Giglio island, Italy: the wreck of the cruise liner Costa Concordia lies outside the harbour at dusk

Photograph: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters (via 24 hours in pictures | News | guardian.co.uk)

A solar flare erupts on sun Sunday, triggering a solar storm – the strongest in more than six years – which is already affecting Earth. The brunt of the material from the outburst should hit Earth Tuesday.

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jesuisperdu:

[December 21, 2011. Mourners follow the car carrying a casket with remains of late Czech president Vaclav Havel on their way through central Prague to Prague Castle on Prague, Czech Republic. The body of the former playwright was moved from a church, where it had been laid out for public viewing for the last two days, to Prague Castle—where Havel will lie in state—before the burial on 23 December.]

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Global Revolution Underway

posted by Daniel Pinchbeck | October 16, 2011

Saturday’s global rally in over 600 towns and cities worldwide was a momentous event. A month ago, the Occupy Wall Street movement managed to pierce the veil of the matrix. The puncture has now become an unsealable rip in the fabric of Empire. Gas is escaping rapidly from the balloon.

We are seeing the inception of a global insurrection that will not end until the dominant system is overthrown and replaced through a planetary metamorphosis. The mainstream media continues to play down the Occupy phenomenon, critiquing its lack of specific demands. Specific demands are pointless, because the entire political, social, and economic system in which we exist has rotted out from the inside. Demands would suggest that there is a way to reform the present system, but no reformist initiative is possible.

As someone who wrote about the prophecies of indigenous cultures such as the Maya and the Hopi, I believe the time we are in is one of constantly accelerating transformation. The process we are undergoing as a collective organism leads to an evolutionary leap of consciousness on a species level. This mutation happens within the next few years - it is already happening now.

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goldenrouge:

Libyans pray in pouring rain in Benghazi

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ornamentedbeing:

“At 4:56 a.m. CT the shuttle’s commander, Chris Ferguson, took the stick of Atlantis and at an angle seven times steeper than an airline guided her home to Kennedy Space Center for a beautiful nighttime landing. And then its voyages were over.” 

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nevver:

Might as well

staff:

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asie:

Female anti-government protestors pray during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa,Yemen.  Defying a deadly government crackdown, tens of thousands of protesters have poured into the streets. (via)

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pdvmorris:

we the lucky

have a place warm out of the cold

food in full supply

spare your sincerest thoughts 

and wishes for those who don’t

and may not for along while yet

kaching:

INCOMING: This aerial shot shows the tsunami tidal waves moving upstream (left side) in the Naka river at Hitachinaka city in Ibaraki prefecture on March 11, 2011.

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ontologicalterrorist:

Houses are swept by a tsunami in Natori City in northeastern Japan March 11, 2011. (REUTERS/KYODO) #

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akio:

My thoughts and prayers to everyone in Japan and anyone affected by the earthquake.

THANKS!

BTW That’s our old navy flag which doesn’t exist anymore :D

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