Astrologically speaking, Uranus (the ruler of revolution and chaos) is advancing into its final and intensifying degrees of Pisces before it enters the sign of Aries (new beginnings, short tempers, riot first, ask questions later). Saturn (ruler of government status quo) went into retrograde this week on 26 January. That means sustaining the status quo can be compromised. Saturn is now retreating between now and mid June through Libra the ruler of stability and balance. You can expect a time of riot and revolution spreading not only across North Africa and the Middle East but also on the floor of Congress as I described in detail in forecasts for 2011.

You can ask what caused Tunisians last week, Egyptians this week and perhaps Jordanians and Syrians next week to pour onto the Arab streets in open revolution. You will find them initially complain about crushingly high food prices, unemployment or under employment which they blame on regimes that cannot sustain these basic needs and higher aspirations of freedom and economic dreams.

You see a region with one of the highest birthrates. You see nations with exploding populations of youth like Egypt where 80 percent of the population of 80 million people are under 30 years old, wanting to have more freedom and share more of the wealth than their stagnant, corrupt, dictatorial, money hoarding regimes can tolerate.

What is happening in Egypt and across the Muslim Arab world are the first clanging alarm bells of a civilization that is unsustainable. The year 2011 marks the beginning of a decade of revolution and turmoil caused by structural flaws in our current collective mindsets and systems of governance, politics, economy, ecological practices, and ultimately humanity’s retarded spiritual understanding of itself and its existence on this stressed planet.

What we are seeing in its first riotous travail is a growing global crisis of trying to uphold a past-oriented, past-habituated civilization as we hurl now into the future that demands humanity redefine its civilization or see it collapse in the oncoming 2020s.

We have a traditional “fossilized” economic system in place in the world. It runs on a myth that it can sustain endless growth of exploding population markets and promise endless consumption possibilities for a new wave of worldwide middle class consumer boomers who will soon number 1 billion spread across Asia, South America. It also includes the tens of thousands of Arabs you see in the streets of Egypt today who have awakened to — or aspire to — catch the middle class prosperity wave.

I have said for decades that these expectations cannot be sustained by the current social-political and economic systems. I have been saying for 20 years that each new year entered into the 21^st century will press upon us from all sides the urgent need for individuals and the collective humanity to redefine what it is to be human. That will require we abandon the fossilized past habits and traditions to keep human civilization progressing.

The world’s people have been programmed to desire and expect they too can have an American style, resource devouring, fossil fuel based polluting, high calorie agriculture gobbling golden age.

Worldwatch did a study on what world population could sustain such a dream: only 2.5 billion people.

In 2011 a new alarm bell of the unsustainable clangs: the global population climbs beyond 7 Billion people!

Worldwatch also concluded that you could sustain a population of 8 billion if you were ready to see a vast majority of those young men and women like those demonstrating in the streets of Egypt accept a future lived at the poverty level “enjoyed” by impoverished Indian laborers.

The birthrate in the Middle East and North Africa is still among the highest on the planet. Egypt has 80 million people crowded into the fanning Nile River Delta and the Nile’s narrow green sliver of arable, livable land along its banks. That thin and fragile oasis by the waterside, surrounded by inhospitable Egyptian deserts endures the burden of between 800-to-900,000 new mouths to feed, new children with aspirations to fulfill, EACH YEAR.

You can replace the nearly 30-year long dictatorship of President Mubarak of Egypt with a military junta. You might replace the junta with a more moderate Egyptian democracy or an Islamic State of Egypt, but these alternatives are still past-oriented, dogmatic, and ultimately NOT going to sustain the food and financial dreams of exploding populations.

We are only coming to the end of “Month One” in what if foresaw in Predictions for 2011 would be a most turbulent and volatile year sounding the alarm bells of the unsustainable.

I foresaw food export disruption as a first alarm bell ringing. It must be remembered that many great revolutions of the past were tipped forward into violent progress for better or worse by the lack of the basics for life, such as food prices rising one sou too high. Food riots premiered the French Revolution for instance in 1789. Over the coming decades, it spread its modern ideas and citizen violence across the European Continent in a century of revolutions in 1830, 1848-49, in Italy in the 1860s, and in 1871 with the Paris Commune. The latter gave birth to bloody socialist revolutions of the 20th century, such as the Russian Revolution and the Nazi Revolution in Germany and the Red Communist Chinese Revolution.

Perhaps Russia in 2010 unintentionally triggered a new era of 21st-century revolutions. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stopped grain exports when accelerating climate change visited a crushing drought and 500 major fires across Russia, desiccating and burning one fifth of the grain produced by the world’s third largest exporter.

Take out Russian grain exports from a world of 7 billion marginally fed people, take Russian grain exports out of Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan and Egypt and you that can be the catalyst for last week’s Tunisian Revolution and this week’s revolution in Egypt.

Egypt is the oldest, most politically influential and the most populous Arab nation. Where Egypt goes, so goes the region, into the streets.

Sunday’s blog will prophetically assess further developments as well as assess other alarms that began ringing in our climate in Month One of the year 2011.

Now, back to the blog reviewing the doomsday/2012/Hopi prophecy themed episode of Brad Meltzer’s Decoded and the incredible disappearing “Hogue” who taped an extensive interview for it that mysteriously disappeared:

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Acclaimed Syfy and comic book author Brad Meltzer (center) with his A Team of investigators for History Channel's DECODED: Scott Rolle, Christine McKinley and Buddy Levy.

Many of you listening to my 13 January Coast to Coast AM interview with George Noory heard me promote an upcoming appearance on the new History Channel series Brad Meltzer’s Decoded. Often I get typecast by television as the “go to guy” on all things Nostradamus. I was excited about supporting this show because we started with then moved beyond Nostradamus to cover other prophetic traditions you often read here and in my 17 books-and-counting but don’t often see me address on television.

I had the pleasure of meeting and doing an interview with Meltzer’s three investigative reporters Scott Rolle, Christine McKinley and Buddy Levy about the Hopi Prophecy of the Blue Kachina Star and how it might or might not portend what is called in Hopi eschatological prophecy the Great Purification. The blue star, whatever it actually is, literally or metaphorically falls out of the sky marking our entry into the era of oncoming death and rebirth by fire for the world as we know it. The investigators wanted to know if that time is now.

