Predictions For 2012

John Hogue, 21 December 2011. All rights reserved HogueProphecy Publishing P.O.
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Predictions for 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 2012: The Oh Shit! Year Propheganda for a better Future 2012 and the Mayan new Millennium Missed We are making 2012 significant by Ourselves CHAPTER 1 Dominion versus Democracy Finding Revolutions Roots before the Whirlwind Moody History now dwells with the Piscean Fishes Saturns Anchor in the mass-emotional Flood CHAPTER 2 China in the Year of the Water Dragon Blowing Economic Bubbles Enter the Dragon The best laid Schemes of Five-Year Plans Please do that GNP Voodoo that you do so well CHAPTER 3 Hot Crises in a Cold Depression The Decline and Fall of the Euro-man Empire? Al-Qaedas 9-11 Eleventh Anniversary Eleventh Hour Follow the Fueling of Future Military Fronts Neo-Con War Drums beat for War with Iran Between Iraq and a Hard Place Back Home CHAPTER 4 The American Spring Spring comes in the Winter of American Discontent Obama being John Malkovich The Oracles Systemic Cancer Cures Understanding the Leaderless Revolution
CHAPTER 5 Natures War on Humanity: The First Two Years (2010-2011) Global Warming in the Dead of Danish Winter Enemy of Earth, Seven Billion Times magnified Hostile Habit rather than Hitler CHAPTER 6 Natures War on Humanity: Year Three (2012) Upheaval and Flood Cure over Prevention the Sign of a Childish Civilization After Me Generation denial the Deluge When Water overcasts Quakes Vanish the Ice to fire Volcanoes CHAPTER 7 Primates in Primaries for President A Prime-merry Mess of Astrologically Mutable Stars Oh Ross Perot the GOP! The Man who Can beat Obama The Electoral Mandate of Mayhem CHAPTER 8 Prophecies For US Election Night Mercurys Retrograde Ballot Box Who will win and Why CHAPTER 9 12-21-2012 Gods Fickle Finger of Fate Eating Nostradamus Hat How to Score when youre partying like its Twenty-Twelve The Future in the final Mayan Orb EPILOGUE The Future belongs to Spiritual Survivalists

INTRODUCTION 2012 The OH SHIT! Year
When prophecy is uttered and millions hear and see its potentials publicized in mass media around the world, the prophecy is changed. A critical mass of human attention can alter the outcome. Take for instance the existential threat of the millennium bug, otherwise known by the acronym Y2K for the year 2000. The computerized infrastructure of the world ran supersystems of power grids, banking records anything that electronically talks to other machines and databases timing their actions switching over, year after year, on the overlooked assumption that an ascending two-digit representation of the year wouldnt time out on New Years Day 2000. The final years of the 1990s, adding up 97, 98, 99 would switch to 00. In computer mathematical language of the day, that was a mixed message. Contradictory directions a computer virus makes. 00 could signal out a big digital uh-oh! Oh Oh! 00!!! that theoretically could have prompted every computer to automatically switch off get stuck in datedata twitching tilt mode and/or completely wink out around the world, turning off the lights, coolant systems on nuclear reactors, the water pumps of cities and sewers. Down go the digital cash registers, the early warning military radar the computerized digital clerk in a hard drive that mindlessly programs a machine to cut you a paycheck, and so on. In effect, 99 flipping to 00 could pull the plug on global civilization with huge and perhaps apocalyptic consequences. In the mid-1990s, some of us in the future forecast business, began appearing

on television and radio making the argument that prevention was more prudent than curing a potential shutdown of the planetary civilization. The 00 triggered D00msday prediction was initially viewed by public and politicians alike as just another late-1990s prophetic canard another raggedy man holding cardboard placard in moldy poncho with The End is Near written in bold font hanging on thin, stoic shoulders of an all wet street bum in the rain. With 2000 approaching and the call to do something becoming more persuasive, a popularization of the prophecy had at last employed techies around the world to fix the computer software problem. New Years Eve 1999 came and people waited to see what would happen. As midnight swept across one time zone after another, the computer clocks logging 12/31/99 switched over to 1/1/00 without a significant computer crash. There were minor glitches reported, such as incorrect Downs Syndrome tests results sent to 154 pregnant women in Sheffield, United Kingdom, that led to two abortions undertaken and four babies born with Downs Syndrome who had otherwise been given the Y2K bugs seal of healthy approval. Radiation monitoring equipment winked out in Ishikawa Japan. An alarm claxon celebrated the advent of the new year in a nuclear reactor plant at Onagawa Japan. One-armed casino bandit slot machines across Delaware tilted to a stop. Some cellular phone systems deleted new messages. AT&T WorldNet, the Meteo France weather center the US Naval Observatorys master clock too all broadcast the year as 01/01/19100. Such incidents around the world prompted Bruce McConnell, the director of the UN-backed International Y2K Co-operation Center and the UKs Taskforce to declare prevention of a potential millennium buggering of an ever more wired world was warranted. US Energy Secretary Bill Richardson added, The Y2K bug was very real and if we didnt prepare there would have been a heavy price to pay. As a scholar and practitioner of prophecy, I think the Y2K wasnt a red herring or a canard from excitable quacks, but a prophetic success story. People were shown a future they couldnt tolerate. If the warnings were alarming and upsetting, they were ultimately positive in the response outcome. They scared humanitys destiny straight. Prophecy used to achieve an alternative and positive outcome in the future mostly goes unvindicated. For example, my idea of a great prophet is some grinning twitch like a village idiot in 16th-century France, swinging on a fence rail, who on occasion would suddenly fall off his perch with a shriek. The villagers gathered around him to hear migraine scotoma flashes of dire vision and headache nauseated, blabbered warnings so compelling, they always ran off to the four corners of the

village enacting the idiots prevention measures. Thus he was never right about his dire prophecies; yet, he chased his soothsaying with such compelling flair mixed with common sense. The villagers were duped every time to change their behavior and successfully prevent a dangerous consequence most assuredly they couldnt prove or disprove was actually coming. If I could confront this hypothetical idiot with his zero success track record, I imagine he might swung back and forth a little faster on his rail and say, Well, its obvious why Im inaccurate, because I am the worlds greatest prophet. Then hed add, If you want to consult the worlds worst prophet, go to the next town and listen to Nostradamus! Propheganda for a better Future Nostradamus (1503-1566) the Latinized pen name of a former doctor turned seers from Salon-en-Provence, Michel de Nostredame, has never enjoyed more posthumous popularity around the world than right now as I write this book on the verge of 2012. Beyond the prophets of the Christian and Jewish versions of the Bible, hes the most read, most televised, most calumnied and canonized prophet in history. His masterpiece of prescience Les Propheties (The Prophecies) written in the 1550s is a history of the future Nostradamus (1503-1566) spanning 1555 to the year 3797 and perhaps beyond. It has been in constant print since the 1550s and the veracity of his nebulous, cryptic verses a source of constant debate. In the 21st century Nostradamus went viral. Hes now spread like a Y2K bug across the worldwide web all the way by browser, if you wish to Google him, into your personal computer, iPod, iPhone, Blackberry and iPad like a kind of prophetic porn star. Nostradamus has certainly cast his giant and often controversial shadow over my many published books on prophetic traditions of the world. Yet, Id like to say, as someone who is acknowledged as a world respected authority on Nostradamus, I think he was the worlds worst prophet. No one could adequately understand the carefully crafted obscurity of his stream of consciousness prose and nebulous poetic verses to render his many dire warnings wrong. He was that classic pessimistic prophet who has forgotten the secret to prophetic success: a prophet must also be a propagandist. Propaganda has been given a bad name by those who use what is essentially the art of persuasion to convince peoples hearts and minds to do evil things. In this

way, popes of the Roman Catholic Church actively pursued or tolerated persuading Europeans for 16 centuries that God wanted by holy writ of canon law to sear within every true Christian believers subconscious the idea that all Jews were guilty as a race for the persecution, crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. Thus you make the eternal Jew scapegoats for all of your problems. You then let your popes and their thought policemen in the Inquisition gather Jews in ghettos, brand them as outcasts with yellow jaundice colored hats and Star-of-David armbands. You let your priests behind pulpits take their time to darken the collective mindset of an entire European continent over centuries with forecasts of resident evil lurking in your Jewish neighbors. You propagate this seed of hate on high in pulpit in crowded cathedrals. You promulgate and educate Jew hate and the threat of its in-Jew-dicious future at seminaries and Sunday schools generation after generation until the climate in Europes collective psyche is ripe. You finally find tender and malleable childrens minds to impregnate with canon-law-approved anti-Semitism. They are good little Catholic boys called Hitler, Himmler, Eichmann and Mengele who along with other boys grow up to initiate a Final Solution to the Jewish problem.
Its his fault! A cartoon by Abel Pann (1915). All the troubles of Europe are blamed on the Jew, the universal scapegoat.
Propaganda in the hands of an Adolf Hitler can declare a self-fulfilling prophecy based on a Beer Hall blubbering conspiracy blaming Jewish bankers for starting the last world war, as if there werent a whole lot of Goy Royals and Gentile presidents and prime ministers concocting genteel alliances setting up the trip wires to the inferno. Facts didnt matter but fear-based fantasies primed by centuries of mass

programming only need an eloquent, charismatic visionary to let a spark of convincing lit in a million fearful hearts bring light to the following nightmare prophecy. Hitler on 21 January 1939 stiffened at his podium before the Nazi parliament. Behind him a vast sculpted black eagle, wings spread straight and backlit by rays of lurid light. He began chopping the air as he spit out his staccato bile on the Jews: I will once more be a prophet: If international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result wont be the Bolshevization of the Earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe! Hitler successfully passed blame for his war and the rise of godless communism on the Jews and by so doing vindicated as well as collectively empowered a climate fed by anti-Semitic forecasts 16 centuries old, sanctioned as it was subconsciously suggested by his Catholic upbringing. World War Two did bring about the near annihilation of Jews in Europe with 6 million extinguished in massacres and death camps created and run by those who believed Hitler, believed his prophecies and made them so. The truly successful prophet persuades people to change the future for better or worse by their ability to alert a large enough group of people and influence their collective imagination. All the greatest prophecies are self-fulfilling without the need of patent fact. Indeed, the future cant live in fact because at least from the point of view of us living in the present it hasnt happened yet, or may never happen. A seer makes what is possible a present fact when what has been foreseen either captures and harnesses collective imagination to inspire good labors towards a better future, or, plays on the collective emotional hysteria of massed humanity to feed energy to fulfill a foreseen evil. The worst kind of failed prophecy isnt one thats completely wrong. They are predictions proven right by hindsight. In this way Nostradamus was an utter failure as a prophet, because he was so accurate but so ineffectual in changing the pessimistic futures he foresaw in nearly 2,000 published predictions. Nostradamus risked persecution to write about visions of the great French Civil Wars of Religion taking place in his own 16th-century. Didnt prevent them from happening. The seer, a staunch royalist, wrote to his contemporary monarch, Henri II, about the threat of French kings falling from the excesses of the French Revolution accurately dated for 1792. Such documented visions would give him posthumous fame but no salvation for the system he loved.

Nostradamus foresaw the advent of Hitler, whom he called Hister pinpointing distant years cryptically numbered 37 and 41 and 45 when this Captain of Greater Germany would break treaties and let slip the iron beasts in sea, over land and in the air in the tumult of war. A few Nostradamus scholars in the 1930s recognized who he was anticipating. The wife of the Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels inspired the latter to conceive a wicked campaign undermining French morale because their greatest prophet foresaw their oncoming defeat. Actually, Nostradamus did detail the fall of France through the forest of the Ardennes exactly where the panzer tank armies surprised the French and British armies in 1940. His good intention to warn his own people about it once again thwarted used even by French enemies, to fulfill a dire future that enlarged his dubious fame. Nostradamus was a victim of the need to hide his prophecies in obscure language to protect his present life from persecution, yet leave enough evidence open to perhaps forestall tomorrows inclinations that were more dreadful. Now Roman Inquisitions and witch hunts seem to be outdated. The worst a modern prophet may face is ridicule alone. 2012 and the Mayan new Millennium Missed A modern future gazer and interpreter is far freer to speak plainly. So let me forewarn you plainly, now comes the next Y2K moment, when midnight rolls east to western time zones across the planet on the winter solstice of 21 December 2012. The 00 millennium bug meets the year 0 Baktun bug of ancient Central American end time prophecy. Some would say 21 December 2012 is the real end of the millennium arriving a dozen years late on account that no ancient calendar keepers where as mathematically precise as the Mayan astronomers. Interest in the Mayan Calendar arose a quarter century ago from modern interpretations some would say revisions of what ancient Central American time keepers intended in one of three calendar systems otherwise known as the Long Count. The Maya utilized the other two shorter calendars to date the cycles of planting and religious rituals. These interconnect with the cyclic wheel of a longer calendar meant to count the passing of great ages. It operates on a base-20 and base-18 system. Starting with the shortest time unit of a day, or kin, each unit of time is multiplied by 20. Thus 20 kin make a uinal, a Mayan week. Eighteen uinal (weeks) make one tun, or a Mayan Year (360 days). Twenty tuns make a katun (gesundheit!); or, a generation of time amounting to 20 years or (7,200 kin-days). Twenty katuns is nothing to sneeze at, for it makes a baktun or 400 Maya years (twenty generations), thats 144,000 kin-days.

It takes 13 baktuns (5,125.37 years) to complete a grand cycle of history beginning with the Mayan date of creation. Translated into the Gregorian Calendar system, the world and human history began on 11 August 3114 b.c.e. Accordingly, the Maya calendar finishes the 13th baktun on the winter solstice: 21 December 2012. Its an accepted fact whether one is a Mesoamerican anthropologist or a tree hugging, head-shop crystal wand waving New Ager: the Maya and their ancestors, the Olmec, have fashioned in stone, upon their surviving monuments scattered across the Yucatan Peninsula to the Guatemalan Highlands, the most accurate calculation of great tracks of time ever undertaken before the invention of computers. Convincing people to self-fulfill a prophecy is one thing. If you burden fulfillment by putting a date on your caveat you most likely fall into the bear pit of the hardest prophetic discipline: accurately dating the time of future events. It has happened. When you get millions to anticipate something manifesting on a certain date you subconsciously render them a passive audience. Being passive, they dont subconsciously or consciously make changes in their behavior to incline the future towards a prophecys expected fulfillment. They play wait and seer. Maybe thats what happened back a dozen years ago at the turning of the uneventful millennium. Maybe not. Anyway, New Years Day 2000 was a non-apocalypse event. Doomsayers and Golden Age purveyors reasoned therefore that their anticipated millennial aspirations for a golden age or fears of an apocalypse at the dawn of the Christian Millennium where relying on a less accurate Judeo-Christian calendar when anticipating more than a Y2K computer crash coming true. Cats didnt get down with dogs, people didnt rapture out into the clouds, leaving their clothes in a pile on kitchen floor in Pomona California to commercial pilots seat at 35,000 feet when vanishing at midnight in a twinkling of an eye. Space Ship New Jerusalem didnt fall out of the clouds. At 12:00:01, Earth was the same as it was a second ago at 11:59.59, as were the stars that didnt fall from the skies and the oceans didnt disappear, blah, blah, baaa! No Lamb of God with seven eyes sat on a throne to initiate Christs 1,000-year Reich of peace on Earth, good will only to those survivors who believe. This Holy Ghost was busted! Nevertheless, the Maya and their more accurate long counting calendar waxed New Age hopes. Move over Jesus and the Book of Revelation, Jose Arguelles best selling book The Mayan Factor, came out a quarter century before the year 2012 was right on our temporal doorstep. It began passing on all kinds of things that turned

2012 into a scry of mass-media mediums generally refuted by anthropologists and Mayan experts who actually speak Maya and have worked with the prophecies and cultures of the Maya. Despite this, Arguelles and later, LSD pioneer acid tripper, Terence Mckenna, persuaded popular belief in Mayan prophecies somehow pinpointing December 21, 2012 as the real end of the world as we know it. Terence McKenna got even higher than Arguelles. He licked the Mayan mystery with LSD declaring 21 December 2012 the moment of Time Wave Zero, man! Dig it when time itself stops, maaaan. Have a hit, Check it ouwwooot. After the false millennium of 2000 passed without appreciable event, on came a relentless slaughter of trees to feed a Twenty-Twelver book industry. Hundreds of titles begat dozens of cable TV documentaries adding hyperbole to myth about Maya calendrical macho. The prophets of Twenty-Twelvism had spread this anticipated end time so successfully that by 2008, Hollywood suits descended from the skies, in Lear Jets to find a director and a script that could baktun a movie blockbuster. They hired German writer and ber-movie director, Roland Emmerich, to out doom himself. He set down to write and direct a $200-million dollar doomsday flick on steroids, bigger than his other apoca-flicks Independence Day, scarier than The Day After Tomorrow. He penned and put in the film can the Gtterdmmerung of Wagnerian Im gettin a doomster-geddon hard-on movies: 2012. Many things are gross about this film. For one thing, since its release in 2009 it returned a worldwide gross on its investment of $769,679,473-and-counting. It was the fifth highest grossing film of 2009 worldwide, becoming the 38th Movie poster for the Ro- highest grossing film of all time. (The gross golden age of land Emmerich doomsHollywood suits had begun.) day blockbuster 2012. Seers spending a lifetime building up a credibility busting vision of a promised land, or promised end of time may be fortunate enough to have done the Moses. You exit on foot or exit from this mortal coil stage left just at the right time, before your lifetime prophecy is fulfilled perhaps in a less than satisfactory reality for those left in realitys behind. I can just hear Joshua now as he walked a few paces ahead of Moses to get a better look: Moses? You mean this rocky, barren place is the Promised Land?!!! Theres silence. Joshua turns around. Moses is gone.

Hey, whered he go?! The attendant of Moses answered, He just remembered he lost a tribe and went off to find them? Joshua: NOW?! Terence McKennas golden moment of zero moments wont be personally experienced or explained when time marches on to 22 December 2012. He long ago departed this mortal coil on 3 April 2000. Jose Arguelles, who also dropped acid and became the founding prophet Moses of Mayan Max Factors, departed this world to enjoy the Valhalla of prophets long removed from having to explain how their forecasts went down. Arguelles died nearly a year before the dawning of the winter solstice that had become his cause celeb from complications of peritonitis erupting from a trip through the Australian Outback, on 23 March 2011. He will now be assisting us from the other side of the veil," said his partner, Stephanie South, responding to the impact of his quick passing to all the Mayan Calendar disciples with whom he harmonically converged since 1987. Imminent arrival of 2012 has compelled some experts who have no lost tribe to fetch to moderate their violent, hair-on-fire forecasts of doom. They needed to finesse more touchy-feely New Age cuddlers. Prophegandize that collective consciousness will subtly lift the human race on 21 December 2012 to a higher state of consciousness. It makes sense. An existential end time would certainly be harder to prove or disprove than explaining hardcore Armageddon missed. Some of the best TV documentaries, such as History Channels Nostradamus: 2012, presented high quality special effects to pinpoint a new age theory farthest up in the air about what the Maya meant. It engaged warp speed all the way up to the galactic center of our Milky Way. In the opening hype of Nostradamus: 2012, you see a dark stellar cloud occulting the center of our galaxy from our sight on Earth. You hear the voice of Twenty-Twelver author Vincent Bridges supported by brilliant special effects imaginatively explaining how the arrow of the nearby constellation Sagittarius is said to point exactly at the galactic center. On the day the Sun rises in conjunction with the black cloud of stardust off the tip of Sagittarius arrow on 21 December 2012, the documentary tells us we will experience the Great Alignment. On this last day on the Mayan Calendar, its predicted in great cable TV hype that time ceases and the world will end. Sensational theory has definitely caught public attention due to the mass mind

that can latch onto a simple prophecy like a political slogan. The chiefs of the Mayan Prophecy media industry are better propagandists of their projections put upon the Mayan Calendar than, lets say, mathematicians who expose it. The astronomers of JPL Laboratory have figures, but theyre not as sexy. They do pinpoint exactly when we will observe this galactic lineup. (Mayan drum roll please) Thirteen years ago to be exact, framed in the winter solstices of 1998 and 1999. The Maya were great calculators using rope lines, sticks and thumbs held in the sky to estimate great revolving stellar time cycles before chiseling their counts on stones or drawing them on leather, but without the aid of modern computers even the best ancient calculations can be off. In the case of the Maya, they missed their 2012 moment by 13 to 14 years. Not bad for them, but embarrassing for prophets of the 2012 genre. Interestingly enough, Nostradamus foresaw and openly dated 1999 as the year when human history would begin a decades-long apocalyptic period of upheaval. Humanity would ultimately attain global peace and harmony, though the road to that goal might carry off as many as two out of every three of us through wars, famines and pandemics. Nostradamus even envisions climate change, frequently described as the Sun burning our fields dry and the oceans flooding our cities. The year 1999 shouldve been celebrated as the real end of the Mayan baktun cycle. History shouldve passed on Hollywood-style. Just like in the movie 2012 when actor Woody Harrelson wired for radio to report the end of the world, says, Ohhh, I wish you could see this, folks! while Roland Emmerichs camera zooms for a close up of Woodys crack emerging from drooping jeans. Then, the camera pans to a crack in the world yawning open in the distance blowing up Yellowstone Park and Woody. Hollywood pyrotechnics and instantaneous doomsday gratification wasnt had in 1999. The change of one Mayan-created age to the new may be a more gradual process of several decades. A more skeptically sympathetic consideration would anticipate 2012 could be one of many equally shocking and revelatory years to endure until a golden age is achieved as interpreted by Nostradamus who, by the way, never mentioned the year 2012. He put his prophetic credibility on the line dating the end of the world not in 2012, no matter how many Twenty-Twelver gurus try to transmit it. Nostra-dooms Day takes place exactly 1,785 years in the future beyond 2012, in far-off 3797 c.e.
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We are making 2012 Significant by Ourselves So, is 2012 a joke? Will it be another doomsday debunked or a date for a New Heaven and Earth under a millennium of peace postponed? No Nostradamus foresaw 2012 despite TV flights of fancy inspired by a Rorschach test of watercolors on cards discovered in a book purported to be penned by Nostradamus called Vaticinia Nostradami (The Prophecies of Nostradamus). Ink and paper tests cant trace the origin of that volume back more than a century after Nostradamus contemporary times. The book now earns the title after the documentary making it prophet-populist fair since 2007, History Channels The Lost Book of Nostradamus. As some of you know, you can watch my owlish furry face on a number of History and Discovery Channel documentaries expounding on Nostradamus and other prophetic traditions. I often appear on 2012-centric documentaries but you may notice I dont directly talk about a connection, if any, with 2012 prophecy and Nostradamus, or his authoring of the Lost Book of Nostradamus. I did put hours of comments on film as a sympathetic skeptic in documentaries like Nostradamus 2012. It never got into the final print before airtime. Im grateful that History Channel finally kept my filmed comments off the editors floor when the series The Nostradamus Effect came out in 2009. At last, in an episode entitled The Son of Nostradamus, viewers finally heard about Nostradamus having no drawing talent. That even in his day, many fraudulent works claimed to be written by him. His son Cesar could draw and paint. Nevertheless, Nostradamus own confirmed works and words documented in the mid 16th century categorically deny Cesar or any of his half-dozen children the psychic inheritance of his prophetic gifts. The Mayan galactic alignment has already happened, ending in the winter solstice of 1999. History begins making its steady apocalyptic shift, as if the pressure cooker of global warming and other strains like bubble economies finally begin to simmer to boil, to bursting in our near future, or so it would seem. Whether the Mayan Calendar targets this year or not, we, the living, under the popular spell of 2012, are shifting the prophetic narrative with our present day actions. We are watching the movie, television and book media make 2012 a significant turning point year. The Mayan prophecy of end times told rightly or wrongly has achieved a critical mass of popular attention and for better or worse, 2012 has become an end time of sorts, not of doomsday but there are a lot of deadlines were
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imposing upon it. America will embrace 2012 in dangerous political gridlock, losing credibility as the number one country and number one economy with time literally running out to get its house and deficit spending in order. A Special Congressional Committee in 2011 failed its task to find a bi-partisan plan to downsize overspending. This will trigger on 15 January 2012 a series of incremental and automatic cuts. January 15 is debt-Day if not a doomsday, gouging spending cuts deep into the accounts of public health care systems and military budgets to the tune of $900 billion in ten years. US President Barack Obama may face political doomsday in 2012 in a fight to keep his job on election night, 6 November, taking place a week or so after Halloween 2012. Trick or Treat! Barack. The president and Congress have allowed a number of programs and government institutions to face a deadline of doom or renewal of sorts at the end of 2012. Millions of American unemployed wait for New Years Day 2012 to be end time for their unemployment benefits running out. At the end of 2012, Gabriels horn might announce the resurrection or eternal damnation of important measures protecting citizens from dirty water, food, air, mining and fowl labor abuses by management before they run out. The EPA, the Clean Water Act, and a number of labor laws and standards could be allowed to run out ten days after the Mayan Quetzalcoatl-claxon of doom honks on 21 December 2012. As many as 191 nations across the world wait for 2012 to end with pollutionbated breath, because, legally binding targets to reduce climate emissions to prevent global warming set by the Kyoto Protocol since 1997 will run out. Terence McKennas time zero is really a case of time running out on certain policies and mindsets bringing intolerable stress to bear on the Earths climate and resources. For instance, on Halloween 2011, human stresses on the planet treated us to a tricked out milestone: The seven billionth child was born. The year 2012 has become, thanks to our growth of unsustainable numbers, the year we reach critical mass in pollution stresses triggering a climate shift, a critical mass of demands for fossil fuel Earth cant supply. Its a year marking a critical mass demand of 14 million unemployed Americans to get jobs or go homeless and join demonstrations in the streets. Among these swelling throngs, 26 percent are restless youths from ages 16 to 24 facing the cost of college tuition ballooning beyond their capacity to pay.
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2012 could point the way doomsday for their future career aspirations. Spring of 2012 is the boiling point of the 99 percent poor and middle class around the world expecting the one-percent rich to share the wealth and the sacrifices. Dot down 2012 as the time to stop chewing on the cable news catnip dispensed by MSNBC, FOX and BIG SKY TV. Time to find out whats really going on in the streets below the blue fairy glow of your wide screen television and entertainment centers. As the Monty Pythoner in drag, glowering at the stuffed tuxedo with flippers, standing mutely on the tellie, said, Intercourse the Penguin! Well I say, Screw the Mayan Calenderrr! They didnt even see 2012 coming by a dozen years or more. No matter. We are making our own prophecies about 2012, both dark and hopeful. We are making it significant. With this book, my oracle takes us on a journey through the days of 2012, the first real Oh Shit! year of the 21st century. That Oh shit! slap-your-forehead feeling will run up against mollifying forces of corporate interests in 2012, like never before. The concept of the gathering clouds of global warming and general weirdness being nothing more than a the new normal crystalized and went mainstream in 2011 when faced with undeniable realities that times now are definitely not normal. Nevertheless, in 2011, you saw the New Normal sold by economists, the media, and the climate change deniers. Its a way to pacify and resign people to their fate rather than galvanize and inspire people to positively change their destiny outside of corporate control. The source of this mass-hypnotic campaign is an old aristocracy in new costumes, hiding under new titles. Theyre the corporate class. They aim to disempower people from bringing about economic and ecological reforms that go against unbridled profit through uncontrolled, unregulated exploitation of Earths resources. 2012 is the year when two great forces fraternity and fascism will collide in historys great scrum against Stupid. It launches a tug-of-war decade for control of our common, human, future.
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CHAPTER 1 Dominion versus Democracy
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2012 will mark the collective intensification of a phenomenon unique to a greater time clock of which the Maya were unaware, the Great or Cosmic Year created by ancient astrologers of Mesopotamia in the earliest days of known civilization. The Sumerians were the first to establish an astronomical calendar based on 12 tropical zodiac constellations becoming the 12 months it takes the Sun to advance from spring to spring Equinox. In that 12-month cycle, the position of the Vernal Equinox as it relates to how we see it from Earth, ever so slowly precedes backwards from its last position the year before. Thus a Cosmic Year measures how long it takes the point we celebrate as the first day of spring to pass through all the 12 constellationsigns of the zodiac: 25,920 normal years. The Sumerians divided this calendar into 12 Cosmic months, each lasting roughly 2,160 years. The weeks are 500-year cycles in history. A Cosmic Day is measured by the one-degree movement of the Suns vernal equinox position that rounded off takes around 72 normal years to complete. Because the equinox defines the equidistant times of day and night, we divide into two equal portions a full Cosmic Day cycle into a Day, and Night era, each lasting 36 years. Day is symbolic of the Sun (Masculine-God) cosmic forces. Night is symbolic of the Moon (Feminine-Goddess) forces. These concepts of Day and Night, rational and subjective history cycles arent sexist but archetypical of the play of masculine and feminine mysteries ever trying like Great Nature to return life to a state of balance out of disharmony, a state of order out of chaos, as expressed in ages of the Earth. History entered the 36-year feminine phase of Cosmic Night in 2008. This

