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December 24, 2020
SHARE THOUGHTS
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December 23, 2020
STAY WARM BE COOL
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STAY WARM AND BE COOL, MY FRIENDS
KAT
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KAT, an award winning short film by my friend, Eric Pham, was the inspiration that led to Quentin Tarantino’s film ‘Kill Bill’
An original short by Eric Pham, Grand Prize winner of Showtime’s Alternative Media Festival, Winner of Telluride Indie Film Festival. This was a short film based on a feature script. Shot on 35mm with Panavision lenses over a span of a weekend, it won multiple awards and won $10,000 Grand Prize from Showtime. The short was given to Q. Tarantino while he was writing the original Kill Bill and sure enough, the concept ended up being adapted by Tarantino for the Lucy Liu character. Even a piece of the soundtrack from “Kat” ended up being in Kill Bill.
COURAGE AND EMPATHY
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Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the most intelligent, empathetic, wise and influential women in the history of the human race.
Click on the following link to read many of Eleanor Roosevelt’s most memorable quotes.
http://www.brainyquote.com/slideshow/authors/top_10_eleanor_roosevelt_quotes.html
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt — October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s four terms in office. President Harry S. Truman later called her the “First Lady of the World” in tribute to her human rights achievements
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris. The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled. The full text is published by the United Nations on its website.
The Declaration consists of thirty articles which have been elaborated in subsequent international treaties, regional human rights instruments, national constitutions, and other laws. The International Bill of Human Rights consists of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its two Optional Protocols. In 1966, the General Assembly adopted the two detailed Covenants, which complete the International Bill of Human Rights. In 1976, after the Covenants had been ratified by a sufficient number of individual nations, the Bill took on the force of international law.
December 22, 2020
SKULL & BONES
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The most famous secret society in America, Skull and Bones was co-founded at Yale in 1832 by the father of a future president and has come to signify everything that attracts and repulses the public about “The Elite.” Rumor has it that Yale junior class members are tapped for membership each fall by some measure of leadership, influence and breeding.Among the business titans, poets, politicians and three US Presidents that are rumored to be members, we’ve picked out the honor roll.Read the Entire Artice: http://www.newworldorderreport.com/News/tabid/266/ID/7132/The-15-Most-Powerful-Members-Of-Skull-And-Bones.aspx
William Howard Taft – Class of 1878
Image: Yale University Archives
Our 27th, and fattest (fun fact), President was known to his college buddies as “Big Lub,” and was the first “Bonesman” ever to reach The Oval Office.Frankly, young Mr. Taft would probably had a rather easy time getting into the club…
His father, and one-time Attorney General, Alphonso Taft, co-founded Skull and Bones as a Yale student in 1832.
Amos Alonzo Stagg – Class of 1888
Image: Yale University Archives
Yale’s greatest football player of all-time (apologies to Calvin Hill), Stagg practically invented the modern game and is still the only man to be elected into both the Pro Football and Pro Basketball Halls of Fame.It can only be assumed that being the most gifted jock in Yale’s history had some bearing on Mr. Stagg’s being chosen to join Skull and Bones.
William Averill Harriman – Class of 1913
Image: Yale University Archives
The future Governor of New York and Presidential candidate was clearly a man who liked his time at Yale…Immediately after inheriting the largest fortune in The United States from his railroad baron father upon his graduation, Harriman took a job as Yale’s crew coach and stuck around New Haven.
No doubt the man his fellow Bonesmen referred to Averill as “Thor,” continued to enjoy himself around town as Yale celebrity before moving on to his many future successes.
Archibald MacLeish – Class of 1915
Image: Yale University Archives
Before living in Paris amongst “The Lost Generation” of Hemingway, Pound and Fitzgerald, while honing a poetic voice that would yield three Pulitzer Prizes, MacLeish was a Yale Graduate and a member of Skull and Bones.It would seem that MacLeish, like most Bonesmen, was chosen less for his brains and more than his connections…
“Archie’s” father was an Illinois dry goods dealer, and his mother was a college professor, a rare combination of parentage and geography for the Bonesmen of his day.
Prescott Bush – Class of 1916
Image: Yale University Archives
If you thought “Dubya” was a wild man in his college years, you should have met his grand-daddy.Prescott, the future Senator from Connecticut, was apparently a real “cut-up” who, along with some other Bonesmen, is believed to have dug up and absconded with the skull of the legendary Native American warrior Geronimo during World War I.
Legend has it that Geronimo’s head is still inside Skull and Bones HQ, known as “The Tomb,” at 64 High Street in New Haven.
Robert Lovett – Class of 1918
Image: Yale University Archives
Harry Truman’s Secretary of War and the man whom many have called “The Architect of The Cold War” was the consummate Bonesman insider.Along with sharing a membership timeline with Prescott Bush, Lovett was also friendly with fellow Bonesman Harvey Hollister Bundy, who served with Lovett in Truman’s War Cabinet and was the father of future Bonesman McGeorge Bundy.
