Aurora Update: Superman Killer

The killer called himself "Sun."

The second gunman to cause multiple fatalies in Aurora, Colorado in seven months has been identified by neighbors as 33-year-old Sonny Archuleta. Aurora is also the location of the The Dark Knight Rises shootings on July 20, 2012.

The surname Archuleta is a family name which was originated in the Basque Country of Spain. Archuleta is of Castillian derivation of Basque Aretxuloeta, which ultimately comes from the place name Arechavaleta (Basque: Aretxabaleta). The placename uses the Basque words "(h)aritz" (oak tree), "zabal" (wide) and "eta" (indicating plurality), with the combined meaning of "wide place where oak trees grow." 

The surname Archuleta as shown in the Diccionârio Onomastico y Heraldico Vasco (Basque heraldry dictionary) means oak grove.

Thus one way to interpret his name is as "sunny oak grove." (It will be recalled that Wade Michael Page, a man with many tattoos, including one of 9/11, killed six at a Sikh gurdwara on Sunday, August 5, 2012, in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.)

A published photograph of the killer who killed himself - Sonny Archuleta - shows he had a significant chest tattoo symbol of Superman. Source + Source.

Man of Steel is an upcoming American superhero film directed by Zack Snyder, produced by Christopher Nolan (the director of the Dark Knight films) and scripted by David S. Goyer. It opens June 14th. Flag Day. Should we be worried?

Please note that in back of Archuleta are photographs of the skyline and the Flatiron Building of New York City. New York City is the model for Gotham City in the Dark Knight/Batman mythos, and for Metropolis in the Superman stories.

Aferrismoon notes that "Aurora police Sgt. Cassidee Carlson spoke to the press at this incident, and also attended the search of James Holmes flat back in July."

Sonny Archuleta's victims have been identified as Archuleta’s sister-in-law, Stacie Philbrook and her boyfriend, Chris Ratliffe; and Archuleta’s father-in-law, Anthony Ticali.
On September 5, 2012, Archuleta tweeted about the murder of his brother, Pat, who was shot and killed at a local restaurant in Denver on September 3, 2012.

Enki shares the following insights:

It is mind-blowing that the alleged gunman in the first high profile mass shooting in Aurora Colorado since the Batman shooting resonates strongly with another DC Comics hero: Superman. In addition to having the Superman symbol tattooed on his chest, Archuleta used the name "The 5uper" on his Myspace page (where he posted the result of his "Which Superhero am I" quiz: "You are Superman.") According to his Twitter, he was "working and spreading the Word" at the fortreSS of Sol!tude Upper Art Stud!o.

I am guessing, given Archuleta's obvious fascination with Superman, that the tattoo on his upper arm (which I at first thought might be a poorly executed depiction of Elvis) is the face of Superman. The heavily cratered planet, with what appears to be a rocket taking off from its surface, is likely Superman's home planet Krypton, from which the infant Superman escaped in a spaceship.
Solar syncs abound in this case. Superman gets his super powers from earth's sun, and the name Sonny (Sunny) resonates with this. The shooting took place at 16005 Ithaca Place. Homer described Ithaca in the Odyssey:

“Many islandslie around it, very close to each other,Doulichion, Same, and wooded Zacynthos--but low-lying Ithaca is farthest out to sea,towards the sunset, and the others are apart, towards the dawn and sun.”

Of course, the appearance of sunlight is reflected in the name of the city – Aurora means dawn. A photo behind Archuleta shows a city (New York, I believe) experiencing a red sunset or a red dawn.
An anagram provides synchromystic confirmation of the solar connection. The letters in the name “Sonny S. Archuleta” can be rearranged into the phrase “Unearth a Sol sync.” 

Enki

Secret Sun Seen

Christopher Loring Knowles, creator/founder of The Secret Sun blog, has posted his interview of me at 3:33 P.M. today. You can find it by clicking here, "Loren Coleman, The Dark Jokers and The Copycat Effect."

