Showing posts with label maya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maya. Show all posts

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

2012 isn't the end of the world, mayans insist

2012 isn't the end of the world, mayans insistfrom ap: Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world.

Or is it?

Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff."

It can only get worse for him. Next month Hollywood's "2012" opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House.

At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the "Curious? Ask an Astronomer" Web site, says people are scared.

"It's too bad that we're getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they're too young to die," Martin said. "We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn't live to see them grow up."

Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.

A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

outside the box #190 (w/ jay weidner)


here is the latest episode of "outside the box," hosted by alex ansary.
it was originally broadcast by portland community media on february 19, 2009.

from alex ansary: Alex interviews author and visionary Jay Weidner (sacredmysteries.com) about the mysteries surrounding 2012. Some of the topics discussed include the galactic alignment, the magnetic field, the sun, the cross of Hendaye, and the Mayan calendar.

'outside the box' on oracle broadcastingplus you can always get the latest episodes of "outside the box" on the oracle broadcasting network...

Friday, March 09, 2007

news on the march

hearing begins for suspected 9/11 mastermind
hearing begins for suspected 9/11 mastermindfrom 9/11 blogger/telegraph: Hearings begin today at Guantanamo Bay for a group of 14 terrorist suspects including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged September 11 mastermind. No lawyers or reporters will be present at the hearings so the only account of the outcome will come from the US military... A Pentagon spokesman said the hearings were closed to prevent classified information from leaking.

the scandal at walter reed
ron paul's statements about the scandal at walter reedfrom ron paul's statement on the iraq war resolution before the US house of representatives march 7, 2007: "The scandal at Walter Reed is not an isolated incident. It is directly related to our foreign policy of interventionism..."
Watch Ron Paul's speech on video.

bugging out on homeland security
bugging out on homeland securityfrom popsci: Annoying as they are, you may want to think twice before you crush a cockroach or swat a fly — you could be killing a future foot soldier in the war on terror. Increasingly, scientists are turning to insects and other creatures for better ways to identify biohazards.

eurovision unhappy with israel's nuclear message
eurovision unhappy with israel's nuclear messagefrom post chronicle: A Eurovision Song Contest official is attempting to block Israel's entry to this year's competition - because he feels the song is inappropriate.

Israeli pop band Teapacks has recorded Push The Button in Hebrew, English and French, and hope to wow Eurovision panellists in May.




priests to purify site after bush visit

priests to purify site after bush visitfrom sfgate: Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.

"That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture," Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday.
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