a fleeting second ...

On Wednesday of next week,

at two minutes and three seconds

after 1:00 in the morning,

the time and date will be ...



01:02:03 04/05/06



That will not ever happen again

leaving the station ...

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Do you know what you do not want ?
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serendipity

Frankly, posting this is a departure for me ...

HERESY

... as it likely was for the following author:

— Karen Kwiatkowski, Ph.D., Lt. Col. (USAF, ret.):
Unleashing the Resistance
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will you tolerate malfeasance ... ?

Yesterday I made a minor contribution to wikipedia - a first small step.

My entry was that of details and corrections regarding Ramzi Yousef - his first entry to U.S. and of his role in the first WTC bombing.

My decision to contribute to wikipedia has three main roots:

1. My reading and research has been focused on what led up to events of September 11, 2001 in New York City.

2. Every day I hear or read (even in wikipedia) from someone some bit of information about September 11 that is incorrect or misleading.

3. Wikipedia is becoming the Internet "encyclopedia" and it is up to us to see that information available there is accurate as possible.

Nothing can bring back the estimated 3300 lives lost on September 11, 2001; however, I believe we owe it not only to those who died that day, but to our children, to make sure truth is told. In so doing, perhaps we can prevent such an event occurring again.

Roots of deception surrounding September 11 run deep, and distortion of related facts will remain with us for years to come unless we begin to share with each other what actually led up to that day - recognize what failures allowed it to happen.

Some say that what happened is history and cannot be changed, so why bother to know more about it. Today we, as a nation, are conducting a war on sovereign soil of another nation. Reasons given to us, The People of this nation, for the war in which we are now involved, are inextricably tied to the deception that we, The People, have been told about the events of September 11, 2001

We, The People, pay an enourmous amount to fund agencies of our government to provide us certain services. At the same time, deep flaws in our society and in our system of government have put our lives at risk and jeopardize the integrity of many dedicated civil servants, whose salaries we pay, so that a few top officials might maintain ill-gotten promotions, awards, and pensions (all of which we provide), and so that agencies of our government would not be subject to scandals caused by a few corrupt individuals.

I do not believe that in return for what we pay to keep our government agencies running that it is sufficient in any way for us to tolerate malfeasance.

We have a clear choice as we live: Either we recognize rule of law and enforce it as integral to our society, or we abandon it. There is no in-between. If we recognize rule of law, no one can be above the law.

I apologize if this message seems "self-important" - not intended. Contributing to and clarifying fact in wikipedia is something I have time to do and want to do. Success of that effort will be determined by others. My entries to wikipedia right now are a test to see what resistance I meet.

Though anyone can edit wikipedia at any time, submissions are reviewed and must be deemed "generally accepted" to remain. I am not possessed of any inside knowledge, but where I see or hear details regarding September 11 that I believe to be false or misleading, or as I can provide more details, I will do my best to complete the record so that other users, and the public, will be better able to form decisions based on fact, more easily determine what yet needs answered, and perhaps develop a better understanding of who wants to maintain a coverup, and why.

Working together with others, I believe truth shall prevail, and we will overcome.

As always, your comments are invited - Thank You

it may already be too late ...

Our focus is naturally of the Oval Office - the seat of the Executive and the power we have come to assume resides there ...

Far more than enough criticism is due the Executive right now - no argument there.

... yet what we miss is the accumulation of decisions which somehow no longer come to the attention of the Executive.

If the president of the United States was functioning completely, abuses of position in goverment agencies would not be allowed as they have been for decades.

What should be most alarming to Americans, and to people everywhere, however, is that which will go unrecognized until too late.

Most of us continue to assume the United States dominates world affairs, but that illusion is close to becoming not only too difficult, but unnecessary, to maintain.

Decisions made decades ago now precipitate events in which the American Executive plays a role more of reaction than what we would expect from our understanding of our system of government - another "unexpected" crisis to complicate and frustrate the state of crisis our country is already under.

Americans are close to, or in some cases already reaching, burnout from a constant barrage of contradictory information. It is simply impossible to sort fact from fiction when so much disinformation, false leads, dead end investigations, and outright lies cause decisions to be made based on faulty assumptions or "evidence" which has been either manipulated or manufactured.