CLK sees me.

Christopher Loring Knowles

Chris has much praise for my insights. I am humbled by his prologue. In the midst of his introduction to the interview, I am happy to see my thoughts being viewed as harmonic to those of others. Aurora has assisted me in realizing a role I must take in speaking up, sharing my perceptions, and not getting in the way of how folks wish to use what light I can throw into this darkness. Various people are grasping the different dots I am discovering, and they are connecting them as they see fit. That's good.

Writing The Copycat Effect ten years ago was a way to share what I was seeing, but if no one reads it, it does no good. It is encouraging to see someone like Chris in the fiery Secret Sun now calling my book one of the "foundational texts of our new age of media-fed carnage," exposing the role of the media in "exploiting and inspiring mass murder and suicide."

I certainly appreciate what Chris says when he notes, "Loren also peers beneath the surface and looks at the Synchromystic ripples that inevitably accompany all of the mayhem we are witnessing on his blog Twilight Language." 

I thank him for seeing that.

"My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. 

What if some of them should not be coincidences?" 

~ Charles Fort, 1932.

Meanwhile, by coincidence, today Mike Clelland, at Hidden Experiences, likewise penned a few words about my sagacious writings in his new "coincidences, twilight language and recent news."

Mike Clelland

Mike acknowledges me as a "Fortean author," which I am, and says I am a "modern mystic." I must credit him with being the first person to notice that part of what I do.

"When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, 

we go on investigating." 
~ Charles Fort

The Copycat Effect

(NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004) 

"Red dawn event, a milestone manifestation of 

unfathomable future dimensions."  

~ Loren Coleman, July 24, 2012

and

"The Aurora, Colorado shooting appears to be a red dawn, 

a milestone awakening event of which we can only 

guess what it might really mean in the 

near and distant future." 

~ Loren Coleman, July 22, 2012

Recent interviews, about the Aurora red dawn event, the copycat effect, and more:

WGN - Mike McConnell: Loren Coleman

The Corbett Report: The Copycat Effect with Loren Coleman

Binnall of America: Loren Coleman and Bruce Rux

Talk Shoe - 42 Minutes: Loren Coleman

Red Ice Creations: Loren Coleman

Romney's Red Dawn? Actually Not!

Well, it turns out that all of the noise about this appears to have been Matt Drudge's dreamland scenario. But, as you know now, Mitt Romney has picked Paul Ryan.

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Has Romney pulled a red dawn on us?

Is the man who insisted on changing the name of the Iraqi deployment to "Operation New Dawn" going to be running for a spot in line for the presidency? Is the current head of the CIA about ready to be the vice presidential candidate under Romney? Do you feel like you are in a psy-ops movie? Well, hold on to your hat.

The soldier behind coming up with the name "New Dawn" during the ending phases of the Iraqi War may be helping to move the entire landscape of Campaign 2012 in a new direction.

Do you know that Defense Secretary Robert Gates agreed to General David Petraeus' request to change "Operation Iraqi Freedom" to "Operation New Dawn," a couple years ago? The change went into effect on September 1, 2010.

There was also a more focussed "Operation Red Dawn" earlier. Operation Red Dawn was the U.S. military operation conducted on 13 December 2003 in the town of ad-Dawr, Iraq, near Tikrit, that captured Iraq President Saddam Hussein. The operation was named after the 1984 film Red Dawn. The mission was assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division, commanded by Major. Gen Raymond Odierno and led by Col. James Hickey of the 4th Infantry Division, with joint operations Task Force 121 - an elite and covert joint special operations team. Who do you think came up with that name?

The military operation searched two sites, "Wolverine 1" and "Wolverine 2," outside the town of ad-Dawr, but did not find Saddam Hussein. A continued search between the two sites discovered him in a "spider hole" hide out at 20:30 hrs local Iraqi time. Despite being armed with a pistol and an AK-47 assault rifle, and provisioned with US$750,000 in cash, Saddam did not resist capture.

