"The principal power in Washington is no longer the government for the people it represents. It is the Money Power. Under the deceptive cloak of campaign contributions, access and influence, votes and amendments are bought and sold.
Money establishes priorities of action, holds down federal revenues, revises federal legislation, shifts income from the middle class to the very rich.
Money restrains the enforcement of laws written to protect the country from abuses of wealth--laws that mandate environmental protection, antitrust laws, laws to protect the consumer against fraud, laws that safeguard the securities markets, and many more."
Richard N. Goodwin, speechwriter for John F. Kennedy
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Thanks to Information Clearing House for the above quote.
And here's a quote from Adlai Stevenson (Sun AQ-Moon Tau) who tried to be US president once upon a time (1952):
"A hungry man is not a free man."
I'll say!
So with the NYSE plummeting again today, let's give a man a job
especially since the billions of taxpayers' hard earned bucks that were gifted to uncooperative bankers are not being passed on to the ones whose spending would actually make a difference in our society
and for our economy.
Someone build some factories, for cryin' out loud! Is it rocket science?
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Update Oct 16: here's a link to an article by Maria Cocco, It's the Jobs, Stupid - which is my point entirely.
Oct 15, 2008
McCain in the headwinds
Matt Taibbi and Byron York Butt Heads on whether John McCain deserves blame for the Wall Street meltdown.
Instant messenging about the campaign between two political writers - if you haven't seen this yet, you GOTTA read it!
Instant messenging about the campaign between two political writers - if you haven't seen this yet, you GOTTA read it!
The Inappropriate George Bush
Well, this is simply unacceptable, Mr. Bush, that you should act so inappropriately.
Oct 14, 2008
Time to Liquidate the Empire?
Liquidating the Empire
By Patrick J. Buchanan
With U.S. markets crashing and wealth vanishing, what are we doing with 750 bases and troops in over 100 countries?
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US Secondary Progressed Full Moon...December 2008 4Vir/Pis10...end of an expansion cycle, lessening light.
Chalmers Johnson's book, The Sorrows of Empire gives a lot of information on America's military bases - and it's stunning how the octopus has encircled the globe.
Yet it is, after all, only a natural law, a cycle...what goes up comes down again and it doesn't have to be a bad thing. But the jokers in Washington - including 99% of the ones who about to sweep in for their turn at the trough - aren't up to the task of humility and that is what will make the process of lowering our expectations and simplifying our wants even more painful than it has to be.
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You're lost on a shadowy trail through thick, brambly woods on a dark, moonless night. On every side wild animal calls raise goosebumps on the back of your neck and you've been warned that a bottomless pit of quicksand awaits the hapless.
As you creep down the path not knowing which way will lead you to oblivion, gentle wings flutter as a white dove alights near you with a message tied around its neck.
Striking your one remaining match, you take the hopeful message from the timely messenger and read the words: you're going in the wrong direction...turn back NOW.
What would George Bush do?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
With U.S. markets crashing and wealth vanishing, what are we doing with 750 bases and troops in over 100 countries?
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US Secondary Progressed Full Moon...December 2008 4Vir/Pis10...end of an expansion cycle, lessening light.
Chalmers Johnson's book, The Sorrows of Empire gives a lot of information on America's military bases - and it's stunning how the octopus has encircled the globe.
Yet it is, after all, only a natural law, a cycle...what goes up comes down again and it doesn't have to be a bad thing. But the jokers in Washington - including 99% of the ones who about to sweep in for their turn at the trough - aren't up to the task of humility and that is what will make the process of lowering our expectations and simplifying our wants even more painful than it has to be.
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You're lost on a shadowy trail through thick, brambly woods on a dark, moonless night. On every side wild animal calls raise goosebumps on the back of your neck and you've been warned that a bottomless pit of quicksand awaits the hapless.
As you creep down the path not knowing which way will lead you to oblivion, gentle wings flutter as a white dove alights near you with a message tied around its neck.
Striking your one remaining match, you take the hopeful message from the timely messenger and read the words: you're going in the wrong direction...turn back NOW.
