Time to liquidate the American Empire?

As an appreciative reader of Chalmers Johnson's encompassing book on America's global militarism, The Sorrows of Empire, it is always instructive to find Mr. Johnson writing on similar subjects out of what I believe to be a true patriotism - a patriotism of dissent born from a deep wish for America the Experiment to succeed along the lines of the principles our nation was founded upon, and the glowing and honorable mythologies we once proudly espoused but now have trouble hiding behind.

Obama's Empire: An Unprecedented Network of Military Bases That is Still Expanding

By Catherine Lutz

Asked why the US has a vast network of military bases around the world, Pentagon officials give both utilitarian and humanitarian arguments. Utilitarian arguments include the claim that bases provide security for the US by deterring attack from hostile countries and preventing or remedying unrest or military challenges; that bases serve the national economic interests of the US, ensuring access to markets and commodities needed to maintain US standards of living.

(It isn't working. Cash-strapped Americans pay for war while doing without timely dental care. Is this a fair trade when your jaw swells?)


Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire And Ten Steps to Take to Do So

By Chalmers Johnson

According to the 2008 official Pentagon inventory of our military bases around the world, our empire consists of 865 facilities in more than 40 countries and overseas US territories. We deploy over 190,000 troops in 46 countries and territories.

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Undermining America has been a goal of the select few all along.

And as an astrologer (however reluctant with a tyrant 10th-house Uranus in Gemini), it was quite predictable in 1999, 2000, and beyond that I and yo mama would be called everything under the sun when I posted in Slate's The Fray concerning the neocon tendencies to rob our Treasury by fraudulent nation-building and other public-till raids, stiff US taxpayers with private costs made public, and undermine our nation's sovereignty until the ship slowly sinks into an ocean of oblivion.

Now swearing in type is not my specialty, but the Fraysters in Slate's forum at that time were great at it, so brashly puffed up almost as big as Bush the Eagle-Faced and Cheney the Balded-Pate ever were as they strutted about the coup'd White House - the pretzel-lovin' prez sharing cigars with Prince Bandar on the White House balcony as the Pentagon's embers sizzled and smoke arose in the distance, circa 9/11/01.

"To bankrupt America" was my answer for the oft-heard, 'Whys'? and the 'Why Do they Hate Us'? mantras, and for the rest of the soul-searching zeitgeist of the times.

But What Did We Do to Harm Anyone? We're fabulous! they'd assure themselves...'twas the arrogant America Can Do No Wrong attitude.

Meanwhile, back on the balcony, it was as if Bush and Bandar were celebrating something worth savoring, remember? And you know there had to be a heady wisp of compassionate conservatism wafting through the air along with the smell of what Cheney was cooking in the cellar.

Well, now it's 2009 so I ask you: what is wrong with Americans that we can't direct our attention, much less our energies, into the focused endeavor for which this nation now wimpers?

Guess I'll just mosey and read more of today's newsworthy Beer Summit reports that have captured many of my fellow citizens' imaginations when they're not busy playing with their phone apps or texting their honeypies.

Because you see: a president, a cop, and a professor walk into a bar...

Rush Limbaugh combats Joan Walsh

If you keep up with the propaganda level of Media and its jealous bedfellow, Politics, you may wish to read about Rush Limbaugh's favorite "magic honky" Joan Walsh of Salon.com, and do peruse there to your delight the photographic portrait (translation: a haughty pose snapped in an undisclosed professional studio, necktie colors a-poppin') of Mr. Limbaugh doing his best imitation of a fire-breathing Dragon.

Warning: It ain't pretty. And it ain't recent.

Codex Alimentarius in US: by Dec 31, 2009?

Update 7.31.09: House Bill 2749 has passed the House on the second try which greases the slope for the following draconian changes to the US food supply.

Original post begins here:

Between the UN and the Monsanto Corporation lies the nutricide of natural health products and vitamins as forced upon us globally by New World Order operatives.

Codex Alimentarius is a trade commission of standards that chemical, medical, pharmaceutical, bio-technical, and big agri-business industries have been planning to impose on the US and the world community through the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN, and which fronts as 'consumer protection' but which may act as a vehicle for genocide and ill health.

