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US Constitution disintegrating
2008-09-24 17:14:00 You know the US Constitution has a birth chart - Sept 17, 1787; 11:29 am LMT (NS); Philadelphia, PA) and had its Secondary Progressed Full Moon on July 10, 2003 - Sun 1Tau01, Moon 1Sco 01 in 10th/4th houses. You could say America is on the downside of the Constitution's Full Moon - the light is fading. Or you could say that the Constitution culminated in July 2003. But whatever you say, you know
Capitol Hill and The Bold Ones
2008-09-24 08:38:00 “I believe if the credit markets are not functioning, that jobs will be lost, that our credit rate will rise, more houses will be foreclosed upon, GDP will contract, that the economy will just not be able to recover in a normal, healthy way.” That was Ben Bernanke, the Fed's chairman on Tuesday, in an attempt to strong-arm Congress into handing over the keys to Fort Knox, in a manner of More About: Hill , Capitol Hill , Capitol
How will McCain vote on Wall Street's bailout?
2008-09-24 08:28:00 McCain "won't be a problem"...sounds like George and Jeb's assurance in 2000: "It's in the bag." And it was. More About: Wall , Vote , Bailout
Paulson and Capitol Hill Theater 9.23.08
2008-09-23 18:06:00 Have you watched or heard the performances on Capitol Hill today? The financial wizards are playing to woeful parts, with congressional actors as the slow downers but the results will tell whether this is a crime of theatrics or whether Congress holds onto what's left of its oversight responsibilities. Without oversight, American tax payers (apparently the lenders of last resort) will have no More About: Theater , Capitol Hill
America in the Soupline
2008-09-23 04:13:00 Plopped into the stew by the Bush-Cheney regime, my fellow America ns are trading - not futures on Wall Street (Wall Street took care of the common folks' futures) - but trading soup recipes with the scruffy bum on the corner who once was a neighbor or colleague. He really has a way with Ramen. Yes, it's Souplines Across America, she wrote, and many scoffed. All three readers of this blog said,
Is this Cheney's mushroom cloud?
2008-09-23 02:41:00 Mushroom Cloud over Wall Street "All Hail Caesar!" The days of the republic are over. By Mike Whitney The bill gives Paulson the ability to nationalize unlimited amount of private debt and force you and your children to pay for it. ~:~ Enslavement of the masses has always been a dream of Bush and Cheney, but you knew that, right? More About: Mushroom
New Sunspot for Fall Equinox 2008
2008-09-23 01:37:00 Space Weather News for Sept 22, 2008 NEW SUNSPOT: For the first time in months, a significant sunspot is emerging on the sun. It is a fast-growing active region with two dark cores, each larger than Earth. The magnetic polarity of the sunspot identifies it as a member of new Sunspot Cycle 24. Because the year 2008 has brought so many blank suns, some observers have wondered if we are ever More About: Fall
more notes on the first debate of 9.26.08
2008-09-22 21:43:00 Taurus is rising at 8:00 pm CDT on the campus of Ole Miss, Sept 26, Friday, when Barack Obama and John McCain hold the first of three presidential debates. And there are three difficult aspects for the evening which I'd like to discuss with you here: a hidden square, and two obsessive-compulsive quindeciles (165 degr.) Saturn (government; traditions) and Pluto (power; the secret hand; coping More About: Debate , Notes
Merkel says No to Paulson Bailout Plan
2008-09-22 19:05:00 Over in Europe they're being treated to an America campaign to follow suit on Paulson's bailout plan for saddling US taxpayers with Wall Street's debts but "bareknuckled criticism" has so far been Europe's response. German Chancellor Andrea Merkel has accused the US government of failure to regulate and I know of no one here or abroad who could possibly disagree on these deregulating bandits and More About: Plan , Bailout
110th Congress in final days
2008-09-22 02:20:00 In a spate of nostalgia, I looked for my first post about the current 110th Congress for which so many held such grand hopes - that they would end the Iraq occupation above all. Well, the first minimum wage increase in Ten Years was passed with Republicans kicking and screaming, gas mileage standards were raised (were they? you tell me), ethics reform to rein in sorry politicians was passed ( More About: Final , Days
Limericking the Fed
2008-09-21 21:10:00 Did you know that A Kitten Was Lost at the Fed? So says Mr.A.Cat, our limericker-in-chief!
