The Nostradamus Prophecy of the Japanese Tsunami and the War in Syria

The civil war in Syria is just never ending, and in the last few days I realized that there is a prophecy of Nostradamus predicting this event.  Most of the prophecies of Nostradamus are written in an obscure style, and as most do not include a date the recognition of the fulfillment of the prophecy takes place after the event (however there are exceptions, see Nostradamus and the Year 1999 for a prediction of America as the king of terror).  Obscure names are mentioned throughout the quatrains, but after the event takes place the name makes perfect sense - often referring to a key personal name, or key geographic place name that is just beyond coincidence.  I covered many of these, beginning with the religious wars of the 16th century up until the French Revolution in my book, The Decoded Prophecies of Nostradamus.  The prophecies always cover key events or turning points, and as the civil war in Syria has escalated I thought I would get this particular prophecy out now in public view, because the media is full of propaganda and does not tell the public what is really happening in front of our eyes.

I should point out here, that from my biographical research into Nostradamus, he did not always personally know of the future.  This becomes readily apparent to anyone who examines his yearly almanacs.  Many assume he used astrology to make his predictions but that is not the case - he would enter a trance like state, and out came these strange writings from his visions which did not always make sense to him, as they are highly symbolic.  The quatrain I wish to discuss is I-87 - below is the original French, followed by the English translation:

1:87
Ennosigée feu du centre de terre
Fera trembler au tour de cité neufve:
Deux grands rochiers long temps feront la guerre
Puis Arethusa rougira nouveau fleuve.

Earth-shaking fire from the center of the earth
Will cause the tower of the new city to tremble:
Two great rocks will make war for a long time
Then Arethusa will redden a new river.

The word "earth shaking" is from Latin Ennosigaeus, which is actually an epithet of Neptune, god of the sea.  Nostradamus always uses Neptune to symbolically represent a sea power.  This particular quatrain was misinterpreted as referring to the attack of September 11, where "center of the earth" was taken to mean the World Trade Center.  While it is tempting to apply it to the attack of September 11, objectively the quatrain is referring to a deep sea earthquake followed by the eruption of a volcano.  Before 2011 I had written, "This will be fulfilled in a future cataclysm involving an earthquake and the eruption of a volcano."

I recently realized that Neptune is not only the god of earthquakes, but also of tsunamis which are often triggered by an earthquake.  Neptune was closely associated with Poseidon, the same god who causes the sinking of Atlantis into the sea by an earthquake.  Both Poseidon and Neptune used a trident as a weapon (from the Wikipedia entry on Trident):

Poseidon, as well as being god of the sea, was also known as the "Earth Shaker" because when he struck the earth in anger he caused mighty earthquakes and he used his trident to stir up tidal waves, tsunamis and sea storms.

Nostradamus writes on the first line "Earth shaking fire from the center of the earth,"  Here is a map showing the location of the underwater earthquake of Mar. 11, 2011 which created a tsunami which hit Japan:

Was there a volcano associated with the earthquake and tsunami?  I looked it up and found this news article from Mar. 14, 2011: As if an earthquake, tsunami and potential nuclear meltdown weren't enough... now disaster-ravaged Japan suffers a volcanic eruption:

A volcano has erupted in Japan, compounding the problems in the disaster-ravaged country.Following Friday's megaquake and resulting tsunami which took the lives of thousands along the east coast, the Shinmoedake volcano in south-western Japan erupted yesterday, sending ash and rock over two miles into the air. The explosion shattered windows as far as four miles away, adding to the terror the country has suffered over the past few days.

It states that it is not known if the volcanic eruption was associated with the earthquake.  However there could be another interpretation: the "earth shaking fire from the center of the earth" could refer to the melt-down of the Fukushima nuclear reactor itself.  Three of the four cores suffered a complete meltdown, and in fact melted down somewhere beneath the earth.  As to exactly where they are, no one knows.  From Was Fukushima a China Syndrome?

The China Syndrome refers to a scenario in which a molten nuclear reactor core could could fission its way through its containment vessel, melt through the basement of the power plant and down into the earth. While a molten reactor core wouldn’t burn “all the way through to China” it could enter the soil and water table and cause huge contamination in the crops and drinking water around the power plant. It’s a nightmare scenario, the stuff of movies. And it might just have happened at Fukushima.

This is an example how a short four line quatrain compresses a lot of information through symbolism, containing multiple levels of meaning.  The next line states that the earthquake would cause "the tower of the new city to tremble."  And indeed, the earthquake was so strong it caused the towers in Japan to sway, here is a video of it:



Next the quatrain states that two great rocks will make war for a long time.  This could refer to the earthquake itself, where two plates collide causing the earthquake, which would be unusual because in the day of Nostradamus nothing was known of plate tectonics.  It could also refer to a war between two continents.

