Charges Sought Against Rumsfeld Over Prison Abuse --A lawsuit in Germany will seek a criminal prosecution of the former Defense Secretary and other U.S. officials for their alleged role in abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay.
10 Nov 2006 New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany's top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of former Defense Secretary [War Criminal] Donald Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles in abuses [torture] committed at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
LegitGov.org
tags: Rumsfeld Gonzales George Tenet
LOOK what I found: an excellently written center-left alternative blog called CenterBlue.org...have you heard of it? This blog seems to be updated regularly...a definite plus!
Nov 10, 2006
gremlins in Georgia's GOP
Our local radio station has just announced that the GOP in Georgia will be restoring the Lt. Governor's powers which they had "stripped" from Dem Mark Taylor when he inhabited the position.
Republican Casey Cagle won the Lt Gov's post on Tuesday, and Gov Perdue retained the governor's office against said Mark Taylor who was running for it, so it's ok for a Republican to have some power. Naked power play, isn't it?
Say, you don't think that the Diebold I voted on was rigged or hacked, do you?
And a judge upheld the gerrymandering that took Rep John Barrow away from his hometown and from the people who elected him, but--he won Tuesday anyway! Ha.
So the 13th Colony suffers under the yoke of Republican high-handedness and shenanigans yet again...help!
11.10.06 1:20 pm est
tags: Georgia midterms Sonny Perdue Political Astrology GOP
Republican Casey Cagle won the Lt Gov's post on Tuesday, and Gov Perdue retained the governor's office against said Mark Taylor who was running for it, so it's ok for a Republican to have some power. Naked power play, isn't it?
Say, you don't think that the Diebold I voted on was rigged or hacked, do you?
And a judge upheld the gerrymandering that took Rep John Barrow away from his hometown and from the people who elected him, but--he won Tuesday anyway! Ha.
So the 13th Colony suffers under the yoke of Republican high-handedness and shenanigans yet again...help!
11.10.06 1:20 pm est
tags: Georgia midterms Sonny Perdue Political Astrology GOP
Nov 9, 2006
Leo Strauss and neoconservatism
11.11.06: Here's a list which should be familiar to us all for we're living it:
Straussism-The Zionist Neocon Philosophy Directing The Age Of Tyranny with thanks to Jeff Rense.
11.9.06 post begins here:
Bill Maher has an interesting analysis on HuffPost relating Straussian neocon tactics with those of Scientology, and I can't say I blame him.
Republicans = Scientologists makes some good points, plus you may want to read my post from March concerning Leo Strauss.
My intuition is growing more each hour since the midterm outcomes that, as many peopple would agree, the Republican "grace" in accepting their "defeats"--including Bush's nervous, annoyed press conference (and his "dig" at Rove's lack of actions during the campaign) are only the usual Capitol Hill Theater, dahling...nothing that happens in politics is an accident, and it really IS about 2008.
WHY was Rove in view anyway? How often is that the case?
You probably heard that the knives are out for Nancy Pilosi, and I don't doubt it. The names of the soon-to-be-seated Dem-led Congress are on many a blackmailer's list already.
The arm-twisting began at lunch today no doubt. Of course, when Bush called Pilosi to congratulate her, there was an interesting midpoint picture at MC at that moment (7:15 am, 11.8.06, Washington DC):
Moon/Mars = MC: a woman with strong principles.
So good luck to her on that.
Their Alternate Script:
That the neocons would--or could--"give up" so easily because "the American people have spoken" is about as lame and laughable as it can possibly be so SO'W must file that ditty in the Swamp-Land-For Sale-in-Florida category. Only someone who'd "buy" the Brooklyn Bridge could believe any of their tripe on this--certainly the American people speaking or voting have never bothered them before.
I don't truly believe we've had a voice since at least 1963's coup with JFK's assassination. We've been set up ever since.
Strauss was born in 1899--his minions have been at work a long time and the current jokers have inherited a huge network of connections and operatives worldwide passed down through several generations of win-at-any-cost-ers.
That's what Maher is talking about--the Scientology model which is really the Machiavellian model--do you believe that the ends justify the means?
Then the murder-at-will door is left open for any crook, deviant, or psychopath to walk through. That they reign in Washington is no surprise, and both sides of the aisle are subject to their control--even if they're not on the payroll, they're on the payroll.
INFESTATION:
They have ALL twisted the system into this shape...Ds and Rs--all are in on the lucrative joke, and the ones who aren't won't be around for long.
It was Frederick the Great who said something along the lines of: my people and I have come to an understanding: they are to say what they want, and I am to do what I want.
If that's not the neocon regime's attitude, I don't know what is. Except the 'saying' is under more scrutiny now than ever before a la Bush, and the NWO chugs along.
Yes, old Leo is the so-called father of neoconservatism...and the current crop of dastards are behind the scenes working just as much against the common good as they were before the American people "spoke" this week.
May they be Unmasked at their every turn--and Bill Maher's article is a good peep-eye! at their true and hideous nature. Forewarned is forarmed.
It is such a dream world we live in.
11.9.06 10:28 pm est
tags: Leo Strauss neoconservatism Bill Maher Scientology Pilosi Age of Tyranny Political Astrology
On Scientology:
11.10.06: Note to "Anonymous" commenter of the Scientology persuasion: my tendency to publish anonymous comments has recently ended, and while I applaud your right to defend your faith, you'll have to be more forthcoming than to call Bill Maher a bigot and hide behind "Anonymous." Your comment is filed in the hit-and-run folder.
