We think we run the world and we are finding out we don’t. We are also finding out that it doesn’t really matter who’s in office, those above are instructing him or her to carry out a specific agenda for them aimed at profits (for oligarch class). Trump is their agent of chaos and he’s got his instructions. Until people stop focusing on the under layers, the middle layers of presidents and prime ministers and party politics & personalities & go right to the top to the hidden agendas and manipulation of the private sector elites, then we are doomed to be players in their games.
That’s what I’ve learned in the last year.
It’s been a painful lesson as I came into this entirely focused on humanity, fairness and equity…doing right by those around you and by your own values. I looked for these similar values in the one in office, the party, and thought that through politics we could get it right.
However through the Biden and Trump presidencies, Clinton and Bush too and closer to home Morrison and Albanese Prime Ministerships, I found glaring similarities in all. The forever wars, the policies and decisions that put profits in the military industrial complex and that killed, maimed and tortured hundreds of thousands…millions if the truth be known. The policies that deliver for the oligarchs yet leave the people broke and sick without care…and the ever yawning chasm where the rich get richer and the poor…they stay poor and trapped only hoping the next one in office will be better. Let’s face it, what has changed in the last twenty years, through the cycles of left and right, moderate and far right leaders? The middle class has been hollowed out, the poor are more destitute and our children cannot even afford a roof over their heads.
And so when people ask why trump ‘is happening?’ Or wonder why a depraved thing like Epstein and his blackmailed co-offenders were not brought to justice through all the presidencies, I say it is because we have to learn to change the world not as we want it to be but in full awareness of what it is. That’s our task. To shake it up, to meet them with cold hard summations and to say, ‘we are not fools and we will not stand for this hypocrisy and manipulation any more.’
I learned a while ago that one of the most powerful spiritual actions is to love and care for yourself as you expect others to love and care for you, and to demand nothing less. We owe it to ourselves to face reality and to set about the business of caring for ourselves in a world that is being run by the worst of us. And to change it, for the better.
Hopefully today marks a turning point in American politics. Of course there have been many in just over 70 days since the Trump government was elected and most of them…not good. Today was different.
I could point to the seemingly endless ways Trump is trying to upend democracy and the rule of law, or the callous and arrogant way he is dealing with [former] allies, or the cutting of foreign aid that saved lives, including the lives of children in poverty stricken nations that rely on American dollars in life and death situations.
Or we could discuss the hundreds of thousands of civil servants who were, and will be, tossed aside on the scrap heap by DOGE, mocked and ridiculed at the maniacal chainsaw wielding, clown show, put on by Trump mega donor and oligarch Elon Musk who just happens to make billions off taxpayer funded, government contracts. The irony is deep and rich indeed.
Just last week we all witnessed incredible and unprecedented security breaches by Trump’s Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Security Advisor Mike Walz who posted strike plans on commercial app Signal hours before the attack, putting pilots and field agents in grave danger.
Perhaps threats to invade neighbours and sovereign countries, abandon Ukraine and Europe or make Taiwan pay for defence against behemoth China is all in a day’s work for this current US government…constant drama, headlines, fear mongering…all in the short span of just over two months.
But today was different. Today was a turning point when we witnessed voters disregard Maga populist rhetoric and the lure of millions of dollars, to cast their ballot for the candidate who couldn’t be bought and send a powerful message to the oligarchs that democracy is not for sale. In Wisconsin, state Supreme Court judge Susan Crawford won her election against Brad Schimel in a race awash with big money donations that shattered spending records.
This included Elon Musk’s donation amounting to $20 million to Schimel and his attempts to repeat his 2024 election ‘lottery’, a thinly disguised attempt to ‘buy’ a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. Why?
According to the New Yorker Musk’s company Tesla filed an application with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to open four dealerships in the state. The State denied the application due to a law which bars car manufacturers from selling directly to consumers. “A week before Musk first posted about the race, Tesla filed a suit challenging the law.”
Just before the election Musk appeared at a rally for Schimel, appearing in a triangular cheese shaped hat, apparently invincible, sure that his status as the richest man in the world (apparently), meant he could do anything he wanted with impunity. He was attempting the unthinkable, trying to buy a state Supreme Court seat seemingly to influence his own affairs.
