Coincidence09: Columbia STS 107

On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia breaks apart.  The first TV report said it was over Dallas (on the 33^rd Degree Latitude) at about 39 miles up and flying about 13,000 miles per hour.  One of the astronauts is Israeli, the first Israeli to fly into space.  Most of the pieces fell near Palestine, Texas.  The mission was in orbit 16 days.  The patch portrays a mission inclination of 39 degrees, shows a sunrise, shows the constellation Columba (the dove), shows the Israeli flag next to the astronaut’s name, Ramon, one letter shy of “mason”, the microgravity symbol ug (the “u” forms an upside-down reversed “3” and with the dots linked of six stars of Columba, makes “33”.

Coincidence08: O.J. Simpson and His Punishment

On August 25, 2003, O.J. Simpson said in an interview that pot helped him through the tough times after his conviction of wrongful 1994 death when he was forced to pay $33 million to families of his dead wife and Ronald Goldman.

Coincidence07: 911 Days After 911 - Bringing You Another 911 Coincidence

On March 11, 2004, a train is bombed in Madrid.  Terrorists are blamed.  It is 911 days since WTC 911.  But that cannot be a coincidence - terrorists are wont to do things like that - they plan them out.

Here is the coincidence.

On March 11, 2004, 911 days since the WTC, the same people who bought the World Trade Center during July 2001 purchased the Sears Tower from MetLife.  The buyers are Lloyd Goldman, Joseph Cayre and Jeffrey Feil, prominent but secretive Manhatten landlords.  The Sears Tower is also 110 stories and was worth $911 million as of 9/11.  Goldman and Cayre joined Larry Silverstein in buying WTC for $3.2 billion during July 2001. 

Coincidence06: Amazing Incident at Bikini Atoll

In February of 1946, Commodore Ben H. Wyatt, the military governor of the Marshall Islands, travels to Bikini Atoll.  Arriving on a Sunday after church services, he assembled the Bikinians to ask if they would be willing to leave their atoll temporarily so that the United States could begin testing atomic bombs.

About the first testing of atomic bombs at Bikini:

§     Liptrot.com2007:  “In February of 1946, Commodore Ben H. Wyatt, the military governor of the Marshalls, traveled to Bikini.  On a Sunday after church, he assembled the Bikinians to ask if they would be willing to leave their atoll temporarily so that the United States could begin testing atomic bombs for ‘the good of mankind and to end all world wars.’  King Juda, then the leader of the Bikinian people, stood up after much confused and sorrowful deliveration among his people, and announed, ‘We will go believing that everything is in the hands of God.’”

§     Outside Magazine, March 1997, Lost at Sea by Tad Friend:  “Commodore Ben Wyatt chose to come ashore and address the wonder-struck islanders immediately following services at the United Church of Christ.  The Bikinians had been converted by New England missionaries in the nineteenth century.  God and the bomb were often yoked in those days, so Wyatt adopted biblical language.  He compared the Bikinians to the ‘Children of Israel whom the Lord had saved from their enemy and led into the Promised Land.’  According to the official navy account, Wyatt told King Juda Kessibuki that a ‘power higher than anything on earth’ would bless their move and finally inquired whether they would be ‘willing to sacrifice their island’-temporarily-‘for the good of manking and to end all world wars.’”

§     Nucnews.net2007:  “The Bikini islanders did not wish to leave but believed they were powerless to resist the U.S. decision, the suit said.  The people were moved by the Navy three times.  After nearly starving to death on the first island they were sent to, the population ended up on Kili Island in 1948, where they have lived since.  In the late 1960s, based on the findings of an Atomic Energy Commission’s scientific panel, President Lyndon Johnson announced that Bikini was safe and the people could return home.  About 100 people were resettled on Bikini only to be re-evacuated in 1978 when it was discovered they were absorbing a huge amount of radioactive cesium from contaminated foods grown on the atoll.  Later investigations showed the tests relied on by Johnson in 1968 contained an error which assumed people living on Bikini would consume just one spoonful of liquid a day.  Following the second evacuation in 1978, numerous surveys of Bikini have concluded that the atoll is ‘still is not safe for human habitation’, the suit said.”

§     Relocation of the Bikini Marshallese: A Study in Group Migration by L. Mason, New Haven, Yale University, 1954, Dissertation:  “King Juday…announced, ‘If the United States government and the scientists of the world want to use our island and atoll for furthering development, which with God’s blessing will result in kindness and benefit to all mankind, my people will be pleased to go elsewhere.’”

