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Back by Popular Demand, The Great Comet of 1680.

1680 was a very interesting year for star gazers.A comet so large, so brilliant and so visible blazed across the sky, inspiring astrologers, soothsayers ande even Issac Newton !C/1680 V1, also called the Great Comet of 1680, Kirch’s Comet, and Newton’s Comet, has the distinction of being the first comet discovered by telescope. Discovered by Gottfried Kirch on 14 November 1680, New Style, it became one of the brightest comets of the 17th century – reputedly visible even in daytime – and was noted for its spectacularly long tail.

In America, it caused a sensation.This is what the first Dutch settlers of Esopus, New York, saw in the sky over 300 years ago!

Excerpt from The History of Kingston, by Marius Schoonmaker, 1888, at page 70

On the 9th of December 1680, there appeared an extraordinary comet, which caused very great consternation throughout the province, with forebodings of dreadful happenings and divine punishments. It is described, in a letter dated January 1st, 1681, as having “appeared in the Southwest on the ninth of December last, about two o’clock in the afternoon, fair sunshine weather, a little above the sun, which takes its course more northerly,and was seen the Sunday night, right after about twilight, with a very fiery tail or streamer in the west, to the great astonishment of all spectators, and is now seen every night with clear weather. Undoubtedly, God threatens us with dreadful punishments if we do not repent.” The letter then suggested the propriety of proclaiming a day of humiliation and prayer.

Now we enter the spring of 2013.The sky is bringing use surprises every month. Asteroids,. meteors, fireballs,locusts drones,…..Ray Bradbury must be turning in his grave !

It seems to me that this same “Great” Comet of 1680 will be coming our way once again.Soon.. Real soon. As in before November 28th 2013.I suggest this comet will encounter the sun, survive for a day, and then break up.

This time, the comet has been renamed ISON. Of course the “authorities” are busy “spinning” the usual drivel, assuring the public they know everything about the comet, and always have. But the facts speak otherwise. The comet was only rediscovered in September of 2012. Just like nobody saw the Valentines meteorite that struck Russia so violently last month,it is becoming increasingly evident that the finest scientists on the planet can only predict a fraction of future events, and have varying views of past astrophysical events.

So, in the coming month’s I will post on Comet ISON. I do not believe the comet will be 15 times brighter than the moon, as Brian Williams reports. Nor do I think it will die as it approaches the sun. I think it survives, but just for a mere 24 hours after the encounter.

The bet is on…..

The day I released my New CD “322”, a Meteor over New York Streaks across the Night Sky

There are no coincidences…….My new CD entitled 322 deals with the coming of asteroids, meteors, and comets, things falling from heaven…..My first single called Jerusalem was launched the morning of 3-22. Last night, I noticed a slew of hits on my Youtube channel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrcuQ6Zbfjk Now I know why….

I guess this is a first..Having a meteor arrive just in time to help market a new CD that deals with ….Fiery stones falling from the sky!

Meteor lights up night sky over eastern United States
March 22, 2013|Daniel Trotta | Reuters

(Denis Balibouse/Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A meteor bright enough to be classified as a fireball lit up the night sky over eastern North America on Friday, providing a spectacle witnessed in at least 13 states, Washington, D.C. and two Canadian provinces, the American Meteor Society said.

The society verified more than 300 witness sightings from Ontario and Quebec down to the southern U.S. state of North Carolina with more than 100 reports yet to be reviewed, said Mike Hankey, an observer for the American Meteor Society.

More of an update New fireball seen over Argentina April 22nd 2013

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=biSBnGNqh0Y

Jerusalem by Thomas Schoenberger

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrcuQ6Zbfjk&feature=youtube_gdata

You Cant Make This Stuff Up. Now Locust Swarm Headed For Israel,Just in Time for Passover

Today’s post is short and to the point. My previous blog entries have dealt with the radically changing climate conditions on our fair planet.

Since my last weather warnings, a meteorite fell on Russian soil, the earth opened up in Florida and swallowed a man whole, and scientists are now losing their smugness and realizing Mother Nature is greater than we can imagine.

Yesterday, a swarm of Locust’s headed from the Egypt and is set to arrive in Israel just in time for Passover.This sounds like a movie script right? Wrong.. Read what new agencies are reporting below. As I said, you can’t make this stuff up .Now perhaps the swarm can provide some protein for the food scarce regions of the Middle East. Perhaps our brilliant entomologists can harness Locust power…Or perhaps locusts do what they do and man can do little else but step out of harms way..One thing is clear…The farmers in the affected area are not laughing..Read below.

