from Friday’s Planet Waves Astrology News

Copenhagen, from the UN climate change conference

Protests organized through the 350.org network have been happening around the world this week. More photos at the 350.org website.
Protests organized through the 350.org network have been happening around the world this week. More photos at the 350.org website.

Clearly we are witnessing one of the first real opportunities for these factions, tribes, regions, environmentalists, fundamentalist industrialists, scientists, pseudocrats, ideologues and random freaks to come together and overcome their belief in their separate interests. They may not be getting too far, but heck, at least a bunch of them showed up for the meeting. We may yet look upon these as the good old days, when everyone got along.

It all seems incredibly messy to us. Maybe that’s because it is. We have a fine example of one of those “impossible situations” described by A Course in Miracles. What we’re seeing is certainly an interesting experiment in what can happen on a planet when there’s some dim recognition that survival of many species, including our own, is threatened. This would have made a fabulous scifi action story fifty years ago; today it’s all over the newspapers.

Imagine how this looks on a karmic level, in the long history of humanity on our world. Place it in the context of what we are doing here in the first place; make up your own story what that’s about. Imagine if you could see onto the dimension where many individuals with different levels of growth and widely varying beliefs in separate interests are attempting to hash out a resolution. Imagine the people who know that they’re on the wrong side of the issue, but are too sold out to change their official view. Imagine those who are are there to present a controversial viewpoint, struggling to get any attention at all, knowing they are performing an evolutionary function.

11 thoughts on “from Friday’s Planet Waves Astrology News”

  1. Fluid., good call. I’m with ya on the bitter train,.. sometimes. (Then I realize I’m the only cat in the universe, and I’m cool again.)

    Dude!, we’re so going to have to alter our personal behaviors to where we decide, personally, within our own context, whether this Earth, and this species evolves beyond it’s current setup, or goes Kerplunk!

    I’m all up for the evolution,: our creaturesque forms “enlightening” ourselves to the point of us surfing the temporal tidal transformation, (not Obama this, or Copenhagen that..), But, a true awakening, in which YOU ARE OBAMA! You are FLUIDITY. WE, I, am, the ONE, the NEO-born, who will stand up, with Understanding having taken my right leg, and Wisdom my left.

    I agree with the Fuck Obama (He’s quite the politician: pretty man, not too bright.) (..but, with the populace at hand, and the “choices” “otherwise”,.. he is the one I’m thankful, at this time, is in office.)

    So,.. We can choose to set up camp on this planet,.. or ditch out.. (..I’m so trying to learn to play with the “matter” here, but it’s so caustic to my skin that I recoil quite often. My hide is thickening, the more I touch down on this globe.)

    ..As tangent funnies.. I’ve busted out my dads old ‘Nam jacket, and have begun to wear it. So, over my ’69 ‘Nam draftee, dress jacket,.. I’ve got my “FUCK WAR” back pack,.. It’s classic dude!.. “I’m a sargeant in the Fuck War!” I’ve got to start training.. running drills and shit!!! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!

    Love Y’all!

    J

  2. i’d like to frame the previous comment in terms of what happened in copenhagen

    so many people got on board the obama hope train, putting in their vote, their energy their choice … they renamed copenhagen ‘hopenhagen’ and had it all sponsored by major corporations … obama came in there, a whole lot of hot air came out his mouth, and then he went and shit on the UN and international diplomacy/respect/responsibility, and made an ‘agreement’ with 4 other countries.

    there were 193 countries there, all of them there to negotiate in good faith and come to some collective decision on what to do about climate change (because there is a need to figure out what to do). but mr obama decided that what most of them thought didn’t matter, it was time to stop talking and do something

    so with the lead of the united states, who wouldn’t offer to do anything more than cut 1990 levels by 3%, we now have the largest carbon emitters making an agreement amongst themselves that is completely voluntary, not binding, and not respectful of what the rest of the world thinks

    this is what the person you helped to get elected has done. and people in the united states are going to eat it up, oh we’re the US, oh he’s obama, oh we’re leading the world

    it’s time to start saying fuck obama. seriously.

    but don’t worry, everyone will be drooling the next time he speaks, with all this forgotten. so don’t mind me, just a little bitter

  3. Jere, yes! Isn’t it amazing to consider that every decision we make, no matter how small, affects not only the rest of our individual life, but the continuing life of the entire universe?

    How small we are. Yet how large.
    xo

  4. I’ve a couple comments to throw down, “as much as I’m out of it,” First, for some oddball realization regarding the warming/cooling trend. If the ice splits from its banks, it relocates to the atmosphere, which sends it over the globe. Thenceforth it merges, balances, and becomes part of nature’s journal.. (welcome Human being’s!). (Always THINK before you ever say Anything regarding “Global this and that”!) (Humans are acting!, and there IS impact.)

    Second, If we continue to communicate regarding our planetary situation, we can continue too learn, and *evolve* our situation, as time goes on, we *May* *Learn* to balance our *”activity”* with the functionality (Laws) of Nature, (take a look, a good look, the shit exists, Nature Is Exacting,.. don’t fool yourself with Human Ego.)