§     Rit.edu2007 from Case Study: US Nuclear Testing on the Marshall Islands: 1946 to 1958 by Kim Skoog:  “One month prior to speaking to the Marshallese about using their island for atomic bomb testing, the US Senate passed Joint Resolution 307 authorizing the testing of atomic weapons in the Marshall Islands which was immediately signed by President Truman.  Subsequently, Navy Commodore Ben H. Wyatt arrived on Bikini Atoll just after Sunday church services had ended, and counced the test request in biblical terms, comparing the Bikinians to the children of Israel whom the Lord saved from their enemy and led into the Promised Land.  In like manner, the Marshallese had a role to play in ending all war for the betterment of humanity, as the atomic bomb to be tested would serve to silence the evil forces that threaten the world now and in the future.  Given their suffering under the Japanese (who had just been defeated) and their new prosperity and freedom provided by the United States, it is not surprising that they replied in the affirmative…it should be noted that no effort was made by Commodore Wyatt or those who immediately followed him to warn the people of Bikini Atoll of potential dangers to their health or long-term danger to their island-even though such concerns had been a significant part of the discussion back in Washington, DC.  No one knew with certainty what to expect in terms of environmental damage from radiation poisoning.  Rear Admiral Draper L. Kaufman, one of Operation Crossroad’s planners, is quoted to have said, ‘Our scientific friends went from one extreme to another.  One extreme even thought the island would disappear and that it would be weeks before we could go back into the lagood.  Another extreme said that we could go back in right away, that there would be very little radiation.’

§     Time.com:  “…softspoken, sensitive Commodore Ben Wyatt might well have wondered why progress had to sacrifice this lovely coral atoll…tall, tawny Paramount Chief Juda, manor lord of 160 Christian islanders, took comfort in the will of Heaven.  Ben Wyatt talked.  In simple words, with eloquent gestures, he told Juda and his people of the Bomb.  Its power to kill all living things within many miles was beyond belief.  But ‘the US wants to turn this great destructive power into something good for mankind.’ The Bomb would be dropped on Bikini.  For their protection, and for progress, would the islanders help by leaving their home, perhaps forever?  Juda took counsel with the alaps (family heads).  At length he gave his decision: ‘If the US Government needs to use our houses for the goodness of mankind, then by the kindness of God we are willing to go.’  Thus began the first move in Operation Crossroads…a US officer called the transfer of the Bikinians ‘one hell of a good sales job’…LSTs bore them to Rongerik, an atoll 140 miles to southeast…they brought with them only a few possessions:…their vernacular Bibles, Congregational Hymnals…most puzzling for the Americans were Marshall Island politics.  Juda and other Paramount Chiefs hold power through heredity on the maternal side.  They alone own the land.  They alone judge crimes (a little adultery, an occasional assault and battery).  They are entitled to almost half their domain’s annual crop of coconuts….” 

§     Unknown:  “Phillip Rooney was secretary to Commodore Ben H. Wyatt, military governor of the Marshall Islands during World War II.  His job included handling correspondence for the commodore….”

§     The Journal of Pacific History, June 1997 by Hal L. Friedman:  “…the team unwittingly interrupted a Sunday morning, American-style, congregational church service.  After the service, Wyatt successfully used a biblical analogy to help convince the islanders to leave, comparing them to the ‘Children of Israel’ whom the United States was going to lead to the ‘land of salvation’ much as God had done for the Jews! (The Americanization of Micronesia by Roger Gale; Interview of Commodore Benjamin Wyatt, USN by Commander Dorothy Richard, USNR, May 2, 1952, US Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 1957-63).”

Unknown:  “Students:  There’s mixed perceptions of Commander Ben Wyatt did he mislead the Bikinians?  How was he viewed at the time?  How is he viewed now?  Senator:  To the Bikinians Commodore Wyatt was the ruler of the world, he really gave that impression to us.  He appeared very powerful and we felt that he had to be listened to…today the Bikinians feel like this man misled them into thinking they would be able to go back…we are mostly Protestants…we still believe that God is in control of our destiny and that he will watch over us as we struggle away from our islands….”

Coincidence05: 1717 15th St NW, DC

Located at 1733 16th Street, NW, in Washington, D.C., is the monumental  Freemason edifice that has been the national headquarters (House of the Temple aka HOT) of the Supreme Council, 33°, Southern Jursidiction, since 1915; the architect was John Russell Pope who was also famous for other DC buildings that followed this, his first in DC.

In 1947, 32 years after completion of the HOT, a building would be built at 1717 15th Street, NW to its rear side.  The building currently serves as a condominium.  It previously housed St. Augustine's Catholic Church convent, the Oznam School of Charity, offices for the Roman Catholic Archidiocese of Washington, a private residence, and a boarding house.  It is a contributing property to the Fourteenth Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.  On its roof is a cross made of reinforced concrete with coarse sand for durability.  The cross is badly damaged as if by a blow with a heavy object.

