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[August 4, 2008 ECB; MWM] "Current Week's Summary"

UPDATE TO OVER-RIDING CONDITIONS
in Special Alerts:

Click here for clarifications about the not-so-unusual low level of solar activity and the predicted magnitude of  SOLAR CYCLE 24.   Reality is that the RISE & PEAK OF SOLAR CYCLE 24 MAX IS PROBABLY IMPOSSIBLE TO CALL ON scientific grounds...except in hindsight.

COSMIC FACTORS:  

Solar MIN continues VERY MINIMUM with a small average monthly Sunspot Count hovering close to one.  Sunspots have been zip all week for two weeks running.  Solar Flux is about flat line at 66.  As has been true for most the past three months, there has been and is almost no other Solar Activity of note during this time.   A coronal hole has appeared but there is no solar wind stream at this time, nor much in the way of even minor magnetic disturbances.  NASA advisories for Solar Activity are at low levels but predicts August 12 may bring a solar wind to the Earth..  The Planetary A Magnetic Index (upper atmosphere field strength) is close to zero. . Alaska's Fluxgate Monitor Graph hovers near zero during the past 24 hours. Bolder Sunspot Peaks might still emerge any day now for the planetary alignments during August 7 - August 21 but the Sun remains  too inert to predict very much at all.  Probably at least a small spike will appear about August 15.  See Planetary Alignments for longer range forecast.   For the next 48 hours, NASA predicts a 1%  or less probability of major explosive or flare events on the Sun with a 1% to 10% probability of major magnetic disturbances in the Earth's atmosphere in the higher latitudes.  For more details on current sun go here.   For Daily Sun, go to Spaceweather.   Keep in mind that conditions could become unstable, chaotic, and full of disturbances at any moment during the next few weeks while Mercury aligns successively with Mars, Earth, & Jupiter.  The planetary alignments during the next two weeks are likely to build small surges and declines in the Solar Flux and a small surge in Sunspots.  The peak moment of this surge may be about August 15.   As it has been for the past several months,  the Sun is not really very ready for major activity in the nascent Solar Cycle 24. 

ATMOSPHERICS:   Solar Activity will likely not much influence this Summer's weather.  The North Atlantic Oscillation continues to grow off the coast of Newfoundland even as it decays in northeastern Atlantic.  This will probably allow a normal Summer in Western and Northern Europe but a stormy Summer and Fall in New England - Newfoundland.  Once again for several weeks running, the North Pacific Gyre Hot Spot is larger and warmer than ever, now becoming centered between Latitudes North 40 and 50, now nearly due north of the Hawaiian Islands.  The beginning of El Nino on the Pacific Equator is holding in there.  These factors will decidedly form much of the weather dynamics for the Summer and Fall months.  Look for conditions to remain similar to existing conditions in North America, with the Monsoon in the PSW remaining productive of rain.  California will remain hot and dry.  More likely than not, Atlantic hurricane season will remain lackluster and at the tail-end of the season, El Nino will begin to become a noticeable influence on late Fall or early Winter weather.  In general, NOAA believes this year is going to be hotter and drier than normal for much of North America but the patterns are likely to make sudden, chaotic shifts.  Expect anything.   For the next ten days of  NOAA weather predictions, go to Climate Center Weather Maps. As can be seen at this site, weather forecasts for the entire season ahead are now becoming routine.

 GEOPHYSICAL FACTORS:     The wobble spiral continues to expand in its outward track.  See Polar Motion for additional information.   We  are leaving  the Syzygy for the New Moon of August 1/2.   The New Moon Syzygy has extended though about August 4/5 to encompass a weak Perigee and Extreme North Declination.  As predicted, the strongest impact of this syzygy was seen about July 29-August 2.  Tectonic quake activity declined about August 1 and is now substantially below average frequency.  For the next Syzygy period (approximately August 11 - 22 for the Full Moon August 18/19), considerable dis-synchronization now emerges in the lunar cycles and this will persist until November 2008. November will begin a new round of synchronized lunar cycles, with December producing the strongest synchronization of the year. See The Lunar Cycle  for more details.  For quakes go to Earthquakes.

The decline in world volcanism continues.  Despite vigorous eruptions in the Northern Arc of the Pacific Rim of Fire (three on Kamchatka Peninsula and also at Okmok and Cleveland in the Aleutians) most volcanoes are less active this week and fewer reports are being updated.  Etna has only a few embers remaining and Kilauea continues muting its eruption. A few of the Carib Plate volcanoes appear to remain vigorous, especially Fuego in Guatemala and Soufriere Hills on Montserrat in the Caribbean.  Currently the Active List is at 34 and the Restless List is at 3.  The Alert List is at 78.  These numbers are up slightly over the previous week but the general impression in the reports is that activity over all is not as vigorous.  A few of the active continuous erupters remain virtually the same.  Popo and Colima are  barely alive with only a few puffs of ash and steam each day, but  Erebus, Stromboli, Yasur, and Arenal continue their long ever-lasting eruptions.  (These typically produce lava lakes, lava fountains, and strombolian explosions). Click here for more details on this Volcano Season.  Click here for more details on this Volcano Season. Volcanic activity is likely to fall off now until November 08 in synchronicity with the lunar cycles. SO FAR THIS JANUARY PREDICTION IS PRECISELY ON TRACK: "In accordance with past wobble cycles and the general average trend of increase in volcanic activity, I expect that volcanic activity during 2008 will be about the same as 2007 or abate by a small percentage."