Genetically modified foods (GM), toxin-laced consumables, and pesticides are not my cuppa tea, how about you? And 'terminator seeds' have to be one of the devil's favorite new scientific developments issuing from corporations like Monsanto which stands to profit wildly from the implementation of the Codex "by December 31, 2009" in the US.

US compliance will mark the end of any consumer protections we ever thought we had, or have benefited from in the past.

On Dec 31, 2009, Mars will trigger the 'King of Terror' Solar Eclipse of August 11, 1999 (18Leo+), a degree stimulated by Venus on the morning of 9/11/01. Somehow I doubt that doctor, seer, and astrologer Nostradamus, when warning of this 'Mother of All Eclipses' would much appreciate a field sown with genetically engineered terminator seeds that cannot reproduce themselves but must be purchased anew from Monsanto each year...at their preferred price, of course.

Will pay if you want to eat equal population control?

Now where the EU (with its current restrictions on such chemical additives as America has yet to enjoy) falls within this scenario is not explained in the above article. There are, however, links included there for further reading on the Codex.

Tellingly, Dec 31, 2009 is a day of a Lunar Eclipse, with Moon relating to food, eating, and nurturance concerns, and to the physical body.

In Washington, DC, the Lunar Eclipse of Dec 31, 2009 occurs at 2:12:42 pm est, with Sun 10Cap15 in 8th house; Moon 10Can15 in 2nd house. Mega-doses of money will be made from the establishment of the Codex Alimentarius (Latin for: food code) by the above-mentioned industries, with poorer health in store for everyone - vitamins, nutrients, and other natural products are disallowed while toxins are ramped up and promoted as 'safe.'

ASC 1Gem03 gives a *Sabian Symbol for '2Gem': "Santa Claus Filling Stockings Furtively"...perhaps should that should be 'Mon-santa-claus'? Mc 9AQ03 with the Jupiter-Neptune-Chiron trio in 10th house, all moving Direct. This planetary trio may have links to the Codex - Jupiter expands and can provide a 'slippery slope', Neptune diffuses and infects (like terminator seeds drifting to the next field of crops by pollination?), and Chiron has a well-known connection to health issues.

Chart-ruler Mercury (namesake of one of our most harmful toxins) is retrograde at 19Cap12 in 9th house near NN 21Cap05. The Lunar Eclipse manifests during a Mars Hour: Mercury Rx is inconjunct Mars 18Leo51 Rx in 4th house of Domestic Concerns. This is a contentious Lunar Eclipse chart, and inconjuncts can have health implications!

And, of course, Mercury's position stimulates the Great Conjunction/s of Uranus and Neptune in 1993: Feb 2 19Cap34, Aug 20 18:48, and Oct 24 18Cap33. Oct 24 marks the birth of the NWO in modern times even though it's an agenda on the power elite's burner for decades, if not centuries.

Uranus/Neptune = Mercury: investigating the metaphysical/the unconscious; longing for distant places; plans without prospect of realization.

As a pairing of energies, Uranus/Neptune has a flavor of 'illumination and enlightenment' to it (Ebertin) and of possible 'speculation' and 'underhandedness to do the job' (Tyl.)

In the Lunar Eclipse chart, Uran/Nep is about to contact the Mc...

Uran/Nep = Mc: the growth and development of subconscious forces; lack of stamina; unconsciousness; dissolution; supernatural concerns come into play; guidance is sought from other realms or never-before-tapped sources. (Tyl; Ebertin.)

The Codex Alimentarius was initially developed and promoted after WWII by chem titan and Nazi, Hermann Schmitz (whose company manufactured the gas for Nazi death camps.) On Dec 31, 2009, a deadline set in 1962, the Sun will conjunct the UK's natal degree from her 1801 chart...UK's natal Moon 19Can26. (Jan 1, 1801, 00:00 am LMT, London.)

So basically, there will be a Lunar Eclipse in the UK's 2010 Solar Return chart which may not be good for the populace (Moon) unless hidden things are uncovered and dealt with. Perhaps Prince Harry will wear his swastika armband for the occasion as he did a few years ago - for a Halloween party, wasn't it?

