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Earth Changes Bulletin Update As Of July 2, 2003

Earth Changes Bulletin Update As Of July 2 2003
You have heard of the Weather Report? Here exclusively is this week’s "Earth Report" - a short review of the “big picture” about how the dynamic changes in the Sun and the Earth are effecting our lives more and more intensely, with the latest prognostications and predictions for weathermen, farmers, investors, businessmen, and every man.

This update is keyed to the Earth Changes 2003 Almanac Calendar. The framework for understanding these updates and much of the current status information is maintained in capsule form in the Almanac at the locations cited in the text of this Update.

On the geophysical front, seismic activity was way down in frequency, as if the New Moon Syzygy didn’t even exist. Volcanoes are about the same, at a depressed level, and the SUN, well, it is calmer at the moment even more so than last week. Sunspots at 140 yesterday with good probabilities of M Class Flares or Coronal Mass Ejections at any moment, makes this week once again subject to an unstable, unpredictable, and occasionally dangerous Sun.. NO SIGN YET OF A NORMAL JUNE OR JULY on any front. All warnings from last week stand: the droughts are returning, expect no relief until Fall.

On the geopolitical front, NO CHANGE FOR THE MOST PART. All conditions are decaying into increasing disorder. Do not be too hopeful about the temporary true in Palestine. It is going to be a long, hot summer, violence in escalating, and the incompetence of the American positions and handling of all affairs in the Middle East is steadily producing a horrible farce. There is a ray of hope that by accident a peace may be negotiated in Palestine. But for the most part Bush and Blair will spend most of their time confronting reality and a lot of very bad karma. Beware the Earth | Mars alignment. Beware.
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Program Thesis: What are we trying to do with the Earth Changes Bulletin?

Most news media do not handle technical and scientific subjects like geology and earth sciences very well. They don't understand the causes and effects of activities in the Sun and Earth. Accordingly, they often do not understand if, when, how, why to report earthquakes, volcanic activity, global warming effects The treatment often sounds absent-minded, poorly qualified, and frequently contains various technical errors. Seldom is the treatment entertaining and genuinely educational.

Based on new scientific principles which have emerged during the past thirty years, many of the dynamic activities of the Sun and Earth can be linked together to see how a range of effects are linked together. This makes it possible to paint "the big picture" into a perspective which explains many diverse events and processes, especially climate and weather patterns such as global warming and El Nino. From the "big picture", long range predictions can be made for weeks and even months ahead.

The result is sophisticated cutting-edge information which is objective, balanced, astute, relevant, and can be easily seen and appreciated by lay audiences. The perspective is generally global, seldom parochial.

For the framework of concepts, terms, and current conditions which are used or described in the these Bulletins, see the Earth Changes 2003 Almanac Calendar.

To see the internet resources which are used to prepare this Update, take a look at the Earth Monitor front page
http://www.michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor
If anyone has any suggestions about evolving these pages, now is a good time as I devote a few minutes each day to revising menus and adding new links.


HOUSEKEEPING:

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RE: THE COMING ECONOMIC COLLAPSE OF 2006, which puts today, tomorrow, and the trends together into the Cayce 25 year economic cycle which will “bottom” in 2006/2007.

I am looking forward to receiving your comments and corrections.
DEADLINE IS JULY 12.

SPIRITUAL WATCH – AS OBSERVED LAST WEEK
The high sunspot peaks are excellent for meditation and expanding one’s consciousness of the spiritual energies. Past peaks brought forth amazing energy and power into the lives of meditaters, psychic attuners, and spiritually active healing practitioners.

You will have another chance leading up to the August 27 alignment of Earth with Mars. If you are not already meditating on a regular basis with a regular regime, take advantage of this next cycle to connect with new people in a wonderful way and to blow a lot of clinkers out of your being and headspace.
For more info: see
http://www.michaelmandeville.com/quest

I am looking for personal adventures with the spiritual realm which correlate to the sunspot peaks and planet alignments. I think there is a lot there if we but look.

