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Who is Mabus, the Third and Final Antichrist for seen by Nostradamus?

Friends,
Discovery premiered their Nostradamus Decoded tonight. Fabulous production quality and for the first hour they tried their best to be fair and balanced between skeptical and sympathetic views of Nostradamus until the temptation was too great. They dug up a fellow who was an expert on 16th-century French but had no knowledge whatsoever of mystical or occult knowledge from the same century. They also dug up James Randi to rant his usually unchallenged lapses of research. I tried four times in the last 20 years to corner him in a foursquare debate on television; wherein every statement he made could be challenged. He always escaped.

Don’t get me wrong, I generally liked the show and it was rich in good material from both sides. Bravo Discovery Channel for coming a long way forward from that disaster of a documentary called Nostradamus: A Skeptical Inquiry. Its more deserving descendant, Nostradamus Decoded, went a lot farther to allow skeptics to be challenged. I am grateful for that. However, Discovery Channel still seems to have a front office policy of being pre-wired biased in favor of any skeptical view, and still lets a lot of these lazy and undisciplined skeptics, like Randi, go unchallenged.

Hope in me springs eternal that Discovery will advance the path of science (which means to know) by allowing me in future documentaries they may plan on prophecy to answer every challenge, so that you, the television viewer, can be served best to decide for yourself whether the Randis or the Hogues in this Nostradamus debate have best presented their arguments.

I will give you, my readers, the responses to challenges made on this show as soon as I can in a few weeks. I would like to do it now, however I am very busy in the next few weeks finishing the final edit of Predictions for 2010. Today the rough draft was finished, appropriately on All Soul’s Day because the future of 2010 will shake souls — not only shake them for worse.

What I can present for you tonight is a blog article composed in March that covers my take on one of the main themes of Nostradamus Decoded:

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I have been on the trail of decoding Nostradamus anagram for his Third and Final Antichrist perhaps longer than most Nostradamian scholars. I began in 1982, over a quarter-century ago. I waited this long before releasing my findings about MABUS the Antichrist because I felt the times for the actual emergence of the one Nostradamus calls his last Antichrist where not nigh unto now

The book covers just about every possible angle I have discovered on my own or collected from fellow divination detectives on the case. There are few stones left unturned, yet on rare occasions someone comes up with something interesting like the reader named “Sultan” did the other day. Another reader we’ll cal “J” presents a view often entertained by readers that Mabus isn’t a name, it’s an acronym.

J
I downloaded your book yesterday and didn’t stop reading until I was done. Excellent and informative.

HOGUE
Thank you J, for reading it.

J
I wanted to comment on your opinion on Mabus. I agree and expanding on your theory. [Try this interpretation:] Mabus May Be Us (or) May Be U.S. – both of which would apply.

HOGUE
The only problem with that theory is that it assumes Nostradamus hid English phrases in his prophecies. After over 30 years study of his unique mangling of the French language, I have not seen anything convincing enough to conclude that Nostradamus used codes for English acronyms. Still, enough readers over the years come to me with these creative attempts which makes me think it is time to write a blog article about my views on the matter, so thanks for your inspiration, J.

J
Seeing as how Mabus applies to so many world leaders and figures couldn’t it also say we are in the time of Mabus?

HOGUE
I think Nostradamus is saying that indirectly with his many hints about the time, astrology, common names fitting Mabus. I don’t think he said this directly in a nudge of an English phrase in code, though.

J
Doesn’t the bible state we will see the Anti Christ everywhere around the world?

HOGUE
In a way, my ending to the book tried to answer in the affirmative that question, and offer the readers a fresh look at just what the Antichrist might be, beyond personifications.

But back to your acronym theory. Hundreds of readers have supplied me with plays on MABUS meaning Ma Bush, for the former president’s mother, or adding the missing y say it is an acronym for May B us. Alternatively, May B U-nited S-tates. There are those of you who think it stands for a blending of G.W. Bush and Obama. It is true that a more traditional use of anagram rules from the 16th century will get you Mabus out of G.W. Bush. Just turn the G.W. to lower case g.w. Switch them around: w.g. Turn them upside down to get m.a. Bush, then drop the redundant h, and voilà! Mabus.

