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Scorpio Train
The Mid-Term Election was indeed a Tsunami, a watershed moment for out nation. The new Moon in Scorpio had no planets activating earth signs and houses, no anchoring, no grounding. All the planets are in forward motion, uncommon but not unheard of, all moving a like a freight train down a steep grade. The question is what is coming the other direction and from around the bend? Joining the 28 Scorpio new Moon and Sun, Jupiter leading the Scorpio train 29 Scorpio exponentially increases the energy building shoveling coal at light speed into that fire box. An impulsive, unstable Venus is at 4 Sagittarius adding roller coaster twists and turns as it shares the house with the train wreck in progress. Then follows Mars at 19 Scorpio, and Mercury at 9 Scorpio, all crammed cozy, and intercepted in the 6th House. As we've seen in the recent days, Iraq is awash in it's own blood, more of our own precious treasures lives are poured out for naught, this is what George's war has accomplished. Which who knows, may have been his real racist religious goal.
Morgana Seawalker on Nov 25 | Link
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I'm confused. Weren't Mercury and Uranus retrograde during the recent mid-term election? Posted by: The other zero-degree Aries on November 25, 2006 07:52 PMMorgana - great article. I've been thinking the same things about the election and don't particularly care for those thoughts. It feels like there's something nasty heading for us relatively soon. i just don't feel like the neocons are going to go peacefully into that dark night even if they have to destroy this country to do it. I'd like very much to see Nancy Pelosi and the others get a handle on things and make a lot of things better, but I'm concerned about more dirty tricks. Then there's a strong possibility of another major natural disaster here that could put the kibosh on everything. Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 25, 2006 08:34 PMMercury went direct Nov 17, Uranus went direct on the 20th, but they were both retro during the elections, but not for the new moon on Dec 12...all planets are direct then, which is known as 'music in th spheres' and is not exactly rare, but doesn't happen all the time. My daughter was born during such a period (supposedly without karmic dept?). I was always confused about the music thing, as the horrific slaughter of Sharon Tate and all the others by Manson happened the day before my daughter was born (also in LA). NOt much music in the spheres to my eyes.... Morgana, I am not familiar with the witches' ways, despite the fact that I started telling people when I was about 8 or 9 that I was a Druid....but what exactly is the Lunar Samhain? Posted by: judiGem on November 25, 2006 08:35 PMThat was supposed to be Dec 5 for the New Moon, not Dec 12...typo somehow.... Posted by: judiGem on November 25, 2006 08:36 PMShadowhawk, after Bush appointed the anti woman director for health, I pretty much knew things weren't over. Nancy is tough though....she's not going to wait, Jan 4 she is NOT letting Congress go home as they all do before the SOTU speach on the 20th or whenever it is..she is starting off with a bing and a bada bing.... Posted by: judiGem on November 25, 2006 08:39 PMJudiGem - I saw that Nancy was making a statement and that's a great goodness. Maybe she can get them to actually spend more than 97 days in session this year. I think Bushco hasn't changed a thing in their plans - only the approach is sneakier than ever. He not only appointed an anti-woman man for director of health but he's still trying to get some of the same uber-conservative judges appointed. Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 25, 2006 08:52 PMI do wish she had a hard copy of this. Rumsfeld okayed abuses says former U.S. general MADRID (Reuters) - Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the prison's former U.S. commander said in an interview on Saturday. Former U.S. Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski told Spain's El Pais newspaper she had seen a letter apparently signed by Rumsfeld which allowed civilian contractors to use techniques such as sleep deprivation during interrogation. Karpinski, who ran the prison until early 2004, said she saw a memorandum signed by Rumsfeld detailing the use of harsh interrogation methods. more Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 25, 2006 09:20 PMNow this could get interesting and gives me hope that things might just change. Waxman has Bush administration in sights LOS ANGELES - The lawmaker poised to cause the Bush administration's biggest headaches when Democrats take control of Congress may just be a grocer's son from Watts who's hardly a household name off Capitol Hill. Rep. Henry Waxman (news, bio, voting record) has spent the last six years waging a guerrilla campaign against the White House and its corporate allies, launching searing investigations into everything from military contracts to Medicare prices from his perch on the Government Reform Committee. more http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061125/ap_on_go_co/profile_waxman Shadowhawk, Henry Waxman 9/12/1939, Los Angeles, CA Whoohoo have some Virgo, Neputune 22, Venus 21, Sun 19, Mercuy and Moon 10, trining Uranus and trining Mars, Grand Earth Trine, sweet. Oh 0 degree Saturn Taurus. Every i dotted, t crossed, he has a ledger and keeps incredible detail. Yahoo for us!! Posted by: Morgana on November 25, 2006 10:04 PMMorgana, I bow in gratitude. I had tears in my eyes as your words rumbled through me. This is exactly what I have been feeling these past days. Unable to articulate my awareness I have focused on my chores; being afraid to join in the normal flow of political conversation I the extrovert have kept my head down. * Ranking the Senators SurveyUSA released its latest approval ratings for all 100 US Senators. Of current [necroporn]-held seats up for re-election in 2008, 5 senators have approval ratings below 50%: Sen Wayne Allard (R-CO), 44% Of the Dem-held seats up in 2008, just two have below 50% ratings: Sen Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), 39% http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/11/24/ranking_the_senators.html Posted by: JoannaOregon on November 25, 2006 11:49 PMYes Morgana something is up. I have felt it for the past 3 days. Today I see that Darth Chainsaw is in Saudi Arabia having a chat with the king. Hmmm....Makes you wonder. Also, I was in a hotel lobby in Ft. Worth this morning and they had Faux news on, just as a majority of the smaller chains do and I saw a trailer about 283,000 chickens being destroyed because of being found positive for the bird flu. Nothing else all day. Anybody see anything? Where did it take place? Here or abroad? And I still think something big will happen in January. While I was in Colorado this week I was able to recieve some info through channeling that I did up there. Still trying to put it together, but I did post something on the last thread. I know what I put out there sometimes sounds kooky, but about 90% of the time I on. One thing that has got me concerned is a giant Red Tail Hawk flew right at my windshield twice while traveling. And get this it was in the same stretch of highway between Pueblo and Trinidad on 25. It happened on the way up and the way down. Something is up, the Hawk is the messenger. Last time I was that close to a hawk (one landed in my back yard) was a day before the Tsunami. "Scorpio Train" amen to that Morgana. Your assessment is so prescient. Shadowhawk, I dug this out of the Archieves. It's an article I wrote about Henry Waxman in June 2004. Henry makes me laugh because I know that he is sitting there, crossing all the t's, dotting the i's, sending off the appropriate letters to the appropriate people. He is doing this day after day. I love it. http://www.astroworld.us/archives/000396.html#000396 Cybear, it concerns me that you think some of the things you put out are "kooky." It doesn't concern me for you, but for me. I don't find anything you "put out" kooky and I'm thinking maybe I should. The Eagle and the Hawk are associated with Scorpio and you are right, if you see one, especially this close, something is afoot. Posted by: Sally on November 26, 2006 12:27 AMCybear - the chicken farm was in China. I'll try and find the link. I think it was on www.rense.com but I'm not 100% sure about that. We can be 'kooky' together. You're braver than I am. I usually keep that info to myself because it sounds so crazy and where I live, crazy is not good. Stupid is ok but crazy or different is not. Heavy sigh. I'm where I'm supposed to be for the moment. Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 26, 2006 12:43 AMSince I'm a Virgo I can appreciate Waxman's dotting his t's and crossing his i's. It's not a bad trait when you're trying to accomplish something. If he doesn't get bogged down with those details, he can do some real good. Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 26, 2006 12:45 AM
"Americans Can't Handle Another Impeachment" Is Republican Propaganda. Don't Be Deceived. By Linda Milazzo "Americans can't handle another impeachment." So say the supporters of George W. Bush in their anti-impeachment propaganda. The truth is Americans CAN handle another impeachment. They CAN handle the truth. In fact, if Americans don't bring Bush and Cheney to justice after the atrocities they've committed, this nation will never reclaim its moral authority. And the people of this nation will be despised for unleashing these dangerous men on the world. "Americans can't handle another impeachment" isn't a truth. It's a device. Like 'weapons of mass destruction.' 'A mushroom cloud.' 'Gassed his own people.' 'Sought significant quantities of uranium from A-f-r-i-c-a.' These are the sound bytes, the parroted propaganda, which brought us to war. Each is a proven lie, told time and again by well-rehearsed pundits. Verbatim delivery. Robotic form. Repeated ad nauseam by grown-up children of the damned. It sounded good for Nicholson in "A Few Good Men," but rings pretty hollow here. Americans CAN handle and probe for the truth. As soon as the midterm elections were settled and Democrats took back control, the Republican parrots flew onto the scene. The first to land was smooth talking Connecticut Congressman Christopher Shays, who perched on cspan the morning of November 9th. Within minutes Shays proclaimed the pitfalls of impeachment, responding to an oped by former Republican House Majority Leader, Dick Armey. In his article, Armey advised Republicans to "demonstrate an ability to be good stewards of the taxpayers' hard-earned money. If Republicans do these things, they will also restore the public's faith in our standards of personal conduct." http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_linda_mi_061125__22americans_can_t_han.htm Sally and Shadowhawk, sometimes I get some really intense, esoteric information that makes me wonder where it's coming from or why I am getting it. Lately I have been doing some new and very powerful Reiki techniques and Ascension work that has opened up a whole new universe. Kooky may have not been the right word, but when doing ascension work you begin to question not only others, but yourself. I guess it has to do with letting go of the ego and letting Spirit flow through. With so much going on in the world and in my life I am really listening for the Hawks message. I thank you both for the comments and support. And Sally, it brings me great comfort to have a place like this to share information and experiences with so many kindred spirits. Namaste. Cybear - it's a tricky balance to maintain, isn't it. Fortunately, between here and Starlight we have an outlet. It helps a great deal, believe me. At least here we get a fair hearing whether we sound completely sane or not. I've been sane and I've been crazy - crazy's better - Waylon Jennings. Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 26, 2006 02:43 AMI'll rerun my comment to Sally's June 2004 post re: WAXMAN. I fell in love with him and then found out he was born 6 days before my ex! ( I know he's nort a looker, brain power rings my chimes) He will keep the big picture in front of him!
Interesting that a few years from now Saturn will be hitting all of Waxman's Virgo planets. I think that will make him even more of a disciplinarian. It's been my experience and I've heard it said here that if you're doing the right thing, Saturn helps you. Posted by: Sharon on November 26, 2006 04:23 AMSharon, FWIW, and this is a constant source of tsuris to me, in Firefox, when an earnest poster pastes in a link that is very long, it skews the whole page as wide as the text string. Am I the only one this happens to? If not, then it would be true for the 14% of us using Firefox browser, not Internet Explorer.This means all comments and the article can only be read by sliding way back and forth. If it happens for anyone else, the cure is to change browsers. See comment at 9:20 p.m. Your excellent article, Morgana, triggered another thought. (quote)The Scorpio splash covers the US 11th and 12th Houses as we look at the new Moon and the US chart. Saturn sits upon the 9th House cusp rather Supreme Court’ish, you are not God, you are not King, you too must obey the Laws, universal and otherwise, they apply whether your reality says they do not.(end quote) What energies are at play that these monsters would ever have made it this far? what energies were at play that allowed so much damage to the world's consciousness, the planet? Unlike Cybear, these evil doing shyters do not question their the message other than to use whatever message supports their godless purposes. (And Cybear, I find you nothing BUT SANE!) I think it would take an extraordinarily CLEAR-OF-PUPROSE person to single handedly take on this administration, even Waxman. It is a "we the people" challenge. It always has been, no matter what time, no matter what civilization. We must learn that we are ALL a part of a divine purpose, that our choices affect others who are equally a part of the divine purpose. Until we do, we will continue to experience upheaval lessons, that will force us to accept our own divinity. Karen, you are absolutely correct that it would take more than one single minded individual to clean up this mess, and there will be more than one and it will be Henry Waxman's info and files that will fuel the individual committees to take this group on, that is if they decide to take them on. Waxman's "files" will provide historians a clear picture of what when on here, it will provide lawyers and courts the material to prosecute if the criminal activities get to court. Henry Waxman has the firm foundation to bring this all down, we will have to see if there are any brave and courageous people to build on that foundation. I hope in time there will be those courageous people that will join ranks with Henry but they sure as heck couldn't do it without him. Posted by: Sally on November 26, 2006 06:06 PMJohn Conyers has been working as hard and as thoroughly and has amassed a huge amount of information as well as impeachable offenses. Posted by: lunaoscura on November 26, 2006 07:14 PMbbuster, I happened to have Firefox open along with Safari, and yes, in Firefox, it is too wide....Safari browser it is fine (I use a Mac). IE will probably be fine. Had a series of emails from an ex AOL user who said the Firefox browser was malfunctioning. I am going to check and see if there are some upgrades to it. Posted by: judiGem on November 26, 2006 09:04 PMPaper: Cheney's Record Shows Dems “Should Not Expect The White House To Cooperate” In Next 2 Years... Hail to the chief ANN ARBOR, MICH. -- In July 1987, then-Representative Dick Cheney, the top Republican on the committee investigating the Iran-contra scandal, turned on his hearing room microphone and delivered, in his characteristically measured tone, a revolutionary claim. President Reagan and his top aides, he asserted, were free to ignore a 1982 law at the center of the scandal. Known as the Boland Amendment, it banned US assistance to anti-Marxist militants in Nicaragua. "I personally do not believe the Boland Amendment applied to the president, nor to his immediate staff," Cheney said. Most of Cheney's colleagues did not share his vision of a presidency empowered to bypass US laws governing foreign policy. The committee issued a scathing, bipartisan report accusing White House officials of "disdain for the law." Cheney refused to sign it. Instead, he commissioned his own report declaring that the real lawbreakers were his fellow lawmakers, because the Constitution "does not permit Congress to pass a law usurping Presidential power." more http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/11/26/hail_to_the_chief/ Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 26, 2006 09:34 PM
By Valerie Richardson DENVER -- The Mile High City is enjoying a surge of momentum in its bid for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, thanks to Colorado's electoral tilt to the left and a well-timed burst of union activity. http://www.washtimes.com/national/20061126-120643-9964r.htm Posted by: wv on November 26, 2006 10:48 PM
The Sunday Times November 26, 2006
The devices are used at 300 sites in Holland and police, councils and transport officials in London have shown an interest in installing them before the 2012 Olympics. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2471987,00.html wow there is so much hostility in the inner cities, Los Angeles, New York, there poor little listening devices will crash due to overload. There are a lot of angry vibes in some of those places. Posted by: Morgana on November 27, 2006 12:52 AMThis should be interesting to watch. High court to hear global warming case WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court hears arguments this week in a case that could determine whether the Bush administration must change course in how it deals with the threat of global warming. Carbon dioxide is produced when fossil fuels are burned. It is the principal "greenhouse" gas that many scientists believe is flowing into the atmosphere at an unprecedented rate, leading to a warming of the earth and widespread ecological changes. The Bush administration intends to argue before the court on Wednesday that the EPA lacks the power under the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant. The agency contends that even if it did have such authority, it would have discretion under the law on how to address the problem without imposing emissions controls. The states and more than a dozen environmental groups insist the 1970 law makes clear that carbon dioxide is a pollutant that is subject to regulation because its poses a threat to public health. A sharply divided federal appeals court ruled in favor of the government in 2005. But last June, the Supreme Court decided to take up the case. The ruling next year is expected to be one of the court's most important ever involving the environment. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-26-scotus-global-warming_x.htm Morgana - one can only hope. Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 27, 2006 12:57 AMThank you ever so much, Miz Morgana. I wrote a thank-you (valentine) earlier, but I see it didn't post. Oh, well, drifting around in the ether, I guess. So nice to be on this choo-choo with you-hoo! Posted by: shylurker on November 27, 2006 02:25 AMhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6185380.stm Mid-East leaders commit to truce Israeli and Palestinian leaders have said they are committed to a ceasefire agreed for the Gaza Strip, despite Palestinian rockets landing in Israel. ......... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6187282.stm Israel PM 'to outline peace plan' Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is due to deliver what is billed as a major speech outlining the possible way forward to a wider peace. ......... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6186624.stm Jordan's king warns of civil wars Jordan's King Abdullah has warned that three civil wars could break out in the Middle East unless the international community takes urgent action. Posted by: Pat C on November 27, 2006 11:45 AMThe Iraq Study Group or Baker-Hamilton Commission will urge intensive diplomacy with Syria and Iran to help deal with the Iraqi civil conflict but will not urge a phased pull-out of US troops. If they don't, they should specify the mission. What is the mission of the US military in Ramadi? I hope my readers will press their representatives in Congress and the executive branch to answer this question. What is the mission? When will it be accomplished? More... Posted by: Pat C on November 27, 2006 12:42 PMShadowhawk, your piece on Cheney's interpretation of the law above was most telling. We should all be wearing shirts or carrying signs or writing in the sky that the constitution was written to protect us from them. Posted by: karen on November 27, 2006 12:48 PMI also have ha trouble with the double wide type! So I am viewing this in I E 5.2 even tho my tech warned me that I was more likely to have crashes using it! Pat, i saw this piece on 60 Minutes, and had chills. His music was profound. I hope i can find a CD. If i do, i'll post the link. Posted by: karen on November 27, 2006 01:55 PMBritain wants UK break up, poll shows The United Kingdom should be broken up and Scotland and England set free as independent nations, according to a huge number of voters on both sides of the border. A clear majority of people in both England and Scotland are in favour of full independence for Scotland, an ICM opinion poll for The Sunday Telegraph has found. Independence is backed by 52 per cent of Scots while an astonishing 59 per cent of English voters want Scotland to go it alone. There is also further evidence of rising English nationalism with support for the establishment of an English parliament hitting an historic high of 68 per cent amongst English voters. Almost half – 48 per cent – also want complete independence for England, divorcing itself from Wales and Northern Ireland as well. Scottish voters also back an English breakaway with 58 per cent supporting an English parliament with similar powers to the Scottish one. The poll comes only months before the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union between England and Scotland and will worry all three main political parties. None of them favours Scottish independence, but all have begun internal debates on the future of the constitution. The dramatic findings came as Gordon Brown, the favourite to succeed Tony Blair as Prime Minister, delivered an impassioned defence of the Union at Labour's Scottish conference in Oban yesterday. In an attack on the Scottish National Party, against whom Labour will fight a bitter battle for control of the Edinburgh-based parliament next May, the Chancellor claimed: "We should never let the Nationalists deceive people into believing that you can break up the United Kingdom." More... Posted by: Pat C on November 27, 2006 02:58 PMKaren and Pat, it's available on Amazon. Posted by: Pat C on November 27, 2006 02:59 PM* The Uses of History & the War on Terrorism Madison is a very special place. I always have a special feeling when I come here. I have a feeling I am in a different country. And I’m glad, you know. Some people get disgusted of the American policy, & they go to live in some other country. No. Go to Madison. So, now I’m supposed to say something. I am glad you’re there, whoever you are, & this light is shining in my eyes to wake me up. Well, do you get the feeling sometime that you’re living in an occupied country? Very often that’s a feeling I get when I wake up in the morning. I think, “I’m living in an occupied country. A small group of aliens have taken over the country & are trying to do with it what they will, you know, & really are.” I mean, they are alien to me. I mean, those people who are coming across the border from Mexico, they are not alien to me, you see. You know, Muslims who come to this country to live, they are not alien to me, you see. These demonstrations, these wonderful demonstrations that we have seen very recently on behalf of immigrant rights, say, & you’ve seen those signs saying, you know, “No human being is alien.” And I think that’s true. Except for the people in Washington, you see. They’ve taken over the country. They’ve taken over the policy. They’ve driven us into two disastrous wars, disastrous for our country & even more disastrous for people in the Mid East. And they have sucked up the wealth of this country & given it to the rich, & given it to the multinationals, given it to Halliburton, given it to the makers of weapons. They’re ruining the environment. And they’re holding on to 10,000 nuclear weapons, while they want us to worry about the fact that Iran may, in 10 yrs, get one nuclear weapon. You see, really, how mad can you be? And the question is, how has this been allowed to happen? How have they gotten away with it? They’re not following the will of the people. I mean, they manufactured a will of the people for a very short time right after the war started, as govts are able to do right after the beginning of an armed conflict, in order to able to create an atmosphere of war hysteria. And so for a short time, they captivated the minds of the American people. That’s not true anymore. The American people have begun to understand what is going on & have turned against the policies in Wash, but of course they are still there. They are still in power. The question is, you know, how did they get away with that? ... http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=11488 Just so excellent. Posted by: Pat C on November 27, 2006 04:34 PMJust so excellent. Posted by: Pat C on November 27, 2006 04:35 PMThis man's ego knows absolutely no bounds!! What - he's read 'My Pet Goat" and that takes $500M to hold that prized book? It's insulting. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/475052p-399492c.html W library in record book WASHINGTON - He may be a certified lame duck now, but President Bush and his truest believers are about to launch their final campaign - an eye-popping, half-billion-dollar drive for the Bush presidential library. Bush sources with direct knowledge of library plans told the Daily News that SMU and Bush fund-raisers hope to get half of the half billion from what they call "megadonations" of $10 million to $20 million a pop. more Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 27, 2006 05:44 PM* Thanks — No, Seriously by Molly Ivins It’s time to give thanks, & I want to start off with a great, big thank you for the top American movement cons & all the fun we’ve had since Election Day. I know I promised not to gloat after this election was over, but I’m not talking unseemly gloating-—I’m talking about moments so brilliantly hilarious the only option is to put your head down on the desk & howl. First in line is the wit of The National Review’s Kate O’Beirne, who clearly teamed up with Borat to explain the great con win. Her explanation is that this is a win for con'ism because a great many of the D’s elected are so con themselves. She says half of them are cons. She is indeed right. If only twice as many Dems had been elected, it would have proved that there are twice as many cons in the country, & this is clear to any thinking person. We might challenge Ms O’Beirne to explain how the next Republican win is a victory for liberalism. The reason that O’Beirne & others are able to accept such an absurdity is because they’ve been listening to George W Bush for 6 yrs & are thus able to believe 6 impossible things before breakfast. Speaking of “thinking,” another great moment for cons this year was highlighted on the Nov 16 edition of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” Host Jon Stewart addressed a recent remark that CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck made to Rep-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim ever elected to Congress. Beck said, “I have been nervous about this interview with you because what I feel like saying is, ‘Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.’ ”After airing Beck’s comment, Stewart declared, “Finally, a guy who says what people who aren’t thinking are thinking.” ... http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1124-28.htm http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061127/pl_afp/natosummitusestonia_061127163003 Security for Bush visit tests Estonians' patience Suffocating security measures in place for President George W. Bush's arrival in Estonia have left many here wishing his landmark visit was already over. "We've been told to carry our passports with us, otherwise we might not be allowed to go home," grumbled Marju, a pensioner, as she walked her dog between the concrete barriers and bollards erected near the hotel where Bush will be staying. The US president was due to arrive in Tallinn late Monday evening, hold talks with Estonian officials on Tuesday morning and leave for the NATO summit in Riga, the capital of neighboring Latvia, early the same afternoon. The security measures enforced for the trip have far surpassed those for previous visits by foreign heads of state and disrupted life for the capital's residents. It's all a far cry from the the recent visit to the Baltic state of Queen Elizabeth II, when Estonians rubbed shoulders with the British monarch as she walked around Tallinn's medieval district. "The walk-about of the Queen in Town Hall Square was so nice -- I couldn't shake hands with her but saw her up close. She was so lovely," Marju said. "Now, there are rumors that if you make a sudden movement on the street (during the Bush visit), you could be shot at," she said. An email sent to students of Tallinn University by the school's administration passed on a warning from the police not to open windows overlooking a street the Bush motorcade will take. More... Posted by: Pat C on November 27, 2006 06:14 PM* Cut & Run, the Only Brave Thing to Do Friends, Tomorrow marks the day that we will have been in Iraq longer than we were in all of WWII. That's right. We were able to defeat all of Nazi Germany, Mussolini, & the entire Japanese empire in LESS time than it's taken the world's only superpower to secure the road from the airport to downtown Baghdad. And we haven't even done THAT. After 1,347 days, in the same time it took us to took us to sweep across N Africa, storm the beaches of Italy, conquer the S Pacific, & liberate all of Western Europe, we cannot, after over 3-1/2 yrs, even take over a single highway & protect ourselves from a homemade device of two tin cans placed in a pothole. No wonder the cab fare from the airport into Baghdad is now running around $35,000 for the 25-min ride. And that doesn't even include a friggin' helmet. Is this utter failure the fault of our troops? Hardly. That's because no amount of troops or choppers or democracy shot out of the barrel of a gun is ever going to "win" the war in Iraq. It is a lost war, lost because it never had a right to be won, lost because it was started by men[sic] who have never been to war, men who hide behind others sent to fight & die. Let's listen to what the Iraqi people are saying, according to a recent poll conducted by the U of Maryland: - 71% of all Iraqis now want the US out of Iraq. - 61% of all Iraqis SUPPORT insurgent attacks on US troops. Yes, the vast majority of Iraqi citizens believe that our soldiers should be killed/maimed! So what the hell are we still doing there? Talk about not getting the hint. ... http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=202 Posted by: JoannaOregon on November 27, 2006 06:44 PMThanks again Morgana! All these direct planets make life a trip on the Autobaun! BBuster, Remember Kristl told us how to solve the text warp problem for Firefox.... 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. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1562998,00.html Both Sides Blame the U.S. as Violence Escalates in Iraq ............ http://www.cato.org/research/articles/cpr28n6-1.html War of the Worlds? Preble surely meanst "War of the Males" Posted by: JoannaOregon on November 27, 2006 09:18 PMEndless Endless Endless Endless Endless Endless Endless Endless Wars of the Males... there... that's better. Posted by: JoannaOregon on November 27, 2006 09:21 PMAnother beautiful song from Michael Franti. If you hear this song, it WILL bring tears to your eyes. The words are strong, but the song is incredible. Tolerance A child is born, and a mamma's torn Tolerance or violence and the whole world go to war Oh, give a little, Tolerance or violence and the whole world go to war Posted by: Cybear on November 27, 2006 09:34 PM Cybear - the words are beautiful. Thank you. Is there a link where we can hear the music online? Thank you. Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 27, 2006 09:47 PMIsn't that special - everyone is finally catching on to the fact that a Civil War is raging in Iraq? Took 'em long enough! Michael Ware on Iraqi Civil War As usual, CNN's Michael Ware paints a stark and depressing picture of the deteriorating security situation in Iraq. He details the never-ending (and escalating) violence and calls it what it is — a brutal civil war with no end in sight. For all the parsing of the term "civil war", Ware explains exactly why NBC is right in now officially characterizing it as one. more http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/11/27/michael-ware-on-iraqi-civil-war/ Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 27, 2006 10:25 PMWhat's interesting about that article Joanna is that it is from the CATO Institute. They are known for being quite right wing. Posted by: Pat C on November 27, 2006 10:57 PMThanks QoP and Karen! Shadowhawk, I have the cd. I know it's on I-Tunes, but I have not found it online anywhere for free and his website doesn't have it up yet. His music is very thought provoking and upbeat, but his ballads touch your spirit in ways that cannot be described. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HK22Ag01.html THE NEW WORLD OIL ORDER, Part 1 ~~~~~~~ Iran, China near $100bn oil deal Posted by: Pat C on November 27, 2006 11:36 PMShadowhawk, you took the words right out of my mouth Re: Bush's Presidential library. The whole thing should be stocked only with copies of My Pet Goat. But furthermore, why are they even building such a ridiculous monument to incompetence in the first place? It ought to flop miserably and eventually be forced to close down, for public embarrasment and lack of support for the absolute worst president in the history of the U.S. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on November 28, 2006 01:26 AMNEOB, I figured they were going to hide things there. That's what I heard they did with Poppy's lie-berry. Posted by: shylurker on November 28, 2006 01:30 AMVery interesting article, too, on the possible break-up of the U.K. -- another sign of what is to come with Pluto in Capricorn. Anyone notice that the politicians are the ones balking at this proposal? Not the people. The politicians, who shrug their shoulders in defiance of the fact that they are elected/appointed to serve the people's interests. Of course, they would naturally fear losing their power and influence in the breakup of the country, since that is far more important to them than actually doing their jobs in the best interests of the people. I think the "establishment" is soon going to be receiving a wake-up call. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on November 28, 2006 01:48 AMPoppy's another one, shy, who doesn't deserve a shrine. Not that any president needs one, really. But Poppy contributed nothing to the betterment of the average American, much less humanity as a whole. They should use his picture as a watermark on the Big Oil companies' CEOs' paychecks, but that's all. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on November 28, 2006 01:54 AMNews today of Baker Iraq Study Group wanting to postpone troop withdrawal. Baker is on the Board of Carlyle Corp.-one of the the major US/world Defense Contractors. They (Baker, BFEE, Cheney etc. ) daily gorge themselves on blood- profiteering on our troops lives-they certainly do not want to stop. Posted by: KAT119 on November 28, 2006 01:59 AMWhile shrub gets a library - David Hicks, an Australian who was picked up in the sweep after the invasion of Afghanistan and put in Gitmo 5 years ago gets this palatial treatment. Phillip Ruddock, our mortician Attorney General, says that Hicks is not in solitary confinement (well, he is but only for 23 hours of the day with the lights never turned off and a sliver of a window that doesn't open)... Ruddock, of course, tells the truth - he wouldn't lie. Meanwhile the Australian Wheat Board executives scandal (they paid $300 million Australian dollars to Saddam Hussein in the lead up to this latest invasion) - they don't even get a slap on the hand. Apparently, the Australian government knew about the invasion a year before it actually happened - well the AWB did and the government are saying they didn't. What filthy liars. Read about Hick's tale here. He's been in this room for 8 months - been at Gitmo for 5 years. http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/hickss-window-on-the-world/2006/11/27/1164476134575.html
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Now, I know - in an age of zillion dollar political campaigns and K Street-bought legislation, the term "democracy" has become a punchline. It's not every day that political groups actually rely on ordinary citizens to help push their agenda. But Progressive States is not just any group - we are working with a broad coalition of grassroots organizations to invest in the progressive agenda at the state level where it can matter the most. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/take-action-cosponsor-p_b_34988.html?view=print Posted by: wv on November 28, 2006 03:34 AM David Sirota 11.27.2006 READ MORE: 2006
Now, I know - in an age of zillion dollar political campaigns and K Street-bought legislation, the term "democracy" has become a punchline. It's not every day that political groups actually rely on ordinary citizens to help push their agenda. But Progressive States is not just any group - we are working with a broad coalition of grassroots organizations to invest in the progressive agenda at the state level where it can matter the most. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/take-action-cosponsor-p_b_34988.html?view=print Posted by: wv on November 28, 2006 03:34 AMWHAT?? Be sure to circulate this as wide and far as you can: Shylurker - I knew the big picture but to read the details is sickening. We're suffering from our chickens coming home to roost - or karma - aren't we. Thanks for the link. I'll be sure to spread it around. Send it to Olbermann? It would make a great special comment. Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 28, 2006 05:21 AMDid any one hear this on the news anywhere? I didn't. Man burns himself to Death In Anti War protest By Associated Press 11/05/06 -- -CHICAGO (AP) -- Malachi Ritscher envisioned his death as one full of purpose. He carefully planned the details, mailed a copy of his apartment key to a friend, created to-do lists for his family. On his Web site, the 52-year-old experimental musician who'd fought with depression even penned his obituary. At 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 3 -- four days before an election caused a seismic shift in Washington politics -- Ritscher, a frequent anti-war protester, stood by an off-ramp in downtown Chicago near a statue of a giant flame, set up a video camera, doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire. "Here is the statement I want to make. ... "If one death can atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my country." "This man killed himself in such a painful way ... to get our attention...," said Jennifer Diaz, a grad student researching Ritscher's life. "I'm not going to sit by, and I can't sit by, and let this go unheard." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15750.htm Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 28, 2006 05:42 AMShadowhawk, yes I saw it yesterday I think on one of the mainstream outlets. There is so much we do not see or hear that is occuring within our own country. Posted by: Morgana on November 28, 2006 06:00 AMRemember just a couple of years ago Christian Amenpour got side lined for her honest reporting from Iraq? This is an excellent article I found posted on Salon. A Moment Of Clarity The New York Times headlined yesterday that the US government might try to start negotiations with Iran and Syria over the fate of Iraq -- an idea so preposterous that it might have been a wire-story from The Onion. Iran and Syria have no interest in the matter whatsoever except in the failure of America to control events, and the humiliation entailed by that failure, which is happening on its own. So the story is a clear signal of our desperation that we are even pretending to make overtures. http://atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/334/81/ Posted by: Pat C on November 28, 2006 02:10 PMPat C, it's all part of the Evil Empire's quest for complete world domination. Destroy our country and economy to justify there assinine war in the name of a New World Order. This is the deep dark secret that they have been working towards for the past 25 years or so. Actually, since the days of Ronnie Raygun. Destroy what the sheep worship and they will have all the support they need. This winter solstice could be the beginning of a nasty new year. January, the sparks will fly and the rest of next year....look out. Also, the dems have no power to stop what has been put in motion years ago. They will join the sheep following the pied piper of death. Posted by: Cybear on November 28, 2006 04:07 PMAll the more reason for everyone who is awake to drop the negatives and focus on the positives. Negativity only feeds negativity....in ANY FORM, whether it's in words, thought's or actions. I'm trying Cybear...... Calling Bullshit on America http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/27/18204/164 I know QoP, it's hard but it can be done. Anyway, anytime we get angry, it feeds the web of negativity. I have to adjust my attitude everytime I walk through the door here at work. On the service it's pleasant, but underneath the surface it's like stepping into the bowels of hell. Some rich people are awake. Most are spoiled brats and the slaves that work for them are just that, sheep converted into slaves who will do anything to keep their jobs. I am looking for a way out of this mess now. Lots of Reiki, meditation and chanting help to keep me sane in these trying times. But just think how good those greenie beanies will taste! I know the peppers I grow are soooo goooood! Better than store bought and without the nasty chemicals. Anything else I have tried to grow ends up food for all the birds and critters my yard attracts. No chemicals or fertilizer used. I also try to buy from the farmers market to support the small farms when I can. Posted by: Cybear on November 28, 2006 06:37 PMI don't if any of you heard Bush spouting how our troops are staying in Iraq till the mission is complete. Hah, he made me furious, what part of Civil War, we're done, we're taking our troops and going home didn't you get sir? No more death for his lies. Posted by: Morgana on November 28, 2006 10:13 PMI don't know if... sorry left out a word. Posted by: Morgana on November 28, 2006 10:14 PMHe's following Poppy's instructions or he's dumber than dirt. I think it's both. It's the personality of the professional drunkie/druggie... unrecovered writ huge! Posted by: JoannaOregon on November 28, 2006 11:16 PMThis is a transcript and a video that reveals a lot we can't find in the MSM. Very interesting and a tad depressing what we've done. In his latest article, "Anatomy of a Civil War: Iraq's descent into chaos", Rosen writes, "Shia religious parties such as the Iran-supported Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (its name a sufficient statement of its intentions), or SCIRI, controlled the country, and Shia militias had become the Iraqi police and the Iraqi army, running their own secret prisons, arresting, torturing, and executing Sunnis in what was clearly a civil war. And the Americans were merely one more militia among the many, watching, occasionally intervening, and in the end only making things worse. Iraqis' hopes for a better future after Saddam had been betrayed." more http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15757.htm Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 28, 2006 11:58 PMA very interesting Vedic interpreation of Bush's chart. Depressing for us, though. http://educate-yourself.org/cn/gwbhoroscope11nov04.shtml Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 29, 2006 01:44 AMThat is interesting Shadowhawk. Posted by: Pat C on November 29, 2006 04:07 AM"Destructive forces are so strong around him that he may actually destroy more than you can believe: he has already been participant of the destruction of a civilization – or a planet – in one of his previous incarnations. (He is not conscious of this trait in himself at all, though. As far as we know, he nearly destroyed a company or two before he became US president)." Yep, evil, evil, evil creature he is...Definitely not of 'human' origin. He is spreading the darkness as fast as he can. If only the sheeple knew who and what he is.... Very interesting Shadowhawk. An article of interest. Also interesting that this judge is also female - just like the one who said the NSA wi-r-e-t-a-p-ping was illegal. The females of the world are in revolt? I certainly hope so. Judge strikes down part of Bush anti-terror order LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal judge in Los Angeles, who previously struck down sections of the Patriot Act, has ruled that provisions of an anti-terrorism order issued by President George W. Bush after September 11 are unconstitutional. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801408_pf.html Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 29, 2006 05:33 AMShadowhawk, your link about reads like much that has been discussed between here, Nancy's Starlight News and in other astrological threads. Not that that in and of itself is a bad thing. It simply re-confirms that which we already know: Bush is a Destroyer. Unfortunately, his occurence here in this time period almost seems to have been FATED. -- i.e. -- A President John Kerry would have been unable to remove us much from our present predicament. The GOP Congress/NeoCon Machine likely would have vindictively thwarted any attempt that Kerry would have made to remove us from Iraq, or to reform the federal government. On the other hand, maybe Kerry would have sent in more troops with allied support, to try and resolve the situation, only to make it even worse. At any rate, we will soon begin to realize the true depth and extent of the damage that Bush and the Corporatist/NeoCon orgy of greed, arrogance and brazen stupidity has wrought upon our country and the world. The Dems will uncover many, many shocking truths, which, if they don't outright bring about the financial and governmental collapse of the U.S., will certainly leave most of us wondering what to do, or where do we go from here as a country. I would not rule out a dissolution of the U.S., especially as our Pluto Return draws near (27 Capricorn, Feb 2022). After all, breaking up seems to be the talk of the U.K., believe it or not: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/26/nunion26.xml Britain wants UK break up, poll shows By Patrick Hennessy and Melissa Kite, Sunday Telegraph The United Kingdom should be broken up and Scotland and England set free as independent nations, according to a huge number of voters on both sides of the border. A clear majority of people in both England and Scotland are in favour of full independence for Scotland, an ICM opinion poll for The Sunday Telegraph has found. Independence is backed by 52 per cent of Scots while an astonishing 59 per cent of English voters want Scotland to go it alone. There is also further evidence of rising English nationalism with support for the establishment of an English parliament hitting an historic high of 68 per cent amongst English voters. Almost half – 48 per cent – also want complete independence for England, divorcing itself from Wales and Northern Ireland as well. Scottish voters also back an English breakaway with 58 per cent supporting an English parliament with similar powers to the Scottish one. The poll comes only months before the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union between England and Scotland and will worry all three main political parties. None of them favours Scottish independence, but all have begun internal debates on the future of the constitution. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on November 29, 2006 07:02 AMNEOBuckeye-when I read that Canada is going to recognize Quebec as a country and England may decide to let Scotland and Ireland be their own countries I was reminded of the ice shelves melting. Everything is breaking up. More info supporting the notion that they tried (but failed, thanks to the Dem turnout) to rig 2006 election results: Clymela and NeoB, makes one have to consider if the USA might split up as well as Bush has fragmented and divivded the American populace. Posted by: Morgana on November 29, 2006 03:04 PMGore’s challenge to the Bush White House to present real evidence of a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11 was, in both tone and substance, more critical than any speech yet delivered by the candidates in the Democratic field. Suddenly, the prospect of a Gore candidacy hit the media in a wave. “I’m not of the school that questions his intelligence,” Gore went on. “There are different kinds of intelligence, and it’s arrogant for a person with one kind of intelligence to question someone with another kind. He certainly is a master at some things, and he has a following. He seeks strength in simplicity. But, in today’s world, that’s often a problem. I don’t think that he’s weak intellectually. I think that he is incurious. It’s astonishing to me that he’d spend an hour with his incoming Secretary of the Treasury and not ask him a single question. But I think his weakness is a moral weakness. I think he is a bully, and, like all bullies, he’s a coward when confronted with a force that he’s fearful of. His reaction to the extravagant and unbelievably selfish wish list of the wealthy interest groups that put him in the White House is obsequious. The degree of obsequiousness that is involved in saying ‘yes, yes, yes, yes, yes’ to whatever these people want, no matter the damage and harm done to the nation as a whole—that can come only from genuine moral cowardice. I don’t see any other explanation for it, because it’s not a question of principle. The only common denominator is each of the groups has a lot of money that they’re willing to put in service to his political fortunes and their ferocious and unyielding pursuit of public policies that benefit them at the expense of the nation.” Al Gore in The New Yorker interview, 9/13/04. Posted by: Pat C on November 29, 2006 03:42 PMOuch! This is not a good week for Bush what with VIP Americans telling it like it is. First Carter says "Iraq Invasion...One Of The Greatest Blunders That American Presidents Have Ever Made".... And now Gore says, “The real distinction of this Presidency is that, at its core, he is a very weak man..." And it's only Wednesday. Posted by: lunaoscura on November 29, 2006 07:25 PMHere's a juicy plum! http://waynemadsenreport.com/ Last week Mr. Bush felt he had turned a corner and could see possibilities of being bailed out in spite of having to fire Rumsfeld (that wasn't as hard as it seemed for him because his father didn't like Rumsfeld in the first place and Prez Bush needs his father right now) and Iran jumping out there to begin diplomatic talks before the US could form a strategy; Bush felt pretty good. This week has pretty much knocked down all those good feelings. The Twins have been somewhat of an international embarrassment, NBC has taken to calling Iraq a Civil Way (against the administration's stand that it isn't) the PM of Iraq blew Bush off in Jordan and may or may not show up Thursday. Bush's bad news comes in the form of Saturn reaching it's stationary period before it goes retrograde, he does however get a final boost this year with last month's planets in Scorpio, lining up in Sagittarius later this week and next. Those are trines to his Leo and sextiles to his Libra, but the ruler of Libra is Venus and Saturn will be so heavy handed he won't recognize the good stuff happening to him and when the Sun squares his Mars tomorrow and the next day he will be in a little fit over Iraq's very public snub Posted by: Sally on November 29, 2006 10:23 PMIf only the Bushes could suffer in their own personal world and leave the rest of the world alone. May they experience true regret. May the rest of the world be at peace. Posted by: Pat C on November 29, 2006 10:49 PMhttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1562974,00.html The Scariest Guy in Town Come January, however, the man that the liberal Nation magazine once called the “Eliot Ness of the Democrats” can do even more, thanks to the two words that strike fear in the heart of every government official: subpoena power. More…. Posted by: Pat C on November 29, 2006 10:57 PMJust keep on keeping on Henry, I simply love the guy and every single Virgo piece of energy he possesses. I hope he has double disks for all his information safely locked away because he has an absolute treasure trove, making any pirate jealous, of historical information to tell the story of this man who is occupying a chair and table in the WH. Posted by: Sally on November 29, 2006 11:11 PMSally, if a Virgo doesn't have everything in triplicate and then under a mattress just in case, then who does? Being married to a Virgo can be challenging, but having one in the office keeps everything going smoothly. Posted by: lunaoscura on November 30, 2006 12:31 AMhttp://salon.com/tech/htww/2006/11/29/thailand_pharma/ Why Thailand isn't smiling at Big Pharma Thailand's Ministry of Public Health indicated today that it would grant the application of the Government Pharmaceutical Organization for a compulsory license to manufacture a generic version of the AIDS retroviral drug Efavirenz. (Thanks to the Consumer Project on Technology for the link.) The reason: AIDS sufferers in Thailand are beginning to demonstrate resistance to the existing government-manufactured AIDS drug GPO-vir, but can't afford the high priced Efavirenz, marketed by Bristol-Myers Squibb under the name Sustiva. So in the interest of public health, Thailand plans to take advantage of the right granted to it by the World Trade Organization's TRIPs (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property) agreement to break Bristol's patent. Bristol-Myers Squibb and the rest of Big Pharma would rather Thailand (or any other nation) did not exercise its TRIPs rights. They have thus lobbied long and hard for the U.S. to incorporate increased protections for their intellectual property that go above and beyond TRIPs in the bilateral free trade agreements that the U.S. has been industriously negotiating with other nations in recent years. Thailand, partially as a result of its status as a popular stop on the global sex tour circuit, has more than its share of AIDS sufferers, which may explain why Big Pharma's demands have been a major sticking point in a bilateral free trade agreement that the U.S. and Thailand have been negotiating since June 2004. Public health advocates (including the country representative in Thailand of the World Health Organization, who was later transferred after publicly criticizing the proposed FTA) have long argued that signing such an agreement would hurt the ability of Thailand to properly care for its citizens. How, specifically, would this happen? If you look at other FTA agreements that the U.S. has recently concluded, notably with Australia and Singapore, there are three main ways that the U.S. attempts to restrict the ability of a nation to issue a compulsory license. More... Posted by: Pat C on November 30, 2006 01:20 AMQuestion: Given the unstable nature of our idiot-in-chief, what do you all think his reaction to all these public, obvious, widely reported setbacks/snubs will be? I don't see him taking it well. Will he brush off his handlers and go attack somebody or will Poppy and handlers prevail and lock him up somewhere until his temper tantrum is over? Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 30, 2006 03:47 AMThis is promising. http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3860 NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE TO RECOMMEND SCRAPPING DIRECT RECORDING ELECTRONIC TOUCH-SCREEN VOTING MACHINES! Posted by: Pat C on November 30, 2006 04:21 AMI just read this on a post over at firedoglake by Jane Hamsher and it adds a bit of extra information about the Webb-Bush incident. I would probably have smacked him silly if he'd asked me about my son like that - the hell with pro-t-o-cols! "While traditional media sources are focusing on what a cranky bastard Jim Webb is for not responding with cheerful bootlicking when Bush asked about his son (stationed in Iraq), it seems there may be more to the story. From Not Larry Sabato: As President Bush is well aware, a couple of weeks before this dinner the tank riding next to Jimmy's in Iraq was under fire and three marines died. My sources are telling me that the way President Bush approached Webb with his tone, it appeared he was asking the question of how Jimmy was doing in a mocking manner, while he was certainly aware of the tragedy that had hit his unit a few weeks earlier. It sounds entirely consistent with President AWOL's chummy, condescending frat-boy manner of intimidating conversational banter. The Washington Post, however, is quick to quote those on the Hill who conclude from this outburst that Webb is not made of The Right Senatorial Stuff ("I think he's going to be a total pain"). " Posted by: Shadowhawk on November 30, 2006 06:43 AMClymela Quebec is "recognized as a 'nation' within the country of Canada" Hi Everyone! Interesting Times--WOW!! Trudy Here is an offering of some great irony to have with your morning brew. Already Too Busy for Civility http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/29/AR2006112901267.html To think, George Will is calling someone else a pompous poseur. .................. Generation Dem Beyond the failure of Karl Rove, the momentous 2006 elections signaled the emergence of a younger, bluer America that could reshape politics for years to come. Here is an offering of some great irony to have with your morning brew. Already Too Busy for Civility http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/29/AR2006112901267.html To think, George Will is calling someone else a pompous poseur. .............. http://salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/11/30/2006_election_trends/print.html Generation Dem Beyond the failure of Karl Rove, the momentous 2006 elections signaled the emergence of a younger, bluer America that could reshape politics for years to come. Sally the first post wasn't there a few minutes ago. I reloaded the page, and nothing. I left the site and came back and it was still not there, but now, after reposting it, it's there. Oy. Posted by: Pat C on November 30, 2006 01:08 PMWell now, the villainized Ahmadinijad has some interesting and poignant things to say in his latest letter, this one to the American People. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15770.htm That we had a voice as coherent, and inspiring; a leader who truly helped elevate the consciousness of a nation and inspired the world. That we abided by our pledge "justice for all." The War Last Time Climate change skeptics lose vital arguement Posted by: Pat C on November 30, 2006 02:54 PMGovernor Tom Vilsack announced that he will run for President 9:30 AM in the Iowa, Wesleyan College Howe Center of Mt. Pleasant, IA. http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/09/vilsack.president.ap/index.html Birth data: December 13, 1950, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tom Vilsack was orphaned at birth and placed in a Roman Catholic orphanage. He was adopted in 1951 by Bud and Dolly Vilsack, who raised him in the Roman Catholic faith. His adoptive father was a real-estate agent and insurance salesman, and his adoptive mother was a homemaker. He has recognized that his adoptive mother was an alcoholic. He attended high school at Shady Side Academy, a preparatory school in Pittsburgh. He received a Bachelor's degree in 1972 from Hamilton College in New York. While at Hamilton College he joined The Delta Upsilon Fraternity. He received a J.D. in 1975 from Albany Law School. He and his wife, Ann Christine "Christie" Bell moved to rural Mount Pleasant, Iowa, her hometown, where he joined his father-in-law in law practice. Tom and Christie Vilsack have two sons, Jess and Doug. Jess graduated from Hamilton College in 2000 and, like his dad, was a member of The Delta Upsilon Fraternity. Jess received a J.D. from the University of Iowa in May 2003. Doug later graduated from Colorado College and is currently attending the University of Colorado School of Law. He is also a research associate at the School of Law's Energy and Environmental Security Initiative (EESI). More... Posted by: Pat C on November 30, 2006 04:06 PMPat C, sometimes the site goes down for repairs from Moveable Menu, I have no control over that, it just goes down. Right now I am having problems with my own PC and McAfee so I can receive emails but cannot respond (yet) it's getting fixed. Hi Trudy and would congratulations to Quebec be in order? I know they've wanted this for quite a while. What on earth is going on in Canada? I heard they are getting more and more (gulp, gulp) restrictive like the US. Tell me that's not true. I saw a hiliarous quote this am regarding GW. "No matter how far you travel if you leave as a jackass, you won't come back as a horse." Posted by: Sally on November 30, 2006 04:55 PMRegarding Vilsack, Pat C... I wonder if it's just my personal perspective that it seems Sages are coming to the fore in politics rather than those who are cancer-dominated as we have experienced in the long aching past. Vilscak will be formidable imo with his pluto tr sun opp moon. Anyway, I'm annoyed that it's apparently another "dynasty-loving" family with the dutiful or unimaginative (or both) sheeple sons slotting their footies exactly in their father's prints. Bah. Humbug. Posted by: JoannaOregon on November 30, 2006 05:10 PMSo the ISG announcement will come out during the Full Moon... The ISG’s decision, which will be officially announced on December 6, represents a formal recognition by the American foreign policy establishment that Bush’s criminally misguided war of aggression in Iraq is lost. A war that was meant to demonstrate to the world the shock and awe of American power is ending as proof positive that the United States is too weak to subdue a fragmented nation of 25 million. A war that was meant to secure a preeminent place for the United States in the oil-rich Persian Gulf is ending with America in full retreat, leaving a shattered Iraq, a resurgent Iran, and a Saudi Arabia that is angry, bitter and disgusted with American bungling. A war that was meant to enhance Israel’s regional might is ending with what is likely, now, to be a reinvigorated push for a diplomatic solution to the Palestinian issue that will come at Israel’s expense—in Syria, in Lebanon, and in the Occupied Territories. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/11/30/baker_to_bush_game_over.php * Marking the beginning of the annual 16 Days of Activism to End Violence Against Women, last week the Council of Europe launched a campaign to stop domestic violence & more than 20 African govts recommitted themselves to end violence against women at a mtg convened in S Africa by UNICEF. These initiatives follow the release last month of the UN's comprehensive report on violence against women. The UN report repeatedly notes the connection between violence against women & sex discrimination, recognizing that violence against women is NOT the result of random individual acts but is rather “deeply rooted in structural relationships of inequality between women & [males].” The report also notes the apparent lack of political will to take this violence seriously, even tho it is both pervasive & deadly. All of the steps that s/b taken by govts to end violence against women are set forth in the recommendations, none for the first time. Nevertheless, the forthright manner in which the report goes to the root causes of violence against women, & to the core necessity of political will at the highest level to end it, is a welcome breath of fresh air. ... http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/11/30/ending_violence_against_women.php Posted by: JoannaOregon on November 30, 2006 05:43 PMWow...so much happening with these direct transits...posts & news still coming fast & furious both here and on Nancy's site. Thank you to Morgana, for this article and trenchant comments, thank you to Sally for your important contribution to bettering this battered world, and to all of you. I just returned from 6 days in CO (Keystone, Sally) and a 4 day car trip through the "heartland" of Kansas, OK, AK, and back to LA last night. My cursory, intuitive impression of the heartland is this - the people there are good, basic, no-nonsense. They are farmers busy with their work of feeding themselves and the country - no time for too much recreation or trendy frivilousness (they make great rock n'roll though). No wonder the anti-Howard Dean commercial (I ain't voting for no "latte-drinking, Volvo driving" politician, etc.) hit a chord. We are scouting around for a safer haven for the not-too-distant future (I hope). Colorado doesn't seem to agree with me, though, at least during the winter and its need for interior heating. I seem to develop a rash from the dryness. This time it was really bad. I realize that Bush is destructive, as are Chenney and the ass-kissing, ambitious cabinet and many of their corporate sponsors, but I tend to agree with Paul Levy. We dreamed this civilization up collectively, many of us have probably been destructive in one lifetime or another ...some of us have awoken and tried to change the dream before others, while the rest are blinded by and binded to the maya of materialism and security (= religion). I am still too bound to those twin pricincples myself. Let's keep moving in the "right" direction anyway, as in ethical and truly moral, following our role models like Waxman, Dean, Clark, Clarke, Gore, Carter, Olbermann, Colbert. We have momentum now and are strong. There will be upsets, hurts, disappointments along the way, but let's continue to do right and, hopefully, we will all be inspired and guided to make the necessary sacrifices and be where we're meant to be :-) Namaste You’ll need to do something to clear your mind after this, but it’s funny. Love story in four pictures http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364×2834686 Posted by: Pat C on November 30, 2006 09:45 PMSharon, did you find a place? Posted by: Pat C on November 30, 2006 09:50 PMComments to George Will on his article about Webb. Heh heh. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/comments/display?contentID=AR2006112901267 Posted by: Pat C on December 1, 2006 02:04 AMOh my. This is from my e-mail. Dear Pat, We are very sad to tell you that Maya del Mar passed We are posting her final, incomplete forecast for Oh sadness and sorrow. I loved her work. I will miss her. Sail on dear one. Posted by: clymela on December 1, 2006 02:46 AMPat, Even though we looked at homes with a realtor, I doubt if we are ready to make a move. We're just gathering information right now and letting it marinate. We're going to look at a few other states, see how they feel, also compare our choices against Sunbear and I am America and other maps. I know that I love New Mexico but find it a little too hot and dry. I heard there's an area that's green and fertile but lost track of it. This process is kind of fun. The friends that we stayed with in Fayetteville bought 170+ acres in the North central AK area near the Buffalo River (a very clean, pretty river) and will slowly plan the way they want to use it while they reside in AK. Most of it is a buffer against development but they also want to do organic farming. About 3 years ago they paid $1000/acre :-) Posted by: Sharon on December 1, 2006 02:55 AMDearest Maya Del Mar, que to alma tenga un buen viaje hermana! (May your soul have a bon voyage sister). Good astrologers are so needed right now. The loss of even one is deeply felt. Posted by: lunaoscura on December 1, 2006 02:56 AMIt's supposed to be 'que tu alma tenga un buen viaje hermana! I really do speak spanish, and I can certainly spell better than that! Posted by: lunaoscura on December 1, 2006 02:58 AMSharon, Lunaoscura, thank you for the message in Spanish, my Spanish is so rusty I appreciate reading the heartfelt sentiment. It is a beautiful language. Wow incredible events occuring, the rapidity takes your breath away. Sorry to hear about Maya del Mar's sudden passing. Although I've read comparatively little of her work, she seemed so knowledgeable, intelligent, and elegant. Her name always struck me as lovely, too. In "Conversations with G-d," though, G-d tells Neale that the day that you die is the happiest day of your life :-) Posted by: Sharon on December 1, 2006 03:18 AMMorgana, you are completely right. I just checked and Arkansas is AR, while Alaska is AK. From what I can tell about the New Madrid fault line is that it occupies the area where AR, MO, KY and TN meet, so the part of AR involved is a small piece of the NE corner. I would think that shaking would be felt in much of AR from a large quake. Posted by: Sharon on December 1, 2006 03:33 AMSharon, after El Nino and the Northridge Quake (native Californian) I've become geological conscious, plus whereever my husband and I endup other then here, we want to be on sustainable land. If I live in earthquake country I don't build on sandy land subject to liquification, already lost two houses to a landslide and a thank you maam from the feds. Hawaii had it's appeal but it's pretty shaky itself. Posted by: Morgana on December 1, 2006 03:48 AMI know what you mean. I'd like to live somewhere tropical and balmy, preferably near the ocean, but I would have to have a really freed-up attitude to do that. I'm begining to like the idea of farming some beautiful land somewhere even though I'll have to trade in my "Blue Lagoon" lifestyle and just visit when I can. When driving through AR, I was struck by the beauty of the bright green rice patties plowed in neat rows, against Autumn leaves in shades of red, greens, yellow, burnt and pale orange, all bathed in the late afternoon golden sunlight. Posted by: Sharon on December 1, 2006 04:35 AMSally Of much more concern for me and others is Alberta which spawned the conservatives and religious right movement that is now in power in Ottawa. Calgary has always billed itself as "Dallas North" Stephen Harper modeled himself after GWB On his trip to China, he intended to lay down the law as to what was acceptable to "Canadians" in human rights. Much like his buddy--the meeting was canceled and then re-scheduled. He apparently was told. among other things, that China had bigger fish to fry than Canada's fixation on--Taiwan, Tiannamen Sq., the Dalia Lama(we gave him honorary citizenship)and Falon Gong. They were more concerned with raising the poverty level of their citizens (the figure I have of 58% poverty to now approx 9-10%) And they were also concerned re: N Korea-which was acting up at the time. Could some of Wal-Marts decline be due to China's unwillingness to be used by the corp's?? I believe that Harper is intelligent and ambitious--is a Taurus and slow to change--does he'll learn from the cues that are all around him?--Don't know--- I do know that we are in a flux--another election is not too far off. I am now also aware in a real way some of the feelings that you went through when you saw your country being taken in a direction you did not want and were unable to change!! Trudy Deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Maya del Mar. For several years now I have always looked forward to her insight which I first learned about through AW. Thank you Sally for the introduction. Posted by: Timothy on December 1, 2006 06:23 AMOn a different note, some of you might find this interesting. What do you think, do you think it really was just an astronomical calculator (he asks with a wink, wink, wink)? RIP My condolances to her family and cyber friends
Just when you think you've heard all the insanity our government can produce. This is a 'coffee thru the nose alert' http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-10-30-abstinence-message_x.htm?csp=34 It is the only way to account for something like, say, the latest twist in the Abstinence Education Program from Bush's increasingly laughable Department of Health and Human Services, a $50 million slice of embarrassing government detritus that is now actually encouraging all states to tell their single, youngish residents that they should — how to put this so you don't shoot coffee through your nose? — that everyone should avoid s-e-x entirely, until they turn 30. See? See your reaction? You are like: No way. You are like: Is the United States government really saying that? You are like: Laughter, a smirk, maybe a shrug and a sigh and a sad shake of the head and another glass of wine because, you know, what the h-e-l-l is wrong with these people? Maybe you think I am making this up. Maybe you think that our fair government, as sad and lost and nipple-terrified as it is, can't seriously be suggesting that, to avoid STDs and unwanted pregnancy and unchecked misery in their obviously sad and irresponsible little lives, single people under 30 should not have s-e-x, like, ever. And maybe not even then. You would, of course, be wrong. It's for real. It's an actual HHS dictum and there are people who actually believe it should be adhered to, and I'm right now guessing you broke this rule this very morning and if you didn't you really, really wanted to, and if you're over 30 and/or married chances are you are sitting there right now wishing you were still single and/or under 30 just one more time just so you could squishily, juicily break that rule again, oh my God yes please. Just a guess. Posted by: Shadowhawk on December 1, 2006 05:16 PMLawdy, I wish Ma and Pa * would have practiced abstinence a long time ago. Posted by: bhakti on December 1, 2006 06:59 PMhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/01/reyes.intelligence.ap/index.html Pelosi taps Reyes to head intelligence committee House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi has chosen a Border Patrol agent-turned-congressman to lead the House intelligence committee, ending weeks of Democratic debate about who will oversee the nation’s spy agencies. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, takes over the key post next year, as his party tries to intensify oversight of the intelligence community. Critics say Republicans failed to do that, leading to faulty prewar intelligence on Iraq and other stumbles. “When tough questions are required—whether they relate to intelligence shortcomings before the 9/11 attacks or the war in Iraq, or to the quality of intelligence on Iran or North Korea—he does not hesitate to ask them,” Pelosi, D-California, said in a statement announcing her choice of Reyes. The selection of Reyes resolves one of the few committee chairmanships that was still in question after Democrats won control of the House of Representatives last month. It set up an early challenge for Pelosi, who had sole discretion on the selection. The California Democrat had to navigate a series of candidates—and their supporters—who were vying for the post. In the end, Pelosi bypassed two more senior intelligence committee members—Reps. Jane Harman, D-California, and Alcee Hastings, D-Florida—to select Reyes. More… Posted by: Pat C on December 1, 2006 09:16 PMhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/r000170/ Reyes voting data Posted by: Pat C on December 1, 2006 09:38 PMOpinions? Endemic: The Move To Label All Civil Disobedience "Terrorism" An endemic crackdown on peaceful protest and dissent has continued with President Bush signing the 'Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act,'. Under the guise of protecting researchers, scientists and their staff who conduct experiments and tests on animals, the latest terror bill seeks to class as "terrorists" those who seek to protest against such activities. more http://www.infowars.net/articles/december2006/011206terror_legislation.htm Posted by: Shadowhawk on December 2, 2006 03:26 AMAnd the bushadruggie can go stick it in a lil mousetrap & pick up what snaps off with a pair of tweezers. Posted by: JoannaOregon on December 2, 2006 04:21 AM* Colliding with the bb’s in bush’s brain We are at an interesting moment in time in this country—we all know that Iraq is going up in flames & that the bush Plan [loosely, to do nothing but stare with a vaguely annoyed look & glazed eyes for 3 yrs, much as he did for 7 min listening to My Pet Goat] didn’t … couldn’t … won’t work. So what to do next? For a country w/o a plan [altho they said we had a plan] now everybody has a plan but nobody can agree on one. The Dubby is still staring blankly … & talking big. We won’t bail out, sez he … but the Baker commission seems to think differently. And Dubby's leaked memo regarding Maliki can’t make that gent any more comfortable in his skin—on the other hand, anybody who gets into bed with a bush is gonna get screwed. And Joe Biden is licking his chops, awaiting his opportunity to take a hard look at the commission report … &, perhaps, toss it in the round file. It’s going to be a fascinating couple of years, dearhearts. ~ from the Center of American Progress In June, [rotten-rez] met with Iraqi PM al-Maliki & told him, “I’m impressed by the strength of your character & your desire to succeed. And I’m impressed by your strategy.” In just 5 mos, relations between bush & Maliki have soured considerably. Maliki cancelled his originally scheduled mtg with bush & Jordan’s King Abdullah II yesterday in the face of protests from radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s supporters. The WH acknowledged that the mtg was “unlikely to produce any major announcement or development,” but hoped it would “show that [rum-rez] is focused intently on Iraq.” Instead, the scheduled mtg highlighted how little has progressed in Iraq since the June mtg, other than an increased number of casualties, increased public disapproval, increased sectarian violence, & increased consensus that the situation in Iraq is a civil war. 60% of [USians] support withdrawing US troops from Iraq, yet there still seems to be no end in sight to the [assault]. bush on Tue vowed to not withdraw troops “until the mission is complete” & the Iraq Study Grp—which will release its findings on Dec 6—is unlikely to recommend a specific timetable for redeployment. [Odd — looks like religious fanatics to me! And that’s something bush shld understand well enuf, him being one & all. Jihad, [USian] style. So he’s still got his Happy Face on, altho you can see the desperation in his squinchy little eyes, as everyone bails on him.] “Oh, I know some fear the possibility that Iraq cld break apart & fall into a civil war. I don’t believe these fears are justified.” ~ bush, 12/12/05 vs “I would call it a civil war. … I have been using it (civil war) because I like to face the reality.” ~ Former Sec of State Colin Powell, 11/29/06 So, we’re stuck in bush’s brain, listening to the shake, rattle & roll of the bb’s, examining the details of what, big picture, was an immoral war to start with … a display of vengeance & rage … a political football quarterbacked by Uncle Dick & his NeoConivers. And since the likely scenarios for Iraq’s future are ALL bad … we’re going to have to learn to live with this. The lessons of Vietnam … come back to MAKE us look at ourselves. [What, you ask will make BUSH look at himself? That one stumps me … perhaps he’ll have to ‘recycle’ before he figures this one out.] Below — the conversation each of us needs to have with ourselves, as we rely on military might to keep us safe. One of my favorite guys, Bill Moyers … the go-to guy for ethics … asking [USians] to find its moral center. He’s speaking to soldiers, here … but the echo is ours. http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/ Posted by: JoannaOregon on December 2, 2006 04:59 AMAre Congressional Wars Coming? Since Cheney Has Already Said He'll Ignore the Democratic Congress, It Seems Likely FindLaw, Friday, Dec. 01, 2006 This is the first of a two-part series by the author on Congressional oversight of the Bush Administration by the newly-elected Democratic Congress. - Ed. http://writ.news.findlaw.com:80/dean/20061201.html Posted by: Pat C on December 2, 2006 07:47 AMhttp://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002053.php Barrage of Suits, Probes Threaten to Unmask NSA Program ................. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/30/AR2006113000894.html SPECTER: BUSH WILL KEEP SECURITY PROGRAMS OVERSIGHT-FREE Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) said that the Bush administration would probably not comply with requests from Democratic congressmen to look into the National Security Agency's surveillance program. http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/12/01/clinton_aides_begin_search.html Clinton Aides Begin Search Aides to Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) are interviewing possible staffers for a presidential campaign, The Hotline reports. "Those interviewed have been asked not to tell their friends or members of the press that they've been in contact with Clinton's team, and they've been cautioned against expecting a job offer because Clinton has not formally given her team the go-ahead to assemble a campaign." A formal annoucement date hasn't yet been made. "Some Clinton donors believe that if Obama announces shortly after the turn of the year, Clinton would decide to wait a few more weeks, pushing her own announcement into late January or early February." Posted by: Pat C on December 2, 2006 05:55 PMCan anyone with any economic experience explain this rationale from either side to me? Dollar Fall Is Catalyst For Predatory Global Government Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones As the d-o-l-l-ar goes into fr-ee fall and the housing market accelerates in s-a-l-es yet plunges in price, the quickening of an agenda of economic catastrophe allied to the "solution" of predatory globalism and the creation of a North American Union is afoot, and it spells potential disaster for the livelihood of all Americans. more http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2006/011206dollarfall.htm Posted by: Shadowhawk on December 2, 2006 06:25 PMIs President Bush Sane? by Paul Craig Roberts Tens of millions of Americans want President George W. Bush to be impeached for the lies and deceit he used to launch an illegal war and for violating his oath of office to uphold the US Constitution. Millions of other Americans want Bush turned over to the war crimes tribunal at the Hague. The true fate that awaits Bush is psychiatric incarceration. more http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=10093 Posted by: Shadowhawk on December 2, 2006 06:25 PMWhat did this bombing accomplish, other than to increase hatred of us? And how often does this kind of thing take place--and why? "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"--Mario Savio Today, December 2, is the anniversary of Mario Savio's Sproul Plaza Speech. ....... I head this song sung by a group called Sweet Honey In The Rock, and it is unbelievable and amazing. I highly recommend it. Are My Hands Clean? http://www.piiecl.pdx.edu/students/publications/Are_my_hands_clean.pdf ......... Awesome article on the North American Union, Shadowhawk. Posted by: Pat C on December 2, 2006 08:22 PMDo you ever get the feeling that our current gov is operating much like a cluster f**k? Rumsfeld Memo Proposed ‘Major Adjustment’ in Iraq WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 — Two days before he resigned as defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld submitted a classified memo to the White House that acknowledged that the Bush administration’s strategy in Iraq was not working and called for a major course correction. more Posted by: Shadowhawk on December 2, 2006 09:25 PMGhosts in the Machine Encounters with the NSA By Charles Sullivan 12/01/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- Quite some time ago, I am not sure exactly when, the thought police (National Security Agency) clandestinely moved into my computer. It did so without my permission and in violation of the law, not to mention the Constitution. The prying eyes of government are watching my every move, noting my every keystroke and monitoring my every electronic transmission and telephone conversation. They became visible to me one day when I did a trace route from the Windows command line of my home computer. Since then we have been peering at each other with eyes that do not blink. more http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15791.htm Posted by: Shadowhawk on December 2, 2006 10:44 PMCanada will in all likelihood be moving back into it's natural groove soon.
