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.

On the geophysical front, a busy news week indeed. Seismic activity mostly continued at low levels despite the Full Moon Perigee joint syzygy. BUT MANY QUAKES THIS WEEK IN THE DEEP OCEAN RIFTS OF THE MID ATLANTIC AND INDIAN OCEAN NEAR THE EQUATOR FOLLOWED THE QUAKES LAST WEEK IN THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC. For the first time I believe that "rift quakes" have come to nearly equal the number of "plate collission quakes" for a period of several days.This is the cleaest signal yet of a global tectonic shapeshifting event and it clearly parallels Cayce’s predictions of how the major Earth Changes will unfold prior to the shifting of the poles. Volcanoes are about the same as last week, at a depressed level but with one vigorous eruption on Montserrat in the Caribbean. The SUN, well, it is spritzy and Sunspots at 155 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. AS LAST WEEK, NO SIGN YET OF A NORMAL JULY OR AUGUST on any front. All warnings from last week stand: like the little Chuckie horror doll, the drought IS BACK, and uncontrollable fires have begun in the Southwest. Expect no relief until Fall.

On the geopolitical front, LITTLE CHANGE DURING THESE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER. ALL CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO DECAY INTO INCREASING DISORDER. The press sharks are circling the White House in the greatest packs seen since Watergate. (Go sharks go). What needs to be done in the Middle East is perfectly obvious and equally obvious is that the Boomer Bubbleheads of the Imperial Faction are completely unequal to the task. Right now they are trying to talk any country with troops into helping occupy Iraq. Bush has NO shame and it is truly amazing that his people really are too stupid to see that practically everyone on Earth has strong premonitions that their touch is the touch of death. All the troops they need are standing around broke and pissed in Baghdad. The only thing you need to occupy Iraq successfully are bagmen (people who have bags of cash to pay the salaries of the multitudes who man the political machine at the block level). We need an army of bagmen, THAT’s the American way, how did we ever get talked into armies? Do I jest? Not as much as you might think. Beware the Earth | Mars alignment. And beware the Ides of August when the double-header planetary alignment forms up around the Mars alignment

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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

HOUSEKEEPING:

THE BOOK COPY ALL EDITED AND FINAL FOR PRESS BUT I DECIDED TO ADD THREE PAGES OF NEW STUFF PLUS STILL HAVE ONE MORE GRAPH TO FINISH. WILL TAKE A COUPLE MORE DAYS.

The final copy is a lot smoother and often deeper in explanation in the last four sections than the copy which you may have downloaded. You will want especially to read sections 5 and 6 over again because the over-all dynamic of the economic collapse is explained in a fuller, more consistent way.

WAIT TILL SATURDAY BEFORE TRYING TO DOWNLOAD THE FINAL FINAL FINAL.

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.

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No change from last week. 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.

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

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LAST WEEK FOR SOME REASON I GOT FULL MOON AND NEW MOON DATES MIXED UP. MY APOLOGIES.

The Moon this day is still in its South Node (South of the Earth’s Equator) and today, by my rule of thumb method, we left an extended full moon perigee syzygy period yesterday on July 9. Jim Berkland has a more complex formula and calculates that we are still in the syzygy through to until tomorrow, July 17. For details see http://www.syzygyjob.com/

The Earth orbit is still just slightly past its Apogee of July 4, which is when the Earth is as far from the Sun as it can get.

The next planetary alignment will be on July 19 with a Mercury | Neptune alignment. Sunspot activity has picked up considerably for this already an the solar activity should keep the weather manifesting random extremes in unpredictable places through July.

AND AS REPORTED LAST WEEK: And August will be no slouch in the grouchy weather department. On August 1 an Earth | Neptune alignment will form up and again on August 18 a double header alignment will form between Earth | Mars | Neptune on one head and Venus | Jupiter on the other head. Since the orbital speeds of Mars and Earth are very similar (compared to the rest of the solar system), their alignment will be very close most of the month.

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Noctilucent Cloud Gallery: Electron Plasma Cloud Lighting Effects High In The Atmosphere

Noctilucent clouds are not correctly identified by NASA. They are probably electron plasma clouds from the ionic influx fed by Solar Cycle 23 sunspots, flares, and solar wind. The ions probably begin to condense around water vapor and/or space dust. These clouds can now probably be spotted practically everywhere every night, and especially so between about August 12 and September 12.

