Neytiri from Avatar. Image: WETA/20th century Fox.

Friends,
Mother Nature went red dragon Toruk mak tao blue Na’vi nasty across North America this week putting up a powerful wall of thunderstorms with hurricane force winds — gales of flash flooding rains for some, unseasonably early blizzards for others — and all spiked by lightning and dozens of tornadoes. It was as if early spring tornado season had paid states from the Great Plains to the Atlantic seaboard an encore in October.

Very strange. Very weird were the comments heard from New Orleans, Notre Dame, Chicago and Minneapolis to North Carolina.

The storm first made landfall through my corner of the United States, the Pacific Northwest, buffeting the area with winds and heavy rain for four days. Then it gained strength crossing the Rockies. Gulf of Mexico humidity colliding with arctic cold stretched a vast and curling phalanx line of thunderstorms from the Gulf all the way across the Canadian border to a curling low pressure center over Hudson Bay wrapping around one of the lowest barometric pressure readings documented outside of the tropics. Indeed, this storm of unexpected size and autumnal fury has gone down in the record books as the most powerful non-tropical storm to hit the United States since meteorologists in the late 19th century began chronicling the weather

How often in the year 2010 have you heard others or heard yourself comment on how weird the weather has been? How often has news reports from around the world used the terms, “record breaking” or “not known in human memory” or “unseasonably” when describing the weather of 2010 from its powerful blizzards early on to its triple digit and lingering heat waves of spring, summer and autumn?

How many 500-year floods inundating a quarter of Pakistan and displacing 25 million people do we need? How many more 500-year droughts in Russia scorching the wheat fields from Smolensk to Siberia with half-a-thousand major forest and brush fires, forcing the third largest grain producer to shut off all exports, must we shrug off? What further ice, fire and flood does it take for people to understand that one year cannot repeat 500-year this or 500-year that and be a normal year of climate phenomena?

How many major and lethal earthquakes in Haiti, in Chile, in China, and just this week off the coast of Sumatra carrying off 700 people in a tsunami do we need in a short span of a year to known our “Eywah”, or Mother Earth, is shaking with climate fevers and rage? How many more times will all airline flights across Europe need to be canceled for weeks because of a pall of Icelandic volcanic ash before we get it? Planetary “mom” is in a black ash, lava-eyed mood about us.

Mother Nature in 2010 is sending us all a message. Are we hearing it?

Kill Bill! Kiddo! The Climate Bill, that is.

President Obama, with what one would expect to be a Democratic majority full of tree-huggers in Congress, couldn’t get his legislation to limit fossil fuel use passed so the great American fart of Co2 emissions continues. In a few days the midterm US elections will produce a potential swing of the frustrated American voter to the corporate, anti-greenie right as a protest by ballot rendered to a seductive lover that after two years has turned out not to be the promise rich (now results poor) president they married.

China may have more green and alternative energy start-ups than America. Indeed, the Chinese may be the number one foreign market for watching James Cameron’s ecological myth and morality movie “Avatar,” but China became number one global fart in 2010, taking the gassy lead from “US” as the greatest industrial polluter of Mother Earth. How many mega Typhoon Megis slamming into Southeastern China, how many signs of the great Yangtze and Huang Ho rivers running out of Himalayan glacial headwaters, does one need to confront before you can see in the not-too-distant future the consequence of a manic plan to get carbon emitted rich quick? Must your new Middle Kingdom die quick?

Are we listening to our Mother Earth?

A comprehensive Pew poll released in October found that only 57% of respondents think there’s evidence of warming (down from 71% last year), and just 36% think it’s because of human activity (down from 47%).

When her children aren’t behaving and aren’t listening, what does a mothering goddess spirit do?

I’m writing this blog just three days shy of the one-year anniversary of documenting the following prophecy as my oracle’s answer in Predictions for 2010 on 1 November 2009:

“Talk of change in 2010 will get louder but actual legislative action will remain indecisive. We will do as our grandfathers did in the last fourth turning. This is one of four 20-year generational periods kicking off an 80-year cycle in American history, theorized by futurist William Strauss. A positive response to 20 years of crisis brings on 20 years of national ascent—the First Turning. This then is followed by 20 years of apogee, followed by 20 years of degeneration, neglect and corruption in government and society thus leading back again to a new global crisis, a new 20 years of the Fourth Turning. Crisis is the catalyst that turns the wheel of generations once again towards recovery and ascent and so on. The current Fourth Turning started much like the last in the 1930s with the worldwide financial crisis. The rise of totalitarian movements and regimes threatened democracies, leading at last to the Second World War. Whether this new Fourth Turning will slide totalitarian then slip into the Balkanization of civil society in Climate’s world war against us is still a destiny we can change but will not presently prevent.

