June 24, 2003 (2:10 AM) - The current "king of Persia" who has already greatly boosted Iran's stature as the most powerful and influential nation in the Moslem world, and the most dangerous Islamic nation to the West, may be President Mohammad Khatami. Khatami is a great communicator ("issued from the league of great Hermes"). He is also the richest president of Iran to date; his immense wealth spread throughout the world, much of it being lavished upon the Iranian military and development of all forms of WMD. He, along with the entire theocratic system governed by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the mullahs, is greatly hated by the democratic movement in Iran.
1) Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini (1979-1989)
2) Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (1989- ?)
3) ?
4) ?
1) Mohammad Ali
Rajai (1981), Iran's first elected president, elected August 2
during impeachment of puppet president Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.
Bani-Sadr, Iran's first president, was appointed in 1980
by Ayatollah Khomeini. Ali Rajai served only 28 days and was assassinated
by socialists on August 30, 1981.
2) President Ali Khamenei (1981-1989), now spiritual leader
Ayatollah Khamenei since June 1989
3) President Hashemi Rafsanjani (1989-1997)
4) President Mohammad Khatami (1997- ?)
It is possible we count ayatollahs rather presidents, but if we do, the "fourth" one may not come for another 25 years. If so, the revolution begun this month will fail.
As for presidents, either we count Rajai and Khatami is the fourth elected Iranian president or we discount Rajai because of his brief 28-day term of office under conditions of political turmoil. If we do the latter, then Khatami is only president number three, with one more to go.
In the current climate, either Khatami or a mysterious successor may be the one who is "long awaited." This depends largely on the success or the failure of the anti-government demonstrations in Iran, especially when they heat up as planned in July.
Read what this "reformer" Mohammad Khatami is really all about. Remember, he may be the Third Antichrist!
From the "Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran" (SMCCDI)
To the Free People of the World (excerpts):
On behalf of SMCCDI, Aryo B. Pirouznia
Sunday, June 22, 2003
(To read full text of letter, go to WorldTribune: Open letter to the free people of the world from Iranian students.)
... Those who continuously perpetuate the sham of a divided government within Iran and, while repeating the call for dialogue and engagement with their so-called "reformer," coddle the discredited Mr. Khatami and his cronies —the very ones who are yesteryear's communists, turned Marxist, turned Islamists, labeled today's "reformists." Those who have amassed enormous wealth with private bank accounts in Europe, the United States and property spanned across the world!
For their information, and to their dismay, we repeat again, the dynamics of what is happening in Iran is not, as they like to portray and fit into their own agenda, the clash between their so-called "hardliners" and "reformers," it is between a fed-up, frustrated and oppressed nation and the entire gang of the theocratic regime ...
Once again, the theocracy and the Mullahs in Iran are making killing fields of our universities. Once again, the courageous and besieged students and people of Iran are face to face with the brutality of a regime that has had its terrorist grip on Iran for the last twenty-four years. What the Regime has been doing in secret and dark is now brazenly repeating in open sight and light.
Within the last few days, once more, thousands of our young have disappeared, imprisoned, maimed and killed. Their houses are being raided and everyone in sight raped. The Regime is again using one of its most preferred means of torture for women: Their breasts slashed and bodies thrown from the balcony of their dormitory in plain view of the horrified eyes of thousands of their fellow-students!
Torture and terror are Regime's proven methods of control; that is how they have sustained their power for the last two decades. To carry on their inhumane acts, as usual, they have at their beck and call their pillars of support: The alien terrorists of Hizbollah and other foreign mercenaries; for no decent Iranian could be as barbaric as they are ...
In a nation rich with petroleum and natural gas, 57 percent of the population lives under the line of poverty. This is the shameful legacy of this corrupt theocracy and, the West's favorite "reformer," Mr. Khatami!
... During the Khatami years, the Islamic Republic has invested enormous amounts in Iran's conventional and non-conventional weapons programs. Indeed, while the masses are hungry, workers strike for unpaid wages and the average Iranian family cannot afford food, Iran is packed with every sophisticated weapon. Many of which find their way to every terrorist group in the region.
While Khatami is portrayed as a champion of the people, by the Western powers and the media, he has done immense harm to Iran's economy and subsequently the living conditions of millions of Iranian families have depreciated steadily. For the last twenty-four years while the Iranian lives have deteriorated the riches of Iran are being emptied into the pockets of the Mullahs and the coffers of Hezbollah and other terrorists. While Iranian children are going hungry the petroleum money buys arms and sustains those alien murderers in Lebanon and Palestine. The blood of Iranian youth is sucked by these Mullahs and fed to those leeches!
... Secretary-General (Kofi Annan), even when the world finally was forced to admit the regime for the terrorist that it is, stood shoulder to shoulder with Mr. Khatami and praised his accomplishments, most notably, the freedoms he had bestowed upon the Iranian population! This is the man that while visiting Iran didn't have the gumption to demand a visit to the prisons or question the fate of the detained students. This is the man that while he was so pitifully busy lavishing compliments on his host was deaf to the screams of the demonstrators down the street while elements of the regime, brandishing clubs and chains, were smashing the bones of Iranian workers, mothers and students ...
Read firsthand how Khatami and the mullahs have invested their vast wealth to make Iran's military machine the most formidable in the Moslem world and one of the most dangerous on the planet. Indeed, it is clear that Khatami is planning one day "by his strength and his riches" to "stir up all" against the nations of the West:
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Mr. Khatami's administration has been extremely active in Iran's production of banned biological weapons. European countries are falling over each other to engage and trade with Iran in order to further the Islamic Republic's program. German, Italian, Swiss and Spanish companies stock Iran's biological laboratories with the most advanced equipment and supplies.
The testing of missiles capable of striking India, Israel, Turkey and beyond shows the Regime is pursuing long-range delivery and strengthening its defense capability. While the Islamic Republic is deep in debt, and could not afford basic necessities of life and civil services for its people, the Iranian government purchases C-801 and C-802 anti-ship cruise missiles from China.
As for Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, there is no need to fabricate stories like the Niger-Iraq connection. It is very advanced, extremely well equipped and it is in the open, with Russia being the main beneficiary of the billions that is being wasted on the nuke-envy program of the Mullahs.
Russia's southern provinces, including Chechnya, and the former Soviet republics of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan, once made up part of the Medo-Persian Empire. Also included were northwestern Iran, northern (Kurdish) Iraq, eastern (Kurdish) Syria, and southeastern (Kurdish) Turkey. Yes, Russia and the former Soviet Union were once a large portion of the land of the Medes.
Despite strong ties with Syria and Libya, Russian leader Vladimir Putin has forged a mutual defence pact with Iran. Although Russian scientists have helped the Iranians develop their own nuclear weapons program, Moscow will also consider providing part of its own arsenal, as well as launching and targeting technologies, to Teheran. After demonstrating their power to the world, Iran will become quite vocal about the "Christian crusaders" of the West who have brought "oppression" to Arabs and Moslems in the Middle East, the Balkans, and elsewhere. The Iranian leader will appeal to nations throughout the Middle East and the former Soviet Union to create a united coalition to attack pro-Western Arab countries and Israel; rid Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkans of Nato "occupation"; and ultimately invade, conquer, and destroy the very nations of the Western infidels.
And if the revolution is successful; what then?
Hopefully, we can then begin to count the leaders of Persia over again and the threat now posed to Iraq and US troops stationed there, Israel, and the likelihood of global war, will vanish for at least another generation. However, in all fairness, there is nothing that guarantees the "fourth king of Persia" will be Islamic or that his war will necessarily be a holy jihad! The young revolutionaries in Iran have identified themselves with the legacy of the Persian kings Darius and Cyrus:
A gang of illiterate Mullah and their insatiable brood have latched onto the treasury of the country and hang to power through the brutality of the two million mercenaries they have bought. These traitors have hijacked an entire nation. Every sensitive organ of the country is in the control of these foreign terrorists. In the land of Cyrus and Darius the head of the judiciary is an alien, and the country is run through layers and layers of terrorists.
