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$3 trillion shopping spree video
2008-10-20 00:16:00
Here's a video that asks, What would you do with $3 trillion? My deepest wish is that the American people send a message on November 4 to all Republicans: we don't appreciate your Treasury-emptying budgetary ways, or your war profiteering at other people's expense. And to their Democratic enablers? We may be stuck with them just to make point #1, but we'll be keeping a much closer watch on their ethics, budgets, and votes if they should be so favored as to win a majority on Capitol Hill come November - House, Senate, or both.And since Pelosi and Reid sold us down the river with Paulson's banker-enriching 'Bailout plan' then the two of them are on probation for the duration until all fraudsters can be swept out the back door...and it'll be good riddance if that day ever comes.
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Leaving Iraq + the 'New President' Eclipse
2008-10-19 21:19:00
Iraqis stage mass anti-US occupation rally Supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr have staged a mass demonstration in Baghdad in protest against plans to extend the US mandate in Iraq. An estimated 50,000 protesters chanted slogans such as "Get out occupier!"~:~As mentioned previously, I must agree with what my mama always said: Never go where you're not invited, never stay where you're merely tolerated. The toleration (what little there ever was) for US troops in Iraq, has ended.You know that about 6 days into the new administration, a Solar Eclipse occurs. The Ascendant degree of the Eclipse when set for the White House is 1Sag59 so we may look to the Sabian Symbol for: '2Sag'..."The Ocean Covered with Whitecaps" which to my ears has a White House/Washington DC flavor to it.However, '1Sag' is a Symbol I've typed many times here and elswhere relating to the Pentagon, our military, and to the Bush-Cheney wars: "A Grand Army of the Republic Campfire." This indicates to me that...
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Is 'spread the wealth' same as socialism?
2008-10-19 01:48:00
Charges are mulitplying by McCain and his surrogates that Barack Obama's tax proposals and other economic ideas are 'socialist' in nature. Well, it's true that the phrase "spread the wealth" never goes over well with the richest class, and I can think of no better reason than this: if spreading or sharing actually occurred, half a million or so of their dollars might be used to feed the hungry, bind the wounds of the ill and dying, and comfort an orphan or a foster child or two.Why, a factory might be built and a few jobs created - and after the corporate elite worked so hard to ship our jobs overseas, too!So apparently, if there's one thing a rich man can't stand, it's being his brother's keeper by giving back a little of the largesse he receives through the laws of this great nation and from the sweat of the common worker's brow. Never mind that a rich man has money and legal reps to avoid paying taxes which he rightly should have been paying all along. Plus, they didn't...
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Wall Street loves a good scam
2008-10-18 21:57:00
Professor Thayer Watkins of San Jose University Department of Economics recounts the tale of Equity Funding whose fake insurance policy scams were uncovered by auditors in 1973 causing the company to collapse. And since Wall Street 's high assessment of Equity Funding had allowed buyouts of other profitable firms, the dominoes fell.Yes, Equity Funding became a major success on Wall Street which shows you the company the scalliwags were keeping on both sides. Equity Funding created fake insurance policies early on - no one seems to know exactly when - to inflate their profits for Wall Street's admiration, then they sold them through the reinsurance market. Stop me if any of this sounds familiar, because it should.Prof Watkins uses Dirk's and Gross' book, The Great Wall Street Scandal as his source. A quick foray to Amazon shows that this book seems to be available from sellers but is out of print. The Equity Funding section by Prof Watkins is part of his "Episodes of Financial Fra...
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George Bush + Oliver Stone natal charts
2008-10-18 02:09:00
Lower left chart, George W. Bush (July 6, 1946), upper right chart Oliver Stone (Sep 15, 1946, rating B.)From what I'm hearing about director Oliver Stone's new film W, he and George W. Bush share something - each has a father complex.Yet from the looks of their close-in-time natal charts, they share more than that.Both men were born within the same Pre-Natal Eclipse Series, 2 New North, the Series that concerns collapse of plans and lifestyles with long-term effects of rebuilding and transformation. If you relate this Series to the Tarot deck's #16 - The Tower card, you have it in a nutshell.Brady's Predictive Astrology adds that after the dust settles and the rebuilding starts, the consequences of the re-shaping will have far-reaching effects; this Eclipse Series tends to change people's directions through a sudden collapse of an existing structure.Now we know that Solar Eclipses can leave their marks for years by sensitizing the degrees at which they manifest, and this par...
