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Feb. 19 | Sun in Pisces AS OF last night, the Sun is in Pisces. It's raining and cold in Paris. When I click on my "dashboard" feature, I am informed that it's sunny and a very pleasant 20 degrees Celsius. A few days ago, I thought of Bev Dulis, an astrology reading graduate I know from when I lived on Vashon Island. She is from the Seattle area. She's an underwater photographer, working in the cold, deep waters of Puget Sound and the surrounding areas. In case you're wondering, this is not diving off of Key West into warm, sun-flooded and reef-filled waters. Every point to the contrary. Bev has shared many of her photos for us to use on Planet Waves for the next few weeks, which we will move to our "fixture pages" such as the horoscope homepage, and archive in the gallery. The critter depicted on the home page is just 2.5 inches long (about 5cm). You will meet great Pacific octopii and lots of other really interesting kids. Bev's photography last made an appearance on Planet Waves in 2003. To see more, go to this archive and scroll down to Pisces (you're tripping around the Middle Ages of Planet Waves here): http://ericfrancis.com/whatsnew.html All the articles are decorated with her work. I'm going to skip the "How One Becomes A Good Nazi" blog today. Here is the latest link to your comments on anger, action and what you learned during Mars retrograde: http://planetwavesweekly.com/dadatemp/20060219.html However, I will include the homepage of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau Dora concentration camp memorials. There were many German camps. The one I visited over two days in the summer of 1998 was Buchenwald. I looked through these photos last night. Every detail came back to me; the place makes an impression. It certainly made an impression on the 34,000 people who were tortured, shot in the throat, or died of disease there, and the many more who came through, having committed no crime but existing. In particular, Buchenwald was initially the camp where political dissidents were taken: intellectuals, those with understanding of history, photographers, and so on. Later this orderly system broke down and it became a somewhat more ordinary prison camp. Buchenwald and dozens of places like it sprung up in the midst of an economic depression in the mid- to late-1930s, to the approval of all the well-healed middle class people in Germany; the kind that would be driving SUVs and living in nice suburban homes today. Basically, they turned their backs -- and the industrialists of the era benefited from the "free" labor. Buchenwald prisoners worked off-site at more than 100 business locations in the Weimar region. The first people to be rounded up were the anti-Fascists: the people with a tendency to speak out against injustice. Next were the "work shy" -- the unemployed, the homeless, those without permanent addresses. Then it went on, until racial and religious groups were targeted: Sinti and Romany people ('Gypsies'); Jews; and many others. Remember, this is what you don't want to happen in your country. And it happened in a country just like the ones we live in today just 75 years ago. Am I here to scare you? I'm here to ask you to wake up. When I posted a comment about detention camps in the United States being developed under a $400 million contract from Halliburton, just one person wrote to me. If I had my way, everyone would be flown to Germany and taken on tours of the remnants of Nazi atrocities. Everyone. Starting with politicians and cops. Official Site, in English | ||||||
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