Almost three thousand years ago, while most of the world was barbaric, Cyrus the Great decreed the first Declaration of Human Rights. Today, the children of Iran have to go begging to a pathetic organization like the United Nations and its ineffective, sycophant Secretary-General for their most basic rights as a human being. And you, you, you have reduced us to this!
We demand our freedoms: freedom of thought, expression, religion, and freedom to be and feel human. We demand total separation of religion and state.
Understand this: The Iran of tomorrow is ours! We will reclaim our land, our national identity, pride, heritage, proud history, and our civilization!
There are some Biblical scholars who believe they see evidence of a new "Cyrus" coming to power in modern Iran. Of course, if this were the case, he would be Cyrus II -- not Cyrus IV (since Daniel asserts a fourth king).
However, there were three kings named Darius in ancient Persia: Darius I, Darius II, and Darius III. It was Darius III, cousin of Artaxerxes III, who lost the Persian Empire to Alexander the Great in 331 BC.
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"Darius used the wrong tactics in battle and was forced to flee to Ecbatana and then eastward to Bactria. It was there that the satrap of Bactria, Bessus, had Darius murdered on Alexander's approach and took command himself in the unsuccessful opposition to the Macedonian conqueror. These events brought the Persian Empire to an end and marked the beginning of the Hellenistic period in the E Mediterranean."
Many Bible scholars believe Daniel's war of the ram and he-goat (Grecia vs the kings of Media and Persia) was the fall of the Persian Empire to Alexander the Great of Greece. However, the angel Gabriel clearly explains to Daniel that the war between Persia-Media and Grecia is a latter days event when he says, "Understand, 0 son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision" and "behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be."
Gabriel repeats this all-important caveat in Daniel Chapter 10, adding that the vision will not come to pass "until the latter days," linking the prophecy in Chapter 8 with the prophecy of the fourth king of Persia in Chapter 11, verses 1-4, which is actually a brief summation of what happens in Chapter 8.
Most importantly, Gabriel tells Daniel a "fourth" king will arise in Persia who will do battle with Grecia and then win and grow mighty, for a short time anyway. Darius III, obviously, was the "third" and last Darius (and last Persian emperor), and he never expanded his empire to nations south, west, and north in his conflict with Alexander. Quite the opposite happened in fact: Alexander defeated the Persian empire, with no gains whatsoever for Persia at any time during the conflict, and went on to conquer most of Asia.
Therefore, it may be a "fourth" Darius we await, one who reigns in the spirit of the times and traditions of Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes. Should he be the fourth in a new line of "kings" in modern Iran, he may be quite some distance away in the future. Either that, or President Mohammad Khatami is only the third recognised elected president of Iran and this latter days "fourth" king of Persia will be Khatami's successor and the first beneficiary of the second Iranian Revolution (as Napoleon was the first beneficiary of the French Revolution).
More regarding my personal prediction for June demonstrations in Iran and the subject of Daniel's fourth king of Persia on 2003 (Part One). More on Daniel's prophecy also appears on Russia in News and Prophecy (Part One), Russia in News and Prophecy (Part Two), and the sample chapter (Chapter One) from my e-book, Nostradamus and the Final Age, on The First Key.
You might add: How about the media, the academia, the experts or the intellectuals? To be sure, one expects the truth and professionalism from them!
Unfortunately, not so! Michael Ledeen, Michael Rubin or others like them are not heard often and are relegated to the periphery. Yet, "The New York Times" reporters and articles claim to know the truth about Iran. And, ignorant, self-promoting and self-serving Judith Kipper, Robin Wright, Shirin Hunter and Christiane Amanpour are the ones who are paraded for the viewers. And, of course, Charlie Rose revels in having the agents of the regime as his friends and invites them on his program as often as possible.
Today, Nikki Keddie, University of California professor, who lamented and criticized the large arm sales of the 70s to Iran, is utterly deaf and mute about the very expensive and billions of dollars military build-up that is pursued by Khatami at the expense of bankrupting the country and denying the masses their basic needs.
Hypocrisy? Arrogance? Ignorance?
... We ask: Ms. Amanpour, you don a veil in direct insult to the brave Iranian women and kowtow to Khatami gushing over the democracy he has brought to Iran, in every chance, perpetuating the biggest deception of free elections and the democratic system. Why?
Ms. Amanpour, Did you know that historically Iran is a matriarchal civilization? Did you know that equal rights and equal pay were part of the tenets of the Iranian society going back to thousands of years in history? Persepolis and its records are a living testament to that.
Ms. Amanpour, did you ever learn that it was the Regime's Islamist leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who in the early days of their killing spree had given permission for the execution of girls as young as nine years old. But, to keep with the laws of his warped version of Islam they were to be raped before killing, for it was illegal in Islam otherwise. This is the twisted and sick mind of the founder of this regime. Madam, as a woman, as a human being doesn't it make you sick in the stomach? This is the precise regime you have been praising!
Did you know that "Sheer-zan," meaning "Lioness," is a direct adjective for women and part of the every day vernacular of Persian? Did you know that more than 2,000 years ago Iran had number of rulers who were female? Except for the inadequate Mullahs and their inferiority complex the men of Iran take pride in the fact that strong women have raised and nurtured them. You need not even go far, just look at their heroism and the courage of the Iranian women in the last twenty-four years. But then, you wouldn't even recognize courage if it bit you; you are too busy getting access and personal gain!
Ms. Amanpour, cover yourself in seven veils and pay homage to Khatami, those "Sheer-Zanon" of Iran, today, as an act of defiance, are burning their veils--this symbol of their oppression — and tomorrow they will hang your coddled Mullahs with them!
Christiane Amanpour does "the dance of the seven veils" for Mohammad Khatami
Ms. Amanpour, one word of advice: Don't mess with Iranian women! Now, you have done your duty for your Mr. Khatami, and in turn have been rewarded handsomely. We hope, betraying not only your heritage but also journalistic integrity was worth it.
Ms. Amanpour, the truth is out!
As we said: It is greed, self-serving ambitions and hypocrisy that rule.
Ms. Amanpour; back off! Back off!
To Mr. Charlie Rose we say: For the sake of intellectual integrity, we recommend the next time you have your favorite trio: Khatami, Kharazi, and Zarif, the three terrorists who represent the Islamic Republic, on your numerous shows, you may want to present a disclaimer for the benefit of the viewers. You owe it to them! May we suggest the following: Known and documented terrorists! In case you plead ignorance of the facts, permit us to enlighten your "intellectualship" briefly. As a member of the Islamic Republic's ruling council in 1988, Khatami was complicit in the execution of several thousand political prisoners, ordered by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Before becoming the so-called elected President, one of the minor sins of Mr. Khatami was an active member of the Commission that purged 5,000 young students--their status still unknown. Kharazi and Zarif 's claim to fame and rise to power are due to the fact that they were among the original hostage-takers at the American Embassy in Tehran. Innocent Americans were kept in their filthy grip for 444 days.
April 11, 2003 (4:15 AM EST): This is, in part, a belated observation, tardily posted due to the recent bandwidth troubles several days ago. However, it remains relevent, even though the war in Iraq seems to be winding down.
THE OPTIMISTIC
VIEW: "An optimistic scenario for the Iraq War has
always existed due to two seemingly unrelated events in recent
history.
Those of you who know the base 7 system method will understand this better than those who have not familiarised themselves with the theory. In the recent past we have had two years figuring quite prominently on the timeline associated with this year, 2003, and last year, 2002. It was fourteen (2 x 7) years ago, in November, when the Berlin Wall fell and triggered the Velvet Revolution that would sweep the former Warsaw Pact nations of Eastern and Central Europe. The implications this influence would have on the region of the Middle East, rather than Europe this time around, pointed to a US-UK victory over Saddam Hussein and the liberation of Iraq.
Of course, if the 1989 model holds true for the entire region of the Middle East, Iraq may not be the end of the story. The Assad legacy in Syria may also come to an end through military might and the totalitarian, mullah-run fundamentalist state in Iran may fall in a new revolution rivaling the one in Romania in December 1989. In addition, Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and even the pro-Western monarchy in Saudi Arabia may soon fall if the fever of liberation spreads to grassroots populations in these two countries.
