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SAFE Ark Two Newsletter
February 16th, 2013
The Ides of February
The meteor was not what I expected - but then lots this week that I
didn't expect. For the last several months I have been saying, "Beware
the Ides of February". The famous warning was of course to Julius
Caesar, to beware the Ides of March.
If I did any of this on a 'prophetic' basis - I could say - "See!" But I
don't. I was talking about financial forces such as the situation with
the Euro in Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy, combined with the US
Fiscal Cliff and the global trade imbalances between Japan, China.
However, none of that happened and the wounded world economy continues
to limp along.
Current events still give us lots to talk about:
The meteor
The Death of Dorner
The State of the Union address
The Supreme Court Ruling on Obama
The Prophecy of the Popes
The North Korea Earthquake
I had on my list to write about this week:
The Canadian body bag scare
The tunnel threat
Weird weather extremes
However, I will cover those next time, unless more important news pre-empts them.
You may wish to join
Selco's new discussion group. He is the VERY experienced survivor from Bosnia.
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Current Battle in Syria
Along the same line as the realism about what happened in Bosnia - if
you would like an up-to-date (last entry supposedly 5 days ago on the
13th) candid camera report of the situation in Syria
- you can look at this link which does very much tie into the realism
dealt with in the former link. Think how fortunate you are to not to be
in Syria where over 70,000 have been killed.
The Asteroids and Fireballs
The asteroid and Fireballs certainly caught a lot of people by surprise.
While conventional wisdom among astronomers is that the two were
unrelated not everyone is so sure. It did seem to be an accompanying
swarm although it is said the asteroid was East/West and the Fireballs
(at least the one in Russia) came in North/South. Whichever. There were a
number of exceptionally massive Fireballs throughout the world. Not
that we don't get them all the time. Dozens each day. Just usually
smaller, during the daytime when not so visible, and over the large
water and uninhabited portions of the planet so that they go unnoticed.
These were big, visible and many. NOAA states that on February 12, 2013
there were 1380 potentially hazardous asteroids. Nothing unusual, just
the usual count, except that this one was a once in forty year
occurrence of an asteroid half the size of a football field coming
within a third of the distance from earth to the moon. Inside the orbits
of the geostationary satellites. In astronomical terms - a very near
miss.
Even if unrelated, the large Fireball was also said to be a once in
hundred year occurrence. I have seen widely varying estimates of its
force - up to that of eight Hiroshimas. We can learn a lot about nuclear
expectations from this event. People saw the flash, waited three
minutes - and then went to their windows. That is when the blast caught
them. Over a thousand people were injured. They had been taught duck and
cover - and thought they had waited long enough - but the blast was
very high up and it takes the force wave a lot longer to travel than the
light wave.
There was a lot of checking immediately thereafter for radioactivity,
and of course there was none, and there wasn't EMP to knock out the
power over a wide range. But consider this, what if it had been a
nuclear explosion, not necessarily nearly that large, and 300-400 miles
up. You wouldn't feel any of the blast, (the Russian meteor came right
into ground level) and you might not even see the flash, especially in
the daytime. Yet, a HEMP (High-altitude Electromagnetic Pulse) of that
force/power over the US would turn off the lights - more or less
permanently (at least most for a very long time).
This was all very interesting to me and shows that while we keep our
noses to the ground - we are all still very much a part of the cosmos.
Some links follow about the near asteroid miss and the Fireball - if
they interest you.
I particularly like this one
which has a NASA simulation video at the bottom.
Reuters reporting from Moscow.
Good Photos.
The Death of Dorner
Many of the relavent emotions were expressed dramatically in the current movie musical, "Les Miserables", and a parody from South Korea that practically went viral this week.
No one gets the million dollar reward for information relating to his
capture - because they knew from the outset that he was going to be
executed rather than captured. The SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) at
least since Waco has been to burn them out. Well actually before that.
John Wilkes Booth (who shot Abraham Lincoln) was trapped in a barn - so
he was burned out way back then. It is also SOP to deny it. ("We just
filled the building with explosive gas and it happened to catch fire.")
There may be multiple meanings to expressions such as "fire" and
"burn" - such as in the Bible Romans 1:27 "And likewise also the men,
leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward
another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in
themselves that recompence of their error which was meet." So, live
recordings of the police shouting: "We're going to burn him out," may
indeed have just been innuendo. But listen to the recorded live dialogs and decide for yourself.
I thank many of you for your comments on Dorner's manifesto. I was aware
at the time that what I linked was a sanitized and shortened version
but I didn't then have a link to the full version.
It has already spawned another officer manifesto.
In the media, although not so much from my correspondence, I see Dorner
referred to as deranged, or otherwise derogatorily categorized, but I am
not inclined to agree. Well, other than that all of us are insane to
the degree that we are separated from God and he does himself proclaim
such separation.
By what measures other than that could we call him insane? One standard
measure used by psychiatrists in committing individuals is whether or
not they are a danger to themselves or others. He does certainly fit
that measure, but then does not every trained and motivated soldier that
enters the field of battle? Yes, war is insanity - but then sometimes
necessary.
