Heads up! Possible Iran false flag attack on March 2nd, page 1

Originally posted by curious7
Thing is, Web Bot gathers what's being talked about and with the Iranian leadership being asked by many to step down and being asked to allow inspections to take place regarding their uranium and nuclear capabilities, it's obviously gonna be thrown into a "prediction".

In fact, this thread and others like it will help create the spike in topics covering Iran to give credence to these "predictions".

To an extent you are right, but the real 'meat' in the predictive linguistics - according to Clif and George as a proxy - is an interpretation of the change of words used to describe an event or situation. The event or situation is determined by keywords that are found in context with the descriptor words that are being analyzed. The types / combination of keywords is used to build the 'event' or 'object' to which the descriptor words (and their resultant change in meaning) apply.

At university I was doing work that touched on AI methods to derive the correct meaning of a word based on the words that were found in context (same sentence, same paragraph) so some of the work Clif is doing caught my eye. For the last several years I have kept an eye on his stuff and it does seem plausible to draw conclusions by monitoring the change in descriptors of events to get a pulse on the global beehive we call Earth.

That said, the hit rate is low but I must admit that some of the hits have been pretty interesting. George Ure, quoted in the OP, goes on to say this on his website:

Well, yes, sometimes the stuff really works out. Other times, it doesn't. I figure the project's hit rate is about 15% overall, but that's so far ahead of "chance" as to not even be funny. And higher on big stuff; 9/11, anthrax attack, Banda Aceh quake, NE Power Outage, economic downfall in 2008, return of kids to living at home with parents, and that damn "ship of state" business, which just got filled.

urbansurvival.com...
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So the moral of the story is to take this like any other prediction, folks. It is always good to be prepared for the unknown and the odds are that a big event will be just that, unknown when it happens. So take these with a grain of salt and maybe a reminder to check your household supplies. Clif and George are really way out on a ledge with this one because they are really certain to themselves that something is about to let loose - I sure won't mind if they are wrong like the other 85% of the time.

edit on 7-2-2012 by nydsdan because: clarified a confusing sentence.

edit on 7-2-2012 by nydsdan because: (no reason given)