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Smurf-Herder
05-24-2009, 09:11 AM
Food Riots, Tax Rebellions By 2012...Trend forecaster, renowned for being accurate in the past, says

The man who predicted the 1987 stock market crash and the fall of the Soviet Union is now forecasting revolution in America, food riots and tax rebellions - all within four years, while cautioning that putting food on the table will be a more pressing concern than buying Christmas gifts by 2012.

Gerald Celente, the CEO of Trends Research Institute, is renowned for his accuracy in predicting fut More..ure world and economic events, which will send a chill down your spine considering what he told Fox News this week.

Celente says that by 2012 America will become an undeveloped nation, that there will be a revolution marked by food riots, squatter rebellions, tax revolts and job marches, and that holidays will be more about obtaining food, not gifts.

"We're going to see the end of the retail Christmas....we're going to see a fundamental shift take place....putting food on the table is going to be more important that putting gifts under the Christmas tree," said Celente, adding that the situation would be "worse than the great depression".

"America's going to go through a transition the likes of which no one is prepared for," said Celente, noting that people's refusal to acknowledge that America was even in a recession highlights how big a problem denial is in being ready for the true scale of the crisis.

Celente, who successfully predicted the 1997 Asian Currency Crisis, the subprime mortgage collapse and the massive devaluation of the U.S. dollar, told UPI in November last year that the following year would be known as "The Panic of 2008," adding that "giants (would) tumble to their deaths," which is exactly what we have witnessed with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and others. He also said that the dollar would eventually be devalued by as much as 90 per cent.

The consequence of what we have seen unfold this year would lead to a lowering in living standards, Celente predicted a year ago, which is also being borne out by plummeting retail sales figures.

The prospect of revolution was a concept echoed by a British Ministry of Defence report last year, which predicted that within 30 years, the growing gap between the super rich and the middle class, along with an urban underclass threatening social order would mean, "The world's middle classes might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest," and that, "The middle classes could become a revolutionary class."

In a separate recent interview, Celente went further on the subject of revolution in America.

"There will be a revolution in this country," he said. "It’s not going to come yet, but it’s going to come down the line and we’re going to see a third party and this was the catalyst for it: the takeover of Washington, D. C., in broad daylight by Wall Street in this bloodless coup. And it will happen as conditions continue to worsen."

"The first thing to do is organize with tax revolts. That’s going to be the big one because people can’t afford to pay more school tax, property tax, any kind of tax. You’re going to start seeing those kinds of protests start to develop."

"It’s going to be very bleak. Very sad. And there is going to be a lot of homeless, the likes of which we have never seen before. Tent cities are already sprouting up around the country and we’re going to see many more."

"We’re going to start seeing huge areas of vacant real estate and squatters living in them as well. It’s going to be a picture the likes of which Americans are not going to be used to. It’s going to come as a shock and with it, there’s going to be a lot of crime. And the crime is going to be a lot worse than it was before because in the last 1929 Depression, people’s minds weren’t wrecked on all these modern drugs – over-the-counter drugs, or crystal meth or whatever it might be. So, you have a huge underclass of very desperate people with their minds chemically blown beyond anybody’s comprehension."

"When CNN wants to know about the Top Trends, we ask Gerald Celente."
— CNN Headline News

"A network of 25 experts whose range of specialties would rival many university faculties."
— The Economist

"Gerald Celente has a knack for getting the zeitgeist right."
— USA Today

"There’s not a better trend forecaster than Gerald Celente. The man knows what he’s talking about."
- CNBC

"Those who take their predictions seriously ... consider the Trends Research Institute."
— The Wall Street Journal

"Gerald Celente is always ahead of the curve on trends and uncannily on the mark ... he's one of the most accurate forecasters around."
— The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Mr. Celente tracks the world’s social, economic and business trends for corporate clients."
— The New York Times

"Mr. Celente is a very intelligent guy. We are able to learn about trends from an authority."
— 48 Hours, CBS News

"Gerald Celente has a solid track record. He has predicted everything from the 1987 stock market crash and the demise of the Soviet Union to green marketing and corporate downsizing."
— The Detroit News

"Gerald Celente forecast the 1987 stock market crash, ‘green marketing,’ and the boom in gourmet coffees."
— Chicago Tribune

"The Trends Research Institute is the Standard and Poors of Popular Culture."
— The Los Angeles Times

"If Nostradamus were alive today, he'd have a hard time keeping up with Gerald Celente."
— New York Post

So there you have it - hardly a nutjob conspiracy theorist blowhard now is he? The price of not heeding his warnings will be far greater than the cost of preparing for the future now. Storable food and gold are two good places to make a start.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1ad_1226630673

MintJulep
05-24-2009, 10:12 AM
That's friggin scary! :eek:

Smurf-Herder
05-24-2009, 11:06 AM
Here he is, in an ABC News TV interview:

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Total economic collapse and civil unrest by 2012.

mwillman
05-24-2009, 01:26 PM
Well, if it happens which I doubt it will.