    This is truly “impact” time for our species (in it’s “current” evolvement). ((I have good faith we’ll trip beyond,.. but I’m an Optimist Hippy?!))

    Truly, (and this is the *sad* fact;) , it will take You, AND I,.. too pull our heads…

    We can accomplish all this, within a Symbiotic Anarchistic sort of vibration! Each within their own, and all for each other!

    More Power too you.

    J

  5. Patty

    I quoted Chavez who was repeating/ quoting/ mirroring what the protesters were saying-
    which which was if “the climate was the banks- they would find a way to bail it out”
    The protesters are noting that money is much more important to the big countries
    than the earth/ environment/ and climate (for a very long time ) which we all know

  6. LindaGM, Thanks for sharing that info. I’ve always heard that the real news is buried in the Friday edition when people are too busy to pay attention. I’ve seen some people quoting Chavez in this space the last few days too. Beware is what my instincts are screaming. Chavez took control of the Venezuela oil markets to get his hands on the money too.

    Money truly is the root of all evil.

  7. With all the attention on Copenhagen at the moment, I found this buried on Page 20 of the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday:

    “Gulf states to launch their own petrodollar, the ‘gulfo’

    AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD
    December 19, 2009 .

    LONDON: The Arab states of the Persian Gulf have agreed to launch a single currency modelled on the euro, hoping to blaze a trail towards a pan-Arab monetary union.

    ”The Gulf monetary union pact has come into effect,” said the Kuwaiti Finance Minister, Mustafa al-Shamali, speaking at a Gulf Co-operation Council summit meeting in Kuwait City. The move will give the hyper-rich club of oil exporters a petro-currency of its own, greatly increasing its influence in the global exchange and capital markets and potentially displacing the US dollar as the pricing currency for oil contracts. Between them the Gulf countries amount to a regional superpower with a gross domestic product of $US1.2 trillion ($1.3 trillion), some 40 per cent of the world’s proven oil reserves, and financial clout equal to that of China…..”

    Full article here: http://www.smh.com.au/world/gulf-states-to-launch-their-own-petrodollar-the-gulfo-20091217-l02g.html

    This has HUGE implications for the United States as one of the main drivers for the demand of greenbacks is the fact that oil is priced and paid for in US dollars. If the Gulf states go ahead with this, it will be the single largest shift of capital seen to date. And with a weakened currency price, how will the USA finance all these projects AND their multi-trillion dollar debt?

    This has vast implication that make last year’s GFC look like a cake walk.

    In thinking this through with a clear mind, I’m taking some of my ‘paper’ savings and investing in small denomination pure silver coins as a “Plan B” to bargain with local food (and other neccessities) suppliers. Ditto for a couple of weeks of grains and other food staples – can always cook up a big pot of soup to share round the neighborhood for a couple of weeks until the dust clears a little.

    When I initially showed this article and discussed this “Plan B” with my 18 year old son (who has aspirations to study economics at Uni) his initial reaction was ‘Stop worrying, Mum!” I said to him “Look at me. Do I look worried and upset?” He looked across the table at me and sounding rather surprised, said “Actually, no you don’t.”

    Joyful to have his full attention for 5 whole minutes, I told him that blind, unquestioning faith in ANY system is foolish and that contrary to over-reacting, this was simply making alternative plans – just like he did with his spread of choices for courses at Uni when he got his final marks to ensure he gets in. Any project or event manager knows about the wisdom of contingency planning! Wish I known a little more about how to do it during the 1973 oil shock – was living in California and the local Safeway (what’s in a name!) was emptied in 24 hours.

    Love to hear your thoughts if you have the time to write….

    From Sunny Sydney,

    Linda

  9. Obama Urges Delegates to Reach Climate Accord in Copenhagen
    By Aaron Wiener 12/18/09 10:26 AM

    In an address to delegates at the United Nations’ climate change conference in Copenhagen today, President Obama promised that America would “meet [its] responsibility” in the fight against global warming and urged other countries to put forward “decisive national actions.”

    He acknowledged the difficulties the negotiators have faced thus far in the climate talks, which end today. “I think our ability to take collective action is in doubt right now,” he said, “and it hangs in the balance.”

    He also made an implicit request of China, which has held up the negotiations with its reluctance to allow international inspectors to verify its cooperation with a climate accord. “We must have a mechanism to review whether we are keeping our commitments, and exchange this information in a transparent manner,” he said. “These measures need not be intrusive, or infringe upon sovereignty. They must, however, ensure that an accord is credible, and that we’re living up to our obligations. Without such accountability, any agreement would be empty words on a page.”

    Full text of the speech below:

    Good morning. It is an honor for me to join this distinguished group of leaders from nations around the world. We come here in Copenhagen because climate change poses a grave and growing danger to our people. All of you would not be here unless you — like me — were convinced that this danger is real. This is not fiction, it is science. Unchecked, climate change will pose unacceptable risks to our security, our economies, and our planet. This much we know.