However the electorate had other plans. In unprecedented voter turnout, the Liberal leaning judge Susan Crawford won election despite Musk’s money and influence. The voter turnout was so strong, they ran out of ballots at one point.
”Today Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections and our Supreme Court,‘’ Crawford said in her victory speech. ‘’And Wisconsin stood up and said loudly that justice does not have a price, our courts are not for sale,” judge Crawford said.
Wisconsin, a swing state, also sent a message, loud and clear, to the Trump government which has been surrounded by Musk and big money since election day: hands off our democracy.
It’s the tip of the iceberg of course. Money in politics is the norm regardless of Musk…indeed every country has its oligarchs closely aligned with governing power. Nevertheless today in Wisconsin marked a shift and showed a glimpse of awareness that populism is often the oligarchy revving up the masses only to profit themselves off the people they’ve conned.
Let’s hope this is the start of something big, a groundswell that enlightens and inspires rather than disappoints and deflates. Democracy depends on those willing to vote for it.
Hello readers and viewers, it’s been a little while since I last wrote to you. I have been busy promoting my new book and juggling a serious arthritic flare in my hands that has dislocated the thumb CMC joint on my left hand, and because I am using my right hand more it has become quite painful too. Needless to say, I have been neglecting what I love to do the most which is writing. Let’s catch up.
So much has happened since my last entry. We have been subjected to a daily barrage of chaos, destruction and unconstitutional action from the new president Donald Trump. For months I refused to name him calling him 45 or 47, or under my breath something infinitely worse. However it struck me that not using his name, at least in my case, meant that I was reticent to speak his name and I did not want to give over to any form of fear or even allowing him to escape responsibility for the destruction he is wreaking not just on the US but on the world. In Trump we see lawlessness, vindictiveness and retribution, and most obviously heartlessness.
Tens and possibly hundreds of thousands of civil servants are without jobs in less than a month since Trump took office, whether they come from red states, blue states or purple states…good and talented workers have been thrown on the scrap heap, ridiculed and belittled, mocked and marked and callously booted out of the door they once walked through with pride as those with the privilege of serving the public. Billionaire and clown Elon Musk, behind sunglasses and a black cap carried a chainsaw onto the CPAC stage recently to highlight how he has taken a chainsaw to the government and its staff. It reminded me of national wrestling championships crossed with the Roman Colosseum. Real people, real families and communities are suffering as a result of his actions, yet he continues to mock them after he has destroyed them.
Trump and Musk, and Musk’s band of juvenile techno’s have been accused of breaching the privacy of Americans, potentially accessing their Social Security data and their financial and banking data too. All of this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the wrecking ball Trump, Musk and JD Vance, have taken to American society, government and way of life. And what is the end game? As a psychic and intuitive I have long felt the object of all of this is pure and utter greed and a lust for power and retribution.
Such are their travesties that those who voted for him, aside from his Maga base, are regretting their vote. A little late don’t you think? Sometimes karma arrives in real time and when it does, it leaves us in no doubt what our mistakes have been.
Internationally, the damage is equally as bad. Trump has taken that same wrecking ball and swung it high against America’s allies. He has all but pulled the US out of NATO, extorted Ukraine for its rare earth minerals and other resources, and upset Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Denmark, Panama and Colombia, all in the space of weeks. Germany France and the UK ready to string him and his sycophantic government from the nearest tree after the way in which he has sold out Europe for a partnership with dictator and war criminal Vladimir Putin. My own country, Australia, has been mercifully spared thus far, however I wonder for how long before it is our turn, and in what way he is going to try and extort us. My guess is that he will want even more military bases on our sovereign soil.
Heartbreakingly, he has told Ukraine to either accept a deal for America to take 50% of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals and other resources in perpetuity or he will turn off Starlink internet in their country. This would leave Ukraine unable to defend itself and unable to launch or repel drone and other attacks. Of course, a threat to turn off Starlink with the full backing of Starlink owner Elon Musk, should be a warning to other countries to find another satellite provider or be at the mercy of Trump/Musk’s blackmail in the future.
