Chiswickite - formerly The Croydonian

Crystal ball gazing

Friday, February 20, 2009

From those nice people at Pravda who were threatening us with all sorts of nastiness for the coming year, a selection of predictions:

2010: Scientists will finally prove that the human soul exists after death

I doubt it. How could the hypothesis be falsified? If not, then it is not science.

2010 – 2012: Countries of Europe, America and the Pacific region will unite into large regional blocks.

Well, there's already the EU, NAFTA and ASEAN, so that is not enormously radical, unless they mean the total extinction of national sovereignty in those places.

2015-2025: Radioactive wastes will be removed from Earth and launched into space;

Sounds like a plan.

2016: The world will begin to run out of oil reserves.

Peak oil - yawn....

2022: Man will land on Mars

Harrumph, when I was a lad we thought it would be done in the 1970s. Somewhere I have a set of tea cards illustrating it.

Courtesy of google, here goes:

2029: Cyborgs will see the light

I wonder which denomination.

2069: A military conflict between Russia and China for Siberian territories will occur;

I'd expect it to happen a lot sooner than that.

2075: Euthanasia will be legalized in all countries;

Fancy. Including the Vatican. With a bit of luck I'll be long dead by then.

2110: Transsexuals will make five percent of the Earth’s population.

I doubt it.

Labels: crystal ball gazing

posted by Croydonian

Pravda predicts martial law in the UK in 2009

Friday, January 16, 2009

Yes it does:

"The economic collapse in the UK will continue a foot with the US. Rights of the citizens will continue to be usurped by the state and all pretenses of civil rights will disappear after the Islamics in the city center start to agitate and push out through direct violence all remaining British nationals....Once the majority starts leaning to the hard right and violence starts to break out..the UK government will drop all pretenses of the citizens rights and clamp down with martial law".

Nope, can't see that happening.

And elsewhere:

"Demonstrations, riots and looting will break out in various sections of the [USA] hardest hit by the collapsing economy. The government, which in the US has a history of using draconian tactics once violence starts...will lead to casualties and an escalation of tensions. The US army's North America command will be called in to affect areas, forcing martial law and gun confiscations".

Or that.

"Mexico will face complete collapse as a nation"

Hmm.

"France will have early elections and will take a hard left turn"

They would be daft enough to do that, but they will not.

"As its economy collapses, Poland will become even more of a puppet for the US regime"

Pravda doesn't like Russia's near neighbours much.

"Look for total economic collapse from the Baltics"

See above.

"For the Balkans as general, look for war in 2009"

Possible I suppose.

"Israel will face a protracted series of wars on its borders, primarily in Lebanon and Egypt's Sinai and Gaza"

Also possible.

With a continued economic down turn, Iran will be rocked by riots

Possible too.

It isn't all pestilence, war, famine and death, however: "Spain will have elections and a center right government will win".

I like that one. A lot.

Labels: crystal ball gazing, Mother Russia