If we look back only eight years to August 1995, we can also see that this is when Nato forces led by the United States brought an end to the three-and-a-half year war in Bosnia-Herzogovina, Croatia, and eastern Slavonia through the overwhelming force of air power. The peace that followed still holds to this day. Therefore, we can see that a favourable outcome to a US-led war against the Iraqi regime was possible as of August 2002 (7 years later). However, political pressure from key allies in Europe and the United Nations postponed what should have happened in late August 2002 until mid-March 2003.
The question then was: would the favourable influence of August 1995 still work in March 2003, seven months later than the August 2002 vector?
By all appearances it has and, if so, following the 1995-96 model, we may be in for a three-year (or nearly three-year) period of relative peace before major hostilities break out again in the Middle East and in the Balkans requiring intervention of the major powers.
How we handle that last and final hurdle, which will begin in either autumn 2005 or winter/spring 2006, will determine if we can further postpone all World War 3 influences and enjoy a much longer period of world peace for another 20 years."
THE PESSIMISTIC
VIEW AND NIGHTMARE SCENARIO: "My young friend has
spoken most presumptuously. She fails to mention that the
revolution of 1989 eventually led to the troubles in the former
Yugoslavia and Albania. The "Velvet Revolution" was
still fresh in the minds of many, some daring to call the times
"the end of history" and a new, bold beginning for the
human race, when in August 1990, only eight months later, a new
danger arose in the Middle East when Saddam Hussein invaded
Kuwait. By 1991, the Soviet Union invaded Lithuania, there was
war in Iraq, and the first of the Balkan conflicts ignited
between Serbia and Croatia. The collapse of the Soviet Union, in
turn, created further unrest in the Caucasus region and in the
Trans-Caucasus: along the tenuous border between Moldavia and
Romania, in Abkhazian Georgia, Azeri Nagorno-Karabach,
Tajikistan, and ultimately Chechnya.
Her lack of vision is appalling. Although Nostradamus never indicated in definitive terms an apocalyptic war happening in Iraq, aside from the seige and conquest of Baghdad and the killing of the tyrant between two rivers, he has much to say about the two nations bordering northern Iraq: Turkey and Iran. THIS is the "climate opposite to Babylon" -- the NORTH, a cold land of mountainous and hilly terrain, quite the opposite of the hot desert sands and swampy marshes. There will be sects, the breaking down of nations into kingdoms, and the heavens will seem unjust ... unjust ...
My dear friends, the next horrible war is in preparation in northern Iraq. The West has unleashed the spirits of mischief that have been bottled up in that region for so long. It may start immediately or after a lull in the current fighting, but the Balkanisation of Iraq has already begun. Nostradamus tells us again and again that Turkey and Iran will battle one another in a terrible war that will spread to Europe and beyond. Turkey, on the one hand, a formidable Nato nation backed by the Western powers of Europe and America and a defence pact with Israel; Iran, on the other hand, a mighty military machine allied by a defence pact with Russia and the former Soviet Union, a fundamentalist regime with huge stockpiles of nuclear and biological weapons and long-range missiles capable of reaching the heart of Europe ... supplied by Russia, China, and North Korea.
And when this great clash is finished, what the Islamic people call the coming great war of the Byzantine Empire, Persia will trod underfoot the corpses of slain Turks and move against Macedonia and Greece, while the tanks of Sarmatia plow through Poland, Czech and Slovak, Hungary, Romania, and the former Yugoslavia, day and night, laying flame to Italy and Austria, as they speed unrelentlessly and unopposed towards Germany.
Evoke the images of 1989 and 1996 if it brings you comfort and enjoy what little peace you can, if there is to be any at all. The shadow is growing in the East, in PERSIA, in Media, in greater Armenia, Alania, Parthia, in the land of SARMATIA, beyond the Black Sea and great Tartary ..."
February 16, 2003
Greetings!
I have now decided upon a new format for communicating with you my many concerns -- concerns based on personal predictions I have made for each year and the wide array of prophecies that also appear on this website.
PLEASE TAKE NOTE: these extrapolations will NOT be entirely understood by new visitors to my website. It is to those of you who are well-acquainted with the material on my site, the regular visitors, that I address these type of messages.
Everything calls peace. Schalom! Is it not so today .. and yesterday? It is the cry of millions, but to no avail. Now, or by late summer, the new Middle East war shall begin.
And the more closely we get to proof of the Norman faith, the greater the peril of a baked apple. Manhattan teeters on a decision by 'le grand Chiren' -- guerre, ne guerre. The Arethusa king with the bum ticker shall be far away when the faith finally arrives -- in an underground bunker. The serfs shall eat cake in their sealed rooms, suffocating in horror for lack of air and instructions.
Great King Mabus shall fall before the conflict even begins, for this is what an 160-year-old curse uttered by an Amerindian says MUST happen every 20 to 25 years. After the great funeral, the grief-striken nation will begin the great war with eyes wide open.
The frizzled bearded one has spoken again on yet another tape. And a comet is passing in the rosy dusk. He has spoken to his hundred hands ... each holding a Soviet-era nuclear suitcase, the key to a truck bomb, the key to a crop duster, an aerosal spray can, a grenade, a sniper's gun. One hundred cities to become balls of fire or scenes of bloodletting and chaos with one command when a great uncertain nation begins the war. Thirst and hunger .. no power, no heat, no law, no water, no food.
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The great Chiren, who shuns war today, will war merrily with this curly-bearded one when the earth trembles and sinks into darkness and the moon becomes the colour of blood ...
The Pope, it appears, is considering a visit to Baghdad and has allegedly asked permission for such a visit via his envoy now in Iraq.
People, prepare! If the Pope does indeed travel to the "land between two rivers", he will do so over the dead bodies that will be commended to the god Vulcan! America will bring Vulcan to all Mesopotamia AND to the city of Saddam.
When this happens, the worship of Artemis shall begin. You may sneer in disbelief, but the world will witness a great change, for DIANA shall come forth from her grave as a spirit and speak to the nations!
Did not Conor witness the spirit of Diana weeping over the slain body of the Pope?
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Her tears will be for others besides he -- for the thousands and millions of innocent lives that will be lost in the name of war. And a GREAT CROSS shall appear in the heavens that will be as a sign of confirmation that the time of her worship has arrived.
But some of the people will disagree and fight and kill the worshippers, saying the monster from hell has come down to deceive the nations. And the worshippers will kill their persecuters also, calling them lovers of war and haters of life.
And the great lady who has been substituted for Diana in the hearts and minds of her followers, and who has mocked the number 666, and who has taken the prophecy of Revelation and made a song to be danced from the words, this MAD WOMAN shall fall from her high place, and when she has fallen, London will be burnt by a hail of twenty missiles.
All of England shall howl in fear and grief and worship the true daughter in civil war ... and the world shall howl and rock with pain FOR THE GREAT STAR SHALL COME! The cross shall turn cloudy and drip with blood and then they will comprehend the judgment.
For seven days it will be seen near the sun. Its cloud will be so bright that next to the sun, the sun itself will appear to be double. And none will escape the face of that which has been placed before the world to judge and to punish with fire and with blood.
And men will not know what it is that is killing them: the great war they have caused or the face of fire in the heavens.
And the bear and wolf shall become enemies and the tanks will roll into Rome. With great fury, the bear will maul and devour all nations westward before him. The sun will halt in the sky, for the world will cease to spin. Then shall come the dreadful winds, hot and furious. And the King of the Romans, who lives not with the Romans, will cast death and disease and despair upon the bear in one day.
Then comes the terrible night that will last for THREE DAYS and most of humanity shall perish. They shall perish from drowsiness, from cramps, from visions of devils, and from storms of fire.
We shall conclude, for now, with this long Night of Antichrist ...
Friends,
It has been my experience as a prophecy scholar that when events
foreseen by the 16th century seer Nostradamus are about to be
fulfilled, details as bright as the sun begin cutting through the
apparent cloudiness of his prophecies in rapid succession.
