News in General

Effects Will Include:
Increased corruption and belligerence from Establishment
Increased illegality: corporate and white-collar crime
Increased infringement of privacy
Worsening respect for boundaries: Excessive voyeurism, greed, avarice, and debauchery
Increased energy-vampirism from toxic people in our midst
Emotional outbursts and erratic unpredictable behavior
Emotional depression, rising anxiety, and paranoia
Mental breakdown due to stress and substance abuses
Physical ailments (particularly affecting digestion, alimentary system,
liver, colon, genitals, ovaries, and reproductive ganglia)
Flagrant abuse of good will
Increased masochism and sadism
Retaliation against the character and counsel of the good
Aberrations in nature (drought, cold, heat waves, catastrophes, fauna death)
Changes in Hartmann Waves, Schumann Frequency, Ultra Violet Light,
Axial Wobble, Light from Sun, etc,
Pollution and Water Contamination
Apparently Freak Accidents

Pluto enters the sign of Capricorn in mid-October 08. This begins a cycle of 13 years.
The first phase (of 4 years) counts us down to 2012. From the outset of this cycle the affects of Pluto will be felt
dramatically. Pluto's energy will be dominant in both social and private spheres of activity.

It takes Pluto 250 years to make a full circuit of the Zodiac. This means that the "cusp"
can be at least 10 years long. The effects of Pluto have been felt more and more in
the last 10 to 15 years. And this explains a great deal to those who have the sensitivity
to perceive those effects.

Tarot Arcanum 13 is the Plutonic card. Study it and ask yourself why Death rides
over the corpses of a king and a pope (the representatives of Saturn).

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings
of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree
we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than
psychic epidemics. At any moment several millions of human beings may
be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world
war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts,
earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by
the elemental forces of his own psyche - Carl Gustav Jung (Swiss Psychologist)

Till now man has been up against nature. From now on he is
up against his own nature - Denis Gabor

• Emotional outbursts and erratic unpredictable behavior

(CHICAGO) - It's been said that Mankind will destroy itself. Unfortunately, during the past 100 years the human race has worked hard to make this prediction come true. Nuclear arsenals can destroy Mankind many times over. Alien biological weapons exist that can annihilate all humanity. Toxins are available that are so deadly a few drops in a city's water supply can kill millions.

Yet another weapons technology has been under development for some decades. Scalar technology—invented by the genius Nikola Tesla early in the 20th Century—has the potential to turn the environment itself into a weapon and tune its deadly properties into a merciless, near instantaneous killer.

That advanced technology may have just been tested in Arkansas and Louisiana.

A group of more than 100 scientists and experts say in a new report that California faces the risk of a massive "superstorm" that could flood a quarter of the state's homes and cause $300 billion to $400 billion in damage. Researchers point out that the potential scale of destruction in this storm scenario is four or five times the amount of damage that could be wrought by a major earthquake.

It sounds like the plot of an apocalyptic action movie, but scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey warned federal and state emergency officials that California's geological history shows such "superstorms" have happened in the past, and should be added to the long list of natural disasters to worry about in the Golden State.
The threat of a cataclysmic California storm has been dormant for the past 150 years. Geological Survey director Marcia K. McNutt told the New York Times that a 300-mile stretch of the Central Valley was inundated from 1861-62. The floods were so bad that the state capital had to be moved to San Francisco, and Governor Leland Stanford had to take a rowboat to his own inauguration, the report notes. Even larger storms happened in past centuries, over the dates 212, 440, 603, 1029, 1418, and 1605, according to geological evidence.

The risk is gathering momentum now, scientists say, due to rising temperatures in the atmosphere, which has generally made weather patterns more volatile.
The scientists built a model that showed a storm could last for more than 40 days and dump 10 feet of water on the state. The storm would be goaded on by an "atmospheric river" that would move water "at the same rate as 50 Mississippis discharging water into the Gulf of Mexico," according to the AP. Winds could reach 125 miles per hour, and landslides could compound the damage, the report notes.

