Last things first. A number of my readers this year have been asking if I wish to reverse myself on the following forecast made in Predictions for 2010, signed off on 1 November 2009: “The Israeli Netanyahu government signaled after the Hebrew New Year (Yom Kippur) that it would hold to an end-of-year deadline before considering a military option to put out the reactor fires of the Iranian nuclear program which it suspects is a front for building a nuclear arsenal to eventually match their own. President Obama himself has not taken a military option with Iran off the table…

“Will the new year bring warplanes from Israel setting fire to Iranian nuclear facilities?

“No.

“I am happy to announce some breathtaking positive news. The window for an Israeli-Iranian war has closed in 2010 and it won’t open again for the next five years.”

I am told by some of you that futurologists (those who extrapolate future events from measurable trends) believe it obvious that war between Iran and Israel is imminent. They cite Saudi Arabia granting Israel permission to use a narrow corridor of air space near its northern frontiers to send waves of jet bombers on a short and faster root to blast Iranian nuclear installations than around the Arabian Peninsula. Just last week the Egyptian government allowed two small Israeli naval vessels transit through the Suez Canal to the Red Sea. Egypt had earlier allowed an Israeli U-Boat (a German built Dolphin Class submarine) passage to and from the Persian Gulf via Suez. This U-Boat is believed to carry cruise missiles tipped with nuclear warheads. An Israeli sub off the Iranian shores of the Persian Gulf, along with surface vessels in tow with US Naval units aims to show that Israel can extend its naval reach right to Iran’s doorstep. It sends a message that at any moment Israel can launch a retaliatory nuclear strike on Iranian cities and nuclear reactors with atomic weapons Israel does not officially says it has.

Is war imminent? Has my oracle got it wrong as some of you wag in the comments sections of my blog?

Here is my answer: There will be no war between Iran and Israel before the mid-decade.

All the saber rattling, all the little flotilla posturing and certainly the air space permission of the Saudis is not something new. The Saudis regularly renew Israel’s permission to fly their warplanes over their airspace since July 2009. Secret deals by Mossad’s spy chief Meir Dagan or covert arrangements by a succession of CIA chiefs with the Saudis, Iraqis or the Turks to provide their airspace to Israeli surgical strikes on Iran have been either under discussion or secretly approved ever since the Bush administration started drawing up plans for a strike on Iran after they invaded Iraq in 2003. Though a new man sits in G.W. Bush’s seat in the Oval Office President Obama is not completely closing the door to the last administration’s Neo-Conservative strategic agenda. Plans to take Iran down have ever had bipartisan support in US Congress as far back as 1992 when Paul Wolfowitz authored and Dick Cheney edited the first essays on how American foreign policy needed to define and depose new threats from rogue regimes in a post-Soviet, post-Cold War. The idea to strike Iran was floated around in Washington long before these and other apostles of Neo-Conservatism crowded the G.W. Bush cabinet. You will find that many purveyors of Neo-Conservatism are also staunch Zionists even possessing duel citizenship. During the Bush era, Neo-Con think tanks were openly advising Washington “and” Jerusalem with their expert political and military scenarios engaging Iran.

As far back as early 2007, I published an eBook collecting many of Nostradamus’ astrological and prescient visions about a future war with Iran. (See Nostradamus Iran predictions.) I took the reader through an evolution of Neo-Con thinking from 1992 up to early 2007 detailing the intimate connection and shared intent of right wing US and right wing Zionist leaders and policy makers, attempting to forge a US foreign policy that matched the aims of Israeli foreign policy and strategic agendas. One cannot blame Israel, a small country in a hostile region, for seeking to dictate US policy. It is no different really than its chief rival, Iran, trying to influence the policy and strategic goals of Israel’s enemies surrounding her borders.

I elaborated in Nostradamus: the War with Iran that Israel has long kept at least one of its Dolphin Class submarines on station 24/7 in the Persian Gulf since 2006, after Iranian President Ahmadinejad made his notorious statement that Israel should be erased from the map of history. Moreover, though it may be news to many of you, the fact is the Saudis fear and loathe the Iranian Ayatollah regime far more than they do the right-wing Zion-supremacist regime of Netanyahu. In my eBook and blogs over the years, I have described large-scale Saudi civil defense drills regularly practiced in tandem with Israeli drills since 2005 onwards to rehearse national responses to retaliatory Iranian missile attacks after an Israeli air strike. Some of these Saudi rehearsals openly prepared fallout drills for towns and massive oil distillation facilities in the northeastern corner of the kingdom. They are thought to prepare for the eventuality that a cratered Iranian reactor dome should send plumes of radioactive clouds across the Persian Gulf from the nearby Iranian nuclear facility at Brushehr, scheduled for activation in the summer of 2010.

Let me make this clear, Israeli demonstrations of planes, vessels in Suez shipping lanes and Dolphin submarine cruise missile nukes on auto mobile launch command mode does not construe imminent war. These actions are a kind of “language”, albeit brinkman bunt, directed at Iran’s regime to contain it in a regional Iranian-Israeli Cold War. The Egyptians have a treaty with Israel for decades granting them access to the Suez Canal as long as their warships do not strike Egypt. Egypt’s Sunni Muslim population and Sunni President Mubarak is no friend of Shiite Persians constructing a nuclear arsenal. Neither are the Saudis. Granting Israel attack jets passage through their airspace sends a strong signal to the Iranian regime to forego further work on their nuclear weapons program because the Shiite Persian Muslim missiles pointed at a Jewish State will just as easily be pointed at Sunni Arab states requiring the Saudis saddle up their own nuclear weapons program to deter Iran.

Iran’s nuclear weapon aspirations mind you are more bluff than solid fact. Meir Dagan, head of Mossad since 2002, has stated clearly in early 2009 his belief that Iran will not have the means to build and deliver an atomic bomb until the middle of this decade.

President Obama is not seeking the military option just yet and will continue pressuring sanctions and tacit support of Saudi and Israeli demonstrations of strength. Unless the Netanyahu regime has lost its marbles and are aiming to take out the reactor at Bushehr before it goes online later this summer, this could not be a worse time to unilaterally strike Iran. Relations with Israel’s best regional friend, Turkey, are on the rocks because of a heavy-handed suppression of blockade-runners into Gaza this June. Israel’s alliance with the United States is not in good shape. It is time to mend bridges with Israel’s only real superpower friend in the world, not burn them further with a Bushehr military blunder.

One reads in Israeli newspapers a growing call to war against Iran and in some cases there are Zionist zealots openly writing that Israel striking Iran and thus becoming isolated from support by the rest of the world fulfills prophecies concerning the advent of the Jewish messiah, thus worldwide repudiation as a militant pariah is happily lobbied.

