"M" one of our posters sent this to me, I read it three times because it will just make you smile. All the Democrats sent this letter to Disney and made a thinly veiled threat as to the status their license would find itself if this documentary is aired with the, shall we say, partisan flaws.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/senate-democratic-leadership-threatens.html

To quote our immortal (Scottish) bard
"The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, gang aft agley."

Strike 1 Top Republicans challenge Bush
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 — The Bush administration’s proposal to bring leading terror suspects to trial met stiff resistance Thursday from key Republicans and top military lawyers who said that some provisions would not withstand legal scrutiny or do enough to repair the nation’s tarnished reputation internationally.

Strike 2 And as pointed out by Sally - ABC alters 9/11 show under pressure

I do believe there's an expression in Uncle Sam land - comes from a game even more boring than cricket "Three strikes and you're out"
Here's hoping but alas I fear there's a few more curve balls coming outa left field.

See what happens to a Scotsman when he visits American web sites:-)

Sally,

Thank you so much! I love that quote from JFK. I also believe his assasination is what started this downward spiral, thank goodness it's almost over! I, for one, am really looking forward to some sanity :)

Morague

http://salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/09/08/path_to_9_11/print.html

The Sept. 11 that never was

ABC's docudrama "The Path to 9/11" is a false version of history. It popularizes right-wing myths by exaggerating Clinton's failures and Bush's successes, depicting events that never happened.
By Joe Conason

Sep. 08, 2006 | It would be uplifting to believe, as the producers of ABC's "The Path to 9/11" have claimed, that the network spent $40 million on its anniversary docudrama to educate the American people and improve the nation's defenses. And it would be reassuring to believe, as the producers have insisted in recent days, that "our ambitions and our goals and our standards were all about accuracy." But it is impossible to believe, after viewing their somewhat cheesy, sometimes incomprehensible and severely distorted version of the events leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that they acted in good faith on either of those motivations.

Whether "The Path to 9/11" succeeds in cinematic terms will be judged by professional critics, who may or may not find the performances convincing, the script compelling, the visuals effective and the direction competent. Certainly the movie benefits from the presence of actors such as Harvey Keitel, who plays legendary FBI agent John O'Neill, and from location shooting in Morocco, New York and Washington, but these filmmakers are not about to displace Bernardo Bertolucci, Richard Attenborough or even Oliver Stone.

Part of the problem faced by the makers of "The Path to 9/11" was the sheer scope and complexity of the story they attempt to tell, which begins with the first bombing of the World Trade Center by Islamic terrorists in February 1993 and concludes with the catastrophic second assault on the twin towers and the Pentagon. The main narrative thread traces the often frustrating campaign by O'Neill, a truly heroic cop's cop, and his ally, former White House counterterrorism director Richard Clarke, to stop al-Qaida's myriad plots against the United States.

More....

http://thinkprogress.org/tellabc

Tell ABC to Tell the Truth About 9/11

The Disbelievers

9/11 Conspiracy Theorists Are Building Their Case Against the Government From Ground Zero

By Michael Powell Washington Post

Friday, September 8, 2006

"It was a year before David Ray Griffin, an eminent liberal theologian and philosopher, began his stroll down the path of disbelief. He wondered why Bush listened to a child's story while the nation was attacked and how Osama bin Laden, America's Public Enemy No. 1, escaped in the mountains of Tora Bora.
He wondered why 110-story towers crashed and military jets failed to intercept even one airliner. He read the 9/11 Commission report with a swell of anger. Contradictions were ignored and no military or civilian official was reprimanded, much less cashiered.
"To me, the report read as a cartoon." White-haired and courtly, Griffin sits on a couch in a hotel lobby in Manhattan, unspooling words in that reasonable Presbyterian minister's voice. "It's a much greater stretch to accept the official conspiracy story than to consider the alternatives."
Such as?
"There was massive complicity in this attack by U.S. government operatives."
If that feels like a skip off the cliff of established reality, more Americans are in free fall than you might guess. There are few more startling measures of American distrust of leaders than the widespread belief that the Bush administration had a hand in the attacks of Sept. 11 in order to spark an invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq...."

http://tinyurl.com/l6a2k

Thank you so much. I went on a total rant and then reread what you wrote and all I can say is thank you-especially for the insight into the 8 south eclipse series and the reign of the Bush family.

Thank you ever so much, Cap'n Sally for getting so deeply and precisely into this subject. And I'm elated--can barely express how much--that you see this period as the wrapping up of that horrible event that I've always thought set us up for all the decades since then.

And, to add to the impact of what you're saying, be sure to note that this has now made it into mainstream news (in this case, yahoo):
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/prweb/20060907/bs_prweb/prweb434292_2

It is so very interesting that JFK rejected Northwoods. Perhaps (or not!) that was another factor.

oh my gosh Sally. I love, LOVE this article for so many reasons. It "feels" wonderful, and you have read the energies perfectly. Thank you. I have one question, please? Do you see any aspect which shows that we will be simmering and suffering in our collective karmic stew, or might we have the opportunity to change things around ala the phoenix from the ashes? Does the dust have to settle before we can begin to transform it?

So many dust bunnies seeing the light of day! So many things now being said openly! Wow! Here's another:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/009676.php

Shylurker,

Please check out this page with info on Operation Northwoods. Glad you brought this up.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/northwoods.html

If interested, you can email me at vdlman@aol.com and I can show you some stuff I've dug up during my research of JFK, Northwoods, Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam, MLK, RFK, Kent State, Watergate, COINTELPRO, the Iranian Hostage Crisis, Iran Contra, BCCI, Oklahoma City Bombing, Columbine, and 9/11.

Mario

Apparently, the UKians are just as sick of their dusty whacko goof-balls" as USians are sick of theirs... getting ready to take a magnetic dust mop to their own "govt" as they get rid of blair. They'll get naught but applause from the Brits as per my buds over there heartily assure me.

* How Brown would mark his entrance

Gordon Brown's closest advisers have been extremely secretive about what he is planning for his first 100 days in office. Completely against the norm in the Westminster/Whitehall square mile, absolutely nothing has leaked out. But his team tease that there will be surprises, 10x bigger than the decision that announced his arrival as chancellor in 1997, giving independence to the Bank of England.

In prep for his accession, Mr Brown's advisors are taking a fresh look at policies that are well outside the normal remit of a chancellor, from Iraq to law/order, from House of Lords reform to climate change. As well as policy, they are looking at the restoration of trust, winning back the confidence of the party/public, in part by ditching govt spin-doctors & restoring the role to civil servants. They see the trust being rebuilt in other ways too, such as the proposal floated by his team last year of giving parliament a statutory right over any decision to go to war. ...

Social policy - Unlike Mr Blair, who was blocked from much of the domestic agenda by the chancellor, Mr Brown will be able to move freely over all areas of domestic policy. Since his early days in politics, his speeches have been full of a passionate desire to address the poverty gap. He could establish a social justice commission to look at the growing poverty gap & lay the ground for the introduction of fresh policies after the general election.

On education, Mr Brown has said in speeches he wants as much spent on each child in the state sector as in private education. Harriet Harman, the constitutional affairs minister, in the Independent on Sunday earlier this year, set out plans for extra employment rights for women. She is unlikely to have done so without being given the OK by Mr Brown. ... http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labourleadership/story/0,,1867422,00.html

So many good things have been ruthlessly repressed/supressed the past at least 40+ years that I rather imagine an explosion of them instead of an eeking-leaking out given half a chance.

Lovely quote by Kennedy, Miss Sally... I'd not read that before now. I was barely 16 y/o when Kennedy was murdered, sitting in a civics class room. Dang! "they" don't even teach civics anymore. Ain't THAT been convenient... However, our textbook was JEHoover's (prominent dragking) book on "communism" (can't think of the name)... which declared a "red boogyman" behind every rock n' "bush" (at least that bit was true TaHA!). Frightening stuff to a kid & shows that the propaganda mill has been churning on for such a long time.

* Hewlett-Packard Under Criminal Investigation For Spying On Reporters, Board Members... http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aGpKv4J_NQSo&refer=news

BREAKING:
Two Army helicopters and two black helicopters flew right over my neighborhood in Brooklyn along the East River harbor to and from the heliport on the Manhattan side.

Is the Tush in town? Isn't he coming for Sunday/ Monday? Any guesses who is flying in with such pomp right now?

Sally, your piece is so profound and so hopeful! May the dust swirls turn into a mighty tornado that sweeps the air clean again.

This morning I heard the director of "Loose Change" interviewed on the radio in a respectful way. The people who have insisted on asking the obvious questions are finally being taken seriously. No more dust storms generated to obscure our sight or muddy our thinking.

I believe they will get Blair out of there before next year, he is so completely discredited and Saturn just fell across his Sun blocking out his light completely. If he doesn't go soon he may not even have value to the Carlyle Group. Midnight is coming and their "coach" is beginning to show signs of turning into a pumpkin soon.

Peg, yes we will have to go down that karmic path, some are already on it and I do think it's all going to get worse before it gets better (remember when your mother used to say that "it will get worse and then it will get better") My focus however is not on the worse, it's on the better. Looking at what will get worse is like looking back on history, I want to move toward the better, be on that first string to do what I can to lift others out of this toxic place and attitude toward empowerment for all.

Several years ago I was going through a horrific time in my personal life and year after year it never seemed to end. I went day after day waiting for an end to the problems and pain and it didn't come, finally I just said "ok, this is where you are, how can you make the best of where you are today and don't worry about what's coming." Things didn't get better, but I did. That shift changed my life. So I don't worry about what is coming because something is, something is always coming, what are my strengths to deal with it and how can I help others in the same boat.

Hi Sally
Thanks for the great article! I love reading this board with all the fabulous boardmembers and you as Captain.

Here's a link to an article in Australia's Sydney Morning Herald. If people are interested in what's being said in the media in Australia, the smh.com.au site is a good one to turn to.

Here's the article:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/on-his-knees-bush-pins-his-hopes-on-fear/2006/09/08/1157222334285.

Lynda - your link, altho correct, didn't work for me so I went to SMH and highlighted it

On his knees, Bush pins his hopes on fear

Michael Gawenda Herald Correspondent in Washington
September 9, 2006

AdvertisementGEORGE BUSH was fighting for his presidency this week as much as for the Republican members of Congress who face defeat at the mid-term congressional elections less than two months away.

In a series of speeches - and particularly his announcement that 14 alleged terrorist leaders, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, said to be the chief architect of the September 11 attacks, had been moved from secret CIA prisons to Guantanamo Bay and would face military commissions - Mr Bush showed that even a president politically on his knees is still a force to be reckoned with.

No matter that the military commissions Mr Bush proposes are little different to the ones the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional in June. Or that Mr Bush virtually admitted that the CIA had used what amounted to torture - in most reasonable definitions of the term - interrogating these alleged terrorists.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/on-his-knees-bush-pins-his-hopes-on-fear/2006/09/08/1157222334285.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2

Sally, I think you are approaching the profound when you say "Things didn't get better, but I did." I think the big change in consciousness is just this--an inner shift, subtle in its manifestation, that is happening in individuals everywhere. This is what will raise the vibration of planet Earth. As astrologers looking at symbols, we often interpret things in pretty dramatic terms, but transits and so forth are often much more understated than I expect. As people begin to view the world from the changed perspective of "This is where I am, so how can I deal with it effectively and help others?" we will remove our attention from being victimized or seeking revenge, and this will be a revolution.

I was only two when Kennedy was shot, but I agree that that moment was a "win" for the side of darkness. Good to hear someone say they are about to feel a loss. But the Pluto in Capricorn period will be a long, painful lesson for them and us, I'm afraid, as we let go of our impulse to control and restrict and "go it alone." After that, hopefully in my lifetime, I'll get a little taste of that Aquarian humanitarianism writ large!

Well... and perhaps it's only long & painful when one is holding on to an ego-centered "It's all mine the way I want it right now & nothing else will do 'reality,'" ...not centered in the Great Self. Then one could expect to be reasonably happy during the whole process... mebbe even joyful imo! Sure ain't been fun so far. ;O)

Sally

I have always thought that ll/22/63 was the turning point for America, and it has been downhill ever since.

Also, I can't see it ever rising to that point
again. We never really saw what America really is
until 9/11. Methinks each of us has realized that
there are too many people with cognitive dissonance, who will NEVER see the truth in my (our) lifetime. More's the pity. The problem with
them is that they want to tell us how to live. I
have managed to remove nearly all Republicans from
my circle. Just dropped them, I feel if they are
that bloody stupid I don't need them around me.
I am tired of faux patriots that wrap themselves in the flag, and have 'Support Our Troops' decals
on their SUVS. Screw them!

I am a LIBERAL and proud of it. Bring all of the
troops home from around the world and keep them
here. Use our billions to educate our children and
rebuild the infastructure. Suppport the Arts. Raise the standards of teaching staffs...God knows
they need it. Keep the water clean, promote solar
power with tax breaks for those who use it. Quit
paying idiots who choose the live on the coasts
taxpayer money after every hurricane. Clean up the
rivers, protect the forests and deserts. Repeal
whatever law made Corporations equal to humans.
Ban all lobbyists from having ANY connections to
Officeholders (Federal, State and Local). Reverse
all laws passed since Jan. 20, 200l.

Also quit exporting our 'crap culture' to the rest of the world.

Thanks Lynda and the link won't come up, says the page has been removed. Darn. Just looking at the "On his knees - Bush pins his hopes on fear." is really accurate and their fear level is rising rapidly as evidenced by the frenzy they keep beating that drum.

It was 1968 a full 5 years after the death of JFK, the leaders expressing the energy and dream of peace and hope for mankind was wrenched away from the US and the world, I don't know if it will take another 5 years for this to be over but you can almost smell the stench of rotting mud washing away.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/on-his-knees-bush-pins-his-hopes-on-fear/2006/09/08/1157222334285.html

trying again...

but if this doesn't work... there's always going to www.smh.com.au and looking down the front page under International and you'll find the article. Thought it might be interesting for you folks to hear what's being said in the Australian press (well, at least in the Sydney Morning Herald, which is a big and popular paper)

Oh, thanks WV, appreciate you putting the link up... I didn't see it until I put it up a second time - thank you.

another goodie from SMH website:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/right-sets-attack-dogs-on-jersey-girl-widows/2006/09/08/1157222334273.html

I hope this link works!

YOU GO, vw!!!

rather... YOU GO, wv!!!!

AQ responsible for the attack on Bali??? News to me, I thought the general propaganda was that it was JI.... but then it could have been the CIA or MOSSAD or whoever, I guess, it could even have been done by CNN :)

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/07/robertson.sept11/index.html

Wonderful article Sally and I believe you are spot on correct with your analogy between the time when America had hope and when the dragons captured our Prince and ruled. All things, on this planet, come to an end, no exception. And the time has come for them to go. They could have done better by us and perhaps we might not have noticed how venal and corrupt they are. Bot greed and must for power became addictive and they had to feed their habit more and more.

There s something in the wind and people can feel it, though they don't quite know what their antennae are picking up. That is why the fear has been ramped up. Yet at the same time there are reports of changes, of Cheney and his henchmen being over-ruled. One has to ask why after all this time.

There is a sense of something coming. Because they don't know what it is, people are afraid. And it is said that most people would rather burn in hell than change. So change won't be easy, but a force that has been whirling around the planet, frustarted, for so long is about to break the sound barrier. Don't know the initial form it will take, or how long, but it's sure to be a fascinating ride. May the force be with JFK's legacy.

Awesome analysis, Sally! The puzzle pieces are coming togther! Peace to all...(back to lurking...)

BYU Professor on Paid Leave for 9-11 Theory

September 8th, 2006 @ 6:59am
Gene Kennedy Reporting

A controversy over words at BYU this morning. According to a copyrighted Deseret Morning News article, a professor is on paid leave for suggesting the government is responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center.

The man on paid leave is Dr. Steven Jones. He's a physics professor involved in the so-called "9-11 Truth Movement."

Jones believes unnamed government agencies orchestrated the fall of the twin towers and he says there's evidence to back it up.

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=476951

Pope assails Canada's laws allowing same-sex marriage and abortion
Sep 08 10:50 AM US/Eastern

Pope assails Canada's laws allowing same-sex marriage and abortion

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict hit out Friday at Canada for allowing same sex marriage and abortion, saying they result from Catholic politicians ignoring the values of their religion.

"In the name of tolerance your country has had to endure the folly of the redefinition of spouse, and in the name of freedom of choice it is confronted with the daily destruction of unborn children," the Pope told a group of bishops from Ontario.

Such laws, he said, are the result of "the exclusion of God from the public sphere."

He lamented that Catholic politicians had yielded to "ephemeral social trends and the spurious demands of opinion polls."

Benedict has made the defence of traditional family values a major goal of his papacy, speaking out often on the issue. During a trip to Spain in July, he challenged that country's Socialist government for instituting liberal reforms such as gay marriage and fast-track divorce.

Same-sex marriage was recognized by Canada's Parliament last year, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said there will be a vote in the House of Commons this fall to determine whether the issue should be revisited.

"Path to 9-11" is a very thinly veiled (now completely busted for what it really is) GOP campaign pre-election miniseries (this mini was always planned for this time, pre-election).
Don't mess with the Clinton, georgie!

Fiore is devastating...

http://www.sfgate.com/comics/fiore/

Not an hour ago, I did a chart for my friend who is a flower essence practitioner. Her beloved brother passed away in South Africa while sitting in the late afternoon in his back yard...he was or would have been 59 on Nov 22, 2006. He died August 9. Just 10 days before my friend's first grandchild was born on Aug 19.

She asked me to do a chart, and I don't have the birthtimes, as she doesn't know them, but I said....I think this is going to relate to the assassination of JFK.

And Sally, it does!!!! It blew my mind....my, the Universe is so powerful....

http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/helene.htm#SHIP

Please check out Mother Shipton's prophecies....

"...Such laws, he said, are the result of 'the exclusion of God from the public sphere.'..."

There, again, I guess "his hole-iness" just forgot to mention the fact or meant that his "hole-liness" church has excluded god from from his private sphere since they're paying out millions & millions (some estimate the bankruptcy of vatican treasury) for his priests popping their weiniers into the backsides of children for gosh-knows-how-long. But mebbe he thinks that's okay... after all, he's infallible.

Now THERE'S an old religio-geezer prancie-dancie skirt-wearin' female-hatin' patriarchal fascist corpo institution that needs to realize it's a whacko dustball & that it's time to GO!

Well..this could have been written today:
Abraham Lincoln

(Nov. 21, 1864 letter to Col. William F. Elkins)

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A period of natural convulsions during which a large portion of the human race will perish. Earthquakes of great severity, enormous tidal waves would seem to be the agents. War appears only in the early stages and appears to be a signal for the crisis to follow. The crisis will come in an instant. The destruction and dislocation of civilized life will be beyond belief. There will be a short period of chaos followed by some reconstruction; the total period of upheavals will be roughly three years. The chief centers of disturbance will be the Eastern Mediterranean basin, where not less than five countries will entirely disappear. Also in the Atlantic there will be a rise of land which will be a cause of those waves which will bring about great disasters upon the Americans, the Irish and Western European shore, involving all of the low-lying British coasts. There are indicated further great upheavals in the southern Pacific and in the Japanese region. Mankind can be saved by returning to its spiritual values.

I wasn't present on this Earth when the Kennedys, King and other leaders for change and peace were murdered and taken away from the people by Those Who Shall Not Be Named (but should be). But I figured out at a fairly young age that certain men who passed and posed for our leaders in their stead were quite lame and ineffectual by comparison, if not outright destructive, and therefore unworthy of my respect. For me then, it was almost as if someone intended things to be this way, which I now see that they apparently do.

Most in that selfish, soulless band of thieves won't live long enough to see or come to understand (or care to understand) the real pain their greed and insecurities have caused for the up and coming generations, and those not yet born. The legacy of the Bush Family, Baker, Kissenger, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Neocons, Rupert Murdoch, the Bilderbergs, Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Tony Blair, the Saudis, the Bankers, the Oil Men and everyone else in on this "game" is one of destruction, death, ongoing Depleted Uranium poisoning (for another 25 billion years), ruined countries, families split up and destroyed, fathers and mothers who will never return home again to their children, an environmental balance on the brink of going TILT, and so much more suffering.

All for a few, brief fleeting years of power and control.

For these, the real terrorists, their time can't end quickly and decisively enough for me.

Except that many folks will think that means a "return" to fundamentalist divisive xianoid values that they've never left in the first place. Ugh... save us all, Great Gaia.

The elephant in the room

Leader
Saturday September 9, 2006
The Guardian

Charles Clarke was never an enthusiast for a Gordon Brown premiership. Before the last contest in 1994, Mr Clarke - not even an MP but long at the heart of Labour affairs as adviser to the former leader, Neil Kinnock - wrote to the then shadow chancellor advising him not to run. Nonetheless it is hard to explain, let alone justify, his intemperate and explicit outburst in an interview given only hours after a fragile peace had been declared, attacking Mr Brown's conduct over the past week. It is perhaps understandable that a politician who had been in the thick of the last Labour civil war should condemn the sight of his party apparently enthusiastically returning to fratricide. But to blame Mr Brown in such explicit terms for failing to close down the revolt in the junior ranks of government and then to praise Alan Milburn as a potential leader was surely an act of deliberate provocation that achieved just what Mr Clarke claimed to condemn - fanning the flames of conflict. Although to most observers, it seemed like the frustrated rampaging of a political elephant still smarting from an unjust sacking, Mr Brown's camp believed (or chose to believe) that Mr Clarke was inspired by No 10.

Article continues

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labourleadership/comment/0,,1868370,00.html

Well... and at least the Brits have a charming accent... which bushadruggie doesn't.

wv-you said it all. Yep! just what I would have said myself if I could.
I not only don't have any rightwingers left in my life I don't even want to bother with people who "are not political". Don't have the time left to waste.

Hahahaaaa... anyway, everybody's "political"... some are in denial & dishonesty about it is all. ;O)

Some astrological "prophesy" that I particularly enjoyed...

