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edited by Michael Wells Mandeville copyright September 1 2004

                                                                                                             

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Please Note:  This Bulletin is conceived as a System.  It is still in an early stage of evolution.  We intend to progressively link into this synopsis system all of the major news feeds of Planet Earth which articulate aspects of the profound historical Change In The Earth which is underway.

 

 

 

Earth Changes Bulletin Update As Of September 1 2004

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.

 

You may click here for the full text of the Earth Changes Bulletin Update for this week, or use this  URL

http://www.michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/ecbulletins/2004/ecb_Sept_1_04.htm

 

BEWARE HURRICANE FRANCIS

This is more probable than not a Category Five Grand Slam into the middle of Florida and up George to the Carolinas.  WATCH THE SUNSPOTS, ON WHICH ALL THINGS IN THE WEATHER TURN.  IF THE NUMBER GOES UP THURSDAY, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND SPENDING TIME ANYWHERE ELSE BUT FLORIDA.

 

THE COSMIC FORCES BRIEFLY MUTED ON THE EARTH PLANE THIS PAST WEEK BUT ALREADY A RESURGENCE FROM THE SOLAR VORTEX IS GROWING AND WILL PUSH WEATHER AND HUMANS TO EXTREMES.  AMONG THE NATIONS, AL QAEDA, OBVIOUSLY HOPING TO DIMIINSH THE TURN TO PEACE IN IRAQ AND THE BUSH TRIUMPH IN NEW YORK UNLEASHES A NEW COORDINATED CAMPAIGN OF VIOLENCE THROUGHOUT A HUGE EXPANSE OF THE MIDDLE EAST. 

 

 

On the geophysical front,  FOR THIS AMAZING GLOBAL WARMING SUMMER, the next major peak of sunspots will probably hit 180 plus during the first week of September to produce VERY WET LATE SUMMER STORMS .  But Earth’s tectonics remain calm.  Volcanism remains largely muted with the calming of Kilauea and Etna, even despite four minor eruptions in Africa and Asia.  Only three shape-shifter quakes struck in the Great Rifts of the ocean bottoms this past week and the Perigee Full Moon produced very little seismic activity.  Even the El Nino trend weakened in the charts of August 8-22, calling it in doubt for 2005.

 

On the geopolitical front, BEWARE THE NEXT 60 DAYS. As the Imperial Faction continues to lose its hypnotic mindlock on the American public, vigorous effort and stupendous sums are being expended on manufacturing FEAR AND THE WILL TO VIOLENT REACTIONS.  The greater portion of the Republican National Convention is lavishing praise and adulation on “Der Fuhrer” (German for National Leader).  Along with this weird and endless spectacle, we see the endless repetition of fear and loathing mantras to raise THE WILL TO ENDLESS INTERNATIONAL WAR led by “Der Fuhrer” against the Enemies and Evil-doers.  The nakedness of the lies is stunning.  The boldness of this starkly Hitlerian strategy is jaw-dropping  But will they work?….THAT is not easy to determine.  Save possibly for this, the economy is now in free fall and this inconvenient fact is likely to invoke more real fear to vote for a change than the Merchants of Imperialism can contrive for their masters. On this front, beware the Ides of September.

 

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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/earthmontor/

 

 

 

 

SPONSORING:

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THIS BOOK STILL COOKS AND IT WILL COOK THE POLITICIANS AND THE ECONOMY ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO 2008:  This synthesis is far ahead of the daily digests in all halls of the internet media: so far (since may 2003) the track record on this set of predictions for 2003-2008 is running 100 per cent.  If you have not purchased this book, you will remain ignorant of the main dynamics which are rapidly changing everything. 

 

LATEST UPDATE NOTE AS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2004: 

All projections are on track.  This month and next more probable than not are the last months of the last bubble in this 25 year leg of the long term economic cycle.  When equities begin to slide this Fall, they will hunt up and down sporadically as the chaos deepens through 2005.  Absolute Bottom will be found in 2006 or in 2007 and a very slow increase (not driven by Bull speculation) will probably begin to manifest in 2008.  In the interim period, most of the “Fortune 500” will disappear in their current form and their remnants will reappear as vastly different companies..

 

LATEST UPDATE NOTE AS OF AUGUST 11, 2004:  Once again, the Collapse 2006 book TRACKS the unfolding real dynamics, except that the forecasted events are tending to manifest three to fours months earlier.  All economic indicators for this July 2004 are DOWN except of course the BIG ONE is UUUUUP (you know what it is, don’t you?).  Yes of course, OIL is climbing rapidly, partly based on a 34% increase this year in world demand created largely in ASIA.  The progressive devaluation of the PETRO DOLLAR is now unfolding rapidly, despite the best expressed intentions of the House of Saud to hold dollar price stability for their partners, the Bush Family.

 

LATEST UPDATE NOTE AS OF JULY 21, 2004 – Several important  economic factors and/or indicators are now declining – IF TWO MORE MONTHS OF DECLINES ARE FOUND IN THE KEY FACTORS,  IT WILL BE MORE PROBABLE THAN NOT THAT THE DJI HAS PEAKED AND IS NOW HEADED PROGRESSIVELY DOWN.  ACCORDINGLY, SEPTEMBER 2004 WILL REVEAL WHETHER THE 25 YEAR ECONOMIC DECLINE HAS FINALLY HIT.  IF THE MESSAGE IS “YES”, the Kerry-Edwards ticket most likely will win decisively and the Republican control of Congress most likely will be “cracked”.  But there is room for considerable movement in all positions among large numbers of people and it is clear that many events in this fast-paced, unpredictable year could deflect ALL expectations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSEKEEPING

 

Some portions of this week’s update was prepared one day early on Tuesday, August 17, others one day later than usual, on August 19.

 

MANDEVILLE IS ON THE RADIO EVERY WEDNESDAY WITH

Alex Merklinger (Millennium Radio) show at 6 PM Arizona Time (also 6 PM Pacific Daylight Saving Time).   Regular Weekly Update For The Earth Changes Bulletin.  To find Iway archives and stations, see Millennium Radio Network

 

 

 

Begin Synopsis

 

 As stated in the “Coming Economic Collapse of 2006”, the nature of human politics reflects the communication abilities of the human species.  As we transform the media, as we have been on the Iway, we will transform human politics and the entire Earth.  Making the way for the New Earth is operationally equivalent to making a new Media on the Iway. Not that that is all that there is to it.  Not by a long shot…but IT IS one of the essentials we need to dissolve the blockages and dance around the tyrannies.

 

 

SPIRITUAL WATCH

How to converge and express the spirit of mass transformation into manifestation, HOW to be, IS the question. How to do is the praxis of the time.  Examining this question, probing it, is the chief trendline of this year.

 

A great turning towards peace is underway in the hearts and minds of a great mass of humanity, EVEN AS the merchants of dominance, hate,  revenge, and violence appear to crow even more loudly on the world stage or can be found eagerly arranging a major increase in the tempo of bombs explosions to murder and maime even more people.   A consciousness is gathering greater focus to dissolve away the entire Bush-Alqaeda continuum of absolutism and militarism and replace its brutalities with profound movement en masse towards peaceful solutions.

 

Look for it.  Greet it.  Nourish it with love.

