Predictions for 2013 –from The Nostradamus Society of America, by Victor Baines

Well everyone–we made through the “phony ending of the world in 2012” that was so well hyped by the media and the internet.  I could write more about that, but instead, I am moving on to life in 2013.  Below are a few predictions for this new year.

THE ECONOMY:  My prayer is that the economy improves this year resulting in higher levels of productive employment throughout the United States.  Whether that will occur or not is up to variables far beyond my control.  Most likely the domestic economy will continue to slowly deteriorate resulting in higher prices for consumer goods (like food, gasoline, etc..).  Prices are high enough as they are and I can barely imagine them getting even higher.  Jobs will continue to be exported to nations like China (and in other nations in Asia).  Let’s hope that Fortune 500 companies (with the help of the Federal government) will enact measures to improve our economy.

TERRORISM:  Iraq and Afghanistan will most likely see more acts of terrorism in 2013 (more so in Afghanistan than in Iraq).  Domestic terrorism carried out by mentally deranged individuals with firearms will most likely be the new threat in America during 2013.  How these types of acts can be stopped in the future is tricky business for authorities to figure out.  A lot of work must be carried out to defend against them in the future.  Hopefully the Department of Homeland Security will continue the good job of stopping what terror plots reveal themselves before the fact. 

SYRIA:  The Assad regime is one of the most evil governments on the planet.  For four decades now (first the father and now his son) have generated a huge amount of terrorism upon the world, but now, they generate most of it upon their own people.  An estimated 60,000 Syrians have died over the last two years in the Syrian revolution and more will die in 2013.  If  President Assad had a brain left in his head he would do something to end the blood shed. Or, he should gather up his money and family and go into exile, and leave his nation to be run by a new Syrian government that is friendly to the people.  Could 2013 prove to be the year that the rebels over throw him?  Only time will tell!

THE CLIMATE:  Nostradamus penned many quatrians about droughts and famines.  He stated that they would start in small areas and then grow larger across many regions.  2012 was a year of remarkable heat extremes and according to the New York Times–34,000 heat records were broken in 2012!  Hey people–global warming is real and the problem appears to be getting worse every year.  I predict that more heat records will be set in 2013!

THE MIDDLE EAST:  Hezbollah got an intense pounding by Israel in 2012 after they launched missiles at them from the West Bank in 2012.  I doubt their  mistake will be repeated  again in 2013.  Will Iran continue to export drone aircraft to Hezbollah this year?  Let’s hope not.  If Iran continues their nuclear program without coming clean with the West–more problems will develop for them in 2013.  I think the area in and around Yemen might be a region that continues to produce Jihadist leaders in the future. Turkey, which borders Syria (and is a NATO member) have fielded Patriot missiles as a shield against any offensive acts by the Syrian government. 

HURRICANES: I think that hurricanes will continue to pound the USA in 2013 with the southern US as the region that will suffer the most. Nostradamus penned a quatrain about hurricanes hitting the New Orleans area, so, my prediction is based upon this quatrain being a trend in the future.

EARTHQUAKES:  Small earthquakes happen all over the world every year.  But I think that parts of Asia will see the worst of them this year (around the Pacific rim of fire).  Chile could get the worst of them in South America this year.  The New Madrid fault line (in parts of Tennessee, Arkansas, Illinois, and Missouri) will one day pose a major problem for the United States when it finally collapses–but let’s hope that it won’t occur in 2013!

GUN CONTROL:  Gun Control will be a complex topic of debate this year.  There are more guns than people in the United States. Both sides of the debate have good points to make, but in the long run, I think that sweeping measures will occur in this area in 2013.

ITS December 21, 2012 AND THE WORLD HASN’T ENDED YET, by Victor Baines

Hello everyone,   December 21st, 2012 is here and the world hasn’t ended yet!  No world wide disasters  have arrived or are heading our way ! Most of us are still alive–just like I thought we would be! Are you getting the idea that all of this talk about the world ending on December 21st, 2012–was nothing but a lot of  hype, urban myth, propaganda, and overly wild speculation?  That’s what I’ve been thinking for the last five years!

I have yet to be shown “any tangible evidence” that can truly suggest that the world was suppose to end on December 21st, of 2012!  If anyone thinks that they truly have proof, or some type of evidence, or at least a rational theory of some type that conforms to “common sense” –that points to the world ending some time soon–please send it to me (I’d love to read it).  I’d like to  see how silly it is.  Sorry–no end of the world.

You haven’t t seen “me” (Victor Baines) on any cable TV program saying that I thought the world will end in 2012.  John Hogue,  Vincent Bridges, Jay Wiedner and  others were one’s who said that (not me)!

