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Hasbarazi taboo .. old mariupol footage

Donbass: I'm Alive! | Mariupol survivors of Ukrainian attacks find shelter

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“It’s the Azov battalion. They forced people out of their houses and into basements. Then tanks started shooting from here, from there,” a Mariupol resident shared her story with the film crew. Over 400,000 people in Mariupol had to go underground because they couldn’t leave the city. The film tracks stories of people who had to survive in Mariupol under Ukrainian shelling. Sheltering in cellars and watching Ukrainian tanks firing at residential buildings. They have all gone through hell and back. Now they’re happy to be alive and hope for a new beginning.

Embrace Of The Serpent - amazonia

The Strange And Intoxicating 'Embrace Of The Serpent'
February 18, 20165:00 PM ET

Mark Jenkins

Two scientists and an Amazonian shaman work together over 40 years to find a sacred healing plant in The Embrace of the Serpent.
Andres Barrientos/Courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories

A river cruise is like a movie. The boat glides from scene to scene, the travelers get to know each other, and around the final curve awaits resolution, or perhaps revelation.

Or at least that's how the voyage proceeds in Colombian director and co-writer Ciro Guerra's fascinating The Embrace of the Serpent. Nominated for the best foreign-language-film Oscar, the Amazon-set drama is a trip in more ways than one. It intertwines two journeys of discovery, inspired by the real-life journals of German ethnologist Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American ethno-botanist Richard Evans Schultes.

Both are looking for a rare plant, although for different reasons. In 1909, Theo (Jan Bijvoet) is seriously ill, and his semi-Westernized native guide (Miguel Dionisio Ramos) believes yakruna will save him. The men seek a young shaman, Karamakate (Nilbio Torres), who mistrusts white people and believes himself the last of his tribe. Only when Theo says he can reconnect Karamakate with his surviving kin does the healer join the expedition.

Some 30 years later, Evans (Brionne Davis) follows Theo's path. The American has been recruited to find new sources of rubber for his country, at war with a Japan that controls Southeast Asia's sticky sap. Evans is an expert on hallucinogenic plants and hopes to find yakruna. He enlists an older Karamakate (Antonio Bolivar), who believes he has lost his memory, and perhaps even his identity.

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usable .. if you can read mirrored subtitles




https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/reviews/view/28107/embrace-of-the-serpent
Embrace of the Serpent
Directed by Ciro Guerra   
A cross-cultural masterpiece set in the Amazon.
2016 S&P Award Winner
Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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    "For centuries the lost world of the Amazon has cast its spell on outsiders, spawning legends and drawing to itself conquerors, adventurers, explorers and scientists. . . . Despite the monumental suffering the jungle routinely inflicted on its visitors, they still came. Something about the Amazon breathes mystery and fires imaginations."

    — Kenneth Good in Into the Heart: One Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomama

Columbian film director and writer Ciro Guerra has created a cross-cultural masterpiece that embraces important spiritual and philosophical themes such as shamanism, science, religion, colonialism, "the other," and the magical world of the Amazon. It is based on the travel journals of German Theodor Koch-Grünberg and the American explorer Richard Evans Schultes. This engaging and thought-provoking drama swings between the parallel stories of two Western scientists who are on a quest to locate a potent sacred flower — the Yakruna — which contains healing powers.

Guerra spent five years making Embrace of the Serpent which won the Directors' Fortnight prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015. The film begins with a mesmerizing scene of the Amazon where the black-and-white work of Director of Photography David Gallego captures the dreamlike qualities of the forests and the waters.

Standing on the shoreline is Karamakate (Nilbo Torres), a shaman who lives alone and is the one remaining survivor of a tribe wiped out by white invaders. In a memorable scene, we see his close connections with the natural world: he stands silently in a swarm of butterflies who seem to sense him as their companion. As he looks across the shimmering waters, a boat comes into sight carrying Theo (Jan Bijvoet) and his guide and close friend Manduca (Miguel Dionisio Ramos). Karamakate is told that the scientist is dying and only the Yakruna plant can save him.

Although the shaman hates all white men and at first refuses to help Theo, he changes his mind when he learns that the explorer has come across members of his tribe. Karamakate gives the sick man treatments: herbal medicine administered through a blowdart into the nose. But in exchange he insists that the Westerner act in accordance with a diet of no meat or fish. The wise shaman also counsels him to be courteous to plants and trees. This requires living in rhythm with the natural world rather than dominating it.