Further complicating the mess is "lesser of evils" legislation which results, but should never be considered since appropriate laws already exist. Current laws are enforced only as they are beneficial to those in power. When a law is not beneficial, some "crisis" is arranged to cause new, more beneficial (to those in power) legislation to be enacted. The overall drain on time and resources for lawmakers who we expect to deal with the pressing issues of our society becomes, in its enourmity, more than a coincidence, more than a temporary challenge, but appears a situation that will remain unchanged.

Within our country decisions have been made to hide details of certain events because of what revealing those details would unravel - simply said, high-ranking officials would suffer monetary loss and serve time in prison.

Outside our country, forces work to "make life better" for citizens of the world - a movement which has great appeal, but in fact is motivated only by the prospect accumulating more money to those who already have more money. Nothing is done by that group except as a business deal which has no concern for the welfare of any population.

For the average American such a scenario is impossible, incomprehensible - no way to wrap one's mind around it, so in frustration all we can do is continue to point to the very place where we know the responsibility should reside. The clock is ticking ...

A Time for Heresy

" Two years ago, the American Political Science Association produced a study entitled Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality . The report said people with wealth – privileged Americans – are “roaring with a clarity and consistency that public officials readily hear and routinely follow” while citizens “with lower or moderate incomes are speaking with a whisper.” The study concluded that “progress toward realizing American ideals of democracy may have stalled, and even, in some places, reversed.”

The following year – 2005 – the editors of The Economist, one of the world’s most pro-capitalist publications, produced their own sobering analysis of what is happening in America. They found great and growing income disparities. Thirty years ago the average annual compensation of the top 100 chief executives was 30 times the pay of the average worker; today it is 1000 times the pay of the average worker.

They found an education system “increasingly stratified by social class” in which poor children “attend schools with fewer resources than those of their richer contemporaries.” They found our celebrated universities increasingly “reinforcing rather that reducing” these educational inequalities.

They found American corporations no longer successful agents of upward mobility. It is now harder for people to start at the bottom and rise up the company hierarchy by dint of hard work and self-improvement.

The editors of The Economist studied all this evidence and concluded – and I am quoting a pro-business magazine, remember – that the United States “risks calcifying into a European-style, class-based society.”

Let that sink in: The United States “risks calcifying into a European-style, class-based society.” "

Read entire article:
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/22/a_time_for_heresy.php

You might be a terrorist if ...

A Virginia News Source Special Report

"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither"
- Ben Franklin

VIRGINIA BEACH (March 21 2006) - - A state training manual on terrorism has apparently been written by a bunch of under-educated bureaucratic 'goons' or 'thugs' while wearing Nazi hobnailed boots as they stomped on the Constitution.

More incredibly is it is being used to train state employees how to recognize terrorists. "Now boys here is what you look for...".

You might be a terrorist if....!

Under the definitions of the state's training manual on terrorism, you're a terrorist if you are:

In any anti-government and militia movements
Are property-rights activists
Are in any racist, separatist and hate groups
Are an environmental and animal rights activist
Are a religious extremist
Are in a street gang

This designation probably won't sit well with many organizations who operate in Virginia, such as all mainstream Christian churches, Jewish synagogues and property rights groups working with the General Assembly to tighten up laws that provide eminent domain, commonly referred to as condemnation.

According to the Official Virginia "Terrorism & Security Awareness Orientation for State Employees" publication even the Tidewater Libertarian Party (TLP) and the Virginia Beach Taxpayer Alliance can be classified as terrorists.

In addition, if you have a camera or binoculars, you could be a terrorist.

If this wasn't so serious, it would sound like a Jeff Foxworthy comedy skit, substituting 'you might be a terrorist,' for 'you might be a redneck.'

This manual was given exclusively to the director of the Unalienable Rights Foundation (UARF) which in turn conducted the research and provided it exclusively to Virginia News Source. It was also made available to the TLP.

According to this state-produced document, "Terrorism is divided into two categories based on where the terrorism originates or is controlled: International and Domestic."

It goes on to say that, "Domestic terrorist acts involve groups or individuals whose activities are directed at elements of our government or population without foreign direction or influence."

To paint every freedom-loving citizen living in the Commonwealth of Virginia with a broad brush that taints every Christian, Catholic or Jew is wrong, if not unconstitutional.

The manual is an extremely juvenile-written document identifying as terrorist tools still or video cameras, binoculars, hand-held tape recorders, maps or charts, sketch pads or notebooks, SCUBA equipment, and/or disguises.

In the hands of under-educated state employees the manual could spell trouble even for journalists with cameras, recorders, and notebooks. And what about religious entertainer Pat Robertson who wants to assassinate the head of a foreign government?

