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Greece Default, Euro Crisis, the 11th Catastrophe of 2011?

John Hogue — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:38:04 +0000

Scene from movie "Zorba the Greek".

UPDATE: November 9, 2011:

This article below was posted eight days ago on 2 November. As I read it again today, I see little reason to refresh the page because much of what I predicted back then is happening and further forecasts continue to happen in the developing story of the euro crisis, being that the financial farce of the Greek default crisis spreads uncertainty that Italy, as I predicted below last week, will be next. Currently, governments in both countries are playing musical chairs, but their problems remain.

Italian leader, Berlusconi, pledges to to step down, but will a shuffling of politicians in Italy end the crisis? Doubtful.

What is also significant today is the fulfillment of Wall Street catching the euro union default cold with a significant market plunge of -389.24 points. Italy, the third biggest market in the Euro zone after Germany and France and the country with the third largest debt in the world is next. It would seem the Euro financial crisis is set to become the 11th catastrophe for the year 2011 happening in its 11th month. This may lead to the breakup of the Euro monetary union in 2012.

I am saving my oracle’s detailed prediction about this for a chapter about next year’s global economic fate, which I intend to publish in early December for Predictions for 2012. I am very busy with finishing that book right now, so it is with some dubious relief that the accuracy of my 2 November posting of this article (below) requires I pull myself away only for an hour to add this update today.

Before I get back to 2012, I must mention the other big news item: all the recent saber rattling over Iran because of the recent IAEA report that at least vindicates what my oracle said is Iran’s real effort, to at least gain enough knowledge through weapons experiments to someday build nuclear weapons. The capability to make such is still four years down future history’s road (see Nostradamus Iran predictions).

Israel bristles and threatens. Netanyahu, who once promised to strike Iran if made prime minister again, ordered a successful test firing of a Jericho ballistic missile capable of striking Iran with conventional or nuclear warheads. He resumed drills of the Israeli Air Force. Jet engines thunder over the eastern Mediterranean as they are once again put through bombing drills in a frequency not seen since 2006-2007. Many of you are asking, Is war imminent?

My answer is still no. The war is four years away, according to the astrology of Nostradamus’ prophecies about it. I am concerned though with astrological aspects in the summer of 2012 that might bring that window of war far closer than my oracle believes. You will read my augured findings when I publish my annual e-book almanac, hopefully in early December, in a chapter entitled “Hot Crises in a Cold Depression”. Read more about how you can reserve your special donator’s edition copy of the book by clicking on Predictions for 2012.

Now back to the article published on 2 November:

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Iran I must get back to my marathon, writing and designing Predictions for 2012

Friends,
November 1st was once the real Halloween (All Souls Day). It begins the month with a far scarier story of economic tricks in Europe running out of euro treats. Something I have been warning would be one of the next of 12 catastrophes of the year 2011.

There have been many upheavals this year but beyond that events that break some historic record or send history into uncharted territories not seen in living memory of people and in some cases even the memory of nations has taken place every month in 2012. The catastrophes have been natural, political, climate changed or economic disasters. For instance:

January: Queensland Australia inundated by monster floods, 200,000 people displaced.

February: Arab revolutions spread across the Middle East.

March: The fifth largest earthquake in recorded history; a 9.0 earthquake followed by a giant tsunami, rocks, then drowns then irradiates Japan in the island nation’s worst disaster since the devastation of the Second World War. The waves cause reactors at Fukushima to meltdown. Fukushima becomes the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.

April: Catastrophic super-cell tornadoes kill hundreds across Alabama and the southern US States leaving behind death tolls and damage not seen since the 1920s.

May: the Mississippi River suffers worst flooding in 70 years. Two hundred thousand acres of prime farmland crops destroyed, Memphis flooded as well as the states of Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas and large parts of Louisiana in the path of the damns on Mississippi levies opened to save New Orleans.

June: The Missouri River floods to record levels. Waters surmount sandbags at a nuclear reactor at Fort Calhoun, Nebraska and for a few hours America, nearly has its own Fukushima disaster. Mainstream new avoids the story.

July: Triple-digit, 100-plus degree Fahrenheit drought in Texas destroys its corn, wheat and peanut crops to an estimated $5 billion loss. North America’s summer-long heat waves by July have clocked 1,400 triple-digit record-breaking temperature reports across the US Midwest and Southwest. Some cities in Texas endure triple-digit temperatures for over 40 days straight

August: US leadership suffers a historic loss of credibility when a debate about the US debt ceiling being raised nearly saw the US government default on its debt on August 1. The consequences: the worst stock market drop since the Great Recession began in 2008 and the US losing its premium credit rating for the first time in its history.

September: A month of Historic floods! They inundate the Atlantic seaboard states and New England falling from the remains of Hurricane Irene. The following week a second wave of floods visit the same region from remnants of Tropical Storm Lee. Over in Asia Typhoon Roke sends storm surges and mudslides over the regions of Japan devastated by the March quake and tsunami. The floods across the US Atlantic states made the Irene-Lee event one of the ten costliest property damage disasters in US history.

October: Monsoon fury drenches Eastern India (as I predicted would happen in Predictions for 2011). Three quarters of Thailand were inundated in the nation’s worst natural disaster in its history.

Some of my American readers might argue that the rare and unseasonal Halloween Nor’easter blizzard sending millions of households in 15 Atlantic and New England States in the dark should be 2011’s disaster number 10 for October. Three climate changing punches to the US northeast: Irene, Lee now this! Moreover, 1.5 million homes across 15 states were still out of power when November came. Now even the right-wing climate change debunking, billionaire Koch brothers’ financed investigation into the world’s weirding weather has concluded that climate change is real and leading civilization to an uncertain sustainable future.

Debris from Japanese tsunami, catastrophe number 3 in a year of 12 expected catastrophes.

And now November’s big disaster… What will it be?

Perhaps it will be something I wrote about over a year before when preparing Predictions for 2011:

The contagion of a European bank crisis in 2011 could easily spread around the world infecting the interconnected US and Chinese banks. If Europe goes deeper into recession, it affects Chinese imports and US business. Wrestling with a zombie EU Bank crisis, European leaders will test the waters of austerity programs finding they make for a more shaky European banking system.

Predictions for 2011
A Cold Depression, like a Cold War

Since writing the above, I have watched the global casino economies of Europe change the house rules of their gambling addictions to postpone an inevitable reality. Beware of Greeks bearing euros. Greece will default on its debt.

I have watched the markets fly into the stratosphere when the gaming pumped up the market with Trojan horse hopes only to plummet when the bubble of hope burst an Achilles’ tendon against mathematical realities. (Now there’s a mixed metaphor!).

Don’t get me wrong. I love Greece and its people but the Greek economic philosophy of live high and pay later (if at all) reminds me too much of the impossible schemes and scams of my favorite mythological man from Hellas, Zorba the Greek, all falling down into a great catastrophe worthy of celebrating afterwards with a dance on the beach. The Greek economy is a problem that cannot be salvaged. The people of Hellas will have to go, like Orpheus, bravely, playing music from a harp and dancing if possible, down into and eventually out of the darkness of Pluto’s economic underworld paying more than a few golden coins to the German bankers playing the boatman Charon for water taxi trip across the river Styx to debtor’s Hades.

Metaphorically speaking, Greece once had three pillars to hold up its Parthenon temple to the Goddess-bitch of excessive spending beyond her means. The first financial pillar – or pillory – sustaining the Modern Greek state was its heavily aided status as a bulwark for European nations against the spread of the Ottoman Empire. Then, after the Ottoman Empire collapsed at the end of the First World War, the Greeks once again became a bulwark after the Second World War, against the spread of communism. It eventually received billions throughout the long, and cold, war in US aid to shore up its economy and keep the commies out. Ship building was Greece’s second “pillar” sustaining it through the rest of the 20th century as was the third: tourism.

On comes the 21st century. The cold war had ended. Communism collapsed and with it, Greece stopped getting cold war aid. What about being a bulwark against Turkey once again? Tensions continued with Turkey, true, but the latter was a NATO ally and being wooed by the European Union. There goes the first pillar.

Greece by the time of the new century had lost its second pillar too, container ship manufacturing. That happens now in the shipyards of Asia and China.