 

AS PREVIOUSLY OBSERVED: 

 

BREATH FREE. Let go of everything which is disturbed, distorted, or weird.  Let go of everything which is forced, contrived, hidden, manipulative, and/or constrictive. Keep flowing with the rising tide of spiritual energies which are filling many thirsty souls.  The old patterns are falling away.  Transition continues. Embrace new relationships which are trying to form in your life if they are honest and straightforward and provide a new openness. Forget the fears of the unknown, embrace all that which lifts your life into the light of a greater understanding and relationship with the all.

 

EVERYTHING IS WORKING OUT DIFFERENTLY THAN PEOPLE ARE CURRENTLY FEARING OR PROJECTING.  IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE SO.  In a short while, some will come forth giving witness to a great energy which has come into their lives, literally, as if the hand of God was upon them.  This is becoming more and more apparent and these words will have greater meaning by the end of the year.

 

 

 

The “Great Purification” predicted by the Hopi, Maya, Q’ero, and many others continues.  How amazing that these ancient oral traditions could tune into last year and this one to advise us that this was a period of profound historical turning involving

The Great Purification

of the Earth? For additional discussion, see the commentary of May 19, 2004 and the commentary of June 16, 2004.

 

THE NEW BASIS IS GESTATING….

THE time to link the spiritual communities of the Earth. The Whole Earth. IT HAS BECOME URGENT TO LINK THE SPIRITUAL COMMUNITIES WITHIN A BROAD MOVEMENT WHICH PROVIDES NEW CURRENTS OF SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP.

 

 

FOR THE MOST PART: Steady as she goes. 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.  This has appeared to accelerate even more during the past decade.

 

 

POLAR MOTION

What is happening to the motion of the Earth. For the overall summary of the status of polar motion CLICK HERE.  To see the current graphs of polar motion, CLICK HERE. 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.

 

AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED:

The Y Max point, reported three weeks ago, has been passed and the North Spin Axis appears to moving fairly normally after giving us a bumpy peak.

 

AS OBSERVED IN PRIOR WEEKS:  We have passed the “Y Max” last week. Y Max is the point in the spiral track of the North Spin Axis when it is moving as far to the left on the XY chart of polar motion which is maintained by the IERS agency in France.  “Y Max” is where the North Spin Axis is titled as far as it can go towards North America down Longitude West 90.   The motion towards “Y Max” may have caused the increased movement of the North American Tectonic Plate to produce the interesting quake activity of the previous weeks.

 

As the Spin Axis begins its return towards the X Axis, the seismic activity may mirror what happened as it was moving outwards.  This may occur during the next Full Moon or New Moon in September.

 

http://maia.usno.navy.mil/xplot2.gif

 

http://maia.usno.navy.mil/yplot2.gif

 

 

 

 

MAGNETIC POLES – SHIFTING

What is happening to the magnetic fields of the Earth.  No real change during the past year:  a magnetic pole shift is not something to be very concerned about within this decade at least.

 

Currently, there is little of note.  Despite many claims, there are no apparent trends which will hold up to historical analysis of many different regions of the Earth.

 

 

 

 

Asteroids

As of June 04,

NASA’S

ESTIMATE:

“Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs  (asteroids) are on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones all the time.”

 

 

PLANETS & ALIGNMENTS
(all time coordinates here and elsewhere are in UTC unless otherwise noted, dates for planetary alignments are derived from Home Planet Software using PC graphics, due to limitations of software and graphics display, actual timing may be off as much as three days, for scientific work, use a professional ephemeris for exact dates).  For background and the current information on planetary alignments go to the Earth Changes Almanac Calendar.  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.  

 

Daily Planet – click here for sheer artistic pleasure

Every day John Walker’s  (Home Planet Software) computer creates a new image of  hypothetical habitable planet, just one every day for the estimated 2 billion potential habitable planets in our Galaxy, which the Egyptians more or less named Nun, a mother Goddess from which all life flows.  Euro people nursery tales converted the name into the Milky Way.  http://www.fourmilab.ch/terranova/terranovag.html

 

Moon Perigee/Apogee/Phase Data  - click here to be always up to date

Earth/Moon Viewer by John Walker
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/pacalc.html


Daily Solar System – click here to view Planet Alignments

The Home Planet software computes in real time the exact relative positions of the planets.  Go here to view today’s image of the solar system as seen from a heliocentric view (the sun in the center, you looking at the entire solar system as if it were a big pancake.  You can set any date and time.  You should generally ask the form to give you the “equal orbits” view so you can see all the planets.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Solar

 

AS REPORTED LAST WEEK:  A new almanac is being constructed.  The links above are the main sources I use.  I am now going to incorporate them directly into the Bulletin Updates.  It still is not complete.  August is a bad time to get real work accomplished.  August is for people to relate to each other and the REALLY real world.

 

LUNAR PERIGEE/APOGEE/PHASE TABLE FOR Sept. 2004

 

                                             Distance

Full               30-Aug 2:23      378,000 km       (rounded)

Perigee         27-Aug 5:38      365105 km        F-2d20h

Apogee         8-Sep   2:43      404462 km        N-6d11h

New              14-Sep 14:29               

Perigee         22-Sep 21:13    369599 km        F-5d15h

Full               28-Sep 13:09               

Apogee         5-Oct    22:11    404326 km        F+7d 9h

 

For the remainder of 2004, see the August 25 EC Update

 

TODAY’S MOON

 

We are still in Lunation #1010 with the next New Moon on September 14 at 14:28 UTC.  As of September 1, the Moon this day is North of the Equator (in its North Node) 17 days past the New Moon.  It is now approximately 388,000 KM from the Earth. It is still 90% of the Full Moon (visibility or phase).  The next Perigee is Sept 22, about 5 and a half days before the next Full Moon.

 

SEISMIC SYZYGY WINDOWS

 

We are still in the August Full Moon Perigee syzygy but the influence is waning rapidly and should disappear by September 3.  Since September 8 is the Apogee of the Moon, seismic activity should null out at the lowest levels through to about September 11.  Thereafter, seismic activity should gradually pick up in tempo and magnitudes through to September 16, hold steady or dip for a few days, then increase suddenly on about September 20 through to September 24 for the Perigee, thereafter dip again, and then perhaps increase somewhat once again for the Full Moon on September 28.  September’s seismic activity should be somewhat weaker over all than August’s.  The next two strongest seismic syzygies for 2004 will be the New Moon of November 12 (Perigee within less than two days) and December 12 (Perigee within 20 hours).

 

For describing the peak danger periods for the most damaging earthquakes. these Perigee syzygies I will define arbitrarily as

 

November 10 – November 16

 

December 10 – December 15

 

Jim Berkland, the originator of using syzygy to define the most active periods of seismic activity has a more complex method for computing dates and you may want to use his methods for greater precision.  For details see the Syzygy website  

 

(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).   (Berkland has a more complex formula for syzygy and his dates are often different.)  For details see the Syzygy website.

 

THE NEXT PLANETARY ALIGNMENTS

For any “Home Planet Software” charts of the planets which are shown here or through URLS which are provided on this page, you can decipher which planet is which by counting the orbital rings if you do not know the signs which denote the planets. Mercury is 1 closest to the Sun, Venus is 2, Earth is 3, Mars is 4, Jupiter is 5, Saturn is 6, Uranus is 7, Neptune is 8, Pluto is 9, and both Planet X and Nibiru are bogus.

 

From August 3 to September 8, the three closest inner planets have been and will be in very close angles to each other. 

