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Things are not what they seem. There is saber rattling in the Persian Gulf (or what Nostradamus called in his predictions about a future war with Iran, the “Arabian” Gulf). Your corporately funded and controlled mainstream news outlets like to prey on the childishness of the masses. They play our overlording parent waving a saber baby rattle to attract a child’s wondering attention as the nurse, as it were, prepares the painful butt shot.

Watch the rattling saber, my fellow babies. Coo your concern and fatal attraction to a war being pushed upon you with Iran by a military industrial complex that needs to find another market in the highly profitable big business of war armaments and deterrents in the Middle East. The war business lost the Iraq market with the pullout of the US military occupation. Pakistan’s radicalization will soon pinch off the war market in Afghanistan, much sooner than the deadline of 2014, by the way.

The public’s infantile attention is directed elsewhere, away from real dangers lurking in the highly unstable and Islamist-bound regime along the Indus River. Pakistan with its crash program to triple its nuclear weapons stockpile is adding 200 more 25 to 35 kiloton nuclear warheads to its current arsenal of 100 nukes by 2021. The press obsesses on Iran maybe someday building an atomic bomb. Terrorist cells train in Pakistan in the vicinity of 100-plus nuclear warhead stockpiles TODAY. A Pakistani military and government already heavily infiltrated by jihadist sympathizers guard these Islamic A-bombs. The same military and government that often give Afghani Taliban logistical and intelligence support when they attack US and NATO forces occupying Afghanistan.

Iran is years away from having the ability to build atomic weapons. At any moment now, a Pakistani warhead or radioactive materials stockpiled to build hundreds more could be smuggled to the Taliban or what is left of al-Qaeda. The tools of nuclear terrorism can at any moment be smuggled out of Pakistani military bases and handed over to emerging and strengthening organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba. This Pakistani based jihadist network effectively shot up downtown Mumbai India in November 2008.

Iran may soon become a danger, but Pakistan, right now, IS a danger and its growing instability becomes a more clear and present threat to human peace and stability than what the Iranians may or may not be doing with their nuclear civilian program at this time. I predict it will be proven that Iran is only learning how to make an atomic bomb. They will not actually build them. Israel introduced these awful weapons of mass atomic destruction into the Middle East in the 1960s. They now have an arms race lead of an estimated 80 to 300 warheads. It is impossible to catch up given the scrutiny and economic sanctions placed on Iran.

Rattle, rattle, rattle goes the sword of war in its scabbard, daily and nightly on the 24-hour news cycles of corporately left-leaning CNN to corporately right-leaning Fox News propaganda organs of the politically two-faced aristocracy of our times. The elites do not cite bloodlines as their reason for being the alpha male and female class. They cite bottom lines of immense hoards of corporate wealth and influence over totalitarian and democratic government politicians of our day.

They have an agenda. They want to “inject” something into the backside of the Middle East to control the juice of their affluence, the black blood that runs our civilization: the last location of easy-to-drill petroleum that happens to lie underneath volatile Arab and Persian states. Since 2006 and in my book about war with Iran, I have been writing about a movement masquerading behind the US and Israeli governments that is neo-Imperialist, Neo-Conservative. It has the former deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz and the former Vice President Dick Cheney as its earliest author and editor of a manifesto first introduced shortly after the end of the Cold War, that strategically planned a new way for American superpower to remain relevant after the Soviet Union’s collapse. In short, America with help or unilaterally must take down the rogue regimes of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and the Islamic Revolutionary regime of Iran so that oil can run free and fully under the sphere of influence of the United States. If war and occupation must happen in Iraq and Iran, then so be it. As I listed in a recent article Israel Iran Strike, the Wolf, his Dick and many other leading figures in the Neo-Conservative movement crowded the G.W. Bush administration’s cabinet. They successfully pushed the US Congress in October of 2002 to grant war powers to the president based on a lot of saber rattling and no solid evidence that Saddam Hussein had a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction that was an imminent threat to the United States. All complete and hyperbolic BS, as it turned out, but it got the Neo-Conservatives half way to their goal, even though it did not get them the oil because the Bush administration proved to be a bungling gaggle of faux Imperialists. Saddam’s Iraq went down. Iran, you are next.

I have also been at pains to forewarn my readers that this cabal of Neo-Cons marries right wing corporate interests in the US to Zionist supremacists in Israel, which would have the US expend its treasure and its blood to fulfill the foreign policies of Israel. This has become an absurdist turn of events where the proxies control the superpower. I understand why Israel might seek to manipulate a friend and military giant to wage its wars and aggressive foreign policies in a region hostile to its existence. I understand why Iran might want to know how to build an atomic bomb when hundreds of Israeli warheads are pointed at its people, which an any point might be unleashed.

What you, my readers, need to understand is that Iran’s oil reserves are dwindling. Teheran plans in the next few decades to build 15 nuclear plants because the next generation of Iranians will need a new industry beyond the fading oil export industry, and a new source of electricity and power to generate it. Iran MUST go ahead with its nuclear program for its economic survival and the only way it can pay for it is to export oil while there is still oil to ship out through the Strait of Hormuz.

Cut its ability to export and you have cut Iran’s economic future below the knees. When you shut a country’s economy down and stop talking to them, you leave that country only a military option. More on that a little later.

Know this also, that Iran seeks like any other signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the knowledge to build atomic weapons.

Did we sanction Taiwan, South Korea, or Japan decades before when they tested and acquired the know-how to build atomic weapons, just in case a nuclear power like Communist China might threaten?

The saber rattles and rattles your attention away from the hypocrisies and big business oil and big business military players behind the facades of President Bush, President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

The war market is in a crisis. The infernal shop of conflict is closing for the moment in Iraq and in Afghanistan soon. There is ever less reason out there for US taxpayers to bankroll this capitalist welfare program that fields a Cold War sized Imperial US armed force after strategic threats requiring such a behemoth had vanished with the Cold War over 20 years ago. Global economic pressures also push America to downsize its stupendous military might. It is ten times more powerful than any armed force that could vaguely threaten. Now that Saddam is gone, the big boots of a Soviet sized bogeyman look even more ridiculous if you try to shove them on little, rat faced Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s feet.

A resumption of a global cold war with the Soviet replacement, the Russian Federation, is unlikely for now, so big war businessmen must seek a regional cold war business model. Iran is perfect for this. The military industrialists would prefer containing Iran for decades rather than a short sharp and messy conflict. The Cold War between the US and Soviet Union cost relatively few American lives, compared to the First and Second World Wars but made contractors in the Military Industrial Complex insanely rich off taxpayer’s dollars just preparing for, but not actually waging, doomsday. The same set up is happening in the Persian Gulf Cold War starting in 2012. Huge defense spending contracts and orders are already going through, soon to rebuild and reboot the air forces and missile defense systems of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States with the most modern and most pricey US weaponry on the market.

The more moderate puppet masters competing to pull the strings of the current US president and Israeli Prime Minister would seek to postpone a major war with Iran. Building and sustaining military deterrents is much more war profitable. At least postpone until the middle of the decade at the earliest because fantastic profits are theirs for the taking in a ramp up of Saudi and Gulf State rearmament for the next four years.

Recent photograph of a US amphibious assault carrier stationed in the Strait of Hormuz. (Source: U.S. Navy Imagery/Flickr.)

There is at the moment a more impatient set of polemical puppet masters of the Neo-Con-cum-Zionist faction of the military industrial complex that want to give Iran what I would call the “Japanese Ultimatum” – the no choice but war option. They know they cannot stop Iran from exploring nuclear weapons unless they can somehow push Teheran out of its passive aggressive foreign policy game into some precipitous action. All the last attempts during the Bush administration since 2005 through 2008 to create a military incident in the Strait of Hormuz in which most of the oil shipped by sea to the world passes failed because the Iranians did not take the provocative bait. They have not taken the bait in a clandestine war the US started waging inside Iran since 2005. Terrorists the US supports are available for weapons and bomb training in a number of non-Persian ethnic populations in Iran. The CIA and Israeli Mossad secret services have trained these to blow up hundreds of people in bombed planes, squares and mosques across Iran since 2005.

Your corporate Western media does not want you to know that.

A funeral procession in Teheran carrying the coffin of the recently assassinated Iranian scientist. An assasin on a motorbike drove up to his car, applied a magnetic mine, then drove off allowing a radio signal to detonate the bomb. Is that not also an act of terrorism? Why is one man's terror another man's righteous kill?

The serial assassination of nearly a half dozen nuclear physicists and scientists of late is just an escalation of this secret war of terrorism waged against Iranians by Israeli and CIA operatives.

Oh! I’m sorry. These roadside bombers aren’t terrorists. If the good guys blow women and children up with car bombs in crowded streets of Iran, they are “freedom fighters.”

Now, to be fair, Iran’s government is getting its own back. They wage clandestine war against Israel ever since this secret war started, using the proxies of Hezbollah and have sent military trainers by the hundreds to teach Hezbollah terrorists how to launch imported Iranian rockets falling on innocent Israeli civilians. A large part of the 5,000 US and Coalition soldiers killed in Iraq and to some extent Afghanistan were fatally maimed by an ever more deadly evolution of Iranian manufactured roadside bombs.

