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Apr 11, 2009

Econo-Crisis article round-up - with pithiness in between

For a weekend plethora of articles you may not find better than the following list if you're up for econo-crisis/financial collapse/government-and-banking fraud issues and what to do about them.

Apologies, but I couldn't refrain from tucking pithy comments in between each one...but I don't believe I've ever heisted any money from you, so perhaps you might forgive me my pithiness eventually, yes?


"Liquidate the Banks; Fire the Executives!"

By Mike Whitney

While Congress approved a mere $700 billion in emergency funding for the TARP, Geithner and Bernanke deftly sidestepped the public opposition to more bailouts and shoveled another $3.3 trillion through the back door via loans and leverage for crappy mortgage paper that will never regain its value. #

(It was crappy to begin with. -jc)


A Plea To President Obama: Don't Bankrupt America

By Sarah van Gelder

President Obama's massive giveaway to Wall Street threatens to bankrupt the federal government and undermine the agenda that got him elected. Here are some first steps needed to change course. #

(Too late - the NWO deed is accomplished, for the most part. -jc)


The Looting of America

By Barry Grey

The New York Times on Thursday published a front-page article that provides further insight into the economic and class interests that are being served by the Obama administration's economic "recovery" policies. #

(Pluto-Chiron = plutocracy; oppression; class warfare; corporatism and any other ism you'd care to name including fascism, racism, militarism, and imperialism; disenfranchisement; primal violence, etc. America's natal Pluto-Chiron midpoint at '9 Pisces' is conjunct her natal Ceres, asteroid of nurturing and security, which worked well to some degree with plutocrats running the middle class show - and vastly enriching themselves - until the jig was up at the New Millennium...


and now everyone - even the myopic among us who can't be bothered with ugly old Politics - can see its tendrils curling around the foreclosed-upon porch steps...

Pluto and Chiron had their Great Conjunction on Dec 30, 1999 - upon US natal Ascendant (Sibly chart = ASC '12 Sag') - and were in parallel mid-August 2004.

'12Sag' is also transiting Pluto's position on the morning of 9.11 (opposite Saturn on US Descendant.) And Dick Cheney's Secondary Progressed Pluto-Chiron midpoint was sitting upon his Progr'd MC (The Goal) on the morning of 9.11.01 - but you really must view his Progr'd chart for 9.11.01 to appreciate its aptness. -jc) Thanks for the heads-up, Anonymous - Cheney link should be de-typo'd now.


Revive Lincoln's Monetary Policy

By Ellen Brown

The bankers had Lincoln's government over a barrel, just as Wall Street has Congress in its vice-like grip today. #

(So Lincoln monkeyed with the central banking system's gravy train and we know where it led our 16th president one dark night: Ford's Theater and a death bed. -jc)


Howard Zinn on Class in America: Video Interview

"In the United States we are really brought up to think there's only really one class. That is, the idea of class conflict, class struggle, that is foreign to American culture." says Zinn. "We're brought up to think that we're part of one big happy family," according to Zinn this is simply a perpetuated lie that contradicts the reality that a large percentage of the population doesn't fit in to this happy family model. #


(Isn't that what governments are for - perpetuating lies? Which doesn't make it right. It makes it perhaps more wrong because their lies and frauds adversely affect - and rob - millions of people. But they think they're above all that lower class 'following laws' nonsense! -jc)

Okay, I'll hush for now about all this ugliness. It IS ugly, I agree.

Yet tomorrow morning is a new day and I shall leap up jubilantly because, as I hope you already know...He is risen!

Apr 10, 2009

Limbaugh termed by R caller 'a brainwashed Nazi'

Admittedly I sometimes listen to Rush Limbaugh's radio program to hear the neoconnish crap and to marvel at his apparent ongoing dissolution into total madness and quivering jelliness - and to listen to a sour grape Republican whose 'Operation Chaos' campaign helped elect Barack Obama as president of the United States.

Yet regrettably I missed the Republican caller of April 8 who labeled Limbaugh "a brainwashed Nazi."

Thanks to his show's strict caller-screening, radio's neocon gasbag is not often confronted on-air with such an apt description of himself by a member of his own party who stated that "we're not supposed to torture" and that he voted for McCain (even though Limbaugh ignores this fact to the very end)!

For a hoot, read the transcript and you can avoid the torture of actually listening to Limbaugh's show.

"Talent on loan from God" can be rescinded for justification, it seems.

