Potluck and Propaganda

From the movie True Stories (1986) by David Byrne of the Talking Heads.

Wow, last night’s gathering was so much fun! When I first thought about throwing these events this is exactly what I had in mind - everybody contributing and participating in the program. Thank you all for coming and sharing these wonderful videos. Special thanks to Alisa and Sarai who stayed behind and helped clean the mess. We are definitely going to do another "open decks" event in the near future so if you encounter anything especially cool remember to bookmark it.

Here are some of the videos we saw, more or less in the order we watched them. Drop me a line if I forgot anything and I’ll add it to the list. See you next time!

The Fucking Moon





Drinking Out of Cups





TED Talk by Elizabeth Gilbert: A new way to think about creativity


Link to this talk on the TED website here.



Grandma vs. Mercedes





Spirit World 2 (part 1)





Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale


The full discussion "Notes & Neurons" from the World Science Festival 2009 in high quality can be found here.


The 30-Second Bunnies Theater Library





Intro to Participatory Economics





Schwa





Bill Moyers Discusses The Washington Post's Pay-to-play Scandal





The Truth About Codex Alimentarius





The Yes Men





Validation





Bill O'Reilly Lies About Amsterdam





Qigong Master Boils Water With His Hands





Amazing Chinese Man With Extreme Healing Powers Of Chi





Malay Eagle Owl





Svetlana - Pilot Episode





White Box





EepyBird's Sticky Note Experiment





Balancing Point

Thanks again to everybody who made it last night. Hope you were able to withstand the rapid stream of information that was presented in The Esoteric Agenda. As some of you commented, many of the "facts" presented in the movie require further investigation, although it will be interesting to see how the "Agenda 21/Codex Alimentarius" situation develops in the near future.

My favorite bit from the movie was the short skit "Media-Opoly". It appeared in the original broadcast of a March 1998 SNL episode, but was cut from the summer rerun. SNL producer Lorne Michaels told the New York Daily News he "didn't think it worked comedically". In a later interview, Harry Shearer said "The truth is that Lorne wanted to continue working at 30 Rock". Here is the full skit:




I’d also like to thank Leon for a wonderful and gorgeous slideshow. You can see more of his work on his website.

Thanks, and hope to see you next time!

Hello friends,
The next "2nd Tuesday of the month" is May 12th and you know what that means - new Microsoft security patches! Ah yes, and P&P as well. This month we’ll be looking again into conspiracy theories and watch the film “The Esoteric Agenda”, as voted in last month’s poll.

Synopsis: "There is an Esoteric Agenda behind every facet of life that was once believed to be disconnected. There is an Elite faction guiding most every Political, Economic, Social, Corporate, some Non-Governmental or even Anti-Establishment Organizations. This film uses the hard work and research of professionals in every field helping to expose this agenda put the future of this planet back into the hands of the people."



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This just in - our good friend Leon is back in from his Southwestern adventures and will present a 15 minute slideshow of some of his recent photographic creations!
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Please try to be on time. Our evening schedule will be:
07:00 - 08:00 Gathering
08:00 - 09:30 Community potluck dinner. Theme: Russian Food.
09:30 - 09:45 Slideshow of Leon's recent work
09:45 - 11:30 Feature film: "The Esoteric Agenda".

In honor of "May Day", this month’s potluck theme is Russian Food. If you need some ideas you can look here. Use the Facebook Event Wall to announce the dish or drink you are bringing. As always I’ll appreciate it very much if you RSVP before Monday so that I can prepare for the right number of people.

Potluck and Propaganda is aimed to present information and encourage critical thinking. Let go of your belief systems (BS) and investigate different reality tunnels. The opinions expressed in the movies shown do not necessarily reflect the ones of P&P or its organizers.

Thanks again to those who made it last night despite the rain, late hour and the challenging movie. I can’t tell you how much I enjoy these gatherings so thanks for being a part of it!