The Iranian-US-Israeli regional Cold War has been on since 2005, yet in 2012, it could go potentially hot, like the global cold war between the US and the Soviet Union almost did during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Especially now that the Neo-Cons are doing everything they can through the media and through political pressure in the US to push upon Obama the “Japanese Ultimatum” against Iran.

In late 2011, the US Senate voted unanimously to enact a regimen of sanctions handed to President Obama that would cripple Iran’s one economic lifeline, its oil exports. Obama would prefer to push the Iranians in increments, but forces pulling the strings and holding the financial purses of Democratic and Republican puppets in the Senate have pressed for an escalation that will, if successful, end all political support for a negotiated solution in Iran.

General Hideki Tojo became Japan's Prime Minister in 1941 when US ultimatums and a US embargo of steel and petroleum exports silenced doves and diplomats in the Japanese cabinet. Tojo sanctioned the surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Peal Harbor.

It is kind of a reverse image of what happened to Imperial Japan just before they went to war with the US in 1941. The expansion, indeed the survival, of the Japanese Empire depended on foreign exports of steel and oil to fuel and arm its military. Most of these exports came from America. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt put an embargo on all oil and steel exports to Japan, he forced the diplomats out of power in Tokyo. War hawk officers filled the void in the Japanese Cabinet of Emperor Hirohito. Negotiations had turned to ultimatums from America to get out of Indo-China and China. In less than a year, Japan’s military machine would cease to work. No country with a war machine and Imperial intentions, be they Japan in the 1940s or Neo-Conned America in the 21st century, will let their forces run out of steel and fuel. War was the only option Japan had. They attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 to destroy the US Pacific Fleet so their own fleet and army could conquer the oil fields of Indonesia without US threat.

History past becomes history future, relatively easy to forecast, because people keep conditioning their new generations to repeat the same stupid mistakes. All the elements of the Japan Ultimatum are in this Iran Ultimatum passed by the US Senate. Oil is again the catalyst for war, only this time it is not oil denied to Iran’s domestic industries and military forces. Iranian oil exports will be severely restrained “from” Iran.

Rather than aid a negotiated settlement, like with Japan, the cynical intention of these sanctions is to flush out any remaining doves from the Iranian government, which has already become more militarized and dominated by its own General Hideki Tojos, the officers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. If you want to force the hand of war, push sanctions that are impossible to economically survive. Threaten a nation’s economic existence.

There is another objective, more cynical and dreadful happening here and Iran is only the bait, not the target. The target is a slow but fragile recovery of the US economy during a presidential election year. There are well-financially-healed oligarchic forces in the world influencing American politics that could easily absorb a temporary financial hit in 2012 if it takes down the Obama administration and what is left of the toe hold the Democrats have in the US Senate.

The creeping coup of a corporate aristocracy had already conquered the US Supreme Court in 2010 and received their “equal citizen status” allowing an empowered plutocracy to flood money and influence to decide the US elections according to what their money can buy and what you human citizens of America cannot lobby and possibly match fund.

The real reason why a push for war with Iran goes on whilst the real danger of nuclear terrorist proliferation remains unaddressed in Pakistan, is to create a false flag crisis in the Persian Gulf that disrupts oil flow out of the Strait of Hormuz. Pakistan needs to go radical so the same Neo-Cons who looked the other way to let 9-11 terror attacks on America happen, can yet again resurrect a jihadist bogeyman that will require decades of deterrent military spending.

But I get ahead of myself. First, false flag a conflict with Iran in 2012. The Strait of Hormuz is closed to oil traffic. The skyrocketing oil prices will then temporarily push the US economy back into a recession. The economic downturn will be blamed on President Obama. A little war of gunboats in the Strait of Hormuz might just tip the economy back into 10 percent unemployment and convince enough voters that Obama and the Democrats controlling the Senate need to be flushed out with their votes in November 2012. A far more big business friendly Republican president and Congress in Washington would lead to a speedier dismantling of the US democracy in the name of smaller government.

Nevertheless, I believe this attempt by corporate forces will not be successful. The president will use his discretion in 2012 to attempt measured application of the Iranian sanctions. There may be a military incident in the Strait of Hormuz no later than June through August 2012. Even if there was a brief naval skirmish in 2012, it is only preliminary to the ultimate military showdown Nostradamus’ astrology seems to frame for the years 2015 and 2016.

Babies are easily distracted. The saber’s rattle of corporate interests might backfire when a baby’s attention catches upon something else that is bright and shiny, like a diplomatic breakthrough that only the threat of war might propel in the 11th hour concession from Teheran. Iran may take the enemy away from the military industrial complex pushers and surrender their nuclear weapon aspirations in 2012; or, at least achieve gaining some time in that tried and true Iranian tradition of diplomatic stalling.

Iran is a country that knows how to buy time. It has lasted for 3,000 years. However, if real diplomatic breakthroughs are not forthcoming in 2012, Iran is only buying time up to 2015 or 2016 when a terrible war showdown will come out of its skies and melt its fleets of motorboats in the Persian Gulf. Another fleet might be melted and sunk as well. Nostradamus leaves that potential open.

This is a still from a video taken by a US naval war vessel last week stationed in the Strait of Hormuz of an Iranian gunboat. The Iranians taunt US warships by speeding very close, causing US crews to put fingers on gun triggers. No shots as of yet have been fired.

A conflict between Iranians and Western forces was certainly foretold in one of Nostradamus’ prophecies where he named the Strait of Hormuz outright by the name it held during the 16th century. We will examine the prophecy in my next article.

In the meantime, I direct you to get a copy of my newest e-Book Predictions for 2012. Read Chapter 3: Hot Crises in a Cold Depression. What I have presented above is just a taste of the full report accounting in detail a potential military crisis with Iran in 2012, when it could happen, who is behind it and how it will be avoided.

John Hogue
(14 January 2012)

It took no Nostradamus to predict this outcome. The committee gathered together after the tragically laughable sand box kiddie clash in US Congress back in July over raising the US debt ceiling, letting the Romper Room standoff go all the way to the drop dead timeline of 1 August before the US defaulted on its debt payments. It sent worldwide confidence in American leadership and the stock markets to the worst lows since 2008 and America lost its premier credit borrowing rating. Standard and Poor’s lowered the investment rate of the United States from triple A to double A. The first time in history that has ever happened to the largest economy in the world.

Back in August, S&P’s threatened to lower the US credit rating further in December if the six Democrat and six Republican legislators comprising the super committee created by the Budget Control Act did not come up with a long term financial plan. In effect, a so-called “trigger mechanism” will initialize an automatic $1.2 trillion set of spending cuts deep into entitlement programs, Medicare and especially the Pentagon’s military industrial complex budget over ten years.

Congress with Republicans in the lead is trying to find ways to renege on legally honoring the trigger mechanism. President Obama threatens to veto their attempt. I predict that a poor showing of bad standards in governance deserves a further US credit reduction by Standard and Poor’s before Christmas. Or, as Santa Claus might say, “That’s what happens when you’re naughty rather than nice.”

The annual Thanksgiving turkey-holocaust thankfully shortened the US stock market work week to three days putting a triptafen turkey leg to plug a hole bleeding market drops so that the Dow Jones Industrial’s three-day slide from Monday through Wednesday only hemorrhaged around 500 points. Rumblings out of Berlin that Germany might not pay Italy’s bills after all had a lot to do with this drop – perhaps more than the super committee cop out nearly everyone anticipated. The rumors echoing out of German banks strengthen the opinion that Italy’s large economy, the third largest in the euro monetary union, will not be too big to fail in 2012, but too big to “bail.”

No holiday for Europe last week, but thank goodness the Americans could stuff their faces and slump back into comfy chairs on Thursday in a triptafen flatulent turkey “meating” of sleepiness, watching with heavy lidded eye the NFL and college football games, the Cable TV marathons such as the Military Channel’s “Tanks”-giving. The next day, Black Friday, was the official Christmas holiday shopping season where retailers hope they’ll be “in the black” making profits as the consumers “Santa” their “closets” with sequestered presents for unwrapping under a slaughtered tree on 26 December. Christmas shopping can be a Christmas Tale, a retail-ing of good cheer that can account for 40 percent of all profits made per year.

NATO convoys on happier days when Pakistani customs let them rumble over the border into Afghanistan.

Friday through Saturday, Americans were shopping and by Saturday evening getting tripped out dozy on leftover turkey, pleasantly unaware for the most part that US-Pakistan relations that day had fallen to an all time low after NATO drones blasted a few dozen Pakistani border guards mistaken for Taliban fighters. Islamabad closed the Hindu Kush road, a key lifeline for US and NATO supply convoys rumbling into land-locked Afghanistan. What with Kirgizstan’s new president ready to let the US lease run out on an airbase key to supplying US forces in Afghanistan, I imagine American forces occupying Afghanistan could come home far sooner than 2014, as my oracle predicted. Most of them by the end of 2012, even.

Turkey Rapture! It happens every November in America.