http://www.astralreflections.com/html/next.html "Tony Blair and Stephen Harper, Bush's two war faring allies, will face "attacks" in 2007, either scandals revealed or, at the extreme, assassination attempts or health crises. Blair needs to watch digestive/eliminative problems (they first showed about 1991/92) while Harper is susceptible to heart attacks. Yet, paradoxically, both will grow rich and fat in '07. Both are Taurus, with Aquarius Moons. Blair is the luckier and more capable of the two; he has a wise wife, and the civil service loves him, whereas Harper's civil servants will eventually undo him. Blair's lunar south node (bad karma and "sin") lies right on George Bush's ascendant (rising sign). Bush is Blair's spiritual "black hole." Harper's Mars (war) falls on Bush's Cancer Sun.
Alberta has a new Premier! Another "dark horse" I just love this full moon! Willard Wigan the astounding - From Judi http://www.willard-wigan.com/art.html http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/microscopic.asp “In order to bring it into reality (the physical plane) it is necessary during creation to constantly visualise the work as being successfully completed” Many are even smaller still, with some being completely invisible to the naked eye yet, when viewed through high power magnification, the effect on the viewer is truly mesmerising. Willard, who is completely self-taught has baffled medical science and been the subject of discussions among micro-surgeons, nano-technologists and at universities worldwide. His work is ground-breaking – partly because of the astounding beauty of vision which challenges the belief system of the mind and partly because it demonstrates that if one person can create the impossible, we all have the potential to transcend our own limiting beliefs about what we are capable of. [page 4] Posted by: Pat C on December 3, 2006 12:47 PMRumsfeld’s Shocking Memo; The NYT has gotten hold of a memo by Donald Rumsfeld detailing options on Iraq. Several things struck me about it: 1. Rumsfeld doesn’t understand the magnitude of the crisis or the tightrope the US is walking in the Gulf. His attitude is almost lackadaisical. Doing an all right job, but it isn’t working fast enough or well enough. So maybe make some changes—apparently any old changes will do because there are infinite lives to play with and infinite monies to spend. 2. Rumsfeld spends more time plotting out how to manipulate the American public than how to win the war. Everything is about spin, about giving the image of progress even in the face of a rapid downward spiral into the abyss. Consider these phrases: ’ Publicly announce a set of benchmarks agreed to by the Iraqi Government and the U.S. — political, economic and security goals — to chart a path ahead for the Iraqi government and Iraqi people (to get them moving) and for the U.S. public (to reassure them that progress can and is being made) . . . Announce that whatever new approach the U.S. decides on, the U.S. is doing so on a trial basis. This will give us the ability to readjust and move to another course, if necessary, and therefore not “lose.” Recast the U.S. military mission and the U.S. goals (how we talk about them) — go minimalist. . . ’ It is about how we talk, how we are perceived to set goals, what is made to look like progress. It isn’t actually about getting progress. The point of going minimalist is to reduce expectations among the American public. If you tell them you can only move the ball a yard, you get a lot of points for moving it two yards. There is nothing in the memo about effectively stopping the daily sectarian massacre in Iraq. Rumsfeld does not even appear to think there is a problem here. He doesn’t see the basis on which the fabric of Iraq is coming apart. But God forbid he should be seen by the US public as failing. So let’s set some vague “benchmarks” and make it look like progress is being made. More… Posted by: Pat C on December 3, 2006 12:51 PMWashington Post Sunday, December 3, 2006 More than 50 years after the Supreme Court decided in Brown v. Board of Education that separate schools are inherently unequal, the court will consider tomorrow whether race can still be a factor when school systems design programs to promote racial integration. A broadly written decision on Louisville’s plan, and on a related one from Seattle, could have a profound impact on school systems across the country. It is the first time in more than a decade that the Supreme Court will consider what is proper for school systems to do to promote desegregation, and it is the first test on the issue for two new justices who in the past have been skeptical about the use of racial classifications. Both sides have circled Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s dissenting opinion in a voting rights case decided in the last term that “it is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race.” Because of the high stakes perceived by both sides of the argument, the cases have produced a blizzard of studies and conflicting legal briefs. .............. Last year, while O’Connor was still on the court, justices declined to hear a school-choice plan from Massachusetts that was nearly identical to Louisville’s. But with Alito on board, the court in June decided that the issue was ripe for review. http://tinyurl.com/yfsmly – WP Posted by: Pat C on December 3, 2006 12:52 PMMz Morgana's train may be chugging along to full speed ahead next week. Hot diggity dog! Heavy duty. Proceed with care and lots of tissues: Tim Stephens is great, Trudy. I had forgotten he is Canadian. Thanks for the news about Maya's passing, Pat C. The astrology world will miss her. Posted by: Peg on December 3, 2006 06:41 PMHey, Hollywood mea culpas for being the second largest polluter business in LA..http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117954725.html Has He Started Talking to the Walls? By Frank Rich 12/04/06 "New York Times" --- - IT turns out we’ve been reading the wrong Bob Woodward book to understand what’s going on with President Bush. The text we should be consulting instead is “The Final Days,” the Woodward-Bernstein account of Richard Nixon talking to the portraits on the White House walls while Watergate demolished his presidency. As Mr. Bush has ricocheted from Vietnam to Latvia to Jordan in recent weeks, we’ve witnessed the troubling behavior of a president who isn’t merely in a state of denial but is completely untethered from reality. It’s not that he can’t handle the truth about Iraq. He doesn’t know what the truth is. more http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15803.htm Posted by: Shadowhawk on December 3, 2006 11:04 PMAmerica's "holiest book"? So, a Muslim is coming to the United States House of Representatives and he wants to be sworn into office with his hand on a Koran and not on a Holy Bible. Some conservatives have decided this may well be the end of American civilization. One columnist writes, "He should not be allowed to do so -- not because of any American hostility to the Koran, but because the act undermines American civilization." Some people's election loss grief counseling isn't going well. more http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kuo/americas-holiest-book_b_35462.html Posted by: Shadowhawk on December 3, 2006 11:27 PMFormer U.S. President George Bush and Spain's Crown Prince Felipe are among Cases to be decided in the SCOTUS http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/scotuscases_ABORTION.html?th&emc=th Posted by: Pat C on December 4, 2006 02:17 PMCases to be decided in the SCOTUS http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/scotuscases_ABORTION.html?th&emc=th ....... John Bolton has resigned. ....... http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=145043 Fiddling While Baghdad Burns The Iraq Study Group Rides to the Rescue Finally, the President and the New York Times agree. In a news conference with the Iraqi Prime Minister last week, George W. Bush insisted that there would be no "graceful exit" or withdrawal from Iraq; that this was not "realism." The next day the Times, in a front page piece (as well as "analysis" inside the paper) pointed out that, "despite a Democratic election victory this month that was strongly based on antiwar sentiment, the idea of a major and rapid withdrawal seems to be fading as a viable option." In fact, in the media, as in the counsels of James A. Baker's Iraq Study Group, withdrawal without an adjective or qualifying descriptor never arrived as a "viable option." In fact, withdrawal, aka "cut and run," has never been more than a passing foil, one useful "extreme" guaranteed to make the consensus-to-come more comforting. On Wednesday, at the end of a gestation period nearly long enough to produce a human baby, the Baker committee -- by now, according to the Washington Post's Robin Wright, practically "a parallel policy establishment" -- will hand over to the President its eagerly anticipated "consensus" report, its "compromise" plan that takes the "middle road," that occupies a piece of inside-the-Beltway "middle ground," and that will almost certainly be the policy equivalent of a still birth. Whatever satisfaction it briefly offers, it might as well be sent directly to the Baghdad morgue. At a length of perhaps 100 pages, evidently calling for an "aggressive" diplomatic engagement with neighboring Iran and Syria -- even unofficial American officials advocating diplomacy just can't seem to avoid some form of "aggression" -- it will also, Washington Post reporters Wright and Thomas Ricks assure us, call for "a major withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq" (no timetables, naturally). It will evidently suggest the following: Talk to those hostile neighbors; "embed" swarms of still-to-be-trained military advisors with Iraqi troops where, so far, they have had little luck except in generating scads of complaints; pull out (or back into our massive Iraqi bases) American "combat forces," except for those slated to be part of an in-country "rapid reaction force," not to speak of all those American trainers and logistics experts; and accomplish this by perhaps early 2008. All of this will be termed a "short" period of time to change U.S. policy and the path to be headed down will be labeled "phased withdrawal" or the beginning of an "exit strategy." Oh, and while we're at it, make sure to suggest that we embed many of those "redeployed" troops just "over the horizon," probably in Kuwait and some set of small Gulf states, where they can theoretically strike at will in Iraq if the government and military we plan to "stabilize" there turns out to be endangered (as, of course, it will be). More... Posted by: Pat C on December 4, 2006 02:29 PM
Gemini is usually thought of as a fast moving, light and airy sign; not too serious about anything yet always interested in everything. Though this is generally a lighthearted and open-minded Full Moon, this year with Jupiter, Sun, Pluto, and Venus in Sagittarius, Mars and Mercury in Scorpio, Saturn in Leo squaring Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter, and Uranus in Pisces squaring both Sun and Moon, opening up to the truth in a deeply transformative way will probably color any activities you may have planned for the evening. Don't be surprised if the most uttered word at your ritual is "why?" Posted by: wv on December 4, 2006 03:08 PM
See Lou Dobbs on North American Union Orwellian Brave New World!