All the material we played is available for free on the web. We started the evening with a preview of a talk by Richard Hoagland called "The Hyperdimensional Election of Barack Obama and 2012". It is almost 3 hours long but full of very interesting concepts and ideas. Part 1:


Part 2:



The evening’s feature film was "Who Killed John O’Neill" which was indeed difficult to watch as expected. Still, I enjoyed some of the new theories presented there that I didn’t hear before and are definitely worth a closer look. (100 min)




We finished the evening by sharing some of our favorite conspiracy theories websites. Two of them are Conspiracy Reality TV and Out There Radio Podcast. You can find them and other excellent sites on the "Recommended Links" area on the sidebar.

Oh yeh, we also talked about lucid dreaming and Lucidipedia during dinner.

Hope to see you and many others at the next installation of P&P. I'll post the official announcement in a few days.

The February installment of P&P will focus on the highly debated and controversial topic of 9/11. I'm sure many of you have already looked closely into this issue, and have your own ideas of what happened (or didn't happen) on that tragic day. Our feature movie will be "Who Killed John O'Neill" which is considered a must within the 9/11 truth movement.



Some background: For six years, John O'Neill was the FBI's leading expert on Al Qaeda. He warned of its reach and its threat to the U.S. but his warnings were ignored. Partly due to personal friction within the FBI and federal government, O'Neill left to become the head of security at the World Trade Center where he started his new job on September 10th 2001. He died the next day in the 9/11 attack. Coincidence..?

A word of warning: this movie is not easy to watch. It is what some would call "artsy-fartsy" and contains a lot of information. It's available on Google video so feel free to watch the first few minutes and see what I'm talking about. If you are not familiar with the core issues of the 9/11 truth movement then I highly recommend that you familiarize yourself with this topic first. A good place to start is the movie "Loose Change" which I embedded here:



As always, we start the evening with a community potluck so bring a dish a drink or a friend. Potluck starts at 7pm and the movie around 9pm. Please RSVP and try to arrive before 9pm if you plan to skip the dinner. We will probably have some time to watch 2 or 3 additional 15 minute clips on the topic of 9/11. Drop me a line if you have any suggestions.

Potluck and Propaganda is aimed to present information and encourage critical thinking. Let go of your belief systems (BS) and investigate different reality tunnels. The opinions expressed in the movies shown do not necessarily reflect the ones of P&P or its organizers.

Thanks to all who came to SeraPhi this weekend. It was truly a joy to share ideas and get informed together. All the material we played is available for free on the web. Here are the movies in the order they were shown:

We started the evening with a talk titled "Open Source Democracy" by Douglas Rushkoff (55 min), author of a book by the same name.





We then accidentally played a piece by Keith Olbermann called "8 years in 8 minute" (9 min).





We continued with the clip that we originally wanted to show, "Great Moments In Presidential Speeches Compilation" (5 min).





The feature movie for the evening was "The Pharmacratic Inquisition" by Jan Irvin & Andrew Rutajit of gnosticmedia.com (111 min). Here is part 1 of 12:



YouTube playlist with all 12 parts: here.



We finished the evening with the awesome TED talk "My Stroke of Insight" by Jill Bolte Taylor (20 min).




Hope to see many of you at the next P&P!

It's official. Come early to .::Resonance::. at SeraPhi for a special Potluck and Propaganda event from 6pm to 10pm. The program will feature rev.2 of the classic Internet movie "The Pharmacratic Inquisition" which investigates mythologies and symbolism related to astrology, religion, spirituality and shamanism. Bring a dish or drink to share. Entrance is free before 9pm, afterwards the normal party rates apply.

As usual please contact potluckandpropaganda@gmail.com if you'd like to suggest additional content.

Ever since starting P&P and this website I find myself paying attention more and more to sensitive issues within the field of food and nutrition. The following disturbing movie is about the impact of genetically modified crops on the planet. It revolves around the conduct of the giant biotech company Monsanto. 108 minutes.



Thanks to Dedroidify.