NASA REPORTS: "MARS & THE MOON: Before sunrise on Thursday morning, July 17th, the Moon and Mars are going to have a remarkable close encounter. Viewed from most places in North America, the pair will be less than one Moon-width apart. Sky watchers in southeastern Florida and parts of South America will see them converge; the Moon will actually cover Mars for a while. The best time to look is 8 o'clock UT. That's 1 a.m. PDT or 4 a.m. EDT. Set your alarms and don't miss it!"

REPEATED FROM LAST WEEK:

ANCIENT DRAMA IN THE SKY: This time of year is a great time to catch the ancient spectacle of the Milky Way Galaxy (ours) in the middle of the vault of the skies. Best viewing time is close to midnight, when the Milky Way stretches out from horizon to horizon from nearly South to nearly North. This spectacle the Egyptians memorialized as Nun, the waters of the universe, whom they painted as a nearly naked woman stretched out across the ceilings of their temples. They conceived Nun as the mother of the planetary Gods, which was a lot closer to the truth than the cosmology the Greeks and the Romans tried to sell you. This will be a little hard to see while the Moon goes Full this next several days, but when the Moon’s light disappears, it will become quite vivid.

As you look at the sky to the South, you also can see an ancient nursery rhyme story. You can see a large cow jumping over the Milky Way, with the Milky Way flowing out North and South in a huge streak from out of the cow’s teats. That, from 5000 years ago, is how we got the name for our Galaxy. And that is also how we got the story of the Cow, Hathor, who jumps over the Moon occasionally (when it is in the right spot).

NEW THIS WEEK: After finding the Milky Way and the Cow (Hathor), look towards the East and find the reddest, brightest object in the sky. It is already bright enough it could be easily mistaken for a jetliner or an UFO. It is now approaching the Eastern shore of the Milky Way (which the Egyptians thought of as the heavenly counterpart of the Nile), or the midsection of Nun, depending upon how you want to think about it. It is such a distinctive event, though Mars is rarely quite so bright, I’ll bet the Egyptians had a myth to describe this celestial event, which would have happened often enough for this long-lived civilization of astronomers to have seen it many times.

As time progresses into August, Mars will be seen to rise earlier and earlier in the evening. On August 27, it will rise bright as a jetliner just as the Sun sets in the West. Unfortunately, I expect a lot of chaos in the atmosphere from large ionic influxes from the Sun, lots of storms and clouds, so I fear a great many of us will not be able to see the spectacle.

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Sunspots climbed to 137 on July 10 three days early as is typical for the Mercury | Jupiter alignment on July 13. The count fell to 108 on July 12 and then climbed again to 160 on June 14 for the Mercury | Neptune alignment, (some five days early). The count then fell to 155 yesterday, July 15 while the solar flux was headed lazily downward to 125.

SUNSPOT COUNTS AND ACTIVITY WERE HIGHER THAN PROJECTED LAST WEEK, AS IS EVERYTHING ELSE ABOUT THIS CRAZY TWILIGHT ZONE YEAR OF STRANGENESS.

Sunspot counts should plunge "lower" until about July 26,when they should form up another 100 plus peak for the Earth | Neptune alignment on August 1. Given the performance of the last week, I do not expect a low plunge. God only knows but I think we are even now merging the Earth’s magnetic atmosphere with Mars and I think the counts will not get much lower than a 100 most of the time for the next month..

All bets are off. There are a lot of close connections and several alignments during August. August should be an even bigger rockem and sockem solar month than July.

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. (These numbers are reported by Jan Alvestad).

AS REPORTED LAST WEEK: 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)

There is not a good explanation for this huge up-surge in solar activity, THOUGH TAKE NOTE THAT IT IS NOT UNUSUAL FOR THE DOWNWARD SLOPE IN THE SUNSPOT CYCLE TO BE FULL OF SURPRISES LIKE THIS. Practically all sunspot cycles have one or more major surprises. JULY NUMBERS PROBABLY ARE GOING TO BE EVEN HIGHER AND AUGUST NUMBERS MAY CLIMB AGAIN EVEN MORE.

