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Two former US presidents will die of natural causes; another will be diagnosed with dementia.

Ford, Bush Sr, and Clinton are all the former presidents still alive. Jerry is in bad shape. Bush Sr. hasn't been particularly slipping or anything that I've seen. Slick Willie dead? I hope not, unless it's while he's driving Hillary across a high bridge with low railings.

Israel will make a pre-emptive strike on Iran under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu; Israel will also launch an attack against the West Bank.

NFW will Netanyahu be elected. The Iranian gov't won't have a nuke in 2006 (although I know, some say it will), and should be more worried about its own support for terrorists operating in Iraq. Israel won't make a preemptive strike on Iran unless it uses its own nukes, and that would only be due to some national crisis, such as a nuclear attack on Israel, or a very successful conventional attack on Israel.

There will be planetary communications outages caused by 'disappearing' satellites.

There's some risk of satellite failure due to impact by what's known in technical jargon as space crap. For a massive disruption, there would have be the equivalent of a mountain of space crap, all busted up into good sized pellets.

Bird Flu will hit the US in November 2006.

Yeah, right on the picture window. I think the Bird Flu scare has beaked, er, I mean, peaked.

There will be some kind of space disaster with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Disaster? Loss of the orbiter wouldn't be a disaster, except perhaps for some NASA bureaucrats.

A war will be fought on American soil; Conflict will erupt between America and Mexico over the building of a border wall.

No chance of either a border fence (although it would be a good idea) or a war on US soil.

Astronomers will find two huge celestial bodies (50- and 80-times larger than Earth) in elliptical orbits beyond Pluto.

That would be cool, let's see what one astronomer sez about the possibility:

Far-out worlds, just waiting to be found
by Stuart Clark
New Scientist
23 July 2005
IN THE dark reaches of the solar system lurk swarms of hidden worlds. Too small and too distant to reflect sunlight, they have remained under the cover of darkness for billions of years. But now the outer solar system is giving up its secrets. And with them comes an astonishing claim: "It's quite possible that there is a halo of planets surrounding our solar system, just waiting to be found," says Eugene Chiang, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley.

What makes Chiang's claim so surprising is the sheer number and size of these planets. Weighing more than Mars, they dwarf Sedna and Quaoar, the largest rocky bodies spotted circling the sun beyond Pluto.

It's not likely that something 50 or 80 times Earth's size is out there to be found, as there have been quite a few sky surveys, including by the Hubble. Such a huge unknown body would have to have a very low albedo.