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Bush regime transfers wealth: Bailout Bill
2008-10-17 16:27:00
Additional Thoughts on the Bailout "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office" - Aesop By Paul Craig Roberts Just as the Bush regime's wars have been used to pour billions of dollars into the pockets of its military-security donor base, the Paulson bailout looks like a Bush regime scheme to incur $700 billion in new public debt in order to transfer the money into the coffers of its financial donor base. #~:~See, that's what I've been trying to say! Congress - the enablers.
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Lest you doubt: Bush Doctrine defines tyranny
2008-10-16 07:06:00
There's been a small update concerning the tyranny-defining Bush Doctrine, chart image included.There are so many versions of the thing, who's not to be confused? But never fear (or always fear) George Bush is here to define tyranny for you and promote all that stuff he likes to promote while leaving the (nazi-sounding) "homeland" pretty much unprotected...most of our brave soldiers are somewhere else with precious few to protect us from the tyranny of plutocracy.
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Obama-McCain debate ends 10.15.08
2008-10-16 05:40:00
Well, tonight's presidential debate between Senators Obama and McCain was the final one of the trio and was held about 5 hours after orator Mercury turned Direct.If you're interested, I've made some comments and added a bit of the dialogue from the Tavis Smiley Program which went on air just after the debate ended at 10:31 pm edt. You'll find a reference to my previous post on tongiht's debate which has more astrological comments to it so when you arrive, just scroll down a smidge if you like.Then there's the political excitement tomorrow night - will John McCain show up to be on Dave Letterman's Show as promised after blowing Dave off two weeks ago for Katie Couric? Dave's discussing it as I type so the excitement is palpable, and you know I'll be watching."He'll be here tomorrow and he's got a lot of explaining to do," quips Dave. But now Dave's not expecting McCain to bring Sarah Palin. Dave doesn't think Miss Alaska will be there.Yes, the road to the White House go...
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Moon buckets and Saturn bowls
2008-10-16 01:09:00
John Townley over at AstroCocktail has some interesting insights on that rollercoaster feeling of two-week shifts we're all experiencing between the economy, the campaign, and more.Naturally, if you say the words two-week cycle it reminds any astrologer of the Moon 's orbit. Well, expert astrologer John Townley knows much about celestial bowl patterns and how they affect the environment, so check it out because the world's current 'groundswell' feeling is part of the celestial 'As Above, So Below' action now as the Moon moves within the bowl - the edges of which are created by the Saturn -Uranus opposition - and then spills out of the bowl...slosh!As you know, the Saturn-Uranus opposition perfects on November 4.All this sloshing reminds me of the ocean's tides which are controlled by the Moon, and one of the words associated with the Moon in an Astrology chart is: fluctuation, a term we hear a lot in financial markets. Mmm-hmm...cycles.So we may be feeling a bit seasick with...

America's Money Power
2008-10-15 23:02:00
"The principal power in Washington is no longer the government for the people it represents. It is the Money Power . Under the deceptive cloak of campaign contributions, access and influence, votes and amendments are bought and sold. Money establishes priorities of action, holds down federal revenues, revises federal legislation, shifts income from the middle class to the very rich. Money restrains the enforcement of laws written to protect the country from abuses of wealth--laws that mandate environmental protection, antitrust laws, laws to protect the consumer against fraud, laws that safeguard the securities markets, and many more."Richard N. Goodwin, speechwriter for John F. Kennedy~:~Thanks to Information Clearing House for the above quote.And here's a quote from Adlai Stevenson (Sun AQ-Moon Tau) who tried to be US president once upon a time (1952):"A hungry man is not a free man." I'll say!So with the NYSE plummeting again today, let's give a man a job especially since the ...

McCain in the headwinds
2008-10-15 20:38:00
Matt Taibbi and Byron York Butt Heads on whether John McCain deserves blame for the Wall Street meltdown. Instant messenging about the campaign between two political writers - if you haven't seen this yet, you GOTTA read it!

The Inappropriate George Bush
2008-10-15 07:23:00
Well, this is simply unacceptable, Mr. Bush , that you should act so inappropriately.
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Time to Liquidate the Empire?
2008-10-15 02:07:00
Liquidating the Empire By Patrick J. BuchananWith U.S. markets crashing and wealth vanishing, what are we doing with 750 bases and troops in over 100 countries? ~:~US Secondary Progressed Full Moon...December 2008 4Vir/Pis10...end of an expansion cycle, lessening light. Chalmers Johnson's book, The Sorrows of Empire gives a lot of information on America's military bases - and it's stunning how the octopus has encircled the globe.Yet it is, after all, only a natural law, a cycle...what goes up comes down again and it doesn't have to be a bad thing. But the jokers in Washington - including 99% of the ones who about to sweep in for their turn at the trough - aren't up to the task of humility and that is what will make the process of lowering our expectations and simplifying our wants even more painful than it has to be.~~You're lost on a shadowy trail through thick, brambly woods on a dark, moonless night. On every side wild animal calls raise goosebumps on the back of your neck a...