MERCURY | VENUS ALIGNMENT EXPERIENCES: Very mixed bag. Very high, lots of love, strong Kundalini flow, but also very unstable, lots of “funk”, sadness, physical ailments, clogged ears, etc.

DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD?

POLAR MOTION
What is happening to the motion of the Earth. For the overall summary of the status of polar motion GO TO:
http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/
ecbulletins/statusreports.htm#polarmotion
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To see the current graph of polar motion, see
http://www.michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/topten_monitor.htm
Scroll down the page until you get to the black and white graphs with show the x and y coordinates of the North Spin Axis on two separate graphs.

Steady as she goes. As previously reported, a slow acceleration in the shifting of the poles has been underway for perhaps the past 100 years and the last three decades has shown an increase in the rate of acceleration.

NEW THIS WEEK: As of July 2, 2003, the spiral wobble track is crossing outside the last track in made during last year, which it should be doing since this is the year of its “MAX” spiral track size. It “appears” to be showing the clear progression of the drift of the average location of the spin axis pole down about Longitude West 45 degrees, which is roughly in correspondence with the same general direction of its drift since 1916. (The general direction meanders between Longitudes West 45 and West 90).

MAGNETIC POLES – SHIFTING
What is happening to the magnetic fields of the Earth. For the overall summary of the status of the changes in the magnetic field GO TO:
http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/
ecbulletins/statusreports.htm#earthfield
(watch the word wrap on the URL)

No news since last report: a slow acceleration of the rate of drift towards the spin axis is underway.

PLANETS
(all time coordinates here and elsewhere are in UTC unless otherwise noted)
For background and the current information on planetary alignments GO TO:
http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/
ecbulletins/statusreports.htm#planets
(watch the word wrap on the URL)

See Earth Changes 2003 Almanac Calendar for additional details
http://www.michaelmandeville.com/ebooks/calendar2003/
The Almanac lays out the planets and the lunar phases for entire year in advance to allow you to find the best and worst periods of weather, earthquake activity, ethereal “lunar” influences, etc.

The Moon this day is still in its North Node (North of the Earth’s Equator) and we just left the syzygy period yesterday on July 1 after the New Moon on June 29.

The Earth orbit Apogee is July 4, which is when the Earth is as far from the Sun as it can get.

The next Lunar Perigee will be July 10 at 21:45 UTC, some 365142 km from Earth, nearly three full days in advance of the Full Moon. The next Full Moon will be July 13 at 19:21 UTC, on the same day as the Mercury | Jupiter alignment. (Perigee = the Moon’s closest approach to the Earth during its monthly orbit which increases gravitational influence of the Moon by as much as 15%; Apogee = the Moon’s greatest distance from the Earth during its monthly orbit).

July 13 is the next planetary alignment: Mercury | Jupiter. This will be followed on July 19 with a Mercury | Neptune alignment.

AS REPORTED: The Earth | Mars alignment is August 27. At 5:51 a.m. EDT on Aug. 27, 2003, Mars will be within 34,646,418 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) of Earth. This will be the closest that Mars has come to our planet in nearly 60,000 years. The Almanac Calendar was corrected to reflect this date which was calculated by NASA. For general background info on Mars and the approaching alignment, see
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/mars_preview_021108.html
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PLANET WATCHING:
For background and the current information on observable planets and planetary alignments GO TO:
http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/
ecbulletins/statusreports.htm#planets
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CHECK OUT THE LINK ABOVE FOR BACKGROUND INFO ON THE APPROACHING EARTH | MARS ALIGNMENT. THIS IS A PROFOUNDLY IMPORTANT EVENT ON AUGUST 27, 2003 WHICH YOU SHOULD TUNE INTO. THE SUN IS GOING TO EMIT AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF ENERGY DURING THIS PERIOD AND THIS WILL PRODUCE AN ESCALATION IN VIOLENCE AND CHAOS IN HUMAN SOCIETY.

