Corporations Fund Both Party Conventions, Reap Huge Rewards - clip (and a Full Moon)

With both the RNC and the DNC stalking us in July, 2016, isn't it comforting to know who funds and thereby benefits financially from these massive Political Theater stage shows? No, they aren't demonstrations of 'democracy at work', they're more signs of Corporatism and political propaganda of The Establishment at work, balloons and all. And who can resist festive balloons?

In case you missed it, have a look at the horoscope of the Full Moon conjunct US natal Pluto in governmental Capricorn which perfects on July 19th during RNC 2016. The RNC Full Moon could be the fulfillment of the Gemini New Moon that occurred on June 16, 2015, the day that Donald Trump announced his 2016 bid for the GOP nomination and it will probably merit the RNC with greater publicity than the DNC will receive.

So will Mr. Trump's new cycle of political activity (New Moon) be fulfilled or culminate at the July Full Moon? Actually, Quicken Loans may know something about the possibility of a Trump nomination in Cleveland, while Wells Fargo goes on to toast the Democratic nominee in Philadelphia. We'll suffer the same old corporate fraud and mismanagement either way unless Bernie Sanders is the nominee.

But sorry to say, how a President Sanders could manage to turn America away from its corporate Global Government course that has simmered so long in the Utopian visionary cauldron is any citizen's fervent dream...assuming that that is what he wants to achieve.

How Do We End the So-Called 'Free' Trade Deals? - video

From May 3, 2016 Thom Hartmann reports:

Related: Selling out: WTO, NAFTA, Citizens United, TPP, and Singapore. Nicholas Campion data cited in post: NAFTA took effect January 1, 1994.

What Happens When Neither Political Party Answers to the Bottom 90%?

Here is Thom Hartmann on his interview with author Thomas Frank concerning a Democratic Party that ain't what it used to be. So you've noticed the hollowing out and the resulting lack of democracy, too?

Rigged Justice: How The 1% Get Away With Murder - video

Once a country's justice system is corrupted it's a tragic trip to the dustbin of history. The following discussion concerns several topics such as Senator Elizabeth Warren's report Rigged Justice 2016, our two-tiered justice system for rich and poor, GM's deadly ignition switches, corrupt 'watchdogs' such as the SEC, Standard & Poor's culpability in the Crash of 2008, and more:

DC Horoscope: April 18, 2016 Pluto's Rx Station on Tax Day

How curious that the Tax Day deadline is on April 18, 2016 for that's the very day of a Pluto Retrograde Station as you see in the horoscope set for Washington DC:

Please enlarge the image to read a few chart details.

On April 18, 2016 Pluto's Rx Station is exact in the Eastern time zone at 3:25:38 am during an Hour of the Sun which is apex of a Thor's Hammer pattern that has the Jupiter-Saturn square at its base (listed on the chart, lower right). As a midpoint picture, social change and boasting are prominent with Sun-Jupiter-Saturn and we may expect the usual contention between progressives and conservatives. Moon, Mercury, and Pluto (the wealthy gold-hoarder and power-grabber) with Pluto stationing just within the 12th house of Politics, Karma, Self-Undoing, Large Institutions, Backroom Deals, and Hidden Enemies.

America's National Treasury is also prominent in the chart (2nd house, containing Venus, Uranus, and the Sun) and with fraudster Neptune in secretive Pisces rising in first house, and the societal Saturn-Neptune square describing difficult conditions such as the ones 2016 candidate Bernie Sanders continues to address, we might infer that prognosticators of a 2016 financial crash could be correct though of course more study is necessary. (My constant Comcast disconnections make more study difficult!)

Pluto Stations at 18 Capricorn: "The Union Jack Flies from a British Warship" which to me denotes war (which we have plenty of thanks to neocons and their foreign directors), POLITICAL POWER and strong-armed paternalism, and financially the City of London (the Rothschilds--now in Reno, Nevada!) But it also relates closely to 1993, Bill Clinton's presidency (NAFTA, etc), and the Great Conjunction/s of Uranus and Neptune at or near that degree (with Bill the Democratic Party fully embraced Corporatism).

