2 strong
earthquakes hit Iran, injuring hundreds - July 31, 2010.
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2 strong
earthquakes hit Iran, injuring hundreds - July 31, 2010.
Iranian aid ships to set sail for Gaza - June 7, 2010.
Clinton to warn
Syria of US commitment to Israel - April 30, 2010.
Iran gets
fast sporting powerboat for arming with Russian torpedoes - April 5,
2010.
Chile earthquake:
Easter Island evacuation as tsunami brings disaster to Pacific
islands - February 27, 2010.
Egyptian sources:
Israel prepares to strike Iran from Gulf and N. Iraq - February 3, 2010.
Report: Israel to
Strike Iran in March, Lebanon Could Get Involved - January 22, 2010.
Obama told China: I
can't stop Israel strike on Iran indefinitely - December 17, 2009.
US, Iranian naval
Red Sea buildup off Yemen. Debut for Iran's midget subs - November 23,
2009.
Unemployment hits
10.2% -- The unemployment rate spiked to its highest level since
1983 - November 6, 2009.
Soldier Allegedly
Threatened to Kill Miley Cyrus - October 29, 2009.
Arrest of 61 Peace
Activists Outside White House Kicks Off Week of Protest Against
Afghan War - October 7, 2009.
Rally in Albany
Tuesday Over H1N1 Flu Shot Debate - September 28, 2009.
TV: Austin law
enforcement on alert after Dallas bombing plot arrest - September 25,
2009.
Nurses Plan Rally
To Protest Mandatory Swine Flu Shot - September 22,
2009.
Israel Warns Russia
"We’ll Bring Whole World Down With Us" - September 10,
2009.
As the pressure
increases, Iran threatens to close strategic Strait of Hormuz - September 9, 2009.
Cindy Sheehan
returns to rebuke Obama -- Tells US peace activists to wake up
and protest Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan,
complains US troops have not really left Iraq - August 24, 2009.
Battle Erupts Over
Plan For HIV Vaccine Test -- County Health Officials Turned Down
Proposal Last Week - August 10, 2009.
Barak hints at
another war with Lebanon -- Israeli Defense Minister says the war
would be more devastating than the 2006 war - August 7, 2009.
U.S. eyes Russian
submarines off East Coast - August 5, 2009.
Military planning
for possible H1N1 outbreak - July 29, 2009.
Defense official:
Israel readying for attack on Iran - July 16, 2009.
Lancaster, Pa.,
keeps a close eye on itself -- A vast and growing web of security
cameras monitors the city of 55,000 - June 21, 2009.
Half of Israelis
back immediate strike on Iran - May 24, 2009. (The closer we get
to my predicted June 2009 vector for such a strike, the more
likely it appears Israel will go through with this - MM) 
Pope visits
Jerusalem's holiest sites -- Visits Dome of the Rock, an
Islamic shrine, before meeting city's top Muslim leader - May 12,
2009.
Britney Spears fan
arrested after rushing the stage during concert - May 3, 2009.![Deranged stalker Miranda Tozier-Robbins [L] attempted to break into the home of singer Britney Spears [R] after peering through her windows.](Stalker_and_Britters.jpg)
Large ice shelf
expected to break from Antarctica - April 3, 2009.
U.N. report
condemns Israel for Gaza operation - March 23, 2009.
Yadlin: Iran has
crossed nuclear 'technological threshold' - March 9, 2009.
Israel is mulling
Iran military action' - March 5, 2009.
Syria 'rebuilding'
chemical weapons capability - February 18, 2009.
Madonna And Britney
Receive Death Threats - January 16, 2009.
Two more dead from
Ebola outbreak in DR Congo - December 27, 2008.List of Predictions Still to be Presented on This Page - Posted November 27, 2008 on Overview and Updates page. Posted to this page January 1, 2009.
Obama & The
Coming Military State - October 14, 2008.
Convention Protest
Turns Into Mini-Riot - September 2, 2008.
U.S. Headed for 'Heightened
Alert' Stage from August 2008 Until July 2009 -- Major Events on
the Horizon Prompt a Surge in Anti-Terror Efforts - July 28, 2008.
From oil to
Armageddon -- As gas goes to $8 a gallon, the
president may have to declare martial law to try to contain the
rioting and looting - July 7, 2008.
Israel investigates
security scare at Sarkozy departure - June 25, 2008.
Thousands flee as
Chilean volcano erupts - May 4, 2008.
Now, the world's
problem is food: Here come shortages, rising prices and riots - April 10, 2008.
Food crisis being
felt around world -- Market Chaos, Riots - April 2, 2008.
Already we have
riots, hoarding, panic: the sign of things to come? - March 7, 2008.
Prisoners 'to be
chipped like dogs' - January 13, 2007.
Woman Dies After
Airport Arrest - September 29, 2007.
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NOTE (March 3,
2007): This is not a base 7 projection, but a reminder
of the Nostradamus quatrain that says darkness will encompass the
earth for a little under eleven months. If Yellowstone really
does erupt in May 2008, then it will be in April 2009 that the atmosphere will
be rid enough of the ash, dust, and debris for sunlight to begin
to show.
Further research must be done on this subject to determine if this will initially be normal sunlight or something in the weaker red spectrum since there is a prophecy by Melanie Calvat (1831-1940) that indicates "the Earth will be lit with a fiendish red light; the water and the fire will cause terrible seismic movements which will engulf mountains and cities." That sounds as though when light returns in the visible red end of the spectrum that Planet X will begin to exert its most horrific influence upon Earth. The problem with the prophecy is that it also claims that Rome will become the seat of the Antichrist (beast) at this time, something I find to be somewhat premature and, if Nostradamus is correct, unlikely to occur for another 229 to 232 years. Still, there are other prophecies that indicate red heavens, red stars, and a red atmosphere when the earth undergoes a series of violent changes by a terrible agent from outer space.
For more on Planet X in 2009, 2010, and 2011 go to Planet X and World War III.