* ...The Sun, in the chart for the 21st C, is located in Saturn ruled Capricorn linked to the Moon by the fertile green line of a sextile aspect & to Saturn itself by the heavenly blue line of a trine aspect. Good news, because it compliments the fact that Earth, herself, mirrors the Sun by forming a fertile sextile to Saturn & a heavenly trine to the Moon. These fertile & heavenly aspects assure us that the 21st C is the century in which humanity as a whole will come to know of the ‘Golden Age’ of Saturn once again because Spirit (Sun) & Soul (Moon) will be recognized & experienced as lovingly inherent in the divinity of matter (Earth) & responsibly defined (Saturn) as fact. Mankind will no longer accept the fallacy of a transcendent male god but will experience the divine as immanent in & flowing thru all creation. All of matter will be known as sacred & alive, & the ‘fall’ from love & joy into suffering & pain will be healed. Guilt & shame will become honesty & openness, & without their draining presence the lion shall indeed lie down with the lamb.

I realize this sounds (& actually is) a bit … shall we say, Utopian. But it’s the best dream dwelling in the hearts of humankind & it yearns to come out & express itself. It wants to be realized. It’s the call of Spirit, & Spirit is the Love which conquers all. Besides, even Hollywood/Broadway know this is the time of the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. But dawning takes time, & our experience of time is often distorted thru the delusory tricks of the false Archon which masks the true force of Saturn. True Saturn knows time as the play of Eternity, & in the ‘Golden Age’ of Saturn--who is the ancient historical ruler of Aquarius as well as Capricorn--both telepathy & time travel are natural. As the Age of Aquarius slowly dawns upon us we will stumble again upon these True Saturn realities & reclaim our wearied souls, rejuvenate our fractured Spirit, experience the Divine in all that is human, earthly, unearthly, & natural. Fear will no longer rule our lives because we will have realized the ‘marriage of heaven & hell’ ... We will find our centers within the Holiness of the whole & recognize our collaboration as Spirits in Spirit. We’ll even be able to recognize & heal within ourselves the blind ignorance of Yahweh who will happily cease his pontificating babble as the chief CEO of the Corporate Goon Squad mouthing off about its ‘chosen people’ –-whether Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Islamic, or Buddhist. The only remaining hierarchy will be an Aquarian one wherein we shall all enjoy our collaboration as fluidly adaptable musketeers intoning together the Song of Spirit, “All for One, & One for All”! ... http://www.starpathvisions.com/SaintEscriva.html

* Jose Maria Escriva, The Cruel Kind Of Saint

“Blessed be pain. Loved be pain. Sanctified be pain. Glorified be pain. You know your body is your enemy & an enemy of God’s glory, why do you treat it softly?”

These cunning words, my friends, are the words of the Archons pouring forth from the mouth of that latest gift the corruptly usurped Authority of the Vatican has chosen to bestow upon the Humanity of the 21st C. It’s a gift straight from the mouth of Jose Maria Escriva canonized as an official Saint by the religion knowing itself as the ‘Holy Roman Catholic Church’ in this 21st C. Well might we ask ourselves, what hath (which) God wrought! Lingering shadows from the faithfully suffering Age of Pisces still stalk the dawning Age of Aquarius. Here’s our chance to explore them, & by exploring, dispel their darkness. ... http://www.starpathvisions.com/SaintEscriva.html

Here's a "dispel their darkness" spell imo... tell 'em to Go Stick It In A Thimble, NitWit! We could think of more... & better... ;O)

Great article, Sally. Who would have thought we could trace all this back to JFK's assassination but it does make perfect sense. The Kennedy brothers, no angels I'm sure, were true Democrats and humanitarians and got in "their" way.

wv, I loved your post. My husband and I did the same thing (especially Myron). As of 2000, he just could not be friendly to a Republican, and has made very few exceptions since (1 or 2?). He has turned off the sound or the radio anytime Bush is on. He refuses to acknowledge him.

I remembered something today. In the week before 9/11, the network news had a few reports about ben Lauden. I remember the picture of him with a turban, etc., calling him a dangerous terrorist. A few days later, we turned on the tv's at work and saw the Towers hit and I suddenly knew it was he did it and began telling that to everyone in my office . Now that I think about it, the news items on ben Lauden were probably a plant - the coincidence was too perfect. They wanted us to make the association and blame him.

Bill Herbst on upcoming transits: The Next Five Years

December 2005 to November 2006
Kicking off as a fixed Grand Cross during the Mars retrograde, this configuration is mainly a T-square between Saturn, Neptune, and Jupiter.

In May through July, 2006, the T-square heats up when Chiron replaces Neptune as a leg in the T-square, Pluto moves to the semi-sesquisquare stress point, and Jupiter trines Uranus. This was a temporary eruption that mani-
fested in one form through the Middle East conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Then the original Jupiter-Saturn-Neptune T-square returns in August through November, while the Saturn-Neptune
opposition stretches out into and through much of 2007. The Israeli-Hezbollah eruption that boiled over so briefly returns to a simmer on the back burner. Collectively, we go back into a kind of uncomfortable limbo. This is akin to walking through the desert and seeing visions off in the distance. Are they real or just mirages?

The midterm Congressional elections in November are part of this confusing period. Whatever the results, the
significance will probably be less clear than hoped for by any political faction. The will of the electorate is likely to
remain dormant and shrouded, and the melodrama of politics will still be more heat than light.

August 2007 on
Saturn begins its four-year-long opposition to Uranus. Authority and the status quo are polarized by sudden change and confronted by rising energies of revolution and counterrevolution. Breakdowns in social institutions begin as the struggle takes shape. In America, foreign policy and domestic economics move to center stage finally.

The initial years of this on-again, off-again opposition occur with Saturn in Virgo and Uranus in Pisces, from mid-
2007 to mid-2009, and imply movement toward reform of the system (which will be too little and too late to succeed,
in my opinion).

Then, in 2010-2011, the opposition shifts into Libra-Aries, which is when collective crises hit more aggressively.
Authorities will likely strain to hold the line through increasingly draconian measures of civil control and social
repression, but mass rebellions bust out into the open in a flagrant and angry demand for radical and immediate
change.

4 November 2008
Precisely on the day of America’s next presidential election, Saturn makes its first exact opposition to Uranus.
Expect the unexpected. The election could be a major surprise as a provocative challenge to the status quo.

August through November 2009
While Jupiter, Chiron, and Neptune are conjoined in Aquarius, a long T-square makes its first appearance with
Saturn opposite Uranus and both square Pluto, all in late degrees of mutable signs.

A dramatic acceleration of breakdown and tumultuous change gears up. To address the various crises and keep order
from disintegrating, 1st world societies will be forced to seriously consider adoption of ideas and implementation of
policies that were previously considered too extreme or too disruptive for ordinary business-as-usual. Suddenly, such ideas—both good ones and not-so-good ones—will no longer seem so far out.

February through September 2010
The Saturn-Uranus-Pluto T-square returns, becoming cardinal. From April 2010 on, Jupiter moves into the configu-
ration by conjoining Uranus.

The proverbial feces begins to hit the fan. Masses of people are shocked awake, which will carry with it the pan-
oramic complexities of positive and negative repercussions. “Normal” life will probably continue for some, but no
one will remain untouched by the events reshaping our world.

March through August 2011
The Jupiter-Saturn-Uranus-Pluto T-square returns a final time, as all the outer planets form a single grand configura-
tion, with Neptune and Chiron moving to the semi-sesquisquare stress point.

This alignment is extremely reminiscent of a similar rare configuration that occurred in mid-1931 during the lowest
depths of the Great Depression. Once again, our economic chickens come home to roost, which should be accompa-
nied by a re-localizing of life as communities band together.

Jupiter moves out of orb in April, 2011, but the Saturn-Uranus-Pluto T-square continues with all its extremism,
conflict, and unpredictability. In June-July 2011, a mini-trine between Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto complements the T-square, which finally ends in August after two years.

——-
All these astrological events—from 2005 through 2011—reveal to us the gradual, step-by-step setup to the long
Uranus-Pluto square that makes its first official pass (of seven total) in June, 2012, and will last through 2020. So,
from 2012 on, all bets are off as we enter Brave New World.

http://www.billherbst.com/News92.pdf

The key points that stood out to me -- the Election of 2006 not being so clear for one. Maybe the Dems only claim a simple majority in either the House or the Senate. Not enough to really get the ball rolling on a new agenda, though it might still be enough to open the books on the Bush Cabal.

-Looks like by the time we get around to reforming the system, there may not be much of a system left to reform. At least, not in any meaningful way. But you already knew that's going to be the case, right?

-A surprise win in the 2008 Presidential Race? Al Gore?

-The general trend seems to be towards increasing unrest and rebellion accompanying worsening social/economic conditions and the Pluto in Capricorn-driven Police State Crackdown, and towards an eventual dramatic awakening of the people.

-Relocalization of communities in 2010 and thereafter. Do you like where you are right now? If not, maybe it would be a good idea to seriously consider where you would like to live (and who you would like to live close to) in the next decade. You may be spending quite a bit of time there...

Hmmm... depressive bill herbst optimistically seems to think Gaia can sustain the acting-out of biounits such as ourselves for such a long period. And after all that, what? ...& for what?

Mr. Merriman over at StarIQ has an interesting article up today. While he recognizes that the Dems could take the House (though not so likely the Senate) and begin investigations of Smirk&Co, Mr. Merriman refers to Smirk as "scapegoat". As the younger generation sez, "WTF?"

* Miami Journalists Outed for Taking Govt Cash

In the radio game, it's called payola. But the scheme whereby so-called journalists--a term that's losing its cultural capital by the sec--take money from the US ["govt"] to bash anything or anyone the current [regime] hates, well that's called propaganda. And the latest hacks to get caught up in it are 10 well-paid employees who are splitting time between their parent corpos, incl the Miami Herald itself, & [rez regime]. The target of their collective, handsomely rewarded vitriol? Who else? Castro. According to today's Miami Herald:

"At least 10 S Florida journalists, incl 3 from El Nuevo Herald, received regular payments from the US govt for programs on Radio Marti & TV Marti, two broadcasters aimed at undermining the communist govt of Fidel Castro. The payments totaled thousands of dollars over several years."

Those caught with their hand in the cookie jar incl Pablo Alfonso ($175,000), Olga Connor ($71,000) & Wilfredo Cancio Isla ($15,000), who parroted party-line propaganda for El Nuevo Herald, a Spanish-language newspaper financed & pub'd by the corpo parent of The Miami Herald, who have so far dismisssed the 3 offenders outright. Look for more heads to roll if the heat, pardon the pun, stays on. Of course, it's FL, so anything goes. Knowing that state, all of the offenders will probably land cushy jobs with Jeb Bush anyway. Stay tuned. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/09/08/miami-journalists-outed-f_e_29007.html

* Red Cross Fined $4.2 Million For Blood-Safety Violations... http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/09/08/redcross.blood.ap/index.html

All the corpos have run amock... & for quite some time now.

Taking Away Environmental Safeguards State by State

http://www.defenders.org/defendersmag/issues/summer06/dia/diastate.html

Yeaaa Lynda I finally got to read that article and the one on the NJ Girls. They were really good and the one on Bush very thought provoking.

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. It's hard and I don't think too good an idea to look too far into the future because it can scare the bejeebers out of us and when the future gets here it usually isn't as bad as it seems.

Neo, if Gore runs I think he will win. Mercury was retrograde at 29 Libra in 2000 and in 2008 it's direct at 29 Libra. That would say "what was supposed to be will be." This election doesn't feel as good as I would hope, Uranus and Mercury are Retrograde, usually that's a stand for the status quo. And since CNN and ABC intends to scare the holy hell out of people going over 9/11, I am sure the tape of Bin Laden (for dramatic effect) being released right before 9/11 to show their pre-9/11 meeting will be shown as part of the day's programming. Finally George will dramatically be interrupting
regular programming to "talk" to the American people and I am sure to tell them to be very afraid. If this were a Monty Python movie the crescendo would be about now. Da da da da!!! Oh wait, it is a Monty Python movie.

Just in from Democratic party leader Tom McMahon:
This is it: crunch time for getting the slanderous ABC television docudrama "The Path to 9/11" yanked off the air. The network schedule has this slanderous attack on Democrats slated to start on Sunday night, September 10, at 8 o'clock -- and as long as it stays on the schedule, we have work to do. Tell your friends and family about this disgrace and ask them to push to keep this propaganda off the air:

http://www.democrats.org/pathto911/send

Thought you might be interested in the rest of McMahon's letter:

Here's the good news: the suits at ABC and the Walt Disney Company have started panicking under pressure, thanks to your ferocious response to the outrageous decision to put this irresponsible miniseries on the air. But until Disney quits defending its plan to broadcast conservative propaganda -- fraudulently presented to Americans as "based on the 9/11 Commission Report" -- the company should plan to keep taking every bit of heat we dish out.

Here's a quick catch-up on developments over the last 48 hours:

President Clinton, through his attorney, rebuked ABC for producing a "factually and incontrovertibly inaccurate" miniseries -- and walked the network through three make-believe scenes in the "the Path to 9/11" that defame people and misrepresent events during his administration.
Clinton's spokesman later stepped up the pressure, condemning Disney as "despicable" for "airing a fictional version of what is a serious and emotional event for our country. No reputable organization," he said, "should dramatize 9-11 for a profit at the expense of the truth."
The families of September 11 victims have weighed in on the controversy, telling "entertainers" not to "promote misleading or incorrect information as fact to the public."
House and Senate Democratic leaders hammered Disney president and CEO Robert Iger, in letters that questioned the company's commitment to its "reputation ... as a corporation worthy of the trust of the American people and the United States Congress."
Scholastic has pulled teaching materials off its website and has scrambled to adopt a plan to help teachers show students "the differences between factual reporting and a dramatization," but is still encouraging teachers to show their students this propaganda.
Thanks for helping to make all this happen by joining over 150,000 Americans who told Disney president Robert Iger to keep this cheap right-wing miniseries off our airwaves. But our work isn't done. Before we deliver your letter today, tell your family, friends, neighbors and colleagues to insist that Disney and ABC live up to its duty to tell the truth:

http://www.democrats.org/pathto911/send

Also read Max Blumenthal's post at Huffington entitled "The Path To 9/11 produced by "Network of Little Known Right- Wingers"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/discover-the-secret-right_b_29015.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/discover-the-secret-right_b_29015.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/discover-the-secret-right_b_29015.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/discover-the-secret-right_b_29015.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/discover-the-secret-right_b_29015.html

From Raw Story: Election strategy - - Bush wants to turn back time to before Iraq and Katrina and have the country remember him as the bullhorn prez:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/NYT_President_Bushs_reset_clock_strategy_0908.html

I guess that's one thing i can agree with - - it sure would be loverly to turn back time. . .

Sally what a great article. It's been quite the week with so many sites trying to investigate who exactly and what money is behind the ABC/Disney propaganda crockodrama, or as Olbermann called it the Gop-u-drama. Thankfully a ton of pressure is being brought upon Scholastic over the PDF materials (they left out one important country, Saudia Arabia for starters) and teacher discussion guide page that was scrubbed from their site. Lots of talk about whether it's legal to have blatant campaign electioneering propaganda materials & movie based on fabrication and falsehood rightwing agenda indoctrinating our children.

The sites Think Progress, Democratic Underground, Firedoglake, Daily Kos, TMP Muckraker, and others were all over this story so hard all week, what a whirlwind. Matt Stoller from MyDD and Jennifer Nix (editor for Glenn Greenwald's book 'How Would A Patriot Act') started a central site to keep track of everything being uncovered called- Open Letter To ABC: Don't Airbrush 9/11

http://openlettertoabc.blogspot.com/

A couple of diaries at DU and Kos really caught our attention when they found more background on the cult like christian group of YWAM, their auxiliary The Film Institute (TFI), and their movie plans of "Untitled History Project". Our eyes rolled to see that founder Loren Cunningham is the father of the Path to 9/11 movie's director David Cunningham.

The wingers are still pooh poohing any connections. Yet Patricia Heaton one of the stars has an article on her site with a notice in her sidebar of Upcoming Projects with one named: Untitled History Project.
http://www.patriciaheatononline.com/pharticles2004/ABC_miniseries.html
Harvey Keitel another star was on CNN calling it ABC History Project. The winger excuses won't fly there either with such direct proof of absolute connections.

One of the best articles that came out yesterday was by Max Blumenthal at Huffington Post: "Discover the Secret Right-Wing Network Behind ABC's 9/11 Deception"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/discover-the-secret-right_b_29015.html

I have a file full of collected notes and theories but must get to bed for now. Someone wrote this wise comment that I liked:

“One of the reasons 9/11 happened is that throughout the ’90s, the Right was more interested in going after Clinton than going after al Qaeda. This particular film and its attendant furor demonstrates that five years after 9/11, they are still more interested in going after Clinton than going after al Qaeda. ”

How do they determine how many are watching a TV station? Can I watch this travesty or will I contribute to the demigraphic numbers of people who watch? I would like to moniter it to see just how far afield they have strayed, if they go ahead with showing it & aren't backed down by the outcry! But I don't want to add to their head count.
Basically, weather permitting; I plan to spend 9/11 painting. Isn't the whole hoorah of revisiting; ( whether accutrate or not) just boosting the shrubs position?
It's been 5 years,............ it turned our lives upside down ...........TIME TO MOVE ON!
QOP

I find it quite ironic that living here in NYC where we experienced 911 'Live and In Person' have been MOVING ON since 9/12/01 and the rest of the world is still in the pit at Ground Zero. It seems that seeing it on TV kept an image in people's minds rather than experiencing the trauma live. There is something really sick in wantng to live out the violence of that day over and over again. The fascination makes me wonder. I am on the subway alot and see so many tourists getting off at the Fulton Street subway stop to go see a freaking empty lot. I see tacky , cheap, plastic souveniers and photos that are gobbled up by tourists who are exploiting death, destruction and violence. PLease STOP IT. It's not healthy. The crashing down of the WTC was not another Action film, it's is not fascinating. More, more = buying into the propaganda.

BTW, re Scholastic, these textbooks are planned a few years ahead, probably while the film was in pre production. My a$$ they did not know they were going to revise history. At least they will pull it. Scholastic is huge with many, many divisions. I do not think the textbook division is connected to the editors who do trade books (the books that get sold in bookstores or go to libraries + I know the Harry Potter editor) and can say that most publishing professionals I met are anti *. (There are a few who do like * and it makes me truly wonder about them as people).

Bhakti you're right and right on as usual. I work for a book distributor that buys from pubs and sells to bookstores. Scholastic's textbook division is separate from its other mainstream divisions. In fact, the buyer at my work who has Scholastic as one of her accounts didn't even know about this whole thing until I forwarded a link about it from Daily Kos because it mentioned a possible boycott of Scholastic.

Also like you said these things are planned in advance--their ignorance plea is TOTAL BS. They got caught and got smacked and are desperate for an out.

Thanks Garry!

There is nothing scarier than to see and hear the roaring army and Residential Air Force helicopters flying right over my building yesterday. I gave the heil Hitler salute while screaming FU. My heart goes out to all those in the ME who deal with this trauma 24/7. Especially children who cannot think straight, not able to do well in school from the fear.

Sally, do you have Disney's chart? I think that would be revealing, since parent company Disney and their excecutives have been the ones pushing this POS mockudrama.

"With All Deliberate Foot-Dragging"

We were certainly relieved that the Senate Intelligence Committee finally made official yesterday what pretty much everyone but President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney had already acknowledged: There never was any connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, not even between Mr. Hussein and the self-styled Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Iraq also was not busily trying to build a nuclear weapon before the war, nor did it have a biological weapons program.

Those conclusions were contained in documents released by the committee as part of the second phase of its investigation into the prewar intelligence on Iraq. Releasing any documents was a change of pace for the panel’s chairman, Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, who has consistently tried to stymie this phase of the investigation.

Unfortunately, the documents — only two of the five parts of the final report — are beside the big point of this inquiry: Did Mr. Bush and his aides knowingly hype the intelligence on Iraq and deliberately mislead Americans into war?

More...

http://tinyurl.com/ptaah

SALLY and EVERYONE

SALLY,
As always, your writings spark such insights for me.

Thank you

EVERYONE,

WHEW,

Does anyone besides me need a breather from negative information overload? If so, check out this beautiful audio. At site, click on your choice of format and listen to "One People/Wall of Peace".

http://karlanthony.com/category/multimedia.audio/

Wow Sally, you connected all the dots in a way that makes so much sense! I always knew that the turning point was the JFK assasination, but never put it all together like you have with this article. So much research material! Thank You!!!

Pat C

What the NYTimes conveniently left out of that
story was that Olympia Snowe and Chuck Hagel
joined the Democrats to get the report released,
or Roberts would have never caved.

Agreed WV. Great point!

...........

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/9/83935/42875

Defamation Law and Procedure re PT9/11

Oh good WV MAKES ME FEEL LIKE ALL MY CALLS TO SNOWE ARE ACCOMPLISHING SOMETHING>
Bhakti,
YES. I was 6 when the war (the real one-II) ended. Tho NJ was never actually bombed or invaded, it was terrifying to a child to hear the airplanes, airraid sirens, etc. We didn't know a Nazi submanrine WOULDN'T SURFACE OFF OCEAN CITY , until the war was over & it HADN'T HAPPENED. The potential was there!

Scholastic's shift to " critical thinking about the material presented and focusing on "different points of view" is a good thing!
It would seem that the neocons & their brethern are just waiting for opportunities to sneak under the radar & do something dastardly like presenting the Path to 9/11.
I'm off to paint,
QOP

If we take the Disney chart for the 9/11 "docu-drama" their birth data is Oct.16.1923 in Burbank, CA (N/T) things look pretty good for Disney. They are enjoying a grand water trine between their Pluto/Uranus and Jupiter and they are experiencing a Uranus return this year and a Jupiter return. I would expect them to create some powerful pieces welcomed by the public (Uranus sextiles the Moon) This little glitch they are having now with the Path to 9/11 came when Saturn was conjunct the Natal Neptune (problems grounding the dream into reality)Nonetheless, I expect things to fall into the lap of Disney, Michael Eisner was there when the Disney chart was experiencing great stress and Eisner took the fall for that and I think it was a well deserved fall.