Prime Minister Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Lieberman might sympathize with such extreme views of Jewish eschatology but I do not think they are stupid enough to go it alone solely on anticipated divine approval or invitation of messianic advent. (See more about prophecies of a Jewish messiah). The Israelis will give Obama time because they have no other option short of going to war without US support. They will wait to see if a more sympathetic and hawkish Republican will unseat Democrat Obama in 2012. They know as I know that is a long shot. Mossad and the Netanyahu regime believe Obama will tire of diplomatic efforts sometime in his second term after years of getting nowhere. Then Israel will get the green light to strike Iran just before it becomes capable of constructing a workable warhead by mid-decade. They might not need jets by that time. I see the walls of Iranian reactors falling in a rain of Jericho III ballistic missiles.

The basis for this mid-decade time window relies on an interpretation of Nostradamus’ clearly defined astrological window for war with Iran.

In Nostradamus: The War with Iran, the time for possible air strikes has many astrological references. One of these suggests in Century 4 Quatrain 67, that:

L’an que Saturne & Mars esgaux combust,
L’air fort seiché, longue traiection:
Par feux secrets, d’ardeur grand lieu adust
Peu pluye, vent chault, guerres, incursions.

In the year when Saturn and Mars are equally fiery,
The air is very dry, a long comet:
From hidden fires a great place burns with heat,
Little rain, hot wind, wars and raids.

The Latin combustus adds apocalyptic nuance to the old French combust. That which is equally fiery equally burns, consumes, ruins and destroys equally two aggressors — perhaps Israel and Iran in a future war. The old French traiection is from the Latin trajectio: describing a shooting star, meteor, or a comet. A missile in modern terms. Hidden fires inside Israeli nuclear warheads on Jericho III ballistic missiles or on cruise missiles launched by Dolphin Class submarines burn the far larger target, Iran (great place) with atomic heat. The Latin adustus specifically means burned or scorched by the sun from the French incursions. In other words, raids, surprise attacks or offensives. This not only implies a surprise Pear Harbor-like strike coming from Israel but also in modern terms an Iranian backed terrorist attack using either a radiological dirty or an atomic weapon on Tel Aviv warranting Israel’s full retaliatory strike of biblical proportions. (Think Amalek.)

Nostradamus loved double entendre so we cannot rule out his describing a future time indicating global climate warming so extreme in such marginally arable regions like the Middle East that war comes from regional disputes over water rights. Even the Book of Revelation (Chapter 9, verses 14-15) describes the final battle of Armageddon taking place when the Euphrates River dries up. Currently water flow in the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers falls inexorably towards critical levels through Syria and Iraq because Turkey dams their headwaters to quench the thirst of its own growing water needs. I have been warning about the threat of Armageddon when the waters dry, since 1990, see Millennium Prophecies. Such a collapse of Middle Eastern river systems or further overuse of the Jordan River by Israel and Jordan, or Palestinians and Jews exhausting the West Bank aquifers, could make climate change related wars there just a few years ahead. The 2020s will certainly see its share of resource and climate change wars when Uranus begins a long earth-and-civilization shaking transit of Taurus whilst Pluto shifts its generational upheavals by 2024 to violent and sudden revolution at the beginning of a long, 20-year transit through the sign of Aquarius.

The most important element of Nostradamus’ prophecy is the astrological dating suggested in line one: “In the year when Saturn and Mars are equally fiery.” That means the two planets are in fire signs, preferably the same fire signs. The aspect was active during a window for war that closed when Saturn finished its transit in the fire sign of Leo in September 2007.

Three years ago I explained on page 123 of Nostradamus: The War with Iran, the next time war threatens Iran when Mars and Saturn are “equally fiery”:

“Mars will enter Leo when Saturn is in Sagittarius on far off September 2015. They will not share the same fire sign until the following year. Retrogrades of both planets make for the next rare and unusually magnified interlude of equal fire signs of war from March through May 2015 and again from August through September 2016. It is possible the scenarios of war with Iran written in this book in the spring of 2007 may better reflect a US-Iranian conflict joined in battle nearly a decade from now.”

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Now to first things last…Mabus

The other stir of excitement among Nostradamus prophecy watchers last week was President Obama appointing his current Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus to head the commission looking into what went wrong causing the BP Deepwater Horizon rig fire, sinking and catastrophic oil spill. He is said to become the “Gulf Czar” responsible for the oil slick cleanup and restoration of the US Gulf of Mexico coastline, fisheries and tourist industries. Once again, this capable former governor of Mississippi and able US ambassador to Saudi Arabia rises into the limelight of public attention begging for a prophetic explanation. Ray Mabus just so happens to have a surname that is an exact match for the one Nostradamus uses to mask the name of his foreseen third and final Antichrist. (For more about the first and the second, see Antichrist.)

The night I appeared on Coast to Coast AM last Wednesday (16 June 2010) was alive with questions about Mabus’ appointment, causing host George Noory and me to spend the bulk of the second hour of three discussing what the appointment of Secretary Mabus to Gulf Czar Mabus might foretell.

Here again is the famous Nostradamus prophecy from Century 2 Quatrain 62:

Mabus puis tost alors mourra, viendra,
De gens & bestes vne horrible defaite:
Puis tout à coup la vengeance on verra,
Cent, main, soif, faim, quand courra la comete.

Mabus very soon then will die, [then] will come,
A horrible undoing of people and animals,
At once one will see vengeance,
One hundred powers, thirst, famine, when the comet will pass.

A full reading of all the possible interpretations of who Mabus is and what are multiple inclinations of interpretation of the clues describing his fate, can be found in an eBook comprising 25 years of being on the trail of the Antichrist: See Nostradamus antichrist prophecies.

I will share this with you today. Whoever Mabus is, whether his true name hides in the right decoding of the anagram Mabus or if he is an actual man named “Mabus”, what follows in the quatrain are the consequences hatching out from his death: an unraveling of the world of people and animals. Global droughts and famines, a war of a hundred nations when a comet marks his passing or a comet-like missile falls from the sky launching the third world war.

Quatrain 77 of Century 8 takes up the story adding more details about Mabus as the Third Antichrist, the link being that Mabus, like 8 Q77′s Third Antichrist are soon and early on annihilated causing apocalyptic consequences:

L’antechrist trois bien tost annichiliez,
Vingt & sept ans sang durera sa guerre:
Les heretiques morts, captifs, exilez,
Sang corps humain eau rogie gresler terre.

The Third Antichrist very soon annihilated,
Twenty-seven years his bloody war will last.
The heretics [are] dead, captives exiled,
Blood-soaked human bodies, and a reddened, icy hail covering the earth.

It is a heavy trip to unload on a man the label Antichrist who may by freak coincidence appear to be named outright by Nostradamus in a prophecy written over 4.5 centuries ago. It is not surprising therefore, that Ray Mabus first came to my attention in the mid-1990s when President Clinton picked him to be his ambassador to Saudi Arabia. No wonder many readers wrote me about the appointment. A guy named Mabus posted to the Middle East — the very region from which many believed the Third Antichrist either is born or to which he enters from the West. One then anticipates his fall through assassination as first casualty in a 27-year war, causing an unraveling or collapse of civilization and of ecological balance (a horrible undoing of people and animals).