That leaves one last pillar holding the completely rotten economic temple in the air, tourism and that pillar is not enough to keep the Greek economy from collapse.

So here are the hard facts that all Euro bankers and leaders must face eventually. Greece will eventually leave the monetary union. The immediate impact will be a financial haircut for other euro nations that invested in Greek banks to the tune of staunching the bleeding of the euro bank system with 400 billion euros. Once Greece has departed for Hades, the wealthier euro toting nations like Germany, Holland and France will have to find, or print another infusion of 2 trillion Euros to prevent Italy and Spain following Greece into Dante’s Inferno.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has been so politically damaged by weeks of rioting in Athens and his midnight votes on EU union austerity cuts and taxes on his people that such draconian measures might lead to Greeks demanding a return to the drachma. He tossed the future of his government into the air this week by requesting an up or down referendum vote by the Greek people whether they want to stay in the euro union or return to the drachma. If the referendum happens at all it may not take place until January, leaving months of financial uncertainty for Europe and the global economy. The Greek people in general view the referendum with cynicism feeling damned if they do stay with the euro because that would lock in the austerity debt reduction programs, or damned if they don’t stay with the euro, for that brings default and economic collapse. Before any referendum can go forward, the Papandreou government may be soon out of a job because they face a no-confidence vote this Friday

Greeks rioted in Athens off and on since June 2011 over draconian austerity measures announced by their government to keep the country from economic collapse.

Rumor has it in Athens that the no confidence vote will be a Greek tragedy in the making, dooming the Papandreou government. Greeks will then gather to the ballot boxes on a temporary break from national strikes and rioting to vote in a new government with unknown consequences. The 17 nations using the euro currency wait for the no-confidence vote coming Friday. Papendreou’s defeat would threaten Greek default if voters reject his government. In the meantime, the euro’s value falls. Chinese manufacturing slows and as European bankers sneeze, Wall Street catches the cold depression with a nearly 300 point drop in the Dow Jones Tuesday, which together with Monday’s plunge totals one of the worst two-day drops since August 2011 when America lost its top credit status.

The disastrous black Monday and Tuesday market drops on Halloween and All Soul’s Day are perhaps a reaction in the markets to the first US investment bank casualty of euro uncertainty, MF Global, which filed for bankruptcy early this week after disclosing a euro debt of $6.4 billion. It is the seventh largest bankruptcy by assets in US history. Thus shares in Deutcshe Bank and JPMorgan, its chief creditors, took a dive at the news because MF Global owes them 2.2 billion. It smells like the beginning of a US banking crisis the likes of which happened in 2008, though this time caused by a financial crisis outside of America. MF Global may be the new Lehman Brothers causing a Lehman-like Lemming charge of bankster hamsters over the insolvency cliff if (when) Greece defaults.

A year ago, I wrote about the American economy’s susceptibility to a euro banking crisis as the key to a return to double-dip recession. I have described our current economic era as a Cold Depression. The global economy since the Great Recession began in 2008 is like a cold war in a standoff mode, perhaps for decades to come. Just one wrong move in the markets or in banking circles or in nations like Greece, or Italy defaulting on their debts can make along and cold depression go suddenly “hot” like the Great Depression of the 1930s. In my essay published on 21 December 2010, I pinpointed the Cold Depression’s economic hot spots that are comparable to regional hot spots one saw in the US-Soviet standoff of decade’s duration:

The new “Middle East” of a Cold Depression is the EU and the United States. The world will focus on them, obsess on their gridlocked stances on economic issues, etc. and worry that these monetary and industrial flash points can heat the whole Cold Depression hot for everyone else if the rest of the world doesn’t get more involved in helping them settle their disputes.

Cold Depressions will have “money wars”. The Fed tampering with US dollar devaluation and frictions about the Chinese Renminbi being too undervalued, are factors for economic crisis moving beyond the window I predicted opening in October 2010, deep into the times of 2011 to 2012.

Predictions for 2011
A Cold Depression, like a Cold War

2012 is coming. The Maya may have marked it as history’s real turn of the millennium. The rest of the prophetic time clocks may have been wrong by a dozen years. It certainly seems that way with euro banks foundering to riverbanks flooding, super-cell tornados rampaging. Typhoons hitting countries like the Philippines with a one-two punch in invasions of storm less than four days apart.

What is happening? Have the Mayan prophecies been vindicated or will we make 2012 one of the most significant years in human memory because of our actions leading to apocalyptic as well as revelatory reactions?

Right now my oracle has me feverishly working on a forecast for next year that will appear in my next new e-book Predictions for 2012.

John Hogue
(02 November 2011)

PS—I will end today’s article inviting you all to meditate on one of my favorite sayings of Zorba the Greek related by the narrator character of Nikos Kazantzakis’ classic novel:

The reverse side of the Nikos Kazantzakis €10 Greek coin minted in 2007, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of the author of “Zorba the Greek” and “The Last Temptations of Christ”.

“The aim of man and matter is to create joy, according to Zorba – others would say ‘to create spirit,’ but that comes to the same thing on another plane. But why? With what object? And when the body dissolves, does anything at all remain of what we have called the soul? Or does nothing remain, and does our unquenchable desire for immortality spring, not from the fact that we are immortal, but from the fact that during the short span of our life we are in the service of something immortal?”

Seven Billion by Halloween and the Future of Food

John Hogue — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:50:43 +0000

Graphic showing seven billion people on Earth, half of which crowd urban areas.

Friends,
Some demographer wag has estimated that when the kiddies are in costume looking for tricks or candy treats this coming Monday on Halloween Night there will be born a future little “Halloweener” somewhere on this planet that will break the population sound barrier, as it were. He or she will push the pedal to the metal or our apocalyptically quickening times to a speed of “Mac 7” – as in Seven billion people sucking out the dwindling resources of this ecologically overwhelmed planet. The “trick” will be, how we can “treat a sustainable future for that child where his or her belly will be nourished with food and his or her body will receive fresh water and adequate clothing. Will his or her mind be educated properly or dulled by disease and famine? Will his or her hopelessness be the seed of anger and desperation as they enter their teens and twenties. Will their anger be harnessed by a hundred Hitler’s in a near future world that descends into fascism to stem the emergency of breakdowns in global food, water and hope for the swelling multitudes of Earth?

The prophetic collective message from Nostradamus to the biblical seers, from native visions to Vedic, Islamic and Buddhist visions of the future bodes ominous. In effect, they all mostly support Nostradamus’ famous warning in Century 1 Quatrain 67 of his 1550s magnum-prognosticating opus, Les Propheties:

La grand famine que ie sens approcher,
Souuent tourner, puis estre vniuerselle:
Si grande & longue qu’un viendra arracher,
Du bois racine, & l’enfant de mammelle.

The great famine which I sense approaching,
Will often turn (up in various places) then become universal:
It will be so vast and long lasting,
That (people) grab roots from the trees and children from the breast.

This is a “real” Halloween horror story an awakening of human intelligence can forestall.

Today I am posting my 16 March 2011 interview for Raw Epicurean.net. It was written days after the great Japanese quake and tsunami shattered, then flooded out of existence, thousands of acres of Japanese farmlands along with claiming nearly 30,000 victims. The Fukushima nuclear reactor crisis further tainted surviving agricultural lands and put into doubt the fishing grounds off the northeast coast of the main (Honshu) Island in the Japanese archipelago.

Much of the farmlands of Queensland Australia had already been flooded by cyclones of record-breaking size and ferocity in January 2011. Central China’s winter grain crop had also failed due to bad weather.

Soon after Japan lost much of its agricultural crops near Sendai to the tsunami, the supercharged, globally warming spring rains and deadly tornado season flooded the Mississippi and Missouri river systems in the American bread basket states that are pivotal for feeding the planet. Hundreds of thousands of acres of corn and wheat fields were drowned along with many other foodstuffs.

Summer came, burned, and desiccated the peanut, corn and wheat crops of Texas to the tune of a five billion dollar loss. Then came the typhoons in Asia inundating the rice fields from Southeast China to the Philippines and Vietnam. Then came a monsoon torrent that by itself, and without cyclonic storms, drowned the crops of eastern India and nearly all of Thailand in the worst monsoon floods of a half-century. As I write this, the deluge has run down the rivers into Thailand’s capital. Bangkok streets are underwater.