“We’ve had the economic crisis. We in 2010 will appease and postpone changing ourselves until a new enemy crosses more than the border of Poland but invades across every border, bombs every city and town with its sky of fires, raises every ocean, parches every interior continent with decades of drought and casts a pall of global famine across the inhabited continents.

"Eywah 'has' heard you..."

“The enemy of Habits rather than Hitlers in this war will be a harder sell for this Obama-the-FDR. We Americans can sometimes politely disparage our high fossil fuel energy excesses but it is a pretense. We are energy waste Isolationists, no less in denial of the high Heil Hitlerian dangers of pollution’s tyranny and the subtle warnings of our coming climate crisis than Isolationists of the 1930s were about ignoring the spread of Hitler’s fascism. Thus, it will take many more Pearl Harbor-like catastrophes of nature and famine to register the alarm, soldier the understanding of sacrifice, and see a new kind of victory never before sought or required of human beings.

“We are the soldiers of our bad habits against the earth. We must cry mutiny against our habits and mature into guardian warriors of the Earth.”

Mother Nature has declared world war on us and if we have not noticed the up-tick in temperatures, violent storms and seismic activity she will be forced to give us a real spanking as 2010 doesn’t wind down but winds up to its climate-climactic end.

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Halloween is around the corner. It’s trick or treat time and I want to share with you a treat. As a special Halloween gift, I’m now selling Predictions for 2010 at a discounted price:

You can now receive a direct e-Book download of Predictions for 2010 for only $8.25 — a saving of $4.25.

This year is far from over and the most prophetically important months are still ahead of us: months of political earthquakes to match Mother Nature temblors, a new economic crisis and how it can be avoided, a real threat of jihadist commando-style terrorism in November and much more.

John Hogue

(28 October 2010)

PS–I have definitely something prophetically special hiding up Nostradamus’ wizard robe’s sleeve about the coming midterm elections. You will see my predictions posted no later than early on 1 November — a full and detailed account of two futures battling in out on 2 November, and who will win.

PSS—I’m flying down to Los Angeles to do a film shoot for a new and exciting documentary for History Channel. Can’t tell you anything more, except that it will be coming out very soon and I will give you a heads up as soon as my contractual gag rule is un-gagged by the producer’s blessing. In the meantime, if you have any problems opening your Predictions for 2010 e-Book please leave me an email about it. I can easily fix it for you once I return from LA late Saturday night onwards.

Hogue during his interview for History Channel's "Nostradamus 2012" inside the inner sanctum of the Masonic Lodge in San Antonio, Texas, in the summer of 2008.

Friends,
Some of you might have noticed a discussion going on at the bottom of the blog page entitled Natural Disasters, the Quickening in 2010 . I would like to share Sarah’s letter that opened the discussion because many of you who read my blogs or see me on television share many of the same feelings, have the same catharsis about it, and demand an answer.

Most of you have first come in contact with my work looking through the television mirror darkly. I appear for a few seconds and make some categorical statement. What I say and the image of my furry-owlish face is often insinuated between lurid and sensational latter-day, doom laden special effects in shows like Nostradamus 2012, the Next Nostradamus and my numerous appearances in the History Channel series, The Nostradamus Effect. I believe Sarah, like many of you, were watching a broadcast of Nostradamus: 2012 the other night might have something similar to say to me. Here is Sarah’s letter in its entirety followed by my initial response. (Please note this, Sarah and other readers. I have had to correct her punctuation and fill out the words she abbreviates because some of my readers are not yet versed in the new truncated, randomly punctuated and capitalized cyber-language now en vogue.) Here we go.