Low marks for Paulson's bail out plan
2008-09-21 19:44:00 Everywhere I look today, Hank Paulson's power grab, er...I mean 'bail out plan' is getting low marks. Even his performances this morning on Meet the Press, Face the Nation (how could he? oh but he did!), and This Week with George Stephanopoulos, haven't swayed the doubters or calmed the "bail out foreign investors?!!" crowd. Confidence is showing itself to be hard to come by as taxpayers are More About: Plan , Marks
Pat Buchanan on the financial crisis
2008-09-21 03:39:00 As he blames the credit habits of the baby boomer generation for the current economic crisis, Pat Buchanan names names on Capitol Hill, in the White House, and complains of the speculators of Wall Street and the Fed. You know, the credit card was invented in the 1950s, when most of us boomers were tykes if we were yet born. While the fluffy credit economy was hyped and sold as we gahh-gahhed in More About: Financial , Crisis
Obama: Uranian change or Saturn's status quo?
2008-09-20 22:40:00 With Barack Obama 's natal Saturn (authority) in its sign of traditional Capricorn (politics, law, business) I've been wondering repeatedly whether Obama-as-president would bring us Uranian change or Saturnian status quo, despite campaign rhetoric. And as both readers of this blog know, Saturn opposes Uranus on Nov 4, 2008...US Election Day, as the universe echoes the importance of this election More About: Change , Status , Status Quo
Lehman Brothers crisis - of 1984
2008-09-19 03:34:00 The Meaning of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers , an article by Sam Marcy, explains the root cause of the Lehman Brothers crisis - of 1984. Reaganites thought that the 'capitalist recovery' would save them if they could hang on until after the election in spite of Middle East adventurism, war in Central America, and other nefarious US dealings in the world. Democrats were emphasizing the federal More About: Crisis
Shadow Government
2008-09-18 00:36:00 America Needs a Shadow Government By Timothy V.Gatto During the past two terms of this Presidency we have learned in-depth about signing statements, the "Unitary Presidency", numerous Executive Orders that remain secret from the Congress, extraordinary "rendition", and torture to include inflicting injuries on another human being "to the point of, but not exceeding organ failure". We know
Barack Obama Press Conference Sep 16 on economy
2008-09-17 08:06:00 Barack Obama Press Conference on the economy, Sept 16, 2008; Part II (Part I is just below.) More About: Economy , Barack Obama , Press Conference , Barack
John Adams critiques power
2008-09-17 00:13:00 "Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws." John Adams ~ Too true, Mr. President! John Adams was born Oct 30, 1735 (Oct 19, Old Style; 2:57 am LMT) - this chart data is rated 'C' in the AstroDataBank files with his details supplied by Doris Chase Doane. Unless Pres. Adams,
Obama knows: Pakistan Is the Problem
2008-09-16 22:09:00 Moderated as he may now be, I never expected to be linking to a Christopher Hitchens article on Slate or anywhere else, but his Pakistan Is the Problem article contains important information for anyone voting for Barack Obama , the only candidate who understands the importance of Pakistan, its expansionism, and the protected re-organizing of al-Qaeda within its borders. Obama gets it, I just
Reaganomics Eclipse of 1981 still ripples
2008-09-16 04:12:00 Considering the strife on Wall Street today, I was wondering if you'd ever read this post on the Reaganomics Eclipse of 1981? (Chart included.) You know, it would be amusing if it weren't so tragic: McCain likes to think of himself as Ronald Reagan! When he's not riding horsies with Teddy Roosevelt, that is.
