Theaters and Theater Suspect On Fire

All things, oh priests, are on fire

The eye is on fire; 

Forms are on fire; 

Eye-consciousness is on fire; 

Impressions received by the eye are on fire.

~ Buddha - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, 

founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.

Fires have been traditionally associated with equinoxes. This year's September equinox, also known as the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, will be on September 22, 2012. To be exact, this will occur at September 22, 2012, 14:49 GMT.

Intriguingly, after a week of the "World on Fire" allegedly caused by a film, the fires have moved onto and into theaters:

At least one person has died as demonstrations against an anti-Islam video erupt across Pakistan, a day after protesters tried to storm the US embassy in the capital, Islamabad.
Angry demonstrators set fire to two cinemas in the northwestern city of Peshawar, police and witnesses said on Friday, as the country began a day of protests.
One protester was wounded when a cinema guard opened fire as crowds armed with clubs and bamboo poles converged on the Firdaus picture house, "smashing it up and setting furniture ablaze," according to Gohar Ali, a police officer.
Witnesses said a separate rampaging crowd stormed the Shama cinema, notorious locally for showing films considered to be pornographic.

~ Aljazeera, 21 September 2012.

Protestors attacked Capri, Nishat and Prince cinemas in Karachi, as they marched on the main M.A. Jinnah road in the city’s downtown area.
According to DawnNews, Capri and Nishat cinemas were partially damaged while Prince cinema was set afire by violent mobs.
~ DawnNews, 21 September 2012.

Meanwhile, yesterday, September 20, 2012, during the newest hearing for alleged Aurora movie theater shooter James Eagan (= fiery) Holmes, he showed his new look.

Let's see the visual evolution we have been given by the media and/or the courts.

The first view of the suspect was in his initial open court arraignment.

Then there was the release later the same day of the "booking" photograph, which may have been taken some time after he was arrested on July 20, 2012 up through when he was arraigned, days later. His beard growth appears contemporary with the court appearance growth.

The Internet soon was awash with recently "old" photos of Holmes, with the red/orange fluffy hair style and similar beard growth.

The Joker is historically shown with green hair, but examples were found of orange-haired ones too, which may have served as Holmes' copycat source.

Now comes the closed court hearing of September 20, 2012, two months later, with new drawings and a new photograph of James Eagan Holmes. 

Who do the eyes remind you of?

Humm?

The booking photograph (above) is of Jared Lee Loughner, the confessed shooter of the January 8, 2011, Tucson, Arizona, incident. That event killed six people, including Chief U.S. District Court Judge John Roll, as well as a 9-year-old girl, Christina-Taylor Green, the granddaughter of former Chicago Cubs manager Dallas Green. The shooting also left 14 others wounded, including some critically, like U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (Democrat, Arizona-House 8th).

Booking photographs are funny things. Some questions have been raised about whether or not the first image widely distributed of Loughner (above and on the right, below) has been altered. See here for a larger discussion of that issue. A later "original" photograph of Loughner (below, left) has since been released.

Some photoshopping of the Loughner (below) has been clearly labeled as such.

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Other recent fire news, as compiled by DRN, and shared:

Venezuela refinery fire spreads as death toll reaches 48 (8/27)

4 hours of fire and chaos: How the Benghazi attack unfolded (9/12)

Rare ‘fire devil’ caught on film (9/19) (Filmed on 9/11)

29 Dead, 46 Injured in Mexico pipeline fire (9/19)

Groundbreaking held for RI nightclub fire memorial (9/19)

French Muhammad Cartoons ‘Fuel on the Fire’ (9/19)

Photos: Fire wipes out more than 500 shanties in Bangladesh (9/20)

The Man Who Predicted The Aurora Shooting

"One measures a circle, beginning anywhere."

~ Charles Fort, Lo!, 1931.

The avant-garde blog, Dangerous Minds, has posted a concise overview about a recent segment of my work. The piece relates to the pre-event indictors I saw that resulted in me anticipating a significant violent event would occur with the opening and release of The Dark Knight Rises.

On September 17, 2012, Dangerous Minds published "Copycat Effect: Meet The Man Who Predicted The Aurora Shooting" by British writer Thomas McGrath. You will want to read it.