Rigord of St. Denis (12th Century) ~
From
the sea will rise a very strong wind, which will strike terror in
the hearts of men, and it will raise sand
and dust from the surface of the earth, until it will cover the
trees and the towers... And there will be
heard in the air quakes and thunder and voices which will strike
terror in the hearts of men, and all
the countries will be covered with sand and dust... For that wind
will rise from the west corner
and reach until the west corner, encompassing all the countries
of Egypt and Ethiopia... and also the lands of Rome.
It was reported that the sand storm in Australia came from out of the West...
Melanie Calvat (1831-1940) ~
The seasons will change their characteristics, the Earth will be lit with a fiendish red light; the water
and the fire will cause terrible seismic movements which will engulf mountains and cities.
| Australia
Hit By “Blood of God” As Dragon Tail Of Death
Returns September 24, 2009 Russian scientists are reporting today that the Southern Hemisphere continent of Australia has been coated by red “dust” from our Planet Earth’s first interaction with the tail of the Comet known as NEAT (C/2002 V1) in an event not seen in our modern times, but known in depth by our most ancient of peoples and called by them the “Blood of God”. Comet NEAT first appeared in November 2002, and became one of the brightest celestial events of the past century and garnered considerable controversy when in February 2003, it engaged in a “battle” with our Sun causing a massive solar eruption that scientists report hit this comet's tail. Also important to note about Comet NEAT is its considerable size that is estimated to be twice the size of our mammoth Planet Jupiter. After Comet NEAT’s being hit by this massive solar eruption in 2003 our Sun entered into what is being called an historic Deep Solar Minimum that since 2004 has seen over 717 days of no sunspots appearing on its surface…that is until yesterday when as this comet’s dust was falling upon Australia two large areas of sunspots erupted on our solar sphere's surface ... |
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Ursula
Southeil (Mother Shipton) ~ For storms will rage and oceans roar when Gabriel stands on sea and shore, And as he blows his wondrous horn, old worlds die and new be born. A fiery dragon will cross the sky six times before this earth shall die, Mankind will tremble and frightened be, for the sixth heralds in this prophecy ... |
March 2010: Remember the red dust storm that covered Australia in September? Well, it's baaack ... this time around, in China ...
| Day turns into night in Kuwait Kuwait Times | April 18, 2010 KUWAIT: The day turned into night yesterday morning as a massive sandstorm roared into Kuwait accompanied by raging winds followed by heavy rains. Streetlights flickered on at 8:00 am as the skies turned dark, catching early morning commuters unawares and leaving observers awestruck. Flights at Kuwait airport were disrupted with at least two planes forced to turn around. The "sarrayat" gales reached a speed of 120 kph and visibility dropped to less than 200 m, meteorologist Issa Ramadhan told KUNA. Abdullah, a 23-year-old Kuwaiti, had only two words to describe the scene: "Judgement Day." Others were also shocked by the apocalyptic storm. Ella Bebit, a Filipina nurse, was driving on her way to work when it started getting dark. "It was scary," she said. "I thought it was the end of the world." The blogosphere was atwitter too, and pictures and videos of the storm were uploaded on YouTube and Facebook almost immediately. "People were running for shelter as the winds started blowing," said Errol Mascarenhas, a 37-year-old Indian who was also driving to work. He shot a video of the storm and posted it on his Facebook profile. Many who woke up as the sandstorm rolled in were confused by the darkness and thought they had slept through the day. Ramadhan said northern Al-Abdali region recorded the highest level of rain - 36 mm - a third of the year's volume. Ramadhan cautioned that the weather might remain unstable with scattered rainfall and low visibility. He said the weather will start improving gradually tonight and tomorrow, but dust storms may linger until Tuesday. He cautioned that these sarrayat winds pose a danger to fishermen ... |
From China With Red Dust ... to Kuwait
Rare Kuwait sandstorm turns day into orange night. |
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NEW PREDICTION: 3/3/07 -- A Syrian MIG will be shot down by an Israeli jet during a dogfight over Israeli, Lebanese, or Syrian airspace. There will be a number of fighter aircraft involved in the skirmish. There will have been a number of border skirmishes between Syria and Israel since summer 2008, but this one in April 2009 will be the first major incident, foreshadowing a full-scale Israeli-Syrian conflict in June.
NEWS:
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NEW PREDICTION: 3/3/07 -- During the ever-widening war between the US and Iran, the Iranians will begin to focus on diminishing US naval strength in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. The idea will be to reduce American capability to launch effective air strikes by sea against a major Iranian offensive in Iraq and coordinated Iranian attacks with Syria, Iraqi Shia, Hezbollah, Palestinian terrorist groups, Yemen, Afghanistan and other regional allies against other Arab states and Israel. Iran will probably have naval and air support from Russia at this time as well, April 2009.
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NEW PREDICTION: 3/3/07 -- This is pretty much self-explanatory from the title. It obviously will not help global tensions from becoming any less grave. April 2009 may also mark the start of the civil war in Italy as prophesied by the Seer of Waldviertel, Alois Irlmaier, Erna Steiglitz, and others. Perhaps, instead of Italians, America will blame Russian agents (Spetsnaz) in Italy for carrying out the murder of the US senator or vice versa, Russia will accuse the US of the assassination if it is a Russian diplomat who is killed. Or Iran will be implicated, further exacerbating European tensions with Teheran, now at war with the US in the Middle East.
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OLD PREDICTION: 1/25/05,
Updated 6/4/07 -- This is the second vector for the
nuclear destruction of NYC by terrorists I projected on the 2008 (Part Two) page.
The first vector was August/September 2008.
If NYC is not nuked at that time, it will likely be during this second vector: April 2009.
Whether NYC is destroyed in August/September 2008 or in April 2009, this vector will witness the nuclear destruction, chem-bio assault, and non-WMD damaging of 6 other American cities.
Washington DC will be one of these; however it shall not be destroyed with a nuclear device. Important landmarks will be destroyed instead, including, possibly, the Capitol Building and the White House.
The Sears Tower in Chicago may hold a nuclear device that will destroy the city when it detonates. Los Angeles and/or Seattle may be targeted if they are not destroyed in "the great earthquake" and Yellowstone eruption projected for May 2008.
