Extra! Extra! Old Political Scandal!

[ecosophia]

One of the things I'm doing just now in the mundane astrology project is looking over colorful past events and casting the relevant mundane charts for them, in order to do some retrospective analysis and see how the events in question showed up in advance in ingress and other mundane charts. The first of these, an astrological analysis of the assassination of US president William McKinley in 1901, is already up on my Patreon and SubscribeStar accounts. Yes, it's old news, but studying a chart like that is among other things a good way to see how political events such as assassinations might be signaled in the charts that show our own future. 

To do that, I need a good stock of lurid, scandalous political events from the not too distant past. I want to avoid events that are still hot-button issues today, in the hope of keeping the yelling quotient as low as possible, but they should be recent enough that the details (including exact times) are well documented: broadly speaking, let's say the middle of the 19th through the middle of the 20th century. I'd like to focus mostly on American and British events but I'm certainly willing to consider suitably dramatic events from elsewhere if it's possible to get accurate details. 

Also, the scandals in question need to be events of political importance. If Lady Blatherskite was caught having a scandalous affair, even if Victorian society was convulsed by the news, that won't necessarily show up on a mundane chart.  If the affair included details that brought down the government of Lord Bilgewater, forced a new election, and caused a dramatic change in England's policy toward Africa, that's going to be visible in the ingress and other charts that were in effect at that time. By studying how it was visible, we can figure out what to expect from future charts. 

McKinley's assassination is one good example of the sort of thing I'm looking for.  The abdication of Edward VIII in 1936, and the constitutional crisis that surrounded it, is another, and yet another is the impressively lurid Profumo scandal that brought down British prime minister Harold Macmillan's government in 1963. I'm planning on doing charts on the latter two -- but there must be more political dirty laundry from the past that deserves a good airing in the light of the stars. So, dear reader: what are your favorite political crises from the era before you were born? Mundane astrologers want to know. 

Comments

The Marconi Scandal

[(Anonymous)]

Essentially everyone worth bribing in British parliament was bribed with sweet stock deals by the company bringing Marconi's newfangled 'wire less' telegraph to Britain. Company director Godfrey Isaacs gave out so many sweet stock deals, everyone ended up losing money. GK Chesterton's brother was ruined by the establishment for paying a fellow with a sandwich board listing 'Godfrey Isaac's Ghastly Record' of one bankrupt company after another- and given 'the greater the truth, the greater the libel' said bro was guilty as sin.

Re: The Marconi Scandal

[ecosophia]

Okay, that's a fine scandal. Did it have any political consequences?

Re: The Marconi Scandal

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. No, so it doesn't count for your purpose, my bad. As far as I know, the whole establishment was implicated so they buried it. GK Chesterton's brother was impoverished for publicizing the scandal, and being poor may have been one reason he died of smelly disease in WWI. GKC and Hilaire Belloc were never exactly anti-Semitic, but they never got far away from it either, after GKC's brother was hosed for exposing a rich crooked Jewish nincompoop. (GKC's brother disliked Jews openly from the start, no question).
The establishment coverup was successful, nobody was fired, and they ended up saying, well, we lost money so the stock deals can't have been bribes, and aren't you a Good Patriotic Briton who wants British sailors in peril at sea to be able to radio for help? Prove it. Cover for us or else. Probably rhymes with Epstein's fixer in France being present US Secretary of State Blinken's dad.
Probably made the establishment a little more willing to use cynical appeals to patriotism to cover their corrupted incompetence. WWI probably would have started anyway.