The impact on rising food prices and threats of famine for 2012 is a major theme in my upcoming e-book Predictions for 2012. These fundamental problems arising from food either being drowned or destroyed by a more violent climate or food surviving the onslaught becoming too expensive for the vast majority of its seven billion people has pretty much fallen off the radar of ratings and interest of the mainstream corporate news. Certainly, other stories concern us now: the loss of American leadership and credibility in finding economic solutions to its debt problems. After Greece a deepening EU banking crisis concerning Italy and Spain all point to a slide back into double-digit recession by the end of this year or early in 2012. The year 2011 keeps pace as the year of 12 disasters with yet another deadly major quake, magnitude 7.2, this time in Van, Turkey.

Yet, worldwide food prices continue to rise, because of historic flooding and droughts in the precious cornucopia of wheat and cornfields in Australia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and North America. The impact of all this strikes like a hammer on the alarm bell of population passing beyond sustainable levels this Halloween. That night we dress up as ghosts and play act scaring and being scared; yet, Halloween 2011 will mark something really scary. Tens of millions of those in costume playing skeletal ghosts today could become skeletal ghosts of famine by the tens of millions, perhaps billions, in the coming decades.

This milestone of 7 billion consumers was on my mind when back on March 16, I typed my response to Ingrid Weithers-Barati’s questions for our Raw Epicurean interview. It contains my oracle’s original take on the threat and solutions. I think it is best timed to share these passages with you again, on the eve of Halloween’s seven billionth child.

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INGRID (Weithers-Barati): I read your January 31st post “Revolution in Egypt: From Food to Global Fuel Crisis”. You mentioned David Brinkley and his thought on future food crisis. Great article.

HOGUE
Thank you.

INGRID: Picking up where we left off just over a year ago, and all that has happened since then with big agribusiness via senate passing bills, pesticides, and genetically engineered “food”, it seems our current food system is leading us down a dangerous path toward an emergency with food sustainability and security. I wonder are we already there?

HOGUE
We are already there; however, not primarily for the reasons you cited above. These are peripheral to the fundamental problem: we cannot sustain our current growing food demand on a dwindling and rapidly degrading agricultural supply.

The FAO estimates the world will need to produce 70 percent more food by 2050. The miraculous expansion of our crop yields in the last 50 years came from technological advances in what has been hailed as a Green Revolution in food production.

This near-miraculous advance in harvest volume could match our multiplying billions up to our entry into the 21st century. It could absorb our hunger demand at least to sustain a population of 5 billion in the late 1980s jumping to 6 billion in 1999, jumping again in the current year of 2011 to 7 billion.

If you would permit me to take a simile about food sustainability down an unorthodox path, the Green Revolution’s advances could absorb our hunger like the Ganges River in India famously absorbs human and industrial pollution. It has been scientifically proven that the Ganges with its loamy mud bottom is particularly unique in its ability to bear, filter out and purify itself of the burden of human and industrial waste. This fact may be one of the objective reasons why many tens of millions who live upon its crowded banks believe the water of the Ganges is “holy.”

With the turn of the century, something changed. The holy Ganges’ “hole” in which people dumped their filth and forgot it, ignoring the consequences of what happens downstream, has reached a critical mass of mess. Now large sections of the river are dead, other sections dry out for part of the year from over water use.

Food is like a river pouring out of the cornucopia made from our technological advances in agriculture. Around the same time the Ganges started going fowl, the river of food sustenance could no longer absorb our growing dump-and-forget of our hunger demands upon it. Our cornucopia cannot increase the flow. Our current understanding of how to increase crop yields can no longer satiate our growing number of hungry mouths to feed. People expect technology to refresh the Cornucopia, make it larger. Each person looking primarily to his or her own immediate sustenance only. They throw hunger into the river, letting the threat of an oncoming global famine “flow”, as it were, down a river of denial.

I understand that describing human hunger as a form of pollution is unusual, but new ages require new definitions from which new solutions can be created. The unconsciousness of our voracious appetite is a kind of pollution that is inhuman. It is fine for an animal not burdened with sentience to mechanically, instinctively eat and breed to abandon because natural forces beyond its mindless control will cull and decimate the species through the destruction of the range it creates, automatically restoring balance.

The bark beetle mindlessly destroys its forest resource. Lightning strikes, and the forest with the host of beetles is burnt down. The beetle population is decimated and new forest growth begins unhindered.

Instinct, then, is just a cog in Mother Nature’s unconscious balancing mechanism. Yet, this lingering habit of instinct, which is perfectly natural for an unconscious animal, carried over to human beings is perverse, because humans are gifted with a sentience that could understand what animals cannot. They can perceive the need to manage their population so that it grows in balance with the resources available.

A human behaving like a bark beetle, mindlessly populating and devouring its range to the point of crisis, thus setting itself for natural decimation cannot call him or herself, fully human. On the one hand we take too much of its water and on the other our genetic tampering could make the river of our food flow sterile by disrupting the fertility of seeds in unknown ways. We are spoilers of that river; carelessly dumping our hunger demand into the river of food production is like an inhuman act of pollution, like a beetle destroying the forest. The beetle cannot help itself. The human potentially can. That is why I am calling this human abuse today something more than exhausting or mutating a resource river of sustenance. It is pollutingly ugly, because it is animal-like, un-thought out, unintelligent.

Act like a bark beetle or a rat and you will die like bark beetles and rats, humanity.

Use that big brain, and you will not die like rats. You will live like human beings, aware of yourselves and your place as guardians and sustainers of balance in Mother Nature’s world.

Voracious appetite is animal.

Harmony is a human trait.

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John Hogue
(26 October 2011)

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Assessing my Midterm Election Predictions–Part 2

John Hogue — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:02:51 +0000

Politics creates strange dancing partners in the upcoming 112th US Congress that will end in the year 12 of the 21st century, otherwise known as the Mayan Calendar year 2012. Woooo wooooo! But seriously, who is producing this "dance"-capade for the voters to cast their ballot on the best dancing team. Who is funding this real "Dancing (with the Left and Right-wing) stars"? ANSWER: Politicorp. Read about them in my upcoming e-Book "Predictions for 2011."

Friends,
I haven’t had much gas left in the word tank to pump you up with part two of my midterm election predictions assessment since my last blog posting back on 8 November. Eight days passed. In them I typed 30,000 words into a rough draft of Predictions for 2011.

I want to post this blog before birthing this book takes me away again. Now here is part two of my midterm prediction assessment.

If you like, you can review all the midterm prophecies by clicking on 2010 midterm election predictions).

Here we go. First in bold font the predictions, followed by my assessments:

Just under five months ago, I expanded upon my midterm election prophecy in the blog article Uranus Retrograde: Chaos we can believe in? In the following passage I spoke of the key astrological influence of Uranus (the ruler of change) retreating while the ruler of status quo limitations and conservative reality checks advanced towards the midterms:

“Starting 7 July [the day of this blog's posting] and intensifying by 21 July, Uranus retreats to its place in a very powerful grand T square with Pluto in Capricorn opposing Saturn in Libra (status quo and reality checks). Pluto in Capricorn defines a generational age, an era of systemic crisis leading either to global civil disorder and fascism or democracy’s renewal between now and the first months of 2024.

“We will be feeling the influence of this powerful T square throughout the summer in extreme heat waves, floods, violent weather, hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons. I would be pleasantly surprised if the world does not endure a major seismic disaster or two between now and Halloween — metaphorical earthquakes that are political, economic and literally seismic.

“A thread of destiny pulls backwards out of the T Square in the guise of Uranus in retrograde, starting mid August, retreating into the spacey sign of Pisces. Expect to see civilization’s rug pulled underfoot starting in mid-August, shaking things up when hidden enemies to change — our collective conditioned reflexes against it — pop out from the undercurrent of mass unconscious from August through to the Christmas Holiday Season. Then Uranus goes direct course on 6 December 2010.”