As the three men begin their journey, we have no idea where they will end up, what they will see, and in what surprising ways their adventure will change them. Theo takes a break in their trip and stops for a visit with the Cohiuano tribe. He amuses everyone with his song and dance number performed at night. But the atmosphere of conviviality is shattered when he exhibits a temper tantrum after discovering that someone in the tribe has stolen his compass. Although on the surface this seems be a minor inconvenience, for Theo it brings to the fore his fears that the Cohiuano will give up their old ways of navigating by the stars and begin to rely on new technology.

Years later, Evan (Brionne Davis), another Western scientist, has come to the Amazon to find the sacred plant Theo wrote about. We see his insensitivity when he offers an older and sadder Karamakate (Antonio Bolivar Salvador) two dollars to serve as his guide. The wise shaman sees through this swindle but is anxious about his own memory loss. His greatest fear is that he has already become a "Chullachaqui," which is an empty person with no roots or purpose.

In his third feature film, Ciro Guerra presents a chilling depiction of the violence, greed, consumerism, and prejudice of the European invaders who destroyed the Amazon in pursuit of rubber and killed or enslaved over 100, 000 indigenous people. Guerra reveals the havoc wrought in this wonderland in a short vignette about a slave who is just one victim of those destroying human beings and the rain forest in their pursuit of profits through rubber.

The dark side of the European missionary culture comes across in a visit to a village where a Spanish priest regularly beats the indigenous boys. By the time Evan arrives in the same community, the European priests are gone and his message has been reformulated into a new religion with the Indians worshipping a cruel figure who they think is the Messiah.

In an interview in Film Frames, Guerra says:

"I want to make films without cynicism. To me, cynicism is a disease in society, and that's why I embrace cinema's ability to let us see the world as if for the first time. I am still amazed by the beauty of every day, and find myself privileged to not have been subjugated by cynicism."

Embrace of the Serpent is the first film to be shot in Columbia's Amazon in 30 years. We are caught up in the sense lusciousness of the journey down the river; in the high regard for animal life as we watch sequences of different snake births; in the respect for plants and their healing qualities; and in the psychedelic-like hallucinations of the elderly shaman who experiences ecstatic visions.

The content rich screenplay by Guerra and Jacques Toulemonde Vidal ends on a high and holy note when the film is dedicated to all those South American indigenous peoples "whose song we never knew."

a much longer review here:
https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2018/feature-articles/the-embrace-of-the-serpent-and-the-dark-legacy-of-the-rubber-holocaust/

JewOp w SueZiony distractions from Palestine

2Yago GWebb on software-wars for israel

... of course, his charmed existence rests on the fact that the only time he'll stir the dirt all the way to bottom and 'zionism' comes up by way of Chertov for instance, his mkultra standard robotizzum gets in the way and he'll say that his children can do him proud by joining the idf and stops short of revealing how they feel about his prompts.

it's almost like bob, .. if he stumbles over some 'ground', he loses no time on account of phobia reflexivity speed to declare it figure, quickly followed by declaring precisely that figure as new ground ... and so on ... to try put distance between himself and sobriety, piety, base line common sense from the pre-egotec darkened aeons behind and who knows, still in front of us, even if we make progress winding it all back down.