Since this is a production of their ABC division, it would be the date Disney acquired them and that date is hard to pin down, all I can find is February, 1996 and that's a wide month to cover in order to pin down this issue. When Disney bought ABC, it was actually ABC/Capital Cities, who owned them from I think 1985 (Capital Cities was 1/10 the size of ABC) then Capital Cities sold to Disney in 1996. It's all pretty much an incestous chart with a lot of twists and turns.

Let them air it, there has been a good job done of putting doubt as to the validity of this program and pre-discredit of it's accuracy.

Sat, Sept 9, 2006 | Moon is in Aries. Mercury squares Pluto, & is biquintile Neptune. Chaos stations retrograde

"Imagine Chiron's orbit piercing the ego-boundary of Saturn. It plunges into our reality like the comet that it is, often guiding, prodding or stunning us to awareness--always gently first, then in escalating degrees. Like Virgo & the 6th house, Chiron brings the message be here now. Stand in your true nature. Be who you are. Remember that you are part of nature & cannot escape from it. For those accustomed to living a life of escape & diversion, this is not always a pleasant message, but ultimately it both sets us free, & leaves us free to do what we came to the Earth to do. "

-- Eric Francis, Planet Waves Weekly, Aug 20, 2004

http://www.gregpalast.com/palast-pascarella-face-homeland-security-criminal-charge

Palast, Pascarella Face Homeland Security Charges

by Zach Roberts

Yes, the rumor’s true. Greg Palast is facing a criminal complaint from the Department of Homeland Security stemming from his filming the Hurricane Katrina investigation for Link TV and Democracy Now. The film’s producer, Matt Pascarella, is also facing the legal wrath of Big Brother.

It appears the complaint is about filming a sensitive national security site owned by Exxon petroleum. It seems that photographing major Bush donors is now a federal offense.

Reached at an undisclosed location, Palast says, “Let’s not get over-excited. They haven’t measured us for our orange suits yet.”

During questioning by Homeland Security, Palast asked, “Hey, aren’t you supposed to be looking for Osama? Or for guys with exploding shoes? … We’re journalists.” At Palast’s request, Homeland Security confirmed that Louisiana is, indeed, still part of the USA but did not respond when asked if the First Amendment applies there.

Watch part one and part two of Palast/Pascarella’s film. (In association with BigNoise Films) BigNoise Videographer Jaqui Soohen has not been charged.

Permanent war seems to be their only plan:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/9/8/225449/4200

Thanks so much again to Sally for another great article, and to all who post. You all give me hope.

I have been wondering about November...quite a few planets in Scorpio...how do you (anyone) think
this will fare for Bush &Co.and the election? I think they have a bit of Scorpio in their charts...do you think it will strengthen or weaken(expose) them?

I was reading the Mother Shipton prophecy and was reminded of Dr. Begetch's books "Angels Don't Play This HAARP" and "Earth Rising" about gov't ability to "light up the sky" by catching the ionosphere on fire. Too too scary...

I am always apalled by this regime-machine's attitude of ownership of the planet even if it means destroying it completely.

Interesting posts of prophecy...the Mayan calendar determines Winter Solstice 2012 as the date of the arrival of The Age of Aquarius.I have also read that Venus crosses the Sun again in 2008, some see that as an indication of a woman in pres. office.

Blessings,and thanks again Sally.

Hi Raven, you are right it is scary. Venus crosses the sun again in 2012, won't that just add to the dramatics of 2012. The election worries me, the Dems have quite a few favorable aspects but there will be a Mercury retrograde and the Sun and Venus will be in a square to Neptune. More lies and dirty tricks. Uranus is also retrograde, with Mercury and Uranus retro there is a tendency to keep the status quo, so if that plays out that way in 2006 I'm sure not happy.

Just heard on the news that Putin said he was stepping down in 2008

Pinochet finally must face justice. Once he tortured Michelle Bachelet with inpunity never thinking she would be the President of Chile one day and bring him down.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060908/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/chile_pinochet;_ylt=AipojOmZDvCRm_oDIzGa3gdvaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-

Former dictator Pinochet loses immunity
By EDUARDO GALLARDO, Associated Press Writer Fri Sep 8, 7:46 PM ET
SANTIAGO, Chile - Chile's Supreme Court on Friday stripped former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution for alleged abuses at one of his regime's most notorious detention centers — where the current president and her mother were tortured — a court official said.

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This is off subject and I'm sorry. I've been sick and not keeping up although I was very glad to see another article up by Sally. The Missouri senate race is predicted to be very close and so far I haven't seen anyone post anything about it. If anyone has time to run the charts: Missouri 8/10/1821 St. Charles, MO; Jim (no)Talent (R) 10/18/1956 St. Louis, MO; Claire McCaskill (D) 7/24/1953 Rolla, MO. No times on any of these. Anyone care to venture a prediction?

Can we also hope that one day, one of the people tortured or otherwise hurt in some way by the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld Cabal gets to prosecute them?

I'm not sure if this sounds far-fetched, or not, but the common thread I see running through the assassinations at that time, was anyone who was advocating civil rights, and equality for blacks - the Rev. Martin Luther King, President JFK, and his brother, Sen. Robert Kennedy; not to mention the smaller players who met their demise in various parts of the country, while championing the cause. Apparently, somebody, or bodies in high places felt threatened by this revolutionary movement that was sweeping the country.

It seems to me that when it's said that the race(s) will be very close, it means that there's going to be voter fraud. Otherwise, I have no idea why nooz says the "elections will be close." One of the reasons I think that way is because bushaholic & company's approval ratings are in the low 30s. See? It makes no sense except that nooz is saying voter fraud is the order of the day without actually saying it. More than annoying, yes?

"They" are so, so frightened for the continued existence of their treasured status quo, way of life and doing business as usual, that they are fighting like mad to preserve it at any and all costs. The 911 Propaganda Movie is a perfect illustration of the lengths to which they will go.

What's so bad for them (and perhaps us too in some sense) is that they are only going to cause the revolutionary pressures to build to an even greater mass by supporting their own selfish interests while totally ignoring the struggles and suffering and decline in the quality of life for the average person.

When the pressure finally blows, it will totally overwhelm and destroy "what is now" more so than in any normal, more gradual process of change, and will probably force out into the open much if not all that they have so desperately worked to subvert, suppress and stop.

Woe to the Republicans if they do indeed retain control of both houses of Congress by their now standard -- yet still criminal -- methods of deception. If they fail to refrain from tampering with the people's will and desire for change in November 2006, I believe that they will find themselves, as a party, decisively routed and at the threshhold of permanent ruin in November 2008.

Hi Teresa
Sorry to hear you've been unwell... and this is off topic, but can I ask if you've had a stomach bug? It seems to be going around and, weirdly, not only here in Phoenix and Tucson but I just heard from my son in Sydney, Australia, that it's going around there too... that's weird. I wonder what makes these bugs circulate so easily? Perhaps this Saturn-Neptune thing is weakening people's systems or it's the Mars, Nodes, Pluto thing going on...

Or perhaps it's the USian et al chem & bio labs for WMD releasing a lil disease here... a lil there... Absolutely no reason not to think so.

Lynda, no stomach bug, just a severe head cold and chest congestion. Took me completely by surprise.

JoannaO: I don't know what the truth of the closeness of the race is. McCaskill was very narrowly defeated for governor in 2004 and it looks like she's going to really have to fight for the senate in 06. Talent has some very well done ads playing on tv but I haven't seen much of hers. McCaskill has a Leo sun and Capricorn moon just like the state of Missouri but apparently that isn't enough.

crystal, but LBJ was the one who actually did all the arm twisting and got the civil rights act passed . . .

I hope you're drinking lots of water, Teresa, & be feeling better soon. Echinacea is wonderful for strengthening the immune system but I'll bet you know that.

Bush plans on winning house and senate in november and has told WSJ that he will have the votes to phase out social security in favor of private accounts.
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2006/sep/09/social_security_to_be_phased_out_in_2007

Teresa, the time for MO is 1:10pm, this time and your date was when and where Missouri was first admitted into the Union in St. Louis, then in 1825 Jefferson City was established as the Capital. It will be neck and neck, the state actually like Talent and he will be getting a boost to his Jupiter from transiting Jupiter, his Venus/Jupiter in Virgo not only are in the sign of MO. Venus, but they fall in the MO midheaven. They see him as a leader fro their state. What is the most interesting however is McCaskill's Sun, while not conjunct, is still in Leo the same sign as MO's Sun and both the person and the state have a Capricorn Moon, so they understand and resonate to her too. The other interesting thing happening is the Sept. 22 Eclipse, at 29 Virgo, it falls across the Virgo/Pisces axis and that will conj. MO's Pluto (29 Pisces) square their Mars (29 Gemini) and square their Uranus (29 Sagittarius) that should certainly shift something in the mighty MO, it also sextiles Talent's NN (29 Scorpio) That 29 degree Eclipse will mean the end of something, that's for sure.

I don't like the fact that Talent (who I cannot stand personally) has transiting Pluto sextile his Sun and that's power or the opportunity for power. It will be close with MO very confused right now (T-Neptune is oppose their Sun and Saturn is Conj.) they just don't know whether to take a chance for something new or keep the status quo. Also with MO Sun at 17 Leo being opposed by T-Neptune and Election Day Venus and retrograde Mercury this state feeds right into election fraud this year or possibly ground zero for election fraud, an Ohio type situation. Missouri is a really important state this year for both Dems and GOP, the GOP have to keep MO.

Take care of yourself, lots of stuff making the rounds.

I meant to put up this link I found this morning over at Kos called "Defamation Law and Procedure re PT9/11" since everywhere I read everyone wants to know what the laws are on grounds for lawsuits, this one was the most thorough explanation I've found so far.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/9/83935/42875

I was watching a clip tonight of some of the leaked scenes from the movie. In one it shows Al Qaeda shooting up a movie and big screen with Bill Clinton's face on it and then pretty soon for several frames the caption reads them saying: "Clinton is Satan!"

*eye roll* I made sure I took a screen shot of a frozen frame, it's almost subliminal in real time at first. Any bets that will not get edited out?

* Top [UK] soldier quits as blundering campaign turns into 'pointless' war

THE former aide-de-camp to the commander of the British taskforce in southern Afghanistan has described the campaign in Helmand province as “a textbook case of how to screw up a counter-insurgency”. “Having a big old fight is pointless & just making things worse,” said Capt Leo Docherty, of the Scots Guards, who became so disillusioned that he quit the army last month.

“All those people whose homes have been destroyed & sons killed are going to turn against the British,” he said. “It’s a pretty clear equation—-if people are losing homes & poppy fields, they will go & fight. I certainly would. “We’ve been grotesquely clumsy-—we’ve said we’ll be different to the Americans who were bombing & strafing villages, then behaved exactly like them.” ... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2761-2350795,00.html

* Bush the Pitiful

People are beginning to feel sorry for gwbush. And with good reason. A new poll by Harris Interactive published in the Financial Times reveals that our traditional European allies regard the US as a much greater threat to world stability than Iran, Iraq, & N Korea.

In European opinion, the axis of evil is bush’s America. Almost twice as many British, whose PM tblair is complicit in bush’s war crimes in Afghanistan/Iraq, see the US as the greatest threat to world stability than see Iran as the danger. In Spain 3x more people regard the US as the threat than see Iran as the threat. Only in Italy does Iran edge out the US as the greatest perceived threat, a result no doubt due to the propaganda that spews from the media empire of Silvio Berlusconi, the Rupert Murdoch of Italy.

Another reason to feel sorry for bush is because he is regarded by his own pol party & his own AG as a war criminal. Republicans recognize that bush has committed felonies by violating the US War Crimes Act of 1996 (lege aimed at the likes of Saddam Hussein & Slobodan Milosevic). Bush’s AG, Alberto Gonzales, & the Republican Congress have produced draft lege that aims to protect bush retroactively by gutting the 1996 War Crimes Act. Republicans hope to quietly pass this unconstitutional lege before they are defeated in the Nov elections. The fact that retroactive law is prohibited by the US Constitution adds to bush’s shame. ... http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=9675

The post by anonymous at Sept 10 5:26 AM. Is chilling!
I'm exhausted, from dong my own work as well as fill in for all those little( & BIG) companies who aren't doing their work well or efficiently. It eats into my production time badly! My local fellow Dems, are discouraged & backed off.........I WISH THIS SELFISH BIG DUMB JUGGERNAUT WOULD JUST KEEL OVER AND GO AWAY!
QOP

Has anyone tried just throwing a bucket of water over him?
( that should be doing my own work; although dong my own work expresses it pretty well!)
Joanna O's post at 12:37 PM is pretty chilling too!
QOP

Steve Judd...

9.6 Sept - With Ceres, the asteroid associated with food, nurturing & maternal protection strongly involved in the ongoing Saturn/Neptune opposition, I draw comfort from the words yesterday of Jamie Oliver. I don’t do celebrity chefs, they’re just the latest product of the media monster, but he did make me laugh yesterday. No more ‘you must give your child salad & fruit every day’ or ‘limit your children’s sugar intake to avoid obesity’. No, he said ‘If you give your kids fizzy drinks you’re an axxxxxxe, if you give your kids crisps you’re an idiot & if you let them drink Rxd Bxxl (a popular British fizzy drink that gives you ‘wings’) you might as well give them a line of coke’. I love plain speaking, even when it's constructively critical.

9.4 Sept - Interesting how the world changes in 2 yrs. In Oct 2004 I posted almost word for word my opinion on 9/11 the same as yesterday, & rec'd 20 or so replies castigating me. This time I’ve received two criticisms, with a number of compliments thanking me for speaking my opinion. It seems the world has either become more cynical, or else more acceptant of the spin/deceit which our govts have perpetrated. Until there is a perceived openness about 9/11 & 7/7 there will always be suspicion that it was an inside job. Meantime, more soldiers will die along with innocent civilians & children, in order to keep the world a ‘free’ place & to ensure the oil keeps running... http://www.stevejudd.com/home.html

However, QOP... bushaholic's hopes are hanging from nothin', based/rooted in nothin', contexed in nothin'... pretended up, so to speak, full-blown out of its screwy head with no ligitamacy. Just by trying that silly slight of hand shows me that he has lost... lost a long time ago. What is edicted to be "law" now will be kicked aside at a later point. After all is said & done, most guys do like to have a certain amount of practical & solid bed-posts upon which to hang their legal pants.

Pinoche, by the by, just had its "immunity for war crimes" status taken away. It thot it was covered, too.

If bushadruggie can slap aside laws that have mostly held a complicated nation in good steady course for over 200 yrs, bushastupid's self-serving johnny-come-very-lately "laws" can also be slapped aside... & with a lot less angst & regret... mebbe even with glee. ;O)

* Cheney Has Become “Radioactive” On Capitol Hill… http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/washington/10cheney.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1157860800&en=c089e65ca50c998c&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin

Must read--a complete listing of all of the pre 9/11 warnings this "administration" had and basically ignored, which makes them accessories before the fact:

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=5127

Neptune is in a trine to Bush's Moon and Jupiter and a trine to his Uranus, Neptune nicely affords him the cover to their agenda. There isn't anything to do about the "poor baby" pity people are feeling for him except keep a list of what he's done to this country as your reasons for being angry.

For some odd reason, it's a known fact that people will go back to their abuser for support. If you're beaten (and we have been) the people in the US now want GWB to like them. Sick isn't it.

This is a fantastic idea from Britan, sue ABC in England, they don't have any "public domain" laws that ABC could wiggle out of being convicted. This is such a great idea

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/9/10/8427/13169

Dear Sally, Bush's progressed Mars conjuncts his natal Moon on Sept 12. All indications of this aspect shows personal troubles or worse. His anger is notorious and he may flip out at this time. What do you think? Also Solar arc Saturn conjuncts the second Inagurations 4th point after the fall elections. Starman

It has long been my fantasy/dream that B*** would do a freak out /flip out on television where everyone would see it. Is this a possibility? Fingers crossed.

I've been waiting for him to "flip out" Bill and to do so in public, particularly with Saturn coming to his Venus in the 1st and the progressed Mars to his Moon, but I expected it last summer. There are a couple of things feeding into it, but a "filp out" is sure possible. Saturn to Venus is "poor me" and he already feels like he "works hard" and no one knows it.

Does anyone remember Bush at the podium at his first press conference, so drunk or medicated that he could hardly stand? I would have thought that would have been much more damaging than it apprently was. Then there was the wired box unter his suit coat. No real outcome for that one either.

Too bad they keep Cheney out of sight so much. If we had to endure him more often I think the "PEOPLE" ( those of us with memories) would become so enraged we would rush him and frog march him all the way to the Hague! ( I'm sure the Atlantic Ocean would part to allow us to proceed!)
He was on Tim Russart this AM. What an expert at the shell game! He lied his way through Tim's tough interview, without turning a hair in his nostril..
Glad he's losing his power!
QOP

Oh and a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in the gulf of Mexico west of Tampa. Isn't that near the military command center? ( from which they conducted shock & awe?)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php
QOP

Here's a transcript of the Russert interview.
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/3918493339193246347916694952733364190372
P

I realize this is an astrological discussion site so I hope I don't offend anyone. But, here goes:

Has anyone looked at the numerological or magickal meanings of the dates of these big terrorist events? 9-11 in New York, 3-11 in Spain, and 7-7 in London? It seems to me there is a pattern of usage of some very strong numbers.

I have this quirky theory I don't often share that this administration is using an old
form of, shall we say, "practice". I also suspect they are very aware of astrological patterns themselves and use them to their benefit. In a world where anything is possible....?

Raven - I don't think your ideas are so far fetched. Have you ever checked out David Icke? I know he's really off the wall sometimes but he has some good articles on this same subject.

http://www.davidicke.com/index.php?searchword=numerology&option=com_search&Itemid=

Well the Nazis did. Hmmmm

Raven I don't think that's farfetched at all---one of my fave sites. www.cloakanddagger.de, reported that the 3/11 Madrid "event" was 911 days after 9/11/01. That site also regularly reports on upcoming 9/11 "harmonic" dates too....

"...The ice president was asked on NBC whether there more terrorists in the world now than there were before the Sept. 11 attacks. 'It's hard to say. Hard to put a precise number on it,' Cheney said. ..."

This paragraph was in that Russert interview posted by P... I noted the interesting Freudian "typo" where it calls cheney the "ice president" instead of "vice president." Reminds me of the Iceman Cometh, a play written by Eugene O'Neill in 1939 where the more the husband's wife becomes hot, firey & angry (scorpionic) over the mistreatment she suffered at his hand, the icier & dissociated/psychopathic her husband became (aquarian) until he finally... you know, does her in. Seems to me it could've gone either way while 1:1, but ice man (aquarian) cheney pits itself against the world's tens of millions... bad odds for him.

* War turns southern women away from GOP

MACON, Ga. [bushaDisintegrating]'s once-solid relationship with Southern women is on the rocks. "I think history will show him to be the worst [rez] since Ulysses S Grant," said Barbara Knight, a self-described ["republic"] since birth & the mother of 3. "He's been an embarrassment."

In the heart of Dixie, comparisons to [drunkie] Grant, a symbol of the Union, are the worst sort of insult, esp from a Macon woman who voted for bush in 2000 but turned away in 2004. ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060907/ap_on_re_us/southern_women

Well everyone, reporting from Occupied Brooklyn the Tush is here in NYC, got here about 30 min ago with enough fanfare to get your hairs to stand on end. Police helicopters circled over NYC harbor for about 20 min prior. Got my binoculars. The 'knowing' of the sounds of the air traffic got me set up in plenty of time. Then I saw two big helicopters, their noise was deafing, fly into the heliport at the tip of Manhattan on the East River side.
Then it got so peaceful and calm in the gardens behind my apt, many orange and black butterflies flying gracefully all over, felt like an sweet omen.
Then the burst of engines gearing up and omg about 6 army helicopters flew directly overhead, one went right over my home. Kept mouthing many times to them !@$#@%#^$&*^()>>>>>GW!!!!!!!!! Better fly on outta here,Brooklyn doesn't want you.

Wonder who flew in here on Thurs around 1pm withe the same fanfare??????

62,006 - The Number Killed in the 'War on Terror'

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091006A.shtml

The "war on terror" - and by terrorists - has directly killed a minimum of 62,006 people, created 4.5 million refugees and cost the US more than the sum needed to pay off the debts of every poor nation on earth. If estimates of other, unquantified, deaths - of insurgents, the Iraq military during the 2003 invasion, those not recorded individually by Western media, and those dying from wounds - are included, then the toll could reach as high as 180,000.

Thanks for the get well wishes. I'm starting to feel human again. Thanks, Sally, for the analysis of McCaskill/Talent. No one around here seems to think that election fraud can happen here. But I remember the hissy fit that Kit Bond threw back in 2000 when St. Louis wanted to keep its polls open a little longer in order to let people in line vote. They had been waiting for hours and there weren't enough machines. The court stepped in and closed the polls. And Jackson County, the county I live in, is going with the paperless machines this year.