means we can expect the destinies of nations and civilizations to tilt towards accessing the collective unconscious and super-unconscious universal feminine forces for good or ill. There can be a mothering of new ideas, a patience and compassion for the difficulties ahead to change. Religious thought will think less and feel empathy more. The patriarchies of the pulpit and secular politics had a little more advantage during the Cosmic Day cycle of 1972 through 2008. Already since 2008, I experience history incline its favor to the matriarchal urge because more heads of states beat with the heart of a woman where only men mostly ruled. By August 2011, a record number of 20 female presidents and prime ministers govern Ireland, Finland, Germany, Liberia, India, Argentina, Bangladesh, Iceland, Croatia, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Australia, Slovakia, Brazil, Switzerland, Peru, Kosovo and Thailand. At no time before has there been more openness in different religions for ordaining women as the priestess mothers in various Protestant Christian and Liberal Catholic sects, Mormon and Buddhist sects. In 2010, the first Muslim-born woman was chosen to lead a mixed-gender British congregation through Friday prayers. In addition, since 2010, American women are regularly ordained as cantors in the Jewish Renewal movement. Susan Wehle blazed the trail. Universal creation expressed through the feminine demiurge has a raw, untransformed and dark side. Dark as a womb. Without dark matter brought to great gravitational pressure, there are no bright stars born. Theres a subconscious pressure working on the collective human psyche in Cosmic Night time thats prone to mass-minded irrationality and hysteria. Individual consciousness has arisen from this deep womb of collective instinct. The Christ consciousness of the Buddha nature is indeed gained via the right understanding of profound and feminine, meditative intuition. With the evolution of a human species, a vessel for sentience emerged for consciousness and love to dance on Earth. A soul to guide beyond instinct. It is higher than the collective, herding, dominating and altogether instinctive animal mind. Each human individual alone can awaken into being what no instinctive collective of animals can achieve. She or he can rise higher in consciousness than any beast and equally fall below the instinct of any animal because consciousness has no limits of built-in instinct. Many mystics say a God-Goddess possibility is only attained one individual at a time. Paradoxically enough, we humans are all alone together. If enough individuals attain truth on their own merit and eternal starlight wisdom, they affect indirectly motherly care and healing for the emotionally fraught days and events of 2012 as an unintended consequence.
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Finding Revolutions Roots before the Whirlwind 2012 stands near the beginning. Its year four in the 36-year Cosmic Night cycle ending in far-off 2044. The first half, the evening-tomidnight half, will be influenced in Western astrological terms by the transit of the Planet Pluto, ending in 2024. In 2008, Pluto (the ruler of human historys collective destiny) entered Capricorn (the sign utilizing ambition, economy, government authority, organization, construction, conservation, conservatism, and conscience). Pluto being the most distant and slow moving of the planets sets forth what collective lessons humanity must learn. It confronts us with what pitfalls all must collectively avoid as a human community. Its essential. From now up to 2024, concepts defining civilization, such as ownership, competition and consumption, mature and transform beyond a Darwinian, animalistic principle of survival of the fittest dog eating dog. By the year 2024 when Pluto passes the midnight hour of Cosmic Night, humanity enters Aquarius the sign of the revolutionary, the humanitarian, or the ruler of chaos and disorder. Before we get there, some foundation of shared destiny as a human race must harness the spiritual and political will of enough human beings all over the world to seek a new knowing of ourselves beyond projections of blind faith. By midnight hour in history, redefine what it is to be civilized, to be just. Find what it is we must renew and nourish together in our use and renewal of the Earth. There must arrive a new concept of richness understanding value and property beyond mere usury and runaway consumption. Put away the normal: old or new. Become the original humanity. The selfish human must recognize his or her survival lies in the spirit of the humanitarian. Prepare the way, starting in 2012, while still living in the early years of a new Plutonian cycle in Capricorn because thats the time we can progress an urge to rethink and rebuild the foundations of how we see ourselves and experience our world. Capricorn offers us a proposition to generate a new idea of what revolution is, before Plutos entry into Aquarius brings the whirlwind of revolution. The last time existence and the stars gave us this opportunity was 1763 through 1777. The American Revolution, which began close to the end of the last Pluto Cycle
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in 1776, and the revolutions coming later in 1789 in France and throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, for better or worse, had their foundation set in what was then called The Age of Reason. Moved by Capricorn earthiness and practicality, history smiled for a time on secular philosophers and scientific thinkers who thus broke free of Old World dogmas. They framed new concepts never seriously entertained before, capturing collective human imagination under the favorable influence of Pluto in Capricorn. They gave us practical concepts as much as motivational, such as man having a basic right to equality and the pursuit of happiness. That human beings have an inalienable right to freedom of speech and worship. In a completely rigid caste and class-bound world of the mid 1700s, these new, enlightened ideas arose. People like French philosophers Voltaire and especially Rousseau dreamed of a civilization respecting the power of scientific discovery finding at last equal value in society with subjective religious faith. They with other visionaries dared to spread a message that men of all classes, not just the rich onepercenters of their times not just the monarchies and aristocracies who were the corporate class of their day but all people, the other 99-percent, have a right to establish democratic republics free of the tyranny of class and of state-sanctioned religion. Every 248 years, history has us all return and wrestle with a revolutionary urge to seek balance and fairness in all human dealings based on the virtues of universal liberty, fraternity (friendship) and egality (equality). When Pluto is in Capricorn, we can prepare the foundation for building revolutionary change gaining full momentum when Pluto transits Aquarius. Thats what the founding fathers of the American Revolution did, one year before the end of Plutos journey through Capricorn. These men, products of Pluto in Capricorns Age of Reason movement such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and thoughtful women, such as the latters wife, Abigail Adams these gave revolution a reason, a clear cause for which to live for or even die for. The American War for Independence began at the end of the Pluto-Capricorn transit but reached its climax and achieved victory in 1783 after Pluto had passed into Aquarius in 1777. Americans, their modern republic and its constitution established in 1787 with a Bill of Rights later ratified in 1791, would henceforward set the example for other people in revolution to follow. The seed ideas of liberty, fraternity and egality and the rights of man planted in Capricorn did flower and spread across the Atlantic to Europe to reap a bright, then bitter harvest in the French Revolution (1789-1799). That bloody rebellion
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was born in the full flush of Plutos transit of Aquarius, the ruler of massed popular uprisings. Pluto in Capricorns high dream of liberty and equality under Aquarius turned into a terror of the blood soaked guillotine and civil wars, exhausting itself into chaos. Finally, the French people grew tired of revolution. They yearned for law and order. They got the fascist dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799. Astrologically speaking Plutos transit through Capricorn, then Aquarius, is the tale of two revolutions: one rooted and solid, born in Capricorn with political aspirations and foundations strong enough to weather Aquarian days of bloody revolution. The other, born deep in the transit of Pluto in Aquarius, succumbing to the darker mental potentials of the sign of mayhem and chaos exhausted sheds all desires of revolution for dictatorship. We, alive during a new Pluto in Capricorn transit, can miss a similar opportunity. We must organize and define what it is we are rebelling against before the Plutonian zeitgeist passes out of this practical earth sign in 2024. Afterwards, the chaotic popular winds of the Aquarian air sign could blow Plutonian regeneration off track. Thoughtful and rational revolution could degenerate into violence and disorder inclining humanity towards embracing new Napoleons and neo-Fascist dictatorships set to suppress freedom and restore order. This work to build a more practical and peaceful revolution must begin in 2012, based on shared Humanhood, on fairness and compassion. Not just for America or any single nation, but also for all nations beyond nationalism itself as the human world unites. This Plutonian time around, revolution becomes global. Thus an entire world needs build a foundation, seek a clarity of cause, endeavor an intent that can weather the breakdown of old order, avoid a new reign of chaos so unrelenting, even Fascism cant curb it with a new reign of terror. What I said in the first year marking the entry of Pluto into Capricorn is even more pressing to achieve in 2012, year four: The year 2008 could be the start of a new Age of Reason and enlightenment. The American collective mind may be fertile soil for the ideas of fathers and mothers of a new American Revolution. The success or failure of protean visionaries will depend on how they ground their ideas in the coming paradigm shift. In this new Age of Reason arises a new kind of aristocracy and royalty for the people to contend with and convert. The world will no longer be ruled by politicians but by executives and CEOs. The oligarchs will save or sink this civilization from a collective
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global crisis in the next 18 years depending on how they manage and execute the transition from a politically led to a global, transnational business led society. Business is Capricorns realm. Whatever good or evil comes to this world and us will arrive through the executive influences of monopolizing conglomerations of CEOs. Today they are for the most part stingy and greedy, letting fear of loss and insecurity guide them to horde wealth rather than invest it into a new order of global civilized behavior. The impending ecological apocalypse will be avoided when the handful of CEOs that truly rule the world, pull the strings of politicians, see the collective danger and invoke within their hearts an ambition to avert global suicide that is practical, sensible and above all profitable. The higher vibratory potential of strictly business Capricorn is human enrichment but not only in money. Still, all higher civilized progress certainly will not happen without a solid foundation of financial wealth and the uninterrupted ability to create more of it. America, born out of revolution at the end of the last Pluto in Capricorn transit became the first nation in modern times to significantly create wealth out of nothing. Before then, richness was a dream. America made the dream a reality beyond class lines. We come full circle to a new Pluto in Capricorn transit wherein worldly richness merges with the spiritual. Predictions for 2008 Chapter 13: Charting Passage Through Cosmic Night: In Two Parts Then as now, the Pluto-Capricorn transit works like a 248-year cycle initiating evolutionary steps in the concept of what is Middle Class in its progressive struggle with elite classes. Last time in the latter half of the 18th century, we were entering the preliminary stages of economic and wealth expansion that would gain momentum as the Industrial Revolution. Middle classes sprouted and multiplied in the most advanced monarchial societies from essentially European stock in France and Britain. This included British American colonials of North America. The American and later the French Revolutions were lead by the middle classes against suppressive monarchial governments politically and financially upheld by an elite aristocracy. Since 2008, a new middle class struggle with a new aristocracy begins. A
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class of political and wealth-controlling elitists has grown beyond bloodlines but not economic bottom lines in what I defined in 2008 as a CEOlygarchy. They are a plutocratic class of multi-corporations and billionaires who buy, lobby and influence political leaders in democratic and totalitarian governments alike. This time around the struggle moves out of a regional into a global context as American and European middle classes since the last Pluto-Capricorn cycle have fallen into a midlife crisis funk whilst a new era of middle class expansion spreads by the hundreds of millions across South Asia, Asia, South America even in North Africa and the Middle East. The new middle classes number once again those who will be at the forefront of debating what it is to be free, to have rights, to have equality and opportunity just like the British Americans and French forefathering middle classes did two-and-a-half centuries earlier. In both cases, past and future, a spread of such ideas will lead to the same consequences. The Aristocracy of Corp, like the aristocracies and monarchies of blood privilege before them, will try to suppress middle class global aspirations. Their push will generate a shove back from the threatened middle classes leading the world into new revolutions beyond North America and Europe (but not excluding these as we will see). Moody History now dwells with the Piscean Fishes Weve returned Pluto into Capricorn with one significant difference. The last time Pluto transited Capricorn, Cosmic Day (masculine-rationally inclined history) was in play from 1756 to 1792. This time around theres not going to be an Age of Reason. There wont be a revolution based on cerebral, founding fathers. In our time patriarchies will give ground to matriarchies. Its up to the founding mothers and more intuitive and empathic fathers to raise the consciousness of the masses with feminine principles like compassion, mothering, love and patience. Against them, Marlon Brando as Marc Anthony in the movie version of demagogues will arise. They enthuse to appeal to the Julius Caesar. lower, feminine primal urges to rag-out in a worldwide bitch of mass mob driven and unconsciously irrational, emotional storms. Beware therefore and fully understand what is a demagogue. A demagogue has been defined as a religious or political leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the desires and prejudices of the populace. He or she becomes the peoples microphone for their hopes and grievances, even
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though he or she manipulates and shapes the peoples narrative. Go back to the Ancient Greek roots of demagogue and wash it clean again in meaning. It connects demos (common people, popular) and agogos (leading) stripped of all etymologically acquired dirt of cynical and negative embellishments. Demagogue simply means popular leader or leader of the common people. A popular leader demagogically sways the masses. Such is the case. To what end, though, depends on the character of that popular leader and the masses he or she can influence. Certainly, demagogues are more influential during more easily excitable eras because they either have an instinctive or conscious understanding of what makes masses of people tick. They otherwise come to know the state of a crowd is a mass-emotional (feminine) phenomenon, susceptible to sentiment and mood swings, even hysteria. Anyone who has watched the performance of Marlon Brando playing Marc Anthony giving a eulogy over the assassinated and cloaked corpse of Julius Caesar in the 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer movie version of Shakespeares play by the same name is in for a perfect example of the impassioned power of a demagogue to turn a crowds collective mawkishness 180 degrees. Marc Anthony had come not to praise Caesar but to bury him and explain why senators, noble men like Brutus, Cassius and others, must save the Republic from dictatorship through Caesars murder. Friends, Romans and Marc Anthonys countrymen lent him their ears. They handed over their sentimental hearts to his brilliant manipulation, never once openly critical of the assassins. Yet, Marc Anthony worked up the Roman mob into a riotous rage against Caesars killers. Even though what Brutus and his senators did was murder a dictator set to oppress the very same mass of malleable hysterics. Leaders of the American Revolution completely missed the threat of mob rule. Cosmic Night began again in 1792, the year the French Revolution established a Republic and were so collectively fired high and gushing mighty about it, the new regime believed they were harbingers of a new golden age requiring a new calendar. The French Revolution had its many demagogues, such as Jean-Paul Marat, who indulged in writing articles rife with blood lusting calls to kill enemies of the revolution. Higher-minded men like Georges Jacques Danton, harnessed the peculiar power of the masses after 1792 to be carried away by concepts of liberty, friendship and equality. Maximilien Robespierre was the darkest Marc Anthony of them all turning the power of mass hysteria against Danton and more moderate leaders who were popularly purged and beheaded, like the Bourbon King Louis and Queen Marie Antoinette, during an orgy of violence called the Reign of Terror.
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Move forward a few dark cosmic night cycles into the 20th century. Youll find Hitler solidifying his spell over the German people using what he defined openly in Mein Kampf as the hysterically feminine nature of masses of people. They have a weakness to the power of rabble rousing oratory, which by the beginning of a Cosmic Night cycle in 1936 Hitler magnified to supercharge his sociopathic world views, anti-Semitic fears and hatreds. In 1937, a year after the last Cosmic Night cycle began, Joseph Stalin, harnessed hysterical fears to let ride his paranoid personality in what became called The Great Purge to cleanse the Soviet Union of conspirators and saboteurs in an orgy of public show trials based on hearsay. These were no less lurid and unsubstantiated than Robespierres public witch hunts condemning to death potential competitors for power and thousands of innocents by guillotine. Stalin liquidated the cream of his generals and officer corps turning the Soviet Union into a vast Salem during its notorious hearings and witch trials until upwards of two million people with little to no rational evidence to back their guild, or even care to prove it. Move forward to near the end of the last Cosmic Night Cycle manipulated by Hitler and Stalin and you have Mao Zedong in 1966, taking his turn. Mao in his notorious Cultural Revolution tried to flush the womb of Red Chinese Communist Revolution, purging Chinese culture and society of any suspicious vestige of suspected capitalist, traditional and bourgeois elements. The famines and disruptions of the next decade claimed as many as 30 million Chinese. The expunging of Robespierre, of Stalin, Mao, the wild and mindless hatred Hitler had for Jews inciting a sophisticated and highly cultural society to flush them out of Germany then later slaughter them with industrial efficiency this is what history with PMS looks like. Its how a Cosmic Night Cycle can fall from its higher feminine archetypal potentials under the influence of cramps. Experience reason suspended by hormonally upset, historical-hysterical moods to set a mob upon their victims in a miscarriage of compassion gone down to ruin in historys reoccurring, cyclical bouts of bloody menstruation. Once the womb of potential tomorrows start their flood and flushing of millions, they must bleed all the catharsis and witchiness out before some collective sanity is restored. The higher goddess principle would have periods of menstruation be a time for meditation, reflection, to process a purification of the womb in preparation for new life and joy, rather than a miscarried purge of life. With this in mind, there have been leaders of the people, who knew how to induce masses to follow higher inspirations,
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to be inspired to do collective good. Demagoguery is a tool only. The hand implementing this tool can belong to a Hitler. It can also belong to Hitlers adversary, American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was an accomplished demagogue who in the depths of the Great Depression played on common shared American beliefs and hopes to dream good dreams, to be inspired in darker times of Cosmic Night. Roosevelts radio fireside chats moved the American masses forward to hope for a New Deal a way to happier economic times. A benevolent act of hypnotic suggestion helped Americans progress through a difficult decade of economic stagnation and suffering. The New Deal was only a dream but that dream boosted morale. It restored American belief in their can do approach to challenges. What actually ended the Great Depression was Americas entry into the Second World War. On came Roosevelts next positive use of demagoguerys tool. Once America entered the Second World War with the shock of a surprise attack by the Japanese on its Pacific Fleet moored in Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt manipulated mass alarm and a shared sense of outrage and fear to achieve implementing a fantastic-sounding dream. He declared America would, by the end of 1942, transform itself into an arsenal of democracy able to build tens of thousands of guns, ships, tanks and planes to defeat Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and Imperial Japan. The cunning skills of demagogic oratory possessed by FDR made it so, and kept it so, sending 10 million men to fight while firing up the home front to selflessly build the weapons and stay the course towards ultimate victory. We are now a few years into another Cosmic Night where a struggle of collective emotive forces of human antipathy is ready to fight bouts with empathy. 2012 is rife for revolution and demagogues will gather to frame and inspire a new manifestation of destiny and dreams, American and global. Some will exhort the masses to violence and elimination. Others will frame a better world, a golden age that current travails postpone but can never prevent. Can the masses be stirred to love one another rather than throw tear gas canisters at one another? As I compile this chapter on Thanksgiving Day 2011, I ponder what other astrological influences might accentuate as higher potentials a shift coming from patriarchal to matriarchal driven history. I reflect upon this fully knowing that mobs cant awaken, and yet Humanity under the spell of a sheeple collective state can be emotionally inspired at least to incline towards a collective good they cant fully understand only if their demagogue shepherd be a Jesus, rather than the herder be
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a Hitler. I reveal this not to lessen the importance of the positive Goddess-Awakening principle. It is collectively shared by all humanity. Awakening this potential in 2012 and beyond is most important, but I bear witness to the fact: such high potentials of humanity can only be achieved through fully conscious, individual transformation. They dont happen in people under the spell of a collectivized, inherently robotic and mechanically conditioned mindset. When human beings amass, they are ever prone to hypnotic suggestion over conscious introspection because the mass mob mentality is a force that force-feeds crowd and herd thinking for good or ill. Thus my oracle must frame a reality of the masses for 2012 that will see them to some degree seduced to more than likely manifest the Goddess-hysterical potential. The very highest virtues of the Goddess and the God potential are in seed in all individuals. Paradoxically, it must therefore be nourished by a mass of enough individuals working on their own inner understanding and transformation and by the transformation of their lives and under the words and acts of transformed people the tone of the times can be modulated towards what is higher in humanity. Look at our religious catalysts for world teachings down through history. Theyre all loners. They came to enlightenment alone. Look at Buddha, Muhammad, Krishna, Yeshua (misnamed Jesus). People didnt gather en mass to vote them enlightenment or collectively and rapturously wish for them enlightenment. These loners sought it on their own, often in solitude, in inner meditation, not in a political campaign for it, not in a wagging-dog begging a love me everybody ego motivation. Conversely, the collective humanity remains stubbornly under the spell of being easily pulled down and undone by the gravity of unconsciousness and animalistic instinct. A herd of sheeple doesnt rise. They cant climb to peaks of human enlightenment. Individuals do this. The sheeple then turn these masters of enlightenment into something the herd mind can understand. Yeshua becomes a Jesus Christ myth. Being in the herd called Christians is supported not being a loner, like a Christ. Buddhist herds are OK. We sheeple are comfortable in herds. Dont break up the herd by setting out alone to become a Buddha. The original masters, all enlightened masters, are natural born heretics. The word heretic beyond its Greek origins is derived from an ancient Middle Eastern word defining an independently minded sheep that doesnt follow the herd which goes it alone. Show me a herd of Jesuses. Show me a herd of Buddhas. The true individual (the word means undivided, whole) is out from under
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holding up the unconscious burden of the mass mind. The individual thus untroubled has only their little ego barrier to transcend when on a path to reach the peaks of enlightenment. The masses have their ego amassed, weighted, impossible to transcend as a mass. The mob mind gives mass and a hypnotic weight to ego pulling every individual in the herd ever downwards to what is familiar, habitual and instinctive. The masses in their huge thronging egoism cant climb to the peaks. They crush the mountain. The path can only sustain the unbearable lightness of one individual ego at a time. Unconsciousness has the weight of sleepy eyelids in it. This weight isnt heavy like rocks, but it is deadening like the dense mass of rocks, heavy with sleep. A mass of people cant do otherwise but herd together their collective unconsciousness and induce a heavy dreaminess, a waking, walking, emoting mass of lotus eaters looking for a dream weaver, a demagogue, good or evil, to keep their dreaming sustained. The astrological facilitator of what is so darkly dreamy, darkly feminine about the intense atmosphere of the year 2012 is Neptune, the feminine powerhouse planet returning to the watery depths of its home sign, Pisces, home of the profound and spiritually universal. Yet, before one gets all cuddly and dreamy with that lovely idea, beware the Piscean Neptunes predilection to presume a faux-spiritualism. Neptune in Pisces, flavored and focused by the planets passing through it, is enhanced or hobbled by positive or negative aspects with other planets and signs to become either the obscurer or revealer of what is hidden from our conscious minds what can sabotage our lives. Pisces is a mutable sign symbolized by two fish tied together in the deep. One fish colored lighter represents the conscious one-tenth of the mind. The darker fish is the nine-tenths of our subconscious mind lurking in the deep. I like to think the conscious fish is like a minnow swimming in the ocean of mind near the surface. Shes a little ego personality trying to proceed with life but her string is dragging along some big, flaccid and unseen black grouper fish, a whopper way down in depths too profound for the minnows weak little awareness to recognize its source. We are the little minnow mind, with our limited perception of the depths of the bigger, collective mind that is ever hooked and tugged by the impersonal fathomless super-subconscious and big-fishiness of the entire human race, its primal, sexual root life-force, its ocean of passion underneath the shallow veneer of individual personality. Ever we are being tracked and cant easily perceive the big black fish of the unconscious mind because the deep waters of the collective unconscious wherein it lurks are too dark to peer through from a perception near the minds
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conscious surface. It isnt surprising to me that the Theory of Relativity should issue from the mind of Albert Einstein, who was born with a Sun sign in Pisces, because the sign rules right perception of reality or the trap of illusion. What is experienced is relative to the conscious state of the perceiver. Einsteins ideas on relativity match the Piscean motto things are not as they seem. Our perception of the constant reality of things will appear different from the point of view of the observer relative to their progress. Whether two events occur at the same time isnt absolute, but depends on the observers point of reference. So reality is mutably experienced dependent on your positional awareness. Its like the way time seems to speed up these days what a lot of New Agers like to call a quickening of history as we approach the winter solstice of 2012 where many believers of Mayan Arguellian or Mckennian time theories think time will end. If I look at your history clock ticking from the vantage point of my clock standing still and your clock seen on a speeding bus, theyre both perfectly timed, ticking at the same speed but from my stationary standpoint your clock moving past me on the bus appears to be ticking slower. The Theory of Relativity states that in reality the clocks are ticking constantly the same. Such a reality looks different from the witnessing point of view. But, the Piscean challenge is to become aware of the witness as a deeper reality and awaken that understanding. The clocks in essence tick the same. They only appear to move at different speeds from the point of view of the witness. That point of view is an outer reality of appearances under a relative, ever mutating, mutable influence of our mastery level of witnessing consciousness. In short, the ultimate awareness of Witnessing is not moving or changing. It is constant. It is the underpinning Reality that can dispassionately witness the movement but understands from its own stillness within, beyond outward appearances, that the ticking of two history clocks, one on a moving bus and one standing still, ticks the same speed of the eternal second. The astrologically subjective theories about Pisces in this regard go beyond Einstein and the laws of the physical to the metaphysical. The witness of experiences and phenomena, whether that experience is altered relative to their conscious understanding, isnt measurable. It may observe different phenomena as per its point of view but what is it, this Observer? Thats the great 64,000-fathom Piscean question! Theres a whole big black fish-full of physical and spiritual phenomena pulling us deeper into fathomless dreams and murky depths of cosmic space-out, but tied
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to the sinking fish line pulled by the Grouper is that little spark of light, that other fish of consciousness, close to the sunshine at the surface. It lives small as an atomically eternal moment. It can become the pinpoint present-eternal observer, relative to the vast and changeable observed to which it finds itself by an invisible attachment, snared. Words can go no farther to metaphorically frame what is frameless about the oceanic, limitless, and fathomless in our lives that Piscean forces in astrology represent. Neptune, the planetary ruler of Pisces is coming home to these depths in 2012. It enters Pisces on 4 February and slowly glides forward until it must dog paddle backwards in retrograde starting 4 June. Then Neptune treads forward again on 11 November (Armistice Day) and keeps paddling forward beyond the end of 2012. Beyond that it will continue to swim back and forth, back and forth in the currents of Pisces for many years to come, not leaving the Piscean ocean until faroff 27 January 2026, when water logged Neptune beaches itself, drying out in the fire sign of Aries. The motto of Pisces is I believe. Its primary ruler, Neptune, is the image/ projection maker of the Zodiac. Being one of the outer planets, taking on average around 13 years to transit a sign, 164 years to complete a full cycle, Neptune in aspect with other planets in our natal or progressed astrological charts becomes the source of more impersonal or transpersonal forces defining a generation the masses rather than the individual. Neptune influences general history, its position indicates what kind of collective imagination and creativity is being tapped by humanity. It will therefore have a strong influence in 2012 upon the arts, movies, television, and other communication media in our hot-wired or wireless communication revolution. In a converse sense, Neptune when ill aspected or afflicted by other planets will hint at how humanity with its spiritual blinders on, can collectively fall under the spell of illusory dreams, menstrual-hysteric purges and fall under the spell of demagogues. Neptune also rules drug addiction and escapism, the irrational trumping reason. Faith trumping science. Neptune winnowing forward then pulled backwards, then pushed forward in the Piscean current of 2012 reminds me that the two Piscean symbolic fishes define the signs contribution to humanitys ultimate struggle with duality. One fish tied by a ribbon of attachment to the other believes he should swim upstream whilst the other fish believes she should swim downstream. These divergent beliefs in a tug of war might be moderated by Pisces secondary ruler Jupiter who can play balancer and preserver and thus keep the Piscean energy from drowning in murky floods of mood, stagnation and escapist renunciation. Jupiter, being a positive as well as
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personal planetary resource, indicates the way individuals, breaking free of crowdthink can use Jupiter aspects in their own charts to help reason a way out of the mob mind, to snap out of its mass hysteria. Neptune will move forward in Pisces until June 2012. People could better sense their interconnectedness and awakening compassion for others at that time. Certainly, a bridge of empathy and humanitarianism can be built between the middle classes and the CEOlygarchs to moderate polarization in the first half of 2012. Then it can vanish poof! as if it were only a dream. The bridge will disappear under emotionally turbulent waters when Neptune goes retrograde in June and sinks backwards into the depths until November. Added to this, Jupiter in June leaves practical Taurus for a transit to its detriment in cerebral Gemini, where it will be playing with a 90-degree square with Neptune in Pisces; in other words, under a spell of adverse, contrary frictions sabotaging goals and ambitions. In the first half of 2012, popular democratic movements around the world can grow and find their voices and leaders, like those seen born and struggling forward in early 2011 with in the Arab Spring revolutions across the Middle East pushing back their ruling oligarchies, demanding reforms. Americas Occupy Wall Street phenomenon in the latter half of 2011 could expand into an American Spring revolution between January and early June 2012. Then the Neptune retrograde brings confusion and confrontation in June, lasting up to and a few weeks past the US presidential elections. Democracy on the rise in the first half of 2012 collides with the forces of corporate Dominion, of ivory towered oligarchies who aim to suppress it in the second half of 2012. A reawakening of democratic dissent ascending in streets around the world will frighten the dominators. The oligarchies will let slip the dogs of police rioting around the world to put pepper spray and riot stick to skull to knock out civil disobedience and national strikes in the summer of 2012. In this murky, foggy collectively Piscean atmosphere will issue the most important US presidential election campaign of the new decade when ill aspects make masses prone to grab simple mindless but emotionally satisfying and alarming political slogans as their own. In the last Cosmic Night cycle, whole nations were hypnotized to move forward with slogans like Franklin Roosevelts New Deal and Happy days are here again. Over on the other side of the Atlantic, Hitlers slogan Deutschland Erwache (Germany Awake) mesmerized one of the most sophisticated European cultures to goose step with open eyes and swastika arm bands into a Nazi nightmare.
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In the current Cosmic Night Cycle starting in 2008, Barack Obama had Americans chanting, Yes we CAN! and Change we can Believe In --slogans that won him the US presidency. It didnt matter that less sentimentally stirred minds asked yes we can what or that change by itself shouldnt be idly construed as synonymous with good. Hitler, when he came to power, promised hed so change Germany in the coming dozen years that his people wouldnt recognize it. Yes! Theres a change you can believe in! A dozen years later, the Second World War he started changed Germany into a bombed out rubble pile. Obama says change and the masses all herd along with it. Moreover, it is change you can believe in even though belief is another word for putting qualification on ignorance to a promise of change unburdened by the devil of details. The change believed was just a dream. Little in the end was changed in the first term of Obamas presidency and millions of blind eyed and bushy tailed Obamaites felt disillusioned by their messiah. As we progress deeper into Cosmic Night, one simplistic slogan breeds a reactive sloganistic answer. Obamas political dreamscape is countered by another materialized out of the ethers by the Tea Party movement 2009 and 2010. Take back America! was their slogan for the mid-term elections. It rings true like its Cosmic Night cousin: Germany Awake! In both cases what and who constitutes America or Germany is left nebulous enough for you to project your own idea and imagine yours is everyone elses idea in the Tea or a National Socialist Party herd. Piscean times watch people escape into big and simple dreams, so Yes. Ill take back America even if I cant really define who is un-American beyond the broad brushed stereotypes fomented by Tea Party demagogues. An injection of powerful feminine astrological forces with Neptune in Pisces in 2012 will induce the masses to be more noncongnitively driven than they were when voting in elections of 2008 and 2010. Be real alert. Whos Jim Jones-ing you his stirred cup of Kool-Aid? Do you have a secret thirst for it? As we proceed to 2012, there are all kinds of new Kool-Aid flavors to taste with orange-orange and lemon-yellow slogans, such as Arab Spring or Occupy Wall Street. Try a sip of 99-percent. Dont touch the 1 percent!
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Feel-good bromides dont rationally define just how multifaceted 99-percent of any human population is and it is easier to condemn and later persecute onepercent minorities you stereotype, even if they are billionaires, with simplistic slogans stripping individual uniqueness of people herded into a minority by your slogans. It worked for Hitler with the nationalistic bromide that the German 99-percent were a master race tyrannized by the one-percent, money grubbing German Jews. To be fair, history shows us great political movements can at first begin with emotive ideas ungrounded in reason but turn out for the better. Take for instance some 18th century zingers like: The pursuit of happiness or all men are created equal. Thomas Jefferson if reincarnated in our times, could write slogans for Obama, the Tea Party and the Occupy movements. Without Jeffersons slogans inserted, the US Declaration of Independence wouldve read like a boring wonk job without the inspiring Alka-Seltzer slogans people needed to pop as emotional pep pills for freedom from tyranny. Revolutions need an emotional injection of life. Jeffersons zingers and those added by other founding fathers of the United States, such as Give me Liberty or give me Death or that current Tea Party retread Dont tread on me! launched a revolution. Once independence was achieved and the time for rabble rousing was over, many of the same men sobered their words with reason and objectivity. They wrote the US Constitution and its Bill of Rights, both becoming a model for modern republics based on rational, democratic values even to this day. Saturns Anchor in the massemotional Flood A big storm of Piscean hope, projection and sensationalism is coming in 2012. One needs to find a good anchor to reality. If one seeks astrological illumination, Saturn is that anchor. Wherever you find it in your natal chart or wherever its currently transiting through other signs in aspect, Saturn will show you the source of limitation, your karmic debts wherein lies your blind-spot availability to being open for suppression by your ego or by the ego of
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others. Saturn disperses your illusions. Hes that grim friend who loves you enough to tell the truth to you straight. Saturn in 2012 will be ending its over two-year passage through Libra the Balancer, entering super-secretive, death and metamorphosing Scorpio. If you can look beyond the gruff veneer of that astrological variant of a Hells Angel on Heavens Harley Davison, Mr. Grimm Reaper might just tell us when the dominion loving pushers are democratically shoved back in 2012. You might schedule your time to run into the streets in protest or hide behind the locked door of your ivory tower as per the following: Saturn starts the year 2012 retreating back and advancing forth in its final and most intense degrees of Libra. It will go retrograde on 7 February. Score one for the pushers, though the positive advance of Neptune in Pisces will steadily nudge the police lines of the oligarchs slowly back. Saturn doesnt go direct course again at 22 degrees Libra until end of June. Here then comes the big shove from millions of demonstrators in streets across the planet. Piscean energy runs amok though. Wear your tear gas mask and get your pepper spray ready because ruling planets of Pisces, Neptune and Jupiter, are emoting but not thinking and thinking but not talking too well to each other. Look for the democratic push against the corporate police line shovers in the streets and occupied parks becoming far more violent than anything seen in confrontations of cops and crowds during 2011s Arab Spring or the Occupy movements in America and Europe. The final five-degree exit of Saturn out of Libra will be especially intense on the issue of balance and negotiation from mid-August to early October. Saturn leaves Libra and moves forward into Scorpio on 6 October 2012 just as the US presidential election goes into overdrive. Saturn in Scorpio during the election plays the role of reality confronter in financial and corporate affairs, in inheritances, insurance and tax accounting. The Democratic incumbent president will square off with his Republican rival in national debates with jobs and the state of the economy as the dominant subject. A Scorpionic Saturn focuses attention on litigation disputes when finances arent fairly shared. The haves and have-nots will be primed for a full and very political confrontation. The loser of the election will be perceived by 99 percent of 300 million Americans as tucked deeper in the pocket of special interests serving the one-percent of the corporate American aristocracy holding over 40 percent of American wealth. Forces of Dominion and forces of Democracy will butt heads like youve never
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CHAPTER 2 China in the Year of the Water Dragon Blowing Economic Bubbles
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The current struggle for world domination is no longer contained or achieved by military might. A globalization of the world prevents it. If you have a dispute with another country these days, bombing its factories will bankrupt your economy due to your country having outsourced manufacture to the enemys cheaper labor pool. Moreover, if youre a citizen of a country of sweatshop producing products, you dont want to bomb your customers. War for now, may have ended as weve known it, but the clash of civilizations goes on. The new competition for world domination took a while to coalesce in the vacuum left by the end of the Cold War, but by 2012, the struggle and whats at stake will be made absolutely clear. The next great decades-long political-economic fight for hearts and minds and bank accounts favors a standoff between two ideological concepts governing over Capitalism: Democracy (exemplified by the declining superpower of the United States) versus Totalitarianism (exemplified by the rising economic superpower, China). Now in Beijing, the Chinese Capitalist-Communist regime looks at the American and European democracies, shaking their communal head at Western selfishness and political polarization. The West muddles on with a tragicomical inability to

unite for the better good of their people, unable to establish any kind of consensus driven, long-term disciplined fiscal policy. To the Politburo in Beijing, Democracy isnt something China should emulate because it institutionalizes chaos. The rich elites in America are looking east to the Chinese economic model. They secretly yearn and perhaps even plan to slowly adopt that model in America. A politi-corporate creeping coup has been on since 2010. It began when the highest court of America, the Supreme Court, voted five-to-four in favor of the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case. They in effect redefined corporations with boundless financial influence as citizens with equal rights to average Americans with no influence, no army of lobbyists, no money to leverage their president and Congress to hear their grievances or make possible the fulfillment of their dreams. Five politically right-wing Justices of the Supreme Corp have spoken and dispensed justice like a Chinese politburo. The door is open to their lobbying and influence because national borders dont contain these new and more equal American Corporate citizens. You, the average American, may be a simple citizen of the United States, however, corporation citizens embody multinational interests. This direction is where aristocracies of the current Pluto-Capricorn transit would want capitalism to evolve. They would introduce slowly but inexorably TotalitarianCapitalism where governments are in their pockets, doing their bidding, lowering expensive food, water, air and labor standards so that free markets are absolutely free of ethics, free of human protecting limitations. To be anti-Government is to ultimately find the most powerful and wealthy few un-governed plutocracy dictating to the largest population of middle and lower classes in Totalitarian-Capitalism system where politicians are paid to give license to the limitless pursuit of profit. The politician and the profiteer have a pact. As long as billionaires stay out of politics, yet richly subsidize the bureaucrats, the politicians will unleash big business to make as much money as they can as long as GDP sustains a growth of eight percent per annum. For Totalitarian-Capitalism to work, you must let enough money grow the economy eight percent a year so some wealth trickles down on the heads of a majority of poor people in your country. You need to tinkle on them some financial improvement in their lives. Youve got to keep hope alive so they too can dream of leaving the slums and impoverished rural life for a job in Fat Cat City. Eight percent GDP growth keeps greed alive. What Ive just described isnt America. Not yet. This is China. This world Beijing would like to create and the model pretty much is working as
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long as a billion Chinese citizens living in poverty get high on relatively low economic improvement in their lives. Someday their children and grandchildren maybe, if not themselves, will become members of the 300 million consumer boomer explosion flourishing in urban, upscale China. Enter the Dragon The sleeping giant of TotalitarianCapitalism has awakened in modern China but it has clay feet. Perhaps it isnt a sleeping giant even. Change the metaphor for the Chinese economy of 2012. China isnt an awakening red giant; it is a great and uncoiling red dragon a water dragon, to be exact blowing economic bubbles. The Chinese lunar calendar New Year begins on 23 January 2012. Its the The dragon Smaug from The Hobbit. year of the Water Dragon. Westerners fog of negativity pollutes their visions of dragons in smog, or throw a Tolkien of Smaug Its a bad Hobbit, really. Its discrimination. To ancient and contemporary Western mythologies, from the tales of Siegfried to Tolkiens Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings, dragons are evil creatures, FreudianJungian symbols of flaming sexuality distressing damsels and motivating knights to tame and slay. The Chinese think of dragons as divine, heavenly beasts of myth and legend, source of positive life forces of creativity, wise authority and good fortune. Western prophecies, such as those in the Book of Revelation describing a great red dragon have seen American interpreters during the Cold War relate that metaphor to the red dragon of communism contained in the Peoples Republic of China. In the 21st century one might say the Western biased view against dragons lightly masks a fear of Chinas booming miracle economy. They fear it will spread its wings in the Year of the Dragon 2012 with fire breathing economic dominance. To where? 2012 is an important year for what direction Chinas leadership will take. The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will be held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to arrange orderly succession of power to a new generation. You might say the Premier and Communist Politburo have evolved from
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their Marxist-Leninist roots when Mao Zedong established the positions in 1949 to become the chairmanship and board of directors of China Inc. This most powerful of CEOlygarchs morphed from Marxist to free Market in just a few decades in a regular and orderly, five-year recycling of collectively run governments since 1982. A changing of the guard makes this chapter more than a forecast for 2012. We will divine a glimpse of how the leadership of a new generation born under the Dragon will fly or flame out from autumn 2012 to autumn 2017. All the twelve animal totems of Chinese Astrology cyclically pass through the moderating or intensifying elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water. For instance, in 2012 the element of water cools the dragons impetuousness. Its a favorable time to change leadership. Those people or enterprises born under the Dragon whatever the element moderating or intensifying the creature are generally lucky. Water in this case can cool this fixed yang sign, comparable to fiery Aries, the sign of new beginnings and new exploration. The motto of the Dragon is I Reign. Good therefore to reign with cooling, soothing water the negative potentials of a dragons passionate nature. Wash away the conceited, rude and tactless side that can over scrutinize others. Dowse those quick-tempered flare-ups when a dragon is unprepared for the unanticipated when the board of directors for China Inc. meet to work out their political intrigues behind closed doors of the Great Hall of the People in autumn 2012. Accentuate the nature of a new politburo with positive traits of the dragon: find members who will be confident, gutsy, enterprising, flexible and perhaps even innovative when winning a seat at the table of Chinas leadership. The water element plays strong in both Chinese and Western astrology in 2012. Especially around October and November when Neptune is in Pisces and Saturn entering a 2.5-year transit of Scorpio will make for vaporously cool dragon energy. It may temper the dragons habit of not being too self-reflective. Let the element of water tame the dragons habitual headlong charge into new enterprises first, asking questions later. Otherwise, plans boldly initiated in 2012 without considering consequences could lead to Chinas spectacular economic crash in the next five years. Therefore, maintain. Grasp the bigger picture where China must go in the next five years because the most significant systemic change in its economy is coming. One not seen since Premier Deng Xiaoping took control of the Communist Party in 1978, establishing the Four Modernizations of agriculture, industry, science and technology that would advance the Peoples Republic of China forward out of pure communism to a new Communism with a big capitalist C. Critical will be Chinas metamorphosis of its economy from a manufacturing-
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only to a balanced manufacturing-and-consuming market. In the next five years, China has to have a convertible world currency. Some reckoning and resolution with the US must then come due, because the dragon clutches in its claws a sizable sum of US debt. Dragons arent generally patient, but this dragon-born leadership in a five-year plan could really use waters tempering patience and modesty when it aims to Draco stare down competing chaotic Western democracies in its struggle for dominion, especially when staring down those which owe it money. The best laid Schemes of Five-Year Plans The past transits of a dragon through water years may give us hints of how history might or might not repeat itself. The last wet dragon year was 1952. Chinas army was stuck in the trenches along the 38th parallel in the third year of the Korean War the second year of a military stalemate with US led UN and South Korean forces. Water wasnt tempering the dragons tactless, scrutinizing and destructive fire at home. The moderate early years of the new Peoples Republic of China were over. The first official Five Year Plan (1953-57) was in full conceptual planning in 1952 previewed with an abrupt and brusque house cleaning of all things bourgeois. Purges, show trials, persecution of foreign missionaries, land reform, collectivization, class war against landlords and wealthy peasants reigned in the countryside. Educators, industrialists and artists were re-educated in the cities. Premier Mao Zedongs politburo passed the year of water dragon planning Chinas transition to socialism for the next five years. They would achieve industrialization, collectivization of agriculture, and political centralization of China or bust. By 1956, preliminary collectivization of farms was achieved by 90 percent. Government, banking, industry, trade nationalized! Private enterprise was effectively eradicated in Mainland China. All tools for communist excess, destructive social experiments, famines were laid down. All the reasons why Deng Xiaoping moved to modernize China beyond Maos Marxist madness were in place as planned in the last Water Dragon year. When the Water Dragon year returns in 2012, purges, collectivization and nationalization, the consequences of what occurred in the upheavals and disasters of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s will haunt the new leadership. The board of directors and the Chinese people will reflect
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upon an economic miracle continuing to grow at eight percent GDP per annum, despite the staggering economic crises heavily besetting the Western economies since the beginning of the Great Recession in 2008. But rather than turn away from the world to burn out old ways and cook up a new socialist paradise, the Dragon Year of 2012 will nourish a collective desire of Chinas hundreds of millions of urban, upwardly mobile middle classes to venture out, spend, to travel the new interstate freeway network, explore and discover the breathtaking, new China. Dragons are the most free spirits in the Chinese Zodiac. Its no wonder that 2012 will enjoy an exponential lift in car sales, the highest number of hotels constructed and opened across China. Wherever you are in the world, especially if resort industries stuck in the Lent of recession wait to thrive, or shopping malls and upscale goods industries look to fill the empty shopping malls with new crowds lifting sales. I tell you, retailers of the world. Start learning some Mandarin, or if you transact sales or run tourist hot spots in English learn Chinglish. In 2011 there were 54 million outbound trips out of China a four-fold increase in ten years, forecast to reach 100 million by decades end. The Chinese are coming to your corner of the world in 2012. The Dragon is flying in the guise of millions of enthusiastic, uninhibited, even flamboyant and altogether irrepressible waves of Chinese tourists with mountains of disposable capital to buy your trinkets, rent your hotels, eat at your restaurants and pay for your tourist packages. The Communo-Capitalist government to come in 60-year shakes of a water dragons tail later is all for it. They will encourage the Chinese people to live large like a Sino-signature dragon, save less and spend much more. There will be a downsizing of Chinese exports to the economically flat American and flailing Euro markets in the next five-year plan. The Chinese economic miracle will now build Chinese for buying Chinese first, intensify export industries to neighboring markets of the near abroad, later. Exports in the next five years will rise to supply a growing demand of goods coming to other Asian tiger markets flush and growing with hundreds of millions of consumer boomers in Southeast and South Asian markets, chief among these India, with its own new middle class, with rupee ready, disposable income to burn. With the blessings of a newly forming politburo in 2012, the Chinese consumer baby boomers of today will enjoy similar and heady days of new affluence and exploration just as if they were a reincarnation of US baby boomers of the 1950s and 1960s. Americas economic miracle was on the rise then, nothing but clear skies of opportunity ahead under which to build a vast interstate highway system. Lots of jobs. Millions happily employed in new industries serving an affluent and fruitfully multiplying American middle class on the move, on vacation, exploring their land in
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unprecedented numbers requiring a gold rush of new service industries to build and fill airports, restaurants, hotels, fast food eateries. Dragons like that scenario. They want it! Make it to the top. Be indulged. Brashness and swagger of Dragon times! Move over, ugly American tourist, here comes the ugly Chinese. Dragons arent domesticated creatures but when home they crave magnificence, extravagance, big public projects breathing fire and energy into the Chinese economy. Self-reliance is necessary for Chinese Dragons and you will hear in 2012 of a project that will far transcend building an interstate system in only a few years. China will radically reinvent the future of the nuclear power industry by example. Plans will at last be put in motion with a goal to create, perfect and patent for export a whole new generation of nuclear reactors running on a thorium-based molten salt reactor system in 20 years. Thorium reactors could replace a decade from now, Chinas greenhouse gas belching goal plants. They dont rely on the worlds uranium reserves that will be exhausted in 60 years or less. Thorium, a silvery molten salt named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is plentiful and no terrorist can fashion atomic or dirty radiological bombs out of it. If an earthquake or tsunami comes calling, shutting down the plants electrical systems, China with its thorium ambitions takes the China out of the China Syndrome the American term for an uncontrollable meltdown into the earth from a water-cooling system malfunction of plutonium or uranium fueled reactors (all the way to China, in hyperbole, ergo the phrase China Syndrome). The Chinese Academy of Sciences claim their thorium reactors will be thousands of times less dangerous than uranium systems because if the reactors power is damaged and shut off and the reactor begins to overheat, a little plug melts and the metallic salt drains into something like a bed pan for the sick and feverish. It cools down on its own, well before a containment reactor can be breached. The Chinese scientists contend that if the four uranium roiling, Fukushima reactors with water containment systems electronically hobbled by the tsunami following the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku quake in March 2011 had been built to house thorium reactors instead, no water containment was needed. No release of deadly uranium radioactive elements wouldve happened. There wouldve been no radioactive release in the worst recorded nuclear disaster since the meltdown of Chernobyl reactor Number Four in 1986 cast much of the Ukraine and Belorussia and some parts of Lapland in Scandinavia under a cloud of fallout. Chernobyl wouldnt have happened, if salt self-plugging systems had been installed. They couldve done this. This technology isnt new. Safer thorium reactors
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couldve been built in the early 1960s in America and the Soviet Union, but why pursue them commercially? Where would be the billions in defense contracts? It was the Cold War. You cant build atomic bombs with thorium reactors. Their fuel is immune from the doomsday industry. In 2012, China will lead the world in green technology and leave the US far behind at the end of the next Five Year plan. It sounds good. Its good for the planet. Even better for Chinese public relations. However, will this new politburo succeed moderating in time the dragons smoggy breath overtaking the atmosphere? The leader in green industries is also the number one Godzilla of dragon venting fossil fuel pollution. Details, details Dragons get in a rush. You bore them with minutiae and drudgery. They crave to soar to new challenges often before the plans for projects at hand have matured or have seen completion. In the next five years, China will run the danger of alienating the world by being grandiose, patronizing and dictatorial. The extravagant, upwardly mobile, give-himhis-head loving dragon might neglect the humdrum of book keeping accounting for the real cost of his economic dreams. Bother the books! Chinese economy for the Chinese! Consumer based, economic growth based on cheap real state. Get on with it! Ill balance the books later. In recent years, entire cities have been built in China in anticipation of an increasing future demand for more and more consumers wanting middle class housing. Well push the river of wealth. Well command that 200 million newly manufactured automobiles will be rumbling down Chinese roads by 2020. Well do the green while we complete on average two coal-fired plants per week because all tree hugging aside, we need energy to fuel this boom. Well heal our lungs later when we are rich enough to afford the cancer treatment. Thorium reactors built across China in the next 20 years could take the Chinese economy out of the business of being Global Warmer Number One but the dragon needs combustible fuel more than clean air. The Chinese will be ten years too late to unburden the Earths climate with coal ash clouds. Consumerism, based on a fossil fuel global economy is turning into a bout of potentially fatal consumption in our global civilizations near future. China is like an ambitious man surging forward, working hard, too hard and compensating for the stress with a ten CO2 pack a day industrial smokestack cigarette habit. Hes unmindful of the consequences of natural balances lost, larger typhoons in each monsoon season followed by crop destroying Chinese droughts in hotter dry
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seasons. The Chinese miracle needs water to feed itself with food and industry. What then will happen to the miracle when food grows scarce, when factories requiring H2O to process materials manned by a half-billion equally parched employees shut down? The world is under great stress to sustain its extravagant economic boom. Stress kills the Chinese Water Dragon. This isnt just the year of the Dragon for China but for all economies. When faced with so many systemically unsustainable economic ideas, I presage 2012 with Chinas influence will greatly increase the stress of consumerism on this planets earth, water and air resources. Not even a temporary economic depression in the Western economies will temper this growth enough to turn the world away from a global climate fever cascade. More oil, more fossil fuel production, more greenhouse gases will vent into the planetary ecosystem than in any one-year period before, just when signs of a climate sliding out of whack only grow. China may lead the world in green economic ideas, but its too little, perhaps too late, and certainly too self-reliant and self-obsessed with its own domestic consumerism to cut back on coal pluming the planet. Please do that GNP Voodoo That You do so well Dragons are gamblers. They can lose it all. They have the moneymaking gene though. They believe in their Midas touch. They believe in economic recovery. Theres something American about this brashness of the dragon that reminds me of my American baby-boomer childhood, when my countrys belief in excessive growth and success was just as irrepressible. Will the current batch of Chinese baby dragon boomers, entering their twenties and Kalki, the 10th and final Hindu Avatar who brings to an end the material- thirties, their primary consuming years, end up as ist and spiritually bankrupt Kali-Yuga spoiled as us? They remind me of me: saving less (Age of Iron). than their parents and grandparents and spending much more. Patterns are repeating. Will they hasten to blow their success bubble to bursting faster than American baby boomers did? The water dragon is blowing many bubbles that could pop and soon. Theres the voodoo GNP bubble that boasts an eight percent growth of the Chinese economy
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per year. Its really a government blowjob. The government is throwing billions into infrastructure growth each year, keeping construction costs for building business real state and housing at an artificially low price. Its another all-American artificial bubble boom and since the bubble burst in 2008, we Americans have seen where this is going. Ive warned since 2008 that the Chinese private sector must gain a minimum of 6 percent growth without government funds drowning and inflating the growth figures to keep this bubble blowing bigger. I will further add today (26 November 2011) Chinas flaming dragon economy cant spend its way out of an oncoming crisis. The Chinese consumer baby boomers are like the Americans only they are being encouraged by their government leaders to turn away from the prudent, saving disciplines of their grandparents and parents who lived or grew up under Maos communist austerity of the 1960s and 1970s. Chinese baby boomers are just like American boomers who forgot the fiscal sobriety of their parents growing up in the Great Depression of the 1930s. Right now US consumer spending is hovering around 70 percent of GDP that is $15 trillion a recipe for their current financial troubles. China in 2011 has a GDP of six trillion with a consuming rate of 36 percent. The dragons in the Great Hall of the People expect it to rise to 45 percent in a few years. To accomplish this, theyll have to keep bank fees for buying houses very low, construction costs arbitrarily low, the value of their currency purposefully low and pump the equivalent of a few trillion more dollars of the public fund into infrastructure growth. Not to mention theyll pay for a planned raising of the trickle down water dragon pressure to make happier and more hopeful the 70 percent of a billion have-nots in the Chinese economic miracle that a Totalitarian-Capitalistic regime must anoint with some modest profit sharing to keep them dreaming they can be rich too someday. Right now China has the fastest growing wealth divide in the world. Its a recipe for a second Chinese communist revolution the Marxist kind as soon as a few more years when the government cant afford in to pump GNP up to eight and nine percent per year with Viagra-like investment. The Peoples Republic of China was born 1 October 1949. Its a Libra trying to find a new balance between communist command economy and capitalist free market economy. It was born with an Aquarius rising. Revolution is this countrys ongoing process at home and outgoing expression in the world. Speaking of the home front, it has the Aquarian ruler Uranus in Cancer. That means this home and hearth will never be completely comfortable and staid. It will be prone to the upheavals of sudden revolutionary change as the world with Red Dragon China ascendant in 2012
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and onwards through the next five years will be defined and perhaps dominated by its totalitarian-capitalist model. Saturn has been transiting across the PRCs natal Sun and Mercury-Neptune conjunction during its two-year transit of Libra ending when Saturn enters Scorpio at a time when all economies must get their financial affairs in order or theres hell to pay before Saturn creeps out of Scorpio at the end of 2014. The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will convene in October-November 2012. They will choose a new premier and politburo when scorpion Saturn starts proceeding towards its sextile (positive aspect) with Chinas natal Saturn in Virgo in March 2013 giving prudent earth to tempered water dragon decisions for paramount leader Hu Jintao to step down as General Secretary. Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang will take Jintaos place with Wen Jiabao to the Politburo Standing Committee and will officially take over the premiership in March 2013 at the National Peoples Congress when Scorpion Saturn is in a favorable and harmonious trine with Chinas natal Saturn in Virgo, the sign of harvest. A natal Saturn in that sign encourages practicality a hard work ethic. No, there will be no Chinese Water Dragon bubble bursting in 2012, or perhaps 2013 in the year of the Snake, a time of prudence and purposefulness set against a potential for a breakdown in communication with other nations leading to isolationism. Watch out in 2014, the Year of the Horse. It will be a white horse economic year, as if Kalki, the final Hindu avatar were bringing on the end of the Age of Kali, the age of iron and rampant materialism.
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CHAPTER 3 Hot Crises in a Cold Depression
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If the worlds leaders and peoples are going to find a solution to global recession woes, we have to redefine what the recession actually is. It isnt a Great Depression like we had in the 1930s, even though aspects of the current economy seem to echo those times, such as a collapse of the housing and construction industry in the US with what is developing into a lost decade for the chronically unemployed. Bushvilles and Obamavilles are the new Hoovervilles of the 1930s, this time on wheels in the 2010s. There arent Okies packing belongings and families sky high in rickety Model T trucks heading for itinerant farm work in California. The Grapes of Wrath images of today are parents running out of unemployment checks and consuming the last dollar of their life savings, losing their homes, loading their families into their SUVs parked at campgrounds or overnight on your local street. They dont pick strawberries in Central Valley California, not yet at least. Today that job is reserved for legal and illegal Mexican aliens. For this to be truly a Great Depression it must affect far more segments of society. The Depression of the 1930s hit everyone hard, including the wealthy. Todays wealthiest one-percent, about three million out of 300 million Americans, are doing very well, owning and hoarding nearly half nations wealth. Upscale retail markets are breaking records in sales. Your family might be camping on a side street next to a YMCA in West LA, but walk a few blocks, turn a corner onto Rodeo Drive and you wont see any Depression there. Hundreds of Chinese factories in 2011 went out of business because of the global economic downturn. There have been food and