As far as the science fiction + religion blend goes, it's suitable for satire, as I'm sure you've noticed before now. Imho, it's no better or much worse than the you-need-a-priest vatican mumbo jumbo, yet as I've written here before, some of the kindest people I've known all through my life have been of that religious persuasion.
I don't like to confuse the true believer with the shell-gamers at the top.
So it's religious hierarchies which keep their true motives close to their vests which interest me, and if your religion has meant a lot to you and aided you in any way, I'm sincerely glad.
Certainly I have no particular love of the psychiatric profession, but I should tell you that making strong statements such as Tom Cruise made in his Matt Lauer (sp?) interview and elswhere is no way to be taken seriously--in fact, it alienates (no pun intended.)
You see, I have a firm view on "UFOs" and believe them to be quite different phenomena than Mr Hubbard espoused to his bank account's credit (I refer primarily to his book sales.) If you've heard of straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel you'll know basically where I stand on Scientology...and mind control of the gullible pretty much covers the rest. -jc
Straussism-The Zionist Neocon Philosophy Directing The Age Of Tyranny with thanks to Jeff Rense.
11.9.06 post begins here:
Bill Maher has an interesting analysis on HuffPost relating Straussian neocon tactics with those of Scientology, and I can't say I blame him.
Republicans = Scientologists makes some good points, plus you may want to read my post from March concerning Leo Strauss.
My intuition is growing more each hour since the midterm outcomes that, as many peopple would agree, the Republican "grace" in accepting their "defeats"--including Bush's nervous, annoyed press conference (and his "dig" at Rove's lack of actions during the campaign) are only the usual Capitol Hill Theater, dahling...nothing that happens in politics is an accident, and it really IS about 2008.
WHY was Rove in view anyway? How often is that the case?
You probably heard that the knives are out for Nancy Pilosi, and I don't doubt it. The names of the soon-to-be-seated Dem-led Congress are on many a blackmailer's list already.
The arm-twisting began at lunch today no doubt. Of course, when Bush called Pilosi to congratulate her, there was an interesting midpoint picture at MC at that moment (7:15 am, 11.8.06, Washington DC):
Moon/Mars = MC: a woman with strong principles.
So good luck to her on that.
Their Alternate Script:
That the neocons would--or could--"give up" so easily because "the American people have spoken" is about as lame and laughable as it can possibly be so SO'W must file that ditty in the Swamp-Land-For Sale-in-Florida category. Only someone who'd "buy" the Brooklyn Bridge could believe any of their tripe on this--certainly the American people speaking or voting have never bothered them before.
I don't truly believe we've had a voice since at least 1963's coup with JFK's assassination. We've been set up ever since.
Strauss was born in 1899--his minions have been at work a long time and the current jokers have inherited a huge network of connections and operatives worldwide passed down through several generations of win-at-any-cost-ers.
That's what Maher is talking about--the Scientology model which is really the Machiavellian model--do you believe that the ends justify the means?
Then the murder-at-will door is left open for any crook, deviant, or psychopath to walk through. That they reign in Washington is no surprise, and both sides of the aisle are subject to their control--even if they're not on the payroll, they're on the payroll.
INFESTATION:
They have ALL twisted the system into this shape...Ds and Rs--all are in on the lucrative joke, and the ones who aren't won't be around for long.
It was Frederick the Great who said something along the lines of: my people and I have come to an understanding: they are to say what they want, and I am to do what I want.
If that's not the neocon regime's attitude, I don't know what is. Except the 'saying' is under more scrutiny now than ever before a la Bush, and the NWO chugs along.
Yes, old Leo is the so-called father of neoconservatism...and the current crop of dastards are behind the scenes working just as much against the common good as they were before the American people "spoke" this week.
May they be Unmasked at their every turn--and Bill Maher's article is a good peep-eye! at their true and hideous nature. Forewarned is forarmed.
It is such a dream world we live in.
11.9.06 10:28 pm est
tags: Leo Strauss neoconservatism Bill Maher Scientology Pilosi Age of Tyranny Political Astrology
On Scientology:
11.10.06: Note to "Anonymous" commenter of the Scientology persuasion: my tendency to publish anonymous comments has recently ended, and while I applaud your right to defend your faith, you'll have to be more forthcoming than to call Bill Maher a bigot and hide behind "Anonymous." Your comment is filed in the hit-and-run folder.
As far as the science fiction + religion blend goes, it's suitable for satire, as I'm sure you've noticed before now. Imho, it's no better or much worse than the you-need-a-priest vatican mumbo jumbo, yet as I've written here before, some of the kindest people I've known all through my life have been of that religious persuasion.
I don't like to confuse the true believer with the shell-gamers at the top.
So it's religious hierarchies which keep their true motives close to their vests which interest me, and if your religion has meant a lot to you and aided you in any way, I'm sincerely glad.
Certainly I have no particular love of the psychiatric profession, but I should tell you that making strong statements such as Tom Cruise made in his Matt Lauer (sp?) interview and elswhere is no way to be taken seriously--in fact, it alienates (no pun intended.)
You see, I have a firm view on "UFOs" and believe them to be quite different phenomena than Mr Hubbard espoused to his bank account's credit (I refer primarily to his book sales.) If you've heard of straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel you'll know basically where I stand on Scientology...and mind control of the gullible pretty much covers the rest. -jc
Thomas Jefferson said:
"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt...If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake."
Nov 8, 2006
Dawn of a New Day: Nov 8 2006
As Democratic Saturn hung over the Capitol Building at sunrise today, Pres Bush's natal Venus, recently visited by said Saturn was feeling lonely and unloved. He deserves it.