Google's Censor - HoneyColony story

 Google's Censorship & the Spiral of Silence (interview with Maryam Henein, the Bee Lady)
Helen of Destroy
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Google wouldn't let this video upload for 4 days, so you KNOW the content has got to be juicy.
Maryam Henein of HoneyColony.com learned the hard way she had run afoul of Google's omniscient, omnipotent algorithm by asking too many questions about the pharmaceutical-industrial complex that is supposed to be all we need to recover from what ails us. after her site was deplatformed in the search engine's "Medic" update, she went down the rabbit hole & has discovered the Google of "Don't Be Evil" is more evil than previously imagined.
1:30 the "Medic" update
4:15 trying to play by Google's rules - EAT or be eaten
5:46 Google is a drug company - the one-size-fits-all flu vaccine & Healthy2020 are just the first baby steps into techno-fascism
8:06 autocomplete is mind control: you can't know what you don't know - importance of search alternatives
10:27 the memory hole and the CDC
11:55 Care2 Don't Care
12:56 GoFundMe ditches vaccine-related fundraisers after partnering with Accel Partners, which is hooked into Big Pharma & also has its tentacles in Slack, Dropbox, Docusign, & other straws through which your data is slurped
15:31 the use of Wikipedia as a reputational barometer
16:36 why does Wikipedia beg for money when Google is shoveling millions down its maw? - Wikipedia's reputational assaults on alternative healing
19:00 Dr. Google - what is Google doing in the pharmaceutical sector?
21:12 23andMe retracts Maryam's Jewish heritage - what else are they changing?
23:38 AI-enabled schools churn out dysfunctional students: bug or feature?
25:50 how soon before Google unveils a genetic bioweapon? - or has it already...
27:18 no more organic searches - Google and now the CDC have weaseled their way into the fabric of search to guide inquiry & punish "dissenters"
29:32 the pinnacle of gaslighting - Sacha Baron Cohen's "Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach" - an all-you-can-eat buffet of facts, as long as they hew to a certain narrative thread
30:58 how is a person mass-deplatformed? control exerted through investment (Accel) or peer pressure (Gab)
33:17 learned helplessness from random unexplained deplatformings keeps people in line, lest they lose their banking, social media, etc
34:40 the false narrative around CBD - FDA claims hype outweighs benefits - hundreds of videos purged
37:35 StopBitBurning.com prepares a class action lawsuit to prove that Big Tech censorship has affected lives & livelihoods
39:12 censorship does not affect only conservatives - anyone on the political spectrum who does not subscribe to ever-narrowing mainstream narrative is silenced, deranked "because democracy"
41:00 mailing lists, Facebook campaign data disappear without explanation
43:21 ADL pretends it wants to jail the CEOs of tech companies - even though it's working with them to censor users
44:44 censorship eventually renders you unable to even state your own position clearly, having never had to defend it against contrary views
47:14 social media taken for granted as benign - bot armies - attempts to turn issues into third rails
49:48 dude where's my Nuremberg code / since when are children houses on fire? shades of Passover in Samoa
51:42 how far is "Vaccinate with Confidence" from hiding in the jungles waiting for death to pass by?
52:45 why have 'liberal' states abandoned the idea of individual sovereignty / when did liberals lose their minds?
55:30 the demise of shame, plus the death of debate as an art form have left liberals unsure what their convictions even are
59:32 deliberate exploitation of the spiral of silence creates false impression there are only 2 extremes re: vaccines - while in Samoa, the government owns your children, & in CA, adult vax will soon be needed for Real ID
1:06:43 Wikipedia is militant about vaccine dissent - smears any celebrity who's uttered a sentence on the matter - similar overreaching with politics
1:10:15 desperately reaching to be offended - is it chemical?
1:12:42 SJWs used to infiltrate and destroy the Left
1:14:30 deliberate misunderstanding of 'trigger' words means all conversation is a race to the bottom, no room for interpretation - also deprives a person of their inner gauge of appropriateness, must use Twitter instead
1:17:33 alt.med sites must self-censor or find alternate income stream
1:21:02 FDA/DEA crackdown on substances that nibble at profit margins
1:28:32 those who speak out, putting principle over salary (Vorhies) get smeared & become MSM-untouchable
1:34:26 solutions: deGoogle! how much do you want to be free? inconvenience is sometimes the price of liberation. use DuckDuckGo, SwissCows, Qwant, Yandex. find your 'tribe.' & always question the status quo - especially things that cause suffering but that you're told are unchangeable.




this man says most city beekeeping is worse than slave labor
Torben Schiffer
Schulimkerei & Forschungslabor
Otto-Hahn-Schule, Jenfelder Allee 53
22045 Hamburg
T +49 40 4288 73 201
torben.schiffer@gmx.de
Informationen zu Kursen:
www.beenature-project.com
www.beekeeping–revolution.com
Fertigungsbetrieb in Österreich:
www.schiffertree.at
Von dem Leid der Bienen die Nase voll? Möchtest du
der Natur und den Bienen etwas Gutes tun und kannst
du auf Honig verzichten? Dann steig aus der Intensiv-
tierhaltung aus und komme in den Artenschutz: Verein
zur Rettung der Honigbienen e.V.
Möchtest du einem Bienenvolk die Freiheit schenken?
Dann übernimm eine Baumhöhlenpatenschaft:
Weitere Informationen unter:
www.artgerechte-bienenerhaltung.de

who was the GWebb of 1worldyear ago

you may be able to find out following the lecture cycle Ebert will start with a colleague on the hi-tide of the romans 2160 years ago, when the dirty tricks had an iteration on replay these days .......

Promo Video for Rome: Where Are We? with David Getzin & John David Ebert
youtube.com/watch?v=oKfcWu_HwaQ