Astroworld

"....the "elite" are carefully watching and they are still under their own illusions that they will be able to control it all, they won't and will ultimately have to join the ranks of "the people."

There are so many nice morsels in this, Sally. I'm having a hard time selecting which tasty nugget I want to devour! (Think chocolate, and strawberries in a nod to Valentine's Day.)

First, Garry's link from previous article fits nicely with this. However, we need to remember that many of those inspired by the coming changes ARE youth. Some may embrace the power hungry path of their elders. Many others, however, vision and are acting on a far different energy/strategy.

A spotlight on guns and violence? I hope you're absolutely right, Sally. This manipulation has worked rather well for those who hope to squash any kind of meaningful reform. Fear now stalks any kind of peaceful gathering. (This has been true for some time, but is now becoming more strident. Even the shooting of Giffords has not dimmed the fervor to carry guns capable of delivering 10 -40 rounds.) Those who display this kind of rabid shoot-em-up thinking are so easily used. Thus, any kind of "peaceful" movement will have entirely different consequences than those in Egypt. I see an additional, coming event(s) occuring that shows the results of this diabolical strategy.

Thank you, Sally!

You're right Karen, all those things are in play for individual people, corporations etc. just as they are in play now but a different culture comes into play over the next several years and this was the kick off point. Just as the 60's drowned out the voices of greed and selfishness for the culture, then gave away for the greed to drown them out so will new voices close down what we are living with now. Mubarak was there 30 years, came in during the Reagan years and the mentality we have now began to take hold around the world, now that mentality is beginning to fall. It won't happen overnight and one can almost hear the chopping at the bits of corporations who believe they can and will set up shop just as they have in the past, just as they are doing in Haiti as there are plenty of people there to help them renew corruption and enslavement and make it grow. What's happening now has little to do with individuals or massive corporations, it has to do with the 100th monkey theory.

I think back to the hippy movement, an outgrowth of the beatniks. It was the late 50's and early 60's and the hippy movement started out as a backlash against hypocrits and corporations, but soon gave way to free love and then drugs were introduced and the youth around the world started breaking with their past right down to music, the culture around the world at that time stopped the war, brought in civil rights and women's rights, and a host of things obviously changed through those years, the not so obvious was where it started and it started in the very late 40's after the war and the race out of the cities.

This seems like a little thing but I was a teen in the late 50's and I remember it distinctly as stunning and a change in attitudes; women stopped wearing hats and gloves to church on Sunday's. That was a big thing in the little town where I grew up and much talked about at the time. That little act represented a shift in collective consciousness and in the culture, after that, one by one the things our parents thought important begin to fall and kept falling right up to the 1990's when the ultra conservative mentality made it's way into today's society, they had been working on it all along but it recaptured the culture in the 90's as money and fear became more important than personal freedom. Egypt is saying that attitude is falling and it will spread throughout the world.

Oh Boy, Is there ever a lot to this article for discussion! It is unlodging things, I had forgotten!
I have to save my thoughts untill tonight, busy today, but I will chime in then!
Waahoo!

["the not so obvious was where it started and it started in the very late 40's after the war and the race out of the cities.
This seems like a little thing but I was a teen in the late 50's and I remember it distinctly as stunning and a change in attitudes;"]

In '51, the local blacks decided to exercise their rights as taxpayers, & started coming to the lakefront beach in the city park. My parents had more than 1 foot in the Aquarian Age ideologically, so instead of snatching up their kids & driving them to the next lake over, like the other white Parents, they supported my Brother & I in integrating the beach.
By '55, 56, bored by? set apart from the reigning H S clique, & their letter sweater PROPER concerns, ( although retrospect proves they weren't so proper either, they just hid or denied it, sound familiar?) we more creative ones formed our own group, The Beachcombers, we even wrote a constitution! Anyone welcome to join! We kept our salt, tinfoil, catsup, matches,long handled fork, in the trunk of Freddie's pink cadillac, and buying hamburger hotdogs etc, on the way, went, every Sat. & Sun., to an isolated beach on the Delaware Bay, where we built a bonfire out of driftwood, roasted potatoes in the coals, talked, dreamed, and then in the moonlight, stripped off our clothes and swam in the warm waters of the bay, waving our arms vigorously to generate phosphorescent sparkles, keeping our feet tucked up so as not to encounter the upspiked tail of a horseshoe crab, ( learned later that was the world breeding ground for them) It was more about innocent total blissful freedom, than about sex! No drugs no alcohol, didn't NEED them!
Then in '55, going to spend July & August with my penpal in Germany, I found myself sitting in
the public square in front of the Peace Palace in the Hague, home of the newly formed United Nations, for about a week ( vacation) amongst a large group of teens, from every nation, many of them having survived the perils of war on their home turf. It was a beacon, a dream come true,
our GREAT HOPE, NO MORE WAR! Eleanor Roosevelt's baby. She got to do the WORK of writing it up[ being the only woman on the committee.!
ANs so here we are today........Jermey Gilley's initiative to get the one Day of Peace resolution, voted through the UN, voted for and passed and the introduction to the world/country, was eclipsed by the planes driving into the towers, making it necessary for the celebration further up town, disband and evacuate! It was forgotten in the rush to war..........
9 1/2 years later, hardly anyone remembers that September 21 was officially designated as One Day of Peace A WORLD CEASEFIRE!)
http://www.peaceoneday.org/en/welcome
It is already past due........why wait another 10 years??????

http://www.matthewbooks.com/mm/anmviewer.asp?a=130&z=2

This wonderful discussion -- seeing the transformational changes in our individual lives within the context of a larger social framework -- is reflected in the new Jeff Lawler blog.

http://www.stariq.com/pagetemplate/article.asp?PageID=10663

His suggestion of looking at first at the outer planets, beginning with Pluto (instead of focusing on the dynamics of the Sun) may helps individuals first understand the collective energy, then how their own energy might best be manifested within that context.