I thank the author for his respectful article, which in a few hundred words tries to capture 30 years of my serious research of the copycat effect. I also appreciate those readers who are open-mindedly digesting this material, with the understanding that forecasting human behavior is going to be the next leap forward in foresnic psychology and the prevention of suicidal and homicidal events.

I've been doing this research for a long time. It is not often that someone captures the essence of it as well as this British profiler did.

I realize that some people don't like the use of the word "prediction" in the article's headline, for I am clearly not a psychic and do not claim to be one. But it is a useful handle to quickly communicate a concept about pre-event forecasting that few people understand.

If you read what I said on July 19th, the reality is that I did write before the Aurora event, in seemingly "prophetic" tones for people outside this field, that something big and violent, tied quite specifically to the opening of The Dark Knight Rises, was going to occur on July 20, 2012. This was not written after the fact. It was noted before it happened. There was a great deal to what I said, about past patterns, Joker copycats, violence, and examples like the anniversary of the Norway shootings that took place when Captain America was released on July 22, 2011.

I appreciate the accolades and accords given to me by Dangerous Minds author Thomas McGrath. I thank him for his clear reading of my insights, which, while grounded in Fort's and Jung's works that I read over 50 years ago, were not held against me. 

We all start somewhere, as per the famed quote up top, and I'm delighted with my conceptualizations that have matured nicely since then.

The Copycat Effect

(NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004)

Rumors of War: 2012

Okay, okay. No reason to go overboard. There is no need to think World War III is around the corner, despite what appears to be a blogosphere full of people seemingly hoping it is going to break out any day. Yes, really, that's what I see out there.

But, seriously, these are rough times, with many regional wildfire wars really to spark widespread chaos. 

Of course, I have always found the worse hidden costs of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the suicides of our returning soldiers - and less documented - the suicides of subcontractors - and the covert mass violence situations from both. But more on that some other day.

Is it going to stop soon? Not if you listen to the prophets of the web....

General Wesley Clark has detailed his story, several times, of being told of the seven countries that would be invaded in his near future:

1. Iraq √
2. Syria ~ UN/NATO members are thinking about getting involved in the current civil war.
3. Lebanon ~ ?
4. Libya √
5. Somalia ~ Backed by Kenyan troops, on August 20, 2012, the Federal Parliament of Somalia was inaugurated.

6. Sudan ~ New constitution in 2005; South Sudan became independent in July 2011.
7. Iran ~ Israel is threatening to attack, any day now.


Then there are the Biblical quotes to which people point, often:

Revelation 6:4 ~

Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.

Matthew 26:4 ~

And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Others have had other ideas:

Map of World around Iran 

Century 5: Quatrain 68

Dans le Danube & du Rhin viendra boire
Le grand Chameau, ne s'en repentira:
Trembler du Rosne, & plus fort ceux de Loire
Et pres des Alpes Coq le ruinera.

In the Danube and of the Rhine will come to drink
The great Camel, not repenting it:
Those of the Rhône to tremble, and much more so
those of the Loire,
and near the Alps the Cock will ruin him.

Source.

Perhaps it is not that bad, but certainly, all the indicators are that...

Synchromystic Bob Dylan

I have connected with Bob Dylan's music for a long time. Since 1975, I've seen him perform several times - in San Francisco, Cambridge, and Portland, Maine. I appreciate his varied styles; that is all kinds of his music, whether acoustic, electric, folk, folk-rock, blues, ballads, or whatever he has to offer for the night. I have seen him grow old, as I have, and enjoy his gravelly voice as a testimony to his hard years on the road, in the studio, and on stage.

To me, Dylan is a poet. Simply and profoundly. But he may turn out to be more. His lyrics are Rorschach tests for every individual listener, and each person forms their own perceptions from his songs.

Quite literally, Dylan's newest album, Tempest is a masterpiece. Songwriter, critic, and my friend Jerry Clark, privately shared with his circle of music friends these insights: "This is among the greatest of all Dylan recordings. It holds up against just about anything in his career in its beauty and maturity."

With that in mind, I feel his new album Tempest and his concurrent interview in Rolling Stone reveal Bob Dylan as a synchromystic prophet or, at the very least, a twilight language patron. 

