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Weather/Natural Occurrences:

1. Tornados will be prevalent again this year, starting earlier than spring begins.

2. There will be periods of rain, to make up for the lack of precipitation in winter, but the precipitation will be excessive over time intervals too brief for the soil and bodies of water and sewage to assimilate it.

3. Ecologists are interested in microbial over growths in soil, which give rise to certain infectious diseases mainly among farm and stock animals. This is related to inappropriate soil moisture and the lack of natural irrigation for those materials normally found in our soil.

4. Themes correlating irregular weather patterns with global warming take a back seat to address the actual impact global warming has made on nature. We shift focus to ramifications like flooding, draught, and reduced water supply in our rivers, lakes, and streams. We focus also on insect population, agricultural challenges, along with other natural/unnatural disasters in context to the efficiency and efficacy of Federal Relief Programs

Domestic Politics:

1. This year legislature will be prompted through lobbying groups to look at our landfills and consider new ways to process our refuse.

2. There will be a big US presidential administration information leak of historical proportion regarding Middle East Political Issues. The challenge will be in determining who knew the truth, who was truly misinformed, satellite communications and surveillance, and who is policing privatized military agencies.

3. The American public will be quite surprised and disenchanted over the issue of Mexican immigration after discovering how some in both public and private sectors plan to benefit from its passage.

4. Legislation will compel employers to provide more health care insurance options for part-time workers at the employers' expense.

5. Federal government will play a more active role in the maintenance of streets, roads, bridges, and harbors. The reason for this interest will come to light later on.

6. We take a look at the technology we use to tabulate votes prior to and during election.

7. Again we question the liberties our federal government takes to procure information for the nation's security, like phone tapping and other Homeland Security Measures. The public will be unpleasantly reminded how our privacy is impacted by centralized information coupled with private industry's interest in consumer behavior.

8. While balancing the budget and deciding how federal funds are allocated, the new presidential administration takes a long hard look at the progress No Child Left Behind makes.

9. Bush reenters politics on a different administrative level.

International Politics:

1. Historic executive privilege as Commander and Chief gets questioned and Congress reassesses its clout on moderating military actions (outside of funding) when privatized military agencies get used.

2. Global citizens need to be involved in NATO's progress for creating a global military enforcement agency, because of the need for check and balance and deciding how these agencies are funded.

3. Through foreign interest in globalization, India finally takes center stage this year.

4. There will be a move towards global harmony this year. Greater participation in professional and social conscious-minded Internet communities play a huge role in this perception.

5. Foreign exchange student programs flourish this year.

Advances in Science:

1. More research goes into the prevalence of viruses being the culprit for infections and the need to rule out bacterial infections to impact the over-prescribing of antibiotics. This will decrease bacterial resistance. Also, the medical community warns the public about pressuring doctors to write prescriptions for antibiotics, when they may not be necessary.

2. The science and research communities question the strength in their strategy for solving global problems. Less emphasis is placed on creating new ways to do things, but more emphasis is placed on improving present day textile methods.

3. To benefit humanity, there will be resurgence in the influence of moral and ethics committees in identifying conflicts in interest, which affect drug research. We look at which diseases deserve more funding, how long it takes the FDA to approve drugs and determine, which medicines are safe enough to be used in investigational studies.

4. In order to meet global food needs, international science and research groups align to question the viability for progressive earth friendly advances in agriculture on soil, under water, and in the mountainous regions, where partial pressure of oxygen is low. Farmers will need to treat and prepare soil differently this year, if we want a good yield come harvest time.

5. The American Dental Association and the American Medical Association will continue emphasizing the correlation between poor dental health with heart disease, stroke, and cancer.

6. The medical community decides to look at the pathology of certain genetic blood disorders like sickle cell to address heart attack and stroke caused by a change in red blood cells and the activity of hemoglobin when exposed to chemicals related to heart injury and dysfunction (creatine kinase), chronic stress (cortisol) and acute immune response (histamines, cytokines).

7. Nutritionists become more popular this year, especially when third party insurances offer incentives that encourage beneficiaries to join health clubs and be more holistic/self-care oriented. The overall objective includes reducing health risk factors by decreasing the daily intake of highly processed sugars, starches, and saturated fats with not as much interest in exercise and fitness programs.

