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"Comet Lulin by Phil Jones, a long exposure through a 4-inch Takahashi refractor, from the grounds of the Central Texas Astronomical Society Observatory in Clifton, Texas". More links in the Cosmic Section.  Note the highly unusual green glow of this comet.  Apparently this can be seen even as early as midnight tonight with the naked eye, though it is NOT very big nor very bright.

CRITICAL ALERTS
 [February 23, 2009 ECB; MWM] "Current Week's Summary"

UPDATE TO OVER-RIDING CONDITIONS

As Team Obama rolls out massive "stimulus" Bailout Plans for banksters and the rest of us on the other side of the river, great billowing plumes of dust are rising throughout the ruling classes and around the world.  Despite the strained enthusiasm of a strange technocratic crowd of retred banksters, lawyers, accountants, media bobble-heads, and civic guru organizations,  verily the very same lobbyists who steered the American Titanic into the ice-bergs of history, great angst and controversy surrounds everything.  The only thing that is clear is that a lot of money will be spent, everything else is in major doubt by a great many major publics and personages around the world.  Indeed, almost uniformly the long-trend Bears who forecasted, with great historical acumen,  the inevitable coming of this economic collapse now are more insistent than ever that the Bailouts will not solve the problems and that the economic situation will continue to sink.  Echoing the pessimism, international players reveal that economic trade is sinking to low levels due to lack of demand, which is creating a rolling collapse flowing through Eastern Europe into Western Europe, producing not recessions but the Greatest Depression the world has known since World War I.  If you had Euros as a hedge, get rid of them NOW.  Revert for the time being to U.S. dollars.  More probable than not, the Obama Bailout Plan is best seen as a bailout for local government and some sectors of industry, most especially the solar and transportation industries.  The plans will keep cashflow afloat in most urban areas for a little while longer.  But, as all Bears now agree as they discuss the economy over the corpses of the Bulls, all equities and corporate profits will continue to sink another major chunk as the real estate and construction industries, not to mention the aviation and tourism industries, continue to close up shop for a very long depression. 

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COSMIC FACTORS:  

Sunspot Count -  ZIP.  The Sun has been inactive for the past week with a count of ZIP on a Flux of about 70, which is the Flux of yesterday. There are no coronal holes in the Solar atmosphere and both NASA and SIDC in Brussels report virtually no solar activity.  The Planetary A Magnetic Index (upper atmosphere field strength) has fluctuated in the range of about 3-10 for the past month and a half and is now at about 3 (blue line on the graph above).  Alaska's Fluxgate Monitor (U. of A.)  shows a couple of minor disturbances on the "surface" on the "solar sea" through which the Earth sails. These likely produced the latest auroras.  NASA expects similar activity and disturbances  during  the next few days from, but predicting no more than up to a 10% possibility of severe magnetic disturbances in the high latitudes. (For NASA 10 = 0).  Planetary alignments in early March should begin to increase Solar Acitivty during the next week.  Still, however, Solar Activity is likely to cast little influence on the Earth's atmosphere, weather, and climate regimes. For more details on current sun go here.   For Daily Sun, go to Spaceweather.    See Planetary Alignments for longer range forecast.   January's wintry weather is likely to be influenced at least a little by the slowly awakening Sun. 

COMET WATCH BEGINNING:  Tune in tonight to catch this fast moving comet.  It will not persist for very long. Coca-Cola Space Science Center in Columbus, Georgia, plans to webcast the encounter. "We're going to transmit the view through our observatory's 16-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope," says astronomy professor Rosa Williams of Columbus State University. "The webcast begins at 11:30 EST on Monday, Feb. 23rd and will continue until 5 a.m. EST on Tuesday the 24th." Tune in!

March 21, 2009 Spring Equinox - Louse Double Header Involving Six Planets.

The first major planetary alignments for Solar Cycle 24 are in March, culminating in Venus | Earth alignment.  These alignments form up slowly from about March 5, beginning with Mars | Jupiter and ending with Venus | Earth.  As the planets slip by each other March 5 - 21, at least four sunspot peaks are likely, though they may be small surges in keeping with this Solar MIN period.  The first Sunspot surge may begin this week, probably by about March 1 at the latest. Based on the "look" and "feel" of Solar Cycle 24 onset so far, my guess is that the surges will be small and will have only very minor influences on the Earth..