Asteroid, Minerva (wisdom) is there, too...hopefully an archetype Nancy Pelosi will bring with her. But she might want to can the "most honest, most ethical" slogan though...angels' wings may be needed for that, but we can hope.
We-the-People, Moon 25Gem26, was in the 8th house of taxes, debt, insurance, legacies, transformation, and death.
Sun 15Sco56 arose heralded by contentious Mars at the "A drowning man rescued" degree, causing your reluctant astrologer (moi) to wonder who was being saved--Bush whose Iraq mess is more than he can handle (for you can't solve problems using the same thinking that caused them, and Bush is a one-note kinda guy) or is it YOU, Lieberman? (props to Jon Stewart.)
Rx Mercury at 16Sco52 rises next and still indicating recounts, VA in particular, it seems, but we'll see. Will Macaca Allen have his sway? And then there's Montana's outcome still teetering as I type, 8:00 am.
Venus 18Sco54 is next to rise in square to Bush's natal Venus. If rising Venus is taken for Nancy Pelosi, the first-ever female Speaker of the House, we may expect the blockages and obstacles typical of the square aspect, but much developmental energy is possible as well between Bush's values/relationships and Pelosi's.
And money issues are a province of Venus with raising the minimum wage high on Dems' agenda and Bush desperate to stop it for his corporate fiends (not a typo.)
Also rising: guru-moneybags Jupiter 26Sco31 with his Jupiter Mantra in tow ("every day in every way I'm getting better and better"), but the overconfident prosecution of the Iraq War will be in play, as we may expect.
Jupiter's word picture, "27Sco":
"A military band marches noisily through the streets" = POMP...
keynote: The aggressive glorification of cultural values.
Rudhyar goes on to explain that "Our aggressive, tense Western civilization is indeed in opposition to the natural spontaneity and instinctive adjustment to nature of tribal societies."
The Sun/Asc degree, the WHAT of the chart..."A girl's face breaking into a smile" =
keynote: The fervent reaching out on the part of the young at heart to new experiences (young = Mercury, Moon in Mercury-ruled Gemini--did younger voters turn out?)
keyword: a glowing WARMTH OF FEELING...Rudhayar goes on to say "Smiling is perhaps a uniquely human characteristic because it implies a conscious acceptance of relationship, thus a choice.
Interestingly, the midpoint between Mercury/Uranus is opposite the US natal Sun, so therefore opposite Bush's natal Sun, Merc/Uran = Sun: quick adjustment to new circumstances. Yup!
But, as Noel Tyl says, this picture can also mean: up-to-speed; able to create the surprising move. Will Bush pull his fat at least partially out of the fire? Some people are still betting on him....another "we'll see."
Well, there's much more info in the sunrise chart, the Dawn of a New Day, everything changed, but I'm getting set up now for Bush's best happy-face spin at 1:00 pm today, last I heard.
Now 1:00 pm seems a little tardy, but I guess he needs to practice in front of his mirror (wonder what he sees? Is there an image to behold?) so he can get out in front of the people as he grasps the bully pulpit--for he's a bully and a preacher in his own mind--and mention the war on terror, Iraq, and any other thing he can delusionally cling to. But America is "fed up with rosy pictures" at last.
Admitting that most of us hate his guts will not be on his concession agenda...and at the White House, at 1:00 pm est, Neptune "18AQ": "A man unmasked" degree will be rising...fat lot o'good it seems to do the nation.
11.8.06 8:16 am est
tags: Bush Washington New Direction for America Political Astrology
Nov 7, 2006
The burning bush of Bush
So far Bush's ineptitude and culpability are affecting the outcomes of the midterm elections--it's 11:03 pm est, and Tavis Smiley says CA polls have "just closed"--so here's a SO'W post from June called The burning bush of Bush which you may find somewhat interesting if you've not come across it before, and coming from Andriano Carelli's book on degree symbolism.
Be sure to read all three degrees: 8, 9, and 10 Leo esp 10 Leo which describes a scythe pattern in the sky forming now and coming to fruition in 2007. Sounds like the scythe may be in operation for the GOP already...a turn-of-fortunes kind of harvest in play and with more to come.
And Neptune continues to hang out at the "A man unmasked" degree, in the Sabian Symbols.
11:13 pm--Tavis announces that the Dems have taken the House--Nancy Pelosi at the helm, it seems. Perhaps we'll be able to recognize our government again with checks and balances restored, I hope. America is sending a message to Washington, but she'd better get back more in return than empty rhetoric and slogans.
Sending out a BIG SO'W Congratulations to all winners tonight! Tag, you're it.
11.7.06 11:22 pm est
tags: Bush Election 2006 Political Astrology
Be sure to read all three degrees: 8, 9, and 10 Leo esp 10 Leo which describes a scythe pattern in the sky forming now and coming to fruition in 2007. Sounds like the scythe may be in operation for the GOP already...a turn-of-fortunes kind of harvest in play and with more to come.
And Neptune continues to hang out at the "A man unmasked" degree, in the Sabian Symbols.
11:13 pm--Tavis announces that the Dems have taken the House--Nancy Pelosi at the helm, it seems. Perhaps we'll be able to recognize our government again with checks and balances restored, I hope. America is sending a message to Washington, but she'd better get back more in return than empty rhetoric and slogans.
Sending out a BIG SO'W Congratulations to all winners tonight! Tag, you're it.