labor riots across China that would remind one of the early 1930s in America and Germany. As many as 20 million Chinese have dropped out of the middle class, but hundreds of millions more join the ranks of the thriving middle classes there and all across other East Asian and South Asian countries. My oracle felt it necessary at the end of 2010 to redefine what is otherwise called the Great Recession when it peered into coming events for 2011 and beyond: The year 2011 will bring a new understanding of what this decades-long Global Recession truly is: a Cold Depression. Its an economic version of a doomsday stand off between runaway deflation and inflation, armed, cocked and ready by deregulation of the banking and financial systems, waiting in mute threat in row after row of foreclosed houses, ranked down empty suburban streets like row after row of silent missiles in their silos on the Midwestern plains. We all wait for someone on any side of this economy to drop the bomb the debt bomb Every dawning day, perhaps for the next 20 years, you will wait and perhaps unconsciously be poised to brace yourself for the global recession suddenly and unexpectedly plunging into something a million times worse. At any moment, it can be triggered by a wrong brokers keyboard button pushed, a wrong economic policy legislated, the pop of one-too-many returning economic bubbles bursting, the crash of banks too big to fail foundering in a sudden, hot, Depression of economic thermonuclear meltdown. Predictions for 2011, Chapter 8: A Cold Depression, like a Cold War The Decline and Fall of the Euro-man Empire? In 2012, we face a new trigger for sudden, hot Depression. We will escalate the danger from banks too large to fail to countries too large to bail. The Cold War had regional friction points like Cuba and the Middle East. A Cold Depression in 2012 has America and Europe as its potential flashpoints. The
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default of Italy in 2012 could be a Cuban Missile Crisis moment with a launch range of economic pain to hot depression fallout that can reach all the way into US banks and Europe bound export balance sheets. One can use Saturns progress through the months of 2012 to mark windows for a Cuban Missile Crisis moment. Its finishing up its two year transit in the sign of Libra the economic balancer or, if you like an Eastern analogy, the sign of Vishnu the Preserver. Though Saturn is exalted in Libra the worlds financial and political systems have used its cosmic energies more like Shiva the destabilizer if not quite grim enough to play Shiva the Destroyer of the world economy. The lesson from Saturns passage through Libra is how cooperation solves problems. Bits of that idea may have penetrated the thick skin and heads of world leaders enough in the last few years to delay or postpone the next double dip recession. The year 2011 is nearly over as I write this. Prime ministers, presidents and financial ministers of euro zone countries seem to have tapped into the exalted Libra saturnine zeitgeist to find enough common ground to avoid Greeces default for now. In Italy, the long and messy era of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi hands the Italian government over to Mario Monti and his cabinet of technocrats ready to seek bipartisan political solutions. Europe at the end of 2011 lives in a time rich at least in tossing around pledges to share the pain of facing economic realities, mutually agreeing to a set of rules and regulations to get European debt under control. Saturn in any sign is not to be trifled with by ideology over evidence or bemused by cloudy faith trumping facts on the ground. Wherever you find the Grim Reaper of the Zodiac embedded or transiting your chart or the chart of a nation, hes compassionately pointing a bony finger at what kind of difficulties and limitations are lying ahead and its time to get seriously responsible about facing the burden, accepting the long hard haul with willpower, diligence, focus and patience. Saturn in Libra is pointing his finger at the lawmaker, the politician, the CEO the author of contracts, business arrangements. He regulates. He arbitrates. Hes been focused since the end of 2009 on jobs and the global economy and one clearly can recognize this issue has become of primary interest and concern in human discourse ever since the transit began in late 2009. Earthy Saturn in this air sign of balanced and poised intellect, communication and diplomacy should be the practical banker, whom everyone entrusts their earnings, giving us a no BS assessment of our financial future if you are listening. This exalted banker, however, has passed from one afflicted planetary aspect to another since Saturns transit through the vaults of Libras bank began around Halloween 2009.
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Libra the balancer of the economic books has seen its scales sway all over the global stock market map with a new normal of breathtaking jumps and plunges, such as the cardiac arresting charts of the Dow Jones Industrial climbing hundreds of points one day, crashing hundreds of points the next only to climb and crash again. The market has pumped itself up on hope, sometimes stretching the membrane of realities as thin as an economic bubble on rumors even outright projected positive thinking without evidence. Between 2009 and 2011, markets would temporarily rise to the heights on reports of jobs jumps in June, only to fall in August. Hopes and stock market points would rise each November indicating the economy was improving at last, and then hope of recovery plunged again in January. Get Saturnian real, talking heads of financial TV networks! These numbers rise and fall due to summer and Christmas holiday temporary employment. Any increase of jobs reported in any month will see markets soar before they sink again but as US job reports of 2011 show, at no time do these new job increases sustain growth past the 200,000-a-month mark. This is the minimum requirement to sustain a real, tangible and lasting improvement in the job situation. So understand the irregular pulse of rising and falling markets this day belong to an economy whistling through the cemetery of a Cold Depression that in the best case scenario will linger well into and beyond 2012 without flaring hot. The reason why Saturn in Libra has not manifested its full potentials for agreement and compromised bi-partisan consensus about the economy stems from a transit marred by a Cardinal quadruplicity (mediocre-to-bad leadership) through much of 2010 with other planets. Saturn found itself often in opposition with planets in Capricorn and Aries, especially Pluto in Capricorn. Even though Pluto and Uranus in 2011 gave Saturn some space from squares and oppositions, their own direct battle of bad aspects had defined all that could astrologically go wrong in finding concord to solve problems in 2011, generating a malefic climate of bad communication, stubborn stances and volatility. The bad blood between legislators in Washington DC, and to a lesser extent in European parliaments began heating up in April, then boiling over from July into October of 2011 with another retrograde Square of Uranus in Aries (forward progress to change) with Pluto in Capricorn (ruler now of: doesnt business and the economy just suck right now?). The last time Uranus transited Aries gave birth to the Great Depression back in the late 1920s. Saturn spent the earliest and most stalemated years of the Depression afflicted in Capricorn when the Herbert Hoover government in the US seemed powerless and bereft of economic direction. Over in economically
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devastated Europe, Adolf Hitler was gaining popularity in national elections, enough to give the Nazi Party enough parliament seats to become the largest minority in the Reichstag. This development directly led to the formation of a minority coalition government picking Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. Seated at last in power, he gained enabling rights to stamp out communist terrorists who purportedly burned down the Reichstag. He then established himself as dictator of Germany and by the end of the decade led his people into a second world war. Even Saturn in the early 1930s, at home in Capricorn, its own sign, couldnt gain a good outcome because like in the present Cold Depression, it had been squared Uranus, taking Plutos place in the present squares of Uranus happening now. In 2012 Saturn advances into its final degrees of Libra which will mean an intensification of the urgency to bring about economic solutions and economic policies to forestall a return of double dip recession, especially in potentially hot tempered Cuba or Middle East regions of this Cold Depression: the American and euro zone economies. Theres some forward progress until early February when Saturn succumbs to another long and lingering retrograde. Expect an economic crisis point to flash in February in Europe and later in America. Forward motion to arbitration will be stuck for the first half of 2012 until Saturn goes direct course in June, but once again, this is badly timed under negative stars. A whole lot of collectively unconscious mass-muddy emotion floods into the month of June because Jupiter begins its mind-fuck in Gemini as it squares murky, dreamy, spiritually idealistic Neptune who cant easily recognize the reality of its self-sabotaging idealism. Finally, yet importantly, Uranus (revolution, chaos) begins a second and far more powerful square with Pluto in Mr. Big Business, corporate Capricorn. Hold onto you horns, bull market, a big bear market is poised to pounce. It is going to be a bumpy financial ride for the Europeans and Americans by summer of 2012, a true period of financial crisis for European banks that American banks could absorb. GDP in America will slow to nearly nothing. That might turn out to be the good news because I suspect the best chance for a break up or downsizing of the euro monetary union is slotted for June through November 2012 the length of a long and dire Uranus-Pluto, year-defining square. Protectionism will rear its ugly head to a level not seen since the Great Depression and could very well bring on another Great Depression once again in 2012, if more creative and level headed minds and intuitive hearts dont persevere. Saturn is still in Libra. Theres still cosmic energy available on tap to work out economic solutions and chill this Depression nice and cold again.
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Saturn after going direct in June 2012 will be a voice crying for responsible action in a wilderness of economic upheavals progressing into a scorpions embrace by 6 October. Thats when Saturn begins its 2.5-year transit through Scorpio. Saturn in this sign defines the limitations and difficulties to surmount in financial affairs. I believe October 2012 through to the end of the year will be a time when all this confusion and polarization MUST STOP. A financial doomsday is imminent. Responsible corporate, legislative, and legal leadership MUST come through for a world on the verge of a Cold Depression turning Great Depression hot. Theres some good news. Saturn will enter Scorpio trined with Neptune in Pisces. It might help Neptune snap out of its fantasies and float a little bit back to earth. The financial world especially in very troubled America and European economies can seize an opportunity for some last minute negotiating, some 11thhour luck, five minutes before economic midnight. The cosmos is favorable to carry on to success organizational plans and policies settled behind close doors. At the last minute, the secret to sustaining the economy could be found. The way out in a long-term economic recovery discovered and pursued. When great ages in civilization end, the regions once cradling them are most prone to collapse in some way. Take for instance Greece, the cradle of Western civilization and democracy. Its in a state of imminent financial collapse. Take Italy. (Please!) Cradle of the Roman Republic modeled and improved from Greece. The Roman Republic was the model used to form the American Republic. Now Italy is too big to bail. Civilizations cradle will fall in Greece and Italy and down will come baby euro union, sans-Greece and Italy, cradles and all perhaps as early as 2012. China, the Middle East and India are also cradles of civilization. All three are set to collapse in ten years or less from the strain of climate change stresses and overpopulation. In addition, regional nuclear war has never been a higher possibility than 2012 through 2015 with Iran and Israel joining India and Pakistan in nuclear arms races. We will elaborate on these cradle falling events a little later, but lets get back to what is rocking and rolling the cradle of Western civilization and business practices. Euro union financial ministers and bankers will continue to promote incremental solutions to postpone the spendthrift systemic rot of a monstrously large debt in Mediterranean member states. If not when in Libra, Saturn when in Scorpio is definitely going to painfully poke with pointed scythe at the karmic consequence of euro leaders letting slide for a decade their own meritocratic rules for nations earning entry into the euro zone.
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I tell you this, the sooner the stronger economies of France and Germany embrace the pain and their Saturnian responsibility for it and cut loose those charming, live the good life, spendthrift countries never qualified for admission in the first place, the sooner the pain will be over. It will be great pain. The riots weve seen in Greece will spread to cities and capitals across Mediterranean euro-zone nations. Saturns patient good graces in Libra run out this October 2012 when the Grim Reapers mood gets heavy in Scorpio where it will stay until near the end of 2014. Scorpio is a very powerful water sign for the ruler of karma to be treading most unlightly in the Phoenix sign of death and regeneration. Artful, inspiring Neptune in Pisces can mitigate the passage because crisis sharpens wits and offers humanity an opportunity to rethink cultural creativity by consciously tapping into its subconscious depths of collective mind. A new culture of value is needed. The old financial culture of Darwinian animalism isnt a human system. It competes for survival of the cleverest without human compassion. A contraction of the euro union is a travail it must undergo and can no longer avoid or delay, any more than a mother in labor can stop her contractions once they begin. A better future for the European economy requires it shed Greece and Italy and face fact. The euro central banking system cant find the money it doesnt have to pay the 2.4 trillion euros to keep them in the union. To survive a lingering drought, sometimes a tree must pinch off nourishment to large branches, letting them dry and slough off so its core can survive to grow again. The euro union is that tree. It must shed Greece, shed Italy and perhaps even shed Spain, Portugal and Ireland too. The core must live to grow healthy again when a better financial climate at last returns. Saturn the restrictor in Scorpio will provide these contractions to the euro union between October 2012 and December 2014. Once again, like in the 1930s, Europe could descend into an economic depression in the next two years. It could yet again become the breeding and battleground for totalitarian solutions to democratic chaos as 2012 ends with the decline and fall of a EURO-Man Empire too big and financially unstable to prevail as it is. Its inflated with too many debtor nations too fiscally undisciplined and systemically flawed because each state of Europe kept its own fiscal policies intact, independent of and mostly unmanageable by, a weak central reserve banking establishment. To a larger extent, global civilization and systems to finance and sustain it need a ruthlessly compassionate Saturnian review leading to a Neptunian reinvention that will necessitate the Cold Depression enter its new phase of global contraction in 2012. All the inherent dangers and temptations for regionalization will manifest
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again to bring back to life the kind of extreme, right or left wing nationalism, the economic protectionism and tariffs that deepened the Great Depression during the 1930s. Destiny once again points to Germany being the dominating leader in continental Europe: not as a jackbooted fascist but a benevolently dictatorial fiscalist. The German people enjoy the third largest economy in the world after America, China, and a solid-as-a-panzer financial banking core has kept the dream of euro union alive. Germany must choose in 2012 and lead. It can pay for sustaining defaulting euro member nations, carrying them for a long painful haul. Germans are capable. West Germany took on the burden of a very hard and very expensive decade rehabilitating socialist East Germany freed of communist rule after the Cold War ended in 1991. German Chancellor Angela Merkel should know whats at stake and possible. Though born in Hamburg in West Germany, she grew up in East Germany. Germany can choose to guide the euro zone nations through a more apocalyptically cleansing option. Merkel can play Brnnhilde using the waffen (weapon) of the German banks to reject buying any more debt. She can take the Debtsterdammerung option and allow debtor nations to default. Germanys earnest and stalwart economy could become both chief head shaver and the shaved with other euro stalwarts such as France, taking and sustaining a biblical banking body hair waxing. They will feel the financial scratch for years, wearing that hair shirt, as it were, made of cuttings of bad investments woven out of lost loans costing trillions of haircut euros after scissoring free bankrupt Mediterranean euro zone members. Dont worry, my shaved Brnnhilde. Prosperity will grow back in a more stable (to stubble) monetary union to come. Germany more than any European nation has played the phoenix, flaming out in a world of rubble and devastation only to rise again stronger. In the 17th century, half of Germanys population and nearly all of its cities, towns and villages were laid waste in the Thirty Years War (1618-1638). In the early 20th century, Germany lost an empire and collapsed into a political and economic dark age after losing the First World War in 1918. A little more than a decade later, Germany rose phoenix-like from the ashes again emblazoned with a new national socialistic arrogance to take on the world only to be turned to ashes and ruin in the Second World War. Historians have described the times of the First World War (1914-1918), the interlude of chaos and rise of Hitler (1918-1939) leading to the Second World War (1939-1945) as Germanys Second Thirty Years War. It claimed 11 million Germans what wouldve been the entire German population during the 17thcentury holocaust.
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In both cases, Germany rose from the ashes of its final conflagration to become financially and politically powerful, influencing European civilization for better or worse. Its time for Germany to put into motion a phoenix moment. The dream of a super-nation, a United States of Europe, depends on it. The union, under Germanys leadership will have to shrink, and the German people during the transit of Saturn through Scorpio (2012-2014) will eventually initiate it by not paying for the mistakes of others. The union will shed those countries that havent shown financial discipline or solvency. The union will suffer this necessary setback then slowly over the next decade, Germany will see to it that the new union will honor its original meritocratic targets for former members wanting to re-enter. The smaller euro zone will regroup around Germany with its core of similarly structured economies, such as France, Belgium, Holland, Finland, Latvia, Austria, and Slovakia etc. When Germany doesnt step in to save irresponsible Mediterranean countries, there will be a rush on the banks from Athens to Rome, from Lisbon to Madrid. Individuals and companies will begin a panicked movement of their assets to German banks. There will be riots in the cities of Italy, Spain and Portugal. The battles on the street will be as ugly as they already are in Greece, however my oracle looks beyond the painful days starting as early as next year or as late as 2014 and presages that this retraction and travail will salvage the great experiment of the the super-state concept. That concept is a bridge to the globalization of the world transcending nationalism beyond 2050. Al-Qaedas 9-11 Eleventh Anniversary Eleventh Hour Economic crises are the womb of revolutions and wars that could suddenly explode overnight due to the 2012-defining UranusPluto Square. Uranus under square is unstable and unpredictably volatile in Aries the sign of new enterprise, exploration and also, the sign of wars, given the fact that since ancient times the war season in the Northern Hemisphere marched forward with the Suns transit of Aries at the onset of fairer spring weather for campaigning at end of March deep into April.
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A square with Pluto in Capricorn (ruler of established order, the status quo) makes Uranus the terrorist, the ambusher, the bomb planted to suddenly, unexpectedly go off in an overstressed and tense atmosphere between leaders and lead, between acrimonious nations, competitive economies. Uranus afflicted in Aries desires to impulsively blaze new trails, devil pay the cost or consequences. Thats why my oracle is concerned with the rise of new and original acts of international terrorism both Islamic and domestic in the summer of 2012 through until mid-autumn. September 11, 2011 was the 10-year anniversary of al-Qaedas terrorist attack on the United States, killing 3,000, yet no attack was forthcoming. Ten isnt the right number. A retaliatory strike will come on the eleventh anniversary after the nineeleven World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks because al-Qaeda is obsessed with numbers 9, 11 and 7. Thats why my oracle has been dependably accurate forecasting the time of attacks in the 11th month of the following years. November 2008: The downtown Mumbai commando attack of al-Qaeda affiliate Lashkar-e-Taiba on 26 November, killing 163 and wounding 308. November 2009: The 11-9 (November 9th) Fort Hood, Texas, massacre instigated by a lone wolf US Muslim American major turned jihadist. If there ever was a year when al-Qaeda or some jihadist, home grown lone wolves inspired by them, would prepare reprisal attacks across America for the death of Usama bin Laden on 1 May 2011, it will be on or around the eleventh anniversary of 9-11. The stars are in malefic alignment. The Uranus-Pluto square will be at its height in September 2012 and lingering with danger into November 2012. This square is so bad for planning anything successfully, such as an economic policy or building a better car bomb. I hope well be happily talking about the big terrorist hit planned for America that malfunctions like a dud. My oracle does tell me this. Al-Qaeda is on the way out. The best its operatives can do is shoot up a mall or set off a truck bomb in 2012. Usama bin Laden, crossed out in 2011; his replacement, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is next in 2012. Follow the Fueling of Future Military Fronts Stress levels between adversarial nations either possessing or seeking to build nuclear weapons and gain domination over regions could suddenly explode in the Uranus-Pluto Square of 2012. Id add that unanticipated nuclear crises resulting in
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mistaken launches or intended launches between 2012 through 2015 are possible during five more Uranus-Pluto squares advancing in May 2013, Nov 2013, April 2014, Dec 2014 and March 2015. Theres a good chance Kim Jong Ils regime in North Korea will collapse from the weight of its crushing economic and agricultural instability as global climate change further exacerbates famine there. North Korea, dictator Kim Jongs Jonestown, last cult bastion of dictatorial Stalinism will selfimplode as soon as 2012, no later than 2015. The Koreas will unite and China will have US military bases just across its Manchurian border, thus Korea by mid-decade will once again become a new trouble spot for confrontation between the US (Dateline 18 December 2011.) A few and China. weeks after documenting my oracles Follow the fossil fuels and find future regional Jim Jong Jonestown predictions in a rough draft of this chapter, Kim Jong hot kindling spots to warm a Cold Depression. Il, the North Korean dictator, suffered a massive heart attack and died Go to deepest Africa. Why else has the US sent around 17 December 2011 at age 69. military advisers to Uganda in 2011? To establish Hes succeeded by his 28-year old son, Kim Jong Un. A painting of the young a strategic foothold in the next great game of Il and compared to his young Un, look energy starved economic empires. China has virtually the same. Though a succession process was already in play, I staked a claim on precious metals, oil and natural still foresee a major border crisis with gas deposits in central equatorial Africa but their South Korea and possible implosion of military cant reach so far. The US can. They base the North in the summer of 2012. in Uganda, later in Kenya to keep watch over potential petrol and rare metal wealth within the mountains and jungles of the African Rift Valley and lake regions of the Congo. US soldier. Attention! You will soon discard your gray-brown desert camouflage for a return to green shaded Vietnam patterns. Central and Western Central Africa will be your next Middle East. You will Saddam again protecting friendly dictators bearing gifts of oil. Your future battlefields, your future reasons for war psychosis therapy, are in Liberia, in Nigeria in Angola. Marines will be island hopping like their great grandfathers. Not Iwo Jima, but So Tom, Prncipe and Bioko when disputes over oil drilling rights between Nigeria and the island nations Equatorial Guinea and So Tom and Prncipe arise. American military defense agreements are coming with Brazil to protect off
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shore drilling of a huge oil field in the South Atlantic from Chinese encroachment. This will be part of Americas oncoming, decade-long effort starting in 2012 to keep the North and South American fossil fuel and precious metal resources for economies of the Americans rather than for the Chinese. The great game in Central Asia will witness Western nations depart Afghanistan, more precipitously than anyone plans. The radicalization and implosion of Pakistan becoming a military dictatorship will be the cause. Jihad and Taliban insurgencies wont take down the Islamabad regime, though. The worlds weather, not Wahhabi extremists will do it, as later chapters will reveal. The Uranus-Pluto squares in 2012 and the years to come pull the carpet out from under strategic US and NATO plans in Afghanistan when Pakistan and Kirgizstan cut off ground and air supply lines leaving Russia as the only overland route. Russia will keep it open only if the US and NATO remove missile sites in Poland intended to shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles (yet to be developed) launched from rogue nations in the Middle East. These missile batteries and radar tracking systems so close to Russian frontiers are deemed by Moscow to be too close to Russian territories for only that reason. Vladimir Putin will be back in power as president and become more combative than before, especially since his support will dwindle at home in this third term in office. Putin pushes. America wont remove its missiles. Therefore, the US-NATO war will soon be over and out of Afghanistan, which will become abandon-stan much sooner than the end of 2014! As the Pakistani people suffer through a string of earthquakes, terrorist conflicts in the western tribal regions and flood displacing tens of millions year after year, the Pakistani government pushes their meager GDP to the breaking point becoming the fastest manufacturer of 25 to 35 kiloton atomic bombs. Its estimated anywhere between half to a full dozen atomic weapons are created by Pakistan each year in the fastest proliferation of weapons of mass destruction currently going on in the world. An arms race in South Asia under malefic stars from 2012 through 2015 isnt good news. Neither India or Pakistan, or Myanmar (with North Korean assistance) has established checks and balances to prevent launching a strike by mistake. They have no hotline for cooler heads of state to tone down a sudden border skirmish that could escalate into a regional nuclear bush war. There are no instruments of crisis communication like those the US and the Soviet Union learned to create to forestall a civilization-ending thermonuclear strike and counterstrike during the Cold War. The FAS (Federation of American Scientists) project some good news about nuclear proliferation. Between 2012 and 2021 the former Cold War superpowers
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America and Russia are expected to dismantle 4,000 and 5,000 warheads a 20 and 38 percent draw down of doomsday punch. France and Britain will also retire 195 and 290 nukes a 13 and three-percent decrease respectively. FAS project China and Israel will hold at their current numbers of 40 and 80 nukes each. Other estimates indicate Chinese and Israeli nuclear arsenals are much larger, in the several hundred-warhead region. Now the bad news. Regional Armageddon has never been more likely than in the next four years, especially between India and a politically unstable Pakistan. The latter breaks its own banks building A-bombs at a furious pace to keep ahead of Indias five year, $50 billion plan to beef up its military. At their current speed of proliferation, the FAS think Pakistan by 2021 will add 200 nukes to its current arsenal of 100 a 100-percent increase! India will add 150 nukes to its arsenal of 100 A-bombs a 67-percent increase. By 2021, North Korea could weaponize its scud missiles triggering a nuclear arms race in the North Pacific Rim nations between North Korea, Japan and South Korea on Chinas doorstep and dangerously close to Russias Eastern Siberian window to the Pacific, Vladivostok. Neo-Con War Drums beat for War with Iran Iran is on many peoples minds as 2011 ends. Many of my readers wonder if war is imminent as the bellicose language spitting out of officials of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu government creates a feeling that any moment from now the news will report Israeli regional ballistic missiles or fighter bombers have struck nuclear reactors and research installations across Iran to retard Iranian aspirations to build nuclear weapons. Israel started this arms race by building and stockpiling a few hundred of their own since the 1960s, but thats a lot of heavy water under the reactor pools bridge. If they arent removed, then the region where three religions presage their Armageddon prophecies converge is poised to start an Israeli, Arab and Iranian nuclear arms race. November 2011, the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) declared Iran is seeking nuclear weapons capability and testing miniaturization techniques so they can arm their Shahab ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads. Thats the news flash in a nutshell and the report by the new Japanese IAEA Director General,
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Yukia Amano, taking over from Egyptian Muhammad El Baradei. If you ask Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker, the investigative reporter well known for his fact-based investigations into military and security matters and cover-ups, the facts about whats really happening in Iran are being cooked up by Amanos political spin. Hersh points to clear evidence contained in a series of WikiLeaks.org documents lifted electronically last year from the American Embassy in Vienna by Julian Assanges cyber watchdogs. The tapped emails note how happy American officials were that Amano, a member of the LDP (Liberal Democratic Party), a center-right party from Japan, who pledged fealty to America had replaced the more skeptically inquiring and a-political Egyptian predecessor, Muhammad El Baradei. The leaked emails prove political pressure from American interests earned this marginal candidate the necessary votes to become the IAEA head. Hershs contacts in the IAEA portray Amano as a weak sister unqualified to run his post, malleable to US political biases because he shares their view of Iran, and has politicized his post as Washingtons mouthpiece. What is coming out of Washington about Iran these days is a world vision based on the return of Neo-Conservatism. Ever since 1992, just after the end of the Cold War, the movement tried to redefine Americas strategic role as sole superpower after the defeat of the Soviet Union. It should include as top priority instigating regime change in rogue states sitting atop or within striking distance of the richest and cheapest to extract oil deposits fueling 40 percent of the world economy. In the view of its earliest proponents, such as Paul Wolfowitz, the author of its earliest manifesto published in 1992 and edited by Dick Cheney, the United States must take down rogue regimes in Iraq and Iran. This preferably would be accomplished with support and assistance of the international community, but if that wasnt forthcoming, unilateral military force should be used to invade and occupy Iraq and Iran, transforming them into US-friendly satellite democracies. The drum beat of war rumbling at the end of 2011 is starting to look a lot like the days of 2002 when the Bush administration successfully convinced Congress to hand over war powers to the executive branch. It was falsely propagated that Saddam Husseins Iraq had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction and were an imminent threat to the US and its Middle Eastern allies. Behind this call to war was a whos who of Neo-Conservative operatives in President Bushs Cabinet including his influential Vice President Dick Cheney who had helped appoint Paul Wolfowitz as Deputy-Secretary of Defense. Also included were Neo-Con disciples Karl Rove (President G.W. Bushs chief political advisor and head of the White House Office of Strategic Affairs); Richard Armitage (US Deputy Secretary of State); Zalmay
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Khalilzad (first US ambassador to the post-Saddam Hussein Iraq during the US occupation); Lewis Scooter Libby (special assistant to the Vice President); Richard Perle (Chairman during the G.W. Bush administration of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee) and the architect of the US invasion of Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld (US Secretary of Defense). Its important to note a number of Jewish American Neo-Con cabinet members (Wolfowitz and Perle) and key leaders of Neo-Conservative think tanks the Bush administration relied on such as William Kristol were also staunch Zionists holding dual citizenship as Israeli citizens. They provided foreign policy advice to the US White House and the Knesset in Jerusalem much of it right wing supremacist and wrong in 2002 but it got Neo-Cons and Zionists alike the war they wanted to take down and occupy Saddam Husseins Iraq removing one of two serious threats to US and Israeli interests in the region. With Saddam Husseins regime deposed in 2003 and at present an unsteady democracy in Iraq set up in his place, Neo-Conservatives are halfway to accomplishing their goal. Now the war drums beat against Iran. In 2012, influence of the NeoCon cult will be on the rise in Washington, in Jerusalem and now they enjoy a new and sympathetic mouthpiece heading the IAEA. You will see a campaign of propaganda based on the Iraq ruse, trying to trump up what may be another false alarm that Iran is seeking or already has nuclear weapons capability and is therefore an imminent threat to Israel, the Gulf States, American and worldwide economic interests. Youll hear how Iran would someday soon be able to threaten using the the bomb on Israel and cut off oil shipments steaming out of the Persian Gulf through the bottleneck of the Strait of Hormuz, effectively disrupting the flow of 40 percent of the global economys fossil fuel dependent, daily hit of oil. Long have I reported since the Cold Depression began in 2008 the oracles message about two factors working together to make whats cold go suddenly hot: 1.) The euro banks cant stop default of Italy and Greece; and, 2.) Oil prices either hover or rise for a prolonged time above $100 a barrel. Factor one and two are already standing on the threshold of 2012. Not a good time to throw gasoline on this Neo-Con smoke job by disrupting the oil flow to a fragile, teetering global economy. Israel pushed into a war between November of 2011 through 2012 by bad science and the return of neo-Cons with dual citizenship like Kristol, fanning Zionist fears beyond all fact about Irans nuclear program would be insanity incarnate. It would fulfill the worst potentials of the first degrees of a long transit of Neptune through Pisces when leaders might dare indulge precipitous military decisions based
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on a temptation to believe and project rather than know what Iran is up to with its civilian nuclear program. A rational second look at Amanos IAEA report in effect has no smoking gun in it proving the Iranians are manufacturing or will soon stockpile nuclear weapons. Everything cited in the report as evidence, such as Irans miniaturization research or its special buildings to hold blast tests, has a dual civilian function. The facts on the ground, as of yet, leave the issue of what indeed Iran is doing in neutral. It has been my oracles subjective contention that Iran isnt seeking to become a nuclear power. The oracle predicts what will eventually be proven and hopefully not retrieved too late by hindsight after there has been a war, and historians are sifting through the ruins of Iranian offices next to shells of bombed out reactors sending radioactive fallout over the heads of millions of innocent civilians. Iran is only seeking to have the know how to make weapons if, at some future date, its forced to build them. Their research and preliminary tests are no different than other Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signatories, like Japan or South Korea or Taiwan, who, if threatened could build atomic weapons because they have attained the know-how. Heres a fact: Iran signed and ratified the treaty. Another fact: Israel has nuclear weapons. The former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert let that fact slip out in an interview with German TV station N24 in 2006. Fact: Israel introduced atomic weapons of Armageddon into the region of the Holy Land creating the need for Iranian and Arab nations to start a nuclear arms race. Fact: Israel signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty decades ago, but at the time of this writing, Israel has yet to ratify the treaty and be legally bound by its laws. In 2012, IAEA scientific studies will become political documents to up-tempo the unthinkable at a time when Neptune in Pisces is passing in and out of yeardefining afflicted aspects. Rather than predispose leaders to use compassion and spiritual insight, they will be more prone to listen to voices of hidden enemies in their subconscious, the dark angels of their illusions as if they were God sent. Iranian President Ahmadinejad will continue to open all public speeches, even those before the world community an the United Nations in September 2012 with a prayer in Farsi pining for the advent of the 12th Imam, a 9th-century childlike final prophet of Shia Islam. The story goes the boy Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Mahdi, a direct descendant of the founding Prophet Muhammad of Islam and designated Caliph of Islam was threatened with assassination. His mother sought a hiding place.
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She helped him climb down a rope into a deep well in Samara, Iraq, in which its said he magically disappeared. Occulted Its predicted in Islamic apocalyptic prophecies that al-Mahdi will reappear out of the Golden Mosque of Samara later built over the well to lead the Islamic world in a Jihad Crusade westward to the Dome on the Rock in Jerusalem where its said Muhammad rode his horse to heaven. The Mahdi will conquer and convert the surviving Jews of Israel into Muslims as he will convert the world to Islam. Not to be outdone, there are loony-bin variants of the same end time hope in Kook Kool-Aid interpretations of Christian and Judaic eschatology. Christian Jesus Christ will end his occultism by descending from the clouds to convert all the Jews and Muslims that survive his father, the Lord Gods nightmare of apocalypse. Then Jesus becomes Der Fhrer of a 1000-year Reich of the righteous. The Jews expect Emmanuel, the true Messiah not this false Jesus fellow will actually be the one coming. Hell defeat the counterfeit Christ and Islamic infidel Mahdi converting the world to Judaism as citizens of a 1000-year Reich of Zionism. Ahmadinejad isnt the only source of apocalyptic crazy talk coming from leaders who could be carried by their prophetic projections into war in Neptunian 2012. His boss, the High Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says he frequently talks with the invisible Twelfth Imam who he proclaims is materializing soon. Mouthpieces for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu when asked a few years back what they would do in response to Ahmadinejads threat to erase Israel from the map of history, replied with biblical bluntness, Think Amalek. The Amalekites were a competing tribe and staunch enemy of Israel. God himself, it seems, told Saul, King of the Hebrews, to erase them from the Earth through divinely sanctioned genocide. Not only every Amalekite soldier, man, woman and child must be slain but every sheep, goat, horse and cow too. Then, after a complete erasure of all the people, all their houses and property should be burnt and ground to rubble. Think Amalek?? Even grim anti-Semitic Adolf Hitler in his Final Solution wouldnt go there. Saul didnt either. The bible story relates that he liquidated all the Amelekites but then enriched himself and the Hebrews with Amalekite livestock and property. For disobeying Yehovah, Saul and the Hebrews were punished leading to the rise of King David and Sauls eventual destruction. It all sounds like a good Neptunian myth story where subjectively believing is better than objectively seeing. Neptune when sorely afflicted with a square can aid leaders committing genocide because they heard voices from on high ordering them to do it.
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Before Barack Obama and his somewhat afflicted Sun-Neptune occupied the White House, there was George Bush who had a seriously afflicted natal Sun squared Neptune telling French President Jacque Chirac about Iraq or Iran being the Bibles Gog and Magog (think Amalek, wink wink). In June 2003, a month after declaring mission accomplished with Saddams regime down and US troops occupying Iraq, Bush met the then Prime Minister and current President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas. He confessed heatedly: God told me to strike at al-Qaeda and I struck them and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [Hussein], which I did and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act At least Hitler didnt say God made me do it. When asked about how he came to his mediumistic history changing decisions, he said something more honest: I follow my course with the calculation and security of a sleepwalker. An afflicted Neptune drowning in the murk of Pisces speaks to the sleepwalkers in us that dream theyre awake and rational. This is most worrisome when sleepwalkers have the power to start wars. Maybe Im crazy or Ive become a sleepwalking augur misreading my oracle sessions, but I dont anticipate war is imminent with Iran in the last weeks of 2011 or throughout 2012. The advent window in astrology best places a time for war in 2015 or 2016. I base that prediction on a reading of Nostradamus astrology. In my article posted at HogueProphecy on 19 November 2011, I explained Nostradamus dating for war with Iran: *** It might happen when certain astrological windows for war open, as foreseen by Nostradamus, in 2015 and 2016, when he says, Saturn and Mars are equally fiery. In laymans terms, war would suddenly erupt when the planet of the grim reaper of bad karma and the planet of war are both in fire signs [2015], or better, in the same fire sign [2016]. Century 4 Quatrain 67 reads: Lan que Saturne & Mars esgaux combust, Lair fort seich, longue traiection: Par feux secrets, dardeur grand lieu adust Peu pluye, vent chault, guerres, incursions.
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In the Year Saturn and Mars are equally fiery, The air is very dry, a long comet: From hidden fires a great place burns with heat, Little rain, hot wind, wars and raids. Nostradamus vision of a war against Persia (Iran) might envision a comet-like missile fall out of the dry desert skies. A time when great droughts speed the desertification of the Middle Eastern and Central Asian lands. The hidden fires of radiological isotopes for building atomic bombs secreted away in hidden Iranian installations suddenly burn with missile-issued heat lighting up the next great Persian Gulf War and subsequent Iranian terrorist reprisal raids on Israeli and American targets worldwide. Israel Iran Strike and Kim John Netanyahu Bluffs (HogueProphecy.com, 19 November 2011) *** The year 2012 will see Neo-Con and Zionist elements in the Obama and Netanyahu administrations try to crowd and isolate the Iranian administration into a military incident. Iran has survived an unbroken line of existence spanning three millennia. Theyre not a people going easily into national suicidal states of hysteria, despite their leaders mooning about the Mahdi in public. I do foresee in 2012 incidents taking Iran, Israel and the US as close to the brink as theyve ever been since 2006 and 2007 when Iranian gunboats played tag with US Naval vessels in the Strait of Hormuz nearly came to a shooting war. Iran will increasingly militarize its society. Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Khamenei together will lose power to the leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards who are a political-military culture growing to supremacy in the Islamic Revolutionary government. The saber rattling from the US and Israel will achieve a regimen of crushing economic sanctions that will further undermine life in Iran though not yet undermine the regime. I have a hard time saying regime change isnt imminent, especially when I look at all the regime changing astrological aspects in play in 2012. Have I misread my oracle? If so, Mea Culpa! Sometimes I feel like an astrologer in the late 1930s reading the signs, trying to fathom the unfathomably stupid things leaders like Hitler might do. I might make the same interpretive mistake, beclouding my predictions with the bias of sanity and reason.
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Thats how I feel right now, on the threshold of 2012. A unilateral Israeli strike on Iran in 2012 wouldnt only be premature but a military disaster for Israels air and missile forces. Whatever damage they do to Irans nuclear aspirations could be repaired in as little as two years and if Iranians werent seeking one, they WILL make atomic weapons after suffering a unilateral, Neo and Zionist-Conned Pearl Harbor event. The best time for the worst kind of stupid attack would be at the peak of the Uranus-Pluto Square (June through September). If indeed it does happen its just a prelude to a greater, more dangerous Pearl Harbor attempt two to three years later right up to and through Nostradamus window for war in 2015-2016. Ive long foreseen Israel becoming more like Iran in the mid-2010s. Israel will keep sliding to the Zionist right potentially descending into a messianic fever, establishing even a theocracy in preparation for the advent of the true Messiah. A strike in 2012 would speed Israel down this theocratic destiny much faster. It wouldnt prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. The Israeli air force unilaterally launching an ill conceived attack at the limits of its military capability could lose a quarter of its jets, weakening its military whilst becoming an international pariah, like Iran. Isolated countries tend to radicalize. By the way, Israel rejected by the entire Gentile world is anticipated in bible prophecies interpreted by those Israelis who ache for the coming of the messiah and the establishment of a rabbinical theocracy in Jerusalem. Its fortunate the current American President in 2012 isnt the God-talking SunSquared-Neptune Bush. Obamas afflictions are more cerebral in nature. Obama is the main reason why there wont be a strike on Iran in 2012. He will keep his cool, while declaring all options, including military support of Israels attack, stay on his strategy table. You will see a repositioning of US forces out of Iraq in 2012 and into the Gulf States watching Iran. You will observe NATO forces repositioned in the UAE and Qatar and Oman. There will be major military exercises the size of which has never been orchestrated for soldiers of America and Zion. Training will focus primarily on how to best coordinate attacks of US and Israeli air forces without friendly fire incidents. The same training goes on between US and Gulf State air forces and navies. France will base forces in the Gulf in 2012. The Saudi Arabians will receive the most expensive US arms deal ever and there are rumors of secret meetings between Israeli and Saudi radar teams on Saudi Arabian air bases discussing how to facilitate the peaceful incursion of Iran-bound Israeli bombers over Saudi airspace if the need arises. 2012 is still too early to let slip the Magog dog of this war. Logistics and
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training will take that event down the road a few years and sanctions may effect a regime change before the NATO military buildup in the Gulf is complete in 2014. This new deployment of military assets, especially carrier strike forces patrolling the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman in the Arabian Sea arrives at a bad time for America. The financial pressures of military overreach are finally clicking in in 2012 requiring the American Military Industrial Complex shrink its budgets and rely far more on pro-American allies to shoulder the responsibility and the cost. This is the Obama Doctrine and you will witness America lead from behind building military consensus with allies in the Middle East. Between Iraq and a Hard Place Back Home Call it what we like, historians in the future will remember we Americans lost the war in Iraq. During our occupation and fight, claiming 5,000 American lives and 40,000 wounded (a disputed estimate of 100,000 to over 600,000 dead Iraqis), we built a network of army and air bases with the aim of establishing Iraq as garrison central our South Korea of the Middle East for 40 years. Well, the post-Saddam Iraqi government has thanked us for getting rid of their dictator and told the invaders to get out! By New Years Day 2012, all 50,000 troops remaining will have left Iraq in transit through Kuwait for home. Theyll leave their fleet of tanks, Humvees and anti-vehicle mine resistant Cougar armored personnel carriers impervious to IED roadside bombs mothballed in the Kuwaiti desert, guarded by a US garrison of 25,000. I predict the next unwelcomed guest thanked by the Iraqis and then asked to bug out will be the Iranians. If they dont go, Iran will be burdened with whatever happens next with Iraqs unsettled alliance of Kurds, with Arab Sunnis and a Shia majority. The Iraqi-Iranian Shia connection will begin to break in 2012. If Protestant Germans and Americans forgot their Prince of Peace and killed each other in the Second World War, Shia Arabs can do the same against Shia Persians if provoked. Any successful undermining of the Shia dominated al-Maliki government leading to a resumption of Sunni on Shia religious civil war in 2012 would happen in the latter half of the year and I predict it
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will be Irans turn to be caught in the crossfire like Americans once were. I dont know if its prophetic fatigue overtaking me today, but I dont see anything that dramatic happening in the new Iraqs first half year free of US occupiers. The people are tired of war and chaos. Some of the worst any modern nation has had to endure since the Second World War ended almost 70 years ago. Perhaps we can hope what terrors haunting Iraqis from the recent past will sober all ethnic and religious stripes with enough force forbearance to find concord, though I remain a hopeful pessimist. Religions, like people, go through life cycles. Right now, Islam is as old as Christianity was when if fought a string of religious civil and regional wars during the latter half of the 1550s through to the middle 1660s. These included Nine French Wars of Religion (1562-1598), the Eighty-Years War in the Netherlands (15681668), the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) and the English Civil War (1642-1651), all of which pitted Catholics against Protestants. Though Islam had suffered its own great schism early on between Sunni and Shia Muslims sects, an era of religious civil wars remotely comparable to the Christian holocausts of the 16th and 17th centuries hasnt yet happened. If they do happen, the second half of 2012 will be their beginning. Iraq will be the cauldron where Iran will wage a proxy war with Saudi Arabia arming and perhaps infiltrating fighters into a Shia-on-Sunni Iraqi bloodbath, ruinous to both Iran and Saudi Arabia in lives and treasure. With the retreat of all US troops, Iran could also take aim on a far reduced US target easily accessed through infiltrating a long and porous border with Iraq. America in 2012 retreats to its fortress US Embassy compound in the Green Zone of Baghdad, the largest US embassy ever built. A network of sprawling fortified buildings covering an area larger than the Vatican in Rome. It will be the base of operations of 16,000 State Department employees, including 8,000 or more private security soldiers in the largest US diplomatic mission in the world. The army of diplomats and their mercenaries and spies will have the fortitude of their Fortress Baghdad tested in 2012 with missile attacks launched by the Mahdi Militia of Iranian Iraqi ally, cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The American military presence in Iraq will go underground as the Pentagon gives over to the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency, their Iraqi burdens. My oracle is turning its back on Iraqs future for now. It feels like one of many US soldiers turning away, hoisting themselves and their gear onto the last truck bound for a dusty all night drive over the Kuwaiti border from whence the armored US invasion rushed and rolled in, nearly nine bloody and US treasury-busting years before.
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Theres new hot crises warming up in a Cold Depression. Another nation these homebound American troops need to build in 2012. Theyre coming home to build their own nation. Neptune in Pisces will help Americans reimagine their country and its role in the world. Pisces is the sign of dreams. Perhaps a new American Dream can be born in 2012 where they invest their trillions at home on education, on infrastructure, on job creation. They wont be building schools and roads to nowhere in Iraq. Those new schools, bridges and roads need repairing back home. 2012 is the time when a measure of American isolationism will be a good thing. America is a Cancer sign. It rules home and hearth. The home is in disorder. The US playing global cop in 2012 will step back from Iraq, from Afghanistan too. Bases will empty in Europe. Theres no need for 275,000 military personnel in Germany! The Soviet Union has been dead for 20 years. The 40,000 tanks of the Warsaw Pact Panzer forces expected to invade have been melted down and sold as scrap long ago. There will be a great rethinking of American military strategies. When its done, America will still possess the largest military on Earth. The Iraq occupation is its last unilateralist attack. Even Neo-Cons will need the consent of other allies to wage war on Iran in the future. The Libyan model where US forces led from behind letting NATO and Arab Gulf state air forces wage aerial warfare on Muhammar Qaddafis regime for a minimum of cost in treasure and lives will work for other Middle Eastern conflicts coming, like Syria, in 2012. Americas warriors are needed stateside to beat their swords into plowshares and pruning hooks, iPads and Barnes and Noble Nooks. The American people need an injection of soldierly virtues, such as dedication to the team, the community, and a single-pointed discipline harnessed to achieve common goals. To be all that you can be. The nation needing rebuilding is in serious economic trouble, with an ungoverning government overlording an ungovernable, self-centered people who have forgotten that a nation is an extended family, tied together by shared aspirations, by patriotism and the uniting power of a collective and looming national emergency. The American soldiers are coming home in 2012 from the long desert winter of the Middle Eastern wars. They return to make a new America in an American Spring.
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CHAPTER 4 The American Spring
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To have and have not a revolution? That is the question before America. To have one percent of a population from 1979 to 2007 increase its profit share of a nations earned treasure by 275 percent. To have not the poorest one-fifth of a country increase its prosperity in the same period beyond 18 percent. To have three-fifths of middle class homes between the top and bottom 20 percent incomes have not a rise in increased wealth beyond 40 percent. To have the next generation have not a college future because by 2011, tuition fees skyrocket taking the dream of a college degree beyond their financial reach when tuition fee debt has cleared $1 trillion more than the national credit card debt. To have every college student in higher learning burdened now with a university degree of debt on average of $24,000. To have not factored in your unemployment figures the many millions who are no longer looking for work, because there is no work, no leadership to create work, no hope for them. Have you not thought where next the 15 million unemployed workers, the college hopefuls who cant pay tuition, the foreclosed families living in hotels and cars, the policemen of 2011 pepper spraying the Occupy Wall Street protesters, downsized and let go in 2012 will be going? The streets are waiting for them. The streets in front of your banks, your mansions, and your symbols of the one-percent the three million Americans of the upscale class, who got a tax break, who got a banking scandal break. The streets will be filled with them before the firms who broke up companies, sold them and their jobs overseas, who became fantastically wealthy as a reward for corrupting and deregulating the financial system over the last 30 years until it was systemically suffering instability.

