Director of Trends Research Institute Gerald Celente showed up for an interview with RT News to discuss the trends he sees for 2011, the year he says that every American will come to know as the “Greatest Depression.” It’s an interesting listen, sure to be controversial. Below the video, we’ve pasted a write up of the trends he compiled previously in an article.
Who is Gerald Celente? The New York Post says, “If Nostradamus were alive today, he’d have a hard time keeping up with Gerald Celente.” CNN says, “There’s not a better trend forecaster than Gerald Celente. The man knows what he’s talking about.” The Wall Street Journal says, “Those who take their predictions seriously … consider the Trends Research Institute.”
1. Wake-Up Call In 2011. the people of all nations will fully recognize how grave economic conditions have become, how ineffectual and self-serving the so-called solutions have been, and how dire the consequences will be. Having become convinced of the inability of leaders and know-it-all “arbiters of everything” to fulfill their promises, the people will do more than just question authority, they will defy authority. The seeds of revolution will be sown….
2. Crack-Up 2011. Among our Top Trends for last year was the “Crash of 2010.” What happened? The stock market didn’t crash. We know. We made it clear in our Autumn Trends Journal that we were not forecasting a stock market crash – the equity markets were no longer a legitimate indicator of recovery or the real state of the economy. Yet the reliable indicators (employment numbers, the real estate market, currency pressures, sovereign debt problems) all bordered between crisis and disaster. In 2011, with the arsenal of schemes to prop them up depleted, we predict “Crack-Up 2011″: teetering economies will collapse, currency wars will ensue, trade barriers will be erected, economic unions will splinter, and the onset of the “Greatest Depression” will be recognized by everyone….
3. Screw the People. As times get even tougher and people get even poorer, the “authorities” will intensify their efforts to extract the funds needed to meet fiscal obligations. While there will be variations on the theme, the governments’ song will be the same: cut what you give, raise what you take.
4. Crime Waves. No job + no money + compounding debt = high stress, strained relations, short fuses. In 2011, with the fuse lit, it will be prime time for Crime Time. When people lose everything and they have nothing left to lose, they lose it. Hardship-driven crimes will be committed across the socioeconomic spectrum by legions of the on-the-edge desperate who will do whatever they must to keep a roof over their heads and put food on the table….
5. Crackdown on Liberty. As crime rates rise, so will the voices demanding a crackdown. A national crusade to “Get Tough on Crime” will be waged against the citizenry. And just as in the “War on Terror,” where “suspected terrorists” are killed before proven guilty or jailed without trial, in the “War on Crime” everyone is a suspect until proven innocent….
6. Alternative Energy. In laboratories and workshops unnoticed by mainstream analysts, scientific visionaries and entrepreneurs are forging a new physics incorporating principles once thought impossible, working to create devices that liberate more energy than they consume. What are they, and how long will it be before they can be brought to market? Shrewd investors will ignore the “can’t be done” skepticism, and examine the newly emerging energy trend opportunities that will come of age in 2011….
7. Journalism 2.0. Though the trend has been in the making since the dawn of the Internet Revolution, 2011 will mark the year that new methods of news and information distribution will render the 20th century model obsolete. With its unparalleled reach across borders and language barriers, “Journalism 2.0″ has the potential to influence and educate citizens in a way that governments and corporate media moguls would never permit. Of the hundreds of trends we have forecast over three decades, few have the possibility of such far-reaching effects….
8. Cyberwars. Just a decade ago, when the digital age was blooming and hackers were looked upon as annoying geeks, we forecast that the intrinsic fragility of the Internet and the vulnerability of the data it carried made it ripe for cyber-crime and cyber-warfare to flourish. In 2010, every major government acknowledged that Cyberwar was a clear and present danger and, in fact, had already begun. The demonstrable effects of Cyberwar and its companion, Cybercrime, are already significant – and will come of age in 2011. Equally disruptive will be the harsh measures taken by global governments to control free access to the web, identify its users, and literally shut down computers that it considers a threat to national security….
9. Youth of the World Unite. University degrees in hand yet out of work, in debt and with no prospects on the horizon, feeling betrayed and angry, forced to live back at home, young adults and 20-somethings are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore. Filled with vigor, rife with passion, but not mature enough to control their impulses, the confrontations they engage in will often escalate disproportionately. Government efforts to exert control and return the youth to quiet complacency will be ham-fisted and ineffectual. The Revolution will be televised … blogged, YouTubed, Twittered and….
10. End of The World! The closer we get to 2012, the louder the calls will be that the “End is Near!” There have always been sects, at any time in history, that saw signs and portents proving the end of the world was imminent. But 2012 seems to hold a special meaning across a wide segment of “End-time” believers. Among the Armageddonites, the actual end of the world and annihilation of the Earth in 2012 is a matter of certainty. Even the rational and informed that carefully follow the news of never-ending global crises, may sometimes feel the world is in a perilous state. Both streams of thought are leading many to reevaluate their chances for personal survival, be it in heaven or on earth….
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If you think this sounds a little crazy, you might want to watch this video which discusses his track record:
Gerald Celente is founder and director of The Trends Research Institute, author of Trends 2000 and Trend Tracking (Warner Books), and publisher of The Trends Journal. He has been forecasting trends since 1980, and recently called “The Collapse of ’09.” Visit his website at Trends Research Institute.
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I’m an unemployed college graduate sitting here in my local unemployment office job hunting on Monster, Career Builder, Hot jobs, etc. These online sites now provide information on my “competition” for a particular position, i.e. the number of people competing with me for any one position. When I punched in a few of these jobs to find out the number of my competitors….I was ASTONISHED and HORRIFIED! At one job in an office, there were 213 competitors!…..213 people vying for one position! I checked out an insurance job and it was worse..it was horrible. There were ONE THOUSAND and EIGHTY FOUR people competing with me for one single insurance sales job! It is ASTONISHING! There can only be one conclusion….ALL THE JOBS ARE BEING DESTROYED BY AUTOMATION! Nor can this job destruction be stopped. It is a worldwide phenonmenon that cannot be stopped! GOD HELP US ALL!
I graduated with my B.A. in psych/soc a year ago. Interned teaching math and English to fourth and seventh graders. The school shut down due to lack of funding. All the kids got shipped off to public school. I can’t find a position in my field, and there are no teaching jobs in my area. I had to work 3rd shift to get through school. Thank God I had a job. Still had to eat at the soup kitchen, though. I sent over 150 applications in 3 months, and was lucky enough to land an office job. It’s Hellish, though; signs of economic downturn everywhere. We are losing clients left and right, and we can’t bring in new business. I couldn’t afford to pay off my 700+ dollar a month college loans, had to get a second job. another 100 applications later, and I landed a part time job in a pharmacy. I work 70 hours a week and each month I see the meager amount I was able to save shrink. My company is looking to can me, the govt contracts are slowing down; my job is to work on those. Going back now for my masters just so I can defer these horrible crippling payments.
“Tell me, over and over again, my friend, you don’t believe we’re on the Eve of Destruction.”
Welcome to reality tim….
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