Well, that is all the time I can spare today on writing blogs. I have to get back to Predictions for 2012. I am on a writing blitzkrieg since 16 November when principle writing unleashed an avalanche of words pouring into my Mac mini an average of 3,500 to 4,500 words a day! It appears like I am giving labor to what will pop out as a very large boned literary baby. The bad news is, I’m not sure it will be finished and ready to send it as early as I wanted to in December, initially to all those who have advanced its cost of $12.50 or more as a donation to HogueProphecy. All of you who have and continue to generously donate the cost of an advance copy will get your book well in advance of the worldwide publication date of the e-book.

The good news is my prophecies for 2012 are going to be the richest of all my annual almanac entries in content and the number predictions, so a think the little longer wait will be more than worth it.

My oracle has A LOT to share about the events of 2012. Some amazing stuff has come like lightning through these fluttering fingers over the keypad. I am averaging bringing into the world in first draft a chapter a day. Because 2012 is so significant in Mayan astronomical and astrological reckoning the subplot of it will be rich in the astrological examinations so many of my readers enjoy. Not only are there forecasts using Western Astrological traditions but Chinese too as we “enter the Dragon”, Bruce Lee style so to speak with yesterday’s chapter entry, The Year of the Water Dragon blowing Economic Bubbles. The day before that I brought into the world the oracle’s redefinition of a new clash of civilizations forthcoming on the global economic front called Dominion versus Democracy.

I don’t eat turkey or make a big deal about Thanksgiving Day 2011, because this November holiday reminds me more about 9 November’s Kristallnacht than a date to celebrate being thankful, because it marks an important milestone in the Native American Holocaust as those of you who have read my controversial articles already know (click on Thanksgiving Day).

No Turkey, not even Tofurkey for me. I was writing on that holiday. I think I finished the oracle’s report on the US presidential elections in 2012, entitled: Primates in Primaries for President. The chapters are coming through my fingers out of sequence. My memory of what came through and when is now a blur that only my next edit run-through, which must begin as soon as I post this, begins with a ruthlessly compassionate editorial cut and pasting – sometimes plastering – what is written into shape.

Therefore, that is it for fresh words for today’s weekly blog until my forecasts for 2012 are entered, edited and completed, hopefully soon. What follows is the publication of an interview I did with the Raw Epicurean back in March 2011. Prophecy is like turkey-time leftovers. If they are cooked well they get better with age. So, with this being posted at the end of another Thanksgiving 2011 holiday weekend, let America’s biggest holiday celebration of gluttony and heartburn, launch a further look into frankenfoods and the future of food.

 (Raw Epicurean interview, 16 March 2011, Part 2)

"Beam me up, Scotty! Let's Mooooo--ve my meat into that Golden Future!"

INGRID (Weithers-Barati): Worldwide there’s great concern over genetically engineered crops [corn, soybean, sugar beet, cotton, and most recently alfalfa, to name a few], and its effect on our food supply. What is the point? Is this all about profits? Politics? Control?

HOGUE
What indeed is the point?

Understanding the human mind that asks such questions.

Understanding first how this human mind imposed on us is conditioned to see things in a narrow pigeonhole of self-interest. For instance, the question asked. It is colored and supported by a certain narrow interest in food purity. That sentiment is noble, but it stands on the idea that food seems only now to be dramatically re-engineered away from its purity by technology.

Is that indeed the case?

If it was not for ancient Dr. Frankensteins who genetically altered wild corn -- Teosinte ( left) -- into the big-kerneled pop-corn bangin' modern kind, we could not have sustained our modern civilization this far.

Genetic engineering of food is at least 5,000 years old — as old as human agriculture itself. If you are truly a food purist, stop eating any form of corn because this fundamental foodstuff of the world is one of the earliest Frankenfoods. Millennia ago, corn was similar to a grass stalk. People began mutating it through low-tech genetic engineering until it became its giant, monstrously kernel rich form we take for granted as “pure” food today.

What big agricultural business is doing to explore and alter food genetically is nothing new. Most of our pure foods like wheat and rice are mutant food. Pure “bread” is “bred” mutations over centuries, thank goodness! Otherwise, a true purist would have to run naked in the wilds and return to the gathering of sparsely nourishing grains of the wilds like Neolithic peoples.

You say in the first half of your question: Worldwide there’s great concern over genetically engineered crops [corn, soybean, sugar beet, cotton, and most recently alfalfa, to name a few]…

I suggest that is a wrong concern. It is a weed of a concern ignoring the weed’s root problem. If you tear up the weeds without exposing and pulling out the root problem, you only make more weeds.

The root concern underneath all motivations of ancient to modern genetic engineering is how to feed an ever-growing population. The Green Revolution is taking a radical turn to more daring genetic engineering in our times not solely to make money for agri-businessmen, but to sustain supply to a catastrophically growing demand.

One can and should be concerned about the new and radically risky ways agri-business scientists are altering our food because some of these could result in apocalyptic consequences — global famines foreseen by many prophets down through history that have a contemporary sheen (as we will see below). However, be aware that the genetically engineered “medicine”, though it is dangerous, is not the “sickness”. The sickness is human unconsciousness that goes on demanding like a mindless bark beetle more than the agriculture can sustain, while we “un-think”, like rats that humans can go on breeding more and more people the human range cannot sustain.

One can forgive the bark beetle or the rat for just being an animal, following its instinct to eat and breed as much as it can, because the job of balancing its numbers is beyond its pea-sized mind’s understanding. Nature comes and culls the rats with disease and famine to restore balance to its numbers.

I can forgive the animal, but I cannot forgive the human being, blessed with potential sentience, blessed with a huge brain that can “see” and “think” and reason beyond instinct what needs to be done to restore balance to the world.

Forgive me for repeating my rat-to-human analogy. Compassion compels me to, because most of you who are reading this are not absorbing this reality beyond an intellectual titillation. Most of you will read this and think about it, because it entertains you to do so. Then you will blink and go back to consuming, breeding and feasting like rats. In the next 20 years, many of you reading this today will starve and be extinguished like mindless rats when you could have lived like men and women of consciousness. You could have rediscovered the blessing of consciousness potential, found a way to lower your population and sustain food production until the population explosion begins to naturally flame out after the mid-21st century.

I have to lay out this painful potential of a ratty future before every person reading this. Not to be proven right, mind you, but to galvanize urgency in each of you to change that destiny from happening to you and your children.

Every human being’s core concern should be this:

Do I go on living like a rat and dying like a rat? Or, do I discover and access the intelligent resource of this wonderful brain to live and flourish like a human being who thinks, reasons, is aware of the balances of nature, and thus not live as just an instinctive pawn of nature?

Back to your question. Let us focus on its ending this time as we read through it: Worldwide there’s great concern over genetically engineered crops [corn, soybean, sugar beet, cotton, and most recently alfalfa, to name a few], and [genetic engineering's] effect on our food supply. What is the point? Is this all about profits? Politics? Control?

Allow me to help you consider a new angle on the PPPC’s: the point, the profits, the politics and the control of food sustainability.

Let's get "rat" to the point.

The point is keeping food production up with the demand. The rise of more affluent middle classes across the world is adding another United States-sized 300-million, high energy and high calorie consumers for the planet’s burdened agribusiness to satisfy

The point is far more than mere corporate greed for more riches. Economic survival motivates dangerous genetic engineering of food products. For instance, what would happen if the demands for higher caloric sustenance of emergent middle classes, added to the many more new mouths of the poor to feed continues to produce a shortfall of supply?

Supply is not being met now. That is why food prices are climbing to their highest levels in human history and are expected to jump even higher in the next six to eight months. Thus it is that we put more pressure on agri-businesses to genetically engineer some “wonder-food” producing grains and vegetables increasing volumes of supply, lowering prices.

If prices do not lower, this hyperinflation of the global food market will see it collapse. The agri-business could go out of business with catastrophic consequences to civilization; in other words, no more profits, a collapse of political order and control of the streets.

So, it is about profits — bringing the price of food down by increasing yields because though agri-businesses may be making some of the highest profits in their history in 2011, these prices are destroying their market’s ability to pay for the product. Keeping prices high is like shooting a hole through your lifeboat stacked with money in a storm.

It is about politics — if the agri-business cannot find a way to meet demand and prices climb to a point where civil society cannot afford to eat, you get revolutions, like those erupting in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and Yemen. You get a bloodbath of civil war in Libya, which can no longer pay for food shipments until the fighting is over. If the fighting goes on for months, it feeds a higher price. A higher price feeds famine. Famine feeds more civil wars and so on it goes unto agri-business bankruptcy!

It is about control — or better, law and order. Without affordable food coming from a bountiful increased supply, there will be revolutions and upheavals. However, do not take that to mean I am in support of those control freaks that dictate from the palaces of Arab nations, or those agri-business corporate dictators that try to control growing by exporting one-yield-only seeds. Dictators of a political or an agricultural cloth are an impediment to human food sustainability. However, the democratic movements in the Middle East and North Africa are going to find a world after their dictators have fallen that still cannot feed and sustain itself, as the system exists now.