I was flown down to tape the interview in the largest Observatory atop a roof in the UCLA campus on Halloween’s Eve, 30 October 2010. Scott, Christine and Buddy engaged me in a fun and informative rapid-fire interrogation while we stand in the shadow of one of UCLA’s big blue “Bruin” telescopes.

Exactly a month later, when the film was edited and finished, I received the potential airdate and reiterated my pledge to the producers to promote the show on radio appearances and Coast to Coast AM in January. Along with my segment the hour-long show would attempt to “decode” 2012 as a doomsday date either backed up or not by Hopi prophecy, Nostradamus, the Bible and Web Bot cyberspace computer search sibyls, etc.

The show would revolve around best selling SyFy and comic book author Brad Meltzer wrapped in a digital background playing an overseeing narrator framing the search. His investigators would issue forth, spicing things up, rooting out visions of the end times in current events, such as the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the rising frequency of earthquakes. The episode would then close with a planned interview with futurologist Bruce Buena de Mesquita who uses computer algorithms to separate funky “earth-is-finished” forecasts from fact.

This would be the second time I’ve appeared on a documentary with de Mesquita, a political scientist and professor at New York University. We first showed up together on History Channel’s The Next Nostradamus, which I regard as one of the best two-hour prophecy documentaries in a decade because it balances objective science with subjective scientific exploration of prophecy.

I got the word out about Decoded on my two-hour Coast interview about Predictions for 2011 on 13 January. It was heard across North America on over 550 radio stations and around the world on Internet. About a half-hour after George Noory and I signed off at 2 AM (Pacific time), I turned on the TV to decompress. There before my wired and tired eyes was a rerun of the second half of the Decoded episode I just plugged!

The producers must have moved the airdate forward from 20 January to the 13th. I could believe if I liked that it was done to get maximum ratings coverage because I was on Coast that night. However, the most likely reason is that shows about the future get better ratings the closer they land near early January catching the public’s elevated New Year Holiday interest in forecasting.

I watched the second half. To my surprise, Bruce Buena de Mesquita wasn’t in the show’s climax as anticipated. Some female acquaintance in academia stood in to speak for his work.

Stills of Hogue braving overbright film light screens in a five-hour marathon shoot on a lawn of Columbia University NY for one of his favorite documentary appearances: History Channel's "Next Nostradamus".

I don’t know if the good professor snubbed the show or not. I wouldn’t be surprised. It doesn’t help his academic credentials being called by Hollyweird “The Next Nostradamus.” Anyway, his attractive, raven-haired stand-in on Decoded was much kinder on the eye than a rumpled Professor Mesquita or a scruffy and furry owl-eyed Hogue on our best hair days. She tried to fill the void of his absence but a secondhand presentation of what she thought Mesquita was all about wasn’t fresh from the source and a bit of a buzz kill for me.

The following week I sat down to watch a rerun and catch the first half hour I missed, which would include my Blue Kachina prophecy segment.

Thirty minutes on air goes faster than a scene “clapper” through a goose and as the show progressed, I started to feel a bit uneasy with the mood setting scenes and action set-ups eating and wasting time.

I guess it’s all a question of television priorities. I mean, action can be necessary, so you sacrifice time for content. Take for instance my segment inside the UCLA observatory on Nostradamus’ asteroid prophecies. It gave chilling details pinpointing what part of the earth in the future will be stuck by a “mountain, a half mile in circumference” falling out of the sky.

Is that something exciting? Apparently not exciting enough.

Insert therefore that action-packed scene with Meltzer investigators Scott, Christine and Buddy unsteadily perched like city slickers sore in the saddle on sauntering mules, clip-clopping down some nondescript gravel path meandering through a mesquite wasteland in Arizona.

I’m sitting before the TV watching this slow plod in the desert calculating how much will be cut out of our UCLA segment about Nostradamus’ mountain-meteor-from-the-sky prophecy sending an initial ocean splash higher than 10,000 feet. Valuable time was lost filming the three of them looking bored riding on mules. Was this scene really necessary when there was far better footage to come later on of their intense and engaged faces, grilling me about whether Nostradamus’ meteor would be the same falling blue star of the Hopi causing a purification of the world by fire?

Clearly time would have to be cut out of that future segment so that three mounted investigators dirt kicking their way through Arizona’s great and monotonous outdoor nowhere could banter on about Hopi mule breeding practices.

I mean, do you find it more fascinating to know which ocean nearest you suffers a meteor strike sending a 10,000 foot splash; or, are you more interested in how desert Asses and mules “get down” to make those sleepy stumblebum-poky hybrids on the hoof?

Our mounted reporters Ferde Grofé their way onward at a slow pace (without that iconic “heehaw-heehaw-heehaw, heehaw-hehe” music from that American composer’s Grand Canyon Suite). They rendezvous with a corpulent Hopi tour guide in a broad cowboy hat at what seems to be the edge of the Hopi Indian Reservation because the pueblos on the famous mesas are nowhere in sight.

The fellow doesn’t seem to me to be one of the elders of the Hopi Nation, either. He won’t be leading their mules to the sacred spot where petroglyphs of the Hopi Prophecies were carved many centuries ago on Prophecy Rock. A face-to-face encounter with the rock’s big picture for human destiny was not on the travel itinerary. The Hopi tour guide “did” at least haul into camera frame a large “picture” of the Sacred Prophecy Rock.

Hopi Elder Thomas Banyacya before the Sacred Hopi Prophecy Rock in a segment I shared on NBC's Ancient Prophecies series (1995).

Standing before the blow-up color photograph the size of a chalkboard turned on its side, the tour guide launched into a rather incoherent, mumbling explanation of the prophecy’s petroglyphs. He seemed to be a kind and beautiful man but his rambling discourse was a little out of the league of accounts I’ve heard from Hopi medicine men such as Thomas Banyacya describing the same symbols on camera actually “at” Prophecy Rock. You can see a YouTube video of Thomas Banyacya accurately describing what the symbols mean in a segment I shared for NBC’s Ancient Prophecies in 1995: click on Hopi Prophecy Rock.

