 October 8, 2002
Rough Times At White House High
Declaration of Independence, Progressed, & Solar Arc Directed
October, 2002
  
Commentary
Rumors of War with Iraq. The House and Senate debate a resolution granting Bush carte blanche on a Baghdad attack. A sniper on a spree killing binge. Congress and Washington, D.C. on edge. The seaports of California shut down by the Pacific Maritime Association -- The USA is losing billions of dollars a day. The U.S.'s trucking industries hit hard by California longshoremen lockout. A terrorist act against U.S. Marines in Kuwait finds one dead and another wounded.
These are just some of the headlines and the world appears to be getting worse.
The USA's chart continues to reel from Pluto's transit of its first house of national identity. The progressed Moon at 14 Gemini (the degree of the Ascendant and Mercury for 9-11-01) opposes transiting Pluto from the 7th house of public enemies. By January 21, 2003, the progressed Moon will trine the USA's progressed Mars at 18 Libra, upping the ante for domestic terrorism and certainly may be the harbinger of declared war on Iraq (if it does not come sooner). The progressed Moon makes 21 Gemini by April 6, 2003. It then conjoins the USA's Mars in the 7th house and conjoins Bush's natal and Progressed Uranus. Bush's Uranus in conjunction with the USA's Mars points to bellicose language (Mercury ruled Gemini) and sudden (Uranus) explosive (Mars) moves upon public enemies.
Neptune retrograde at 8 Aquarius is still in orb of the USA's South Node in house 2: the peoples' money. As described fully in Starcats' Capricorn Ingress 2000, "There goes our money." The recession is here. . ." and we're set for a nasty double-dipper.
Neptune's trine to the USA's Uranus is related to October's longshoremen lockout by PMA. Neptune (the sea) hovering at the USA's South Node is indicative of continued financial losses of every kind, particularly because Venus associated with money and "stuff" is set to go retrograde (Thursday, October 10) for six weeks -- the time estimated to unload the backlogged ships in California's ports. [Time estimate reported on Lou Dobbs Moneyline, CNN, October 8, 2002 broadcast.] Neptune's rulership of water relates to erosion, a washing away, dilution and the tidal waves -- the deceptive waves of scandal as related to 1. Bush's tax cut for the rich; 2. the PMA-longshoremen crisis; 3. shipping and trucking bottlenecks; 4. ongoing CEO scandals; and 5. the fears of an Iraqi war predicated a rapine desire to grasp control of Saddam's oil. [It is alleged that Iraq owns 30% of the world's oil supply.]
Saturn [at 29 Gemini], associated with scarcity, is set to retrograde for nearly 5 months on Friday, October 11th. This will usher in more belt tightening and a disappointing Christmas retail season. Anxiety grows higher by the day as Bush's Iraq talk exacerbates conflicting world opinion. A double-dip recession is just about guaranteed. Americans are putting padlocks on their wallets, a thing you would expect to happen when you look at the USA's Uranus at 8 Gemini in house 6. This house is associated with strikes, lockouts and job layoffs. When pinged by the ongoing Neptune/South Node trine, the possibility for massive financial leakouts is enormous.
The troubling aspects of the Bush administration's sudden call to war with Iraq are also related to the midterm elections. Because the USA's economy is in shambles and Bush has no intentions of rescinding his long-term tax cut to the rich, even those less cynical than I would question why Andrew Card referred to September's hasty Iraq insertion into the national dialogue as "You don't roll out new products in July and August."
 October 9, 2002
Molly Ivins Reports Corporate Reform A Sham
"All of you who were shafted by Enron, shucked by Worldcom, jived by Global Crossing, everyone whose 401(k) is now a 201(k) (I think that's Paul Begala's line), you just got screwed again. They're not going to fix it.
"They've already called off the reform effort; it's over. Corporate muscle showed up and shut it down. Forget expensing options, independent directors, going after offshore shams, derivatives regulation. For that matter, forget even basic reforms like separating the auditing and consulting functions of accounting firms and rotating accounting firms every few years. Bottom line: It's all going to happen again. We learned zip from the entire financial collapse. Our political system is too bought-off to respond intelligently."