The victims will be gathering on the streets that divide Wall Street from Main Street America. They will throng on K Street, on Pennsylvania Avenue before the White House. They will block the steps of the Capitol Building where a majority of Congressional legislators 80 percent or more of them millionaires like the US president or even richer go to serve the interests of citizens who are not made of flesh, blood or heart. These citizens are fabrications of paper: contracts and money. Their venal veins pumped with gold and speculation of the one-percent, by the onepercent and for the one-percent the three million who have hoarded and hold 40 percent of the national wealth of a nation of 300 million. The wealthy legislators of Washington go to serve the corporations-turnedcitizens. They go to meet with every lobbyist but the American people. They go, but youre coming in 2012 to block them on the Capitol steps. You, who are citizens that can feel fear, can feel the ache of hunger and the paralyzing threat of unemployments unknowns. You are American citizens that are alive, not some Company or Limited or a franchise-false American citizen. You will block your legislators from going to their meetings with faux-citizenry agented by K Street lobby firms hiring retired senators and legislators, members of our institutionalized political class. You will remember yourselves before its too late. You are the people and they shall have no other lobbyist but the flesh and blood American people. They can forget to fear you, to serve you, when you live in fear and have forgotten yourself, your responsibility to protect a rare and cherished freedom so easily lost. A freedom you so easily allow others to manipulate and corrupt by Supreme Corps, or corps of Senators, corps of Congressional representatives and the millionaire president. You must make the change he believed become a change beyond belief in 2012. Make it fact. Spring comes in the Winter of American Discontent I write this chapter in the middle of the night on 11 December 2011. The cold winter blows of police batons made icy by frosty chills may keep a majority of protesters off Zuccotti Park, New York City, overnight. They may rush and dismantle many other Occupy America Bush/Obamaville tent cities arrayed across a hundred parks in a hundred towns and cities. Obamas Attorney General openly gave federal assistance to coordinate raids across the country. He gave state government and police logistical support to send cops charging simultaneously into many parks in the wee hours, arresting those citizens not made of money, influencing their government, backing their concerted and federally organized attempts to eradicate the troublesome hippies, the jobless, the real people with better future lost. They watch in handcuffs
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bound, the police ransack their tent cities and meager belongings, gathered up into dumpsters. But you cant gather these people in dumpsters or sweep them away. The government of the dominionists cant sweep and throw away democracy when you are awake and holding on to its dream. When those of you hired as dominions enforcing officers crack democracys heads open with tear gas canisters, you grow this awakening in real citizens. When you spray pepper at point blank range into a persons face, who isnt resisting you, who is sitting passively on the street, your suppression can be washed away like water to the eyes. Thats how weak it is. And the pepper sprayed will remember what you did and multiply the sitters blocking the streets to ports, block access to the steps of banks, to the stock markets blocking entrances to the gated communities of the super rich. The winter of American democracy is thawing. In 2012 comes the spring. The oldest living nation is showing the first and greatest modern democracy where it has lost its way and how to get back on freedoms track. The people who camped out in Tahrir Square, Cairo, and started a revolution in the spring of 2011, the people of 5,000-year-old Egypt have passed the torch of democracy to the people of the 236-year-old Republic of the United States. By winters end, there will be a few more million Americans seeing their unemployment run out and their years out of work increasing to three-andcounting with life savings nearly spent. They will become the new street people of the oncoming street people revolution. They are advancing in their millions to demonstrate and camp in Washington DC. They will encamp on the Washington Mall in this election year. Theyll grow into a haunting shadow of election year 1968, of another civil rights movement. The tent shantytown of Poor Peoples Park will return, rebooted by a new threat to the rights of human beings. This 99-percent Peoples Park will be the karmic echo renewing the call to civil rights not only for the black and the poor, but the middle classes, rapidly wasting away. By late spring, you will see people camping out before the Democratic and Republican Convention sites. The power elite cant sweep this democracy trash completely away. Uranus, the planet that rules revolutionary upheaval will be rife for protest and demonstration when it squares Pluto, the planet of generational regeneration or degeneration in the sign of the authority figure, big business, big government: Capricorn. This square begins influencing the future in mid-may. By June 2012, it gathers full intensity and will stay rampant and ready for rebellion on American streets, on Arab streets, on streets-turned-to mud tracts across the developed and developing world through November. The America people marching and demonstrating in their own streets will lead the world once again in the spring and summer of
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humanitys discontent with injustices of the few, overlording the overwhelmed who have not the money or the influence to resist tyranny. Their power is in their vast numbers capable of occupying and shutting down the modern CEO aristocracys earning machine. Saturn, Pluto and Uranus have already defined astrologically the first step in this American Spring revolution. Back in July through August of 2010, the modern Tea Party Movement was propelled to peaceful protest and great gatherings in city parks around the country and along the Washington Mall during a grand T square of Saturn in Libra opposed Uranus in Aries and both squared Pluto in Capricorn. In other words, the forces of reality checks and limitation were tugging to pull free a suppressed urge for old-fashioned American Revolution. The T Square birthed a new Tea Party with the cosmic juice to fuel their discontent with Washington DC. The movement, for better or worse did bring change to the political landscape in midterm US federal and state elections sending Tea Party representatives into politics. However, being born under an afflicted birth chart has brought into question how much a sincere movement of regular Americans was compromised when financing for Tea Party candidates came mostly from the special interests of the status quo who would like to see US democracy downsized with US big government at the little peoples expense. In 2012, an American revolution may not be far away at all, nor will it look familiar. No minutemen shooting British Redcoats. No Tea Party followers in garish 18th-century founding-fathered frocks and tricorne hats. The Tea Party, as my oracle predicted in prophecies for 2010 is a sign of the first baby step to a wider revolutionary movement that will find common ground with a majority of Americans whether their political comfort zones are left wing or right. The Pluto-Capricorn cycle renews the American Revolution after approximately 250 years. In essence, what was the shot heard around the world in the last PlutoCapricorn transit comes around again as news of the immolation that was heard about around the world. The news reported it, a young Tunisian street vendor oppressed and impoverished by corrupt government officials, his meager profits exhausted paying off government licensing bribes, dowsed himself with gasoline in front of the local government offices and set himself on fire. A fiery passion spread across the Arab world in the coming months catalyzed by one desperate mans immolation resulting in street protests overthrowing dictators in Tunisia, then Egypt. The Tunisian Muhammad Bouazizi who died of his burns created a new kind of Muslim Shahid (martyr), not for al-Qaeda, but for democracy. Soon there were millions on the march all across the Arab world putting the
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fear of Allah into oligarchies and monarchies across North Africa and throughout the Middle East, demanding free elections and a voice in their future. The year 2011 ends with the first elections already held in Tunisia. The first of several elections to fill the seats of a new Egyptian Parliament are expected by March of 2012. It has not been an easy ride. Recently Egypt descended into further violence when the government run by the military after the dictator Hosni Mubarak was deposed seemed to be doing nothing more than redecorating military dictatorship with new faces. In 2012, the 99-percent movement becomes the 99-percent revolution where Americans might go back to the future experienced the previous year by Egyptians in their Arab Spring awakening. A new American Revolution, like the Egyptian, might stagnate only to have regime figureheads fall but the oligarchic machinery of the Demo-Republican regime continue. Whether what began in 2011 as peaceful street protests become violent to the point of open and chaotic conflict with a heavily armed populace a few years hence depends on American CEOs and their leashed leaders listening to the led. My oracle has long predicted: America in the current return of the PlutoCapricorn transit that gave it its revolutionary birth in 1776 will need to renew, redefine and refresh itself between now and the end of the transit in 2024. One hopes a full-scale second American revolution by the 2020s will be peaceful but collective visions anticipate potential violence and a fall into years of armed chaos. The Arabs may have launched the new model of generally peaceful, passive-resistant revolt, but rednecks with private armories in a country awash in 300 million firearms would make the American Spring in its worst case scenario look more like the Libyan Revolution by the 2020s. The new American Revolution started with a theatrical, costumed Tea Party protest against unfair taxation, just like the demonstration that saw American British colonials costumed as Native Americans board British ships and throw wooden chests filled with tea into Boston Harbor in 1773, when last Pluto was in Capricorn. Afterwards, rebels slipped off the costumes buttoned up their street clothes and went to work for freedom. The stars of 2012 end the second Tea costume Party protests and like the past Pluto cycle, interest in rebellion broadens its appeal now, to a larger more politically inclusive popular movement in the spring of 2012. The astrological aspects would target the second week of the month of May as the time to see millions throng the streets in a quantum leap of attendance from 2011 demonstrations. Occupy Wall Street becomes the Occupy American Streets Movement. It will be so large, the CEOlygarchy and establishment forces set to contain it
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wont quite know what to do. Never since Vietnam War demonstrations of the late 1960s and early 1970s sent millions thronging around the Nixon White House in Washington DC, have police crowd controllers had such a vast mob on their hands. This movement will be far more creative in their protests. If President Obama and the US Congress wont reform banks then the people will take their money out of the banking system in enough and record-breaking numbers to make the Banksters take notice. Prepare for Occupy Credit Unions. In 2011, asmarterchoice. com reported people-friendly credit unions grew to 7 percent. In 2012, a call to abandon the banks for credit unions could lift that number up to 20 percent of all citizens banking. Will massive nationwide protest influence the new, big business aristocracies to listen? Or, will they intensify their strategies to placate with words only, to postpone and to outright suppress the people? Or, will they seduce and placate the masses with marketing hopiates that the future will be better if people submit? Theres another road ventured. We can follow the aspect progressions off Venus in 2012, (the ruler of concord, relating, diplomacy, love, compassion) for an answer. Venus begins a long sojourn in Gemini in the spring of 2012. It starts the transit in early April. Venus in Gemini stimulates a love for travel and variety. Lets take a trip to Wall Street. Lets crowd the Capitol building, meet and enjoy lots of different people gathering in demonstration of their rights from all corners of the country, contributing a rich variety of political and social views but all sharing the belief that they are the other 99-percent oppressed by the one-percent holding power of law and finance over their heads. Venus in Gemini stirs a collective mass interest in your fellow friends, brothers, sisters, lovers in mass social activity. The demonstrations starting in April with the sweet weather of spring will be festive, fun. Add to it a deeper, collective emotional urge awakened in masses of people by Neptunes long 13-year transit in Pisces beginning in February 2012. Gemini Venus festival of protest will be underpinned by a feeling of shared intent, if not clearly defined as a set of demands, or a revolution on the streets that clearly has a leadership who can deliver these grievances to the government. Still, there will be a renewed feeling of popular compassion for the downtrodden, for the victims of the one-percent. People of America will start waking up again to the injustices sustained in name only of fair and balanced civil and economic rights. Neptune in Pisces will spread empathy in ways not seen since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. The kumbaya begins to go stale by mid-May when Venus goes retrograde,
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just when the mass demonstrations of protest for the American Spring and summer months are best slotted. Concord turns into collision between the authorities and the street demonstrations as Venus stays retrograde for most of June while Jupiter (expansion of high mindedness) enters Gemini not a good place for it as its negatively aspected squaring empathic Neptune in Pisces. In laymans terms, the CEOs and their legislators will become remote to protests, sinking behind a psychological door of an Ivory-towered mindset, looking down their noses at the annoying little people demonstrating in the streets. Neptune, which had been moving compassion forward until June will also go retrograde, making all positive progress between leaders and their amassing led seem to vanish in June, as if progress towards reform never happened. Venus turns direct course for some positive nudges by 27 June but the intensifying of the next Uranus (revolution) Pluto (establishment) Square going exact from 7 June to July 10 will smother that potential with rioting and explosiveness, a breakdown in communications. There will be serious potential for police rioting, injuries and even fatalities. The American Spring will behold its first burning cars and street fires the bloody smear of its first martyrs staining the streets as they are dragged to ambulances in June through July. The oligarchs push back on protesters with what I will call a counter-revolution of fines. Theyll try to get their lobbied politicians to break rebellion by ticketing it out of sustainability. Fine the arrested $5K every time they are caught. Go after their revenue streams. You can deny more than WikiLeaks its PayPal, credit card and other sources of income to survive. This is the time people will experience first hand how far the US police forces have become militarized and how dangerous and lurking was the finer print in the US Patriot Act, ostensibly arranged to protect American citizens from foreign terrorists after the 2001 al-Qaeda attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York. Now the government will countenance using this legislation against American citizens as they view free speech as a new kind of terrorism, requiring even the US military to ignore the Fifth Amendment rights of US citizens calling them enemy combatants to, in effect, initiate mass arrests to restore order in the streets. Materialisms tyranny returns with Pluto in Capricorn to crystallize a new aristocracy trying to suppress a new middle class. King George III tried to tax the US colonies into submission. The new Wall Street King Georges will command their lackey legislators eviscerate their opponents bank accounts. Ultimately suppression by unfair tax or fines doesnt work. Ultimately aristocracies and their totalitarian monarchs never learn.
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There will be great marches on Washington not seen since the Great Depression. A Cold Depression will have its parallels to the marches on Washington in 1932, such as the Cox Army March of 25,000 Pennsylvanians petitioning for works project jobs and the Bonus Army March of 45,000 people including 17,000 unemployed World War I army veterans and their families. Unlike the Great Depression, you will experience the dog days of globally warmed, triple digit heat waves fuel summer rage. There will be inserted in the gathering, police, fire and medical service people downsized-and-out of a job in the draconian cuts coming to middle class families to lower deficit spending in a onesided sacrifice of the 99-percent of Americans to keep the profits of the one-percent thriving. You will spot these uniforms out of a job gather and occupy state capitol buildings. There will be a recall of Tea Party candidates in this election cycle who seemed by action rather than campaign promises to be in service of the elite and wealthy in the reduction of government waste only in name. Many of the Tea Party gains in state legislatures in 2010 will be lost. The people are frustrated and are more than ready to embrace one political darling movement for two years shake of an election cycles tail as much as throw the bums out two years later in 2012 elections. Politics has devolved into a grab bag of hand me dumb movements. You try them on. They dont fit your needs. Reach in and try another political movement like the Occupy folks. Toss them out in 2014, perhaps. Fires and riotous protest erupt when there will gather an Occupy Republican National Convention held in Tampa, Florida, outside the convention center, during the week of 27 August. Then again a week or so later, with an Occupy Democratic National Convention in Charlotte North Carolina during the week of September 3 when Uranus and Pluto return to an exact seven-to-seven degree square from 20 August through 5 September. When the world is watching a major gathering of demonstrators, first in Tampa and shortly after in Charlotte, a karmic echo may sound what happened in 1968 when the Republican Convention, also held in Florida, in Miami, experienced riots when Nixon was chosen as Republican candidate for president. A lesson can be learned that wasnt learned when peaceful demonstrations on the streets in front of a Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968 met with one of Americas most notorious police riots. From Chicago riots of 68, we have an incumbent president elected by a Chicago-based political machine convening in Charlotte North Carolina for the rechristening of his covenant as Democrat messiah in a weeklong political campaign. Outside the halls of the political elite will collect a multitude with a great petition for a second coming of Obama, to remind him what
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was promised and what he hadnt done in his first term. Will Obama O-bungle a walk on water? Obama being John Malkovich The man who would be Lincoln is still lagging behind his destiny. Hes looking less like Lincoln in the summer of 2012 and more like being John Malkovich. The relationship between Obama and the people petitioning his attention in 2012 reaches a showdown this summer reminding me of the battle of wills between Joan of Arc (played by Milla Jovovich) and King Charles VII of France (played by John Malkovich) in Luc Bessons The Messenger. There have been many great movie performances of the maid in chain mail. I can think of Ingrid Bergmans Joan of Arc; however, Milla Jovovich gave my favorite performance of the simple and innocent maid of Orleans, becoming a medium for inner voices. Was it God or something Movie poster advertising The Messenelse? Even Millas Joan has her inner doubts. These ger, otherwise known by its French title Jeanne dArc. The innocent if doubts are played by Dominican black robed Dustin sometimes manic spirit of the Occupy Hoffman as her inner male subconscious Inquisitor. movement is like an army of Joan of Arc-types trying to get a rise of interJovovichs performance has ingenuous power est out of President Obama, playing matched with a trance mediums indomitable the inscrutable and distant, French King Charles VII. even psychotically feverish will, to do the bidding of prophecy that has mysteriously used her as its holy fire instrument. No knowing is the tool of action and Joan, like a blond female Siegfried who could only forge the magic sword Nothung with the power of not knowing how, makes it so. Jovovichs Joan with no-knowings power inspires those who know how to wage war, but not how to win, take on the English invaders of France in the Hundred Years War. With no limit of reason, a medieval maid cuts off her hair, puts on armor and shames male warriors with her fanatic courage as she climbs English battlements, gets shot through the chest with an arrow, pulls it out and climbs the battlements again waving the banner of France soaked with her hot blood. Shes out of control. She has no plan. Shes making it up as it goes along and when English push comes, she galvanizes a Gallic, garlic breath shove back in their Limey faces. Shes a metaphor for the feminine archetype empowered in masses of
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people which you will behold in their millions marching across the planet in the late spring through summer of 2012. Like Joans revolution, the 2012 revolutions are politically leaderless. It needs the countrys King to back Occupy Joan of Arcs banner. Thats why youll watch this crowd gather in Charlotte, North Carolina. They will place and project impossible hope in their petition to a remote and weak king, crowned with Yes we Can in 2008, but so far, no he cant give his full endorsement to this protest because hes surrounded by powerful court figures and handlers upon whom rests his power to rule. He likes to play both sides too. Hes a consummate politician, this Charles VII of America. To stay in power, he would countenance some endorsement of Joan of Occupy America, just enough to gain their support and just long enough, to win his second term in office. I describe the multitudes of demonstrators in 2012 as an army of Joan of Arcs because none of them really trained in the cynical art of politics as its played at the courts of Wall Street, the Banks, the Federal Reserve, the Capitol and the White House. They belong to a peasant revolt guided by the faith and courage of its own charismatic innocence. It has the spirit of the armor plated zeitgeist of the feminine on a war path against patriarchy, but it cant complete its revolution without pouring feminine irrational passion to warm the hearts in ivory towers of power that is the patriarchy, holding the keys to change. Offbeat actor, John Malkovich, plays Charles VII in The Messenger. In 2012, watch Obama being John Malkovich. His limpid, airy and overly cautious approach to the Occupy movement of the 99-percenters is comparable to Malkovichs King Charles guided by the counsel of strong women. Not Michelle Obama but his cast iron-willed momma in law, Yolande of Aragon (played by mommy dearest Faye Dunaway, who played another intense Joan of Hollywood Joan Crawford). Our effeminate royal mommas boy plays to political advantage the heart stung-up hopes of twitching-eyed Milla Jovovichs Joan of blind faithfulness. (Yes he CAN! be the leader of France!) But beware, all of you Joans out there who will throng the convention recrowning your king, this Charles-cum-Obama may use your passion and your charge against the barricades of injustice as long as he gains advantage and gets elected. After that, you may be deemed a political nuisance, a liability once this Obamacum-Charles VII reverts to his old habits of negotiating and compromising with the enemy. You might find yourselves deemed nuts, a heretic, a terrorist, burned at the
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stake, as it were, by order and by misuse of the Patriot Act by 2013 or some new version of the Defense Authorization Act. Rules to enact the military with the right, against most of your Bill of Right protections, to fight its own people, like an Egyptian Army shooting people in Tahrir Square. Those in power, including your Obamanation of Charles VII, could apply the laws once used to protect US citizens from foreign terrorists. He could buckle to corporate counsel, mass-arrest without fair trial citizens those noisome peasants who protest the status quo and disrupt the social order, i.e. CEOlygarchic, aristocratic business as usual. Occupy Joan of Arc armies of demonstrators might be used well by Obama under the Uranus-Pluto square which will linger on for another close one degree orb (influence) then go exact at six-to-six degrees from September 19 September to October 1, right when the presidential election clanks into full gear. The square wont pass out of a two degree square until a week after the US presidential elections. Thats when you Joans need to watch your re-elected president like a falconers hawk, perched on his arm with your blinders off, I mean. This guy is a political Lothario. Yes he CAN win you over with his force of hopiate-infectious charisma, but once hes conquered the hearts of all you Joans out there, hell go back to make deals with the Burgundians and English that may have you and your first amendment freedom rights of assembly and free speech put on trial. Because now he can forget his collective conquest of the feminine emotive masses after you have titled the jousting polls just enough to win him a second term in office. Dont go meekly into that Inquisition! I know you wont. Though downtrodden and tricked, you throng the streets of America as autumn gathers us closer to the Mayan Judgment day of 21 December 2012. The people still have the power their leaders ever hope through mollification of the masses that you all will forget. You cant go back to your homes, to your false comforts. Youll have to stay in the streets, stay in the Capitol buildings of states. Youll have to constantly find new ways to adapt to the elite powers reactive strategies. One already sees this adaptation awakening at the end of 2011 with novel, playful and effective evolutionary responses to oligarchic clampdowns. Occupy the parks gets torn down by cops and state governments coordinated on a single night across America in sweeping attacks logistically supported by King Charles Obamas Justice Department. Has that put a riot stick to throat, silencing you? No problem. Adapt. Move out of the parks and block truck entries to the ports. Occupy houses in foreclosure so that bank agents must come through your lines to
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throw households out on the streets. You scatter your forces and you dilute the baton and pepper spraying tools of status quo. You show up unannounced at K street lobby offices. You march into fundraisers for presidential and political candidates where cast in the candlelight of the wealthy you explain how their money is being used to hollow out the middle class that sustains their future. Political theater attracts the press, even if the press is an extension of the corporate propaganda machine. When you lay out the red carpet at the entrance of political fund raisers over a line of the unemployed to which the one-percenters are invited to step over to their fundraiser fete, its funny. Its evocative. It gets ratings that keep corporate news in business even though political satire as raw and creative as this threatens to swell the masses in the streets against the creeping coup of Politicorp interests. The Oracles Systemic Cancer Cures Corporate media mogul Rupert Murdoch invited Steve Jobs to dinner. Jobs, ever a man courageous enough to look you in the eye, speak his mind, encounter a problem, expose a dogmatic stupidity in his path to think different, leaned in over his plate and apparently told Murdoch that defining a divide of the world and its people as politically Left leaning against the Right, is pass no longer relevant. Jobs is purported to have said a new struggle is on between those who are constructionists verses those who are destructionists. I might add, astrologically speaking, Jobs definition is the very nature of a string of social collisions to come out of several Uranus-Pluto squares from 2012 through 2015. Pluto, the vibe-meister of our times in squared friction with Uranian change points us to our points of growth. These will knit a new world beyond mere political spectrums, leaving left and right behind. Lifes continuance becomes an essential struggle between those who want to think different and find common ground solutions to the worlds problems, and those be they left or right wing politically who subconsciously or openly choose to sabotage the future at all costs to keep their fossilized thinking, their traditions alive. The Hopi Indians defined this struggle in their prophecies forecasting a Great Purification, which is now ongoing since 1998-1999 when the Mayan 5,000-year epoch rebooted. In other words, the death of the old world, what the Hopi defined as the fourth world, interchanges with the birth of the new, the fifth world, arriving either through the vulgar fires of global warming and social breakdown or manifesting through the purifying fires of new thinking, new genius, a new consciousness. In that struggle, the Hopi foresaw the human race divide from their fundamental
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core spirit into two camps: those who embrace the discomfort and adventure of changing themselves and their world into something completely new, versus those who will hold onto the past at all costs, even to the point of dropping dead from their own fear of change. Osho, a chief 20th-century prophet of a new, spiritually and materialistically balanced humanity he called Homo Novus, foresaw old humanity undergoing an autosuicide in our times beginning in the year 2000. Perhaps Osho was off only a dozen years and 2012 sees the beginning of the end of old man dogma. We will see in the streets of the world in the coming year, the emergent first signs of that new human, petitioning the powers of the old either to change or selfdestruct (if its the latter, preferably in the privacy of their own mansions without taking the rest of humanity with them). One of the tangible things to look out Osho for after the 2012 elections through 2015 is the Occupy movement becoming a Constructionist movement galvanizing American voters to back new amendments to the US Constitutions Bill of Rights to be ratified by the US states. Such Amendment elections can happen at any time the people so choose to press for their endorsement. You will be introduced to new faces elected to the US House and Senate, best exemplified by such straight talking, no bureaucrat or politician BS suffering people such as Elizabeth Warren as a new Senator (and later perhaps a future president of the United States) from Massachusetts. They will press for a constitutional amendment to take money out of politics, putting an end to special interest lobbyists. The public owns the airwaves, not Rupert Murdoch, NBC, ABC or any bc old human caveman media. At any time, the people can rescind the license allowing corporate media to fill their airwaves. They will come to understand in the wave of Uranus mass crowding revolution under the friction of immovable Plutonian establishment that democracy cant survive without an independent, publicly funded news media. They also can no longer allow political campaigns financed by private funds. The taxpayer foots the bill and keeps his political will alive in democracy. Yes, America, youll have to take on this tax increase. You will have to pay
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for freedom from special interests foreign and domestic. Youll have to create a Bill of Rights amendment to throw out the Supreme Court ruling in favor of Citizens United against the Federal Election Commission, making corporations more equal and powerful in this democracy than real human citizens. All those running for office, from local, to state, to federal offices, will be paid by public fund a budget for their campaign. If they cant stay within budget, theyre out of the running as it proves they cant manage a campaign let alone a country, a city, a town, a borough, a dog catching truck. The people will allot each candidate a certain and very generous amount of free hours on all public airwaves for their ads, speeches and so forth. That should silence the complaints from candidates whining that they need lots of money to pay for advertisement time. Well, now its free, so get on with it. My oracle foresaw the following. A positive and peaceful rebellion of new humanism in America and around the world is possible starting in 2012 through 2016. Social media revolutions in the coming five years can capture the imagination of the masses to frame and seize these potential ideas waiting in your future and demand many of the following reforms around the world. *** Weve had Watergate, Nannygate, indeed, gate as a qualifier is now synonymous with scandal. The cancerous systemic scandal hatching out in 2012 took 30 years to develop. Back then, supply usually fulfilled that which was demanded. The corporate mind began changing that, advertising a mass hypnotic suggestion to customers to demand from the suppliers things we dont need or want but they need to make us want for their greater and astronomically growing profit. Their affluenza (a flu fever for making money with more as the limit) has been contagious via the vector of peoples greed to also desire to become filthy rich. From Watergate, we move to the great existential scandal of 2012 and beyond: Propa-gate. This is a movement to expose the systemic cancer of supply and demand becoming the propagation of a suggested demand to supply for the financial greed of the suppliers. An Oligarchy, past or present, needs its people to be peasant stupid. We may adorn our children with intellectual bling, but the application of that intellectuality is often conditioned by dogma to make stupid a world full of people brandishing college degrees.
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There must be an end of this decoration of intelligence at the cost of growing true wisdom in our children and us. This No child left behind is turning the American nation into an idiocracy with, No child left with a Mind. An end must come to college systems producing functional cogs to roll mediocritys wheels by producing sub-prime knowledge to its students who then go out into the world full of fantasies and Goldi-Lockcracy political dreams fantasizing freedom is synonymous with licentiousness. A culture of selfishness out of balance with community response ability is simply paving the way for an Ayn Rand Dumb chaos! This creeping plague of stupid in our educational system in America made the nineteen-nineties a nighty-night nineties. Now we need to pull the ass out of our head about devaluing and deleting the education system to cut state and federal costs. Teachers should be one of the most honored, respected, necessary careers in America. They need our investment, not Afghanistan military occupations. In turn, we need their meritocracy. There shall be no teacher tenure but the sustained, tested excellence that a teacher must prove he or she has the gift to open minds and teach each new generation how to learn, how to question think different. Above all, a generation that learns not to repeat our mistakes. We cant have a world for those children unless we start a resource rape rebellion. Right now, we will need two Earths to exploit and eat up the demands being put on this planets resources to sustain our CEO-brained affluenza of consumption. We are deficit spending away these resources to a point in the 2020s when the global civilization may face a deficit existence. The whole world needs to get behind movements like Doctors without Global Warming who set a goal to bring CEO-CO2 emissions way down. This organization of Europes top doctors and medical experts, whose signatories include the editorsin-chief of British Medical Journal and Lancet, the British Medical Association, the president of the Norwegian Medical Association and executive director of Greenpeace International, released a statement in Autumn 2011. It called upon the EU to unilaterally adopt the climate target of 30 percent reduction from 1990 levels in greenhouse pollution by 2020 and a swift phasing out of coal plants. We also need a new space race that will reinvigorate science and technology to light the world on solar fire. The wind farm and solar panel path is three-wheeled trainer bicycle thinking.
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Why harvest the Suns vast energy so ass ended? Humanity has the technology to place vast solar arrays the size of the State of Texas out in the Lagrange points in the Lunar orbit where they can remain geostationary, sending solar power 24/7 down microwave links far removed from population centers out in the deserts on five continents. From there, we can light the world and end pollution and much of the worlds poverty in a goal to be solar farming in space by 2032. Youve got to jump off the starting blocks, build these microwave collector arrays now and youve got to stop worrying about how its going to negatively affect the Mohave Desert Gerbil. Your habitat is in danger, human. We dont have time to waste on people who are wasting their time with trifles. Building solar farms in space is going to demand a lot of money and investment during a Cold Depression, soanother race is needed in tandem to renewal of the exploration of space. We have to fundamentally rethink what economy is. First off, encounter some hard, saturnine realities. There is no free market. Its a freeloading market for rich people. Its a rigged market throwing enough food into the trash to keep food availability down and prices up. You will soon learn right now, humanity has enough food producing capability. No one should go hungry. They go hungry due to a food economy, like many economies, serving a Darwinian dog-eat-dog model that is cruel, animal, inhuman. Between now and 2032, we are in a race to make economy human; otherwise, the Darwinian model will reach its logical, mechanical and inhuman end with our end. First, start a revolution to curtail economic speculation. Licentious markets are not free. A truly free market balances freedom with responsible fiscal policies. Rich people, you cant long survive the impoverishing of your markets. Does it take the sharp insight of the guillotine falling upon on your fat necks to awaken this understanding, again?! I hope not. If you want a stable world to get rich in, share the spread of prosperity into real commodities, not in feverish speculation of such. Right now food prices across the world are forcing many people in developed nations to spend two-thirds of their earnings just to feed their families. How do you think youd feel if that was you? Billions go hungry so a handful of speculators can make insanely high profits on human despair and the cramping stomachs of famished children. You condition them to accept Darwinian economics as the way things are, breeding in them the hopelessness that leads to terrorism and war and revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia,
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Syria, Yemen and perhaps sooner than youd like to imagine in Europe, in China and on American streets. The cancers of special interest lobbying, the disease of speculation sending prices sometimes 70 percent beyond a commoditys real value can bring a terminal collapse of a Cold Depression going meteorically hot. Speculation is the handmaiden of this looming economic hell. You sustain oil prices by mere speculation above and beyond $100 a barrel. It hurts everyones economic recovery let alone suspends any expansion in the creation of human shared wealth. For the sake of an insanely few rich who profit from voodoo economics, youd unhinge human civilization. Soon! By the 2020s. End speculation inflating oil prices to ridiculous heights at the pump. Oil is a life-moving commodity, not an object of speculation. That has to end. Retirement plans based on oil speculation must end too. Dont bet your retirement on the voodoo speculation of others. Lets turn to banking: Give local banks a local stake. End Short Termism. Move from shares to sharing. Give business a human face: invest in co-op local businesses in your community. Shop locally. Grow food locally. Employ locally so bounty is shared with your neighbors and friends. What about deficits around the world? You cant just put people into a draconian regimen of cuts. That hurts growth. You cant just throw play money you print at it Bernanke style either. There must be investment of the $2 trillion locked away, idle, not in play in the hoards of the US banking system. Put this money to work towards rebuilding of the nations infrastructure. Invest in the backbone of any healthy super-economy, the small business owners. The road to economic recovery requires a triangulation approach of cuts, increase in tax revenue and investment. The legal system must be reformed; otherwise, forward progress towards fair and balanced solutions is ever stymied by lawsuits and slowed down in times where time is running out on us. We must make a world where being a lawyer isnt such a good career choice to make easy money. End all settlements outside of court. This is the new game. You threaten to sue, like a kind of blackmail; the opponent pays you some money and settles outside of court. This is how most lawyers spend their careers negotiating settlements with a nice take in the process without having
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your claim judged by a court and a jury of your peers. End this scam with a Bill of Rights amendment. If you threaten to take someone to court, you must go to court. Moreover, if you lose, you will have to pay the victors lawyers fees as well as your own. This will decimate the legal eagle predators, clear the court of superfluous cases and speed up the court system. You cant reform and regulate without a working democracy. You cant have a representative democracy if voting districts are gerrymandered so sitting legislators turn public service into an institutionalized career sustaining a political class. Gerrymandering the districts insures incumbents can spend their adult lives being your representative as per their interests. For instance, CNN in their GerryRigged documentary in 2011 reported only 20 seats are truly up for grabs out of 435 seats in the US House of Representatives come national elections in 2012. Drew Griffin reporting for the CNN documentary describes the American people politically as living somewhere between the 40 yard lines of an American football field, that is, in the left to center right, not in the blue or red zones on the 20 yard line of Democrat and Republican polarity. This corrupt and manipulated system we have now ensures ideological extremes and polarization of the Congress, meaning no progress in the peoples business gets done. A scientific process is available that can take the politics out of voter district creation and we could then enjoy a fairer representation from Washington to your local government. Presently, any bill sent to the US Senate floor has a one-in-a-100 member chance to be stalled by the mere threat of filibuster now empowered by a procedural rule known as a Secret Hold. In other words, you only need to threaten to stop the legislation process. In the past you literally had to extend debate on the Senate floor by talking for hours on end to prevent a vote on a given proposal. Thus democracy in America has been broken under this secret hold rule rendering all serious legislation a victim of ideology, impossible to pass unless either party holds a 60-seat super majority. Thats why nothing or next-to-no legislation of historic significance has moved on the Senate floor, especially since 2005 when Congressional gridlock first became entrenched. The country stagnates politically because of it. What is needed is a popular movement to pressure Congress for a Jimmy Stewart Amendment, or a Mr. Smith goes to Washington Amendment. In this classic movie, an innocent new Senator wins an election and goes into the den of corrupt Washington run by cynical senators. Stewarts character, Mr. Smith, stands his ground to pass legislation needed by the people and filibusters
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the Senate in a marathon speech. Day and night, he rambles on, until basket loads of mountains of letters are rolled in proving the people are behind his fight and he finally, with fists clenched gobs of letters in shaking hands, faints in a letter pile. He made his point and won. The people of America need to become Mr. Smith and go to Washington DC, camp around the US Senate and not leave until they change their senatorial rules and keep them changed so those old farts and millionaires on the august floor of our Republic make filibustering a bill a seriously painful ordeal for themselves and fellow senators. If a filibuster happens ALL senators must bed down in the chambers and listen to that guy or gal read the phone book into the records, day or night, or end it by finding common ground and solving disputes so the peoples business shall move forward. Just to be fair to the one-percent wealthy, my oracle would like to remind you all that white washing people with a 99-percent or one-percent brush is stereotyping unique individual human beings. One sometimes needs to speak in generalities as languages tool to make a point, but it is ever the danger of habit that we end up using such tools to render people into some inhuman thing among a grouping of things any witch-hunt can burn. Many one-percenters sympathize and openly support the popular movements of the 99 percent and we need their help. It may be the world wont embrace the coming of a new man without the powerful few having a change of consciousness and heart, becoming an aristocracy of compassion and vision. Billionaire Warren Buffet is one of these visionaries. My oracle would like to end this passage with a direct quote from Buffet. Its his solution to dysfunctional government. If demanded by millions in the streets of Americas future, this reform act could restore the public to public service:
Congressional Reform Act of 2011* 1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. 2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
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3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do. 4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%. 5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people. 6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people. 7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their terms), then go home and back to work.
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*** Understanding the Leaderless Revolution In the next five years the cosmic frictions underpinning life on this planet can be put to good use by masses of people, wired to Internet social communities. They can connect as one voice for these ideas stated above. They are no less ground sweeping than those concepts in the last Pluto-Capricorn cycle, such as the pursuit of happiness, or, freedom of speech inspiring and exciting the world in the 1770s. Today the status quo waits for committees and delegations from the masses in the Occupy movement to come forth so they can have someone to talk to and make deals with. These leaders arent thinking different so they cant yet perceive that a clear message from a leaderless mass is growing and indeed is a new phenomenon unique to a new age. The people are speaking as one essential voice. They are saying, reform the system, make it fair. Youve got the message sending loud and clear since a man immolated himself in a street in Tunisia. You got the message when a camp of thousands grew in Tahrir Square. You got the message when greasing your tanks with Syrian civilians doesnt keep them from coming, wave after wave, back in the streets to face your live ammunition for the sake of their freedom. You got the message chanted by the chorus in Zuccotti Park outside of Wall Street when you used laws to take their blow horns away. You got the message, you Mickey Mouse sorcerer apprentices of political power. Are you yet lost in your own version of Disneys Fantasia cartoon? Once you use violence on the magical broom fetching the waters of freedom,

