Predictions for 2014

Spade

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The 75% quoted is somewhat misleading. The tax is an additional 50% levy on that portion of salary over one-million euros. So, a CEO, for example, earning 1.5 million euros, would pay 250 000 euros on the first million and 375 000 euros on the next 500 000 euros, or 625 000 euros altogether. He would still have 875 000 € left after tax, or approximately $1 000 000 CDN.

The alternative to tax is printing money (quantitative easing). The US will "print" $75 000 000 000 per month in 2014.

For America, the cost of empire is expensive. Foreign wars and a military that spends more that the rest of the world combined is mortgaging the farm.
 

Blackleaf

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Prince Harry, 29, will announce his engagement to socialite Cressida "Smally" Bonas, 24, granddaughter of Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe, thus giving Britain, and the world, another lavish Royal Wedding and Royal baby to look forward to. William Hill are offering odds of just 6/1.



2. Prince Charles will not become Queen in 2014.

Thank God for that, is all I say.

I think he'd make a fine King, though.
 
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taxslave

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The 75% quoted is somewhat misleading. The tax is an additional 50% levy on that portion of salary over one-million euros. So, a CEO, for example, earning 1.5 million euros, would pay 250 000 euros on the first million and 375 000 euros on the next 500 000 euros, or 625 000 euros altogether. He would still have 875 000 € left after tax, or approximately $1 000 000 CDN.

The alternative to tax is printing money (quantitative easing). The US will "print" $75 000 000 000 per month in 2014.

For America, the cost of empire is expensive. Foreign wars and a military that spends more that the rest of the world combined is mortgaging the farm.

Really the alternative is to spend within your means. Expect this to backfire just like it did in Britain when anyone that made any money left the country.

Prince Harry, 29, will announce his engagement to socialite Cressida "Smally" Bonas, 24, granddaughter of Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe, thus giving Britain, and the world, another lavish Royal Wedding and Royal baby to look forward to. William Hill are offering odds of just 6/1.





Thank God for that, is all I say.

I think he'd make a fine King, though.

That would still make horseface queen.
 

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Psychics predict Mayor Rob Ford's 2014

