TheGIC.org's Blog – July 2012 Archive (6)

Understanding Cognitive Dissonance

Robert Lifton’s Thought Reform model remains the gold standard describing how manipulative groups can cause a person to transform, accepting beliefs and practices that they otherwise would reject. Steven Hassan has also described an important aspect of manipulation that Lifton's Model does not discuss regarding the role that…

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Added by theGIC.org on July 30, 2012 at 8:02pm — 1 Comment

NYPD Caught Spying on Muslims

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — It's an audiotape the New York Police Department hoped you would never hear.

A building superintendent at an apartment complex just off the Rutgers University campus called the New Brunswick Police 911 line in June 2009. He said his staff had been conducting a…

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Added by theGIC.org on July 27, 2012 at 8:21am — No Comments

2012 Planetary Alignment at Giza

by Charles Marcello (World Mysteries Blog)

I happen to be one of those people who believes nothing is going to happen in 2012. However, in order to prove that to myself, I have been studying this issue…

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Added by theGIC.org on July 26, 2012 at 2:16pm — No Comments

11 Keys of Spiritual Activism

VELCROW RIPPER

Spiritual Activism is rooted in an understanding of interdependence, recognizing the process is as important as the goal.

Spiritual Activism is the coming together…

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Added by theGIC.org on July 14, 2012 at 10:00am — No Comments

THE ILLUSION OF A TWO PARTY SYSTEM (REPS + DEMS = 1 PARTY) = "The Internationalists Banker's Party"

Let's lay out how the Republican/Democrat two party system is a ruse. Really it is one party that no longer serves the American people, but the international banking cabal. It is sick, it is treasonous.

WE WILL NOW REFER TO THE Democratic and Republican parties as 1 party, the…

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Added by theGIC.org on July 7, 2012 at 8:00am — No Comments

ACTA killed: MEPs destroy treaty in final vote

The European Parliament has rejected ACTA, a controversial trade agreement, which was widely criticized over its likely assault on internet freedoms.

Supporters of the treaty suggested postponing the crucial voting at the Parliament plenary on Wednesday, but members of the parliament decided not to delay the decision any further.

MEPs voted overwhelmingly against…

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Added by theGIC.org on July 4, 2012 at 10:14am — No Comments