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What you are going to read here will shock you -- as it did me. I wrote this article 10 years, 5 months, and 17 days ago. I created it on the very day we initiated the air war over Afghanistan. It is filled with dire warnings of the potentially destructive path this war will take -- that it might go on for at least 7 years and be a horrible financial drain on America

With Newt Gingrich's come-from-behind victory in the South Carolina Primary this past Saturday, there is now an intense battle to see who will wind up with the Republican Nomination for president in Tampa Bay in late-August.

By Mark Lerner

Updated Friday April 29, 2011 due to Ferocious Tornadoes in the South and Previous Dateline: Sunday April 17, 2011 Starting this past Thursday April 14 in Oklahoma and spreading Eastward over the next two days, a series or “family” of devastating tornadoes and thunderstorms has killed nearly four dozen people, injured thousands and created a state of emergency in North Carolina.

By Mark Lerner

Dateline: Saturday February 12, 2011 While much of the world – as well as Egypt – remains in a state of shock following the uprising of a true Peoples’ Revolution in this ancient land of the Pharaohs, The Sphinx and The Great Pyramid, a young and dedicated hero did come forth – almost out of the unknown and in the 11th hour – to help catalyze this toppling of President/Dictator Mubarak just when it seemed all hope was lost.

Update Oct. 28, 2010: Venus shifts from Evening Star formation to Morning Star position at 6:11PM PDT this evening... Venus stays in this bullish, morning-star orientation relative to the Sun until Aug. 16, 2011. Read the rest of this lengthy story for the background on this very significant subject affecting a wide variety of financial markets. I will add a new feature on the power of Venus being in this type of connection to the Sun in the coming weeks...

“The awakening of the Islamic Egyptian people is an Islamic liberation movement, and I, in the name of the Iranian government, salute the Egyptian people and the Tunisian people.”

Dateline December 16, 2011: Although some of this feature was composed during the last few weeks, just yesterday Robert Samuelson – well-known economist and national columnist on financial affairs – said the following at the start of an article on the euro – “By now it’s obvious that adopting the euro was a colossal blunder. It may rank as Europe’s worst policy mistake since World War II.” While he is not an astrologer, his astute view connects totally to my major points in this Part II concerning the seemingly never-ending European Debt Crisis…

Dateline: Dec. 8, 2011: Since 1972 I have been studying thousands of horoscopes concerning lunar phases, the start of seasons, eclipses, the discovery of celestial bodies, current events, individuals, organizations, states, nations and – every so often – civilizations. Even though the major nations on the European continent each has its own birthchart – for its most recent independence or founding as a republic – there is a moment in time from 1211 years ago that still captures the imagination of scholars and which represents the birth of European Civilization.

Dateline: September 15, 2011... This is the continuation of the article that I composed last month. We are about to have nearly simultaneous Pluto and Vesta stations on Friday Sept. 16 and Saturday Sept. 17. These will occur in the signs Capricorn and Aquarius, respectively, while the Moon transits the first earth sign of the zodiac -- Taurus -- the key sign of material assets, savings, banking and money. Get ready for another intense economic ride this weekend! See points 8 to 14 below..

From 1981 to 2000 – as publisher of the pioneering astrology magazine Welcome to Planet Earth – I wrote dozens of articles linking movements of the Sun, Moon, planets, asteroids, Chiron, Moon’s Nodes and other universal factors (like eclipses, new and full moons, equinoxes and solstices, midpoints, and major planetary alignments) to economic waves, cycles and trigger points happening on Earth and within humanity. During the last 15 years or so, I have continued writing those features on several websites and in cyberspace. Now we have another financial crisis affecting all of our lives and it is a good time to offer a general outline on some of the top, astrologically-based reasons why the world is facing this wallet-disturbing crisis.

Updated & Revised February 3, 2012… At the end of January 2011 – when the Tunisian Revolution was rocking the media realms and other nations in North Africa and in the Middle East were beginning to sense an oncoming wave of radical change about to arrive on their doorstep – I was on an overnight radio program being interviewed about astrological themes. The host of the show asked me for one last prediction when things could get intense and I said March 11 – because Uranus, planet of revolutionary fervor, would hit the potent Zero Point of the zodiac (0 degrees of Aries) and start a nearly 8-year journey in the first fire sign, strong-willed and assertive Aries.

Dateline: Saturday July 23, 2011 and Updated on July 25 with a new Postscript: Yesterday – Friday July 22, 2011 – will certainly go down as one of the most shocking and alarming days in the history of Norway, a country with a population of almost 5 million people.

Dateline Monday Nov. 14, 2011: Since I first wrote my article (below) on the Occupy Movement, violence has occurred at a number of Occupy sites around the nation and the world. One just occurred 2 hours north of where I live in Eugene, OR, and -- as many of you know -- violence erupted in Oakland, California last week. As the weather becomes worse and more people who are homeless and totally disenfranchised connect to the more Wall Street oriented protestors, we can expect future crackdowns by beleaguered police forces.

Dateline -- Sunday May 1, 2011: President Obama announced to the nation and the world at 11:35PM EDT tonight (under a void Moon in Aries) that Osama bin Laden had been killed today in a firefight in Abbottabad, Pakistan. He also said that Osama bin Laden's body has been recovered. [News reports about an hour after President Obama's address are indicating that this was a helicopter operation performed by Navy SEALs.]

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords -- representing Arizona's 8th District in Congress -- was shot and critically wounded this morning (Jan. 8, 2011) outside a Safeway supermarket in Tucson. At least 6 people were killed (including a Federal Judge) and many wounded by a man said to be 22-years old.