NASA PREDICTS: "AURORA WATCH: A moderate geomagnetic storm began this morning when Earth ran into a high-speed solar wind stream; it has since subsided. Today's storm was not as intense as the one on July 11th and 12th that sparked Northern Lights as far south as Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Idaho, Montana, and Michigan."

Jan Alvestad reports: "The geomagnetic field was unsettled to minor storm on July 15. Solar wind speed ranged between 548 and 612 km/sec. The solar wind disturbance which was observed beginning at ACE at 21:50 UTC on July 14 intensified early on June 15. Its most likely source is a filament eruption and an associated CME observed on July 11. A high speed stream from coronal hole CH48 arrived at approximately 19h UTC on June 15 at ACE."

IN OTHER WORDS: this probably explains the huge disturbances which were recorded in the Fluxgate Monitor - a big explosion on the surface of the sun sent a section of a huge "prominence" at the Earth.

EARTH WEATHER PREDICTION FOR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS:

STRANGE, EXTREME, CHAOTIC, UNPREDICTABLE WEATHER PATTERNS EVERYWHERE.

The Earth’s atmosphere is HUGELY OVERBURDENED WITH ENERGY, DUST, WATER VAPOR, AND IONIC INFLUX.

So far all weather predictions have been fairly well confirmed. The normal monsoon is not forming up and it may never quite appear though it may "threaten" to appear or actually give us a brief overnight fling once and a while.

Everything will be experienced as "off" kilter.

The Mercury | Neptune alignment on July 19 should keep the weather manifesting random extremes in unpredictable places from about July 25^th through to the first week of August, when the another round of alignments will take up the slack and continue to drive high sunspot numbers which will drive the atmosphere at times into exceptional frenzy all the way through to about the middle of September.

Doubtless, weather extremes during August will be no slouch. On August 1 an Earth | Neptune alignment will form up and again on August 18 a double header alignment will form between Earth | Mars | Neptune on one head and Venus | Jupiter on the other head.

Since the speeds of Mars and Earth will be very similar, their alignment will be very close most of the month, tending to keep sunspots counts high. 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.

ALL BETS ARE OFF AND WE PROBABLY DO NOT GET A KINDER GENTLER SUMMER THIS YEAR, AS I EAGERLY PREDICTED EARLY THIS YEAR. THE DROUGHTS ARE LOCKED IN AND FORGET ANYTHING CLOSELY RESEMBLING A REAL MONSOON SEASON. IN THE MIDDLE LATITUDE AREAS AND FURTHER NORTH, FLOODS MAY OCCUR WITHIN SEVEN DAYS AFTER ANY OF THE PLANETARY ALIGNMENTS THIS SUMMER

AND, SORRY

LATE AUGUST IS GONNA BE A DOOZY COMPARED TO THE HUGE FLOODS WE HAVE SEEN IN CHINA THIS JULY. THAT WAS JUST THE TAME STUFF.

HELLO DROUGHT & HEAT CONDITIONS IN THE USUAL PLACES

FLOODS IN MID AND HIGH LATITUDES

CLOSE TO NO MONSOON AT ALL IN THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST

Drought conditions are not likely to disappear until October or November of this year.

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.

EUROPE CONDITIONS

From: "Elaine Phipps-Earl" <lizral@ozemail.com.au>

Subject: Much of Europe Blisters Under Heat Wave

Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:50:41 +1000

Much of Europe Blisters Under Heat Wave

By JAMEY KEATEN

Associated Press Writer

PARIS (AP)--Rome is considering water rations. London will reward anyone who

can invent an air conditioning system for the sweltering Tube. In Paris, the

city's fountains have become wading pools.

Summertime has arrived with a vengeance in parts of Europe, forcing

dehydrated tourists to run for cover as officials from England to Romania scramble to

limit the damage from drought and heat.

In Paris, where the mercury rose to 93 degrees Tuesday, water vendors were

out in force, ice cream parlors did brisk business and weary tourists took

refuge just about every place they could.

Many people, like American visitor Amanda Movahhed, sought to beat the heat

by dipping their feet into a fountain outside the Louvre Museum.

``L.A.'s hot--but never uncomfortable like this,'' said Movahhed, a recent

graduate from the University of California at Los Angeles. ``It's kinda tough on

us tourists.''

Heat was also a factor in the Tour de France bicycle race.