11.7.06 11:22 pm est
tags: Bush Election 2006 Political Astrology
Caving In In London
Revealed: cave that's bigger than London Eye ...maybe they'll find bin Laden under London.
Hope you've read HuffPo's National Referendum article today. Just checked the link and they've changed the article's title to VOTE.
"Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?" -- Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) Source: at the US Constitutional Convention #
Well I'm not, are you?
And may I also recommend Election2006.Gather.com for conversation with top political bloggers Troy S. and David McGill...beginning at 7:00 pm this evening. Stop by!
Gotta motor--the booth awaits!
11.7.06 10:23 am
tags: London Caves bin Laden National Referendum election 2006 Gather.com
Hope you've read HuffPo's National Referendum article today. Just checked the link and they've changed the article's title to VOTE.
"Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?" -- Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) Source: at the US Constitutional Convention #
Well I'm not, are you?
And may I also recommend Election2006.Gather.com for conversation with top political bloggers Troy S. and David McGill...beginning at 7:00 pm this evening. Stop by!
Gotta motor--the booth awaits!
11.7.06 10:23 am
tags: London Caves bin Laden National Referendum election 2006 Gather.com
Nov 6, 2006
Oil Blackmail and George Bush
Today in some of his stumpy speechifying--a little on the slurred side, mind you--Bush admitted a connection between his Iraq "policy"--specifically his Iraq War misadventure--and OIL.
Is this, as an NPR commentator just intoned, an admission that his administration's energy policy is bankrupt? Bush said that if the US leaves Iraq, the terroists get the oil.
Now I would point out along with others that terroists and Mid-Eastern governments already have the oil. And I've always said that breaking up the blackmarket in oil between Saddam (and perhaps others) and certain European nations (and perhaps others) was part of the Bush-Cheney dice-rolling in their rush to invade Iraq.
If Bush is on the ropes and stuck in the mud as he's been acting recently, his admission may be the first step in his recovery toward reality (just kidding.)
Or he could be careening off the wagon...the truth of the bottle slurring out.
Either way, he's shown himself to be the big f*ck-up that 50% of the American people said he was back in 1999 and 2000.
And with only one nag in the race--named America--it's no cause for S'OW to celebrate as Bush stumbles and falls. As he goes so goes the nation.
So thanks, Andrew Sullivan and the rest of you who are johnny-come-latelys to the Bush-is-a-f*ck-up party. Sullivan says he began to doubt Bush "3 weeks in" to the Iraq War at his Mission Accomplished hubristic display. Funny, but I'm a con-prog myself--a progressive with traditional Christian values--and Bush didn't fool me at any time.
After all, the Corporatism train has been on track for years, and Chiron/Pluto will have their way, even if it kills several thousand underlings.
The divide-and-conquer "Rs vs Ds" is and has been illusory and harmful to this nation. And it's erudite, influential people like Mr.Sullivan who have enabled Bush and Co to have their way with the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the military industrial complex, the finances...and with the truth.
"..putting Bossy at the helm was not so smart", said Lim over at Lim's Limericks so even a limerick-writing cat coulda told ya.
But hey--join the party now that it's painfully obvious to all but the grossly gullible!
America's only hope for restoring the checks and balances that have served her so well is with tomorrow's election, and I PRAY she--or 51% of her--won't be fooled again by these self-serving, short-sighted fools...Trickster Rove's treachery notwithstanding.
11.6.06 8:20 pm est
tags: Bush Oil America Political Astrology
Is this, as an NPR commentator just intoned, an admission that his administration's energy policy is bankrupt? Bush said that if the US leaves Iraq, the terroists get the oil.
Now I would point out along with others that terroists and Mid-Eastern governments already have the oil. And I've always said that breaking up the blackmarket in oil between Saddam (and perhaps others) and certain European nations (and perhaps others) was part of the Bush-Cheney dice-rolling in their rush to invade Iraq.
If Bush is on the ropes and stuck in the mud as he's been acting recently, his admission may be the first step in his recovery toward reality (just kidding.)
Or he could be careening off the wagon...the truth of the bottle slurring out.
Either way, he's shown himself to be the big f*ck-up that 50% of the American people said he was back in 1999 and 2000.
And with only one nag in the race--named America--it's no cause for S'OW to celebrate as Bush stumbles and falls. As he goes so goes the nation.
So thanks, Andrew Sullivan and the rest of you who are johnny-come-latelys to the Bush-is-a-f*ck-up party. Sullivan says he began to doubt Bush "3 weeks in" to the Iraq War at his Mission Accomplished hubristic display. Funny, but I'm a con-prog myself--a progressive with traditional Christian values--and Bush didn't fool me at any time.
After all, the Corporatism train has been on track for years, and Chiron/Pluto will have their way, even if it kills several thousand underlings.
The divide-and-conquer "Rs vs Ds" is and has been illusory and harmful to this nation. And it's erudite, influential people like Mr.Sullivan who have enabled Bush and Co to have their way with the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the military industrial complex, the finances...and with the truth.
"..putting Bossy at the helm was not so smart", said Lim over at Lim's Limericks so even a limerick-writing cat coulda told ya.
But hey--join the party now that it's painfully obvious to all but the grossly gullible!
America's only hope for restoring the checks and balances that have served her so well is with tomorrow's election, and I PRAY she--or 51% of her--won't be fooled again by these self-serving, short-sighted fools...Trickster Rove's treachery notwithstanding.
11.6.06 8:20 pm est
tags: Bush Oil America Political Astrology
midterm fever: Zell backs Perdue
Yes, it's true! Wacky Zell Miller is backing Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue for re-election.
