Collectivisme = Negatieve autoriteit. Ontkenning van
de persoonlijkheid en irrationele manipulatie
Individualisme|Personalisme = Positieve autoriteit.
Erkenning en rationele begeleiding
Ruhollah Khomeini, de religieuze leider die vanwege zijn keuze voor de theocratische staat symbool geworden is van alles wat star, overzettelijk en onvrouwelijk is in Iran, is (waarschijnlijk) geboren op 17 mei 1900 in Khomeyn rond 13 uur.
(Bron: Astrodata - andere bronnen noemen de datum 24-9-1902, terwijl de Teheran Times ooit 7 augustus 1901 als geboortedatum noemde).
De geboortehoroscoop die bij de datum 17-5-1900 hoort laat (naast de mystieke planeet Neptunus, die de liefde voor poëzie en gnostische mystiek verklaart) een dominant geplaatste Pluto zien (MC huis - top van de horoscoop) die een negatief aspect maakt met de strenge, beperkende planeet Saturnus, een aspect dat daarom zo opmerkelijk is, omdat het voorkomt in de horoscopen van de hoofdrolspelers in het Midden-Oosten-conflict: George W. Bush, Ariel Sharon en Yasser Arafat.
Imam Ayatollah Seyed Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (May 17, 1900 – June 3, 1989) was a Muslim cleric and Marja, and the political leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. Following the Revolution, Imam Khomeini became Grand Leader of Iran — the paramount figure in the political system of the new Islamic Republic — until his demise.
Imam Khomeini was considered a Marja-e taqlid to many Muslims, and in Iran was officially addressed as Imam rather than Grand Ayatollah; his supporters adhere to this convention. Imam Khomeini was also a highly-influential and innovative Islamic political theorist, most noted for his development of the theory of velayat-e faqih, the "guardianship of the jurisconsult."
Ruhollah Mousavi was born to Ayatollah Seyyed Mostafa Musavi and Hajieh Agha Khanum, also called Hajar, in the town of Khomein, about 300 kilometers south of the capital Tehran, Iran, possibly on May 17, 1900 or September 24, 1902.
Pluto in huis 10: Astrologische betekenis
volgens het programma New Age Astrologie
Kenmerkende positie voor de met macht beklede mens: de alleenheerser, de dictator, de leider, de chef.
Met positieve aspecten: Sterk streven naar macht en invloed, gecombineerd met het verlangen zich totaal over te geven aan het werk. Men kan maatschappelijk hoog opklimmen en veel succes en erkenning verkrijgen in een zelfgekozen beroep. Een positief aspect met Venus wijst meestal op een artistiek beroep, waarin men populariteit kan verwerven.
Bij negatieve aspecten: de godfather. Speelt zijn macht schaamteloos uit. Het beroepsleven is vol strijd en komt vaak in ongewone banen terecht; daarbij is sprake van veelvuldig veranderende situaties, reorganisaties, omwentelingen, crises, geheimen, gevaren of vijandschap. Mogelijkheid van een diepe onverwachte val, een ineenstorting, catastrofes, heftige twistgesprekken, geschillen, ingrijpende veranderingen en tenslotte verlies van macht en aanzien. (Omschrijving afkomstig uit het programma New Age Astrologie)
Saturnus in negatief aspect met Pluto:
Saturnus en Pluto
vertegenwoordigen twee principes die elkaar tegenwerken
en aanvullen. Bij positieve aspecten kan het conflict een
bevrijdend effect hebben en de aanvulling een gezonde
autoriteitsbeleving in het leven roepen, bij negatieve
aspecten is het uitermate moeilijk de negatieve
eigenschappen van beide planeten onder controle te
krijgen.
(Saturnusaspecten bepalen in sterke mate het karakter van de hoofdrolspelers in het Midden-Oosten-conflict: Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush en Condoleezza Rice.)
Saturnus vertegenwoordigt het principe van de begrenzing, de beheersing, het plichtsbesef en het geweten (de moraal in zijn zuivere vorm: gezien als wil tot weten). In zijn positieve gedaante is hij de goede vader, die samen met de moeder (de Maan) de wereld orde en rust brengt. In zijn negatieve gedaante echter staat hij voor orthodoxie en fundamentalisme. In dat geval wordt begrenzing geremdheid en conservatisme verstarring. Eenmaal ingenomen standpunten zijn onwrikbaar en worden nooit meer veranderd.