By Mike Strobel ,Toronto Sun
First posted: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 03:53 PM EST | Updated: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 04:35 PM EST
TORONTO - My panel of legendary psychics gave me their annual predictions just before the ice storm hit.
Funny, they didn’t mention anything.
But Psychic Nikki, Tara Greene and Anthony Carr have bigger fish to fry than a little freezing rain.
“Food riots worldwide,” predicts Nikki. “Major earthquakes, floods, wildfires and sinkholes.” And …
“… another pregnancy for Kim Kardashian.”
No, no, please, Nikki, not that! I’d sooner face locusts, aliens, Habs fans and a meteor the size of Nunavut.
Read what the psychic trio predicted for 2013
Tara Greene isn’t very hopeful, either. Pluto cozies up to Uranus, she reports, and we earthlings are caught in the middle. One place you don’t want to be stuck is between Uranus and Pluto.
“April will be a very crazy month,” says Ms. Greene. “Off the radar. Plane crashes, accidents on the lunar eclipse on April 15...
“Things could be very bad: Fukushima (the Japanese nuclear plant) totally polluting the Pacific, martial law in the U.S., massive protests world-wide, war starting, all hell breaking loose, etc.”
Lovely. Something to look forward to. Tony?
“A terrible war is at hand,” he confirms.
“In October and November, this world shall tremble in fear.”
I wonder if that foretells a Rob Ford victory in the Oct. 27 mayoral vote. I know a few councillors and many of my downtown neighbours and their poodles will tremble uncontrollably if that happens.
I ask my telepathic trio to look into Ford’s future.
Carr has a leg up because he read Ford’s hands at a Scarborough fundraiser for Variety Village that I emceed last November.
The mayor, says Tony, has “primitive” hands, short fingers on a longer palm. In the dark arts, this spells originality and intuition.
“He has quickness of thought and good instincts on how to turn a buck. (Former mayor) Mel Lastman has the same hands.”
Ford’s mitts are also “millionaire hands,” small and chubby in relation to the rest of him, Tony (anthonycarrpsychic.com) tells me.
“I read his hands long before (the crack scandal.) First thing he asked was, ‘would I be re-elected?’”
He sure will, says Carr. Ford will be mayor “as long as he chooses to be — or until the cows come home.” (Or the chickens come home to roost?)
Not only that, says Tony, Rob will become prime minister someday, be honoured by the royal family, have a movie made about his life, then retire to a country estate.
Not to mention, he’ll lose 50-75 pounds.
Nikki, too, sees a Ford movie, plus a guest spot on Jimmy Kimmel and a best-selling book, plus someone will give him a motorcycle. Another city will vie for Rob’s services as mayor — Montreal is always looking.
Meantime, she tells me, Rob and brother Doug will open a fast-food place, which makes enormous sense to me.
Another safe assumption: Rob is not yet done with shocking revelations. Scandal will strike other city councillors, too, Nikki (psychicnikki.com) says.
So, a banner year ahead for the Fords?
Not so fast, says Ms. Greene (taratarot.com).
She sees handcuffs in the mayor’s future and “big turmoil” in city politics through the new year. Ford, she says, won’t even be in the running next October.
Could be worse. He could be Pierce Brosnan. Carr sees the former Bond nearly losing his legs after cosmetic calf implants. Or Will Smith, who will develop a crush on Men In Black co-star Tommy Lee Jones. Or Britney Spears, whose last meal will be a poisonous blowfish.
Or Prime Minister Harper — Greene predicts he’ll be forced from office.
Or the celebrity judge caught up in scandal and naked pictures, according to Psychic Nikki. (Not Judge Judy, I pray). If you doubt her accuracy, Nikki last year correctly predicted a beaver would kill a guy in Belarus.
And Rob Ford thinks he’s got problems.
Psychics predict Mayor Rob Ford's 2014 | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun
Psychic Nikki gives predictions for 2014
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Psychic Nikki stopped by The5 to give her predictions for 2014.
Psychic Nikki gives predictions for 2014 | CityNews
 

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England and Australia will top the Commonwealth Games medals table in Glasgow, as they do in nearly every Commonwealth Games. (Unlike the Olympics, where it is a Great Britain team, at the Commonwealth Games England, Scotland, Wales and NI compete as separate nations, and even do places such as the Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar).
 
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shadowshiv

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  • Darkbeaver will embrace Judaism.
  • Cliffy will run for the Tories in the next federal election
  • Petros will become an ardent Ti-Cat fan.
  • Walter will finally come out of the closet.
  • Colpy will register his guns.
  • Locutus will leave his lady for Olivia Chow
  • Bornruff will be outed as Rob Ford's brother incognito Doug
  • Juan will explain why he has a # sign in front of his nickname
  • Spade will change his nick to Diamond after the famous gangster Legs Diamond, then think Hearts or Clubs would have been a better choice.
  • CDNBear will announce that he is also registering his guns even the little one.
  • Goober will abandon the soap on the rope shower routine that saved his virgin butt in the navy.
  • SLM, Sal, Christianna and Tecumsehbones will form an all girl band until it is discovered that Tecumsehbones is in fact a guy who has a girls avatar.
  • Damgrumby and Grumpydigger will be offered the balcony on the new Muppet Show
  • eh1eh and Ron_from_Regina will have a flame war that will include green blue and red text warnings, but no timeouts.
  • Gerryh will write a memoir called: My time as an internet troll. that will be picked by Viking Press and sold to HBO for a new miniseries which will cause the author of this post to eat an entire bottle of tums in a feeble attempt at suicide, but results in the worst case of constipation ever recorded.
Shadowshiv will ban RCS for forgetting to include him in the above list.;)