With well-produced tv ads, sword-wielder Zell, who fancies himself Zorro, touts Perdue against Mark Taylor. I watched their televised debate yesterday, and wasn't impressed with either candidate in the ethical department, but I can say this: if Zorro Zell is under the impression that his support can sway anyone, he's goofier than I previously thought.
Just thought I'd mention my home state elections since my ancestors moved here from VA before the Revolution (the Barnett and Crawford crowd)--my point being that I care about rubber-stamper Perdue's Republican connections to Washington and his self-enriching land deals with their reach-around legislations--and isn't it amusing that Zell still insists he's a Democrat? Can a pack have two jokers?
note: apologies if I've misspelled Sonny's name (P-U-rdue?)...it's because all his ads use "Sonny" to give him that down-home flavor. Well, at least he uses Sonny, not Sunny.
SO'W Reminder: VOTE!! bin Laden prefers Republicans--it justifies his life's work-- which is a good enough reason to VOTE them out. Rs could've caught him but they let him escape--now we have perpetual war, not justice for 9/11--is this what you want for your children? War-mongerers and deficit spenders?
And the financial situation is much worse than most of the American public knows or wants to know--but don't let the hard decisions keep you from facing the music. Yes, I know that many of the Ds are enablers and more, but they're our only hope for a better course and a New Perspective...please VOTE Nov 7.
11.6.06 10:41 am
tags: midterm elections Sonny Perdue Georgia Political Astrology
With well-produced tv ads, sword-wielder Zell, who fancies himself Zorro, touts Perdue against Mark Taylor. I watched their televised debate yesterday, and wasn't impressed with either candidate in the ethical department, but I can say this: if Zorro Zell is under the impression that his support can sway anyone, he's goofier than I previously thought.
Just thought I'd mention my home state elections since my ancestors moved here from VA before the Revolution (the Barnett and Crawford crowd)--my point being that I care about rubber-stamper Perdue's Republican connections to Washington and his self-enriching land deals with their reach-around legislations--and isn't it amusing that Zell still insists he's a Democrat? Can a pack have two jokers?
note: apologies if I've misspelled Sonny's name (P-U-rdue?)...it's because all his ads use "Sonny" to give him that down-home flavor. Well, at least he uses Sonny, not Sunny.
SO'W Reminder: VOTE!! bin Laden prefers Republicans--it justifies his life's work-- which is a good enough reason to VOTE them out. Rs could've caught him but they let him escape--now we have perpetual war, not justice for 9/11--is this what you want for your children? War-mongerers and deficit spenders?
And the financial situation is much worse than most of the American public knows or wants to know--but don't let the hard decisions keep you from facing the music. Yes, I know that many of the Ds are enablers and more, but they're our only hope for a better course and a New Perspective...please VOTE Nov 7.
11.6.06 10:41 am
tags: midterm elections Sonny Perdue Georgia Political Astrology
Nov 5, 2006
Mercury Transit and Rx for midterm elections
TRANSIT OF MERCURY: On Wednesday, Nov. 8th, Mercury will pass directly in front of the sun. The rare transit will be visible from the Americas, Hawaii and all around the Pacific Rim. It begins at 2:12 p.m. EST (11:12 a.m. PST) and lasts for nearly five hours.
Because Mercury is so small, only a tiny fraction of the sun will be covered. So don't stare at the sun on Wednesday; it will be as blinding as ever. Instead, try to view the event through a properly-filtered solar telescope. Mercury's tiny, jet-black silhouette passing in front of solar prominences, filaments and sunspots should be a marvelous sight.
Visit Spaceweather.com for observing tips and links to live webcasts. #
Looking at the Mercury Transit chart for Nov 8, 2:12 pm, Capitol Building:
we see a rising Uranus 10Pis52 Rx = technology, Rx = recounts?; change and reform? rebellion and disruption? *Power outages, since Uranus = lightening and electricity?
ASC 11Pis30 with MC 19Sag43, transformative Pluto 25Sag08, direct in 10th house of Career and Public Status.
I'm relating this fairly rare Transit of Mercury across the Sun (leader) to the midterm elections for obvious timely reasons. And Mercury relates to paper "trails", agreements, and as such, esp since only a hapless dolt can expect smooth running from this highly contentious melee with its hackable voting machines and its win-at-all-costs participants.
North Node, with its connection to the Public (bwo the Moon) is in first house and rising, NN 23Pis56. In horary charts, NN in first house would be considered a fortunate thing!
2:12 pm: At this Moon Hour of changes, an out-of-bounds Moon is able to act of her own accord without interference from the other energies--so will the Public hold sway? Moon is also at a critical 29th degree, 29Gem41, and as you know, communicative Gemini is often of two minds, which expresses mightily our polarized population...polarized by the "divide and conquer" model of politicians everywhere.
Wherever we find Gemini we find multiplicity (many many ballots to count?) and sometimes duplicity. In our dualistic world--also signified by Gemini, sign of the Twins--energies will express, if not within ourselves, then in our outer environment.
Sounds like good times , doesn't it?
With the 29 degree Moon vibrating at high frequency and anxious to reach Cancer (home), and with 00Can00 being a World Point, the implications for the midterm elections and symbolism of Mercury (young person, as well as messenger or communication) "crossing" the Sun (leader) in Scorpio, sign of big business, secrets, hidden organizations, and The Eagle (USA), we may expect interesting developments between now and the end of the year.