he just multiplies into more brooms, carrying water, flooding you out eventually. Weve entered the Aquarian Age since 2008 and new concepts of a new 2,000year month in the Great Year cycle of 25,920 years takes us beyond the messianic patriarchy of the fading Piscean Age. The future doesnt need a messiah, a Fhrer, a king. It needs a mother, a matriarchy. Strangely enough, archetypically masculine forces, outwardly govern great astrological ages that are feminine, such as the Age of Pisces. Thats why patriarchy was so dominant in a feminine age. Now we enter and see revealed the matriarchal expression in leadership of what is an inner masculine New Age of Aquarius. Aquarius is the sign of mass movements, of humanitarian collective influence. You will see the pyramid Piscean hierarchies begin to flatten as social communities use this new age sympathetic to science and interconnectivity to further develop social community in the Internet Revolution to a point where the masses are less in need of a leader but a leading collectively inspiring idea. The Uranus-Pluto squares of 2012 through 2015 can influence the mass hypnotic power of leaders over multitudes, but it can go both ways. The people can also use a hypnotic power of multitudes crowding capitals and stock markets with millions, chanting and demanding at their thresholds. The message transcends the need of a leader. The Aquarian Age will bring about a core change: No master but the message.
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CHAPTER 5 Natures War on Humanity: The First Two Years (2010-2011)
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Ive been publishing these yearly almanacs since 2005. Theres always a section about the oncoming changes in global weather. At the end of 2009 when I was composing Predictions for 2010, I received a very powerful vision concerning a new kind of world war. Not war declared by one set of humans against another, but initiated by an existential enemy of humanity its wasteful habits mindlessly inflicting pain on Mother Nature and the Earth itself. At the end of 2009, the oracle looked two years into the future and described in breathtakingly accurate detail the shift of global weather and the spike in natural disasters that have made 2010 and 2011 benchmark years in the annals of climate change. It framed a vision as if we are undergoing an attack by Mother Nature herself. I know describing the Earths ecosystem as Mother Nature is only metaphorical, but in this Cosmic Night driven by the feminine zeitgeist, even a purely poetic license can ascend an idea higher to capture human imagination far more effectively than graphs and numbers indicating an objective truth: Climate change is real and civilization is under threat. Global Warming in the Dead of Danish Winter It was a day over two Novembers ago in 2009 when the oracle began giving me the following visions and several weeks before world leaders were scheduled in

December 2009 to meet and hash out new CO2 emission laws and reduction goals at the Copenhagen Accords. The oracle opened with an acid condemnation of this gathering. It compared the assembly of world leaders discussing what to do about reducing carbon emissions directly responsible for this manmade change in Earths climate as our times version of the 1938 Munich Pact signed by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Daladier with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. This arrangement countenanced in Copenhagen for 18 December 2009 was presaged as a repetition of Chamberlains farce appeasing Hitler, selling out and breaking up Czechoslovakia under the illusion that Chamberlain averted war when in fact he merely bought 13 months of phony peace before the Second World War. Climate change is a far greater threat than any Hitler. The oracle fore-branded the worlds leaders coming to Copenhagen as modern Chamberlains climate change appeasers. A disgraceful gang of cowards who when faced with the greatest threat to a human future effectively did nothing to legally bind and contain the gaseous fuel feeding the climate fires of this oncoming planetary catastrophe. On Halloween 2009, before they met, the oracle bade me write: What lies before us in 2010 is another kind of appeasement to buy a little less than a years worth of denial before the sudden lightning spike of a new kind of world war where friends and foes alike are cut in a more subtle identity. Starting the year 2010 into 2011, Mother Earth is about to declare worldwide war on us. She will fight us on the oceans with weapons of typhoon and hurricane. She will invade our beaches with rising oceans. She will bombard us with heated atmosphere and withhold the rains to water our fields of grain to deny her enemy sustenance. She will pull back her glaciers, withdraw and deny us her rivers. She will set in motion a scorched earth policy. Ignite her forests afire to burn us out. She will decimate our exploding and rapacious populations that covet and denude every arable acre, suck every last fresh water drop and befoul every last cubic inch of her fresh air. We drive her mad with climate fevers and she attacks. This war of the world against human induced climate change will be the greatest threat yet faced by civilization because the enemy is us. The weapons of the enemy are human hubris. Theres nothing harder to face and fight than the enemy hiding in oneself behind the armaments of false pride and delusions. The oracle continued:
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This world war about to break has no clearly defined physical enemy. Theres no Hitler, or Swastikas or Third Reich of menacing stahlhelmd blond beasts with panzer tanks. It does have its Neville Chamberlains, its Daladiers, its appeasers. They meet to form their own emergency Munich Pact at the end of 2009. It is in Copenhagen the heads of spineless democracies and totalitarian regimes alike gather. They meet in emergency session to ostensibly bring peace for our times a Copenhagen Climate Treaty. Its a long-term and legally binding pact to reduce the fossil fuel emissions of human civilization in the next half century to slow down the onset, if not completely stop the gathering catastrophe, of global warming from delivering human civilization down into a new hot and humid dark age. We will wish we only had an Adolf Hitler to appease with our Munich-cum-Copenhagen Pact. It is easier to behold an objective foe, far harder to fight the subjective enemy hiding behind our platitudes about becoming the change we can believe in. Six weeks before the treaty is signed sometime in mid-December 2009, my oracle can already intuit the accord of appeasement drawn. The legally binding levels of fossil fuel reduction will be compromised down to feel-economically-good levels. They wont stop Mother Natures climate war assault. China and India will be allowed to grow their economies living fossil fuel large with token fossil fuel restriction. Asian Tigerswill be appeased to risk a run for quick prosperity and a quicker national destruction. The world leaders, including the G20 powerhouses warmed the cold Danish winter with their hot-aired pledges to reduce carbon emissions but it was a contract no one was bound to sign. Indeed only five countries drafted the accord. Nothing is legally binding. There are no targets to achieve emission reductions and no one could agree on making Copenhagen a legally binding successor to the Kyoto Protocols so the threat of some legally binding progress was broken altogether as the Kyoto Protocols run out at the end of 2012. Promises of $100 billion dollars of aid to developing countries was proffered and agreed upon but the funds wont kick in until 2020. Then again, no one at that time is bound to pay it and no leader actually pledged theyd pay it or detailed from where the money would come. In the end the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change what the meeting in Copenhagen was officially called only agreed to
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take note of but not commit to the accord. My oracle set down appropriately on the trick or treat day (Halloween 2009) a forecast about this Copenhagen trick of expected pledged treats without legal teeth when it said: The signatories of a Copenhagen Climate Treaty wont appease Mother Earth, but their own hubris of complacency and political expediency. This time humanity is the enemy of Earth: our wasteful habits smearing sea, air and earth with toxic filth, our runaway locust-like consumerism, our mindless breeding multiplying like vermin unto a lemming ecosystem crash. Rather than see air pollution cut by Copenhagen, its lack of binding emission laws had encouraged further deregulation and a dramatic increase in greenhouse gas emissions. The International Energy Agency reported in June 2011 that worldwide carbon-dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels reach a record 30.6 billion metric tons in 2010. A metric ton is 2,204.6 pounds of air pollution trapping the Suns rays in the atmosphere causing warmer global temperatures that strengthen the storms, blizzards, tornadoes, typhoons, cyclones, hurricanes and monsoons you have seen intensify in the last two years. Since 1958, global emissions have increased 23 percent, paralleling the rise in global temperatures. In May 2011, the US National Research Council warned, The risk of dangerous climate change impacts is growing with every ton of greenhouse gases. The tonnage we add is steepening, not falling. Droughts spread in the hinterlands of great continents, drying out the glaciers feeding the great rivers of East and South Asias teaming billions creating tomorrows era of the Great Thirst. Theres a mounting blue gold default in clean potable water. According to findings published in Nature (2010), about 80 percent of the world's population (4.8 billion in 2000) live in areas with threats to water security. Large tracks of ocean are dead zones from the fertilizer and pollution dumped and forgotten into them. The oceans are overfished to a point Daniel Pauli, a fisheries scientist and noted authority on the impact of human over-consumption of global fisheries, likened our industrial efficiency at potentially collapsing fish species to winning a military campaign for species extermination. He added that the impact is reversible. Id only add that back peddling this trend does not seem to be in the making for 2012.
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Human consumption trends of Earths overstressed and finite resources are at an all time high and rising. It would seem the Great Recession has hardly flattened the steepening curve in graphs indicating a five-percent increase in energy consumption between 2009 and 2010. Hundreds of millions around the world joining the new middle class demand more high protein diets straining the supersystem of agriculture at a time when climate change and urban sprawl diminish arable acreage whilst the food production gains of the Green Revolution are plateauing. October 31, 2011, exactly two Halloweens after my oracle shared its vision of Natures world war against us, locust humanity counter-attacked with its own nasty trick, treating the planet to the birth of the 7-billionth consumer of its life resources. Enemy of Earth, Seven Billion Times magnified Seven billion times magnified is what the oracle went on to describe as our hidden enemy of animal habit, traditionalized and programmed to undermine any attempt of climbing human intelligence and human ability to work together and consciously, compassionately solve our problems: Our crime against our own humanity is immense because unlike mindless locusts or lemmings we have the spark of sentience in each of us. We have a large and amazing brain that could work out solutions beyond a carry-over of instinctive animal traits. We have a potential to be selfcognizant. This sentience can understand and transcend what no longer instinctively works, effecting a change in behavior that need not force this great and natural planetary mechanism to kill us off with the same plagues and natural disasters that bring locusts and lemmings back into balance within her ecosystem. The enemy is our unconsciousness as a species, our willingness to believe rather than know our collective soul, our willful postponement of and outright resistance to awakening our responsibility to be gardeners not rapacious parasites of this Earth. And, if Mother Earth must, she will scourge us, starting in 2010 through 2011 with a spike in climate change disasters never before seen, bringing to a close this most
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ominous 00 uh-oh! decade of the new millennium. The potential death and destruction of this oncoming war of Earth on us will render every land and ocean a battlefield. Militant Mother Nature on the warpath will deliver more epic horrors and losses than endured in the last global World War and all 3,000 wars in 5,000 years of recorded civilization. The 2000s did end with a jump in frequency in 2010 of natural disasters including the 7.0 Haitian quake in January, killing 316,000, injuring 300,000 and making 1,000,000 homeless. In February followed the 8.8 Chilean super-quake sending tsunamis across the Pacific Rim. In April, ash clouds from volcanic eruptions on Iceland shut down European continental airspace for a month in the greatest disruption of commercial airlines in history. In North America, triple-digit heat waves in the spring following only a month or so after eight record winter storms and blizzards blew across America, one a week, had climate change deniers joking about where the global warming went. It went to the Southern Hemisphere where Australia and South America recorded record hot temperatures. Then came the Northern Hemispheric summer bringing great heat waves across European Russia causing 500 major fires and the monsoon floods of Pakistan displacing 25 million. In 2010, and for the first time, the US mainstream media shifted from playful dismissal to serious concern the weird weather might actually be a sign there really was global warming. My oracle foresaw the endgame for Sino-Indian cradles of civilization in a new era a correct Long Count of the Mayan Calendar rebooted in 1998, the year the average global temperatures began to heat up and as each year broiled higher and higher ever since, never looking back it seems to cooler times. Its as if the oil and coal was China and Indias crystal meth, giving the body of their emergent economies seemingly superhuman strength and a sleepless manic endurance to all terrible stresses. Like addicts on a meth high, they cant understand what cost their body economic pays. Burn fast a hundred years worth of life in ten my India, and my China. Watch yourselves spent, your economic bodies burnt out by the 2020s and your hapless billions made helpless prey to cyclones and typhoons in summer whilst your great rivers dry out in winter. This is the future you create, China, when the Copenhagen Accords appease your greed to build two coal-fired plants a week. As a result, by 2050, China will vent as much CO2 pollution as the rest of the world put
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together. China, you will belch more CO2 into the gun of Mother Natures fire upon the whole world. She aims climate fire at your Himalayan glaciers. They will be first of all glacier systems in the world to disappear. The great rivers of Asia, those perennial blue and brown watered lifelines to billions, will become seasonal aberrations. The holy Ganges will run dry in longer dry seasons, India. Who will nourish your billions then when appeasing the maya (illusion) of newfound materialism? China, your main river road, powering hydroelectric dams at Three Gorges the Yangtze runs out. Your Huang Ho (Yellow River), will be yellow mud cracking in the great interior continental droughts to come from the loss of glaciers in new deserts on the roof of the world. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)s scientist, professor Syed Hasnain, in a recent study claimed All the glaciers in the middle Himalayas are retreating, and they could disappear from the central and eastern Himalayas by 2035. All gone 23 years after 2012, about the time we burden the water demand with another billion people. Hasnain is talking about the last vestige of ice. The real impact to seven great Asian rivers: the Ganga, Indus, Brahmaputra, Salween, Mekong, Yangtze and Huang Ho, will advance much sooner. Already in the dry seasons, segments of the great mother Ganges River are sucked to mud by the demands of cities, such as Kanpur, along a section northwest of its confluence with the Yamuna River. When by the 2020s the seven great rivers are cracked mud in the dry seasons of South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia, billions will be impacted. Billions belonging to the Asian economic tigers move to get rich, do it quick and do it without legally binding targets to take down their coal emissions that are the direct cause of the great Himalayan Mountains losing their life-giving white mantle of eternal soon terminal ice. What were the subconscious motivations behind having the Copenhagen Accord held in winter, in Denmark, in the frozen upper latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere? Who could really take global warming seriously? Just look outside the grand curving windows of the Bella Exhibition Center, champagne glass in hand, marvel at the ice and snow in the gardens beyond. Winter was a security blanket ones white washing blanket of denial. Today, when I think about that farce in Denmark, I for one would never hold these accords in Nordic climes. If I could, Id hold it only at the center of this expanding global climate disaster, such as in sultry Bangkok, Thailand, in November
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2011, with streets flooded by historic monsoon rains the worst disaster in Thailands history. If one must hold it at the threshold of the Arctic climes Id have the leaders meet in the melting tundra fields of Alaskan summer, or gather on a cruise ship in the dark blue solar heat absorbing seas of once ice locked northern passages through Canadian and Siberian waters. Id hold it in Greenland, which is beginning to actually grow green from receding glacial year-round cover. A second wave of presage in late 2009 expanded the oracles vision beyond 2010 to 2011: The years 2010 through 2011 will see a spike in climate change never before experienced. There will be stronger earthquakes, typhoons, tornadoes and hurricanes, droughts and floods will make all that happened in the 2009 and its far more devastating predecessor, 2008, look tame in comparison. A few weeks after the ladies and gentlemen of the climate change debate club at Copenhagen have passed too little and too less binding goals for reducing carbon emissions, retribution will begin. You will see this spike loom up in early advents of the typhoon season in the Western Pacific and tornados in the American Midwest and Gulf States of unexpected ferociousness. The Haitian mass killer quake leveled Port-au-Prince 12 days into 2010. In January, much of Europe experienced record-breaking snowfall. Satellite images of great comma cloud shaped winter storm fronts stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to north of the US-Canadian border sweeping across North America. Major tropical cyclonic storms did emerge early in 2010 but not in the Western Pacific farther south. In March 2010, the South Pacific sprouted two super cyclonic storms, a Category 5 monster named Ului veered into the Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. Tomas, a category 4 cyclone causing two deaths and $83.4 million in losses, devastated Fiji. The 2010 tornado season jumped off early in the US southern and Gulf States with 13 tornadoes reported on 20-21 January. A large EF3 magnitude tornado trapped people in collapsed buildings around Waskom, Texas. Other twisters, several in the EF2 range, swept through East Texas and Louisiana damaging upwards of 150 homes in Van Zandt County, and 50 homes in Hopkins County, Texas, suffered roof damage. The following day the storm front rolled east with tornadoes reported in central Tennessee and northern Alabama with severe damage reported in the Five
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Points suburb of Huntsville, Alabama, caused by a strong EF2 tornado. There was an unusually rare assault of three tornados reported in Southern California on 19 January damaging the Huntington Beach Harbor in Orange County and inflicting roof damage near the Ocean Meadow Golf Course in Santa Barbara County. Later a third tornado lifted roofs and overturned cars on the Pacific Coast Highway. On 21 January, several more tornadoes were reported in Blythe and Santa Barbara California. February through most of April 2010 would enjoy a light tornado season due to record breaking winter storms bringing arctic air temperatures not seen in the southern states of the US since the late 1970s, reaching all the way down into the Gulf of Mexico making cyclone development impossible. Indeed the oracle accurately predicted a strange quiet in the Gulf of Mexico mostly free of any significant tropical activity in 2010: The 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season wont throw wave after wave of tropical storms at the Gulf States and Florida like the year of Hurricane Katrinas devastation in 2005. Natures violence swung from winter ice to early spring Sun fired temperatures. Europe will have major snow events in early 2010 rapidly melted off by a sudden warm-up Winter snowstorms pounded the US east coast states and were especially severe in February. Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC called it a snowpocalypse making February the snowiest month on record. These cities have been keeping weather records since the 1790s. Later in the month, New York was buried by 20 inches of snow and the winds and storm surges caused by a powerful Noreaster had it dubbed a snowicane by meteorologists. The winter of 2010 in Europe was one of the coldest in decades while temperatures in the European arctic seas were well above normal. Climatologists mused openly about a climate regime shift in motion. The North American arctic regions were also unseasonably warm, despite the snowmaggedon at the end of February that found snow on the ground on all the lower 48 US states, including northern counties of sunny, subtropical Florida. Yet by Easter, 4 April 2010, much of the US Midwest and Atlantic states had temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s Fahrenheit with usually cold Caribou Maine clearing a record breaking 80 degrees a full 40 degrees above normal. A sudden jump to hot
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and sultry temperatures in the US South brought on the worst tornado outbreak of the year, an EF4 twister cutting a swath of death and destruction 149 miles across Louisiana and Mississippi. The subtropical jet stream would later move far to the north and send an extended and violent tornado season across the northern plain and Great Lake states through summer into late autumn. Be prepared for cold and snow filled winters to suddenly shift into greatly warmed meltdown floods. Meltdowns flooded rivers in New England and North Dakota in March. Snows changed to torrential rains in April and May, such as the two-day deluge bringing on a thousand-year flood into Nashville, Tennessee on 1-2 May, killing 35 and costing $1.5 billion in damage. The summer of 2010 went down in history as one of the hottest on record in the US Northeast and South with significant flooding events across the southern plains states, south-central Texas and Arkansas. Oklahoma endured the worst flooding in 25 years. Weirdly overheated days of spring passed onto widespread heat wave event across the eastern US and Canada by 4 July. Temperatures transcended the 100-degree mark, breaking records from South Carolina to Ontario, Canada. Heat brings thunderstorms. A hail storm across the Dakotas in late July deposited an ice ball eight inches in diameter, 18.5 inches in circumference, weighing 1.9 pounds, both breaking the size and weight records of any hailstone recorded in the US. Great torrential wets will presage land-mummifying droughts in Australia, and the interiors of all inhabited continents in 2010. The only constant theme threading through next years weather forecast: extreme. The oracle was off by one month about torrential rains hitting Australia. A plethora of tropical cyclonic storms besieged Australia in the 2010-2011 cyclone season, the worst being two landfalls at the end of January 2011. Cyclone Bianca, a category 4 severe tropical storm, the first to track south of Perth, Australia, since 1989. It surged northeastwards buzz sawing the Western Australian coast until landfall on the Kimberly Coast. Then in early February came severe tropical cyclone Yashi, a Category 5 monster, penetrating deep into Queensland from the Pacific with 10 minute sustained 125 mph winds and an extremely low pressure of 929 hPa (mbar) making it one of the strongest Australian cyclones in recorded history. It left a
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large part of Queensland flooded, displacing 200,000 people, eventually inundating much of metropolitan Brisbane at a total cost of $3.54 billion. Remnants of Yashi plunged flooding rains in monsoonal torrents deep into Australian Outback deserts as far south as the temperate State of Victoria, ironically granting an unwelcome apocalyptic irrigation of parched and sunburned lands still cracking under the Sun of a 500-year drought across the continent. The South Asian countries will see their monsoon arrive at the wrong time, drowning crops. East Asian typhoons will smash into China causing devastation in 2010. Yet, this new year will begin a decline in aggregate summer monsoonal rainfall for Southeastern China. Monsoon rains necessary for crop growth in southeastern China will diminish just as droughts melting the snow packs that feed Chinas great rivers in drier seasons will clearly accelerate water shortages. Food crises are coming to China, sooner than the 2020s. The Chinese will look back at 2010 and remember thats when the slide to climate disaster began its slow avalanche burying their prosperity. The 2010 Western Pacific Typhoon Season started slow denying needed water for rice crops, but by October, super typhoon Megi became one of the most intense tropical cyclones on record. Before it slammed into the Philippine island of Luzon, it achieved the lowest atmospheric pressure (885 hPa) of any storm since 1984, clocking the highest sustained winds (230 km/h, 145 mph) since typhoon Bess in 1982. Come June and October 2010 the Indian Ocean experienced two very severe cyclonic storm events: super tropical cyclone Phet made a rare landfall on the Saudi Arabian peninsula at Oman before crashing into Sind Pakistan, killing 44 and causing $780 million in damages. Super tropical cyclone Giri hit Myanmar (Burma) killing 157 and costing $359 million in property damage. Yet, the monsoon over South Asia would be fickle. Leaving areas needing rains dry and drowning vast tracks of rich farmlands farther west than usual, in Pakistan, eventually uprooting 25 million people for months along the fertile bread basket of Pakistans Indus River flood plain. The August monsoonal deluge didnt completely clear the ruined crop fields and thousands of submerged towns and villages until late November. History is looking back at 2010 as the worst spike in climate disasters and rising temperatures since 1998, but then came 2011. All initial data collections, which will be released in 2012, are preparing the history books for an even worse year than 2010. With that in mind, what the oracle presaged next about the following regions
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describes events yet to happen, that did happen, in the latter half of 2011! South East Asian nations of the Philippines and Vietnam and Thailand will have a different story to tell from 2010 onwards a shift in the monsoon flow southward will begin and visit upon them a brutal and sustained series of annual typhoons. The frequency of typhoon invasions could be relentless in the new decade. We may witness Vietnam, Laos, and the Philippines become the first failed states rendered into chaos, famine and mass migrations by winds, storm surges and flooding rains. In September 2011, the Philippines main northern of Luzon, home of its largest city, Manila, the urban and financial hub of the island nation, was savaged by typhoon Nesat. Around 68,000 people evacuated to 190 evacuation centers. Four days later typhoon Nalgae brushed Luzon forcing a further 180,000 people to seek evacuation. Initial estimates report the widespread crop damage from Nesat alone will account for 10 percent of the countrys fourth-quarter rice crop forcing the Philippine government to cut rice exports in 2011 to about 860,000 tons from a record 2.45 million tons in 2010. Graciano Yumul, chief administrator of the country's weather bureau, PAGASA, cautioned, People have to realize now, with the changing climate, typhoons are getting stronger, the pull of the monsoon is getting stronger. As I write this in November 2011 provinces of Vietnam are awash in the worst flooding in a quarter century. ABC News in Australia reported 10 November that across Vietnam more than half a million people have seen their homes or livelihoods affected by the rising waters, which have inundated around 140,000 homes. Very powerful and widespread monsoon rains have devastated Southeast Asia with more than 250 people drowned in Cambodia and over 500 dead from floodwaters submerging a third of Thailand in the worst recorded natural disaster in the little nations history. Many of the streets of Bangkok, the capital, have already been underwater for a month with a month more to endure as the Chao Phraya River tries to drain the soggy nation. The Thai government estimates that Thai economy growth is expected to slow down by a third in 2012. Global reinsurer, Swiss RE: estimated that all disasters in 2010 amounted to $222 billion in economic losses more than Hong Kongs entire economy. At the time of this writing (17 November 2011) the 2011 estimates are still being calculated but the trend is tilting towards a far higher loss, as it will include historic damage caused by the March 2011 Magnitude 9.0 Tohoku Japanese quake and tsunami. Expect additional evidence of significant damage done to worldwide agriculture, which was
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far worse than in 2010, even if one factors in the Pakistani and Russian crop losses from monsoon flood and summer flames. The oracle on Halloween 2009 forecast 2010 would go down as the hottest year on record and the harbinger of a new and sustained spike in global temperatures: I foresee 2010 as the year things get hot and stay hot in the climate, almost as if this is a temperature tsunami rolling across the earth from northern to southern hemispheres of season change. If one drew a line on a chart of average temperature spikes it would look like a cross section of a fault line of a tectonic plate in the sea west of Bandar Aceh, Indonesia, after a 9.3 quake hitched one of the tectonic plates up by 30 to 80 feet. The upward thrust of tectonic plates sent a tsunami across the Indian Ocean on Boxing Day, 26 December 2004, killing between an estimated 250,000 to 350,000 people, though unofficial estimates presume more than a million expired. The sudden thrust of world median temperatures could be just as deadly. Associated Press reported that "Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 the deadliest year in more than a generation. It will be reported in 2011 that a fault line in climate sustainability was breached in 2010 and thrust the global average of temperatures across the planet suddenly upward. A climate changing tidal wave of natural disasters the most serious of which will visit South and East Asia and Southern California. By July 2010, NOAA (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) confirmed a global temperature increase of 1.22 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average. By December, NOAA announced that 2010 would go down as the hottest year on record since the 1880s; the farthest back modern global records go. The globally warming weather spike of 2010 into 2011 affected Pakistan in 2010 and again in 2011, along with eastern parts of India and Southeast Asia. Its a fact. Hotter climates tend to stimulate seismic and volcanic activity. Thus the Japanese 9.0 superquake and tsunami of 2011 (East Asia) would fulfill the oracles vision. Fortunately, at the time of this writing, California has been spared serious natural disasters or quakes as the year 2011 winds down.