Joanna...thanks for posting the O'Neill/IceMan Cometh comments...I saw Jason Robards in the play in NYC in 1985 or 86....5 hours long! Or at least it seemed that way. Proved to be prophetic in my life...

support the Dixie Chicks....they shall take the south again, so those Southern women will be rising once again....Neil Young sang 'Southern Man' for another era and the Dixie Chicks stand up for us now:

Not Ready to Make Nice (Lyrics)

Forgive, sounds good.
Forget, I'm not sure I could.
They say time heals everything,
But I'm still waiting

I'm through, with doubt,
There's nothing left for me to figure out,
I've paid a price, and i'll keep paying

I'm not ready to make nice,
I'm not ready to back down,
I'm still mad as hell
And I don't have time
To go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is
You think I should

I know you said
Why can't you just get over it,
It turned my whole world around
and i kind of like it

I made by bed, and I sleep like a baby,
With no regrets and I don't mind saying,
It's a sad sad story
That a mother will teach her daughter
that she ought to hate a perfect stranger.
And how in the world
Can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they'd write me a letter
Saying that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over

I'm not ready to make nice,
I'm not ready to back down,
I'm still mad as hell
And I don't have time
To go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is
You think I should

I'm not ready to make nice,
I'm not ready to back down,
I'm still mad as hell
And I don't have time
To go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is
You think I should

Forgive, sounds good.
Forget, I'm not sure I could.
They say time heals everything,
But I'm still waiting

Been wondering that me'self Bhakti. I didn't think Mr ADHD, got there 4 1/2 days ahead of the event, only to cool his heels on Long Island, He only spends 2 days at G8 summits.
QOP

Ugly Season
by BooMan
Sun Sep 10th, 2006 at 05:36:45 PM EST

Via Andrew Sullivan:

Next week, I'm informed via troubled White House sources, will see the full unveiling of Karl Rove's fall election strategy. He's intending to line up 9/11 families to accuse McCain, Warner and Graham of delaying justice for the perpetrators of that atrocity, because they want to uphold the ancient judicial traditions of the U.S. military and abide by the Constitution. He will use the families as an argument for legalizing torture, setting up kangaroo courts for military prisoners, and giving war crime impunity for his own aides and cronies. This is his "Hail Mary" move for November; it's brutally exploitative of 9/11; it's pure partisanship; and it's designed to enable an untrammeled executive. Decent Republicans, Independents and Democrats must do all they can to expose and resist this latest descent into political thuggery.
We always said it would be ugly.
http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mydd.com%2Fstory%2F2006%2F9%2F10%2F22035%2F2310

Collection of 9/11 docucrap: http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mydd.com%2Fstory%2F2006%2F9%2F10%2F22035%2F2310

So I guess you all are watching this? It isn't on here in the west. But not watching it anyway....

Like Neil Young sang .... "I know the needle and the damage done, a little part of it in everyone"....not going thre!

With football on tonight and tomorrow night I'm hoping the ratings are low. There is also another special on one of the other channels so there is some very strong competition. I choose not to fill my mind with such garbage.

With football on tonight and tomorrow night I'm hoping the ratings are low. There is also another special on one of the other channels so there is some very strong competition. I choose not to fill my mind with such garbage.

With football on tonight and tomorrow night I'm hoping the ratings are low. There is also another special on one of the other channels so there is some very strong competition. I choose not to fill my mind with such garbage.

Check this out and order one today!

Homeland Securi-tee-shirt.

http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/product3167.html

whoohoo Football season, hell no not watching ABC or Disney we've blocked the channels.

Teresa hope you get well soon, my whole household went down with a respitory bug and I went down like a rock, eight days and I'm almost human. Yup drop a lil bug here a lil bug there, and poof off the citizenry.

So appalled at all that's going on, that silliness overwhelms me. To build upon a post from JoannaO above about the ice president, why not The Ice-Prickident?

"Ice-Prickident"... hahahahaaaa!

(singing) "You'll wonder where the yellow went... when you break ties with Ice Prickident..." um, Pepsodent, or something. One has to have some years on 'em to remember that ad jingle.

Vidal. The incomparable Vidal:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14910.htm

Wow, check this out, the Baathists want Saddam back. http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2006/09/09/the-media-failed-to-tell-you-these-events/

This is a good corollary to the story I posted from Truthseeker earlier that mentioned the Rethugs were thinking about bribing the warring factions in Iraq to tone down the violence before the midterms.....it's always money with these bastards, isn't it?

BTW, I'm with Cybear, football, yes, propaganda, HELL NO! The only problem is that I love the ABC show "Boston Legal", so now I may just have to avoid it like Dizzknee......

Be strong, Garry, be strong!! And I know you will.

Whoooo-hooo, here's KKKKarl's attack dog (replete, no doubt, with mange and fleas). Wonder what we can find out about him?
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/009719.php

WHOOOOO-HOOOO. Terry Nelson was hired by McCaine back in March of this year. I guess Terry is a real hottie.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/18/AR2006031800966.html

Boston Legal? I don't know if I can give that one up either, it is so good.

Teresa, I see where Clinton was in the state to raise funds for McCaskill and campaign for her. How is Talent doing there? I actually question his win over Carnahan (sp?) I don't think he did. Like I said Missouri has election fraud written all over it, or an earthquake. Something for the state is ready to shake them up. What has been going on in MO the last several months? I was curious as to what if anything happened when the NN went over the state's Mars/Uranus/Pluto T-square in June and then Mars went over it just a few days ago. Have you noticed anything?

I watched Path to 911 tonight, mainly because I wanted to see if and how well the scenes in questions were edited. I have to say that it was really well made and that it gave a good amount of credit to the Clinton Administration in the way it handled the situation after the first bombing of the WTC in '93 and thereafter, ending in the capture of a few of the dangerous Al Qaida people.

I saw a few problems:
- unnecessary mention twice of Clinton's episode with Lewinsky (including "I did not have sex with that woman" which had nothing to do with the plot and I don't think people would have thought about it)
- emphasis on how legal procedure and/or authorization from the higher ups could get in the way of capturing these people, although the FBI & justice dept. seemed to do pretty well with the system the way it was before 911

I wonder if it will give a boost to the Repubs. It might a little.

Let's see what comes down tomorrow night. Tonight concentrated on what happened between '93 and 9/11 and ended with the very beginning of the first flight being hyjacked on 9/11.

Steve Judd...

11 September - My g'daughter has just finished staying with us. Her mother is a combination of Dutch/English (me), but I’m a mixture of Irish, English & Scandinavian. Her father’s Chilean, but his heritage is a combination of Norwegian, Spanish & Lebanese. In this multinational world, questions of ethnicity are fast becoming redundant & being replaced by questions of humanity. Once the posturing/swagger of the old men who think they run the world is ignored, it’s still a beautiful planet, one that should be protected against war, religion & bigotry so that our descendants can enjoy a symbiosis with nature, surely the birthright, along with clean food & water, of every human being. http://www.stevejudd.com/home.html

Thanks Sharon,
I started watching it, but my daughter called & I pushed the mute button.
I saw Lewinski on the screen & She didn't really have anything to do with the story!!! What did Richard Clarke have to say at the end? Did they bring him in to justifiy after the controversy, or was he part of the original docu?
Oh, NEW TAPE FROM OBL SO TIMELY!
Davi Ickes, fascinating stuff! I was at the Druid Grove in one lifetime!!!
QOP

Has it ever been reported EXACTLY what was whispered into b***'s ear when he was in the classroom on 9/11? I just watched that looooooong video again and the whisper was very short. Hardly enough time to say much more than "the deed is done".

Btw, b***y was not reading to the children....they (like little robots) were reading to him. He doesn't read, does he? Oh oh, my mistake....he reads Shakespeare and other e-ka-lec-tic books.

With that 3 hours extra sleep last night I feel
a lot better today. Who says ignorance is bliss...
it's a good nights sleep!

Sunday Night Football on NBC nearly double
both ABC and CBS's 9-11 programs...

Couric drops to 3rd place in news ratings...

Storyboards (satire) for the ABC Path to 9/11 ... quick before they get closed down (disclaimer, some images are harsh)!

http://www.thepoorman.net/2006/09/07/the-path-to-911-an-exclusive-the-poor-man-preview/

Lovi,

from what I've heard, and Card (Bush's chief of staff or something at the time) said this himself he said "the country is under attack". That makes his stunned silent inaction even worse. The first instinctual reaction is fight or flight. I can't imagine anyone sitting quietly after hearing those words. I've always thought his reaction was that he literally froze in fear.

Sally,
Your analysis and concepts are totally brilliant!

Thanks.

"Sunday Night Football on NBC nearly double
both ABC and CBS's 9-11 programs..."

Some things just never change. The Manning brothers were playing against each other last night, what did they expect. I heard on the news today that the BBC said ABC chose fantasy over fact and entertainment over substance and that the American people deserved better. I thought, no we don't, we have been exchanging fantasy over fact and entertainment over substance for so long we just don't know the difference and if a football game comes along that will absolutely take first place. Too funny. And I think there is football tonight somewhere or do they not do Monday night football any more?

I didn't watch it because the trailers were terrible and then I heard it was inaccurate so I cleaned out a very messy desk instead. Glad you did watch it Sharon and can give some interesting feedback.

* Poll: More Americans blame bush for 9/11

The percentage of Americans who blame [rez regime] for the Sept 11, 2001, attacks on NY & Washington has risen from almost a third to almost half over the past 4 years, a CNN poll released Monday found. ... http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/11/911.poll/index.html?section=cnn_topstories&eref=yahoo

* Marine Report On Western Iraq Says US Has “Been Defeated Politically”... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/10/AR2006091001204_pf.html

I wonder what bushaMelting & drunkie cheney were/are doing during this distracting maelstrom loonytunes of a disney/ABC snuff video...

I think the people do have a right to the truth. I think they have a right to healthcare, and an honest press, and protection from criminals, including those who push legal and illegal drugs on them through propaganda and supply. People respond to truth, as we have seen in decades past.

Garbage in, garbage out. The masses are taught.

Not everyone is geared to lead. In fact most people are geared to follow. The crime comes in not leading from a humane center.

Sally, over the summer, most of the state has been in a significant drought which has only recently ended. In July, St. Louis got hit with a very powerful storm that took many by surprise. Power was knocked out during the height of the 100+ temperature heat wave. On July 1, the new drivers' license law went into effect. Missourians now have to show the paper trail of birth certificates, marriage licenses, and divorce papers in order to get a drivers' license. Not too much outcry on this. The ACLU has filed a challenge to the voter ID law and a federal appeals court has told our toddler governor that his Medicaid law is unreasonable when it comes to not providing medical equipment like catheters and wheelchair batteries to the poor. If there is anything major politically brewing it has not yet become apparent. Most of the attention in the midwest has been on Kansas and its nutcase of an attorney general. As for earthquakes, New Madrid has been fairly quiet.

Thanks. There are two mysteries here. First, why didn't b***y react to "the country is under attack". Second, why wasn't he whisked away to some underground safe place? They knew. They all knew.

JoO, I love your nicknames for the fools on the hill; such fun... they brighten my day :)

And Lovi, I totally agree - why didn't they whisk him away? why did he just sit there? it's not like it was an important meeting he was in or anything (and what could be more important than the country being under attack?)

However, I wonder how they could cover their trails so well and how no one comes forward to spill the beans. It's a bit of a mystery to me... surely someone would want to talk, and they can't murder every single person who's privy to what happened.... it does give me pause for thought, but I'm pretty convinced it was an inside job. I even wonder if Osama Bin Laden was paid for being the fall guy - his not being found is completely unbelievable - they can read what you're reading from a telescope for goodness sake!

So, like many other people for sure, I'm quite confused... but sure as eggs they're in it up to their necks.

Jr sits in classroom for 30 minutes after the attack.

Cheney was in the WH for 3 hours after the Pentagon got hit.

The Bin Laden family was allowed to leave the country.

All hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

The Bush's, Cheneys, and who knows who else has ties in Saudi Arabia that go back nearly a century.

Bin Laden, a 6'6" tall arab on dialysis can't be found????

Enron, Taliban, oil pipeline deal gone bad. Afghanistan.

Saddam. Iraq. Israel. Iran.

Is it obvious or what?

Hi Cybear

Sure, it's completely obvious, I'm not questioning those things - and more, there's far more - I'm wondering how no one comes forward... it's weird... that's what I was bringing up.

David Kelly, who said there were no WMD, found dead from 'suicide' - sure! He didn't commit suicide - but that is brushed away....

so many things, but there must be so many people who must 'know' things... it's just weird.

Sally,
That Taurus 20 that you bring up has an interesting Sabian Symbol: Taurus 21: A Finger Pointing to a Line in an Open Book...

The Pet Goat perhaps? ;)

I was just rather amused by the comments on Gore Vidal's piece on informationclearinghouse.info
as some brought up that book and someone posted an excerpt from it... it would be hilarious if it wasn't so serious!!

A Finger Pointing to a Line in an Open Book - an interesting Symbol to ponder.

Here's an excerpt from my book 360 Degrees of Wisdom -

Oracle: In your situation, something needs to be researched, or looked up, in order to ‘Point To’ what is relevant and what is not. When you realize what the ‘Significant Passages’ are, the solution will become clear. Even if you feel you already know all about it (like you have read the book) there is more information to be gleaned by going carefully through what’s in front of you, missing nothing. Fine details may have been overlooked or not considered. Perhaps you need to check them out. However, do be discriminating about what really is ‘Significant’ and useful. Be wary of relying purely on the written word. Strict applications of the written word can lead to a lack of innovation and fundamentalism. Going by the ‘Book’ or the rules can be useful and all to the good, but information is often best applied to inspire creative and spontaneous solutions. Someone may be mentally or emotionally “keeping a book” of the things that have happened or have been done by others. If things are not quite right at the moment, maybe you need to read, or pay attention to, any instructions or lessons more carefully. Read the fine print and look carefully at any conclusions or contracts. Also, solutions can be found by flipping open a ‘Book’ and placing a finger on a line or paragraph. This can lead to amazing insights into just what is bothering you.

Keywords: Finding the essential details of a situation and disregarding the rest. The cursor on the computer screen. Reading and writing books. Keeping records. Instruction manuals. Lawyers and the law. Editing. Reviewing. Reference books. Reading the Oracle. Memories. Quoting scripture. Testimony. Rules.

The Caution: Doing things because they need to be done and only going by the rules of the book. Automated responses. Religious fundamentalism. Only doing those things that are officially sanctioned. Not observing the entire picture. Keeping tallies. Flaunting the rules.

When someone in Europe asked Bush what he did on 9/11 and why he didn't rush back to DC he said it was because he was "getting out of harms way"

He made one tiny comment which he read from a note and then disappeared to zigzag his way to DC via the long way. He didn't get to DC until after 7pm that night and they still had to drag his *ss out of bed at 11:00 pm when there was another scare. He went to bed at his usual time and actually slept. It must that clear conscious he has, knowing God is happy with him.

Lovi, my take on Shrub not being "whisked away" is that Snarly (Dick C) was already "in control" and he would've liked to seen W "martyred".....

And, on this day, I have to post this--
it's the source for my beliefs in the "conspiracies" about Sept. 11....Kennedy objected, so they removed him....

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/prweb/20060907/bs_prweb/prweb434292_2

Lunaoscura, or he was dead drunk.

Lynda, Sometime in July or early August I posted some stuff from an online source quoting Woodrow Wilson....from his bio, I think. He said that prominent men had found their ways to his office only to whisper in his ear their fears of being 'done in' by the powers that ran everything in this country....and beyond...if they didn't do what was being asked of them. Shaken up, they were..

That was a century ago, I don't know that anything has changed....in fact, it has probably gotten even more dangerous to dissent or bring up things. It was pretty obvious to all of us that David Kelley didn't commit suicide. And the list of hard hitting journalists who died mysterious 'suicide' deaths is long. Just two years ago Gary Webb shot himself in the head twice with his own gun....he was the one who exposed the CIA/narco connections and lost his career because of it. Yeh...twice with his own gun?

Loved the storyboards (I do them for a living)....but angrifying....black humor makes big points.

from the link to Gore Vidal article, in the comments...connect the dots....?

AS for the 9/11, 11 is also a master number of enlightment, so you could conjure easily some more facts with that date, if you like playing numbers:

September 11th, 1922: The League of Nations signed a post-Balfour declaration regarding the Future creation of a Zionist state;
The same group responsible for this declaration, eventually created the Council on Foreign Relations, thus one of the many connections to Dulles in relation to 9-11. To this day, the Council on Foreign Relations has influence over all of our political, media, and economic variables.

September 11th, 1941: Ground was broken on the Pentagon- noting that it was destroyed exactly 60 years to the day later.

September 11th, 1971: construction began on both the North and South Tower. Noting that the Twin Towers were destroyed 30 years to the day after their birth.

September 11th, 1973: After Kissinger’s Operation Condor set the scene, the CIA sponsored one of many coups, specifically wherein Augusto Pinochet used planes and missiles to overthrow democratically elected Salvadore Allende in Chile…

September 11th, 1991: The Infamous GHWB New World Order Speech, 11 years to the day before 9-11

September 11th, 1998: Kenneth Starr, nephew of AIG founder C.V. Starr, sends his infamous report on Bill Clinton to Congress…

September 11th, 2005: the State of Israel declares an end to their occupation of the Gaza Strip, also relating back to the September 11th 1922 root cause event. All of these events are Council on Foreign Relations activities…

Lynda, you bring up an interesting point-how could everything be kept secret? I don't know.
I started wondering how long the Gulf of Tonkin deceit was covered up. And most of us think that there are elements of the Kennedy (JFK) assassination that have never met the light.
I don't know but I am pretty sure that guys who could not land a Cessna could not fly those planes into Manhatten and crash them exactly into the buildings they wanted to.
I do know though that there are many bodies not just the ones that made the headlines. and in reference to GHWB'S New World Order-I first heard him using that term as the bombers flew over Iraq "carpet bombing" and Bush the Elder was on the TV talking about a "New World Order". I kept jumping up and down yelling at my family"what does that mean? "New World Order" he keeps saying that what does he mean?" Of course no one had an answer.

JudiGem, Of course (slaps head for being a dunce)! he had all that time on Airforce 1 and I'm sure it's well stocked! He didn't even have Laura around to make sure he didn't have a few.

clymela, The stuff they did isn't a secret if we know about it. We haven't been making anything up. We've been informed about all the criminal garbage they do through the internet, through literally hundreds of reliable sources, through books written by government insiders like Richard Clarke and through professionals like Scott Ritter. The MSM haven't picked any of it up and have actively disseminated the lies instead. Anyone who truly wants the truth can get it. We have.

When the towers fell, Saturn was in Gemini -- and the WTC was in its first Saturn Return. I was always spooked by the resonance of the twin towers going down under the influence of Saturn/Gemini, and felt that this was the loudest of the explosions of the Saturn/Pluto era we were in at the time. Interesting that the Pentagon was in its second return at the time as well. Hmmm...

I've got to say that as a New Yorker, I'm having a difficult time today. The memories are still very fresh, hearing the plane over my building, knowing that my close friend was on the 72nd floor of tower 2, watching the towers collapse from my street. The scent of burning in the air for months and months, the absolute fear that enveloped the city. I've had on the CNN Pipeline coverage from the day of the event all day. I miss Aaron Brown -- what did they do with him? He was my rock during those difficult months. Like a warm TV Daddy -- I could never get behind Guiliani even when he became "America's Mayor" -- yuck.

Anyway, having seen the event live and in person, I must say that some of the conspiracy theories on the web are a little infuriating. My feeling is that Bushco were complicit -- they knew it was coming and they sat back and let NYC take the hit for them (who needs a bunch of people of color, artists and gays anyway, they figured). Despite the great evils of the administration, actual hijackers, terrorists with jihad on their minds, got onto planes and used them as missles. Bush may have known it was planned for that day and sat through My Pet Goat with a fake stunned expression, but he didn't send unmanned drones into the towers and have his people plant bombs in the basement. People that witnessed it close up have told me that there were no bombs -- they heard explosions coming from the point of entry of the planes, and then cars exploding later on in the day, mainly set on fire. It was fire that brought it down, even though I want Bush impeached immmediately, I don't think they did this one.

Stephanie,

I don't think there were demolition explosions either. If you watch a real one there is always a series of explosions on every floor and the building caves first and the roof falls as everything under it disintegrates. And you can see it happening because the dust comes up from the ground as the floors pancake on top of each other. The film of Building 7 is a controlled demolition. There was nothing at all like that with the WTC.

But I think they knew about it and maybe even were complicit. Why else point fingers away from the fact that the terrorists were mostly Saudis? That lie is there for a reason. It's like they're telling the world where to look, away from the real evidence. It's not so strange how they came up with all the 19 terrorists in so short a time.

Lunaoscura,

I think they knew it was going to happen and allowed it to go forward, but I don't think they had a hand in the planning. Bush's numbers were down and they needed a Pearl Harbor to go forward with plans to attack Iraq. This attack planned by Al Queda was a great opportunity for them. I just worry when some of the far-out conspiracy theories, like drones and bombs, are passed around as fact. That sort of thing is akin to the rumor that all the Israelis in the building got a call the night before and didn't report to work the next day. A lot of people seem to believe this nonsense and it's difficult to analyze the more reasonable theories when that kind of total crap is thrown around. I know at least three Israelis (and a bunch of plain old Jews) that were in the building -- a lot of them died. Rational, thinking people on the left of the spectrum need to be careful about whom we align ourselves with, or else our very valid criticisms won't be taken seriously, and that kind of scares me. You know what I'm saying?

In watching this coverage from the day-of, they keep talking about fires and debris having fallen on 7 World Trade, so I think it's very possible that it could have collapsed later in the day. I remember people talking about it that day as well, people coming up from the area (strangers on the street) and then my friend who was down there saying they thought more buildings were going to go down because huge parts of the plane had fallen all over the place and were burning on top of buildings and on sidewalks. There was a large debris field, and the planes were going extremely, extremely fast.

Also wanted to say, as for the terrorists learning how to fly the planes -- it was always a concern of mine and I never understood it until a friend with knowledge of aviation explained it to me. He said that the routes were extremely simple -- espeically toward the WTC. All they had to do was follow along the Hudson River and make a quick turn. It was a simple maneuver, and people that saw the planes over the city said that whomever was flying them did NOT have a steady hand at all -- they were dipping and bobbing all over the place like a child was in the cockpit.

My memory of 7 World Trade coming down later in the afternoon was just confirmed by Aaron Brown on the eerie day-of coverage that I can't stop watching right now. He said thank god that we had some warning today about this one coming down, the emergency personnel saw hours ago that it was gonna go, so at least they were able to get everyone out of harm's way. I'm not sure what the theory about bombs in that building is all about -- just from the video of it pancaking, or do people claim other evidence?

MSNBC did a similar thing this morning with day-of coverage, but they had it actually on the channel, not streaming from their website. I'm sure that it's not good for my psyche to take all of this in, but it's hard to turn away.

Sorry guys -- I'm not on my usual computer today and keep forgetting to sign my name - it's me, Stefanie.

Have you guys seen this?

Somebody just sent me this:

http://www.conspiracypenpal.com/columns/axis.htm and this:

This is a mind blowing article and a MUST READ!!!! Mayor Giuliani had been given orders that the towers be dismantled by 2007 due to galvanic corrosion: ALUMINUM + STEEL = Electro-mechanical failure

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/16/18297965.php

Must read--dare we hope there's a 9/11 truth victory on the horizon?

