Marjorie Orr featuring: Astrology of Today’s News

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Anselm Kiefer – war painters and poets – Bak, Nash, Sassoon, T.E. Lawrence

Anselm Kiefer, the German painter, on exhibition in Oxford and 80 in a few weeks, has used his art to explore the infiltration of his country’s culture and psychology by Nazism and the far right. Born in 1945 he was one of the first generation of German artists to confront the country’s recent past head-on … Read more

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USA Treasury – moving into a cyclone

The US Treasury manages government revenue,  collects federal taxes through the IRS and manages U.S. government debt. It is headed by a secretary of the treasury, who is a member of the Cabinet, presently Scott Bessent, an investor and hedge fund manager, a major donor, fundraiser, and economic advisor for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. … Read more

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Panama Canal – up for grabs?

The Panama Canal, involved in a tug of war with an imperialist Trump who claims America built it and dislikes China’s growing influence in the area, is an artificial 82-kilometer (51-mile) waterway which connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. It provides a shortcut which greatly reduces the time for ships to travel between … Read more

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Mass Media – massage or message

 ‘The medium is the message’ or ‘massage’ as Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan, the father of media studies, used to joke.  While the internet and before that television is blamed for negative social trends, there have often been periods of less than desirable effects from earlier mass communication, which has been around since the invention of … Read more

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United States – Pluto Return dims prospects

Could America’s Pluto Return be a hint of a slow moving collapse of global power and prestige? Loss of faith in US institutions could spiral towards a significant decline with the possibility of ‘a series of catastrophic governmental failures following key personnel having been fired and ‘dangerous lack of oversight of critical infrastructure, including nuclear … Read more

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Belle Gibson, cons and cronies – Neptune, Jupiter and Aquarius

Con gullible victims out of thousands with heart-rending tales of illness, get prison sentence, get Netflix series. The most recent trickster felon Belle Gibson is star of Apple Cider Vinegar. A wellness guru, she falsely claimed to have been diagnosed with multiple cancer pathologies, including malignant brain cancer, which she said she was effectively managing … Read more

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Boris Becker – blessed and cursed by the gods of chance

  Boris Becker, once wunderkind of the tennis world, is a salutary tale of great success followed by an abysmal fall. At 17 the youngest Wimbledon champion in history, he continued on through six-time grand slam wins, earning £100 million-plus through deals and sponsorships over the years. He retired in 2012, was declared bankrupt in … Read more

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Iraq – western meddling, schisms and drought

Iraq’s troubled history over the past 100 years starting with British interference after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WW1 through various coups and religious schisms culminating in George W Bush’s ‘shock and awe’ carnage in 2003 after 9/11 shows no signs of settling any time soon. Despite ISIS, who had … Read more

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Diana Melly – survivor of a stormy marriage

Riotous, unconventional, reckless lives are entertaining between the pages of a novel but the emotional damage they wreak is undeniable.  Diana Melly, wife of the flamboyant jazz singer, journalist and libertine George Melly with whom she shared an open marriage that survived for “45 long years” has died aged 87.  She was born 26 July … Read more

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