You load 16 tons and what do you get, another day older and deeper in debt, St. Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go, I owe my soul to the company store.
(Tennessee Ernie Ford, song.)
Dubai and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are making their run on the US of A. We must thank to the Bush Family and their “special relationship” with the Sultans of the Middle East for this amazing turn of events, and let’s not forget James Baker III. The President asked what the difference was between England managing our Ports and Dubai. One glaring reason would be that England is operated as a Democracy and UAE is not. That would be Sheikhs running around in those turbans on the sands of those seven UAE countries.
Looks a lot like our president is exporting democracy and importing dictatorships into this country.
As our young men and countless innocent Iraqi’s are “dying” for “freedom” in the Middle East, here at home we are offering billions to a country steeped in terrorism and autocracy. I love the WH spin on this with their accusations of “racism” against the Arabs. Oh please! George is worried they won’t like us in the Middle East if we refuse to turn our ports over to the UAE, since when has this administration been concerned over who liked them? Not recently.
The UAE became an Emirates on Dec. 2, 1971 in Abu Dhabi (Noon time) and do they have an explosive chart. Although I don’t have the time they became the UAE I doubt if it was before 8 AM or later than 3 PM, so their Moon would fall anywhere between 6 and 11 Gemini opposite a 9 degree Sagittarius Sun. What or what could be explosive about that combination? Let’s see. The Sun and Moon are in a debilitating aspect to the US Uranus and transiting Uranus is aspecting those degrees right now with Mars zipping toward 8/9/10/11 Gemini. I forgot that GWB’s Mars squares it all as well as his progressed Sun.
The UAE wants to wait 45 days for a cooling off period, our Congress is pushing against that wait and wants to go ahead now with a vote or a resolution. If they wait 45 days there will be a great deal of negativity information slipping out by then because transiting Uranus will conjunct their Mars and square their Jupiter, unexpected good luck for them that will ultimately spell a type of disaster for the Emirates.
This is just another piece in the march toward Globalization and that is going to happen, however it doesn’t need to happen with the chaos and violence that’s been introduced just so “Corporate World” can put the masses under their heels. They’ve done this because in “corporate world” the rich are terrified that the poor will storm the Castile (so to speak) and reduce their controlled trillions to mere millions and worse yet, lose their power to the people. From their scared stiff perspective there is no other way but to crush the people in the hopes that they will never rise again and make sure we “owe our souls to the company store.”
This isn’t new; it isn’t even a creative solution. The British East India Trade Company (Dec. 31, 1599, in London) tried pulling corporations under one umbrella in their version of “Free Trade” (when a government uses the term “free trade” they mean sold to the highest bidder no matter the cost) creating a monopoly on trade to India. Two years later in 1602, the Dutch East India Company was given a charter by the Netherlands granting it a monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia. They were the first multinational company in the world and the first to ever issue stock. They ended up being the largest and richest private company in the world but faltered in the late 1800’s due to their constant fighting with the British and French. At their height this private company had 50,000 employees, warships, 10,000 private military etc. The Dutch had quite an ambitious contingent of privatizing and consolidating their affairs.
During the 1600’s there was an explosion of private corporations trying to consolidate GLOBAL money and power, how to rip off the world. The British East India Company was followed by the Dutch, the Danish and the French, Sweden tried to jump in with their own “East India” Company but not until 1731 and they only lasted about a hundred years. All were formed to “plunder and strip” untapped markets. They were all looking for places to gain money and resources and power. Nearly every war fought in Europe was between these entities or because of them, and all with the sanction of their governments. They actually destroyed each other by the 1800’s and the rabble left turned their eyes toward the New World, America.
The United States of America was born of a revolt not just against British monarchs and the British parliament but against British corporations.
We tend to think of corporations as fairly recent phenomena, the legacy of the Rockefellers and Carnegies. In fact, the corporate presence in pre-Revolutionary America was almost as conspicuous as it is today. There were far fewer corporations then, but they were enormously powerful: the Massachusetts Bay Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, the British East India Company. Colonials feared these chartered entities. They recognized the way British kings and their cronies used them as robotic arms to control the affairs of the colonies, to pinch staples from remote breadbaskets and bring them home to the motherland.
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/000437.html .
Then came a legal event that would not be understood and remained baffling for decades, even today, and it would change the course of American history. That event (May 10, 1886, Santa Clara, CA)
In Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad, a dispute over a rail bed route, the US Supreme Court deemed that a private corporation was a "natural person" under the US Constitution and therefore entitled to protection under the Bill of Rights. Suddenly, corporations enjoyed all the rights and sovereignty previously enjoyed only by the people, including the right to free speech.