So now. I’m watching the show. I’m seeing the first 30 minutes shrinking precipitously, thinking that “mood-mule” piece ate up a lot of time and whatever was left would cut my upcoming segment at the UCLA observatory leaner than minced mule meat.

Are we there at UCLA yet?

No.

Time for more a gripping “grabbing”, action-packed earthquake simulation sequence at Loyola University in Los Angeles.

Watch our Decoders set the mood, perched on the edge of the Loyola bluff, surveying the urban sprawl of Marina Del Rey and West “Lost” Angeles. They muse on what the Hopi tour guide told them about Hopi lands becoming beachfront property in the Great Purification to come. Gosh! They free-associate a special effect beyond the show’s budget with words only. They muse on about how all of that swank LA real estate stretching away from Loyola would be first superquake squashed then rubble washed away by a mountainous tsunami…etc., etc…

“All right,” I’m thinking to myself. “There’s less than ten minutes left in the first half hour. Stop teasing and teasing out this setup, guys. Cut now to the dwindling shreds of content time left to tie in our UCLA observatory scene. If the episode jumps over there now there’s still enough time to show the audience divergent interpretations of Hopi prophecy that enlarge and even contradict your Hopi cowboy tour guide. The purification by fire could be a fire of consciousness awakening and not the earth quaked, flooded and burnt to a cinder by a meteor or blue-tailed comet strike…”

The seconds ticked by. I lean into the TV like a soccer fan waiting for the goal kick.

Once again, we don’t cut to my interview.

Instead, we see Scott, Christine and Buddy meet some drawling University of Loyola, Aussie seismologist with a motor home that takes the East LA gangbanger jumping bean Cadillac shock-absorber effect to a whole other level.

This professor “Steve Irwin” with the outback accent crams our mule-breedin’ Decoders into a cut-away motor home interior that looks like a dining room with furniture.

Professor “Steevo” pulls a lever and CRIKEY! Look at those little blighters go, mate! Like goannas trapped in a sack!

Scott, Christine and Buddy start bouncing off the furniture and walls in a simulated magnitude 7.4 earthquake! What-a-byooteey!

Buddy, the big guy with the linebacker’s physique grabs elvish Christine to steady himself.

Buddy blurts out something like: “Why am I grabbing a hundred pound woman when I ought to grab the bolted furniture?”

Sorry Buddy. I wish I could give your exact quote, because it was very funny.

At the time of this writing, it’s just short of two weeks after the episode first aired and History Channel still hasn’t posted overviews or video clips of the show.

A new show broadcasts every Thursday. I’m looking one last time at the episode page on History Channel’s website before I post this on the morning of 26 January. It shows the DB Cooper episode for 1/6/11, and then skips over 1/13/11 when my Hopi/2012 show first aired. After which we see The President’s Inner Circle episode slotted for 1/20/11.

What am I to conclude about my episode missing?

Anyway, there I was watching the boob tube with a frowning eye on the Comcast cable box’s digital clock advancing one minute before the half-hour mark. There appears bespectacled Brad Meltzer, impressively cue-ball bald and geeky svelte, wrapped in his background of digital chalk boards and floating symbols. Is he going to direct us at last –”now” — to a few sound and picture bytes of my interview?

Nope…

A deadpan and snooty dissing of linebacker Buddy’s temblor bear-clutching tweak of sleek Christine to steady his balance, squeezes the last seconds out of the first half hour down to empty.

“Trick or Treat!” I thought.

Serves me right taping a show back on Halloween’s Eve, then promoting it internationally.

At least the last time I did a show on 30 October was on ABC’s The View and it was live. All I had to suffer then was Joy Behar’s blurted and misfiring attempts at take-down jokes and a nose-to-nose encounter with the once fetchingly voluminous face of Star Jones eclipsing my entire point of view as she spouted her Christian fundamentalist views while painting all pagans with a broad brushstroke of her righteous contempt. (Click on Last Pope and see what got Jones so upset.)

“Somehow” in the month following my interview being taped, when my Decoded episode was edited and, as they say in Hollywood, “in the can” signed off and finished, the producers either chose or conveniently forgot to tell me I was not in the show I was about to internationally promote.

I’ve been lucky. After doing over 100 documentaries on four continents spanning 24 years of more television work than any prophecy expert in history, this is the first time producers subcontracted to make a show for a network either “forgot” or didn’t “intend” me to know I was bumped.

It’s probably not Brad Meltzer’s fault and certainly not Scott Rolle, Christine McKinley or Buddy Levy’s fault. They’re just doing their job, taking and following directions to the best of their ability. It’s someone else’s job to save or cut the footage in post production.

In a way, I can thank the editorial decision makers.

They did me a service, cutting me out of a mediocre episode.

They also gave me an excellent opportunity.

I can recount in a future blog what they threw away on the cutting room floor. As is my usual preparation for a film shoot, I made notes for what I planned to say. Even if I did survive the cut, even at the best of times, the television genre rarely has or takes the time to go deep into a subject.

So, beyond the limits of what was un-”Decoded” will come an article series about Nostradamus’ Mountain-from-the-Sky prophecy and whether it correlates with the Hopi Blue Kachina Prophecy of the falling star.

John Hogue

(26 January 2011. Updated 28 January 2011)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You keep telling of these terrible things to come.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Because I feel hopeless and scared.

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

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

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

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

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

John Hogue

(20 March 2010)

Economic Recovery or a new Bubble?

PREDICTION
“A new president and administration in America must find a global solution that isn’t karma from the past running over our economic dogma projections about how to go back to bubble economies in the future. Sooner or later, Obama and his team will have to deliver novel and revolutionary ideas. Jump-starting the economy isn’t a new idea. It does not address the core cancers, the tumors of our bad business practices and habits that will bring on terminal depression in two years.

ASSESSMENT
Vast sums of money go a-trillion-ing into the financial banks and businesses, starting with Bush and continuing in a greater flood with the new President Obama to the tune of the national deficit reaching 1.8 Trillion dollars as we approach the end of the fiscal year in mid-September. Reports claim that the Obama administration and Federal Reserve spent around 130 billion bucks just in early August to at best slow down the bleeding. With such an ongoing spending spree it takes no Nostradamus to wager that by mid-September, the Obama administration will crash through the two trillion ceiling. What has been done to reform the bad practices turning back the clock to government oversight in the financial and housing markets? Next to nothing, as was predicted. The core cancers and tumors in the system are still there and so is the inflationary depression timeline ticking off unto late 2010 if we stay this dangerous course.

