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Blue Mountain said:
52. Area 51 will be in the news
53. There will be major news in the Sasquatch/Bigfoot community
54. A major terrorist action in a major city will cause people to wonder about their safety
55. There will be a scandal involving a big bank
56. A movie star will start a diet fad named after him or her
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And there is major news. I mean really major news! Rick Dyer has bagged one. For real, this time!

From Doubtful News:

News of Bigfoot DNA testing was pushed out of the weird news headlines because of Meteor Friday. But Rick Dyer, admitted Bigfoot in a Freezer hoaxer, is capitalizing on the attention from the Ketchum news by claiming he has outdone everyone else. Now, he says, the body is real.
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I'm looking forward to all those Sasquatch skeptics saying, "Gee I guess we really were wrong all this time!" :p
 
Whole Foods or Trader Joe's will buy Fresh and Easy from Tesco

The new pope will be a surprise to some

Anne Hathaway will hire a personal trainer and gain muscle for an action movie

Someone will come close to winning the Million Dollar Challenge

Facebook will donate most of its tax returns to various charities

A child of an Apple exec and a child of a Samsung exec will have a Romeo and Juliet type relationship

Puerto Rico will become the 51st state

That's all for now
 
Brown said:
The discovery of a distant minor planet will be announced.
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Curious. Following the recent encounters with meteors, the hunt for minor planets has been stepped up. Might a discovery be announced later this year?
 
Brown said:
A stunning revelation will occur in the South.
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From the New York Post:
Pete Domenici, a longtime Republican senator from New Mexico, yesterday acknowledged that he had a secret love child more than 30 years ago with the daughter of his Senate colleague, Paul Laxalt of Nevada.

The stunning revelation comes just a week after another lawmaker — Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee — acknowledged he secretly had a child out of wedlock three years ago, after contacting his daughter on Twitter during the State of the Union. (emphasis mine)
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This report is datelined as Washington, but according to other sources, the revelation occurred in Albuquerque (though Domenici lives in Washington): "After decades of silence Mr Domenici and Ms Laxalt sent statements to an Albuquerque newspaper owning up to everything out of fear that their secret was about to be spilled by a national tabloid." Domenici expressed his regret to the New Mexicans.

The spirits are telling me that other stunning revelations from the South might also come to pass in 2013.
 
The Killing Beaches

This summer...
1. tsunami
2. sea critters
3. mentally ill
 
Brown said:
One known more by his title than his name shall cross the river.
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A person whose name includes an "X" will make big news.
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Curious. Joseph Ratzinger, who is known more by his current title (Pope Benedict XVI) than his real name, will cross the Tiber River to reach Castel Gandolfo. Castel Gandolfo is extraterritorial property of the so-called Holy See.
 
Fires shall burn the land to the east
An unholy will present themselves as holy
Night will fall upon a once great kingdom
Before the year's end, a mouse will roar...




These are my predictions from a book I'm writing (which I think I will call "Centuries")
 
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Though many of the predictions made so far have come to pass, I suppose it's okay to make further predictions. As a general understanding, each prediction is automatically time-coded (and just because I don't know what that is, doesn't mean I'm lying), so that we can sort out the genuine predictions from the phony-baloney "predictions" made after the fact. But each prediction has a smaller time window for success; it either has to come to pass in 2013 or not.
 
Brown said:
2. North Korea will be found to have a surprising ally.
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Once again, one of my prognostications has turned out to be correct, as reported by ESPN (among others): Dennis Rodman, Kim Jong Un meet:
Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman met North Korea's Kim Jong Un on Thursday on the third day of his improbable journey to Pyongyang, telling the leader "You have a friend for life," a delegation spokesman said.
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The surprise visit by the flamboyant Hall of Famer known as "The Worm" makes him an unlikely ambassador at a time when North Koreans are girding for battle with the U.S. Just last week, Kim guided frontline troops in military exercises.
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Brown said:
One known more by his title than his name shall cross the river.
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Brown said:
Curious. Joseph Ratzinger, who is known more by his current title (Pope Benedict XVI) than his real name, will cross the Tiber River to reach Castel Gandolfo. Castel Gandolfo is extraterritorial property of the so-called Holy See.
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And indeed this is what was reported today. Take The Jakarta Globe, for example:
1612 GMT: In picturesque late afternoon light, the pope's helicopter is now passing over Rome's Colosseum and Tiber river as churches across Rome ring their bells. This is quite a send-off.
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Brown said:
4. James Bond fans will have reason for sorrow, and reason for hope.
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Sam Mendes: Bond 24 Not On Ledger; 'Skyfall' Director Leaves 007 Franchise:
James Bond will return in the untitled 007 movie coming to theaters within the next few years, but not Sam Mendes. The "Skyfall" director told Empire Magazine that he won't shepherd the 24th Bond film to the big screen.
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So the most successful director in the history of the Bond franchise won't do the next Bond movie. But fans have reason for hope, according to IBTimes:
The good news for fans of 007's adventures is that Mendes' association with the Bond franchise has not been permanently broken. He did state he would like to direct another Bond film in the future.
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This turned the spotlight on Christopher Nolan, a huge Bond fan. And given his jawdroppingly impressive work with the Batman trilogy and other mind-bending films like Inception, Bond fans could be forgiven for jumping up and down in excitement.
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Brown said:
26. A historical artifact thought lost will be found.
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This story from the CBC got some attention in Canada, but seemed to get little attention in the USA. Some guy in Nova Scotia somehow got hold of a bunch of historical artifacts, including a letter from George Washington. He got caught. The guy from Nova Scotia, I mean, not Washington.

