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Dance of the Sun and Moon
The Union of the Lord and Lady, the Dance of the Sun and Moon Full Moon Chart
Saturn trines Jupiter, Venus trines Neptune, reality versus delusion, illusion and wanton greed. Saturn the focal point of three inconjuncts with Mars, Uranus and the North Node, Jupiter squares them applying the energy. Rock the boat, tip the boat over, rock the boat, the energies boogie in the dawn.
Morgana Seawalker on Apr 29 | Link
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Oh magic!............... Thank you Morgana........... Riverbend! Thurs April 26 2007 Morgana, i thought of Linda Goodman when i read this, your prose is rythmic and potent. And, your post was coincidental (or serendipitous) to a conversation with good friends last night who believe that this country is being intentionally robbed, that the globalists are sucking the lifeblood out of the entire earth, and that they'll not cede power unless some cataclysmic shift stops them from killing the planet entirely. Though all the investigations are making the Bush clan nervous, they continue to lie with impunity as if they have something more up their sleeves (Pat's posts on Blackwater in this regard are chilling.) Posted by: karen on April 29, 2007 01:30 PM
PatQOP, Mike Gravel is awesome, I've been watching him since the get go. I thought he was terrific, course then also thought Biden did a great job too. I just love full moon sunrises they are special, I have caught a couple on film over the years. I hope we find a birth time for Mike Gravel. Posted by: Morgana on April 29, 2007 03:35 PMOoooh, Miz Morgana! Another rich treat from your. I guess Smirky set up some more boomeranging karma with his insulting "dance" earlier in the week during the Malaria Awareness (or whatever it was) event at the WH. Posted by: shylurker on April 29, 2007 04:15 PM
Op-Ed Columnist All the President’s Press SOMEHOW it’s hard to imagine David Halberstam yukking it up with Alberto Gonzales, Paul Wolfowitz and two discarded “American Idol” contestants at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Before there was a Woodward and Bernstein, there was Halberstam, still not yet 30 in the early 1960s, calling those in power to account for lying about our “progress” in Vietnam. He did so even though J.F.K. told the publisher of The Times, “I wish like hell that you’d get Halberstam out of there.” He did so despite public ridicule from the dean of that era’s Georgetown punditocracy, the now forgotten columnist (and Vietnam War cheerleader) Joseph Alsop. It was Alsop’s spirit, not Halberstam’s, that could be seen in C-Span’s live broadcast of the correspondents’ dinner last Saturday, two days before Halberstam’s death in a car crash in California. This fete is a crystallization of the press’s failures in the post-9/11 era: it illustrates how easily a propaganda-driven White House can enlist the Washington news media in its shows. Such is literally the case at the annual dinner, where journalists serve as a supporting cast, but it has been figuratively true year-round. The press has enabled stunts from the manufactured threat of imminent “mushroom clouds” to “Saving Private Lynch” to “Mission Accomplished,” whose fourth anniversary arrives on Tuesday. For all the recrimination, self-flagellation and reforms that followed these journalistic failures, it’s far from clear that the entire profession yet understands why it has lost the public’s faith. http://donkeyod.wordpress.com/2007/04/28/all-the-president%e2%80%99s-press/#more-2949 Posted by: wv on April 29, 2007 04:56 PM
Wolfowitz to plead his case in crucial World Bank meeting by Jitendra Joshi World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz heads into a crunch meeting with restive bank directors Monday, accused of peddling personal influence for his girlfriend and pursuing right-wing US policy goals. At the meeting with a World Bank investigatory committee, the former Pentagon number two will plead his case over revelations that he ordered a huge pay package for his girlfriend at the bank, Shaha Riza. The committee, drawn from the full board of 24 national representatives, is examining not just the Riza affair but his hiring of former White House aides to influential, and highly paid, jobs in his inner circle. Posted by: wv on April 29, 2007 05:15 PM"A Beltane Festival" perfect Morgana, and ah yes "what the media is full of" with their BS messages. Bill Moyers has been the perfect person to lead this May dance. All the fuming and slamming that the media has been visiting on Bill Moyers and his examination of MSM will only drive people to his programs. Moyers born June 5, 1934 (NT) has been sending the messages out on religious, social and political myths his entire career and he will expose this administration and MSM myths for generations to come. His reach will inform the next two generations of the "BS" that they have been fed and they will rebel against all the marketing and spin in every corner of today's social fabric. This is certainly hopeful as a level of realism takes over by 2020 and beyond. A rich and potent article Morgana with more prescient information than first glance. I highly recommend reading and re-reading for the "nuggets" you dangle in front of us. Posted by: Sally on April 29, 2007 06:47 PMGreat article Morgana, thank you! Now check out the commentary at this link--any sane person would find this to be thoughtful, sobering, perhaps even stinging--which means Shrubya will probably ignore it..... http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Former_general_declares_Bush_has_gone_0428.html Posted by: Garry Todd on April 29, 2007 06:54 PMGonzales can't even sneak into his 25th year class reunion without bumping into reality. He must truly miss being able to dismiss all those quaint little people. http://michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=870 GONZALES PUT TO SHAME AT HARVARD RE-UNION [snip] Following the group photo, Gonzales ducked into the library to take a stroll around the main reading room, which, on the weekend before final exams, was full of students going over their notes. When the protestors caught up with Gonzales, the cavernous reading room, ordinarily a place of hushed whispers, echoed with chants of "shame" and "resign." Gonzales was quickly whisked down a back staircase, out a basement emergency exit and into a waiting SUV. As the motorcade pulled off from in front of historic Austin Hall, Thomas Becker, a second-year law student, stood in an orange jumpsuit and black hood, waving goodbye. When the cars were out of sight, Becker pulled off his hood, smiled, and said "good riddance." Posted by: lunaoscura on April 29, 2007 08:20 PMMIKE GRAVEL BIRTH DATA: May 13, 1930 Springfield, Mass sorry, not time yet..will keep looking. Posted by: Lovi on April 29, 2007 08:40 PMBy the way, my AW site has recently been taking a long time to open too. Maybe Big Brother is monitoring. Here's something of interest: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070429/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/guantanamo_lawyers_3 Posted by: Crystal on April 29, 2007 08:41 PMI knew it Lovi! What was your source? HI all, interesting Morgana, didn't know the square was still operating, although I should....but it does seem that so much is going on for me and so fast that I can barely keep track of things. I've been given a subscription to a magazine called ODE, which started in the Netherlands, and has a base here in SF and Mill Valley...I've been impressed, it is about world participation in progressive movements. The editor was a Netherlands journalist who went his own way. http://www.odemagazine.com/ One of the things which has come up trend wise is the drive away from (Pluto in Leo generation) corporate heirarchy with very structured form to the newest trend (Pluto in Virgo) generation, which is self organizing! Things like Linux, Wikipedia, the Wiki sites, the GAO protests, big conferences where there is no organizing prescence, all have yielded real change....it is a very interesting magazine, unlike anything I've seen. this is the link to the latest article http://www.odemagazine.com/article.php?aID=4426 I added the Pluto generation stuff to that expalanation...because after reading about these movements, I realized it was the perfect progression from King to Populace, and the lesson of the Leo is that he/she is there to lead, but when too much power is used abusively, the power reverts to the people. And Virgo is highly self organizing! It is a fascinating glimpse at the downfall of corporate power. (My take, not the various articles). Posted by: on April 29, 2007 09:35 PMfor some reason, AW has forgotten my name: judi gem, on ODE... Posted by: on April 29, 2007 09:36 PMBy my SolarFire reckoning, Sen Mike Graval could easily have moon in early degrees of Sag which, imo, fits very, very well his need for firey TruthTelling. His "wildcard" characteristic is easily indicated by his uranus/mars conj (13 & 14 deg respectively) in aries. (heheh) Posted by: JoannaOregon on April 30, 2007 12:01 AMI got a 3o sag moon, for Gavel) at astrodienst. ( noon birth). I bet a mint, he's early morning birth with a late scorpio moon. I've been very close to several sag moons, I know it is a fire sign, but it's a higher octave energy..........the remark he made when asked where he had been for 30 years."Under a rock!" was sooooo scorpio! "under" a rock, below/ beneath subterranian........ Poor George Tenet; He Still Doesn't Get It Sunday 29 April 2007 http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042907Y.shtml Tenet still doesn't get it. Those of us schooled in the craft and ethos of intelligence remain in wide-mouthed disbelief, perhaps QOP...source was wikipedia.com but washingtonpost.com and 2008central.net also show Gravel's birthdate and birthplace. Still hunting for a time. Posted by: Lovi on April 30, 2007 03:57 AMQOP...still can't find time of birth for Mike Gravel, BUT I did find out he graduated from Columbia Univ. in 1956 and his mother died on Dec 28, 1989. If you can do rectifications, maybe this will help. Posted by: Lovi on April 30, 2007 04:35 AMMorgana, Thank you for your beautiful, liminal, 3-D and technicolor article: "The Dance of the Sun and the Moon" I was totally transported and enchanted.... Watched G. Tenant "Interview" and was outraged to more clearly feel his complicity. Like Imus and Baldwin's blaming everyone but themselves (etc., etc.,) we watched them hang themselves 1000%!! Ray McGovern so precisely impaled/scewered him in above "Truthout" article.The Hague awaits him, BushCo &MSM. Posted by: HOLOS on April 30, 2007 04:46 AMWonderful article Morgana, as always! Thank you so much. ......... April 30, 2007 -- THE MULTIPLE SEX SCANDALS THAT COULD SINK THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND THE GOP I am back again to rile against the gun toters, OK, I have another topic to carp on and that's this repug CON man(the whole repug party is full The only thing missing from this article is who did the construction in the first place. Perchance was it Halliburton? Nope, it's the Iraqis' fault! It's their failure to maintain the structures.