Economic Recovery did not come in the first six months of 2009

PREDICTION
“The consumption based economy will remain consumptive with TB (trade bust) for more than half the year and not what the experts who didn’t see this thing coming are hoping, that a turnaround is six months away.”

ASSESSMENT
Do not let bear market rallies fool you. Do not start playing Happy Days are Here Again CDs because some of your financial “CDs” are showing a modest improvement. Do not think that bankers paying back some of the stimulus are stimulating the economy with loans to small businesses that are making a real difference yet. Do not buy the bull market bunk that says modest growth in retail of a few percentiles is some turning of the tide; or, that unemployment requests going down a bit means people are going back to work. It means that their unemployment funds have maxed out in most cases and they are dropping off the ledgers.

Pundits want to put lipstick on the pig of a quarter million people losing their jobs in July being a sign that good times are coming because the bleed was a little less than expected. Heck! This is summer and summer time jobs make good lipstick statistics for this unique brand of recession. Wait until summertime ends and the lifeguards are out of a job. If this were a car, we could celebrate that the impetus of the crash through one wall after another is slowing down but the wreck has not come to a halt, let alone steering into turnaround. The housing market that started to freeze the brakes on the global economy is still dismal and in the next two years, half of all US homeowners will be drowning in debt payments higher than the original value of their houses for Christ and for-”closures” sake!

There is no turnaround in the first six months of 2009. Only the bleeding is slowing down. We may not see jobs, the real marker for recovery, reach a zero unemployment bleeding point for another year coming.

A dozen State Governments asking for Federal Handouts and outright Bailouts

PREDICTION
“A new breadline is lining up at the Capitol building of bankers, CEOs of credit card companies, automobile moguls flying down from heaven in Lear jets begging for bailouts. Next will come the governors of American states by the dozens.”

ASSESSMENT
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) reports that up to 41 states are facing severe budget shortfalls for 2009. The governors of California and Florida may be at the head of the line holding out the largest hats panhandling the Feds for $31.7 billion (California) or $5.1 billion (Florida) but behind them are 39 more state governors trying to beg off their total $71.9 billion budget shortfall. Back three months ago, the CBPP reported the line of governors only at a “mere” 29. Then the state shortfalls were “only” $48 billion. Now 41 out of 50 US state governors are beseeching Washington for some money to cover what is now nearly a $72-billion budget shortfall and there is still a lot of 2009 left for more to join the bread line.

With that said, I posted the following for the book in December 2008:

2009–The Year of Bankruptcies

PREDICTION
“The year 2009 will be remembered as the year of state chapter 11 bankruptcies. Moreover, it is from your pocket, Mr. and Mrs. American taxpayer that daddy government’s hand will pilfer.”

ASSESSMENT
California, they say, leads in all trends. Where the fifth largest economy in the world goes, can the fates of lesser US states be far behind? After California, comes Florida, Michigan, Illinois and many other states facing bankruptcy protection in their near future, which, of course leads to:

A Plague of State Tax schemes

PREDICTION
“Read my lips, many new taxes to stop state government yard sales.”

ASSESSMENT
In my own State of Washington, where Governor Gregoire is forced to grovel in Washington for funds to cover a $6 billion deficit shortfall, the state government gets creative with traffic infractions, an increase in the liquor tax, and talk of other back door taxation schemes. I am sure there is a taxing story in all the other 49 states my readers could share.

A new dysfunctional Relationship between Frat Pac Economists bailed out by Taxpayers

PREDICTION
“The Bush administration leaves behind a government and economy ensnared in a co-dependent relationship that resembles his own behavior. The former frat brat kid famous for party binging, wrecking cars and bankrupting three oil research and drilling companies, always at the last hour got bailed out by his millionaire dad and daddy’s influential cronies appointed to high places. He leaves America with a frat brat kid economy gambling on speculation and spending well beyond its means, letting go the wheel of a crashing American auto industry, allowing the oil industries to overcharge then see prices collapse el Busto! through the floor.

“Hey! What me worry? Here comes my big daddy government with deep pockets full of taxpayer’s money ready to throw the brat a line of entitlement credit that kid economy takes for granted. The rakish brat economy knows it can progress to excess without consequence or oversight in the blind faith that when he squeals, big daddy government will bail him out.”

ASSESSMENT
The brats are bankers and Auto GM CEOs, and share holders and we the taxpayers must endure, to warp John Donne’s poem a bit, the “AIG-gues and tyrannies” of those elites at the top who when it comes to bailouts enjoy the following upgrade of Donne’s famous revelation at taxpayer’s expense:

No CEO is an Island, entirely unto himself,
Every investment banking man
Wants a piece of the big “con”-intent,
A slice from the federal fund main line,
Any man’s debt diminishes “thee”,
Because I am involved in bailing myself out.
And therefore never send to know for whom
The deficit tolls; it tolls for thee, taxpayer, not “me.”

Find out more about how we get out of this mess:

Predictions for 2009

John Hogue

(31 August 2009)

Friends,
Thank you for all the letters in response to my controversial entry about the Gaza Strip battles being a marriage of victims to victimizers.

I will take a short break from writing Predictions for 2009 (planned release date: 30 January) and respond to Kathleen and Chris.

KATHLEEN:
John, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:

If I am being bullied, starved, held prisoner in my home with no running water, if all attempts to provide me with aid is being blocked by my imprisoners, do you not think that, given the means to do so, I would hire the biggest, baddest bully on the block to fight back for me when I couldn’t?

HOGUE REPLIED:
Hi Kathleen,

The Palestinians in Gaza overtly or passively did allow or directly choose the biggest bully on the block. Look what he’s done for them? He has brought full-scale fighting in their streets, in their homes.

The path of the sword is not the answer. Nor is the path to pacifism. War and peace are two sides of the same unconscious, reactive victimizer-victim mind set.

