Celente Predicts Revolution, Food Riots, Tax Rebellions By 2012
Paul Joseph Watson on 13 November, 2008 11:54:04
Prison Planet - 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 future 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 depressionâ€.
“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.
LINK (http://nationalexpositor.com/News/1494.html)
I do need a generator though.
Where are you gonna get the gas to run it once the economy really crashes as predicted?
Stocking up on solar panels and wind generators. I live in a heavy ag area (mostly corn, beef and sugar beets), so it shouldn't be hard to trade tangible products - machine parts done on my mill/lathe - for biodiesel for the truck. I forsee my economy getting very local in the next 2-4 years.
I've heard that those wind generators are pretty expensive, but might be worth the cost in the long run.
Where are you gonna get the gas to run it once the economy really crashes as predicted?Theft....or Robbery. :-)
I am switching out our pellet stove for a large wood burning stove this spring. Buying a pellet stove was one of the biggest wastes of money ever for us. Everyone is always out of pellets, they cost too much, and it is just as much of a PITA to clean as a wood stove, actually harder to clean.
Theft....or Robbery. :-)
What is the 500' of rope for??
What is the 500' of rope for??
Military survival manuals state that the two most important items are #1 a good knife and #2 "cordage"
everything else you can make with readily available material
Military survival manuals state that the two most important items are #1 a good knife and #2 "cordage"
everything else you can make with readily available material
silly me, I thought it was a requirement for taking mamacags out on a date. :naughty: :-)
(please don't kill me)
Now that's just wrong....
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Okay, so a whole bunch this guy predicted came to pass but what about things he predicted that didn't come to pass?
Is it really necessary to store a year's worth of food in your pantry/freezer in this day and age??Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows? But I bought a 10 lb. bag of rice today for $6.37. That's enough to provide carbohydrates to the Tantal clan for about 25 meals. Beans? 10 lbs. for 9 bucks. Carbs, protien, and fiber. Spam? Stores for years and is mostly fat (9 cal. per gram) and some protien. Canned chicken and tuna? Mostly protien. You can actually stock up on the essentials relatively inexpensively. I figure I can get a year's worth of essential foods for about $1,500. If nothing happens, we just eat it, so I'm not really out any money. If something does happen, I'll be considered a genius.
Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows? But I bought a 10 lb. bag of rice today for $6.37. That's enough to provide carbohydrates to the Tantal clan for about 25 meals. Beans? 10 lbs. for 9 bucks. Carbs, protien, and fiber. Spam? Stores for years and is mostly fat (9 cal. per gram) and some protien. Canned chicken and tuna? Mostly protien. You can actually stock up on the essentials relatively inexpensively. I figure I can get a year's worth of essential foods for about $1,500. If nothing happens, we just eat it, so I'm not really out any money. If something does happen, I'll be considered a genius.It worked for Peter Griffin:
* In May 1993, in a story about fiftysomethings losing their jobs written for the Orange County Register, Celente was quoted. He was advising IBM at the time during a period of downsizing. What was Celente’s golden advice? He informed displaced executives to “go for some kind of counseling.†Asked to comment on this situation, Celente offered the same doom and gloom boilerplate that he’s telling us today: “The Industrial Age is ending. All the systems are breaking down and that means disappointment and disillusionment for the people who grew up in the ’50’s.†He elaborated, “These people believed in the Ozzie and Harriet way of life. That concept is dead. So is the concept of retiring at 65.†These were hardly prescient or specific thoughts, but they were certainly dramatic enough to make it into an Orange County newspaper.
* Why not get topical? Let’s take Celente on a more specialized subject like restaurants. In 1993, Celente predicted “growing demands for take-out food, high- and low-end restaurants, and restaurants that offer live entertainment. Middle-range restaurants with mainstream fare will suffer.†Aside from the fact that Celente’s prediction accounts for about 90% of restaurants, doesn’t the fact that human beings need to eat remain a comfy ledge to launch a prediction?
In 1998, Celente told Money Magazine that, as the population grows older, “Americans will be spending more time at home than ever before both for pleasure and business.†Imagine that. You grow old, retire, and then you suddenly have more time. How the hell did Celente know?