Then, there were all of the “so-called Mayan scholars” who proclaimed the world would end in 2012, as well as a bunch of paranoid survival gear merchants (and others) who jumped on the “gloom and doom” end of the world band-wagon.  I guess everyone is free to state their personal  opinions on things, but for the record, I’ve never thought that the world will end in 2012.  Nostradamus didn’t write that either. It is a lie that he stated that!

Katrina quatrain revisited–Nostradamus scores another hit, by Victor Baines

Something tragic, yet interesting in the world of Nostradamus,  occurred again on August, 29th, 2012  (somewhat like it did seven years ago on August 29,  2005).  It has to do with quatrain #9-48, the amazing quatrain that predicted Hurricane Katrina.   And now on August 29th of this year the same thing happened again (but fortunately with lesser intensity) when Hurricane Issac occurred (merely a category one hurricane).  Here is the wording of quatrain #9-48:

THE GREAT CITY OF THE MARITIME OCEAN,

SURROUNDED BY A CRYSTALLINE SWAMP,

IN THE WINTER SOLSTICE AND THE SPRING TIME,

IT WILL BE TRIED BY A FRIGHTFUL WIND.

The first line of this quatrain is reference to the city (and port) of New Orleans.  New Orleans, Louisiana, is a former French colony which has been a major maritime center of commerce since the 1700’s.  The second line of this quatrain has another big clue in it (“surrounded by a crystalline swamp”).  If you think about it, Louisiana is known as “the bayou state” and the area around New Orleans, as well as other parts of the state, consist of swamps, bayous, and marshes–many of them full of water containing salt crystals.  Katrina occurred in what we would call “the summer” (not the spring), but it is a reference to warm weather. The winter solstice mentioned might a reference to the galactic alignment which will occur this year on December 21, 2012.

The fourth line of the quatrain is the punch line “it will be tried by frightful wind”.  Out of all of Nostradamus’ 943 quatrains only one contains a reference to “a frightful wind”, and a city being “tried by it”.  According to my dictionary, the definition of “tried” is this…”tested, having sustained the tests of experience”.  So, New Orleans wasn’t totally destroyed by the winds of Katrina or Issac, just “tried and tested” by it.    The winds in Katrina got as high as 125 mph, and in Issac they got up to 75 mph. 1800 people died in Katrina, with millions in property damage occurring with Issac and Katrina.

In conclusion, it is my hypothesis that New Orleans will be hit by more and more hurricanes as time goes on.  Usually,  each quatrain is a reference to only one event, but in this case, it appears to reference at least two hurricane events, and probably more of them into the future.

SORRY–THE WORLD ISN’T ENDING IN 2012, by Victor Baines

NO–ITS NOT THE END!  THE WORLD WILL NOT END IN 2012, AND NOSTRADAMUS NEVER SAID THAT IT WOULD!  I would say that certain people in film making and the media are getting carried away in their promotional propaganda, placing hype above reality (all for the sake of  box office revenue and TV viewer ratings–and at the expense of truth).

Have you heard the insane rumor that the world is suppose to come to an end in December, 2012?  Let me assure you of this–I have spent 15 years researching the prophecies of Nostradamus and “nowhere in his prophecies does he suggest that the world will end in 2012!” In fact–this has to do with the Mayan Calender expiring–and doesn’t have “jack” to do with Nostradamus!

How dare they lie and intentionally misrepresent the words of a prophet, just so they can try to sell tickets for a “science fiction disaster movie”! Don’t get me wrong, 2012 was a good movie, but come on– its only science fiction.

Even worse,  according to scholars in Mexico, just because the Mayan Calender expires  on December 12, 2012, it does not mean the world is coming to an end.  It simply means the end of one age and the beginning of another one.

One of my duties as the Director of the Nostradamus Society of America is to “seperate bullsh#t from reality” (and “fact from fiction”).  Therefore, I can promise you that Nostradamus stated in his Epistle to his prophecies that the world would end in 3797 (due to burning stones from the heavens hitting the surface of the Earth).  He named this event “the final conflagration”.  This gives us 1788 years until the end of the world (according to Nostradamus).  So don’t hold your breath waiting for the end!

Can you imagine “how stupid” the people who claim the world is going to end in 2012 will feel when they wake-up with hang-overs, on New Year’s Day of 2013–only to realize that the world “didn’t” come to an end?  They will be the”laughing stalks of the world”.

Therefore, although I advocate the right to everyone having an opinion (and expressing it)–I want to make sure that people know what my opinion is–Nostradamus never said the world will end in 2012!   So, let’s don’t confuse the philosophy of the Mayans (with the Prophecies of Nostradamus), or with the bullsh#t of film makers.