 

Mercury will align with Venus on September 8 to finish up a probably tempestuous season of exceptional solar activity.  

 

LIST OF ALIGNMENTS THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2004

 

September 8, 2004

Mercury | Venus
Most of the planets in general now begin breaking apart widely, the "Summer Knot" become  untied. From About September 10 onwards,  Mars and Jupiter will be in a slow forming virtual alignment

***September 28, 2004

***Mars is in near alignment with Jupiter as Mercury catches up to form a nearly a straight alignment with Mercury, within 5 degrees, with all other planets widely dispersed
***October 1, 2004

***Mercury | Mars | Jupiter perfected

 

PLANETARY ALIGNMENTS FOR THE NEXT 10 MONTHS

For the next 10 months, four particular periods stand out for their potential to induce major reactions in the solar atmosphere and pull out huge ionic storms, high sunspot counts, and major effects on the Earth’s weather.

 

The Summer Knot  July 27 through September 8

 

Major ups and downs in the sunspot counts, at least three major storm fronts betwixt now and September 15 or so.

 

The Triple Whammy September Surprise September 28, 2004 - October 1, 2004

 

Mercury | Mars | Jupiter in a triple alignment

Spots peak about the Fall Equinox and Weather turns into chaos by about October 1, followed by extreme Fall flooding by the middle of October in the usual places.

 

The Apogee Six Way Cluster Bomb

 

At or near the Earth’s Apogee (closest approach to the Sun) Mercury will once again align progressively with the inner planets during a 30 day period.  Expect an INTENSELY STORMY WINTER.

December 30, 2004  Mercury | Jupiter
Venus and Mars still close and Earth near Saturn alignment
January 13, 2005  Mercury & Mars close couple to
Venus | Pluto and Earth | Saturn
January 27, 2005  Mercury | Venus with Pluto close couple

 

The Spring Grand Alignment

Jupiter | Earth | Mercury | Sun | Venus

 

Beginning by about March 7, at least major peaks in the sunspot count should produce three major waves of early Spring storm fronts.  The largest peak should form up about the Spring Equinox and the largest storm front should blow in about the time of the Grand Alignment

 

March 14, 2005  Mercury | Saturn
Spring Alignments begin in three main spirals
March 21,2005  Mars | Pluto with a spiral forming in
Mercury | Earth | Jupiter and another in Venus | Uranus
March 30, 2005 Jupiter | Earth | Mercury | Sun | Venus
form a virtual straight line through the solar system with Mars and Pluto still closely coupled. Observers on Earth will only be able to physically see Jupiter rising on the Eastern horizon just after sunset and Saturn close to the Mid-heavens in the Western half of the sky. In the very early morning Mars and Uranus visible

 

Summer Ping Pong

 

June 7, 2005  Venus | Saturn with Mercury moving up in close alignment, followed on June 10 , 2005 with Mercury forming a triplet with Venus and Saturn as Earth couples with Pluto and
Mars | Neptune.  The timing of these alignments between these planets is not exact, the electromagnetic balances of the solar system will shift in a complex way, probably producing a number of ups and downs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

PLANET WATCHING  

For background and the current information on observable planets.

 

NO CHANGE THIS WEEK

 

NASA REPORTS ON URANUS:  “This week Uranus and Earth are having a close encounter. Uranus will be "at opposition" on August 27th, which means it's opposite the sun in the sky and as near to Earth as it gets: about 1.7 billion miles.  Because close encounters with Uranus are, in fact, so distant, the planet is not easy to see. Shining like a 6th magnitude star, Uranus is barely--barely!--visible to the unaided eye from the darkest observing sites. You can try to find it in the constellation Aquarius an hour or so after sunset.”

 

MWM:  Because it is in near perfect alignment with the Earth, it will rise as the Sun sets.  At midnight it should be close to the middle of the sky along the Zodiac belt.

 

 

 

 

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. CLICK HERE for background information.  

To follow the numbers below, click here to view the Solar Cycle 23 Chart. Or, get the data in a NOAA Table.

 

The Sunspot Count on August 31 was 11 after falling sharply along with the Solar Flux Index.  The Solar Flux sunk to 87 and then leveled off.

 

MORE PROBABLE THAN NOT:  Spots and flux counts will rise today and for the next additional few days.  Peak could be well over 150.

 

AS PREVIOUSLY PREDICTED:  the alignment on September 8, 2004 between Mercury | Venus should bring another high spike in the Sunspot Count, at least as high as 160.  This peak should form up about September One and bring late Summer storms no later than September 10.

 

MONTHLY AVERAGES IN SOLAR CYCLE 23
These numbers are reported by Jan Alvestad

JULY’S AVERAGE DAILY COUNT IN THE ISSN SERIES WAS UP BY NEARLY 10 FROM 43.2 TO 51.  Somewhere the Sun took a wrong turn.  This rise in the count is in the opposite direction to where it should be going.  August’s average, which is predicted by computers to drop to 34, may also hover near 50..

Over all, the sunspot average count (ISSN) for February 2004 was 46.0. March 2004  was even higher with the ISSN average count at 48.9  April’s count was radically lower at 39.3.  The May 2004 average count of 41.5 was SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN in April.  June 2004 was higher still with an average count of 43.2. and July took as even higher to an average count of 51. 

August could also be higher than the predicted average sunspot curves (based on computer modeling of the Solar Sunspot Cycles) and probably will be higher than June but lower than July.

 

 

 

 

SOLAR ACTIVITY

As reported by NASA/NOAA unless otherwise stated.  (Sudden surprises and huge storms are always possible even during sunspot minima periods such as the one we are currently headed into).  Descriptions and numbers are based on numbers as given by iway sources at about 1:00 – 3:00 PM Arizona Mountain Time (which does not have daylight savings time).

 

The Solar Wind was robust at 472.2 km/s this day while pushing a density of 1.0 protons/cm3”.   

 

GENERAL CONSENSUS:  NO CHANGE FROM LAST THURSDAY - Not much solar activity of note, not much is likely during the next 48 hours, very little probability of disturbances felt on Earth.

 

The Fluxgate Chart at the University of Alaska (which measures magnetic disturbances in the Earth’s atmosphere created by solar winds and ion storms) showed relatively little disturbance today. (as of this time, about 2 PM Mountain time US). To see the Fluxgate moment to moment, CLICK HERE.

 

A major rise in the Planetary A Index (a measure of the Earth’s magnetic field in the atmosphere) showed a large spike of about 35 on August 30 (normally this Index hovers around 10 most of the time). This disturbance was well displayed in the Fluxgate Charts.

 

NASA AURORA WATCH: “Auroras flared, briefly, over Canada and Scandinavia on August 31st when Earth entered a weak solar wind stream…Earth is still inside the stream, which is flowing from a coronal hole on the sun. More auroras are possible in the days ahead--but only at high latitudes.

 

NASA PREDICTS AS OF SEPTEMBER 1:  During the next 24/48 hours, probability for an M-class solar flare is at 10% and for an X-class solar flare is at 1%, with a generally 1% to 30% probability for minor to severe geomagnetic disturbances during the next 24/48 hours, depending upon latitude (higher the latitude, higher the probability). 