And apparently, there were a couple of fellas in the Halifax area that decided to form their own private museums. One of them got caught when he was found in possession of a letter from General James Wolfe. (There will be a brief pause here, so that folks in the USA can say, "WHO??") General Wolfe was a British general "remembered chiefly for his victory over the French at the Battle of Quebec in Canada in 1759," which is known as the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. It was during this brief battle (lasting about 15 minutes) that he sustained the wounds from which he died.

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham is analyzed extensively at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, with the military tactics, errors on both sides, and circumstances that could have turned the tide, all presented on a scale model of the battlefield. A famed painting, "The Death of General Wolfe," hangs prominently at the National Gallery of Canada near Parliament in Ottawa. The coat General Wolfe wore when he died is on display at the Citadel in Halifax, Nova Scotia. So, in Canada anyway, a letter from General Wolfe is a pretty big deal.
 
Brown said:
This story from the CBC got some attention in Canada, but seemed to get little attention in the USA. Some guy in Nova Scotia somehow got hold of a bunch of historical artifacts, including a letter from George Washington. He got caught. The guy from Nova Scotia, I mean, not Washington.

And apparently, there were a couple of fellas in the Halifax area that decided to form their own private museums. One of them got caught when he was found in possession of a letter from General James Wolfe. (There will be a brief pause here, so that folks in the USA can say, "WHO??") General Wolfe was a British general "remembered chiefly for his victory over the French at the Battle of Quebec in Canada in 1759," which is known as the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. It was during this brief battle (lasting about 15 minutes) that he sustained the wounds from which he died.

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham is analyzed extensively at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, with the military tactics, errors on both sides, and circumstances that could have turned the tide, all presented on a scale model of the battlefield. A famed painting, "The Death of General Wolfe," hangs prominently at the National Gallery of Canada near Parliament in Ottawa. The coat General Wolfe wore when he died is on display at the Citadel in Halifax, Nova Scotia. So, in Canada anyway, a letter from General Wolfe is a pretty big deal.
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I'm not convinced that's a hit. Were the letters known and thought lost until they turned up with this guy? Or were they previously unknown? If the latter, it's not a hit; if the former, then fair enough.
 
Jon. said:
I'm not convinced that's a hit. Were the letters known and thought lost until they turned up with this guy? Or were they previously unknown? If the latter, it's not a hit; if the former, then fair enough.
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I agree, it's not a solid hit. I was just checking the Internet to see whether any of my predictions might have come about, and this was a story that popped up. The thing of interest to me was the possible theft and hoarding of historical artifacts (some of which were not even known to be missing, or so the stories imply), including artifacts of great interest to those in the States, but the story was not getting much attention.

There's plenty of 2013 yet to come. Plenty of time for one or more other historical artifacts thought lost to be found.

The Rodman prediction is a pretty darn good hit, though. Nobody but me saw that one coming. And the James Bond thing was right on as well, as was the Pope's retirement and the Beijing plan to recreate history. Yup, next to me, Nostra-dumbass looks like a pathetic amateur, and I say that with all due humility.
 
Brown said:
25b. At least two new documentaries will air that support the single-shooter scenario.
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An episode of "The Passionate Eye" has aired in Canada that supports the single-shooter scenario. But this is not a new documentary; it is a broadcast of a documentary released in 2011.
 
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