As if we hadn’t already seen enough Biblical events this year, a plague of over 30 million locusts swarmed over Egypt’s cities and farms just three weeks before Passover begins. But put your apocalyptic fears to rest. This happens every year as part of the locusts’ natural migration pattern, though this year’s swarm is especially large. That doesn’t mean Egyptians aren’t freaked the heck out by millions of nasty bugs buzzing through the air at all hours of day and night, possibly descending upon the agriculture fields where they’re known to destroy entire crops, just like in the actual Passover story.

The crops are so far safe, Egyptian officials assured the public…( really?) As the plague made its way from the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia at the end of last week and this weekend, though, Egyptian Agricultural Minister Salah Abdel Moamen explained the situation to the country in a calmly worded statement. “The current inspection teams at areas targeted by locusts did not witness swarms damaging a single inch of crop,” said Moamen. He added that the locusts are “sexually immature and do not depend on plants for energy since they mainly rely on fat stores.” Hmmmmmm

This sounds like NASA reassuring us that no meteors would strike the earth in our lifetimes, one week before one did….Forgive my skeptical nature….

That said, these plagues can be unpredictable. Egyptian officials didn’t expect the plague to pass by the country’s capital, until Sunday when the locusts unexpectedly arrived in Cairo. The government denied reports that the locusts had started devastating crops as well as a report from United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) that the Ministry of Agriculture cleared 11,000 hectares of land in an attempt to save the harvest. When they get hungry, a one-ton hoard of locusts can eat the same amount of food in one day as 2,500 humans, according to the UN. Egypt knows this too. Less than a decade ago, a plague of locusts nearly 40 miles wide swept over Egypt damaging crops at the majority of the country’s farms. That’s a picture of it, to the right.

Conflicting reports aside, Moamen insists that the government has everything under control. “Egyptian armed forces and the border guards are attempting to fight the swarm with the means at their disposal,” the agriculture minister said. “I ask the families living in the locust-plagued areas not to burn tires. This does not chase away the locusts, but only causes damage and could ignite large scale fires that would cost in lives.” Also, that smoke isn’t doing Egypt’s grandchildren any favors. Scientists anticipate that, as global warming worsens, plagues like this will also get worse.

The Pain in Spain

There is a man called Kliguy38.His insights are worthy.I have followed his writing for years now and he is not an alarmist or a doom and gloomer. he is a realist.Here is one of his posts.I suggest we listen. Thomas

Coming to a theater near you soon
So this is how the Global Government looks looks to the Spaniards this weekend in Barcelona as European financial leaders from 29 countries meet to determine changes to the financial and political landscape. In reality they are trying to find a way out of a worsening collapse of the Eurozone fragile union. Its become so dire for the PTB that Spain closed its borders to thousands of potential protesters pouring in from other European countries to participate in the Barcelona demonstrations.

Does this really have any impact on us? Perhaps not directly but it is a symptom of a growing problem with the central planning of the globalization cartel. As the attention of the Central Bankers remains focused on protecting the Bank’s balance sheets from their insolvency, the real economy is left to the trickle down repair that is NOT addressing the pain on a large portion of the sheeple. Instead of expending their efforts to improve the structural breakdowns from years of malinvestment by the bankers, we have elected to chose a path of “extend and pretend”. Trying to buy enough time that self healing can allow and economic healing through the ranks of business and manufacturing. Meanwhile the structural decay in our roads, bridges, airports, railways, and education progress unabated.

We’re in the 5th year of the “recovery”. What the MSM tries to conceal from the public when statistics are presented on improving employment are the more permanent conditions that are developing within our country. We have PhDs that are now working as cab drivers. We have new college graduates taking jobs at fast food shops. These are honest jobs, but they are malinvestment in our future. These people show up as “employed” in the statistics, just as those that have given up looking for work and just live off of food stamps and other forms of Government assistance. The real unemployment number in this centrally planned recovery is closer to 20% which is a depression era number here. In the countries like Spain, the official numbers are well over 25%. Back on our own soil there are enormous families that were living large and believing it was their patriotic duty to be an aggressive spender. They were encouraged by the media and government even to spend and consume. Now the music has stopped and instead of letting the strong hands come in and take over the defaults of these millions of sheep….the Central planners elected to try and reinflate the housing bubble and destroy the possibility of a more meaningful long term recovery. This is calculated and this is why we talk about protecting yourself. There will be more pain to come, and it can only be postponed so long.

Keep your eyes on Europe. Its going to be warm weather soon. And with warming weather will come new problems for the Central planners. March should be a time for renewal. Someone is going after the Vatican. Strange timing. gl all

Thank you Kliguy.This is an incredible post. Thomas

Update: Spain at a glance as May begins:

The European Union
The following are 20 signs that the next Great Depression has already started in Europe…

#1 The unemployment rate in France has surged to 10.6 percent, and the number of jobless claims in that country recently set a new all-time record.