It has been a strange month already, now this. The news has been filled with an alleged former university neuroscience student shooting 70 people in a movie audience in Colorado's Aurora (red dawn) on July 20th. One fourth of the 12 killed in Aurora are said to have been linked to the U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. Tenth Fleet at Buckley Air Force. According to their Navy site (which they admit is "subject to monitoring"), the "mission of Fleet Cyber Command is to serve as central operational authority for networks, cryptologic/signals intelligence, information operations, cyber, electronic warfare, and space capabilities."

Fast forward to the Sikh Temple shooting of August 4th. The shooter in that incident has been identified as a former psychological operations specialist out of the U.S. Army, at Ft. Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Now, the news breaks today that former Governor Willard Mitt Romney may be interested in "New Dawn" General David Howell Petraeus to be his running mate. Who could have seen this new dawn (or is it a storm) coming?

What does Petraeus mean?

Petraeus has its origins in Petreus, which means Πετρεύς (ancient Greek)> πέτρα (both modern and ancient Greek) = stone, rock.

In Greece, the name Petreus in no longer in use, but what is still employed is Petros (which would mean stone if the word petra had a male equivelent, since it is a female word).

To the English-speaking ear, what is most familiar is to think of the origins of the first name Peter.

Peter was derived from the Greek Πετρος (Petros) meaning stone. This is a translation used in most versions of the New Testament of the name Cephas, meaning stone in Aramaic, which was given to the apostle Simon by Jesus.

Compare Matthew 16:18 and John 1:42.

Matthew 16:18: "You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church."

John 1:42: "And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, 'You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas' (which, when translated, is Peter)."

Simon Peter was the most prominent of the apostles during Jesus' ministry and is often considered the first pope.

Briefly, who is David Petraeus:

General David Howell Petraeus (born November 7, 1952) is the current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He was sworn in on September 6, 2011. Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus was a four-star general serving over 37 years in the United States Army. His last assignments in the Army were as commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A) from July 4, 2010 to July 18, 2011. His other four-star assignments include serving as the 10th Commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) from October 13, 2008, to June 30, 2010, and as Commanding General, Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I) from February 10, 2007, to September 16, 2008. As commander of MNF-I, Petraeus oversaw all coalition forces in Iraq.

Petraeus has a B.S. degree from the United States Military Academy from which he graduated in 1974 as a distinguished cadet (top 5% of his class). He was the General George C. Marshall Award winner as the top graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College class of 1983. He subsequently earned an M.P.A. in 1985 and a Ph.D. degree in International Relations in 1987 from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He later served as Assistant Professor of International Relations at the United States Military Academy and also completed a fellowship at Georgetown University.

Some news reports have speculated that Petraeus may have interest in running for the presidency, especially after he visited a school known for hosting the presidential debates, New Hampshire's Saint Anselm College. Petraeus lives in New Hampshire. Despite these accounts, Petraeus has categorically asserted that he has no political ambitions.  

On June 23, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Petraeus to succeed General Stanley McChrystal as commanding general of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, technically a step down from his position as Commander of United States Central Command, which oversees the military efforts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and Egypt.

On June 30, 2011, Petraeus was unanimously confirmed as the next Director of the CIA by the US Senate 94-0. Petraeus relinquished command of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan on July 18, and retired from the U.S. Army on August 31.

(More on Petraeus's personal life and more, see here.)

Petraeus denied any interest in joining the Romney ticket, by day's end.

Sources as attributed above in embedded links, as well as mixes and various tidbits from Wikipedia.