SARAH
John, I’m a 27-year-old. Graphic design student and new mom. I also live in the Pacific Northwest. I attend Portland State University. In all of my classes we discuss being “green”. There are lots of organizations and groups dedicated to being sustainable. I was required to take a class “environmental sustainability” last term. I learned many very scary facts about population control, and water quality. I felt very fearful of this planets demise. Not until I had my daughter did I begin to feel almost terrified for what may happen in her life. In my household we made many changes. We use less water, we try to live sustainably. But, even so, no one is perfect. Seeing neighbors being horrible to this earth makes my skin crawl. I try not to dig out of their trash and organize in into recycling bins.

Today I watched the show you were in on the history channel. In front of me, sat my daughter carefully examining her blocks.

I felt overwhelmed with sadness/panic/fear — despair. The show tried to end leaving me feeling hopeful, but I felt…. I can’t put it into words. But hopeful is NOT the word.

My brother is ALWAYS going on about these types of things. He often uses words like “they” or “we” But I don’t know who “they” or “we” are. I think he means the government, and the people. The government isn’t doing anything, and the people just keep messing things up, or vice versa.

In all honesty, the earthquakes lately have me very freaked out. So, after seeing the show, I searched for Nostradamus and Haiti and found this blog. I read through it to this page.

You keep telling of these terrible things to come.

What am I–a citizen of the word– Supposed to do? Try to get my states politicians to listen? Recycle my Styrofoam? WHAT?

Besides scaring me and making me upset to the point my stomach hurts, my throat feels dry, and I suspect I won’t be able to sleep for a while.

If this is all inevitable, what is the point of all of this? Thanks for telling me now what!!!???!!

I don’t know what all this doomsday stuff is supposed to do. I’m not religious, but I TRY to live my life to the fullest. I TRY to be good. I help when I can.

Am I supposed to leave my daughter with her grandparents, drop out of school and devote my time to rebuilding a war torn country?

What is it that I do now? With all of this info????

Because I feel hopeless and scared.

HOGUE:
Sarah, I am in receipt of your letter and my heart goes out to you and your newborn daughter. What you have put in words is what many people feel. They deserve an answer.

I wish to answer each of your statements in detail. I hope you will allow me the time to do so, not only for you but to the many thousands out there who feel as you feel, need some kind of answer, some kind of suggested direction towards individually empowering a better future for you and your beloved ones. I will answer your letter as part of a blog. I do this so I can share that answer not only to you, but to so many who are in need of some response. I am obligated to clarify how my views of the future are misrepresented by the television machine that plucks the scary and sensational out of context without the alternatives that I always provide but often find cut out of the final show.

I would first say this: never trust anything you see or hear on TV. I give hours of interview time to these shows that end up mangled. You might ask why I do it and see my message warped. My answer is, I can only hope that people will do as you have done and step past the BS veil of television and ask me directly, what is my view on the future.

I wish to tell you and many more that answer. I hope to do that very soon. Please be patient. I am but one man, alone. I will answer your many rightful observations and your authentic catharsis as soon as I can.

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In Part Two of this series I will begin to answer Sarah’s letter point by point as best I can.

John Hogue

(20 March 2010)

Haitian Presidential Palace before the quake.

Friends,
A second blizzard of the kind I predicted would presage a record breaking hot summer in North America and Europe is hitting the mid-Atlantic United States. (See snow storm.) Time to go south for the winter in focus back to the question many of you ask: Did Nostradamus foresee the Haiti Earthquake that the Haitian government now claims killed over 231,000 people?

Earthquake prophecies in Nostradamus are frequent. To what times they apply are equally and frequently obscure. Take for example the famous prophecy from Century 9 Quatrain 83:

Sol vint de Taurus si fort terre trembler.
Le grand theatre rempli ruynera,
L’air, ciel & terre obscurcir & troubler,
Lors l’infidelle Dieu & saincts voguera.

The Sun in 20 degrees Taurus there will be a great earthquake,
The great theater full up will be ruined.
Darkness and trouble in the air, on the sky and land,
When the infidel calls upon God and the Saints.

The Sun transits the sign of Taurus hitting the 20-degree mark around 10-11 May every year. Here we have a detailed prophecy about a great temblor leveling either a crowded theater or stadium teaming with people. Power goes out (darkness) and chaos follows. We’ve grown used to infidel being used by Islamic terrorists as a label to mark their human targets. The earthquake, then, could be metaphorical for some earth-shattering explosion of weapons of mass destruction on a May 11th in the future. Given jihadist fascination with the number 11 as a date — World Trade attack on 9/11; the Madrid train bombings on 3/11 — all should be vigilant for an earth quaking explosion any time the Sun is 20 degrees Taurus.