Others have noticed this too. Andrew W. Griffin, editor of the Red Dirt Report, early in August looked at Dylan’s upcoming Tempest album. In Griffin's excellent "A 'Tempest

On The Horizon," he wrote: "You have song titles including 'Soon After Midnight.' 'Long and Wasted Years.' 'Scarlet Town.' 'Early Roman Kings.' Of course there is 'Tempest' and the song 'Pay in Blood' with the line 'I’ll pay in blood, but not my own.' And note 'Scarlet Town.' This would echo the blood spilled in Aurora – a “red dawn” event – in the state of Colorado (Spanish for 'colored red')."

"The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming." 

~ Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight, 2008.

Griffin's essay acknowledges that I've been talking about the lines in The Dark Knight Rises alluding to a "storm coming" for some time. Dylan's Tempest merely reinforces that notion.

Selina Kyle: There's a storm coming. 

Bruce Wayne: You sound like you're looking forward to it. 

Selina Kyle: I'm adaptable. 

~ The Dark Knight Rises, 2012

Griffin also notes that Tempest, despite that various details of the music were known for weeks, had as its official release the highly symbolic date of September 11th ~ symbolic individually to Dylan, as well as societally to America, needless to say.

Let's look at some segments of Dylan's songs' lyrics:

Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowingBlowing like it's gonna sweep my world awayI'm gonna stop in Carbondale and keep on goingThat Duquesne train gonna ride me night and dayYou say I'm a gambler, you say I'm a pimpBut I ain't neither oneListen to that Duquesne whistle blowingSounding like she's on a final run….Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowing
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Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowingBlowing like it's gonna kill me deadCan't you hear that Duquesne whistle blowingBlowing through another no good townThe lights of my native land are glowingI wonder if they'll know me next time aroundI wondered if that old oak tree's still standingThat old oak tree, the one we used to climbListen to that Duquesne whistle blowingBlowing like she's blowing right on time~ "Duquesne Whistle" lyrics by Bob Dylan

I know the phantom of the train of which Dylan speaks. I sense the "rhythm of the rail" that his music invokes. If one mentions "Duquesne" (read Du Quoin, Illinois) and Carbondale, then this song is historically talking about Amtrak's City of New Orleans (although the train runs are called the Illini and the Saluki today).

The Fifties were a simpler time, at least for me and the situation I was in....It was just woods and sky and rivers and streams, winter and summer, spring, autumn. The changing of seasons. The culture was mainly circuses and carnivals, preachers and barnstorming pilots, hillbilly shows and comedians, big bands and whatnot. Powerful radio stations and powerful radio music.
~ Bob Dylan, "The Rolling Stone Interview," Rolling Stone, Issue 1166, September 27, 2012.

I grew up in Illinois in the '50s, in the time of the "Duquesne Whistle." Damn, my mother's mother, Nellie Grey, was murdered in the coal mining town of Shelbyville, Illinois, on Valentine's Day in 1940, by my mom's stepfather. A bullet from a rifle whizzed by my future mother, killing her mom on the davenport in her sister's front room. Life was simple back then. But the 1940s turned into the 1950s, and it became a time of baseball, vanilla ice cream, outside circuses, and searching in the woods for wild animals.

In the 1960s, I got out of central Illinois and I rode Illinois Central's City of New Orleans to college. Well, at least, infrequently, that is, when I had the fare and didn't have to hitchhike to Southern Illinois University in Carbondale (the home of the Salukis) in Little Egypt.

Dylan's music picks up nicely on the rattling tracks and the sway of the cars. As one academic blogger wrote, Bob Dylan’s “Duquesne Whistle,” is "the only song" he could "think of that mentions trains and Carbondale."

(I was reminded, of course, of Steve Goodman's "The City of New Orleans" too. See Goodman singing his song at the end of this posting. Goodman died at 36. I'm glad we still have Dylan around at 71.)

Griffin notices that the song "Scarlet Town," calls attention to Colorado's Aurora (literally, "red dawn"). In "Duquesne Whistle," Dylan mentions "that old oak tree." The Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Sikh Temple attack flashed into my mind when I read those lyrics.

