Friends,
If you read my nearly 2,000 comments from readers logged mostly in the last year alone, you will find a theme of collective concern on record. As the disaster-ridden month of June draws down and prescience draws its breath before gazing into the augur’s bowl of water to divine through hydromancy, what trembling images will project upon the surface for July? I wish to address this concern.

Michelle had this to share in the comments page of my last blog, click on Afghanistan.

MICHELLE
Something doesn’t feel right, at all, for July… I do not know what will be brewing in that particular month, but it really terrifies me. I am having trouble sleeping again, in just thinking on it. On some days I almost feel like I am in a race with a giant event of some kind, looming over the horizon, or stark panic, hidden just beyond those self-encouraging thoughts. But mere thoughts cannot hold back what seems intent on manifesting…

HOGUE
Many readers report this collective feeling. I think these feelings are unique for our times because humanity itself is undergoing a global existential crisis. Our civilization is under threat from perpetuating our own fossilized traditions and stupid habits. The point of collapse for human and ecological sustainability is on the horizon. It is coming no later than the 2020s, but I think it is coming sooner. Already I have identified the year 2011 as one where alarms of unsustainable behavior begin ringing in food, weather and population sustainability. Humanity must now grow up. The world cannot long endure our immaturity and is beginning to heat us, rain us, wind us, flood us and ultimately shake us off her back if we don’t change our collectively unconscious ways.

In the last blog I opened a channel to my readers to leave comments defining what they think is Disaster Number Six for what I have begun to call the Year of 12 Disasters — one major catastrophe each month.

A quick review:

The Year of 12 Disasters: Keeping Score for June

Up to the approaching mid-point of 2011, we had cleanly clocked one major natural or politically regional changing disaster per month. With May it started to become more difficult to choose only one a month. June is crowded with candidates. But before we tackle June which is, as the song goes, “busting out all over”, let us review the months before it burst:

January: Australian monsoonal flood inundating most of Queensland.

February: The disaster for dictators, the Arab Spring Revolutions. Then comes the Libyan Civil War.

March: Japanese superquake and tsunami.

April: Killer tornado outbreaks in the US South.

May: Historic river floods on the Mississippi then the Missouri Rivers. Hundreds killed by an EF5 tornado flattening Joplin, Missouri.

June: What a spinning Carosel! It is hard to pick one to ride. There are so many. We had an eruption of one of the worst fire seasons in the US Southwest and Southeast in June that includes the Wallow Fire becoming the greatest in Arizona’s recorded history. My pick for June’s disaster number one is a fire and smoke maker of another kind, the Chilean volcanic eruption sending an ash cloud twice around the Southern Hemisphere, disrupting air flights in and out of Australia and New Zealand for weeks. A disaster that affects worldwide climate takes my vote.

Certainly, June had other alarms to ring awake humanity to a world that will no longer tolerate it. We have the lingering nuclear disaster brewing in Fukushima Japan. A huge, wind whipped fire threatens the nuclear laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where a lot of nuclear materials are stacked in drums in the open air. Floods along the Missouri threaten the Fort Calhoun nuclear reactor near Wichita, Nebraska. This same reactor had its water coolant pumps shut down for 90 minutes on 7 June, (click on Anthony Wiener). A no fly zone was initiated by the government with the lame excuse that it protected people from flying high over the flood waters, despite the fact that Fort Calhoun’s nuclear installation was cited as the problem, not the whole Missouri flood plain.

Sunday, 26 June 2011, one of the inflatable dikes around the plant collapsed letting in flood waters. The government spokesmen said there was no problem. The next day (27 June 2011), they admit the reactor’s water coolant system is once again on backup generators but bristle at the comparison of Fort Calhoun to Fukushima.

Anyway, on 25 June, just two days before the dike deflated, Gary wrote in my comments page that the Missouri flood was June’s number one disaster adding a little Ice Age prediction as a chaser:

GARY
John my pick is the extreme flooding of the [Missouri] River. This is largely being caused by the melting of the record setting snow pack. I don’t believe it is global warming. The needed sun blocking and but the beginning of a new ice age.

[HOGUE: and but????! Well that sentence made no sense, Gary. I will have to fix it in my full reply, now the rest of your comment:]

GARY
The extreme volcanism is supposed to be the part that brings the needed sun blocking and moisture from unferwater [underwater?] volcanoes.

HOGUE
Belief has nothing to do with facts, Gary. I will go into why climate change denial is a symptom of another sign of the end of a civilization as we have known it when I get to Kercelia’s comment below. What I will explain here is that record-braking snowfall is EXACTLY evidence of global warming. A generally heating up world atmosphere retains more moisture. Moisture is the gas that drives more violent energy in weather. Scientists have often forecast, based on extrapolating their evidence, that the first stages of a warming climate change would visit record breaking snowfall in winter with record breaking fires and floods in the spring and summer. So, it looks like we are well on our way to a warming climate change cascade.

Now, to volcanic eruptions blocking the Sun’s rays causing warming to cease (I guess that is what you were trying to write.) They have to be big. Really big, like the eruption on a magnitude seen in prehistoric times at the end of the Cretaceous Era, such as the Deccan Traps. These were a series of volcanic eruptions near present day Mumbai, India, spanning a period of 30,000 years creating a 123,000-cubic mile pool of lava the size of half the Indian Subcontinent.

