"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini

Picasso's "Guernica"

Fascism: "A philosophy of government that stresses the primacy and glory of the state ... obedience to its leader, subordination of the individual will to the state's authority ... suppression of dissent. Martial virtues are celebrated, while liberal democratic values are denigrated ... led by charismatic leaders who represented to their publics the strength that could rescue their nation from political and economic conditions." - Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Encyclopedia.

June 4, 2004, Update:

Per STARIQ

July 12, 2003

George vs. George

"TENET: 16 WORDS"

"Here is the line from President Bush's State of the Union address that CIA Director George Tenet said was a mistake:

"'The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.'"

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It's not going away, not even if Tenet resigns. Not with Tenet's natal Mars (4 Pisces) in opposition to Bush's Mars (9 Virgo).

Mars, the planet that times when all gentlemen are called to fall on their swords, will go retrograde on July 29 at 10 Pisces, and return to 0 Pisces by September 27th.

Retrograde planetary periods signal that something initiated during direction motion will be revisited. We're going to hear about Bush and George Tenet again. And again. And again. So will Tony Blair and Jack Straw.

Now Humpty Dumpty has fallen off the great wall. All the King's horses and all the King's men can't put Humpty together again.

Mars' direct motion this fall will re-ignite this fateful opposition and join the men in pitched battle once more. On October 22nd, George Tenet will experience the third and final "Mars Return" hit to his natal warrior planet.

This prolonged Mars transit is made all the more "glorious" by Mars' 3 conjunctions to Tenet's progressed Sun (6 Pisces), also in opposition to Dubya's natal Mars.

Thanksgiving 2003 should be "interesting," as Transiting Mars reaches 19 degrees Pisces, or square Dubya's Natal Uranus (19 Gemini), his North Node (20 Gemini) and squares the USA's Mars (21 Gemini).

Mars and Uranus in challenging aspect is the classic astrological explosion signature, both literally and figuratively.

But I get ahead of myself.

Transiting Mars is currently in square to the USA's Uranus at 8 Gemini. Because of Mars' retrograde cycle, this incendiary square will also be repeated a three times. If the first of the aforementioned squares brought the faked Niger/Uranium documents to the attention of the world community, what then, can we expect from two more Marsy hits to these charts?

George Tenet must have awakened to find a horse head in his bed Friday morning. While he wiped the blood off the sheets, he could hear the theme from "The Godfather" dying out softly from his clock radio. The phone would ring. Tenet would hear a whisper, "Do you like your face?"

"Who is this!" Tenet would yell. "Some old line KGB hack fuck?"

No, George, it was no old line KGB hack fuck. It was none other than Karl Rove...

[ Ari Fleischer in costume auditioning for a part time job as New Democratic Iraq's Information Minister.]

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The charts in biwheel are a pressure chamber of duty, loyalty and sacrifice. Whether the calling is noble is another story.

It is enough to note that Tenet's politically charged Uranus conjoins Bush and the USA's natal Suns and squares the USA's natal Saturn. Tenet's Chiron and Sun at 14-15 Capricorn create a T-square to Bush's natal Chiron, Moon and Jupiter which completes a grand cardinal square when overlaid onto the USA's birth chart. This T-square gets set off again by Sunday, July 13th's Full Moon at 20 Capricorn. The ante is upped by the Full Moon's conjunction to the USA's Pluto at 27 Capricorn in opposition to "intelligence gathering" USA Mercury at 24 Cancer. This Full Moon sets of the devastating T-square from Tenet's Libra Saturn to Bush's Midheaven and natal Saturn (26 Cancer) and natal NEMESIS (asteroid associated with retribution for hubris, or: "Pride goeth before a fall.")

Bush's 12th house Saturn/Nemesis issues will begin growing exponentionally the closer transiting Saturn gets to his birth Sun. Because of Saturn's retrograde motion in 2003, Bush will experience a long Saturn station on his Cancerian Sun (as will the USA) while in square to USA Saturn at 14 Libra. The Saturn station at the 13 degree mark harks back to the exact conjunction of 1974 when Richard M. Nixon resigned the presidency over the Watergate Scandal. [See Starcats' Watergate Astro Study].

Presidential Hopeful, Howard Dean [See Dean's chart] spoke the word "Watergate" at a July 11th press conference. It gets even better when you know that George Tenet was sworn in as CIA director on July 11, 1997.

As stated above, even if Tenet "resigns" (forced out by Rove) neither he nor Bush (look at the charts!) can separate from each other. There is no release from the bonds Saturn set in place.