Biden on McCain's economics
2008-09-15 23:37:00 Here's Biden on McCain's economic proposals - just think of George Bush's policies and what they've led to this very day and you may be able to guess much of the script of Biden's speech. More reasons why a vote for John McCain is like a vote for Karl Rove - and how much more of that ughiness can we afford? And Senator Biden didn't even mention McCain's culpability in the Keating Five scandal More About: Economics
Sad Monday,Lehman Bros, and the jitteries
2008-09-15 22:57:00 Please note that the feed for The August Review has been added to SO'W's sidebar. You may wish to read editor Patrick Wood's article on today's Lehman Bros Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and what's up next, then check out his other attempts at warning people of what Wall Street, the Fed, world bankers and the Trilateral Commission have been up to for years now. But today there are few people More About: Monday
Dick Cheney, hypocrite
2008-09-15 17:15:00 Cheney Scales New Heights of Hypocrisy By ROBERT FANTINA If anyone doubted the vice president's disdain for those who elected him and kept him in power, this speech should have been an eye-opener. ~:~ Read my astro-analysis of what makes Dick tick if you wish. More About: Dick Cheney , Cheney , Hypocrite
Craig Ferguson video: if you don't vote you're a moron
2008-09-15 04:48:00 Here's the monologue by TV's Craig Ferguson from his late night show last week where he rants on the 2008 candidates, media coverage of the campaign, pigs, badgers, and most of all, Voting. All this and more is packed into about 8 minutes of video by a comedian I like to call our freshly-minted American. So if you've never seen The Late Late Show, watch this video! And if you have seen Craig More About: Video , Vote , Craig Ferguson
Tina Fey knocks Palin ball out of park
2008-09-14 18:58:00 Last evening when former head writer Tina Fey returned to Saturday Night Live, expectations for her impression of Sarah Palin were high, and Fey masterfully delivered alongside Amy Poehler's brilliant version of Hillary Clinton to open the show. Tina Fey was born May 18, 1970 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia with Mercury, planet of writers, conjunct Saturn (form; work) in More About: Park , Ball
Does Palin remind you of Anita Bryant?
2008-09-14 04:14:00 Anita Who? Okay, so my naughty streak is about thiswide, but really, how could I resist posting this video of something I actually REMEMBER happening all shocking as it was at the time? She deserved her just desserts that day! And thanks to whoever made the connection between Bryant and Palin. I'm not sure that there are many connections between them politically or idealistically (yet there More About: Anita
Sep 12 video: Obama on Tax Relief
2008-09-13 20:59:00 Did you catch what Barack Obama said on Sept 12 about tax relief for the middle class? He'd better hurry while we still have shreds of one! Of course all presidential candidates say glowing things while campaigning, but John McCain's idea to tax health care benefits/premiums is aglow with out-of-touch craziness. Still, if McCain intends to include paying taxes on his and his colleagues' More About: Video , Relief
Full Harvest Moon of Sep 15, 2008
2008-09-13 17:40:00 Having just updated the Page concerning the Full Harvest Moon of Sep 15 by adding details on Pluto as apex planet in a *Mutable T-square (created by the Full Moon), plus, Adriano Carelli's symbol info for the Moon (23Pisces), I thought you might want a peek. Carelli's book, The 360 Degrees of the Zodiac, contains ancient references often of a political nature, although not every degree has a More About: 2008
Sun Myung Moon crowned in US Senate
2008-09-13 08:28:00 Oh yeah. They did it. Morons crowning morons. More About: Moon , Senate , Crowned
American Schizophrenia?
More articles from this author:2008-09-13 07:11:00 " ... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of US benevolence, generally held by the public, and the other of ends-justify-the-means brutality sponsored by counter insurgency specialists. Normally the specialists carry out their actions in remote locations with little notice in the national press. More About: American , Schizophrenia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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