| Dear Friends,
We are thrilled that there has been such an outpouring of interest to watch THRIVE in community on 11/11. To date, we have had more than 620 groups register for our home screening program and counting! Watching THRIVE with a group of friends and family is an empowering and transformative experience. It is our deepest intention that viewing the film with others will spark vibrant conversations about what it means to thrive, the truth about what's in the way, and the actions each of us can take to make a real difference.
We would like to encourage you to gather with others to watch the film by hosting your own screenings. We have created a powerful screening kit to help make creating screenings easy and successful.
THRIVE is a film about the core patterns that engender and sustain life. It is a wake up call to the extent to which power has been consolidated and abused by an elite few, and it is an invitation to join in the brightest possibilities that can be liberated when we think critically and take a stand for liberty.
In short, THRIVE is about real ways ordinary citizens can actively shift the power structures blocking the free flow of energy that enables all of life to thrive.
We don't expect you or your guests to agree with everything in the film; we do hope it motivates you to check out the facts for yourselves, engage in rich dialogue with others, and take the actions that are right for you.
To support you we've packed our website with resources. In fact, we like to think of the film as a trailer for the website that also goes live on 11/11. We hope that by exploring and using the site fully, it will become the trailer for a global, self-organizing movement.
Screenings can help form this movement. To help you make your screening as rich and fruitful as possible, we're providing you with resources for answering questions and inspiring and sustaining engagement.
Thank you for considering hosting a THRIVE screening! We would be delighted to have you as a partner to help mobilize millions of people to create a world where everyone has an opportunity to thrive.
Sincerely, Foster and Kimberly and the THRIVE team
P.S. We encourage you to post any public THRIVE Screenings onto our Facebook wall once you've registered, especially if your screening is on 11/11 as this is the best way to get the word out in advance of our site launching.
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V is for Vendetta - Give a Penny for the Guy! by Laura Knight-Jadczyk,Sott.net Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:28 CDT. Occupy everywhere!
Several years ago we watched the movie, V for Vendetta. Like many others, I thought it was a really good analogy of our present global situation, even if it was presented as being 'in the future.' It not only conveys the idea of how the media is spun in a number of brilliant scenes, but it actually discussed the fact that words were being changed, that our language was being co-opted to the use of the psychopaths.
On this Guy Fawkes Day 2011, we suggest that everyone join us, in another cyber-party and settle down to watch V for Vendetta. Invite your friends and family over too! And if you've already seen it, well there's no harm in watching it again! As long-time readers are aware, we've been very fond of this movie since its release in 2006, and have borrowed its powerful themes to help convey to people the reality of our situation, under the global totalitarian control of psychopaths.
Since then, things have become so much worse, that people are finally taking to the streets, in the kinds of numbers that might actually ignite a mass revolution. Whether that ends up being a better or worse outcome for humanity, will depend on our individual efforts. Physically retaking control of 'the government' just aint gonna do it. What we need is greater awareness and understanding of WHY governments end up working AGAINST the people, and not FOR them. V for Vendetta has since inspired hundreds of thousands of people to begin connecting the dots, and waking up to the fact that there is something terribly wrong with this world. Let's take a look at a few clips specially edited to make the point, and then I'll continue:
When Barack Hussein Obama was elected in a landslide on November 4, 2008, everybody was pretty excited, because they were sure that the elections in the U.S. were going to change things - bring an end to the Bush Madness. However, due to our knowledge of psychopathy, we thought otherwise. On November 8, 2006, following the mid-term election success for the Democrat party, I wrote: Post-Election Reality Check. "So you think 'the system worked', democracy has won out, and that yesterday's election is the first step to straightening out the mess Bush and the Neocons have made on the planet? "Think again. It's not that 'the system' didn't work; it worked very well, but you have again been duped. Nothing has changed. In fact, many of you have been put back to sleep by the staged Democratic victory which was set up just for that purpose; to make you think you still live in a democracy. The fact is, the Zionist halter is as firmly strapped on the head of American State policy as it ever was, and the American voter needs to realize that it is immaterial which party prevails at elections." //
I was right - as I have been over and over again. It doesn't make me happy to be right.