``It's definitely the hottest Tour that most of us can remember,'' said the

leader, Lance Armstrong. ``We've always had hot days but never so many in a

row.''

The higher temperatures had a silver lining for some parts of Europe. Places

like England, Berlin and some Baltic countries were basking in uncommonly

balmy conditions more reminiscent of summer in the Mediterranean.

The Belgian daily De Morgen ran a front-page photo Tuesday of a man in a

bathing suit sunning himself in the town of Oostende under the headline: ``Belgium

is becoming a tropical paradise.''

A cooling-off period was forecast for some places.

Thunderstorms swept across western France late Tuesday, causing at least one

death and an unknown number of injuries, fire officials said. Southwest

England was to have heavy rains Wednesday.

But scorching temperatures in Italy prompted authorities Tuesday to discuss

whether to declare a state of emergency in the country's north because of a

weekslong drought.

Rome officials spoke about rationing water in dozens of the capital's

districts, and Italian newspapers warned that fruit and vegetable prices could rise

by 30 percent because output from parched fields was shrinking.

Italy suffered power blackouts late last month when citizens overloaded the

system during a heat wave. Big power plants on the River Po--at its lowest

level in decades--lack the water needed to cool their turbines.

Meteorologists in Italy predicted the searing temperatures and lack of rain

in the country's battered north would continue into August. Some experts blamed

global warming.

Levels in some of Europe's leading rivers were dropping. German officials

said the Rhine was at five-year lows, and ships along the Danube faced the risk

of running aground in Romania.

Authorities in Romania were digging deeper channels in the Danube to prevent

ships from getting stuck, and ordered shipping companies to reduce their loads

on one of eastern Europe's top commercial arteries.

The economic fallout was poised to hit agriculture too.

In Austria, farming groups warned that drought is likely to cut this summer's

harvest of various crops--such as grains, peas and corn--in many places down

to about 60 percent of normal levels.

At least four brush fires broke out on Corsica on Tuesday, prompting

firefighters to fan out across the French Mediterranean island to battle the blazes.

On one of the city's hottest days of the year, London Mayor Ken Livingstone

on Tuesday offered a $161,000 reward to anyone who can invent an

air-conditioning system for the London Underground's deepest lines.

In the French capital, some commuters said Paris officials could take a

lesson from their neighbor across the Channel.

``It's high time they put air conditioning in the Paris Metro,'' said

Parisian Joelle Abalea, 33, as she entered the subway station at Place de la

Concorde. ``It's so hot in here that for short trips, I'd rather walk in the sun than

take the subway.''

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Copyright 2003, The Associated Press.

SOUTHWEST CONDITIONS: EXTREMELY BAD

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In the foothills to the Mogollon Rim, just to the North of Phoenix, we are already into the end of first week of the Monsoon Season. All it did was get hotter than Hades running 110 to 115 everyday on the valley floor and 105 on top of the Rim (which is really hot for 6000 foot elevation).

Yesterday a hazy cloud cover moved in and the humidity rose to very high levels. The wind has picked up and blowing it now in at a thicker hazy condition than I have ever seen. It looks "foggy" in the desert at 110 degrees, boiling us in the humidity. NO THUNDERHEAD IN SIGHT, THOUGH MEXICO AND TUCSON GOT RAIN, so far the PSW is dry as a bone.

I SUSPECT THAT ALL OF THIS MOISTURE CONTENT IS HEADED FOR THE ROCKIES AND OVER INTO NEBRASKA, DAKOTAS, INDIANA, AND SIMILAR. LIKE LAST YEAR, WE MAY NOT GET HARDLY ANY OF IT.

The fire danger is radical, like last summer, and basically, like last summer, several fires are now burning in Arizona out of control. We are completely at the whim of the forces of nature. Total damage is beginning to approach about 10% of last year’s.

