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Bullseye
Painted in the new moon sky above Washington, DC an arrows tip pierces the heart of the 10th House, the House of the Nations Leader, the new Moon conjunct the Sun.
February 17, 2007
Morgana Seawalker on Feb 20 | Link
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Excellent diagnosis of the illness that permeates I loved the imagery of the arrow at the bottom of the chart Morgana, that is a perfect description of the New Moon Mercury squaring the US Uranus (and GWB's Mars) I even got a jolt from that configuration this afternoon when I heard GWB compare himself to George Washington and Iraq to the 1776 Revolution. Mercury is very active in this chart, not only does it rule the first house, but transiting Uranus conjuncts the US Solar Arc Mercury and transiting Mars opposes the US natal Mercury. I would say your "arrow" analogy is absolutely correct and those arrows will just keep shooting this month. I was outside looking at the sliver of that new moon with the shadow of the coming full moon easily picked out and I couldn't help but wonder what energy would be filling in that shadow. Posted by: Sally on February 20, 2007 02:51 AMwhoops I forgot, Uranus is pretty important in this chart too with the Aquarius signiture and the aspects to the US Uranus. It seems that this month will be full of surprises and with GWB's Mars involvment, the President won't always be happy with those surprises. Posted by: Sally on February 20, 2007 02:54 AMVery well done Morgana. Bush is losing the war on terror... because of the world view of him. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/021907.html Posted by: Pat C on February 20, 2007 04:27 AMGood Article............... Pat that was an interesting article. After listening to all the hulabaloo over Arnie saying California was a Nation State (a phrase coined by Pete Wilson long ago), makes one wonder if the States won't start or continue to marginalize the Federal Government since it is so badly broken and not meeting the needs of the people. Kudo's to the People of New Mexico, looks like they're the first to get Impeachment bills into their Legislature. Let's see what Bill Richardson does with it. Arnie's surprising the hell of out of me. Posted by: Morgana on February 20, 2007 04:52 AMRiverbend speaks - http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ The madness must stop. Posted by: Morgana on February 20, 2007 06:27 AM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/archive/0,,1284265,00.html Posted by: wv on February 20, 2007 06:39 AM George Monbiot Guardian 'You did this hit piece because your corporate masters instructed you to. You are a controlled asset of the new world order ... bought and paid for." "Everyone has some skeleton in the cupboard. How else would MI5 and special branch recruit agents?" "Shill, traitor, sleeper", "leftwing gatekeeper", "accessory after the fact", "political whore of the biggest conspiracy of them all". I believe that George Bush is surrounded by some of the most scheming, devious, ruthless men to have found their way into government since the days of the Borgias. I believe that they were criminally negligent in failing to respond to intelligence about a potential attack by al-Qaida, and that they have sought to disguise their incompetence by classifying crucial documents. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2016815,00.html The letters following are fantastic, especially
The provision, signed into law in October, weakens two obscure but important bulwarks of liberty. One is the doctrine that bars military forces, including a federalized National Guard, from engaging in law enforcement. Called posse comitatus, it was enshrined in law after the Civil War to preserve the line between civil government and the military. The other is the Insurrection Act of 1807, which provides the major exemptions to posse comitatus. It essentially limits a president’s use of the military in law enforcement to putting down lawlessness, insurrection and rebellion, where a state is violating federal law or depriving people of constitutional rights. The newly enacted provisions upset this careful balance. They shift the focus from making sure that federal laws are enforced to restoring public order. Beyond cases of actual insurrection, the president may now use military troops as a domestic police force in response to a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, terrorist attack or to any “other condition.” Changes of this magnitude should be made only after a thorough public airing. But these new presidential powers were slipped into the law without hearings or public debate. The president made no mention of the changes when he signed the measure, and neither the White House nor Congress consulted in advance with the nation’s governors. There is a bipartisan bill, introduced by Senators Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, and Christopher Bond, Republican of Missouri, and backed unanimously by the nation’s governors, that would repeal the stealthy revisions. Congress should pass it. If changes of this kind are proposed in the future, they must get a full and open debate.
By Charles Babington Bloggers and other Internet activists made their marks in the past two presidential elections chiefly by building networks of political enthusiasts and raising money for candidates. Now, they are pushing aggressively into policymaking -- and not just over high-profile issues such as Iraq. They are pressing candidates to back a handful of issues that are obscure to many Americans but vital to those who base their livelihoods on the Internet and track its development. Armed with massive e-mail lists and high-speed networks, these activists are bypassing the familiar campaign tactics of door-knocking and phone-banking. They are also using their new-age technologies for an old-fashioned purpose: making politicians take note of their legislative priorities. One of those is "net neutrality." Hardly a household term, it has no overtly partisan or ideological dimensions. Yet it is shaping up as a Democratic issue this year, largely because its most fervid advocates are liberal bloggers and other Internet activists who play a big role in the early stages of choosing a Democratic presidential nominee. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/19/AR2007021900934_pf.html Posted by: wv on February 20, 2007 08:38 AM
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US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country's military infrastructure, the BBC has learned. The US insists it is not planning to attack, and is trying to persuade Tehran to stop uranium enrichment. The UN has urged Iran to stop the programme or face economic sanctions. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6376639.stm
Bill Sammon, The Examiner WASHINGTON - If Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the presidency, some top Democrats would like to see her husband, former President Bill Clinton, appointed to serve out Hillary’s unexpired Senate term.
Some Democrats and political analysts say Bill Clinton would thrive in the world’s greatest deliberative body, much like Lyndon Johnson did before he became president. “President Clinton would excel in the Senate,” said Paul Begala, who helped Bill Clinton get elected and served in the White House as a top aide. “Why not?” Begala added. “He excelled as attorney general and governor of Arkansas, he excelled as president and he’s been a model of the modern Senate spouse.” http://www.examiner.com/printa-573127~Some_mull_idea_of_Sen._Bill_Clinton.html Posted by: wv on February 20, 2007 09:18 AMThe future of heat-beaming weapons. If you're worried about terrorism, upset about the war in Iraq, and depressed by global chaos, violence, and death, cheer up. We've just invented a weapon that fires a beam of searing pain. Three weeks ago, the U.S. armed forces tested it on volunteers at an Air Force base in Georgia. You can watch the video on a military Web site. Three colonels get zapped, along with an Associated Press reporter. The beam is invisible, but its effects are vivid. Two dozen airmen scatter. The AP guy shrieks and bolts out of the target zone. He says it felt like heat all over his body, as though his jacket were on fire. The feeling is an illusion. No one is harmed. The beam's energy waves penetrate just one-sixty-fourth of an inch into your body, heating your skin like microwaves. They inflame your nerve endings without actually burning you. This could be the future of warfare: less bloodshed, more pain. http://www.slate.com/id/2159935/nav/tap1/ Does anyone else think this could be used domestically if we citizens get 'uppity' and decide to rebel against a totalitarian government? Posted by: Roderick on February 20, 2007 02:54 PMAdmiral Michael McConnell sworn in at 10:29 EST, Washington DC as head of Naval Intelligence. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070104/4mcconnellfacts.htm Posted by: Pat C on February 20, 2007 03:32 PMRoderick, Of course I think it will be turned against us. Crowd control. Maybe they've already tried it out in prison fights. Maybe they've already used it in prisoner interrogations. If it doesn't leave scars then how can anyone prove it's been used? I imagine torturers salivating at the idea of using them on their victims. It's becoming more and more evident that if they use the detention camps to round us up, they'll find it easier with weapons like the heat ray. Posted by: lunaoscura on February 20, 2007 04:31 PMI listened to a report about the Heat Phaser a few weeks ago on Democracy Now on KPFT. Evidently it has been used on the public and the concerns are that the beam bounces off of buildings and solid objects. So if they blast it into a crowd and it happens to hit anything solid in the process it will continue on until it hits something that will absorb it. ANother concern is what are the long term effects. Sounds like a microwave oven that cooks from the inside out, only it will be used to cook humans. Posted by: Cybear on February 20, 2007 05:45 PMhttp://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/20/libby-live-wells-defense-summation-one/ Live summation of the Libby trial Posted by: Pat C on February 20, 2007 05:57 PMWhat Would You Do If Bush Declared Martial Law? An editorial in the New York Times yesterday pointed out, for those of us who didn't realize it, that the Bush administration had inserted two provisions into last October's defense budget bill that would make it easier to declare martial law in the US. Senators Leahy and Bond have introduced a bill to repeal these changes, and it is important that voters keep track of this bill and hold their Congresspeople to account on it. Along with several other measures the Bush adminstration has proposed, the introduction of these changes amounts, not to an attack on the Congress and the balance of power, but to a particular and concerted attack on the citizens of the nation. Bush is laying the legal groundwork to repeal even the appearance of democracy. Any senator who does not vote in favor of the Leahy/Bond repeal of these provisions should promptly be recalled by his or her constituents. more http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/what-would-you-do-if-bush_b_41674.html
Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility By Dana Priest and Anne Hull Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan's room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses. This is the world of Building 18, not the kind of place where Duncan expected to recover when he was evacuated to Walter Reed Army Medical Center from Iraq last February with a broken neck and a shredded left ear, nearly dead from blood loss. But the old lodge, just outside the gates of the hospital and five miles up the road from the White House, has housed hundreds of maimed soldiers recuperating from injuries suffered in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. more http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/17/AR2007021701172.html Posted by: Shadowhawk on February 20, 2007 07:07 PMGreat article, Morgana - always both fiery and firing right to the bullseye! Your comment about Ah-nuld's use of Wilson's "nation/state" term brought up something that's been percolating up through my consciousness for probably 10-12 years or so - do you see any aspects to the CA chart that would suggest a possibility of secession? Or in the US chart that would indicate this kind of loss? Given how huge our economy is and how we probably ARE capable of being an independent entity, and how we do tend to be somewhat of a renegade culture (at least on a mythic level), it might be a good idea - and would certainly jibe with the projections that new ideas and attitudes would be starting to lead the way by 2012. I can visualize the 'murrican empire crumbling away from the left coast, bit by bit. Roderick, absolutely no question that this is a technology aimed at civilian control. The Democracy Now report was well-sourced (as is all their work) and verifiable - unless you think Faux Noise is a reliable souce, of couse (tee hee). Posted by: Baraka on February 20, 2007 07:27 PMhttp://americablog.blogspot.com/2007/02/military-amputee-uninvited-from-bush.html Military amputee uninvited from Bush event because the press would see him with no legs ........ Blair pulling 1,500 troops out of Basra, and another 1,500 a little later. per CNN Posted by: Pat C on February 20, 2007 10:33 PMBlair starting Brit pullout now: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17246357/ Posted by: Pat C on February 20, 2007 10:36 PM
Carla Marinucci, John Wildermuth, Chronicle Political Writers Tuesday, February 20, 2007 "We are here because the country is at a crossroads,'' the 45-year-old senator said. "We know what the problems are and yet, year after year, we tinker around the edges and not much is done.'' Obama's appearance on behalf of Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., at the Westin St. Francis Hotel -- his first Bay Area public event since formally declaring himself a 2008 candidate for president -- was a hot ticket, attracting a capacity crowd of 1,300, including many grassroots activists who said they wanted to see history in the making. "I see in him what has worked right with America. ... I see in him the future of America,'' said Boxer in her introduction, although she stopped short of endorsing him. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/20/MNGCEO7LRS1.DTL&type=printable Posted by: wv on February 20, 2007 11:29 PM
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Friday, February 16, 2007
As a San Francisco columnist, my struggle has been long and treacherous and fraught with guilt and shame and really, really good music. Many nights, lo these past years, as I wailed out my pain to an unforgiving neoconservative God, the stink of liberalness and Astroglide and womanly scent upon me like the devil's own Minwax, I truly believed my soul was forever lost in the pits of warm-hearted sex-positive progressive-minded hell. But now, at long last, just like the good Rev. Ted Haggard, my heart can rejoice, for I am saved. I am ready to return to public life and the arms of our angry, all-American Lord once more. Finally, at long last, I can say it for certain: I am a Republican. And I am miserably gay. Rejoice! http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2007/02/16/notes021607.DTL&type=printable Posted by: wv on February 21, 2007 12:02 AM
http://www.ichblog.eu/text/content/view/631/1/ Just want to peek in and say that the entire City of New Orleans threw me a birthday party today - Mardi Gras. It was a very nice and very typical New Orleanean/Piscean kind of day with good weather (cold spell ended), lots of cool costumes and sweet people being loving with each other, doing a little drinking to feel the love all the more. In many ways, with all the parades this week, out-of-town visitors, the city turned out in it's finery (so many homes are decorated in the green, purple and gold of Mardi Gras), it seemed like so much of the city and it's spirit was not only intact but deepened and, at the same time, vulnerable, new, grateful (moon in Aries). Namaste, on this first day of Sun in Pisces! (I'm now going to take advantage of the free birthday gift at Tarot.com --- a free Celtic Cross reading). Posted by: Sharon on February 21, 2007 02:38 AMHappy Birthday Sharon! What a lucky girl to be born on Fat Tuesday!!! Posted by: Pat C on February 21, 2007 03:52 AM* What a Dilemma For the Anglican Communion! Our hearts go out to the leaders of the World Anglican Communion, delightfully named "primates," struggling to avoid a full-blown schism with the US Episcopal Church, while somehow maintaining their obedience to God. We must be frank, & to quote the frankly-worded communiqué issued the other day by the primates at the end of the conf in Tanzania, "Since the controversial events of 2003 we have faced the reality of increased tension in the life of the Anglican Communion - tension so deep that the fabric of our common life has been torn." Specifically, the fabric which has been torn is the fabric, usually secured with a zipper, which surrounds the members, that is to say the members of the male members of the Anglican Communities. These members have been discovered now & then in the hands of other members who also have members, causing the grave rift, the torn fabric & perhaps the dreaded schism, if the rebellious members do not "express their regret" for certain ceremonies already performed. ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-arnstein/what-a-dilemma-for-the-an_b_41716.html ;O) ;O) ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 21, 2007 03:55 AMHappy Birthday Sharon, Re: Riverbend....Morgana's post above. Why don't print that out and send it to each of our Senators & Congressmen? It is so ironic, with the new material discovered, about how hard Anne Frank's Father tried to get the Family out of Europe, and failed, that we are mourning retrospectively, & at the same time the Anne Frank of Baghdad goes unnoticed by the majority. Mardi Gras & Sharon all in the same day!! Now that's a heck of a celebration! Happy Birthday, Sharon. How grand of them to throw such a party in NOLA! Posted by: shylurker on February 21, 2007 04:31 AMSharon, I was thrilled to see the Birthday Party New Orleans threw for you, how exciting. Lovely to have so many fun friends. Makes me think New Orleans is coming back strong. I feel certain your Tarot reading will be fabulous. If it isn't, pitch it out and find someone who knows what they are talking about because with a birthday on Fat Tuesday it will be a fantastic year. Posted by: Sally on February 21, 2007 05:53 AMSpeculation Mine (2 pence) .....Oil is a tool of control as controlled by the US Dollar. Iraq tries to sell it in the opposing currency (Banking faction Euro) and gets bombed etc. Iran threatening to do the same and soon a third strike force will head there. What I don't get is this: The Euro fights the dollar in an end around way, something like email removing business from the post office. Country after country is leaving the dollar as its "sole" source of reserve.There seems no way to compete, or is there?....Call me crazy, but here is what I think the long term plan is: Like Usul from Dune Messhia, the US faction believes if you can destroy a thing (oil production) you can control a thing. "BUT" you say, wouldn't we be shooting ourselves in the foot as well? " Type "Gull Island oil"" into a search engine to see the tip of the US trump card. On another note, I wonder if the coming , let's say 30% drop in the value of the US dollar (this spring?), and 50% drop in US citizen available spending power won't begin to level the global financial playing field to a more homogeneous parity. Were I a Trilateralist, this might be a goal. Bring China up, US down, and then smooth. Baskets of currencies, Asian, N American, European then begin to cooperate with mutual goals; especially currency stabilization going forward.....Speculation off....Peace out, Timmy J Posted by: Timmy J on February 21, 2007 07:40 AMSpeculation Mine (2 pence) .....Oil is a tool of control as controlled by the US Dollar. Iraq tries to sell it in the opposing currency (Banking faction Euro) and gets bombed etc. Iran threatening to do the same and soon a third strike force will head there. What I don't get is this: The Euro fights the dollar in an end around way, something like email removing business from the post office. Country after country is leaving the dollar as its "sole" source of reserve. There seems no way to compete, or is there?....Call me crazy, but here is what I think the long term plan is: Like Usul from Dune Messhia, the US faction believes if you can destroy a thing (oil production) you can control a thing. "BUT" you say, wouldn't we be shooting ourselves in the foot as well? " Type "Gull Island oil"" into a search engine to see the tip of the US trump card. On another note, I wonder if the coming , let's say 30% drop in the value of the US dollar (this spring?), and 50% drop in US citizen available spending power won't begin to level the global financial playing field to a more homogenous parity. Were I a Trilateralist, this might be a goal. Bring China up, US down, and then smooth. Baskets of currencies, Asian, N American, European then begin to cooperate with mutual goals; especially currency stablization, going forward.....Speculation off....Peace out, Timmy J Posted by: Timmy J on February 21, 2007 07:53 AMSharon, sorry I couldn't make to your birthday party but I saw some of it on the tv. So happy to see everyone out and celebrating. View from Tehran http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/02/21/letter_from_iran/print.html Posted by: Pat C on February 21, 2007 03:06 PMhttp://www.firedoglake.com/category/cia-leak-case/ Thre is a nice Youtube piece here as well. The Big Close The courtroom was packed today and the theatrics did not disappoint. Patrick Fitzgerald came right out and said that Shooter had his dirty fingerprints all over the crime. As Marcy noted in the liveblog: There is a cloud over the VP. He wrote those columns, he had those meetings, He sent Libby off to the meeting with Judy. Where Plame was discussed. That cloud remains because the defendant obstructed justice. That cloud was there. That cloud is something that we just can't pretend isn't there. I recognize that my view is probably somewhat biased in favor of the prosecution, but really I don't see how anyone could have watched the proceedings today and come away with the conclusion that the defense was anything other than a chaotic mess. Marcy and I agreed that Wells sounded like he was a used car salesman trying to fob off a junker he had no faith in, and for my part I'm guessing that much of the defense was crafted by Scooter Libby calling up in the middle of the night and helpfully saying, "make sure you say this tomorrow, Ted." At the end of his closing statements, Wells broke down in tears and begged the jury to "give Scooter back to me" (or something just as weird to that effect). He then returned to the defense table, head in hand, never to look up again. Some thought it was over-identification with the defendant, but I thought he was grieving his career — this would be a big loss for him. He ate up 20 minutes of Scooter's precious time rebutting things that Zeidenberg had said about himself during the prosecution's closing statements, as if that mattered, and then left himself with little time to cover all the points he had left. In the end he was reading methodically from his own Power Point presentation. It all came off a bit unglued. Everyone was punching each other to keep from falling asleep when Fitzgerald took to the floor and treated all to a bit of Shakespearean theatrics, yelling "madness, madness!" He was lacerating and precise, speaking so quickly that the court reporter couldn't catch up. His command of the material was a bit daunting, able to recall voluminous evidenciary document numbers simply by looking at some chart in his own brain. He wandered off into the weeds for a bit (demonstrating an eriposte-like knowledge of the history of the Niger uranium claims) before retreating to simpler ground for his closing. All the while, Wells never looked up at him, even as Jeffress was nervously rubbing his moustach and shifting in his chair. More... Posted by: Pat C on February 21, 2007 03:16 PMhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/20/AR2007022001489.html Letter to the Editor of Wapo: The Libby Trial Is Serious Business