Astrology of the Weekend: April 10 - 12, 2009

Astute astrologer Julie Demboski is reading stars, planets, and asteroids for a big helping of rebellion for breakfast as part of the celebratory weekend of April 10 through 12, 2009.

If you're into eating a balanced diet, you'd better not have fries with that.

But an American ship's captain safely released from Somali pirates would be mighty appetizing and definitely something to celebrate!

Chernobyl fallout still affecting animals in region

Well, it's been 23 years and animals are even now deformed thanks to fallout from the disaster at Chernobyl Russia, on April 26, 1986 which doesn't include the enormous human misery that nuclear stupidity and its toxic clouds have wrought.

And the ultra-trustworthy power elite and their corporate minions want to build more nuclear reactors in your neighborhood (but not in theirs, of course.)

One word: psychopaths.

Apr 9, 2009

Obama urges: refinance your home!

With interest rates shrunk to 4.78% on a 30-year mortgage, Pres. Obama said today that it's time to get busy and refinance your mortgage, US homeowners.

It's in the article, but here's a direct link to Making Home Affordable where you can check out the deal and save a little dough each month if you qualify for remortgaging your digs, so a good plan might be to fill out the papers in time for Venus to turn Direct on April 17 and perhaps she will favor you as she moves forward again into pioneering Aries!



Venus Rising, a colored pencil drawing rendered for you by 'reluctant astrologer' Jude Cowell 2009+.

Apr 8, 2009

Stewart blasts 'tyrannical Potato Day' of Obama

When Jon Stewart gets going on politicians' ridiculous inconsistencies, he's my main man!

Republican talking points now in soul-searing conflict:

Pres. Obama is a weakling!

vs

Pres. Obama is a tyrant!

Can they have it both ways? Should we-the-people allow them to? Are they trying to make us crazy?

(Yes. Thanks, Jon - for the sanity.)

Astrology of Pres. Obama's return to Washington April 2009

Yes, we're hearing a lot of pros and cons about Pres. Obama's 9-day European-Asian-Iraq tour which completed in the early hours of Wednesday, April 8 (today, 2009) and while a large and disappointed audience may await the president, moneybags Jupiter's Sabian Symbol in today's sunrise chart (set for Washington DC, edt) is telling as well..."A Woman Disappointed and Disillusioned."

In America, Jupiter signifies the Republican Party and its adherents, yet if any female politician on Capitol Hill is feeling 'disappointed' now because of the results (or lack of) from Mr. Obama's trip, my question has to be: why didn't she feel that way about our coup'd government (heisting us blind) years before today?

At '28 Aries' is communicator of (hopefully) good news, Mercury, rising after the Sun (18Ari44 - sunrise 6:46:07 am edt) with chart-ruler Venus at Aries Point of Prominence and Fame...00Ari59 Rx.

Venus: "1Ari"..."A Woman Has Arisen from the Ocean, a Seal Is Embracing Her." Could this specifically refer to Michelle Obama's and Queen Elizabeth's displays of affection? Suits me.

Yet like many astrologers, I always tend to envision America in relation to this word picture, with the Statue of Liberty being our Venusian 'goddess' of copper, the metal of Venus. Also, Venus is US natal chart-ruler (of the Sibly chart - 5:10 pm lmt, July 4, 1776.)

With the chart's ruler retrograde, delays are afoot, and with (sunrise) IC at 10Can24, America's natal Venus, Jupiter, and Sun in Cancer are at the Foundation of the chart (or in the basement!) Powerful 'secret hand' Pluto in 9th house is most-elevated planet.

Anyway, our president 'came home'...Cancer at its natural spot (IC) with US natal Sun in Cancer = 'the leader.'

And US natal Mercury '25Can' Rx is in 4th house as well...'25Can'..."A Man Wrapped in an Invisible Mantle of Power"...which always sounds to me like the supposedly mysterious man who rode into Thomas Jefferson's garden late one night and delivered the design for the Great Seal of the United States as Jefferson and Franklin 'struggled' to come up with a good one.

This seal-delivering incident is said to be connected with Adam Weishaupt (the dark, caped horseman? or a messenger from him?) and his then-new Illuminati Society (Bavarian) which he organized in May, 1776.

The signs of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are thus shared with America's Ura-Nep-Plu signs...Gemini, Virgo, and Capricorn.

