by David Haggith
GoldSeek
There is just too much to cover in today’s news to do it all, so I’m saving the fascinating stuff from this week’s odd convergence of solar/lunar/lunacy events for my weekend Deeper Dive, which I am thinking of calling “The Apoceclipse: We Survived!” (Of course, maybe by then we’ll know we didn’t, or those who sift through our remains 10,000 years from now when they land here will know we didn’t and will put this planet on their list of sites to see … like Pompei is on our lists.)
The whirlwind tour of the eclipsing of America will take too long to put together for a weekday editorial, so such jubilee, madness and mayhem will have to wait in line behind more mundane madness like the Federal Reserve where my unknown predictions are doing a lot better (so far) than the renowned ecliptic predictions of many Sunday-morning eschatologists. Still, the day is not over, and the New Madrid Fault waited four months after the solar eclipse of 1811 to shatter several times into a series of the nation’s largest earthquakes on record, clanging church bells from Tennessee to Tallahassee and up to Boston. So those predictions of an earthquake calamity related to today’s solar eclipse because it passed over New Madrid already have a hedge built into their timelines.