Henry Luce – Class of 1920
Image: Yale University Archives
The man who went on to found and publish Time Magazine was first an editor of The Yale Daily News. He was also a man that fellow Bonesmen referred to as “Baal,” an apparent reference to a mythological, ancient, Aramaic demon. The mind boggles at the implications.
Potter Stewart – Class of 1936
Image: Yale University Archives
The son of a Midwestern Congressman, Stewart went on to be an editor of The Yale Law Review, after being a member of Skull and Bones during his undergraduate days.But it was perhaps much later in life that Mr. Potter was of greatest assistance to Bonesmen of the future…
As an Associate Justice of The Supreme Court in 1965, Mr. Potter wrote a dissent in Griswold v. Connecticut, setting the stage for the future legalization of the sales of contraceptives in The Nutmeg State, no doubt bringing great relief to the young gentlemen inside “The Tomb.”
McGeorge Bundy – Class of 1940
Image: Yale University Archives
Before becoming one of JFK’s “Wise Men,” Bundy was another Bonesman with a long family lineage of getting “Tapped” for the society. But, if the lore surrounding Skull and Bones has any veracity, he was apparently a man with a personality all his own, one that led his pals to nickname him “Odin.”
George Herbert Walker Bush – Class of 1948
Image: Skull and Bones Yearbook, 1948
The second ever Bonesman to be elected President, “41” was also a fighter pilot in WWII, Ambassador to “Red China” and Director of the CIA. His training at Skull and Bones must have been invaluable in the career he made out of keeping safe the secrets of state.
William F. Buckley Jr. – Class 0f 1950
Image: LiveJournal
It would have been pretty painful for the man who came to symbolize the most conservative brand of American elitism NOT to have been “Tapped” for Skull and Bones. Luckily, he was, or they would most likely never have heard the end of it.
John F. Kerry – Class of 1966
Image: Yale University Archives
The now senior Senator from Massachusetts was only a college Junior when he was “Tapped” as a Bonesman after a childhood spent abroad with his diplomat father. Kerry’s period of membership as an on-campus Bonesman just missed intersecting with a man he would come to challenge for the presidency in 2004..
George W. Bush – Class of 1968
Image: Media Library – Yale Whiffenpoofs
“W” was a man who’s family was synonymous with Skull and Bones by the time he arrived on Yale’s campus as a Freshman, but it has been whispered that many thought his family would agree to his not being “Tapped” as George was a rather… “distractable” young man. But after joining up with the family club, joining the cheerleading team and generally raising hell, “W” ended up as the third Bonesman to occupy the office of the President.
Stephen A. Schwarzman – Class of 1969
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He was tapped only a year behind George W. Bush and came to prominence under the future president’s administration when his Blackstone Investments hedge fund group went public in 2007. The SEC filings for Blackstone’s IPO revealed that Schwarzman had made an average of $1 million per day for the fiscal year ending in December 2006.
Austan Goolsbee – Class of 1991
Goolsbee represents the newest generation of Bonesman on the list. The Texan-born economist was presumably tapped in 1989 while studying for his BA in Economics and performing with the Yale improve troupe “Just Add Water.” At 41, he is one of the youngest Chairmen of The Council of Economic Advisor’s in the history of The White House, a building that has been staffed and led by a more than a few members of the society, and one can assume will be for many years to come.
LOVE: A DEFINITION
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In the following short video David Icke offers a simple and eloquent summary of, and solution for, our current situation on Prison Earth. He says that “love” is the solution to dissolve the artificially created energy frequency of fear with which we are constantly bombarded by the prison guards. I suggest that “love” is not a good word as it is far too ambiguous. The actual energetic frequency of “love” is more precisely expressed by the definitions of “appreciation“, which includes understanding and admiration and affinity. It is a delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values). A full understanding of a situation. This includes acknowledgment, recognition, realization, knowledge, awareness, consciousness, and comprehension of an object, condition or being. Love is an energy frequency that is most similar to the essence of our Self, as a spiritual entity. It is nearly imperceptible, yet with infinitely potential power.
I think a more useful definition of “love” could be “A willingness and ability to Cause, Understand, Acknowledge and Admire a Bringing Into Being, or Not Being, any State of Existence, in any Universe, as an Immortal Sentient Being”. — LRS
LISTEN CAREFULLY
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I love to listen to audio books! It allows me to “read” a book while doing other things, like driving, walking, shopping, washing dishes, vacuuming the floor, doing the laundry, feeding the cat, working out at the gym, sitting outside on the patio, and other “mindless” activities that require very little attention. I listen to one audio book every week, or more. You can get a very affordable monthly subscription from www.Audible.com . Every month you can download one or more books and listen to them on your phone, iPod, iPad, computer, or MP3 player.Try it for FREE for one month!
Humpback Whale Shows AMAZING Appreciation After Being Freed From Nets
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Michael Fishbach and his friends were in the Sea of Cortez on Valentine’s Day this year when they found a humpback whale floating in the water. It appeared to be dead, having been trapped in a fishing net for a long time. Fishbach discovered that she was still alive — but only barely. The worked hard for an hour with only one knife to cut the net away and free her. They were ultimately successful. (Skip ahead to 6:20 to see the whale’s joyful reaction.)