Here is a personal witness about the White Mountain Fire note from Inspirit

(P.S. Few outside the region understand or know but the White Mountain area, mostly Apache reservation, is the environmental "jewel" of the Southwest, featuring both tall mountains and huge expanse of forested lands. The drought which has devastated such a large expanse of acreage along the Mogollon Rim has so far not brought down these forests, but it looks like the fires are going to get some of it)

From: "inspirit" <inlighthardman@cybertrails.com>

10,000 acre fire and getting larger by the hour, burning again..........On

the White Mountain Apache Reservation. Today I woke up to smoke and haze

and the smell of fire. This fire is between 60 to 70 miles from Snowflake

and the wind is doing a good job of blowing all this way. There is another

fire reported 8 miles from this on the west side of hi-way 60. They also

have helicopters on this one and a class 1 fire team called out, and on

there way from Alaska. This fire is about 10 miles from Pinetop/Lakeside

just on North side of the reservation. This fire that started Sunday at 1

500 acres has grown to 10,000 acres at last news report today that I

listened to.

The flames were shooting upwards of 250 ft. Impossible to fight and the

winds have shifted 15 times today. This fire is making it's own weather

with huge plumes and could very well join with the one that started today 8

miles away. Both were started by lightening. Maybe this is why I was

feeling so weird the other day?? Like something ominous afoot. Who knows..

I work on the reservation with 4 children on Wednesdays. No work up on the

res. tomorrow, the whole place has been evacuated already. There are

already 1000 they say by tomorrow firefighters on this fire and that this

fire is taking precedent over any other fires in the west.

It's creepy thinking that tomorrow I should be going there to work with my

children. And the whole place that's familiar is burning to the ground and

headed for Pinetop/Lakeside. It's a scary double of last year and the

Rodeo/Chediski fire. The Apache nation will be utterly devastated. This

will totally take out there one source of income for the tribe. The logging

mill. They are very poor there.

The smell of fire and smoke and the horrible haze is too much, at times

today it scratched my throat and burned my eyes. The locals say this is

nothing compared to last year in this area. Pray for the rains. We will

have no forest left soon if this keeps up. Is this the so called "Hell on

Earth" scenario?

And how strange is it that Hurricane Claudette after being so disorganized

as a hurricane, decided to organize so nicely. Couldn't top winds of 50

miles an hour out in the ocean, and just before landfall decides to organize

and wallop Texas with 80 to 100 mile an hr winds.

WE are firmly set inside the "Earthchanges"

Thinking wet.....snow........even........

MUCH MORE COULD BE SAID. I WILL SEND PORTFOLIO ON ALASKA SEPARATELY. HUGE FORESTS ARE NOW DYING IN ALASKA TO MATCH THE TERRIBLE DIE-OFF ALONG THE MOGOLLON RIM.

For information, go to:

http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/ecbulletins/statusreports.htm#chemtrails

The Full Moon - Perigee Syzygy period this past week provided a highly interesting "planetary tectonic event" – a clear signal of expansion of the Earth, primarily at the Equator.

It is difficult to tell which Tectonic Plate was most active this past week. Activity patterns were widely scattered.

The most quakes for the past week struck right on the Lunar Perigee, on July 10. 23 quakes struck in the range of 2.3 to 5.7. Greece and the Aegean Sea took the brunt with 9 quakes. This activity in the Aegean can be thought of as a continuation of the exceptional movement in the crust at the tip of the Peloponesian Peninsula which has been ongoing for the two preceding weeks. Iran and France also had multiple quakes, with few in the Pacific hemisphere.

Seismic activity switched next day to the Americas and around the Pacific Basin and thereafter was widely scattered throughout the week. Frequency was below syzygy standards, for the most part magnitude was not exceptional, but the pattern of activity was highly significant.

On July 12 a widely felt 6.0 quake struck off the coast of British Columbia and thereafter activity in Alaska picked up and strong activity began in the great spreading rifts which wind around the planet on the bottoms of the oceans.

On July 13, a 4.8 quake struck the Mid Atlantic ridge on what is called the REYKJANES RIDGE in the area South of Greenland. This is likely a repeat of activity which has struck the same ridge zone in previous weeks.

July 14 a 4.7 quake struck the CENTRAL EAST PACIFIC RISE and then six quakes in the range of 4.5 to 5.0 struck the Mid Atlantic rise North of Brazil and East of Venezuela. Even before the last of these struck, a 7.6 quake ruptured the spreading rift July 15 between the Africa Tectonic Plate and the Indian Ocean Bottom Plate, in the middle of the CARLSBERG RIDGE far out to sea. Seven more stuck in the same location during the past 36 hours in the range of 4.4 to 5.6 in magnitude.

