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The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a 2019 British drama film written, directed by and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor in his feature directorial debut. The film is based on the memoir The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer. It was screened in the Premieres section at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and began streaming in most territories on Netflix on 1 March 2019. It was selected as the British entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small village a set of luxuries that only 2 percent of Malawians could enjoy: electricity and running water. His neighbors called him misala—crazy—but William refused to let go of his dreams. With a small pile of once-forgotten science textbooks; some scrap metal, tractor parts, and bicycle halves; and an armory of curiosity and determination, he embarked on a daring plan to forge an unlikely contraption and small miracle that would change the lives around him.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a remarkable true story about human inventiveness and its power to overcome crippling adversity. It will inspire anyone who doubts the power of one individual’s ability to change his community and better the lives of those around him.

Netflix viewers can watch the film at https://www.netflix.com/watch/80200047

Prof. Oku J. Singer, Mechanical/Solar Engineer


INVENTION SCHOOL’S SIGNATURE SERIES

AdThe technological progress of Africa and its diasporans was dramatically broken beginning with slavery and later through its colonization by European powers. With the arrival of the 21st century, a new era of an awakened Africa has dawned. In the graphic novel series “Invention School”, curious young African students explore their creative potential for solving everyday problems through a subset of engineering skills under the watchful and loving guidance of an expatriate African American engineering professor. Watch this uplifting graphic novel series. If you find the series and its content useful, please share widely.


GORGING YOUR LEARNING APPETITE

Powerful media giants continue feeding us steady diets of stories, games, music, and images of exploitation, mayhem, helplessness, victimization, sexism, murder, adultery, preposterous wealth, torture, drugs, deceit, vampires, zombies, thuggery, glorified gangsterism, demonic spirits, horror, war, despair, brutality, crime, vengeance, sex, addiction, psychic disorders, occultism, savagery, lust, hate, prejudicial beauty/virtue standards, and stale mind-numbing escapism. Never underestimate the power of the subliminal messaging in this media content to accustom your subconscious to your further takeover and control. The groundwork is being laid and we are being deliberately manipulated for easier subjugation. The “collusion” between Hollywood and complicit agencies like the CIA is clear. Hollywood has played a little known role as a propaganda machine for the US national security apparatus for many years. Carefully look at the proportion (you’ll be shocked) of currently available movie fare that embodies these themes rather than embodying themes that uplift, transform, and inspire. “Just coincidence”, you say? After a steady diet of this psychic fare (garbage in, garbage out), what normal person would ever be in a position or mindset to connect and collaboratively formulate creative solutions and healing to man-made problems that beset humanity, earth lifeforms, and Mother Earth herself? These incapacitating but profitable offerings by these media giants stifle any visions of progress and action we might otherwise take to deliver ourselves out of the quagmires our modern societies have created that affect the entire world. Why do these companies market and sell so much of this awful, depraved content?? Could it be:

  • Predictive Programming is aimed at creating “world culture” and has been assigned to Hollywood to carry out. “Predictive Programming” refers to the use of entertainment and other cultural artifacts to introduce us to planned societal changes. As we come to see these potential changes as familiar, we also have an easier time imagining them to be normal, acceptable, and inevitable, no matter how heinous.
  • Social engineering by an elite few? (neutralization and control)
  • Prophecy?
  • Conspiratorial takeover and mind-control through strategically embedded thought police?
  • Greed? (whatever sells)
  • Cultivated apathy?
  • Cloaked suppression of liberating technologies through powerful diversions?
  • Rampaging decadence?
  • Modern “ divide and conquer” algorithms for fun and profit?
  • Conditioned acceptance of streams of manufactured crises?
  • Non-disruption of the current order (disorder)?
  • Karma?
  • Improperly tuned/authored “New World Order”?
  • Stupidity?????

    BUILD A BETTER DREAM

  • Speak your truth or somebody will speak it for you.
  • Vote with your feet and/or pocketbook
  • Contribute your uplifting stories and discoveries to the global pool
  • Never believe that mainstream media corporations will deliver the full truth to you as they have their own agendas
  • As a free enlightened agent, regain control/understanding of the narratives affecting your well-being
  • Spread awareness (articles, blogs, email, texts, advertisements, social media, art forms, workshops)
  • Activist collaborations
  • Dump or carefully scrutinize cable/satellite television’s agenda-packed (often subliminal) content
  • Values-ladened family time stories and sharing
  • Notify content creators & distributors saying what you DO want. Money is sharper than a sword.
  • Dinner table/classroom discussions and viewing vetted movies like this one above.

    Enjoy!

    Prof. Oku J. Singer, Mechanical/Solar Engineer

    Talking With One Another Is Loving One Another

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