Qop, can you auction any of your paintings? You have a wide social network. I'm guessing that you might be able to raise a bit of capital that way?

Oh, my fellow journeyers....this is priceless. New gaseous planet???? may have been discovered.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/14/tyche-hidden-planet_n_823028.html

Now, why would it be assigned the name Tyche? Who named it? What does it suggest? Tyche in ancient times meant, among other things, discord for city states. Doesn't it seem fitting?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyche

Karen, re: Tyche discord for city states, wow very timely.

Legalizing murder:
A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of "justifiable homicide" to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus—a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions. The Republican-backed legislation, House Bill 1171, has passed out of committee on a nine-to-three party-line vote, and is expected to face a floor vote in the state's GOP-dominated House of Representatives.

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/south-dakota-hb-1171-legalize-killing-abortion-providers

Sally really good article! The protesters in Iran are being smashed down again and you can bet your sweet bippy any unrest here will be quashed with violence. The depth of stinking rot permeating our government and specifically the GOP is just staggering. Americans are so busy pointing fingers, 'look at them', 'look over there' they gloss over the mess here. Ten years ago when we looked ahead to this time we knew it would be ugly as America's darkness percolated to the top where we could see it. Corrupt Supreme Court Justices, and the south has risen again, only more like a fetid zombie.

Ok back to work for me. I'm just going wow at the audacity of the old Confederacy and rather than being separationists they want to foist their belief systems and repressive laws upon the rest of us.

This sums it up:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/15/944951/-Jeffrey-Sachs:-Do-we-have-to-have-our-own-Egypt-here-in-the-United-States

How appropriate that a nation with a 5,000 year history, almost all under dictatorial rule, begins the people's revolution.

This is a matter of human rights, fundamental human needs:

http://dailycensored.com/2011/02/03/17490/

And it was spearheaded by independent unionists who had struggled for years to make their voices heard:

http://economicpopulist.org/content/forces-behind-egyptian-revolution

I was in Egypt many years ago. It was a stunning experience to see the ancient civilization and a pleasure to be with everyday Egyptians. This bodes well!

Guido, some this reflects some of my own thoughts. The significance of this evolution/revolution of spirit has been powerfully expressed -- the most repressed people breaking free against impossible odds.

Two thoughts spurred as a result. One, it is a possibility that determined people just keep comin' on. The vision of wave after wave of people -- perhaps the oldest (like myself) on the frontlines -- facing whatever is being shot or thrown at them, until the will of the people is so overwhelming, repressive regimes are toppled.

Second thought is a rather curious one. Healing. If we send pink/gold light to those we know who are in need of it, are we helping create the great shift? If all of us were sending that light to those we know in need, then exponentially (by sheer numbers) would we be contributing to a greater shift? The answer to "What can I do? when we feel so helpless, may be in this?

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-how-fake-economic-recovery

This may be a highly distasteful proposition, but just for a moment, I want you to sit back, and imagine that you are a member of the corporate banking elite. You are a walking talking disease ridden power mad pustule who naively believes himself intellectually superior to the vast majority of humanity and above the inherent laws of conscience, honor, and general good taste. You are a villain in the purest sense, in that you not only do great harm to the world, you actually SEEK to do great harm to the world, if only to benefit yourself and your exclusive circle of “friends”; a clan of degenerate blood thirsty sociopaths with delusions of omnipotence that stalk the night like Armani wearing Chupacabra exsanguinating the joy from poor unsuspecting cultures. You are capable of anything, and sadly, you take “pride” in this fact…

...more

So TPM notes 10,000 people marching on the capitol of Wisconsin...nary a word on the news. Where's the twitter?

Well Ladies...........
Whose waiting until 2020?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iW3doaVE8w

Here's a thought provoking blogspot.

http://thoughtlineblog.blogspot.com/

Waking The Dead Wednesday, February 16, 2011
From Independence to Resurrection

"To be more specific, these relatively dead whom we must resurrect, are the inhabitants of the so called, rapidly dwindling, “middle class.” These folks are “middle” because they stand, on the scale of material accretions, or shell like bodies that gradually turn humans into lobsters, between the wealthy, most of whom are beyond resurrection because they are already lobsterized or simply beyond resurrection or more bluntly, soul dead, and the dirt poor…meaning that they do not even have any dirt.".....................

Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Message From the Mountain Top

"We enter the next cycle aflame. Passing through the burning ground of Scorpio we came out on fire. Many of the encumbrances that had banked our inner flame were transfigured, and we came forward with hearts aflame. This led to many new challenges in Sagittarius as we attempted to sight the new Path. These challenges were tests to see if we had sufficient heart to initiate the new direction."..................

and from Gail Collins........

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/opinion/17gailcollins.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212

Re: Wisconsin Protests

Damon Butler at Bargaining for Benefits wrote yesterday that:

Yesterday the police were present and amiable, but mostly seemed concerned with doing their duty of maintaining public safety. Today they joined with the firemen–who you may recall are also spared the draconian measures in store for nearly all other public employees under Scott Walker’s budget repair bill–and actively protested against the measure.

But what I found even more impressive is that the officers in uniform–the ones on active duty–were also chanting and waving their fists right along with the rest of us! Upon witnessing that, I felt like we had turned a corner. The bill may yet pass (with an outside chance that it will not), but if all the unions that Scott Walker threw bones to were turning against him, too…. Well, I can’t help believing that whatever it is that Walker and his ilk hope to gain from passage of this bill cannot last for long.

Linda Falkenstein at The Daily Page:

There is an undeniable feeling of uplift during the protest today that was missing yesterday.

I wouldn't have said that yesterday. Yesterday, I thought yesterday's rally was pretty stirring. The roars when the firefighters came through, the swelling cheers when the big teamster semi came and parked on Mifflin Street, the chanting -- What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now! Kill the bill!

