Capital Gazette Shooting: 888 and Updates

The newspaper said there was no way they weren't going to publish a paper the day of the shooting. And they did it.

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I posted the following graphic on Twitter early on the morning of June 28, 2018.

From a slide show presented by Stephen Miles Lewis, Anomaly Archives, 2011.

Then, in the afternoon came this breaking news....a rather commonplace occurrence nowadays, unfortunately.

At least five people were killed and three injured in an "active shooting incident" at the Capital Gazette building in Annapolis. One suspect (white, 20s, with a ponytail, drab green teeshirt, and black pants, no ID) is in custody. (More on his identity below.) He reportedly used a shotgun.

Annapolis, Anne Arundel County and state police, along with officers from neighboring jurisdictions are at the scene in the 800 block of Bestgate Road, near the Annapolis Mall. The incident was reported at 888 Bestgate Road.

Four of those wounded suffered critical injuries. Two state police helicopters have been called the scene, and a triage has been set up, SkyTeam 11 Capt. Roy Taylor reports.

Suspicious packages were reported. SWAT officers will conduct a room-by-room search.

The Capital Gazette is owned by The Baltimore Sun. That paper reports police were at their building, as well.

The Capital is a daily newspaper published in Annapolis, Maryland since 1884. Its sister newspaper, The Gazette, is one of the oldest newspapers in America, its origins dating back to the early 18th century. The Capital serves the city of Annapolis, much of Anne Arundel County, and neighboring Kent Island in Queen Anne's County. An evening newspaper for most of its existence, it moved to mornings beginning on March 9, 2015.[1]

The Capital, the Maryland Gazette and their sister publications have been composed and printed for more than 270 years in numerous locations in and near Annapolis.

The company has moved headquarters seven times, including from 3 Church Circle to 213 West St. in 1948, to 2000 Capital Drive in 1987, to Gibralter Road after that, and to 888 Bestgate Road in 2014.

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888

In a new posting, "Opening the Beast Gate," on the Super Torch Ritual, Goro Adachi points to this incident being a "clear 'signal events' – events encoded with patterns that give us various levels of insights into what’s going on in our reality, past, present, and future. And we got something about the near future in this one."

Goro notes it is an "an in-your-face, 'look at me!' sync in the form of  '888' accompanying the event, we have something here practically begging to be decoded."

It’s not just “888”. The whole street address is highly suggestive: “888 Bestgate Road”. The surname “Best” means “beast”, hence we have here… a “Beast Gate”! A darker version of our “Stargate”.
The Biblical overtones increase with the Christian interpretation of the numerical symbolism of “888” – Jesus. From Wikipedia:

In Christian numerology, the number 888 represents Jesus, or sometimes more specifically Christ the Redeemer. This representation may be justified either through gematria, by counting the letter values of the Greek transliteration of Jesus’ name, or as an opposing value to 666, the number of the beast.

Wow. So 888 = Jesus = opposite of the number of Beast. This means…

“888 Beast Gate” = “Jesus Beast Gate” = “888 666 Gate”

Go here for the surrounding context in which Gore Adachi places this.

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666

Looking at 666, it should be pointed out again, that Jared Kurshner owns the high profile building - 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City. 

In December 2006, Tishman Speyer, along with the German investment firm TMW, announced the sale of the building to the Kushner Properties for $1.8 billion (about $2.2 billion real value), at the time the highest price ever paid for an individual building in Manhattan. Kushner Properties' owners are Charles Kushner and his son Jared Kushner. Jared is married to Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump.

Jared Corey Kushner (37; above) and Jarrod Warren Ramos (38; below).

The alleged gunman was identified as Jarrod Warren Ramos.

Goro further adds here, "the name of the Capital Gazette shooter has been identified as 'Jarrod Ramos'. 'Jarrod' means 'rose,' and 'Ramos' means 'branches'. Together meaning 'Rose Branches.'"