There are other possibilities. Infidel in Latin usually means those who are non-Christians and therefore unbelievers. Thus, Nostradamus could here speak of a catastrophic earthquake so terrible and biblical in proportions that it scares sinners back to God and saint worship.

The mention of saints intends a future quake hitting a predominantly Catholic location. Though no large-scale theater or stadium fell upon the predominantly Catholic citizens in Port-au-Prince on 12 January 2010 (not 10 May) all the other details might match what is going on in Haiti, as they would match any other region undermined and unmanned by the chaos of a large-scale earthquake: the land upended. Great clouds of dust obscure the sky. The air made foul by the stench of the dead. Darkness, the land (country) in trouble and confusion. And so the augury goes…

One of my earliest television interviews held on the roof of the Griffith Park Observatory overlooking the smoggy sprawl of Los Angeles in April 1988, had me fly in from Seattle to debunk growing hysteria and TV ratings-ramping rumors that Nostradamus predicted Los Angeles would be ground flat by a superquake on 10 May that year. I am sure that a number of my colleagues who make their living getting people upset over 2012 cut their teeth and undercut credibility as interpreters of Nostradamus scaring Angelinos not just on 10 May 1988, but 1989, 1999 and a half dozen other Mays throughout the 1990s, requiring my refutation of their claims in the media. None of these predictions for LA’s “Big One” ever happened. None of these interpreters milking press and panic ever explained how they could get it so wrong.

Anyway, as for our interests today, the 10-11 May time window excludes Haiti. We will have to watch what happens on the next 1,787 May 10ths up to the year 3797, when Nostradamus predestined the end of the world. (Sorry Roland Emmerich and Chicken Little, no bang bang in 2012. That year is not even mentioned in Nostradamus.)

The name Haiti was never mentioned in the prophecies; however, there may be other word leads in Nostradamus to find a prophecy about Haiti’s recent quake. As I stated in my last blog, the Arawakan-speaking Taino Indian name for Haiti (Ayiti) means “mountainous land.” Search that phrase or search all usages of mountain, montaignard or mountainous through the 36,000-plus words of Nostradamus and you get many of Nostradamus’ most famous fulfilled predictions, such as 10 Q49′s “hollow mountains” falling in the “new city.” A popular interpretation presents that one for the two towers falling on 11 September 2001 to terrorist attack. A future natural or cosmic disaster in 1 Q69 describes a “mountain,” between 500 and 1,000 feet in circumference, flying down from the sky hitting the ocean and undermining locations where Mediterranean civilization got its start. Other prophecies with related information mark the Aegean Sea east of the Island of Euboea as the impact zone. Again, Nostradamus gives no date, so the jury of 1,787 years is still out.

No mention of “mountainous land” exists in any possible stretch of translation that would fit Ayiti/Haiti.

Next, I search all references to earthquakes. There are many! They mostly play on the French tembler (temblor, trembling, shaking, quaking, etc.). Nostradamus will use other poetic references to temblors and earthquakes, such as travail. After sweeping all possible shake-ups foreseen, this is what I found for Haiti: Nothing.

There are many quake prophecies in Nostradamus with clearly defined geographic locations. Even 3 Q3 locates and perhaps astrologically dates the quake “at the bottom of Asia” responsible for the tsunami in December 2004. None match any locations in the Caribbean.

We’re down to our last French word clues. Could we find evidence for the Haitian quake searching the word Porte or Prince in Nostradamus for the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince?

Nope…

How about Saint-Domingue, Haiti’s colonial name from 1659-1804?

Nope…

What about au Prince for Porte-au-Prince?

I can’t find a thing in Nostradamus about Haiti. If any of you would like to try it. Be my guest. I will post your attempts in my comments section below the article.

Be mindful that this Rogue Scholar will grade your attempts and later insert a review of your interpretations in your comments, in the hope that I can share some of the Nostradamus-deciphering skills acquired over the last 30 years. Good luck and happy hunting.

