I saw this item on BBC News 24 a couple of days ago, and making a bacon buttie at the time I didn't catch all of it. But the topic was that a newly discovered prediction from Nostradamus, predicts that Bush will be assassinated in 2008, some months before he is due to leave office.
I've looked online, but I can't see any follow-ups to this story anywhere, and according to the BBC, the Whitehouse are very wary about this information getting out because as they said "even if the the prediction never comes true, there will be people who would be willing to make it come true, thus confirming the accuracy of the prediction" I'm para-phrasing that quote, but it was along those lines.
So, what do you lot think - and why do you think I can't find any information about it online. There's not even anything about it on the BBC News website!
Nostradamus predicts George W. Bush assassination in 2008
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Nick Harvey
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What a pity it isn't going to happen a couple of years sooner.
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Neil Jones
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What people fail to recognise is that Nostradamus didn't actually predict anything, or rather he didn't predict anything that wasn't all that impossible to predict. Plus it was all written in an obscure code that still hasn't been fulled cracked to this day.
After all, there's always going to be war, assination, fire, etc. Anybody could have worked that out. In fact I predict it'll still be happening in 400 years time.
Nostradamus was also claimed to have predicted the end of the world in 1999 and then after 9/11 it was said he'd predicted that as well. In reality it turned out that some bright spark had just picked some random text that fitted welll with the events of 9/11 and put it online with a Nostradamus tag. Thus starts another urban legend.
It wouldn't be a surprise to me if it ultimately emerges that Nostradamus actually didn't write anything along the lines of what he's supposed to be famous for. After all, the prophecies are so vague and could in reality be attributed to any one of multiple events that happen every year.
After all, there's always going to be war, assination, fire, etc. Anybody could have worked that out. In fact I predict it'll still be happening in 400 years time.
Nostradamus was also claimed to have predicted the end of the world in 1999 and then after 9/11 it was said he'd predicted that as well. In reality it turned out that some bright spark had just picked some random text that fitted welll with the events of 9/11 and put it online with a Nostradamus tag. Thus starts another urban legend.
It wouldn't be a surprise to me if it ultimately emerges that Nostradamus actually didn't write anything along the lines of what he's supposed to be famous for. After all, the prophecies are so vague and could in reality be attributed to any one of multiple events that happen every year.
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Actually, Nostradamus predicted the coming of a King of Terror on the 11th day of the Ninth month, but in 1999.
Two years off on the timing but still...
Two years off on the timing but still...
Hang on, find the EXACT text as recorded by Nostradamus that says this then I think...well chances are you won't find it.James Martin wrote:Actually, Nostradamus predicted the coming of a King of Terror on the 11th day of the Ninth month, but in 1999.
Two years off on the timing but still...
Good Lord!
The problem with this predicton is that Dubya leaves office in January 2008. So "some months before" would take you back into 2007Jamez wrote:I saw this item on BBC News 24 a couple of days ago, and making a bacon buttie at the time I didn't catch all of it. But the topic was that a newly discovered prediction from Nostradamus, predicts that Bush will be assassinated in 2008, some months before he is due to leave office.
Not a very reliable prediction then!!!!!!!!!