What would you have the agri-businesses do to increase yields? Growing a community Recession Garden may help you, but backyard farm plots in developed nations will not supply the world’s growing food demands. Indeed, if you grow your own, that is good for your food budget but taking your mouths out of the economy will only raise food prices higher elsewhere where backyard gardens are not a sustainable solution. Your garden will sustain you but I predict upheaval and hunger in the Middle East will see your gas prices in America jump to $5 a gallon by autumn 2011 and $7 a gallon by the Winter solstice of 2012.*

I am not saying you should not grow your own food. This is necessary. It is one of the steps in the solution. Keep moving to the other steps. The world needs a globally supported food price standard set that can equally sustain agricultural industries and political stability. You must lobby your leaders for a Global Food Summit while you sew crops in your community gardens too.

John Hogue
(27 November 2011)

*UPDATE from today: I am happy to see this prediction’s timing is wrong. Global oil is entertaining a jump above the $100 a barrel mark last week. Gas pricing is still high in America, approaching $4 a gallon, but I am off a buck for autumn 2012. May my predictions about gasoline prices remain too high. Still, expect $5 gas at the pumps in 2012. The $7 a gallon “petrol-geddon” price may come after 2012, or not at all, I hope.

Usama bin Laden.

Usama bin Laden (above), Saddam Hussein. Which one is Nostradamus' Arab Prince of Evil?

Friends,
The future and the events they anticipate are having a convergence. The prophecies of Nostradamus about his Third and Final Antichrist, code named Mabus now pit the two front-runners, the late Saddam Hussein and the recently killed Usama (Osama) bin Laden, in an ever-closer race to be number one candidate for Antichrist. Usama is catching up with Saddam.

Here, for your review are the two core quatrain prophecies about Mabus, the Third Antichrist, indexed 2 Q62 and 8 Q77 in Nostradamus’ prophetic masterpiece Les Propheties, initially published in serialized form between the years 1555 and 1560:

2 Q62
Mabus puis tost alors mourra, viendra,
De gens & bestes vne horrible defaite:
Puis tout à coup la vengeance on verra,
Cent, main, soif, faim, quand courra la comete.

Mabus will soon die, then will come,
A horrible unraveling of people and animals,
At once one will see vengeance,
One hundred powers, thirst, famine, when the comet will pass.

8 Q77
L’antechrist trois bien tost annichiliez,
Vingt & sept ans sang durera sa guerre:
Les heretiques morts, captifs, exilez,
Sang corps humain eau rogie gresler terre.

The Third Antichrist very soon annihilated,
Twenty-seven years his bloody war will last.
The heretics [are] dead, captives exiled,
Blood-soaked human bodies, and a reddened, icy hail covering the earth.

Let us go through the milestones that Saddam and Usama tally up to be candidate number one. (A full examination of all the Nostradamus Antichrist prophecies and potential past and future candidates can be had by reading my e-book. Click on Antichrist.

Being a dead candidate is the first and dubious milestone both share. Both violently annihilated: Saddam was hanged at the 30 December 2006, Usama shot by US Navy seals on May Day 2011.

(Score Saddam 1, Usama 1)

Both men’s names can be found in the code name Mabus. Saddam backwards spells maddas=mabbas=mabas. Replace one redundant a and you get Mabus. Usama mixed around get us maaus. Take the b from bin Laden. Replace the redundant a and you get Mabus.

(Score Saddam 2, Usama 2)

The horrible undoing of people and animals has not been made clear. It could imply the times in which they died, when the earth is seeing the balance of nature (animals) unraveling in devastating climate change caused by human abuse of the planet and overpopulation (people). There are many prophecies in Nostradamus about natural disasters, superstorms of terrible winds, global warming, vast inner-continental droughts at latitude 48 degrees across the world, all leading to a global famine and a third world war that may see two-thirds of the human race consumed.

It is not made clear in the prophecies if the Antichrist and the war arising from his annihilation triggers this unraveling of civilization and mass animal extinctions from a global catastrophe he caused. Indeed, the fact that Nostradamus does not directly tie the Third Antichrist to nearly 100 prophecies on this theme except for the nebulous connection made in 2 Q62 indicates to me that the unraveling of people and animals describes the times in which the Antichrist’s added catastrophe of a post mortem war takes place.

This however does not ignore the potential of either some terrible terrorist reprisal (in the case of Usama) or an unraveling of the Arab world because of a future breakup of Saddam’s Iraq as causes for the unraveling of the world. Saddam had famously predicted before being hanged that without his strong hand and dictatorship, Kurd, Shia and Sunni Iraqi’s would not be able to govern themselves and that sooner or later, Iraq would unravel. If the Middle East unravels, so does the oil industry that fuels human civilization. So, for now, I referee that the score is still tied. I conclude that 2 Q62, line 2 is dating the times in which the Antichrist dies, when humans and animals are enduring an unraveling of natural balances of the planet.

(Score: Saddam 3, Usama 3)

At once there is vengeance?

Saddam’s death did not see “immediately after” an unraveling of people and animals. We wait to see if this will happen in the next few months or years after the death of Usama. Score remains the same:

(Score: Saddam 3, Usama 3)

The line saying at once there will be vengeance is openly vague to embrace a future act of vengeance in retaliation to the killing of the Antichrist. One cannot say vengeance actually came from supporters of dead Saddam, although the worst years of the Iraqi sectarian civil war were ahead with the highest death tolls on Iraqis and US-coalition forces in the crossfire. Today saw the first reprisal bombings for Usama’s killing by Pakistani Taliban elements allied to al-Qaeda. Two suicide bombers killed scores of Pakistani Special Forces trainees as they gathered outside their boot camp facility in Western Pakistan to climb onto buses and minivans for a holiday. The death of 80 and the wounding of 100 of these does not fit the horrific reprisal implied that could ally 100 nations into an international counterattack. So, we are still waiting for something bigger to take place, perhaps in America — perhaps on or around the 10th anniversary of 9/11, or in al-Qaeda’s other favorite month to strike, the 11th month of each year.

No score change.

(Score: Saddam 3, Usama 3)

Now, if line 3 of 2 Q62 and part of line 4 are implying an alliance of 100 nations taking vengeance on a history changing terrorist act, then I have to give Usama a point. After al-Qaeda’s hijacked jet takedown of the World Trade Center Towers and drilling of the Pentagon on 11 September 2011 — a terrifying crime dated and foreseen by Nostradamus, see Osama — President G. W. Bush collected 100 nations into his alliance to seek out and destroy Usama’s terrorist network. Shortly after, in a few months’ time, US forces and the Afghan Northern Alliance routed al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban regime that harbored them in Afghanistan. Usama and his surviving core of al-Qaeda were surrounded in caves on Mt Tora Bora. The survivors, including a wounded Usama, only just managed to sneak over into Pakistan where he spent nearly a decade in hiding, overseeing a greatly reduced and crippled al-Qaeda.

(Score: Saddam 3, Usama 4)

The last line of 2 Q62 returns to the theme of describing the times of the death of the Antichrist: a time of great climate disruption (thirst=drought), the crisis of potable water and famine looming for the an overpopulated world that will endure the birth of the 7th billionth thirsty and hungry child sometime around July of 2011. One might argue that this population milestone tilts the milestone in favor of Usama, however the climate has been unraveling since global temperatures spiked and kept spiking from 1998 onwards, including the year Saddam was hanged in 2006. So, no score change.

(Score: Saddam 3, Usama 4)

I will save the comet milestone at the end of 2 Q62 for last. Let us jump to the next quatrain.

We see in line one of 8 Q77, how it links the annihilation of Mabus to the annihilation of the “Third Antichrist”. They are one.

The chemical weapons plume over Halabja, Iraq.

Let us jump ahead to the verse’s final line. The blood-soaked human bodies and the reddened icy or white spotted rain on the hemorrhaging bodies is a phenomenon seen on those killed by biological or chemical agents. Although a reprisal for Usama’s death may use these agents, clearly, Saddam scores one here because he notoriously used such weapons against the Kurds in 1988 in Halabja, killing thousands of civilians and on Iranian soldiers during the Iran-Iraq war perhaps killing and crippling 100,000 of them with mustard gas.

(Score: Saddam 4, Usama 4)

Now to 8 Q77′s line 3. This one leans in favor of Usama. He and his al-Qaeda jihadists are each considered by a vast majority of Muslims around the world as Al-muhartik (heretic). Since 9/11 to the present, most of the leading al-Qaeda planners, the cream of his suicide operatives who committed the act and thousands of AQ foot soldiers have been eliminated (dead), exiled from their countries of origin and made captives wasting away in a network of prisons far from home such as the US concentration camp at Guantanamo, Cuba.

Of course, one could argue that Saddam’s Baathist party henchmen are secular Islamic heretics also either eliminated, exiled from Iraq or crowded Abu Ghraib and other prisons. Nevertheless, Baathist dead and imprisoned have not made the historic impact of al-Qaeda dead and captives in a way that might have caught Nostradamus’ eye, so I give this one to Usama

(Score: Saddam 4, Usama 5)

Now to the most interesting new revelation in Nostradamus that only could be recognized after the death of Usama. Line 2 of 8 Q77 says about the Third Antichrist, “27 years his bloody war will last.”

Iranian human wave attacks during the Iran-Iraq War.