My issue is the extreme damage that occurs when CIA identities are bandied about by political hacks and the newspapers that cheer them on. These leaks violate the code of blood honor of the CIA, MI-6, Mossad and every clandestine officer. Real people die. Real heroes are exposed and murdered. Real intelligence is lost. Real sources lose trust in our honor and refuse to cooperate. Real wars are fought mistakenly. Real troops are endangered. Real damage is done to U.S. credibility throughout the world. War is not a dinner party for ideologues. Espionage is not a 007 movie. The lives of covert operatives are not petty cash to be bartered for spin. If Mr. Libby is acquitted, God bless him. If he is convicted, President Bush should immediately renounce a pardon. Our heroes deserve a standing ovation, not a stab in the back. BRENT BUDOWSKY http://www.buzzflash.com/store/reviews/524 Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. Its contacts run from deep inside the military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House. Blackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the “global war on terror,” with its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and 20,000 soldiers at the ready. Run by a multimillionaire Chrtstian conservative who bankrolls President Bush and his allies, its forces are capable of overthrowing governments, and yet most people have never heard of Blackwater. Blackwater is the dark story of the rise of a powerful mercenary army, ranging from the blood-soaked streets of Fallujah to rooftop firefights in Najaf to the hurricane-ravaged US gulf to Washington DC, where Blackwater executives are hailed as new heroes in the war on terror. This is an extraordinary exposé by one of America’s most exciting young radical journalists. “Jeremy Scahill’s exposé of the Blackwater mercenary firm forcefully demonstrates the grave dangers of outsourcing the government’s monopoly on the use of force.”—Joseph Wilson, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq More… Posted by: Pat C on February 21, 2007 04:10 PMThank you everyone for your wonderful birthday wishes -- may they come back to everyone here 100 fold and may we all carry the mardi gras spirit of peace, gentleness, love, dancing, and making merry into our lives. Joy sweetens the mix, although it is a balancing act at times. The way that works for me is when I look at each of us (yes, including the bad guys) as exactly the same, with the same human weaknessness and strengths, and feel compassion and love for them. It's a spiritual practice. I believe in karma and I also believe in forgiveness - life can change in one moment and it can change for the good. Let's all create miracles together in little and big ways. One intention I want to keep in mind this year is to remember the little guy and concentrate on giving, and shake the all about me attitude that I have too much of (moon in Leo, guys). One more all about me indulgence - my Hebrew birthday on the lunar calendar is Purim, which is a holiday like Mardi Gras & Halloween, a day of costumes, celebrating & drinking if you imbibe (I do a little), and it comes up next week. I don't necessarily celebrate that day though. Talking about imbibing, I had 2 brandy milk punches yesterday with cinamon on top (like eggnog) and, in the spirit of Old Fashioned Southern cooking, everything we ate at lunch in the French Quarter was made with cream! Warm baked apple with cream, Eggs holindaise & salmon, made with cream, Bananas Foster, with vanilla ice cream! Wow, talk about over doing it! I know Fitz has a lot of Sag in him and the Jupiter factor is surely causing it to kick in. What a guy! I hope this leads to something really productive. If he can't prosecute Rove and Cheney, at least he is bringing it out in the open! Have a warm, happy, healthy, peaceful & loving day. Thank you, Morgana, for hitting the bull's eye (again), and Sally, for AW. Posted by: Sharon on February 21, 2007 04:44 PM
For those fans of Molly Ivins, Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2007/02/ivins_collected.html Posted by: wv on February 21, 2007 05:09 PM
Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, February 21, 2007 In 2005, Congress decided Americans needed a little more sunshine in their lives and ordered that daylight-saving time be extended four weeks beginning this year. Now with clocks slated to spring forward three weeks earlier than usual, on March 11, high-tech pundits are wondering how big a headache this will cause for computer users -- and whether this will be a replay of the Y2K bug drama of 1999. For instance, airlines could be thrown off schedule, creating havoc for travelers. People could miss meetings. Cell phone calls could be mistakenly billed during peak hours. All kinds of automatic orders and messages could be mistimed. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/21/MNGASO8BQ11.DTL&type=printable
Robert Scheer, Creators Syndicate, Inc. Wednesday, February 21, 2007 LET'S FACE it: No matter how much many of us who oppose the war in Iraq would also love to elect a female president, Sen. Hillary Clinton is not a peace candidate. She is an unrepentant hawk, à la Sen. Joe Lieberman. She believed invading Iraq was a good idea, all available evidence to the contrary, and she has, once again, made it clear that she still does. "If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast a vote [to authorize the war] or has said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from," she said in New Hampshire last week, confusing contempt for anti-war Americans -- now a majority -- with the courage of her indefensible conviction that she bears no responsibility for the humanitarian, economic and military disaster our occupation has wrought. As a candidate for '08, Hillary's calculation is clearly that her war chest, star power, gender and pro-choice positions will be sufficient to triumph in the primaries, while being "tough," pro-military and "supporting our president" will secure her flank in the general election against those who would paint her as that horrible beast, "a liberal." Posted by: wv on February 21, 2007 05:38 PM* Long Range Astrology - The March 2007 Lunar Eclipse in Virgo-Pisces and What It Means http://www.aquariuspapers.com/astrology/2007/02/long_range_astr.html#more Hillary Clinton is a major disappointment and is showing herself to be a dangerous individual who supports war without at least claiming to want peace and promising to do everything, including heavy duty diplomacy in order to bring all sides to the Peace Process Table. I've noticed she is also badmouthing Iran without saying anything about talking to them. Why isn't she saying she would talk to our enemies instead of repeating that they are denying the holocaust and have repeated that the US and Israel should be wiped off the map. Her stand is as reactionary as Bush's is. She isn't saying anything about being a peace broker in the world. It's as if she's afraid to sound too much like her husband, so she's going to do what Bush did and do all things opposite of Bill Clinton. I just don't get her at all. And I will never, ever support anyone who talks about war without insisting on stopping it, or at least trying to stop it. Posted by: on February 21, 2007 05:54 PMVery interesting lineup of celebrities contributing to Obama. Progressive celebrities: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ [snip] Three of the entertainment industry's biggest names — DreamWorks studio founders Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen — planned a private, Beverly Hills fundraiser for the freshman senator from Illinois. The lineup of celebrities writing checks read like a red carpet's who's who — Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington and Ben Stiller among others. [snip] Sorry, The last two posts were mine. Posted by: lunaoscura on February 21, 2007 06:11 PMAnother article lists more outspoken celebs donating to Obama. Yet earlier that day Obama went to free people's rally which means he isn't just dropping in to do fundraisers. He's talking to the people too. How refreshing for us Californians.
[snip] [snip] At the park, where admission was free, William Gude of Long Beach said Obama's appeal came from his outside-the-Beltway ideas and opposition to the Iraq war. Posted by: lunaoscura on February 21, 2007 06:22 PMThanks wv :-) That's interesting about the Obama donations, lunaoscura - my eyes opened wider when I saw the Chairman of Walt Disney Studios had donated becaues I think of that organization as very right wing. Posted by: Sharon on February 21, 2007 07:49 PMhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html The Cloud Over Cheney “What is this case about?” special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald asked in his rebuttal to the defense’s closing arguments yesterday in the Scooter Libby perjury trial. “Is it about something bigger?” And while Fitzgerald never directly answered that second question, he at long last made it quite clear that the depth of Vice President Cheney’s role in the leaking of the identity of a CIA operative is one of the central mysteries that Libby’s alleged lies prevented investigators from resolving. “There is a cloud over the vice president . . . And that cloud remains because this defendant obstructed justice,” Fitzgerald said. “There is a cloud over the White House. Don’t you think the FBI and the grand jury and the American people are entitled to straight answers?” Fitzgerald asked the jury. Libby, Fitzgerald continued, “stole the truth from the justice system.” After literally years of keeping his public pronouncements about the case to an absolute minimum, Fitzgerald yesterday finally let slip a bit of the speculation that many of us have long suspected has lurked just beneath the surface of his investigation. Suddenly it wasn’t just the defendant alone, it was “they” who decided to tell reporters about Wilson’s wife working for the CIA. “To them,” Fitzgerald said, “she wasn’t a person, she was an argument.” And it was pretty clear who “they” was: Libby and his boss, Cheney. Back in the summer of 2003, after former ambassador Joseph Wilson had dared suggest that the administration manipulated intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq, “they” were obsessed with denying that Wilson had been sent on his mission to Niger as a result of a request for information from the vice president’s office, Fitzgerald said. More… Posted by: Pat C on February 21, 2007 08:45 PMhttp://rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sltrib.com%2Fnews%2Fci_5271117 Affidavit: McVeigh had high-level help Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking FBI official "apparently" was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Utah. More.... Posted by: Pat C on February 21, 2007 09:56 PM
February 21, 2007, 3:22 PM CST BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- One day after Sen. Barack Obama made a glittery statement with a Hollywood fundraiser that brought in an impressive $1.3 million, the top two Democratic presidential contenders went after each other in the first big food fight of the 2008 presidential election. It started when David Geffen slammed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York in remarks published Wednesday morning, calling the presidential candidate and New York senator a liar, dismissing her husband, former President Clinton, as "reckless," and blasting the Clinton "machine." Geffen, a powerful Hollywood producer and executive, was once a major a Clinton supporter but has switched to Obama and was a host of Tuesday's bash. The Clinton campaign, perhaps stung by Obama's successful incursion into Hollywood, which at one time was unchallenged Clinton country, hit back hard, saying Geffen's comments contrasted poorly with the Illinois senator's self-promotion as a new breed of politician, unifying and optimistic. Posted by: wv on February 21, 2007 11:11 PM
By E&P Staff Published: February 21, 2007 1:10 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS Minnesota U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison says he supports Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for president. "Not because he's black," said Ellison, who is black, on Tuesday. "That's identity politics. I reject identity politics. "He speaks with a unifying spirit," Ellison told about 100 employees at the Star Tribune newspaper during a lunch-hour event for Black History Month. Ellison, a Democrat, is the first Muslim elected to Congress and the first black elected to Congress from Minnesota. While Ellison is supporting Obama at this stage of the campaign, the congressman acknowledged that he may end up backing New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton if she wins the Democratic nomination. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Clinton To Anti-War Voters: Bring It On By Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate Posted on February 21, 2007, Printed on February 21, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/48331/ Hillary Clinton is a once and future warrior. Campaign events in New Hampshire suggest the majority anti-war electorate has problems with her vote for the Iraq War and with her position on Iran. On Feb. 10, New Hampshire resident Roger Tilton asked Sen. Clinton at a town-hall meeting: "I want to know if right here, right now, once and for all and without nuance, you can say that war authorization was a mistake." Clinton responded: "Well, I have said, and I will repeat it, that knowing what I know now, I never would have voted for it. ... The mistakes were made by this president who misled this country and this Congress into a war that should not have been waged." A week later, in Dover, N.H., she dug in: "If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote or said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from. But for me, the most important thing now is trying to end this war." http://www.alternet.org/story/48331/
Clinton To Anti-War Voters: Bring It On By Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate Posted on February 21, 2007, Printed on February 21, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/48331/ Hillary Clinton is a once and future warrior. Campaign events in New Hampshire suggest the majority anti-war electorate has problems with her vote for the Iraq War and with her position on Iran. On Feb. 10, New Hampshire resident Roger Tilton asked Sen. Clinton at a town-hall meeting: "I want to know if right here, right now, once and for all and without nuance, you can say that war authorization was a mistake." Clinton responded: "Well, I have said, and I will repeat it, that knowing what I know now, I never would have voted for it. ... The mistakes were made by this president who misled this country and this Congress into a war that should not have been waged." A week later, in Dover, N.H., she dug in: "If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote or said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from. But for me, the most important thing now is trying to end this war." http://www.alternet.org/story/48331/
Hello. Off topic here. Sorry, if I'm out of line. I have a new granddaughter. Born 08:37 AM on 2/17/07 Winchester, VA. I believe she has a Pisces moon from my inept calculations. Is this correct? Her rising sign is Aries, I think. Also, my Dad passed on on Tuesday 2/20/07. He's doing very well "over there" as I have spoken to him. Very happy and free. Strangely I don't feel sad at all. The veil between worlds is thinning. Posted by: Patricia on February 22, 2007 02:10 AMIs anyone really surprised about the Libby trial outcome? Of course this goes up to Cheney, and almost certainly Bush as well. I just wonder if Libby really thinks that spending what will likely be the rest of his life in prison is worth saving Cheney's sorry and cowardly backside? As they say, there is no such thing as honor amongst thieves. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on February 22, 2007 02:25 AMCongratulations to you and your father Patricia! Your new little girl is a double Aquarius with an Aries ascendant. Check your e-mail Posted by: Pat C on February 22, 2007 02:30 AMYou are right Patricia, the veils are thining and have been doing so since about 1987, most of us are just beginning to notice, but the more people who realize this the greater and faster the changes will come. A huge congratulations on your new granddaughter,(what's her name?) they are a wonderful gift and delight. And congratulations to your father for a safe transition, I doubt that he is too far away from you and your family. Posted by: Sally on February 22, 2007 05:14 AMSo the British are going, not fast enough. But the rest of them will soon go and I predict that the British will be out of there before 2008. Posted by: Sally on February 22, 2007 05:53 AMYes, Sally, it's reverse Paul Revere - the British are going, not coming. Things are getting more interesting. Patricia, congratulations on the new little miracle of creation in your life. How marvelous that you have communicated with your father. After my mothere passed, a psychic friend that I have gone to for years told me my mother was in the same energy she had when she was a young girl, also very, very free and happy. I was so happy for her. I remember her telling me many times how, as a little girl, she was always on the go, always moving, always excited, never sitting still. It really seemed to fit. May the communications continue. Blessings to all - Posted by: Sharon on February 22, 2007 06:09 AMThe timing on the British leaving is strangely close to the pending deployment to Iraq of Prince Harry, who is determined to serve 'on the front line' with his fellow military classmates. Makes me wonder if the queen didn't put a flea in someone's ear! Posted by: kiwijeanie on February 22, 2007 07:30 AMRomano Prodi of Italy resigned as Premier of Italy, after losing the vote in the Senate, for sending troops to Afghanistan, and allowing the enlargement of the American Military base in Vincenza. Happy new granddaughter day for you Patricia. Grandchildren are wonderful and they help keep us clear living with the future. UMMM! precious promise. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gen-wesley-clark/stopiranwarcom_b_41752.html StopIranWar.com - General Wesley Clark All Americans want to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons and interfering on the ground inside Iraq. Yet, President Bush's continued saber-rattling gives the US little additional leverage to engage and dissuade Iran, and, more than likely, simply accelerates a dangerous slide into war. The United States can do better than this. Whatever the pace of Iran's nuclear efforts, in the give and take of the Administration's rhetoric and accusations, we are approaching the last moments to head off looming conflict. ........... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/view/ FRONTLINE: news war: watch the full program online | PBS Frontline video covering the changing relationship between the news media and the U.S. government. Posted by: Pat C on February 22, 2007 02:02 PMSpeaking of Spain, tho it's an emotionally hard movie to see, try Pan's Labyrinth. Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 22, 2007 02:43 PMhttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/21/btsc.iran.amanpour/ Iranian official offers glimpse from within: A desire for U.S. ally Posted by: Pat C on February 22, 2007 02:46 PM"...All Americans want to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons and interfering on the ground inside Iraq. ..." I want to stop USia from developing nuclear weapons & interfering on the ground inside Iraq!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 22, 2007 02:48 PMhttp://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/48286/ The Lies They Tell: How to Stop the Fox Propaganda Machine The “Sliming Bowl” is well under way, and Fox's influence is too big -- and too damaging -- to ignore. Can the progressive Internet media and blogosphere bring it down? Plus: A Brand New Video! Posted by: Pat C on February 22, 2007 02:53 PMJohn Cory | Promises to Keep ........ The New York Times | American Liberty at the Precipice ........ The People vs. Richard Cheney Short audio expressing possible future for Cheney http://www.ibiblio.org/musicmakers/audio/hardluck.aiff Posted by: Pat C on February 22, 2007 03:20 PMIf Obama is hiring staff such as these creeps knowing full well their history and character, he'll never get my vote, that's for sure. http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/2/22/101914/565 Posted by: shylurker on February 22, 2007 06:10 PMAnd here's another good example of "know 'em by the company they keep": What a ticket, huh! Posted by: shylurker on February 22, 2007 06:50 PMhttp://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_02/010792.php HE BRITISH IN IRAQ....So why are the British pulling troops out of Iraq? Here's what the LA Times says: The British military is approaching "operational failure," former defense staff chief Charles Guthrie warned this week. "Because the British army is in essence fighting a far more intensive counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan, there's been a realization that there has to be some sort of transfer of resources from Iraq to Afghanistan," said Clive Jones, a senior lecturer in Middle East politics at the University of Leeds, who has closely followed Britain's Iraq deployment. "It's either that, or you risk in some ways losing both," he said. "It's the classic case of 'Let's declare victory and get out.' " This fits pretty well with several stories from last year that claimed there was a big push from both the Ministry of Defense and the Army Chief of Staff to get out of Iraq and put more troops in Afghanistan. They didn't win the bureaucratic battle back then, but apparently they won the war. Posted by: Pat C on February 22, 2007 07:14 PMhttp://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2007/02/religious_polic.htm Bush Froming Religious Police? Hoo-boy here's one to worry about. Attorney General launches religious freedom initiative at SBC meeting. (SBC means Southern Baptist Convention.)