Two More Years “How’s your boy?” asked Mr. Bush. “I’d like to get them out of Iraq, Mr. President,” replied Mr. Webb, whose son, a Marine lance corporal, is risking his life in Mr. Bush’s war of choice. “That’s not what I asked you,” the president snapped. “How’s your boy?” “That’s between me and my boy, Mr. President,” said Mr. Webb. Good for him. We need people in Washington who are willing to stand up to the bully in chief. Unfortunately, and somewhat mysteriously, they’re still in short supply. You can understand, if not condone, the way the political and media establishment let itself be browbeaten by Mr. Bush in his post-9/11 political prime. What’s amazing is the extent to which insiders still cringe before a lame duck with a 60 percent disapproval rating. Look at what seems to have happened to the Iraq Study Group, whose mission statement says that it would provide an “independent assessment.” If press reports are correct, the group did nothing of the sort. Instead, it watered down its conclusions and recommendations, trying to come up with something Mr. Bush wouldn’t reject out of hand. http://select.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/opinion/04krugman.html?hp wv lol let him reject the recommendations out of hand, his poll #'s are hovering at 30. He gets his knickers in a twist and behaves badly, the people will be stirred that much more to anger and those #'s will be in the 20's in a heartbeat. Where's Donald Trump when you need him? Trump to Bush, you're SO fired! Posted by: Morgana on December 4, 2006 04:37 PM
http://www.sfgate.com/comics/fiore/ Posted by: wv on December 4, 2006 04:44 PMAstrologer Bill Herbst talks about the configurations of the 60's cycling again in tranists which will be coming in the 2010s. This is what he says in in his opening paragraph: The astrology that marked the 1960s as an extraordinary decade involved the simultaneous alignment of three planets: Saturn, Uranus, and Pluto. A configuration coming at the end of this first decade of the 21st century involves the same three planets and implies that the second decade of this century will be even more extraordinary, tumultuous, and radical than the 1960s. the link to his article is in the left column. Posted by: lunaoscura on December 4, 2006 08:19 PMhttp://www.maximsnews.com/1006ianwilliamsdecember04.htm JOHN BOLTON'S GREATEST HITS snip... For three decades of work at conservative think tanks and at the State Department, Bolton has angled for appointments that would in some way keep him grappling at close quarters with the organization even if they sometimes involved him in contradictory positions. Even when the Bushes were out of office, Bolton filled in his time working with former Secretary of State James Baker when he was appointed UN special envoy for the Western Sahara. The Moroccan annexation of the territory has been on the UN agenda for more than thirty years and a standing invitation to complaints about the organization's ineffectiveness; Bolton has been remarkably reticent to highlight it. Bolton's other job in exile was to advise the Taiwanese government on how to get into an organization that he had spent decades advising the United States to get out of. No sooner had he arrived at the UN in 2005 than he cooked up a deal with Beijing's ambassador to scuttle the efforts of Germany, Japan and India--all US allies--to get permanent seats on the Security Council. He may have had a point about the undesirability of the changes--but a more diplomatic envoy would not have left American fingerprints so messily obvious. From the White House point of view, Bolton's appointment appeased the know-nothing foreign policy crowd while rewarding his longstanding loyalty to the Bush dynasty. That loyalty had been shown most memorably in 2000, when the man who has spent the past year preaching democracy to the members of the United Nations strode into a library polling place in Florida yelling, "I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count." To be fair, while Bolton's tenure has from the standpoint of any rational diplomacy been a disaster, it has not been an unmitigated one. He has been a very well-trained attack dog, always coming to heel when the White House wanted and chewing his own words when necessary. More.... Posted by: Pat C on December 4, 2006 10:18 PMWhat keeps bothering me in all the discussions about Iraq is that no one mentions the huge, elaborate embassy nor do they mention the huge military bases that have been built during our occupation. Plans for a "North American Union" have to be the most absurd garbage that TPTB have come up with yet. They can't even keep THIS country afloat. And now they want to take over Canada and Mexico, too?? I guess no one ever said the men in the shadows were brilliant. But talk about fools! They KNOW that people won't stand for it, which is why they are sneaking around in the dark about it now. Not that I put anything past them at this point. But I'm just saying that it will backfire tremendously. There will be such a revolt/upheaval against it that we will likely end up with MULTIPLE COUNTRIES instead of the three that now exist, or the one "CANAMEX" they are trying to make. Arrogant fools, the whole lot of them. Let them try. They will blow their entire fortunes and their legacy will be turned to dust. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on December 5, 2006 02:30 AMThis is really startling news. Fascinating as all get out and quite a dilemma if accurate. Thee's a video as well as a tracript of the video. Global Dimming This is a film that demands action. It reveals that we may have grossly underestimated the speed at which our climate is changing. At its heart is a deadly new phenomenon. One that until very recently scientists refused to believe even existed. But it may already have led to the starvation of millions. Tonight Horizon examines for the first time the power of what scientists are calling Global Dimming more http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15809.htm Posted by: Shadowhawk on December 5, 2006 06:12 AMSaturn goes Retrograde tomorrow and I am thrilled. The last two weeks have been a little too jamed packed for me and I could us a bit of a slow down. The Supreme Court is set to deal a serious blow to Brown vs The Board of Education, first heard on Dec. 9, 1952, reheard Dec. 8, 1953 and decided on May 17, 1954. This will be one of the test cases on just how conservative the Court has become with Alito and Roberts. It means back to separate but equal, many of you might remember how that law was anything but "equal." It would be a disasterous backward trend for education and affirmative action will also be on the chopping block soon for a return to "affirmative action" just for white. No black, brown or very tanned people need apply, also no women of any color. The Saturn retrograde should hold the Supreme Vote off for a bit, maybe even a year when the atmosphere may change a bit. The lead in to the Full Moon today has certainly pulled out all the stops with Iraq flaming over the weekend, Mexico blowing up, and the Mercury square Saturn gives bad news to world leaders. That has absolutely held true for Germany, Russia and the US. Mars at 29 degrees Scorpio is a promise of overwhelming nastiness and secret mechinations. The Baker Report comes to mind. Mr. Baker is either working for 41 in which case it's not a good idea for the neo cons to be dissing him openly, or he is working for the countries in the Middle East who are scared to death of 43, believing him to be not tightly wrapped. If he is working for foreign governments (also clients of his along with the Bush family) there is or has been or soon will be a huge rift and the "family" are being slowly isolated. I am half voting for the latter because of little ole Paraguay saying no to the Bushes on their request of immunity should they move there. Argentina also said no, that seems to me to be a loss of power from a couple of the poorest countries in the world and a slap down. That seems strange to me and says someone with even more money is paying them to say NO. In spite of the Sagittarius trines to Bush Leo this month, it doesn't seem to be a good month for him what with Pluto inconjunct his Saturn, the Full Moon inconjunct his Sun, Uranus inconjunct his Pluto, lots of fits and starts and undercurrents of frustration. It's like a month of bad indigestion for him and nothing will be going down too well. Posted by: Sally on December 5, 2006 06:27 AMNothing is SUPPOSED to be going down too well for the bushaholic imo. May it have everlasting intense debilitating indigestion from all the eating of people, places & things it had no right whatsoever to gobble. ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on December 5, 2006 06:37 AMTHANKS TO ALL OF OUR READERS THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR PAST AND CONTINUED SUPPORT. WAYNE MADSEN, EDITOR, WMR The response to our end-of-the-year fundraiser was an astounding demonstration of your generosity. Two of the Washington Post's top political journalists have been hired by Albritton Communications to start an "inside Washington" Internet site. The Post is restructuring its own web site to concentrate on Washington politics. The conservatives and the DC elite are responding to true "inside-the-Beltway" online reporting -- but thanks to you, we were there before them. We thank all our readers who were so generous with their financial support http://waynemadsenreport.com// Yes, clymela, spot on; the military bases and the embassy. What on earth is that embassy about? Isn't it something like 6 acres big? Idiots. I was in Florida a few years ago and met a Republican who said "we're building lots of military bases in that country and we're going to show them"... blah... I felt sick. Seems he was all too right. IF they intended to leave Iraq at some stage, why all the military bases? Seems fairly clear cut, really!! Posted by: Lynda Hill on December 5, 2006 10:21 AMHello all! Please read this article, it's got my favorite headline of the month: http://greenmountaindaily.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=704 Posted by: Garry on December 5, 2006 02:19 PMThe bases are to be used as staging platforms into Iran and Syria. No way will we be leaving that area. Watch what Putin is doing. Posted by: Peg on December 5, 2006 03:15 PMHelp Donnie choose his wardrobe for his next career. http://www.heavy.com/dressup/rumy/index.php .............. Sally, Saturn retrograde will, I guess trigger more difficulty as it goes back over those degrees for so many of us. Oy. Posted by: Pat C on December 5, 2006 06:05 PMhttp://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher292.html CITIGROUP LAUNDERING SAUDI CASH USED TO FUND JIHADIST TERRORISM Posted by: Pat C on December 5, 2006 06:18 PMQuestion: It's now almost one month since the elections and I've been sleeping much better than I have for 6 years. The Torment of Jose Padilla http://www.talkleft.com/story/2006/12/3/23337/6511 His lawyers argue, and a psychiatrist who evaluated Padilla agrees, he is not competent to stand trial. They argue that he has been so damaged by his interrogations and prolonged isolation that he suffers post-traumatic stress disorder and is unable to assist in his own defense. His interrogations, they say, included hooding, stress positions, assaults, threats of imminent execution and the administration of “truth serums.” [snip] [snip] Nearly as Many Contractors as Soldiers in Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120506A.shtml There are about 100,000 government contractors operating in Iraq, not counting subcontractors, a total that is approaching the size of the US military force there, according to the military's first census of the growing population of civilians operating in the battlefield. Posted by: Pat C on December 5, 2006 08:42 PMInteresting that a few years from now Saturn will be hitting all of Waxman's Virgo planets. I think that will make him even more of a disciplinarian. It's been my experience and I've heard it said here that if you're doing the right thing, Saturn helps you. Posted by: Sharon on December 5, 2006 09:02 PMPoppy's another one, shy, who doesn't deserve a shrine. Not that any president needs one, really. But Poppy contributed nothing to the betterment of the average American, much less humanity as a whole. They should use his picture as a watermark on the Big Oil companies' CEOs' paychecks, but that's all. Posted by: Alex on December 5, 2006 09:04 PMGates approved 21-0. That will be approved tomorrow. ............ The Price of Imperial Overreach: The Withering of the Bush Dynasty http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/3685 The Bush family has been characterized in various ways including the Bush dynasty, crime family or syndicate. George Bush is just the latest in a line of unsavory characters but clearly the bad or worst seed and, in the eyes of most honest observers, the least worthy of an unworthy lot. He was supposed to be the latest in the Bush family line chosen to lay another golden egg for the dynasty but turned out instead to be an ugly duckling who's just been an embarrassment and much worse because of the course he chose and his rigid ideological obstinacy to change even in the face of failure.
The modern-era Bush family dynasty goes back four generations and was connected to the military-industrial complex of its day during and after WW I much like the most recent two Bush generations are to the present one. It began with George H. Walker and Samuel Prescott acting as duel founding fathers of what turned out to be a criminal enterprise run under the family name much like it is under a local Godfather except for much bigger stakes and with the government of the United States acting as protector, benefactor and enforcer.
Before his son succeeded him in the Oval Office (8 years removed), GHW Bush was involved in a long laundry list of criminal activities he never could have gotten away with under a system of law and order with those violating it held to account. He never was. As CIA chief in 1976 under Gerald Ford, the elder Bush was in charge of covering up the Agency's involvement in coup d'etats and assassinations of foreign leaders including its connection to an earlier September 11 - the one in 1973 ousting and murdering democratically elected President Salvador Allende in Chile that established the 17 year fascist dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet who, despite his despotism, became a close US ally.
A Bush family tradition of lying with impunity, operating freely outside the law and getting away with it was no obstacle for the next family member in line, George W. Bush, to be chosen by his party to enter the presidential race in 2000. He got the nomination after serving six years as Texas governor distinguished only by a record of indifference to the public and a total dedication to the business interests in the state. It meant giant corporations were salivating at the thought of having a man like this in the White House serving them in that capacity the same way he did it for the business community in Texas. Thanks to a fraud-laden election, he got the job the old-fashioned way - his influential friends and family stole it for him as arranged by family consigliere and master-fixer Jim Baker securing the necessary 25 Florida electoral votes helped along by the complicity of five friendly Supreme Court justices who had to be in on the scheme. More, much more... The above is segments. The "snip" demarkation didn't show up because I had it in brackets. Posted by: Pat C on December 5, 2006 10:17 PMWaco is missing it's village idiot. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2860872 tee hee! Posted by: lunaoscura on December 5, 2006 11:01 PMHere they are, folks, our masters: From comments on below article; We must collectively address global warming now or face devastation of our planet. I work for NASA, and we’ve been having our press releases censored, our research “edited” by the public affairs office, and the Administration has tried to suppress the work that you, the taxpayers, have funded. The problem is real, the threat is real, and the situation is dire. The terrible thing about this problem is that it depends on the efforts of ALL of us, every one, to make a solution work – changing to new fluorescent lightbulbs, getting an electric car (or at least a more fuel-efficient one), unplugging your TV when you’re not using it, insulating your house, etc. DECEMBER 5, 2006, 11:04 AM http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/americas-breadbasket-moves-to-canada/ Posted by: Pat C on December 6, 2006 12:24 AMWhat's up with this: And to think she could have chosen Holt! Posted by: shylurker on December 6, 2006 01:00 AMDoes anyone have astro info on Musharraf (Pakistan)? I saw two headlines today: That he is dedicated to establishing women's rights in Pakistant (hey, that'd be a first) and that he would be willing to give up the fight over Kashmir (if, of course, India would do the same). Is this believable at all? http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL341746.htm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16061902/ Posted by: shylurker on December 6, 2006 02:47 AMAnyone need to make themselves sick? Don't stick your finger down your throat, just read this--from the rightwing tool site, AOL: http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/first-president-bush-sobs-while-talking/20061204194509990018 Too bad he didn't actually choke to death on those crocodile tears.....and I mean that with the utmost due respect and in the nicest sense of the phrase.... Posted by: Garry on December 6, 2006 03:04 AMWho knows, Garry? Mebbe he was a-cryin' cuz he knows their "dynasty" (emphasize the 'nasty' end of the word) is expiring. In the meantime, this is pretty scary news (look at both articles cited in the main post): For those interested in Barack Obama and his potential for 2008 "Among the many close contacts is his Neptune at 8SC36 which is exactly, to-the-minute, conjunct the U.S. Scorpio Ascendant. This link describes the vision that he espouses for Americans of all ethnic backgrounds, as he expresses in his recently published book The Audacity of Hope." This of course is only meaningful if one accepts a US Scorpio Ascendant Posted by: Stan on December 6, 2006 04:40 AMThanks so much, Stan. Following his speech at the 2004 Dem Convention, I shared with some folks that I thought we had seen the future Prez. I am concerned, however, about his backers. Who are they? Why? I guess my question, basically, is "Is he for real?" Posted by: shylurker on December 6, 2006 04:47 AMLetter from James Abourezk, former US Senator from South Dakota to Jeff Blankfort on the Israel Lobby December 4, 2006 The following letter was sent to me today by James Abourezk, former US Senator from South Dakota, and he readily complied when I asked that I be allowed to forward it to my list because what he had to say is of the utmost importance, given last month's election and all the new faces in Congress, and the immediate previous posting to you and James Petras's article earlier in the day..
