tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179107442009-07-18T14:46:57.353-07:00Astrological comments on America, on Washington DC, and on the politicians who infest them...with a gentle sprinkling of world eventsjude cowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016032974667786252noreply@blogger.comBlogger1748125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17910744.post-37206136421900359652009-07-18T11:17:00.000-07:002009-07-18T13:40:44.927-07:00

It is with great hope that I pass on a link to Thom Hartmann's The Deciding Moment: The Theft of Human Right in case the 'corporations as people' question is as important to you as it is to me in how America has and will proceed.It was on the afternoon of May 10, 1886 that a sleight-of-hand insertion was added into the record by court reporter, J. C. Bancroft Davis, implying that the 'personhood

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Here's a link to a couple of videos concerning Rep. Ron Paul's insistence that the secretive Fed should be audited.Is it this blog or is there an echo in here?

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Financial Friday debuts here on Stars Over Washington with Simon Johnson's excellent history-spanning article in The Atlantic about the IMF and how not all the oligarchs can be saved. In order for reforms to work, President Obama needs to throw someone under the train as Putin had to do.And while it's doubtful I can find enlightening articles on finance to feature every Friday, when I do, it will

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Here is a list of names of the shadowy figures who don't want the Fed's veil raised, if you're interested in playing Peep-Eye with them.Schools are outed so leave your pet campus behind while you think of the magnitude of the booty and the future implications of such grand mega-power being placed in so few grasping hands.Then, if either of you speak astrologese, consider grandiose Jupiter/Neptune

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There is much to say on behalf of the 'Franklin' natal chart for America with 9 Gemini 17 rising along with Uranus, planet of disruption, rebellion, individualism, and independence. The archetype for Uranus is one of freedom issues and in Astrology having Uranus rising indicates an ability to cope and deal with whatever comes up. Plato's 'ideal form' - searching for the ideal - is part of our

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Cheney's Secret CIA Program Worse Than Foreign Assassinations? By Digby There's something very fishy about the explanation being fed to the media.~:~'Being fed to the media'? And I thought it erred on the side of the media feeding it to the public.

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2009's Bastille Day has once again brought an annual round of chaos and violence to France with burning cars and street riots.A horoscope of the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 set for 5:30 pm lmt, the time the gates were thrown open by Governor de Launay and the mobs rushed in to liberate the fortress-prison, that symbol of royal tyranny, shows magician Hermes Rx rising with 17Sag39 on

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Stop The Presses! The CIA Lied By Emile Schepers The CIA was invented to spread lies, and to do a lot of other, worse things. It came into being after the end of the Second World War, when US foreign policy was revamped to fight the Cold War, it started out lying and has never stopped.Cheney, the CIA, and Congress: Now What?By Mcjoan Senators are shocked, shocked I say, to discover that Dick

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On Nov 21, 1952, Saturn met Neptune, the planets whose combination indicate 'secret' (Neptune) 'government' (Saturn), at 22Lib47 which falls in the 10th house of Public Status and Career of America's natal chart (July 4, 1776; 5:10 pm lmt, Philadelphia, PA.)This began the current Saturn/Neptune cycle in which we experienced their opposition phase in 2007, the 'Full Moon' stage of the process

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Nuclear weapons expert Dr. David Kelly did not kill himself just after his role was revealed concerning the UK's 'sexed up' intell designed to scam the British people into war with Iraq in spite of experts like Dr. Kelly saying there were no WMDs. (There weren't. Even a few neocons will admit it now that it's too late.)Thirteen UK doctors are now speaking out on behalf of an inquest...fine, if

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A friend just sent me a website link with a list of Republican Offenders but I'm guessing that there must be a Democratic Offenders list around here somewhere!Do folks become crime syndicate types because they enter Politics? Or is the inclination, if not the experience, already lurking within their psyches - plus, they recognize a good deal when they see one?Update 7.13.09 1:00 pm edt: had to

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Yes, today is the day that SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor makes her way to the Masonic Temple on Capitol Hill, affectionately known as 'our' Capitol Building, to begin the process of being vetted for the top bench of the nation.Questioning begins tomorrow, Tuesday, yet her statement today makes for an interesting combination of Sun in Cancer, Moon in Pisces, then Moon on to Aries Point at 10:39

