Darvish Khan Writes

                                                The Curse of Neoliberalism

Our political economy has been sold to the highest bidder like slave markets of old. Corporate and allied special interests own congress, the presidency, the judiciary and, most importantly, the media as well. Neoliberalism is the apotheosis of corporate greed.

But when unregulated capitalism begins to eat itself- when the cannibalism begins in earnest, neoliberalism gives way to neofascism. We are entering the terminal phase of capitalism in which economic activity begins to savage itself like a mad orgy of ten million Hannibal Lecters.

Neofascism, American style, is like an inverted authoritarianism. It’s not simply about the President seizing power over economic production. It’s about corporate interests seizing power in every possible way, especially over the presidency, as the voice of a new political economy.

Donald Trump is that voice.

The neofascist demagogue consolidates power through the military and police. Fortunately, for DT, decades of neoliberal war mongering, wholly inspired by racist and corporate venality, embraced equally by republicans and democrats, has gifted him with the world’s greatest War and Surveillance Machine.

The lust of neoliberalism (corporatism becoming more and more ravenous) is inherently exploitive and racist, not to mention sexist. The cornerstone of US foreign policy in the Middle East for decades- ever since the end of WW2, has been the unqualified support of Saudi Arabia and Israel, and the marginalization of countries inimical to our thinly disguised colonial interests.

What do these two countries have in common? They are thoroughly racist and chauvinistic. They are based on the elevation of tribal, nationalistic and religious elites, at the expense of all others. In fact, both countries practice apartheid: the political and economic emasculation of all non-elites, who serve as a slave economy.

The American Empire is clearly crumbling, and for the best of reasons. Dependency on oil, which is the only reason Saudi Arabia is a cherished “ally” in the ME, is killing not only us but the entire planet. The “eternal friendship” pledged to Israel by every US candidate with a remote hope of assuming the presidency, is such a tremendous farce, that there is not a single country in the world that supports it. It is a tiresome lie.

But meanwhile, the era of neofascism must play its course. DT will validate Zionist Apartheid, and champion the extraction of fossil fuels until the Flood washes away all our sin.

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This is the event chart for DT’s presidential inauguration:  January 20, 2017 at 12:00 pm at Washington D.C.

The chart for DT’s inauguration is a chart that would apply to anyone inaugurated at this time and place. It happens to be DT. It is a map of the heavens at the time and place of the event. Why does it apply to DT? Because he is the president elect. It is his karma to be represented by the astral energies operative at this time. It would have applied to HRC, were she the president elect. But this chart is not the only astrological chart that has bearing on the Trump presidency. The other two principal charts are DT’s own natal chart and the chart for the founding of the US on July 4th, 1776 at 6:30pm at Philadelphia, PA.

Why is this chart of interest? This chart shows the planetary energies, or karmas, activated at the time of this event. This is what “is in the air”, and symbolizes the presidential term.

Aries rises with its ruler, Mars, in the first degree of Pisces, the 12th house. This is a very weak placement, especially for such an occasion. Were this a natal chart, it might well signify a stillborn baby. The lord of the ascendant (the “body” of the event) is completely without power. The 12th house is a placement of extreme limitation. However, it is aspected by a weak Jupiter, the Preserver, from Virgo the 6th house. This allows the baby to bawl and crawl.

An inauguration or coronation is traditionally scheduled when the Sun is at its zenith, the time of its greatest strength. Kings and Queens are always coronated at midday. Here, the Sun is in the 10th house of Capricorn, which signifies the ruler in such a chart. Hence, it is appropriately and strongly placed. It rules the 5th house of Leo, the house of power and politics. Thus, it conveys very strong political energy. And it is aspected by Jupiter, which gives it some support.  However, the ruler of the 10th house, Saturn, is in Scorpio the 8th house. This represents a terrible qualification of the president’s power and authority to rule (shine). It is the worst possible placement. It portends great difficulty in establishing credibility. Saturn aspects the Sun in the 10th house, as well as the 5th house of advisors- his cabinet, ruled by the Sun. This indicates great difficulty and controversy in establishing his cabinet as the 8th house rules scandal and intrigue.

The Moon, ruler of the 4th house of Cancer, is placed in the 7th house of Libra. The 4th house rules the opposition party and the 7th house rules open enemies. The opposition party will declare war on the president. The 4th house also rules the nation’s buried natural resources, such as fossil fuels. The nation’s natural resources will be at the heart of the Trump presidency.

Jupiter and Mercury are in mutual reception; Jupiter is in Virgo the 6th house, and Mercury is in Sagittarius, the 9th house, each house ruled by the other. This intimately and strongly relates the affairs ruled by these houses, especially since Jupiter aspects Mars, ruler of the ascendant. The 6th house rules the police and military, as well as the working class, and the ninth house rules the courts, as well as colleges and universities. There will be ongoing litigation and conflict concerning the police and military, and involving workers and college campuses.

