War is carefully planned well in advance. Behind the scenes maneuvering and international negotiating entails not only military preparation but also a detailed media campaign. Public opinion is carefully maneuvered prior to the first shot. The old truism that the greatest casualty of war is the truth, doesn’t only apply to after war begins. It starts with the beating of the drum... ...On April 23 2014 with a planetary Grand Cross activating Australia’s Mars and Saturn, the Abbott government approved Australia’s largest ever military purchase. Sitting in the cockpit of a fighter jet – Top Gun style – Abbott announced seventy-two American made stealth fighters at a total outlay of $12.4 billion. A month later his Treasurer felt it his melancholy duty to deliver an austerity style budget, talking up fears of a deficit as Australia’s progressed Ascendant opposed somber Saturn. In June 2014, PM Abbott visited Washington, where US President Obama praised Australia for increasing its defense spending during a time of budgetary restraint. Obama added “Aussies know how to fight and I like having them in a foxhole if we’re in trouble”. The meeting laid the groundwork for doubling American troop deployment for Darwin, and additional US aircraft and ships to operate from Australian bases. Throughout September, Pluto will oppose the Australian Mars. As it does the battle drum is beating to follow the USA back into a Middle East war. It’s a move that would appear to run contradictory to the idea of stopping home grown terrorism. Meanwhile, the mainstream press runs a familiar apocalyptic rhetoric that preceded the last two Middle East invasions. Beheadings are now front page. But not the two dozen government sanctioned ones carried out by ally Saudi Arabia, one of the largest recipients of western foreign military aid, in August. This is about the Islamic State, a sworn enemy. Their eradication would seem to be serving a multiple purpose. The first would be the western support of a Kurdish oil state to pipe oil directly to the Mediterranean. The second - a possible air invasion of Syria. But that’s Mars and it looks set yet again to live up to its mythical meaning - as the deity of war. ~ Ed Tamplin, Astrologer
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 15:34:49 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015