The path of consciousness shows another way to those ready to understand their mechanical and reactive minds conditioned into them by their societies from birth onwards. Until then, all that we do is done from an unconscious, reactive mind-set.

KATHLEEN:
This is why the Hamas was elected in Gaza – yes, they are extremists, however the Israeli’s have been more than extreme in their manner of dealing with both the Palestinians and Gaza for far too long.

HOGUE REPLIED:
Has Hamas helped? Except make the people of Gaza more victimized?

KATHLEEN:
And they have been able to act in this manner thanks to the full support of a self interested US government, a biased American media, the UN (which does not want to admit what a huge mistake was made and therefore accept responsiblity for that mistake). Is Hamas right? Of course not.

HOGUE REPLIED:
You are defending the right of people to pick a bully who can’t fight the bigger bully without destroying those who picked him. This kind of circular unconscious and reactive thinking is the very stuff in us that makes Gaza Strip tragedies.

KATHLEEN:
Is Israel right in its reaction? Absolutely not.

But children are dying. The blood of innocents is running in the streets. Isn’t that all that matters?

HOGUE REPLIED:
So the answer is we help those innocent children by picking the biggest baddest bully on the Gaza Street. He then lobs hundreds of rockets at the innocent children of the regional superpower bully neighbor. Our Israeli neighbor then has enough of that and in comes Hell, cranking on tank treads sending a rain of artillery and missile fire upon our children. Then comes along you, defending the bullies, who are absolutely wrong but worthy of your defense. The very same bullies who set this mess off and thus make our children bleed, and their suffering and bleeding is all that matters.

Don’t laugh at Kathleen, laugh at yourselves.

In this line of thinking hides the core of human misery to those who can look into themselves and see it with a witnessing consciousness.

I assure you, you all have the same programmed mind running around inside your heads to various degrees. Kathleen’s conditioned mind shows a reactive reasoning that exists in all our reactive minds so be compassionate to her and to yourselves. Understand this mind. That’s how you eventually stop the bleeding of children.

With some awareness and understanding, perhaps helped along by practicing a science of self-observation, perhaps you, me, Kathleen and all the other 6.5 billion sleepwalkers can understand their waking-nightmares, and with that understanding be changed into something wonderful.

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CHRIS (Quoted Hogue excerpt used by Chris to make his point):
“The state of Israel would have been a very different place if most of the Palestinians had risked staying as a sizable minority at nearly a parity in number with the Jews. Owning land is empowerment in the Middle East. All rationalizations aside, when a land owner becomes a refugee he has chosen disenfranchisement. Choose the path of a refugee and you choose the life of a victim.”

John imchallange you to show any proof of ownership of land of palestinians!!!

HOGUE REPLIED:
Sure thing, Chris. Go to the records departments of any Palestinian refugee camp. Go to the households of many Palestinian refugees and you will find the tattered deeds to lands they had evacuated from in 1948. Of course, you could perhaps find as many deeds of proof in the records and households of those East Prussians who vacated that region in the final terrible months of World War Two.

Much is risked when taking up the sword of war. The Germans under Hitler, if they had won would have taken other people’s lands all the way east to the Ural Mountains. Nevertheless, they lost, and completely. Those East Prussian lands to which deeds are established were lost on the path of war.

Palestinians hold deeds to lands they lost because they openly or passively supported the decisions of their leaders, primarily their chief religious elder, The Grand Mufti, to push the Jews to the sea and as the Mufti, a Nazi sympathizer liked to say, finish the job Hitler started.

Well, if they had won, we might be having Jewish survivors waving their deeds instead, but the Palestinians chose — or had chosen for them — the sword and it was struck from their hands by an enemy that proved to be no pushover. Those lands are lost and the deeds are worthless now, but they are testimony to land once owned by Palestinians.

CHRIS:
you are correct about the age old batle but simply cannot get by your own anti religious bias to see the root cause of this situation.
from the nile to the euphrates is israeli land -promised and written about 2500 years ago. i think we might be seeing thew beginnings of the reestablishment of this covenant.

HOGUE REPLIED:

The root cause of all of this tragic silliness is what people for the past 5,000 years have called “religion.” A great example is the above assumption, borrowed and hypnotized into each new generation from the distant past all the way down to believers of today. We are trained to drink these ideas up blindly, without question, no matter how poisoned laced. All the so-called religions do this.

In the name of religion, love, a Prince of Peace, etc, more blood has been spilled than for any other reason. They are doing it now in Arab Gaza. They are doing it now in Jewish towns and villages with their rockets. The mesmerized and mechanicalized minds of conditioned human beings are trained to borrow their revelations and doctrines from others. These priestly mafias are as unaware as ourselves, but more authoritarian, charismatic. They dream the nightmare of the “overlord” whilst we are programmed to dream the nightmare of the “overwelmed” rather than seek religious revelation alone, upon our own merit and the pure authority and power of our experience.

There is a New Humanity coming. Their religiousness will be grown up and free of all of this false dogma and holy hypocrisy.

When they will look back at us from that golden future, they will wonder at and feel pity for our eons of stupidity committed in the name of religion. They will understand something we as of yet cannot see in your hypnotic blindness: that the greatest curse befalling us, hindering our spiritual evolution, was our so-called religions. In the name of the noblest ideas of enlightenment, revelation, love, peace and forgiveness, our mafias of the soul, our religions and their priests and priestesses preached unconsciousness, hate, war and condemnation of our fellow man and woman.

John Hogue
(10 January 2009)

New Radio and Blog Talk radio appearances:

The Kevin Smith Show

(25 January 2012 – 7-9 pm (Pacific Time)

Kevin asked me on to set things straight about the Mayan Calendar and Mayan prophecies which have been undergoing an extreme Hollywood makeover in the last several years. It’s time to drop the pink attire and the the toy Chiuaua  with the purse and see this era ending date of 21 December 2012 in its naked truth. Kevin will be broadcasting a free video of our show, live. On the time of the show on 24 January at 7 pm Pacific Time, go to Kevin Smith’s home page. Click on the “Free to Watch” link,  and you can watch our show free. (There will be no starlets or Chiuauas, just the naked truth about 2012 doomsday predictions.)