This Lunar Eclipse will be triggering the US natal planets in Cancer - Venus, Jupiter, and Sun - plus, our natal Pluto 27Cap33 Rx a few hours after the Eclipse perfects.

That the Codex has been further developed and repackaged for implementation in 2009 doesn't change its original moniker: Codex of the Nazis. 2009's Mercury Rx indicates 're-packaged plans' or past plans that are brought up again, for re-view and/or for implementation.

Sun Capricorn-Moon Cancer

The Sun Cap-Moon Can blend is shared natally by blues singer Janis Joplin who famously said precisely what I'm feeling right now about this tiresomely grousing post with its heavy Codex concerns...

"I want you to let me know when I'm ahead so I can quit."

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*The Sabian Symbols in Astrology, Dr. Marc Edmund Jones (see sidebar for Astrology Books Slideshow.)

Planet Venus has a new Bright Spot: July 29, 2009

Did you hear that a new 'bright spot' has been found recently on the planet Venus?

And I thought 'she' was beautiful and shiny enough already! Lovely Venus is natal chart-ruler of Los Angeles, California...see previous post for details on how the current July 21, 2009 Solar Eclipse season is spotlighting California's budget crisis and domestic difficulties.

California economics and the July 21, 2009 Solar Eclipse

"The Angels": Los Angeles, California; Sep 4, 1781; 9:11 am LMT; from Horoscopes of the Western Hemisphere by Marc Penfield, as rectified by Penfield; pueblo founded at present site of city of L.A. by orders of King Carlo of Spain to grow food for the King's soldiers.

This chart is being published to show in black and white the July 21, 2009 Solar Eclipse in the 11 South Series highlighting LA's Midheaven. This is the 'systems fail; new methods are needed to deal with events brought by the Eclipse; any blocks may be violently or tragically removed' (Brady's Predictive Astrology) Series, the difficult rays under which the world now groans and labors.

The Eclipse's 29th crisis/critical degree in Cancer, with all the sign's security-needs baggage, domestic-scene upheavals, and career disappointments which the current California budget crisis now occasions, makes me certain that Mr. Penfield, who brilliantly rectified the precise time of LA's founding (and I'm using it here as a stand-in for a California-founding natal chart, just as Washington DC represents all of America) -- Mr. Penfield was correct with '9:11 am LMT.'

Unless I am mistaken, 'Sept 4, 1781' is from historical record.

So, the fact that July 21's Solar Ecl is at Mc, the Goal/Aspiration Point of any horoscope, tells me that the financial crisis was an aspiration of the CA government. Yet if need be, I am able to accept the idea that you don't agree.

On purpose or haplessly, Californians find themselves in 2009 fending off ravenous wolves from their doors as secretly organized deals are reached and/or talking points on behalf of the New World Order are practiced for the cameras. Take your pick. The damage is being done either way, and it's been a long time coming, so if officials didn't know, they should have known.

Click to enlarge chart and read few scribbly notes such as 'Mars quindecile Uranus' which Ricki Reeves gives as: driven toward stimulation and excitement; sexual expression may be erratic, irresponsible, or unpredictable; may be driven to shock others. This is the 'living on the edge' aspect (165 degr) of obsession-compulsion. (The Quindecile by Ricki Reeves.)

Why, it sounds like Hollywood, doesn't it?

As you see highlighted in green, LA's very creative, yet possibly drunken, Moon/Neptune opposition is intensely involved with an ongoing transit from puppetmaster Pluto in early Capricorn - you see that Uranus 2Can25 in 9th house is being opposed by tr Pluto which triggers LA's natal T-Square and forms with it a Grand Cross with Pluto the fourth point, the actor as transformative catalyst.

Is mighty Pluto showing his secret hand...or as I tend to think of them: secret claws...of the Dragon?

Here are a few *midpoint pictures of note from and affecting LA's birth chart:

Moon/Neptune = n Uranus: shock; change; upheaval; temperamental impulse.

Moon/Nep = tr Pluto: emotional upheaval; high sensitivity and an inclination to be easily influenced by others.

Therefore, another combo is formed...