TODAY FROM NASA: “JUPITER & THE MOON: Step outside tonight just after sunset and look west toward the setting sun. You'll see the planet Jupiter pleasingly close to the slender crescent Moon. You might also notice a ghostly glow across the Moon's dark terrain. Astronomers call it "Earthshine"--sunlight reflected from our planet onto the Moon. Earthshine is one of the loveliest sights in the night sky.”

SUNSPOTS
The events in the solar atmosphere which impact weather and climate patterns, the magnetic field and auroras, including forecasts for the week, month, and year ahead. For background information, go to:
http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/
ecbulletins/statusreports.htm#sunspots
(watch the word wrap on the URL)

To follow the numbers below, view the Solar Cycle 23 Chart at
http://www.michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/topten_monitor.htm

As of July, though this date is arbitrary, perhaps can be considered to be a good estimation of the beginning of the slow alignment between Earth and Mars, giving a period roughly 60 days before for a slowly heightening increase in energy from the Sun. This may mean that sunspot counts remain relatively high, perhaps close to 100 on average, slowly increasing for the Earth | Mars alignment. There will be at least three minor peaks

Sunspots climbed to 160 on June 30 for the Mercury | Venus alignment, nearly dead on the center of the alignment. The count is now falling with 140 as of yesterday on July 1. But the solar flux was still rising as of yesterday, accordingly, do not expect sunspots to fall quickly. They may slide slowly with some chops up and down for the next five to seven days and then rise for the Mercury | Jupiter alignment.

I fully expected this count to be higher than the 206 recorded for the Mercury | Uranus alignment. But as we can see, Uranus “outdrew” Venus. The mathematical averages of the electromagnetic gradients in the solar system, which varies with the sum of the total distance relationships of all the planets, is probably the difference which can explain the different sizes of these two peaks. Since this is a dynamic flux of nine primary bodies, this requires a series of mathematical calculations which a fancy pants computer and astrophysicist will have to solve for us.

MONTHLY AVERAGES IN SOLAR CYCLE 23: Over all, the sunspot average count (ISSN) for February was 46.4 and for March it rose to 61.5. The number for April was 60. May’s average was 55. The average sunspot count (ISSN) for June, was 77.4 up nearly 50 percent over May. That is a highly significant deviation from the projected curve. There is not a good explanation for this huge up-surge in solar activity. (These numbers are reported by Jan Alvestad).

July and August may likewise be similar or even higher than June. If so, this will provide Solar Cycle 23 with a "third peak", though this will PROBABLY be under the average monthly count of 100, which constitutes the main part of most solar cycle "peaks". (These monthly average counts use ISSN counts, which are lower than the NASA numbers we use from week to week)

As of this moment, the Solar Wind Speed is vigorous at 605.8 km/s but at this hour (about 2 PM, AZ time) it is pushing a very low density of 0.5 protons/cm3. These momentary fluctuations continue to mean little during these times. Currently the Fluxgate Charts at the University of Alaska ( which measures magnetic disturbances in the Earth’s atmosphere) shows a slowly undulating wave for the wind, confirming that we are in a relatively mild “solar sea” but a huge gust impacted the Earth at 12:00 UTC today for short while, reminding us that the Sun is still unpredictable and its output could change at any moment. To see the Fluxgate, go to
http://137.229.36.30/cgi-bin/magnetometer/plotstations.cgi?
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NASA REPORTS: “BIG SUNSPOT: Sunspot group 375 remains impressive. Consisting of nearly 30 individual spots, the entire group stretches 10 Earth-diameters from end to end. The large leading spot alone is about the size of the planet Neptune.”

NASA PREDICTS: “AURORA OUTLOOK: A solar wind stream flowing from a coronal hole on the sun could reach Earth as early as July 3rd, although the 4th is more likely. Minor to moderate geomagnetic storms are possible when Earth enters the stream, so sky watchers should be alert for auroras.”

Jan Alvestad reports: “The geomagnetic field was quiet to active on July 1. Solar wind speed ranged between 538 and 735 km/sec under the weakening influence of a high speed stream from coronal hole CH46. At midnight there were 9 spotted regions on the visible disk. Solar flare activity was low. A total of 4 C class events was recorded during the day.”

