{"id":14094,"date":"2009-04-23T04:58:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T09:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=14094"},"modified":"2009-04-23T05:11:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T10:11:42","slug":"is-missing-horse-virus-linked-to-dead-polo-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/is-missing-horse-virus-linked-to-dead-polo-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"Is missing horse virus linked to dead polo horses?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I am going to tell you a number of things, but if you really want to be a good journalist you only have to remember two words: governments lie.”<\/em><\/p>\n

— I.F. Stone
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I am up late browsing the news, in my hotel room in Madison, WI (of note, the city where The Onion<\/em> was founded). I just found this article on CNN<\/a><\/strong>, about missing equine virus samples from an Army depot. At first I laughed, because of the irony of 1. what assholes who run the lab would leave the viruses unsecured and 2. out of black humor that this is the world we live in — a bad science fiction movie. Then I remembered the recent article about 21 dead polo horses. I have a vivid imagination but in all my life it would not have occurred to me that they picked up some virus that got loose from an Army base, until right now. Nobody official has said this out loud, yet…<\/p>\n

Under the influence of Chiron-Neptune conjoining, we are going to see through a lot of lies. The recent revelations about torture that Steve Bergstein has been covering<\/a><\/strong> for us would qualify. The problem with very large, widely believed lies is that nobody wants to take them on because it’s like taking your finger out of the dyke, expecting the whole dam to burst.<\/p>\n

This is going to go on all spring and summer. There is healing in truth, but we are going to need to keep it in context, so we can figure out what it really means. I think that one thing we can take away from the torture issue is that governments lie. For eight years we listened to Bush and Cheney tell us that there was no torture going on, even as the photographs and accounts came bubbling out of Baghdad. The real question is why we believed those lies, and I think the answer is because we thought it made us feel better about ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I am going to tell you a number of things, but if you really want to be a good journalist you only have to remember two words: governments lie.” — I.F. Stone I am up late browsing the news, in my hotel room in Madison, WI (of note, the city where The Onion was founded). … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}