I will survive by living off republicans. hahaha:taunt: :taunt:

MintJulep
05-24-2009, 01:34 PM
This is extremely interesting, Smurf. Thx for posting.

Smurf-Herder
05-24-2009, 09:13 PM
We can go through the motions ......

but eventually, it'll all come down to personal survival.

Cat slave
05-24-2009, 09:30 PM
Well, if it happens which I doubt it will.

I will survive by living off republicans. hahaha:taunt: :taunt:


Fool! The good thing, if there is a good thing, is that no one will be living
off anyone! That puts you way out of luck.

Cat slave
05-24-2009, 09:31 PM
This is extremely interesting, Smurf. Thx for posting.

Wonder if that ties into the Mayan calender thing and the planetary alignments.
Sounds like a lot of things are coming together and reality is changing big time.

Smurf-Herder
05-24-2009, 09:42 PM
Wonder if that ties into the Mayan calender thing and the planetary alignments.
Sounds like a lot of things are coming together and reality is changing big time.

It's also the starting and end point of the Procession of the Equinoxes, every 26,000 years or so.

The "alignment" is galactic, with the Earth and the Sun being lined up with the black hole at the center of the galaxy. It's in a lot of ancient artifacts, symbolized as the serpent swallowing it's tail - the serpent is our galaxy. The time period has meaning to ancient cultures.

mwillman
05-24-2009, 09:46 PM
The sky is falling the sky is falling.

HAHAHAHA

You call me a fool when you are the one buying into the same bullshit Armageddon theories that have been running around since the start of time.

Go buy a bunch of guns and sit in your little survival hut.
I am enjoying my life without the specter of fear.

P.S. what I meant by living off republicans was they would be what I hunt when the Armageddon comes.:lmao2: :lmao2: :lmao2:

Smurf-Herder
05-24-2009, 09:56 PM
The sky is falling the sky is falling.

HAHAHAHA

You call me a fool when you are the one buying into the same bullshit Armageddon theories that have been running around since the start of time.

Go buy a bunch of guns and sit in your little survival hut.
I am enjoying my life without the specter of fear.

P.S. what I meant by living off republicans was they would be what I hunt when the Armageddon comes.:lmao2: :lmao2: :lmao2:

HaHa ...... yes, we're listening to an expert on trends, interviewed about it. You can ignore him if you wish.

MintJulep
05-25-2009, 10:32 AM
Fed Inflates 'Bailout Bubble': Economist

FEDERAL RESERVE, ECONOMY, POLITICS, BANKS, BAILOUT

CNBC.com

| 22 May 2009 | 08:38 AM ET


As the Federal Reserve throws more and more money at the economic crisis and holds interest rates down at historic lows, it could be inflating a devastating ‘bailout bubble,’ Gerald Celente, director of Trends Research Institute, told CNBC.


“We’re looking at a bailout bubble that’s way bigger than the dotcom bubble before it and the real-estate bubble that we’re now getting out of, or attempting to,” Celente said.

“This is unprecedented; the economic system is being restructured,” he said.

The real-estate bubble was born out of the aftermath of the dotcom bubble because the Fed slashed interest rates and made more funds available, according to Celente.

But because the US government now has a vast equity position in financial institutions, it could mean that there is no bouncing back if a bailout-induced bubble bursts, Celente said.

“When this bubble bursts, there’s no reinflating it because of the government intervention into it so deeply,” he said.

“As you look through history, it seems like governments become emboldened by their failures,” he added.

Celente pointed out that according to the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini, the merger of state and corporate powers was called fascism.
“We could call this fascism lite,” he said, referring to the government involvement in free enterprise. “After these kind of catastrophic collapses, sometimes they’re followed by war.”

After all the claims of "fascism" we've heard the past 8 years, looks like we are now headed that way. Government merged with corporations is the definition of it.

Independent Harry
05-25-2009, 11:28 AM
They are inflating simply to push to a more globalized economy. They will say we have to create a new unit of currency, called the Amero. That wll reset the dollars in the system, and we start all over again...

MintJulep
06-08-2009, 12:54 AM
Another fascinating interview with this guy. Long but well worth the read.......

Exclusive Interview with Future Prediction Expert Gerald Celente
by Terry Easton (http://www.humanevents.com/search.php?author_name=Terry+Easton)

06/05/2009


It’s the end of the world as the Greater Depression hits after 2010’s failed “W-recovery”

Human Events had the opportunity to interview forecaster extraordinaire Gerald Celente, President of Trends Research Institute, several days ago -- and the future he predicts looks bleak indeed. In fact, as Mr. Celente sees it, the Great Depression will seem like a mild recession as what waits for us in 2011 hits with the force of a Katrina financial hurricane.