It is my belief that last Saturday's space shuttle disaster (1 February.) is the first illumination of a succession of events coming in the next few months concerning Century 2 Quatrain 62.
Nostradamus' famous "Mabus" prophecy is about to be fulfilled. A translation in English reads:
Nostradamus wrote two prophecies concerning the advent, destruction and 27-year war of the third of three antichrists. He hid the name of the first antichrist under the anagram “Napaulon Roy” (Napoleon King); the second he called "Hister" (Hitler); the third is either code named "Mabus" (C2 Q62), or he is addressed as the "Third Antichrist" of Century 8 Quatrain 77. For now I will give you brief interpretive conclusions about the Mabus/Third Antichrist prophecies. If you wish to examine how I came to these conclusions I invite you to read HogueProphecy bulletins posted at my web site (www.hogueprophecy.com).
Two finalists compete for the title of "Mabus" By following the laws of anagram you turn the "M" and "a" in "Mabus" upside down and they become "g. W." The "h" then is left silent in Latinized French, thus "bus" becomes "bus(h)." "Mabus" therefore becomes G.W. Bus(h).
As I have been saying for over 15 years now, you can also get Saddam (Hussein) out of "Mabus" by using the anagram game of reverse lettering. Put Mabus into lower case letters — "mabus." Reverse them and you get "subam." Reverse any letter that makes another letter and you get "sudam." The laws of anagram allow for doubling one letter, so you can get "suddam." You are allowed one vowel’s replacement with another, so you can replace "u" with "a" to spell "saddam."
I have shared my belief on the record for nine years-and-counting that Nostradamus’ Third Antichrist is none other than Saddam Hussein. However; as events catch up with augury, an interpreter must be open minded to the ever clearer understanding that often comes when the light of future events foreseen draw near to the present.
No matter how repugnant this revelation may be to myself and to other Americans, I cannot rule out the growing prescient evidence that the Third Antichrist may be the the American president. G.W. Bush, rather than Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. It is also necessary to confront the ugly possibility that Nostradamus has once again mistaken his symbols and made a composite out of two adversarial leaders. In other words, Mabus is a composite of Bush and Saddam Hussein. They are the two-faced catalyst for the Third World War.
The events of the next few months will judge my interpretation of the Mabus prophecy true or false. If my understanding of Nostradamus is correct then sometime around the new moon of 3 March 2003, the United States will invade Iraq. Saddam Hussein will be killed in one of his bunkers by a missile, or by a coup. If he is "Mabus" then he "soon dies." He therefore is one of the first casualties of this new war. His death is not the beginning of the end of troubles, but the end of the beginning of a 27-war of terror. A number of Nostradamus' prophecies imply that this war's final stages could see nuclear exchanges between old adversaries of the Cold War era: Russia and America, as well as a nuclear exchange between America and China — all taking place sometime no later than the end of the 2020s. In other words, a rush to war will hasten the death of Mabus, and his death brings this terrible apocalypse upon humanity.
Nostradamus in Century 8 Quatrain 77 says:
The Third Antichrist — this man named Mabus — is the first to go down. Whether this first casualty of war turns out to be the president of America or of Iraq — or both — the war of Mabus is just beginning It is a war motivated by “heretic” religious views. Its catalyst harbors extreme fundamentalist and apocalyptic religious views, be they Christian (in the case of Bush) or Islamic (in the case of Saddam Hussein). Islamist terrorists are already the "captives, exiled" filling U.S. POW camp at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba. The final line could be a horrific description of the human wreckage one might behold if the death of the American president or the Iraqi president should inspire a catastrophic retaliatory revenge attack ("a great undoing [or destruction] of people and animals"). Nostradamus in other quatrains hints of "new plagues" unleashed across the earth from this war. Perhaps the red stain upon corpses and the icy hail are a 16th century man's attempt to describe those killed by a rain of chemical and biological weapons.
Perhaps "Mabus soon dies" in the next few weeks, after "the comet" passes.
Nestled in the grass in a field in eastern Texas, lies a mission patch from the fallen space shuttle Columbia. It somehow had miraculously survived its fiery fall out of the morning sky. The names of the seven heroic astronauts who died make an outline of their space shuttle. A glowing trail like a comet's tale streaks through the shuttle's outline ending in a many pointed star. It is a star very similar to that filmed by a hundred amateur video cameras across Texas as it fell to earth like a flaming comet.
Has the comet just passed?
Is this the chilling portent of things to come for America if they should hurry off to war?
Destiny holds it breath as America primes its war machine.
John Hogue
Rogue Scholar/Author:
—Essential Nostradamus: Prophecies for the 21st Century and
Beyond
—Nostradamus: The New Millennium
—Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies
—Messiahs, The Visions and Prophecies for the Second Coming
—The Last Pope: The Decline and Fall of the Church of Rome
—The Millennium Book of Prophecy
—1000 for 2000 Startling Predictions for the New Millennium
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December 22, 2002
Nibiru should have passed earth in October 2002 based on my calculations (and just as Nostradamus predicted). However, I believe that everything that was predicted to occur in 2002 was postponed to occur in 2003.
Thus instead of October 2002, Nibiru will make its pass near Venus on August 28, 2003. This means that Nostradamus' prediction of the earth losing its natural motion and descending into perpetual darkness (the Epistle to Henry II) will most likely occur sometime in September 2003 instead.
Regarding Mother Shipton's prophecy, it is possible that the first pass of Nibiru will be May 2003 just as the Zetatalk website is predicting. However, Nibiru will fail to bring about the predicted devastation at this time. Because of this, many will believe that the danger posed by Nibiru will be over, especially since Nibiru will be seen moving farther way from the Earth and the Sun at a very fast pace (by July 2003 Nibiru will appear to have left the solar system).
However, just as Mother Shipton predicted, Nibiru will be (unexpectedly) brought back sometime late August 2003.
Regarding Nibiru's motion, let me add to you the following theory:
I believe that Nibiru is a highly magnetized object, and for this reason, we will be able to understand more its motion / orbit, by relating it to what we know about magnetism.
We know from experience that iron is attracted to magnets. However, this attraction becomes visible only when the magnet is placed close enough to the iron object. Once the magnet becomes close enough, we observe the iron object literally jumping towards the magnet and attaching itself to it.
I believe that when Nibiru is still very far away from the Sun, the attraction between Nibiru and the Sun is caused mainly by gravity. However, once Nibiru reaches a certain critical distance, the Magnetic force between the Sun and Nibiru becomes apparent.
Once Nibiru reaches this critical distance from the Sun, Nibiru's speed towards the Sun will increase dramatically, and it is during this time that Nibiru will start to flare and thus become much brighter. The astronomers of Niniveh and Babylon seem to believe that this critical distance is somewhere near the orbit (or station) of Jupiter:
I believe that the pyramids of Egypt contain devices inside them that are capable of detecting external source of Magnetism coming from the direction of the Duat (i.e., the part in the sky between Cancer and Orion).
Thus, when the Magnetic force between Nibiru and the Sun becomes activated (once Nibiru reaches the station of Jupiter), the pyramids of Egypt will be able to sense this external source of Magnetism, and certain "activities" will be seen occuring automatically in the pyramids.
Thus, the ancient Egyptians have "early warning devices" in their pyramids, that serve to alert them whenever Nibiru comes near the station of Jupiter.
When Nibiru reaches perihelion (the point where Nibiru is nearest the Sun), it will make one loop around the solar system (crossing the orbits of several planets in the process) before it eventually exits or leaves the solar system. (By "solar system" I mean the distance up to the orbit of Pluto only).
What this means for observers from the Earth is that Nibiru will appear to cross our skies twice. This surprising behavior of Nibiru is actually reported in the Bible:
In this passage, there were wise men coming from the East who saw a "star" while they were in the East. This star was leading them to Jerusalem. However, during their journey to Jerusalem, the star which they were following apparently disappeared, forcing the wise men to inquire the people from Jerusalem the whereabouts of the child they were seeking.
These above passages imply that the star which they were following from the East and which disappeared from view during the journey of the wise men, reappeared unexpectedly in the sky. Thus, Nibiru has a record of appearing, disappearing and reappearing in the skies.