 

Jan Alvestad reports:  “The geomagnetic field was unsettled to major storm on August 31. Solar wind speed ranged between 363 and 548 km/sec under the influence of a high speed stream from coronal hole CH111...Solar flux measured at 20h UTC on 2.8 GHz was 88.1. The planetary A index was 28 (STAR Ap - based on the mean of three hour interval ap indices: 28.5)...At midnight the visible disk was spotless. The solar flare activity level was moderate. A total of 1 M class event was recorded during the day...A poorly defined coronal hole (CH111) in the northern hemisphere was in a geoeffective position on August 27-29.

 

Jan Alvestad predicts:  “The geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to active on September 1 due to a coronal hole flow. Quiet to unsettled is likely on September 2-4.“  Alvestad also predicts a 0% probability of coronal holes, a 0% probability of CME’s, and a 0% probability of M and/or X Class Flares.

 

 

 

 

 

WORLD WEATHER SUMMARY

Those who have been following the patterns have seen that the correlations between sunspot peaks and major storm fronts coming in off the oceans to track across the continents is roughly pretty good, sometimes very much exactly on the mark.  Accordingly, our “sloppycasts” (approximate continental weather patterns) this past few years have proven out to be fairly worthwhile.

 

 

FOLLOWING THE SUNSPOTS, CURRENTLY ALL CONDITIONS ARE CALMING OR MUTING DOWN. 

 

BUT SOON CONDITIONS WILL GATHER GREATER FORCE AS SUNSPOTS CLIMB, AND THIS IS LIKELY TO OCCUR WITH HURRICANE FRANCIS

 

AS OBSERVED LAST MONTH:  weather patterns are tweaked out into chaotic extremes which fit no averages or generalities.  Forget predictions, expect anything.  THIS CONDITION WILL PERSIST THROUGH SEPTEMBER, CHAOS ALTERNATING WITH PERIODS OF CALMING.

 

EARTH WEATHER PREDICTION FOR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

(Northern Hemisphere) This “sloppycast” is based on sunspot counts, planetary alignments, and visual data shown on satellite and radar.

 

 

BEWARE HURRICANE FRANCIS

This is more probable than not a Category Five Grand Slam into the middle of Florida and up George to the Carolinas. 

 

WATCH THE SUNSPOTS, ON WHICH ALL THINGS IN THE WEATHER TURN.  IF THE NUMBER GOES UP TOMORROW, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND SPENDING TIME ANYWHERE ELSE BUT FLORIDA.

 

STAND PAT:  IS ANY PATTERN ANYWHERE NORMAL?  Nope.   I can’t keep up with it and therefore won’t.  MORE OF THE SAME.   No predictions will call the tune for any area.  More extremes during the next 30 days will be quite “normal”.

 

EARTH WEATHER PREDICTION FOR
SUMMER/FALL SEASON

(Northern Hemisphere) This “sloppycast” is based on sunspot counts, planetary alignments, and visual data shown on satellite and radar.

 

STANDING PREDICTION FOR THIS SUMMER:  The output of the Sun is currently too volatile and unpredictable.  Accordingly, expect 50% probability of anything. This is my last prediction related to general weather patterns for this summer.

 

HAS “FALL” COME?

 

For remarks related to the early Fall Season see the Weather Section in the August 25 EC Update

 

PATTERN TO WATCH:  Global Warming could easily intensify the seasons, making a short bitterly cold Winter, longer intermediate stormy Spring and Fall seasons, and shorter but very hot and dry summers. Don’t we already see this pattern at work in the Northern Hemisphere?

 

SOUTHWEST CONDITIONS

This “sloppycast” is based on six years of living in the USA Pacific Southwest, the sunspot counts, planetary alignments, and visual data shown on satellite and radar.

 

 

For a large part of the elevations below 4000 feet in the Southwest,  the general drought in the Western U.S. is still holding sway.

 

Everything is dry as a bone in the Sonoran Desert Plain.   Apparently, for drought-hit areas, no relief is in sight.  Only the Winter of 2005 remains a hope at this point.  At this point, everyone in the Southwest should begin to pray in earnest for a HUGE El Nino effect.  During the last El Nino, the Southwest received substantial water. 

 

On this score, Fortune may shine. See below.

 

 

 

 

EL NINO & LA NINA WATCH
The watch is now open again; Pacific water activity appears mostly normal, we are between the extremes of the ENSO; Click here for the NOAA window on the Pacific Ocean Temperatures:

http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/map/clim/sst_olr/sst_animated.gif

 

PREVIOUSLY PREDICTED:  El Nino on the way, more probable than not - OR MAYBE NOT!!!!

 

Conditions in the Mid Pacific have taken quite a dramatic turn away from the Classic El Nino Build Up Pattern of warm water gradually building up along the Equator between the coast of Peru and the Fiji Islands for about a third to a fourth of the width of the Pacific Ocean.  Suddenly from August 1 through to August 22, water temperatures there actually declined and the surface is now near normal.

 

Instead, a huge spot of warm water, considerably above average range, has concentrated in the zone between Hawaii and California.  This MUST BE HAVING A HUGE IMPACT ON ALL MARINE AND WEST COAST WEATHER PATTERNS ALREADY.    This is not your normal pattern at all and it will create some El Nino characteristics in the Fall Weather.

 

Beyond this, we are flying into Weather chaos.  Until a RECOGNIZABLE trend forms up, it is impossible to predict what is going to happen on this front.

 

THIS PREVIOUSLY PREDICTED ITEM WILL PROBABLY NEED REVISION DURING THE NEXT 30 DAYS:  “Purely in accordance with the X Wave correlation which I discovered in the Vortex Tectonics Model,  I PREDICT AN EL NINO IN 2005. In accordance with the trend in Global Warming, I PREDICT A VERY STRONG EL NINO, which should produce a very wet, warm winter for the Pacific coast and the Southwest.  Hopefully this will finally break the drought in the Western U.S.

 

ADDITIONAL NOTE:  The year 2004 and/or 2005, in accordance with the 100 year X Wave Graph of the motion of the spin axis in Chandler’s Wobble, COULD BE EL NINO YEARS.   Graphs of various El Nino periods seem to show that the beginning of temperature build-up can occur as late as April of an El Nino year.  So 2005 may not be callable until early Spring 2005.

 

 

 

KEEP WATCHING THE ARCTIC,  ANTARCTIC, and the desert zones. These areas are the most objective front line observatories of the climate shift.

 

 

GLOBAL WARMING

It is becoming obvious that we have a long term real shift in the average temperatures and climate regions related to the latitudes.  This climate shift is creating a growing environmental disaster in the polar zones and in the desert-prone latitudes such as in the Pacific Southwest. For the latest short review, see Earth Changes Bulletin Update As Of May 26, 2004 and the Earth Changes Bulletin Update As Of August 18, 2004

 

 

No new comments this week.

 

Many more reports keep coming in about major changes in the Arctic, from Canada and Siberia.  Reports keep surfacing everywhere about animal behavior changes, weather pattern changes, ocean current and upwelling changes, new dead zones in the ocean, etc.

 

As well, many new findings about the Sun, the record of climate in the ice, and from other sources, are circulating in greater variety than ever, all seeming to parallel with the idea of an accelerating warm up. We are no doubt seeing a rising tide of change data coming at us and it will get heavier still.

 

It is apparent from these many reports that “global warming” is accelerating climate shifts and ecological changes around the world.  These changes are so varied in such great quantity, it is difficult to summarize the shifts which are going on but it is impossible to ignore them.