Yesterday a 6.5 quake struck north of Papua New Guinea, where a few other quakes have stuck during the past week and prior weeks as well. Unlike the other rift quakes this week, this was a plate collision quake.

WHAT IS HIGHLY UNUSUAL IS THAT BY FAR THE GREATEST ACTIVITY WAS IN THE GREAT SPREADING RIFTS OF THE EARTH AND THE EXPANSION RICOCHETED RIFT ACTIVITY AROUND THE WORLD. IN OTHER WORDS THE 7.6 RIFT QUAKE HERALDED A SIGNIFICANT PLANETARY TECTONIC EVENT.

The two most active zones, the Mid Atlantic Rift off South America and the Mid Indian Ocean Rift, are separated by about 99 degrees. Put that in your sacred geometry pipe and smoke on it for awhile. Let me know what you conclude.

THE WEEK’S MOST SIGNIFICANT QUAKES

Magnitude 6.0 QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS REGION

2003 July 12 23:01:38 UTC

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

Preliminary Earthquake Report

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

Magnitude 6.0

Date-Time Saturday, July 12, 2003 at 23:01:38 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time

Saturday, July 12, 2003 at 04:01:38 PM local time at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 54.88N 134.32W

Depth 10.0 kilometers

Region QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS REGION

Reference 100 km (60 miles) SW of Craig, Alaska

180 km (110 miles) WSW of Ketchikan, Alaska

380 km (235 miles) S of JUNEAU, Alaska

990 km (620 miles) NW of Vancouver, BC, Canada

Magnitude 7.6 CARLSBERG RIDGE

2003 July 15 20:27:50 UTC

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

Preliminary Earthquake Report

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

Magnitude 7.6

Date-Time Tuesday, July 15, 2003 at 20:27:50 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time

Wednesday, July 16, 2003 at 01:27:50 AM local time at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 2.56S 68.30E

Depth 10.0 kilometers

Region CARLSBERG RIDGE

Reference 635 km (395 miles) NW of Diego Garcia, Chagos Archipelago

945 km (580 miles) SW of MALE, Maldives

1650 km (1030 miles) SW of COLOMBO, Sri Lanka

This earthquake occurred on the Carlsberg Ridge, a mid-ocean ridge system that is located in the Arabian sea between India and Northern Africa. The ridge marks the boundary between the Indian and African plates and near the epicenter the Indian plate is moving away from the African Plate at a rate of 33 mm/yr in a northeasterly direction. The Carlsberg Ridge is a slow-spreading ridge with rough topography and a depth that varies from 1700-4400 meters.

Mid-ocean ridges are divergent plate boundaries, where two tectonic plates move apart from each other. New oceanic crust is formed as magma rises up between the two diverging plates. Active spreading ridges are offset by zones known as transform faults, where plates slide horizontally past each other neither destroying or forming crust. This gives the plate boundary a zig-zag pattern. Ocean ridges represent the longest, linear uplifted features of the earth's surface and are marked by a belt of shallow earthquakes. Earthquakes can be caused by the release of tensional stress in the uplifted ridge or by the horizontal movement of plates along the transform faults.

2003 July 15 17:50:00 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

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

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

Magnitude 5.0

Date-Time Tuesday, July 15, 2003 at 17:50:00 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time

Tuesday, July 15, 2003 at 03:50:00 PM local time at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 3.03N 31.30W

Depth 10.0 kilometers

Region CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE

Reference 1065 km (660 miles) NNE of Natal, Brazil

1095 km (680 miles) NE of Fortaleza, Brazil

1980 km (1230 miles) ENE of Belem, Brazil

2760 km (1720 miles) NE of BRASILIA, Brazil

Overall North American activity was in the groove of the Syzygy Window Principle. Since we were in a window most of the time last week, quake activity should have been up during the past seven days. The USGS charts (such charts show all quakes 1.0 and above) for the U.S. and Alaska show 323 quakes for the past seven days (up from last week’s 303) with the USGS chart for California/Nevada showing 250 quakes in California/Nevada during the past seven days (up from last week’s 222)

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

The trends for Western North America were mostly in the syzygy groove.