Yet these days, after studying charts, reading about politics and other mysteries, and blogging here on Stars Over Washington since Oct 16, 2005, I tend to think of the Great Seal of the United States and the mysterious riddle of its obverse (hidden) side as representing a watershed moment of transition toward the 'Novus Ordo Seclorum' - printed right there under our noses and tied in closely with America's much-vaunted 'Manifest Destiny' we hear so much about but with little honesty to encumber, or hinder, the legend.

For a quick view of the Great Seal, check the back of a US dollar bill, if you have one handy...the 13-step pyramid of power with its all-seeing eye of Horus awaits you.

One of the major factors in today's sunrise/solar chart (with the rising Sun signifying 'the leader' in a national chart - or to a chart relating to the president as we do here) is the Cardinal T-square of energies between Moon 4Lib11 opposite Venus 00Ari59 Rx squaring apex (focal planet) Pluto 3Cap18 Rx in 9th house of Foreign Travel and Distant Lands...

*Apex Pluto in a Cardinal (outgoing~initiating~outwardly directed energy) T-square (two planets opposing one another which both square a third point or planet) is an intense and powerful person or group with a willful desire to fulfill ambitions through manipulation, force, and subversive actions resulting in abuse of power.

This apex Pluto is the high-powered executive - or cartel - who demands penetrating insight into all crucial phases of operation (and I would guess that Pres. Obama journeyed abroad to the Old World to provide just that, among other things. Such a charade we're fed!)

Open contempt or resentment may be exhibited toward anyone who attempts to share control or power, and active confrontation may result. The Cardinal quality of the T-square makes this intense plutonian energy difficult to hide so that people in the environment quite easily 'pick up' on it as it shows its 'hand' more than it usually does.

There's a flavor of 'explosive endings make way for new starts' to this plutonian T-square, and the media honchos and reporters (reporters = Mercury '28 Aries' of 'disappointed audiences') may be the ones who squawk the loudest to fulfill their masters' desires for control, manipulation of public opinion, and power.

Midpoint picture formed by the T-square...

Moon-Venus = Pluto complications and a waste of emotions.

Welcome home, Mr. President. Sorry it has to be under these conditions.

~:~

* Apex Pluto in Cardinal T-square: Dynamics of Aspect Analysis, Bil Tierney.

Midpoint picture: Noel Tyl.

Apr 7, 2009

Pat Buchanan on the Fed's culpability

Pat Buchanan gives a little history lesson (including to Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman) on past financial crashes, FDR, Hoover, what worked and what didn't, and he suggests the necessity of killing the Monster from Jekyll Island, as the Fed is non-affectionately called.

Ah, the happy days of childhood spent on Jekyll Island! Little did I know then of the machinations of November 1910 when a secret railway car from New York made its way south under cover of night to keep the press and public unaware of the financial plans in the offing.

1/4 of the world's wealth at the time was represented by the financiers attending, and I'm looking at a horoscope for the New Moon of Dec 1, 1910...I'm calling it 'The Fed's New Moon' and using it to represent the entity's beginning...'end of Nov, 1910' just doesn't do it for this reluctant astrologer.

On Jekyll, Dec 1, 1910's New Moon perfected at 4:10:30 pm est at 8Sag49 (7th house); NN 19Tau15 is rising (ASC 19Tau32), and moneybags Jupiter is at 4Sco09 (6th house.) Servants were under strict instructions to keep things mum - and they did for years.

Saturn in 12th house is at 'Hitler's trigger' degree...00Tau34 Rx (the psychopath's natal Sun) although 1910 was years before Adolph's heyday. Chart-ruler Venus 10Sag07 is conjunct Antares ('ruthless and driven - avoid obsession for best results' - paraphrased from Brady's Book of Fixed Stars.)

And manipulative Pluto, the Monster? In 2nd house of Money and Values...at '28Gemini'...Sabian Symbol: "Through Bankruptcy, Society Gives To An Overburdened Individual The Opportunity To Begin Again" - LIBERATION FROM THE PAST (Rudhyar.)

So even if you see no links to then (the Fed'S meddling) and now (the Fed's meddling with bailouts and bankruptcies for Wall Street CEOs, big banks, insurance companies, mortgage lenders, etc), you do admit that 'bankruptcy' - then as now - is one of the tools for financial relief which may be a blessing or may be abused by corporations masquerading under US law as 'individuals.'

1910 and 2009: 99 years of secrets:

Senator Nelson W. Aldrich and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury A. P. Andrews got together on the sly at the Jekyll Island Club to discuss US monetary policy and the banking system, a meeting which many people say paved the way for the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of Dec 23, 1923...natal Sun 1Cap06 (at sunrise) with transiting Pluto in early Cap now giving the entity a desire for more power...we've heard Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and others say as much into congressional microphones.

