Conspiracy Theories and Predictions

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Striking a macabre note, a new album cover by
hip-hop band The Coup -- whose music has a strong anti-capitalist
bent -- had until recently depicted the World Trade Center exploding,
the band's label said Wednesday.

``We changed the artwork as soon as we saw what had happened,'' said
Daria Kelly, director of sales for 75 Ark, the band's label.

Kelly said the picture, which eerily shows group member ''Boots''
Riley holding a detonator in front of the exploding towers, was
yanked from the San Francisco-based company's Web site at
(http://www.75ark.com) by 9:30 a.m. PDT on Tuesday, hours after two
hijacked airliners actually smashed into the World Trade Center's
twin towers and brought them down, possibly causing thousands of
deaths.



From: "Kent, A.D."   

I assume you've followed this thread in some fashion (note the subject
"911"): 911 THREAD with a guy allegedly predicting the attack...





On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 09:40:26AM +0800, [name withheld] wrote:
>
>   "In the year of the new century and nine months,
>   From the sky will come a great King of Terror...
>   The sky will burn at forty-five degrees.
> Fire approaches the great new city...
> In the city of york there will be a great collapse,
> 2 twin brothers torn apart by chaos
> while the fortress falls the great leader will succumb
> the third big war will begin when the big  city is burning"
> - NOSTRADAMUS 1654
>
>   He said this will be bigger than the previous two.
>   2001 is the first year of the new century and this is the 9th
>   month. New York is located at the 41st degree Latitude.


FYI, this Nostradamus quote is bogus.  From
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa091101b.htm :

Unfortunately, Nostradamus died in 1566, so it's rather unlikely he
wrote this passage in 1654. The quatrain is not to be found in his
published oeuvre. It's a hoax.

...

Nostradamus did not write the quatrain now being attributed to
him. (One wonders how a guy who died in 1566 could have written an
item identified as being penned in 1654 anyway.) It originated with a
student at Brock University in Canada in the 1990s, appearing on a web
page essay on Nostradamus. That particular quatrain was offered by the
page's author, Neil Marshall, as a fabricated example to illustrate
how easily an important-sounding prophecy can be crafted through the
use of abstract imagery. He pointed out how the terms he used were so
deliberately vague they could be interpreted to fit any number of
cataclysmic events.

...

In this case, a very few words actually written by Nostradamus have
been creatively enhanced by person(s) unknown. Notice the addition of
a reference to a "third big war" to the passage already
circulating. Pure bunk.