Saturn coming to Bush's Sun (and Tenet's Uranus) signals an ending. Saturn and Uranus signal separations and radical departures. We witnessed this in 2000 and 2001 where, during three Saturn-Uranus squares, the Bush administration secured the presidency via judicial coup d'etat and set about undoing the humane social contract forged by progressives from 1919 up to the year 2000.

[One stark reminder of Saturn-Uranus's penchant for radical separations is the March 2002 Taliban destruction of the Buddha statues in Afghanistan. Going against world outcry, the unilateralist mullahs destroyed the icons because of radical Islamic hegemony. Much the same is done in the so-called "modern" west by "mullahs" such as Rev. Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and even by the Bush administration itself.]

Saturn's transit through Cancer is set to square Bush's charismatic Moon-Jupiter conjunction in political and socially ambitious Libra. We are already witnessing the foreshadowing of a huge nose dive in popularity for George Bush. As his polls continue to drop (as reported in the Washington Post) Saturn is also pressing against the USA's Venus-Jupiter conjunction. Shortly, the American public will be forced to admit that the second of two "tax cuts" will not boost the economy nor create any new jobs.

July 13, 2003 Washington Post "Public support for President Bush has dropped sharply amid growing concerns about U.S. military casualties and doubts whether the war with Iraq was worth fighting, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Bush's overall job approval rating dropped to 59 percent, down nine points in the past 18 days. That decline exactly mirrored the slide in public support for Bush's handling of the situation in Iraq, which now stands at 58 percent."

As pressure builds inside Bush's 12th house, it may not be very long until secret after secret (including those held in connection to Vice President Dick Cheney's secret energy meetings) begin leaking out through a new Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon) or by revelations from a new "Deep Throat." [See John Dean's, "Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?".]

Protected, hidden and scripted (12 house Sun-Saturn) this secretive "president" is set to become "president imprisoned" behind the White House walls while fending off a hornet's nest stirred by corruption, unilateralism, hubris, and deception. [See Eleanor Clift's "Haunted by his father’s defeat and the accidental nature of his own presidency, Bush won’t ever concede missteps on Iraq"]

In 2004, Saturn will proceed to align itself with Bush's natal NEMESIS (asteroid of retribution) at 25 Cancer and his natal Saturn at 26 Cancer. This will form a square to his Midheaven of public honors and reputation and re-ignite the T-square Tenet's Libra Saturn forms in Bush's chart.

Note that Tenet's Saturn is in the 4th house of Bush's chart and will shortly be joined by Bush's progressed Venus and Jupiter. Bush's luck is beginning to run out. His progressed Jupiter and Venus are now past the 23 degree Libra mark, or the conjunction with the lucky fixed star, Spica. Because George Tenet's Saturn is their next destination, there will be no mercy shown by henchman Saturn.

Bush, who has always attached himself to an older man to act as surrogate father, guide and shield, will soon be bereft of protectors. The time is coming when rage on the left and a quiet, unseen rebellion among moderate Republicans will swell to fever pitch. It will be because of the body bags. And because our mourning comes to us by way of lies. There was no reason to invade Iraq to rid it of a tin pot dictator. We already have one of those sitting in the White House.

Read CIA Director George Tenet's official statement: "Legitimate questions have arisen" The Iraq Charge

Is This Bush's Way of Restoring Dignity and Honor To the White House?. . . Houston! We've Got a Problem!

"20 Lies About the War Independent.uk.co

Falsehoods ranging from exaggeration to plain untruth were used to make the case for war. More lies are being used in the aftermath. By Glen Rangwala and Raymond Whitaker

13 July 2003

1. Iraq was responsible for the 11 September attacks

A supposed meeting in Prague between Mohammed Atta, leader of the 11 September hijackers, and an Iraqi intelligence official was the main basis for this claim, but Czech intelligence later conceded that the Iraqi's contact could not have been Atta. This did not stop the constant stream of assertions that Iraq was involved in 9/11, which was so successful that at one stage opinion polls showed that two-thirds of Americans believed the hand of Saddam Hussein was behind the attacks. Almost as many believed Iraqi hijackers were aboard the crashed airliners; in fact there were none.

2. Iraq and al-Qa'ida were working together

Persistent claims by US and British leaders that Saddam and Osama bin Laden were in league with each other were contradicted by a leaked British Defence Intelligence Staff report, which said there were no current links between them. Mr Bin Laden's "aims are in ideological conflict with present-day Iraq", it added.