You can also get Obama from Mabus. The correct phonetics is oobama or ubama. You mix it to spell Maabu, cut the redundant a with an s replacement — et voilà, nous retroverons Mabus!

Now then, pardon my French, folks, but in no way have I found any acronyms for English phrases in Nostradamus. You have to look for French possibilities, and to a lesser extent phrases or names hidden in ancient French-related languages of Ossitan, Gallot, Provençal, or find an acronym you can hide phonetically in Roman letters for Greek, Hebrew, Arabic or print outright in Latin. Nostradamus blended these languages into his prophecies in Old French.

John Hogue

(01 November 2009)

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Taliban fighters dragging away their dead.

Friends,
A word about current events first before I share with you further reader-to-hogue dialogues about meditation as a remedy for a predictable slavery in tomorrow’s blog:

The first and most current event is the new and imporved HogueProphecy.com. We have merged the blog page with the home page. It has taken me some time to load up and format 23 articles from the older system. My web master should update the correct dates referencing these soon.

Yesterday (07 October, 2009) marks what may be a fateful date in the future of America and President Obama.

On this eighth year anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan to hunt down and destroy al-Qaeda, President Obama stands on the brink of his ship of state ready to fall overboard passing under the spell of the Lorelei siren’s call that had killed empires. If I may be forgiven for mixing my metaphors. He stands ready to answer or moderate the Pentagon’s call to deepen US involvement with up to an additional 40,000 US forces and billions in treasure thrown down the dusty and rocky sinkhole that is Afghanistan. It was an abyss that the British Empire could not conquer before it faded away with all the pomp and ceremony of a whimper by the mid-20th century. A ten-year occupation of Afghanistan was the final straw that broke the Bactrian Camel’s back of the Soviet Empire by the 1980s end.

The US Empire was a few days away from its eighth anniversary mucking with the sons of the same mujahadeen the Soviets failed to defeat in ten years when last week a Pentagon request for a major reinforcement was officially passed onto Obama’s White House desk. He had more pressing matters. He boarded Air Force One for Copenhagen to join the first lady of the White House, Michelle Obama, and the first lady of television, Oprah Winfrey, to talk up or trash talk out anybody else’s but Chicago’s bid for the Olympics. I was too busy upgrading the web site that day to write a blog about it, but my intimates are witness to the following prediciton. When it was reported that Obama’s women (wife-counselor Michelle and media king maker Oprah) had let it be known to the press, rather playfully of course, that they had come to “kick butt” for Chicago, I turned to my friends and said, “Well, Chicago just lost the Olympics to Rio.”

Paris lost its bid for the 2012 Olympics several years ago to London when at a state dinner in Paris then French President Chirac quipped to International Olympic Committee guests that food for a London Olympics would be terrible because we all know the stereotype that the British are terrible cooks. (I guess he hasn’t eaten in London for a few decades. The bland Brits of London have long ago gone gourmet international. I know first fork hand and taste bud when I passed through there in 1994 and 1998.)

The Obama vanguard moved from one hole to the exhaust pipes — from mouthing about food to the Chicago Bear Dick Butkus “butt kick.” It was no wonder to me that chance vulgarity cast to the press and received by the culturally sensitive members of the IOC would flush Chicago’s bid down the place where butts go faster than you could yell, “Yorkshire pudding after kidney pie with peas!”

So it goes, Rio de Janeiro got the Olympics for 2016. The Chicago bid was the first Butkus bumped and the President’s sports dream about change he at least believed in fell splat on the floor like a second-city deep-dish pizza.