I then added this assessment on November 1 about the above:

The summer [of 2010] certainly had its share of lingering triple-digit heat waves, tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones. Christchurch, New Zealand was hit by a 7-magnitude temblor. Another 7.7 magnitude quake off Sumatra pushed a tsunami washing away many villages yet as significant as these are, they are not the kind of large scale seismic events seen earlier this year in Chile and Haiti. The year 2010 during the Uranus retrograde did endure a historic natural disaster of another kind. A lingering monsoon deluge flooded a fourth of Pakistan displacing 25 million people.

ASSESSMENT (Note: all of these come from 17 November 2010)
The summer of 2010 did endure triple-digit heat waves in North America. Monsoon floods inundated a quarter of Pakistan displacing upwards of 25 million people. Typhoons, such as Megi were severe. The North American tornado season continued late into the summer. America from coast to coast endured in October the strongest nationwide wave of non-tropical, low-pressured storm fury yet recorded. What also began in July with the retrograde was momentum lost by Obama and the Democrats as the Tea Party rebellion and Tea Party candidates began their surge that shook the House of Representatives out of Democratic control of the full US Congress.

A Tea Party interpreter would say the hidden enemy to change is president and Democrat majorities in Congress who only talked of change but didn’t do enough to turn the country around in the short space of two years. The Democratic interpretation would counter that forces of a no-saying, status quo elements worked to undermine progressive forward progress. There was ever a bureaucratic resistance on the one hand and billions poured into right wing candidate coffers on the other by big business to fund a propaganda campaign that effectively twisted Obama’s successes.

This issue is examined in great detail in three of my twelve chapters in Predictions for 2011. I will say this today; the estimated 4 billion dollars flooding this midterm election from corporations only slightly favored the Republican/Tea Party candidates over the Democratic. The hidden enemy of democracy is set to manipulate the fears of both the left and the right for their own ends, which is to usurp citizen power.

There is a corporate takeover of the United States ongoing since special interests managed to hide their huge investments in 2008 into Barack Obama’s run for president. They work again, with the Supreme Court’s blessing, to hide whole corporations behind the definition of being equal “citizens” apposed to citizens of little to no means to influence elections beyond their single ballot cast, such as you or me.

What about that forecast of a political earthquake by Halloween? It will come 2 November — a day after the original date celebrating Halloween, All Soul’s Day, 1 November.

ASSESSMENT:
The political earthquake shaking up Washington in 2011 is not what it seems to simple left, center or right wing progressives. It is a generational struggle not experienced since Pluto transited Capricorn over 248 years ago. A new global power elite tries to influence both sides of the political spectrum to suppress emergent passions for freedom we see in growing middle classes of Asia and a stagnating middle class hollowing out in America.

Let us examine the astrological makeup of tomorrow’s election day [2 November 2010] — the most significant US election since the year 2000 saw Al Gore win the popular vote but lose the Electoral College vote to G.W. Bush. Perhaps a basic explanation of tomorrow’s planetary aspects might consciously rather than unconsciously influence your vote.

On Election Day, the Sun (ruler of the ego) will be in Scorpio, the sign of fundamental transformations, death and rebirth. The American world will be greatly changed after 2 November.

ASSESSMENT:
That is certainly the case. The country is going to slide to a progressively right-leaning revolution counter to Obama’s “Change we can believe in.” The liberal voters might call it a counterrevolution. I call it the Obamabacklash. He lost the thread of his narrative of change. Now he pays for it.

ASSESSMENT:
Election night was surprisingly free of rancorous acceptance and concession speeches. The rancor would begin in the following days, once everyone waiting to exhale watching the returns.

Mercury in Scorpio can also motivate mistrust. There will be a number of ballot fraud claims because of this.

ASSESSMENT:
Tea Party candidate Joe Miller threatened to legally dispute write-in ballots for incumbent Republican Alaskan Senator Murkowski. Sarah Palin’s endorsed Miller. She has had a lot of success with her endorsements of late, except in her own state where she quit the post of Alaskan governor to play Fox News pundit and reality show star (Sarah Palin’s Alaska on TLC). As of today, Miller has officially lost against Murkowski’s write-in candidacy.

There will be new excuses, some warranted and mostly not, to create new conspiracy theories on both sides of the political spectrum. The mood of mistrust will not bode well for incumbents whether it is earned or unearned. Change for change’s sake is the reasoning of Mercury tomorrow. Damn the consequences.

ASSESSMENT:
Change came undefined and as vague in the 2010 midterms, for its own sake as it did when the same mass minded energy carried Obama and the Democrats into power in 2008. The American people flailed about to the left in 2008, now they swiping and flail to the right in 2010. Prepare for a riotous congress in 2011 as the consequence.

Change for change’s sake is the reasoning of Mercury tomorrow. Damn the consequences. That’s why I think Democrat Senator’s Barbara Boxer of California and Patty Murray of Washington State are likely to lose. So is Democrat Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

ASSESSMENT:
I got Feingold right but my prediction of a loss for Murray and Boxer were wrong, though Murray won by a small margin against Rossi. Barbara Boxer’s run against Fiorina wasn’t close at all. Perhaps if I had thought less and let the Oracle I use do the talking, it would have written a more accurate observation.

Venus, (ruler of relationships) on Election Day is also in retrograde, wanting to retreating from past relationships, such as with the president who wooed her so well in 2008.

“You are not the president I married!” cries Venus in Scorpio, while under the sign of passionate yet karmic love relationships. Venus in Scorpio is in its detriment. In a political context, Venus lets passion rule reason in the American Vox Populi.

In short, Obama suffers a lover’s breakup coming on 2 November. His jilted “lover” is the American electorate. They passionately embraced the alluring if vague dream of his 2008 troubadour love song of change they could believe in. Venus in Scorpio when under such affliction can be the catalyst of a love-hate relation-abandon-ship in the works. If there is a perception of being unheard by the lover, or neglected, love can turn to hate and cold indifference. Obama’s independent swing voters followed him to the left in 08. Now watch many of the same voters, mute and indifferent to Obama’s last minute political rallies vote against his party. The thrill is gone. They lurch to the right on Election Day 2010

ASSESSMENT:
One might say Obama was served a referendum by the voting public he wooed and swept off its feet in 2008. The flighty girlish electorate has come down to earth. The relationship after the presidential inauguration’s honeymoon was not the one to which she intended to merge. Two years later, she has sent Obama a notice of separation by ballot. Obama is now suffering a marriage crisis, as it were, with the American people. Whether he will or even can resurrect himself as the great changer they can believe in is the subject of one of the longest chapters in Predictions for 2011.

There will be some Democratic Party gains in state governor elections: Cuomo in New York, geriatric Jerry Brown in California. A senate victory in Connecticut…

ASSESSMENT:
All correct predictions.

…yet Republican Pat Toomey will be a new US Senator from Pennsylvania

ASSESSMENT:
Correct. Toomey won against Democrat contender Joe Sestak.

The Republican Mark Kirk will win Obama’s Illinois Senate seat as well.

ASSESSMENT:

Correct. Mark Kirk got 48.4 % to Democrat Alexi Giannoulias’ 46.1%Tea Party candidate Rubio and Rand Paul will win a Florida and Kentucky Senate seat respectively

ASSESSMENT:
Both correct predictions.

…and I do not rule out significant roles for these Tea Party leaders, rubbing the Republican establishment raw in Washington DC.

ASSESSMENT:
I think we’ve already seen some of that role of behind the scenes influence with Senate elect Rubio and Paul twisting the arm behind closed doors of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to about-face on his stance not to support a moratorium on earmarks in legislation passed in 2011.

Impetuous Mars is in Sagittarius on Election Day. The God of war and new beginnings seeks to be carried off by the enthusiasm of the crusade of disgruntled voters. Watch their exit poll interviews. The voters will be Marian in their directness, in their Sagittarian arrow shots at Obama and the Democrats.

ASSESSMENT:
That happened.

The martial slogan, “Take back America!” will out trump the old “Change we can believe in!”

ASSESSMENT:

That happened in the House of Representatives, certainly! But the GOP-Tea Party tsunami could not manage to flood a majority back into the Senate, though the Democrat majority is slightly treading above water with 51 seats including 2 leftist-leaning independent Senators against 46 Republican-Tea Partiers. Where the Republican tsunami did drown Democrats was in 19 state legislatures switching from Dem-Blue to deep Republican red. They also made gains in state governor seats.