On June 3, 2007, I wrote: Ignota nulla curatio morbi! "Again and again I receive letters from political action groups asking for money and support. I've given money and support and also written endless letters and emails telling them that their 'political actions' aren't going to amount to a hill of beans if they do not factor psychopathy into the equation. They were all so sure that getting the Democrats back in control was going to change everything, and the fact is, nothing has changed. All that money and effort wasted. And now people are realizing it even though we have been saying it all along." //
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/143031-V-is-for-Vendetta-Give-a-Penny-for-the-Guy-
.......part2....I don't wish to single out any one 'political action' group, but it was hard to ignore the fact that moveon.org - supposedly a grass-roots political action group - raised literally millions of dollars to support political actions - none of which changed one damn thing. The jackboots of Fascism continued their onward march across the planet.
You just have to wonder what kinds of changes could be possible if the masses of people who donate to moveon.org and the Koch Brothers' Tea Party network [kudos to sincere Anonymous activists for highlighting Koch Industries' role in "usurping American democracy"] are fully aware of psychopathology in politics, and fully aware that they are not up against just simply a 'political' situation, but rather a criminal coup d'etat, and that putting money into 'political action' is just pouring it into a black hole. Nothing is going to change until the masses of people become aware of pathology in politics - psychopaths in power - and that awareness will either come by activism or by suffering directly at the hands of the criminals in charge; take your pick. Make no mistake, people are fed up with the wars, bailing out the rich, the police state controls, the lack of real food and rising prices, the constant BS in the media... With the spread of protest movements all over the globe since the Middle East erupted earlier this year, we may yet come to see the emergence of significant mass awareness of psychopaths in power. Remember people, if and when this happens, the playing field will have changed completely! I'm encouraged by the production of documentaries like Fishead, the publication of books like Puzzling People and the sharing of critical information among protestors in the Occupy Wall Street movement. //© Scarlet Begonias.Awareness of humanity's intra-species predator is growing: Political Ponerology and Fishead, the movie, get an airing at Occupy Los Angeles. //
Help us spread the word at YOUR local Occupy protest! ..... People don't realize that by trying to smooth things over, make nice, and hope there is a political solution, they are just delaying the inevitable. Until you fully understand psychopathy, you cannot understand that there really is no negotiating with them. There is one solution and one solution only: for the masses of people on this planet to en masse, withdraw all support from the psychopaths in power which was the point conveyed in the movie, V for Vendetta. Nothing more and nothing less will stop the descent into mass destruction. Did you notice how just one day after announcing the cessation of NATO bombing raids in Libya (coinciding with the dubiously orchestrated 'death' of Muammar Gaddafi), the pathocrats turned their sights on Iran once more? These madmen will stop at nothing to fulfill their insane agenda unless we stop them by disbelieving their lies and seeing them for what they truly are. But that isn't going to happen unless and until literally millions, if not billions, of people become aware of the true state of affairs. Not just vaguely aware, but viscerally aware of the great peril in which we all stand at this very moment. Let's take some clues from the movie V for Vendetta. It is a marvelous representation of our situation and some of the key elements we need to deal with. ...(...)
ABOUT "I am <fishead(" .... MOVIE.Narrated by Peter Coyote.How psychopaths and antidepressants influence our society a provocative snapshot of the world we live in.
It is a well-known fact that our society is structured like a pyramid. The very few people at the top create conditions for the majority below. Who are these people? Can we blame them for the problems our society faces today? Guided by the saying "A fish rots from the head." we set out to follow that fishy odor. What we found out is that people at the top are more likely to be psychopaths than the rest of us.
Who, or what, is a psychopath? Unlike Hollywood's stereotypical image, they are not always blood-thirsty monsters from slasher movies. Actually, that nice lady who chatted you up on the subway this morning could be one. So could your elementary school teacher, your grinning boss, or even your loving boyfriend. The medical definition is simple: A psychopath is a person who lacks empathy and conscience, the quality which guides us when we choose between good and evil, moral or not. Most of us are conditioned to do good things. Psychopaths are not. Their impact on society is staggering, yet altogether psychopaths barely make up one percent of the population.
Broken into three parts, our search for the <fishead( starts in New York City, on Wall Street, where a big chunk of the world power is concentrated. This small plot of city land is where the economic crisis erupted and what we found there has far-reaching consequences, both for the psychopaths and us normal folk.