Couple other name game points: Jarrod Ramos' middle name is Warren. The American, Germanic and Teutonic meanings of Warren are basically the same, "protector," "loyal," with the English variant, "gamekeeper defender (protector)."

Traditionally, in the USA, the name covertly links back to,

Dr. Joseph Warren (June 11, 1741 – June 17, 1775) was an American physician who played a leading role in American Patriot organizations in Boston in the early days of the American Revolution, eventually serving as President of the revolutionary Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Warren enlisted Paul Revere and William Dawes on April 18, 1775, to leave Boston and spread the alarm that the British garrison in Boston was setting out to raid the town of Concord and arrest rebel leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Warren participated in the next day's Battles of Lexington and Concord, which are commonly considered to be the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
Warren had been commissioned a Major General in the colony's militia shortly before the June 17, 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill. Rather than exercising his rank, Warren served in the battle as a private soldier, and was killed in combat when British troops stormed the redoubt atop Breed's Hill. His death, immortalized in John Trumbull's painting, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775, galvanized the rebel forces. He has been memorialized in the naming of many towns, counties and other locations in the United States, by statues, and in numerous other ways (emphasis added). Source.

Jarrod Warren Ramos, the alleged shooter in Annapolis, used the Berserk Brand of Sacrifice (生贄の焼印, Ikenie no Yakīn?) to mark those he was out to involve in a sacrificial ceremony via his Twitter account.

Rob Hiaasen, a managing editor and columnist at The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, was one of the five victims killed in the mass shooting at the newspaper's office on June 28, 2018. Rob Hiaasen wrote one book in 2006, Over My Dead Body.  Rob is the brother of Carl Hiaasen (born March 12, 1953), an American writer. A long-time columnist for the Miami Herald, Carl Hiaasen has also written more than 20 novels which can generally be classified as humorous crime fiction and often feature themes of environmentalism and political corruption in his native Florida.

The other four killed were:

Gerald Fischman, a columnist and the editorial page editor of The Capital,

Rebecca Smith, sales assistant,
John McNamara, editor and sports reporter, and

Wendi Winters, community beat reporter.

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June 28, 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.

Tomorrow's Targets: Trump Towers?

Trump buildings are extremely visible because President-to-be Donald Trump, during his empire-establishing career, loved to see his name on them.

This has now created real problems. And dangers.

My sympathies go out to various intelligence services (CIA, ONI, NSA) and the FBI. Due to the election of Donald Trump, immediately, very physical targets exist reflective of the new USA presidency, and by extension, America. The job of gathering Informaton on plots and protecting these buildings falls to the alphabet soup of this network and aligned law enforcement agencies.

The potential that any one of these flamboyant structures may be assaulted, by car bombs, hand-thrown bombs, or even fuel-heavy planes, has been heightened.

The new post-election, fortress America is certainly true at various Trump Towers in New York City. The possible most significant future bull's eye is being guarded from bombings with cement trucks, until the US Secret Service can fortify the building more permanently. The surprise victory of Trump on Election Day gave little time for a more thoughtful solution.

The use of the name "Trump" so widely and so openly, throughout the world, has caused a major security and political headache. This is especially true for individuals who do not want to be identified with the Trump name, but discover they live or work in just such a building.

Trump Tower is located at 725 5th Avenue. You can obtain your own replica of this building here.

Regarding the "Trump name game," on buildings, it has come to the fore rapidly that it is proving to be a challenge. On Wednesday, November 16, 2016, Donald Trump’s name will be permanently removed from a series of New York City buildings, "in an apparent repudiation of his divisive presidential campaign."

The name “Trump” has been displayed prominently on 140, 160 and 180 Trump Place, in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, for more than a decade. Trump developed the apartment buildings in the 1990s....
The move comes after hundreds of residents signed a “Dump the Trump name” petition calling for “Trump” to be removed from the buildings....
The apartment buildings will no longer use the address “Trump Place”, Equity Residential said, instead adopting the formal street address of Riverside Boulevard. Trump-branded doormats were removed from the buildings in the days before the presidential election.
Signs saying “Trump Place” – in large gold letters – will be removed from the three buildings on Wednesday.
Trump developed the apartments, between 59th Street and 71st Street on the west side of Manhattan, in partnership with investors from Hong Kong in the 1990s, according to the New York Times.
Seven buildings bear the Trump name. While some are managed by the Trump Organization, the three apartment buildings at 140, 160 and 180 Riverside Boulevard are now controlled by Equity Residential.
Trump’s home, Trump Tower, is located just a mile and a half east of Trump Place. Source.

