Monday, July 3, 2006 | More Mercury Station Retrograde ONE OF my favorite things about Mercury stationing is that it has a quality of "the truth comes out." I first noticed this in my personal life; in several situations where someone was being disingenuous with me, their ruse could not withstand a Mercury station. It's like an aspect that catches liars unaware; and notably, it was also used to perpetuate one of the great lies of our lifetimes, the election of Nov. 2, 2000. These things usually work both ways, and a dash of luck is needed no matter which side you're working with. In the current station, we are getting some information about the truth of the NSA spying program. Let's forget for a moment that these crooks have most people tricked into thinking this is good for them; and that most people don't know enough to be angry, or perhaps don't feel enough to be angry, or figure, who feel like who the heck cares if somebody is listening to my phone calls. Here we have something that is plain and simple staring us right in the face. There are times to stand on principle, and this is one of them. I'll save my grand theory as to why Americans have a perverse desire to be spied on by daddy for another blog, but here is a clue, it involves our uniquely American guilt complex. And there may be something to the Course in Miracles lesson "I have no private thoughts" in there. For now, check out this shit. I do seem to have read this before now, about two or three months ago -- but now it's moment has arrived. Spy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say Bloomberg - June 30, 2006 http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=abIV0cO64zJE&refer June 30 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court. Breaking: Spying started well before 9/11 It's about power, pure and simple... By Evan Derkacz - July 3, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/38457/ John in DC writes: "if true, it negates Bush's entire argument that the spying was needed to fight the war on terror..." More than that, it negates the administration's legal defense that it was the Authorization to Use Military Force that authorized the program. It obliterates it and seems to point to the expansion of presidential power as the true reason for the program.