John Hogue

(10 February 2010)

PS — Natural disasters accelerate in the Caribbean region with a 5.0 or 6.0 temblors hitting the region nearly every day in the first nine days since the Haitian quake bulldozed Porte-au-Prince and its environs. Yesterday a powerful 6.1 aftershock brought more structures down. Before 1 November 2009, I predicted Mother Nature was about to wage war on humanity, starting with the new year. See Predictions for 2010.

"When the world heaves up, time to dance." The "Hogue" leading Kundalini Meditation (conjuring orbs) at the Conscious Life Expo, LAX Hilton, Feb. 2009. Come meditate with me this coming 14 February, same "Bat" Bardo time, same "Bat" Bardo station.

Friends,
In Predictions for 2010, I documented on 1 November 2009 all of my predictons for the coming year. The seismic quakes both earthy and political, the sudden and historic flooding in California in the last few weeks warrants I share with you the following prediction logged back on 1 November for the new year:

The years 2010 through 2011 will see a spike in climate change never before experienced. There will be stronger earthquakes, typhoons, tornadoes and hurricanes, droughts and floods will make all that happened in the 2009 and its far more devastating predecessor, 2008, look tame in comparison. (Predictions for 2010, Chapter 15)

Many of you have written to me about the crescendo of earthquakes hitting the Caribbean region since the first temblor on 12 January stamped out 200,000 lives and counting in Haiti. Now an unnerving string of 5 and 6 point Richter Scale shocks — some of which are not near Haiti itself — visits this heretofore seismically serene and passive area almost daily.

It inspired a reader named Kurtis to log in the commentary box for Nostradamus Predictions, Haiti—1 the following question/comment:

[Are you] keeping track that a 5.0 or 6.0 earthquake has hit almost everyday this week in different countries almost like tic tac toe and what do you think of this? It really feels like any day now there’s another Haiti coming.

HOGUE ANSWER:
Prepare for one of the most significant string of natural disasters packed into one 12-month period in living memory. The world responds to the ending time cycles of many forecast prophetic ages. The year 2012 is only the American Idol darling of the popular media judges. Populist projections of Mayan Prophecy, often overlook in the flash and spaz of doomsday’s fad passing favorite, the mistranslated, misunderstood, sexed up façade of what is merely the 5,000-year Long Count cycle ending and restarting again in the Ancient Mayan Calendar on 21 December 2012.

You don’t have to wait for 2012, ladies and gentlemen. All the blackberry votes for your favorite doomsday date will not give it more talent to fulfill your fears and axis shifting Tilt-alations. We have been in the travail of dying-rebirthing ages since 2008 and you can expect things to ramp up in revolutions from the heavens’ climate to the earth’s roll over and stir the salt waters of vast oceans and your momma’s placenta.

Welcome to the first year of a new wild card decade in prophecy. Existence wants to shake us up on all levels of life with earthquakes in Haiti, political earthquakes in runoff elections in Massachusetts. Be prepared, Obama Nation, to Oboomah one day, Obomb-ah the next. GOPeak today and GOPlummit in mid-term. Watch the two-party duopoly in America come down like a Presidential Palace in Porte-au-Prince in this coming decade as they play a fraud on the voters pretending to shed the duopoly labels and play independent.

We are entering new times when you will see the world change before your first cup of Joe at breakfast. Get used to it. Shake and roll with it. Learn to celebrate its challenges and change its inclinations to make a better destiny for your personal life, your community life, and your relationship with the world around you, by becoming a witnessing world within-you.

John Hogue

(21 January 2010)

Read further in Predictions for 2010 just how the new year is going to make the scene on the wild side.

USGS Shake Map: Haiti Region. The worst seismic devastation is west of Port-au-Prince (star).

I am back from a very successful press conference and publicity tour in Mexico City for History Channel’s release of El Effecto Nostradamus (The Nostradamus Effect) in the Latin American market of 100 million viewers.

I have many observations to share about my Mexico trip, but first prescient business before prescient pleasure. Many of you are asking if Nostradamus made any forecasts about Haiti and the earthquake. Haiti by name has never been mentioned; however, as Nostradamus views the future with the eyes and bias of a Frenchman, one must ever follow more verbally nebulous French connections to the future. Haiti, along with Quebec (Canada), is one of two significant centers in the America’s of French colonial culture and roots to Nostradamus’ homeland. There should therefore be a connection.