Jan Alvestad predicts: “The geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to active on July 2-5 with a possibility of occasional minor storm intervals due to a high speed stream from coronal hole CH46." Alvestad also predicts that there is a 20 to 60 percent probability of M or X class flares.”
See http://www.dxlc.com/solar/

EARTH WEATHER PREDICTION FOR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS:

PREDICTIONS OF THE PAST TWO WEEKS, as stated below, CONFIRMED IN SPADES AND FLOODS:

EXPECT THE WEATHER TO GO TO HELL
HELLO EXTREME TORNADOES
HELLO DROUGHT & HEAT CONDITIONS IN THE USUAL PLACES
FLOODS IN HIGH LATITUDES
DELAYED MONSOON

Weather should begin to abate in a few days now. BUT, AS PREVIOUSLY PREDICTED: After July 5, normal monsoon patterns WILL NOT DEVELOP ON TIME, drought conditions will return and are not likely to disappear until October or November of this year. The approaching Earth | Mars alignment may keep the solar flux index high, magnetic index high, sunspot counts high, and thus the Earth’s atmosphere expanded with the jet streams tending to flow through the high latitudes. This will tend to drive the monsoon moisture into higher latitudes, where summer floods will occasionally form up.

GLOBAL DROUGHT AND FLOOD WATCH
Stories and assessments about drought and flood conditions around the world; global information which provides the ability to assess the impacts to agriculture and the natural environment. For additional details, see http://www.michaelmandeville.com/ebooks/calendar2003

AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED: Ethiopia, East Africa, and Northern India are in dire straits. Severe damage is destroying the eco-system and the human cultures. Nothing here is likely to improve during the next four months.

AS REPORTED LAST WEEK: SOUTHWEST CONDITIONS: Depends upon location and elevation. In general the DROUGHT pattern has returned. Another huge round of forest fires has begun and the forest die-off is becoming a much larger eco-catastrophe than previously reported. Conditions in Arizona forests are terrible and it is becoming doubtful whether we will retain even 50 percent of the forest ranges. Even Junipers in some ranges are dying. The impact on this region cannot be described. The only reason it is not international news is because this area is so thinly populated.

LA NINA WATCH:

Conditions off the coast of Peru are rapidly normalizing. The cooler than normal water is gradually warming up. Over all the Pacific is relatively COOL, in total it appears cooler than it has been for this time of year during the last couple of years. This is probably moderating the effects of the Sunspot counts and other solar activity on the Earth’s atmosphere. If the La Nina “cool water” along the Equator persists to some degree, it will probably tend to keep the jet stream out of the higher latitudes in the North. If it disappears, the long slow alignment with Mars will no doubt “cook our goose” to rather well done conditions by the end of August.

As of this week, the cool water is disappearing fast. There will not be much moderating effect for the August “barbecue”.

The next El Nino is likely to appear in 2005 or 2006, but an appearance as early as 2004 is possible.

CHEMTRAILS
For information, go to:
http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/
ecbulletins/statusreports.htm#chemtrails
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EARTHQUAKES
Around the world to see the current and potential patterns of seismic activity, with coverage of the windows of danger. I prepared this section by pulling out the Earth Changes 2003 Calendar which has everything plotted on it. You should too. Check out the Almanac as well, it discusses all of the windows for the year and even spotlights the two most dangerous windows.

This New Moon Syzygy period, which ended yesterday, was greatly diminished in seismic activity. The New Moon syzygy began with a strong beginning of 29 quakes worldwide on June 26. But frequency sank down to the range of about 10 for the remainder of the syzygy time. So Frequency was way down and magnitude was generally repressed as well. But even so the Philippines hosted three 6.0 quakes, two very close together, and Bismark (the Papua New Guinea Tectonic Arc) hosted a 6.3 quake.

Many more quakes scattered in Indonesia, Philippines, Columbia, France, Italy, Chile, Puerto Rico, Japan, Central Asia, and in many other places, even including Vancouver Island, BC.

