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Thursday, January 15, 2009

The Prisoner Escapes

"I am not a number. I am a free man!"



The enigmatic Number Six of television's "The Prisoner", Patrick McGoohan, passed from the Matrix yesterday at the age of 80...One of the GREATEST shows ever to air on television.

Researcher Loren Coleman cites McGoohan for another, lesser known role here!

A wonderful article by James W. Whitehead entitled "The Prisoner: Pawns in the Village of Life" can be read here.

Prior to "The Prisoner," McGoohan starred in "Secret Agent" (also known as "Danger Man"), which debuted in 1964, and whose memorable theme song seemed to speak of the hazards facing the characters in both series ("They've given you a number, and taken away your name").


McGoohan's agent, Sharif Ali, said Wednesday that the actor was still active in Hollywood, with two offers for wide-release films on the table when he died. "The man was just cool," Ali said. "It was an honor to have him here and work with him. ... He was one of those actors, a real actor. He didn't have a lie."

Born in New York on March 19, 1928, McGoohan was raised in England and Ireland, where his family moved shortly after his birth. He had a busy stage career before moving to television, and won a London Drama Critics Award for playing the title role in the Henrik Ibsen play "Brand."

He married stage actress Joan Drummond in 1951. The oldest of their three daughters, Catherine, is also an actress.

After "Secret Agent"'s success," McGoohan pitched to producers the surreal and cerebral "The Prisoner" to give himself a challenge. McGoohan also wrote and directed several episodes of the series.

Although only 17 episodes were made, it became a cult favorite, and its cultural impact continues, as evident by his guest appearance playing Number Six in a 2000 episode of "The Simpsons."


A remake of the show is due to air in November of this year on AMC (American Movie Classics), and stars Sir Ian McKellen (as Number 2).

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/01/tca-press-tou-2.html

Anyone who has never watched the series should quickly digest as much as you can NOW!!!


In an odd twist, another TV Island dweller, Ricardo Montalban of television's "Fantasy Island" also passed away yesterday...

Montalban rose to prominence as one of the most visible Hispanic actors in post-war Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s. But his star grew as he took on television roles as the mysterious host Mr. Roarke on the hit drama "Fantasy Island" and as Captain Kirk's archnemesis Khan Noonien Singh in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan."

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Hour of the Wolf

BIGGEST FULL MOON OF 2009
You gotta be kidding me...see yesterday's post "Bark at the Moon" here
and for all things Wolven check out Loren Coleman's follow-up over at his Cryptozoology sister site: http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/wolfmoon/ or "When the Wolfbane Blooms" at Copycat Effect

Robert Roy Britt Editorial DirectorSPACE.com – Fri Jan 9, 12:56 pm ET

If skies are clear Saturday, go out at sunset and look for the giant moon rising in the east. It will be the biggest and brightest one of 2009, sure to wow even seasoned observers.
Earth, the moon and the sun are all bound together by gravity, which keeps us going around the sun and keeps the moon going around us as it goes through phases. The moon makes a trip around Earth every 29.5 days.

But the orbit is not a perfect circle. One portion is about 31,000 miles (50,000 km) closer to our planet than the farthest part, so the moon's apparent size in the sky changes. Saturday night (Jan. 10) the moon will be at perigee, the closest point to us on this orbit.

It will appear about 14 percent bigger in our sky and 30 percent brighter than some other full moons during 2009, according to NASA. (A similar setup occurred in December, making that month's full moon the largest of 2008.)
High tides

Tides will be higher, too. Earth's oceans are pulled by the gravity of the moon and the sun. So when the moon is closer, tides are pulled higher. Scientists call these perigean tides, because they occur when the moon is at or near perigee. (The farthest point on the lunar orbit is called apogee.)

This month's full moon is known as the Wolf Moon from Native American folklore. The full moon's of each month are named. January's is also known as the Old Moon and the Snow Moon.
A full moon rises right around sunset, no matter where you are. That's because of the celestial mechanics that produce a full moon: The moon and the sun are on opposite sides of the Earth, so that sunlight hits the full face of the moon and bounces back to our eyes.

At moonrise, the moon will appear even larger than it will later in the night when it's higher in the sky. This is an illusion that scientists can't fully explain. Some think it has to do with our perception of things on the horizon vs. stuff overhead.

Try this trick, though: Using a pencil eraser or similar object held at arm's length, gauge the size of the moon when it's near the horizon and again later when it's higher up and seems smaller. You'll see that when compared to a fixed object, the moon will be the same size in both cases.

More lunacy

If you have other plans for Saturday night, take heart: You can see all this on each night surrounding the full moon, too, because the moon will be nearly full, rising earlier Friday night and later Sunday night.

Interestingly, because of the mechanics of all this, the moon is never truly 100 percent full. For that to happen, all three objects have to be in a perfect line, and when that rare circumstance occurs, there is a total eclipse of the moon.

A departing fact: The moon is moving away as you read this, by about 1.6 inches (4 centimeters) a year. Eventually this drift will force the moon to take 47 days to circle our world.