The US and Canadian fire seasons will go down as the worst in a year closing a decade of historically devastating seasons, despite the fact that many Western states will emerge out of wet and snow filled winters thinking summer will be less vulnerable to fires.
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The winter of 2010-2011 had record snows, yet Arizona and New Mexico experienced their largest forest and brushfires on record with the Wallow Fire burning 469,000 acres. Vast fires also raged across Florida and drought stricken Texas and Oklahoma in 2011. Hostile Habit rather than Hitler The oracle on Halloween 2009 ended its vision for 2010s weather spike dissatisfied with the impact it would make on human beings to change. It would take more Pearl Harbor natural disasters to get our attention it would seem: The enemy of Habits rather than Hitlers in this war will be a harder sell for this Obama-the-FDR. We Americans can sometimes politely disparage our high fossil fuel energy excesses but it is a pretense. We are energy waste Isolationists, no less in denial of the high Heil Hitlerian dangers of pollutions tyranny and the subtle warnings of our coming climate crisis than Isolationists of the 1930s were about ignoring the spread of Hitlers fascism. Thus, it will take many more Pearl Harborlike catastrophes of nature and famine to register the alarm, soldier the understanding of sacrifice, and see a new kind of victory never before sought or required of human beings. We are the soldiers of our bad habits against the Earth. We must cry mutiny against our habits and mature into guardian warriors of the Earth. This struggle will last fifty years. Take up the challenge now, while theres still time to win this oncoming world war. Exactly a year ago (November 2010), I began asking the oracle for further readings for year two of Natures world war: 2011. In general, it only elaborated on what had been said before with a few significant, and at the time I thought, impossible additions that all came terribly true.

Theres a war on. A war against stupid. In 2011, we enter year two of World War Three, Mother Natures war on us. This isnt some pagan voodoo threat. The natural world is ill. Its fighting back madder than ever in 2011. Her fevers will be hotter this coming spring and summer, her chills colder this winter, her flood of monsoon tears and cyclonic rages will redouble from what was seen in 2010.
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This chapter has already described many of the terrible natural disasters in 2011. If anything the oracle was wrong. The number, increased power and widespread devastation so natural disasters hasnt redoubled in 2011. Its more than double what was endured in 2010. The oracle added this: There will be tsunamis in the Pacific and Indian Ocean in 2011. April 2011 saw a significant submarine quake off the Indian Ocean coast of Java, though a tsunami warming was issued, there was no evidence found witnessing even a moderate wave. However, as most of us know and have seen the shocking videos, a great tsunami generated by the Tohoku Japanese earthquake killed 28,000 people and sent waves across the entire Pacific Ocean. The oracle foresaw a shift in the pumped-up monsoon floods of hotter climate drenching Pakistan in 2010 floating farther east over eastern India, Bangladesh and Myanmar in 2011: Pakistans Indus River Valley was inundated in 2010, covering a quarter of the country in floodwaters displacing 25 million people. The deluge of monsoon rains will shift eastwards over the Indian, Bangladeshi and Burmese watersheds in 2011, depositing similar nation-jarring floods over far larger populations than Pakistan. The Indian monsoon of 2011 started weak but into its final stages called the Elephant Rains it drained, figuratively speaking, wooly Mammoths and Mastodons in sustained downpours spanning September through October affecting millions of people across the densely populated Indian States of Orissa, West Bengal and Assam. Large populations in Bangladesh were also displaced in some of the worst monsoon floods seen in 60 years. If predictive astrology is our boatman, 2011 is but a taste of the brown
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waters in the era of coming floods. Weve already seen our times defined presciently by the slower transiting planets like Pluto (mass generational regeneration or degeneration) in Capricorn (politics, government, economy and how the laws and structures are strengthened or undermined). Weve added to this backdrop the transit of revolutionary chaos or progress now that Uranus is transiting Aries, playing powerfully in 2010 with its opposition to Pluto in Capricorn in the summer. In November 2010, the oracle gave a preview of what will manifest first briefly in 2011 then later last for 13 years because of the entry into its home sign of a third, distant and slow moving planet completing, along with Uranus, the astrologically prophetic shape of climate change to come during Capricorn Plutos generational transit: Neptune (the planet named after a Roman sea god) moves into Pisces come April [2011]. It will be a year of great sea storms and flooding La Nia rains for the whole world. Nature is turning up the volume of her screaming gales. Her thundering quakes and waves mount until the alarm bells of an unsustainable abuse of the ecosystem begin their first ringing sound. Neptune dipped into its home sign of the fishes, Pisces, from April through August of 2011 and there was a whole lot of flooding going on in the great Mississippi and Missouri river flood plains. It inspired even rational scientists to wax biblical at the USGS (US Geological Survey) when they wrote and sanctioned the following copy for narrator Debbie Grattan to read in their video clip The Year of the Flood posted towards the end of Neptunes little plunge into oceanic Pisces on 8 August 2011: Devastating floods across much of the US were severe and unrelenting during the spring and summer of 2011. In more than 15 states, rivers overflowed their banks and communities were faced with the possibility of catastrophic losses. The continual, rising flood waters on major rivers all over the country forced leaders to make difficult decisions on how best to safeguard property, reduce losses and lessen the impact of the rising flood waters. At the USGS, we know that science is critical for flood preparations and response. Science for decision-making became very evident during the epic floods of 2011... She closed by saying something to which Id in part agree, that we need, To make smart decisions about flood preparedness and response, and we must start with science.
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Science means, to know. What follows is what you need to know: whats coming next in Natures world climate shifting war in 2012.

CHAPTER 6 Natures War on Humanity: Year Three (2012) Upheaval and Flood
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They come with fire, they come with axes. Gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning. Destroyers and usurpers, curse them! Treebeard, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers There are more important deficits than those we fashion out of money that arent being faced. The human race is deeply engrossed in deficit spending away its further existence on the Earth. When the signs of climate disruption mount, the human response continues to drain away the dwindling bank balance of time left to alter human course from the greatest depression of them all a depression and collapse of civilization on a global scale. We can procrastinate and let the progress of semi-conscious human habit back us up against the wall of a last minute, oh shit, eureka moment to fuel a collective adrenaline rush to act in 11th-hour concert, dropping at last trifling disagreement when perception of collective emergency, collective mortality, begs for action. People could look the other way when Hitler and Nazi Germany began making its inexorable rearmament to wage a world war. The signatories of the Versailles
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Treaty, the international watchdogs in the League of Nations enforcing it, couldve arrested German fascist development. The bud of it could have been nipped, keeping a militant Germany from being a threat to world peace once again. Hitler busted a move to reoccupy and remilitarize the Rhineland in March 1936. The watchmen of the League of Nations, the French Army, let Hitlers first territorial expansion happen, when it wouldve taken a quick advance of a dozen French divisions, a mere gathering of tens of thousands of soldiers, rather than tens of millions needed later on, to take Hitler down when his evil was still weak. The British, the French and isolationist America, had other things on their minds. They retreated from their international responsibilities to focus on how to create jobs for their unemployed millions during the Great Depression. Jobs came first. Hitler? Later! Not now. Too busy trying to get people back to work. And anyway, sending divisions of the French army back into Germany to police the Rhineland would just be another drag on their economy in crisis. The French Treasury in 1935 had declared it hadnt enough cash reserves to sustain the value of the French Franc. So the democracies in retreat, in denial, turning away to lick their economic wounds let Hitler grow strong until he became historys Zen stick crashing over their heads when in 1939 he invaded Poland and started the Second World War. At last the democracies heard the alarm and though France fell and Britain nearly succumbed to the Hitlerian onslaught, a Japanese Zen stick hit America below the battleship hulls armored belt with a devastating naval air attack on the US Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941. Images of the row of blazing battleships awakened the sleeping giant of American collective ire and industry that would, in four years, end the Great Depression, arm the democracies and aid the Soviet Union to successfully wage its Armageddon on the Russian steppes against German invasion. Better late than never, goes the old adage, even if a little prevention years earlier might have greatly alleviated or even erased a potential global human disaster killing 50 to 60 million people and injuring a quarter-billion in six bloody years of the worst war in history. Hitler of Nazi Germany, Mussolini of Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan were a human threat, not a global threat. Cities can be rebuilt; our exploding numbers can replenish populations with time. Indeed, during the six years of the Second World War the loss of 50 to 60 million people were offset by the human race increasing its global population in the same time period by 250 million. The future existence of humanity on this planet was never under threat. Even if Hitler had won the war, humanity would have gone on. Humans have weathered dark ages in their history
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before. There has always been a renaissance after long years of suppression of thought and freedom brought on by our inability or outright denial of what threatens. Yet we have weathered and survived the forces of darkness without preventing its rise. The dawn always comes. The Ages of Reason follow. Even now, with a return of an old Plutonian cycle of aristocracies trying to suppress emergent middle classes, a full corporate suppression of our freedoms will not, by itself, last forever. It will run its course, like the irrational zeitgeist of Cosmic Night Cycles that shadow history before the light of reason has a slight advantage again during the next Cosmic Day dawning in 2044. Cure over Prevention the Sign of a Childish Civilization The threat we postpone and avoid facing this time isnt human, even though its fed by human excess. The enemy is unfamiliar to us. Its subtle, abstract existential. President Jimmy Carter tried to warn us about it in the late 1970s by delivering what later a cynical press derisively called his Malaise Speech to the American people. In short, Carter foresaw in 1979 the existential crisis coming in a people who lead the world in nearly all trends. His speech spoke to an emerging, existential drift in American greatness, a loss of community awareness, a sense of national responsibility and discipline. Americans were showing the first signs of becoming Ameri-Cants. His speech mainly dwelled on the US energy crisis and the need of Americans to make a generation long commitment to energy independence, discovering alternative sources beyond fossil fuels as well. He had to first address, though, what he believed was a crisis on US confidence, a beginning of a fade of national will and a rise of selfishness that left unencountered, might put energy independence in peril: In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives, which have no confidence or purpose. The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us. For the first time in the history of our country a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five

years. Two-thirds of our people do not even vote. The productivity of American workers is actually dropping, and the willingness of Americans to save for the future has fallen below that of all other people in the Western world. In little more than two decades we've gone from a position of energy independence to one in which almost half the oil we use comes from foreign countries, at prices that are going through the roof. Our excessive dependence on OPEC has already taken a tremendous toll on our economy and our people. This is the direct cause of the long lines, which have made millions of you spend aggravating hours waiting for gasoline. It's a cause of the increased inflation and unemployment that we now face. This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. The energy crisis is REAL! It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them. Crisis of Confidence Speech, Delivered to a TV audience 15 July 1979
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Sound familiar? Sounds like it couldve been delivered yesterday. Carter was a prophet in this speech. He warned us of the returning habitual pattern of the human herd mind, to slip slowly into a malaise and ignore the first signs of a coming crisis just when a national and or international commitment was needed to prevent it. Carter went on to set a clear three-point agenda before Congress and the American people proposing a national effort no less far reaching than the Space Race or arming the free world against Hitler. Many of the things Carter listed to do are the SAME things presented before us today. Thirty-two years earlier, the US and the world was far less dependent on fossil fuels to run its civilization and the climate was not stirred into peril because of it. Carters points covered the conservation of energy, seeking new ways to create oil inside America balanced with investment of time and national treasure to invent alternative energy sources beyond fossil fuel. How did America answer Carters call? They went to the movies. They went Hollywood at the White House and elected an actor who told them sweet patriotic nothings about how great they were. President feel good with celluloid seriousness inspired Americans with a hopiate and glorious movie fantasy about their country needing to live larger, spend more, consume more, and expand its military. Ronald Reagan made sure to use his gift of
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demagoguery to turn a nation against Carters defeatism, lulling away the American people with his bedtime stories promising his post-Carter presidency would be Morning in America that blessed country, that shining city on the hill, that beacon of freed capitalism unleashed on the world. Dont cut down your excesses. Have another hamburger and beer, a second home, too many cars. Charge it to your credit card. Pay prosperity off later. With bedroom eyes and a bedroom voice, Reagan turned the American Dream into a B-movie. It may have been morning after Carter, but it was Bedtime for Bonzo time to tune out on Carters ultimately accurate prophecy and change the channel. The American people were becoming Reagans malleable pet monkey in one of his less-than memorable comedy films. Bonzo the monkey, I mean. Reagan deregulated and liberated markets from sober oversight. Ronald Reagan put on his makeup, hit his mark before the camera and theatrically used his technicolor, presidential bully pulpit to become consumptions pusher of American greed, selfishness, and dislocation from community. The Reagan Years defined the 1980s, what historians would call the Decade of Greed. He initiated the concept of a false economic bubble profit margins fed by ballooning deficit spending. Deregulation of Wall Street trading rules and a loosening of professional and ethical standards controlling real estate and the banking system led to the growth of a slow systemic cancer of fiscal dereliction. Want to know when the manufacturing jobs started going overseas? Want to remember when industries were broken up and Gordon Geckkoed to Mexico, China, and other places where slave wages in developing nations began cutting your health care benefits, hollowing out your salaries, widening a gulf between fewer and fewer people hoarding more and more of the national treasure for the greater corporate good? I can tell you in one word: Bonzo. How could you not trust him? An addict will always listen to an enabler. Carter in his Crisis in America speech was attempting an intervention. Reagan gave a Carte banc credit card to consumer-holics. America, and the world, missed an opportunity to change course 30 years ago and prevent rather than cure a catastrophe. Now we live with the systemic consequences. The US has seen its socially destabilizing distribution of wealth divide the country into todays one-percent haves versus the 99-percent have nots creating a political and social atmosphere of class warfare that could turn violently revolutionary in 2012 through to the 2020s. America is so much more dependent on fossil fuels from foreign lands that much of our muddled military policies of the last
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few decades shipped US troops overseas, trapped in wars and quagmires in the oil rich region of the Middle East. Wars America lost, as the near future will soon reveal such as in Iraq (sitting on the second largest oil reserves). Wars America will soon lose in Afghanistan and wars yet to be started and lost with Iran in four years time (Iran which by the way sits atop the third largest oil reserve, with China, Americas chief economic and strategic competitor as number one oil importer). After Carters prophecy, America chose its course, leading the world, leading the way to three decades of excess, an explosion of fossil fuel use, global warming, global deficits from false economic get rich quick on credit booms and bubbles. Europe went there too, and faces a banking default in 2012. America had its fossil fuel blazing disciples too. China exceeded this number one usurper and polluter of Earth around 2009. However, America is on a global warming comeback. It has a new Saudi Arabian sized oil reserve just north of its border, in Canada, to plumb. The Athabasca tar sands of Alberta Province may hold the same potential oil reserves to rival the largest known reserve in the world. However, unlike the Saudi Arabian mother load, theres a load of sand that must be steamed and washed off the oil in a process that makes the Athabasca oil boom the dirtiest and most ecologically harmful oil extracting process ever undertaken. Its poisoning the aquifers and rivers of northern Alberta and conceivably could pump more C02 per oil barrel extracted into the atmosphere, speeding up global warming in the next five years to record levels. The plan is to have this black-clouded-sky-making wealth piped down into America over sensitive aquifers in the central plains states where oil spills could poison the groundwater needed to quench farmlands that are the breadbasket of the world. President Obama would like to delay the building of this pipeline until new routes can be found that have less environmental impact. The search for such would take resumption of construction beyond the presidential elections into 2013. As I enter this chapter into the world on 17 December 2011, the Republican leadership in Congress extended lifting the US debt ceiling only two months more and threaten to shut down the government in mid-February 2012 if Obama doesnt approve the pipeline, as it is, running over threatened aquifers. They argue that Obama has his values twisted, sacrificing US jobs over protecting the environment. In fact, after the initial construction, only employing 5,000, maintenance of the pipeline after completion will employ only a few hundred. As for making US jobs, the CEOs lobbying for the pipeline want it routed all the way to preexisting oil export facilities in east Texas and Louisiana. The oil wont be used to give Americans energy independence. Those American citizens weve earlier exposed as non-human business companies
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will export it for multi-national corporate profit. If the Canadian part of the pipeline is any indication, those corporationscum-citizens will probably under employ maintenance to save profits and youll see as many pipeline oil leaks reported along the American section of the pipe line destroying lakes, aquifers rivers and tracts of wheat at a greater rate than in Canada. But hey! Environmental concerns are no concern of ours. If they had been, wed have invested in alternative energy space races back in 1979. Its a strange coincidence, perhaps, but Carter made his speech in a year of one the most powerful El Nio weather disruptions ever recorded up to that time, causing many climate scientists to openly muse that more was in the invisible gasses pumped by human exhaust pipes and smokestacks than met the eye. That was the year the theory of greenhouse gas emissions altering the weather saw NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) implement a global air-sampling network to read the growth rate in parts per million of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Todays Cold Depression has cooled interest in alternative green industry investment, especially in its second highest polluter, the United States. The unemployed are disenchanted with doing anything about global warming because it costs too much and theyd rather have a job first then they can think about going green later. That means, give them a job that consumes the fossil fuels that make climate change. Financing subsidies for startups in the green industrial revolution declined in 2011, so fossil fuel use can only rise. Green subsidies will continue to stagnate in the US in 2012 as the political atmosphere goes into full campaign mode at the cost of governance and a new national direction engaged. As stated in the last chapter, 2010 had the highest report of CO2 emissions in history and when we get the 2011 reports in the autumn of 2012, I predict that even economic stagnation in America or a threat of double-digit recession in Europe didnt soften pollutions assault on the Earths fragile atmosphere. I predict 2011 carbon emissions will best 2010 in the worst way for civilizations future. And what of 2012? Carbon exhaust from consumption will also soar with the new middle classes of Asia enjoying more affluent, higher energy using and wasteful lifestyles. Any collapse of economies in Europe or elsewhere beyond the booming Asian markets will not temper the fumes. Currently what humanity consumes in one year takes 3.1 years to replace. We are on course by the year 2036 to spike energy use by 36 percent; most of this energy consumption will come from Chinas gridlocked interstate freeway system choked with tens of millions of new cars. Replacement of consumed resources is
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already unsustainable. Talk about a debt bomb, 2012 will reveal the fuse is burning on a supply bomb too. What the first signs of collapse start cracking is the structural integrity of one of civilizations most susceptible economic supersystems, Insurance. Politicians might disbelieve in climate change or at least trust in faith that it will go away rather than face scientific facts. Insurance giant, Munich RE, uses only fact to calculate costs of global natural disasters so they can set rates for insurance companies globally. There is no room for subjectivity in such reports. Munich RE disclosed that 2010 saw record-breaking payouts to cover climate disaster damages to the tune of $265 billion, adding a fact: This rise cannot be explained without global warming. Munich REs 2011 report is already anticipated to list a far greater payout. Insurance payments for the Tohoku temblor and tsunami devastating Japan in March 2011 will rise to $34 billion without factoring in the reports anticipated insurance payout blows. These will include covering tens of billions lost in the US agriculture sector, taking place in the worlds cornucopia because of record tornado damage and floods of the Mississippi and Missouri River and the livestock and crops destroyed across Oklahoma and Texas from a drought for the centuries. Theres crop losses elsewhere with crop failures from drought in China, failures from drowning monsoon rains in eastern India, Myanmar, one-third of Thailand inundated, from Pacific typhoon-slammed Philippine agricultural lands, from Queensland, Australia, under cyclone vomiting floodwaters. I would predict a climb in monetary losses in 2011 rising by a third of 2010s $265 billion and perhaps Id be forecasting too low. Natural disasters like the great drought over Russia in 2010 caused food price hikes that started popular uprisings and revolutions across North Africa and the Middle East in 2011. Far more cropland was destroyed in 2011. It takes no Nostradamus therefore to predict that political upheavals, perhaps even government collapses in countries holding 100 nuclear weapons like Pakistan are waiting for us in 2012 when a yawning gap of supply meets a mounting and hungry demand. Pakistan will descend into military dictatorship once again in 2012, not because of a Pakistani Taliban act of terrorism but Mother Natures. Twenty-five million lost their homes in 2010s monsoon floods along the Indus River plain. The following year no floodwaters ran down the Indus. The sky became a river adding another nine million homeless farmers to the tally with destroyed wheat and cotton fields from the greatest downpour out of the sky ever recorded in the Sind Province, inundating urban as well and agricultural areas. Al-Jazeera reported Pakistani meteorologists saying that satellite images looked like a normal thunderstorm pulse but in fact, the rains were so unexpectedly
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heavy they conclude it is global warming pumping up the global warmed muscle. Perhaps its a new pattern, a new normal. Pakistan, like other nations under monsoon clouds can collapse because of the rains. We may see the first start doing so in the monsoon of 2012. The wealthy and influential regard all of this climate change business from the pampered comfort of penthouses and gated communities. They muse abstractly, distractedly about a possible rise of the oceans while sitting back with cocktail and Havana cigar in hand on the decks of yachts off the Cote DAzur. They seem to be reincarnations of aristocrats of the Ancien Regime of the 18th century and its French King Louis XV, impassive and unmoved stuck when it came to using their powers to finance a change, to act, before the danger manifested peasants carrying pitchforks breaking down the French doors of their estates. Angry mobs in the palatial back yard garden? It wont happen to them. It will happen to someone else. The breakdown of the world via a climate shift is a problem to engulf their heirs. Just before he died as he lived, in abject luxury and disconnection with the grievances and suffering of the little people, the 99-percent of France, Louis XV mused about the future of the aristocracy prompting his mistress Madam de Pompadour to reply, au reste, aprs nous, le Dluge ("After us, the deluge!) Then, like now, the writing is on the wall, for anyone with courage and intelligence to read in the roiling skies and unstable shaking earth and rising seas. Revolutions of people are coming, but none more furious or threatening than the revolution of the Earths climate in 2012. After 2011, the deluge! After Me Generation denial the Deluge The planet Neptune, God of Oceans, returns home to Pisces in 2012. It will swim in its ocean sign for nearly 13 years. In the previous chapter, we saw what great flooding disasters marked its preview when it dipped for a time into Pisces before a retrograde back into Aquarius. Neptune astro charted a direct course for Pisces when I began writing this book in November 2011. The god of deluge will return to Pisces for its long transit on 5 February 2012. It will be in Pisces until the last day of March in far off 2025,
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then dip back again for a final refreshment in October-November of that year before embarking on a long transit in Aries in January 2026. After bringing in a meteorological era of unprecedented global rains, flooding, tsunamis, rising ocean levels between 2012-2026, Neptune entering Aries will have added to the storms on continental coastlines a Sun-scorched era of deadly central continental droughts. By that time, Neptune will have stolen greedily the water vapors of ice sheets and glaciers of the world. He will have removed the eternal ice of the Himalayas. He will have stripped the polar seas naked of its ice sheet mantle. The wars over oil will pass and be eclipsed by the wars over water, as H20 becomes a stock commodity more rare and valuable than precious metals. It will become blue gold coveted by Asian tiger economies that will at that time walk the baked riverbeds bones of their dead rivers, the Ganges, Brahmaputra, Huang Ho, Yangtze and others. The prophecy of the Book of Revelation (Chapter 16, verse 12, 14) will have its day when the Tigris and Euphrates do dry out preparing the way for the kings of the East (one of these being a dragon [China?]) and other powerful kings to gather for the great last battle of Armageddon in the desiccated Middle East. Water succumbing to climate change causing the Holy Land to fight over water was ever the trigger foreseen by biblical prophets for Armageddon. That terrible day is far ahead of us. Perchance to Pisces welcoming its ruler of dreams returning 13 years before those times, that we can dream and make real an alternative future. Neptunes advance and retreat in the first degrees of Pisces in 2012 may stir the waters everywhere in sea and wring it out of the skies. It will go retrograde again starting in June, when on other fronts of human making and unmaking the haves and have-nots in streets around the world will collide. Watery turmoil in 2011 will match and transcend the temperament of great floods of human violence returning to the streets of the world only far worse from June through November of 2012. If you thought the Indian Ocean Cyclone, the Asian Typhoon and Atlantic Hurricane Seasons were bad in 2011, brace yourself for the nation-paralyzing tropical storms of 2012 for all who dwell along the coastlines of those oceans in the tropics and subtropics. If you live under darkening skies of June through October when monsoon winds blow out of the southwest, brace yourself in southern Pakistan for the third strike making more millions homeless. Stand firm you Western Ghats of India, you tens of millions in the labyrinthine sums of Mumbai. Brace for it you farmlands of Orissa, you river deltas of Bangladesh all the way to the mountain towns and cities of southwest and southeastern China. You will be flooded. Thailand will drown another third of its gross national product in the floodwaters of 2012. The greatest
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property damage will by vector of rainfall open over skies above southern China, especially cascade down in wall-water torrents taking out towns in the mountainous and hilly regions. These saturated hills of Southeast Asia, these mountainous islands of southern Japan, the Philippines, Fiji, the Solomons and New Guinea, are like an anvil from where the hammer of many Western Pacific typhoons and South Pacific Cyclones will strike! By November, Neptune shifts course again, stirring the waters as monsoon winds begin lurching out of the northeast. Sri Lanka, you will be visited from the skies by great flooding rains. There to will Neptunes watery trident cut cloud to let fall a torrent in Indonesia, Darwin Australia, in Mozambique and Madagascar too! There will be an unexpected flooding inland in the Transvaal of South Africa. Like a South Asian kick boxer taking too much of a pounding, watch Vietnam and the Philippines suffer stronger monsoons in 2012 than 2011 along with the typhoon track continuing its slow shift farther south away from Southeast China and more directly into the Gulf of Tonkin. The monsoon patters are changing. This is a new normal in 2012 and onwards through the transit of Neptune through Pisces through to 2026. Now the oracle rides monsoon mists in its Neptunian bowl of water for a session of hydromancy over the regions of Central, South and Northern American coastlines to see what is coming in the 2012 Hurricane Season. The first thing that emerges from the bowls surface is the God of oceans in forward motion since February suddenly moving backwards pitching a flood in June through November when it returns direct and in so doing Neptunes movements exactly frame the official time window for the hurricane season (June-November). There will be a sharp blast of hurricanes in 2012. The Gulf of Mexico, which has mostly been spared dreadful storms, may see respite end. Though I have predicted hurricanes hitting Haiti and Houston Texas in the 2011 season, I have been thankfully wrong. Perhaps I have misread the oracle and placed dates on events later in time inclined for 2012 and 2013. We will see. Either way, over a decade of accelerating, spiraling power in tropical storms, in monsoons and in tornado seasons is on the way. Neither human denial, or rationalizations of this being merely a new normal as if it is normal, nor feckless pledges to maybe renew some climate change accord to begin making serious cuts in fossil fuel emissions starting in 2020 are all mutterings of a soon to be drowning fools fantasy. Time is running out on stanching this flood from the angry skies and roiling rising oceans. Climate change will be irreversible in five years. The atmosphere heats up and holds more water, making all storms, temperate, arctic, or tropical,
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increasingly Neptunian Kraken-Loch Ness Monster powerful. Thats what climatologists across the world are coming to understand, reading the rise in carbon emissions in the atmosphere. Theres a point where rapidly growing and expanding use of fossil fuels will take us beyond a point where climate change is reversible. Right now C02 exhaust levels in the atmosphere stand at 390 ppm (parts per million). At that level, Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent for The Guardian (UK), described the worlds existing infrastructure as already expending 80 percent of its carbon budget. To overdraw our sustainable use wed have to pass beyond 450 ppm. If current trends continue, reports Harvey, and we go on building highcarbon energy generation, then by 2015 at least 90% of the available "carbon budget" will be swallowed up by our energy and industrial infrastructure. By 2017, there will be no room for maneuver at all the whole of the carbon budget will be spoken for, according to the calculations of the IEA (International Energy Agency). Fatih Birol, chief economist at the IEA warns that the door is closing. "I am very worried, she said. If we don't change direction now on how we use energy, we will end up beyond what scientists tell us is the minimum [for safety]. The door will be closed forever." There cant be any more delay. 2012 ends with the Kyoto Protocol treaty running out. Rather than being in a hurry to gather and set global climate change laws with realistic and deep cuts in C02 emissions, many countries including the United Kingdom, Japan and Russia, along with some superpower polluters like China, India and the US now lobby to postpone settling on legally binding emissions until after 2017. Indeed, China and the US want to set a leisurely regimen of negotiations that wont come to internationally binding law as far forward as 2018 or 2020! Too late! Too late for sustaining human civilization as weve known it and like it to continue! 2012 is not the real doomsday year. The great climate shift year is 2017 into 2018. At that point, temperatures will cascade us towards a climate that could get as hot as the Jurassic era during the prehistorically funky tropical and climatologically extreme era of the dinosaurs. Greenhouse Effect becomes a Godzilla-house Effect by the end of the century. Although, my oracle projects a runaway climate change will bring those conditions much sooner because other greenhouse gasses, like methane, usually trapped in vast carbon sinks in the arctic tundra regions of the world, will plume like a super volcano no one will hear or see because the gas is invisible to the eye. Once we cross the climate line, great agriculture industries will
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wither on stalk and vine. Oceans will rise inundating the rice fields and arable lands. Its not surprising to me that many a prophecy of Nostradamus speaks of a great die-off of humanity from famine, rising oceans and biblically intense droughts from the Sun becoming a fire in the sky boiling fish in stream lake and sea. 2012 should be a wake up year to all of this. Theres still time to become a grown up civilization, preventing rather than curing this oncoming catastrophe. Grow up, humanity! You have five years left to turn this future around, cool the fevers of your only hot and bothered home in the Universe right now. Neptune in Pisces brings great torrents to remind you that all is not new normal in 2012 and onwards to the brink of the next decade. Moreover, the floods Neptune brings are not only of water. We are drowning under the deluge of human beings in a population explosion that demographers around the world seem immune to factor into their projections of food and water demands. Its an amazing absence in their estimates as to what this civilization can sustain when another billion and another billion and even another billion every dozen or so years unto 2050, might pump the consumer human locust population to a horde of between nine to 10 billion hungry, thirsty souls. I sounded the alarm bell of this unsustainable river of human beings inundating the world on 21 December 2010 when the oracle announced: In the year 2011, have ears to hear the first random chimes of the unsustainable before the bell toll quickens, multiply, gathering chimes in number down a decade of denial until it rings in constant, cacophonous alarm. The year 2011 marks the crying advent of the seven-billionth child. The time the mainstream world will begin to experience the first inklings of a supersystem collapse to come in the 2020s. [the service, infrastructure, transport, political energy and economic systems that sustain human civilization] All of these supersystems are super-overstressed. You will recognize some of these fundamental systems showing undisputed symptoms of structural trouble ahead starting in 2011. Take for instance the supersystem of food growing and export A feverish Mother Nature kicked a pillar out of the global food supersystem in Russia in 2010. It wont be replaced in 2011 or any time soon, causing a shortfall in food sustainability for the poorer nations in Africa, the Caribbean, Mexico and South America

Famine is a common theme of all apocalyptic prophetic traditions. Likewise is drought. Without food and especially without water, civilization as we know it cant continue. A great leveling or decimation would proceed. We are perhaps a decade or more away from that. Theres time to change this, if you would all regard with sharp awareness and be aroused to alarm, by the first cracks appearing in the worldwide food and water system in the year 2011. Predictions for 2011
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The people flood during the time of Neptunes transit in Pisces will see a billion more born by 2026 when it moves into fiery Aries. Neptune in Aries (2026-2039) will mark the time fires of global warming will overwhelm civilizations ability to sustain itself. The last time Neptune transited Aries was during a period from 1861 through 1875. Historians mark the ten years of 1861-1871 as a time crowded with the highest number of simultaneous revolutions, nation conflicts and civil wars ever seen all over the world in one decade. Chief among these and most bloody were the American Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War and the uprising of the Paris Commune. Civil unrest at its peak will repeat itself in the 2020s. The human tide of numbers will rise to eight billion human burdens on resources in 2026. It will pour another 8.5 billion onto the planet by 2039. Calculate a far more crowded and sustenance strapped world forward a decade beyond the point of no return to a stabilized climate after 2017 and my oracle gives you the shape of world war to come. There will be a balkanization of the human civilization descending into a global plague of civil wars. World War Three will be a World War Free For All of 70 wars and counting when Neptune floods of water are jointed by a firestorm of climate wars fighting for whats left ungnawed, unhacked and unburned after 2026. When water overcasts Quakes Vanish the Ice to fire Volcanoes Varro in his Lingua Latina derived the name Neptune in the following way, because the sea covered the lands as the clouds the sky, from nuptus i.e. covering, as the ancients (used to say), whence nuptiae marriage, was named nuptus.
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As the oceans cover five-sixths of the Earth, they do press upon it in globally warmed times, adding sea level as glaciers recede. Since the Industrial Age stared belching the gas to melt them, the oceans have already risen eight inches per century (200 millimeters) about a foot, so far. It may be a small sum to a common sense, but think otherwise when you multiply that weight of one foot of extra water across the surface of this essentially ocean planet Earth. A sheet of water one foot deep was added since the Industrial Age began! Add another foot (13 inches actually) from 2012 to 2050. Its a pressure increasing every year a crushing weight of water down on many undersea tectonic plates. The increase of earthquakes and submarine volcanic eruptions is directly impacted if not induced by this pressure. Conversely, the ice evaporating in hotter skies shrinking snow packs and vast oceans of ice across volcanic islands, such as Iceland, relieves pressure on dry ground, causing it to rise like a foam mattress long suppressed by a reclining body will rise though not as fast to see with the naked eye in geologic time. The plates suppressed and tectonic plates released on land both will cause in an era of warmer climate change many more seismic events than seen in cooler atmospheric times. It often happens that great earthquakes take place a few days or a fortnight before or after the New or the Full Moon. For example, heres an abbreviated list of the greatest killer quakes of the 20th and 21st centuries. Note how often and with shocking regularity the great temblors and tsunamis occur when Uranus is in square or opposition to the Earth or other major planets like Mars, Pluto or Saturn. Great Chilean Quake, 22 May 1960, magnitude 9.5. The most powerful quake ever recorded by instruments happened when the Sun just transited out of Taurus (an earth sign, quakes) with a near square of Uranus in Leo three days before New Moon. Great Alaskan Quake, 27 March 1964 magnitude 9.3. Second largest quake ever seismically recorded happened when Uranus and Saturn were in opposing signs with Saturn in Pisces and Uranus in Virgo (an earth sign equals quakes!) one day before Full Moon! Tangshan, China, 27 July 1976, magnitude 7.5. Perhaps the greatest killer quake recorded in modern times with an unofficial death toll exceeding 600,000 souls. Uranus was in Scorpio in an approximate square of Mars, Saturn and the Sun in Leo on a New Moon day!