In Greece, the tip of the Peloponesian Peninsula was shaken by several more quakes, though more scattered in time and lower in magnitude than the prior week.

There was as well as a 5.7 on the Carib Plate Margin in the LEEWARD ISLANDS (North of Venezuela), a 5.1 on the Southern tip of Baja California along the Baja Plate Margin, and a 4.1 last week off Cape Mendocino in California.

Doubtless, it was the Philippines Tectonic Plate which was most active this past week.

RECENT EVENTS OF INTEREST THIS PAST FEW DAYS

Magnitude 6.0 SAMAR, PHILIPPINES
2003 July 01 17:00:22 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Repory
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_vsbm.html
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
Magnitude 6.0
Date-Time Tuesday, July 01, 2003 at 17:00:22 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time
Wednesday, July 02, 2003 at 01:00:22 AM local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 12.73N 124.85E
Depth 33.0 kilometers
Region SAMAR, PHILIPPINES
Reference 75 km (45 miles) NNE of Calbayog, Samar, Philippines
130 km (80 miles) ESE of Legaspi, Luzon, Philippines
140 km (90 miles) ENE of Masbate, Masbate, Philippines
470 km (290 miles) ESE of MANILA, Philippines

Magnitude 6.0 CELEBES SEA
2003 July 01 05:52:23 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_vsag.html
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
Magnitude 6.0
Date-Time Tuesday, July 01, 2003 at 05:52:23 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time
Tuesday, July 01, 2003 at 01:52:23 PM local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 4.55N 122.57E
Depth 607.8 kilometers
Region CELEBES SEA
Reference 240 km (150 miles) SE of Jolo, Sulu Archipelago, Philippines
265 km (165 miles) SSE of Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philippines
1125 km (700 miles) S of MANILA, Philippines
2115 km (1310 miles) ENE of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia

Magnitude 6.3 BISMARCK SEA
2003 June 28 15:29:45 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_vpav.html
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
Magnitude 6.3
Date-Time Saturday, June 28, 2003 at 15:29:45 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time
Sunday, June 29, 2003 at 01:29:45 AM local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 3.31S 146.00E
Depth 33.0 kilometers
Region BISMARCK SEA
Reference 200 km (125 miles) SW of Lorengau, Manus Island, PNG
215 km (135 miles) N of Madang, New Guinea, PNG
695 km (430 miles) N of PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea
2775 km (1720 miles) NNW of Brisbane, Australia

Overall North American activity was in the groove of the Syzygy Window Principle.
The USGS charts (such charts show all quakes 1.0 and above) for the U.S. and Alaska show 353 quakes for the past seven days (up from last week’s 309) with the USGS chart for California/Nevada showing 286 quakes in California/Nevada during the past seven days (which is up from last week’s 227). These quakes were more widely scattered then usual and a larger number than usual appear East of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Nevada.

CHECK THE CRACKS IN NORTH AMERICA – The main weak zones in the western portion of the North American plate can easily be seen this week by looking at the map of quakes which struck during the past seven days.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/activity/index.html

Activity in California in proportion to activity in the remainder of North America remains disproportionately high.

The trends for Western North America were in the groove as well:
The USGS Chart for the Pacific Northwest reveals 47 quakes (two week sum, up from last week) the greater portion in the foothills to the Cascade Mountains in Washington State. Hood had no microquakes and the USGS chart for Long Valley Cauldera (Area) showed a running total of 27 (up from 18 last week).

But the Rocky Mountain Cordellera was contrarian. The USGS Chart of Yellowstone Cauldera Area shows 7 microquakes during the last week (down from last week) and 8 quakes scattered throughout Utah (down from last week).