The last line then concludes, "Then Arethusa will redden a new river."  Arethusa was a nymph and daughter of Nereus, and thus one of the Nereids who accompanied Poseidon.  She was chased by the river god Alpheus, and was changed by Artemis into a stream which ran under the sea until its waters rose again in the island of Ortygia, near Syracuse.  However, according to the classical writer Apollodorus Arethusa was one of the nymphs called the Atlantides or Hesperides, who guarded the golden apples.  The blessed isles of Hesperides were located by some to the West beyond the Atlas mountains.  Hesperides is a term used by Nostradamus throughout the quatrains to refer to America.  This, in combination with the reference to Neptune or Poseidon, and the inference to Atlantis, shows that this is definitely referring to the U.S. as a major sea power. 

So this definition of Arethusa is well known.  What is not so well known is that Arethusa happens to be the name of an ancient Roman city.  The modern name of this city is Al-Rastan, in the Homs governate of Syria.  Here is a photograph of Al-Rastan in the background, behind the Orontes river:

Here is where things get interesting.  In 1960, this location became the site of the Al-Rastan Dam.  The Orontes river runs right through the middle of Syria:

So, why is the city of Al Rastan in Syria so significant?  Right after the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, in April a popular uprising arose in Syria, which Assad suppressed blaming foreign elements, and unfortunately reacted with deadly force leading to many civilian deaths.  Later a coalition of anti-government groups formed.  Fighting continued, until everything culminated in a major battle at Al-Rastan (from Syrian Civil War):

By September 2011, organized units of Syrian rebels were engaged in an active insurgency campaign in many different parts of Syria. A major confrontation between the FSA and the Syrian armed forces occurred in Rastan. From 27 September to 1 October, Syrian government forces, backed by tanks and helicopters, led a major offensive on the town of Al-Rastan in Homs Governorate, in order to drive out army defectors. The 2011 battle of Rastan between the government forces and the FSA was the longest and most intense action up until that time. After a week of fighting, the FSA was forced to retreat from Rastan. To avoid government forces, the leader of the FSA, Colonel Riad Asaad, retreated to Turkey. Many of the rebels fled to the nearby city of Homs.

And so begin's Turkey's support for the rebellion against Assad in Syria.  And Russia has concentrated on bombing the Homs Governorate.  But where is America in all of this?  The U.S. is right in the middle of this war, and is directly responsible for allowing it to continue this long rather than seeking a diplomatic settlement.

U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN THE SYRIAN UPRISING

U.S. policy has been to repeat the mantra "Assad must go."  But there is no viable candidate to take his place.  Look at what happened in Iraq and Libya, how destabilized they became after their dictator was overthrown.  U.S. policy is the same for Syria.  From U.S. Caught Faking it in Syria:

The US strategic goal in Syria is not as your faithful mainstream media servants... might have you believe  to  save the Syrian people from the ravages of the long-standing Assad dictatorship, but rather to heighten the level of internecine conflict in that country to the point where it will not be able to serve as a bulwark against Israeli regional hegemony for at least another generation.

This policy actually originated from a 1982 military plan from Israel.  From “Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East, it is known as the "Yinon Plan":

The Atlantic, in 2008, and the U.S. military’s Armed Forces Journal, in 2006, both published widely circulated maps that closely followed the outline of the Yinon Plan. Aside from a divided Iraq, which the Biden Plan also calls for, the Yinon Plan calls for a divided Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria. The partitioning of Iran, Turkey, Somalia, and Pakistan also all fall into line with these views. The Yinon Plan also calls for dissolution in North Africa and forecasts it as starting from Egypt and then spilling over into Sudan, Libya, and the rest of the region.

To quote directly from Yinon, in an article published in the 1980s:

The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unqiue areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel’s primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target. Syria will fall apart, in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure, into several states such as in present day Lebanon, so that there will be a Shi’ite Alawi state along its coast, a Sunni state in the Aleppo area, another Sunni state in Damascus hostile to its northern neighbor, and the Druzes who will set up a state, maybe even in our Golan, and certainly in the Hauran and in northern Jordan.

Moreover, the Yinon plan calls for the dissolution of Iraq into three primary states: the Shiites in the south, the Sunnis in the west, and Kurds to the north:

Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon. In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and Shi’ite areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north.

More recently, diplomatic cables from 2006 leaked by wikileaks revealed the U.S. plans for Syria.  Ffrom OVERTHROW OF SYRIA PLANNED BEFORE ARAB SPRING, Assange writes:

That plan was to use a number of different factors to create paranoia within the Syrian government; to push it to overreact, to make it fear there’s a coup… so in theory it says “We have a problem with Islamic extremists crossing over the border with Iraq, and we’re taking actions against them to take this information and make the Syrian government look weak, the fact that it is dealing with Islamic extremists at all.”

The media makes it look like the Arab Spring was "spontaneous."  The fact of the matter is that U.S. Groups helped fund and encouraged these uprisings.  From the New York Times,  U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings:

Even as the United States poured billions of dollars into foreign military programs and anti-terrorism campaigns, a small core of American government-financed organizations were promoting democracy in authoritarian Arab states. ...as American officials and others look back at the uprisings of the Arab Spring, they are seeing that the United States’ democracy-building campaigns played a bigger role in fomenting protests than was previously known, with key leaders of the movements having been trained by the Americans in campaigning, organizing through new media tools and monitoring elections.