I just finished reading your critique of Noam Chomsky's positions in an e mail sent to me by Tony Saidy. I had never paid much attention to Chomsky's writings, as I had all along assumed that he was correct and proper in his position on the Arab-Israeli conflict. But now, upon learning that his first assumption is that Israel is simply doing what the imperial leaders in the U.S. wants them to do, I concur with you that this assumption is completely wrong. I can tell you from personal experience that, at least in the Congress, the support Israel has in that body is based completely on political fear--fear of defeat by anyone who does not do what Israel wants done. I can also tell you that very few members of Congress--at least when I served there--have any affection for Israel or for its Lobby. What they have is contempt, but it is silenced by fear of being found out exactly how they feel. I've heard too many cloakroom conversations in which members of the Senate will voice their bitter feelings about how they're pushed around by the Lobby to think otherwise. In private one hears the dislike of Israel and the tactics of the Lobby, but not one of them is willing to risk the Lobby's animosity by making their feelings public. more http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28769&hd=&size=1&l=e Hi Shylurker There's no doubt his ability to find financial backers is crucial. If my memory serves me right I believe it was Rees Mogg writing in The Times a couple of weeks ago. He reckoned it was not possible for him to win, solely because he hasn't got the money behind him like the others. And in particular Ms Clinton. However I reiterate my thoughts on a previous post. Well... might as well have big concerns about the rev sun/moon lobby, too. The halls of congress & WH is slick slippery with the slime of weird old mega-geezers n' coots imo. Posted by: JoannaOregon on December 6, 2006 08:47 AMInvestigation Reveals Military Punishing Wounded Troops >Soldier Tyler Jennings says that when he came home from Iraq last year, he felt so depressed and desperate that he decided to kill himself. Late one night in the middle of May, his wife was out of town, and he felt more scared than he'd felt in gunfights in Iraq. Jennings says he opened the window, tied a noose around his neck and started drinking, "trying to get drunk enough to either slip or just make that decision. (NPR) 1 in 5 Iraq vets are coming home with a serious mental health problem like anxiety, depression, or PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Experts believe that over time, the number will reach almost 1 in 3. >Five months before, Jennings had gone to the medical center at Ft. Carson, where a staff member typed up his symptoms: "Crying spells... hopelessness... helplessness... worthlessness." Jennings says that when the sergeants who ran his platoon found out he was having a breakdown and taking drugs, they started to haze him. He decided to attempt suicide when they said that they would eject him from the Army. (NPR) More... Posted by: Pat C on December 6, 2006 02:32 PMCongress Must Insist Bush Isn't Above Law http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120606J.shtml Jesse Jackson begins: "Should President Bush be impeached? The very idea seems extreme, if not loony. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has explicitly ruled impeachment off the Democratic majority's agenda. But activists and legal scholars are organizing to pressure Democrats to begin impeachment hearings. And the incoming chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers, has issued two remarkable studies on abuses of presidential authority, raising the question of impeachable offenses." Interesting "take" on Obama, interesting observations: Oh, and Stan, I did read that he had met with Soros very recently (or will be meeting with him very soon). If I find that article again, I'll post the link. how good a driver are you, by sign... Fine Print in Defense Bill Opens Door to Martial Law Take, for example, the John W. Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2006, named for the longtime Armed Services Committee chairman from Virginia. Signed by President Bush on Oct. 17, the law (PL 109-364) has a provocative provision called “Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies.” The thrust of it seems to be about giving the federal government a far stronger hand in coordinating responses to Katrina-like disasters. But on closer inspection, its language also alters the two-centuries-old Insurrection Act, which Congress passed in 1807 to limit the president’s power to deploy troops within the United States. That law has long allowed the president to mobilize troops only “to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy.” But the amended law takes the cuffs off. more http://public.cq.com/public/20061201_homeland.html Posted by: Shadowhawk on December 6, 2006 05:20 PMmy 19 yr. old son and all his friends love Obama. I find this very interesting: someone to get the youth engaged in politics, and fired up; a Bobby Kennedy for a new generation? Posted by: Peg on December 6, 2006 05:37 PMIf you want to take a little break and see how folks over at dailykos view the candidates (including Obama), go to these two polls: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/12/6/114644/671 http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/12/6/115613/456 Posted by: shylurker on December 6, 2006 05:49 PMObama will only guarantee another repug in office. I am getting bad vibes about this one. But it will not happen. Bhakti, I have been sleeping alot better over the last 6 weeks. Could it be some of us were working to stop the fiend for the past 6 years and we are getting a little rest? Poppy B's tears....Sounds like he has had a stroke and tends to get overly emotional now. My great uncle started doing that after his stroke years ago. He lasted about 3 years before he was gone and he would cry over the slightest little thing. Posted by: Cybear on December 6, 2006 05:55 PM The Baker/Hamilton Iraq Study chart sure shows a new day trying to dawn(0 Sagittarius MC and Mars and the ruler of Sag is in the 10th at the early degree of 2,. and it will cost tons of $$$$$$$$. I think Baker said that and he is not whistling Dixie and it will be more than the 1 trillon mentioned. Neptune fell in the first house of this chart and no matter what good intentions accompanys this study, there will be a lot of confusion and the administration and Congress, will continue to put out obfuscation or confusing messages, there are inconjuncts all over the place to Bush's planets and to James Baker's planets, no give and no clear plan on how to implement the suggestions. More later, I want to study Congress in relation to this, America (more inconjuncts) and Iraq. It's a mess, a huge mess and it's not just Iraq but the entire region is involved. Bush and buddies have made a mess and are now in the mess they made, as are we. Posted by: Sally on December 6, 2006 07:37 PM A CIA Insider's Take on Gates Monday 04 December 2006 The lame-duck Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee seems determined to force through confirmation of Robert Gates to replace Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense. The hurry is synthetic - and totally unnecessary. I know, I know - everyone but Barney the dog wants Rumsfeld out of the Pentagon tout suite. According to a Pentagon spokesman, however, Gates has commitments that would preclude his taking the reins at the Pentagon until January. So, senators, relax already. Let Rumsfeld spend December at one of his houses in Taos, while you do your homework. There is no exaggerating the importance of the Gates candidacy. Even Democrats on the committee are saying Gates is a shoo-in barring an unexpected disclosure. But the likelihood of such a disclosure seems nil, with Gates the sole witness at his hearing Tuesday. Still, Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., who was an analyst in the State Department's intelligence bureau and now sits on the House Intelligence Committee, has called Gates' nomination "deeply troubling" and appealed for hearings that are "thorough and probing." more http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120506J.shtml Posted by: Shadowhawk on December 6, 2006 07:41 PMWatch this with tissues at hand because you can run the gamut of emotions from horror to pure rage! http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15820.htm No More Victims! Its time we did something to help repair the broken bodies of children who have been injured by U.S. bombs and bullets. Our government has spent hundreds of billions to destroy Iraq and hundreds of thousands of children have been injured. Posted by: Shadowhawk on December 6, 2006 08:01 PMBush breaks everything. Posted by: Pat C on December 6, 2006 08:58 PMCybear, I'm with you. Obama appeared "out of nowhere" and immediately became a political front runner--how do you do that? Cloak and dagger (www.cloakanddagger.de) says he's a British MI6 agent, which I have no way of verifying, but he is a little too "everything" for me(articulate, telegenic, poised, etc.) which makes me highly suspicious. Posted by: Garry on December 6, 2006 11:54 PM?????????????????? http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/3723 ALL DEMS VOTED HIM IN Hi Shylurker And have to say that this "bull at the gate" stubborn Taurean Scot is having difficulty holding himself in check when viewing the negativity towards Obama. Especially when it does not appear to be based on any astrological evidence. If we are agreed that there are some huge global changes coming up and it will require a very special and different kind of person to lead us through the changes. For those who suggest Gore? In my opinion he doesn't have the bull-like appendages to tackle the mammoth task ahead. So "hush my mouth" I'd have to go Republican and vote (if I was allowed to from 8,000 miles away) for McCain. Posted by: Stan on December 7, 2006 05:09 AMHere's a link, Stan. McCain??????? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!! Posted by: shylurker on December 7, 2006 05:22 AMHi Shylurker Yes like you McCain??? This post from a lady called Anne Dahlman If he is indeed "...reaching out to the generation of people born during the 60's with the Pluto/Uranus conjunction in Virgo." He'd be hard to beat if he's got them on his side. Posted by: Stan on December 7, 2006 06:05 AMThere weren't THAT many born with pluto/uranus in virgo conjunction... now I can see why. ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on December 7, 2006 06:48 AMMcCain? Not forward-looking enough. He's with the old (and dying) ways. Giuliani is a bit closer to where we are headed. But not much closer. Kucinich is actually going to be looking pretty spot-on to many people in a short while, and even he may not be progressive enough. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on December 7, 2006 07:33 AMThe latest on "special" relationship between bushadruggie & its poodle as seen by Steve Bell... http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,,1961691,00.html
As I wrote to Chris Matthews (chat show host here
www.france24.com Posted by: wv on December 7, 2006 12:42 PM There's no way in hell I'd vote for McCain. He might have appeared to be "moderate" at one time, but that was before he sold his soul to the Neoconvicts' political machine. Isn't 2008 or thereabouts when Cap'n Sally mentioned a truly viable third party joining the action? Posted by: Garry on December 7, 2006 12:48 PMmore Steve Bell http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/archive/0,,1284265,00.html Posted by: wv on December 7, 2006 12:49 PMBarack Obama is my Senator, and he is not a Republican wv. I pay very close attention to his votes and there are a couple I've taken issue with, like the bankruptcy bill, and confirmation of Condi, but he has a 71% approval rate as a rank and file Dem. here in Illinois, and I'd say that hardly makes him a Republican. Here is his chart, if it hasn't been posted before: http://www.stariq.com/Main/Articles/P0007550.HTM I am taking a wait & see on him still as I, too have read some "funny" things about him and am not quite sure if they are just bogus propaganda, but at this point in time, he doesn't deserve the scorn being cast his way. Posted by: Peg on December 7, 2006 01:20 PMVery interesting article, giving a hint of the deeply Byzantine nature of operations by those who rule:
I wrote him last Spring to tell him how much I Very insightful article on Obama and who owns him: Some views in pictures: http://blogs.chron.com/whitehouse/archives/isgafp.jpg http://www.uclick.com/feature/06/12/05/sc061205.gif http://www.uclick.com/feature/06/12/04/jd061204.gif http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/uc/20061206/lpo061206.gif http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/steve_bell/2006/12/06/steve.jpg http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/20061206/cartoon20061206.gif http://ee.dispatch.com/Repository2/TCD/2006/12/01/14/Img/Ar0140200.gif
http://www.wonkette.com/politics/mary-cheney/the-jesus-and-mary-cheney-219702.php Posted by: wv on December 7, 2006 04:19 PMhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061206/ap_on_re_as/vietnam_clinton_1 Admirers swarm President Clinton in Hanoi Former President Clinton was swarmed for autographs, handshakes and photographs on the streets of Hanoi Wednesday by throngs of admirers whose warm welcome contrasted sharply with the restrained reception given President Bush last month. Clinton, in town to sign an agreement between his foundation and the Vietnamese to get more AIDS drugs to children, left the Hilton Hotel in the center of Hanoi, crossed an intersection buzzing with motorbikes, and strolled toward Hoan Kiem Lake, the spiritual heart of the city. The United States normalized relations with its former foe under Clinton, who was greeted by adoring crowds when in 2000 he became the first U.S. president to visit Vietnam since the war ended in 1975. "It feels great to be back," Clinton said as he set off for his stroll. The feeling among most Vietnamese was mutual. "I love you!" a young man shouted, reaching over the crowd for a handshake. "There are no words to describe how happy I am," squealed 17-year-old Nguyen Thu Hang, jumping up and down and clutching Clinton's freshly signed autograph. "I'm going to frame this and hang it on my bedroom wall!" Bush didn't emerge from inside tight security to mingle with crowds during his four-day visit to attend the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. thanks for the Harper's article shy, super good stuff in there. I'm sorry Sen. Obama didn't write you back, wv. Are you living in Illinois? Because I've gotten responses from both Durbin & Obama. There aren't many politicians who haven't sold out, we all know that. About the only ones I could truly support are Feingold and Kucinich. But if Obama can prevent HRC from winning, I'm all for him. Posted by: Peg on December 7, 2006 05:35 PMThe worst thing of all, Peg, is that they see no alternative to selling out. That's what was so splendid about the Dean campaign--he was not owned by any corporate interest. We must shut down this gravy train which only ensures that those elected to office by us (well, up until Diebold completed the whole charade) are actually owned and answerable to one group of corporationists or another. Posted by: shylurker on December 7, 2006 06:57 PMpretty interesting reading...what's happenin' at the WH... DO NOT BE FOOLED BY MC CAIN...I lived in Arizona, hey, this man is an old fool. Plus a sell out from long ago...geesus, I can't believe anyone democratic would vote REPUBLICAN to vote for him...GAG... Everyone needs to go relisten to The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again".... Yep, that full moon has really hammered me. And I make no apologies if I've offended anyone...not on THIS issue of McCain. Posted by: judigem on December 7, 2006 07:11 PMHere's your Neptune Sally. Oil for Sale: Iraq Study Group Recommends Privatization By Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet. Posted December 7, 2006. The Iraq Study Group may not have a solution for how to end the war, but it does have a way for its corporate friends to make money. Tools In its heavily anticipated report released on Wednesday, the Iraq Study Group made at least four truly radical proposals. The report calls for the United States to assist in privatizing Iraq's national oil industry, opening Iraq to private foreign oil and energy companies, providing direct technical assistance for the "drafting" of a new national oil law for Iraq, and assuring that all of Iraq's oil revenues accrue to the central government. President Bush hired an employee from the U.S. consultancy firm Bearing Point Inc. over a year ago to advise the Iraq Oil Ministry on the drafting and passage of a new national oil law. As previously drafted, the law opens Iraq's nationalized oil sector to private foreign corporate investment, but stops short of full privatization. The ISG report, however, goes further, stating that "the United States should assist Iraqi leaders to reorganize the national oil industry as a commercial enterprise." In addition, the current Constitution of Iraq is ambiguous as to whether control over Iraq's oil should be shared among its regional provinces or held under the central government. The report specifically recommends the latter: "Oil revenues should accrue to the central government and be shared on the basis of population." If these proposals are followed, Iraq's national oil industry will be privatized and opened to foreign firms, and in control of all of Iraq's oil wealth. The proposals should come as little surprise given that two authors of the report, James A. Baker III and Lawrence Eagleburger, have each spent much of their political and corporate careers in pursuit of greater access to Iraq's oil and wealth. "Pragmatist" is the word most often used to describe Iraq Study Group co-chair James A. Baker III. It is equally appropriate for Lawrence Eagleburger. The term applies particularly well to each man's efforts to expand U.S. economic engagement with Saddam Hussein throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. Not only did their efforts enrich Hussein and U.S. corporations, particularly oil companies, it also served the interests of their own private firms. On April 21,1990, a U.S. delegation was sent to Iraq to placate Saddam Hussein as his anti-American rhetoric and threats of a Kuwaiti invasion intensified. James A. Baker III, then President George H.W. Bush's secretary of state, personally sent a cable to the U.S embassy in Baghdad instructing the U.S. ambassador to meet with Hussein and to make clear that, "as concerned as we are about Iraq's chemical, nuclear, and missile programs, we are not in any sense preparing the way for preemptive military unilateral effort to eliminate these programs."* Instead, Baker's interest was focused on trade, which he described as the "central factor in the U.S-Iraq relationship." From 1982, when Reagan removed Iraq from the list of countries supporting terrorism, until August 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, Baker and Eagleburger worked with others in the Reagan and Bush administrations to aggressively and successfully expand this trade. ....MORE.... Posted by: Pat C on December 7, 2006 07:17 PMfrom the end of the Obama article... Notes 2. ADM has apparently not contributed money to Obama, but during his first year in office he traveled on the company’s private jets at least twice. All told, Obama took twenty-three flights on corporate planes; after some atypically bad press for accepting the flights, Obama imposed a ban at his office on privately subsidized travel. [Back] Posted by: judigem on December 7, 2006 07:25 PMThe article Pat C posted above at 7:17 is a beaut, isn't it? Going in full strength with guns a-blazing didn't capture those oil fields, so they'll now try the soft, velvet glove approach and "assist" the Iraqis in "reorganizing" their oil industry into a commercial enterprise. And who do we think will be involved in that reorganization and reaping big bucks by having all the contracts to "assist" the Iraqis in extracting and exporting their oil? It's about the oil. It's always been about the oil. Posted by: shylurker on December 7, 2006 07:39 PMRight you are Shy, it's all about the oil. Without oil the USA comes to a screaming halt. Alternative energy is at our finger tips. I'm excited about oceanic wind farms, home solar panels and alternative fuels. I'd like to be ahead of the curve and not get caught unprepared, boy howdy they make it hard on us to do that ! Posted by: Morgana on December 7, 2006 07:53 PMFacing the Ugly Truth For six years, President Bush and his aides have so brilliantly exploited the bully pulpit of the White House that it was easy to forget that there were any other pulpits at all in this town. That allowed the president to proselytize his world view, repeatedly and without effective objection, even when it didn’t conform with reality. Yesterday’s blazing hot media focus elsewhere—on the highly critical bipartisan Iraq Study Group—marked a restoration of reality in Washington. And that, combined with a resurgent Democratic Party, bodes ill for Bush’s ability to keep avoiding some ugly truths. Reality Check…..More… http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html Posted by: Pat C on December 7, 2006 09:03 PMLegislators may reconsider suspending habeas corpus for detainees The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee signaled this week that he'll join prominent Democrats in seeking to restore legal rights to hundreds of suspected terrorists confined at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere. His co-sponsor, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who'll become chairman of the Judiciary Committee when the Democrats take over in January, noted that the effort to secure habeas appeals for all detainees failed by only three votes. Posted by: Pat C on December 7, 2006 09:46 PMNow this is cheerful - NOT Hey, We Got Beat Fair and Square By Mike Whitney 12/07/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- The hearings for Robert Gates were about as weird as it gets. Gates wasn’t asked one tough question the whole time. It was all a meaningless formality. Besides, Gates had all the qualifications the senate was looking for. In other words, he wasn’t Rumsfeld and that’s all that mattered. For Gates it was more like Coronation Day than a serious inquiry into past indiscretions. Did anyone care about his involvement in Iran-Contra and his propensity to “fix the intelligence to fit the policy” or were they too busy showering him with praise? And, what happened to our tough new Democratic majority? Did the midterm elections really change anything? more http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15835.htm Posted by: Shadowhawk on December 7, 2006 11:47 PMOr, as somebody said very early on in the Eye-Rack attack adventure: What in the world is OUR oil doing under THEIR sand? Posted by: shylurker on December 7, 2006 11:49 PMThe universe is seriously unbalanced....! Posted by: judigem on December 8, 2006 12:42 AMSen. John McCain (R-AZ), regarded as a top presidential candidate for the 2008 election, has lined up a controversial attack ad specialist to be his campaign manager, RAW STORY has learned. Chris Cillizza writes at The Washington Post's political blog, The Fix, that "according to a source close to the McCain operation, the candidate has lined up Terry Nelson to serve as campaign manager," once McCain's campaign becomes official. Nelson, along with Karl Rove protegé Scott Howell, produced a controversial ad in Tennessee's 2006 U.S. Senate race between Democrat Harold Ford, Jr. and Republican Bob Corker in which a white woman seductively invites an "off-camera" Ford to call her. Ford, an unmarried African-American, and Corker, the white former mayor of Chattanooga who eventually won the open Senate seat, both criticized the ad. The NAACP said the ad was "a powerful innuendo that plays to pre-existing prejudices about African-American men and white women." Posted by: judigem on December 8, 2006 12:51 AMWe're all made to be "actors" in one weird giant "white" supremacist video... prescripted, prescribed, preempted, precracked & premunched. "Haaaaaaaaalp!!!! I'm presuffocating and I can't get out!!!!!!!!!" Posted by: JoannaOregon on December 8, 2006 01:30 AMJoannaOregon Your comment. Uranus and Pluto are generational planets aka trans personal. Another example "The Pluto in Leo" generation
