By Judith Gayle | Political Waves
“Something’s coming, I can feel it.”
I’ve been hearing versions of this statement around me for weeks now. I take it as a sign that people are finally paying attention to the energy shifts. If you’ve been following the news, then you know that the thing that was coming is finally here, a big bang that looks a lot like a major Uranian shift should look. That context might help make sense of a week in which a lot actually did come to pass.
For starters, Libya is in flames, its megalomaniacal dictator hiring mercenaries to counter a rebel insurrection. Defiantly declaring that all his people LOVE him, Gadhafi displays a level of psychosis equal to Sheen’s delusion that all the world approves his hired porn-posse as acceptable babysitters for his twin toddlers.
Elsewhere in the world, the Pacific Ring of Fire turned up the heat to rattle Japan with an 8.9 earthquake — the largest in 140 years — and produce a devastating tsunami. After destruction spread across Japan’s north-eastern territory at lightning speed, warnings of the oncoming flood sped quickly across half the globe. The tsunami eventually reached our vulnerable West Coast, but with enough warning to clear beaches and move heavy Navy ships out of harm’s way. Despite the heads up, several Californians were swept away. It’s worth mentioning that if the Republicans get their budget cuts, we’ll lose our tsunami early warning and tracking system along with many other environmental protections.
In the heartland, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker manipulated his legislature into passing a stand-alone union-busting bill despite the Democratic leadership’s boycott. The pretext for the labor-killing portion had been fiscal until the Governor split the bill in order to pass it without Democratic votes, trampling workers’ bargaining rights. Other proposed corporate-friendly budget cuts are calculated to make privatization easier. Walker already plans to sell off the state-run power plants, likely to the Kochs, and put the northern forests on the auction block. As if signaled by telepathic hive-mentality, newly-elected Republican governors across America — in Michigan, Florida and elsewhere –are attempting similar moves to kill off organized labor, turn back decades of consumer protections and civil liberties, and reward their corporate sponsors and Tea Party supporters. This is an ideological assault, an attempt to overthrow what the right sees as “mainstream liberalism.”