The City is echoing with bankers prophesying an exodus: of shipping tycoons to Athens and private-equity partners to Geneva.
Lately, though, Mr Kim has reverted to type by prophesying war.
When the popular sense of direction is baffled, there is no conventional wisdom for futurologists to appropriate or contradict.Popcorn and prediction marketsThere are still some hold-outs prophesying at the planetary level: James Canton, for example, author of "Extreme Future".
And just as the interaction between banking and economic woes is proving poisonous, so the interplay of public and political ignorance is damaging the country's prospects.Start with the government, whose ministers are still oscillating between prophesying economic Armageddon and gamely predicting the best of all possible recoveries.
But it was not long after the end of both clashes that some Israeli officials began prophesying a new one.Such warnings took on more urgency last week after the armed wing of Hamas, the Islamist movement that dominates the Palestinian Authority, launched a barrage of home-made rockets (known as Qassams) and mortars from Gaza at Israel.
Yet if it can close ranks around a strong candidate, those who have been prophesying its imminent collapse for a while may be disappointed.
Yet Mr Saleh is not alone among Arab leaders in finding it politic to endorse, in words at least, the agenda for reform that the superpower has sketched for the region.The changes do not mean that dictators are falling like dominoes, as some of the cheerleaders for America's invasion of Iraq were prophesying last year.
Although they had to wait with patience and endure suffering (1 Thessalonians 1 6; 2:14; 3:4), and although salvation from the pains of this life lay in the future (5:6–11), in the present, Paul said, his followers could rejoice in spiritual gifts, such as healing, prophesying, and speaking in tongues (1 Corinthians 12 14).
Amos was prophesying during the reign of King Jeroboam II (786 746 bce) of Israel, and the eclipse would be very large throughout Israel.
The first two stanzas show the two sides of what Coleridge elsewhere calls "commanding genius": its creative aspirations in time of peace as symbolized in the projected pleasure dome and gardens of the first stanza; and its destructive power in time of turbulence as symbolized in the wailing woman, the destructive fountain, and the voices prophesying war of the second stanza.
Female fairies may tell fortunes, particularly prophesying at births and foretelling deaths.