More... Posted by: Pat C on February 22, 2007 07:31 PM
http://www.sfgate.com/comics/fiore/ Posted by: wv on February 22, 2007 08:05 PMkos summarizes the Obama-Gibbs situation pretty nicely: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0207/2865.html BREAKING NEWS: Lieberman Says War Vote Could Prompt Party Switch Posted by: Pat C on February 22, 2007 08:50 PMCap'n Sally, whenever will we be rid of this Flood of Sleaze? http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1171620175651 TARGETING LAWYERS http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=919131 Divine Strake is Dead! It looks as though the Pentagon couldn't take the political heat over a proposed explosion at the Nevada Test Site. The Department of Defense announced today they're canceling the so-called Divine Strake explosion. A spokesman for Governor Huntsman told us a few minutes ago that it's likely that public pressure played a role in the decision to cancel Divine Strake. The plan was to detonate 700 tons of conventional explosives in a specially dug pit at the Nevada test site. The purpose was to test the effects on a deeply buried tunnel, simulating an enemy bunker. But the plan sparked a huge outcry in Utah. More... Posted by: Pat C on February 22, 2007 10:22 PMOh, thank you all for your warm wishes. Have been running here and there and just got back from Family Night. Tomorrow is the funeral. My little sugar doodle's name is Michelle Marie. I just want to kiss and hold her. She's got the colic so she's kind of a crab cake. I've been able to communicate with those who have passed on for some time. My family thinks I'm some kind of weirdo, but I don't give a toot. Good night and thanks again. Posted by: Patricia on February 23, 2007 04:07 AMThey don't say this guy's a Repuke, JudiGem, but I figure you can tentatively add him to your list anyway. Big loud "YUP!" It IS hard to understand where these monsters are coming from if one doesn't understand racism/sexism... REALLY understand them. These attitudes have NOT gone anywhere... they're the elephants smack-dab in the middle of the living room floor & it's perfectly alright to talk about them... one MUST think/talk about them to bring them into the light for transformation. Even Jung was racist/sexist in his thinking & he was a pretty good ol' evolved boy for his time! * From Little Rock to Baghdad, The Last Gasps of ["White"] Male Entitlement Lead [USia] to Disaster In many ways, the road to Baghdad began symbolically at Little Rock Central HS, which was desegregated 50 years ago after armed fed intervention. It was one of the milestones of the Civil Rights era--& a sign to the ["white"] southern male that the era of plantation style entitlement was finally coming to an end. It's hard even, today, to realize that some people felt that they were closer to God & civilized standards because of the color of their skin. It's hard, because some people--altho not publicly proclaiming the belief--still harbor it. In fact, one could argue that the entire [rez regime]--black window dressing like C Powell & C Rice aside--is about ["white"] male entitlement. The mystery of what bush or cheney mean when they endlessly proclaim that GIs must die to accomplish the honor of "our mission" & achieve "victory" can be resolved with an understanding of ["white"] man's rules. Bush/cheney have offered us so many different "missions" for Iraq that they remind one of a toy terrier on speed. But they have a different "mission" & definition of "victory" locked inside their heads, one that they dare not speak out loud. It's quite simple: the ["white"] man wins. For the ["white"] man to lose--as the South did in the Civil War--is to be shamelessly dishonored. The synergistic issues of the control of Iraq's oil, the creation of a multi-national corpo marketplace in Iraq, & the geo-political colonization of Iraq all harken back to plantation politics. Ownership is what is due to the ["white"] man. It is in the natural order of things to bush/cheney. It is their entitlement. In the world of entitlement & neo-Confederacy social order, there is no need for accountability or responsibility. The ["white"] man is the head of the household, the owner of slaves, the exploiter of natural resources because this is in the natural order--the religiously "pious" Southerners felt--the divine order of things. ... http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorials/125 Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 23, 2007 02:27 PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,,2019674,00.html Posted by: wv on February 23, 2007 03:48 PM
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The US psychological torture system is finally on trial
Naomi Klein
According to his lawyers and two mental health specialists who examined him, Padilla has been so shattered that he lacks the ability to assist in his own defence. He is convinced that his lawyers are "part of a continuing interrogation program" and sees his captors as protectors. In order to prove that "the extended torture visited upon Mr Padilla has left him damaged", his lawyers want to tell the court what happened during those years in the navy brig. The prosecution strenuously objects, maintaining that "Padilla is competent" and that his treatment is irrelevant. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2019341,00.html
Be sure to watch Rory Kennedy's documentary on Abu Ghraib. Fantastic! Posted by: wv on February 23, 2007 04:01 PM
By THOMAS BEAUMONT
Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack plans to withdraw from the 2008 presidential campaign today, Democratic sources in Iowa said. Vilsack planned to hold a news conference at 11 a.m. to make what campaign "major campaign announcement," aides to the candidate said. Vilsack had said he would win the leadoff Iowa caucuses. He had been trailing three better-known candidates in the state, according to early polls. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070223/NEWS/70223009/1001&lead=1 Posted by: wv on February 23, 2007 05:09 PMSooooooooo, what's up with this?
Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer Friday, February 23, 2007 "It's like being married, and suddenly you fall in love. You're a good person, and a loyal person ... you have a history with the Clintons,'' she said. "And you feel like you're cheating.'' If some Democrats have cheating on their minds, it coincides with the rise of Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, who has attracted big crowds and evidenced that elusive quality of political charisma, "something you cannot manufacture,'' Huffington said. "It is priceless -- and we haven't seen it for a long time.'' And that has posed trouble for the old love: Hillary Rodham Clinton, the New York senator, front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 2008 and the wife of former President Bill Clinton. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/23/MNGCAO9NS71.DTL&type=printable Posted by: wv on February 23, 2007 09:05 PMWV, I watched Vilsak quit today because of money, others say he was just a place holder for Hillary? Can you imagine honestly trying to intimidate Hollywood? Those folks aren't to be trifled with, sound bytes are deadly.
I saw where democrats.com has a list of protest dates. Looks like the People are taking to the streets. Well shy and Morgana, I think she might be a major player in the flat earth globalization crowd, so they want her in. Posted by: Pat C on February 23, 2007 10:20 PM
He was probably told that he would be considered I thought I could trust Bill in '92 - within She lost me years ago when she apologized to a I am not happy with Nancy Pelosi - can't tell Thank you Nancy, very clear...and my money is on most likely cheating. http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002618.php Prosecutor Purge: Number Eight? It seems that U.S. Attorney Margaret Chiara of Michigan's Western District is the eighth prosecutor to have been fired by the administration in recent months. In a press release today, Chiara, who was nominated by President Bush in September, 2001, only said that she was resigning and that she'd step down March 16th. But according to The Grand Rapids Press, a district judge claims that Chiara was fired as part of the administration's wider purge: The Justice Department has recently fired seven U.S. attorneys across the country. Chiara is the latest victim in the shake-up, U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell said this morning. "I was shocked to learn that her resignation had been requested," Bell said. "She's clearly part of a larger pattern." More... ........ http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002616.php Justice: We're Working on It Yesterday, I reported that Democrats had accused the Justice Department of stonewalling a Congressional study on the U.S. attorney purge. A Congressional Research Service analyst was trying to find out if the administration's move was unprecedented; but after a month, the Justice Department still hadn't gotten him the data he needed. "[The Executive Office of the United States Attorney] was contacted and the inquiry was referred to the Office of Legislative Affairs. The material requested is in the process of being provided."
Demolition of the Willing - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17302110/site/newsweek/?from=rss
What did you say there, Miz Morgana: "Bring 'em on"? Posted by: shylurker on February 24, 2007 03:22 AM* Impeachment: Breaking the Dam in Olympia, Washington http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/806 Well I started February with the stomach flu and seem to be ending it with a bout of food poisoning, seems as if my body cannot handle any more of the ongoing BS without repeling it outward like a star shooting out from the black hole. Shy, you asked "when will we be past this" we already are. What we see of this corrupt inept group is in the past. We are rapidly coming to a true split of the worlds. Remember when Bush addressed a crowd of supporters as the "haves and have mores?" Well the split will be between the "knows and the know mores" More spirituality, more breakdown of multi-national corporations (already happening in England) that are in chaos right now, more government breakdowns, those are the "knows" the spirituality piece are the "know mores." If you haven't see "The Secret" here is a free video of the movie, you won't be sorry you watched. Scroll down to the movie. http://www.thesecretstory.com/Watch_The_Secret_Movie_Free.html We aren't done with the dying dinosaurs as yet, but they are beginning to gasp for air or for light. The messages of change are all around us the more you watch for them the more heartening they become. The other morning early, I stepped outside and heard the sweetest bird song I had ever heard and that one bird was the only one singing. It literally pierced the morning and I thought we are much closer to pure energy than we thought. Hate, fear and darkness cannot survive when there is nothing or no one to feed it. Lovely message, Miss Sally... thank you. ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 24, 2007 06:06 AMYes thank you indeed Sally for the uplifting message. GQ http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_5402 THE PEOPLE V. RICHARD CHENEY The Robins will bring much good sprit with them as they bring the Spring. Posted by: Pat C on February 24, 2007 11:44 AMhttp://jeffreykishner.com/lunartunes/2007/02/how-to-prepare-for-eclipse.html How to prepare for an eclipse Anticipation of eclipses tends to bring out a "sky is falling" mentality in many people, especially if the eclipse closely conjuncts the Sun in one's natal chart. There are some doom-and-gloom websites out there -- which I find irresponsible, but I also understand that the nature of consciousness has changed since old times. Astrology seems less deterministic than when a royal astrologer could predict accurately that a king would die from a head wound by a spear. Eclipses are powerful events, indeed. Their impact lasts longer than your typical lunation, as the Sun and Moon are conjunct the Lunar Nodes. The Nodes relate to our spiritual progress, our karmic past, our fated connections with people. If I may, I'd like to quote Bernadette Brady on eclipses: More... Posted by: Pat C on February 24, 2007 02:06 PMThanks so much for your response, Cap'n Sally. Cedar waxwings passed through here a few days ago, feeding on privet berries. They are very community oriented, taking care that each member of the flock gets their full share of berries. Beautiful! Posted by: shylurker on February 24, 2007 03:10 PMJoannaOregon, As soon as I saw this photo I thought of you and the pink male thing! Eewwwwww! Scooter is soooo pink! Not only outside, but through and through! http://www.democraticunderground.com/ Here's the link again http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3131595 Posted by: lunaoscura on February 24, 2007 05:40 PMThank you, lunascura! Yup... it's even what one might call a day-glo pink ain't it... & with an arrogant pink supremacist bored-pink sneer to boot. ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 24, 2007 06:54 PMCan you believe this man's cajones or madness?! Cheney: Iraq War A His visit was meant to thank Australia and Japan for their support in Iraq. But a series of public appearances and media interviews, Cheney's tone was typically feisty. Answering growing criticism in the U.S. and Australia, he defended the Iraq war as a "remarkable achievement" in one speech, and dismissed suggestions his influence in Washington is waning. more http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070224/asia-cheney-1st-ld-writethru Posted by: Shadowhawk on February 25, 2007 12:01 AMPat QOP....have you seen the short documentary film called "Ashtanga, NY"? It is about Guruji who created Ashtanga yoga when he and his family came from India to NYC to teach yoga....September, 2001. I recommend it to all....(Netflix has it). Just looking at Guruji who started his practice in 1937 would convince anyone to do or teach yoga!!!!! Posted by: judigem on February 25, 2007 12:13 AMSally, I started the new year with my mother dying, and moved on to the weird energy sapping intestinal disagreements....which finally seem to have left me, and now I am wholeheartedly into painting classes.... WV started a rather large controversey when he was posting about the Palestinian/Israeli situation. I am not looking at starting any controversey (well, you can believe that or not), but a friend brought some other things happening in Europe to my attention which could use some 'future' looking...and that is the political takeover( in the future) of Islamic citizens in European countries....where they are insisting on Sharia and Islamic law replacing the democratic nations constitutions (or at least altering them) and what this means when it starts to happen here. It is a big thing in the Netherlands and Norway, I think, and could be a harbinger of what we will deal with. Considering that our constitution has already been changed by our own citizen groups and in particular our own PRESIDENT at times, I think it is a legitimate look down the road. Posted by: judigem on February 25, 2007 12:21 AMJudiG, I think he is the one who inspired my daughter to teach Yoga! I'm petty sure she has attended his lectures ( that doesn't feel like te right word) in person. Sy Hersh is at it again and it doesn't look good for us. U.S. developing contingency plan to bomb Iran: report NEW YORK (Reuters) - Despite the Bush administration's insistence it has no plans to go to war with Iran, a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from President George W. Bush, The New Yorker magazine reported in its latest issue. The special planning group was established within the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in recent months, according to an unidentified former U.S. intelligence official cited in the article by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh in the March 4 issue. more http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2422219220070225 I know this is waaaay off thread but given the religious climate and righteousness these days - damn, this is FUNNY!! Strewth! Australia rocked by 'lesbian' koala revelation Female koalas indulge in lesbian "sex sessions", rejecting male suitors and attempting to mate with each other, sometimes up to five at a time, according to researchers. The furry, eucalyptus-eating creatures appear to develop this tendency for same-sex liaisons when they are in captivity. In the wild, they remain heterosexual. more http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/article2303027.ece Posted by: Shadowhawk on February 25, 2007 04:21 AM* xian Right Labors to Find ’08 Candidate A group of influential xian cons & their allies emerged from a private mtg at a FL resort this month dissatisfied with the [necroporn] prez field & uncertain where to turn. The event was a mtg of the Council for Natl Policy, a secretive [boyz] club whose few 100 members incl Dr James C Dobson of Focus on the Family, the Rev Jerry Falwell of Liberty U & Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform. Altho little known outside the con mvmt, the council has become a pivotal stop for [necroporn] prez primary hopefuls, incl gwbush on the eve of his 1999 primary campaign. But in a stark shift from the group’s influence under [rotten-rez], the group risks relegation to the margins. Many of the cons who attended the event, held at the beginning of the month at the Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island FL said they were dismayed at the absence of a champion to carry their banner in the next election. ... ... Mr Norquist said he remained open to any of the 3 candidates who spoke to the council or to Mr Romney. He argued that with the right promises, any of the 4 could redeem themselves in the eyes of the con mvmt despite their past records, just as some high school students take abstinence pledges even after having had sex. “It’s called secondary virginity,” Mr Norquist said. “It is a big mvmt in high school & also available for politicians.” http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/us/politics/25secret.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 25, 2007 04:24 AMI do so hope this is true! US generals ‘will quit’ if Bush orders Iran attackMichael Smith and Sarah Baxter, Washington SOME of America’s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran, according to highly placed defence and intelligence sources. Tension in the Gulf region has raised fears that an attack on Iran is becoming increasingly likely before President George Bush leaves office. The Sunday Times has learnt that up to five generals and admirals are willing to resign rather than approve what they consider would be a reckless attack. more http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1434540.ece Posted by: Shadowhawk on February 25, 2007 05:29 AM
February 25, 2007 “UNITED 93,” Hollywood’s highly praised but indifferently attended 9/11 docudrama, will be only a blip on tonight’s Oscar telecast. The ratings rise of “24” has stalled as audiences defect from the downer of terrorists to the supernatural uplift of “Heroes.” Cable surfers have tuned out Iraq for a war with laughs: the battle over Anna Nicole’s decomposing corpse. Set this cultural backdrop against last week’s terrifying but little-heeded front-page Times account of American “intelligence and counterterrorism officials” leaking urgent warnings about Al Qaeda’s comeback, and ask yourself: Haven’t we been here before? (more…) http://donkeyod.wordpress.com/ Posted by: wv on February 25, 2007 01:50 PMGood Morning all! March on the Pentagon 3-17-07 National day of Protest!:participate locally! BBC Sunday, 25 February 2007 Kelly death not suicide, says MP Sunday 25 February
Norman Baker tells BBC Two's The Conspiracy Files he has reached the conclusion Dr Kelly's life was "deliberately taken by others". Mr Baker has also obtained letters suggesting the coroner had doubts about the 2003 Hutton inquiry's ability to establish the cause of death. Hutton reached a verdict of suicide but a public inquest was never completed. Dr Kelly, whose body was found in July 2003, had been under intense pressure after being named as the suspected source of a BBC report claiming the government "sexed up" a dossier on the threat posed by Iraq. Coroner Nicholas Gardiner opened an inquest into his death in Oxford just a few days after his body was found on Harrowdown Hill. But he was ordered to adjourn it by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, as the Hutton inquiry would take over, and it was not resumed. Lord Falconer said he wanted to minimise the distress caused to the Kelly family. The official account given by the Hutton inquiry was that Dr Kelly committed suicide by cutting his left wrist, and taking an overdose of the painkiller Co-Proxamol. In his report, Lord Hutton said: "There was no involvement by a third person in Dr Kelly's death." Assassinated Mr Baker, who has spent a year investigating the case, believes there is enough evidence to suggest that the scientist did not kill himself. "I'm satisfied it was not suicide. And after that you're left with the conclusion that his life was deliberately taken by others," he tells The Conspiracy Files. Speaking last week on BBC Radio 5 Live, Mr Baker said he was not ready to reveal all the evidence he has unearthed, but would consider passing a file to the police in due course. Mr Baker has obtained letters between Mr Gardiner and the Lord Chancellor's office from 2003, suggesting the coroner was not happy with the Hutton inquiry's ability to establish the cause of death. The letters were given to the MP by Constitutional Affairs minister Harriet Harman and have not been revealed publicly before. continued. .......... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6390981.stm Posted by: Pat C on February 25, 2007 04:06 PMJoannaOregon, Born Again Vigins?! Those Christians are so cute! They're losing their members so they throw a sale to entice them back. LOL! Posted by: lunaoscura on February 25, 2007 04:33 PMDarn! I meant to write 'born again virgins'. Mercury RX Posted by: lunaoscura on February 25, 2007 04:34 PMWhen you start connecting the dots, the most amazing things are uncoveredd! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070225/sharpton-thurmond Report: Family Ties Sharpton to Thurmond NEW YORK — Geneaologists have found that civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton is a descendent of a slave owned by relatives of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, a newspaper reported Sunday. The Daily News said professional genealogists, working at the newspaper's behest, recently uncovered the ancestral ties between one of the nation's best known black leaders and a man who was once a prominent defender of segregation. "I have always wondered what was the background of my family," the newspaper quoted Sharpton as saying. "But nothing _ nothing _ could prepare me for this." "It's chilling. It's amazing." Some of Thurmond's relatives said the connection also came as a surprise to them. A niece, Ellen Senter, said she would speak with Sharpton if he were interested. "I doubt you can find many native South Carolinians today whose family, if you traced them back far enough, didn't own slaves," said Senter, 61, of Columbia, S.C. She added: "And it is wonderful that (Sharpton) was able to become what he is in spite of what his forefather was." One of the late senator's sons, Paul Thurmond, and a nephew, Barry Bishop, declined comment, the Daily News said. According to the newspaper, the genealogists found documents establishing that Sharpton's great-grandfather, Coleman Sharpton, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was Strom Thurmond's great-great-grandfather. Coleman Sharpton was later freed. more... Posted by: lunaoscura on February 25, 2007 04:57 PMBook Review: Joe Conason’s “It Can Happen Here” Daily Kos, Sun Feb 25, 2007 at 07:27:33 AM PST It Can Happen Here By Joe Conason St. Martin’s Press/Thomas Dunne Books New York, 2007 Telling the political story of the creeping unitary executive has been a challenge for both observant traditionalists and progressives. Resorting to Hitler comparisons when discussing the nation’s constitutional plight with the underinformed brings easy dismissal on the grounds of exaggeration. Drawing parallels between the rise of European fascism invites discussions of minute and often unimportant distinctions about whether uniforms are worn or trains run on time. Delving back further to comparisons with the Roman Empire rely heavily on a knowledge base that is often lacking in modern discussions. But Joe Conason has hit upon an elegant solution on which to hang a very American narrative by reviving interest in Sinclair Lewis’ disturbingly prescient It Can’t Happen Here, written in 1935 as a response to Lewis’ concern about the rise of Italian fascism. Most Daily Kos readers are most likely familiar with this Lewis novel; it’s been an underground and widely quoted favorite on progressive blogs since the beginning of the nightmare of the Bush administration. One of the most widely cited quotations of late comes from this source: When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross. Lewis’ novel, centers on the rise of Buzz Windrip to the presidency, a man who, in Conason’s words, is "a charismatic politician with little intellectual curiosity but great capacity to appeal to the regular guy." Guided by a former advertising maven, Lee Sarason, Windrip campaigns – and wins – through a platform of a "syrupy compassion for the white, Christian, middle-class family while proclaiming a staunch moral and patriotic conservatism." Soon after taking office, he proclaims a permanent state of emergency based on an economic downturn and relegates Congress to an advisory body, stacks the courts with pliant hacks and dismantles constitutional protections as a "dangerous barrier to executive action," according to Conason. Permalink :: There's more... (31 comments) Posted by: Pat C on February 25, 2007 05:08 PMTri-State Foreclosure Considered "Epidemic" snip***The 9News investigation showed about 200 houses were foreclosed in Butler County in 1995. In 2006, the number jumped 550% to 1,300. The situation is similar in Hamilton County, where in 1995 there were 1,300 foreclosures. In 2006, there were 5,700. ***snip http://wcpo.com/news/2007/local/02/23/foreclosure.html Though the US Dollar is still putting up a fight, this headline, for me, marks the official beginning of the next (so called) great depression......In one of John Denver's songs he prescribes "Hang on tightly. Let go lightly.".............In the transformative birth process (read as new birth of the USA) it seems the pathology of the future is predicated by the trauma of the birthing and early childhood experiences. A metaphor might be, when crossing an ocean a few degrees off in navigation at the start, can lead to missing the destination by many miles. Remembering the destination may be an improved process of course.........I'm wondering how close astrology can come to foreseeing the possible pathologies?.........Timmy J Posted by: Timmy J on February 25, 2007 07:32 PMAmazing woman! Incredible story. AmerIndians held women in respect. What other wide-spread culture did? I'd like to know (I'm drawing a blank right now). Posted by: shylurker on February 25, 2007 08:03 PMAnd more.............. ***snip While much of the well-off areas of New Orleans have been rebuilt, tens of thousands of people remain homeless and are still living in temporary FEMA camps. Thousands more have seen their claims for insurance refused over interpretations of their policies, leaving them with uninhabitable homes and defaulted mortgages. Thousands more are unable to obtain insurance at almost any cost because of the losses taken by the insurance companies. The result is people living in limbo.***snip ***snip Huge chunks of American manufacturing have gone overseas to China and other Asian economies. Over on CNN, Lou Dobbs' habitual dissertations on the "attack on the middle class" cite this jobs migration. In effect, over three million higher-paying manufacturing jobs lost in America over the past seven years have been replaced by low-paying jobs. Many workers are forced to hold two or three jobs to even come close to their old pay scale.***snip http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/chapmand022307.html Woody Guthrie where are you ? Posted by: Timmy J on February 25, 2007 08:04 PMBush ignoring urgent warning about Qaeda 'comeback' Comparing the debate on the "surge" or escalation of US troops in Iraq to a "sideshow" like media coverage of pop star Britney Spears' shaving of her head, New York Times columnist Frank Rich worries that, just as in August of 2001, President Bush is ignoring urgent warnings by counterterrorism officials about Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. Referring to "last week's terrifying but little-heeded front-page New York Times account (link) of U.S. 'intelligence and counterterrorism officials' leaking urgent warnings about al Qaeda's comeback," Rich writes in his latest Sunday Times column, "ask yourself: Haven't we been here before?" "If so, that would be the summer of 2001, when America pigged out on a 24/7 buffet of Gary Condit and shark attacks," Rich writes. "The intelligence and counterterrorism officials back then were privately sounding urgent warnings like those in last week's Times, culminating in the President's Daily Brief titled 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' The system 'was blinking red,' as the CIA chief George Tenet would later tell the 9/11 commission. But no one, from the White House on down, wanted to hear it." more http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Rich_Surge_debate_same_kind_of_0224.html Posted by: Shadowhawk on February 25, 2007 08:11 PMTonight is the Oscars and "An Inconvenient Truth" is up, Al Gore is on! Uranus and Transiting N. Node are conjunct Al's Mercury, T. Pluto is conjunct Al's Jupiter, Saturn Rx is forming a conjunction with Al's Mars focusing the power that trines Al's n. Jupiter. He will have an impact tonight, powerful words tonight. Sweet. I am looking forward to the fireworks tonight. Posted by: Morgana on February 25, 2007 08:14 PMHere's the link to the Blitzer/Hersh interview I mentioned earlier. It's a doozy! Seymour Hersh: Negroponte–Iran Contra—Funds…Oh my! Sy Hersh tells us that the echos of Iran Contra weighed heavily in Negroponte's decision to resign his post and is claiming that Bush is funneling money without authorization or oversight that has ended up in the hands of Sunni jihadist groups. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/25/seymour-hersh-negroponte-iran-contra-fundsoh-my/ Posted by: Shadowhawk on February 25, 2007 09:04 PMYIKES Shadowhawk YIKES........ Posted by: judiGem on February 25, 2007 10:22 PMThank you Shaowhawk, I misse the beginning of that Blitzer/Hirsh interview, now Ican read it. http://salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/02/23/employee_choice/ Time for regime change for American workers Instead of just promoting democracy abroad, our government should defend the liberty of workers at home by supporting a new labor reform bill. Nobody talks about the democratic way more fervently than George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, who have so often proclaimed that the historic mission of the United States is to expand liberty around the world. The Bush administration frequently denounces governments that suppress free speech, intimidate citizens and tamper with elections, expressing outrage over violations of human rights and self-determination in states such as Cuba, Iran, Myanmar and Zimbabwe. So what would our great advocates of democracy say about a regime that routinely deprives people of their livelihood for speaking out freely on public issues? What would they say about a place where citizens are forced to listen to propaganda -- or where voters have to run a gantlet of armed police to enter a voting booth? How would they describe a system that distributes bribes, spies on dissidents and threatens everyone who dares to vote the "wrong" way with the direst possible consequences? If they told the truth, they would be forced to admit that those awful conditions still exist on American soil, oppressing millions of workers whose employers use such tactics to prevent them from forming or joining a labor union. In theory, all Americans enjoy a basic right to unionize and bargain collectively with their bosses for better wages, benefits and working conditions. Since 1935 that right has been enshrined in the National Labor Relations Act, originally known as the Wagner Act, which was supposed to end the abusive and violent anti-union campaigns that had marred American industry for more than 50 years. From that landmark bill came an upsurge in unionization and, over the decades that followed, a steady rise in workers' compensation that helped to fuel the world's strongest economy and created the largest middle class in history. In recent decades, however, the rate of unionization has fallen steeply, especially in the private sector -- along with real wages, job security and health insurance coverage, among other living standards, which probably is no mere coincidence. Most workers understand that they would be better off with union protection, and polls consistently show that they would organize if they could. In nearly 60 percent of union representation elections, labor defeats management. More... Posted by: Pat C on February 25, 2007 10:52 PMAl Gore takes home the statue. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/25/al-gore-takes-home-the-statue/ Posted by: Pat C on February 26, 2007 02:57 PM* It's hard to say whether supernovas contain any astrological symbolism that we can use, but there's no doubt about the gamma ray energy that is released from these powerful explosions may have an effect that reaches us here on earth. Metaphysician Moira Timms writes: Bioelectrically sensitive herself, Timms is conducting research with a local utility company in Eugene OR to determine the effects of pulsed fields on human bioelectric systems. ... http://astrodynamics.blogspot.com/ Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 26, 2007 03:55 PMCollaborate With Fate Forces will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses. Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles and coincidence will bring the inevitable to pass... Joseph Campbell THE SECRET, HEROES & The Unexplained NBC's television series, Heroes and Rhonda Byrne’s film The Secret have performed a function over and above that of alerting great swathes of people to the presence of the unexplained and the Law of Attraction. They have provoked far reaching discussion and awareness of the concept of vibrational fields and the occult (i.e, the hidden mysteries). Books that have lurked on the shelves for years which explore the hidden Universal Laws are now flying out of the shops. That we live in a world composed entirely of visible and invisible waves i.e., vibration is nothing new to those with knowledge of Physics or Metaphysics. However the ramifications for the average person, who has little or no awareness of the quantum level of their existence, are life changing. ... Climate change, of course, is a challenge before us so awesome that it is mind-boggling. Second, in my opinion, is the global oligarchy and the extraordinary power they wield. Here is an excellent article that just appeared and the author, apparently, will be available all week to respond to comments. Do not miss, if at all possible. A quote from shy's link: "The problem with treating the economy as a game of Monopoly is that when one person controls everything, the game is over. In the real world this stage is revolution." I couldn't have said it better myself. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on February 26, 2007 07:01 PM
Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscr Visit Author's Website February 25, 2007 Russian FSB sources are reporting today that an attempt by Special Forces Troops of the United States Military to arrest the American Vice President Cheney shortly after boarding his official plane in Australia has resulted in at least 3 dead and an unknown number of wounded. These reports state that the United States Air Force, which is in control of the American Vice Presidents plane, sent an ‘urgent’ flash message shortly after takeoff from Sydney, Australia alerting their US Pacific Command Forces through the United States Worldwide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS) network, and which is monitored by Russian Military Forces, of the deaths aboard the plane and requesting ‘orders’. http://www.fourwinds10.com/NewsServer/ArticleFunctions/ArticleDetails.php?ArticleID=13662 Posted by: on February 26, 2007 08:32 PMThis quote by Joseph Campbell is a treat to remember Joanna, thank you for posting it. "Collaborate With Fate Forces will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses. Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles and coincidence will bring the inevitable to pass... Joseph Campbell" When GWB was given the reins of the presidency, even before that, when he announced he was running, my entire being screamed. It's not that I knew, it's that I felt the total disaster coming if he became president. The anger and the inner rage I've felt at this presidency has been consumming through these years as the feared "disaster" has unfolded. In the last three months I've felt a shift, and just as I was sure of the impending trauma with a Bush presidency, I feel a impending righting of our out of time out of place rabbit hole. It's always dicey to go to outcomes, because outcomes are things we cannot imagine, but there is something wonderful unfolding and it will take years to unfold and we cannot project what we do not know, or have a historical perspective on, our own personal and collective filters stand in the way, but a "new sequence of events" is drawing close and the tunnel we've been through is about to close over the next very few years, maybe even this year or next. The people could form a new party of the people, rewrite the Constitution to truely include "all the people." I don't know, but I do know this farce of a government is nearly behind us and a new better day is dawning with better people at the helm, no matter what party. Posted by: Sally on February 26, 2007 08:50 PMRegarding the anon post above and the "4 Winds 10" news report of an attempt on the Vice President, I've never heard of that news agency and is there any confirmation of that information anywhere else? Posted by: Sally on February 26, 2007 09:08 PMCap'n Sally, discussion re that article is here: Sally and Shylurker, this link at cloakanddagger.de also mentions the attempt to arrest the Dick (Cheney): http://www.cloakanddagger.de/CLOAKANDDAGGER.DE_TOM%20HENEGHAN/cloak%20bb%20feb%2026.htm Man, I need some POPCORN!! Who knew that Fitzmas would be the key to the whole ball of neocon wax unravelling? Posted by: Garry Todd on February 26, 2007 09:17 PMEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! Gary, what a link that is! Posted by: shylurker on February 26, 2007 09:26 PMLast week I was all upset because Obama had hired Gibbs onto his team, the same Gibbs that devised such flagrantly false and vision attacks on Howard Dean during the last Dem presidential candidate contest. Well, apparently Obama is catching on now. Oh, I do hope so. Posted by: shylurker on February 26, 2007 09:29 PMSally, I also believe that the jig is about up. It may or may not take going to Iran to bring down the curtain on Bush and Cheney's despicable and destructive reign of terror, although an attack on Iran will almost certainly trigger a massive public and global backlash against Bush, with serious consequences for his regime. I don't know if that article posted incognito above has any truth to it, but probably, the military leadership has truly arrived at the point where they not only view Bush and Cheney as incompetent, but are willing to take steps to "nullify" or at least, with the resignations, slow down their power. They are likely waiting--and hoping--for Congress to intervene with impeachment. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on February 26, 2007 09:30 PMI meant "vicious" and certainly not "vision" in my post immediately above NEOB's. I should add, " . . . immediately above NEOB's insightful post." Posted by: shylurker on February 26, 2007 09:33 PMPS It's all Garry's fault. Posted by: shylurker on February 26, 2007 09:38 PM
1) Abolishment of the IRS and income taxes; 2) Establishment of the U.S. Treasury Bank System, with new currency backed by precious metals, and absorption of the Federal Reserve System in to the U.S. Treasury Department; 3) Restoration of Constitutional Law; 4) Bank debt forgiveness of credit card debts and debt relief to American citizens of bank mortgage and other debts; 5) Removal of the current government administration and new elections to provide a clean slate on which to base our country's future; 6) New prosperity options for American citizens; 7) Expansion of these benefits to other countries around the world; 8) and many more direct and indirect benefits. The undersigned, therefore, respectfully, and as citizens of the world, demand the immediate announcment and implementation of NESARA. Sincerely, The Undersigned To: U.N., World Court, U.S. Government, U.S. and International Media, and World Governments 1) Abolishment of the IRS and income taxes; 2) Establishment of the U.S. Treasury Bank System, with new currency backed by precious metals, and absorption of the Federal Reserve System in to the U.S. Treasury Department; 3) Restoration of Constitutional Law; 4) Bank debt forgiveness of credit card debts and debt relief to American citizens of bank mortgage and other debts; 5) Removal of the current government administration and new elections to provide a clean slate on which to base our country's future; 6) New prosperity options for American citizens; 7) Expansion of these benefits to other countries around the world; 8) and many more direct and indirect benefits. The undersigned, therefore, respectfully, and as citizens of the world, demand the immediate announcment and implementation of NESARA. Sincerely, The Undersigned Posted by: wv on February 26, 2007 10:34 PMLINK??? Posted by: Pat C on February 26, 2007 10:39 PMSally and all, I went to the home page for 4 winds 10. The other "headlines" listed were pretty outrageous too. More likely to be seen in a tabloid. What's really amazing is how much we want it to be at least partially true. Namaste. Posted by: Teresa on February 26, 2007 10:57 PM"all garry's fault" I think you're right Shy. That last link "cloak and dagger" sure left me stammering. Garry do you know anything about cloak and dagger? It's amazing Posted by: Sally on February 26, 2007 10:59 PMLatest energy alert from Karen Bishop at the "What's Up on Planet Earth" http://www.whatsuponplanetearth.com/latest.htm Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 26, 2007 11:06 PMWow! Madeleine Albright!?!?!?! Well, them fascist fembots stick together I suppose... nobody else would hang with 'em. (bleah... 6-bucket barfer... mebbe more) Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 26, 2007 11:31 PMCap'n Sally, Shy, I can't really vouch for cloakanddagger.de, other than to say they print some REALLY incredible stuff that may or may not be true....although, when Sherman Skolnick was alive, he posted there regularly, and as incredulous as his claims seemed, he was always able to back them up with documentation. But Tom Heneghen/Stew Webb and Tom Flocco, I have no ideas about. I pray that some of that article was true.We need it and the USA desperately needs it also. Does anything in Cheney's chart indicate a comeuppance or a run-in with the law? Posted by: Garry Todd on February 26, 2007 11:47 PMWell thank you for the link to cloak and dagger. I had it once but lost it when a computer died and could never get back to it. Meant buy one of your paintings not but. Posted by: clymela on February 26, 2007 11:49 PMDKOS is also carrying a blog on the Cheney piece tied to the Generals and Admirals threatening to quit. Teresa, amazing that we want it to be true, who would have ever imagined it. I would never have imagined the America we live in today. Yup I want the whole rat pack frog marched to Levinworth and the keys thrown away. Joseph Campbell called them "the antidote to the atomic bomb." Miss 'em, I do. Looking back, I don't think Reagan was necessarily in "the darkness" per se. But his "mental shortcomings" certainly opened the door for him to be used as a trojan horse by those who were (and still are), namely Poppy Bush and his blood-for-profit, "New World Order" bunch. It's baffling even now to watch Republicans and conservatives try to canonize Reagan up to the same significance as Franklin Roosevelt, who in many ways saved the US from many of the worst of its fundamental flaws, when Regan's Presidency was little more than an 8-year total denial of them. It was Reagan who, at the behest of Poppy Bush, removed the solar panels from the roof of the White House and rolled back Jimmy Carter's energy crisis-spawned reform initiatives in favor of the "quick fix" of getting the US addicted to then cheap and plentiful Saudi Oil. Today, heading into the Pluto in Capricorn era and the upcoming Uranus-Pluto Squares, we could already be well prepared to deal with issues of energy scarcity that have begun to emerge and will soon come to a head, had we only taken the proper steps 30 years ago to wean ourselves from fossil fuel in favor of energy efficiency and alternatives. The fact that we didn't, and the problems that we are going to shortly and increasingly be dealing with, are the real Reagan-Bush legacy. On the bright side, it does seem that more and more people are finally waking up to reality. Americans are growing tired of senseless war and bloodshed, tired of self-serving profiteering politicians, tired of disloyal and cutthroat corporations, and tired of a purposely lazy and irrelevant media and all of its' lies and distractions. People are ready for positive change. Better living standards, affordable health care and reliable retirement benefits. Safe neighborhoods and great schools everywhere. Meaningful, productive careers that allow a generous amount of flexibility for family and leisure time. A green and healthy environment, and world rich in culture. It is certainly not too much to ask for, and even demand these positive changes. And if the Davos cabal wants to stop this all from coming to pass, they too will be swept aside and made irrelevant by the turning of the tide. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on February 27, 2007 12:56 AM
http://www.nesara.us/pages/history.html Posted by: wv on February 27, 2007 01:56 AMTHIS IS HUGE!!!!
