Suffocating the Poor: A Modern ParableBy Johann Hari I want to tell you the story of how our governments have been torturing and tormenting an island in the Caribbean – but it is a much bigger story than that. It’s a parable explaining one of the main reasons how and why, across the world, the poor are kept poor, so the rich can be kept rich. #Possessing natural resources dooms regions of the
Tag: mundane astrology
Pope to UK: Moon triggers July 2010 Solar Eclipse
Just a brief heads-up on the Astrology of the current visit to the UK by Pope Benedict whose presence in London today is visible in the horoscope (click image to enlarge) by Pluto 2Cap48 (the pope) and North Node 9Cap00 (encounters; meetings; the public) pointing directly at the UK’s natal Ic 9Cap20 (Home) and UK natal Sun 10Cap11 (highlighted in blue.) Today’s Moon 19Cap42 at noon BST, London,
An astro-peek at Constitution Day September 17, 2010
Tattered by constant assaults in recent years, ignored by arrogant, bossy globalists everywhere, the US Constitution was signed by 39 men on September 17, 1787 making tomorrow, September 17, 2010 Constitution Day and the document’s 223rd birthday.However! Master astrologer Zip Dobyns did excellent work in the mid-1980s concerning the horoscope of the US Constitution and she stated that (unlike
Blackwater’s client list; Prince’s Sun Gemini-Moon Pisces
The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill has popped the lid off the top clients list of Erik Prince’s Blackwater (‘Xe’) operations and its bid to be the intell arm of Monsanto, one of the primary scourges of our times.But Walt Disney? Really? What can Mickey be up to? Spying on Minnie perhaps?If you prefer, Raw Story offers a synopsis of the situation and its disturbing implications.And it seems the
Deja-vu: the Lehman Brothers collapse 2008 – 2010
September 15, 2010: it’s been two years since the stupid mistake was made to let the venerable Lehman Brothers firm crash into bankruptcy. This morning NPR did a 4 minute interview with Peter Chapman who’s written a book on the subject. The interview is worth a listen, if you missed it.Now here’s a post I wrote in September 2008 which details, among other things, the Lehman Brothers crisis of
Congress returns, Moon enters Sagittarius 9.13.10
Today the US Congress returns to Capitol Hill after the August break for a 4-week session and with many items to address which include the thorny question of whether to extend the Bush tax cuts or not, and for the middle class or the rich.You may wish to check out the issues and the status of existing legislation at Open Congress.Meanwhile, overhead, Sun remains in earthy Virgo today while the
Sun-Moon blends of 9/11/01 and 9/11/10
Today marks nine years since the attacks of 9/11/01 when the Sun was in Virgo and Moon in Gemini. Naturally, the Sun is in Virgo today was well, but expectably the Moon’s sign is different.9/11/01’s Solar Return to 18Vir51 occurred today at 12:42:27 pm edt in Manhattan with the Moon at 4Sco25, so let’s briefly compare the two Sun-Moon blends, then and now. Rising was 00Sag46 with ‘1Sag’ being the
Global Banking Reform as Basel III meets 9.12.10
This Sunday in Basel, Switzerland, global titans meet to complete their agenda for new banking requirements which they deem are made necessary by the engineered Financial Collapse of 2008. The meeting occurs ‘under the radar’ for most of us, hence this posting peep-eye.Sunday’s conclave, Basel III is meant to establish, among other things, the amounts that banks must set aside for future crises
Obama presser w/ his natal Neptune rising 9.10.10
Update 9.10.10: just read Paul Krugman’s piece Things Could Be Worse which addresses the economic measures of the president as mentioned in his presser today, R v D tactics and what would happen if Rs take control in November midterms, and compares our financial crisis 2008 with Japan’s response to their own financial crisis of the 1990s. A good read.And if you missed it, here’s a White House
The Natal Chart of John Boehner
On Thursday, November 17, 1949 John Boehner was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was elected House Minority Leader for the Republican Party on January 4, 2007.Mr. Boehner’s birth time is unknown to me, but for the 24-hour period, the Moon remained in Libra (11:13 – 26:03) with Sun in Scorpio ranging from 24:31 to 25:32; Mercury in Scorpio 21:17 – 23:23.The following planetary positions are from his