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.
The Nostradamus Society of America 