In case you’re wondering who Mr. Celente is (if this is still possible), he’s appeared -- along with his predictions -- on Oprah, CNBC, Reuters, NBC, PBS, BBC, the Glenn Beck Show -- the list goes on an on. His Trends Report (http://www.trendsresearch.com/) has been successfully predicting the major future trends impacting our lives for 3 decades, including calling the dot com crash back in the 1990's.



Mr. Celente's forecast on our impending future is based on his study of history. He says we are bent on destroying our currency, bankrupting our government, and unleashing a violent citizen-against-citizen eruption as the economy collapses into chaos and martial law fascism.

Quite a claim. And God help us if he is right -- again.

“We’re sounding the alarm about the ongoing downward economic cycle”, Gerald told Human Events. “In 2002, we predicted that the collapse of the American empire would fall like the World Trade Center in a thunderous crash -- in slow motion before our eyes. And now it’s happening.”

Mr. Celente follows over 300 trends: family, crime, war, education, consumer & business patterns which TRI synthesizes to predict the future.

“The US is becoming a shadow of what it used to be. Take education for example. The OECD group of developed countries ranks quality of life, education, health care of its member nations. The US is now falling down the table as one piece of data after another shows America is in decline. We’re no longer Win, Place or Show in quality of life, education, longevity… all the essentials where we used to be #1. And our economic underpinnings are failing.”

Mr. Celente puts part of the blame squarely on the federal government, and especially FED Chairman Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Geithner, and warns us not to believe a word they say “They’re the same people who didn't see it coming - are now telling us the worst is over, that ‘green shoots are spouting upwards’. But they were wrong before. They’re wrong on this too”.

“When you pump out tons of money manure into this system based on nothing – printing press paper, it’s like giving a patient with a chronic disease a pain killer -- it won’t cure the patient.”

“But let’s go beyond the economics. Our whole Constitution has been abrogated. The president simply writes an Executive Order to do whatever he wants. Nationalize the banks, take over the insurance industry, automobile industry, health care industry…
None of it is constitutional.”

When did the problem begin?

“After Dwight Eisenhower -- our last great president -- the Allied Supreme Commander in WWII – who warned us of the dangers of the military-industrial complex. We've become completely corrupted.”

“We became enmeshed in foreign entanglements. We forgot the lesson of England - and how their global imperial overreach destroyed their empire.”

Of course, the average American doesn’t think that we’re an empire. We’re not like the classical empires of old - raping, pillaging and stealing the wealth of invaded peoples. What does Mr. Celente have to say about this?

“What we’re doing is squandering our wealth, our resources, the genius of our scientists and the future of our children. We’re over-consuming in every way -- but under consuming our education and focusing on the quantity, not the quality, of what we’ve built. So much of today’s culture is counter-productive to what American built it’s foundation on -- a high-quality producing nation building things, not pushing paper.

"And we’ve become not only a consumer society but a low-quality consumer, as well as the most obese society in the world, eating low-quality high-carb, high-fat processed foods.”

“We’re now focused on the lowest cost, the lowest common denominator. Not the best and highest quality. We advertise buying cheapest as the most important thing.”

Mr. Celente argues that we’ve socially destroyed our productivity and have abandoned it to other countries.

“And we have fallen into a moral vacuum. Look at how people used to dress. Smartly. Not like the cheap hoods of today. Fashion now copies the lowest common denominator. Our children wear clothes without belts, and shoes without shoelaces, to copy the styles of the violent criminals -- who have these items removed by the police in prison so they can’t be used as weapons. That’s become the fashion statement of today’s youth. Like rap music from the ghetto. We’ve become an underdeveloped nation.”

Mr. Celente observes that "people used to think of America as that shining beacon on the hill with 'liberty and justice for all…' ." So what happened?

"Morality is missing from our American public consciousness. Start with Wall Street. It’s run by a criminal gang. The only question is ‘how much can you make, how much can you steal?’ At the bottom, the welfare recipient says ‘how much can I take?’ And the government is in on the take."

“Morality is absolutely the issue. We had a government where we were taught all our lives that we are a free enterprise system -- so we depend on our own strength, our entrepreneurial ideas. The world used to look to us for our innovative spirit.”

“This is being destroyed before our eyes. And our government has become more interventionist than any of the old empires could imagine.”

"Our society is now based on consumption -- 70% of the GDP. This is more than we produce. So to pay our bills, we use funny money invented in 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve and the fiat dollar based on credit (debt) -- the fractional reserve system. In 1930's you bought what you could afford. You saved up to buy your home. The easy credit of the 90's has destroyed the country. Now you borrow what you can’t afford - and the nation’s done the same."