Other than that, eruptions at best can only press upon us ash cloud induced ice ages only a few months or a few years in duration. Even a super volcanic eruption like that expected someday in the Yellowstone region might cause a Nuclear Winter style ice age, with dust and ash clouds blocking out the sun for 6 months to a few years. Catastrophic as that would be, it would not cause a return of a lingering 100,000-year long Ice Age. Indeed, once the heaviest elements of ash filter out of the skies the sulfuric compounds and other green house gases left behind as aerosols will stay far longer aloft trapping the suns rays inside the atmosphere even more efficiently than before, causing a spike in global warming.

The Mount Pinatubo’s eruption in 1991 is a prime example of this. Because of the volcanic plume, we had a general cooling of the climate for several years during the 1990s. However, as I accurately predicted back then, once the sun’s rays were no longer blocked by a thin ceiling of ash cloud, the lighter, invisible compounds floating in the high atmosphere did generate a climate changing, global warming spike in 1998 and word temperatures have been spiking on ever since.

Here was that prediction published in 1994:

Although the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo (June 1991) has cooled off the world temperatures for the mid-90s the heat is on with a vengeance by 1998. With this interpretation in mind we can expect a wave of global droughts by July 1998. From that time onward global warming steadily kicks in disrupting weather patterns and the movement of climate conditions needed to grow grain.

Nostradamus: The New Revelations,
Chapter 14, The Apocalypse of Gaya, p. 215

Kercelia contributed another angle of collective foreboding about something wicked this way soon coming only this time she sources it to a collective socially degenerative source:

KERCELIA
I think that people are so out of tune with what is really happening due to a constant need to be entertained. Everything these days seems to be in competition as to what is the most outrageous. With the advent of round-the-clock entertainment via the TV and other media, people just don’t care what’s happening as long as they are being entertained.

HOGUE
This rush to be entertained is a symptom of civilizations on the brink of collapse. They idle away the last momentum they have left in distractions and entertainment. Look at Rome and its insatiable lust for blood letting of criminals, Christian cultists and animals in the Coliseum.

The 18th-century Ancien Regime of France (the French kings and aristocratic class) sought distractions rather than sorted out looming problems. The movie Dangerous Liaisons presents that quite accurately. Even Louis XV predicted that his successor would see the Deluge that he neither could prevent nor cared to prevent, degenerating, as was his moribund culture of blue blooded entitlement. Thus he dead-handed over the crown to his stodgy, unimaginative grandson, Louis XVI, who along with his queen and many a French aristocrat went to the guillotine during the French Revolution.

A predilection to disconnect from realities and pressing challenges is a symptom of the end of cultures cycling down to full entropy. Denial of realities, white washing them with a darling, politically correct euphemism climate change is just another Maria Antoinette moment.

"Let them eat cake..." A still from the movie "Marie Anoinette".

When Louis XVI’s Austrian born and publicly unpopular queen was told of famine and bread riots spreading across France with the inherent danger to the monarchy’s stability overlooked, she shrugged her powdered bejeweled shoulders and said, “Let them eat cake!”

(Whether Marie A. actually said this is disputed by historians; however, the perception that she did say this was popularly “entertained” by the poor people grumbling in bread lines about the queen and court’s documented excesses, wantonly pursued to abandon while the people starved. Civilizations approaching their nadir choose to be entertained by myths rather than encounter and remedy hard facts.)

Our global civilization in a state of entropy has its “let them eat cake” term for global warming. The “cake” is “climate change”.

The euphemism puts us at ease with some sweet but factually white washing frosting spread to decorate and make palatable what is soon to cascade in increasing mean temperature rises around the world because of the unbridled increase of human manufactured pollution.

Now we turn to a comment left by Becky. She is watching the mounting seismic activity in the Pacific Rim (AKA the Ring of Fire). She is tying that to potential food sustainability problems that for me echo the bread lines of 18th-century Paris and a doomed-in-denial queen who eventually had to eat her “let them eat cake” words a few years later with a blood chaser foaming out of her own severed head falling in a basket. (Eeeeoooo! Let’em eat “nape”.)

BECKY
There seems to be a build up for another massive quake in the northern part of the ring of fire. There was a 6.7 in Japan a few days ago followed by a 7.2 in the Aleutian chain. The ring [of fire] is having a doozey of a conversation. How are our food stores going to hold up?

HOGUE
I would say the time has come to store food and water for many reasons, not only breakdowns that might happen because of earthquakes.

Perhaps this is a good time to review and add to some of my predictions concerning violent earth and climate changes logged shortly after the great quake and tsunami in Japan last March.

My oracle gave me the message that the Philippines would be among the next hit. An eruption did take place on the island of Luzon but nothing yet to match the scale my oracle intended; however, it was correct about a powerful aftershock hitting Christchurch. Here is the quote:

My oracle predicts the danger would be moving south of Honshu Island into the equatorial or southern hemispheric areas. Be prepared in Kyushu Island (Japan), Okinawa (Japan), the Philippines, Indonesia, all the way south to Christchurch for more strong aftershocks in New Zealand after that devastating quake several weeks ago. (Click on Japanese Tsunami for the full article.)