Reading Dorner's long essay, I find his reasoning very logical (as is
that of many who are insane), but more than that I find outstanding his
empathy regarding both his friends and enemies, but certainly not his
sympathy regarding the latter. Still, what should we expect from someone
whom we have trained professionally to kill, and in his professionalism
he showed concern for those he tied up, released or warned away.
It is probably not considered apropos to have been sympathetic to the
bull in a bullfight but as in the previously cited examples of "Les
Miserables" the villain sometimes appears to be the hero. We did not
know what twists and turns the real life drama would take but we pretty
much knew the end of the story. Judgment had already been made that he
would not be brought to trial. Planned instead was his approved
assassination by drone (as announced in the MSM), if it had been
possible.
The State of the Union address
The timing of the real life drama of a fugitive in flight almost
upstaged Obama's State of the Union address as we watched the police
corner Dorner.
Watching the speech with me, Jean said - "Obama is an excellent speaker."
Well, yes. He does have excellent speech writers, reliable
teleprompters, good speech coaches with whom he practices the speech
before-hand, and the whole thing is highly scripted, with camera
positions, camera cuts, lighting, supporting cast all tightly planned
out. A great production and performance, but more detached from reality
than the parody I mentioned earlier. He has no solutions.
The three most serious domestic problems in the US, at the moment, are
racism, morality and unemployment. I know, the media and most people
will tell you that it is the deficit, but in reality the deficit as a
percentage of GDP is about where it has been for decades.
Unemployment in the US, by cumulative measure, is 14.4 percent. Still
lower than the Great Depression rate of 20% and although unemployment
compensation has run out for many there is on the one hand more of a
social safety net and on the other hand a greater difficulty for many in
that more live off the farm. In actuality, because of the increased
size of the population - there are many more now unemployed than there
were during the Great Depression. That means, in a sense, more
suffering.
The difficulties for many are immense. Returning veterans (over 6,000
suicides last year), released prisoners from the world's largest penal
system, medicated non-institutionalized mental patients, non-continuing
high school graduates, and certain demographic categories as to age and
race.
Obama's main solution was more education. But that is nonsense. If all
those graduating from college could find jobs it would encourage high
school graduates to go onto college and if all those graduating from
high school could get jobs - it would encourage high school dropouts to
complete high school. The problem is lack of jobs - not lack of
education. Let me further state that jobs do not depend upon
consumption, although consumption may depend upon jobs.
The Supreme Court Ruling on Obama
Still watching for the outcome of the following:
On Feb. 15, all nine justices were to gather in conference to review
whether Obama used forged government documents and fake identification
in order to get elected as commander-in-chief. While there are many 'far
right' (well further out than that) links to the subject - there are no
MSM links on the subject and the most current links on Friday the 15th,
simply reaffirm that they were to meet that day. No special interest in
this on my part, just that I follow 'oddball' news items that may
foretell future news events, and since I mentioned it last time - I
wanted to follow up.
Obama has enough problems without that. Maybe the Ides of February were
as significant for him as the Ides of March were for Caesar although
March has much going for Obama also. There is still the budget thing and
he is off to Israel to visit with Netanyahu. All these people have more
problems than you would want to shake a stick at. Iran is accelerating
its nuclear development, Syria is folding and Bashaar says he won't go
down quietly. Hezballah says that it is ever more ready to take on
Israel in Lebanon and Egypt is repudiating any previous offers of
friendship towards Israel. Turkey too has jumped ship. Israel doesn't
have too many friends other than Obama.
Reminds me of the Amish story. Where the one old Amish said to another.
"Brother, they are all wrong, except me and thee - and sometimes I
wonder about thee." Makes one worry about their beard. There is always
the Samson Option - but Samson lost his during the night when he was
asleep. I suspect Netanyahu is trying to stay pretty alert.
The Prophecy of the Popes
The future and ending of events is often determined by their beginnings.
How determined is the future? Another event this week has certainly led
me to ponder that question. If you are not aware of the Prophecy of the
Popes - you may find the following two links of interest.
Wikipedia Article
A Youtube Presentation
Certainly a part of the general historical record for at least four
hundred years and since Gutenberg and the printing press. So, here is a
prophecy that the next Pope is to watch over Armageddon. (Some say to be
the last Pope - but whatever.)
You are going to hear a lot of hype about a book called "Petrus Romanus"
but forget that. Its 2012 dates are already past. Some people tie all
this into Nostradamus. The prophecy of Tecumseh had a good run also -
but then it petered out. There is still George Washington's Vision. Last
year's popular prediction was the Mayan Calendar. However, the Prophecy
of the Popes does seem to have a better or more proven track record, so
far, than any of the above.
Lots more that I would like to cover - but this is too long already.
I will have to mention the earthquake in North Korea - but we all know
where that came from. The source is more likely to cause social quakes
in South Korea, Japan, and even China and Taiwan. Word at this moment is
that there is more to come.
Peace and love,
Bruce
DawnSayer@webpal.org
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