{"id":73353,"date":"2014-01-13T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=73353"},"modified":"2014-01-13T08:36:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T13:36:36","slug":"why-was-it-time-for-some-traffic-problems-in-ft-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/politics\/why-was-it-time-for-some-traffic-problems-in-ft-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Was it Time for Some Traffic Problems in Ft. Lee?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: The following is from the Jan. 10 member edition, published every Friday morning. To read the full issue — which includes this week\u2019s horoscopes for all 12 signs and a generous helping of astro-news briefs — consider a single-issue purchase here<\/a>. Or, get instant access to this issue through a free one-month trial membership here<\/a>, and receive our twice-weekly mailings automatically (plus it makes you eligible for a significant discount on The Mars Effect annual readings!). — Susan<\/em><\/p>\n

By Eric Francis<\/p>\n

Wednesday, a collection of emails in the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal in New Jersey were made public. Among those messages: “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” wrote N.J. Gov. Chris Christie’s deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, to the Christie ally at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Aug. 13. <\/p>\n

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N.J. Gov. Chris Christie visits the Liliputians. AP photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Got it,” replied David Wildstein, who in his testimony before the state senate Thursday pleaded the 5th (the right to remain silent) over and over again. <\/p>\n

His attorney told the senate panel he would start answering questions were he given state legal immunity by both N.Y. and N.J. as well as federal immunity (all three jurisdictions are involved). That sounds intriguing. <\/p>\n

For those who have not been following this story, Christie is the brash Republican governor who during Hurricane Sandy helped Pres. Obama win the 2012 election by acting friendly toward the president when he came to visit the scene of devastation. This infuriated the Romney campaign — especially when Gov. Christie refused to tour New Jersey with the Republican presidential nominee at the peak of the campaign. <\/p>\n

The Port Authority, which runs the George Washington Bridge, under orders from Christie’s office, shut down three of the four lanes onto the world’s busiest bridge, the one along I-95 that takes you from New Jersey to Manhattan. This was done for four agonizing days — not previously announced and for no obvious reason. The result was that the entire borough of Fort Lee was gridlocked for four days as four lanes of traffic tried to cram through one tollbooth. Tens of thousands of people endured an hours-long traffic jam. Emergency vehicles and school buses could not move. <\/p>\n

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Initially there was speculation that this was done to get back at Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, a Democrat, for not endorsing Christie, a Republican, in his re-election campaign. But that fell apart when Sokolich told CNN that he was never asked to endorse Christie. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who put the story onto the national radar with her persistent coverage, devoted her whole program Thursday night to another possibility — that it involved not the election but a long battle over state Supreme Court appointees, aimed at the Democratic leader of the senate who represents Fort Lee. <\/p>\n

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The 12th house is the one on the left, right above the horizontal line (which is the horizon). The concentration of planets there says there is some huge secret waiting to come out. The planets represent the government and its leadership, as well as the king or state leader — they are all in on it. This scandal goes right to the top.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nIn a long, boring news conference Wednesday, Christie said he was upset about allegedly being lied to, but never mentioned how his office’s action wrecked things in the town for four solid days. He maintained the ruse that he thought the lane closures were part of a traffic study, right up until Wednesday when the email came out. <\/p>\n

Christie claimed not to know anything about traffic studies, so how could he tell that the excuse wasn’t true? Having covered land use and industrial development in New Jersey, I can tell you this: any New Jersey politician who says he doesn’t understand traffic studies is like a person from Colorado saying they don’t know what skiing is. <\/p>\n

Why did this happen and what are the implications for Christie, who was widely seen as someone who could get the Republican nomination in 2016 and also appeal to many moderates? Bridget Kelly’s email giving the order to shut the lanes has a time stamp, and a time stamp means we have a chart for the time the order was given — something that’s extremely rare to have. <\/p>\n

The chart tells a very different story than Christie offered the public in his nearly endless news conference Thursday. Not only does he know what a traffic study is, he knew about and was in on the whole scenario. The chart for the lane closure order warns that the whole event is going to be shrouded in deception. Neptune is right on the 7th house cusp. That fog lasted a while, but the heat of the Sun burned it off. <\/p>\n

Looking at the eastern side of the chart, Gemini is on the midheaven ruling the government (all the way to the top), and Virgo is on the ascendant ruling the question itself. Mercury, which rules both signs, is in the 12th house (which represents conspiracies). The leader of the government is in the 12th, along with a cluster of other planets. They are trying to keep this whole thing tight, top secret and under wraps — that’s the 12th house. <\/p>\n

Leo, the sign that represents the president or the king, is on the cusp of the 12th. That indicates that the governor presided over the whole matter. The Sun, ruler of Leo, is also found in the 12th. He’s right in the mix, fully aware and sharing responsibility for the whole thing. To sum that up, the planets that rule the official government and its leadership, as well as the sign associated with the king, and its ruler, are all crammed into the 12th house. <\/p>\n

This is your classic 20 pounds of shit in a 10-pound bag kind of scandal. And it wasn’t staying in the bag. The fact that the email got out, making it clear that the traffic jam was payback, that he fired a member of his team and accused her of lying, and that his appointee at the Port Authority said he wanted immunity from the feds, New York and New Jersey tells you that there was criminal activity involved. I think that will come out around the time that Venus stations direct on Jan. 31. <\/p>\n

The 12th is sometimes called the house of self-undoing. Christie has a very strong presence in that house, and to me this chart looks like he’s going to come fully unraveled. He will not even come close to the 2016 nomination. He may not even survive his second term. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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