The new slogan ["Take back America!"] is just as vague-faith based and irrational as the old. The next two years will repeat the last two. These mantras lose their mojo exhausting themselves in their own too often uttered chant, sound and fury, signifying no significant change and definitely no America returned to normal, whatever that ill-defined, chest beaten “normal” might actually be.

ASSESSMENT:
Remember this prediction in 24 months. I will prompt it up for review after the 2012 elections in that far off future November.

Jupiter (the planet of higher expansion) on Election Day is in Pisces in retrograde conjunct wacko Uranus, also in retreat. This configuration of planets in magnified combination and retrograde can give an a more conscious individual the capacity to feel compassion and deep feeling for others, but in politics, the lowest potentials of a mob-ocracy mindset can make the voting public undisciplined, impatient, irascible, expecting too much change to come too soon. They brusquely seek to burn the bridges over from where change might finally arrive.

ASSESSMENT:
Another prediction that time will judge. I will elaborate on this vision with a detailed account in Chapter 2 of Predictions for 2011 about what we might expect in the first and second halves of the new year in a riotous US Capital.

Saturn in Libra rules the paradigm of accomplishing good through cooperation with others. When afflicted it can help a Supreme Court warp the letter of constitutional law deeming that a corporation is a human being, a citizen with equal First Amendment free speech rights like you or me who do not generally have an army of lobbyists and lawyers, or billions of dollars available to influence campaign advertisements.

ASSESSMENT:
A coup by corporations masquerading as regular citizens is underway.

These new citizens are more “equal” than you or I during this midterm election. These corporations-cum-citizens can dig deep into their deep transnational company pockets to spend a record breaking half-billion dollars on political campaigns, left-wing or right, without revealing the money bag’s location, even if the cash comes from other nations, like China, trying to influence American elections.

ASSESSMENT:
The number is in the billions of dollars actually. Unprecedented influence of multi-national “citizen” corps is now influencing your votes from 2010 onwards. It is the most significant threat to American civil and constitutional rights in my lifetime of 55 years and counting.

Without such “citizens” the Tea Party, movement would not have been taken for a ride by the Washington DC Republican establishment into the halls of power when the new US Congress convenes in early 2011.

ASSESSMENT:
One of the greatest Washington scandals in 2011 will be a revelation to what extent foreign money financed both sides in the 2010 elections but especially what flushed the Tea Party movement with multinational cash. Remember you read a heads up here.

Uranus on election day is also in dreamy, politically delusional Pisces and it will influence a collective subconscious and impractical idealism of those who would replace the vacuous Democrat mantra, “Yes we Can,” with their own simplistic mantra: “Take America back!”

ASSESSMENT:
That is what is happening. The coming six months will vindicate that contention, I’m sorry to say.

Uranus (ruler of change) retreating will influence a majority of voters to pass a mandate of anger that brings into power legislators that will avoid unpleasant challenges and realities for two years. They may keep planning for the short term, deregulate the banks, avoid the issue of establishing a functioning Health Care system, let the housing bubbles bloom, cut taxes whilst the debt bomb, buried around the corner of America’s near future like a hidden IED is waiting.

ASSESSMENT:
When all is said an done, when all the chest thumping and talking pundit head pumping is over in 24 months, little progress will have happened. We’re heading for a split Congress, for gridlock. It will lead to the most fractured presidential election since 1860. I speak at length about the future scenarios of entangling candidacies for 2012 in Predictions for 2011.

Uranus in retrograde will, “Drill baby, drill!” past oil’s peak. There will be no talk of real sacrifice to gain America’s energy independence. The world’s weather will keep changing. Mother Nature’s fevers will rise but denial of global warming will reach even higher temperature levels. America will waste two years it and the world can ill afford to lose. It will not be a leader in the defense against increasing Climate Change unless the President finds that voice as well and leads us there with a public pressuring for congressional support.

The people tomorrow [2 November 2010] will vote in a historic two years of political gridlock on pressing global issues, such as climate change just as the tipping points of our civilization’s unsustainable consumption of Earth’s resources approach.

ASSESSMENT:
Climate change is the great game changer on all levels of human life and hopes of or fears about the future. Obama must turn the tide of the man I predicted that came to his destiny too soon. Change comes unripe. The year 2011 is critical. Obama must “change” and grow up, or fail as I detail in Predictions for 2011.

Neptune retrograde in Aquarius is like a fog on Election Day, throwing caution and reason aside. The irrational vote is king and crazy talk is the language, paranoia and conspiracies the projection.

Speaking of the heroically crazy, Delaware Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell the reformed masturbating witch of Bill Maher’s 1990s show Politically Incorrect will lose her Senate election bid but gain a seat at Maher’s TV panel table.

ASSESSMENT:
Correct. She lost big time in the election as one of the Tea Party embarrassments. We’ll see if she appears on Bill Maher. That’s a real prophetic long shot.

However, there is another contestant running for the unofficial title of weirdest candidate most likely to embarrass herself in the hallowed halls of the US Senate. Yes folks, Sharron Angle, will defeat incumbent Democrat Majority Leader, Harry Reid tomorrow unless Las Vegas can rig the election in his favor.

ASSESSMENT:
Wrong. She lost receiving 44.6 % to Reid’s 50.2. It was a margin of 40,000 votes. I would say though that Harry Reid “did” get his political machine high rolling in the capital of casinos that the mafia built. There was the million-dollar last-minute media blitz. We will find what IOU’s Reid got politically paid and to what extent he had to pay politically karmic IOU’s to corporate interests to retain his seat. There’s a scandal waiting for him in 2011. The Republican opposition will exploit it to deflect attention to their own corporate whoredom.

Last but not least to explain what is the astrological background on election day. This is year two of an era starting in 2008 setting the stage for a history show that won’t exhaust its run until 2024. I speak of the transit of Pluto through the sign of Capricorn. Pluto last passed through Capricorn just shy of 250 years ago. It enjoyed the theater of another Tea Party movement consisting just as the modern day variant did of predominantly white folk, faces painted, clad in exotic costumes, causing a ruckus.

The first Tea Party dressed like American Indians, hatcheting and flinging wooden boxes of tea off British ships in Boston harbor to protest taxation without representation. They also tarred and feathered folk who didn’t agree with them or supported English trade.

The new Tea Party isn’t drop-kicking tea boxes but it will help the Republican party pitch over the side a historic number of incumbents.

ASSESSMENT:
The Democrats lost 67 seats in the House of Representatives in the largest sweep since the Democrats added 75 seats in 1948. The GOP won 6 seats in the Senate dramatically shrinking the Democrat majority there. The GOP took 5 state governor seats from the Democrats. More than 100 new freshman House Representatives are coming to the Capital next year. The election was an incumbent turkey shoot.

THE FINAL ASSESSMENT:
This was my first try at mid-term election forecasting. My oracular strong suit is presidential elections, based on victory by popular vote. So far, after 11 tries since 1968, I have had 11 successes.

So let’s review how I did for Midterm election forecasts:

WHAT I GOT WRONG
1. Republicans win both houses of Congress.
2. Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer loses California Seat
3. Republican Sharron Angle takes Democrat Harry Reid’s Nevada Senate seat.
4. Democrat US Senator of Washington Patty Murray loses to Republican Dino Rossi.

WHAT I GOT RIGHT

1. Republicans sweep the House of Representatives.
2. There will be a historic sweep of incumbents out of office.
3. Democrat Cuomo wins New York governor’s seat.
4. Republican Toomey beats Sestak in Pennsylvania’s US Senate bid.
5. Tea Party candidate Rand Paul wins US Senate Kentucky seat.
6. Tea Party candidate Rubio wins US Senate Florida seat.
7. Republican Christine O’Donnell loses bid to win Delaware’s US Senate set.
8. Republican Kirk wins Obama’s old Illinois US Senate seat.
9. Jerry Brown will be California’s new governor.
10. Russ Feingold loses his Wisconsin US Senate seat.
11. The midterm elections will be a referendum on President Obama.
12. Democrats win the US Senate seat in Connecticut.