Hauntingly, another of Dylan's lyrics says,

It's soon after midnight,And my day has just begun
"Soon After Midnight" synchs with the actual time of the Aurora shootings.
And what do we see in "Early Roman Kings"? The early early Friday morning shooting, down from the mountains of Colorado, in Aurora? Or was this a flash about the suicide that followed a month after Aurora? I penned about just such a death, without knowledge of Dylan's song, in "Tony Scott: Divine Sacrifice of the King."
All the early Roman kingsIn the early early mornComing down the mountainDistributing the cornSpeeding through the forestRacing down the trackYou try to get awayThey drag you backTomorrow is FridayWe'll see what it bringsEverybody's talkingBout the early Roman kings

Kurt Gegenhuber writes about one song when he says, "Bob has thrown Duquesne to the Dylanologists like meat to ravening wolves." 

Of course Dylan has. And none of what he wrote is really about Aurora. Or Tony Scott. Or anything prophetic, is it?

This is true about this entire album. As Gegenhuber notes, "Bob Dylan is indeed sending me — and not you — subliminal messages through his song lyrics."

But, of course, Dylan is sending all, every one of us, messages, overt and covert.

In the comment section to Gegenhuber's blog posting, Jerry Clark checks in and sends along some insights about the title song, "Tempest," which is based more on the sinking of the Titanic than Shakespeare: 

Dylan's "Tempest" is indeed based on the 1952 Carter Family version of "The Titanic." It quotes the lyrics, prominently but not exclusively the opening line "The pale moon rose in its glory" (not unique to the Carters, by the way), and the words composed by Dylan can be sung to the older melody. "The watchman" also figures in the original, and other lyrics borrow or parody the Carters's. That may be plagiarism to Joni Mitchell, but to the rest of us, it's Dylan's continuing, brilliantly employed use of the folk process.
The LA Times writer evidently missed all of this, but at least he has some marginal awareness of Titanic ballads -- albeit, it seems, not this Carter gem -- in American traditional music.
~ Jerry Clark

Bob Dylan is not playing games. He's just being an artist. And a synchromystic. And perhaps even a Fortean.

His interview in Rolling Stone is quite interesting. It tells of Robert Zimmerman's/Bob Dylan's transformation and much more.

Among the revelations in the interview is that the death in the '60s of a Hell's Angel named Robert Zimmerman, which was Dylan's real name, captivated him to the point where Dylan believes they are somehow connected, though there doesn't appear to be a family relationship. Zimmerman's death was chronicled in the book Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger, written by Barger.
As Dylan explained it to Gilmore, “Look at all the connecting things: motorcycles, Bobby Zimmerman, Keith and Kent Zimmerman, 1964, 1966. And there's more to it than even that. If you went to find this guy's family, you'd find a whole bunch more than that connected.”
He says the Barger book gave him an identity. “I didn't know who I was before I read the Barger book.”

~ Steve Marinucci 

Andrew Griffin also pointed out to me that we should look at the name of the Hell's Angel who broadsided and killed his brother Hell's Angel, "poor Bobby" Zimmerman. That Angel's name is "Jack Egan." That's a spooky shadow of "James Eagan Holmes," the alleged Aurora shooter.

From reading the Sonny Barger book, which he found was about him, Bob Dylan discovered transfiguration. The interview details his feelings, his excitement, his wonder, in finding out those "name game"/twilight language details. 

Bobby Zimmerman's motorcycle-related death occurred in 1961 (the book gives the wrong date as 1964). Dylan's near-death Woodstock motorcycle accident happened in 1966. Transfiguration took place in Dylan's life, and it is reflected in his changing art.

That's synchomysticism at work, plain and simple. Yes, it evens happens through the life and music of Bob Dylan.

The carnival came to town, the carnival left and you ran off with them. It's just what you did. You don't travel to the end of the line until someone gives you a gold watch and a pat on the back. That's not the way the game works. People really don't retire. They fade away. They run out of steam....
~ Bob Dylan, "The Rolling Stone Interview," Rolling Stone, Issue 1166, September 27, 2012.

I have a younger brother, my Irish twin, who actually ran away to a carnival and worked a summer in the South. My youngest brother took off to meet his Waterloo in Napoleon, Ohio. And my youngest sibling, my sister, departed the plains of Illinois to the earthquake country of southern California. I guess I escaped to college in Carbondale, and beyond alternative service, to be transfigured into a father and a writer. Like Dylan, I'm not done yet. And most of us aren't. 

But getting there is transformative.