Baby, that was nothing.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/17/946042/-Voices-from-the-Wisconsin-protests

Sent me by my Grandson on fb..."I thought you'd like this."
Our future!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w&feature=player_embedded

QOP I didn't have the time to watch the whole movie your grandson sent and i zipped through it but it's very interesting and impressive that a teenager found it to be valuable. Loved the Ginger Rogers dance routine, I don't think I could do that now. They were a little off on her age however, if it was Ginger Rogers of movie fame she died at 83 so I think they meant her age on the video to be 82 not 92 still very impressive.

Guido, how wonderful to see your signature and the articles, very well done and I am thrilled to see you are still keeping up with all that's going on, you are a wealth of information. I believe that Tunisia and Egypt have started a rolling revolution with fingers of revolt extended around the world. It's easy to manipulate the people and create chaos amoung the people, we are very suseptible to being made to believe what the "elite" want us to believe, what they cannot do to any great degree is control the outcome; round and round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows.

Your thoughts on my article:
http://www.aquariusmoon.info/regreening/2011/02/10/concrete-ribbons-to-nowhere/

It's also worth noticing that food (Ceres) is becoming a part of this. Food prices are rising worldwide, and people's pay hasn't-not to mention there have been droughts in Russia that have decimated the wheat crop. Food costs the average Egyptian 40% of their income.

Remember what the French Revolutionists first rebelled against? It was a lack of bread after a devastating cold snap.

Food is universal and the universal glue. If your government prevents you from eating, you change your government right away.

THIS is utterly fascinating! by Helen Kaye Watts
cetacean researcher.

http://whalewriter.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/soul-connections-in-the-sea/

"However, in an increasing number of cases it is the orca which initiates the contact. Divers off the coast of New Zealand have reported numerous instances where they have encountered orca on their dives. Many report they first became aware of the orcas’ presence when the orca ‘zapped’ them with their sonar. With their eyes, orca can see just as we do, but with their sonar, orca see not just the exterior, but the interior of a person, fish or other orca. Perhaps in these instances the orca was merely using its sonar to ‘check-out’ the kind of being that had ventured into its environment, but many who have experienced these Close Encounters of the Orca Kind have reported feelings of increased well-being as a result. One diver told of how an orca appeared to direct its sonar at his heart charka ‘I felt my entire chest open up.’ Another said the orca appeared to scan him from head to toe. ‘My entire skeleton appeared to articulate, as if I were being stretched then it did the same with my body. The next day I had this incredible purge. It was as if the orca had helped my body rid itself of toxins. I’d never felt so well.’"..............
and from Melanie Reinhart's site the astrological info & a pdf ephemeris of chiron opposite orcus. withNeptune stepping in as well
In 0 Pisces/ Virgo March 6 '11.........Sept.2 '11 2o Pisces/Virgo............

http://www.melaniereinhart.com/melanie/Orcus_000.htm
Through a friend, I am attending a movie on biodymic gardening tonight with this Institute & to show my water series to the Director.

http://www.waterresearch.org/about/director.html
will report back................

I just have to pair your fine piece, Carol with Psharpart's whale post for they both seem to mesh. The Orca will be strengthened by the diminishing oil supply.

We've become so presumptious, in fact downright mean about our preconceived notions about god, women, Orcas, earth, compassion, and LOVE! Notions that have been subverted and used to create a verifiable slave class of unhappy humans willing to murder one another for temporal power.

This dark wrap-around cloak of unsated greed, however, is getting threadbare. A higher vibration is shaking it loose from the monstrous emporer attempting to hide his sins by stretching the cloak beyond its capacity.

"This dark wrap-around cloak of unsated greed, however, is getting threadbare. A higher vibration is shaking it loose from the monstrous emporer attempting to hide his sins by stretching the cloak beyond its capacity."

Very well said Karen and so true.

qop, i loved the Orca story, but I also love Orca's along with dolphins and whales and their incredible healing energies. The story makes me want to go find an Orca. Thanks for sharing it.

I don't know if Wisconsin can hang in there for the length of time it takes, Walker seems as if he certainly won't budge.

I have been trying to figure out why this country or any country don't want to hear their people express their ideas and what they want, I don't know why governments don't want to work with them. We have to listen beyond nausea politicians of all strips tell us what they will do and how it will be better for us only it just ends up better for politicians and their friends and we just let it happen over and over as they place financial burdens on the poor, disabled and elderly.

Mr Walker has Pluto aspects, negative ones and he is not ultimately going to win this power struggle but the fight to get rid of unions is on throughout this country, control of food and water is next.

The US is having a Saturn return plus a Saturn square the US Sun as well as the progressed retrograde Mars in Libra close to the US Saturn. This can have one of three possibilities; either the people stand their ground or get tired of fighting and just give up thinking they have no chance, the leaders stand their ground and enforce their changes or there is simply a standstill and nothing is accomplished. Saturn is transiting the US 10th House which indicates our leaders digging in their heels and the people in the US are in for a long fight for their rights as so called leaders in this country start coming down hard on the people, the question is whether the people have the resolve to keep standing.

The Hasawna and the Werfella tribes have reportedly joined the protesters in Libya. Both these tribes have long supported Gaddafi but have now switched. The Werfella tribe is one millon strong and makes up a third of the nation. The protesters are also reportedly on the way to the Gaddafi palace to burn it down. The troops who have refused to shoot down their own people have now been executed along with dozens of other Libyans, but the people keep coming. I am posting this video I saw on the web and it reminded me that the people do keep coming, one of the lines in this video is "we have nothing but rage, rage is all you have left us." Sadly I don't know how long it will take people like the Koch Brothers and their friends to get us to that point, but we are on the way and the fools don't realize it.

Stunning video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8txhtB2e5M

Bingo! The video speaks for me, for you, for all human beings who have been and are being silenced.