I would say there were a number of other prophetic successes that time will bare out, but if we just look at the most objectively verifiable 16 predictions, I got 4 wrong and 12 correct. I scored a 75-percent accuracy for my first oracular stab at a US mid-term election forecast.

John Hogue

(17 November 2010)

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Midterm Election Predictions

John Hogue — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:14:19 +0000

Friends,
Exactly one year ago, in Predictions for 2010, I documented on 1 November 2009 the following:

“When making my occult enquiries to the oracle I received this message. The road to a second term [for President Obama] is successfully ventured despite what the contentious Democrat legislators and president promise but do not deliver. It has far more to do with the Republican Party losing further seats to Democrats in 2010 because the GOP (the Grand Old Party) devolves farther to the right. The GOP wants to go rogue elephant led by its most ideologically dogmatic core followers marching to the pied piper tunes of the likes of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, right-wing radio rishi Rush Limbaugh and television’s new Mormon messenger Angel Moron-ee, Glen Beck.”

Many of you have been writing me, asking if I would change this prediction.

Let me make this clear, I do not take back this prophecy.

Time and events catching up to my oracle’s cryptic prediction make clear to me what the message of that prophecy was.

The Republicans WILL lose seats in tomorrow’s midterm election. Seats that they will in time surrender to the Democrats two years hence.

The Republicans are not going to win both the House of Representatives “and” the US Senate by one or two seats tomorrow on midterm election day.

The help of candidates of the Tea Party movement will win these seats. They will carry the Republicans on their backs to a breathtaking protest referendum victory against Barack Obama’s first two years in office.

Obama is perceived as being big on wooing and lofty talk about change, but has presented little in “do” and accomplishments.

This is not actually true but truth in politics is irrelevant.

Perception is truth in politics.

Obama has not yet learned how to sustain political momentum and thus his presidency suffers a major midterm setback. I have said since early 2007 that Barack Obama if elected in 2008 will come to his destiny too soon without enough seasoning and maturity. It is better to come to your destiny too soon rather than too late, but coming too soon can see you stumble greatly rather than become a great president.

On 2 November 2010, watch Obama stumble. Greatly!

Obama has the audacity if not yet the reality to hope that he is a great communicator. The cerebral President “Spock” missed an opportunity in his first year in office to gather emotional capital from the American people. The kind of capital of emotional engagement that could have carried him through setbacks in his agenda and found an American people more patient and forgiving by the midterms. Franklin Roosevelt during the last great economic crisis had made that connection. Despite the scandals, the unfulfilled political promises to get America beyond the Great Depression, the equally cerebral Roosevelt learned early on to cultivate an emotional bond with his suffering people in his fireside radio chats. A majority of the people were with him and willing to share his struggles to bring change and better times. Obama, once in office seemed to lose interest or lose focus in that emotional connection.

I remember Obama in 2008 famously criticizing Republican candidate Senator John McCain for not being able to multitask. Desperate to capture the youth vote, he recently appeared on Jon Stewart’s fake news show for Comedy Central giving a rather lame excuse for losing public engagement as if it sounded to me like it was low in priority and the president and his very busy administration were to busy pushing their legislation forward and just didn’t have time.

Obama does not feel our pain in these economically dire times nor has he yet found his voice or figured out how to use this crisis to galvanize citizens to action. That doesn’t mean he won’t learn his lesson after tomorrow’s historic shocker.

In tomorrow’s midterm election, he will lose the House and by the slightest of margins, lose the Senate too.

Make no mistake, though. The Republicans have not “gained” these two houses of Congress.

The Tea Party Caucus will tip the balance for them and the Republican establishment riding rough-shod on the backs of Tea Party anger will take back the gavels of House and Senate halls at the high price of making a Faustian deal with a third party rebellion that will not be tamed.

The Republican establishment rides a mandate of anger. It is a negative and destructive political force if it stays angry. I predict now, as I did exactly one year ago in the following from Predictions for 2010 that an opposition party divided against itself paves the way for a two-term Obama administration. To prevent this happening the GOP has to learn how to adapt its platform to these irrational times.

“The [oracle's] message…is this: we’ve entered for better and worse a more politically socialist era. US Conservatism has a future in this new era. Accessing that future will depend on how long conservatives wish to hold on to the last era’s fundamentally religious and economically Reaganite dogmas keeping them out of power and influence. Depending on the choices made in the 2010 and 2012 elections, conservatives who still identify with the Republican Party could be out of power for two to three presidential four-year cycles.

“The conservative movement in America will eventually morph into something more English and Tory-like in this new socialist era. The Republican Party may not remain the bastion of conservative ideas but a cult of the sharply right wing fringe. A new conservatism will reject many of the great givens of the past, such as President Reagan becoming the head of a government that was the problem, not the answer. Why become head of that which is not the answer? Anyway, seeking to become anti-government government presidents and legislators is an oxymoronic idea about to be oxy-cleaned from the future as an anachronism. In a new century of deepening chaos, a fresh conservatism could defend social and economic order with rationality and logic. Change is the catchword for our times now. Conservatives will someday contribute a new idea of Change that’s more than hoped for and believed.”

Just under five months ago, I expanded upon my midterm election prophecy in the blog article Uranus Retrograde: Chaos we can believe in? In the following passage I spoke of the key astrological influence of Uranus (the ruler of change) retreating while the ruler of status quo limitations and conservative reality checks advanced towards the midterms:

The summer certainly had its share of lingering triple-digit heat waves, tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones. Christchurch, New Zealand was hit by a 7 magnitude temblor. Another 7.7 magnitude quake off Sumatra pushed a tsunami washing away many villages yet as significant as these are, they are not the kind of large scale seismic events seen earlier this year in Chile and Haiti. The year 2010 during the Uranus retrograde did endure a historic natural disaster of another kind. A lingering monsoon deluge flooded a fourth of Pakistan displacing 25 million people.

What about that forecast of a political earthquake by Halloween?

It will come 2 November — a day after the original date celebrating Halloween, All Soul’s Day, 1 November.

Let us examine the astrological makeup of tomorrow’s election day — the most significant US election since the year 2000 saw Al Gore win the popular vote but lose the Electoral College vote to G.W. Bush. Perhaps a basic explanation of tomorrow’s planetary aspects might consciously rather than unconsciously influence your vote.

On Election Day, the Sun (ruler of the ego) will be in Scorpio, the sign of fundamental transformations, death and rebirth. The American world will be greatly changed after 2 November.

Mercury is also in Scorpio and it is sextiled (positively aspecting) the Moon (ruler of emotions) in Virgo. The minds of voters might be moderated by the Moon’s discernment to temper sharp and harsh language, such as what one sees on the placards against Obama in Tea Party rallies or in the angry rancor of leftists and rightists grappling for sound bytes and scratches on Cable TV talking “head job” shows. Mercury in Scorpio can also motivate mistrust. There will be a number of ballot fraud claims because of this. There will be new excuses, some warranted and mostly not, to create new conspiracy theories on both sides of the political spectrum. The mood of mistrust will not bode well for incumbents whether it is earned or unearned. Change for change’s sake is the reasoning of Mercury tomorrow. Damn the consequences. That’s why I think Democrat Senator’s Barbara Boxer of California and Patty Murray of Washington State are likely to lose. So is Democrat Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

Venus, (ruler of relationships) on Election Day is also in retrograde, wanting to retreating from past relationships, such as with the president who wooed her so well in 2008.

There will be some Democratic Party gains in state governor elections: Cuomo in New York, geriatric Jerry Brown in California. A senate victory in Connecticut, yet Republican Pat Toomey will be a new US Senator from Pennsylvania. The Republican Mark Kirk will win Obama’s Illinois Senate seat as well. Tea Party candidate Rubio and Rand Paul will win a Florida and Kentucky Senate seat respectively and I do not rule out significant roles for these Tea Party leaders, rubbing the Republican establishment raw in Washington DC.

The martial slogan, “Take back America!” will out trump the old “Change we can believe in! “

The new slogan is just as vague-faith based and irrational as the old. The next two years will repeat the last two. These mantras lose their mojo exhausting themselves in their own too often uttered chant, sound and fury, signifying no significant change and definitely no America returned to normal, whatever that ill-defined, chest beaten “normal” might actually be.