The term America is definitely mentioned in Nostradamus in plays on France’s most west-pointing nose of landmass aiming at the New World, as it was popularly thought of in Nostradamus’ day. America hides behind the name Amorica. At other times Nostradamus calls it a little closer, like the anagram Hister cuts a letter away from Hitler in his Antichrist prophecies, he calls America Americh. There’s no Haiti anywhere in the prophecies even though there is an indirect reference to a celebrated Haitian as one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s “foreign” female lovers.

In Century 4 Quatrain 54 he says:

Du nom qui onques ne fut au Roy Gaulois,
Iamais ne fut vn fouldre si craintif:
Tremblant l’Italie, l’Espaigne & les Anglois,
De femme estrangiers grandement attentif.

Of a name never held by a Gallic King,
Never was so fearful a thunderbolt.
Italy, Spain and the English tremble.
He will be greatly attentive to foreign women.

Josephine Beauharnais.

There would be romantic trysts with a Polish countess (Walenska) and an Italian prima donna (Grassini) but Napoleonic squeeze number one was the French woman born on the Island of Martinique, in the same region as Haiti, named Josephine Beauharnais. She became lover, wife and finally Empress of France. That’s as vaguely close as we get going down obvious linguistic trails to Haiti and last week’s tragedy being framed in the magic mirror of Nostradamus.

There are other roads made of word links we might take. We must understand an important point lost to many a Nostradamus scholar in foreign lands who have the national conceit to presume Nostradamus understood their languages and wrote most of his prophecies solely for their country. For example, I came across half dozen Japanese Nostradamian books over the years that force over a third of his prophecies to explain important past and future events on that distant Nipponese island chain.

One thing is clear in cloudy Nostradamus’ prophecies. He mentions more geographic locations than any prophet in history, over 600. Nevertheless, the locations thin out the farther we stray away from where they were written, in Salon-en-Provence in South France. Lots of references to Provence, Northern Italy, and France. Less for Germany, England, Spain and the rest of Europe. Then comes the Middle East and North Africa. A little of Russia too. After that, the geographic pickings are slim indeed. Very, very few for Asia, Africa, or the Western Hemisphere. These cover the general continent and its peoples more than a specific locale,

Today we’ll look at one of them: Hesperia, Land of the West, or land of the rising western star.

The variant uses of Hesperia by Nostradamus can apply well to events involving the United States. In (Century-Volume) 4 Q(uatrain) 99, the distant Westerners of the Americas are part of the Western alliance of World War II. The prophecy initially describes the overwhelming defeat of France “by thunderbolts” (aka Blitzkrieg) tactics of Adolf Hitler in 1940. By inserting the “Hesperians” into the mix, the word becomes a hint of near future success coming out of French defeat for the Western Alliance to come. The Hesperians come up again in his famous prophecy naming the Second World War Battle of Tobruk (1 Q28.) The Hesperian link continues in 10 Q94. A fleet of Westerners invaded South France. The prophecy mentions many details of that amphibious landing, Operation Anvil that did take place along the Provencal coastlines in August 1944. America factors in again in 4 Q50 as the symbolic Libra with her scales (i.e. Justice/Democracy) foretold to become a dominant power of the Western world.

The word-clues Hesperie or Esperie, or Hesperiques, point Nostradamus’ laurel branch to prophecy’s boiling cauldron summoning images of those Westerners cloaked in metaphors honoring Ancient Greek myth. Hesperos is the Evening Star in the West. The Hesperides were the daughters of Atlas and Hesperus/Hesperis, and they lived in the extreme West, at the world’s edge hard by Night. Is not the mention of the evening star an allusion to stars in the US flag?

It is clear to me that Hesperia refers more to the great nation across the wide Atlantic, beneath the western evening star, that today sends thousands of troops, its generous donations of money, medicine and care to the people of Haiti, if not a forecasting clue to Haiti itself.

We will have to follow the detective trail down other word and phrase routes in Nostradamus. Haiti comes from Ayiti, the Taino Caribbean-American Indian word in Arawakan for “mountainous land.” In the next blog about Nostradamus and Haiti, we track all references in his prophecies to mountainous lands. Perhaps a presage about the Haitian quake will emerge.

John Hogue

(19 January 2010)

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