Kansas City will probably be nuked.
The remaining two or three cities may be Boston, Buffalo, Oklahoma City or Miami.
The following Dream Window presents dream visions concerning nuclear terrorism in the US, including NYC.
For the Seer of Waldviertel, Alois Irlmaier, and Nostradamus prophecies that describe the nuclear destruction of New York, refer to the initial prediction on the 2008 (Part Two).
Al Qaeda No. 2
Threatens More U.S. Attacks -- Ayman Al-Zawahiri Also Mentions
Times Square Attack in Audio Message - July 27, 2010.
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Nostradamus, Quatrain 3.13 ~
NEW PREDICTION: 2/24/09 -- I suspect that “captives” alludes to the intertwined fate of the twins, Castor and Pollux: Russia and the US. They will be held captive by events beyond their control, in other words: the global economy and the accelerating trend towards global war. Russia will, by this time, hold an adversarial relationship with the US, EU, and Nato over developments in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East. There may also be marked opposition by Moscow to a possible American military intervention on the Korean peninsula.
Note that the stars Castor and Pollux are generally well seen high in the evening sky from February to May (by May the two stars appear above the western horizon at twilight and set a few hours later). There is no question that Russia and the US are "in the ship" with the navies of both powers patroling the world's oceans and seas from the Mediterranean Sea to the the Gulf of Aden. "Public treasure emptied on land and sea" could mean a major war effort is underway, but it also could mean that an economic collapse worldwide has rendered money useless and devalued, causing all of it to be spent up in panic buying. This seems to match the gloomy global scenario that has been developing since Black October in 2008.
Will green Comet Lulin, now a barely visible magnitude 5, go into outburst and become a major comet? Will the assassinated "monarch" prove to be President Obama, thus unleashing the dreaded Mabus scenario?
Sightings of Russian nuclear subs and battleships in the Atlantic Ocean will be reported. As spring unfolds, several sightings will be reported within ninety miles of the East Coast of the United States. Americans will find themselves in a chronic state of anxiety. US naval forces will be dispatched to confront the armada whilst US nuclear subs continue to track the Russian submarines.
One side will provoke the other and a naval battle will commence. As the fighting escalates, in a state of confusion and panic, US and Russian submarine commanders will retaliate by launching armed conventional torpedoes. The circle of fire will widen, with more US and Russian ships being destroyed in a very “hot” Cold War naval battle. In line 3, Nostradamus locates the scene of the battle: an unspecified distance from New York City ("the greatest extended city") in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Line 4 is an excellent description of a submarine fleet.
The dating for an event of this kind on this timeline, should it occur, is May 2009. I find it more than a bit unsettling that April 2009, which is only one month off from May, is the dating for a nuclear terrorist attack on Manhattan. Will terrorists be working in tandem with the Russian fleet? Or will the nuclear attack actually come from a few Russian SLBMs that are launched purposely or accidently against New York City during the confrontation with US warships?
If the nuclear destruction plaguing NYC occurs due to a nuclear battle at sea, the destruction might only be partial and mostly near the harbour. It may even come in the form of giant radioactive tsunamis and tidal waves generated by the nuclear sub battle. If this is the case, then total destruction of NYC will be deferred until 2015.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/2/07 -- This is the only real or true base 7 vector for a papal assassination, whether it seems to fit the timeline or not, and it is May 2009. Note I say it may not fit the timeline since World War III in Europe has not yet begun at this time, and most prophecy says the pope will flee Rome when it is under attack only to later die in Avignon during an invasion of southern France.
However, this could be the vector for the Third Secret of Fatima pope who could just as easily be murdered by terrorists before World War III in Europe as during:
Also, this could be linked to the pope who dies entering a city watered by two rivers during the spring or summer ("when blooms the rose") as warned by Nostradamus.
Then again, like Pope John Paul II in 1981, this could be an assassination attempt that fails to do anything other than injure the pope.
Unless Benedict XVI dies of other reasons, such as natural causes, in October 2007, this May 2009 projection will likely pertain to him. His successor will either be a Sabine (northwestern Italy) or "from ancient France" (Celtic France, which is to say, northwestern France). Belgium can also be considered as having been a part of ancient France when it was known as Gaul.
December 25, 2009 -- Updated 1135 GMT (1935 HKT)
Rome, Italy (CNN) -- The woman who dragged the pope down Thursday night during Christmas Eve Mass at St. Peter's Basilica is the same woman who tried to attack the pope at the same function last year, the Vatican said. The woman, described by a Vatican spokesman as "mentally disturbed" jumped a barrier at the start of the event and toppled Pope Benedict XVI and also broke the leg of a cardinal as onlookers gasped. Screams erupted from worshippers when the woman ran toward Pope Benedict XVI and grabbed onto his vestments as he walked down the main aisle of the Rome church, video footage showed. Someone tried to intercept the woman but she was still able to grab the pope and pull him to the ground with her.
The pope was not hurt in the incident, Lombardi said. "Unfortunately that is not the same for Cardinal [Roger] Etchegaray, who was nearby. He fell and broke his femur," said Lombardi. The woman was detained by Vatican police and then taken to a mental institution, Lombardi said. He identified her as 25-year-old Susanna Maiolo, who has dual citizenship in Italy and Switzerland ...
COMMENTS (12/27/09): I did say the Pope might survive an attack and, possibly, be injured. As it turns out, it was Cardinal Roger Etchegaray who sustained injuries from this surprise assault by a deranged woman. This is now a PREDICTION FULFILLED (again, remember I allowed that the pope might survive the attack predicted to occur this year). This event, occurring in December 2009, is seven months late, as the vector was for May 2009.
Below we can see that he visited one of the potential dangerous places mentioned in the Third Secret of Fatima back in May 2009, but was able to do so unharmed. Similar future trips such as this one he may not be so lucky.