As in Libya, so will happen everywhere. The people will just keep coming. It may not be tomorrow, but it will happen.

Enough is enough.

from the video......"The rage for he has forgotten he belongs to nature."
We MUST do it WITH LOVE, with HEALING........... like Ghandi & MLK Dali Lama!

to quote you ,Sally.............
"focused anger and frustration that is going to color demands of people around the world. Determined, focused anger is what you saw in Egypt and they weren't interested in expending in through violence, that's what will happen most everywhere else; that same type of energy was surrounding Ghandi and Martin Luther King, it's hard to beat that kind of energy for any length of time. It may take quite awhile and not without some suffering and pain but it will win in the end and with less suffering than violence brings."
We CAN do this.............
The leader of the Maine Peoples Allisance is coming to the house next Sunday.....to talk and then go to the free lunch with me.
He has ignored me since before Thanksgiving when I listened to that conference call while Dave was fixing my car, & Ryan promised to call.
So Dave called him again Thurs........& put me on .....
At first I was perceived as another body to gather some friends & drive to Augusta to protest. Been there done that back in '03. I told him that non of us could afford it at this point, kept talking until I made him realize it is now time to frame a plan, do PR, match the Heartland Institute's incessant propaganda.......
I am grateful that they sent me that foolish Patriot's Toolbox of Tea Party Idea.What were they thinking sending it to us progressives?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/20/unrest-morocco-iran-algeria-yemen-china

Hello good friends-wonderful to get on line and read the thoughts on Egypt and all the restlessness around the world. This is so exciting to me although today we hear that Gaddafi in Libya is fighting with weapons although I also heard that people are fighting back by breaking into military bases. I am still wondering about this but I love hearing from you ,Sally, that Egypt will eventually get to where they want/need to be. Thank you so much for the article and the follow-ups, Sally
I am sickened by all that we have done to people in Africa and the Mid-East. I know that they have corrupt rulers,etc but we have supported those people so much so that we could get the oil cheap and thereby control the flow of history-I am thinking of Iran particularly here-we were so afraid of hardship for ourselves that we condemned Iran to suffering that continues to this day AND they hate us for the most part.

Hello my favorite & most dear ones of the internet! I trust everyone is doing well. A friend forwarded this article & I realized it needed to be posted here, so here goes:

http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/166377.html

Much love to all, and namaste y'all!
Garry

When a Country Goes Insane by Robert Freeman

"This must be what it’s like when a country goes insane, when it falls down a rabbit hole and tries to pretend that everything is normal.

"It can’t tell truths from lies. Hucksters pose as upright men, and people imagine they are Solons, avatars of insight come down from the ages. Sleazy operators pass themselves off as statesmen, as thinkers of deep gravitas, and the crowds, unable to distinguish sanctimony from sincerity, bravado from bullshit, lap it up.

"Let’s be clear. It was the Republicans who wrecked the economy. Both their people and their policies drove the economy into the ditch. They wrecked the economy not once, but twice in the last eighty years.

"So Republicans condescending to instruct Americans about how to fix the economy is like the captain of the Titanic lecturing shipping operators about safe procedures for navigating the north Atlantic. No sane society would tolerate it. But this one does.

How bad is it this time?

"Six million people have lost their jobs. Twenty five million are underemployed. Many will never work again. Eight trillion dollars of middle class wealth has been destroyed in the housing collapse. One out of four mortgage holders are under water, owing more on their home than it’s worth. Fifty million people are living in poverty. One out of eight Americans are on food stamps. One of every two children will be on food stamps at some point in their lives.

"And the rich? Corporate profits are at an all-time high. But corporate taxes — not the imaginary “nominal” rates they whine so bitterly about, but the taxes actually paid — are among the lowest in the industrial world. Income inequality is at its highest level since 1917. Between 2000 and 2006, two thirds of all the growth in the entire economy went to the top 1%. And the “too big to fail” banks, those that wrecked the economy and extorted trillions of dollars from the government to rescue them? They are now even bigger."

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/21-5

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/21/947947/-The-Koch-Brothers-End-Game-in-Wisconsin

The Koch Brothers’ End Game in Wisconsin

Garry, Pat C, all...The Kos, press tv, and common dreams pieces point to something that has been brewing for quite some time. I've often felt that what we are now experiencing was set in motion with Reagan (the plans had been developed prior to). The plan was and remains to dismantle the republic. When you impoverish the population, most will become desperate, accepting jobs at a pittance in order to survive. If the unions are dismantled, then this plan will be fully operational.

The building Uranian/Plutonic energies are now highlighting just how devolved we've become. The hidden agendas being revealed cannot be put back in Pandora's box. Thus, even if the internet becomes compromised -- the next step -- many more will have become educated about our slave state. Given the chatter about cyber warfare, I'm guessing some sort of red flag operation is already planned.

It's not the time to hunker down (has it ever been??). It's time to shout out, pass information, educate, educate, educate.

Notorious Pro-Corporate Group ALEC’s Hidden Role in Stoking Class War in Wisconsin and the Rest of America

The American Legislative Executive Council works behind the scenes, using state-legislative stooges to implement the agenda of giant corporations and the super-rich.

ALEC has unprecedented influence in Washington and state capitols throughout the country.

According to Jonathan Williams, ALEC’s fiscal policy director,

“Wisconsin has become ground zero.” He adds, “What happens could serve as a domino, win or lose, in either direction.”

More at the link…

http://act.alternet.org/go/4671?akid=6554.69766.ieNEzy&t=6

By the way, there's more. ALEC's 'governing' board:

Private Enterprise Board, whose "officers" are:

Kurt L.Malmgren - PhRMA; Jerry Watson - American Bail Coalition; Scott Fisher - Altria Corporate Services, Inc.; Pete Poynter - BellSouth Corporation; Edward D. Failor, Sr - Iowans for Tax Relief; Michael K.Morgan - Koch Industries, Inc; Allan Auger - Coors Brewing Company; Ronald F. Scheberle - Verizon Communications, Inc.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-patriot-act-20110218,0,7094091.story

FISA extension approval a go once again

They are on in Wisconsin karen!