Saddam fulfills this. The time he was made dictator, to the time he was hanged was 27 years of constant warfare for Iraq. Saddam waged a civil war with the Kurds living inside its borders as well as crushing a second Shia uprising in 1991, killing hundreds of thousands. Saddam initiated the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1989) killing a million people. He invaded Kuwait in 1990. He was thrown out of Kuwait with the loss of 150,000 soldiers killed and hundreds of thousands captured in the Persian Gulf War that followed in 1991. A low-grade war smoldered from 1991 to 2003 with US-Coalition patrolling a “No Fly Zone” over Iraqi airspace with occasional volleys of cruise missiles crashing into Baghdad in the mid and late 1990s. Then the US invaded Iraq in 2003 deposing Saddam’s regime. The Baathists fought a guerilla war with US occupiers then as Sunnis they grappled with the Shia in a bloody sectarian civil war at the time Saddam was hanged in late December 2006. A period of wars and civil wars that spanned exactly 27 years!

Score one for Saddam?

Not so fast!

New revelations have reached me today, which I have verified. Usama, back in 1984, established MAK (Maktab al-Khidamat) with Abdullah Azzam, an organization to raise funds and recruit a foreign legion of Arab mujahedeen fighters, mostly Saudi Arabs, to aid the Afghani mujahedeen’s guerilla war against Soviet occupiers of Afghanistan. Although Usama had been funding and fighting alongside Afghans since he completed college in 1979, MAK put Usama on history’s time map as a leader in a war — just the kind of prominence that a prophet from the 16th century would have recognized.

In 1984, Usama’s bloody war began, first with the Soviets, and then four years later, MAK became the foundation for creating and fundraising and recruiting al-Qaeda. Usama’s war shifted from Soviets and became a guerilla-terrorist war against Arab dictators, the Saudi King beholden to Western “Crusader” powers with a string terror bombings in the Middle East during the 1990s, as well as the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.

Then came dramatic, large-scale swipes at US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 killing hundreds and wounding thousands. Then the USS Cole bombing at port in Yemen in 2000 killing and wounding dozens of US Navy personnel.

One of the 3,000 victims of Usama bin Laden on 9/11.

Then came his bloody war’s greatest terror act, the 9/11 toppling of the World Trade Center twin towers and setting alight the US Pentagon with hijacked civilian airliners killing 3,000. This lead to US occupation of Afghanistan in a war spanning nearly a decade, killing over 50,000 civilians and combatants from all sides. The drone wars over Western Pakistan commenced, killing hundreds more. The war in Afghanistan spilled over into a conflict between Taliban Pakistani guerillas with the Pakistani Army adding thousands to the butcher bomber’s bill.

Then Usama’s blood war ended with his death by US Navy Seal bullets just a dozen days ago.

Usama’s bloody war lasted from 1984 to 2011.

That is also 27 years!

Both Saddam and Usama win a point from me

(Score: Saddam 5, Usama 6)

Now to the last milestone. It is placed at the end of 2 Q62. Mabus is soon annihilated and all these events transpire “when the comet will pass.”

If we factor in how Nostradamus uses comets as portents, the most obvious allusion is not some comet we see in a telescope. It must be a great comet, one that is seen clearly with the naked human eye, like the one, for example, he successfully foresaw describing events in the future French Wars of Religion that could only happen under the unearthly glow of the great comet of 1577.

The early morning hours, just before the hanging of Saddam saw for the first time to the naked eye what would become the brightest comet in 60 years, Comet McNaught. There is no similar comet of singular brilliance seen by the naked eye at the death of Usama.

I know, I know. The emails will come flooding in about Comet Elenin, but it is not visible to the naked eye and will only become a visible smudge with a tale in late summer. No big light show like McKnaught is expected.

Yes, as it approaches the Sun it has been part of some pretty significant, and perhaps more than coinciding, surprises. As I detailed in my last blog, see Nostradamus, every time Elenin lined up with the Sun and Earth, there has been a significant earthquake on that day: the Chilean quake and Pacific Tsunami in February 2010, the Christchurch temblor in New Zealand, September 2010 and the Japanese quake and Pacific Tsunami of March 2011.

There will be two more opportunities for Elenin to trigger quakes of global significance come this September and November. If Elenin achieves a 5 and 0 on significant seismic events and tsunamis before it slips out of the solar system after November, then it could be considered the Mabus Comet and Usama bin Laden would score one on Saddam as Antichrist candidate number one. However, for now, I have to give a point to Saddam, because the comet allusions Nostradamus uses in other visions fits with this as a visible heavenly portent of the death of Mabus.

(Final Score, a tie: Saddam 6, Usama 6)

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'Adaluncatif' (Gaddafi Luna).

In that final blog on “Antichrist, new Nostradamus revelations”, we will see how the death of Usama bin Laden casts an entirely new light on the fate of Gaddafi. He is to die soon from a “dart” or “missile” not long after the death of bin Laden, it would seem, if one were to take a refreshed post-Usama-mortem review of the famous anagram prophecy Adaluncatif. See how it translates into Gaddafi Luna (Luna stands for crescent [of Islam]). Read also how Nostradamus’ Gaddafi riddles about the sea have been fulfilled by Usama bin Laden tying their fate in death together.

John Hogue

(Friday the 13, 2011)

PS–We are in the fifth month of 2011. Read how startlingly accurate Predictions for 2011 have been so far.

In my book Nostradamus and the Antichrist, published in mid-2008, I ended what was a 25-year search for the Third Antichrist narrowing the candidates down to four people. Two are presidents who see their names spell the anagram Mabus. They are G.W. Bush and the current president Barack Obama.

The other two are notorious terrorist leaders, Saddam Hussein and Osama (Usama) bin Laden.

The first two may be the hunters, the second two, the hunted candidates for the Third Antichrist.

In my book on Mabus, written and posted in an e-Book several months before Obama was elected president of the United States, I predicted that Obama would be elected and that in his first term he would hunt down and destroy the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.

Nostradamus, the prophetic giant of the last millennium, said in the mid-1550s that in the future there would be a “black king” involved in the war against the Third Antichrist. I interpreted that to mean he was Obama, the future African American president of the United States.

Here is the passage from my Third Antichrist book in question:

Nostradamus.

“Barack Hussein Obama’s name comprises elements of two top candidates for Third Antichrist: Saddam Hussein and Usama-Osama-Obama bin Laden. I can’t rule out the possibility that possibility Nostradamus, like Dixon, misread his symbols giving renewed life to Mabus-Obama being mistaken as the Antichrist in some composite blend of several men drawn into the same fateful destiny — all sharing Arabic names.

“Senator Obama has made it crystal clear that if he were president he would act decisively to change the US strategic focus of the War on Terrorism out of Iraq and into Afghanistan, even Pakistan. Obama intends to apprehend and annihilate “Osama” bin Laden. If the US forces have to invade Pakistan’s Wild West autonomous provinces to destroy bin Laden in his lair, so be it.”

I further wrote a passage about Obama as the “Black King” foreseen by Nostradamus would increase troop levels in Afghanistan and go after the al-Qaeda leader in Pakistan. Note the prediction in red, published over two-and-a-half years ago:

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THE BLACK AND FUTURE KING

Sa main derniere par Alus sanguinaire
Ne se pourra par la mer guarentir:
Entre deux fleuues craindre main militaire,
Le noir l’ireux le fera repentir.

6 Q33
His power finally through the bloody USA
He will be unable to protect himself by sea.
Between two rivers [Mesopotamia–Iraq] he will fear the military hand,
The black king will make the angry one repent of it.

A right interpretation depends on divining who is the subject of these vague third person personal and possessive pronouns. Play with it in French and the anagram Alus sanguinaire (Bloody Alus) becomes L’USA sanguinere (the bloody USA). Le noir (the black) may be an anagram for le roi n(oir): “the black king.” Earlier interpretations had a black robed Shia cleric of Iran or Iraq who makes the angry one, such as Saddam Hussein, repent; however, if this applies literally to an African American future president, then it might describe Barack Obama’s Iraq policy in future action.

The Greek Meso (between) potamia (two rivers) is Iraq geographically defined as the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. This round of interpretation presumes President Bush the angry one made to repent his invasion of Iraq by Obama who pulls out combat troops in the first 16 months of his presidency. Another candidate for angry one is Usama bin Laden who will repent ordering al-Qaeda to infiltrate Iraq during the Bush administration. The Black president (king) will increase US forces in Afghanistan, killing or capturing Usama in a military incursion into Pakistan.

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If “Obama” has killed “Osama” as Nostradamus’ candidate for Antichrist, you can decode his name thusly, using Nostradamus’ laws of anagramming,

Osama = (correct phonetic pronunciation) Usama

Rearrange the letters to: maaus

You can replace one redundant letter with only one letter missing, which is the b.

Thus you get maaus = ma(a)us = mabus.

The story of Mabus, the Third Antichrist does not end but begins with his death. The Mabus prophecy reads:

Mabus puis tost alors mourra, viendra,
De gens & bestes vne horrible defaite:
Puis tout à coup la vengeance on verra,
Cent, main, soif, faim, quand courra la comete.

2 Q62
Mabus very soon then will die, [then] will come,
A horrible undoing of people and animals,
At once one will see vengeance,
One hundred powers, thirst, famine, when the comet will pass.

The death of the Mabus is as sudden and violent as the US Special Forces firefight that killed Usama bin Laden in Pakistan today. If he is the true candidate for Mabus, then there will be retribution that in other parts of Nostradamus’ history of the future implies a 25 to 27 year war of the Third Antichrist will follow.

