Potluck and Propaganda

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Greetings friends, and happy holidaze! Please join us for P&P #14 as we celebrate our one year anniversary! That's right, our little monthly gathering has been going on since Thanksgiving 2008 and this month we are once again having it out on location. We have been invited to kick-start the party "Entheogenic Garden" which will take place on Saturday December 12th at a SOMA warehouse in San Francisco (exact location TBA). Also celebrating birthdays with us are Jenn, Shanti and Sara. We will have the floor from 4pm to 8pm after which David (aka Dog of Tears) will present a short film titled "Rusted Sodom" that he created.



One of the intentions behind this evening is creating an environment that supports the process of healing. P&P will feature the film The Beautiful Truth which takes a look at the Gerson Therapy - a powerful treatment based on a natural diet which is shown to heal cancer and many other degenerative diseases but totally shunned by the conventional medical establishment. This inspiring movie is full of useful information about the Gerson Therapy itself and aspects of western health-care that we should always keep in mind. Trailer:



The potluck theme for this month is home food: share with us some of the dishes which remind you of the holiday season, "family" or "home", whatever these terms mean to you. Otherwise just bring any food or drink that you wish to share with the community.

Also before the main movie we will have some time for "open decks" so if you wish to share a short video on the big screen please get in touch on Facebook or potluckandpropaganda@gmail.com. It can be anything that you found entertaining, educational or inspirational.

Tentative schedule for the evening:
4:00 - 5:00 Community potluck. Theme: Home Food.
5:00 - 6:00 Open Decks
6:00 - 8:00 Movie: The Beautiful Truth
8:00 - 8:30 Rusted Sodom – a film by David Cohen (aka Dog of Tears)
9:00 - Entheogenic Garden music lineup starts

Hope to see you!

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.

By Michael Adams - The Health Ranger
www.naturalnews.com

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

In light of the recent Harvard medical students rebel against big pharma ties, I thought the following video is appropriate:


More Entheogens and Psychedelic Drug Information

(5/3/09) More recent developments on this topic - "The Scientist" magazine has reported that the drug manufacturer Merck has created a real sounding but phony peer reviewed journal to publish favorable data for its products:

"Merck paid an undisclosed sum to Elsevier to produce several volumes of a publication that had the look of a peer-reviewed medical journal, but contained only reprinted or summarized articles--most of which presented data favorable to Merck products--that appeared to act solely as marketing tools with no disclosure of company sponsorship..."

(8/6/09) Just one more report and then I'll stop. The New York Times reports today on newly released court documents that show how pharmaceutical company Wyeth paid a medical communications firm to use ghost writers in drafting and publishing 26 papers between 1998 and 2005 backing the usage of hormone replacement therapy in women. The papers 'emphasized the benefits and de-emphasized the risks of taking hormones to protect against maladies like aging skin, heart disease and dementia'. On the other hand, a federal study done in 2002 'found that menopausal women who took certain hormones had an increased risk of invasive breast cancer, heart disease and stroke'.