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Pumpin' up the SECThe SEC (which ostensibly stand for 'Securities and Exchange Commission') is being propagandized by President Obama as an entity that deserves more power in its punch and more inches in its reach. In a word, clout.Sensitive Feathers Must Be Protected from Ruffling That the SEC abused and/or neglected its power in recent years (and from the day it was hatched, for all I know) is

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Here is my months-old article on the two Solar Eclipses of 2009 with a small update at the end, if you'd care to have a peek.One Eclipse season is passing from Jan 26, 2009 - what I've called, the New President Eclipse - but what could be a doozy is upcoming on the world's radar - in Washington DC, the 11 South Solar Eclipse occurs on July 21, 2009 at 10:34:32 pm '29 Cancer' opposing US Secondary

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AIG FP, Joe Cassano, credit default swaps, subprime fiascoes - all are illuminated in The Man Who Crashed the World though perhaps you've read the tale in Vanity Fair already.

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Space Weather News for July 8, 2009WHAT'S FOLLOWING THE ISS? Sky watchers are reporting a "mysterious satellite" following the International Space Station (ISS). It trails the ISS by about one minute, relatively faint, but definitely there. Mystery solved: The follower is Progress 33, a Russian supply ship. On July 12, it will come within meters of the space station to test a new automated

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There are many things we common folk might say about the current G8 Summit which began today in L'Aquila, Italy, such as: stop engineering a world economic crash, delete your one-world-government plans, get over your big selves, ixnay on the audfray, and much more.L'Aquila means 'the eagle' as you know, and the city's history of earthquakes has caused an airlift emergency plan for world leaders'

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Today in Moscow, US President Barack Obama arrived to meet with Russian leaders President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vlaimir Putin.When a Mundane Astrology chart shows planets (which for our purposes includes 'the lights', Sun and Moon, for ease of expression) meeting together, something of the archetypal flavor of that planet (actor) is evoked and a journey may be described.In Pres.

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Sarah Palin was discussed this morning on TV by Karl Rove and others yet the Bad Poetry muse alit and The Saga of Alaska Cat was written in spite of all their fine punditry.Can rhyming sagas be brief like thwarted political careers? I think so, especially if they're self-thwarted...meanwhile, back on Earth, pundit Mo Rocca cautions, "Your opinion on the Palin-Letterman feud won't land you a job

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It's Independence Day and I'm headed out the door but want to post this link sent me by my friend Alex D'Atria at Modern Astrology (see Astrology links in sidebar) on the story as we know it so far concerning possible federal indictment charges for Palin's squirrely use of Alaska's funds.Deceptive, fraud-inducing Neptune to her natal Sun and Mars: boundaries have (apparently) been crossed and the

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The Secret Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson is one of my go-to books for inside info on the roots of US imperialism, and July 3, 2009 has brought a report from Mr. Johnson on the escalating costs of new US military bases the number of which is being increased, not decreased, by this Democratic president.To settle up, state governments in the US are sending out IOUs, many July 4th fireworks

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Oh yes, today's rambling announcement by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin that she is resigning from her governor's post July 26 and won't run for a second term in 2010 had to be published here so I can be fascinated by it at will. And if my courage holds, I'll be getting all the way through watching it any time now - cringe cringe.And no, I don't blame David Letterman jokes as some are speculating

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Here's another in the series of Tom Foreman's Letters to the President, a timely one with a Fourth of July flavor. It concerns independence in the District of Columbia and the Republican v Democrat paradox that makes independence elusive to obtain if not impossible.Of course, from way down here, it seems all about grasping and retaining power no matter the cost as this mindset on Capitol Hill

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Lest you think an important post in the Obama administration might have to do without a Goldman-Sachs alumni, former Goldman banker Phil Murphy is soon to be welcomed by Germany as the new US ambassador.You can go back to your nap now, a Goldman-Sachs rep is in the house. Again. In fact, if it's true what I've been reading that every bubble and collapse since the 1920s has been gamed if not

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And How the American People Can Save Big Money in WashingtonWhen the mortgage and sub-prime fiascoes began to hit the country in 2007 and into 2008, everyone agreed that reform would be on the menu and the sooner the better. The financial collapse which the housing market crash led to with its resulting unemployment, retail slumps, and slowdowns in all sectors of the economy and the life of the

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