Back in 1995, I answered those many letters with the following statement in Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies (published in 1997). “At this time I don’t sense anything malevolent about the ambassador, but this gives me the opportunity to look at yet another angle to the Mabus enigma. The ambassador may not be the Antichrist but a victim of such. Since the November 1995 car bombing of a US-run military training facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has ended its long exclusion from terrorist acts. From now on Ambassador Mabus has a dangerous assignment and I wish him well. I would not like to see him become the target of a future Gavrilo Princip and have his assassination trigger World War III.”

The best-laid names in Antichrist detective work can go nowhere. By the time the book was finally published with my observations, Ambassador Mabus had left Saudi Arabia without fanfare or prophetic significance, retiring from public service in 1996. Yet a decade later, he came back to my attention in late 2007 as Senator Barack Obama’s unpaid expert on Arab, Middle Eastern relations as well as the head of Obama’s Democratic primary campaign in Mississippi in 2008.

At that time I made the following prediction in my eBook Nostradamus and the Antichrist, Code Named MABUS: “If Obama wins the presidency, the handsome and engaging Raymond Edwin Mabus may serve in his cabinet. Perhaps he will return as some special envoy to the Middle East and start doomsday tongues to wag about the return of the man who is Mabus to the region of the Third Antichrist.”

President Obama rewarded Ray Mabus with the cabinet level post of Secretary of the US Navy. Though not yet a special envoy in name to the Middle East, Mabus at present oversees 900,000 US Navy and Marine service personnel, a majority of which have been deployed to the Middle East. Mabus has frequently returned to that theater. Moreover, Obama has made him a special envoy for the Gulf Region’s recovery once (if) the BP oil spill gushing a volcanic flood of between 60,000 to what some now believe is 100,000 barrels of oil a day is plugged. It is doubtful to me that he can fulfill both jobs effectively at once and we may be seeing the able Secretary Mabus suffer in his work from yet another botched executive decision from a charming president who has come to his destiny too soon with hardly any tested executive skills prior to his election in 2008.

For the record, I pe

Ray Mabus inspecting Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding in Peascaqoula, Miss.

rsonally do not believe Secretary Mabus is the Antichrist. I think the name is a code hiding the real name of one Nostradamus intended. Still, as a scholar of prophecy, I must look beyond my own personal feelings and paint a larger prophetic picture. As you will find out by reading my eBook on Nostradamus’ Antichrist prophecies, they are clues to a mystery with many leads heavily pointing to someone from the Middle East as prime candidate. Moreover, I explain a possibility never before published. Nostradamus may have been confused by what he saw while entranced. Mabus and the Third Antichrist may be two different people in a destined collision. Not only does Ray Mabus have his name but Barack Obama’s surname easily code crunches out of Mabus if it is an anagram, as the book demonstrates. So also does his chief jihadist nemesis, Usama bin Laden.

Osama versus Obama, the latter of which has special envoy to the Gulf and Secretary of a heavily engaged Navy in the Middle East named Mabus. It is enough to confuse and misread the signs of any augury.

Indeed Ray Mabus, a physically fit and mentally sharp man in his early 60s may someday become a president of the United States. Anything is possible in this decade defined by Pluto in Capricorn and Uranus in explosive Aries transits. I personally do not consider him an Antichrist figure, but he keeps coming back into view and now in his most significant, worldwide-scrutinized role to date. The prophecies of Nostradamus focus on key events and people that can change the course of destiny. I will and I think all Nostradamus watchers will have to regard the progress of Raymond Edwin Mabus more closely than ever before in the coming years.

John Hogue

(22 June 2010)

Pluto and its moons: Charon, Hydra and Nix.

When astrology reads history’s inclination through the stars, the planet Uranus, ruler of the 20-century long Aquarian Age in which we are gradually entering, stands for individual and/or collective revolutionary change if favorably aspected with other signs and planetary configurations. Uranus defines an era’s zeitgeist of freedom and responsibility or licentiousness and false entitlement if negatively aspected. Uranus represents either change toward reform or a descent into chaos. While Uranus and other planets perform their influential roles, they do so underpinned by astrology’s farthest flung planet with Astrology’s farthest perspective, its largest overview. Spring unexpectedly as it might out of Uranian slogans that guided Barack Obama into the White House, Change we can Believe in will become changes that are permanent according to Pluto’s transit of the sign Capricorn, defining a generational era depending on how they are colored by the ruler of human collective transformation.

Shakespeare wrote, “All the world is a stage and we are but the players.” If the bard of Stratford on Avon had been an astrologer, he might say instead, “All the planetary players over stand and often overstep to their own peril a stage that Pluto designs.” The “stage,” or better, the “age” is the thing. Today we stand upon Pluto’s “age” of Capricorn design, one of 12 ages made by the 12-to-30 year transit of Pluto through the 12 signs of the Zodiac.

Let us review the last 71 years of astrology-staged activity under Pluto.

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If our performing planets bombed during Pluto’s sojourn through Leo (1939-1957), they bombed atomically when Pluto made the Leo “sun” split its atom on the earth. If they got “bonged” during Pluto’s transit through Virgo (1957-1972), they did so psychedelically, as Virgo’s mass interests in mind-body health and discernment sought to expand mass consciousness in the 1960s and early 1970s. Pluto in Virgo gave birth to a collective awareness as well that health of the planet should be considered. A sense of collective ecological responsibility emerged for the first time across the world in green movements, green parties, conceiving at its closing curtain eco-message movies like Soylent Green, and rock operas like Olias of Sunhillow.

Pluto in Libra (1972-1983) put all planets on a razor’s edge egging on nations pitted in a Cold War nuclear arms race to find pause and reflection. Thus humanity moved collectively towards Détente and nuclear disarmament treaties. China made the first jump of its great leap forward out of ruinous Maoist cultural revolutionary chaos to an ordered, breathtaking, free-market transformation we see culminating today.

Pluto got dangerously Scorpionic (1983-1995). Regenerate or die, my world. Have that Cold War go hot or die with a whimper and a Berlin Wall falling.

Pluto shot its arrow of Sagittarius (1995-2008) and we all saw its prey falling down in boiling debris clouds as mass mind moved by Pluto to the darker side of Sagittarius potential: religious extremism, Moral Majorities, al-Qaeda shooting World Trade Center towers with hijacked jet arrows. God talking to presidents of the US and Iran. The Middle East leaders wax eschatological while unilateral American Crusaders in Iraq dodged the IEDs, because God told Bush to invade and he invaded. God told Ahmadinejad of Iran to ponder rubbing out Israel from the map of history. God told Netanyahu to pass along the message to Iran: Think Amalek, boobie. An allusion to divinely inspired genocide that bade the Hebrews unleash one of history’s most successful holocausts killing every last man, woman, child, chicken, cow and goat of the Amalekites. Well, as those of you who read your Bible know, Saul took the animals as reward, angering Yehovah, but that is another story.