There are other buildings that are tied to the Trump legacy.

Trump's son-in-law owns another high profile building - 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City. In December 2006, Tishman Speyer, along with the German investment firm TMW, announced the sale of the building to the Kushner Properties for $1.8 billion (about $2.2 billion real value), at the time the highest price ever paid for an individual building in Manhattan. Kushner Properties' owners are Charles Kushner and his son Jared Kushner. Jared is married to Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President-elect of the United States Donald Trump.

There are currently many sites around the world that may be in jeopardy, potential magnets for demonstrators or bombers, and thus new national security concerns. 

Here are the top ten, as identified by Dezeen.

Trump International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Trump International Hotel and Tower, Chicago, Illinois.

Trump International Hotel and Tower, Toronto, Canada.

Trump Ocean Club, Panama City, Panama.

Trump SoHo, New York City, New York.

Trump Tower, New York City, New York.

Trump International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Trump Tower, Manila, Philippines.

Trump Towers, Istanbul, Turkey.

Trump Towers, Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.

Trump World Tower, New York City, New York.

For more background info on these structures, see here.

For more on other Trump properties, see here.

Source for these maps, "In Maps: Trump properties around the world," CTV News.

9/9/9 Hijacking

Aeromexico Flight 576, which is 5+7+6 = 18, thus 1+8 = 9, was hijacked on 9/9/9.

Breaking news is that the plane hijacking in Mexico is over after special forces stormed the jet.

The aircraft was hijacked as it landed in the capital Mexico City from the resort of Cancun. Mexican online media reports said Aeromexico Flight 576 had 104 people on board when it left Bolivia, and made a stopover in Cancun en route to Mexico City.

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Update: Mark Baard at Timenauts.com points out, from CNN:

A 44-year-old Bolivian drug addict and alcoholic who describes himself as a church minister was the sole person responsible for the brief hijacking Wednesday of a commercial jetliner....The suspect — Jose Mar Flores — told authorities he hijacked the Boeing 737 jet because the date — September 9, 2009, or 9/9/9, and 666 reversed — held some significance for him, said Genaro Garcia Luna, the secretary for public safety.

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Intriguingly, earlier reports said up to five men were taken off the jet in handcuffs after it was stormed.

The alleged hijackers reportedly had explosives strapped to their legs and were demanding to talk to Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

They released all the passengers soon after the plane landed in Mexico City.

The passengers left with their hand luggage. They appeared calm and boarded nearby buses.

But the plane's crew were still being held hostage before special forces moved in and made the arrests.

Nobody was hurt and no shots were fired, it is understood.

Transportation and Communications Secretary Juan Molinar said all passengers and crew were safe.

But he would not say how many alleged hijackers were detained or give details of their motivation.

"Various people who participated in the act have been detained and we are investigating," he said.

He said there was no bomb on the airplane, although some passengers said one of the hijackers held a package that resembled an explosive device.

Aeromexico Flight 576 has been on the runway at the capital's international airport after the hijacking.

One of the passengers, Adriana Romero, told Mexican TV she had not realized the flight had been hijacked until the plane landed at Mexico City.

"We realized it was a hijack when we saw the police trucks," she said.

El Universal daily said the men had not been able to get inside the plane's cockpit.

The last hijacking in the region was in April in Jamaica, when an armed man took over a CanJet Boeing 737 due to fly from Montego Bay to Cuba.

All 182 people on board were rescued unharmed when Jamaican police stormed the airliner and captured the mentally troubled gunman without firing a shot.