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(Left)
Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leaves for Jordan. (Right) Pope Benedict XVI retraced the steps of Moses on Saturday, visiting the mountain where the Bible says God showed the dying prophet the Promised Land. He can be seen here praying at The Brazen Serpent monument by Italian artist Giovanni Fantoni at the summit of Mount Nebo. In Bible history, the creation of a statue of a bronze snake on a pole (the Nehustan) is attributed to Moses in Numbers 21:6, where the statue was used for curing the Israelites of snake bites. |
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Woman knocks down
Pope at Christmas Eve Mass - December 24, 2009.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/2/07 -- Well, I suppose if anything is going to trigger a civil war it ought to be this. Sarkozy's death in May 2009 will pave the way for the one known as "Chiren" to enter the scene later ... probably not until after a massive insurgency in the south followed by a Muslim invasion led by Iran and its satellite regime in Iraq. If Chiren is "the least honoured one," then this could be former president Jacques Chirac requested by the French to come out of retirement. The one called Chiren will eventually be victorious against his enemy (Iran/Iraq) and will explore many conquered lands through action. Another quatrain hints that Sarkozy may be shot through the eye.
UPDATE (6/26/08): OMG, already! PREDICTION CLOSE CALL.
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NEW PREDICTION: 11/27/08, PRESENTATION POSTED: 5/14/09 -- As a large war in the Middle Eaast begins to heat up with Israel, on the eve of a nuclear 911 in the United States, a hostage crisis suddenly is added to the mixture. An American pilot flying over Iranian air space is shot down with a high-tech missile either supplied by Russia or else fired by Russian military operating near an Iranian nuclear site. Iran's government will capture the pilot and charge him with espionage, possibly accusing the United States of preparing the way for an Israeli or joint US/Israeli attack on the Bushehr reactor and other nuclear sites. The pilot may become "the great hostage" prophesied by Nostradamus whose eventual release will also signal a nuclear terrorist attack on NYC.
The pilot incident will certainly exacerbate tensions between Iran and the US if nothing else, and it will also be condemned by President Medvedev of Russia who will call it the opening chapter of a new "cold war" between Moscow and Washington.
The dating for this shootdown of the pilot is May 2009, and it can be seen that the NYC bombing was predicted for April 2009; but the base 7 system seldom works quite that perfectly that events happen month by month in sequence. Often it may be the case that an event predicted for a given month during a given year will happen several months later or several months sooner whilst another event may be square on the month. And of course there are those events that will not happen at all.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/2/07 -- Alarmed by the developments in the Persian Gulf, with Iran and Iraq now merged together with several other countries, and the United States presence becoming ever more diminished in the region, Egypt and Jordan form a united Western Arab front with Israel and Turkey in May 2009 against the menace of Ahmadinejad's expanding alliance. Arab air assaults on Iranian-led postions begin as do Iranian attacks against Jordan and Egypt.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/5/07 -- This will be a truly alarming and horrific epidemic that will threaten to become a pandemic in May 2009. It may spread from Africa to southern Arabia, and south Asia; and then threaten to spread worldwide. Like the killer TB patient who recently crossed into Europe, Canada, and the US via the airlines, the same thing may happen, with grave consequences for humanity. The only good news is that this disease burns out fast. But not if it is dengue, Marburg, or some of the other hemorrhagic illnesses. I sense that like SARS, the city of Toronto will be a city that great fear and dread will revolve around for ebola victims that manage to travel there. Of course, there will be those who will say that this is the work of bio-terrorists; and they may be right (or not).
EXCLUSIVE: Rare
Ebola-like virus poses new threat to troops - November 6, 2009.
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Hildegard of Bingen (ca. 1145) ~
Before
the Comet comes, many nations, the good excepted, will be scoured
with want and famine. The great nation in
the ocean that is inhabited by people of different tribes and
descent by an earthquake, storm and tidal waves will be
devastated. It will be divided, and in great part submerged. That
nation will also have many misfortunes at sea,
and lose its colonies in the east through a Tiger and a Lion.
NEW PREDICTION: 6/6/07 -- This will be worse than what happened in 2007: it will be the dreaded flooding predicted by Edgar Cayce and St. Hildegard. The cause will be earthquakes and unprecedented tidal storms. Between what has occurred on the West Coast and the Midwest in 2008, a potential Florida inundation by a small asteroid, and what occurs on the East Coast by May 2009, the United States will be a nation torn into two parts with an ever-widening gulf of water seperating east from west.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/6/07 -- The great nation of Russia will not escape destruction by Nature as Sakhalin Island and many of her large East Coast cities such as Yaroslavl and Vladivostok are demolished by massive earthquakes in May 2009.
NEWS: Russia: 2 dead in Far East quakes - August 2, 2007.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/6/07 -- Israel, already at war with Syria, Hezbollah and other groups in Lebanon, and the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, escalates to fullscale air, sea, and ground offensives against these countries and groups. Noting that Hezbollah and Syria are being armed with weapons and fighters from Iraq, now an Iranian client state, and Iran itself, Israel, with the help of her allies Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey, launches air strikes against both these nations in May 2009.
Israel will also lash out at nearby regions where al Qaeda is in operation arming Israel's enemies and launching terrorist attacks against Israel and her allies, Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey. Thus Israel will strike out at discovered al Qaeda camps in western Jordan and northwestern Saudi Arabia with the aid of the Jordanian and Egyptian militaries.
About this time EU/Nato will begin pouring into the Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, and Turkey to aid the anti-Iran front.
New al Qaeda Levant chief plans
fresh assaults from Gaza, Lebanon - April 6, 2010.
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OLD PREDICTION: 3/11/98, Updated 6/6/07 ---- If Madonna really is the personification of the "Whore of Babylon" she will survive this attack in May 2009 and the assailant will be apprehended. She has already survived three other vectors of danger: June/July 2002, August 2004, and August 2005. However, on August 16, 2005, Madonna was seriously injured in a horse-riding accident; thus, each vector is clearly becoming more dangerous.
This attack will be quite similar to the Robert Dewey Hoskins incident in 1995 only much worse and much better planned, and it will happen in the dead of night rather than in the day. I have avoided saying this is a man and used the word assailant because it is not certain the would-be murderer or murderer will be a man; it may be a woman. It may also be a group of two or three individuals, perhaps thrill-seeking spree killers or a group hired out to "hit" Madonna for some reason.