Another strand to the claims was that al-Qa'ida members were being sheltered in Iraq, and had set up a poisons training camp. When US troops reached the camp, they found no chemical or biological traces.

3. Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa for a "reconstituted" nuclear weapons programme

The head of the CIA has now admitted that documents purporting to show that Iraq tried to import uranium from Niger in west Africa were forged, and that the claim should never have been in President Bush's State of the Union address. Britain sticks by the claim, insisting it has "separate intelligence". The Foreign Office conceded last week that this information is now "under review".

4. Iraq was trying to import aluminium tubes to develop nuclear weapons

The US persistently alleged that Baghdad tried to buy high-strength aluminum tubes whose only use could be in gas centrifuges, needed to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons. Equally persistently, the International Atomic Energy Agency said the tubes were being used for artillery rockets. The head of the IAEA, Mohamed El Baradei, told the UN Security Council in January that the tubes were not even suitable for centrifuges.

5. Iraq still had vast stocks of chemical and biological weapons from the first Gulf War

Iraq possessed enough dangerous substances to kill the whole world, it was alleged more than once. It had pilotless aircraft which could be smuggled into the US and used to spray chemical and biological toxins. Experts pointed out that apart from mustard gas, Iraq never had the technology to produce materials with a shelf-life of 12 years, the time between the two wars. All such agents would have deteriorated to the point of uselessness years ago.

6. Iraq retained up to 20 missiles which could carry chemical or biological warheads, with a range which would threaten British forces in Cyprus

Apart from the fact that there has been no sign of these missiles since the invasion, Britain downplayed the risk of there being any such weapons in Iraq once the fighting began. It was also revealed that chemical protection equipment was removed from British bases in Cyprus last year, indicating that the Government did not take its own claims seriously.

7. Saddam Hussein had the wherewithal to develop smallpox

This allegation was made by the Secretary of State, Colin Powell, in his address to the UN Security Council in February. The following month the UN said there was nothing to support it.

8. US and British claims were supported by the inspectors

According to Jack Straw, chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix "pointed out" that Iraq had 10,000 litres of anthrax. Tony Blair said Iraq's chemical, biological and "indeed the nuclear weapons programme" had been well documented by the UN. Mr Blix's reply? "This is not the same as saying there are weapons of mass destruction," he said last September. "If I had solid evidence that Iraq retained weapons of mass destruction or were constructing such weapons, I would take it to the Security Council." In May this year he added: "I am obviously very interested in the question of whether or not there were weapons of mass destruction, and I am beginning to suspect there possibly were not."

9. Previous weapons inspections had failed

Tony Blair told this newspaper in March that the UN had "tried unsuccessfully for 12 years to get Saddam to disarm peacefully". But in 1999 a Security Council panel concluded: "Although important elements still have to be resolved, the bulk of Iraq's proscribed weapons programmes has been eliminated." Mr Blair also claimed UN inspectors "found no trace at all of Saddam's offensive biological weapons programme" until his son-in-law defected. In fact the UN got the regime to admit to its biological weapons programme more than a month before the defection.

10. Iraq was obstructing the inspectors

Britain's February "dodgy dossier" claimed inspectors' escorts were "trained to start long arguments" with other Iraqi officials while evidence was being hidden, and inspectors' journeys were monitored and notified ahead to remove surprise. Dr Blix said in February that the UN had conducted more than 400 inspections, all without notice, covering more than 300 sites. "We note that access to sites has so far been without problems," he said. : "In no case have we seen convincing evidence that the Iraqi side knew that the inspectors were coming."

11. Iraq could deploy its weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes

This now-notorious claim was based on a single source, said to be a serving Iraqi military officer. This individual has not been produced since the war, but in any case Tony Blair contradicted the claim in April. He said Iraq had begun to conceal its weapons in May 2002, which meant that they could not have been used within 45 minutes.

12. The "dodgy dossier"

Mr Blair told the Commons in February, when the dossier was issued: "We issued further intelligence over the weekend about the infrastructure of concealment. It is obviously difficult when we publish intelligence reports." It soon emerged that most of it was cribbed without attribution from three articles on the internet. Last month Alastair Campbell took responsibility for the plagiarism committed by his staff, but stood by the dossier's accuracy, even though it confused two Iraqi intelligence organisations, and said one moved to new headquarters in 1990, two years before it was created.