Now we are seeing fully the corruption greed, and cruelty of the highest order.
Yet for all the worry and anxiety we are labouring under, there is much to take heart in. Weekly street protests across all US states, unified legal action amongst civil rights groups and strong pushback from the state governments against Trump and Musk, show that we are with power and the freedom to exercise it.
A few weeks ago I caught up with Erika Robinson from In the Company of Cards, to talk about my new book Revealing Light – How Cancer Illuminated My Divine Blueprint. We spoke about how I took back my power when I was at my lowest ebb after my cancer diagnosis. I know only too well what it’s like to be at the bottom of that dark well, fearful and with no idea how to climb out. However, as soon as we look up, not down, and as soon as we find our courage and resolve, the light flows to us, illuminating our pathway upwards and onwards.
No matter how tough the going gets in the US and in the world, I choose to put my confidence into each and every one of us who stands strongly against the tyrants and cowards, and for a free, fair and prosperous future in which peace is our cornerstone.
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The poll released this week by the Washington Post may surprise some who are drawn to the high numbers that support authoritarian moves by the incoming president. They would be wrong to focus only on this…what I saw was something different.
The poll results surprised me, not because there was hardcore support for the incoming president’s more fascist-like proposals like investigating his political rivals (40%), rather, I was heartened by the lines drawn in the sand by a majority of Americans.
Unpacking the poll, we learn that 42% support using the US military to deport undocumented immigrants, 54% oppose it. That the figure supporting it is so high demonstrates why the incoming president’s campaign was so successful; he constantly hammered and demonised immigrants on the campaign trail and has done so from the time he descended the faux, gold coloured escalator at Trump Tower in 2016. He knows how to plumb the depths of human bigotry.
However sanctioning the use of the military on American soil is a very dangerous precedent. At least a majority of those polled realise this and would oppose this move. Others who see the reality of US soldiers arresting immigrants might reassess their positions. If it can be done to the undocumented, then how long before those same soldiers come for you?
Worryingly, 38% of respondents thought he should go after his political rivals, yet 60%, a good majority of Americans opposed this move. Here we begin to see the lines that Americans are willing to cross, or not.
The results on pardons for Jan 6th offenders (he too faced charges for his role in the attempted insurrection), was clearly another red line with 66% of citizens against the pardons. If inaugurated, I wonder if the incoming president will proceed with this threat. Early in his term, this would create a perception of criminality and that, combined with a failing economy, would likely hinder the remainder of his term like a bad apple on a bough. There’s no defying gravity once the rot sets in.
Respondents were strongly opposed to using police force against protestors (72%) and overwhelmingly against putting reporters in jail for stories unfavourable to the incoming president (88%). It seems there are some places even the majority of his own MAGA supporters won’t go.
There has been much soul searching since the election by Americans feeling shame such a man – a convicted felon – and previously facing multiple indictments for Jan 6th and for taking classified documents and obstructing their return, could be re-elected a second time. That the majority oppose his worst authoritarian tendencies is something that we can all ‘cling onto’ as we watch the tide undoubtedly turn on the incoming president.
I posted a video this week urging viewers to be open to all possibilities and the unexpected. Life can do that…the incoming president is precariously placed at this time, and in coming months, if he’s inaugurated. We should take nothing for granted in such times of global conflict, foreign governments interfering in democratic elections, highly partisan politics, and the rise of the oligarchy with their own agendas and plenty of cash to see they’re enacted.
The WaPo poll is, therefore, somewhat comforting. No majority supports any of the incoming president’s fascist proposals of retribution and cruelty. Perhaps all they wanted was the ‘billionaire’ celebrity to bring back the good times and deliver them from their financial and class struggles. They won’t get this of course, and so we must traverse this well worn pathway a second time while others learn the hard way they’ve been conned again by the ‘would be’ president.
I have spent the last few days listening to international authors talk about our world…as it once was and as it is now. We reflected on the rapid changes we have undergone this century and, particularly, in the last decade or so. The constant theme in all the discussions, was the impact of social media.
Yesterday a panel asked the question: Do books still matter?