GEO-ECONOMIC FLUX - - 

ALL FALL DOWN, EXCEPT THAT INFLATION IS SOOOARING....AS PREDICTED HERE SINCE 2004.   Iraq is bankrupting the Empire.  Oops.  Well, sorry, time to go.  Make sure your family is ready to ride out two to six years of hard economic times and enormous political confusion about what the real issues are and how to resolve them.  For additional details go to Geo-Political-Economics.  Keep in mind that the way out of this time and condition is the Solar Hydrogen revolution. T. Boone Picken's plan for Wind Farms and Natural Gas Conversion is a very good beginning for embarking on an ambitious re-industrialization plan for the U.S.

GEOPOLITICAL FLUX - -  

PROGNOSIS ON AMERICAN POLITICS: 

The appearances matter, but don't get lost in them.  As was widely feared, it appears that Obama has bought into many of the illusions of the war-crafters. The massive walls of ego denial are still so strong in the U.S., including among those on the so-called left of so-called" center", that the mythology of America Uber Alles will be very hard to overcome.  As the elections proceed, this rhetoric will get thick and heavy and Obama will be seen pandering to the old propaganda lines like nearly all the politicians.  Disillusionment will grow among progressives and conservatives who would dearly wish the death of both the Republican Party and the old political propaganda lines.  But Obama's election is only the beginning of a major and long institutional struggle to help extricate the people of North America from the accelerating fascist flood.   The election will rekindle a return to egalitarian morality, true representational rule, and non-violence in the affairs of humankind.  Keep in mind that the elite swung to him, his main elevation to power does not belong to them.  The Clinton's owe everything to the globalist elite, Obama owes not nearly as much.

This will make a considerable difference in what he does, with whom he talks, how he thinks.

Also making a huge difference will be the growing technical call for eliminating all oil imports though various conversions to multi-fuels.  This alone is all the industrial policy needed for transcending this current economic collapse.  The Democrats are most likely to deliver this and Obama may also end up taking us a little distance of the way to a restoration of our freedom and law.  Many progressives wish for a massive purge of the Zionazi influence with the election of Obama but this is not likely to happen.  It is more likely to be slow and gradual. For those of us who would like to see a good portion of the current generation of politicians and top bureaucrats in jail, it may never happen unless we build a completely new party institution or a base of pressure which the Democrats cannot resist.  Like the assassination of JFK, which is now easily demonstrated as an international plot which was assisted by "insiders", we will have to continue to live for some time with the horrible hypocrisy of the crimes of the 911 Fraud and the War On Terror Finger Puppets.

PROGNOSIS ON WAR & PEACE:  For the year ahead, the west continues to collapse economically, Globalist Ambitions will continue to sag, Israel's false-flag operations fail because of increasing 'whistle-blowing", the Republithug Party disintegrates visibly and tangibly (probably forever), Iran continues to stand, the Zionazi window closes with the election of Obama, Iraq has reduced America to the same result that Great Britain had in India in 1948 (get out while the getting is good), Obama continues to surprise everyone, a huge struggle in the Democratic Party is already beginning which will bring the disintegration of the Democrats, the splinter movements will begin to coalesce into two new parties, both of which will be militantly anti-imperial.  Ron Paul's movement will also surprise everyone, it will continue to grow and may become the main stream replacement of the current Republithug Party, and finally, during ensuring years, the Neocons, imperialists, and Globalists will run like cockroaches for whatever covers they can contrive as they attempt a disappearing act.

EARTH CHANGES STANDING SUMMARY - The surges of tectonic motion in the Earth's crust during the first several months of 2008 probably have played out for at least a few months.  In accordance with the Cosmic Frame, the next few months of volcanic and seismic activity will likely be at lower levels with less destructive magnitude and frequency. Tectonic activity likely will begin to surge again November 08 to January 09 during the next phase synchronicities between the lunar and terrestrial orbits.  But keep in mind that the Earth's crust is complex, anything can and sometimes does happen at any time, and thus no accurate predictions can be made consistently.  The Earth Changes Global Warming scenario is more difficult to predict and the weather effects are more chaotic at this time.  Solar input is very low this year, about the same as last year, hence Greenhouse Gas effect is zip, if not negative, accordingly Global Warming and all extreme weather patterns are being driven this year almost exclusively by the warming of the world ocean.  Human conditions remain confused and contrarian, war and peace trends are unclear, though expansion of wars seems unlikely at this time.  Economic conditions continue to disintegrate, most prognosticators are now Bearish on most economic issues.

SPIRITUAL FLUX  - - 

As previously reported, the power of the Blue Star Kachina continues to grow as a major ingress of higher plane energy expands for those seeking it.  Look for a small blue diamond in the inner most recesses of your mind's eye.  Reach deeply inside your experience of the now.  Seek for the "feeling" of an energy or vibration within your head.  REMEMBER REMEMBER REMEMBER.  Awaken to the higher energy.  Now is truly the time to build an internal link to consciousness of this energy.  As this link strengthens, the internal power of lucid peace will grow, hopefully strongly enough to surmount the highly charged emotional astral chaos of the next Solar MAX, which most likely will be the most chaotic period of human existence in several decades, quite possibly for several centuries.

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The Changes In The Earth - Global Summary

A RECENT CHART DEFINES "THE CHANGE IN THE EARTH". Click to see the threefold trend in world quake activity 4+ for 1973-2007. This increase in seismic energy is signaling all the other Changes In The Earth, including Global Warming.  Daily average frequency of 4+ quakes has risen from 11 in 1973 to about 35 in 2007.  The average rose dramatically during 2005/06 and is currently lower.  The daily average for 2007 will probably rise a little by the end of the year and may rise more slowly during the next few years.  Statistics are tricky master illusionists so be careful with this following thought:  an exponential growth curve can be drawn through earthquake data 4+ to project another DOUBLING of the current frequency by about 2020.

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