What would George Bush do?
The Shadow Factory by James Bamford
At the moment I'm listening to Terry Gross interviewing James Bamford about his new book, The Shadow Factory which chronicles the NSA and the Bush-Cheney administration's circumventing the lawful FISA to spy on American citizens without warrants, so I searched this blog for previous Michael Hayden posts.
One entry on Hayden is from Dec 11, 2007 - the day of the Great Conjunction of Jupiter (the Republican) and Pluto (the spy) when Hayden took a meeting on Capitol Hill. Plus, the post contains a link to Hayden's natal chart (sunrise - birth time unknown) and was written within echo of the mysterious gunshots in the Rayburn Building where William Jefferson's FBI freezer raid was conducted a few nights prior.
You'll find that Hayden's natal planets are placed around the chart of his confirmation to the directorship of the NSA in 2006.
Journalist James Bamford has been writing about the NSA for 30 years (his first book about the agency was published in 1982) and he has some interesting new info about the subject.
And you've heard recently of two whistleblowers who worked at the NSA center in Augusta, GA spying on Americans' pillowtalk conversations and more.
The Shadow Factory covers these whistleblowers' accusations as well as giving us pre-9/11 facts about FISA, al-Qaeda, and the invasions of privacy we've all become accustomed to thanks to the cooperation of telecoms everywhere and their complicity in political spying on journalists, members of our military, and others. That there does not exist a 'political enemies' list a la J. Edgar Hoover, Nixon, and others is impossible for me to believe considering this White House.
In today's interview, however, Bamford gives props again to Quest who refused from the start to spy on its customers.
The upshot is that collecting everything makes finding real intell more difficult due to the sheer volume of communications....makes it more expensive and a waste of time. And US analysts don't even speak al-Qaeda's language!
Bamford says that the government has software that can ignore your Aunt Granny Fanny's calls to her bookie - but Cheney doesn't want to. (I'm the one saying 'Cheney' but why he's so interested in your Aunt Granny Fanny, I do not know.)
So if you missed Fresh Air today, you can read an excerpt from The Shadow Factory and download a podcast of Terry's interview with author Bamford.
The interview's audio version will be available on the site at approximately 3:00 pm et today.
One entry on Hayden is from Dec 11, 2007 - the day of the Great Conjunction of Jupiter (the Republican) and Pluto (the spy) when Hayden took a meeting on Capitol Hill. Plus, the post contains a link to Hayden's natal chart (sunrise - birth time unknown) and was written within echo of the mysterious gunshots in the Rayburn Building where William Jefferson's FBI freezer raid was conducted a few nights prior.
You'll find that Hayden's natal planets are placed around the chart of his confirmation to the directorship of the NSA in 2006.
Journalist James Bamford has been writing about the NSA for 30 years (his first book about the agency was published in 1982) and he has some interesting new info about the subject.
And you've heard recently of two whistleblowers who worked at the NSA center in Augusta, GA spying on Americans' pillowtalk conversations and more.
The Shadow Factory covers these whistleblowers' accusations as well as giving us pre-9/11 facts about FISA, al-Qaeda, and the invasions of privacy we've all become accustomed to thanks to the cooperation of telecoms everywhere and their complicity in political spying on journalists, members of our military, and others. That there does not exist a 'political enemies' list a la J. Edgar Hoover, Nixon, and others is impossible for me to believe considering this White House.
In today's interview, however, Bamford gives props again to Quest who refused from the start to spy on its customers.
The upshot is that collecting everything makes finding real intell more difficult due to the sheer volume of communications....makes it more expensive and a waste of time. And US analysts don't even speak al-Qaeda's language!
Bamford says that the government has software that can ignore your Aunt Granny Fanny's calls to her bookie - but Cheney doesn't want to. (I'm the one saying 'Cheney' but why he's so interested in your Aunt Granny Fanny, I do not know.)
So if you missed Fresh Air today, you can read an excerpt from The Shadow Factory and download a podcast of Terry's interview with author Bamford.
