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Correct at Close: 89.59%       Open Events: 104
Correct Over Lifetime: 85.07% Settled Events: 615




CatagoryEventCurrent Prediction
China Pollution mars Bejing Olympic games
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TRUE
The Chinese Navy will lose a warship or submarine due to a major accident by 12/31/2008
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FALSE
China will have a fixed-wing aircraft carrier operational by the end of 2008
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FALSE
2008 Olympics in Beijing canceled after China invades Taiwan
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FALSE
Sino-Japanese Asian Defense Sphere Incident
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TRUE
The head of Pakistan, Musharref will be assassinated by Islamic Fundamentalists.
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TRUE
The Iranian government dominates Iraq since it will be a nuclear power and Iranian agents or sympathizers are elected to public office and institute pro -Iranian policies.
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FALSE
North Korea will invade South Korea in order to focus the peoples attention on something other than their current problems such as hunger and as a last ditch effort for KIM to hold on to power
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FALSE
Europe Rafale fighter will have secured no foreign purchase contract(s) prior 01-Jan-2008
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TRUE
General Regardless of who wins the 2008 elections, there will be no US ratified re-negotiation of NAFTA for that president''s term in office.
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TRUE
Initiated in South America: An alliance modeled on the EU, opposed to capitalist free market policies and adversarial to the US.
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FALSE
Japan will gain a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, although it won't necessarily have veto power.
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FALSE
Iraq USA or Israel will bomb Iran's Nukes
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TRUE
Middle East The United States or Israel will destroy Iran''s nuclear facilities before 2/1/09 driving oil on the spot market over $200. a barrel.
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FALSE
The United States of America and Islamic republic of Iran acheave a diplomatic brake through in 2008.
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FALSE
Formation of a Arab Gulf Treaty Organization. Any two or more of the following Iraq, Kuwate, Barain, Qutar, UAE treaty with the United States to suport each others defence. Formal name may varie.
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FALSE
Iran will attack Iraq, during the same time as America is drawing down troops from Iraq.
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FALSE
Iran will not use nukes on Israel.
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TRUE
Iraq will become a weak Federal Republic with a strong Kurdish area, a Shi'a area under Iranian domination and a Sunni area that is in chaos.
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FALSE
Iran will have a nuclear weapon that it can launch against Israel by the end of 2010
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FALSE
Baharain King His Majesty Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa will be attacked and badly hurt in veciuos attack, forcing him to move into exille.
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FALSE
Arab nations will initiate mutual discussion on the subject of the eventual formation of an Arab federal union(perhaps AU).
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FALSE
Iran will launch a nuclear attack against Israel
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FALSE
Radical Islamists bent on exporting revolution attempt overthrow of government of major Arab country or countries.
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TRUE
Civil unrest will cause the pullout of US forces from Qatar by 2008
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FALSE
Sci/Tech X-Prize victory will spawn a variety of competitors and competitions, resulting in commercial dominance of the spacelaunch field within 20 years.
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TRUE
Sports New England Patriots will NOT go undefeated in the regular season in 2008.
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TRUE
Terrorism There will be an al qaeda-style terrorist attack within the first 18 months of the new presidents term.
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FALSE
usa will intercept a stray nuclear missle and bush will become a national hero despite his declining support as president.because of him we will soon be able to defend ourselves from a nuclear strike.
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FALSE
Terrorists will kill more than 20,000 American civilians by April 2013.
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FALSE
US President Obama normalizes relations with Cuba.
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TRUE
Charlie Crist will be the republican VP nominee.
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FALSE
Bobby Jindal will be the Republican VP nominee.
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FALSE
Obama will choose Al Gore as his running mate.
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FALSE
Hillary Clinton will stay in the race no matter who the democratic nominee is (e.g. she will run as an Independent if Obama wins the nomination).
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FALSE
Riots break out at the 2008 Democratic Convention
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FALSE
Republican nominee Senator John McCain handily defeats Democrat nominee Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential Election.
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TRUE
Will Senator McCain choose Senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate?
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TRUE
Democrats increase their number of seats in the US Senate by 3.
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FALSE
After one year, President Obama''s appointments will have fewer women and minorities than did President Bush''s at one year of his first term.
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FALSE
After six months, President Obama still will not have filled his Cabinet (Dept Secretaries, NSA, WH CoS).
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TRUE
McCain picks Lindsey Graham as his VP.
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FALSE
Obama picks Christine Todd Whitman for his VP slot.
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FALSE
Obama is elected President of the United States
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TRUE
Senator Obama selects Tom Daschle as his VP running mate.
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FALSE
Senator McCain picks Governor Pawlenty as his VP running mate.
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FALSE
Senator McCain picks Governor Sanford as his VP running mate.
