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Since there does not appear to be a thread on the topic so far, this is it. We have had similar threads every year for at least the last 7 years.

Okay, let's all summon up our psychic powers (the professionals say we ALL have them, and they wouldn't lie, would they?) and let's offer up some predictions for 2017.

Some obvious ones for me. More later once I have warmed up the balls.
1. Several well known people die.
2. Scandal in the UK.
3. Trump embarresses the USA.
4. News about this forum.
 
I will go further than that on the scandal in the UK:-
BoJo, May and Farage try and get a super conjunction re their menage a trois and succeed.
Farage will still be a UKIP MEP and will be leader of UKIP
May may invoke article 50
Trump will be involved in international debacle involving the Chinese or Russians or some other country.
 
Japan will change its constitution to remove the restrictions of article 9, allowing for military build-up. However, low capacity to invest will mean a slow ramping up of conventional armaments. Think the unthinkable; they are. Inch by inch, things get worse in 2017. Triangulation among China, the US and Russia will increase as Japan's trust in the US drops precipitously.

Fillon's win in France will begin the end of the EU, together with a Merkel now forced to play to the German hard right. France will flirt with Russia, as Fillon has intimated. A European defense force will remain a pipe dream, while being tremendously more important than ever before.

Turkey will fully align with Russia and mostly with Iran, with difficulty. Bye, second largest European/Asian force in NATO.

The Philippines will continue to embarrass. Who knows, but there will not be much positive to report. Kowtowing to China in the South China Sea will either bring Dutarte down, or provide him personally and officially with a new source of cash.

Subsaharan Africa will continue to be raped by MNCs, rogues, and traffickers. Many whites will continue to point crooked fingers.

Ice melt from Greenland will provide Europe with another summer of good rainfall. Too bad it will run out.

The Great Coral Reef will experience new tragedies. Elephant culture in Africa, meaning the culture of the elephants themselves, will collapse, and the various subspecies will enter their final phase before extinction. Ibid for so many more, as elephants happen to be a key element in the ecosystem.

Trump will pump CO2 like there is no tomorrow. There is no tomorrow.
 
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In for a penny, in for a pound:


Trump assassinated by Kanye West...
Widespread civil unrest in the US after a Basketball game...
Queen Elizabeth hospitalised after a car crash...
Pope Emeritus dies in suspicious circumstances...
Scientists detect extraterrestrial life.
Something trivial will become an internet sensation.
 
Potato dicking will continue in 2017.

That and President Trump will continue to say all sorts of absurd things.
 
Here we go...

1. There will be a large earthquake in or around Japan.
2. Donald Trump will not be impeached.
3. A movie star - under forty, male - will die.
4. There will be a major oil spill in the united states.
5. 2017 will be a worse than average year in the US for storms.
6. The Republican party will experience some major shifts in political positions that bring them into alignment with the Trump administration, rather than pushing back. (This doesn't mean that no Republicans will fight Trump; it means Republicans in general around the US will tend to adjust opinions to retroactively justify voting Trump into office.)
7. Russia will invade another nation.
8. Some new (doomed) fad will emerge in entertainment technology, along the lines of 3D or curved televisions. It may still be going strong at the end of 2017 but skeptics will be predicting it to be gone in another year.
9. The Affordable Care Act will still be around in some form for the whole year.
10. A conflict between official government employees and people hired by Trump will cause confusion in a critical situation.
 
1. On a special edition of Maury, World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Vince McMahon is revealed to be the true father of Baron Trump.
2. The War on Christmas ends in a final bloody assault on the infamous and well-defended North Pole compound.
3. Bud and Doyle re-acheive homeostasis in the Bio-dome.
4. Charlie Sheen is miraculously cured of AIDS but manages to contract the fatal disease again within 72 hours.
5. Blind linguists discover how to speak in Braille.
6. The entire Green Bay Packers football team becomes stranded for months, high in the snow-covered Rockies after an airplane crash. Rather than choosing to eat the remains of teammates and coaches who did not live through the initial impact, the surviving players unanimously decide to eat Aaron Rodgers while he's still alive.
7. Nationwide protests erupt in wake of a controversial Academy Award nomination snub related to Rob Schneider's riveting portrayal of Louis XIV.
 
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A pair of 6+ earthquakes hit California along the San Gabriels.

Stolen Nazi treasure will be recovered (one of the largest finds since the war).

The revolution in Syria will be put down.

Iraq will begin to break up into its ancient borders.

Oakland Raiders lose to the NE Patriots in the AFC Championship game. Patriots defeat Dallas in the Super Bowl.

Trump's first year will be dramatically and comically boring.

Serious unrest in Argentina and Brazil leads to bloody riots.
 
First, a look at my 2016 predictions:

Loss Leader said:
1. US and Russian ground forces will directly exchange gunfire.
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This is probably true. With US and Russian "advisors" in Syria, I wouldn't be surprised if they bumped into each other. Let's count this as an unqualified hit.


2. A gun bill will pass into law and quickly be suspended by several federal courts.
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I haven't heard of this happening but wouldn't be surprised to hear it had.


3. The World Series will be won by Toronto.
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Seriously, who could have predicted the Cubs?


4. The TV show "Fuller House" will be horrible.
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A hit, a palpable hit. 32% on Rotten Tomatoes.


5. Jimmy Carter will die.
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He's 92 and survived the same cancer that killed his mother. He may be a Highlander.


6. The Best Picture and Best Director Oscars will be for different movies.
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Jeez. Let me check ... A hit. Best picture was Spotlight and Best Director went to The Revenant


7. I will personally hand Amy Adams a fifty dollar bill.
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I saw The Arrival, which must have put some money in Amy's pocket. I call it a hit.

And now for 2017:

The world will end.


See you all next year.
 
I will reiterate the prediction I have made several years in a row bnow:

North Korea will do something stupid yet again and China, tired of propping the regime up, will contact the USA and garner an agreement that will see China invade N.K. and install a new government modeled after Hong Kong. The agreement will be accepted by Trump who will recall most of the US Armed Forces from Korea, and by South Korea due to a much more open border with the north.
 
Brainache said:
Widespread civil unrest in the US after a Basketball game...
Queen Elizabeth hospitalised after a car crash...
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The judges have ruled the word 'after' is invalid for prediction purposes. Merely pointing to any basketball game or car crash that happens before the event in question (related or not) fulfills the prophecy. "Triggered by" or "due to" are acceptable alternatives if that is the predictors intention.
 
CynicalSkeptic said:
The judges have ruled the word 'after' is invalid for prediction purposes. Merely pointing to any basketball game or car crash that happens before the event in question (related or not) fulfills the prophecy. "Triggered by" or "due to" are acceptable alternatives if that is the predictors intention.
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Damn! You skeptics are too clever for me.

OK then. I'll change them to: "The Queen will be hospitalised" and "There will be widespread civil unrest in the US triggered by an unusual event at a basketball game"
 
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