There will be a horrible undoing of people and animals, an unraveling of civilization (humans) together with an undoing of the natural balances (implied by “animals”). This could be dating a time of climate change and ecological crisis as the time of the death of the Antichrist.

One hundred nations (powers) initially allied with the US in a war against the international terror fomented by Usama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorists when they took down the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City with hijacked jets and crashed a third into the Pentagon in Washington DC on September 11, 2001.

The final line implies these events happen in a time not only of ecological stresses like ours but also when food and water sustainability are approaching a crisis in our overpopulated world. The historic rise of food prices this year may be a precursor to these oncoming events of drought, or thirst and famine to come in the day following the violent death of the Third and Final Antichrist.

The most important thing to key on in this prophecy for the immediate future is “vengeance”.

Vengeance to come in retaliation!

Usama bin Laden has planned for his martyrdom for nearly a decade. There will be vengeance coming.

Be extra vigilant.

The terrible undoing and destruction of people and animals may also imply the long planned use of a weapon of mass destruction, either radiological, chemical or biological that kills both animals and humans that only will be unleashed when this high profile candidate for Nostradamus’ Antichrist “is annihilated. “

In the coming days I will be divulging more of my documented and accurate predictions over the years on this matter of Antichrists. If you wish to read my entire report in detail on Usama bin Laden and other possible candidates for the Third Antichrist you can find it all in my e-book by clicking on Nostradamus.

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John Hogue

(MAY DAY 2011)

An illustration from "Nostradamus and the Antichrist."

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This purported Mermaid or Mer-man washed up on shore in Malaysia in 2006. Hoax-slayer.com purports that it is a statue created by Juan Cabana. Here a hoax today, gone true tomorrow as Nostradamus foresaw?

Friends,
It’s Super “Bowel” Sunday. Let’s take a prophetic holiday. Egypt at the moment of this writing is on hold and some positive signs are emerging that some democratic solution “may” be found. Australia for the moment is drying out from a huge cyclone. And the seventh winter superstorm rolling over the eastern half of the USA since Christmas is a few days away. I’ll have a lot more to share about all the future possibilities of these — the Blue Kachina Star prophecy — and other pressing themes after the Green Bay Packers defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers. (Don’t worry Pittsburgh. My sports forecasts are terribly inaccurate. Except maybe this time.)

I’ve had this blog in my stock for a year. For Superbowl’s sake, this might be the right time to let slip the Mermaids of Nostradamus:

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Now for some close encounters of a Nostradamian kind. There may be dozens of prophecies that sound bizarre far beyond the usual weirdness of Nostradamus’ words in cryptic verse. They tell of demons, dog faced men and monstrous angels that may not be what they traditionally seem. The demons may not be devils but outworlders. The dog-faced men are not macabre demi-dogs-cum-gods but estrangers, foreigners, strangers from lands beyond earth. Monstre in old French means “divine omen” not only “monster”. A message from the stars, perhaps, in guise of sky men?

Read a verse to present perchance a stranger from another world, Century 3 Quatrain 21 states:

Au Crustamin par mer Hadriatique,
Apparoistra vn horrible poisson:
De face humaine & la fin aquatique,
Qui se prendra dehors de l’ameçon.

In the Conca by the Adriatic Sea,
There will appear a horrible fish:
With a face (that is) human and its end aquatic,
Which will be taken without the hook.

The Conca River drains into the Adriatic ten miles south of Rimini. The horrible fish may be a submarine or any number of modern, or perhaps future missiles with fins (its end aquatic). The face of this “thing” is described here as human, benevolent, or humanlike. Garencières, a 17th-century Nostradamus interpreter of repute, lived long before the industrial age, or UFO fixations. He thus thought the human fish must be a mermaid. In our age we might project (correctly or not) a technological image of a machine, as I have done. Or we might apply Nostradamus’ image to some amphibian extraterrestrial making contact. A third possibility would create a distant future when humankind uses genetic engineering to branch out into different species. Some of those could be aquatic humans. Finally, this may be something more down-to-earth and closer to our times. How would you, as a 16th-century man, describe someone in a facemask, scuba gear, and flippers, coming out of the Adriatic after some deep-sea diving?

Jacque Cousteau, meet Nostradamus!

John Hogue

(06 February 2011)

PS–More predictions for 2011 HERE.

At HogueProphecy.com, I try to give you the core causes that mainstream news either do not type into their TV prompters out of ignorance or corporate censorship, or they set data down on their scripts unmindful of the right emphasis. I try to catch the right sources of the “current” in current events so that I can show how the flow of reactions from our actions “currents” down possible future rivers of history.

The headwaters, if you will, for this current flow of history throughout North Africa and the Middle East has its source in the most fundamental need of life, after potable water — which in itself is a dwindling commodity in these overpopulated regions that climate change will return to desert a few decades hence. When David Brinkley, one of the last of the great US nightly news anchor’s, a contemporary of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, had retired in 1997, one would see him appear randomly on television passionately promoting an idea that seemed to cause more acerbity than garner respect by news colleagues. Brinkley had become a spokesman for the agribusiness giant, Archer-Daniels-Midland, who had earlier been fined $100 million fine for price-fixing of food and feed additives. What was lost in the controversy but not lost by me was Brinkley’s message: “Since television began, I have brought you the news — wars, elections, victories, defeats. The news, straight and true. I will still speak straight and true. I’ll never change that, but now I will bring you information about food, the environment, agriculture, issues of importance to the American people and the world.”

I thought David Brinkley, ever having a keen nose for future news, was not having an elderly moment in his final days or had sold out to big business, but was far ahead of his times in these ad spots, warning the world about its number one security danger: Food.

Yes, food. A lack of it could be the headwaters source for a whole plethora of social, economic and political deluge in our near future. Brinkley may not have been interested in prophecy but prophecy backs his forecast concerns. I can tell you as a prophecy expert for 30 years collecting thousands of documented predictions both ancient and modern from all corners of the planet, from all known eras of recorded civilization.

I have publishing many of them in books like 1000 for 2000 Startling Predictions for a New Millennium and in The Millennium Book of Prophecy. The best seers share a message. A collapse of food sustainability is the catalyst for many foretold catastrophes set to suddenly spring as fast as an Egyptian Revolution overnight, some oncoming night in our near future. Famine is the most immediate and least anticipated threat to human civilization. It is triggered by another shared collective threat foreseen by prophets throughout history: climate disruption.

I cannot emphasize this enough, the historic fires and drought across European Russia taking Russian grain exports off the market in 2010 makes climate change a source of future social and economic upheaval. Begin magnifying Russian fires with Australia’s 500-year drought in 2010 transforming into a 100-year flood in early 2011 disrupting their grain exports. You then add to that an inundation of Pakistan’s grain belts by a relentless monsoon flood in the summer of 2010 displacing 25 million people, leaving vast tracts of the South Asian wheat belt of the Pakistani half of the Punjab “STILL” under water at the time of this writing. You add the multiplication of perversely intensifying natural force to all of these climactic extreme events and do you now hear an alarm ringing?

Do you not hear the first “clang” of an alarm in the future sustainability of the supersystem of food production and export?

The climate’s disruption of the agri-business across important grain producing regions HAS greatly increased the price of food.

The Food and Agriculture Organization said prices reached a record high at the end of 2010, above the peaks of the 2007-2008 food crisis also caused — I would add by an uptick in climate change I presaged in 2006 on this web site. As January ends, calls from North Africa and the Middle East for soft red winter wheat is the most actively traded contract, so reports FAO, reaching as high as $8.61¼ a bushel at the Chicago Board of Trade, eclipsing an intraday high set last August when the Russian drought cut Russian grain exports. At that time wheat futures ended up 18¼ cents, or 2.1 percent, to $8.56½. US wheat futures surged to a fresh 29-month high last Wednesday as growing concern over food prices drove Algeria to order another large grain purchase on the world market.

A critical perspective must not be lost as people surge forward into the streets of the Middle East demanding the toppling of dictatorships. In your shared excitement of anticipating a wave of democracy spreading across the Arab world, do not forget that climate change saddled with rising demand from a human race pushing beyond the 7 billion mouths-to-feed mark in 2011 is pushing grain prices to record levels. Changing from totalitarian regimes to democratic regimes does not change this apocalyptic fact!

Food price protest sent people of Tunisia into the streets to overthrow their dictator, Ben Ali, earlier in January. Food prices will send them into the streets again against the democratic reformers.

It was not tweets but where to find cheap “eats” that started this spontaneous wave of revolution pouring in floods of people by the millions into the streets of Egypt. Yes, there are other grievances in the laundry list of revolution but as I said in my last blog (click on Egyptian demonstrations) revolutions may soon adopt famous and iconic slogans, such as the French Revolution’s liberté, égalité, fraternité! However, in the earliest days of revolt it was a call of faim a need to mange that energized a mob to storm the Bastille and start the French Revolution.

Hunger for Food is first. Unemployment, economic uncertainty, a close second. Third is political reform driving people to face death on the barricades. Steps one and two are often overlooked or under reported.