Report: U.S. investment in Iraqi reconstruction at risk • Shoddy work found at seven of eight Iraq reconstruction projects, report says BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Poor construction, improper design, substandard materials and lack of maintenance have brought into question the usefulness of seven of eight U.S.-funded Iraq reconstruction projects. Posted by: lunaoscura on April 30, 2007 06:04 PMGee sounds like the "free" construction work I have gotten thru grants etc. siding is blowing off the North wall ( well, the contractor 's men put it up in 10o weather. & I have noticed a lot of siding coming off local buildings..........COULD IT BE THE MANUFACTUROR? or maybe the extreme high winds generated by global warming?) OR BOTH! Yes, Morgana thank you for this wonderful article. I am full of lustful desire to discover who of the "abstinence only" crowd have found that they require regular massages from the young women working for the escort business, I too, am very troubled Clymela.,........... QOP-do you have a link or title on the Huffington Post article. I'm sorry Clymela...........it's changed! It was the quick read bar at the top of the Home page. Now is about Guliiani, claiming false contributers! I know some of you aren't happy with Code Pink but Pelosi told them that she will take calls for impeachment to see how many she gets. I just called her SF office and the woman who answered the phone said yes, Pelosi is taking those calls and that she would pass my message on. Here's a link to Democratic Underground with the numbers to call. Her SF number is (415) 556-4862 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x790622 Posted by: on May 1, 2007 12:57 AMSorry, that Pelosi/impeachment post was from me. Posted by: lunaoscura on May 1, 2007 01:01 AMBush Sr. To Celebrate Rev. Sun Myung Moon—Again Ex-president’s keynote speech at Washington Times bash this month is latest link between Bush and Unification Church founder. http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2007/04/bush_moon.html Posted by: Pat C on May 1, 2007 01:48 AMHappy Beltane to you Morgana! Posted by: Pat C on May 1, 2007 01:49 AMthank you QOP-hopefully there will be more to read someone else will pick up on the idea. Niger documents lead right back to Cheney. http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/30/cheney-behind-niger-forgeries/ Posted by: Pat C on May 1, 2007 02:31 AMHappy Beltane to all.......My beltane seals were back today! This blogger attended HHDL's recent appearance and posted a very interesting synopsis (of the event, her feelings, perspective, etc.): snip...…when the Boomers were entering the workforce in 1970, the nation’s largest private employer was General Motors. They paid an average wage of $17.50 an hour in today’s dollars. The largest employer in the post-industrial economy is Wal-Mart. Their average wage? Eight dollars an hour. The service-driven economy is also a youth-driven economy, burning young people’s energy and potential over a deep-fat fryer…The entire labor market is downgrading toward what was once entry level....snip http://bullnotbull.com/archive/dow13k-1.html There ARE answers!
For a real-world example of how a system of market-chosen monetary policy would work in the absence of a central bank, one need not look to the past; the example exists in present-day Central America, in the Republic of Panama, a country that has lived without a central bank since its independence, with a very successful and stable macroeconomic environment....snip Posted by: Timmy J on May 1, 2007 05:04 AMJane Stillwater.................... great find! What a strange day moving into the Full Moon, it doesn't feel good at all, kind of like a "stalking moon." It's been four years since GWB stepped off a jet in a rented flight, pelvis thrust forward with what looked like a sock stuffed down his pants and Mission Accomplished plastered behind him. I didn't capture the exact time of that photo op on May 1st, 2003 (so if anyone has it that would be great) but we do have a full moon falling across the face of that chart. Would that the full moon could mean the end of fighting in Iraq, but I don't think that will be the case. It could however mean a huge shift in the thinking of the people. New York State has passed a resolution to end this war, the California Democratic delegation has also demanded the end to the war. The only "end" we will see is GWB's veto and an end to talking about the end of the war. Saturn is squaring the 2003 Mercury, stiffling discussion. The Democrats will posture to satisfy the people who voted for them to end this war and shrug and say "well he said no, what to do now." The war will go on. Uranus and Mars are squaring the 2003 Pluto, so violence will increase while Washington dithers and drains America of her resources, anger rises in the US. There is kind of a nasty t-square to GWB's NN and Uranus, with 2003 Pluto opposing and t-Mars and Uranus squaring, just starting this war insured that this president would be hated because of his attempts at an imperial presidency. It's a dramatic full moon and made more dramatic by the conditions that have been set up in this country. For sure, there will not be flowers tossed at liberators in Baghdad over the next couple of weeks. As a side note, although the collapse of the Bay Bridge in California, no one was killed and that was a miracle for which all can be grateful. Posted by: Sally on May 1, 2007 07:25 AMHow do you explain the conflict here? Unfavorable planetary aspects/versus he philosphy of The Secret. ( Manifesting the desired result.) Jones is hardly the only academic fraud. The outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas estimates that 10-30 percent of resumes include distortions if not outright lies. In the last couple of weeks, for example, “Dr. Denis Waitley Ph.D.” --as he is redundantly listed in the bestselling self-help book The Secret, where he appears as a spiritual teacher-- has confessed to not having his claimed master’s degree, and the multi-level vitamin marketing firm he worked for admits that it can’t confirm the Ph.D. either
PatQOP that's pretty funny about Denis Waitley, however it doesn't change the message of "The Secret," and the message has been around since the beginning of time. Look at it this way, when the law of aerodynamics was beginning to be understood or when it was being tried out, lots of flying contraptions failed. This is about "the law of attraction or manifestation" and a kid in the street could teach it, the people bringing the message isn't the issue at all. Posted by: Sally on May 1, 2007 03:01 PM
(Government Press Office) All the newspapers discuss the Winograd Commission's report submitted yesterday (30 April 2007): Haaretz states that the Winograd Report contains not even one lenient word to which the prime minister could cling in order to extend his term. The results do not permit Ehud Olmert and Amir Peretz to remain in their posts for even one more day. The Jerusalem Post declares that Olmert cannot go on. His tenure from hereon will be a prime ministership on borrowed time. Individual politicians must look to the national interest. If they do not do so of their own volition, the public should seek to force their hand. Makor Rishon-Hatzofeh declares that, "Since the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister are failing to show the proper political responsibility and maturity, the public and the media must do so and focus the debate on the important points," raised in the Winograd Committee's interim report. Yediot Aharonot says that the Winograd Committee's interim report is, "the paper gravestone of Ehud Olmert's government," and adds that, "The Prime Minister and the current Government have finished their career." Yediot Aharonot, in its second editorial, suggests that, "Even after publication of the report last night, it is, perhaps, possible to continue to rely on the IDF – but from time to time it is worthwhile to ask questions, to make comments, to try to understand, to express astonishment and to criticize. The situation in the IDF is so depressing, according to the Winograd report that it would be better to sleep with eyes half-open. There is a good reason to lose sleep." Yediot Aharonot, in its third editorial, ventures that Israel needs not only a new government and IDF General Staff, but a more tenacious people, in light of a possible war with Syria and the Iranian nuclear threat. Yediot Aharonot, in its fourth editorial, notes that former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin resigned in 1977, "not because of an unnecessary war," but because his wife held $20,000 in a then illegal foreign bank account. [Eitan Haber wrote today’s editorials in Yediot Aharonot.]
