In the new edition of Planet Waves, I look at the connection between Mercury stationing retrograde, WikiLeaks and our personal lives. There is a connection and it is a potent one, which comes in the form of an alignment in Capricorn aspecting the “personal as political” Aries Point. Just in time for the holidays, we are heading for one of the most interesting spells of astrology of the year, and that is saying a lot. We’re about to learn a lot about what we just experienced during the past four seasons.
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More secrets of the ruling classes revealed…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/10/bettencourt-loreal-sarkozy-france
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/10/ron-paul-wikileaks-defense_n_795014.html
transcript of Paul’s remarks on the floor of the House of Representatives:
WikiLeaks release of classified information has generated a lot of attention in the past few weeks. The hysterical reaction makes one wonder if this is not an example of killing the messenger for the bad news. Despite what is claimed, the information that has been so far released, though classified, has caused no known harm to any individual, but it has caused plenty of embarrassment to our government. Losing our grip on our empire is not welcomed by the neoconservatives in charge.
There is now more information confirming that Saudi Arabia is a principal supporter and financier of al Qaeda, and that this should set off alarm bells since we guarantee its Sharia-run government. This emphasizes even more the fact that no al Qaeda existed in Iraq before 9/11, and yet we went to war against Iraq based on the lie that it did. It has been charged by experts that Julian Assange, the internet publisher of this information, has committed a heinous crime, deserving prosecution for treason and execution, or even assassination.
But should we not at least ask how the U.S. government should prosecute an Australian citizen for treason for publishing U.S. secret information that he did not steal? And if WikiLeaks is to be prosecuted for publishing classified documents, why shouldn’t the Washington Post, the New York Times, and others also published these documents be prosecuted? Actually, some in Congress are threatening this as well.
I view organizations like Anonymous as being one component in a complex immune response that we now need. Certain immune system components merely kill off cells that don’t belong there. So these hackers are sending a message, both to companies and back to us, and part of that message is that we are not hopeless or helpless. The hacking community has talents we haven’t heard of; Assange is an example of finding out about one. The big companies, however, will invest in more defensive security…so obviously there need to be many other forms of creative action and resistance — and these things evolve. Our friend at Rap News is an example of a wholly creative response to the news and to evil.
We live in a time when people with power think little of using it for whatever purpose they want, including exclusively self-serving ones. It is challenging to figure out how to respond, without merely resisting, which can eat creative energy. But sometimes you just have to stand in the way of something you perceive as wrong and feel good about it. The feeling good part is key…
Amanda I agree, that is the question. Personally I suspect they have served their creative purpose.
Meanwhile, how’s this? for a Merc retro moment, military style:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/12/military-bans-disks-threatens-courts-martials-to-stop-new-leaks/
First paragraph:
“It’s too late to stop WikiLeaks from publishing thousands more classified documents, nabbed from the Pentagon’s secret network. But the U.S. military is telling its troops to stop using CDs, DVDs, thumb drives and every other form of removable media — or risk a court martial. …”
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Just say no?
“Communicating with friends, family, classes, workplaces, etc. is not only a way of getting the word out, but will also help to sharpen your skills in standing up for what you believe in.”
brilliant point, and completely apropos of the phrase from today’s edition mentioned in another comment: that communicating creates community. though for sure, one might be in for a little restructuring of community as one stands up for those beliefs.
but i do like the emphasis on *creating*. surely as new things are born/manifested/given tangible structure, other things die/fade/cease to be useful. but somehow focusing on creation while acknowledging destruction as a byproduct of the process strikes me as a higher-vibe method.
i guess the question remains: do the DoS attacks serve any creative purpose in communicating and community-building? are they pure destruction and therefore counter-productive? or are they also a message with some positive focus?
Hackers, at least as represented by 2600 magazine, are distancing themselves from the DOS attacks:
Hacker Magazine condemns denial of service attacks:
http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/12037
(excerpts:)
“Denial of service attacks against PayPal, Amazon, Visa, Mastercard, and other corporations and entities have been underway for the last few days, as widely reported in the mainstream media. Each of these targets had previously taken some sort of action against the whistleblower website wikileaks.org and its affiliates. The media reports almost invariably refer to “hackers” as being behind these actions. While there is great sympathy in the hacker world for what Wikileaks is doing, this type of activity is no better than the strong-arm tactics we are fighting against….
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There are a number of positive steps people – both inside and outside of the hacker community – can take to support Wikileaks and help spread information. Boycotts of companies that are trying to shut Wikileaks down can be very effective and will not win them any sympathy, as the current attacks on their websites are unfortunately doing. Mirroring Wikileaks is another excellent method of keeping the flow of information free. Communicating with friends, family, classes, workplaces, etc. is not only a way of getting the word out, but will also help to sharpen your skills in standing up for what you believe in. This is never accomplished when all one tries to do is silence one’s opponent. That has not been, and never should be, the hacker way of dealing with a problem. “
Valerie Plame weighs in on Assange — in Pravda.