When I see Russia, the third largest grain exporter ban exports because of climate change droughts and fires burning a fifth of their grain, when I see other markets arrest or greatly diminish their exports so that livestock in their countries can keep eating, just look to where they formerly exported for oncoming trouble. Look into Africa. Look into North Africa and the Middle East, all chief importers of Russian grain. Follow the dwindling bread trail into overpopulated, economically-marginal developing nations and you will see the paroxysm of hunger and food sticker shock fuel the paroxysm of revolution in 2011.

US global wheat exports have doubled since the Russian export ban last summer. The intensifying weather of climate change that caused the Russian ban has so far profited US wheat exporters because violent weather is stifling competitors, like Canada and Australia, the latter seeing much of its grain crop under water from floods.

Algeria’s government in January is trying to buy their way out of a revolution like Egypt’s by purchasing — this time from the US — in one huge order what will be a third of their expected annual wheat purchase: 800,000 metric tons! The Algerian order pushed wheat futures in Europe to their highest level since March 2008.

North African and Middle East nations threatened with upheaval have also dramatically stepped up their grain orders since the Tunisian revolution. Yet, it is not just Middle Eastern governments like those of Yemen and Jordan piling up debt by absorbing and lowering the price hike, to stem the escalation of demonstrations on their streets. Even Far Eastern nations like Taiwan are bracing for a rush on grain exports hiking prices to levels potentially setting their own populations out on the streets in protest. Taiwan plans to lower its wheat tariffs by 50 percent to stop the tide. Even now, there are demonstrations on the streets of Vladivostok on the Pacific Coast of Russia against price hikes on food.

Once a revolution is on, foodstuffs can quickly deplete. Political limbo reigns. Economies grind to a halt. Transport halts. Replenishing basic necessities, food being one of the most essential and socially volatile if cut off, can fuel violence and cause revolutions to descend into mass terror and destruction.

Foodstuffs in Egypt are running out because of the lawlessness and chaos. At the time of the writing, the revolution will be a week old. How many more days before the food issue that started this rebellion becomes a survival issue that takes it to a new level of chaos and violence?

If you are not in or one of my Egyptian readers, step back and ponder this.

Every one of you reading this, wherever you live on this earth, will be directly impacted by Egypt descending into chaos this week and later Jordan, Syria and Yemen in the weeks to come. Egypt’s Suez Canal is the source of 7.5 percent of the world ocean trade amounting to 6 Billion in revenue — much of this is oil coming out of the Persian Gulf to EU and US markets.

The oil crisis I foresaw as a potential and unexpected source of the second global economic crisis did not begin in October 2010. However, what I also said in Predictions for 2010 is the window of economic danger stretches from October 2010 into June 2011.

Sometimes we do the right thing and delay dire futures. Sometimes dire futures can be postponed forever by our right and intelligent actions as individuals, as nations, as members working together as a family of humans in a human global civilization.

From food to fuel hikes we go, into the oncoming and most dangerous months of potential economic turmoil that can lead to significant, riotous social unrest in the first half of 2011.

You can read a more detailed account of these and other alarm bells of unsustainable ecological, economic and spiritual habits by reading Predictions for 2011.

John Hogue

(31 January 2011)

Indian sage, Ramakrishna, frozen like a statue in a state of Samadhi bliss, who just a moment ago was dancing and singing Bhajans with his disciples. The nimbus around his head is authentic.

Friends,
“Deepak” from India took me to task in Mumbai 9-11: Part Five (see 26.11, India’s 9-11). In the series I tried to explain how Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist commando attack on the financial district of Mumbai India on 26 November 2008 was intended to pull India into another — and potentially nuclear — conflict as per al-Qaeda’s strategic aims, which are to unite the Islamic world to fight infidels thus fulfilling Islamic apocalyptic prophecies. Mahatma Gandhi, before his assassination had predicted that partition of Pakistan from India would create four large-scale wars. Three of those wars have since been fought. If there is a fourth, it could be nuclear effectively killing more Pakistanis and Indians in South Asian than all who died in the First and Second World Wars combined.

In the Mumbai 9/11 series, I reprised segments of an earlier set of articles describing the border standoff in late 2001 early 2002 between India and Pakistan just after al-Qaeda had launched its terror attack on New York City and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Kashmiri rebels trained by al-Qaeda elements had tried storming the Indian Parliament in December 2001. After which, Pakistani and Indian forces gathered along their shared frontier. Nuclear arsenals of both belligerents were on a hair trigger. More frightening to me than this were the mass rallies in Indian and Pakistani urban centers. Millions on either side urged their governments to drop the atomic bomb on the enemy. Many blithely believed that nuclear blast effects and plagues of radioactivity were nothing new to what Indians and Pakistanis suffer from earthquakes or monsoonal floods. They could take it — please drop the bomb with our blessings. Our India, our Pakistan will live forever, according to our prophets.

This incredible naivety lurks underneath the masses. Perhaps it embeds deep in the mind of “Deepak” who wrote the letter below.

All religious fundamentalists of every cloth, be it orange of Hindu, black of Islamic, or the somber cloth of Protestant collared reverends or the rich raiments Catholic priests, presume divine beliefs prevail untested. I wrote about it in greater detail here: See Messiah. The righteously faithful serenely believe they will survive any apocalypse they might have to unleash on others. Here is one of them:

DEEPAK
I read your article and well don’t agree with your Analysis. India survived 1,400 years of Islamic and British rule. Swami Vivekananda and Swami Ramakrishna were the reincarnation of Lord Ram and Lord Krishna. They did not predict the destruction of India ever. They have only spoken of India’s rise. Many other saints have predicted the same. Indian horoscope also shows the same.

HOGUE
There is a famous story of Ramakrishna giving his disciple Vivekananda siddhi (psychic) powers and was admonished to use them wisely. Instead, he used them to plant a thought in a simple disciple’s mind that he should throw into the river the rocks he used to represent the gods for worship. Ramakrishna found out and promptly took the powers away. Vivekananda pleaded for them to be restored but Ramakrishna compassionately forbid their use as long as Vivekananda lived because his ego was too strong to resist misusing them and he needed to learn humility.

He was sincere and a great messenger for his Master, Ramakrishna, but his master tried very hard to help him go beyond that self-absorbed spiritual narcissism. Ramakrishna’s message was delivered well by Vivekananda to the West, and he is one of the pioneers of the great shift of spiritual values from the East to the West gradually taking place. Vivekananda, however, was only a messenger and not a living “message.”

When I see Ramakrishna (left), still as a statue, propped up by his bewildered disciples, in the famous picture, gone, gone, completely lost in the light of the gap… Who cares about who was born as whom? All distinctions are lost in that blissful light of Now-Eternal. Only top-heavy people lost in the dark recesses of minds piled high with religious jargon and thoughts care about whether Ramakrishna was Lord Ram. As I see him in the photo, Ramakrishna is not thinking. He is free. He is beyond all dry-boned and drop-dead punditry. He is gone, gone, beyond Lord Ram.

You don’t know for sure, Deepak, but you would like to think Ram and Krishna never said there would be an end to India.

All things of this world — India included — end. Lord Krishna “had” predicted your end, my end and India’s eventual end, albeit indirectly. Read the Gita. Krishna often speaks of transience of the egoistic world. With that in awareness, think. Where is “Bharat”? Gone. Where is the Mogul Empire? Where is the British Raj? Gone, gone completely gone.

India? Pakistan?

It takes no prophet to tell you that your current political construct called “India” will go the way of Ashoka’s Empire and the way of the Kaurava’s whom Arjuna slaughtered with his arrows with Lord Krishna guiding the chariot.

Where too has Arjuna gone? He has also passed to the Himalayas in an icy tomb of avalanche. The evil, the good, all the chapters of India, even “chapters” as a concept will pass away in Kalpas (great cycles of time) coming.

India will end. What is important is whether the witnessing Atma ends. Who cares about transient illusions like India, or the USA, or this “John Hogue” or that “Deepak” — all dust. What about the consciousness behind these masks of illusion, Deepak? That ought to be your concern, not the further existence of the idiotic political posturing of Maya.

DEEPAK
…They have only spoken of India’s rise. Many other saints have predicted the same. Indian horoscope also shows the same.

HOGUE
Then they are projecting their chauvinism. India will vanish like Mohenjo Daro and Harappa, like the throne of Hastinapura. It is the nature of things. Yet, egoists like your saints and astrologers would project their belief as fact against the passing of kalpas. Such folly.

DEEPAK
There will be problems which Indian horoscope shows and K N Rao predicted about the turmoil in India during the Bombay attack. Indian astrology is quite competent to show what lies ahead and its also has a dark warning for the coming years.

HOGUE
Indian astrology is the most competent. I know from direct experience. I’ve lived in India and met with many of your astrologers. Unlike the West, Indian Astrology keeps the calculations simple and doesn’t clutter them up with the needless additions of every piece of floating space rock to clutter the interpretation with noise.

I have a large South Asian readership. They’ve been asking for predictions about India and I will provide them with many in my forthcoming book Predictions for 2011. I will say this, one dark warning for which India must prepare is a natural disaster of floods and storms in the next Monsoon Season of 2011 that will rival those besetting Pakistan in 2010. Orissa, West and East Bengal in particular should brace themselves. Also, there will be more terrorist attacks in September and November of 2011 issuing out of Pakistan from Lashkar-e-Taiba. Once again the targets intended will be where Westerners gather and spiritual retreats. If security is high and awareness vigilant these attacks will not succeed.