Such a superstorm is hypothetical but not improbable, climate researchers warn. "We think this event happens once every 100 or 200 years or so, which puts it in the same category as our big San Andreas earthquakes," Geological Survey scientist Lucy Jones said in a press release.

Federal and state emergency management officials convened a conference about emergency preparations for possible superstorms last week. You can read the whole report here.
(A 2005 California storm: AP)

Emotional outbursts and erratic unpredictable behavior

But right now at this moment I can just think positive thoughts.

COLUMBIA, Mo. – A monster winter storm took aim at a third of the nation Monday, threatening to lay a potentially deadly path of heavy snow and ice from the Rockies to New England, followed by a wave of bitter, bone-rattling cold that could affect tens of millions of people.
Cities including St. Louis, Kansas City and Milwaukee could be hardest hit, with expected midweek snowfalls of up to 2 feet and drifts piled 5 to 10 feet. Even hardy Chicago could be in for its third-worst blizzard since record-keeping began.

"I wouldn't want to be on the road in open areas tomorrow night," said forecaster Tom Skilling of Chicago television station WGN. "I don't think I'd want to be driving in the city either. The fact is people die in these things. They skid off the road and go wandering around in whiteout conditions."
Warmer areas were not safe, either. The system could spawn tornadoes in parts of the South.
While record snowfalls have pounded the Northeast in one of that region's most brutal winters, the Midwest has been comparatively unscathed, until now.

At Edele and Mertz Hardware just a few blocks from the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, customers lined up by 7 a.m. Monday waiting for the store to open. Snow shovels, ice melt and salt were all big sellers.

"`Freaking out' is a great way of putting it," employee Steve Edele said. "The icing — that's what scares people."
As the first flakes fell, transportation officials readied street-clearing equipment, and some airlines encouraged travelers to rebook trips leaving from Chicago. Airlines canceled thousands of flights ahead of the snow, and legislatures in several states decided to shut down altogether Tuesday or cancel committee meetings.

The National Weather Service suggested any Green Bay Packers fans planning to drive from Wisconsin to Dallas for the Super Bowl avoid leaving before Wednesday afternoon, when authorities hope to have cleaned up the worst of the mess along the route.

A blizzard watch was in effect for Tuesday and Wednesday for southern Wisconsin, northern Illinois and northwest Indiana. Winds could reach up to 60 mph in open areas and near Lake Michigan.
In St. Louis and much of Missouri, residents braced for a particularly hazardous mix: up to an inch of ice, followed by 3 to 4 inches of sleet, then perhaps a half-foot of snow or more. To the west in Columbia, Mo., forecasters predicted between 12 inches and 16 inches of snow, prompting the University of Missouri to cancel classes through Tuesday night.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency and activated 600 members of the National Guard.
In Chicago, forecasters predicted 20 inches of snow. If that holds true, it would be the city's third-biggest snowstorm, overshadowed only by the 21.6 inches in 1999 and the mother of all Chicago snowstorms, the 23 inches of snow that fell in 1967.

Forty-three winter storms have produced 10 inches or more in Chicago since record-keeping began in 1886.
Paula Lawson, a 59-year-old community organizer from suburban Glencoe, said she remembered the big storm in 1967, which "really did stop the world for days."
Will the latest storm do the same?

"If we get 20 inches, maybe," Lawson said at a downtown rail station. "But around here, 12 inches, it doesn't stop us."

Even when the snow stops falling, the temperature will keep dropping.

ROME (AFP) – Archaeologists have unearthed a set of six marble sculptures in Rome that likely belonged to a high-ranking official of the Roman Empire, Italy's culture ministry said Wednesday.

Led by Roberto Egidi, the group of archaeologists dug up five marble heads representing members of the Severan imperial dynasty as well as a statue of the Greek god Zeus while excavating a public site.

"It may be that the last owner of the villa was a high-ranking official related to the dynasty" of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, the statement said.