Bandar Aceh Sumatran Quake and Indian Ocean Tsunami, 26 December 2004, magnitude 9.1 to 9.3. The second largest quake in history recorded by seismograph caused a death toll mostly generated by a tsunami that unofficially killed over 300,000 people. Uranus and Pluto were at work again in a near grand T Square of a near Uranus in Pisces opposition with Mars in Virgo and Pluto in Sagittarius. It would seem that quakes do not always happen exactly on grand T-squares but within the approximate time and location of these. The quake did happen exactly on a Full Moon day! The Haitian Quake, 12 January 2010, magnitude 7.0. Killed over 300,000 people and made a million homeless. Three days before New Moon on 15 January. Chilean Quake, 27 February 2010, magnitude 8.8. The seventh largest earthquake ever measured shook the coastline off Concepcin unleashing a killer tsunami into four Chilean fishing ports. A more moderate tsunami raced across the Pacific Ocean requiring millions of people around the Pacific Rim to evacuate their shores. The Moon was in Virgo squared Jupiter in Pisces. Uranus was also 23 degrees Pisces, one day before Full Moon on 28 February. Tohoku Quake and Tsunami, 11 March 2011, magnitude 9.0. Uranus (ruler of sudden surprises, upheaval) was in the last most intense degree of Pisces (ruler of oceans, tsunamis) before it passed into the combustible fire sign of Aries on 13 March with a flourish. Reactor 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant had a hydrogen explosion and suffered a partial meltdown on the last day of Uranus in Pisces. Then Reactor 3 also blew up its outer building around the nuclear reactor's containment vessel harboring a possible meltdown within the reactor core on the first day of Uranus transiting Aries (an astrological marriage of nasty surprises). This happened less than six days from New Moon and one day before a First Quarter Moon squared Earth 90 degrees.
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economic crisis and social revolutions. No one should rule out a literal earthquake a few days in or out of Full and New Moons of May through November 2012 bringing volcanic eruptions in Alaska, Antarctica and especially a resumption of great ash cloud belching volcanic events in Iceland. Theres a mysterious interaction between natural and human upheavals at the end and beginning of ages as if one begets the other. Brace for a large quake in early May with the Scorpio Full Moon in the most powerful of Sun-Moon oppositions of the year. The New Moon has an annular solar eclipse on 20 May chance for Japans tectonic plates to erupt at the mouth of Tokyo harbor. Also late May 2012 will bring the eclipse over the Northern Californian region. Theres a big Californian big temblor expected by my oracle for a few years now. The dating has been off but the presence of this quake coming grows in the oracles vision more to the south, to east of San Diego, to the Palmdale Bulge east of Los Angeles. A total eclipse in the Southern Hemispheric spring on 13 November brings to oracular mind a danger of a tsunami spreading from the direction of Chile towards Australia and the South Pacific Islands. When Uranus in Aries Squares Pluto in Capricorn, watch the Full Moon of early July in Capricorn opposed Sun in Cancer, squared Aries Uranus for a major temblor in California, Japan or China. The same alertness required to prepare oneself for an earthquake or volcanic eruption must sharpen a few days before, during and a few days after after the Full Moon in Aries opposed Virgo Sun around 30 September. This Full Moon has the hottest potential for something volcanically seismic happening in the world because Uranus is conjunct the Full Moon, in Square with Pluto (earth sign) and opposed the Sun in Libra (balancer knocked out of balance)! Watch these places for quakes: Central and Southern California, Cascadia (the Seattle/Portland region); the New Madrid fault line (Missouri), especially the South Asian and Chinese regions of the Himalayan mountain range. The powerful Piscean Neptune also brings tsunami dangers from quakes and floods. Though people watch with growing concern the submarine eruptions off the Canary Islands, I do not see a serious event in 2012. Watch for more reports in 2012 on seismic events posted regularly at Hogueprophecy.com.

CHAPTER 7 Primates in Primaries for President
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I must confess as I finish conceptual edits on this chapter on the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (7 December 2011), Im waiting with bated breath and guilty anticipation for episode 12 of what has to be the worst American reality show ever created so far. Its a Washington DC wonks American Idol audition light on the audit of fact, heavy on ideological hyperbole. Its an eye pop GOP-ing variant of the Big Brother and Survivor shows embracing the breathless and ugly American moments one finds when watching The Great Race. Its like that cable reality show The Runway pitting models of future potential presidents in a clash of red striped, white starry-eyed and true blue conservative alpha male and female egos. Theyre trapped on stage, shamelessly duking it out to climb the poll dance to the top for a week or two before publically embarrassing tilts, gaffs, blank outs, flameouts and sex scandals drop them down to single digit popularity as the one least likely to be nominated by the Republican Party candidate for the anybody but Obama ticket. The gang gathers at different venues around the nation, hosted by a hot potato pass every couple of weeks from one national, cable, PBS network to another. (Im still lobbying for the ESPN episode, American football pads optional.) Each red-white and blue neon bathed stage becomes the arena of a virtual TV coliseum where the most avid viewers the establishment core conservatives and rebellious Tea Partiers throng. This Roman Republican mob is hungry for some bread and circuses or some red buffalo wing meat right wings only. Enter the usually red tie, white shirted and blue monkey suited guys and one Nancy Reagan red dressed gal gladiator hominids into the zoo cage stage for their next thumbs up or down
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delivered after the gladius thrust and rickety Perry of questions lunged by TVs talking-headed hosts. Those who are about to die in the popularity polls salute you! So, as Im writing this on Pearl Harbor Day, its a good time to review whos already been bombed or sunk, or like many of the blasted out hulks of Battleship Row, has or may be yet salvaged to fight another day. When the debates began last May, a plethora of political stillbirths werent TV reality show friendly or popular enough even to be invited. There was Jack Fellure (rhymes too much with failure), Buddy Roemer (sounds too Animal House, like Dean Wormer), Fred Karger (rhymes with Nightmare on Elms Street Freddy Krueger), along with Andy Martin and Thaddeus McCotter. (Really now, can there ever be a President Thaddeus, welcome back Kotter?). Last but not least of rejects, Jimmy McMillan (Not McMillan and Wife again, thats so 1970s) and Jonathon Sharkey (sounds too much like Jonathon Livingston Seagull-Jaws without political teeth). The girl most anticipated and desired was a real tease for many months but ultimately a no-show. Once again, Sarah Palin, the former Governor of Alaska who abandoned her job in Juneau, was ever the coquettish, constant quitter. The political sorcerers apprentice Donald Trump was fired before there was an Apprentice team chosen for this Republican version of what could be called a Survivor-America show. The Donald had indulged his sleight of bombast Obama birth certificate campaign pitch. As the hot air balloon of controversy swelled to national attention, the chief executive of the United States proffered the original birth certificate proving he was born in America, was an American citizen despite the skin color and wasnt a Kenyan alien. Poof went floofy-haired Trumps trick. Thus only the Donald could declare his national embarrassment a victory and step out of the running (for now). Those supernumerary hopefuls who made it to their podium at the early debates, such as former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, were early victims. Johnson went down all wet in the first debate like it was his first day on Survivor when all the folks are thrown overboard in their best street clothes to swim the length of the coral lagoon to their tropical island camp and hamster wheel circus obstacle courses. The first evolution of the Survivor tribe of candidates was forming, dumping the weaklings, like former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty. He followed Johnson to Survivor ignominy after episode three. By episode four we finally had our cast lined up like ducks in a row of podiums for months to come. The one and only woman in the group deemed most likely to succeed, Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachman, was mosh pitted and spat out bouncing off the polls after a few debatable rounds. A lot of politically right-leaning Americans may
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not believe in evolution, but the Creationist audience watched a Darwinian battle for survival of the fittest. With Bachman down, she shared the bottom with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich who began the debates already tossed down to the bottom of the conservative food chain. Then, on came a new and Lone Star in Big Brothers house, aswaggerin in from Texas. Governor Rick Perry sauntered into the fray in his cowboy boots. An early leader and promoter of the Tea Party movement, expectations were high in the Republican coliseum. Had they found a Maximus Russell to Crowe about? Perry was charismatic. He was Black Angus haired, red Republican masculine. Ah shucks! He even had that Ronnie Reagan big hair. Then that tall, dark and handsome, drop-dead gorgeous cowboy opened his big mouth, forgot his lines and couldnt count to three how many agencies he would cut from big government. Oops! Down goes Perry. He died in the polls with his cowboy boots on. Up came Citizen Cain, the talk radio host, motivational speaker Herman Cain and former CEO of Godfathers Pizza. Now there at last was the angry, straight talking, no bullshit tolerating, black guy a lot of liberals secretly wished the cerebral Mr. Spock Obama might have been and might still be. Cain became a Hurri-Cain in the polls. He proselytized a new kind of politics from an outsider who didnt give a damn what was Washingtonian etiquette. The coliseum crowd gave him the thumbs up. He wasnt Washington AC-DC and BTW: for the RNC, and the GOP, he was OK. Cain had a good run as top gladiator, the longest of any so far. Then Cains campaign manager blew smoke in the camera with weird political ads and the former CEO pizza dough flip-flopper started to flummox in the oven of hot kitchen media attention about his past purported philandering, all of which Cain still vigorously denies. When the rumors first broke, Cain forgot, and then remembered a string of one, was it two? Yes! I remember three women at least, who sallied forth claiming sexual misconduct from a little raising of Mr. Cain when he was President and CEO of the National Restaurant Association. With time, his memory got better. The CEO apparently let others in the association he ran settle with the three ladies out of court. Though Cain was talking, the ladies remained silent due to being paid hush money. Just like the Orson Welles movie classic, Citizen Kane, Herman Cain had his sex scandals exposed but he boldly and blindly went on campaigning in his own fictional-farcical run for Republican nomination.
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Out popped a buxom fourth woman, Sharon Bailek. She had no hush money agreement and the world got all the purported grope-the-groin and below the belt blowjob details. Cain couldnt even remember meeting her. It was so long ago, years ago. Actually, it was weeks ago to be exact. Witnesses saw Cain smiling and speaking with the curvaceous blonde at a Cain rally. I may be losing count but then woman number five appeared. It was purported by Ginger White that she and Cain had a long-term adulterous relationship lasting for years. At last, Republican coliseum watchers heads began to explode. Thumbs started turning Cain down, big time. Cain removed himself from the race and former Georgia Congressman and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich got an adultery bounce in the polls. Unlike Cain, the three-time white wife-cheater had his sins forgiven by the Religious Right because of his public contrition displayed long before. Thus Newt zoomed to the top of the polls by early December 2011, praise Jesus! Every reality show loves a comeback. Every reality show also needs some guy who never makes it to the top yet weaves his way around the fringes of the dogfight but never gets knocked off the show because hes weird enough and thoughtprovoking enough as a fringe personality to keep viewers coming for some more. What will Snooki say or do next? in a political context, of course. Texas Congressman Ron Paul is that guy. Hes the Libertarian mouse that roars and even though his rambling syntaxical banter and squeaky voice are about as unpresidential as Peter Sellers playing President Merkin Muffley in Stanley Kubricks Doctor Strangelove, Ron Paul looks and sometimes is a wise and clean shaven version of a GOP Gandalf. He thinks out of the box in a breathtaking way as if hes gone Jedi as if hes sometimes a reedy voiced, excitable and breathless version of Obi-Ron Paulnobi. Every reality mosh pit needs the guy playing parent. The fellow who takes on the role of straight Ozzy-and-Harriet man to the comic sidekicks. Now children! Children! Count to ten and lets be reasonable. I speak of former Utah Governor Jon Harriet Nelson Huntsman. He plays the Big Brother house mom nobody listens to. There also has to be those Survivor participants who cant seem to un-geek themselves out of the background. They get no respect. Theres got to be a former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum in the Survivor Island sanitarium, who just might yet be that forgettable middle child everyone in a big raucous family ignores until he makes his move to success unexpected.
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(Naaaaught for long at least!) Like I said earlier, no reality show is a hit without a lot of comeback kids. Newt Gingrich right now is pulling ahead as Herman has a Cane crash in flames over sex scandals. So theres how RNC Survivor America stands on 7 December 2011. Were all caught up now. Hmm did I miss anybody? (Pause) Im kidding, Im kidding! Yes, yes, now Ill mention him. The guy thats Mr. Constant Winner no matter who you love more that launches, crashes and burns. Hes like Rich nude man Hatch or Boston Rob Mariano the contestant on Survivor you love to hate who you cant help watching while you yell at the TV screen as he does his slippery fish-flip-flops out of obstacle nets set by the others. He gets away with it, poisson-politicing like a peche master, ever set to spawn near or at the top of the polls, ever an existential threat swimming on as your fleeting favorites drown. I speak of that Mormon mullet Mitt in the running that a majority of Republican Christian evangelicals love to hate yet may have to hold their noses at all his mutable, moderate fishiness and vote that Pisces native of Michigan on to victory in the primaries. If Republicans cant find a conservative anybody but Governor of Mass. Mitt Romney, then hes the moderate anybody but Barack Obama you Seattle Salmon throw at the Presidential Elections come 6 November 2012. I mean look how this slippery fellow even gets around the Survivor rejects set to judge the others still in the game. The Donald is back. At the time of this writing Trump is scheduled to host the Republican debates Apprentice theme episode in Iowa on 27 December. The Apprentice is my favorite reality show. I never switch it on until the last 15 minutes of the inexorable board room scene when Donald decides which screw-up will require he deliver his iconic, New York drawling Youre fired line. I mean, just imagine Gingrich, Bachman, Perry, Paul, etc., sitting across the boardroom table with the pouting master of ceremonies under the hair holding court. To his right, the princeling son Donald Jr. To his left, princess daughter Ivanka, both echoing daddy, whilst coolly eviscerating the apprentice presidents to be. Thats what I wouldve liked to see on 27 December, but there will be no boardroom set, just the same old podiums. Trump garish gold interiors will be neon red, white and bluish again, like Fox News sets on steroids. Ron Paul declined to appear on Donalds apprentice and pony show. The den
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mother Harriet Jon Huntsman also waved off an appearance on something just too reality show for a process that may help serious people pick a president of the United States. Romney politely slipped out of the net for other reasons. Because of scheduling conflicts. Bachman is still considering a date with the Donald on the 27 December event. Rick Perry has no comment and when he finds where he forgot his comment, well know if hes on or opting out. Newt Gingrich, Donalds current favorite apprentice for prez. is on board, as is Rick Santorum, who could do no better and perhaps no worse in the polls if the Donald said, Youre fired! A Prime-merry Mess of Astrologically Mutable Stars Huntsman is an Aries, Cain is a Sagittarian, Newt Gingrich is Gemini, Santorum is Taurus and Ron Paul is a Leo just like the liberal Antichrist from Kenya they all wish to unseat in a Republican Change we can be Heavin out of the oval office. Its a nice astrological spread. Yet, a surprising number of key candidates are a bit fishy astrologically speaking, that is. Michelle Bachman, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney are all born under Pisces. Bachmans birth time is unclear in the register records. She may be born an Aries but (Update: 19 December 2011) About sidereal-Vedic composites such as those created a week or so after I wrote about the by Curtis Burns (starworldnews.com) present a Newsmax Debate, Donald Trump announced he wouldnt moderate the good astrological argument that shes a late Pisces Donald Trump debate. It couldnt be at 25 degrees of the sign with Mercury conjunct because only two candidates, Santorum and Gingrich, were the only hope- the Sun in Pisces. fuls attending. The Donald explained Perrys Sun in Pisces at 13 degrees makes an that he might step back into the ring and make an independent run for the exact Sun-sign trine to the Natal Sun of the USA White House. birth chart, 13 degrees Cancer. Texas produces some powerful aspects in its candidates with the US Sun Sign. President G.W. Bush had his Sun at 13 degrees Cancer. If youre a Republican and an astrologer who believes the USA was born with Scorpio rising, Mitt Romney is your man. His natal Sun at 21 degrees Pisces trines
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an exact Jupiter-Moon conjunction at 27 degrees Scorpio! Looking at the charts of all the guys and one gal left standing, prepping for another dozen episodes coming in 2012s primary season of Survivor (Republican Island), Id have to say destinys stars shine most happily on Perry and Romney. They may be the last two standing without having to put their tribal fire torches out and take an ego deflating walk down the wooden bridge past the tiki lamps and prefab skulls of decapitated Democrats before stepping out of the firelight into the black embrace of dark Republican Island jungles of primary defeat. Then again, your stars dont preordain success or failure. It depends on your souls character, or, if you are a politician, it depends on having as little soul as possible and being a real character able to grin and schmoose, woo and fool the hysterical American voters that youre the change they can believe in. If you on the right of my readership think Im being unfairly harsh in this chapter with my biting barbs if I spike your red Republican high blood pressure because with what reads like a liberal Democrats diatribe think again. Ive never been a Democrat. Im a former member of the Republican Party who sought his independence when my Grand Old Party got fundamentalist religion and politically stupid. Im someone who supported California Governor Ronald Reagan before he got to the White House and got off movie script. Im that guy who always took the Nixon side in school debates at Ridgecrest Junior High in 1968. I wouldve voted for Senator Goldwater, but was too young. I did vote for Gerald Ford against Carter. Im in love with that other Roosevelt (Teddy Roosevelt) who busted Capitalist monopolies reformed the banks whilst being a conservative and a conservationist at the same time by creating the US National Parks. Im now a former Nixon man who supported his establishing the EPA, the Clean Water Act, Tri-lateral Diplomacy with China and the Soviet Union. I understood why he needed to drag out for years his often-unpopular realpolitik hardnosed and patient peace negotiations with Hanoi. Nixon did get American forces out of Vietnam with some honor salvaged out of that Democrat-induced quagmire of Kennedy and Johnsons making. Im so old fashion conservative Republican Party that Im branded a liberal in todays primeval extreme right-leaning GOP. The Grand Old Party now seems to stand for God-awful Overlording Party. Its become a zealot religion rather than a political party that often brought down to earth the hysterical, excitable, throw-money-ateverything Democrats and asked them to be progressively practical, penny saving, rational in their policies, pay what you owe, dont spend more than you have, when you dream. My party used to have a wise Elephant as its totem, not an immoderate,
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irrational rogue Elephant of extreme right-wing trumpeting. I was born in Hollyweird California, son of a mother and father in the movie biz. Dad helped build the sets to many a movie classic (The Band Wagon, Orson Welles The Stranger) in the 1940s and 1950s. My mom was an MGM dancer backing up Esther Williams in her water ballets (Neptunes Daughter) or dancing in chorus lines behind Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (The Barkleys of Broadway). Anyway, Im from Hollywood. Im in the business myself as my many television appearances over the last 25 years attest. I know overexposure when I see it. I have a message for the Republican National Committee and the TV production companies theyve hired. Stop flooding the market with interminable debates or face GOP fatigue in 2012. Its hard to egg my oracle on to divine what will happen next to a gathering of losers. American people may seek more adult candidates to run in 2016 one of these being John Huntsman who seems to be in this current episode of RNC Survivor just to pave the way for a Celebrity Survivor comeback in 2016. Yes, even a Mormon might have a chance then. Our current childish politics may have matured enough to elect an African American as president in 2008. With so many Americans facing obesity even a fat man like Gingrich could tip the political scales and become the first porker president since William Taft shook the foundations of the White House in the early 20th century. Indeed there could even be enough moderate voters out there in 2012 who would pick a Mormon as their president Nah it wont happen because the typical core, evangelical Christian Republican thinks Mormonism is a cult. In a way it is. A cult, like Christianity for instance, doesnt become a religion until it attains mainstream political power, like it did when Roman Emperor Constantine needed allies for his civil war and legalized the Christian cult with its Prince of Peace, Jesus H. Christ. Romney needs a scarlet woman to distract the base from his Mormon problem. It must be remembered: Campaign Mitt, Part One in 2008, lost to McCain in a moderate vs. moderate fight mostly leaving the Republican base cool-to-cold, feeling ideologically deprived. I believe McCain made the 2008 election a far closer race against Obama than it wouldve been by picking Sarah Palin as his VP choice. That was his desperate attempt to give right wing sex to his sagging moderate candidacy. It worked. He still lost but by a respectable margin of eight percent of the popular vote.
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Now then, theres a good chance the guy who lost to McCain will remain standing throughout the 2012 Republican primary campaign always near or at the lead. Campaign Mitt Part Two in this extreme political climate will be even less appealing to the Christian fundamentalists and the Right wing core than McCain. Just for the oracular record, I need to remind you that in Predictions for 2008, my oracle foresaw Romney as a two-faced campaigner but a surprisingly good president if he were ever elected. Thats a destiny even harder to achieve now in 2012. Hell have to pole vault over the right-leaning core of the GOP and theyre raising the bar too righteously high. Will he do the McCain? Will he actually invite Sarah Palin to be his VP running mate? In what will be the most wacky election year in my lifetime, anything illogical is possible and since this is a feminine era, a deepening Cosmic Night, Romney politically is a Fred Astaire needing a Ginger Rogers to give him sex while moderate Mickey Mouse Romney Astaire gives Palin political class Dancing with the Stars. Romney might go for the evangelical sidekick angle and woo former Arkansas Governor and 2008 Republican primary candidate Mike Huckabee back into the race to win the South. Mitt wont be caught in a ticket with the other fishy politician, Rick Perry. Theyre too alike. Each is comparable to the Siamese Fighting Fish, each alone in their tanks, gills distended, sail fins fluttering, each looking to pick a fight with his own reflection. On Pearl Harbor night, 2011, Im writing a month out from the Elephant race even officially starting with the Iowa Caucus. Im not very good at picking wholl be on top on the losing side like the reality show, The Biggest Loser. Romney seems set to win in the primaries by default or the fault of his adversaries farther to the right, self-destructing. Dont rule out Perry making a comeback when the real primary season begins and we see the southern primary state elections perhaps give him a resurgent bounce. Bush, like Perry, was also bad at debating and he won two terms as president. I might be comparing dumb with dumber, but like Bush, Perry has instinct on his side. Good politician instincts. Good enough to stay relevant in the race at least for a longer time than most would grant possible after his blank outs and oops moments. Newt Gingrich solidifies in early December his front-runner status filling the Citizen Cain void. Gingrich is a Gemini, the sign of the twins and multiple personality. On Pearl Harbor night, Im enjoying the feisty, brainy good twin Gingrich the professorial, visionary, calm and authoritative. The evil twin, the naughty Newt, that braggadociously mean and cutting darker twin, may yet make its appearance even
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before I complete writing this book on 21 December 2011. To use a Lord of the Rings metaphor, if nice Smagol Nice Newt can win its twin-personality battle with its nasty Gollum Baaad Newt, keeping him under wraps, then Smagol Gingrich could make its run for the precious. The ring of Republican Power might be wrapped around his chubby pinkie at the Republican Convention held in Tampa, Florida, in late August 2012. I dont rule out the American voting public going Lady Gaga with all the powerful Pisces feminine collective mood swings and other irrational mutability playing with the stars of 2012. All but three candidates currently running at the time of this writing are born under mutable Sun signs. They are Ron Paul, who is a Leo (ruling fixed, ordered and organized mindedness), Jon Huntsman, the Aries (a cardinal leadership sign), and Rick Santorum the Taurus (earth sign of practicality). Set against them are the mutable signs, such as Cain, dropping out recently. Hes a Sagittarian and like the straight shooting archer, Cain sometimes shot first and asked questions later, ultimately shooting his political bolt. Theres Newt Gingrich (Gemini multi dimensional or schizophrenic); and a school of Piscean fish: Bachman, Perry and Romney. Mutable fish in political guise means they can change their story to swim down current with the direction of public mind. Neptunes return to Pisces and Saturn beginning its two-year transit in Scorpio could conjure in candidates and upon the collective human hive-mind, subtle and hidden enemies the darker angels of a mass-minded mob nature. If one of these Piscean candidates survives to be the Republican candidate, the muddleheaded watery times and collective minds of voters could wash him or her close to the goal: beating Obama (the fixed organized Leo) in the last weeks of the campaign. I dont foresee Piscean Bachman surviving that far. Of the two other sockeye salmon Piscean pols (Perry and Romney), Romney most likely has the best chance. Oh Ross Perot the GOP! Now, if Romney is the Republican candidate running against Obama, I dont rule out a third party rebellion a schism of the Tea Party movement breaking loose from its coalition with the Republican Party. They could run their own candidate more to push home a point: the GOP cant win elections ObiRon-Paulnobi without staying in the far right lane, playing chicken with traffic, on the political road. They might organize the most significant
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third party run for office since Ross Perot in 1992. One might even prophetically allow a comeback for Sarah Palin as a third party bull moose from Alaska candidate. Her return is an insanely long shot though. I predicted this notorious tease and quitter would put an end to her political ambitions when she abandoned her job as a capable Alaskan governor to work as a gadfly commentator for Fox News. Later she titillated and then deflated expectations that shed run for president in 2012. Palin shares a bad habit with Ross Perot, who ran the most significant third party campaign in recent memory. He quit, and then returned to the campaign in 1992. Palin may return too, if only to flirt with political destiny at the expense of the nation. Then it will be back to Alaska to shoot her TLC clan of the cave bears reality show with family and caribou. If the Tea Party schism doesnt actually manifest into a third Party run, it will happen passively when a party of right wing core voters sit on their hands and dont vote. One third party run on my oracles radar screen might give the Libertarian Party its most significant number of votes ever in a presidential election. Think Ron Paul as a real third party threat in 2012. Hell be 77 come August 2012 and has already announced that hell not be seeking reelection as a Texas Republican Congressman. Ron Pauls last hurrah in politics would be going out with a bang if he comes out of the political closet to declare himself a Libertarian presidential candidate, shedding the Republican disguise for the last time. Hes already the elder statesman and visionary heart and soul of the Tea Party movement. He could rally a significant number of them, both electorate and elected, away from the GOP leadership and establishment in the most effective protest vote gathered against Washington DC Republican politics yet ventured by the constitutional reformist movement. Meet the right-wing Ralph Nader, the Libertarian spoiler with perhaps something more positive as a legacy too. I predict Ron Paul, if he runs on the Libertarian ticket, will match, if not exceed Ross Perots polling numbers. He will AT LAST appear as his true political self at the end of his long public career, on the ultimate Survivor America show: the nationally televised presidential debates between incumbent President Obama and the Republican candidate. Like Perot twenty years ago in 1992, he can shape the national debate if not win the White House in 2012. The Man who Can beat Obama Lets go back to political presage-able realities. The man moderate enough to perhaps beat Obama has the wrong religion: the
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Mormon Romney. The man who would and I believe could definitely beat Obama has the wrong name: Jeb Bush. With such a politically Uranian year ahead, prone to sudden surprises, I cant rule out the last minute arrival of President G.W. Bushs younger brother, the former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, into the fray. He would play the Bobby Kennedy maneuver. In 1968 when Johnson decided not to run and super-liberal Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy was too dull and unappealing for moderate Democrat support, Senator Robert Kennedy filled the void. In 2012, it would be good for the Republicans to choose a more electable moderate than a Romney or a GOP Eugene McCarthy, like Newt Gingrich. Theyve got to insert somebody into the Jeb Bush. race who can appeal to both the independent moderates and the Republican right, because Romney isnt going to appeal to the latter. Jeb Bush is that candidate. Of course, if Jeb would run, the liberal press would paint him with the same G.W. Bush brush. That attack dog dont hunt. Because when Jeb opens his mouth and begins to share his vision, he would exorcise himself from sibling stigmas very soon. J. Bush can speak to moderates and the right. He can run on a solid record as a capable former governor of Florida. That role includes a solid record as a crisis manager during episodes of climate change. In Tallahassee, Jeb Bush ably managed emergency services when Florida was assaulted by a record number of tropical storms and hurricanes during the 2005 season when at the same time his older brother George mismanaged a public relations disaster with FEMAs sorry showing in New Orleans after the levies broke and flooded the city because of Hurricane Katrina. Jeb, like his brother before him, can woo the all-important Hispanic vote. He speaks fluent Spanish and more. Hes married to Mexican born philanthropist Columba Garnica Gallo (Bush) and converted to Catholicism, the dominant Christian faith of Hispanics. In 2012, Latinos will make the difference in tight elections of important states and will shift perhaps Arizona and certainly Colorado, Florida, Indiana, New Mexico, Nevada and Virginia to the candidate that takes a moderate and sympathetic side on Hispanic voter issues. Obama adopted his own nuanced, moderate approach by watching G.W. Bushs 2004 successful bid for reelection, applying the lesson to victory in his own presidential bid in 2008.
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If a GOP candidate against Obama can succeed in 2012, he will have to tone down the anti-Hispanic rhetoric after the primaries shift to a national audience. Nixon used to say about politically driving through Republican primaries that you have to swing hard right into the John Bircher extreme to catch the pivotal WhiteRight-Fright-wing elements, but once youve been bathed in a balloon shower at the Republican Convention, swing to the center-left to win a national presidential election. It seems unlikely with the polarization of our times that a GOP candidate waving the snake totem of the Dont Tread on Me Tea Party flag can shed that snakes xenophobic skin to soften a deepening, anti-immigrant, anti-Hispanic Republican Party platform. Republicans need to engage the millions calling themselves the 99-percenters. Find common ground with this next evolution of a peaceful American revolution that the Tea Party movement began in 2009-2010. The Republican Party is perceived as a party of the rich. Whether this label is fair or not, being publicly identified as the party of Wall Street will be bad publicity in 2012. Surely, the title could be pinned just as much on the Democrats with their millionaire and billionaire interests but this glue sticks on the Republican Party far better because of their openly strident resistance to taxing the wealthiest one-percent. The winning party will be the one most convincingly playing Main Street at least through the election year; otherwise, a lot of those 99-percenters will vote against it in the scapegoat fever I foresee running rampant in 2012. You politicians, muzzling either on the left or right of the corporate pig troth must give up a mollifying grunt or two of public displeasure against the wealthy hand feeding you, as least until after the elections. Speaking of the one-percenters, Obama, who is a millionaire, got into office financed by Wall Street investment. He bailed them out without strings attached. Hes theirs. Some of you followers of Obama may protest. What I just described is the perception of Obama and perception in politics is higher than truth. When the American Spring movement arises in the spring of 2012, Obama will have to choose. His one-percenter Wall Street handlers wont finance his 2012 election if he embraces the reforms of the 99-percenters in the street. I think Obama will follow his usual habit trying at first to play up to both sides. Then hell have to actually stand for something, at least long enough to assure a second term. (Hey, its nice being the president. You get a great house, a $2,000 swing set for the kids as a gift. On a whim, you can take your wife Michelle on a date and dinner in New York by just ordering up the taxpayers taxi, a US Air Force transport (a little more discrete than flying in Air Force One) just for the two of you for a night out on the town. Its good being the king. Amazing pension, unlimited
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Obama care, bodyguards, and how about a high five for that fantasy jet plane called Air Force One to campaign in) A few words about Obamas chief rival in the 2008 Democratic primary elections and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Many readers ask my oracle about a surprise 2012 run against Obama. My answer: bumper stickers promoting Hillary Clinton for President in 2012 are quite remote. It wont happen short of Obama being unable to run for office because of illness, impeachment, death or assassination. The oracle doesnt foresee any of this. Near misses in assassination attempts are potentially there, but the karma of Lincolns assassination out of which was created the US Secret Service will successfully protect President Obama who had a karmic connection with Lincoln. If that timeline of tragedy should somehow be engaged, Hillary Clinton in an alternate future would run and win in 2012 against all comers. Sometimes a sure destiny is undermined because people actually do have free will to change the future. It only appears preordained because human conditioning feeds predictable repetitious behavior. Obama jumped the gun of his own destiny in 2008, coming to power too soon and too green. If that timeline hadnt happened, Hillary Clinton would be running for her second term in office in 2012. Where this fanciful alternative future meets the future more likely is a switch of Hillary Clinton with Joe Biden for the posts of Vice President and Secretary of State. Something many crystal ball gazers fantasized a year or so ago. My oracle doesnt see it happening. Whatever does happen in 2012 will be a staging ground for Hillary Clinton running in 2016, though she may have a hard primary fight against Al Gore to get through first before a showdown with Jeb Bush in 2016. Yes, Al Gore could return. Im full of a lot of prophetic hot air about this. Your greenhouse gas did it, making the prophet of global warming a serious candidate by 2016 to lead the country and the world away from fossil fuel addiction because by then global warming will be finally seen as a potentially America-ending, civilizationending danger. Who best to lead than the president elect of 2000 that never was, yet who saw it coming? The Electoral Mandate of Mayhem Each year we plumb deeper into the feminine potentials of the Cosmic Night cycle where hearts in a crowd are carried away from reasoning minds. At its beginning in 2008, people used to think Change was synonymous with good. Then they got Obama as their president. In 2012, people think different is synonymous with a good change from Obama. You can define collective insanity
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working in history when a people do exactly the same stupid thing under the influence of changing the political slogans and expecting there will be a different outcome. Stupid under these stars can be a new virtue in 2012. Have you ever seen a presidential candidate before these times actually increase their popularity in the polls by misreading the basics of American history? For example, Michelle Bachmans polls jumped early on when she consistently sang the virtues of the shot heard round the world starting the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord in New Hampshire. (It was Massachusetts.) Herman Cain crammed enough foreign policy study to tell us how important it is to prevent China from getting atomic weapons. (China has been a nuclear power since 1964!!). Before his blowjob, girl groin grabbing scandal had teeth, his polls improved due to a proudly failing grasp on history and geo-politics. You have to ask yourself, if youre still a Republican as I used to be: Would you witness Eisenhower, Goldwater, Nixon or Ford deliver such gaffs? Could you even imagine it? Now stupid seems to be the new normal. Ignorance is a virtue. Democracy becomes Idiotcracy. The last Cosmic Night Cycle began with FDR and Hitler influencing the national mindset. Were at a time now when a new economic crisis and political uncertainty has the masses hunger for a new demagogue to inspire a nation to take a historic direction of change. Will todays Cosmic Night lit politicians and potential presidents propagate a more positive new deal or another kind of fear based Third Reich? Or, will leaderless people simply vote for a new kind of tyrant: General Chaos? The substandard quality of the candidates is pitted in a fight to unseat the disappointing messiah of change in the White House in 2012. Its another sign that we must make this coming year the beginning of the end of stupid, or else. You could get some Godfather of Pizza-brained geo-politically ignorant mediocrity, letting him waste four years of your time your history, running out learning how to be a political executive in the highest of unearned offices, like the current US President apprentice. Well, Im raising Cain, just to make the point. Theres still a lot of unqualified candidates left standing at the Survivor Political Island podiums. Whatever the silly slogan, if this awakening mass of people in common cause and common rage gathering out of the political Left and Right to converge in a great American middle doesnt sense either party is listening, there will be no place for them to adequately form or finance a third party movement. We are in an era of people revolutions from the Arab Spring to the oncoming American Spring that are leaderless masses. Like the Egyptians in the early stages of the Arab Spring revolts in early 2011, the Americans in 2012 will mistrust all their government institutions
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except their military, until that too is used against them. Egyptian and American alike try to compel a government oligarchy in Egypt; or, a two-faced, lobby controlled, Corporate political monopoly called DemocratRepublican in America, to listen to the voice and grievances of the people. Frustrations seen in Egypt will be seen in America in 2012. The feeling will deepen the potential of violent rebellion when the mob perceives a ruling government isnt listening, is just shuffling leaders around, but not letting the people into their hearts. That is why 2012 is so pivotal for Americas future and as a deep breath taken before what direction revolutions around the world will plunge in the next decade: either towards peaceful or violent destiny. Its a kind of Mayan Calendar end time moment if the movement of US politics in the most economically and politically powerful nation in the world doesnt turn away from the creep of corporate control back to representative democracy. Otherwise, in years not long after 2012, peaceful protesters may have to storm the White House; storm the US Capitol building like the unheard and uncared for masses of France stormed the kings Palace of Versailles in 1789, or like the Russians stormed the czars Winter Palace in 1917. If it goes that far, a radicalized, undemocratic world is waiting for all of us.

