2010 - year of unrest and treachery?

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2010 - year of unrest and treachery?

A panel of Afro-Cuban priests are predicting a year of social and political unrest, struggles for power, treachery and coups d'etat, and they say the world will see the death of an inordinate number of political leaders in 2010.

In the forecast announced Saturday, they recommended older leaders move aside and make room for the young, a politically delicate statement in a country that has been led by brothers Fidel and Raul Castro for more than half a century.

"The older generations should pass their experience on to young people because times change, and the younger generation is better prepared," said Victor Bentancourt, one of the island's leading Santeria priests, or babalawos. "Time is growing short" for such a change.

The priests announced their forecast following a secretive New Year's Eve ritual in which they performed religious chants and sacrificed chickens, goats and other animals.

A rival Santeria group, which enjoys official sanction from the government, came out with its own predictions later Saturday, saying 2010 would be a year of improving health.

Santeria, which mixes Catholicism with the traditional African Yoruba faith, is followed by many people in Cuba, where about a third of the 11.2 million population is of African descent.
Mexico's Brujo Mayor or Great Witch

Mexico's Brujo Mayor or Great Witch

The ceremony in Cuba is one of several New Year's religious traditions in Latin America. Indigenous shamans in Peru last week performed good-luck rituals for peace in 2010, asking for eased tensions between Venezuela and Colombia and for President Barack Obama to normalize U.S.-Cuba relations.

Mexico's "Brujo Mayor" or "Great Witch" is scheduled to announce his predictions on world events and celebrity affairs on Monday, and Venezuela's Santeria priests are expected to make their own New Year's predictions.

Cuba's communist government has tolerated Santeria and other religious practices for years, though it long denied religious leaders official recognition. In the 1990s the government began to allow greater religious freedoms, and today even some members of the Communist Party openly practice Santeria.

As the priests discussed their findings in a crumbling building on the outskirts of Havana, dozens of passers-by came to the front porch to examine a sign posted outside that announced the forecast _ known as the "Letter of the Year."

 

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The Old Fart will prove them wrong though I wish it would come true!

 

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Psychics Tell Us Their Predictions for Indonesia in 2010


But will we really see an earthquake split Java in two, more bombings in the capital after June and rising marital strife and drug use? And looking further ahead, is the world really going to be washed clean in 2012 like the Mayan calendar predicts?

There’s really no telling, but three out of the four psychics we talked to had rather bleak outlooks for the coming year.

And the fourth one? He says everything with be fine, so if we get to pick and choose our predictions, let’s go with him.

Mama Lauren

Mama Lauren had dire predictions for the year ahead. “A big earthquake will happen, either in Bandung or Sukabumi [both in West Java], and the impact will destroy many high-rise buildings in Jakarta,” she said.

She also foresaw a major crack developing between Central and East Java, causing water to rise up and divide the two provinces.

More generally, she said there would be natural disasters in almost every other part of the country as well, from the western coast of Sumatra right across to West Papua.

Born in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Mama Lauren first came to the country with her Indonesian husband, Natakusuma, in 1952. Today, she is one of the best-known phycics in Indonesia, with regular appearances on television and in newspapers and magazines.

She also runs a psychic service from her home.

From her leafy residence in East Jakarta, Mama Lauren predicted plenty more drama for 2010.

“The whole world is in a mess,” she said.

Terrorism will keep a low profile in the capital until June when bombings will start again, she said.

She added that property businesses were going to suffer because of her predicted earthquake.

It’s not a good year for the government either. “I see a lot of fights among the politicians,” she said. “SBY [President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono] will have a lot of headaches.”

Investors should be wary as well. “The stock market is going to tremble, one day it’s OK, another day it’s gone.” She advised investors to buy gold: “You won’t get much profit, but it’s safe.”

Bleak economic prospects, marital problems and infidelity across the nation will cause widespread despair, she said. “Suicide will become a trend, like in Japan.”

The year ahead will also bring a new epidemic. “I see a kind of swine flu. This illness will happen because people eat the wrong food.”

Two senior female celebrities and one male celebrity will pass away this year, she said. But she didn’t say who.

“One of them is in the hospital now and is very critical,” she said on Dec. 24.