Pluto had Doomsday postponed when it entered Capricorn in late 2008 a short time after Barack Obama was elected president of the United States on a Pluto-in-Sagittarian platform of sweeping change we can believe. (Uranus just digs that to no end!). However, belief needs the “meat” in Capricorn, sign of the Goat. The first thing Pluto did to get a planet’s goat was cast new mass moods to play with Uranus’ head, Saturn’s limits and funk up Jupiter’s avuncular.

Barack Obama’s popular call for Uranian change pitted itself against the ruler of the status quo (Saturn) in opposition. This Uranus (in mutable and dreamy we can “believy” Pisces) opposing Saturn (in mutable and sometimes fickle Virgo, the harvester of sweet or bitter lessons) is the astrological aspect defining Obama’s first term in office. The opposition was active in the final weeks of his campaign and glittering in night skies above the floodlights of Chicago’s Grant Park victory rally on the globally warmed autumnal election night on which he won the dream presidency (4 November).

The Uranus-Saturn opposition later re-engaged its bout of change wrestling opposition on Obama’s Inauguration Day, 20 January 2009, that at least on the surface and despite Saturn’s grapple, brought to America one of its greatest changes: an African American sworn in as President. Add to that a complete break with Saturnian status quo, breaking the East of the Rockies US birth bias. Obama is the first native-born US Westerner since Nixon; moreover, a native as far West as you can go and remain in a US state unless you were an Aleut hailing from Kiska, AK.

Say “HI” to the African American surfer dude from Honolulu Hawaii. What could be more Uranian “blow your mind” than that?

Yes, yes, I anticipate emails from Birthers in my Internet community who claim Obama waves a bogus Hawaiian birth certificate. Some distinctly racist John Bircher birthers wave their own spurious Internet-manufactured CGI induced evidence of Kenyan certificates with attachments of same soon to flood my inbox once again. Either way, Obama in office is a change in electing the usual Caucasian Wasps East-of-the-Rockies habit, is it not?

So why has Obama’s staged change drama often found itself awkwardly stumbling and progressing with difficulty on History’s odeum? Because history has redesigned the floorboards and moved the floodlights since Obama won his presidential audition. Pluto’s set design is no longer the Sagittarian one he was first familiar with during the campaign and for most of the years of his ambitious rise to prominence since November 1995. The play’s the thing on Pluto’s new stage and it ain’t set up no more for Sagittarian flights of aspiration. Shot your bolt, booby, when it comes to the ambitious can-thinking they can do the president and make the dream so. Why?

Because Pluto, history’s stage manager of civilization’s twelve step transformation plan through the signs of the Zodiac in every 248-year-long orbit, redesigned History’s stage after a 13-year transit of Sagittarius ending 28 November 2008, a few weeks after Obama’s election victory. Pluto’s collective unconscious powers to degenerate or regenerate civilization will henceforth direct history’s show in the theater marquee of Capricorn. The Capricorn season will last far longer than Obama’s standup political show of 4 to 8 years. It will not be over from the time of this blog’s posting in June 2010 for another 14 years. Pluto in 2024 will renovate history’s Bijou from down-to-business Capricorn to the electric blue colors of avant guard-yourself-everybody Aquarius.

The last time Pluto stage-managed History in a Capricorn theater was 1762 through 1777. Most notably running the “show” called the secular Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason. The closing act opened the American Revolution. The birth of America, and its Declaration of Independence is a “To Thee I Sing” musical comedy that inspired the direction of history coming full cycle at the end of the era of modern democracy as we knew it! Now we are back again on Capricorn’s Plutonian stage 248 years later. Are we ready to wager a new power shifting age?

What is listed on the program for this new generation-lasting epic?

An urgent need for a new age of Reason. A profound need for a new American Revolution.

Pluto guides Capricorn mass movements towards redefining political and economic structures. The power brokers are no longer politicians as 248 years ago but the captains of ambition and the kings of corporate industry. The “status” in status quo will pit the world’s people against a new aristocracy.

The new king George’s that do not hear the will of the people come to America not as royalty of blood but rich in profit royalty from the blood line of buck. The English “king” who is not listening to an angry American populace is a person like Tony Hayward, the British CEO of a multi-billion-dollar global conglomerate, British Petroleum. And if mad King George this time around is played by Tony Haywire and does not put a cork in his hole, the American people and president just might rise up in arms once again.

Power elites, like the last Pluto-in-Capricorn transit, will try to control an emergent desire for freedom, independence and popular democracy with suppressive conservatism. Only this time the struggle has taken on a global context. The challenge for democracy of nations this Pluto-in-Capricorn cycle will be a struggle for a workable global model for an emerging global civilization. It can degenerate into a global police state or between now and 2024 we may witness and directly engage in a regeneration of the American dream of democracy on a global scale.

Global government, like it or not, is an irresistible destiny pushed by Pluto in the era of its Capricorn transit. It will happen. Try then to drop your horse-and-buggy brained illusions that the car of this future can run out of gas. Train your genius, your guts and perhaps even risk your lives to be a part of a global and hopefully peaceful revolution against a gathering CEOlygarchy that wants to King George you all under its corporate global empire.

You need a world government. Oh, yes you do! One for, of and by the people, not Korporate Kings.

A world parliament is your destiny. Postpone it, sabotage it, and hand your world to a corporate global dictatorship therefore. Then watch the relatively mild bloodshed of the American Revolution turn into the blood bath and chaos of Pluto’s return to Aquarius in 2024, where it once sharpened guillotine blades in the terror of the French Revolution.

Upon this Plutonian Capricorn stage comes blonde Uranus prancing out of the wings in its transit of Aries starting at the end of last month. The astrological “hero” of our play, performs impetuous Siegfried pitted against a status quo Fafner dragon for the bulk of a decade. Uranus launches rebellion, new thinking and very likely, very soon, will upset systemic norms in political, social and economic structures. Uranus in Aries storms the lair of Pluto in Capricorn. Pluto can consort with conservative dragons hoarding tradition and habitual dysfunction like a greedy treasure piled and padlocked in a cave of dogma against change.

Siegfried-Uranus will have at you with sudden and surprising slices and stabs with needful sword. The dragon of old-style capitalism will be wounded. There will be economic meltdowns, as soon as autumn this year as forecasted in detail in Predictions for 2010. The dragon will bleed the red russet blood of Gulf of Mexican oil.

Uranus will rebel and Pluto in Capricorn will first suppress then later in the near decade battle with change, submit to transform the architecture of politics and commerce on a collective level bringing death and rebirth to civilization’s many systems of power. The dragons fall. There will happen a death of nation states reborn into the global village.