8. The medical community focuses on improving the quality of life for those who suffer from migraines and for those who suffer from inflammatory joint diseases.

9. An important and very popular drug will be taken off the market when its use is connected to a rarely occurring blood dyscracia.

General Interest New Facts Brought to the Light:

1. A strange occurrence will draw our attention to the Associated Press and how it functions with and corresponds to other medium outlets. This is more important as our data resources centralize. The public will question the validity of information before reacting in order to prevent hysteria similar to that caused by the airing of War of The Worlds.

2. An uncommon bacterial outbreak occurs in long-term care and assisted living facilities, which makes the health care system question how well connected the efforts of licensed practitioners are to the efforts of allied health professionals working in institutional settings.  We take a closer look at the quality of care within institutions that take care of the aged.

3. Information from uncommon but verifiable sources will be used to try and prove court cases, after higher courts say it is okay. In the process, law enforcement discovers a new level of stealth being used in successfully stealing money, credit, and identities of unsuspecting victims. The court system scrutinizes how information is legally acquired and gets used to incriminate.

4. Due to global warming, ecologists will take more samples of our fresh, natural water supply to ascertain if microbial overgrowths are evident. Ecologists and the Center of Disease Control will need to assess the efficacy of water treatment plants and the potential hazard to public health associated with these treatment processes.

5. Organic Grocers will challenge the FDA over the legal definition and public misinformation regarding organically grown food and their benefits.

6. This year more sudden deaths occur among high school athletes. We take a look at the pressure we put on kids to compete and what measures are secretly used to enhance performance (steroids, asthma inhalers, crack, and cocaine). We assess steroid use in professional athletics with more scrutiny. Endorsers will make athletes test negative for sports enhancement substances before signing lucrative contracts.

7. To save face professional leagues' encourage that their highly paid athletes mentor within their respective communities by opening more summer camps, soliciting corporate private industry for sponsorships, partnering with local universities to host retreats, and networking with regional small businesses to create a national campaign encouraging kids to finish high school and consider college or trade schools.

8. Again, in order to assess truthful, non-biased journalism in magazines, cable, and Internet, we take a good look at those companies, which monopolize and control media on a corporate level.

9. Oprah Winfrey will have a special surprise for earth inhabitants this year.

Economics:

1. Women take a closer look at their income earning potential relative to the trend that they have children, go part time, or put a fast track career on hold for relationship and quality of life issues.

2. The economy feels like it is improving, but actually it does not. Complicated issues affecting the economy this year make it more difficult for consumers to effectively address the cause of personal financial woes, whether being due to poor spending habits, poor financial planning, the war, interest rates or sluggish economy.

3. People in families buy and use software, which integrates the objective of improving personal spending habits with the objective of meeting long term financial goals through understanding how the greater economy affects the integral family unit as a business.

4. More personal finance workshops are available, paid for by employers who are contributing less to retirement and pension spending.

5. The baby boomers pay critical attention to how social security funds are being used and invested.

6. Small business owners step forward and together question the federal government regarding changes in federal tax and spending policies.

7. Condominiums are an attractive real estate option once again, especially for senior citizens, and also for empty nesters, divorcees, and unmarried professionals. This interest precedes a surprising upswing in value. We pay closer attention to the value of empty high-rise condominiums in large metropolitan areas.

8. Just as the Civil War brought ‘Carpetbaggers' to the South, so do outsiders follow the ruins of Katrina to exploit the need for ‘reconstruction' in New Orleans. Sluggish recuperation of these regions of similar socioeconomic strata challenged by natural catastrophe in comparison to similar scenarios in more affluent regions bring shame to the United States.

About Bryan Flournoy

Bryan Flournoy, Pharmacist, Medical Intuitive, and Metatelepath is promoting the in-person and Radio/Internet Workshop called, “Making It All Click!” MIAC! is a collective intuitive experience, through which we perceive and interpret all kinds of energy impressions as practical, higher-purpose information for daily guidance.

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Re: 2008 Predictions Any One? Post them here!

Oprah Winfrey will have a special surprise for earth inhabitants this year….yes Bryan, I agree..

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