The Daily Show – Broke Bank MountingGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on FacebookWednesday June 29, 2011: Thank goodness! Someone without an election campaign to finance, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, deals with the tiresomely political stalemate and one-upsmanship between Ds and Rs concerning the US economy and the August 2nd debt ceiling
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Robert Reich: What’s Wrong with the Economy? (video)
Besides his clear explanation of What’s Wrong with the Economy? given here in 2 minutes 15 seconds or so, I confess that this lifelong draw-er had no idea that Professor Reich could draw this well!
Horoscope: Solar Eclipse 11Gem02 June 1, 2011
On June 1, 2011, a partial Solar Eclipse occurs @ 11Gemini02. Below you see its horoscope set for the White House, Washington DC; Hour Saturn 10Lib33 Rx in 12th house of Karma and Politics; Saturn trines the Eclipse which falls in the 8th house (in DC) of taxation, shared resources, credit, debt, insurance, big business, other people’s money, and transformation.The helpful trine from Saturn to
Week of May 9, 2011: China to Washington DC
With China’s counterpart officials to US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner visiting Washington DC this week for meetings, I’ve had a peek at the natal horoscope of China and the nation’s current progressions. Click to view China’s 1949 national horoscope which I published in 2010 on the occasion of Mr. Geithner’s visit there. Plus, here’s a creaky old post from way back in April 2006 when China
President’s Weekly Address May 7, 2011 (video)
President Barack Obama speaks from Indiana for his Weekly Address to the nation.
Breaking News: House Passes 2011 Spending-Cut Deal
NPR BREAKING NEWS: House Passes 2011 Spending-Cut Deal House passes spending measure cutting $38 billion, funding government through September. More at NPR.Update: the Senate passed it, too so ‘the deal’ is headed for President Obama’s desk for signing.Don’t we wish we could feel thrilled at what a good job our alleged representatives have done?
Peter Schiff on the US financial condition (Alex Jones video)
March-April 2011: Alex Jones speaks with economist Peter Schiff on finances, capitalism, bailouts for the super-rich, unions, scapegoating the Middle Class, class warfare (Pluto/Chiron’s baby), taxes, Fortune 100 corporations like GE and Google which helped write loopholes into Obama’s financial reform bill, the Fed, and much more.Part 1 of 2Part 2 of 2(Personally, I’m unable to say that the
US Gov Shutdown? US natal chart w Apr 8, 2011 transits
UPDATE 4.6.11 6:07 pm edt: NPR just reported that if there is a government shutdown at the end of the week it would happen at "12:01 am Saturday morning." This is one minute one second later than what I used to set up the horoscope below yet the charts’ (cusps’) time link remains the same.Original column begins here: America’s Natal Chart with Transits for April 8, 2011: Midnight on Capitol
Paul Ryan’s Roadmap to America’s Future (of Serfdom)
With Mercury’s current retrograde condition in Mars-ruled Aries, a review of Paul Ryan, poster boy for austerity cuts, and his "Roadmap to America’s Future" may be in order. It amazes me that any self-interested American can believe the austerity plans of the GOP as touted by Paul Ryan will lead to anything but complete government take-over by fascist elements – their goal perhaps, but not the
Shock Doctrine Politicians = America Going Nowhere
An Austere GOP Hearts the Ruining of Americaby Jude CowellIf you’re anything like me, you’re having some difficulty keeping current your Shock Doctrine Politicians scorecard, so you may benefit from a list with their names, birth data, and a few of their astrological details. And of course, the shock in ‘Shock Doctrine’ implicates the planet of disruption, upheaval, lightening, and chaos: Uranus.