Stockholm Rammings

A truck has rammed into a large crowd of people at a department store at a mall in Stockholm killing at least three people.

Witnesses say the large vehicle drove into people in the shopping district of Drottninggata in the Swedish capital.

There are reports of another ramming and gunfire elsewhere in Stickholm.

Drottninggatta = Queen's Way or Queen's Road.

Police said a number of people had been hurt in the incident, which comes after trucks were used in terror attacks in Nice and Berlin last year.

Gunshots were heard, bloodied bodies are seen in early coverage, and hundreds of people ran from the scene.

It is a fluid breaking news story.

Palm Springs Bus Crash ~ 13/31/33

On October 23, 2016, a 1996 MCI bus, operated by USA Holiday, was returning to Los Angeles from the Red Earth Casino near Salton Sea, California, when it slammed into the rear of a tractor-trailer, near Palm Springs, killing 13 people and injuring 31 others.

As can be seen from photographs at the scene, this happened 2 miles from the exit to 29 Palms (2 + 29 = 31), at the junction of Rt. 62 (62 ÷ 2 = 31).

The bus driver was among those killed and the truck driver was injured.

"The speed of the bus was so significant that when it hit the back of the big rig... the trailer itself entered about 15 feet into the bus," California Highway Patrol division Chief Jim Abele said.

Teodulo Elias Vides, 59, of Los Angeles, was driving the 1996 MCI motor coach. Vides was also the owner of the company, Alhambra-based USA Holiday, that operated the bus, according to the Los Angeles Times. He had previously been sued at least twice for negligence, including over a crash that left three people dead, the newspaper reported.

In addition to Vides, the victims of Sunday's crash were identified as:
Isabel Jimenez Hernandez, 66, of Los Angeles
Rosa Ruiz, 53, of Los Angeles
Gustavo Green, 62, Los Angeles
Zoila Aguilera, 72, of Los Angeles
Milagros Gonzales, 72, of Los Angeles
Concepcion Corvera, 57, of Palmdale
Aracely Tije, 63, of Los Angeles
Dora Galvez de Rodriguez, 69, of Los Angeles
Elvia Sanchez, 52, of Los Angeles
Ana Gomes de Magallon, 71, of Los Angeles
Yolanda Mendoza, 69, of Los Angeles
Tony Mai, 50, of Los Angeles

The total number of people on the bus, including the driver, thus was 44.

The crash occurred at approximately 5:15 a.m. on the westbound side of Interstate 10, west of Indian Avenue. The report of the accident came in at 5:17 a.m. local time, officials said. The cause was not immediately known.

Twilight Language reader Tom Mellett shares the following:

In the first photo with the mountains in the background, it is an eerie reminder of the Trinidad CO crash last June 27.
What first struck me was the number combo: 13 killed, 31 injured, because they match exactly the initial reports from the Charles Whitman UT-Tower rampage in Austin in 1966. (Now stands at 14-33.)
See, NY Daily News story of Aug. 2, 1966:

AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 1 - A kill-crazy ex-marine slaughtered his wife and mother today, then hauled an arsenal of guns to a perch high on the University of Texas tower and launched an orgy of sniping in which 13 died and 31 were wounded.

The tour bus rear-ended a big rig trailer that had slowed down to 5 mph. All the deaths and injuries were on the bus, mainly at the front. It was a tour bus returning to LA from a casino outing. It happened on IH 10. Something about unlucky 13 and 10 are numbers with gambling significance. Time of crash was 5:15 AM. (Said to be reported at 5:17.)
The bus was returning from the Red Earth Casino near the Salton Sea ~ 50 miles SSE from the accident site.
Coordinates of accident site: 33.905343, -116.558680
Red Earth Casino: 33.352368, -116.019579
(Note that both latitudes fall within the 33 degree band.)
The Salton Sea is like America's Dead Sea and is also where the San Andreas fault line ends on the Eastern shore. A month ago, there were many small earthquakes 2-4 magnitude in the Salton Sea, just 15 mile East of the casino which sits near the Western shore. Right across from the casino is Bombay Beach on the Eastern shore which was the epicenter of many of these little rumbling quakes.
See the entire SA fault on the map here, from SF to Salton Sea, where the Southern tip is just 3 miles NNW from Bombay Beach.
Southern tip of SA Fault: 33.399966, -115.776669

Promenade des Anglais: 84 Dead in Nice

At least 84 people have been killed and over a hundred more injured in the southern French city of Nice on Thursday, July 14, 2016, after a truck (lorry in the UK reports) was "deliberately driven" into a crowd out celebrating Bastille Day in a confirmed terrorist attack.

Considering I just posted about Zombieland and how Zombie-like the Pokeman Go players are behaving, it is intriguing that the Nice attack is being compared to Zombie movies. 

"Truck Attack similarity to zombie movies," writes Steve Lindsay.

"The white truck ---- equals the White horse ----The First Horseman of Book of Revelations -> R 9/11. The carnage scene today in France was described as apocalyptic."

World War Z and Dawn of the Dead/Two Buses from Hell. (See here and here.)

Those who have read my book, The Copycat Effect, realize that graphic images like these ones (below) actually stimulate more copycats. The bodies on the avenue is the lead photograph from The Drudge Report. I post it here for editorial reasons. To reveal and make known is to undermine the syndrome.

Crowds watching fireworks for France's Independence Day were mowed down by a large white truck that plowed, via a zigzag pattern, through the gathered people.

The first victim to die was a Muslim mother of seven named Fatima Charrihi.

Nicolas Leslie, a University of California, Berkeley, student who was missing after a truck drove through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, killing 84, died in the attack, the school said Sunday, relaying information it had received from the FBI.

He is the third American confirmed killed in the Thursday attack. A father and son from Texas also died in the attack.