A member of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's cabinet has resigned in protest against Israel's handling of its 2006 war against Lebanon. "I cannot sit in a government headed by Ehud Olmert," Mr Cabel said, calling for Mr Olmert to resign immediately. Mr Olmert says he intended to stay in office despite the damning report. 'Trust lost' Mr Cabel, who did not hold a portfolio, said Mr Olmert should resign as he had "lost the trust of the people" following the investigation. The six-month government probe, led by retired judge Eliahu Winograd, accused Mr Olmert of "serious failure in exercising judgement, responsibility and prudence" during the war against Hezbollah. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6610839.stm
Tony Blair has said he expects "in all probability" that Chancellor Gordon Brown will succeed him as prime minister "in the next few weeks". Mr Blair says he will announce his resignation next week, after which he will stay as PM for about seven weeks until Labour chooses his successor. He has so far refused to formally endorse Mr Brown as the next PM. He made his prediction while campaigning in Scotland on the 10th anniversary of being elected to power. Mr Brown, who helped create New Labour with Mr Blair, is not now expected to face a high level challenge for the leadership. Mr Blair has said he will leave No 10 by September, but there has been speculation about the precise timing of his departure. Speculation dampened He moved to dampen such speculation earlier on Tuesday by saying on GMTV: "I'll make my position clear next week, I'll say something definitive then." There had been predictions he would use his 10th anniversary to announce he was stepping down. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6610623.stm Posted by: on May 1, 2007 03:27 PM* Olmert under attack after report "A gun to his head," read one. "The noose is tied," another said. A third pulled no punches: "Olmert on his way out." On Mon, a damning interim report into the govt's handling of last summer's Lebanon war was released. The Winograd Commission concluded that Mr Olmert launched the war hastily & without a proper plan, & accused him of "a severe failure in judgement, responsibility & caution". And there was no let up today. ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6611025.stm http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/1/0317/13096 In an import alert buried deep on its website and just uncovered tonight, the FDA last Friday expanded its hold on imported foods from China - ingredients including Wheat Gluten, Rice Gluten, Rice Protein, Rice Protein Concentrate, Corn Gluten, Corn Gluten Meal, Corn By-Products, Soy Protein, Soy Gluten, Mung Bean Protein, Soy Bean Meal/Powder/Gluten/Protein Isolate, Soy Protein Powder, Wheat Gluten, Wheat Flour Gluten, Wheat Gluten, Rice Protein, Rice Gluten, Rice Protein, Corn Gluten, Milled Rice Products, Amino acids and protein hydrosylates. They also, for the first time, published estimates of pet deaths closer to what other authoritative sources have been speculating for weeks now: As of April 26, 2007, FDA had received over 17,000 consumer complaints relating to this outbreak, and those complaints included reports of approximately 1950 deaths of cats and 2200 deaths of dogs. These numbers are very much in line with what we've seen in our own database of self-reported cases at PetConnection: More... Posted by: Pat C on May 1, 2007 04:18 PMBelow is a hard hitting TRUTH on the corrupt liars http://www.martinirepublic.com/item/twit-o-the-day-niall-fergusson/ Posted by: Raj on May 1, 2007 04:42 PM
Also called the Reformation Act There is, RIGHT NOW, a law on the books that when announced IMMEDIATELY Improves YOUR LIFE! NESARA initiates PEACE IMMEDIATELY and
You can take action to get NESARA announced and implemented See the Action Plan! Here's a very hopeful impeachment story! http://www.pdamerica.org/articles/news/2007-04-30-07-02-01-news.php Another Historic Step on Impeachment Sparked by an insurgency among delegates, the California Democratic Party has taken an historic step forward on the issue of impeachment. In a resolution affirmed by the full state party convention Sunday, the Democrats called on the U.S. Congress to use its subpoena power to investigate misdeeds of President Bush and Vice President Cheney – and to hold the Administration accountable “with appropriate remedies and punishment, including impeachment.” The delegate insurgency was coordinated by Progressive Democrats of America and its allies. While Speaker Pelosi had declared impeachment “off the table,” the Democratic Party rank-and-file has demonstrated its commitment to putting the issue “on” the table. And it’s no longer just the rank-and-file: Even among the members of the convention’s Resolutions Committee (appointed by the California Party chair), the impeachment resolution was the top vote-getter (tied with one other resolution). Coming on the heels of mass actions and resolutions across the country in support of impeachment, and Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s introduction of Articles of Impeachment against Cheney, this action by the powerful California Democratic Party builds on the pro-impeachment momentum. The resolution refers to Bush and Cheney having acted in a manner “subversive of the Constitution” by. . . using false information to justify the invasion of Iraq The resolution ends by calling for “vigorous investigation” and “appropriate remedies and punishment, including impeachment.” This action represents the successful culmination of PDA’s one-month, eleven-city barnstorming tour across California – aimed at putting impeachment and ending the occupation of Iraq at the top of the Party’s agenda. Posted by: lunaoscura on May 1, 2007 05:31 PM"How do you explain the conflict here? Unfavorable planetary aspects/versus he philosphy of The Secret. ( Manifesting the desired result.)" My take on this. 1. At the outset, the conjunction begins any creation, challenging aspects play the role of grow or die. The most obvious observations being found at oppositions. If entropy is obvious after the opposition, the creation will often coast until death. See Dane Rudhyar on aspects. 2. Just as rules or technical skills are meant to give us structure from which to create, not as an end in themselves, so too do astrological subconscious agreements support us. This posting should be seen as beginning to answer this question. Posted by: Timmy J on May 1, 2007 05:46 PMWhat you resist you get more of! The current US administration, IMHO, represent oil as controlled by the market. They having great influence in that market. Using the US military to fight (resist) oil being controlled not by the market, but by states such as Russia, Iran, etc. My preference would be US energy independence through creative effort, eg, creating a team to bring zero point energy to market. If you recall, when NASA was created it was called the biggest problem solving team ever assembled. XOXO, Timmy J Posted by: Timmy J on May 1, 2007 06:00 PMMorgana, Ohmg what a gorgeous rich word painting you created! You brought out the cowering child in me (so many words, too little magic). Never put away that palette knife loaded up and dripping with color. Thank you. Sally, when you say "stalking moon" are you referring to a particular term like the "hunter's moon" when the moon keeps pace with saturn in a progressed chart? Posted by: on May 1, 2007 06:13 PMTimmy J., I think we're on the same wave length. I think the American People (that's all of us of all colors blah blah) are quite creative and if told there is a problem will find a solution. One that doesn't require the USAian government to go kill hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's for their oil. later back to work for me. Thank you anonymous, I love having a vast array of colors to work with. When other kids had crayons and blank paper to draw pictures, I wrote word pictures. Put lots of good productive vibes out there today great energy to carry it forward. Posted by: Morgana on May 1, 2007 06:39 PMMorgana, anonymous twas me. News coverage? Just about none as expected. Also, You wouldn't believe that now (Ah suspects)that pbs is lorded over by the thugs, we in CO didn't see Bill Moyers Premier show Fri nite because it was "pre-empted" by a fundraising auction 4 hours in length. I called the local pbs station and they said they re-aired it 11am on Sunday morning, but they just didn't tell us about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so pissed-off!!!