Christchurch suffered a 5.5 and a powerful 6.0 temblor on 13 June knocking out power to 50,000 homes. As for the Philippines, I might have misread the message and would like for the record to amend my prediction. The quake off the Honshu coast of Japan may have pressed added pressure to the collision point between the Philippine and Japanese tectonic plates where they meet just south of the mouth of Tokyo Harbor. The recent 6.7 aftershock is just another pressurizing nudge. Most tectonic scientists are far more concerned that a second quake may unhinge the mouth of Tokyo Bay, sending a catastrophic quake and tsunami rolling into the world’s most populous city. Such quakes have been responsible in the past for shaking Mt Fuji wide black-ash-cloud-eyed awake. This could happen in July but is more likely to happen later in September or November. I will explain below.

Mt. Puyehue eruption.

The essence of the oracle’s seismic prophecies written after the 11 March Japanese temblor and tsunami have been so far correct being as they were more volcanic in nature. We had Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland disrupt air traffic, albeit briefly across Europe with ash clouds for a few days in the latter half of May 2011. June had the Chilean Puyehue volcano, 500 miles south of Santiago, blasting to life three weeks ago. It has already disrupted air traffic in lower South America, South Africa and especially across Australia and New Zealand for a few weeks. July is coming and we do not know what it could do next. The Chilean eruption is definitely the ash cloud of consequence. We will have to see what that does to the southern Hemisphere’s weather. It could bring a temporary cooling of the climate if the eruption goes on through July and August, but as I said earlier, that will just set the stage for another climate warming spike a year down time’s road. What is significant to remember is the last time Puyehue erupted was 1960; the same year Chile suffered the most powerful earthquake ever measured by modern instruments at magnitude 9.5. There is a connection between this volcano and major quakes and we might hope the 8.8 temblor back in 2010 was the tectonic tit for tat, but I do not think so.

No quakes hit the Pacific Northwest from the latter half of April into early May. I had been warned by a reader who is head of a coven of forecasters to leave the area. She no longer likes me but was compassionate enough to send her forecast, prophetically inaccurate as they often are (see earthquake predictions). To be fair she is not the only one who got a prediction wrong. Mine for a possible seismic event in California around the full moon in Taurus in May 2011 did not transpire. Still California is way past overdue for a large-scale quake from San Francisco directly bestride the San Andreas Fault Line constricting earth and rock all the way south and inland from Los Angeles and San Diego. Even Monday, the Wall Street Journal posted a story about growing concern over the southern segment of the San Andreas Fault near Lost Angeles and San Diego cutting loose. The San Andreas under what is called the Palmdale Bulge swells without pressure release for 300 years and counting. The WS Journal’s article focused on the economic impact on a fragile world economy if Los Angeles should rock and roll with a quake of 7.8 magnitude.

I am not getting any Southern Cal quake for July yet, or August for LA, but I am concerned for Southern California, the Pacific Northwest, Japan’s Tokyo Bay-Mt. Fuji region for late September and again in November.

I will let Manuel lead us into that prediction.

MANUEL
John, your very accurate on your deciphering of Nostradamus and your own intuitive prophesies, good job. Last night I listened to a man named Carl Johan Calleman a guest on Coast to Coast AM you might have heard this interview also if not he had some very interesting topic on the Mayan long count calendar. He claimed the end of the calendar is actually Oct. 28 2011 other then Dec. 2011 it will coincide with the arrival of the comet Elenin and another comet that follows it. He say’s he’s studied the calendar for more then 15 yrs. During this time period there will be many upheavals to the planet as well as our global civilization. Elenin could possibly be the brown dwarf [star]?

HOGUE
First, let us deal with the idiotic. I am adding this bit in italics a few hours after posting this blog so that what I have to say is loud and presciently clear: Doomsday — whether it is projected for the world or if it is doomsday imagined for people’s collective unconsciousness, suddenly, magically going “poof” in a collective shift of consciousness — are both just two sides of the same coin of New Age idiocy. There are two kinds of Chicken Littles who misinterpret the signs either for doomsday or bloomsday. The sky doesn’t have to fall. Chicken little can think something fell out of the sky and knocked some enlightenment into him too. Here then is my prediction about Calleman: He will soon be remembered (or soon forgotten) as one in a long line of history’s Chicken Littles, who got struck by an imaginative idea, unsubstantiated by reality and then went peeping off all fuss and feathered about dates of doomsday light or dark, Mayan or otherwise that came and went without fanfare. The people of the distant future will tell you that there is no special date in a calendar that makes human enlightenment happen. If not now, then, there is no other time to harmonically converge, so put your plastic wands away and come back to the ground upon which you stand inside the body-mind in which you watch the mind and its flights of chicken flapping, feathers frapping, imagination — 2012 twenty-shelved. Come here with your intelligence, with your energy, with your love. Come HERE. Be here. Do it every “now.”

Anyway, Calleman aside, we just enjoyed such a goofsday last month anticipated for years by street billboards of a squatting man seeming to be scared-sh*tless, filling his britches, because the Rapture was set for 21 May 2011, click on end of the world.

