{"id":30512,"date":"2011-12-10T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17910744.post-8984784119779716932"},"modified":"2012-01-08T16:38:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T16:38:50","slug":"12-10-11-one-year-since-sen-sanders-filibuster-as-middle-class-melts-away-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=30512","title":{"rendered":"12.10.11: One year since Sen. Sanders&#8217; filibuster as Middle Class melts away (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FHTWsPaijeLoyQTDGn1mC03REqE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FHTWsPaijeLoyQTDGn1mC03REqE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FHTWsPaijeLoyQTDGn1mC03REqE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FHTWsPaijeLoyQTDGn1mC03REqE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Senator Sanders, Stray Birds, and Republican Clowns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Jude Cowell<\/p>\n<p>With certain entities and their agents within our government working hard to collapse America (like a phoenix arising from the ashes of their one-world-government Utopian dream of chaos leading to ultimate control by an unelected few), here is an ice sculpture from a hot June 18, 2011 day in NYC which perfectly illustrates what <strong>Senator Bernie Sanders<\/strong> of Vermont said during his filibuster on Capitol Hill, a place where you&#8217;d <em>think<\/em> the American people could expect their grievances to be addressed on a regular basis and their needs and issues to be served.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But no.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instead, we get performances from the GOP Theater of The Absurd. And all their time-wasting, special-interest promoting and protecting gambits are played in full costume upon our dime and against the best interests of the majority. Their contempt for we-the-people knows no bounds and neither does their greed for more more more money and power, as the Senator correctly notes.<\/p>\n<p>They want to us admit that the US government is &#8220;broken&#8221; and can no longer serve us&#8211;and the GOP ploy is to refuse to serve us. A use of self-fulfilling prophecy doesn&#8217;t work for this dissenting America. You?<\/p>\n<p>Presenting the billionaires&#8217; war against a Middle Class which <em>should be the foundation<\/em> underneath our nation&#8217;s structure&#8230;and one of our few hopes on Capitol Hill, <strong>Senator Bernie Sanders<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rKXDlnpUrNE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imho, it is due to political games, higher oaths, and mystical tricks that America is betrayed and may be &#8216;discontinued&#8217; if the American people <em>wimp out<\/em> thus allowing certain forces to have their totalitarian way. <\/p>\n<p>And so I ask again something I asked you months ago, dear reader, which you never answered&#8211;and it has a very Taurean ring to it since <em>intolerance<\/em> is one of the shadow traits of <strong>Taurus the often-greedy Bull<\/strong> and it&#8217;s where moneybags Jupiter now tarries in retrograde, its energy strengthened by Direct Station which occurs on Christmas Day 2011 5:08 pm est @ <strong>00Tau22<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p><strong>How long can the tolerant tolerate the intolerable?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting overview of the world&#8217;s condition: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsandculture.org\/2010\/12\/30\/the-new-%E2%80%9Cmanichean%E2%80%9D-left-the-old-far-right-tolerating-the-intolerable1\/\">The New &#8220;Manichean&#8221; Left &#038; the Old Far Right: Tolerating the Intolerable<\/a> by Nick Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>Additional info: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manichaeism\">Mani and Manicheaism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>~:~<\/p>\n<p><em>Astro-Brief:<\/em> <strong>00Tau22<\/strong> is Adolf Hitler&#8217;s natal Sun degree (00Tau48) so the 00-1 Tau range of degrees are considered by some to be degrees of violence&#8211;Hitler&#8217;s <em>trigger degree<\/em> for when his natal Sun @ 00Tau48 was triggered by a planet or planets in transit, he tended to &#8216;get busy&#8217; harming people.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, progressions stimulated his egotistical Sun, too. And natal MIDAS conjoined natal Sun&#8211;he was a heister extraordinaire and apparently assumed he deserved all the spoils, including controlling the reins of a futuristic Plan that called for a New World Order.<\/p>\n<p>How long was Hitler tolerated and appeased before his crimes&#8211;and his psychopathic New World Order intentions&#8211;were dealt with? Too long? Well, yes. And it&#8217;s almost 2012 and we&#8217;re in precisely a similar predicament again. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Save America&#8217; is only a part of it for the devils have gone global with &#8216;free&#8217; trade agreements set up to dissolve borders (and squirrel away large sums of money) in more ways than one.<\/p>\n<p>Two questions: will the World Awaken from the gossamer of false reality in time to be our own rescuers locally, if not nationally? Or, as mentioned in the video: will contemptuous, self-elected global masters of the Earth spitefully pull the plug on civilization in vicious response to the world uprisings which they know must come?<\/p>\n<p>As Rabindranath Tagore wrote so eloquently in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/80487\/Stray-Birds\"><em>Stray Birds<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Power takes as ingratitude the writhings of its victims.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t it though?<\/p>\n<p>Now. Since the 99% supposedly does so anyway, let&#8217;s go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2011\/11\/09-0Occupy\">Occupy America!<\/a> or support those citizens who do.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the usual if weeded-out line-up of Republican clowns are &#8216;debating&#8217; again tonight in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydesert.com\/article\/20111210\/NEWS03\/111210003\/What-expect-tonight-s-GOP-debate?odyssey=nav%7Chead\">Des Moines, Iowa<\/a>, as you know. Here I think we&#8217;ll be watching a DVD of <em>The Debt<\/em> (Helen Mirren) instead and try to catch up with the mercurial Newt &#038; Friends on the Sunday morning political shows tomorrow and by viewing video debate highlights when I can manage to snag a peek.<\/p>\n<p>And if it&#8217;s not too close to my dinner time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/17910744-8984784119779716932?l=www.starsoverwashington.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/StarsOverWashington\/~4\/Wpv2dqXnxmk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Sanders, Stray Birds, and Republican Clownsby Jude CowellWith certain entities and their agents within our government working hard to collapse America (like a phoenix arising from the ashes of their one-world-government Utopian dream of chaos &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=30512\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1107,3906,636,1102,638,3040,2152,1311],"class_list":["post-30512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gop","tag-middle-class-warfare","tag-mundane-astrology","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-political-astrology","tag-public-protests","tag-sen-bernie-sanders","tag-taurus-the-bull"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekXVE-7W8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31982,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30512\/revisions\/31982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}