FOR MORE QUAKE INFO RELATED TO SYZYGY WINDOWS
Jim Berkland calculates syzygy windows with considerably more sophistication than I do. See http://syzygyjob.com

VOLCANOES
Around the world with the most interesting and relevant volcano stories; briefs on the likely eruptions as well as coverage of on-going activity. For information on current eruptions, see the Southwest Volcano Centre at:
http://www.swvrc.org/cerupt.htm
or see “Breaking Volcano Eruption News” at
http://www.volcanolive.com/volcanolive.html

El Popo offered a short explosion, pyroclastic ejection, and major ash emmission today. Centrapred officials did not attempt to record the numbers of “puffs”, merely describing them as frequent. Centrapred reports for July 2 (16:00 GMT) that “Today at 07:55 the Popocatepetl volcano registered a large ash emission, that reached 3.5 Km above the crater (see image), (see animation). After the event, the volcano activity returned to previous levels, characterized by frequent and small exhalations of steam and gas. The prevailing winds show a NW direction, and a light ash fall is expected in this sector, in the next hours. At the moment of this report we can observe the volcano with a light steam and gas emision. It is possible that in the next hours or days, ash emisions may occurred.”

Despite this uptick at El Popo, activity this past seven days has leveled off after rising for two straight weeks. The Southwest Volcano Centre reports 34 volcanoes on the alert status list (down 4 from 38 from last week), 4 volcanoes on the restless list (same as last week), and 23 on the active eruption list (same as last week).

CAYCE VOLCANISM WATCH: Pattern unclear. Abandoned for the moment

ECONOMIC WATCH
For background information, use password to go to:
http://michaelmandeville.com/ebooks/
statusreports/statusreports.htm#economics
(watch the word wrap on the URL)

AS PREVIOUSLY PREDICTED: It is doubtful that any economic recovery will begin to be felt until later in the year, probably not until Fall of 2003.


FORECAST THIS WEEK
use password to go to:
http://michaelmandeville.com/ebooks/
statusreports/statusreports.htm#forecastweek
(watch the word wrap on the URL)

Up but spooky

GENERAL PREDICTION DJI AVERAGES:
use password to go to:
http://michaelmandeville.com/ebooks/statusreports/statusreports.htm#intuitive
(watch the word wrap on the URL)

EURO WATCH -
use password to go to:
http://michaelmandeville.com/ebooks/statusreports/statusreports.htm#euro
(watch the word wrap on the URL)

dollar is up slightly
for discussions and predictions, go to the URL above

JOB WATCH

The job situation still looks bleak and it will probably remain bleak throughout this year unless you have a clean background and are willing to work for less than $10/hr. in the burgeoning security industry.

THAT GIANT SUCKING SOUND IN THE U.S. ECONOMY?
Oh yes,

Microsoft Shifting Development, Support to India
July 2, Reuters

By Reed Stevenson and Anshuman Daga

SEATTLE/BANGALORE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp., (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) is starting to shift U.S.-based jobs to India as it seeks to lower technical support and development costs, the world's largest software maker said on Wednesday.
Microsoft, long seen as a growing company immune to job losses, is now considering cutbacks in the United States while increasing staff in India, which turns out tens of thousands of English-speaking software engineers each year.


"With lots of English-speaking talent, we were thinking of a better way to tap into that," S. Somasegar, Microsoft's Vice President of Windows Engineering Services, told Reuters.

Boosting its employee ranks in India also became a priority for the company after its Chairman Bill Gates (news - web sites) announced $400 million in Indian investments over three years during a visit to the world's second-most populous nation in November. So far, Microsoft has about 200 engineers developing software in the south India city of Hyderabad where it opened its first non-U.S. product development center five years ago.

Microsoft, whose Windows operating system and Office desktop software run on more than 90 percent of the world's personal computers, is recruiting people for a customer support center being launched in Bangalore as part of a pilot program.

Initially, Microsoft is hiring 150 people but industry sources said the center could easily be scaled up to at least one thousand people in about two years if the pilot plan is successful.

"To meet the needs of our customers worldwide, we expect to continue to invest in a technical work force in India to assist us with our expanding product development, information technology and customer support functions," a spokeswoman of Microsoft in India said.

The software giant is betting on India's vast pool of low-cost technical workers and engineers who can be hired for roughly one-fifth what their counterparts earn in the United States. Somasegar said Microsoft could increase the number of software developers in India to as much as 500 by 2005, while it was still evaluating whether to expand its support staff. That's a key question for U.S. Microsoft employees who work in product and technical support at several U.S. locations.