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For the links to other recent postings about 

Colorado's Aurora's red dawn symbolism, please see also:

Red Dawn 2012

Red Dawn Again

Red Dawn

Recent interviews, about the Aurora shootings:

WGN - Mike McConnell: Loren Coleman

The Corbett Report: The Copycat Effect with Loren Coleman

Binnall of America: Loren Coleman and Bruce Rux

Talk Shoe - 42 Minutes: Loren Coleman

Red Ice Creations: Loren Coleman

Who Was Wade Michael Page?

This is the face of the alleged Sikh Temple Killer.

Wade Michael Page called Holmes Avenue home, and use to live in Littleton, Colorado, where Columbine occurred. He was a former psychological operations specialist out of Ft. Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Wade is of Old English and Scandinavian origin, and the meaning of Wade is "able to go; river ford," and/or "advancer."

Wade Michael Page's name, in one translation, means a "knight's young apprentice," thus directly lexilinking to the Aurora mass shooting at The Dark Knight Rises screening. Page claimed to want to "end apathy," and thus he was a misguided idealistic crusader playing the "Dark Knight" in his shooting scenario. The image of the "Dark Knight" was also linked to the Nazi SS, and Page saw himself as a Neo-Nazi.
Here are other random notes about Page, from a variety of sources:

Page is described as a "heavily-tattooed, 40-year-old ex-Army soldier." Neighbors told Fox News that he had a 9-11 tattoo. He had all kinds of symbolic tattoos.

"Page said he was born in Colorado," according to an interview he gave.

Page use to live in Littleton, Colorado, he said.

He was a former US Army "psychological operations specialist," the Pentagon confirmed.

Sources told CBS News he was a 6-foot-tall bald white man who "seemed like he had a purpose and knew where he was going." NBC reports that he was said to be "wearing some sort of tactical-type pants but no bulletproof vest or protective gear."

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has reported Wade as a member of the neo-Nazi band called End Apathy based out of North Carolina. He told an interviewer recently that he has been part of the White Power scene since 2000.

Later, the SPLC did not hold back in their description of Page. They reported on its Web site that Page was “a frustrated neo-Nazi who had been the leader of a racist white-power band” called End Apathy.

The Washington Post called the musical group a "skinhead band."

The SPLC reports that in 2010, Page, then the leader of the band End Apathy, gave an interview to the white supremacist website Label 56. He said that when he started the band in 2005, its name reflected his wish to “figure out how to end people’s apathetic ways” and start “moving forward.” “I was willing to point out some of my faults on how I was holding myself back,” Page said.

Here is End Apathy's MySpace page. (Who still uses MySpace, btw?)

In 1994, Page was arrested for causing criminal damage to property between $20 and $200, according to BuzzFeed, which examined Texas court records. The crime, to which Page pleaded guilty, was a class B misdemeanor, BuzzFeed reported.

Red Dirt Report looks at the components of these events and Operation Blue Star, which occurred between the Indian (Hindi) government and the Sikhs there, ending in the assassination of President Indira Gandhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984.

Bloomberg reports that Page was "discharged honorably from the Army in 1998 after six years of service" after serving from April 1992 through October 1998 as a sergeant and later a specialist, working as a Hawk missile system repairman before becoming a psychological operations specialist.

He was stationed at Ft. Bliss in Texas and at Ft. Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina while originally being from Littleton, Colorado. He was discharged from the Army for "patterns of misconduct," Reuters reported.

Page was never stationed overseas and in 1998 he was disciplined for being drunk on duty. That disciplinary action resulted in his rank being reduced from sergeant to specialist, according to Reuters. Page was not eligible to re-enlist, sources told Reuters.

Authorities told Reuters the suspect used a 9mm semi-automatic pistol in the shooting. The gun was recovered at the scene. Police are currently tracking the origin of the gun.

Law enforcement officials told CNN that Page legally owned the gun that was used in the temple shooting.

Page moved to Milwaukee earlier this year, according to the Journal Sentinel, and hadn't lived at his apartment for very long before the shooting. Neighbors told CBS News he only lived there for about two weeks. "Nobody has really seen him," neighbor Alma Rayes told CBS News. "We heard here and there that they've been doing a lot of arguing, between him and another female, but I haven't seen him."