The people tomorrow will vote in a historic two years of political gridlock on pressing global issues, such as climate change just as the tipping points of our civilization’s unsustainable consumption of Earth’s resources approach.

Neptune retrograde in Aquarius is like a fog on Election Day, throwing caution and reason aside. The irrational vote is king and crazy talk is the language, paranoia and conspiracies the projection.

Speaking of the heroically crazy, Delaware Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell the reformed masturbating witch of Bill Maher’s 1990s show Politically Incorrect will lose her Senate election bid but gain a seat at Maher’s TV panel table. However, there is another contestant running for the unofficial title of weirdest candidate most likely to embarrass herself in the hallowed halls of the US Senate. Yes folks, Sharron Angle, will defeat incumbent Democrat Majority Leader, Harry Reid tomorrow unless Las Vegas can rig the election in his favor.

The new Tea Party isn’t drop-kicking tea boxes but it will help the Republican party pitch over the side a historic number of incumbents.

It is possible that this new Tea Party movement, like the older one will rapidly move out of its punk rock, feathered and fussing tear-it-all-down phase and let more rational, intelligent and moderate revolutionaries be the founding fathers and mothers of the next Pluto-in-Capricorn American Revolution.

In the 2010 elections and for at least a year further on, the third party movement in America continues its cranky “baby” phase. Like a baby it is impatient, thinking the problems of the land can be fixed by pie-in-the-sky Obamagoguery in 08, yet in two short years starts crying, screaming and throwing tantrums.

It seems to me that baby talk slogans and baby mindedness dominates this first chewed toy block wedge thrust between the Republican-Democrat duopoly. The new political babies with their loud shrieks and crying have stifled a more mature majority who are just like parents who sometimes withdraw into mute and nervous exhaustion trying to comfort a bawling, spoiled child who will not be comforted.

“I want my change I can believe in!!! Boo hoo hoo!”

“I want to take back America!!! Waaah!”

Pre-school politics dominate the opening years of what could eventually become a movement that unites rather than divides Americans. On the other hand, if this tantrum continues in the Congress-turned-political daycare after 2 November 2010 and the silent majority of more moderate parental voices do not hush the crybaby movement’s bawling, the future of America’s political discourse will be an orphan.

John Hogue

(01 November 2010)

Predictions for the End of 2010

John Hogue — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:22:38 +0000

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.

***

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.

Uranus Retrograde: Chaos we can believe in?

John Hogue — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:04:18 +0000

A New Line Cinema movie still of Arwen, played by Liv Tyler, from the adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien epic, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. (For those of you who speak Sindarin: "Gerich veleth nîn, Undómiel." Concerning our future, dear readers, I would add: "A si i-Dhúath ú-orthor, Edain nîn. Ú or le a ú or nin. Telin le thaed. Lasto beth nîn, tolo dan nan galad.")

I am reminded of Arwen Undómiel, atop her horse, draped in radiant blue and silver riding robes, lost in bittersweet recollection. She moves in a train of other Elves of Rivendell on horseback or on foot, quietly passing down a wooded path on their way to the Gray Havens. She and her regal entourage will catch a ride on the last magical boats setting sail into the West, for the Elvish earthly paradise of Valinor.

A child runs by. Crossing their path. No other Elf notices him but Arwen. Her eyes follow the child’s passage through the forest and into the pale light illuminating white stone walls of an arched balcony of Minas Tirith. The child runs with arms outstretched into a future waiting 30 years hence. There is the mortal man, Aragorn, her beloved. He has become Elessar, King of Gondor. His hair turned silver in the first colors of his approaching mortality, yet his face as recognizable in recent memory as if it were youth’s yesterday.

Aragorn happily sweeps the child up into his arms. The father whispers unheard tenderness to the child, who looks across time back upon Arwen. He is wearing her necklace given to Aragon as gift and testimony of her glad decision to renounce Elvish immortality for a mortal life full of love albeit lived short. The child lowers his chin and his grey eyes penetrate into Arwen’s soul. Her inner voice whispers his name, “Eldarion…” In the child’s gaze of intense and urgent sheen is an unspoken message, “Make this future happen.”

Those of you who saw this scene of a future’s potential in the movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, might recall Arwen turning her horse around, galloping back into bare branches winter-wreathing Elvish grounds and archways of the chateau of Rivendell. She would have a deep throated and breathy showdown with her auguring father, Elrond, about potential futures kept secret.

“I have looked into your future and I only see death!” dismisses Elrond.

“But there is also life,” replies Arwen. “You saw there was a child. You saw my son.”

Elrond sits down heavily. With downcast eye, he admits, “That future is almost gone.”

Long fingers tenderly clasp his chin and turn a face saddened by the ages close to hers. She gazes a bright and urging look, whispering, “But not lost…”

I will not spoil the story’s outcome for a handful of people left on the planet who may not have seen the three-part adaptations of Peter Jackson’s production of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.

The myth of Arwen’s Vision has a Norn’s rope-thread of truth to it. There is not one future, preordained. Prophets gifted with foresight who are not in some way bound by social conditioning to promote a future preordained that is religio-politically correct down to the last event written in on unchangeable stone, will bear witness to an undiscovered proto-reality. They see a state of future remain stone-like constant only as long as people giving birth to it in the eternity of the present remain as stupid and unmoved to change as stones.

The future has in stock many tomorrows. One sees this in evidence in Nostradamus’ writings. He delivered two tomorrows for the King of France, Henry II, in the first volume of his magnum opus Les Propheties. One of them was so controversial that Henry II summoned Nostradamus to court near Paris to explain himself. Actually, it was Queen Catherine de’ Medici who nagged him to send for that Nostradamus fellow. She made acquaintances with magicians and prophets to see towards what destiny her athletic, handsome (but a bit intellectually slow) husband inclined.

We know nothing of what Nostradamus said in the private meeting in the summer of 1555; however, he left an honored man. It is therefore safe to say that he drew the King and Queen Catherine de’ Medici’s attention not only to the notorious death-by-jousting prophecy of Century 1 Quatrain 35, but also might have drawn the king’s attention to two quatrains (2 Q79 and 4 Q34) visualizing an alternative future hidden under a rather obvious anagram Chyren Selin.

Chyren is “Henryc” (Henry). Selin is (Selene–Moon). Henry II used the letter “H” with the horizontal bar displaying the crescent moon on his royal livery. You can read the Chyren Selin prophecies in chapter seven (under the sub-section entitled, Before the Court and Public Opinion) in the following book: click on Nostradamus biography.

Henry II of France.

In brief, Nostradamus in his Chyren Selin quatrains had the king try on a future where he did not die in a jousting tournament but became the second Charlemagne of France, because he lived on and forestalled religious civil wars between Catholic and Protestant French subjects. Henry at the head of a unified and powerfully renewed French realm would then go to war with the Habsburgs, conquer the northern half of Italy, incorporating the heart of the Renaissance world into France.

The alternative to death by jousting obviously appealed to the king’s vanity, yet he was a true jock at heart and later famously admitted that to die from the hand of a fellow noble in a ritual combat accident was not a bad way to depart this mortal coil. He chose that future, albeit unconsciously perhaps.

The vision of a second Charlemagne was not completely lost until Henry II died from mortal wounds received in a tournament at the end of June 1559. His untimely death to the Charlemagne time line set forward a whole number of futures Nostradamus wished to prevent. These included the religious civil wars of France that one by one brought tragedy and often violent ends to the life of Henry’s heirs and many of the French realm’s leading princes as pre-chronicled by Nostradamus to his everlasting legacy as one of history’s greatest prophets.

Today (5 July 2010), Uranus, the ruler of the potential futures of change or chaos in astrological auguring starts creeping backwards in the sky. Uranus backtracks on a 0 degree path in the sign of Aries (a future of either new creative enterprises, beginnings, or new headstrong upheavals).