Pluto wrestling with Uranian rebellion throughout the coming decade can be seismic. The planet is interconnected with the will, collective mind and unconscious, massed psychic forces of humanity.

The shifting of great cycles of time such as we are enduring years before 2012 — and far beyond it into the 2020s — will not only cathart upheavals in human consciousness but un-hinge in great paroxysms the sky’s climate in storms and earth’s lands and oceans in temblors.

This July will see visited over our skies one of the most powerful astrological configurations in many decades. Jupiter (ruler of higher minded expansion or self-indulgent, self-righteousness) continues to magnify with either-or influence, Uranus (change or chaos) to which it is conjoined in the early degrees of the sign of Aries (new beginnings, enterprises, or hasty rushes to disaster, war).

Saturn enters our stage on wings of Virgo to tarry for a two-year transit of Libra — the sign of balance or what is out of balance exposed. Saturn is in a cardinal sign now, like Uranus and Jupiter. Read therefore a dramatic test of leadership or lack thereof in history’s pending summer of crises and challenges.

Saturn (ruler of limits and reality checks) in July will return to its Obama-Administration-defining opposition with Uranus (Change versus Status Quo resistance). This time they no longer tug at each other in the theoretical, abstract, mutable signs of the Obama regime’s birth, Pisces and Virgo. Progressed to Cardinal signs Aries and Libra, they demand an end to dreaming and talking. Time to LEAD. This goes for all leadership cliques and aristocracies — political, business or religious.

LEAD. Otherwise suffer Pluto’s Capri-cornering the world into a trap of structural degeneration into Uranian chaos and Saturnian stalemates when the blows of crises come falling, starting in July, and pummel the world with economic, natural and seismic thrusts and rolls through the autumn of 2010.

Starting this summer we will see what mettle our leaders and the peoples of entire nations have. The tables in Pluto’s drama are turned for now against progress. They tilt to leaders and nations applying old-think and past solutions that do not solve our future’s unique and global problems. In early July, Uranus goes retrograde, retreating backwards from progressive change whilst Saturn’s status quo forces have advantage. Uranus will be retreating from change back in mid-August into the retrograde illusions where words trump action in the dreaminess of Pisces until December. Then collective urges for change move forward once again and keep moving forward out of Pisces back into enterprising Aries in March 2011, and will not look back, staying in Aries for nearly a decade hence until it enters Taurus for good in 2019.

Why does Pluto decide the summer, which way the rope tugs in the Uranian-Saturnian pull? Because it will be hovering in Capricorn EXACTLY 90 degrees above the Uranus-Saturn opposition through August. It will point its sword of Damocles hanging down from heaven as the vertical line of a grand inverted T Square of the Uranus and Saturn opposition.

Earthquakes are coming to the polity and the economy. They will ultimately expose systemic cancers in the structures that can no longer sustain our advancing civilization towards its new global model. We are already seeing the influence of this grand square in the bungling of national and corporate response to the ongoing and what could readily become the largest oil spill disaster in history.

We await hurricanes in the Gulf. So far, the hurricane season follows what I predicted for 2010: Hot but dry weather and generally without tropical storms in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. No storms so far at the time of this writing but that could change. A pulse of thunderstorms out of Western Africa crosses the tropical waters of the Atlantic two months early. Will they congeal and become the first major hurricane?

The season is young and it may harbor fewer hurricanes as I predicted last year. I foresaw only one dire supterstorm hitting land in the 2010 Hurricane Season. It would only take one “Hurricane Andrew” to bring hydrocarbon rains and oil-clogged storm surges on shore. May it not hit the Gulf; however, I think the storm I foresee will track to a landfall somewhere on the Eastern Texas-Western Louisiana coast. That might miss the oil slick even though it would devastate the thickest population of refineries and oil storage areas in North America; ergo, a possible cause for triple-digit a barrel costs this autumn subsequently ushering another world economic crisis.

Catch my 3-hour interview with George Noory on Coast to Coast AM, Wednesday, starting 11 pm Pacific time. This blog is but a taste of what we will cover about the upcoming and volatile summer of 2010.

Link to Coast to Coast AM for more details.

There will be earthquakes this summer, perhaps some of the greatest recorded by modern instruments. Prepare for them in Southern California, off the Oregon Coast. Brace for them in China and along the Himalayan mountain fringes and continental shelves of the Indian subcontinent. See a revolution suppressed in Iran coming up earthquakes. Watch for the continued creep of major temblors northward on the eastern half of the Pacific Ring of Fire from Chile all the way to Los Angeles.

Also, note the activity of planets. It is with shocking regularity that great earthquakes and tsunamis happen when Uranus is in square or opposition to other major planets and often in earth signs (signs of earthquakes). Observe the following list of great and devastating quakes of the 20th and 21st centuries. They are evidence that the ways of Uranus conjoining Jupiter, opposing Saturn while in its Grand T Square with Pluto are to be carefully watched and thus all should be prepared for seismic fireworks beginning sometime not long after the firework shows of the American Fourth of July Holiday:

Great Kanto (Tokyo) Quake, 1 September 1923, Magnitude 7.9
The Sun was in Virgo (Earth Sign, earthquakes) opposed Uranus in Pisces.

Honshu, Japan, 2 March 1933, Magnitude 8.4
Uranus was in Aries, as it is again.

Great Chilean Quake, 22 May 1960, magnitude 9.5
The most powerful quake ever recorded by instruments happened when the Sun just transited out of Taurus (earth sign, quakes) with a near square of Uranus in Leo.

Great Alaskan Quake, 27 March 1964 magnitude 9.3
Second largest quake ever seismically recorded happened when Uranus and Saturn were in opposing signs. This time switched from the present opposition with Saturn in Pisces and Uranus in Virgo (earth sign equals quakes!).

Tangshan, China, 27 July 1976, magnitude 7.5
Perhaps the greatest killer quake recorded in modern times with an unofficial death toll exceeding 600,000 souls. Earthquakes often happen around Full or New Moons. It was New Moon on the 27July 1976. Uranus was in Scorpio in an approximate square of Mars, Saturn and the Sun in Leo.

Sichuan, China, 12 May 2008, magnitude 7.9

Vast earth waves and mountain landslides leveled cities carrying off over 80,000 in Central China when Uranus and Saturn were in opposite signs (Pisces and Virgo).

Sumatran Quake and Indian Ocean Tsunami, 26 December 2004, magnitude 9.1 to 9.3

The second largest quake in history recorded by seismograph caused a death toll mostly from its generated tsunami that unofficially killed over 300,000 people. Uranus and Pluto were at work again in a near grand T Square of a near Uranus in Pisces opposition with Mars in Virgo and Pluto in Sagittarius. It would seem that quakes do not always happen exactly on grand T-squares but within the approximate time and location of these.

