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For October, 2002

Newsmakers Archive:

January & early February, 2002 Marjan, King of Kabul and Yassar Arafat
January & early February, 2002 Ken Lay & Enron
Late February, 2002, 2-27-02 Full Moon & GAO Sues Cheney
March 1, 2002, Danielle Van Dam
March 2-3, 2002, Escalating Violence in Israel/Palestine
March 3, 2002, Monica Lewinsky's HBO Special
March 5, 2002, Operation Anaconda Updated March 21, 2002
March 9-10, 2002, Bush Wants Nukes!
Update: March 21, 2002 Warlords Undermine Afghanistan!
April 5, 2002 Powell Set for Mideast; Yasser Arafat; Ariel Sharon
April 13, 2002 Powell; Mideast; Yasser Arafat; Ariel Sharon Continued
May 2002 Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bush, Sharon & Colin Powell, Suicide Bombers
June 10, 2002 Jose Padilla, Elizabeth Smart, John Gotti, June 10 Solar Eclipse
June 26, 2002 Martha Stewart
July 4, 2002 USA & Bush's Solar Return
July 15, 2002 Cheney Boiled In Oil: Halliburton Probe
July 27, 2002 BUSH-CHENEY WHITE HOUSE OBSTRUCTS HALLIBURTON LAWSUIT
August, 2002 Anyone Who Criticizes Bush Gets a Beatin' Behind the Woodshed! Starcats' gets hatemail
Sept 10, 13, 14 Madeleine Albright, Bush Goes to U.N., 9-11 Anniversary
October 2 It's War Baby! Oh, Behave!

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October 12, 2002

The Sniper -- Tracking A Serial Killer

October 12, 2002

Sniper Strikes on 10/11. "The victim of Friday's shooting was identified as Kenneth Bridges, 53, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The co-founder of a marketing distribution company was in the area on a business trip."

Police release composite of alleged sniper vehicle on October 12, 2002. Police Chief Charles Moose describes it as an "older" vehicle. There is "severe damage" to the rear bumper. The paint is oxidized. There is writing on the side of the vehicle.


Starcats' vehicle description, October 8, 2002 Column:

"Because Saturn is ruler of the third house cusp and the Gemini North Node (neighborhood and mode of transportation) I think that the vehicle he's riding in is old. A vehicle that is nondiscript; one that won't draw any attention; a vehicle that may have dents and dings. The vehicle may have writing on it -- such as advertising (Gemini/Mercury) for plumbing services, carpet cleaning services or house cleaning services."



CNN, Man killed at suburban D.C. gas station

He strikes again!

"MANASSAS, Virginia (CNN) --A man was killed Wednesday night while pumping gas at a gas station here, and authorities were investigating whether the incident was connected with the string of sniper shootings that has already claimed six lives in the Washington area.

Dennis Mangan, a detective with the Prince William County Police Department, said the shooting happened at a Sunoco gas station around 8:15 p.m.



Sniper Case Cops Won't Discuss 'Death Card' Clue

"Quoting law enforcement sources, WUSA television reported that detectives who recovered a shell casing in woods near Monday's shooting, when a 13-year old boy was badly wounded, found a Tarot card known as the "Death Card" with a message scrawled on the back that read: 'Dear Policeman, I am God.'" Yahoo News

Starcats, October 8, 2002: "He has religious or deeply held convictions on the level of paranoid obsession. Sagittarius is the sign on the cusp of the 9th house of beliefs and religious or legal rituals. The South Node, indicator of the past, is found here with Pluto of stealth, coversion and murder."



When I learned of the East Coast sniper, the Doors' song, "Riders on the Storm" played through my mind.



Sniper Timeline

CNN "At 6:05 p.m. Wednesday, the first killing took place when 55-year-old James D. Martin, a program analyst for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was shot in the parking lot of Shoppers Food Warehouse in Wheaton."

"At 7:41 a.m. Thursday, police were called to a crime scene and found James L. Buchanan, a 39-year-old landscaper who had been shot while mowing a lawn at a commercial establishment near Rockville. Buchanan was identified as the son of a retired Montgomery County police officer."

"At 8:12 a.m. Thursday, Prem Kumar Walekar, a part-time cab driver, was shot and killed while pumping gas into his taxi at a gas station in the Aspen Hill area of Montgomery County, Maryland."

"At 8:37 a.m. Thursday, Sarah Ramos, 34, of Silver Spring was killed at a post office near Leisure World, a retirement community. Immediately after the shooting, a witness reported seeing a white van or truck speed from the post office parking lot."

"At 9:58 a.m. Thursday, Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, 25, of Silver Spring was reported shot at a Shell gas station in Kensington where she was vacuuming her van."

"At about 9:15 p.m. Thursday, in the only killing in Washington and the only one to occur at night, Pascal Charlot, 72, was shot in the chest as he walked along Georgia Avenue. He was taken to a hospital, where he died less than an hour later."

"On Friday afternoon, a 43-year-old woman who had been loading purchases from a Michaels craft store in Fredericksburg, Virginia, was hit by a bullet that pierced her lower back, exited her chest and came to rest inside her Toyota minivan. She was in stable condition Sunday in a Fairfax hospital."

"At 8:09 a.m. Monday, a 13-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded outside a middle school in Maryland's Prince George's County."



