>publicly predict
There's your problem. It's not about reading tea leaves, it's about realizing the truths- past and current, and getting others to help see them as well. The future is never truth, from the human standpoint, because it hasn't been set in the stone of the happened-timeline, in much the same way you can't prosecute a criminal for a crime that hasn't happened yet.. The truth is in the crimes that HAVE happened, or are happening.