Chilean Quake, 27 February 2010, magnitude 8.8
The seventh largest earthquake ever measured shook the coastline off Concepción unleashing a killer tsunami into four Chilean fishing ports. A more moderate tsunami raced across the Pacific Ocean requiring millions of people around the Pacific Rim to evacuate their shores. It happened the day before a Full Moon in Virgo squared Jupiter in Pisces. Uranus was also 23 degrees Pisces.

The 2010 Volcano Eruption Swarm
Significant volcanic eruptions have already hit this year in Cost Rica, Equator, and the South Pacific Vanuatu Island chain. The most notable eruption belched weeks of ash from an Icelandic volcano in April that grounded air traffic across Europe for weeks. Uranus and Saturn were in near opposition at that time.

Man-made Volcanic Eruptions of 2010
On the 121st anniversary of Hitler’s birthday the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and burned causing a human-induced and ongoing volcanic eruption of oil poisoning the Gulf of Mexico. Guess what Uranus and Saturn were up to on Hitler’s birthday? They were within on degree of an EXACT opposition: Uranus 28 degrees Pisces. Saturn 29 degrees Virgo (an earth sign, as in volcanic).

I am sorry that my message today must be so long and so terrifying, but time is too short to parse these predictions out in the coming weeks. We must watch carefully and brace for Uranus in opposition to Saturn, for they are poised to up heave our summer hanging on Pluto’s grand square as catalyst.

The world of nature and climate must go to war against us because it cannot longer tolerate our locust-like growing host of wasteful consumers, progressing into the deepening mental static of global unconsciousness.

We are fast asleep and Mother Nature must shake us hard so that we can look anew beyond dreams and nightmares that define our sleep. The sleeper must mass awaken, demands Pluto, and perceive what it is to be human.

Death and resurrection is coming to what we once thought and habitually believed is truly of economic, social and spiritual value.

This summer begins a process that will last decades. We begin encountering what does not work and crumbles before our expectations of our leaders, our politics, our economic paradigms, and our social interactions. Our icons of belief stand on clay feet and come cracking down beginning this summer and throughout the 2020s and 2030s.

Putting it another way, humanity has been wearing masks of civilization and humanity at the cost of discovering their authentic humanity and civility of the heart. The coming times will suddenly knock our masks off many times. We will keep putting them back on again, and have them slapped off harder and harder until we wear naked our original face of true and otherwise hidden selves.

Let Uranus opposed Saturn Squared Pluto help you lose your mask so that you can see your “original face” — the one you had before you were born. The one you have now but have forgotten, even though there are meditation techniques I can share with you that could help you re-member, unite, with that original face you have ever-now and forever yours eternal.

Seek the original truth, solve the world’s problems with original genius and give birth to a new human civilization. The signs of summer will launch us.

The truth is that which works.

Gautama Buddha

Get to work! And Celebrate the human adventure.

John Hogue

(15 June 2010)

We are nearly half way through 2010 and as my eBooks posted from last year will detail, a more wild and transformative ride is coming for everyone in the latter half of 2010.

“Think Amalek”: Biblical Bluffs? (9 June 2009)

Friends,
I wrote this comment at a time when my “oracular” intuition went against the wind of global media forecasting a victory for Iranian reformer Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Even Iran watchers I deeply respect, such as Anglo-Iranian journalist Christiane Amanpour of CNN, seemed carried off by a case of journalistic myopia so prevalent in the Western press about how Iranians vote. Let me put it this way, if you only gauge the mood of the United States by what you see demonstrated in the streets of New York City, is your reading accurate?

Mass rallies of college students in the streets of the Iranian “New York”, its capital, Teheran, a city wherein you find most of the moderates of a country of 70 million people residing, may give off a spectacular and inspiring demonstration of an Obama-like change brewing in the land governed by a supreme council of strict Sharia law-abiding Ayatollahs. Teheran’s streets, however, are no less a marker of what a majority of people desire in Iran than demonstrations of Columbia University students in the streets of New York represent the will of people in rural America. Teheran, a vast and sprawling metropolis of 13.4 million, exceeds New York in population and comprises just under 20 percent of the country’s population and indeed a majority of its moderate voters. Bus yourself outside of northern Teheran, beyond its swank and liberal districts, affluent suburbs and universities and even before you exit the city’s southern half you enter Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Iran: the crowded tenements of the poor, the working classes. Venture beyond Teheran and you meet the rural silent majority of the supreme council of Ayatollahs: it is conservative, far right of religiously center and traditional. This too is predominantly Ahmadinejad-land.

In Teheran today and this evening thousands of students protest and riot in the streets in a level of violence not seen there in ten years. Mousavi cries election fraud and petitions the Grand Ayatollah and clergy in the religious capital of Iran, Qom, for a review of election results. Ahmadinejad speaks before the nation after being officially deemed “victor” 24 hours after the polls closed even though the Islamic Republic’s constitution by law cannot make an election count official for three days after polls close. Ahmadinejad tonight played a good politician: put on his best squinting feral smile and promised the usual bromides of ending corruption, taking Iran forward not backward, hearing the will of the people, blah blah… There was one zinger chased with totalitarian actions. He complained about the unprecedented attempt of worldwide media to influence the elections as Facebook, Skype and most other Internet links to the outside world mysteriously shut down within Iran.

The leadership of the Revolutionary Guards has alluded to worries that the loser, Mousavi and his movement, so dependent on these internetworking tools, might escalate their protest into some velvet glove-like revolution, akin to those popular uprisings in 1990 that took down many Eastern European communist governments at the end of the cold war with the help of the media.

Despite the totalitarian moves of Ahmadinejad the day after his election, I will once again go against popular conclusions for the prophetic record. More than that, I will grind harder against the roughed grain of popular expectations of moderates in and outside of Iran who wanted to see the Iranian “Obama” as Mousavi was called bring a change revolution in Iran:

Ahmadinejad did not steal the election. He won the popular vote and handily. The unprecedented turnout favored him.

It would be good for Amanpour and other Iran watchers see Iran from beyond the urban, affluent, educated and moderate veil of Teheran’s educated middle class and upscale millions to the tens of millions of poor, peasant-rural, fundamentalist leaning Iranians of the countryside and other cities.

Mousavi may petition clerics in Qom, but remember the bombshell revelation Ahmadinejad delivered in the midst of a heated nationally televised debate with Mousavi earlier this week. Ahmadinejad said he was campaigning against more than Mousavi, he said the Supreme Ayatollah Khamenei also campaigned against his reelection.

Khamenei is the real power in Iran. It is no secret that he personally does not like Ahmadinejad. If Iranian governance from the black robed top Ayatollah was so impregnable and dictatorial as many Western reporters like to say, then how do you explain Ahmadinejad winning? How does one explain his win being officially certified, albeit ahead of what the law requires?

