Good Morning, Cousins!
Today’s weekly audio is ready. In this edition I begin with the ban that Arizona is trying to place on judges mentioning karma in their decisions. Did you know that was a problem? Me neither, but if I can think of one law I would not want to be held to were I an Arizona legislator, or any legislator, it would be karma. After all the opposite of progress is Congress.
The main astrology I cover is in two layers — the (very) current Jupiter-Pluto square (see related article), and a background layer, Uranus square Pluto, which I’ve been going on and on about and will continue to do so. This describes the situations in both North Africa and the Midwestern United States.
In the Midwest, we have protests rising up because a bunch of Republican politicians want to take away benefits, reduce pension contributions and — not amazingly, but appallingly — strip public employee unions of collective bargaining rights. I’m not sure I can convey how vicious that is, but we should all be in the streets over this one. Unions are the one thing that stands between living decently and living in squalor. At least in the United States there is such a thing as a weekend (unless you work in a non-unionized job), and workers have some power. This is a long story to tell but in the case of public employee unions, I’ll put it this way.
Anyone who has ever confronted the government about anything — I don’t care what — knows that if you don’t have some solidarity, and some representation, you’re treated like you don’t exist. As Wisconsinites are showing us, they actually do exist.
What we have in Wisconsin is a Tea Party-backed governor (basically an employee of the billionaire Koch brothers) blaming unions for economic problems that were created by the bust of the housing greed bubble and a big heist on Wall Street. Nothing against $12 million bonuses for bankers — but the recession was not caused by school teachers.
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Yours & truly,
Excellent podcast, Eric.
But wait! There’s more! Saudi King returns and promises 10.7 billion dollars in benefits for his people: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8277807-saudi-arabias-king-abdullah-king-returns-to-saudi-arabia-with-promises-of-change
Seems like other countries around the world are beginning to worry if the unrest of the Middle East (and Wisconsin) will come home to roost. Like you said; the winds of change are blowing.