#2 Unemployment in the eurozone as a whole is sitting at an all-time record of 12 percent.

#3 Two years ago, Portugal’s unemployment rate was about 12 percent. Today, it is about 17 percent.

#4 The unemployment rate in Spain has set a new all-time record of 27 percent. Even during the Great Depression of the 1930s the United States never had unemployment that high.

#5 The unemployment rate among those under the age of 25 in Spain is an astounding 57.2 percent.

#6 The unemployment rate in Greece has set a new all-time record of 27.2 percent. Even during the Great Depression of the 1930s the United States never had unemployment that high.

#7 The unemployment rate among those under the age of 25 in Greece is a whopping 59.3 percent.

#8 French car sales in March were 16 percent lower than they were one year earlier.

#9 German car sales in March were 17 percent lower than they were one year earlier.

#10 In the Netherlands, consumer debt is now up to about 250 percent of available income.

#11 Industrial production in Italy has fallen by an astounding 25 percent over the past five years.

#12 The number of Spanish firms filing for bankruptcy is 45 percent higher than it was a year ago.

#13 Since 2007, the value of non-performing loans in Europe has increased by 150 percent.

#14 Bank withdrawals in Cyprus during the month of March were double what they were in February even though the banks were closed for half the month.

#15 Due to an absolutely crippling housing crash, there are approximately 3 million vacant homes in Spain today.

#16 Things have gotten so bad in Spain that entire apartment buildings are being overwhelmed by squatters…

A 285-unit apartment complex in Parla, less than half an hour’s drive from Madrid, should be an ideal target for investors seeking cheap property in Spain. Unfortunately, two thirds of the building generates zero revenue because it’s overrun by squatters.

“This is happening all over the country,” said Jose Maria Fraile, the town’s mayor, who estimates only 100 apartments in the block built for the council have rental contracts, and not all of those tenants are paying either. “People lost their jobs, they can’t pay mortgages or rent so they lost their homes and this has produced a tide of squatters.”

#17 As I wrote about the other day, child hunger has become so rampant in Greece that teachers are reporting that hungry children are begging their classmates for food.

#18 The debt to GDP ratio in Italy is now up to 136 percent.

#19 25 percent of all banking assets in the UK are in banks that are leveraged at least 40 to 1.

#20 German banking giant Deutsche Bank has more than 55 trillion euros (which is more than 72 trillion dollars) of exposure to derivatives. But the GDP of Germany for an entire year is only about 2.7 trillion euros.

Yes, U.S. stocks have been doing great so far this year, but the truth is that the stock market has become completely and totally divorced from economic reality. When it does catch up with the economic fundamentals, it will probably happen very rapidly like we saw back in 2008.

Facebook Rules for 2013. Keep it Light Grasshopper….

Bees to honey. The Facebook culture’s little book of etiquette.

Its mid afternoon and I have had over 300 hits on my Facebook page.Being in certain groups ( Music and History mainly) the information flow is incessant.I call it the beehive. People seeking informational nutrients, buzzing around informational flowers, increasingly regimented, as bee colonies are prone to do.The buzz is constant.and befitting the new AGE OF DRONES>>>>>>>

I observe the do’s and don’ts of FB culture and note that you can “like ” something, but not “love” it. I have made certain observations in the last year that explain why some content is so popular and why other posts are soundly ignored.

Pictures of your children are always wildly popular, provided they are not breaking the law, or having a melt down. Actually , melt downs are popular, but only if the child is under 5.

Political rants are unpopular.Even if your message resonates with many, the “in” crowd at FB will soon teach you to “play it light” I was wrong to attack the Whig party of 1821 and had no idea there was a huge fan base ready to protect it’s frilly borders.

If you plan to instant message someone, you better not be “on the prowl”. The most offensive thing on the planet is when some FB loser tries to score on a lady who has posted her pictures on line. Chances are the “lady” is a dude and the loser doing the hunting is unemployed, and unstable to boot. Angry face bookers are suspect in this cyber lite culture.

Pictures of digs in silly outfits remain high on the popularity list, eclipsed only by photographs of humans dressed in sillier outfits. Humor always wins..period.

Unfriending people can be tricky.Sometimes you may feel that have 8000 friends can be a burden, so you unfriend some of them in order to “clean house” Later, you bump into an unfriend and they accuse you of making them a facebook pariah, or as I call it, a Cyber Leper. You can “like” them back into social validity, but it takes time and effort.Many people seek therapy these days because they have been un friended..Its a growing social curse.

Finally, Face Book can be what you make it. Sure it has a creepy side, but if your message is consistent with your mission, then there is much to gain from Face book connections.Just don’t replace your real friends with Face Book friends. After all, they existed in real life before they became avitars ..Right?

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