    The question, then, before us is no longer the nature of the challenge — the question is our capacity to meet it. For while the reality of climate change is not in doubt, I have to be honest, as the world watches us today, I think our ability to take collective action is in doubt right now, and it hangs in the balance.

    I believe we can act boldly, and decisively, in the face of a common threat. That’s why I come here today — not to talk, but to act. (Applause.)

    Now, as the world’s largest economy and as the world’s second largest emitter, America bears our responsibility to address climate change, and we intend to meet that responsibility. That’s why we’ve renewed our leadership within international climate change negotiations. That’s why we’ve worked with other nations to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. That’s why we’ve taken bold action at home — by making historic investments in renewable energy; by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in our homes and buildings; and by pursuing comprehensive legislation to transform to a clean energy economy.

    These mitigation actions are ambitious, and we are taking them not simply to meet global responsibilities. We are convinced, as some of you may be convinced, that changing the way we produce and use energy is essential to America’s economic future — that it will create millions of new jobs, power new industries, keep us competitive, and spark new innovation. We’re convinced, for our own self-interest, that the way we use energy, changing it to a more efficient fashion, is essential to our national security, because it helps to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and helps us deal with some of the dangers posed by climate change.

    So I want this plenary session to understand, America is going to continue on this course of action to mitigate our emissions and to move towards a clean energy economy, no matter what happens here in Copenhagen. We think it is good for us, as well as good for the world. But we also believe that we will all be stronger, all be safer, all be more secure if we act together. That’s why it is in our mutual interest to achieve a global accord in which we agree to certain steps, and to hold each other accountable to certain commitments.

    After months of talk, after two weeks of negotiations, after innumerable side meetings, bilateral meetings, endless hours of discussion among negotiators, I believe that the pieces of that accord should now be clear.

    First, all major economies must put forward decisive national actions that will reduce their emissions, and begin to turn the corner on climate change. I’m pleased that many of us have already done so. Almost all the major economies have put forward legitimate targets, significant targets, ambitious targets. And I’m confident that America will fulfill the commitments that we have made: cutting our emissions in the range of 17 percent by 2020, and by more than 80 percent by 2050 in line with final legislation.

    Second, we must have a mechanism to review whether we are keeping our commitments, and exchange this information in a transparent manner. These measures need not be intrusive, or infringe upon sovereignty. They must, however, ensure that an accord is credible, and that we’re living up to our obligations. Without such accountability, any agreement would be empty words on a page.

    I don’t know how you have an international agreement where we all are not sharing information and ensuring that we are meeting our commitments. That doesn’t make sense. It would be a hollow victory.

    Number three, we must have financing that helps developing countries adapt, particularly the least developed and most vulnerable countries to climate change. America will be a part of fast-start funding that will ramp up to $10 billion by 2012. And yesterday, Secretary Hillary Clinton, my Secretary of State, made it clear that we will engage in a global effort to mobilize $100 billion in financing by 2020, if — and only if — it is part of a broader accord that I have just described.

    Mitigation. Transparency. Financing. It’s a clear formula — one that embraces the principle of common but differentiated responses and respective capabilities. And it adds up to a significant accord — one that takes us farther than we have ever gone before as an international community.

    I just want to say to this plenary session that we are running short on time. And at this point, the question is whether we will move forward together or split apart, whether we prefer posturing to action. I’m sure that many consider this an imperfect framework that I just described. No country will get everything that it wants. There are those developing countries that want aid with no strings attached, and no obligations with respect to transparency. They think that the most advanced nations should pay a higher price; I understand that. There are those advanced nations who think that developing countries either cannot absorb this assistance, or that will not be held accountable effectively, and that the world’s fastest-growing emitters should bear a greater share of the burden.

    We know the fault lines because we’ve been imprisoned by them for years. These international discussions have essentially taken place now for almost two decades, and we have very little to show for it other than an increased acceleration of the climate change phenomenon. The time for talk is over. This is the bottom line: We can embrace this accord, take a substantial step forward, continue to refine it and build upon its foundation. We can do that, and everyone who is in this room will be part of a historic endeavor — one that makes life better for our children and our grandchildren.

    Or we can choose delay, falling back into the same divisions that have stood in the way of action for years. And we will be back having the same stale arguments month after month, year after year, perhaps decade after decade, all while the danger of climate change grows until it is irreversible.

    Ladies and gentlemen, there is no time to waste. America has made our choice. We have charted our course. We have made our commitments. We will do what we say. Now I believe it’s the time for the nations and the people of the world to come together behind a common purpose.

    We are ready to get this done today — but there has to be movement on all sides to recognize that it is better for us to act than to talk; it’s better for us to choose action over inaction; the future over the past — and with courage and faith, I believe that we can meet our responsibility to our people, and the future of our planet. Thank you very much. (Applause.)

  11. Eric:

    Great read today with the week’s PWAN. Its so clear about what’s going on big time, and that we have this vehicle to keep us watching the horizon from ground level and at a convenient height – for perspective. Good job, bro.

    Did I say we’re more needed than ever?

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