Live stream just started in Madison State House.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/afl-cio-2010-rally

AWESOME!

The Koch brothers ginne dthis up so they can buy the state-owned pwer plants. That's the reason for the no retreat.

The Koch Brothers end game has noting to do with unions

So in short:
1) Koch Brothers get their puppet Governor Walker in power
2) Governor Walker gins up a crisis
3) Democrats and Progressives take the bait and counter-protest on collective bargaining
4) Governor Walker will compromise on collective bargaining if the rest of the budget is passed as is
5) Bill passes, with trojan horse give-a-way to the Koch Brothers nested in
6) Koch Brothers will buy Wisconsin state-owned power plants for pennies on the dollar in closed unsolicitated bids for which there will be no oversight
7) Koch Brothers get the best vertical monopoly in a generation
Want proof here's the text int he bill:

State of Wisconsin
SENATE BILL 11
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/
Google Quick View of PDF: http://docs.google.com/...
Bottom of Page 23:
SECTION 44. 16.896 of the statutes is created to read: 16.896 Sale or contractual operation of state−owned heating, cooling, and power plants. (1) Notwithstanding ss. 13.48 (14) (am) and 16.705 (1), the department may sell any state−owned heating, cooling, and power plant or may contract with a private entity for the operation of any such plant, with or without solicitation of bids, for any amount that the department determines to be in the best interest of the state. Notwithstanding ss. 196.49 and 196.80, no approval or certification of the public service commission is necessary for a public utility to purchase, or contract for the operation of, such a plant, and any such purchase is considered to be in the public interest and to comply with the criteria for certification of a project under s. 196.49 (3) (b).

That's exactly what the Kochs are doing, Pat C. Stepping up the game. Fits in with the above post regarding the planning. Apparently, they've backed other newly elected republican govs with the same intent in mind.

They did not expect such an outcry. If anything we must keep the pressure on so that the social justice network has more time to educate, and expose the Kochs and all the other free-mason power grabbing illumi-nazis.

Thanks for the live-streaming!

karen, you're welcome!

Good morning, Dear Ones! Up so early and feeling good although the news is continually shocking. I finally have an answer to my continual question regarding current political realities which has been "is this all just happening or are there invisible actors behind this?" Thank you PatC. for the piece on ALEC although I am sure this is only the tip of the iceberg. This is so obvious but they have made a lot of progress. I am thinking that the biggest enemy that we are facing is what happened following the 60's/70's when the country listened to Ronald Reagan and believed that he could make the world beautiful and SAFE just like a real grandfather can when we are about four years old. I am worried about the children born and raised during this cycle-they are conservative to the bone. What keeps me encouraged though is that I was raised to be conservative myself and I am but my love is stronger than any other impulse-we need a "movement" to encourage love, compassion and empathy-I am convinced that love is the only answer to out predicament.

Just a quick note. Lynda Hills mother and her husband are ok in Christ Church, NZ where the quake struck. She posted a note on her FB page.

clymela, Jeffery Sachs, Economist, Columbia University, nails the big picture better than anyone else has on the Last Word tonight.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/41747023#41747023

Yes, Clymela. Shock. Naomi was spot on with her book Shock Doctrine. One of the purposes is to instill fear. Those who have rejected the intentional fear being foisted on them begin walking the peaceful warrior path. Think Martin Luther King, Jr., Ghandi, etc. It isn't easy. One of those transformational challenges.

Lynda Hill....if you are reading this, know you and yours (and all who have lost loved ones, are struggling in the aftermath) light is being sent to you.

On an entirely different subject....Ancient Aliens. Despite the intellectual snub of this History Channel show, it remains one of my favorites. I've long thought about the impact of the possibilities this program addresses, and have had many astounding dreams throughout the years. Especially those dealing with other dimensional objects.

Manipulating the dna of humans explains a great deal about our disparity in behaviors. I believe Matthew has alluded to this as well?

Anyone else have an feeling/opinion on this subject?

Morgana-thanks for letting us know that Lynda Hill's family are safe.
Karen-shock indeed and I would not have believed what is going on now if I weren't living through it. the intentions of the illuminazis is truly shocking and I wonder how far they will get with their plans before human nature refuses to follow.
I haven't watched the program you refer to but I will try to catch up. Messing with our DNA? You don't say!! Hmmm! Trusting in "white light"or time to get us through to the next level?!?!

I sure do Karen..........I have discovered at least 2 posts on my facebook regarding the alteration of DNA............... One from the film Zeitgeist Moving Forward which I posted here. They explain that pr-birth conditions can ALTER the genetic DNA material.................
and there was a video on fb this AM that I wanted to post here, but couldn't get a URL except the fb one.
It was on Quantum Entanglements, explaining how 2 elements could join & stay together,...outcome of course, being that "we are all one",the scientific rational behind it.
That said, I am going to stop posting here for a while...................Since I lost my QOP, IDENTITY, & have part of my e-mail address posted here all the time, Huffington Post is now posting my REAL NAME, linked with my generic picture image from fb,exposure of the political identity/user name, I have used since 2003, is not far behind.
I will post in facebook, under my real name.......monitoring my words there and with professional intent of exposure.........
I have made friends with some brilliant people around the world, who post food for thought there regularly.......It is a world community
forum............I recommend it highly...........

Oh I can't resist cross posting!
from a Pakistani friend on fb....

"He is not mad but insane.They want Osama alive to follow their own Agenda as far as we know He is no longer in this world. as long as they keep his name alive till their purpose will be finished
His response to this statement............

