A Walk with Parks Garden Grove Style
Sue Parks is walking all 34 Cities in Orange County. She's the President and CEO of the Orange County United Way. For Garden Grove's walk, Mayor Steve Jones led a tour from the Adirondack chairs and City Hall to Main Street to the Great Wolf Lodge. GGTV3's Rachel Jordan has the story.
Arabic Festival at Euclid Park in Garden Grove, CA.
Holy Bible Team with M2M across from the Main Entrance of the Arabic Festival on September 25th.
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Rip Curl Water Slide at Hawaiian Falls Roanoke
Take a ride on the Rip Curl water slide at Hawaiian Falls Roanoke near DFW in Texas, United States. The tube slide consists of an enclosed as well as an open part.
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Video Game Arcade Tours - Boomers! (Vista, California)
We decided to take a trip to Boomers in Vista, CA. Apparently this location and Palm Springs are not actually Boomers locations nor affiliated with Boomers! according to the manager, kinda strange, but this is why they couldn't transfer our card over to this location.
National amusement center chain featuring mini-golf, go-karts, bumper boats & arcade games.
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ILLUMINATI MASONIC LODGE FOOTAGE
Throughout the centuries there has existed an occult conspiracy for a New World Order, which is the plan to enact a one world government under a fascist dictatorship and police state. This agenda for global domination is to be carried out using fear based propaganda and mind control psychology through the news media, entertainment, and pop-culture.
This New World Order is said to be the goal of the Illuminati, a secret society shrouded in mystery, magic, mysticism and myth. Rumor has it that, the Illuminati actually consists of several secret societies and fraternal orders compartmentalized into a pyramidal hierarchy of need-to-know and initiation.
These secret societies communicate through ancient occult symbols and rituals. Such esoteric symbolism can be seen everyday, hidden in plain sight within America's architecture, corporate logos, and even money. The most infamous of such symbols is the all-seeing eye found on the pyramid depicted on the back of the one dollar bill. You will also find that underneath the pyramid is the Latin inscription Novus Ordo Seclorum, which has can be roughly translated to read New World Order.
The term New World Order is documented to be first used in a 1926 edition of the Saturday Evening Post by Edward M. House in relation to the Council on Foreign Relations, an organization said to be related to the New World Order conspiracy. George Bush Sr. has also used the phrase in his speech Toward a New World Order on September 11th 1990, a date synchronistic to the tragic events eleven years later. Such a coincidence has prompted even more controversy amongst New World Order conspiracy theories.
Many presidents of The United States of America were indeed members of the same fraternal order known as the brotherhood Freemasonry. Today, Freemasonry labels itself not as a secret society but rather a society with secretsâ€. It is true that members of Freemasonry among other fraternal orders and secret societies communicate using such arcane codex which they have sworn upon oaths never to reveal.
The Bohemian Grove Club is an organization which includes some of the most powerful men in the world. The Bohemian Club meets each year in private campgrounds located in Sonoma County California. Bohemian Clubs elite members include Presidents Ronald Regan, Richard Nixon, George Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. as well as many media and entertainment industry executives. The culmination of this event ends with a ceremony in which a human effigy is ritualistically burned at an altar beside a forty-foot concrete statue of an owl. The owl itself is said to be connected to wisdom and the occult symbolism of the Illuminati. A depiction of an owl figure can be seen within the architecture of the streets surrounding the United States Capital in Washington D.C.
Another group connected to the New World Order is the Skull and Bones fraternal brotherhood out of Yale which members include once presidential contenders George W. Bush and John Kerry, whom are both cousins related by blood.
It is said that America is actually a corporation created by the European banking system and that America is run by the bloodlines of European royalty. Ancestral research shows that many of the presidents of the United States of America are in fact ancestrally related to European royalty and the British Royal family through descendants of Strongbow.
Symbolism and secrecy all seem to be key parts in the fascination for New World Order conspiracy theory. America’s fascination for conspiracy has increased in the past few years since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The range of these conspiracy theories run far and deep, yet many stem from the same lose ends and unanswered questions.
What can be scarier than these conspiracy theories is the reality that can be lost within some of the delusions regarding the Illuminati, the New World Order, secrecy and secret societies. New World Order and Illuminati conspiracy has become another niche in the entertainment industry world to escape within while the real tragedies occur across our communities and the globe. This could also be considered a New World Order conspiracy itself.
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Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond. Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised. Along with his critique of the civilized world, Thoreau examines other issues afflicting man in society, ranging from economy and reading to solitude and higher laws. He also takes time to talk about the experience at Walden Pond itself, commenting on the animals and the way people treated him for living there, using those experiences to bring out his philosophical positions. This extended commentary on nature has often been interpreted as a strong statement to the natural religion that transcendentalists like Thoreau and Emerson were preaching. (Description amended from Wikipedia).
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Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond. Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised. Along with his critique of the civilized world, Thoreau examines other issues afflicting man in society, ranging from economy and reading to solitude and higher laws. He also takes time to talk about the experience at Walden Pond itself, commenting on the animals and the way people treated him for living there, using those experiences to bring out his philosophical positions. This extended commentary on nature has often been interpreted as a strong statement to the natural religion that transcendentalists like Thoreau and Emerson were preaching. (Description amended from Wikipedia).
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Los Angeles is one really occult themed city. Even the name Hollywood has occult connotations. Witches would use the wood from a holly tree to make their wands to cast spells over people.
The attraction to Hollywood is undeniable and millions of people go there in search of fame and fortune. The movie industry sets the tone for the rest of the world.
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NYSTV - Where Are the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel Today The Prophecy of the Return
Is it the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel? Or 12? What were their origins? Where did they go? Where are they now? What is their connection to the Illuminati?
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NYSTV - Lilith - (Siren, Ishtar, Grail Queen) The Monster Screech Owl - David Carrico - Multi Lang
Jezebel, Isis, Ishtar, Diana, Semiramis, Columbia, Kwan Yin, Satan's wife, Lilith is known by many names in many cultures. (She might also possibly be Medusa). Was Lilith the first wife of Adam? Why is she revered in the occult world?
Lilith was also known as one of the Grail Queens (as in Holy Grail - King Arthur, Percival) and her lineage, among the Druids, was known to be Eleven.
(The other Grail Queens were Ishtar, Mirian, Babsheba an Mary Magdalene.
Lilith was also Enlil's Grand-daughter (Sumeria) and was a Full Blooded Annunaki (according to Laurence Gardner).
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Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)