I answered this rhetorical question in a prediction posted 19 March 2009 in the article 2009–Four Key Elections, Part 2: Iran:

The reform strategy here is to win over a majority of Iranians on the solid footing of Mousavi’s past economic successes and his proven strength as a leader under crisis filled times. President Ahmadinejad on the other hand has been an economic bungler and his brinksmanship with Israel and America has taken him off theme as much as put his citizens under the imminent threat of war throughout his term in office. He has not fulfilled his domestic policy promises. In the end, that will be the cause of his fall from power on Election Day 12 June 2009, unless the supreme council of Ayatollahs, once again, gerrymanders the election results in his favor — if they dare. That could cause another Iranian Revolution, which I do sense, coming, but not so soon.

There does seem to be some gerrymandering of Ayatollahs with the cut off of Internet and quick endorsement of victory, but I do not think it is now done to cover a fraudulent election, but rather, to suppress what I did sense coming, the backlash of another Iranian revolution, this time of moderates. It is not coming yet. Proof of this prediction will be seen with the coming settling down of moderate protests in a few weeks, sweetened by Ahmadinejad acting the conciliator to moderates with perhaps some important cabinet posts.

In the next quote from 19 March, I predicted the fate of Ahmadinejad would be harmed or bolstered by what kind of government coalition Israel would form by early April. Would it be a moderate right of center Kadima or far right Likud coalition?

Much in Iran’s political direction hinges on what happens in early April in Israel. Will Netanyahu form a pro-war coalition of right-wing parties or a more diplomatically oriented centrist right coalition of Tzipi Livni’s Kadima Party with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud?

Between April and June, Israeli policy will either throw flaming oil on the problem with bellicosity or pave the way for Ahmadinejad’s descent into history’s rat hole of obscurity.

Save the rat hole, Madame History. Netanyahu did not form a coalition with Tzipi Livni’s Kadima Party. He went far right, picking the hardcore Zionist, Avigdor Lieberman, as his foreign minister. What was left of the leftist Labor Party came shuffling along. An interesting move to salvage dwindling political capital in the rightward lurching State of Israel. The rural majority of Iran could see — and Ahmadinejad could exploit — a stark reality: an Israeli hawkish, anti-Iran government, run by Netanyahu threatens. He has more than once pledged to bomb Iran’s nuclear reactors, a symbol of national pride to all Iranians, especially its rural redneck Ahmadinejad-leaning population who do not want to see it ever shut down. Israel does not want to see it continue and will only give Obama’s diplomatic efforts a few months’ time.

Extremism and belligerence ever feeds extremism. Ahmadinejad won because the mighty rightward lean in Israel fed a right wing reaction in Iran far more prevalent than Iranian moderates or their sympathetic journalists anticipated.

Netanyahu’s aides matched Ahmadinejad’s outlandish bluster (wipe Israel off the map of history) with a cloaked biblical message to annihilate Iran (think Amalek). The Amalek crack was worth at least a million Iranian votes for Ahmadinejad.

Now we face the coming of Mars in Cancer’s transit, in August through October, the best time for might to presume the right to strike the Iranian reactors.

John Hogue
(13 June 2009)

After the election polls closed in both countries the poles politically widened. America has gone left with their new president; Israel has gone far right with its new Prime Minster Netanyahu. Obama made his speech this week about engaging 1 billion Muslims around the world in a new beginning, a new dialogue. The Middle East is a region where perception is truth. Obama tried to change the language of American policy. Diplomacy on the anniversary of the Six Day War, not preemptive strike is, at least on the surface, a change in perception Barack Obama believes in. However let us not be too blindly bright eyed and harmonically convergent-tailed about this president. He has left “all options” about Iran on the table. In addition, I will dare say for the prophetic record that Obama is not someone, as the North Korean dictator and others presume, who is too inexperienced and too weak to use decisive military force.

Do not Khrushchev that Obama, Kim Jong Il. He is no less the Jack Kennedy the Soviet Premier misjudged as Jack Kennedy later turned out to be when the US and Soviet Union faced direct confrontation. The young and inexperienced president was a decisive as well as measured leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Obama will surprise the world in the coming years becoming decisively belligerent when diplomacy may fail and will deliver measure for measure to the aggressor.

I have said since early 2007, when I wrote Nostradamus: The War with Iran (see Nostradamus Iran prediction), that a window of opportunity closes for Israel at the end of 2009 to strike Iran before it produces a full-fledged nuclear program. After that, the Netanyahu government will have to live with a nuclear Iran. My sense is, Iran is seeking the knowledge, means and option to build atomic weapons, just as other civilian nuclear powers, such as Japan or South Korea have garnered the means and expertise. Like these, Iran, if threatened could manufacture atomic bombs within weeks or months. Israel will have to live with that. You cannot bomb the knowledge to make and arm their regional ballistic missiles with atomic weapons, but you can keep threatening Iran with a fate of Amalek (complete racial extermination) with your 200 to 500 nuclear weapons arrayed.

I predict that diplomacy will not prevent Iran from having a civilian nuclear program with the potential to manufacture nuclear bombs, but Iran, Israel and the US negotiating rather than threatening each other erases the need for Iran to build a stockpile. It may sound strange to some of you but Israel holds destiny like a mirror before it. If it seeks war with Iran, it will make Iran a nuclear-armed threat. If it seeks peace, Iran will not be a nuclear threat.

Netanyahu’s advisor had sent his own symbolic message to the world several days before Obama made his tone changing speech in Cairo, the capital of the largest of several Arab countries that 42 years earlier sent an invading force along the border of a small Jewish state only to see that force devastated and routed by preemptive Israeli attack.

Netanyahu’s position on Iran? Read Amalek.

The press cited a passage in the bible that sounds like it gave ancient Israel God’s holy covenant to annihilate its avowed enemy more completely and successfully than any Nazi could dream of doing to Jews. The Lord of Hosts granted King Saul an indulgence to: Go now and fall upon the Amalekites and destroy them, and put their property under ban. Spare no one; put them all to death, men and women, children and babes in arms, herds and flocks, camels and asses. (1 Samuel 15:3,4)

Read Amalek? Read the fate of Iran if Netanyahu does not get them to abandon their nuclear program altogether through diplomacy and threats of apocalypse. Yet, this is the first half of the biblical passage. The press and perhaps even the Israeli prime minister overlooked the second half. What did Saul do, Mr. Prime Minister and what does that imply about your biblical aim?

Then Saul cut the Amalekites to pieces, all the way from Havilah to Shur on the borders of Egypt. Agag the king of the Amalekites he took alive, but he destroyed all the people, putting them to the sword, Saul and his army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat beasts and the lambs and everything worth keeping; they were unwilling to destroy them, but anything that was useless and of no value they destroyed. (1 Samuel 15:7,9)

This was not the covenant of Yehovah. Saul was to take nothing, neither the best livestock of the Amalekites for burnt offerings of sacrifice to the Lord, nor their King Agag as prisoner. Samuel, the first of the major Hebrew prophets, lamented that he made Saul king. He tracked him down and told Saul of what the Lord said to him the previous night:

‘Time was when you thought little of yourself, but now you are head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD has anointed you king over Israel. The LORD sent you with strict instructions to destroy that wicked nation, the Amalekites; you were to fight against them until you had wiped them out. Why then did you not obey the LORD?’ (1 Samuel 15:17,19)

Saul when confronted by Samuel would see his sin — that he was influenced by the greed of the people to take Amalekite possessions and his own vanity to be popular for it. Samuel would take the crown of Israel away from Saul because he lacked of fanatic zeal in serving God’s bidding for a final solution to the Amalekite question. Old Samuel would draw his own sword, do the Lord’s bidding and hack King Agag to pieces after Saul had made his submission to the Lord and returned crownless to his home at Gibeah.