And that's not even counting 2007's Saturnian Scythe which seems to be "After" Rumfeld at the moment. And perhaps that's some of the meaning of the first-time-in-our-history US natal Mars' retrograde station now in effect--since this past July--military (Mars) problems with perhaps the head Martian--Rumsfeld--being stalemated, as we're now witnessing.
Will the young people of America desert the Republican tugboat-to-nowhere but military service and perpetual war?
Plus, Monday, tomorrow, the active-duty officers' article comes out in several military journals calling for Rummy's ouster.
Now here are the Sabian Symbols for some of the pertinent degrees in the Mercury Transit chart and their shadow/unconscious/Illumination Point pictures as well...first from Marc Edmund Jones, then Dane Rudhyar's info:
(MEJ) Moon "30Gem": "Bathing beauties upon a beach"> CHARM =
pos: a special capacity for bringing the familiar desires and interests to an enduring representation of worthiness;
neg: regression to childish vanities.
(DR) "30Gem": "A parade of bathing beauties before large beach crowds">
keynote: The setting of social standards through personal excellence and competition;
keywords: The SHOW is over. Now comes the hour of decision (yep.)
Illumination Point (the opposite degree), "30Sag": "The Pope"> SANCTITY = an effective and spectacular sacrifice of self in some enduring service to the race at large;
neg: inordinate love of self-display and surrender to a lust for power (in politics? Go on!)
(DR) "30Sag": "The pope blessing the faithful">
keynote: The need to pay homage to traditional values upon which the Invisible Community of the spirit is built;
keywords: PERSONALIZED WORSHIP. It can be a blessing, or in some cases, a curse.
Mercury's Transit degree which is also the Sun's degree obviously:
(MEJ) "17Scor": "A woman the father of her own child"> NUCLEATION =
pos: an illimitable self-potentiality with effective spiritual or ideal as well as practical or everyday orientations;
neg: a characteristically anarchistic self-sufficiency.
Illumination Point: "17Tau": "A battle between the swords and the torches"> RESOLUTION =
pos: high organizational skill and an ability to bring the magic of understanding to any specific difficulty;
neg: a loss of self-competence through the conflicting compulsions of necesity and desire.
(DR) "17Tau": "A symbolical battle between "swords" and "torches">
keynote: Refusing to depend upon the past, the seeker turns warrior, fighting anew the "Great War."
keywords: This is the dharma of this stage of human evolution: a stage of POLARIZATION OF VALUES...salvation is attained through the emergent individual's readiness to face all issues as if there were only two opposed sides. #
Well, we've had gracious plenty polarization of late, but that's what the Symbols are saying...kind of reminds me of the ongoing shifting of the magnetic poles which may just be part of the global warming issue...and magnetism relates to that progressive Uranus again!
11.5.06 10:41 pm est
tags: midterm elections Mercury Transit Sabian Symbols Political Astrology
"The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind." -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
(US politicians are tradesmen all right.)
*power outages may handily describe those who will lose their seats of power, too.
The Sabian Symbols in Astrology, Dr. Marc Edmund Jones; An Astrological Mandala, Dane Rudhyar; both available from Amazon.com
Because Mercury is so small, only a tiny fraction of the sun will be covered. So don't stare at the sun on Wednesday; it will be as blinding as ever. Instead, try to view the event through a properly-filtered solar telescope. Mercury's tiny, jet-black silhouette passing in front of solar prominences, filaments and sunspots should be a marvelous sight.
Visit Spaceweather.com for observing tips and links to live webcasts. #
Looking at the Mercury Transit chart for Nov 8, 2:12 pm, Capitol Building:
we see a rising Uranus 10Pis52 Rx = technology, Rx = recounts?; change and reform? rebellion and disruption? *Power outages, since Uranus = lightening and electricity?
ASC 11Pis30 with MC 19Sag43, transformative Pluto 25Sag08, direct in 10th house of Career and Public Status.
I'm relating this fairly rare Transit of Mercury across the Sun (leader) to the midterm elections for obvious timely reasons. And Mercury relates to paper "trails", agreements, and as such, esp since only a hapless dolt can expect smooth running from this highly contentious melee with its hackable voting machines and its win-at-all-costs participants.
North Node, with its connection to the Public (bwo the Moon) is in first house and rising, NN 23Pis56. In horary charts, NN in first house would be considered a fortunate thing!
2:12 pm: At this Moon Hour of changes, an out-of-bounds Moon is able to act of her own accord without interference from the other energies--so will the Public hold sway? Moon is also at a critical 29th degree, 29Gem41, and as you know, communicative Gemini is often of two minds, which expresses mightily our polarized population...polarized by the "divide and conquer" model of politicians everywhere.
Wherever we find Gemini we find multiplicity (many many ballots to count?) and sometimes duplicity. In our dualistic world--also signified by Gemini, sign of the Twins--energies will express, if not within ourselves, then in our outer environment.
Sounds like good times , doesn't it?
With the 29 degree Moon vibrating at high frequency and anxious to reach Cancer (home), and with 00Can00 being a World Point, the implications for the midterm elections and symbolism of Mercury (young person, as well as messenger or communication) "crossing" the Sun (leader) in Scorpio, sign of big business, secrets, hidden organizations, and The Eagle (USA), we may expect interesting developments between now and the end of the year.
And that's not even counting 2007's Saturnian Scythe which seems to be "After" Rumfeld at the moment. And perhaps that's some of the meaning of the first-time-in-our-history US natal Mars' retrograde station now in effect--since this past July--military (Mars) problems with perhaps the head Martian--Rumsfeld--being stalemated, as we're now witnessing.
Will the young people of America desert the Republican tugboat-to-nowhere but military service and perpetual war?