 

For latest comments on Global Warming,

 

Earth Changes Bulletin Update As Of August 25, 2004

 

 

For backgrounder information about Global Warming and how to look for it and correlate it to the real causes (solar influx and tectonic heat rifts in the bottoms of the oceans), see

 

Earth Changes Bulletin Update As Of July 14, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

IONIZING SOLAR ACTIVITY & MASS BEHAVIOR

 

Emotional reactions should begin to turn hot again just after September 2.

 

CONFIRMED:  AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED:  The ionic flux and the human contradictions of denial have focused people into thinking and plotting intensely their next round of moves within a highly polarized mental and emotional atmosphere.  Expect heavy choppiness in all things human.  Sudden shifts, both good and ill, everywhere.  Recently there has been a strong chop in the polls against Bush.  But as the year progresses, the polls could begin to chop the other way for a spell (by a spell) as the mass mind focuses on other things.  It will take at least another six months for these factors to smooth out….Since the emotional damage inflicted this past four years has been so severe, psychological conditions may not smooth out until the beginning of the next solar cycle sometime in 2006/07.

 

 

 

 

 

EARTHQUAKES

Around the world to see the current and potential patterns of seismic activity, with coverage of the windows of danger.  Unless otherwise specified, all quake activity which is discussed is based on the USGS database charts and tables which list quake activity in excess of 2.0 mag. and above.  Unfortunately there are many lags in reporting of information about quakes, thus neither the numbers of quakes nor the actual quakes discussed may be complete and accurate.  Real time analysis of quake patterns is merely AN APPROXIMATION BASED ON INCOMPLETE INFORMATION.  FOR MORE QUAKE INFO RELATED TO SYZYGY WINDOWS, Jim Berkland calculates syzygy windows with considerably more sophistication than I do.  See Syzygy.com

Activity was decidedly below average in frequency and magnitude for the past seven days, which included a close Perigee Full Moon. Even veteran quake forecaster Jim Berkland was confounded and his predictions for the past several days were wide of the mark.

 

Quake activity in the world (for all quakes 3.0 and greater in magnitude) generally was randomized but four areas were much more heavily hit than all others:  Japan, New Zealand, Chile, and Central California.  A 4.7 quake in the Canadian Arctic added an element of surprise, there has almost never been a quake in that area during the past several years.

 

There was only one quake above 5.7 in magnitude:  a 6.5 quake in the Andes Mountains of Central Chile, Three other smaller quakes stuck in the general area and four others struck further to the North of Chile, making Chile one of the most quaking areas in the world for the week. 

 

Japan, and New Zealand were actually more active than Chile and several quakes 3 to 4 in magnitude struck "Central California" in the coastal mountains South of the Bay area. 

 

In all this, there were no obvious patterns, no other hot spots, and except for Chile, there was no quake larger than 5.7, which is downright quiet.

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Three shape-shifter quakes occurred during the past seven days, all three scattered around the margin of the Antarctica Plate.

 

COSA NOSTRA DAMUS WATCH FOR SOUTH CAL.

 

AS PREVIOUSLY OBSERVED: according to the Cosa Nostra Damus Prophecy, a major destructive quake could now strike at any time in Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, Hollywood, the Van Nuys Valley region, Bakersfield, and anywhere along the escarpment of the San Bernardino Mountains. This will be a follow up to the 4.9 quake which was felt in Coos Bay Oregon during July 2004.  If a quake occurs near Santa Barbara, warnings will need to be given to Mexico City about the possibility of a major explosive event in Popo.

 

SLOW EARTH MOVEMENT WATCH

 

No reports to add this week

 

SHAPE-SHIFTERS WATCH

The quake activity in the Great Rift is one of the most important harbingers for the Earth Changes Watch to monitor. As the Earth’s crust adjusts its shape in response to gravitational and spin energy vectors, quakes in the Great Rift increase and tectonic activity all around the world increases. (Unless otherwise specified, all quake activity which is discussed is based on the USGS LOCAL AREA database charts and tables which list quake activity in excess of 3.0 mag. and above. Generally most of the quakes which appear in these counts are 4.5 plus in magnitude.)  For additional information on Plate Tectonics and charts of the Great Rift of the Earth, go to Plate Tectonics Map

 

The USGS World Chart for the past seven days shows three shape-shifter quakes in the Great Oceanic Rift along the margin of Antarctica Tectonic Plate.  One was in the Indian Ocean, the other two were between Antarctica and Australia.  Currently the Southern Hemisphere is beginning to accelerate its relative motion to swing the South Spin Axis as closely to the Sun as possible for the approaching Earth Aphelion during the first week of January.  Perhaps this resurgence in seismic activity along the margin of Antarctica is related to this acceleration of relative motion in the Southern Hemisphere.

 

Magnitude 5.1 SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION

Friday, August 27, 2004 at 20:26:53 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_mrbz.html

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

center

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location        57.59S 25.63W

Depth            60.1 kilometers

Region          SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION

Reference     140 km (85 miles) SE of Visokoi Island, South Sandwich Islands

165 km (105 miles) NNE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands

3555 km (2210 miles) SSE of BUENOS AIRES, Argentina

 

Magnitude 4.9 SOUTHEAST INDIAN RIDGE

Monday, August 30, 2004 at 06:19:42 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_muam.html

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

Location        50.01S 111.89E

Depth            10.0 kilometers

Region          SOUTHEAST INDIAN RIDGE

Reference     2040 km (1260 miles) S of PERTH, Western Australia, Australia

Location Quality         Error estimate: horizontal +/- 28.8 km; depth +/- 0.0 km

 

Magnitude 4.8 WEST OF MACQUARIE ISLAND

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 at 04:55:26 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_mwau.html

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

Location        53.82S 140.12E

Depth            10.0 kilometers

Region          WEST OF MACQUARIE ISLAND

Reference     1320 km (820 miles) SSW of HOBART, Tasmania, Australia

1815 km (1130 miles) S of MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia

 

NORTH AMERICAN WATCH

Unless otherwise specified, all quake activity which is discussed is based on the USGS LOCAL AREA database charts and tables which list quake activity in excess of 1.0 mag. and above. Generally most of the quakes which appear in these counts are in the range of 1 to 2 in magnitudeAny numbers used in this section may or may not be accurate and may or may not reflect what will eventually appear in scientific databases.

 

Seismic activity in North America overall for quakes in the range of 1.0 and over was up this past week for the past seven days, but not by much.

 

464 quakes in U.S./Alaska as a whole, up one whole quake from 463 the prior week.

 

327 in California and Nevada, up from 297 last week, widely scattered in California and Nevada, with hot spots in Paso Robles and Hollister close to the California Coast and with lots of inland action widely scatted through Nevada. 

 

49 small microtremors in the PNW, down from 60 last week, widely scattered in Washington State; there many small quakes in the bottom of Puget Sound as well as a 1.9 mag quake in the throat of St. Helens and at least three new quakes probably related to Tahoma (Rainier).

 

16 in Utah, down from 22 last week.

 

6  in the Mammoth Lakes, Long Valley Volcanic Cauldera area,  down from 20 last week, 

YELLOWSTONE WATCH

Unless otherwise specified, all quake activity which is discussed is based on the USGS LOCAL AREA database charts and tables which list quake activity in excess of 1.0 mag. and above. Generally most of the quakes which appear in these counts are in the range of 1 to 2 in magnitude.  For Yellowstone Quake Chart, CLICK HERE.