In my recent article Ward Churchill: The Lie Lives On (Pravda.Ru, 11/29/2010), I discussed the following realities about America’s legal “system”: it is duplicitous and corrupt; it will go to any extremes to insulate from prosecution, and in many cases civil liability, persons whose crimes facilitate this duplicity and corruption; it has abdicated its responsibility to serve as a “check-and-balance” against the other two branches of government, and has instead been transformed into a weapon exploited by the wealthy, the corporations, and the politically connected to defend their criminality, conceal their corruption and promote their economic interests; and, finally, that the oft-quoted adage “Nobody is above the law” is a lie.
Kyle,
Ya, even just from photos (of the “bomb house”) you could feel the 9.1.1. deception.
Always helpful to know others get the same “take” on stuff; especially right now.
Thanks.
At the end of this week’s article, I asked “Is there a homeopath in the house?”
If this is a homeopathic moment, what’s the remedy?
One homeopath replied — proposing that the remedy picture is the milk of the dolphin or Lac Delphinum. In homeopathy, complex situations can be summed up by a single remedy, and vice versa.
She wrote:
The description of the period of this Mercury retrograde and the suggestion of attending to “clean closets” reminds me of Lac Delphinum. Many of the issues of family, sex, guilt/responsibility, communication, fear of enemies (sharks), are issues in this remedy. In particular- deep family secrets, especially about sexual behaviors/abuses and the long abiding reverberation from such hidden/unknown incidences- this is a central issue in lac delphinum.
Nancy Herrick conducted the original proving.
Thank you for all your rich and enlightening commentaries.
Mujiba
My reply
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Hello Mujiba!
Well that is interesting. I will look up that proving. What are the physical sensations associated with that one?
Look what I just found!
http://www.wholehealthnow.com/books/milk.html
I think the ‘lac’ group is all really interesting — I am a fan of Lac Humanum. And Sankaran has that hilarious story of a dog walking into his lecture on Lac Caninum. Okay it was in India, but still…
xef
Masterfully woven, Eric, thank you! And good heads-up on that house-O-bombs, I can add from a personal email at the time it was first reported in the news that a friend elsewhere in Southern CA (close but not THAT close) reported going out at night for a quickie store run and discovering cops on every corner, mysteriously…… whut? So yes probably something other than has been spoken about, was destroyed…… whew.
And in other bizarre news….
Good Morning Eric!
It’s a beautiful day here in sunny Southern California, and it appears we’ve got something worth checking out.
I was going to fill you in, but I’m still full of self doubt, so please check it out for yourself. I don’t need to tell a journalist how to look at something.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/12/10/california.explosives.house/
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/09/news/la-mem-escondido-bomb-house-20101209
“A series of explosives experts had said that burning the house was the best alternative and that returning into the house to remove the some chemicals, which are the same as those used by terrorist bombers, would be too dangerous. The house was so stuffed with materials and other bric-a-brac that walking amid the explosives was nearly impossible, officials said.”
Yet they showed firefighters boring holes through the roof conventionally… If the guys house is so full of explosives, and “bric-a-brac”(who says that? We do in fact call it JUNK here in Cali.), I would think the ATTIC is too dangerous to be chainsawing into as well, but hey, I’m no “expert”. The fact is, LOTS of evidence of SOMETHING was destroyed in record time, blatantly.
That is all.
Kyle
ps. Thank You! to you and the planet waves crew for doing what you do.
pps. Happy Holidays
Nice. Thank you so much.
I do appreciate how you recognize the information being “leaked” is nothing new for some, as I know I will be extremely grateful to not clear a room when acknowledging the fucking elephant asphyxiating us. Healing can be cathartic, but all ways purpose-full. Also significant is the going to the source in the sense of how important news is only advanced through primary sources – something historians and social educators emphasize purpose-fully – which is also now being de-emphasized in public education more than ever. (no time to listen to podcasts now so apologies if I repeat) “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it” and we remain within those amnesiatic patterns, even if conscious because they exist in the system’s structures (e.g. institutionalized racism).
“Mercury is telling us a few things, such as: there is power in knowledge; strength in awareness; community in communication” – this is beautiful, especially the last three words, “community in communication”. Many are obscured by the absolute significance of language – simply consider the word “radical” and it’s etymology of getting to the root (source) of something. Such is a true healing process where we get to the origin of the suffering, which must include all levels (physical, mental, spiritual) lest the pattern of dis-ease, dependence, and disconnect continue.
This society’s extant attempts to only treat the symptoms (thus maintaining the structures of social reproduction) are the Achille’s heel. For what also continues is the dependence, a result of the fear that manifests fractally, implicitly and explicitly. Were we to get to the root of a problem, we find solutions and create independence by accepting responsibility in all action. This in itself eliminates the need for suffering because the inherent reflection is Self, Love. Our knowledge is power; our strength is awareness, in communicating, creating, community.
From within, the fire burns. This is spiritual anarchy. It is an Inside Out (r)Evolution.
GOOD MORNING ASTROLOGERS:
I draw attention to this graph from today’s weekly:
The age of empire’s decline is upon us. I am wondering – are there similarities in the astrology between the fall of the Berlin Wall — the end of the Soviet Empire and the full portrait of today for the fall of the American Empire?
lol! Last thing I did last night was send an essay on Homeopathy to an ailing friend. Then I open PW this morning to this title! Oh how I love life!