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Posted on 11/14/2008 10:07:38 AM PST by Dr. Marten
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 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.
I like free pie. I’m going to have some free pie in about 20 minutes.
I’d say let them have a big upside down U shape, the east and west coasts and across the north.
Just leave the rest of us alone.
I can see the tax rebellion part as more people can't afford property taxes to pay for socialist indoctrination facilities (public schools). THIS issue will win us more GOP governorships than any other issue.
Food riots? Well, drive through knuckle dragger flyover country and understand how much arable land we have.
Revolution? I'd rather just succeed from the Union and form a new country that honors the original constitution (minus the slavery part).
Google food shortage and see that food riots occured around the world last year for reasons we are now not immune to, including lack of credit for farm inputs.
With the enforced use of corn and similar products to make ethanol because the Obamament will not allow us to drill here, drill now, the cost of food will rise astronomically. Corn will become car fuel and thus no more corn fed beef, chickens, hogs, corn flakes, corn syrup for sweetners, grits, hominy, corn bread and etc.........
Reality is about to test your theory. The money producing states have been hit hard. Tax revenues will be down at all levels, so they’ll be less for poor states.That is to say, states like NY, CA and CT will no longer be supporting states like Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi.
>> Everything I read in this article is very possible though.
I take predictions of “revolution” no more seriously now than I did when they came from the wacko leftists after Bush’s election, or Ron Paul brigade more recently.
The extreme wing of the losing party almost always wishes they could forcefully overturn an election in which they performed poorly. They never do.
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It really torqed me the other night when I came to the realization that
if the left wanted to secede we’d gladly let them go and form their own little dystopia.
But if we wanted to escape their policies and live free of their control, they’d damn sure use deadly force to keep us from doing it.
I want to believe that we’re on a better patch than this, but with what’s happening in the financial markets it looks like it’s coming down around our ears.
Those of us who believe in self reliance will have an opportunity to demonstrate why we have chosen this as our personal philosophy. I think most conservatives will do fine.
"Huh??? I wasn’t aware you could possess bricks of gold."
I dare say possession isn't the problem.
It's the carrying them around when she's on the lamb from marauders that's going to kill that wonder girl.
Most of it is ordinary, off the shelf items.
Rice. Beans. Various kinds of Pasta Ronis. Egg Noodles. You know those packs you see of gravy mix? Brown Gravy, Turkey Gravy, Country Gravy, etc.
Powdered milk. Powdered mashed potatoes. Large containers of whole black pepper corns.
Beef bullion. Chicken bullion. Cans of stock.
Tomato paste. Tomato sauce. Various canned spaghetti sauces.
Corn starch. Oatmeal. Whole coffee beans. 20+ lbs of dried, powdered whole eggs. Whole honey. Sugar. Flour.
Large collection of canned veggies.
Just stuff!!
I'd note that about 500,000 of your fellow Kansans voted for Barrack Obama. What would you do with them? Or what about the 4.5 million or so Californians who voted GOP in this last election?
Maybe BO should start worrying about how he’s going to start “spreading the food around.”
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