Coast to Coast AM with George Noory

(Monday, 23 January 2012, 11 pm to 2 am Pacific)

Join us for a three-hour marathon of prophecies for 2012 based on my e-book Predictions for 2012.

One Radio Network w/Patrick Timpone

(5 January 2012 – 10-11 am (Central Time)

We do our traditional “radical” New Year’s look at 2012 and the  future .

PAST TV AND RADIO SHOWS…..

New Radio and Blog Talk radio appearances:

The Jeff Rense Program

(Friday the 13th (January 2012), 8:30-10 pm Pacific)

It’s our New Years show with a new e-book out. See what we’ll be talking about for 90 minutes: Predictions for 2012.

TELEVISION

THE NEXT NOSTRADAMUS

HISTORY CHANNEL, Saturday 10 September 2011

(12 pm – 2 pm) Pacific Time

Futurologist Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is profiled as this “next” Nostradamus using mathematics to predict the future, but he has quite large shoes to fill, those of the subjective prophet Nostradamus. De Mesquita can look into the future 18 months. Nostradamus peers thousands of years into the future. This though is perhaps the best documentary I’ve appeared on in the last several years..

Dreamland with Whitley Strieber

(Continuous free feed for a week begins Friday, 19 August 2011)

Whitley Strieber and I taped two shows last week assessing my January Predictions for 2011. Then we move forward with predictions for the second half of the year

We taped a second interview for Dreamland subscribers. We delve deep into the astrology aspects as they influence world politics and history for the coming six months. Then, there is an additional surprise segment on Comet Elenin and its potential ability to influence natural and political disasters on Earth this September and November.  This interview is for Dreamland subscribers only. But it is well worth subscribing for a month to listen to it for the low price of $3.95. Subscribe Here.

TELEVISION

NOSTRADAMUS DECODED

PLANET GREEN CHANNEL, Sunday 04 September 2011

(12 pm – 2 pm) Pacific Time

I appear extensively in this Discovery Channel rerun. It is one of the best documentaries of the last decade, though, as is Discovery Channel’s bias, they do tend to be one-sided skeptical in the second hour at times, getting away with saying things that I could have easily challenged, but was not given chance to challenge. One of these days, I hope to convince Discovery to give the sympathetic skeptics like myself the chance to retort sloppy and lazy skeptical inquiry.

TELEVISION

NOSTRADAMUS: 2012

History Channel, Saturday 27 February 2011

(3 pm and 5 pm)

This is a beautifully produced if somewhat content flawed two-hour study on the Mayan Calendar and how it relates, if at all, to the prophecies of Nostradamus and other prophetic traditions. Although they cut my skeptical take on the Lost Book of Nostradamus alluding to the Mayan Calendar purportedly ending in 2012, it is well worth watching for all the things they “did” allow me to say in the final cut, because they are far more immediate and significant to your near future.

New Radio and Blog Talk radio appearances:

COAST TO COAST AM with George Noory – Archived on 4 May

–Listen to archived show by clicking on this Coast to Coast link.

The Coast webmaster will refresh their homepage shortly, so if you don’t see me posted there, not to worry. I’m definitely on Wednesday night for two hours. THEME: Nostradamus’ Mabus, Third Antichrist prophecies and how they related to the death of Usama Bin Laden. See Mabus and also: Predictions for 2011.

The Knight Zone w/Colin Knight (8 pm Pacific-2/24/11)

Tons of things to talk about: Gaddafi, Libyan civil war, regional Arab revolutions, the oncoming Day of Rage demonstrations this Friday in Palestinian lands. There’s the weather, and food crop failures setting up the world for a food crisis. There’s the coming riot inside the US Capitol, what I call “Wattsington DC” and many more predictions Colin and I will share with you about this unique year of turmoil: Predictions for 2011.

DREAMLAND Two interviews on 2011 and prophecy w/Whitley Strieber

(Friday, 4 February 2011, Continuous free feed for the next seven days )

Whitley Strieber and I taped a show on 3 February that I think is one of the finest we’ve done. The subject was: Predictions for 2011.

This interview is available free for a week (up to 2/4-2/11) by going to this link: Dreamland.

We taped a second interview about prophetic divination and the mysteries of time and thought travel. It was a radical leap from my usual topics. This interview is for Dreamland subscribers only. But it is well worth subscribing for a month to listen to it for the low price of $3.95. Subscribe Here.

COAST TO COAST AM W/George Noory

(1/13/11–11 pm to 2 am Pacific)

The number 13 has always been my lucky number! Join us for a three hour interview were we will discuss in detail predictions for the coming year — a year that will define a decade. Read more about what we’ll discuss here: Predictions for 2011.

Jeremiah Greer Live

(02 January, 7-8 pm Pacific)

When Jeremiah and I get together we are most politically and spiritually incorrect. Prepare to enjoy a radical take on : Predictions for 2011.

The Jeff Rense Program

(29 December-8-10 pm Pacific)

It’s our new years show with a new e-book out. See what we’ll be talking about for two hours: Predictions for 2011.

One Radio Network w/Patrick Timpone

(31 December-9 am Central Time)

We do our traditional “radical” New Year’slook at religion and the future .

ALSO CHECK OUT CONTINUED FEEDS OF THESE SHOWS:

Dreamland w/Whitley Strieber

(25 December-continuous feed)

I will be on Whitely Strieber’s special Christmas program giving some early hints of what I’ll be forecasting for my new eBook Predictions for 2011. If you aren’t already on my free news bulletin list you can join here and be the first to know when the book will be posted at Hogueprophecy.com.

The Knight Zone

(19 November: 11-12 Midnight, Eastern Time)

We’ll be talking about the midterm elections and the next 2 years of congressional politics plus some early hints of what I’ll be forecasting for my new eBook Predictions for 2011. If you aren’t already on my free news bulletin list you can join here and be the first to know when the book will be posted at Hogueprophecy.com.

One Radio Network w/Patrick Timpone

(9/22/10: 9-11 am (Central “Texas Hill Country” Time)

I did a two hour interview with Patrick Timpone. I talked about a whole number of subjects not usually heard on these shows, including the coming mid-term election and political evolution for the next 1,000 years, as well as my spiritual background. Click here to hear the show Wednesday morning or download the feed in the coming weeks. See the Schedule.

