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 Angels Over Babylon
Sennacherib has returned
To haunt the empty halls of Ninevah.
Archaeologists have peeled his face
From palace walls and sent
His lion victories to London. . . more >>
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 Spirit or Empire? The 21st Century Revolution
I am introducing the discourse of “spirit” back into social activism because the problems we face, dear friends, cannot be solved by the same kind of mind and heart that created these problems in the first place. more >>
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 February 2013 Full Moon Cosmic Weather Forecast
February 25, 2013
With six planets in Pisces this week, expect this unusual super-watery configuration to unleash a flood of difficult and long-repressed emotions, a cascade of confusing astral glamours, and simultaneously an undeniable soulful yearning for a transcendent realm of peace, unity and healing. more >>
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 June 2012 Cosmic Weather Forecast Part 2: Uranus-Pluto Global Financial Meltdown Part Deux
June 4, 2012
Europe is melting down. The top ten industrialized debtor nations owe $70 trillion. There are $700 trillion in derivative debt instruments resting upon that $70 trillion in debt. So if these countries’ debts begin to default and financial markets and banks lose confidence in the ability of counter-parties to make good on the $700 trillion in extremely complicated wagers and counter-wagers they have made to one another it’s game over! more >>
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 The Occupy Uprising: An Astrological Perspective
March 14, 2012
My intention is to illuminate Occupy through the lens of astrology, primarily by giving it a context in time. What is the meaning and the role of the Occupy uprising in this most amazing of periods in our history, specifically over the decade to come? What does it represent in the overall scheme of what is unfolding and might come to pass?
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 The Decade of Global Transformation and the New American Evolution
March 13, 2009
In this newsletter, using research compiled over the last two years from honest and reliable financial experts, environmentalists, independent journalists and famous astrologers, I will give you a bird’s eye view of the current global financial crisis, provide you with a clear outline of its scope, depth and probable duration, and together we will take a look at the BIG picture – the cultural, political, economic, social and environmental changes set to totally transform human civilization during the next decade. more >>
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 2/08 Global NewsLetter: The Coming Collapse of Globalization
February 7, 2008
We are witnessing the slow motion collapse of “globalization”, which is shorthand for a set of political, economic and social policies, including Reaganomics, free trade and the leveling down of global wages, human rights and environmental protection, financial deregulation and corporate oligarchy. more >>
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 Words for Children
August 30, 2006
Poet Jed Myers shares a heartbreaking new poem that surfaces the pain of righteous rhetoric transformed into bullets, bombs and polarization in the Middle East. more >>
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 Lammas 2006: Harvest of Peace and War
July 28, 2006
Let us plant seeds of peace in a world at war. Let us light a flame of brotherhood and sisterhood in a world where religion is at war with religion and nation with nation. Let us celebrate our common link to the Great Mother and to the bounty of her first harvest this high summer season. more >>
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 Follow the Money
February 10, 2005
Eliot Spitzer’s insurance probe promises to shake up business as usual in the $1 trillion industry -- and in Albany, where campaign finance reform may be the only solution to the problem. more >>
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 Bush Policy Wonks Will Move Markets – and the Economy
January 15, 2001
No one expects Dubya to put on his thinking cap, network with policy wonks and forge a set of priorities for his new administration that will rock our collective world. That was Bill Clinton's modus operandi.
Ideas for Bush policies will be coming from a handful of big think tanks in Washington. As in the Reagan era, the most important is the Heritage Foundation.
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 Dance of Oil
December 7, 2000
It looks as if oil politics could be the vehicle for George W. Bush to define his administration's geo-strategic principles, solidify support in Congress, reward his supporters in the energy "bidness" and unify the country behind his foreign policy, just as it was for his father. That does not necessarily mean a repeat of the Persian Gulf War, but oil provides an ideal vehicle for restating the imperial American policy abroad. more >>
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 A Depleted Legacy
November 19, 1995
The story of the long twilight struggle that ended government subsidized housing in Houston. more >>
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The Clipper Threat
June 3, 1994
Bill Clinton promised voters in 1992 that he would shrink the defense budget, reorder Cold War priorities and rein in America's undercover warriors who had sold guns to the Ayatollah, supported an illegal Nicaraguan war, bankrolled Manuel Noriega and secretly armed Saddam Hussein. more >>
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 Privacy in the Digital Age
March 31, 1994
Welcome to the digital frontier, where network by network, metaphor by metaphor, a splendid, global, multimedia palace is being built through trial and error. more >>
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 BAD COMPANY: Part 2
May 4, 1992
Making Money the Old-fashioned Way--
Dealing With the Yakuza and Building
Golf Courses in China
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 Have Guns, Will Travel
July 22, 1991
Who Is Richard Brenneke and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About George Bush and the October Surprise?
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 Shady Customers: How S&L Suspects Profit From the Crisis
July 30, 1990
The same unscrupulous real estate developers and high‑flying financiers who built low‑quality, see‑through office buildings and unneeded condos across the country are now poised to buy foreclosed properties from the government at fire‑sale prices.
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