* In the September 21, 2000 edition of Newsweek, the great futurist weighed in on mindless chores. Why are they called mindless? “Your mind can’t be going all the time.†And when any problem becomes bigger, it becomes bigger than burnout. “It’s road rage, it’s air rage, it’s Columbine, it’s stress — and people don’t get it.†I’m wondering if it’s also the kind of impulse that will cause you to make impetuous predictions about the United States’s future.
* Asked by CBS News in May 2005 to comment upon where Dillard’s planned to go, Celente had this to say: “There is nothing Dillard’s has that you can’t find in 1,000 other places. America is vastly overstored.†Take out “Dillard’s†and sub it in with another department store chain name, and you begin to see what little Celente’s remarks say. But if we’re in for a future of doom and gloom, Celente has been sending us some mixed messages. He told the Associated Press in May 2005, “The bottom of the luxury market is not going to fall out.â€
* Talking with the Associated Press in September 2005, Celente suggested that Wal-Mart could deflect its negative image with its philanthropy. That’s hardly a stunning insight. Any positive action has the probability of causing a company to look good. This is rudimentary probability. But what profound thoughts did our great seer tell the AP? “We try to refrain from making value judgments — what the motive is. But the fact is that [Wal-Mart was] there with trailer trucks being turned away. Amazing, isn’t it?†Amazing indeed. Presumably, the AP reporter who talked with Celente did so because the reporter needed somebody to describe the situation as “amazing†or “magnificent.†Some casual modifier that might be confused for profound thought.
* Celente was asked to weigh in on Internet trends by the San Francisco Chronicle’s Patricia Yollin in December 2006. “People are more electronically connected and less humanly connected,†opined our great psychic. And if that general piece of advice wasn’t enough, Celente also took the time to badmouth public displays of affection, pointing out how unacceptable it was to put PDA in “techno jargon.†Perhaps Celente confused PDA with another type of PDA, but what he didn’t seem to tell the reporter was that acronyms have existed long before the Internet.
silly me, I thought it was a requirement for taking mamacags out on a date. :naughty: :-)
(please don't kill me)
silly me, I thought it was a requirement for taking mamacags out on a date. :naughty: :-)
(please don't kill me)
No, that would be an almond snickers bar and some duct tape.
Now that's just wrong....
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OH, and ASDF...you're a FREAK!
What... I'm a freak for believing in preparedness?The post above that one, ya know, the one critiquing the ropes..... :tongue:
Lot's of people store emergency supplies.
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The post above that one, ya know, the one critiquing the ropes..... :tongue:
Don't knock SPAM. Back in the early days, when SPAM was cheap and so were we, the X-wife would stick cloves in it, pour some pineapple glaze thing over it, sprinkle on a little brown sugar, stick it in the oven for a few minutes and hey! it wasn't bad.
Storing propane? I'll pass.
I have and will only use an old skool grill that lights up with charcoal and a match. Not only do I enjoy my bar b q flavor better with a charcoal grill....but I also don't have to buy those heavy propane tanks that probably are not cheap (although I don't really know since I never bought one)
My dad loves his propane grill....but I like the REAL fire.
OH, and ASDF...you're a FREAK!
And finally, hawkgirl--what's so freak about a little kinky hanky-panky between consenting adults?
Grilled SPAM and eggs over fried rice--Hawaiian breakfast of champions.
Oh, and back O/T...this guy looks like he's pushing to replace Jeanne Dixon--and has about the same accuracy of prediction record as well. Shit, even broken clocks are right at least twice a day.
Nothing at all, if you recall, I'm the one who posted an example of the japanese bondage technique....I'm no angel....I was just ribbing ASDF...and I'm sure he took it that way, although tone is sometimes lost in text communication... ;)
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Hawkgirl, ever try boiling water or frying eggs over a charcoal grill?? My grill has a side burner that's just perfect for stovetop type cooking. THAT'S why the propane, it's not for "flavour". The new propane grills kind of suck. I really liked the ones with the ceramic inserts or lava rocks. I could get some decent flavour out of those types.