ATMOSPHERICS:  Despite NASA holding onto La Nina as a "finding", La Nina is dissipating rapidly and in fact is getting hard to find. La Nina has been in  a borderline condition the past two months and has mostly "evaporated" during February. For this week's thorough if somewhat lagging update from NOAA , click here:  Weekly ENSO Evolution, Status, and Prediction Presentation (PDF)

For the next ten days of  NOAA weather predictions, go to Climate Center Weather Maps.  Everything is in early transition, the weather has muted out into "low roar" conditions, pretty much as predicted by psychic Ruth Ryden.   Hard to say what is happening this month even three days from now.

 GEOPHYSICAL FACTORS:     No significant change in the average track of the Spin Axis.  Currently the Spin Axis has passed away from the Y Axis  for this spiral turn (the Spin Axis got as close to Siberia as it gets and is now headed towards Alaska).  The wobble spiral continues to expand normally in its outward track and will reach its maximum SPIRAL size on the X Axis (X MAX of its seven year cycle) during 2009 .  See Polar Motion for additional information.    

LUNAR SYZYGY:  We are in weak New Moon Lunar Syzygy period which will extend February 28.  An Extreme Southern Declination of the Moon in Apogee passed us the past few days as the Moon heads toward the New Moon Phase on January 25.  This spread dilutes the power of the Moon, which will be at its furthest approach from Earth (Apogee) thus further diminishing the lunar influence on both tides in the oceans and on the land.  More probable than not, the current very modest New Moon Seismic surge will continue with more activity in the Southern Hemisphere than the Northern. See The Lunar Cycle  for more details. 

 QUAKES: After two mild Perihelion  - Perigee surges, seismic activity has been vigorous in the Class 4 to Class 5 range during the past several days, a little above average.  The Americas have been mainly silent, most activity has been on the Western Pacific, especially related to the northern edge of the Australian Tectonic Plate. The relatively mild quake profiles for December and January suggest that the Tectonic Activity trends have leveled off.  This condition should continue through much of 2009, probably no Class 8+ quakes, perhaps lower than average (of the last year) for all Class 4+.  For more on quakes go to Earthquakes. 

VOLCANISM:  Did not get to volcanoes for this week. No update here. Click here for more details on this Volcano Season. 

EARTH CHANGES STANDING SUMMARY -   In accordance with the Cosmic Frame, tectonic activity likely will diminish during the next phase synchronicities between the lunar and terrestrial orbits.  But keep in mind that the Earth's crust is complex, anything can and sometimes does happen at any time, and thus no accurate predictions can be made consistently.  The Earth Changes Global Warming scenario is more difficult to predict and the weather effects are more chaotic at this time.  Solar input is very low this year, about the same as last year, hence Greenhouse Gas effect is zip, if not negative, accordingly Global Warming and all extreme weather patterns are being driven this year almost exclusively by the warming of the world ocean which now appears to have slowed as well.  Human conditions remain confused and contrarian, war and peace trends are unclear but clearly a major push is being made to instigate reasons for imperial expansion.  Economic conditions continue to disintegrate, most prognosticators are now Bearish on most economic issues, worldwide economic collapse is occurring around the Earth.   A deeper descent into the Rabbit's Black Hole is widely expected.  Only China is weathering the storm fairly well by most accounts and it is currently off-loading its dollar reserves as rapidly as it can by buying up distressed companies and resources around the Earth.  In the Middle East, the lunacy of the Ziono-crazies who control Israel continues to deepen into the darkest possible psychotic fantasies of mass violence.  Removal of these criminal terrorists from power is the first step to making peace.  Unfortunately the Israeli public is unable to witness and act out the simple existential truths of this age, others are condemned to do the deed.