As I mentioned before in my previous e-mails, Nibiru was once a planet whose orbit was between the Sun and the Earth. However, in approximately 3,600 B.C., Nibiru was ejected from its planetary orbit. This moment was also the time the last recorded descendants of Cain disappeared from Earth, as Cain and all his descendants were collectively taken to Nibiru.
The first time Nibiru returned to cross our skies was at the time of the Exodus (sometime around 1,600 B.C.). And in this pasage, Nibiru crossed the skies twice.
The second time Nibiru returned to cross our skies was at the time of Christ's birth, and as I discussed above, it was seen crossing the skies twice.
The third time Nibiru is expected to cross our skies will be next year, 2003. And just like the previous two passages, Nibiru is expected to cross our skies twice, just like Mother Shipton has prophesied.
YUSUF
December 18, 2002
The recent news from SENTINEL at CyberSpace Orbit, if credible, is cause for some degree of hope: the newly calculated path of Nibiru (Planet X) places it 42 million miles away at closest point to earth, rather than the original 17 million miles projected. That is twice the distance anticipated, plus another 8 million miles.
What this may well mean is that the dreaded pole shift may not occur after all.
In addition, who knows what the final distance will actually be? 63 million miles? 80 million miles?
It is possible.
Even so, the new consensus is that earth will still have a bad time -- just not quite as bad.
Seismic and volcanic activity will likely still increase, with some major flooding, but not on the monolithic scale predicted.
According to SENTINEL, the thing that we will need to watch out for this time around is the damage and destruction that will be meted out to earth by Nibiru's tail. A considerable amount of meteoric debris has accumulated in the tail which will pass close to earth. Many large meteors will strike the earth -- possibly millions of them. However, by the time most of them hit ground they will be no larger than a grain of sand to the size of a baseball.
Even so, some of them will be capable of starting large fires locally. The few extremely large ones that reach earth, from the size of a boulder to an oceanliner, will vapourise cities or create widespread firestorms not unlike what 5 meg-15 meg thermonuclear explosions are able to produce. The earth may experience a number of Tanguska-type events.
Gottfried von Werdenberg describes a vision of such an event by the Seer of Waldviertel in his book, VISION 2004:
THE RAIN OF FIRE
There will be a cosmic event most definitely before WW3 (note that the Waldviertler and the commentator Werdenberg consider "WW3" to be the Russian invasion of Europe -- major wars in the Middle East and the Balkans will be going on beforehand, they admit, wars WE might consider to be a part of WW3, but that most European prophets do not -- MM).
It will be a beautiful summer's day in Austria; no cloud to be seen in the sky. People in the village are excited; they look towards the sun which begins to darken. It is approximately 10 o'clock normal time, not summer time. Whilst the sun is getting darker, dusk is covering the earth. It is not the usual solar eclipse but a kind of fog in the universe far outside of our atmosphere.
The sky is getting darker. At first there are only a few stars, then more and more appear. One is able to see them at first in the west, then in the north. There are no stars in the east and in the south where the sun was last seen. There is no moon. It is a normal clear sky illuminated by the light of the stars. One is still able to identify the ground, but one cannot read any writing.
Suddenly the stars disappear. Complete darkness is covering the earth. A few minutes pass; now it is getting brighter. One is able to see the surrounding area. There is no sun. Billions of white dots can be observed in the East. It is like a rain of glowing fire moving from East North East to West South West very quickly. It is hitting the ground like a heavy fall of hail. The glow turns from white to yellow then to glowing red before hitting the ground. They fall in distances of 50m (165 ft) to 100m (330 ft) apart; they make no noise.
When they hit the ground they look like dust particles or grains of sand. Some are as big as a child's fist. The villagers do not seek cover; they do not appear to be afraid. The time between the sighting of the particles in the North East and their hitting the ground is a matter of seconds, maximum a minute or so.
Once the particles hit the ground, it becomes bright again. A fierce storm begins to blow now from the East and creates fire; it drives before it the fierce fire. The grass is burning; forests are burning; fields are burning; barns, sheds, and farm buildings are on fire; houses and factories are burning, too. The sun will not shine again on this day.
The cause of the rain of glowing fire might be a comet, directly or indirectly responsible for it. The seer is unable to tell. The time of year is the summer, probably the first half of August. The year is not given but it could be any year from 1995 onwards.
I am somewhat confident that this may be the "real deal" for 2003 (or whatever year the first pass of Nibiru actually occurs).
First pass? Did I say "first pass"?
Yes. After examining the prophecies of Mother Shipton (whose real name was Ursula Southiel), I have concluded that Nibiru will cross earth's path not once, but twice, a number of years apart.
Here is how her prophecy of a sixth "fiery dragon" begins. It immediately follows a stanza about the completion of the 20th Century. Now the 21st Century commences:
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.
Re-read the opening of this portion of her prophecy carefully. It says a "fiery dragon" will cross the sky six times; but Mother Shipton only intends to chronicle the events regarding the "sixth" dragon. This may mean six times during the entire history of the world a comet or planet will cross the sky as a "dragon." The first five dragons may include the Exodus-era or Noah-era encounter of Nibiru as theorised by Zecharia Sitchin and four other close encounters, including Venus/Pallas Athene/Typhon and Mars/Fenris-Wolf, which Dr Immanuel Velikovsky wrote about. Either this, or a major comet will rip the sky six times counting from the time of Mother Shipton's death (which might include Lexell's Comet, Comet Halley in 1910, and Hale-Bopp as examples); but only the "sixth" dragon will bring destruction to earth.
What follows is what this "sixth dragon" will do to earth. Note that it passes earth on TWO separate occasions:
(Passage One)
For
seven days and seven nights
Man will watch this awesome sight.
The tides will rise beyond their ken
To bite away the shores and then
The mountains will begin to roar
And earthquakes split the plain to shore.
And
flooding waters, rushing in
Will flood the lands with such a din
That mankind cowers in muddy fen
And snarls about his fellow men.
He bares
his teeth and fights and kills
And secrets food in secret hills
And ugly in his fear, he lies
To kill marauders, thieves and spies.
Man
flees in terror from the floods
And kills, and rapes and lies in blood
And spilling blood by mankinds hands
Will stain and bitter many lands
And when
the dragon's tail is gone,
Man forgets, and smiles, and
carries on
To apply himself - too late, too late
For mankind has earned deserved fate.
(Passage Two)
His
masked smile - his false grandeur,
Will serve the Gods their anger stir.
And they will send the Dragon back
To light the sky - his tail will crack
Upon the earth and rend the earth
And man shall flee, King, Lord,
and serf.
But
slowly they are routed out
To seek diminishing water spout
And men will die of thirst before
The oceans rise to mount the shore.
And
lands will crack and rend anew
You think it strange. It will come true.
And in
some far off distant land
Some men - oh such a tiny band
Will have to leave their solid mount
And span the earth, those few to count,
Who survives this (unreadable) and then
Begin the human race again.
But not
on land already there
But on ocean beds, stark, dry
and bare
Not every soul on Earth will die
As the Dragons tail goes sweeping by.
Not
every land on earth will sink
But these will wallow in stench and stink
Of rotting bodies of beast and man
Of vegetation crisped on land.
But the
land that rises from the sea
Will be dry and clean and soft and free
Of mankinds dirt and therefore be
The source of man's new dynasty.
And
those that live will ever fear
The dragons tail for many year
But time erases memory
You think it strange. But it will be.
So, "the Gods" will send the "Dragon" back a second time! Note that as awful as the first passing of Nibiru is, the second time around is so terrible that only "a tiny band" of men will survive and "begin the human race again." This is in keeping with what Mark Hazlewood and The Zetas believe will happen now: only 600 million will survive out of 6 billion.
But they are wrong! That type of mass depopulation of earth will not occur until Nibiru's second passing according to Mother Shipton.