 

Activity this past seven days continued to pick up with 39 quakes in Yellowstone, up from 17  last week.  These were scattered but many sprouted in the center of the ancient Caldera in the Yellowstone Lake area, typically about 1 km deep.  NO DOUBT THIS WAS RELATED TO NEW MOVEMENT OF MAGMA.  IT SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISING TO LEARN THAT THE BULGE IN THE LAKE HAS EXPANDED SOME MORE.

 

WEEK’S MOST SIGNIFICANT QUAKES

 

The Andes were very active this past seven days, here is the biggest one of the week:

 

Magnitude 6.5 CHILE-ARGENTINA BORDER REGION

Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 13:41:29 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_msat.html

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

Location        34.81S 70.30W

Depth            10.0 kilometers

Region          CHILE-ARGENTINA BORDER REGION

Reference     145 km (90 miles) ENE of Talca, Chile

150 km (90 miles) SSE of SANTIAGO, Chile

180 km (115 miles) W of San Rafael, Argentina

230 km (140 miles) SSE of Valparaiso, Chile

Remarks        Power outages occurred at Cauquenes, Curico, San Javier and Talca, Chile. Felt (VI) at Curico, Romeral, Talca and Vichuquen; (V) at Cauquenes, Linares, Quillota, Rancagua, Santiago, Valparaiso and Vina del Mar; (IV) at Chillan, Concepcion, Los Andes, Quilpue and San Felipe; (III) at Cabildo; (II) at Los Angeles.

 

Quakes rarely happen here.  This quake is very close to the Longitude down which the North Spin Axis is tending to drift with greater acceleration during the past 15 years.

 

Magnitude 4.6 SOUTHAMPTON ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA

Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 23:11:37 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_mqcr.html

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

Location        64.75N 86.27W

Depth            18.0 kilometers

Region          SOUTHAMPTON ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA

Reference     165 km (100 miles) WNW of Coral Harbour, Nunavut, Canada

200 km (125 miles) S of Repulse Bay, Nunavut, Canada

870 km (540 miles) WNW of IQALUIT, Nunavut, Canada

1410 km (870 miles) ENE of YELLOWKNIFE, NW Territories, Canada

Source          Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Remarks

 

 

 

 

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.  Or see “Breaking Volcano Eruption News”.

 

WORLD VOLCANIC ACTIVITY PICKED UP SLIGHTLY WITH SOME VIGOROUS EMMISSIONS AND ACTIVE ERUPTIONS in Africa and on Reunion, but Etna and Kilauea are silent and all counts seem to reflect silence in most of the other active or semi-active volcanoes.  (This is a fairly subjective guestimate based on the numbers and data reported by the SWVC, quake data, and other reports)

 

Piton de la Fournaise Volcano (Reunion) was quite active this past week along with Asama in Japan and Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira in Africa.  But all others appear to be muted. Even Popo and Colima in Mexico are barely perking.

 

Here are the SWVC volcanic activity numbers as of September 1 2004

 

7 on restless list (could go on active list at any moment) (same as last week)

 

44 on alert list (pre-cursors suggesting that activity may begin) (four down from last week)

 

21 on active list (seismic, gas, steam, lava, ash, or explosive activity) (down 2 from last week)

 

Popo gave only a 7 puff day yesterday.  Centrapred reports for September 1 (17:00 GMT) that “"In the last 24 hours the monitoring system of Popocatepetl volcano, recorded only 7 low intensity exhalations accompanied by steam and gas emissions. The other monitored parameters remain without important changes. At the moment of this report it is possible to distinguish a small steam and gas emission. In an aerial photograph taken on July 8th by SCT, subsidence is observed in the inner crater; an external lava dome at the bottom of the crater cannot be distinguished.  Due to the low levels of activity shown in the past days, the scenarios consisting of explosions and ash emision are less probable. The traffic light of volcanic alert is in YELLOW-1. Access is restricted in a radius of 12 km from the crater. The road between Santiago Xalitzintla (Puebla) and San Pedro Nexapa (Mexico State), including Paso de Cortés, is open to controlled traffic. However, it is not permitted to remain within the 12 Km restricted area."

 

 

MOST ACTIVE VOLCANOES THIS WEEK

from Volcano Breaking News by Volcanologist John Seach

Volcano Travel:  john@volcanolive.com

Dates in red are posted in Eastern Australian Time (UT + 10 hr)

Piton de la Fournaise Volcano (Reunion)
21.22 S, 55.71 E, summit elevation 2631 m, shield volcano
Thursday 2nd September 2004
The impressive eruption continues at Piton de la Fournaise volcano in Reunion. On Tuesday, a cone appeared at the end of the lava flow in the ocean! The cone was active and ejected lava and gases. It is not yet clear whether the oceanic cone originated from the August 25 lava flow, or it is a new fissure. 
More on Piton de la Fournaise volcano...

Asama Volcano (Japan)
36.40 N, 138.53 E, summit elevation 2560 m, complex volcano
Thursday 2nd September 2004
Asama volcano erupted on Wednesday 1st September. Volcanic rock and ash has spread about a mile from the crater, and volcanic tremor was continuing. Police in nearby Komoro said they received dozens of phone calls from residents reporting the sound of a large bang. Television footage showed a red glow lighting up the night sky from the eruption, which occurred shortly after 8 p.m. The height of emissions was not observed due to cloud cover. The Meteorological Agency lifted its activity rating for Mount Asama to 3. Residents have been advised to stay away from the crater. The eruption was classified as medium. The volcano is 30 miles southeast of Nagano, site of the 1998 Winter Olympics.
More on Asama volcano...

Kilauea Volcano (Hawaii)
19.425 N, 155.292 W, summit elevation 1222 m, Shield volcano 
Wednesday 1st September 2004
Lava has stopped entering the sea at Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. Small flows of lava are visible at 900-1300 ft elevation, in the Banana flow. All vents at Pu`u `O`o' crater are incandescent. 
More on Kilauea Volcano... 
Volcanoes of Hawaii... 

Piton de la Fournaise Volcano (Reunion)
21.22 S, 55.71 E, summit elevation 2631 m, shield volcano
Sunday 29th August 2004
Volcanic tremor has doubled over the past week at Piton de la Fournaise volcano, but this has not been accompanied by any increase in lava emission. Lava entering the Indian Ocean has enlarged the land by 2 hectares. Last Friday night large traffic jams blocked the approaches to the lava flows, and free shuttle buses were provided every 15 minutes to help ease the problem. From the vehicle drop off point, there is about a 15 minute walk to reach the ocean entry location. Degassing at the summit region continues, and the upper slopes are closed to the public.
More on Piton de la Fournaise volcano...