This 1886 decision ostensibly gave corporations the same powers as private citizens. But considering their vast financial resources, corporations thereafter actually had far more power than any private citizen. They could defend and exploit their rights and freedoms more vigorously than any individual and therefore they were more free. In a single legal stroke, the whole intent of the American Constitution -- that all citizens have one vote, and exercise an equal voice in public debates -- had been undermined. Sixty years after it was inked, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas concluded of Santa Clara that it "could not be supported by history, logic or reason." One of the great legal blunders of the nineteenth century changed the whole idea of democratic government.
The sovereignty of America has been losing ground ever since, and that May 10, 1886 decision has been used to bring us where we are today. The United States of America is owned by other countries, sold out from under us while we were busy living. This law is not only the hammer on the American people but it could also be our hope, if we work tirelessly to overturn the law. Some have tried to no avail but there has never been a widespread movement to do so, and we don’t get any help from the group sitting in Washington the last several years. Not even FDR tried to get it thrown out. You might call it the American version of the “East India Trade Company,” and transiting Uranus conjunct the South Node this spring and opposing the progressed Sun feeding into the Dubai chart might be the opportunity to challenge what corporations have come to think of as their right. The Abramhoff scandal, (which is a result of the excess of corporate lobbyists) has been one challenge.
Although FDR didn’t try to change the law, he was able to beat back the encroachment of corporate domination during the depression and WWII. He was effective in clipping their wings until Ronald Reagan came to office and George Bush Sr. was his Vice-President. Uranus was in square aspect to their Mars and NN in the early 40’s, and the New Deal, dealt a harsh blow to corporate America. They feel they have another shot.
The 1886 Sun is at 20 degrees Taurus and the progressed Moon is coming to a trine to that Sun. Taurus doesn’t give up what they believe to be theirs and corporations believe their rights trump the people’s rights. The progressed Moon is now conjunct the Sun and NN of the East India Chart (the first known government attempt at economic control and power over people) Something New is coming the way of corporations, the progressed Moon has not been there for 29 years, so it’s a new thrust of corporate dominance. It will be interesting to see if Pluto “eclipses” their dominance when it reaches 10/11 Capricorn. Like Taurus, like all the earth signs including Capricorn, when their misuse their energies it often translates to excessive fear and greed.
The 1599 Charter of the British East India Trade Company started with a 10 degree Capricorn Sun and in 1874 they dissolved with a 10 degree Capricorn Sun, the trine to the NN signaled they would rise again. The Capricorn foundation model of Corporate power and ownership has not changed in over 500 years, except during the Revolutionary War when Pluto crossed 10 degrees Capricorn and the American Rebels successfully fought English Corporate Rule, the cosmic planetary line up is rapidly approaching that point again and in 2012 Pluto once again conjuncts 10 degrees Capricorn, right on the eve of a new dawn. One thing to remember, the internal power struggles between the “haves” end up doing as much damage to themselves as they do to the “have nots.”
The New Moon at 9 degrees Pisces on the 27th of February sets in motion a very dramatic March, punctuated by two powerful eclipses and a Mercury Retrograde. Do the “cosmic storms” ever end? No they don’t!!! When it’s rain or shine, if a country, state, city, neighborhood or person’s mathematical coordinates are in the path of that cosmic storm, one way or the other that country, state, city, neighborhood, or person will be affected. The New Moon in Pisces could be a perfect set up for activating the Uranus transit to US Uranus, transiting Mars conjunct US Uranus, Dubia’s Sun and Moon, GWB’s Mars, and my Saturn. Tons of us are on line for this set up, including the US. It’s going to be a roller coaster ride with more scandalous hair pulling information leaking out.
There isn’t any doubt this has already been a long haul, and there is more to come however, we have been pulling our “16 tons” for centuries and “the company store has owned our soul,” that is going to change over the next few years, there is the opportunity for real world wide life altering change.
Look to see where the New Moon falls in your chart, that is where the change begins for you.
All of you seeking information regarding your own spirituality, your own connectedness to all others, your own higher consciousness are the fortunate ones, you will know what to do. One thing I know for sure that needs to be done by all who listen is to trust, learn trust on a daily, hourly basis and extend yourself to all you meet. You just don't know who might cross your path.
Jupiter/Neptune
Confusion, lost articles, lies, the bubble that burst, creativity, addictions (stay away from sugar this month of any kind) flu, colds, mis-representations, confused spirituality, access to wisdom and higher mind.
Mars/Uranus (with New Moon in Pisces)Explosions, violence, accidents, sudden changes, emotional upsets, irritations, arguments, increased energy or frenzy, new groups or friends you meet unexpectedly, a cleaning out of the old to make way for the new.
Keep a check on Claudia Dikinis site Starcats she has just put up a great new article. http://starcats.com/newsmakers_february_2006.html