Therefore the dreaded pole shift cannot occur the first time around, but must instead on the second passing. At least it cannot if one believes the prophecies of the Seer of Waldviertel and Mother Shipton. Their findings are consistent with SENTINEL'S projection of Nibiru being 42 million miles away from earth at closest point rather than 17 million miles.
But, if Nibiru revolves about the Sun every 3600 years, does this mean there will be 3600 years between passage one and passage two? Why would "the Gods" wait so long to punish man for not repenting of his ways after the first passing?
The answer is the time between passings will probably only be matter of decades apart, rather than thousands of years.
How is this possible?
Nibiru must be "captured" by the Sun this time around, its orbit deviated and made shorter, thus bringing it back near earth again several decades later on its outbound passage.
When might this second passage occur? In my book, Nostradamus and the Final Age, I present evidence that suggests this will occur in the 2038-2044 period, most probably in 2042 or 2043.
And will the first passage occur in May 2003? Perhaps. We will see if Hazlewood, the Zetas, and others like SENTINEL are correct. If not, we may be waiting anywhere from three to twenty-two years before the first passing of Nibiru (or something like it).
December 18, 2002
Something occurred to me several days ago that should have occurred to me during the drawn-out Election of 2000.
Although George W Bush "officially" won the election of 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote and many still feel he was the legitimate victor. It never occurred to me what impact this strange election might have on the curse uttered by Chief Tecumseh over 160 years ago.
But now it is clear: both Bush and Gore are potential victims.
Current Focus: George W Bush
Bush, at the moment, is the occupant of the White House and is acting president (or is it anti-president?). No one knows exactly when he will be in greatest danger of dying in office, although I projected three vectors using base 7 numerology: March/April 2002, August 2002, and November 2005.
The first two vectors have passed by uneventfully, although Bush had a potentially dangerous medical crisis after choking on a pretzel at the beginning of the year and was also a target of the 9-11 attack last year, but the plane was forced to crash into the Pentagon instead of the White House.
The third vector, November 2005, pre-supposes that Bush will win a second term of office in 2004 and be cut down a year later -- in November of his first year. This "second term" scenario has occurred only twice: Abraham Lincoln (e.1860, e.1864, d.1865) and William McKinley (e.1896, e.1900, d.1901). As can be seen, in both cases the president was assassinated during the first year of the second term of office.
Why Bush is Compelled to Act in 2003 or Wait Until 2005
If the above assessment is correct, and Bush is meant to win again in 2004 (only to die in office in 2005), it explains some things and suggests others.
It explains why Bush has been in such a hurry to launch his war against Iraq in 2002 and why he has been so angry for having been blocked by world opinion and the United Nations. It also explains why he is still so eager to launch the war in early 2003 if possible.
It also suggests that if Bush is unable to get the war underway and finished by early 2004, he will back off and wait until 2005 to launch the war. Therefore, I suspect that the latest Bush will consider waging war against Saddam Hussein is August/September 2003. If he is unable to find "just cause" to start the war by that time or well before, he will withdraw the option and not try again until sometime in 2005.
Why?
Anyone who studies election years knows the reason for this: an unpopular war in progress during an election year would spell disaster for re-election prospects. Even a war that has the support of a majority of Americans could still potentially blight the election's outcome. Bush wants to be finished with his war on Iraq, and possibly another against neighbouring Iran, by the end of 2003 or at the very least by early 2004. If he feels he does not have the time to meet this deadline, he will not launch the war and will wait until 2005.
There is no question Bush desires another four years in the White House and will do what he must to assure this will happen.
How Election Years of the Past Influenced Policy-Making
We see how election years of the past have influenced presidential decision-making. Ronald Reagan had US troops deeply committed to peacekeeping operations in Lebanon in 1982 and 1983. After a US Marines barracks was blown up in Beirut in October 1983 resulting in hundreds of American deaths, public opinion towards US involvement in the region shifted into the negative. Reagan could see that extending the mission well into 1984 would have had dire consequences for his bid for re-election. So, in February 1984, the troops were withdrawn.
Bill Clinton teamed up US air power with Nato forces in August and September 1995 to bring a successful conclusion to the three-and-a-half year war in Bosnia. As economic properity soared at home, the last thing Clinton needed was an international crisis or war of any kind as he prepared for re-election in 1996.
Nevertheless, in June and July 1996, Americans were targeted three times by terrorists: in Saudi Arabia, on Flight TWA 800 over Long Island, and in Olympic Park during the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games. Too weak a reaction by Bill Clinton might have led to a festering crisis similar to the one faced by Jimmy Carter in 1979-80 (Carter lost the election of 1980 to Ronald Reagan for this reason). Too strong a reaction and the worst case scenario might have been a lengthy air campaign and ground war against Iran -- the nation initially suspected of the Saudi bombing.
Clinton's solution to the crisis was to deny that a terrorist crisis existed and to make sure no linkage would be made between the three events.
It was impossible to play down or deny what had happened in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. But it was possible to create enough doubt over who was responsible and thus extend the investigation into years.
As for TWA 800, we know what happened: despite piles of evidence and eye witness accounts that the passenger jet was downed by an explosive onboard likely delivered by a mobile missile launcher, the official report was that TWA 800 blew up due to a freak accident -- the ignition of an electrical spark in the fuel tank.
Likewise, when the Atlanta Bombing occurred a week later, reporters on the scene cried "international terrorism." Instead, to the amazement of many, the FBI descended on security guard Richard Jewell, accusing him of creating and detonating the cylinder packed with nails and explosives. It was not until a few days before the election that Jewell was freed and the FBI admitted it had "made a mistake." The terrorist act was still called a domestic attack and the trail went cold.
Thus, the second and third terrorist attacks against America in the space of a month were intentionally covered-up for the sole purpose of assuring Clinton's re-election. A prosperous American public for the most part swallowed the deception, although questions would be raised periodically in the years to follow.
2004?
I would expect that in 2004, should Bush NOT SUCCEED in launching his war in 2003, the administration's goal will shift towards *peace* and a strong national defence. Tops on the agenda will be finding a solution to the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and determining an equitable arrangement for the final status of Jerusalem. Today we see another aspect of what Bush will be using to play for votes: a missile defence shield in place by early 2004.
In the meantime, you can be certain that the Bush team will be secretly and quietly finding all the evidence they will need to launch a war against Iraq in 2005, after winning the 2004 election -- but only if the plan to attack in 2003 must be abandoned.
What About Al Gore?
This is the big question. It is completely possible that Bush will not die in office, either in this term or the second term.
This may very well be the case if Gore was the real winner of the 2000 election. However, for the malediction of Tecumseh to take effect, Gore must serve as president.
This opens up an incredible possibility, yet one that is theoretically sound. Although Al Gore has now said he will not run for president in 2004, or ever again, most experts agree that it is quite likely he will run in 2008.
Assuming there is still a United States of America left by 2008, a Gore win that year would put him in the White House in January 2009. This would be similar to Nixon's revenge in the election of 1968, eight years after losing to Kennedy in 1960. Only then would the Shawnee Curse of 2000 take effect with Gore being assassinated or somehow dying in office sometime between January 2009 and January 2013 (first term) or between January 2013 and January 2017 (if he wins a second term).
Theoretically, Gore could even put off running for president until 2012 (like Ronald Reagan, who lost his first bid for nomination in 1968, then again in 1976, and did not finally win the nomination and the election until 1980, twelve years later). And yes, a 68-year-old Al Gore could even win the election of 2016 -- extending the curse all the way to 2020, which would be yet another zero election year.
Therefore, due to the strangest election in US history, the Shawnee Curse -- a curse that normally has been fulfilled no later than five years after the zero election year (Lincoln, 1860-65 and Roosevelt, 1940-45) -- may have up to twenty years to play out.
(1 November 2002)
Friends,
Back in February of 2002, I was invited to do an interview for
Termite Production's documentary commissioned for the Discovery
Channel, entitled “Nostradamus: A Skeptical Inquiry.”
The documentary appeared on Discovery Channel in late September
2002 and is now in frequent reruns.