TV on the Radio's "Wolf Like Me"

Friday, January 9, 2009

Bark at the Moon

The occult war that is being waged against humanity is certainly as old as time (or older), it has played itself out over and over throughout history, and it would seem that our own chapter in the Never ending story is likely to be written soon enough.

For those of you familiar with my work or many of the others investigating the symbolism/magical workings surrounding us will surely recognize the themes swirling across the globe over the past month and a half; with SIRIUS and the MOON being the two that in my mind have been most powerful.



If recent scientific accounts are accurate, the universe itself is screaming at us...and if that isn't enough to wake the dead, perhaps Hollywood can enlighten us further. The release of "Underworld III: Rise of the Lycans" might tell the entire tale...Consider the epic battle between the Vampires (Blood-lined elites) and the bestial slave race; the Werewolves (The useless eaters). Sound familiar? It should...and if the symbolism, real-world pressures aren't mounting and pushing US towards a similar war here on earth, I don't know what else is going on...Researcher, and our man in London, Ben Fairhall also has been picking up on the Wolfy scent in the air since the Mumbai Massacre of November 26th but with a much different result...


Hollywood trend for 2009? Or an agenda/programming being shoved down our throats? "Terminator 4: Salvation", "Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen" (with an epic final battle at the Pyramids of Giza), "Wolfman", "Twilight 2: New Moon", and the X-Men spin off "Wolverine".

What really triggered this reflection, however, was not movies but the recent comment from former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin made after the birth of her now infamous grandchild on December 27th (?). Ms. Palin's public statement was that she was "OVER THE MOON"...a phrase that, although I a familiar with, seemed oddly outdated to me. Researcher Goro Adachi's Mayan Palingenesis article covers the far reaching significance of Sarah Palin appearing on the world stage.


But was Palin's use of "OVER THE MOON" that antiquated? I thought so, until it dawned on me that it wasn't the first time I'd heard it recently. Back on November 14th, after the Indian Chandrayaan-1 probe touched down on the lunar surface officials stated that they were "OVER THE MOON" with their historic achievement. Some 12 days later India would again grab headlines as the Mumbai Massacre would infect us all, and ignite some of the most interesting research in recent memory [Loren Coleman here, and Ben Fairhall here]. The MOON seemed to have been playing a role in events there, as I covered in my own article "Helter Skelter Part I: Indian Style". I will quote Ben Fairhall's "Crimson King Part 1" now, as the relevance to my larger point will hopefully become apparent...

"Lunar continued to spin on her gyres, entraining bad behaviours in the minds of men. When G Madhaven Nair (Mid-Heaven and Air) 'gave the moon to India', all the tumblers fell into place, setting the cogs to whirr and the air over Mumbai to resound with the steady sound of clocks. When the curtain rose, when the full (new) moon hovered into place and the wolves were released, all the marionettes danced... But the moon does not belong to India, it belongs to Shiva (or She-va), from way before the world."

In an odd bit of foreshadowing or cosmic chicanery, stories of the 11 year old WEREWOLF of MUMBAI began hitting papers around November 20th, just six days before the real wolves were unleashed on the streets of India. Researchers at COLUMBIA University were treating the child who suffers from hypertrichosis with testosterone injections. "At the time of Pruthvirajs (Patil) birth, some villagers told his mother that she had given birth to a God, some thought that he was a supernatural creature, and some called him a bad omen due to his unique appearance." [of the 50 known cases worldwide a number of those suffering from the ailment live in India]


On December 12th, 2008 the spectacular Full MOON took center stage and virtually eclipsed the fact that it was Virgin of Guadaloupe Day. Not to be out shined, the Goddess manifested in her signature fashion which we refer to as the MARITIME signals :
  • The flooding of the MAGDALENA river in COLUMBIA


  • The flooding of Rome reached it's peak.


  • South American Playboy MAGazine (Rabbit associated with the MOON & Birth) is slammed by Vatican for "Virgin Maryesque" photo layout, the release of which coincided with the chiefly Catholic day of veneration.


It didn't end there however, on December 20th, French Yachtsman Yann Elies was rescued in off the coast of Western Australia (OZ), after an on board accident left him unable to physically continue his journey and on the verge of death, Mr. Elies as well as his rescuers publicly declared that he was "OVER THE MOON" to have been brought to safety.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iagqgOGBqMHbFPG5nqAnG1nJ7S8w

Perhaps it is my own naivety as to the worldwide popularity of the phrase but when considered within the framework of the astrological and historic events that were also taking place during the same period, the words are actually feeding into the collective Unconsciousness.

Consider that December 21st, 2008 (see December 21st importance here) also marked the 40th Anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 8 mission, our countries first manned orbital flight to the MOON. It was several days later on Christmas EVE when the crew of Apollo 8 read 10 lines of GENESIS in a televised event [of note, a complaint was brought by atheist MADALYN Murray O'Hair (RABBIT) for this act]. A rather insignificant technical detail that occurred during the Apollo 8 mission has caught my attention...known as the "Unplanned manual realignment"...according to wikipedia:

Prior to the Dec. 25th return to Earth Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr. "used some otherwise idle time to do some navigational sightings, maneuvering the module to view various stars by using the computer keyboard. However, he accidentally erased some of the computer's memory, which caused the inertial measuring unit (IMU) to think the module was in the same relative position it had been in before lift-off and fire the thrusters to "correct" the module's attitude."