Since the Bush administration seems to view war as no more than commerce and election strategy politics (as verified by Andrew Card's machiavellian answer to why the Iraq debate started in September), there's a growing sense that the Iraq debate in Congress is little more than grandstanding and speechifying at the taxpayer's expense. The Democrats learned the hard way that countering the Bush administration means being called "appeasers" or unpatriotic. They are allowing themselves to be railroaded by Karl Rove, Richard Perle, Bill Kristol of the "Weekly Standard," and Jerry Falwell. [By the time the Bush administration is finished with America, I predict that Christianity will be the most hated religion on the planet.]
October 13, 2002
Falwell Remarks Prompt India Riots
Fri Oct 11, 3:20 PM ET
By RAMOLA TALWAR, Associated Press Writer
BOMBAY, India (AP) - Five people were killed Friday in Hindu-Muslim rioting and police gunfire after riots broke out during a general strike to protest the Rev. Jerry Falwell calling the founder of Islam a terrorist. Forty-seven others were injured.
The rioters attacked each other with knives and stones during the strike called to protest what Falwell said on CBS television early this month. Muslim organizations said Falwell's remarks were derogatory and blasphemous.
The conservative Baptist minister told the television network Islam's prophet "was a - a violent man, a man of war."
"Jesus set the example for love, as did Moses," Falwell said. "I think Muhammad set an opposite example."
Two Muslims and one Hindu were killed by police gunfire and one Muslim and Hindu died of stab wounds in Sholapur 225 miles south of Bombay, the capital of western Maharashtra state, said Kirpa Shankar, the junior home minister of Maharashtra state.
The trouble started when a group of Muslims took to the streets and were challenged by Hindus. Some rioters targeted shops, homes and vehicles, police said.
Falwell's remarks had triggered street protests in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday. Yahoo News
Falwell Enrages Shiite Clerics
Sunday October 13, 2002 12:50 AM
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said Falwell was a ``mercenary and must be killed,'' the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
``The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community,'' Shabestari, a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
In an interview broadcast last week on the CBS program ``60 Minutes,'' Falwell said: ``I think (Prophet) Muhammad was a terrorist''.
The conservative Baptist minister said he has concluded from reading Muslim and non-Muslim writers that Islam's prophet ``was a violent man, a man of war.''
In Lebanon Saturday, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah called on Muslim countries to respond to Falwell who, he said, had ``infringed on the prophet (Muhammad's) dignity.''
Fadlallah, however, cautioned against resorting to ``physical violence'' against Falwell, saying Islam is ``a religion of mercy and love.''
In a statement issued in Beirut, Fadlallah also urged Muslims worldwide to counter what he called ``a cultural war'' launched against Islam following the Sept. 11 terror attacks in New York and Washington.
Fadlallah, 67, has condemned the Sept. 11 attacks. He is a senior Shiite religious authority and a harsh critic of U.S. policies in the Middle East, a region where Arabs view America as being biased toward Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians.
In August, Fadlallah issued a fatwa, or religious edict, banning Muslims from assisting the United States and its allies if they attack Iraq. He also urged Muslims to withdraw their money from U.S. markets for fear they may be frozen or confiscated.
Earlier this week, another Shiite cleric in Iran, Ayatollah Hussein Nouri Hamedani, called on Muslims to cut relations with America. He accused Falwell of implementing ``a Zionist plan'' to cause a clash between Islam and Christianity.
But other Muslim clerics held different opinion.
``Although (Falwell's) opinion is insulting, he can be answered through dialogue so that all ambiguities in his mind are cleared,'' Iranian Ayatollah Hussein Mousavi Tabrizi said.
Tabrizi refused to compare Falwell to British author Salman Rushdie, against whom the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of the Iranian revolution, issued a death verdict in the 1980s for blaspheming Islam in his book ``Satanic Verses.''
``Rushdie is a symbol of the red line between Islamic countries and the West. But we will not issue a death verdict against the priest. Iran is a country that promotes dialogue among civilizations,'' Tabrizi told The Associated Press on Saturday. Guardian U.K.