I am ever optimistic that each TV documentary production asking for my participation will actually live up to their declaration of being “Skeptical Inquirers” into the study and controversy of Nostradamus and his prophecies. My insatiable optimism (and gullibility) aside, reality dictates that with each new invitation to a skeptical inquiry, I should remember the sage advice of Indian mystic, Osho, who said, “Hope for the best and expect the worst” when people make claims. I have yet to talk with a TV producer or director who, calling themselves skeptics, actually knows what the word means. The words “skeptic, and “skeptical” are derived from the ancient Greek word that simply means “to investigate.” That means there is no “opinion” for or against what is investigated. How can there be an opinion when the investigation has yet to begin? So far, I have asked that question to dozens of pre-opinionated “Hollywood” investigative documentarians without receiving an intelligent reply.
It takes no Nostradamus to predict that each new self-proclaimed “skeptic,” from Hollywood won't know the word's meaning and will produce the usual missed opportunity, full of sound, fxs and fury, signifying little insight into Nostradamus and his predictions.
In my experience, the Discovery Channel's recent opus, “Nostradamus, A Skeptical Inquiry,” as directed and edited by John Tindall of Termite Productions, is just another missed opportunity to educate the public.
What follows is the open letter/review of the show, that I'm sending to you all and to John Tindall.
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Dear John Tindall,
I saw the documentary “Nostradamus: A Skeptical Inquiry.”
I don't think your documentary served either side's argument too well.
It was a work of cynicism, not skepticism.
The Greek root for the word "skeptic" means "to investigate." Giving both sides equal time to declare their views and respond in rebuttal is skeptical inquiry. When your segment producer, Peter Hankoff, initially contacted me for the interview I suggested that your planned documentary would be a true skeptical inquiry if it follows the four-square process of a fair investigation. That means the pro-Nostradamian makes his statement first; then the anti-Nostradamian responds; then the pro-Nostradamian replies, and the anti-Nostradamian can answer that reply if he deems it necessary. Conversely any declarations made by the anti-Nostradamian passes through the same four-square process. Thus, he declares, I reply, he rebuts to reply, and I respond to his rebuttal if I deem it necessary.
I believe this is a fair and equitable format. Both sides have to back up what they say and have a chance to scrutinize the other's comments. This, is skeptical inquiry. Since 1994, when I began doing a steady stream of TV interviews about Nostradamus, I have yet to see a production where this basic interview structure made it beyond the cutting room floor to the television viewer.
The same is the case with your documentary. An opportunity to educate the public about Nostradamus was lost.
I welcome anyone's attempt to put my theories into question. Even if the criticism comes from someone I've suggested as a good scholar worthy to be a participant in your skeptical inquiry, like Peter Lemesurier. But in the final cut of your documentary, you cheated the audience by not giving me the chance to reply to Lemesurier's statements.
For instance, you have Lemesurier putting my statements about the right translation of Quatrain 25 of Century 1 into question. However, you did not provide me the space to reply to his criticism. Something I could have easily done. The way you edited the show makes it look as if I could not address Lemesurier's statement.
Slanting the debate is not good journalism. It serves the lie, not truth.
Beyond that, your documentary tried to cover too much ground. It has become a fragmentary and confusing 52 minute romp-around Nostradamus. The few good arguments made by the skeptics and the believers alike where marginalized by the need to "fast-food" the facts and "special, special, special!" the effects.
Any final cut of a documentary is a statement on film, for better or worse, of what the documentarians absorbed from their interviews. One hopes that the final cut will at least contain the essence of the many hours of film it is necessary to discard on the editor's cutting room floor. When I think of the essence of what we shot, and then I see what remains, I can only conclude that you didn't have a grasp of the subject. Because of this, you could do no better than turn your documentary into a TV dumb-down and a celebration of simpleton-ism when representing both sides of the debate.
I've seen and read James Randi make far better arguments against Nostradamus than the two skeptics and the pontificating psychiatrist spotlighted in your show. It is a real pity Randi was not heard and only seen for a second. A greater pity that his litany of statements — unchanged and unchallenged for 15 years — weren't rebutted point for point by me as we had originally planned.
If we had followed the original premise, I believe we would have caught on film a groundbreaking and authentically educational debate on the Nostradamus controversy from Randi and myself. Instead, I believe the documentary project derailed the moment you, Peter Hankoff, and the Termite Production staff, became fixated on this idea of a debate at Yale. I understand the seduction. Taking the debate into the hallowed halls of an Ivy League college is intoxicating. However, I felt it was poorly timed and, I believe, too sensational a prospect. So I said no. Obviously James Randi also rejected the idea, sending one of his less expert sycophants in his place to appear in your filmed debate.
In the end, the footage of the Yale debate just isn't that interesting. The way it was shot and edited distracts the viewer away from content towards emotional attacks. A live debate reduced into brief excerpts never adequately represents the arguments of both sides. At best it reduces a debate into bits of mind candy without any nutrient intellectual value.
And the college kids looked painfully bored with it all.
After seeing the final cut of the documentary, I will say openly that I'm glad I didn't attend. I can see that your editorial approach for the debate would have marginalized Randi and myself if we had attended the debate.
The final segment took on a markedly hysterical and strident tone of righteousness. Your ranks of debunkers make their case with a general rush to make slogan-like, simplistic and sweeping statements. Their summations rely on the skimpiest of examples in your final cut of the documentary — measured, as it was, with little or no time given to an opposing view.
The documentary closed with a predictable TV formula finale: namely, a bunch of debunkers ganging up to pooh-pooh the whole matter.
I've seen it all before: cynics dressing themselves in the cloth of skeptical inquiry, grasping for the last word. They must have the final say. Don't dare give the sympathetic side its say; otherwise, your gallery of so-called skeptics would be exposed for their laziness of inquiry and their light and cavalier grasp of the subject they condemn.
Finally, your documentary staggers to its climax after this chorus for the skeptical inquisition passes judgment. We see a mob of bored Yale college kids voting with their backsides in judgment of this centuries-old debate.
A vision of Mobocracy at its irrelevant best!
I had hoped for better work, but I didn't expect it.
Therefore I have not been disappointed by this redundant example of skeptical inquiry — Hollywood style.
Better luck and a real skeptical inquiry next time.
END OF OPEN LETTER
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John Hogue
Rogue Scholar/Author:
—Essential Nostradamus: Prophecies for the 21st Century and
Beyond
—Nostradamus: The New Millennium
—Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies
—Messiahs, The Visions and Prophecies for the Second Coming
—The Last Pope: The Decline and Fall of the Church of Rome
—The Millennium Book of Prophecy
—1000 for 2000 Startling Predictions for the New Millennium
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It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, something straight off the pages of a Ray Bradbury novel or a scene from the film Matrix. Applied Digital Solutions*, a technology company based in Palm Beach, Florida, was last month granted permission by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market it's latest invention, a syringe-injectable personal identification and tracking device called the "VeriChip".
However, in the United States the technology involved in the "VeriChip" has caused a major controversy amongst many of America's Christians. The "VeriChip" is a syringe-injectable radio-frequency device about the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen. It's designed to carry a unique identification number and other critical personal data. Once injected, preferably in the palm of the right hand, the chip can be activated by an external scanner, and radio frequency signals then transmit the identification number and other stored information to a telephone, the Internet or a data-storage site such as a computer. Such radio-activated chips are already used to track cattle, house pets and salmon. Future versions could emit a tracking beacon. The chip itself could be implanted in a doctor's office with a local anaesthetic and the site of the injection could be closed without stitches.
The initial announcement of the "VeriChip's" forthcoming availability created a media stir in the United States, not because of its potential medical and security uses, but because of its Biblical connotations. Many in the US, a religiously aware country of some two hundred million Christian believers, have equated the announcement of the "VeriChip" with verses 16, 17 and 18 of Revelation's 13th. chapter and the "Mark of the Beast."
They say the ability of the injectable chip to contain information such as bank account details or credit card numbers could eventually lead to a situation where only those implanted with the "VeryChip" could actually buy and sell goods or use financial, medical or computerised systems and services. This, they say, is exactly what Revelation is talking about, the ability for humans to be financially controlled and their habits monitored by various government agencies.