Mt Elgon Volcano (Kenya)
1.13 N, 34.55 E, summit elevation 4321 m, Stratovolcano
Saturday 28th August 2004
Speculation over the status of Mt Elgon volcano continues. Reports of have been received of signs of volcanic activity at the previously considered extinct volcano. Renewed activity at previously considered extinct volcanoes is not uncommon. Evidence from the Hawaiian islands indicates that the shield volcanoes in the islands remain dormant for up to a million years before undergoing renewed eruptions. In the south Pacific, three volcanoes have erupted in Vanuatu since 1960's at volcanoes that were formerly considered extinct. Also in Chile, Chiliques volcano erupted in 2002 after being dormant for 8000 years.
Meanwhile, hundreds of families living near Mt Elgon, who fled the area early this week fearing a volcanic eruption, have returned to their homes. Kenya Airways had been informed of the dangers of using the route to Western destinations. The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources in Kenya is taking the claims of renewed volcanic activity seriously, but has stated there is no reson to panic. A government official said "This is a surprise. We've always considered it extinct but predictions are not always accurate."
The latest findings of a team of geologists had failed to detect the reported volcanic activity at Kepsoi cave at the foothills of the mountain after carrying out tests. There is no crack in the cave and neither is there poisonous gas emissions, and stated that the pungent smell was a result of lack of air circulation. Geologists will continue monitor the situation and samples of rain water and water from nearby streams will be analysed for possible contamination. Temperatures in the cave had cooled off and no smoke was being emitted.
More on Mt Elgon Volcano...

Piton de la Fournaise Volcano (Reunion)
21.22 S, 55.71 E, summit elevation 2631 m, shield volcano
Saturday 28th August 2004
Lava flows at Piton de la Fournaise volcano reached the ocean on 25th August. On Thursday 26th August, lava raced down the mountain, setting fire to vegetation and exploding as it made contact with ocean. Strong sulphorous fumes were emitted creating a risk to observers. Buses have been transporting tourists to the viewing area, to avoid overloading the roads with traffic. The summit area of the volcano is closed to the public.
More on Piton de la Fournaise volcano...

Nyiragongo Volcano (Democratic Republic of Congo)
1.52 S, 29.25 E, summit elevation 3469 m, stratovolcano
Thursday 26th August 2004
Ongoing eruptions at Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira volcanoes is causing health problems for about 60,000 people. About 30,000 square kilometres of land west of the volcanoes has been destroyed by volcanic fallout. There is no vegetation, animals are dying and people are contracting stomach illnesses as well as respiratory and bone diseases. Fluoride overdoses are causing a variety of sickness and turning people's teeth transparent. Chloride is causing respiratory disorders. The emissions are also producing acid rain. In the last two years agricultural production decreased by an estimated 60 percent. 5,000 square-km of land in the nearby Virunga National Park has been affected, endangering chimpanzees and other wildlife.

 

 

 

Standing Assessment:  Likely, it is fair to conclude that the not-so-invisible Black Arts Nation, from HAARP to the Navy, to the Bush/Ashcroft prisons in Iraq/Afghanistan and Cuba, not to mention many other technologies, areas, and programs, are far out of ethical, moral, constitutional, and treaty control, as has been widely feared. 

 

 

BLACK ARTS NATION

 

STAY TUNED.  We are just on the front edge of “the outing”….

 

 

 

 

 

ECONOMY WATCH 

 

 

BREAKING NEWS:

Ford, GM Sales Drop; Both Cut Production

Wed 8:24PM  ET - Associated Press

General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. reported disappointing U.S. sales Wednesday, prompting the nation's two largest automakers to cut planned vehicle production in the fourth quarter, which could hurt profits.

 

These announcements in previous decades were generally taken as clear proof that the economy was nose-diving into recession.

 

AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED

CONFIRMED CONFIRMED CONFIRMED

 

-----AS PREDICTED IN PREVIOUS WEEKS: “Conditions are clearly tilting SOUTH, as in a decline down hill.  The Bush League Boom is over before it started.”

 

All economic indicators for July are clearly down

 

IT SEEMS OBVIOUS THAT AUGUST INDICATORS WILL ALSO BE NEGATIVE.  We are not far from the Ides of September, by which we will know the most important indicators.

 

Beware the IDES OF SEPTEMBER IN ALL FINANCIAL MARKETS.  Emotions will be depressed, the plutocracy will begin to feel that its free ride under Bush is nearly over, confidence will be shot, and numbers will be slip-sliding away.

 

FOR THE LASTEST DETAILED DISCUSSION

 

See the Earth Changes Bulletin Update Of July 21, 2004

 

FOR THE STAND PAT ECONOMIC PREDICTION FOR THIS YEAR,

 

 See the Earth Changes Bulletin Update Of May 12 2004

 

GENERAL PREDICTION DJI AVERAGES

 

The DJI finished September 1 at 10,168.46 just about the same as last Wednesday at 10,181.74.  We are very very close to the top of the market for the next several years.

 

WE ARE ON THE CUSP. 

 

AS PREDICTED LAST FEW WEEKS: THIS IS PROBABLY THE

MINI BUBBLE FOR SEPTEMBER

 

PAY ATTENTION:  All the King’s Sorcerers and All the King’s Bagmen will conspire earnestly after the Republican convention this next week to lift the markets.  But it isn’t going to work very well.

 

The cut in auto production trumps the politicos.

 

Hot air might have worked for a rebound through September and October for a few hundred points. But I doubt the hot air is going to rise it much for very long.

 

AS PREVIOUSLY PREDICTED:  Don’t wait for Christmas Retail Sales…they will be disappointing, depress the stock values, and lead into the final economic collapse.  When the DJI is above 10,000, liquidate anything you have in all such equities anywhere.  The DJI MAY HIT 10,500 AGAIN during late September but DON’T COUNT ON IT.  And if it does, it will be only a signal spike which will break the market for many months, if not many years.

 

FOR THE LAST CURRENT DETAILED DISCUSSIONS SEE:

See the Earth Changes Bulletin Update Of July 21, 2004

 

EURO WATCH 

 

The softening of the dollar continues.  The dollar closed today at

0.8202, down about three fourths of a penny from the 0.8281 per euro a week ago. The softening  probably will continue.  The overall erosion is likely to slowly continue through the year and may bottom at $0.70 per euro by the end of 2004.

 

NOW HAPPENING:  WHEN PETRO PER BARREL GOES DOWN FOR MORE THAN A COUPLE OF  WEEKS IN A ROW, WATCH THE DOLLAR SLIDE.

 

MUST READ:  “The Dollar Panics” in “The Coming Economic Collapse of 2006”, which lays out the dynamics of what is happening

 

 

 

 

 

SURVIVAL WATCH

 

FOOD WATCH

 

For latest info, see the Earth Changes Bulletin Update as of  July 7, 2004

 

JOB WATCH

 

For latest info, see the Earth Changes Bulletin Update as of  July 7, 2004

 

 

 

SIGN OF THE TIMES: Ken Lay, who is now widely described as the biggest corporate swindler of all time, is still scott free. (ONE OF THE WORST ECONOMIC TERRORISTS OF ALL TIME).  But now finally after waiting for two or so years, Lay has been indicted.  Notice the timing, near the end of the first term of the Bush Administration. At this time I will hazard the guess that he will be pardoned by Bush during the final days of his administration, probably December of this year.  ANOTHER NEARLY EQUAL SIGN OF THE TIMES:  The lawyers who have been settling the Enron collapse for all parties, are billing the remaining net assets of Enron for approximately $1 billion for their services.  This is a new heavenly-ordained definition for the term Chutzpah.  I CALL IT CLASS ECONOMIC TERRORISM.

 

POLITICAL WATCH

For general overview on the Tragedy in Iraq and the Bureau-Political Civil War in Washington DC, I highly recommend Tom Dispatch.