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=73&contentid=3899

Hi Garry
We both had 'must reads' at the same moment and minutes after I posted my take on Taurus 20: A Finger Pointing to a Line in an Open Book :)

and, minutes before I read your post, I was reading the exact article you suggested we read... but then life's like that !

If you're interested in 9-11 theories, this site has just about all of them you could want - speculation, theory, rampant insanity, just about everything.

http://www.911proof.com/

Lynda, your first link was to conspiracypenpal site of Edgar Steele. Unfortunately, he is antisemetic and racist. If that doesn't come across in this article, then follow the link to "Holy Holocaust." It is not just the Israeli government that he is against. Hate and anger come through in much of what he writes.

Thanks for the heads up regarding Edgar Steele - note taken!

I didn't write the post at 11:07 (haven't looked at the link yet) but that's just what I fear about the consipiracy sites -- much of the information is poorly researched and one small step away from crazy (read: racist). I am a humble servant in search of truth, but there are NUTS all over the Internet, and it is our duty as thoughtful people interested in social change to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Hi Lynda,
Hope you're loving Arizona. Thought the land in Pheonix felt very goddessy. The desert was once an ancient ocean floor. Looks like it. Natal asteroid Arizona conjunct my Sun/MC/Merc. I went there to teach!

Taurus 21 is my Part of Fortune in the 2H. I use my own picturebooks to teach the process of writing and painting them. What is the underlying theme behind my paintings and what to look out for in a manuscript for one's illustrations. Besides, with that Taurus in the 2H, I make money at it too :-)

I stayed away from listening to any TV today re the 911 except I thought to put on a goofy TV sitcom rerun and saw the news cameras in my neighborhood by the firehouse, the one with a big huge CROSS on the twin towers in the painting on the firehouse's front metal gate. No Star of David, no Ying Yang symbol, no Moon and Star, no OM symbol. Got turned off. The * helicopters flying over my home was scary enough. I feel angry today, 5 years later we are in the same place: getting played.

Thanks, Lynda.

It was me writing. I'm not at my home computer and forgot to add my name.

I agree, Stephanie - it's hard to know what to trust out there...

In recent years, Neptune has passed over Aquarius 16: The Big Businessman at His Desk and Aquarius 17: A Watchdog Standing Guard Protecting His Master and His Possessions and Aquarius 18: A Man Unmasked at a Masquerade.

All of this is fuel for the fire of conspiracy theories, and, of course, being led by the nose by those behind the desks at the White House.

I still hope, possibly naively, that GWB and his cronies will be exposed when Neptune makes it's last pass over the Man Being Unmasked at a Masquerade... not holding my breath, mind you!

Richard (Scorpio) Clark issues his statement...

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/sep/11/abc_consultant_richard_clarke_blasts_first_installment_of_film

Hi Bakti
I'm in Tucson at the moment, I prefer it here to Phoenix as it's a little less hot and there's less concrete. I've been here a lot (more than 30 times) and always enjoy it.

Regarding the cross of 9/11: Mars on the day of the attack was on Capricorn 2: Three Stained Glass Windows in a Cathedral, One is Damaged by Bombardment.

Interestingly, from memory I may not remember exactly, the church right next door to the WTC was Trinity Church and it was spared any real damage in the attack (3 Stained Glass Windows in a Cathedral)...

The thing that got thrown out was, as Rudhyar puts it, the principle of love, it's the first thing to go out the window.

Also, in a cathedral, one would expect to feel safe and safe from marauders and incursions (particularly from those you love) and yet Mars broke that trust.

The progessed Mars of the WTC attack chart is now at Capricorn 5: Indians, Some Are Rowing a Canoe While Others are Dancing a Wardance.

Interesting stuff..

The Mars of 911 broke down the barrier of fundamentalistic mentality to reveal the light is within. The towers falling to me was the beginning of the end of patriarchy.

I can see the 911 beams from my window. Have many magical and natural wonders and miracles from this window's view. Halle-Bopp comet, white doves, hawks, fireworks from Pier 17. The beams are sad but they give me hope. They are right on a huge cloud and it looks so eerie.

I read the article on indybay.com about the towers and recall that in the first few days many people wondered if there was something wrong with the design that resulted in the collapse. I remember reading one official architect who said that the architecture was sound and we will not have any rumors blaming the buildings. Now there is a article saying that the buildings were doomed! I guess we will never know but I do know that the story of that day makes no sense and I doubt that it ever will.
Worse though than what happened to the US that day is what has happened to the Iraqis since then. There is not and never will be any reason for the destruction of that country and death of their people. I do believe that with the viciousness of our invasion of Iraq and our support of Israel's destruction of Lebanon we will never be forgiven and in fact are now doomed.
How stupid are we? The money we use to build the weapons, to investigate new designs for death and destruction we could use for education, for the building of supportive and protective dwellings, for medicine that heals and supports. We could literally spread freedom and prosperity. HMMMM!!

DHS Brings Charges
Against Greg Palast
Palast Charged With Journalism In The First Degree
By Greg Palast
9-12-6

It's true. It's weird. It's nuts. The Department of Homeland Security, after a five-year hunt for Osama, has finally brought charges against Greg Palast. I kid you not. Send your cakes with files to the Air America wing at Guantanamo.

Though not just yet. Fatherland Security has informed me that television producer Matt Pascarella and I have been charged with unauthorized filming of a "critical national security structure" in Louisiana.

On August 22, for LinkTV and Democracy Now! we videotaped the thousands of Katrina evacuees still held behind a barbed wire in a trailer park encampment a hundred miles from New Orleans. It's been a year since the hurricane and 73,000 POW's (Prisoners of W) are still in this aluminum ghetto in the middle of nowhere. One resident, Pamela Lewis said, "It is a prison set-up" -- except there are no home furloughs for these inmates because they no longer have homes.

more

http://www.rense.com/general73/pal.htm

Outstanding Olberman!!

http://snipurl.com/w9yd

I live in the Bay Area and I was here when the big earthquake happened that made the Nimitz freeway fall down. It pancaked on itself and none of the buildings or structures under it or to either side were damaged by it, although some were hurt by the earthquake itself. It was located in a poor neighborhood.

The reason I'm writing about this is that the original designers of the freeway which ran overhead in the section that fell designed it to fall exactly the way it did in order to keep it from damaging the surrounding houses. I heard this from a close friend who's husband worked for California Conservation Corps and was high in the management ranks of the highway system in Northern California. They chose not to disclose this to the public for fear of having lawsuits brought by the families of the people who were killed on the freeway. This particular design feature was done specifically because of earhtquakes and was supposedly the best they could do at the time.

I think it's quite possible that the WTC towers were designed to fall the way they did and that the designers don't want anyone to know.

Email KOlbermann@msnbc.com

Hey PatC
He is outstanding, way to go. I emailed him, I hope a lot of people do, it's a small way to raise a voice...

This is quite interesting... ;O)

* Burns, Tester square off in front of packed house
By BETSY COHEN of the Missoulian

HAMILTON - [republic] Sen Conrad Burns told a boisterous crowd in Hamilton on Sun that he's the candidate for US Senate who is not “a lawbreaker.”

Members of the audience took offense & shouted “psycho” & booed as Burns claimed that Dem Senate candidate Jon Tester has an illegal slush fund, has taken “unreported” trips to Taiwan, & made illegal phone calls to raise campaign funds.

The accusations came after Tester accused Burns of no longer representing Montana values. “I believe in light bulbs & sunshine,” Burns said. “You know everything about me because it's all out there on the Web site.”

Under attack by the incumbent senator, Tester chuckled, then defended himself by citing a lengthy, rapid-fire list of out-of-state & out-of-country trips taken by Burns, & the multinatl corpos from which Burns has taken money.

The two were in the Bitterroot Valley on Sun afternoon for a 90-min debate at Hamilton High School, an raucous event punctuated by heckling from a lively overflow audience. ... http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2006/09/11/news/local/news03.txt

Hey Lynda! Hope you are having good travels in the US! It's so good to have you here!

..........

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/12/book_excerpt/print.html

How bad is he?

Bush ran as a moderate, tacked right and governed ineffectually -- before 9/11. Since then he's become the most radical American president in history -- and arguably the worst. - By Sidney Blumenthal

...........

Vtoing irregularities already showing up in Maryland today.

Heh! I am trying to type and it's just too early. ;-)

GreenStone officially launches on Tuesday, Sept. 12, at Manhattan's Museum of Television & Radio.

http://www.greenstoneradio.com/listenertest/

http://www.forbes.com/2006/08/23/james-brady-on-media-cx_jb_0824greenstone.html

Women Go FM
James Brady, 08.24.06, 6:00 AM ET

Can intelligent, informational, entertaining FM talk radio wean American women away from an underperforming music radio format and from TV's Oprah, the soaps, Dr. Phil and the Springer and Maury freak shows? And in sufficient numbers to provide an audience that makes commercial sense?

A cool new outfit called GreenStone Media, the creation of some high-powered dames and backed by deep-pocketed investors, certainly believes it's possible. And they'll talk about and promote this idea, and unveil their new "mass appeal format for FM radio--for women and by women," when GreenStone officially launches on Tuesday, Sept. 12, at Manhattan's Museum of Television & Radio.

Never heard of GreenStone? With a board of directors including the late media tycoon Walter Annenberg's daughter Wallis and a couple of high-profile lightning rods like Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem, don't fret. You'll be hearing plenty!

More....

Expect this all over the cournty with close victories for neocns.

From my e-mail:

MARYLAND IN VOTER MELT-DOWN TODAY

We are having problems all across the state in the MD
primary. Early in the morning, the machines could not
be used because the voter "smart cards," used to
download the appropriate ballot face, had not been
delivered to the precincts.

Early arrivals were being given provisional ballots to
vote on. One Democratic Area Coordinator reported
that voters were concerned to see the completed
provisonal ballots being stacked on chairs in the
voting station.

In places where the Diebold AccuVote TS machines were
up and working, voters reported problems with trying
to record their selections. Long lines may be a
problem all day as Maryland uses Diebold e-poll books
for the first time for voter check in. There were
reports of voters leaving in disgust over long waits.

Baltimore media outlets had reported calls from angry
voters in 30-40 precincts around the city. The
Washington Post had been swamped with calls before the
Metro Desk was open.

It is going to be a long day for voters, and a long
night for Boards of Election workers, trying to count
the vote.

Unfortunately, activists have been predicting that it
might take an election meltdown to force the
Legislatlure and the State Board of Elections to
address the vulnerabilities and flaws in paperless
touchscreen voting. They may be getting that message
at last.

Surprise, surprise. But what the NeoCons /Republicans have yet to realize is that by trying so desperately to hang on to their beloved status quo empire, and resist change, they are setting themselves up for a tremendous, devestating Plutonian downfall, from which they will never be able to recover.

It's better to go with the flow, recognize and accept that your old, outmoded ways are ready to pass away, and let them do so. The days of empire and supposed American superiority are at an end. But somehow, they want to believe that fixing and stealing elections will stop the inevitable change that's coming.

Mother Jones Feature...

Just Try Voting Here: 11 of America's worst places to cast a ballot (or try)
Machines that count backward, slice-and-dice districts, felon baiting, phone jamming, and plenty of dirty tricks

Sasha Abramsky
September/October 2006 Issue We used to think the voting system was something like the traffic laws -- a set of rules clear to everyone, enforced everywhere, with penalties for transgressions; we used to think, in other words, that we had a national election system. How wrong a notion this was has become painfully apparent since 2000: As it turns out, except for a rudimentary federal framework (which determines the voting age, channels money to states and counties, and enforces protections for minorities and the disabled), U.S. elections are shaped by a dizzying mélange of inconsistently enforced laws, conflicting court rulings, local traditions, various technology choices, and partisan trickery. In some places voters still fill in paper ballots or pull the levers of vintage machines; elsewhere, they touch screens or tap keys, with or without paper trails. Some states encourage voter registration; others go out of their way to limit it. Some allow prisoners to vote; others permanently bar ex-felons, no matter how long they've stayed clean. Who can vote, where people cast ballots, and how and whether their votes are counted all depends, to a large extent, on policies set in place by secretaries of state and county elections supervisors -- officials who can be as partisan, as dubiously qualified, and as nakedly ambitious as people anywhere else in politics. Here is a list -- partial, but emblematic -- of American democracy's more glaring weak spots.

http://www.motherjones.com/cgi-bin/print_article.pl?url=http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/09/just_try_voting_here.html

Thought For the Day


12.6 September

Since the start of September I’ve become steadily more aware of an energy that I can only describe as a bubble of goodness that is seeking to impact itself onto the Earth and its inhabitants. It’s struggling to push through the envelope of fear, terror and media manipulation that still predominates, but it’s my impression from dealing with friends, clients and students of the different courses I teach that exponentially more people are ignoring the spin and instead relying on their own common sense and intuition. Yes, I might be just buying into the Jupiter effect as it squares both Saturn and Neptune over the coming three weeks, but I think not. There’s something new coming soon, something wonderful……..

Signs of the Times for Tue, 12 Sep 2006

9/11 - Whodunnit? The Answer Is Clear

Poll: 45% of Americans blame Bush for 9/11
September 11, 2006
CNN

WASHINGTON - The percentage of Americans who blame the Bush administration for the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington has risen from almost a third to almost half over the past four years, a CNN poll released Monday found.

Asked whether they blame the Bush administration for the attacks, 45 percent said either a "great deal" or a "moderate amount," up from 32 percent in a June 2002 CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll.

Somethings to look forward to....

http://www.trufax.org/general/astro.html#election

This morning I had a very vivid dream. I dreamt that my significant other and myself were sitting at the top of a staircase out in the open in a big city. We were high up and were watching a concert (or something like it - a public event) from afar and admiring the view at the same time when suddently we hear loud noise and look behind and above us and see a reenactment of 9/11. The planes were right over us and then went through us and I thought, they're trying to scare us and are using haliographic images to recreate the scene of planes flying into buildings ... then I realized that the planes were real and it was happening again.

I keep on thinking I need to get my vegetable garden started.

Marta....OY....I hope your are NOT being prescient....I hope I hope.

(9/11 was also the anniversary of my dad's death.) Saturn was at 14 Gemini on 9/11/01 (my saturn is 16 Gemini) and on Dec 7, 1941, Jupiter was at 16 Gemini....quite a difference in interpretation, maybe presaging the outcome, I think.

Lunaoscura..years ago I used to drive the Cypress Fwy which pancaked Oct 17, 1989....and I had moved my office into SF on Oct 16...right where the Embarcadero fwy ended on Broadway. I was maybe one of the last people to ever drive on that fwy, about 3 pm that day, and it was just deserted, as there were all those people down at Candlestick Park for the World Series game....

things are so much better in SF and in Oakland since those fwys came down, I mean visually - as you said, they did the best they could for those years, but geez, they were horrid freeways - more like Mordor than the beautiful bay area deserved. And I am not surprised that the information you shared was not broadcast. It makes perfect sense, given how close all the homes were to it (I also lived not far from the Cypress when I lived in Alameda).

The coda to this is that 4 years later, on Oct. 17, my daughter's best friend was murdered.

I had already looked up the weirdness in the dates about the earthquake (giving even more weight to Uranus transits)...it was 83 years, 6 months and 12 hours exactly after the 1906 earthquake.

PS...anyone see the daytime moon today? Quite lovely but also very sci fi.....10:30 AM PDT, it was in the western sky, 1/2 of it anyway...the top half. All ghosty white.

Voting problems in Maryland

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/9/12/103757/105

Wooo-hoo, NEOB:
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060912/BREAKINGNEWS/60912029

Wooo-hoo, Pat C:
http://www.bradblog.com/

You'll have to scroll down just a little bit. He really needs to reorganize his page.

Thanks shy!

I'm speechless:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2507028

Shy...well, shoot....now it is "he said it was protected "and "she said it wasn't"....sort of. Dirty tricks always backfire ..... especially now.

I should think the book about Arnold that the professor (female) wrote (about the 6 years they lived together) would do more damage....sex, drugs and more sex and ego and ambition to go with it. Plus she said that he told her he would one day be governor.

Yet they impeach Clinton for a BJ.....

Well, JudiGem, what I don't understand is why Angelides' camp doesn't want to win. What does the astrology say about this?

But . . . but . . . but. . . if we don't fight them over there, we'll be fighting them here.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14805515

Judigem, OY is right! Same thing I thought when I woke up!

About the Ahnuld thing, classic Rove trick ... he's done it many times ...

And, hey, the head of the Air Force wants to test non-lethal weapons on US citizens before using them in the battlefield. Really.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/12/usaf.weapons.ap/index.html

Got this from Nancy's blog.

Marta, This is what I was trying to tell you a few weeks ago (see below). Of course, what you said about allowing a country to have its own culture and way of life is the way things should be and the U.S.'s interference is reason why we are so disliked. However, the people in Iran are not living the way they want to live and they do not like their leaders. They are living the way the fundamentalists and mullahs want them to live. Kristoff says that if we leave things alone, regime change will happen on its own. I believe it was Al Franken who said that the reason the current president was voted in was because Bush & Rice were "campaigning" for the opponent. And, of course, we don't know how corrupt their voting system is.

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Nicholas Kristoff points out what should be the key issues in the Iran war debate:

I’ve never been in a country where the government is so unpopular as in Iran, with the possible exception of Burma. The government is so corrupt, tyrannical and incompetent that it will eventually collapse — unless we attack its nuclear sites and trigger a nationalistic surge of support for the regime.

We Americans are still paying the price for our involvement in the 1953 overthrow of the elected Iranian government of Mohammed Mossadegh; if we bomb Iran, we may cement the mullahs in power for another 50 years.

Moreover, the military options are wretched, partly because Iran is probably doing much of its work at sites we can’t destroy because we don’t know where they are. The Natanz site for now is an empty room. We might kill Russian technicians at Bushehr or elsewhere, and Iran might retaliate with terror attacks aimed at us (counterterrorism experts suspect that Iran has sleeper agents in the U.S. whom it could activate).

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/opinion/12kristof.html?hp

Sharon, I totally agree with you about Iran's government. I'm the last person to like any kind of fundamental, totalitarian, etc., etc. system. Let them work it out. Thanks for the post. In the end, we're going to have to do the same (work it out).

When sending email in praise of Keith Olbermann and Countdown, send the email to the first address below and copy all the others.

viewerservices@msnbc.com
letters@msnbc.com
countdown@msnbc.com
KOlbermann@msnbc.com
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I always am concerned about folks who are in the "bomb 'em over there" club when their own country might could use a full-blown fumigating "bomb 'em over here", from some other nation's point of view... when there's treason, torture, wholesale lying, omnicide, mass stealing, child-screwing, corruption & crimes a-plenty going on right "here" is what I think. I don't live "there" so I don't really know what the truth is "there." But I sho' know some things about "here!" ;O)

Thanks, Pat C, for the URLs!

Glad you enjoy the x-tra names, Lynda; & glad you enjoyed the old joke, Cybear. If I remember correctly, I did same when I first heard it. There are more, of course... ;O) "You might be fundamentalist if your family tree don't branch." Oh well....

* Ironic Times

LATEST HEADLINES ... Ken Burns headed to Iraq ... Bin Laden spends 9/11 at home, 'watching football' ... Blair announces he'll be pushed out next year ... Rumsfeld has chip removed from shoulder ... Terrorist network unveils new fall schedule ... Congressman caught acting ethically ... False prophet files as nonprofit ... Focus groups seen blurring line ... Schwarzenegger apologizes to Latinos, blacks, women, Republicans, Democrats, homosexuals, teachers ... bush reading 'My Pet Goat' in French ... Study: obesity epidemic getting funnier ... Lower SAT scores blamed on aptitude drought ... Luddites announce major breakthrough ... Launch of target missile with dummy warhead called a success ... Cheney: I've done a helluva job ... Senate intelligence panel doesn't find any ... Spam stock tip leads to worldwide prosperity ...

WORLD NEWS

Blair Leaving, Won't Say When - Hasn't rec'd instructions from bush.

US Hands Over Control of Iraq Army to Iraq
Iraq hands over control of Iraq army to Iran.

US NEWS

Senate Report: Saddam Had No Ties to Al Qaeda
But he was close to Rumsfeld.

[Republics] Concerned Spy Agencies Playing Down Iran Threat - Fear voters not sufficiently scared.

Condi Likens Critics of Iraq Policies to Those Who Supported Slavery, Opposed Declaration of Independence And worshipped the Devil.

House Panel: Intel on Iran Weak - But good enough to warrant preemptive nuclear strike, says Cheney.

POLITICS

Florida: Katherine Harris Wins GOP Senate Primary - Defeats Wicked Witch of the North and Wicked Witch of the West to rep party in Nov.

NEWS QUIZ???

A docudrama airing on ABC about 9/11 dramatizes why we didn’t capture Bin Laden. It shows

A ) We didn't pursue him in Tora Bora because we decided to go to war in Iraq instead.

B ) The [rez regime] lost interest & cancelled the CIA effort directed at catching him.

C ) It was Clinton's fault.

Hint: Everything is Clinton's fault.

more... http://www.ironictimes.com/index.html

Does this give anyone besides me a bad feeling?

Air Force chief: Test weapons on testy U.S. mobs

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.

The object is basically public relations. Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions from others about possible safety considerations, said Secretary Michael Wynne.

"If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation," said Wynne. "(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press."

more

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/12/usaf.weapons.ap/index.html

Canny Comment from a poster, another site...

Basic math-
If our enemy is Al Quaeda, Bin Laden has between 10,000 & 40,000 followers.

If we confuse Hezbollah with Al Quaeda, Bin Laden has between 800,000 & 1.2 million followers.

If we confuse Hamas, Hezbollah, Iraqi's & Iranians with Al Quaeda, Bin Laden has ~100 million followers.

If we confuse all muslims with Al Quaeda, Bin Laden has 1.2 Billion followers.

If we confuse anti-Iraq sentiment as unpatriotic or un-[ameriCO] support for Al Queda, Bin Laden has 5.999 Billion followers.