Your story on McCain just backs up my above post.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,,1967397,00.html Posted by: wv on December 8, 2006 03:04 AMBeady Eye posted: "Uranus and Pluto are generational planets aka trans personal. Yup... and there weren't THAT many of them. Posted by: JoannaOregon on December 8, 2006 04:15 AMBeady Eye, Glad you like 'em Pat. It'll be a great day when dark humor is just out of place, but alas this is not that day, and we need all the laughs we can get. Posted by: Pat C on December 8, 2006 04:44 AMI guess I don't use the term "motherhood" anymore... sad & far too fancy... not while institutionalized omnicide is factually the order of the day. Functionally, the term is "breeding." Prey breeds. Posted by: JoannaOregon on December 8, 2006 04:55 AMThis takes brass balls! Dem leaders hope to block Congressional pay raise Officials said Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California and Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the party's leaders, had notified Republicans they will try to add the anti-pay-raise provision to a bill that provides funds for most government agencies through Feb. 15. Congress must pass the funding bill before it adjourns for the year, and the target for that is Friday. Under federal law, lawmakers, like many federal employees, receive a cost of living increase on each Jan. 1. The increase for 2007 is pegged at 2 percent, and would put the salary for rank-and-file lawmakers at $168,500. more http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/12/dem-leaders-hope-to-block.html Posted by: Shadowhawk on December 8, 2006 06:08 AMIn Theater of War, It's Iraq Study Group's Turn to Take the Stage By Dana Milbank Minutes after the Iraq Study Group placed an improvised explosive device beneath the Bush administration's Iraq policy yesterday, panel member Lawrence Eagleburger was asked how President Bush reacted to the recommendations. "His reaction was, 'Where's my drink?' " the former secretary of state cracked after the commission's White House visit and Capitol Hill news conference. Reaching for his own cola, Eagleburger continued: "He was a little loaded. It was early in the morning, too, you know." more http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/06/AR2006120601903.html Posted by: Shadowhawk on December 8, 2006 06:17 AM
December 6, 2006 9:15 AM | Rant . By DOUG THOMPSON According to all that collected brain power in the Iraq Study Group, conditions in President George W. Bush's failed Iraq war are "grave and deteriorating" and the United States must find a way to get the hell out. This is news? Hell, the American public has known this for months. That's why they sent the Republican-controlled Congress packing in the November midterm elections. That's why Bush's public approval ratings are so far into the crapper that even a master plumber couldn't save them. Of course the situation in Iraq is "grave and deteriorating." The country descended long ago into an uncontrollable civil war, spurred by an ill-conceived, and probably illegal, invasion of a sovereign nation by an American President who lied to Congress, to the nation and to the World about non-existent weapons of mass destruction and a fictional connection between former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Posted by: wv on December 8, 2006 10:09 AM
http://www.snopes.com/business/taxes/excise.asp?print=y Posted by: wv on December 8, 2006 11:11 AMThat'd make a great bumper sticker! Pat C's post on privitizing oil, And Morgana. . .must be you've attempted to get someone to install solar panels for you? There's nary a person to be found? It took me well over a year to find a solar installer and then he told me that it just wasn't feasible for private home owners!!!!!!!! His solar business focuses on industrial applications! (Gotta save those manufacturers more money.) But how stupid is all of this? When we're all broke, the economy broke, just who will be able to afford all that precious black gold? And just think. . .the number of jobs that would be created by manufacturing, installing alternative power sources. This is where POWER to the people begins. Too Good To Be True: Is Daddy Bush's Illegal Financial NWO Empire Collapsing? By Greg Szymanski
It's been a bad couple of days for George H. Daddy Bush as, according to inside sources, his Illuminati financial empire is collapsing before his evil eyes while, at the same time, a photo recently surfaced showing him pictured with Johnny Gosch, a 1982 child kidnapping victim involved in the much talked about White House pedophile ring. http://www.arcticbeacon.com/6-Dec-2006a.html Fine Print in Defense Bill Opens Door to Martial Law : http://public.cq.com/public/20061201_homeland.html Posted by: Peg on December 8, 2006 02:37 PMPeg, This is an excellent environmental article, but it's also an excellent metaphor for the war that has been waged on the middle class of America. A Tale of Two Frogs http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120806J.shtml Kelpie Wilson points out that frogs have a "propensity to cook to death when placed in a pan of cold water that is slowly heated to boiling. Because the heating is slow, they never react by jumping out of the pan. Their world goes from cozy, to hot tub on-high, to full rolling boil before they can do anything about it. This frog story has also became the standard explanation for why humans are not reacting with appropriate speed to climate change - the heating is coming on too slowly to raise the alarm and make us do something." http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2006/12/end_of_the_boom.html The End of the Great American Housing Boom THIS FROG IS SURE ENJOYING THE WARM HOT-TUB EFFECT! http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061208/wl_mideast_afp/gulfsecurityiraq_061208201711 Saudi intelligence chief wants US pullout timetable for Iraq 17 minutes ago MANAMA (AFP) - Saudi intelligence chief Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud called for a timetable for a US troop withdrawal from Iraq, warning their presence was breeding terrorists. "There is no question that the continuation of the foreign presence, including in Iraq, will give a push for instability and mainly contribute to create more terrorists," he told a Gulf security conference in Manama. He added: "I don't think it's the right time for the Americans to leave now, but there should be a timeframe." The prince, who rarely make public appearances, said Saudi Arabia was taking "very seriously" the risks of the violence in Iraq spilling over into other regional countries. More... Posted by: Pat C on December 8, 2006 08:58 PM[Converted from PDF] The Iraq Study Group Report - on line http://cryptome.org/iraq-sg-report.htm ............... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/08/BAGJGMRV3I1.DTL The Episcopal Bishop of California was arrested in an anti-war protest yesterday by Homeland Security. "God is with all who have suffered in Iraq,'' the bishop said. "This war needs to be opposed. Even though there is widespread sentiment against the war, we need to continue to push for peace. There is good reason to believe this is an unjust war.'' http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2006/12/08/cq_2019.html Breaking Rank, Smith Calls for Quick Withdrawal from Iraq By Daphne Retter Published: December 8, 2006 Oregon Republican Gordon H. Smith, who in 2002 voted to authorize the war in Iraq, on Thursday became the first GOP senator to raise the possibility of a quick withdrawal of American troops. In a speech to a nearly empty chamber, Smith said the Bush administration now has a choice between recommitting to building up Iraq, which would require far more troops and funding, or removing U.S. soldiers from the unrelenting danger they face daily. Smith, a former Mormon bishop, said he is ready to choose the latter option and stop “living on an ungrateful volcano,” quoting a phrase that the late British leader Winston Churchill used to described Iraq in 1922. “We have no business being a policeman in someone else’s civil war. So I welcome the Iraq Study Group, but I’d rather do it quicker rather than later,” he said, referring to a bipartisan report issued this week that recommended a phased redeployment of U.S. troops. “Whatever it is, it will not be pretty.” Smith offered no specific road map of his own detailing how the administration should proceed, other than suggesting it may be time to withdraw U.S. troops. “I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs day after day,” he said. “That is absurd; it may even be CRIMINAL,” Smith continued in an emotional speech in which he also expressed regret that he had never served in the military. More... Posted by: Pat C on December 8, 2006 09:31 PMInteresting about the senior George Bush and his tears... interesting, also, that the full moon just passed has very promising Sabian Symbols. The Sun (which I always take into account in a full moon reading) was on Sagittarius 13: A Widow's Past is Brought to Light. This is where things (sometimes 'specters' that scare the you know what out of us) come back to reveals things, to show what went on before, to uncork the mysteries or to bedevil us in our older age.... that kind of thing. This feels directly like what's happening. It's also the degree of Pluto in the 9/11 attacks, with Saturn not too far off in the opposition at Gemini 15 (the Two Dutch Children Talking - who knows what they're saying? they have some valuable information but they're keeping it to themselves, perhaps?) The Moon degree on the full moon is Gemini 13: A World Famous Pianist Giving a Concert Performance Before a Large Audience. That feels like people 'grandstanding' this week, wanting to have their say. But it also feels like poppy Bush with his need for recognition for his family - his lust for acclaim, power, money, position and fame. Just a little observation on this full moon. I wish I had time to write up a blog! Perhaps soon I will. This full moon feels very much to me like someone will blow the whistle... perhaps many people. There is a big audience watching the performance and there are voices that want to be heard and there are issues to be bought into the light that need airing, that need to be known about... Posted by: Lynda Hill on December 8, 2006 10:08 PMI love the Sabians Lynda, and I really enjoy having your experise to help calify! Thank you so much for that! Posted by: Pat C on December 8, 2006 10:54 PMhttp://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=951&Itemid=135 Meese of Arabia and the Baker Group's Grab for Black Gold ................. Greg Palast December 7th, 2006 [....]"Behind the fratricidal fracas in Iraq is something even more dangerous than civil war — a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia over control of Iraq’s pivotal position in OPEC, the oil cartel. Because what is painted by Baker’s Iraq Study Group as an ancient local clash between Shia and Sunni over the Kingdom of God, is, in fact, a remote control war between Iran and Saudi Arabia over the Kingdom of Oil." http://tinyurl.com/uyelm -Palast (very good article) Posted by: Pat C on December 8, 2006 11:47 PMDo I feel sorry for Poppy Bush? Oh please. Cry me a river. A river filled with crocodile tears. I can only think of all of the blood that has been spilled and the lives destroyed by this pathetic man and all his narcissistic, self-serving ways. How often did he cry for the people he sent to die in his stupid, unnecessary wars for riches? Or for those innocents who were caught up in those same wars, whose lives and families were completely brought to ruin? Did Bush cry when he put millions of people at a disadvantage as Vice President and President with his wretched economic policies that only served himself and his rich kingpin buddies of Oil, War and Banking? How much damage did Bush Sr. do to progressive causes as part of the CIA? How much did he undermine movements that would have truly led to the United States becoming a better, more prosperous nation in every legitimate sense? And to add insult to injury, he even had the nerve to reproduce and then foist his warped children upon us! And then whine and cry when the people reject them! If those tears were really for Bush's awakening and realization that as he nears the end of his stay in this incarnation, that the total sum of his life's work is ZERO, then maybe I could have a shred of sympathy for the man. But all I see is a man who is now very fearful that the game he has so cavalierly played with so many lives over so many years is finally catching up with him. The bills are coming due and there may be no way even that wily Gemini can slip away from it all this time. All that he has worked for his entire life will crumble into mere dust before his eyes. Now, don't get me wrong. I have no hatred in my heart for this man. But I do hate all of the damage that he and his people have wrought in their ignorance and emotional/spiritual immaturity upon this country and this planet. And maybe it all had to be this way, somehow. But it doesn't mean that we have to continue put up with it, or such foolish men and their silly, sickening, murderous games. I don't know if I'll get my wish, but I would like to see a fair, public trial for Bush and all of his backers, supporters and enablers who brought us down to this very low point in our history. It's the only way we'll ever be able to truly set things straight and move ahead into the future. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on December 9, 2006 09:44 AMWord! Posted by: on December 9, 2006 02:37 PMGore is asking for a million people to sign an electronic card which he will deliver personally to Congress regarding our demand that they address global warming immediately. http://www.algore.com/cards.html Please pass it on to your lists. Posted by: lunaoscura on December 9, 2006 03:45 PMlol. very well stated NEO, and you, too anonymous. Posted by: Peg on December 9, 2006 04:08 PMUnbelievable! And she could have (bet she wishes she had'uv) gone with Holt. You go, NEO! Posted by: JoannaOregon on December 9, 2006 04:17 PMNew York Times December 9, 2006 Failure to Navigate [....]The problems have helped swell the costs of the fleet-building program to a projected $24 billion, from $17 billion, and delayed the arrival of any new ships or aircraft. That has compromised the Coast Guard’s ability to fulfill its mission, which greatly expanded after the 2001 attacks to include guarding the nation’s shores against terrorists. The service has been forced to cut back on patrols and, at times, ignore tips from other federal agencies about drug smugglers. The difficulties will only grow more acute in the next few years as old boats fail and replacements are not ready...[..] NYT... http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/nyt693.html Posted by: Pat C on December 9, 2006 06:44 PMTop Democrat: Halliburton Violated Multibillion Dollar Iraq Contract http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120906B.shtml Halliburton Corp., the oil field services company once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, breached the terms of its multibillion dollar contract to provide US soldiers logistical support in Iraq when one of its subcontractors outsourced security work to Blackwater USA, according to new documents released Friday by Congressman Henry Waxman. Posted by: Pat C on December 9, 2006 08:30 PM
Obama "Suspicious" Of Hype Around Possible Presidential Run By Greg Sargent | bio With Barack Obama due to arrive tomorrow in New Hampshire for two sold out events, the New Hampshire Union Leader has published a long interview with the Illinois Senator. He weighs in on a range of subjects, and in particular goes out of his way to display extreme deference about his sudden political rock-star status. "I tend not to buy into the hype too much." Obama tells the paper. "I'm a little suspicious of it." More from Obama after the jump. Some excerpts from Obama's interview with the Union Leader: On his star status: Posted by: wv on December 9, 2006 10:39 PMAha--perhaps this article points to the real cause of Poppy's tears....as usual, no claims are made for veracity or accuracy http://www.arcticbeacon.com/6-Dec-2006a.html Posted by: Garry on December 10, 2006 02:24 AMGarry........Peg posted that Articbeacon article, Here's another take on that subject by Eloeanor Clift. That election turned out to be pivotal because it disrupted the plan Papa Bush had for his sons, which may be why he was crying, and why the country cries with him. The family’s grand design had the No. 2 son, Jeb, by far the brighter and more responsible, ascend to the presidency while George, the partying frat-boy type, settled for second best in Texas. The plan went awry when Jeb, contrary to conventional wisdom, lost in Florida, and George unexpectedly defeated Ann Richards in Texas. With the favored heir on the sidelines, the family calculus shifted. They’d go for the presidency with the son that won and not the one they wished had won. http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1209-22.htm Bush’s father observed between sobs in his Florida speech, “A true measure of a man is how you handle victory and how you handle defeat.” He was talking about Jeb, but surely it’s his first-born who triggers the tears. Excellent article Pat. Thanks! Posted by: Pat C on December 10, 2006 03:16 AMBummer: that crook, Jefferson, won in LA. But, hey, Dick "Dick" Cheney went hunting and did not shoot another human being. Does that kinda/sorta even things out? http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/16202975.htm Posted by: shylurker on December 10, 2006 04:31 AMhttp://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/12/neoconservatives-exposed-scorned-but.html Neoconservatives: Exposed, Scorned, but Still in Control snip Never before have the reasons we are in Iraq -- and staying indefinitely -- been as clear as they are now. Most notable is the frothing intensity of the personal attacks on Jim Baker coming from the neoconservatives and other assorted warmongers.... Hateful rants directed towards Baker like those from Peretz, Limbaugh and the AEI luminaries (even as Baker endorsed an indefinite presence in Iraq) illustrate just how radical they are. And as they are now quite openly admitting, neoconservatives hate Jim Baker for three reasons -- Israel, Israel and Israel.... All of the American anti-war sentiment and Baker-Hamilton Reports in the world do not change the one fact on which neoconservatives and warmongers are (understandably) placing all of their war-hungry hopes and dreams -- namely, that the President, who is in fact still the Commander-in-Chief, will remain convinced that both his historical legacy and theological goodness depend upon Victory in the Epic War of Civilizations, the Great Challenge of the 21st Century. Thus, unburdened and unrestrained by any future elections, they hope that Bush will continue to wage war, and will escalate those efforts -- in Iraq and beyond. More.... Hmmmmmmm... what's an old old old poopy bush to do. The thing it created now turns on it to devour it. I hope it's not just a rehearsed snuff video for all our "benefit." Posted by: JoannaOregon on December 10, 2006 07:12 AMI heard this song on the radio this morning and thought how appropriate for our times...From 1975... Suite Madame Blue Time after time I sit and I wait for your call Suite Madame Blue, gaze in your looking glass America....America...America..America.. Red white and blue, gaze in your looking glass Interpretation Suite Madame Blue is about the decline of America told using the analogy of a woman. It was written as a wake up call in 1975 as the American Bicentennial approached. Note the line "You conquered the world and more...heaven's door" referring to America's accomplishment of landing a man on the moon in 1969. The theme of this song was revived in 1980 as the basis of the concept behind the Paradise Theatre album. Posted by: Cybear on December 11, 2006 03:57 PMhttp://www.squidoo.com/telechargerfr/ you are right Posted by: milfs on August 16, 2007 10:53 AMPost a comment
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