Venus, ruler of Taurus the 2nd house of wealth, and Libra, the 7th house of foreign countries,  is very well placed in the 11th house of Aquarius, a house of commerce and gains. But it is conjunct Ketu, and ruled by Saturn from the 8th house. This is a double body blow to its otherwise good placement. There will be strongly mixed results regarding the nation’s prosperity and foreign trade. Because of Ketu’s, Saturn’s and the 8th house involvement, very strange, complicated and difficult problems regarding foreign trade and commerce will occur.

Mars, ruler of the ascendant, aspects the 3rd house of media which represents presidential antagonism toward the press. But Jupiter’s aspect on both Sun and Mars conveys extraordinary attention from the press, signified by Mercury (in a sign ruled by Jupiter), on the president, and which thereby validates him. The mutual reception between Jupiter and Mercury will play a defining and unusual  role in Trump’s presidency. Quite possibly, it will be because of the media’s attentions that the baby Trump survives infancy.

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What is so shocking is the great number of intelligent people who have subscribed to the meme that the “Russians hacked the election”.

This is a double and even a triple and quadruple nullity. The proof that this was a hack and not a leak has not even been established. Why haven’t the 17 intelligence agencies (do we need 34 intelligence agencies; would that help?), at this late hour, made a cogent case based on publicly available facts? O, right, national security!

And even if the Russians hacked the DNC and phished Podesta and gave the emails to Assange- who would then be lying, as he has denied this, SO WHAT? Is laying bare Hillary’s and the Democratic Party’s machinations such a horrible crime? Really.

And if this is such a horrible act of cyber espionage, why did Obama sit on this for well over a month, until after Hillary LOST the election, to then become so alarmed that he is now going nuts with retaliation? Might it be because his anointed successor, “the most qualified person ever to run for the presidency”, unexpectedly lost? (And if she was so qualified, why then did she lose? Ergo- because she was hacked!)

And so how does this hacking and phishing of email accounts remotely compare to the proximate history of CIA and political meddling in foreign elections and the invasion and overthrow of sovereign governments and the death and misfortune of millions?

The utter stupidity of this narrative is enough to make not only Putin laugh, but anyone with half a brain and a sense of political humor laugh hysterically until Jesus appears on a flying carpet.

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The Hannibal Lecters declined to savage the election of the neofascist Baby Trump. Who is to blame for this rabid indifference?

Democracy’s snarling assassins are legion, and slink everywhere. Who placed Baby Trump on his gold potty to reign as enfant térrible? What media served as his dotting nurse, and who gave him thousand dollar lollypops to suck and toss at will? These are the questions we have to ask.

Baby Trump slung his diaper at 17 republican contenders with such wild abandon that, in the confusion, they ran straight into the flying shit. How did this happen to such patricians? Scion of the great Bush dynasty, Jeb Bush, the former governor of the sinking state of Florida, with the energy and panache of a slug, how did he not even poll at 3%? How was this disaster contrived? We must not rest until the facts illumine us.

Such republican illuminati, the combined voltage of which would not electrocute a fly- how did they come to naught? How did the light flicker out and plunge us into whining despair?

And then came the democrats. Queen Fracking Hillary Kissinger Sachs robed in all her glory! The train of her coronation gown stretched with a polyester smirk from New York to Washington for all to applaud, years before the election! Who was it that ran against her? What was his name? The media blackout was so tremendous, and Hillary’s fossil fuel halo so blindingly greasy, no one can remember. The $50,000 plate celebrity dinners were so dazzling, who cares? A nobody, a laughable nobody! A Jew from Brooklyn. What a joke!

Bernie, the only electable democratic candidate. And the only democratic candidate with a vision for a just America. The only candidate that would have thrashed the orangutan Trump. But dumped in a back alley by MSM, marginalized by the DNC, while the orangutan was feted on a corporate stage every night of the neon week, until Baby Trump’s gesticulations were all that the media played.

The fear. The fear of the orangutan beating his chest and thumping his thumb.

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The virtual reality president elect is as sharp as P.T. Barnum, who observed that a sucker is born every moment. The cruel truth is that this not only describes America of the hoary past, but also of the recent past, and present.

DT is a reprise, on the national stage, of the familiar carny huckster. But this is not because “the Donald” was wily enough to strategize the opportunity as much as it is the result of a decades long political devolution. Both the Democratic and Republican Parties suffer from dementia, the latter more so. Both parties completely failed to gauge the prevailing populist winds swirling across America. But the Republican Party was “lucky” to pick a carny candidate whereas the democrats chose a despised elite. Not surprisingly, the hustler proved more genuine than gilded speech.

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