Paul Krugman's Morning Joe video

Economist Paul Krugman sets the record straight.

Consumer Confidence way back in Oct 2002

Here's a walk down memory lane into US financial territory a la Oct 2002 with pre-Iraq-war economic murmurs, outsourced jobs au revoir, lowered consumer confidence, and post-9/11 shakiness all rolled into one ball of wax now melting at a bank near you...

Obama appointees: spotless in Washington?

The Obama adminstration has come upon what may turn out to be another snag with the appointment of Republican Judd Gregg and his staffer's connection to disgraced lobbyist and criminal kingpin Jack Abramoff who has been, it is said, singing like a bird while in prison.

For Obama, Washington malfeasance is making the search for an honest (enough) man in our nation's capital a hard climb up an insurmountable mountain of mountebanks.

Pitiful!

Mercury Returns to 2009 Inaugural degree

On Feb 15, 2009 at 2:06 am est, Mercury returns to 00AQ41, his degree in the Inauguration 2009 chart, if you're interested in reading a few of my notes on this Mercurial happenstance.

More power for the Fed?

Paul Volcker, advisor to the president is saying that he's against giving more power to the Fed but if he expressed reservations about the possibility because the Federal Reserve Bank is an association of private citizens who would them have more power over the US government than before, I'm not finding it in this article from The Hill.

"War on Terror" a crock of bogusness

There are many posts published here at Stars Over Washington, a blog I began in Oct 2005, and I have no idea when or where I've blurbed my disbelief in the propagandistic tactics of the so-called "War on Terror."

Obviously there are posts here and at my other blog, jude's threshold, relating to Nostradamus' famous 'King of Terror' Eclipse of August 11, 1999, a watershed solar eclipse which ushered in the New Millennium (also termed the 'King of Alarm" Eclipse), and which relates to finances, the upshot of which we've seen since 2008's (manufactured) economic crisis/meltdown.

But Eric Margolis is better able to line up his thought ducks in a row over the manipulative political thespianism that took over the US government some years ago, so check out his article when you have a mo:

The Bogus 'War on Terror' - Glasnost In London - War Fever In Washington

By Eric Margolis

Two senior British officials have created a sensation by finally speaking some hard truths that contradict all the lies spewed out by Washington and London about the bogus "war on terror."