The manual is so unbelievable that you have to read it yourself to fully comprehend that it goes far beyond the federal Patriot act.

Once you have read it, you should contact your legislators and demand it be withdraw, rewritten, and revised, if to be used at all.

http://www.virginianewssource.com/VNS/terrorismrpt.html

Was it Worse Under Saddam?

Published on Friday, March 17, 2006 by CommonDreams.org

They Ask, We Ask: Was it Worse Under Saddam?

By Zaki Chehab

In June last year, in al-Jadriyah, a wealthy suburb of Baghdad, the wife of a veterinary surgeon received a call that people in the city have come to dread. It was from an unknown group claiming respon- sibility for kidnapping her husband a few hours earlier and demanding a ransom of $100,000. Her response was not what they expected. She thanked them and urged them to pay her $200 in return for killing her husband, describing him as useless, unemployed and penniless. She desperately needed the money, she said, to buy essential medicine for her youngest son. The gang, assuming they had nabbed the wrong person and were not after all in possession of a professional man of means, released the vet unharmed. His wife's unorthodox reaction had saved him. The vet was one of the lucky few; thousands more Iraqis have been killed by their kidnappers, many of them after large ransoms have been paid. Even school- children are not spared: at a press briefing this month, Abdul Falah al-Sudani, the minister for education, said that 76 schools around the country have been attacked since April 2003, resulting in the deaths of 64 students and 310 teachers or other school employees. This was threatening to paralyse the entire school system, putting in jeopardy the educational rehabilitation of the country, he said. The story is the same at the universities. Isam al-Rawi, head of the Teachers' Association of Iraqi Universities, says that more than 200 lecturers have been murdered since the fall of Saddam Hussein, in what he describes as "organised killings". Just last week, four lecturers were kidnapped from al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad and to date no trace of them has been found. Samir, a sports teacher from Fallujah, told me resignedly: "Threats to teachers like myself, and their assassination, have become something normal in Iraq and we have to live with that." With kidnap gangs singling out the children of professional parents, it is little wonder that families are fleeing the country in what amounts to a severe brain drain. University professors, doctors, engineers and businessmen and their next of kin seek refuge abroad, many in Amman, the Jordanian capital, where tens of thousands of Iraqis have already settled over the past three years. (There are so many of them, in fact, that property prices in Amman are soaring.) The shrinking of the intellectual heart of Iraq has all but extinguished private investment and the consequences are being felt by the entire country at the most basic levels. Unemployment is running at 60 per cent and life for the Iraqi people is more difficult than at any time in living memory. The frequent bombs, of course, are terrifying, but their effect is all the greater and all the more depressing because a lack of decent hospital facilities has led to the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of civilians admitted to the emergency wards. Late last year, Basma, a young medical student I know, returned home in tears one evening from her work at what used to be Iraq's finest hospital, the Medical City in Baab al-Mouaadem, central Baghdad. That afternoon, she explained to her family, two car bombs had exploded in separate neighbourhoods and ambulances had ferried the victims to her hospital. Doctors were standing by in the emergency operating theatre, but they had to make snap decisions about treatment not on the basis of what was medically possible, but to fit the limited equipment and medicines at their disposal. A 23-year-old man, who had lost an eye, also had both legs and an arm amputated, even though Basma believes these could have been saved in earlier times. A 14-year-old boy had to have his leg amputated to avoid gangrene poisoning, but the hospital had no prosthetic limbs for his rehabilitation. There is a scarcity of basic equipment that most hospitals store in ample quantities as a matter of course. Many injuries caused by car bombs require silk stitching thread for wounds to delicate parts of the body such as the face. Iraqi surgeons, however, have to use nylon thread, leaving the victims of shootings and bombings with more prominent physical scars to compound their psychological trauma. The situation today, the professionals insist, is even worse than in the last years of the old regime, when essential materials were in short supply because of UN economic sanctions. Iraqis genuinely hoped that the quality of life in their country would soon rise to meet international standards once Saddam was no longer in power and sanctions had ended. Calculations based on the value of the country's oil reserves suggested that there would be plenty of money to spend on improving public services and strengthening the infrastructure. That optimism has vanished, and reconstruction has proved to be an illusion. There has been no visible improvement to any of the services that are basic to civil society: drinking water, electricity supply, functioning sewage systems, schools and hospitals. Drinking water used to be available from household taps, but that is no longer safe to drink. Potholes in the roads, which were a com-mon cause of complaint in Saddam's time, not only still exist but are even bigger. There were occasional power cuts in the old days but generally the citizens of Baghdad enjoyed a regular