But the Fed's natal Pluto 00Can06 Rx is now being opposed by tr Pluto - hence we see the gargantuan struggle between the world's manipulators for control of the ultimate power position.

Oh ritz rats! Let's linger longer on Jekyll Island, shall we?

It won't hurt and it might help as you view a lovely slideshow of Jekyll's Maritime Forest (with birdsong!) and other island spectacles from visitors' photo albums on my favorite of Jekyll's websites, Save Jekyll Island. You'll find that mentions of island politics are included but easily avoided, if you wish.

Yes, 65% of Jekyll is kept natural (counting picnic areas and parks) so if you get a chance to mosey south to one of Georgia's lovely barrier islands, keep Jekyll Island in mind - and no monsters are currently in residence that I know of!

Apr 6, 2009

Strange Space Hand reaches for Dying Star

Here I sit wondering if you've seen this
NASA photo of a strange 'space hand' reaching - or supporting - a dying star.

Pretty weird stuff! Of course, with the Chandra Nebula involved we think of Chandra Levy's sad end - and Pluto always plays the saboteur, spy, murderer, or assassin extremely well.

Now astrologically speaking on another level, if the 'strange hand' could be said to signify Pluto, what does the dying star represent? Let's see, what do we know is on the way out? What isn't?

So might this be a synchronistic image of Pluto's global underworld crime syndicate about to strangle - or goose - America and other nations now flailing in the throes?

Or is this a snapshot of the very core of life, represented by Pluto's deeply transformative powers of death and rebirth, caught on film in the act of reaching out to the struggling Earth herself?

What do you think the photo resembles?

Me, I'll settle for option number 2. Or a trick of the light.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk May 19, 1881



Update Monday, Apr 6: a video of Pres. Obama honoring Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, April, 2009.

Original post begins here:

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, born May 19, 1881 in Salonika (now Greece), the present-day Thessaloniki, is famous as the Founder of Modern Turkey, and US Pres. Obama is visiting Ataturk's memorial site while visiting Ankara on his weeklong European tour soon ending. Mr. Obama flies to Istanbul Monday evening.

Fond of the Age of Enlightenment (code for an Illuminati adherent? A Rosicrucian perhaps?), Mustafa Kemal, often called Ataturk, is the fellow who transformed Turkey into a modern, secular, and democratic nation-state.

(A nation-state is an idea whose time has seemingly passed, 'they' say. Politicians may talk floweringly of sovereignty but spend most of their time undermining it in one way or another.)

Ataturk became Turkey's first president and served from Oct 29, 1923 to Nov 10, 1938, and for the entire 24-hour period of May 19, 1881, Luna was in Aquarius which gives him Sun Taurus-Moon AQ, an Earth-Air blend of the innovative pragmatist who is gregarious, objective, independent, confident, and sensible.

High ideals can be backed up by this combination through broad vision, hard work, and perseverance while humanitarian values are brought down to earth and productively put to use.

Communications tend to be forthright, clear-headed, and honest which cause people to trust Sun Tau-Moon AQ types; there's a talent for inspiring others.

This is an amiable and pleasant personality who feels itself to be above conflict - 'civilized' resolutions will be found.

Weaknesses include a tendency to become inert with stubbornness when things don't go as expected, and there may be an overconfidence that comes across as conceit.

Image for Integration: A country squire holds the summer fete in his garden; all monies raised are divided equally between the three charities in the village - the Friendly Farmers' Trust, the Local Artists' Guild, and the Quakers' Orphanage.' (Sun Sign-Moon Sign, Chas & Suzi Harvey.)

The Sun Tau-Moon AQ blend is shared natally by Charlotte Bronte, Michelle Pfeiffer, Burt Bacharach, Nicolo Machiavelli, and America's Democratic Party (May 13, 1792.)

And by two other notables who shall be quoted:

"When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends." - Orson Welles

(Wonder if that's how Pres. Obama felt abroad the last several days as he asked Europe for troops for Afghanistan deployment - and maybe for some of their EU brand of loose change...?)

Plus, the following words may have merit in these days of control and our dread of its misuse and abuse:

"May the Force be with you." - George Lucas, Star Wars

Be with whom?

~:~

Are you hankering for a silly limerick written in early November 2007 upon the occasion of then-Secretary-of-State Condi Rice's visit to Turkey? Then hanker no longer for the Kittens from Turkey are here.