The Astrologers Roundtable

The Astrologers Roundtable

Current Events & Current Planetary Transits

Monday, December 13, 2010

Pluto in Capricorn and the US National Debt Scam

Pluto in Capricorn and National Debt Scam
Robert Gover, USA
Privatized central banks have been sucking up the wealth created by common people and transferring it to the super wealthy since 1694 when the Bank of England was established so the King could borrow money to mount wars.  The national debt it heaped upon the American colonies was the primary reason for the American Revolution, which kicked into high gear when Pluto last sojourned through Capricorn.  Now, as Pluto returns to Capricorn, the scent of revolution again pervades the air.  

Our privatized, debt-based, Federal Reserve-run money system has created a national debt that's now close to $14 Trillion. Annual interest on that debt during the first 11 months of this year: $395.7 Billion. That's what we the people owe for money borrowed by our government from the bankers of the Fed.   

The media blitz about the national debt assumes it is an unchangeable fact of life. You can give yourself a terrible headache by contemplating these numbers and what they are likely to mean to you personally: Higher taxes, lower wages, reduced Social Security and Medicare forevermore.   

But the idea that it's unchangeable is really one gigantic con job perpetrated by the few who operate it, and their minions who knowingly or unknowingly bamboozle we the people about it.  Most of us glaze over at the enormity of it. The numbers are just too huge a headache to think about.

Since our nation's beginning, our most civic-minded politicians have resisted it or tried to change it.  They include Ben Franklin, Andrew Jackson, Abe Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and, in our time, Congressmen Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. When poet Ezra Pound objected to it, he was vilified and locked in an insane asylum.  

It, our monetary system, is not a left-right or capitalist-communist issue, so the media doesn't cover it; it won't sell commercials.  It is couched in such arcane lingo that the guys who profit from it have been able to confuse the vast majority about it.  Until now.     

With Pluto now transiting conjunct the Fed's Sun, opposite its natal Pluto, the system has arrived at a changing time.  The habitual way of dealing with the national debt it creates is by punishing the victims, middle class taxpayers.  But now the national debt is so huge, sucking repayment out of the middle class isn't likely to work as it has worked before, without bankrupting the whole country.           

For lucid explanations of how it's eating us alive, check out these web sites:         
prosperityuk.com/the-negative-consequences-of-the-debt-based-money-system/
groups.yahoo.com/group/LegacyofColonialism/message/710?l=1
Bankrupting the middle class to repay the national debt would eventually erode the fortunes of the privileged.  Those fortunes depend on the wealth-creating work done by the middle class.

Meanwhile, counties like China, India, Brazil and Russia have more recently established debt-free public banks.  As the debt-based privatized monetary system destroys the economies of the European Union and the USA, these other countries thrive.

If, back in 1694, the King had his crown on straight, he could have created the currency he needed instead of ordering the Bank of England to create it, then borrowing from the bank and socking his subjects with a national debt.  

At the heart of our national debt angst lurks this simple question:  How should we create the medium-of-exchange money needed by government?  By having government borrow from banks and sock taxpayers with the debt, or by having banks borrow from government debt-free?

The private sector works the same under either system.  The only difference is the lack of a national debt. With the vast majority relieved of that burden, more money flows into consumer goods and capital investments in tangible goods.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Jupiter/Uranus Awakening and Wikileaks by Robert Gover,


Jupiter/Uranus Awakening and Wikileaks
Robert Gover, USA
For the past decade I've been writing about what I believe is the world war of the future-between the minions of oligarchy and the forces of democracy.

Now it's here: 213.251.145.96/about.html *

No doubt Wikileaks is more astounding to an old geezer like me who grew up during the Great Depression and World War II when a spirit of cooperation possessed the USA. Anyone born since the mid-seventies missed that America and knows only this one: Socialism for the rich, laissez faire for everyone else.   

There have been times when I despaired because the multinationals and big banks seemed to possess overwhelming power, and thus appeared to be the dominant force in our future.  Astrology enabled me to realize that somehow events would conspire to upset their band wagon.     

And now as the Uranus-Pluto square tightens above us, Wikileaks rises from the ashes of the free press that once made American society the envy of the world.  Transiting Pluto moving opposite the USA's natal planets in Cancer (Venus, Jupiter, Sun and Mercury) promises to expose corruption, and Uranus promises to clean it up.    

Wikileaks is Dorothy flinging open the curtain to find that the Wizard is a deranged con artist playing with lights that enchant the masses.

How dare the people of a democracy learn what their public servants are up to.  Those doings are Officially Classified Secret.  Your duty, John Q. and Susie Q Citizen, is to work your asses off and pay your taxes to support the Wizard. You are not permitted to know what the Wizard does with all that money. That information is way above your pay grade.

"Terrorist!" cry the Wiz's trolls pointing to Wikileaks creator Julian Assange. "He's a traitor!  We shoot traitors!"

Wikileaks, our corporate-owned media is telling us, is a threat to lives.  Whose lives?  The Wizard and his minions, of course.  Revealing what the Wiz and his trolls are actually up to is a dire threat to their lives.  If everyone learns how they use our money to enrich themselves and mount wars to enrich the trolls of the military-industrial complex, there'd be hell to pay.    

Writer Matt Taibbi of the Rolling Stone has peeked over Dorothy's shoulder as she flung open the Wizard's curtain and has had the courage to write about it, with hair-raising candor and laser effectiveness. He explores the nuts and bolts of our most successful financial corporation, Goldman Sachs, in his latest book "Griftopia: The Great Derangement, Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That is Breaking America." Summing up what he discovered about the Goldman Wizard, he wrote:

"Goldman is not a company of geniuses, it is company of criminals.  And far from being the best fruit of a democratic, capitalist society, it's the apotheosis of the Grifter Era, a private enterprise that has attached itself to the American government and taxpayer and shamelessly engorged itself on us all."

The word "grifter" is an old slang term. Webster's says it means someone who acquires money illicitly as in a confidence game.  It's probably a play on the word "graft," which doesn't precisely describe what the New World Order's Wizard does. There's more con game grift than graft involved.

The last time Uranus and Pluto squared was back in the 1930s for the Great Depression. When the Smoot-Hawley Act was passed in 1930, Saturn was opposite the USA's natal Sun to boost the Uranus-Pluto square's effects. As I write this, the USA's money planets Venus and Jupiter are opposed by Pluto, the North Node, Mercury and Mars, which are all square a conjunction of Uranus and Jupiter. Wikileaks rocks.  

[* editor: due to the website many moves; this is the address to be used]