{"id":22800,"date":"2010-02-17T08:08:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=22800"},"modified":"2010-02-17T18:41:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T23:41:49","slug":"heres-some-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/heres-some-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s some news"},"content":{"rendered":"

More astrology at Cosmic Confidential Diary<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I get about 20 emails a day from the Washington Post<\/em>. One just came in that informed me thus: Democrats and Republicans agree on something besides the sky being blue on a sunny day.<\/p>\n

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Planets at sunrise, Kingston, NY.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Americans of both parties overwhelmingly oppose a Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations and unions to spend as much as they want on political campaigns, and most favor new limits on such spending, according to a new Washington Post<\/em>-ABC News poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Eight in 10 poll respondents say they oppose the high court’s Jan. 21 decision to allow unfettered corporate political spending, with 65 percent ‘strongly’ opposed. Nearly as many backed congressional action to curb the ruling, with 72 percent in favor of reinstating limits.<\/p>\n

“The poll reveals relatively little difference of opinion on the issue among Democrats (85 percent opposed to the ruling), Republicans (76 percent) and independents (81 percent).”<\/p>\n

Does anyone remember this bit? I know it’s been a really, really long time since it happened. Here’s how I reported it<\/a><\/strong> in Planet Waves on Jan. 22, less than one month ago:<\/p>\n

“Last week’s solar eclipse in Capricorn conjunct Venus is showing some ramifications in the corporate\/government realm covered by that sign. Thursday the Supreme Court issued a decision in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission<\/em>. The 150-page decision, we’re being told, grants the rights of individuals to corporations, originating in the matter of whether companies can pour money, unfettered, into propaganda designed to sway an election. Previously, this was subject to campaign laws that kept such electioneering a few feet back from the election itself.”<\/p>\n

By a few feet, I mean that some company you’ve never heard of, or which is owned by some company you’ve never heard of, used to not be able to come into your town or city and pound the airwaves the night before an election trying to get rid of your local congressional representative because he or she is against, say, the toxic pollution created by that company, in your town. We’re not supposed to be able to buy elections in the United States, though it’s long been a kind of boxing match of cash; this ruling takes the gloves off, and allows the use of weapons in the ring.<\/p>\n

That’s the basic implication. No limits on campaign spending by companies, which is the only way to limit the lies. We need to be going the other direction, which is to remove all private funding for campaigns, and allocate a certain amount to each of the top candidates and keep the companies far, far away from this whole public ritual of elections; so the public has a say.<\/p>\n

Okay so meanwhile — 80% of all Americans think this is bad. Impressive. I am not sure that people understand the other ramifications of this, such as actually having senators representing China instead of just, you know, all the credit card companies in Delaware, but it’s great that they think it’s bad; the news has a little ring of Venus conjunct Jupiter, which has been exact during the past 24 or so hours and is still ringing like a silver bell.<\/p>\n

Take a look — it’s the green and the pink at 7+ Pisces, right above the horizon at 19+ Pisces. Note the position of the Sun. That’s the round yellow thing, with the number 28 next to it. That number 28 tells us that the Sun is in late Aquarius; late, because the highest that a planet can go is 29 degrees and 59 minutes, before turning over and entering the next sign, which in this case is Pisces.<\/p>\n

It does this once per month; the condition is sometimes called void of course. This is a complex issue when contrasted with the Sun (we usually think of the Moon as being void of course, about twice a week), but let’s say that unusual things happen in the day or two before the Sun changes signs, and this works both personally and globally.<\/p>\n

You keep an eye on your life, and I’ll keep an eye on the news.<\/p>\n

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