Fire destroys Madonna's childhood home -- Blaze deemed 'suspicious' by authoritiesNME.COM Jul 1, 2008
The vacant two-storey house in the Rochester Hills area of Detroit went up in flames on Friday night (June 27), after a fire started in the living room of the house causing extensive damage. Arson experts from the Oakland County Sheriff's Arson Unit and the Rochester Hills Fire Department are carrying out an investigation into the blaze. They were alerted by a passer-by who saw flames shooting out of the house. Madonna spent her early years in the house with her five siblings. Meanwhile, the singer is currently dogged with rumours that she is about to divorce Guy Ritchie after the Times of London reported she engaged the same divorce lawyer used by Paul McCartney in his split with Heather Mills. --By our New York staff. Arson attack destroys Madonna's childhood homeMyParkMag, UK
The singer lived in the Rochester Hills home with her parents and five siblings before moving to New York in 1977 to pursue a career as a ballet dancer, before eventually becoming a megastar. A woman driving in the neighborhood reportedly noticed smoke coming from behind the two-story brick house and called the emergency services. And when firefighters arrived, flames were shooting through the side of the roof. Local Fire Chief Ron Crowell told the Detroit Free Press newspaper: "The fire appears to have started in the living room. We brought it under control in about 10 minutes," adding: "There was significant loss." An anonymous neighbour also told the newspaper that even after Madonna gained fame she would sometimes return to the Oklahoma Avenue home. |
OK! Magazine
Tuesday 15 Jul 2008
MADONNA narrowly escaped a nasty attack yesterday when a rock was thrown at her vehicle. Her car was driving through New York's Central Park when a rock was thrown at the window from an overpass.
The singer and her children were not in the car at the time but the rear-side window was smashed in the incident. Police were called to investigate the attack.
Madonna is currently under scrutiny from the public following rumours of a possible split from husband Guy Ritchie. The singer has denied the couple are planning a split but received another blow yesterday when her brother released a 'tell-all' book about the star.
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Department shows Miranda Tozier-Robbins who was arrested
Thursday April 16, 2009 on charges of tresspassing
outside Britney Spears' Calabasas, Calif., home. The camouflage-clad woman was arrested after allegedly peering through Spears' windows. Britney Spears performs during 'The Circus Starring Britney Spears' tour at the Philips Arena on March 5, 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department/AP Photo, Getty Images) |
COMMENTS (4/19/09): We should keep in mind the strange link between Madonna and Britney Spears that has been ongoing since 2004. What was a dangerous stalking precedent for Madonna in 1995 could also serve as a precedent for another famous blonde pop icon: Britney Spears. It should not be forgotten that when death threats were made early this year by Muslim extremists seeking to behead Madonna, that Britney was marked along with her for decapitation.
Soldier Allegedly
Threatened to Kill Miley Cyrus - October 29, 2009.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/6/07 -- Bangladeshi President Iajuddin Ahmed or his successor will be assassinated in May/June 2009. South Asia will fall into turmoil as Pakistan allies with Iran and war escalates with India. Al Qaeda will seek to take over the entire peninsula, linking the Middle East war to other conflicts in the region including Kashmir and Sri Lanka.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/6/07 -- The reason for the June 2009 visit is not clear, although EU support for Israel will probably be a contributing factor. Perhaps it will be Ahmadinejad's final plea to the Europeans, led by Germany, to stay out of the war in the Middle East, even as EU/Nato troops and naval forces move into the Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt and the Red Sea. The Iranian president will be jeered and booed by Germans attending an outdoor speech and riots and demonstrations against Iran will break out all over the country. Meantime, pro-Iranian, pro-Islamic factions within Germany, possibly including Turkish and Kurd minorities, will begin fighting anti-Islamic protesters and supporters of Israel. The danger of civil war will begin to grow.
Protestors
hold flags and a poster of the Iranian woman 'Neda' who was
killed, during a
demonstration in Brussels, Saturday July 25, 2009. Iranians
around the world called
for a global day of action on Saturday to protest against the
current regime.
(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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NEW PREDICTION: 9/17/08 -- The Israelis will bomb a Russian-built nuclear plant in June 2009 at the Iranian seaport of Bushehr saying they believe it was designed to make nuclear weapons to destroy Israel.
An unknown number of F-16 fighter bombers will destroy the Bushehr reactor 250 miles south of Tehran, on the orders of Prime Minister Tzipi Livni.
Israel will act at this time because it believes the reactor will be completed in a short time and enough fuel diverted to create at least 30 nuclear warheads to be loaded on medium-range and long-range missiles already aimed at various targets in Europe and the Arab world, some of them inside Israel, either at the beginning of July or the beginning of September 2009.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly: Iran crosses nuclear red line
September 10, 2009, 9:05 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Obama administration might conceivably decide to live with a nuclear-armed Iran. Israel does not enjoy that luxury. Now that Iran has got all the components for making a nuclear device at extremely short notice, as affirmed by US intelligence, Israel can no longer delay a decision on pre-emptive military action.
The coming issue of DEBKA-Net-Weekly, out Friday, deals with this touch-and-go moment.
| Report: Israelis could
choose missiles over fighter jets for Iran strike July 7, 2010 - Israel could forego fighter-jets and instead use intermediate-range ballistic missiles to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons facilities, a report said. The Bipartisan Policy Center asserted that Israel's military could shelve plans for a massive fighter-jet attack on Iran because of the distance and difficulties in winning the approval of Teheran's neighbors to use their air space. Instead, the center said in a report, Israel could opt to employ its intermediate-range missile arsenal, deemed as sufficiently accurate to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities. |
Ahmadinejad: US and Israel plot
wars within three months - July 27, 2010.
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World War III/PX in 2009
NEW PREDICTION: 6/6/07 -- "World War III in the Middle East" now truly begins in June 2009 as the conflict between Israel and Syria escalates to the point that chemical weapons have been fired into northern Israeli cities and towns by Syrian missiles. Israel retaliates decisively with nuclear weapons, destroying Damascus and several other cities utterly.