Saul ended his life in tragedy under the influence of evil spirits. He tried to kill young David, who the Lord is said to have chosen as the next king of Israel. He would finally die, falling on his own sword in the defeat of the Israelis against the Philistines at Gilboa. God’s once anointed and now uncrowned king committed suicide — a cardinal sin.

The moral of reading Amalek, therefore, cautions Netanyahu, the modern “king” of the tribes of Israel to not leave one man, woman, child, cow, goat, sheep, building or Iranian nuclear reactor standing if he should choose to strike Iran this year. He must paint 70 million people with the broad and intolerant label of “wicked,” then kill every one of them. Go whole hog, even if pig ain’t kosher. Do unto the Iranians what even Hitler could not do unto the Jews.

I believe the most dangerous window in time for this final Amalekite-Iranian solution comes from August through October. I will explain why in the near future.

John Hogue
(06 June 2009: the 42nd anniversary of the end of the Six Day War)

Today, we have a commentary defending Israel having nuclear weapons from a reader named “Joy.” I expect my response below will be received as politically incorrect but I contend it is a prophetic necessity to declare: Atomic weapons? Bad idea.

It is a theme many of you have read me take up over the years, especially in my book Nostradamus: The War with Iran, see Nostradamus Iran.

The biggest open secret undermining Middle East peace efforts is an Israeli nuclear arsenal of an estimated 200 to 500 atomic weapons, both atom and thermonuclear of all types, including nuclear briefcase sized bombs. One cannot ignore Israel’s reasons, perhaps right reasons, for having such an arsenal, but to completely ignore the existence of these weapons of mass destruction already in the possession of an aggressive Middle Eastern power that has not ratified the Nuclear Non-Prolifering Treaty, poised to attack and destroy Iran’s nuclear program, is not fair or balanced. And to those who say, “Yes, but Israel is a civilized democracy, not a fundamentalist theocracy like Iran. They will be responsible with their atomic bombs, etc…” I say, “Well, perhaps.”

Up to this point, only democracies use atomic weapons on civilians in indefensible cities. America for one. The dictatorial Soviets never used one. It makes one wonder if people who practice democracy are immune to using atomic weapons in the future. Now to Joy’s letter:

JOY
I note your comment that Israel has 200 or more [atomic] bombs so the playing field should be made even by allowing Iran to have bombs. However over 20 Arab countries itching for her destruction surround Israel. That is not a level field to even begin with, not withstanding Iran’s repeated calls for the destruction of Israel. If 20 of your neighbors hated you and wanted you destroyed, would one shotgun be sufficient against their one shotgun each? [I] don’t think so.

Joy, your analogy is a popular one but it is both cumbersome and inaccurate. Not all of Israel’s neighbors hate her. Many of those who don’t exactly like her, could live and let live with Israel if she stopped bullying her Palestinian neighbor. It is true, they once lived in the same “house” in 1947 but dividing it down the living room didn’t work out. Now they live in separate houses. Israel might, however, be viewed by her other neighbors more favorably if she stopped occupying Palestine’s house as well as live in her own rightful house next door. If there were at last a “two house” (two state) diplomatic solution, I think Israel would not have bad relations with most her Arab neighbors.

By the way, having more than a shotgun but something like a tank that could blow away her 20 other neighbors in an instant doesn’t make Israel safe or secure. Indeed, when you introduce weapons of mass destruction into the world, as America once did, you create an arms race. America by 1949 had built as many atomic bombs as Israel currently has (if you take the current lower intelligence estimates of that arsenal size) before the Soviet Union tested their first atomic weapon that same year — around 250. America started an arms race. Russia was forced to make her own arsenal.

It is not a question of right and wrong here, it is a question of understanding basic human nature as it is expressed on a national and international level and how that unconscious habit all too predictably will lead to a bad future if we don’t expose it before it is too late. If you introduce and train a new weapon on your neighbors in the community that in an instant could wipe them out, your neighbors will want to defend themselves with same. If America makes hundreds of bombs pointed at the Soviet Union, of course the Soviet people will want their own to defend themselves.

Point 250 to 500 bombs at Persian Iran and the Arab nations? Of course they will consider making or getting their own.

Israel created this karma of WMD introduction into the region. Now, unless she can preemptively attack Iran, the best she will do is delay them making atomic weapons by a few years. An Israeli strike on Iran will actually radicalize the region further. Remember, no other Muslim neighbors are making atomic weapons, but if Iran is bombed by Israel, they will be making.

Put it this way, if 20 neighbors with 20 shotguns face off with Israel in a tank, they will eventually get 20 tanks. Where is the safety in bringing that tank home now?

Israel cannot be safe hiding behind atomic weapons. Eventually all of her neighbors will need them and have them because Israel introduced this doomsday device into the region.

Israel right now is on the path towards a right wing Zionist future. I have been writing about this potential since 1994 in The Millennium Book of Prophecy, see predictions. Israel could become its own Rabbinical Theocracy to match that of the Iranian Ayatollahs by the middle of the next decade: 2015. By the way, that is the next astrological time window after 2009 for an Israeli-Iranian war I detailed in the book Nostradamus the War with Iran. If at that time a more radical Israel could concoct a nuclear Final Solution to the Muslim question, wipe out their neighbors before they struck first, they would not only lose all ethical and spiritual integrity as a righteous people but they would dwell in a land surrounded by a nuclear graveyard, branded as mass murderers of 200 million people, consumed in their nuclear solution.

Ultimately, there will be no peace in the Middle East, only the set staged for biblical prophecies of fire descending from the skies — nuclear fires — as long as nuclear proliferation, started by the Israelis and continued by the Iranians spreads.

There is still time to turn away from that future. I feel compassion for the Israelis. I understand why they have atomic weapons. Nevertheless, I must bear prophetic witness and tell that people, beloved of God, and loved by me: atomic weapons are a mistake. On the Eve of nuclear destruction, they are Satan’s apple in Israel’s hand. They are harbingers of radioactive ash and sackcloth.

The region, indeed the world, needs to be free of these apocalyptic weapons. If war must be prevented, do it with understanding, not with talk of Amalek, not nuclear holocaust threats.

John Hogue
(1 June 2009: The 42nd anniversary of the Arab-Israeli Six Day War)