Reality check: Documenting 2012 predictions

It is not unusual for people to make predictions about the coming year; most are benign attempts at speculation, but some claim to know what is going to happen. Here follows a list of events that have been seriously touted as divine foreknowledge or foregone conclusions.


I shall be editing each prediction as they unfold, by pasting the respective link to each successful prophesy. If these soothsayers are what they claim to be, the page should be a sea of blue by the end of the year (if the end of the world is not forthcoming, of course).


Have you heard any howlers that should make the list?