JOANNA OREGON and other MESSAGE FROM MATTHEW read- DECEMBER 5/06: ".....Jesus, whom his parents named February 3/07: "How many besides you lightworkers Love and Peace, http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/26/special-comment-secretary-rice-get-your-facts-straight/ http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/26/sy-hersh-they-are-planning-very-seriously-at-the-presidents-request-to-attack-iran/ Thanks wv! Posted by: Pat C on February 27, 2007 03:07 AMAbout dat Tomb-a: All seemed a bit too tidy, a bit too new instant-looking markers (vapid 60's)on those ossuaries, the entrance archway had an incredibly naive design,and the whole gang boxed & complete? Whew!! I read the NESARA info and I do have some questions. I mean this was decided by the Supremes and no one is talking about it and this took place in 2003? There was an article in Dell Horoscope Magazine, ( 8 or 10 years ago) about the discovery of in the 60's 70's ( ?) manuscripts from the dead sea scrolls that had been kept and concealed by the catholic church, under the quise of research, of course. They explained the time period when Jesus disappeared, talked about his wife and son, & were expected to be revealed to the world within months. ( I forget the astrological positioning that was supposed to make this happen. It didn't! I will see if I can find that issue up in my loft, pretty sure I kept it. ( Better late than never!) Yup... the breathless-type headlines leave me bored or slightly annoyed. Best I can make out, "Jesus" was a GreenMan, one of the last images of the ancient vegetation gods... born in a cave/womb, grows-up, dies, is re-born, & all the bits in between, etc etc... all of these images are terribly old, old, old... & wonderful when one matures & realizes them to be an inner/spiritual story. Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 27, 2007 06:33 AMActually Gerry, Cheney does have a progressed aspect that could put him in trouble with the law, but Cheney has had several aspects that make it a wonder he is even still here, even in his "bionic" state. He has been an excellent vessel to hold the dark and fear of the human race in this country, when we break that he will be broken. The Jesus find is pretty interesting but I don't think it would shake the faithful in any way shape or form right now, again, there is too much fear to leave the hope of salvation through the body and blood behind for organized religion. For others, Christ was a wise and holy man as there have been many wise and holy men and women through the ages. We treat God as the big sugar daddy in the sky and he is not, it would seem we never understood "free will." Religion is a 9th house matter and in the US the 9th is a Virgo house ruled by Mercury and Neptune resides in the US 9th giving sway to illusions. Pluto in Sagittarius has reached it's first square to the Pluto in Virgo Generation of the 60's. That decade brought quite a bit of questioning of religion. We had Pope John who shook the Catholic Church to its core with Vatican II, the Pluto square to Virgo right now will remind everyone why it was necessary to shake up the rigid religious practices, now Pluto, with the assistance of Uranus in Pisces will remind people why they turned away from organized religion in the 60's and they will begin turning away again. The "church" is on the verge of a huge shift in consciousness. The need for a symbol of God on earth through priests, ministers, clerics etc will change. Posted by: Sally on February 27, 2007 07:02 AM" Coises, foiled again!" http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/Asia/Afghan_Explosion.html?cxntnid=amn022707eAssociated BAGRAM, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber attacked the entrance to the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan Tuesday during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, killing at least 14 people and wounding a dozen more. The Taliban claimed responsibility and said Cheney was the target. Cheney's spokeswoman said he was fine, and the vice president later met with President Hamid Karzai in the capital, Kabul, before leaving the country. QOP Posted by: on February 27, 2007 12:19 PMCarville just said on Imus, that Gore will run. ..... http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N25254407.htm With Gore's goading, Hollywood goes green Al Gore and his campaign against global warming won big at the Oscars as Hollywood went green on Sunday night. If only politics were that simple. More... Posted by: Pat C on February 27, 2007 02:29 PM
Looks like they might have found Jesus' burial place before Anna More on Cheney being crazy and dangerous.....but no updates on his "attempted arrest".... http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2640.htm Posted by: Garry Todd on February 27, 2007 02:54 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070224/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/japan_spies_and_war_crimes CIA recruited Japanese war criminals Col. Masanobu Tsuji was a fanatical Japanese militarist and brutal warrior, hunted after World War II for massacres of Chinese civilians and complicity in the Bataan Death March. And then he became a U.S. spy. Newly declassified CIA records, released by the U.S. National Archives and examined by The Associated Press, document more fully than ever how Tsuji and other suspected Japanese war criminals were recruited by U.S. intelligence in the early days of the Cold War. The documents also show how ineffective the effort was, in the CIA's view. The records, declassified in 2005 and 2006 under an act of Congress in tandem with Nazi war crime-related files, fill in many of the blanks in the previously spotty documentation of the occupation authority's intelligence arm and its involvement with Japanese ultra-nationalists and war criminals, historians say. In addition to Tsuji, who escaped Allied prosecution and was elected to parliament in the 1950s, conspicuous figures in U.S.-funded operations included mob boss and war profiteer Yoshio Kodama, and Takushiro Hattori, former private secretary to Hideki Tojo, the wartime prime minister hanged as a war criminal in 1948. The CIA also cast a harsh eye on its counterparts -- and institutional rivals -- at G-2, the occupation's intelligence arm, providing evidence for the first time that the Japanese operatives often bilked gullible American patrons, passing on useless intelligence and using their U.S. ties to boost smuggling operations and further their efforts to resurrect a militarist Japan. The assessments in the files are far from uniform. They show evidence that other U.S. agencies, such as the Air Force, were also looking into using some of the same people as spies, and that the CIA itself had contacts with former Japanese war criminals. Some CIA reports gave passing grades to the G-2 contacts' intelligence potential. More... Posted by: Pat C on February 27, 2007 03:54 PM"Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold" by Peggy and Sterling Seagrave There's a good summary and review at and an extended interview with the author at and you can purchase the book online at http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2007/2/25/172012/182 Bush administration's abuse of FISA warrants linked to Sibel Edmonds case In the coming weeks, insiders tell Narco News, Edmonds and the group she founded, the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, will be coming forward with hard evidence, obtained legally from third-party sources, demonstrating that the Bush administration has used FISA warrants to engage in unauthorized surveillance of members of Congress and their staffs, and allegedly the FISA court was not aware of this misuse of the warrants. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/02/27/the_bipartisan_empire.php In a political culture defined by a centrist-to-reactionary political spectrum, Paul Wellstone was a breath of fresh air when he brought his progressive politics to the U.S. Senate in 1991. His death in 2002 robbed the country of a humane voice on the national political stage. I lived for a time in Minnesota and followed Wellstone’s career closely. The last time I saw him speak was December 1998 when I was part of a peace group that conducted a sit-in at his office to protest his support for a U.S. attack on Iraq and force a meeting to challenge the former anti-war activist’s hawkish turn. Yes, that’s right—a group sat in at Wellstone’s St. Paul office when he supported Bill Clinton’s illegal 1998 cruise missile attack on Iraq, which was the culmination of a brutal and belligerent U.S. policy during that Democratic administration. It might seem odd to recall such a small part of contemporary history when the United States is mired in a full-scale occupation of Iraq, but there’s an important lesson in this little bit of history—one that’s is often difficult for many liberals and Democrats to face: Illegal and immoral U.S. aggression is, and always has been, a bipartisan affair. Democrats and liberals are responsible for their share of the death, destruction, and misery caused by U.S. empire-building along with Republicans and conservatives. I mention the Wellstone incident not to suggest he and George W. Bush are equally culpable, but to make the point that even politicians with Wellstone’s progressive politics can be twisted by the pathology of power and privilege. Precisely because we face such crucial policy choices in Iraq, the Middle East and the world, we must remember that while W. and the neocons are a problem, they are not the problem. Sweep this particular gang of thugs and thieves out of office, and … what? A kinder and gentler imperial policy designed by Democrats is still an imperial policy, and imperial policies always have the same result: The suffering of millions—others that are, too often, invisible to us—in support of policies that protect our affluence. Name a politician at the national level today who has even come close to acknowledging that painful reality. Go ahead, think about it for a minute—I can wait. More... Posted by: Pat C on February 27, 2007 05:07 PMThis is part of an open letter from Cindy Sheehan to Laura Bush after she claimed the war was wearing on her, intimating that everything is really going along swimmingly except for that one bombing a day which the media insist on talking about. http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/815 [snip] [snip] Laura, even though your unwavering public support of your husband appalls me, I am reaching out to you because you are the only one associated with your husband that has even a bare trace of humanity in her eyes. I suspect that you have been hurt by your husband along with millions of people worldwide. I suspect you know that for the healing and future health of the world, George needs to step down...and quickly. Laura, the ultimate insult and slam to our collective guts came when we found out recently that your husband's criminal regime is funding the very al-Qaeda groups that attacked us on 9-11 and are killing our children in Iraq. Your husband is directly responsible for these crimes but who can stop him? more... Posted by: lunaoscura on February 27, 2007 06:06 PMFor those of us who are old enough to remember how important Walter Cronkite was in our lives he speaks out again about this war and its future consequences. http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_054223026.html Cronkite In CBS 5 Interview: Iraq War A 'Disaster' Hank Plante (CBS 5) SAN JOSE It was in 1968, when CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite did a combat tour of Vietnam, and came back highly critical of that war. His pronouncement that the Vietnam War was unwinnable led to such a shift in public opinion against the war that President Lyndon Johnson said, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost America." The 90-year-old Cronkite was in San Jose on Friday addressing the Commonwealth Club. In an exclusive interview with CBS 5, he weighed in on the situation in Iraq. "We should have gotten out a long time ago. This is a mistake, this entire war there, its a disaster. And the earlier we get out the better," Cronkite said. "It's a terrible disaster. Look at the loss of lives of our young Americans there and those who have been maimed for life, for what purpose? No purpose we can define." What's more, he says, America will pay a future price for going into Iraq. CBS 5 asked Cronkite if Americans were any safer because of the Iraq war? "No, I don't think so. I think were probably less safe," he responded. "The entire Arab world has now put us down as an enemy. It's going to be a long time for us to take back any suggestion of friendship with those nations." CBS 5 then asked if his strong words against the Iraq War would have the same impact as his words against the Vietnam War. "Well, I think its a little late for that now," Cronkite said. "I would like to think it would be helpful in getting us out of there. Anybody who can put another match to that fire, to get us out would be, I think welcome" Cronkite is still active at CBS, with his voice on the introduction of the "CBS Evening News With Katie Couric." He retired from the anchors desk in 1981 at the age of 65, a decision he regrets. The Dow is down over 500 points so far in the last couple of hours. http://www.djindexes.com/mdsidx/index.cfm?event=showHome EDIT: Three mnutes ago, it was near 430 down, now it's 370 down. Posted by: Pat C on February 27, 2007 08:21 PMSo, according to Snowjob, Smirky hasn't talked to Snarly in days and days. OK, so the Veep is flying all over the ME doing who knows what, he's almost been bombed, and Smirky hasn't talked to him? What's wrong with this picture? (Why am I even trying to make sense of all this? I dunno.) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x301664 Posted by: shylurker on February 27, 2007 08:49 PMDow Jones down............it is the exact opposition of Saturn & Neptune today! Islamic bonds to launch in London Published FT: February 27 2007 21:24 The first billion-dollar Islamic bonds are to be listed in London as the capital passes another milestone in its aim to become the centre of this rapidly growing area of finance. The listing of the two bonds on the London Stock Exchange next month will also raise the profile of Islamic finance, which is still a minnow in the global market place, and boost the fledgling secondary market, which is just emerging. Mark Hammarskjold, a director in Credit Suisse’s structured equity group, who helped launch one of the bonds last week, said: “We did debate the appropriate place to list the sukuk, and decided on London as it gives both investors and the issuer greatest visibility.” ....... Some 80 per cent of the bond was bought by western buyers, of which 74 per cent were European. This is much higher than previous sukuks, which tend to draw mainly Muslim buyers. The Dubai Islamic Bank bond, which is yet to price and will be of benchmark size, suggesting more than $1bn, is likely to list in London at the end of next month after a roadshow. It will also list on the Dubai exchange. London is winning the early stages in the race to become the Islamic financial centre of the west, partly because of its geographical location – which has advantages over New York – and partly because the government and banks in the UK have been more willing to embrace this kind of finance than in the US. The Financial Times http://tinyurl.com/25tppz Posted by: Pat C on February 27, 2007 10:54 PMhttp://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1172497086075&pos=ataglance Justices Enter Church-State Fray The newly constituted Roberts Court gets its first opportunity to wade into the politically sensitive area of church-state separation in a case involving President Bush's controversial Faith-Based and Community Initiative. The arguments that U.S. Supreme Court justices will hear on Wednesday will not focus on the merits of the broad constitutional attack leveled in 2004 against the White House program, an initiative designed to increase religious groups' involvement in providing social services. Instead, the arguments will target the key to the courthouse door -- standing to sue -- or, in this case, the ability of taxpayers to challenge the Executive Branch's expenditure of money in ways that allegedly violate the First Amendment's establishment clause. Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation, No. 06-157. But to the numerous interest groups that have lined up on the side of the Bush administration or its opponent, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, this case is more than an examination of the technical requirements for standing to sue. The Hein case has "far broader implications" and "epitomizes the culture clash" between those who want to eliminate the separation of church and state and those who seek to maintain it, said Judith E. Schaeffer, associate legal director of People for the American Way Foundation, an amicus party opposing the government. More... Posted by: Pat C on February 27, 2007 11:11 PMInteresting stuff Pat C...looks like Islam and London vs. US/China for biggest money boys in the world Posted by: judiGem on February 27, 2007 11:30 PMfrom The Gavel: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation today that would repeal a rule that unfairly reduces Pell Grant scholarship aid for thousands of low-income college students who attend low-cost colleges and universities. The Pell Grant Equity Act, H.R. 990, was introduced by Reps. George Miller (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, and Howard “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), the Committee’s Senior Republican. “No student should be shortchanged of the financial aid they need to get a college degree,” said Miller. “This legislation will ensure that students get the help they need to cover tuition and other basic – but substantial – costs. This is another step we are taking to expand need-based aid and make college more affordable – a core element of strengthening our nation’s middle class.” So...think it will pass in the Senate? I can only hope the elephants in the room will be shamed into passing it. Posted by: judiGem on February 27, 2007 11:35 PMJust heard on CNN that the Dems are going to give the pResident all the funds he wants for Iraq. Baaaaaaaarrrrffffff!! Posted by: Pat C on February 28, 2007 01:02 AMInterestingly judi, China is nobody's friend really. Posted by: Pat C on February 28, 2007 01:04 AMIf they're public schools/colleges/universities, they ought to be low to no-cost if the student has grades to show seriousness for education... & not one-time only either. Students spending HUGE monies & ending up in HUGE debt so they can have "privilege" to work in the corpo world is a dreadful pathetic evil joke... rather like paying for the "privilege" of forging one's own chains to a dungeon wall or paying for one's torturer. So lege dangles out this scrap of non-carrot for the "masses" to fight over? Gross... just gross! Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 28, 2007 01:13 AMThe "new" lege has been in power for a fourth of a year now... pretty much same-old same-old to me with not even much attempt at fresh window dressing. Anybody much surprised?!? Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 28, 2007 01:16 AMI think Congress should have voted to cut off funds for the war. I don't know why the public is so against it, because it doesn't mean that all those funds will be used strictly for the benefit of the men fighting the war anyway. I am sure some of it will be appropriated to go elsewhere, such as to the companies providing security, etc..... On another topic, I heard on the news tonight, that the Iraqi government is getting ready to draw up contracts for foreign companies to invest in their oil, so that they can get money to rebuild, but the hand of America is clearly visible in it. The documents are written in English rather than Arabic, and the World Bank now headed by that despicable neo-con, Paul Wolfowitz (who was one of those beating the drums of war with Iraq), will be playing a leading role. Talk about the fox in the hen-house! These evil-doers just move from one influential position to another, where they can do even greater damage with more far-reaching consequences. Posted by: Crystal on February 28, 2007 03:00 AMThanks for that bit on the eclipses Joanna. I am a fan of eclipses. I see them working more visibly than any transit or progression. Posted by: Crystal on February 28, 2007 03:31 AMWhat with Bush/Cheney's aggressive aspects coming up, this article is scary and foreboding. Operation FALCON and the Looming Police State snip Operation Falcon: Blueprint for removing dissidents and political rivals The Bush administration has carried out three massive sweeps in the last two years, rolling up more than 30,000 minor crooks and criminals, without as much as a whimper of protest from the public. Operation Falcon is the clearest indication yet that the Bush administration is fine-tuning its shock-troops so it can roll up tens of thousands of people at a moment’s notice and toss them into the newly-built Halliburton detention centers. This should be a red flag for anyone who cares at all about human rights, civil liberties, or simply saving his own skin. Operation Falcon was allegedly the brainchild of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his counterpart in the US Marshal's office, (Director) Ben Reyna. But its roots go much deeper into the nexus of right-wing Washington think tanks where fantasies of autocratic government have a long history. The name, Falcon, is an acronym for “Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally.” It relates to the more than 960 state, local and federal agencies which are directly involved in the administration’s expansive criminal dragnets. more http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/5763 Posted by: Shadowhawk on February 28, 2007 04:44 AMWell, everybody... here's the latest from Vera's Diary. I enjoy her blurbs as she's testy & cantankerous as myself plus she's gets right to the point. ;O) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/02/28/attorneys/print.html Inside Bush’s prosecutor purge Why has the administration fired U.S. attorneys with sterling track records? To make room for its political loyalists, critics say, and exert its last shred of control. Posted by: Pat C on February 28, 2007 05:57 AMDowd wants Gore to run http://donkeyod.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/ozone-man-sequel/ Posted by: Pat C on February 28, 2007 06:13 AMhttp://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/2/25/165426/931 Restoring Our Constitution Posted by: Pat C on February 28, 2007 07:08 AM* Back in 1998 in an article for Dell Horoscope entitled “The Hammer Of Destiny" we surmised that the coming (then) transit of Pluto to the USA Asc (12 Sag, the Sibly chart) in 2000 would indicate a suppression & then a transformation of the country’s world power & the transfer of control & influence to a cooperative mix of nations in the world community. And that was only if war was avoided & if the country adapted without resisting the hammer-like transit of Pluto. The history of both nations/individuals shows that when you roll with this transit, you rise & grow, but when you don’t, it’s like beating your head against a wall. Unfortunately war was not avoided, & the country’s response was to fly in the face of implacable Pluto & fire its guns in all directions, mostly in solo disregard of the rest of the world. It was as if its superpower status was by divine right, & thus unassailable. ... http://www.astrococktail.com/newsletter5.html Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 28, 2007 07:23 AMHa,ha,ha............What goes around comes around! The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on Tuesday to consider the nomination of Sam Fox, a wealthy St. Louis businessman, to be the new U.S. Ambassador to Belgium. While it is not unusual for big political donors to be rewarded with ambassadorships -- and Fox is a huge donor to all things Republican -- what made everyone take note of this guy is that Fox gave a whopping $50,000 to help fund the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth smear campaign against John Kerry in 2004. And in being questioned by the Senate panel yesterday, Fox had to face one of the senior members of that committee in… Senator John Kerry. a must read........................... http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/5777 Well, on that happy note (astrococktail article), I guess I'll just abandon any hope of coming out from under the bed for the remainder of this lifetime. Posted by: shylurker on February 28, 2007 02:28 PMMore jolly news: A grave temptation, no doubt, shy... but you'll have to stay out here with the rest of us... to bear witness to The Shift if nothing else, tho that's quite a bit... ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 28, 2007 03:23 PM
This is the Full Moon of healing and service. Virgo understands that disease manifests itself in societies as well as in individuals. There is so much dis-ease in our world and we all need to awaken to our role as healers. This is especially true on this Full Moon in Virgo, with a total lunar eclipse. The soulful, peacemaker Pisces Sun opposes the scientific, nature-based healing Virgo Moon. What a perfect night to release your New Moon in Aquarius intentions for radical change (especially if they revolve around health issues) and celebrate the hard work you have done over the last two weeks toward these goals. This total lunar eclipse is unique in that it is partly visible from every continent around the world. The entire event will be visible from Europe, Africa and western Asia. Go to NASA's Eclipse page for more information http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/OH2007.html#2007Mar03T Eclipses co-mingle the energies of Moon and Sun, often creating disturbing or intensified effects. The Pisces Sun rules a spectrum of experience ranging from pure transcendence, selflessness, unconditional love, to addiction, co-dependency, denial and fantasy. These energies literally cover and hide the energy of the practical, analytical Virgo Moon; veiling this Moon's clarity and grounded reality-based thinking http://www.astrowisdom.com/thisfullmoon.htm Oh, JoannaO, it's looking less like The Shift and more like The Shaft these days. Posted by: shylurker on February 28, 2007 03:49 PMShylurker, that's funny! LOL! It really does feel like the Shaft. Posted by: lunaoscura on February 28, 2007 04:05 PM
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070227_well_lock_up_your_tired_your_poor_your_huddled_masses/ Posted on Feb 27, 2007 By Amy Goodman “I want to be free. I want to go outside, and I want to go to school,” pleaded a 9-year-old boy, on the phone from prison. This prison wasn’t in some far-off country, some dictatorship where one would expect children to be locked up. He is imprisoned in the United States. The boy, Kevin, is imprisoned in Taylor, Texas, at the T. Don Hutto Residential Facility. His parents are also locked up there. The tale of how this family became imprisoned is just one example of how broken our immigration policies are in this country. It is a tale of children left behind, of family values locked up, of your tax dollars at work. http://www.truthdig.com/report/print/20070227_well_lock_up_your_tired_your_poor_your_huddled_masses/ Posted by: wv on February 28, 2007 04:10 PMIndeed it does, shy. And I was thinking this morning how I detest the overused phrase "Crack down!" Crack down Crack down Crack down Crack down Crack down Crack down Crack down Crack down Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 28, 2007 04:49 PMBut meanwhile, how's this little tidbit for timing? Surprise, surprise, the GWOT is all political..... http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Pentagons_number_two_suggests_terror_war_0228.html Posted by: Garry Todd on February 28, 2007 05:09 PMBut meanwhile, how's this little tidbit for timing? Surprise, surprise, the GWOT is all political..... http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Pentagons_number_two_suggests_terror_war_0228.html Posted by: Garry Todd on February 28, 2007 05:10 PMOops! Sorry about that double post, y'all, I blame my Gemini Rising... namaste/love y'all And I was remembering, shy, my trip to the UK a while back. I didn't know any better so I took the Irish airline which made a mandatory stop at Shannon airport... the sole purpose of which was for passengers to buy-buy-buy duty-free crap... booze & jewelry mostly. It was a mandatory stop-over, too, for USia soldiers to buy-buy-buy before their slaughter-slaughter-slaughter... guys & a few gals ranging in age (my best guess) 18-22, all wearing light "Desert Camouflage" as opposed to the super-trendy "Jungle Camouflage"... you know, lights n' the darks to befit whichever World place the USia fascist govt is into for a Crack Down! Anyway, the only other place available for passengers to go was the smoke hole. Soldiers would look straight thru a non-military as if they didn't exist. So it became a thing to me to see how MUCH the rest of us didn't exist by looking these sad-sacks in the eyes... with a smile one time, a frown the next, anger the next... a variety of expressions to see if anything registered. If nothing else, if one walked straight into their path & not give an inch, they had to veer & make room. So they knew "The "Other" existed. All this soldiering bullsh*t & special costuming at the orders of some pink supremacist chickenhawk prancie effetes... to stuff their gold lame pursies. WT(furious)F!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 28, 2007 05:15 PMJoannaO', "Staying the Course", "Good Progress", "Punishment" ... I run screaming into the night. Posted by: Morgana on February 28, 2007 06:12 PMhttp://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=169875 De la Vega, The Whole Truth about Libby and the Leak Tomgram: De la Vega, The Whole Truth about Libby and the Leak The U.S. government and military has undergone a series of jolting expansions in the Bush years. We got, for instance, a second Defense Department called the Department of Homeland Security. We got a military command for North America called United States Northern Command. More than anything else, however, while we already had an "imperial presidency," we also got an add-on -- an imperial vice-presidency, a new form of shadow government in the United States, a startlingly unbound, constitutionally unmandated new institutional power. On taking office, Dick Cheney promptly began to set up a vice-presidential office that essentially mimicked, and then to some extent replaced, the National Security Council (NSC). Just as promptly, his office plunged itself into utter, blinding secrecy -- as journalist Robert Dreyfuss discovered when he simply tried to chart out who was working in this new center of power. No information, it turned out, could be revealed to a curious reporter, not even the names and positions of those who worked for the Vice President, those who, theoretically, were working for us. Cheney's office would not even publicly acknowledge its own employees, no less let them be interviewed. From that office (and allied posts elsewhere in the executive branch and the federal bureaucracy), the Vice President and his various right-hand men like I Lewis "Scooter" Libby and present Chief of Staff David Addington, both fierce believers in the so-called unitary executive theory of government (in which a "wartime" commander-in-chief president is said to have unfettered power to command just about anything), elbowed the State Department, the NSC, and the Intelligence Community. With the President's ear, and in league with Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon (among others), they spearheaded a series of mis- and disinformation operations that led to Iraq and beyond. (Reporter Jim Lobe wrote about this at Tomdispatch in August 2005, "Dating Cheney's Nuclear Drumbeat.") Now shorn of Rumsfeld, Cheney and his men, increasingly beleaguered, are nonetheless pushing on as the Vice President secretively travels the world, warning and scheming. Only this week, in "The Redirection," a New Yorker piece as chilling as any you might ever want to read, our premier journalist of this era (as well as the Vietnam one), Seymour Hersh reports that, two years ago, old hands from the Iran-Contra fiasco of the Reagan era, well-seeded into the Bush administration, had an informal meeting led by Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams. Their conclusions: "As to what the experience taught them, in terms of future covert operations, the participants found: ‘One, you can't trust our friends. Two, the C.I.A. has got to be totally out of it. Three, you can't trust the uniformed military, and four, it's got to be run out of the Vice-President's office." That's what passes for learning from experience in the Bush/Cheney White House. Indeed, the same folks are now evidently running an updated version of Iran-Contra (without the CIA) out of the Vice President's office. At the same time, according to Hersh, Cheney, in his urge to roll back Iranian regional power as well as undermine Hezbollah, Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia in Iraq, and the Syrians, has set the Saudis loose to fund Sunni jihadis -- just as they did in Afghanistan at American behest in the 1980s. The result then was, among other things, al-Qaeda and the Taliban. So imagine: Cheney's office is now working hard to combine the worst of the Reagan-era Iran-Contra scandal with the worst of the Afghan disaster. I wonder what the results could possibly be? More....Links within Posted by: Pat C on February 28, 2007 06:23 PMYea, verily, Morgana... we "run screaming into the night." Hahahahahaaaaa!!! That elliott abrams in your piece, Pat C, is such a nasty piece of work. I remember watching this nooz thingie before the dyselections started... some where in the 1990s... an interview with the very pudgy profoundly-pink round-faced nazi-israeli hybred abrams stuffing, what passed as its face, with lobster & champagne... I mean, it was all dribbling down its many chins & crumbs shooting out of its flabby orals at the reporter... & horrible bland sadistic words... what can one possibly call a monster like that?!?!?! Jebba the Hutt doesn't quite do the job... its something worse... something way worse... Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 28, 2007 07:06 PMand then there's this one Joanna http://www.observer.com/20070305/20070305_Joe_Conason_opinions_conason.asp Last Throes of Cheney’s Credibility Posted by: Pat C on February 28, 2007 07:53 PMWell.I just got 3 signatures on a petition to impeach ( directed to the Maine State Legislature) I don't know what to think of these things, but I do generally feel better after reading them. That's very important lately you know, even if it may be a crock... http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/mike_quinsey/channeled%20messages/February2007/MQ_02_28_07St.Germain..htm Posted by: JoannaOregon on February 28, 2007 10:13 PMttp://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/02/TNSreedinspect070227/ Walter Reed patients told to keep quiet Is one of the freedoms they fought to uphold being denied them? Posted by: Pat C on February 28, 2007 10:38 PMhttp://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/02/TNSreedinspect070227/
!!!! http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2910973&page=1 An Unforeseen Cost of War What you have are two sets of books," said Paul Sullivan, a spokesman for Veterans for America. "The Department Of Defense saying that there's 23,000 wounded from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the Department Of Veterans Affairs is actually treating 205,000 veterans from these two wars," Sullivan said. The VA contends that the 205,000 is for treating all veterans, including the standard care that returning soldiers are allowed to receive for life Get cosmic! JoannaOregon put an article up from Dell in 1998 with updates relating to the present situation of the day. I cannot recommend strongly enough that you read her link. I am re-posting Joanna's link here please read it, this is the "mundane" reality of what the planets are suggesting today. http://www.astrococktail.com/newsletter5.html Posted by: Sally on March 1, 2007 05:39 AMI didn't read the Dell yet, but I like the St. Germain communication, Joanna posted, and it led me to another site - sirusrelevations.net - pretty good stuff. It's always interesting to me that when groups talk about ascension, they keep it very open-ended - some seem to imply that the earth will enter a higher spiritual level, and some seem to imply that this won't take place on the material plane, as if earth is going to no longer be here materially. Either way, ascension seems pretty similar to the rapture concept to me with just a few variation. Gong to read the Dell article now.