NEWS:
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/6/07 -- Firebrand politician and Head of the Russian Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky demands an immediate vote in the United Nations Security Council in June 2009 on a resolution condemning Israel's air strikes on Iran's nuclear reactor sites and nuclear aggression against Syria. In addition to a demand for the withdrawal of all Israeli forces from Arab and Iranian territories, waters, and air space, his call to assemble a multi-national force to launch an air and naval attack on Israel and destroy known missile and weapons sites inside the Jewish state is quickly rejected. The Russian president warns that Moscow is quite capable of acting unilaterally if the United Nations hesitates to condemn Israel for its use of WMD in retaliatory attacks against Syria. Zhirinovsky is told the resolution will be reviewed and that Russia can request a new vote, this time in the UN assembly, within 4 to 8 weeks if hostilities have not ended.
For the time being the UN is concerned with the mounting humanitarian crisis in both Israel and Syria, especially in Syria, as well as a flood of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees attempting to escape into nearby Turkey and Iraq.
Back home, millions of Russians are protesting Israel's air strikes on Iran and nuclear attack on Syrian cities and expressing rage at Nato and EU members of the United Nations that are siding with the Jewish state. Zhirinovsky is hailed as a hero and calls for direct Russian military action increase daily by the angry populace.
COMMENTS (3/20/09): Hmmmmm ... could it be that Russia will have US support in calling for Israel to be charged with war crimes and face international action? See report below dated March 10, 2009.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/8/07 -- In the confusion of events, the royal couple, Charles, now King George VII, and Queen Camilla, will be fired upon by unknown assailants in June 2009. There is a remote chance of injury or death. Whether this is the opening salvo of the kind of internal turmoil plaguing France and Germany at this time, a terrorist attack, or simply the work of a crazed lunatic is not certain.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/8/07 -- Alois Irlmaier and the Seer of Waldviertel warn there will be horrible naval battles in the Mediterranean Sea as the great Middle East War expands and grows steadily worse. Aside from nuclear terrorists, the list of nations capable of causing such a catastrophe in this region are: Russia, the United States, Israel, Iran, Great Britain, and France. It would not be in the interests of Pakistan, India, China, or North Korea to cause a nuclear explosion in the Eastern Mediterranean ... at least not in June 2009. The Seer of Waldviertel appears to believe Russia will be behind the nuclear naval strikes since, from a central European perspective, Russia is the only northern nation with such weapons.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/9/07 -- It will be the same for miles and miles, town to town, in some places it will look like the moon. This quake, over an 8.5 magnitude, shall be a judgment or a warning for what Iran intends to bring forth to the world. It will be Ahmadinejad's final opportunity in June/July 2009 when this temblor strikes to reconsider the design forming in his mind.
| 'Hundreds injured' in Iran quakes Aljazeera.net Saturday, July 31, 2010 | 19:01 Mecca time, 16:01 GMT
The semi-official Iranian news agency Ilna reported an injury toll of 274 people as a result of the quake in the northeast. Two of the injured were in critical condition, the official Iranian news agency quoted Mojtaba Sadeqian, governor of Torbat-e Heydariyeh, the town hardest hit, as saying. There were no reports of casualties in the south, but state news channels said there was extensive damage in the region mainly because most of the homes there are made of mud and brick. "Due to the old and traditional structure of the buildings, the quake damaged 700 houses," Ali Reza Kazemi, mayor of the southern region of Negar, said. Iranian TV footage showed parts of buildings reduced to rubble and homes strewn with shattered glass and other debris. Communications were also temporarily disrupted by the earthquakes. 2 strong earthquakes hit Iran, injuring hundredsJuly 31, 2010
The first quake, which had a magnitude of 5.7, struck villages and towns in the northeast on Friday evening, injuring more than 200 people, said Mojtaba Sadeqian, governor of the town hardest hit, Torbat-e Heydariyeh. Two of the injured were in critical condition, the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying. The semiofficial ILNA news agency reported a higher injury toll, putting the number at 274. Iranian TV footage showed parts of buildings reduced to rubble and homes strewn with shattered glass and other debris. Communications were also temporarily disrupted. Late Saturday morning, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake rattled the Negar region, 670 miles (more than 1,000 kilometers) south of the capital, Tehran. There were no reports of casualties, but state television said there was extensive damage, most of it to buildings made of mud and brick. "Due to the old and traditional structure of the buildings, the quake damaged 700 houses," Negar Mayor Ali Reza Kazemi said, according to IRNA. |
COMMENTS (8/4/10): I can't believe how much CNN played these earthquakes down ... why they even bothered reporting them at all. The scale of the injuries and destruction, if they occurred in a city like San Francisco, would be major headlines ... especially if there were two quakes 24 hours apart. However, the magnitude of either quake does fall well short of the predicted 8.5; thus this is only a PREDICTION PARTIALLY FULFILLED.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/9/07
-- It will be the same for miles aand miles, town to town,
in some places it will look like the moon.
This quake shall be a punishment against Hugo Chavez for being stupid enough to ally with Iran and conduct attacks on the US from Latin America.
Chavez will bring this great misfortune down upon his head and the heads of his people in July 2009.
That should be enough to wipe that stupid grin off his face.
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COMMENTS (9/15/09): PREDICTION FULFILLED! Only two months off the July 2009 vector. Little Chavez does tremble in his boots. See how hard he clings to Ahmadinejad. Now await the big one for little Amhadinejad!