Uranus/Pluto = Moon: bringing about changes by force; daring and audaciousness; determination; ambition; restlessness.

Uran/Plu = Neptune: insecurity and uncertainty; unfulfilled wishes; sympathy; a knowledge of human nature; fatigue; neuroses; deep study of a specialized subject.

Well, if I had more umph I'd check out the governor's natla chart along with the recent time period that transiting North Node (NN = an associative point of encounter which has the quality of guru Jupiter) was in contact with LA's Pluto 4AQ48 Rx.

But I do not, so I'll only mention that the tail of the Dragon, the South Node, swiped and is swiping LA's natal Midheaven of Public Standing and Career while its head (NN) contacted and points to the city's Ic (End of the Matter; Basis or Foundation.) Loss (SN) of career and public status (Mc.) 'Outstanding in one's field' can be another interpretation on a different level of manifestation.

The Basis of this Eclipse season for CA?

Pluto/NN contacts conjure the 'meetings with the powerful' smoke and mirrors that Politics thrives in...or should I say, 'lurks behind and beneath'?

This pattern gives a few pictures which seem to me to be of significance in the budget crisis...

Plu/NN = Eclipse Sun: the urge to impose one's will on others.

Plu/NN = Eclipse Moon: reaching for the big picture; making the scene emotionally; magnified ambition, or there is too much fear for any action.

The two mdpt pics above show the flavorings of the July 21 Solar Eclipse's Sun and Moon as transits to the previously exact Pluto/NN hook-up of April and early May, 2009 (tr NN 4AQ+.)

So if you, too, intuit that massive amounts of wealth are being transferred hence and piled up for high-handed reasons that we-the-people won't like when they're sprung upon us and our children, you're on my page, Sparkie.

California budget deal punishes the poor say recent headlines, and the anaretic-degreed July 21, 2009 Solar Eclipse may be one of many culprits in bringing to public attention (Mc) California's dire financial conditions along with the waywardness of CA government officials.

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*any, all, or none may apply; sources: Tyl; Ebertin.

Sotomayor resigns from ladies' version of Bohemian Grove - oh! and her nom was voted up today

Since the Senate Judiciary Committee just voted Yes today (13 to 6) on Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination with the full vote probably sceduled for next week, I googled 'Sonia Sotomayor + Bohemian Grove' to see if her name popped up and whaddaya know?

The judge is said to have resigned recently from her membership in the ladies' version of this group which met in California last week for their annual shindig of satanic rituals so it wouldn't disgruntle anyone voting for her - with their constituents, I imagine.

Some of them may be members of the Grove themselves! Perhaps a fully revealed membership list is in order, si?

Scroll below to my July Archives for a previous post on the Bohemian Grove or click here - their meeting was held during last week's Solar Eclipse.

Of the GOP, only Republican Senator Lindsey Graham voted for Sotomayor's SCOTUS benching - such Capitol Hill Theater, dahlink, in our Masonic Capitol Building on The Hill!

Avoiding mandatory 'swine flu' vaccine like the plague

Dprogram's Where Is The Rage? details House Bill 8791 which makes the 'pandemic' flu vaccine mandatory in the US.

The 'debate' was broadcast on C-SPAN but I missed it so it was with trepidation that I read the above-linked article only to find very little info on the bill - its contents are nearly completely Classified - redacted from all citizens upon whom it is to be perpetrated.

The gist of the Pandemic Tale is that the 'criminal timeline' began in 1997 when Dr. Jeffrey Taubenberger and a team of geneticists and microbiologists analyzed its genome structure and reverse-engineered the deadly 1918 flu virus. Voila!

They used super-computers to map the RNA and DNA of the virus along with human plasmids to re-create the viral killer. Dr. Taubenberger left the employ of the US Army after completing his work in early 2005 and took a lucrative position at the National Institute of Health. Apparently he still carries the Pentagon's water, for I've heard to dissent from him against the mandatory vaccinations against the monster he helped reconstitute into our world.