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FALSE
Senator Obama selects Bill Richardson as his VP running mate.
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TRUE
Senator McCain picks Mitt Romney as his VP running mate
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FALSE
The S & P 500 will be below 1000
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FALSE
Boeing will successfully challenge the KC-X contract awarded to Northrop-Grumman/Airbus.
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FALSE
A party to the Democratic partys nomination process files a law suit seeking to modifie or block the modification of the rules.
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TRUE
The 2008 Democratic Presidential ticket will be either Obama / Clinton or Clinton / Obama
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FALSE
The US Congress will either overturn the USAF tanker in its entirely or they will force the USAF to split the award between Northrop and Boeing.
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TRUE
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomburg becomes Obama''s running mate.
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FALSE
Srnator Clinton will cry in public, on-camera, at least once, before the 2008 elections are over. Crying prior to super-Tuesday 2008 does not count.
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TRUE
Sen. Obama will hint at, or designate, a woman running mate to secure his nomination by the democratic party
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FALSE
Australia will receive US permission to procure the F-22 Raptor by 2014.
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TRUE
Bush suspends Presidential elections / Martial law declared.
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FALSE
Obama is nominated as the Democratic candidate for President
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TRUE
McCain will be elected president of the United States
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TRUE
The city of Atlanta, Georgia will run out of drinking water in 2008
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FALSE
Mike Huckabee will be elected President of the United States
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FALSE
Rudolf Guilianni will be elected president of the United States,
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FALSE
Hillary Clilnton will be elected president of the united States.
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FALSE
Mitt Romney will be nominated as the Repeblican candidate for President
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FALSE
Rudolf Giuliani will be nominated as the Repeblican candidate for President
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FALSE
Hillary Clinton will be elected president of the United States.
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FALSE
USAF and NASA jointly develop the first ever Fighter jet working on non-gasoline fuels.
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FALSE
Fred Dalton Thompson will be the Republican nominee for the 2008 Presidential election.
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FALSE
Newt Gingrich will win the Republican nomination for President
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FALSE
The Democrats will vote to re-instate a military draft before the 2008 elections
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FALSE
The US will threaten to take Cuba to the UN security council, and start a propaganda campaign calling for war against Cuba, before 2010.
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FALSE
In the US, the draft will be re-instated before the end of 2009
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FALSE
Republican candidate wins the white House/Presidency in 2008 election.
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FALSE
C. RICE will be nominated as V.P. for Republican Party August 2008
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FALSE
New center/right reform populist party fields a presidential ticket for the '08 election.
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FALSE
Former governer of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Mark Warner clinches the Democratic presidential nomination.
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FALSE
Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee.
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TRUE
Governor Bill Richardson will be nominated for President by the Democratic party
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FALSE
Dow Jones average will close below 6000`
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FALSE
Senator Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel will be the 2008 Republican presidential candidate
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FALSE
The City of Detroit, Michigan will file for bankruptcy.
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FALSE
Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee will be the Republican presidental nominee for the 2008 presidential election.
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FALSE
The person elected President of the US in 2008 will be a resident of a state of the former Confederacy.
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FALSE
The person elected President of the US in 2008 will be or will have been a US Senator.
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TRUE
The person elected President of the US in 2008 will be or will have been governor of a state.
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FALSE
Tom Delay is convicted of consipracy to violate Texas state campaign finance laws
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FALSE
The next US President will launch an investigation of the 43rd presidents handling of the war in Iraq within 1 year of being sworn in.
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FALSE
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney will be the 2008 Republican presidential nominee.
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FALSE
Senator George Allen will be the 2008 Republican presidential candidate.
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FALSE
Hillary Clinton in 2008 primaries to be Dem Presidential candidate but loses out to another Dem candidate
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TRUE
Democrats will convince Senator Joe Lieberman they need him to be the Democratic presidential standard bearer for the 2008 presidential race.
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FALSE
George W. Bush succeeded by his vice-president.
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FALSE
Dick Cheney does not finish 2nd term.
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FALSE
The Constitution of the United States is amended to permit naturalized citizens to be President.
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FALSE
Strategic Military Alliance between USA and India. Other participants such as Japan and Australia may be part of agreement
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FALSE
World Venezuelan and/or Ecuadorian troops will engage in direct combat with Colombian forces.
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FALSE
Raul Castro overthrown in coup d''etat U.S. blamed
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FALSE
Raul Castro captured in Cuba and brought to the U.S. on outstanding drug smuggling warrants
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FALSE
Cuba's offshore oil fields will prove to be a lot larger than previously thought. Putting it in the worlds top ten reserves.
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FALSE
In about 2 years Chavez will begin border skirmishes with one of Venezuela's neighbours (Guyana, Colombia or Brazil) as a way of exercising his "bolivarian forces".
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