CHAPTER 8 Prophecies For Presidential Election Night
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Well, here we go again. I roll the crystal ball in a crapshoot predicting who will win a US presidential election by popular vote. Appropriately this is my 12th crap shoot since I started back when Richard Nixon beat Hubert Humphrey in 1968 falls on election year 2012. So far, Im 11 and 0. That includes the controversial choice of Vice President Al Gore over G.W. Bush in the 2000 election. I had appeared on a number of radio shows, such as the Jeff Rense Program the week before the vote delivering my oracles cryptic message. I said Gore would win by 500,000 popular votes but I chased that by saying my oracles prediction would be equally right and wrong. I admitted on national radio more than once that this messenger didnt understand the cryptic message. The right and wrong prophecy was exactly fulfilled. Gore did win the popular vote by a half-million over Texas Governor G.W. Bush. An American majority had chosen the next president. Yet, a disputed recount in Florida gave Bush the electoral voting edge in a key state over Gore by several hundred recounted ballots. In addition, a full recount of the state was denied by the right-wing leaning US Supreme Court. In short, 500,000 more citizens of the US chose the president as Gore because the US still elects its presidents with 18thcentury rules. Citizens never vote for the president, all delusional belief aside. They
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vote for electors who then choose the president. If a majority of votes in your state lean to the Republican side, all the electors vote in the Republican candidate or vice versa. The will of a 500,000-edge in voters was erased by the politics of eight Supreme Court judges voting five to four in favor of stopping a recount in Florida. Theres very strong evidence to show that if the entire state had been recounted, Gore votes mismanaged in Republican controlled counties alone couldve seen him win Florida by upwards of 20,000 votes! Theres even clearer evidence that one ballot design mix-up in Palm Beach County decided the race for Bush with the aid of the Democrats. The now infamous butterfly punch ballot, designed by the Democrat controlled county government had misaligned the punch holes so that thousands of people in a very liberal county double punched on Gore and right-wing Independent candidate Pat Buchanan. With the Supreme Court stopping a more thorough, statewide recount, Bush was allowed to take Florida with little over 300 votes in the preliminary recount. The double punched ballots from Palm Beach County were disqualified in that count. Even Pat Buchanan didnt believe he received 6,607 votes over Gore in a heavily liberal county. I bring up this issue of the 2000 vote because astrology would indicate we could be heading for another butterfly ballot bung-up in 2012. On the day of the election, 6 November, there will be stationary retrograde Mercury in Sagittarius. The last time we had retrograde Mercury on Election Day was a dozen years earlier in the notorious 2000 election. Mercury goes into retrograde for about three weeks roughly every four months. You might have noticed every four months or so that communication is harder and often breaks down. That machines and computers dont work so well. You watch TV anchors flub their copy for a few weeks and that copy scrolling through the teleprompter has more stories of a rash of plane and train crashes than usual. If you watch the stars and planets as I do, youll be surprised how often these communication and mechanical dysfunctions happen during the three weeks of the Mercury retrograde, especially in the first degrees in and last degrees out of this aspect. The Florida butterfly ballot with its confusing punch holes, the messed up Florida recount, even the screw up of more people voting for one candidate who is then denied the presidency to the candidate who won a minority vote, are just the kinds of snafus one might expect during Mercurys retrograde over skies of Florida in 2000. Last time Mercury began its retrograde on 18 October 2000 in Scorpio during the final weeks leading up to, and through, election night. In the entailing confusion
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for the next 48 hours, after Gore half-conceded to Bush then changed his mind, retrograde Mercury dipped into and unbalanced Libra the Balancer before moving in direct course on 9 November in Scorpio. This was the catalyst of weeks of recount and legal disputes a classic occurrence when Saturn is in Scorpio. Mercurys Retrograde Ballot Box Twelve years and three presidential election days later, Mercury begins its retrograde at four degrees Sagittarius on Election Day, 6 November 2012. It passes over the ballot box of election night and retreats backwards over the skies on the weeks following the election. Recount in one or more states is possible, magnified in the background of destiny by Pluto in Capricorn (ruler of government) still in the Counting dangling chads in 2000. clutches of the final days of a square with Uranus in retrograde Aries (malfunctioning enterprises). At the same time Neptune, also in retrograde motion (hidden enemies and unconsciousness) meets retrograde Mercury (muddled minded, forward progress hampered) in a Pisces-Sagittarius square. There will be communication breakdowns. Assumptions will be made that arent verified. The question is, will this be 2000 all over again? If it is, I predict Democrat incumbent Obama wins the dispute, especially if his adversary on the Republican side ends up being one of several born under the sign of Pisces. I doubt Piscean Michelle Bachman will be on the ballot on 6 November. Piscean Rick Perry is a long shot dud, though I cant rule him out completely. Piscean fishy Mitt Romney however has the best chance to spawn with history. Romney has powerful destiny aspects to the American natal birth chart mentioned in the previous chapter. The Mercury in Sagittarius-Neptune in Pisces retrogrades may lead to voter confusion and disputes though and undermine his chances. Mitt Romney at the time of this writing on 21 November 2011 will be the last candidate standing in the Republican Primaries a few months hence but he has a Natal Moon in Scorpio that could be afflicted on election night. I personally sense Barack Obama will win the popular vote by a slim margin but with such wacky astrology afoot, I cant presciently rule out a disputed Electoral College decision against a Romney candidacy where Obama keeps his job but does
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not win the popular vote. The 2012 presidential election night wont be the same as 2000. The Mercury Retrograde in 2000 was at the end of its transit. In 2012, its at the beginning at the stationary retrograde position. Although the retrograde affects us the most at the beginning and end of its passage, I believe we wont see this retrograde inhibit the voters from getting to the polls and punching wrong ballot butterfly holes. The votes will be cast on 6 November 2012 with fewer successful attempts to sabotage access to voting like in 2000. The counting of the votes, however, may run into three weeks of recount and dispute where its quite possible under a MercuryNeptune square in retrograde that conspiracies will be afoot trying to change the ballot results by electronic computerized skullduggery. On election night 2012: Mercury in Sagittarius is trined Uranus in Aries. Seen from the collective mindset, it dispenses a climate or an unconscious desire in the voting public to go with the candidate who can speak to the American peoples positive aspirations rather than feed their fears. A Republican challenger would do well not to go negative on Obama in the final days of the election but use this climate to embrace intuitive flashes about a better future. Dont paint a picture about whats wrong with Obama. Paint a propaganda masterpiece about what good could come with a new president in office. Let go of tradition bound Republican fear politics. Mercury in Sagittarius trined Uranus is an aspect favorable to appealing to independently minded voters who are neither stuck in the liberal or conservative ideological ruts. Only a moderate Republican candidate, like Mitt Romney is capable of pulling this off and despite the fact that Jeb Bush in my oracles estimation wouldve been a hands-down victor against Obama in 2012, Romneys tempering, shape-shifting political skills could smooze a different outcome then I have predicted, though I think the odds are long. The Mercury-Uranus trine favors electronics, social networking to get out the vote, etc. In this arena, Obama was brilliant in 2008 in the way he used iPhones and Blackberries to engage his base and get out the vote through social networking. He will have the edge once again in 2012; however, unlike Election Day 2008, Mercury and Uranus both are retrograde. That means Obama will have a harder sell this time around and less forward progress than before rebuilding an army of internet-connected supporters, but his Chicago political persuasion machine under the command of former unregistered political lobbyist and Obamas 2008 campaign manager, David Axelrod, has fought hard elections and won before. They had their baptism of fire going against Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries. They are battle tested. Victory in this tight 2012 race goes to the candidate with the most
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experienced and well-oiled persuasion machine. I look at the Election Day astrology and forecast the most bemused election result of my lifetime. Reason wont play a strong part in how masses of people vote. Belief rules. Mercury in Sagittarius is in its detriment, thus attitude trumps fact. At the time of this writing a little less than a year before election day, I already recognize a lot of that going on in this presidential campaign. The posturing attitudes of both the Democratic President and especially the platoon of Republican Party hopefuls already make one endure in the latter case televised debate after debate filled with reality-show emotional outbursts, simplistic to the point of simpleton explanations of issues with an aversion to debate the devil in the details when solving Americas problems. The 2012 election isnt so much one Obama wins. Its one the Republican primary process can lose before they pick a nationally viable candidate. Who will win and Why At the time of this writing in November 2011, Obama waits in the wings as Republican hopefuls savage each other and try to attract base right wing voters by one-upping each other as to who can foment at the mouth more extremism. When they at last have a candidate chosen, Obama can turn on his election demagoguery and create a false perception that hes the adult in this presidential debate. If he persuades enough people its true hell win. If the Republican candidate can reel back the right wing extremism without throwing his Piscean fishy line too far into its depths, he might wean enough moderate independent voters to his attitude over facts and truth. In short, people on election day will vote with their gut, their irrational feelings, their likeability factor, their collective attraction to a good, simplistic pabulum-matrix over problematic slogan slinger. For those who love reason, it will be an altogether ugly election. Scary, even. A new low in manic minded choices and latent religious bigotry harbored against Mormons if Romney is left standing after the primaries and latent racism directed at an African American in office. The fatuous likability factor gives Obama the edge, despite all the hate and acid I expect to be hurled in his face from the generally White-frightened Right. A majority of Americans still like him as a person, despite the fact that he has disappointed his Democratic base and not lived up to the plethora of way too many promises of change he pushed to be elected in 2008. That was his Natal Neptune Square his Sun in play. It is the character flaw of promising anything, no matter how impossible to get what you want: a womans love, a peoples love, a presidency. Its the sign of a man who woos a woman and once he has conquered her heart, he loses
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focus and interest in her. Obama isnt a philanderer of women. Hes a political philanderer. Obama has some formidable natal aspects that could counterbalance this character flaw in 2012. I dont believe hell play the Don Obama Juan act again. He does eventually learn from his mistakes, though hes slowly cautious to a fault when it comes to learning his lessons. The Republican opposition would be caught in their own Neptunian illusions if they fuel their political strategies with blind faith in thinking Obama is besieged and too weak to win a second term. Neptune entering the Sign of Pisces in 2012 and staying there more than a decade in a water sign triplicity will moderate Obamas impulse to promise the impossible as transiting Neptune draws ever closer to a trine with his Natal Neptune in Scorpio. Moreover, having a Neptune in Scorpio can almost scorpionize your astrological personality. That for once may actually be a good thing as Saturn will begin its two year transit of Scorpio and will be approaching Obamas Natal Neptune in Scorpio at five degrees apart at election time. Even before it happens, transiting Neptune will exactly trine Obamas (lets be friends, lets make up) Venus in Cancer, the Sun sign of the USA. This is key to his reelection: likeability factor. Because the trine begins and continues through late September just before the official Presidential campaign starts in earnest on Labor Day. The trine lasts through the November election and well beyond the recount. This positive Neptune-Venus factor despite being somewhat cooled by Neptune being in retrograde, brings forth a retrogrades positive potential to see millions of voters review their relationship with Obama and give him a second chance. Neptune and Venus in trine will help tilt collective destiny in his favor if he can reframe the dreams he oversold in 2008 with skillful contrition whilst propagating how change has been delayed by intransigence in US Congress in his first term in Washington. He can spread this myth of a change bringer happily unsupported by faith based, not fact based, attacks from the Right and on lukewarm support of his own party on the Left. Hell be the likable adult in a capital filled with cranky Congressional children and a position-shuffling Republican candidate. Obama can play the hard reality giver, the Im the adult in Washington card in 2012 owing to his Saturn in Capricorn being is strongly aspected and since Pluto is in Capricorn and is defining the times, it gives him the power to be perceived as a man of destiny. Saturn also being ruler of Aquarius grants Obama the resources if he should access them rightly, to be once again a powerful persuader as his Ascendant (outer expression sign) is in Aquarius. He was born with the planet of
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higher mindedness and expansion (Jupiter) also in Aquarius. Jupiter will be transiting Gemini in 2012 and be trined Obamas natal Jupiter in mid to late June 2012. This will be the best moment when Obama can find the demagogic voice that engages millions in the American Spring movement, gaining enough of in their trust and votes to re-elect him for a second term. He could make the American Spring his springboard. Obamas Natal Sun is strong in Leo, the sign of the fixed organizer. Mutable Piscean candidates as of this chapters writing in November 2011 dominate the current Republican stable. If one of these fish should swim it to the finish line as the Republican Candidate, it wont be the best Sun sign to pit against Obama. Mutable signs when succumbing to unconscious habits tend to be hard to pin. They do the Mitt Romney flip-flopping Piscean fish thing. They go Bachman vague like a deer in the headlights at a hunting party at Rick Perrys formerly named Nigger Head Ranch. They suddenly space out like Perry in a debate. Oops, there ends a Piscean space cases hopes to unseat the Leo in the Oval Office in 2012. Ron Paul, a Leo like Obama, turned Libertarian Leo candidate in a third party run is positively aspected by the Moon on election night, assuring if hes willing to run that his will be the best third party raid on the National Election two-party monopoly since Ross Perot. Trump? Hes Gemini. Sun sign of the double personality. Not a good election day for mutable air signs. The in and out, the bad Donald personality one day trumping the good. Like his political-astrological soul mate, Gemini Newt Gingrich, he sometimes has bold and refreshing ideas that get trumped by beating a dead horse with really bad ideas, like his shameless Obama birther campaign that had him leaving the race early on in the spring of 2011. Gemini mutability might prompt an impulse to get one of the Donalds back in the race in 2012. Then the other Donald will get back out. Then get back in yadda, yadda, yadda. Donald Trumps natal Pluto comes close to conjunction with Pluto in Capricorn on Election Day making him a celebrity of the times. A man who equally personifies the very best and the very worst of times. Whether you want to pin your poppycock on Obama being born a Kenyan or in a place nearly as exotic and far removed from the American mainstream states as hula hoop gyrating Hawaii, hes the lucky recipient at birth of an astrological chart giving him ego-personality tools to fix his astrological faults. A square in ones chart indicates where one needs to grow, where one needs to apply the positives of ones life experience and character towards understanding and perhaps moderating bad habits and faults. Obama may have wasted his first term learning how to be
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president. Indeed, a year before he even ran for office I warned that Obama, blinded by his impatient ambition to woo America and become its president would come to his destiny too soon and too immature for the job. This is again his negative SunNeptune square inducing him believe his own impossible Neptunian dreams and his egoistic (Sun) part in the illusion. Its better to come to your destiny too soon than too late. I see that counter balances in Obamas chart allow him to play enough catch-up to perhaps campaign at least as the president he was supposed to be, the one destiny intended for election in 2012, not 2008. By election time, Mars will transit Obamas natal Mars. This might magnify anger against his reelection, but I think the stellar scales will be tipped towards magnification of new beginnings for a new term. The Moon on election night will be in Leo in conjunction with Obamas Sun in Leo. This will magnify good emotions and feelings about him in enough people to give him a second chance at his destiny.

CHAPTER 9 12-21-2012
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Drum it out, reader the tempo of 2012: One, two-two, one. One-one, two (12/21/12) One, two-two, one. One-one, two (12/21/12) Bridge the beat by including the whole years number: One, two-two, one. Two-ott-one-two (12/21/2012) One, two-two, one. Two-ott-one-two (12/21/2012) OK, Ringo Star gazers, close it with a European Calendrical flourish: Two-ONE-one-two. TWO-ott-one two! (21/12/2012) My 2011 New Years resolution is to compose a tune based on this rhythm, with my music collaborator, Talia Toni Marcus help. Seven billion songs can be written solo or in collaboration with others. We can all play and sing our tunes to the skies on Winter Solstice Day 2012, celebrating life, celebrating the discomfort of birth, leaving comfort behind altogether for all seeking of comfort is an attempt to hold onto a past that is dying as new adventures in
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human evole-revolution now gain pace. The winter solstice of 2012 isnt the end of time but the end of year one of a final, five-year travail. 2012 will light the match of a great purification, where one Mayan-counted age is immolated and out of its ashes, the Phoenix of a new fivemillennia Mayan age has completely emerged from the vagina of vaticination. The astrology for 21 December 2012 has some significant astrological aspects warranting a single chapter dedicated to one of 365 days of 2012. Come hither and yod to a rare astrological configuration on the first winter night when we sing and drumbeat our songs. A Yod happens when a planet lines up in two quincunx aspects, 150 degrees each to two other planets sort of like making a Y on an astrological wheel chart. The horns points of the Y if you like form when two planets are in sextile (a 60 degree aspect wherein positive opportunities and good ideas are possible). Though these planets are in positive potential play, they are incompatible with the planet in a quincunx stem of the configuration because; at its 150-degree variance, this planet neither matches the compatibility of signs, genders nor the element of the two sextiled planets. In short, a Yod is an aspect revealing how positive ideas and potentials struggle with that which is alien to them. On 21 December 2012, Jupiter (the planet of expansion and/or selfrighteousness) is in a Yod quincunx with Pluto (zeitgeist ruler of transformation or degeneration of an age) and Saturn (the limitator, repressor or compassionate reality giver, i.e., the teacher). Influencing this Yod of Jupiter with Pluto and Saturn, is an opposition Venus with Jupiter. Venus is in turn conjoins Mercury. In laymans terms, the higher mind and expansion planet (Jupiter) is in a tugof-war with how to relate and inspire its higher mindedness (Venus-Mercury). Thus, Jupiter is blocked to this potential and is running that stuck state down the Yodding conduit to Pluto (age definer), in Capricorn (establishment authority, structure, business, order) and Saturn (reality giver and what restricts). Thus on 21 December 2012, the winter solstice moment is not going to awaken the world in a contact enlightened high. It will express a collective, deeply confused feeling about how to relate and what to relate as a solution to an uncertain future. Saturn on 21 December 2012 will be in Scorpio, the sign of desires, sex (life force its use or misuse). In this sign of death and rebirth, Saturn will be the one who has to cut the crap of systemic flaws in Pluto-Capricorn and teach civilization new ways based on earthy, practical world realities. Saturn is karmic accountant wearing shades and back in black leather, saying, Stop looking for pies in the friggin skies and get real about your financial responsibilities, your business affairs, corporate resources, how to generate new revenues (that means TAXES boobie) and
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account for yourselves. However, to do this, Saturn is being blocked by a climate of self-righteousness, religious and economic urges to extremism, faith based economic and political philosophies, medieval in their anti-scientism. It sort of sounds like our current stable of world leaders and economists who seem tone deaf to climate and economic changes and the millions crowding the streets of the world demanding new directions and fairness in their dealing and doling out shared Saturnine sacrifices. December 2012 doesnt look good for the global economy. This time the Cold Depression could glow hot in many regions of the world in the US, in Europe especially. Jupiter is the focal point of change. It is afflicted, however, so this means change is afflicted and it is a most difficult thing to bring about in December 2012 onwards into 2013 because of this Yod on the Winter solstice birthday of 2013. It becomes a defining natal aspect in the birth chart of the 365 day long life of the year 2013. On the winter solstice of 2012, history goes on without this Pollyanna lift in consciousness New Age oddities seem to think can happen like a marijuana contact high just because an alignment of the Sun and Earth with Galactic Center makes it so. The Yod that night maps out in the skies for us in 2013 the Himalayan task wherein evolution isnt a contact high. Enlightenment of this civilization isnt just going to happen because you have fixated on the mind drug of smiling hope-iates. The lifting of consciousness must be earned, one individual at a time and the only time is right now. You dont wait for someone else to blow enlightenment in your face. Contact highs come from outside yourself. Enlightenment wells from inside. Gods Fickle Finger of Fate A Yod is otherwise known as the Finger of God. Id add that Gods giving our illusion the middle finger. On the year defining first winter night of 2012, there will be added tensions of squares pulling Venus (relationships, diplomacy) with goals and ambitions in inharmonious and adverse (90 degree) aspect with Uranus (change, sudden upheaval, revolution) and Jupiter. The square will award the Yod a Rowan and Martin Laugh in Fickle Finger of Fate trophy because of a divine comedy Dan Rowan and Dick Martin holding of errors in worldwide leadership requiring many the Bippy, otherwise known as the a governments hopefully peaceful overthrow, Fickle Finger of Fate trophy.
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hopefully by ballot and referendum measures rather than by bullet and machine guns. For the first winter night of December 2012, Gods finger will be fickle-flipped at collective expectations placed on 2012 as being the end and beginning of the world or the end of being Stupid. If there was no fixation on 2012, the astrological aspects of the solstice are interesting in themselves and worthy of comment beyond the prophetic hyperbole of 2012 ideology or better idiot-ology. I say that last barb on 20 November 2012, exactly 13 months outside the age-changing Mayan Calendar event and I will make this prediction for the record: There will be no shift of consciousness or shift of the Earths polar axis, or anything much happening that you wouldnt see before during and after other important convergent aspects happening on other days. Weve been living in intense astrological times anyway for the last few years. Those of you who have read my previous almanacs and weekly articles at Hogueprophecy.com know that big thinks and things have happened in the stars to match the Yod, such as the grand T square of Pluto, Uranus and Saturn in the summer of 2010. Chief among these where seismic disruptions in society, economy and even earthquakes of natural or volcanic aspect. Such upheavals will be happening in and around 21 December 2012s Yod. Im sure there will be lot of Chicken Little, Sky is Falling, doomsayers as well as New Age, Polly-gone-crackers-Annas declaring their contact enlightenment, who will spin these reports of upheavals as being more significant astrologically proven events than those past and future on account of the 2012 dates projected celebrity. More astrologically potent days are coming, such as a spate of Pluto-Uranus squares between now and 2015 as mentioned earlier. A little more than two years left of Saturn in Scorpio will intensify efforts to recover an ecological inheritance for future generations that the parent and procrastinating generation in power is smokestack fuming away. Thats why a collective alarm and anger of the young, the New Millennial generation around the world, will give rise to rebellion against established order. Saturn in Scorpio rules inheritance. The inheritance of a happy, growing, promising future isnt set before our young. The inheritance of a planet in ecological balance and limitless cornucopia of resources is not before them unless we manage the world differently. The young will be tempted more than ever in the next two years following 2012 to find a savior or saviors like many people sought in Germany during the dark Depression days of the 1920s and early 1930s. Saturn transiting Scorpio generates
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a mass desire for order and authority when the world is in chaos. Beware what you wish for. Eating Nostradamus Hat I know what Ill be doing on 21 December 2012, talking about what you just read in this chapter so far with George Noory on Coast to Coast AM, broadcast to over 650 stations across North America and the Caribbean and on a live feed on the worldwide web. I most likely will be sitting in my home office, oldfashioned landline telephone receiver in my waxcongested ear, connected to 20 million listeners in North America and around the world. The pulsing LED light sculptures slowly throbbing and melding all the Source: wishpot.com. colors of the natural light spectrum in aurora-borialic clouds and patterns on my off-white office walls like Scottys engine room on Star Trek. Ill stare off into the dark beyond my office window and make my challenge, to eat Nostradamus hat on air if the world starts to end by showtime. I dont actually have Nostradamus three-cornered professors hat. Ill have to eat one of my own knitted berets, I guess. Perhaps that old green thing atop my head in History Channels The Next Nostradamus documentary. After nothing happens, maybe George and I will talk about how the Yod finger of God is angled like a peace sign from the sixties. Thus the idea of peace is a mixed bag just like what the Yod represents astrologically a mixed bag. Some Christian prophecy watchers would say the peace sign is a broken cross, signifying a secret sign of the Antichrist. Others would retort: all new Christs, new world teachers that is, are anti what has appeared before them. Christ was anti-Moses to the established religious mainstream of Christs day. Id like to hope 21 December 2012 marks the end of stupid and the beginning of an age that is anti-Christ in a positive way. Maybe 2012 could mark the year the Christians devote themselves and pray to the real name of their master. Let the Yod restore the name of Yeshua. Time to drop a Greco-Roman misnomer that took the kosher heart out of such a beautiful and significant world teacher. Its high time Christians understand how this label is derogatory. Its what the pagan Romans derisively called followers of Yeshua when they were viewed as new fanclub members of just another emerging Roman cult. They called these catacombdwelling Rajneeshees of the Pax Romana Little Christies or Christianites or mini-
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Christs thats what Christian means. Time for a Yod to a Yeshua movement. Restore the Son of Man and Galilee to his original name and go back to the teachings and not the borrowed lamb sacrifice blarney from other Romanized cults like Persian Mithras. Weve occupied Wall Street. Lets occupy Yeshua and liberate his ministry from the Pagan Roman Jesus Christ cult. How to Score when youre partying like its Twenty-Twelve Coming back to the heavenly bodies in the sky of 12-21-12, theres more than just a Yod going on. The starry sky of the first winter night is busy. Theres a lot of square dancing going on. In a deeper sense Squares are growth points, friction points giving heat and enough discomfort to awaken our sleepy souls attention to where we need to grow and purify our lives. Heres what youve got to deal with in the square department that night: The Sun (in Capricorn) is square Uranus whist it quincunxes Neptune (in Aries). The celebrations of 21-12-2012 will be erratic, impulsive and spacey. Watch where you swing your magic wands when you harmonically converge. Dont drink beyond your limit or your hangover on 22 December will seem like the end of the world in your aching head and belly. A great night to go rainbow lady eccentric though! Party girl Venus in free-loving Sagittarius is squared Uranus in impetuous Aries and squared Jupiter in a schizophrenic Gemini. That means you might end up in the sack with a guy who talks too much and sniffed waaay too much Police pepper spray in Occupy Oxnard demonstrations. So whats a Venusian girls need for an emotionally satisfying fling to do at the end of the Mayan Age when the Moon is also flaming emotive in Aries, conjoining, magnifying the revolutionary-chasing Uranus until both of you split the 2012 contact enlightenment bong party for that connubial conjunction that is definitely not fair and square with Pluto. Not the planet. I mean Pluto. Your new boyfriends dog. Your booty boys Great Dane. Hes sleeping. He has claimed your side of the bed. I guess its time to talk about oppositions Our lady Venus preparing for bed will be in a tug of war with the sleepy, massive, passive-aggressive dog occupying her side of the covers. The dog has a mind (Mercury) of his own and its unconsciously opposed to her bedtime ambition. Pluto wont yield any space whilst the jabbering, Jupternian boy toy she wants to
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bed is blabbing in the kitchen, making a nightcap of espresso. But fear not my Venus, youre the evening star planet of the Mayan Calendar, and the basis of their calendrical machinations. You wanted the Mayan end of the world to rock your world tonight and if party Moons and Uranus go together, youre going to score big. Youll have to let sleeping dogs like Pluto the Great Dane lie in your bed despite the cramped dimensions for Kama Sutra exercises because the Sun is exactly conjoined Pluto and that dog knows exactly where he wants to sleep, come what harmonious conjunctions erupt on the other side of that bed! Well! I see its time to get to the astrologically lurid Sextiles! What can Lady Venus and Gemini jabbering Jupiter expect? Well, that Sun of a gun is going to get some sextile with Neptune, he is. His Mars symbolized in astrology with the shield and the um spear is going to get sextiled with her North Node! Which brings me to Pluto again. No! Nothing kinky with animals, honey. Ive got this psychic suspicion, based on Gemini Jupiters sextile with Pluto that hell be keeping his Martian Mickey Mouse north node arrow vigorous to your great satisfaction not by remembering football scores. Hell be thinking about Pluto and figuring out how hes going to get him out of bed so you can both cuddle comfortably afterwards. The dog will sleep through it all anyway. You however are in for a great and orgasmic time wave zero moment! The temples of Venus will move and the Mayan skies will fall! Thats because your Moon will be thoroughly sextiled good and well, leaving you cosmically expansive and feeling Tantric-Khajuraho-statue spiritual after singing a new Neptune tune in fishy fantastic Pisces! The Future in the Final Mayan Orb Now, Where was I? Oh yes! If forgot to tell you about the Mayan astrological orb. I doubt youll hear about it anywhere else. I dont think anyone has written about it before because it mixes two very different traditions together, Western astrology and the Mayan alignment with Galactic Center, which happened, so say the more accurate computer measurements of JPL, 13 to 14 years earlier than proscribed by Mayan astronomers for 21 December 2012. Now, if you made a measurement of the very slow precession of the Sun through the stellar coal sack of cosmic dust obscuring the Milky Way Galaxys center next to the constellation Sagittarius arrow, the time the Sun began back tracking each winter solstice through the stellar cloud until it completely leaves the cloud
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takes 30 years. The Sun began its retrograde retreat in 1986 and wont be completely out of the cloud in winter solstice lineups until 21 December 2016. Astrologically speaking you could say an exact conjunction of the Sun-Earth and galactic Center had an orb that is, an influence on world history, intensifying between 1986 through 1998; then, climaxing in 1998-1999; then, gradually de-intensifying its influence on history after 1999 until all influence ends by the completion of 2016. Applying the orb concept in this way is by no means traditional astrology. Yet in the spirit of these revolutionary times of new beginnings, I asked myself, Why not do what Steve Jobs famously said, think different about how we theorize and customize new ways to interpret the portents of the cosmos? A new future requires a new augury. Therefore, I interpret this Mayan epochal boundary line in time drawn between two ages with the temporal thickness of 30 years is the death and renewal period of two 5,000-year Mayan cycles (1986-2016). The Maya mathematics is in love with fives, so 30 years divide into six, fiveyear units of time. These then are the degrees of the orb of six five-year long degrees. With the winter solstice of 2011, history begins the final five-year long degree to its complete transition from one 5,000-year old Mayan epoch to the new epoch, thus completing the reboot of the cycle by the winter solstice of 2016. Theres a lot of clearing and cleaning out of the last vestiges of the fading 5,000-year baktun cycle to come. Consider the many flash points of revolutionary upheaval to come after 2012 when Uranus (revolution) and Pluto (established order) square off in waves of revolution in all walks of life in May 2013, November 2013, April 2014, December 2014 and March 2015. The last Sun and Earths alignment with galactic center will occur on the winter solstice of 2016, just a little over five years from the time I write this in November 2011, in the year the IEA says the Rubicon will be crossed in Climate Change. That is when current trends of growing carbon emissions of our carbon budget has maxed out at 450 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that in 2017 begins to trigger a cascade of climate changes threatening the sustainability of future civilization. As the toilet flush is at its loudest and rapidly cyclonic spin at the end of the plunge, I expect the next five years to be the most rocky of this passing down the tubes of one great Mayan counted era of history to the birth and travail bringing on the new. We are talking about a new era flush that hasnt happened since the third millennium b.c.e. Most of our known human history, its fossilized and fecalized
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traditions must gurgle and loudly report their departure down historys plumbing and since Mayan years begin and end with the winter solstice, 12/21/12 marks one year down, four purging years to go, cleansing away the old, the past, the stupid.

EPILOGUE The Future belongs to Spiritual Survivalists
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That time has come. The time always come. Always here, always now. The critical mass of enlightenment is ever contained in the eternity of the present moment. That moment can be accessed by the ancient-newest science of the scientifically friendly Aquarian Age. The science of self-observation, meditation, will prepare the way for such a shift in human consciousness. Mystics and seers alike tell us that five percent of the human population in any era has ever had the power to awaken to their full potential of consciousness and love. They tell us that quality of consciousness is far more powerful than quantity: Even if two hundred people are aflame, enlightened, the whole world will become enlightened, because these two hundred torches can give fire to millions of people. Osho It will be enough if I can get a hundred complete men, empty of petty egoism, who will be the instruments of God. Sri Aurobindo If there are only five people who will listen, who will live, who have their faces turned towards eternity, it will be sufficient. J. Krishnamurti Today, there are more people questioning their programmed habits and seeking to better themselves spiritually than ever before, yet prophets for a new humanity say that only 200 to as few as five of these 350 million potential Christ/Buddhas
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need awaken to their full potential to affect a climate change for the better in our collective consciousness. The first small signs of this evolutionary jump are already around us. Despite the hysteria mongering and sensationalizing of the press, a second look at statistics and trends shows that crimes are decreasing wars are becoming fewer. In 1990, there were 33 wars raging around the world. Twenty-two years later in 2011, there are twelve. An unprecedented number of people around the world are now aware of the dangers of global warming, overpopulation, and the latters consequence of unsustainable food and water use. Today, hundreds of millions of people are practicing meditation, more than the sum total of all those who meditated in the last 5,000 years. Through such efforts in self-observation, people across the world are becoming aware they must break out of conditioned patterns and sever their ties with those fossilized traditions of the past that will bring on the coming catastrophes. Weve been talking about the one-percent, the 99-percent. Now lets get to the most important group with the key to our golden future. Who are these people of the five percent with the potential for enlightenment? What are their attributes, what is their state of mind? Who are these spiritual survivalists? Unlike the garden-variety survivalists the armed paranoids who bury themselves in the outback of many a country, waiting for the breakdown of civilization come 2012 or any time afterwards the spiritual survivalist is someone who is more than paranoid. There is something out to get them an identified, neurotic, lying mind; a set of programmed emotions they were trained to adopt as their own. These survivalists arent trying to arm and bury themselves in a hole, theyve suddenly awakened to the reality that conditioning has buried them already in a hole of false egoism that inwardly and outwardly makes them regard and create the world in division rather than whole and healthy. They, like the redneck apocalyptic survivalists, also see an apocalypse coming and feel the need to arm themselves. Not with guns, but with something that can help them remember their true enemy the same enemy that sabotages their lives and the lives of billions of people who are unaware of it their own robotic behavior set to unravel the world. Their spiritual survivalism isnt negative or fear based, because fear and negativity are also the enemy. They are generally secretive like the apocalyptic survivalists because most of them have yet to find the weapon and the strategy to outwit that, which has been imposed over their souls. For now, they move among us trying to be as normal as they can and fit into the world they secretly know is insane a world they secretly understand from their heart of hearts could be beautiful, and
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sane, but they just dont know how to make it happen just yet. They are looking for ways and they are taking sides. You will know you are in the presence of a true spiritual survivalist when they appear suspicious of anyone who protests too loudly their enlightenment and your duty to respect it. They wont accept on face value with an unskeptical eye anyone professing love and spirituality in nicely packaged bromides of borrowed dogma. They especially disdain anyone who says they believe in this or that, and then blink and smile that sleepy self-spiritually satisfied smile. A spiritual survivalist is more likely to be surly, uncomfortable to be around, hard to lie to. They dont consider others; they consider the truth. They will G.I. Gurdjieff be misfits, doubters, and questioners. They might even appear irreligious compared to the way you and I are trained to perceive religion. I would like to close this book giving the counsel of the enlightened. Those fellow spiritual survivalists, our friends and fellow travelers in eternity, who became divinely discontented with the old, robotic, conditioned human. They acknowledge their uncertainty and pain, as well as offer suggestions as to how the discontented can spiritually survive as strangers in a strange and unconscious land: The [golden] age envisioned by common seekers is a spectacular display that only extends the traditional madnessand foolishness of mankind. But I desire a new order of men and women, who will not begin from all of that, but who will apply themselves, apart from all dilemmas and all seeking, to the harmonious Event of Real Existence. Adi Da (1980) To speak the truth, they will have closed mouths. Nostradamus (1555) To speak the truth, one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. G. I. Gurdjieff (1916)

Do not wait for the world to be arranged before you correct yourself! That is what the new creed demands! Peter Deunov (1932)
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When you start becoming authentic, you will be in conflict. But that conflict is worth it. It is the price one has to pay to attain to inner life. One has to pay it. You cannot avoid it. If you want infinite bliss, a life which is beyond death, a life which is eternal, then you have to pass through the austerity[which] is in the beginning only because you become a stranger to a life where everybody is a liar, and where everybody is trying to show the way he is not. If you become true, you dont fit but that is only in the beginning. You dont fit with the society, but immediately you fit with God. And one who fits with God does not bother whether he fits with the society or not. He has entered into a greater harmony. Osho (1975) I call you all to prayer, to explore and experiment with a new religion, or better, religiousness. I wish to share with you the meditation techniques that will help a newly awakening spiritual survivalist deal with the initial existential conflict at the beginning of awakening awareness of self, then pass through the twilight zone

between unconsciousness and light. If you resonate with this call, contact me. END
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