We all met our Buddhas in the middle of Highway 61 or Route 66, one way or another.

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Remember Steve Goodman, 

who died 28 years ago on September 20th.

 

Steve Goodman, singing his song, City of New Orleans.

Steve Goodman died at the age of 36 (July 25, 1948 – September 20, 1984). He was a Jewish-American folk music singer-songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. He wrote "City of New Orleans," which was made popular by Arlo Guthrie, John Prine, and Willie Nelson.  According to Goodman, "City of New Orleans" was inspired by a train trip he and his wife took from Chicago to "southern Illinois, not Carbondale," as he said in an interview, but "to Mattoon, Illinois," to visit his wife's mother in an "old folks home." Yes, that is that Mattoon ~ the site of 1944's Mad Gasser of Mattoon. Steve Goodman won two Grammy Awards and he made his family very proud of him. He died much too young. In April 1988, some of Goodman's ashes were scattered at Wrigley Field, the home of the Chicago Cubs.

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The Copycat Effect

(NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004)

Beheadings & Batman

As we travel into the new darkness being revealed in 2012, we should not forget the reality of beheadings in the background of the Batman blackness.

Batman Beheading

On Saturday, June 28, 2008, at Six Flags Over Georgia, 17-year-old Asia Leeshawn Ferguson of Springfield, South Carolina, scaled two six-foot fences and passed through restricted areas posted as dangerous to visitors. Ferguson jumped the fences and was then decapitated by the Batman roller coaster. 

Tim McLean's tatoo.

It should not be lost on people that the victim of the Canadian bus beheading (July 30, 2008) was a young man who told his friends he "loved being a carny," who sported the Joker-like tattoo (above) on his back. Tim McLean was headed to Winnipeg after working with the carnival in Edmonton, Alberta. His links to Joker/clowns/Jokawild and more were discussed, in depth, here.

Remember, The Dark Knight was released on July 18, 2008.

On August 5, 2008, The Boston Herald reporter Stephen Schaefer asked, "Is The Dark Knight cursed?"

It was only a matter of time until the mainstream media would catch on to this "curse." People have been mumbling about it since Heath Ledger died. As those watching for the curse of threes have noticed, Ledger died, Christian Bale was arrested and then Morgan Freeman has been in a tragic car crash.

Schaefer writes:

The box-office behemoth, expected to pass the $400 million mark this week, is notorious as being the late Heath Ledger's last completed movie.

Now Morgan Freeman, the 71-year-old actor who plays Batman's techie Lucius Fox, is in serious condition following a car accident in Mississippi late Sunday night.

The Oscar-winning actor was driving his wife's friend Demaris Meyer's 1997 Nissan Maxima when it rolled off Tallahatchie County Highway 32, flipping over several times. Meyer was treated for minor injuries and released.

Freeman, who was driving to his Charleston home, reportedly suffered broken ribs and was air-lifted to Regional Medical Center in Tennessee.

This tragedy follows assault allegations made last month by the mother and sister of "The Dark Knight" star Christian Bale. The 34-year-old Bale denied the charges. He'll be back in court next month.

The Dark Knight is dedicated to both the 28-year-old Ledger, who died of an accidental overdose last Jan. 22, and Conway Wickliffe, 41, a stunt supervisor who died in a freak accident in London while setting up a car crash.

Blogger Todd Campbell, after he read an early sharing of these thoughts, forwarded the following photographs to my attention, from the movie. He posted on this, as well, in 2008.

What do we find these photos have revealed?

Embedded within the movie was the Heath Ledger character, the Joker, using the Joker/Death card as his "business calling card," as pictured, shown holding a decapitated head. 

Schaefer wrote that The Dark Knight joined a grim list of "cursed" films. Most people are familiar with them.

Curses Abound

The Superman hex struck Christopher Reeve, who shot to fame after starring in the 1978 movie, after he broke his neck in a horse riding accident. Television's original "Superman," George Reeves died in an apparent suicide in 1969.

In June 2007, a teenager's legs were severed when cables snapped on the Superman  Tower of Power ride at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky.

