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Sat - Jan 15 -

PREDICTIONS FOR 2005 -

We Bloggers have been urged to
give some predictions for the coming year.

Here's my only prediction:

I predict that in 2005, or soon thereafter, a Kurdish Media Mogul will emerge who will establish a new Bookstore/Superstore in the Kurdish area of Iraq.

This establishment will sell books, magazines and other printed matter, but will be based on the newer bookstore business model which embraces DVD movies and CD music inclusively. I don't know whether this new mogul will go into partnership with someone like Richard Branson or go it alone. But this enterprise will be financially successful and a lot more-- it will have profound ripple effects.

First, it will attract shoppers from all over the region. And, while they are visiting the Kurdish area, they will also patronize other businesses up there such as restaurants. This will spread the store's financial success to make the entire Kurdish area more prosperous. The Kurds may even build more amenities for their new visitors as a result.

The store will be unique insofar as their security provisions. In order to enter the store, shoppers will have to pass through an airport-type screening machine portal and undergo a search for weapons and body-bomb vests, etc. Security will be very tight-- the tightest security of any bookstore on the planet. Shoppers may even have to submit to iris identification and more.

Why all this security? Because this bookstore will incite a frenzy among the Control Freak Islamofascists. It will represent everything they hate the most, especially because they can't control the freer flow of information it represents.

The Control Freak jihadi terrorists will issue fatwa after fatwa about it and several manifestos characterizing it as apostasy. They will repeatedly threaten anyone patronizing it. And they will repeatedly try to attack it.

As a result, this establishment will become the chief flashpoint of the conflict for the jihadi terrorists in the region.

But try as they might, the Islamofascist terrorists will never gain control over this Information Media Vortex because, as they say: information wants to be free.

This establishment will become a beacon of freedom for the entire Middle East region.

And, while it may represent everything the terrorists hate most, eventually, it will vanquish them.

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What do you think?

Is this scenario: possible,
probable, plausible or a non-starter?

Just something to think about.

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