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The Shadow Factory by James Bamford
2008-10-14 18:44:00
At the moment I'm listening to Terry Gross interviewing James Bamford about his new book, The Shadow Factory which chronicles the NSA and the Bush-Cheney administration's circumventing the lawful FISA to spy on American citizens without warrants, so I searched this blog for previous Michael Hayden posts.One entry on Hayden is from Dec 11, 2007 - the day of the Great Conjunction of Jupiter (the Republican) and Pluto (the spy) when Hayden took a meeting on Capitol Hill. Plus, the post contains a link to Hayden's natal chart (sunrise - birth time unknown) and was written within echo of the mysterious gunshots in the Rayburn Building where William Jefferson's FBI freezer raid was conducted a few nights prior. You'll find that Hayden's natal planets are placed around the chart of his confirmation to the directorship of the NSA in 2006.Journalist James Bamford has been writing about the NSA for 30 years (his first book about the agency was published in 1982) and he has some interes...
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Tuesday's Full Moon over Washington 10.14.08
2008-10-14 07:14:00
Tuesday's Aries Full Moon is the culmination of things begun at the New Moon two weeks ago and relates to relationships - it's on the Aries-Libra partnership axis, plus, Full Moons always relate on some level to relationships no matter the sign.Economically speaking, 'Bailout 2.0' is supposedly an improvement over Bailout 1.0 and perhaps it will be with Mercury, planet of negotiations and agreements, going Direct at last. Still, this astrologer could wish that Mercury would leave his shadow period before the big celebrations begin - and that won't be until around Halloween when Mercury moves beyond his retrogradation degree - 22Lib49 of Sept 24 - which conjuncts this Full Moon. Or you might say that this Full Moon is 'pointing' to or highlighting the end of Oct-early November. Therefore, it's after October when I will be looking for real improvements concerning negotiations, contracts, agreements, congressional bills, and all the things that Mercury is fond of, including vo...
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American Empire's Secret History: video link
2008-10-14 00:05:00
In case you missed it... The Secret History of the America n Empire: The Truth About Global Corruption - Video by John Perkins, author of Confessions of An Economic Hit ManPerkins zeroes in on hotspots around the world such as Venezuela, Tibet, Iraq, Israel , Vietnam and others and exposes the network of events in each of these countries that have contributed to the creation of the American Empire and international corruption in "The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption."
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Chomsky: US capitalism anti-democratic
2008-10-13 00:13:00
Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being ExposedBy Noam Chomsky"Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social concerns in post-war democracies. It was hated by the US neoliberals - the very people who created the banking crisis," writes Noam Chomsky. #~:~In searching this blog for references to the Bretton Woods Treaty (which established the World Bank) I discovered a small mention in my post on the day of the mysterious fire in the VP's office of Dec 19, 2007...remember?
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Inauguration 2001's Chiron-Moon-Pluto
2008-10-12 17:35:00
Inauguration 2001, 12:01 pm est, Capitol Building, Washington, DC of George W, Bush showing 8th house of Shared Resources, credit and creditors, debt and debtors, insurance, investment bankers, undertakers and coroners, wills, legacies, psychological therapists, sex, occult studies, dreams, paths of evolutionary growth, death, and other crises of transformation.In the 8th house of Bush's presidency which began Jan 2001, we see a triple threat - Pluto , the Dragon who guards the riches, and the saboteur; Moon (the people; fluctuations/changes; publicity); and Chiron (wounding; healing.) That this trio indicates deep, unsettling, and transforming emotions is obvious if you've been awake these last eight years. Now interpretations of Moon conj Chiron, Moon conj Pluto, and Chiron conj Pluto are worth considering, along with the fact that the 8th house's cusp 12Sag42 = America's natal Ascendant in the commonly used Sibly chart.'12Sag' also happens to be the meet-up degree (11Sag+) ...

