During the
Presidential Election year of 1980, CNN (Cable News Network) launched from its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia on June 1, 1980 anchored by husband and wife team, Dave Walker and Lois Hart – and the 24-hour news cycle began. Their leading story was the May 29, 1980 attempted assassination of civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and President Carter arriving to visit him during Jordan’s
Tag: Civil Rights
Does an Ancient Roman Uprising Rhyme with Jan 6, 2021?
Venatio, Gladiator and Lion in the Colloseum; in oil by Studio artist Firmin-Didot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
February 1, 2022
Does an Ancient Eclipse Link to Trump and the 1/6 Revolt?
by Jude Cowell
As a Saturnian astrologer fond of the phrase "history rhymes" via similarly repeating events rather than "history repeats" precisely, it has come to my attention during a review of my
Astro-Notes on the Dixiecrats of 1948 and their spawn
by Jude Cowell
Back in the day, a gaggle of anti-Civil-Rights Southerners, known as the Dixiecrats, met in Birmingham, Alabama and on July 17, 1948 nominated South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond for president and Mississippi Gov. Fielding L. Wright for vice president. The Truman and Democratic Party programs supporting Civil Rights for the disenfrachised victims of our country had enraged them,
Unmasking Portland’s Secret Police Kidnapping Peaceful Protesters – clip (w/ Astrology)
From July 20, 2020: Well, the current Uranus-Pluto midpoint in mid-Pisces continues to oppose and activate the Great Conjunction/s of Uranus and Pluto of the mid-1960s Civil Rights era (conjunct in mid-Virgo) as demonstrated in the streets of Portland, Oregon – with Trump’s combative ‘secret police’ possibly being dispatched to other US cities (that have Democratic mayors) if they displease the
The Prenatal Eclipse of the MLK Assassination
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMartin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg The tragic and cruel Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee ‘killed the man but not The Dream’. Here is a link…
July 10, 2015 SC State House removes Confederate flag!
July 10, 2015 South Carolina removes the Confederate flag from the State Capitol grounds
Yes, this particular Southerner is among the elated Americans that Governor Nikki Haley signed the bill yesterday to lower and remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State Capitol Building in Columbia at 10:00 am today.
Now if only bigotry itself could be lowered from its hateful flag pole
Churches burn while fiery Mars in Cancer is out-of-bounds – video
Yes, it’s Mars in Cancer and out-of-bounds again
Here’s a bit posted in 2008 concerning the trouble with an out of bounds Mars, planet of fire and aggression. Away from the earthly plane, off on his own, going against the rest of society, and often acting under cover of night, hothead Mars has a favorite activity and tactic especially while traversing the tribal sign of Cancer–arson. This
A Daft US Government Teeters on Backs of the Poor Sept 2011
How Purposeful Washington’s Political Games Now Seemby Jude CowellAll logic tossed out the window, there are factions in the US determined to topple our republic and one of their tactics is to pile responsibility for current, dire financial straights onto the "backs of the poor" with President Obama at the helm and, one must assume, complicit in a radical and daft recipe for systemic collapse.("
GOP v Workers — and Women
International Womens Day 2011: Hanging By a Thread in America?by Jude CowellWith their assaults on Workers Rights coming soon to a state near you, notice that the GOP has shown the gall to attack Women’s Rights, too. Isn’t misogyny passe? Now if you, dear reader, voted GOP or TP in November 2010, it’s difficult for me to believe of you that rolling back women’s hard-won rights was any part of