I have a copy of Nostradamus, and spent some time last night examining the quatrains. They are all extremely convoluted and bizarre, with lots of references to powerful political forces of his time, such as Burgundy, Spain, Venice, and the Vatican. There is no evidence that the ville neuf he refers to has anything to do with New York City, and in his time it was little more than a Dutch outpost. The mentions of Hister which are often pointed to as evidence of his prediction of the Third Reich are also unclear and many times seem to refer to a geographical area rather than a person, and it should be pointed out that there is River Ister in Germany. There are many hallucenogenic images such as The fish will give birth to a man. He is in flight across the countryside. Seven wise ones will proclaim him. Two are murdered.

In short, as predictions the quattrains are nebulous and nearly useless, requiring extrapolations (Mao for "the Eastern One") to make any sense of them in retrospect. Edgar Casey's prophecies, from what I know of them, seem to be more striking and specific.