Yes, strangely there's quite a similarity between the fundie concept of rapture & the concept of Ascension. The idea is quite old I think. But the rapture appears to be quite mean/negative imo, whereas the Ascension is freeing & lovely. It's as if the "rapture" is a much more recent & misbegotten clone & phoney of the original hope. Posted by: JoannaOregon on March 1, 2007 06:58 AMTeehee... USia's progressed mars is stationary retro exact on my ascendant... went 9 min past it then backed up. Goody! I haven't wanted to do a thing for the past year except meditate & I go out hardly at all. It's a spiritual seclusion... when I must go out foraging occasionally, the noise/silliness is too much to take... really. I'm looking forward to that Ascension wherein there should be a bit of sanity... hopefully. But perhaps I should just move to another country. ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on March 1, 2007 07:17 AMWell, remember, Joanna, wherever you go, you're there. You'll still be in Astroworld, too. Sweet dreams - I'm turning in (after I read the Dell article). Posted by: Sharon on March 1, 2007 07:22 AMGood Conason article PatC and I think Cheney is in his last throes of credibility and I think he will live to see his downfall. To me, he is and always has been the very embodiment of all he fears the most. It's amazing to see someone so encased in a wall of fear and anger, always denied the true power he seeks because he doesn't understand true power. Sharon, it's a "higher spiritual" plane and possibly for just this generation. Life exists on levels and sub-levels and each generation has had to find a new level of evolution or spirituality. Time is not linear, it's cyclical. The individual's world is made on the inside of themselves, not without. Some of the most profound and beautiful thoughts and words and amazing discoveries have been produced by those handicapped, those in prison, look at Stephen Hawkings Freedom, joy, prosperity, love, come from inside ourselves and our belief and trust that we can have those things. Hate, anger, fear, poverty of spirit also come from within, it's our choice to grab them or not. The "shift" of consciousness is coming as more and more people grab for freedom, joy, posperity of spirit etc. When enough people create that within, the world changes and right now the world is on the edge of those changes and we will enter a higher spiritual plane, all of us. Each new generation will have to continue to find and hold onto that spiritual plane but it will be up to them to do so we can only guide and continue to offer the future generations the understanding of their choices. Posted by: Sally on March 1, 2007 07:27 AM That's a good thing for us to hear again and again, Sally, and you put it so well. It's interesting (and I'm sure you've pointed this out) that the astrococktail article reminds us that the U.S. mars is retrograde by progression in 18 Libra and Nancy mentioned in her latest article that Bush's natal Jupiter and progressed Mars are also at 18 Libra. A lot of fodder for discussion. Posted by: Sharon on March 1, 2007 07:50 AMI would like you to just tally up the daily fuel bills of the war for a democratic Iraq. Has any one ever done this. How much C0 2 is being produced on daily base. How does this effect global warming and how are our needed resources are being wasted. penny, I have. We've done something large every year that we've been in our house. New reflective metal roof (took 4 years to pay for), new windows (one or several at a time), insulating outside exposed basement walls (we did the labor), energy efficient light bulbs and other things. But then, it didn't take "An Inconvenient Truth" to motivate us. So, again, I say "I have!" Posted by: kristl on March 1, 2007 11:35 AMhttp://salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/03/01/cheney/print.html How Cheney bombed in Afghanistan The vice president slinks home from a disastrous trip where a failed assassination attempt was only the loudest proof that his war policies have emboldened al-Qaida and the Taliban. Mar. 01, 2007 | Was the suicide bomber attack at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Tuesday an attempted assassination of Vice President Dick Cheney or a horse's head in his bed? Posted by: Pat C on March 1, 2007 01:09 PMWell......tearing down the Dems is starting once again. Gore in particular, all that in the face of having to live with the worst pResident ever, to put it mildly. May anyone who falls for that lobster in a bucket tactic once again, be blessed with a mental/spiritual awakening, or in the alternative, an appropriate aura accompanied by body odor, so we'll know you're coming, and can walk away. Posted by: Pat C on March 1, 2007 01:23 PMPenny, QOP, Yep! I also have a very small footprint and use the new light bulbs because here in Berkeley someone came around and gove them to us sometime back and I haven's had to replace them. I was using mass transit and foot power to get around until a forced transfer made auto use mandatory. Me, too, Penny... long ago I chose to live so lightly upon the Earth that no one would know I'd ever been by... My thing in particular is recycling. Posted by: JoannaOregon on March 1, 2007 02:20 PMOh Sally, I just read your thoughts posted 3/1/2007 at 7:27 AM. I agree with you and I think this is a change coming from the bottom up. Seems to me that we have no choice but to open up to a higher consciousness. I am reeling at this point from the brutal use of power by this administration on a global level and by leaders at home on a smaller stage. On the local level I know how much the raw consumption and display of wealth is really used to cover up fear of being judged, of losing a place at the table, so to speak. I imagine that is behind all the greed and grabbing even at the global level. Thank you for the reminder that light and love and peace are also moving us. Posted by: clymela on March 1, 2007 02:31 PMClymela, youre too old to still be in shock!!What does Christianity have to do with disliking compound interest? As Einstein said, "The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest." It isnt cheating; it is the cost that banks pay you for letting them use your money. Should you give it to them for nothing, sock it away under your mattress?!?! Persons who make more than they need are to be feared? How do you determine the amount one needs? All persons who accumulate wealth got it by cheating?!?!? I cant believe you really mean that. I dont think Christ ever said anything about wealth being evil and poor being good. The oft quoted "money is the root of all evil" is misquoted. The verse actually says that the "love of money is the root of all evil." As we have seen, Gates and Buffett and tons of other philanthropists are using their money to help others. Wealth is just another tool to do good. Of course it can be misused. But then many tools we are given are either misused or, probably more accurately, arent used at all. If we all were using our "light" the world would be a different place. But until then we need to be thankful that there actually are people who care about world health, genocide, mutilation and abuse in developing countries, lack of education and work skills, lack of fresh water etc, etc. and are putting their $$ where there mouth is. Posted by: on March 1, 2007 03:53 PMJoe Conason's new book, "It Can Happen Here". http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/18685 ........ clymela, the powerful Dems did not support his fight. Hence, the pain and bitterness you saw. I personally think he is a really good person. Posted by: Pat C on March 1, 2007 04:20 PMHmmmmmm For your edification: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsn4JA450iA&mode=related&search= http://prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/260207building7.htm Dear Anonymous Poster at 3:53 above. Jesus repeatedly spoke of the poor and of money. Here's a summary (and I know nothing about the author, but it's a good summary based on what I know of the NT): Heads up KRISTL and CLYMELA, You are both being trashed on DU. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=245x39171 This thread is disgraceful. Posted by: on March 1, 2007 06:49 PMShylurker, thanks for the link. I always enjoy your posts. I browsed thru the link quickly, but it seems to be saying the same thing i referred to above, i.e.: It is wrong to LOVE money - - it's not wrong to have it. Making money the center of your life robs one of his/her own spiritual development. Christ only gave us 3 commandments(which incorporate all of the 10 commandments) 1. love God, 2. Love yourself and 3. love others as you love yourself. That's why LOVING money is unacceptable in Christianity. But it doesnt mean that having money or that money itself is evil. It depends on what you do with it and how you perceive it. Clymela was probably just having a bad day when she skewered compound interest as unChristian and when she said that all wealth is amassed by cheating. Common sense would tell us otherwise. The more money you can make, the more good you can do. So I think Christ would rather approve of compound interest ;o) Posted by: on March 1, 2007 06:51 PMSoldiers Move to Small Posts in Baghdad's Most Violent Areas ......... Walter Reed Hospital Officials Knew of Neglect for Years Fine piece on the taurus/scopio axis, shy! I read it straight thru &, in addition, have tucked it into my files. It would've been a mistake on my part to glance thru the first lines or paragraphs & feel like I got the hang of it right away... when I would not have. ;O) That's one of the axis with which human becomings (or bio-units) has the most probs... then there's cancer/capricorn & virgo/pisces. Yup... all yin/female energies. Posted by: JoannaOregon on March 1, 2007 08:00 PMThe bottom of the barrel just keeps on giving. They're replaced the VA guy with another incompetent: (This is linked to a WaPo article, but I think you have to sign-in to get to it.) Posted by: shylurker on March 1, 2007 08:11 PMSharon... can you give the actual URL for the "sirusrelevations.net"? I'm sure not having much luck at finding it no matter what combinations I try. Thanks! ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on March 1, 2007 08:19 PMWhich link is the one for the Taurus/Scorpio axis? Posted by: Pat C on March 1, 2007 08:24 PMOh, and JoannaO, I am happy you liked the link to the taurus-scorpio axis article, but I don't think it was from me. I enjoyed the thank-you, nonetheless. (Tee hee.) Posted by: shylurker on March 1, 2007 08:26 PMJoanna O Try Posted by: CL on March 1, 2007 08:47 PMSorry, Joanna It must be Mercury retrograde, it didn't print.... Posted by: CL on March 1, 2007 08:51 PM One more time:
"Which link is the one for the Taurus/Scorpio axis?" I just meant the issues over money we were discussing... associated it with taurus/scopio issues. Western "culture" has imo a heap of immaturity & dysfunction over money/sex (taurus/scorpio). Posted by: JoannaOregon on March 1, 2007 09:20 PMThank you, CL!! Posted by: JoannaOregon on March 1, 2007 09:21 PMWell, this guy went to prison. :-) http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/01/ney.corruption.ap/index.html Corrupt congressman (Mr Ney) begins life as No. 2882-016 Ah, I see, O JoannaO. (You have to keep things on a pretty simple level so I can grasp them. Sigh.) Posted by: shylurker on March 1, 2007 09:43 PMHere's some more along that taurus-scorpio axis where Creepshuns seem to dwell: Americans Have Lost Their Country By Paul Craig Roberts 03/01/07 "ICH" -- -- The Bush-Cheney regime is America’s first neoconservative regime. In a few short years, the regime has destroyed the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions, and the remains of America’s moral reputation along with the infrastructures of two Muslim countries and countless thousands of Islamic civilians. Plans have been prepared, and forces moved into place, for an attack on a third Islamic country, Iran, and perhaps Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon as well. This extraordinary aggressiveness toward the US Constitution, international law, and the Islamic world is the work, not of a vast movement, but of a handful of ideologues--principally Vice President Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Lewis Libby, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, Zalmay Khalilzad, John Bolton, Philip Zelikow, and Attorney General Gonzales. These are the main operatives who have controlled policy. They have been supported by their media shills at the Weekly Standard, National Review, Fox News, New York Times, CNN, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page and by “scholars” in assorted think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute. more http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17216.htm Posted by: Shadowhawk on March 1, 2007 10:15 PMHouse Committee to Subpoena Ousted Prosecutors The House Judiciary Committee will be issuing subpoenas to four of the fired prosecutors this afternoon, according to a committee spokesperson. The U.S. attorneys who will receive a subpoena are California’s Southern District’s Carol Lam, Nevada’s David Iglesias, Arkansas’ Eastern District’s H.E. “Bud” Cummins, and Washington’s Western District’s John McKay. They will testify next Thursday before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002657.php Posted by: Pat C on March 1, 2007 11:01 PMHere's the link, Joanna, hope it works :-) http://www.sirianrevelations.net/Default3.html Posted by: Sharon on March 2, 2007 01:17 AMIt works. Click on the middle of the page to get the presentation to start - it's lovely. You can also play go to www.sirianrevelations.net and navigate the site. Interesting stuff but just text, as opposed to the first link I listed which plays around with light. Posted by: Sharon on March 2, 2007 01:19 AMClymela, I think Gore had to do what he did... walk away at that point. He probably felt powerless, emasculated, stripped. drained, in shock, etc. I can only imagine the grind of presidential campaign, so much energy & work put out, so much exhaustian, such a let down to have it reported that you're the winner, then the loser, then having to wait weeks for the verdict and have it be a deeply skewed pronouncement by the highest court of the land! I think he almost had to retreat, that he didn't have a choice. So what he did was pull back and recoup and recreate himself, refine his message and bring it back. He did good! Posted by: Sharon on March 2, 2007 01:27 AMSharon, I totally agree . . . what else COULD he do? He did NOT AGREE with the Supreme Court but yet who is after that?? NOTHING! If he didn't do what he did and concede, then he would fight a losing battle, all the way. He did not want to put the country through that. He is a class act. Posted by: Laurie on March 2, 2007 01:47 AMhttp://www.firedoglake.com/2007/03/01/breakin-the-law-breakin-the-law-breakin-the-law/ Breakin’ the Law, Breakin’ the Law, Breakin’ the LAW! Well, well, well. Atrios catches the Bush (In)Justice Department admitting that they lied to Congress about why the Federal prosecutors were fired. As Atrios notes, lying to Congress is a crime. But really, from the manifestly tainted and corrupt Scalia Supreme Court ruling in Bush v. Gore onwards, the Bush Junta's salient characteristic has been a complete and utter disregard for the social contract, and our laws are an important part of that contract. snip Don't like certain newly-passed legislation? Break the law by abusing the use of signing statements beyond anyone's wildest nightmares. Want to invade and occupy Iraq? Have Doug Feith force the CIA to send him all manner of wild-assed unvetted garbage through his new Office of Special Plans stovepipe so he and you can present it as true. Pissed off that Joe Wilson called you on your lies? Get back at him by blowing his CIA operative wife's cover and destroying the network of Middle-Eastern-based operatives she spent years nurturing. Get in trouble for outing "Wilson's wife"? Lie under oath to save your ass, secure in the belief that even the CIA can't touch you. So I thought I'd devote this thread to the many ways in which BushCo has broken the law. Feel free to chime in with your own examples! More.... Posted by: Pat C on March 2, 2007 01:56 AMAuthor is Fred Reed via lewrockwell.com "I have decided to become a drunk and live under a bench, maybe in a radiation suit. It only makes sense. The times are dire. Dark shapes twist in the international fog. The US, in the hands of puzzled children of low moral character, flaps about like a damp rag in a high wind. Anything could happen. I figure to enjoy it since I can't stop it. It would all seem more amusing and less dark, I thought, if I weren't immoderately sober. To this end I walked to the Oxxo, which is a Mexican Seven-Eleven, and bought a bottle of Padre Kino red. Maybe I should have bought two bottles. There is much to cause worry. The strange little man in the White House is leering at Iran in his customary state of martial priapism. Not good. (Wild thought: Someone ought to give Iran nuclear weapons, so he won't attack it.) Anyway, wee Bush, not having enough army for his current wars, wants to start a bigger and shinier one. Somebody explain it to me. I have limited geostrategic grasp. Perhaps he believes that by spreading unwinnability over several wars, he will reduce it in each. Victory through distributed defeat. I keep reading that Herr Bush may use "bunker buster" nukes in Iran. To the inordinately dim, this has a comforting sound. You know, a little itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, perhaps yellow polka-dot nukelet goes way down in the earth and, fooomp! blows up the evil bunker, hardly rattling the windows above. Actually an earth-penetrator doesn't penetrate beyond a few feet, all of whichturn into fallout. more... http://www.sendatee.net/cheapwine.html Posted by: Cybear on March 2, 2007 02:39 AMDon't forget....NOT ONE SENATOR STOOD UP FOR GORE! Dear Anonymous Poster at 6:49 pm, Thanks for the heads up about Democratic Underground. My response to that is something my mother used to say about gossip: If they're talking about/trashing me, then they're leaving somebody else alone. I did make a mistake regarding Gore's wife. I had her confused with Kerry's wife. I should know better than to post when my chart ruler is retrograde. Sigh..... I get discouraged when I see that people believe that Gore or anyone else can just magically fix the system of government that we have. I think it's way too corrupt and rotten. I read a book in 1981 called "Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler. He predicted that we would be moving away from big government and much more towards community living and local government. To me, that sounds about right and I feel that I'm seeing signs in that direction. As for interest on money, my understanding has been that Jesus threw the moneychangers out of the temple because they were practicing usury. I could be wrong about that, of course, but if I am, why did Jesus throw the money changers out of the temple? Anyone know? Oxford Compact Dictionary: usury /yoo&ulzh;ri/ • noun the practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest. When you compare the rates of interest you earn on savings accounts with the interest you pay on loans, it's pretty obvious who comes out on top. There now, here's some more fodder for the trashers of the world. May the universe shine blessings on your life. Posted by: kristl on March 2, 2007 03:22 AM"... Altho Jesus could be gracious & forgiving to wrong done to himself he had no words of charity for wrong done to others, esp the poor & hurting people. When religious authorities criticized him for healing a crippled man on the Sabbath, he "looked around on them with anger" (Mark 3:5). When money changers in the temple took advantage of poor foreigners, he took whips & drove them out saying, "My Father's house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves" (John 2:13-17). He blasted the Scribes & Pharisees not for the terrible things they did to him but for the way they treated the weak & helpless (Matthew 23). ... http://www.christians.org/misery/misery06.html Posted by: JoannaOregon on March 2, 2007 04:11 AMThank you, Sharon, on that link. You're a darling going to that much effort! That's a piece done with a great sense of humor plus caring, Cybear... I'm passing that along. kristl... you open up the subjects of many mysteries! ;O) shy... I find you one of the most thotful & intelligent of posters here. Now stick THAT in your pipe & enjoy it! Posted by: JoannaOregon on March 2, 2007 04:20 AMGee wilikers, folks-imagine my surprise on returning home and hurrying to my favorite sites "Sartlight News" and "Astroworld" to discover that Kristi and I so upset someone that they asked everyone to get us. Jeez and we are accused of being rightwing tools. Imagine that!! I can't tell you how often I have been called a pink faggot commie hippie. clymela, Yeah, I was pretty shocked too. LOL I guess it just never entered my mind that the conversation in this blog would "travel." Think I'm going to just let it die a natural death. In 20 minutes or so, someone else will be in the spotlight. What do you think? Grin. (By the way, how do you get those smileys into the post?) Posted by: kristl on March 2, 2007 04:55 AMOkay, forget the smiley's. Posted by: kristl on March 2, 2007 04:57 AMOMG, I gotta go buy a pipe, settle down in the old rocker and enjoy me some kind words from JoannaO! Nice. Very nice. Posted by: shylurker on March 2, 2007 05:28 AMMissy shy... I'll have you know I smoked a corncob pipe for quite a long period of time in my day. Uh huh... & sometimes, if I could get a-hold of them, I'd smoke somebody's mersham... tho I thot they ran a bit too hot. Water pipes with wine, tobacco & sometimes that other stuff was pretty good. Haven't smoked nothin' for a long, long time now. I could do with your rocker tho... sounds mighty soothing. Posted by: JoannaOregon on March 2, 2007 05:48 AMKeep thinking about cybear's offering a bit upstream... that writer is a HOOT! Posted by: JoannaOregon on March 2, 2007 05:53 AMKristl and Clymela, It was a way of shutting up gossipers. And the gossip stopped shortly after. Someone might have tipped off that they were busted. Good. Love astrology and fair play, hate politics, not working for Gore or anyone else. Posted by: on March 2, 2007 06:06 AMA Book Review of Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic In Nemesis, Johnson concentrates on the power of the military and a single intelligence agency, the CIA. He says upfront he believes "we will never again know peace, nor in all probability survive very long as a nation, unless we abolish the CIA, restore intelligence collecting to the State Department, and remove all but purely military functions from the Pentagon." Even if we do it, he now believes it's too late as the nation once called a model democracy "may have been damaged beyond repair (and) it will take a generation or more (at best) to overcome the image of 'America as torturer'"and rogue state showing contempt for international law, human rights, and ordinary people everywhere. It's not what the Founders conceived nor how things should have been in a democratic state Lincoln said at Gettysburg was "of the people, by the people, for the people...." Today it's only for the privileged. http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1076/81/ Posted by: Pat C on March 2, 2007 02:28 PMI have missed this wonderful board. Thank you all for whether you know it or not, this has been a welcome relief from the past several days. My sister is dying, cancer has metastisized. Her pain is increasing daily. Despite it, she is unafraid of stepping into another aspect of life and spoke freely of it. Her fears, though limited, are those of the spectre of uncontrollable pain. Through this process, hospice has provided not only pain relief but assurances of more. In the state of Michigan, physicians are allowed to place a dying patient in a coma. The downside is that they must bring the patient to consciousness daily, to obtain permission to return the person into a coma. You must ask for this, for i'm not certain they would have offered this freely had we not asked. Posted by: karen on March 2, 2007 03:28 PM Oh karen, may her guides care for her and lead her to sublime freedom. I wish for her a speedy journey home. Posted by: Pat C on March 2, 2007 03:48 PMMore about Saturn and Neptune http://astrotabletalk.blogspot.com/2007/03/yet-more-saturn-neptune.html Posted by: Pat C on March 2, 2007 03:50 PMhttp://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020923-gore01.htm Transcript of Al Gore’s Speech “Iraq and the War On Terrorism” - Monday, September 23rd, 2002 Posted by: Pat C on March 2, 2007 05:15 PMKaren, years ago I read an editorial about the birth process from the baby's point of view. It was graphic and described the incredible pain and fear coming down the birth canal that a baby experiences. Pitching and rolling from side to side and every movement creating pain for this new life. As you read it, you didn't realize at first that it was a birth, it was written as if it were a death. Not until the end when the baby burst forth into light and joy and excitement on the part of those who had been waiting for its arrival did you realize it had been a death passage of the baby's previous life, the only one they had known, into another environment full of light and joy. The end of the article likened it to the passage of our death and moving into another light and joy as those on the other side awaited us. I wish god speed to your sister and her safe passage into another life.