@ Posted by: patb on May 1, 2007 07:27 PMPelosi & Reid press conference CNN. re: the funding patb, There were many reports of having a fast one pulled about Moyers' PBS shows this week, either wasn't shown as scheduled or preempted in markets all across America. It was *strangely* totally absent from the NYTimes tv guide I heard. Same with our local paper from the capitol of Mich. Imagine that. Thankfully Moyers has podcasts of them with their embedded player, or your choice of players: Jon Stewart and Josh Marshall interviews were excellent, can watch the whole thing or in two parts here:
By: SilentPatriot @ 11:02 AM - PDT On last Sunday's "Late Edition," Condoleezza Rice categorically denied the notion that President Bush was intent on invading Iraq when he entered office in January 2001: RICE: Of course, the president came in concerned about Iraq. President Clinton had used military force against Iraq in 1998. We'd gone to war against Iraq in 1991, but the idea that the president had made up his mind when he came to office that he was going to go to war against Iraq is just flat wrong. Since taking the Bushies at their word has proven foolish in the past, let's take a look back at the evidence that suggests otherwise. http://www.crooksandliars.com/ Posted by: wv on May 1, 2007 09:18 PM
A Loser's History George Tenet's sniveling, self-justifying new book is a disgrace. By Christopher Hitchens It's difficult to see why George Tenet would be so incautious as to write his own self-justifying apologia, let alone give it the portentous title At the Center of the Storm. There is already a perfectly good pro-Tenet book written by a man who knows how to employ the overworked term storm. Bob Woodward's 2002 effort, Bush at War, was, in many of its aspects, almost dictated by George Tenet. How do we know this? Well, Tenet is described on the opening page as "a hefty, outgoing son of Greek immigrants," which means that he talked to Woodward on background. Further compliments are showered upon him. We discover that his main protector on Capitol Hill, Sen. David Boren, who represented Oklahoma until 1994, had implored President-elect Bush to retain this Clinton-era head of the CIA and if he had any doubts, to "ask your father": When the younger Bush did, the former President George H.W. Bush said: "From what I hear, he's a good fellow," one of the highest accolades in the Bush family lexicon. Tenet … later led the effort to rename CIA headquarters for Bush, himself a former DCI. http://politics.slate.msn.com/id/2165269/nav/tap1/ Posted by: wv on May 1, 2007 09:33 PM
Incompetence at the Top By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Every American who voted Republican shares responsibility for the great evil America has brought to the Middle East. The evil that America brought to Iraq transcends the tens or hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians who have been killed and maimed in the conflict. The evil goes beyond the destruction of ancient historical artifacts and the civilian infrastructure of a secular state and the decimation of the lives, careers, and families of millions of Iraqis. The violence and killing that Bush brought to Iraq has spread antagonism between Sunni and Shiite throughout the Middle East with potentially draconian consequences. Bush's war has turned Muslim hearts and minds against America and made terrorism an acceptable means to resist American hegemony. With his mindless war, Bush has created more terrorism than the world has ever seen. http://www.counterpunch.com/roberts04302007.html
Tenet's Self-Serving Apologia By RAY McGOVERN "If you can't say something positive about someone, don't say anything." This was drummed into me by my Irish grandmother and, as was the case with most of her admonishments, it has stood me in good stead. On occasion, though, it has been a real bother-as when I felt called to comment on George Tenet's apologia, At the Center of the Storm, coming soon to a bookstore near you. On the verge of despair, I ran into an old classmate of Tenet's from PS 94 in Little Neck, Queens. Help at last. He told me that George was more handsome than his twin brother Billy, and that his outgoing nature and consummate political skill got him elected president of the student body. http://www.counterpunch.com/mcgovern04302007.html Posted by: wv on May 1, 2007 10:20 PMBill Moyers with Jon Stewart - video and script http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050107C.shtml Posted by: wv on May 1, 2007 10:42 PMPerhaps just the full moon, perhaps I'm really getting whacked, as my rising is 0 Scorpio, but an hour ago I backed out of my drive way onto my street, which is a circular court, and straight into a double parked (nose to tail) SUV sticking straight out into the area I end up in...and I didn't see it, despite the RED color of this thing. (Mars?) long story short, the guy runs out to his illegally parked SUV and says, oh, I'm all right, but your aren't! Thanks...since my car was lower and smaller, I lost a whole tail light. It ticked me off...so emblematic of life right now. Or just the full moon.... Posted by: judigem on May 2, 2007 12:01 AMof course Saddam was on the hit list from day one, in fact, day one was when the CIA put him in charge of Iraq in the first place... was Bill Moyers targeted for submission by his pbs masters? you bet....blanketed out, but his following is pretty strong. In another time and in another administration, his show would have BEEN the fund raiser...which it could be of course, in the near future. Thanks for the alert on the pet deaths and the FDA actually putting a hold on the China imports...I had no idea that it included rice, millet, etc...so there I was, thinking it was only WHEAT, but noooooooooo.....this is what happens where the Peter Principle reaches its apex, right? When anyone of any importance to the functioning of our society is a total and complete incompetent fool. And in that position because he/she is a bush supporter, well...the rapture just can't come too soon for me....hopefully they'll be hauled off to some other planet and forced to deal with life run and ruled by total idiots. Posted by: judigem on May 2, 2007 12:10 AMReport: Command to open fire heard on Kent State tape
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/01/kent.state.ap/index.html I think George Tenet is going to regret that he ever wrote that book. He's just digging a deeper hole for himself. Posted by: Crystal on May 2, 2007 02:58 AMNo, I didn't mean "stalking" in the same sense as "Hunter Moon" I meant it in a poetic sense and taking the complete Full Moon chart in relationship to the Bush chart, the "Mission Accomplished" chart, and the 2001 Inaugural Chart. Looking at all these together and you can expect and even look forward to more scandals over the next two weeks and probably longer. Posted by: Sally on May 2, 2007 06:42 AMThe Blasphemy Challenge An interesting side note Brian Flemming has the same 6 degree Gemini as at the start of the American civil war in 1861 and this August Mars will be again on this degree.
