stephanie brail

Here are my Unpsychic Predictions for March 24, 2001:

I can’t believe its already been two weeks since the big Japan quake. Unfortunately, I feel there’s more coming. You do not have to be psychic to be extremely concerned about what’s going on at the Fukushima nuclear plant. The mainstream media has tried to make it out like they have things under control, but then things keep getting worse. Tokyo drinking water has been affected, and additional radiation from Japan (though supposedly in small amounts) has been found all over the globe. Then you read stuff like this about a possible cover up of an actual meltdown, and you can’t help but wonder what’s really going on.

Japan’s Worst Case Scenario: It’s with a heavy heart that I share this awful thought that I had while talking about the tragedy last week with a friend. I wondered if perhaps Japan wouldn’t end up a wasteland, and that the Japanese people would be disenfranchised of their home nation and end up wandering the globe. Let’s hope this was just doom and gloom. That said, I don’t feel this nuclear accident is going to resolve “neatly.” They are probably going to have to entomb the plant in concrete. The environmental devastation in the area thanks to this accident is severe. The people of Tokyo will likely have health problems in years to come due to the additional radiation. I just hope this nuclear plant doesn’t pop a cork and spew radioactive crap into the atmosphere like Chernobyl did. But it would not surprise me.

In my predictions for 2011, I said “something shocking” would occur. I pegged this to a possible terrorist attack, but it could be this Japanese nuclear plant going off. I still feel there might be something else “shocking” in addition to Japan, unfortunately. I do think I hit on the Japan tragedy when I wrote: “Worldwide, I also feel some sort of major tragedy will occur. I am leaning towards it being a natural disaster, on par with the tsunami of 2004. I feel a lot of people will be really sad.” However, I completely missed Japan in my 2011 quake predictions, because I was so focused on California. Which brings me to:

More Quakes to Come? Jim Berkland (whose website is woefully out of date) has said on TV there is a high likelihood of a big quake along the West Coast of America, following the pattern around the Ring of Fire in the past year: Chile, New Zealand, Japan. Having spent a good portion of my life in Los Angeles, I am a bit Southern California-biased and focused, but seriously, I feel if you are living in the Southern California area, please be prepared for something nasty to hit. Northern Californians and everyone along the West Coast should also have earthquake kits ready. But the reason I am more concerned about Southern California is that the Mexicali quake of last year totally destabilized the SoCal region. I’ve been watching the fault maps over at USGS and small earthquakes have been moving north from the border up towards LA this entire past year.

A lot of intuitives think that the New Madrid fault will go off soon – this is the fault in the middle of the United States. There have been more quakes than usual in Arkansas, but I really think these are due to natural gas drilling and not because a fault is becoming more active. I think the West Coast is much more likely to have a big quake soon, but I could be wrong. Still, with the world so seismically active right now, if you are in any area that has a potentially devastating fault, get your earthquake kit together.

More on Los Angeles. Los Angeles is just not a safe place right now. I can’t tell you why specifically, but it’s not. I know I may focus a bit too much on LA because of my ties there, but I had this sense that when Elizabeth Taylor died, it was like she didn’t want to stick around for the crap that was coming. Just a thought. That said, the energy over on the East Coast doesn’t feel too bright and sunny to me either. But LA? Ouch. I’m glad I left.

Politics and Scandals. I feel that people are going to be paying less attention to politics in the next month or so as these big events play out. And I sense a weariness from people on the one hand, and a skepticism on the other. Old left vs. right talking points are just not going to resonate as much as they use to. A lot of Americans are waking up to the false right vs. left paradigm, and the liberty movement is gaining steam. For those of you who are wary of the word “liberty” – do not fear, this is a good thing. There’s a shake-up going on and the people are waking up.

I realize I have shared my concern about the extreme partisan divide in the United States quite recently on this blog; I guess one “positive” result of tragedy is that people sometimes forget about what divides them and focuses on what unites. I hope that the partisan divide lessens and we Americans can come together over time, but there is still potential for the divisiveness to flare back up again, perhaps even doubly so, once we’ve reached the “new normal” after the current crazy world energy plays itself out. People who are in fear tend to point fingers. So we need to work on our fear.

Obama: An Accident? Obama’s getting a lot of grief right now for playing golf while the world burns. I always felt that Obama did not relish the actual job of governing, but more enjoyed the speaking and adulation he received. He should seriously be a self-help guru, not a president. But I get the sense that he may pull back even more from leading…perhaps he will have some sort of accident soon? Nothing life-threatening, but something to just keep him away from the spotlight for a while. Heck, maybe his Wall Street handlers will fabricate it for their own purposes. But I feel he’s coming to the end of his usefulness for the big money cartel and so he’s on his way out in one way or another. He’s just not mesmerizing the masses like he used to, which was why he was useful to them. Now that even the people who supported him are ho-hum at best, they need to find another puppet who puts up a better front. (This is why you should be skeptical of any politician the corporate media slobbers over in 2012 – that’s probably the guy big money wants.)

War and Conflict: I think what’s happening in Libya is helping set the stage for WWIII, but we’re not quite there yet. China may start to flex its muscles soon, but more towards the end of this year, and after the Japan crisis has been resolved one way or another. Though, some folks think WWIII started when we invaded Iraq in 2003…could be, depending on your perspective. I feel like things in the Middle East are simmering right now and not quite at the boiling point.

Cyberwars Redux: In December I made a prediction about the coming cyberwars. The hacker collective “Anonymous” has released an open letter to the people of the United States…though some skeptical folks think this may be a CIA game of “psy-ops.” I think this prediction will be playing out more and more in the coming years.