Hitler and Goering towards the end of the Second World War. Nazi sympathizers and authors were aware of Nostradamus' cloudy "Hister" prophecies a decade before he came to power in 1933. Could clearer written prophecies have helped Hitler win the war?

Friends,
Here is the second interchange I had with Chris about a fundamental complaint that perhaps every Nostradamus fan or scholar has struggled with at some time or other down through the centuries when trying to gain some foresight into the future from Nostradamus’ foggy verses

THE SECOND INTERCHANGE

CHRIS
I just get so frustrated with the prophecies of Nostradamus sometimes.

HOGUE
I understand, Chris. Your frustration is mine.

CHRIS
Sometimes I think they are a complete waste, and then other times I think there really is something there.

HOGUE
Exactly my feeling too.

CHRIS
If Nostradamus was legitimately trying to warn us from going down the wrong path, he sure as hell made it really hard to figure out what he meant.

HOGUE
For the good people as well as the evil. Remember, evil people to propagate a future they want to make happen have used Nostradamus

People in the Nazi movement noticed the anagram Hister being a code for Hitler even in the 1920s. What if Nostradamus had been clearer and gave Hitler’s people insight into how to win World War II? Who would be responsible if more clarity gave Hitler the keys to victory and the means to annihilate Nostradamus’ own people in the holocaust? Nostradamus would be responsible.

He had a heavy burden and a detailed collection of his writings and reflections contained in my biography (See Nostradamus predictions) point to years of tortured soul searching about whether he dare share his visions with the world. He finally chose the device of charlatans to hide real prophecy.

CHRIS
It doesn’t help us if we can only see [the future] in hindsight, and looking back in hindsight we may use our prophetic bias to fit it in our particular worldview.

Many people have used Nostradamus’ prophecies with prophetic foresight. I have done it many times. I used Nostradamus’ prophecies to forewarn a national US audience in 1996 on Fox Network’s Prophecies of the Millennium about a second terrorist attack that this time could bring down the twin towers of New York. I even documented the time window for the event happening any time from 1999 but no later than 2001 in my 1997 book, Nostradamus: the Complete Prophecies.

Beyond interpreting Nostradamus, on Hannity and Colmes (Fox News Network, December 31, 1999), I warned that New Orleans would be destroyed in the first super hurricane event sometime in the first five hurricane seasons of the 21st century.

What was Fox Network’s response to these two warnings after the towers fell to terrorists on September 11, 2001 and later after Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans in 2005, the fifth hurricane season of the new century?

They black listed me.

What was my crime?

Not talking about the future in the politically correct and comfy state of hindsight.

Hindsight is safe. Foresight is controversial, because it asks us to change the way we are behaving. People are programmed to be fearful of change and not celebrate the adventure inherent in the unknown. When we seek to change the future today, we are like explorers, stepping out on a new journey, a new frontier. The new frontiers before us today are not for the comfort seekers, the politically or religiously correct, or the faint of soul. The media serves the angels of our more mollycoddled and programmed nature.

Most people don’t know, because of the press’s popular bias against Nostradamus, that many scholars down through history have accurately forecast future events before they happened. I’ve done it, so did Steward Robb, Lemesurier Sr., Von Loog, Andre Lamont, and many others.

We must be aware of the built in bias put into us by our blinders-loving society and their media not to recognize this fact and then render prophecy useless in hindsight.

If we actually were allowed to heed the warnings of prophecy, we would change the world today and make a golden future.

This is what this blog page and my work in prophecy is all about.

John Hogue

(19 August 2009)

Somali Pirates, the subject of one the first three international crises foreseen starting in March for the new US president in 2009.

Friends,
The quotes contained in this assessment of the first six months of my digital book Predictions for 2009 presents what has been my oracle’s surprisingly accurate take on the future so far. Here are the themes, quotes logged in December 2008 and early January 2009 with today’s assessments:

Early International Crises foreseen?

PREDICTION
“Early March! Obama begins gaining momentum to tackle problems in a new and uncertain world scene. He’ll be managing not one but three international crises by the early spring.”

ASSESSMENT
Obama’s first set of three early crises did start in March.

1.) AIG BAILOUT/STOCK MARKET PLUNGE/GLOBAL ECONOMY. The stock market fell into the 7,000-to-6,000 range in early March, whilst the economic crisis deepened to its lowest ebb.

2.) PIRACY. After the economy came the Somali Pirate incident with the USS Maersk Alabama (April 8-12, 2009), the first US merchant ship hijacked by pirates since the Barbary War in 1815. Obama showed measured command of the situation. US Navy Seals shot the abductors and freed their hostage, Capt. Richard Phillips.

3.) TALIBAN ADVANCE IN PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN: In March the NATO forces were losing ground to Afghan Taliban. The Pakistani Taliban had begun its spread to Swat and the Lower Dir district towards the capital, Islamabad. Also, Pakistan’s economy was about to collapse, along with its government. Obama’s Administration had to find a way to keep that from happening and turn around a policy of Pakistan appeasing Taliban’s spread. He was diplomatically successful in convincing the real power in Pakistan, the army command, that it must see the Taliban as real and immediate threat. This led to the Pakistani brass implementing Operation Black Thunderstorm (April-May) pushing the Taliban out of Swat.

March-April also saw a significant reinforcement of ground troops by US Marines in Afghanistan in preparation for the current offensive in Helmand Province.

Strategic thinking at last makes it way into the Afghanistan War: Occupy and destroy the Taliban’s chief cash crop, the opium poppy fields of Helmand

An American hurricane season less destructive than in 2008

PREDICTION
“A strong, globally warmed season, yes, but I envision less impact for the US Gulf Coast region. It isn’t going to be the monster season of 2008 for you, America, with five major storms making landfall, but the Atlantic Hurricane Season of 2009 will still be an above normal dragon with some bite. I foresee more damage inflicted on non-American targets. Still, be prepared Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Even you, New York City, will have a significant tropical storm event in 2009.”

ASSESSMENT
So far so good. It has been a very quiet season along the Gulf Coast. We have September to come and that is usually the high point of the season. In addition, the new climate change pattern has the Atlantic hurricane season starting slow and ending late. September through November is the time when the meat of the above prediction will be tested. May the season continue to be less than anticipated for American coastal regions already overwhelmed by terrible tropical storms this decade

Obama initially would be centrist and earn the ire of the “Live-left-birals

PREDICTION
“The source of his harshest criticisms will emanate from those most ardent and extreme-left leaning emotive followers who projected change on his mirror according to their politically romantic misunderstanding.”

ASSESSMENT
Conventional wisdom would bet that the hardest hits would from the right. Radio Right Messiah Rush Limbaugh tried his worst with his predictable and foot shooting ‚ÄúI want Obama to fail‚Äù harangues; but, as I predicted, the hardest early hits — the ones that really stung Obama — came from those on the extreme left. His cabinet choices from the Clinton era, the attempt to bridge bipartisan bonds with red state Republicans, the close relationship with Wall Street, brought the biggest slaps from deep-Dem-blue economists like Paul Krugman and social commentators and comics like leftist-libertarian Bill Maher.

WHAT IS YET TO COME:

Predictions for 2009

John Hogue

(13 August 2009)