MY PREDICTIONS FOR 2010....

Here are my predictions for 2010….Let’s see where things stand one year from now


1.) Israel will launch a raid on suspected Iranian nuke sites which will be a disaster with much collateral damage and a failure to complete the mission….This will be the beginning of the end for Israel both as a state and a world power….Obama will publicly break from Israel’s policies.

2.) The GDP of the USA will rise perhaps by 3% but unemployment will also rise for a high of 13% by the middle of the year but then will drop slightly by the end of the year which will also cause Obama’s approval ratings to rise slightly back over 50%.

3.) During mid-term elections, the Democrats will lose three seats in the US Senate but they will also gain three different seats for the same total as they have now 60….This will be complicated by the health of Robert Byrd at the end of the year

4.) The Democrats will also lose between 8 and 12 seats in the House of Representatives but not enough for Republicans to reclaim the house.

5.) The Republicans’ efforts will be hampered by internal struggles between the tea party movement and the Republican Party structure which will result in unelectable extremists beating party candidates in primaries and then losing in the general election.

6.)Senator Jim DeMint’s hold up of the nomination of Erroll Southers as head of TSA will become a major issue.

7.) The US will become further bogged down in Pakistan and especially Yemen….This will detract from de-escalation efforts in Afghanistan and especially Iraq….There will be an uprising/revolution/coup in at least one of the US’s Mid East autocratic allies (Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia etc.)

8.) There will be some resolution about the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden….By the end of the year he will no longer be on the most wanted list. However, there will be at least one major terrorist event in either India, Europe (France), or the US….More likely India or Europe.

9.) Cap and Trade legislation will not be considered by the US Congress this year.

10.) George Clooney will win his second Academy Award.

11.) Roger Federer will win at least two grand slams and further cement his position as the greatest player of all time….Juan Martin Del Potro will rise in the rankings to either #2 or #3….Andy Murray and Andy Roddick will drop.

12.) Tiger Woods will win at least one golf major and in one year’s time no one will care about his sex life.

13.) Roman Polanski will be extradited to California and make some kind of plea agreement that will involve jail time.

14.) Labor will narrowly hold on in the UK and Gordon Brown will serve another term as PM (My British friends tell me I’m wrong about this).

15.) The latest trend in social networking software will be a website which pulls together all your information from the Internet and you can view all your different sites simultaneously (For example Facebook, My Space, various blogs etc.).