Take THAT!! you white-powered snot-nosed bushadruggie!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20060912/pl_usnw/dnc__dean_sends_mehlman_letter_on_rnc_funded_discriminatory_and_un_american_campaign_activities313_xml

DNC: Dean Sends Mehlman Letter on RNC Funded Discriminatory and Un-American Campaign Activities

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 /U.S. Newswire/—
Democratic National Committee Chairman

Howard Dean sent a letter toRepublican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman today calling on him to stop RNC-funded campaign activities that promote discrimination and endorse violence against political opponents. The letter was sent after a Michigan newspaper revealed that an RNC-funded organizer in Michigan is coordinating “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” and “Fun With Guns” events at the University of Michigan, similar to Republican events in other states like Pennsylvania and Texas. In the first event participants would win prizes for catching others posing as illegal immigrants and in the latter, “young Republicans would shoot cardboard cut-outs of Democratic leaders such as Sen.Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen.John Kerry (D-Mass.).”

The report of these RNC-funded activities also comes just two days after the Washington Post reported that “in a pivotal year, (the) GOP plans to get personal.” (The Michigan Daily, 9/12/06; Washington Post, 9/10/2006) Additionally, the RNC and College Republicans have a track record of inappropriate and discriminatory campaign tactics:
—RNC Hired Intern is Planning “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” and “Fun With Guns” Events. “Morgan Wilkins, the intern hired by the Republican National Committee to win the hearts and minds of Michigan 20-somethings, is planning events that some may find odd. To others, they may be offensive. One such idea is ‘Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day,’ in which a volunteer would play the part of an illegal immigrant and hide somewhere on campus while others try to find him. The winner would receive a prize. Her other ideas include an event called ‘Fun with Guns,’ in which young Republicans would use a BB gun or paintball gun to shoot cardboard cut-outs of Democratic leaders such as Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.)” (The Michigan Daily, 9/12/06)

More…

Yes Shy, Noe's conviction is good news! Sorry I haven't had time to post more about it. The worst part for him is that he faces an unrelated trial in October for all of his other wrongdoings in the state. A conviction there could extend his current prison sentence by DECADES.

I can't say that I feel sorry for the guy. He was full aware of what he was doing, and expected to get away with it. Now he's paying the price for his crimes against the people of Ohio, as he should. But he should only be the first of many.

* Between Iraq & re-election bid

Politicians say the darndest things. They're most cynically amusing--or distressingly annoying--when their comfortable seats are in jeopardy & they are hogtied by political circumstances they can't control. So it is that we have the latest, most convoluted--most comical--way to try to get rid of Donald Rumsfeld: Cut the guy out of the action.

[Republics] on Capitol Hill have effectively blocked Dems from staging a true "no confidence" vote against the petulant [offense] sec. The dysfunctionally stubborn bush wouldn't think of throwing overboard a member of his war Cabinet who cooked up & executed so many of the mistakes that have brought us a gruesome countdown to civil war in Iraq & a return of the Taliban to Afghanistan. ... http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/opnOPN95091306.htm

I wonder if noe is the vengeful type... I mean, he might be annoyed enuf at his criminal cohorts to do a lot of singing about a whole bunch of fellow slime blobs, you think? ;O)

From the folks in Hawaii...

* Will isle reps vote to impeach bush?

WILL you vote to impeach george bush?" This is an appropriate question to ask all Dem & [Republic] candidates running for Ed Case's seat in Congress. Case himself as well as Rep Neil Abercrombie & Senators Daniel Inouye & Daniel Akaka also should have an answer ready. If elected, they may well have to cast a "yea" or "nay" on the issue of impeachment.

Natl polls show a majority of Americans now favor the Dems. If Dems take both houses of Congress in the Nov election ... Dems will run the committees & wield subpoena power. Even if the Dems take control only of the House, a motion to impeach bush could well come forward. If it does, how should our reps vote?

The constitutional description of an impeachable presidential offense is "treason, bribery or other high crimes & misdemeanors." What those "other" crimes & misdemeanors might be is for Congress to decide. Eight years ago, a [Republic] House voted that having a sexual relationship with a WH intern & lying about it was an impeachable offense. The Senate decided it wasn't, but the House vote set the height of the bar. It seems ludicrously low compared to what is before us today.

bush took the nation into [grievous assault] through lies or incompetence. His justification for going to [assault] in Iraq was that Saddam Hussein had WMD & ties to al-Qaida. Neither existed, so bush either lied or was grievously incompetent. We've spent $400 billion on this [criminal assault]. More than 2,600 Americans are dead, tens of 1000s more wounded, & Iraq today has more foreign terrorists, more insurgent attacks & produces less oil than it did two years ago. ... http://starbulletin.com/2006/09/12/editorial/commentary.html

Sorry for the long post. Vote No War.org sent me an e-mail, for action. I tried to find a link to their site but it was only about action to end the war!

Posada Carriles: Today’s announcement that the U.S. government is on the verge of releasing anti-Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles rather than extraditing him to Venezuela requires that all of us act now.

Please take a moment and send a letter to the State Department and members of Congress indicating your disgust with this travesty of justice which can only be understood as a grave threat against the people of Cuba by the U.S. government.
What an irony that on the day Bush went on national television (September 11, 2006) to declare a non-stop war on “terrorism,” the same government went into the last stage in the legal process to free the man responsible for blowing up a Cuban passenger plane with 73 people aboard in 1976. This same man organized other bombings of hotels and other civilian facilities in Cuba. Luis Posada Carriles was a CIA agent and has never stopped his campaign of bombings and assassinations. Now, he is to be set free among the U.S. public rather than face a trial and justice. Bush’s so-called on war on terrorism is exposed as a complete fraud. Bush labels Cuba and the people of the Middle East as “terrorists” in pursuit of a war for empire a war that does not hesitate to use terrorist tactics against its targets.
U.S. Magistrate Norbert Garney in El Paso recommended Posada’s release last night on the basis that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, notorious now for his “legal” advocacy of torture, refused to classify Posada as a terrorist. Meanwhile, the U.S. government continues to imprison the men known as the Cuban Five for up to double-life terms for attempting to report on the planned activities of Posada and the Miami-based and CIA funded terrorist organizations whose acts have taken the lives of more than 3,000 Cubans since 1959.

The State Department refuses to extradite Posada to Venezuela where he is wanted to stand trial for the destruction of the airliner in 1976. The doomed Cuban aircraft flew from Venezuela on October 6, 1976 the day it was destroyed by a bomb in mid-flight. The Magistrate ruled that since Posada could not be extradited he could not be held indefinitely on the lone immigration charge filed against him by the Justice Department. Thus, the legal strategy of the Bush administration to win Posada’s freedom has now been fully confirmed.
QOP

Sorry for the long post. I got this as e-mail & couldn't find a link?

What an irony that on the day Bush went on national television (September 11, 2006) to declare a non-stop war on “terrorism,” the same government went into the last stage in the legal process to free the man responsible for blowing up a Cuban passenger plane with 73 people aboard in 1976. This same man organized other bombings ofhotels and other civilian facilities in Cuba. Luis Posada Carriles was a CIA agent and has never stopped his campaign of bombings and assassinations. Now, he is to be set free among the U.S. public rather than face a trial and justice. Bush’s so-called on war on terrorism is exposed as a complete fraud. Bush labels Cuba and the people of the Middle East as “terrorists” in pursuit of a war for empire a war that does not hesitate to use terrorist tactics against its targets.

U.S. Magistrate Norbert Garney in El Paso recommended Posada’s release last night on the basis that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, notorious now for his “legal” advocacy of torture, refused to classify Posada as a terrorist. Meanwhile, the U.S. government continues to imprison the men known as the Cuban Five for up to double-life terms for attempting to report on the planned activities of Posada and the Miami-based and CIA funded terrorist organizations whose acts have taken the lives of more than 3,000 Cubans since 1959.

The State Department refuses to extradite Posada to Venezuela where he is wanted to stand trial for the destruction of the airliner in 1976. The doomed Cuban aircraft flew from Venezuela on October 6, 1976 the day it was destroyed by a bomb in mid-flight. The Magistrate ruled that since Posada could not be extradited he could not be held indefinitely on the lone immigration charge filed against him by the Justice Department. Thus, the legal strategy of the Bush administration to win Posada’s freedom has now been fully confirmed.
QOP

Oh cripes! And it posted twice!!
If I open AW in Firefox, it is extremely triple wide? Internet Explorer contains it within proper borders?
QOP

Extra wide in Safari, too!

The story of the RNC plans to entertain college kids with racist, murderous games frightenes me.
The news of the military wanting to practice using their new weapons on us frightens me.
I guess we can only expect to have the tables turned. What we have willingly allowed to be exported is now turned on us.

The story of the RNC plans to entertain college kids with racist, murderous games frightenes me.
The news of the military wanting to practice using their new weapons on us frightens me.
I guess we can only expect to have the tables turned. What we have willingly allowed to be exported is now turned on us.

Clip from BBC movie of B*sh assassination...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=404685&in_page_id=1773&in_a_source=

Shy...this morning the paper expounded on the Angelides problem...I believe they are saying 2 staffers for Angelides ON THEIR OWN went in and grabbed those tapes which were stored on Arnold's website, and leaked them because they thought it would do Phil lots o' good....WRONG....funny, another columnist said what I said...damned if they do and damned if they don't.

But Arnold is who he is, and fighting him on the personal level hasn't worked in the past and won't work this time either.....

Phil is charisma challenged....which is lethal in this kind of star studded worship by the masses.

Noticed Air America is supposedly declaring bankruptcy. And that as Sally said earlier, it is also being cautioned in the press that Dems may not gain much in this election. The momentum is just now starting to roll....too soon. (Raw Story)

But my favorite story is this one, perhaps a bit under the radar, also front page on Raw Story:

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2006 — Earl Devaney, the inspector general of the Department of the Interior, will give a blunt assessment of the level of ethics there in testimony to be presented to a congressional subcommittee Wednesday.

"Simply stated, short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior," Devaney will tell the subcommittee, according to an advance copy of his prepared remarks obtained by ABC News.

Devaney was asked to investigate a controversy that's been brewing on Capitol Hill for months over what critics call a giant giveaway to the major oil companies. (more) and then concluding:
"Over the course of this seven-year tenure, I have observed one instance after another when the good work of my office has been dynamically disregarded by the department," he writes in his testimony. "Ethics failures on the part of senior department officials, taking the form of appearances of impropriety, favoritism and bias have been routinely dismissed with a promise 'not to do it again.'"

Steve Judd...

12.6 September - Since the start of Sept I’ve become steadily more aware of an energy that I can only describe as a bubble of goodness that is seeking to impact itself onto the Earth & its inhabitants. It’s struggling to push through the envelope of fear, terror & media manipulation that still predominates, but it’s my impression from dealing with friends, clients & students of the different courses I teach that exponentially more people are ignoring the spin & instead relying on their own common sense & intuition. Yes, I might be just buying into the Jupiter effect as it squares both Saturn/Neptune over the coming 3 wks, but I think not. There’s something new coming soon, something wonderful... http://www.stevejudd.com/home.html

As they used to say in the 60s, and even into the 70s, "right on!" JoannaO to your Sept. 13, 02:21 AM post.

Has anyone looked into this (from wikipedia)?
Keith Olbermann (born January 27, 1959 in New York City

I will try to put up a new thread of sometype tomorrow. Morgana and I are both quite sick with the creeping crud going around and can't think straight enought to string a cognitive sentence together (my daugher is writing this for me) I am sorry to hear that Ann Richards (former Governor of Texas) has died tonight. She was a fiesty liberal.

Tomorrow morning I will try to put a new thread together. Sorry to let this get so long. Would you want me to close the comment section now? so it won't be so long?

Just get lots of rest and drink lots of liquids, Cap'n Sally. We'll be ok. (I almost added ", Mom.") Take good care of yrself. You too, Mz Morgana!

Interview with Mark Crispin Miller on his book “Fooled Again”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDbQcckTZgM

Hack the Vote
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/09/13/diebold/

Oh Sally!-here's seeing you all clear and peaceful and for you also Morgana! Something cruddy has been going around here too.

Sally and Morgana, feel better soon. Lots of warm liquids and vitamins and some hugs.

Gods bless you Shylurker!!!! And no wonder I love that Keith Olbermann, his birthday is 3 days after mine, though he was born 4 years before me.

Sally, I say post one or two sentences in a new thread if you feel like it, but otherwise, you and Ms Morgana do whatever it takes to get and feel better!!!

RIP Ann Richards, you will be missed....

We had to laugh when we saw CNN's clip of Ann Richards saying "Poor George, he was born with a silver foot in this mouth!!!"

I hope in the coverage of her death, publicity is given to the sleeze campaign Rove started about her being a lesbian so the public can easily see how he would be behind the Plame leak.

I also heard something about the Texas prosecuters wanting to bring back conspiracy charge against Delay. Too bad, but I believe Nancy had said she saw good ongoing aspects for him. I hope they get him. Hypocrite!

QOP and mars:

Go to the Firefox Themes and Extensions page (link below) and look for "force wrap" and "zap style sheets" to take care of the problem of the extra wide window.

Once installed, click on "force wrap". Sometimes that works and sometimes not, but if not then click "zap style sheets". That always works. When "force wrap" works it keeps the same format. When you have to use "zap style sheets" you'll lose the boxes and lines but will still have the typing and it will be contained within your window.

Sending healing thoughts to everyone sick.

Forgot the link:

https://addons.mozilla.org/?application=firefox

Time For Us To Go

Cons on why the GOP should lose in 2006.

With [republic]s controlling Congress & the WH, cons these days ought to be happy, but most aren’t. They see expanding govt, runaway spending, Mid East entanglements, & govt corruption, & they wonder why, exactly, the country s/b grateful for [necroporn] dominance. Some accuse bush & the [republic]s today of not being true cons. Others see a grab bag of stated policies & wonder how they cohere. Everyone thinks something’s got to change.

Now 7 prominent cons dare to speak the unspeakable: They hope the [republic]s lose in 2006. Well, let’s be diplomatic & say they’d prefer divided govt—soon. (Perhaps that formulation will fool Dennis Hastert.) Of course, all of them wish for the long-term health of con-ism, & most are loyal to the GOP. What they also believe, however, is that even if a Speaker Pelosi looms in the wings, sometimes the best remedy for a party gone astray is to give it a session in the time-out chair.

Let's quit while we're behind By Christopher Buckley

Bring on Pelosi By Bruce Bartlett

And we thought Clinton had no self-control By Joe Scarborough

Give divided govt a chance By William A. Niskanen

Restrain this White House By Bruce Fein

Idéologie has taken over By Jeffrey Hart

The show must not go on By Richard A Viguerie

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0610.forum.html

Thanks for the tip kristl.
I'm just opening in Internet Explorer for the monment.
Firefox isn't that much of an advantage until I tweak it to work the way I want. I have to download flash media, so I can watch youtube, and vidoes. AND get SALON.com Have been too busy!
This time of year in Maine is demanding! I have covered my garden twice againnst the frost which didn't happen! ( 2 years ago there was a "killing frost" on sept 2!. Now there is a reprieve for several weeks! This year I am ditching house plants in favor of edible crops in the window boxes.
Feel better Sally & Morgana.
Sernator Snowe has hired the swift boat media group to handle her campaign against Jean Hay Bright. ( The former organic gardener, Dem.candidate for US Senate!! ( from my e-mail)
QOP

Interesting update on Middle East history, with
many interesting comments and rebuttles.

Comment

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Olmert should have more of an insight than most into terrorism

Sixty years ago the sort of atrocity that Israel's leaders habitually condemn helped bring the country into being

Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Thursday September 14, 2006
The Guardian

After Tony Blair's latest - and perhaps final - trip to the Levant, the TUC must have seemed almost a relief. There were no banners in Brighton reading "Blair, you killer, go to hell", like those that greeted him in Lebanon last weekend - on a visit that seemed a very long time since the prime minister told the Labour conference, in the wake of September 11: "The starving, the wretched, the dispossessed, the ignorant, those living in want and squalour from the deserts of northern Africa to the slums of Gaza, to the mountain ranges of Afghanistan: they too are our cause."

Article continues

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1871882,00.html
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Yup, wv... same-old same-old same-old from the same-OLD same-OLD same-OLD... same same same OLD OLD OLD....

I've got the crud, too. Lots & lots of rest beautiful ladies.... you deserve it. RIP Ann Richards, we'll miss you.

Ann Richards

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/us/ann_richards

See article below from Information Clearinghouse. After reading it, I come to the following conclusion:

Looks like we're fomenting this civil war over there (in Iraq). Our casualties are pretty low, so what are we doing over there if not arming the conflict so we can permanently occupy the country and blame it on the Iraquis. Funny that all of the professionals are being driven out. Isn't that what every totalitarian system tries to do first? Get rid of the educated? The thinkers? The ones who might be able to oppose? I don't buy it anymore. The death toll is massive. I don't buy that the Sunni's hate the Shia's anymore than I buy the red state / blue state, republicans hate democrats hate republicans hate liberals hate conservatives spiel any longer. Someone is actively fueing this situation. It's the classic divide and conquer. Who benefits? Our tax dollars at work. We're serfs and slaves and only serve at the master's pleasure.

All this contrived breakdown - in Iraq in the U.S. - in Afganistan ... while it looks very disorderly, it's really not. It's called creative chaos and there's usually someone pulling the strings and benefiting from all the madness. That's why someone at the white house said a few years back "we create our own reality", and they are, yessirree, they are. Question is, is it the reality that we all want to live in? Unbelievable!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14952.htm

Exactly, Marta... I do want to see one tiny group throttled & that would be the bloody monsters behind all of it... for centuries...

One of the few politicians, I admired was the GUTSY, FUNNY Ann Richards. If only, she had won in
1994, persuading the foolish Texan majority, we
would not have had this rotten MESS since 2000 for the past 6 years, here as well as in this world. This is one of the greatest WHAT IFS? RIP

New Moon in Virgo
Friday, September 22, 2006
4:45am PDT
29º 20'
Annular Solar Eclipse
4:51am PDT
29º 23'

So we have a second New Moon in Virgo this year. I suggest you take a moment and refresh your memory by rereading the last New Moon in Virgo Moon Message before continuing any further.

This is a special New Moon in Virgo for several reasons: it occurs at 29º, the Moon and Sun are conjunct the South Node in Virgo, in a T-Square with the North Node in Pisces and Pluto in Sagittarius, and all this occurs during a solar eclipse.

This will be an annular solar eclipse, where a narrow ring of the Sun is visible around the dark moon. This eclipse will be visible throughout South America and western Africa. For more information on the eclipse go visit NASA's eclipse web site: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEmono/ASE2006/ASE2006.html

http://www.astrowisdom.com/thisnewmoon.htm

Who says Ann Richards didn't win? I remember thinking: "Those rt-wing mfers got away with vote fraud didn't they..." & that was before I was as "in-the-aware" as now. Ann Richards was adored by regular folks in Texas; then suddenly, she wasn't?

Draft Obama Movement Launched...

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2006/09/draft_obama_2008_movement_laun.html

* IAEA slams US House Intelligence Committee report on Iran

Malaysia Sun Thursday 14th September, 2006

The International Atomic Energy Agency has attacked a report released by the US House Intelligence Committee, describing parts of it as "outrageous & dishonest." The report titled, "Recognizing Iran as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the US," was released by the Chairman of the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Peter Hoekstra, who said at the time he wanted to raise the public's awareness of the Iran threat.

Officials of the IAEA say the report contains some "erroneous, misleading & unsubstantiated statements." The report was packaged with a photo on the front cover of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking from a podium above a banner reading "The World without Zionism." ... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/acd19475a26b3a3e/

How to hack a Diebold Voting Machine...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/how-to-hack-a-diebold-vot_b_26301.html

PQP...Raw Story has a link in which it says that Kerry is going to run again for pres, and is kicking the swiftboaters ass (says he doesn't care what conventional wisdom says, and I hope that is a trend which will happen with all dems)....and now Olympia Snowe goes for the same media group to promote herself? I'd say watch out for some ugly stuff....

but the bigger blow is that Google is propping up the GOP...throwing their considerable weight and CASH behind the GOP in DC. Despite the fact that MOST of their employees are dems....time to block all google stuff!!!!

Last night saw a great 3 way going on in the empty house of Congress....Ohio's D. rep Tim Ryan, Kendrik Meeks of FLA and also Debbie - hyphenated last name - Schultz? doing a great 3 way rant about Iraq....and W.

In CA the water wars over the San Juaquin river (which has been damned up for over 60 years to benefit upriver farmers, which made an entire species of salmon extinct) has been worked out so farmers, salmon (reintroduced) and fishermen and recreation/homeowners will have a river again. Been in court for 18 YEARS....finally settled, at least until 2026. I have noticed that there have been some interesting movement in cases which have been stalled for long periods of time (as WV posted, some good things are happening)

Judi, where did you get that info about Google? It's hard to believe that this the same Google that is set up so that when you put in words like "failure," Bush's name comes up first.

Google: The New Port Authority

http://villagevoice.com/news/0637,gustin,74433,5.html

* BREAKING THROUGH THE BARRIER

Only two days since the last alert, and it's already time for a new message. So much is occurring in these monumental times!

We have finally broken though the barrier, and what an intense process it has been. The past week provided us opportunities for incredible expansion, and through this opening, we were then able to push through the final vestiges of some lower vibrating energy that has been around for eons of time.

This past weekend was perhaps the most intense, as we went very deep, moving into some amazing territory. For about a week now, I have felt like crying at the drop of a hat. I was nearly speechless, and my friends were most likely thrilled, as the wildly excitable and enthusiastic Karen was actually quiet for a change! Strange as it may seem, I have to say that I love these states of higher consciousness, as one can feel so much love and gratitude, that it can be difficult to function at all. The highest love for all of life and every human being, was most certainly at the forefront during this time, and all I can say is WOW!

Other manifestations of this incredible movement could be felt as flu-like symptoms, body aches, great fatigue, headaches, dizziness, feeling like you have been run over by a truck, chest congestion (the breaking up of old energy), and then... the beloved diarrhea.