"Mao is only one example. Gaddafi too was a war hero. Stalin's beginnings??? There are a ton of these guys who eventually go mad with power. Absolute monarchs of the "Off with their heads!" variety. Are they born with a screw loose?"

Well,QOP, that is the saddest news-you have been since the beginning one of my bright lights here and I will miss you so much. Facebook is fun but I NEVER let rip there the way I do here-in fact i censor myself quite a bit there because I have family and associates with whom I disagree vehemently politically and philosophically and I would not want to fight with those people or actually offend them.
Love to you and I will see you on facebook as I do now.

Oh well........one more bow before I leave! LOL!
I just got that URL for the Youtube of Quantum Entanglement.......it's really good be sure to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DwCHheHha0

David Hamilton Koch born May 3, 1940) Wichita, Kansas

Charles de Ganahl Koch born November 1, 1935) Wichita, Kansas
Ran on Libertarian ticket for Vice President in 1980 election against Carter–Mondale, and Reagan–Bush

Too radical for the Republicans even back during Reagan-Bush!

Definitely grateful that we have faces and names for the Koch brothers AND we need to get faces and names to those who continue to finance our destruction so that we can refuse to do business with them=at least in refusing to but their company's products.
I love Randi Weingarten!! the leader of the teacher's union. She is so brilliant and such a teacher so willing to spend the time to explain the facts to folks. Listening to her clear-up "Morning Joe" is amazing-never once breaking down into vulgarity even with the people who hate teachers but know nothing about classrooms.
So the US wants to "help" Libya!?!? HMMMM!! Is this behind all the sudden uprisings? I hate to be so cynical but I am. When Hillary comes out supporting Libyan citizens I figure we have our eyes on the oil. I also am still wondering about the uprisings even while I am excited.
Still unusually cold here in California-cooking for cool weather today. Hope the rain returns-warmer than clear skies.

Well everyone.......good morning!

Can you feel it?

The move of Uranus into Aires?

Are your dreams reflecting the charged energy? Our relationships with one another and with the world are undergoing what will be a beneficent change. I'm thinking we're going to deeply question what we project on others (in anger or petty gossip). That after making judgments -- which may just pop out of our mouths Aires like -- we'll take a hard look at ourselves? And see within the same thing we project?

I wonder what other surprise announcements will be coming out? Slips of the tongue? This just gets more exciting every day.

Karen, you are right about "what slips out of the mouth" with Uranus moving toward Aries and Mercury crossing over Uranus while it's trying to get into Aries itself. This will be a good year to start something new in our lives with both Jupiter and Uranus in Aries. Get rid of the old. I am concerned a bit about Uranus at 29 degrees Pisces for the next several days, Pisces - serve or suffer. The Iraq war was started when the Sun was at 29 Pisces, remember "shock and awe" so I expect Iraq to flair up. Pisces is heavily supported right now with the Sun, Mars, Mercury and transiting Moon going into Pisces tomorrow (Moon can be used as timing for events)I also expect that all that Pisces energy will give a boost to folks that need help such as in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana. A little more respect for those who are actually keeping this country running, the workers. Pisces usually values the underdogs and sees what they contribute and respects that. So I am thinking the Pisces energy will support those looking for freedom. A new day is dawning, course it does dawn everyday.

Good Morning to everyone. I was up earlier but it is so dark and rainy I went back to bed for a nap. Lovely getting old and free!!
Regarding Aries and Uranus-a Libra friend wrote asking if she had hurt my feelings by assessing my latest haircut quite bluntly-(and no she didn't hurt my feelings) probably just an instinctual reaction to the "slip of the tongue" potential.

I wonder what is being covered up by all the focus on Charlie Sheen and his behavior-The US move into Libya "to help"them or rather to help the oil get to us?

I loved the hair-cut story, Clymela. Perfect.

I cannot count the times that Sally has shared with us a backdrop to our right/left, right/wrong, democrat/republican dichotomys.

Intellectually, I have grasped the layer of meaning, but now it's becoming more visceral.

This may seem "out the blue." But, I'm certain it's part of the Uranus break-throughs or break-outs. Whenever I'm making a judgment about someone, I'm beginning to hold the thought, and then look in my behavior mirror. It's an unnerving practise in many ways but equally freeing. What framed my opinion? What giveaway behaviors do I project? Do they reflect the myths I've been taught, or a truth?

My dreams have been highlighting this very thing of late. And, I wonder if others are experiencing the same kind of shifts?

Your insight into this facet of human behavior, Sally, makes me wonder what other insights your waiting to devulge. :)

Karen-in answer to your question above-YES!! Increasingly I find myself free from the judging compulsion and the path to that freedom has been through reviewing myself, my beliefs and my expectations and where they came from.

Hey Karen I say yes too. I was surfing links from some articles on DKOS quoting another, "Years from now, we will think of February 2011 as the tipping point in America's great awakening" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/26/949976/-The-Tipping-Point:-Ten-Wake-up-calls-for-Americans-from-Coffee-Party-USA

I really think it is a worldwide energy. That was written three weeks ago, WI is still going on and some are saying the protests have grown into a movement that continues to spread. Pima county in Arizona is trying to become a separate state.

QOP I hope you find a way to stay on AW I come by every day to see what you've found. My energy is coming back slowly from the months of pneumonia I hope to be back blogging soon.

Love you Captain Sally you take care.

Yes, Morgana. It's worldwide, and I wonder if this is part of what we're waking up to -- the power-driven plays of separation.

We've been prompted to separate ourselves from one another on the basis of religion, class, political party, color, sex, etc. Part of this separation can be attributed to the mirror effect. But, most of the other intentional separations are an old trick of power. Such a successful one, too. Make someone/a group feel superior by imposing unrealistic codes of conduct on behavior. Then, point out the lack in the "others." Make it a sin. There is no mystery or magic in this. These intentional manipulations have, in fact, repressed civilizations for time unknown.

