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Submitted by Stars Over Washington Blog
Today in Moscow, US President Barack Obama arrived to meet with Russian leaders President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vlaimir Putin.
When a Mundane Astrology chart shows planets (which for our purposes includes ‘the lights’, Sun and Moon, for ease of expression) meeting together, something of the archetypal flavor of that [...]
The Saga of Alaska Cat
Submitted by Stars Over Washington Blog
Sarah Palin was discussed this morning on TV by Karl Rove and others yet the Bad Poetry muse alit and The Saga of Alaska Cat was written in spite of all their fine punditry.
Can rhyming sagas be brief like thwarted political careers? I think so, especially if they’re self-thwarted…meanwhile, back [...]
Is a coming Fed indictment why Palin resigned?
Submitted by Stars Over Washington Blog
It’s Independence Day and I’m headed out the door but want to post this link sent me by my friend Alex D’Atria at Modern Astrology (see Astrology links in sidebar) on the story as we know it so far concerning possible federal indictment charges for Palin’s squirrely use of Alaska’s [...]
Chalmers Johnson: US military bases expand
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The Secret Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson is one of my go-to books for inside info on the roots of US imperialism, and July 3, 2009 has brought a report from Mr. Johnson on the escalating costs of new US military bases the number of which is being increased, [...]
Independence Day 2009 in Washington DC
Submitted by Stars Over Washington Blog
Here’s another in the series of Tom Foreman’s Letters to the President, a timely one with a Fourth of July flavor. It concerns independence in the District of Columbia and the Republican v Democrat paradox that makes independence elusive to obtain if not impossible.
Of course, from way down here, [...]
Former Goldman-Sachs banker new US ambassador to Germany
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Lest you think an important post in the Obama administration might have to do without a Goldman-Sachs alumni, former Goldman banker Phil Murphy is soon to be welcomed by Germany as the new US ambassador.
You can go back to your nap now, a Goldman-Sachs rep is in the house. Again.
In [...]
Washington’s Mortgage Reform fizzles like dud sparklers on the 4th of July
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And How the American People Can Save Big Money in Washington
When the mortgage and sub-prime fiascoes began to hit the country in 2007 and into 2008, everyone agreed that reform would be on the menu and the sooner the better. The financial collapse which the housing market crash led to [...]
Creeping round the White House
Submitted by Stars Over Washington Blog
Wednesday Aternoon Update: found this on Helen Thomas, the repected White House reporter, who voiced her opinion on the White House’s set-up questions and ‘call-aheads’ to alert reporters they’ll be asking a question at an Obama presser, or in today’s case, at a ‘townhall meeting.’
You’ll remember Bush’s fear of Ms. [...]
Will financial collapse be probed? I knew it was You, Reagan
Submitted by Stars Over Washington Blog
The Washington Independent is asking Who Will investigate the Causes of the Financial Crisis? and apparently Congress is mulling over setting up a congressional committee to investigate after all.
But the list of possible names for the panel has a few huge clunkers on the Republican side in particular, most notably [...]