Now to something far more plausible. Elenin is a comet, not a brown dwarf or cold star. Yet, as it approaches our solar system and as the orbiting earth lined up with it and the Sun a significant earthquake took place either that very same day or within a few days. The first alignment coincided with a magnitude 8.8 quake hit the Chilean coast sending a Pacific wide tsunami on 27 February 2010. Next came a 7.2 temblor shaking up Christchurch, New Zealand on 4 September 2010. The third alignment of Sun-Earth-Elenin happened, as Melvin correctly pointed out in his comment, on 15 March, four days after 11 March 2011 when Japan’s 9.0 quake crushed and later drowned over 25,000 people and knocked out four nuclear reactors along the northeast Honshu coastline with a vast flooding tsunami that also sent waves reverberating across surface of the Pacific Ocean.

Discovery of this alignment-quake connection came from the last people in the world — astronomers — who want to feed any interest in Astrology’s belief that heavenly bodies, even as small as comets, somehow influence the fates of people and the world, but there it was, reported by none other than the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Small Body Database Browser. Three exact and major seismic disasters hit exactly on three days of alignment.

What do they have to say for that?

JPL’s astrology debunkers give the established, dogmatic sci-spiel, that small cometary bodies crossing Earth’s path millions of miles away cannot have any gravitational influence on the Earth, blah blah…

It is a feint of Scientism to sidestep something rather than face it. The astrologer in me retorts that the Elenin lineup might be the first clear evidence of another force other than gravity that heavenly bodies impress upon personal and collective destinies of humanity. A true scientist would not spout canon law like a pope’s grand inquisitor but would instead be true to the path of knowing — which is what scire, the Latin root for Science — demands. Three earthquake hits out of three may be more than chance working its irrational magic, though I would not rule that out. Still, the honest scientific answer beyond shrugging it off as a coincidence might be to say there is some force out there they have yet to discover.

What dodge will those who promote Scientism Inquisitions say if Elenin scores four or five temblors to five lineups?

The JPL Small Body Database Browser tells us of two more alignments of Elenin with the Sun and Earth coming on 26 September and 23 November 2011.

Coincident or an oncoming incident, would five hits be something worth preparing for?

I usually do not tell people to anticipate events on a specific date, unless terrorist — domestic and foreign — are planning acts of violence based on playing a numbers game. For instance, once should always be a little more alert for white supremacist domestic terrorism — such as the Columbine, Colorado, school shooting — every 20th of April because it is Hitler’s birthday. Al-Qaeda likes to hit targets on number puns for emergency codes, like 9/11, or play with 7s and 11s. Some lone jihadist might try something 7/4/11 this year, so be watchful.

This Elenin phenomenon is different. It is just a happening, like the orbit of planets that astrologers like myself in these pages, have shown have a direct correlation to the timing of natural disasters. See earthquakes.

Gimmicky logo for the gimmicky Irwin Allen cavalcade of super stars being buried in rubble in the cinema temblor classic corny disaster movie, "Earthqake".

I will tell my readers today that earthquake preparedness and tsunami preparedness is a prudent thing to entertain for the next line-ups of Elenin scheduled for 26 September and 23 November. The fact that lineup number four happens close to the Spring/Autumnal equinoxes of the Southern and Northern Hemispheres adds cosmic significance. The 26th is bracketed by the Equinox on the 23rd and a New Moon on the 27th. I would suggest being prepared four days before and beyond the 26th.

As I have often stated, major earthquakes take place on or closely associated in time with New and Full Moons. Many of history’s deadliest earthquakes happen when Uranus is undergoing a significant 90-degree square aspect. It so happens that Uranus in Aries (fire sign = volcanoes) will still be in its long-term square of Pluto in Capricorn (earth sign = earthquakes) on 26 September. Moreover, Uranus will be in retrograde motion whilst Pluto the week before will have come out of retrograde moving direct — another signature in the cosmos that causes quakes on Earth. Mars, by the way, will be trined with Uranus. That is usually a positive aspect, but the term positive can also cover a positive movement of tectonic plates that the planet sometimes needs to thrust about for its own positive evolution, despite what it might do to the little human fleas on its dancing backside.

Given the regularity of Comet Elenin’s lineups so far, look to the days around 26 September as the most dangerous time this year for natural, economic or political disasters.

John Hogue

(28 June 2011)

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The flood of Wiener wonk nearly consumed all the talking-headed hot air of network attention as the second great American river flood of 2011 ongoing along the Missouri River and its tributaries raged. You may not have heard or seen footage of Nebraska’s Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant threatened by mounting flood waters, having had a fire that for 90 minutes shut down the cooling system that keeps radioactive rods from meltdown. ProPublica reports the crisis happened on 7 June. The day before, the Federal Administration Aviation (FAA) issued a NOTAM (notice to airmen) effective immediately closing airspace over the Fort Calhoun plant.

The FAA explained that the “no fly zone” was put in place because of the flooding danger, side stepping the fact that the Fort Calhoun was specifically mentioned in the NOTAM. When pressed, Jeff Hanson, a spokesman for the OPPD (Omaha Public Power District) explained that the FAA closed airspace “because of security reasons” that he could not reveal and that the flight ban over the nuclear facility is still active at the time of this writing (18 June 2011).

The nuclear facility is surrounded by flood waters. There is hope that redundant features protecting the facility from the rising Missouri, including an aqua dam and earthen berms, will prevent the swollen river from repeating the tsunami deluge in Fukushima, Japan, on 11 March that took down the water cooling systems of four reactors causing partial meltdowns in the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant under flood waters.