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/9/07 -- Cyprus does enjoy close and friendly relations with Iran and the Greek Cypriots are also allies of Russia, having received many arms from Moscow over the years. It is possible that the Middle East War and Cyprus are linked in some way and that this has something to do with the nuclear explosion that occurred earlier in the Mediterranean. This may explain why Turkey launches an air and sea attack on the island nation in July 2009.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/9/07 -- As the War of Alus escalates, we begin to understand why US "protection by sea can not be guaranteed." The attacks by Iran on US naval vessels have been uncannily successful, due in part to sophisticated weaponry supplied by Russia, North Korea, and China. This traumatic television event in July 2009 will become something, sadly, Americans will begin to grow accustomed to. Indeed, people will enter into World War III with their eyes wide open.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/9/07 -- This will be another very nightmarish retaliatory attack like one that happened to a US warship in 2008. This time, however, it will be an Iranian battleship that is atomised. People will, once again, gawk at the destruction on television in total awe and disbelief in July 2009.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/9/07 -- Russia formally appeals to the United Nations Assembly in July 2009 to vote in favour of a multi-national force to launch an invasion of Israel, with Moscow leading the charge. China sides with Russia, but does not commit troops. The United States, Great Britain, and France exercised their veto in the UN security council during an earlier resolution attempt in June, and vote against the measure again.
Despite support from many Asian, African, and Latin American countries, the powerful bloc of nations making up the European Union, along with other non-EU European nations, some former Soviet states, and US Pacific allies such as Australia and Japan, reject the resolution. It is, however, European support of Israel that defeats Russia's machinations. An angry Russian delegation led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky walks out of the assembly, declaring that the EU and Nato constitute yet another danger to world peace and, especially, to Russian national security.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/10/07 -- Finally it happens. The ancient prophecies of the Old Testament prophet Daniel and the 12th Century Catholic prophet Rigord of St. Denis are fulfilled when the Iranian leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declares war on the European Union for its support of Israel and certain Middle East states such as Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia on July 29, 2009. Ahmadinejad also declares war on the Nato alliance: a strong, personal verbal shot at Nato member Turkey.
The official declaration is made outdoors before an assembly of millions of Iranians, all chanting "Death to Europe and America! Death to Israel! God is great!" The timing is suspicious. Only a few days before Russia had walked out of the United Nations, somewhat unofficially threatening war on the EU and Nato themselves. Now the world wonders and worries about not only what Iran will do next, but Russia.
Ahmadinejad's alliance is now in place. Iraq is a Shi'a satellite state ... an extension of the new Persia. The small oil kingdoms like Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, and others are losing the war as allies of the largely defeated and dissipated United States. Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Cyprus, Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Albania, Bosnia, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, China, and North Korea are all part of Iran's growing Islamic empire or its military axis. Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria are teetering on the verge of declaring their alliance. Syria is devastated, useless, but it no longer matters.
An ancient Persian war cry not heard in over 2300 years suddenly reverberates, building to an unbearable, roaring, chanting crescendo. It is a signal. Muslim populations in Europe begin civil wars in those nations with large restive populations. The revolution in France grows deadlier as a new bloody dance begins.
World War III is about to be completed in the Middle East and move on into Europe very quickly.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/23/07 -- The base 7 system reveals this event will occur in July 2009, almost immediately after Ahmadinejad's declaration of war. Unlike Teheran, there will likely be no official "declaration" from Moscow; only blitzkrieg-style attacks and invasions. This strike may or may not be nuclear. I would not be surprised to see some limited use of tactical nuclear weapons by both sides, although the explosion that occurs in the Eastern Mediterranean in June 2009 can only be described as massive.
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NEW PREDICTION: 1/25/05 -- What begins as a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, combined with colossal fragmenting of the Antarctic ice shelf, escalates into a series of super-shocks and tsunamis, flooding great cities such as Buenos Aires, and virtually destroying the bottom of South America by July 2009.
Chunks
of Antarctic ice the size of shopping malls are breaking off, and
scientists are worried.
CNN's Tim Lister reports.
The
major quake lasted one minute and was swiftly followed by a
series of
aftershocks ranging from 5.6 to 6.9 on the magnitude scale Photo:
AP
COMMENTS (2/27/10): This one is definitely for the history books. The first of the great earthshocks predicted, an 8.8 magnitude in Chile (I said it would be a 9.0 ... close enough). Already it has escalated into a monstrous tsunami headed for virtually all coasts and islands of the Pacific Ocean at this writing. Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Mexico, California, Oregon are now all on alert. The Antarctic Ice Shelf has been fragmenting and melting for several years now, and it is getting increasingly worse. Argentina also felt this shocker. How much so is not known. But even as we wait for a seperate superquake to strike Buenos Aires in Argentina, the second largest city in Chile has been shaken badly. This prediction is now 75% fulfilled and in progress.
Pacific under
tsunami threat after massive 8.8 quake strikes Chile - February 27, 2010.
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/23/07 -- Although a July/August 2009 vector clearly projects terrorism and possible missile attacks by Iran against France, one cannot rule out that this is when the civil war or revolution mentioned in so many prophecies occurs. From this point on, according to Nostradamus, the fate of France and the United States become almost synchronised as the two nations are now major allies (the Eagle and the Cock).
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NEW PREDICTION: 6/26/07 -- In July/August 2009, as the US is being hammered in the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and Saudi Arabia, it is now becoming obvious why American troops were withdrawn from Iraq during a "tactical retreat." Not only would this provide a pretext for widening the war to include Iran and the Arabian oil fields, and thus attracting EU and Nato forces to rally to the side of Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey (also a Nato country), Saudi Arabia, and the small oil kingdoms, but it would free up US forces allowing President Barack Obama to maneuver the military to aid in the defence of Eastern and Central Europe from an anticipated Russian invasion and Chinese and North Korean attacks on the US mainland. The president, in other words, will have paved the way for America to fight World War III. When Russia bombs Nato and US air and naval bases, the realisation of where the country is suddenly heading hits home hard.
Also, since the crash of 2008, the global economy will have entered the worst depression in modern history. Angry Americans will discover their banks closed, their increasingly useless and hyper-inflated money now no longer available for withdrawal, ATMs no longer functioning, and goods and services being sold for unimaginably high prices.
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It will also become quite clear to the American public that the government had been concealing information about the coming close encounter with Planet X, an object that everyone can now see in the sky, and was planning on using a global war and the escalating consequences of "global warming" as a cover to confuse the citizens, thus relieving all government agencies from the responsibility of providing aid and basic human services. Indeed, the entire scheme is part of an Euro-American plan to effectively annihilate huge population sectors from the planet, not limited only to enemy countries, but also including Europe and the US.
