full documentary to investigate the actual mechanisms by which mobile phone technology can cause harm to someone’s well-being.cancer. Filmmakers take a deep dive into how humanity is coping with the emergence of mobile devices.
Billions of years ago, life first appeared on planet earth and bathed in a natural electromagnetic frequency. As life slowly evolved from simple to complex organisms, it was surrounded by this natural frequency, forming a harmonic relationship. This harmony is something science is beginning to understand, and special interest groups are trying to hide.
The balance built over time could be in jeopardy. Over the last two or three decades, this harmony has been disturbed, and dramatically so by technology. Mankind has saturated itself in an ocean of artificial frequencies, overwhelming the earth’s natural resonance. To the naked eye, our world appears the same. But at the cellular level, the health of living organisms is being affected. Yet, we are only starting to scratch the surface.
REVIEW RESOURCE: https://www.gaia.com/video/resonance-beings-frequency
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Thrive II - This Is What It Takes
THRIVE II explores breakthrough innovations from around the world, unpacks the principles they have in common and offers insights, tools and strategies for reclaiming our lives and our future.
Note: While we do vouch for the efficacy of the technology that we vetted as seen in THRIVE II, Foster Gamble and Clear Compass Media make no claims about the on-going technical efficacy or the business reliability of Saith Group or any other inventors. We are not involved in their business dealings and are not responsible for any contractual outcomes.
As of mid-June 2021, Saith Group is seriously delinquent on delivery of devices internationally. Therefore, we recommend that potential customers and licensees wait on commitment of resources until there is evidence that these prior orders are fulfilled.
We will update this page if and when we hear that he has successfully fulfilled on his current obligations.
For more information from Foster Gamble, visit: www.freetothrive.com
RESOURCE: https://closed.thrivemovement.com
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Thrive I - What On Earth Will It Takes?
From the authors: THRIVE is an unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what's "really" going on in our world byfollowing the moneyupstream - uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives.
Weaving together breakthroughs in science,consciousnessand activism, THRIVE offers real solutions, empowering us with unprecedented and bold strategies for reclaiming our lives and our future.
From the Odyssey Magazine: THRIVE is more than a documentary relevant to the times. It is more than a well-researched and alarming insight into who really controls how the world works.
It is a recipe and blueprint for how we can, each and every one of us, thrive in the way that the rest of nature does – easily, naturally and with expansive grace. For this last point alone, it is more than worth the time to see.
RESOURCE: https://closed.thrivemovement.com
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The Concert for Bangladesh (1972) - Documentary
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This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.
Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions.
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On Aug. 1, 1971, Ravi Shankar, along with George Harrison, Leon Russell, Billy Preston, Bob Dylan and several other notable performers of rock music gave a concert at Madison Square Garden to raise money for the suffering people of Bangladesh. The concert was very popular, and in general a critical success, and, in the language of public relations, a historic occasion. In time it was followed by a record album, which was followed by a charge of financial finagling, which was followed by a libel suit, which has been followed by much journalism, which is followed at last — almost eight months after the event—by a movie, "The Concert for Bangladesh."
It opened yesterday at the DeMille.It is a very good movie as such movies go (and they often go quite badly), and friends who were at the concert tell me that it is a faithful reproduction of the original. This may not sound like much for a documentary filmed on the spot. But anyone who has seen many rock-concert movies will appreciate that in this one there are no unnecessary zooms, no lab-created light shows, almost no exploitation of the on-screen audience, no insistence that a concert of music is somehow a social revolution.Indeed, "The Concert for Bangladesh" exhibits less technical nervousness in the face of musical performance than any other remotely similar film I can think of.
And because it is so little bothered with what it must do next, say, to turn song into cinema, it probably succeeds in moving with its people more closely, and surely differently, than the audience at Madison Square Garden could have done.There are vocal solos mostly by George Harrison, Leon Russell and Bob Dylan, but also by Ringo Starr and the remarkable Billy Preston, and there are sitar and sarod duets by Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Kahn. Saul Swimmer directed, and Dylan and Harrison apparently helped in editing the work of eight cameramen—and I think they all deserve credit for the simplicity with which the film cuts between long shot and medium shot and often very tight close-ups, and leaves dramatic intensity to the music and the musicians, where it belongs.
The worst thing in "The Concert for Bangladesh" is the sound, which is of course very loud, but neither rich nor full. Somebody had the notion of recording the audience (or an audience) response to each number and producing it from the rear of the theater as a kind of canned aid to enthusiasm. This has nothing to do with the spirit or the look of the film, and, given the reticence and intelligence of everything else, it functions essentially as promotional nonsense, a six-track stereophonic insult.
THE CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH, a documentary directed by Saul Swimmer; produced by George Harrison and Allen Klein; music recording produced by Mr. Harrison and Phil Spector; released by Apple/Twentieth Century-Fox. At the DeMille Theater, Broadway and 47th Street. Running time: 140 minutes. (The Motion Picture Association of America's Production Code and Rating Administration classifies this film: "G—all ages admitted, general audiences.")With: Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voormann, Badfinger, Jesse Davis, Jim Horn, Jim Kellner, Claudia Linnear, Carl Radle.
REVIEW RESOURCE: https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/24/archives/the-screenconcert-for-bangladesh-now-a-documentary.html
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