After the uprising in Libya, on September 11, 2012 there was an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in Libya, which led to a lot of accusations going back and forth as to who knew what.  But what the media did not tell the public at that time is the reason it was attacked: CIA operatives were at Benghazi, arranging for the transfer and shipment of arms from Libya to Syria.  From Benghazi Is a HUGE Scandal … But Not For the Reason You Think:

A highly classified annex to the report, not made public, described a secret agreement reached in early 2012 between the Obama and Erdoğan administrations. It pertained to the rat line. By the terms of the agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria.

So the civil war rages on, and with Russian involvement the U.S. and its proxy allies are shipping ever more weapons to the rebels, some of whom have ties with terrorist organizations associated with Al-Qaeda.  And this, of course, goes against all international laws.  Casualty estimates range between 140,000 to 330,000, with millions of refugees displaced from their homes.

SOME WEIRD NEWS ABOUT THE JAPANESE TSUNAMI AND FUKUSHIMA DISASTER

There is this rather unusual bit of news about the Japanese tsunami and Fukushima - before the disaster, Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake:

Today, Dimitar Ouzounov at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland and a few buddies present the data from the Great Tohoku earthquake which devastated Japan on 11 March. Their results, although preliminary, are eye-opening.
They say that before the M9 earthquake, the total electron content of the ionosphere increased dramatically over the epicentre, reaching a maximum three days before the quake struck.
At the same time, satellite observations showed a big increase in infrared emissions from above the epicentre, which peaked in the hours before the quake. In other words, the atmosphere was heating up.
These kinds of observations are consistent with an idea called the Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling mechanism. The thinking is that in the days before an earthquake, the great stresses in a fault as it is about to give cause the releases large amounts of radon.

So while they theorize it was radon released from the fault stress, this is not proven.  And one would have to ask how could this happen considering the fault was underwater.  Here are images showing the images of the atmosphere heating up:

This piece of unusual data on the heating up of the ionosphere has caused some to speculate that a weapon such as HAARP was used to excite the earthquake.  From HAARP: Secret Weapon Used For Weather Modification, Electromagnetic Warfare:

Major aspects of the program are kept secret for alleged reasons of “national security.” Yet there is no doubt that HAARP and electromagnetic weapons capable of being used in warfare do exist. According to the official HAARP website, “HAARP is a scientific endeavor aimed at studying the properties and behavior of the ionosphere, with particular emphasis on being able to understand and use it to enhance communications and surveillance systems for both civilian and defense purposes.”...
The HAARP website acknowledges that experiments are conducted which use electromagnetic frequencies to fire pulsed, directed energy beams in order to “temporarily excite a limited area of the ionosphere.” Some scientists state that purposefully disturbing this sensitive layer could have major and even disastrous consequences. Concerned HAARP researchers like Dr. Michel Chossudovsky of the University of Ottawa and Alaska’s Dr. Nick Begich (son of a US Congressman) present evidence suggesting that these disturbances can even cause tsunamis and earthquakes.

So why target Japan?  To take out its nuclear reactors?  From LNG-Dependent Japan Tries To Gain Leverage Over Pricing:

Japan’s record purchases of liquefied natural gas (LNG) show no sign of slowing as the country continues to try and fill the energy shortfall created when it took its nuclear plants offline three years ago.
With its lack of substantial domestic sources of fossil fuel, Japan is cripplingly dependent on imported oil, coal, and natural gas. Before the 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan was the third largest nuclear generator in the world, behind the United States and France, with 54 reactors.   
Those reactors were critical to cutting Japan’s fuel import bills, and accounted for 20 percent of the country’s electricity generation. But post-Fukushima, the sum total of Japan’s nuclear power plants were shuttered and imports of fossil fuels, particularly LNG, have skyrocketed.

Interesting indeed.  Reminds me of these scenes concerning Helm's Deep in Lord of the Rings (see also The Hidden Prophecy of the Lord of the Rings):

UPDATE (10/19/2015): EVIDENCE OF HAARP SPIKE DURING JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE

Just discovered this: Why the US Used HAARP to Create the 9.0 Magnitude Japan Earthquake.  They produced this chart of HAARP activity at the time of the quake:

And would be the motive?  The author concludes this:

Why would the US attack Japan using HAARP?
Japan is producing vehicles that don’t use any gasoline – not a drop.  No gasoline means zero emissions and zero oil revenue.  The US attacked Iraq and Libya for one reason only – OIL!
Why spend $trillions on wars of terror to seize control of the oil in the Middle East if the demand would drop drastically with the introduction of vehicles that uses zero gasoline?
The US used HAARP in an attack against Japan to protect its financial interests in the Middle East. The Japan Earthquake was created to kill the production of Japan’s all-electric and hydrogen fueled cars.