The USGS Chart for the Pacific Northwest reveals 47 quakes (two week sum, same as 47 last week) widely scattered throughout mostly Washington State. Hood was quiescent and the USGS chart for Long Valley Cauldera (Area) showed a running total of 19 (up from 16 last week). The Rocky Mountain Cordillera had 28 quakes scattered throughout Utah (up from 20 from last week).

John Seach: "Montserrat's governor declared the Caribbean island a disaster zone Tuesday, days after a volcanic eruption spewed clouds of rock and ash. Workers used bulldozers Tuesday to clear roads caked with ash that had hardened to a cement-like state following rains. Residents used shovels and pickaxes to clear their stairs and roofs. Volcanic flows of superheated debris and rock rolled about 3 miles down the side of the Soufriere Hills volcano. Heavy ash collapsed several buildings in the area of northwestern Salem. The ash was so heavy it broke off tree branches and smothered birds. Minor explosions continued to rumble from the depths of the volcano through Monday, but not enough to cause major ash fallout. There were no reports of serious injury. But Montserrat medical officials have asked international donors for 50,000 dust masks in an effort to prevent respiratory problems among islanders and workers clearing ash."

El Popo continues to spritz mildly with a 24 puff day. Centrapred reports for July 9 (16:00 GMT) that "In the last 24 hours the monitoring system of Popocatepétl volcano recorded 24 low intensity exhalations, mainly accompanied by steam and gas. Also yesterday at 18:55 (local) there was an explosion that generated an ash column of 3 km directed to the Nortwest (see image). Due to the clouds it was not possible to observe the presence of incandescent fragments. Some reports of ashfall in Amecameca and Huehuecalco were received. After the event the activity returned to its previous levels. The other monitored parameters remain without important changes. This morning it was possible to observe the volcano with a steam emision. At the moment of this report we can not observe the volcano due to the clouds."

No change this week

DOWN – and predictions down too – WATCH THE AUGUST BLOWOUT

dollar is up again slightly

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JOB WATCH

Oh, its grim, unless you are being stimulated in China by the giant sucking sound in the American economy which is bleeding jobs into China at a faster and faster rate. I will send a separate set of Bulletins on this situation

AS REPORTED LAST WEEK: The job situation was bleak and just got bleaker. Unemployment at the end of June stood at a ten year high of 6.4%. The Imperial Faction has just wiped out ALL the gains of the Clinton Feelgood Years. The job situation 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 or for $7.00 at Wallie World.

HEALTH WATCH

– No new status-changing alerts

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.

AS PREVIOUSLY WARNED: WATCH 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.

VERY LITTLE CHANGE as of July 16, 2003

We are in the dog days, more or less, high summer where everything muddles in the muddle its in without much change. This will continue into August and then I suspect that a new round of terrorist activities will stir up a roiling boiling pot of violence and confusion.

Expect this is August.

As SHOULD be seen, the Al Qaeda operations manual is successfully guiding a long range strategy which has succeeded to the point of seeing Bush destroy one of its chief enemies in the Middle East (Saddam) while stimulating the Americans to vastly over-extend themselves into a guerillable swamp (Iraq and Palestine).

WHAT OSAMA BIN LADEN COULD NOT FORESEE IS HOW INCREDIBLY LUCKY HE WOULD BE IN THIS PHASE OF THE STRUGGLE WITH COMING UP AGAINST SUCH AN INCOMPETENT FOE, THE HAIR-BLOWN SUBURBAN IMPERIAL FACTION WHICH HAS SEIZED CONTROL OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. As the terror network encircles and randomly kills Americans, NOW ON A DAILY CASUALTY BASIS, the Bush administration is publicly choking on the lies and scams it used to rationalize going into Iraq to settle some old scores with Sadam, who is more or less mainly a disloyal CIA stooge who told Bush & Co. (Our Thing Inc.) to f**k himself after BUSH SENIOR, RUMSFIELD, CHENEY and other others sold him weapons of mass destruction.

A huge political opposition is forming composed of people who finally cannot stand the profound historical absurdity of all this and the lying ways of America’s Jingoes who have had control, more or less, of the military industrial and foreign policy apparatus of the U.S. since the rogue CIA-Mafioso assassination of JFK. What should have been settled by the Vietnam Defeat, but was not, is now finally coming home to roost. It is finally going to be settled, though it may take several more years of embittering political struggles. It took the grossly inept lies, scams, and threadbare manipulations of Bush, Blair, Rumsfield, Rice, and their right wing think tank buddies to blow off the cover and allow large numbers of people to see through the veils of political obscurantism to observe just how corruptly rotten and venally inept it REALLY really is in Washington DC.

