Featured Blog Posts – April 2011 Archive (15)

The Cosmic Story: Beltane and the Taurus New Moon 2011

The Winds of Change are upon us!   Are you ready?   Strong winds have been blowing around the world, and now they are taking the Taurean "manifesting' energy and creating killer tornadoes that are sweeping through middle America.   If the alchemical belief is true, as above, so below, these twirling columns of air might reflect the twirling thoughts of people all…

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Added by theGIC.org on April 30, 2011 at 7:30am — No Comments

Corporate Capitalism is not Democracy (It's Fascism)

The Corporate State Wins Again

When did our democracy die? When did it irrevocably transform itself into a lifeless farce…

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Added by theGIC.org on April 26, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

Brazil to Evict the Poor for Olympic Games



Forced evictions of slum dwellers to make way for the 2016 Olympic Games show that human rights could suffer during Brazil's preparations for the event, the head of Amnesty International said on Monday.

Among other projects, Rio de Janeiro plans to build three expressways for buses ahead of 2016 that will pass through several slums, or favelas, that are home to…

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Added by theGIC.org on April 26, 2011 at 8:30am — No Comments

Virgin Mary Appears over Africa

The Sun started doing strange things in Africa on April 20, 2011. It got brighter and appeared bigger attracting the attention of millions in Africa. Then clearly out of the middle of the gleaming sun, the Virgin Mary appeared as if to give a sign to all that Christ had indeed risen on Easter. The Virgin Mary has appeared many times throughout history. Fatima was a great example…

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Added by theGIC.org on April 25, 2011 at 9:30am — 5 Comments

The Real Story of Easter

The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.) a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similarly,…

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Added by theGIC.org on April 24, 2011 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

GULF OIL SPILL: Remembering the disaster one year later

It was the catastrophe that seemed to crush a way of life, an oil rig exploding in the darkness and plunging the Gulf Coast and its people into months of chaos.

One year after the nation's worst offshore oil spill began, solemn ceremonies will mark the disaster Wednesday and underscore the delicate healing that is only now taking shape.…

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Added by theGIC.org on April 20, 2011 at 9:11am — No Comments

What is 420?

(The GIC will be having a 3 hourcyber rally and music festival today on the Home page TV player and Chatroom.)

 

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Added by theGIC.org on April 20, 2011 at 8:30am — 3 Comments

Appeal by His Holiness the Dalai Lama April. 15, 2011

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Appeal by His Holiness the Dalai Lama expressing concern on the situation at Kirti Monastery in Ngaba, northeastern Tibet;



The current situation prevailing at Kirti Monastery in Ngaba in northeastern Tibet is extremely grim because of the stand-off between the Chinese military forces and the local Tibetans. The monastery, housing approximately 2,500 monks, is completely surrounded…
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Added by Anela Nusta Shanti on April 16, 2011 at 6:53pm — No Comments

On Anti-Bullying 'Day of Silence,' the Religious Right Cheers on the Bullies

Michael B. Keegan

Today, students across the world will take a vow of silence to protest anti-gay bullying and harassment in schools. The Day of Silence, an annual event organized by GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network), is meant to draw…

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Added by theGIC.org on April 15, 2011 at 9:00am — 3 Comments

Michigan Awakens As 10,000 Protesters March Against Rick Snyder

In the largest protest yet against Gov. Rick Snyder’s war on the American dream, 10,000 patriots have gathered in Lansing, Michigan so that their collective cries for freedom can’t be ignored.

Teamsters Nation reports, “This is what solidarity looks like: a huge crowd of 10,000 people,…

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Added by theGIC.org on April 14, 2011 at 9:59am — No Comments

Iceland Declares Independence from International Banks

                                   

By Bill Wilson – Iceland is free.  And it will remain so, so long as her people wish to remain autonomous of the foreign domination of her would-be masters — in this case, international bankers.

On April 9, the fiercely independent people of island-nation defeated a referendum that would have bailed out the UK and the Netherlands who had covered the deposits of British and Dutch investors who had lost funds in Icesave bank in…

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Added by theGIC.org on April 14, 2011 at 8:34am — No Comments

Nuclear Crisis: Officials Raise Crisis To Highest Severity Level 7

Fukushima Reactor

TOKYO — Japan's nuclear regulators raised the severity level of the crisis at a stricken nuclear plant Tuesday to rank it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, citing the amount of radiation released in the accident.

The regulators said the rating was being raised from 5 to 7 – the highest level on an international scale overseen by the International Atomic Energy Agency. However, there was no sign of any significant change at the tsunami-stricken Fukushima…

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Added by theGIC.org on April 12, 2011 at 8:23am — 1 Comment

US Government shut down looms



WASHINGTON--Washington is hurtling toward a government shutdown on Friday night as the time to agree on a budget for the remainder of the fiscal year grows very short.

Because of Senate rules, Democrats could be forced to break two GOP filibusters in order to pass a spending bill, and each vote requires a 30-hour delay. Government funding expires on Friday night, meaning…

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Added by theGIC.org on April 8, 2011 at 9:30am — 3 Comments

The Day of Silence 2011





INFO ABOUT THE DAY OF SILENCE

Sponsored by GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, the National Day of Silence is a day of action in which students across the country take some form of a vow of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools. Through their activities students can speak out against harassment and organize for change for their…

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Added by theGIC.org on April 7, 2011 at 1:30pm — No Comments

The USAF 910th wing receives presidential award for spraying COREXIT 9527 over US citizens

VIENNA - The 910th Airlift Wing in Vienna, Ohio is being honored among the Air Force's elite for its help with cleanup after last year's Gulf oil spill, the Air Force Reserve Command announced Friday.

The 910th is being honored with the ''Air Force Outstanding Unit Award'' recognizing the airlift wing for outstanding achievement from April 28 to June 4, 2010, when it sent two specially equipped C-130H aircraft and the…

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Added by theGIC.org on April 1, 2011 at 3:41pm — 2 Comments

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