The property Page rented was owned by Kurt L. Weins. Weins told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he believed his tenant was from Chicago and did not have a record of violence in Wisconsin."I had him checked out and he definitely checked out," Weins told the Journal Sentinel. We attempted to contact Weins but his phone number is apparently no longer in service.

According to CBS, authorities confirmed on Monday that Page was the suspect in the shooting. He was killed outside the temple in a shootout with police officers after the rampage that left terrified congregants hiding in closets and others texting friends outside for help.

Multiple sources tell CBS News that Page was a former member of the U.S. military, but he was no longer serving actively.

Before Page's move to Milwaukee, Page lived in Littleton, Colo., from 2000 to 2007, 9News reported. A man bearing the same name was reportedly convicted of DUI in 1999 in Denver. Page was also ticketed for driving without a valid license in 1999, according to 9News. Littleton is where Columbine happened on Hitler's birthday, 1999.

Prior to the shooting Page had broken up with his girlfriend. A woman claiming to be the suspect's neighbor told Fox News that last week she heard yelling coming from one of the apartments the FBI searched after the shooting. "She says he had returned to the old apartment and was banging on the door of his old apartment, demanding to be let in," Fox News reported.

Police spent the night searching the suspect's apartment. At one point, the police, ATF, and FBI were at the apartment in the 3700 block of Holmes Avenue in Cudahy, Wisconsin, which is about six miles from the temple. Currently no information has been released about what may have been found during the search. But, according to the Journal Sentinel, authorities left the property around midnight "carrying large items."

Business Insider said, Page, 40, lived in an apartment building in Cudahy, Wisconsin. Authorities searched the building Sunday. The landlord there told authorities Page held a night job making welding supplies. Neighbors said they believe his girlfriend recently broke up with him.

Was he alone? That is the number one question coming out of this event. Upwards of four shooters were allegedly reported.

Police say Page, whom they initially described as a heavy set Caucasian man with a shaved head and numerous tattoos, stormed the Sikh temple Sunday morning. He allegedly shot six people to death and wounded three others. Wade was killed outside the temple in a shootout with police officers.

Relatives of Satwant Kaleka, the president of the temple, told WGHP-TV that he was killed fighting the attacker. Satwant Kaleka, president of the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, was among the six shot dead at the temple Sunday. (Credit: Kaleka family)

The Copycat Effect

(NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004) 

Sikh Shooter Id

The early reports were sketchy. But now we know what the Sikh temple shooter was. He allegedly was an Army veteran, a racist, a supremacist, and a murderer. He sported a 9/11 tattoo. He lived on Holmes Avenue. Considering that James Holmes is the alleged shooter in Aurora, that is the kind of coincidence even a scriptwriter would be told not to put into a movie.

We also know the who. Sources have identified the dead suspect as Wade Michael Page. Reportedly, he was formerly connected to the Fort Bragg Army base at Fayetteville, North Carolina.

In Oak Creek, Wisconsin, a Sikh temple committee member, Ven Boba Ri, told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that people inside the temple described the shooter as a white male in his 30s. Ri further reported to the Journal-Sentinel that the gunman walked up to a Sikh priest who was standing outside the temple and shot him. Then he went inside and started shooting.

The UK's Daily Mail reported, "The lone gunman, who was shot down outside the temple, was allegedly wearing tactical gear and was armed with a single handgun. He was described by witnesses as a white male in his thirties."

The days of late have been framed by breaking news, screaming headlines, and visual overkill, from Oak Creek, Aurora, and Tucson. Is there any surprise that copycat violence is back in the news?

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Remember the Tube poster from the Olympics, the one with the red-haired figure in it? (See at the bottom of this posting.) Well, look over to the right, separate and alone. That person there is a Sikh.

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The Copycat Effect

(NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004)