Because there are no longer any checks and balances upon the executive branch of the government (and the curtain between church and state has been torn asunder) Bush will get the resolution he wants for war on Iraq as easily as he has gotten everything else in his life. Accustomed to not having to work for anything, he learned that even the United States Supreme Court has been trained to do the Bush Family business.
Neptune, which is in the 10th house of Bush's Inauguration chart, should alert us to several things: 1) The Bush presidency was born in the deceptive fog of Selection 2000. To this day we are not clear as to what really happened in Florida; 2) The administration will continue to demonize anyone who challenges them on any matter, including their legitimacy; 3) The administration will continue to cloak itself in secrecy; 4) This administration cannot be trusted with the future of America; and 5) Right Wing Christian theology is dictating foreign policy. Talk about going to hell in a handbasket. We've got Yahweh running the United States government. Before too long, they'll turn this place into desert of busted Ozone and oil derricks.
October 8, 2002, Starcats
Footnotes
 The Pacific Martime Association was born on June 3, 1949, in Sacramento, California. Time unknown. Its Sun is 12 Gemini and Mercury is 13 Gemini which conjoins the cusp of the USA's 7th house and its progressed Moon. Gemini is about transport, shipping, trucking and commerce. The PMA's Sun and Mercury are opposite transiting Pluto in Sagittarius -- the sign associated with the sea and seafaring (the 9th house of the zodiac).
The PMA's Uranus of radical moves [the workers' lockout] at 29 Gemini is conjoined to transiting Saturn at 29 Gemini and signifies a "radicalized" stoppage (Saturn) and a coming scarcity/economic consequence in the marketplace. (Venus goes retrograde shortly).
The PMA's Pluto is at 14 Leo, opposite the USA Constitution's Pluto (14 Aquarius). Bush is invoking the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 to force the PMA to drop the lockout and let the longshoremen get back to work unloading the ships. An 80 day cooling off period is to be ordered by the Federal Courts very shortly. The 80 day cooling off period has only been effective in 40% of cases where Taft-Hartley has been invoked. Because Saturn at 29 Gemini is going retrograde on Friday, it will reconjoin the PMA's radical Uranus on May 27, 2003. This may mean another shutdown before this labor-management dispute is resolved.
With the USA's Solar Directed Saturn at 29 Taurus (Alcyone the fixed star of great tragedy and grief) in conjunction to Daddy Bush's natal Mercury, it makes sense that Iraq would be revisited at this time, since the Iraq war was really Daddy Bush's big failure. He did not get re-elected in 1992, nor did he eliminate the so-called "Saddam problem." Daddy Bush claims to hate Saddam, but I suspect that his reasons for not finishing the job lie with the Saudis. I suspect that the Saudi Royals phoned Bush and said something like, "Okay, you've had your little showcase now get out." The reason why? Saudi women were beginning to rebel once they saw the powers that American women have. Our American service women were driving cars, jeeps, and moving through the middle east minus burqas and head scarfs. Saudi women saw American women calling their own shots. Saudi women wanted this freedom and it drove Saudi men crazy. What? Lose control of our cattle? That is one strong reason I believe Daddy Bush did not take care of Saddam in the first place. I also think that it is highly possible that Daddy Bush dies during Dubya's incursion into Iraq.
The Solar Arc directed Ascendant for the USA is 26 Cancer, which conjoins Bush's natal 12th house Saturn. Both oppose the USA's second house Pluto. Saturn in opposition to Pluto is merciless, as we discovered by witnessing September 11, 2001 through the lens of transiting Saturn-Pluto in the signs of Gemini and Sagittarius. Bush's 12th house of coversion in opposition to the USA's power play Pluto in its second house of the peoples' money indicates that part of the Bush adminstration's plan is to use the peoples' money (Social Security) to make themselves more money: invest part of the peoples' money in the stock market and tell them its for their retirement. How anyone can trust this is beyond me. Look what Republican based corporations such as Enron and WorldCom did to their own employees' retirement accounts. Will America ever "get it" about the Bush Administration and stop jacking up this man's poll numbers? Isn't this a bit like the Stockholm Syndrome? Bond with your abuser in hopes he will kill you last?
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