Gerald Celente and Our Future

I am not too keen on prognosticators in general - specifically the kind that make predictions based upon "visions" such as this "prophet" that predicts disaster before Obama takes office. Perhaps this is bit hypocritical of me as it would appear most of the time that I appear to fancy myself something of a prognosticator.

Gerald Celente is a bit different in that he predicts trends rather than specific events. His trend analysis and predictions are based partly on observation and partly upon extrapolation of those observation. His previous success at predicting trends include: the 1987 stock market crash, the fall of the Soviet Union, the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and the subprime mortgage crisis. In 2007 he described 2008 as the year the economic giants would fall. His observations about what 2008 would hold are pretty dead on looking back now.

In an article by Kurt Nimmo, Truth News, Nov.24, 2007, "U.S. Dollar Will Fall By 90% ", Celente remarks on the current disaster taking place in our economy :" We are confronting " dollar plummeting hysteria, monumental levels of debt, foreclosure, bankruptcy, unemployment, energy depletion, skyrocketing gas and fuel prices, illnesses treated without medical insurance coverage- or just not treated, unprecedented levels of homelessness, and by all indications, within a few months into 2008, America will be well on the road to a re-run of 1929 - or something inconceivably worse... " "

Celente said this over a year ago ! Yikes ! What else does this modern day Nostradamas have to say ? Plenty, and it isn't pretty (Surviving Ourselves)

What does this trend predictor see next?

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...

More and more economic voices are beginning to talk about depression as a possibility - not the kesynians of course, they denied we were in a recession for four quarters even though the ordinary man knew this was a fact.

“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.”

I have said many times that there are numerous groups with justifiable grievances against the current system that have gone unanswered and ignored. These provide a foundation for revolt and a catalysts for anger but will never provide the spark of revolution. The spark for a revolution can only come when the safety, security and welfare of enough people are threatened enough to turn the ideological anger from a list of grievances into man pulling triggers. There are enough men of conscience in America that are pretty mad about a lot of things the government has done or failed to do - it will only take the spark of a failing economy and a real threat to security and welfare to turn these angry men into real man of action.

“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...

And that, my friends is sufficient fuel and spark for the embers that burn so dimly on the edges of our society right now.

Next post we will get back to talking about you and your family weathering all of this.