Further criticism emerged when Applied Digital Solutions revealed that their "VeriChip" technology was based on the identification technology used in the Universal Product Code, or Bar-code. We see the bar-code on nearly every product we buy, but most are not aware that the bar-code operates on a "666" system. One good way to verify that this is true is to go to the kitchen cupboard and pull out several items and look at the bar-codes. The code is divided into 2 halves, with brackets on either side and a dividing bracket in the middle of the bar-code. The three brackets incorporated within the bar-code all represent the number six.
Author Bob Fraley, in his book The Last Days in America, published in 1984 says on pages 225 and 228:
"The interpretation of the Universal Product Code marks is most revealing in that the three numbers 666 are the key working numbers for every designed Universal Product Code. Every group of Universal Product Code marks has in it three unidentified numbers. All three of these numbers are 6, making the use of the numbers 666 the key to using this identifying marking system . . .
There is no deviation. Every Universal Product Code has three unidentified marks whose number equivalent is 6, encoding it with the code number 666."
The inventor of the UPC bar-code is George J. Laurer. In 1971, while Mr. Laurer was an employee with IBM, he was assigned the task "to design the best code and symbol suitable for the grocery industry". In 1973, Mr. Laurer's UPC barcode entered the world of the consumer society.
On Mr. Laurer's web site** he has a "Questions" page, where he answers various questions about the UPC barcode. Mr. Laurer answers the "666" question, as follows:
"Rumour has it that the lines (left, middle, and right) that protrude below the U.P.C. code are the numbers 6,6,6... and that this is the international money code. I typed a code with all sixes and this seems to be true. Yes, they do resemble the code for a six. An even parity 6 is: 1 module wide black bar 1 module wide white space 1 module wide black bar 4 module wide white space. There is nothing sinister about this nor does it have anything to do with the Bible's "mark of the beast". It is simply a coincidence like the fact that my first, middle, and last name all have 6 letters."
However, Christians in the United States are not convinced and fear the introduction of the "VeriChip" has distinct Biblical connotations with "The Mark of the Beast" of Revelation. They site the fact that the Greek rendering for the word "Mark" in the King James Bible translates to the English word for "etching". The production of computer chips involves this process for the circuitry.
They also site the final verse of Revelation's 13th. chapter which says: "Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast" claiming Revelation tells us what the number is, but also challenges us to "count" it. If you take the English alphabet and assign each letter an increasing value of 6, with A = 6, B = 12, C = 18, and add up all the values of each letter found in the word "COMPUTER", it adds up to 666.
However, Doctor Keith Bolton, the vice president and chief technology officer at Applied Digital Solutions is dismissive of this, saying:
"The "VeriChip" is not the "Mark of the Beast" but an advanced, digital identification technology. The first component is a very small microchip. The other component is a proprietary, patented, handheld scanner, that reads the information from the chip. The initial use of the "VeriChip" will be to store personal identification or medical information, such as details about any implanted medical devices like pacemakers or artificial limbs, or any allergies to medication. In an emergency, it could save a life."
And Bolton stresses that the "VeriChip" is voluntary:
"We live in a free society," he said. "You can either elect to smoke or not. You can elect to have the "VeriChip". So it's a freedom of choice technology."
Doctor Richard Seelig, medical advisor at Applied Digital Solutions, who implanted a chip in his arm and his hip area last year advocates the security implications of the "VeriChip" saying:
"We would like to know for sure as best we can that the people in that cockpit of that aeroplane belong there and they are the right people, that people who work at nuclear power plants are the right people and they should be there."
On October 24 this year, an Applied Digital Solutions press release stated:-
"The first 100,000 registrants and all qualified ADS shareholders will be eligible for a special introductory savings of $50 on the normal $199 price of the "VeriChip" at the time of "chipping." Details on the "Get Chipped" promotion will be posted soon."
The Phrases "Get Chipped" and "The Chipsons" have already been registered as trademarks for the company, as has the name "The Chipmobile" which is the name of their mobile distribution unit. It is scheduled to make appearances around the nation for public relations efforts, and is in reality a mobile distribution centre and completely equipped as a "Chipping Facility".
According to their press release, "VeriChip" is being promoted to be used for "Homeland Security" and act as a "tamper-proof personal verification system". In simple laymen's terms, this means it will be used as an irrefutable proof of identification. It is also being promoted as a valid means of electronic banking and commerce, once again provoking mistrust and suspicion amongst America's 200 million Christian population.
It will be interesting to see what, if any, reaction British Christians will have to a device that many in the United States think is indeed associated with 666 and "The Mark of the Beast".
The tiny "VeriChip" would seem to contain more than just electronics: hope, fear, opportunity, some politics and perhaps a dash of theology. But it is another piece of technology that seems destined to become a part of everyday life.
Copyright Ian Gurney. October 2002.
Research links as follows:
Applied Digital Solutions website:-
* http://www.adsx.com/prodservpart/verichip.html
George J. Laurer's website:-
** http://members.aol.com/productupc/666quest.html
Dear America,
Once again the land of the free and the home of the brave has been fooled by a big lie visited on you by your own leaders and administrators. Just as surely as America was fooled by the lie that was perpetrated on November 22 1963, so you have been hoodwinked yet again into believing that September 11 2001 was the sole work of a few Islamic terrorists, a monstrous deed masterminded by a solitary fundamentalist working his evil from a cave in the wastelands of Afghanistan, with nothing more than a mobile phone and a laptop.
Yet you, America, so horrified and shocked by those terrible events, immediately and without any further consideration believed what you were told and cried for vengeance instead of evidence, retribution instead of reason, retaliation instead of truth. This was how you were meant to react, this was what those responsible were counting on.
The list of unanswered questions posed by September 11 is long and has been detailed on many occassions on this and other websites, although it seems the mainstream media in the US is reluctant to even contemplate the idiosyncrasies and contradictions that abound. There is a reason for this that goes under the heading "vested interests". Even so, those who control the media will tell you such talk is unpatriotic. This is a nonsense. What is unpatriotic is to allow the murder of nearly four thousand of your fellow citizens merely to prop up a faltering economy and line the pockets of the already wealthy establishment figures who, under a cloak of respectability, lurk in the shadows of a corrupt and morally bankrupt system that controls what America hears, sees, reads and does.
These people are not patriotic, neither are they interested in freedom or democracy. Their only motivation is greed and self interest, their only aspiration is power. As the Greek philosopher Thucydides commented in 431 BC:
And now, under the guise of homeland security, your human rights, basic freedoms and civil liberties are being taken away, your taxes used to feed the insatiable appetite of defence companies (whose prime objective is attack, not defence) and your fears of further atrocities heightened and manipulated to cower you into submissive acceptance of the lies and disinformation propogated by the very people who will benefit financially from the situation they have created. After all, who needs terrorists when you have John Ashcroft and Paul Wolfowitz to scare the hell out of you. Ha! How these people must be laughing as they rub there hands in gleeful anticipation of the riches to come, toasting their success with fine wines and five star brandies inside the meeting places of the Illuminati, The Bilderberg Group and the other shadowy institutions of the New World Order.
And all the while those who would question or criticise your administration's actions are branded traitors and called unpatriotic, their questioning and criticism dismissed in a plethora of spin which dictates that dissenting voices shall not be heard. Your citizens are imprisoned arbitarily without any evidence of wrongdoing being forthcoming and your privacy invaded by government agencies answerable to no-one. Now, without consulting Congress, the administration has authorised the CIA to look at possible covert operations to kill Saddam Hussein, on the grounds of self-defence. This is in breach of the US constitution, which forbids the assassination of foreign leaders. But what the hell. These guys don't give a fig for the US constitution. Listen up America, democracy and your basic human rights have been usurped. You have been fooled by a big lie, just as ordinary investors were fooled by the voodoo economics of Authur Anderson, Enron, Global Crossing, World Com et al. You are being told every week that an attack is imminent, and when it happens, which it surely will, be sure that the administration will place the blame on Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Watch your government follow this with a full scale attack on Iraq. Then be very afraid of what happens next.
Copyright Ian Gurney 2002.
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