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New Radio and Blog Talk radio appearances:

On the Razor’s Edge with William Henry

Starting on Bastille Day (14 July) in continuous feed is is my interview with William Henry on Whitley Strieber’s UnknownCountry.com’s special Revelations podcast. William and I discusses the unique and powerful astrological alignments that are appearing right now, and I explain how they relate to the upheavals that are taking place all over the world at the present time. Take one last look at what we know before we pass into the unknown. Also we discuss Nostradamus’ Bible of magical practices used to foretell the future.

The John Hogue Shaman Drums Podcast is Online

Go to this link to check it out: Shaman Drums.

Hogue on COAST TO COAST AM

Wednesday, 16 June 2010

(if you missed it, you can download the audio stream any time you like, click on: Coast to Coast AM).

George Noory and me spent three hours going over prophecies of astrologers, Nostradamus and myself in Predictions for 2010 in an attempt to anticipate a summer of upheaval, natural disasters leading to an autumn of economic crisis. I believe it will be one of the most important shows I’ve done for Coast to Coast since I first appeared with Art Bell in November 1994. We are going to have a preliminary taste this summer of the kind of cosmic forces that will define the coming decade of the 2010s. When faced with the coming Uranian storm of history, it would be good to share with you ways to cope, ways to turn it into a decade of transformation. I hope to do that on the show. Also, George and I talked about 2012 sharing my unique take on prophecy’s biggest fore-fad. We also looked at the significance of Ray Mabus, the new Obama Administration’s “Gulf Czar” summoned to clean up the mess down there. Is he Nostradamus’ third antichrist, code named “Mabus?”

Dreamland with Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber taped a powerful show on 28 May. It is now online for a month of free audio streaming starting since 17 June (see Dreamland). Whitley will “put hogue’s feet to the fire” on this show. We examine at the half way point what predictions for 2010 have come true and which have not. You can put my feet to the fire yourself by reading the eBook (see Predictions for 2010).

New Radio and Blog Talk radio appearances:

THE KEVIN SMITH SHOW

I’ll be doing a two hour show with Kevin Smith, Monday, 19 April, 7-9 pm pacific. Check out how you can listen to it HERE. The 19th will be the five-year anniversary of Cardinal Ratzinger becoming Pope Benedict XVI. Kevin and I will talk about the future of the Vatican and this pope. He is next to last in the prophecy of Irish medieval St. Malachy. After him comes the final pope before the apocalypse. Read more about it here: Last Pope. Our main topic will be the continued acceleration of climate and natural disasters (see Predictions for 2010) as well as separating the truth from hooplah about the Mayan prophecies for 2012. It should be a really great show and it will be heard across 143 countries around the world!

Catch tomorrow’s April Fool’s show on Patrick Timpone Show: on (ONE RADIO NETWORK) Patrick and I talked at length about Catholic prophecy, the origin of the organized Christian religion and its many conspiracies to change the message and turn Yeshua into a religous-politically expedient myth called “Jesus Christ.” If you missed the fireworks at this heretic roast, you can download a pod cast of the show from Patrick at any time. Read more about my take on Catholic prophecy and scandal, see Pope Benedict XVI.

TELEVISION

El Efecto Nostradamus

(A&E Ole Networks-History Channel)

Hola! Mexican and Latin American History Channel fans. Broadcast of new episode and reruns of this series in Spanish continues every week over the next several months. Check your times in your locales. I believe this weekend will show Episodio 11: “La Profecía Perdida de Fátima” across S. America and Mexico. I’m not in it but this is one of my favorite episodes in the series.

SCROLL DOWN FOR A SYNOPSIS IN SPANISH
(bajar el cursor para una sinopsis en español)

SINOPSIS — EL EFECTO NOSTRADAMUS en español

Episodio 01: “El Armagedón de Da Vinci” (24 de enero)
¿Fue Leonardo Da Vinci, uno de los grandes filósofos de la historia, artista y técnico, un profeta? Las claves ocultas en las pinturas del maestro sugieren que tenía visiones de los desastres ecológicos que asolan la Tierra

Episodio 02: .”¿El Tercer Anticristo?” (31 de enero)
El profeta más aclamado de la historia, Michel de Nostredame, vio la llegada de tres anticristos que se azotarían a la humanidad. Los dos primeros parecen haber sido de Napoleón y Hitler. Si es que existe, ¿Quién es el tercer Anticristo? (I aparecen en este.)

Episodio 03: “¡Extinción 2012!”
El Calendario Maya tiene una fecha de vencimiento: el 21 de diciembre de 2012. ¿Es cuando los Mayas creían que el mundo se enfrentaría a su catastrófico fin? ¿Es una simple coincidencia el que otras culturas también señalen esta fecha como el comienzo del fin? (I aparecen en este.)

Episodio 04: “Hijo de Nostradamus”
¿Era el hijo mayor de Nostradamus también un profeta? El “libro perdido” con inquietantes predicciones que alguna vez se creyó era la creación de Nostradamus, quizás es la obra de César Nostradamus. (I aparecen en este.)

Episodio 05: “El Juramento de Sangre de Hitler”
¿Fue Adolfo Hitler, el loco más famoso de la historia, también un profeta? ¿Qué papel juega su interés por lo sobrenatural en su intento de construir una raza aria? (I aparecen en este.)

Episodio 06: “El Código del Apocalipsis”
Sir Isaac Newton, uno de los mayores genios científicos de la historia, fue también un hombre obsesionado con los secretos de la alquimia y las profecías bíblicas. Fue él quien calculó el año 2060 como los últimos días de Tierra.

Episodio 07: “El Ejército de Satanás”
Después del nacimiento de Cristo, el Apóstol Juan recibió una visión de la guerra final de Satanás en contra de Dios. Lo que preocupa a muchos expertos hoy en día es que varios acontecimientos claves que preceden a esta guerra apocalíptica ya se han hecho realidad.

Episodio 08: “Los Secretos de El Séptimo Sello”
El Libro de las Revelaciones describe un final violento para la humanidad – un período de siete años de muerte y destrucción sin precedentes. ¿Cuándo podría ocurrir este Apocalipsis? ¿Y quiénes podrán sobrevivir a la ira de Dios?