In more recent years, a bust of the first U.S. president, George Washington, a copy of the original designed and created by Avard T. Fairbanks, was placed at the rear garden of the HOT along S Street.  It was placed to honor George Washington, once a member of Freemasonry although it is suspect how active a member. Many of the new American ceremonies during his presidency, such as the very first oath of presidential office, were modeled after Masonic ritual. Masons and President Washington presided over the laying of the U.S. Capitol cornerstone in 1793.

The bust looks easterly toward 1717 15th Street, NW and the broken cross as if watching the cross that watches the HOT.

 

Coincidence04: Pentagon Points to White House

On September 11, construction begins on Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, fifty years before the WTC attack.  Pentagons and pentagrams are linked in a geometric way.  The pentagram is related to the movements of the planet Venus, whose inferior conjunctions with the Sun against the 12 constellations of the Zodiac form such a harmonious revolving pentagram pattern in space every 1200 years.  The pentagrammic star is made up of 5 triangles around a pentagon and the sides of those triangles are in the relation of 2:3:3, where 2 is the base…2:3=0.666.... 

Nearby National Airport had opened for business on June 16.  The Congress had been kicking around airport site selection since 1927 when FDR took it into his hands to select a site in September 1938.  The first shovel of dirt was dug in November 1938.

The War Department had been housed in 17 buildings holding 24,000 people (there were only 334,000 in the armed services in 1939, 1.8 million in 1941).  The Bureau of Public Buildings wanted a moderate expansion program but some reports say the War Department’s Chief of Construction and logistics head, General Brehon B. Somervell, wanted a new building all under one roof.  He approached the Congressional sub-committee who told Chief Engineer of the Army ,General Eugene Reybold to investigate the soon to be abandoned Washington-Hoover Airport site.  Another federal building was planned for construction in the same general area.  On July 17, General Somervell instructed architects G. Edwin Bergstrom and David J. Witmer and Lt. Col. Hugh J. Casey to have a concept plan for a 40,000 people building ready by July 22.  By August 25, the plan and appropriations were approved.  There was opposition because of the size, impacts and position at the foot of Arlington National Cemetery.  FDR’s uncle had an influential position with opponents.  FDR reserved the right of final approval of site.  The original site required a bevel in the building footprint and when the original site was “discovered to be in a floodplain,” the building location was shifted and the building footprint also had to be “refined” into the shape of a pentagon.   

It is unclear if FDR or Reybold actually chose the final 67-acre [66.6?] location.  The area had been a wasteland of swamps and dumps and home to a dangerous slum known as Hell’s Bottom at one time.  There is very little written information on the construction and planning of what would be the biggest office building in the world.  What information is available is split:  the “official biography” of General Leslie R. Groves, Manhatten Project Director, gives all the credit to General Groves; other army and professional sources give the credit for overseeing construction to Captain Clarence Renshaw. 

The final location seems to have been a compromise engineered in some way by FDR with the “opponents”…FDR said to the opponents that the 5.1 million sf and 40,000 capacity would be reduced to 20,000 persons which would reduce traffic, etc…the building started construction and it was larger than what FDR said it would be but on October 10 he said go ahead anyway.  The preliminary plans were developed in 34 [33?] days.  15,000 would work 24-hour 3-shift days to build it in 16 months.  At peak war years, there would be 33,000 working inside.

The building on 9-11-01 held 24,000 people, had 3.7 million square feet and covered 34 [33?] acres.  It is supported by 41,492 piles [1492 was the year certain people and Muslims were expelled from Spain].

But in the rush, it seems that the pentagon was pointed exactly at the White House, much like the pentagram centered on 16th Street NW does. 

Coincidence03: "Ocean's 11" Poster

MOVIE:  Ocean’s 11 premieres in US on December 5, 2001 after the 911 attack.  It bumps the Harry Potter movie from the #1 position.  The movie posters considered were many.  The U.S. poster has two arabic numerals that look like two planes flying into the skyscrapers. ..showed 7 discernible pairs of feet in black pants (Men-In-Black)...the forward man stepping on the number 1…the men cast shadows at a different angle from the building which are at 330 degree azimuth...at the bottom reads “12-07-01" (1+2+7+1=11) and "Are You In Or Out? [get it?]”.   At the bottom left are six tiny-inverted “v’s” that look like pyramids with slightly flat tops.  Steven Soderbergh, the man behind such films as Sex, Lies and Videotape [get it?] and Out of Sight [get it?], directed the film.  The writer was Ted Griffin, the writer of  Ravenous and Best Laid Plans [get it?].  Jerry Weintraub was the producer, the producer of The Firm [that's what they are].  Phil Messina was Production Designer; he worked as Art Director on the Sixth Sense.  Costume Designer Jeffrey Kurland worked on Man on the Moon.  The movie was rated PG-13.