The 1982 horror classic Poltergeist was haunted by the premature deaths of two of its female stars. Vanity Fair celebrity scribe Dominick Dunne's daughter Dominique was murdered by her live-in lover soon after the film was finished. Heather O'Rourke, the film's child star, died in 1988 at age 12 of cardiopulmonary arrest prompted by Crohn's disease. For all of its sensationalism, in the end, the Poltergeist curse only documents four deaths.

I have written of the "Mothman Death Curse" online and specifically in the August 2004 issue of Fortean Times, with a list of over 80-related deaths, some of surprisingly young people and others of elder members of the crew, cast, and aligned associates of the film, in West Virginia and elsewhere.

VA Tech Beheading

On Wednesday, January 21, 2009, (a year after Heath Ledger's death) police reported a woman was slain on the Virginia Tech campus and decapitated. Xin Yang, 22, was killed after arriving at the campus from Beijing on January 8 to begin studying accounting, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said.

The first 911 call came into police around 7:06 p.m., saying a woman was being assaulted inside the Graduate Life Center, just outside the Au Bon Pain cafe.

A police officer who responded to an emergency call has told how she entered the cafe to find the male attacker holding the female victim's head in his hand. Police say the victim was decapitated with a kitchen knife while having coffee at the cafe with the suspect.

Responding officers found the woman had been stabbed to death and beheaded. They arrested the suspect, a 25-year-old Chinese graduate student named Haiyang Zhu. He is a Ph.D. student in agricultural and applied economics. The police also recovered a large kitchen knife they believe was used at the scene.

Haiyang Zhu was charged with first-degree murder and is being held in Montgomery County jail.

Au Bon Pain - French for "place of good bread" - was founded by Louis Kane (remember the comic character Batman was created by Bob Kane) as a bakery in Boston's historically significant Faneuil Hall in 1978, known for Samuel Adams' revolutionary speeches and its famous grasshopper weathervane used to tell British spies from Patriots. In 1982 Au Bon Pain debuted a bakery cart at Logan Airport in Boston. Au Bon Pain Inc. (later renamed Panera Bread Company) went public in 1991, and today has 230 units worldwide.

The Au Bon Pain decapitation was the first violence on the VA Tech campus since April 16, 2007, when Korean student Seung-Hui Cho killed two students at West Ambler Johnston Hall, and then two hours later, after walking across campus to Norris Hall, killed 30 others and himself.

From Batman to Mothman, whether or not there are curses is not important. As the spectre of decapitations grows in the Mideast, we need to be aware. The fact that they have become part of popular culture and that there is a dark sense that there may be such things in the modern world, in the end, may be what becomes more significant. If they are foreshadowing other storms, dawns, and wicked things coming this way remains to be seen.

As seen in Sydney, Australia on September 15, 2012.

World On Fire: Updates

The Muslim protests have now spread to Australia. Police said that, about 1 pm on Saturday, a group marched from Sydney Town Hall to Martin Place, where a confrontation occurred between protesters and police outside a building housing the US consulate. Police used capsicum spray on the protesters, who at times pelted officers with bottles. Up to 500 people stormed through the city, working their way through Pitt Street before moving to Hyde Park amid a heavy police presence. The crowd ran on to the Australian museum.

Also on Saturday, 9/14/2012, thousands of Chinese besieged the Japanese embassy in Beijing, hurling rocks, eggs and bottles as protests broke out in other major cities in China amid growing tension between Asia's two biggest economies over a group of disputed islands.

Well, we knew this was coming...and more (see Cycles).

Read below, for Friday events.

The Master opens today, September 14th, in LA and New York City. 

Director Paul Thomas Anderson also steered Magnolia to the screen.

Bomb threats hit Texas, North Dakota, Indiana, Ohio, and Missouri on Friday. 

Protests spread from one end of the Mideast all the way across Asia.

The world seemed ablaze on September 14, 2012. 

Here cars in front of the US Embassy in Egypt are on fire.

A Hardee's, a KFC and an Arby’s restaurant were set on fire 

in the city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on Friday.

Thousands of people streamed off university campuses in Texas and North Dakota on Friday after phoned-in bomb threats prompted evacuations and officials warned students and faculty to get away as quickly as possible.

The Texas university received a call about 8:35 a.m. on Friday, September 14th, from a man, allegedly with an Arab accent, claiming to be with al Qaeda who said he had placed bombs all over the 50,000-student University of Texas at Austin campus, according to spokeswoman Rhonda Weldon. He claimed the bombs would go off in 90 minutes and all buildings were evacuated at 9:50 a.m. as a precaution, Weldon said.