supply. Now they are reduced to electricity for just one hour in every six each day. Nazha al-Said, an elderly lady in her seventies from the Dora neighbourhood in south-eastern Baghdad, didn't mince her words when she spoke to me. She accused the new rulers of being more corrupt than the previous regime, and pointed to the lack of progress in helping people survive summer temperatures that can reach an overwhelming 55 C between June and August. Although some people can sleep on rooftops at night, there is a high risk of suffocation, particularly in neighbour-hoods such as al-Sadr City, where more than three million people are squashed into 25 square kilometres of slums, with several families living together in every house. Most people can't afford electricity generators to power air-conditioners, even if they could find them on sale. It is bizarre, travelling through a country that has one of the largest oil reserves on earth, to observe the long queues of cars at petrol stations. Drivers have become so resigned to this that they often bring their entire families along to keep them company. It is not unusual to see picnics being laid out along the roadside to pass away the time, while someone guards the car for fear of losing that precious place in the queue. People even risk their lives to fill their tanks - bombs can explode at the rate of five or more per day. The black market is thriving, with gangs selling petrol at hiked-up prices to those willing and able to pay to avoid the dangerous queues. One driver I encountered in Kirkuk was disgusted at the length of a queue we joined. "This city sleeps on a sea of oil and just look at us," he lamented. Naturally, the biggest concern for Iraqis is security. The civilian death rate is higher than ever, and not a day passes without reports of dozens killed, whether it be from car bombs or sectarian murder. It has become second nature to brief your loved ones as they leave for work, school or the market, reeling off the list of streets and neighbourhoods that have become recent targets for suicide bombers or kidnap gangs, and reminding them to steer well clear. Identifying particular districts with particular groups is easier than ever. Sectarian cleansing began in Baghdad and elsewhere immediately after the fall of the old regime, with Shias or Kurds going to Sunnis living in predominantly Shia or Kurdish areas, accusing them of being part of Saddam's regime and warning them to move out. Sectarian killings often followed. Sunnis fled in terror, leaving clearly defined Shia and Kurdish areas. Soon Sunnis adopted the same tactics, forcing Shias out of heavily populated Sunni areas such as al-Adhamiyah, Dora and Saidiya. This is something new in Iraq, a break with history that many Sunnis and Shias are reluctant to acknowledge. I have heard people pour scorn on television news broadcasts warning of a sectarian war and point instead to the large number of mixed marriages in Iraq, said to account for almost 50 per cent of the popula- tion. In addition, they say, the religious leadership of both the Sunnis and Shias are working to calm their supporters and create harmony. Certainly many cross-community bonds survive. A prominent Shia woman, who served as a minister in the interim government of Iyad Alawi, told me she has five sisters and that four of them are married to Sunnis, as is she. She impressed on me how impossible it would be for her sisters to turn against their husbands and children, just because they came from a different branch of Islam. She felt this was the case for the many others across the country who have married into a different sect. The general sense of insecurity is aggravated by the lack of organised and trustworthy policing. It is widely accepted that many crimes take place right under the noses of the police force, and that the police often fail to intervene and protect people targeted by gangs. The police themselves have been involved in kidnapping and murder. Many blame the increasingly powerful Shia militias that have infiltrated the police. Militia leaders also encouraged their troops to join the payroll of the interior ministry, and Sunni leaders complain that death squads attached to the ministry have killed large numbers of Sunnis. The scale of death among Iraq's male population may even have unbalanced the country's demographics, with disastrous consequences for women. The number of widows is growing rapidly and the rate at which women are being kidnapped or forced into prostitution is increasing. On 8 March, International Women's Day, Yanar Mohammed, leader of the Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq, announced that more than 2,000 women have been kidnapped since the fall of the regime. Many women live isolated lives, their social contact limited to conversations over the telephone. Those who continue going to work, particularly in the Shia south, can find themselves harassed by Islamic militias. "Morality police" in Basra are likely to stop them as they enter schools and government buildings, checking they are wearing the hijab. This Taliban-style enforcement continues despite guarantees under the new constitution that women should be free to choose how they dress. Concepts of justice and law have little meaning for ordinary Iraqis. They watch the televised trial of Saddam Hussein, but it seems surreal - a kind of reality-TV show, but one far removed from their own reality. When Saddam is found guilty, as inevitably he will be, it will do little to change the grim and ever-worsening situation on the ground. Zaki Chehab works for al-Hayat newspaper and for Lebanese broadcasting, and is the author of Inside the Resistance (Nation Books). http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0317-20.htm

official reports ...