13. War would be easy

Public fears of war in the US and Britain were assuaged by assurances that oppressed Iraqis would welcome the invading forces; that "demolishing Saddam Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk", in the words of Kenneth Adelman, a senior Pentagon official in two previous Republican administrations. Resistance was patchy, but stiffer than expected, mainly from irregular forces fighting in civilian clothes. "This wasn't the enemy we war-gamed against," one general complained.

14. Umm Qasr

The fall of Iraq's southernmost city and only port was announced several times before Anglo-American forces gained full control - by Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, among others, and by Admiral Michael Boyce, chief of Britain's defence staff. "Umm Qasr has been overwhelmed by the US Marines and is now in coalition hands," the Admiral announced, somewhat prematurely.

15. Basra rebellion

Claims that the Shia Muslim population of Basra, Iraq's second city, had risen against their oppressors were repeated for days, long after it became clear to those there that this was little more than wishful thinking. The defeat of a supposed breakout by Iraqi armour was also announced by military spokesman in no position to know the truth.

16. The "rescue" of Private Jessica Lynch

Private Jessica Lynch's "rescue" from a hospital in Nasiriya by American special forces was presented as the major "feel-good" story of the war. She was said to have fired back at Iraqi troops until her ammunition ran out, and was taken to hospital suffering bullet and stab wounds. It has since emerged that all her injuries were sustained in a vehicle crash, which left her incapable of firing any shot. Local medical staff had tried to return her to the Americans after Iraqi forces pulled out of the hospital, but the doctors had to turn back when US troops opened fire on them. The special forces encountered no resistance, but made sure the whole episode was filmed.

17. Troops would face chemical and biological weapons

As US forces approached Baghdad, there was a rash of reports that they would cross a "red line", within which Republican Guard units were authorised to use chemical weapons. But Lieutenant General James Conway, the leading US marine general in Iraq, conceded afterwards that intelligence reports that chemical weapons had been deployed around Baghdad before the war were wrong.

" It was a surprise to me ... that we have not uncovered weapons ... in some of the forward dispersal sites," he said. "We've been to virtually every ammunition supply point between the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad, but they're simply not there. We were simply wrong. Whether or not we're wrong at the national level, I think still very much remains to be seen."

18. Interrogation of scientists would yield the location of WMD

" I have got absolutely no doubt that those weapons are there ... once we have the co-operation of the scientists and the experts, I have got no doubt that we will find them," Tony Blair said in April. Numerous similar assurances were issued by other leading figures, who said interrogations would provide the WMD discoveries that searches had failed to supply. But almost all Iraq's leading scientists are in custody, and claims that lingering fears of Saddam Hussein are stilling their tongues are beginning to wear thin.

19. Iraq's oil money would go to Iraqis

Tony Blair complained in Parliament that "people falsely claim that we want to seize" Iraq's oil revenues, adding that they should be put in a trust fund for the Iraqi people administered through the UN. Britain should seek a Security Council resolution that would affirm "the use of all oil revenues for the benefit of the Iraqi people".

Instead Britain co-sponsored a Security Council resolution that gave the US and UK control over Iraq's oil revenues. There is no UN-administered trust fund.

Far from "all oil revenues" being used for the Iraqi people, the resolution continues to make deductions from Iraq's oil earnings to pay in compensation for the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. 20. WMD were found

After repeated false sightings, both Tony Blair and George Bush proclaimed on 30 May that two trailers found in Iraq were mobile biological laboratories. "We have already found two trailers, both of which we believe were used for the production of biological weapons," said Mr Blair. Mr Bush went further: "Those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons - they're wrong. We found them." It is now almost certain that the vehicles were for the production of hydrogen for weather balloons, just as the Iraqis claimed - and that they were exported by Britain.

Newsmakers 2003 Archives

January 1, 2003 Happy New Year and Welcome to the World of the Weird: Bush & Saddam; January 2003's Lunations
January 18, 2003 Full Moon 1/18/03 and TIMELINE
January 25-27, 2003 Hans Blix Reports to U.N. and Bush's State of the Union Address
February 3, 2003 GrievingColumbia
February 9, 2003 Colin Powell's Political Suicide Note Delivered "Live" to U.N. 2-5-03 Is He On Crack?
February 15, 2003 Full Moon in D.C., 2-16-03: Bush's March Towards Armageddon
March 14, 2003 In the Old Days, Bush Probably Drank Wild Turkey. Now That's He's Dry, He's Mad Because It Won't Go To War
June 4, 2003 Federal Grand Jury Indicts Martha Stewart
June 9, 2003 Karl Rove
June 15, 2003, David Rozelle of the Capital Times What shall I call this new America in-the-making just three years into a new century?

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