Pluto vertegenwoordigt het dierlijke, ongeremde principe in de mens. Hij reageert instinctief, laat zich leiden door emoties en is daarom op zijn best in een wereld waarin orde en rust geen noodzakelijke vereisten zijn. In zijn negatieve gedaante staat hij voor terreur, dwang en verregaande onredelijkheid. Hij plaatst de emoties boven het gezonde verstand en is niet bereid de redelijke argumenten van de tegenstander serieus te nemen, wanneer hij zich emotioneel gekwetst voelt.
Een negatief aspect van deze twee planeten roept de meest slechte eigenschappen in mensen op. De strenge, pragmatische Saturnus verliest zijn redelijkheid en de irrationele, wraakzuchtige Pluto levert mensen uit aan meedogenloze dwangexercities, die ten doel hebben elke vorm van individualisme te vernietigen.
Tegenpool van de meedogenloze Saturnus is
de Maan, heerser van het dierenriemteken Kreeft
Maaninvloed is aanwezig in de geboortehoroscoop van Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hoewel de sterkte ervan niet duidelijk aangegeven kan worden omdat de geboortetijd niet bekend is. Seyed Ali Khamenei, geestelijk leider van Iran, is geboren in Mashad op 17 juli 1939.
De Zon bevindt zich in het dierenriemteken Kreeft en de Maan in het teken Kreeft (geb. voor 12u) of Leeuw (geb. na 12u). Het teken Kreeft wordt beheerst door de Maan - de planeet die van oudsher wordt beschouwd als de Moeder- of Maria-planeet, die verwijst naar als vrouwelijk ervaren zaken als compassie, genade, zorg en bescherming .(Zie: De Drie Koningen Symboliek)
Compassie (Maan) & Recht (Jupiter)
"The Jews always defined themselves as "the compassionate sons of the compassionate". They believed that compassion is a Jewish invention and quoted the old texts (such as the Sabbath injunction in the Ten Commandments, ordering Jews to relieve their slaves and draft animals every seventh day.)
The new Hebrew society that was created in this country was always proud of its "mutual responsibility", the fact that nobody went hungry in our society, that the incapacitated, sick, old and unemployed were protected by the whole of society. Once, when I was asked what being a Jew meant to me in my childhood, I mentioned compassion, together with seeking justice, hating violence, striving for peace and loving education." Uri Avnery, 21-4-2003
Overweging:
Wat de astrologie ons leert is dat goed en kwaad reëel bestaande gegevenheden zijn, waarmee rekening moet worden gehouden. Vernietiging van het kwaad is niet mogelijk, beheersing wel. Die beheersing zal de meeste kans van slagen maken binnen een liberale wereld waarin mensen als individu aanspreekbaar zijn.
Binnen een collectivistische wereld wordt meestal geprobeerd via projectiemechanismen de mensen op te delen in goede groepen en slechte groepen.
Primitieve moralisten (gelijk te stellen aan collectivisten) streven daarom altijd naar de vernietiging van het individualisme (niet te verwarren met egoisme). De vrije (niet egoistische) persoonlijkheid is de grootste vijand van de bekrompen moralist.
Fundamentalisme dwingt
weigert mernsen te dienen
Conventional wisdom suggests that the antidote to religious fundamentalism is more secularism. I think that’s a very big mistake. The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism. The [monotheistic] traditions are religions of the book. And the key question is: How do we interpret the book? In Christian faith, we have the interpretation of Martin Luther King, Jr. and also that of the KKK. Better interpretations of the book are, in my view, a better response to fundamentalism than throwing the book away.
Conventional wisdom says fundamentalism takes religion too seriously. The answer, of course, is to take it less seriously. Wrong again. The best response to fundamentalism is to take faith more seriously than fundamentalism sometimes does. To critique by faith the accommodations of fundamentalism to theocracy and violence and power, for example, and to assert the vital religious commitments that fundamentalists often leave out, namely, compassion, social justice, peacemaking, religious pluralism — and democracy as a religious commitment. (The Rev. Jim Wallis - editor, Sojourners magazine)
Saddam Hussein was de vijand van alle vormen van extremisme. Hij verweet Amerika en Engeland dat ze doelbewust extremistische (religieuze en politieke) bewegingen steunden -'hateful fundamentalists' - waardoor Irak (zo stelde hij) gedwongen werd te kiezen voor een zichzelf verdedigende militaire dictatuur.
Het feit dat in het bevrijde Irak uitgerekend aan het Koerdische nationalisme gebonden communisten het eerste 'vrije blad' uitgeven moet ons te denken geven.
Communisten zijn nooit de bondgenoten van de verdraagzame wijsheid geweest. Bovendien zijn ze onbetrouwbaar. Toen Saddam nog leefde werd hij gesteund door de communisten. Nu hij dood is mag hij weinig meer zijn dan rotte vis...