New "official reports" being broadcast on KEX in Portland suggest we should not be concerned about Mt. St. Helens because "the new lava dome is so huge" that it causes magma rising underneath the mountain to be blocked and to "flatten out" - all of which I take as "utterly official nonsense" ...

Huh ?

Every day online I can view a real time changing image of St. Helens at:
http://einstein.atmos.colostate.edu/~mcnoldy/msh/

... so I am well aware the new lava dome inside the crater does not even amount to 1/20th of the material that was dislodged and blown or pushed away by the 1980 eruption.

Why, then, would anyone suppose the new lava dome is sufficient to "block" new magma, or that it makes an eruption less likely ?

Part of my daily routine also is monitoring earthquakes at:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/

... so I am aware of significant seismic events not only at St. Helens but around the world - in fact I receive e-mail notification of any event over 5.0

My watching earthquake reports is not going to prevent them, but it does give me opportunity to understand better when earthquakes are more likely to occur.

Until a few years ago, scientists still generally insisted there was "no relation" when large earthquakes occurred at different places in a region within a short time period.

One of the motivators for those in official reporting positions seems to be avoiding anything likely to panic the public, and I think that is a good thing ...

... but not to the point of being dishonest or spreading false information.

The simple fact of the matter is that any earthquake occurring on planet earth is related in some way to any other earthquake on planet earth.

For years I noticed when there was a large earthquake maybe in Iran or Pakistan or China, there was soon a large earthquake somewhere on the other side of the world, nearer where I live.

Earth's interior is composed of liquids and solids, and we know shock waves travel through both states of matter. A shockwave from a major earthquake anywhere in the world can easily set off an earthquake anywhere else in the world.

The interior of the earth is under stress, and portions of it are in constant motion. Sometimes an event occurs only because the stress is too great, while at other times stress is relieved because the area is "bumped" by a shockwave from another event.

Many people are not aware that in more active areas, like the U.S. West Coast, earthquakes are constant. There are numerous earthquakes in Cafilornia or Alaska every hour, though most of them are so small no one feels them. Under active volcanoes, movement of magma and of rock falling into magma cause seismic needles to sway dozens or even hundreds of times each day, but almost all of the "quakes" are less than 1.0 and no one would know about them except for instrumentation.

Such details are simple knowledge - part of the way things work on this planet, and no cause for alarm. What does cause my personal alarms to go off is when "officials" tell me not to be concerned ...

We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For...

We have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour
And there are things to be considered.

Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in the right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your truth
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.
This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing now very fast
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold onto the shore.
They will feel they are being torn apart and they will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore, and push off and into
the river,
Keep our eyes open, and our head above the water.
See who is in there with you and Celebrate.
At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally.
Least of all ourselves.
For the moment that we do,
Our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.

The time of the lone wolf is over, Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.
All that you do now must be done in a sacred manner
And in celebration.
"We are the ones we've been waiting for..."


The Elders, Hopi Nation, Oraibi, Arizona

The 3/29 Cluster

The 3/29 Cluster
By Eric Francis Coppolino

Historical events each have their own ongoing story, for those who would look. A single point in time commences a sequence of events that can be tracked astrologically, using the original event as a reference point. The presidential inauguration of January 20, 2005, is an excellent example—and we've been looking at that chart in this column since August 2004, some months before George Bush and Dick Cheney were supposedly reelected.

Of course, you cannot be reelected if you weren't elected in the first place. When I'm in a good mood, I find it entertaining how many people are sure that Bush and Cheney stole the first election but won the second one legitimately, and that this viewpoint is somehow considered sensible.

Yet anyone who followed the '"hack the vote" story by Paul Krugman in the New York Times, or who knows the names Wade O'Dell or Diebold, realizes that the second election had its problems as well. But, somewhat miraculously, it led to an inaugural ceremony, and that ceremony has a chart, and that chart is presently a central horoscope for our nation.

Because astrology is mathematical, the inaugural chart gave us two dates to look at, both of them previously published in this space. The first was October 28, 2005; the second is March 29, 2006. In the summer before the election, I suggested that late October would be about when the media would start to figure out what was really going on. Not a very precise prediction, but I'm not here to dictate. The first date turned out to be when Scooter Libby was indicted for obstructing justice in the Valerie Plame spy-outing case.

