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'River of trash' chokes Beirut suburb



Beirut, Lebanon (CNN)A river of stinking garbage bags snakes its way through the suburbs of Beirut, a surreal and unhygienic blight on Lebanon's cosmopolitan capital.This overflowing landfill, stretching for hundreds of meters through Jdeideh in the city's suburbs, is the consequence of the city's months-long garbage crisis -- both a symbol and a byproduct of the country's dysfunctional politics.
"This used to be such a beautiful place, but look at it now. We can't even walk by it," Jawanah, a local resident who didn't want to give the rest of her name, told CNN. Feb. 25





The first of the Saturn-Neptune squares took place on November 26. One of the lessons of the square is the need to  take responsibility (Saturn)  for the environment (Neptune).  The imbalance in Nature and our lifestyle is clearly  creating a serious problem. If ecological matters are not adequately addressed, the health of the entire planet is at risk under this transit. Up to now, the Earth has been able to absorb and deal with our ogreish consumption relatively well, but we must consider that this may not always be so.






A chart for the mundane event at Beirut is shown here.  Notice that it carries the Uranus-Pluto square on the meridian axis. When Uranus squares Pluto, problems are pushed to the surface. Uranus' clarity shines down on the caverns that Pluto has opened, and what's revealed is not pretty. In Beirut people are discovering just that . They need to deal with  the garbage Pluto has unearthed.  That this is so is confirmed if we progress the chart to Feb. 25, the date of news, when the square realigns with the angles.

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