Mr. Celente predicts the use of printing press money will cause the "greater depression".

"I predict continuing deflation of real estate, followed by extreme currency inflation -- ultimately becoming worthless. This is why gold is the only honest money -- the government can't counterfeit it. Look for it to top at least $2000 an ounce"

"Our unemployment numbers are also bogus. For example, the construction industry is really above 20% , and the government is creating low-level jobs, not real jobs. The US total real unemployment is more like 16%. Before the crisis is over, it will reach 25% - great depression numbers."

"When people have lost everything they have nothing to lose. Violence and crime will explode. Look at the OECD figures. The number of people not graduating from high school is exploding -- they're wacked out on drugs. New York City will look like Mexico City in a few years. The collapse of morality from top down -- and especially in the government -- makes it inevitable."

"What can we expect in the coming future", we asked.

"Washington has declared 'Economic Martial Law'. Wall Street is putting Main Street out of business. The key to watch is Christmas sales. They’ll fail. Christmas will be when reality sets in."

"Another trend we wrote about over 2 years ago was the tax revolt. What’s happened? Tax revenues have collapsed by 33%. And the wealthy people are leaving."

"We predict state secessionist movements will rival the breakup of the Soviet Union."

"The only way we can ever recover is to return to individual community, personal responsibility, local government. Next, average will disappear, Quality will return. Look at GM. Junk cars financed by junk bonds. Now owned by a junk government. As a consumer, don’t consume quantity -- consume quality."

"How will it all end?", we queried. Will the dollar survive?

"The dot com bubble should have burst and gone away in a short sharp recession. But the boys at the Fed re-inflated the economy by lowering interest rates to a 46 year low -- and in turn created the real estate bubble -- much bigger than the dot com bubble. "

"Now they’re creating the bailout bubble -- which will ultimately dwarf the real estate bubble. It will cause the implosion of the global economy world wide -- which will not be able to be repaired by creating yet another bubble. Every time the government fails, it tells a bigger lie and then a still bigger lie."

"These previous bubbles were not allowed to pop -- but they didn’t destroy the infrastructure of the country. This bailout bubble will."

"But this bubble will be the last one. After the final blowout of the bailout bubble, we are concerned that the government will take the nation into war. This is a historical precedent that’s been done over and over again."

"So, it’s not that the dollar that will survive. We may not even survive. Look at the German mess after WWI. It gave rise to Fascism and WWII. The next war will be fought with weapons of mass destruction."


American 'Liberal Fascism' (http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Fascism-American-Mussolini-Politics/dp/0385511841) ? Is it possible? Jonah Goldberg's bestseller raised the alarm two years ago.

Dale escondido
06-08-2009, 07:01 AM
Its amazing to me that this stuff is not obvious to everyone.
Its basic law of the physical universe stuff.
The 2012 date is just the fact the current admin will do what it takes to get us to that date and a second term, then the BAD MEDICINE starts.
They are gamblers with our country and will to go all in, hoping they can pull this off.

Binky
06-08-2009, 10:36 AM
The average joe can't afford to store gold. They are having a hard enough time trying to store up enough food and medical supplies for the breakdown. And does this come as much of a surprise, really? We've been warned for sometime now. We just haven't been clued in as to exactly how bad it could get.

Forewarned is forearmed. Take heed.

Binky
06-08-2009, 10:40 AM
Its amazing to me that this stuff is not obvious to everyone.
Its basic law of the physical universe stuff.
The 2012 date is just the fact the current admin will do what it takes to get us to that date and a second term, then the BAD MEDICINE starts.
They are gamblers with our country and will to go all in, hoping they can pull this off.


They have been manuevering this thing for some time now. And it sounds as tho' they are getting closer to this New World Order thing they've been striving for. The times are changin' so quickly it boggles the mind. Certainly, is coming and it could very well be change the world does not like. And especially here in America.

Dale escondido
06-08-2009, 05:21 PM
They have been manuevering this thing for some time now. And it sounds as tho' they are getting closer to this New World Order thing they've been striving for. The times are changin' so quickly it boggles the mind. Certainly, is coming and it could very well be change the world does not like. And especially here in America.

America is exspected to suffer the most painful part of the plan.
Something to do with our evil ways.
Weve put the inmates in charge of the institution.

Cat slave
06-09-2009, 12:17 AM
It's also the starting and end point of the Procession of the Equinoxes, every 26,000 years or so.

The "alignment" is galactic, with the Earth and the Sun being lined up with the black hole at the center of the galaxy. It's in a lot of ancient artifacts, symbolized as the serpent swallowing it's tail - the serpent is our galaxy. The time period has meaning to ancient cultures.

I think all these predicted occurrences are no coincidence.

Its scary but at the same time, exciting! There is something inexplicable
in the air, things feel odd! Something big is coming down.