THE 2018 "WINTER CHERRY" FIRE

25 Mar 2018

© Malvin Artley

On 25 Mar 2018 there was a large fire at a shopping center in Kemerovo, otherwise known as the  “Winter Cherry” center. Kemerovo is in the Kemerovo Oblast in Siberia, Russia. The event was described thus:

On 25 March 2018 at 17:00 local time (10:00 UTC), a fire at the Winter Cherry complex mall in Kemerovo, Russia, killed at least 64 people according to official statements. The blaze started somewhere on the top floor of the four-story complex, and people were seen jumping from windows to escape it. 100 people were evacuated, and another 20 were rescued. 27 people believed to be mall staff remain missing.

Four people have been detained in relation to the fire, including the head of the shopping complex's managing company. Many of the victims were in the mall's cinemas, where two roofs collapsed. Several of the victims in the cinemas were children watching Sherlock Gnomes to start off the first day of a week-long school break. The fire alarm system at Kemerovo shopping mall was switched off by a security guard. A spokesperson for the Investigative Committee of Russia also stated that the fire exits in the building were blocked during the fire.

At the time of the event the Russians were flooded by reports that 100s of their children had died in the terrible fire and that the authorities had lied to them. These reports were said to have originated in troll farms backed by Western interests, coming out of Ukraine, and were fake news stories. It was a national tragedy for Russia, and a national day of mourning was declared by Vladimir Putin for the 28th of March. There were demonstrations in Kemerovo in the days immediately following, with calls for officials to resign and to face charges. The New York Times made political capital out of the fire, citing corruption and so forth, with a piece called “Putin’s Grim Reality”. Instead of focusing on the tragedy of the loss of life, there were pointed jabs at Putin and his leadership in the piece. This goes along with current demonization of Russia and Putin in the Western corporate press. There are problems with the official story as reported in Western media, however, starting with the time the fire was said to have started. The BBC reported the fire to have erupted at 5:00 PM, which is echoed in Wikipedia. The actual time was at 4:00 PM (UT +7:00) local time, from security camera footage:

There are further problems with what has been narrated, specifically with what has been left out, or perhaps even, covered up regarding this incident. If one watches the time closely in the RT video (above), there are 3 ½ minutes missing from the video, starting at around 3:56:30. That missing footage has since been recovered, and it clearly shows a man with a shoulder bag walking into the children’s play area, thereafter throwing something behind the stairs, and then walking out. A couple of minutes later, the fire erupts in the exact location where the object was tossed. There is also a woman who was standing in the play area, probably looking after the children, seen in the same area just after the man walks away. We do not know what is behind those stairs – perhaps a trash bin – or if both the man and the woman, or either, are involved:

People who have seen the missing video are now calling the fire at least an act of arson, and at worst, an act of terrorism, from reading the comments after the linked video. The chart of the event (next page) gives many indications, after correcting the time and the time zone. It shows a Mars/Saturn conjunction in the 5th house (children, entertainment, recreation, etc.) square to the Sun in the 8th house (death). The fact that so many children were affected – and in fact, targeted, if it was a deliberate act – marks the act as being particularly cruel and intended to cause a large public uproar. This is indicated by the Moon opposite the midpoint of Saturn and Pluto, both in the 5th house, one of the interpretations of which is “the tragic destiny of a woman”. In fact, the Moon completes the conjunction of Saturn and Pluto by translation of light. Hard aspects of Saturn/Pluto can be an indicator of mass murder in a mundane chart. That is added to by the sextile between Jupiter and Pluto in the chart.

Crowds (Pluto) that gathered at the site of the fire and in protests afterward called for officials (Venus) to resign and/or be prosecuted. Four officials so far have been detained. If it does turn out to be an act of terrorism, the question would be who would do such a thing and why. Investigating officials have not rushed to pin the blame on anyone, which would normally be the case if this were some sort of false flag event. However, if it was an act of arson or terrorism, the actor (Uranus, in this case) is in the 9th house – indicating foreign actors – and is square the Vertex axis, which would give rise to sudden shifts in viewpoints or the attempt to impose another reality or narrative on the event. Because video footage was deleted, there was an attempt at a cover-up, but by whom is unclear at this point. And if so, why and how is it now available on YouTube? There are many unanswered questions with this event, that being indicated by Neptune in the 7th house. As to cover-up, there was one official who tried to explain the cause of the fire as a child playing with a cigarette lighter, but there is no evidence of such in the missing video clip. That would not have produced the explosive nature of the start of the fire. Instead, what the initial fire looked like was some sort of incendiary device, because it blew out from the back of the stairs, rather than building more slowly, as one would see from a cigarette lighter. The Tass News Agency is now saying the likely cause of the fire is arson, although there has been no official report issued as of this writing.

Malvin Artley

30 Mar 2018

malvin@malvinartley.com