In addition, this shift was so monumental, that many of us could not do a thing. A complete letting go and surrender was required, and that even felt divine as well. Trying to accomplish anything, could only lead to frustration, a tightness, roadblock energy, and a total disillusionment with any prior existing manifestations. ... http://www.whatsuponplanetearth.com/latest.htm

Sharon....all of it came from RAW STORY....just go to the web site...it is the major headline...

Joanna...Yeh....I had all that stuff happen which you just posted...was in bed Fri, Sat and half of Sunday...then it was gone. Should have checked out whatsup, she's always right on.

"Other manifestations of this incredible movement could be felt as flu-like symptoms, body aches, great fatigue, headaches, dizziness, feeling like you have been run over by a truck, chest congestion (the breaking up of old energy), and then... the beloved diarrhea."

Wow, so this is why I am feeling all out of whack? I have had every symptom for the past 2 weeks and it has been awful. I was starting to wonder that I had some really serious health issues. But, the symptoms could also be magnified by the Reiki Master Attunements I got 2 weeks ago. This added to the 'cleansing process' that usually occurs after an attunement.

Talk about letting go of the past....

http://www.whatsuponplanetearth.com/latest.htm
Some of you may take exception to what I am about to convey here next, so please bear with me. At higher levels, the terrorist energy is serving to support our evolutionary process as well. We are always all in this together, going in the same direction, supporting the whole, at the highest levels. The denser and what appear to be darker energies, serve to assist us in creating something different. They wake us up. They shake us up. They push us into a higher vibrating state of being. Currently, because of higher vibrations now being our mainstay, the denser energies are congealing together, as like energies always associate with like energies. But being that they are now in the minority, more and more, they are grouping together and are much more easily identifiable.
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I was just thinking the same thing this morning. which is why we always have to understand the dark side of the force, as Yoda said.

Just be one with the dirt! (My daughter's phraze after a camping trip with no showers for 3 days.)

PQOP...Swift Boat Ads Backer Funds New Group:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/09/14/politics/p115921D17.DTL
The Republican donor who helped bankroll the Swift Boat attacks on Democratic Sen. John Kerry's war record has given $5 million to a new group targeting Democratic candidates.---
and---
EVEN IN WINTER, ARCTIC ICE MELTING
Alarmed scientists warn that polar thawing threatens wildlife and is 'strongest evidence yet of global warming' in region
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/14/MNGK0L5D4E1.DTL&type=science

Wow! found this in the montreal gazette:

Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met in Nova Scotia this week to mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and discuss trade issues.
But any rehearsed political messages were overshadowed by the image of MacKay and Rice smiling and clasping hands while gazing into each other's eyes at the conclusion of a news conference on Tuesday.
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=dba22abe-afd8-4775-ac50-fba00c4657ec&k=19212

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/091406.html

U.S. Press Bigwigs Screw Up, Again
By Robert Parry
September 14, 2006

So, right-wing columnist Robert Novak now says that Richard Armitage, Novak’s initial source on the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame, wasn’t just some loose-lipped gossip blurting out her name, but rather that Armitage urged Novak to write about Plame’s alleged role in her husband’s fact-finding trip to Niger.

In a Sept. 14 column, Novak calls Armitage’s recent depiction of their July 2003 conversation “deceptive” for suggesting that Armitage’s leaking of Plame’s CIA identity was innocent and inadvertent, when Novak recalled it as intentional and even calculating.

Yet, for the past two weeks, major Washington journalists have been treating Armitage’s account as the gospel truth and, further, as proof that George W. Bush’s White House had gotten a bum rap on the Plame-leak scandal.

More...

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William Fisher | A Murrow Moment

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091406A.shtml

Looking back at McCarthy-era paranoia and Edward Murrow's radio broadcasts, William Fisher writes, "There's a reason I cite all this old radio-days history. Then, as now, there was little and largely ineffective public push-back against right-wing radio 'news.' Then, as now, networks controlled the airwaves, and sponsors controlled the networks. Today, we have television as well as radio. And today, both are still controlled by large corporate interests - owners and sponsors."

OT: Whoa! Thanks for that post re the dizziness.

Out of the blue today the gland under my right ear swelled, it hurt, it was in a matter of seconds that I felt fine to ouch. I got suddenly lightheaded and had to lay down, there was a ringing in my ears, like a rush of sound. Plugging my ears I could tell the noise was all inside. It lasted about 3-5 minutes. Had a cold compress on my gland and was not sure if I should switch to my head as I broke out in a sweat. BTW, this was NOT a hot flash, I'm through with those. Now I know I'm not dying and quite in the flow :) My gland went down but is still tender. Felt over anxious yesterday and today was to be my relax day. My body forced me into it.

http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/9852159/detail.html

Judigem - thanks for that link to whatsup! I'd never been to that site and it's beautiful! I think I'll be spending a good deal of time there. And here I thought I was just going quietly insane!! :-)

Forget google. Go with:
http://clusty.com/

Great summary to lay of rw-ers:
http://www.bartcop.com/clinton-terror-stopped.htm

I just re-read the words at the beginning of Sally's wonderful work:
“Separation and loss. To be parted. To finish something, and to feel sad at its completion."

I just got my beautiful doggy back from the crematorium. She died Aug. 10.

Amazing how Sally so eloquently always hits the nail on the head. Hope you all who come here are ok with your sadnesses. Even more so, I hope you all are experiencing bright beginnings.

Thank you Sally.

Bhakti...had the gland thing....it had been bothering me for months, but on Friday, I was exhausted, and the glands from my scalp on down the right side of my body were doing just what you descripted. Sunday around 2:15 pm I stood up from the couch and said...it'd done.

And it pretty much was....

Think they've been spraying us? with virus particulate, I mean.

Pat C...no wonder the rw'ers want to go back to the 50's!!! never could figure that out...now I get it.

Shy...thanks for the google replacement...just wasn 't sure what to do....but if people boycotted ABC, then I will boycott google. (nothing on ABC I want to see anyway...I boycotted them years ago for their rightwing news spin locally )

JudiGem, I've had much better results with clusty.com tracking down very old and obscure ancestors (in exotic places like early 1700s Pasquotank, NC).

Also, the list of Clinton's nailings of Terra-ists: I meant to say here's a good list to lay ON right-wingers you might know. Sorry.

Wooo-hoo, NEOB. Dear ol' Bob "Dontcha like my hair do?" Ney to plead guilty!
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/009797.php

Yeh!
Our local ABC station didn't broadcast the first Dem. debate. 2003, ( the 9 candidates) in SC, ( conducted by Stephanopolous, one of their own,) BECAUSE IT WASN'T PERTINANT BECAUSE IT WAS OUT OF STATE!
We watched it on Cspan! and I called the station and complained!
JudiG's post @ 9:36........The crowning blow for B*** this week! His out of control interview on Mon. 3 Republicans blocked his attempt to set aside the Geneva COnventions, major hostility in Havana...........
an almost anonymous bi-partisan response to the increased violence in Afghanistan, & Iraq.

Uh Oh Hope you didn't eat spinach ? Sally & Morgana.......there's an e-coli outbreak in bagged spinach!!

I feel like an insensative! I have only stepped up the pace here this last week, performing rather more efficiently than previously! Oh I ache...........who woudn't
Twice I put up a series of old beach umbrellas & tarps, to protect the garen from a possible frost. ( lot of stooping, crouching, pegging the tarps into the soil. But then I bathed in sea salt & lemon balm. Wonderful!
Or am I embracing leaving the past behind?????
QOP

judi: "Just be one with the dirt!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!! Most excellent advice imo...

"Dear ol' Bob 'Dontcha like my hair do?' Ney..." well, just the latest nooz showed hisself to have gotten a buzz cut! How's THAT! for fundie rebellion... or mebbe the prison autorities told 'im to git it. ;O)

The beautiful Oregon rains have just started up after a long summer's dry spell... the kind where the sun's still shining... dang! it feels good! Will take a walk later to smell the wonderful air (sometimes, one can even catch a whiff of the coastal salt-sea air during these moments)... & maybe, just maybe... will P/U some Vietamese rice n' veggie noodles to slurp on later. Life is FINE!!!

The bath sounds great! QOP... I have a shower, for which I'm very grateful, but an occasional scented herbed bath... mmmmmmmmmmmm!

Well friends and loved ones I am fascinated by the discussion of physical symptoms and emotional release. I made such an ass of myself when Neptune transited my 9th house in the late 80's and early 90's that I have been very careful not to join in any ungrounded musings but... I have been sick and achey for so long and so congested that I was thinking that perhaps I had developed a malignancy although at the same time I am flooded by the most intense feelings of love and gratitude that at times I just have to say "I love you! Thank you thank you thank you!". Work is hard on some levels but on the other levels I am more able to empathize than ever. I get so depressed about the actions of the current administration and then I "know" that there is a shift moving us and through us right now,

A buzz-cut? JoannaO, I had no idee they could buzz-cut hair-pieces. Hmmmmmm.

THE ASCENSION SYMPTOMS http://www.whatsuponplanetearth.com/APsymptoms.htm

BEGINNING EXPERIENCES IN THE HIGHER REALMS http://www.whatsuponplanetearth.com/APbeginning.htm

shylurker: "A buzz-cut? JoannaO, I had no idee they could buzz-cut hair-pieces." WhaddaHOOT!!!! ...mebbe rug covered buzz... hahahahahaaaaaaa!!!!

Steve Judd...

14 September - The elements of astrology (fire, earth, air & water) were on the agenda during a student session I taught recently, & the combination of these elements that are found in people. Individuals aren’t just one element. A combination of fire/air gives a full on, dynamic person. Fire/water is someone who ‘gushes’, fire/earth represents lava – unstoppable but slow. Air/water is the person who’s like a fine mist, drizzling everywhere, whilst air/earth people are abrasive like a sandstorm. Earth/water is mud. We are all different combinations of elements, but there are signatures related to the above. Which element do you represent? http://www.stevejudd.com/home.html

Yooo-whooo, JudiG:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/9/13/222916/184

Just made to be shared with others.

Heavy duty:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2828774

Be aware. Be very aware.

Yeh! Medicare is fabulous! I spent approx 2 1/2 hours last year getting Dr. care or buying prescriptions. I spent 1 1/2 hours on the phone the other day trying to find out why Medicare didn't pay the $149.00 for my annual checkup! I don't seem to have the critical medicare card. I have 3 *three cards* for part D! ( AND reams of mailweekly). My monthly thyroid pill fee has dropped from $3.00 to $1.50! It was only $22.00 when I was paying for it myself!
At the end of the day Susan Collins ( medicare specialist) is going to hand carry my letter to SS.
In the "olden days" when self employed, I sent a $20.00 check to Blue Cross Blue Shield, monthly and was fully covered. Hospital stay for thyroid surgery, ( 10 days , + 2 nights relapse for hemotoma the following week!) was completely covered except for the phone fee.( $16.00)
What a travesty!
QOP

Hi all - just wanted to chime in on the earlier thread about feeling unwell and wondering what the hell is going on in the universe. For the last week or so, since the eclipse, I have been feeling WEIRD. Random pains in my body (unrelated to my back condition, that's thankfully better now), palpitations, achiness, flu-like stomach. Another hearty healthy friend who never gets stomach stuff has been down with various digestive ailments in the last weeks. And another friend still has had the congestive symptoms (me too, forgot that one). Coupled with all of this, for me, has been a heightened anxiety that is making me into an insomniac, and I assume it's some collective thing as I can't attach it to an event in my life. Even my sweet Virgo kitty has been feeling unwell, and when I left her the other day at my parent's house she began to wail as if I were committting bloody murder, the sound she makes when she's about to throw up. Instead she ran from the room and hid in a linen closet. She's old now, and has always been very psychic (before 9.11 she was a wreck) so I assumed something disconcerting was going on in the ethers. Anyone else been going through this? The thought of them spraying us with something experimental occurred to me as well.

Oh, wanted to add dizziness and ringing in the ears too!

In the following piece... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060915/ap_on_go_co/bush_congress_33

* "'[bushaCriminal] reminded them that the most important job of govt is to protect the homeland,' he said. bush was accompanied by [v-drunkie] cheney & WH political adviser [& nazi] rove."

and...

* Another bush bill would give legal status to [regime]'s warrantless wiretapping program.

Ohmy... its job as rez wasn't solely to uphold the Constitution as in its oath? Of course not... the Constitution is a "stupid piece of paper" &, besides, it's an illegal president, not a real one. They're afraid to say the word "torture"... that rezabrat n' rat-pack wants to make legal after the already done & ongoing tortures... somebody might get upset. All this malicious mischief done with all seriousness of 2-piece suits n' bright red ties.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/elections/article/0,2808,DRMN_24736_4994042,00.html

Suit to ban computer voting

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Xena becomes Eris -- Pluto reduced to a number

- Kenneth Chang, New York Times
Friday, September 15, 2006

The dwarf planet formerly known as Xena received a new name Thursday, while Pluto was given a number to reflect the loss of its status as a planet.

Michael E. Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology who discovered the distant ball of ice and rock that he nicknamed Xena, chose the name Eris, after the goddess of discord and strife in Greek mythology. The International Astronomical Union made the name official Thursday.

"It is absolutely the perfect name," Brown said, given the continuing discord among astronomers and the public over whether Pluto should have retained its planetary status.

In mythology, Eris ignited discord that led to the Trojan War.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/15/MNGS8L67LJ1.DTL&type=printable

Making Israel take responsibility

By James Bowen

Many countries try to excuse their failings by blaming outsiders. For several decades after independence, people in the Irish Republic blamed its economic under-performance on centuries of British rule. Similarly, Israel uses anti-Semitism to excuse its expulsion of Palestinians in 1948, its discrimination against the Palestinians who managed to remain inside the Green Line, and its territorial expansionism after 1967.

All good excuses contain a germ of truth. The 19th-century Irish famine, which was exacerbated by British policies, greatly damaged the morale of the survivors and their descendants. Similarly, the Nazi Judeocide has left a huge scar on the survivors of that catastrophe. However, to escape dysfunctionality, every society must admit its own failings. Irish economic woes stemmed from a culture of risk-avoidance which, while derived from colonial history, had to be admitted and overcome by citizens of the independent state. Similarly, Israelis will never be secure until they admit their responsibility to make restitution for the crimes of their state against the Palestinians. Israelis should beware of false friends who tempt them to avoid this responsibility by misrepresenting the critics of Israeli policies as anti-Semites.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/762933.html

Here we go...

* A Defining Moment for America - [rezasick] goes to Capitol Hill to lobby for torture.

[rez] rarely visits Congress. So it was a measure of his painfully skewed priorities that Mr bush made the unaccustomed trip yesterday to seek lege permission for the CIA to make people disappear into secret prisons & have info extracted from them by means he dare not describe publicly.

Of course, Mr bush didn't come out & say he's lobbying for torture. Instead he refers to "an alternative set of procedures" for interrogation. But [regime] no longer conceals what it wants. ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/14/AR2006091401587.html

Mr. UK Bell's 'toon has it right on the button as usual... http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/archive/0,,1284265,00.html

Same here Stephanie. Things have been extremely weird for the past coule of weeks. Thankfully, the insomnia passed 3 weeks ago. Since the eclipse, the energies are making those of us who are all about peace and love sick. Even my dog is out of whack. On the other hand, those who are rude and obnoxious are worse than ever. My take is that those of us who are spiritualy aware are really cleansing out the crud in our bodies and aura's and moving into the realms of higher vibrations. For instance, the spirit world is really becoming active again. I have been 'seeing' alot of strange beings lately during meditation and healing sessions. Nothing negative, but some intense spirits of light and wisdom.

I think we are being prepared for the chaos that is about to take place on our planet. Hang in there everyone, it's going to get very dark soon and those of us who are here to help heal will be ok.

Also, i have been having people ask for healing and advice like never before. Strangers are picking me out of crowds for advice and help. I can also feel my aura expanding and filling with light these days.

Back to work... more later...

Way off topic..but here's a link to my Art Auction entry in the Harness Tracks of America Competition!
Andy Grant an Friends 2nd row!

http://www.elegantequineart.com/page1_1-20_2006.htm

QOP

The painting rocks PatQ!!

The chemtrails which go on ALL the time certainly crossed my mind. Crazy insomnia last night.
Doing my Saturn today and organizing, feeling better from that. The wave of energy is so intense. Laying low. Gland still swollen, not painful but tender to the touch.

BTW, the eclipses are erractic energy times. The day before, the day of, the day after are the lay low days for quiet inward time and spiritual practices.
10 days before the eclipse and three days after are called the shadow when the energy is most forceful.

Shy...thanks for all those links....or as they say, connecting of the dots. The dots are really getting prominent, aren't they? I mean to all of us looking...not for the sheeple or people with a dog in those hunts....
Stephanie, one of the reasons I hadn't been posting is that I had all that going on which you described. I have gotten so used to going thru periods like that and now I am like...(valley girl voice)...yeh, like...whatever...!

But as WV posted back aways and I keep repeating....there is some good arriving....hopefully it will end up as a tsunami of a good kind for the truth....and that it will wash away corrupt and venal people. I think they live in Mordor, don't they?

Also, on the energy front, my grandchildren have been whirling dervishes. My granddaughter is 5 and just started kindegarten, is in a split kindegarten/1st grade and emotionally she is a complete 180 degrees from her personality at the preschool. (Or she is manic depressive, I don't know! )

She loves this school, which doesn't start for her until 10:45 AM (she is a cranky pants at the early 8 AM time)....but the last couple of days she has been cranking up her music, dancing, laughing like crazy and generally being a real Uranian type buzz. It exhausts me because I have too much baggage! but it is a joy. Her 3 yr. old brother is just as excited but less capable of what she is doing...real kinetic energy sources, the two of them.

PQP...wow....great piece of painiting Pat!

Read in one of Sally's pieces recently that the 'brand name in a suit' that got sElected was likely to do something publicly bizarre. Apparently at his rapidly convened press conference today his anger was palpable and he's veering ever closer to the edge of totally showing his ass on live teevee.

Nice painting, Pat QOP. Very nice indeed. Thanks for providing the link.

"...Apparently at his rapidly convened press conference today his anger was palpable and he's veering ever closer to the edge of totally showing his ass on live teevee. ..."

That would be fun! We might have to bear witness to what advocating torture does to a cancerian sun in piscean 12th hse. The dissociation would probably drive 'im nutz all right. Whole thing's so icky.

It sure looked like he was about to flip out today, but they won't let that happen. He'll be back on his meds soon...

Pat! The faces of your characters are just wonderful! Such characters!! Good stuff Pat!

I too feel like we're on the edge of something dark in the world, and agree that all of these symptoms must be connected -- the energies have been so intense and strange and untranslatable, at least to me. I hope this E. coli thing doesn't spread and end up the thing we've been dreading, I am having a bad feeling about it -- we don't know the half of it yet, from the CDC. After I posted earlier I spoke to a friend from LA who said that she too has been experiencing bad stomach symptoms, as have a lot of her friends. Are we all going to get sick? I am going to pump up on grapefruit seed extract. I remember some months back when we were discussing bird flu here some people posted fantastic remedies. Any nutritionally inclined folk have something in mind to fight whatever this is -- a virus, an energetic disturbance, something planted in the water by the evildoers in the White House?

Bhakti - my insomina was TERRIBLE last night. Heart rate elevated for no reason, anxitey like crazy, and sour stomach. I know we're both in the NYC area (I'm in the Village). Hope this doesn't mean bad energies are concentrating here. Let's all fight it with our light, wherever we live!!!

PatQ -- your work is gorgeous!! Where is that talent lurking in your chart?

Very nice work PatQoP!

Are there any people in other parts of the world that are experiencing some of the symptoms we have described here? This is not some sort of bug or virus otherwise it would be all over the news. Maybe the madmen in the WH are playing around with some sort of electromagnetic energy or something of that nature. It seems it is affecting people in the larger cities.

PAT QOP!!!!
THAT PAINTING IS FANTASTIC!!! :)
Thanks for the link!!!
GT

Hey did anybody watch this? Apparently the Smirkster did almost flip out and was VERY testy today!!!

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Bush_says_terrorists_are_coming_again_0915.html

Dark times indeed...

The lunatic in the WH and the pope...

The Great War of Religion just around the corner...

October surprise coming up.

Um, I think the October surprise might have already started today with this E.coli scare -- can someone chart it? I think the first report was this morning. I am assuming we'll find out this has little to do with spinach just in time for the election, with many fallen. Hasn't the gov't already been testing this sort of thing for years in the lab? This morning it was like twenty infected, just now 95 according to World News Tonight. And it jumped from ten to twenty states from this morning until now. Don't want to be an alarmist, but I think someone major is about to happen.

I meant to say "something" major is about to happen.

Well, here's a little announcement that might hold some hope. Can you imagine how scandalous that could get?
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=72572

Oooooooooooooooooooo!

Robert Parry | New Clues in the Plame Mystery
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091506R.shtml
Robert Parry says, "A well placed conservative source has added an important clue to the mystery of the Bush administration's 'outing' of CIA officer Valerie Plame." This source reveals a detail, continues Parry, that, "... undermines the current 'conventional wisdom' among Washington pundits that Armitage acted alone - and innocently - in July 2003 when he disclosed Plame's covert identity to right-wing columnist Robert Novak, who then got Rove to serve as a secondary source confirming the information from Armitage."

EU Condemns Bush's Recent Confirmation of Secret CIA Prisons
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091506S.shtml
The European Union on Friday called on the United States to respect international law in its handling of terror suspects after President Bush acknowledged his country had operated secret prisons abroad.

Judge Says Voter ID Law Is Unconstitutional
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091506T.shtml
A Cole County judge Thursday tossed out a new law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, saying the measure violated Missourians' fundamental right to vote.

Thanks for the compliments . It is helping boost me over the Cappie/Virgo heap I am climbing over now! I like your phrase Bhakti "doing my Saturn!"
Mmmmmm that spinach came from an ORGANIC FARM!
"Um, I think the October surprise might have already started today with this E.coli scare -- can someone chart it? I think the first report was this morning. I am assuming we'll find out this has little to do with spinach just in time for the election, with many fallen.
stephanie 11:51 PM
here's their link
http://www.ebfarm.com/
QOP

Oh, Pat QOP you are so good! I love Standardbreds. I "own" one. His name is Will See.