Bushes' 'new world order' hits snag
2008-10-12 07:36:00
Or does it?Bushes' 'New World Order' Is Yielding to 'Post-American' Era by James G. Neuger makes a case for Chinese and Russian supremacy over the seriously undermined U.S. of A. and Neuger makes excellent points, yet I'm not so quick to buy all of it hook, line, and sinker.In my 'new world order' reading there is a certain list telling which entities will be the eventual leaders in hierarchical order and if it's to be believed, America is not and never was, slated to be top of the heap in the one-world-government endeavor. (Click link, then click through to an article, Planet Earth As Weapon and Target.)Well, as I've groused on this blog and elsewhere, it's easy to say things like: Bush is a failure, and Iraq is a quagmire, etc...unless you agree that things, as Cheney and Rummy always said, are going well, thanks. For neocon purposes, perhaps they are! And they weren't just saying it, they were admitting it.The lousy occurrences under Bush43's presidential terms, in ...
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The Cross of Gold: text link from DNC 1896
2008-10-01 02:42:00
We may be tempted to think that today's current money crisis is somehow new or unprecedented in America or in the wider world. Yet William Jennings Bryan, in his address to the Democratic National Convention of 1896, covered many issues which may resound to our current issues such as: "gold Republicans" vs "silver Democrats" and the coining and issuing of money by private individuals (such as
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Hating Unfettered Capitalism
2008-09-30 16:00:00
The isms of the Pluto-Chiron pair are all around us, capitalism and fascism being perhaps the most noticeable since the suddenly recognized financial crisis emerged from the depths of George Bush's fertile brain and Wall Street's back pocket already well-lined. Once again: Pluto-Chiron conjunction Dec 30, 1999 '12Sag': "A Flag Turns into an Eagle That Crows" with their parallel (similar to a
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Paulson's silver canoe
2008-09-30 03:01:00
Black Monday? Global Investors vote "No" on Paulson's Bailout By Mike Whitney The bill is just Paulson's way of carving a silver canoe for he and his brandy-drooling investor buddies so they can paddle away to some island paradise while the rest of us drown in a bottomless ocean of debt. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ article20900.htm ~:~ "Brandy-drooling"! How deftly said. And I
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Palin poll on PBS' NOW
2008-09-30 02:49:00
Why not show your true feelings about Sarah Palin's candidacy for Vice President of the United States - do you think she's qualified? vote here!
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Thomas Jefferson on perpetual debt
2008-09-29 05:07:00
US Taxpayers are Being Enrolled in an Economic Chain Gang By Jeff Randall "To preserve their [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude" - Thomas Jefferson Read article here...
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A time for tyranny
2008-09-29 04:14:00
George Washington has an important post for all Americans to be read without delay - your nation is at stake.
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The New World War by John Pilger
2008-09-26 13:22:00
This is my last post for a few days. Y'all keep an eye on the miscreants in Washington and on Wall Street while I'm celebrating a wedding, okay? And a hearty thanks to all the well-wishers who've sent good cheer to the happy couple! And for Stars Over Washington, I'm sorry this offering has to be negative, but John Pilger's article is worth noting in these harrowing times. After all, if
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China's Shenzhou 7 spacecraft
2008-09-25 22:48:00
Space Weather News for Sept 25, 2008 CHINESE SPACE LAUNCH China's Shenzhou 7 spacecraft carrying a 3-man crew lifted off today from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and is now in Earth orbit. During the upcoming three-day mission, Chinese astronauts, called taikonauts, will launch a small satellite and conduct their country's first space walk. As they orbit Earth, Shenzhou 7 and the body
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What Bush didn't say
2008-09-25 06:55:00
The way he said it was very familiar. What Bush didn't say in his '9/11 revisited' speech on the economic crisis Wednesday night would fill several Wall Street ledgers. All this suspend talk - the debate Friday night, the VP debate - reminds me of what some of we-astrologers were saying months ago about how McCain might not have the steam to make it to November. And that lazy left eye of his

William Greider on Goldman Sachs Socialism
2008-09-25 03:48:00
Goldman Sachs Socialism By William Greider Wall Street put a gun to the head of the politicians and said, Give us the money--right now--or take the blame for whatever follows. The audacity of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's bailout proposal is reflected in what it refuses to say: no explanations of how the bailout will work, no demands on the bankers in exchange for the public's money. The
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Solving the Wall Street 'crisis' by Rep Marcy Kaptur: video
2008-09-24 20:05:00
Here's the C-Span broadcast of the righteous presentation by Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) on the floor of the House in which she gives the rules of Wall Street gentry's playbook and closes with her own proposal which has to sound better to the American tax payer than the shell game we've been witnessing this week on Capitol Hill. If you never watch another YouTube video, this 5 min 35 sec video
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