By the way, earthquakes and floods so far do not take down water-cooled nuclear reactors whether in Fukushima Japan or Fort Calhoun outside Wichita Nebraska. Tsunamis of salt water or freshwater deluges of the Missouri can, however, take out the diesel pumps that keep submerged uranium reactor rods cooled by pumping and recycling a protective pool of water. Once that evaporates, the rods melt causing a potential nuclear disaster releasing deadly radiation into the atmosphere.

Nostradamus writes of dreadful globes that release man-made pestilences. He recounted two ports visited by a scourge of invisible plague never before seen. These are believed by many to be Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He further wrote a quatrain about “false dust.” This might be his 16th-century attempt at describing nuclear fallout. The area in question is clearly mapped out. Since nothing has happened there, this prophecy is about our future.

5 Q90

Dans les cyclades, en perinthe & larisse,
Dedans Sparte tout le Pelloponnesse:
Si grand famine, peste par faux connisse,
Neuf mois tiendra & tout le cherronesse.

In the Cyclades, in Perinthus and Larissa,
In Sparta, all of Peloponnesus:
A great famine — plague through false dust (fallout?).
Nine months it will last and through the whole peninsula.

This prophecy makes me think of another Wiener-whacked news item that impacts your life yet got little attention by the news until recently when all the sensation that could be squeezed out of Wiener’s news cycle had passed with his circus of a press conference announcing his resignation from Congress as hecklers embedded in the press corps ejaculated verbal abuse. While Wiener-gate had its final curtain call, the financial crisis of Greece, this worst of EU debtor nations, witnessed widespread and violent clashes between police and thousands of rioters in Athens as the pain of economic cuts to human services to pay off the crippling national debt cut to touch a deeper collective nerve. It made me think that tsunamis of water are not the only thing that can undermine support systems nourishing a nuclear power plant’s rod-cooling pools. A tsunami-like collapse of social order can turn the power off after an economic earthquake.

Here Nostradamus specifically lists regions of Greece under a nine-month famine caused by a “false dust” and a riot. He used a double entendre: connisse in the Old French implies the Greek konis (dust, ashes) and the Latin connissus (exerted, striven against).

I think of croplands of Japan surrounding Fukushima. They may go fallow for decades because of “false dust” — a kind of hidden pestilence — that makes livestock and crops inedible. In Nostradamus’ quatrain, a future false dust collapses the agriculture of the Cyclades archipelago in the Aegean Sea, including Chios. Perinthus is a town in Northern Greece as is the Thessalian town of Larissa. The entire southern Peloponnesus Peninsula which climate change is steadily turning from a mellow Mediterranean to a parched semi-arid climate for farming will have its agriculture shut down by dust storms or radiological dust from some nuclear disaster.

The phrase false dust also hides a secondary meaning implying the kind of riots we now see in Athens mounting in intensity to take down social order in Greece for nine months when the people in desperation exert and strive against their government, first over contesting the payment of dept and later over food riots.

Water in flood has the power to take down the support systems of nuclear reactors in Fukushima and potentially outside of Omaha Nebraska. Water transformed and evaporated into air also can reach out an invisible tidal wave of tornadic winds at nuclear facilities that your mainstream TV news outlets generally overlooked in the great tornado outbreak across Alabama in late April 2011.

Kira, one of our readers who has provided us with a first hand eyewitness account of the aftermath of EF5 tornados ravaging her town of Harvest Alabama, passed along reports to me on 11 May 2011 that a tornado may have seriously damaged a nearby nuclear facility.

KIRA
Ha! I didn’t think I would have anything else to add, but check this out! The Alabama nuclear plant located only one mile from the EF5 tornado path was compromised (not by the tornado) at the time of the pre-pocalypse. Click on Huffington Post

If that’s not a warning, then I’m a monkey’s uncle!!

Smoke rises from a test of backup generators at the Browns Ferry Nuclear plant in 2008.

Kira’s source who wishes to remain anonymous related that Browns Ferry nuclear plant west of Huntsville near the towns of Decatur and Tanner was indeed seriously damaged by the EF5 tornado that plowed through Kira’s town. The source went on to praise the men and women of the National Weather Service and their media partners. Without their accurate reports, a far greater loss of life would have happened.

I would also add that accurate tornado tracking aided the nuclear technicians at Browns Ferry. At this time when weather watchers save lives in ever more violent climate change, the US Congress in its retarded foresight is currently debating weather to eviscerate the NWS budget by 30 percent.

Kira continued her Tornado diary with the following posting on 14 May 2011.

KIRA
Another thing to document. My subconscious is processing the pre-pocalypse now, and I had a very vivid dream last night. I was outside, at night, after the tornado, and the moon was new (as it was during the time the city was without electricity). The dirt road I am traveling is pitch black. The trees are black silhouettes against the enormous sky bejeweled with stars. I am mesmerized by the awesome beauty. I stare at the sky for a very long time taking in the sheer enormity of it. Then I remember my children, but where are they? How am I going to find them? How will I feed them? I start to panic. I begin to run toward the city, because I know if they are there no one will care for them. I know everyone is so busy doing their own things they will not stop for my children.

This was the whole dream. But it sums up my experience very well. And it sums up Pluto, doesn’t it? Incredible power, beauty, and complete blackness.

It is fascinating to me that my psyche is still trying to process these experiences. It was all much more traumatic than I ever expected.