Trish

I heard a report on the spinich yesterday.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/9/15/191754/190

The White Truck Delivering Ballots

The Washington Post's Ovetta Wiggins has an article out on Maryland's 4th yesterday. Get ready for legal challenges, because Edwards won this election.

What's going on there is really bad, and it's a preview of what's coming in November considering that the Republicans have basically hired a criminal named Terry Nelson to head up the NRCC opposition 'research' department. So if you don't really know how to approach a situation like this, you should try to learn by watching it during the Edwards-Wynn dry run.

Here's the latest. The absentee ballots from Montgomery County were counted yesterday, and Wynn's lead was narrowed to 2800 votes. Most of these ballots were not in the 4th. I'm not sure if that's true about the provisionals, which are the key.

The polls closed on Tuesday evening, but voting machines in anywhere between two to eight precincts (probably controlled by Wynn's allies) were not brought in to the Maryland Board of Elections until the next day. On Wednesday at 5pm, observers saw a white moving truck pull up and deliver voting machines from several precincts in Wynn-favoring Prince George's county, one of which the Edwards campaign heavily canvassed. Though memory cards were supposed to be taken out immediately after voting closed, these machines had their memory cards still in them. Though no one can yet prove that Wynn's people tampered with the machines, the margin on those machines went for Wynn by around 65-35, which is out of line with the rest of the county. The rest of the county had it at 57 or so for Wynn.

The impact of the numbers appears to be about 1000 votes. Prior to these votes coming in, Wynn had a lead of less than 2000 votes, with 13,000 Montgomery County provisional ballots to be counted on Monday. Donna won that county by a substantial margin, which means she'll probably pick up anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand votes on Monday when those votes are counted.

In other words, what it looks like is that Wynn or Wynn's allies held the ballot boxes they controlled back until they knew the margin Wynn needed to win on Monday, and that's when they probably did their tampering. We'll see what happens on Monday, when the provisionals are counted.

Donna Edwards should probably be the next Congressperson from the fourth. She may yet be seated in Congress next session, though I wouldn't bet my life on it.

Links within text

Regarding the stomach bug, I just spent a week in Tucson with a friend who had it really bad as did her sister who didn't live with her and several of her friends. An astrologer friend of mine in Phoenix also had it.... thank God, or someone, that I stayed with my friend for a week and didn't get it.

Every day for a week my friend kept thinking that she'd get better that day, but it was a full week that she had it...

Spinach. Had they eaten any spinach, Lynda?

I can't speak for the others, but I suspect my friend in Tucson had - she had packets of it in the fridge...

It's weird that I'd gone on about washing herbs before eating them just before I left Sydney as a friend of mine was just takign them straight from the packet and chopping them up. I said that one didn't know who had been handling them and whether they'd washed their hands... musta been a bit of premonition there...

I should add that I reckon a LOT more people got the bug than is reported as most don't go to the doctor, they just self medicate..

Hmm... Eris for UB313? Sounds like "Chaos" to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/136199_Eris

You heard right - - on Fox TV from GWB: Osama not top priority. Watch video:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/14/barnes-osama/

Ahhhh, such a wholesome bunch:
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/9/14/22322/6980

now they've got the mushrooms:

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=517479&category=REGION&newsdate=9/16/2006

Has anyone else noticed this or am I just being paranoid? The spinach (and now mushroom) related health problems are all occurring in the NE & NW, mostly blue states at that. Coincidence?

Not a coincidence, Garry. I think they're trying to sicken/kill all the Dems and vegan/vegetarians -- the peple that will vote them out of office! Then they'll blame it on Bin Laden or something -- an October suprise starting now, on a slow simmer, ready to boil over during the first week of November, when they'll ride out on their white horses to "protect" us. Of course it's not the Texas-based cattle industry being affected -- the California-based produce industry staffed by immigrants is getting the brunt of it. Oy.

Still wondering about the sickness we've all been feeling -- related to this poison in the produce or something else, something viral and shared person-to-person. And I'd love some natural remedy suggestions to keep the immune system defended against whatever is to come. I love grapefruit seed extract in a bit of orange juice, but maybe the oranges are next. They've got to win Florida, after all.

Garry, it may be that the news stories you are seeing originate in those areas. We'll have to give it a little time. Right now, the CDC is reporting this:
The states that have reported cases are WI (29), UT (11), NY (7), OH (7), MI (6), NM (5), OR (5), IN (4), ID (3), KY (3), PA (3), CT (2), ME (2), CA (1), MN (1), NV (1), TN (1), VA (1), WA (1), and WY (1).
http://www.cdc.gov/foodborne/ecoli_spinach.htm

And, to echo a post made here a little earlier, these are just the cases being reported. Who knows how many people are actually sick all over the country with what they think is the "creeping crud" and don't realize it is actually e-coli. I'd like to see an age breakdown of the reported cases, too. Moms and Dads will take their babies to the doc, but will try and "tough it out" themselves, and older people will go in too because they will probably be more viciously affected. Anyway, let's wait and see. (Unfortunately, the current regime is also driving people out of the CDC.)

USDA SAYS SHUT UP AND EAT YOUR FRANKENRICE
The USDA has finally reacted to the contamination of the U.S. rice supply
by an unapproved, genetically engineered variety of rice created by the
Bayer Corporation. Three weeks ago, it was discovered that Bayer's mutant
rice, gene-spliced to survive heavy doses of a powerful herbicide called
glufosinate, had contaminated U.S. long grain rice stocks. The USDA
admitted it had "no idea" how extensive the contamination was. Meanwhile Japan
has banned all U.S. rice imports, while the EU is rejecting U.S. imports
that test positive for contamination. The rice industry has
been in a state of upheaval, with rumors of a massive market recall
spreading across the country. This week, the USDA announced its plan of
action: instead of recalling this illegal, and potentially unsafe rice, it
is working with Bayer to fast-track the approval process. "Illegal,
potentially hazardous rice in grain bins, on supermarket shelves, in cereal,
beer, baby foods, and all rice products. It should be a no-brainer. Recall
this stuff to make sure no one eats it," said Joseph Mendelson, Legal
Director of the Center for Food Safety. "Instead, USDA plans to rush
through 'market approval' of a genetically engineered rice
that Bayer itself decided was unfit for commerce. Why? To free Bayer
from liability."
Learn more: http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_2159.cfm

PS...my naturopath put me on a diet for allergic reactions I've had to food. I've been on it for 2 weeks, and my skin is healing finally...inflammation has dropped in my body, and tho I haven't started losing any weight, I feel so much better, and I would bet my glucose levels, which were just a touch into danger area, have dropped.
NO wheat
NO soy
NO ETOH (alcohol)
NO bad fats (only olive oil, nut oils, etc)
NO dairy

Yes: rice, quinoa, millet
Yes: beans, nuts & seeds, eggs, fish, range fed poultry.

veggies and fruit, but separately

SWEETENERS: NO sugar subs, no honey. But Stevia is OK and I am using agave nectar, which is totally delish....and my sugar cravings are gone.

Also, lemon juice in water and cranberry concentrate in water for flushing, cleansing.

I agree with Lynda, wash the lettuce. That being said, this last bunch I didn't.....but will now.

Organic consumers union is calling to make these issues (like the one I just posted) a major part of the 2006 campaign issues.

WaPo ....Raw Story...check out the story of how Iraq was administered...read it and weep....we really are a third rate third world country now...operating like the very people we were supposed to 'conquer'...
http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2006%2F09%2F16%2FAR2006091600193.html
"To recruit the people he wanted, O'Beirne sought résumés from the offices of Republican congressmen, conservative think tanks and GOP activists. He discarded applications from those his staff deemed ideologically suspect, even if the applicants possessed Arabic language skills or postwar rebuilding experience."
"One former CPA employee who had an office near O'Beirne's wrote an e-mail to a friend describing the recruitment process: "I watched résumés of immensely talented individuals who had sought out CPA to help the country thrown in the trash because their adherence to 'the President's vision for Iraq' (a frequently heard phrase at CPA) was 'uncertain.' I saw senior civil servants from agencies like Treasury, Energy . . . and Commerce denied advisory positions in Baghdad that were instead handed to prominent RNC [Republican National Committee] contributors.""

This is just friggin' crazy....180 deg. from the way Clinton handled things. Actually, 180 LIGHT YEARS....

"On torture and many other matters, Congress must stand up, the President must stand down, America just stand with George Washington and not George Bush."
Great article:
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/414

Spinach Alert:

According to reports, washing will not remove this current strain of e coli contaminating the spinach.

Here's an interesting photo for you...find the
plane!

http://www.brasscheck.com/videos/911/911pentagon.html

WV...I thought at first I saw the body of a plane, but it is actually the asphalt roof....curled down, it looks like the body.

I always wondered why we never saw a shot from this angle....I wonder where it came from.

Strengthening the immune system:

1. Fear is the greatest threat to our immune systems. So keep thoughts above the level of fear. Anger also compromises the immune system.

2. Eat real food - as close to natural and organic as possible. These foods have more life force, more light.

3. Fermented foods(they produce lactic acid) strengthen the immune system - unprocessed sauerkraut(Eden brand), kefir, miso, yogurt(plain), and kimchee (korean dish-fermented cabbage).

3. Bless your food before you eat it.

4. Manage stress levels

Blessings,

after reading the symptoms everyone's posting, and knowing that I have felt like crap, especially today- I went looking for possible reasons. Found out that the HAARP thingamabob has been pulsed MAJORLY twice in the last several hours. Watch out for earthquakes, tsunamis, and especially huge hurricanes..... they're a-comin'. Here's the graph if anyone wants to see it: http://137.229.36.30/cgi-bin/riometer/riom2_sel.cgi?latest=on&quickPlot=on

Eeeeeeeek!

What is HAARP?

http://www.haarp.net/

http://www.earthpulse.com/src/category.asp?catid=1

this will give you a good start.

I remember once in the 70s, in a scientific journal, seeing some electronmicroscopy photos of vitamins. The vitamin of processed food (fruit, vegetable) was the universal shape--cell with nucleus or center--but just there... nothing going on. The vitamin of "live food" or unprocessed food was same shape, but there were scintilating colorful rays of "energy" or light going out from its center. So processed food in the article was termed "dead food"; the other, "live food." I've never forgotten that.

We can eat & eat & eat & still be starving to death when the food is dead instead of alive... even have that doughy fatness which comes with a high starch diet that many of the poor will eat & with which they'll feed their children in order to make that food dollar stretch.

Boxed processed cheap mac n' cheese & cereals... big corpo corpulant-making culprits for instance.

Indeedio JoanaO,
I am sporting that doughy fatness from poor diet! As a student and struggling to maintain, an apt. & a house for several years on a $6.00 per hour bartending job ( lousy tips (& taxed by the corpos......) I lived on that stuff! ( Just at the time when the FA allowed that crap into the food!) I also couldn't get the proper thyroid replacement dosage for a period of 6, SIX! years.
Finally found a FEMALE, MD. Reiki healer naturpathic, who prescribed the right dose.
When I was getting lots of physical exercise painting murals, and grazing for lack of time to do "MEALS"
( nuts and dried fruits in the car) I had a drop - dead figure! Now 80% of my former diet doesn't exhist on the grocery shelves!
The Govt. has closed down several Salmon farms locally for whatever reason.......& now that is too expensive too!
My political activism starts in the kitchen!

stephani, the painting comes from, Pisces Jupiter in the 10th H, trine pluto Cancer in 2nd H, & Moon Scorpio in the 6th H. Jupiter is opposite Neptune Virgo in the 4th H, trine Mars Capricorn in the 8th, trine Sun Taurus in the 12th H. The tension int he chart comes from that Mars in Cap sq. Saturn in Aries, 11th H, and that had more effect on my love life than my career. I never found a S.O. who helped not Hindered, my art work!
QOP

The ignoble Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy launched the neocon strategy against the Non-Aligned Movement when, in a Sept. 15 interview with MS-NBC's Nora O'Donnell, he joked about an e-coli outbreak felling the gathered non-aligned leaders gathered in Havana:

"Nora O'Donnell: Frank, what do you think should happen down there in Havana?
Frank Gaffney: Well, an e-coli outbreak on these kooks, nuts, and haters would be a good start."
The fact that Gaffney made his remarks at a time when Cuban President Fidel Castro is hospitalized with an unknown stomach ailment contracted after a visit to Argentina makes his remarks all the more reprehensible].
( This is at the bottom of the 3rd. entry for Sept 16 2006 after the info re: VOA.
QOP
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

It took me a long, long time to get the site to function today -- anyone else having problems? I know it's the weekend, but I feel like far fewer than usual are posting and I wonder if it's because the site is buggy -- I won't suspect anything sinister unless someone else says it first. :>0

Some good rants, some people are waking up, and
not a moment to soon...

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/content/the%5Frant/

Wow, Astrology on Daily Kos! Go chime in!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/17/92832/8165

Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_democrac_060914_make_republicans_ner.htm

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September 14, 2006

Make Republicans Nervous: See new movie "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers"

By Joan Brunwasser

Find a Free Screening near You
Robert Greenwald's new movie Iraq for Sale: The War
Profiteers is creating quite a buzz in the media.

The New York Times review says:

"Mr. Greenwald compiles a horrifying catalog of greed,
corruption and incompetence among private contractors in Iraq, focusing
primarily on Halliburton, Blackwater Security Consulting and CACI
International... the movie goes on to trace connections between the
contractors and the Republican Party, assert the buying of influence and
explores what it says are questionable accounting systems that encourage an
exorbitant waste of taxpayer money. And that's just the first 30 minutes."

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/print_friendly.php?p=genera_democrac_060914_make_republicans_ner.htm

EVERYONE!!! ASTROLOGY INFO TO POST ON DAILY KOS

I don't have membership on daily kos. Maybe someone here can post this which adds credibility to the discussion of astrology. Add anything more if you like.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

From "The History of Astrology" by Zohar:

Ptolemy had the reputation for being the greatest astrologer/astronomer of all times.

Hippocrates, born around 460 B.C.E. and known as the "Father of Medicine," used astrology as the most scientific means of diagnosis available to the Greek physicians of his time. The Hippocratic School of Medicine focused on the study of the natal chart to determine the specific make-up of their parents.

Galen, born in 30 C.E., is called the "Father of Experimental Physiology." His treatise Prognostication of Disease by Astrology resulted in widespread knowledge of astrological medicine. A synthesis of medical thought and astrological medical knowledge, Galen’s books dominated the field of medicine for 1500 years.

Thomas Aquinas, still considered to be one the great Christian theologians, placed importance upon the science of astrology in the study of natural science.

Jerome Cardan, born in 1501, and one of the best minds of his age was a great mathematician, physician, and astrologer. Appointed professor of medicine at Pavia in 1547, his published works on algebra and astrology brought him fame throughout Europe.

Two great English scientists and astrologers were Edmond Halley, born in 1656, and Isaac Newton, born around 1642.

Shakespeare, an astrologer in addition to being a playwright, depicted his characters using astrology correctly. William Lilly, born in 1602, and Nicholas Culpepper, born in the early 1600’s, were physicians who used medical astrology.

World renowned psychiatrist Carl Jung believed that "synchronicity" explains how astrology works. Planets do not cause certain events. Instead, they are symbols of cosmic forces. The patterns they form synchronize with events on our planet Earth. In later life, Jung used the natal chart as a tool for working with his patients.

How odd, I was thinking the same thing this week..

September 16, 2006

Gas Price Manipulation to Influence Elections?

By Rob Kall

If the major energy companies are dropping gas prices to help their good friend and partner George Bush, and to influence the November elections, they should be charged and prosecuted. For What?

By dropping prices, they are in a sense, making a contribution to the Republican party-- potentially billions of dollars.

If it isn't against the election laws, it should be.

We're already seeing prices as low as $2.39 in PA and NJ. It won't be surprising to see the prices dip to under $2.00 by election day.

This was predictable-- too predictable. It reflects the arrogance of the energy companies and their willingness to do everything they can to influence the USA's elections-- distorting, poisoning the democratic process.

Let's be clear. These transnational entities are enemies of democracy. They know they will be losing billions in corporate welfare if the Democrats take power, as well they should.

I'm hoping that, if and when the Democrats take the house (assuming e-voting doesn't help steal the elections) that the energy companies get hit hard, very hard with tariffs, royalties and regulations. They are parasites that have zero interest in the humans living in the USA.

Authors Bio: Rob Kall is executive editor and publisher of OpEdNews.com, President of Futurehealth, Inc, and organizer of several conferences, including StoryCon, the Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story and The Winter Brain Meeting on neurofeedback, biofeedback, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology. He is a frequent Speaker on Politics, The art, science and power of story, Positive Psychology, Stress, Biofeedback and a wide range of subjects. See more of his articles here and, older ones, here.

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September 14, 2006 at 22:05:39

Please Rate the Princeton Video on Stealing Votes up at Google and You Tube

by Dorri Steinhoff

http://www.opednews.com

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6590793631232799613&hl=en

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azws98jw67g

This couldn't be more crucial. Our votes are our voices. Please visit this website and watch the video and please send this to everyone you know,

http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/videos.html

Main Findings The main findings of our study are:

1. Malicious software running on a single voting machine can steal votes with little if any risk of detection. The malicious software can modify all of the records, audit logs, and counters kept by the voting machine, so that even careful forensic examination of these records will find nothing amiss. We have constructed demonstration software that carries out this vote-stealing attack.

2. Anyone who has physical access to a voting machine, or to a memory card that will later be inserted into a machine, can install said malicious software using a simple method that takes as little as one minute. In practice, poll workers and others often have unsupervised access to the machines.

3. AccuVote-TS machines are susceptible to voting-machine viruse! s - computer viruses that can spread malicious software automatically and invisibly from machine to machine during normal pre- ! and post-election activity. We have constructed a demonstration virus that spreads in this way, installing our demonstration vote-stealing program on every machine it infects.

4. While some of these problems can be eliminated by improving Diebold's software, others cannot be remedied without replacing the machines' hardware. Changes to election procedures would also be required to ensure security.

http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting /

Dorri Steinhoff is a voting activist and a member of CASE-Ohio.

Contact Author

Pat POQ

Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_joesph_b_060915_jean_hay_bright_deta.htm

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September 15, 2006

Statements in Maine's Sen. Snowe television ad not supported by votes

By Joe Brooks

Democrat Jean Hay Bright Thursday cautioned Maine voters to "listen between the words" in the television ads run by her opponent Olympia Snowe in this year's U.S. Senate race.

Snowe's first ad began running last week. It was produced by Sen. Snowe's brother-in-law, Bob McKernan, president of the agency Blue Worldwide, and placed with Maine TV stations by Stevens Reed Curcio and Potholm of Alexandria, Va., the company that produced the infamous "Swift Boat Veterans" ad campaign against John Kerry during the 2004 Presidential race. The Stevens, Reed firm is not involved in the production or content of the ad, just its placement, according to the Snowe campaign.

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/print_friendly.php?p=genera_joesph_b_060915_jean_hay_bright_deta.htm

September 15, 2006 at 08:49:09

Rob Kall: Sink the $50 Million Swift Boat Fleet Before It Arrives

by Rob Kall

http://www.opednews.com

The ugly, dishonest, fact distorting ads have started. The word on who has hired swiftboat attack ad agencies is starting to come out. The US airwaves are going to be writhing with serpents' tongued, ugly, dishonest, distorting, misleading sleaze ads all aimed at neutralizing the "lead" the democrats purportedly are going into the November elections with..

What will the DNC, the DSCC and the DCCC do about it?

In behavioral psychology, there's a concept called innoculation The patient is taught psychological techniques to innoculate himself in response to stressors that would ordinarily cause unwanted reactions, like anxiety, panic or rage attacks.

Knowing that the republicans are planning the biggest, nastiest, ugliest negative ad campaign in the hhistory of the world, it would behoove the Democratic leadership to take some smart action to immunize voters from the sleazoid attack ads the Republicans will be running.

I don't think it is realistic or possible to respond to each ad the RNC and their surrogates will run. But a series of ads run on national networks could do wonders, characterizing the republican desperation, forewarning of lies, reminding viewers that the reason they're running them is to try to get voters to forget about Iraq, forget about the national debt, forget about the war against the middle class.

I truly hope someone in the DNC has figured out that this needs to be done. If they're smart, they'll neutralize and maybe even convert all that negative Republican ad money into a plus for their candidates....

Naaah. I forgot. They're Democrats. They can't win, even when the voters can't stand the republicans or the war. Where are the leaders?? I hope one shows up-- one f orward thinking enough to juse some advertising jiu jitsu to turn the Republican's $50 million negative ad campaign into a fleet of sinking swiftboats.

Rob Kall is executive editor and publisher of OpEdNews.com,

This story may make you queazy about your cell phone....

War, Murder, Rape... All for Your Cell Phone

By Stan Cox, AlterNet. Posted September 14, 2006.

Everyone's heard about the human rights abuses in African gold and diamond mines. But when it comes to their ultra-cool, razor-thin cell phones, American consumers won't get the message. Tools
"As you crawl through the tiny hole, using your arms and fingers to scratch, there's not enough space to dig properly and you get badly grazed all over. And then, when you do finally come back out with the cassiterite, the soldiers are waiting to grab it at gunpoint. Which means you have nothing to buy food with. So we're always hungry."

That's how Muhanga Kawaya, a miner in the remote northeastern province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), described his job to reporter Jonathan Miller of Britain's Channel 4 last year. Cassiterite, or tin oxide, is the most important source of the metallic element tin, and the DRC is home to fully one-third of the world's reserves. Some cassiterite miners work on sites operated directly by the country's military or other armed groups. Working in the same area are "artisanal" miners who are theoretically independent, like prospectors in America's Old West. But the cassiterite they extract is heavily taxed by the soldiers -- when it's not just stolen outright.

http://www.alternet.org/story/41477/

Thanks wv,
I need all the amunition I can get up here! It's bad enough that 51% are committed Repugs........some of them never even having been out of Maine.
But I have an anarchistic, very liberal friend, ( born in the UK & lived in London) who thinks maybe Snowe might be able to wield more leverage than an unknown newcomer! I will pass this on to her!!!!!
If I had been able to convince several of my well meaning friends to vote for Gore not Nadar..................
QOP

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