Turning to Astrology, we know that the 14-year cycle of Jupiter and Uranus restarted with their Great Conjunction on Feb 16, 1997, and the pair has connections to:

scientific breakthroughs, zealous representations of one-sided views, boundless optimism, sudden changes in destiny, adventurous and pioneering endeavors, and inner tensions or strains which are suddenly released. (Ebertin.)

Jupiter Meets Uranus by Scottish astrologer Anne Whitaker is an excellent book on the subject, and you may read my review of it on Amazon, if you wish.

The degree of their 1997 conjunction? 5AQ56, conjunct US natal South Node, a separative point having the influence of Saturn, planet of Science and Research, and indicating past behaviors and talents that one falls back on. 1918 brought to 1997! And we're just now seeing what the scientific community mixed with the Pentagon can do 'for' us.

We may stretch the midpoint pictures to include:

Jupiter/Uranus = "Saturn": patience and practicality introduced to boundless optimism; temperance over excess; having sudden inhibitions before attainment of an objective; sudden disadvantages, losses; one-sided principles; obstinacy.

Jup/Uran = NN: striving together with others for a common purpose; a fortunate new aquaintanceship. (Ebertin; Tyl.)

And their next Great Conjunction? Well, it occurs within the zone of the upcoming Cardinal T-Square all astrologers are concerned about...Jupiter conj Uranus on June 8, 2010, at Aries Point (00Ari18), so perhaps this manmade Frankensteinian strain will be fully released by then, or we will at least know more of what's in store.

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US natal Pluto '28Cap': "A Large Aviary"...COMMUNITY...

positive manifestation: exceptional success in making all personal concerns a matter of common welfare;

neg/unconscious/shadow side: loss of all character in sheer officiousness. (The Sabian Symbols in Astrology, Dr. Marc Edmund Jones.)

The current Solar Eclipse of July 22, 2009 at '29Cancer' has triggered America's natal and progressed Pluto. "A Large Aviary" tends to remind me of 'bird flu' which is another Frankensteinian concoction, and of the retired US generals who flock together and call themselves AVIARY.

You can read more about AVIARY in Leuren Moret's disturbing article Planet Earth as Weapon and Targer from Winter 2005. The article is an overview of New World Order subjects, if you're up for it. It's a keeper.

Health care reform getting wimpier by minute 7.27.09

If you were planning to visit or send flowers, you'd better get a move on, Honey, because what's being left out of President Obama's health care reform bill is leaving the dregs too skeletal for signing, too wimpy to boast about, and too cheap to buy a soda on a Saturday night.

As I've typed here previously, the proof of R's and D's good faith on this (and any other) matter is what the American people end up with in the Real World that exists outside the artificial reality that Capitol Hillers help promote to keep the natives quiet - if you accept its fairytale sparklies.

Yes, Jupiter/Neptune's misty bubble still floating...floating...no signs of popping if Washington and Wall Street spinners can prevent it...cotton candy spun just for you, properly impressed circus audience.

On TV in the background now is Fed head Ben Bernanke on C-SPAN answering questions (taped) on the financial collapse in his newly assumed PR role of Warm and Fuzzy Banker Man who Understands Our Pain. He doesn't feel it - he just understands it on an intellectual level.

"We tried to save Lehman Brothers," he says. It was a 'big hole' the Fed couldn't fill, in case you were wondering what happened.

May I suggest that the most glaring 'big hole' is in the head of the American people for allowing crooks to rule our roost.

Is 'Peace in the Middle East' a goal of the West?

Somehow I doubt that 'Peace in the Middle East' is a goal of western governments.

What a gaggle of fakers on our payroll!

Saving the bankers with a make-believe war seems much closer to their usual modus operandi and dovetails perfectly with recent presidential follies of belligerence and propaganda.

Midas: the asteroid, the myth, the gold

Today Midas has been added to the 'Mythology of Astrology's smaller bodies' list on my Two Hours tapestry blog, if you'd like a peek.

Included are a few notes on today's location of the asteroid Midas, so very happy counting all his gold coins in multiplicitous, yet sometimes duplicitous, Gemini, while triggering the Robber Baron class' descendants to new depths of greed and corruption.

How so? Simply click and find out!

A link to the natal horoscope of the original Robber Barons is there as well.