Feinstein’s Cardinal shenanigans California Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) chairs the Senate Rules Committee, but she’s also a Cardinal. She is currently chairwoman of the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies subcommittee, but until last year was for six years the top Democrat on the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies (or “Milcon”) sub-committee, where she may have directed more than $1 billion to companies controlled by her husband. http://thehill.com/david-keene/feinsteins-cardinal-shenanigans-2007-04-30.html
Obama Beats Hillary in First National Poll (Dick Morris) @ 3:57 pm The Rasmussen poll ended on April 26 shows Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) beating Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), albeit by the slim margin of 32-30. This is, of course, the first national poll among Democratic candidates that shows Obama in the lead. Rasmussen, whose polls seem to be one step ahead of everybody else’s, has the candidates tied as of two weeks ago and has shown Obama creeping up with each survey. The sense of Hillary’s inevitability is gone. Now how will the game play out? > Read More Posted by: wv on May 2, 2007 03:33 PMIn a better world, a Kucinich-Gravel ticket might be enough to do the trick. In a better world, that is. I don't know about you all, but I'm still pulling for Al Gore to step up and enter the presidential fray in September. By then, given the growing problems that we are facing in this country, the bursting of the housing bubble and the resulting mass-foreclosures in suburbia, the collapse of the dollar, stagflation and $3+, maybe even $4 gasoline as the new "normal", and Bush's senseless stubborness on refusing to withdraw from Iraq against all evidence that the war has been a catastrophic failure, not to mention the mounting long-term threat of climate change, I think even some of Gore's detractors will be willing to give him another chance as a voice of reason amidst the growing chaos and uncertainty. Our present leading candidates, unfortunately and perhaps true to the current Pluto in Sag "style over substance" theme in power are little more than talking heads, glossed over by the media, and are hopelessly mired in the current political paradigm. They are still too afraid of facing backlash and defeat to take a hard stand against Bush and Cheney and the war, not realizing that this is actually what the people want them to do. We are still waiting for the real leaders to emerge. But perhaps we don't get or even need a "Gore (or fill in the blank) as Franklin Delano Roosevelt" this time? Maybe this is the time for all of us to step up and be our own FDRs in our families and communities? Posted by: NEOBuckeye on May 2, 2007 04:09 PMNot done yet with nra gun toting coddlers who are the repug cons; these cons must be branded as what
Staff and agencies Guardian Unlimited The position of the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, became increasingly precarious today, after his foreign minister called on him to resign over the handling of last year's war in Lebanon. In a hastily convened press conference after meeting Mr Olmert, Ms Livni said: "I told him that resignation would be the right thing for him to do." She said she would remain in government "to ensure that improvements are carried out". Mr Olmert's biggest rival, Ms Livni said she believed the party could replace the prime minister without bringing down the government. Tonight, the parliamentary chairman, Avigdor Yitzhaki, carried out his threat to resign "to express dissatisfaction with Mr Olmert", according to Kadima officials. http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329802776-103552,00.html Letters following article are very interesting
Zoe Williams Guardian All you ever read about Hillary Clinton is how the American electorate hates her, and yet the only reason you're reading about her in the first place is that she is, in effect, 50% of the candidacy for leadership of the Democratic party. Somebody, surely, must like her. It can't just be the internet. Is the net even allowed to vote? Carl Bernstein is dishing the dirt in his forthcoming unauthorised biography, entitled A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Bernstein is now known as "the one played by Dustin Hoffman" in the Watergate film. He is a seminal investigative journalist, and claims to have the unexpurgated truth, culled from 200 sources - one of which, wince-inducingly, is Clinton's closest confidante, Diane Blair. Or rather not the woman herself; she (and now you can wince) died of lung cancer seven years ago. Bernstein has filleted her papers and personal effects, which are being sorted for the University of Arkansas library. He stops short of calling Clinton a liar, apparently, but suggests that she played fast and loose with the truth. Well come on then, how would the truth look if she'd played slower and tighter? http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2070075,00.html Posted by: wv on May 2, 2007 06:41 PM
Let's get serious about a la carte cable, satellite TV David Lazarus Wednesday, May 2, 2007 Federal regulators issued an extraordinary report the other day that basically says existing methods of shielding kids from violent TV programs -- the V-chip, parental controls, etc. -- aren't working, and that one alternative answer is giving consumers greater choice in how they purchase channels. In other words, it's time for an a la carte system by which people pay for only the channels they want to watch. "I have long encouraged industry to give parents more direct control over the television content that comes into their homes," Kevin Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said in a statement. "Cable and satellite operators could enable parents to avoid purchasing channels that tend to show excessively violent programming by allowing them to purchase channels individually or in smaller bundles as they do for 'premium channels' like HBO," he said. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/02/BUGRNPG2ED41.DTL&type=printable Posted by: wv on May 2, 2007 07:03 PMsnip...During the last several decades, control of global oil reserves has steadily passed from private companies to national oil companies like Rosneft and Petróleos de Venezuela. Roughly 77% of the world’s 1.15 trillion barrels of proven reserves is in the hands of the national companies, and 14 of the top-20 oil companies are state-controlled. Together, the “Axis of Oil” pumps one-fifth of global oil output. Maintaining the US dollar monopoly on the sale of oil is critical to the Fed’s ability to print money, without sending the greenback into a tailspin. However, if the ”Axis of Oil” and /or the Chinese dragon decide to shift more of their trade surpluses towards the Euro or gold, it could seriously undermine the US dollar, increasing the cost of US imports, and corral the US economy into the “Stagflation” trap.....snip http://www.freebuck.com/articles/gdorsch/070501gdorsch.htm I've read when mars negatively encounters neptune, in the US chart, US finances don't do so well. (Lost my link.) In the current US solar return chart Mars is opposite Neptune to within 2 mins of exactitude. Today, transiting Saturn conjs US solar return Mars by a waxing exact 1 degree. Now I'm no mundane astrologer, but I think this exacerbates the US oil postion and therefore the US dollar. This 1st week of May doesn't look good for US finances. Posted by: Timmy J on May 2, 2007 07:44 PMBush's Royal Trouble
Now the White House ponders what Abdullah's sudden and sparsely explained cancellation of the dinner signifies. Nothing good -- especially for Condoleezza Rice's most important Middle East initiatives -- is the clearest available answer.