Communisten hebben in Iran Khomeini aan de macht gebracht, een religieuze leider die het principe van de religieuze dwang boven het principe van de verdraagzame wijsheid plaatste. De kans dat ze hetzelfde zullen doen in Irak is bijzonder groot, vooral ook omdat de groeperingen die worden bevrijd Khomeinisten, Koerdische nationalisten en kapitalistische opportunisten zijn, mensen die alles verdedigen behalve het socialistische eenheidsverlangen van de Arabische nationalisten (Saddam's Baath partij).
Interest does not bind men together:
interest separates men.
There is only one thing that can bind men together,
and that is common devotion to right. Woodrow Wilson
Six killed as Israeli tanks push into Gaza
Amid calls for peace talks,
army begins one of biggest raids for years Conal Urquhart, The Guardian 21-4-2003
The Israeli government showed yesterday that it would pursue its military agenda, regardless of demands by Washington and London for negotiations, by carrying out one of the largest raids in Gaza since the start of the intifada. Six people were killed and 48 wounded when armoured vehicles entered the Yibna district of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip.
More than 15,000 mourners waving rifles and Palestinian flags crowded the streets of Rafah last night to bury five of the dead.
The raid, which began shortly after 1pm on Saturday and continued until 4am yesterday, signals a challenge to London and Washington, which have been attempting to reduce Israeli military activity in the occupied territories.
Tony Blair has insisted that the war in Iraq should be matched by diplomatic activity to secure peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. And George Bush appears to agree: he said that the "road map" - a plan for peace and Palestinian statehood - would be published as soon as Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian prime minister designate, was established in office with a new cabinet.
The Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, said he was willing to evacuate settlements if Mr Abbas cracks down on Palestinian militant groups. But until all attacks on Israel cease, he reserves the right to take whatever action is required to enhance Israel's security.
In a speech in the Senate on 19 March, the first day of war against Iraq, Robert Byrd, the Democrat Senator from West Virginia, asked: 'What is happening to this country? When did we become a nation which ignores and berates our friends? When did we decide to risk undermining international order by adopting a radical and doctrinaire approach to using our awesome military might? How can we abandon diplomacy when the turmoil in the world cries out for diplomacy?'
No one bothered to answer, but as the American military machine currently in Iraq stirs restlessly in other directions, these questions give urgency to the failure, if not the corruption, of democracy.
A torrent of material appeared equating Saddam Hussein's tyranny not only with evil, but with every known crime. Some of this was factually correct but neglected the role of the US and Europe in fostering Saddam's rise and maintaining his power. In fact, the egregious Donald Rumsfeld visited Saddam in the early 80s, assuring him of US approval for his catastrophic war against Iran. US corporations supplied nuclear, chemical and biological materials for the supposed weapons of mass destruction and then were brazenly erased from public record.
All this was deliberately obscured by government and media in manufacturing the case for destroying Iraq. Either without proof or with fraudulent information, Saddam was accused of harbouring weapons of mass destruction seen as a direct threat to the US. The appalling consequences of the US and British intervention in Iraq are beginning to unfold, with the calculated destruction of the country's modern infrastructure, the looting of one of the world's richest civilisations, the attempt to engage motley 'exiles' plus large corporations in rebuilding the country, and the appropriation of its oil and its modern destiny. It's been suggested that Ahmad Chalabi, for example, will sign a peace treaty with Israel, hardly an Iraqi idea. Bechtel has already been awarded a huge contract.
This is an almost total failure in democracy - ours, not Iraq's...
Americans have been cheated, Iraqis have suffered impossibly and Bush looks like a cowboy. On matters of the gravest importance, constitutional principles have been violated and the electorate lied to. We are the ones who must have our democracy back.
Jay Garner, chief of the United States’ de facto interim authority in Iraq arrived Monday morning in Baghdad, exactly a month since the start of the invasion.
Garner’s arrival in Baghdad comes at a time when the local population is recovering from the trauma of the invasion and the anarchy that has followed.
As head of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), Jay Garner has an uphill task. Attempting to send the right signals, on arrival Garner visited a hospital ransacked by looters and promised to restore the capital's essential services. "What better day in your life can you have than to be able to help somebody else, to help other people, and that is what we intend to do," Jay Garner, a retired US general, said after landing in Baghdad airport from Kuwait.
The ORHA, the de facto interim authority under US control, was set up with the stated aim of rebuilding Iraq after the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, and prepare for an eventual interim government made up of Iraqis.
Americans accused of turning
blind eye to killings by Kurds
By Kim Sengupta, The Independent, 23-4-2003
A bitter conflict is unfolding in northern Iraq between two minority communities, with the Americans accused of turning a blind eye to killings and ethnic cleansing.
