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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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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
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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.
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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 (
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.)
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