Kira mentioned Pluto. In layman’s terms, this planet’s slow transit through the signs indicates in the language of predictive astrology the undercurrents of generational change affecting humanity en masse. In my 2011 prophecies, I defined this subtle-though cosmically permeating phenomenon thus:

Stars and planets wandering in and out of aspect can be a seer’s language, divining a future in cosmic poetry. Greek mythology plays a metaphorical role in astrology’s lingua astra. The farthest and slowest moving planet through the signs of the Zodiac is named after the Lord of the Underworld, the Greek god Pluto. The most distant planet takes up the role of the most impersonal effects on collective human history. Pluto is the zeitgeist of generations.

The Underworld of Pluto is what underpins or lies beneath the surface of apparent history, like invisible gravity keeps earth, ocean and human foot from flying off into space.

We live mostly unaware of the rotation of our planet, yet can’t live or go forward without it. Such is Pluto’s gravitas on the collective human mind. It’s an orbit of ages, like orbits of Earth around the Sun that we scarcely consider in our little day-to-day lives except indirectly when marking the changes of weather with the seasons. Yet, this force propels us, falling through space lap after lap around our star in a great annual circuit, invisible to our eyes.

Pluto’s 248-year orbit through the 12 signs of the Zodiac influences how individuals — high or low — are carried en masse into the orbit of humanity’s unconscious momentum into periods of upheaval, revolution, and breathtaking change, impacting the whole of humanity.

If man proposes and God disposes, that god is Pluto.

How history levels a reckoning beyond our best-made plans will have the particular mood and generational tone of the sign Pluto transits.

Predictions for 2011
From Chapter One: Coup d’état by Politicorp

On an apocalyptically lighter note, Kira relates in her final diary entry with my reply from 23 May 2001, her four-year-old’s playful pre-pocalypse therapy.

KIRA
When I was young, I played pretending games like “Lost on Space” or “Star Wars” or “mermaids” by myself or with friends. Now, as the parent, I am watching Xander play pretending games, but his are called “tsunami”, “earthquake” and “tornado”. He stacks dominoes on the table and shakes the table until they fall, and sweeps his hand over the dominoes simulating water. Or he spins around “sucking up” things in the house and spewing out imaginary lightning. He’s 4 years old… Fascinating. Just thought you might like to hear.

Hi Kira,
I do. It is good. It is good he turns it into play. When I was growing up there was the Great Alaskan Earthquake in 1964. I used to build whole towns with blocks and populate them with my toy solders as townspeople. Then I would shake the table as a quake. I would send in rescue parties to retrieve the injured and collect the dead then rebuild the town.

It sounds rather morbid, but then, you have seen my chart.

The process was a very positive and creative way to process the intensity of quakes as a Southern Californian kid living in my own active seismic zone. There were a number of moderate quakes during my formative years and I also experienced one major temblor, the Sylmar Quake.

One time I had played this game and had put the blocks away. Then shortly after we had a 5.7 quake and I thought, “Darn! I could have had a real shake knock down my town.”

I rebuilt it and kept it up for about a week hoping to catch an aftershock. No luck.

I also used to build the Golden Gate Bridge with boards, string and shoe boxes. Ah but that is another story for another day.

Chuckle…

John Hogue

(18 June 2011)

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President Obama on his first and epic diplomatic tour of Asia visiting Japan, China, attending a regional summit in Singapore and making final hop to South Korea at last restores the US on a path of engagement with the Western Pacific nations, long neglected by President Bush’s eight years of foreign policy myopia and obsession with Iraq. Whether Obama will gain more than a glad-handing and cup cake man handling by Chinese and Japanese remains to be seen. I will say this from the prophetic angle, Obama’s Asian odyssey will go down as an event marking an important shift in US foreign policy that will, for better or worse, bring the nation’s focus out of the Middle East and onto the region where the real future challenges lie: the western Pacific rim. It is a major theme in my upcoming digital book Predictions for 2010, which will be posted at HogueProphecy.com on 1 December.

I love to be wrong sometimes, don’t you? I especially like to be wrong when prophecy’s potential forecasts a possible future that we dare not take and didn’t. I wrote and posted the article below only to my private newsletter list members back on 22 February 2008. At that time I harbored hope that Taiwan would step back from what was a real temptation of its politicians to declare independence from China right when the whole world would be watching the 2008 Beijing Olympics a half-year later.

Reading the article “The Wad to End all Wars” today may shine a light on an interpreter’s hits, hopes and misses. I believe the predictions take on more significance now, as Obama on Air Force One flies back to Washington from Asia. Also, there’s this little song at the end I invite you to sing along with me.

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A root motivation for warfare goes all the way back to its primal beginnings when ballistics were comprised of stones and sharpened sticks. People go to war to conquer and control economic resources. That is about to change, and it begins in this pivotal year of 2008. With 2008, we enter a new era when economic need will impede future wars, rather than instigate them.

In a new global society, economy has been freed of the constraints of national identity and political borders. The new year will test my prediction in the most potentially dangerous way. As far back as 1994, I have recorded on radio and television my concern about the potential of a Sino-Taiwanese war.

The mainland communist regime, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), ever since its inception in 1949, has laid claim to the province of Taiwan on the Island of Formosa, separated by the 80-mile-wide Strait of Formosa. It became a haven for what remained of Chiang Kai-shek’s KMT (Kuomintang) nationalist army and government, which Mao’s peasant armies had pushed off Mainland China in 1949 after decades of civil war. During the Cold War, Chiang fortified the island with US help and declared it the only legitimate Chinese regime: the Republic of China (ROC). His dream was to stretch out from Taiwan and take China back from the communists.

