Check this out:

Apparently this is a utility that searches the Internet for documents similar to what a student turns in. In this case it pulled up one of mine as a possible source for this gal’s paper

MyDropBox Originality Report

Now she is innocent of course but this looks pretty sophisticated to me. The jist of the two pieces is the same but there is no matching text. I’m impressed. You?

I’ll tell you, this story upset me greatly. Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj doctored photos of the bombing in Beirut and it just sickens me. Because photoshopping the images to be more dramatic and then publishing them worldwide has the effect of inflaming the situation. As if people aren’t stirred up enough as it is.

And I thought of Pluto’s transit through Sagittarius. The shadow side (Pluto) of publishing (Sadge). And it made me wonder how common this is. Surely he’s not the only one.

And I thought of it in terms of another Pluto in Sadge phenomenon, the doping of athletes. Barry Bonds and the Floyd Landis and others, in the Tour De France. We have learned as a collective that doping is widespread. We are aware of this hidden, shadow side (Pluto) of sports (Sagittarius).

So what about the journalism (Sagittarius)? Will we discover this is the tip of the iceberg as far as manipulated images go? I wouldn’t be surprised. This bastard was making his career off the blood of others. What’s more repugnant than that? And as for war images in general, hey! Why put yourself in danger to get the shot when you whip up something in photoshop?

It smacks of Kaavya Viswanathan and other plagiarizers in recent history. Why do your own writing when you can use someone else’s and just slap your name on?

Click here for extensive report on the photos from The Jawa Report.
Click here for more on how Pluto’s transit through Sagittarius is manifesting in the collective from me.

And what do you think? Are these pictures an isolated incident? Or no?

More allegations of plagiarism have surfaced. She’s lost her book deal and her movie deal with Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks.

I sure would like to see this girl’s chart. If anyone can turn her data up, please share! Can you imagine what she must feel like right now? She’s obviously got Sagittarius, (luck, publishing, bigger than life) but I wonder if she has Capricorn as well. Talk about taking a fall!

OUCH!

Here’s the astrology - the original post, Pluto in Sagittarius…

And I’ll ask again. Can she recover? Will we see her on the talk show circuit?? What do you think?

The Double Libra surfaces, here. I think cooooool she did. People amaze me. I love this blog.

Also, Lise commented on the Pluto in Sagittarius post, regarding the Harvard student/author/plagiarizer that it would interesting to see what form her rebirth took, as if “rebirth” is a given. I don’t think it is. Many people go down and stay down. Rising from the ashes takes skills. And as an example, check OJ Simpson. Did he have a rebirth? Hell no.

When I think of OJ, I think of my mother. She used to say you’re in big trouble “when decent people don’t want anything to do with you.” And I think that describes OJ.

But back to Kaavya Viswanathan, I do think the story is very interesting, as is what people have to sat about it, here (blogcritics), here (blogcritics, and in contrast to the Frey debacle) and here (Miss Snark!)

The story about the Harvard student / author who plagiarized is textbook manifestation of Pluto in Sagittarius.

She starts out all bigger than life (Sagittarius) with her publishing (Sagittarius) contract. She’s a foreign (Sagittarius) student at a university (Sagittarius) and then her shadow is exposed and BAM. Into the depths she falls (Pluto).

Will she come back up? What do you think?