Plus, Monday, tomorrow, the active-duty officers' article comes out in several military journals calling for Rummy's ouster.
Now here are the Sabian Symbols for some of the pertinent degrees in the Mercury Transit chart and their shadow/unconscious/Illumination Point pictures as well...first from Marc Edmund Jones, then Dane Rudhyar's info:
(MEJ) Moon "30Gem": "Bathing beauties upon a beach"> CHARM =
pos: a special capacity for bringing the familiar desires and interests to an enduring representation of worthiness;
neg: regression to childish vanities.
(DR) "30Gem": "A parade of bathing beauties before large beach crowds">
keynote: The setting of social standards through personal excellence and competition;
keywords: The SHOW is over. Now comes the hour of decision (yep.)
Illumination Point (the opposite degree), "30Sag": "The Pope"> SANCTITY = an effective and spectacular sacrifice of self in some enduring service to the race at large;
neg: inordinate love of self-display and surrender to a lust for power (in politics? Go on!)
(DR) "30Sag": "The pope blessing the faithful">
keynote: The need to pay homage to traditional values upon which the Invisible Community of the spirit is built;
keywords: PERSONALIZED WORSHIP. It can be a blessing, or in some cases, a curse.
Mercury's Transit degree which is also the Sun's degree obviously:
(MEJ) "17Scor": "A woman the father of her own child"> NUCLEATION =
pos: an illimitable self-potentiality with effective spiritual or ideal as well as practical or everyday orientations;
neg: a characteristically anarchistic self-sufficiency.
Illumination Point: "17Tau": "A battle between the swords and the torches"> RESOLUTION =
pos: high organizational skill and an ability to bring the magic of understanding to any specific difficulty;
neg: a loss of self-competence through the conflicting compulsions of necesity and desire.
(DR) "17Tau": "A symbolical battle between "swords" and "torches">
keynote: Refusing to depend upon the past, the seeker turns warrior, fighting anew the "Great War."
keywords: This is the dharma of this stage of human evolution: a stage of POLARIZATION OF VALUES...salvation is attained through the emergent individual's readiness to face all issues as if there were only two opposed sides. #
Well, we've had gracious plenty polarization of late, but that's what the Symbols are saying...kind of reminds me of the ongoing shifting of the magnetic poles which may just be part of the global warming issue...and magnetism relates to that progressive Uranus again!
11.5.06 10:41 pm est
tags: midterm elections Mercury Transit Sabian Symbols Political Astrology
"The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind." -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
(US politicians are tradesmen all right.)
*power outages may handily describe those who will lose their seats of power, too.
The Sabian Symbols in Astrology, Dr. Marc Edmund Jones; An Astrological Mandala, Dane Rudhyar; both available from Amazon.com
Nov 3, 2006
Oh SNAP! Cheney on ABC Sunday
Vice President Dick Cheney, in an interview taped for airing Sunday on ABC, conceded the war may not be popular with the public. Still, he said, "It doesn't matter in the sense that we have to continue the mission and do what we think is right.... We're not running for office. We're doing what we think is right."
WHAT THEY THINK IS RIGHT? Is that right? If they tell it, it's no lie, if you will. Puh. Antinomianism simply drips from his snarl, doesn't it?
And after speechifyin' Bush called upon God Almighty to save his biscuits, it should come as no surprise--and I know it does not--that Cheney can actually say out loud in a tv interview that it doesn't matter if the war is popular with the people who are paying for it--you know--the ones for whom Dick waged war in their name? (sic.)
A question: HOW could a war be popular with anyone but those who are not in harm's way (Dick and his family) and with those making millions and millions more from war-profiteering? (That would be his nibs again.)
Well, I'll just have to look for Dick this Sunday, on ABC. I want to hear it out of the horse's orifice.
And have you seen Tavis Smiley's interview with Scott Ritter? Seems that anyone who prefers that Bush & CO NOT BOMB Iran should vote the Rs out of office asap, aka November 7 midterms upcoming. So put on your coat, get out there and Vote...perhaps it's not too late to restore a glimmer of sanity to Washington.
Sheesh, I miss living there, for all its problems, woes, and craziness.
11.3.06 11:57 pm est
tags: Cheney ABC interview Midterm Elections Political Astrology
WHAT THEY THINK IS RIGHT? Is that right? If they tell it, it's no lie, if you will. Puh. Antinomianism simply drips from his snarl, doesn't it?
And after speechifyin' Bush called upon God Almighty to save his biscuits, it should come as no surprise--and I know it does not--that Cheney can actually say out loud in a tv interview that it doesn't matter if the war is popular with the people who are paying for it--you know--the ones for whom Dick waged war in their name? (sic.)
A question: HOW could a war be popular with anyone but those who are not in harm's way (Dick and his family) and with those making millions and millions more from war-profiteering? (That would be his nibs again.)
Well, I'll just have to look for Dick this Sunday, on ABC. I want to hear it out of the horse's orifice.
And have you seen Tavis Smiley's interview with Scott Ritter? Seems that anyone who prefers that Bush & CO NOT BOMB Iran should vote the Rs out of office asap, aka November 7 midterms upcoming. So put on your coat, get out there and Vote...perhaps it's not too late to restore a glimmer of sanity to Washington.
Sheesh, I miss living there, for all its problems, woes, and craziness.
11.3.06 11:57 pm est
tags: Cheney ABC interview Midterm Elections Political Astrology
Say Hi and Bye to Rep Bob Ney
If he acted as promised, Bob Ney tendered his letter of resignation this afternoon to the Speaker of the House--"at 4:00 or 4:30 pm."