Major lineup of pink supremacist malebots that think they are "roooooolers" even tho they're only a minority of the population. ;O) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ Posted by: JoannaOregon on May 3, 2007 04:18 PMIn spite of extreme national political difficulties (imo), it ain't nothin' like it was before the last election where the only stiffling topics of conversation allowed were about "sinful gay marriage" &... oh, what was the other one? ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on May 3, 2007 04:35 PM* Solar Storms & the Solstice in 2012 Owing to their slow moving nature, outer planetary cycles ie the angular relationship between the planets Saturn thru Pluto, have been noted to be the celestial transits that have the most significant 'terrestrial' effects. The major ongoing outer planetary cycle of this part of 2007 is the Sat/Nep opposition. As has been noted here, many times before, Saturn is concerned with structure & Neptune with collapse. It should come as no surprise then that the plight of the disappearing bees, to which I referred in my previous post, is now commonly referred to as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). In my previous post I also linked to an article on the subj of these beehive die-offs which appeared in The Independent Newspaper. Along with other august institutions such as the BBC, many authoritative media outlets across the world have included a quote quote attributed to Einstein in their articles on CCD. The quote is 'if the bees were to disappear, man would have only 4 yrs of life left'. This quote has proved to be an urban legend. This in itself is very interesting because Sat & Nep are associated with 'spin', conspiracy theories & authoritative sounding lies. It is highly unusual for so many serious journalists to have included an unsubstantiated quote in their work, & this one has spread like a virus around the world. News this week too of an oil tanker explosion causing the collapse of parts of the SF Bay Bridge - another obvious Sat/Nep manifestation. It's also a little bit spine chilling for me as, in an earlier post, I recounted that I have had bad vibes about The Golden Gate Bridge for a while now. Hopefully I just got my bridges mixed up. Keeping on the SA/NE theme I also noted a quote this week in an article concerning the English class system. The exact words were; 'The whole scaffolding of our class system has been dismantled'. In this instance the astrological translation would be that Saturn is the scaffolding & Neptune is the dismantling (or collapse) process. Saturn in Leo; the class or system. Neptune; the dissolution. Saturn has now turned to direct motion, on 20th May it will move past the 18 deg Leo point where, by that date, it will have been stuck at for over 12 wks. ... http://collaboratingwithfate.blogspot.com/ Posted by: JoannaOregon on May 3, 2007 06:39 PM
Just after the 2006 elections, I wrote a series of widely-circulated posts on how the real divide that will be (and has been) defining politics is not the one between Republicans and Democrats, but between the Money Party and the People Party. On many issues, the Money Party is synonymous with the GOP, but it also includes a faction of corporate-backed Democrats. That's why though the Democrats do have a majority in Congress, the Money Party also is in the majority as well. The question, as I said after the election, would be whether the People Party minority in Congress (who still make up a majority of Democrats in Congress and, of course, a majority of people in the country) had the guts to use its power against the Money Party to really force changes. This week, we have two specific reasons to be hopeful that yes, the People Party is asserting itself and yes, the Washington Establishment has a serious revolt on its hands. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/the-people-party-revolt-r_b_47545.html Posted by: wv on May 3, 2007 09:06 PMMoveOn emergency petition. I believe our voices make a difference. Subject: Tell Congress to stand firm on Iraq http://pol.moveon.org/noveto/index2.html?rc=cp Posted by: Morgana on May 3, 2007 09:17 PMWatching the Republican Debate! It's much better scripted then the Democratic Debate! Booooooh! PatQOP I watched until Duncan Hunter opened his mouth and then couldn't take it. But in lieu of hearing these yahoos, I ran a transit chart for the Repug Party and lo Taurus Sun conjunct Mercury kissing their n. Uranus in the 8th, the T moon 0 Sag conjunct n. South Node 0 Sag., T. South Node conjunct n. Neptune, T. Saturn inconjunct n. Chiron 18 Capricorn. T. Venus inconjunct n. Moon in Scorpio. Wow karma, they are so wearing Bush's legacy. For whoever would like to see a pretty thorough discussion of the bee die-off and practices exacerbating their plight, I highly recommend Of particular interest personally is the commentary about the nicotine-based pesticides as a heavy-handed contributor. The French quit using them because of the obviousness of their effects on the bees. scroll down 50% to see that. I'll have to go look again and see if I can find the link, patb, but out there in the blogosphere today I read a very interesting thing: the critters that usually raid a hive after bees have left it will NOT raid the hives of these bees. I hope to be back with the link in just a few. Posted by: shylurker on May 4, 2007 04:05 AMWhoo-hoo, patb, I found it: Whoo-hoo patb & QOP (and anyone else interested), I found more: When I have time I'll look into this. I see hives out in the bluberry fields off season............but they may be the small family farms...... Shylurker, perfect article by Peter Dearman. Shock but no surprise they're going for more chemicals (mitacides) to attack the SYMPTOMS, just the way the medical community approaches human conditions! Hah! Sad to crying usual missing the POINT! Brings to mind that Hopi Indian term "Koyaaniqatsi" Life Out of Balance, 1982 Philip Glass. Shy, people make me crazy. You I like! Posted by: patb on May 4, 2007 04:50 AMRe Link (long list of different articles together) click "read more"...for rest of articles related to bees. Posted by: patb on May 4, 2007 04:54 AMShy and anyone interested: for a fascinating sequence of visuals on the Koyaanisqatsi theme http://spiritofbaraka.com/koyaanis.aspx scroll thru the silent progression of the relationship of earth and man. Posted by: patb on May 4, 2007 05:10 AM* ... As I work with Ceres more in personal readings, it is becoming more clear to me that Ceres acts as the higher octave of the Moon. WIth Ceres the emotional security of the Moon is transmuted to a sustenance & nurturing of our spiritual security & sense of place on Planet Earth. As we become more disconnected with the Earth & our sense of the natural rhythms & cycles of the seasons, we lose touch with a part of our own internal being. This can create a desperate sense of spiritual starvation within us as we stuff ourselves with bioengineered food that is loaded with chemicals that leaves us feeling undernourished & thirsty for a life that has meaning. In mythology, Ceres was the goddess of plenty - the bearer of fruits & grain that nourished the world. But on the dark side, her grief over her lost daughter caused her to roam thruout the world, ignoring the crops & causing devastation & famine everywhere she went. For this reason, I believe that Ceres is associated with prosperity & abundance. Jupiter signifies the optimism & sense of meaning in life that brings about an abundant life, but Ceres represents the actual bounty - the foods, the flowers, the birds [the insects] & plants, & the desperation that results when the bounty is withdrawn. I am beginning to look at Ceres as the place in our chart that connects us to our natural selves. Difficult aspects to Ceres show challenges to our ability to feel safe in our bodily incarnation & denote areas where we need to make a more direct effort to honor the rhythms of nature & to feed & nourish ourselves. On a more global level she reminds us that without a connection to nature we cannot as a species survive. ... http://astrodynamics.blogspot.com/ I say, Good Riddance! ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on May 4, 2007 11:41 AM* Over the w/e, John Murtha said that the Pentagon was thinking about making the soldiers 15 mo tour increase into 18 — kind of like Dubby promising a “surge” of about 21,000 & then readying 12,000 guardsman a few weeks later. Enough is never enough. We need more troops, we need them fast — they’re dying off in greater numbers now, & we have too many other nations to conquer. I see at least one recruiting commercial per evening, all stars & bars & glory & patriotic pride … & young, clean-scrubbed teens responding as if this were the opportunity of a lifetime. Probably a short one. But we can’t do without the cannon fodder, even with the uber-technology we depend on, we need those warm bodies & we’re not interested in any whining — war is hell, America’s Rambo-consciousness can always provide us some hero’s to buffer that reality & if they come home broken, that’s the price we pay for freedom. The price THEY pay, anyway. I read the other day that the Vets are expecting some 70,000 wounded to pull on their coffers within a few years, & they don’t have the money; the Dem’s tried to fund them in the vetoed bill. Bush referred to it as “pork.” ... http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/ I hope I am not included in the list of "people who make you crazy patb.......................I just added what I heard to the discussion! At three minutes and four seconds after 2 AM on the 6th of May this
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by DrSteveB Last night's Reagan love fest is a good time to remind folks just how bad the Reagan years, and Reagan's policies, were. And that Chris Mathews was there, not just last night as part of the Reagan revisionist cheerleading, but also in his prior life as a top aide to then Speaker Tip O'Neill. That was when the congressional Democrats, despite being in a strong majority, went along and backed the worst the early Reagan domestic policies especially the extrmist taxs cuts for the wealthy that were relatively worse than anything Bush has done. One of the splits I've seen here on Daily Kos is generational. Folks who were already college age or young adults when Reagan first became president may remember the highlight of how bad he was. Folks who are younger may have internalized to varying degrees the mainstream media's subsequent whitwashing and glorification. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/4/81939/18748 Posted by: wv on May 4, 2007 04:29 PMQOP! Please no don't think that for a second!