So with transit Pluto now stronger at its station on Tax Day 2016, the Uranus-Neptune midpoint is activated by the hidden claws of Pluto and we have potentials for: abandonment of resistance; great losses; calamities and catastrophes (Ebertin) and this may be telling us about a financial collapse, US currency devaluation (Venus-Uranus in 2nd house: disrupted finances), a credit downgrade, or other financial chaos manipulative Pluto can bring.

Also noted on the chart in 10th house: the US natal Ascendant (July 4, 1776 5:09 pm LMT) with the transiting 'death axis' pair of planets upon it, Mars-Saturn, alerting us to a need to economize and/or difficult advancement. Since it's a transiting midpoint picture its effects are only temporary yet you see that conjunct warring Antares is Mars @8Sag53 stationing as well and turned Rx on April 17, 2016--and wherever there is Mars-Pluto action there are force, weaponry, and upheaval. And Mars as apex of a dynamic T-Square pattern is not comforting for the opposition between the inflationary spendthrift pair, Jupiter and Neptune (which also denote political conflicts), point toward Mars and gives the entire shebang a frosting of unreliability and market speculation.

Yet there are those determined toward success and they are signified by Jupiter @13Virgo Rx but still a high-powered executive. Jupiter can play the roles of banker, guru, corporatist, broadcaster, the general, and politician and in recent charts has often represented President Obama as Commander-in-Chief. We'll see how things work out as Jupiter plays engine of the Locomotive pattern as April 2016 and Tax Day approach.

Now I shall publish this fuss and hope my ISP can handle it without disconnecting me!

2016: a Solar Eclipse and a Message from Peru - audio

Here is a timely message from the jungles of Peru delivered by Max Igan who shares with us the need that we wake up and see the system for what it really is. This message resonates perfectly with the 19 North Solar Eclipse of September 1, 2016 @9Virgo with its themes of realism, coming down to earth and becoming aware of an old situation and seeing it for what it really is, not what we thought (or were told!) it was. So from mid-August 2016 until at least the next Solar Eclipse (February 26, 2017), this will be an excellent time for tackling the truth (though for early responders to cosmic messages it can be from now until February 2017!)

And I'm certain that you're noticed the fact vs fiction quality of Campaign 2016 between the various candidates with Senator Bernie Sanders and corporate mogul Donald Trump drawing the largest crowds who come to hear their messages. Well, when it comes to hearing truth and seeing things the way they really are, I admit to favoring Bernie Sanders' messages for he has called out the greedy billionaire corporatists-oligarchs-plutocrats regularly and named them as the society-crashers, saboteurs, and gold-hoarders (my words) they truly are: Pluto's plutocrats.

Ignore the Plutocrats' Divide-and-Conquer Tactic Meant to Weaken We the People!

As you know, 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is calling for a *Political Revolution in America and if you agree that we as a nation and a society cannot go on like this, perhaps you may take 57 minutes to listen to the following supportive message from Max Igan, episode 248 of Surviving the Matrix...The Revolution Is Now.

Unfortunately, the Max Igan video is no longer available on YouTube so it's been deleted here. You may locate it on Max's Crowhouse website.

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*After all, the American Revolution was a Political Revolution so it's in our DNA which on one level can be seen astrologically for those who favor use of late afternoon horoscopes for America's natal chart (July 4, 1776 Philadelphia, PA). I've tried the various 'birth times' but have returned to using 5:09 pm LMT when the Aries Point crossed the IC, and this is where political, ideological Jupiter and radical, rebellious Uranus conjoined on June 8, 2010 (00Ari18), a World Point of Manifestation, Prominence, and Recognition. This denotes a global awakening (ex: Egypt!) - now if only We the People can stay awake and pay attention long enough to become active and respond to the real world threats that surround us and undermine our very freedom.