Starting 7 July (the day of this blog’s posting) and intensifying by 21 July, Uranus retreats to its place in a very powerful grand T square with Pluto in Capricorn opposing Saturn in Libra (status quo and reality checks). Pluto in Capricorn defines a generational age, an era of systemic crisis leading either to global civil disorder and fascism or democracy’s renewal between now and the first month of 2024.

We will be feeling the influence of this powerful T square throughout the summer in extreme heat waves, floods, violent weather, hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons. I would be pleasantly surprised if the world does not endure a major seismic disaster or two between now and Halloween — metaphorical “earthquakes” that are political, economic and literally seismic.

A thread of destiny pulls backwards out of the T Square in the guise of Uranus in retrograde, starting mid August, retreating into the spacey sign of Pisces. Expect to see civilization’s rug pulled underfoot starting in mid-August, shaking things up when hidden enemies to change — our collective conditioned reflexes against it — pop out from the undercurrent of mass unconscious from August through to the Christmas Holiday Season. Then Uranus goes direct course on 6 December 2010.

Uranus riding backwards in the sky has given me a Liv Tyler moment that could make Viggo Mortensen’s hair go Aragorn-gray, not in 30 years but in a day. It is an alternative future to the one proposed in Predictions for 2010. I withheld speaking of it until it bore signs of possibly Ar-wending its way into the present by 2 November, the day of the US mid-term elections.

Here in part is the future with the most momentum for fulfillment logged in Predictions for 2010:

Personally, I think the oracle is going way out on a limb; however, it has often crawled out there on a thin branch of reason and plucked the apple of tomorrow’s events without breaking the branch and falling. There may be a game of musical chairs afoot with pitchfork primaries flinging out the old lobbyist-haymakers for new blood.

And therein lies my crystal ball rubbing into clarity an alternative future.

I have seen this future but felt not to discuss it because it was, as Elrond might say, “almost gone.” But this time around Arwen is running up the stairs, throwing off her riding cloak to reveal an all too mortal form of a middle age woman with honey roll buns covered by a red, white and blue spandex jump suit with an overly large “Rand Paul for Senate” button. I down cast my eyes to avoid seeing her once beautiful tresses cut short and curled by the local Hair Masters — the bleached blond Afro stuffed in a straw hat dangling tea bags.

I feel like Republican Party turncoat Senator Arlen Specter at a town meeting of catharting constituents.

“You have the gift of foresight,” shrieks Arwen. “Tell me what you have seen!”

“Ok, ok! Can I have the microphone back, lady? I’ll tell you all…”

The currents of destiny begin to change. I feel now compelled to set before the public this rather nasty alternative future.

This potential future is no Eldarion darling for Demopublicans right or left leaning on every prophetic word for the advancement of their ideologies. This future will bring chaos to left-right-and-center, unless a better Pluto-in-Capricorn collective understanding can be had about what unexpected and unwanted consequences can happen if mass popular forces, unconsciously guided, make mob psychology rule the votes cast in the mid-term elections.

Uranus in Pisces is change going backwards into illusion at a time when Saturn continues to progress forward through the sign of Libra the Balancer where it is harmoniously exalted. In other words, Saturn is there to illuminate what is unreal and dysfunctional in our political and economic systems so that we can repair them. For instance, the Obama “change we can believe in” movement under Saturn’s reality check must go back to the blackboard this summer and chalk up another formula for change presented to the American people in early autumn campaigns. One that Americans cannot only believe in but support with political will and momentum.

Barack Obama, if you go forward without seeing how backward your ideas of change are rapidly becoming to what really needs changing in America then your slogan, “Change we can believe in,” will soon become, “Chaos we can disbelieve in.”

Uranus rules chaos and disorder as well as change and revolution. Uranus in retrograde while Saturn is exalted in Libra (read: balanced and more conservative reality checks) means ill-conceived, advancing Fool over-the-brink liberal progress, leads to political chaos for those in power in Washington.

Or worse…

The American people will feel leaderless and unheard by those left or right leaning ideologues living inside the Washington, lobbyist-rich-elitist-loving, political bubble. A future that was almost lost is coming closer. It gathers in the momentum of national frustration and rising anger of the American people against their president, state governors and federal legislators. If the disconnection deepens it may lead to anger as a national referendum of disdain against the governing system.

In this alternative future, the Americans will shout something loud and destructive on 2 November with ballots flying. They may not intend it, but a vote to throw most incumbents out — the good, the bad and the ugly with the baby and the bathwater — could happen.

The angry American voter under incautious Uranus-in-retrograde chaos may fill the gubernatorial seats of state capitals and halls of Congress with a mob of demagogues pronouncing change as a force of political hysteria without leadership, focus or coherency. The new legislators will, to paraphrase Elrond, govern the country for the next two years in a Congress that is “scatterbrained, divided, leaderless.”

Americans might send the politically infantile and extremely eccentric to flush out the old wood. Yes, it would be a change. Chaos is change.

Americans could see an even more dysfunctional government as a result for the next 2 years — one that represents the state of the voting public: pissed off, grasping for straw votes, reaching out to swipe somebody without coherency or plan. Not conservatism or liberalism but a nasty Uranus-in-Piscean-retrograde surprise: tear-it-all-down-ism.

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Fulfilled Predictions for 2010

We passed the half-year point on 1 July. The following passages were signed off seven months earlier on 1 November 2009. The sacking of General McChrystal for his public disparaging of the Obama administration’s handling of the war in Afghanistan led to every president’s military miracle worker, General Petraeus, advancing from state-side digs in Florida as chief of CENTCOM to formally take command in Kabul on the 4th of July. Petraeus made it clear that a time of serious kick-butting al-Qaeda and the Taliban was coming. It might be a good time to review what the oracle foresaw about Afghanistan in 2010.

The Afghanistan troop call up foreseen before it was even conceived:

“I also discern with oracular help that you [Obama] have bargained with the Pentagon to affect a compromise strategy. The generals prevailed upon you to receive their 40,000-troop increase, but you will counter putting the surge on a short time leash of 18 months.”

Assessment

I originally mentioned this prophecy on Coast-to-Coast AM on 2 September 2009, publishing it 1 November 2009. The compromise to the surge did take place. Obama did announce at the end of 2009 a surge of 31,000 US troops to Afghanistan. NATO then pledged an additional 7-to-8,000 new troops to bring the surge up to 40,000. Obama added the 18-month deadline to assess and start pulling troops out, to exert deadline pressure on the Pentagon to make things happen.

Escalation in Afghanistan foreseen:

“Afghanistan under Obama is little different in popular opinion than Afghanistan under eight years of Bush indecision. The country wants the troops home, however Obama seems poised to listen to the brass and bemedaled Pentagon CEOs of the military industrial complex who want to keep the war business there going on. He’s sending a lot more troops soon, unless I’ve happily misread my oracle.” (Documented on October 26, 2009)

Assessment

My oracle was not wrong. A Bush-style troop surge was proposed signed and sealed by Obama against the popular desires of the American people. Moreover, it ran contrary to his campaign pledge to get out of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It seems Obama “has” caved to the military industrial complex’s desire to keep the war business going.

US casualties in Afghanistan for 2010 will run up the same numbers as Iraq in its darkest years of 2007

“If Obama isn’t careful, all of his good will, political capital and dreams of changing America will be squandered in an obsession of deeper involvement in Afghanistan. Obama’s change revolution undermined just like Johnson’s Great Society [was by Vietnam].

“Beware of it in 2010 Mr. Obama because I know you will raise US troop involvement in Afghanistan to its highest level. You will endure tolls of American dead and wounded per month as high as the Iraq Occupation at its peak.”

Assessment

There are around 100,000 US troops in Afghanistan. The highest deployment yet. British forces reached the milestone of 300 dead in June. The web site icasualties reports June as the deadliest month in the Afghan war for US combat deaths, at 60. Total killed-in-action for US-NATO forces in June was 102.

General Petraeus is in the driver’s seat now, and he made it clear that inhibiting rules of engagement will be lifted. July was only five days old when already 13 US-NATO troops have fallen. Prepare for a bloody fight to a reckoning on Obama’s Afghanistan strategy. Read more about what will happen. Go to Chapter 10 — Vietnamistan — in Predictions for 2010.

John Hogue

(Posted: 07 July 2010)