The interview's audio version will be available on the site at approximately 3:00 pm et today.
Tuesday's Full Moon over Washington 10.14.08
Tuesday's Aries Full Moon is the culmination of things begun at the New Moon two weeks ago and relates to relationships - it's on the Aries-Libra partnership axis, plus, Full Moons always relate on some level to relationships no matter the sign.
Economically speaking, 'Bailout 2.0' is supposedly an improvement over Bailout 1.0 and perhaps it will be with Mercury, planet of negotiations and agreements, going Direct at last.
Still, this astrologer could wish that Mercury would leave his shadow period before the big celebrations begin - and that won't be until around Halloween when Mercury moves beyond his retrogradation degree - 22Lib49 of Sept 24 - which conjuncts this Full Moon. Or you might say that this Full Moon is 'pointing' to or highlighting the end of Oct-early November.
Therefore, it's after October when I will be looking for real improvements concerning negotiations, contracts, agreements, congressional bills, and all the things that Mercury is fond of, including voting ballots.
Be that as it may, please click the link above to read my notes on October 14's Aries Full Moon which occurs in Washington DC at 4:02 pm edt..2 minutes after the NYSE's closing bell rings.
And with Fixed Star Antares at Midheaven and Albebaran at Ic, Tuesday's Full Moon may be highlighting some momentous happenings along with an unaspected Mars in Scorpio in the 8th house of Shared Resources and Regeneration.
Economically speaking, 'Bailout 2.0' is supposedly an improvement over Bailout 1.0 and perhaps it will be with Mercury, planet of negotiations and agreements, going Direct at last.
Still, this astrologer could wish that Mercury would leave his shadow period before the big celebrations begin - and that won't be until around Halloween when Mercury moves beyond his retrogradation degree - 22Lib49 of Sept 24 - which conjuncts this Full Moon. Or you might say that this Full Moon is 'pointing' to or highlighting the end of Oct-early November.
Therefore, it's after October when I will be looking for real improvements concerning negotiations, contracts, agreements, congressional bills, and all the things that Mercury is fond of, including voting ballots.
Be that as it may, please click the link above to read my notes on October 14's Aries Full Moon which occurs in Washington DC at 4:02 pm edt..2 minutes after the NYSE's closing bell rings.
And with Fixed Star Antares at Midheaven and Albebaran at Ic, Tuesday's Full Moon may be highlighting some momentous happenings along with an unaspected Mars in Scorpio in the 8th house of Shared Resources and Regeneration.
Oct 13, 2008
American Empire's Secret History: video link
In case you missed it...
The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Global Corruption - Video
by John Perkins, author of Confessions of An Economic Hit Man
Perkins zeroes in on hotspots around the world such as Venezuela, Tibet, Iraq, Israel, Vietnam and others and exposes the network of events in each of these countries that have contributed to the creation of the American Empire and international corruption in "The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption."
The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Global Corruption - Video
by John Perkins, author of Confessions of An Economic Hit Man
Perkins zeroes in on hotspots around the world such as Venezuela, Tibet, Iraq, Israel, Vietnam and others and exposes the network of events in each of these countries that have contributed to the creation of the American Empire and international corruption in "The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption."
Oct 12, 2008
Chomsky: US capitalism anti-democratic
Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed
By Noam Chomsky
"Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social concerns in post-war democracies. It was hated by the US neoliberals - the very people who created the banking crisis," writes Noam Chomsky. #
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In searching this blog for references to the Bretton Woods Treaty (which established the World Bank) I discovered a small mention in my post on the day of the mysterious fire in the VP's office of Dec 19, 2007...remember?
By Noam Chomsky
"Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social concerns in post-war democracies. It was hated by the US neoliberals - the very people who created the banking crisis," writes Noam Chomsky. #
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In searching this blog for references to the Bretton Woods Treaty (which established the World Bank) I discovered a small mention in my post on the day of the mysterious fire in the VP's office of Dec 19, 2007...remember?
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