The Kurds are being blamed for a violent campaign of intimidation against the Turkoman population. Organisations representing the Turkomans say they want British and European troops to protect them because the Americans are acquiescing in what is taking place.
The retired US general in charge of rebuilding Iraq, Jay Garner, travelled to Dukan in northern Iraq for talks with the main Kurdish leaders and promised that the new government would be a "mosaic" representing "all the Iraqi people".
In Kirkuk, peshmerga fighters of Jalal Talabani's PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) and Massoud Barzani's KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party), Turkoman militia, armed Arab fighters and US forces form a combustible mixture. Eleven people are reported to have been killed and more than 50 injured in the past 10 days. Dozens of families, mainly Turkoman but some of them Arab, are said to have been driven from their homes by Kurds.
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin arrived in Tehran from Jordan late Wednesday on the last leg of a regional tour aimed at talks focusing on the future of Iraq.
The French top diplomat "is due to hold talks with high-ranking Iranian officials including President Mohammad Khatami, Chairman of the State Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi," the ministry added.
On Tuesday, De Villepin said in Ankara that the international community must be "pragmatic, open and try to think ... of the needs of the Iraqi people", adding that his country was ready to contribute to the reconstruction of Iraq.
He also dismissed U.S. threats to punish France for its anti-war position and said that France will continue to defend international law.
His comments came after U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday that France would face consequences for its opposition to the war on Iraq. Asked in an interview with PBS Television whether Paris would be punished for its anti-war stance, Powell replied bluntly: "Yes."
Arafat says YES to new government
By Uri Dan, New York Post 24-4-2003
Yielding to intense pressure from the United States and other countries, Yasser Arafat agreed to a new Palestinian government yesterday that the Bush administration said would revive the Mideast peace process.
Arafat's key concession was over a role for Mohammed Dahlan, who will serve as security chief in charge of the Palestinian police and counterintelligence. Fearful of losing a key area of power, Arafat had opposed any role in the government for Dahlan.
"Arafat and brother Abu Mazen have sorted out their differences," senior Arafat aide Tayeb Abdul-Rahim said after the two men sealed their pact with a handshake in Ramallah.
The compromise left all sides claiming victory - even Egypt, whose intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, paid a last-minute call on Arafat's West Bank headquarters yesterday to press the Palestinian president to back down.
Under the deal, Mazen agreed to serve as Palestinian interior minister as well as prime minister.
The installation of a new Palestinian government clears the way for the quick publication of the Mideast "road map" peace plan, which the Palestinians say will soon require Israeli concessions and lead to a Palestinian state by 2005.
Terugblik: 27 november 2002
Arafat Deputy: "We have to control the situation..."
By Karin Laub, Associated Press Writer, 27-11-2002
The office of Arafat's deputy in the PLO, Mahmoud Abbas, released a 20-page transcript of a closed-door meeting he held with Fatah activists last month in Gaza. In the session, Abbas sharply criticized the militias, saying it was a mistake to turn popular protests into an armed conflict with Israel.
"What happened in these two years, as we see it now, is a complete destruction of everything we built," Abbas was quoted as saying. "The reason for this is that many people diverted the uprising from its natural path and embarked on a path we can't handle, with the use of weapons ... such as mortars, grenades and shooting from houses and populated areas."
Abbas said shooting from populated areas endangered Palestinian lives and property, because it invited Israeli retaliation.
"We have to control the situation, and I don't think there is anything that keeps us from succeeding," he said. "What is needed now is to say, clearly and firmly: until here and enough."
Garner plays down Shia demonstrations
The Guardian 24-4-2003
The retired US general in charge of postwar Iraq said today that recent demonstrations protesting against the US presence there have been influenced by neighbouring Iran.
At a news conference in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, Lieutenant General Jay Garner said of the demonstrations: "Those are well organised. I think what you find in that is a lot of Iranian influence." He added that he believed they would soon subside.
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shia demonstrated against the United States in the ancient city of Kerbala yesterday, carrying banners with messages such as "No to America, no to Israel, yes to Islam".
Lt Gen Garner said he did not believe the anti-US protesters "represent anywhere near the majority". "The ability to demonstrate and disagree and all that is the first step in a democratic process," he said.
Meanwhile, Lt Gen Garner's team has been holding talks with technocrats and academics in Baghdad in what has been described as an attempt to involve ordinary people in shaping the country's future.
The BBC's website said that his team selected around 60 Iraqis who had shown leadership qualities and that Lt Gen Garner had urged public sector workers to return to work as soon as possible, promising them an emergency payment after one week and a monthly salary thereafter.
