Please do not say that by proving Zeshua's predictive ablities that then proves that she is a time tunneler from the future. It might prove she's a psychic, a seer, an RV'er but it doesn't prove that she is a time traveler.
Of course not. There is no need to.
Once you conclude that her predictions are accurate, her methodology becomes irrelevant. Furthermore, we will never be able to know for sure if her claims about her methodology are true; all we can ever know for sure is whether or not her predictions come true.
Myself, I'm not even particularly interested in time travel per se. My predominant interest has always been in prediction, and that's what drew me in to these discussions, and also why you don't see me participating much in the more technical discussions of time travel, because I see them as irrelevant.
Her predictions continue to come true. She predicted :
"Massive Financial meltdown that puts the Euro as the preferred Global Currency. Repercussions abound to the almighty US Dollar", and "Economic Collapse" between 2007 - 2009, and $4 - $5 gasoline.
In today's news, we read things like :
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U.S. faces severe recession: NBER's Feldstein
By Ros KrasnyFri Mar 14, 10:55 AM ET
The United States is in a recession that could be "substantially more severe" than recent ones, National Bureau of Economic Research President Martin Feldstein said on Friday.
"The situation is very bad, the situation is getting worse, and the risks are that it could get very bad," Feldstein said in a speech at the Futures Industry Association meeting in Boca Raton, Florida.
"There's no doubt that this year and next year are going to be very difficult years."
NBER is a private sector group that is considered the arbiter of U.S. business cycles. Feldstein is also a Harvard economics professor and former economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan.
Answering questions from the audience, Feldstein said the downturn could be the worst in the United States since World War Two.
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High wheat prices raise grocery costs
By BETSY BLANEY, Associated Press WriterSat Mar 15, 4:46 AM ET
If you think the cost of gassing up your car is outrageous, wait until you need to restock your pantry.
The price of wheat has more than tripled during the past 10 months, making Americans' daily bread — and bagels and pizza and pasta — feel a little like luxury items. And baked goods aren't the only ones getting more expensive: Experts expect some 80 percent of grocery prices will spike, too, and could remain steep for years because wheat and other grains are used to feed cattle, poultry and dairy cows.
"It's going to affect everything ... impact on every section of the grocery store," said Michael Bittel, senior vice president of King Arthur Flour Co. in Norwich, Vt.
Consumers such as Maria Cardena feel trapped by the prices. She said the bread she buys has jumped from 69 cents a loaf to $1.09 in recent weeks.
"You have to buy it," said the 29-year-old mother from Lubbock, Texas. "You can't go without it. Everything has gone up."
The wheat market has been pushed higher by a combination of agricultural, financial and energy issues.
Poor wheat harvests in Australia and parts of Europe and the U.S. have caused China and other Asian countries to buy up more American crops, which are especially attractive because of the weak U.S. dollar.
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Dollar falls below 99 yen as Bear Stearns weighs
By Steven C. JohnsonFri Mar 14, 4:41 PM ET
The dollar fell below 99 yen and hit a record low against the euro after Bear Stearns said a worsening cash position forced the Wall Street firm to secure emergency financing.
News that the New York Federal Reserve and J.P. Morgan Chase were to provide funds for the fifth-largest U.S. investment bank signaled more credit turmoil to come and added to investor fears that the economy is in for a long recession.
"People are starting to talk about whether this is a signal of a systematic problem in the U.S. banking sector, and that's why we're seeing selling of dollar across the board," said Greg Salvaggio, currency trader at Tempus Consulting in Washington.
The question on traders' minds now, said Omer Esiner, a market strategist at Ruesch International in Washington, is "which of the other big firms out there need similar funding."
The dollar plunged to 98.91 yen , its lowest level in 12-1/2 years, before edging back to 99.310 yen, down 1.1 percent. It was down nearly 11 percent against the yen so far in 2008.
The euro hit $1.5688 , an all-time high.
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Weak dollar costs U.S. economy its world No. 1 spot
Fri Mar 14, 11:10 AM ET
The U.S. economy lost the title of "world's biggest" to the euro zone this week as the value of the dollar slumped in currency markets.
Taking the gross domestic product of both economies in 2007, the combined GDP of the 15 countries which use the euro overtook that of the United States when the European currency surged to a record high of more than $1.56 per euro.
"The curious outcome of breaching this latest milestone is that the size of the euro zone's annual output has now exceeded that of the U.S.," the economics department of Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment bank, said in a note to clients.
Taking official estimates of 2007 GDP -- $13,843,800 billion for the United States and 8,847,889.1 billion euros for the euro zone -- the economy of the latter passed the United States once converted into dollars, shortly after the euro topped $1.56.
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Zeshua predicted all this three years ago, when the whole world was in love with the dollar, and Americans were tripping over each other to buy ever bigger cars and houses. She even predicted the exact year the bottom fell out.
- Peter