I recognize that this is seen by many as one of those business-as-usual items, or another scandal du jour, but given the national security issues involved, and the fact that the alleged crimes involve covering up other probable crimes committed in the run-up to the Iraq war, it really is a big deal.

The Libby indictment marked what we could reasonably describe as a serious downslide in the credibility of the Bush administration. In the two months that followed, a more serious issue, also involving espionage, surfaced, and for a while now it has overshadowed the Libby indictment: the fact that the National Security Agency has been spying on the American people, without the authorization of the court system.

Bush has taken responsibility and said the program will continue, using the old Nixonian argument that whatever the president does is legal. But whatever he may have thought, it didn't work so well for Tricky Dick, as spying on the American people was listed in the articles of impeachment that were never used because Nixon quit just in time. (And then, if you recall, he was pardoned.)

While the spy-outing story has failed to capture the public imagination or spark off much of a debate, mainly because it's so complicated, turning the NSA loose on American citizens has got a pretty good discussion going. Neither issue is going to go away.

It would appear, however, that something entirely new comes to the surface in late March, some time between the equinox on March 21 and the first few days of April. The epicenter of a cluster of astrological events is a total solar eclipse on March 29. This eclipse happens in the sign Aries, close to what is called the Aries Point—the first degree of the first sign of the zodiac. Though the eclipse occurs on the ninth day of the spring—that is, eight days and 12 hours after the Sun has entered Aries—experience shows that it's well within range of a worldwide event. Eclipses have a wide reach, and Aries always delivers high amperage.

The Aries Point has as its theme "the personal is political.'" Events that involve this point have the quality of bringing a lot of people together, and giving the news an extraordinarily personal feeling. We get the sense that we're somehow personally involved, that we must take action, or that we will actually be affected by world events. In today's atmosphere, when nothing seems to matter, this usually points to pretty noteworthy news.

The fact that the inauguration chart goes off the same day offers some insight into what might be developing, and is, of its own, a truly stunning synchronicity. The inauguration chart event (in the progressed horoscope, in case you're curious) involves the Gemini Moon opposing Pluto in Sagittarius. It would seem that something, some action of the administration, backfires. Could it be attacking Iran? Well, it would be something that self-destructive.

Something occurs that divides the population: Gemini (division) Moon (the population) opposing Pluto: an emotional force that people respond to without even really deciding. In Sagittarius, we have something that might be religious, is surely international, and could involve bankers (for instance, in China or Saudi Arabia). There is money involved; the issue of the squandered wealth of the nation may come home to roost. Will it stick around for breakfast? We shall see.

There is a third factor. That is Pluto reaching the Galactic Core for the first time in the history of the United States. Pluto, with a 248-year orbit, was on the Galactic Core at the time the founders were coming up with their ideas for a better way to run a country, and recognizing that the colonies had fallen under the tyranny of the English monarchy.

Pluto on the GC is astrology of enlightenment and awareness. Pluto, a soul-level force, reaches the center of our local cosmos, which has some very high-minded themes, and if it could talk would sound a lot like Martin Luther King. This process stretches over the next two years that it will take for Pluto to cross and clear the GC, and this will be a dominant theme of the final years of the Bush-Cheney presidency.

Events surrounding March 29 are the first big turning point in that story. It would seem that, once again, we get another shock that wakes us up for a while. This one may do a pretty good job. Yet what is genuinely frightening is how many awakening events like this go by and how few people seem to care; how many people cannot be bothered, because the "news," "politics," and the "fate of the Earth" are rarely equated as one concept.

It's unfortunate that most people don't know they've been ripped off till they have no food to eat. Then, anger trumps their fear-based "conservatism," and politics is abandoned altogether for a deeper level of social action. I really hope it doesn't come to that.

The 3/29 cluster should help speed things along, and it comes at a good time—the spring—when protest is both possible because the weather is breaking, as well as traditional, and allows a nice energy vent after being trapped indoors for six months.

In the sign-by-sign horoscope, I'll look at how these events affect us, as best as it's possible to tell using Sun-sign astrology. There are some clues available, but for sure we've arrived at one of those points where it will be possible to shed a few layers, drop some baggage, and leave at least some of the past behind. That we'll be seeing some intense news at the same time will add excitement and a touch of devil-be-damned at a time that should, by all indications, be a momentous and inspiring era in our lives.

understanding the planned assault ...