This separation game is being played out now with increased vitality. And maybe that's purposeful too.

Morgana, I didn't know how terribly sick you were! So, here's to your renewed health and vigor!

Karen and Morgana-i cant believe how much the two of you packed into your short conversation. Thank you wonderful friends for brightening and lightening this rainy,rainy Sunday.
Yeah!! QOP hopefully you will figure a way to come back with us-we miss you.
By the way folks-QOP can do a print of her pieces at a pensioner's income level. I am getting a print of the Tidal Pool piece that I love so much-helps the artist and helps the "patron" to hold on to some needed peace and love.

The one thing that fascinates me is the Pluto transit to Scott Walker's chart. Mars at 7 degrees Capricorn squaring Saturn at 6 Libra and if there ever was a perfect response to Pluto conj. Mars square Saturn, he is textbook. If I were his astrologer I would tell him "for heaven's sake don't get into power struggles because you will lose" but I'm not his astrologer and he apparently doesn't have one or they would have warned him. Farmers and tractors are coming tomorrow to Madison tomorrow to line up, the state is starting to stand strongly against him.

"The great awakening" Morgana, oh absolutely. It will be interesting to see how many of these will be happening over the next year.

Heya Sally and all, working on the Spring Equinox article. With the Sun and Uranus conjunct at 0 Aries moving toward exact in the succeeding hours the key driving force is Surprise Surprise, Uranus suppressed is explosive we're going to see some fire works.
Isn't that Scott Walker a piece of work? Wow serious buyers remorse in WI.

Oh one more thing, link to Keith Olbermann's latest commentary. You'll love it..

http://foknewschannel.com/racketeer-rabbit-republicans/

I scooped up some cat box stuff and some other things that had to go into the regular trash and walked that all out to the regular trash and while I was going I was thinking of how regular like the drum part of music has the outbreak of community complaint become. Days and days of Mid-East countries and then now we have Democrats standing up in outrage over the plans of the Republicans. This is constant and rhythmic and seems so much more patterned than nature provides through planetary aspects.
This is just a fast unthought-out consciousness maybe not a real thought more of just an instinctual rush the type that causes goose-bumps-just seems like this is going so smoothly and we get only a moment of light on what is going on. Do you all out there have questions about what is going on?

Clymela.......i loved it! In fact today I'm going to re-listen for the umpteenth time to Mahler's incredible symphony -- The Planets. Gustav Mahler must have had an intimate understanding of the planetary bodies' nature because, for instance, Aires is war-like music, Saturn somber, etc.

So, yes! I heard the drums, the music, a purposeful progression.

Boom-boom!

karen-thanks for the suggestion. I will research my question through Mahler's music. I love it.

seems to me that fascism is here and I am wondering if people will care enough to reject it. So far the Koch Brothers and their Tea Party are doing a wonderful job of turning the "people" against each other-the work to discredit unions seems to be working very well and has for years thus the "right to work" states not that I blame the Koch brothers for all the right-wing strength in this society but wowee! these guys are definitely putting their money where their mouth is as the old saying goes.
I agree with what the NPR people were saying!! I think though that they must be really stupid to get caught up like that by the little slime ball. I would love to hear the NPR execs version of what happened. they must have been really deceived there. I wonder how long it took to set up the sting.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/House-Runs-Amok-on-FCC-by-the-web-110309-277.html

Minutes ago, members of the key House technology subcommittee voted to give phone and cable companies absolute, unrestricted power over the Internet.

They passed a “resolution of disapproval” that would strip the FCC of its ability to protect Internet users — letting companies block our right to speak freely and share information on the Internet.1

This resolution opens the door even wider to corporate abuse. The House seems determined to pass this bill — so our best chance is to stop it in the Senate: (MORE)

Pat C-I saw that link a little earlier in the day but it was so devastating that I just jumped right over to Style or Entertainment in Huffington Post or something like that. The move made on the FCC is the beginning of the takeover in the "body". I know that I am being very dramatic now but that was my first, impulsive response and even hours away I still feel that in rereading the article.It is almost as if the Wisconsin/Indiana uprisings are just a preview of what is really going on.
I don't care what the old white men say and I know that these "old white men" are mostly younger than I am. I really don't think that the majority
of the voting citizens oted for what we are getting from the Republicans.

I'll respond to the above in a moment. The Japanese earthquake, and the following tsunami -- the beginning of what will be, most likely, more Uranian shocks -- is horrifying. It is beyond imagining what one would do to save children/pets, while attempting to get to higher ground.

All the assaults on workers, internet freedoms, abortion, Muslims, dismantling cities, and more all are part of a coordinated plan. Yet now, we are entering a period when "the best laid plans of mice and men" will fail. I have to keep thinking this, while speaking out, and giving help where I can. If I didn't, I would lose hope entirely. And maybe that's part of the purpose too.

The way we view power -- the very basic concept -- is what may fuel a grand shift in consciousness. Now, there are those who mistakenly believe the power of others gives them status. True power, however, is personal, and inlcudes the ability to look at yourself and alter behaviors. Behaviors that injure yourself, others, and the planet.

Karen-before I knew about the Koch Bros I recognized some wealthy outside interest in the so-called Tea Party-that "movement"when it hit the news already had fancy buses and everything was coordinated and I stood in the middle of the living room saying to no one exactly "wow-where did all the money come from?"
So Karen are you meaning that "all the assaults on workers,internet freedoms,..... is coordinated? I have and I have detected coordination with some movements beyond our borders and I have said this out loud with my family although i don't feel confident enough to say it out loud (except here!!!)anywhere else.
I am so grateful to have my home bulging with family members who are not usually here. I made some pumpkin bread today and I consider it to be Holy Sacrament-must remember that we are here by Grace and to say Thank You while we have the freedom to cook and eat and share.
Love to you dear ones. Karen is this what you were seeing?

