TWIN TOWERS DISASTER - I I

A chilling image of the Twin Towers, which Nostradamus describes,in the only way he is able ,given the limitations of the period in which he is living, as 'hollow mountains in the roadway'.We already know,from 1/87-2001,that his New City' is New York.Here he presents a terrifying picture of the two skyscrappers being 'plunged into the sewers',sescriptions that could have been taken direct from television news pictures of the disaster showing the towers crumpling inexorably earthwards.'Sulphur-poisoned waters' can be taken both figuratively and as a metaphor for the realization,by the United States,that from this moment on,they,too,are vulnerable,and that they will be forced to drain the cup of poisoned water fate has handled them to its dregs.

Summary

The destruction of the Twin Towers will traumatize the people of the United States.There will be many long-term effects of the tragedy,and it will poison relations between the US and Islam.

GUANTANAMO BAY

More than five hundred political detainees were transfered from Camp X-ray to the newly built Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay(which forms part of the Cuban archipelago,ergo 'the islands')following the defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2002.After the US/Iraq war of 2003,even more 'exiles' were transferred there.In Ba'athist terms,President Bush would be perceived as an even 'crueller' leader than Saddam Hussein,and countless murders have been committed as a direct result of US intervantion in both countries. The Bush regime,embarrassed by the bad publicity over its treatment of the internees,has since struggled to established a legally viable argument to justify its harsh interrogation techniques at Guantanamo,which ,as outer space',It is reasonable to suppose that prisoners,on the receiving end of such techniques,would very often talk 'until they cannot stop speaking'.

Summary :

Survivors of the war in Afganistan are deported to Guantanamo Bay.One prisoner's testimony is used against the other.The Prisoners,under intolerable pressure,are eventually forced to talk.

TWIN TOWERS DISASTER - I

Prediction - September 2001

An uncanny foretelling of the Twin Towers disaster,even down to a paralleling of the two rock-like towers with a war between the 'two great rocks' of Christianity and Islam.The towers are brought down by fire dawn from the earth's core,an extraordinary leap of the imagination for Nostradamus when one bears in mind that the explosive catalyst used in the attack was ioil-based avaiation fuel.Another extraordinay coincidence links the myth of Arethusa,with her legendary links at Ellis,to that of Ellis,to that of Ellis Island,the immigration gateway to NewYork - a buried clue left by Nostadamus which pinpoints exactly to which New City he is referring in this text.

A further clue to the location of disaster is contained in the first line's use of the word du,which can mean either 'of' or 'form'.If read as 'fire of the centre of the earth' then the World Trade Centre tellingly springs to mind.Nostradamu's use of the term Cite Nuefve(the New City),immediatedly links 1/87 to the next quatrain in our series,10/49-2001.Other similarities also grab the attention;the mention of rocks and mountains;teh symbols of water and its poisoning,the first time with blood,the second with sulphur,and the Arethusan springs,at both Ellis and Sytacuse(also a place in New York State).


Summary

Following an attack on New York's Twin TOwers,in which avaition fuel is the priciple component,along war between Chritianity and Islam is triggered.

PREDICTIONS OF NOSTRADAMUS

It will be an uncomfotable experience for president George W Bush to open this book and discover that a diviner in sixteenth - century France has forseen the attempted assassination of a major world leader as occuring sometime during his tenure.

If Mr Bush is a wise man(and we must assume that he is),he will read quatrain IO/26-2006-2008 very carefully indeed,and then take urgent steps to make sure the prophecy doesn't come true in relation to him.But President Bush,like all US presidents
throughout history,is very used to being threatened.He is protected by the most practised to being threatened.He is protected by the most practised security service in the world.Founded in 1865 to combat currency counterfeiting and forgery,the secret service has safeguarded every US president since 1901,the year in which william McKinley became the third president to assassinated within a period of third-six years.On hearing the news of his death,it was immediately decided by the powers-that-be that something was,indeed,'rotten in the state of Denmark',and that urgent action needed to be taken to staunch the political haemorrhaging.

The Secret Service has lost only one further president in the century following its inception,but he was if one may permit oneself the word,a lulu.I am speaking of John F kennedy,whose assassination on the 22nd November 1963 ushered in a whole new era of political paranoia.There have been a number of close calls since then,which the attempt one Ronald Reagan's life being only the most promonent,but,on the whole,the Secret Service has been remarkably effective in protecting US Heads of State and their families from harm-with the notable exception of President Kennedy's brother,Robert,who was shot dead in Los Angeles,in 1968.

what is new about the World Leader/michel de Nostredame scenario,is that vulnerable world leaders with highly placed brothers will discover,on reading quattrain number 10/26,not only that an assassination attempts may be made on their lives,but also what will happen after the assassination-if ,of course,it is successful.This information they will no doubt find hard to swallow.But we are not asking them to take it simply on trust.Just look at the track record.Nostradamus correctly predicted the death,during a friendly joust,of King Henry's opponent entering the King's helmet through the visor and piercing his eye.Nostradamus warned Henry's Queen,Catherin de Medici,in person,of the danger,but she was unable to dissuade her husband from agreeing to a rematch(following a hung decision after their first bout)with the reluctant Montgomery,Captain of the Scottish Guard.The King died an agonising death,ten days latter,on the 10th July 1559.The crestfallen Montgomery,pardoned by the king,succumbled to the widowed Queen's disfavour a full fifteen years after her husband's death-and that,too,was predicted by Nostradamus,in quatrain 3/30,right down to the six armed men who kidnapped him,naked,from his bedroom,and hurried him to the Conciergerie prison,where he died.

Benito Mussolini,too would have been well-advised to lend an ear to quatrain 2/24,in which not only is his death predicted,but also the manner of it described-being 'hung inside a cage of iron',which turned out to be the charred frame of a fire-bombared petrol station at Guilino di Mezzegra,near Lake Cobo,in Italy.Napoleon,the Duc de Berry,Charles I,Adolf Hitler,Mary,Queen of Scots,and even John F Kennedy could all have benefited from advance warning of their death,but,as Augustine Birrell so elegantly puts it,in his Obiter Dicta; 'History is a pageant and not a philosophy'.Even if we have knowledge of the future,it is not necessarily either desirable,or even possible,to act on that information.

Now back to the complete prophecies for the future.I have begun the commentaries marginally in the past,with the Twin Tower Disaster of the 11th september 2001,not only because it coincided almost exactly with the turn of our century,but also because Nostradamus's predictions about the event are so detailed,and so astonishing,that they will give even further credence to this prognostications for our future,and that of our planet.Interpreting Nostradamus is very much like working on a detective story.Following his filigrees of meaning through to final ,if tentative,connclusion ,is an immensely satisfying work of deduction.I have therfore taken as my starting point the premise that the most esoteric of Nostradamus's quatrains -in other words those without any obvious reference to the times in which he lived,or to the four and a half centuries immediately succeeding his death-must,by default,refer to the future.I have therfore retranslated these,and approached them entirely afresh,without refering back to past commentaries.