UT’s JJ Pickle Research facility in North Austin was also evacuated. The facility houses a a fully functional nuclear reactor operated by the Nuclear Engineering Teaching Lab department.
No bombs went off. No bombs were found.

Similar events occurred in Fargo. North Dakota State University President Dean Bresciani said 20,000 people were evacuated from his school's main and downtown campuses in Fargo after the school received its bomb threat Friday morning. Officials did not immediately release details about the North Dakota threat.

No bombs went off. No bombs were found.

Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, posted a campus alert about potential danger during chapel break period, which happens at 11:15 a.m. Friday. The unspecified threat was made via a "graffiti message."

No bombs went off. No bombs were found.

Campus officials say a small college in Hiram, in northeast Ohio were evacuated because of a bomb threat. Hiram College posted a statement on its website saying it received a bomb threat Friday afternoon and was taking the threat seriously.

No bombs went off. No bombs were found.

Hiram is a very Masonic name. President Garfield attended Hiram College. He was a Masonic president. Interesting that he was initiated at the Magnolia Lodge. Very Fortean.

JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD (1831-1881)

Twentieth President (July 2 - September 19, 1881)

MASONIC RECORD Initiated: November 19, 1861, Magnolia Lodge, No. 20, Columbus, Ohio. Owing to Civil War duties, Brother Garfield did not receive the Third Degree until November 22, 1864 in Columbus Lodge No. 30, Columbus, Ohio. On October 10, 1866, he Affiliated with Garrettsville Lodge No. 246, Garrettsville, Ohio, serving as its Chaplain in 1868-1869. Brother Garfield then became a Charter Member of Pentalpha Lodge No. 23 of Washington, D.C. on May 4, 1869; in fact, he was one of the Petitioners for the Lodge Charter.

At noon on Friday, September 14th, a man walked into the Richard Bolling Federal Building, 600 E. 12th Street, Kansas City, Missouri, and said he was a terrorist. A bomb-sniffing dog has detected the presence of some sort of explosives inside the vehicle (above) of the man, which was outside the building. The Kansas City Police Department ordered the bomb and arson squad to his vehicle, located in the Fletcher Daniels State Office Building parking lot, 615 E. 13th Street.

No bombs have gone off. The dog detected explosives. No bombs have been found yet.

As all this was happening (and more?) in the US, the following hotspots ignited, according to several media sources:
~ Demonstrators breached the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia;
~ American school in Tunis torched;
~ German Mission in Khartoum, Sudan was set aflame;
~ British Mission in Sudan attacked;
~ Security forces in Yemen block streets near U.S. Embassy and killed two;
~ Fires and rocks being thrown at U.S. embassies in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt;
~ Effigy of Obama burned near Jalalabad, Afghanistan;
~ Thousands demonstrate against the U.S. in Gaza City;
~ Protesters throwing rocks and gasoline bombs near the American Embassy in Libya;
~ Demonstrations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
~ Thousands in Srinagar, Kasimir protest;
~ Hundreds in southern India;
~ Demonstrations in Indonesia;
~ Protests in Qatar;
~ Demonstrations in Kuwait;
~ Protests in Iraq;
~ Crowds continue gathering in Libya;
~ 5000 marched in the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh, burning the American flag;
~ Troops fired over demonstrators in Jos, Nigeria; and
~ Hundreds of protesters set fire during attacks on restaurants in Tripoli, Lebanon, resulting in one dead.


Meanwhile, Fox News shares this:

Volcanic ash spews from the Volcan de Fuego or Volcano of Fire as seen from Palin, south of Guatemala City, Thursday, September 13, 2012. The long-simmering volcano exploded into a series of powerful eruptions Thursday, hurling thick clouds of ash nearly two miles (three kilometers) high, spewing rivers of lava down its flanks and forcing the evacuation of more than 33,000 people from surrounding communities. Photo: Moises Castillo.

Yes, Fox News said "as seen from Palin." The media gods do have a sense of humor.

Sep 14: Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated in Guatemala after the Fuego volcano eruption, which the specialists estimate to be the most powerful since 1999 in this Central American country, media reports said.