2014 PREDICTIONS

"Aquarius, Leo, Scorpio and Taurus people have been undergoing plenty of trials and tribulations, Higgins said, but are due for a big payoff. Their long roads will calm down toward the end of 2014's summer." Seers offer their predictions for 2014

The World Economic Forum's Outlook on the Global Agenda 2014 lists its top ten forthcoming trends:

Aangirfan's comments are in GREEN.

1. Rising societal tensions in the Middle East and North Africa.

The CIA may have decided to topple the rulers of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.


Scotland will vote NO to independence, showing that the Scots are too stupid to run their own country.

2. Widening income disparities.

The rich will get richer as the Feudal System grows stronger.

But the economy will not be helped as the 'poor' majority either buy fewer goods or get deeper into debt.

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3. Persistent structural unemployment

Those without high level skills will find it difficult to find decent jobs.

4. Intensifying cyber threats.

Expect the spooks to organise disruptions.

And expect people to be turned off the internet by all those annoying adverts.

5. Inaction on climate change

Expect more CHEMTRAILS


Gordon Brown (left)

6. The diminishing confidence in economic policies.

Gordon Brown caused a stir in December 2013 when he said that the failure to learn the lessons of the 2007-09 economic crisis means the global economy is heading for another crash.

The banks still seem to be run by greedy gamblers.

Bankers' very happy new year: RBS boss gets £1.5m shares after 115 Goldman Sachs executives pocket £3m each

Western governments may opt to increase inflation as a way of reducing debt.

The pound goes into 2014 at highest level for nearly three years.

Debenhams forced to launch early sale after December sees profits down by a quarter

7. A lack of values in leadership.  

Expect no prosecutions of the spooks who run the top pedophile rings, and no prosecutions of the top people who use the pedophile rings.

UKIP membership soars in 2013 while Tory numbers half 

8. The expanding middle class in Asia.

By 2030, Asia is expected to have 64% of the World's middle class.

9. The growing importance of megacities.

In 1800, only 3% of the world's population lived in cities.

Rank	Megacity	Country	Continent	Population
1	Tokyo	Japan	Asia	34,800,000
2	Guangzhou	China	Asia	31,700,000
3	Shanghai	China	Asia	28,900,000
4	Jakarta	Indonesia	Asia	26,400,000
5	Seoul	South Korea	Asia	25,800,000
6	Delhi	India	Asia	24,000,000

10. The rapid spread of misinformation online.

More and more 'alternative news' sites will be run by the CIA, or infiltrated by the CIA.

Your blog will receive an increasing number of hate comments from assets of the CIA.

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According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the countries where there is a high risk of social unrest include:

Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bosnia, Egypt, Greece, Lebanon, Nigeria, Sudan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

Will Jokowi (white shirt) become the president of the country with the fourth largest population in the world?

Some of the places where you can expect trouble in 2014:

These are in the approximate order in which they may experience trouble, from January to December:

Bangladesh, Egypt

Thailand, Libya

Colombia, North Korea

Afghanistan, Indonesia, 

Iraq, Algeria

European Union, Belgium, 

India

Will Modi become India's prime minister?

South Africa

Turkey

Fiji

Will Abdullah Gul become prime minister of Turkey?

Brazil

Bosnia, Mozambique, Lebanon

USA

Bolivia

National electoral calendar 2014

And here is what former UK prime minister Gordon Brown wrote in December 2013:

Stumbling Toward the Next Crash - NYTimes.com.

"The economist David Miles, who sits on the monetary policy committee of the Bank of England, may exaggerate when he forecasts financial crises every seven years, but most of the problems that caused the 2008 crisis - excessive borrowing, shadow banking and reckless lending - have not gone away. 

"Too-big-to-fail banks have not shrunk; they’ve grown bigger. 

"Huge bonuses that encourage reckless risk-taking by bankers remain the norm. 

"Meanwhile, shadow banking - investment and lending services by financial institutions that act like banks, but with less supervision - has expanded in value to $71 trillion, from $59 trillion in 2008.

"Europe’s leaders aren’t the only ones with these blind spots. 

"Emerging-market economies in Asia and Latin America have seen a 20 percent growth in their shadow-banking sectors. 

"After 2009, Asian banks expanded their balance sheets three times faster than the largest global financial institutions, while adding only half as much capital.



In the patterns of borrowing today, we can already detect parallels with the pre-crisis credit boom. We’re seeing the same over-reliance on short-term capital markets that ultimately brought down Northern Rock, Iceland’s banks and Lehman Brothers...

Thailand’s financial institutions, for example, appear overdependent on short-term foreign loans; and in India, where 10 percent of bank loans have gone bad or need restructuring, banks will need $19 billion in new capital by 2018.

"In short, precisely what world leaders sought to avoid - a global financial free-for-all, enabled by ad hoc, unilateral actions - is what has happened. 

"Political expediency, a failure to think and act globally, and a lack of courage to take on vested interests are pushing us inexorably toward the next crash."

Tier 1 capital level of top banks.

JP Morgan 10.84
Bank of America 12.82
Wells Fargo10.87

Citigroup 13.72
US Bank NA 10.50

Capital One Financial 13.05
Bank of New York Mellon 15.17

Capital levels for European banks.

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