Over time the US and United Nations had to see political realities rather than this fiction and by the mid 1970s, the PRC was invited to take a permanent seat at the UN Security Council as the recognized Mainland Chinese state. Geriatrics and generational changes brought a slow eclipse of Nationalist Chinese control over Taiwan and it became more independently Taiwanese in national and political identity.

On 30 September 2007, Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party approved a resolution professing separate identity from China and called for the enactment of a new constitution for a “normal country,” called “Taiwan.”

In 2008, a popular desire among the Taiwanese for official independence from China will prompt President Chen to make the 2008 presidential election a referendum on whether Taiwan should enter the United Nations as a separate nation.

The PRC has been dead set against it, or any other step that would formalize a break of what they view as a Chinese union of provinces by what they consider a secessionist, illegal government.

The temptation this summer will be high among leaders of the Taipei government to declare independence from China during the upcoming Beijing Olympics in August 2008. Would Beijing make good its threat to take Taiwan back by force with the whole world represented at the Olympics, watching?

A greater obstacle than losing international face is at stake.

Today, if China threatened an invasion across the Strait of Formosa, it would disrupt $80 billion dollars of business it does with Taiwan annually. Conversely, Taiwan listening to its fire-breathing secessionists would most certainly suffer a Beijing boycott before battle and invasion that might cripple Taipei’s economy overnight. In our times of global economic interconnectivity, if you bomb your enemy’s factory you destroy your own goods. If the US should go to war with China over Taiwan, it would be attacking its own sweatshops making merchandise. If China struck out at the US, it would be killing its customers. Big war in the old sense has become unprofitable. Thus, the opportunity for an era of intelligent diplomacy has never been in greater demand than in this new century.

Crying uncle, Taiwan might be amendable to a diplomatic solution offered by the next US president. I call it the “Time Out” plan. Taiwan would agree to full restoration to China after a cooling off period of 80 years. Perhaps that would be more than enough time for its free market economic philosophy to undermine the communist regime in Beijing. The pen signing business transactions is mightier than the sword. It will be the wad of money and the mutually profitable promise of commerce that breaks down all borders and ends all future wars

Who knows? Perhaps the new lyrics I wrote to Stephen Foster’s “Camp Town Races” might apply to what happens next:

The Chinese people sing this song:
Buddha! Buddha!
The Chinese race is a billion strong
Oh, the Buddha Day!
Goin’ communistic all night,
Goin’ communistic all day,
I bet my money on Mao Zedong,
Somebody bet on Taipei.

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UPDATE (circa December 2009):
The fire-breathing Taiwanese politicians did put a cork in independence referendums, thank goodness, though the danger of a mainland invasion of Taiwan remains quite real.

Now a new prophecy about Taiwan. The new US administration has arrived. When I wrote the above I visualized Hillary Clinton teamed up with Obama. Moreover, I saw her going to China and Taiwan to arrange something like the solution described above. What I didn’t clearly see was the label she would wear. Not a president or vice president but apparently the vision of the negotiator will be fulfilled as Obama’s Secretary of State.

John Hogue

(19 November 2009)

Sample my commentary on prophetic themes of most current and urgent interest here:

Nostradamus Antichrist

Pope Prophecy Malachy

Iran War 2009

Predictions for Winter 2009

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The notorious leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, is said by US and Pakistani intelligence sources to have been killed by a missile fired by a US drone plane while visiting his father-in-law’s house in northwestern Pakistan’s rugged, lawless tribal area near the Afghan border. The man coined the “Usama bin Laden” of the Taliban, responsible for many of its worst terrorist attacks in Pakistan, hits on US troops in Afghanistan and the mastermind behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto had attempted to spread his brand of extreme Islamo-Fascism out of the tribal regions and into the mainstream and predominantly moderate Islamic Pakistani territories. Earlier this year he led the Taliban into the Swat Valley region and advanced upon nearby capital of Islamabad. Mehsud for a time threatened the political stability of Pakistan until the Pakistani Army commanders at last were convinced by his boldness and US diplomatic pressure to snap out of their fixation on India and fight the real threat to Pakistan’s stability coming from within. For now, the threat of Pakistan’s collapse is delayed until perhaps later in the year when it will be renewed as I described in detail in Predictions for 2009.

US intelligence up to reports yesterday (Sunday) was 90 percent certain that Mehsud was killed by the missile while he lay on the roof of his father-in-law’s house receiving a lower leg massage to relieve chronic pain from diabetes. Today an intelligence official, unnamed, told CNN that President Obama was briefed that Mehsud’s death was absolutely certain. Press wire services over the weekend describe a power struggle among his Taliban lieutenants is ongoing, though key commanders Hakimullah, Qari Hussain, who is known for training suicide bombers, and Taliban spokesman Maulvi Umar — made calls to AP reporters on Saturday insisting Mehsud survived the US death by drone attempt last Wednesday night.