Back to Indian Astrology. It is the finest in the world. However, that doesn’t mean that on occasion egos like those possessed by some of your Indian-chauvinistic seers will be any less myopic than chauvinistic American astrologers are about believing and projecting upon the stars an illusion of the eternal progress of America. All things of this mortal world rise and fall like a wave on eternity’s ocean.

The question I ask my self is this: shall I fixate on an identity of wave or remember that I am the ocean?

I will stand with Ramakrishna transfixed and gone in devotion of Ram.

John Hogue

(04 December 2010)

Taliban fighters dragging away their dead.

Friends,
A word about current events first before I share with you further reader-to-hogue dialogues about meditation as a remedy for a predictable slavery in tomorrow’s blog:

The first and most current event is the new and imporved HogueProphecy.com. We have merged the blog page with the home page. It has taken me some time to load up and format 23 articles from the older system. My web master should update the correct dates referencing these soon.

Yesterday (07 October, 2009) marks what may be a fateful date in the future of America and President Obama.

On this eighth year anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan to hunt down and destroy al-Qaeda, President Obama stands on the brink of his ship of state ready to fall overboard passing under the spell of the Lorelei siren’s call that had killed empires. If I may be forgiven for mixing my metaphors. He stands ready to answer or moderate the Pentagon’s call to deepen US involvement with up to an additional 40,000 US forces and billions in treasure thrown down the dusty and rocky sinkhole that is Afghanistan. It was an abyss that the British Empire could not conquer before it faded away with all the pomp and ceremony of a whimper by the mid-20th century. A ten-year occupation of Afghanistan was the final straw that broke the Bactrian Camel’s back of the Soviet Empire by the 1980s end.

The US Empire was a few days away from its eighth anniversary mucking with the sons of the same mujahadeen the Soviets failed to defeat in ten years when last week a Pentagon request for a major reinforcement was officially passed onto Obama’s White House desk. He had more pressing matters. He boarded Air Force One for Copenhagen to join the first lady of the White House, Michelle Obama, and the first lady of television, Oprah Winfrey, to talk up or trash talk out anybody else’s but Chicago’s bid for the Olympics. I was too busy upgrading the web site that day to write a blog about it, but my intimates are witness to the following prediciton. When it was reported that Obama’s women (wife-counselor Michelle and media king maker Oprah) had let it be known to the press, rather playfully of course, that they had come to “kick butt” for Chicago, I turned to my friends and said, “Well, Chicago just lost the Olympics to Rio.”

Paris lost its bid for the 2012 Olympics several years ago to London when at a state dinner in Paris then French President Chirac quipped to International Olympic Committee guests that food for a London Olympics would be terrible because we all know the stereotype that the British are terrible cooks. (I guess he hasn’t eaten in London for a few decades. The bland Brits of London have long ago gone gourmet international. I know first fork hand and taste bud when I passed through there in 1994 and 1998.)

The Obama vanguard moved from one hole to the exhaust pipes — from mouthing about food to the Chicago Bear Dick Butkus “butt kick.” It was no wonder to me that chance vulgarity cast to the press and received by the culturally sensitive members of the IOC would flush Chicago’s bid down the place where butts go faster than you could yell, “Yorkshire pudding after kidney pie with peas!”

So it goes, Rio de Janeiro got the Olympics for 2016. The Chicago bid was the first Butkus bumped and the President’s sports dream about change he at least believed in fell splat on the floor like a second-city deep-dish pizza.

However, I digress like the president did with his grandiose and Olympic sized distraction from his duties. He came back to his real job with the new week. He marked the eighth year since the opportunity to win the Afghanistan conflict was missed by the previous administration with secret meetings. He gathered the pent-up pundits of military Pentagon policy and the defenders of the military industrial complex seeking reasons and public funds to keep the war business alive for years to come in Afghanistan. They must have given Obama’s bargainer’s arm quite a twist to make years more war with the Taliban and build a tribal patchwork called Afghanistan into a nation as his best “new” strategy for a very long and expensive time.

What is lost by Obama and the Pentagon brass is the strategic context. It has been lost since the Battle of Tora Bora back in December 2001.

The strategic and moral REASON why US troops were supposed to be fighting and dying in Afghanistan?

Destroy al-Qaeda, not baby-sit Taliban tyrannized Afghanistan. Surround and destroy Usama bin Laden and the core of his terrorist organization al-Qaeda as righteous revenge for al-Qaeda’s attack on the Pentagon and World Trade Center Towers on September 11, 2009, a few short months before. Just such a rapid and biblically apocalyptic end of al-Qaeda’s leadership and elite fighters would have sent a chilling message into the hearts of all other jihadist wannabes: hit the US homeland and feel the bold, swift and terrible US sword. See yourselves banished, scattered and snuffed out in short, detailed order.

The core of al-Qaeda was allowed to escape. Usama bin Laden remains, at the time of this writing, still a key candidate for Nostradamus’ Third and Final Antichrist, who he calls the Arab Prince and hides as well his true name in the anagram Mabus. Back in the summer of 2008, I said the following in Nostradamus and the Antichrist, Code Named: MABUS about what military opportunity was lost at Tora Bora:

“A few months after 9/11, the man code named Prince was pauper, refugee, on the run to the Pakistani border, holed up in a network of caves dug into a mountain in the Hindu Kush called Tora Bora — a place he excavated wherein he successfully stood off ground attacks and aerial bombardment during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. He would escape the US siege, slightly wounded, trekking into Pakistan through a screen of Afghan tribal fighters in the passes he bribed‚Ķ

“Usama bin Laden desires to die a martyr, or soon be annihilated just like Mabus the Third Antichrist. He has achieved a destiny like a first cancer tumor lodged in the body of human civilization. The Americans can invade Afghanistan after 9/11 attacks, gouge out its al-Qaeda tumor, kill a multitude of cancer terrorist cells in the doing but bin Laden’s cancerous dream has metastasized since he escaped US military eradication in the caves of Tora Bora.”

After September 11 attacks, the US did not send units belonging to its Rapid Action Force, such as the 10th Mountain Division, the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions into Afghanistan in two weeks as the Pentagon has bragged for decades its trillion-dollar investment could do, anywhere in the world. One month, then two months passed. Then three. Token US forces were on the ground by the time bin Laden was cornered in his mountain network of caves inside Tora Bora: about 65 US advisors with a few hundred to a thousand Afghani mercenaries. Many of whom were in the employ of al-Qaeda the week before had been marshaled to guard mountain passes into Pakistan! Golly! I wonder why Usama and his jihadists got away?

Prophecy (future history) teaches, as does past history, that windows of opportunity open but briefly. Once they close no redoubling of forces or military might can reopen them. The future historians will tell you what I say now: America lost the war in Afghanistan at the Battle of Tora Bora. If Obama is seduced into thinking by a blast of CEOs-in brass at the Pentagon that he can win what was lost by digging in deeper into that broken chaos of a corruptly ungovernable country, he will fulfill my warning passed for the prophetic record in Predictions for 2009:

“I see in Obama a Kennedy-like obsession about going into Afghanistan and perhaps even Pakistan to hunt down Usama bin Laden. It smacks of Kennedy obsessing about Fidel Castro early in his presidency and echoes Kennedy’s inexperience with handling a CIA propagating its own agenda. JFK listened to bad intelligence and prepared the way to military blunders in the Bay of Pigs (1961) and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962). Both by the way happened when Mars transited the Sign of Cancer and passed exactly over the country’s natal Sun position at 13 degrees Cancer (the number of the original 13 Colonies that represented America). This malefic aspect again and again has been the astrological sign of modern US military blunders and rushes towards strategic missteps.

“Is that sign of blunder coming to test Obama’s first year in office?

“Yes! Mars passes through Cancer from 8/26/09 to 10/17/09.”

We wait to see if Obama will Kennedy or L. B. Johnson himself into his own ill-aspected Mars in Cancer Vietnam. (The Gulf of Tonkin Incident in 1964 under Johnson’s watch, which became grounds for the Vietnam War, happened under the same aspect.) The other recourse is to ignore the rush of war and visualize Obama begin a methodical strategic retreat that will see US involvement in Afghanistan all but end in the next three years.

I am of the oracular mind that Obama will dramatically increase US military involvement for a time much shorter than the Pentagon chiefs want in hopes of dramatically seeking out and destroying al-Qaeda, even though it is no longer strategically significant and could very well be the cause of the collapse of Pakistan as I warned in Predictions for 2009.

John Hogue

(08 October 2009)

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

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

THE SECOND INTERCHANGE

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

HOGUE
I understand, Chris. Your frustration is mine.

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

HOGUE
Exactly my feeling too.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They black listed me.

What was my crime?

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

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

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

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

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

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

John Hogue

(19 August 2009)

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

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

Early International Crises foreseen?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An American hurricane season less destructive than in 2008

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

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

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

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

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

WHAT IS YET TO COME:

Predictions for 2009

John Hogue

(13 August 2009)