Episodio 09: “Jeroglíficos del Juicio Final”
Una nueva mirada sobre el diseño de las Grandes Pirámides de Egipto, revela en la arquitectura impactantes profecías que auguran un final violento del mundo. ¿Creían los egipcios en que un cometa impactaría la Tierra en el 2012?

Episodio 10: “El Rapto y la Tribulación”
Muchos creyentes afirman que todos los eventos que anuncian el rapto y la tribulación ya han ocurrido. ¿Cómo es posible? ¿Podría esto significar que el rapto y la tribulación están casi sobre nosotros? Si es así, estamos ahora en el umbral de un Apocalipsis?

Episodio 11: “La Profecía Perdida de Fátima”
En 1917, tres niños pastores de un pequeño pueblo de Portugal informaron que habían sido visitados por la Virgen María. ¿Fue el mensaje divino que recibieron los jóvenes pastores una advertencia sobre una aniquilación nuclear?

Episodio 12: “Plan de Batalla Armagedón “
En 1947, unos pergaminos antiguos fueron descubiertos en las cuevas del desierto cerca del Mar Muerto. En uno de los textos, ahora llamado “Rollo de la Guerra”, se expone con un escalofriante detalle una futura guerra apocalíptica que pondrá fin al mundo.

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ARCHIVED RADIO/BLOG TALK RADIO SHOWS: ONLINE RIGHT NOW

Dreamland with Whitley Strieber

01/30/10–Month long feed starting 11 am -Pacific Standard Time

Theme: Predictions for 2010 and the coming decade

Coast to Coast AM with George Noory

Theme: Predictions for 2010

It happened on 01/27/10. ABC’s Nightline was in the studio with George listening in to our talk. There will be a special report in the coming weeks. Check Coast for an overview and download of the show if you missed it HERE.

RADIO/BLOG TALK RADIO APPEARANCES

(ll times are Pacific Standard):

Download the pod cast of my first predictions interview of the New Year here on the Patrick Timpone Show: on (ONE RADIO NETWORK)

12/22/09

The Knight Zone with Colin Knight: 7-8 pm

12/23/09

Night Fright, with Brent Holland: 7-8:30 pm

12/27/09

KAPS Paranormal Radio: 5-6 pm

12/28/09

The Buzz w/Spooky Scotty and Zita: 6:30-7:30 pm

12/30/09

The Rense Program w/Jeff Rense: 7-8 pm

On Whitley Strieber’s DREAMLAND (for Subscribers)

BEYOND 2012

For Whitley’s subscribers, Geoff Stray and Dreamland’s resident prophet John Hogue discuss the relationship between Nostradamus’ prophecies and 2012 predictions. Enjoy this rare discussion between two experts, and listen as they question each other, and in the process uncover some new ideas that neither of them have ever understood before!

Online (since 02 September 2009) Coast to Coast AM, with George Noory. I know, it is still way out there in the future but I want to give you all advanced warning because when George and me talk it is always an interesting show. I’ll be live online for three hours with George starting at 11 pm Pacific. Mark it in your cell phone, tweet it to you flock, bold face type the time and date on your facebook. We’ll be talking about the final months of 2009, which I expect will be the most dramatic of all.

I highly recommend you check out my 20 September interview with Shirley MacClaine at her web site HERE.

Online (since 25 July 2009)–Dreamland

John Hogue

(Updated 25 October 2009)

Dreamland w/Whitley Strieber

(25 December)

I will be on Whitely Strieber’s special Christmas program giving some early hints of what I’ll be forecasting for my new eBook Predictions for 2011. If you aren’t already on my free news bulletin list you can join here and be the first to know when the book will be posted at Hogueprophecy.com.

Nostradamus practicing his John Hogue impersonation in 1554.Friends

On Sunday, 30 November, I appeared on the first of my two new documentaries about Nostradamus for History Channel. The next one will air in early January.

Sunday’s documentary was called “The Next Nostradamus.” (by Mod3 Productions)

It isn’t about me. It’s about Dr. Bueno de Mesquita, a renowned political scientist who teaches game theory at New York University and Stanford, who’s had some luck using computer algorithms to extrapolate trends in the future as far forward as 18 to 24 months. As I understand it, he is trying to empirically anticipate predictability.

This August I was flown from the soggy Pacific Northwest all the way to sultry New York City, to stand under the languid shade of huge oak trees on a humid August day in the park lands of Columbia University.

(Oh golly! I stood where, Jesus — I mean Obama — walked.)

Just kidding.

Actually, some of the film crew had friends who studied with Obama and they relate what a great, astute and likeable guy he was.

Anyway, I digress.

I don’t know how much footage will make the final cut, but I filmed hours of interesting stuff that should see my furry face under oak frond shadow and light popping up frequently in this two-hour documentary.

De Mesquita and I come through very different doorways of perception into the same room of mystery that is prophecy. He’s a futurologist using objective scientific and mathematical methods to foresee future events. I’m the counterpoint. The subjective scientist and sympathetic skeptic of his work who tries to present the strengths and weaknesses of “Next Nosty” De Mesquita’s premise while presenting the historical Nostradamus and his controversial prophecies to the TV audience.

Objective Science may be able to predict by good guessing and calculating repetitive habit cycles events taking place 18 months or two years down the road. Nostradamus, however, being subjectively oriented to prophecy, could see things several centuries down the road. Things that didn’t follow any extrapolation.

If you missed Sunday night’s show, here’s a repeat screening scheduled on History Channel:

Saturday, December 06 05:00 PM

Also, I highly recommend another documentary I did for History Channel for their Decoding the Past Series, entitled: The Other Nostradamus (Authentic Entertainment Productions).

I don’t know when they’ll repeat it, however, look out for it in their program schedule at www.history.com

Happy Hogue-ing hogging the airwaves.

John Hogue
(01 December 2008)

PS–If you would like to see me and more History Channel documentaries about Nostradamus, do drop them an email at www.History.com. They read them. They care.

Go to http://www.history.com/global/feedback/index.jsp?NetwCode=THC. Go to the dialogue box that says “Select the area you are interested in.” Click on “Programming.” Go to the second box “Highlight your specific subject of interest.” Then select “program comments.”