Please note that Solar Eclipse themes (19 North) are paraphrased from Brady's Predictive Astrology. 19 North's initial manifestation occurred on July 5, 1331 @20Cancer, a critical or dangerous degree. Therefore, the Moon-ruled sign of Cancer is the security-minded lens through which we may view the September 1, 2016 Solar Eclipse in the Mercury-ruled sign of Virgo. Both signs are intimately associated with the founding of this nation and the architecture, symbols, and ritual ceremonies of "the Federal City," Washington DC.

A look ahead: The Great American Eclipse of August 2017 (horoscope shown), plus, a few similar topics for the curious.

Great Minds: Jane Mayer - The Koch Rules - "Dark Money" - video

Here's a 12-minute+ excerpt from Thom Hartmann's Great Minds series with Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right:

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Corporatism + Statism = Fascism

How Corporate CEOs are Feeding the Market Bubble - Thom Hartmann reports

If there is a financial crash in 2016 (my astro-window suggests 2016, 2017, or 2018, a difficult time period for several reasons) the threat is apparently from abroad with the global weakness in markets, economies, and currencies, China in particular. How low can oil prices go? Job lay-offs in the US have resulted so far along with Wal-Mart and Macy's stores closing (though some closings have been planned for a while). Will corporate-written 'trade deals' like the TPP improve economic and social circumstances for workers and or worsen them (while enriching the wealthy as usual)? And what difference can a new US president make, if any, if The Script is already written and must be followed or else?

My feeling is that the corporate class is in cahoots no matter the country and are setting up events and conditions to effect a global crash. The timing of the crash depends on when everything is in place to guarantee the outcome that transnational bankers want so that a 'new order' can be fully implemented (1776 is so passe).

So perhaps you've noticed that a few broadcasters and economists have been ringing financial alarm bells for some time, these 8 years after Crash 2008. One of them is the historically savvy Thom Hartmann:

Beware of Big Bank Bail-Ins! - Thom Hartmann reports

In the EU, plutocrats and corporatist bankers are showing their skunk stripes again--will their grabby financial stink waft across the Atlantic to the US? The blogging world in the US is already under new EU regulations that complicate matters and new 'trade deals' threaten more anti-sovereign interference on the globalist menu. As for EU bankers they can change "laws" and add regulations to paper in order to cover their actions but theft is still theft no matter what you call it.

Thom Hartmann reports:

United States Sued over Country of Origin Labeling! - video

Well, we can't expect US sovereignty to continue under corporate global government, can we?

#TPP sux #sovereignty #nationstates are so yesterday

Orwell rolls in his grave (video part 2) - featuring Bernie Sanders

Over the last 8 years news outlets have only become more corporatized since 2007. If you've never watched 'Orwell Rolls in His Grave' here's part 2 which obviously I am posting here primarily because 2016 presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders is one of the featured speakers:

There are several parts in 'Orwell Rolls in His Grave' so here's a link to part 1 in case you want it.

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Indonesia is Burning and Nobody Knows (or Cares?) - David Pakman reports

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Astro-Note: when we think of fire, blazes, or arson we think of fiery Mars which is now in late Virgo and approaching its 1949 position in the natal horoscope of Indonesia @00Lib28 in the country's 4th house of Domestic Scene and Homeland after passing natal Saturn @19Vir26 (natal IC 11Vir23.) Mars-Saturn is known as the death axis and as David Pakman reports, there have been deaths in Indonesia along with other hardships due to these conflagrations.

For those who may wish to take a look, here is the natal data for Indonesia as given in The World Book of Horoscopes by Nicholas Campion:

Indonesia: December 27, 1949 when "the Dutch gave independence to the United States of Indonesia--"; the horoscope is set for 9:22 am GMT Djakarta, Indonesia (then the new capital) with 11Gem49 rising, MC 11Pis23, and 10Cap11 = 8th cusp where transiting Pluto, planet of wealth, stealth, transformation, and death, has recently entered. Natal Mars @00Lib28 (a Cardinal World Point of Manifestation) opposes natal Moon (the people) in 10th house @6Ari36 (Aries ruled by Mars); the country's 7th house Sun (leadership) @5Cap18 has obviously been transited and transformed by Pluto, a time when the use, misuse, and abuse of power and control are spotlighted.