Authors agreed they did, however all spoke of the downgrade in discourse, language and literacy and the rise of populism resulting from ‘social media’. Prominent UK author Alexander McCall Smith gave a fictitious example in a recent short story of the taxi driver who was reasonable and pleasant to his customers and then had to ‘go to taxi driver school to learn how to be confrontational’.
Other panel members spoke about the reactive and ‘angry’ discourse on social media. People were always reacting to something yet it was initially thought social media would help build positive interactive communities. In some ways it has fulfilled its initial reason for being, yet we cannot ignore the damage it has wrought on our civil society when AI generated militia pages are circulated to contest a free and fair election if the result does not go the way of a particular candidate, and where violence is threatened and organised, and activated.
When Pluto moved into Aquarius on November 19, 2024 we all breathed a sigh of relief. Surely now the power was in the collective hands. What we failed to realise is the extent we would have to wrestle power back from the all pervading oligarchy that has been built around social media…the so called tech billionaires, among them the reported richest man in the world Elon Musk (yes I did nearly forget his name after calling him Leon Musk for so long).
Ironic indeed that their fortunes have grown on the content ‘we the people’ provide them with daily, free! Ironic isn’t it that this free content we provide empowers them into positions where they become unelected officials in a government with the power to take away our social security pensions, and our cries fall powerlessly on their social media. If it seems like a giant con, it’s because it is and has been.
And when we consider all of this, we realise why Pluto in Aquarius will uncover corruption and, with effort, return the power to the collective. Already we are building new social media less prone to oligarchical takeovers, and using and nourishing independent media while rejecting legacy media.
After the US election I felt the energy of revolutions of the past, not the American revolution but the French Revolution. Yes, a revolution is coming, one where the people will stand up to the privileged and the obscenely corrupt profiting from power. They should watch themselves. As we’ve seen in Syria and are witnessing in Georgia, people power is a force that can overturn corrupt regimes and, with persistence, be a rallying cry that would curdle the blood of the tyrant and his armies.
Time to reflect. My break away with authors, writers and journalists on the ocean and traveling to Tasmania, has been good for the soul. New perspective has altered my bitterness and cynicism post US election, into a healthy realism that has new insight and purpose. This is a time for collective power to rise.
I have finally given this blog page a name: The Note (The News Open To Everyone). It will consist of a news roundup and drawing your attention to the stories I am finding in all parts of the global internet, it will include informed opinion and finally, my great love, spiritual and psychic insights about the global events that impact on our lives.
Thank you for being here. I hope to post at least twice a week and will be taking a step back from Facebook and consolidating my time and presence on BlueSky and Youtube, and, importantly, here on my own website. You can find me at BlueSky here: https://bsky.app/profile/revealinglight.bsky.social It is a relief not to post on X anymore and finally deactivate (kill/remove) my account by inauguration day.
Let me start with a breaking news story which came in directly after my reading which, among other things, brought up the owner of X. In this reading I pointed out something regarding money might arise for him in the coming days. It felt good to be back in the prediction hot seat again. After I uploaded my reading a breaking story came up on BlueSky about an FBI raid on the home of the CEO of Polymarket. This story comes from the good work of Axios. Shayne Caplan is the founder and CEO of Polymarket. It’s not clear what the FBI wanted, according to Axios, however it’s important to remember that during the 2024 election cycle a number of big multi million dollar bets were placed on the MAGA leader winning the election…one in the order of $40million….turned out the bet came from a French national and investigations later determined there was no manipulation of the betting market as a result of the bet.
The FBI has seized the Polymarket CEO’s phone. In another twist, Polymarket investor is JD Vance backer, Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel is also the former business partner of the X owner. Coincidence? I think, without assuming anything, we are about to find out.
So you’re wondering is this connected with the 2024 US election. It’s too early to say yet. Does it impact or draw in X owner and the major backer of the MAGA leader’s campaign – who invested around $200million in his campaign. Again, it’s too early to speculate. However I will say this: many Democratic Party voters feel they’ve been sideswiped with an election loss they thought was close and winnable, and they don’t know yet what has hit them.
There is that old saying: “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth”.