Using Ney's sunrise chart, born July 5, 1954, Wheeling West VA, we see his natal Sun is same as the USA's and George Bush's natal Sun within one degree. Ney has Mercury 14Can04 Rx, with Jupiter on the other side of the Sun at 9Can26--whoo! Lots of self-protective, often crabby Cancer, isn't it? Canny though...or was, until October 13 when he was forced to plead guilty to making false statements and conspiracy to commit fraud in league with Jack Abramoff.
Mercury "speaks for" his Sun in Cancer in a Cancerian (self-dramatizing, self-protective) way, so he talks and communicates like a Cancer. And with Uranus in Cancer he behaves like a Cancer. (Wonder if he likes seafood?)
He acts/desires (Mars) as an idealistic Sagittarian--this particular sunrise occurred during a Mars hour with an out-of-bounds Mars (a maverick able to act outside the other energies of his chart), emphasized by Mars being retrograde, plus, feisty Mars is at a critical, crisis-ridden 29th degree.
Mars at "30Sag": "The pope blessing the faithful." This degree can be a blessing or a curse, says Dane Rudhyar, in his An Astrological Mandala.
Ney's sentencing is set, last I heard, for January 19,'07, and he could receive up to 27 months and $500,000 in fines. Is that all for all his crookery and for selling out the public trust? These charletans in the last several years have turned "public trust" into quite the joke, haven't they?
So even with his birth time unknown, we may safely consider Mr. Ney's Sun/Moon personality blend because the Moon was in Virgo for the whole 24-hour period. So let's have at it, shall we?
Sun Can/Moon Virgo:
This water-earth blend is reflective and attentive, loyal, dutiful, yet timid. There is a yearning to be appreciated and understood but shyness may take over and a talent for analyzing others is indulged instead.
Rationalizing needs keeps them at bay, plus a certain puritannical streak may be evident. There's a clear-headed and conscientious concern for others, a refined charm, and an unflagging moral integrity (hmm-m-m...)
Family is very important and there my be a fussiness in the domestic scene. Relationships are not lightly entered, and a committed relationship brings out a loving nature.
A tendency toward self-criticism leads to anxiety and depleted confidence and there can be a narrow-minded and self-righteous clinging to rules and right procedure in an attempt to establish security and authority (a "poltician"--jc); a self-effacing attitude may be used to mask the assumed self-righteousness.
Images: A wine taster makes pointed comments, restrained accolades...A health visitor weighs an infant with tender precision...The 'perfect' mother.
If you click the chart to enlarge, you'll find Ney's Prenatal Eclipse Series (PE), 10South, 8Can10, which is about breaking out of a very negative situation where no hope or options can be seen. This series last occurred in 1990, next occurrence in 2008 (Predictive Astrology, Bernadette Brady, to be found at amazon.com)
(Enlarging will also show My Bad: I neglected to complete, Hour of___ = Mars, as stated.)
The outside chart you see is for Nov 3, 2006, 4:00 pm, Moon rising, on Capitol Hill.
Transit Saturn 24Leo07 (loss/Saturn of leaders/Leo) has been stomping upon Ney's Pluto, PLANET of power and transformation. This Saturn conjunction has transformed his power all right--Saturn bringing loss where his lessons of responsibility and realism have not been heeded properly, and so we reap what we sow...how grimly is determined by past actions and how we handled the authority we were privileged to attain.
The transiting pile-up of Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury Rx, and Jupiter have recently bowled through Ney's Saturn/Neptune in loose conjunction, and as you know, the Saturn/Neptune pair signify several things on many levels, not the least of which can be loss, weakness, grief, and torment as Neptune undermines all of Saturn's hard work. Saturn is solid and Neptune nebulous and foggy--a difficult combo of planets to direct properly for anyone.
So often, having Saturn (and perhaps Neptune) in 10th house of Career is a signature for "fall from grace", so Mr.Ney may have this in his natal chart, if his correct birth time is used. In fact, if his chart is imaginatively "flipped" to put Sat/Nep in 10th house, it would possibly give tr SN (separation; breaking of ties and associations) conjunct the newly-created MC rather than as now with tr NN--with its associative and joining qualities--at MC/Career Point. Just a thought, esp since he's being forcibly separated from his Career and Public Status by jail time and ignominy.
Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon (birth times are known) both have Saturn in 10th house--ability to reach high ambitions with Saturn being strong in his natural 10th house of Capricorn--but if not held in high regard, Old Man Saturn's scythe--and a humongous Scythe is now forming amongst the planets in the heavens, remember--his scythe or sickle will have its way with the proud, thus causing a fall from grace in Public Status (10th house.)
Pride really does come before a fall, says Taskmaster Saturn.
Without Ney's correct birth time, this is conjecture, of course. But his fall from grace is no conjecture and I believe from studies of his sunrise chart that this is a humiliating and excruciating experience for Mr. Ney--I'm not trying to be flippant about his troubles. It would be so for any but the most hardened heart and character.
But as most people realize: our troubles are often self-created...and we must all deal with that inconvenient fact no matter where it takes us on life's path...reaping what we sow all the way!
Or, as a wise cartoon character with an Irish brogue once said on tv's Dr. Katz, "sure, and we are the otters of our own fats."
Sure, and we are.
11.3.06 9:02 pm est
tags: Bob Ney Dr Katz Congress Ney resignation Political Astrology
Sun Sign-Moon Sign, by Charles and Suzi Harvey.
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