GEO-ECONOMIC FLUX - -  Sad to say, this assessment below, now months old,  is still right on track! Chaos rules at the moment and a deep panic is rippling around the world.   It will probably take another year or two to fully mature. The Cayce 25 year economic cycle has come to fruition almost a year later than I predicted in 2004, but still very close to Cayce's specs and to the specs laid out in "The Coming Economic Collapse of 2006".  Major exception, the Chinese, Russian, and Euro economies are more closely tied to the structure of the U.S. Bubble Inflation than I supposed, they are falling much harder than I thought they would.  But they should be able to rebound more quickly as they adjust their trade patterns to support each other more strongly.

The only people feigning optimism is the political class who are clueless and as always a full generation behind the times.

All Bears signal another 30% to 50% drop coming, all the asset appreciation of the Clinton-Bush years will be gone in another 12 months.

Oil, down and likely will be down in the current price range for the next two years, perhaps even puddling down to $20  a barrel (and gasoline at under a buck).  That is when you will know what you have hit the bottom of the Great Depression during the Collapse of the Last Empire.

The banksters and oil monarchies will fix a stable price again but it is difficult to guess where this will be at this time, it will take some several months, maybe a full two years to reel in.  They would much prefer the $100 range but with worldwide depression howling in the wind, not a chance for at least a TWO YEARS.  With depressed oil price, so goes gold and all commodity prices for many many moons.  

For all parties, the only exit is to dump Globalism.  No one has the vision to rebuild the planetary economy as a whole, it must be done at the community and national levels, as of the days of old.  Anybody who claims otherwise is completely ignorant of history and is a frothing at the mouth radical lunatic who wants to experiment with your life.

So the question is where to dump the dough down to bake the bread of the next economic real boom (not bubble).

NEW SUMMARY COMING SOON 

The downside of low prices for oil is the tremendous braking effect this will have for alt. energy schemes.  Shades of the alt energy bust of 1982 under the Reagan Regime.  For at least the next year a lot of stuff will come along more slowly because the markets are currently much slimmer than they were just six months ago.  Whatever emerges from alt energy, will have to be a strong techno breakthrough to break the oil monopoly when the price of energy is below $50 per barrel.  A review of the heavy research in alt energy is enough to convince me that such a breakthrough is now occurring and it will take only a matter of months and a few years to generate the wave of activity which busts out the R&R Cabal.  Miraculously, there are a few mutually independent pathways which will get us to the right place and all of these are already in inventor garages, close to being more aggressively promoted. The cost of hydrogen production, for instance, has been dropped to 10% or even possibly to 1% of its former BTU requirements by at least four different approaches, which changes EVERYTHING about the sociology of power on the planet Earth.

So for the real economic fix, go with alt energy, that is it in a nutshell.  For all else, especially for failing industries and governments, go with Michael Moore's Maxim.  Fire 'em!  . Fire all the auto execs and other industries in trouble, buy their outstanding stock, and shove the companies into restructuring processes.   Don't fall for their scams. Why is the Tribune declaring bankruptcy?  Because the rich families which owned them sold them to a conglomerate which borrowed all the money from banks to buy them from the previous wealthy owners who are now ever so much wealthier.  So a profitable industry was made a debt-ridden industry and now cannot pay its interest and debt payback.  Liquidate the conglomerate, throw off the debt, leave the newspapers free standing, and let the banks sue the crap out of the manipulators who put together the conglomerate. It is that simple.  IT IS THEY WHO OWE THE MONEY. 

DON'T BE A CHUMP FOR HUMBUG ARTISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every one of the failing financial institutions is just a variant of a Ponzi Scam, most of them run by white-collar Ivy League Jewish gangster networks.  Bust em. Break em. Dissolve them into oblivion.  Sue all of them and prosecute the entire class any way possible for breach of fiduciary responsibility.

GEOPOLITICAL FLUX - -  

PROGNOSIS ON AMERICAN POLITICS:  As Obama suggested, time for hope.  Create certainty, go get solar and hydrogen fuel technology to dissolve the power of the corporations and bankers.   Every solar BTU kicks Rockefeller butt.

SPIRITUAL FLUX  - - 

On the horizon, still too dim to be clearly perceived by most, forces in the Spirit Realm are pushing aggressively for more rapid transmutation of conditions and actions.   Rather suddenly, in some cases, the masses and classes will realize with a start that the world has changed dramatically, in some cases never was what we thought it was, the old concepts about as useful as the clothes we wore in our school days.

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

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