Sean Copeland, 51, and his 11-year-old son Brodie were among the more than 80 people killed Thursday when a truck zig-zagged through a screaming crowd for more than a mile along the Promenade des Anglais.

The driver of the truck engaged in gunfire with law enforcement officers, and died in the fire fight. Grenades and guns were found in the truck.

An identity card of a 31 year-old Nice resident of Tunisian ancestry was found in the truck, according to various French media.

The @guardiannews quotes @Nice_Matin that the identity of the #NiceAttack driver is allegedly French-Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31.

The focus is the Promenade des Anglais.  Promenade des Anglais means "Avenue of the English." In the early 1800s, many wealthy English tourists came to Nice to spend their winters. They settled mainly in the area to the west of the Old Town, where they built villas and hotels as well as establishing their own Anglican church and cemetery. Thus this area became the "Avenue of the English."

Bastille Day is the common name given in English-speaking countries to the French National Day, which is celebrated on 14 July each year. In France, it is formally called La fête national (The National Celebration) and commonly Le quatorze juillet (the fourteenth of July).

The French National Day commemorates the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, an important event in Paris in The French Revolution, which had begun two days earlier, as well as the Fête de la Fédération which celebrated the unity of the French people on 14 July 1790. Celebrations are held throughout France. The oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe is held on the morning of 14 July, on the Champs-Élysées in Paris in front of the President of the Republic, along with other French officials and foreign guests.

In an unrelated accident, a fire has been reported and pictured burning at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Parndorf's Truck

Investigators stand near a truck that stands on the shoulder of the highway A4 near Parndorf south of Vienna, Austria on Aug. 27, 2015. Photo by Ronald Zak.

An abandoned truck “full of bodies” (apparently the count is 71) was found on the side of a highway in eastern Austria, near Parndorf, on Thursday. Police said the dead were thought to be refugees.

This happened in the Austrian state of Burgenland.

Hans Peter Doskozil, the head of the Burgenland Police, early on said: “We cannot say exactly how many there are. We could imagine that maybe 20 people have died, but it could also be 40 or 50 … We think that these are refugees.”

Now we hear the number 71.

The Krone newspaper reported that initial indications were that they suffocated.

The truck had been purchased from a company that did not remove their branding from the vehicle. They told the media they would not be doing that again.

So, this truck was found a short distance from Parndorf.

Parndorf literally contains the common German root "dorf" for "town/city" and a simple word, "parn," which hides a complex meaning and other links.

In Old German, "parn" refers to the "grass of Parnassus."

Mount Parnassus (/pɑrˈnæsəs/; Greek: Παρνασσός, Parnassos), is a mountain of limestone in central Greece that towers above Delphi, north of the Gulf of Corinth, and offers scenic views of the surrounding olive groves and countryside. According to Greek mythology, this mountain was sacred to Dionysus and the Dionysian mysteries; it was also sacred to Apollo and the Corycian nymphs, and it was the home of the Muses. The mountain was also favored by the Dorians. There is a theory that Parna- derived from the same root as the word in Luwian meaning House.

The name "Parnassus" in literature typically refers to its distinction as the home of poetry, literature and, by extension, learning. The Montparnasse area in Paris, France, for example, bears its name from the many literature students who recited poetry in the streets, who as a result nicknamed it "(le) Mont Parnasse".

This then links to a significant synchromystic movie.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a 2009 fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam and Charles McKeown. The film follows a travelling theatre troupe whose leader, having made a bet with the Devil, takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations and present them with a choice between self-fulfilling enlightenment or gratifying ignorance.

Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Andrew Garfield, Lily Cole, Verne Troyer, and Tom Waits star in the film, though Ledger's death one-third of the way through filming caused production to be temporarily suspended. Ledger's role was recast with Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell portraying transformations of Ledger's character as he travels through a dream world.

Several starting points in the plot line of the film's story link to material I've written about in my Twilight Language blog of late, including Mr. Nick/Devil/Nicholas, bridges over water/Bridgewater, and, of course, Heath Ledger's presence in The Dark Knight Rises.

To wit, Doctor Parnassus' (Plummer) theatre troupe, which includes sleight of hand expert Anton (Garfield), confidant Percy (Troyer), and Parnassus' daughter Valentina (Cole), performs outside a London pub. A drunk (Richard Riddell) barges onstage and crashes through a stage mirror, where his face changes (Bruce Crawford), and he enters a journey of imagination that culminates in a choice between a torturous-looking twelve-step program and going to a pub. He enters the pub, but it explodes; in the real world, Parnassus says he has lost another one to Mr. Nick (Waits).

Mr. Nick reminds Parnassus that in three days Valentina turns 16, and her soul will be his. Drinking and playing tarot, Parnassus tells Valentina that, centuries earlier, he ran a monastery where monks perpetually recited stories to sustain the world. Mr. Nick challenged their beliefs by sealing their mouths. The world survived, but Parnassus claimed it was because of stories told elsewhere. Mr. Nick had bet Parnassus who could win more souls. Parnassus won twelve souls before Mr. Nick, and gained immortality.

As the troupe crosses a bridge, Anton spies someone hanging beneath it. They rescue the man (Ledger), who spits out a golden pipe when revived. Claiming to have amnesia, the man joins the troupe as a barker. Parnassus becomes despondent over the impending loss of his daughter. Mr. Nick visits Parnassus, revealing the hanging man is a disgraced philanthropist named "Tony". He offers Parnassus a wager: Valentina can stay with whoever wins five souls first.

It continues on. It is a genius story. Director Terry Gilliam and screenwriter Charles McKeown wrote the script for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), their first collaboration since The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988).

The labeling on the truck was unfortunate as these people were merely a form of human cargo for someone trying to make money. The metaphor is the message from Parndorf.