Last week, Microsoft cut 161 jobs from its consulting services business and on Tuesday, unionized workers warned that Microsoft was planning to cut at least 800 employees from a facility in Texas.

Microsoft, which is also advertising aggressively for jobs in Bangalore, did not comment on the Communications Workers of America report. "There may be some impact to U.S. sites, but no decision has been made at this time," said Microsoft spokeswoman Stacy Drake.

India is of strategic importance to the company as the nation's booming $9.5 billion-a-year software services export industry emerges as a key battleground in the tussle between Windows and its rival Linux (news - web sites) operating systems

HEALTH WATCH – No new status-changing alerts

GEO-POLITICAL WATCH
How are the sunspots likely to most effect human affairs during the weeks and months ahead?

SIGN OF THE TIMES: it looks like, America’s hot adventure “reality” show, “The Empire Strikes Back” HAS successfully keep much of the corporate scandals under the rug. Ken Lay, just a good ole boy Texan, the Presiding Officer of the rape of California Consumers, otherwise known as Enron, is still scott free with his crooked billions…LOU DOBBS’ scoreboard: After nearly two years, 57 indicted crooks, 16 of them from Enron, 1 indicted crook is in jail, none of them is Ken Lay.

For more SIGNS OF THE TIMES: see
http://www.michaelmandeville.com/
earthmonitor/ecbulletins/statusreports_political.htm#SIGNS
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PALESTINE AREA MAY BE CHANGING TO A POSITIVE CYCLE BUT I SUSPECT THAT WE ARE MERELY SEEING A CYNICAL PLAY. The players are not on the same page. For instance, it is very clear that Arafat is very much in the center of the intrigues, though the negotiators from the U.S. and Europe are trying to pretend that he is not involved. Bush expects Hamas to dismantle. Hamas expects to be one of the major Palestinian parties and expects to be able to veto the peace accords if it feels that conditions are unjust in its eyes. This suggests a complex set of intrigues behind the media illusions which play in the U.S.

If they can get through the middle of September, at least two weeks past the Earth | Mars alignment, we may in fact be witnessing something wonderfully positive in Palestine. Expect little to be solidly accomplished during July and August, these are the dog days and all of Europe is on vacation for a good portion of the time, not to mention the U.S. and the Middle East.

The thing to watch for is an unresolvable issue or demand which finally ignites a response and counter-response during late August or early September. At some point, possibly, one or more of the armed Palestinian guerilla groups may feel it needs to demonstrate that something is non-negotiable and affairs literally blow up again.

SOMETHING COULD COME IN MID to LATE AUGUST. Various intuitive impressions are flowing from many sources about August and the Earth | Mars alignment. This may be related to Palestine, it may be related to something else.

THE STRATEGIC SITUATION: VERY LITTLE CHANGE as of June 18, 2003; see
http://www.michaelmandeville.com/
earthmonitor/ecbulletins/statusreports_political.htm#strategic
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LIBERIA: We can see this week three notably undeniable correlations. One is that the conflict spilled over into international attention during a sunspot peak. Second is that order began to return with the slide down from the peak. Third is, OH WHAT A DIFFERENCE OIL MAKES IN HOW AMERICA RESPONDS TO INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS. N’est pas? Is there anyone left or right in the U.S. who is still trying to argue that OIL had NOTHING to do with the invasion of Iraq?

RAPIDLY CHANGING FORTUNES IN JULY?

MWM: I received a query on two links to economic prognostications. The first one is too hyperventilated - it is predictive of a massive economic meltdown commencing in July this year. It is based on trend analysis. This meltdown will not happen as projected in July and I say that based on the intuitives to whom I am listening, also my own comprehension of psycho-history and the long range trends. However, the article is still worth reading because if you substitute the idea of the next 36 months for July, you get the general picture of some of the forces which are conveying us to the collapse in 2006.

The second URL is profoundly interesting - it is another run of the web-bots – THE COSMIC MIRROR (as I termed it) - looking for emotive shifts around key words, potentially portending changing behaviors. There appear to be three primary projections.