Middle Class Gone: 51% of All Workers Earn Under $30,000/Year - video

Are American Families Milked Dry?

These days an American family trying to live on $30,000 per year or less can't do much consuming, can they? I find it difficult to believe that they can keep up with excessive cell phone, internet, and TV service costs let alone health and car insurance, car payments, plus, rent or a home mortgage. And everyone knows that We the People are charged the highest rates for health care and pharmaceutical drugs in the world--as if we're still the greedy corporatists' favorite cash cows!

Is It Hillary's Post-Politics Career That Hurts Her The Most? video

Senator (now VP) Joe Biden on Shalom TV: "I Am a Zionist" - clip

Found at last! For years the location of this 2-minute-39-second clip of an interview with VP Joe Biden concerning Zionism (he's one of them, he assures us), Iraq, and Israel eluded me. Here it is, uploaded in April 2007 by Shalom TV:

You know, these guys and gals (sometimes known as 'world leaders') are spending a huge amount of their time, effort, and taxpayer money (and pretend fiat money) trying to speedily fulfill Bible Prophecy...as if the God of All Creation is in need of their arrogant, anti-societal meddling.

Actually there are several types of Zionism. And from August 2010, here's a post on Zionism and the Natal Chart of Israel. You may also wish to check out a few Astro-Notes on VP Joe Biden if you're daring.

Ed Schultz Criticized Obama then Fired from MSNBC - video

Well, I, for one, always appreciated The Ed Show on MSNBC, a network said to be leaning toward the right with its programming. If that happens, the Rockerfellerites at MSNBC will lose at least one regular viewer--moi because their programming has given social liberals and non-Ayn-Randers a semblance of being heard even if it's only an elaborate ruse so if that illusion ends so will my viewership.

Of course, behemoth Comcast was behind the decision.

Finding the Way Forward in a World of Division - Max Igan

Here is an intriguing excerpt from the latest Surviving the Matrix by Max Igan (see links, below):

Season 5 Episode 6

For this and more presentations visit The Crowhouse.

Clip: Bernie Sanders DESTROYS Corporate Media & Republicans - David Pakman Show

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Do you remember that there was a major attempt to take over FDR's presidency in July 1933 just after Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House? Those fascists are ancestors--biological and/or ideological--of the saboteurs who've infiltrated the US government now and are chipping away at the US Constitution.

If you haven't, you may wish to read about the take over plan and General Smedley Butler's reaction to it in Jules Archer's book The Plot to Seize the White House.

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Thom Hartmann: Trump Tells the Truth, but No one listens...

Are there two truth-telling candidates among us?

#ThomHartmann #DonaldTrump #Bankruptcy #AtlanticCity #Corporatism

Is Donald Trump exposing too many secrets of the false reality matrix? To some degree, and yet Democratic candidate Senator Bernie Sanders is the one drawing huge crowds at every campaign event because he reveals truths and discusses topics that the American people want and need to hear!

Related: the natal horoscope of Donald Trump Part 1 with details and Part 2 with his Sun-Moon Blend. And since his birth time is unavailable, here are a few astro-notes concerning the Sun-Moon Personality Blend of Bernie Sanders.

Plus, you may wish to review the famous clip of Senator Sanders's 2012 speech on the Senate floor: The American People Are Angry.

Brunch with Bernie: 8/7/15 - Thom Hartmann video

Senator Bernie Sanders speaks with Thom Hartmann about the 2016 election and our loss of voting rights:

Imho, the only way Republicans can reliably 'win' elections these days is to cheat. Someone tell them that cheating isn't winning, it's stealing--though with their 'success at any cost' agenda, they don't care. And yes, I know--the Democratic Party is only about half a rung higher on the ethics ladder than the Republicans - and they're all following the same Corporate Globalism script in the con vs lib Political Theater they perform for public consumption and our diversion.

And yet, when and if We the People join together and make our opinions known in no uncertain terms, the 'ruling class' backs down even if it's only temporarily! Most of them fancy themselves such political thespians able to charm and fool us, don't they? Well, will somebody please pass the rotten tomatoes?!