STARLIGHT NEWS: The Spider's Web

[Nancy Waterman]

http://starlightnews.com

Often, it is the stories we are told in childhood that imprint within our souls the values we carry for a lifetime. Biblical stories, mythology, fairy tales, and simple anecdotal tales out of the lives of those who have walked tall and heroically in our nation’s history all offer kernels of wisdom and guidance for us in our struggle with modern life. We all remember hearing how George Washington, the general who led us through the American Revolution and later became our first president, could never tell a lie, even when, as a child, he was caught chopping down that famous cherry tree. And Abraham Lincoln, the president who led us through the American Civil War, was affectionately known as “Honest Abe” for his scrupulous attention to honest dealings with the customers in the country store he managed as a young man. But times have changed, and instead of the heroic person of integrity and courage we long for in a president, we are faced with a Chief Executive so immersed in the lies and deceptions upon which his policies and decrees are based, that virtually nothing he says can be taken at face value or without some suspicion of its dishonest or manipulative underpinnings.

In fact, the Bush administration has moved governance to a whole new paradigm. In the way of sociopaths everywhere, the rules that restrain the rest of humanity are not seen as applying to the Bush administration, whether involving election law, prisoner’s rights, acknowledging the restraints of Congress on the executive branch, international law regarding war and war prisoners, or simply the treasonous act of outing a CIA agent. Instead, under the Bush Doctrine, a plan is determined and then reality and the rules are manipulated to make it happen. The administration decided to win the election and then manipulated the voting circumstances of the opposition and the voting machines to create a victory. They decided to deregulate the corporate polluters and then twisted the science to cover up the dangers. They announced that the air in Manhattan was clean after 9/11, and so it seemed, except for those who breathed it and developed chronic lung illnesses.

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[Trillo]

1. I hadn't read of that particular Harvard study,

but it sure makes sense against recent experience. The illogic of the Bush administration just may be that if you make people sicker, they'll spend more on health care, helping the economy! The CEOs must laugh all the way to you know where.

[Nancy Waterman]

2. The best argument for universal health care

was in Paul Krugman's article on Monday, 7/25. He points out that becasue there is no universal health care here, Toyota has chosen to build a new factory in Canada. In other words, foreign companies won't build factories here and we lose out in the world of globalized economics. It is too expensive for them to provbide health care. I wanted to put the link in this article but I couldn't figureout where. This is the kind of bold thinking I was talking about.

[loudsue]

4. Great article!

:woohoo: You did it again!! :applause:

I'm having visions of frog-marches from the white house to the jail house!

Funny, innit? How Saturn is going to come home to roost on this bunch of chickenhawks?

If only we had REAL elections in this country, we'd be able to change the tone in Washington. What we REALLY need, is to drive a wooden stake into the heart of this evil cabal, once and for all. They slinked by during Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11. It's time they were all put in jail and left there to rot.

:hug: Thanks for the great article, Nancy! :hi:

:kick::kick::kick:

[Why Syzygy]

10. This one?

http://ottawaplus.workopolis.com/servlet/Content/fasttrack/20050623/RTOYOTA23?section=ottawa

Canada has won a major victory in the North American auto plant sweepstakes, with Toyota Motor Corp. set to announce next Thursday that it will build an assembly plant near Woodstock, Ont., that could eventually employ 1,500 people.

Toyota will invest about $600-million in what will be the first new vehicle factory in Canada since 1995, the seventh Toyota assembly plant on the continent and what has been an object of ardour in recent months by politicians from Ontario to California.

[Nancy Waterman]

11. Yep. That is the Toyota factory

Here is the Krugman article. I think it is one of his most important if people actually pay some heed to it. He points to two of our biggegst weaknesses: education and lack of universal health coverage, but links them both back to the weakening of our economy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/25/opinion/25krugman.html

[Me.]

3. I'm Hoping Rove's "Restraints" Are Handcuffs & A Jail Cell

Great read Nancy and oh so delicious to see that their due is finally on the way. IT hasn't become evident yet 'cause they are putting up a good front and still thinking they can spin their way out of this web.

[FreedomAngel82]

7. Oh yes of course

These people are very good at pretending and spinning and hiding their true selves. In reality you can sense they are scared and they know they're doomed sooner or later. They know the public isn't dealing with their crap anymore and 2006 is looking very bad for them. It does appear as though karma is coming around from 2004 stealing to Valerie Wilson.

[Mandate My Ass]

5. Wow, some comeuppance at last

If a loss of credibility for these Teflon dons is all we can hope for, that's still a significant obstacle to further outrages. I also think restrictions on their illicit use of power would infuriate and frustrate them a great deal. Welcome to our world, Bush, Cheney and Rove!

[carolinayellowdog]

6. Cheney's transits, Rove's progressions

Dear Nancy,

Thanks for another intriguing analysis. In my personal experience, transits are more obvious and explicit than progressions which are more subtle and inward. Don't know how this fits with standard astrological theory. But your article makes me suspect that Cheney's comeuppance might be more dramatic and catastrophic than Rove's, since the latter is based so much on tertiary progressions.

Could you comment on the difference between transits and progressions (the effects, I mean) and whether it looks like Cheney or Rove will end up in bigger trouble?

CYD

[Nancy Waterman]

8. Rove seems to be dragged down quite a bit for the next few years

Really, through part of 2009, although there is that Jupiter in Cap that helps him during parts of 2008. In a way, it is more subtle but lasts longer.

Cheney seems to have two more dramatic periods of difficulty. Unfortunately, these things are not always obvious to us. He had a Saturn station opposite his Venus during and after the Inauguration in 1/05. I can only think he was depressed at how Iraq was going or perhaps something personal was going on. Maybe Bush wasn't listening to him so much anymore. I can't imagine he was happy during that time even though they had just "won" the election.

Now he has the Saturn station opposite his Sun coming up from mid-October through mid-December. That suggests a significant burden that he feels. It is a 6th house Sun so you would think this or Saturn opposite his 6th house Mercury (late 2006 station)would cause him to feeel constrained or burdened for health or other reasons. The Sun rules his 12th so we could see some secret enemies giving out revelations about him. Also his goals may feel thwarted. It is significant that his Sun will get this transit exactly when Saturn is on Bush's Mercury Pluto. Mercury rules Cheney's first house, so that could be more of a health issue in late 2006.

I think I would agree with you about the difference between transits and progressions. The progressions seem to be about the inward unfolding or evolution of the person, but the outer events seem to match that growth or changing process. Progressions also are particularly strong when they are triggered by transits.

[Desertrose]

9. great article Nancy....

" Mephistophelean approach to policy and politics"


So true.....can't wait to see this bunch get what they so richly deserve....and then some.

You do great work!

:hug:DR

[Cleita]

12. Thanks for a great article.

I looks like things are going to start falling apart in the neo-con nest. I can hardly wait.

[flpeach]

13. Wonderful analysis Nancy!

I read your article at astroworld and you are just amazing! I have appreciated you for years now and just want you to know that there are many of us who really NEED to hear your perspective and you have changed lives from your writings.

I hope you continue writing for many years to come. Thank you, from my heart.