October 8, 2002, Starcats' Commentary -- The Sniper

With 22 Pisces rising ruled traditionally by Jupiter and by Neptune in modern astrology, we find the following:

Jupiter in Leo in the 5th house has just been crossed over by a "public" Leo Moon. The activity is sport, a risk, a gamble and the act of an "actor" who has decided to "play the role of his life." [October 9, 2002: with discovery of the Tarot Card of Death and the sniper's message, "I am God," we know what role he has assigned himself.]

Neptune retrograde in house 11 in trine to the North Node in talkative Gemini in the 3rd house means that he's a) "talked" about this with others and is not acting alone; b) is the member of a nefarious, secretive group of individuals who hold cultish beliefs; and c) he lives in the neighborhood in which he began his shootings.

Sun in Libra in house 7 could indicate that the anxiety that pushed him forward is a stressed relationship such as a marriage in financial trouble (Venus, Libra ruler in house 8). Death is also connected to whomever he most strongly identifies with in relationship and can also indicate his partner -- the driver of the car he's using for the spree killing. It would not be unlikely to discover that the driver is a woman -- a lover and member of his political/cult/network. [Witnesses and police say that the driver of the Van is a man.]

Because Saturn is ruler of the third house cusp and the Gemini North Node (neighborhood and mode of transportation) I think that the vehicle he's riding in is old. A vehicle that is nondiscript; one that won't draw any attention; a vehicle that may have dents and dings. The vehicle may have writing on it -- such as advertising (Gemini/Mercury) for plumbing services, carpet cleaning services or house cleaning services.



October 9, 2002

CNN "Suspect vehicle:
White van, possibly an Isuzu or a Mitsubishi, with black lettering on the side.

SUSPECT INFORMATION

Tip lines:
240-777-2600
800-755-9424
$237,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of people involved in the shootings.
Reward contribution line:
240-777-8970



[October 8, 2002, Continued] Mars at 21 Virgo conjoins the USA's 9th house Neptune. Whoever the spree killer is, he has foreign connections that are deeply important to him. He has religious or deeply held convictions on the level of paranoid obsession. Sagittarius is the sign on the cusp of the 9th house of beliefs and religious or legal rituals. The South Node, indicator of the past, is found here with Pluto of stealth, coversion and murder. We do not know, but the sniper may have taken an oath of some kind -- an oath of secrecy such as oaths taken by military Special Forces, Navy Seals, and Marines: "Semper Fi!" Because Pluto also can refer to irrevocable change, we may discover that the root of the sniper's belief system has been uprooted and undermined by events out of his control.

The killer chart's Mars squares the USA's Mars in its 7th house of public enemies. This could be a person who has had military sharpshooting training or is a militia member. Someone like Timothy McVeigh. My guts tell me the sniper is homegrown -- not a member of Al Qaeda or a member of a sleeper cell here in the USA. His methods are those we would associate with someone like McVeigh or the Unibomber. If this were an Al Qaeda sponsored event, Al Qaeda would quickly want their signature on it. They would have planned a much larger public attack such as the one seen on September 11th.

Because Jupiter, natural ruler of Pisces is in Leo in the 5th house of "staging," I tend to think that the sniper has plans to go out in a blaze of glory. Saturn at 29 Gemini in the 4th house of the chart (where matters end) is the ruler of wounded Chiron in the 10th house of the chart. This alerts me that perhaps the sniper has been wounded by power and authority -- the U.S. government -- and now takes the power of life and death into his hands by playing the ultimate authority figure: God.



October 9, 2002

My colleague, Sue Miller, submitted the following in regards to the fixed stars:

Fixed Stars in the chart for Oct 2 , 6:05 pm Wheaton, Maryland:

Denabola conjunct Mars shows one out of step, a non-conformist. He may be crippled in some ay as Taulouse-Lautrec was. (Brady p 266).

Ras Elased Australis conjunct Mar suggests one who has trouble with women. This peprson has a very strong sense of purpose (Brady p 145) This person will have fame (!) for violence (Diana Rosenberg) .

Betelgeuse conjunct Saturn (4th House of End of the Matter) shows a con-man who may be a charmer (Brady p 168).

Polaris, a possible 'evil star' says Robson in Brady's book p 207, is conjunct Saturn in 4th House End of the matter. It also shows guidance and leadership. Hope this does not mean he will inspire other 'would-be's'.

Merak conjunct Moon shows domination, one who cannot stand to be ignored (Rosenburg's manuscript) .

Ras Algethi is conjunct Moon showing a heartless, destructive suicidal individual (Rosenberg).

Kohab conjunct Jupiter (ruler Ascendant) shows one of violence, do-or-die, suicide (Rosenberg).

The first House is intercepted Aries which is ruled by Mars. This could suggest a 'hidden gun'. Jupiter (ascendant ruler) is trine Pluto in 9th. Could this indicate one from a foreign country who has become a citizen here (Jupiter is Ascendant and the sign of Pluto 9, he 'belongs' to the chart, but not really).

In the Ptolemeic table, Jupiter and Saturn are to each other's detriment. This could have some meaning. Ascendant and End of the Matter working against each other. Mars, ruler of the intercepted First House is hard on an angle suggesting some military/police service to deal with. He (Mars) is of detriment to Jupiter also. . . .



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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