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As a result, mass rioting breaks out across the United States as Barack Obama declares martial law. Now anti-war dissidents and all US citizens considered to be an economic burden to society will be rounded up, arrested, and shipped by trains to secret detention camps. Unimaginable cruelties will be allowed to happen to detainees ... all US citizens! The breaking up of families, torture, beatings, rape, murder, the innocents will be left as prey to the criminal elements already imprisoned there in the thousands to allow more room in the overpopulated state-run prisons.
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Thousands of newly manufactured guillotines are ready to dispatch the millions of people who will be put to death speedily and effiiciently. However, many of the trains will be used to ship millions of bodies of Americans to the northwestern US to be dumped in huge mass graves, millions of people expected to be killed in the Eastern United States during the close passage of PX and also citizens killed by Chinese and North Korean nuclear attacks.
However, this plan will soon backfire during the coming Washington riots and a concerted paramilitary attack by the citizens against the US government later in August.
Woman nearly shocked to death by 'police' at New Orleans protest 12.20.07
IS
THE RIOTING BEGINNING??? Beware! That Will Create
A Pretext For MARTIAL LAW!
Kathy Castor Town Hall Erupts in Anger and Violence in Tampa Florida - August 6, 2009
AARP Organizers
Cancel ‘Listening Session’ After Participants Refuse
to ‘Keep Their Comments Quiet’ - August 6, 2009
Glenn Beck Pleads
for Nonviolence - Be forceful but Peaceful - Do not
Destroy our Republic - August 3, 2009
Obamacare: Crowd
Explodes When Arlen Specter Urges That We "Do This Fast"
- August 2, 2009
Protesters Shout Down Obamacare in Austin - August 1, 2009
Tea Party Anti-Government Protests in Setauket, NY - July 4, 2009
Police attack during G20 protests in Pittsburg
Muslim center
dispute sparks New York rallies - August 22, 2010.
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World War III/PX in 2009
NEW PREDICTION: 7/29/07 -- The prophet Jeremiah describes World War III in the Middle East quite vividly: from the opening attacks on Gaza and Lebanon by Egypt and Israel through the partial destruction and captivity of Iran and total nuclear annihilation of Iraq by many nations from "the North" and elsewhere. There is no sense of how much time passes from event to event. However, the attacks on Iran and Iraq do seem to be written from a somewhat different perspective than the events that occur earlier since there is such obvious mention of military forces outside of the Middle East being involved in their decimation.
As to the events in the Middle East it is quite clear that Elam (Iran) and Babylon (Iraq) will be allied against Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.
In Jeremiah 46 the fate of Egypt's leader
and that of the nation are tied together. When President Hosni
Mubarak is assassinated, the country is attacked and falls into
the hands of its enemies Iraq and Iran. We may well anticipate
that this will not happen without a major battle or two, but
Egypt will ultimately be defeated and occupied by the Iraqis and
their new king (possibly Shi'a leader Muqtada al-Sadr).
Unfortunately, the base 7 dating is difficult to ascertain since there are two prominent vectors for 2009: July 2009 and October 2009. Also, the Seer of Waldviertel's and Nostradamus' prophecies appears to be in conflict with Jeremiah's prophetic chronology. According to the Waldviertler, Egypt is the final battleground in the great Middle East war and the last Arab nation to fall. Even Nostradamus has war spreading to Greece and the Balkans simultaneously to the final battles in Egypt and its ultimate surrender (thus, it would appear that Turkey falls at the same time as Egypt). However, as far as Jeremiah is concerned, Egypt is one of the earliest casualties, along with Gaza and Lebanon.
Yet, even Jeremiah's chronology can be questioned as he discusses Egypt's fall to Babylon (Iraq) in Jer 46 but then predicts Egypt's decimation of Gaza and aiding of Israel in a war against Lebanon in Jer 47. However, beginning with Jer 48 the chronology of events is quite linear and events cease to appear again retrospectively.
Nevertheless, we are right to say that the chronicle of the war is a bit skewed early on, making it difficult to place the fall of Egypt in a reliable sequence.
Because, according to the base 7 system, this can either occur in July or October, perhaps it would be best to simply say that the timing of the fall of Egypt will happen sometime in July-October 2009. Of course, if a ceasefire is declared in August, this event will fail to transpire in 2009 and will likely not take place until well after war resumes following a ceasefire violation by Iran or Iraq in 2011.
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List of Predictions Still to be Presented on This Page
All of the following titles/brief descriptions in orange were posted exactly as they appear on this page to the Overview and Updates Page on November 27, 2008 unless otherwise noted:
May
2009 - US Pilot Shot Down Over Iran by Russian Missile; Captured
and Charged With Espionage ***
Presentation posted May 14, 2009
May/June 2009 - A Pope from Ancient France Elected?
July
2009 - Dome of the Rock is destroyed; work begins on building of
new Temple in Jerusalem ***
Presentation posted August 18, 2009 on 2009
(Part Five).
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and © 1998-2010 Nostradamus and the New Prophecy Almanacs
Michael McClellan
A fire has
destroyed the childhood home of Madonna, gutting the
suburban Detroit, MI house in what authorities called
‘suspicious’ circumstances.
Wednesday, 2 July
2008
The Detroit home in
which pop superstar Madonna grew up has been burnt to the
ground following a suspected arson attack.
Two powerful earthquakes have
struck northeastern and southern Iran, injuring more
than 200 people and damaging hundreds of homes, officials
have said. The first earthquake, which had a magnitude of
5.7, hit towns in the northeast of the country on
Friday evening, and a second 5.8 magnitude quake struck
the south on Saturday morning. 
Strong 6.4
earthquake rocks Venezuela -- Panic in Caracas, many
injuries, houses collapse, high-rise buildings sway
Television reported
aftershocks in some regions. One of Venezuela's main oil
refineries, El Palito, and a petrochemicals complex are
located in the region where the tremor was felt most
strongly.