 

 

The rhetorical flights of fantasy at the Democratic National Convention were often unpalatable and made me squirm repeatedly but, sadly, that was only a warm-up for the Republican convention

 

FRANKLY, the reduction of a national political party at Boston and the majority of its speakers into a slogan-fest of hot air bleated endlessly ad nauseum on an half-hourly schedule around a limited set of choreographed, prissy sound-bytes which did absolutely nothing for anyone was hard to endure.  I kept asking, whatever happened to debate, discussion, and the sober presentation of real shtuff? 

 

The convention in Boston demonstrated clearly that there is no longer a National Democratic Party, just choreographed activities for manufacturing TV promotion.

 

But now, New York.  Holy Crapo! The Republican National Convention managed to upstage even the Hot Air Balloons of the Democrats with a never ending bleating of the same old lies, distortions, and contrivances, stunningly set within the most demented forms of the now nearly putrid mentality of the John Birch Society.

 

Wednesday night finally required barf bags to endure.  In between gagging episodes, George Orwell could clearly be seen in the sky over Madison Square Garden smiling grimly at the Millennial Triumph of Hitler’s Logic.

 

Like the Democrats, Republicans clearly no longer exist as a party.  Their activities have become just another stage prop in the manufacturing of consent, oops, no, that’s not it, hmmm, blinders” is more nearly close to the right concept.  Are the facts of existence inconvenient for the Ubermensch?  Or are the people too stupid to sell the facts of feudalism?  Well then, f*ck the facts, engineer emotions.

 

ENGINEER EMOTIONS…..a near cousin to the old-fashioned arts of race-baiting and transmitting bigotry

 

Those on the floor of the convention hall? How desperate these people must be emotionally.  They are trying so hard to believe they belong to something, anything, which provides a greater sense of meaning and purpose in their life.  But how sad for these people, that they are so abused by the cunning sociopaths who manipulate the scenery, the props, and the lines of the play.  The average rank and file are abused to such an extent that they are led to create the exact opposite of what they so desperately want to believe in.

 

They want to give the world Freedom and Equal Opportunity.  But what they create is Ashcroft and his Little Shop of Patriot Horrors for picking the locks of the constitution and heisting away the Bill of Rights.

 

The stench of Dr. Strangelove behind all of this is so bad, even the Mass Media is beginning to seriously question the entire play….in both parties.

 

STAND PAT – See Earth Changes Bulletin Update As Of July 7 2004

 

THE WORLD AWAITS THE DEPARTURE OF THE BUSH REGIME. 

 

IT IS HIGHLY LIKELY THAT THE MOST DECISIVE AMMUNITION AGAINST THE IMPERIAL FACTION IS YET TO BE LOBBED….

 

THE SENSE OF MORAL OUTRAGE IS STILL BUILDING

 

…PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR THE RIGHT TIMING…

 

…I HAVE THIS FEELING THAT FIREWORKS WILL EMERGE IN OCTOBER. 

 

AS PREVIOUSLY OBSERVED: Bush remains in every way an “untouchable” international pariah such as has not been seen since the days of Stalin. The problem is the lying. To touch this tar baby, one risks becoming befouled with the lies from even the barest minimum of association.  WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT IS ANYONE’S GUESS. American politics has never been so unpredictable. Doubtless the Bush Administration and virtually the entire Imperial Faction is or will be caught up in legal issues and press controversies which will pile higher and higher.  To counter the attacks and legal moves against them, the Bush-iters will use every sorcery they can contrive to conceal everything which is not nailed down in plain site in front of the New York Times.  They will even chip away at that late at night.   They will use Saddam Hussein in every way possible to rationalize their existence, deeds, and legitimacy to be re-elected.  Every lie and form of bigotry they have ever used will be retred to denigrate Kerry, Edwards, Nader, and every other candidate for lower office.  The meltdown of U.S. politics into a world-class cesspool manipulated by a sordid class of third rate sorcerers will be nearly complete. 

 

BUT PERHAPS THIS IS JUST AN ANNEALING PROCESS, THE TIME OF THE EXPOSIING AND BURNING AWAY OF THE CRAP.  PERHAPS WE ARE NOW FINALLY FIGHTING IN ONE OF THE LAST CHAPTERS IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF  AMERICA WHICH BEGAN ON THE STREETS OF BERKELEY WITH THE FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT AND THE REALIZATION THAT THE VIETNAM WAR WAS A HIDDEOUS MISTAKE.

 

 

 

 

A new media now arrives, floating down the river Iway, and with it comes a new consciousness of the world and the lies which have driven so much of the past 50 years….

 

From this, the future will arise as the old world slowly collapses.

 

All else is fluid, in transition. Thank God Almighty!

 

 

THE STRATEGIC SITUATIONFinal Synopsis
For predictions related to the mess in Palestine, the Middle East, and the Bush political era.

 

Cry America, you have lost your soul, your constitution, your Republic, your purpose, your righteousness before God and thus your destiny.  It will take a terrible struggle to win it back.

 

THE ENTIRE WORLD IS WITNESSING THE AMERICAN IMPASSE IN IRAQ, which has left the U.S. Military adrift without a rudder.

 

AS OBSERVED IN PRIOR WEEKS:  The strategic impasse which has paralyzed the American military machine continues while time erodes the viability of the American position in Iraq, throughout the world, and indeed, within North America.  Once again, the initiative is likely to be taken up in the Mid-east by the growing legions of radical jihadists in Gaza, the West Bank, in Iraq, in Saudi Arabia, and in many other venues. 

 

BUT PEACE IS BEGINNING TO “BREAK OUT” IN IRAQ.

 

MORE, IN NAJAF, WE SAW THE ENDING OF THE MARCH OF EMPIRE.  MARK THESE WORDS. 

 

AN AUTHENTIC ISLAMIC MORAL AUTHORITY IS ARISING AND IS BEGINNING TO FORGE A COALITION TO UNIFY IRAQ AND BRING CIRCUMSTANCES TO THE POINT WHERE THE AMERICANS CAN BE ASKED TO LEAVE.  QUICKLY.  THE ARRANGEMENTS WILL BE FORGED BY JANUARY.

 

MORE PROBABLE THAN NOT, THE MULLAHS WILL ARRANGE THE ELECTION OF A GOVERNMENT WHICH ASSERTS ITS SOVEREIGNTY AND ASKS THE U.S. TO LEAVE VIRTUALLY IMMEDIATELY.

 

THIS IS HOW IT WILL END IN IRAQ, NEITHER BY BUSH NOR BY KERRY. 

 

AS PREVIOUSLY OBSERVED: The U.S. Ship of State sails through extremely dangerous historical waters.  Major tragedies which change the course of history can occur at any moment.  Al Qaeda has the U.S. just exactly where they want it, its military extended and exposed to the grenades of  an endless Arab "snipe hunt" across a vast unfriendly territory which ranges from Palestine to Pakistan.  Al Qaeda uses random attacks like the lances of bullfighters, to weaken and confuse the American Bull.  Their strategy is winning, mainly because Bush, Rumsfeld and his Imperial Faction are incompetent buffoons and continue to step into the traps Al Qaeda lays as well as hand-delivering on a silver platter an oafish continuation of the killing fields of Iraq.  An astute leader could turn the entire situation around in 120 days but none has arisen among the Americans. 

 

Accordingly, the answer is arising NOW in Iraq.

 

STAND PAT ON  the latest dossier, see the Earth Changes Bulletin Update as of  July 7, 2004

Michael Wells Mandeville,
The Hills of Arizona USA at mwman@earthlink.net
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