by Domnall Óg
Home >> Predictions 2009
So I am getting out my crystal ball, shuffling my Tarot and blissfully tossing my I-Ching sticks to see what lies just beyond the horizon. Here are my predictions for 2009…
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s heartless and incompetent leader, will be deposed and placed into the hands of the International Court of Justice in the Hague. He will be tried and convicted of crimes against humanity for letting his people die of starvation and cholera.
Israel, with the discrete backing of the USA, will launch strikes against Iran’s nuclear factories and the Middle East will continue to be what it always has been. A deeply tragic conundrum.
There will be very big news about The Beatles but I cannot see what it is. It may not be a motive for joy.
Real Madrid Football Club will be torn apart by internecine fighting and will find its traditional position of superiority mightily challenged. Athletic Bilbao will go down and Real Sociedad will go up.
Winter will end early taking the flowers by surprise and causing the birds to improvise. Every garden will look like a Picasso and every tree will sound like a jazz session.
Mothers and fathers will love their children and children will love them back as they have done since forever. Fear will continue to make the wolf seem bigger.
In Spain there will be better understanding between Muslims and Christians and between Gypsies and non-Travellers.
Lorenzo Mila of TVE news will receive an official honour from the King of Spain for his services to broadcasting.
Prince Charles of England will put his foot in it with some silly comment about science and there will be an enormous campaign to skip him and make his son the next King of England.
Ian Paisley, retired northern Irish demagogue, will go to a better place. Or a worse one.
And this Ship of Fools will continue on it’s voyage to God knows where.
In 2009 let’s remember the old proverb: The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.
Happy New Year.
Released under the following licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDeriv
You are free to copy, distribute and display the contents of this article but you must give credit to and mention the original author. You are not allowed to use these contents for commercial purposes, and you may not modify them to make any derivative works.
For full licence description, go to: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.1/es/deed.en
Posted on http://www.weeklyletter.com at 2009-01-08 08:00:00 +0100
Copyright (C) ITT (http://www.itt.es) and Planet Lingua (http://www.lingua.es)
We have more weekly letters by Domnall
Poll for this weekly letter
My future is going to be....
Licencing
You are free to copy, distribute and display the contents of this article but you must give credit to and mention the original author. You are not allowed to use these contents for commercial purposes, and you may not modify them to make any derivative works.
(click the above link for more information)
Add a comment
As this article is about predictions and the last one was about tea, I started to think about … reading tea leaves ... as a form of predicting the future. It gives hours and hours of fun!
Even the best of us can’t predict everything. I think, in these troubled times, we should remember the saying …
What the caterpillar* calls death,
the wise call a butterfly
*oruga
Hi everybody
It is great to dare to forecast how the future will be in the long term.
even tough is so dificult to predict something like that, there are several things around us that give us a hint to imagine waht will happen.
I mean, I can forescast for the next months that the unemployment rate in Spain will be by 20 %, even I can predict that crisis will be longer that all pundits are expecting so far.
There some consequences around us that make our decissions easier to forecast what will happen in the short term.For the future nobody is able to know what will happen , otherwise I would like to ask this one about the numbers to writte down in the lucky dip.
Obviously there are things that would´t happen like enjoy sking in then Sahara dessert, or the idea of crossing the big ocean by car, etc
Greetings