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Fighting is taking place in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in eastern Libya, with eye-w NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION 31 March 2011
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO. French: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique Nord (OTAN)), also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The NATO headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, and the organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.For its first few years, NATO was not much more than a political association. However, the Korean War galvanized the member states, and an integrated military structure was built up under the direction of two U.S. supreme commanders. The first NATO Secretary General, Lord Ismay, famously stated the organization's goal was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down". Doubts over the strength of the relationship between the European states and the United States ebbed and flowed, along with doubts over the credibility of the NATO defence against a prospective Soviet invasion—doubts that led to the development of the independent French nuclear deterrent and the withdrawal of the French from NATO's military structure from 1966.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the organization became drawn into the Balkans while building better links with former potential enemies to the east, which culminated with several former Warsaw Pact states joining the alliance in 1999 and 2004. On 1 April 2009, membership was enlarged to 28 with the entrance of Albania and Croatia. Since the 11 September attacks, NATO has attempted to refocus itself to new challenges and has deployed troops to Afghanistan as well as trainers to Iraq.The Berlin Plus agreement is a comprehensive package of agreements made between NATO and the European Union on 16 December 2002. With this agreement the EU was given the possibility to use NATO assets in case it wanted to act independently in an international crisis, on the condition that NATO itself did not want to act—the so-called "right of first refusal". Only if NATO refused to act would the EU have the option to act. The combined military spending of all NATO members constitutes over 70% of the world's defence spending. The United States alone accounts for 43% of the total military spending of the world and the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy account for a further 15%.
NATO came into being as a result of a treaty signed on 4 April 1949, at 4.52pm in Washington, DC. However, according to Nick Campion's Book of World Horoscopes, the organisation officially came into being at 11.42am on 24 August 1949, following the ratification of the treaty by France, the final country to do so. President Truman signed the document bringing the treaty into force. The chart on the left is set for that date and time.So what is significant about the chart that might suggest a coming together of many countries for mutual defence? Interestingly, Jupiter as the singleton planet at the base of the chart, trines Mercury in the 11th house and opposes Mars in the 9th house. This aspect is very much connected into a contract signed by many nations in order to preserve their country's freedom. Neptune is on the Mercury/asc midpoint and indicates the opening up to the opinions of others.Saturn is conjunct the Sun and the Moon. All square Chiron and sextile Uranus, which squares Venus. This is an indication of painful past experiences having shown the need for an international group of people to unite in order to protect each other against sudden enemy attack. Last but not least, Pluto (conjunct the Mc) rules the ascendant and is on the Saturn/Mars midpoint, emphasising its mighty visible power. The trine from Pluto to the Moon's Node suggests that this power can only be used with the agreement of the nations involved. L.S.
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