However, I digress like the president did with his grandiose and Olympic sized distraction from his duties. He came back to his real job with the new week. He marked the eighth year since the opportunity to win the Afghanistan conflict was missed by the previous administration with secret meetings. He gathered the pent-up pundits of military Pentagon policy and the defenders of the military industrial complex seeking reasons and public funds to keep the war business alive for years to come in Afghanistan. They must have given Obama’s bargainer’s arm quite a twist to make years more war with the Taliban and build a tribal patchwork called Afghanistan into a nation as his best “new” strategy for a very long and expensive time.

What is lost by Obama and the Pentagon brass is the strategic context. It has been lost since the Battle of Tora Bora back in December 2001.

The strategic and moral REASON why US troops were supposed to be fighting and dying in Afghanistan?

Destroy al-Qaeda, not baby-sit Taliban tyrannized Afghanistan. Surround and destroy Usama bin Laden and the core of his terrorist organization al-Qaeda as righteous revenge for al-Qaeda’s attack on the Pentagon and World Trade Center Towers on September 11, 2009, a few short months before. Just such a rapid and biblically apocalyptic end of al-Qaeda’s leadership and elite fighters would have sent a chilling message into the hearts of all other jihadist wannabes: hit the US homeland and feel the bold, swift and terrible US sword. See yourselves banished, scattered and snuffed out in short, detailed order.

The core of al-Qaeda was allowed to escape. Usama bin Laden remains, at the time of this writing, still a key candidate for Nostradamus’ Third and Final Antichrist, who he calls the Arab Prince and hides as well his true name in the anagram Mabus. Back in the summer of 2008, I said the following in Nostradamus and the Antichrist, Code Named: MABUS about what military opportunity was lost at Tora Bora:

“A few months after 9/11, the man code named Prince was pauper, refugee, on the run to the Pakistani border, holed up in a network of caves dug into a mountain in the Hindu Kush called Tora Bora — a place he excavated wherein he successfully stood off ground attacks and aerial bombardment during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. He would escape the US siege, slightly wounded, trekking into Pakistan through a screen of Afghan tribal fighters in the passes he bribed‚Ķ

“Usama bin Laden desires to die a martyr, or soon be annihilated just like Mabus the Third Antichrist. He has achieved a destiny like a first cancer tumor lodged in the body of human civilization. The Americans can invade Afghanistan after 9/11 attacks, gouge out its al-Qaeda tumor, kill a multitude of cancer terrorist cells in the doing but bin Laden’s cancerous dream has metastasized since he escaped US military eradication in the caves of Tora Bora.”

After September 11 attacks, the US did not send units belonging to its Rapid Action Force, such as the 10th Mountain Division, the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions into Afghanistan in two weeks as the Pentagon has bragged for decades its trillion-dollar investment could do, anywhere in the world. One month, then two months passed. Then three. Token US forces were on the ground by the time bin Laden was cornered in his mountain network of caves inside Tora Bora: about 65 US advisors with a few hundred to a thousand Afghani mercenaries. Many of whom were in the employ of al-Qaeda the week before had been marshaled to guard mountain passes into Pakistan! Golly! I wonder why Usama and his jihadists got away?

Prophecy (future history) teaches, as does past history, that windows of opportunity open but briefly. Once they close no redoubling of forces or military might can reopen them. The future historians will tell you what I say now: America lost the war in Afghanistan at the Battle of Tora Bora. If Obama is seduced into thinking by a blast of CEOs-in brass at the Pentagon that he can win what was lost by digging in deeper into that broken chaos of a corruptly ungovernable country, he will fulfill my warning passed for the prophetic record in Predictions for 2009:

“I see in Obama a Kennedy-like obsession about going into Afghanistan and perhaps even Pakistan to hunt down Usama bin Laden. It smacks of Kennedy obsessing about Fidel Castro early in his presidency and echoes Kennedy’s inexperience with handling a CIA propagating its own agenda. JFK listened to bad intelligence and prepared the way to military blunders in the Bay of Pigs (1961) and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962). Both by the way happened when Mars transited the Sign of Cancer and passed exactly over the country’s natal Sun position at 13 degrees Cancer (the number of the original 13 Colonies that represented America). This malefic aspect again and again has been the astrological sign of modern US military blunders and rushes towards strategic missteps.