Yes, Clymela. This assault on many fronts has been in planning for quite some time. Beause it is misuse of power, I believe it's also going to backfire. I'm just hoping it doesn't take as long to unravel, as it has to plan and implement.

Enjoy every single moment with your family. Wonderful!

Poor Japan and what a year it will be for them, it isn't over I'm afraid as their very foundation is being shaken and will be over and over. Through the centuries Japan has had many starts and restarts with different and new Constitutions however, their original Foundation Date is Feb. 11, 660 BC and Saturn is at 7 degrees Capricorn and Pluto is sitting directly on that degree of Capricorn and will be there for as it retrogrades back and forth across that Saturn, shaking the very roots of Japan, soon Uranus will join Pluto in a square further eroding Japan's hold onto their country, literally hanging onto it. The US with its Cancer Venus, Jupiter and Sun in Pluto's path and Uranus, the US is due for her own shaking. Japan's progressed Saturn is at 10 degrees Aries with transiting Jupiter conjunct that progression, further emphasizing BIG earth changes for them.

Sally-thank you for taking the time to tell us about Japan's original organization-this makes sense to me now and helps me to keep from falling into despair. And yes I know that we are heading for something-people seem so at odds with each other or so it seems to me.
Thank you again.

Good grief, Sally. I can't imagine how you felt when you saw Pluto sitting right on Japan's Saturn. When I read your post, I wept. This definitely is not getting better anytime soon.

Again, this shift is about power -- and now literally. Twenty or thirty years ago we could have been outfitting every single home, apartment,or building with solar, wind or geothermal energy. We did not. Corporate entities continued to consolidate power, poison the environment, while squashing alternative energy innovations and making it prohibitively expensive to use it.

And now, it's up to us.....to a frayed, divided, and self-involved population. Sigh.

SIGH!!! Indeed Karen, sigh!!

Walker is not getting a good reception from his "constituents" since he decided to shaft them. Watch this video. Amazing!

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/03/15-0

Here's an excerpt from Matthew's recent message:
The earthquake off the coast of Japan, strategically positioned to cause the tsunami, was not Mother Nature’s doing. Her only involvement was the unavoidable initial movements of land and water after Illuminati scientists triggered the quake. Our space family was able to thwart their goal to level cities, flood the island and kill most of its inhabitants; however, harnessing the full force of the ocean is beyond the capability of their technology. Mother Nature isn’t causing the suspicious number of aftershocks, either, and it should be obvious to your seismologists and geologists that something is horribly awry.

Lord, I'm having the worst time getting this to post.....

An excerpt from Matthew's recent message:

The earthquake off the coast of Japan, strategically positioned to cause the tsunami, was not Mother Nature’s doing. Her only involvement was the unavoidable initial movements of land and water after Illuminati scientists triggered the quake. Our space family was able to thwart their goal to level cities, flood the island and kill most of its inhabitants; however, harnessing the full force of the ocean is beyond the capability of their technology. Mother Nature isn’t causing the suspicious number of aftershocks, either, and it should be obvious to your seismologists and geologists that something is horribly awry.

Well,

I hope this is the correct link:

http://www.matthewbooks.com/mm/anmviewer.asp?a=1

Hello Redwing! The latest Matthew post created some heated discussion http//www.starlightnews.com/

While some thought it a stretch, others gave it credence. It is a rather shocking statement. As a sci-fi writer, it is a device that I might consider using, but I have a vivid imagination.

What was your thought about it?

OK....I'm back. Haven't been ignoring anyone. I have dial-up and my connection to the internet is sporadic. (Sigh)

I do believe that the Illumanti scientists (sp) did cause this earthquake. My intuition tells me so. I believe they caused the destruction in New Orleans, also. AND...(adjusts tin-foil hat)911 was an inside job, if there ever was one.

Now, I take some issue with this entity's insistence that Obama will rise to the occasion and show us what an enlightened leader he is! I believe he is very much under the control of the Illuminati and can't do much of anything he promised. And, from my vantage point, it looks like he has given in. In the mean time what do us "light workers" do? I'm frustrated and feel things were not supposed to get this bad, if you know what I mean. Don't you get frustrated when you look around at your neighbors, co-workers and friends caught up in football, American Idol and other mindless drivel. Those who get their "news" from MSM, Rush Limbaugh,Beck, etc. Now, having said that, I must remember where I am. I live in Virginia, the state that is never going to forget the civil war, is still overtly racist, sexist and horribly conservative (why do they call them conservatives? They conserve nothing but the rich man's money.

OK, I'll shut up now. Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday are good days to plant! Libra and Scorpio...I do so love to garden!!

OK....I'm back. Haven't been ignoring anyone. I have dial-up and my connection to the internet is sporadic. (Sigh)

I do believe that the Illumanti scientists (sp) did cause this earthquake. My intuition tells me so. I believe they caused the destruction in New Orleans, also. AND...(adjusts tin-foil hat)911 was an inside job, if there ever was one.

Now, I take some issue with this entity's insistence that Obama will rise to the occasion and show us what an enlightened leader he is! I believe he is very much under the control of the Illuminati and can't do much of anything he promised. And, from my vantage point, it looks like he has given in. In the mean time what do us "light workers" do? I'm frustrated and feel things were not supposed to get this bad, if you know what I mean. Don't you get frustrated when you look around at your neighbors, co-workers and friends caught up in football, American Idol and other mindless drivel. Those who get their "news" from MSM, Rush Limbaugh,Beck, etc. Now, having said that, I must remember where I am. I live in Virginia, the state that is never going to forget the civil war, is still overtly racist, sexist and horribly conservative (why do they call them conservatives? They conserve nothing but the rich man's money.

OK, I'll shut up now. Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday are good days to plant! Libra and Scorpio...I do so love to garden!!

Well,

Sorry for the double posts! I'll get this right yet......