The second part of the film touches on how, for a small number of people, overuse of antidepressants can result in behaviors that appear to mimic some psychopathic features. Although overuse of these medications will not produce psychopathy, they may stifle emotion and decrease the user's ability to feel empathy. They also may have the opposite effects, "normalizing" emotional experience and empathy. More than one-third of the Western population uses and, in some cases, abuses these drugs. But why? So why do we want to take a pill that flattens or normalizes our normal feelings? We think something sure smells fishy again.
It is not too far fetched to say that for the first time in history we not only praise psychopaths in the highest positions of power, but in many cases, they became our role models. On top of that, we don't seem to think it's a problem. In the third part, we come back to the idea of us, the normal people in our day-to-day life. How much different are we from the average psychopath? By embracing a superficial culture, each of us maybe unwillingly supports the <fishead(. Albert Einstein said, "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
Through interviews with renowned psychologist Professor Philip Zimbardo, leading expert on psychopathy Professor Robert Hare, former President of Czech Republic and playwright Vaclav Havel, authors Gary Greenberg and Christopher Lane, professor Nicholas Christakis, among numerous other thinkers, we have delved into the world of psychopaths and heroes and revealed shocking implications for us and our society.Lenght: 80 min. Released: Sep 11 2011 . http://www.fisheadmovie.com/about
..Unmasking Media Lies: Why BBC's V-for-Vendetta Mask Piece, is Fawked Up. Kevin Barrett, Truthjihad.com Blog, Sat, 05 Nov 2011 13:53 CDT
// © Truthjihad.com Blog, Remember, Remember the Fifth of November! // http://truthjihad.blogspot.com/ **** V for Vendetta may be the most revolutionary film ever made, but don't expect the BBC to tell you that.
"V for Vendetta masks: Who's behind them?" the BBC recently asked. They published a couple of vague, misleading answers. .....(....)
Its obvious message is: Let's get out there and visit some rough justice on the treasonous bastards who created the 9/11 and 7/7 media spectaculars, and destroyed the freedoms for which we've been fighting for centuries.
// Watch V for 9/11 Vendetta: Past, Present and Future. // It is also possible to read the film from an interior, psychological perspective: Rather than just a call to action, it's about the psychological process of coming to terms with the 9/11 and 7/7 inside jobs, by allowing oneself to feel the overwhelming anger, that is the natural response. Once one has faced the facts, overcome fear, and come to terms with ones own righteous anger, THEN it's time for revolution. The real message of the V mask is simple: We know you bastards blew up the Trade Center. We know you're blowing up the economy. We know you're lying to us 24/7/365. We know you're trying to keep us poor and weak and fearful and impotent. Well, guess what? We're not afraid of you. We're not afraid to die. And we're coming to get you. No wonder the BBC is afraid to admit what the V mask really means. ....(...)
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/237262-Unmasking-Media-Lies-Why-BBC-s-V-for-Vendetta-Mask-Piece-is-Fawked-Up
...................and...............
V For 9/11 Vendetta Past Present and Future. http://www.youtube.com/user/xxseanyboyxx,
Ajoutée par /added by xxseanyboyxx, le2 jan 2007. Not just the trailer to the film. A well blended comparison to 9/11 and V For Vendetta.
FROM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lkKyaj1GF4 7:16min //
http://bestofthebestvideos.blogspot.com/2007/03/v-for-vendetta-speech.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26h-H6CFO-A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXgt6HuGS5k ...3:11min
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU-LzF0lJ5g ....6:45min......
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2qtb8_v-for-vendetta-televised-speech-dis_shortfilms
In 2020,[4] the world is plagued by environmental blight and the former United States has become balkanized. The United Kingdom is ruled by a totalitarian government under the fascist Norsefire party. Evey Hammond, a young woman who works at the state-run British Television Network, is rescued from an attempted rape perpetrated by members of the secret police, by a Guy Fawkes-masked vigilante known as "V". He leads her to a rooftop, to watch his destruction of the Old Bailey. Norsefire tries to explain away the incident as a controlled demolition, claiming the building was no longer structurally sound, but V takes over the state television broadcast the same day, exposing the lie. He urges the people of Britain to rise up against the oppressive government and meet him in one year, on 5 November, outside the Houses of Parliament, which he promises to destroy. ......(...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta_%28film%29
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/fullcredits
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