The 1990s. The eagle was overhead. Israel has sinned, said the word of God. There was some major sin happening which elicited a huge heavenly response. Overhead the eagle was no mere visionary symbol of sin on the ground, but manifested as mass surveillance unprecedented in history, especially in two nations: UK and USA. Israel was pitching in with the huge scale surveillance too. Helicopters of a new kind of police service began watching the ground with searchlights and cameras. The new Internet came to the fore and the WorldWideWeb took off, and with it the infamous monitoring of search histories, with honey traps coining the word clickbait. Cameras started appearing on busy street corners. Later even microphones were added and they started to be hidden inside street lights and under roads. UK became the most monitored country in the world: So ironic after the Soviet ‘Police State’ Union had just crumbled. Spy planes were sent out into the Balkans, and maybe Iraq and maybe even Iran: Key territories in the emerging apocalyptic geopolitical landscape (watch this space). Spying satellites proliferated. What had happened? Why the plague of ‘hawks’? It will eventually come to light. Yet a glimmer of light is already shining on two key areas of probable cause. The child abuse era was beginning. Cover-ups were becoming commonplace. Priests were the high profile cases, but leaders in other Christian groups were equally guilty. If that was carrying on in the church, how much more in the secular world, as we saw with high profile media cases, celebrities, royals, politicians, and as we see captured in movies such as the Traffic series. The other area is possibly, although it is only recently emerging due to Easter Europe troubles, the morally suspect appeasement of the various parts of the breaking up Soviet Union in the 1990s. Toleration of oligarchs in the West, on one hand. Appeasement of the ultra nationalists, on the other. Complicity. Outright collaboration. I feel sure more of the information about this will come to light soon, albeit as top secret documents perhaps reach the end of their classified period. This might be why heaven shone its eagle light on UK, and USA, and is shining it still and the foreboding of war keeps on looming. “Israel has sinned”, says the Lord. The eagle is overhead.
