British Govt. snoops on media

Raven – Messenger Bird

GCHQ’s bulk surveillance of electronic communications has scooped up emails to and from journalists working for some of the US and UK’s largest media organisations, analysis of documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals. Emails from the BBC, Reuters, the Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde, the Sun, NBC and the Washington Post were saved by GCHQ and shared on the agency’s intranet as part of a test exercise by the signals intelligence agency. The disclosure comes as the British government faces intense pressure to protect the confidential communications of reporters, MPs and lawyers from snooping. The journalists’ communications were among 70,000 emails harvested in the space of less than 10 minutes on one day in November 2008 by one of GCHQ’s numerous taps on the fibre-optic cables that make up the backbone of the internet. The Guardian Jan. 19; http://bit.ly/1GmG9md.

As in the last post here too we look at the chart for the sidereal Capricorn Ingress of the Sun (“Capsolar”) to explain the news story. Notice the skewed but powerful Grand Cross on the angles and let us break down its components for ease in understanding.

Here Uranus [13ar]  is conjunct the  the Ascendant  and the asteroid Arachne [22ar].  Since Arachne [1] is about webs, Arachne-Uranus together  is about computer networks including the internet. Opposite this combination on the descendant is the TNP Zeus conjunct the star Algorab, delta Corvi in the constellation of Corvus. We have seen in previous posts [2] that Diana Rosenberg links this constellation with the media and journalism so that Arachne-Uranus along with Algorab is an obvious reference to all internet communication by the media.  Finally Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn represents a struggle between the freedom of the individual and the authoritarian power of the State so that we have in the chart all the elements that make up news story.

To this we may wish to add the meaning of  Hades-Kronos [3] on the IC.

Hades-Kronos: Government or authorities indulge in “dirty business” or hidden activities.

[1] Astrological Keywords ll

[2] CNN's Jim Clancy resigns after anti-Israel tweets

[3] The Orders of Light; Martha-Lang Wescott (p.106)