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Ship with more than 100 passengers on board sank off the coast of Indonesia, according to local media. The ship is known to have left from Kolaka, Southeast Sulawesi, for South Sulawesi. According to Kompas.com, 122 people were on board. Reuters reports of 100 people on board. The reasons of the shipwreck are still unknown. http://sputniknews.com/asia/20151219/1032022630/ship-wreck-indonesia-coast.html The following extract from a previous post explains the reason for the ship wreck. What to expect from the upcoming Moon Wobble? The Dec. 18 quarter Moo straddles the Nodal axis.  This is a phenomena known as “Moon Wobble”. Moon Wobbles were discovered in the 1930's, when research by astrologer Carl Payne Tobey (1902-1980), the original editor of Astrology Magazine, revealed that disasters occur in cycles associated with the conjunction (0°), opposition (180°) and square (90°) from the Sun to the Moon's Node. These powerful contacts occur when the Sun ...

If John Kerry doesn’t win an Oscar for his performance in Moscow on Tuesday, then there’s something very wrong with the system. From the time he touched down at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport, to the time he left some 26 hours later, the Secretary of State was as cordial and conciliatory as anytime in recent memory.  There was no hectoring, no lecturing, no threats of additional sanctions and no finger-wagging condescension, just pleasant give-and-take on the main issues followed by friendly chit-chat, multiple handshakes, and plenty of smiley photo ops.   To say his hosts were surprised by Kerry’s behavior is a probably an understatement.  After nearly three years of nonstop belligerence and confrontation, the last thing Sergei Lavrov and Vladimir Putin expected was an ingratiating Kerry oozing brotherly love and carrying on like an old buddy from college.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43764.htm John Kerry’s horoscope is available at Astrod...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has used crude language in a furious new attack on Turkey over the shooting down of a Russian combat jet last month. "The Turks", he said, had "decided to lick the Americans in a certain place". He was giving his wide-ranging annual news conference. Touching on next year's US presidential election, the Russian leader called Donald Trump a "very colourful, talented person" and the "absolute frontrunner in the presidential race". Dec. 17 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35118927 The Dec. 18 quarter Moon straddles the Nodal axis.  This is a phenomena known as “Moon Wobble”. Moon Wobbles were discovered in the 1930's, when research by astrologer Carl Payne Tobey (1902-1980), the original editor of Astrology Magazine, revealed that disasters occur in cycles associated with the conjunction (0°), opposition (180°) and square (90°) from the Sun to the Moon's Node. These po...

For almost a decade and a half, the people behind the Bush administration's shameful treatment of terrorism suspects have avoided punishment for their crimes, but that may be about to change. The courts have had their say and have ruled that former Bush administration officials can, in fact, be sued for how they conducted the "war on terror." The Second Circuit Court of Appeals made that pretty much official on Friday when it refused to hear a challenge to its earlier ruling in the case of Turkmen v. Ashcroft. That case, sparked by a civil rights lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, involves hundreds of Arab, Muslim or South Asian men who were detained and then abused by our government in the weeks following 9/11. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34032-court-rules-bush-administration-can-be-sued-for-war-on-terror-conduct Cardinal ingresses have been used to predict public events at least since the time of Ptolemy, but which of the four Ca...

When foxes discovered little penguins on a small Australian island, they nearly wiped the colony out. But a farmer came up with a novel way to protect the birds - and the story has been made into a hit film. As a premise for a film, think Lassie meets Babe meets Pingu. What's not to like? Middle Island, a beautiful, rugged and windswept outcrop off the coast of southern Victoria is home to a colony of the world's smallest penguins. Originally known as fairy penguins, before some pen-pusher deemed that politically incorrect, they've now been given the far more dreary sounding title of little penguins. To be fair, they are just that - little, standing at 30 to 40cm tall. There used to be hundreds of them on Middle Island - but that was before the foxes got to them.  Dec. 14 http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35039105 Shown here is the chart for the Waxing Crescent Moon of December 15 drawn for London where the story was published.  Both the luminaries...

The inaugural U.S. flight of one of Airbus’s newest aircraft models was supposed to be a big deal, showcasing the impressive new jumbo jet on its very first trip from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport. Instead, it was spectacularly terrifying and embarrassing fail. The high tech jet’s computer system aborted it’s own takeoff — because it deemed the runway too short.  The airplane even had screens on each seatback via which the passengers could watch the taxi and takeoff as it happened. Unfortunately, rather than watching the plane soar to 30,000 feet, it taxed, picked up speed — and then came to a startling and screeching halt. Dec. 13 https://www.yahoo.com/travel/fail-first-us-flight-of-fancy-new-airbus-jet-171400857.html Mundane astrology, the study of heavenly cycles upon nations, is the most ancient branch of astrology in which the affairs of a nation are judged from the horoscope set up at the time of its official inauguration, and various phenomena such as ...

A deal to attempt to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2C has been agreed at the climate change summit in Paris after two weeks of intense negotiations. The pact is the first to commit all countries to cut carbon emissions. The agreement is partly legally binding and partly voluntary. Earlier, key blocs, including the G77 group of developing countries, and nations such as China and India said they supported the proposals. President of the UN climate conference of parties (COP) and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said: "I now invite the COP to adopt the decision entitled Paris Agreement outlined in the document”. Dec.12 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35084374 This wonderful news comes  just after the December 11, 2015 New Moon  which is conjunct the star Alpha (α) Ophiuchus, Ras Alhague,  on the head of the Snake Charmer. Ophiuchus is also referred to as the medicine man. Its stars are connected with healing, men...