For now it may be premature to declare Mehsud dead. Still, many of you have rightly asked if he is a candidate for the third and final antichrist foreseen by the 16th-century prophet Nostradamus. Those of you who have read Nostradamus and the Antichrist know that I have been on the prophetic trail as a kind of Sleuth-sayer detective, examining dozens of possible candidates for Antichrist for over 25 years. The hardest part of the case to crack is finding the true name of the Antichrist because it is hidden in an anagram. Nostradamus called his First Antichrist, PAUNAYLORON (an anagram for Napaulon Roy — King Napoleon). The Second Antichrist he code-named Hister (Hitler). In my book I reveal there are currently four contemporary figures that find their names decoding the Mabus enigma: Saddam Hussein, G.W. Bush, Usama bin Laden, and President Barack Obama. As you can imagine — if you are not already getting your buttons pushed — some of these candidates agree with one’s bias whilst others do not. My personal opinions or biases as a scholar of prophecy cannot matter in the court of prescient evidence, so, I must accept that some of you bristle at Bush as much as Obama being on the list. In the end, it may be none of these people. It may be Baitullah Mehsud.

Let us look at his name first, and then review the famous prophecy for clues:

Mehsud, also spelled “Mahsud,” is the phonetic spelling in Roman letters from the Pashtun script. Move the letters and it spells “Mahdus”. Apply Nostradamus’ laws of anagram. You can change any letter into a new letter if it is possible to reverse it or turn it upside down. Thus, “d” becomes “b” to make “Mahbus.” The rules allow you to drop one redundant letter, the “h”, to easily get “Mabus” out of Mahsud.

Now to the prophecy in Century 2 Quatrain 62 of Nostradamus’ Les Propheties:

Mabus puis tost alors mourra, viendra,

De gens & bestes vne horrible defaite:

Puis tout coup la vengeance on verra,

Cent, main, soif, faim, quand courra la comete.

Mabus very soon then will die, [then] will come,

A horrible undoing of people and animals

At once one will se vengeance,

One hundred powers, thirst, famine, when the comet will pass.

Cracking the evidence in the first word of this prophecy is the hardest part: who is Mabus. The rest of the prophetic steps are pretty clear. Mabus, unlike the other two antichrists before him dies at the onset of his evil destiny and his death triggers the terrible undoing of the world of people and animals in a cycle of vengeance, terrorist and counter-terrorist attacks that drag one hundred nations into war. It happens at a time of great global droughts (thirst) and the danger of global famine; or, these are the consequences of the bloody war of post-mortem Mabus.

Climate change is the culprit for many record-breaking droughts across North America, Africa, Southern Europe and Asia. Food reserves are at an all-time low. Human population explodes and the demand to feed nearly 7 billion souls is reaching a critical point beyond which agriculture may no longer sustain us. It would seem that Nostradamus in the final line is talking about our times. The time of the Antichrist.

Being a dead candidate is much more important than being a living one. If Mehsud is actually dead then he joins the other candidate most likely intended by Nostradamus to be Mabus: Saddam Hussein. However, unlike Saddam Hussein, Mehsud may have died on the day of a lunar eclipse, as some of you have pointed out, yet he did not die during the appearance of a great comet. Saddam Hussein is the only candidate thus far who has. He was hanged the day Comet McNaught, the brightest in over sixty years, became visible to the naked eye. Saddam Hussein also fulfilled more of the steps to attain the title Third Antichrist than any other candidate so far. Those of you who have read Nostradamus and the Antichrist, Code Named: MABUS know how I painstakingly came to that conclusion. I hope those of you who have not read it will consider why I conclude that Saddam Hussein so far is the top candidate. Still, there is another possible translation for the comet passing itself off in Nostradamus’ mind as a missile striking Mehsud and his masseuse from a drone plane.

I would speculate that if Mehsud were Mabus then Pakistan would shortly collapse into chaos. There will then be a nuclear war between Pakistan and India. The terrible destruction of people and animals would come to South Asia; the land ancient Indian Hindu myths declare was the birthplace of atomic weapons described in the epic poem, the Mahabharata (The Great Indian War).

We will look at these passages in the future.

John Hogue

(10 August 2009)

PS — From portends of comets to solar eclipses we go. Back in a blog posted on 16 July entitled The Great Eclipse of 2009 and Nostradamus, I said the following, “Caution my occult heart and attend. The passing of the shadow of the 11 August 1999 eclipse could have forewarned of natural and civil upheavals. Is there something portentous overshadowing the economies and seismic regions of the two rising Asian economic superpowers in the months and years after part two of the great Nostradamus eclipse on 21-22 July 2009, if that indeed is what it is?”

On 20 July (Nostradamus and the Apollo Moon Landing), I posted this statement: “See the next economic crisis coming from the places where the shadow had fallen: India, China and Japan. Seismic activity or an intensifying cyclone and typhoon season may be the trigger. It will be natural disaster related.”

The typhoon season is hammering China and Taiwan with the 8th tropical storm assault since May. Today, in the Asian region it is already 11 August, the 10-year anniversary of Nostradamus’ millennium eclipse prophecy. A 7.6 temblor in the Indian Ocean was felt across a wide region including Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and the Indian subcontinent. As I write this, there is a tsunami warning posted for the Indian Ocean. Twelve minutes after the Indian Ocean rumble, a 6.6 quake hit Japan swaying the massive forest of skyscrapers in downtown Tokyo. It would seem the acceleration of seismic and natural disasters my oracle foresaw for Asia for the next few months is on.