Dozens of Heads Were Bowed By Dana Milbank Let us pray. Let us pray that, on next year's National Day of Prayer, there is better attendance at the "Bible Reading Marathon" on the West Front of the Capitol. Organizers put out 600 folding chairs on the lawn -- the spot where presidents are inaugurated -- and set up a huge stage with powerful amplifiers. But at 9:30 a.m. yesterday, not one of the 600 seats was occupied. By 11 a.m., as a woman read a passage from Revelations, attendance had grown -- to four people. Finally, at 1 p.m., 37 of the 600 seats were occupied, though many of those people were tourists eating lunch. Where was everybody? "This isn't that kind of event," explained Jeff Gannon, spokesman for the host, the International Bible Reading Association. Gannon, actually a pseudonym for James Guckert, had earned fame in 2005 representing a conservative Web site at White House briefings until it was revealed that he posted nude pictures of himself on the Web to offer his services as a $200-an-hour gay escort. Let us pray for the power to understand how Gannon made his way from HotMilitaryStud.com to the International Bible Reading Association. OK. That does it! We're definitely living in an Alice in Wonderland alternate reality that keeps shape shifting! Gannon!!??!! GANNON a spokeman for a religious group????? Was it Benjamin Franklin who said patriotism is the last refuge? Well he obviously didn't live long enough to see what's happened with religion. Every creep in existence runs to the church and starts spouting the bible and suddenly they're born again and forgiven. Do they really think their god is that dumb? Posted by: lunaoscura on May 4, 2007 06:13 PMDo they really think their god is that dumb? Posted by: lunaoscura AH-Bleepin'-MEN! Put THAT in yr bible and stroke it! "I've said it before & I'll say it again. QOP Posted by: on May 4, 2007 07:01 PMAny one here guessed why crooked and corrupt wolf will NOT resign? Give up! There's only ONE reason for all these cons to occupy office positions in the government and international organizations and According to Democrat.com the push for impeachment by the public is working. Here'a an email I received from them. From Democrat.com April 28's I-M-P-E-A-C-H day was a huge success! We all had a great time. We got lots of press coverage. And we put impeachment Your efforts helped persuade Rep. Lacy Clay (MO) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (IL) to In addition, your efforts persuaded Rep. John Murtha, a key House Democratic leader, Many of you have asked what you can do next to impeach Bush and Cheney. Our next goal is to persuade a majority of Congress - 218 Members - to co-sponsor 1. Sign our petitions to your Representative and to every Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, which must be persuaded to
It was Thomas Paine who said - Patriotism is the wv Gov. Richards wrote on Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gov-bill-richardson/deauthorize-the-war-now_b_47690.html [snip] There would be no need to negotiate the withdrawal with the President, and he could not veto the resolution. Congress has the ability to end this war under the War Powers Act -- let's not wait or waver while more people die. And de-authorizing the war should mean removing all our troops. Every last one. more.... Posted by: lunaoscura on May 5, 2007 12:38 AMMay 4-6, 2007 -- World Bank sources emphasize that World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz's attempt to extort a $400,000 bonus from the bank before he resigns comes with a nice fringe benefit. As an international civil servant, Wolfowitz's bonus, as well as his salary, are exempt from US income taxes. Ditto the $193,590 salary for Wolfowitz's girl friend Shaha Riza. It is the neo-con way: the neo-cons start the wars and tax the poor and middle class to pay for their wars while they enjoy the best tax-avoidance schemes neo-con politicians can contrive. The French revolutionaries beheaded their king and queen for much less perfidy. Posted by: judigem on May 5, 2007 02:01 AMwhat a hoot. Both of those are Wayne Madsen Report...!!! May 4-6, 2007 -- Hookergate "Black Book Day." ABC News 20/20's investigative reporter Brian Ross is due to reveal the names of only two more "DC Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey call girl clients tonight. ABC News has reportedly scaled down the number of clients who we be outed, possibly as a result of pressure from some of the clients' attorneys. Meanwhile, a legal secretary for the powerful Washington law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Feld has been revealed as an employee for Palfrey's Pamela Martin & Associates. The legal secretary informed her employer that she would be called as a witness in the Palfrey trial. Navy Times is also reporting that a Naval Academy instructor worked as an escort for Palfrey's service. Posted by: judigem on May 5, 2007 02:04 AMQOP, what is the May bird (yr calendar)? Thnx. Posted by: shylurker on May 5, 2007 03:29 AMThat is a cedar waxwing. I remember the adults speaking about that bird in hushed wonderous tone when one appeared. Georgie is AWOL again. Did you see the CHeney's presiding at the luncheon for Q Eliz today. No shrub in sight! The formal dinner at the WH shoukd be interesting Mon. http://rawstory.com/news/2007/DFA_head_Impeachment_more_on_table_0502.html Groups believe impeachment is 'more on the table than people think [snip] Remember, We’re the Deciders. Impeachment is on the table. Investigate and Impeach Cheney and Bush! more.... There's also a photograph of the cards Posted by: lunaoscura on May 5, 2007 03:58 AMI had another thought yesterday. If anyone still has doubts that there is real evil in this world that it willfully stands in the way of absolutely anything that goes against it's plans let them read the last sentence in the excerpt below. http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2073006,00.html UN scientists warn time is running out to tackle global warming · Scientists say eight years left to avoid worst effects David Adam, environment correspondent Governments are running out of time to address climate change and to avoid the worst effects of rising temperatures, an influential UN panel warned yesterday. Greater energy efficiency, renewable electricity sources and new technology to dump carbon dioxide underground can all help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the experts said. But there could be as little as eight years left to avoid a dangerous global average rise of 2C or more. The warning came in a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published yesterday in Bangkok. It says most of the technology needed to stop climate change in its tracks already exists, but that governments must act quickly to force through changes across all sectors of society. Delays will make the problem more difficult, and more expensive. Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the IPCC, said the report would underpin negotiations to develop a new international treaty to regulate emissions to replace the Kyoto protocol when it expires in 2012. The report said little on the best way to encourage greater take-up of cleaner technologies. A delegate present at the negotiations said the passages on international policy options had been watered down by the US, which is opposed to Kyoto-style agreements that rely on binding targets. more... Posted by: lunaoscura on May 5, 2007 05:48 PMUS Pharma gets its first swift kick in the pants by Brazil! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6626073.stm Brazil to break Aids drug patent The decision came after talks between Brazil and the US company broke down. Merck had offered Brazil a 30% discount on the cost of the drugs but the country wanted to pay the same price as Thailand, which gets a larger discount. Small royalty Merck offered Brazil almost a third off the cost - pricing the pills at $1.10 (£0.55) instead of $1.59. But Brazil wanted its discount pegged at same level as Thailand, which pays just $0.65 per pill. Now, though, it will source Indian-made versions of Efavirenz for just $0.45 each. "From an ethical point of view the price difference is grotesque," said President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. "And from a political point of view, it represents a lack of respect, as though a sick Brazilian is inferior," he added. more... Posted by: lunaoscura on May 5, 2007 07:17 PMMeanwhile the Thailand story about US Pharma Thailand takes on drugs giants The Thai government's decision to bypass the patents on two Aids drugs and one heart drug, so it can offer them to all Thai citizens, is a bold move, which has put the country on a collision course with the big pharmaceutical firms. [snip] Because Thailand went along with patent protection many years ago, it is being criticised for following India's example. Indeed, some of the cheap drugs Thailand now wants to give its patients are actually imported from India. Tellingly the US, normally a vocal defender of intellectual property rights, has not criticised Thailand's decision, nor has the World Health Organization. The drug companies are also showing signs of flexibility, offering significant price cuts to Thailand. Even Abbott, which has taken the most hardline stand, is under great pressure to reverse its decision to pull future products from the Thai market. Whatever the rights and wrongs of Thailand's drugs pricing policy, it looks as though Dr Mongkol is starting to win his battle for affordable healthcare. more... Posted by: lunaoscura on May 5, 2007 07:36 PM
The deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, who until Wednesday was seen as the natural successor to Olmert, opted for a secure spot on the fence. It could have been expected that immediately after the release of the Winograd Committee's severe report, Livni would have rallied Kadima's members to quickly replace Olmert. Instead, she made do with a call for the prime minister's resignation, and in the same breath announced that she would stay in his cabinet and do nothing to remove him. The rest of Kadima's ministers, who consider themselves candidates for the party's leadership, lined up as one behind the prime minister. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/855674.html The document sets a schedule for removing roadblocks and opening passages in the territories and upgrading the Palestinian forces loyal to PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Israel is also urged to approve requests for weapons, munitions and equipment required by defense forces loyal to Abbas. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to arrive on May 15 to discuss implementing the plan. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/855660.html Posted by: wv on May 5, 2007 11:20 PM
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Lying and Dying By Missy Comley Beattie
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Is Condi Hiding the Smoking Gun? IF, as J.F.K. had it, victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan, the defeat in Iraq is the most pitiful orphan imaginable. Its parents have not only tossed it to the wolves but are also trying to pin its mutant DNA on any patsy they can find. George Tenet is just the latest to join this blame game, which began more than three years ago when his fellow Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Tommy Franks told Bob Woodward that Douglas Feith, the Pentagon’s intelligence bozo, was the “stupidest guy on the face of the earth” (that’s the expurgated version). Last fall, Kenneth Adelman, the neocon cheerleader who foresaw a “cakewalk” in Iraq, told Vanity Fair that Mr. Tenet, General Franks and Paul Bremer were “three of the most incompetent people who’ve ever served in such key spots.” Richard Perle chimed in that the “huge mistakes” were “not made by neoconservatives” and instead took a shot at President Bush. Ahmad Chalabi, the neocons’ former darling, told Dexter Filkins of The Times “the real culprit in all this is Wolfowitz.” And of course nearly everyone blames Rumsfeld. http://donkeyod.wordpress.com/ Posted by: wv on May 6, 2007 04:18 AM
Republicans defect to the Obama campSarah Baxter, Washington DISILLUSIONED supporters of President George W Bush are defecting to Barack Obama, the Democratic senator for Illinois, as the White House candidate with the best chance of uniting a divided nation. Tom Bernstein went to Yale University with Bush and co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team with him. In 2004 he donated the maximum $2,000 to the president’s reelection campaign and gave $50,000 to the Republican National Committee. This year he is switching his support to Obama. He is one of many former Bush admirers who find the Democrat newcomer appealing. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1752381.ece Posted by: wv on May 6, 2007 03:34 PM* Eight Gate — coming right along OK, so I’m not interested in hearing any more whining about what a do-nothing Congress we’ve got … I don’t know where they’re finding the stamina for the assault on all that’s wrong, but they are. I still don’t trust the Dem party but I trust that they found their years in oblivion so repugnant that they’ve come out swinging to right wrongs, & I’m behind them all the way. Yes — the Yellow Dog Dem’s [mods] are a problem for the Base … & the Blue is split on what to do next to force dubby into compliance, but at least everyone on that side of the aisle is listening to the American public. The far-Left wing of the Lefty party is not happy with the options presented by the Dem Party as a whole, but we need to at min acknowledge that we have a CHOICE now — after years of eating dirt & being treated like the bastard son of the American political process. The pursuit of Gonzales & the dots that lead back to the WH continues — here’s an update. Dan Froomkin is still our go-to guy for all the MSM blowback on insider stuff, so I’ve posted him first. Wrinkles incl a subpoena for rove’s emails — & it may turn out that Miss Monica the christocrat wasn’t protecting her bosses, but herself. Last, it’s no surprise to me that my own state was ground zero for rovian attns — it’s a perfectly corrupt situation, here: Matt Blunt is #3 man in the GOP, his son [the Piglet] is the Gov & John Ashcroft, now a DC lobbyist, continues to smile down upon us all like a nekkid, but artfully draped, statue of Justice. ... http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/ Posted by: JoannaOregon on May 6, 2007 11:32 PMhttp://www.huayi-wood.com/wood-home.html / wood box http://www.huayi-wood.com/wood-home.html / wood box http://www.kyoto-beautyclinic.com/ >京都 エステ エステ 京都宮崎市 歯科医院∥宮崎市 歯科∥防犯カメラ∥監視カメラ∥監視カメラ メーカー∥うちわ∥歯科医院 経営∥歯科 コンサルタント∥歯科 経営 コンサルタント∥京都 エステ∥エステ 京都∥∥京都 エステ∥エステ 京都 京都 貸し会議室 ∥貸し会議室 京都∥引越 奈良∥奈良 引越 ∥奈良県 歯科 ∥奈良 歯科∥歯科∥神戸市 歯科神戸市 歯科神戸市 東灘区 歯科神戸市 東灘区 歯科神戸市 灘区 歯科神戸市 兵庫区 歯科神戸市 長田区 歯科神戸市 須磨区 歯科神戸市 垂水区 歯科神戸市 垂水区 歯科神戸市 垂水区 歯科神戸市 垂水区 歯科神戸市 北区 歯科神戸市 北区 歯科神戸市 中央区 歯科神戸市 中央区 歯科神戸市 中央区 歯科神戸市 西区 歯科神戸市 西区 歯科神戸市 西区 歯科姫路市 歯科姫路市 歯科尼崎市 歯科尼崎市 歯科尼崎市 歯科明石市 歯科明石市 歯科西宮市 歯科西宮市 歯科西宮市 歯科芦屋 歯科芦屋 歯科芦屋 歯科伊丹市 歯科伊丹市 歯科伊丹市 歯科伊丹市 歯科加古川市 歯科宝塚市 歯科宝塚市 歯科川西市 歯科川西市 歯科川西市 歯科三田市 歯科加古郡 歯科三宮 歯科三宮 歯科三宮 歯科神戸 元町 歯科神戸 元町 歯科神戸 元町 歯科京都 貸し会議室 Posted by: kkukku on July 28, 2007 02:12 PMPost a comment
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