{"id":37827,"date":"2011-05-02T14:39:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T19:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=37827"},"modified":"2011-05-02T14:54:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T19:54:55","slug":"osama-bin-laden-assassination-astrolog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/osama-bin-laden-assassination-astrolog\/","title":{"rendered":"Osama bin Laden assassination: lots of questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-37827-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/110502-bin-laden-podcast.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/110502-bin-laden-podcast.mp3\">http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/110502-bin-laden-podcast.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a working chart for the operation earlier this morning in Abottabad, Pakistan. The dates and times of this whole thing have been extremely squirmy, more than I&#8217;m comfortable with. We&#8217;ve seen no official reports of the times of incidents, only hearsay. The best indicator we have is that helicopters were first heard at 12:35 above Abottabad by someone who was live blogging the incident without knowing it &#8212; Twitterer @ReallyVirtual, also known as <a href=\"http:\/\/microblogbuzz.com\/redirect\/104463227\">Sohaib Athar<\/a>. Now he&#8217;s really famous for the next 15 minutes. He said, \u201cUh oh, now I\u2019m the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37828\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37828\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/400+web-osama-raid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/400+web-osama-raid.jpg?resize=400%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"400+web-osama-raid\" width=\"400\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/400+web-osama-raid.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/400+web-osama-raid.jpg?resize=250%2C300&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chart for U.S. helicopters arriving in Abottabad, based on ReallyVirtual&#039;s tweet of the time very early this morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The chart gives us the last degree of Capricorn rising. This is edgy, as it&#8217;s on the edge, and there is the hint of danger. This was a collaboration between Delta Force and the Navy SEALs. The Delta Force made its debut in 1980 with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Delta_Force#Operation_Eagle_Claw\">botched rescue attempt<\/a> of the American hostages being held in Tehran. So they get something of a web redemption three decades later. Once again there was a helicopter failure; one got left behind and was bombed by U.S. forces on the way out.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots about this I don&#8217;t trust. I don&#8217;t like that they had gotten rid of the body before Obama went on the air at 11:35 pm EDT Sunday night. It strains the imagination how bin Laden could have been living in a suburb outside the capital of Pakistan. It&#8217;s even impressive that he was supposedly alive. But I&#8217;m becoming a tough customer of this perpetual war routine; of the constant rumor of war, everything seeming to be a new opportunity to make some more war. As well, what difference does it really make that bin Laden is supposedly dead? He was mainly a figurehead, someone we could use to blame everything on.<\/p>\n<p>One angle I&#8217;ll develop is, I&#8217;m not sure where they&#8217;re going with this. Now that everyone is sure we&#8217;ve killed the boogeyman, this can go one of a few ways. Way One is we now have an excuse to ramp down the War on Terror. It looks good: bin Laden&#8217;s gone, everyone comes home. It&#8217;s bloody and bloody expensive to have this war going on in Afghanistan and everyone knows it.<\/p>\n<p>Way Two is, there are all kinds of reprisals staged, that is, acts of revenge for our killing the great man, and the war gets more involved, including additional &#8216;givebacks&#8217; of domestic rights.<\/p>\n<p>We shall see. I don&#8217;t have a sense of which way the astrology points, but I don&#8217;t like how the void Moon keeps showing up &#8212; most recently in the news about this incident breaking last night. That&#8217;s too much of a wildcard for me. I&#8217;m looking for purpose and precision amidst the madness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/110502-bin-laden-podcast.mp3 I&#8217;ve got a working chart for the operation earlier this morning in Abottabad, Pakistan. The dates and times of this whole thing have been extremely squirmy, more than I&#8217;m comfortable with. We&#8217;ve seen no official reports of the times of incidents, only hearsay. The best indicator we have is that helicopters were first heard &#8230; <a title=\"Osama bin Laden assassination: lots of questions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/osama-bin-laden-assassination-astrolog\/\" aria-label=\"More on Osama bin Laden assassination: lots of questions\">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\/37827"}],"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=37827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}