By George Lakoff A familiar means of denying a reality is to refuse to use the words that describe that reality. A common form of propaganda is to keep reality from being described. === By Kathleen and Bill Christison If the United States is unable to distinguish the world_s or its own real needs from those of another state and that state_s lobby, then it simply cannot say that it always acts in its own best interests. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17217.htm === By John Pilger John Howard's servility to the US is even greater than Tony Blair's and has earned him the nickname Bush's deputy sheriff. The conspiracy between Washington, the media and politicians is eroding the country's freedoms. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17218.htm Posted by: wv on March 2, 2007 06:01 PMThank you, Pat and Sally. And yes, it is a birthing process to freedom, and a homecoming -- of this i'm certain. Throughout my sister has exhibited such a magnificent demeanor. She's one class act, an example to all of us who will confront the same death/birth journey when it is our time. And Sally, i like to think of this life as a gestation of knowledge -- the Universe-ity we chose to attend. Graduation is definitely a time of celebration! And Sharon. . .a very happy birthday (although belated). I know you're carrying with you all the wisdom you have acquired throughout the past few years. That should count for a terrific year, don't you think? Posted by: karen on March 2, 2007 06:08 PM
By Joshua Holland http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/joshua/48622/ Kucinich Introduces HR 1234 To Immediately End the U.S. Occupation of Iraq WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 28) - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced HR 1234, a bill to immediately end the United States occupation of Iraq, in the House of Representatives today. "This is the plan that will get our troops home the fastest. It is workable and achieves the goals of ending the war and enabling our troops to come home," Kucinich said. HR 1234 is a plan for the United States to use existing money to bring the troops and necessary equipment home and transition to an international security and peacekeeping force. Oh, Karen, dear heart! May your sister's passage be swift and sure. It sounds as though she's tread lightly on the earth, and leaves an abundance of blessings and wisdom for us to share. Posted by: shylurker on March 2, 2007 06:46 PMKaren, oh, such a rich time a passing can be, despite the obvious saddness...I wish you sister well, and you family peace. My mother died on Jan 15; she spent 12 days 'working hard here, working hard' as she put it, at dying. Until I read Sally's description of the experience the baby feels, I didn't really get what was happening or what she meant...but now I do. Thanks for posting it....the strangest thing is, my two friends lost their mothers also...one a month before mine, the second a month after....as they say, it comes in threes. The description of the birth process leaves me wondering....what about those of us born by Caesarian section...it used to be rare, but now is very common....a very different way of being born, without the journey described. Posted by: judiGem on March 2, 2007 07:26 PM
Why Can't We Talk about Peace in Public? By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com http://www.alternet.org/story/48601/ "The fellas from 121 started showing up the other day. It's starting to sink in... I'll have to go home, the opportunities to kill these fuckers is rapidly coming to an end. Like a hobby I'll never get to practice again. It's not a great war, but it's the only one we've got. God, I do love killing these bastards. ... Morale is high, the Marines can smell the barn. It's hard to keep them focused. I still have 20 days of kill these motherfuckers, so I don't wanna take even one day off. " -- letter home from an unnamed Marine F/A -18 pilot in Iraq. Karen - blessings to you and your sister. My experience with hospices has always been positive and they truly care for those they tend. May her passing over be easy and your staying behind be blessed and serene. Posted by: Shadowhawk on March 2, 2007 07:59 PMDear friends, summer of 2002 Jupiter transited my Jupiter/Uranus conj in 9 and during a walking meditation I received the full meal deal in cosmic consciousness. On Feb 22 my work partner (we are psych techs) and very close friend experienced the same. Our midpoint chart is full of trines including a double kite driven by Neptune (social work) in the 10th. Other than to celebrate, I'm not sure what to think of this development. How to look at it and our relationship astrologically. Her info is March 6, 1961 Elmhurst Illinois, 7:48 am....Mine 10-15-54, Seattle, WA 7:44 am....Sorry about this off topic post, but she and I have argued so deeply recently I fear the friendship may end just as this has happened. FWIW, I am Scorpio rising with Saturn ruling my chart which I see as a drive to self resposibility. She has Sat conj Jupiter in 10 in capricorn and Vesta (make sure individuals serve the group) conj Sun in 12. She never seems to stop questioning my motives and actions Arrrrrgggghhh.....I would like to preserve the friendship.....Thanks for listening Posted by: Timmy J on March 2, 2007 08:46 PMWonderful friends all. . .your rich and heartfelt comments are so welcome and appreciated. I'm returning psychic hugs for your thoughtfulness. Timmy, i'm at best an avid astrology appreciater. I can tell you this, however. Some entities come into our lives to share learning experiences with us. When that quality of sharing has concluded (whatever it might be), then the relationship will end. There is no loss in this, rather what you needed (or what the other entity needed) has been served. Posted by: karen on March 2, 2007 08:55 PMhttp://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Pentagons_number_two_suggests_terror_war_0228.html Pentagon's number two suggests terror war will end in Oct. 2008 The Department of Defense's number two official appears to imply in a memo that the Global War on Terrorism will end just in time for the presidential election in November 2008. The contents of the document are outlined in a column in today's Washington Post.
In a second memo from Feb. 15, England writes that "to ensure that warfighters and taxpayers receive maximum benefit from on-going initiatives, it would be highly desirable to complete current projects by the summer/fall of 2008." England then provides a quarterly grid with the same eight priorities from the December memo and "expected milestone conclusion dates" for each one. As Kamen points out, the first priority of winning the global terror war from the earlier memo is included on the grid, and "looks to be over around October 2008." More... Posted by: Pat C on March 2, 2007 09:00 PMJoanna wrote a ways back: Hey....you are in serious need of a moutain top, girl! But not, I am sure, another cloister....seclusion ain't easy for me, but I've been enjoying that also. And I don't have anything that I know of at 18 Libra....but it occurs to me that maybe this COUNTY needs to go into some seclusion about now...with retro Mars at 18 Libra....you think? Posted by: judiGem on March 2, 2007 09:08 PMKaren....a note on hospice (I was trained in CA)...in hospice, morphine is used for endstage disease to ease pain...in CA, as much as is needed...this is what happened with my mother, also, and of course, morphine ends up stopping all the breathing. I just emailed a friend In MI...his wife is an RN...and he said he never had heard of waking up a patient every day from a coma, or being put into a coma. I thought it sounded strange. It certainly wasn't in my hospice training manual. It doesn't sound like hospice policy, either. I only hope she is given enough to relieve pain....as the night shift was not giving it to my mother, and she was in terrible pain until I complained that she was undermedicated and they corrected that shift into compliance. Posted by: judiGem on March 2, 2007 09:17 PMWhat this country needs right now is enforced life in solitary isolation, lockdown, and at the very least a long time-out with it's nose stuck firmly in a corner. Posted by: lunaoscura on March 2, 2007 09:37 PMThanks Karen, I have considered that. In solar arc Pluto is conj her descendant (transformational relationship). She and I have discussed the possible entrainment of our energies, but I hadn't considered with Pluto involved her rebirth might end the relationship. Hang on tightly. Let go lightly......Nameste', Timmy J Posted by: Timmy J on March 2, 2007 09:48 PMThe Pentagon’s Power to Arrest, Torture, and Execute Americans By Jacob G. Hornberger much more http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17225.htm Posted by: Shadowhawk on March 2, 2007 09:56 PMJudi, my sister having had brain surgery several years ago is somewhat opiate intolerate and is given to seizures. At this stage it seems a moot point, but this particular hospice is doing most everything possible to work around this. My sister asked about the induced coma. Apparently it is NOT a usual procedure, but one they will comply with if this is your request. It is administered in a hospital setting, perhaps this is the difference? Thank YOU, Judi for caring enough to investigate! Posted by: karen on March 2, 2007 10:12 PM(((((((Karen,))))) While not directly related to the topic, I wanted to share an interesting experience I just had. I signed up for a meeting on Net Neutrality with my congresscritter (Anna Eshoo, D-CA14) which was held today. Of course, my issue with net neutrality is freedom of information and the stranglehold corporations have on us, but my fellow "meetees" included two very high-tech professionals, one who works at Apple and another who freelances. Business folk from the word go, very articulate about the technical aspects, all that stuff I simply can't wrap my little brain around. We met at a cafe before the meeting to get to know one another, and it sounded like these guys were going to stress the tech limitations (i.e., the impossibility of restructuring the basic architecture of the web) and that sort of thing. So we all go to her office (where we met with a staffer as she's in DC right now) and we all sit down and give our little personal spiels about our individual concerns. Then the conversation opens up a bit, and all of a sudden the techiest of the two guys begins talking about how the assault on net neutrality is really about how the corporations are all working on a "scarcity model" while the net is structured as an "abundance model" - I was stunned! It struck me as a very hopeful sign that this consciousness of sharing and abundance is actually getting quite a lot of play in areas that I would not expect. To hear it in a meeting with a representative of government - and to have it taken seriously, acknowledged, and discussed by said representative!! - was something I'd never expected. Just a small ray of sunshine trying to break through the clouds of greed, but I am so grateful for it! Posted by: Baraka on March 2, 2007 10:55 PMEverybody had been wary about China's military strength that may be ruinous to the world being. Everybody had been wary about China's military strength that may be ruinous to the world being. That's not like you, Raj, counseling folks to be "fearful"... mad, mebbe, but not fearful... & over the Chinese peoples yet! It's such a waste of one's time/energy/spiritual work. Get a grip, Raj! ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on March 3, 2007 12:31 AMMy apologies if I misunderstood you, Raj, but I think your concern is aimed at the Chinese government and I share that concern. They are about as warm and cozy critters as, uh, you know who and his bottom-of-the-barrelers. Also, Baraka, that is a wonderful thing to be able to share with us. I like it, too: the internet was designed, built and operates on the "abundance model". (The corpos worship the scarcity model--so long as it creates scarcity for everybody else, except them, of course.) Posted by: shylurker on March 3, 2007 12:47 AMBaraka, so we share a congress critter. I've written her about net neutrality since it is my bread and butter (telecommuting techie). Posted by: Morgana on March 3, 2007 12:53 AM* Millions of people have the chance to see the most spectacular lunar eclipse in years tonight when the Moon will turn bright orange or red. Lunar eclipses are when the Earth’s shadow from the Sun falls directly on the Moon & a change in the weather forecast means it is likely to be visible almost everywhere in the country. The colour of the Moon will change from silvery white to coppery red or orange as light is deflected by the Earth’s atmosphere & bounces back off the “blood moon”. In ancient times blood moons were seen as omens of great change or disaster & were regarded with dread. [yaaaawwwwn] As the Earth passes between the Sun & the Moon light scattering thru the atmosphere is reduced to predominantly red wavelengths, which reflect off the lunar surface. Astronomers are confident that even with the naked eye stargazers will be treated to dramatic views of the eclipse, which will be at its height from 10.24pm to 11.58pm. ... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1464543.ece Posted by: JoannaOregon on March 3, 2007 01:16 AMThat is good news Baraka. But of course Apple is Kooooool! Baraka....I got this in the mail today....thanks to Tseka...uTube with Lawrence Lessing...check it out. http://youtube.com/watch?v=UJBkQhA2CRA We could all look at this model of scarcity/abundance, me in particular, for a good lesson in consciousness! Karen, thank you for defining this particular problem....again, I am so sorry....Pat QP, yes....you would have a clearer view of this too. The brain surgery and opiates...nothing is easy. And comedians say dying is easy, comedy is hard! They don't know what they are talking about either. I mentioned the deaths of my mother and the mothers of two of my friends since Dec...a little while ago, my daughter got a call from one of her frirends that her grandmother died in her sleep last night, and then another friend called and said she is flying to Florida to see her grandmother, who is dying. Tomorrow is the eclipse, right? Raj was saying beware the Chinese stock market...which is exactly what the articles on the fall of the market the other day have been about over the last few days....beware a stock market of little evaluation, (oh ye of little knowledge....who might be wanting to get rich quick) I read that twice and didn't see that he was saying to be afraid of the Chinese....just their stock market! I have another frirend who says the world will come to an end as we know it when the jihad of islam does us in.... Posted by: judigem on March 3, 2007 01:28 AM* Right on cue, just as Saturn reaches its max tension in its cycle with Neptune today, the headlines screamed 'Market Meltdown'. This cycle has long been associated with economic collapse & altho the term collapse might be too strong in this case, I firmly believe this heralds the start of a turning point in the economy. I was interested, in view of my previous post on this cycle, to see the problems began in China. A 9% drop there triggered the domino effect. Interestingly for all sky watchers, computer glitches also contributed to the fall on the Dow yesterday--Mercury Retrograde in action. ... http://collaboratingwithfate.blogspot.com/ Posted by: JoannaOregon on March 3, 2007 01:28 AMAnd in the sense of continuity, of non endings. Sorry if I "sounded" too harsh, Raj... however, I'm just a minute collection-blob of electrons, neutrons & protons whizzing around a nucleus & prone to be out of it when it comes to getting all fearful. ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on March 3, 2007 01:44 AMWaaaaaaaaaaah! The eclipse won't be visible on the WC. Posted by: shylurker on March 3, 2007 01:47 AMHi Morgana - yes, Eshoo is definitely on board with this. She was a co-sponsor of the Markey (D-MA) bill that stopped the attempt of the tele-giants in the last Congress and we were assured that she would co-sponsor the new neutrality bill Markey is putting up this spring as well. JudiGem, thanks for the Lessing video - as a Stanford prof, he's accessible to me in the sense that I can access his writings and even his class materials if I want. And I am definitely in this battle, as he says. As a non-tech person, my point in the meeting was (a) the necessity of a free flow of information to the health of a democracy, and (b) that we have had enough of see what results when the media is being controlled by corporations. And tonight an eclipse to watch - huzzah!! The power is shifting, the veil is lifting, and humanity will prevail over greed! Posted by: baraka on March 3, 2007 01:58 AMBaraka, well...don't know if humanity will succeed over greed...after all, it is one of the immortal 7 deadly sins....! But I think in this case, the need to control is always open to attack and the corporations will not be able to long stop this movement. It is a great thing you are getting involved in this....cool! But we aren't going to see the eclipse, huh? well, right now, there is the most beautiful pale lavendar sunset taking place...that's enough for me. Posted by: judiGem on March 3, 2007 02:13 AMYes JoannaO!!!! In response to your post dated Feb. 22, 02:48PM. Same here!!! Posted by: Crystal on March 3, 2007 02:13 AMYes JoannaO!!!! In response to your post dated Feb. 22, 02:48PM. Same here!!! Posted by: Crystal on March 3, 2007 02:21 AMoops! I committed the fatal error of posting twice. I think it's the first time I've ever done this. I notice that I'm having to repeat a lot of transactions on the job, because I missed something the first time. It may be because of MercuryR, but it can also be SaturnR, since it rules my second house of earned money. I live a stone's throw from the Bay in St. Pete, FL, so I'll be taking a walk down there at sunset tomorrow to see if I could get a glimpse of the rising moon. I read where it will be already eclipsed when it rises. From calculations, I reckon the eclipse will commence around 6pm on the east coast. Thank you, Karen, and my heart goes out to you, your sister & family. It sounds like your sis is quite a woman. Posted by: Sharon on March 3, 2007 03:44 AMSmall world, Crystal. I'm in St. Pete, too. I live downtown, MLK and Central area. Where Love and Peace, * Full Moon Eclipse In Virgo On 3rd March Along with the new moon eclipse (next one is in Pisces in a couple of weeks), full moon eclipses symbolise trends & themes that are important in our lives for months, sometimes years to come. It's always a double event when it happens - one full moon, one new moon - & there's always 2 sets of eclipses a year that run in cycles thru the signs. We're in the season of the Virgo/Pisces cycle of eclipses at the moment. It's easy to tell which season we're in, by checking the sign the north & south nodes of the moon are moving thru, because when a full or new moon falls within about 10° of the nodes, you have an eclipse... All eclipses have the potential to be powerful, but this one on 3rd March caught my attn as I like to look to the planets that rule the north/south node signs for more info on the ways the eclipse will manifest & express; in this case Mercury, ruler of Virgo, is currently in a retrograde phase, while Jupiter & Neptune, rulers of Pisces, are both on important journeys of their own. ... http://silverwheelastrology.blogspot.com/ Posted by: JoannaOregon on March 3, 2007 03:53 AMTimmy, I'm no Sally or Morgana or even up to you, probably, but I love to take a shot at this stuff. I put you and your friend's info into astro.com and got your charts. Here's a link to the 6 mo. forecast for your friend which lists the natal placements and houses at the bottom of the data. http://www.astro.com/cgi/atxgen.cgi?btyp=atx&&cid=l5wfileSvIg8U-u1096170454&nhor=8 There are some very intense transits going on for her. Today is the Saturn/Neptune opposition in 20 Leo and 20 Aquarius. t. Saturn is within (or almost within) 2 degrees of her n. Uranus at 22 Leo in the 5th, opposite her Mercury in 24 Aquarius in the 11th, the house of "friendship." Additionally, t. Mercury is retro to 24 Aquarius today (misunderstandings?) This could explain why she is having problems with a friendship. I had something similar happen a few years back - it was not fun, there were upsetting clashes and accusations and misunderstandings that affected the friendship (actually brought things festering for years to the surface) and changed it, yet it survived and, although altered, the love and closeness remain. The t. Sun at 12 Pisces during today’s lunar eclipse is conj. t. Uranus at 14 Pis. Your friend's Sun at 15 Pisces in 12th house (working through karma). That might not be fun either. The moon in Virgo is going to oppose these aspects by tomorrow I guess. Here’s your chart at astro.com - Since she has n. Venus in 24 Aries in the 1st, and t. Venus is now at 12 Aries, it sounds like that could facilitate healing when Venus reaches closer to 24 Aries which will first oppose your n. sun at 21 Libra. Let's see what you all think. Posted by: Sharon on March 3, 2007 05:05 AMJoannaO, We need to pass around that peace pipe you had years ago. This is entirely disheartening: Gosh, shy... that old purple glass water pipe was buried in several sections in the backyard of a Stanyan St. San Francisco Victorian in 1967... at least I presume it's still buried there. It's kind of you to think of it as a "peace" pipe but, really, it was more of a paranoid pipe... which is why it was buried in the backyard of the Victorian. Thank you for the clue of "disheartening" tho... I won't be reading THAT article. ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on March 3, 2007 07:12 AMI'm disheartened, JoannaO, for I was eagerly following-up recent leads concerning a Cherokee ggggrandmother, and then I read this article about some of them trying to disown certain others of them. Sigh. Posted by: shylurker on March 3, 2007 12:38 PMThanks Sharon! I'll spend some time with this info. This is a long standing issue by years. I'm going to look more closely at the Uranus Mercury opposition in her chart, and more closely at the conj of my Sat and her Neptune in a synastry chart. This conj is a biggee now that I see it. Thanks for the input. It was a boost that may help us over the hump. 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