“Is that sign of blunder coming to test Obama’s first year in office?

“Yes! Mars passes through Cancer from 8/26/09 to 10/17/09.”

We wait to see if Obama will Kennedy or L. B. Johnson himself into his own ill-aspected Mars in Cancer Vietnam. (The Gulf of Tonkin Incident in 1964 under Johnson’s watch, which became grounds for the Vietnam War, happened under the same aspect.) The other recourse is to ignore the rush of war and visualize Obama begin a methodical strategic retreat that will see US involvement in Afghanistan all but end in the next three years.

I am of the oracular mind that Obama will dramatically increase US military involvement for a time much shorter than the Pentagon chiefs want in hopes of dramatically seeking out and destroying al-Qaeda, even though it is no longer strategically significant and could very well be the cause of the collapse of Pakistan as I warned in Predictions for 2009.

John Hogue

(08 October 2009)

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The Tale of Two Nuclear Crises: Past and Future

Friends
History repeats itself with fatal intent in terrorist attacks on Mumbai last week. I fear they are strategically aimed to accomplish what was tried nearly seven years ago but failed only by the grace of a momentary pause of human reflection before pushing the button of nuclear war.

On 13 December 2001, five al-Qaeda backed jihadists from Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad terrorist groups operating from mountain bases in the Pakistani-held part of Kashmir, infiltrated India and stormed it’s parliament building compound in New Delhi. Their goal was a suicide mission to decapitate the Indian government in enfilade of AK-47 bullets and by blasts of suicide body bombs that would enrage India enough to start a nuclear war with Pakistan.

Indian security forces checked their charge at Parliament’s threshold, killing all five terrorists. Five policemen, a Parliament security guard, and a gardener were also killed, and 18 others injured. No parliamentarian was killed, however, the damage was done to tenuous Indo-Pakistani relations. Few in the West who at that time, reeled from 9/11 al-Qaeda terrorist strikes on the US just three months earlier, understood or even cared to understand how far more dangerous were the consequences of this terror attack on India. It was clear to me, at least, having spent much time in and out of South Asia since 1980 that Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad were trying to goad India into a border standoff with Pakistan — both being nuclear powers. Their aim was part of Usama bin Laden’s grand strategy to destabilize the region with an Indo-Pakistani military crisis that might lead to a nuclear war. Millions in Pakistan would be sacrificed for global Jihad. Dozens of millions of non-Muslim Indians would be killed as well. Terrorist organizations in the western Pakistani mountains and in Kashmir, up-wind of the fallout and devastated cities would be free to flourish and metastasize in the post-war chaos.

The attack of five terrorists on Indian Parliament was far more serious than any hijacked jet taking down the World Trade Center or crashing into the Western wall of the Pentagon in Washington DC.

The Indo-Pakistani standoff from December 2001 to June 2002 remains at the time of this writing the most potentially dangerous military crisis of this troubled opening decade of the 21st century. Indeed, it remains the closest humanity came since the Cuban Missile Crisis to suffering a nuclear war. The human masses on both sides worked up to a feverish nationalistic state were keen for it. Vast demonstrations in Indian and Pakistani cities lobbied their legislators hard for a nuclear edged stab at the other irritant. Only the “nay” vote of the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee prevented a nuclear punitive strike during the final weeks of the South Indian dry season. India’s military leadership pushed hard for a decision before the Monsoon rains came. Flooded mountain passes would inhibit a full-scale conventional invasion of Pakistani held parts of Kashmir after Indian jets unloaded the atom bombs and a few dozen Agni missiles bearing nuclear warheads fell on Pakistani cities and military bases. Tempers run hot in the 40-degrees Celsius dog days of June before bracing Monsoonal rains cool passions as well as temperatures.

Dial destiny forward. Here we are again, potentially a few weeks or months from a new terrorist triggered nuclear crisis.