Annan sparks row calling US the "occupying power"
In other developments, the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, today called on the US-led coalition to respect international law as the "occupying power" in Iraq, drawing immediate ire from US officials who resist the label "occupier" and say coalition forces are respecting the rules.
Mr Annan told the UN human rights commission: "I hope the coalition will set an example by making clear that they intend to act strictly within the rules [governing the occupation of conquered nations]."
Mr Annan cited the 1949 Geneva conventions and the 1907 Hague convention - international accords which set down the responsibilities of occupiers, ranging from maintaining public order to collecting taxes. (The Guardian 24-4-2003)
In de media zien we nu het bekende 'jezelf goedmaken'-verschijnsel optreden. Moralisten vervalsen de geschiedenis, wassen het eigen kwaad weg en benadrukken het kwaad van de ander. Dat kwaad wordt uitvergroot, krijgt welhaast mythische trekjes, zodat in de toekomst al diegenen die dat 'kwaad' proberen te relativeren (door het tegenover het eigen kwaad te plaatsen) automatisch gruwelijke, kwaadaardige duivels zullen zijn, die door de 'goede' burgerij (goed geworden vanwege het fet dat ze macht, geld en gezondheid bezitten) alleen maar vernietigd mogen worden.
Voor wijsheid zal in zo'n wereld geen plaats meer zijn - vooral ook omdat wijze mensen meestal behoren tot de categorie van armen, zieken en machtelozen: groeperingen waarin eenlingen de meeste kans maken om te overleven...
Beschaving & Collectieve Hoogmoed
Sant Egidio Gemeenschap, 2002
Eerlijkheid en rechtvaardigheid moeten zich compromitteren met de lijdende mens. Als rechtvaardigheid niet gepaard gaat met een passie voor de mens, dan wordt ze medeplichtigheid. Dat zien we in het verhaal van Pilatus. Het volstaat niet je handen fijntjes te wassen. Je moet je handen vuil maken, zoals Jezus deed in zijn omgang met zieken, melaatsen en gezonde mensen.
De beschaving van Pilatus delft het onderspit. De menigte is op hol geslagen en zij wint. Jezus heeft medelijden met die menigte. Eerst had ze Hem opgehemeld en nu veroordeelt ze Hem. De menigte denkt dat ze wint, maar eigenlijk verliest ze. Ze heeft niet begrepen wie er voor haar staat: iemand die haar tot het einde toe liefheeft. 'Jeruzalem, Jeruzalem – had Hij gezegd – Hoe vaak heb Ik uw kinderen niet onder mijn hoede willen nemen, zoals een kip haar kuikens bijeenbrengt onder haar vleugels. Maar u hebt het niet gewild.'
De menigte voelt enkel nog haat voor die arme man. Ze laat zich meeslepen door een soort collectieve hoogmoed, die ieder doet vergeten wie hij is. De hysterie van de massa exalteert mensen. Op zulke massabijeenkomsten vergeet iedereen zijn zwakte en zijn zonden. Je voelt je sterk, want je voelt je deel van een menigte. Het is het mechanisme van elk nationalisme, van elk racisme.
Khamenei Calls On City, Village Councils to Serve People
Teheran Times 26-4-2003
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday advised members of the Islamic city and village councils to provide the nation with sincere Services, IRNA reported.
Solving the existing problems in cities and villages, improvement of the environment, facilitating the people's living, giving priorities to the poorer areas, respecting the city and village laws and regulations and preserving the Islamic and national principles in buildings construction were among the Leader's guidelines to the members of the Islamic city and village councils.
President Mohammad Khatami also on Saturday highlighted the need that the city councils avoid political inclinations in their decision-making.
Addressing the meeting with members of the new city and village councils, Khatami said the municipalities and councils should not engage in political activities, stressing that serving the people must become the top priority of the institutions.
"The duty of the councils requires that councilors do not enter political issues, but this never means that the devoted and pious people should be indifferent toward what is happening in the country," he said.
Khatami called the city councils as the basic cores of democracy in the society, and underscored the significance of promoting unity and solidarity in the councils.
Commentaar 2003: Het benadrukken van de dienende taak van de overheid is het eerste en belangrijkste principe van de verlichtingsidealen die het liberalisme en het socialisme hebben voortgebracht.
Dienen is het tegendeel van politieke en/of religieuze dictatuur (bindt ook de strijd aan met dictatoriaal ingestelde mensen), zodat er met recht gesteld kan worden dat elke maatschappij die het principe van de dienende overheid afwijst een maatschappij is die de weg vrijmaakt voor de dictatuur.