1. The first is a weakening economic scene, made worse by scandals or events in July which will trigger enough interventions to bubble-ize an uptick in the American economy for the election run. I am absolutely persuaded, as is projected in "The Coming Economic Collapse of 2006" that this is what is in store. Remember, the Imperial Faction has more command of the U.S. government than any faction has had for a very long time and is highly supported by many of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the U.S. They are not going to relinquish power willingly, their professed ideology of conservatism is just a foil for holding power, and they are going to do everything they need to do to stimulate the "appearance" of an economic upturn, EVEN IF THEY HAVE TO LIE THEIR ASSES OFF. As we have seen in Iraq, they will not hesitate to maneuver the most bald-faced illusions and have it broadcast as endless hypnotic mantras by legions of toadies in the Mass Media.

2. The second prediction is that the Bush administration is going to have a tough time of it in Iraq and with their efforts to continue to deny "the lie", you know, the BIG WHOPPERS they told to rationalize invading Iraq. This is why ultimately Bush is probably a one term President. No matter what else they try to do, economically or otherwise, they are stuck in the mud of the Euphrates River Valley and they are sinking in over their heads. The SIMPLE TRUTH IS ELEMENTARY. It is not an issue of morality, not of ideology, nor is it connected to political parties, it is VERY SIMPLE AND HUGELY TRAGIC FOR AMERICA: George Bush and his coterie of advisors are incompetent to deal with the circumstances they have created. Yes, they are too stupid to know what to do. American international affairs are drowning in a morass of incompetence. It is the same sort of stupid mess that McNamara, the accounting whizkid, created in Vietnam while he was U.S. Defense Secretary under LBJ. He could at least count the beans (even this is over the heads of today’s Imperial Faction), but he couldn’t relate to the heart and mind of a real person to save his own soul. Accordingly, he could never understand until years afterwards why it was that nearly everybody was driven into the opposite side of the ring.

This whole thing (America’s international presence and mental health) is up in the air and only God knows what is going to come out of this. Republicans should be in the very forefront with the gaff-hook to pull these idiots off the stage of history.

3. THE COROLLARY TO THIS IS THAT THE KEY TO THE OUTCOME LIES CREATIVELY IN THE SOULS OF AMERICANS. INDIVIDUAL RESPONSES IN FORMING NEW WAVES OF LOOKING AT THE SITUATION AND BEHAVING APPROPRIATELY WILL HAVE DISPROPORTIONATELY LARGE INFLUENCE ON OUTCOMES IN THIS CURRENT "COMPETENCY" VACUUM.

4. The third prediction is related to the situation in Palestine. A change in September. I truly hope I am wrong but all my hunches are telling me that this current "truce" will be only partially successful, mainly allowing terrorist groups to reconnect and re-organize. Bush and his coterie persist in imagining that somehow Abbas and the PLO will dismantle HAMAS. It simply is not going to happen. HAMAS is a real movement of dedicated people (erroneously and tragically believing that violence is their only way out). The PLO is mainly an empty front. The guerilla wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, greatly aided and abetted by Bush Administration incompetence in actually dealing with real people, will continue to escalate body counts this summer. In September, renewed pressure will come to dismantle HAMAS and the truce will then be broken, revealing once again that the PLO today is essentially an illusion for the Western press.

5. Accordingly, it may be this escalating and broadening civil war across a broad expanse of the Middle East which turns the political tide against the Bush administration to give Osama Bin Laden yet another victory.

HERE ARE THE LINKS:

At 08:45 PM 7/1/03 -0700, you wrote:

Hi Michael,

I don't know if you ever read the Syzygy Boards or not but there is a post that might interest you. I have linked it below.

http://www.syzygyjob.net/letstalk/messages/35253.shtml

Also there is a website that follows trends using a method of capturing the things that are most talked about on the web. Linked below for you.
If this is info you already have, just toss it.

http://www.urbansurvival.com/week.htm

Peace and Love
Penny

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