Some predictions from last year's
"Predictions for 2010"

Here are some predictions John Hogue made in the previous book Predictions for 2010: published December 2009:

1. "I also discern with oracular help that you [President Obama] have bargained with the Pentagon to affect a compromise strategy. The generals prevailed upon you to receive their 40,000-troop increase, but you will counter putting the surge on a short time leash of 18 months."

What Happened: During an interview with George Noory for Coast to Coast AM radio show -- a full month before President Obama began his strategy meetings with the top US Pentagon brass, Hogue detailed the Afghanistan troop call-up plan before it was even conceived, including the 18-month deadline for US troop withdrawals, and the troop surge increase of 40,000 soldiers into Afghanistan.

2. "I believe now the window of an overseas-based Muslim terrorist attack is closing as domestic jihad cells replace it. Added to this is a new terrorist danger arising in 2010...right-wing militias. The next great terrorist may be numbered among the angry and unemployable people. . ."

What happened:
1. US Army Major Nidal Hasan upon conversion to a radical view of Islam went on a shooting rampage in Fort Hood, Texas, on 5 November 2009 that killed 13 and wounded 31.
2. On Christmas Day 2009, Umar Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian citizen with a U.S. multiple-entry visa, tried to light a bomb hidden in his underpants as Northwest Airlines Flight 253 made its final approach for landing in Detroit.
3. February 2010: a lone, Caucasian American -- an unemployed software programmer named Joe Stack -- flew his Cessna on a suicide mission into the IRS building in Austin, Texas, setting the structure afire.
4. March 2010: a terrorist plot to shoot crowds attending a policeman's funeral was foiled when BATF and FBI agents raided the Michigan based Christian Patriot Hutaree Militia.
5. May 1, 2010: Pakistani-born American citizen Faisal Shahzad unsuccessfully attempted to set off a car bomb inside Times Square, New York.
6. On the Day after Thanksgiving 2010, Somali-American student Mohamed Osman Mohamud drove a van filled with explosives into a crowded Portland Oregon square during a Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

3. "It will be reported in 2011 that a fault line in climate sustainability was breached in 2010 and thrust the global average of temperatures across the planet suddenly upward. "

What happened: By July 2010, NOAA (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) confirmed a global temperature increase that was 1.22 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average. By December, NOAA announced that 2010 would go down as the hottest year on record since the 1880s; the farthest back modern global records go.