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C'mon People Now: Another Fine Week in the Anti-Sixties

By Eric Francis Coppolino

The IRS vs. Tea Party debacle reached a new point of absurdity (three heads have rolled so far, and IRS officials are taking the 5th) the same week we learned that U.S. drones had killed four American citizens and that a FOX News reporter was charged under the Espionage Act for saying something about North Korea -- shortly after a tornado took out 1,200 homes, three schools and killed 24 people in Moore, Oklahoma -- which was the same week that a British military officer was killed by cleaver-wielding, allegedly pro-Muslim 'activists' in London, and Pres. Obama took to the airwaves, saying it was getting on time to consider ending the War on Terror.

Medea Benjamin, founder of Code Pink, speaks to Obama from the press area during his speech Thursday at National Defense University.

Just to refresh your memory about this week's astrology, Uranus and Pluto on Monday made their third of seven squares. This is the ongoing 2012-era aspect, which lasts through 2015 (and in reality has effects spanning between approximately 2008 and 2018 or so).

This aspect is part of the same cycle of astrology that sparked off what we think of as the Sixties -- that was the Uranus-Pluto conjunction. If you ever wondered how The Beatles got from "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" to "I Am The Walrus" in just three short years, that would be Uranus-Pluto.

Nearly 50 years later, those same two planets are now at first quarter phase, which can spark up change, progress and chaos similar to the conjunction. Similar, but different -- the conjunction happened in Virgo, the sign of 'I want to be the best nurse ever, squish my toes in the mud and adopt all the homeless kittens'.

The current square is happening from Aries to Capricorn -- more assertive signs that (at least in public life, and sometimes in natal charts) are associated with ambition, aggression and at times, militancy.

Speaking of: Obama spoke Thursday at National Defense University (NDU), which I bet you've never heard of. It's a Defense Department-operated college for conquerers. Its students and faculty must have taken it hard when Obama told them, "America is at a crossroads. We must define the nature and scope of this struggle [the War on Terror], or else it will define us. We have to be mindful of James Madison's warning that, ‘No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare'."

Medea Benjamin of Code Pink being ushered out of National Defense University after calling out President Obama on too much war.

He said it was time to close Guantanamo and lamented that inmates on hunger strike were being force fed (on his orders, which he didn't mention). He spoke of our freedom and our liberty and lots of other beautiful things.

This speech is being hailed as historic, and Obama's message was presumably sweet music to the ears of anyone who is opposed to the state of continual warfare that, depending on how you measure, goes back to 2001 or 1991 or 1964 or 1941 or 1492. But just as the nation was being lulled to sleep by the president's honey-tongue promise to consider the possibility of potentially ending the permanent state of war, the voice of Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin intruded on the dream.

"Excuse me, will you speak out about the innocents killed by the United States? What about the hundreds of innocent people we are killing with our drone strikes in Pakistan and in Yemen and Somalia? I speak out on behalf of those innocent victims," she asked.

Benjamin got into the room on the press list, and at least on three separate occasions interrupted the president.

Here's a partial transcript, though for the full effect it's really better to watch the video.

MEDEA BENJAMIN: Excuse me, President Obama --

OBAMA: So -- let me finish, ma'am. So today, once again --

MEDEA BENJAMIN: There are 102 people on a hunger strike. These are desperate people.

OBAMA: I'm about to address it, ma'am, but you've got to let me speak. I'm about to address it.

MEDEA BENJAMIN: You're our Commander-In-Chief --

OBAMA: Let me address it.

Two things about this chart -- first, the 10th house cusp is quite close to the mysterious next-to-last degree of Gemini, which strings together many of the strange events of the past 12 years. That's the government angle -- and the point occupying 28+ Gemini is the Black Moon Lilith, a kind of radical feminine energy that represents Medea Benjamin. Also, note the aspect between Jupiter and Eris. Jupiter is at 22+ Gemini and Eris is at 22+ Aries. That's the steady, articulate, don't miss one word, throw your body into the machine presentation that the world saw. But the key energy is Eris -- the one-woman protest. Sometimes it works -- she definitely got her message across.

MEDEA BENJAMIN: -- you can close Guantanamo Bay.

OBAMA: Why don't you let me address it, ma'am.

MEDEA BENJAMIN: There's still prisoners --

OBAMA: Why don't you sit down and I will tell you exactly what I'm going to do.

MEDEA BENJAMIN: That includes 57 Yemenis.

[Obama continued for a while, then she interrupted him again.]

MEDEA BENJAMIN: How about Abdulmutallab -- locking up a 16-year-old -- is that the way we treat a 16-year old? [Inaudible] -- can you take the drones out of the hands of the CIA? Can you stop the signature strikes killing people on the basis of suspicious activities?

OBAMA: We're addressing that, ma'am.

[By this time she's being dragged out of the room by security, but she keeps speaking clearly.]

MEDEA BENJAMIN: -- Will you apologize to the thousands of Muslims that got killed -- will you compensate the innocent families? -- that will make us safer here at home. I love my country. I love the rule of law. You are making us less safe. Keeping people in indefinite detention in Guantanamo is making us less safe. Abide by the rule of law. You're a constitutional lawyer."

If you're wondering why I call our era the Anti-Sixties, it's because Medea Benjamin staged a one-woman protest; otherwise there would have been no protest. Nobody else in the room spoke up. Nobody stood up. Granted, it was at National Defense University, not U.C. Berkeley, but we see a lot of these one-man or one-woman protests, while everyone just watches.

What's interesting is that I would imagine that everyone knew exactly what she was talking about. I felt like I was hearing my own voice in the room, speaking truth to power.

It's getting a little late to do the chart, but I would like to include it just so you can see it, and I will cover it soon. It's a beautiful chart. I would point out one thing -- the very top of the chart has the MC (10th house cusp) spearing right through that mysterious zone in the horoscope, very late Gemini, where we see the charts of many, many things that should not really be related but somehow are: Sept. 11, the Dec. 26, 2004 quake and tsunami, Wikileaks, Fukushima and a diversity of other events that I covered in the article Here At the Edge of the World. It's the degree of the conspirators and the whisetleblowers as well.