On the night of 26 November 2008, well-armed and well-trained Islamic terrorists based in Pakistan infiltrate and strike several high-profile targets in Mumbai’s financial district. Explosions thudded along the Mazagaon docks where terrorist commandos in zodiac rafts disembarked from the hijacked fishing trawler Kuber. They had seized it in international waters after sailing out of Karachi, Pakistan, 38-hours earlier, in a smaller boat undetected by the Indian Navy. They killed the crew of four and forced the captain to set a course for Mumbai waters. They killed him too, once he brought the Kuber to anchor a few miles off Mumbai’s shoreline.

The terrorist commandos landed and fanned out through the streets. Two cut down Indian police, stealing their rover, launching into a spree of drive-by strafing of crowds in busy downtown Mumbai streets. In the late evening hours of 26 November 2008, gunmen sprayed bullets into stampeding crowds of thousands in the sprawling Shivaji Railway Terminus. The wounded brought to Cama Hospital were drilled again by bullets and grenade shrapnel. Mumbai’s downtown police headquarters was hit. Heavily armed terrorists broke into a Chabad house, a Jewish outreach center run by Chabad-Lubavitch orthodox Jews, shooting down a young rabbi and his wife along with five hostages. Bollywood Cinema crowds coming out of theaters were hit. Bullets and grenades sprayed the fallen dead with the food of life in popular Leopold’s cafe. The premier hotels of downtown where most western tourists and business people converge, the Oberoi and iconic Taj Mahal, were set ablaze, wherein terror stalked smoke filled halls and the dark warrens and rabbit hole rooms as hunters of jihad looked for their hiding prey.

The hell of Mumbai’s 9/11 attacks lasted the bulk of three days before Indian paramilitary and Indian Army commando Special Forces in what they would call Operation Black Tornado silenced the last terrorist. White and brown, Muslim or meditator had been coldly and indiscriminately slaughtered and wounded by the hundreds. The death toll is up to 188, with at least 33 foreign nationals and just under 300 seriously wounded or injured. Some of the dazed survivors I saw by chance on a BBC photo being gently ushered by police out of the smoking ruins of the Oberoi are personal friends of mine and fellow travelers on the path meditation.

I currently seek to know who else of my friends and acquaintances was there among the living or under the tarps for the dead.

One terrorist survived to tell his tale to Indian Intelligence Officers, and I dare say he’s using his words as the one weapon left remaining in his possession. His unsheathed and sharpened tongue readily willing to relay evidence of a Pakistani source of his attack could bring on a new military crisis between India and Pakistan. Not only were these men of Jihad well trained in weapons and commando-style operations in the Pakistani terror camps, but they were also trained to play a psych-war game, if surviving, explaining in detail to those in India, just how involved Pakistan was in their plans to hit Mumbai. Beware the tongue of terrorism for it will fan passions of Hindu fundamentalists on the streets and in Parliament to a new war fever pitch once again.

The interrogated has so far not hit his target. Both Pakistani and Indian military spokesmen officially deny seeing any troop reinforcements detected from their opposite along the Line of Control — the militarized no-man’s land dividing Indian-held from Pakistani-held disputed Kashmir. For now, the nuclear nationalism is on the rise only in the streets and not in the trenches along the mountainous Hindu Kush or in the parliaments of Islamabad and New Delhi.

Another scenario is looming. The Indian government demands Pakistan seek and destroy those terrorist camps at once and hand over to Indian justice a list of high-profile terrorist leaders it has incarcerated responsible for ordering previous attacks on Indian soil. If Pakistan does not comply the Indian government says it will “leave all options on the table” for a retaliatory response.

In Part Two of Mumbai 9/11, we will return to points I made in an article written on 31 December 2001 concerning the four Indo-Pakistani wars predicted by Mahatma Gandhi. There’s just one war left to fight. It could be coming soon. It is the one Gandhi feared would be the end of South Asia.

John Hogue
(05 December 2008)