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It is said that an eastern European clairvoyant has predicted a wide range of events including the attacks of September 11, the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004, the election of an African American as President of the United States, and an invasion of Europe by Muslim extremists. With a purported 85% accuracy rate, the late Baba Vanga counseled powerful politicians, business leaders and even heads of state.
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["Did a blind Bulgarian clairvoyant predict the rise of ISIS? 'Nostradamus of the Balkins' who died 20 years ago said there would be a 'great Muslim war' in 2016"]
Vanga reportedly said Europe will ‘cease to exist’ by the end of next year, leaving the continent ‘almost empty’ and a ‘wasteland almost entirely devoid of any form of life’.
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The pensioner once predicted that the 44th US president would be African American – but she also warned that he would be the ‘last US president’.
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from:
www.dailymail.co.uk... lim-war-2016.html
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The fact that terrorist organizations have been found with caches of war grade weapons and are actively trying to compromise nuclear power plants in the region suggests that, should they effectively coordinate attacks utilizing weapons of mass destruction, be they chemical, biologicial, radiological or nuclear, Vanga’s prediction of turning Europe into a total wasteland could certainly come to pass.
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And though prophecies of destruction and mass die-offs are nothing new, Baba Vanga’s date-specific predictions made twenty years ago seemingly coincide with events that are happening all around us.
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originally posted by: BO XIAN
My parameters for this OP would be to discuss the prediction on its own merits.
With a purported 85% accuracy rate
The problem is, it's difficult to determine the origin of these scarily accurate predictions — where Vanga made them, or even if she made them at all. It's possible Vanga spoke or wrote down her prophecies in Bulgarian, and they've never been credibly translated into English. But a 2012 Washington Post investigation suggested a more likely source for all these predictions credited to her name: Russian social media and "conspiracy theory websites". (Marnie O'Neill, who wrote the super-viral yarn for News.com.au that inspired this week's Vanga fever, told me via Twitter that the predictions in her article are sourced via the web.)
Vanga's admirers regularly insist more than 80 percent of her predictions have come true. According to Baba-Vanga.com (which only publishes information from "highly authoritative sources", FYI), that stat is drawn from 1960s research on her powers conducted by Professor Georgi Lozanov, "former director of the Bulgarian Institute of Suggestology". Authoritative indeed. (That website, by the way, doesn't sell any English-language publication listing Vanga's predictions. But you can buy an ebook of her "unique natural remedies" for $1.95.)
A 1995 profile on the blind clairvoyant by The New York Times noted that "each time Vanga predicts an event correctly ... her legend grows." It then added: "inaccurate predictions ... are quickly forgotten."
For example: she bolstered her fame by appearing to predict an earthquake that struck Bulgaria in 1985. But she also foretold the 1994 World Cup soccer final would be played between two teams beginning with the letter B. The final was played between Brazil (gasp!) and Italy (oh).
Her blunders get worse. Vanga supposedly predicted World War III would break out in 2010 and finish by 2014, after Muslim enemies had
attacked with nuclear and chemical weapons that wiped out life in the Northern Hemisphere. Hmm, that's odd — I don't remember WWIII raging away in the last five years. You? It's possible it happened and we were all too distracted by the rise of the Kardashians.
It's also possible Vanga's powers are B.S., which doesn't stop her admirers from twisting themselves in knots explaining how that WWIII prediction actually foretold the Arab Spring.
Vanga's legend looks even sketchier when you look at her guesses for the future. In 2012, Vice rounded up Vanga's supposed predictions, drawing on a list commonly copy-pasted to blogs and message boards (none of which cite where the predictions came from):
In 2023, the Earth's orbit will change.
In 2033, the polar ice caps will melt.
In 2066, the US will unleash its "climate-changing weapon on Muslim-controlled Rome".
Beyond the 21st century is even zanier: civilisations will live underwater with the help of aliens (2130),
humanity will discover time travel (2304),
and the universe will end (5079).
originally posted by: BO XIAN
He could be green or purple for all I care. It is how he was chosen;
the "Destroyer-in-Chief" role he was assigned and so gleefully fills;
his hatred for the USA and Christianity;
his illegal status;
Mena Grebin
originally posted by: BO XIAN
a reply to: chr0naut
Certainly I would not class her as an authentic Godly prophetess.
I noted she was likely from the other side.
I'd still like to discuss the ideas she put forward as to whether they are plausible in anything near that timeline, or not.