MEANWHILE, IN WASHINGTON DC POWER CIRCLES, they are trying to circle all the wagons. Even the critical democrats continue to cater to the supra-elitism which believes it has a monopoly of American sheeple. They are trying to find out everything behind closed doors in secret meetings. Since there is not a single enemy which can possibly benefit by secret meetings over phony claims, quite obviously the main motivation of secrecy in Washington DC in this time is to protect its careerists from the scrutiny and wrath of the American people.

In this process. Bush is probably a one-term president whom even now the press is beginning to circle with the biggest media shark pack ever assembled. It would appear that we are in about month two of the nine month process it took for the media shark fest to demolish Richard Nixon. The press has at its disposal three pages of itemized lies and distortions which the Bush administration used. The uranium cake is one of the minor items on the list.

The over-riding issue of course is credibility, which we have raised for a year now.

Over the Uranium procurement lie, Tenant of the CIA probably will go soon, but not necessarily because he should go, probably because he is fixing to go anyway. He is one of the saner, more intelligent minds in the drama and he was not responsible for the use of the bogus claims. He is not a Bushie, he was appointed by Clinton. He is probably ready to leave and let the political chips fall in whatever miserable ways they do.

Condaleeza Rice will be the next to go sometime this Fall and she should go. She is 50 percent of Bush’s personal problem. She feeds his vanity with faux-academic bullshit and two bit sleazy power manipulation arguments which have no heart and no place to go but push people into greater conflict. She thinks negotiation is arranging the fine points of how to intimidate people. The problem is, her replacement may be worse. The other half of Bush’s problem is Rumsfield and Cheney. They are seasoned political warriors and they will be very hard to neutralize.

In the bottom line, these people are crackpots. They think that America is the greatest nation in the world, whatever that means, and because they came into control of it with their gee whiz professional skills and family connections, not to mention huge mountains of money, they can’t possibly fail because Americans never do, right Poppy? Why it’s a calm sea and this is the largest most unsinkable ship of state which has ever sailed through history? Right Poppy?

Yeah right. My friends, these people are on the bridge of the U.S.S. Titanic issuing full speed ahead commands…and we are on the bottom decks.

AS STATED LAST WEEK:

As things stand, the Vietnam analogy should be operative in your mind. Things are sinking into a protracted international guerilla war stretching across millions of square miles. Remember, like Ho Chi Minh, Osama and Saddam do not have to defeat the U.S. militarily to win this war. They need to bankrupt our confidence and fatigue our wallets to the point where we simply quit.

This points clearly to American incompetence in dealing with foreign social systems and real enemies. For all of the technical virtuosity at their command, American leaders are weirdly inadequate to the challenge of real leadership.

YOU HAVE TO HAVE A SOCIAL POLICY WHICH ENGAGES PEOPLE AND LEADS THEM TO SOLUTIONS FOR THEIR LIVES. For this you need to dare to have vision. That’s leadership.

I believe it was Boss Tweed, a real American politician of the 19^th century who ran a first class political machine which won every election for a generation, who once remarked about the real secret to all politics. (If it wasn’t him who made this comment it was one of the other political machine managers). You make real loyal citizens, he observed, when you hire people off the street and make sure they have enough money to take care of their families. They will go anything for you, including voting as many times as you need. Boss Tweed’s political machine was essentially an urban employment agency of last resort.

What needs to be done in Iraq immediately is to commission a civic work force of about 1 million Iraqis who are paid relatively high wages (for that area of the world) with the promise to commission another one million during the next two years. Then you sit them down and begin to sort out who is going to do what, including how to monitor every road and intersection in the country to get rid of the Baathist guerillas. There is no rocket science here, in six months time you would have such a ripple of prosperity flowing through Iraq that even the Baathists would dump Saddam. But as things stand, the only entrepreneurial opportunity for the man on the street in Baghdad are Saddam’s rewards for sniping Americans.

THAT’S WHY SADDAM’S POWER PERSISTS.

Ditto Afghanistan.