I have no crystal ball, nor do I want one.

I do not and cannot even pretend to see or declare what will actually happen, but I am aware of potentials ...

Among other things on the future horizon:

There are too many among both "sensitives" and non-sensitives right now pointing to an "end of March event" ...

The greatest potential I see is seismic in nature.

A still unexplained world-wide event within the first minutes of 2006 may be only a signal.
http://worldnews2005.tripod.com/id5.html

"... at 00:14:30 the event was simultaneous at Yakutsk, Russia -
Black Hills, South Dakota - Mudanjiang, China - Kevo, Finland -
Albuquerque, New Mexico.

At 0015:50 the event was also simultaneous at Lusaka, Zambia -
Riachuelo, Brazil – Matsushiro, Japan - Garni, Armenia. "

U.S. (Aleutian) and Russian (Bilibino) bases have been sparring for months, and it could be some of that activity is "mitigating" - that is, meant to counter destructive activity.

It is not clear to me who is aiming for destruction or who would mitigate destruction, or whether the whole of it is no more than "experimental" in nature.

What is clear to me is that our entire earth environment is being experimented with in ways that may not be good for our health and survival.

There is sufficient reason in my view to assume our nation's agricultural industry is already under a "quiet" weather-related attack.

The worst potential I see is for a seismic "experiment" to succeed - an event which, even if only partially successful, would change the face of the continent.

With greater success, the "experiment" could change the shape of the continent.

The "experiment" is not nuclear, but scalar in nature.

As with September 11, after-the-fact there can be no denying that it was known ahead of time, should such an event occur ... for anyone with presence of mind to ask, that is.

Knowing the potential of what is out there has changed me to my core - knowing I may be among the first to go ...

... or that I may finally be living the kind of "life" I have known all my life was a possibility within my lifetime.

I have hesitated to say anything at all, and am still not comfortable doing so, but the information is out there - no secret - then a friend posts an article containing:

"It would appear that this sinister complex of criminality involves
one further twist. There have been indications that the planned
attack maybe immediately preceded (and of course ‘legitimized’)
by another 9/11-type event within the U.S."

The potential "9/11-type event" I can see as a possibility is one which makes Katrina look like a fire drill in a school yard, and makes collapse of Twin Towers seem little more than structural demolition with great loss of life.

Think me daft if you like, but I ask you why any of this should come to us as surprise after what we have already experienced ?

As much as anyone can be I suppose, I am at peace, and my prayers are with you all.

Hope to be talking with you all this coming summer ...

delayed reaction ...

To some folks, what I write probably seems more and more bizarre - hard to know what they think for the lack of response I get.

Usually very little negative response, which makes me wonder when I get positive feedback - why the imbalance ?

Are people "too polite" now when so many seem to be "at each other's throats" for such seemingly little differences between them ?

Because I think independently, so-called "catch" phrases do not attract me - maybe due to there usually being a catch in using them

... and since my reading lately has taken me to some areas of extreme thought and opinion, which in turn have led me to conclusions that seem to bring more clarity to the overall world situation, it is harder I think for people reading my conclusions to get a grasp on what I am saying.

At the same time people are generally asking why, for instance, actions of our government seem so different from what we expect - those of us having a basic understanding of how our system of government is supposed to work.

One question I have asked repeatedly over the last several month is why everything seems to convoluted now. Finally, I am reaching a point where I understand why ... which makes it no less easy to explain any of it to anyone else.

All these things put together somehow prompted me to pay attention to one catch phrase: "reality based" - as in The Reality-Based Community

Seeking the origin of that phrase, I found:
http://www.warblogging.com/archives/000935.php

... where I read, :

" The aide said that guys like me [Ron Suskind] were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'' "

I must say that I have been engaged so long in "judicious study of discernible reality" that I seldom pay attention to such as the above passage, but how revealing it is !

Made me wonder - what was I focusing on in October, 2004 ... so I went to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2004

... remembered I was concerned about - besides the war itself - defective Chiron vaccine, continuing submission of Palestinians, whether computerized voting would result in fraud, how Abu Ghraib mess would affect lives of our military personnel in Iraq - among other things ...

... and I considered how easily I accepted then explanations of some of the other events listed there ...

Forces always come in pairs.
"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."

I am so glad I have my own Faith, with which I never forget:
There are always consequences ...