"Once the crew realized why the computer had changed the module's attitude, they realized they would have to re-enter data that would tell the computer its real position. It took Lovell ten minutes to figure out the right numbers, using the thrusters to get the stars Rigel and SIRIUS aligned, and another fifteen minutes to enter the corrected data into the computer."


It is here that we should begin to realign our focus to SIRIUS...so,bare with me.

The binary double star SIRIUS also has connections to the MOON and WOLVES (not unlike the character SIRIUS Black from Harry Potter)...In Chinese astronomy Sirius is known as the "Celestial Wolf", in Alaskan (Sarah Palin) Inuit culture "Moon Dog", and in Hawaii (Barack Obama) Sirius is called Ka'ulua and celebrated on the Winter Solstice (Dec. 21st 2008) as the "Queen of Heaven"....but perhaps the most fascinating connection to Sirius is with our recent point of focus SHIVA/SIVA. The Vedic Rudra of whom Mr. Fairhall has begun to invoke at the Daily Behemoth in his "Crimson King" series is represented as Mrgavyadha or the star Sirius!




see also the entire body of work on SIRIUS by Christopher Knowles:
The plot thickens...

Thursday, January 8, 2009

The Age of Transitions

A HIGHLY recommended video by Aaron Franz (who also recently appeared on RED ICE Radio)


Sunday, December 21, 2008

Your internet connection failed (UPDATED)


"Breaks in three submarine cables which link Europe and the Middle East have disrupted Internet and international telephone services in parts of the Middle East and South Asia, officials said on Saturday (Dec. 20th 2008)

Residents said Internet service was either non-existent or very slow. The gravity of the outage, caused by breaks in cables in the Mediterranean off Italy, varied from area to area and according to the service provider."



ORIGINALLY POSTED 2/01/08 (Below)

In an ongoing story which must have millions of people tapping their fingers while blankly staring at hourglasses on computer screens, a third under sea communications cable has been found "cut". This time directly off the coast of the world's most bizarre, and fastest growing cities, Dubai.


Officials state that the crippling internet outages will likely not be fixed until February 12th, and that ships anchors are the current suspects...really? Whatever you say...

In a time when financial markets the world over are perched daily on the edge of collapse; this can't be good news. Asia, the Middle East and North Africa have been most effected by the severed cables.


The Dubai Lagoon Project where the future is NOW
http://www.burjdubai.com/

Saturday, December 20, 2008

December 21st


Tomorrow, December 21st, 2008 (Mirror 1221) will mark several highly symbolic themes on our journey...

1. The Winter Solstice
2. The Jewish 8 day "Festival of Lights" known as Hanukkah begins at Sundown/TWILIGHT [see Ben Fairhall's Mumbai Twilight here]
3. The Hotels Taj Mahal & TRIDENT Oberoi reopen for the first time since the Mumbai Massacre.
4. 4 years until the hyped Mayan End Date of December 21st, 2012

Friday, December 19, 2008

Atlantis making Waves...

Another ATLANTIS resonator [see also "AA Down"], this time from the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas (the older sibling to the Dubai, Atlantis written about by Christopher Knowles in "Behold, Atlantis Rising")...



The shark tank is directly outside the "LEAP OF FAITH"...also, given the historical design of this thing would you REALLY want to get anywhere near it???



Depiction of Aztec Ritual Sacrifice

The female reef shark tumbled down the slide – known as the Leap of Faith – after vaulting the one foot high and 18 in wide barrier around its pool.

Although the creature survived the journey its body could not cope with the chlorinated water in the swimming pool at the bottom of the slide. Rescuers managed to return the 12-year-old shark to its own pool but it died shortly afterwards.

Staff at the Atlantis resort said that guests were never at risk as the water park had yet to open for the morning. The shark posed no threat to humans and regularly swam with guests in its aquarium

"The Atlantis Aquarists believe the shark was startled by an unusual circumstance that we have no way of defining completely. In the over ten years guests have experienced the Leap of Faith, the reef shark itself, harmless to humans as it is fed regularly by our staff, had shown no previous incidences of leaping out of the water in the marine habitat," the resort said in a statement to the TMZ website.

"Once the shark fell onto the slide and into the chlorinated water, it was in significant distress.

"The Marine Aquarium Operations team responded immediately and was able to retrieve the animal at the bottom of the slide and return the animal to the main marine habitat in an attempt to resuscitate her. Despite the team's best efforts to recover the animal, it died shortly after the occurrence.

"The entire team at Atlantis is truly saddened by the loss of this animal who had resided in the Atlantis marine habitat for over ten years."

The Atlantis resort describes itself as a "unique, ocean-themed destination", with 20 million gallons of pools and lagoons, waterfalls, and a marine habitat filled with water filtered from the Atlantic Ocean.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3849256/Shark-jumps-out-of-aquarium-into-swimming-pool.html